skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Integrated groupware services, including email, calendaring/scheduling, global address list, distribution lists, folder/calendar sharing, distribution lists. Built-in webmail, mobile services, out-of-office. Integration support for Blackberry for push messaging, enterprise IM (LCS), anti-spam and anti-virus services, voice messaging, fax messaging... the list goes on.

Obviously, practically none of this is stuff you can't find elsewhere. But if you know of a single other offering as complete as Exchange, I'd love to hear about it. And perhaps the biggest point of all: extensive integration with Active Directory, which is the directory service of choice in a huge percentage of enterprises.
Roadblock analysis and the 80/20 rule
Just goes to show how much we were getting shafted by OPEC.
Wal-Mart to begin selling iPhone post holidays - reports
AWS is a separate wing from the Amazon site, they buy their own servers and datacenters. There have already been numerous S3 and EC2 outages.

You won't get any support at AWS unless you pay for a premium contract. And, unlike SimpleCDN, there is no SLA with CloudFront yet.

While everyone has indeed heard of AWS, they are not in the same category yet with Akamai and Limelight just because they released a CDN product.

In each case, for the sake of a discount solution, you are probably sacrificing reliability, bulletproof contracts/SLAs, and a TON of presence locations vs. something like Akamai.

I like my brands just as much as anyone, but I think you're taking just as much chances with SimpleCDN vs. CloudFront. And with SimpleCDN you get better prices and an SLA that offers refunds for outages (which is better than nothing).
Fowler, a Werewolf and no Silver Bullets
Martin fowler disguised as a Werewolf at the No Silver Bullet Reloaded Retrospective OOPSLA Panel 2007.
I see a lot of skepticism in the original article's comments about whether this is possible or not.

Yes, it'd be hard to hide a whole TCP/IP stack in hardware (though perhaps it could be in ROM if we're talking about CPUs), but how hard would it be to hide a simple UDP-based key logger?

Look at the hundreds of thousands of pwned machines that are part of spam botnets. Clearly, machines can be co-opted.

And we have plenty of evidence that China is involved in a (asymmetric) full-out cyberwar with us.
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Hang on a minute. Gladwell's book is not about mere ordinary successes, but outlier successes. Like Michael Phelps or Bill Gates. (Joel, I hope you will forgive me for calling you an "ordinary" successful person).

I think you can see the effects of luck and diligence in just about everyone's life. That's not at issue. Gladwell is suggesting that to be a Bill Gates requires a good amount of diligence (10,000 hours of practice) and also utterly ridiculous good luck. That is, the skill component stops scaling really quickly, but there's no limit to how lucky you can be.

The critics are proclaiming this to be both unsubstantiated and a truism. But I think Gladwell is onto something, because certainly our culture treats successful people differently. Think about all the successful businesspeople invited to Davos. Maybe future generations will look at that and wonder what we were thinking. Like we gathered together a lot of people who won the lottery, in the hopes that they'd win the lottery again?
SubEthaEdit's collaboration engine is licensable (Coda has it), so it's possible something like TextMate could go there. I'd also like to see a Windows package get it because that's a pretty big limitation with SubEthaEdit at the moment.
don't work at those places. they sound like they suck.
And yet it's the same functionality. Personally, I would prefer a desktop app when working on anything sensitive (i.e. code at work)
"Hot" laptop? Seems like a big ol' clunker to me.

But I'm probably spoiled by my new-generation MacBook Air with 128GB SSD--a real joy to use--no moving parts (well, OK, a fan ;-).
SubEthaEdit has been one of the coolest pieces of software I've used, but it's 1) not free, 2) desktop-based, 3) OS X only. Etherpad offers all the functionality without those restrictions.

This is a really impressive product.
I'm scared now. I never want to work in a corporation again. Ever.
Probably a decade ago, when voice recognition was still in its infancy. I had a cousin who was in a crash and broke her neck. In the hospital she got a state of the art machine which was a very simplistic assistant, she could verbally dial numbers, and request the nurse's station, etc.

Well she soon discovered that her accent made the machine hear five as nine, no matter how she tried to change her accent, so she realized that the machine understood basic spanish and so she would use cinco for five.

Given time, Google will begin to expand the search to other sections of the world. The challenge is gaining a large enough basis of data from these dialects to run the statistics and analysis.
Yes.

Your boss may be able to weasel out of paying hourly employees, but your boss is paying for the boot and reboot times of all the FTE.

Your boss can't opt out of that. Which is why your organization should strive to configure all machines to be fast and response.

Not just at boot time, but all the time.

Further more, if you are developing a multi-platform application you should get a machine for each platform and a KVM switch.

But alas the company I currently work for, is penny wise and pound foolish.

They are "saving" money on desktops by giving the devs multi-boot machines, that require rebooting to switch platforms. And the developers are by no means cheap.

