skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, this is incredibly relevant in government, which depending on how you cut it is an organisation or group of organisations all of sufficient size.
Apparently, it doesn't reinforce that strategy enough ;-)
BART is Bay Area Rapid Transit. IMHO only three of those words are guaranteed to be true, but I guess they didn't want to call it BAT.

From the south bay, I believe the place to catch the BART is Fremont. I like rapid transit and do not especially like parking in Berkeley even on a good day, so this is my plan.
Relevant to this discussion is hoogle:

http://haskell.org/hoogle/

It beats the pants off of google/apropos/anything else simply because the type signatures for functions in a purely-functional, statically-typed language practically tell you what the function does!

Hoogle is a search engine for haskell's standard libraries, and lets you search by name, or type signature. It even helps you discover abstractions that you never knew about before:

http://coder.bsimmons.name/blog/2009/04/why-i-love-hoogle/
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sharepoint
Genuinely interesting point that AT&T raises.

Net neutrality means AT&T cannot prioritize traffic to different sites. But Goog wants to remain able to prioritize its own search results...effectively prioritizing traffic to different sites!
"SharePoint does everything."

That's exactly why it sucks balls.
For sound I'd recommend the much-underrecognized built-in Garageband... better than Audacity. ('Name' artists have done whole CD's with it) ... It has many, many fine plug-ins & effects, if you'll be using music.
phrase your processes as make rules. then use gmake -j - this will let you restart properly in the case of failures, as well.
I've been using etherpad for collaborating on documents. I've found that live conversation often breaks out in the middle of the document itself. I love this, and prefer it to the normal chat area offered on the right side. (The only problem is that the in-document conversation often ends up deleted.)

I'm no longer worried if I'll sound stupid, though this did bother me when I used this feature on ICQ many years ago. I do worry about accidentally typing something rude, but I think I'm getting over this too. Communication really is much faster and more engaging this way. (It's also edifying to see how others compose their messages).

We have a similar problem with letting others see our code. The trick to getting over this is to just put it out there. In that spirit, I've made my writing of this message public at the link below; feel free to watch me stutter and change things. You can also try out live chat there, if you've never tried it before.

http://etherpad.com/hackernews
Can you then explain what it's for? Genuinely curious here. I consider myself relatively open minded and understanding of new web concepts, but I just don't quite get it with Wave.
"Cheap hotels" depends a bit on your standards. There are a number of motels - a little bit, mmm.... well, rudimentary especially along University Ave. that are the least expensive stays in town. I've stayed in them, multiple times, and found them satisfactory for the budget. If you want quality, there's several options easily found via web searching but that will cost you (last I checked) about 3x as much.

Restaurants: Well, it's tempting to rant about my favorites but basically there is a huge spectrum here of price and quality and at any point in that spectrum it's hard to go wrong. I suggest, if you have the time, walk around downtown, around Telegraph, perhaps further west. It's basically hard to go too terribly wrong if you use some common sense. If you like fine beer, I'd suggest Triple Rock. If you like fine dining (and dropping some serious money), the cliche recommendation is Chez Panisse but there are tons of other options.

Transportation (what airport?) there are shuttles that are the best bang for buck. Again: web search. Cabs will soak you but are also more convenient and sometimes you have interesting conversations.

BART will help if you are coming from SFO. If you are coming from OAK you need a bus or taxi to BART but BART can deposit you dead center downtown. ("BART" has nothing to do with the cartoons - it's "Bay Area Rapid Transit" and there's a very long (and ongoing) story behind it.) See bart.gov.

Also see http://511.org/

See you there.

-t
I know more than a few people who use sharepoint effectively as a way to move around documents that are too large to send via email.
The benefits of calorie restriction are only partially caused by carrying less fat (specifically visceral fat that triggers higher levels of chronic inflammation). Here is a demonstration of what happens when you remove visceral fat from mice, for example. You get life extension, but not as much as calorie restriction:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/03/lose-the-visceral...

Calorie restriction is doing other things to metabolism as well. For example, autophagy is upregulated by calorie restriction. Upregulating autophagy by other means enhances life span. See:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/10/attention-paid-to...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2007/10/calorie-restricti...

There are probably other line items as well, but given that calorie restriction doesn't work in animals with disabled autophagy mechanisms, it's the place to be looking. The plausible theory would be that increased autophagy cleans up damaged mitochondria, and mitochondrial function and damage are clearly very important determinants of longevity. See:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2006/10/how-age-damaged-m...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/01/revisiting-skulac...
Not surprisingly, AT&T redefines net neutrality to somehow mean that a service provider is required by law to provide specific services. There is a reason we don't call it "service neutrality". The network is the network. That's what's supposed to be neutral. A service is a service, which by definition is specific, meaning NOT neutral.

