skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone above suggested 33%. Personally I think that is wildly optimistic for any consulting engagement unless you do all the work and billing. And the washing up.

It of course depends - doubling conversion for any company will be valuable, but they have done the hard work getting to this point and will rightly resent essentially an equity share.

A range of 2-5% would be something bearable, and probably more so if presented as fixed sums, and increasing along measurable KPIs so instead of I get 5% of whatever happens, something like 20k fixed per week and 50k if user conversion hits 3% for project X and 100k if it hits 4% across all user categories.

Essentially you need to have a clear idea of what they want out of the deal, a feasible number that you can increase by, and slice of 5% of that.

Also

If they would be better off switching to weekly billing, why not tell them. If younare just paid as a cog in their system thays how you will get treated. If you think you can do a lot better, why not reduce your and their risk - work for them at a low (bearable) fee - but you get to lead a project and get bonus payments on hitting clients business kpi improvements.

This way you have some safe harbour of salaried job but also are incentivised to go all out for the client

Just a thought
I liked Reader because it was a great tool, and wasn't a platform like Facebook... but since Google wants to be a platform now instead of a toolmaker, I'm not surprised they are killing the two tools I use daily: Reader and the iGoogle portal as my custom homepage.
We were talking about LEOs. What part of my comment made you think otherwise?
$120/month for a server management tool?

Is this a joke or what? Maybe the submitter is the author?

Obviously any such tool needs not only to be free, but also open source.
> If this makes me introverted, then I don't want to be cool and hip.

It just means you want good social software rather than things designed for advertisers. The original Google Reader sharing model was exactly what you describe: use it in private until you choose to share something.
Death is permanent; you didn't die.
It should be on github pages or something similar, no ads, easy to fork and contribute.
This is so cool, do want.
> and I would add that the community provided recipes aren't very good either.

This is key. When I first got into using Chef, I assumed things would be no problem because all the services I used already had community recipes.

The community recipes are often wrong, don't work correctly on "clean" first-time installs and have a lot of baked in assumptions about the config and modules to use.

Clone these recipes into your repo, you will be modifying them. Blindly relying on the built in functionality to pull in and update the community repos will lead to pain.

Chef is a powerful tool, but it is also evolving rapidly and requires careful attention and testing.
Keeping the image in one region allows the customer to guarantee data provenance - EU folks don't want their data accidentally getting stuck on US servers (and the other way around).
Certainly interested in trying this, but FFS - give us an obvious image download link (there is one, but buried behind layers of "Buy this!" and "Run this script!").

I appreciate the (presumable) desire to make it easy for people to burn the image onto an SD card, but when I see this:

> Please re-run this script with root privileges, i.e. 'sudo ./getrasplex.py'

without any kind of explanation, or justification, just a "do this!" instruction, the answer is "NO".
Since it would have been the right want to migrate Reader, I'm assuming they view this as a competitive disadvantage - probably because they're trying to push content providers to maintain a G+ presence.
mail.yandex.com has it in English yes

here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/nr92ABn.png

I would say that except for the responsiveness of the layout it is as good as google reader. It is a little laggy to load things but otherwise it is all drag and drop, very familiar feeling. It might not be the best but unless there becomes a defacto replacement for GReader, or they decide to keep it, I have a feeling I will just stick with this.
At least with a pool, you'd want them to be careful. It is a slippery surface, and a fall could easily incapacitate an EMT, or destroy life-saving equipment.

Edit:
As for walking in general, it could also be because they wouldn't want a crowd to form which could obstruct them should they need to evacuate you more quickly.

T(walking_now) + T(walking_later) < T(running_now) + T(moving_through_crowd_later)
That's a good point Josh. We ask drivers to set themselves as unavailable if they are on another ride, and we are measuring a lot of things that help us figure out which drivers are more reliable so we can reward them accordingly vs which drivers are unreliable so we can part ways with them.

Of course we'd definitely love feedback from you and other users when you see a driver engaging in untrustworthy behavior. Email us ask at instantcab.com (or leave a comment with your rating if you are using InstantCab)
Oh wow. Thanks! Very nice. If the price is reasonable, that might be a winner.
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I do not know patio11 but I am pretty certain he does more than present and run, and so can charge more. I get the impression from his blog that it is more a case of the client committing to a certain project (ie 250k worth of developer time, plus his fees, in order to increase metric x). He leads the project, enthuses the developers, puts the charts on the wall and basically earns his keep.

Three months later they have enough of his brain cells in their heads they can wave goodbye.

Personally I would love to sit in an armchair at the Diogenes club and have people come pay me for my opinion on what they should do. If that was ever a consultants role I think it is long dead.

Yours

Mycroft
I'm not sure you have experienced the kind of procrastination the op speaks about.

You have a to-do list of 5 items for today and then a week later(with up to 11 hours of busy-work everyday), you're on item number 3.

