skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the proviso that I know very little about dealing with boards: if you have millions, and you're growing quickly, and there is a problem which is consuming the CEO's time which can be killed dead by signing a check for $15,000, what would your board tell you to do? (Would you even talk to the board about that? Would they expect you to?)

I'm thinking the conversation goes something like this: you summon your inner hedge fund trader, and tell the board "Listen, this city is effing expensive. My salary is effing ludicrous. The wife/kids/potted plants are complaining and this is hurting my performance. I'm giving myself a raise from 'ludicrously underpaid' to 'severely underpaid', so that I can focus on making us all rich rather than deal with the household budget. Any objections? Good, next order of business..."
While I haven't worked on an adult site, I did work on a site that, by the end, I was embarrassed to be working on. It was borderline scammy and I didn't believe in it at all. I worked on it for about 6 months before finally leaving - mainly because when I was hired for the position, I was given the impression that there would be a whole slew of different projects.

The bottom line is that I was so embarrassed that I worked on this app that I don't list it in my online portfolio. On my CV, I just list a vague description of the duties I performed at that company without specific reference to the project.

If someone asks me about specifics, I will tell them about it - in fact, one interview I had asked me about the worst project I worked on and I talked about that one. So I don't hide it if asked.

I do wish that I had worked on something that I could be proud of for those six months though.

I guess that is the question you need to ask yourself. Is working on this something you can be proud of?

Don't worry what other people will think. Ask yourself how you will feel about it. If you have no problems with it, then go ahead.
Everyone is forgetting that each of the example sites is also fast, even eBay. That counts for a lot in return-ability. One of the amazing things about Google in the early days was how damn fast it returned results. It was easily 2-3x faster than the competition at first, or at least appeared to be so.
Sounds like 3 people (ie. your entire company) were distracted for an entire 24 hours over 30k hits to a blog. And then you lost another 24 hours writing the followup post..

You gotta knock these blog posts out when you have time and just keep grinding, you can't sit around in awe of your awesome blogging

(ps. 30k from those traffic sources is nothing. Only 50-100 of those people would have even bothered to look up to see who was responsible for what they are reading. Most people click, scan, close).
Stupid fucking article with no concept of design or what makes websites successful.
Matte. I got eye pain from reading on a glossy screen, so I replaced it with a matte, and it has helped a lot.
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Verizon, Google make net neutrality pact, sources say
We have a glossy and a high-res Matte and I'd recommend the Matte. The colors are good enough unless you're doing video or design. Definitely get the high res if you can.
I think there are a lot of options -- a constitutional amendment comes to mind first. Make it a crime to keep any secrets longer than a certain period of time. All sorts of options there.

How can a constitutional amendment help, unless it's backed by a threat? The powerful have repeatedly shown that they don't respect the rule of law. It's a pleasant fiction. It's just not the way the world works.

You can't realistically expect those in power to modify their behaviour to your liking unless you somehow have power over them.

You can't realistically take on an establishment (if that's your thing) by playing by their rules. There has to be an element of threat, which will appear reckless.
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I thought (I am sure many others will think the same) that you were giving away cash, since there are dollar signs in the title but no mention of 'software'

Wizehive sounds great, seriously, I just read your page for about 3-4 seconds (until I worked out there was no cash around), but I think you should splash some cash around. After all, your biggest potential competitor just gave up - the same guys that all those investors asked what you are going to do about for all those years, they are gone now. Time to make it rain bro!
Hope you don't mind, I submitted this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1577341
"Good porn sites have all the same technology problems that any other popular website does"

I imagine many have far bigger technical challenges than most non-porn sites if you think about it. Huge bandwidth requirements, constant attempts to steal your product or otherwise compromise your systems and I'm guessing that porn sites see stolen or otherwise bogus credit cards far more often than any other business.
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This is a post that couldn't be more timely for me. I am a US-based software engineer and entrepreneur, Filipino-immigrant, interested in venturing back to the Philippines to begin a startup. Thanks HN!
I think you are mistaken on who capitulated. This story is a lot more informative:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/08/google_and...

Specifically, Google and Verizon's agreement could prevent Verizon from offering some prioritization to the biggest bidders who want better delivery of content on its DSL and fiber networks, according to the sources. But that wouldn’t apply to mobile phones, the sources said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the companies have not officially made their announcement.
The Iraq war is often considered a war that never should have taken place. Is it possible to prove that it cost more lives than it saved? No. Should that be the beginning and the end of the justification for the war? Absolutely not.

