skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He isn't CEO anymore...
Two words: Network Computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
It likely just means that they prefer to have many false negatives (rejecting good employees) and reduce the number of false positives (accepting poor employees). If the size of their applicant pool is high, that's a trade-off they can afford to make.
I put my username in the first field but it kept on saying, "Oops, there was a problem".
Glad to see this live! We've been testing this for the last couple of months at http://gri.pe without any issues. It basically means you don't have to worry about datastore maintenance, ever. There hasn't been a significant speed hit for us at all.

I highly recommend choosing this option when creating a new AppEngine project. It's more expensive than a standard datastore, but we pay virtually nothing for storage anyways.

Thanks to Ikai/Kevin and the rest of the HR datastore folks who made this happen.
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Then why bring up a company which was overvalued primarily due to fraud? Why not bring up, e.g., Pets.com or AOL?
Or far more interesting questions abound than the ones in your "Communications 101" class. (Also, top 80%+ isn't the same thing as a 2.7 GPA - completely different systems.)
That's why I also noted the peak CPU utilization (4%).

I do agree that only running Windows and Office is not sufficient. But its a starting point for the discussion.
Most likely the "restrictions" will be more akin to recommendations.
Why not? Oxygen and gravity occur naturally. Nations with conditions favorable to technological innovation do not. They have to be built and maintained.
Just wanted to chime in and say I am having the same experience.
Either

A.) There are really that many stupid billionnaires

B.) There are really that many stupid billionnaires who don't mind getting burned by GS multiple times in the past, who do their due diligence in matter of hours

C.) Goldman Sachs is breathing, a.k.a lying. (our government says corporations are human beings, ya know)
From the point of view of the establishment what happens to hackers is of little importance. Hackers or other tech-savvy users will always find ways over, under or around whatever walls exist. This happens today in countries like China. All the establishment is really very concerned about is the majority of average internet users (who may or may not also vote).
Why would this be a bad practice? This is a GOOD practice. You don't want to add months to the development time before you know if it's going to get traction.

I've had several successful sites, but dozens more failures and I'm glad I didn't waste the time making them all easily scalable; they simply didn't need it.
I posted this in another thread but repeating here since more relevant to this story as well:

One of the things that goes unmentioned is that with the right feedback loops companies can ramp up quickly like never before is true. But those same loops are in place for the site to die down very quickly too.

In the valuation for such companies analysts often use a multiple times revenue (or users etc). This multiple is based on the old school model that it took time for companies to die, for competitors to emerge etc. Doubt that is true anymore. One bad move that pisses off the community and people will leave in droves too.

Digg anyone?
You may not like the idea but that doesn't necessarily have any bearing on its truth. None of us does anything on our own - water, power, roads, schools, the list goes on and on (not all directly attributable to the country itself, but certainly national governments are high on the list of contributors to these projects in almost all cases, and I haven't even mentioned things like tax policy yet). I think the days of the nation-state are numbered but we can't ignore what those entities did for human progress. Maybe not in the form of a literal debt, but it's short-sighted and antisocial to pretend that the elites didn't have a hundred million helping hands on their way up.
Oh, sure. There's plenty of kludges that you can use to work around the inaccuracy of the finger + capacitative touchscreen combo. The problem with zooming is that you can't pinch-zoom with just one hand, and the doubletap-zoom sometimes wouldn't zoom in enough. Also it makes the workflow of the really simple operation that little bit more complicated: doubletap somewhere nearby, wait for the zoom, find the link again, tap.

As another example, in the Android browser a long press on a link will highlight the link after half a second, and pop up a menu after a second. So you can start pressing on the link, wait for it to get highlighted, and then quickly either "commit" by lifting the finger or "rollback" by dragging it away from the link.

Pretty horrible, right? But at least I occasionally find even that to be more convenient than zooming.
This article and headline are completely misleading. The question, from TFA,

"One of the survey's questions asked: "Do you feel that the cloud has potential for your business?" 49% answered: "I don't know." 48% likewise responded "I don't know" when asked if their company used any cloud-based applications or services."

If someone asked me those questions, there are myriads reasons to respond "I don't know". Perhaps I don't know about EVERY initiative going on in the business or perhaps (gasp!) I don't believe that the cloud "magically" helps my business. It does not NECESSARILY mean that I am clueless about the cloud.

This type of thing really makes me angry.
Apple: 12% of the total personal computer market in the USA. 92% of the high-end (over $999) personal computer market, which is around 10% of the total.

If you're going to have 10% of the market, which would you rather have -- the bottom 10% or the top 10%?

