skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ben Horowitz wrote a great post on why 'rewarding' this kind of behaviour can be damaging to your company in the long run.

From: http://bhorowitz.com/2010/08/23/how-to-minimize-politics-in-...

Specifically, you will be rewarding behavior that has nothing to do with advancing your business. The employee will earn a raise by asking for one rather than you automatically rewarding them for outstanding performance. Why is this bad? Let me count the ways:

1. The other ambitious members of your staff will immediately agitate for raises as well. Note that neither this campaign nor the prior one need be correlated with actual performance. You will now spend time dealing with the political issues rather than actual performance issues. Importantly, if you have a competent board, you will not be able to give them all out-of-cycle raises, so your company executive raises will occur on a first-come, first-serve basis.

2. The less aggressive (but perhaps more competent) members of your team will be denied off-cycle raises simply by being apolitical.

3. The object lesson for your staff and the company will be the squeaky wheel gets the grease and the political employee gets the raise. Get ready for a whole lot of squeaky wheels.
> It's like getting invited to dinner and the host starts an Amway pitch.

I respond in the same way, I leave, never to return.
I suspect that Intel is also intent on entering the high end GPU market. The margins in mainstream processors are decreasing, and the new ARM cores aren't going to help with that. Margins on high-end GPU's on the other hand are quite high.

The first Larabee processor probably won't be much of a competitor to AMD's and nVidia's GPU's in graphics, but that's just the first generation... who knows what they'll pull off in the second?

(Of course, that could also end up being crap. Intel's history with GPU's isn't exactly examplary...)
Yeah, this is a symptom of the chicken and egg problem. We've seeded our DB with menus outside of our local market (Memphis) but the data is sparse right now.

Restaurateur response in Memphis has been okay: 5 paying customers at $30/month and 10-15 that are non-paying but have entered their own menus and participate in discussions.

Most of the activity and content submissions have been from diners/foodies.
A good mix of genders can lead to a healthier office life and better work.

All male and all female offices are not ideal for various(and sometimes different) reasons.
I think the interesting points from the article aren't what they can do now but what they want to do in the future.

The researcher seems most interested in the bits about the fourth "capture" pixel built into the LCD-something much harder to DIY. The possibilities of this tech would be very wide ranging-much more so than a big table with projectors and cameras in it (surface).
Bill Gates = { it celebrity, celebrity, rich, geek god, arch rivalry 'Mac vs PC', extreme public philanthropy, ...}

Steve Jobs = { it celebrity, celebrity, rich, geek god, arch rivalry 'Mac vs PC', ...}

Intersection = Bill Gates ∩ Steve Jobs = { it celebrity, celebrity, rich, geek god, arch rivalry 'Mac vs PC' }

Difference = { extreme public philanthropy }

So this difference goes hand in hand with arch rivalry 'Mac vs PC'. aka 'My penis is bigger than yours' to everyone but the subjects themselves.
Hmmm... I didn't take his rationales seriously at all. I'm surprised you made the mental leap to think the stats might be made up, but not the leap to think that his cost based price might be fudged and provided solely to encourage sales at the higher pricepoint.

I just looked at the genius of guilt-based discriminant pricing, and was amazed it worked. (assuming honesty in reporting)
James Cameron wants to build ultra-deep-sea submarine for Avatar 2
It'd be nice if there existed a thing that acted like the SSD part of the Seagate Momentus XT. That way I could hybrid-ize my existing drives and have greater flexibility for future upgrades.
Women Now Lead in Doctorates
Did you see the "dishes" tab? Getting the UI right on that search page has been a struggle for us. We return both "restaurants" and "dishes", but the results are split across two tabs.
Classroom Learning by Playing Video Games
eugenicists == good citizen?
It's useless unless they stop supporting older IE versions...
It should be said that the UX of this app is less friendly than a gas station pump. Navigating is nearly impossible.