This kind of procrastination is a sickness and has causes a lot of emotional distress.

You're reading hacker news(or even working on a less important project) full of guilt and indescribable negative feelings that you need to be working on the "important things", then you move to the important thing you need to be doing but you cant get it done cause there is this hyper-active force on the inside of you that just wont allow you to focus.

Its a very sad-depressing place I hope never to return to.
So, uh, could they show what they used to get those numbers? A EC2 micro vs. the GCE big version (I'm not familiar enough with GCE).

I'll note a HUGE factor is missing: the word 'cost' isn't even in the article. How much more (or less) are you paying for the apparent increase in performance?
The "unintended side effect of filtering spam" explanation makes no sense.

How likely is it that the same company which builds bleeding-edge machine-learning systems to track and predict our behavior online, and which uses these AI predictions constantly to maximize their ad revenue, somehow cannot find a better way to filter out spam invites?

How likely is it that the same company that houses the likes of Hinton, Norvig and Kurzweil under the same roof can't find a better way?

Google is packed with experts at solving the "spam filtering" (i.e., pattern recognition) problem.

It appears this was done on purpose[1], driven by a corporate culture that no longer cares as much about openness. [Please read jholman's responses below. He's right, I went too far with this last sentence.]

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[1] http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2013-February/001...

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Edits: added "it appears" at the end, to tone down the language. Also, reworded and added sentences to make my point clearer, and corrected text to refer to invites, not messages (thanks for pointing that out, mdc!) and point out that this was indeed done on purpose.
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Here's my chief gripe with using hyperbole and "literally" - If the word "literally" can be used non-literally, in a hyperbole or a metaphor, then it stops serving its purpose of marking a sentence as being literal. Then, when a sentence permits metaphoric and literal interpretations and you stick "literally" in it, nothing changes - it can still be either metaphoric or literal. The only solution I see is using "really literally" to mean that your sentence isn't metaphoric. Until people start using "really literally" in a metaphoric way. I virtually really literally actually in fact don't want to see that happen.

P.S. Use "practically" instead.
The defense budget is not an exception to the rule. It is the rule. (Almost the Rule, as in kings and rulers.)
I have a bit of a cruel streak, but I always joke about pretending the flames of hell are licking my soul as I die and scaring the bejeezus out of anyone who might be in earshot of my passing.
I may lack coding chops, but you lack imagination.

Don't let the coders design, I guess. http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/03/10/designers-are-not-p...

I replied above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5382745
> you can't decrease net emissions. It's impossible.

I call "bullshit" on your fatalism. Solar energy is powerful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrje73EyKag

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-p...
The #1 issue is the completely insecure, trust nature of the phone system. It should be trivial for a local police department to verify, with a very high degree of trust, that the number calling them is legitimate. That this doesn't exist is absurd, and is twenty years behind where it should be.
mythriel still no mail in your profile
> This change is akin to Google no longer accepting incoming e-mail for @gmail.com addresses from non-Google domains. That would be unthinkable.

The sad thing is that I no longer consider this unthinkable. There's an extremely disconcerting email monoculture emerging around gmail. Practically everyone I exchange email with uses gmail. Companies and universities are switching to gmail. It can be difficult to get your mail accepted by gmail if you run your own servers: I help administer the servers at one organization whose mail (personal correspondence, not mailing list posts or the like) often gets sent straight to gmail's spam folder and we're doing everything right in terms of DNS/SPF/DKIM/etc (in fact, the same config works great elsewhere). Try to look for help on gmail's website and all you can find for this problem are the "Bulk Sender Guidelines" - as if the only people who aren't using gmail already are bulk senders.

Now consider Google's actions as of late. I could totally see them one day saying, "we're not going to accept email from you unless we've emailed you first or you've contacted us to ask for permission." There would be outrage, but I also wonder how many people would actually stop using gmail if they did this.

Edit: I'm not saying this will happen, I'm just saying it's not unthinkable, which is sad.
Love the concept, I've been looking for something like this and I'm already deploying it in my app.

Used today's commute to package it into introjs-rails, for anybody that wants to use this in their rails app (assuming you are using the RoR asset pipeline)

gem 'introjs-rails'

https://github.com/heelhook/intro.js-rails
this is only for YC companies right? not just any company.
investors assume YC has done its homework
I've been in a situation where we were administering CPR to someone who simply could not have been helped by CPR (although there was no way of us knowing that at the time). We were relieved by first responders in about 3 minutes from calling 911 though.

Plus, as others have said, it's also beneficial for the bystanders to be doing something beneficial. In my own situation, I didn't know for sure that CPR wouldn't have helped until the autopsy came back. That's a pretty big time frame to sit around and wonder if you could have done anything or not. If you're just a random person on the street, you may never get that information to ease your mind.
I was very disappointed when I found out they don't use TLS when federating XMPP. Basically, if you're chatting with someone who uses them for XMPP (Jabber) service, your stuff is riding in the clear between the two servers.

