skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only service I see close to what he's imagining is status.net, check the video, it is almost exactly what he is talking about.

As a heavy user of twitter, I really don't see microblogging as a much needed service that needs to be decentralized. I just want the latest news and links from the web designers and programmers that I follow. #newtwitter seems like it would make the user experience more enjoyable for someone who has leaned on to that standard type of use of twitter.

I also don't worry for developers, as long as twitter doesn't keep track of my unread posts or lets me filter my feed, they have a niche.
Occam's Razor

Michael is simply an asshole and a bully, and not a good lawyer either.

I've had enough interaction with the man to know he's on a short list of people I would not want to work with. Mature adults settle their disputes without public temper tantrums (on websites they control).

This is a small time deal. Airing it out like this says more about Michael Arrington and how he deals with anyone who slights him than anything. Would you want to be his contractor, for anything, knowing he could turn on you and trash you like this? No thanks.

His product was a piece of crap, and he should have been a man and cut his losses on this one. He's not an engineer. He was just some ex lawyer with a bit of money and perceived influence who was bossing some eager hustlers from SE Asia around. If he really knew how to design a cutting edge product, and really had any business sense, he would not have gotten himself into a no contract, no name outsource mfr situation like this.

I am glad it bit him in the ass, and that he is so unaware of what an asshole he is that he is broadcasting this to the world. Usually people are more clever about hiding this sort of thing, but no contractor can go into a deal with this guy and claim they did not see any red flags that he's just an unpleasant, high risk client.
The central point of the article is that certain people (designers, for lack of a precise term) can use their intuition to get better results than actually testing alternatives; to quote the article:

"Testing can only tell you so much -- and it often only reveals that people only like things that are similar to what they've had before. But brilliant design solutions convert people over time, because they're both subtle and ground breaking."

The article provides no evidence to support its claim. For all the anecdotes, not a single one describes a situation where the intuitions of "designers" outperformed a solution based on testing alternatives.

However, the pro-designer propaganda flies thick and fast, repeatedly implying designers would have made a better solution, or seen the solution as obvious without the need for testing:

- "While that solution seems obvious and not particularly elegant"

- "Is it just us who find our eyeballs spinning in their sockets...?"

- "Obviously, none of these (prototypes) were going to work"

- "A little design know-how would have made that obvious"

- "(They eventually settled on a blue that is basically the average of all the blues used in hyperlinks across the web. Duh.)"

- "Google's 'solution' to providing instant results still seems so primitive and ugly"

- "But brilliant design solutions convert people over time, because they're both subtle and ground breaking."

- "testing artificially limits the worldview of the people"

- "has your G-mail or Google Reader gotten any easier to use, or less stressful on your eyes? Have either of them become a pleasure to look at or play with? No."

The author isn't interested in making a coherent argument. The author's interest lies in unashamedly gratifying the readers' sense of importance. It is a website for designers, after all.
So, BoA wants to detect itself then?
Japan's foreign aid to India is mostly in the form of loans, so it's unsurprising that there could be a year where the repayments outweighed new loans.
And after they exploited us for like 200 years.
This particular quote is not newsworthy, but has anyone started to wonder if Google might have to cut ties with Schmidt at some point? I started using bing this week in no small part because I find Schmidt creepy.
I really like the zero-downtime restart. Are there other servers beside Phusion Passenger 3 and Unicorn with this feature?
I still don't see a reason to switch to it. I use firefox for day to day browsing and chrome for specific work-related things.

I guess the question I need to ask is "Why?". Unless IE has some serious performance differences I can't see a reason to use it.
An assassin, a ghost and a priest walk into a bar. The bartender says, "what is this, a joke?"

Great article, but the themes are nothing we haven't already seen posted on Hacker news many times. Be able to change when your business model is on the path of being destroyed (assasin,) but don't allow yourself to be distracted by every possible threat which hasn't even materialized yet (ghost.)

Personally, I like the idea of the priest the best. Follow your competitors and allow them to pave the way for you by opening new markets and trying new ideas. Then improve on what the competitor is doing. That's my interpretation anyways. ;)
You cannot measure everything. You cannot A/B test frustration, or confusion, or discomfort. You cannot measure slight changes in the way your brand or site is perceived. You can vaguely measure of proxies but they're just that, proxies. The danger of a culture built around worshiping data to the point of ignoring everything else is that you forget that you cannot measure everything, including many of the things that matter most.
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As a user who regularly has 15+ tabs open simultaneously, this is the one reason I cannot see myself using IE9.
Which is great if you want to do completely unnecessary admin work every 90 days.
It already did, alas. A couple of years ago it was really nice, but even when selecting only a few potentially interesting reddits (programming, science, etc), some posts are OK but comments are more and more both useless and stupid.