Penny wise and pound foolish is extremely common in the corporate world.

And a few companies like Toyota that are pound SMART, eat their competitors' lunches.
Correct my physics if I'm off-track, but this seems very promising to me. What this postulates, essentially, is that there can be a lasting equilibrium of growth and crunch.
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A motion search, for video compression, is what I was trying.

It has some huge disadvantages:

1. The threading model is completely unsuited to a search that takes a different number of iterations per block (since it wants all the threads doing the same thing).

2. CPUs already have the PSADBW instruction, which allows an absurd effective throughput: its literally an instruction dedicated to this kind of task. Its also a purely 8-bit integer problem, so it doesn't benefit from the high-performance floating point units on the GPU.

Due to 1), you're pretty much restricted to either crippling your performance, using a very simplified search, or using an exhaustive search. And if you're using an exhaustive search, it turns out that there's a mathematically equivalent and vastly faster way to do it called "sequential elimination"... which is completely impractical to implement on a GPU as well due to its linear nature, and which allows a Core 2 to vastly outperform a GPU and possibly even be competitive with a dedicated FPGA doing a normal exhaustive search.
It's implicit in the form. Mediums can bend but they break. The hard part is figuring out where.

Essays make you generalize; they're short. But generalizations need interpretation.

And if you really want to know something, you read a technical paper or do it yourself.

I could go on about this in comment but won't; Comments want to be witty.
Wal-Mart to sell the iPhone - report
really? yuck
How about Canada?
Why wouldn't they just logout and let auto-sleep save energy? Logging in can't take more than a few seconds on a reasonable modern desktop or laptop.

Seems like this is really a failure of the Wintel monopoly to produce reasonable machines that auto-sleep.

(Whoops, is my Apple fanboiismo showing? ;-)
You are thinking days and weeks ahead instead of months and decades. I agree the app store as it stands is crap. I think the ship has sailed on the app store being crap. That's a short term, soluble problem. Long term, UI + neurology will determine the 21st century we are headed for.

All the other corporations suck at integrating UI and the brain.

Watching people talk about the technology game as if what's happening right now (i.e. last years decisions) matters on a larger scale is like watching kindergardeners play soccer by mobbing the ball. While you're talking about HTMML in the app store, they're thinking about 2010, 2020.

If the printing press was just invented, you'd be saying monks had been copying books by hand forever, and were more open then the printing press.
Well if some blowhard at 37signals says its a good site, then I must agree!
Pure Oprah Winfrey stuff. Always keep things vague and general so that some innocent soul might see a reason in the writings.

Does Godin have friends here who submit this junk for him?
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This is a repost, and it's just using UserVoice with a custom logo ..
The STi7100 provides high performance for low-cost high-definition systems.
yeh I have to agree there.
Just crashed my safari :/ and now url seems down...
Sigh... I haven't a clue what this has to do with hackers or HN. On top of that this exact site was already submitted and voted up to the front page just a week ago.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=361732
Same here, WebKit nightly didn't crash but I'm getting a "Lost connection with the EtherPad synchronization server." error.
Regarding the prevalence of 'sex' and 'myspace' etc and the fact that it was trained on Google 411, it wouldn't surprise me if it was just the influence of USian Bayesian priors.
Sorry, but you've clearly never worked in a large company that had an actual IT department.

yes actually i do. and no, no one cares what email client i use

name three real companies where every employee is FORCED to use outlook
You are said Eliezer Yudkowsky? Nice. I read and like that overcoming bias stuff. If anyone could prove me wrong about the singularity, it's gonna be young people working on their own like you. We need lots more people working on there own chasing there own ideas. I like your style.

I bet you find lots of useful stuff trying for it. It still seems to me to be more a religious then scientific endeavor, but I'm glad you are working to prove loudmouths like me wrong.
No problem. I was referring to Drudge. I just often here people talk about how people don't like him because he is slanted. That is the point of drudge. Sorry for any confusion.
The reason there is no other software with exactly these features is that only people in IT departments (thanks to MS brainwash) really think these features need to be sold together.

It is just like creating a beast with 800 heads, which will kill anyone that touches it. The result is that every one of the services you mentioned is poorly implemented in Exchange.

The real solution is to use open standards to create applications in each of those areas that can really solve individual problems. That is how software that really works is created. Thanks to M$, we are far away from a decent solution in these terms.
An excellent question. I'd love to see the equivalent of this argument for other countries, just out of curiosity. Any Canadian lawyers in the house?
oh the same old blather. what your post boils down to is the lame "meeting maker" crap layered on excrete. nothing else in your list is noteworthy or unique.
Another plus: you don't have to worry about it getting slashdotted / digged / whatever like what's happening now :)
Agreed. Also please note that this site is, in no way, affiliated with the government or Obama. I see a lot of people getting this confused.
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why stop at that? gmail integrates the ENTIRE INTERNET!!! here's stunning secret (using ff key shortcuts):

- when in gmail, hit "ctrl-t"

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I went (for the first time - never heard of it - seems pretty much a US website - 95%+US according to quantcast), saw 3 images that looked stupidly misplaced, scrolled down, saw some horribly illegible text (What is that font), and left.

