skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
""The idea they couldn't afford or have the capacity to hire the talent they want is ridiculous."

This is true to some degree. I'm certain that if Apple decided they were willing to pay $800K/year each + signing bonuses of $3 million dollars for a team of 4-5 share OS engineers, they could, in fact, resolve this. (I base the $800K on what top flight OS/Kernel consultants make - around $400/hour, plus the money you would need to pull them away from their stock/equity packages at whatever other company they were working at, sometimes known as a "Make Whole" package)

The problems with that, though, is that the average Apple Sofware/OS engineer makes around $200K/year (fully loaded) - so you would end up with a $600K (+signing bonus) disparity - which would be unfair to existing employees.

You can't increase the salaries of all similarly qualified engineers to $800K - that would mean increasing salaries of _all_ engineers - and Apple's R&D costs would skyrocket, and all their other salaries would be out of whack.

Sometimes, even though you can buy your way out of a situation, the peripheral costs of doing so are so great, that what seems to be only a $10million problem to solve, might up ending costing you hundreds of millions of dollars.

So - you suck it up, stay focussed, and do what you can with the people you have.

Of course, what _most_ companies do, is instead hire some average (or, often, below average) engineers to try and do the port - they muck it up, and they ship a crappy product.

Better to do fewer things better. For example - photo stream and iTunes Match have been working well for me - but I wonder what percentage of Apple Employees use iCloud.com as their principal mail client, as compared to google employees using gmail as their primary email system?
And most of that was driven by academic research 10-50 years ago. The fear is that we aren't currently funding the academic research that will drive technology in the next 20-50 years.
coca-cola: 86 batman: 96 Yahoo!: 99 Dropbox: 76 McDonald's: 92 Starbucks: 80 IBM: 3 Shell: 67 Apple: 24

I found the Apple one the hardest.
He does have a converging sequence, though. Many people don't understand the technical (but obvious to mathematicians) distinction between sequence and series.
Yes, when we get a spare sec we do need to add that to our site. Here's a taster:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hojoki/id525010205?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fanium.app

http://parisboo.com/

http://itunes.apple.com/se/app/skovik/id465972002
(commenting from my high-karma account, to avoid the green-user stigma)

I see no good reason to incentivize intelligent thoughtful
conversation, no one actually does it for karma.

I comment to grind karma points. There's a fairly linear relationship between comment length and score, my best comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3705599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3218642) are essentially small blog posts, requiring research, links, several drafts and extensive revision. If it wasn't for karma, I wouldn't go to the effort.
*Russ Cox
Interesting. I got 69%.
Counter-example to show that your assumptions about animal behaviour plus human emotions can turn out horribly wrong:

You'd think that the act of "smiling" (twisting the corners of your mouths while baring your teeth) conveys a state of happiness, like it works in humans. You'd see a monkey "smile" and think: That monkey is happy.

But in most other primates, the act of "smiling" is an act that's likely to be followed by violence, so it's actually seen as a threat. So if you're in the wild, see a monkey smile and think "oh he's happy, I'd better smile back" he might assume you're "threatening back" and attack you.

And why do you think that monkeys cry like humans? We are the only primates that shed tears as a sign of emotional distress (source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-humans-...).
The design of this site is really impressive. If you're working on a web product you should be taking notes.

Probably the #1 problem for a brand new site offering financial advice is to establish credibility. Lots of past entrants did a lousy job of this, but these guys have nailed it on day 1. Their site looks a lot like the NYT's info features, and it helps them look authoritative.
I didn't think of the 6x6 work week when I wrote my first comment, just the 35-week used in France. I guess the 6x6 is what I was promoting (i.e. less hours per day rather than less days), but taken to a greater extreme.
Sorry, I think you misunderstood me, I am specifically referring to the New York Times review of it, which is one of the 4 negative reviews of the book, but if you read it is in actual fact positive. My mistake though, because I accidentally linked the same page twice when I wanted to link this the second time:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/book-review-m...
CL's robot.txt file does not 'disallow' crawling the real estate section. So Padmapper was likely as compliant as Google.

http://www.craigslist.org/robots.txt
Pick a project that you like and is relatively small. Download the source code and run it locally. Then make changes to it and see how it goes. Don't forget to read the documentation and be active on the forums. You don't have to post anything to the forum. Just read them.
The Righthaven case is slightly different, though I hope the logic still applies. (I'm not a lawyer, but I read the Righthaven opinion[1] when the Padmapper/3Taps workaround was originally discussed.) The difference is that Righthaven was granted merely the right to sue on behalf of the original copyright holder, but none of the exclusive rights that copyrights actually bestow upon their owners. It could be interpreted that posters grant Craigslist some of their exclusive rights ("copy, perform, display," etc.), and suing to protect those rights may be legally kosher. I know of no such precedent.

