skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the Racal-Norsk KPS-10 Lisp Prototype has them in a more convenient place, as well as on 9 and 0: http://webwit.nl/input/kps/1.jpg

I like that idea, even though I don't do much Lisp. Parentheses are still used everywhere in programming and are always awkward. Maybe I'll experiment with remapping some keys if I can figure out which ones to sacrifice.
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The attribution here is correct (Matthias Braun, Areva); the name and logos were stripped when it was released, apparently for some kind of legal reason. This is discussed at the end of this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/science/03meltdown.html?pa...
The usual money quote for the Peter Principle is, "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence" -- but I like your summation so much better.
Everyone's thinking it so I'll say it: WTF?!

If Wells Fargo turned off online banking for 1 month, I'd switch banks.

I wonder if they are handling everything in-house or have hired external consultants/company to build out this wonderful new site & mobile app that will take a full year.

Now if their current system had a major exploit and the only way to fix it is to rewrite the whole thing, I guess they have no choice. At the very least they should have put together a temporary "read only" type of site that involve less/no risk on their part and provide their call centers a bit of relief.

Ballsy move (and not in a good way.)
Argh thanks. Just updated it.
It seems as if for every database / NoSQL solution that comes out, someone writes a full-text search provider for it; why aren't people using something full-featured and abstracted away from the data model like Lucene and not reinventing the wheel all the time?
It sounds like your best market to pitch to would be startups. And if that's the case, it's a tough sell since they're usually very financially conservative, and they want things that will directly lead them to profit. Simple to use APIs is nice, but I don't know if it's a must-have for startup developers. Most of them want to quickly ship something to market.

If you're targeting the enterprise, keep in mind that developers who code for big companies aren't the ones making the buying decisions. If it's not free or open source, most will not have the initiative to pitch to upper management (they just want to get the least done in the least amt of time so they can go home to their families, and watch TV)
They said that the definition of open means being able to use git with the source code of Android. And freedom. This is no longer the case, they changed direction. Now carriers need to talk to Rubin and tell him what their plans are.

They said that they want to acquire patents to prevent companies to sue them. Unless they change idea, as with the aforementioned.

Then you're right, everybody has to agree with part I cited from Marco, since when they sue you, it's not in everyone's best interest. Everyone but you, at least.
I'd be interested in hearing about full solutions as well. Adwhirl lets you run multiple networks as well as custom/house ads. So you could plug in your own system into that. But it's not a full solution. You'd still have to have your own system to serve up ads to the app.
This reminds me of 4chan's Cornelia[1][2] (and previously 4chan.js[3]) scripts from a few years ago.

[1]: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Cornelia

[2]: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/08/09/painting-...

[3]: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/4chan.js
This really resonated for me because we have almost exactly the same company dynamics at play (we're of roughly the same size).

I'm not sure we have similar answers, but one response to the problem of not being able to afford people who don't do real work is to make sure everyone is doing real work. We're primarily a services firm, and everybody in that org, including Dave, our President, is billable. It's something I tell people in interviews, and that I'm sort of proud to be able to say; everyone's grounded in the actual work that our actual people are actually doing for actual clients.

In that spirit, one way to address this problem might be to have team leads instead of managers.

I feel like Joel wrote about this a few years ago too, and while I'm probably wrong about this, off the top of my head it feels like their answer to this is that when they have too many senior people, they think about new products. Isn't the highest level on their comp ladder (not a fan of that thing) reserved for people who can run products?

Would love to hear more about what people in the 20-40 employee bracket are doing here.
"Pivots to the Cloud". My head hurts.
I think utilizing another method besides "votes" could help increase traction for more submissions. For example, if I could easily discover users who share my interests, I'd love to receive an update (RSS) whenever that user submitted, voted, commented, etc. on an article. Instead of receiving a stream of content that may not interest me (I therefore only scan the page), I would know the content I'm seeing is somehow pre-vetted (at a minimum, by the submitter).

Ironically, I've felt this way for a while and created a website to test this theory.
The trend is moving towards mobile networks. In the future, mobile interfaces are going to be a bridge to meet real people and serve as an 'ice breaker' in the real world. The world needs relationships, and the right ones. Social networking is just beginning to meet that need.
Do you mean that literally (re-packaging xampp) or metaphorically (I can get this for free, over there)?

WampDeveloper has nothing to do with xampp. The only similarities are: WampDeveloper uses Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Windows.

That's another problem: that some visitors think "xampp"?