(I'll concede your point about the choice between potential success/certain doom for Microsoft in the tablet field, but Microsoft obviously doesn't see it that way: they see it as a choice between success and success, and obviously they want the more lucrative version.)
I think ChromeOS could succeed in "kiosk" situations -- libraries, coffee shops, hotel lobbies, etc. Verified boot and automatic updates would be a boon for maintenance concerns, while customers would be much more likely to trust Google than a random Windows kiosk with a shoddy browser and questionable shell.

Of course, kiosks / public access terminals may be as unnecessary as phone booths once we're all carrying personal tablets...
Office runs fine on ARM: http://docs.com/
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Are there particular advantages to an ARM CPU on a desktop machine? Assuming software compatibility is not an issue.
They seem to have checked all the right boxes on this one - Eye Candy, Tablet UI optimizations, Video Chat (Great stuff if it works well - all GTalk users even on desktop can use this), No physical buttons, Dual Core minimum (easier on devs - they don't have to worry about crappy hardware), HTML5.
That and the x86 ISA is utterly disgusting.
We ARE indebted to oxygen and gravity. While it's hard for us to destroy gravity we are rapidly destroying oxygen generation capacity on this planet and it's not going to go very well for us if we continue.
I totally agree with you. That's exactly my goal in hiring early employees - they are de facto co-founders that should get a ton of equity and a livable salary.

If someone wants 90k and 40 hour work weeks they should go work at Microsoft or IBM. That's not how successful startups are built. You need to be ultra frugal, extremely dedicated (to the point of obsession) and have lots of exposure to the up side.
I had a business advisor recently on an idea I pitched to the local council (but never heard anything back...) and he absolutely hated business plans. However, if I want to get any sort of Government or Trust funding for any business I want to start, I need a 40+ page business plan.

Boring. I agree with your points, it's much better to spend that time writing code and getting customers. I prefer to write concept plans and strategies that take maybe 5 pages instead.
Take any non-trivial debugging task (i.e. something that slipped through the net for several releases in a live system, not a simple bug in fresh code) and set me on it 100 times, and you'll almost definitely see at least 10x variation in how long it takes me, and that's just because of the nature of debugging, sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you don't.

Of course, there's some real variation in the averages that people will settle down to over the course of hundreds of debugging tasks, but an individual's productivity on debugging tasks varies so much that I'd be hard pressed to say much at all about the individuals until I'd seen them do at least a few trials.

It may be the case that the differences in the average times people take do end up being on the order of 10x or more, but it would take a lot of observation to say that for sure (exactly how much depends on what sort of distributions we see when we measure this stuff).
So how long will it take hackers to get Windows 8 running on an iPad? Will definitely be interesting...
Folks - Facebook is having their IPO without the P before our very eyes.

If it was any company other than Goldman Sachs, who is very well politically connected, the SEC would be shutting this down within 3-4 months and requiring Facebook to publish their financial results.

As it is - I still give it no more than six months before Facebook is required to start announcing results publicly.

Fascinating attempt to dodge regulatory and reporting requirements though - using Goldman as the "Investor of Record" to keep their numbers < 500.
I am so excited for the future. It's so clear to me that tablets are a stepping stone, and a very very exciting one. They're going to be the first time a consumer computer has lived up to their dreams and expectations of the future of computing: it works, it's fast, it's easy, it's safe and it's fun. Using Windows on a desktop is none of those things. It turns out that iPad was a glorious thing; not in that it was physically incredible, but that it opened up a world that Google understands and is preparing for. We're going to have Android and iOS running HTML5 applications (and native apps of course) on nearly every device in just a few years.

Guys, that promised future is coming!
Social media sites have different network effects though. As the community gets larger they get watered down. They lose their individuality. Social networks on the other hand only increase in value as they get larger.

I have a harder time imagining people all of a sudden abandoning the place where they've stored all their photos with comments and tags, especially since they can't easily get them out.
Do you mean top 20%? Because the top 80% is well, almost everyone. Or the 80th percentile would be the top 20%.

I'm not nitpicking, I just took the 80% to mean 2.7 as well.
Concerning Abacus, GS paid $550 million in fines to the SEC, not a small sum.

There is also the $650K fine and the $27 million fine impoosed by the British over the same issue: http://topnews360.tmcnet.com/topics/associated-press/article...

Perhaps I should ask you to comment on the HFT issue, which from some perspectives, appears to be front running of legitimate trades, and which GS is involved in?

There is plenty more, just a few samples from e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Controversies

include:

1. Insider trading resulting in 2 convictions

2. Helping Greece cover up (lie about) their true debt positions - since Greece is a country, rather than a human or corporation, criminal charges are a near-impossibility;

Further, there are many bloggers who are examining pieces of GS behavior - you may or may not choose to believe them.

