skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I feel that I agree, I'm having a hard time thinking of any counter examples this morning. Perhaps there are there specific industries where the focus isn't executing or creating but instead just being the first? Pharmaceuticals?
I've read a few stories now about property being seized by the police and returned damaged or not at all. What legal options does one have in that situation?

EDIT: from the comments:

> Yes he has recourse, if the police didn't find anything illegal in their search then ALL damages must be paid for.

Fair enough. What if they had found something?
From the links out (to the JS game kit): http://impactjs.com/documentation/impact-on-mobile-platforms

Which largely mirrors my testing (though my code was by no means highly optimised). It's jerky enough at present that I'm trying to pick up Lua and use something like Corona for game dev. At the rate things are going though, I'd say it'll be more than feasible within a couple of years (as in there's enough support out there to make it worthwhile).
well if that part was launched in 2009 than the GC of now should have a better more connected UI with the GP product and other google products..
It looks to me as though one or two Chernobyl sized disasters per century can very much upset that balance.

Deaths obviously still matter but I don't think looking only at radioactivity is good enough. I would very much like to know the deaths per kWh for energy produced from coal and nuclear energy. It is certainly possible that infrequent nuclear disasters are, well, worth it.

(A single airplane crash kills many more people than a single car crash. Airplanes are still much safer than cars since they crash so infrequently compared to cars. Nuclear energy might very well be in a similar position, I honestly don't know.)
What's the chewing gum for? To keep the kids quiet?
I admire Google for making information like this public.
Being paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you.
Yes.

Google has had a company wide task force of engineers since 2007 called the 'data liberation front.'

http://www.dataliberation.org/

I think they have the muscle to take facebook's crown when it comes to the more personal, friends and family side of social networking. I also trust them to take my rights and my privacy seriously. A lot more seriously than facebook does at any rate.

Best case scenario: they nail the UX, and bring in a little of the awesomeness of wave while they're at it.

Good luck to them.
Any competition to facebook is extremely welcome..
hacker news - where they still love etherpad and lisp!
i don't get it. what problem does this solve... that i don't know who my friends are?
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This is not new. This has been there for quite sometime.
Bandanna - you need something to blow your nose on, do you think you can still buy Kleenex afterwards; also makes decent bandage - I have had to wrap injuries with them occasionally when camping or working at landscaping.

Aluminum foil - you can cook in it; you can wrap stuff in it, but you can do that with plastic; save the foil for stuff where other things won't work.

Chlorine bleach can disinfect first aid stuff that gets dirty, but more importantly it can disinfect water supplies - it isn't as good as iodine, but it is good enough, cheaper, and if you buy much iodine suitable for disinfecting water, nowadays you are liable to have a midnight interview with some vicious twits looking for your meth lab.
There it is? It hasn't happend yet and these numbers are estimations. While things may go that way it would be very presumptuous to claim they already made more money with the cover than all other competitors made with their tablets.
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>So, ignore the independent media and get all of your information from pro-nuclear lobbies?

The msm usually doesn't have any idea what they're talking about when they report on computer related issues, why do you expect them to be any better when it comes to nuclear power?
And it generally isn't a kiss, it's more rubbing cheeks and making a smacking sound, the heads are parallel.
Lots of things have had a lot of resources thrown at them only to utterly fail to make an impact on the world. I'm sure that internally, Google keenly appreciates this fact. So although I knew about Brin's commitment to this area I'm still left wondering what the recruitment strategy is going to be, given that it needs to win FB users and not just everybody else. And more troublingly, why RWW is so gung ho about it.
The same thing that distinguishes a good (fill in the blank) from a great (fill in the blank). Passion, drive, perseverance, experience, patience, brilliance, etc. If you want to be a great engineer, the problem is that you don't see yourself as a great engineer already. If you saw yourself as a great engineer, you would emulate all those wonderful words I mentioned before, because, well, that's what great engineers are. Fake it 'til you make it.
Original source: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/hacker-collective-anonymous...
Chewing gum stimulates the production of saliva which temporarily eases your thirst. This can buy you time to find drinkable water, and to help you to wait for water to be treated - you DO NOT want to risk diarrhea in a survival situation.
But nothing stops an accessory vendor from creating something very similar to the Smart Cover and undercut Apple on price. While you may not be able to beat the quality, you could make a very usable attractive version at $10 and sell at $20.

The only thing that might stop this is if Apple had a patent on the use of magnets in a cover (everything else in the cover already had been done by InCase).
Zynga.

Zynga continues to implement Lean with it's products. They don't develop any new feature in any product without concrete proof of user interest. Put up the "store" sign, make it clickable, if enough users click it, develop the feature.

