skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You press the single button on the panel, hypothetically labelled—hypothetically because a label is completely unnecessary when there's only one—"come to me." A lot of what makes interface design "hard" is that our minds are filled with cached solutions to no-longer-valid problems (like the problem of directing around a purely-hydraulic lift that cannot indicate its relative position to you.) The elevator now has a computer in it; it knows which direction it needs to go to come toward you, and you now know if it's coming from the "wrong" direction in order to pick an alternate lift out of a bank.

Some of these things are so codified that people would react badly if we took them away, though. For example, JRPGs no longer need to display numeric damage tallies—but it persists because that's what makes a JRPG a JRPG.
Double-blind? You are taking cell phones away how are you going to make that double-blind? Or any kind of blind?
I don't know if Edison is really a person you should look up to. But I know that Buckminister Fuller had a similar philosopy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller#Bankruptcy_a...

> By age 32, Fuller was bankrupt and jobless, living in public, low-income housing in Chicago, Illinois. In 1922,[3] Fuller's young daughter Alexandra died from complications from polio and spinal meningitis. Allegedly, he felt responsible and this caused him to become drunk frequently and to contemplate suicide for a while. He finally chose to embark on "an experiment, to find what a single individual [could] contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity."[4]
Can you install whichever OS you like in European handsets?
This is veering dangerously off-topic, but if your contractor charges a set rate, there is no moral obligation on your part to pay him more, especially not 3x more.

If the wages were poor for the country that would be one thing, BUT $8/hour in Belarus is a good salary. That is $1080 per 160hours worked a month. It actually would let him have a good standard of living.

Of course one could argue that the developer should be charging $12 or $16 an hour but that is his business.

What one could do next time, is do a fixed price project. If he is very good AND fast, he would increase his earnings.
Not if he's already a citizen.

Moving from California to BC really isn't all that expensive. It's just the rental truck and gas.
I actually know someone who moved to San Mateo from SF because it was easier to commute to his job in San Francisco from it. Muni sucks compared to BART, so moving Sunset->San Mateo was a commute upgrade (he works in the financial district). Even much of the East Bay is closer to downtown SF in commute-minutes than western SF is.
Were these IMs obtained from server logs, or from participants in the conversations?
results were negative.
A related article[1] from the New York Times was published in May, and applies a similar thesis to explain why older people are wiser:

“A broad attention span may enable older adults to ultimately know more about a situation and the indirect message of what’s going on than their younger peers,” Dr. Hasher said. “We believe that this characteristic may play a significant role in why we think of older people as wiser.”

I think this is also the reason why lateral thinking[2] consistently delivers creative results.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/health/research/20brai.htm...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking
That url gives me this responce: "Request timed out -- This application failed to respond within 30 seconds."
And MS has taken this a step further with the hardware
requirements and no skinning, and one centralized market.
Yet, they're doing this across all carriers.

And what leverage MS can use? MS first have to convince phone makers to use their OS instead of Android.
Website says $10/ah. So your best transcribers/reviewers are able to work with only just 10ah/month?
Buzz? what is "Buzz"?
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Android phones in Germany (except for G1 and N1) are still dependent on the manufacturer for OS updates and so on. The user (you) can't decide you want 2.2 on your phone when it's released.
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My read on it was that he's a typical Aspergian nerd (of which there are several at Google), and it never occurred to him that what he was doing was not-okay. A lot in the story seems to support that. Why else is he hanging out with high schoolers - who don't even like him? Why does he feel the need to brag about his position at Google and the power it gives him?

Some people are born knowing all the rules to social interaction. But others have to learn them through painful trial and error. A lot of us got that out of the way in middle school, high school, and college, before we were given the responsibility to do anything truly damaging to ourselves and others. Maybe he just had the bad luck to not seriously screw up until he's at an age where everyone will blacklist him for it.
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From IRAs to social security to emergency funds, it can be pretty difficult to figure out what you (or your kids) should be doing with your money at each stage of life.
Alcohol is fine though right? And caffeine too?
I didn't realize it was a different quote. Apologies.
They have one cashcow - adsense/adwords.

