skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I guess HR dude probably told a lot more, but it was edited out. Its just regular HR placeholder speech. He may have also been intentionally vague.
Bear in mind the U.S. has two main political parties; the right-wing one, and the even more right-wing one. The U.S. papers simply can't afford to be centrist or leftist.
>Hillary isn’t the kind of person to choose the wrong words

How has no one pointed out there was never any coolant delivered and Hilary Clinton did in fact misspeak? It renders this article a bit moot.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/japan-quake-nuclea... "US did NOT deliver coolant to Japan nuclear reactor"

"Ultimately, however, Japan did not need assistance from the United States but Clinton did not appear to have been updated before she made her public remarks."
Maybe not the most credible, but perhaps the most appropriate - after all, Vanity Fair's audience is also the type Dubai wants to attract.
Nice, they were sorry about our "perception" of what they were actually doing, not about their intention to begin with.
Ever heard of the story of how much would you charge to wash all windows on Seattle?

Cool response nowadays: Nothing! We will get investment, do it for free and figure out later how to make money :)

http://fseek.me/2010/12/how-much-should-you-charge-to-wash-a...
> "shouldered a smaller debt burden in 2010 than at any point in the previous six years, putting them in position to start spending more"

This probably isn't the writer's intent, but it just sounds like "hey guys! We got our debt down a bit! LETS GO SHOPPING"
Google's Project Oxygen: Build a better boss
Thesis -> antithesis -> synthesis.
AOL mass exodus lately
Saudi Day of Rage Tweets #march11 #saudi
No, it's a probabilistic statement about unemployed people as a group.

If 100 people all apply for one job, you can't afford to treat them as individuals. That's why you use filters. It's not perfectly fair, but on the other hand you're not entitled to five hours of a company's time just because you mailed them a resume. Why is this so hard for you to grasp?
There has been a lot of studies confirming the safety of snus, and they are just as hostile to it as anything. I don't think they would change their tune even if there were plenty of studies.
specifically Engadget. So strange ... obviously none of them have declared what the real reason is yet.
The article doesn't mention Facebook, which seems like the front-runner to the walled garden of eden. I can see Facebook doing their own browser and their own phone at some point. The already have the core app store in place and advertising platform. And of course they have the eyeballs.

Facebook becomes the internet you go to when you care about knowing who you're dealing with. IMO this is bigger than Google/Chrome, iOS, or Android.
Considering the AOL Way highlights them as a glorified content farm (that everyone scrambled to say doesn't apply to them leaving approximately nobody it does apply to) I don't blame them for leaving.

Churning out content on w/e the stats say is trending would be a shit way for a writer to express their creativity.
The thing that makes critiques of Dubai interesting is that they have chosen to so closely parallel aspects of our own society.

If you're questioning the social value of their building projects or the hidden human misery propping up their facades, you're not really just having a conversation about just Dubai any more, but actually having a conversation about huge aspects of Western culture & society with Dubai filling in the role of cautionary tale.
"Somehow the act of creating a startup has become the goal instead of the building of a business…"

This is so true. I believe building a startup is just like launching a rocket. Just because you had a successful launch doesn't mean you'll have a successful mission.

People forget nowadays that in order to be successful you need to have a destination. The launching of the startup is just one of the first small steps.
Nowjs seems to have a replication system baked in with harmony proxies so when you update data structures these changes get pushed out to the clients. I chose to have dnode just make copies but I do plan on writing a replication middleware at some point with the .use() functionality that landed in dnode v0.5 so I'm interested to see how well this replication approach turns out with nowjs.
Here's a PDF I found that could be a good starting point:
http://interruptions.net/literature/Wijekumar-ASIST05.pdf

It mentions a nearly-200 page document by Corragio that delves into the effects of interruption in what he calls "Knoweledge Workers". If you read his definition of the term, I am not sure that it applies to programmers. Besides, I am not sure that I can get someone interested in reading a 200 page dissertation.

It seems that searching for "Interruption and Distraction Theories" could be a better road to take with Google. We'll see...
There's no reason you can't disable root logins on a cloud server. I do it every time.
From Topolsky: http://engt.co/ftwNtM
Well I don't have a specific answer, but 'The Programmer's Stone' blog has way-too-deep stuff on cognitive side of programming, from stress addiction to the benefits of low-level lighting: http://the-programmers-stone.com/2008/06/18/the-benefits-of-...

Alas I just couldn't find anything about quiet in 5 minutes of searching. But it's been too long since the link came up :)
As a pretty strongly affected ADHD person and as the parent of an extremely affected seven year old, my experience is that no, diet alone will not help kids more than drugs. I'm a vegetarian, eat right, work out - all the right things - and, although they help, they are no replacement for some type of methylphenidate (i.e. Ritalin or Concerta). I don't need a study to tell me that "One approach does not work for all people."

