skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd do craigslist style classified subreddits I think, it works in well with the strong community aspect and there are already has strong geographical subreddits. But I'm not going to donate to reddit just so you guys can sell my eyeballs to advertisers better.
A Tour of Apple's Newly Opened Shanghai Store
Definitely, the key is to see things the way the users do, and provide only what they think they want to know. Seems like I'm stating the obvious, but doing the opposite is easier than it seems.
Thanks for the encouragement. Yep .. healthy competition is always great and exciting to have :)
Plus I'm not sold that the points system will be enough for people to take time to mark free spots when they're just trying to get on with their day. Unless they start saying "you can't keep using this program unless you have a certain number of points," anyway.

Now if Google could collect real-time data via automated parking ticket systems, or even by getting access to security camera feeds and doing some image processing, then they'd be in business. I don't know how these systems are typically run, but it might be a smart move for Google to pursue partnerships with popular big-city parking locations for exclusive access to this data, to the extent that it can be collected from current systems.
Agree 100%! This is the main reason that I don't use Facebook Connect - I have no idea what a site will try to do in my name, nor do I have an intuitive understanding of what Facebook will let a site do in my name.
I just stopped seeing big acts.

It's a waste of time and money. Plus it's fun to discover new musicians that are good.

Most of the shows I go to only cost $10 to $15. I also end up getting to see a bunch of bigger acts at music festivals like ACL where you get a great bang for your buck.
How Fuel Gauges Work
I agree pretty much completely with this. I've also seen the same cycle happen over and over again: I was one of the beta testers for Digg.

At a certain point I think you just get tired. I can't count the number of times that I've posted a straightforward technical response, then downvoted, and said that my opinion is worthless unless I provide sources and that the commenter is a highly paid consultant so he knows what he is talking about.

For example, just about a month ago it looked like someone was confused about a basic systems issue. I posted with a quick comment about the nature of optimization in the memory hierarchy which featured a well-known result in standard CS literature. You know, there are times when I don't mind digging through IPDPS or the ACM for proper citations, but a lot of the time I resent the fact that the argumenter didn't even take the time to do some basic research about the topic. As I said, I get tired.
According to Tony Hsieh's book, no.
Status updates among my facebook friends have gone way down since the last facebook privacy flap.

Perhaps facebook's reputation is starting to precede it.

(Though more people I am acquainted with continue to join. They just don't update much or at all.)
I'd be interested. Maybe start a small Google Group to organize it...?
Toyota, Tesla working on prototype EV
~85,000 patterns tagged in the first day. Pretty effective means of organizing content.
They're also using their own FlockDB (http://github.com/twitter/flockdb) to store their social graph.
It was surprising to learn that Larry Page's brother already had successful startup experience.
They don't seem to be aiming at console gaming in particular, and much of what you wrote does not apply to non-console games. In casual and social gaming, for instance, there is no schedule. Technology isn't always easy (you'd be amazed what it took to scale our game to 100k daily users) but it's doable on a budget and you don't worry about being outdated.

Gameplay's always tough. Distribution varies. Social game distribution was easy for a long time, though it's now gotten harder. I don't know enough about casual to say.
Doesn't the author of the article realize that it's possible to tune the database parameters? MySQL and Postgres are configured for durability by default.

Single node MySQL or Postgres instances can perform very well with the right data:memory ratio at the cost of durability guarantees. The problem with horizontal, not vertical scalability.
Most influential ideas in machine learning 1995 - 2005
Yes they do. It's one of the first things they mention.
Unmarked minefields, or air-scattered mines of infinite duration, are the bad kind.

A well-marked, time-limited or centrally controlled minefield is generally much less dangerous, on par with a razor-wire fence. Functionally, it's a sentry system which can be turned off electronically (or by waiting past a certain date), or at worst, which is marked on maps well enough that individual mines can be removed safely by engineers.

Unexploded ordnance (i.e. bombs which you fire and which then fail to explode) are a bigger threat after a modern battle than US-style minefields.

A minefield is probably much less likely to be deployed for this than automated sentry towers, however.
Isn't it the case that legal issues are often a bottleneck to getting products to market? The traits listed for "taking the plunge" have been described elsewhere (I think by pg) as the "rat" phenomenon. Basically there are a new breed of super rats which will persist and bootstrap or gain traction, to the detriment of conventional or historic VC interaction.

