skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think for browser-heavy computing (the author mentioned opening hundreds of tabs) a ton of ram and a fast ssd cache are doing a a lot more than a fast cpu (and indeed, the author reports the cpu is usually operating at 1 or 2 %). CPUs today are so fast and cache-sensitive that hard drives basically amount to off-site backup. Unless you have a lot of ram, they'll just starve and idle in I/O for most end-user types of compute loads.
Are you a colemak or dvorak user?

I agree with you on all of those items. It's a little scary, actually.
That'd be great. Can you email me? (wycats@gmail.com)
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A screaming-fast PC changed my life. I now play 3D games all day long.
I guess this works if you're a good party host. I've been to some pretty terrible parties, and some terrible websites.

I like seeing where the analogy goes though. The login is your ticket, the captcha is our bouncer, etc...
The one argument goes that if you simply view your customer as a data point you tend to lose the 'customer perspective'. However, data doesn't lie, if you can augment your results with qualitative customer feedback, this is the best scenario.

This makes me think that the tool of using personas in product development might go away.

For example, this is from the Wikipedia article on personas:

"Personas are said to be cognitively compelling because they put a personal human face on otherwise abstract data about customers.

Before we had the means to collect data and easily reach certain customer segments they played an important role, but now that we have powerful analytics to measure our decisions and new ways to interact with customers I could see personas being used less often.
At first blush it seems embarrassingly parallel - with each matching frame (or block of several frames) from each camera being chunked off in parallel. But it can't be that straightforward, can it?
Billing: Merchant accounts and Authorizenet's gateway, plus PayPal

Accounting: For analysis/forecasting, a custom programmed dashboard. For bookkeeping, Quickbooks.

Newsletters: MailChimp

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Banking: The local bank

IT: If hardware breaks, Softlayer, Linode and Amazon take care of that. Anything else is my job.
Experiences and adventure: Blowing a pile of money to go somewhere new is always worth it. The memories are priceless and occasionally the experience helps me redefine what I thought possible for myself. The right price is whatever I can scrape together to make this happen. (Trip to Europe, basic gear for camping, a tank of gas or two for a roadtrip.)

Plus standard geek staples: iPhone, solid computer for coding, writing and designing. Nothing surprising in the tools department.
Why would something like Udemy need $1M investment? In a world where Django and Rails exist, etc. Just start building it and doing customer development bootstrapping it. Incrementally improve it as you go along. Keep all equity and maximize simplicity. If you don't want to spend money on a designer try to find one that will take equity. Exercise free promotion channels, also rely on word-of-mouth. Rinse, repeat.
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If you come too close to somebody your view can be biased. This can affect you when making tough decisions which can be vital for your business survival.
No, I didn't. But I also don't think it is that material to what I said. If I thought it mattered, I would have said it.

In retrospective it would have made sense to have said it. But I'm not going to worry too much about it.
It gets fantastically huge when you look at quoted searches. Sure, you can build an index of key words to documents containing them, but how do you build an index for literal text searches like "to the bridge, he said"?
Keep in mind:

1. many militaries do studies like this. contingency planning. they consider it part of their overall mission of defending their country and interests

2. as the supply of cheaper oil shrinks relative to demand, price increases and then more expensive-to-deliver oil becomes marketable (like from shale/sands, or synthetics). and alternate energies become more attractive and economically feasible (solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, nuclear, etc.) and people increasingly try to use less oil. all of this adds up.

3. nobody can predict the future with certainty, and the accuracy and reliability tends to go down the farther into the future one tries to evaluate
Nokia's OPK is out, replaced by Microsoft exec as President and CEO
Ask HN: What is Quora doing right?
Quora seems to get talked about a lot, and seems to have many influential people as members.

What is it doing right? How did it get all those influential people to sign up to such a new website?

Bonus question: How are they planning on making money?
Interesting. I'd actually like to see Mustache go in the direction of being a bit more like django templates by adding filters, which I think are no more likely to confuse a designer than plain old mustache tags.
Ya know what helps a lot?

Reinstalling the OS (edit: from scratch. ie, format the drive + install). I make a point to do so at least once per year. OSX has aged significantly more gracefully than Windows, despite having several times as many files (approached 3 million near the end), but a two-year-old install (I slacked) is nothing like a fresh one. Especially noticeable: Spotlight actually finds what I'm looking for in less than a second again (vs upwards of a minute or more).

