skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One big difference I have noticed is how much more work seems to matter at a small company. When I've worked for a small company it has always been that the company sells X or desperately needs X, so they hire me to write X.

At larger companies the goals have been more abstract. Work might be to satisfy an ideal created by management ("testing is good! 30% more testing!") which may or may not actually be useful. In the worst case it's entirely possible to do work that nobody actually cares about, which I find demoralizing. I don't think that happens as much at small companies because I don't think they can afford it. Big companies with old cash cow products and lots of inertia can.
Even companies founded by people in the US are often founded in Delaware instead of where they live and work. They have some of the best(corporate friendly) laws in the US.
Whilst you may not like his examples, you do understand the point he's making right?
1. Intel have a deal with TSMC to allow TSMC to fab Atom silicon for custom SoC solutions.
2. Intel is way ahead of other fabricators - die size alone isn't the only metric, there's things like powergating which Intel are way ahead on. They're about 1 year ahead. You also can't compared process sizes between fabricators, because they're not the same.
6. Only relevant for non-CPU / memory bound stuff - ARM's still very poor on float throughput and memory bandwidth (bus size is crap and still only 32-bit access to memory), so it'll only be things like VMs and webservers that use them for power consumption. It'll probably hurt AMD more. They still can't get their 64-bit stuff going, they're trying to do PAE (Physical Address Extension), and we know how well that worked on Intel's P4...
I would like it to be true, but apart from computing known values of Ramsey numbers, they should have computed unknown values of Ramsey numbers, to make their research more valuable.

As the bounds of small Ramsey numbers are known, it would provide more evidence of correctness of their computation.
This strikes me as a far more important consideration than the loss of revenue or potential harm being discussed in the other topics.

Blacking out Google's front page will reach 38 Million (or 12% of the population) [1]. Compare that to the effort involved in more traditional political advertising--The largest TV audience is around 27 Million [2] (And drops by 50% to the most popular non-football program). There's also the question of how invasive the ads are. I'd bet a notice on the Google homepage getting in your way every time you do a search will have far more impact than newspaper ad that you skip over once you realize it isn't an article.

We know there's a level of discomfort concerning business's influence on politics. There was fallout over the supreme court decision in Citizens United v. FEC--the issue is being brought up again [3].

Google has a lot of power over the internet and a lot of knowledge of what people do on-line. Most of us can overlook that since we don't see a personal impact (except every few months a site vanishes from Google's results and the owner's blog post shows up on HN). Though they are getting attention from congressional inquiries and lawyers seeking to kill opposing sites.

Consider the fallout if Google went ahead. You have people uneasy with how businesses can effect politics from just the abstract idea of donations being shown a very concrete example. You have politicians with the power to regulate Google being shown that Google can be a danger to them.

I don't see how they could risk losing their perceived neutrality and harmlessness.

[1] Using the statistics from http://google.com.hypestat.com/ for a rough estimate: 129M unique visitors daily, 30% from the United States, that's 38.7M or 12% of the population.

[2] http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/top10s/television.html

[3] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020436810457713...
Unfortunately, I think it is just crappy reporting and a link-bait title.
When I want to look at the train schedule, I just touch the bookmark on my home screen, which takes me to the web page with the schedule.
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This is a smart move. There are many interesting directions and questions.

(1) Can we choose to give a particular search weight to different Google+ groups that are against our profile? I'd like to see what Hacker News thinks the search results should be and I'd like to see what my friends think the search results should be.

(2) Following from the previous point, I believe Google could effectively turn this into a sort of auto-generated "sub-reddit" system that does not require link submission, instead being powered by "+1". Or how about the top +1's from the group this day, week, year? The only things missing would be (a) comments by group users, and (b) some generic Google way of searching for public groups or tying these to internet communities.

Aside:

(4) What happens when spammers start adding themselves to the hngp.axxim.net Hacker News circle and then when we add this circle to our Google+ we start getting sponsored search results? Can we stop this? An active profile with a high average karma seems to me like an acceptable solution for a higher quality group but I guess we can't get that information easily... I wonder if the guy who created the Hacker News circle will allow us to update our profile in the circle to include our Hacker News username?
from my personal history, LLCs are just easy, but provide many of the same protections that a c-corp do but with less hassle. The only problem is growth and # of founders; it is harder to provide stock options and gets complicated during tax season when you have more than a couple founders.
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Thanks for the information. So I'd have to periodically go and update that group in order to get everyone's feeds?
The only other thing you need to do, other than add the circle to your profile, is occasionally go back to the circle and add it again (to the same circle in your profile) to get the newest list of people. Unfortunately, adding a shared circle only adds a copy of it at that moment, but not a dynamic one that updates itself.

