skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The xn--… stuff is the real URL as it exists in the DNS.

Conversion to/from the user’s script is supposed to be done by the browser.

This has existed for quite a while, the new thing is that previously the TLD (i.e. country code) still had to be the old ASCII ISO code. Now even the TLD can be encoded, so that it will display in the country’s native script. So far there are 3 non-ASCII TLDs registered (that is, in the DNS they are still ASCII using puny coding).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puny_code
You have to be pretty confident about the inevitability of your success to do this to Sequoia!

One of the crew's edgiest pranks in those days was a presentation made to the blue-chip venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, known in the Valley for a certain humorlessness. Sequoia éminence grise and consummate power player Michael Moritz had been on Plaxo's board. Parker saw him as having contributed to his downfall. "There was no way we were ever going to take money from Sequoia, given what they'd done to me," says Parker. The firm wanted to invest in Facebook, so as a joke the boys offered to pitch the partners a Zuckerberg side project called Wirehog, a peer-to-peer file-sharing program.

Zuckerberg and another partner showed up deliberately late for an 8 a.m. meeting, in their pajamas. They didn't even make a pitch for Wirehog. Zuckerberg showed a PowerPoint presentation David Letterman-style: "The Top Ten Reasons You Should Not Invest in Wirehog." It started out almost seriously. "The number 10 reason not to invest in Wirehog: we have no revenue." Number 9: "We will probably get sued by the music industry." By the final few points it was unashamedly rude. Number 3: "We showed up at your office late in our pajamas." Number 2: "Because Sean Parker is involved." And the number one reason Sequoia should not invest in Wirehog: "We're only here because [a Sequoia partner] told us to come." The partners seemed to listen respectfully, recalls Zuckerberg, who says he now regrets the incident. "I assume we really offended them and now I feel really bad about that."
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I'm not arguing pro- or con-drm. I'm just stating that the article makes a few invalid assumptions.

Sales are lost to piracy, and it is always beneficial to find ways of turning pirates in to buyers, be it DRM or some kind of added value. I'd prefer it be the latter, but that's a much longer, harder, and more expensive route, as it requires added development.

Really, the only thing this affects (in terms of the entrenched game industry) is the PC. Piracy on consoles is low enough as to be nearly insignificant, due to the hoops required to pirate on console, coupled with the potential downsides.

I wish for a magic non-intrusive drm for PC so we could use it as a primary platform again. Sure, shoddy ports aren't helping, but at the end of the day, even non-ports have serious issues if they don't ship with a major online component.

I am completely anti-drm on most medias, but with games, there's a catch: They have no other means of income. When a TV show is pirated, well, they still get money from TV ads and dvd sales. When a movie is pirated, they still have the box office sales. When a cd is pirated, the artist still makes money at concerts.

When a game gets pirated, well, too bad so sad I guess. It's a difficult situation for everyone.
According to the notes the main problems were in consolidating the layout etc. of the rooms in relation to each other.

(that they agree with the current museum building is possibly due to the current building being chosen because it fitted the description - rather than it being known as the correct address)
And you also lose the bad publicity they give you on forums. See Titan Quest, which was maligned on forums (and even some reviews) due to crashing problems which were entirely related to the pirated version, and weren't seen at all on the release version.
This article touches on a lot of the concepts in "Flow". Getting feedback is key to experiencing "flow" and this is clearly the case when working with your hands as you are constantly getting tacile feedback on your work.

When doing the work so typical of cubicle farms, there is little or indirect feedback so it can be difficult to enjoy the work.

I myself used to do some woodwork projects and they are incredibly enjoyable. Whether it is making a simple join and using a miniture hacksaw to get an exact cut, or turning a block of wood into a fruit bowl on a lathe, it's extremely satisfying - both the process and the finished result.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Components_of...
The calculator app doesn't look like that now, though, even though it's clearly inspired by it. I believe I have seen that design on the iPhone before, but when I bought my 3G two years ago, I believe the buttons were square and the '='-button was bigger. Did it look like that in the original iPhone?
Click through the giraffes. They are in fact all by the same person (or by different people who are all the same age and live in the same place).
They probably did their own chamber - being bachelors under the roof of a landlady (who I think is the only other occupant - I don't think any maids are actually mentioned)
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Maybe there even is a correlation between pirating and buying lots of games? As a poor student, I pirated occasionally, and bought games I really liked. I also was much more up to date with respect to new games coming out.

These days, I have no idea what games are coming up (except biggies like Starcraft 2 that make it to HN). Since I will only buy one or two games per year, it is not worth the effort of keeping up with the latest developments.

What I mean to say is: with the lower cost because of piracy, it is easier to keep an enthusiasm for gaming going, which could ultimately lead to more sales. Also take into account friends talking about games they might have pirated.