The advent of online trading (with the floor traders going bye bye) is another peg in the coffin, I think. It very well may be possible to day trade as a primary means, with only a secondary concern of bootstrapping or working on a startup. With priorities like that the startup just becomes a passionate "can it be accomplished?" pursuit, because by comparison the profit incentive just isn't there.
They already support the US (the regular map features work when you pan across the Atlantic), they just aren't marketing that fact.
La Grande Dame: an online fashion point for plus-sized women
While you're at it, add a 'flag' button to self serving ads. I've seen a couple of ads with comments disabled and no flag, yet when I clicked on them (only a few though) Chrome reported malicious content.
That site's "Share the Wealth" widget is quite something.
I mean in general with JavaScrips trying to save dataload by sending diffs of that JavaScripts instead of full new version -- does not worth the complexity of dealing with it.
Diff functionality is more complex and therefore:
- Requires a lot of time to develop and maintain.
- Could have bugs which might result in a weird web application behavior.
Bandwidth is not as expensive as the overhead of maintaining JavaScript Diffs.
I am a US citizen and I share some of your same concerns. Who knows what will happen in this pressure cooker we are all in right now. Sometimes it seems some things come down to a risk/benefit equation of sorts, when in the past that was not true.

If you decide to stay for business reasons, I would say be sure to keep a finger on the pulse of the issues that concern you. Continue to weigh them, and if you believe one of these issues is getting too uncomfortable for you or for a member of your family be sure to have a predefined backup plan or two in place. Just keep watching for the kettle to boil so to speak, and have some cash set aside for you and your family in case of any type of emergency situation.

One nice thing is, no matter where someone lives or works we can all still communicate easily via the net. We moved our business from Las Vegas to Austin to take advantage of the superior business climate here, and aside from leaving some familiar restaurants, it doesn't feel that far away because of the communication abilities of the internet.
I'm pretty sure I wasn't smart enough to understand that when I was eight years old.
I don't know what the government is thinking but getting more skilled workers is the point not getting less of them. Were loosing a huge amount of them to the US and all they can think of is to reduce the amount coming in?
MyOnlineToolbox.com: a one stop solution in home business
I thought so too. I bet having so many options makes people share less, not more.
Larry Page: Jobs is rewriting history
Translation of a poem from Japanese into English
At the middle of Hype cycle, they are now getting real.
Subdomains are not the problem. The issue is that these are registered namesevers, as pointed out by "there" below.
I think Moodle is great, but it doesn't include any social features. I keep hearing from teachers that this new generation want's social features in an LMS.

As for BlackBoard (horrible software that it is), I don't think (and I could be very wrong) that they would waste time or money on a little guy selling to small schools and businesses. I do think they would go after some like Microsoft if they dared create a LMS.
Deflation just means prices are going down. This is a good thing for people who want to buy those things.

Of course, after a bubble bursts prices will be lower.

No price is intrinsically "good" or "bad". Price is a measure of supply and demand. The idea behind the typical Fed policy of slow inflation is that by constantly adding a bit of inflation, the Fed has something to take away when the economy needs to be slowed.

Keep in mind that it is US policy to inflate housing prices, so it's no wonder that after a while it just wasn't sustainable. As a renter I find this practice abhorrent and wish that somehow the brunt of the economic crisis could be foisted upon all the mortgage debtors who thought they were Warren Buffet just before the crash. After the crash billions more were poured into housing in the hope that nobody would realize it was way, way overvalued.

I think that most of this is built upon the desire not to have more people walk away so that there is still a remote numerical chance of deeming a the typical mortgage debtor aka "homeowner" credit worthy.
Britain's 'happiest' earn 50,000 pounds a year
The darker side to this is that you don't get any choice where your data is, at least with the address book. It's gmail or bust.
Looks like IT professionals were taken off the list.
With the number of page views you all are getting, why don't you bring on a developer on a commission basis to really focus on driving revenue. I'm sure you can find an ambition, business minded developer that you could give a percentage of the increase in revenue to, who would be willing to work for free to get things going. There is definitely money being left on the table, and structuring it in this way could allow you to avoid getting shot down by the people in charge, while bringing in more people, and increasing the revenue, which will ultimately allow you all to increase the operating budget.

I'd definitely be interested in something like this, and I'm sure many other people would be too.
They understand perfectly. Hence the scrapped dates (with or without excuses), discounted tickets, changed venues, etc. described in the story.

They just work the press and whine a lot as a reflex action.
Deflation is not a threat. Its just prices returning to normal after the collapse of largest bubble in human history.

And its not over. Housing prices will be dropping some more now that some of the artificial support has been removed.
This domain is not owned by Microsoft.
I'd rather save the money for a .co or .cm domain :)
The thing about folds is that they build upon more fundamental concepts. If you understand recursion — which you must if you want to do FP — they're not too weird. But most people have trouble thinking recursively, so the simple implementation of a fold is confusing.

