skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the company's web site there's a page about him (he's the CEO): http://cerner.com/public/Cerner_2.asp?id=27586

In that it says: "Cerner associates extol Neal for his passion and foresight, his ability to drive change within organizations, his entrepreneurial spirit, and his candid, uninhibited conversational style."

So that's just a candid, uninhibited conversational style :-)

Note that that message was sent in 2001. If you chart CERN against the NASDAQ over the last 10 years you'll see that the memo hasn't hurt company stock price one bit.

http://www.google.co.uk/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=...
The fact that the CEO sends emails with subject lines such as " MANAGEMENT DIRECTIVE: Week #10_01: ..." (with "directives" numbered by week and sequence) should have been warning enough.

update: Google Finance and Reuters show that the Chairman and CEO of Cerner in 2006 is still in the position today. Looks like their stock has recovered from this "20% drop nicely": http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:CERN
And Zed doesn't steal other people's code and claim that he wrote it.
I moved from posterous to tumblr because the administrative control panel UI/UX was so bad. The default posterous skin is hideous. Tumblr is much easier to use and looks better out of the box. I couldn't care less about the features in the checklist.
It's a big ol' world, and I'm sure you can find an example of _anything_ working at least once, but this is not a good idea.

This isn't because its right, wrong, or indifferent, it isn't because how you look should or shouldn't make a difference. It's because this is the way the world works.

The conceit is that someone is being considered based upon what they've done, not on the way they look. I've known HR departments to block out faces with markers on resumes under review. When I'm confronted with a resume with a face, at least for the first cut, I have to worry whether I'm selecting for the face or the accomplishments. Later, when I actually meet the person, _thats_ when that all important first impression happens. First impressions should be based on the way someone _acts_ not on the way they _look_.

(And personally, if I'm impressed with their stats, even if they make a poor or mediocre first impression, I try to go back and give them another chance; a potential good employee is worth the extra effort.)

The only type of job for which this would be a good idea is for a job as an actor/actress/performer. In their industry including a photo is routine.
Felt it in Montreal. 8th floor of an office building. It took me a few seconds to know it was an earthquake. The windows of another building near us were shaking. My reaction was a little slow. Went away from the windows toward a support beam.
Posts like this remind me to give thanks that I'm technically proficient enough not to have to depend on third party services for a communications platform.
Your wish is a contributor's command:

http://github.com/raganwald/JQuery-Combinators/commit/728713...

I avoid passing a function and its arguments in the same list but it's purely a personal preference and adding the code doesn't remove any existing functionality, so it's in.
We felt it in Grand Rapids, MI, which is a ways from Quebec. A couple people in my office said, "What was that?!", but it took a moment to realize that those mysterious seconds of slow, deep swaying had been a distant earthquake.
Man this is terrible management and exactly the type of thing that just asks for backlash.

Where's the students of history? When you create a police state like this in a company, control will be lost, morale will fall and productivity crashes. Abusing your force only makes it worse.
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent_eq/2010/20100623...
Hmm... sounds like this issue could be solved if everyone stopped car-pooling.
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Settlers of Catan coming to Microsoft Surface
Just idly curious, but why did people upvote my attribution comment?
So, I guess this is the USA's side of compliance to the new copyright treaty that was being cooked up in secret?

It's so tiresome seeing copyright infringement conflated with the counterfeit physical goods which may cause their users physical harm due to not complying with expected specifications.
I was about to mention both Readability and Safari Reader. My primary reason for using a feed reader is aggregation; I can skim through a lot of content quickly through a consistent interface. Part of that is regularization of content presentation; it's mentally jarring switching from something formatted like Reddit to, say, Gruber's blog.

I've created an account, but I'll admit, the interface feels to be a bit jarring to me. Is there no way to actually view the content of the feed, rather than the linked-to article?
See also: http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-softwar...

