skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see him break Google up in to individual product "companies", each with their own office, corporate hierarchy, balance sheet, and near complete autonomy.

Larry would act as the investor, and anyone inside the company could come ask for money to found a new "company" or for additional funding. Every company would start out with some kind of "shares" to be distributed by the founders (with vesting, etc). If a company fails the people would actually lose their jobs. If they succeed the equity would be worth some proportionally huge amount.

I don't think any company has ever tried to truly simulate startups on a scale like this while maintaining the upside and downside of a real startup.

It's just crazy enough to work and he's just crazy enough to try it.
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Well, here's an article that kinda focuses on Sergey (it's about him and Parkinson's research, so it's only indirectly about Google).

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_sergeys_search/all/...

It's interesting in its own right, but also gives some insight into Sergey.
Name your startup well
I bet most ISPs in China don't want to even think of any content filtering, but Great Chinese Firewall is still a reality.
Listen to Japan’s massive quake
Startups are (very) high-risk investments. I doubt he's quite that wealthy that $1m is peanuts to him, so taking outside investment seems like a good idea.
Does ZFS do anything to optimize for SSDs?
That is entirely wrong. With AWS, we've built a multi-AZ load balanced infrastructure for very little time and money. Getting an equivalent setup out of our own hardware would have been orders of magnitude more expensive and time consuming.
You typically get more than cash when you raise a round of funding.
I don't think that's entirely true. For me, the great thing about the internet is that some of these "tribes" are actually pretty diverse in their viewpoints.

They form loose communities based on currencies of quality (thoughtfulness, analysis, originality) instead of specific views. Specifically, I'm thinking of the bloggers/twitter users who write about political/econ topics. A lot of the good ones are non-commercial and ad-free and aren't looking for public acclaim.
With respect to CNN's loss of respectable brand image I have only two words to say: Nancy Grace.
Here are my thoughts from experience:

1. keep a schedule-be showered, have breakfast and be ready to work at 9.
2. I have friend I call at lunchtime so that I'm not eating "alone"
3. When it seems like nothing is getting done, I go and have a change of place...I go to Starbucks, the library or somewhere else to complete the work.
4. Find a group of other friends that also work from home and have phone/skype/im coffee breaks with one or two of them.
5. Let yourself be lazy sometimes-no one is productive every day.
Hope that helps!
That pavement is most likely asphaltic concrete (commonly, though incorrectly, known as "asphalt"), which is a mixture of asphalt and sand/gravel aggregate. It's fairly flexible, at least compared to Portland cement concrete.
This is a good analogy, but it misses the very important bonus that a profitable doughnut vendor is also in a good place to fund the development of the uber-nut.
Is a multi-provider setup common? I certainly think Reddit should be on multiple availability zones within AWS, but spanning multiple providers seems hugely more difficult.
Hmm, curious why user-select: none; wasn’t applied to these buttons. Not sure why you would want to let people select text on UI elements e.g. by double-clicking a button — feels less “native” to see selections made on UI elements.
Uh.

Well, we know there have been more-than-several high-profile moves from Google to Facebook.

How many high-profile moves have there been from Facebook to Google?
So this gets 8 years in prison for stealing code, but GS gets billions in tax payer financed bailout bonuses after their malicious loan schemes and shaddy investment tactics nearly bankrupted the country. That's totally fair.
So he "dropped out" of Twitter. Where did you drop out of?
Yup, I agree. I recently submitted a pull request for changes I made to expose a primitive Base class in Backbone:
https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/pull/276
AIUI Walmart is successful because they mastered logistics.
That's not how GoDaddy is selling it. One could make an argument that it ceases to become a ccTLD once anyone can register it for "novelty"/domain-hacking use.
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I want a .iloveicann
Is this significant? I haven't used Node but the changelog makes it looks like there's nothing particularly interesting about this release.
Right, not terrible convenient since I'd have to fire up a VM just to see if I want to use this on a project.

