skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like dieting, more people will say they agree with this than will actually do it.

How do people fail? There are many ways; here are two:

They use the wrong definition for "what works". "What works for me", "what works for the management team", "what works in the lab", "what works in theory", "what works for the people who don't pay", and "what works for my highly-recommended and talented designer" are not necessarily the same thing as "what works".

They don't "strip out". They talk a good game about focus, but when push comes to shove they don't really throw away anything. It's hard to throw away a feature that you've worked three whole hours on. It'll come in handy someday. Somebody will use it. If we deprecate it, it will annoy all three people in its installed base and they will Tweet nasty words. It's already built; how much can it cost to maintain it in our spare time? It's profitable -- one penny per user per year, but we'll make it up in volume. We'll look stupid if we don't have it. We're expanding, and the new hires will help us maintain it. It's a loss leader. The VCs really loved its demo. Techcrunch is wild about it. Your mom smiles when she sees it. It helps kittens and puppies; think of the puppies.
It may seem easy to you, but it needs to be brain-dead easy for the average user or they won't even waste their time on it. Is there one site people can go to like Facebook and signup? There also needs to be a compelling reason to switch.
Personally, I'm sure Apple still have several game changer projects under wraps they could release when the time is right.

With or without Steve Jobs this company is here to dominate the space for the long-term.
Check out my new turn-based fantasy combat game: Sticks 'N Steel.

http://www.shinyfish.com/sns/

/shameless-plug
The story links to the 8 behaviors in the form of a JPG image, but I transcribed it to put in the HR section of our wiki. Thought someone else might want the plaintext version:

EIGHT GOOD BEHAVIORS

1. Be a good coach

- Provide specific, constructive feedback, balancing the negative and the positive.

- Have regular one-on-ones, presenting solutions to problems tailored to your employee's specific strengths.

2. Empower your team and don't micromanage

- Balance giving freedom to your employees, while still being available for advice. Make "stretch" assignments to help the team tackle big problems.

3. Express interest in team member's success and personal well-being

- Get to know your employees as people, with lives outside of work.

- Make new members of your team feel welcome and help ease their transition.

4. Don't be a sissy: Be productive and results-oriented

- Focus on what employees want the team to achieve and how they can help achieve it.

- Help the team prioritize work and use seniority to remove roadblocks.

5. Be a good communicator and listen to your team

- Communication is two-way: you both listen and share information.

- Hold all-hands meetings and be straightforward about the messages and goals of the team. Help the team connect the dots.

- Encourage open dialogue and listen to the issues and concerns of your employees.

6. Help your employees with career development

7. Have a clear vision and strategy for the team

- Even in the midst of turmoil, keep the team focused on goals and strategy.

- Involve the team in setting and evolving the team's vision and making progress toward it.

8. Have key technical skills so you can help advise the team

- Roll up your sleeves and conduct work side by side with the team, when needed.

- Understand the specific challenges of the work.

THREE PITFALLS OF MANAGERS

1. Have trouble making a transition to the team

- Sometimes, fantastic individual contributors are promoted to managers without the necessary skills to lead people.

- People hired from outside the organization don't always understand the unique aspects of managing at Google.

2. Lack a consistent approach to performance management and career
development

- Don't help employees understand how these work at Google and doesn't coach them on their options to develop and stretch.

- Not proactive, waits for the employee to come to them.

3. Spend too little time managing and communicating
Why can't the login be optional?
It really is amazing that publishing to Facebook friend lists isn't more intuitive and easy. I do it but it takes like 4 clicks and some typing to choose a list. All they need to do is make that easier, creation of lists easier and all these kinds of narrow social efforts will be for naught. It must be that Zuck hates friend lists or they would be better by now.
What marvels will the singularity bring us? Claustrophobic computers?
Only a matter of time, netbsd runs in so many different places it even works well in xen.
6 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get the Most Out of Life
Yes, the name "Circles" is awesome.

Yup. Circles was also the name of social groups in Microsoft's threedegrees software.
Backbone.js & last.fm api: "search for your gig-buddies"
10% unemployment forever?
Yes, I find it interesting that the article focuses on privacy. Google Circles, a product from a company that probably knows more about me than my mom does. I'll be able to hide from my mom, but not from Google's advertising algorithms, and presumably anyone who can subvert/subpoena themselves into the database.
Ted neglects the last of the four categories: actionable but not informative.

To this I assign many of the resource utilization alerts, such as disk or memory full. They're certainly actionable, but, in very many cases, they don't tell you if a critical service is down because of it. Arguably, these are another kind of "cool story, bro" alert.

Regardless, they're a common frustration because it's something that's so easy to monitor, it's even an example/default in Nagios, along with the oh so uninformative load average[1]. It's a specific giving in to the general temptation of monitoring something just because it's easy.

