skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm hesitant about the social layers search stuff. Honestly, the data I put on the web is personal, and it deserves its own respect. Its not just a statistic. If my friend wants to know what I think about something they can email me.

I think it would be a brilliant move by Google to combine their separate services into something similar to Facebook. Google has all the parts, like video (Youtube), pics (Picasa), mini-blogs (Buzz), chat, and e-mail. They do all of this better than Facebook, and add Google Voice on top of it. It's just natural for them to start a social network that integrates all of these different parts.
Case in point:

I had a friend's mum who asked me once (in reference to vertical scrolling on ie. browsers and Microsoft Word):

Why do you press down to make the page go up?

('down' is the down cursor button)
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Well, since the point of this TV drama is to make people think about the problems of urban life, the ways in which institutions behave, etc., it doesn’t have to be a perfect depiction of events to achieve that purpose; and indeed it could never be: a real city doesn’t only live in hour-long chunks, and has millions of people, not dozens.

But one pretty good way to get feedback is to see what people say who have been in similar circumstances and social situations. Everything I’ve heard suggests that the Wire is extremely believable.
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Look at what they did with iGoogle. I don't like its loss of simplicity, but it would be a much better 'control center' for all these various offerings...
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As a programmer, I'm very happy with this story. Google has always said that the people are their most important asset (actually, most companies say it). But now, they're backing up their words with action, and the programmers end up winning.

I wonder if this is just a one-off thing that only Google is doing, or whether this kind of thinking will start to be more prevalent.
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> So feel free to spend the $500 for a phone. No one is stopping you.

Actually I'm not spending $500 for a phone who's battery only lasts for a single day and has signal issues ... most smartphones are like that, I know ... unfortunately for all their capabilities, are kind of uncomfortable for making phone calls.

I do have an iPhone 3GS, but I consider it a handheld with 3G connectivity that happens to be able to make phone calls.

I'm paying 9 euros for a data plan with 1 GB per month / ~ 7.2 Mbps (the actual speed I'm getting, the plan is for ~11 Mbps).

Of course, I live in Europe where prepaid plans are much more popular, being an area with lots of competition ... which makes sense since the cost of switching is low.
Reminds me of property management: When screening possible tenants, merely saying that you will conduct background and credit checks will deter some people from even applying, most of them being people you wouldn't want to rent out to anyway.
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10-20% is probably not all that much money for Google.
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I'm surprised such an ad hominem got so many upvotes. For much of human history the only way to get rich was to do so at someone else' expense. pg talks about this in one of his essays. As he mentions in said essay, the internet has changed this a bit but you can bet that some people are going to go with the tried and true methods of getting rich (e.g. Robert Mugabe).

The statement you quoted may be correct as stated, but it strikes me as a tautology (i.e. if you're not rich then of course you didn't "get there" at someone else' expense, you didn't "get there" at all).
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And my experience contradicts it. So what? The burden of proof is on the people claiming that it's more productive to do pair programming all the time, rather than just doing code reviews, collaborating when you need it, and otherwise not cutting your team in half. eXtreme claims require extreme proof.
I wouldn't find that surprising. In the current world, the only thing most big companies ever have to care about is the bottom line. Given that, it's unsurprising that people willing to do anything to get what they want would rise to the top.
Long enough after to be invisible... I of course voted you up for that down vote. :-)
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So he was talking about the company he worked for and probably stole the idea from? I'm not sure that's better...
I'm kind of disappointed that Heroku didn't at least chime in to comment on the situation in this thread. It's one thing to play hardball and stick to their guns, but when there's an obvious, popular thread about it, they should at least own up to the decision and chime in.
Google revenue per employee is $1M+. Their profit per employee is about $300K.

And keep in mind this is across all employees (including non-engineering staff).
Google has never paid any dividend and has always gave big bonuses to its employees. So stockholders already tolerate these things.

Microsoft on the other hand has been paying generous dividends, its profits has been rising at an impressive rate, yet its stock has remained steady for almost a decade.
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First of all, if SICP would take you months to go through, TAOCP will take you years-- let's not kid ourselves.

That being said: I'd definitely start with SICP, for one reason: the video lectures, available at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

They'll take you about 20 hours to go through, and as far as I am concerned, are the best introduction to Computer Science you can get in that short a time-frame.
I agree absolutely with this. A bad hiring process is responsible for so many problems that companies have. Lots of places which 'require' <insert trendy language / framework> experience hire someone who ends up being in way over their head because they have no real programming ability, just 'knowledge'. Tons of people 'know' how to play a guitar, right? It doesn't mean they're any bloody good at it. Someone who can play a guitar WELL, can probably also play a bunch of instruments, and I'm willing to bet that they'll be able to pick them up fairly quickly too. So they can't play a keyboard right now - I'd put money on it that they'll pick it up pretty quickly if they have to.

The problem companies face is that the real traits of good developers are difficult to evaluate in the interview process. This is why tests (both generic programming tasks and a few 'real-world' problems) during the interview are important. Yes, I hate having to do them, but I recognise their importance. I'm very wary of an interview for a development position that doesn't involve a test at some point.

