skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
eh, when I can buy a arm netbook with a reasonable keyboard, I will do so.

If someone wants to sell a high-density rack of ARM boards,I'll buy those too (and rent them out.)

Right now, the available arm boards i've found cost about as much as the atom boards, while the atom supports 4GiB ram, and the arm boards usually come with 256MiB.

Obviously, this makes the arm boards I've found commercially infeasible for the sort of hosting I sell. I don't think it's anything inherent to the arm architecture, I think there just isn't anyone currently designing arm boards for people doing what I do.
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A further refinement would be to take into account unsafe neighborhoods, the time of day, lighting, and crime rates along the path.
There's a similar procedure in the US.

Google used it to get Brian Reid's age-discrimination case thrown out. He appealed that decision and won so now he gets to go to trial.
> Microsoft has a wonderfully lucrative cash cow that allows them to not be successful at their other endeavors (with success for this argument being defined as a similar market share as their primary business).

I disagree with this basic premise. Let's put our investor hats on. There are these businesses, Windows and Office. They throw off a certain cash flow. It doesn't last forever.

So what to do? First, we re-invest some of that cash flow into extending the life of the cash flow from the profits themselves. Advertising, new versions, and so forth.

Second, we can pay a dividend to investors. If the taxes are onerous, we can do magical things with trusts or some such to reduce taxes.

Third, we can invest the cash flow in new businesses, basically treating ourselves as a VC or startup lab. We hope to turn the new businesses into streams of cash flow.

WHy do we assume that options one and three are always on the table? If investors can get a better rate of return investing the cash flow from Office and Windows than Ballmer is delivering, why are we asking Ballmer to 1. Generate cash from Office and Windows and 2. Produce better returns than we can?

I think the time has come to stop expecting so much from SteveB. Get him to generate tons of cash from Office and Windows and give the money to investors. Let them decide whether to invest that into Google stock or Apple stock or the next YCombinator round or whatever they like.
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Eliminating 6.001 also seems to me a part of a trend to allow more freedom in the EECS curriculum. Aside from eliminating 6.001 (which is the most talked about change), computer science students now have more freedom to take computer science courses (rather than certain required electrical engineering courses) and vice versa. For example, in the old curriculum, electrical engineers had to take 6.001 and computer scientists had to take 6.003 (signals and systems).

IMHO, the more freedom, the better. If you are concerned about having a well rounded education in EECS, then you can sit down with your advisor, or talk to your friends, and ultimately decide to take the old curriculum anyway. On that note, it would have been nice if they kept 6.001 for those who still wanted to take it.
I'd love to see the NASDAQ on graph as well
And about culture:
if you question what culture is and what culture gives you, you will figure, that it has a lot to do with habits. And in universities, you definitely get a chance to pick up some awesome habits which will last a lifetime. In good universities, the process is easier & the habits have a wider range (not just discipline etc which are forced by the administration), because your peer group is a lot more determined to attempt leading a meaningful life.
A few use http://patch-tag.com -- github-like darcs hosting. Others use http://code.haskell.org , unix hosting we put up before github existed.

github is winning though.
I'm quite ready to say that promoting abstention from vaccination because it causes autism is wrong. There is no scientific evidence for such a claim. And, if you read The Ethics of Belief, you will find that my view is completely at odds with the position of the church - I do not recognize "faith" as a legitimate basis for believing something.

I'm not really sure where you are going with a statement like "Who's to say her ideas are wrong?". It sounds like moral relativism, but I don't want to assume that is what you intended unless you explicitly say so. I assume you agree that people can have ideas that are wrong (e.g., 2+2=5, "the world is flat", etc.), and that other people are justified in pointing out that those ideas are wrong. If my assumption is correct, then you are either saying that these particular ideas are not wrong, or you are saying they are wrong but that Jenny McCarthy and Oprah should not be held culpable for promoting them. I'll assume the latter.

To be clear, I am not saying people should refrain from making any statement unless it is universally agreed upon. I'm saying that before believing something (and trying to spread that belief to others), we have a duty to investigate our beliefs and subject them scientific scrutiny. Failure to discharge that duty injures society. Given the lack of scientific evidence of a link between vaccination and autism, one must conclude that Jenny McCarthy (and by extension, Oprah) has either failed to subject her beliefs to such scrutiny, or willfully ignores evidence to the contrary. In my opinion, this does constitute some degree of culpability.
Maybe Gates simply timed his exit and Microsoft's stock price was going to fall anyway. Classic endogeneity problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogeneity_(economics)
I think the first point is utter hooey. Online advertising is worth less than online for two reasons

1. It's measurable. Unlike print it's not about the number of people who may have seen your ad. Its about the number of people who did, or even who clicked. That's a big difference. Companies aren't wicking to apply the traditional brand marketing fullsnto online.