An IM provider, such as Yahoo, can offer any level of service they choose. They can choose to not allow you to message Skype accounts. Likewise, VOIP is a service. A VOIP service can offer any level of service they choose, and the network provider has no say whatsoever in the transaction. Don't like Google's service? Use another one that offers the services you want, all while keeping the same neutral network connection. Just what about this is so bloody hard to understand?
Sharepoint is typical blasé Microsoft all-things-to-all-people collaborative communications software. Unfortunately most alternatives also lack inspiration.
Haha, you’re right. The problem is that I really want cut to just do what it sounds like it should do based on its name! Sigh…
Thanks for the info. I'm planning to drive up there on Friday actually with a few friends, so we won't be tethered to any airport.
I was just about to do the same. I hate when they break up an article, especially just a list, into multiple pages.

UGH.
I think the key is the trademark confusion part. If you have a domain name that was registered a long time ago and then realize that it's a name for some successful business and then start to use your domain name for something related, then you are guilty of trademark infringement. If on the other hand you've been running a business since before the other one started, then it's they who are guilty of infringement. If you own ibm.com for your business "Indiana Boomerang Manufacturing, Inc.", IBM can't really push the trademark infringement allegation because the risk of confusion is small. That's at least my understanding of how trademarks work.
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Though it's bizarre to hear it applied to this topic, you've given a very concise example of a particularly insidious kind of trolling: make vaguely resentful statements about the forum that add nothing to the discussion. I estimate that this makes up maybe 10% of the comments on Reddit with negative scores, and their prevalence rose as the level of discourse dropped.
Well, one could catalog a whole bunch of such situations in Terminal.app on OS X, just for example. Create a catalog of situations as described in the article, so that those entry patterns can be detected. A "suggestion" or "coach" app could then start bouncing in the Dock, letting you know that you can click on it and get a list of selections. (Or, you could just blow it off.)
It'd be smart of a Berkeley-based startup hosted an after-party... tell the world that Berkeley has its share of tech startups too.

Or you can crash the frats :)
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As far as I can tell, it wouldn't unless it absorbed the visible light spectrum... but I'm no physicist.
He probably would have been fine if his business was airdropping goods or something else that can be construed as "dropbox" but in a realm sufficiently different from file syncing. He certainly couldn't have started a file syncing company called dropbox, that seems like obvious trademark infringement. Mere registration of a domain doesn't create a trademark.
I haven't read all of it yet, but it seems like this other piece from the same edition of Nature is saying exactly that:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7266/full/461881a...
I agree with you, but in this case the original owner wasn't a squatter.
It sounds good, but I'm not quite sure that your statement is true (yet).
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I almost wonder if "Google Everything" would have been a better name for it--some aspects of just about every social website could be replaced with waves. It overlaps a lot with the functionality of Facebook, Twitter and 4chan just to name a few. It also overlaps strongly with services such as email, newsgroups and instant messaging.

I don't know if wave will ultimately be compelling enough to draw people away from those other sites and services, but I don't think it will be a complete flop (I'm looking at you, VRML).
Great place to eat.

"The Asian Ghetto" Its on Durant and Telegraph
a small area with tons of different types of food.
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I think the answer to how the average person finds out about Wave is that because this is something that Google is doing, it will be reported on in the popular press; much like Twitter.
If you've ever used MediaWiki or TWiki and have been asked to switch to SharePoint you'll want to hurt someone/thing.
If you consider home run to be a large round of capital.
Do you know how they're breaking down? Part of the great promise of SSDs is that they can degrade gradually, rather than suddenly failing like spinning-platter hard drives. Is there a fundamental problem with that vision, or are the early SSDs just a little flaky?
You seriously ought to reconsider your definition of a home run.
I'm seeing more interest in my Wave user group from business folks than geeks. Kinda the opposite to what I expected.
This is why they invented perl.

#!/bin/perl
use Parallel::ForkManager;
$pm = new Parallel::ForkManager(4);
while ($filename = <*.jpg>) {
$filename =~ s/.jpg//;
$pm->start and next;
system("convert $filename.jpg -resize 320x240 $filename-sm.jpg");
$pm->finish;
}
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There are a lot of comments on this thread by now and I don't think that anyone who doesn't already know the answer to this question can read this page and get it. Words like collaboration and sharing don't seem to be adding up to anything. There are a lot of very different things that could be described in this way equally as accurately.