It's not so bad though, because adding a circle to an existing circle simply adds in people not already in there.
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What that sounds like to me is using Facebook as a platform for spreading the message. If you black out Facebook, it dampens the ability for the message to propagate out to people who don't know about SOPA, i.e. a majority of the Facebook population.
(read as: this toaster didn't fail gracefully when i tossed it in the tub)
More like, don't act surprised when things you put on the internet are copied and don't try to push unjust restrictions because of it.
Many thanks, Jay!
Just a couple of hours time difference and it would be copyrighted[1], and not by him.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Image_copyright_cl...
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Except that, like someone pointed out, porn is not necessarily illegal and determining whether it is requires knowing the age of those appearing in it. This information is also not readily available. (Of course, just like it's pretty obvious in certain instances, it's pretty obvious that a full movie available for download is illegal, too.) So the cases aren't that different.
Not surprising.

Also, if you haven't read the article/story/blog "Who killed videogames: a ghost story", then you should check it out:
http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-g...

It talks a lot about the behavior mindsets of social video games.
Assuming that you are commenting here because you favor the theory that women are inhibited in some way from being effective software engineers -- and that is why they are underrepresented:

For women not to be represented in the population that practices software engineering indicates some intrinsic flaw or inability with them --

but for one that is nice there is at least a hundred shallow bitches around

-- But for you to fail to achieve representation in the population which can acquire a mate or find a willing sex partner is ALSO a flaw with women!

Brilliant! Heads: you win; tails: women lose.
Make sure you actually try running
"from __future__ import braces"
Not to digress too much from your original comment (which I completely agree with) but I think there's a certain "smugness" that I see associated with people who release anything as free--as if somehow the act of benevolence has put them on a plane above those who choose not to. I think that's unfortunate for multiple reasons; not the least of which is that people should be commended for sharing things under free / open licenses and I'm far less inclined to do so if they get all smug about it (this applies whether the "things" in question are software, photographs, writings, music, film, etc).

I agree with both authors; but I find this particular article far more obnoxious than the one to which its responding--again, because it comes across quite smug.
Hi, i'm a Samsung Mobiler, please name me the one tablet that hasn't seen an update, i'm curious as i've got to update the devices of customers who aren't capable to do that themselves on the showfloor and can't remember a single device that hasn't seen atleast one important update. Especially since the 7inch Galaxy Tab, which was the first one, has received an Android 2.3.6 Update a few weeks ago.

I know that some phones in the US don't see updates, but that's in part because US Carriers always want their own branded version of the major phones and put themselves between Samsung and the Customers regarding updates.
A casino or other social-gaming company is often A/B testing variants to 'increase engagement'. However, such engagement is arguably against the mental/physical health interests of the test subjects.

Is A/B optimization in such a case thus an illegal/unethical experiment on human subjects without their informed consent? (Can Zynga 'Whales', that minority of their users contributing most of their revenues via payments of hundreds of dollars a month, actually give informed consent? Or are they on a binge?)

Tobacco companies lost giant class-action lawsuits because they (A) hid known harmful effects of their products; and (B) engineered their products to be more addictive. Could companies pushing gamification no matter the cost become the tobacco-company-pariahs of the mid-21st-century?
Nice idea but you have some competition. Won't mention sites on here, played with a identical solution a few weeks ago. Also found somewhere that is doing a WP app for a one off charge of $17, you download source code, edit it, compile it and submit it to the app store.

Dave
The last thing Google will tell you is that they are critical infrastructure. They would never want that much liability or responsibility to be placed on them. Searching for information about a medical condition is something I think a lot of people do, but they shouldn't come to rely on Google (or the Web in general) for that.

The information Google returns can be false, misleading, under-researched, or all of the above. You can't actually rely on the information you find. Even something as simple as 'what to do in the event of receiving a concussion' can be riddled with misinformation. Practicing Web-medicine is illadvised.

I'm not sure if you're suggesting that it was you or I who is guilty of mental laziness but the entire world laughed as we called our banks "too big to fail" and you're regurgitating the exact same mantra. The only difference is you've switched Goldman Sachs with Google.
The TSA removed the restriction on toenail clippers years ago. I've had a pair in my carryon since, never a problem.

They will apparently still on occasion confiscate fingernail clippers that have an attached file/nailcleaner, for whatever reason.
Totally instant search results, put up in a very clean way.
You need to present data, and then also provide a link between it and the point you're making. I dispute the strong link between math and programming.