Not counting 3rd world countries, where people wouldn't be able to afford non-pirated games anyway.
It would certainly be possible; people do it even. (I don't know of anyone targeting small companies specifically, but there's no reason why it would need to be difficult to setup.) But, it's something that is so difficult to do right that I personally am probably better off not doing it at all. /bad/ phone support, at least for my target market, is worse than none at all. (this is quite different if you target more business oriented and/or less technically oriented people.)

That's the thing about phone tech support; it's cheap and easy to do badly, and really difficult and expensive to do well. You need to look at who your customers are and decide if bad phone support is better than no phone support at all, unless you have more volume than I have and a higher margin than I have.
I nowadays take very seriously the advice my in-laws gave me: "Concentrate on doing what you do best. Hire the pros for other serious work."

Ah, but you miss out on so much in life by focusing on only one thing. I've found much satisfaction by taking quite the opposite approach; to learn by doing as many different things as possible.

Of course, it's also important to know your limits lest you wind up in over your head.

http://elise.com/quotes/a/heinlein_-_specialization_is_for_i...
No. We have to work on the housing problem quite a bit before that can happen, and since this involves inflicting pain on some very wealthy, entrenched, and powerful people, it's unlikely to happen any time soon.

(Silicon Valley has disgustingly high housing prices, but that happened after it had established momentum in technology.)
hm. thanks. (doesn't really help me; the downturn has caused me the 'too many customers' hardship, if anything. I think that's kindof stretching this 'hardship' definition.)
On contradictions in literature-- I once heard Joseph Heller speaking about Catch-22. He said somebody had sent him the results of a computer program designed to arrange the events in "Catch-22" in order to minimize the number of unresolvable contradictions between forward and backward references (e.g., "A was before B" and "B was before C" but "A was after C"). I don't remember the exact count, but it was in the hundreds.
I've worked for a big Scribd competitor (bigger than Scribd by some measures) and I am blown away that they would move in this direction. Those saying that they are not taking a great risk are missing the point in a serious way. In this business, the viewer is the company. It is your whole competitive advantage. Taking apart a PDF is nothing - putting it back together in Flash with the right appearance, cropping, individual character metainfo, hyperlinks, caching, progressive loading, etc., etc., is science. To do that you need to be very long on Flash, and they just threw away all that inventory and expertise.

Which is, of course, a killer move if they can actually pull it off as they will be the first and only company to do it (again, comparing with Google's Javascript PDF viewer misses the point, as that 'just' renders images). I am just dumbstruck to see a company do such a 180 degree turn and they deserve all the credit in the world for having the guts.
They have productivity benefits for some things true, but they don't expose or constrain operations very well (ie, I have seen "professionals" do stuff like "rm -rf ~/ folder" before accidentally) .

CLI's are generally only good at administration tasks (such as moving files around). In the vast majority of cases though, a good GUI would probably be more productive to work with.

But once again, that's my opinion. Until CLI's can expose tasks better, their benefits will be limited.
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Can always shorten it later. I find myself hang up on it sometimes, but even Facebook started out on "thefacebook.com".
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Doesn't Dell also have a history of often not bothering with Linux hardware integration in consumer space, i.e. not installing the proper driver etc. for a laptop's integral pointing device?
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Usually students are very confused when they start their research paper work. It is a well known fact that such a serious writing can not be done at once and requires some knowledge and experience.
Not a huge surprise to many that there is only one bed?
I can't see (let alone observe) whether they got the seventeen steps right or not.
That's quite the giraffe gaffe.
Honestly, I think the difficulty you're having is one of form, not content. That is, you understand the mechanics behind the proof, but you don't accept that the form of the proof works. Your objections hinge on the implications of a paradox, and our seemingly arbitrary construction of Q.

Instead of banging your head against this proof more, I think you may want to read up on proofs in general. Your objections would apply to any proof by contradiction.

Example: consider that Q exists even if we don't define it. We discovered it, not invented it. Given P, we can define Q', but the problem with Q is still there. But this really has nothing to do with this specific proof - it's more fundamental than that.
So when my Mom learns to Google for iTunes tips, she will follow a tutorial and find that she's missing that UI element? And every tutorial step will include "if you don't see this, maybe you're using an old version, or maybe you need to hunt through the 'stuff that's been hidden' section and un-hide it?"