Sorry for the rant - I just think it's easy for non-ADHD people to dismiss ADHD. I see hyper kids who get called "ADD" and then people make comments/decisions about truly ADHD kids from these people ("Just don't feed them red dye #10!" (or whatever)).
Actually, Topolsky said before that Engadget is not affected by the AOL Way.

Arianna Huffington (the new Cheif Editor of all AOL content sites) said she won't be messing with TechCrunch and Engadget.
I suspect that previous attempts haven't been successful for a number of reasons but especially because they tend to be synchronous. Node is a great platform for asynchronous rpc because the asynchronous character is already designed to make the programmer have to think about where the high-latency barriers are. I ran into this problem with drb in ruby for a job queuing system and had to write my own thread pool and polling system to compensate for it. Handing a callback off to your remote method does seem to work reasonably well at addressing these common rpc pitfalls.
I get that the AOL Way is kind of insulting to the writers, but it is really that big of a deal? Tons of posts, SEO bait, more video content seems like the status quo for nearly all mainstream blogs, even those without a big corporate overlord. I kind of assumed all the Engadget folk saw the AOL Way as a formalization what they were doing already.
World emergency map
It seems to me that pointing to Mondragon[1] and Semco is misleading, as neither are sovereign nations with all the pesky little details that entails. It's great that Mondragon is (per Wikipedia): "the seventh largest Spanish company in terms of turnover and the leading business group in the Basque Country", but there are lots of other variables at work in the Basque/greater Spain dynamic. Besides, anyone who has watched the economic news recently would realize that Spain is not exactly a shining model of economic prosperity.

As I see it, the fundamental flaw in socialism always boils down the facts that a) a great many people like power and won't willingly give it up, b) these are the people who historically wind up in control of political structures (including unions), and c) as Dame Thatcher observed, sooner or later you run out of other people's money.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
You're here.
I think the most offensive part is that Microsoft would limit itself to donating a mere 100k.

If they don't want to donate, that's fine, nobody really expects them to. But if they are, don't make it chump-change...
Essentially I was thinking that Neo4j could replace the BDB files (because graphs can be commutatively added by copying from both A and B into C, that means they can be used in map/reduce) but with all the graph links in place. Queries could then consist of cascalog jobs constructing and walking subgraphs. So for example "all the friends of Bob" consists of (map) copying the subgraph of friend-links of Bob and (reduce) merging the sub graphs by addition.
No offense, but Joel Spolsky looks pretty worn out and exhausted. Having a startup is great, but I suggest to Joel he take some much needed time off. Your body needs it.
"Is the word “Startup” meaningless? If so, why and does its loss of meaning really matter? If not, what does it mean now?"

I don’t think its meaningless, but I do think its meaning has somewhat been cheapened. The issue is that people are quick to lump early stage companies all into the same boat. There are many different segments within it. We just don’t have words that properly describe those segments.

For example, a startup that is ramen profitable is not on the same level as 3 guys setting out to build an minimum viable product. That sounds pretty obvious, but I would bet that a lot of people would say they are both startups.

IMHO, it’s not a startup until you have product/market fit. Until then, it’s an interesting project you’re working on with the intention of turning it into something real.

That’s the approach we’ve taken. In the past month or so, we’ve achieved product/market fit and have officially upgraded ourselves from an interesting project we’re all passionate about to a startup we’re all passionate about.

Admittedly, this was more of an internal perspective, but perhaps this is the type of approach that should be taken.
Sorry, accidental downvote when copy/pasting the following:

"Twitter is really concerned about monetizing the 10% that don't use the official Twitter clients?"

No, I think Twitter is concerned that monetizing the 90% (via user-hostile moves like the dickbar) will grow that non-monetizable 10%. I.e., in order to do the things they want to do, they can't have pleasant, usable alternatives out there that people can switch to.
I notice they have no bullet points listed under "Help your employees with career development." I wonder if this means they feel obligated to mention it but don't really want to encourage it (because developing your career will often mean leaving) or if it just means they don't know how.

Or maybe it's supposed to be so obvious that it doesn't need explanation.
>none of the men in the room had actually read their contract. Only two of them knew how to read.

Only two of them knew how to read? Now, whose fault is that, Dubai's government, or India's? If so much of India's population is illiterate, they're screwed wherever they live, be it Dubai or Japan.

Vietnam's literacy rate is over 90%. India can surely do better.
I've been to Dubai. It's boring, very boring. The shops & malls are too expensive. The non-Arab "residents" are mostly people stealing from their homeland and splurging in Dubai. It's really sad.

Don't get me started on the South Asian workers, it's a modern day slave trade.
Engadget are a textbook example of it and quite likely where the entire plan originated.

