skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a suggestion: have Boston develop a culture in which people have actual friends (as opposed to colleagues) and discuss things other than their careers.

Boston is a weird place. In some ways it is incredibly liberal and progressive, but in other ways it is unbelievably conservative and stuffy.
The title is true. Some Data from Google Groups is going to be Destroyed. I don't think anyone would have read it to mean that all Google Groups Data will be destroyed. Some Files and Pages will certainly be valuable; it's not like "Google Groups Boring Data to be Destroyed."
I agree - with the focus on "details I need on a topic". One topic/subject per email.

And if I had one "email wish" granted - it would be that people use a descriptive subject line and change the subject when the topic is changed.
Wow, there's going to be a Mac app store.

EDIT: Looks more or less like iTunes. No word on the submission or approval process. Steve said something (can't remember what exactly) that indicated that this wasn't going to be the only way to get apps.
Anon. Microsoftie Says MS Gave Away Cloud Apps To Fake Interest
I would have been impressed if this was done CSS3, but really... An image? With a wall of text? A wall of text with words being pulled at random? A wall of unreadable text being pulled at random with little stylistic elements and such a variation of weights that my eyes water (and tears flow because of the pain) when reading it? I now wish to never leave the sanctity of my corporate, well paying job which, by the way, allows me to buy stuff, eat, and provide for my family.

I hate this sanctimonious bullshit people try to pull off as being motivational. Everyone knows that loving your job is the best way to go, but you could be doing a lot worse (tried being a shoeless kid with no clean water and a sever case of malnutrition) than not 'loving' your job.

You might not enjoy working at your local McDonalds, but if that's where you are now (for a lack of a better job) you better freaking try your hardest to better yourself, and in the process smile when you're giving me my fricking order. Not everyone has the luck of getting their dream job right away or the benefit of rich parents that allow some fast climbing in the social world. Stop preaching.
They intend to remove only files and pages, which is something like a primitive wiki for your group. This feature was never widely used anyway and there are much better tools for the job (like Google Sites).

BTW the Usenet still exists, even if it's not that active anymore.
angels usually invest as individuals or via LLCs and super-angels and VCs are usually structured as partnerships so the exclusion won't apply to most active early stage investors.
Sure but it's a service business like consultancy rather than a startup business where you might be able to scale rapidly.

Plus it comes with other complexities, it's very easy for your staff to leave and start competing services taking many of your customers and your candidates with them. Most recruiting firms have tighter computer lockdowns than banks because of this, they often do crazy things like have their contact/CV management system served over citrix as images to prevent employees walking off with the data.
The other issue in Boston is one of focus. The reason Boston tech events and community blog posts, conversations, etc tend to be about funding is that it's all the consumer Boston startups have in common.

There's no concentration (like NYC) and not enough volume (like SV) to get 10 people in a room all making startups that have similar issues beyond fundraising, hiring, and office space. That's not how communities are built. Communities are built on what makes them unique. Many Boston entrepreneurs find their peer communities in SF.

Talking about fundraising all the time is boring.
On the XBox 360, Netflix coordinates with the XBox Live to enable a "watch with party" function. You watch a streaming movie in sync with the other people in your party -- an ad-hoc invite-only group -- while retaining the platform's built-in voice chat with your party.
Heh, I tried Chrome for the last event and got the same "check back later" message and though it was too busy. I didn't even see the 'Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Safari on iOS 3 or later' message.

Would a Flash fallback kill them ;)
Multi-touch gestures, App store, home screens, full-screen apps, auto save, auto resume apps when launched.

As long as the App Store isn't the only way to put software on my Mac, sounds like a great idea to me.
So you are saying basically, we should believe [some notable author] over our lying eyes?
CEOs are the ones that realize that the economy is built on confidence.

Look at the investigation into Lehman Bros, it centers around who started the rumors that they were insolvent, which apparently drove them to insolvency. Our economy is a con game.

Once you realize that is the game they are playing, realize that what a CEO says about his books becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Also, once you have a tool like mentioned in the article, the first people to buy it will be lying CEOs who want to tune their speeches to pass.
Because they're trite. For example, it seems like whenever somebody posts an article about databases, there's a comment saying, "Whoops, looks like your database doesn't scale after all! Haha". Similar versions (such as this) for web hosting, etc.

If you're going to take the time to post a "hey is this down" comment, at least link to the site's google cache or something. Otherwise it's just noise.
Because I want to know when something was first available (am I late to see it? early?), and where it fits in the context of other things that were written around that time.

The majority of my information comes in time-based feeds and streams, whereas these essays have inscrutable URLS and date formatting. I suppose that's by design but I don't find the lack of information adds significant value.
Either you are passionate and keen on learning or not. I don't believe the mentioned coworkers wear one mask at work and another at home.
It's hard to start low and then raise the price, w/o a substantial increase in the number of features.