2. Kids are much more banner blind then previous generations. They have grown up saturated by ads and ha e developed banner blindness. However because of point 1 this now has a direct impact on the bottom line of the publisher.
My guess is that it's not there not because Twitter is censoring it but because they recently changed their Trending Topics algorithm.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/30/twitter-launches-a-new-dyna...

http://mashable.com/2010/05/14/twitter-improves-trending-top...
Yeap, he's based out in Finland.
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Well, I agree with his first part; and here is why.

I've employed a goodly few programmers - invariably the least good are CS majors, the best are usually engineers or physicists.

The reason is that CS is a theoretical degree, and far too many people do it assuming they will become a "programmer of value", rather than a potentially important CS researcher. I've had applicants bore be with details of compiler theory they learned, or algorithm programming they worked on and so forth. All interesting stuff I admit - but the question of "can you write a program" is skipped around :)

Compare that with a degree like engineering (any engineering really). They have learned one skill, that is driven home over and over: how to solve problems. The actual knowledge from their degree is irrelevant (you don't generally learn all that much at university) it is their analytical and solution skills that are key.

There is nothing wrong with this setup. The problem is that CS is treated like an Engineering degree rather than a Mathematics major. Really it should be the latter; if you wish to do research in CS, teach it, work in sort of related fields (CS Majors make good traders, for example, like mathematicians) then CS is the way forward. If you want to be an industry programmer it isn't.

What we need is an intermediary; an Engineering degree that hands you some basics of CS and a whole lot of critical thinking. The whole aim of a degree like that is to point you in the right direction and let your interests develop into a career. This needs to replace CS as the majors for most people - and I think, actually, it would make them happy :)

Hackers are an odd exception; personally I think a good hacker would get much from any of the degrees - theoretical or not - though it is worth remembering that a good hacker will generally be a good programmer anyway because they can hack around, and solve, problems.

(Just to point out: I disagree with all of what Zed has to say about CS itself - clearly there is a lot to learn there, if you go for the right reasons)

University is a great choice for someone to further their education; not because it will teach you much (if you expect university to be the peak, or even the start, of your education you've failed already :P). But because it teaches you the ability to learn for yourself, think critically, break the discipline cycle that school drilled into you, get drunk, make important friends, find people to bounce ideas off.. the list goes on. Somewhere down the bottom is "sit in lectures and learn stuff". Learning is easy; the rest is far more important! :)
Good thing I don't have to learn just one programming language.
Yeah, what ever happened to common sense?
I think Office can last a long, long time. The buy-in from business is huge. I don't think most businesses are going to trust the cloud. Maybe they should, but what they're doing now with Office works well enough, so they'll likely stay with it for quite a while.

There's still a lot of mainframe stuff out there in cobol, after all. And a crazy amount of DOS. Business moves sloooooow.
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I'm a startup marketer and I write for an iPhone blog, so I thought I'd share the best thing I've seen.

The very best practice is to
a) send a blogger a pitch along w/ a license code. Also send us a video and some pre-made quotes. Your story needs to be easy to write (and ideally an actual story, but we'll take what we can get.)
There are some items for which sending a license code does not make sense - for instance, enterprise software, security software, basically things we couldn't really use or evaluate. ("Another day, still no viruses, UI looks good. 5 stars.") If you think we can successfully use your product, send a license code, but err on the side of caution. A screencast might really can be very helpful for some personal productivity products, especially if it's something built to handle complexity.

b) give him/her some set small number of license codes to give away (5 or 10 if you're looking at something w/ a higher price point, more for something lower.) Free trials are really better here than license codes - something that turns off in a month would be just fine.

c) give him/her a discount code that they can send to their audience/followers and their followers/audience will get 20% off. This is actually a great alternative to giving people free licenses to give away, and in my experience works pretty well. And, of course, it will give you a much better idea of how your media outreach is working so you know who you should take out to dinner.
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Less advertisement for AMD gets my vote.