It also highlights the differences between the OSes: OSX handles loads and loads of applications at the same time with significantly less slowdown and zero waiting on the UI. Windows launches and handles a single application much more quickly, but it's not uncommon to wait a significant amount of time for a single click to register if I launch a couple large ones at once. Just today I've had to sit for a couple minutes because a large compile+launch decided to happen at the same time as a browser crash and an application auto-updating. Win 7 utterly stopped responding, except for my mouse cursor's movement.

edit: to all repliers suggesting Linux: yes it does, if you consider reinstalling to be "reinstalling from scratch", which was what I had meant (though not stated, apologies). Every OS slows with extensions + libraries + millions of files + hundreds of compiled applications, and I'm likely a bit of an edge case anyway. I pretty easily install 1000+ applications per year for experimenting, many of which add extra cruft that no uninstaller removes completely.
hm. interesting.

Now, the first question I need to ask is "is this crossing a line" - is it too manipulative... then, if it's not, I need to come up with a bonus scheme.

I was thinking about basing the bonuses on how much revenue has grown past our previous high. (with the number of employees, one guy can really make a big difference, and if we are operating properly, we grow by around 10-15% a month.)

hm. It seems I could pay out on random days on a month that beats the previous months receipts? I think I'd want it to be a 'peak month' rather than a 'peak day' to discourage gaming, I mean, I see how you could queue up customers for a few days... doing this over months could be bad, especially if when the months begin changes randomly.

But yeah, a formula that people can know, with, perhaps, random numbers that aren't known until the period end sounds like the way to go. I think people would mind the manipulation less if it was clear what I was doing and why.
How much time, focus, and motivation is lost due to slowdowns, though? Some days, they certainly seem to take rather large tolls.

The little things matter.
@AwesomeReminders: You might consider offering AwesomeTextMessageReminders at a reduced rate. Either custom text, given by your customers, or something like: "Hi John. Someone who knows you told me you were awesome. Have an awesome day."
Nokia appoints Stephen Elop (President of Microsoft MBD) to President and CEO
having been a nokia customer now for quite some years (I own an iphone 3gs and a galaxy s for research purposes now) it's been sad to see them went down like the have done... gosh they even had a multi task, full web experience slate device 4 years ago... but the vision didn't get them anywhere.

hopefully with some new blood on it a rebirth can happen and we can start seeing some disruption in the market, after all nokia research has a lot of cool stuff that could be put in practice nowadays that the smartphone market as grown smarter
Chrome OS? iOS? Android?
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They are providing something that people want: answers (not written in text speak) to interesting questions. As to why they appear to be getting so much traction to a problem already solved by several sites (Reddit, MetaFilter, StackExchange, Googling), I'm not entirely certain. I suspect the answers market is just that large, and though I haven't followed them much, there must be some key (or controversial) people involved helping them. Never underestimate the buzz that human drama creates.
just having two fields and login button achieves much more than his method.

it should read second lowest method for login.
not a good use of money just so you can have 200 browser tabs open -- you can only look at one at a time anyway, for example. It's a bit like noticing your house is overflowing with a trash and deciding that the solution is to buy 50 large trash cans, placing several in each room of your house. rather than, you now, create less trash in the first place and/or take it out more frequently. :)
Is there any good reason to sacrifice any significant amount of battery life for performance in a tablet class device at this point? I think consumers will find the happy medium of device battery life (full day for SmartPhones, couple of days for tablets) and CPU evolution will need to be more incremental to meet those demands.
I hate it when my questions leave the front page and are doomed to never be visited again. From now on, I only submit during peak hours.
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EBay acquired its stake from a former Craigslist executive who was seeking to sell his shares. Mr. Newmark and the Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster said in separate messages posted on the Web that they never imagined a stake in Craigslist ending up in the hands of a publicly-traded company. Still, the former Craigslist executive made it clear to the company that he intended to sell his shares and began approaching other parties, including eBay.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/press/ebay.stake
I started IBM's Extreme Blue program and had a less formal program at my last startup.

You have to really ask yourself what you are trying to achieve with an internship program, i.e. developing or trying out future full-time employees, get stuff done, help students decide whether to make the transition to commercial development, or some combination of above.

,Depending on your goals you can end up shaping a completely different program requiring different resources.

Assuming you are trying to get stuff done and recruiting future full-time, you might want to create an intern team in the same structure as your mainstream team, i.e. PM/test/dev triad if you are of the MS/Amazon development fold or you should fold them into your mainstream team if you are running an agile/lean methodology.

Almost every major university has a career office that can help you recruit, and you can tap into student groups (i.e. ACM chapters, or more specific organizations like Linux SIGs if appropriate). If you are really serious you should go on campus and do a presentation with a student group on cool technology or your company.

