skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about whether the business owner mentioned this during the hiring process.

I also wonder whether this affected the demographics of the company. If someone were to spring this on me on my first day of work, I'd probably wonder whether this was a hazing ritual or a test (and whether the desired behavior was to clean the bathroom myself or get it clean some other way). If, in addition to that, I happened to be the first female employee or the first employee with an ethnicity different from the owner's, I'd also wonder whether this was really something they did to everyone or whether it was some kind of racist/sexist stunt -- especially since this would be happening on my first day of work, before I had a chance to get to know anyone reasonably well. Regardless of the actual motivation behind the request, I think it might have the effect of disproportionately driving away people who are in a different demographic than the majority of people at the company.
Ignoring the problems with WP7, if Nokia were to produce phones with other 'external' OSes why would they stick with just one?

No one criticizes Samsung and they are pretty much a mobile-OS whore: SHP, Bada, WP7, Symbian (albeit a year or so ago), Android, Limo, etc.

N.B. Regarding SHP: I can't remember the name properly but this was the old/existing Samsung feature phone platform, it probably has got rolled into Bada, although Bada has two configurations (with and w/o the Linux kernel).
This Congress is one where you certainly can't just add up the Ds on one side and the Rs on the other and expect to have a picture of how votes will go down. Both parties are experiencing significant fracturing internally. Republicans are fracturing along social conservative, fiscal don't-really-care vs. fiscal conservative, social don't-really-care and Democrats are splitting along moderates vs. hard-left lines, and on both sides the non-ideologues are all finger-to-the-wind trying to figure out which side will get them more votes next election. Expect more chaos from those folk over the next few weeks/months.

A lot of the political hatin' going on lately is predicated on very simplified propaganda-based models of what is actually going on lately; does the idea that the Tea Party and the Democrats could actually agree on some points like this blow your mind, or was it obvious to you in advance this could happen? If the former your models need tweaking, this outcome should not have been a surprise to anyone who was paying attention.
There can only be one hero?
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> Don't forget that only a fraction of people can afford these >= £500 device

No - fairly good Android devices are already available for US$150 unlocked (see Huawei Ideos). In the next year they'll fall below $100 and after that they'll be coming free with your breakfast cereal.

Elop is absolutely right with his analogy of a burning platform - there's a very real prospect that within 2 years Nokia could be entirely wiped out from the low end market - down to single digit market share and making very little profit on those. It's nothing short of an existential crisis for them.
The engineering team at Reddit manages 250M pageviews per engineer. That has to be some kind of record. Has any other site ever hit the Alexa 100 with only 4 engineers?

Kudos.
The point is whether the government can use that information for broad-base surveillance. Whether the technology is there to gather the data is orthogonal to question of whether it should be legal to do so.
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I realize how easy it is, I just wanted to point out that they still won't have market access.

I'm of the opinion that Nokia should just move to Android - they make nice hardware but they need better software and should stop spinning their wheels and partner with Google on Android. Don't get me wrong, I love my n810, but I'd like to see Android on a lot of hardware Nokia makes.
Since I have the announcement right in front of me (I'm revising it in preparation for the final post), I can tell you there's not really any more detail in it than in the Rails post.

I don't know yet when the full full disclosure will happen; I just know that right now I'm really not at liberty to do that.
...and Reddit is currently down (well, in emergency read-only mode). :(
Very true. In my brain, Google is topologically closer to downtown MV than the Sun campus is to any vestige of civilization.
It's a very easy bet that their profit margin is not sustainable. Obviously it won't survive the heat-death of the universe, nor the sun's expansion into a red giant.

The most contentious statement you made, to me, is "any comparison that relies upon profit numbers is...disturbed."

Why is profit a disturbing business metric?
There's not much to celebrate here, unfortunately. The bill was brought to vote using an accelerated procedure that requires a 2/3 vote. When it goes through the regular process that only requires a simple majority, it will pass easily if the vote is remotely similar (277-148).
This says nothing of what the sales are like in China which is notorious for not paying for software. In China currently these phones have a much larger share of the market because they are cheaper than iphones and android phones.

Eventually when the prices of the better smartphones fall you would expect a big shift away from nokia unless they can improve on their current offerings. I think we will have to wait some time to for windows 7 phone to pick up some market share before app store figures show whether it is a better bet than nokia in the American market.
You have a point... sadly most of the Java code I have seen does look like the code on github. Or worse! ;)
Any particularly interesting books someone wants to point out?
Fair enough. I guess I'll just have to work it out for myself. :P
I have a ThinkPad x100e with Arch Linux on it and am planning on moving to the new x120e. Think of it as an open source macbook air :)

Small, powerful, replaceable components, user serviceable, etc. I have several macs but I'm more than happy with this as a day to day, runabout laptop ("notbook").
This talk by Daniel Pink seems relevant.

http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/animate/rsa-animate-driv...
"Your time to break even is quite a while on a per-article basis" - and that's the crux of the matter entirely.

