skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it. Maybe facebook will be worth more on paper, for a short period of time but Google provides a far far more valuable service and I think that will show in the end.
While I do not condone what Agro Biker did, I did chuckle slightly.
What self-learning methods do you use?
Corey Booker, the mayor of Newark, has changed things considerably. If ever there was a time that money could change Newark, now is the time.
The good: Signup was easy. Likewise adding a link was easy. I like the autofill of info that was extracted from the site, nice work. The site layout is super easy to use but I'm not sure how it's going to work when there are a large number of products.

The bad: I signed up with an email and password and my avatar is broken and I can't find a way to fix it. Since you're in early alpha you should have a really obvious feedback mechanism.

Suggestions: I don't know what the differentiator is from all of the other sites that provide product listings. Also, think about revenue first and foremost.
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Fixed the scrollwheel issue, and allowed you to zoom in further.

The reason the zooming out is limited is because of the area which is required to legibly see the markers, labels, etc.
These are excellent points. Basically, FB is going to have to radically change their revenue model in order to make this valuation seem worth it. More ads, more cross licensing deals, bigger cuts of current deals, sell junk direct. I can only imagine the outcry when all that junk starts hitting user's pages. (FWIW, I have yet to see a single advertisement on my FB page)

I was actually having this exact conversation recently with some friends (which is why it's all so fresh for me), and by way of comparison. Google's revenue for 2008 and 2009 is 21.8bil, 23.6bil and looks on track to be just over 24bil for this year. Their exponential growth curve is over, it ended in 2006 but nobody was paying attention because their growth percentages were still really good.

I'm still not sold on FB using Adverts to grow to Google sizes. I just don't see it. Their friend suggests are terrible, I don't think they've suggested anybody I actually know ever, I can't imagine how bad targeted adverts will be. Plus they have a miserable privacy record. On top of that, FB isn't really used in the same way Google is. It's an entirely different usage model, one that I'm not sure lends itself to adverts the same way.

I think #3 is their best bet. Turn FB into a platform for apps, and license access to that platform. Basically an online videogame console with really really good social connectivity.

One thing to think about, my group of FB friends is almost entirely different from my group of linkedin friends is almost entirely different from my group of steam friends. I know I'm an anecdote, but other anecdotal evidence from people I know with the same type of disjoint friends and associates across different sites seems to support this data point.
I'm pretty sure that "ivy league nobel prize economists" == Krugman.

It's a fair response to Krugman - Krugman mostly doesn't discuss mechanisms, details, or include caveats. He just pushes the assertion more spending is good, if stimulus failed it's because it wasn't big enough, etc. Occasionally he makes false accusations against his ideological opponents (e.g., the Paul Ryan fiasco).

If a columnist is responding Paul Krugman or Glenn Beck types, you shouldn't expect much in the way of depth.
I've got it down as a feature request. I'll keep it in mind. Thanks!
Disorganized? Maybe in some situations. Of course, that could also be an advantage for those who can manage to work with a bit of chaos, because what startup isn't chaotic at the beginning?:-)
I can't upvote this enough.

In my public high school, we had kids go to Ivy's, and we had kids go to jail. I went to a decent state school on a scholarship - I was only 20th out of my class of 400. That wasn't that hard to do. Sure I didn't go to Harvard, but I got an engineering degree for basically the cost of living expenses which is not too bad. My total expense on education lifetime has been less than my first year salary.

Meanwhile, I found out one of the kids I grew up with in elementary school just got arrested for murder (of another girl from our HS). One of the kids I did stagecraft with in HS is in jail for 10 years for killing someone while DUI. I know a bunch of kids who did nothing at all with their lives and are still working local retail jobs.

We all went to the same public school. We all had the same teachers. It isn't even the parents, some of best in my class had 1 parent or bad parents (hell even my parents were AGAINST me doing honors classes, I hate to fight them about it). The outcome is entirely dependent on what the student himself put in.

But like one line is that "being poor" blog that is always passed around, you are responsible for decisions you made at 14 whether you like it or not.
As far as I know, Bezos wasn't born into wealth (upper middle class, perhaps), so perhaps the regret minimization framework was what got him to the point where he had massive capital and a hedge fund backup.

