skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a first response? No. I'm just intuiting here so I may be wrong, but it seems to me that extreme action by an ever-growing fringe of society is a symptom of a larger, festering problem. As societal angst builds up over time due to systemic problems, the distribution of that angst will not be uniform. Anonymous is just one example of a subset of society where the accumulated angst is higher.

To paraphrase the saying, they're just saying what we're all thinking. They're just saying it in a way that few people approve of, but if that's the only way they can be heard, then that's what they'll do.
This is true. I've been told by PR people that 80% of the content in a newspaper or a magazine is written by PR agencies.

I have a question, though. Why don't they also create an expert system that writes PR pieces? I imagine it would be really nice tool for people in the business. You write down the variables (who, what, when)from an interview with a client in a form and you get to show him an instant first draft, you correct it together and you publish it after leaving the room.

Or even better yet, take that data and use advanced algorithms to embed mentions of clients, products and initiatives in bigger articles.

This is how a PR piece usually goes:

1. Case, problem, solution. Short story here.

2. Introduction of company

3. A Question and an Answer

4. Another look of the company, credentials.

5. This is really cool think about it. There may be a sound (text) bite here.

Do you see the patterns?
I think you ought to make it clear that you intend to proceed only after obtaining the copyright owners permission. Might stop people from flagging it.
I am no economist... so this is me trying to understand the situation. Doesn't news of imminent economic failure impact the economy negatively? If enough people are afraid to spend, because they are worried about money, then they slowing the economy. Once the forward economic momentum slows and wallets get thinner, the economic situation degrades further. Am I way off base here? It seems a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Why don't they also create an expert system that writes PR pieces?

It's cheaper and easier to just use the endless supply of interns.
The comparison to VBScript is not technical at all. It is about single-vendor control.

Your item 1 is obviously problematic. If Dart and JS have close semantics, it's just a transpiler like CoffeeScript, which intentionally sugars JS semantics with leaner syntax.

But this does not match the leaked info and hype about Dart, and even then, such warm beer still requires you to run a tool over your primary source, which costs adoption. Lots of languages already contending in this transpiling space.

More likely, a Dart-to-JS compiler (making non-local transformations) and a JS-implemented Dart runtime (to support the novel runtime semantics, e.g. new numeric types) will be required.

This means a worse user experience in browsers that don't have the native Dart VM, because performance will lag (especially depending on the new numeric type details) and bug-for-bug compatibility will be lost.

The native VM will be the super-fast source of truth. The compiler/runtime will be a stop-gap. This brings us back to the standards table, unless the idea is to corner the browser market. See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2983157

under "On Dart: ..." about what the standards table would look like if it is anywhere near today's mix of browser vendors and other interested parties.
Google Analytics is the first the comes to mind naturally.

http://get.gaug.es/ is quite nice.

http://www.xero.com is good
Exactly right. Quick bit of advice for startups here:

Last fall, the Big Ten Network began using Narrative Science for updates of football and basketball games. Those reports helped drive a surge in referrals to the Web site from Google’s search algorithm, which highly ranks new content on popular subjects, Mr. Calderon says. The network’s Web traffic for football games last season was 40 percent higher than in 2009.

This planted PR piece uses a bit of customer data to demonstrate that the technology makes great business sense. So far so good. This particular piece of data, though, will be read as "Markov chains creating content to spam up the search results" by folks inside the Googleplex, and it makes them look stupid. Don't make Google look stupid. If you do make Google look stupid, don't brag about it in the NYT. It will not end well.
Not everybody is a nativ english speaker.

Why should I tell them that, I never sad its not ok to make money of people that still use this stuff! Why should IBM not do it if there are still lots of people with old code that they can make money off? All I said is that there are languages way better then PL/I.
No, of course not. However, it is typically in the government's (and society's) best interest to try to make sure that everyone is as contented and happy as possible. Further, sometimes, discontent is the government's doing, or is at least a response to things the government is doing.
It's always reasonable to be cautious, even wary. Doubly so these days. Throwing caution to the wind is what got the US economy into this mess. Never stop being cautious when dealing with any sort of market.

That said ever since the end of 2008 you can find a Forbes or WSJ opinion piece not less than once a month about how within the next six months the entire planet is going to fall straight to bits and theres nothing you can really do about it, but heres a few things to do to make you feel better. And those things always happen to conveniently be things that make the problem even worse, basically putting your money into a mattress. Another common theme is that the fact the government is spending a dime at all on anything is whats causing the problem, despite the fact that the US governments deficit problems only play a small part in the overall economy (consumer confidence, lack of hiring, and etc are all more important woes).