It remains to be see whether an iPad wine list is better because of the list or because people want to play with an iPad. The latter will wear off soon enough.
Sure, but this was a story purely about the US.
Most of my Twitter use is through third party clients rather than their website. I don't envision this redesign changing my usage patterns much, though I think it's definitely a good step for them. I'll give it a chance; maybe I'll find myself on twitter.com more rather than desktop/phone clients and twitpic.
Why do you think Silicon Valley has never quite come around on this guy?

Because of the trail of dead bodies and lost opportunities left in his wake.

Let's not forget, Bill Gates was handed a 0th birthday gift of $1 million from his grandfather, the keys to his private middle school computer (the same one Stanford had), and a free ticket to do business with IBM because his mother already knew its chairman.

Sure he was smart and he worked hard, but he was no smarter and worked no harder than many of the rest of us.

And what did he do with these fabulous once-in-a-lifetime gifts? He fucked anyone who got in his way, always to the benefit of Microsoft, and usually to the detriment of the industry.

When others wrote better code, he called his lawyers. When other developers wanted to collaborate, he stole their intellectual property. When customers or vendors balked, he crushed them. And when the citizens saw how unfair it all was and took action, he called his lobbyists.

So now maybe he wants to be like Andrew Carnegie in his next act, conveniently forgetting all the lives destroyed in the hope of "giving it all back". If so, good.

I really try to keep upbeat and optimistic in my posts here at hn, but I also understand how much we have forgotten, and sometimes I just can't resist. Every time I read about Bill Gates worship, I can vomit. Sometimes I really wonder how much better things would be for all of us hackers is he had just gone to law school and left our industry to develop as it could have.

</rant>

Oooh, that feels better. Now back to work.
This retarded book, which has injured acquaintances of mine, is the reason I have the career I have now. If it weren't for the Anarchist Cookbook, I'd be a Windows admin today.

It's every bit as bad as the author says it is. But taking it out of print won't fix anything; the copy I had when I was 13 wasn't legit, and was accompanied by 8478439 pages of Usenet posts.
No matter how easily resources are made available, capitalism won't break down When resources are freed, there is a new playing field for entrepreneurs to add value, for instance the availability of information and the profitability of search.

There will always be more significant barriers to embracing capitalism. Many people are comfortable with the existence of a welfare state and will never be capitalists no matter how easy it is to acquire resources and minimize risk. There is unprecedented opportunity today succeed in the game of capitalism, either as an entrepreneur or a skilled worker, but there is an obvious lack of initiative among large segments of the world's population. I doubt this situation will change no matter how low the barriers to entry are.
I rarely use cash these days - maybe once a month or so.

Edit: I'm in the UK - I use a chip-n-pin debit card for most things.
Perhaps a better way of stating it would be:

Illiquid investments currently need to pay a premium over their more liquid counterparts. However, an increase in long term investors may reduce this requirement over time.
Now I'm really interested, could you show me a press release or a news article or something that mentions this? I've long suspected that this was the case but I can't really prove it.
MySpace replaced all their fast hd's with SSDs about a year ago with good results http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139280/MySpace_repla...
JPMorgan Web Site Fails Again, Late Fees to Be Waived
That sales/earnings ($0.00) for Word Mate don't look that great. I guess the point of the post ends up being that there was a time when some apps that produced various sounds or provided translations would make money (and maybe similar new apps still would if they had smart or cool-sounding names), but a Scrabble word-finder app in the current day and age won't earn squat.
And in twenty years, abolish the nickel, use a uniform rounding rule to make the dime the smallest denomination.

You'll hate nickels.
I'm really interested to see how this redesign affects people's perception of Twitter. From the screenshots, it looks like this is a stepping stone to a more comprehensive social application.

The paradigm indicated by the deeper content view - like pulling in full Flickr sets - is encouraging. I'd love for it to include the full text of linked articles, for example.

