skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're suggesting that the rise of full-blown autism has somehow risen to epic proportions, they're statistically incorrect. I think they're including milder forms and pretending they're all the same.
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I agree. It has really been the Dem's race to lose, and for a while there they were doing their best.
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The author clearly mentions this in his post, so I don't see why that is an issue.
Sure there's a lot of web frameworks and libraries out there, but not many targeted at the far right side of the web "spectrum" he showed. There's Flex and Silverlight, if you don't mind being locked into proprietary runtimes that require a plugin install. There's GWT if you want to write Java...
Other than massive amounts of TPS reports and ridiculously optimistic financial models.
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I just didn't know about the use of the word 'crunch' in news feeds.
Yes, they do, but the point of the OP is that this person is still suffering from heavy narcissism, as evidenced by their writing an article about their experience regarding Facebook.

It was an interesting article - a bit obvious, but still worth reading - and I thought that the OP's comment was spot-on.
This would be amazing as a Chinese IME.
Speculators are helping price-discovery.

Care to elaborate how that works for urbanism, esp. in coastal zones?

"Discovery" is not even an apt word to use here. It connotes there is some "optimal" price towards which supply and demand will converge no matter what, just speculation will help that happen faster. In the real world, urbanistic speculation promotes overdevelopment, which greatly affects quality of landscape and living environment, thus effectively -and, what's worse, irreversibly- changing the value of the land.

Does "Tragedy of the Commons" ring a bell?
creative ideas is one thing and implementing those ideas is what matters most.
I agree that this could be the case, but I don't think it is limited to the two factors that the author states. Timing is missing. If the same genius were born today would they perform and excel the same? Timing in business and being a staple of time is one in the same. Maybe genius knows what to be at the right time.
I don't spend much time actually ON Facebook: I use the live feed, and keep my friend count down so I don't get overwhelmed. But yeah: I haven't edited my profile in something like half a year.
Linux Summit Will Preview New Advanced File System
No, Midori is something very different...
Personally, I think Vista should have kept the name "Longhorn" from development. I like the sound of "Windows 7" but I too am a bit concerned with how Windows in itself will fare with a future that looks like Vista which was, in my opinion, a step away from the enterprise class that Windows has always had a firm grasp on. As someone who works in IT for a university and has worked for other schools in the past, I found Vista showed no reasons to be used in an enterprise setting. Vista tailored WAY too much to a home user perspective. All pretty pictures and no power.

Windows 7, we can perhaps expect a step back in the right direction. I've seen rumors but nothing official that suggested Windows 7 was going to be Microsoft's first Operating system since Windows 2000 to not use the NT core? Anyone care to confirm that?

Also... just some funnies... http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/13/windows-7-the-search-for-a...
After reconnecting with several friends I had lost touch with, a few admitted to thinking that I had either ended up in jail or died because of my complete lack of online presence. (No Myspace, facebook, blog, etc)

This is vaguely disquieting.
not for long you won't, unless you're going to start writing your own security patches and backporting apps.
"I stick by my opinion however, and can point to the relative number of programmers versus marketing people in the global workforce as indicative of what I am saying . . . if more people were smart enough to program, as opposed to market, they would . . ."

Can you further explain here? Market forces will determine where people go, salaries will rise until people move into those positions. The number of people in given positions is not indicative at all of the skill of the people taking those jobs.

"Marketing has its place, but to an admittedly occasionally arrogant geek such as myself (who has come across some incredibly, impossibly dumb marketing types) they are figuratively just the people who stand outside the shop on the sidewalk and try to get people to step inside and look at the wares . . ."

I agree with you that this is an extremely arrogant viewpoint. I've met many stupid programmers but I don't assume the same of all programmers. I also think you're confusing the roles of sales and marketing but that's beside the point.

Discounting the value of people who aren't like you isn't a very great way to get anywhere in life, especially as an entrepreneur.
Windows 7 is breaking application binary compatibility. My understanding is that if your executable's manifest does not specify 7, then you get <= Vista. The next version will provide <= Vista, 7, and 8. And so on.

