skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies like Google are not limited by money, they are limited by available people. There are only 1.3 million professional software developers in US. Make it 2 million to account for immigrable developers. Now you want to hire top 1% of the best of the best. How many can you hire? It's not money limitation, it's people limitation.

About MBAs, I don't think changes at Google is because of MBA-invasion. Most of the changes we see today at Google are actually directly influenced by Steve Jobs. When Larry Page became CEO, he requested mentoring meeting with Jobs which he surprisingly granted even though he was very angry about Android. The strongest point Jobs made to Larry was that company should do only 5 things and do it very well (paraphrase). Larry took this to heart and realized Google was extremely fragmented with lots of small undirected efforts going no where. Rest is the history... It's debatable if Google's old model was better than new one. Personally I think the best thing for a company is to keep continuous balance between two extremes. Historically, companies starts believing in one end, drift there and then realize that it's too much then drift towards another end.
To Google's Sergey Brin: Stop aging
Warren Buffet also said:

"I’d be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were always efficient”
> 50 will do better/worse than the MEDIAN of that GROUP OF 100 fund managers, not the market averages.

Oh, the managers will do worse than the market averages, because even if they avoid dumb moves, they will charge you for the privilege of managing your portfolio.

My original remark was meant to measure their performance before fees, as the WSJ Dartboard Contest did it (a contest in which the managers weren't able to keep up with market averages).

EDIT: for a symmetrical distribution, a distribution for which a classic Gaussian curve is appropriate, the median and the mean are the same.
How dare they try make things more convenient for their users at the expense of marketers?!
You are right but that explains why part. I'm not sure how I would do this even if I wanted to.

Config update error sounds like a good explanation but everything (mail, news etc) went down simulatenously and globally. Might be a global load balancer / routing configuration error though.

I'm also curious about the people involved. I mean, when I break something when say a couple hundred of people are online on our website, I panic a little. If I break Google, that'd cause a heart attack.
Slavery is about having zero other options.

So you are saying it is impossible to escape wage slavery.

It is impossible to live in modern society as people expect to without holding a job, but it is not impossible to live without holding a job.
There are managers who excel at investing money and unlocking value. Just because most managers in assets and investment vehicles afforded by those whose worth is not of a sufficient level does not mean they do not exist. People who can, do. They happen to charge 2 and 20 for the privilege of working your money.
Ask HN: I just bought hackableproblems.com – Help me decide what to do with it
A while ago I saw some websites for people to exchange startup ideas... Maybe ideas they didn't want to do, but wanted to see built. This is cool, but startup ideas are the wrong place to start. I want to know about pressing problems that require hacking solutions. Maybe the solution to these problems wouldn't event be startups--they'd just make the world better. Do folks think its a good idea to have a place for discussions of hackable problems. What would you want to see?
> people just think that with an idea and a team then the money will come pouring in.

If anyone thinks this, email me and I'll tell how much it's not the case. It was really hard. We got rejected A LOT. Like most companies. That said (and going back to the point I didn't make very well), every company is different. Don't let one person's experiences box you in.
Wow, from a quick browse, I think the moon crater image from the 1850s is what I find most technically impressive because it intersects telescope optics, negative chemistry, and printing chemistry. A 3683x2920 pixel image can be downloaded. http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=44...
Getting Started with Freelance Web Development
Would anybody be able to link me to some information to help me understand where qemu fits in to, say KVM? I'm very familiar with various VMware technologies and am trying to get a handle on other platforms, like KVM. Since all the tools seem to use libvirt to abstract things, I don't have a clear understanding of where the boundaries of responsibility are.

I can see that the process names that represent my VMs are "qemu", and I use qemu* commands to say, manipulate disks. Maybe it is all qemu, and KVM is the part that makes it accessible to non-privileged users?
This is obviously anecdotal, but hopefully it is an example of how discussion here can have a positive influence: Before I started reading about it on HN, my opinion of the NSA scandal wasn't much more complex than "it's bad". Sure I had some reasons (right to privacy, violation of the constitution, etc), but my thinking was basically "I already knew government is a bunch of dicks, and there was that AT&T thing a while back, so this isn't even anything new, it'll probably just blow over in a couple of days". Obviously, it didn't, and as I kept reading the discussions, I found myself caring about this thing more and more - I never really talked about the news with my friends, but the discussion on HN gave me a reason to; before, if I talked about the news with them, it was a one time thing - none of us read more than the article, so we only had our own insights to discuss. But the discussion on HN gave me (and them) a much broader view. It hadn't even occurred to me that this could be used by terrorists against us - until I read a comment here. As for real action, I have written my congressfolks about this, and I know 2 other people who have done the same because of discussions we had. Again, this is anecdotal, I (and/or my friends) might be a exception, but I hope you can understand that even though HN is obviously not the "public consciousness", discussion here can influence people who would never have otherwise cared.