As this matures, I'll definitely consider using it in its own Fluid app - like I do with Gmail, Lighthouse, and other web applications.
http://xkcd.com/675/
Metonymy.
Yes, this thread is an excellent object lesson--he achieved self-segmentation in his market using nonstandard practices all without a product manager while simultaneously creating great PR.
Disgruntled Grads: aw schools get flamed by growing number of ‘scam blogs’
IE has the opportunity to come out with a truly standards compliant product. If they can give it the speed/wow factor the Chrome release had, then they'll be back in the game.

Regardless, if they create a product that is rid of all of the burdens of previous version, ie. ActiveX and BHOs, then they're giving many consumers little reason to switch to a competitor if they're computer is shipped with IE9
Not considering MMOs, those other examples sound more like a nuisance (DRM) than an extra service.
How Startups Can Use Patron's Formula for Building a Successful Online Community
This is awsome, I was looking for something exactly like this last weekend! No more scraping for me =)
Depends. Not with mission critical processes like checkout IMHO. What this piece points to is a flaw in design processes. As designers and developers we see things through a logical lens of our own making.

What we don't realize is that the real world and other factors influence our target users. It's the mark of a good designer when he/she pushes user testing to understand what people will do with what we build.

In this specific case, we all know you use the magnetic pin but not everyone does. It's hard to believe but the sometimes don't.
The RamSan and NextIO aren't internal storage devices, and while the FuisionIO are non-volatile they use the PCI-E bus. A quick glance does not indicate if they are suitable to be booted from.

(edit: all that aside from the cost of using any of those solution as a desktop's storage system)

(edit2: not condoning the article in anyway)
Or retailers that don't do the .99 business when tax is already in place. For whatever reason, movie theaters in the US do this. They build the tax into the price and then use even units (it's still way overpriced, but at least you know the $6 pop-corn and $4 soda will mean you owe $10).

You're still ahead of the game because for a .99 purchase you'll get .01 back which is just one coin where if I'm using bills would need to pay with two singles and get .93 back (which for the US is at minimum 8 coins). It's no coincidence why I have tons of change collected.
Post Reporting Novell Has Deal To Sell Itself in Two Parts
Guilt-based pricing has been tried in lots of places, and I'm unaware of an example where it's worked well. Radiohead seems to have had the most success, and they grossed less on In Rainbows than any of their label releases (they're a confusing example because their experiment was also about disintermediating the labels, which was a success).
I have to question the safety of the design of the tower for a few points in the climb. It seems that at a few transition points there are very few places to grab comfortably and move into the correct position.

How often do people have to climb these towers?

What do they do once they are up there?? I hope that wasn't just to replace the bulb in the beacon.
Hopefully the folks at Heroku see this comment as the idea for a cutoff rate is really good. I'm not sure cutting the bill in half is necessary, but describing the real costs of their service and potentially allow paying only that cost or at the very least a payment plan seems reasonable.
"kids navigate the web using bookmarks, remembering their favorite sites, and accessing paid subscription content and games."

My parents use the web like this. This isn't limited to children.

They navigate by clicking the address bar and clicking the URI they want. I introduced them to "proper" navigation means, like RSS, bookmarks, and tabbed browsing; they dismissed each as a gimmick. Their method has some big advantages - they only need two clicks to navigate anywhere on the web, and they're not beholden to any notifications. If they find a new webpage they like, its already in their address bar. No management needed.

My way is much more complicated: I jump around the web using quick typing and memorized keyboard shortcuts. I also use pages requiring management: Twitter, Gmail, Google Reader, Facebook, etc. If I ignore the web for a week, I spend days catching up or declare bankruptcy and start over. They don't need to do this, since they have no notification debt to begin with.
These are either rack-mounted or PCIe drives. If I look at the chart on that page, then the C300 is the fastest 2.5 inch SATA drive. I.e. its the fastest drive that can practically be added to a laptop.
There are a number of issues where there is no action to take (certainly no personal action), and where people irrationally ignore scientific evidence.

