skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this has annoyed me for a long time. I believe Opera comes closest to this ideal. Actually, it might even meet all of the criteria already. It's a shame I can't use it.

Edit: I think the only complete answer going forward is to treat it like suspending a machine. An open web page today is a running application with state. It would have to be frozen when you go to another page (so that it doesn't do stuff while you're gone), and resumed when you click the back button.
At a guess, because it's not yet open for business?
You're pricing RAM, not systems. If you're going to buy RAM for a Macbook or a PC, you're going to use the same sources and pay the same prices. Nobody who actually buys their own memory buys it from Apple.

A Dell Inspiron with the same specs as the white Macbook (with an upgraded hard drive) costs $700 compared to $1100. That's a specific comparison purely on hardware.
That wasn't my intention. As an example look at what SmartSheet has done with SmartSourcing http://www.smartsheet.com/product/smartsourcing they are taking a "me too" on-line spreadsheet and integrating it with Amazon's Turk in a novel and useful way. If it takes off it will be a different service from other on-line spreadsheets (provided they are not copied). I am not affiliated with SmartSheet but was impressed by this idea.
European universities are ~free for Europeans. They charge significant fees to non-EU students. Obviously it depends on the country/university, but it would be cheaper for someone to go to their local state university in the US than to a European one. However, it may be cheaper to be in a top-flight EU university than an Ivy League US one - I haven't checked the numbers.
memmem only returns the first string. I'm looking for a count of all the matches, with their byte offsets in the file.
Now that we're speculating psychology against the wisdom of Occam. From the article:

The house was built by California architect George Washington Smith in 1926 for mining magnate Daniel C. Jackling.

I speculate that Jobs is sending a message to a former leading California industry with this self-coronation, that a new industry reigns supreme in California and he is its chief baron. Not only that, but I think that Jobs doesn't see the world-wide success of AAPL as anything more than a fortunate byproduct of his initial goal: to be coolest kid in Cupertino.
I'm saying the metaphor doesn't really work, when you're discussing the vulnerability of an operating system on the internet, you're talking about a security system exposing an attack surface to a potential intruder with exactly equal opportunity for exploitation, it doesn't take me any more effort to attack the guy at 203.2.193.124 than the guy at 203.2.192.124. So the question has to be how secure is the actual system on the other end? If the vast majority of computers currently run windows, it makes sense from a criminal perspective to target the weakest link, and thus the reason we have the massive proliferation of windows viruses vs the "did it to prove it could be done" proliferation of Linux or OS X based viruses.

I think you already know all this but are just trying to be difficult. This is the typical response from a mac fan.
I see it, and I'm impressed. I'll link to it for you!
yeah. this is what I'm doing. I'm fortunate in that I have enough experience to command a pretty good rate, and I can demand corp-to-corp payment. With this, I turn around and hire inexperienced, cheap, but pretty good SysAdmins to handle customers while I'm with my client.

But yeah, 3 days a week is immensely better than working 5 days a week for someone else, then trying to get something done on the weekends.
Minor quibble: I wouldn't call this "his house" -- Jobs has not lived there in many years. This is a historic mansion that Jobs bought in the early 80s when he was first a billionaire.
I can't edit the actual post at this point, but consider it added.

As a side note, thanks to everyone who voted this up. I know a posting about a job in Cbus doesn't apply to everyone here, but by voting this up you may have helped out one or two of you midwestern colleagues in a big way. And us, of course. So thanks.
Local candidates are ideal, but we'd be willing to listen if anyone made a strong enough case.
I'm impressed with the benchmark, but it seems to me like using the right algorithm for the job (in this case, Boyer-Moore or memmem) beats hacking memcmp to do a job it shouldn't be employed to do.
I love it - how appropriate to use the PCjr (with it's awful chicklet keyboard) as a terminal for a mode of communication limited to 140 characters :)
I'm still not sure what your intention is:\

I think the original author would consider smartsheet as a me-too solution(ie. excel, google spreadsheets)--but an innovative one for using Amazon's Turk.
"90% of the time when you go to the doctor, you just need the sanity check and the antibiotics."

Actually, most of the time the patient just needs the sanity check and a prescription for something to alleviate the symptoms of their condition (i.e. a cough suppressant) enough for them to be able to get a decent night's sleep so their body can heal itself. Antibiotics are way overprescribed. Most of the time you don't need them.
Come now. The average user will continue using google. This is interesting, and maybe scientists will use it, but it's not going to be of any use to the average googler.
It's not supposition, I'm speaking from experience. For a tech startup, 10M is a price point at which you have a small team and a product with a few man-years of development behind it. Acquiring the product without the team is only worthwhile when the product is a brand. Otherwise, the team/product combinmation is what gives the company most of that value.