[1] I routinely remove this from all monitoring systems I touch, even if it means modifying source and custom compiling, since, invariably, someone will point to it, without even knowing what it means to be on the run queue.
Very cool, I really enjoyed listening too BrightArc's coils play music at the San Mateo stop of the faire. Now if you could just direct the beam to where you are pointing you'd be all set :-)
Did FOAF ever catch on in any particular domain? I remember putting the tags into one of my blogs about 7-8 years ago but I just looked it up and it's 11 years old now. The Projects page lists a few projects that use it but it appears to be an ancillary thing people are "supporting."
Mission Bay, Marina, etc might liquefy and shake hard, but they won't be getting hit with a tsunami.
I don't want to speak for the appjet/etherpad founders, but this story is very wrong about them. They certainly did not consider etherpad to be a "toy" -- it was their main focus for quite some time.
Yeah, it seems to be surprising to you that there are people who did not drink the nuclear Kool-Aid. Why is that? Has your 2-party system, the influence of corporations and your declining media made you unable of critical thinking?
I agree to your first reasoning. The second one - I´m not sure about exactly that point.
Backstory: Ferfal is a rather well-known guy in the online preparedness community. He kept an online diary of his experiences during the Argentinian economic collapse & related chaos dealing with a collapsed infrastructure & gangs of thugs.
Daily Chrome OS Builds for VMWare and VirtualBox Now Available
>then you can sure as hell "spin up more synchronous workers".

And even with a free load balancer like HAproxy, you can have a set of fallback machines usable by any backend that's over-capacity, with the spin-up being on-demand, like, say, with Apache workers.
Actually, let me be more clear. One of the core features is that we let you post to facebook directly from mindwallet. We then need to read your stream to let you know when you have new comments. The fb post and comments are given an inherent context by were in your mindwallt you post from. This extends the life of your post beyond the usual temporal stream. The perms we ask for are:
1: email to establish ownership of your mw account.
2: post to wall to let you do so.
3: read stream to show you new comments
4: offline access to show others in context comments when they look at your mindwallet.

I think I can remove friend's stream for now, but that is the only unimplemented feature.
Toyota is the origin of lean, and they're pretty successful.
On Wisconsin
In Lieu of earthquake, power conservation, game servers come down.
That is fine for you. But not for the average user out there.
IPad 2 graphical benchmarks faster than competition.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4216/apple-ipad-2-gpu-performance-explored-powervr-sgx543mp2-benchmarked
The realization which the proponents of lean products and software have had is that there are many strategies which have proven incredibly effective in other domains and that they can also be used to make products, business models and ultimately organizations better, faster and cheaper.

Simply put lean startups result from the combination of lean manufacturing principals and maneuver warfare (agility) principals combined and used in business. Which if you want to boil it down further could be thought of as using the scientific method as quickly and efficiently as possible to create organizations and products where teams have fully adopted a culture of continuos improvement.

Lean is probably best known for its ability to enable Toyota to be the amazing manufacturing organization they have been (ignoring recent growth related fuckups). See the book Lean Thinking or the many Lean Software books to see the ways in which people have translated Lean concepts to software development. Of course if you want to really grok lean in the context of making products you should study http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Product-Development-Flow-Ge...

Agile principals as codified by the god father of agile strategic thinking, John Boyd would be the other crucial element to lean startups. He is famous for driving maneuver warfare doctrine into the US military establishment and codifying some of the most advanced strategies and concepts regarding the nature of competition, agility and strategy. If you have seen the OODA loop or heard the phrase operating inside the enemies decision cycle then you have seen his work in action. See the book Certain to Win by Chet Richards for a good primer on Boyds work.

These concepts rigorously and intentionally applied to developing products, teams and companies are IMO what makes a startup lean.

And of course if you are interested, you can also read Eric Ries or Steve Blanks blogs.
Google researches and implements an 8-point plan to become better managers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/business/13hire.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Range of Betas in air (I believe at 1 MeV) is 12 feet. These aren't alphas here, they'll make it into living tissue.
I had to stop and think about that one for a while. Are there any cases that you know of where a Japanese word is anglicized before becoming an English word? It seems like english speakers have an easy enough time guessing at Japanese pronunciation that we normally keep the direct romanization. This is why "typhoon" seemed weird to me. It makes a lot more sense that both languages would have imported it from Greek.
I did read the post. The guideline is specifically about situations like this one. You should not describe your company in relation to YC unless you are actually affiliated with YC. Being rejected is not an affiliation. Neither is being an applicant.