It's been like this for years.
So I can develop offline using nothing more than a browser. I clone a repo from github to my browser when I'm online. Then I'm offline in a bus or on a plane, but I can still work because browsers have file storage now. When I'm done working, I can go online and push my changes back to github.

And all this will work anywhere that has a browser, ChromeBook, Surface RT, iPad, etc..

Obviously, it's mostly of use to web developers since JS is the only runtime, but I also have other later projects attacking that problem. But for now, JS only is a pretty big market.
I don't know Oscar :(
Not true.

Even when the source-energy is coal, Tesla reduces net emissions a lot by eliminating the inefficiency of the IC engine.

And when the source-energy is solar, net emissions are even better. :-)
while it is true we have come up with ingenious ways to "obligate" money, these constructs have arisen from a want from consumers...a person in the US chooses to sign up for a 30 year mortgage because he/she values owning a home. Venture Capitalists choose to obligate their money in risky startups in order to breath life into fringe ideas that may strike it big. Remembering that money is a proxy for wealth measurement the reality is that money simply is a median of exchanging wealth which people are choosing to use.
My wife (an MA for a pediatrician) told me the current standard she needs to test to is 25 compressions per rescue breath.
That's a good way of putting it, thanks.

"I'm going to clear my inbox vs. I'm going to get caught up on my email"
MSN/Windows Live Messenger (and now Skype) do support federation with Lync Server, which is Microsoft's corporate instant messaging server.

Over the years, Microsoft has tried various attempts at making MSN/WLM interoperable with AIM, XMPP, and ICQ -- albeit with limited success.
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Yes, that's the default setting. So your options are to change that setting and update, get constantly buzzed with notifications to update, or uninstall. I uninstalled.
Benefits of co-existing open source & commercial software
Symbolics.com Turns 28 Years Old Today
It's not surprising, google has been on the road to becoming the next Microsoft for a while. Though it is depressing.

It's interesting though, so much of google's core business relies on trust, and they've been making a lot of moves lately to just throw away as much trust as possible. Maybe it's sustainable, but I'm skeptical.
There's a few things that I could have patented in the '80s and 90's, but didn't, becase they were in my engineering supervisors word's: "F______g obvious." Later I went back and found out that someone elsewhere did receive a patent on some of these ideas. Don't know if they received money for any licenses, but somewhere in a corporate vault/storage are my engineering logbooks in case of a legal dispute.

Mark Cuban is interesting person. Back in the day (Web 1.0 and Audionet), I had lunch with him and a few others at the Infomart. I questioned his business, since at the time a single radio station had more listeners than what was capable with the bandwidth of the Internet then. He said, "X, we don't sell the steak, we sell the sizzle."
Galaxy S IV will mark the beginning of the end of Samsung’s smartphone dominance
While this is unfortunate, I don't think it's particularly surprising.

For example, Facebook allows accessing their Chat servers using XMPP, but they don't support federation at all.
That's what I want to know, this is scary stuff...
I do have imagination, but I also do logic. What you don't grasp that iOS developers who can design kinda make most designers useless. They can figure out the cost/benefit of particular design details.

You got a long run way, sure, go ahead and customise the crap out of everything. Short run way? Try to custom the native components (tabs,navigation bars, action-sheets and etc).

Most designers are too stupid to actually be able to figure out that some things are hard to do.

Makes me thing of the strike through and "bold" text when the iOS SDK first came out. Trying to convince designers that a check mark would take a minute to do compared to a strike through was such a fucking hell and left a bad taste in my mouth. Our run way was short, the SDK new and certain things didn't come out of the box.

The cost benefit analysis is in the developers hand. If he/she can design then that makes outside designers useless.

The only thing I actually need is illustrators for icons and drawings. Designers and/or "Mobile UX Experts" are redundant.
Maybe Hinton didn't make any progress on it yesterday so they decided to call it quits?

It does suck that they did this. I have been hit with many spam requests through Google Talk recently though. You should at least be able to whitelist people in your address book or something. Yeah, you can still send them an invite, but what if the third party's service adopted the same policy as Google?

They should at least let you opt in to requests.
Chicken Scheme and it's use of Baker's "Cheney on the M.T.A." allocation and GC is intensely neat ... but correct me if my analysis was wrong: isn't it inherently single threaded?

(No problem for a lot of people, but my particular area of interest is making SMP/ccNUMA systems sing. In Lisp. :-)
This is why I love HN. Straight from the boss.
Hi MP-

https://github.com/christkv/node-git is the node-git I had in mind: it's a native (js native) impl modeled strongly after the Grit library used heavily by a little company called Github, and I believe it's in pretty OK state although my first hand experience hasn't made it past the touring stages.