At least Greenspun took into account the need of his engineers' air to be humidified.
Disturbingly bad results for Bert! Thanks for the helpful link.
If it's a free market and "jobs are hard to find", or in other words "the supply of quality employees is lower than the demand" then it's the perfect time to start a business. You can get a good deal hiring good people. You don't even need an awesome business strategy, just make reasonable, productive use of their talents and there's plenty of room for you to come out ahead.

To the extent it's hard to do this -- there aren't many talented, underutilized people floating around unable to find work -- that's the extent to which it's not actually hard to find a job.
I really like the Chrome extension! Look forward to seeing it on my cell too. Things.app is too specific, this looks a little more collaborative.
The Designer Startup
i am not blowing smoke

i cannot share the slide decks of our portfolio companies for obvious reasons

we are thinking of showing ours that we raised our first VC fund with in 2003 and 2004 but i am not sure how helpful that will be to entrepreneurs
I offer no counter or dissent to your post. However, apparently, the binaries have not yet been posted. Perhaps once they get that crucial detail finished, things will be clear. It appears they haven't even reached an actual beta stage. It might have been better for them to wait until everything was ready to go before launching the site publicly.

Considering the 'front-end' of membase is memcached code, you should be able to use any library that interfaces with memcached to interface with membase.

Out of curiosity, what drew you towards Cassandra over, say, Riak or MongoDB?
Some people have exacting morals and loose standards that fail to permit unhappy conclusions. Not every lack of consensus is the same. Incidentally, global warming and SENS are both cases where "failure" leads to better health (for the environment, or for people).
The proof will be in the numbers, but I doubt it will work with Tumblr. They're pretty spot on about Tumblr being like a collection of high-school cliques -- but what do you think happens when you take an "us vs. them" attitude against a clique? They just become defensive & tighter.
I have been using Stanza on my iPhone for a while now and I think the opposite.

I like the interface and usability of Stanza better. It does have PDF support, annotations and bookmarks. You can load your own ePubs and PDFs into it through iTunes. It has nice dictionary features, brightness controls, themes, support for third-party libraries.

Overall seemed like a much more mature app than iBooks for the short time I spent with iBooks so far.
Well dressed does not imply Suit & tie (nor does suit and tie necessarily imply well dressed). I like to think of my self as well dressed and only very occasionally wear a tie (mainly funerals, weddings, and events where the dress code requires it). That being said I will on occasion throw on a three piece suit & tie for no good reason just to mix things up a bit :)
Logically, he should be following Putin.
That is actually how the Tumblr API works. You don't even need the email address.
Report from Hamilton, Ontario: http://www.raisethehammer.org/blog/1777/earthquake
>Anyway, looks like Quebec is finally separating :P

Hehe. It's funny that this happens the day before St-Jean Baptiste day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Holiday_(Quebec)
And 7am if they're married.
Looks like their stock price was pretty volatile in 2001. Is it really likely then that employee action was the reason for a 20% drop?
* there are alternatives but the backers give this project one up. * web site needs a significant overhaul. * this was a commercial product, if i am not mistaken, and just recently opened up. * is this forked off memcached or just another NoSQL with memcached compatibility is still a mystery.
This one measured 5.5 on the Richter scale.
You must be terrified by copy/paste.
I agree completely. Rational users would realise that the database has little to no connection to the website's hosting, but are any of us entirely rational? The details always matter.
I do 90% of my programming barefoot.
The bold "pay-what-you-want" restaurant experiment
Except for the time spent downloading it, in some cases days / weeks. And the implied risk, however small it's interpreted to be. And the danger of it being a virus (diminishing, but applicable). And etc etc etc.

Nothing's "free" to the extent that people wouldn't care if it's crap. Actually, there's a nice analogy: that flaming bag of dog doo on your porch was likely free too, but it may cause damage. Is it a non-issue because it's free?
Are you defending this guy?
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Not sure which OS you are using, but at least on Windows, different versions of Eclipse can live side-by-side in different directories. So you should be able to test drive a new version without messing up your old version (might want to try setting up a different workspace while experimenting though).
3 Things Every Web Page Must Do for Success (Part 1)
Google Apps Now Supports Multiple Domains
Hypothetical answer: I'm not a blogger, nor do I want to be one. Gruber is free to do as he wants, of course - he is perfectly free to only respond to emails encoded with EBCDIC, if he really feels like it - but that doesn't somehow remove any legitimacy from complaints against him.