Their most recent article other than the resignation letter:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/12/htc-droid-incredible-2-sm...

- 3 sentence summary gives them a strong chance of hitting their rev per article goals.

- 3 internal links and a shitton of tags to reinforce their SEO

- 1 solitary little external link at the bottom to minimize the SEO juice they leak

If your job involves tagging summaries with "Android 2.2" and "Android2.2" then you're working the Aol Way™, even if it's not official.
Hey Geoffrey,
Thanks for the kinds words.
Even launching RobMeNot into open beta was a feat in a itself. But it all gets easier once you do it.
The offensive tweet:

"How you can #SupportJapan – http://binged.it/fEh7iT. For every retweet, @bing will give $1 to Japan quake victims, up to $100K."

Using a national tragedy for marketing purposes is just sickening. Really really sickening.

EDIT: Given the amount of downvotes, I suppose I should clarify that this is my perception, and this is probably perceived as many in this way. Marketing is about perception. This was a fail for Bing.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2006/06/dubai-200...

The article has its share of gushing. However lines like "As far as fantastic working environments go, what of the tens of thousands of lowly immigrant laborers who are toiling like slaves under the whip of all-consuming construction?"

give VF some credibility.
Battle to stabilise earthquake reactors
Sweet revenge? Sean Parker may be bidding for Warner Music Group
I agree with you. I have no idea how the article managed to get 30 votes. There is almost no content there.

Does someone have the capability to see if there is vote rigging going on here?
Which is exactly the problem. See also : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
You could even make it ad-supported. The glass facades of office buildings would be prime billboard real estate.

(ETA: I came up with that before reading the linked article, I swear!)
I zoomed to 172%.
This shouldn't be downvoted. It's a real risk. It's easy to over-restrict a child's diet.
Gah, so much misinformation.
There is no "Kill switch" in Android, the Market App has permission to uninstall applications, it also receives push notifications from market servers that can include instructions to uninstall an app.
The Android market is _not_ part of the OS, if you build straight from AOSP you don't get the market app, no app no "kill switch"
There have always been startups whose first products seemed like quick hacks (including some that went on to be extremely successful). There have always been startups that seemed more derivative than inspired. (And a few of these turned out to be revolutionary, because even if 98% of the idea was a ripoff, the last 2% was based on a deep understanding of the product being 'copied' that nobody, especially pundits, understood the significance of)

The only difference the author can point to is that more people are doing startups, more startups are getting funded, and there is more of a supporting infrastructure to help startups (incubators, hackathons, blogs, etc). Certainly starting a startup has become more socially acceptable. While this may make the act of entrepreneurship less "rebellious", this is not necessarily the kind of rebellion that makes for disruptive startups. Whether I get nods of approval or worried looks when I tell my non-startup friends I quit my big company job to start a startup has little bearing on how disruptive my idea is.

The article sounds more like a hipster's complaint than anything else ("I was into startups before they were cool!")
please flag this crap journalism.
We apologize the tweet was negatively perceived.

This is not even a real apology. This is a non-apology apology: a re-skinned "I'm sorry you feel that way."

Douchebags.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology
I don't have any inside knowledge w/ Josh / Nilay's exit, but I can say Enagdget editors tend to last about three years. Peter "left" and worked on rcrdlbl right after AOL acquired Engadget (twoish years into the site's life), then Ryan left after three years of tenure (2008), now Josh is leaving... not a surprise.

Blogging the Engadget way is hard. You have to always be on your game, making sure posts are timed, etc. It's not a picnic. These guys are really good at what they do, and having a corporate overlord wears on you.

[Disclosure: I was at Engadget in 2005-2007]
whether the startup is the goal or the means to a greater end doesn't really matter in the long run as far as I'm concerned.
that daring to come up with some idea, any idea, and build a beta site is enough
whether they think this is enough or not is irrelevant as startups which think this way will generally fail in the long run, regardless. People may be getting lazy, but there is still always the final test of consumer reaction. If youre not providing something people need and youre not doing it as well as possible, youre not competitive and youre not going to last.
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I would agree, but this seriously doesn't look like an attempt at marketing.

It looks like a way to let people be involved in Microsoft's giving.

You're free to look at it in the worst possible light, but I'm having a hard time believing that's what they intended.
I wrote a similar script way before fail2ban was ever created in around 2003 or so. When PF was first introduced. Since then I've just kept using it since it works particularly well for what I want it to do.
Given that we're discussing one of the most sophisticated data analysis companies around they probably did attempt to test their theories to destruction. Or, otherwise stated, after forming an initial hypothesis they tried different interpretations of the same data to see which ones made distinguishable testable propositions.
IOS 4.3 Nitro JS engine disabled for full screen apps and uiwebview
I imagine it's every bit as exciting as cloning the little instantly-viral websites and apps that pop up - probably get paid, but making sites/apps stops being an outlet for your creativity.
Cool!