Some of the ones that are critical include zerohedge.com and http://boombustblog.com/ run by Reggie Middleton (part free, part subscription).

A TV journalist named Max Keiser, rarely seen on American stations, is also critical; books such as "Chasing Goldman Sachs" also have their own take on GS.
You're providing a hypothetical conspiracy theory business model, and assuming that FB has a high profit margin. FB's revenues seem to come primarily from ads. No one knows how much money they're actually making from virtual currency.

Take a look at what FB actually offers its users: core services: photo sharing, video sharing, blogging, micro-blogging, instant messaging, event/group management. non-core services (apps): quizzes, casual games, horoscopes.

Sounds like any other company everyone knows (Yahoo)? The difference is that FB offers all this with a single login, and the (perceived) greater privacy offered for things you post online. Yahoo never even managed to implement a single login across all of its sites and acquisitions.

The problem is that just like Yahoo and Myspace, there's nothing stopping Facebook from losing users to other sites. The business model is to have a lot of visits from a lot of users and serving them ads that don't bring in much profit. That's a lot of risk, and the upside isn't that great.

I don't see FB moving to a paid premium model. Even if it did that, it wouldn't be that different from what AOL had 10 years ago.

There's just not that much value in what FB does, and not much from preventing others from taking that value away from them.
I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the iPad.
I think their interview's might be a little uneven. I was asked how to swap the values of two registers in hardware and I said something about muxes and lines. When the interviewer sounded skeptical I started expounding on different types of latches and their properties. In retrospect I think they wanted the xor trick, but that's really a firmware or software thing. Needless to say I didn't get the real interview.
There is the idea that Windows is such a terrible system that the only reason people are staying with it is that they need their legacy applications. It's not entirely without merit, but for a lot of people and businesses, Windows actually works rather well.

The importance of x86 is overstated too. Many applications will be pretty close to a recompile away. There is of course the usual chicken-and-egg issue that all platforms have, but if Windows/ARM (WARM?) takes off, they will be recompiled.
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I'm just wondering what happens when suddenly you're growing incredibly fast, and you simply do not have the development/money to keep up with the volume of traffic, how does one get on top?
Is there some news about Snort that's not evident from your link? Snort's been around a long time.
Another marketing survey that confirms the need for the sponsoring firm. What a surprise.
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Blog post about the release: http://blog.basho.com/2011/01/05/riak-0.14-released/
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Even with a 3.2, you probably beat most kids at an engineering school. Although I've heard of engineering schools where half the class has a 3.5, but at my school our top guy had a 3.8, nobody had a 3.9 or 4.0 no matter how hard they tried. I was in the top 20% with a 3.3
Here is a live example (German but self-explanatory): http://www.fscklog.com/2011/01/eingebettete-keynote-präsenta...
Yeah, because MySpace is totally dead right? Oh wait, it's still the 51st largest site on the web. Takes a while to die online too, it seems.
His near-absolute disinterest in visual design, his chronically caustic personality and his apparently principle-driven burning of bridges haven't helped either.

Ouch.
Required reading: How Starbucks got rid of the mermaid when they opened their stores there: http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6654 (they put it back after three months).
When? You mean like withholding google applications including the android market from devices that don't meet their hardware specifications?

color nook

archos PMPs

archos tablets

viewsonic g

etc.
Ask HN: Why people are so aggressively down-voting recently?
I am all for people being able to down-vote. But don't you think recently it has been a bit two aggressive? or maybe the balance of people who can down-vote and those who can't is gone over the threshold?!
Power draw. The advantages there would be cooling noise, lower electricity bills and the like.

Whether or not you find that compelling or not is another issue.
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that is awesome
lower power per instruction is the number one advantage here. Lowering power consumption means not only lower power/cooling bills, it also means better scalability in frequency domain, since speed of today's x86/x64 CPUs are limited by the cooling system's capability to evacuate heat (evenly) from the chip. IOW, it means temporal restoration of the MHz race, while starting number-of-cores race.
Very hard to see ARM advantage on mid/high end desktops. Where Intel is with Sandy Bridge - it will be a long time before ARM reaches that performance.

And then low cost, lower performance desktops - why would anyone make one when laptops are more convenient?

I fail to see the point of ARM on "desktop" - Server yes (power consumption), Laptops yes (battery life, form factor) - but desktop?
I wouldn't call Gmail cloud-based. Google manages all of their own hardware. To me, cloud computing means flexible use of shared general-purpose computing resources that are managed and provided as a service. Gmail would be cloud-based if Google ran it on a bunch of Amazon EC2 instances.

