skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally use a variant of Programmer’s Dvorak. Brackets and various symbols are placed where you usually see numbers, while you have to press shift to access numbers. I think that on a proper Programmer’s Dvorak Caps Lock should cause shift to be in effect on the numbers/symbols buttons.
Simple. Just don't have one. Nobody reads them anyway.
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It really depends on what you're doing, and what your strategy is.

If you're playing for a mobile audience and expecting much of your first time traffic to come from direct navigation (someone typing the URL into a browser), then a short, memorable, easily spelled domain name is a priority.

If you're doing some sort of long-tail content play, then it's more important that your domain have good SEO characteristics and help your site rank for the appropriate keywords.

There's no right answer; only answers that are right for a given context and budget. But from what we've seen so far functionality and effectiveness trump the domain name. You can be a raging success with a goofy domain name (e.g. google.com, del.icio.us, 37signals.com) and a huge flop with an awesome domain (colors.com).
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Look for Windows 8 to be the next Vista.

Well, that's some B.S. right there. Vista was the fast-hack project that came about after the failure of Longhorn. Windows 8 will be, oddly enough, the next Windows 7. Not a great OS, but certainly not bad.

Seriously, though, get rid of Ballmer. In fact, spin off Skype and put him in charge of it. Watch the ship sink from as far away as possible.
Nothing new here. Bartz, Ballmer, the Nokia guy...the usual large-company/high-viz suspects subject to backseat drivers second-guessing their business. For instance, Bartz failed to live up to the promises of other people.

Write a story about the 5 worst startup CEOs and then we'll be getting useful information.
Amazon is not currently collecting sales tax in California, so there's no change until Sept. 2012, when it will start collecting sales tax in CA (assuming this goes through.) It's business as usual until then.
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Looks like there will be another user of this SoC coming to market relatively soon, from the original Microsoft Xbox hacker "bunnie":

The NeTV has a particularly high hack-value due to its integration of an FPGA; from the hacker’s perspective, it’s a cousin to the Rasberry Pi but with integrated wifi, HDMI pass-through and an FPGA. And a shiny plastic case for those who care about that!
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=1847

Maybe by "cousin" he means similar market and actually a different SoC. Either way depending on price point it may be what the "hardcore" hacker crowd is hoping to get from the raspberry pi (whose target is more an introduction to computing / computer science)
You have a missunderstanding of what Newspeak is. Sure its somewhat like Smalltalk but its not an image based system. It is perfectlly happy to run without the IDE.

Newspeak is somewhat tied to its IDE but that not inherent. Newspeak has the feature of not having a global namespace this means all the functions that a global namespace normaly provieds has to be tied to some tool outside of the language. At the moment I think theres only the IDE that can do this but I remember Gilda saying that it would be easy to do this in other tools (think something like make).

Im no expert on newspeak but that how I understand it.
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Let me paraphrase Ghostbusters here: Andrew, when Google asks if you want to sell a startup for $6 billion, you say yes!

Unless you're Mark Zuckerberg, in which case you're a visionary because you turned down a crazy-huge offer for your company. Regardless of what you think Groupon is worth (I tend to think it's a bit early to call it), you have to respect a CEO that's in it to win it.
"but all the team are also 'founders' in a reasonable, non-hagiographic sense of the word."

I suppose, but who is taking all of the risk? A founder takes a loss if the company loses and wins when the company is profitable. An employee doesn't take a loss (in a sense that they are paid a regular salary no matter what).
I wonder if this is part of Jobs' succession plan -- like he withheld some easy things that he knew his successor would be able to do after he left to get some initial good press?
" [About Ballmer] He failed to close the deal to buy Yahoo. This year, Ballmer steered the company into an ill-advised $8.5 billion to buy Skype."

So buying Yahoo was a good thing and buying Skype was ill-advised?

This is a very tabloid-esque article: while I am not a big fan of Groupon's business model, I wouldn't call Andrew Mason one of the worst CEO's in tech.

This seems to be more of a rant on companies that the author has seen getting bad press, rather than the actual qualities of the CEO's running them...

Elop for instance - the reason he is named is because the author thinks the new Nokia WP phone will fail (without even seeing the phone). The man has been in charge for what, less than a year? Nokias dropping market is likely a result of years of stagnation in the feature phone segment, not quite Elop's fault - at least wait till he has time to make an impact before judging him (i.e. a couple months after the new phones launch)
The streaming of local radio stations in this app has been around for 6 months or so. Just the Pandora part is new.
I took him saying "the reality is very different" to apply to all the media portrayals given in the paragraph. My bad if that's not accurate.
It could cause magical creatures to appear and fellate me while I work, I still wont be locking myself into anything from Google.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2972108 - "What’s better: Pricier Google App Engine, or nothing?" or, more honestly: "Tough shit. What you gonna do about it?"
Yes. I did, and do this. I started life as a marketer/sales guy.