So finally I spend much more time on HN now. Though the problem is that probably most older reddit users will come there, then pushing the HN old-timers to start some alternate HN-clone :)
Since Spotify hasn't launched in the US yet, I would guess that the negotiations are not really going forward. Daniel Ek said in an interview that they hoped to launch in the US soon, and that was more than a year ago.
I would only eat my hat, if they proved causation.
Thanks for the links. Looks like this project is focusing more on the command line..mine will have it, but its not the focus.
This is one of the things meg wants to get rid of
As I always do when someone starts off on this flight of mythology, allow me to suggest that you read Clay Shirky's "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy":

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

You may learn some things about these cycles of "I was on Site X and it was great, then went to crap, then I went to Site Y, then it went to crap..." which will surprise you, and which -- at least in my reading and based on my experience of spending the last decade building community-oriented sites -- hint that reddit's doing way, way better than HN.
One really big selling point for Spotify is the quality of experience. For example, the median playback latency for starting a track is just 265 ms.
Also light is a radioactive wave. Or if they are sitting in front of a camping fire, they enjoy the waves.
who runs openspora.com?
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Yep, it'll leave a trace. A huge trace probably several hundred square meters in size ... in a several million square kilometer area of ocean. Most of the debris would be on the ocean floor, the remainder would stay on the surface for a while before being dispersed and displaced by ocean currents. All of these bits and pieces are too small to be picked up by satellite unless you have a satellite already looking at the exact area where it is (very unlikely), and even then it may not be possible to distinguish it from any other random bit of debris in the ocean.

Think about a comparable problem, finding shipwrecks on the ocean floor. The ocean floor is vast, the shipwreck is tiny, modern techniques rely on looking for the debris trail to focus the search for the shipwreck itself. But in these cases the advantage of the shipwreck remaining in one place and relatively unmodified are completely lost for debris on the surface, and there is far less of it. The oceans are big, the floating bits of a 727 are small.
Why do they deserve attention? Because they have better, more mature code-bases and more experienced programmers developing them. Other than publicity, what does Diaspora have going for it, and why do they deserve attention just because of their marketing? This is open source we're talking about, not startup companies, and open source works best when it's meritocratic. And if we're talking about which open source project to build a startup with, then we're talking about merit, nothing else.
If it's true that for a social network to be successful it needs some quick growth at the beginning to have a critical mass, then Diaspora is in trouble. They're in trouble because they release non-usable alpha versions of their code, loose the buzz ("Diaspora released another version today, X works now, but it's still not good enough to replace Facebook."), and by the time they have a 1.0 version nobody's going to care.

I'm saying it might not make sense to develop software in an open-source manner whose existense relies of viral growth of users dependant on a one-off buzz generated when the 1.0 is released.
wordpress + wp-commerce is VERY easy.

magento, oscommerce are full featured PHP carts
I used to read digg way back when, but someone alerted me to the whole situation and I watched it crumble, and it was... spectacular. It was like a cyberpunk novel. People didn't just move to reddit, they moved to reddit, and then salted the earth behind them.
I agree entirely. I'm very happy with Gmail, and switching from Winamp to iTunes just left me wishing that a Mac version of Winamp existed, even after using iTunes for about two years.
It would be Google Classic if the bottom half of the screen would stop changing as I'm typing. Right now, I hate using Google proper... it hurts my eyes. Then again, I pretty much just use the location bar in Chrome to do Google searches, so I'm not affected much, but Instant is a big difference over Classic.

I'm all for efficiency, but I prefer clarity.
The way UK aid works is terrible. On the one hand we're told there's no money in the treasury, yet on the other we're handing out money to countries with faster growing economies, space programs and a questionable need.

I'm glad India at least had the gumption to stand up and tell us where to shove our aid, that £3.3 billion is much better in our pockets.
It's not only that, the whole article is pretty much editorializing. When will the MSM learn to just cover the facts & then STFU?
are diaspora guys on HN ?
OAuth 1.0 is mix of authentication problem (as solved by HTTP authentication) and connection protection problem (as solved by SSL) and cross-site authentication problem.

OAuth 2.0 is mix of authentication problem (as solved by HTTP authentication) and cross-site authentication problem.