Simple, straight forward, validated.
"It almost appears as if a frustrated FACT employee trashed the hardware on purpose before it was sent back. How else could it turn into such a mess, and why take the computers apart piece by piece in the first place? What were they looking for? Warez?"

I suspect that the cops are worried that, if they boot up the computer, it'll have a program which notices something is wrong and wipes the hard drive. So I'd guess they take the hard drives out and inspect them separately. At that point, they probably don't care about the rest of the computer, so don't care how it's treated. What they did was horrible, but perhaps this explains it as something other than malice.

What's the line about incompetence often being a more likely cause than malice?
Second 'muse' on this blog post:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/03/04/engineering-...
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Indeed. He needs to very carefully document every bit of damage (photos of everything, paper evidence of the age of equipment if possible, etc), and claim in detail for everything, and his time and legal costs.
Ask HN: If ideas don't make you rich, then where do you start?
I read a lot that ideas don't make you rich -- proper execution of ideas make you rich. The issue I have is that even if you execute great on something that nobody needs (a common problem among engineers), then nobody is going to buy it. So then it must follow that it is about proper execution of a good idea that makes you rich (or at least a good enough idea).

Suppose you decide to enter some under served niche market. Let's say this market caters to a group of people that would be difficult to meet with regularly in person to test your hypotheses over. People are already spending money on product X,Y, and Z that all do more or less the same thing, but all of them are overly complex, only run on windows, and leave some to be desired. People generally say that they know there could be better, but they are used to product X and they have adapted to fit into the way it works, so they are unlikely to want to try something new.

If the idea doesn't matter, then making a clone of product X should be sufficient to start with. But the limited interaction you have been able to get says these people don't want a product X clone (i.e. good execution of a bad idea). Unfortunately, there are too many questions to be answered to come up with something really innovative and useful to these people without a fast iteration cycle.

This situation seems to come up with every under served, non tech savvy, niche market I have encountered. How have you successfully dealt with this situation?
Citation? I haven't seen this before.
This is excellent advice, but I note that you ignore the advantages a chainsaw has in defending against brain-hungry zombies.
Excellent - we might also have a house across from the Hilton downtown to use. Will keep this thread updated.
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True, but the overall impression I got was that there is a design by a committee in the land of Gnome and MS is having hard time reconciling that with more structured development practices.
Seeing from what happened to the ipad case business last year, i would say that this will not impact sales of third-party cases. The market will be there for all.

Some will buy the smart cover and some will buy the traditional folio case...
I like the first answer from quora, but with one exception.. That being an understanding of business and priorities. Great engineers understand that ultimately, they're responsible for shipping product in a business setting.

In your personal open source project or side projects you can afford to be experimental and push the box, but when you're in a business setting, you need to balance the need to ship with the desire and drive to be experimental and solid. Get from point A to point B balancing risk, reward, and speed.
This is a pretty fun idea. I think you will get better feedback once the site is open. You could improve the copy as per others' suggestions, but you got the point across to me at least.

Good luck!
i tried to post this comment on your post on religion:

i get where you're coming from, but you've convinced yourself you're smarter than others and that makes you less happy, probably because other people (rightfully) view you as a dick... if i were you i'd consider giving some thought to big issues of international coordination our governments face, things like what if someone such as yourself were in control of a big red button to drop a nuclear weapon
Schmidt's quote was taken out context and his view has been grossly misrepresented. In context, he said that when required by local laws, Google has to provide records, so don't give Google any data you don't want the government to be able to get their hands on.
Circles is a such a nice name for a social network!

I've been waiting to see what a behemoth like Google comes up with when they've put a lot of muscle to a product they've never before approached.

Looking at the presentation by Paul Adams (The Real Life Social Network) I can only hope it's just as exciting!
> Fair enough. What if they had found something?

In most civilized countries being guilty does not give the police the right to destroy your property anymore than it is necessary to do their duties.
I'd more likely suspect malice disguised as incompetence. I wouldn't doubt FACT has an unwritten policy of this. They're an anti-piracy organization and they had the computers of a bit-torrent tracker, of course they have an incentive to trash the machines.
I think that's because they are both useful for getting work done.

And you forgot Python (for those of us that prefer spaces to parens).
You have the user start doing it by themselves and then you use this data to train the learning algorithm.

Similar to when you first enable Priority Inbox. It asks you to mark a dozen or so of your emails as important or not important, then it guesses the rest of them based on that initial input. Then, if you don't agree, you can make some more corrections, and iterate until everything's generally satisfactory.