To name one example: in 1999 my company paid $13M for a company with 11 people, most of them developers. The company failed to offer them an interesting package so they quit after the acquisition. A team on our side was left to deploy the software. After a few weeks we decided it would be easier to develop the same functionality from scratch.

On the other hand, the assumption was that you 'owned' 5% of the 200M company. If you are handcuffed, then you own less. If you owe the bank 70% of the value of your house, only 30% is yours. Same with vesting.
I'm not sure I agree with all of your assessment.

The doctors that make all the money do it in private practice, and they also arent the ones who are generally over worked.

Some specialties make more money than others, and those specialties attract doctors who value money. However, working for public hospitals in many places, or some specialties, you know you are working with people who do not value money (at least not as a primary motivator).

Remember -- the doctors who make the real money in medicine do it becuase they own their practice. This is just like working as an electrician or owning your own electrician company that employees 10 people. Owners make more.
Or -y is what happens when you don't have any y and so its an absolute value of y modified by some vector function v as to which sections of public life y (or the absolute value thereof) extends into...

For some metaphor m that is extended beyond a limit l, it becomes increasingly r, ridiculous. :)
Thanks. Yes I agree I need to start doing this.
Do people actually use natural language in search queries though? I don't think they do.

Technically impressive? yes. Useful for most people? nah.
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Thanks for the tips. Yes, it does show up in the BIOS scan. Maybe there's hope for the software option. I'll save your hardware-related tips for later since I'm more or less incompetent when it comes to the non-virtual.
I really doubt many people buy an iPod / iPhone because of the 3rd party apps even though they are advertised a lot atm.
I respect your experience, but I don't understand how your example has anything to do with $13MM vs. $200MM. In neither case is the CTO, VP/E, or MTS more or less necessary to the acquiring company. You can "own" 5% or 100% of 200MM, but if an acquirer thinks they need you to execute on the acquisition, they're going to keep you, right?
Clayton Christenson's book, The Innovator's Prescription, is very good. It outlines the processes of business disruption that are beginning to affect the health care industry status quo, including these quick medical clinics against the GPs, enhanced diagnosis tools for GPs disrupting specialists, and the rise of narrowly focused, high throughput specialty institutes that focus on one type or genre of operation and do it extremely well (using principles adopted from the Toyota Production System).

A recommended read for anyone interested in the future of the industry.
Well, let me put it this way: Warlords have political power.
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Yeah, I didn't think that was a good sign. Thanks. I'll make a note of Techfusion. Looks like it may come to that.
My main gripe with 'back' in Safari is the keyboard shortcuts. I can press the back button to go to the previous page, I cab press it with command to open it in a new tab, I can press backspace to go to the previous page, then why can't I press command backspace to open the previous page in a new tab?!
Good for him. He bought it. He pays the taxes on it. Let him do what he wants with it. If it starts to interfere with the health or safety of those around him, then maybe he should be restricted in what he does.
There're still many rough edges but it's definitely time for HN feedback! Please check out the 2min tour.

We realized that many folks who use Dabbleboard (whiteboard app, also launched on HN a yr ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202798) use it in combination with Skype and -sometimes- desktop sharing services. So we decided to build the complete service for online meetings. Unlike WebEx et al which are more useful for 1->many presentations, the focus here is on collaboration within small groups.
This is horrible advice. First, this won't weed out the "clock punchers". It will do is hire the "clock punchers" who punch their clocks 1930 instead of at 1730: the focus here is still on _having an appearance of doing work_, not on doing work.

It will also create a great degree of churn: people will put on a show just to get the job and then leave after a few months. Churn is always incredibly expensive and demoralizing and kills start-ups: to some degree it's not avoidable in a start-up, but this is just asking for it.

So how do you hire hard working and passionate people? It's much simpler: is this something that they do for fun? Do they have side projects or participate in open source projects (which may conflict with the idea of them spending all their time at the office!)? Do they give any indication of a passion for their work (instead of just putting on a show and telling you what they wan to hear?)