I may have misunderstood, but this seems like it will relieve many compatibility woes.
I think it is not the beautifulness of the UI that could be distracting. Its the navigation and easily understandable UI. If the user has to click more than 3 clicks to do anything on any UI, user's not gonna stay longer. Example of Google was pretty good. Even now when Google has so many products like Books, Gmail. News etc, users don't get confused as to how to use anything new on Google and that's because of Google's attitude of lesser clicks I suppose. So some website with less clicks, great functionality and a beautiful UI is gonna sell like anything.....
Apple's start-from-the-beginning effort was Copland. That turned out pretty badly for Apple. (Which is part of the reason they abandoned it in favor of buying NeXTSTEP (Which turned into OS X))
US taxpayers should now own ($/MktCap):

19% of Citibank 25B 85B
17% of JP Morgan Chase 25B 144B
13% of Bank of America 10B (+5B) 114B
15% of Wells Fargo 10B (+5B) 100B
23% of Goldman Sachs 10B 43B
52% of Morgan Stanley 10B 19B

It sure is a lot better than owning 100% of "toxic assets" (you can thank UK/Europe for pushing that.) But still looks quite wrong, doesn't it?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7644238.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_d...
From that Jay Cross flashpaper:

Alexander goes beyond the drought-resistant, no-maintenance yard to the maintenance-free, barren yard. Natural as a hippy’s armpit, this hardscrabble, lifeless expanse, especially in the midst of neighboring houses with specimen plants and lush yards trumpets the owner’s iconoclastic avant-guard design sensibility. It screams, “I’m different.” ...

Alexander does both himself and his neighbors a favor by dumping the detritus of past projects in his front yard. Neighbors report that property values (and therefore
property taxes) are lower when they have line-of-sight to the Alexander home. ...

Pattern No. 12:
DISHEVELED ENTRANCE

You know you can get away with wearing blue jeans inside when you pass by this funky collection of neglected plants and broken fence just before getting to the
door.
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I understand the logic that the Sequoia presentation endorses. The problem that I have is with their timing. The signs were clear of bad economic times at least a year ago and probably much earlier than that.

That being said, I still think it's a great time to be working on a startup. I knew the economy was going to tank and yet I still started my company earlier this year. Smart investors who still want to be in the game and yet have fiduciary responsibilities should have been providing at least some warning earlier to their portfolio companies long before it all hit the fan in the last few weeks.
Bush Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar
Right. The pickle we're in is clearly the result of the actions of two Presidents, multiple Congresses, and millions of individuals.

Our budget deficit may be largely Bush's fault, but it's not the reason for the current woes.
Management idea: Hierarchy of needs
I just love this site; it teaches me some great ways to maintain a good looking desk.

I have to confess that I don’t feel ready to post my desk picture; too messy !!! :)
Funny, five minutes ago I was reading fivethirtyeight while watching the Dodgers game and thinking that the two were somehow entwined.
The numbers speak for themselves. That is obvious.

You are not reading what I write. I did not mention skill, I mentioned intelligence. Those are not the same.

It is quite simple. Look at all occupations. There are more non-intellectually demanding jobs than there are intellectually demanding jobs. There are more dumb people than smart people on the planet. That is obvious.

Speaking of market forces, why are programmers on average paid more than marketing and sales people?

You have met stupid programmers? Interesting. I agree that not all are extremely bright, however, anyone who is truly stupid will not be able to even learn how to program, much less become worthy of the title programmer, whereas, I have seen some nearly illiterate folks working in marketing, and sales, and I realize those two are different, even though I do not bother to differentiate between the two when making reference to them.

"Discounting the value of people who aren't like you isn't a very great way to get anywhere in life, especially as an entrepreneur."

Neat, now you are starting the personal attacks.
This is brilliant. I _hate_ switching my OS IME when I need to type in Japanese.

I don't know how you'll monetize this particular implementation but you've come with a fantastic technology. I'm sure you'll do very well. Congrats.
Despite Obama's clear understanding of technology, I'm not sure a lawyer/career politician can qualify as a technocrat. Hu Jintao is a technocrat. Barack Obama just has good technology policy. But yeah, it's pretty amazing. It might be enough to restore the rest of the world's faith in America.
I'll have to agree as a 43 year old with an unhealthy interest in start-ups. Maybe I should tell VC companies that I'm a late-blooming genius? ;-7
I wonder what Gladwell thinks of Joyce, who published relatively young (Dubliners) and who then spent decades piecing together his final two masterpieces. Is it possible for people to be both ways at once?
Living in Tokyo, an obese person really sticks out. You just almost never see them. You do see some fat teenagers though, since they are abandoning the traditional diet.

Japan is in love with fat in all its forms (fatty marbled beef, fatty tuna, fatty pork) and there is almost no culture of sun-screen usage, but they also are much better at producing melanin than europeans, making for pretty effective natural protection.

