skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument that it's an "app" its like saying a company that has a "website", or a company that uses the "telephone" can't share the same name. The app, like the website or telephone is the medium to the service/product.
The size is basically the same everywhere because there's limited difference in the planes. EG American Airlines which I just flew has the limit of 56 x 36 x 23 cm. Big enough for a one week duffel easily.
Haha good point

I used Altavista to the last to be honest. I used to have an email account with Altavista, then had to go to Hotmail after they closed, then GMail when it was brand new (fortunate enough to have an invitation from someone). I only used Lycos for their FTP search.
We evaluated Autonomy vs Google Search Appliance at an ex-employer. The GSA worked out of the box, the Autonomy Search needed a consultant in every week to try and tune it as the results were crap.
Because it may be difficult for those hardware firms to agree on using the very same chip, if they have different needs/markets/consumers/pricing and so on.
Firespotting
I see what you're getting at, but I disagree; you can't really chose your parents can you. So from your point of view, however you end up when you're born, is actually completely random and out of your control.
More to the point, why would a profitable company who wants to stay small take VC money?
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So the Funding is unlikely to relocate.

I agree.

ultimately a lot of founders will take <$30k salary when starting a company and accept any hardship in order to succeed. So suggesting that corporate finances at startups are suffering because of high rent is also a shaky premise.

Most of those people have no other options. You don't want to fund people (in general; obviously there are outliers with 150+ IQs and fucked-up careers, I was one and, who knows, may be one in the future) who don't have other options. You want to fund people who could actually get the $250k hedge fund quant jobs. They'll come down to a savings-neutral (with no children) $125k, but not $30k. Not in the Valley.

The people who'll take $30k in the Valley are (a) rich kids with parental sources, and (b) the truly desperate. Founders are not an exception.

If anything, investors probably like high rents because it forces higher burn rates and hence encourages startups to generate revenue or flip quickly.

True, but the real reason VCs want to stay in one area (and keep their companies there) is that the collusion among VCs would be dangerous and possibly legally hazardous if it happened on paper instead of through a mouth-to-mouth social network.

I can't see there ever being a lack of demand for what SV produces. Businesses.

The whole country produces businesses: restaurants, cleaning companies, indie bookstores. Most HNers find those lines of work uninspiring-- and starting one of those is way riskier to one's tech career than working at Google. Oh, and those businesses tend to get crushed by big corporations (see: WalMart) and landlords and changing trends.

So, there's no lack of businesses being generated in the US. What there is a lack of is inspiring and truly innovative businesses, but SV is no longer producing inspiring companies, so what use is it?
It must have gotten worse since I left the US. Even from Journal Square it never took me more than 20 minutes to WTC, though train frequency did slow down late at night.
Like the article. It reminds me the book from Saramago that inspired the movie: Blindness (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/). But it's important to note that it's completely different the case where a born blind person and a person that becomes blind. So it might be useful to speak with a born blind person and how they manage these web browsing tasks.
The biggest mistake here is assuming these people wouldn't succeed in India or anywhere else. The IIT & IIM people move here to the US because they are an approximation of "the best" in India. Others come as well, the best doctors have nothing to do with IIT and IIM obviously.

The best people are going to succeed nearly anywhere. Obviously Nazi Germany is an exception w/regards to the Jews & others they targeted. But, in my opinion, this actually strengthens the argument .. you literally have to kill the best people if you want them to fail.

Of course, the best people also realize they are likely to succeed more in the best places. The USA has been the prime beneficiary throughout history ..
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That's the point though. It's largely down to luck.

It's not about some cutesy generalizations you distil into a formula for success and release as a book.

It's certainly not about what language/framework you decide to use.
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Newark is fine if you live in Ironbound. I lived there in Newark for 6 months and it was the best 6 months I had in 26 years living in/around New York City.

Would live there again in a heartbeat.

Artists have moved to Newark. All of those old warehouses were converted to lofts and sold in < 2 years.
This is expected. There is a whole class of people who are working just for insurance because it was prohibitively expensive on the open market for individuals. If you make it affordable for them to purchase healthcare as individuals they'll retire.

Hopefully it means that people who want to work will be able to back fill those jobs.

I think it's a good thing for the economy. It can't be a good thing to force individuals to work when they'd have the means to retire if they were able to purchase healthcare at the same rates as large companies.
There's an Android app that is announcing Chromecast support soon.
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Causality doesn't imply you have no control at all in your life.
All the more amazing since accessibility is supposedly one of the things that Amazon does well: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12ld3fwhlnexv5b004...
Oh, the humanity! The nerds and their hoarded pseudo-currencies trying to fleece their IT-ignorant neighbors as payback for having to always fix their PC! If the nerds can't find a Greater Fool to dump their pumps, what next?
If I had one idea with 15m businesses signing up, 7000 every week, like Basecamp has, every 10 years, I'd be happy.

