skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video games platforms are a cyclic industry. It's unprofitable during the first few years when they launch their new system then it becomes a cash cow when hardware gets cheaper to produce and they don't have to spend too much yet to launch the next generation.

I believe that overall, Xbox will be profitable for Microsoft, it gives them a foot in the user's living room and could be used to stream content onto their TV. But wildly profitable ? Probably not. You've got to be Nintendo to do that : sell your hardware with a good margin from day one and sell millions of every Mario/Zelda game that you release.

Nintendo is king because they build the hardware, sell the software and have the vision thanks to Miyamoto. It's really the Apple of video games.
Sorry, what's that got to do with anything? Email is not the same as web browsing. You can't compare the two.
I agree that this is a problem, and it is one I have run into repeatedly.

However, I don't know any good way to fix it. Hiring is a tough nut to crack. Clearly, one can always be more assiduous in following up references, but that's not always a big help, because you are then in the position of trusting what one stranger is saying about another stranger, in a situation where the motivations of the reference are not always clear.

Note that saying "Any other referral carries no weight and should be treated the same as any candidate off the street" doesn't solve the problem-- the "any candidate off the street" problem is the problem.
What makes it possible to launch 10% faster? what about a better understanding of the problem you are solving? just my 2 cents :p
I wonder if someone couldn't set up a company to create a nicer interface to PayPal support the same way that AAA does for the DMV...
A certificate is needed basically for two reasons:

1. the user has to verify that the site is actually run by you and not by somebody spoofing your site. Somebody could make the user believe he's clicking on your's sites "pay" button, and instead he's sent to a fake paypal site, or a real paypal site with a similar account.

2. once the browser knows that you are you, it can securely encrypt che connection. This is useful if your webapp also requires password login etc.

Note that encryption is also possible without a trusted certificate (i.e. verified by the 'certificate authority' mafia^H^H^H^H), but at this point, albeit almost impossible to decypher once established, it remains vulnerable to the 'man-in-the-middle' attack, intercepting the key exchange with your site, or simply a spoofing as described in point (1).

EDIT: when I said "the browser knows that you are you", by "you" I mean "you" the server, the webapp
What is the best way to get involved with Hacker News?
What is the best way to get involved with HN? I'm new. :) Where should I start?

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Yeah, the HN article title is inaccurate.
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The loony thing is that the indirection is by name, not by reference, which allows the indirection to be a lot less predictable. Compared to pointers, it's like the data structure equivalent of using dynamic scope instead of lexical scope.
How many users actually use share buttons? It seems like most people I talk to (granted, they are either interactive designers or developers) just copy and paste the URL to their medium of choice.
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What about search engines? If HTML is only generated in the browser, they may not find anything to index.
Good point. I give access to my secondary bank. This avoids extra charges when I pay to a friend.
Discuss things.
Hehe, I agree, that's the problem we're trying to solve anyway. The "any candidate off the street" set. :)
There is a great resource that you won't find on that page: appengine-jruby. It works with Sinatra or Rails, so you can write beautiful ruby code and upload it to Google where it will be compiled to byte-code and served. Check it out: http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/
That would be one method of solving the Facebook/Ping conflict.
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It seems a bit silly for Jobs to argue that a 3.5 inch mini-tablet is awesome (iPhone) and a 10 inch tablet is also awesome (iPad) but anything in between is just a bad idea.
as some have pointed out to me over the years, market caps, do not include all private equity. some of these companies might have private equity that is not included in the public stock price.

secondly, when a company with a solid stock price buys a company they don't need to do it for cash, they can do it with stock and conserve cash. some will even debt finance.

