skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great point about how being ambitious can keep you going through rougher times. I'm also very ambitious, and I definitely agree it has helped in those situations.

I guess it is always a balance - I certainly agree that not thinking big enough can be detrimental, but what I've found recently is that the small successes I'm having are triggering off some thoughts that are months or years away if they even ever happen, and I think taking too long to think about things like that is not productive - it almost certainly won't happen the way you're thinking it will, and it is time you are spending when you could be doing valuable customer or product development.

Love your point about not having your idea of success set in stone. I agree it's very good to be open-minded so you can take advantages of opportunities you might not have seen coming. That could well be another reason not to think too much about your own ambitious thoughts, since the more you think about them the more likely you are to have your mind set on that "success" and not grab other opportunities when they arise.

A very interesting subject overall I think - overall a balance is required. I think it's perhaps a continual flip-flop of thinking ambitiously too much and not enough until you find a nice medium which suits your own personality and allows you to be productive whilst still staying motivated by where you could get to.
I definitely wouldn't go. Sorry. That photo is just too unwelcoming for me to imagine trying to figure out how I'd actually breathe after the oxygen tanks ran out of air. However, it's a very interesting proposition. To have to think completely out of the box. I mean, could you even call it thinking anymore? Everything that we know about physics, science, gravity, etc... all of the laws of this and that -- and the natural resources that we take for granted on earth would no longer be an option for usage. Yikes! How do you then -- beyond theory -- truly begin to obtain and apply practical knowledge in an efficient enough fashion as to avoid death on arrival?
This was a news item on Friday in Finland. Nokia says that Elop wasn't allowed to sell all his Microsoft holdings or buy Nokia because of insider trading laws.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-13/nokia-chief-elop-to...
"This is now fixed: comment forms now last for 30 minutes."
This works great!
Santap = http://www.no-depositbingo.com
YMMV = Your Market/Mileage/Method May Vary
Yeah, having already looked at the site I decided to post a description even though I obviously wasn't going to vote up. Is even that discouraged?
I've actually switched from google to bing maps recently. Finding it easier to use and having more useful returns. I'm actually beginning to write a gem wrapper if anyone agrees and wants to contribute :) http://xjst.in/fUtWeW /shamelessplug>

But before that, twitter is most used for me.
For anyone who wants to take a look at the links heading to the site: http://preview.tinyurl.com/jcpseo
his holdings of NOK are reportedly 0 so far, which makes sense - he's been on the job for less than a year so 1st vesting cliff haven't been reached yet.
Step 0. in getting started with continuous deployment is having an organization that doesn't lose it's mind every time there's a blip.

That often means you need managers who are especially good at (or at least dedicated to) deflecting the freak out/crazy.

CD won't increase your changed related incidents, but to paraphrase the IBM parable, "no one ever got fired, for doing quarterly releases, and heavy QA."
Google should buy Arduino.
Difficult is Good
Another example is Philips, the Dutch electronics company. Which basically was built on the fact that the Netherlands did not have a patent-system at that time.
Spacecraft to be controlled by artificial intelligence
I simplified it a bit, and explained the last, optimistic option... :)
Find some high-school graduate, not-yet-going-to-college supergenius coder-deities. The thing is, I don't think they're actually cheap.

Another possibility is to drive a nondescript van down Castro Street on a weekday around lunch, pick out a scrappily dressed young male, and kidnap him. Make sure you're driving facing west (or is it north? I mean south) so that you don't get trapped by the railroad. You'll need guns, I hear you can get them in Reno.
I think the article lacks a lot of meat. It talks about what the author used Lisp for, but it doesn't really dicsuss why he thinks Lisp should be used, or why others thought it should not be used.

For example,

"Someone (I don't know who) interrupted him [the software integration engineer] and asked if he could change only one thing to make things better what would it be. His answer was: get rid of Lisp. That one event was pretty much the end of Lisp at JPL."

