skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on stage and context of product. In the earliest days, I think whoever owns "customer development" should also own the UX. It doesn't need to be beautiful, just good enough (that's where context of product comes in -- it defines "good enough" -- a product for engineers will have different requirements than one for grandparents).

The trouble with using free time from a friend is 1. by being free, it is harder to give blunt feedback; 2. by being a favor, you are beholden to their schedule, and can they really keep up with your pace of iteration and learning based on customer development? It can put strain on friendships.

So in the earliest days I say try to DIY unless you really don't have a design bone in your body. Use paper and Balsamiq to sketch, and examine what you like and dislike of comparable products.

You can always hire a professional designer later to come in and help once you feel confident that you are close to the right product for the right customer.
As much as you may enjoy your alone time, you must realize that getting to know people is more important in the long run than being comfortable now.

This is especially true in the startup world where knowing the right people and having smart people on your team is arguably just as essential to your success as all those late nights hard at work you may put in.

The only way you get to meet these "right" people, is to meet A LOT of people, and that means pushing outside of your comfort zone.
No app errors. Was it a javascript error?

The campaign will have to have a voter list already. Most will buy or have access to one via the local party.
Let's be real folks, marginal tax cuts don't motivate entrepreneurs
Hockey to toughen him up and get a great social experience.

I am Canadian BTW
I own a retail business and I'm surprised you left out rent in your list of overhead costs.

You can start in a crap location and gradually build up a loyal customer base. That's cheap and can eventually be lucrative if you're really good at service and marketing, but in many ways you're fighting against the tide - you're inconvenient to your customers and easily forgotten.

A well-run bar in a good location will surely bring in good revenue, but the rent will almost inevitably be expensive as well.
It's always been ironic - like people saying you should use Chrome/FF over IE because they were standards compliant... and yet only 30% of the market. Saying just because they were better browsers was fine, but standards don't really sell browsers :-)

There is a clear difference between a formal standard and a defacto standard and Microsoft is the king of owning defacto standards.
For me, minimum capital requirements to be an accredited investor is already far worse than the disease.

I'd prefer to see certification programs that people raising money must apply-for, and have that be the basis of whether an investment is valid for the market, rather than placing a capital requirement on potential investors as the way to determine if an investor is smart enough to reject scams, and thus save the government from complaints and minimize lawsuits than what would happen if joe public and his granny could invest their savings.

Perhaps there could be a certification program too for people wanting to invest.

This I think would free up capital and opportunity, ie real micro finance.
Yup. i learnt a lot by seeing Zed's code.

But it was very nice indeed that he takes time to review code voluntarily on blog comments.
OLPC's security model, called Bitfrost, is very interesting:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bitfrost
Microsoft's hand in your wallet.
Nothing fixes an exploit faster than the threat of embarrassing sexual messages.
The button becomes giant when I click it. Works if you don't click the button (just click the image).

I volunteer on a lot of small campaigns (state level) -- we can buy voter list in MA, but that only has name, address -- no phone number. We get phone number from your competitors products.

Party provides data sporadically --- usually only if there's a big election, and not in a downloadable way (through their software). Different states are different, of course, but in MA, that's been my experience.
Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever underestimate networking and getting to know the right people in the right places. Ever.

Introverted is one thing, I am as well. I like my time to think, explore, etc. But being shy and not liking the differences of others because it is things you don't like is a cause for concern.

Additionally, not taking the time to learn and thus practice the necessary skills to networking appropriately will only place you behind the 8 ball, so to speak, in what you do. Being introverted can very easily put a lower ceiling on who you meet and how they can help you, or you help them.
I wonder how good this would be as web application... maybe I should give it a try.
Thanks! That's good input. I'm encouraged about the typing speed, especially because the 5" size leaves decent room for the text area.
How I query Apache logs from the commandline
Is FBI the agency tasked with investigating allegations of anti-competitive behavior? Interesting.

This is the last thing the valley needed though.
So, they're making an imitation of an imitation of Helvetica?...

I'm so glad I use a system that includes the real thing.
Upvoted for being funny -- I can only say that it's beyond the scope of this article, which isn't to denigrate its importance.
All the networks you listed are circuit switched, centralized networks; they really don't have anything to do with the Internet at all. The claim that without ARPAnet there would be no Internet is almost self evident, considering how fundamentally different the networks you listed are from the Internet. There's no way a commercial entity would have had the same design philosophy [1, Section 3] because a commercial entity has much different motivations.

As an aside, the best example that you could have given would have been Minitel (but still, centralized and circuit switched).