I prefer the Kathy Sierra idea that your program should make your users feel like "I am so smart", not "this program is so smart." Hiding stuff that you JUST KNOW you saw one time makes the user feel stupid.
This could work if Apple added a intelligent navigation agent that maybe asked you about where you wanted to go today. It could notice a brief pause in mouse movement (indicating that the user is trying to think of where to go next) and pop in and say, "Hi there human user, I'm L.P. Where do you want to go today?" The avatar of the agent would be a friendly looking record and would offer to reveal or hide various aspects of the user interface...
If this takes off, it will really leave Apple with egg on it's face. They will have to admit (even if only internally) that they didn't get the form factor quite right.
Watson's bedroom was presumably on the floor above the pictured floor. (They also don't show Mrs. Hudson's bedroom.) Watson moved out pretty early in the series after marrying Mary Morstan.
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Don't worry, soon the stylistic tides will turn and the analogy will be war/raising kids/making the perfect turkey sandwich instead of dating, and the articles will flow just as freely.
It's a good idea. Like Facebook's like, but for ecommerce. Check out how Amazon creates special links for Twitter affiliate sharing, something like that, but for all commerce sites. I like it.
If you have a much better opportunity, do it - it's not unethical. Your boss may have expected you to stay for many years, but they also know not everyone does. I've done it in the past. My boss was dissapointed, and I felt bad for about 10 minutes. I would have felt bad for years if I'd stayed.

If you're concerned about friendships at work, fair enough. If you stop working daily with people many friendships will become less active. However, you can still stay in touch with people. And in 5 or 10 years, when most people have moved on from both companies, you'll hopefully keep a few friends from both.

As for the impact on your career: don't worry about it. Nothing wrong with changing to a better job. If anything, I'd say it will improve your resume (as in: worked for google then for facebook, awesome.)
Interesting! Art imitating life imitating art again.

edit: Apropos Conan Doyle:

A cabbie picked up the great writer at a Paris railroad station to drive him to his hotel.

Upon parting the cabbie said: "Goodbye mr. Doyle".

Conan Doyle taken aback by this responded: "How do you know who I am, do you recognize me from my picture?"

the cabbie: "No, sir, I've never seen a picture of you before, but I read you were going to be vacationing in France, your coat has the cut of an English gentleman, you have an ink spot on your finger indicating you are a writer and the train I picked you up on hails from the coast. All these clues together made it very likely that you were the great writer himself."

Doyle: "Amazing feats of deduction, you are worthy of being an incarnation of Sherlock himself!"

Cabbie: "Oh, and one more thing, your bag has your name written on it".
I am looking for any other examples where a company has successfully migrated to the next technology S curve. Any examples?
Sanne has actually only submitted 15 pictures. This is one of them, http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/?id=54374 There are ~2000 giraffes on one page. Ediktonia has similar images.

Personally, I think these works are kind of taking the piss.
No, not while NYC is still run by the bankers.
I'm the developer of http://www.tradelr.com which might be something you're looking for?

It's very much in its early stages and features are still evolving.
It's not worse than lisping the world:
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2003/index.html
Two wrongs don't make a right.

The solution isn't to hurt Mark directly. The solution stop using facebook.
"When reality is labeled unthinkable, it creates a kind of sickness in an industry. Leadership becomes faith-based...."

A very interesting look into what happened/is happening to an industry faced with a disruptive innovation (newspapers etc. and the net).
I'm not a fan of the lateen rig, but it is very low-tech effective and has been dated as far back as 300BC. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateen_sail
I always thought the Toughbook (or at least the ones I've seen) was a multi-panel ruggedized laptop, rather than single chunk of metal.
Apple used to have really, really big power adapters, too. The one for my Mac Mini (G4) is enormous. The one for my MacBook is not especially tiny, but it is OK. YMMV.
the brand Blizzard started to build in 1996.

The first Warcraft game (Warcraft: Orcs & Humans) was released in 1994.
That's precisely why games have to stop using DRM and focus on creating additional revenue. For example, if your DRM blocks a pirated copy of your game for which you sell additional DLC, you won't get money for either the copy or the DLC. I know it's an oversimplified and exaggerated example, but I just want to illustrate the point.

I know people who pay regularly to go to the movie theater and see a new movie. A lot of those will later rent that same movie from BlockBuster because they liked it so much. And then they will make an illegal copy, because they liked it so much and also because it's the cheapest alternative to get a good quality copy. My point is that those pirates still contributed something to the revenue. One of the reasons why game pirates don't contribute anything is because there's nothing else to contribute.
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queue.add = queue.push;
queue.remove = queue.shift;

Oh god no! I pray I don't ever have to work with this guy after he learns about prototypes.

Also, he is using "shift" and requires binary trees, but makes no mention whatsoever of the performance characteristics?
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If you think about it, this is indeed mysterious
It's interesting to see the different ways that people respond to design.

When I look at that laptop I immediately think "MacBook". Then as I look at it more some of the details don't seem quite right and it becomes obvious that it is not a MacBook, but probably a copy of one.