(Of course if you were just diffusing the "We're such a important and powerful part of the world" type of attitude that seems prevalent on reddit and seems to be implied by pessimizer's comment, go for it)
I don't know, I see this as potentially cool, but really very spammy.

Think about how trivial something like this is to manipulate, and if we're talking about the value of consumer electronics going into the hands of our nations youth; well that doesn't inspire me with confidence. If there's potential to gain, there will be potential for exploitation (see Cory Doctorow's excellent piece 'All Complex Ecosystems have Parasites'[0])

I don't think you can monetize uneducated commentary. This would be a lot more interesting, to me, if the conversations were between experts and the points were upvoted by the community. I see value in moderated debates with scoring provided by the community. I don't see value in anyone spouting their opinion and having upvotes on each side.

It's like reddit but with consumer sentiment at stake.

[0]http://craphound.com/complexecosystems.txt
For some things, a real scientific experiment isn't possible, because there's isn't enough control. Equities is one of those things. For equities, when you see a performance that beats the market averages, it wise to assume it's because of chance, not genius.

Also, there are any number of convincing scams meant to distort one's thinking. My favorite is one I call "Miracle Man", in which a manager mails you six perfectly correct monthly predictions, all in advance of the real market they predict, then asks to take over your portfolio. Hard to believe, but it's a scam, it isn't real:

http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths/index.html#Miracle_Man
Google's downtime caused a 40% drop in global traffic
Lol. I meant guys :) English is not my first languages ( gays/guys, "let's have a beer/bear" etc don't get caught in most spell checkers... ).
I had an idea a few years ago. Instead of getting people to come to a new site, why not harvest all the data on existing enthusiast sites out there? They have alllll the info on what model years are good and which to avoid, etc.
I finally added this sequence as A228162. Here is the draft that waits for review:

https://oeis.org/draft/A228162
I think it's great. Come and ask me about Yandex's cloud platform next week. I'll remember it instantly.

I'm definitely gonna start using project names like "suicide" or "gonorrhoea"
Considering the technology available at the time, the detail is exquisite.

FYI, this is Copernicus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus_(lunar_crater)
Also: http://www.epinions.com.
> No, the whole point of Buddhism is that capitalism teaches people to want more than they need.

Buddhism is much older than capitalism, so I somewhat doubt that.

> Our ancestors in the African Savannah weren't going out of their way to acquire material goods.

They were, once they developed the means to derive use from them (making them goods, rather than valueless objects.)
This is a stretch, but this might amuse you (or anyone looking at this thread): http://www.amazon.com/Six-Books-Euclid-Werner-Oechslin/dp/38... (not an affiliate link) Some more information: http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/classics/all/06724...

Check the sample pages. This is a (very good) reproduction of the original, you can read about the history of it online/in Amazon reviews.
There are plenty of social good forums, would this be unique because the audience is hackers who have the capacity to build solutions? What about having these funnel into hackathons?
Quantify: dimensioned values in JavaScript
Definitely. I don't think we could have done this outside SF. It's a very friendly environment for dev tools/API companies right now.
What are the dimensions? Although this product isn't intended to make a fashion statement, the elderly may still be averse to carrying/wearing around something rather bulky. Especially if they're having trouble admitting to their fragile state.
This is akin to a new hire getting excited about a compensation package of salary + 100,000 shares. 100,000 shares, out of how many outstanding? 1 million shares? 10 billion shares? He raised $1.1M, but at what valuation? After reading the article, I was left wondering if the valuation was low. The team has not proven that they have reached product/market fit or found a scalable marketing channel which makes this a risky bet for investors.
I use vim everyday and I don't find this game easy to play.
Yes, I am exploring adding more functionality to it, and one thing that I'd like myself (and I think, you too), is piano tutoring.

For example, it could play a certain section once, then repeat it, but without sound, while the student plays, and then continue in a loop like that until the student feels comfortable with that particular section.

I'm sure there are many other things that could be done in that realm too, so feel to tweet or email me anything that comes to mind (@notezillaio / notezilla.io@gmail.com)

As for incorporating new pieces, it's definitely technically doable and it seems that that's something people are interested in. There might be certain copyrights issues that have to be ironed out first though... ;)
This comment deserves more votes. Buffett's argument in favour of skill is very persuasive, not to mention genuinely funny. Here's an extract:

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I would like you to imagine a national coin-flipping contest. Let's assume we get 225 million Americans up tomorrow morning and we ask them all to wager a dollar. They go out in the morning at sunrise, and they all call the flip of a coin. If they call correctly, they win a dollar from those who called wrong. Each day the losers drop out, and on the subsequent day the stakes build as all previous winnings are put on the line. After ten flips on ten mornings, there will be approximately 220,000 people in the United States who have correctly called ten flips in a row. They each will have won a little over $1,000.

