skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah. Well, then I guess it would depend on if I thought you went through bankruptcy because you started a company without a corporation and it crashed, or if I thought you went through bankruptcy for personal reasons. The latter, in my mind, would pretty much disqualify you, as it suggests you are not good with money.

The former is just fine, assuming you can get me to believe you. (but convincing me of this would be difficult. Everyone with a shopping problem would like to think they were really 'investing' Financial records from the failed company would help a lot, and would provide evidence you are good with money.)

Of course, I invest in my own companies, not in other people's companies, so my opinion may not be representative.

Oh, also, especially if you are young, it will matter a lot less as you get older. We all can relate to doing irresponsible things when we were young.
how do you prevent this from becoming a haven for spammers?
They're saying Windows 7 isn't going to bring wide-sweeping architectural changes that break backwards compatibility, but it IS a stated goal to make "under the hood" changes such as improving boot times, general performance, etc.
At first and quick glance, it looked like the new Nissan GT-R: http://allcarsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/67893.jp...
...registry hives...

A great piece of MS terminology, apparently the result of inter-developer conflict...

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/08/54618.a...
I hope this has a happy ending.
I'm not a native of the US, so I could be wrong, but aren't you only supposed to call 911 for an immediate emergency situation?
Passions distinguish good leaders from great ones
Just came across: Turn your name into your face
So you want to click that button?
Good post.

Multicast suffers from a lot of drawbacks - Particularly in error + broadcast storm scenarios. I've worked on a few TIBCO based networks and they are difficult to manage (test, verify) even in a constrained setting.

I can't imagine it being used in anger in an Internet context. Except perhaps for broadcast video/audio... But as you point out, Akamai style models do this just fine.

One model you don't mention (or I've misread some of the types listed) is the Push or Publish-Subscribe Model.

I've seen this work really well in corporate environments - the drawbacks being there is a bigger responsibility on intermediate "routers" and it's less than real-time... However, there is a break point at which both of those actually improve (i.e. a value "n" at which maintaining "n" pub-sub is easier than maintaining "n" discrete connections).
I also want to know this. Is there a magical hacked os x that runs under virtualization?
Ironically, his writing is mostly about an easy kind of Windows development. Web apps behind IIS? Not that hard, really.

Try building an installable desktop software for Windows. That's where real fun begins. It is quite common for teams doing Windows work to dedicate as much as 20% of available manpower to the installer alone (!). I've been coding Windows desktop in C++ since graduation in 98 and has always looked down on web programmers since they had it so easy. But once I got older I realized that all my Windows-fighting instincts and in-memory database of gotchas are nothing to be proud of: most of my career I was boxing against the platform I was working on, while some were having fun building the actual software.

The irony of it is that once upon a time Microsoft was kinda cool. I was a teenager but I still remember those "good&old" days of snobby IBM/Sun/Oracle salespeople with their super-expensive software, hardware, development tools and even documentation (you could sell your car for a full copy of OS/2 SDK). And then there was Microsoft and Borland, giving their tools and docs basically for free.
No matter how cool the Mac and Cocoa are, it is really difficult to start a new development project without having any kind of a pathway to Windows (and Linux).

This may be just the thing to get me over the hump of fear, uncertainly and doubt caused as I consider committing to Cocoa.

Anyone else had experience with Cocotron?
thank you for the links!
The bankruptcy would largely be a result of funding a web startup years ago with credit cards after having used up savings. The expenses were food and rent and the like.
Great line in this article: In other words, IBM knows how to make money whichever way the wind blows.

This is really true. IBM can give with one hand and take with the other - they really excel at this due to their scope.

And whilst Cloud Computing and SaaS feel like relatively new emerging technologies, IBM has been pushing their "On Demand" mantra/brand for years (since 2002). So even if it's not necessarily apparent in some cases, I think they are well geared for this kind of market change.
Cool concept, but I'm curious who the target market is (pros or prosumers). Most pros need more from their portfolio site while most prosumers don't need more than Flickr.
You don't even have to look that far back

Two weeks ago, October 13th, the DOW went up 11.1%, of course it gave that whole 11.1% and more back in the days that followed

The market is crazy right now.
build a company that makes you money and doesn't require investment. what is the problem?
Six hours in: launching a niche microsite
the only reason to virtualize MySQL that I can think of is if you have 2 servers with way more ram than you need. Say that, like me, you buy servers based on the dollar-per-ram metric. Right now, this means your servers have 32GB ram each. (I use two quad-core opterons in each 32GB ram server) so say I have 2 servers with 32GB ram each, running Xen. (I do, in various states of assembly and burn-in) Further say I only need 1GB of data on my MySQL server. I can easily carve off a 4GB ram server from each Xen hardware host, and I can setup a MySQL cluster server, with redundancy for much less than it would cost to build two 4GB servers.

