skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think this is still pretty relevant. I'm not a portfolio theorist, but I believe a lot of modern asset allocation is structured around risk of short-term liquidity. That is why allocation becomes more stock heavy as you have more years until retirement (for retirement accounts).

I think a lot of people would say, "if you gave me 50 years, and a five year window in which to divest, you should definitely go all stock". I don't think that would be absurdly controversial. Looking at this data though, given the risk, it actually isn't a slam dunk.

Now this isn't to say that one shouldn't diversify among equities, but I suspect you'd see similar charts for random selection diversified among mutual funds/indices.
yet, microsoft has deployed voice recognition to some hundred millions users over time, so they could have copied that idea to improve something they were already selling.
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I like DuckDuckGo. I use it and it's a good search service. But I'm left with a question after this site:

Isn't Google's tracking a _good_ thing in many ways? I want sites to know what I've come searching for so they can present me peripheral content I want and I want Google to know my interests so that they show me ads related to those interests.

I agree Google could do more to alert users about what privacies they are giving up, and I'm glad there's good alternatives if you don't want that info tracked. I think not enough is made of the good side of Google's personalization, however.
I really expect SnapStick to come out with some stuff that is going to put some of these screen-specific technologies on their knees.

You can't watch network websites or basic Hulu? How long can that really fly?
Yep, I can remember doing that on a CBM 3016 in secondary school - must have been about 1979. A little later this 'thing' arrived that comprised a keyboard in a large, plain grey case with a micro-cassette drive, permanently hooked up to a domestic TV by a large umbilical cord. A group of us were given some information booklets and told to 'see what we could do with it'. We later found out it was a prototype for the BBC micro and further code updates allowed us to select teletext pages on the TV and go to 'special' pages that downloaded code to the micro-cassette. We wrote a lot of simple games and apps for the beast.
Punch cards are different: there's substantially delayed gratification.

When you're a poor college student as I was, entering opcodes in a monitor/debugger you wrote in BASIC because you couldn't afford an assembler, then yes, assembly was fun.

Fun, that is, until you had to hand-calculate negative jump offsets. Don't remember why, but for some reason I seem to think that the MC6809 I was running on made it difficult to do so.
I believe it, I can already see it happening among my peer group. Some of it is poor reliability with AT&T, but mostly it's better latency and download speeds.
The larger the chip the fewer chips you get from the same process. The larger the chip the higher risk a failure. The larger the number of transistors the lower your heat budget for the remaining chip.

But, far more importantly, producing a 32nm graphics chip is more expensive (for now) than a 45nm chip using the same number of transistors. Intel has a huge process advantage and is often on the lookout for useful things to do with their huge transistor budget, but integrated graphics has huge downsides, most notably memory bandwidth issues.
This sounds good. Please share.
Are we just the collective consciousness of the bacteria living in us?
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I had a lot of fun with the 6502 and I really liked the 6809, so I guess they felt delightful to me. It is a different type of mindset and can really make you focus on the problem at hand. The IBM 370 was a might bit of a pain though.
The "law school problem" is that there's too many law students and not enough jobs. People are increasingly using law school as their "I don't know what to do with my life" card, whereas those people used to just get a business administration degree and trip into some element of the corporate ladder after undergraduate studies.

The "problem" is that they're incurring another $80k of debt for another degree that doesn't make them particularly useful to anyone.
I would pay for this. You have my vote.
Also search.twitter.com matches search terms against both the expanded url and shortened url.
TIPS currently have negative real yields - you pay for the privilege of hedging against inflation. When inflation is expected, TIPS do not necessarily guarantee positive real returns.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-25/treasury-draws-nega...
It's also missing a bunch of the conversation, making it rather worthless.
The best companies always look too expensive. Market leaders get higher prices
I'm not sure what they'd need the higher returns for; it's not like their investors are clamoring for higher dividends.
It wouldn't shock me if Apple's policy of not paying cash dividends (in place since 1995) remains only to spite Michael Dell - but it seems unlikely that the policy will change any time soon, and investors seem fine with that.

Given that, it's probably in their best interest to keep most of it fairly liquid so they can move on product ideas and acquisitions.
Hmmm, it seems that it runs on JRuby.
The cynic in me says that GS will go to AIG and have them underwrite an "insurance" policy which guarantees that if anyone wants to redeem more FB shares than they have on hand, AIG will cover the remainder.
Not to diminish "net neutrality" but this state of monopoly--or duopoly, if you're so lucky--seems like a more immediate issue to me. If there was competition amongst providers I could even see net neutrality becoming less of an issue.