Summer intern recruiting specifically tends to start in earnest in the new year though some students commit as early as the previous fall, i.e. November...
It's missing web history, which I make pretty extensive use of. The things which are done are also sometimes broken. I have google reader, but I have no way to add people to sharing groups and it is totally erratic whether I can comments on the posts of my friends even when they tried to give me permission
This is Nivi from Venture Hacks and AngelList. I read the site a couple times a day, right after I read Techmeme. Bonjour.
ChromeOS does though.
"Will I ever outgrow my speed demon of a computer? At this point it's hard for me to see how. Even at my peak usage, my processor never goes above 10 percent capacity, and most of the time I'm using just 1 or 2 percent. I'm confident this rig will last me at least five years, and probably more."

-- Bill Gates, 1985
Intel is already preparing optical interconnect products (starting with 10gb/s) based on Light Peak.

http://www.anandtech.com/print/3834
http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm
Considering this same article has basically been appearing like clockwork about every year for the last 25 or so years, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Optical interconnects have been the Next Big Thing for a long time now.
From what I remember ebay became an unwelcome investor when one the founding members sold their stake to ebay. I remember there was a lot of drama as Craig tried to block the transaction.
eBay never invested in craigslist, they bought shares from an executive who left the company.
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This is a really great point. I hadn't considered the maturity of the market. I look forward to seeing it grow up as people's expectations increase.
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Intel should be worried. With support for 1TB of memory this seems like the first ARM chip that can really make a dent in the server market. I expect the big players with significant energy bills to be very interested in this.
I hate to be so negative, and I have a lot of respect for people who take the time to write articles and publish them, but the quality of design-related content on HN lately has just been... lacking.

Paraphrasing...

This website has a button and some bullets and orange. Personally, I think this is effective.

/end analysis

Huh?
Since when is buying shares and investing two different things? What difference does it make how they got invested in the company. They hold shares in the business and should be protected from dirty tricks.
What will help even more is becoming a bit more organized. Having 200 tabs open simultaneously sounds like a lot of lost effort to me. Learn to use bookmarks, history and especially the smart bookmark & history search available in the address bars of Firefox and Chrome, and you won't need to upgrade the PC just to support messiness.
Windows has historically been pretty poor at handling concurrent I/O to the same device. I've seen circa 200M/sec sequential disk throughput fall to 10M/sec or so simply by trying to run another operation concurrently. The I/O scheduler seems heavily weighted for latency rather than throughput.
You'll notice the difference in CPU power if you ever do any video transcoding. By my measurements, my i7 920 was around 3x faster than my Q6600.
Little things certainly matter, but only a little. In my experience, the most limiting factor in productivity is motivation and being healthy. These things are orders of magnitude more beneficial, and rarely effected by, my machine's speed. For the work I do (web development), the bottlenecks are very rarely the machine itself. At worst, I need to restart Firefox once a day, which make take up to a minute as I eat a banana.
My Windows XP box is pretty much dead at this point. I wonder sometimes what I could do to improve its performance if I actually knew jack shit about Windows, but I'm not that interested. I'll just back up my files and have IT reflash it. I get paid to program Linux boxes, and I'm sure as hell not going to pick up Windows as a hobby.
You can force detach using the console tools. I had this problem too
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Compile times for the tree I work on range between around 40 minutes (the build VMs at work) and 7 minutes (locally, X-25 SSD, overclocked i7 920, 12GB RAM etc.) There's a huge difference between those two; and even more, my machine is almost perfectly responsive while I'm building.

The things like ad-hoc log file analysis. The compiler I work with can spit out colossal amounts of logs depending on the settings. A bash pipeline is naturally parallelized, and being able to do grep / sed / sort / uniq etc. rollups over the data in say 4 seconds versus 12 or 20 seconds greatly reduces the chances of breaking flow. A 4 second wait doesn't really tempt you to context switch to another window. 20 or 30 seconds does.
It's unfortunate that eBay injected themselves in a situation like that. They made other stupid purchases (Skype) and should have done a better job learning who Craig is, what he believes in and the friction it would create.

I would also hate to have an unwelcomed investor in my business. Company culture is important and it sounds like what eBay stands for runs counter to what Craig was trying to create. Having said that, it still doesn't give him the right to cheat them out of what they bought.
It's two different things when you buy shares specifically in order to try to destroy the company you're buying shares in. It's pretty obvious that's what Ebay was trying to do, and it's not weird or strange for Craigslist to want to keep that from happening. Frankly, it's sort of surprising to me that there aren't laws in Delaware against hostile shareholding, but it guess it is Delaware; there's a reason most corporations choose that state as a base.
> Ya know what helps a lot? Reinstalling the OS.