Remember, virtualization is just a tool to make consolidation easier. Consolidation saves you money when the best value per unit of CPU/RAM leaves you with a server that is larger than you need. Consolidation, though, tends to reduce redundancy. Be careful with it.
Integrating Scala into JRuby
Moving the locked top panel in Ubuntu/GNOME
Ostensibly yes, but in America it has basically become a synonym for "nearest police department".

We should only use it when we need a fire-truck/ambulance/police-car here as fast as possible, but it has become acceptable in most areas to dial it to report burglaries, vandalism, missing persons etc.
New features in C# 4.0
Sorry about the doc link.

Seeing as C# and Python are my two favorite languages, I'm glad to see C# gaining some of my favorite Python features.

The variance things are totally awesome. Eric Lippart's blog has some more information on covariance and contravariance with respect to C#: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/tags/Covariance+an...

Dynamic typing when you need it, more powerful and flexible static typing when you don't. Sounds good to me :-)
"I can only have an imperfect understanding of what VJ is saying with Content-Centric Networking, and I am extrapolating some of what I knew him to have been saying in the late '90s."

So you just made all of that up?

If you'd like to see the actual points (which say nothing of multicast and doesn't proclaim "group security" to be scary and magical), check out http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840

It's about providing network access to everyone from mud huts in villages to gigabit connected apartments in Tokyo. It's about making networking with content retrieval work over any medium, anyplace, anytime.

It's about being able to drop "a box of Internet" someplace and having reasonable access to content.

We could have a workable solution to what Van Jacobson describes now, but mobile devices and most computers are still too caught up in privacy and network lockdown. Being "connected" doesn't mean just having Internet access. It means being able to connect to everything around you and interact meaningfully without having to go through service providers and gatekeepers.
And when I did, guess what came up as number 2 hit? Your comment!
That's fucked up right there. They ought to fix whatever's making that happen.
The question is, if I want or need investors, might this be a problem?
I also heard a rumor about Bank of Japan maybe cutting 0.25bps off their rate (a 50% reduction, bringing it down to 0.25bps). And that if true, it's enough to revive the carry trade for a while and pump our markets with borrowed Yen for a month or two...if, in fact, the Japanese banks have anything to lend.
No, you do. That's the problem.
Of course I didn't. I read the promotional material at PARC, and I spent years obsessing about every paper Jacobson and his team posted at ftp.ee.lbl.gov, so I'm familiar with the general subject area. I also helped crater a VC-funded startup in this area. What I did not do was sit through a Google video of VJ explaining all the implications of this Great New Idea, which is why I started my comment with a caveat.

Thanks for telling me what it's about, though. I'm glad the mud huts in villages will have working content retrieval anyplace, anytime. Maybe we can get them clean running water soon afterwards.
P is not equal to NP
I already use instantrimshot on a daily basis. Now this one. More than I use Facebook...
#!/bin/sh

n=10
while [ $n -ge 0 ]; do
sh -c "while true; do curl -d submit.x=1 -d submit.y=1 -b clickthatbutton=10521 http://clickthatbutton.com/; echo; done" &
n=`expr $n - 1`
done

Change "n=10" to change the number of concurrent requests. Anyone have a better method?
Make an API or an app for Facebook/Myspace or a widget for Wordpress and watch it spread. ;)
LinkedIn Launches InApps Application Platform «
... and make a bunch of new ones.
Codeweavers contributes a lot of code back to the community (ie: Wine's git tree) - and a few of the main Wine hackers are employed by Codeweavers (Alexandre and Jeremy at least).
And Americans wonder why response times deteriorate?
I like it. I gave it around 180 clicks before I left the page. It was a good experience.
there's a test console @ http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php
Ok, the internet says P != NP... does anyone know if this is legit?
Turn your iPhone 3G into a (jailbroken) modem for Mac in 15 minutes
Seems that it's more efficient just to let 911 take all calls and route appropriately. Taking calls, determining if the situation is urgent, getting the necessary information from possibly panicked callers, etc. I know that a law enforcement officer told us to always call 911 if we saw illegal activity, because if nothing else they periodically map the calls and use that to determine where to patrol.
Assume intelligence is distributed proportionately to time spent thinking on hard problems, starting in childhood, which assumption is borne out by the biographies of many exceptionally gifted individuals, and things start looking very different, don't they?
If he did have a filter (to look at who has upvoted him the most during YC application review), it would likely not weigh in favour of those who unfalteringly agree with everything he says.
arXiv == not peer reviewed. I know I'm not qualified to judge this paper; anybody in here that is?

edit: He appears to be a professor at Uppsala University in sweden: http://user.it.uu.se/~stenake/ .
A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
Sorry, the key point is that the assertion:

"Therefore, P is not equal to NP, is true and provable in a simply consistent extension B" of B"

does not necessarily imply P \neq NP (the caveat being the B" and B stuff). I'm not really a complexity theory guy, but I would say WHP that this either

(a) does not apply to the most general forms of computation (e.g., what people mean when they ask P =? NP)

(b) is wrong
I don't think Flickr is big enough to make much impact on their bottom line. Even if they doubled revenues, it'd still be a drop in the bucket.