Or maybe it's all just random chance and you're better off laying on your couch all day.
I must be suffering from mophobia then. I hate phones in general and mobiles in particular. I do have one though, but it's been out of credit for 3 or so months now and it's either out of batteries or Symbian has crashed on me again. Not sure why I typed this since it's completely relevant...
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Looking for a comment that has "is Sims for men and hackers" in it.
I'd still say you need to book at least 30 minutes. If your staff don't want/need more than 2 minutes, then fine. The important thing is telling them "this time slot I'm all yours".
He did the graduation speech for my brother's college (NJIT, which is in Newark) a few years back and I was sold then, he will be a president in 10-15 years. He has done a lot for Newark, my brother started college there in 2002, and the difference between when we helped move him in and today is striking. Hopefully it will get back to the place it was in the early 20th century.
we (http://cascaad.com) do. Albeit admittedly I live in hungary :)
Stock options apparently, not cash.
Which begs the question - where did the money go ?

What they've released looks like your average weekend github side-project. I suspect a large % of Hacker News members have projects like this (though hopefully with better security ;-)). So what did they spend the money on ?
Starting a startup that fails costs you several hundred grand

Nonsense. There are many, many different ways to start a startup, a large number of which won't cost you several hundred grand. The list of billion-dollar companies started part-time in someone's living room, or by someone with almost no experience (and therefore earning power) is pretty long. It's a mistake to think that it'll automatically cost you your retirement.
Well... At least my C is regarded as very readable ;-)
Ultimately though, you can read and study and talk until you are blue in the face, and until you actually try your hand at it, you won't have many of those lessons sink in.
It makes a lot of the common sysadmin tasks a whole lot easier.

For instance, creating raid sets - by default it works with whole disks, which is exactly what you want 99% of the time (but you can specify a partition if you really want to).

Want to check whether there is a data corruption error?

"zpool scrub poolname" and it will go through all the disks on that pool, using the built-in ECC to verify that the data on the disks is OK. If not, it will try to fix it.

"zpool status -v" lists all the disks, which mirrors or RAID sets each is part of, and when the last scrub was performed, along with errors or ECC problems.

The one suggestion I would make for the btrfs guys is to really work on making the CLI commands simple and intuitive.
Red Hat has a good technical career path. No need to go into management if you don't want to, and plenty of people on my team in their 40s and 50s still working happily on the "codeface".
Revenue idea for facebook: Integrate something like WePay and give event creators the ability to charge for tickets etc. FB takes 10%.
The "hello world" curve.
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Can anyone explain the appeal of 7" tablets?
There seems to be an onslaught of "in-between" tablets these days, from the Samsung Galaxy S to RIM's rumoured "BlackPad".

What I don't get is the use case. What exactly will the 7" tablet be better at than a 9"? I honestly cannot think of any reason why I would buy one over, say, the iPad.
Thanks! dunno why you ended up downvoted. I'm totally the wrong person to look at Twitter I think. I can find almost no value at all in the entire platform (wheras I do find lots of value in FB). But I know many people here who think it's the bee's knees. Here's a nice look at their revenue model http://www.goospoos.com/2010/01/twitter-revenue-model/

I know the article I linked to ends on a fuzzy note, I'd have ended it quite down. Basically, they have no idea how to revenue their service. And they're really only reaching <20million people anyways (in theory, word on the street is that only a fraction stay as active users).

If you ignore the typical VC funded fantasy growth projections, when their internal revenue figures for q3 of 2009 were leaked, they weren't exactly rosy. http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/twitters-financial-forecast...

I think even more dysmal is their user growth curve. As of the beginning of this year it looked like this http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/19/state-twittersphere-hubspot...
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Google tried this with Wave.

Nobody stepped up to write a decent client, and the product was judged (unfavorably) on the merits of the reference implementation.
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Ugly as in less than a 3000 pixel display causes text to disappear off the edge of the page?
Obviously real people will object when you manipulate their friend lists and their photo galleries. But there's real possibilities in a wikified social network for fictional characters.
I would MUCH rather see you work on the site itself and bring it into the 21st century. Grab a sick designer, seek a marketer for branding help, and go silent for 2-3 months.

If you don't wanna do that. I would like to see you white-label your service to others with an eye for eye-candy, and you stick to the engineering side of things, delivering kickass, high-quality multimedia in realtime.

Seriously. White-label that fucker and give people APIs and widgets. You will get everyone from porn to security industry to Zoos to e-learning to conferencing.

Cheers! :-)
I'm glad rubashov posted this. It reinforces the point that you really need to understand the people who work for you.

One of the developers currently working for me needs multiple one-on-ones per week. She needs frequent feedback on her performance. I've had other developers working for me who bristled at the thought of scheduled and structured one-on-ones. With them I'll casually stop by to chat for a couple of minutes from time to time, but I won't schedule anything except when performance reviews are due.

