skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. It's even true from the standpoint that any investment comes with a notion of time frame. If I invest in Google I'm not looking to cash out next quarter, so I'd rather that Google allocate funds toward projects that come to fruition just before my intended cash-out date.
My terrible UNIX, or really SunOS/Solaris moments have been:

o typing 'halt' into the wrong xterm, shutting down well planners
o and likely on the same network, jacking up the NIS+ on Solaris

It's been a constant itch that I never did manage to understand what I was doing wrong, such that NIS+ wouldn't restart correctly.
Workflow or Ticketing 
Does anyone know any good BPM software? Basically i have been asked to find a cloud -based tool where i can have a form that is easily modifiable, solid reporting and good routing via email. Ultimately the data needs to integrate into Rally and IBM ISM's platform.

Any tips would be amazing! i have until Monday at 1 to give the options.
Yes, but too bad that frequent offsite automated backups were still at least a decade off in 1986. At the very least, the network bandwidth just simply wasn't there. Heck, at this stage of the game, 1Mbps was considered to be blazing fast on a LAN. Even Internet backbones were 56k.
In my experience, the best response is one in which you make it clear that you personally care about the customer's problem and will do your best to get it resolved quickly. This trumps everything else, so long as it's the truth. If your engineers don't actually care about your customers' problems, then having them do support will only hurt your business.
Neither of those things is going to work. Grouping all the John Smiths uniquely is going to be possible given smart enough algorithms, so is finding out that John Smith was called Smith Johnson before his 18th birthday.
Totally understandable, especially in a startup area.

This specific case is my day job. We're still startupy-ish, but a little more established (you've definitely heard of us). We have a support team and all that, and the engineers are working on new features and scaling more-so than bug fixes.

I (of course) am working on my own thing and handle 99% of the customer service on it - not only because I want my customers to be happy, but just like you said, I want to work on what really pains my customers.
I agree that a shareholder may be interested in the long term, though not many are (what happens in the long term is not a problem if you manage to sell your shares beforehand).

At the same time I think most shareholders want to make money from their shares. I am sure that there are a significant amount of ethical shareholders, but not enough that their behaviour would change the shares strongly. They would simply pick a company that is more ethical. But as long as Google makes the earnings it makes, I am sure others would happily take their place.

As for the short-term vs. long-term I would agree with you if Google ended up losing business. But I think we (as in the geeky people on this and similar sites) are out of touch if we think they'll lose much. Look at Facebook and the failed boycott. I don't think a few PR gaffes from its CEO would do Google any harm.

Look: I am not defending Google. I hate that people (and shareholders) are not more ethical. I hate that shareholders may hold onto their stock for only a few days or months: originally it was meant as a way to fund companies you believe in, not as a bet on the market. I am just trying to justify why I think there's no way that this or many more gaffes like this would force Schmidt to resign (or be fired).
Interesting. I’m surprised that they don’t come down on dry land (like the Russians) but water (like Nasa did in the past). I would imagine that recovery on sea is quite a bit more complex and expensive than recovery on land. (A lot of ships are necessary to cover the large area and to make a speedy recovery possible.)

That’s not really all that important when you are Nasa in the sixties but seems quite a bit more relevant when you are SpaceX today.
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Although this is a lovely visualization, the data seems somewhat limited. It omits common brands I see in every supermarket* (Pritty, Suitty, Doble Cola, Terma, Speed Unlimited) even ones that I know belong to Coca-Cola (Inka Cola). And I don't see any firms whose names are in other than English or Spanish. Perhaps "Soft Drink Industry Structure" here really means "US Soft Drink Industry Structure" or perhaps even "Lansing, MI, Soft Drink Industry Structure"?

Such severe limitations in scope should be mentioned up front, not relegated to a "methods" section.

(* every supermarket in the rich parts of Buenos Aires, that is.)
Why Intel purchased McAfee? lol
Does Amazon hosting is good for dynamic adding / removing space/cpu with API?
If I want to do build web service that charging users Is this strategy will work for me ?
Suppose I want to build web service that will charge monthly, now each time user will sign up
I will programmatically buy more hosting space and cpu . when the user will sign-out I will programmatically remove this space
Of course this is for the total hosting bill . can I do that with Amazon ? or do I need other web hosting ?
Thanks
Or the Zoom.It version: http://zoom.it/A8JK
I disagree. I don't think many people at all try to become ridiculously thin. Plus, such attempts rarely lead to good health, which is why eating disorders are such a big issue.
http://phras.in/
Couldn't agree more. Posterous has great support, Rapportive has great support, I even had a useful, enjoyable live chat with Hipmunk last night.