Fair enough. I thought the link was obvious enough, but you are keeping me honest. I have no data proving this link myself.

However, I just messaged a friend of mine who occasionally dabbles in math-ed stuff. He recommends these (paywalled) papers as starting points:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1500963&dl=ACM&col...

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1047480

And an older paper "Identification of Computer Programming Aptitude", by Alspaugh (one of the early works).

I'll asked him to give me copies next time I see him in person (I'm no longer an academic, so I can't access university libraries).
> as a repercussion of Google.
I think you meant SOPA.

> It's very unlikely that any widespread, powerful websites (like Google or Facebook) would be taken down, because removing them from the ecosystem would prompt an enormous user reaction.

Probably not. I haven't read SOPA in detail, so I don't know what the procedure is - who gets to decide whether to shut the site down or not? What if the clerk working that particular desk is an 80 year old luddite and has no idea what a google is, but knows for sure it shouldn't be stealing all those movies or whatever?

And what happens to Facebook if I suddenly start uploading video clips from unreleased movies? The obvious answer is that Facebook shuts down my account, but what if some RIAA goon sees it before that happens and pulls the SOPA lever, or some congressman? If they can't use SOPA to shut down an infringing website, how could they have justified using all that cash to lobby for it?
I do agree with you -- the best way to grow yourself, your brand and the community is to give. However, the ones with the most to lose aren't hobbyists working for the love of the art, it's the professionals. Its a very slippery slope, but the process of releasing free work tends to drive down prices for everyone, for better or worse.

The best way I can think of to support this is the Apple App Store. Because of the widespread nature of apps priced from $0.00-$1.99, its nearly impossible for the average single developer to make a living only on apps, even though the software itself could be amazing, powerful, and solve painful needs.

To be frank, I honestly don't know if the community would be better with a different app store. I have no idea -- we can only take the one we have. I guess my point is just that there are always unforeseen repercussions with these decisions.
i don't see donation as being a middle road, in my interpretation it is the opposite of what both of these authors are saying. the point is that when you create something, it is yours to decide what to do with it, it is up to you to decide how much it is worth. If you want to give your work away for free, that is your prerogative. if you want to charge for it, you have that right. it is not the customer's right to tell you how much your work is worth.
Having been dinged by PG for rewriting the title of a posted link - common practice on HN - it particularly annoys me when it's done by people who can't spell.
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Have you/they given any thought to a hosted solution like Shopify? They handle the complexity of the transaction and let you handle the reminder of the customization. It's an ideal solution for many ecommerce needs particularly if you want to get up and running quickly.
"acceptable software" is the line that made me stop reading. That has to be the single largest problem I've encountered with Samsung products--buggy and slow interfaces (on their TVs, DVD players, and Blu-ray players). I'm more than happy to pay a little bit more for a TV set with an interface that actually works and works fast.
It would be supercool to see something like this using websockets.
"I give my work away for free because it makes other people smile and I like that" is not a rebuttal to "people shouldn't be taking other people's work for free if the author doesn't want them to". If anything it's just a smug attempt at being holier-than-thou.
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The January 2012 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society presents a comprehensive review article disagreeing that there is "plenty of evidence" women are less likely to be very good at math based on "natural causes" (whatever the hell that kind of nonsense phrase is supposed to mean), and provides plenty of evidence that any disparity is due to attitudes toward women and other sociocultural factors:

"Debunking Myths about Gender and Mathematics Performance"
http://www.ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100010p.pdf

Now for the anecdotes: in my experience there has been plenty of outright racial and gender discrimination in computing, science, math, and even medicine. I've seen it. I suspect most if not all of you have seen it. It persists into the 21st century.

That needs to continue to change.
It is actually not obvious. Now the site is back up I can't find anything that explains how updates are handled, or how offline works. For all I can tell the plugin might just be to build the app... I hope you are right as that is more useful. Some explanation would be good...
Unfortunately, pride and people's smiles are not yet valid currency anywhere, which is most likely the big issue of the author of "This photograph is not free".
This post ends with the opinion that there isn't a lot of money to be made in photography, since a lot of people have the tools to take/publish photographs. One could apply that to a number of fields, from logo design and music to coding. After all, everyone has a computer, a text editor and access to github.

Yes, these fields might not be as lucrative as they once were, or rather, they're more competitive, but there is a large step between that and giving away things for free.
very clever logo btw. I like the riff on the established convention.
All of the professional fotogs I know are paid not for photos the have taken, but for photos people would like them to take. The photos that they have taken are just proof that if you hire them to take photos for you, they will be good.

