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I sympathize with this view, but the very example given contradicts the thesis that this bubble will leave no technology in its wake.

Hadoop was developed at Yahoo, an advertising supported company. Some of the most interesting contributions (HDFS sync, RaidNode, AvatarNode) have come from Facebook, an ad supported company. Hadoop's architecture itself is inspired by the MapReduce and GFS papers from Google, another ad supported company. This shows that the premise is false: there is indeed technology transfer from the "hot businesses" to other companies and academia. Hadoop is the prominent example, but not the only one: many contributions to the Linux kernel come from Google, both Google and Facebook have also contributed extensively to MySQL.

The ad ranking and recommendation algorithms themselves are also by no means trivial, much of the work that goes on in that field (machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, large scale graph processing) is applicable elsewhere. The "math wiz" college graduates working on these fields, are going to be able to apply the skills they build elsewhere. Not to mention, the stock options, even if we assume modest outcomes, could pay for many a Ph.D. for engineers who wouldn't otherwise afford to take the time off from industry.

There are also products like GroupOn that don't seem to be technology driven at all, but that can change rather radically (e.g., Amazon's move from a technology consumer, to a producer of their own technology, to a company selling technology to others).

In other words, one doesn't have to sell technology to businesses in order to build technology that benefits others. There's nothing wrong with selling technology to businesses (and if I were to start my own company, I'd start one that does that, because I understand e.g., distributed databases and market for them better than I understand, e.g., machine learning and consumer marketing), but there's nothing wrong with providing an ad supported service to consumers, as long as interesting and universally applicable technology gets built in the process.
It's a concept, which means that the magnetic field explanation is very much akin to the flimsy pretexts used by science fiction shows to provide some plausible sort of excuse for how something like this might perhaps work maybe.

Concepts are basically what happens when a person who can draw goes "dude, wouldn't it be awesome if X?".
Well I'll certainly look at Sequoia a little differently now. The legality and there's ethicality, I look for both in business partners.
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I love my Emacs and everything, but some things are best done without it. Web browsing is an obvious one, but email and Twitter too. The real-time nature of them would be annoying--who wants new email or Tweet messages flashing in the status bar of your text editor all the time?
It means the order of the links in the page you were selecting has changed. When I get that, I start at the front page again. There's new links there for you to see.
That is a 50/50 partnership, it will eventually even out or it will probably fail. Sometimes in startups for whatever reason founders won't be putting in the same amount of work and it won't even up for the foreseeable long term.
It actually happens sometimes:
http://www.rgj.com/article/20110413/NEWS/104130403/Why-only-...
Innovation works, copying strikes!
The best minds of my generation are thinking
about how to make people click ads

Best minds of any generation have always thought about ways to make money.

That doesn't mean that the world doesn't benefit from side-effects. Information is at your fingertips because of companies like Google and Yahoo. Staying connected is easier then before because of companies like Facebook and Twitter.

And speaking about infrastructure; since 2000 lots of cool things happened, like cheap cloud-computing (EC2, Rackspace) or open-source projects that can kick start your company straight at Google-scale if needed (Hadoop). Not to mention research papers that happened because of these companies.
Anyone found the DOI link yet? The explanation in the article is, I agree, awful, and I want to read what they actually did! If it was only moving a bit of information from RAM to a register (or the quantum equivalent) which it sounds like...then yea, no biggie.
Interestingly, the Chinese word for learning, 学 (xue) also means to imitate/to mimic.
Great post! I started using Ubuntu Unity on my netbook, however, I had first installed Ubuntu Desktop and added Unity later so I can switch between them at loging time.

I think that Unity is great! Really encapsulates the spirit of a netbook - a small, versatile and fun communications device. I have an asus 1005pe - which I can also highly recommend.
Nah... Comments are sorted by score and freshness. On top of that it is a threaded discussion.
i used iwantmyname.com recently. it seems to be a pretty easy to use website and most importantly for me was that they had .io domain names. the service has been first rate, i typically get responses relatively quickly.
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Heh, that may be a factor, but I doubt it's the main one. Lots of American HN users seem to be pretty Liberal in their political outlook, and that's fine. But consider Germany, with a welfare state that looks after you from cradle to grave. If you want to start a startup there then you'd better have your EUR 20,000 in capital minimum, and you'd better do all the paperwork and comply with all the regulations and have the right certificates and diplomas... The activation energy is just so much higher in Europe, two guys hacking in their garage can't just go for it without a lot more preparation. If you fail you won't starve of course, the State will look after you but that's a two-edged sword - not only is it harder to get started, there's less hunger to succeed, and everyone will be used to working only 35 hrs/week...
Scientific theories aren't reality - they are a model of reality and to be considered scientific a theory has to be refutable - if you can't conceive of experimental results that would disprove your theory then it's not really a scientific theory.