[1] http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/archive/1995/jan95/ccr-9501-clark...
It takes hundreds of pages to get going. Then it goes wonderfully. It't not easy to read, but it is worth it.
I did leave out rent. In our case it was a fairly big number, but we had a fairly large, rambling building. But it was still small compared to our cash flow.

I'd also say that bars are far, far less location-sensitive than retail. You can get away with a bar being a little off the beaten path, and if you're smart, you make that part of the appeal. That works well with a semi-vice industry...
Look up "circular error probable" (CEP). When they say "accurate to x meters", they might well mean that 50% of munitions land in an x meter circle --- the other 50%? anywhere (maybe gaussian distro). So all this talk of x meter accuracy is quite misleading.
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/she - "The Strathclyde Haskell Enhancement is a somewhat inglorious bodge, equipping ghc with automatic lifting of types to kinds, pattern synonyms, and some kit for higgledy-piggledy literate programming."

From one of the authors of Epigram: http://e-pig.org

I heard they intend to include functionality of SHE into GHC.
I disagree. On that same reasoning, giving a free 30-day trial of a service would be detrimental to a business by anchoring the customer to a 'free' price point.

On the contrary, giving the customer a taste makes them come back for more. As long as your product is actually beneficial.
Ruby Racism
Are Ruby communities akin to be being "racist" in their expectations of other dev communities to be more like them?
Someone, a person who was at the meeting informed Arrington about the negative purpose of the conversations. So either that person was lying to Arrington and Arrignton to the readers or Sacca is telling half truths.

Look at the first reporting on AngelGate. Michael Arrington says he got the content of the meetings from multiple sources:

>This group of investors, which together account for nearly 100% of early stage startup deals in Silicon Valley, have been meeting regularly to compare notes. Early on it was mostly to complain about a variety of things. But the conversation has evolved to the point where these super angels are actually colluding (and I don’t use that word lightly) to solve a number of problems, say multiple sources who are part of the group and were at the dinner. According to these souces, the ongoing agenda includes:

Complaints about Y Combinator’s growing power, and how to counteract competitiveness in Y Combinator deals

etc...
The story was about UAV software, your agenda is extraneous. Otherwise any story can be used as a jumping off point for politics and righteous indignation.
My point is that the heuristics in the list are so general as to be useless. They fit somewhere in a category between tautology, platitude, and plain old stream-of-consciousness nonsense.
I don't want to trash any particular company. The thing about simple and obvious business models which satisfy a basic need is that they're easy to replicate. My view is that every so often one company hits on a mix of utility and accessibility that satisfies enough people's needs well enough that the firm becomes a giant of the industry...arguably, it becomes an industry unto itself, so well-known and well-liked that an entire ecosystem grows up around serving the needs of its users.

But the the frontier expands, and the very high integration which formerly proved such a huge advantage is now a source of inertia.

How many of us here have signed onto CompuServe or AOL lately? How many competitors did they leave dying in the dirt? They linger on, but as strange undead shadows of themselves. Apparently a few people are still willing to pay $199/year to sustain that pioneer feeling, but I doubt I'm missing anything: http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/menu/
amix,
i am sure with the suggestions that Zed made and from your own experience of using that in production you would have made modifications to the code.

is there any way you can post the code that you last used in production?
I was wondering the same thing. Let us know how it turns out.
Uncaught TypeError: Object #<an Object> has no method 'cleditor'

application.js: line 2

is all I get -- no JS error when clicking, but only get it if I click the blue button.
Nathan Myhrvold is also a patent troll:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/132174/ubuntu_microsoft_is_pa...
Their Moon Shots and Ours
Erm, it's most certainly a fact. Government funded projects produced the Internet, while commercial companies were producing centralized, circuit switched networks. It's self evident that no one else was doing it; every single commercial company in the world at the time was pursuing a drastically different design philosophy (the reason being that circuit switched networks were making money).

As an aside, it's not really worth joining the conversation if all you have to offer are one-line platitudes. I'd be interested in some evidence supporting your point of view, but you haven't bothered to provide any whatsoever.
implement scalable method of link generation

One example of a scalable method of link generation I've seen is Tjoos.com's badge system. Tjoos.com is a coupon/deal site, and merchants who place a Tjoos badge on their site get more prominent placement on the site (e.g. homepage placement, higher in the search results, etc.).
Long weekend. The button bug was my last commit and I didn't push it live.

Yeah, some of the lists would come from the competitor. I'm hoping to offer some services they don't.
Indeed. Metafilter is a wonderful site, and an excellent complement to HN.
Offhand I'd guess that the Nth doctor diagnosed it as celiac disease and got your friend to entirely remove gluten from her diet, which solved all her problems.
"It is not claimed that the list items, taken individually or collectively, are necessary or even sufficient for self-identifying your biases."