Sorry, it didn't work for me.
Is Using Hash Tables a Good Thing?
Drudge Report = a supermarket tabloid for cubicle dwellers

You know better but you can't resist.

He's found an virtual substitute for an outrageously successful physical phenomenon. Not a bad way to build a business.
Scalability is harder than it looks ;)
Not sure if I like the idea of deleting content and replacing it with soundbites.
While I agree with your sentiment, I do find the article's numbers a bit suspect. 15-30 minutes a day for booting and shutting down seems like a stretch even for the most underpowered computers.
You would have generated the target 40K in profit if you'd have simply taken the time you spent on developing the odds application, and put it into building a poker bot and playing limit hold'em instead.
Could you use Amazon's Mechanical Turk?
Just not betting on Apple, that's all. I think/hope the "corporations" only have a couple of years left before open source takes over completely. At the moment they still have some hold on the hardware, but open source hardware will fix that. Apple hurts my brain because I can not amend it to my needs.
SAP slashes NetWeaver developer subscription price
How to get started surveying your customers
OK - not so used to terms like "gross margin" ;-)
I was actually wondering that myself because of the .org name. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess the site is even less relevant now.
i tell seth godin to pay my bills
Automated security testing & its limitations
oh jesus just kill this meme already
Just saying that I can sell a CD. So if a CD costs 10€ in the shop and I know I could sell it for 5€ on ebay, it only costs me 5€ to listen to the songs (admittedly, plus the work for selling it). Not suggesting to rip the CD and then sell it, but if you tire of the music, you can sell it.
Ian Rogers On The Death Of The Music CD Business: “I Don’t Care.”
Cost to park in S.F. could be set by demand
I'm coming around to the point of view that when somebody complains about simplification or incompleteness, that they should simply be ignored. As long as the simplification isn't actively wrong and the incompleteness isn't deceptive by leaving out contrary evidence, one must be aware that all forms of work are limited.

Jeff Atwood took a lot of flack in his recent NP post simply because he dared describe the problem in non-mathematical terms. He may also have been wrong, but I am inclined to think his explanation was (correctly) too simplified to really be wrong... but still, right now I'm talking about the people who flamed him for failing to include a complete computer science textbook in his blog post.

Yes, I am so sorry that in my blog post ruminating on how unit testing seems to affect my Python coding that I did not include a complete, correct Grand Unified Theory of the universe complete with how to apply it at the macroscopic level and use it to predict who will win the Presidential election in 2016 and create a superhuman-intelligent AI. At some point you to understand that any given work has boundaries.

I've become sensitive to this because I actually have fallen for the trap of trying to be too inclusive, and it's worthless. Stop complaining about it. Or, at the very least, when complaining that work X should have included Y, you should say what should have been cut instead and why it would be an actual improvement in the end product, preferably beyond "I would like it better".
Are you sure you're reading the right pricing chart? Comparing these:

http://www.simplecdn.com/pricing
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/

storage:
Amazon: $0.15/GB, simpleCDN $5.00/GB (ouch!)

transfer out:
Amazon: $0.17-$0.22/GB, simpleCDN $0.09/GB

transfer in:
Amazon: something, simpleCDN: nothing

requests:
Both: $0.01/10k requests

So yeah, you might save a few pennies on bandwidth, but SimpleCDN would kill you on storage it seems.

They do seem to offer another product that they call "SimpleCDN S3+", that I assume is their equivilant of S3, since the prices are about the same. Is that what you were comparing?
Web telephony platform arena gaining momentum
Seems like this is really a failure of the Wintel monopoly to produce reasonable machines that auto-sleep.

(Whoops, is my Apple fanboiismo showing? ;-)

Considering the hardware is exactly the same as the "wintel monopoly" machines, yes.
I just a attended a free webinar about using Mathematica for education (http://www.wolfram.com/services/education/seminars/s01.html) and the guy who was chatting with all of the attendees told me my college already had a site license. Turns out I can use Mathematica at school and at home for free and I had no idea...

You might want to check if your campus has something similar set up. The Mathematica folks might be able to direct you to the right place.
Detecting spam just from HTTP headers
agree. can't argue with the results, traffic, and revenue of Drudge report.

Design can mean a lot of things, but the kind of "design" i care about when presenting information can be evaluated independently of its "results, traffic, and revenue".

Results, maybe. Not sure why Jason makes such a point about the success of the site. Seems almost like "because its so popular, it must be good design".