So every scientific theory is in a very real sense "waiting to be disproven".
My mind is on the floor. Though seemingly ridiculous, it is incredibly imaginative.
How do you get over the fear of quitting your job to start a startup?
Nice! Great idea for a site - actually, I kinda had a similar idea when I registered "algolution.com" - the idea being to have a library of algorithms AND people can add implementations in different languages and of course vote up which are the best.

In addiation I had thought to add a 'live run' feature so that you could actually run 1 or more algorithms together and compare performance/memory usage etc!

hmmm... if we defined an API for running a piece of code and returning results, we could build a series of independant web applications that could run sandboxed code in different languages live on the web...
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Does anyone have experience with http://www.cloudsigma.com/? They seem like a nice alternative for european companies. It would be interesting to see a comparison with Amazon and Rackspace.
One wonders if the likes of Google and Microsoft employed Kai-Fu Lee so that he would be less inclined to fund / promote clones of their products in China.
Being able to ssh into a server while on the road with nothing more than an iPad is a feature that has value to some people (like me, for example). For an app that is really useful, the difference between $5 and free is negligible. I just paid more for my coffee than I did for Prompt, and I didn't think about that twice either.
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yeah, definitely.

Though, after having tried (and failed) to make the jump from vim => emacs a few times in the past, I can see that forcing yourself to use nothing but emacs for 30 days would probably get yourself enough of a grounding to make the transition stick.

If the whole emacs/lisp integration didn't look so much nicer (than vim/lisp) I would have given up trying to learn emacs a long time okay. One day though . . . I'm sure both of these will start to make sense =)
Around ten years ago I worked as an instructor teaching people programming here in Sweden. My company decided I did such a good job they would send me over to their parent company in the UK to teach some classes there. I knew the material by heart so, no problem, I thought.

I quickly discovered, right in front of the class at the white board with marker in hand, with my first " { " written, that being fluent in English was NOT the same as being fluent in Spoken Programmer English.

My second realization was that almost nobody in the United Kingdom spoke a dialect of English that I could comprehend, but that's another story.

Bonus info: { } are called commonly called måsvingar/seagull wings in Swedish, which really gave me no hint at all what to call them in English.
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Microsoft breaks own world record for IE nonsense
I just moved into a 15th floor small cubicle office overlooking Madison sq garden for $300/mo. I couldn't find such deals in my non-NYC college town.
So Microsoft wants to support only Windows 7 and IE10. I downloaded the beta and didnot see any difference with IE9.
I'm not sure how that would be much more practical than just having a special interface on your watch to interact with your phone (buttons or a touch screen for instance).
Thanks, I was looking for the rest of the stuff.
Can anyone explain why cloud hosting is so expensive? I can get i7 quad core with 8 Gb RAM for $60/month from dedicated servers providers, but i can't find comparable price with cloud hosting.
That's what annoys me about the iOS ecosystem, there is a marketplace, not a community.
Damn now you say it it does sound right.
If I could I would down vote this.

There is no meat to this article and the actual "product" described by them is another Q&A type site.

I reached the bottom of it and felt cheated of my time.
I think almost anyone that knows the English word calculator will assume at first it is just that. (at least I did)
Pete Conrad was definitely the most fun astronaut of the Apollo series. See also A Man on the Moon ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/0140272011 ) as well.
where is the "help->about" page for thingist? i can't make out whether it's competing with tumblr, twitter, or something new entirely.
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I think the Google Closure library does the same thing with goog.net.xpc.IframeRelayTransport. http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/docs/class_goog_ne...
> If there was lots of oil sitting around in warehouses from people speculating on the price of it

Maybe the oil was sitting in underground reservoirs? (i.e. people were extracting it more slowly)
I'm not sure, since I learned JavaScript way before I read The Good Parts. But avoiding the bad parts from the start will at least ensure you develop coding practices in line with the good parts, which is a great thing :)
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Please don't compare prices by just converting directly to another currency. It's too simplistic.

You have to take into account taxes, salaries, property prices, the economy and a lot of other things. IMHO
>If the interface would be changed to conform better with the mental model of these users, surely it will conflict in some ways with the model of more experienced users.

I think it's tough to do, but certainly doable. What was outlined in the OP is just basic confusion amongst novices. Something that can easily be improved upon without hurting the experience for 'senior' users. I imagine this is how Mac does it. They throw their software up against the shores of a million and one newbies and iterate until they have a product that they are happy with. Testing is an integral component of UI design & creation, and from the looks of it, Ubuntu is slacking.
https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/search?orderBy...