Netflix has its own troubles, but might be a good buy for them. Way outside of their core competency, but moving toward it at least. They're probably still wary of trying to become a media company since that's what drove them to where they are now. They bought one V.O.D. company, and the only people who benefited from that were Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner.

Not sure what exactly you want them to do with IBM. Any suggestions as to how they could partner? I don't see much synergy there.

Why would Nintendo let someone else deliver flash games on their platform? Nintendo most certainly doesn't need anyone's help there. If they decide to go that route, they'll run it themselves. I expect them to do some Xbox Live Arcade type stuff at some point.

Yahoo's current strategy of opening up might actually be good and is much more in line with their core competencies. Branching off into goofy tangential media stuff (as a result of hiring a Hollywood CEO) is what got them into this pickle.
Watch house season 5 episode 6(s05e06)
Take away Microsoft and Yahoo and the answer is $0.
No. So far as I know, I invented tagging.
Good question. But then, Google is about as dominant as we can expect anyone to be long term.

For the foreseeable future search is worth a lot. So for the foreseeable future, helping search increase market share (even if it's only by 0.X%) is worth a good bit too.

Actually, from a simplistic viewpoint, the ff search deal is worth more to MS then it is to Google. If FF didin't strike that deal, what engine would they put there? The cost of putting up MS/Yahoo in terms of user experience & pundit complaints would be something compared to Google.

Also, Google would probably end up with a lot of that search traffic anyway. MS wouldn't have. Google is in a snese paying for traffic they may have gotten anyway. MS would be paying for nee traffic.
That's what they taught me in school, but it's not what my police department thinks. It probably varies by location.

I reported a crime about 2 years ago, and they needed my signature on an official statement. The department left a message that said "When you're home next, call back 555-1212 extension 9999, or just call 911 and ask for detective so-and-so". I figured, when am I going to get to call 911 again? So I called, stated that I had no emergency, but was told I could get in touch with detective so-and-so, and they transferred me to him and were even really nice about it.
Though I like your Opera angle, particularly with Opera's strength in mobile.
Not that i disagree with the rest of your ideas, but they just don't seem to really shout 'strategy', and I gotta say I don't really understand your 'Partner with IBM' plan.

I suspect Flickr's strength is specifically that it isn't monetized like SmugMug. They don't need to copy another service, they need to innovate and continue the growth of that platform. Though that may mean stronger monetization of the business, I hope it would not mean simply copying another service.

With respect to 'Owning the Living Room', I suspect that this is so far from there strengths as to be unrealistic with the economics currently the way they are. Sure you could argue the same about Google, but they've got the cash to go out and make a mobile OS and give it a go. Yahoo! arguably can't take that risk on a market which is not as large as mobile.

Just my thoughts, but I think the Opera angle is a pretty good one.
If you remove the last word from that sentence, you get my opinion.
His homepage is amusingly antiquated, even for an academic.
the proof tries to show that p!=np as an extension B" of some Turing machine B -- just read through it and it's all over the place. wouldn't get your hopes up.
none of the different spellings of my name look anything like me :(
Oh! that ':(' looks JUST like me!
ugh! I hate the recession!

http://www.sniki.org
If you haven't already done so, check out http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=540

"Moist aversion: the cartoon version"
Is SaaS a model where you can actually get more out of your paying users?

Sure there's lots of free SaaS. But generally speaking, it seems that software vendors are getting a little bit more (per user) from SaaS then the installed equivalent when they do get paid.
Nice approach, My friend and I were trying to do the same thing.
http://juliocapote.com/post/56866975/so-you-want-to-click-th...
bookmarklet version: http://ubergibson.com/~alan/bmforge/
This isn't a bottom and a reversal, this is a bear rally. Tomorrow the fed will be dropping interest rates 0.5% and we may see a slight rise or stagnation. Thursday the government will be releasing some quarterly reports, which will probably show just how bad things are getting and the market will eat crap again (-4/500).