I also find it to be very rare among my colleagues. In fact, I haven't met anyone else in the same positions I have held in any of the industries that I've been in that can or do code.

I'm biased but I think that heavily specialized professionals are not what is needed right now. I've heavily focussed on Marketing/Sales/Tech and skills from each discipline have aided me many times. I can't imagine how much more difficult it would be if I were only focused on marketing, or only sales, or only programming. Want to talk about product differentiation or potential markets? Let's do it. Want to go to see a potential customer? Awesome, fill me in on who they are and what their problems are. Want to talk about how bad my code is? Excellent, help me make it better (HNers make me feel like a script-kiddie).

Master of none? Possibly. Get shit done? Definitely. I hope we start to see more people going cross-discipline and using the skills they've learned in their careers and not abandoning the skillets as it's not 'normal'. Specialized individuals seem to me like it fits better with a large organization culture and the world seems to be moving away from that now (I'm definitely heavily biased here so my thoughts could be far from reality).

To answer the question of what do I do to make myself more productive - I actually usually focus on entire systems that drive me nuts rather than small optimizations for my own benefit (Much to the dismay of my colleagues as I don't care for finding keyboard shortcuts - they constantly laugh at me for not knowing that command+alt+shift+F3+F5 will open a new tab with the contents from the last page I had opened). The most recent example is a Rails app I built to track documents (Stored on S3) associated with machines in production (Things like build orders, quotes, shipping docs, etc.) because it was driving me crazy that a dozen people wasted a couple hours every day calling around to find the right documents. Now they just go to the site and I haven't heard a request since. It takes them moments. They want to expand it into other things now like tracking details of service calls handled by our reps around the world. With Rails in my tool belt it's very easy for me to get something up quickly that can be used at a fraction of the cost that it would for an external system. Coding it properly and keeping it simple also makes it scalable. In the long run it will probably die like all other software but the cost of implementing it now (in both terms of my time and company dollars) weighed against the benefits it delivers makes it a no-brainer.
Interesting naming choice. The guy is Turkish, and "Coban" means shepherd in Turkish, it seems they preferred adding an i to the end to make it sound greek. "Yogurt" is also of Turkish origin.
This is a very common benefit for employees of large companies. It's surprising to me that this is news.
The varying rates aren't a problem, for certain; Amazon deals with those just fine in various localities (Canada has approximately 10 different rates; I don't think that cities are allowed to put additional sales taxes, as that's reserved to the federal government and the provinces/territories). What's problematic for Amazon (IMO) is the wildly varying applicability rules and filing mechanisms.

I think your idea of a unified sales tax database/system is spot on.
What is marketing without being human?
This is allread beeing done its called JS strict mode.

RPython is not really the same because RPython has to be staticlly compiled and that takes a long time.

Both of these things have nothing to do with Dart however because we do not know if Dart is about speed. Its probebly about having a better language.
That's OK. The point I wanted to make is this article is about what people in this job are like and what may be surprising to people who don't know much about it. I think anecdotal information becomes interesting in this case when it illustrates a trend, and it is about "professional" military, not about short timers and those who should never have entered the military.
rajeshvaya and itechtalks.blogspot.com need to be banned

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rajeshvaya
There's a reason nobody remembers this guy.
Totally agree - just set this on Snow Leopard (enable tab in modal dialogs), and has come in handy already.
It's not clear who the author is, but if he's not American then it wouldn't surprise me if he's more aware of Bangalore as a startup hub than NYC, Boston, Austin, Boulder, etc.
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Clear Channel's self rebranding as iHeart Radio has been pretty interesting to listen to.

Clear Channel had become something of this monolithic monster in the realm of public opinion [1] for all of the reasons people grew to hate terrestrial radio: corporate music selection, over playing top singles, too many commercials, the death of the DJ and turning local stations over to robots. Clear Channel had an image problem, and a bad one.

Enter iHeart Radio.

All of the branding and message has changed now, when you're listening to a Clear Channel radio station. They're no longer a Clear Channel Communications Radio Network, they're an iHeart Radio Channel. We've got this app, music on demand and ad free to the end of the year! It's happy, it's light. It riffs off of the wildly successful I (heart) New York tourism campaign. The message is consistent and unified across all stations, to the point that it has made me realize how many radio stations in the area are run by the same people.

