skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that is a problem with transfers over SSH. The compression wouldn't cause it to slow down speeds by a factor of 10 so there must be something else that is cutting down the speed.

I regularly (and only) transfer files over ssh/sftp and can manage to sature my 20mbit cable connection.
I look at this statement as the moment when Steve Jobs brought Bill Gates on screen and announced that Microsoft was not the enemy anymore. It freed the company from the market share game where they were perpetually losers and allowed them to just create great products for their users.

Changing the story changed their destiny.

I knew of a profitable print publication that had a readership of about 90,000 people in the 1980's. But management saw other publications in similarly sized niches that had 100,000. They fought tooth and nail to get those extra 10,000 readers and spent incredible amounts of money to get them. But it actually pushed them into the red.

There's something very powerful about focusing on your real market and doing what you're good at.

Yahoo now has a clear goal of becoming and acting like the number 1 content company on the web. I think this clarity will bring positive results.
The iPhone is the New Cigarette
No, incorrect. There is weak correlation between posting an article and personally agreeing with its title, because many times titles are simply re-used, for expediency and accuracy.

Also, I personally did not confuse correlation with causation, see my earlier comment. Sufficient correlation suggests further possibilities and questions of causation. The researchers' quotations strongly suggests they too did not confuse correlation with causation.
You will find that on-site needs of most of your clients is actually not that high, and most issues can be resolved remotely. Hardware is more reliable than it used to be, and business are increasingly buying hardware with replacement warranties or leasing.

So I would recommend installing a free program like logmein.com on all client PCs you will be servicing on an ongoing basis. This way you can provide quick response time, even when you are unable to be physically at a client's site.

Hope this helps.
Assuming that this study is well run and this popular article isn't oversimplifying... which are very big ifs... some other ideas:

- Companies in trouble might turn to women as board members. Women executives are still mostly outsiders. They might be more likely to join (or be solicited to join) the board of a company doing poorly.

- It's pretty well established that men are more comfortable with high risk -- sometimes to their detriment. Perhaps those companies with more female board members are less profitable but they go bankrupt less often.

- It might be that companies start thinking about board diversity once they've plateaued.
For my "thesis" like paper I had to write for university to finish my degree I learned LaTeX just to be able to keep my document under version control.

I didn't actually use very much of the vcs, but the added security gave me enough peace of mind to just not worry about everything.

Plus, not having to hit apple+s and upload/mail/transfer it manually to another computer everytime, to "backup", saves a lot of time as well.
Daimler's stake would not affect sales numbers.

Deposit money itself would not significantly affect sales numbers either (it might a little depending on recognition policy). The sales may be booked as a function of the rate of completion of vehicles, which if they have already been ordered could be construed as revenue by GAAP standards. That's probably what's happening. Which would seem to indicate some significant outstanding demand for the vehicles.
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random growth vs directed growth, visions vs accidents. great insight for any startup that's shooting for the stars.
I got asked to write a fibonacci function in an interview once, but they were kind enough to say "go sit at your text editor and write it and then read it to us". I was still flustered a little (since I wasn't sure whether to just talk through it or actually say "int fibs open-parent int n close-paren open-brace...") but apparently I passed the phone screen. I did remark that the naive recursive approach was a terrible algorithm, which may have helped.

Of course, I failed their day-long battery of on-site interviews later. But I did get interviewed by the entire development team, plus the CEO. That was kind of fun.
Am I missing something? Sure there's more data, but the 3D tech looks exactly the same as Google Earth. Just export the data as .lkml, import into Earth and you've got it on your desktop.
They were planning on licensing their battery technology as well.
Sry downvoted by mistake, on iPhone...
Your argument requires a preference among successful companies for male directors, which is essentially the same as the "old boy's network" theory.

It may be that the preference is rational, but this study provides no evidence to prove that assertion.
For anyone who doesn't want to watch the slideshow presentation just to see what they are:

Canton Ohio, Youngstown Ohio, Flint Mich, Scranton Pa, Dayton Ohio, Cleveland Ohio, Springfield Mass, Buffalo N.Y., Detroit Mich, Charleston W.Va.

(I didn't put returns to save space)
Flyers printing
Really? You never get together in a room with other devs to talk through & pseudocode a solution to a tough problem?
In reference to the post I made directly above yours, a classmate of mine got an interview with my employer about 3 months after I started. The HR guy approached me after his interview, and told me he left the entire linked list question blank.. no pseudo code.. nothing. I was embarrassed.
I'm not a GAAP Accounting whiz, but you need to book labor related expenses on the months they occur which much be a large portion of Tesla's expenses. You then can reach profitability by recognizing all sales in one month whereas if you spread out your sales over a few months you would not have. This kind of cookie jarring is borderline illegal but I suspect happens all the time in corporations because it is brilliant press and satisfies your investors.