Even though WampDeveloper is a completely different system/framework, switches between all versions of Apache, PHP, and MySQL with a click, creates and manages all websites/VirtualHosts, has a full user interface, has a web application installer for Wordpress, Joomla, MediaWiki, Drupal, Magento, controls "local DNS" ... etc. All the things xampp does not do.

Or are you coming back to the "Why would I buy what I can get for free?" question.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into it some more.
And just to do awesome things for the world. Who knows what we might learn as we go deeper in the oceans.
One interesting use of Simplates could be a very ajaxy Single Page Application that accesses an API provided by Python functions in the same Simplate.
Haha brilliant! Why didn't they adopt this? Or is there a C++ compiler that does support it?
To be fair, there are also private research foundations and private sector companies -- i.e., drug or medical device companies that also hire biologists. You can also pivot somewhat easily into public health and work for e.g., the Department of Health. And if all else fails, teach high school or lower biology.
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Our existing platform at rgbdaily.com is solid LAMP. As we approach our first round of PR we noticed that the MySQL fulltext search we had implemented on RDS was simply not cutting it with increased volumes. Sphinx looks like a winner, but Solr seems to have a lot of the hearts and minds of the SaaS crowd. Any ideas from people who have had to make the choice, we really don't have time to evaluate both? Sphinx seems like hours to implement and we have already started.
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It appears the Stanford presentation was given by an Areva executive, and the branding / sources on this copy were removed:

"On March 21, Stanford University presented an invitation-only panel discussion on the Japanese crisis that featured Alan Hanson, an executive vice president of Areva NC, a unit of the company focused on the nuclear fuel cycle."

Source here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/science/03meltdown.html?pa...
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In my case, I have an BA in Biology and MS in Env. Science/Biology and that led me into software for that discipline (GIS). So, for the past 10+ years I've been a software developer but with specialized environmental knowledge.
Sadly, Apple is largely to blame for this mess. Well, if you ignore the publishers.

Ebooks started as a wholesale pricing model. The publishers would sell them to the likes of Amazon at some fixed price. Amazon would then set their own price. This is very similar to the brick-and-mortar pricing model. In some cases Amazon would sell those books at a loss in an effort to grow the Kindle platform.

Publishers didn't like this system because they saw cheap prices as devaluing their content. Publishers are also caught in a backwards mindset where they think if the physical book costs $25 then the ebook should cost $25 even though the latter has no printing or distribution costs.

What's more, even if those costs were the same, ebooks should still cost less because there is no resale market, a fact that digital content publishers seem to ignore.

But Apple's iBooks came along and not only gave the publishers what they want, they required it. And that is the agency model, which allows the publishers to set the price, a move I argue is anticompetitive.

This put Amazon under pressure and the publishers got their way so the pricing is now largely out of Amazon's hands (sadly).

Review bombing is an interesting tactic, one I actually support if done for the right reasons. It was done on the PC game Spore for its ridiculous DRM (initially a limit of 2 (?) activations before EA relented).

What publishers--and in fact all digital content producers--are doing with pricing and DRM is beyond a joke. Sadly the Obama administration (the DoJ in particular) is filling with ex-RIAA lawyers so you know which way the wind is blowing there.

At the same time we have the RIAA/MPAA behind closed doors (with the government as willing accomplices) trying to equate downloading a song with terrorism (eg ACTA) in terms of enforcement priorities.
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They are annoying because they are effectively vandalism.

People here aren't going to like to hear that, and I understand, but dumping stuff on other people's property to make a point isn't less destructive than dumping stuff for no reason at all; it's just destructiveness in the ostensible service of another cause.
I wish it also included GNU coreutils.
Beat me to it :-)
I agree, it is very hard if you are trying to convince a SO that doesn't see or understand the connection between your passions and well being. It's also very difficult if your SO has already decided in his or her mind that it has to be either or (them or the startup). It would be awesome if there was some guide or handbook on this subject, but there is no easy answer to making your SO understand.

It is possible to have both (your passion and your SO) if you can find a balance that you and your SO can both live with, and maybe that's the easiest way to help your SO understand...by including them in that process, and making them feel like you guys are figuring it out together.

In the end though, there is only so much you can do/say to try and convince someone who has already made up their mind that your logic is bs. At which point you should probably let that person go, so they can take a dump on someone else's dreams, lol.
> synomonys with open source

No. All free software is open source, but not all open source software is free software. The conditions for calling software "open source" are weaker than those for "free software".
Super and Hyper are modifier keys for Emacs and to let you type things like Greek letters and math/logic symbols easily (you can see math symbols on the Space Cadet and Knight keyboards).