It's been pretty remarkable, from a marketing standpoint. We'll see if the people bite.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications#Cr...
Or it will succeed, you'll start using it, and then they'll pull the plug on it, or find some way to charge an outrageous amount of money for it.
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I bet the backspace key is used the most.
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In about 18 months the headline will be Google Kills Zagat.
FWIW, I host a team of Germans every couple weeks in our offices. They complain and gossip when we don't provide a large bowl of yogurt and it is the sweetest, most candy like product I've ever had. So it seems "fake" yogurt has its fans as well!
How Not to Run Yahoo
The law doesn't single out Amazon, the $200 million is from all internet retailers that have any sort of presence in California. The core of the new law was defining residents participating in affiliate programs as a physical presence. Assuming nearly all retailers have some sort of affiliate program with a CA resident, the $200 million figure is how much uncollected tax revenue is available across all online retailers.
And, when C isn't fast enough, VHDL ;-)

No. Not really. I keep promising myself I'll learn it, but, so far, the goodness of the excuse to learn it does not outweight the lack of time.
Just FYI: in Europe, Amazon collects VAT at the buyers' local rate. For example, when shipping books from the UK (which has zero VAT on books), the bill includes VAT at the destination country's rate.
Somewhat unlikely. Amazon has a number of wholly-owned subsidiaries in California with sizable technical staffs: A9 (search; Palo Alto), A2Z (mobile/media product development; 5 California offices), Alexa (analytics; San Francisco), and probably others. There's also a Northern California EC2 Region. That's a very strong 'nexus' that would cost them a lot (in money and talent) to uproot.

I suspect Amazon sees the way things are going and (as in other states) have tried to get what forbearance they can while they can, and also expect a national harmonization of cross-state sales taxes at some point.
Actually, as a veteran myself, (albeit not in the US) I completely agreed with this one.
Hey, this looks cool.

> Like us on facebook!

Back to Pandora.
Most early employees in startups are investing through opportunity cost - they lose out on what they could be making elsewhere, in a less risky job by taking a salary cut.
> This will be interesting. Given Google's love for Python

Since they also love Java a lot, I am not that optimistic.
They have ~1.3 million people (at the time of this comment) who have liked it and joined the beta. The privacy concerned outliers are likely much lower in number than the additional people gained by the viral FB network launch. How many other services have that type of adoption on a first day beta?
True. Cracked.com articles are way more informative than this.
>It might be, but there's no way to tell. But even if it is 'authentic', it's still coming from someone who was likely influenced by the propaganda machine.

As opposed to your opinion, which is of course not influenced by any preconceived opinions at all...

Tell me, why are you taking issue with this job observation and not any others? Are they too products of PR departments, or is it that you just have a hate on for the military?
I got a 100% discount 3 hours ago, just clicking the button that says "Pay with a tweet".
Blame a combination of an American education and poor web design, but it took me 5 minutes browsing around on this site before I figured out that Aarhus is a city in Denmark. The first clue when was I couldn't load maps.google.dk. The location page should have some kind of clue that Aarhus is a city.
SEO and SEM are must. Working on both for our site www.Pawrks.com. Still on launch page as we are cranking the code for the other pages we are giving extra attention to meta tags (any suggestions welcome)
Also extensively canvassing with Facebook friends and twitter buddies to spread the word around.
Media coverage will be important just when we launch with all glory.
Amazon ran Target's online store for years, and collected locality-appropriate sales tax on those orders. It's not as hard as some people make it out to be.
Nice work launching this on the side, I know how exhilarating it can feel when people pay you for what you made.

One comment – The orange and brown color combination on your landing page looks visually tiring to me, which was probably why someone else said that your site looks depressing.

Take color psychology into account, here's a link I googled that touches on that:

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/color-psychology-websit...

And all the best!

- Alvin Lai
Another reason Jobs might have to prefer anonymous donation is his religion. He's Buddhist, and they believe that anonymous giving aids on the path to enlightenment.
As an infantry vet myself, "Army Soldier" is bang on. There are some tremendously bright and resourceful people in most western armies, and they are light years ahead in terms of adapting to changing environments (or recognizing the need to make a change) than the average civilian.

I'm actually really surprised to see such a viewpoint put forward by somebody outside of the military circle.
I think this is a terrible idea, unless that price only applied to buyers in first world countries. At $25 for the board + shipping to South Africa + power supplies I can afford twice the boards I would buy. And even at $25, I can't buy as many as I would actually need.

I plan on giving them to interested school kids from the local squatter camp (slum for non-South Africans) and hopefully teaching them a bit of programming and general computer skills. The charities that service these kids have a hard time getting them food, so getting them to shell out for computers (even at $25ea) is a complete non-starter.

Since I will be paying for every single one myself, and will be scrounging up the rest of the parts wherever I can, an extra $20 - $40 would make a massive difference to me.
It's the graphical "sudo make me a sandwich"
What I want is something to reduce/eliminate the animation when switching spaces with the three finger swipe in Lion. It is so slow that I find it unusable.
Hey Noduerme, great comment, let me go over each point individually. There's a lot to cover here!