What other Google products turn a profit?
Mozilla (specifically Vladimir Vukićević) has been the driving force behind WebGL from the start, and they're also leading the way in audio: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API#Authors
In fact, since there are so few absolutes, both in and out of academia, it should be taken as a given that any time someone uses one, they are using it as a figure of speech; to actually come to their true, basically-now-jargon meanings of universal quantification, the speaker must add further words. It's basic Huffman encoding: the figurative use occurs much more frequently, so it gets the short means of expression.
Yes. The number of times alcoholics/coffee users tried to pour alcohol/coffee into my mouth can be counted on 0 hands.

The same is not true for smokers. Smoking <anything> is anti social.

It's useless trying to argue with addicts though. Just surprising there's so many drug users on HN. Sad.
Try and find a prosecutor to bring the charges.

This is the huge problem we are still facing with computer crime; because the law is still quite vague and unresolved. Juries have a tendency to not really "get" what has happened and so figure it's not all that bad etc.

It seems rotten but the best chance you would have with this is in getting the Jury excited about the stalking aspect and the contact with children.

Technically he has broken the law (at least, I think he has). Proving it though, along with mens rea (intent) is an absolute minefield and it would be torn apart by a decent lawyer. This is why most computer criminals are currently prosecuted for other crimes (in this case, probably the stalking offences).
Well, given that with non-variable air density altitude doesn't matter, it should seem that if air density [actually, temperature] did matter (that is, it caused the sound to travel slower), then the higher the altitude, the higher the "plane to speed of sound" ratio would be, and the higher the angle between hearing the plane and observing it. So, I'd answer with infinite altitude. Eventually, the plane would travel from horizon to horizon without the sound ever reaching you.

Or, you're going to say that curvature is now a parameter, or the air temperature is some weird function of altitude, etc, etc.
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As risky as this obviously sounds, it's an approach I agree with.

I've tried multiple angles to earn a passive income and at my highest point I earned about £75 in a month. I played poker with friends as a hobby and I used to destroy them as I'm much more analytical than they are. They all played for real money online and I figured there must be tens of thousands of other people around the world who play poker online that also aren't very good.

Join one of the main sites like pokerstars and make sure you take advantage of one of their joining bonuses. I started with £10, lost it in an hour, put in another £10 and I have not since added another penny. That second £10 has turned into about £450 over five weeks of playing a few hours every other night and a marathon session every sunday evening.

Fine, I may not be on the verge of becoming the next WPT champion and I may be a way off retiring on my winnings but I am getting progressively better as poker requires a high degree of skill which improves with practice.
But that's wouldn't solve the problem that elevator buttons are designed to solve.

You have to tell it "I'm going up" so that it doesn't stop downward-bound elevators on your floor and slow the system. Your single-button interface would make things considerably worse.
ITA probably had their first customer by the time, as it was already prominent and a success story in Lisp community. I must be misremembering the exact year.

Anyway, no biggie. The puzzle was among the simpler ones (solving a maze iirc), and I was mailing out tons of job applications at the time - with low expectations for each individual one.
Ads are where their revenue comes from directly, but other products play a supporting role.
Adsense is both a medium to generate profit from existing products and a successful product in its own right.

Is YouTube, Gmail, Google Search, Android not successful?

All these products has very large user adoption and Google is earning money with the help of adsense/doubleclick/AdMob.
Google Apps: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-enterprise-business-pro...
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Hi does someone here working or knowing the 3d tools /apps industry and can share some info about it ? i really what to step into this niche , to develop ad-dons and small tools/applications
It would not have been a better example, because it is at least equally the womans fault (arguably more, since she has more options for birth control than he does) - statutory rape is not.
No, you can't. That's the point, we'll never really know.
Nice to see, other people have done similar things for the Amiga [1] and Atari ST [2][3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig
[2] http://hackaday.com/2010/01/07/suska-open-source-atari-st/
[3] http://hardware.atari.org/vhdl/vhdl.htm
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This reminds me of a story that my friend told me from when she was at college.

The daughter of the ambassador from Jamaica was a student at the college, and she was being interviewed by the student newspaper as an interest piece.

The interviewer apparently asked her how she felt being an African-American at the (predominantly white) college.

The interviewer could not fathom why the daughter (being neither African nor American) was upset by the question.

That, and living in a foreign country has pretty much made me give up on the PC-ness that American creates. I'm as white as the Whitey-white white, and I feel that no one could be faulted for telling me otherwise.