Why did the integration engineer say that? This should be the cornerstone of the article. Same thing goes for the Google discussion he quotes.

Also, the author doesn't seem to take market forces into effect, eg. given that C++/Java became the dominant languages, I'm almost certain there were (are) not enough Lisp programmers on the market for Lisp to be a feasible technology at a large organization.
It does seem a bit difficult to pronounce with an Aussie accent. Since toilets are dunnys, chickens are chooks, Brits are Poms and Americans are Seppos why not just make a typical Australian linguistic move and make up some ridiculous word to use instead? I'd suggest Convizza but maybe that's too obvious.
The best part is when the author explains how Stuxnet attacks SCADA, then goes on quoting Schneier: "(the press often refers to these as SCADA systems, which is technically incorrect)".
The first stage of grief is shock and denial. So I'll forgive all the FUD flying in this kind of discussion. The key is that the Nokia board approved this move. They are most Finnish, and Nokia loyal. This isn't some kind of devious plot coming out of Redmond, you give them way too much credit.
New russian helicopter can land on top of Mount Everest, never ages
I'm sad to see that there's not been any mention of Geoff Crammond (Revs, The Sentinel, Stunt Car Racer, Formula One Grand Prix). He was singled out even 'back in the day' for being the ultimate one-man army when it came to game development.
Dunno, I pronounced it like it's an Italian word: kon-voo-Re.
Maybe making it more valuable to leave than stay was a bad idea, huh? If someone offered me $800,000 to stay, or $1.8million to leave, I'd leave, too! Especially if I could be working somewhere else during that time as well.
There's a lot of "google search sucks" lately because google search sucks. I would also be wary of techrights.org when it comes to regarding anything Microsoft.
NARUCI MAJICU.com - O nama
What would they do with it?
Never heard "Seppos" before.

Most Aussies would probably take one of the -o or -ies/-ers "colliqualization" rules :-) My bet is on convo.
This is why Wave failed. Nobody knew quite what it was. They still don't know.

Moreover: nobody cares. People do not care how the tools work. They care about their problems. Having an online conversation in the right mode - not too high-latency, yet not too synchronous, and not too disorganized - is a problem. Users understand that IRC and Wave and Convore are all billed as attempts to solve that problem. Therefore, they are all kind of alike.

If people actually use these tools for a while even non-engineers will eventually come to understand the substantial differences between them, but another way that Wave and Convore and IRC are all alike is that right now most customers have never heard of them, let alone tried them, let alone figured them out.
Yup, and now they totally gave up in the ecosystem wars giving their portion to Microsoft. Dumb move considering the market leader position (still over 30% with Symbian), brand loyalty, and huge mass of devoted developers. Technology pieces were falling in place with the newly announced Qt support on Ovi Store apps. There's no way someone thinks this deal was good for Nokia.
The article is interesting, but it is also an example of sensationalist journalism. All spacecraft and even regular aircraft use computers to make critical flight decisions faster than humans can. That is not artificial intelligence, and neither is what the article describes.

Edit: I made my comment less harsh. You clearly thought the article was interesting (and in a way, it is) so I apologize for my original comment's tone.
Google says game developers can rely on ads for income
Wasn't this done already?

http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/everestcopter05272005...
Well, in light of this, we should all check the news for Elop's name in about a year from now...
Thanks for the links! I encountered the Omniscient Debugger (2nd link) several years ago, but then lost it somehow...
There's a huge difference between releasing his fully sequenced dna and the data from a genotyping chip.... I went to the github site expecting to see several large fasta files for each chromosome.
You're scenario has nothing to do with CD. In fact, if you aren't using aspects of CD, your scenario is even more dangerous.
SimpleWorker: run and schedule your jobs in the cloud
It tells Googlebot that the content is crawlable. See http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started...
The ISBN is 020107981X.

For some reason, new copies are really expensive ($80+), but used copies are typically only $15ish.
Your comment about leveraging an OSS project as a marketing tool is theoretically valid but, even when you follow best practice, it still doesn't always monetize as you might hope.