First off, you are right on our high level concept. "A license in search of a casino" is an interesting way of putting it. The key value that we offer to gaming companies is the ability to leverage our gambling license.

However, you severely underestimate the difficulty of acquiring a UK Gambling Commission license. In order to get the licenses that we now hold, it took us over 18 months and $1.5 MILLION. This does not include the corporate structuring and other things that were extremely difficult to navigate through as a first-time applicant. These time & money costs are simply too great for the vast majority of small & medium sized game studios, and the compliance issues get increasingly prohibitive as you get into larger studios and finally AAA gaming corporations.

Interestingly, we were initially concerned with gaming industry's opinion on gambling like you mentioned, but we have found that that perception is not the case at all. The vast majority of responses are positive and the majority of markets that games work in are open to gambling games.

As for ensuring fair & legal applications of our API, we go through every game before it goes live with our platform and make sure that it is administered in an appropriate way. Our goal is to grow the entire social gaming + gambling ecosystem (or "social gambling games" as we like to call them), and unfair or predatory practices only damage the ecosystem as a whole. We take this very seriously and already have systems in place that let users set their own limits on deposits & losses, as well as a gambling addiction hotline.

What our service provides is the ability for game developers to incorporate real-money play into their games, including cash-out. We are audited by the UK Gambling Commission annually and we handle all gambling aspects of the games we partner with, so we essentially deal with all of the legal & financial issues. Game makers can simply plug in our API and have access to a very engaging form of monetization without overcoming the massive initial hurdles and dealing with the ongoing compliance issues. We think this is a pretty compelling value proposition for game developers.
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Zagat acquisition of Google is more ominous for Groupon than Yelp.
"Tell me, why are you taking issue with this job observation and not any others?"

Because stay-at-home dads don't have a powerful lobby that spends tens of billions of dollars per year planting pro stay-at-home-dad opinions and propaganda in the media and silencing anyone who disagrees.
For $85,000 though. Makes .xxx look cheap.
Is this somehow different from the "Full Keyboard Access: All controls" setting under System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts?
Google Acquires Zagat
That's an overgeneralization. Many big-F Founders take salaries starting at the same time as founding employees. Both are likely taking relative cash compensation cuts compared to their next-best options, and 'risking' opportunity costs. Both might forgo salary in a funding pinch or chaotic fume-out.

If the big-F Founder has a richer set of post-failure options than founding employees – and gets more beneficial notoriety even in failure – they may in practice be risking less than early employees.
It only offers ClearChannel radio stations -- so no indie or non-profit.

But "98.1 KISS FM, SF Bay's Old School" is a local radio station, no?
By the way, failte (pronounced fall-cha) is Irish for welcome! There should be an ascent (fada) on the a but HN is struggling with the character encoding for some reason.
What is an "invitation" to an open source project?
So as a thought experiment, what if Bezos gave him a spec with one sentence "Sell books online?" That's a plan.
We'll have elections in November 2012. They might be planning to buy off enough politicians with campaign donations to get a more permanent measure passed before September.
Gigabit Ethernet is mainly used as a control network. Each FPGA has 4 RocketIO links (2-3Gb/s) and they are directly connected in a 2-D torus of point-to-point links. The RocketIO network is used for nearest-neighbor communication patterns. For reduction operations such as global sums, they call back to the host CPUs for MPI reduction operations to be preformed over the GE network.

Also one of the main goals was to build the supercomputer from commodity parts and "plug-in" FPGA cards, so they most likely had to go with FPGA cards there where available and maybe cheaper then the latest/greatest.

The paper would have been more interesting if they had compared this machine to other types of supercomputers then just CPU clusters.
You are not required to do it. Only if you want early access :)
Opera 11.51 won't even try show the source for me. It's definitely interesting.
Paradox: how can a language become successful if it is only ever used in academia and hobbies? Look at perl, javascript, php, coffeescript, scala, etc. These languages became successful precisely because people started using them for production projects more or less on day 1.
Why there is a aversion towards single founder startups from VC's and incubators
My question is simple:Why there is a aversion towards single founder startups from VC's and incubators like YC?<p>Whether they are thinking that a single person won't able to handle much of crap paper work they are interested in?<p>I think this is a simple myth that needs to be busted..
The 5 worst CEOs in Tech are CEOs of companies that no one has ever heard of.
A heart attack at 64 is mundane to be sure, but I think it would be worth knowing. The article's anecdote about eating sugar on pizza might present an object lesson for the people left to carry on his legacy if his death related to a heart condition.

In any case, I don't think blindly ignoring his faults, whatever they may be, is the best way to celebrate his life. People are usually great in spite of and even because of their faults. Ignoring them doesn't really give a good picture of the person.
A language would almost certainly include an open-source implementation. Thus it'd be nothing like the kind of vendor lock-in characterizing AppEngine, an excludable/non-forkable service.