McDonalds sells the most burgers, that doesn't mean it makes the best burgers.

Even from the "results" perspective, its hard to believe that the results are good BECAUSE of the design. If apple.com turned its page to all text, I think it'd still have great traffic. Unless you consider "being at the right place at the right time when there were no serious competitors" a critical design component of Drudge Report, I have to disagree with Jason's assessment.
Reddit isn't going to like this ... no sir
Great Idea, very well design site; but search needs more work. It’s too slow and inaccurate.
I'm going to do the thing that makes it seem like I'm a suckup, but I'm unaffiliated with YC:

PG mentions this in his articles about Bayesian Spam filtering. Seems pretty compelling.
PC Magazine goes out of print
Hmmm.. OK. You mind posting a link to the pseudo-code of the algorithm? The problem of different number of iterations per thread is quite common, but can often be fixed.

If all threads in a block have the same number if iterations, you're fine; different blocks can take different number of iterations. As long as the number of blocks is much higher than the number of SMs, the machine will dynamically schedule the blocks to available SMs.

If each thread takes a different number of iterations, it's more difficult, but you can still do dynamic allocation yourself, by running as many blocks as you have SMs, and having each thread pick up work as it needs. You can also randomize the assignment of work to threads, so the expected amount of work is roughly the same. This all depends on the particular problem and data, though...

As for the 8-bit nature of the problem - this is true, you're not utilizing the floating point units that are the biggest advantage of the GPU. How large are the vectors you need to do PSADBW over?
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Becoming CEO [ as well as founder of your very own company ] has a Dip, it is committing yourself to exceptional performance [ and definitely not quitting and to keep trying ] over the long haul.

There. That sounds better.

Everything worth doing has a Dip. If you quit in the Dip, then you give up all the rewards on the other side.

Summary: Never quit your passions.
Should Apple sell the iPhone at Wal-Mart?
Seth Grodin has best selling books, one of the most popular blogs, and a popular web site: squidoo.com

It's not my cup of tea but for many people, he's a very relevant and important voice. It's motivational stuff.
Ask YC: For a startup hiring its first employee, what are pros/cons of local vs remote?
(37Signals says remote works well, others say hire local)

There is a good related thread here, but not exactly the same question:<p>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246795/hiring-your-first-employee
Humm... maybe there is something wrong with the automatic dupe detection?
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While I agree with your opinion, in this case it seems like the "norms of professional behavior" were more about control than about multiculturalism.
Wouldn't compare this to Dropbox exactly (a Dropbox for music would allow me to upload any song and play it back reliably from anywhere on my computer). This is more like a discovery engine for music. It's not meant to store or backup your music but for bands and musicians to share their music.
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Oh no! Not something that's good for the consumer! Hurry up, someone print more money.

For the record, in the post-Civil War error we experienced mild deflation and strong economic growth. As long as prices don't make sudden, double-digit jumps, the economy can cope with it. And it's NICE to see consumer prices going down for a change.
This would be useful for getting candidates to write code during phone interviews!
The problem with thick fries (sometimes called "steak fries") is that they radiate heat very slowly. You can pick up a thin, crunchy fry, blow on it, and it will be ready to eat in seconds. The thick fries, while delicious, have burnt me many times.
Great fries and the best thin-style burgers in the world.

However, if you're looking for the best thick-burgers in the world, you have to live in Atlanta and patronize the Vortex.
There is something wrong with all the people who can't contain themselves, and click the up arrow whenever they see "Obama".
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Stir in half a pint of Mibbit IRC widget, and you could have quite a productive environment.
Undo works, just type control-Z (on windows) or command-Z (on a mac). It will undo only your own edits.

We haven't figured out a way to let people undo other users' edits. (We can perform the manipulation on the document, we just haven't figured out a sensible UI for it).
I used to live in DC and miss it so much. It's a family owned business (last time I checked) and when the founders' kids were about to graduate from high school he gave them the choice: start Five Guys or go to college.

From the looks of it, they made the right decision.
Not something that's good for the consumer!

no doubt some reversion to the mean is beneficial...but a healthy economy shows some nonzero manageable inflation level...like around 2-3%. a deflating economy is deadly in the longer run, because demand goes away and so does employment.
My Outlook 2007 inbox begs to differ, but Google Desktop solves the problem pretty well.
Of course, given that the SAT is fairly coachable, the students whose parents are aware of this, and willing and able to pay for the coaching (i.e., usually parents of higher socioeconomic status) will have a substantial advantage.
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You depend on Twitter:

1. Staying up.

2. Not doing this themselves and leveraging their advantage of being able to take payments private (like direct messages). What's the play if they do that, sue for abuse of monopoly?

Also, twitter has zero security. Just one quick scenario: Set up a search for twitpay, bag a list of usernames, start bruteforcing passwords, dump to an account, and cash out...
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