Secondly, I suspect the desire to comment on his blog arises more from a wish to engage (read: inform) other readers, rather than Gruber himself.
http://www.carreira.ethz.ch/people/emc
+1. Your comment may look like a "witty reply," but it hints at the futility of measuring results so indirectly. Cars in the parking lot != results.
No need to be sarcastic.

I only mentioned internet infrastructure because the article was from someone talking about how his datacenter "survived" the quake.
I don't quite get this. It seems to conflict with their existing import and offers a different set of services to import from.

If you have an account, you can import from Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress (even a self-hosted Wordpress, Movable Type, Xanga).

If you go to the URL at the link above (http://posterous.com/switch), it allows you to import from Tumbler, Ning.

I'm assuming they will ultimately be the same set of services.
1 Mahalo dollar is equal to $0.75 USD, if you have 150 Mahalo Dollars or more. If you don't have that much, then you have to buy something with the 'Mahalo Store', which offers a very limited number of items for an even lower exchange rate.
Do you KNOW that Tumblr doesn't do this? Dig a little and I think you'll be surprised how many other services (including Tumblr) do this too...
There are plenty of grocery stores here that are similar to what you are used to...safe way, whole foods, trader joes, etc.

Therer is a target in daly city that's easy to get to if you have a car here (or use zip car/citycarshare). There's also a cowpoke of ikeas around for cheap furniture if you need it.

Where is your job! What do you do for fun? Can you deal with the grittiness of soma or do you need some place fancy to live? Will you have a car?

Best way to meet people is going to be the same anywhere. Get involved. Go out, find things to do. There's things for everyone here. Don't forget you'll be working with a team. Use them for help meeting people.
Scroogle's website not listed in google search results
That's odd; I just googled for scroogle, but no sign of scroogle's website in the results.
Workers in one of our buildings south of Baltimore felt the building swaying from the ripples of this. A coworker said it felt like "being on a cruise ship."
Understanding necessary for creation is... well... necessary. But "amassing knowledge" is simply amassing knowledge. I can amass knowledge all day long, but if I don't understand or create it really is simply mental masturbation.

And my statement about Lisp was just about the state of the world. It's a fine language, but we shouldn't pretend that its used more than it is. Actually in teaching it is used a fair bit, and teaching is practice of a sort.
"Simon Peyton-Jones is another heavy hitter at MSR."

If F# does well, I have to wonder if a sanctioned dialect of Haskell for the CLR is in the making. The only thing giving me doubt is that I can't think up a business case for it. OCaml has an audience in the financial world which gives MS a business case for F#. Having F# already, what would an H# give them?
Tumblr absolutely does not do this.
Amberjack?

http://amberjack.org/

http://www.slideshare.net/Jazkarta/amberjack-lightning-talk
Sure, there are some successes.

There are also some rock bands that are financially successful.

That doesn't mean it's not hard to find success by starting a rock band or a small studio as long as you make good music/games.
This is good for the market and the internet as a whole. Competition creates better products and innovation, which means my mother will eventually get to the world of easy posting of content. End of story.
I would like to see #twitter style hashes that could be easy to use in the updates. Also, this hashing may be helpful with any medium communication. For example, if there were to be a posterous style update let's say via email with a #subject, Taskforce can perhaps automagically bring up relevant emails re:#project. Just a wild thought :-)
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Is the world ready for the waterless urinal?
And your point is? Nobody is entitled to comment on someone else's site. "Lack of comments" is simply a bullshit criticism.
Nice one! I'd like a bit more description on the screenshots - I could tell there was an iphone app and something added to gmail, but a quick tagline like 'Manage tasks through your inbox' could be nicer :)
No. I'm pointing out that he may be a total ass, but it doesn't seem to have hurt his company.
I finished my studies at the ETH a few years ago, and heard at that time that this was the normal case for chemistry students here as well (at least I was being told) doing a phd.

