skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I question the title. It doesn't sound like engineers are in charge, instead, it sounds like smaller operating units will be in charge. That is a very different thing from having the inmates running the asylum.

I have yet to see a large company that successfully treats software as a creative endeavor instead of a production line that still manages to be able to focus on solving customer problems. I really hope that Larry figures this out because, if he does, that will (IMO) be his greatest legacy.

What I think will happen, though, is Google will focus even more on technology and care even less about actual users.
I loved delicious!
I don't think that's cold. Sometimes the startup is the thing in your life you can't live without.
An interesting thing about this is that they're still basically a taxicab service; they just have a better user interface and scheduling algorithm. While the disappearance of taxi stands and radio dispatcher squawks in favor of network servers and algorithms may highlight how much of our everyday infrastructure serves an informational rather than a purely logistical purpose, it's the small story here.

The bigger story is Craigslist ridesharing, and carpooling startups like Zimride, PickupPal, Carpool to School, and CarBuddy. In countries like the US, where the average car has something like 5 seats of which 1.2 are full on any given trip, taxi and bus services are only able to exist at all due to an market failure of truly mind-boggling proportions.

Any time you drive anywhere in a city, there's probably a reputable, trustworthy person or two within a couple of blocks who wants to go close to where you're going, at the same time. If you knew about them, you could go pick them up (the 80% of the time that you don't mind driving an extra couple of blocks), and magically your cost of driving would drop by half or two-thirds.

It's a good deal for the passengers, too, compared to a cab. If your cost is 50¢ per mile, they might pay 25¢ per mile, compared to some 90¢ per mile in a taxicab; and of course, as with Über, they can just walk outside as the distance meter on their phone approaches zero.
I am a light sleeper but hard workouts really help me go into a deep sleep and not wake up at every little noise. They also make me want to sleep an extra hour.
You will need at least the image processing toolbox and statistics toolbox for MATLAB to run the code.
I was suggesting the OS be updated so that a trackpad-friendly UI mode could be created. As-is, I agree, it's not useful at all.

The thrust of my wonder about a possible docking solution was towards a real, actually good, option.
Controlling width with CSS3 box-sizing
`cp` for `cherry-pick` fits how I think about git and cherry-picking -- I'm copying a patch from one branch into another, aren't I?
According to the screen shot of the app, I am probably better off eating a chocolate bar than a handful of cashews.

I'm no nutritionist but that doesn't seem quite right.
I've had a similar thing happen. Basically, if I stay off the caffeine enough to sleep all through the night without waking up, I'll wake up naturally after around 7 hours of sleep. At this point I'm still a little foggy and I can easily fall back asleep or lounge in bed for 20min or a few hours. If I do that, like you said, I'll be lethargic.

So basically I have to moderate caffeine (for me it is every other day at most and none after 3pm) and get up as soon as I first wake. When I'm very good about no caffeine, regular exercise, and near-perfect diet I require less sleep. Kind of hard to maintain that level of discipline, though. So it's usually 7 hours a night.
Apparently the Saturn V could lift 119 metric tons to LEO.
3 out of 100 applicants is not surprising. http://lesswrong.com/lw/gy/you_are_not_hiring_the_top_1/
So we trust no-one? There is a healthy level of scepticism but I think you are taking it a bit far.

The data is what has been actually recorded by Tepco and others and is certainly reported in good detail without being fudged or sensationalised like the mainstream media is doing.
if the developers are reading this: integrate this with fitbit.com's api and you'll get a bunch of new users.

i've seen a lot of fitbit users asking for a way to scan barcodes to track calories on the site, but being able to take a picture of the actual food would be pretty neat.

http://www.fitbit.com/forums/forum/4NSMKM6MNV3M6
this post uses his script + nodejs to display a multiuser realtime heatmap (on click event not on mousemove): http://onesandzeros.posterous.com/multi-user-realtime-heatma...
I don't know of many engineers who would want to double up. I do agree that a well managed company could get by with far less management than most currently have, but don't think that just having really smart people in place will solve the problem magically. I've worked at a company full of incredibly smart people who couldn't get anything useful done because they were all so busy proving how smart they were, often at odds with others in the group.
Especially posts that are both technical and lack a particular "angle", I think. Technical posts that reach a strong conclusion still often end up with discussion, even if they're very detailed, but technical posts that are just a broad overview of a subject tend not to, because it's not clear where the discussion should jump off from. E.g. a detailed technical argument claiming that the actor-concurrency model is broken (or superior to an alternative) will garner a lot more discussion than just a detailed overview of the actor-concurrency model that reaches no specific conclusions about it.
As the price of talent in India continues to increase, the problem may be that these companies aren't willing to pay the new premium for the same talent they used to pay less for pre-offshoring boom in India.