That said, I think there's nothing wrong with this post, but that guideline is there for a reason.
Do the 2010 Haiti and Chile earthquakes and tsunamis indicate increasing trends?
Agreed. So how does a new label fix that?
What's going on with AppJet? Was it another causality? Why did google take down their "Absolute Beginner's Guide"? Is it available anywhere today?
The topic of the day is great software engineers and I'm taking that to mean people who actually engineer software, not people who convince clueless management that they are great software engineers without actually being so. I acknowledge your point but I think it's not terribly related to mine. You may have had a "lead architect" but they clearly weren't even in the running for "great software engineer".
Thanks for this post. The suppression of bullshit is a glaring hole in our media environment. It's at least moderately plausible that intelligent and informed posts like Patrick's here can now get very wide distribution thanks to the internet. But what we don't have is a good way to incent the more hairspray-reliant members of the media sphere to read things like this and become informed.
But the true question is: could Circles be used as a verb?

"Hey, I'll circle you. Don't worry."

Yes you can! So Circles is a possible contender to FB piece of the pie.
Is that in a similar enough field for trademark infringement?
The major scale has 7 notes: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti. The 8th note is just another do.

What would really be interesting would be to express pi in base 12 and map the pitches of the chromatic scale to it. It might sound chaotic, but then again it's not pi's job to keep us entertained.
Google Summer Of Code!
"Every joke is a tiny revolution." --George Orwell
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2317467
Not one mention of SubEthaEdit, which has been around for years and is awesome:

http://www.subethaedit.net/

A collaborative code editor for mac.
Must-see video of banker doing something wonderful
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319632
"Do the 2010 Haiti and Chile earthquakes and tsunamis indicate increasing trends?"

Yes, and it will be called Global Shaking.
Chew on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_series
I'm the author of the blogspot, For the record, ac31004 is a module in internet programming I teach at the University of Dundee. Hence the odd name.
> "Japanese does not have a word for excessive preparation."

Neither does English, as you've just demonstrated!
Both projects use the same .xib created in Interface Builder, per the tutorial.
Bingo. It's not a bad domain, and I think they'll want to be sure users are logged into other google services when they're using it.
Cooling system fails in second reactor
it needs to be brain-dead easy for the average user or they won't even waste their time on it.

A good chunk of the test users are average users, they're friends and family that I've roped into testing for me. I've been using their feedback to improve the software.

I'm doing a lot of work on the UI/UX in order to "train" users for the conventions of distributed social networking. Obvious things like tutorials and FAQ's, videos and such, but also I'm working on a redesign to replace link text like "Remote Login" with "I have an account on an other site", so there are constant improvements being made in that area.

Is there one site people can go to like Facebook and signup?

For now, no, it's still being developed. There will be many sites, some catering to niche audiences, others more general. I've registered a number of domains for that purpose, and I expect others to use the software to do the same. A social networking site for cosplayers, black professionals, or green party activists, or even workplaces or schools which manage their own employee or student social networks.
True, although in fairness it's a fairly weak beta emitter. The 100,000 picocuries of Potassium-40 your body has emits betas that are about 120 times more energetic, or sometimes emits gamma rays instead.

Probably better to not get exposed to tritium all other things being equal but you would receive more damage from radioactivity IMO inhaling someone's cigarette smoke. I suppose this depends on exactly how much tritium is present in the steam that was vented.

The original engineer also left out the many other radionuclides that are created that don't break down instantly, but his points about filtering most contaminants out before they are vented, and their destination of the vast Pacific Ocean is right on target.
I probably won't use social networking sites unless they are useful even as a standalone page. I like google profiles and would enjoy extensions including reader integration, delicious-like page, and a good CMS site, etc. Allowing a public view version and private/friends version would push me to join the social network club.

Essentially, I would want it useful to me first and the social aspect as an addition. This can allow for slow take-off that would bypass some barriers to entry.
I thought, for a split second as the page was loading, that it was going to be yet another, slightly more "meta" discussion about all the supposed problems with Quora, and how people rag on it all the time.

"This is a follow-up to: What does it feel like to be attractive and desired by many, Stack Overflow?"
Why YC? YC is not the only avenue, I would suggest submitting to AngelList instead.
Build something, or find somebody to build it.

If the idea really is good, then you might be able to find a developer who'll work on it for partnership -- this is, in my opinion, another good way to get validation for the idea.

The other trick though, is figuring out what you bring to the table. Can you market it? Can you sell it? Can you raise venture capital? What can you do?

Imagine a scenario in which I have two people, capable of all the potential in the world, pitching me an idea. Imagine that I have a machine that can either add value to an idea, or add value to the business side of things -- whichever side I add value to, decreases it from the other side proportionally -- ie, if I add 25% of the 'value of the idea', I am subtracting from the 'business-management capabilities' by 25%. In the end -- and forgive me, I just realized how dumb this hypothetical of mine is, but now I'm pretty much pot committed -- I end up with two idea guys -- one who has 25% better business acumen, and another with an idea that is 25% better -- I'm picking the first guy.