I'd like to see startups have a full-time technically-literate support person in the team by default. Have them sit in on meetings and such, but no time on code, only customers.

The return policy for Costco costs them next to nothing in the grand scheme of things. The loyalty they engender because of it, and the two or three extra customers they generate from each of those fans, is worth so much more. It's a great lesson for business large and small.
True, at the same time the is a fair amount of really old Unix code. Still, length counting a temperarry bug fix that lasts a week as having identical value as core functionality that lasts 30 years seems to miss something.

A more reasonable metric might be, how much of the code you wrote today will still be in use in 15 years. And if you think more than 10 lines per day is going to make that hurdle, I think your fooling yourself.
At least now Gruber believes that Android is cool!
Wow. Apparently I didn't realise such a post would get me downgraded... did i offend someone's sensibility? Was I rude??? Curious...

Anyway, back to your point. I agree on what you said. But the problem as I see it is that Google (the company) is not hurt by its CEO's gaffes. Facebook is a lot worse, and it's still going strong (and the boycott was a total failure). Google itself is going strong: it's becoming harder and harder to stop using it.

So sure, if Google's business started to suffer because of Schmidt then I would agree. However at the moment it seems that the business has been helped by him not hindered. They may have traded ethics for revenue, but clearly not many shareholders were concerned on that, or the prices would have fallen. Those shareholders would be concerned if Google started to lose business, but that doesn't seem likely to happen at the moment.
Much can be said about humility, and I wish I had learned it sooner. I wish the school system had a way to reward it better than promoting the absence it. Gosh, I was such a dick...
groom: prepare; educate for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor".

;)
you might recognize this guy

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/
For a start I wouldn't want to spend 461$ to have a vote. You know, democracy and all that.

Edit (after being downvoted): why all the bad votes? What did I say that was so bad? Schmidt compared Google to a government. My point is that only shareholders can vote to oust him, and to be a shareholder I've just been informed that it would cost me 461$.

How is democracy (eveyone has a vote), not relevant? If we live in a democracy then surely I should have a say without having to pay 461$.
"[Schmidt] predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites."

Or maybe people will just adapt, as people tend to do, and learn to more actively manage their online identities, and selectively upload and monitor information about themselves and their friends online.

Or maybe some intrepid hackers will see this as a problem and solve it with some technology that puts control of our own data directly in our hands, perhaps One Social Web or Diaspora.

Schmidt's prediction doesn't make him sound creepy to me. It makes him sound like a dinosaur. I can't imagine a more kludgey, un-Google-like solution to this problem than people changing their names when they reach 'adulthood', whenever that is (18? 21? 25? 29? 30? 35?).

Especially with rapidly advancing facial recognition technology and information theory, changing your name will do exactly nothing for you in this regard.

Rather I would expect the CEO of Google, the company that seemed to popularize finding clever technical solutions to every problem, to have predicted something more along those lines. What's going on guys?

Edit: now that I reread this, it strikes me that maybe Schmidt didn't put much thought into this prediction and didn't much care to. He's just using an outlandish idea to draw attention to an interesting social problem. Who knows.
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Don't be a dick, just be a good person. Be someone worthy of someone's love.
Plastic touch screen? Did they change them half-way thru production? Mine is made of glass (it feels like glass, at least) and doesn't have a single scratch on it. It still looks new, and I ordered it on launch day.
We have a pretty wide range of customers. It's mostly websites today - niche video sharing sites (http://schooltube.com), blogging engines (http://posterous.com), content sites (http://www.giantbomb.com/), online video publishing tools, and other sites that accept video uploads. We also have mobile and enterprise customers.

You'd be amazed how many websites out there need something like this - tens and tens of thousands. Every website with an "upload" button that accepts video or audio files needs transcoding, plus many others. And since a site like Zencoder makes it possible to do complex things with video in 2-3 hours instead of 2-3 months, we open the door to a whole new class of video functionality.
In the seed race, AngelList seperates the junk from the maybies
You're underselling yourself massively here. You are in the minority - you can't move for tripping over developers. I can't get a decent sales/marketing/ops guy for blood nor money. Find a startup that you believe in and just approach the people behind it - send them a couple of ideas for how you'd contribute and I'll bet they're interested.
Ah, this is VERY interesting piece of information. Thanks a lot. Yep, that does make a lot of difference.
The speed with which people rush to discredit that slogan says more about the degree to which it threatens them than it does about Google's adherence to it, IMO.