Psychologically, a better approach is to start high (i.e., at the highest per month you think people will pay), and only drop the price over time if you're not getting enough subscribers.

If you do stay in the $2, $3 per month range, though, then definitely make it one charge of $24 to $36 per year.
I think this (Double your price! (and no, I'm not kidding) - http://tinyurl.com/3xcounq)
is a must read for you, particularly concerning the MD versions of your app.
I'm in your boat too. I understand your frustration. But keep plugging away. Keep making connections with those of us who want to work not for money but for fulfillment (money follows passion, not the other way around).

Keep learning, growing, connecting. If you do, one day you will be doing whatever job you want to do - something you are passionate about, and your co-workers will be doing the same job for the same money.
note that it's not in iTunes, thankfully.

Also, check the open/close buttons, they're inline with the toolbar..
My notes (from a UI/iOS guy's view): http://sahillavingia.com/blog/2010/10/20/notes-from-apples-b...
Apple brings App Store to Mac OS X
Finally, a plus/maximize button that does something I want it to.
Who all is providing a liveblog?

Some of us are in public places w/o headphones, I'd prefer to read it than to watch it.
Even before Chrome, they know what you read on a very wide cross-section of the web, too, thanks to the AdSense pixel.
A while ago I did a somewhat similar board game web app. I wanted to find a better ranking than what is on boardgamegeek.com Alas another weekend project that hasn't really gone anywhere.

http://icefox.net/picktheboardgame/

Based off of an older (more fun) app I wrote a long time ago:
http://toybin.org/pickthetransformer/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/live-from-apples-back-to-...
I didn't even get the meaning of "plant" as meaning "factory" until I read your comment AND looked at the article.

"Heavy plant crossing" also used to confuse me.
I use a Google group for a summer sport. Nobody logs in from August until May.

Would have missed it if not for this notice.
It sounds harder than it actually is, you can always adapt to your personal situation, but if one always does only 15 minutes "jog, jog, jog", two times a week, without challenging himself and higher-tempo parts, that will not be enough for "runner's high". One has to put some effort into it, before you can reap.
Getting People in the Door: Shopping patterns in physical stores
I don't think the two are related quite so closely.

The idea isn't to do everything alone. The idea behind the walkabout is indeed to find yourself -- and when you return, you are accepted into society as a member. It's a coming of age ritual, and finding yourself is one of those things that only you can do.

My sensei once told me that he could show me the road, but I had to walk it myself. I didn't get as far down the road of enlightenment (google Okinawa Kodokan if you want context) as I did without help, but I did walk the road myself.
Looks like MIDAS has the party touch. :D
App store in 90 days. Submissions accepted starting in November.
Ask HN: Disgruntled client. How would you respond?
MY EMAIL(in response to client's threats):
I did FAR more work than the $150 you have paid me. You are the one that owes me a balance and you say so in your own email. You can continue to waste your energy doing counter-constructive things that benefit neither of us or we can work out a fair deal. Your call.

CLIENT'S reply:
I got nothing but strung along by you. That was the issue and got nothing for $150. No, it's not a waste of time if I can protect others from your deceptive business practices. All I want is a refund. If you can't do this then you leave me no choice, but what do you care. You think it's ok to fuck people around. I don't know what fucked up country you come from because I know it not from here for you have no honor just like your fuckin' muslin countryman whackos!! I was the stupid one to deal with muslin idoit!! Fuck you!!

==

Background:

* Was hired to do a small site/ebook design project(<$1,000).

* Client and I decided to part ways about midway point.

* Disagreements arise about partial final payment and original files. Client wants to pay additional $150 for orig. files. My calculations based on time invested come to $273, which is what I counter with.

* Client goes silent for two weeks until yesterday when he files a paypal dispute for the $150 initial payment he'd made. I call up PayPal and they immediately close the dispute in my favor.

* Get the above email from client in addition to threats of making CL posts against me.

* I've typed and backspaced "Go fuck yourself" several times only to remind myself to stay professional and reasoned--which I'd like to think I have been throughout. Unfortunately, it only seems to change the client's tone for the worse.

I am thinking at this point replying to this email is a lost cause. What do you guys think?
Both 10.7 and 10.6.
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This title isn't exactly accurate - the publisher was bought, not the development studio. Chillingo has published nearly 100 games on the app store.
Anyone else surprised? I'm not being sarcastic. Hasn't Angry Birds already made > $20 million? If not, isn't it close enough?
"but realistically, you tell yourself, you need a steady paycheck."

why.
That sounds like your lack of familarity with the software and not the author's showmanship.