I do find that most developers respond well to weekly or bi-weekly short one-on-ones, however.
Yes, as long as they don't do a digg 4.0.
Also, Don't forget the dividends he's been accumulating from his Disney stock. That alone has been tens of millions of dollars each year.
I wouldn't really call this ZFS port "tried and trusted". :-D
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I am not trying to downplay Ryan's accomplishments as a marketing hacker, but it's important to keep in mind that they (as the article states in the very beginning) already have 1,500 users and 10,000 people signed up on the mailing list. That's a hefty pre-condition for getting an additional $1450 in recurring revenue in a few days.

Also, if this money is significant in light of their other revenue, I'd say that their marketing hasn't been monetizing their user base optimally. If it's not, then it detract from the accomplishment of brining in that extra $1450. Again, I am not trying to knock the idea down. It just seems like some of the commenters assume that this experience can be replicated without an a priori sizable user base and traffic.
Shared filesystem is not the same as cluster/distributed filesystem. It's mere a management convenience and letting legacy code work without changes.

There is a problem on Amazon EC2, that you can mount EBS (Elastic Block Storage) only to one EC2 instance at a time.

I was told by several people (including some from Sun), that the only way to mount the same EBS instance to multiple EC2 instances is to use OpenSolaris and ZFS. I don't think this solution involves NFS.

Anyway now when ZFS almost ported to Linux, it would be great to check this issue again (requires ZPL).
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I disagree, this should be an obvious security capacity: Don't let people who are not permissioned to modify a given resource modify a given resource.

I might be able to excuse this since they're fundamentally still in alpha (or pre-alpha) and were rushing to get code out.
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This is also illegal!
Ask HN: Evernote vs /home/*username*. Is the fs dead?
Should Evernote replace the filesystem (for me)?

My predicament is that Evernote (free) doesn't store all files, though storing pdfs and other files in my computer isn't as cross platform as Evernote.

What do you see as the solution? Has anyone tried removing all local storage and just using Evernote? I suppose dropbox is another option
Machine learning jobs outside of Google?
I'm finishing my bachelor and I really enjoy machine learning(one ML course and one AI course). My uni has a great master in ML available I just wonder if the jobs are there, except for working at Google. What's the best background to come from(CS,EE,ME)?
I'm wondering if they discovered later that sponsoring a visa is more work than they originally thought, and that's what happened.
What about shutting down websites I don't like?
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China is less vulnerable because they can monitor their entire Internet, cut it off, and take control. Thus cyberwar is advantageous for China over the US.

Is this true? China's systems don't have a soft, chewy center?
And you really think those 100'000 are actively clicking around all the time? There are no doubt spurts of activity where they do one, even two clicks per second (most of which should not result in backend queries... surely Zynga has already implemented some kind of queuing mechanism to send those usage data in batches, rather than one by one). Most of the time, though, the users are most likely sitting there watching their crops grow - or even have another window open so they can pretend to work.
You've said this twice now, and it still isn't true. Don't be the Youtube commenter who, on a video on how to hold and what to call parts of a musical instrument and how many people got it wrong, said "this video is useless, it's all common sense".

If it were common sense to do it, they would have done it. It's not. It's a very distinct thought pattern shift from "the browser is a part of the execution of our code and it will only try a delete link which the code has generated" to "the user can request anything at any time no matter what links we have or haven't generated or what they can see on screen".

It's a learned shift specific to some subsets of some kinds of computer programmers, not at all "common sense".

(and besides, even if it were common sense, what's the point in your comment then?)
Is it bad to double reply? I'm enjoying the discussion. :)

I think the example you've cited is quite a good one... He provides clear evidence for his claim that can be independently verified. And certainly props goes to Arrington for the effort.

That doesn't make his current adventure any more respectable - each effort must be judged on its own merits.

Also - it's not actually the central issue whether or not Arrington is right or not. I accept that he might be - after all, what would I know? The key issue is whether or not it's appropriate to publically air unsubstantiated, barside allegations of such a damaging nature without further evidence to back it up.

That's the point I want addressed - and I'm not seeing anyone provide me with a decent justification of the behaviour.
I don't know, I work for a startup funded by them, but I have no idea about that. It's still something if you live here and you need funding.
I'll tell you what I wouldn't do: take an internet poll's results on something this important to you too seriously.
If the field is that competitive, your data is already sort of open. Your competitors probably have an idea about costs and all that.
I'm more interested in the reasons that people come up with pro/con, but I wouldn't discount a HN poll off hand, the ones I've seen so far seem to be somewhat serious.
Well, my mom already quit facebook.

Also, I have a relatively large family, many of whom are on Facebook. A year ago they were trying to use Facebook for family notices and communication. These days they've gone back to email. Everyone has email, but not everyone is on Facebook, not even among those who have already joined at one point.