Alternately, of course, you can bootstrap, hire people, yadda yadda -- I'm guessing this isn't an option, as you haven't already done it. But if the idea is SO GREAT that the only thing between you and success is the implementation, then get started implementing it, by whatever means you can muster.
I am thinking about California's nuclear power plants. I figure that we will learn reasonable and effective ways to make them safer, perhaps ensure the diesel back generators are safe from a Tsunami. And this will cost money that we should spend. It is not like the California budget is swimming with money.

People talked about how strong this earthquake was, and it was strong, but the epicenter missed the power plants by quite a distance. Then we will get a surprise when a much smaller quake his one much worse.
The Eerie World of Abandoned Computers
Tritium betas are about 0.005 MeV, not 1.000, and can penetrate only 6mm of air. The only real threat from tritium is ingestion where you don't have air or dead skin layer to block them, but even then they would have to be present in vast, vast quantities to receive appreciable dose from them.
I think one thing that would help is that teachers should actually have a real degree with a minor in education, instead of the other way around, and that the pay would incentivize away from teachers just picking communications and getting away with that.

Imagine if your history teachers had a history degree, your english teachers had an english degree, your kindergarden teachers had a sociology degree or (a more rigorous) early childhood development degree, and that the pay was competitive, if not more than what they would expect otherwise (for english and history majors, this wouldn't be so hard) Right now, teachers have every incentive to get in the 5 year Masters program in education and not learn anything about what they are teaching, but learn how to teach.
Rogue Antivirus Via Skype Phone Call?
I like the name, and it's way better that Paul's HN username.
Great idea that simply never caught on.

Could you imagine what a blog would look like if you included every microformat/social/discovery service that has occurred over the last several years?
At least in Lithuanian mass media coverage in one sentence is "Shit did hit the fan". And featured article in biggest news website this weekend is notice issued by National Nuclear Smth saying nuclear stuff shouldn't hit us. Probably.

I haven't seen single article in local media saying how well Japanese survived the earthquake/tsunami. It's more about how shitty situation (usually with ever-rising dead/missing headcount) is and rat-race to find worse pictures of post-apocalyptic Japan.
Its so true, i really would quit facebook today if there were an alternative...
I don't think that means what you think it means.

http://www.google.com/search?q=define:lieu
Francis Fukuyama: Is China Next?
Reading that quote gave me a strong sense of déjà vu. Seems like there was a similar posting here maybe a couple years ago. Anyone remember this or am I crazy?
Just to clarify - I meant reactors that are OK. Failed ones won't be restarted for sure.
Nowhere near life-and-death. I just visited there about a year ago, was curious, and thought you might just know. I'll wait for the official word.
This discussion has occurred a number of times, and while the very top recommendation sometimes changes, a perennial favorite around here is name.com.

I use Name.com when I can remember to, and GoDaddy out of habit. I used to be quite fond of Dotster, but since I can't easily manage DNS through them, I've dropped them for all but a few domains.

On paper, the capabilities of Name.com and Godaddy are about the same, but Name's interface is a LOT more user friendly, and management is a snap, comparatively.
I think the author did a satisfactory job of assuring the reader that he doesn't know the story.
Except one thing: how many times are people willing to spend time setting up their social networks on yet another Google service that may or may not be useful?
What does that even mean? How could GNOME do what Apple does if all the code is open source? Anyone can come, change whatever they want and ship it as their own. This is what Ubuntu and others have been doing for years. The kind of competition you consider "ideal" is already happening, and has happened for years. The only problem is that some people seem to expect that because you hack on free software you should not be allowed to have strong opinions about the UX of the code you are doing, and must submit to the will of all users and drive-by designers on blogs (which routinely ask for an innumerable set of mutually contradicting features, threatening to leave the project if they are not listened to).
Shit did actually hit the fan. Several thousand people are dead. It could have been much worse but it is bad.
Awesome talk, a lot of those talks can get really boring but that guy knew how to present!
Nuclear energy is actually the safest form of energy generation we have (in terms of "deaths per gigawatt-hour"), although wind and hydro energy is approximately the same. This is as presented by the ExternE project financed by the "EU Commission".
"http://manhaz.cyf.gov.pl/manhaz/strona_konferencja_EAE-2001/... - Polenp~1.pdf"
The Ghetto Called Facebook
Assigning numbers to scale degrees isn't half as interesting as assigning numbers to each pitch class, then analyzing a composition using set theory.
I do not understand why this comment was down voted. When analyzing algorithms, a clear and correct statement of the problem is necessary and the one made here is clearly inadequate. For example, while the problem calls for an algorithm to "detect" overlap, while the algorithms described produce a list the overlapped strings. Moreover, there is no definition (other than the programs listed) for what is meant by "overlap". Consider "abc" and "abcd". The overlapping strings might be "a", "ab", "abc", "bc" , and "c" under one definition, or simply "abc" under another.