Now this group will probably start getting a little puffed up about this, human nature being what it is. They may try to be modest, but at cocktail parties they will occasionally admit to attractive members of the opposite sex what their technique is, and what marvelous insights they bring to the field of flipping.

Assuming that the winners are getting the appropriate rewards from the losers, in another ten days we will have 215 people who have successfully called their coin flips 20 times in a row and who, by this exercise, each have turned one dollar into a little over $1 million. $225 million would have been lost, $225 million would have been won.

By then, this group will really lose their heads. They will probably write books on "How I turned a Dollar into a Million in Twenty Days Working Thirty Seconds a Morning." Worse yet, they'll probably start jetting around the country attending seminars on efficient coin-flipping and tackling skeptical professors with, "If it can't be done, why are there 215 of us?"
Yep, but he does not invest on a fund.
I think that due to new focus on google+ the company is now less able to adopt new projects, if the new idea does not originate from project management. With google+ all features have to be integrated, so simply there is also less incentive/room for innovation; things that stand out of the google+ user experience must be cut for the sake of consistency;

This tendency is self enforcing: If there is less opportunity for the side project to make it then developers will be less inclined to follow through with the idea.

So as an outside observer I can identify a cycle: less room for innovation breeds less incentive for an individual to come up with initiative. Management sees that its liberalism is besides the point, so free room for initiative is scrapped.

Maybe google can still keep on to a culture of innovation in areas of infrastructure and research, but in a wider sense google+ probably did them in.

Maybe that is the right thing to do: they have enough money to buy any start-up if it looks promising. I don't know which one is more cost effective: exploring ideas in-house or buying out start-ups; however if Google looks like any other ordinary shop then it will be less able to attract top talent. I would guess that the free food is not the winning perk that attracts developers.
Everyone thought it was $150M but it turned out to be $280M. Not that that makes much of a difference for Microsoft.

The agreement has been public since 2009.

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/NovvMS-104-8.pdf

> Microsoft also debated the exact language the message should contain. In the end, senior vice president Brad Silverberg said in a 1992 email that the message needed to steer users away from DR-DOS. "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS," Silverberg wrote.
Source code can't infringe US patents because source code isn't a machine or a process or a composition of matter.

A machine running a Linux kernel can be plausibly accused of infringing thousands of active US patents even without FAT support. There is no version of Linux that does or could ever pass a patent clearance review in the USA.

The distinguishing character of the VFAT patents is that Microsoft threatens to sue people over them. I don't know of any cases they've won so far and no patent is actually infringed until a jury says so.
NASA’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL)
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Ubuntu's stated focus from the outset is making an enduser distro. Their success in mindshare made them popular in the server arena, but there are little things here and there where it falls behind. Making a server not based on an LTS version is one early trap to fall into (all debian versions are effectively LTS), but more importantly, debian is not fond of retrograde breakages. Ubuntu is much more of a moving target than debian - when you want to find out how to do something, it often changes between releases (one mildly common desktop task (which I can't recall at the moment :/ ) had five different ways to do it over the past five releases...). There's more unique stuff in ubuntu - like upstart, a core feature which no-one else uses - and that reduces your troubleshooting info pool. Ubuntu also has lots of automagic-helpery stuff, which is good for an end-user distro, but gets in the way a little on a server. One example is the 'did you mean?' thing when you make a shell typo. That consumes time and is pointless on a server.

I'm not particularly familiar with CentOS. I've been an apt user since rediscovering linux, and every time I venture onto an rpm-based system, yum just spews hard-to-read crap at me. It feels like rearranging deck chairs, so I head back to what I know.
Would there be a useful reason to actually do this (run Docker in Docker), or is it more just a novelty?
You know this video is linked like 4 sentences into the article, right?
"Intentional nuclear war based on false indications" would be more accurate than "Accidental nuclear war".

For that incident, at least.
I recently saw sideprojectors.com listed here and thought it that maybe something similar for the posting and discussion of code itself (git repos, random files, etc) related to problem and abandoned projects might be good.

Also, given the number of complaints about StackOverflow's moderation policies, I think there's definitely room for a forum where people can discuss the kinds of things that get squashed there.
> There are managers who excel at investing money and unlocking value.

From a scientific standpoint, that is false. You need to realize that it's not possible to show (prove, demonstrate) that such stories arise from anything but chance. A certain number of people are going to do very well because of chance, and some of those people are going to try to pose as experts.

