skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know quite a few non-technical person who use Chrome. I cannot guarantee that they know how to install an extension though. Most of the non-tech people uses internet primarily for FaceBook and they shouldn't be concerned when they see their FaceBook on say, CNN.com.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041209040106/http://digg.com/
There's a fair amount of overlap between them, so I'm not sure you'd want to use both. Backbone has a more integrated persistence layer, but that layer is pretty tied to the model. It wouldn't make sense to use that and use Knockout for the view. There may be some useful cross-pollination, but that should just be by both frameworks adding/changing features.
They can just download the data and stick it somewhere else. It's inconvenient, but nobody is "screwed."
So, what?
Author tried a cheap trick of attracting audience by using a title of a big "shock-value". But the truth is not as bad as that title suggest: the most important thing about Google Groups, discussions that is, are not going anywhere, it's only "Files" and "Pages" features that are going to be trashed.
Some items are displayed multiple times in the "ask" section. For example:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748045

appears 3 times on the front page of the "ask" section (at least at the time this comment was posted).
While all of your thoughts are insightful -- thank you for that -- this one particularly stuck out to me:

"Not getting sucked into group-think is the most valuable skill I have and probably the most offensive thing I do, socially."

I think a lot of the people on this site can relate to that. Thank you.
Google Groups is one of the worst Google web apps (from a programming stand point). You cannot add code snippets easily, the search is horrible and you cannot even format code/text easily like in http://code.google.com.

Have they seen stackoverflow.com?
I think martythemaniak is making a joke about Apple claiming that Android is not really "open."
I disagree. See mechanical_fish's comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1811011

In a way, it makes more sense for an elder to get a PhD than someone in his youth.
It doesn't work with anything for me on Win7.
The author of the article was disappointed that the service was being discontinued, but his main reason for writing seemed to be calling attention to how quietly Google announced that it was destroying data. People won't download the data if they don't know it's going away.
Riak Search is the first public demonstration that Riak Core is a meaningful base on which to build distributed systems beyond just a key/value store. By using the same central code base for distribution, dispatch, ownership, failure management, and node administration, we are able to confidently make many of the same guarantees for Search that we have made all along for Riak's key/value storage. Even if Search itself wasn't such a compelling product, it is exciting as a proof of the value of Riak Core

Riak Core can abstract away the difficulties of decentralized computing is really exciting to me as well. It's a decentralized message queue or apache zookeeper written in Erlang.

I really think the basho team has done an amazing job modularizing the components Riak is comprised of (core, kv, search, etc) to make all bits really re-usable. Well done Basho!
Have you experience with Windows Server in a properly set up production environment? I know of at least one high-performance shop that has used Windows servers (we are not talking onesies or twosies here--more than hundreds) and has higher performance requirements than exchanges.
Live notes from Apple’s Back to the Mac Keynote
ToneMatrix
http://live.gizmodo.com/

flash stream.
I just thought of this, and it's been over 24 hours since I last slept, so this might not be the best idea. But, I'm imagining a world in which it exists, and it's pretty exciting. What I think would be awesome is if you made a company that screens for only the highest level candidates: You do all of the technical screening to ensure candidates are of a certain value. You look at open source contribution, their blog, some source code (which coders could submit to you with an NDA or something), experience, LinkedIn, references, interviews, etc. And you assign them a score, or maybe just a yes/no.

If you could have a screening process that was on par with, say, Google's, and became notorious for such a thing, I think you'd be in a position of extraordinary value. You'd be offering Google Quality Engineers who are actively seeking jobs. I think that's huge! You'd attract business that are willing to pay for the best, and you'd attract talent that wants the best pay.

The main goal here is to establish yourself as having a rigorous and "industry best" screening process. You only attract and accept awesome developers. You do all of the work in the technical screening, and you front your reputation on that. You only deal directly with candidates, and on the other end, with people in the position to hire.

Of course, there is a chicken and egg problem here. So you'd need a lot of publicity out the gate, a decent pool of acceptable candidates, or a decent set of job availabilities.

I'm tired of being asked if I know what a join is, the pros/cons of indexing, the difference between by reference and by value, various OO questions (What's an abstract class do?), design patterns, what memcached does, etc. And I'm sure places are tired of candidates that don't know these things. Solve both of our problems.
I'm using Aldiko for O'Reilly books, which you read similarly to textbooks ("Javascript: the good parts" currently.) Not novels.

I'll grant you that most publishers are far more backwards than O'Reilly, however. If you are stuck with ebooks in the pdfAIL format, there isn't a lot you can do.
This sounds pretty interesting.

We're currently in the process of hiring our first employee in our startup, so we're pretty amateurs at this. Here's what we did:

1. Find some sites to advertise the job. Wrote up a description of the position and made up two problems the interviewee must complete to apply (it's at http://scalien.com/pdf/job.pdf but don't bother unless you're in Hungary =]). I guess if you could automate this part, eg. submission to a bunch of job sites, that'd be a killer feature I'd easily pay $5 for. Also, you could provide templates for the job description, reminders what not to leave out, host the files, etc.