Obviously false positives and negatives have far greater potential consequences here than with priority inbox, but the same general ideas can be applied. Also the social graphs of the the people on your friends list is a very rich source of data for the learning algorithms. Once you've placed two or three people from work into the 'collegues' circle the connections between those two or three examples and the other people you know from work will make it pretty simple to guess the rest of the work circle.

EDIT: and assuming that circle will start off by importing your google mail contacts, it already has a fair amount of implicit data about your social graph when it comes to those people due to your email activity with them, and their email activity between each other.

Thinking about it, the priority inbox stuff could well prove to be a very rich soruce of data for them generally in this circle endeavour.
Even "Where's Your Duck Been" doesn't look grammatical.

It's short for "Where has your duck been?" There's nothing grammatically wrong about that.

On the other hand, "doesn't look grammatical" is not exactly the Queen's English.
If they can really figure out an easy and intuitive way to solve the problem of sharing statuses to only a set of people then it would be really interesting. Eagerly awaiting! :)
Ok, I am going to do step 1. Apply to YC and get rejected.
> Does anyone honestly think this is what Microsoft was doing?

Microsoft executives. They can honestly believe (to the extent of sustaining that under oath) whatever they want.
Facebook can already do this and it's called 'Lists'. (Account/Edit Friends/Create a List). You just put your friends in 'Lists', and then each time you want to post something but show or hide it from certain Lists you can click on the padlock icon and choose 'custom - edit' and type in the name of the List before posting. This applies to both wall posts and photo albums.

Problem is I guess the average Facebook user doesn't even know about the capability. Google may come up with an easier to use UI for this, but Facebook can just improve their UI and give more weight to this feature in it.

Unless Google has a completely new model that Facebook finds incompatible to their model then this is just a 'feature'.
There's also the breeder reactor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
it's hard to go to college without going to school

I basically went to college without going to school first. I had a D average in high school, and something similar in grade school (I was far more interested in making trouble than anything else!)

I didn't need preparation to go to college (and I went to a midwest public ivy); all I really needed was a clear idea of why I should do so. That I got from reading Issac Asimov and Ayn Rand, not from any teacher forcing me to sit still in their classroom.
I mean if this http://gwan.com/en_dns.html happened to me I would be paranoid too.
Thank you Anon, you may be freedoms last hope. Wish I was joking.
> would have been less offended if Bing had originally tweeted that the donation was already made?

I would find it more acceptable, yes. Not asking people to retweet in order for them to donate UP TO $100K would be more honorable.

There are noble ways to get 100K retweets. This is not one of them.
It's a feature that can be worked into Facebook in ways that will be far superior to starting a whole new social network. Google is fighting a losing battle here because they seem convinced that people want a clone of Facebook with a few extra features. And it's just not true.
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I'm writing a series of posts about the issue, largely as a result of extraordinary comments (attacking GNOME and individual participants) made by Mark over the last week. It is an attempt to correct the record and set a path forward.

http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/03/12/relationship-between-...
Google has already shown that it does not get social. Google Docs, Youtube, Picasa Web Albums, etc. have huge social potential but Google failed to leverage that.

Attempts with Buzz, Connect and Wave are examples where Google tried too hard but failed.

If they fail this time too, Google should stop spending huge budgets trying to built something internally and invest in new emerging disruptive startups that want to storm the social thing.
This I could get into. I've never had a FB account, but if I can really maintain walls between spheres of contacts, I will be giving circles a try.

Gmail integration wouldn't hurt either.
The post missed one of the great services for generating and hosting QR Codes: the Google Chart API - http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/qr_codes.html
One problem i could see though is that limiting your sharing to only certain social circles might be too limited for some people. The other day my roommate was upset that I couldn't see some of the pictures he'd been tagged in on FB because I wasn't already friends with the owner of the picture.
People like being able to show off their pictures to others and sometimes it seems people want everyone to see a picture, whether theyre friends or not.
If sharing rules are too strict they might run themselves out of business.
On the other hand, i suppose Facebook is a virtual generator for privacy issues...maybe Google is on to something.
I think its far too early to call it either way.
This is the same impression I got from what I read so far. Unfortunately, it's pretty much impossible to get reliable information on that.

An announcement in Germany regarding the safety of our nuclear power plants stated that ours are supposed to be safer, because they would have at three to four safety layers instead of two used in Japan, which probably referred to the containment layers.
Remember, they pump in salt water, without prior desalination. It will get radioactive, although to which extent I have no idea.
"* Change the SSH port"

"Why are you doing this? What will you achieve by it?"

