skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Omniture has large customers. It might have something to do with that.

* I'm not sure if this is related at all as it is a lot smaller. Adobe recently purchased Business Catalyst, a hosted CMS that differentiates itself by combining CMS, CRM & Analytics. It might be a general strategy of services that replace custom or patched together solutions with hosted solutions. Adobe has a general strategy of eventually bringing together products to work together.
Mythbusters RFID episode banned
Yes, if by "shade" you mean the color progression that human (and other mammals') eyes make in their development.
Anyone know the last time a website got in FCC trouble for pay to play?
I'm glad I didn't download the previous version it yesterday!
Sinatra is a great micro framework for when you don't need the whole Rails stack, I used it for building http://tweetarium.com along with tokyo cabinet.
Well yeah, but does that really mean anything? The PalmPre 'claims' to be an iPod so it can work with iTunes. Is anyone saying Palm is engaging in false marketing because of that?
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I love how google constantly contributes to the entire internet community in spite of the lack of immediate returns. I mean it takes some serious cojones to bet on the long term with stuff like this. I really hope companies start following this lead in the future.
Stackoverflow is a great resource and I would definitely use that for tougher questions as opposed to basic syntax errors. IRC is better suited to this type of question.

Before even using IRC I would google it. Google will get you on the right track most times if you just google the compiler error. They usually only come up when you mess up in a particular way so you should be able to intuit what's going on. Though on this particular error it just means that you messed up on the syntax of the define statement. (hint no equals... #define MAXLINE 100) The third or fourth result is someone with the exact same problem.
How would you pay for them then?

Maybe/probably you are right, there are more direct actions one could take. But I don't think it is so obvious as to what actions promise the most success. Maybe if you really care you have to become a politician or an activist, but what if that is not what you do best?
Interesting book, thanks.
Decentralized Twitter = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
I understand. There are plenty of public companies that are not well known outside their niche. This is the part that is motivating: a big company can be successful and relatively unknown. To compare and scale down my feelings on this to my latest startup, I have zero desire for recognition outside my target user. There will be no HN "check this out" posts, no begging outlets like TechCrunch to cover me...these should be a waste of energy for my approach to work.
I've only ever considered the ordinal-G terms to be marketing fluff.

Even WiMAX is technically inspecific, though I think it's always the mobile version (even if used in a non-mobile implementation), in this context.

I, of course, care about actual speed, not marketing "generation" nor advertised speed.
I don't know too much about Omniture. But I recently met the chief of online marketing of Lenovo and after much prodding about how big companies manage their marketing, he told me they all use Omniture.
Models and Modeling: from the Armillary Sphere to the Computer
Nope:
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Problem with decentralisation is that it vastly increases complexity while not getting the investment, marketing and branding needed to make make a product go mainstream.
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The muffin-sorting robot sorts muffins faster and better than any human could, whereas walking robots are still pretty terrible at walking even when compared to a below-average human.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was where any success of the system comes from. Simply providing students with different ways to learn gives each of them the ability to pick and choose what they will learn best with.
Topcoder is something diferent.Trollim is a skill evaluation and comparison platform assessing the coding level. Amazing !!.
I obviously don't have numbers for rackspace's dedicated servers, but their 15.5GiB slice is $800 a month. Are they going to charge less for dedicated than for virtual hosts? You can get a server with 8 cores and 16Gib ram for under $2K from places like serversdirect.com, or building from parts. I build from parts, and generally end up paying $1500 for a 32GiB ram box. co-location is another $150/month or so. (my costs are closer to $75/month for a dual-socket box, but I have two full racks)

Unless you screwed up assembling the thing, the chances of something other than a drive failing are pretty small. I mean, not zero; don't count on hardware... I'm just saying, even if you have to get a $150/hr guy in to fix your bad hardware, that just doesn't happen very often. way less than once per server. Way less than once per every 10 servers (assuming you didn't screw up the assembly, and that you rotate out the server after 3 years.)

So yeah, there are many situations where it makes sense to rent, especially if you can't use 8 cores/ 32GiB ram of capacity. but if you use a whole server (32GiB ram/8 core; go virtual until you need that capacity, I say.) the cost advantages of owning hardware yourself are overwhelming. Sure, there are reasons to rent... I'm just saying, owning ends up costing you a /lot/ less money.
Has HN really turned into somewhere where people down-vote on-topic comments they disagree with ?

Great way to encourage reasoned discussion as opposed to groupthink.

(feel free to downvote this one though; as meta-discussions are off-topic unlike my previous comment)
I agree with everything, except that I think Flash is also a great product. FutureSplash Animator (oh, those were the days) was a revolutionary product that blew the crap out of the only other web multimedia solution at the time (which was Shockwave). It was vector based (truly revolutionary in 1996!), small, fast even on computers of the time. Even after the acquisition by Macromedia, the introduction of simple video streaming to Flash completely changed the economics and hence the popularity of online video, which produced YouTube, Hulu, and other game-changer online companies.