2. Went to the local Universities and physically posted printed out ads. Your service could offer that somebody picks up the ads from our office and posts them for us so I don't have to waste my time doing it, I'd pay for that.

3. The person submits their CV and solutions per email. There's always a phase where I send the same template messages as an equalizer, I guess that could be automated, although it may be overkill. What could be nice, but only for a company with a lot of hiring, is to channel these emails to/from your service so you have a nice dashboard and history going back, etc. Again, it'd be nice if your service could provide reminders here, eg. did you remember to tell the guy what address to come to (eg. not the HQ but the other office).

4. Then the person comes in for the interview. Here we wrote up ~20 questions in a word processor and printed them out, we hold this in our hands and ask the interviewee the questions ("what's a JOIN?"). Your site could store these questions, so we could check them off "knows"/"doesn't know" style per interviewee, with an additional comment field. The service has to be really streamlined though, as at this point the guy is sitting across me and waiting for me to ask the next question. Your site could recommend a general flow / template for the interview, and I could maybe time myself on each segment, so as not to spend more time than 60 mins per interview. In our case I noticed that we spend 90 mins per interview, but things are pretty obvious at the 30-45 minute part, so helping me (and my co-founder) save time would easily translate to money.

5. ??? We actually haven't hired anyone, we're still deciding =)

Hope it helps.
Ask HN: About day dreaming
I forked this question from this comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1811024.

"While thinking about this on a plane to England, my mind makes the natural leap from my motley collection of python functions to turning down acquisition offers from Amazon and being invited to talk at Davos"

It would be interesting to know if PG/Why_/RichHickey/Norvig kinds indulge in day dreaming? My understanding is that this is a natural thought process, so would occur to all.

OR

would it be the case that all the accomplished are so engrossed that they don't have brain cycle to process these kind of fantasies?

I shouldn't be doing direct questions, but in this context, cannot resist. So PG: Do you indulge in day dreaming?
My experience is that this happens only after the view has matured. It's hard to foresee everything that should be in the view model. The UX guy will want certain things in the API and there will be a lot of interplay between the two roles to start. The advantage is that once the model has matured, the UX guy has a lot of flexibility. Refactoring the UX is pretty independent of the view model. The view model also tends to be more robust because it's easy to unit test, unlike some jQuery mashup.
Building a telegraph with only Stone Age materials
I really wish they'd show me what I can run on Koi (links to current sites). I know they make deployment a snap, but I worry that I'd be forced to add more and more resources to keep my site running as I'd hope.
Interesting, I didn't know they had a free plan. (never looked into it that much)

5MB of DB and 1 "dyno" would be plenty for what I have in mind (let's be honest: 1kB would be sufficient :)), so I'll definitely keep it in mind as well. But now the eternal question for me comes back again: Ruby or Python...

Thanks for pointing it out to me!
Which is a big deal if you use this features. Plus, I run many groups and didn't know they were disabling these features, so they are not telling everyone about it.
ffplay http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1010qwoeiuryfg/sl.m3u8
Live from Apple's 'Back to the Mac' event
Make it an annual sub if you think $3/month sounds too cheap. But in general pricing is one of those things you only learn by trial-and-error, so stick up an A/B test and see what converts better.

edit: Also offer multiple levels of pricing, offer a "premium" product with a few extra bells and whistles for people who want to pay more.
Apple announces iLife '11
Is this your own experience?
I have never had any problems because of stretching after running, it feels very good, it takes the tension out of my muscles, loosens them. I've met another runner, and we did that after running automatically. Rhythm: 20 secs, short pause and 20 secs again.
You can't always decide something is good or bad based on number of people running to IRC asking for help. Well let me make another "tongue in cheek" -- many o f them should be told to RTFM and read their distro's announcements". Don't support lazy folks who fail to do that.
It's October, right? And Google is notifying anyone who creates a Page or File that the feature is going to go away in February? (And it looks like they started doing so in September?)

Seems like plenty of notice to me. One would assume that as the deadline gets closer, more prominent notices will be given. How many months do you need to move your data?

Google should be held to high standards, both because they are an important part of internet infrastructure and because they've stated they aspire to high standards. Five months' notice meets those high standards as far as I'm concerned.
For those who didn't use the features, here is how it looks like in one example:

http://groups.google.com/group/groovyplusplus

(Discussions 1090 messages)
(Pages 1 page)
(Files 1 file)

Google announced: "we have decided to stop supporting the pages and files features." "Starting in November 2010, Groups will no longer allow the creation or editing of files and pages" "In February 2011, we will turn off the pages and files features, and you will no longer be able to access that content."
Focus your startup's external interactions: product and sales
Naive Optimism.
This is a great example of why having earth in the Goldilocks zone is great. Mutation Rate approximates solar radiation.