Commas are useful...
Given how many Olympians abandon the country they represent to train, it is somewhat meaningless.

Seriously, if there's one thing I've learned from watching the Olympics, it's that many of the successful ones are enabled by their ability to move away from their place of birth, well, that and good genetics.
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Culture is the largest difference between people. We are the animal that can (re)program itself. Nationality correlates to culture greatly.

So there is still plenty of difference between peoples of the world. Its silly to ignore this.
In my top-level comment, I wasn't disagreeing with anything you've said but was bemoaning the use of the words "computing power" since those ASICs are doing computations as well.
I found it interesting that the article called a position like that "downright rude".
What one product being innovative has to do with it providing incentive for others to enter that specific market? Either IE provided innovative features at that time, or it didn't.
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I've been looking for a book or other source that makes a case for this worldview in a straightforward, logical way that is as simple as possible (but no simpler).

Can you recommend one?
"If Satya Nadella had remained in India,he would probably be working as a coder in Infosys or TCS. Earning a high salary no doubt, but an unlikely candidate for CEO"

TCS(Tata Consultancy Services) CEOs, current or past, were not from IITs.
Sounds bleak
Good to know. If I return to the US I'll take a look.
If it's true it isn't that bad (yet). 30mn W is like what, 150'000 TVs? 400 cars? A few buildings worth of AC/heating?

I don't think we'll get to a point where BTC has a significant footprint anytime soon.
> The short point: our system is designed to keep people out, not get them in. The true value of an IIT or IIM is not the intellectual capital they produce, but their filtering expertise

>

This is almost holistically true in case of those institutes mentioned or the elk. Even their testing methods lack any kind of innovative or creative examination. It's based purely on rote.
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That's a lot like saying, you could be born to any mother. It is simply an accident of birth, who is your mother. Does it mean you shouldn't love your mother, your family, and you don't owe your family for their love and bringing you up?
Another exception to this is Shantanu Narayen (Adobe CEO) who is not from IIT/IIM.
To be fair, they do pay their tax in Ireland. It just seems that there isn't a whole lot of profit earned due to 'admin-charges'

http://www.theguardian.com/business/ireland-business-blog-wi...

Disclaimer: I am Irish
IE stagnated for a long time before firefox arrived to compete. I imagine that could have played out with Windows too, were it not for the success of Apple.
Somehow I don't think luck is the major factor in determining the success of a SaaS business.
>because it detects only contraband.

Well, that's what SCOTUS seems to believe. It is readily apparent though that dogs also detect handler cues, and may well also just alert erroneously, or detect such trace amounts that could be imparted to a car by incidental contact.
Imagine their despair as the temperature dropped (how quickly?) on their planet far, far from any star. They must have thought the universe is cruel, and God is a jerk.
Well Time Dilation only matters in fights with hundreds or thousands of people which would have otherwise been so laggy that skill was irrelevant anyhow.

The "in-the-moment" skill that matters in EVE isn't accuracy (FPSes) or mashing the correct 6-step ability rotation every 9 seconds (WoW), but rather tactical skill like teamwork/coordination or laying clever traps or straight up situational awareness. There's also knowing your opponent's build and responding accordingly - you want to try to out-range some shorter-range weapons and you want to try close-range fast orbits against others.
Seems like a rather glaring error to make. It's a huge difference between retirees and the unemployed.
I like the idea of seeing life as deterministic or not. It's definitely a matter of "belief" when you put it that way. Although my scientific mind tells me nothing would exist if true random didn't exist. Thus the universe is not deterministic. But that's a question we'll never be able to answer anyway.

This is why I downvoted the parents by the way. I feel like there is no safe discussion when it starts with strong opinions ("which is completely untrue"). There is no right or wrong here so better be open minded.
"99 percent of Indian aspirants to get admissions even to an IIT or IIM, but it is far simpler to get into an Ivy League institution. If you don’t get into an IIM, you try Harvard."

It is not all that hard to get into an IIM these days actually. IIT is definitely hard at the Undergraduate level (and harder than any US institution) primarily due to the sheer number of students trying to get in. The coursework is also pretty tough. Vinod Khosla( a co-founder of Sun Microsystems) said that after doing his undergrad in IIT Delhi, higher studies in Carnegie Mellon and Stanford were just a cakewalk.
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>This is my position on the Olympics and basically all national pride.