Since the second acquisition (by Adobe), Flash has been buried under the mountain of bullshit you've mentioned, but Flash was and is a great product, as evidenced by its ubiquity -- 98% of desktops in the world have Flash installed, more than have Microsoft Windows. Pretty amazing stuff.
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The whole point is that a single failure will not bring down the whole system. As it is right now, regularly no one will have twitter access. With a decentralized system you might lose specific people, or even a whole region or maybe even communication between regions, but never the whole system.
Personally, I believe three things are necessary for success:

* A specialization. Without specializing in something, you will never be the best/at the top of your field. You need something to be good at, something to be better than everyone else at.

* Something else. I think the best thing that ever happened to me was pursuing a degree in Statistics in college (as opposed to Computer Science, which I started in). I ended up in it a rather un-panned method, and it has influenced me far more than anything else I have done. Given the chance, I would recommend any person, particularly those who want to get into start-ups, to go get a degree, but in something that interests them, not in something they think will be useful.

* Equal parts Confidence, Stubbornness, and Genius, with a dash of Charisma. Without that, you can have the best idea in the world, but never make it, or be able to sell it.
Just because YC doesn't fund companies like that doesn't mean that they don't fund companies that BECOME that.

Listen: You don't launch an enterprise product in 3 months. You launch a consumer product. MAYBE you launch a product for SMB, because that's what you are ( http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/youre-a-little-company-now-a... ). In a few years, eventually you have enough market smarts and momentum to confidently sell stuff to big companies.

YC funds companies that can reach ramen profitability OR reach the point where they are worth investing in (angel or Series A). The B2B path is a longer (but maybe safer?) one. Eventually, you'll either get profitable, stall out and/or prove that it's worth spinning up a sales team (which may well require add'l funding).

Note: we are a 1.75 year-old YC company and we have lots of 5 and 6-figure deals in the sales pipeline. 12 months ago, I NEVER used the phrase "sales pipeline".

b2b YC companies include (off the top of my head): RescueTime, Frogmetrics, Xobni, Virtualmin, Snaptalent (deceased), etc.
First of all, I use Google and all their goodness (Docs, Calendar, Gmail, etc.) This saves me from loosing my schedule (because it's just "up there" in the "cloud").

I have task lists and spreadsheets that monitor task activity (for instance, pages/day read since start date).

Task lists are ordered by priority. Days since start date is monitored, too. I use color code (red = DO IT, NOW!).

I set up queues (e.g., reading list queue).

Budget's in Google Spreadsheet. Google Calendar is set up to warn me of upcoming dates (e.g., recurring payments like rent).

Task list is conceptually different from Calendar. Tasks are either urgent or can wait a bit (depends on priority). Calendar is for what you have decided you will do, and in what order. Setting up some time to plan your next day is crucial for efficiency.

I also have a small statue of Saint Rita in front of me, on my desk. I'm not Catholic. She stands for "Ritalin", but you might like to know she's the "patroness of impossible cases". ;-) She's a reminder.
(http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=205)

BTW, if you're having trouble with mind-numbing tasks, you are probably under-medicated. Talk to a specialist in adult ADD/ADHD.

For study material, I am currently setting up a database for it, retrievable by software, with metadata description (this is for theorems, etc). Again, I use Google's resources, because you cannot not find Google. :-) I'm also beginning to experiment with some memory techniques - I read about SuperMemo the other day and also a thing with labels and calendar dates.

You might choose to inform work partners and family you have ADD/ADHD. Educate people. If people don't hear about ADD/ADHD, they will think somebody with it is either lazy or stupid (if your ADHD/ADD is out of control), because you get so side-tracked but research shows there's no correlation with IQ. Let them know you've got this condition. You got it anyway. It's not nice, it's not good, it's not a badge of honor, but it's who you are. So the fuck with it. They don't like it, they're prejudiced? Me, I don't give a fuck. I've achieved some things most people haven't and will never - this, besides my condition. Nobody can take those things away from me.

Also, have a good night's sleep. Ritalin doesn't work well if you're too tired. Learn to let go. Life was tough enough for you, you don't need to torture yourself. Take it easy.
...not to mention a lot longer than a real flower, which will wilt, die, dessicate, and crumble into dust.
Well, inferring from the observed behaviour of stone-age tribal peoples in historical times.
shrug It just says he hasn't worked with any really big web shops. Almost all the Fortune 1000's I've worked with have used it. None of the smaller folks have.
The contradiction is that the better the computer becomes, the less the human pays attention.