Consider, for instance, the distribution of human intelligence. There is quite a bit of solid data on this (how valid is the measurement of g, how g varies amongst different human subgroups), and yet most people want to ignore it. A much smaller subset want to exaggerate it. I can't see any action people could reasonably take based on this data (except for a very small subset of people, namely judges and HR departments).
Perhaps you could expand on how women are mistreated in interviews?

Are you saying that even though you thought you were treating men and women fairly, you were actually mistreating the women you were interviewing? Or are you saying that "other people" mistreat women in interviews - which begs the question how you know that those other people are actually treating women differently than men (they could just be assholes to everyone, I mean).
I don't know what this comment means, except for the "great PR" part. I agree, it's great PR; unfortunately, since people will clearly pay much more than $5.99 for a solid expansion to a game, you're going to have a hard time convincing me that a confusing pricing scheme that practically begs people to pay less than $5.99 is a success.
As much as this seems like snark, it's a fair observation.

Bill Gates is often seen as a villain because of the late 1990s behavior of Microsoft and the quality of some of their flagship products (Windows and IE). It can be hard to separate perceptions of Bill Gates the man/philanthropist from Bill Gates the businessman. Perceptions of Bill Gates are colored by BSoD's, IE's non-compliance to standards, Frontpage creating pages that only rendered in IE, and awkward conventions and interfaces in several popular pieces of software.

(I personally think very highly of Bill and Melinda Gates for their charitable work.)
People have already thought about making regular apps with webkit and other browser components. In fact, it's a very old idea, but one that we seem to keep coming back to. I hope to see the trend continue, as I think it'll help put a stop to these nonsense platforms like AIR and Flash.
"The best way to think about it is like a big LCD where there’s a fourth pixel in every triad. So there’s red, green, and blue pixels giving you light, and a fourth pixel which is a sensor that will capture stuff; go the other direction."

So five sensors, really.
Tim Berners-Lee calls for free Internet worldwide
Do you still have contact info for Alex?
Why Toilet Paper is Better Than Cash
> Example: What is the most profitable LEGAL cash crop that an inexperienced farmer could plant on five flat acres in Northern California?

There's a reason he has to emphasize legal, and that's because the obvious cash crop isn't. The market of capitalism has decided, and has found the best use of the land possible.

> Suppose you want to find a turnkey web site management company...

A listing site of vetted companies providing X service, unbribe-able by ad-dollars, would have to be subscription-only to be sustainable. Unfortunately charging for online content doesn't have the best history. Facebook and LinkedIn are positioning themselves to find said company 'close' to you that people can recommend.

> Think of it as Match.com for startups.

This one has gone around a couple of times here before, and ranges from an actual web app, to that google spreadsheet that comes up every once in a while. So, the need's definitely there. Arguably, meetup.com meets that need rather successfully.
Now it just needs a semi-decent debugger.
Baby Boomers nearing final act, which should be saving the economy
I don't think I've mistreated anyone in an interview (except that when I started interviewing in the '90s, I treated them as excuses to demonstrate how smart I was, which was a waste of everyone's time).

But, no, when you ask someone whether they're really going to be able to take care of their kids and handle the demands of the job you're interviewing them for, you're clearly not being an equal-opportunity douchebag.

I have many more examples than that, some of them worse, but I'm not going to give you a bulleted list; I expect most people who've known women who've interviewed widely have similar examples.
Forever is a long long time....
This article is pointless, reading it is a waste of time. Many others have already pointed out why this article is complete bullshit.
Also, carrier should be career, and looser loser.
In Ontario specifically the tax can depend on the total purchase: fast food purchases under $4 (total) are taxed less than those over $4, so we have a lot of $3.99 value meals. If you buy two, it's 13%, if you buy one it's 5%.
A pain point is not "We do x for y like z does for a" (especially when z is showing no growth).