Your rationality rationalizes 100% war 100% of the time. I cannot prove that any person in some location is not planning on attacking, therefore, by your logic, all people are better off dead - for my safety.

Clearly that rationality is illogical.

Specific to the point you were attempting to make previously, however: you cannot prove that the possible identification of hundreds of people is equal to the known death of tens of thousands of people, though you claim they are equal. In fact, a sane analysis of the two points shows that they are not equivalent.
The constant cutting of the video is quite annoying. Feels like the quotes were taken out of context.
Perhaps it depends on the industry, but in health IT I've yet to meet anyone who could perform both roles well. Developers mostly only make good PMs when the product is intended for either general consumers, or other developers.
Am sure Japan can do that also since they have their own currency and can print plenty of money.

One person mentioned some numbers however, such as 2500 Yuan per hour. I am sure that figure one day was 25 Youan, but inflate and inflate, some zeros have been added.

I guess however having prices go up also, such that say bread is 1000 Yuan you do not get real inflation if you print slowly. But, I doubt anyone want to take a chance.

I would think also that it is not so easy and it is not really a get out of jail card. Money have value as long as they have power. They can print as much as they like, as it seems to be the case with Japan, but if prices go up accordingly, they would need to print more, and prices go up and print more and Germany 1930s or Zimbabwe 2007.

Paying off debt is a good policy, whether be it a country or individual. Saving is a good policy too.
random, you say? ;-)
The co-founders banished me into a media quarantine to deal with it.

I assure you, the entire company was (mostly) not sucked into this.

And people did more than bother to look us up. Probably about the number you cited chatted us up via olark, clicks to the 'about' page aside.
I would tend to think of it as a positive filter meaning anyone who would be put off by it isn't someone you want to work for anyway. Would you want to work for a company that expects you to apologise for having had a job in the "adult space" or is so up tight that they're bothered by it?

Take the job then put it on your resume in bold :D At least that way any job offers you get will be from secure people who may actually be nice to be around.
Yeah. Those were strange times. The PM had the decency to threaten to use anti-terrorism laws against Iceland!
It needs (or, past tense ...) to be configured before it's available. On the apps configuration page...
Yeah, me too.

The point is that states sometimes need to do these dirty things, but they shouldn't try to make retarded legal arguments to justify them. Yeah, it's illegal. Okay, so use your special forces and shut up already.

Actually, I believe my exact words were "It's like saying that the Sovereign of Sovereignia can ass-rape anyone he chooses, because there's a Sovereignian piece of paper that says it's okay."
Wow, haven't seen WizeHive before -- this is awesome. Just started playing around with it, but so far this seems to be exactly what I've been looking for. Good work!
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I think Russia went bankrupt in the 90s when communism collapsed. So The IMF forced them to sell of their assets, like gas companies, oil, energy, whatever else. People bought them really cheap and are now billionaires, or as the media is free to call them Russian oligarchs.

It has taken two decades for Russia once again to at least try and act like a super power in the world stage.

As for normal people, well I would suppose they got a bit richer because well they were starving in 1989 when communism collapsed so really things could only get better. But if it happened to a rich country like America then it would probably turn to a second rate country like poor India or Mexico. There would be no cleaner to clean your street to start with...
BECOMING the reserve currency is very beneficial. The US printed over 4 trillion bucks and it just went into vaults somewhere in exchange for $4 trillion bucks worth of stuff.

But when we blow it and are deep in debt with declining ability to borrow cheaply, we could also lose this special status. and $4 trillion will come back and make goods more expensive for everybody stuck with no far-less-desirable paper.
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You could have "counselors" who go around the bar and chat people up, keep them safe, etc. Freeing up the bartenders could be a good thing.
> unhappy users who are only using the software because their organizations require it

Software is rarely any better than it absolutely has to be for people to put up with it, and these people must put up with it. You need to find a business case--either customers are defecting to other vendors, or fewer leads are converting to customers, or time to market for new features is hurting you, or good staff are resigning in disgust. If none of these things are true, then sadly the business is actually making the right call, because terrible software is cheaper and the market is all too willing to take it.
You can get some small amount of information about a person via Facebook publicly, but to really get at all the info, the user needs to authorize their Facebook account to the app. Zynga and Slide have tens of millions of people who've done this for their apps, if not more.