I did test it in chrome, ff, safari and ie9, looks good though that is probably not a surprise.
Agree with your second point. But Twitter helped spread the YouTube videos so I doubt Twitter is trivial. Communication, whether it's the Internet or cell-phone, helped the revolutions by connecting people and organizing them. But yes, we don't know the net effect and I think it's impossible to know.
It's not just what they present, it's how they present it.

With the Japan disaster trio going on (quake, tsunami, partial meltdowns), they've replaced some of the reruns of fluff (Piers Morgan's interviews with other former contestants from Celebrity Apprentice) with the live feed from CNN International.

And looking at the CNN international stuff, it turns out that they are still capable of producing a news broadcast which at least looks and sounds like it was intended for grownups (even if the sourcing is ... awfully thin). They just don't see fit to broadcast it within the US.
I was really surprised to see the parent downvoted. It provided useful information to me (I didn't know such a list existed or where to find it) and presumably others ... what's the objection?
It's an interesting topic though :).

I concede the point that it can't be totally inaccessible, but the it seems like farmers with hunting rifles going after professional soldiers. Sure, sometimes it works out or you get lucky, but that's not the norm.

Although come to think of it, the public defender situation isn't much better, is it.
interested in mac programming and small business... whoo boy

seriously though, anyone who suggests excluding free apps would have to be crazy. free users lead to paying users.
Why are they comparing twitter to digg? It's not at all the same thing. I mean, twitter is like drinking from a fire hose, no curation at all just tons of stuff being dumped. Digg was more like sink water, decently cleaned can be enjoyed all the time. Reddit is more like good spring water (you can pick the spring you want too, depending on your mood) and HN is Evian water ;p

Again you don't use fire hose for the same thing you'd use water from the sink. It's complementary.
Great post, but how do you structure a press package in the first place? Is a great landing page, and a good 'about' page enough, or do you look for something more?
> That was the reaction in 2003 when Denise Griffin, the person in charge of Google’s small customer-support team, asked Page for a larger staff. Instead, he told her that the whole idea of customer support was ridiculous. Rather than assuming the unscalable task of answering users one by one, Page said, Google should enable users to answer one another’s questions.

That explains a few things... I wonder why they they even bothered writing Google Forums, they could have just thrown phpBB at it and call it a day.
Makes me wonder whether Cocotron's AppKit can be reused for other platforms - Windows, Linux, etc. with MonoMac?

The ClozureCL guys are doing something like this - their GUI is written with AppKit/Foundation, and using Cocotron they have some version working on Widndows.
I believe every even version ie 0.4.x are just bug fixes and usability additions. I think the real core comes in the odd releases 0.3/5.x.
I have no idea how practical it would be to hire developers in India but you live outside the country. That's basically outsourcing, or perhaps a remote workplace. Some companies do it well (DeviantArt, Morgan Stanley), some suck at it (Boeing). Lots has been written on outsourcing, I have little to add to it.

However, I didn't mean to imply that you personally need to stay outside the country. It's unlikely you will be harmed - India isn't Russia, after all. I just meant that corruption is rampant and you should plan your business to minimize the impact.

As for IP theft, IP is probably about as secure as anyplace else (i.e., not very). How can you prevent `git clone ~/src/important_startup_code /media/usb`? Banks use PS2 mice/keyboards and put glue in every single USB port, not to mention paying for a massive surveillance infrastructure. Good luck with that.