Leading them to outsource their own resource needs to cheaper places
The measurements in the article are probably these:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11040506-e....

Up to 200,000 - 300,000 Bq/cm^3 (200 - 300 MBq/L) of I-131, measured at the outflow screen right next to reactor unit #2. (This inside the protective "harbor" of seawalls; there's maps in the TEPCO link). The statutory limit is given there as 0.04 Bq/cm^3.

For comparison, at the ~30 km seawater sampling perimeter, the I-131 measurements don't appear to have exceeded 0.08 Bq/cm^3 (80 Bq/L):

http://www.mext.go.jp/english/radioactivity_level/detail/130...

This explains part of the confusion: they're sampling at the plant, and they're sampling tens of miles out, where the levels are diluted by 6 - 7 orders of magnitude. So wildly different numbers are being reported, but they are in fact consistent.
Well, considering adobe provides two of the most vulnerable pieces of software in existence, i can see why microsoft wants to replace it.
Tails of Lions (notes from Techonomy3)
All of your reasons make sense to me, it's just that all the advocacy docs set ZMQ up to be this game-changing system. I can totally buy "a fairly simple wrapper about sockets that makes life easier for me." "world-saving superheros of the networking world" not so much.
I think many (middle) managers are afraid of Scrum and other agile development because their role is sidelined. As "individual contributors", engineers are generating actual business value. Engineers can self-organize in "quasi-communist" Scrum teams (as they own the means of production ;) and collaborate with product management who work with customers to derive and prioritize product requirements.

In this scenario, what is a "people manager" supposed to do?
Even here in Brooklyn, where hailing a cab is more difficult than in the city, calling a car service is super fast and not much more expensive than a yellow cab.

Arecibo (car service) almost always arrives within 5 minutes, and on numerous occasions I've had them say "ok, they're downstairs already" while still on the phone with them.

Not really a problem in need of solving in NYC, although it certainly will be interesting to see how it is received here.
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My bet is this won't do what the video was showing. I'd love to be contradicted.
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There are definitely already extensions that completely remodel the UI experience of sites like Facebook. They've only been targeted at making things more usable and adding features that people want, rarely undoing new Facebook redesigns.

The people who would install a Chrome extension to improve the design of facebook aren't going to be the kind of people who blindly say "ugh, Facebook looks differen, wtf!", and those kinds of people are especially not going to be the kind of people who would write up lots of complicated CSS and JS (both, not just CSS, would be necessary to roll back Facebook's upgrades) to redesign facebook. But this raises a good point: when Facebook rolls out a redesign, do they change the backend enough that an extension that overrode the CSS and JS with the previous design's CSS and JS would break?
I am--was--an EY customer as well for some time, about a year, and had been following it since its inception, particularly through a friend who was a customer while it was still in beta.

1. I haven't seen any significant changes to their product, except for the CLI tool as a replacement for capistrano. The CLI tool is a great improvement, but it's still basically a glorified capistrano tool, and doesn't even get close to comparing to the Heroku command-line tool. Predominately, I feel like the product has been stagnant. Support for Ruby 1.9 and Rubinius (currently in beta) is the most exciting thing I've seen lately. It's surprising rbx has taken so long when it's an EY sponsored project!

Part of the challenge with a product like AppCloud is there is no obvious way to update the stack without disturbing applications, but I'd still have liked a way to potentially update our base software (libraries and such) to something more current.

2. I'm so-so on this. Heroku support is free, but is not 24/7 unless you are a very large customer with a support contract. We paid for support, and EY support was sometimes helpful, sometimes not.

3. I'm not talking about objective comparisons here, these are "shots across the bow" so to speak. I know the pros and cons of both services very well, but what I am talking about are "subtle jabs" about how Heroku is not production-ready/capable, etc.
White America’s collapsing birth rate is changing the face of the country
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Wikinomics doesn't produce multi-million dollar investment returns- all it does is help humanity. Booooooring!
There are international versions such as Qype which is quite popular in Europe
No, but I will give it a try with a test build, thanks!
Even so, I'm not sure this is a polite thing to do. I think it would be nice to respect the author's wishes for the moment:

We have received hundreds of emails asking for the source code ranging from practitioners, students, researchers up to top companies. The range of proposed projects is exciting and it shows that TLD is ready to push the current technology forward. This shows that we have created something "bigger" than originally expected and therefore we are going to postpone the release of our source code until announced otherwise. Thank you for understanding.

http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html

However as most of the tracking code is in Matlab - i.e. you can't just port this to your phone - I don't think the author has a great deal to lose here. If someone wants to re-implement the algorithms they may well need his expertise. (Edit: Looking at the code in more detail SammoJ may well be right, and this paragraph may be wrong.)