Prepare to hit the 7000's in the coming weeks as no one buys squat for xmas. Sorry little Timmy, due to fiscal irresponsibility there's no Christmas this year.
Is it clear that this isn't just some kind of alternate reality game? I mean, if he can find all this guy's info, he can't find his parents?
Lecture notes from the iPhone App class at Stanford: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php
YPSILON: LittleWing Pinball Construction System's R6RS compliant Scheme implementation
I've long felt that Blu-ray is destined to be a niche videophile product. I'm happy to buy them, but I've got a high-end HDTV and sound system. Even then, most titles aren't dramatically higher quality than upsampled DVDs on my Oppo. Most people, on an average home theater, would have a hard time noticing the difference. With today's economy and the ubiquity of DVD players, it's difficult to imagine that there are many more people willing to buy a new player and pay 50% more for media. I suspect Christmas sales will be very disappointing for Sony.
That was pretty good.

One trick I use to substract my own bias is to pretend that I am on the other side. If I hold some stock I am naturally more likely to defend it to my friends. Then I pretend that I shorted that stock and start defending the opposite position. Then I look which position is more idiotic. :)

Sometimes it even works, although I didn't get it work reliably.
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
I agree. These are a series of possible plays. Maybe even tactical plays. We can argue about their merit till the cows come home. But where is the 'This is how we'll win.'

Making Flickr into a sort of services that could make some people money or some people might be willing to pay for is ok. If they can do it without killing it (always a chance) then they might make a viable business out of it.

But then, how big a business would that be? Istockphoto got $71.9m in 07'. Sure that's not shabby. But say Yahoo can match that. That'd be an achievement in itself. A best case.

Since they supposedly bought it for $35m, that'd even make it reasonably good acquisition.

But its' hardly a revolution. It adds about 1% to yahoo's total revenue.

Owning the living room means going head to head with Sony, MS, Apple & Cable Companies to take a market that doesn't really exist yet, may never exist in the way we think & noone knows what it's worth. All we know is that competition is evil.

Billions? I don't see how. At least not immediately. Strategy? Again, I don't see it. Honestly, being in charge of Yahoo would suck right now.
just wanted to add that in the past two days numerous announcements have been made about developments in the saas marketplace - especially from Microsoft with their new OS as well as browser-based office apps.
Here's a different four point plan for Yahoo!

1. Cut costs to the bone. Ruthlessly reduce headcount, non-core services, and the executive roster. Go until Wall Street thinks you're insane, then cut a bit more for good measure. I'm talking 30% layoffs in one shot, with strong incentives for the remaining top talent to stick around. Forget about playing to the interests of Silicon Valley startups and idealogues. Sell or shutter the acquisitions that don't have a path to material revenue contribution. Fire the consultants. Put a small team of passionate executives in the driver's seat, top up their options, and fire the rest. Make it clear that bureaucracy, infighting, and complacency are over.

2. Replace Jerry Yang with a leader who is aggressive, fearless, and given a long leash by the board to steer Yahoo! to a new corporate identity. I actually think Jerry is a good leader, I just believe he's in an impossible situation and needs to be freed from Yahoo! for his and the company's benefit. Ideally promote from within someone who has the passion and vision to lead, maybe paired with an outsider who the axe-man.

3. Explore any deal that boosts monetization of Yahoo's massive traffic. Swallow pride, and get solidly in the black. The levers are well within reach, the Yahoo! brand is still a tremendous force on the Internet, and the company sits atop a formidable set of services. Sidle up to your enemies if they'll help you achieve profitability.

4. Rediscover Yahoo's soul. While it would be nice to do this ahead of the unpleasant cuts described above, I don't think it's possible. This will be possible when the company is unencumbered by historical baggage, unburdened by a tremendously depressed stock price, and full of people excited to figure out together what the next chapter is for the company. The new soul of Yahoo! will not be found in a consultant's report, executive talking points, a set of loosely-joined web 2.0 startups.

Disclaimer: I am a Yahoo! shareholder.
SaaS also usually can't be pirated.
I don't know why I don't see this more often, but the environmental cost of a product is almost exactly equal to it's monetary cost.

Why? Because if you trace the cost of a product down to it's constituents almost every cost a product has is directly related to how much energy it takes to make it and it's parts. Even salary, because money spent on salary is based on prevailing wage, which itself is based on how much energy a person needs to live in their community.

Now obviously it's not perfect - in particular it doesn't include costs that are passed on to the public as a whole: most glaringly pollution of all types.

And possibly things that are paid for by taxes - although taxes raise the cost of the product and wages, so it's somewhat taken into account (as long as the product does not consume more than it's share of public funding).

But other than that it's very close.

So for the example here: if a paper costs $20 a month, but your computer costs $30 per month for service plus the cost of the electricity, plus the cost of the computer itself, it's a no brainer.

But you use your computer for other things too...

You want to know which car is better for the environment? (To make, not to run.) The cheaper one.
Does anyone think that Yahoo's stock is undervalued?