skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely either the G-1 or the iPhone.

For email on the G-1, since you have background processes, a little icon appears in the screen when you get new email or instant messages, and you can swipe it down, switch applications to chat for a bit, and then hit the "back" button to switch applications back to what you were doing. So it really makes it possible to do something else with your phone while you are carrying on an email or IM conversation. Same goes for calendar notifications. For this sort of thing I think the iPhone's one-button, one-task-at-a-time interface really hurts.

For general applications the iPhone is much better - there aren't that many applications in the G1 market yet. In general the larger screen and pinch gestures make it easier to use the web and maps on an iPhone.

For general operating system, I'm torn, because I like the extra buttons on the G1 (notably "back", "home", and "contacts" versus the iphone only having "home") so you can be doing something, send off an email, then resume what you were doing. But the UI is more intuitive on the iPhone, there are many little fluidly animated bits.

Hard to say... I have a G1, have used many friends' iPhones, and am tempted to get an iPod Touch so I can fool around with both of them.
Subprime loans were made at the insistence of elected officials.
it helps, but they were just as good and quality in the small town, low density areas, and prices were always very reasonable.
Are you suggesting that Facebook isn't successful?
> Sure, do just that, but you'd better have a damn good safety net unless you want Detroit in flames.

Giving in to extortion is a bad idea. Giving in to dumb extortion ("we'll trash ourselves") is even worse.
Facebook is still neither successful or unsuccessful in my eyes. They have yet to turn a profit, but its not clear the company is going to fall off a cliff. They still have a ways to go.

I am concerned they are still raising tons of money and burning through it so quickly.
I like pair programming when another programmer and I are about to start a project using technologies we're not familiar with. But each programmer should have a computer. It works well when one of you is projecting his screen and the other is on a laptop. In this situation both of you are going to have questions constantly and spend a decent amount of time looking up answers. You end up explaining things to each other as you figure them out.
I'm conflicted about this. On the one hand, it seems like a good idea to test your product ideas in this cheap way. On the other hand, you could easily miss great products that just need a little time to catch on—some products don't lend themselves to an immediate decision based on some web page ad copy. For example, in Founders at Work Joel Spolsky talks about launching FogBugz:

We had no idea [how FogBugz would do]. At the time, you could have told me that this thing was going to sell zero copies, and I would have believed you. You could have also told me it was going to sell $50,000 a month's worth of copies—an equally unrealistic number—and I would have believed that too.

Now I have enough experience to know that almost everything you launch is going to sell $2,000 to 3,000 in the first month, and that's the way the first month of any software product always is, if you do things perfectly. But at the time, I just had no idea what to expect.
What innuendo? I'm talking about where HE got the idea and not where the same idea is being used around the world.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm fairly convinced that he stole the idea for Facebook. I admired him before that revelation, and he's done nothing since to regain my admiration.
Be like Mike.
>is the unreasonably high labor obligations

While Porche is insanely profitable because it exploits the slave labour wages and conditions for German autoworkers?
I don't get your reasoning. He and his cofounders built a product that people wanted. The product spread mostly virally by word of mouth. This is the classic definition of succeeding by one's efforts, not privilege. How does an allegedly elite rolodex (at the time when he was 19, no less) factor into the equation?

facebook.com was originally owned by someone else.
Pair programming is awesome if you're a consultant. Who wouldn't want to bill out at twice the rate for nearly the same amount of output as a single developer?
Rule of thumb: If you want to reduce the effectiveness of your argument by 30% to 70%, give it a title like "It's the End of the Internet As We Know It".

People have been proclaiming the imminent death of the Internet since the 1970s. We're all still here, and we have learned to greet such proclamations with yawns. Be more specific up front, and tone down the rhetoric. Consider a title like "The IPv6 Routing Problem Will Soon Be Here".

It's particularly important to be specific, to get to the point, and to adopt a tone of rational pragmatism when the topic is IPv6. IPv6 is to the "OMG THE NET IS DOOMED" genre as Nigerian princes are to spam. When I see the word my subconscious reflex is to intone "YAGNI YAGNI YAGNI" to myself as I click the Back button. When you write about IPv6, your first-order task is to convince the reader that you aren't just carrying on a long tradition of paranoia.
Thanks for those articles, they'll definitely help me create a better demo video. I definitely approached it from a "weeeee I finally feel like I can show this to other people look what I did" standpoint whether than a more marketing standpoint.

Here's what I used:
Samson CO1U mic: http://www.amazon.com/Samson-C01U-Recording-Podcasting-Pak/d...