Lastly, this is just plain bad advise for employees as well. Like in dating, you don't want to look desperate: especially in a situation where the competition is so high. Talking about long hours and weekends you will put in and how you just want a subsistence salary will show desperation.
That's an important possibility to know about. I assumed that if I was willing to spend enough, that there might be a solution. So it's good to know that that is not necessarily true. Much appreciated.
"90% of the time when you go to the doctor, you just need the sanity check and the antibiotics."

Sure, but what about the remaining 10%? Even "proper" doctors often mess up the diagnosis - would the nurses do so much better?

Actually I wonder about the antibiotics, too. Wouldn't the need for antibiotics already signify a serious condition? I know there is the tendency to just prescribe them for everything (even virus diseases), but maybe that is just bad doctors? I don't think it makes sense to say "we don't need more doctors, because doctors are bad anyway", so I think we would still be stuck with "we need more good doctors".
The author of the initial post did make some technical mistakes. Here's one that jumped out at me -

"What will you do in the event of hash collisions?" the professor asked.

"How do you know there will be any?" I said. "Look, the English language only has a million words. We're hashing a million words into a table that can hold four billion. The load factor on the table is negligible. If we're getting collisions it means we need a better hash algorithm.

This is intuitive but incorrect. The principle is also known as the birthday paradox -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox

If you hash a million words into a 4-billion table, you do expect collisions. You expect to get collisions when you insert on the order of the square root of the size of the table, and the square root of 4 billion is much less than a million.
For what it's worth, I was able to get arc and the HN source up and running in about 20 minutes using instructions I found by googling. I'm not a Lisp hacker, and my only real exposure to anything Lisp was reading The Little Schemer a few years ago...I didn't even do most of the exercises. I was also able to customize it in a few small ways with another hour or so of tinkering (mostly cleaning up style sheets and stripping out inline HTML).

Just saying...I do think Slinkset is probably the right choice for most such concepts.

Or, the reddit source, if you wanted to go big (it's a lot harder to deploy the reddit source, but it's a lot more powerful). It took me about an hour to get it up and running. And customizing it seemed much more intimidating.
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I tried to hack Firefox to make this work correctly, with only limited success. Does anyone have the answer?
Your last three words are the telling point; "at the moment".

The edgewater / kenilworth thing, I'm Australian and thus entirely geographically ignorant about US locations, but thanks for the tip. I still don't believe that the metaphor stands up at all well.

For example, I could write a really simple operating system that consisted of pretty much nothing but a filesystem and a tcp/ip stack, in order to see any of the content on the disk all you need to do is telnet to port 31337 and enter the string "bobsyeruncle^M" and it just streams out the contents of the attached filesystem.

This operating system would be invulnerable to all windows viruses and worms on the net, just like OS X, but to say that it is "more secure than windows" is extremely disingenuous at best. If for some completely bizarre reason it ever became popular, putting that claim to the test would show even Joe Sixpack that it was indeed not at all more secure than windows.

This is the same as the situation with OS X, if it gains majority market share it will have to deal with the same hostile environment windows currently has to deal with in terms of attackers, worms, viruses, exploits, etc. Nobody at the moment is bothering because it is only (8?9?)% and thus they can pretend that OS X is immune to viruses just like I could pretend my theoretical operating system is immune to viruses.

That doesn't make it so.
What exactly is the problem? Some people would have hired the guy in question, others wouldn't have. Why can't they both be right? Tastes are different, and no two companies are the same.
As I hadn't ever really noticed this problem, I decided to see what would happen if I hit the back button in firefox after disabling my wireless adapter. After reading the article, I was quite surprised that it went back to HN perfectly. I also tested it with a longer back/forward history. In one attempt, I was able to back/forward through seven pages(that's all that I had been to in that tab at the time) without having internet access. Is there some subset of web sites for which this wouldn't work properly, as the author seems to be saying? Is the subset of scenarios in which the back button works only a small portion of typical scenarios?
If it's me too what other apps act as a general purpose front-end / aggregator for Mechanical Turk. If it's me too it should be compared in that category, not as an on-line spreadsheet.
By guns, I meant the ultimate protection from possible invaders, thugs, theives, and people who called themsleves the government and the like.

If people are asked to hand over their guns, than it is the same as having no defense. It is the same as giving up liberty. It is the same as letting yourself and everyone else be massacared.(The Nazis will have an extremely difficult time of exterminating the Jews if all Jews are well armed)

Words are not substitue for armed men who cannot easily be coreced into giving up his liberty.