3rd, on a 5 year basis, apple has a net of $4-5 billion a qtr or $20 billion a year, so they could probably safely debt finance $100+ billion at 3% or 4%.
Apple already has CPU design teams, from their acquisitions of Intrinsity (designers of what's now known as the Apple A4), and PA Semi. The Intrinsity acquisition in particular should have guaranteed that Apple has full licenses to all ARM tech (though given Apple's history with ARM, they probably already did). Since they've already got one of the best ARM design teams around, and a bunch of other experienced CPU designers, they probably wouldn't gain much from ARM itself. It certainly wouldn't be worth the trouble of getting the deal through regulators.
A good point. Interestingly enough, around a quarter of our testers make > $90k/yr. We don't break it down more than that (and I don't know how active they are in actually testing), but I suspect it was because of interest in the new technology rather than actual desire to make money (even if we do pay well).
Yes! 20 minutes after watching that episode I conned SimCop into doing the front-end for me. I was dismayed to see that RateMyTeacher already has real websites. :) We've been rapidly reiterating the site based on the comments from the thread here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800422), and other feedback. We got a rated view about 2 hours ago because everyone kept asking for it, and some UI changes. =)
Not sure how anyone could improve on this answer.
See that big dark grey blank area in your header? Give me the strongest benefit/advantage I could get from using your service up there. For instance: YaTrader: Information Advantage For Financial Junkies.

I need to see it spelled out clearly and boldly.
This supports search engines just fine, you just render the template server-side.
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>The problem is that Pascal have not any libraries (GUI, 2D/3D, Game Development Engines, programming micro-controllers, ...).

It's not true. Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) gives pretty much everything Delphi has.
Currently I develop OpenGL 2D analytical tool. Again GUI is on par with Delphi.
I overlooked the last bullet point below "Goals".
From which country ?

Define 'high risk' please ?
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Hm, strange, I checked and it works again...
nVidia is a good buy, but i doubt they would sell. nVidia's stock is at $11 a share and if people were buying more new computers, it would be at $45, if nVidia enters... the CPU market, I think they will hit between $75-100 a share.

AMD is worth way more than their market cap, right now their market cap is depressed because of the tremendous debt. if apple bought AMD, they would probably lay off 2/3rds of the company, retain IP and pay off the debt; which is between $2-$7billion depending on how you count the cards. http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/07/26/amd-reshuff...
We do the same thing:

(make :a 1 :b 2 :c 3)

which macroexpands into a plist in CL and {a:1, b:2, c:3} in JS. I've grown to like this idiom a lot. Yeah, you have to type OBJ or MAKE or whatever but in return you get something that integrates completely smoothly with the rest of the language.
This was in recent news, based on Elance data..

After making an entry into the top 50 skills in Q1 2010, Google App Engine, the cloud-based application development platform, showed the single largest increase in demand with over a 10x growth quarter over quarter. With this increase, Google App Engine (#37) moved past Amazon Web Services (#40) as the cloud platform highest in demand in Q2.

From : http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2...

Currently though, the rankings have changed a bit..
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When I'm reading Hacker News my eyes are on the comments, the mouse pointer is on the left or right side so it isn't causing any distraction. I do it all the time. Sometimes I also highlight what I'm reading, mainly if I'm multitasking and it's a long text, I want to know where I started last time I lost focus on the text.
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Weren't those called "Fat Binaries"?
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right now my preferred one is that it feels too much like you're hacking the compiler

I think what you implied just before that is a stronger argument: it's way too distant from the base language, and this semantic distance is so costly that it's not worth the trouble.
link? i'd love to see the journalism on this.
Also, the language choice might lead one to a slippery slide of platform choice which easily slips into trapping you in an architecture you really did not want.
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Ask HN: Sources/Aggregaters for Essays and Longer Atricles?
Hello all,

recently I find that I prefer long-form, "slow", media. 500(ish) word blog posts are great for a skim read, but real nourishment seems to come from books and essays. PG's site, HN Monthly, the impending Code Quarterly definitely cater for this.

The combination of InstaPaper and my Kindle is incredible. I'm creating my own taylor made magazine every few days (that I can really take the time to read with my full attention). I'm sucking content from the New Yorker, Guardian, Econominst etc... but I'm sure there must be more out there. HN does provide a few, but I was wondering if any like-minded posters had any other pointers or tools?