So when the computer does fail the human doesn't notice.

The other option is to make the computer less good, so the human is forced to pay attention, but that has it's own problems.

So how do you make a system where the computer is very good, and the human pays attention?

(And saying force the human, doesn't count.)
Tell that to HTTP.
But your eyes don't change from blue to brown as they develop, or do they?
I was watching this video (Adam Savage : FAILURE - Defcon 17 Talk) ~ http://www.vimeo.com/6006731 and wanted to find out why some random hacker asked about RFID.
The system was self steering (i.e. driving the ship) - there was no one to give an error range to. No one was watching it because it normally works so well that there is no reason to double check it.

An error indicator is no help if no one goes to look at it.
I don't really get your point - that's an extremely helpful analogy.

The web is based around HTTP, a deliberately decentralised protocol with no single host that could take the entire web down at once. If Twitter goes down, or even a prominent web-host, the entire web doesn't go down with it. This is an extremely useful property, because even if your favourite site is down, you can still use other parts of the web.

On the other hand, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks are centralised. Unlike the web and HTTP, if they go down, you can't do anything to do with those services.
You're quite right. Righter than my reply, actually. We didn't have, and still don't have, a "sales pipeline", but our new cloud computing management product turns out to be exactly the sort of product that does need such a pipeline...and it could very well turn out to provide a majority of our revenue (it's already at about a quarter to a third of our revenue each month). A sales guy is probably not our next hire, but it'll probably come pretty soon after.
Why buy Apple hardware if you're opposed to how they do business?
Oh, I forgot to say. Ambient noise can really get to me. So, if I'm studying or performing some mental task in a public place that's noisy, I'll use my iPod - but with NO MUSIC.

At first I used to listen to a lot of Bach - but I found I was concentrating on music, and not the task.

Then, I used pink noise (you can buy pink noise soundtracks on the web), but now I've switched to using binaural beats (probably just placebo effect, but it's less boring than listening to rain and water soundtracks for a prolonged period of time...).
Sorry, I really wasn't. He asked me as I was leaving, and I thought it would be better to say that an answer was on its way.
Personally, I would never trust facebook with my deep personal conversations.
when Twitter goes down, it takes everyone with it.

At which point everyone switches to Facebook, or email, or Blogspot, or direct SMS, or HN at the same time so that they can discuss the Twitter outage with their friends.

We're not designing TCP/IP. We're not building the 911 emergency system. Your social network does not have to survive a nuclear attack. There are many alternative channels at Twitter's layer of the network.

Meanwhile, there is an all-important flip side: When Twitter is up, it is generally up for everyone. (To the point where, when this isn't true, people start writing essays complaining about the unreliability of Twitter. As if a network of a thousand thousand individually-managed RSS feeds would be any more reliable.)
Sure, there are exceptions, and I'm not saying it's impossible, but making a decentralised network popular is going to be an uphill struggle, especially in an already crowded space full of popular centralised competitors which are already free-of-charge when the end-user benefit is marginal at best and the usefulness of the service is proportional to the amount of users.
betting on the future of the Internet playing out in ways that are bad for open standards

I understand why you think adobe is betting against open standards and against consumers, but why do you think that this move is doing that?

BTW, I am definitely not an expert on this matter, but it seems to me that people can get pretty dogmatic about standards. Adobe managed to get more options in to most people's browsers in a way that works. Even standards might benefit from a little competition.

way too expensive

Can you elaborate? Stock is at a relative low. Omniture's revenue is about 1/6 of sale price (they are not profitable, but they are growing).

This strikes me as a poor fit

I don't know a huge amount about this company, but judging by their income statement, they seem like a services company at least as much as a product development one.

- 31-Dec-08 31-Dec-07 31-Dec-06
Revenue 295,613 143,127 79,749
Cost of Revenue 125,940 53,364 31,826
Research Development 36,966 17,257 8,732
Selling General & Admin175,851	85,828 47,334

The interesting thing is that Adobe has bought a company that looks like it is primarily a consulting/customisation/sales company.
Check out Posterous if you haven't already for a good solution to posting basically any file format to Twitter.
I assume it makes no difference if Texas Instruments is on the record saying, "...it was waiting “for Mythbusters to let us know when they were planning on showing the segment” when they heard “that the storyline had changed and they were pursuing a different angle which did not require our help."

I mean, that sounds like a line from the Godfather. Creepy.

All the same, this issue is a matter of the audience, not of producing a good debunking of RFID. Any debunking that wouldn't be viewed by millions of people, via Discovery, would presumably be "all good."