Rubout is just backspace. IMO having it next to the 'a' is a really good position; I rebind my Caps Lock key to Backspace on my machines. It's more convenient than the Sun-style "Control as Caps Lock" layout.
I really like your approach, especially making everyone manager for a week. I think the only problem I see with it is that if people want to find another job, their 37signals title makes it seem that they essentially "went nowhere". So even if you are paying them a lot more then when they started and they are the best customer service person ever, their resume still says: "Jane Doe - Customer Service Rep 2005-2011" which looks unimpressive elsewhere.
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It makes me happy that a company that so blatantly laughed in the face of one of their competitors (Netflix) is now being sold on the chopping block for pennies on the dollar.

Really makes Reed Hastings look like a visionary.
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Geni does the family tree thing pretty well, including dead relatives, in laws, and links to family trees related through marriage and such. Family members can add other family members, which is how we do it in my family due to the non technical nature of the older members. If you're talking full integration with facebook, that's another story.
I don't really see any reason for Dish to do this. What value is there? Brand image? Maybe, but $320 million doesn't sound right.
This economic analysis is interesting (seriously!). But it is also facile. Yes, ebooks are worth "less" because they can't be resold. but they may be worth more, and maybe significantly more, because they are much more convenient. Durability, resellability, and convenience are benefits. If you need the first two, you can buy paper. You are not entitled to dictate that convenience can't cost 2x (durability + resellability). That's the market's job.

And, like it or not, "bombing" review sites isn't a market action. The market works by price discovery, not application of force.
I think you may have missed the point of my question. The OP is wondering how he can maintain his productivity with a little sprog monopolizing his time/attention( he was more diplomatic than that, but that's the crux of the issue ).

I then asked why he didn't consider this possible impact on his livelihood( the productivity aspect )before deciding to have a kid.

So, to use your response as a template, I would rewrite with the following:

Let's say in 10 years he fails to get his company off the ground because 4+ hours per day that would have been previously available to him to work on his project were not, due to the presence of a child. The kid has to take out student loans, parents who have nothing to show for 10 years of stress - and if the OP had to, he could take a second job and spend what would be kid-hours with his work.
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Not to mention that the answer which gives you more points of IQ, hence meaning you're "smarter", isn't even correct. You can start with the native americans, go through to the vikings, and I read a book recently that made a very convincing case that the Chinese sailed to South America in 1421-1423 before they shut themselves off from the world for 400 years.
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Dahl is the man. He is super direct, honest and funny in this interview I did with him a few months back: http://bostinnovation.com/2011/01/31/node-js-interview-4-que...
> I've been stuck in this "Where do I start, what should I learn, what should I use?" rut for 6 months now.

Well, do anything else besides nothing. You could have learned Django, Rails, or anything else in the last 6 months. Just pick some web based technology and build something with it. There is no "best" solution.

> I just need a direction

You don't need a direction, you need decisiveness.
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If $9.99 is too much for an ebook, then publishers will not survive selling ebooks at $9.99. If the market clears at $9.99, then $9.99 is by definition not too much for an ebook.

If you don't believe this, absent a conspiracy theory about publishing†, you don't believe in markets.

† For instance, that it's impossible to publish without a publisher, which seems objectively false in 2011.
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I have a bit of experience with Xen. If you're actually seeing a whole lot of steal (how much?), that's a bad sign because it means you're on a box with a lot of contention. In an ideal world, Xen should steal very little from you. I'm burning all four cores available to me on one of my personal Linodes, and the platform is barely stealing anything. Here's vmstat -s and uptime from that Linode for comparison:

409198 non-nice user cpu ticks
60878563 nice user cpu ticks
166987 system cpu ticks
811571786 idle cpu ticks
4486779 IO-wait cpu ticks
25 IRQ cpu ticks
15388 softirq cpu ticks
766577 stolen cpu ticks

12:06:10 up 13 days, 14:11, 3 users, load average: 4.00, 4.01, 4.05

I've had the pedal to the floor for a couple of days on the CPU, and only 766 kticks have been stolen (total) since I booted. If you're seeing a lot more steal than that, your host is working pretty hard to schedule the domUs fairly.

Wouldn't dare to assume that I know better how to run operation than you do, just sharing my experiences with Xen. Netflix had a solution to this -- unfortunate that it was necessary, but a solution nonetheless -- which was to monitor steal closely and spin up a new instance if it skyrocketed: http://blog.sciencelogic.com/netflix-steals-time-in-the-clou...