Sorry for the confusion! I knew Tim had a node-git as well, but I didn't know it relied on the binary or other native type stuff (such as a a library binding), so I didn't think the naming collision I let happen would cause any confusion.

Is there anything else I'm missing in my equation?
Developing OP's points to their natural conclusions and ignoring the awful math analogy: the point would be to liquify / unfreeze as much of the available wealth as possible, to have it flow to things that could make the world a better place or solve the "big problems", right? So a strong middle class with lots of well spread discretionary income, capable to crowd-fund tons of interesting work would be the solution. Evrika! But NO... there is no reason for the liquified money to flow in the "right" directions, maybe they's all be spend on entertainment and we'll have a "brave new world" type dystopia instead, so maybe it's better to have it "frozen", because at least this way there is some control over it. ...a more interesting problem imho would be to see how money actually relates to power/control and to have an information theoretical way to quantify this power/control - this could really bring new ways to look at economy, instead of this silly economic mythology with fluid/solid money, (anti)fragile entities, enigmatic black swans floating around and other mystical creatures and forces that our analogy loving minds keep creating.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2704614 - 626 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2425762 - 706 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337237 - 729 days ago

One feature I wish HN had was a merge tool. Merge these threads together, and possibly multiple links per story. Then we can just merge these links/comments into the older thread. Useful for emerging stories about the inevitable "Apple i*" that get posted 50x the day of a release. Kind of like techmeme.com "More:" option.
It's a mail app that treats inbox triage like shoving all your physical messes in time-based closets instead of actually dealing with the mess (like Boomerang). But it has a few very clever swipe-based interactions that are an improvement upon every mail app around, and those alone are worthy of all the attention the app's received. Just like PTR, others can implement these interactions and the app won't be novel for much longer. But for now, it's the only one doing it.
> you still die.

Uh, no.

> In the future the notion of what it means to be alive, and human, and dead, may be reinterpreted so that these models are considered to be, essentially, the same being as their original.

You haven't considered that more likely, we'll become so augmented with additional abilities that the pure natural "you" will no longer feel like you even to yourself. You consciousness will outgrow your biological body even though it's rooted in it and at some point, "you" even to yourself will be mostly machine anyway so when the biology finally dies off, it will still be the original "you" left in the machine. Losing the biology will make it no less you than losing an arm.

> The post-singularity upload is still a copy

It simply won't be an upload, "you" will already be a cyborg mostly made of machine anyway.
Wait a minute... Are you saying that because French doctors can't be sued for making a mistake they don't order MRIs?

What? you're not saying that? Then why would American doctors order more MRIs? Perhaps to detect those tiny chance conditions, that might actually be more serious? So you're saying that sometimes the MRIs reveal something important about the patient's health? And you're wanting to blame US doctors to find that out? How does the doctor "know" that it's not? Should they not "make sure" instead of just "know"?

I think I prefer the US system in that regard.
Right you are. Weird, '?t=' is straight from the share tab on the YouTube page.
Am I the only one looking at the 34 items in the list (34!!) and thinking "do we really need all of these?" Isn't the sheer volume of new stuff constantly coming out gone a bit out of hand?
This would have been just as interesting and clickworthy with a title like 'I had a massive heart attack at 21.' As it is, the story has nothing to do with the title at all.
Things like this bug me because it's taken on a small set of people and immediately categorises them out. In the big, bad real world super smart people still end up burning the candle at both ends at periods of time because they have to.

Look at our start up folk heroes, super smart geniuses who work 18 hours a day, network for 2 and sleep for 4. They're busy because they have to be busy. If you're busy it's because you're busy.
Yes, and...?
I have spam-filtered email addresses through 3 different email providers, one of them being Google.

Only Google manages to constantly produce falls positives (including mail from, sweet irony, Google services like Analytics) and regularly allow spam and phishing mails through.

The other two, ran by relatively small providers, are nearly perfect.

Don't overestimate Google.

(The same "intelligent" Google also seems to be unable to figure out which language I use, despite me telling them on a regular basis.)
> We hope that Google will retract this change and find a solution that does not undermine the distributed nature of the Internet.

I'm sick of this kind of language, why does EVERYONE who does advocacy have to speak like this? Can no one be reasonable?
>Need a production solr instance? The Heroku way is to use a 3rd party add-on such as websolr. This means creating yet another account to keep track of, adding another bill to your credit card statement, dealing with one more mediocre web interface, and creating an even larger divide between your development and production environments.

Nothing prevents you to use your own solr(or any other server) of your own inside your application deployed in heroku if you want
Comparing the C++ Standard and Boost
Do they include the amount the government kicks in to pay for that MRI in France?
Perhaps someone should do a study on the placebo effects of MRIs on outcomes...