Also, I'd hope that most of their revenue is directly attributable to selling cars. What they might have is an amount of each sale hitting deferred revenue and recognize it over the length of the warranty (similar to iPod).

Edit: Apologies for finance nerd rage, I'd love for someone to clarify what can and can't be done under GAAP though.
Companies could always do the interview on a tool such as etherpad.com so they could watch the interviewee write.
Exploiting common crypto flaws (Google Tech Talk)
Why implementing your own crypto isn't such a good idea. How saving 10 bytes cost the IETF 28 bytes more and compromised the XMLDsig security.
ahh, the sixtyone is great. stellar way to find new music.

also, they make it super easy to buy music that you like. i just wish more artists on the site had stuff for sale!
irony

Edit: That's a little mean. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
I bet a large proportion of purchasers buy the Roadster Sport model which costs an extra $19,500 which would be worth up to an extra $2m in revenue.

I agree that they're probably counting deposits to some degree - they have a 500+ strong waiting list each paying a $9,900 deposit for the Roadster, afterall.
The title of the article clearly and unequivocally states causation---it says quite plainly that women directors are the cause of the lower profits, when in fact the exact opposite may be true. I don't doubt that the researchers are more responsible than those deliberately distorting their findings in order to draw an audience.

Regardless of who is responsible, the title remains factually, objectively incorrect.
grooveshark, still wonky interface but its as close to spotify I can find on our shores.

..of course I still use dropbox .. who doesn't? I stopped using evernote as I got tired of having to use Wine to run it..
I don't think it is only about pressure. I can think up a solution to a problem in my head, but to really work it out I have to be behind my computer and start typing. I almost never get something right in 1 try.

I think my style is more trial and error, I make something and see if it works, if not I continue. So of course, a lot of great programmers actually are able to do that, but I think there are also a lot of people who work like I do.
Definitely! I'd love to see a big Tesla plant driving down 101.

It does worry me that if he builds a large portion in house, does it then scale as well as say a Toyota? Is supply chain management somewhere in his background?
They probably act more ethically and as a result sacrifice some opportunities for increased profit.
And many people who have physical dollars also have credit card debt. Should we force dollars to follow the same rules?

Your comparison is absurd. You're making the case for regulating the same amount of leverage twice -- once when it's borrowed, and once when it's invested. That doesn't do anything but make life inconvenient for the folks who don't lever up.
Flemlord, a lot of responses seem based on hypotheses about what a good answer would have been. Could you follow up and give examples of what you'd have considered correct?

My hobby-programming experience suggests...

simple - int add(int a, int b){int result; result = a + b; return result}

recursive - um, I like fibonacci sequences: void fib(int term){if term = 1 return 0; if term = 2 return 1, else return fib(term - 1) + fib (term - 2)}

SQL join: no idea, I haven't used SQL for years. I assume you mean something like for(i = 0; i < table1.length; i++) do {newTable.fullname[i] = oldtable.firstname[i] + anothertable.lastname[i]}

Car as an object: well I guess I'd have a struct with variables for size, weight, power, turning circle and so on, and methods for accelerating, setting direction [steering heading, speed (forward and reverse, or multipliers for forward gearing)] and braking...then I'd have create multiple instances of that object using a table of values...do you make racing games?

I'm not looking for a job, but I'm interested in knowing what sort of answers you were after. The above seems super-simplistic to me, I'd feel nervous they were trick questions of some sort and the obvious answers are actually the failing ones.
Does anyone know if Colin has anyone working with him on Tarsnap yet? Or is he still the only person working on it?
Yes you're right, it's probably the revenue from future sales that have given them the boost.
I agree.

I think mostly people on HN are interested in making apps that provide real value to users and business for the long term.

Some people just want to get 2 months pay for 1 month's work and make they an iFart app or whatever to achieve that. It's not a long term bet but it makes more than being employed - for some people that is all the care about.

Also, the OP talks about companies being founded but I would guess in most cases Facebook and iPhone apps are people side projects made in their bedrooms or instead of doing consulting work. Those people are realistic and don't expect it to last, it's just a way to make money in the short term, they'd leave if there was more money to be made elsewhere and will probably leave anyway as the race to the bottom plays out.
Under US law (in most states), the company is free to let someone go at any time barring a specific contract to the contrary. I guess if you tell someone the first n months are a probationary period, they'll have their feelings less hurt if they're fired during that period.
Amazing how they continue to crank out feature after feature. They are wicked fast..
Snapily offers customized notebooks with LASER COVERS
It's all a conspiracy.

