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Many more details in an earlier submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270624

There's a comment there that cross-references earlier information and submissions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270839

It provides the following clickables:

* Here's the original article on VentureBeat: http://venturebeat.com/2010/06/13/seamicro-drops-an-atom-bom....

* The HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1429628

* Original announcement (HN submission 2 months before original VentureBeat article): http://gigaom.com/2010/01/06/seamicros-secret-server-changes....

* HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070705

Kudos to HN user pyre.
This article would be much better if they used the hilariously-clever expression "atom bomb" even more times in the first paragraph.

Oh wait, no.
This experiment builds on my past project that analyzed 9 million Tweets: http://ktype.net/wiki/research:articles:progress_20110209

So technically the headline should be 'Designing an optimal keyboard layout for chatting in English using one-finger, using data from 9 million Tweets'.
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Dude, if you're ever in the UK I owe you a beer. Heck, many beers.

To be fair, the main problems I had with Solaris on SPARCbook 2 were more to do with Java being too slow and Sun's insistence on making everything Java-i-fied around the time I was using it.
I have also been somewhat worried about the "safety first" approach that a lot of the Japanese young take around here.
I have been in Tokyo just for some months, but I truly believe that things could be infinitely better if I only these guys could find the proper motivation.
The UK health system is absolutely fantastic FWIW.
I don't understand the point about threading; I've been using threading ("conversations") since I started on Outlook 97. It does appear to use the References: header.
It's an interesting question. I discovered in high-school that an avid interest in science expressed through reading back issues of national geographic, popular science, and other similar magazines can give you a significant leg up (giving me a lot of advantages in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and computer science).

In some ways a lot of what's available online for free is better (wikipedia is generally better than most physical encyclopedias, not least because it's so fast to search), but in some cases there's still a gap. There are plenty of bite-sized nibbles, but there aren't as many cohesive, well put-together larger bites of knowledge such as you'd find with popularized science books and magazine articles.
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I've always aligned my UI designs on a grid, trying to promote order and minimize clutter, but I think having an articulated goal of minimizing alignment lines will help me in the future. I'll try to keep an eye out for your book.

P.S. "natural inviting" in my original post should be "natural and inviting".
If your site is accessed through CloudFront, those custom error pages don't come into effect... as I clearly said.
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Are there any node.js based remote jobs?
Where can I find information about what you're looking for? :)
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So now HN is trying to be PRweb?
Personal expectations:

It will be different.

The following comments are sweeping generalizations, and do not apply to individuals. Any given individual could be the opposite of my description or expectation ...

My experience is that undergrads are less focussed, harder to engage, demand more instant feedback, and lack motivation. They are are also more willing to learn, less indoctrinated with how things "should" be, and more adaptable.

My experience is that post-grads are more focussed, better motivated, clearer in their objectives, and more able to look at the big picture and delay gratification. They also tend to have more knowledge, and perhaps becuase of that sometimes they might feel that they know better, and not really believe what you tell them.

My expectation is that your approach will need to adapt, but that anyone who comes to you to learn should be able to be taught. But do you want to teach them? I don't think so. I think that any entrepreneur that has a chance of succeeding won't be taught.

You need to give them the opportunity to learn.

Patrick White: 'I forgot what I was taught. I only remember what I've learnt.'

B.F.Skinner: 'Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.'

Confucius: Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand.

But in the end, whether you stay teaching the undergrads or leave to teach the postgrads depends on how you feel about the opportunity to change.

Can't you do both?
Counterpoint:

Last time I fitted a Bayesian model, I had 1 processor with some interpreted code and left it for ten minutes. YMMV.
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First of all, Atom CPU is only "efficient" power-wise when it's sitting idle most of the time.

It's not efficient per task accomplished for power used.