A pain point is the identification of the problem a specific customer has to which you can apply a solution that removes this problem.

In identifying the pain point, you need to validate the entire scope from the user's perspective - their entire perspective.

What I'm trying to say is that you need to be very, very clear on what benefit you are bringing to the user, what other options they have, and most importantly whether or not the "pain point" is worth their investment in finding a solution.

I say the last point because I fear it may be directly applicable to you and your situation, and you even provide the evidence to support this in your comment.

Ask yourself this question: Why doesn't menupages.com appear to be seizing the growth opportunity?

I don't have the answer for that question, but in order to be successful, you need to confirm that the answer is not - in any way - related to the market, or lack of one.

It is highly possible that getting menu content online is just not enough of a problem for enough people to be worth investing in the solution you have developed. I know I eat out a great deal, yet see no use for this particular function beyond casual knowledge. (i.e. if I couldn't find a menu, I'd probably just go to the restaurant anyway).

I think, honestly, you should backtrack to the start point here and go through the process of nailing the customer identification process. It's very possible that my hunch is incorrect, but you need to find out - exactly - how if you are to be successful here.

Good Luck.
The interesting fact that is often left out of these Gates-as-philanthropist v. Jobs-as-salesman arguments is that Jobs has 1/10 the wealth that Bill Gates has, if that, even though Apple is now worth more than Microsoft. So if this is a simple comparison of allocation of wealth we find that Jobs simply hasn't taken the money (look at his paycheck v. Apple's cash holdings for crying out loud). And socially how effective is charity relative to giving it to the market? I'm not sure, but it's open to debate.

So does two decades of merciless greed followed by a decade of giving some of that money away constitute heroism? To an extent, yes. But I think we ought to give simply taking a lower cash holding a better look also.
Ask HN: Does anyone know of any good hardware company startup blogs?
HN submissions often provide great advice on how to successfully build a pure software company. Can anyone recommend similar content sites or blogs which offer advice from those who have founded companies that sell some sort of hardware? More specifically, hardware that runs embedded software or has some external software support component for it. (Medical devices would be one example.) There seems to be tremendous opportunity in this area as well, but the challenges would obviously be somewhat different.
The IE9 beta is Microsoft's first modern browser. Try it without prejudice.
It absolutely is a nuisance - I regret buying Command and Conquer 3 because it is intrinsically tied to EA's servers, you can't even play single player games without being signed in and online. Even your saved games only exist on their servers.

But I bet it was more effective than any other form of DRM they've used over the years.
Usability Testing Tools for Startups
The IE team is part of the Windows division, Silverlight is part of Server & Tools. If anything IE is more about selling Windows than Silverlight is. Silverlight is cross-platform (Mac, Nokia) and is about selling ... servers and tools.
ihackernews is currently the best browser for hacker news on the mobile by far

Not really relevant to anything I said.

this api is just extracting what he already built for ihackernews and allowing others to use it

There are actually significant downsides to 'others using it'. One is that it becomes a single point of failure for anyone using it. It's essentially a proxy so one abusive user could make HN ban the whole thing and everyone else with it. Same goes for downtime, etc.

Similarly, it introduces a third party in the authentication process for relatively little value and significant risk.

I could well be missing something but I just haven't come up with very many reasons such a service is a good idea to counter the many obvious ways in which it is a bad one.
Ah - another Schrodinger's Earnings post.

Write up your experiment to determine how much money your app can earn. Then get the story picked up by as many high profile sites as possible. Looking at the story determines the outcome of the experiment.

Beautiful.
Ask HN: What % of Y Comb startups either become profitable or successfully exit?
Long time HN'er using a throwaway account.

Basically, I want to know: What are the chances of a startup's chances of making it big after going through the program?

I realize it's vague but any facts or figures would be very helpful.
The Live Shifter, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure on Twitter
The same thing can be said of Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and most of the tech titans. Sounds like you just have something against powerful people.