Screenflow: http://www.flip4mac.com/screenflow.htm

VisualHub: http://www.techspansion.com/

Flow Player: http://flowplayer.org/
You should not compare Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg. Steve Jobs has vision, at least, and it's that vision that has brought AAPL back from limbo. Mark Zuckerberg just took someone else's vision and ran with it.
Look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
to see how much of what has recently become mainstream dates back to 1968.
Yeah, I'm not sure what to use for the name. As other folks have mentioned it might be a good idea to have a name applicable to all job searches (though I haven't found a good name to use for that). I've also tried "after pink", which is rubbish. In a way, though, I like how "after the pink slip" sounds.

Maybe I should drop a vowel : aftrthepinkslip.com
> I can't find easy information about how search engines save their data (into a database or just locally to the filesystem) and we kind of feel at this end that it is fundamental at this point to decide on the correct path.

There are other possibilities, including both local and remote datastores that aren't really databases.

However, their approach doesn't matter because your problem is significantly (>1000x) smaller and different (for one, you're not running continuously).
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I think it's sad that some of you commenting in this thread want to engage in tech gossip with little factual information.
Anyone can learn to be a computer programmer too. It's called a skill. Unskilled labor requires very little learning, if any.
I wouldn't say it's limited to only people who have gotten laid off, though it does seem to target them.

The site was born out of my own experience with getting laid off twice in three months. I feel like I know that specific pain, so I'm decently equipped to build a site for people who are also dealing with having lost a job.

It probably makes sense to expand the site to apply to anyone who's looking for a job, and I'll probably do that. The site is actually pretty young - I put most of it together in 14 hours over last weekend.
Now I'm waiting for people to start tweeting about their farts.

"@everyone that was totally me, sorry, I had a burrito for lunch." - about 30 seconds ago
Every company that works online today ought to consider hiring three amazing people.
i'm not sure that afterbeingbeatenupbyaspikyhairedguywhonevertalksandhishotfriendalongwithsomeguyyouturnedintoafrog.com would really communicate that the site is for people looking for a job
Yeah, the title seems to have nothing to really do with what's said. We have been getting a steady stream of "there's too much useless information being broadcasted and it's destroying the overall quality of the Internet/email/whatever" since 1998, if not before.
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:cartel

s/(firm|enterprise|organization)s?/people/g

In as much as UAW, for example, couldn't be considered a "firm" or an "enterprise" already. In some sense, UAW is a contracting firm whose service is its members' work product.
If you know in advance that it's a rabbit hole, that isn't what I meant by rabbit hole.

But I'm not sure what the point is. Arguments about pair programming in general never go anywhere. What was I thinking? Oh yeah, that it isn't "stupid".

I like making things together with others, and I like doing stuff on my own, and I like not being micromanaged and told how to work, and I think my code gets better when I work on it with somebody smart, and I think I contribute to other people's too. You figure me out.
Don't kid yourselves, and don't pity the pigs at the trough. Long ago GM's core business became lending (GMAC), and vehicles the conduit by which they ensnare borrowers. It doesn't matter if they're ugly and unreliable as long as people sop up the 'Buy American!' bullshit and keep borrowing.

They got sloppy with running the business while they were getting drunk over at the debt trough. Don't pity the executives and shareholders, they either knew what they were doing or lied to themselves - both feats worthy of losing their shirts in a bankruptcy restructuring.

They did this to themselves and deserve the consequences. The blog is right, bankruptcy stands the best chance of keeping the right number of people gainfully employed at a new debt-free GM.
There is a future for newspapers, but it isn't in flashy redesigns.
Any system that depends on whiteboards and cards (like XP and Agile seem to be obsessed with) is going to fail miserably when you have a development team / company spread across offices on different continents (hell, probably even different cities). I figure you could get by with using an equivalent webapp or some other application, though.

Please enlighten me if I'm wrong.
I agree that initially you should dump it to a local filesystem. Since this is an experiment you don't want to get bogged down in DB performance details.

Also, if HD space is a concern, occasionally tar/zip up a bunch of the data. HTML is very redundant and I'd bet you could squeeze 500GB of HTML down to < 50GB, even more if you have a lot of pages from the same site.

Really, a lot of this depends on what resources you have available and how you want to process the data later on. If you are classifying pages independently of one another then why bother pooling them to a centralized DB? Just run your classifier on each node and pool those results instead.