I don't know what to do about this issue, though. Nationalize cable lines? Consider Internet access a piece of common infrastructure and have governments build it out, competing with the existing private companies?
I asked a similar question a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1697995

Going off the suggestions there, I decided to use the ZEND framework and I've been using the following book: http://amzn.com/1430218797

If you want to build a CMS project, I would highly recommend this book. The examples and code are really easy to follow. Good luck and feel free to email me if you have any questions!

(Note: I did have some RoR experience, but I was completely new to PHP)

EDIT: Curious to know - how does HN feel about starting with the ZEND framework?
chrome on mac works just fine, am I weird for using the mouse wheel?
However Redcar it is also compatible with texmate bundles. So it is more like emacs.
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Calls to action in emails is not much different than calls to action for landing pages: Give people just enough information to take the action you want them to, and little else. Political campaigns and non-profits (at least from successful organizations) are pros at this. Most of the time it is a short teaser and a prominent call to action button. Back to the similarities, paragraphs with off direction sentences are not seen in landing pages, the trendy style is short content blocks of icons and a sentence, for an email the equivalent are bullet points/numbered steps.

Each email should have a well defined, ideally singular purpose, unless it is something like a newsletter, where the reader is more accepting of less relevant content before reaching the more valued information (and even that is not guaranteed.)
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I was thinking, "wow, great job!" until I had to click "more" "more" "more" "more, dammit!" just to read a twitter conversation.
It's the latest name. Don Lancaster's been calling them Santa Claus machines for about 15 years now...
The answer to this is quite simple:

Revenue ~ $100 so far but I've barely had any real lists added (plenty of geeks have added lists saying "testing" etc etc). Now that V2 is live I'm going to put a lot of work into building a solid community around the site.

Upkeep - $0 - it's hosted on appengine which is free :)

In the long run I'm hoping to get some pocket money from affiliate links but at the moment I'm concentrating on building something that people want so I can build a community.

Using the similarity API is on my radar, I nearly included it in V2 but in the end decided it would be better to just stick to the core stuff and ship that. Any ideas on what would make a recommendation engine awesome are always welcome! tom@7bks.com

Thanks
I agree with much of what you say about the two different threads and perspectives here (and elsewhere) whenever this argument comes up. However:

> And for those who think this is trivial, think about all the packages that are in fact written in Python that are part of the desktop or base system. Python is literally embedded in everything! [...then later...] All that being said, this is a very hard problem to generally solve. I would hope that Ruby would be more Pythonic in the distro, but I don't see it being a priority for Ruby folks anytime soon....

You say that Ruby should be more Pythonic and that this is not a priority for "Ruby folks", but I'm not sure that's a fair way to characterize the distro problem. In fact, from Ruby's point of view, Debian has a special pride of place: it's the only officially supported Linux distro (since testing is done on Debian machines, I believe). For more on that see the discussion and links in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1614618 (tenderlove is Aaron Patterson, a Ruby core dev).

I would argue, as I say elsewhere in this thread, that the reason Python is so well handled is precisely what you mention in the first bit I quote. Because so much of the Gnome desktop is written in Python, perhaps Python gets special treatment by the distro. That suggests that the distro needs to meet the language devs at least part way, rather than that the language folks are the only ones who need to change their attitude.
The increased interest from facebook might be due to a kind of social obligation. Whereas when you use HN or Twitter to find links you have no obligation and less reward to stay on the page an actually read the content.

Someone who is reading a link that a friend has sent them is expected to read it, otherwise the friend may be unimpressed or you might not have anything to talk about. Plus, there is the added incentive of impressing or gaining a connect to the friend or appearing interested in your crush/gf's interests.

On HN and reddit, my only interest is whether I want to learn something or make myself laugh.
How can you claim to have done due diligence investing in a company that is notoriously reticent about any and all financial details?
There are really three competing systems phone lines, cable, and fiber. Now, I switched from cable to FIOS a while ago and it's a huge upgrade so IMO even cable is a distant second place. Verizon realized they needed to ditch copper a while ago and now it's just a question of how much fiber they can roll out.
Flip a coin. While it is in the air, think about which side you want to land up. That's what you really want to do.

Seriously, though, your question is really only something that you can evaluate. If I were you, I would evaluate the probability of it getting sold in the next N months (where N is your limit before burnout/explosion). Then go to the founders and voice your concerns.