I think the name doesn't help either. People understand "reduce" more intuitively than "fold".
The problem with deflation is that it tends to be very unevenly distributed. You rarely see prices drop by 5%; instead, you'll see some prices stay the same, and others drop by 25+%, and some even increase.

In practice, this means that this is a good thing - if you're one of the people who keeps their jobs. Wages tend to be one of those prices that is least likely to drop; this is known as the "sticky wage problem" and is because employers have found that cutting nominal pay rates almost universally causes bad employee morale. So if you have a 5% drop in aggregate employment expenditures, it usually manifests itself as 95% of employees keep the same salary, and 5% get laid off entirely.

Of course, I'm absolutely certain that I'll be in that 95%, right? Because I'm clearly above average. ;-)
Its not my birthday.
My fear is that by using Facebook Connect to log into Site X, I will somehow allow Site X to access my Facebook data (my info, friends list, interests, posts, etc.)

If I could be assured Facebook Connect was simply serving as an authentication service, and did not implicitly authorize sites that use it to access any data about me, or post to my Facebook page, I would probably use it for some sites.
Google News redesign: "a lovely example of personalization done poorly"
I always try to make my code simple. The first attempt helps understand the problem. More refinements explore alternate ways.

Once I have written a 'good' version (good technique, clean code and factorized) I often find it does what I need, but too generically. Later revisions to add features often also rewrite, specialize and simplify.
All projects are easy at the start. See I just open this empty file here and start typing...
No, you should not.
Behind the scenes at Toyota's R&D center
yeah, we have two contradictory goals with housing: making it more affordable, while simultaneously inflating housing prices.

If you removed the interest deduction, the first time buyer subsidies, the capital gains exclusion of $250k and whatever else they do, you'd see an even steeper decline.
What Would the Earth Look Like if it Stopped Spinning?
Consider this project http://github.com/marcuswestin/store.js as a fallback for browsers that don't support localStorage.
Multi-Site, Global Load Balancing, and Traffic Management in the Clouds
VCs don't want early exits. They want companies to go public, which Google did pretty much as soon as the IPO market returned. So whatever friction there may have been between Google and their investors, it would not have been about that.
I did stealth mode. Now I'm paying for it by having to slowly build SEO ranking. If I had at least setup a blog and talked about my ideas, I would have more beta-testers today, more interest, and more brand recognition.
Rutgers Winlab is has also been testing a sensor based approach to detecting open parking spots. They're using a sensor on the car to detect open spaces and measure their sizes to see if they're suitable as parking spots. The professor leading the project
There is an article that talks about it here:
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/24497/page1/
and the lead author of a paper explaining it is here, in case anyone is interested in reading about it. The paper title is ParkNet.
http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~suhas/
Brazil to penalize anyone who "hinders or impedes" fair use rights
Not surprising to see that CouchDB is the most concurrent durable store. We've optimized for concurrency and durability from day one. Thanks for doing a more life-like benchmark.
Is this actually a problem? I usually just park my bike at the nearest pole, of which there are always plenty.
I doubt my feedback would make a difference, but this is precisely why I stopped using Facebook and made sure to close my Facebook account entirely. Linking my web activities to my profile simply freaked me out, certain extent of anonymity is something I expect online and having Facebook cookies on my laptop made me feel exposed: I want to be just "old-gregg" when I see fit and creepy facebook integration takes it away from me.

Although I do appreciate you making yourself available to feedback in a direct ad-hoc way. Very unusual for a company of such size.
I did a presentation a few years ago on some studies about using prosody to resolve sentence ambiguities. The improvement in listener comprehension was measurable and dramatic. The easy conclusion to draw is that leveraging prosody in your day-to-day speech makes you better understood because the listener doesn't have to devote as much conscious attention to figuring out what you're trying to say.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_(linguistics)
I've always considered a landing page or Google Ad as a legitimate MVP. http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product
I'm not even trying here...

So these beheadings never happened?

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1839576,00.htm...

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=359559&Categor...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-v...

Mass Grave in Silver Mine

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06...

Corruption?

"Mexican state security minister can't trust her own police"

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-b...