Using "cloud computing" to refer to the use of server applications over the internet is just a misunderstanding of the term. The surprising thing it reveals is that somebody is still looking for a name for that kind of computing in 2010, which suggests that they're still trying to wrap their heads around it. One wonders what kind of confusion will be created in the buzzword stratosphere (upper management) when one exec starts talking about cloud initiatives and another exec says, "What are you talking about? Our services have been cloud-based since 2002."

Of the respondents who that said their organization used Web-based software for email, CRM, productivity, conferencing, and other uses, 54% did not identify them as cloud applications.

Does this mean that 46% of respondents have the same incorrect understanding of the term that the author does, or am I the one who is wrong? Either way, this kind of confusion means that "cloud computing" does not mean anything at all anymore. I guess that makes it a blank check for bullshit artists.
I wonder if this could be used as a part time business. You could buy several tickets on days when flights are usually overbooked months ahead of time. Good time to do this would be Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, etc.

Then show up at the airport that day and sell each ticket for a premium above what you paid for.
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This might be a good time to take a look at history. Lots of examples of institutions destroying innovation. By contrast, not as many examples of them creating it.

Or, to put another way, we did just fine innovating and inventing and such on our own -- in caves, on the Savannah, on trade routes, as part of tribes or guilds. Innovation and entrepreneurship is as natural a part of life as breathing. If this weren't true, we'd still be hanging around in trees waiting for the big cats to leave their prey.

Of course, you can argue that institutions accelerate this natural ability, but there's a lot of room for doubt over exactly what magic sauce makes people super productive. At the very least we can agree that different folks have different answers to that question. (If there were some "proven" answer, we'd just all copy that and the world would be full of Thomas Edisons) I understand there are a lot of works of fiction and nonfiction that claim to explain why so much innovation happened in such and such a place, but it's easy to say or write something like that. In reality, lots of really smart folks have went at this problem and haven't gotten very far in terms of reproducible results.

I find this line repeated over and over again -- that somehow if there is a lot of innovation in situation X that it naturally follows that we know all about X and why all this innovation happened. I think that's stretching logic a bit too much for my tastes.
We're not really talking about hackers here though. To me a hacker is ripping through code getting it done. But that works better in the software world where it is relatively easy to make a mistake.

I don't work at Nvidia, but working in the hardware field things go a bit slower. You need people who pay attention to detail and follow the process to a T to avoid costly mistakes and rework. Thats why "people who could put up with the bullshit that it took to get into the top 15%" and "people who are intelligent enough to design chips at a high level and disciplined to follow the process to avoid blowing hundreds of thousands of a dollars per mistake" have more cross over than high GPA and good ruby on rails hacker. It is just a different mindset and a different set of economics to be building slow iterating hardware vs quick iterating software.
I know that the "news" in this announcement is about ARM. But Soc itself is also about making existing PC software run faster. At the moment there is little argument for purchasing new hardware because
multiple cores are failing to significantly improve actual performance of desktop apps for reasons with which we are all familiar.
Work on interesting projects, be active in the appropriate communities--that gets you noticed. Grades aren't everything.
I really like what they've got there, unfortunately it seems to be iPhone only :(
Doubtful: someone else would likely underbid you, so long as the worth of it to them is lower.

Frankly, the more tricks like this they pull, the less I want to fly. At this point, I'm not willing to fly any more than is strictly necessary.
Thanks! That did the trick. I was looking for it on this page: http://lanyrd.com/people/DavidCuddeback/ ("profile" link), because the main content for that page is the conferences I'm tracking. I figured the ICS feed would be linked to from the same page as the content, FWIW. Thanks again.
Governance in the 21st century, whether it be at the level of governments or corporations or other large scale institutions, is about managing flows of information. Wikileaks merely provides an example of cases where such management failed catastrophically. I think it's not too much of a stretch into the murky world of conspiracies to suggest that governing organisations may wish to retain control of their information flows, and take steps in accordance with these concerns.
Kind of amusing, considering that the ARM architecture was originally created for desktop computers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#History
I wouldn't. I interned in core operating systems division a few years ago. Managers cared about portability.
the government is the worst possible decider of the level of disclosure that it wishes to maintain.
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I think it's also interesting if taken into the context that a lot of the Nvidia-Intel feud stems around Nvidia's development of an x86 CPU that had to be shelved due to Intel patents. The chipset licensing disputes, etc, seem to all stem from Intel being upset about Nvidia attempting to encroach on their turf.

It makes me wonder if Nvidia was lobbying Microsoft to expand Windows support beyond x86 as a direct result of all this.

Either way, Nvidia's pretty clearly wanted to expand into the desktop CPU market for a while now, and with Intel blocking their entrance to the x86 market, it only makes sense they'd start examining other options. ARM seems like a pretty logical place for them to end up given the options.