The founders obviously want you on board (potentially, they might need you). Explain to them that you're looking to exit, and discuss possible terms with them. Let them know that you're not particularly confident with the direction of the sale, and would like some quantitative numbers and timelines for the sale or sales goals. Negotiate, with them, terms of your departure. This way, you don't leave them in the lurch during a crucial time; in exchange, negotiate an exit route that still gets you some compensation (maybe if you leave in 6 months, company unsold, you still a smaller cut of the sale).

I doubt they want you leaving during a sale; they brought you in for that purpose. Discuss your concerns, determine a plan, a timeline, and metrics to evaluate success/failure. In exchange for your continued efforts, make sure you have an exit plan that advantages you as well as is considerate to them.
Has Google had any successes with AI other than its search heuristic? (which I hesitate to classify as AI)
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Anyone can register a domain, point that domain to google's IP address and get the above message.

In the same way I can just call forward my home phone to Pizza Hut if I want...
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Beats a dead domain, or awful parking page. I've done it before.
A real-life example. I worked on the call routing system that is used by large cable companies and a large satellite TV provider. When a call comes in, the computers dynamically routes the call to the best place to handle the call. It needs to use all kinds of business rules to make the determination. For example, is there an outage in the customer's area? Are we running a special promotion in that area that this call is likely related to? Is the customer's account on hold with our credit department?

All of these decision points, along with what could happen depending on how those decision points get evaluated, end up being things that are defined by the end user (that is, by the IT department at the call center, rather than by us, the original developers of this software). For example, if there's an outage in their area right now, play this specific outage message, then prompt them to see if they want to do something else-- a dynamic rule that'll only be in place for a few hours till the outage is done. Before you know it, you've essentially implemented a programming language within the programming language.

This pattern ends up presenting itself again and again, in many systems that I've implemented. Other systems that I've done with user-defined rules that become essentially programming languages include fraud detection systems, call center flow guides/scripts, systems that help users customize their products for things like: engraving (for trophies or stationery), building computers, building ten-speed bikes, or configuring options for custom-built caskets.

Regarding the customization of caskets or couches or any other custom-built good, this also becomes very much like a programming language. For example, if the user selects leather, then these fabric protection options become available and cost this much, but if they select fabric, then Scotch guard and some other options become available. If they select this group of options, then the manufacturing will have to be outsourced to such-and-such company because they're the only ones that can do that process, but otherwise we manufacture it over here. And so on. All of these things we want to be set up by the people who purchased the software from us, and are not to be coded directly by us when we write the software.

This pattern of needing to express what amounts to code from within the application data becomes quite common once a system gets beyond a certain level of complexity.
This is one reason even small startups should consider registering their trademark. Depending on timing, it wouldn't necessarily have prevented Google or its predecessor in interest from registering and using the domain, but it could prevent Google from re-purposing the domain for use as they have here. Just because the prior company was using the name in commerce for a different purpose doesn't necessarily mean that they can then turn around and use it in a confusingly similar manner in a different area. While there are common law trademark rights that base on usage, a registered mark could have been a valuable tool in preventing this kind of cross-purpose usage.
By trading securities that derive from a private vehicle that owns shares.
There are enough details in there that if the founders were to read the post they would most likely see themselves.

If you aren't seeing an end then don't expect it to come to you by waiting. I'd say move on and find another opportunity. I'm sure you have the resume to land another position and at the very least anything new you move into would be exciting for it's newness. You might regret it if they sell for $X in the future but you can only make decisions based on what you know now and what you think is best for you.

At first I thought you were the company owner to which I would have suggested to do exactly what they did which is to higher someone else to manage the company and incentivise them on a sale. All the pressure it sell is on you now and if you don't think it will happen you might want to move on.
Although I don't believe they offer automatic delivery yet, check out http://www.alice.com

It's basically a direct-to-consumer marketplace for manufacturers.
The Rapportive jobs page got a bit of buzz (disclaimer: I designed it so I'm probably biased):

http://rapportive.com/jobs
There must be some price at which you can sell a company making $1.5m of profit.
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For legal issues, how is this any different than a screen reader. You're just another browser. I would love to try this out!!
Ah, the return of the good old boss key. I remember being baffled by its presence in Battle Chess as a young child.
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You continue to miss the point: it's not the responsibility of anyone else to back up what you're saying or to provide any substantiation for your claims.

None whatsoever.

Nor did I ever say I found it "implausible" that there were hundreds or thousands of projects using this license - that is your word. I just noted that you're pushing a movement and making a claim about its adoption without any clear basis for anyone else to believe it. I'm not a fan of blindly believing tossed-out claims. And no, when you throw around phrases like "I'm quite certain", you don't get to blow off skepticism with this isn't peer-reviewed!