If the title read: "Google Groups Shutting Down!" and they meant shutting down the pages and files part, then sure I'd see your argument. But literally all data in Google Groups will be destroyed. I actually thought the tittle meant his data was destroyed on his Google Group, much less all of them were being wiped. I think it is pretty big news.
Do you believe it's reasonable to expect an account to not be deleted after 14 months of inactivity? That's not a short amount of time.
Since getting a macbook, I've found the window management in OS X to be terribly confusing (Xmonad is easier to understand IMO), so I'm looking forward to seeing how the new window management features work. Hopefully this will solve my gripes.
I've now seen that the MVP pattern is actually very similiar to the MV(VM) pattern.

But i don't really understand the difference. I have, in my applications a basic view that declares all GUI-elements, and special aspects of the GUI, like columns resizable or not in a table. Thats mostly for the designer to build everything out.

Now i write my domain models.

Then i go on and have a concrete view that inherits the formerly created view and sets up databinding, validation, actions etc. handled by the presentation model.

The presentation model is always connected to one specific domain model.

So now i have:

Abstract view (mostly for the designer)

^

|

View -> Presentation model -> Domain Model

Besides the presentation, there are validators etc. but all incorporated with the presentation.

Now i can test against the presentation, the domain or the concrete views.

Also, i can bind multiple presentation models against one view, or one presentation model against multiple views.

But i don't call that MV(VM) but MVP.
Facetime on OSX is expected but huge.
What a weird bill, it only affects a 4 month period, what is so special about Sept 27, 2010 to Jan 1, 2011?
Google Docs and Sites are much better applications for managing this kind of content. Docs allows you to collaboratively edit documents in real-time with multiple participants and Sites can be a decent CMS or wiki. Just try both and you won't miss the old features that are being removed from Groups.
Rovio is the maker of Angry Birds. They have NOT been acquired.

Chillingo is the publisher of multiple iOS games. They were acquired.

Rovio is most likely worth much more than $20m at this point.
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It is an interesting stat, but who would spin it off with that kind of growth? It would cut into their vertical integration since people still do work on desktop computers.
I've used that same template before. Opened the article and was like "oh god, is this about one of my embarrassing weekend projects?"
Uninterested coworkers seems to be the standard 90% of the time where I go. An even worse situation I've found is having an outside consultant with supreme confidence come in and start "educating" you, telling you how things should be done, but unable/unwilling/uninterested to defend his assertions when you show him simple examples proving him incorrect....and he seems to be totally incapable of recognizing his shortcomings.

Add to this, no knowledge whatsoever of sites like hacker news, stackoverflow, etc, and a home development machine that is too slow to run Visual Studio. But of course, the air of confidence (due to his own ignorance) earns him immediate respect from management. Now that is a depressing situation.

Knowledge of the existence of stackoverflow is now my ultimate litmus test, I try to sneak it into the conversation as soon as possible - if the person has never heard of it, that's a pretty good indicator of how much of the say is hot air.
Side comment/rant: I think amateurish is something that is valued highly in at least some subset of the startup community. It's a rebellious rejection of the blanket conformist expectations of "professionalism" -- a way of signalling that your business is not business as usual.

(Similarly, I get the feeling that some of the sexist attitudes in the startup world doesn't come from people actually being sexist, but instead from a need to signal that they too are beyond the shackles of Political Correctness.)
If hacker Hacker News didn't remove the exclamation mark from the end of the title the shock-value could be even bigger :)
If I had data that told me we were running out of food, come hell or high water, I'd find some way to conserve it.

I had strawberry yogurt for breakfast.
I had it because it tastes good, and is relatively good for me. I could have gone with the cheap plain yogurt, but instead I had the slightly tastier more expensive stuff, on the chance that it is actually healthier and tastier.

But the morality of my breakfast isn't at question here.
(I could be totally amoral and still make a good argument for what should be done).

I never said there wasn't an element of cost-benefit analysis, I said that it (waste specifically) wasn't a purely economic cost-benefit analysis (which is what was argued initially). It seems that you are agreeing with me, as you have 'allowed' for other things like 'happiness'. (Which would be an emotional cost-benefit analysis).

It makes me happy to think that future generations will be able to enjoy the things that I enjoy currently.

Glad to have changed your mind.

Please Recycle.
If the data is important don't entrust it to someone else. It doesn't matter if it is Google Groups, Facebook, or Yahoo mail.
Have you stopped to consider maybe they do keep up with technology, just not on the same niche you're on (the C/C++ comment makes me think this is true)? Or maybe that the culture in the company is to make efforts to automate your job, but not making it public (generally means that you want to have cruise control on your job, but it's so boring you're afraid to let anyone know because you might get MORE work)?