I know that you went on to talk about OSX and Windows, but you did say OS, so I thought I'll drop by and mention that reinstalling Linux will not give you a performance improvement.
Or you can just install Linux. Probably not as pretty as OSX, but fast as hell.

After running Linux for more than 5 years now, I have never felt my system "age." I.e., it may become slower than newer computers but it never becomes slower than it used to be.

Of course I do kernel updates from time to time, but those keep all my local data and applications in place, so they are not like reinstalling the OS for Windows or OSX.
This is true. Though, I assure you, as someone who worked on the generation of optical interconnects before this one: The invention of the VCSEL really has changed the game, as has the invention of cheap planar arrays of microlenses. These are not the lasers of 1990.
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The dynamics is all coming from Rob Hawkes' code (available on github)... writing your own text is just a bit of fun I added on top.

If you want to reuse it - go for it! What have you got in mind!?
Not to knock the SSD, but I actually don't understand why it should help significantly in the use case that the author was primarily talking about: large numbers of tabs open in your browser. My instinct there would be that more and faster RAM, and then to a lesser extent CPU cycles would be what's important. Unless it turns out that you've got so many tabs open, and you're cycling through them enough that you're going to swap and your swap partition is on the SSD. But then, again, it seems like more RAM is at least as good a solution as an SSD.

Can someone explain to me why an SSD should be a big win for web browsing?
Bejeweled

It's social, casual, skill based, and fun.

To answer a likely question, it's social be use I want to beat my friends scores each week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cto45fWUdJI

Last time I was in downtown Seattle, Westlake Center (a small shopping mall) had three. Upstairs, downstairs, and a standalone building, all within a couple minutes' walk of each other.

It's probably for the best they've seen the need to close some stores, but I almost wish they weren't, just for the absurdity of it.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-starbucks-opens-in-rest...
What I find interesting is that the best programmers among my friends usually have very outdated systems. They can do anything with a computer and can afford top of the line stuff, and still have over 5 year old hardware.

I was like that too and then got a fairly high end laptop with a fast 7200 rpm harddrive and 4 gigs of RAM which made the concept of "swaptime" when booting up my programming environment or compiling or doing both programming, music and graphics - a mere memory.

I've never been more creative.
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Investors can be people too.
Yes!

You might notice that I created my twitter account just for this show-and-tell. I didn't want to put my email address, and I don't have a blog right now, so twitter seemed like a good compromise.
I do agree that this does happen in large companies but its not done intentionally by the founder of the company. Rather when your organisation starts to grow it eventually succumbs to becoming this kind of system.

Sometimes the government will give you the perfect carrot-stick combo - the green card! For the longest time I never understood why american citizens would actually put up with the stuff I see going on in the office month to month.

Also, even these systems are gameable because there is so much randomness that with a little skill, you can get away with doing hardly any work and focussing on your own priorities. Of course you have to trade in the possibility of promotion etc but you'll get the occasional semi-big reward thats doled out to everyone :) ...
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Nice one, jshen. Definitely buy that example. Much more fun than Farmville, too.

It could use more depth but match three as a game style has some compelling play.
How has quora done so far? Would they consider themselves a huge success, mild success, etc?
If your employees are willing to shift revenue/etc to fuck with the bonus plan, you've already lost.
You would probably want to make sure that the tone mapping used from one frame to the next is relatively consistent.

What this means is that if you have a scene that is tone-mapped to just fit within the dynamic range of the monitor, and then the brightest lights in the scene are cut, you have a choice: either use a tone mapping that is similar to the previous frame, resulting in an apparently under-exposed frame that uses only a fraction of the dynamic range of the monitor, or use a radically different tone map, which would replace the sudden darkening effect with colors shifting all over the place.

A naive automated tone-mapper might take the latter approach in order to be embarrassingly parallel, but in order to look natural, the tone-map would have to shift gradually, just like pupils dilate gradually. These inter-frame data dependencies will make tone-mapping video comparable in complexity to video encoding. It also means that it is unlikely to be a task that can be fully automated, because there is a tradeoff between inter-frame contrast and intra-frame contrast that can only be resolved with knowledge of the artistic intent of the sequence.
You say it's pretty obvious what ebay was trying to do but it's not obvious to me and I can't see the evil in their intentions. What were they doing that was going to destroy the company?
Everyone's a psychologist these days...
Honestly, I'm tempted by this job. It sounds awesome.