My personal interpretation/hope is that the right to sue for copyright infringement is nontransferable, which would give Craigslist no standing to sue. Individual posters could sue, however.

[1] https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/righthaven_v_dem/order6-1... (See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righthaven_LLC_v._Democratic_Un...)
As far as I'm aware, if you post information in a place where it will be publicly accessible, then you are tacitly agreeing that third parties will be able to access it and use it as they please. That's not a right that needs to be given to these third parties. It exists from the get-go, and must be explicitly taken away by something like copyright.
What I want out of app.net would be a community building machine -- like most web forums used to be. In 2012, I don't know anyone personally that follows a classic forum anymore; I want that type of connection without the archaic style. Building community on my own website, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, and/or Twitter can be exhausting, tedious, and time consuming. If app.net let me create a community and interact easily so that I can focus on producing content, I'd love it.

Just my two cents.
Try to show it to as many people as you can. Post some youtube videos on how-to. Use every web 2.0 network you can to try to get more people to your door step.
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Just redirects to the paywall for me.
we're working on giving users the flexibility to change these assumptions. Obviously viewpoints differ and we want you to be able to make the best decision based on your view. That said, all default or base case values are what we consider to be 'consensus' estimates.
Heroku's uptime for June says 99.28% but it's really 96.25%
Exactly :-) My point was that their business model is already very similar to what you described ("give me fixes for the version I purchased and then sell the next major version").
The ToS may not mention exclusivity, but the source of data (for Padmapper) is Craigslist. Thus, the clause of "unauthorized copying" applies.
It looks like the edX course is 12 weeks whereas the Coursera course currently covers the first half of the course in 5 weeks.
I tried out the app on my way home, I thought it was slick and quite fun but I don't get to see anyone else's routes around London, as far as I could see.

Is it just because no one else has used it or because you guys have to update the app to manually show more cities?
I dunno about the "never did" part. Google is doing some interesting stuff, but I don't think they're yet up to the peak of academia, like the amount of individual researcher freedom combined with innovation going on in the heyday of the MIT AI Lab. Even grad students were doing totally independent never-been-done research projects! Mere staff members like Richard Stallman had influential active side projects, too.

Google does seem like a great place if you're a senior enough researcher, though. People like Peter Norvig, Ken Thompson, and likely the author of this linked article, seem to get basically 100% freedom to work on whatever they want, with minimal management or job requirements, which is pretty much the ideal position to be in as a researcher. I suspect not all Google employees get Ken-Thompson-level freedom from having a boss, though.
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Weird, I've always had going through Google work.
Ask HN: How do you approach potential B2B customers for early stage research
Hey HN,

I've got this idea for a web app from a service provider I recently used. He told me all about his business problems (problems that can be solved with a web app) once I told him I was in the web space. We both got really excited about the possibility of a product.

Now I feel I need to validate this idea with other business managers. I've have no contacts in this industry, nor do I know too much about it.

How do I approach business owners/managers to gain research without annoying/intimidating/frustrating them.

How do you do it?
Part of the challenge is that Intel and AMD don't do you any favors.

In the ideal world for a set of cores C if I run a piece of independent, memory bound, code on all of them I get O(C) scale. Generally that doesn't hold in shared L2/L3 cores or where HyperThreads are counted as cores.

We can define a scaling factor Cf such that 0 < Cf < 1.0 independent code scales at O(Cf).

In one school you could price out at cores such that 1/Cf physical cores were assigned per Core purchased (rounded up to the nearest unit of computation) but that doesn't begin to get into the question of shared memory vs shared network vs shared disk.

I think the best you can do for now is call it a core if Cf is > .95.
Doesn't mention the important part about the court "determines whether the laws voted on by Congress are constitutional" which, now that I typed it out, seems to be the definition of Judicial Review.

I agree that the the situation is alarming, but this particular statement strikes me as misleading in that regard.
As a hiring manager for IT, I met two women whose resume qualified; one of them was going to college and so needed a very flexible schedule which the position couldn't do (I wanted to make it work but couldn't) and the other I hired. In both cases their pay would have been higher paid than their male counterparts simply because of the position I was hiring for at the time.

However because of lingering social dynamics and the impoliteness to discuss salaries, I worry that they might not have realized this. It's easy to think you're being discriminated against when you don't have all the facts.

But anyway, there's my data point. Women higher paid than men in my hiring experience, just by chance.
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They don't lose their trademark, they're just not allowed to sue where the use isn't confusing.
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Objectivity and Scepticism
Hope this helps. When Apple says their 2015 forecast for sales is $200B (made that up) that is not a number that is PV'd (because that is 2015 number). Similarly when we are modeling your income going forward those are not numbers that should be PV'd.