They also have one of (if not the) largest populations of centenarians on earth.
I love Cabel's FancyZoom. It's the only Lightbox script I would ever use. Most of the other Lightboxes that take like 5 seconds to fade and autoadjust the dimensions of the frame are just inane.
I don't really know much about Japanese, but this is awesome! I know there's a song called "Kaze Wo Atsumete" that I like, so I just typed that in and the various symbols came up.. I copied and pasted it, and bam.. I was finding music videos on YouTube I wouldn't have seen otherwise - and it was the right song! Big thumbs up.
Labels aside, he had the good sense to hire a Facebook co-founder to run his on-line operation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07hughes.html?_...

I know I wouldn't be surprised to see Hughes running the "Google for Government" initiative. That proposal is a huge step forward in transparency and accountability that any technocrat could love. The proposed technology czar is also really cool. How about Woz as a cabinet member?
I'm male and reacted the same way as blurry. It's a puerile touch. Perhaps we can avoid this sort of thing in the future?
:) I'm hoping for Lawrence Lessig myself.
All in all, though, I've been very lucky. A lot of that luck has to do with the accidents that led me to stumble onto an intellectual style that has served me extremely well.
Hey look! If we call a "set" a text file with one number per line, Unix can do "set" operations!

Never would have guessed Unix commands worked well with text files...
But in a way, Copland wasn't Steve Jobs, but NeX was.
Apple is Steve Jobs.
Doesn't work in Google Chrome.
This is a disaster. Bush is an idiot for signing this, but just remember who controls congress. Looks like there's finally something both parties can agree on, and that's to use government resources to enforce sweeping, intrusive copyright laws.
Do CS depts pretend programming is hard even though it is now easier than ever?
CS depts want to increase enrollment after all...

Moreover, I wouldn't be surprised if professors even exaggerate the difficulty of programming in their grant applications.
Are Macs More Expensive? Definitely Just Ask Microsoft
Scoble?
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I love reading stuff like this. I wish more super intelligent people did it.
Which? Conscience of a Liberal? I didn’t find it particularly insightful, but it was alright.
Envato doesn't own iStockPhoto, Getty does. But otherwise you're right.
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/istockphoto
I believe the person was simply reporting on the facts, and I think that pointing out that fact (that the new wife was young and pretty) was valid, as it illustrated one of the ways that the man's efforts paid off, how life rewarded his honesty, integrity, and commitment to do the right thing.

It made me feel good actually, some woman leaves him FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING . . . but then, eventually, why, he meets a great woman who is in many ways (including young and pretty) better than the other one. How wonderful! Good for him! Good for her!

I love it when someone who does the right thing is rewarded.

Would it have been better you think if he had remained single, or if he had ended up with a wife that was not as great as the one that left him?
Agreed. I think it couldn't be less confusing. I love the name and look forward to it coming out(still on XP, definitely going to skip Vista). I hope it has built in version control, faster file search, and no stupid security pop ups. Also, could we please get a better version of Paintbrush?
Craigslist is another perfect example. Ugly, and amazingly useful and useable.
What is your specific objection (if any) to the Sequoia presentation? I assume you have no issues with the data, but its interpretation. Would love to know what you think!
I'll throw something because, why not?

Years ago, with a bunch of college buddies, I was watching the "Howard Stern Show" and a caller came on and Stern was evidentally in a bad mood and the caller was somewhat incoherent and eventually Stern hung up on him because of the combination thereof...

Anyway, the producer (baba boey) came in an explained what the caller was trying to ask [paraphrase]:

"That guy wanted to arrange a surgeon to install an electrode into his brain so that electricity could be shot into his pleasure nerves (like rats in various experiments)"

!!!

I had thought about this long ago as a potential SUPER drug. Just turn on the juice, and you've got a 1000 hits of cocaine at 15 cents a KW/hour. I'm still pissed that Stern hung up on that guy, because he probably could have arranged an experiment. Can you imagine if that became popular?

Just think.....
3.1, NT, 95, 98, ME, XP, 2000, Vista, 7 -- just pick a scheme and stick with it guys.
No, but if the other guy is richer, you will either start to emulate him (and become richer and more like him yourself), or he will eventually become a stockholder of yours at which point, he has effectively taken over. Do this across generations, and you have societies taking over others. It is no coincidence that no one emulates the society of Soviet Russia but everyone across the world emulates the rich high-output western ones.
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Excellent. I'm not an MM fan, but this one made me chortle.