Given the opportunity, I'd like to point out that I meant no disrespect in my original comment, if it wasn't clear. I was speaking more from a generality and not about CKAN specifically, a fact lost on those mindlessly downvoting me.
I like that he mentioned in 2 places how he/they supported people in the best way for those people even when it was clear they weren't going to work for 37signals anymore. (In one case they helped someone find another job, in another they helped someone start her own thing.)

It's important to set other people up for success, whether it's success at your firm or at someone else's. They're not "human resources", they're people!
> To clarify... "President" isn't a title I use, it's a title often ascribed to me as the founder of the company.

I apologize if I got things wrong. I was just going with whatever is here: http://37signals.com/about

"Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals."

and

"Jason co-wrote all of 37signals books, and is invited to speak around the world on entrepreneurship, design, management, and software."

with that kind of workload, I assumed you wouldn't have enough time for anything else. I never said whatever you do is useless. Far from it. Non-technical work that is focused at growing a company is more important than any technical work. After all, what can you do with an insanely great product that you can't sell because you didn't prepare for it properly?
Well, bioinformaticians are far from uniform in terms of language usage (my mentor staunchly defends his use of VB6, for instance...), but this link shows people using Python for structural bioinformatics as early as 2001: http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/sanner/html/talks/PSB2001talk....
This is the frustrating thing about most modern billionaires. They're so... boring and conventional.

I'd much rather Zuckerberg took those millions he dumped into New Jersey public schools and built a spaceship that billions of kids around the world could watch fly into space.

I mean, yea Bill Gates malaria is important to solve, but can't you do that AND build a totally sweet space station?
Digital content distribution deals that blockbuster has cultivated. They don't give no shits about the stores.
IMHO the cause for slow progress is due to most submarine research are restricted and classified as top secret.

At the other hand, I wonder why submarine exploration of oceans on earth is not regarded as highly as space exploration. Also while there are so many private start-ups focus on commercial space business, what about deep ocean? I know James Cameron's participation. But anybody else?
Amazon would be much better-served with a review system that enables users to choose a 5-start rating, AND an overall thumbs up/down recommendation. Then, users will be able to see how good a book is based on how people rate it, and what percentage of readers recommends it. Unfortunately, this system would not solve the problem of eliminating garbage reviews.
We are definitely looking at startups for now, expecting that finding success with startups will naturally lead to interest from larger enterprises.

What I'm hoping to emphasize (and maybe I haven't done that enough) is that startups who are heavily integrated into social services and will see high usage would have a monthly charge, but startups just using Twitter once per user to grab a list of followers wouldn't have to pay more than the $50 license fee unless they had a very large number of users (I like to say a million, but it all depends on the specific API calls).
Being the technical co-founder I found it really helpful to get the manager / sales person onside.

He does all of the "help me understand" when things need clarity. He also keep me on track and not mucking around on the internet ( except the occasional hacker-news comment ;] )

Another bonus I have found is that having a non-technical mind allows him to put a unique perspective. One example is he wanted a list of all of the new pages on the internet every day ... I initially laughed at this, but after talking to him and going backwards and forwards his query turned back into a product that we ended up selling. I never would have thought of it had there not been his zany idea.

Coming from somebody who was the single founder for 5 months, I would say, much more difficult doing it yourself.
Im basically in the same boat as you "jack of all trades master of none" and decided I want to go further into back-end programming. I started working on a HN "clone" using Codeigniter (with freely available online tutorials). I opted to stick with PHP for now because I am already familiar with it to a degree and its ease of implementation. I really just wanted to get down to work and be able to test it using my local dev environment and my simple shared hosting account. I decided to stay away from RoR / Python/Django for now just because it would mean learning new syntax on top of learning how to use MVC. Once Im finished with this I plan on venturing out from PHP.
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I never spoke to ig1 in my comment. "You'll" there was in the general.
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I agree with you, but I'd rather deliver a distracting, cluttered resume than a boring one. Anyways, most of the time, the resumes tell you very little about the person. Delivering one that's different tells you more of what you can expect, even if it's not a creative job, IMHO.
Your assuming he planned the kid, firstly.

Each to their own I guess.
Still, you can have your passwords very securely stored in bcrypt AND mail the plain text out when the account is created. If your email isn't secure that should really be dealt with, and separately.
Perhaps you're right. With a smallish company, it's possible for everybody to jump in and do whatever needs to be done. As a company grows, though, this will become impossible. Many a great company in history have suffered spectacular deaths simply because they couldn't scale correctly with their success.

In my opinion, it will be impossible to have 200 employees with a flat structure.
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