"[H]aving semi-actively tracked the growth of adoption for the last year" doesn't mean much of anything - for all a random person knows, it could be a WAG on the lines of I saw 50 or 60 projects in the first month, so let's say ~700 projects by the end of the year.

It's great that you can point to much better evidence than that, in all seriousness. In the future, you might bring some of that up before getting defensive. I don't know you, and like many other people out there, I'd never heard of the Unlicense; you're not going to get blindly trusted.
There's also a big difference between asking a child to navigate public transport and putting them in a trusted taxi to school, which is all an automated car is. If the trusted taxi is cheap enough, you'd only have to be confident that the child wouldn't hurt themselves en route.
In addition to the above post, we'd also like feedback on whether anyone has a concern over their own phone minute usage.
I use a dozen or so e-mail accounts spread across various personal and business domains. I have a personal address that I give to people who I actually want to hear from, a personal address I use for ordering books and paying bills, a personal address for mailing lists and so on. I similarly segregate my business e-mail based on expected urgency and 'department'. I hate being interrupted by e-mail notifications, but there are some people who are sufficiently important for me to drop everything to answer. The lowest-priority inboxes get checked every week or so, the highest-priority inboxes ring my BlackBerry. It's like having mail filters that set themselves up.
If I heard this startup pitch I would want to know what experience you have in retailing and especially logistics. I wouldn't care at all about your web or programming expertise.

Suppose you were doing this without computers or the web. Customers filled out a paper order form and you then fulfilled their standing orders. This is very similar to what Schwann's and diaper services do now, and what milk trucks did when I was a kid. 75% of the problems you need to solve will be in old-fashioned logistics: purchasing, warehousing, picking, packing, shipping. Almost all of the remaining work will be customer service: returns, fixing mistakes, handling late deliveries and billing issues, etc.

Now add a web site to place and track orders to the business. It is a tiny part of the work required to launch and doesn't change any of the back-end "brick and mortar" stuff.

Amazon has the infrastructure in place to do both the hard (logistics/fulfillment/customer service) parts and the easy (web site) part. If you think this is something you can crank out in a weekend with a Ruby on Rails book good luck.
Yeah, I noticed this recently too as Debian is my server OS of choice. I'm surprised they haven't been updated yet. Maybe they have, and Debian hasn't been updated yet?
Low density is ultimately unsustainable, but not for a long time. The USA is a big country with mostly open space; it'll be a while before we fill it up.
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So they first started using duck.com for Internet search in 2009, while DDG had applied for registration of Duck Duck Go as a trademark in the field of Internet search on April 2, 2008 (edit: USPTO does not give stable URLs - removed link).

Sounds like a potential case of trademark infringement by Google, if Duck.com can be considered to be confusingly similar to "Duck Duck Go".
The gmail spam filter lives in a similar realm.
Reading through a rule-sheet, even carefully, is not going to give you the type of understanding of game dynamics playing even 10 games would give -- and which would be fairly useful in this task.
I was suggesting a one time list. You need to keep a list of past random numbers anyway so you can verify no repeats.

But sadly, I have to agree, this is epic fail.
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I wonder whether news of the Android text messaging bug came out this week because the iPhone alarm bug was in the news again?
Anyone else a little put off by the sentence, "To put that another way, if Google managed to scoop up just 2% of that industry they’d have more than doubled their revenue"?

That sounds an awful lot like the refrain from naive entrepreneurs to investors: "the market is 100 billion dollars; if we capture 1%, we're a billion dollar company!" In fact, I think we could describe it as a basic entrepreneurial fallacy.

OTOH, Chrome went from 1.5% market share in Jan 2009 to 9.9% at the end of 2010. So I'm not going to say they can't do it, but I think Matt's piece is weakened by the presence of the 2% fallacy.

I do agree with the overall gist, however.
Regarding BW, the GPU now has access to onchip (L3) cache. Since low-end GPUs use shared memory anyways, this actually saves bandwidth to main memory, and also since it needn't go get main memory, also saves power (from the power hungry GPU).

I get that you decrease yield, but w/o knowing the numbers, it's hard to really see if its much impact on the bottomline. I suspect its a bigger win than loss (not hard to speculate, since Intel apparently had made the same bet).
Contract employees are paid to perform specific services as laid out by, well, their contract. This makes them a lot less beholden to management than their full time equivalents. The most vindictive thing management could do is to not hire GeoHot in the first place, which would be their loss really.