But don't take my word for it -- instead, think. If there really was a surefire way to beat market averages, it wouldn't remain a secret for long, then everyone would practice it, then that "system" would become the norm -- the market average performance.

And if there really was a way to beat the market averages, if it was possible to make a huge sum of money systematically without risk or uncertainty, using a scheme other than chance, businesspeople (who are not fools) would refuse to raise capital using equities.

If you think hard enough, you will realize why there cannot be a deterministic, legal system to beat the market. There's always insider trading, but that's illegal for a reason.

> Just because most managers in assets and investment vehicles afforded by those whose worth is not of a sufficient level does not mean they do not exist.

They do not exist. I just proved it. If you didn't understand the above proof, read it again.
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From the gmail bulk senders guidelines, "We also recommend publishing an SPF record and signing with DKIM. We do not authenticate DKIM using less than a 1024-bit key. By authenticating, inline images you send will be shown automatically. Recipients will not need to click the "Display images below" link."

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?topic=12838

ok, so no opt-in... =)
Disruption: Silicon Valley's Worst Buzzword
Which proves my point exactly.
Yea no problem! The product itself looks awesome btw.
they're not going to make people face with sober senses their real conditions of life, and their relations with others in society.

I do love me some Marx on a Friday afternoon!
I believe you're thinking of the term 'microcomputer', which describes a computer the size of what we would now call a PC and is no longer in common use.

I was unable to find the word 'microsystem' in any dictionary; if it was in common use as recently as 30 years ago, it seems unlikely that I would not be able to find any trace of it today. Therefore, I reiterate my assertion that 'microsystem' is a silly word that the people at Sun made up for their company name, until proven otherwise :)

Wikipedia does have an entry for 'microsystem'[1], but it says the term is not generally used in the United States and does not seem to have anything to do with what we're talking about (much more recent category of technology than existed at the time that Sun was founded).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsystem
I can't discuss the terms obviously. All I can say is that we felt they were very fair.
I didn't pay my loans, the army did, after I returned from Afghanistan.
A Visual History of Internet Explorer
What Ashton Kutcher's portrayal of Steve Jobs says about startup culture
I didn't think everyone would agree with you on that.
Hello! By "suspicious" I didn't mean to imply bad intent, just my doubts that you could offer a fair (i.e. competitive) salary (any benefits, or is it BYOHealthInsurance?), and also that you were sufficiently well-capitalized to fund the business. Underestimating the necessary capital is one of the leading causes of startup failure. So if I were approached with an offer like this one, I would not be getting my hopes up until I heard some numbers, and I would be skeptical unless I saw a pretty thorough plan with budget and expected revenue. But that's just me: I am fairly risk-averse.

Re "final say": Ultimately if you're business partners with someone you both need to be happy. And you both have an incentive to balance polish with shipping. Still, if you were a client and not a business partner, and you were paying me on a fixed bid, I'd want a spec up front, not at the end. (If you were paying me hourly you can have all the revisions you want.) If we were potential partners, I'd be asking myself what the risks are if you prove difficult to work with--for instance, what am I giving up to join the venture? And do you have a history of managing software projects that would reassure me you're capable and reasonable? (Any recommendations from developers you've worked with?)

In any case, I wish you good fortune on your venture!
Not at all. I'm referring to many people in the First World.

There's also the structural issue: not everyone can be an entrepreneur, because companies need worker bees to run. You can't run such a strongly hierarchical system as capitalism without some level of social-democratic concessions to enforce that, outside the workplace, my boss and I really are equal human beings.
I didn't expect you to discuss the terms, but the amount raised doesn't really mean anything given there's no context.
Antimatter experiment seeks help from the crowd
Brazil is pretty huge in Gall-Peters too.
Maybe some kind of globe like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah_gXnjjdk4
or
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/globe-search/
is best?
Otherwise just buying a standard globe will do just fine.
Peter's is hardly better. It still destroys the appearance of the earth quite badly.

Personally I really like this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
It's basically a net that you can print of and fold together.
Whereas, that was long and detailed, I am still not entirely sure what security and stability risks it is supposed to address.
I've always preferred using a globe to get a perspective on the Earth and the various positions of continents and nations.
Google Maps itself is mercator when fully zoomed out.
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Actually, now that I think about it, it might be better to support MusicXML, which is more machine-readable (you just need an XML parser). Lilypond and many other music notation systems like Sibelius and Finale can export to it.
I think so too :) Thanks for the subscription and the nice words! I definitely want to hear your ideas, so please feel free to get in touch (contact information listed under http://notezilla.io/library)