I guess these students must have been from his group as well :-)
I wouldn't even call them "Tumblr themes." These were just blog themes, owned by a third party, who licensed them to us for use on Posterous. They just happened to be on Tumblr first, but don't have any other affiliation to that service.
Didn't feel a thing here in Calgary! ;)
So, Apple is targeting ads based on location? How is this different from any other ad network in existence? At least Apple is providing an easy to use opt-out mechanism: http://oo.apple.com/
Well yeah, isn't this basically the entire point of that part of the system? "We think we can have you locked up for XX years and know you can't afford a decent lawyer to fight it, but if you make our jobs easier we'll only have you locked up for X years instead."
Normally I wouldn't post something about urinals to HN just because it's in Wired, but this is actually a fascinating article about a new technology's introduction being delayed by resistance from trade unions (in this case, plumbers).
You're right, NKS does cover more than cellular automata, like network systems (as your reference shows). But all the examples Wolfram gives of network systems have the same anisotropy problem as a cellular automaton. He uses mostly hexagonal grids for his network systems, which are better than square grids, but still not isotropic.

Wolfram doesn't give even a simple example of how two particle-like structures might repel or attract each other in an isotropic fashion in a network system (or any other system in NKS). That doesn't prove it's impossible, but if it is possible neither Wolfram nor anyone else seems to have any idea how to even get started.
Reactive Extensions for JavaScript by Jeffery Van Gogh at JSConf 2010
Interesting Comment Regarding Blur and Manufacturer Android Releases
Q: Since Motoblur is put on top of Android 2.1, will there be a delay in getting Froyo on it, or is it already in the works?

Sanjay: We will upgrade this to Froyo in the late summer. We've been diligent about that.

Andy: As i mentioned, we just open-sourced it today. That's when everybody says, "Go!". That just happened today.

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We already know that manufacturers have early access to the source, least of all because very functional Froyo Moto-engineering builds have leaked out to lucky Droid users, besides the fact that this is just information that Google has acknowledged in the past.

Considering that koush just tweeted that Froyo is already building out of box, I simply don't understand what takes Motorola/HTC so long. I understand there is red tape, I understand it has to be released with an even higher level of polish than CM's releases.

I find Rubin's response a bit dishonest and Sanjay's particularly non-responsive to the question. I just hope that Gingerbread brings a proper UI API that will allow Motorola/HTC to just drop these on top of Android (3.0?) rather than having to spend engineering and testing time to integrate it into Android.
New NoSQL data store Membase
In the future, Apple could install a small packet of poisonous gas that would be triggered on the first received phone call 10 hours after jailbreaking the device. I mean, they haven't, but they could do that. And that is creepy.
People in my building in Ann Arbor, MI felt it. I didn't but I'm on the ground floor.
It's fitting though, that someone as uncritically admiring of Apple and its culture of control and secrecy would take this approach with his own blog.

I don't click on DF links anymore. His tap-dancing apologia are predictable and tiresome and disingenuous and I don't use Apple stuff anymore so I don't need his take on the iFoo of the moment.
He's commenting on the truth of certain statements.

Are you saying we should gloss over some facts just to make the guy look even worse than he already does?
I do not enjoy dressing well and I have no intrinsic interest in my appearance. Nevertheless, it is sometimes useful to engage in signalling when dealing with the outside world (e.g., superficial investors, superficial women). For this reason, I have an extrinsic interest in my appearance.