Secondly, "dropping an atom bomb onto *" happens to reference one of the most horrible things the United States has done to any other country, regardless if you agree if it was unnecessary or not, so implying the reference is very distasteful.
I didn't meant to come across as critical. That's a very reasonable conclusion to come to, and it's the reason why it's such a shame that vim upstream don't want to highlight #!/bin/sh scripts as POSIX syntax by default.
People always point out the social and networking benefits, which can certainly be great, but college can also be a very limiting social environment in a lot of ways. It often extends the cliques and general self-conscious stupidity of high school years and makes it easy to get completely stuck in that mind-and-soul numbing bourgeois bubble of social status and judgment, and if you aren't careful you can get pushed along on the conveyor belt into a job that's just a further extension, and you'll never get to have your own life.

You can actually learn a lot more about life and relationships by putting yourself in difficult, unfamiliar situations rather than cushy curated ones. Backpacking solo around the world or starting fresh in a big city doesn't get you into the Yale Entrepreneur's Club, but the things you learn and the contacts you get can be more unique and diverse, and I'd venture that a capable person will tend to end up with a better education and more adaptable people skills this way, but I don't want to downplay that it can be very very difficult to swim against the current, especially if you don't have great social confidence to begin with. It's still worth it though. The real world is tougher, but it's a lot easier to find meaning there versus being stuck on the good grades-good salary-right friends-high valuation-Achieve Success Treadmill Of Doom (tm).
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Reliability is the most important concern.

You really think there is someone out there with a better reliability record than Google on this front?
+1 - it's fantastic. The thought of being freelance/starting a startup whilst having to pay health insurance is terrifying.
Any idea how it compares in speed and accuracy with Dasher? http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
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What I really mean is JS Apps that use XMLHttpRequest or JSONP -

I found that prepared me pretty well for asynchronous disk reads and asynchronous http requests, I was already doing that in my browser code and it ported quite cleanly to node. (I use a wrapper method that chooses whether to use XMLHttpRequest or http.request based on the environment)

I should note one thing that tripped me up in the beginning is forgetting that I was in a shared environment for my scripts. I typically design server stuff to be 'shared nothing' by default, and you have to be a little careful in node as that is not the default way of running node services and at first I was sometimes sharing objects by accident.
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Open office spaces are great! For socializing, that is. If you actually want to get work done, peace and quiet is a must.
You probably meant "wary"... or maybe not.
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It seems to me good photography is less about technical skill and more about curation skill.
Please stay in school, young men. You'll be 40 with a wife, a kid, a mortgage, and no degree. It's a terrible idea to not spend 4 years getting a degree.
Ah right. I thought you meant there were some technical/architectural limitations with the protocol itself and didn't even think about limitations added on top of it via licensing. Thanks for clearing it up.
do end users of google pay for adwords?

i sometimes don't understand this b2b-b2c stuff when trying to find next google.

(next google in terms of 'huge success', but not in terms of 'search' or 'web 2.0 company')
>in fact some people claimed that the PS3 had nearly “unlimited power”

These people are known as "marketers".
Two things to remember here: Sturgeon's Law--- 90% of everything is crap as applied to books and as a beginner who are you to distinguish? The second thing regarding classes is that teachers like everyone else all hang out on a bell curve, this creates its own version of Sturgeons Law; how is the beginning student to know a good instructor from otherwise?
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So I've got a question for everyone: what's with the current fascination with using imported fonts that (on certain OS's/browsers), don't have AA. I love good typography as much as the next geek, but is it really so important to have that flashy font that you used in Photoshop, if it looks rubbish on your site for a large number of users?

@Developers: What's your take on using these fonts against using normal ones?

@Designers: Would you rather have a font that's correct against initial design, or an anti-aliased one that isn't?

Examples: custora.com, locations on creativemornings.com, elated.com post titles. YMMV looking at these, based on what your OS/browser combo is.
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This is a throwaway account, for the obvious reasons. I'm a regular reader and occasional contributor.