Other's that I have talked to about this though don't see anything but the faintest resemblance to a MacBook. I suppose it's all a matter of perspective.
Looks like Google announced this yesterday - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-metamorphosis-...
If HP has indeed caught up with Apple on battery life and overall noise, that's the real story here.
It's been a long time since I last saw one, I don't even know if they're still being made, but I recall the case being milled out of a chunk of magnesium alloy.

Maybe I'm wrong though, as I said it's long ago.
The old models were horrible. No optical drive on a 15" laptop and the software used for the trackpad was horrible. It looks like they remedied the optical drive issue, I'd have to see if the trackpads work better now.
Nice quote there. Few of my favourites.

mark twain: "Dance like nobody’s watching; Love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; Live like it’s heaven on earth."

Einstein: "imagination is more important than knowledge"

Programmers quote:"I find that most people get upset by mistakes. I generally don't. I have always thought that the reason is that I am trained to accept that there will be mistakes, because compilation errors are a norm. When they happen, you fix them, and move on with your life. If you get upset over compilation errors, you won't last in this biz"

trotsky: "those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable"

"always end on a quote"
It was shaky for a while, but yes. I run Ubuntu 10.04 on an Envy 15 and it works well. The two caveats are that kernel 2.6.33+ is necessary for patches related to the BIOS and ACPI, and a patch to synaptics drivers is necessary if you want the touchpad to work properly.
... or just a link to a gambling site :-(
Because software avatars proved so successful for Office...

This kind of thing is a kludge for an unfocussed, overly-featured app. Simple apps that only do what you want are much better. Kind of like iPods...
One guy working all by yourself alone. This didn't work at all for me.

Funny, I have trouble working any other way.

I was unmoored, directionless, suffering from analysis paralysis, and barely able to get motivated enough to write even a few lines of code.

I am totally grounded with tons of work and a million ideas of what to do and how to do it. I'm having so much fun, my biggest problem is finding time to triage all the possibilities in my head.

I understand OP, but that's just not my experience. Programming can be a lonely lifestyle. I have my code and my cats to keep me company. I love them both.

[EDIT: I don't want to leave the wrong impression; I am very social and used to find it challenging being alone. Not anymore. I just bury myself in my work, which is something that has to be done anyway. Now I don't want to be bothered when "I'm busy", but I do want to be bothered at most other times. Dinner with SO, time with friends & family, and visits to the hn virtual water cooler fit in perfectly. Now back to work - see you in a few hours.]
Isn't that, like, two or three posts in one?

It's the Paranoid Android of blog posts!
Wish this had seen more popular interest. Sean is an excellent teacher and is fun to learn from.
It's a prediction market - different than a pure gambling website. The prices are set in realtime by the users so there is 'wisdom of the crowd' information for the public.
It would be interesting if Caonincal would release a version of Ubuntu with the proprietary software installed for a low price. I wonder how many people would pay for it?
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"With digital goods, copying is essentially free, so the creator doesn't lose anything, so one party gains while the other neither loses nor gains."

This isn't true. When you steal physical goods..the original owner loses just the cost of the physical item. It doesn't change the value. Digital goods are different. As more and more people pirate it, the perceived value approaches $0, which has the potential to destroy a business. Even worse than this, if it's not stopped, more and more people will just start assuming that software is free (and will not want to pay for it). Piracy hasn't just destroyed a business, it's destroying many industries.

You may be fine with this. However, it will just result in more forms of DRM and an increase in services where you don't get to install it on your computer. I don't see the people bitching about DRM offering any kind of alternative. Most people, like you, won't even admit there is a problem with piracy.

You also can't say that the owner doesn't lose anything. I have been involved with too many businesses that have seen piracy directly effect their business. With my own business, my sales dropped 40% when there were cracks readily available. When I disabled the cracks, sales went back up to normal.
Plus one for posts about Genetic Algorithms. My masters research was on Genetic Algorithms. Btw for those interested in learning more about the field my professor has a free book out on Metaheuristics (Which includes genetic algorithms) at
http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/
Wow. I guess I'm completely different from Jeff.

I have no need whatsoever for a "coding buddy." I'm considerably more comfortable working on a project solo. Even with a good team, I hate the coordination overhead.

I can, of course, and good team skills are important. I'm not saying that. But the coordination costs of software development increase super-linearly, so I tend to prefer using the minimum number of people that can possibly do a job. The break-even point is around 4-5 - after that, adding more people makes things slower, unless you can split the project into autonomous chunks.
"wisdom in the crowd" seems like a contradiction. Nice phrase.
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Right, but creating additional revenue is difficult when costs are so high.

I don't know what the solution is. I guess the best one is to just make a multiplayer game on the basis of continuing to sell and support it for years at a stretch, like Valve. But that limits what kind of games you make, and would also put you in direct competition with Valve. Which... is probably just as bad as not doing it in the first place.