Is the full text of [2] available anywhere? I can't seem to find it with web searches.
In my ideal world technical managers would have very broad technical experience in everything their reports work on.

It is not realistic to hope that they would be experts in every different area their staff are working on.
Ask HN: What's everyone doing at SXSWi tonight? (03/12/11)
A couple of us from http://dish.io/ and http://checkin.to/ are going to try and check out the following parties :

- Frog Design
- Etsy's party

Let us know what else is happening around town and hopefully we'll see you there! Is there an HN meet-up planned? That would be cool too.
Know what? If you donate $100k to charity, you get to milk it however you want. If we dig deep enough, we can find selfishness in everything we do. Let's not and say we did.

EDIT: good god people, when a corporation donates money, it is always out of self-interest, one way or another. You can complain about their lack of subtlety, or you can take the $100k and just be glad that capitalism sometimes works that way.
I just found these two links that might be useful:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
(See section 8)

He mentions this book:
"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams"
HBS Elevator Pitch Builder
But what if your IP address changes?
Don't touch me, I'm British
Did not mean to upvote this. I don't think Microsoft has anything to apologize for here (raising money and awareness via retweets?), so a non-apology seems entirely appropriate. How many people complaining about this have donated even $1?

I'll take all the karma burning you can dish out, I've got lots to spare, but calling them "Douchebags" for donating 100k is over the top.
you should see around you then that Vietnam is pretty capitalistic right now..
Articles like this are amusing but also somewhat disturbing.

Ubuntu is based on debian unstable. It was created to escape the slow debian upgrade cycles and get more recent packages on the desktop.

So far, so good. But why are we now baking a server distro out of a desktop distro that is based on the unstable branch of a server distro? And who would put that on a server and try to "secure" it?
A bit offtopic but overeating depends a lot on types of food you consume.
Removing hunger inflicting components from your diet may make not overeating a matter of habit rather than of willpower.

May have a look here:
http://www.paleonu.com/get-started/

Has been helpful for me.
But then why did they @bing themselves, and why base it off retweets? Their support is entirely based on other people's willingness to spread @bing by Bing 100 thousand times. And what the heck is with that "apology"? Though they're now flat-donating 100k, doing it to make up after-the-fact doesn't change things, especially when it's so small from such a phenomenally wealthy company.

Why is their support based on retweets? Why not state they're donating 100k and request retweet for the binged.it link for purposes of finding ways to help? Or better: make it two tweets, so they're not advertising their generosity with their support link. They don't even mention what the binged link is. Why didn't Microsoft bother to make it a more prominent link than one that's 166 characters long and nested in their "community involvement" section?

This is a very nice comparison between Google's response and Microsoft's. "Resources related to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami." is right on the Google front page. Microsoft's mention is nested a dozen layers deep, with a banner of "Corporate Citizenship".
I assume the same thing is going to happen to the other social drug of choice?

All those enticing pictures of Chateaus are going to be replaced by a plain white bottle and a picture of a car crash caused by drunk driver?
Of course there's a risk, but that doesn't mean its a bad idea.

I would say a great deal of the companies in the world are somehow at the mercy of the fates, in a way similar to Zynga. A bus stop moves, and your convenience store no longer gets traffic for example. Lockheed Martin has one major customer - what would happen if the DoD arbitrarily changed the rules for them? Every tech company relies on Google and Twitter for marketing and traffic, what if they got caught it some algorithmic change and stopped getting search traffic?

And so what - there's risk everywhere, but there's opportunity too. At the risk of getting screwed, Zynga carved a $200m a year business. And now what? They get 30% less? A nice problem to have.
So you are implying that one has to donate a thousand bucks to be allowed to complain about a company turning a tragedy into a marketing stunt?

/e: the parent poster edited his post. In the original version of his post, he asked whether anyone who criticizes bing has donated 1% of $100k.
I don't want to disparage your comment because I do agree to some extent.

However, I think you might be getting voted up because you gave links to some interesting content instead of because people think you are necessarily correct.

I'd like to provide a little balance.

It's routine practice in statistical analysis of situations to form a hypothesis which goes against the grain of accepted belief and then to test it using analytical techniques [1]. In fact, this is how the scientific process works.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis
I honestly don't see what the problem here is. I see this kind of thing happen all the time, and no one only makes a big deal out of it. You can say the same thing with Google's People Finder site...it was just created to show people that Google "cared".

I think that sometimes people blow small things like this out of proportion for no real reason.

PS. I will probably be down-voted for this. So be it.
It's particularly striking when you compare it to what Google did:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-stands-up-japan-eart...