I've just been asked to stay on at the web startup I work at while the majority of the company (developers, sales, etc) is layed off. My job would be to maintain the existing software while an off-the-shelf replacement is integrated by a consulting company. The downside is that I won't be doing any new development for the next 6 months. The upside is that I'll be compensated much better for babysitting for that time period. After that, I'm free to go. Is this a wise career move or should I cut my losses and find something new immediately?
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Is it symbolic of the Palo Alto area/ Stanford? Have always wondered why this image was chosen. Suits the site very well by the way!
I heard recently that Solaris 5.10 doesn't like $().

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/11707
I've always found B2C advertising supported relatively easy. Perhaps I'm just lucky at it :/ Perhaps I'm just very bad at B2B.

However, I'd much rather have a million customers paying me $1 each, than have 10 customers paying me $100k each.

But I agree with your last point. Depends what gets you excited. For me personally, B2B is as soul destroying as it gets.
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Sounds like you're certainly more keen on the startup than the consulting. I'm in a similar situation, where I do a little contract web development as well as building up my bootstrapped revenue-generating startup on the side. My plan is to stay bootstrapped, but build up the revenues to a point where I can focus fully on the startup. It will take a little longer than if I had angel investment, but I believe it is totally worth it, and I have already managed to drop my contract work a little.

What I'm intrigued about is whether you believe you can't build up the startup to ramen-profitability and drop the consulting work without getting angel investment? If you can, then why would you not hold off the investment until that point?

Another related thing I'm wondering is whether you agree with the wisdom of "get investment when you don't need it" and "leave it as late as possible"? It seems like you could drive up the valuation if you waited.
Hmm I wonder if Google archives the old images?!

It would shock and sadden me if they didn't given they will produce quite a fantastic scholarly record in 50->100 years time. And given the growth in storage tech the cost of storing the old data sets will only get cheaper.
I have a couple of pro photography friends who lament the advent of consumer digital photography. The combination of photoshop and free shots means less people are making the effort to learn the art and science behind good photos.
Ah, the law of unintended consequences.
No, this is entirely wrong, and it shows some small-minded thinking on the part of readers. (1) (And I dont' care how much Karma that burns.)

I object to the content and tone of the button. Whether or not I support Chris Tolkien's actions is immaterial to that. I do not support it, and I support the button maker's freedom of speech. But I also feel compelled to speak out, that the message itself is snide and stupid. Really, do we need to encourage the fragmentation of fandom?

(1) - Whether you support someone's freedom of speech, and whether you think much of what they're saying are entirely separate. Please use your brains and comprehend principles and get beyond simple tribal loyalty.
I think I see the TARDIS materializing in one of those, lol.

What's with the photos of the animal parks, can't be the Google car that's taking all those?

The wild pony ones are the most weird to me, just ponies wandering around eh?
Insurance in general is an impediment to entrepreneurship. I know our insurance costs are way more per unit than those of larger companies. I don't know if the higher costs could be attributed to the marketplace or the fact the larger companies are much more sophisticated in their risk management.
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Some photos are unique due to their location though, so it'd be cool if we could see where exactly they were taken.
A discussion on quora should also help : http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-best-web-designers-in-India
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Could somebody explain what is Bayesian analysis and how it works or point to an article explaining it ?

The wikipedia article regarding Bayesian analysis is cryptic to me.
On your first point, are you saying not to shy away from paying for things?

A friction against action I have fought is that I could pay for a service through which I could create more value, but paying for it means I need so many X new customers a month to make it worth it.
Wow, $4.5 billion valuation. What was their business model again?
This is a tiny thing, but really makes a difference to some people including me. In OSX, the standard convention has been to make all icons in the menu bar black. Yours is orange - is there any way of having a black alternative?
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Still there. Contributing to OSS (golang) + studying theory I missed because I didn't do compsci at uni. Once I hit the 40/50 patch count and have good algo/os knowledge I reckon I should be better placed to be attractive job-wise. Several failed 'views have seriously hit my confidence, but I am working on fixing obvious areas of deficiency.