Given their purchasing of ATI and as many of the best GPU workers as they could get their hands on, I think they're gearing up for a big blow eventually. But there's definitely more news about Intel's omg-latest-and-greatest, from what I've seen.
Israel Navy opens fire on Gaza aid flotilla - Haaretz
History of Computation. Read some old papers, study the people who wrote them. I would've loved a class like that.
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It makes me sad when someone does this much work but fails at the final hurdle to get the point across :(

+1.
Really?> You're saying it's a shame she didn't die?

Come on, that's going too far.
What if all but about a dozen with a great reputations (MIT and others, as he said) and about a dozen hidden gems have the problems Zed describes? Or do you have a solid argument against it?

Also, the dozen hidden gems don't do the people asking Zed for help any good, because they're hidden. They're great for the people that happen to be going to them, but if an outsider thinks one might be a hidden gem, it's not a great risk.

My computer science education at a small state university exhibited all the problems Zed describes, and more. For all classes, except those taught by two or three of the instructors, there was very little culture. We were taught what was a subset of what was in the books, designed to help mediocre students pass. Learning extra was not encouraged. How the knowledge came about, or is used practically, is glossed over. Half of my classes were Computer Science, but what I remember is mostly from non-CS courses. And on top of it, a lot of teachers gave me pointless exercises and confusing tests and some had grading that wasn't at all straightforward. Less dedicated students who knew how to game the system did much better than me, grade-wise.
Seeing that he's a Professor Emeritus and 76 [1], I'm willing to cut him some slack :)

He definitely compiled some very useful data. I'd argue that the tool failed; he didn't fail the tool.

[1] D.O.B. 1934 per http://faculty.washington.edu/morrill/

edit: funny, I just realized I only live about two miles from the PPT deck's author.
> If someone wants to sell a high-density rack of ARM boards,I'll buy those too

I'd love to see something like this as well. Just CPU, memory and networking (disks can be served from other machines).
The east side of Austin is the poorer side of town. That seems to support the assertion of the article.
To me, the most striking part of this author's argument is that Microsoft isn't prevalent enough. They're still making plenty of money, but he wants them to be chasing the tech press a little more. It's pretty obvious to me: Microsoft isn't in the innovation business just like IBM and GE. They make money hand over fist, but they don't focus on the latest fad of social media or micro-blogging or mobile devices. If those any of those businesses show long term growth and profitability, one of the established leaders will acquire them and I would imagine Microsoft is constantly looking at such businesses for acquisition.

On a side note, I think he's reading into leadership departures in ways that suggest that he has more information regarding them, but he never shows it. An anecdote does not make a trend.
the accurate link is http://twitter.com/search?q=%2523flotilla#search?q=flotilla
Twitter censored my tweet about #lolcats by not adding it to Trending Topics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor

Maybe it hit an automated spam filter. Maybe the algorithm isn't time-sensitive enough. Maybe hashtags are downweighted.

Also, I just looked, and "Israeli" is in the trending topics.

Much ado about nothing.
There's no evidence Twitter is censoring it at all, in fact. The entire "Twitter is censoring" angle is just a wild accusation papering over the old flame-war topic of Israel vs. the Arabs, and that's not something that really belongs on Hacker News.
How about if it a consumer web app like say Flickr or Picnik or Dropbox?

One benefit of microtransaction payment providers is that they have a multitude of payment method including load cards, pay thru sms, etc.

I would think that consumer web app would have better revenue if it was ARPU instead of 2-5% conversion rates. Does this make sense to anyone else?
Mildly surprised that there has been so little discussion on here. I note that Facebook not only has the number one site, but fbcdn.net is in at number 86.
I think the first step is to get some arm motherboards with socketed ram (I'm sorry, but 256MiB ram per server... does not cut it, even in my market.) After that, it's a matter of metal working and a power/network backplane.

Personally, I'd prefer a local storage option... separate disks either adds a great deal of expense or a great deal of complexity, or performance issues.
The original Tweet of the attack from the organization which the ship belonged to: http://twitter.com/freegazaorg/status/15083677239
Except that by creating such a metric, they'd be more likely to be sued for its incorrectness.