I have an active open source project, hosted on CodePlex, but also with its own supporting website, complete with dozens of tutorials and other resources. Traffic to the site is respectable (thanks to a few widely-read articles) and the downloads from CodePlex run into the thousands.

The majority of the users are corporate, so there is potentially lots scope for consulting projects and I never fail to follow-up opportunities. However, despite all of this, the only return I have so far earned from my efforts is the right to spend much of my spare time providing free support.
I have the first 7 or 8 years of Wired in a box in the basement. Every so often it's fun to crack one open and do a little time travel back to the wild and wooly days of the internet.

I know most of the articles are online now, but sometimes the ads are the killer thing.
This is why I think it'd be great to see Google release all the 40,000+ test queries which Google/Matt Cutts took back in 2000. It would help to put to rest some of the "Google is regressing and getting worse" debate one way or the other (and I suspect by showing that such talk is more sensationalist than accurate; I think Google search has improved a fair amount).

The article does make some interesting points, and I am a bit confused at the supposed sequence of events with the JC Penny/NY Times story. Plus it does raise the question of why a company who previously has had some SEO issues was - apparently - able to game Google's rankings in such a major way (using such spammy methods) without Google picking up on it for months.

That's a conclusion point from the article which I think is a well founded one.

As for the other points in the article's conclusion though:

>> "But all the evidence suggests otherwise. Demand Media is worth $1.6 billion, and their entire business is based on pushing cheap, useless content into Google to get a few stray links. If Google was good at search, Demand Media wouldn't exist."

"wouldn't exist" is subjective. If Demand Media weren't pumping out content, what would rank in its place? Part of Demand Media's success is that they are 'filling in the gaps' and covering content surrounding keywords which don't really warrant much competition. Sure this isn't always the case - and Demand Media's sites do sometimes rank highly for some rubbish content with other alternatives available - but in many cases it does seem to be at least part of the reason for DM's success.

Do I like some of Demand Media's content? No.

Do I like that Demand Media seem happy to have some pages with more adverts than content? No.

Do I think that Google et al should not even index some of their pages (some of which can at current rank fairly well)? Yes.

Do I think that there's many good alternatives to some of DM's content? NO. Unfortunately.

>> "And Bing wouldn't be making solid gains in search market share."

I might have different ideas about what "solid gains" means, although to me a percentage point here or there doesn't amount to much.

If - say - a Presidential candidate seen his/her opinion polls increase by 1 or 2%, you wouldn't see a bunch of stories saying how the candidate is making "solid gains".

In-fact, if a mainstream media source run an article on (say) a political party who seen a 2% rise in their opinion polls - and thus concluded that said party is making "solid gains" - I'd feel intellectually insulted and suspect the mainstream media source of bias.

So I definitely feel that this conclusion point is sensationalism (and inaccurate sensationalism, at that) and nothing more.

So all in all, a decent article which makes some decent points (at times). But it does also feel a bit of a shallow 'staying in the bandwagon' type of article, too.
Utilo greyed out IE 7 and 8 for me, and installed a crashing IE6 on Windows 7 32 bit. I have IE9 installed, so that may be been the prob.
It's still something that has to be cleared by Nokia's board. He can't make a unilateral decision like this and have everyone go along for the ride.
I remember something called the "Game Neverending" shutting down because its developers, while working on an updated version, accidentally created a photo sharing website instead.
CEOs aren't "elected", they're appointed by the board of directors. Elop's background and shareholdings would be well understood by Nokia's board.
It's funny that someone who just sold out to AOL would choose to trash Demand Media.

> If Google was good at search, Demand Media wouldn’t exist.

Would Associated Content? Would AOL?

- - -

This is a cheap article that plays with words; it's titled "search still sucks", which is debatable but "truish", but what it really tries to say is that search "sucks more and more", which is provably false.

And it's 100% evidence free, too, as is the rule in the new entertaining noisosphere of blogism.