Something's not right.
Can you share what specifically you were using sharepoint to to. (please don't say collaboration or sharing and leave it at that.)
So try it, it's free with Windows server, and there are free trial versions of that around.
After reading through all of the comments left here about what it does, how it does it and the pros/cons of it, I was left wondering what would be a capable alternative to it. Sure, I can implement a chat system, a wiki and a blogging plaform separately, but each platform will stand apart from the others. Having a single method of login will require additional programming and administration skills in addition to time spent actually implementing them.

I'm currently analyzing the possibility of implementing SharePoint at work (small office, 5 people counting myself) but do dislike the fact it would only enhance format lock-in. Walking away from Microsoft products is not a possibility since pretty much every single document we come across is created on Microsoft software, except for PDF documents; what I would like is increase workgroup capabilities, regardless of document format.

So, what would be a decent alternative to it? I've seen most PHP-based systems and have always been left wanting.
Actually, they got rid of the 'T' part too, which is why their logo just says 'ba'.
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AT&T cannot reduce performance to some classes of sites, and charge other sites more to have their traffic put on the fast-lane. Because if AT&T were to do so, then anyone whose connection gets passed to AT&T at any point in the routing would be affected, even if neither the provider nor consumer is a customer of AT&T.

Google, on the other hand, can only prioritize sites for people who visit its site, or search through something else that uses Google’s API.

People are free to search with Bing, they are not free to ask that their routers avoid AT&T’s network.
I did. Paid 11 dollars for windows copy, 5 dollars for Linux.
Sorry I forgot the <sarcasm> tag. It's not love.

People have different theories of software. There's 37 Signals and then there's Microsoft's.

I'm not a huge fan, but I acknowledge that it does a lot. It's Microsoft's server strategy for the next decade or so, most likely: a place where office docs can live and move around in automated business processes. That means it has a learning curve -- a learning curve that most users will never climb. Which means yes, it's going to suck for a lot of people.

As an aside, the "do one thing and do it well" camp is a great idea in theory, but in practice sucks. Big companies make purchase decisions, like it or not, based on big feature lists. Products with big feature lists score better than those without.

I don't especially like this situation, but there it is. Simply complaining about it is not going to make it go away.
It's a tragedy how little impact software has had on (formal) education - decades of hype, promising trials (PLATO, Logo, Smalltalk) eventuated no profound innovation ... only peripheral benefits (note-taking, paper-writing, class projects ...) Mostly because you need to be an educator to know what educators need - and you're too busy.

Opportunities for informal, self-directed education, OTOH, are constantly improving. The number of well-developed reference sites online shows no sign of letting up. Great for the already-educated. But for K-12 ... still a wasteland.
If you're willing to pay check out Jive SBS

http://www.jivesoftware.com/products
If the customers act honestly and do pay exactly what they would pay if the manufacturer had set the prices

I think you should be more explicit in step two.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/then-a-mira...
In a word, it is a CMS. But being from Microsoft, you know it has to be excessively complicated. So take Drupal, but build it with IIS, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, XSLT and Search. Make sure you throw in plugins that make it manage Microsoft Office documents very well, with hooks into things like Outlook, and there you have it. It's nice because it has lots of features, but the flip side is it's prone to break down with no way to restore from backup because the restore process is so complicated. It also gets lots and lots of patches every month. Takes up so much memory and CPU that you actually need a farm of them and that's where the complications really start. If you can stick to a single server and small workgroup it's usable. If your company has more than two dozen people in it, you're in for a full-time job to keep the thing working.
My son has been wanting to buy W.O.G. for a long time and brought it up today. I hadn't looked at HN yet, so we went direct to 2dboy.com and to our delight, found the sale. We ended up buying to copies for a total of $16. Way to go guys, I hope you make a bundle.
As far as cheap places to stay, I stayed at this hostel for a little over a week last year:

http://www.sanfranciscohostel.org/

Only cost around 200 bucks for 10 nights. Met a lot of cool folks from out of the country and had a blast. Went to Startup School one weekend, and went to the free portion of the Web 2.0 conference the other weekend.

If you go this route, bring some earplugs :)
I'll see how The Boss likes it, but don't hold out much hope of him actually getting past the price tag issue.

Hell, I'm having a hard time getting him to move away from Yahoo Mail to Google Apps as it is.
It is usually sold as a way to make Office collaborative. It also has a set of badly implemented other features which allow it to check boxes on product comparison feature lists.

It also sucks.

It sucks like Microsoft products used to suck, back when Microsoft was evil, not just irrelevant.

Did you ever use Windows 3.1? It's roughly that level of quality - crashes frequently, is difficult to navigate and relies on people begging others to do things that should be easy ("can you upload this document because I can't find the correct place").