The primary risk unique to India is that the courts are worthless. You can't get an injunction to stop them from building their own startup with your code, all you can due is sue and maybe win in court in 20 years (unless they bribe the judge).
Sounds like the Oracle sailing team.
That's really nice to have, though now the line numbers don't actually match up with the original file. Would it be possible to change that?
Kevin Rose needed a Sean Parker to help him maintain board control and guide him.
It's a maintenance release on the stable series. Some really good fixes in there, if you care about node in production.
This is absolutely a wonderful project, from a very talented member of the demoscene. However, "for the first time ever" isn't entirely accurate. Web-based visual experimentation environments for 2d/3d programming have existed for years, from the Flash-based (wonderfl.net), to Java, to (many) based on processing.js. Being shader-based, I'd say this is actually less accessible to kids, unless you're just teaching them that moving sliders and changing parameters is 'programming'.
There's no fountain of youth for big companies.
It's relative. Assing all 850 million were to be considered profits, that's over 2 years so roughly $106 million a quarter.

For reference apple made $6 billion in profit last quarter,. So, no it's not a big profit center.
Except going to the moon is awesome and not at all retarded.
The thing I found most interesting about this article was actually an omission. The hiring process at Apple retail is the most insane thing I've ever experienced. First fill out the application in store. Then follow up with the manager of the store for weeks on end. Then have a quick interview in store. Then go to a group interview with 50 other people. Then go to a panel interview with 3 others. This process took 6 months start to finish and I didn't even get the job. The reason why people want to be a "genius" in store is they already went thru hell and back just to get in the store.
L2ARC lets you use SSD as a disk cache. I wonder how well it works with an SD card in a MBP...
I'm puzzled by why they haven't teamed up. I was under the impression they had a good time during the screen savers.
What cash has he made from digg? What is his share of the company now?
Well, I plan on getting myself a .xxx domain name for personal projects and such (non-porn) because I like the suffix. I'm curious how many people won't be able to get to my sites because of wholesale .xxx blocks.

If enough legit stuff starts appearing with an .xxx domain name then there will be pressure to get rid of complete tld blocks.
AFAIK, ZFS does copy-on-write updates, so that's a slight form of wear levelling.

So yes it does, but unintentionally.
Revocation doesn't work
Exactly. I think it's clear they are trying to make more money off the app store, including free apps, but I'm pretty sure they're already making money off of it.
Oh yeah, if it's broken, fix it, I don't meant tech but organisationally. Just pointing out that there's often more work that goes into databases than endusers see.
Interesting you say that as that is one of my gripes about blogs on company websites.
I know the answer to that, but I'm not at liberty to say. It is significant, though.

Anecdotally (which I am allowed to say), among the people I've worked with at Google, there have been far more defections to startups than to FaceBook. Many of them ended up at YCombinator. And the people who leave to found their own companies generally seem to be of higher quality than the ones who left for FaceBook - I find I rarely miss the people who defected to FaceBook, while I very frequently miss the ones who've left to found or join early-stage startups.
An easy way to combat that is to start hosting great non-porn content on .xxx domains. I intend to do this from the get-go.
Young driver insurance
you shloud be careful when doing that
And just as that cover was full of hype, his "demise" is just as hyped.
Using Twitter to Preserve Minority Languages
Be prepared to put up a $400 security deposit if you have no credit/ssn
Godaddy doesn't operate the registry for .me. ccTLD is just a class of TLDs established with a specific purpose. The purpose might get de facto expanded at the country's discretion, but that doesn't obviate the original purpose. The people of Montenegro would disagree with your claim that .me was a bad idea.

With no geographic-based TLDs, you introduce a need to disambiguate non-related brands which would have been perfectly distinguished by ccTLDs. Compare http://www.era.mk/ and http://www.era.pl/ - neither organization is controversial in its right to the TLD in its country, but one or both would have to settle for a disambiguation otherwise.
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I've always hated .biz. I don't think I've ever seen a legit company with a .biz domain name.
Since the front-line genius bar employees have so much discretion to go beyond the minimum required, it's really worth treating them well.

Showing up on-time for your appointment, not being a pain if they have a backlog and you have to wait a few minutes, having everything backed up if possible first, and being consistent and clear in describing what the problem is (at whatever level you know -- you don't need to actually know what the problem is, but describe the symptoms) -- will probably go a long way to getting a better than expected result.