That is why the founding father put in the 2nd Amendment because they forseen the possiblity that the government of this country may become tyrannical. Without arms, there are no way to resist the government when it decided to turn on the population.
So, I know a lot of folks here are Open Source contributors. SourceForge is pretty old-school, but a lot of great projects are hosted there, and those of us that are hosted there probably think it's nice to win awards.

I thought it'd be interesting to see who here is working on projects at SF.net (my current project at SF.net is Webmin).

And to all you github kids: get off my lawn.
This article singles out Safari on the iPhone, saying that it supports "tabs". Ironically, iPhone Safari's "tabs" behave exactly like this broken back button behavior -- I've noticed that often when I switch back to an old tab on my iphone, the page is often refetched (losing my position and any form content) because it was unloaded while I was browsing on another tab.
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Content de voir qu'il y a d'autres québécois qui suivent HN! Même si c'est à partir de la Californie ;)
it would be very odd if he went around saying he's hoping that google and msft will start a bidding war for his company.
Yep. And Apple's doing a lot of advertising for the iPod Touch based on the availability of games - which are all third-party.
They don't have to do much better; they escalate to doctors. Nobody's arguing that NP's should be performing appendectomies.
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A lot of problems are actually really simple if you "just" do caching properly. But, you know what? In general, caching is really hard to do properly. I think the problems with the back button stem from ambiguity in what back actually means. Does it revert a form transaction? Does it restore the cached value of the previous page? Does it go back to the previous URL, updating the content? Since the web uses a stateless protocol, it's unclear to what extent the cache is still valid.

(Also: Does anybody else find articles with large, semi-relevant images between nearly every paragraph to be incredibly irritating?)
It seems slightly different than the orange incident. There, it was a highly visible symbol: either the poster's name was orange, or it was not, and it turned into a status symbol.

A number however is far more opaque, because it masks two different factors: the number of people voting, and the assigned weight of those people. For a given number, it is impossible (or at least difficult) to tell the relative importance of each factor.

Edit: This got me thinking: couldn't 'karma'-based voting help prevent the erosion that affects many other sites? If those dedicated members have high rank, there is a switching cost to joining another site, because they lose that elevated weight. That keeps them "in the game", whereas many other similar sites have lost the original members as average quality declined, which began a feedback loop of poorer quality.

Then, if elevated weight gives those users greater influence, the original character of the site is preserved because (1) the original users don't leave and (2) those users exert great influence on the site.

The only weakness is preventing low quality posters gaining karma weight through the voting of other low quality posters, thereby undermining the quality of high-karma users.
Hehe, true. However you need to take into account sw's career. Its pretty obvious if you look at his record that he is in this for the long term legacy.

Alpha isn't just some web startup looking for an exit. Its the culmination of a life's work in computation, and the offspring of a 20+ year old company.
I guess the author doesn't believe in "so bad it's good".
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I disagree. Their current 'There's an app for that' advertising campaign is clearly targeted at people who would like certain applications on their phone, irrespective of the phone itself. If they see the iPhone can do what they wish, they will be more inclined to purchase one.

I personally know of several people who have recently purchased iPhones and the App store was a major consideration for them.
It's interesting or me to note the changes in rankings that have occurred over the day while this article just remains leaps and bounds above anything else.
Your post advocates a

( ) technical ( ) legislative (X) market-based ( ) vigilante

approach to "fixing" advertising. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't
work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may
have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law
was passed.)

(X) Advertisers will not stand for it
(X) The advertising industry will not go away anytime soon
(X) Unintrusive, legitimate advertising would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(X) It won't reach critical mass
( ) It will make things better for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Google will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from advertisers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Many existing sites cannot afford to lose existing deals
(X) Users won't pay for it
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

Specifically, your plan fails to account for

( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of a centrally controlling authority
( ) People who will ignore it
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of advertising
(X) Huge existing software investment in advertising
(X) All the other sites that will still have advertising
(X) Extreme profitability of regular advertising
(X) Trustworthiness of provider
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of webmasters
(X) Dishonesty on the part of webmasters themselves

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
(X) Paying for stuff sucks
( ) Not paying for stuff sucks
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
(X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with existing business models
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
(X) I don't want a third-party tracking my site visits

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
not as well written as, say, Tracy Kidder's "Mountains Beyond Mountains"...

This is the second time I've seen Kidder's work mentioned here in the last few days [1]. I've read and enjoyed Soul of a New Machine. Would you recommend any of his other books?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601903
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