Or, they also sell powertrains and batteries.
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A good link about study design, worth applying to almost any news story about a supposedly scientific study.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Most "studies" don't even have an experimental design, so they need work right from the beginning.
I got a hold of the paper itself, Women in the boardroom and their impact on governance and performance by Adams and Ferreira, Journal of Financial Economics (currently an accepted manuscript, not yet published). It's long, at 46 pages including data tables. Here's the abstract:

"We show that female directors have a significant impact on board inputs and firm outcomes. In a sample of US firms, we find that female directors have better attendance records than male directors, male directors have fewer attendance problems the more gender-diverse the board is, and women are more likely to join monitoring committees. These results suggest that gender-diverse boards allocate more effort to monitoring. Accordingly, we find that chief executive officer turnover is more sensitive to stock performance and directors receive more equity-based compensation in firms with more gender-diverse boards. However, the average effect of gender diversity on firm performance is negative. This negative effect is driven by companies with fewer takeover defenses. Our results suggest that mandating gender quotas for directors can reduce firm value for well-governed firms."

The pre-print PDF seems to have encryption/defense against copy/paste, so I can't post further extracts here.
Except you can pick and choose. If all you want is the dom-util-event stuff, it's 36KB unminified. That's the core, and it gets you more features and a more sane API than the 32KB unminified prototype.js.

Of course, adding animation on adds weight in both libraries. Tacking on scriptaculous core + effects tacks on an additional 44kb. Tacking on YUI's animation and effects package tacks on 48KB of more featureful and sane API. If you want the entire (slow, buggy, and not very cross-platform) scriptaculous library loaded, prepare to load up 156KB.

tl;dr: unminified, YUI-dom-event + animation is 84KB unminified. Prototype + Scriptaculous is 76KB unminified. YUI is faster, has a more sane API, more features, doesn't pollute the global namespace, and doesn't insanely swallow and mute errors.

Oh, yeah, and it has better API documentation....

(sidenote: YUI framework is 10mb without docs, but that includes: minified, unminified, unit tests, and a metric shit-ton [technical term] of plugins. Of course, if you're going with prototype or jQuery, you've got to scour the 'net looking for plugins that do the same thing. They come packaged with YUI.)
While I agree, keep in mind however that buying a new car every 18 months isn't something that most consumers are yet used to. That is the end result of the quick turnover that defines the tech industry.

It's also extremely wasteful.
Another possibility: companies with more women on the board manage their risk more effectively, sacrificing some short-term profit for long-term stability.

Really, I couldn't decide from the article, but we've seen q good number of big companies recently that looked quite profitable until they went spectacularly bust.
70% sadly sounds about right. end depression by making the screening process as quick as possible.
I've gone into a company with software systems that were a complete rat's nest, learned the enviroment, accessed files and utilities needed to make changes, and implemented a significant change in 2 days. A lasting and flexible change that will enable the company to operate more cheaply and be more agile in the future.

Many information systems can be implemented in a week. You could set up email, an e-commerce site, a CRM, SCM, or even substantial portions, if not an entire ERP system depending on the size of the company.

A week is a long time if you know what you are doing.
Not if you're the executive in question. Shareholders might feel differently about this :)
That's some big speculation about AIG, and on the part of having women on a board. What makes you think the board didn't know what was going on? They put, and kept in, the CEO, one of the biggest reasons for AIG's collapse. And besides, it wasn't just their over exposure to mortgage backed securities. It was endemic of the entire company.

Here is a great piece on AIG's collapse, it was previously on HN, and is the best article about it I've read yet:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/aig20090...
Musk briefly explains how they will reach profitability here:

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/

Obviously we don't have the whole picture for the numbers. However, he does state material cost of the car was 140k and as of a month or two ago is 80k. They also raised the price of their vehicle to 109 from 92. Lastly , he mentions good sales of their more expensive Tesla sport which is 128k.
Perhaps going this route might be more fun: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Main_Page
Akamai's services are almost too tightly integrate-able with sharepoint. Not only that I wouldn't call the support premier ;-)
Great points, though the iPhone doesn't kill people like second hand smoke does.
Github takes the cake for me. It makes reading and finding code a breeze, and for the relatively unexperienced (like me), it has dramatically lowered the barrier to entry for OSS.

A Facebook for hackers, I love it.
If this cure works out, what impact would it have on belief in evolution?
They can't recognize that until it's shipped.

They might have had deferred revenue in terms of warranty. They probably have to allocate a portion of each sale as warranty and recognize that revenue over the length of the warranty (similar to iPod). Problem with that is it means they would have had defer a portion of revenue this months sales as well... so this theory only holds true if they had sold a large number before this month.