I hope, OAuth 3.0 will solve cross-site authentication problem only, so I can use standard HTTP or cookie-based authentication solutions and standard HTTPS protocol (when necessary).
The most complete open source PHP e-commerce out there is MagentoCommerce, but it's very hard to customize.
It saddens me and makes me giggle whenever I see the community patting itself on the back for the quality of its discussion.

Amen. I have several times tried to comment to that effect, but couldn't come up with the words. Thanks for saying it. Especially irksome to me are comments that go something like "You're on HN, you're better than that." in response to a comment on which the poster disapproves. Let's skip the childish reverse psychology attempts, shall we?
@mkramlich - I did realise it was v off topic but I wanted advice from a community that has a lot of clever and thoughtful people ... and HN ;-)

I was thinking something like c1sc0 suggested - there are times when I would like to hand over a voucher for a bed for a night rather than cash. But I also understand such voucher schemes can do more harm than good. Something like pay this website, get a pdf with a random number on it. That number can be redeemed against your payment by the hostel. It is probably something that needs sponsoring by the council / govt / Shelter, but might not sit well with their policy / experience. I'll have a look-see.

So it seems the advice boils down to

* will the "system" help? Is there a reason she is not treated on NHS / RBKC housing her?

* As an emergency measure take a call if they are genuine and if so try and pay for hostel for a few nights.

I'll let you know.

Lastly is editing my own post a time limited offer?
I wanted to clean up that markup crud - I think my iPhone hates me.
Depending on where the crash is that floating debris may never end up ashore. Instead, it may end up shredded into pieces and floating just under the surface of the water in a mid-ocean gyre along with a crap-ton of other debris from who-knows-where. At that point it's like searching for a needle in a field full of haystacks that have been picked up by a tornado.
The same year this mix was made, Ultimate Soundtracker was released: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywaCR5Tg4A

Commercial sampling keyboards were available for the big budget productions around the late 70s(the big breakthrough being the polyphonic Fairlight CMI in '79), but memory prices dropped low enough to make mass-market products like the Casio SK-1 available by the mid-80s. So my impression(not having been around for that era) is that extensive tape mixes like the one in the video were primarily inspired by digital samplers; since at that time, samplers couldn't hold entire songs, tape splicing technique improved to allow the same concept to be used in a longer format. The move to computer-centric editing came with multitrack editing of entire songs(e.g. Pro Tools) which happened during the 1990s.
I don't have any figures to back this up, but frankly I would be astonished if it turned out that most people didn't expect 'open' to mean 'not locked down'. The trick is that Android isn't actually open for all parties concerned, only for the integrator. The integrator may then decide to make the resulting device open, but that is not a foregone conclusion, as proven by some of the devices beginning to appear on the market. But that message isn't what is being marketed - people are being told that Android is 'open', by which they naturally understand that they can do what they want with their device. But in reality, not so much. Anyway, way too many words to say that this is a very ironic result if you don't take care to explicitly define the parties concerned when talking about openness/locked downedness of a device...
thats a pretty big if, almost the entire customer development program is aimed towards proving that if isnt true
I've been homeless, in London as well. My view on what you've described: They haven't had their epiphany about why they need to get off the streets and take care of themselves.

I say that just because they mention a short term goal and nothing more. "We haven't a bed tomorrow", rather than "We need out of this situation and off the streets for good so that they can do right by themselves and their future child".

The difference is subtle but yet huge. They're not looking to get off the streets yet, they're just looking to get a bed tomorrow.

They already know where the nightshelters are, everyone on the streets in London do and they are free.

Hostels charge and most homeless will know where those are too. Hostels vary in price, but £12 for a night is a fair ball-park.

Shelters and hostels can be found out about here: http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/homelessness/emerge...

My simple summary: If you want to help, then point them towards Shelter. They haven't yet had the epiphany and aren't yet looking to leave the street, instead they've spotted you for what you are to them which is an opportunity for a little short-term comfort.

What you should do is concede you are not able to help them without them having the epiphany. Further, you should concede that even if they have the epiphany that you are not well placed to help them given your own situation. The thing you should do is to let Shelter know they exist and are calling for help. There absolutely are people skilled and with resources waiting to help them as and when they want to help themselves.

Of course, you could just ease your conscious and throw them some money and satisfy their transient need for a little hard cash... but you probably know what this is going to do, and do it once and you will be put in the position to have to do it again.
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Oh, that makes sense. I never thought about loans. Is this a common arrangement? I had this image of aid being counted as money given away, not loaned.
Maybe the plane was...