People hiring for development positions: languages (particularly the new trendy ones) aren't particularly important - a good developer will be able to learn enough in a short time to essentially hit the ground running. Hiring a bad developer who knows (or at least manages to convince you that they know) your favourite language / framework is going to cause you endless headaches.
Its an np-hard problem! Definitiv! And this is exactly what i thought!
> I wonder how long google's stockholders are going to tolerate overpaying (relative to market) for talent.

You're begging the question. Google pay less than other companies that require similar high-end engineering talent - eg, low latency trading desks at hedge funds.

The talent of a typical SA is far below a Google or Facebook SRE or trading desk ops guy. I imagine the pure dev side to be similar.
Exactly. This is what the Facebook/Zuckerberg apologists aren't getting. I think most people can get behind giving people a second chance, but Zuckerberg is basically doing a "git rebase newMotivation". None of the behaviors seem to be changing, just the claimed reason for them.
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This will be a good test of whether Google has learned anything from their previous failures - Wave, Buzz, etc. Both were excellent products technically and both failed to take off. I'm particularly sad about Buzz because it is much much better technically and feature wise than Twitter.

The problem is, I think the key to it is going to be something they'll never do - lack of integration. They have to totally utterly separate this from search and gmail. If they mix these things then it'll be yet another product where the public is confused and uncertain about what it is, what it does, and why it does it. It has to be simple - the way the original Google was simpler than any of its competitors. They have to remember their roots here. Do it simple. Do it incredibly well. Make it clean and unambiguous.
Cat-like faces or baby-style faces - big eyes, small nose, triangle-shaped with small chin. Everywhere in the world children love kittens. There is no deep psychological, let alone political influences.
Which ones of those would be worth buying?
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This looks like a new bubble. Why would a Twitter IPO raise so much money? What are its growth prospects? Facebook may be different, but still, it all sounds very crazy.
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Given your goals, you might want start by reading books like The Pragmatic Programmer and Code Complete cover-to-cover, and taking it easier with the theory books. You want your basic software development skills to be solid before you start going into proving algorithm complexities.

Beyond that, off the top of my head the number one theory book for working programmers would be Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and the new guy.
What sort of start ups?
Production, reviews, discovery, communities? etc
uhm, reddit? :)
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well, one of my reasons is reasonable and other is not.

- i'm very far away from the US.

- my brother didn't agree with me on appyling to YC.
They're all successful, but does YouTube turn a profit as a unit? Does GMail? I honestly don't know.
Fine with me. As long as it's my right not to work with/hire anyone who takes it.
The one you're actually going to read.

P.S. They have this "sale" once a month and the iPhone version of these books is also half the price.

(O'Reilly also provides instructions on how to get to the actual "book" out of the iPhone app:

http://oreilly.com/ebooks/oreilly_iphone_tips.csp Check "Extracting the EPUB pearl.")
I'd have the information in about us displayed as standard and perhaps mention your stance on user data privacy
- do you re-sell email addresses,
- can other group members see the email addresses etc
- what happens if a group member wants out of the list
Out of curiosity, why the knock on Edison?
Except that the URL string doesn't translate well in meat space. I cringe every time I hear someone on the radio or television read off a URL: "Log on to double 'U', double 'U', double 'U' dot mylonganduglywebsitename dot com, forward slash, long directory name, forward slash, yet another long directory name AND click on the partially hidden link". Surely there's verbal short hand that can be implemented?
I feel a bit sad for Rails (yes, I know he will continue contributing, but I doubt it will be anything close to what he did in the last few years, when that was his main job).

But he seems a great guy and he deserves all the best. Good luck in your next endeavour.
Why does this look like a new bubble? Why wouldn't Twitter raise billions in a public offering? Their growth prospects are every web or mobile phone user - in any country - to use their service. The amount of attention Twitter has from its users is really noteworthy.
Thanks we will add that. In answer to your questions.

No we don't re-sell or do anything with the email addresses.

As a group member you can see a list of the other members and remove yourself from the group.
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Effectively they're rewarding employees for interviewing with other companies. What about the equally-valuable employees who are very happy with their jobs and don't choose to interview? Won't they become a little less happy, once they know they're making less than the guy who was a little unhappy and chose to interview?

I've spent quite a bit of time as a manager at some larger tech companies. We'd monitor turnover and adjust our compensation policies, and other policies that affected satisfaction, across the board if there was an increasing trend in turnover. Sure, we'd make a diving catch every once in a while when we didn't keep a close enough eye on one of our top developer's satisfaction. In those cases we'd still look at our overall package.

When we made adjustments, the really good, happy engineers were even happier when they got nice raises without even asking for one. Now, by across the board, I don't mean that every engineer gets a good raise. That's because as a company gets larger, they get more and more mediocre engineers. The article doesn't say that Google gives big counter offers to every engineer. I assume Google is smart enough not to do that. It's not possible that all of their engineers are really good. Sometimes good-bye is good riddance.
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Another data sample (5 billion pageviews per month) that doesn't exactly confirm the Nielson data
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-US-weekly-200931-20...
> Network effects are what I hate & love most about the tech industry: why is it that something beautiful always has to be ruined once some player becomes big enough to dominate the space?