However, when we sum future expenses or cash flows (across years) and present them as a single number, generally in today's money, those values are all PV'd. For example, on our mortgage comparison page the total expenses over the amount of time you plan on holding the mortgage is a number we PV.
Thank you for that - looks like a great resource.
It is unclear to me what this app is. It's Instagram and Google Docs for Mac? As a single app?
Probably not, since most (?) beautiful proofs are symbolic and not very recitable.
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70% of ALL market trades are made by algorithms..any danger from this?
Officially we should not be commenting on iOS 6 given the non-disclosure nature of the preview. Maybe I can discuss what Parse offers that would be difficult for anyone else (Apple/Google/Amazon) to match:

1. iOS 4, iOS 5 compatibility. Today, the most common iOS development target platform is still iOS 4. Using Parse your in-app purchase will be able to work for the customers who are not on the newest iOS platform.

2. Attaching metadata for products. At Parse a lot of our customers want to attach metadata information to products (categories, authors, genres, the publishing date, actors, etc) and to query products based on this information. You can imagine this is a very handy feature for an app that sells comic books. This is very natural to do on Parse because Parse offers a query-able, key-value data store. In fact, anyone, with or without technical background, would be able to use the data browser to add the metadata to the Product class.

3. Hosting content on Parse requires no App Store review, thus introducing no delay/resubmission via iTunes Connect.

4. Hosting content on Parse has no limit on the number of files/total size of files.

5. Cross app-store in-app purchase hosting. At Parse we see a lot of developers making the same app for Android and iOS. By hosting the content on Parse, you can use Parse for both your iOS and Android app. Parse would know how to validate the purchase receipt against iTunes Connect, Google Play, Amazon AppStore, and other App Stores. Currently Parse does not offer Android support, but we would be able to do this if there is sufficient demand.

Just some of my thoughts...Hope it helps.
It's not about making a "SQL-Database". It's about providing an interface that resembles something people are familiar with and that can be reasonably fluently typed in a REPL without breaking fingers. Just like Cassandra did with CQL and hbase does with HQL. SQL-syntax just happens to have stood the test of time for this kind of application.

SQL is a terrible language

No disagreement here. Just out of curiosity, what would you call this language then: [:find ?entity :where [?entity :db/doc \"hello world\"]]?
Yep, it's a combination of the drop shadow, the floating shadow, the color choices, and the shine on top of the colors.
And while perhaps this speaks more to my prejudices than anything else - I have a hard time trusting a review aggregator where a bodice ripper has a "100%" rating on the site's home page.

It took me a couple of minutes looking over the homepage to realize that it was organized by genre. I'd recommend making those columns more visually distinct, so you don't offend snobs like myself.

To address patja's concerns - it looks like you've got some young adult fantasy/scifi mixed in with normal fantasy/scifi. Separate those out, and you'll likely get a better response from fans of the genre.

Also - this looks quite exciting. It's amazing how few effective tools there are out there for finding my next book. Thanks for making another!
You can blame citation-counting and h-indexes for a decent amount of that latter part. If administrators who don't know enough about an area to individually judge the quality of someone's record are mainly using citations and h-index as proxies for quality, then the job of a junior researcher becomes to maximize those two numbers. There are various strategies for doing so, but one of the higher-probability ones is to churn out a lot of papers, and also to make them relatively similar to what other people in the field are already doing (so they'll cite them as related work in their next paper).
You forgot another one -- estimates missed.
If I could use an analogy like Dalton does that doesn't make much sense;

Dalton is trying to sell us a better mousetrap, BUT--atleast in the beginning--he was advertising it as a totally different way to catch the mouse.

The problem is that most people either:

a) aren't bothered by the mouse, or

b) didn't know they should be trying to catch the mouse in the first place.

Substitute 'mouse' and 'mousetrap' with 'Facebook & Twitter's advertising model.'
What happens if, at the US Border, you declare your illegal drugs?
Not sure how the Instagram fits into the original goal of the app ... but cool!
absolutely no pricing info available.. hard to dig into this
I agree. This is an accounting hack when dealing with bigger companies. If you are a little contractor, beancounters will put you at the bottom of the heap to get paid. If you offer a discount for early payment, beancounters will put you back at the top of the heap to save a few bucks. I learned this trick from a plumber.
It's completely different. For starters, there's the "reasonable person" test. No reasonable person is going to think that murder is legal.

Intentionally infringing a patent is punished much more harshly, and it's impossible to keep up with the millions of patents that are published, so being intentionally unaware is actually a decent legal defence.

And yes, this does mean that patents are generally pretty useless for software.
ACTUALLY, in 1961, Leonard Kleinrock of MIT invented the concept of wide area networks in his paper "Information Flow In Large Communication Nets" (1).