A lot of the problem is that the stuff you build can't necessarily happen at the place you're at - if all your place do is db frontends and your coworkers produce endless spaghetti, anything you produce is going to be subsumed by that.

Another issue which is rarely spoken about is the atmosphere of the development environment - if people are on edge/insecure/[deadsea-ers][1] things can get nasty quick, and there is nothing better at pulling down your confidence.

I have come to the conclusion that you have to build your own positive output because you love it, and let the career-enhancing aspects act as a side-effect. I adore this stuff, that's why I'm doing it.

It is often frustrating though - I am 29, 30 in September and it is difficult not to feel trapped. The negative aspects of the job make it harder to do the positive stuff necessary to get out - got to work hard to keep your head above the water.

[1]:http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
Whether the font is anti-aliased or not depends on the operating system settings, not on the font itself.

That said, I do notice that some custom web fonts look ugly on Windows due to the very crisp quality of the rendering engine, especially when Cleartype is enabled. Those fonts look a lot better on Linux and Mac browsers.

Therefore, whenever I choose to use a custom web font and know that my target audience includes Windows users I give more attention to selecting a proper font and testing how it renders on the page.

I encourage the use of embedded fonts over traditional techniques such as image replacement, because the text looks and behaves the same as it would in other applications on the user's computer.

(I'm a developer doing some design on the side)
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Those blogs were posted in 2003 and 2006. We are in year 2011. 5 years in tech industry is like 20 years in other industries. Just sayin'
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This is an interesting question.

The way I would approach this is by creating a 'sales' page which appears as a 'sale' but actually it is where you are testing your particular price point to see which brings in more conversations.

For instance you can have this "sales" option to load randomly for various users, with different options to test specific price points - and then you give them a different amount of discount (this discount ends up giving the user the price points that you are A/B testing)

Furthermore, to ensure that you avoid any legal lawsuit I would specifically state that that you will honour a lower price price if they find it elsewhere. So if one customer buys it for $50 but another for $40 and they find out, you can just give them the difference.

I'd like to say this isn't legal advice and that I recommend you checking this out from a legal standpoint before implementing but could be the solution to A/B testing pricing points.
That only works in bash.
>how does all of this fits in a startup?

It is really helpful to be technically sound.

Here is a scenario of what happens if you are not technically sound:

Have you watched The Social Network?
There were guys who had an idea but didn't know how to implement it. So, they asked "another guy" who knew how to implement it to do the job.

That "another guy" stole the idea. :)
Palantir is a company well worth knowing about [1] and one TC has written about like twice in 6 years, despite it being a billion dollar company actually doing stuff.

Now compare that to all the fawning attention given to Facebook meets Yahoo Answers that is called Quora....

EDIT: haha wow, it's now become politically incorrect to criticize TC's baby, Quora?

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/25/palantir-the-next-billion-d...
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I'm pretty sure Solaris is one of those nasty OSes that continues to include a broken /bin/sh for "backwards compatibility." They presumably also have a non-broken shell around somewhere in the standard install. This is why redo goes through extra effort to choose a non-broken shell for running your .do scripts.
I still think the most interesting / scary Street view was when the Street view van was followed by kidnapper/rapist (now also a murder suspect) Phillip Garrido.

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Yes, it would be cool to link through to the location even if the image is not there...
In the New Forest (down in the south west of the UK) there are ponies, horses, sheep and more wandering freely. They are used to cars (I guess they think that they are just other animals that use the road,) and so they will not move.

Several times we have had to stop, jump out of the car and physically push ponies off the road. Fun times.

It has been Common Land, with citizens rights of usage enshrined in law, since 1698. It is sadly one of the only remaining pieces of such land we have left.

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Dave is a cool guy, and really nice to talk to, but I'll be the first to agree that when he's writing/giving speeches, his style sometimes serves to distract/detract. I remember hearing one of his speeches where it felt like every other word was either "fuck" or "shit". It was highly distracting.