Interestingly enough, when I tease my wife about our (half-hungarian, half-japanese) daughter about being part of "Team Whitey," she always responds by saying that our daughter is part of "Team Yellow."

While horribly non-PC in America, it brings into light the amount of power that words like that have, and how they have almost no power if there's no history or culture backing them.

Thinking about it further, I find it interesting that "Team Whitey" sounds perfectly fine and dandy in an English context, while "Team Yellow" seems racially insensitive.

Strange what a single color-change can make.

-- END Random rambling
Yahoo! has many successful products. The Yahoo! homepage, Mail, the category leading Answers, News, Sport, and Finance. Those are some of the biggest sites on earth, it seems a bit silly to pretend that Yahoo! doesn't have successful products just because you don't use them.
What a terrible name. Any relation to Dr. Evil's Mini Me?
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BankSimple has a 20,000-person waitlist -- more opportunities in this space?
That article, yes. Check out any of the many in the google search. This one stands out: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124269038041932531.html This is well covered.

As to 'common knowledge,' it is common knowledge outside of google that tons of people are leaving because every week someone new shows up from google at these companies. Enough that people notice, kinda like Yahoo. Google is melting.

The other oft cited metric is the headcount freeze, while there is still aggressive hiring. Put that together... turnover.

If you like it, I don't think Google is a terrible place to work. The opposite is true I'm sure. You're getting a disk golf course that we're not allowed to use ( bastards ;) ). But for whatever reason, dissatisfaction and turnover are high. This could simply be attributed to being all growds up.
Here are my thoughts on the domain (online menus and restaurant stuff). I am by no means an expert, and probably am not even typical.

I personally don't have trouble finding menus online, and I'm OK with opening a PDF to do it, just as long as finding that PDF doesn't take time (eg: if google returns a result for "mizu sushi 11211" that looks like it'll have a menu, I'm happy). In other words, it's much more a priority of finding any menu for the place in question than it is finding the best looking one. Especially if I'm hungry.

There are a couple of factors that determine which result I click on. Normally these things occur on a subconscious "blink-like" level, but I'll try to communicate them. Based on the Google results, I try to "feel out" which result is best. I'll avoid the restaurants own menu if the google snippet makes me think "there's probably flash" or "this website is going to suck". So, you may have an advantage there, if you can provide better looking search results than the restaurants themselves.

Probably the only other thing that would cause me to click on one search result over the other (since I can't easily judge the quality that the menus will be), is if one of them promised me user generated photos of the menu items as well. I'm not aware of any sites that currently do this. But, like I said before, I am by no means on expert on this topic.
You aren't alone. Paying to take a class where you study The Wire (which is an awesome TV show btw) is definitely a waste of time and money.
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It is trivial in the sense that you solve it with exhaustive search. It can be stressful to implement during a live interview however.
Are you sure that they didn't just think "most of our customers would like this" and simply not bother expending any energy to allow people offended by its existance to remove it? Hanlon's razor and all that? And probably the same thought process Apple used for not making its built in apps removable, more work for them and who really cares so just don't bother?

I'm not in the US so I've no first hand experience so maybe this app is some kind of spyware but I'm not sure how spamming people with sports coverage works as a business model and I've seen various people quite pleased at one or other of the "crapware" things they've got. (It seems like a killer app for the iPad is some baseball app, so I can see how people might think that sports coverage is something people actually want.)
I can tell you that it does NOT typically happen at Google. If you so much as joke about this stuff people will give you negative reactions. I was genuinely shocked to read about this today as I never would have expected any Google employee to be so unethical.

If what you say about the practices at Facebook is even remotely true then it is disgusting and shameful behaviour.
Things like this bring Charles Stross' 'Accelerando' to mind; every other chapter or so he describes the world's computational density and energy use, until the whole thing is a nano-technology-and-AI-driven charred mass hungrily soaking up the sun's light.
Ah ok so lets legalize marijuana but only in brownies or banana bread.
It's very common when doing bibliographic work for research.
AFAIK, Carl Lerche also left Engine Yard... so, three public people..
I lauched my app over a month ago (http://www.moreofit.com). I slapped on Google Analytics to monitor traffic amount and sources, and submitted my site to Google Webmaster Tools, which has indexed several thousand pages so far. (I also suggest you use mouseflow.com to view you user's mouse movements and actions). It's fun to see traffic steadily increasing. For the past 3 weeks, each day will usually be a personal record for most amount of visitors in a day. Lately, I've been doubling my daily traffic every week. Of course, it's not possible that will keep up, but I consider it a personal success, considering how close I was to ditching the project all together.