It is all about having the right amount of radiation. Have too much and everybody gets cancer and dies, have too little and the first plague to come along kills everybody because they were all alike. Just right and you have the ideal mix, enough diversity to survive challenges, but most people do not die of cancer before breeding.
Partly yes. A few months ago I saw the google IO link here, clicked on it and worked (Youtube live stream).

I see this, I click it, and I get a half-broken page telling me I can't view this. I then have the option of fishing for a URL, googling how to use it on my system, follow the advice (installing any codecs or applications if necessary) and finally maybe viewing it.

Now, what does Apple say about user experience again?
however, once a consumer web start-up in boston does get some initial traction and raise money, it has incredible access to talent. gemvara.com and SCVNGR are two great examples. they've been able to use the dearth of consumer web investments in boston to their advantage and recruit all this great young talent, and not needing to fight with 10 hot competitors to retain them.
Based on the tenor of your comments and OT nature of it, I also cannot take anyone seriously who talks like this, without appropriate context.
Or, if it is a smaller company, a mail to jobs@company.com with a short introduction and resume attached.
What industry has higher performance requirements than exchanges?
This is one of those "I'm not like most people" moments. I find advertising SO much less annoying than paying for nothing. If you had asked me if this model would have caught on a few years ago, I'd have laughed at you. Shows what I know!

Is the real dynamic here one of peer-pressured purchases? Or is it more subtle than that?
> If I had $1 million for the tupperware, I would pay it, because it is a matter of longterm survival vs. money.

No you wouldn't. You could have eaten gruel today for breakfast, but you didn't.

Unless you're really going to bite that bullet (that survival is the only morally valuable thing, so no one is allowed any non-survival-promoting fun) then you need to allow that other things, like happiness, are important. In particular, you need to allow for people to sacrifice some future survival (i.e. waste) for some happiness in some cases.

How would you determine when this is OK? A cost-benefit analysis...
This cannot be good for Google. If I was an exec at Google I would be very nervous about this. This is a good excuse and opportunity for people to start writing more ad blocking plugins. I am sure Google would not want that.
It's great that they're adding this (full-text search is one of the big missing features from most NoSQL products), but I wonder why it wouldn't make more sense to just provide great integration into one of the existing dedicated search services like Sphinx?
It's called Aldi and they have over 1,000 stores in the US.

They have build a half cozen in my area in the past few years so I figure they cannot be doing that poorly...

As someone else mentioned:
They also make you pay a $.25 deposit to use a shopping cart, don't take credit cards, and don't offer name-brand anything.
There was a time in my life where I really thought I needed to keep up with the latest and greatest technologies, libraries, et cetera. As the author discovered, you don't need to. I can now sleep easily knowing that I 'marked as read' the newest no-sql magix and do x y & z gems that I really didn't mind to read about. Great read.
note that this does not apply to any of the following types of businesses:

• Businesses that performed services in health, law, engineering, architecture, accounting, performing arts, consulting, athletics, financial services or brokerage.
• Businesses that have as their principal asset the reputation or skill of one or more employees.
• Any banking, insurance, financing, leasing, investing or similar business.
• Farming, mining or petroleum production.
• Hotels, motels, restaurants and similar businesses.
An Algorithm to Generate Impossible Art?
Installing this extension is as easy as clicking the big Install button on its page and then click Install when Chrome asks you whether you really want to install the extension.
You'd essentially be a recruiter with all the positives and negatives of that. Most of the job is sales not filtering and building connections with companies.

It's a very drawn out process as well, for a successful hire you might not get paid until 5-8 months after submitting someone for a job, so it's pretty much impossible to bootstrap and it takes a long time to build a decent revenue stream.

Plus you can't scale efficiently, your primary costs is skilled labour, and the cost of that grows linearly with your customer base.
But its a self-fulfilling prophecy - if we don't do everything to keep companies where they are founded (which requires VCs and Angels to be more forgiving), it will only continue to improve the SV area and hurt the other tech communities, like Boston. I think if you are a founder, you should really focus on grabbing money in your local ecosystems and STRESSING to VCs/Angels that this is an investment in the local economy, and strengthening our presence in the entrepreneurial community.
You can use hexadecimal for IPv4 already.

By the way, you can also give IPv4 addresses directly as one big number. E.g. `ping 1249729897' pings 74.125.93.105 (which is google.co.uk for me).

You can also go to http://74.125.93.105/ with your browser. (Though it depends on your browser, if it can parse this format. Chrome does.)
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Those are good points. To my "developer" mind interviewing has a lot more in common with web page hacking. It is pretty easy to make something that will only work in one browser, but you can follow good rules and make something that will be fantastic in most browsers. That is the basic idea with the pay off being a better job or higher pay by learning and practicing a more effective general interview style.