I don't disagree but I think pageantry and even national or ethnic pride have a place. I like St. Paddy's day, Robbie Burns parties, cheering for my local sports teams, putting up douchey flags on my car when my team wins a game at the World Cup, etc.

At the end of the day, nothing really matters anyway.
I seem to recall that the Culture does regard planets as being rather wasteful of mass - much more efficient to build an O.

NB I'm sure some Culture ships have probably built planets in idle moments - just for the hell of it.
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Have just moved to Trello from Basecamp also.

As a single-person team, the free offering from Trello easily Basecamp's.

Much more fluidity and flexibility in how things are organised.

What is Trello like to use with a large team?
Don't Anonymous want to be treated as an existential threat? The whole "we are legion" rhetoric leaves little doubt on that.
The Undead Laptop.
I'm nearly 2 years /played on my main alone. I've been a hardcore raider since vanilla, though.
I just fixed that by setting:

security.tls.version.max = 3
security.tls.version.min = 1
security.ssl3.rsa_fips_des_ede3_sha = false

in about:config, after which it also said "Probably good" for FF26.
This title will be read by people and a lot will interpret it as 'less jobs'. But the exact opposite will happen: Some people will work less, so more people will need to be hired. Plus wages will have to go up to account for the shortage.

In a way, the ACA is creating jobs. Or at the very least, it'll increase wages. That's a selling point.

EDIT: I thought I wrote the "increasing jobs" in a "wouldn't it be funny if this were true" sort of sense, guess I didn't.

As for the wage increase, Business insider seems to think so at least (http://www.businessinsider.com/the-buried-lede-in-the-cbo-re...).
Well there you go then: the place where they were born determines their drive or ability to move away from their place of birth. It's not random.
Yes it does, it means every "frame" (yay video games terms) of your life, including the complete state of your mind, is a cause of the previous "frame".

Every decision is a product of your experience and state of mind, that are the product of you previous decisions, that are the product of your previous experience.. something, something!
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Should be a sticky.
Everybody else was adding a free browser to their OS and it was obviously going to become a requirement, as it is today with smartphones. It would have been foolish for Microsoft not to do it, and it was foolish of the US DoJ to think otherwise.

Otherwise, Microsoft rewrote the browser so that the components could be used by other programs and by outside developers, so it wasn't a bundled product, it was integrated into the operating system. This might have been a mistake (or not), but it was required because Microsoft had already signed a consent decree with Janet Reno that stated that Microsoft was allowed to add to the OS but not to tie separate products.

Life is hard when politicians interfere with software design.

Componentizing IE resulted in it being a better browser than Netscape, and made it much easier for third parties like AOL to adapt it using the SDK Microsoft provided. Netscape couldn't offer that, though it probably wouldn't have: Netscape prevented third parties from changing Navigator, and it could only be downloaded from Netscape.

Netscape finally lost for a lot of reasons. One was because it decided to rewrite its crap code just as Microsoft had done. That meant it stopped shipping new browser versions with new features. Its market share plunged and AOL, which had bought it, decided to make it open source, which is where Mozilla came in....

Incidentally, Microsoft didn't run into the same problem because it had two browser development teams working in parallel, one on the old version and one on the componentized version.
Harsh ... I know that the bureaucracy you describe is well-entrenched (and I guess has to be dealt with by the "business guy" in a start-up), but what how can an Indian software start-up ignore that heritage to get a leg up?
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Stallman doesn't. Apple did open source WebKit, which made the browser experience good.
There is a suspicion that we can have persistent game items/artifacts between sessions.
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Have you heard of Google? It's a service to help you find things.
Bravo, Basecamp. This is a wise move. Also, you clearly showed a lot of thought about where the other products will go with your scenarios. I approve.
Yeah, he was right, people that design software no longer had to worry about Microsoft.

Except that it's 2014 and Microsoft is still relevant. The techy bubble on the west coast may all be using Mac's but microsoft products can still be found throughout the rest of the world.

I like PG, and love his essays, but this one was just bad. I'm not even talking about his prediction, just the way he puts it out there. It's just a very pathetic read.

For ~20 years Microsoft was a bully and received much criticism for it. Now they're just another tech company that's successful at the end of the day and has a lot of products out there being used by a lot of people. Now they're dead?