There are plenty of apps on the marketplace. I assume they're all automated.
No reference to {} as mustaches? Three years are a long time.
That's why Android is the better OS in my opinion. iOS wouldn't even let me copy an app that I wrote myself to my own device, it's just incredibly restrictive. That said, I did finally cave and buy an iPad after trying out and being disappointed by several other tablets (Linux and Android based ones). But no matter what OS, I don't mind paying five bucks for a decent utility and I would have paid for ConnectBot as well, which incidentally I use on my phone.
I respectfully disagree. Web browsing is just fine in Emacs (ezbl - uzbl embedded inside a slightly patched emacs - is sweet). And the best and most scalable mail reader I have ever encounter just happens to be Gnus, which is also an Emacs application. I have found no other program that would allow me to work as efficiently as I do with Gnus (and I'm just a novice Gnus user, with a lot to learn about it still).

I have Gnus set up to pop up a desktop notification when important mails arrive (either in my inbox, or on any of the various lists I am on) - but only when it's deemed important by my filters. There's no status area flashing, there's a desktop notification, like in every other email client out there.

I believe the same could be done for Twitter aswell. I know I've done similar things with my IRC client (ERC rocks too, by the way), I can't see why I couldn't do it with Twitter. It's also possible to just run it in a buffer in the background, with no notifications at all.

Emacs works very well with real-time stuff too. And being written in lisp, it's very easy to customize how it behaves to suit one's needs.
> If there was lots of oil sitting around in warehouses from people speculating on the price of it

People who speculate on commodities do not actually have to physically keep them. The commodities just change ownership, but not location. Only the final buyer actually picks them up.
It's a concept, which means that the magnetic field explanation is very much akin to the flimsy pretexts used by science fiction shows to provide some plausible sort of excuse for how something like this might perhaps work maybe.

No, it's not: http://research.nokia.com/files/public/2011-01-12-Ashbrook-C... [pdf]
> it is an idea that can easily be checked, for astronomers are already sitting on the data that might contain these extraterrestrial messages.

I do not believe this. Whilst we may have vast amounts of data from the electromagnetic spectrum, there are only a handful of neutrino detectors on earth, and they have a very narrow research domain. Not to mention that as neutrinos are so unbelievably weakly interacting the quantity of neutrino interactions ever recorded is minuscule.

The viability of neutrino messaging seems... dubious. The fact that solid matter is almost perfectly transparent to neutrinos makes them a singularly bad candidate for information transmission. You'd need a pool of water the size of the solar system to detect enough of them capable of carrying a meaningful message.

On the other hand, there are large parts of the EM spectrum that are attenuated only marginally by inter-stellar gas and would be much more suitable.
Can you please give a couple of examples of why is so? The usability test this thread refers to is really just oriented to new users (mainly: how easy it is to find this and that). I wonder what Unity does for everyday users.
Not including those already mentioned:

Techmeme

Twitter

SEOmoz

Search Engine Land

State of Search

HN

PRweb - Filter for Online Marketing (generally rubbish, but
a few gems

Econsultancy
I would assume the number of those has rapidly been dropping since 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Liechtenstein_tax_affair
This is a blessing for, I imagine, everyone who has learnt computer programming in a non-English-speaking country.
` as backtick is rare? I thought it was the standard.
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I can't seem to access the site, and I also can't seem to shake the idea that announcing an unreachable site confirms all my stereotypes about business in Greece :-)
> The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

Oops.

I liked Greece when I visited, but having difficulty reading things is pretty stressful. I think I'd go for Spain or Portugal in terms of 'cheap southern European countries' at this point in time. Or maybe coastal Croatia.
I am confused, how else can you learn by NOT imitate?
The more things that are demo'd in Emacs, the less I want to use it. I've never used it except for a few times on accident, and yet as the years go by in my mind it continues to seem more and more bloated.

(prepares emacs-user resistant bomb shelter)
It's still a great text editor, you don't have to install all the other bits and pieces.
Ah, then the article was wrong to call it one.
I think he's referring to the lack of a first-party PHP unit testing suite, but I agree with you, PHPUnit is fantastic, and I can't see a reason to write your PHP unit testing library own when PHPUnit exists
"web apps and fortran probably aren't optimal"

Challenge accepted!
This is not bloat, it's flexibility.

Emacs does not come with a lot of features built in, it comes with lots of loadable modules. If you don't need them then don't load them. The notion that Emacs is bloated has not really stood since around 1985.