Also, Gruber attack-dogging Google? Shocking!
The EVO is gigantic and those of us who have had the pleasure of using both Sense UI and the vanilla Android OS for an extended amount of time tend to agree that Sense is a bit too much. As I quoted in a previous article of mine, "It feels a lot like desktop Linux: unpolished, but covered in gloss."

Link: http://whalesalad.com/blog/incredible-vs-nexus-one/
It's hard to take Gruber seriously because of his bias towards Apple. Gruber is concerned about things Schmidt says, yet not about what Apple does, i.e. creating a device that logs everything you type, takes pictures of you without you knowing it, etc.

http://bit.ly/9Gox6U
Without a written contract you owned all of the code you wrote. You could have sent a cease and desist to the purchasing company and walked a way with a ton of money, very easily*

*As easy as a lawsuit ever is, I mean... it could have taken a couple years and about 100k investment, but likely they would have realized the problem and just settled.
Truth. The full comment: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place, but if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it's important, for example that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

If anything, he's saying, don't use Google for illegal searches. Seems like a valid argument and we can apply that to Schmidt's more recent comments too.
Jobs confirms iOS update for iPhone 3G users "soon"
How many years do you give it? Currently it definitely doesn't work even when you add details like my profession, home town, current location, and even alma matter.
This is quite a strong personal attack to make on someone, even a public figure.

Creepy is not an objective word, making this article by definition Ad Hominem.
I don't think my profession is very common, nor the school that I went to, or even any of my other details.

I still have a hard time finding myself.
Thoughts on Writing Code for Money
>Recall, for example, this comment of Schmidt’s from 2009, regarding Google and privacy: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."

It's ironic that Schmidt's quote is taken completely out of context, & will follow him around for years if not decades to come. Maybe he should change his name.
For anyone interested in getting detailed metrics on revenue, I just released an app for making plots of income from the Android Market over time. It grabs data automatically from Google Checkout, allows you to distinguish between apps, and overlays price curves.

I've made about $5K over the last year on 4 paid apps. I've posted a bunch of revenue plots here:
http://sites.google.com/site/droidful/my-apps/devrev-develop...
There's also a QR code for the revenue tracking app.
In the case of HFT the number of actions has grown only because there was alpha sitting on the table, but it wasn't worthwhile for human market makers to chase it.

Think about a strategy which generates $100/day trading OTSS (Obscure Thinly Traded Symbol), a security with a $0.25 bid/ask spread. No human will waste their time on this strategy, so $100/day of alpha is left sitting on the table. HFT allows a computer to chase after this $100, $50 on some other stock, etc. This is simply a case of 3 programmers + computers doing work which was unprofitable for humans to do.

Similarly, twitter didn't exist before the internet because no human would be willing to earn $0.0003/day hand-delivering short messages to anyone who cared to listen, being paid to verify that "yes, this message really came from Mallika Sherawat".

Once the market becomes saturated, the bid/ask on OTSS will shrink to $0.10 and the algorithm will only generate $40/day. We are already approaching that point in HFT.

As for margins, they may grow if demand increases. I was really speaking about a situation of increased competition with all else held equal.
So you would, eventually, get around to asking the user to use another browser? Just not as abruptly?
Here is a good clue that something is not a great HN submission: when the title ends in "LOL". Flagged.
What's the problem in your example of choosing a phone?

I think those low end phones can be found aplenty. (i think they fit in the category marked by 1 of 10 bundles of money on http://gsmarena.com) At least Nokia is not going to stop making them anytime soon. My previous favourite was Nokia 1202 (RRP 25 Euros). Now there's a new offering in this market segment: Nokia 1280 which features FM radio(that's for me, I don't have one!), 3.5mm audio jack(can connect my favourite headphones!) and RRP of 20 Euros. However, take note that the production of this model is in India, and the construction and feel of the parts is different, so take a thorough look to see if you still like it.

I also specifically wanted monochrome screen (check), snappy interface (check), and if possible display of clock with nice large digits in sleep mode (check). Interestingly, many feature phones lag like hell, display time in tiny font (what are they saving space for?!) and try to squeeze color displays even in ultra-cheap phones.

I agree with your general point, but cannot agree with the specific example of cell phones. I think in this area we are being served well with the abundance of models for many demands, including the frugal ones.