Give me a break. The whole Microsoft-hate bandwagon is absolutely pathetic to watch. It's just like the Apple-hate bandwagon.
This is cool! But the important question of what mantle convection, and therefore tectonics, looks like on a toroidal earth is not addressed... for the 'donut' earth where surface gravity varies by a factor of 3 on the surface, one could envision subductions systems, possibly double (two-slab) types, setting up at the northern and southern polar rings, while spreading systems would set up at the inner and outer equators. I have no idea what would happen to lighter, more differentiated arc rocks... would they gather in the middle of a two-sided subduction system, even though that is a gravitational high? Given the instability of these planets to perturbations, it's possible that sufficient redistribution of mass due to tectonics and crustal differentiation would be enough to rip them apart.

Also, setting up a geodynamo would be tough...
I'm more intrigued by the possibility (however minute) that we are alone. That's the scariest thing in the world to me: that it's up to us to preserve ourselves, what may be the most precious jewel in the universe. And we're failing.
This is a typical 'Election Cycle' article that you will see in Indian Media these days. Do not fall for anything that the author says. If you read past the first two paragraphs you will notice a distinct theme; supporting a particular political party while dissing the current political power in India.
That was probably soundhound
It's not that hard - orienting your life around becoming rich is clearly a trap and, as for the remaining two options, it's better to make more money than less as long as the job doesn't suck too badly.
With respect, it's much easier to make this argument [that you are indebted to your mother] if you are privileged to be born to a good mother who loves you and brings you up well.
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We recently changed our company name to Netsparker Ltd. after our flagship product. Because we have no intentions to build and sell 10 more products in the next decade.

However companies such as Microsoft and Apple are in business of building products, not selling only one.

Companies such as 37Signals are interested in building 1-3 products and never to become a huge corp with 1K people and 20 products.
I get the gist of what you're saying, but the reality of it is that nationality matters a great deal. It's part of our identity whether you realize it or not. As many immigrants know too well national identity isn't as arbitrary as it seems. It isn't just the exclusion you will face in your new home, there's a strong internal compass that will always point home for many people. It's part of who we are, and a great deal of people have worked hard and sacrificed much for the sake of their country. This picture becomes clearer with age and experience. I celebrate diversity in its many forms. I like new ideas, learning new and different old ways of thinking and doing, but I also know where I come from, and that's as valuable as appreciating others. Maybe even more so.
Nit: large companies purchase healthcare itself, and have specialist companies administer it, including I'm sure arranging the usual negotiated rates. They're big enough to do their own pooling.

Individuals have to buy insurance, because only a combination of them can form a (large enough) pool.

And I note that your analysis that this is good only holds in a situation like today, where there's a labor surplus. In the future it could be a very bad thing, especially if individuals in otherwise productive parts of their life don't work and therefore don't pay for the Baby Boomers' retirement promises like Social Security and Medicare.

ADDED: one thing we can be very sure about this law: there's going to be a bunch of "UNINTENDED consequences", and some of them will be bad. Some are likely to be very bad; one thing recently remarked on is that VCs are pulling back sharply from funding biomedical ventures, right now due to uncertainty, but things like the medical device tax are a component of that, and of well documented existing company retrenchment.
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And that's why Social Engineering Attacks work. The request seems so reasonable, people don't even think about the consequences.
Hmmm ... it is an accident of birth but I also love my country (at least the principles we espouse). At the same time I'm dismayed by how my government is run on a day-to-day (year-to-year?) basis. So national pride is simply a feeling you have or you don't.

Nobel prizes and Olympic medals on the other hand are some combination of nurture versus nature, and while the “We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.” quote is factually true, people making that statement should (in theory) have a long list of people who helped them on their way to achieving that dream. Nations which encourage certain behaviors can have an impact.
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my evaluation of the style and memes

Are you saying you're using as a primary evaluation tool, the newness of the authors meme references? How about evaluating the ideas from first principles? You might just have inadvertently demonstrated what's generally gone wrong with scenes like SV.
By default, Flash only checks if there is updates every 14 days, and in my experience only actually does on system restart.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...

That is a bit bizarre given that it is in tight competition with Java (which also features enormous update issues) as the biggest security vulnerability on most systems.
I would throw up.
No one is suggesting culture should be ignored. It's pride that's the problem. Did you do something to earn your nationality?

Culture in itself is an important difference that makes people a lot more interesting to each other. But the examples given are not the same kind of difference: Olympic swimmers aren't expressing their culture. They're all, by rule, doing exactly the same thing. That the one from your nation does it the best says nothing about your culture, and there's no rational reason that swimmer or you should feel some sort of pride about that.
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I thought the scientific phrasing made parent's post seem like it was true regardless of one's moral values.

I don't know if morality has credibility or not. What would that mean?
"relevant part?" They say that every month. The only surprising thing is that it's "critical vulnerability," singular, not "critical vulnerabilities," plural.