Mexican Governor Candidate Murdered

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/world/americas/29mexico.ht...
Now, Google can put a strip along the top of that dummy page with an option whether or not to automatically redirect for repeat visitors from the same computer or IP address. Then only first-time visitors need click on the page! Would that continue to satisfy China's demand I wonder?
This feels like a rewriting of history, given that the idea of the 'first-class man' was at the very core of "scientific management" and the phrase was, according to Kanigel, "a staple of Taylor's rhetoric".
Heatsynclabs of Phoenix / Chandler?
There are real problems with deflation. It discourages both spending (people wait to buy until prices are lower) and investment (profit margins are lower, and just sitting on money increases its value without the risk).

Put another way, modest inflation is the kick in the pants that we need to get off our asses and ante up into the economy. Deflation encourages everyone to sit tight and hold onto what they have.
For another perspective from someone with experience: I'd say $500k is about 2-3x times higher than what's reasonable to expect, without a really good direct sales.
AWN is written in C; if it's slow, that's mostly likely due to your graphics drivers.
The Trappist in downtown Oakland is a great spot. Its about 4 blocks from the 12 street BART.

http://www.thetrappist.com/
But when did Android start being so much like the iPhone? And why didn't Schmidt leave Apple's board earlier?
i'm pretty sure our mysql boxes do 10 times those reqs on old web server hardware. oracle does about 400, but most people do not need ACID.
Not really in the modern poker universe with a house rake or seat fee.

There is tons of luck involved in poker games, including what types of bad and mediocre opponents sit down, what the comp policies are, and what your health is like (stamina is a huge part of poker, partially because it pays so god damned poorly).

These uncertainties do not go away in human lifespans.
I'd love to hear more about this ruby -> java transition if you're willing to share.
Bombay Halwa Recipe
Some activities can be linked to services that will run with no regards to the Activity lifespan. Most implementations will have a stopService in the Activitie's onDestory so if that's the case killing a task may disable a running process.
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It's also full of inaccuracies. The "interesting details" are largely wrong. Unfortunately it's written in an authoratative style, so people assume it's true and upvote, demonstrating one of the major flaws in vote based systems.
if you like the idea behind MVProduct, then reducing it to a pitch/survey seems to be the next logical progression
I strongly doubt it. I can't see a public-media-style "pledge week" as a primary source of revenue for a for-profit company.

I think the best outcome would be that this is a one-time weird thing that happened before they found a real revenue model. That wouldn't be unprecedented at all, although every time I can think of, this happens before the founders sell to a large company who can monetize well. For example, I donated to faqs.org when it was just some guy, and now it's owned by some site aggregator I've never heard of. Which is fine with me, because I just wanted to keep it around.

But assuming this works spectacularly, doesn't this just make Reddit completely illiquid? How can you go about selling a company based on revenues that are primarily free-will gifts? What would you sell, a share of profits from people just giving the company money? And what would you tell your donating customers who have zero ownership? Maybe that's all okay, or maybe I don't get it -- is there some way for this to succeed that I'm missing here?
User demographics are very, very different. I'm betting most reditters are aware of Google AdSense (and consider it kind of lame?). But hardly any of your visitors may be aware of AdSense and may have actually considered as good-ol-relevant-link.
save your money. typos of your name like mcrosoft.com or microsof.com are more important to your brand than .cc

even those unless you're getting tons of type in traffic may not be worth the extra $7.50/yr
Just curious -- why don't you start a new company?

It's obvious that your work isn't being respected by your current employers.

Does reddit mean a lot to you personally?
They're asking people to subscribe, not to donate. A subscription is a recurring revenue stream.
>Deflation just means prices are going down. This is a good thing for people who want to buy those things.

You have no clue what deflation is like if you think it "just means prices are going down".

Deflation means people have great incentive to just hold on to money and not spend it. A vacation that costs $1000 today will only cost $950 next year.

Deflation also means you have no need to invest your money to get a return. This makes people pull money out of circulation as they can just hold it and get richer. This causes even more value accretion per day, which causes even more people pull their money out.

With all this money going out of circulation, and everyone putting off purchases, people are fired, laid off and downsized. Which causes people to have even less money, and the cycle spirals onward (This is what happened during the Great Depression btw).
There are no engineers on that list, either--not even petroleum engineers.
Stolperstein plaques in Berlin
I suppose, before I upvote you, that I should ask you for sources then.
A more life-like benchmark for a concurrent web app would include reads, with a few round trips to the db server per request. For most web apps this benchmark is useless.
The problem is that a lot of skilled people who come to Canada end up having a difficult time finding a job and not all skilled workers are the same. One example I read in the paper was someone from Africa who was an architect. They qualified as a skilled worker but two years later and he was doing menial jobs.

There is a shortage of skilled laborers and targeting that demographic over the next few years would be a good idea.