Thanks

Joel
Good suggestion. But MS fears disruptive technologies. Their DNA doesn't accept it.
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LOOP is crack. Personally I love it.

Could you port CL's LOOP to Clojure easily? Or would its internal hyper-imperativeness make that tricky?
(jk, but) Apple buying Tesla, would be bold, big and .... very interesting. BMW would shit their pants. Which would you rather have, an Apple Power Roadster, or an M5?
You'll get bad data. If you put a piece of content to the side in a blurred-out box for testing, people may very well go investigate it -- unblur it and they ignore it entirely.
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I could easily see Apple wanting to buy or closely partner with AMD in a few years, if things go well for AMD. Certainly, their graphics business is going quite well these days, but the future of their CPU products is uncertain. If both their Bobcat and Bulldozer architectures are successful, then Apple might well be willing to risk alienating Intel. (Not that Intel has been showing any sign that they care if they alienate Apple.)

There would still be the problem that AMD always lags behind Intel in fab technology, which is why they have trouble going after the highest-performance and lowest-power segments. No matter how much cash you have on hand, there's no quick fix for that. At least with Intel CPUs, Apple products can generally match the performance of any competitor, and any price premium can be attributed to the better industrial design, integration, and software. If Apple switched to AMD processors, most of their computers would now be afflicted by a performance deficit in addition to the existing "Apple tax".

NVidia doesn't seem like a tantalizing acquisition for anybody except perhaps Intel, if they can admit that they don't know how to make a good GPU. NVidia has been mostly squeezed out of the chipset and integrated graphics markets by Intel's shady tactics and the awkwardness of AMD now owning ATI, and the discrete graphics war hasn't been going well for NVidia for quite some time, with no respite in sight. (This month, AMD will be releasing their third consecutive generation of GPUs that soundly beat the competition in price/performance comparisons at most price points. NVidia can't really do anything about it in the short term, because their chips are simply bigger for the same performance, so their profit margins are lower. They've been trying to mitigate this by focusing on HPC, but that's not catching on quickly enough, either.)
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by emphasising how it can't be improved (where's my wiki checkbox?)
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Steve Jobs is an amazing showman. He's got the ability to work the _full_ crowd, but he'll always have his eye on the audience members who have reserved the box seats .. the VIPs (i.e. shareholders).

By ensuring that shareholders are delighted, he makes sure that the show is lubricated with enough cash; so that they're able to ensure even more daring stunts and fireworks are available for the next season's performances.

I think it's wrong to assume that Apple are perfect. In my opinion, there are many things that could be improved about their products, but Jobs realises that perception is _everything_ and he's worked hard to ensure that Apple's image is carefully crafted and actually fulfils emotional needs that Apple's customers have grown to appreciate - and would gravely miss if Apple wasn't around.

The amount of vitriol that's produced by Apple's advocates (when the parent company is attacked) consistently amazes me.

Watching the show from the cheap seats, I'm reminded how every business action can serve multiple aims. Every (slightly or even, overtly) nefarious action can be teamed with a more egalitarian or idealistic aim; each of which can be used by advocates to fight Apple's corner. It's supremely clever work.

I'm not sure if a corporation which operates such a cunning, clever operation should necessarily be congratulated every time they release results. When smoke and mirrors are involved, I think it's worth trying to preserve some critical judgement.
Yes. The List each above is acting lazily.

Here is a better example of how it works: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627777
Where did you get the agreements?
I usually see some of the sharing options in blogs I read (developer here). I must admit that I haven't used them to share, but in some rare occasions I've used it to up vote posts.

I know that a percentage of users in non developer audiences do use those types of buttons, as I've added/monitored sharing features for some of my clients.

My blog is targeted to developers and IT professionals in general, so that's a very good observation. Would be interesting to hear other opinions from the community about it.

I'm definitely interested on feedback on what I have in my recently created blog.
Excellent, thank you Michael!
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I use CodeIgniter, have done for about 4 years now.

I never even think about high level stuff like "what language should I code in" anymore. It doesn't matter to the end user. CodeIgniter allows me to do anything I want, elegantly and with a small footprint.