L O S T

(sorry, couldn't resist)
Eating in McDonalds is like using TXT files to mimic a database. No matter how much ketchup you throw at it, it will make you sick and sorry.
Not in the apartment building I used to live in in Manhattan.
What customer development program?
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Interestingly, I often experience a somewhat opposite effect.

A lot of interactions with clerks are template-based, i.e., they follow the exact same flow every time. In case of McDonald's, the standard interaction for buying a burger may go roughly like this:

Customer: A big mac, please.
Clerk: Would you like some french fries with that?
Customer: No, thank you.
Clerk: Would you like a soft drink with your burger?
Customer: No, thank you.
Clerk: For here or to go?
Customer: To go, please.

However, I found that I can't shortcut this conversation even if I give all the required information right at the beginning, which annoys me quite a bit. The interaction would then go something like this:

Customer: A big mac, please, no french fries or drink, to go.
Clerk: Would you like some french fries with that?
Customer: *sigh* - No, thank you.
Clerk: Would you like a soft drink with your burger?
Customer: No, thank you.
Clerk: For here or to go?
Customer: To go, please.

Too bad, the clerk process insists on reading all information from stdin instead of using the provided command line parameters.
Actually, Moore's law is all about price -- or, rather, costs.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law, its most widely accepted formulation states: The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years (emphasis mine). Even the quote from the original Electronics Magazine article includes: "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year".

Essentially, cost is the whole point of the Moore's observation. And the OP is asking the right question, which I've asked myself (http://berislav.lopac.net/post/495375785/is-there-a-moores-l...) and got no answer.

I don't believe that bandwidth should follow the same rate of progress as the transistor density, as there are different sets of constraints at work, but I'm also curious if there has been any recognizable pattern there as well.
I don't have much experience with PHP or anything related, but when I was in similar shoes (coming from perl, though), I tried Django, and it was very very easy.

From basically zero Django knowledge, and only very little python, I had a usable application up and running within a weekend.

I can only recommend it, it's a pleasure to work with it, and has very good documentation too.
I would use what you know unless what you know is going to cause problems for you. Building a store is unlikely to cause you problems.

Take a look at the PHP based cart options available and see if they will fit your needs. If they don't then look to see how much work they will require in custom development. If you can easily do something with existing scripts then I would think the savings in time and getting to selling as fast as possible would be best.

If you start to outgrow your first CMS based solution then you could always build something totally custom with something like CodeIgniter while your store is still making sales. You might even be able to take the time to learn Python and Django in exploring other options.

If nothing you find will work, then go with CodeIgniter (though Drupal is also somewhat of a framework and you could build a cart as a custom add-on) so that you can get to sales as fast as possible.
This is very likely to be illegal.

http://www.mndaily.com/2010/04/22/unpaid-internships-under-i...
> "Clearly, whatever they meant by "faith," it had a strong mystical (i.e. otherworldy, not based in this reality) slant."

A small but vocal subset of religious people within the last 100 years (particularly fundamentalist evangelicals) have a marked tendency of treating faith as a strongly mystical thing which is opposed to, and better than, reason. But within most of the rest of Judeo-Christian history and tradition (including most modern Jewish and Christian intellectuals), faith has been thought of in the way I described it: the triumph of reason and experience and willpower, in opposition to fickleness and forgetfulness and emotion.

The only ancient mysticism I know of surrounding Jewish or Christian ideas of faith is the idea that a person might have a supernaturally strong will, and therefore may be able to continue acting according to reason through remarkably dire circumstances. The concept of faith itself, within those traditions, is not mystical or supernatural.

Kant's morality has mystical aspects, and therefore, by association, so does his faith -- as I said, it was a step toward the modern definition (and it may very well be flawed.) Ayn Rand's definition is particularly 20th-century influenced: "blind acceptance of a certain ideational content, acceptance induced by feeling in the absence of evidence or proof." You will not find this mystical, blind conception of faith prior to about a hundred years ago; it is not what was meant by Kant, Augustine, Paul, or Moses.
I'm less interested in how fast Google can return a result. (That should be as fast as possible...)

What really matters to me is how quickly can I find what I'm looking for and go on my way. This is the only metric that really matters.

Total time = search result + visual scanning/deciding

Right now, for me, the total time has increased because the time it takes for me to scan the page and figure out if I want to click a link has increased. Also, because you're being bombarded with extra links as you type, I'm more apprehensive about clicking a link, because I'm wondering if there was a better choice using a different variation of the query.

I loved the older method of as you type updating the query box, but this is information overload.