However, still not a single feedback. And my CTR is horrid. And hardly anyone uses the really cool features that I thought were most interesting (eg: filtering by tag, modifying tag importance, etc). Most people just search for something "sites like zamzar", find my site in Google results, find a result (or a few) that they like, and go on with their life.

To answer your question, it's really a personal or relative question. I'm happy knowing that more and more people use my tool to somehow make their life better. Even though not a single one of them thanks me, and they hardly ever click on my ads, I'm OK with that. Probably, it's because traffic is increasing. I imagine at some point it will level off, and I won't feel so great about the project. On one hand, it's a "failure" because I've really gotten no buzz, have not seeked attention of the blogosphere, am not making the $15/mo I need to break even on it, etc, etc. On the other hand, it's something that is mine, forever, that I am proud of, and that has potential. And hell, it really works well. So, in terms of a "success," relative to the fact that this used to not exist and now it does, I've obtained it. In terms of "can I retire off of it," not so much.

PS: Here are some other URLs that might help you find out how to better track and engage your visitors (as well as showing off what my site does): http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/mouseflow.com/Top_10_Site...
The difference between a troll and a controversial writer is that a troll cares about the point as a means to effect controversy whereas a legitimate writer cares about the controversy as a means to get the point across. 37Signals seems more the latter than the former.
Without getting into the evil/not evil argument: This is not quite correct. A bank can lend more money than they have/borrow. The bank must only maintain a specific ratio of equity and loans. For more details see Basel I, Basel II and the upcoming Basel III, which (should) regulate the loans of banks.
Google doesn't want to be social, they just want "social graph" data--two very different things. It's why they've failed.

Google needs to offer a compelling reason for people to transfer their profiles and hang around Google services in order to get the "social" part somewhat right. And then Google will succeed in getting the data they value most: the things you explicitly "like" or favorite, in this case,(with a bright yellow star). And that's where I think Freebase comes in--or so I hope.
In germany its called letter secret? Anyone who uses private conversations to attack someone should be exterminated the fuck out! And if you ask me he didnt get mature, he became a bitch. Serves you right facebook fags!
I wouldn't work at Zynga, but your dismissal of them is pretty on par for Google's social media strategy, so it does make sense :)
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Maybe they can. They certainly shouldn't. Should you be required to act "responsibly" at all times? I think most everyone plans on being "successful" one day. A lot of them will never succeed - should they all spend their whole life being ultra-PC/conservative/responsible/whatever you want to call it? I'm not sure that's a good deal to make with society.

This sounds like silly posturing of a young rebel - or at least someone who wants to appear to be a rebel to his friend. And that is one of the points of privacy - YOU decide which face to show to which person. A lot of the conversations that come out in this style are private; IMO they should never be published. I grant you that in this case he was talking about his business. But even here, I'm not sure I agree with the morality of it being used against him.

Impressions do matter, but the expectation of privacy is a reasonable one, that ideally would be better protected by law. Even if you are not a privacy nut, I think it's pretty clear that this allows you control over your image to a certain extent. You are allowed to act differently in your own home than when speaking as CEO. People should not be allowed to pry on one & use it against you for the other.
this is probably going to to the way of Buzz. they'll screw it up, it'll be intrusive, privacy will be violated.

besides, how much more "social" can google get? someone at google is trying too hard.
All electronics is bound to die as it ages, due to latent chemical reactions. Chances are, ULA will last longer when unused.

One problem with Sinclair ULAs is that, unlike e.g. logic gate or CPU they can't be readily replaced by a commodity component. ULA is custom-mask chip produced by order in small quantities, the key issue here is scarcity.
Customers? I don't think anyone saw Facebook then as they see it today.
Yeah all on Windows with two running multiboot Ubuntu and Chromium. With Ubuntu I just mount the Dropbox volume and let it sync when I am back on Windows
There must be some jub hunters advice book where they tell people to do this, or maybe schools careers advisers do.

We had a case where we had a stream of candidates giving the same - and wrong - answers to various questions, all had come via the same recruiter, who was debriefing them after and coaching the next one.
Didn't he once assassinate someone in a bathroom? :)
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