As per this WSJ article http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/08/12/where-did-demand-medi...

if demand media is allowed to amortize out their costs over years (under the assumption every piece of "How to bathe your gerbil" will keep bringing in revenue for the next half-decade) they become strikingly profitable, especially for a company that writes words on the Internet. If not, they're hemorrhaging cash.

Given Google's recently renewed focus on providing quality search results, I'd take the under on all of these companies, mahalo included.
I'm betting on both.

I think there is no way they could go only WP7 - WP7 is controlled absolutely by Microsoft and Nokia cannot afford to be subjugated that way.

If they are really bold - and I kind of hope hey are - I would base it on Android but make it "better" - as in, devote huge resources to solve the long standing problems with Android - the UI is not slick enough, not smooth enough, the compatibility story is problematic, the market is polluted with low end stuff and much of the high end stuff doesn't run on all the phones.

If they forked Android and put out kick-ass awesome hardware with compatible but totally redone and beautiful iPhone-quality UI, a more curated market (without Apple lock down), bold promises about upgrades ("we will guarantee any phone we release will get current versions of the OS for 3 years") - they could possibly even steal the market leadership from Google on the Android platform. They are one of the few companies that would have the resources to do this - I hope they give it a shot.

Having said that, I bet WP7 will be in the mix if only to convince the market that there is a backup plan.
I understand Android is quite different from vanilla Linux - I meant Android is closer to the Meego platform than WP7. Moving from Meego to Android is less of a stretch. For example, porting QT to Android should not be too difficult.

I really hope Nokia doesn't follow the SGI way.
Macbooks are great dev machines. I am also a huge fan of the ASUS UL30VT, which runs Ubuntu smooth as butter and about $500 cheaper! I own both machines. Check JR if you're interested in the ASUS.
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I'm having trouble separating the two questions here: do you want to get away from the dollar, or do you want ready cash?

If it's the first, why can't you just buy into non-dollar-denominated funds with your IRA?

If it's the second, and if you're able to roll your IRA into a 401(k), then depending on the trustee you could loan yourself half of it in cash.

Alternatively you could probably create an ESOP for your company and (again, trustee permitting) invest your IRA or 401(k) into that.

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about accounting.
Thanks. What got me was that for some reason I couldn't figure out whether I was being told why the author thought #! was a bad idea, or why Lifehacker had thought it was a good idea.
ARM doesn't provide modulus on any chips, division is available on ARM-7R and ARM-7M chips only.
There's that saying about hindsight.
I agree -- I think the best thing Nokia could do is probably to relocate somewhere more central within Europe (Berlin? London?) and become the strongest European mobile phone option, vs. trying to compete for talent in SFBA. Arguably they could also try NYC or another major city with lots of development expertise but no strong mobile company.
Because you don't store personal documents and credentials in your VCR or stereo. Traps for future data collection are also not possible, as far as I know.
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Yep, there is a difference between Autorun on media that is instantly writable and those that has to be specifically burned.
The real question is how much is the CEO getting paid to wash dishes?

It would make more sense to hire someone for minimum wage to clean the bathrooms, empty trash and wash dishes, and free up time for the CEO to do other things.
If you don't mind doing a little surgery, I'd highly recommend doing the SSD swap yourself. I recently did it on my current gen MBP and it took about 5 minutes to do the actual swap and then another hour to get everything reinstalled. The biggest advantage is that the swap is much cheaper (I paid $170 for a 120GB OCZ SSD vs $300 for the Apple one) and the actual SSD performance is better as well (from my research Apple uses Toshiba which are decent, but the Sandforce based ones, like the OCZ one, get the best performance out of the non-SATA III drives).
I had to do quite a lot of optimization by hand to get gcc for ARM 4.3.3 (the Sourcery customized version) with -march=armv5te to stop calling the software divide routines, even when dividing by constants. Gcc's performance and conformance can vary widely across supported architectures.
Well, once you have division, modulus is one cycle away.
Perhaps Craigslist?

30 employees and 20 billion pageviews/month. Not clear how many of those people are engineers.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/factsheet

pg makes reference to it in this essay
http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
What's the battery life like?

One thing that annoys me looking for laptops, is the ubiquitous 1366x768 resolution. At least the pangolin has a 1600x900 screen.
I don't really think you can complain about the top search being lower quality when up until recently complete junk from Mahalo was doing the same thing.
I think the demand media model will be more profitable than this one unless Mahalo is betting on a collection of quality articles to help support a collection of average articles. I am a fan of the nicer layout they have now, just don't see how an article with video for the long tail of search terms that cost hundreds to make will ever be profitable.
It seems likely that "get lots of press" is dependent on "polarizing."