It's a means to an end and eventually like you said, you stop caring about the "means". It's the "end" that matters - i.e. how well you execute. Using RoR (for example) as opposed to PHP has zero impact on that.
This is an honest question: is REDIS the best option for storing A/B tests or is just a matter of taste? MongoDB or even MySql could work?
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>Training is similar to boot camp

I somehow doubt it's harder than real boot camp in the marines, and their base pay is at least 5 times less!
I think the quote is from Tom Preston-Werner's post "How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub" http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...
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I'm currently reformulating my hiring requirements. Last time I hired people was about 9 years ago. Some of them were great (they still work for me), some awful.

I looked at the most awful cases and I think I've figured out what was missing -- a personal productivity / GTD system. From now on, all my candidates must demonstrate their personal system for capturing ALL their tasks and keeping their todo lists synchronized with reality.

Allen's GTD style is not a requirement here. It can be a paper todo list, a Google doc, a mindmap, or whatever else they chose to use. The key here is that they don't forget their tasks, and they get them done without babysitting on my part.

If they don't yet have such system but show promise, I may still hire them, but I'll make it clear that a personal GTD system is a requirement, so if they want to continue working for me, they'll have to develop such a system. And of course I'll be happy to coach them on this.

And there's another key requirement, also related to Allen's GTD. I'm still looking for appropriate wording, but here's a rough draft: The candidates must strive to understand what do I want them to do, i.e. what shape I want to bend reality into using their hands and minds. They must be able to understand and imagine what I want to achieve.
Your point about reliability is fair although doubling the capitalisation of a carrier would make a significant dent. However I think you overestimate the inertia of the status quo.

1. Apple doesn't need to relaunch AT&T, Sprint or any other network it simply launches a supplementary branded network like Virgin mobile.

2. The current unlimited data plans are only unlimited in the face of limited data utility. Where people can use massive amounts of data (i.e. the iPhone), unlimited comes at a premium.

3. Although Apple is revered for its high end products its iOS marketshare is 41% iPod touch and most of its device sales come from low end products like the iPod touch and the nano. It's now no stranger to mass market affordability.
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I try to keep most of the A/Bingo work in a cache store (Redis, by choice) because sites with traffic two orders of magnitude or so higher than mine would blow up if they used MySQL for it. At something like Facebook game scales I think it would be smart to take A/Bingo and rip the database out entirely.

Writes hurt. A/B testing requires, minimally, O(tests * participants) writes. (And more reads, but the disk will be on fire from writes first.)

However, despite the cost, A/B testing benefits minimally from ACID. If you lose 2% of writes, oh well, it comes out in the wash anyhow. Thus the huge hardware/maintenance budget you'd need for web scale A/B testing on an ACID architecture makes little sense.
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Do treat schooling as character development and a place to grow children into adults. Do this by having a flexible curriculum so kids can study what's interesting to them.

Do mix age groups so that older kids can teach younger kids and thus learn the material better themselves, and younger kids can look up to the more successful older kids. If age groups are mixed, then there's might be less room for thuggery.

Do teach that there are multiple answers by having more open-ended and creative assignments.

By the way, the elementary school I went to had a special one-month period one year called "mini-course" month or something like that, where everyone could choose one of the many offered mini courses and do just that every day. This was when I got to go to the small computer lab all day every day for a month and learn basic and a database program on Apple II's. Perhaps one of the best months of my life, and incredibly enriching. You would probably never see anything like this if scoring well on a standardized test is the most important measure of a school.
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>police have to deal with a wider range of psychological issues

Not nearly as much as those serving in the military whose salary is vastly less (closer to the population median income).
The tradeoff is especially worthwhile because we export complex data structures (I wrote a great deal of articles about this, please check the latest at antirez.com), but this time I'll try to provide a proof by paradox: what you are saying here is that memcached may be replaced with TC from the point of view of performances, if you add an LRU expiry, that I think it's not true.
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