My 3,1 MBP fan broke while I was in Iraq, and I bought a new i7 MBP to replace it. When I brought the 3,1 MBP in the day after AppleCare expired, they were great, and basically replaced the entire system, incidentally fixing cosmetic case, keyboard, etc. damage.

They've been equally good every other time I've gone in with a problem. They also have a great program for business users which gets you expedited service.

My only complaint with the AppleCare service model is that it's not so great outside the USA.
It's a matter of making some things easier to filter, which is better than not making anything easier to filter at all.
I've just started down my path of really learning JavaScript. My first stop was "JavaScript: The Good Parts", and the author there really advocates using closures to define objects and enable encapsulation. It seems in practice this approach isn't used often (such as Backbone here), why is that?
G'day guys, the creator of this jQuery UI theme speaking. I'm working on this very idea, but I'm so very busy. The jQuerythemes.com domain was vacant for a while too, but some bastard bought it ;)
What bugs me about Alex's post is that he started at twitter what -- 9 months in? I think I read that somewhere. So it's not to hard to imagine that, given his early start date, and given Twitter's amazing valuations, and given that some employees have cashed out, that he also has taken some money off the table. So my apologies if I'm wrong, but your perspective totally changes even if you make, say, $1MM in cash. That certainly isn't fuck you money, but it does really allow you to be very selective about what you do for the rest of your life and insulates you from lots of downsides. The fact is, if he has a million dollars or so and he shoots for the moon on try 2, his worst case scenario is he has $800K after not taking a salary for 2 years and not even trying to conserve cash. Whereas the downsides facing a different person without a large cash cushion are much worse.

Just my .02, and obviously, if Alex hasn't cashed out, he still holds a decent chunk of Twitter stock that is probably relatively easily converted to cash. That's not to say I don't respect him, because I do, but I think that -- as the 37 signals people have beaten to death -- if you have a 10% chance at $1MM or a .0001% chance at $1B, you'd probably be a fool not go for for the easier, more likely money. Try to shoot the moon try two.
Psychologists say the harder it is to gain entry to a group (club, frat, union, guild, company) the more irrationally positive folks feel about it once they're a member. Human nature -- if they went through all that trouble to get in, it must be worth it.
Maybe it is but it bears more analysis than just capitalizing the word 'IS'.

There are a fair number of costs involved:

- Reviewing 350,000 apps x the number of updates. Say 1,000,000 reviews?

- Bandwidth and hosting for all apps, free or not.

- Taxes

- Credit card fees

- Bank fees for payouts

- Data center

- Legal Work for maintaining a store in 91 countries.

- Software development of the store itself.

- Developer support

I'd say that's obviously going to be 100's of millions on costs. 850? who knows, but the net is that it's going to be minor on their balance sheet and not a business they'd bother with if not for the synergy with their hardware business.
If there are "multiple sources", wouldn't it be possible to name them?
Shouldn't the first example read:

george.roar(); // displays: "George, the lion ROARS!!!"
How can you link to "say multiple sources"?
As I understand it, the final consequences of a loss of cooling event for the spend fuel rods is the same as for a reactor - the rods melt down, you reach a criticality, they start burning and releasing radioactive smoke and ash into the atmosphere. Then why don't spent fuel pools have a containment strategy?

First, a correction: The fuel rods heat up, and can potentially burn, but do not become critical -- you need either more U235 or a moderator in order to produce criticality.

But to answer the original question: The vast majority of heat released is from fission products rather than the uranium; when the reactor is stopped, these short-lived fission products are releasing about 7% of the original reactor power, but they decay rapidly. Spent fuel in the storage ponds is normally very "cold".

Unfortunately, reactor 4 was defueled a very short time before the earthquake, so its fuel was still quite hot.

This is why the storage pond for reactor 4 is a problem while the storage ponds for reactors 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 aren't -- the fuel in all the other ponds isn't producing anywhere near as much heat and is thus not boiling off the other ponds.