As a specific example, one of the primary use-cases for it involves a person uploading a word document, and then other finding it. The problems with uploading are numerous, but we'll ignore them for the moment (sufficient to say that depending on which version of Word you have you may or may not be able to save directly to the Sharepoint repository, and of course it might crash while saving, losing anything you have done). The real problem is the search - by default it only searches on office metadata, so finding "Template for xxx" is no problem, but unless everyone correctly sets up their metadata you can never find the documents. Apparently it can be reconfigured to index content as well, but at in the first place I came across it I found it more effective to build my own search index by crawling the webdav directly structure (That was in Java, with NTLM authentication, extracting text from MS office document - so that shows how "easy" it was). The company used that index for years, because Sharepoint was so sucky.

Sharepoint sucks - I hope Google Wave kills it, but if you are doing a start up aimed at it please, please, please succeed!
Why has no one just made a really easy collaboration website

You can hardly move on the Internet for 'simple' collaboration websites.

Point to one that also integrates with Active Directory and is backed by SQL Server and hooks document libraries into Outlook and
"Ici" (at College and Ashby) is the best ice cream I've ever had.
Seriously? If everybody is already using MS docs (excel, word, powerpoint, access, xpath) and you're all on Office 2007,go ahead and use SharePoint. But be prepared to have somebody take 40 hours or so and read 2-4 books on maximizing Sharepoint capabilities. That person will have to handhold everybody else for a while. If you don't want to do that, it's not worth your time.

There are lots of hosted Sharepoint solutions you can find that aren't very expensive. They handle the backups, hotfixes, versioning, and such, and you guys just worry about your business.

That's much easier than trying to glue together several other services from separate providers, in my opinion. I'm not a MS fanboy, but Sharepoint does seem to be a logical progression from Office to something more web-centric.
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I host an Open Hacker House in San Francisco each Friday, 3-7pm at Epicenter Cafe, 764 Harrison. Come on by -- there's usually a few HNers and YC applicants, if not YC-funded folk.
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Preface: I'm not anti net neutrality. Just thinking through the issues here out loud.

First consider it from the perspective of a packet receiver for a second (because, among other things, this is how Goog and Yahoo were thinking about it when they supported net neutrality).

-- If AT&T deprioritizes your inbound packets, it's like losing several US states worth of traffic. Your main option: pay AT&T more to prioritize your packets.

-- If Goog deprioritizes you out of their search rankings, again, like losing several states (or countries) worth of traffic. Your option: pay Goog to place you more prominently via AdWords.

> People are free to search with Bing, they are not free to ask that their routers avoid AT&T’s network.

From the perspective of a packet receiver, you cannot realistically make your customers switch from Goog anymore than you can make them avoid routing packets through AT&T connections.

> then anyone whose connection gets passed to AT&T at any point in the routing would be affected, even if neither the provider nor consumer is a customer of AT&T.

Also, a second point: when I make a telephone call to a business, I have no idea whether AT&T dropped the connection or what if it doesn't go through. I just give up on that business and call another business.

Similarly, if a business isn't in the organic top 10 on Goog, I don't even know about it. I just use another business. Note that in this situation neither I nor the business am paying Goog money.

Of course the business can use Adwords, but that's like paying AT&T to prioritize their packets.
What's not right? Sharepoont is not one thing. It's a framework for building consistent versions of the business process things you currently ad-hoc with emails and documents named v.2-revised-Jen.

It's Microsoft's answer to your business problems like 'how can my team have internal blogs?' and 'we need document versioning' and 'we pass documents around by email to get approval and steps get missed' and 'how can we computerise these simple form based procedures?'
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Based on the implementation at my workplace, SP seems to have value as a hybrid intranet site and file share. Each department has their own section in which non-IT folks can create simple HTML content and can attach documents. It is also relatively simple to share this content with other groups as needed, based on membership in Active Directory groups.

More controversially, SP also seems to be replacing MS Access as the non-IT-sanctioned application platform of choice. Instead of creating Access databases on a file share, people use SP "lists" to store data. The controversy stems from the fact that these lists often outgrow the practical limits of SP and need to be migrated to "real" systems.

Many people also seem to want to use SP as a Content Management System or even as the preferred application development platform (in which all application functionality is delivered as SP "web parts", which plug in to SP pages). These uses seem to cause as many problems as they solve, but that's just my opinion.
Translation: I did not understand how to set up indexing or search on my Sharepoint installation. In addition, I was unable to make it stable.

This is not like using BaseCamp, guys. These huge featurefests from Microsoft are complex animals and require training and work to get right.

Use a hosted box and let somebody else worry about all of that.
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