A few things that are easily fixed:
- People don't read job descriptions
- People don't research the company they send their resume to.
- People don't write a cover letter
- People don't read the emails they get from recruiters or prepare for interviews.
- People act like horny teenagers on the phone, so desperate to be liked that they lose all appeal.
- People act as if they have never seen a white board.
- People don't prep themselves on software design, database queries, etc.
- People don't ask questions of a recruiter or show interest in the position at all (but later hound me via email as if they were an ace in the hole).

There are others of course. But 9 out of ten qualified candidates fail on at least 3 or 4 of these basic marks.
"Before you know it, people will automatically know to come to you when nothing else works."

That in itself IS the reward.
Sure, maybe the plug is a bit cheesy.

But these guys are really great. I met Mike from Hostlee at the 'A Better World by Design' conference up in Providence. He's a really cool guy, and definitely believes in living what you dream. I kinda wish he had designed that whole poster himself.

Still, very cool, considering his dream is helping others.
Yup, I posted the last article in your list. The reason I posted this was because I enjoyed reading the thoughts/remarks of the guy who made it, I thought HN would, too.
Actually, it's not surprising that the mutation rate is 'just right'.

If mutations caused by (say) solar activity were much higher, then DNA itself would incorporate more redundancy to protect itself (it looks like there's around a 3-to-1 mapping of letters to proteins already). Every part of the replication process is simultaneously optimizing...

Genetic Programming (Koza, etc) is a lot more interesting (IMHO) than hand-coded Genetic Algorithm mappings for this reason.
"It seems to me that an entrepreneur that can keep a level head and realistic expectations will not only have lower highs but higher lows."

http://sivers.org/horses
Just wait till it makes it to Fox News tonight, it'll be explicitly for socialist private businesses.

EDIT: Come on guys, that's really not funny at all? Socialist private businesses? Throw me a frickin' bone here.
In other words, Kumar was asked, "Can your books be trusted?" And he replied by saying, "We hire the very best auditors." Larcker says that can be a big warning sign.

"You basically are not answering the question. You're basically making reference to somebody else, and those are the kinds of things in psychology you look for," he says.

I'm glad someone went out and did the research necessary to prove that when someone doesn't answer your question, they don't want to answer your question.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/apple-to-livestream-todays-...

Apple says "Safari on Snow Leopard or IOS 3 or above only." There's a link there on how to get it on other computers.
Can we turn down this 'author-is-using-a-cheap-trick-to-attract-audience' volume around here. I don't think Bruce Eckel needs to attract audience so badly that he will do it purposefully. Granted, title is not reflective of the content but give the authors some benefit of the doubt. Let's do a quick Google search on authors before we write stuff like this.
if ffmpeg supports it, wouldn't mplayer be able to play it?
Let's not be in a hurry to post a contradictory opinion; let's try to understand what an article is really about and what it's trying to say -- I don't see how anything other than the most cursory reading of this article could lead you to the conclusion that it was "bragging about implementing a textbox form in a day".

Paragraph 1: The introduction; Spencer introduces the topic of the article (note that "text box" isn't anywhere in this), and why he found it to be important.

Paragraph 2: Spencer introduces another, secondary topic, where he explains a common issue encountered by small-but-growing development teams.

Paragraph 3: Spencer explains his approach to handling part of the problems explained in the previous paragraph. He isn't fully resolving all of the problems associated with project management, but he's found a particular way of handling one aspect of it, and he's sharing that with us.

Paragraph 4(ish): He ties the approach outlined in the previous paragraph into the problem introduced in the first paragraph. Incidentally, this is rarer in the navel-gazing blogger set: he's introduced two topics of conversation and tied them together in just 4 short paragraphs. Good stuff!

Paragraphs 5 & 6 start the next section of the article with some exposition. Eh, OK.

Paragraph 7 is meaty, and explains why they concluded that a standard selection-type survey wasn't what they wanted.

Paragraph 8 concludes this section with an explanation of their choice of targets for the exit survey.

The end section here has a little more exposition, in the "author is hanging out with you" format, along with some examples of early data which support his supposition way back in the first paragraph that mining the data would be valuable.

So ... this isn't about implementing a textbox form in a day.

--

On another note, this sort of thing is a large part of why I personally don't bother keeping a regular blog. Why the hell should I spend any time writing something that people are going to piss on without even properly reading it?

Online forums are bad enough, attracting an audience of half-interested know-it-alls doesn't sound like a fun time.
Definitely follow the above advice and A/B test to see which one converts. I personally don't think $3/mo is too cheap for B2C (e.g. Skype has a $2.95/mo plan). Even B2B can be pretty cheap (when I was just using Amazon S3 I had bills of just a few pennies).
Great excerpt about Occipital.