As long as you can only do facebooking via Facebook, there will be people who aren't connected to it.
Future earnings.
I think you guys are both right. How early stage is FB is the golden question.

Here's Google's track record (since everybody seems to want to compare the two even though they're in entirely different businesses in theory). https://investor.google.com/financial/2003/tables.html

Year Revenue %Growth
2001 86m 352%
2002 438m 409%
2003 1.4b 234%
2004 3.2b 118%
2005 6.1b 92%
2006 10.6b 73%
2007 16.6b 56%
2008 21.8b 31%
2009 23.6b 9%
2010 25b (est) ~9%

Google was able to maintain growth doubling until 2006. Then the curve started to flatten out. Assuming FB is where Google was in 2003, they can grow. FB right now claims 500million users, but only about Google's 2003 revenue figures. In 2004, Google boasted they had 60million unique visitors. I'll leave the rest of the math up to the reader.
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I imagine the reason the reason why many non profits ask about a discount is because it's common to grant one. It seems likely that the firms offering those discounts are doing so not "out of the goodness of their heart" because their experience is different than 37signals--that their "for profit" customers can and will pay a much higher price for their product or service. Offering a non-profit discount is a way to capture what money the the non-profits are willing to pay. Why leave money on the table?

It's not clear to me why market segmentation would be described as "unfair or dishonest". Does Jason go through life gritting his teeth at the immorality of senior citizen's discounts at the movie theatre? Does adding a few minor differences to a product, business class seating for example, transmute an "unfair and dishonest" practice into an acceptable one?

To be clear, I can imagine cases where having "a clear price that we stick to" is an effective policy. Saturn seemed to do well with that policy for quite a while.
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There were already open source MVC web frameworks and an army of .net developers who could have collaborated to make them great but nothing much happened.

He is lamenting that the .NET community didn't embrace the pioneering MVC frameworks from the OS community, but waited for Microsoft to deliver its own "blessed" framework.

Here is what he is forgetting: Economics. A good chunk of .NET developers are not using the system for the love of hacking. No. These people want to learn marketable skills and get/keep jobs. Whatever MS pushes out is what the market will buy, and hire for. What do you think killed Borland? Certainly not the lack of excellent quality products. Rather, their incompatibility with Microsoft. Even if your engineering is superior to Microsoft's, you can't afford to break rank, since the market will not follow your lead.

I went to a D.C. area meeting of early .NET adopters, a group of hardcore MS-specialists working for gur'ment. One of the organizers had a fat .NET book on the table, which he slapped with his palm three times and said: "Gentlemen, this is where the money is at". You could have taken me to a brothel afterwards and wouldn't have felt dirtier.

.NET is nice and you can do pretty things with it, but corporate platforms are first and foremost careers and cash-cows for people. The broke mofos are out there hacking on GHC and SBCL.
So one of the painful lessons I picked up in industry is this: an impossible deadline plus a great desire to change is still an impossible deadline. Scheduling is not my bag, and I'm far less well acquainted with Diaspora than you are, but if I was four man months from release at the day job with the state of the project where I think it is I would be sending out emails saying "We will not hit this. It is impossible. We need to cut scope or push back release." to my superiors.

I don't know if you can get a security expert to fix this for you. You can certainly wave a big enough check around to get somebody to look over your code, but that won't magically improve code you haven't written yet. Also, it is highly likely that Diaspora is architecturally insecure -- that, beyond the "Oops, didn't check the input" code-level whoopsies that your federation strategy as written (and apparently as not documented outside of the sourcecode) just cannot be made to work right.
You can hold it in one hand.
RAM doesn't hold memory very long after it's been powered down, but be aware that it doesn't forget everything immediately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
Quality of life in the USA(California and Colorado esp)?
I have always wanted to move to the USA. Attitude is better(especially towards entrepreneurialship), taxes are lower but perhaps most importantly, weather is better(I live in Sweden).

However is California all it seems to be?
I think constant sunshine, wealthy, surfing, skiing, climbing. I could live an active outdoor life there.

But then there is perhaps high house prices and apartments, overpopulation, pollution(?), crime etc.

Is Colorado(Denver, Boulder, Colorado springs) better?

How is the USA overall? Is Europe better? I don't like the stupid socialist attitude of pretty much all european governments, on the other hand I don't dig US foreign politics much either(I'm fairly libertarian).
To add: in order to continue playing Minecraft after the free-to-play period you have to buy a subscription, however I agree with the idea there have been recent spikes as people do buy it.

I read somewhere that Notch had accrued at least two million in PayPal but can't vouch that it's accurate.
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