> So what is the evidence that search still sucks? Well, you know it’s true, just like me.

Mr. Arrington sounds like a priest now; what's the evidence that God exists? Well, you know it's true, don't you?

-- Well, no, I don't. What else do you have?

-- Err, nothing.
lies, im algerian and there is no blackout here
I was wondering why there were so few negative comments here on Michael Arrington posts.I have just read his biography on wikipedia.

Now I feel very naive. It Must be obvious I am new here. I understand no one here want to piss off this guy (like in my other comment). At least no one trying to launch a startup.

Ok now I need a new account.
It's a shame, really. Even in my job nobody seemed to "get it" when i tried to explain benefits and the "real" nature of wave (that it's a protocol). And i'm working in a heavily messaging (mail, etc.) oriented company.
I got everyone beta accounts and yet nobody got it. It was all about the sandbox/webclient. I think Google did a lot wrong with the promotion of wave.

Anyway, i'm eagerly waiting for the completion of the incubator process on apache[1] and will take another look at the state of wave afterwards. I still think the project is one of the most underrated projects of the last years.
I very much hope that the project won't just die.

[1] http://www.waveprotocol.org/wave-in-a-box/apache-incubator-r...
A Really Dumb Undertaking If No Objective
For starters, don't use the word "cheap".

If you can't afford to pay now, offer them shares/equity/whatever-it's-called.
MIPTV Content 360 Contest Open for Innovators in Transmedia, Social TV & TV Apps
He never quit Microsoft. ;-)
You're right, it should be the cornerstone of the article. Unfortunately it's relegated to note [3] and the postscript, where we learn that buggy C code was the cause of the integration engineer's Lisp headaches.
> probably would have taken more risk if he had been forced to.

If you are born on top of what amounts to be, effectively, an infinite pile of money (you know you will never actually be poor, no matter how terribly your business fails) are you really taking a risk? Most people who open businesses do so based on a sometimes wrong assumption the business will be able to sustain them and their families.
Clickable links:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vim/message/120903

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/17514
Then he basically turns into another pro-pot whackjob that the public ignores even if he is completely genuine and right.
"Any reasonable person" Careful - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well

There are serious competitive considerations for Nokia not choosing Android. I think Elop outlines them pretty intelligently here - http://video.allthingsd.com/video/nokia-ceo-on-choosing-wind...
I think this issue is at the heart of why many devs (me more than most) fail to live up to their potential. The mindset that makes for a great developer is very different from that of a successful marketer, as is illustrated in this recent post:

http://joeyroth.com/charlatan-martyr-hustler/

The commercially successful devs are those who manage to balance these two essential challenges. I think it's also one of the key reasons why sole-founder startups find it harder to win funding.
Yes, so you didn't get it, too.
Wave isn't the sandbox you've seen on the web.
If i remember correctly, the webclient didn't even use the "real protocol" but some hacked-together protocol buffers for demonstration purposes. Not sure about today, but when the beta started there wasn't even an official client/server protocol. It was still under discussion[1].
Sadly, the world never saw the "real" Wave, with server-to-server communication, different clients, etc.

[1] https://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/...
same problem here, compatibility mode and disabling desktop composition does nothing. IE7 just pops and closes. IE6 and IE8 run fine. Win7 64 bit here.
So now Nokia's decision to replace Symbian has nothing to do with a careful analysis of the situation, but everything to do with keeping $3 million dollars worth of Microsoft stock on the up for 1 man?

I have not seen 1 insightful post since this FUD has been spreading. It's amazing how much petty hatred is out there towards Microsoft...

I don't even think this has anything to do with Microsoft itself, but rather with people's psychological need to create conspiracies, to see themselves as the little guy fighting the big guy, and pretend that they have knowledge / can see what other's can't.
Er, there are 86400 seconds in a day (not considering leap seconds, etc) so just sending 10 per second should get them all out in a day. That doesn't sound too many, or too much.