All Google has to do is put an ad on all the Zynga and Slide pages that passes them the Facebook UID of the current user, and it could become part of their ad targeting. Then they can get the actual Facebook data from Zynga and Slide.

Google wants everyone to give this info to them directly, that's what Google.Me, Google Buzz, and all their different social experiments have been about. But that hasn't been working out so well, so these deals are a cheap way to make sure they can still get at the Facebook profile data.
Does anyone know where I could find out how Facebook does their suggestions? It'd be interesting to compare LinkedIn's method to Facebook's.
"If Google had actually notified users when they got new messages, they would have logged into wave, sent more messages and wave would have lasted longer.
Instead, messages were sent but never read, so Wave lost all the momentum it had."

Google does, I always receive an email notifying me of new wave messages. I think google tried to sell a productivity tool as a mainstream product, working with Wave as a CSCW ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_supported_cooperative_... ) tool has been a dream so far. Too bad , they will stop working on it.

Edit: Quotation
Same here, except for Spanish. No Habla Español.
It could be that there were turf wars involved in this. It is not inconceivable for the Gmail product manager to not want Wave integrated. People switching to Wave could mean the end of his clout in company.

I don't know enough about internal Google to really say whether this is probable or not, but I've worked for companies where that would have been the case.
He sure did them a solid :) Nice work John!
An example would be Brew and Rim devices. The mobile world does not begin and end at the iPhone.
Not Depression-era.
1939-1943. WWII.
No, I worked at Naughty America (they have both straight and gay porn sites) for 2 years and the only reaction I've gotten from potential clients/employers is "Haha wow that must have been interesting.", and then they want to know what it was like. The best reactions I've ever heard from my friends who worked at large tech companies like Sony Online Entertainment and Intuit have been things like "Oh cool." and "Neat." with no follow-up.

It seems to open many more doors than it closes, as long as you don't become a "career porn guy".
I don't think I implied that anywhere.
Eric Schmidt On Google Wave's Death Video
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How firm are you on the open source work? I've spent more time on the closed source side of the world due to the nature of mobile and financial system development.
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I am not American, so I do not know this author, but wow, this guy is evil!

From Wikileaks, I mean Wikipedia:

Marc A. Thiessen (born 1967) served as a speechwriter for United States President George W. Bush (2004–2009) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2001–2004). He is the author of the 2010 New York Times bestselling book, Courting Disaster.

"Thiessen's first book, Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack" - I think the title is probably all you need to know about him and the book.

"...a former military interrogator, and author of How to Break a Terrorist, characterizes Thiessen's book as "a literary defense of war criminals"

"...many Catholic thinkers strongly disagree with Thiessen's assertion in the book that <strong>waterboarding</strong> is permitted by the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church." <i>Emphasis Added</i>

"Thiessen's promotional tour for Courting Disaster included a confrontational interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour and an interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show"

Man if he is shouting at John Stewart, you know the guy is evil.

He is all that I and am sure most Americans by their univocal rejection of the last government despise. He stands for all that made the last decade so dark. He is the f* criminal.

Now as to the article. I am amazed. Override International Law? What on earth! What is he somewhat superior than everyone else? Does he think the US is so great that it can afford to pick a fight with freaking Europe? Or is International Law applicable only to others, or is law for that matter applicable only to others?

Man this guy is not only Evil, but an enemy of the people. If the Devil did exist and took the form of man, it would resemble him like a mirror image.
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Google tried "not being evil". This is Google's attempt at Jujitsu -- people are more scared of a google/verizon mega deal than they are of not having net neutrality.

Google is using fear of its potential evil to leverage sentiment against this deal and toward net neutrality. Google wins either way.
this is terrible news. we really can't afford to lose such a passionate advocate for reason. hopefully he can be saved
Looking for a co-founder is usually a waste of time. If you are flying solo, hire someone good and cheap.
That's the problem with googlewave, it's a productivity tool, for some reasons, google tried to sell it to the casual Joe, to use it as.....I don't really know, I love google wave and have been using it as a CSCW ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_supported_cooperative_... ), this is not a product that should fail, I think it's more a marketing and strategy problem here, the last thing to do with google wave is to kill it. So google decision's makers, this is not a product to use like Gmail, this is a product for work, and since this "work" tool is out there during a recesssion, well don't expect it to take off like a rocket, give it some time, it's a great innovating tool. For the slowness, Hner, keep in mind this tool is still a beta product. I use it almost everyday and love it.
This is Google finally realizing that the public is more afraid of Google than it is of not having net neutrality. A google/Verizon deal makes all the niche content players more likely to favor net neutrality over having to complete with Google content.
It may be a 'marriage' as you like to define the word, but that doesn't magically make it so.