In fact, Henrik Abelsson may have more to lose if this is seen as poor etiquette, but I'm speculating here.
From reddit to Hipmunk: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
"Too radioactive to be recoverable" and "because of radiation fears" seem rather different.

Just like you might not recover a body from a minefield, but it doesn't mean the body is explosive.
Self-Taught Programmers vs CS-Educated Programmers
An important, but tangential point to note is that unlike the US, college education in India does not allow for a student to independently chose his/her major. People join colleges already deciding (without taking a single course) what they plan to get a degree in.

This leads to two things:
1. Most people do not have a clue about their interests and passion until it is too late (or never!).
2. The only majors that people graduate with are those that seem to have a lot of jobs and "prestige in society", often due to peer and parental pressure more than their own volition. This explains why there are so many engineers and doctors.

Combining these two, it is not surprising that a lot of graduates are not passionate about their work but see it as a means to an end.
But wait, the first step in the picture guide says to push the south pole through the north pole. How can you do this without making a hole on the sphere?
Transportation inefficiency isn't a market failure-- cab supply is deliberately limited by most cities, and the price a cab can charge is fixed by the city as well. Similarly, jitney buses or other forms of efficient private mass transport are completely outlawed. The government doesn't want private bus routes competing with its clunky, unionized services.

The empty seat problem in private cars is more of an issue with personal safety and the broad increase in crime over the past fifty years. Technology should help here, but the reason low-tech hitchhiking has all but disappeared is that it is not safe for the rider or the driver. This didn't used to be the case-- the boomer generation hitchhiked across the country to college, for example.
Finally, some stats on payloads and orbit altitudes. Why is it so hard to get these sorts of numbers?
Whomever figures out how build a company with the technical prowess and product aptitude of Google

and have a comparative level of custom service

will have created something truly great
Thats fair enough.

The reason why I wrote what I wrote was that I seem to remember Gibson in an interview himself pointed to some of this stuff as someone who could think further than he could think.

Maybe I misunderstood. Didn't mean to insult your, by the way, great work.
The question is whether those flops should have ever happened. I admire Google that they will kill unsuccessful products, but I question how well they understand the market when they have so many products to kill.
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Why PHP Was a Ghetto
You will need to be very good at explaining why you are better than the traditional hosted solutions. For example, for PHP stuff, my provider (OVH) is putting my website one a cluster with 1000 servers with unlimited traffic and an insane number of goodies for 2€ (yes two) per month. I can hook a managed MySQL instance (Solaris Zone) with up to 1GB of RAM for some € per month. So it starts at 2€ and up to 60€ for something which can really handle heavy load.

I would have to do it now. I would look at offering PHP hosting for a limited set of frameworks with a really good integration of the framework within the infrastructure to add really good value to the developers. Let say a fanatical support of ZF with ready to use Solr indexing, memcached etc.

How do you differentiate? What is the real added value against Plesk whatever control panel is used at the moment?

Anyway, good luck and have fun!
This isn't a jab at heroku. We had the option to provide micro, small, or medium instances. We host most of our apps on mediums so this is a good, powerful instance. 500 hours on a micro is nothing compared to 500 hours on a medium.
It's the same with basically any law regarding security and intellectual property on the Internet in France. Even though many associations and informed people send snail mails and publish open letters to their MP/Congressman and ministries explaining that it doesn't work, can't ever work both technically and legally, and violates about half of the human rights. Yet they just keep ignoring it and vote laws because they have the majority, carefully referring to the rare, selected advisors that subscribe to their point of view to justify their decisions.

It's been a few years already I've been ashamed of being French myself. From here it just looks like France is turning more and more into an Orwellian state and we are helplessly watching it become so step by step.
That's a really uninformed statement.
That's exactly his point. Both Facebook and Google have secured market domination to a level where their culture, be it engineering or managerial, doesn't really matter.
Ok, added links to Barry's site and to the Emacs docs: http://aspen.io/form-feed/
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We provide API access to more than 20 million articles (headlines, excerpts). People have done all sorts of interesting things with it - http://platform.newscred.com.
There are several errors in your comment (and in Wired's wording).

Computers don't normally come up with algorithms; programmers come up with algorithms. Using the algorithms we've come up with so far, TSP of the complete graph of 4000 points, or even Euclidean TSP of 4000 points, is intractable except in special cases.

We don't have a proof that there's no tractable or efficient algorithm. We have evidence in the form of an NP-completeness proof, but although unlikely, it's possible that P=NP and there's an efficient algorithm for TSP.