Where is the bottleneck? Has he profiled the process?
Page Rank 8 Do follow Forums
Ask HN: my website seemingly sucks, but I'm not sure why?
Hi there,

I've developed a website to act as "an ad hoc perpetually published online journal of publication-worthy essays written by a global community of (egotistical) undergraduate International Relations students to act as a platform for the dissemination of and discourse on their new, interesting and engaging takes on international affairs." As the homepage spiel puts it...

I've done a little bit of advertising with StumbleUpon, where I received a "thumbs up" rate of about 1.5% of my total hits, with 0 "down thumbs" -- but also 0 new sign ups. I've had the link passed around to friends-of-friends who the site is aimed at, but registration still remains extremely low and site interaction is practically at a standstill.

The site is, to me, relatively polished, straightforward, easy-to-use and otherwise a relatively neat little concept that does hold some sway in its target market as there are other sites that convey revision material and such as part of gigantic "student portals".

Thus, my question is: does the way the site operates suck? Is it a poor execution of a good idea, or the other way around? Is there anything I could do to help highlight the benefits of registration right from the index page? Being a member lets you submit papers and discussions, comments and also earn "points" (upvotes)...

I appreciate that the site doesn't fall into HN's typical remit of being a "start up", but any feedback on the website from a few Internet-wise veterans would be welcomed.

The site URL is: http://www.thesjia.net

Thanks,
x03.

Edit: I think what I've failed to convey is that this is essentially meant to be an online study group for undergraduates who want useful summaries of topics written by undergraduates rather than as a proper and full Journal to compete with well established ones. It's called a Journal semi-mockingly and doesn't really aim to take itself too seriously...
I really like the Epiphanies by Epipheo Studios: http://www.epipheostudios.com/

Not sure how much they cost, though.
Should Be: Detroit - Silicon City
I'v had this thought in the back of my mind for a good year now, and wanted to share it with the HN lot.

Times are tough, jobs are sparse, Detroit has been destroyed by the withdrawal of the auto industry.

It seems like the perfect time for the geeks to swoop in, set up projects/teams, buy cheap houses and re(t|m)ake the city.

It's nothing simple or easy, but I can't help but see a potential Silicon City or Startup City.

Any thoughts?
what tech are you programming in?
He was always a.... "company man".
I believe the PC-DOS deal (without which Microsoft would be a footnote) stems from Microsoft's role in the BASIC interpreter built into the PC's ROM rather than an indirect intervention from Mary Gates. The BASIC deal, however, is somewhat attributed to her.
Well that's a worthless graph. The arbitrary choice to make the curve concave, the fact that you could dramatically reshape the trend line by moving a single point... You can draw a nearly flat line from Belgium to Italy, a vertical line from Austria to Ireland.
Nokia/WP7:  Nokia's still joining a crowd.  A smaller crowd than Android's.
I would be in a place that is free of the history and baggage that hangs onto the society I live in.

Good luck with that. No matter where you go... There you are.

Meanwhile, I really cannot understand the logic that says that San Francisco is not different enough from Florida so it's time to try a small capsule on an airless rock. Have you considered another country? They have quite a few of them. Vietnam? Madagascar? The Australian outback? Peleliu? Hong Kong? Morocco? South Africa? Costa Rica? Argentina? Have you even tried Alaska, which is a US state and everything?

If living in a confined space sounds like fun, have you tried living on a submarine? Or, if you imagine that being a submariner would be just too much of a social experience, have you tried solitary confinement? That can be arranged. Important hint, though: do so with trusted supervision - depression is a serious condition, terrible things could happen to your health - and have a safe word.
You're interpreting "override" as a boolean (either/or) relationship when the poster was describing an analog relationship.

The "stop" signal of the brakes outweighs/overrides the "go" signal of the throttle by some low multiple. If I had to guess, the brakes on an average car can consume 3-4 times as much horsespower as the engine produces.
Porsche used to describe some of their brakes as "2000 hp brakes".