The power to write a first person maze (which just blew my mind since it appears to be written as a character based hack, rather than an embedded widget) is the same power that allows you to write powerful libraries for modifying text.
Emacs in 7 days:

Day 1. Find a VT100, attach it to a dec10 or vax. Learn teco$$
Day 3. Move up to vmacs.
Day 4. Move vax 1500 miles. Find 9600 baud modem and dial in.
Day 5. Install unix. Learn qed or ed to get a real taste of the usefulness of regular expressions in moving around a line editor
Day 6. emacs -nw. Luxurious, isn't it! Read the emacs lisp user guide.
Day 7. learn about m-.

Optional Day 8: Laugh at the eclipse losers.
These copy cat sites (and similar ones in Europe) are an interesting test to the "idea" vs. "execution" argument. I bet that there are other nearly perfect clones of Tumblr in China yet this one has risen to the top. I'm sure Kai-Fu Lee is looking beyond the ideas and at teams behind them.

Cloning might not be the most ethical way of building a product but clearly DianDian identified a market that wasn't being served in China and had the ability to bring a product to that market.

I love that the discussion of cloning was happening on "Zhihu, a clone of Quora".
Humanity does seem to have a predilection to devoting its brightest minds to unproductive activities. How much better would the world be today if the hot job of early medieval times was medicine instead of producing manuscripts? Science instead of theology? Science instead of stock market analysis? Just repeating a pattern...
Okay, surprise me. What key is "super"?
'If an intergalactic version of "Yesterday in Parliament" showed up in such a trawl it might not demonstrate the existence of truly intelligent aliens. By contrast, coverage of the cricket on "Test Match Special" would surely be proof positive.'

I think they have this joke backwards.
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(and Signal vs. Noise usually once a week)

I don't have too much time to keep up with various blogs. If it's worth reading, it's normally front page on HN.
This tickles my LOTR bone. Good old Galadriel's ring. Nice nice.

The actual product seems a bit shit though. Not to mention pointless.
That's why the proposal hinges on using neutrinos with particular energy (6.3PeV, 6.3 * 10^15eV). The article mentions those have two properties:

* quite likely to release a W- boson (itself easily detectable) when interacting with matter in detector, and

* not being emited in any sizeable numbers from natural sources -- thus implicating artificial source.
Don't forget TTYQuake:

http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/

(best quote: "If you have to ask why, you're not a member of the intended audience. Please go on about your business and accept my apologies for this distraction.")

and text mode UT configs by Icculus (or: switching the SDL renderer backend to aalib):

http://icculus.org/~chunky/ut/aaut/
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I drew the short stick and have to develop a security strategy for an application my company is developing. Where do I start? The application is a web based J2EE application.
My reading list revolves around two areas which I wish to qualify the following way:

Job/Career/Technical competency related:

1. Perl blogs, Iron man blogging challenge, reading modern perl books from chromatic and associated blogs.
2. I make it a point to read whats the next interesting/challenging thing in my area of work.
3. Read questions on PerlMonks, Stackexchange.
4. Other tech stuff.

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1. Hacker news.
2. Tidbits collected from twitter and other places.

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I think the data in question refers to Cepheid variables - not direct neutrino detection.
wait a minute, i've been using a fedora instance on rackspace with 256 MB memory, it's much less than $60 a month.
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Your "taking this offline" is a big red warning flag.

You really need to address the questions here, otherwise it looks like you're hiding something...
That's my experience too. Hardly ever goes wrong, telephone support was friendly and on-the-money, problem quickly solved.
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He should have also listed "#!" AKA "shebang" / "hashbang"
What about this:
Star the top X comments (configurable setting in user profile). I don't care how many points any comments have, but I do care about reading the best comments in a thread.
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In all seriousness, what's the problem calling it "LibreOffice Spreadsheets"? Along with "LibreOffice Presentations", "LibreOffce Documents", "LibreOffice Databases"; are we so pressed for space we can't just say exactly what it is? The "name" is libreoffice, I don't see why the individual components have to be unique or catchy.
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"This bubble is always different"...
Right up to the moment when the people involved lose everything and start eying their office windows and wondering if they open...

Bubbles exist because human nature is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Not every tech company collapsed in 2000 - but the weak ones surely went to the wall. Those with solid business models, and profitability are still going strong. Not everyone will fail this time around, but it looks like serious money will be lost.

As long as the companies going under are pre-IPO the ones most affected will be VC's. After IPO it'll be Joe Public. Thanks to Sarbannes-Oxley there's far fewer companies going public though, so perhaps that's at least one good thing to come from that ill-advised adventure.