A service I'd pay for: I send you a photo of myself, my measurements and money. You make me look good.
That's your conscience speaking. The fact that it bothers you is a good thing.
We have an founder-level position (equity-only) for someone who knows C and has a background or interest in Tokyo Tyrant and nginx. Working remotely is fine.
Yes, I rather dislike the tone of their post. If anything, these sorts of childish insults makes me want to avoid using Posterous.
I think this is quite a bit different than copy/paste, but appreciate the humor in your comment.

But, what's http://marco.org going to say when there are 20 clones of his blog all being indexed by google? It's sort of a kick in the teeth I'd say.

EDIT: I didn't realize tumblr made it so friggin easy to copy an entire blog. My bad.
It's unfortunate there are no Windows binaries (well apparently there are no binaries yet period, but I mean they don't plan on binaries until some time out). We could host Linux VMs, but ideally we just run Windows binaries and get rid of the abstraction.

That is the case for a large number of these products. At best offering a terrible Cygwin port. In the Windows world the premiere product right now is the beta of AppFabric, but almost no one uses that and it has an absurd list of dependencies that preclude many uses.
Does Posterous have a reblog, favorite, follow, follower stream features? It seems that Posterous is trying to emulate some of the marketing mojo from Apple's switch ad campaign. This aggressive switch campaign might indicate that the number of new users to the system might have plateaued. Does Posterous post the active users, monthly impressions, etc?
The comments imply the original memo was from 2001.
At least it's not a message to the Hacker News community.
Sure. Why not?

The morale of the company was supposedly "killed" after that email and the evidence used was a drop in stock price, but a little investigation shows that the stock price is actually fine. Therefore, any accusation that the CEO is ineffective appears to be false and deserves to be defended against.
Thanks a lot for pointing this out, I've wanted this ability for years. My last company decided to change names and it caused me endless headaches migrating mail accounts.
Well, this is dated 1996...so you have a 14 year management theory edge over Professor Carreira. Additionally, he's no longer at Caltech, but now heads a lab in Zurich, though it gives off the same 'patent factory' vibe (http://www.carreira.ethz.ch/).

We are often quick to assume that MoreHoursWorked = MoreWorkGettingDone

That assumes sustainable productivity as our highest goal, though. I think that's a good one and plainly you do too. But external measures of productivity are not always their own reward: some will sacrifice external position for internal strength. Working the juniors like slaves, with the resulting high turnover, means fewer competitors for publication credit or questions about your strategic approach: those who hate you leave as soon as they can, those who remain are inclined to do what they're told. Look at countries which are dictatorships; they know quite well that open societies tend to be substantially richer, but conversely they're much harder to boss around and it's often safer to be the big fish in a small pond.

Not saying this is true of the professor in question, but his tone certainly suggests an authoritarian demeanor.
Ask HN: Need help with Non-disclosure agreement to protect my idea
I am in the process of signing into a non-disclosure agreement with a design firm to provide technical drawings and prototype for an idea I am working on. They have sent me a draft NDA to sign but I am a little wary about the following section as it includes a lot of lawyer speak

...
4.	DISCLAIMER

4.1. <Company name> reserves the rights in the Proprietary Information and no rights or obligations other than those expressly stated herein are granted to or are to be implied from this Agreement. In particular, no licence is hereby granted directly or indirectly under any patent or other intellectual property right now or in the future owned by <Company name>.
...

I will be <Company name> in the context of this document. I would be very grateful for any input or interpretation of this text.

Thanks in advance.

-Steven
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Am I the only person who saw the line about the parking lot being half empty at 8 and 5 and thought, "Oh, that's consistent with a normal distribution of people working 10 hour days with a couple hour variance in arrival times"?
No-one is entitled to have a window manager on Linux either, but I'd probably still be using a Mac if there weren't any. The OP of this thread is not, to my understanding, making a moral claim about how Gruber should or shouldn't have comments - he's saying that the inability to comment, combined with Gruber's factual inaccuracies, frustrates him sufficiently that he no longer pays much attention to the blog. Is he allowed to make that decision? Or is Gruber entitled to his attention?
It wasn't 5.5 in Toronto.