An alternative solution is S3, which I've used for crawling storage before. Its not ideal for data processing since you have to constantly pull data over the network, but its an easy way to get centralized storage.
I am practicing the XP principles except the pair programming.
What can I do, after all these days, I am all alone at the top ;~)
Couldn't it be that he never had AIDS and its just a mistake?
"Maybe I should drop a vowel : aftrthepinkslip.com"

Please don't do this.
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you don't have to care so much about red tape. If you are an awesome peon, then you pretty much have free range, though not a lot of money

Right, I've always assumed that's what Glass meant. Perhaps more than not getting demoted, the power is in not caring about getting promoted, which means there are all sorts of soul-sucking games you can just ignore.

It seems like a pretty rational strategy for inside an irrational organization. Personally, I'd rather just not be there to begin with.
Take a look at what is out there.

If you run a simple crawl with Heritrix (as example) you'll notice it stores everything in 'ARC' files which are basically compressed (zip) archives with an index to access individual records (via offsets).

I would avoid sticking everything in a database, although you could probably get away with it -- but I agree with aristus that it probably doesn't matter at this point.

Another idea is that you could look at a static html dump of Wikipedia and see how their structure their tree (three letter prefixes)

On the flip side, having it in the DB will probably be easier in terms of managing it (one place to backup) and possibly as an easier way of splitting up workload across multiple boxes -- ex: three boxes could query db, suck down all pages for a couple hundred domains, do processing, insert when done
I totally agree with your sentiment. The government, if it wanted to bail out the banks at all, should have attached some good strings to the money. Oh, well. :(
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From the NPR source:

"Average Hourly Salary for Non-Skilled, Assembly Line Worker: GM: $31.35/hour NOTE: Includes idle workers still on payroll and those on protected status."

Just clearing things up for people who don't understand that labor cost != wages.
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I expected this to be a job posting site a la monster, hotjobs, etc. I was glad to see it was different. This is more of a job-hunt-organization tool. But you could maybe have the name suggest that. "after the pink slip" - why wouldn't this be just as useful for someone who wasn't fired, but was just looking for a better job?

Also it seems like a pain to type things in. It seems like it would be simpler just to bookmark job listings than to use this site. Maybe you could have ways to import or connect with common job sites, or with a generic bookmark. A bookmarklet to import a job listing might make this easier.
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I like to experiment with mixing drinks, and have always been a bit frustrated with the lack of sour ingredients. You basically have lemon/lime and bitters which are hard to find in variety and often citrus flavored anyways. So this should be pretty good to add variety, akin to making my own syrups and liqueurs. Awesome!
maybe "aftrthpnkslp"

though maybe now that the 2.0 bubble has burst, I should look ahead to web 3.0 and consider dropping consonants
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As an atheist, I find Jeremiah Wright no fundamentally different than John Hagee, for one example. Pastors say controversial things to rile up a crowd - it's part of their job. Further, his comments are biblically defensible in the context of Jeremiah, Joel and other prophets who decried the treatment of the "widow and the orphan."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/135385 for the underreported Hagee controversy.
Yes. Cringely is the absolute master of (plausible sounding) speculation. It describes almost every article he has written.

It's usually pretty entertaining plausible sounding speculation, though.
I worked for a startup that employed this strategy. It didn't work - not even close. That's not to say it can't. But I became skeptical. Among the problems I observed were:

1. What's a successful test? We collected lots of data, but in the end it was still a gut decision which product(s) to go with, with all the usual emotional factors in play.

2. Just because people say they want a product, it does not follow that if you build what you thought they meant, they will buy it.

3. Tests can get a lot more expensive than you expect, and you may need to run a lot of them. This is related to #1, since you have no objective criterion to know when you're done testing.

4. This is a mechanistic model for making products, which assumes that you can turn a product "on" or "off" depending on data. But many successful products don't come into the world that way. They are driven by vision and total commitment on the part of the makers. (Think of that guy at Apple whose project was canceled and who snuck into the building for a year to keep working on it.) This is psychologically incompatible with the idea of testing a bunch of ideas, none of which you care about that much, and picking the best one based on some test results. That approach that tends to be favored by managerial types who don't much care what it is they're managing - not the classical entrepreneur who's consumed by a passion. Who do you think is more likely to have the kind of persistence needed to carry a product forward?

I came out of this with two conclusions. One was that there already is a mechanism for testing which ideas will have market success: the market itself. So the strategy here is really to beat the open market, which gives some idea of how hard it is to execute.