I'm being too negative though, lets say that really no one in the company is interested in going the extra mile nor staying relevant in the industry, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT! If no one some off as the "wow I can't let this employee go!", then the position is right there for you to take. Make something of it and take advantage of your situation. That being said, you're having a child soon... let us know if you still think everyone should keep up the pace after the baby is born ;)
It's not a con game, it is just a weakness of the fractional reserve banking system.
I am wondering why they don't just integrate groups features into Google Apps (where you could use Sites and Docs to do this same thing). It leads me to believe (knowing nothing about the reality) that Groups was built on some different underlying technology stack that makes it more difficult to integrate...
I had a JotSpot account that eventually became a Google Sites site, and the main thing that didn't migrate over neatly was the discussion forums.

Also noticed this message on there: "Google Groups will no longer be supporting the Welcome Message feature. Starting January 13, you won't be able to edit your welcome messages, but you will still be able to view and download the existing content." Would it kill them to tell us why?
Yes, our obsession with cleanliness/newness is one of the major culprits in our piles of waste. And to think we once lived amongst each other with communal drinking cups at the water fountain...
I think "FaceTime" is really important for them to brand, and by mixing it with iChat you're taking away from that.

In the keynote, Jobs called the iSight camera "FaceTime" camera, even. I think we'll see a shift towards FaceTime in a lot of things.
> Genetic Programming (Koza, etc) is a lot more interesting (IMHO) than hand-coded Genetic Algorithm mappings for this reason.

What reason?
Apple Officially Announces OS X Lion
Don't pay your bills, if everyone stopped, the economy would collapse.

We could finish a revolution 2500 years in the making.
I don't really get it. Why is this a big deal?
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This is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. I don't think society is ready yet for the consequences of an internet that never forgets. I wish more websites would periodically delete content (with adequate warning).
Reply:

As previously mentioned, please deposit the remaining $123 in order to receive your original files.

Thank you,
-Name

That'll burn one through him.
Particularly for a free service. It's not reasonable to expect Yahoo to archive everyone's email forever. If you want something with more guarantees, you should probably expect to pay something for it.
I love the quote from Ban Ki-Moon. It's generic to the extreme:

"On this first World Statistics Day I encourage the international community to work with the United Nations to enable all countries to meet their statistical needs."

Could also be:

"On this first International Talk Like a Pirate Day I encourage the international community to work with the United Nations to enable all countries to meet their linguistical needs."
While knowledge may have no intrinsic value

Was very tempted to stop reading your comment right there.
Come off it. Making some hardware and writing a device driver is hardly fragmentation. If the SATA drive didn't run on Windows the day it shipped, there would be no point shipping it.
Obviously, she didn't. It's important to set the expectations clearly up front with the client.
That's because, to redirect that file to file descriptor 3 for reading, you need read permission on the file. In my system, for example, /bin/ping cannot be read as a normal user (permissions 4711) and I get that same error.

You'll have to find another binary that has the SUID bit set and is readable. For example, in my system /bin/mount does the job. Still, in the last step I get the same error as reported by several other users (Inconsistency detected...)
If other acquisitions are any indication, there will be only one or two Chillingo people remaining at EA in two years.
In other words, no consultancies or LLPs. Which makes sense, because otherwise existing firms might take advantage of this policy as a loophole escaping taxes.
A con game is a confidence game.
There is no reserve in our current system, what asset is backed against the dollar? The answer, the confidence that a future generation will pay the interest on the current debt.
I don't understand why digital book sharing hasn't caught on like music/movie sharing, which undisputedly thrived among college students, at least until reasonable alternatives like iTunes and Amazon Music Store came along. You could read digital or print out a hardcopy. Every school I've been to had plenty of print quota for that. I imagine kids are spending more on books than they did/are on music. Is it just the difficulty of scanning/printing?
While that is a good prescription for individuals, what the OP is getting at is that trust is a part of a brand, and if you could measure it, deleting data is penny wise and pound foolish for these companies.
Is one close to none? cperciva is a legitimate genius and describes himself as a genius: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=228444

Why would you expect otherwise for other geniuses?
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Moore added this wonderful passage to his blog today. I think it captures something of the specialness of the man:

GreenArrays is starting production of its 144-computer chip with an accompanying evaluation board. Details at greenarrays.com. This is the result of funding, testing and refinement.

On the lighter side, regarding my Five Fingers shoes: continued delight; more miles of hiking. My gait is changing: shorter strides, less heel strike, less toe-out. And I've not experienced any lower back pain. Somehow my soles are less sensitive and I can walk barefoot more easily.

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