So, basically, you're saying the list is useless. I agree with that. Or maybe we are to take its precepts as Zen koans, to be meditated upon despite their paradoxes?
You'd be surprised how many of us really are introverts. I talk about this subject with successful people quite often at conferences like TED, because it's so difficult and painful for me to be social even for a few hours a day at these events.

Almost everyone says the same thing, "Oh no. I'm an introvert. This is exhausting to me. I can't wait to get back to my room. But I can keep it up for a couple necessary hours."

A lot of people that seem so "on", that seem like extroverts, are actually just faking it for a short burst. Even a lot of big-name music stars are actually painfully shy when off stage. Sometimes it's the reason they want to be on stage: because they don't know how to mingle in the crowd.

So don't feel bad. Embrace it. Don't waste time with shallow socializing. Just keep working and improving.

Then when you find that rare kindred you really connect with, have deeper friendships with them, since you're not diluting your time with the shallow chatter.
An actual picture of this would be nice.
Fair use is a defense against a claim of copyright infringement.

This is about whether you can publish someone's picture -- and perhaps even profit off it.

Sorry to tell you but the First Amendment is clear here, like this kind of speech or not.

It's like you guys have never seen Hot or Not, the NY Times Sunday style section or a copy of Vice magazine. Get a grip.
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His stewardship of the Jargon File has certainly not been going well - the terms he's added to the glossary have mostly been crap he's imported from his political circles, and his additions to the appendix have been even worse (eg. look at the Portrait of J Random Hacker and tell me it isn't ESR jerking off over himself). Perhaps my perspective is limited, but I've never spoken to someone familiar with the jargon file from before ESR took over its maintenance who felt his care had been anything but detrimental.
What does DNA have to do with it?
What connore said, that and hackerne.ws appears to be turning into a rather uncritical bunch of cheerleading, rather than any real sensible evaluation of what's in front of them.

This community is starting to feel more like slashdot and TechCrunch collaborated on a sister site than a bastion of valuable conversation.
What do you mean pay you back? if you're lending people alcohol, you're doing it wrong.
I agree. They are like Yin and Yang. An artistic, intuitive designer that understands people working with an analytical, logical developer that understands systems make the perfect core team of any startup. I don't know why everyone mocks non-technical founders, not everyone is meant to code when they are much better at design.
This girl.
If browsers didn't support cross-site form submission, many common "web gadgets" wouldn't work: there would be no site-customized Google search boxes, and none of those third-party "share this page" buttons. Sure, the merit of those things is itself debatable—but they exist, and web developers will increasingly rely on them (e.g. the Facebook Like button.)

Also, sure, every webserver could proxy the requests—but then you have to guarantee that you haven't created an open proxy, which is a much worse hole than a simple CSRF—and then you have to do some more server-side configuration every time you want to enable your views to touch a new third-party API—which excludes a lot of hosted sites, like blogs, from using any API that their server admin hasn't considered.
I'll post some pictures tomorrow for sure.
Wikipedia has a helpful timeline of life on Earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolution#Basic_tim...

You would most likely meet completely unintelligent microbes on Earth. Or no life at all. Maybe some stupid animals or plants.

The likelihood of meeting intelligent life during the existence of this planet is something like 0.004 percent (200,000 years of intelligent life on a 4.5 billion year old planet), the likelihood of meeting nothing but microbes is greater than fifty percent. It’s consequently only reasonable to expect most alien life to be microbes.

Older intelligent civilizations could certainly exist on older planets but the age of the universe is only 14 billion years. If the average planet is something like 7 billion years old (based on the naive assumption that planets form at a constant rate) then it is only reasonable to expect that most intelligent life out there existed for no longer than something like 2.5 billion years. Oh, and past mass extinctions on Earth cast serious doubt on the ability of complex life to survive for very long. Microbes, on the other hand, are undisturbed by asteroids and volcanoes.

That’s not human arrogance. That’s just how it looks to be at the moment.

Should we find an Earth-like planet sometime in the future and detect oxygen in its atmosphere I would expect to meet microbes, not intelligent beings. (We will certainly be able to detect Earth-like planets very soon and we might even be able to detect whether those planets have oxygen but we will probably never be able to actually go there so this point is kind of moot.)
If Google was a French company, would the ruling have been the same?
First:

>Go up to a woman that you feel drawn to and stand there and say "I have to say. I'm very nervous to talk to you but I had to walk over and say hi."

Please don't. That is, unless you have material after this line, which is unlikely unless you are already skilled in chatting up strangers. You'll create an awkward situation. She'll probably give you a forced smile, and then you'll panic because now the you've opened with a sketch line and nothing else to say. I've definitely done this a number of times. I am speaking from the pain of experience.