Or, did you mean to say that you don't want any extra features beyond those? i.e. does it hurt you that there's a calculator in that phone somewhere? (I think it doesn't, if it in no way impedes the ease of use of the needed features)
UTF8 seems to be the default encoding. I think he had just forgotten to update the docs for .write:

http://github.com/ry/node/commit/7fc794a8ec55bd9d137c4888404...
That's a great example. He wasn't involved in startups though, more an academic capacity turned into a business. Pretty much a classic example of working on something quietly and turning it into something awesome.
Would be interesting to see the same thing with beer. Inbev is getting pretty scary.
(I didn't mod your comment down fyi). I think it was a legitimate question.

I guess it depends on how much credit you give to Schmidt for Google's success. I find it hard to believe that he deserves much... but I could be wrong.
Perhaps we are talking at cross purposes, but I know that I was discussing actual vat grown meat, and I strongly believe that is what patio11 was referring to.

It is not yet commercially available, but it is under serious research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat has a good summary of the current situation and http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=10... has a good laymen's summary of a recent technical paper on its commercial feasability.
One time I did something like

$ chown -R terra_t.terra_t /

on a production system. Fortunately I was able to recover the permissions of most of the system files from the rpm database, and do the rest by hand...
Right now i am looking at Zendesk, who competes with Zendesk?
How different is the dress in these pictures from the comparative ones posted in colour of America. Very much unlike today uniform like clothes all over, except for perhaps Arab nations.
Yes, but we are talking of the future. The fact that we can't do it in the present is not being challenged by anyone. The point is Schmidt's prediction that in the future we will.
Damn guys, now I need to buy an iPad for sure ;).
Right on. I'm an engineer (and one of the founders of Wistia), and I really enjoy talking to customers and doing support. I can understand that this type of behavior might not be typical, but it's such a huge advantage to have the people building the product interacting directly with the people who are using/buying it. I love it.
Myers can usually get away with it because he's right, but also because he's often arguing with nutjobs who nobody feels sympathy for. When he's telling off some guy who thinks Genesis 1 is scientifically useful, there's a sense that the other guy deserves to be taken down a few notches, and we're willing to tolerate his abrasive personality in the process.

He comes off a lot worse in this circumstance. Kurzweil may in fact be wrong, but not in a way that makes him deserve the Wrath of Myers. Myers' method of "getting personal" simply isn't appropriate in this case.
> I'm not aware

Well, no, of curse you wouldn't be. Insensitive clod.

(Signed, The bacteria in your bowels. P.S. stop it with the random antibiotics, or we'll give you a good run).
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With due respect to tptacek's legitimate complaint -- it's damn funny and worth at least a few minutes on the "new" page.
Ray Kurzweil Responds to “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain”
Trying extremely hard is not without health risks, physiological and psychological.
Odd, I must be the only person on the planet who actually likes JIRA. Probably because my point of reference is Bugzilla.
I like the sentiment, but I took issue with this passage in the letter: "In 2035, when humans first orbit Mars, today's college sophomores will be my age; perhaps one will even be in my job. Ten years prior, humans will explore an asteroid, venturing into deep space for the first time in human history. Today’s same college sophomores will be 34 at that time, about a third of the way into their professional careers. For the engineering and science students in our nation’s universities today, these are not distant timelines; instead, cutting-edge technologies and innovations developed by this generation in the early phases of their careers will form the foundation for humanity’s next great leap."

This guy talks about getting to Mars and the asteroids as if they were some kind of inevitable end result; as if the only choice is in whether we get there faster or slower. I think this is a fundamental mistake. Space travel (or even having an agency like NASA) is fundamentally a political decision. In that light, Robert Braun is not predicting technology thirty years out (though that's hard enough). He is predicting politics over that timeframe, which far far more difficult than the former effort.

Given that the original space program was created during the course of a great rivalry between superpowers, I say that aspiring space scientists would be better off applying for positions of the two next superpowers: India and China. These two countries are in a position where they still have the need to demonstrate parity (if not superiority) in the field of technology. An active space program is a good way for them to do that.
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Kluge or Kludge?
An old story but still shocking.

One should be careful making such damage threats though, may end up with male appendage replacing rabbit foot on someones' keychain
Data on Demand is an Opportunity
Wikipedia Editing for Zionists
People can do this manually now given enough time by looking at where the person lives, what sort of things he writes about, how he writes (word frequency analysis etc.).

It's only a matter of time before computers can do it too and it's accessible in search engines as "find more results by this person" or something like that.