Shall we use 'marriage' to also cover the union of a man to a horse? man to a table? man to a child? They have civil rights too!
Plenty of people have floated and tested ideas other than occupying the country as methods of preventing "more buildings from being knocked down". Indeed, nearly all terrorist plots that have been prevented have used these methods: investigative policing.

For someone seemingly so versed in the issue, I'm surprised of two things:

1- That you're apparently unaware that there are two primary schools of thought re: anti-terrorism. One is grand military force and the other is investigative tactics. The former is nearly beyond cost prohibitive (some might argue it IS cost prohibitive), of a highly questionable efficacy, and results in orders of magnitude more civilian deaths than the instigating cause (9/11). The latter has been demonstrated to be highly effective at preventing attacks.

2- That you're equally unaware that the killing of families in far off lands results in an increased number of surviving family/friends who take up arms in opposition to those responsible. There is now a wealth of information spanning years detailing the primary motivating factors of insurgents, most of which revolves around revenge for the death of family/friends and little of which has anything at all to do with Caliphates.

And lastly, it is the definition of naive to believe that "we're not getting any material benefit" from the war. You may not be, but many corporations have massive financial benefits and most politicians have re-election benefits (both pro-war and anti-war politicians, though primarily the pro-war variety).
> That's a rather naive view of a complex question.

Absolutely correct. I thought someone would call me out on that so let me explain in more details:

It is still about making money. It is about the expected ability to keep making money in the future. I was talking about maximizing the global future returns function (you can think of it as the stock value). This function is some composition of the 3 functions you broke it down to.

That still doesn't change the goal.

However,as you argue, there is a set of decisions that when taken, might lead to maximizing short term profit at the expense of long term profit.

Google traditionally tried to maximize the long-term, by positioning itself on the positive side of the moral spectrum -- it is their well-known "do no evil" mission statement. This of course could just be pure PR. Or, if not, it could have resulted in taking some short term losses (not getting involved with repressive governments around the world, for example) while increasing long term gains (attracting the right kind of geeks who actually care about morals, human rights, freedoms, etc.).

[As a quick side node on such moral mission statements, one can argue that the losses taken as a result of defending a moral stance, might be a good measure of how serious and sincere that moral stance really is. I am not passing any judgement on Google one way or the other here, just pointing out a general guideline].

The bigger the company got, the more likely that short-term gains will be emphasized. The company has stopped being identified with the personae of the original founders.
Consequently it's moral properties have been slowly pushed aside and it became just another faceless multi-billion dollar behemoth.

Don't get me wrong, I like Google. It is making me money. I bought stock in it. But, I never bought into its "morality" message. I just assumed it was a PR trick to attract the right talent. It worked great, you have to give it to them. Eventually they'll have to rely on PR again, when that bubble bursts to minimize the damage to it "good" public image. Perhaps, now is such a time...
I've given what data that I have easy access to (from a single threaded asynchronous home brewn server that sees an awful lot of traffic) in that other thread. Now that's a special enough case that I think that the conditions under which normal servers operate will be skewed considerably in the downward direction compared to that one and even there I never observed an active-to-total ratio of more than 40% over a span of 5 minutes during a 2 hour run.

Instrumenting varnish or apache would be a lot harder to do because I don't know those code bases well enough to know for sure that I'm doing it just right so all I can rely on there is the data reported by the 'status' modules of those programs, and for now neither of those suggest otherwise.

Zed attacks that data with a bunch of handwaving but to date has yet to show a single instance of a server which actually has an active-to-total ratio that is higher than 60%. I suspect such servers do exist, media servers, file servers and other other servers with relatively few connections, a large worker pool compared to the number of active connections and lots of long files being shipped across those connections.

But your typical web server is more likely to be stuck in an endless cycle of accept-read-write-close where both the 'read' and the 'write' can block for significant amounts of time compared to the number of bits shipped, and the backend can do the same thing once more. So idle is the norm.
Single founder.
I hope that is the case and not just us under-estimating its PR department's ability to manipulate us.
It may have to do with calling Zed and me insane. I don't know what you base your knowledge of me on but in defence of Zed he does not at all come across as insane to me, though he definitely does seem to have a pretty rough edge.