You'd be better off finding something innocuous you like about her, and why, then opening with that. 'I like your striped socks. Where did you get them?' Then you have something to talk about for a bit.

That aside, I struggle with this too. I just spent the day at a friend's birthday party with 95% new people, and I am socially wiped. My suggestion if you want to progress in the social skills dept: practice. Make time for it.

I wholeheartedly agree with the find-a-new-hobby advice. Salsa class is a _great_ example because in a given night you get ~10-30 interactions with new women when you rotate. It is rapid fire practice. Also rock-climbing. People are friendly and social. I always ask about techniques to climb X, which can lead to a decent convo.

And finally, go to every social thing you are invited to. Everything. Even if you feel shitty and want to hole up with your computer. It will get easier.
I was typing it on my mobile phone. Which is not a good enough excuse I know but it's the only excuse I have.

Also I wasn't disputing whether Government funding produced the internet. What I disagreed with was the notion that the Internet deserved to be produced and therefore the Government was beholden to fund it. Such a discussion wouldn't be a debate that lent itself to the use of evidence for claims since its primarily a philosophical one.
Wow. I've dealt with Chris a little (and know people whose companies he has invested in, whose companies have gone both ways) and was always impressed but now am even more so. I obviously knew nothing about his financial situation but can admire anyone who'd put that much on the line when they smelled good gambles.
I could see the merits of phrasing it that way, though the answer could just be "babysitting" and I know that's not what I'm after. Besides, that cuts everyone not in the Bay Area out of the discussion, and smart people are everywhere.

I'm more interested in unique ways technical people have sold themselves without getting hooked on lengthy coding projects. There may be useful inspiration from people smarter than I.
Zynga successfully makes Flash games played by a) women b) over the age of 40 who c) use them with their friends in d) a social context to e) supplement existing social grooming rituals while f) being successfully, aggressively monetized by g) a well-oiled metrics machine with h) offline components.
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Ack, that'll be TypeKit. I'll disable nice looking fonts on iDevices to fix this.
A good chunk of my 5PM today was spent trying to install Visual C++ Express.

Just try it.

It downloads, it unpacks to C:\${GUID} aaand .. nothing happens. Over and over and over again, using 3 different browsers.

Even when I try to make win32 builds of FOSS stuff just to be nice to people without compilers, MS platform actively refuses to cooperate.
Excellent ideas. Why does a $1mm net worth indicate more 'sophistication' than (for example) having an MBA, or business-law-focused JD, or having passed the Series-7 or bar exams?

Or, there could be a standard waiver-of-claims-of-unsophistication allowing those under the current 'accredited' limits to get the same legal treatment as those meeting the limits.
If contact is made by an alien intelligence, it is very likely to end up being entirely on the alien's terms. Even if the aliens pursued a hands-off approach (or relevant-manipulator-off-approach as the case may be) and allowed us to duke out who represented Earth, it would be solely because they chose that path, not because we had any say in it. Maybe in another couple hundred years that won't be true, but it's likely to stay true for longer than the UN is going to still be an entity.
> Having said all that, I'm still not clear why I had to take analytical mechanics/statics in my second semester

Part of the hazing :) On a serious note, it looks like ABET has relaxed their standards.

> For most of its history, ABET’s accreditation criteria specifically outlined the major elements that accredited engineering programs must have, including the program curricula, the faculty type, and the facilities. However, in the mid-1990s, the engineering community began to question the appropriateness of such rigid accreditation requirements.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accreditation_Board_for_Enginee...

New standards (references room-for-interpretation "Engineering Sciences" and not statics, dynamics, nature of materials):

http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents-UPDATE/Criteria%20and...
Don't allow the fact that you're an introvert to be an excuse. e.g. "I'm an introvert, so it's OK for me to no talk to these people." With that being said, I believe it's OK. However, let's consider what being introverted really means. It just means that you find it more difficult to talk/relate/network with others. Some of the most outgoing people I know are really introverted - you would never know.

A few tips:
1) Always smile.
2) Don't develop preconceived notions that prevent you from building relationships.
3) Force yourself to talk with others.
4) Avoid making negative comments. Try to be enthusiastic.

If you practice this religiously, people will never know that you're introverted. I know, because this is me - no one in my social circles would ever believe me if I told them that I thought I was naturally introverted.
Indeed. As someone who is:

1. Currently living neither in the US, nor the places it deploys these drones—and therefore unable to affect, or be affected by, the US's foreign policy re: drones;

2. and who rationally values their time;

I can't see any benefit to investing said time in analyzing US drone deployment policy. The technology of drones, however, is fascinating.