After that, in 1964, a RAND employee by the name of Paul Baran wrote a paper entitled "On Distributed Communications Networks"(2), furthering the concepts outlined by Kleinrock.

It wasn't until AFTER Lawrence Roberts, also of MIT, wrote "Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers", that ARPA funded research on the idea.

FINALLY, it was National Physical Laboratory in England that created the first wide-area packet switching network in 1967.

So, NO, the government didn't INVENT the Internet. They built a closed, packet switching network that the public could not access, based on principles and ideas generated at a smattering of schools and PRIVATE COMPANIES.

(1) http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Bib/REPORT/PhD/
(2) http://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html
An app that can "idle out" can only be running on a free plan, and is therefore not considered a "production" app by Heroku - https://twitter.com/blakegentry/status/220456696068321281
I agree 100%. Here are some other hardware related subreddits I follow.

ECE

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http://www.reddit.com/r/electronics

http://www.reddit.com/r/ECE

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics

http://www.reddit.com/r/DSP

http://www.reddit.com/r/ECEComponentExchange

RF

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http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR

http://www.reddit.com/r/GNURadio

http://www.reddit.com/r/rfelectronics

Maker

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http://www.reddit.com/r/maker
Love, love, LOVE the idea - It's one of those things that I would use every week if it worked.

Critical feedback from a potential fan:

#1 - When looking at best sellers, one of the first things I saw was, "A Dance With Dragons, 29 critic reviews | Published: August 28, 2012" - The "Published" date is obviously for something different than the book (Softcover? Trade Press?) - regardless, for book reviews what's most important is not the publication of the format (I can get that at Amazon in 2 seconds) - but the publication of the _content_

#2 - I wanted to see how Peter Hamilton's books were reviewed (very popular author, so lots of reviews of his work out there), so I typed, "Peter Hamilton" and got 17 hits, but not a single one for Peter Hamilton's books. Typing the same thing in Amazon.com, despite how common the name is, got me a page of hits comprising _only_ the Science Fiction author Peter Hamilton.

In general, it's better to focus on the 99% of what users are looking for than the long tail. Not sure if you just don't have all of the reviews entered here, but the content needs bulking up before you introduce this to the general populace.

Love the idea - I'll check in from month to month to see how it comes along.
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changing news letter providers is a high hurdle for people. The fact that it is "free" doesn't matter, since its such a pain to setup and run campaigns.

I would buy google ads on newsletter related keywords so you know you are getting people looking for a solution to try.

Also your copy is bad and your proposition is unclear.
It isn't like these support issues are a surprise to them, they just have different priorities than fixing them.

Exactly! Like I said, I'm sure they felt their limited resources could be better spent elsewhere. Supporting 6 year old hardware is a very, very low priority, so they didn't spend any resources on it. As SJ himself said, focus is about saying "no". This video discusses OpenDoc, but it could just as easily apply to supporting 6 year old hardware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8eP99neOVs

Apple is always pushing forward. Sometimes perhaps a bit too aggressively, but they're always pushing forward.
This depends, I think. My understanding is there are some caveats when something gets really well known, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. Trademark law isn't always executed perfectly (see some of the behavior of the Olympic Committee, for instance). The fundamental purpose, however, remains to avoid confusion.
Interestingly enough, that's not always true, at least for teachers. Recent paper:

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18237?utm_campaign=ntw&ut...

"Domestic attempts to use financial incentives for teachers to increase student achievement have been ineffective. In this paper, we demonstrate that exploiting the power of loss aversion—teachers are paid in advance and asked to give back the money if their students do not improve sufficiently—increases math test scores between 0.201 (0.076) and 0.398 (0.129) standard deviations. This is equivalent to increasing teacher quality by more than one standard deviation. A second treatment arm, identical to the loss aversion treatment but implemented in the standard fashion, yields smaller and statistically insignificant results. This suggests it is loss aversion, rather than other features of the design or population sampled, that leads to the stark differences between our findings and past research."
Which is fine. The site was down for both free and non-free apps. Down is down. The number of free or non-free apps shouldn't matter. But thanks for looking that up - useful to know.
Mac users at work are richer and more productive
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Beautifully done, exactly what I wanted to organized my docs. Sadly, I am drooling over how my pictures could be organized too, but I don't have an instagram account - can you organize FB pictures? Pretty please? :)
I'm providing numbers to back your point up. Sorry if that wasn't inherently clear.
While you know your experience, you don't have access to the alternative futures that might have resulted given different behavior. Which is why personal experiences and anecdotes do not substitute for actual causal analysis.
First they came for WikiLeaks, then the New York Times
MVP by deduction
For its new cloud, Google learns old tricks
Refactored for rapind's benefit:

"Internet expert" == (! expert)

;)
I thought that this was going to be about products, and was all geared up to tear it apart.

It's actually about organizational roles, and it makes a decent argument.