Imagine what would happen if someone walking a "safe" route gets mugged.
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bunk topic, flag and move on. :)
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I'll just leave this here.
It would be nice if this showed only the first paragraph + a link for more.
Regarding the 3G coverage, my understanding is that EVO had a connection with the _same service provider_ i.e., AT&T, which probably means that it has a better antenna and signal capturing abilities.
Note that I'm not from the US either.
If that's counterintuitive, than the most basic physics already teaches you that many things are counterintuive. The 3-body problem does not have an analytical solution. We can't even properly simulate the solar system a couple of thousands of years ahead. Nearly everything in physics is numerical approximation, despite what theory would lead you to believe. After that, the halting problem is far from surprising.
What I find most-interesting is that this is the leading Israeli daily newspaper that's publishing this, and that it doesn't pull back any punches. I'm actually comparing it to the AlJazeera article on the same (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/2010531...), and, honestly, the Haaretz article evokes more sympathy and more clearly states the plight of the activists on the flotilla.

Interesting tidbit: AlJazeera says "Israel 'attacks' Gaza aid..." with "attacks" between quotes while Haaretz says "At least 10 activists killed as Israel Navy opens fire on Gaza aid flotilla"
I don't get it -- I read through the entire review and I was hard pressed to find where ARM shined.

The VIA chip was faster in most tests, Intel followed, the aging AMD chip came usually third and ARM last.

The Intel Atom used ~3x more power and delivered ~2x the performance.

The Arm chip had issues running several tests, had graphics issues and its memory channel was limited.

Why again was the author talking so highly of ARM?
I would also like ARM processors with a 64-bit address space. Sometimes 4 GB of memory just isn't enough. And sometimes you need to mmap some big files. Still, ARM would be great for some server tasks.
Which is why airline engines are stripped and rebuilt practically from scratch on a federally regulated schedule. There is a federal agency that exists solely to maintain safety in air travel, and maintenance of aircraft is very highly regulated.

Law of large numbers, sure -- there are bound to be incidents. But in industries like air travel there are checks against machines operating for 11 months in unsafe conditions.
Their employee base nearly quadrupled in one year? Holy cow.
This is great, but where are the examples of successful implementation?
Sources? The porn industry has almost always been at the bleeding edge of content distribution aside from the methods outside of the scope of their control (i.e. p2p).

If it weren't for Sony and later Warner Brothers respectively we would have had Betamax over VHS and HD-DVD over Blu-ray.
Everybody and their mother is talking about this in that part of the world. It's NOT Twitter's duty to explain why it's not trending. But, given the sensitivity of the topic, it would be sensitive/nice from them to explain why.
For comparison, this is the 2009 letter (which incidentally contains the 1997 one):

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9M...
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How is this "Hacker News" ?
hah. first get me a board that can handle more than 4GB of ram, then we can start worrying about 64-bit address space.
How to build things.

Stuff you learn there is valuable. But you won't know how to build things unless you--well, try building things.
Hmmm... I think "up-to-date" professors. I've had professors who've been teaching for decades and they're still stuck in the decade they started teaching. In some instances it's ok, but in other instances it's just obsolete and new methods to approach a certain problem have been developed since then, which they are unaware of.
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Abso-blooming-lutely. Whatever happened to NP-Complete as an icky problem nobody can solve? That's exclusive to computer science right there.
I wished more RSS feeds did this by default, thank you.
HaAretz is a pro-Palestinian paper (though mainly printed in Hebrew).
Israeli army has reported soldiers have been wounded (they were stabbed and fired at). Open fire at soldiers (while already trying to dispute a country's authority) and yet be surprised there's a response?
Stupid, stupid people.
Would the any country not respond to vessels coming to their shores and firing?
I wish NYTimes would show the contents of the title tag somewhere else on the page. I think if the contents of the title tag were used as the title of this submission, it would have got more people to notice this article:

> Pushed to Lower Salt Use, Food Industry Pushes Back

Sounds more provocative, no?
Product of our compensation culture. Honestly, I think this is one of the growing problem areas for innovation - we are all too scared of being sued now.

It's going to cripple us as a society at some point.
Not in a monopolistic environment, which due to Skype's strong network effect it may effectively be. The concept of a demand curve depends on multiple suppliers with different reservation prices.
That's pretty cool. I'm working on a real time analytics tool as well, although I'm only showing aggregate stats and don't have any sort of site map visualization yet:

http://hummingbirdstats.com
Something like say a masters in applied programming could be the solution. That way if you feel after your degree that you would like to spend some extra time learning specific languages you can, if should be moved away from the basic computer science theory.