This particular article is bad enough that I really wish I could downvote it. It's a scare article marketed as journalism and I think it's pretty insulting.
Those are referred to as Chaebols in Korea, in Japan they're called Keiretsu (pre WWI these were Zaibatsu). I think the family ownership involved in the Chaebols somewhat helps them remain innovative. You have a centralized force that can guide the ship during particularly important junctures in history.
Investor confidence and consumer confidence are both very important factors in how well the market does over any given period of time. So yes, these doom and gloom articles tend to be somewhat self-fulfilling a lot of the time.
what % of the users are paying? what is the average rate they each pay (since i know you had the each additional person pays .01 more thing for a while)

What was your rationale behind these ISPs vs say pure cloud (EC2/rackspace/stormondemand etc)? Or what made you pick each option?
That's an amazing amount of money to be spending on hosting.

Should be spending nearer $200/mo total for hosting a service like this with that number of users IMHO.
Good point. I agree with your suggestion and have made an edit to my post.
It's based on a short little Flash game - http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/558562 - although the downloadable's bigger and better.
Try shifting your work hours. I find i get much more done late at night. It might not be healthy, but it works in a pinch.
I've said it before, sufficiently advanced spam is indistinguishable from content. If this comes to pass, I'm not sure who will have won the spam wars, but I'm. Inclined to say that the low end content authors will have lost it.
They were probably worried that some other employee was making sexually explicit videos, or even worse, videos of child sexual abuse. If that was happening, it might come out eventually. If it came out that the company was also aware that employees were making personal videos, then that's potentially bad PR for them.
Thanks for sharing the data.

Can you break this down into how many actual servers you have? Is providing a high level of redundancy the source of the high costs?

Why do the S3 numbers fluctuate so much -- that implies a lot of transient data. At $100\month you are storing ~50MB per active user?
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Unpaid interns? Ouch. I didn't think of that.

Although there are hidden costs even behind unpaid labor. Office space, HR costs (hiring isn't easy), training, etc, etc.
I looked for the surprise ending, then I realised it's not the end of the comment but the price - "1 new from $9,999.00".

http://i.imgur.com/Kmuvf.jpg
Ahah, you poor soul.

I guess the thrust of my argument is that... Employees are trusted with those resources while under employer supervision. ("Supervision"; not that their bosses are over their shoulders, or in some cases even know how to operate it themselves.) But the second that the intent is not approved of, suddenly that employee is suspected of having destroyed everything with an errant keystroke. It's funny, is all.
I haven't a clue why this is being downvoted, unless the point you are making is too obvious. Perhaps the parent was only describing startups that neither give employees equity nor pay them at market rates?

Do many startups try to pull stunts like that?
I'm sorry but you're wrong on just about everything here.

1. While I don't know the articles you speak of you can't blame commentators for being off on predictions if the Government is doing everything it can to goose the economy. You say the national debt is a small amount of total debt and that's true. But the governments of the world have also been taking other steps like printing money and artificially keeping interest rates down (at 0 in fact). These are things that could help the economy recover but they are also things that would put off a crisis if it was coming.

2. No one would suggest putting money in your mattress because money loses value. Take a look at the dollar index: http://bit.ly/qO0F7X So the dollar has lost about 35% of its value since 2001
OK, Thanks for clarifying. Again, my purpose is not defending NaCl and if this can be done by making JS a better target or by a translator from another VM, that's great, and I hope these projects succeed. And these are worth trying even when the OSes have incompatible workalikes, precisely because they are incompatible. Thanks again for all your work on JS and the open web.
Correct, they were specifically worried about the appearance of them condoning whatever content was produced if it was publicly known.

The result from this was for them to just dissolve that entire department, and then outsource any future video production that they might need.
Why do you think so? Not all sites are created equal. And Pinboard is definitely on the lean side.

Try hosting a cluster of Magento 'daily deal' sites on Amazon infrastructure, with shared storage and isolated RDS instances for each region. You end up with 15-20k $ per month for god damned bloated magento installs.
I liked this post. I would say not only do developers need to dumb down their sites. I would say people are really really lazy you have to build everything to bring the content to the user. Ajax is a great way to do this. I try to design my sites like it's for kids. Almost no words and very pretty. Then anticipating where the user will look and what do they expect to happen.