Changing the port does not improve security. It does, however:

- dramatically reduce the noise associated with the fleet of password guessing bots that hit open SSH server daily.

- make it reasonable to assume that a password guess attempt is specifically targeting your serve, and therefor consideration for escalation and follow up.

Signal to noise ratio. Less noise make it possible to discover the signal.
> If you donate $100k to charity, you get to milk it however you want.

Let's make it clear - they didn't donate 100K to anyone. They offered to donate up to 100K if enough people promoted their brand by retweeting their message.
> The UK is Facebook mad, of course, but doesn't really have a locally popular equivalent of Reddit, Hacker News, Digg, MetaFilter, etc.

There are plenty of UK people who read these. I expect the reason there aren't any popular UK-specific equivalents is simply that most English-speaking people on the net aren't from the UK, so any English-language site is likely to be dominated by non-UK people (unless its content is UK-specific).
Here's TLDR version: (1) the steam released has radioactivity lasting on the order of seconds, (2) if/when meltdown occurs, cesium/iodine radionuclides can exist in the steam but are apparently blown out to sea away from Japan, and (3) with the exception of controlled steam releases, a steel containment surrounding the core & related components will absolutely contain 100% of worst-case scenarios, meltdowns, etc.

At least that's how I understood it. Not an expert so I have no idea how much of it is true or not.
Can you say that "getting screwed" is a habit too then?
Sawzall is good for it too, plus you won't damage your blades cutting up bone in case it was actually a neighbour who'd contracted rabies shortly after being scalded by falling into a deep fryer during the earth quake.

Plus, you could spend the difference on a battery powered nail gun, which if you tape up the guard you'd be able to use as a make-shift rifle.

That way you've got a nailgun for range and could have an easily used hackzall for melee (just make sure you use a nailed-wood blade so it'll cut flesh and bone adequately). Plus both easily store in a tote bag.
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Hmm... if they leverage what they have (search), they might give Facebook a run for their money. I'd definitely like my search results filtered by what my friends like. And even more by what they dislike (die, search-engine-optimizing crap farmers, die!)
It is used actually for many of the services mentioned there
Original original (Gawker) source: http://gawker.com/#!5781158/what-does-anonymous-have-on-bank...
They could probably hack up a particle filter together pretty quick, but unlikely do any desalination. Any reactor which got salt water in it is very much totaled.
You wouldn't trust Greenpeace, you shouldn't trust the nuclear lobby. There are other independent sources available.
being lean helps us not die from unbearable debt and regret for wasting too much time of our lives, when we were wrong.

are these the examples of startups that when being early stage proved their concepts with minimum viable products, pivoted, failed, 'reiterated', etc?

maybe they were lean, but didn't they hit the right target from first attempt? (it's a question, not a statement)
I like the idea of having different circles or trust: different circles for family, for different groups of friends, different customers.

That said, trust issues: I still miss Wave (yeah, it is still running but for how long; also the Apache Wave in a Box project seems to be moving slowly). Just for PR value, I think that Wave should be supported in maintenance only mode.
Topolsky did mention in his post that he has a project on the horizon that he will be sharing more about. Ryan Block and Peter Rojas went on to start GDGT so maybe the alienated engadget editors have some new fresh take on tech up their sleeve.
I think you misunderstand the meaning of "A nice problem to have". It's like when you have so many users that things start to fall over. Basically that millions of people want to have the same problem you have.
I agree about the situation in the Silicon Valley,
the situation in Europe is a bit different, raising money seems much harder ...
> looks like a way to let people be involved in Microsoft's giving.

Is there any other reason to get people involved in Microsoft's "generosity" than to promote it? As it is, they are holding their contribution for ransom (if you don't retweet their message, Japan will get less donations). How that's not a clumsy attempt to profit from the deaths of thousands of people?
Is it feasible/economical to have a secondary power plant to convert all that heat into electricity?
I think that the requirements should be lowered for K-12 teachers.

The reason things got so bad is that there are a lot of education majors that go into K-12 education because it's easy. These are people that couldn't pass introductory science courses, let alone teach them to undergraduates. And there are lots of them, so they try to differentiate between themselves by getting masters degrees in easy (as opposed to chemistry or physics) fields such as education. Over time, this must have ossified to the point we are today, which is that this puffed-up "educational" arms race between teachers has translated into an institutional requirement.

One of the reasons I didn't respect many of my grade school teachers is that they didn't actually know anything, and I could tell.
When 1-2-3-4 is used in music to show degree, that is an ordinal representation, not a cardinal representation. That's sort of the key difference here.
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