The second was that this way of working is not for me. I want to work on something that I am passionately commited to because it is a creative expression of my being - as well as something that people will pay for. Sometimes the one has to precede the other.
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The fundamental fallacy the article makes is that the original writers and thinkers in the movement spoke of eating seasonal foods suited to the local climate. Instead of growing tomatoes in a greenhouse, you treat tomatoes as a treat and eat foods local to your region or, at least, friendly to the climate. Further, these lower miles would allow for varietals that are evolved for taste rather than shipping.
Cool, he gives no good reasons why we should be hiring any of these people. My company already has the first two (and for our business, they are very worthwhile and valued employees) but it doesn't have the third. I am skeptical of drawing on outside talent to get things done because it inevitably leads to a situation where two parties are deeply invested in the product but have no understanding of one anothers' systems. From personal experience, this led to a product that was inefficient and hard to maintain for no good reason other than that it was spread across several organizations that could not directly manage one other.

Seth should be at least enumerating situations where these roles will shine.
Amazing post - perfectly posited imo. The most powerful lines for me:

"Entrepreneurs that start and run small businesses will be the propellant in this economy. PE Obama needs to have the counsel of those who will take the real risk inherent in creating companies and jobs. Those who put their money and lives on the line with their business...Your current group has no one with 100pct of their networth on the line. I promise you that the possibility of losing it all will provide a completely different perspective than any of the “knowledge” the esteemed, learned members of his current advisory team offer."
The main difference between the UAW and a regular contracting firm is that if I decide to stop buying labour from a regular contracting firm, that firm can't and won't wind up blockading my factory entrance and trying to stop my new labourers getting in.

Whereas if GM tried firing all its union employees and hiring non-union labour instead... well, I'm sure you can guess what would happen.

If the UAW were a regular firm, it would be unobjectionable.
Is running out of memory a bug in MzScheme, or instead e.g. Hacker News not removing references to items not recently used (that could be latest lazily loaded from disk if needed again)?
I think the post is a bit misguided. The people you talk to about matters of economy and finance are people with a background in finance and economics. For all their other assets entrepreneurs don't know a lot about macroeconomics, big finance, and economic policy.

I'm sure that one layer below this there will be, or at least should be, entrepreneurs that are consulted in order to get the most bang for the buck.

But I honestly don't see Mark Zuckerberg lecturing Robert Rubin and Warren Buffet on how to save the economy...
Simple words that are spelled properly are almost always best. If you're in doubt, buy a few domains and test them.

Screw the web 2.0 horseshit.
The danger of advice from somebody with everything on the line is a lack of objectivity.

Personally, I don't think we need to make any sweeping changes to encourage entrepreneurship directly. The United States is already a great place to start a business. The key making sure that is true 20 years from now by continuing to invest wisely in education, research, energy...etc.
Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25, that caused more damage then erasing a phone.
At least in P2P networks, sharing is going down.

http://www.evidenzia.de/eng_stats_all_releases_line.html
There are two ways to use advisors. On one hand, you can use them to help you make decisions. On the other hand, you can use them to lend credibility to decisions you've already made.

Interestingly, the bigger and more prominent your board of advisors, the harder it becomes to use them for the former purpose and the easier it becomes to use them for the latter.
I don't think he, or any politician at that level, for that matter, can help it. The only people they rub elbows with are the established, credentialed, and connected. If he knew the right startup/entrepreneur people he would be a VC or angel, not a politician.
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Just as a data point: I am a serial entrepreneur, and I have a degree in economics. I have never, not even once, been asked or have shown this particular credential. Not even investors have been interested in the fact that I have a degree.
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"by a person of unknown sympathies"

That's not quite true. 538 was run by a self-confessed Obama-phile.
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I don't know what the big search engines do, but storing the data in a database for the single purpose of parsing it later sounds a bit unecessary. If you are only using the database as storage, the file system will do a better job.
I try for both when I have a camera. The act of taking a picture is so short, and framing a picture is in sync with appreciating the view. For OMFG moments, the camera comes second, and can occasionally be missed. For rapid-fire events, I've found that the camera (DSLR) has caught things I've missed cuz the eye's only so fast and the "data buffer's so small...
I have an MBA, and this sentence is probably the most important: "If you have a non-business undergraduate degree, then an MBA may make sense, even if your are an entrepreneur." The MBA program was originally designed to be specifically for engineers, who, in mid-career, were taking on management roles, and needed appropriate business training to do those jobs well. And if was supposed to be for people that had been away from school and had work experience.

Unfortunately the programs seem to be full of business undergrads, who go straight from their undergrad and (I guess) see it as a way to differentiate themselves. If your undergrad is not in business, then the accounting and finance training alone is worth it. And lots of people do the degree part-time (as I did) so the argument that its a waste of time doesn't hold up. For the right type of person.