I would have at one time agreed dumbing down is dumb. However, I heard once that it takes a more "intelligence design" (pun intended) to make something that is really easy to use. Then a design where people have to figure out what's going on.

Also there is always psychology when dealing with people. Take the McDonald's arches, they're yellow because it's believed the color yellow makes you hungry. Pink turns out to be a depressing color. Green and blue which you see a lot has ties to our innate senses. So I would say in response to the comments about colors, I think taking the time to think about it is important. Not only because you want to deal appeal inane user critiques but also because you're using every part of your SAAS design as utility.
In fact, I take reinventing the wheel to the extreme. If I see something I like, I try to duplicate it for my own project.

That's the opposite of reinventing the wheel.
Maybe they are so good they hope Google can tell their stories from human made. Although I wouldn't bet on it.
My guess is that in this particular case since two of the leadership (CTO and CSA) are journalism professors they didn't even need a PR firm to do this. It's possible to contact journalists direct obviously (and I've done that and landed on the cover of the WSJ NYT etc.)
It's not hard to hire people to write PR stuff. It's just unemployed english majors of which there are legions. There are no associated costs as the positions have no benefits and everyone works from home.
I am wondering how expensive this would be for a pre-paid plan as a last resort to google information or fetch some mobile sites. I know it is 10c to send SMS and 25c to receive MMS, so can we assume that it would cost a minimum of 35c per each request? If the browser requests more resources when the JS is executed, would it automatically result in more requests to be sent? Can this be somehow controlled? I have unlimited data, so don't need this, but the wife uses a prepaid plan and T-Mobile has no viable data options, so would like to give this option in case of "emergency".
Firstly, if that's how this works -- rather than by allowing you to guess and check until things match up -- then I am very much misunderstanding it. Secondly, there's no way this thing is going to be as powerful as a CAS. Hell, from the description I seriously doubt it'll do so much as solve a system of linear equations for you, just let you explore the space until you find a solution.
Calling it "dumbing down" doesn't help its case, but I agree with your point.
It would be enlightening to know a bit more about the actual server architecture of the site. I understand that the storage footprint per user for a bookmarking site is quite big[1], but I still think $2k for 15k users is a fairly high hosting bill.

[1] Since they offer full archiving of bookmarked websites to their premium users.
This works for some businesses and not for others. Most successful YC companies, for instance, cannot simply shut down for the entire month of August. In others, teams are so tightly coupled that the business wants vacations as synchronized as possible. It all depends.

The important thing to remember is that there is almost always some degree of freedom withheld by vacation policies. It's not especially productive to reason about vacations as if absolute freedom of scheduling is a sacred principle. Some businesses can come closer to others in providing freedom, and if that freedom is especially valuable to you, you should adjust your compensation expectations accordingly.

But remember the iron law of supply and demand. If a company provides a benefit (say, "months of paid vacation any time of the year on no notice"), and the market values that benefit, candidates will factor that into their compensation negotiation and the salary the company needs to pay for a given level of quality will decrease. In other words: you're paying for the vacation policy one way or the other.

(This is a subtext to the constant jealous comparisons between European and American vacation policies that tends to bug me.)
A: Not a Samsung product. B: Nothing is new under the sun: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/apple-ipad-2-smart-cover-...
I agree.

My boss at my previous employer somehow managed to convince the higher-ups that we needed a lab full of about 20 ridiculously well-spec'd desktops with high-end video cards (and this was well before you could argue for their use in things like CUDA).

This was our Counterstrike lab.
I guess I was wrong when I said every browser innovation. I also, more or less, agree with your other points - my goal wasn't to bash HTMLWG but to point out that the standardization of a lower level api will help us skip some of the other parts of the standards process by allowing us to do things like compile an sql library directly. Design is indeed hard, but with people free to implement different alternatives, it can happen in a distributed way with more possibilities explored even in production systems. Of course, something as basic as a module system should definitely have a standard. Which would also lead me to agree with your comment on scheme standardization while noting that some of the experiments with first class environments and f-expressions seem to be a genuine exploration a new part of the design space and not a gratuitous incompatibility, but maybe the standardization process should ignore them for the time being.
Article or not, it is always reasonable to worry. In February 2008 business magazines already sported titles like "How low will it go". For people in the know meltdown of august-september 2008 was not a surprise, although hardly anyone could guess timing and specific details.
These assume you use default emacs mode. If you are vi/vim user then set -o vi will allow you to get immediately productive in bash, using vi motion commands to edit the command line.
I have, on occasion, intentionally left a program in a state that would generate a compile error to give me a place to start the next day.