I expect that the #1 recommendation to come out of nuclear regulatory bodies in the post-mortem reports will be to require that fuel be left inside stopped reactors for longer prior to being moved into the cooling ponds.
I thought the agile guys were all about refactoring, which is not building anything, adding anything, or fixing anything.
i was in that article. what an awful piece of "journalism"
From the Shape of Grids to the Latest MI Milestones
This is fine as long as you actually understand what it is you're working around, why it's there, and what the consequences are of working around it. What looks like bureaucracy to a technologist may well be there for a very good business reason.

Sometimes there's a tree across the road simply because a tree fell across the road. But other times there's a tree across the road to keep you from plummeting into the ravine where the washed-out bridge used to be.
They're losing perhaps $100 million to credit card transaction fees. Then, salaries for god knows how many sysadmins, developers, designers, sales/marketing people, app reviewers, accountants, on and on. Assuming that just 5% of its ~30,000 non-retail employees work on the App Store, salaries eat up another $150 million.

So now we're down to $600 million, or so.

Then you've got bandwidth, infrastructure maintenance, scaling costs, utility costs. You've got to pay out cash to developers each month, so now there are banking fees on top of the ones you see when you collect money from consumers.

Still, let's be extremely generous here and pretend that operating at this scale costs nothing at all.

In such a case, operating the App Store made Apple a profit of $60 million a quarter since it opened. Apple's Q4 2010 profits were $4.31 billion, making the App Store in such a scenario worth a whopping 1% of Apple's profits.

In reality, once you account for all the hairy stuff we skipped, it's probably a lot closer to a rounding error than any kind of significant contributor itself.
>I know the answer to that, but I'm not at liberty to say.

that somewhat strange when taken together with the definition of high-profile.
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The downside to NoScript (as someone who's been using it for a while), is when you do find a site you want to visit, which for whatever reason requires its scripts to function properly, you're often left at the menu, wondering which of the half a dozen or more scripts you actually need to allow (some advertising / metrics companies can be easily spotted by domain, but often you've got the original site, maybe one or two static content domains, perhaps a CDN.) It gets to be a hassle
You're right! Fixed. Thanks for letting me know.
Yes, that would be me. I'm still getting my head round Javascript, cant take something new on at the moment.

I havent even learned what inheritance is yet, so have no idea how Backbone.js would benefit me, even though im working on a project where i need to use a class.
Consider doing both with two different brands; with an online business, and a decent MVC architecture, it isn't very hard; a slightly different view for each brand, and different processes around advertising and customer support for each one. If your cheaper brand is so cheap your competitors can't beat it, they won't compete with it on price, and it won't start a price war.

That way, you capture the customers who respond to price and the customers who respond to non-price factors, and the market segments could well be different enough to limit cannabilisation of each other.
we could make one?
This part was where I really started getting suspicious of the journalism. Does anyone really think that two very capable, industrious founders fell for the childish puppeteering distraction by a project manager?

This is just Wired appealing to the masses.
Maybe. Digg is also old enough it was structured and architectured under an old-school (You need at least 15 to 30 engineers) approach for a content site. In that way, it was a sort of bridge to what we've got now -- it got the social crowd-sourcing of content part together, but it didn't have the minimal engineer part together.

You can bet that getting the money to pay all those guys, who then needed sales guys to make the big sales to pay them and the engineers, who then ... contributed significantly to Digg losing its place in the world. I betcha that the new startup has significantly tighter hiring policies.
Interesting, I wonder if this becomes a trend as other startups and cloud customers discover these limitations and look for more custom solutions.
Probably this list? https://github.com/isagalaev/highlight.js/tree/master/src/la...
Yeah... I was surprised to see it down-voted as well. Although my repeated linking to that page in comments seems very spammy, my heart's in the right place.

I don't think very many YC applicants and potential YC applicants realize how much useful information I have on that site.
Parallelism is not concurrency