I think the disappointment, then, is that we really wanted to see an entertaining and thorough deconstruction of RFID... and while hackers can be thorough, they don't have the audience to justify producing something that is highly entertaining.
"makes perfect sense" -- if you don't mind really high turnover when "good times" return AND low productivity for your captive employees.
There's something sort of sad about this statement. Actually, now that I think about it, it was less sad when the site was feed-based. Important stuff bubbled to the top and I felt connected. Now that it's stream-based, it's just a flood of minutiae and the important stuff gets lost in the noise. My FB-connected relationships feel less weighty as a result. Weird!
What're they going to do? Tell my future kids what their dad wrote online? Publish a collection of Swear Words Unalone Invented Talking To His Friends?
I was actually referring to the end, where Jerry and his friends get into trouble for doing nothing. There was some unrest about that choice of ending.
Then the important question is, whether students are labeling themselves as addicted or are being labeled by the examiners.

I never intended to play the old folk against youth; I was attempting to argue that, instead of worrying about the cogency of self-expression or critical thinking skills in the framework of traditional systems (which never had the level of technology we see today, including my schooling) I think the focus should be placed on how to inspire youth to develop/learn logical thinking, rhetoric, and grammatical skills within the context of an evolving system.

I'm arguing for the reform of our educational system to grow with these new technological advancements and with it all of the changes to language and thought processes.

Is this not how new languages and forms of expression are created/evolved? I fully agree that precise, clear, and centered thinking as well as mindful and accurate self-expression are of the utmost importance in the development of an individual. However, I think a fine line must be drawn between compatibility of thought and expression between generations: should we conform to their new and developing form of communication and thought? Or should they conform to the old ways?

You are correct, that technology will and should never replace the use of the brain. It is, however, becoming a deeply integral aspect of our culture; just as the book did once the printing press was invented.

There is a lot to say on this subject, I'm going to leave it at that as this input box is too tiny and I have trouble reviewing what I wrote!

Fun conversation :)
Why does it need to be verified? Is it actionable? Basically it's a shitload of users.
Is biggerer a word?
Are the people who make the decision to go with Oracle more impressed by his success than they are turned off by his opulence?
For the most part I think Facebook's success can be attributed to these factors rather than any groundbreaking inventions.

1. Ivy League beginnings. It was easy to scrape together an audience due to the Ivy league exclusivity at the beginning. This solved the chicken and egg problem in a field dominated by MySpace, LJ, Friendster, Xanga, et al.

2. Harvard background: its easier to raise funding just because of the name.

3. MySpace's utter lack of progress especially by the time it was bought out by Murdoch.
What is this? He seems to be arguing against an issue that doesn't exist. As far as I know, there isn't a single school that classifies students as Visual/Kinetic/Aural and then locks them into only those sorts of classes. Instead, they have teachers teach in a number of different ways.

Even a closer look at his anecdote seems ridiculous. Watch kids on a museum field trip and you’ll notice that they stop to look at different paintings: some like cubism, some like impressionism, some like the Old Masters, and so on. That is precisely correct. In the same way though, allowing students to experience art in several different ways allows them to get it much more (get, as in learning about the material). What he seems to be arguing against is telling the students they can't spend the entire trip looking at the Monet paintings, that they have to see the entire museum.
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DCPS's policies have long been significantly driven by pedagogy fads straight out of the latest inane D.Ed. theses. There's the direct influence of Congress, several prominent Ed departments sending in troops, and an expensive top-heavy bureaucracy full of idiots.

Teacher Education has always been pretty bad, but adding massive financial incentives for teachers to obtain graduate degrees has led to an explosion of idiocy, even at otherwise top-tier schools. In the DCPS every teacher I saw go back to school (and not just the diploma-mill ones) came back dramatically worse as a teacher -- any cleverness hammered down, any laziness replaced with thoughtless zeal.
Small-run machine parts are less expensive than chip fabrication.

"The smallest run possible is typically 12 wafers, which can cost more than US $50 000 after tallying up the cost of materials, photolithography, and fabrication, he says."

http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/site/tionline/menuit...;
Stop the madness. Just stop it.
Adobe has a reasonable good record with acquisitions.
Part of the whole point of Twitter is that either your posts are seen by all of your followers, or (in the increasingly rare cases when Twitter is down) by none of them.

If you want a decentralized system where some of your recipients will get the message, but others won't, shouldn't you just send email?
The hardware and the company are two different things. With the iphone, apple has made (to me) the ultimate netbook/phone; but they cripple it for marketing reasons. And thank god, there are people out there like saurik to liberate our devices.
Published: 3rd September 2008

Didn't you guys go to HOPE?

EDIT: link

http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.html
It’s an understandable point of view, if very hacker-oriented, but it’s not one that I personally sign up to.

To me, hacker-orientation being proportional to GPL-style restrictiveness is the major take-away.
I love that the article had a huge American Express ad served up with it!