Personally I'd vote for Calacanis having more substance then Ferris.
I'm 100% sure that was the intent. :)
To make it slightly more palatable (at them time) to those on the fence. If anybody did raise an objection it was quickly brought up how this was 'just' a temporary measure. It is going to be a long time before the patriot act goes away for good.
Or more likely the same powers will just go to the agencies without any actual act to oversee them.
This is great info for people looking to do sites in the chicken/egg category.. I'm actually sitting here working on an idea that a friend and I will be launching by Monday that will face many of these same problems and it's awesome to hear from someone who has been successful facing the same problems we envisioned having.
In my class of 400 or so at a top 20ish school, I think two dropped out. B school was two of the best years of my life, and I learned a ton. I traveled to 5 or 6 countries, met tons of great people (and a heck of a lot of assholes - they're even more fun), drank myself silly quite frequently, and played Rugby with schools from around the world, sometimes while drinking. No matter what they say on hacker news, a good MBA is a solid education at a very rapid pace if you want it to be.

The catch is that it was way cheaper when I went, which wasn't that long ago ('05 grad). Paying the $40-60k/year that the top schools charge today is on the border of being reckless. You had better have it worked out financially, and I don't mean "I'll get a cushy MBA job that pays $150k/year and pay it off in 9 months", because that is a fantasy for most people. You never wind up making what you expect to, and there's always some lifestyle creep that keeps you from paying it off as fast as you wanted to.

But yeah, it's worth it. Even though I don't (and probably never will) have one of those big company middle management jobs it prepared me for.
Pretty much the only people making money on Ovi are game companies. Nothing wrong with that, except that gaming is different to other types of software.

Also, note these points:

* There are 30,000 apps available
* 400,000 new Forum Nokia developers were added in the last 12 months.

That really illustrates what a horrible platform Nokia has. 400K new developers were interested in it over the last 12 months, and yet there are only 30K apps in the whole store. Compare that to the adoption that the iOS and Android app stores have had.
I think I'd probably prefer working with either ARM or MIPS assembly over x86, except for the lack of some of x86's built-in arithmetic instructions (like divide). As long as you've got an instruction set reference card handy (preferably in PDF format), it's not too difficult to work with any assembly language (I've done debugging in ARM and x86, took a class on MIPS, and wrote entire firmwares in 8-bit PIC assembly).

I was hunting through disassembled ARM code for performance bottlenecks and managed to speed things up quite a bit by manually removing divides that should've been caught by the optimizer from my C code. I didn't find it any more or less difficult than any other assembly language.
That is crazy fast... funny, but based on your response I am guessing you don't know why. What could possibly explain such a big difference? Understanding this is what separates a seasoned pro from someone throwing out trollbait comments about XML and assembly instructions.

First off, the resolution of TickCount is not less than 500 milliseconds. Are you sure you are actually timing it right? Maybe you should have used DateTime.Ticks which has a higher resolution. (seriously - I think you need to check your code)

But in any case, let's say your test is actually valid. You mentioned "Java line noise" - not really a real explanation for the difference.

So let me guess for you - maybe your F# runtime knows the function is pure and idempotent, and after running it once it probably just cached the output. So your run doesn't actually execute the filter across the list for every iteration, whereas my Java code did.

I could rewrite my Java code to return the same array over and over after it has been computed once, but it sure won't look as clean as a functional language like F#. I grant you that, and that's one of the reasons I prefer functional languages to Java.

Next time maybe put a little more thought into the response if you actually really have no idea why your program said "0.014100 milliseconds".
Hey Victor here.

1) I do agree with you that the front page is kind of too mysterious and that might put people off from signingup.

2 & 3) Agreed.

4) We are working on it. Just to let you know, when we lauched we had a method of not requiring people's emails. However, that path got shut down so now we have to release this temporarily fix. Do you have a good recommendation to get around this without users explicitly inputting their adore's emails?
It's such a huge flaw that there's no need for hindsight, really. A good tester should be able to point out the problem with autorun with no prompt.
Was anyone on the fence? I thought I remember hearing that no one even read it.
How do you feel about being required to work 80 hours each week, being paid only for 40, and then being required to work an additional 10 hours on top of that cleaning the bathrooms and kitchen because since you're on salary, your time is free?
facebook messages don't work because facebook doesn't allow applications to send anonymous messages. The only scalable way is really through email (maybe SMS).
Wait, what? I have never heard "broad" used pejoratively (as a native English speaker of age 21). If anything it's archaic, not offensive.
Sam Quigley says:

http://twitter.com/emerose/status/35169573590409216
Do you really think we could push out an app like this in 4 days? Our application has FB integration, and is significantly more complicated than Secretpoke, which is essentially just a mailbot from what I can gather in the front-end. I'm sorry, but it requires SIGNIFICANT imagination to map the social graph to who you like and adore.
You shouldn’t put your ads next to sub-par content. We will not make content unless we have an expert. Demand Media will make content if someone will take $10

I don't relish paying people for what are essentially search clicks that in an ideal world I would have outranked them for, but the alternative is not paying and getting no sale.