As far as we know, it's possible that a computer doing some kind of search for algorithms — genetic programming is the sexiest kind of search, but of course not the only one — could find such an algorithm. We just don't have any idea. One of the consequences of the unresolved status of the P=NP conjecture and the infancy of AGI is that we can make very few statements about the capabilities of yet-undiscovered algorithms, or how easy or hard they are to discover.

> Remember, solving the traveling salesman problem is easy/trivial, it's finding the shortest/optimal path that's hard.

You're quibbling about technicalities, and you happen to be wrong about them. Formally, TSP is a decision problem: whether there exists a path shorter than a given length L. That's not "easy/trivial". As far as we know, it's as hard as computing the shortest path. Maybe you're talking about finding a path covering all vertices, which is not "solving the traveling salesman problem".
Compiling libs in XCode (for iOS) is an exercise in tediousness. Far easier is just to write a few lines of Make.
https://gist.github.com/895945 (will also lipo together cross-builds)

Also here's something that will set up configure for an autotoolized project. https://gist.github.com/895946
An Opera port please.
"For their next challenge, they had to type 25 words a minute" That's pretty slow, right?
> Lack of some necessary features that other languages have (prior to 5.3, namespacing, clojures)

groan...
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My thoughts exactly. Space X can quote a price on their website, but if I want to know what "Infrastructure Monitoring Tool XYZ" costs, I have to call and talk to some retired used car salesman.

I now have hope for our future.
Didn't, like, everyone do this back in the day?
In a nutshell, we're a one-stop shop for small businesses to get online. We work with small business customers through their existing long-time relationships with local groups and publications.
At $1.11 billion per launch, though. SpaceX is promising	$80-$125 million for half the payload.
If you are only looking at one thing--calories--then the chocolate bar might indeed be better.
IMO, I think you're spending more time talking about edge cases than the norm. How many people are web developers vs those developing web browsers?

Understanding query cost has more to do with data structures than algorithms. Why does the optimizer seek vs scan? What column(s) do I need to index and how should it be structured? You really don't need to understand how things get sorted in a b-tree.

Knowing normal forms is also different from algorithms. Ergo, it would be more useful to ask "When would you denormalized your data?" instead of "What's the difference between Quicksort and Bubble Sort?"

Objective-C is really just one of many languages I know and use. It just happens to be the most recent. Oddly enough I did spend some time (many years ago) implementing my own browser for a job. We used Java and, again, I never really had to know the complexities of sorting algorithms.
Something that is not mentioned is that the options in terms of higher education is mostly limited to engineering and medicine, at least these are the only socially acceptable degrees to a large extent. So virtually everyone ends up doing an engineering degree and it becomes a situation where there is quantity but no quality.
I had no idea. Very cool. I think that if I were a sea creature I might like a new home. But this won't be so funny when shipping-container sized crabs ascend onto L.A.
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Can teachers be bribed in US to pass students ? (Just curious)
I think both have their merits, but I think engineers should be the ones building projects/companies, and management should be the ones who run it. I don't think non-technical management should fundamentally be involved in development unless it's a manager who is also an engineer. In a sense, a traditional non-technical manager should be in charge of the monotonous, boring stuff and that only... stuff like QA, ops, marketing, etc... Basically maintenance-mode autopilots.

I'm a big fan of engineers turned manager though, after working with several different projects at my last company. The only problem with that is when their manager isn't an engineer and you end up with the same disconnect that you would normally get at the dev/manager level. It sounds like Google is, in reality, trying to eliminate that disconnect entirely, with managerial engineers the entire way up to CEO.
A little while ago I wrote some Javascript code to compute a regular expression for deciding divisibility by any number, in any base: http://s3.boskent.com/divisibility-regex/divisibility-regex....
I don't see GTO mentioned in this paper. I know the falcon 9 has GTO specs; is the theory that you won't want to put something that large in GEO?
As someone who knows nothing about the Indian education system, can you clarify? Do Indian children have their major chosen for them via parents, tests, or administrators? Or do they decide on their own focus, but prior to college?

I would also offer that the article isn't complaining that graduates are not passionate about their work; it's complaining that they appear to have taken very little away from their education at all. Having less volition intuitively explains a lack of passion, but I'm not convinced that it does a great job explaining a lack of competence -- passion can be replaced by discipline and social pressure. I find the article's description of problems with teaching, school culture, and school curricula to be more obviously plausible.
I don't know much about you guys, but I'm really pleased that you made it in to Y Combinator. So many people like to sit around and jaw about this problem, but few are tackling it. Best of luck!
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Supercomputers don't generate algorithms (at least not yet!). People generate algorithms; supercomputers run them. That's why Wired's quote is wrong.

If you consider the solution to a single instance of the traveling salesman problem an algorithm then the quote makes sense, but that would be an unusual and obtuse usage of the word.
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