Well, that is definitely a good reason to wish that Google will take over social networking…
A lot of these counteroffers must be to stop the perception of brain drain. Perception is often more important than reality.

I dont think there are that many "must not lose him/her, at any cost" engineers, even at google.
I'm not a heavy video watcher, so --

YouTube: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62634
Vimeo: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56677

Neither of these scripts requires a third-party site.
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Maybe because he tried to monopolize film in the United States? See http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/thomas-ediso...
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Since about 1990, Japan has amassed the highest debt of any industrialized nation (twice the debt-to-GDP ratio of the USA, three times before the current debt spree) - and it has been in deflation (or very close to it) for the whole time.
Why? What problems would prosecuting them solve, beside the reactionary need for "justice"? It's not like they're ever working in big data again.
Youtube is profitable since this year with ~1 billion revenue: http://mashable.com/2010/03/05/youtube-revenue-2010/

I don't know about gmail specifically, but gmail which is part of Google Enterprise solution is "very" profitable as a unit.

You have to look at it this way. All Google's product and services are inter-connected. Unlike tradition software company like MSFT, google doesn't build products for the sole purpose of making profit from start. They make products, and they iterate and years from now if it reaches a tipping point they will start making money off of it. Most of google products are depended on each other's success. So saying things like "Is x product for Google profitable?" is a tricky question.

I am sure they have their separate internal account for each products (or maybe not), but as long as each product drives revenue to its profitable product, but individually not profitable; it makes no difference AFA google is concerned.
I felt uneasy by just watching that. Damn you first person point of view.
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I do not understand what you are arguing about.
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Stupid of me, thanks. (Michael Richards played Kramer on Seinfeld. Wow. Weird transfer.)
Groceries depends, I'm sure there not referring to large supermarket chains when saying they are failures. Startups that try and add some value over going to a chains site though seem to struggle.
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Have to disagree with you here. Classical notation is much easier for me to read than that.
Anyone know why you cann't browse questions on Quora (or at least it's not clear to me how to)?

It doesn't mention being in beta, so I assume this is the final site...

EDIT: And what's with only being able to register via fb/twitter? I hope this isn't the start of a trend.
Every topic from Quora posted on HN seems to generate some meta discussion on the websites merits.
Since their bank account got raped the first time?
Maybe the difference in our opinion is our definition of rich. If you define rich as only those who are in the top 10 richest people in the world, then maybe you have a point (though I'm still skeptical). If you use a more widely accepted measure of rich or wealthy (say $5m in liquid assets) you include hundreds of thousands of people in this country alone. And you never hear anything about almost any of those people. They live quiet lives, building their business and spending time with their families. Who wants to write about that? So journalists cover the flashy bastards instead, which skews your perception. Read some research that's been done on the wealthy as a group before you go making conclusions based on a handful of the most extreme outliers at the top.
I think it is interesting that Google said that Google Me will not be something that is standalone but suggests they are learning the lessons from the past.

Mashable had a good article on the demise of Wave and the lessons that can be learned (http://mashable.com/2010/08/06/google-wave-lessons/)

Lesson 1: Keep Expectations in Check
They have announced it now for Fall, make sure they release in fall and if it is private beta, make sure that does not go for longer than 1-2 months. Keep the media in check

Lesson 2: Make Your Product Clear
They clearly need to state what this is and what is not. E.g. it is not Facebook, it is not Twitter it is a way to add more social functions and collaboration to your existing Google services

Lesson 3: Launch When Ready
Linked to point 1 but it has to have a good level of quality at launch.

Lesson 4: Have Real Value
If it replicates things I can get already from Facebook or Twitter it is not going to add value.

If it does allow me to get the best results from my private services (e.g. Facebook, twitter, Google reader) like Greplin but with instant search directly from my Google window that would be valuable.

If it gives me Rapportive but in a way that works in Gmail awesome. If it gives me Wisesync but in a way that works in Chromium also valuable.

If it lets me play video directly from my Gmail inbox or "like" something within my inbox or search and "stream" this to my social feeds

If it gives me a feature like mysixthsense within search or google reader or adds in Postrank as a google lab feature to inbox and search these would also be valuable to me.
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On twitter, Tim O'Reilly posts a daily (or almost daily) $9.99 deal of the day.

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He happens to link to stuff that interests me, so I'm happy following him, and there's the bonus of a cheap read every now and again.
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I fail to see how these 'requirements' are in the scope of HTML. This guy just doesn't understand it, imho. Nothing is stopping them from hiring a developer to figure out a way of incorporating an ad system.
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And with good reason.

The service just do everything right (and apparently have no problem with agreeing on a model with FB)

I think it is very likely spotify will be huge if they can get their rights issues managed (yes that's perhaps a big if)
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