Case in point: I paid $100 for ads on eHow in January alone. (Of which something like $68 goes to Demand Media.) The content is less than compelling, but a) it is clearly, absurdly profitable for me as an advertiser and b) it is economical for DM to produce.

Example:

http://www.ehow.com/how_13856_play-valentine-bingo.html

This is a fairly typical eHow page. At ~300 words, it cost on the order of $6~8 to write. In January alone, it generated about $1.30 in DM's cut of my $2 AdWords spend. It will do four times that or more in February. Count the other advertisers on the page and I would be astonished if it pulls in less than $20 ~ $25 of revenue this year. This model empirically scales to the freaking moon.

I also checked my stats for how much I'm subsidizing Mahalo. Turns out: not that much! ($20 in four years.) The reason appears to be that, at least as it relates to educational bingo cards, DM convincingly clobbers Mahalo on execution.

http://www.mahalo.com/christmas-bingo/ <-- Winces. 30 words of content and half of them are an inducement to click on ads!

Yeah, if I were Mahalo, I wouldn't want to compete against DM using DM's model either. They're just better at farming. I am skeptical that the new model will work except as PR cover for the old model: i.e. handcrafted pillar content provides enough plausible deniability to hope Google does not mass purge all thin mahalo.com/* pages from the Internet. The economics of $1,000+ a page pillar content makes sense if (and probably only if) the pillar content preserves thousands of cheaper pages.

So much the better for Mahalo if they can simultaneously get an effective competitor of those filler pages torched.
This kinda makes me want to reformat my computer

Does anyone know if you can save the installer file to use it later on so that you can update all your programs at once?
Hipster (http://usehipster.com) is one.
Citations:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/20/politics/main60133...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/business/in-the-new-econom...

I await your apology.
Don't they ensure unique views with cookies anyways?

The only difference to the advertiser should be how fast they deplete the bought view/click-contingent for a given month.
You're still thinking in terms of hardware and devices. Elop's memo clearly shows that he comprehends the challenge. It's not the hardware. It's the ecosystem that matters. Think iTunes, App Store, MobileMe etc. Why do you think Apple is building a data center in NC? They're skating to where the puck's going to be.
I meant the part where it says 'Due to traffic, we need your friends email.' I don't want to give it.
In that case 3 is your number. (Because it's the closest number to e, 2.71)

There is a currency based on it (with the provably least number of coins necessary to make any kind of change), ternary logic, balanced ternary is especially cool, etc.
The micro-scale graphical design is good. It's a pity, however, that big geographical and data quality blunders are present on Google Maps.
Examples : world projection (Mercator, useless), lack of metadata (dates of the images ?), choice of labels at medium scale (especially with the 'Relief' maps).
Such discrepancy between good graphical precision, esthetics and geographical imprecision, lack of quality information are misleading a large part of the public.
Hey,

Initially, we had a "wall posting" feature. User signs up via facebook and it will give them an option to post on their wall. However, I realized that if we require wall posting permission right up the front, that would really put off a lot of people. You see facebook doesn't allow us to change permission half way and this is one of the drawbacks of the facebook API (even if you like it, you can't force a permission change).
it would also tend to probably attract those profs/instructors that are more "aware" of what's out there. they (typically) tend to be the better instructors as well.
A moment with IDA shows that it calls CGImageSourceCreateWithFile, which calls mmap, which supports exactly that kind of paging. However, dataWithContentsOfFile: also calls mmap under certain circumstances, so paging should theoretically be possible with either selector.
Would you mind telling me why didn't you sign up?

We had a lot of page views but signup rates are not as high as we expected.
This was a good article, all except for the last little bit:

Sometimes, driving traffic simply demands ingenuity, creativity, and hustle. Be more creative than your competitors, work harder than them, and test faster than them. Go where your competitors dare not because they are too complacent, too conventional, too risk-averse. There are literally thousands of diverse traffic sources out there…go explore them!

Not trying to rag on the author, but the problem here, is that this is just a _platitude_. It can mean anything. Therefore it really means nothing. Until and unless specific examples are given, it's just saying that in order to be better you need to be better.

All-in-all, though, it was a great article. My takeaway was that sticky sites beat plain content sites, but only if you bust your ass getting people participating, and there are no hard and fast rules for that. Do whatever it takes. That's not necessarily a happy piece of information to have, but it's direct and useful.
Not sure if you were being a smart ass, but it would be much more readable without any of the comments, and simply with the new lines.
I agree.

I wanted to buy adore.me or adore.com

As you can probably guess, none of that was within my financial reach lol.