Edit: Incidentally, I do agree with the sentiment in the article, though, which is that you should develop in manageable chunks and avoid derailing so far from a working program that you can't see the results of your work within a reasonable amount of time.
Analysts at bank tend to be too short term focused. That's pretty much it.

It's next to impossible to figure out how things are going to change in just 3 months, but analysts tailor their estimates and reports to arrive at where stocks will be within that timespan.

The best use of analysts is not so much to arrive at where to buy and sell a stock but rather to obtain data on supply / demand which you can use to come to your own conclusions.
My two cents...There's a lot to read. I'd expect the home page to say that you can "Get local news, weather, traffic and deals" and a place to enter your zip to see if it's in your area. Your option are then to either signup or be notified when their city is available. I won't think to "check back often", so you should immediately want to capture interested users on their initial visit.
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...then don't use magento.

What I said was that for the functionality pinboard provides, and the number of users using it, the hosting costs are extremely high.

If the hosting costs are high because of inefficient software, or bad architecture decisions, then those should be changed.
When the IP standard was defined, was this bit purposely left undefined? Is this newer RFC really a joke, and nothing but a joke? How come the IETF allows just-kidding RFCs? I'm puzzled...
We did a "company offsite" instead of an extra holiday; we spent the morning building Arduino robots†, and the afternoon at Three Floyds. I'm sure there's someone here ready to say "that's not a benefit! just give me the freedom to choose what i do that day myslef"[sic]. Oh well. I'm guessing I'm not too unhappy about missing the opportunity to work with the kind of people who would complain about stuff like that.

† More accurately, the rest of the team made robots while I went and rented a huge van.
I think what he means is that its launch has been delayed in the USA, so it is available "only" now.
Some might say the tea party falls into the exact same category.

"They're just saying it in a way that few people approve of, but if that's the only way they can be heard, then that's what they'll do."

..and I don't agree with it. Eventually it will lead to senseless violence in addition to the senseless destruction. They are on the same level as any low-level terrorist group.
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> 2) It obscures the connection to B-trees, which is what leads one to derive all of the special cases after all.

You mean 2-3-4 trees rather than general B-trees. Anyway, that is true of all implementations of red-black trees I have seen, and intentionally so. When you consider the number of possible parent/child configurations when splitting and merging 2-3-4 nodes, there's a whole lot of them. By expanding a 2-3-4 node as a cluster of red-black nodes, the local combinatorics are more manageable.

Even the presentations of red-black trees in textbooks (e.g. CLRS) usually obscure the connection with 2-3-4 trees, with one exception being Sedgewick's own book. That's too bad.

> 4) If you're doing rbtrees in Haskell, you might as well enforce your invariants with the type system.

If you're going to do that, it's probably easier to use the isomorphism with 2-3-4 trees and work with that. There's a standard trick for representing trees with the 2-3-4 invariant using non-regular data types:

data Tree a = Zero a | Succ (Tree (Node a))
data Node a = Node2 a a | Node3 a a a | Node4 a a a a

Alternatively, you could use left-leaning red-black trees, which have an isomorphism with 2-3 trees.

But it's not clear to me that there's much of a practical win in encoding the balance invariant in the type system here.
That's the operative phrase: "used to be".

Amazon is now general merchandising, though focused on information (printed/electronic) products.

Wal-Mart's biggest current competitor is Amazon. There's a large initiative at Wal-Mart to develop an R&D lab near San Francisco: http://www.baycitizen.org/technology/story/inside-walmart-la...

Good luck matching Amazon's culture with that mandatory drug test requirement.
There's more information about this in earlier blog post, e.g.: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/08/a_short_rant_about_hosting/
Looks like he made the two classic mistake of a software guy with a startup (i made them too)

1. Spend too much time futzing about with the technology. No one cares.

2. Spend too much time futzing around with stuff you think a business needs to be a 'real' business.
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Cool, what is the library support like at this time?
Which, to me, is an insane concern. Who wouldn't understand, in the rare instance of such abuse, "we trust our employees to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. This person misused our trust, etc."
Yep. It's not magical, or new, or.. shrug.
I am not using it personally but administer and maintain a cluster, among other people. Magento is brain dead.

As for high hosting bills, build your own equivalent version and then share your own hosting bill data.
Keeping the element counts gives you something called weight-balanced binary trees. Here's a paper on them by Stephen Adams:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/adams/BB/

I used a variation on these for my FSet functional collections library for Common Lisp.
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