Maybe OEM accessories and upgrades (like the Sport Package). Also they might sell a license to an after market shop so they can say they are the official Tesla parts brands.
True, they sell batteries to Daimler.
54%? I don't know anyone here who owns a car!

It is damn expensive to rent, but once you subtract out car payments, car insurance, car maintenance, and gas you can save $1000 a month easily that goes towards rent.

Getting around NYC costs $89 a month.
I have both an AppleTV and a Roku. These days my wife and I find ourselves spending a lot more time watching stuff on Roku than AppleTV. It's such a great, dead simple, little box.
Yeah. 900,000 developers isn't even remotely credible.
No, they wanted a working function. I used Python :-(
Man so many to choose from: mongodb, riak, and hbase. Anyone know of comparisons?
We already have kitchen devices that do one thing well: dishwasher, mixer, breadmaker, toaster, cuisinart, etc. At some point it will become cheaper to make one robot that can do it all.
SexyLightBox - sexier and more lightweight than the classic LightBox
That's because XML does not guarantee order of elements.
Don't forget that includes queens, staten island, etc, where people actually have a car or two.

$1000/month in car payments = $2000/month in pretax salary. That means a $60,000 salary in NY goes as far as an $84,000 salary - car costs.
Yeah, I guess it's different with people I know. And to already be familiar with the problem helps too.

But to solve something say from project Euler on a whiteboard in front of three strangers and talk about my thought process at the same time, that's hard.
Another problem is that the majority of policy makers don't have a business background (most are analysts, lawyers or career politicians), and thus don't have that unique entrepreneurial experience required to fully grasp the impact of their policies on new high-growth businesses.

I would bet that many politicians in Congress or the Treasury couldn't tell you how a VC firm operates, let alone how their actions would affect future new-technology incubation and growth. If this wasn't the case, SOX would never have passed in its current form.

In short, we have too many "Nancy Pelosis" and "Timothy Geitners" with not enough "Jared Polises" in Congress today.
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Any manipulation with have this effect. If the government said, "You must hire people who prefer strawberry ice cream over chocolate ice cream", even though there is likely near-absolute equality between those two groups, companies will still be damaged by a reduction in their ability to hire freely.
I agree. Perhaps the OP should go in for a word processor rather than a text editor???
There are still a few differences. Countries are bounded by geography, but corporations can be in multiple countries. Also, people are born citizens of a country, but they aren't born customers or employees of a corporation. Countries, for its citizens, are monopolies in the governmental services they provide. It's hard to avoid paying taxes, but easy to avoid being a customer.

But I see your point.
Ask HN Poll: Developers, how many of you work in a one-developer shop?
I have yet to work in a more-than-one-developer shop. I'm curious, of the web (front- and back-end) developers out there, who works in what sized shop.

Also, if you have any tips or perspective on thriving / surviving in a one-developer shop, I'm all ears.
I work in a one-developer shop
2-developer shop
3-5 developer shop
6-10 developer shop
11-25 developer shop
26+ developer shop
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No harm done. I get the point.
I'd like some as well, add Project Voldemort in that list as well (used and developed by LinkedIn)
And it will be even worse if there isn't any near-absolute equality between two distinct groups, which tends to be the case in most real-world government preference scenarios.
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It's a little to dense to be super readable, but I do enjoy the way it looks like some bizarre ciliated life-form, crawling on whip-like appendages through ancient protoplasm.

Except the protoplasm is the space of possible thoughts. And the animal is the thoughts we've already thunk.
There is reason to believe these cars can be sold in the lucrative metal export market, so it's not a total waste. Perhaps our old cars will help build the new chinese infrastructure.

I agree, it seems quite wasteful, but how wasteful remains to be seen.
Agreed, I like the idea and it's something I might use but the sample resume for Obama...it could definitely use some polish. Maybe you could work with a graphic designer on this?

As for the front page, the layout is kind of odd. Having the forms flush-left is a little odd, can you perhaps try putting the explanatory text to the left and the forms to the right?

Also please conisder re-visiting your login forms, as the text is not wrapping correctly in Firefox 3.5 on Mac...perhaps put it in the upper-right hand corner.
Join question:

select * from books join authors on books.author_id=authors.id

Now you get the fields from each table in your result matched up correctly.
I suppose you could make an argument about iPhoning while driving...

But time is still turning. It could be that multi-touch screens cause deadly "finger cancer".
The problem is that the same healthcare service costs a lot more in America than it does anywhere else in the world. It's understandable if the surgery that only 4 surgeons in the world can do costs a lot, but relatively routine/commoditized stuff shouldn't cost more than in other developed countries.
Would have been more excited it they had offered a hosted CI service, still looks cool tho.
"Startups that lean too much on credit cards are more likely to fail" is the very first line of the article. It seems like they're speaking specifically about startups.