In this way, I think this author's point of view is slightly more economically advantageous than the "this photo cost $6500" guy.
There's a page not found for your link in the article to Exposing Social Gaming's Hidden Lever. The link under You may also like works. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3165365
If you mean in reference to the Sun, then it sure does... but it isn't actually a shadow, it's a reflection.
What you are saying is true, however for products for which supply exceeds demand and which can be easily copied, then charging for such products does not work so well.

For example, in the early days of our industry, many people buying licensed software were doing so because copying on floppy disks was error prone and packaged software was getting distributed on storage of higher quality. Licensed software also worked as expected, while software copied from friends had all sorts of "surprises". Plus it came with a useful manual, which was great prior to the Internet.

Our economy is based on scarcity. If scarcity is only artificial, then the model breaks down. You simply can't appeal to people's feelings, not after decades of teaching people to embrace individualism.
Going back to college, in particular for Computer Science, is always an option. There is such a lack of skilled professionals in the field that no one will turn away a competent candidate.

If you choose to go back for Computer Science, I would like to strongly suggest you are always keeping in mind "How am I going to get a job." I don't say this because it is necessarily hard to get a job as a Software Engineer, but rather that many undergraduates ignore their GPA and internships and just assume they will get a job when they graduate. Doing well in your classes and leaving your professors with a favorable impression of you also helps during the job hunt.

Also, make sure you are attending an accredited university with credits that can transfer to other universities. Not that you need to worry about transferring, but make sure you are attending a quality institution with a degree employers will take seriously (e.g. not ITT). Keep in mind that you don't need to pay an arm and a leg for such a degree either.

Finally, on a somewhat unrelated note, have you talked to a doctor about anti-anxiety medication? I know several people who had anxiety problems that manifested as a nervous stomach. They are on anti-anxiety meds now and doing fantastic. I am absolutely not a doctor and this may not be relevant to you, but just thought I'd bring it up.
I feel the same as you. Giving (music, money, software), is extremely personal, and one that shouldn't be done lightly, or out of pressure from others.

Personally, I'd love to be able to release a beneficial OSS software tool or commit a valuable patch to a project, but I'm not a good enough developer. Yet, I feel like a second class citizen in the development community because I haven't
But how do they get THAT crane down?
Unfortunately, the "right to charge" is something that is almost unenforceable in the day of the internet. If you base your business model on this idea, you will spend a lot of time fighting a losing battle against the fact that information is freely exchangeable around the whole world.
This author is partially refuting the original, though. It's not just saying "I give away my photos", it's also saying that it is unrealistic to expect to make money from photography because so many people have a camera and the tools to publish their photographs.

I don't really agree with this because the skill and artistic inclination of the photographer is still a critical factor in how the photo turns out. But it is an argument against the original article, make no mistake there.
As a member of his lab, it's actually a point of pride that everything where he is the corresponding author is now published in OA journals. When collaborating with other labs, we strongly lobby for OA publication as well, but not all other PIs can be convinced that the long-term benefit to the science ecosystem is worth the short-term loss of prestige in not publishing in Science, Nature, or Cell.
Thanks for the suggestions. We're still in the process of updating things, but we'll make "Compelling for non-technical users who just want things to not break, comprehensive for technical people who want to understand we're not snow-jobbing them." a priority.
I'm little confused here. Yes - you must not steal some others photos and post it. But this kind of photography is more like art and the bar for making it worth actual money is quite high - it has to have soul, meaning, etc.

tl;dr:

* Don't steal other people crap even it you consider it worthless

* Don't assume your stuff is worth something just because you spend some money making it
when you add the circle, you're adding a copy of the circle and can remove people from your copy any time you want. at least, that's my understanding of how G+ works. so if some goof that you don't like starts posting, you should be able to just remove them.
>allow us to update our profile in the circle to include our Hacker News username

FYI, the Hacker News username is already an optional field that was added after some people had already added themselves; not sure if you can update your profile or not if you didn't include it earlier.
To contrast:

It's been almost 4 months of construction here in London, ON (Canada), building a new residence. They haven't even laid the foundation yet, and all I see every day when I walk by, is about 9 people smoking for every 2 people working.
This is a dismal puff piece written by someone who barely knows anything about programming or programmers and has just cobbled together a mishmash of disjointed references to recent events without a coherent understanding of the dynamics.

This, in particular, made me cringe:

"The Internet 'hive-mind' is suddenly everywhere in cyberspace..."