For a while too long, I thought Whiner Jerkins sounded like a real company, so I didn't click this link. Fool me once...
He'd trim down the RSS feeds from 600 to 550.
Any chance of this being available for preview?
Docstoc? Isn't that a rival to Y Combinator's Scribd?
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Drupal's - drupal.org - for being incredibly logical and for accommodating more features in one CMS than I've seen in any other app. The admin panel is superb and user-friendly.

Symphony - http://demo.symphony21.com/symphony/ - which does less, but does it beautifully.
I am 34. Feel free to call me a young punk or a script kiddie, would make me feel better ;)
I am sure this will make it into a gladwell book - they tend to read like his articles so just keep an eye out for it. They are also nice small light books easy to carry on the train.
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But they told me it was going to be called Mojave.
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Unfortunately it requires a security clearance to view :\

When I left that country I didn't even have anything I could legally store it on so I don't even have it anymore. Because that would be a felony. And I never commit felonies. Or something.
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The data doesn't support the conclusion. The authors don't understand why we pay people.

I don't want someone to produce more because it makes them happier, I want everyone to produce more so I have more.

For some reason, they won't produce more unless they get more money. If they don't get more money, they do silly things that don't benefit me at all.
Updated MacBook Pro, $899 laptop model shows up in Apple inventory systems
But would it stay competitive for very long?
Stealth Semantic Startup Raises $8.5 Million, Won’t Tell Us Anything
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Ok, obligatory chime-in. 44 years old when I (built|co-founded|whatever the PR people want to call it today) digg.com. Younger partners decided I was too old (or something) ... Working hard to prove them wrong (though within a larger corporation).

Meanwhile they flail around, getting more pathetic by the day...

Maybe it's my love for parenthetical phrases. ;-)
> I'm for taxing "nth-homes" exponentially to n. It would only hurt speculators who overall destroy value anyway. If you'll be using a house for two weeks a year, you should rent it.

Who are they supposed to rent from?

How much time do I have to spend in a second or third residence to make you happy? Does it matter what I'm doing when I'm there?

BTW - Intel designs processors in the hope that folks will want to buy them and let Intel make a profit. How is housing speculation any different?
A bug report. Bookmarklet doesn't work correctly in a textarea with a vertical scroll bar.

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"You are not reading what I write. I did not mention skill, I mentioned intelligence. Those are not the same."

Innate skill and intelligence are pretty much the same thing. (Although I would argue that intelligence can grow as a function of effort).

"Speaking of market forces, why are programmers on average paid more than marketing and sales people?"

The pay of programmers vs. marketers is pretty comparable. Check salary.com

"Neat, now you are starting the personal attacks."

No, just responding to your multi-post personal attack against marketers/bizdev with one against arrogance. Its up to you whether to take it personally.

I have more points I could make, but this doesn't seem to be going anywhere useful so I'm done with this discussion.
Thanks for the article. Its good to see people making a "good living". Not everything needs to be get a rich quick deal.
i actually attribute that to the overall culture of india. i was in south india; chennai. the folks that live there have been in a caste system for a long time -- it's integral to their culture. when the caste system was abolished it didn't go away, it just manifested differently. russians can't exist without dictators, indians can't get by without brahmins.

at its core, it is a fundamental need for permission. it's not that indian software developers can't make decisions, and can't make good decisions -- they can. they're sharp folks. rather, there's an inherent prohibition within the culture not to jump without being told to. not to strike out on their own and forge new code. it's the injunction to wait for orders from a superior, or else face the consequences. it's a very subtle thing, a cultural trend that's hard to identify the origin of in an individual, just like it's hard to figure out why all americans need to have credit cards. credit cards are just what we do. they wait for someone to tell them to do something.

it's even more insidious than that, especially if you're closely partnered: if you tell them to do something, and it's a bad idea, 9 times out of 10 they won't correct you. i, as a fallible human, depend on other people to correct my dumbass mistakes, especially in matters of software development. no one gets everything right. that's what's so fantastic about pair programming -- both people get the best judgment of their partner. if you're paired with an indian, and they perceive that you are in a higher position than they (even if it's on a subconscious level), they'll follow you right into hell, or at least an ill-advised has_many :through relationship, even if they know better. it's the way they're raised, the way they live.

i'm not passing judgments on the culture, it just makes for bad programming partners and strange traffic patterns.
You should set up DNS for www.djangohosting.org also...
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