skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad architecture takes away your ability to iterate rapidly. Sure, writing crap code is fast at first. But if you let it continue, you end up with a difficult situation. You end up with a company where people work harder and harder and nothing gets done.

And yes I have seen companies go under for this. Either they lose their competitive advantage of working quickly or they lose customers because of stupid problems that could have been fixed with some planning.
Then why would they be hiding their presence?
For those who are not US-based, In-n-Out is a burger chain of restaurants.

Also, OP don't make us clear the text boxes by hand. Consider changing the form code to something like this: https://gist.github.com/763243
Possibly, but that still doesn't explain why I can't find any source confirming any of the details in this article.
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simple. every user is worth 100 dollars. Like in the old days of 1999.
First thought: this is tedious, banal. So I started scrolling through more quickly. Then it struck me: they're frames from a BLIPVERT! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipvert)

Perhaps it was never intended to be seen as a series of static images. Imagine all these slides compressed into a few seconds of high-impact, subliminal advertising - to a select group of hapless executives...
From the article:

"And yes, I’m aware that using a pre-existing library to interface with the Twitter API might be considered “cheating”, but it would be downright impossible to fit the script into the size constraints without it. The API endpoint URLs alone would probably be long enough to push the script over the limit."

Edit: Before this turns into a gauntlet[1], I'm simply quoting the article so that people don't think the author is oblivious to this fact.

[1] http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?o2=&o0=1&...
What is an “idea” for a startup? A startup idea is an
assertion about two things; a problem that people have
and a way to solve it.

Here's why this post is both right and wrong, in one sentence. It's wrong, because 'a way to solve it' is not 'an idea'. Rather, 'a way to solve it' consists of a great many ideas, conceived of, and strung together, over an extended period of time. All these ideas together are what is called 'execution'. You can't solve anything without consistently having new ideas about how to solve the challenge currently at hand. That, in turn, is why the post is right: having the right idea at the right time is important. It's just that the single idea that precipitated it all is simply not very valuable by itself.
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of course not. School is where students pray, study "creationism", eat junk food and pledge allegiance to the flag.
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Brilliant! I tweeted it as soon as I read it.
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Why in the world are you talking about Facebook blackmailing users to earn $2/$3 per user? Advertising (and maintaining what's left of their reputation) is clearly fall more lucrative. If each user just clicks on one Facebook ad each year, that's $2/user/year right there.
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Stocks make investors (contrasted with traders) money either by (a) going up in price or (b) paying a dividend every quarter. In order to make your stock price go up, you have to show not just profits, but growing profits. With something like Wal-Mart, this just means either cutting costs or selling more stuff to more customers. However, Facebook is going to (over the next few years) approach market saturation - they hit 500 million users 6 months ago, and there are only two billion internet users world-wide, meaning they can't keep growing at their historical pace forever. As that user growth slows, there are two ways to increase revenues (and profits) - either extract more money from each user or diversify into other products or services. If they can't do that, then they have to reorient into a "own our stock because we pay dividends" slow-growth company like Microsoft.
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I imagine Goldman Sachs has access to numbers that are a lot less speculative than the ones we have access to.
If he favors type safety and switching between modules of different type systems, Racket already has that, doesn't it?
Very few, and why does anybody buy their stock? This guy I know has been borrowing more and more money for years and never paid a red cent back, and now you want to lend him your money?
UDP co-creator on UDP (and NSA killing end-to-end encryption in TCP)
seems like a good match if you want to recruit people who are into secrecy. if you want to recruit potential spies, you don't want your foreign intelligence agencies noticing who you are recruiting, do you?
0.001% is still probably a generous estimate -- given Facebook's 3000 or so employees and the fact that all not-very-senior employees should add up to 2%.

Also, stock options need to have a hardly-discounted exercise price attached. That is, an employee that gets a stock option package reflecting shares worth $500K will have to shell out (at least) $450K to exercise them when the time comes. So based on this valuation, if facebook is worth "only" $70B in 4 years, the profit is going to be $250K or ~$60K/year. Nothing to sneeze at, and definitely a nice bonus -- but not more than that. And if facebook is worth $30B at the end of 4 years, today's stock option grant is worth virtually nothing.
'without using loops' is very ill defined. All solutions that in some way generate all integers up to a thousand need to include something we would, in English, refer to as 'a loop'. The ctor trick also contains 'a loop'. What solutions would you consider valid, without resulting in semantic squabbling over whether 'i < 1000' is a conditional or a condition and whether that matters?
It's not ideas that are worthless; it's the 'visions'.

It might be true that a bad idea with flawless execution is just as bad as vice versa, but the thing is, too many of the self-described 'idea' people don't actually have any 'idea' of how to implement and bring their vision to life. They just want it to magically happen. Those are the people with worthless ideas, because they're not even ideas, they're just delusions of grandeur.

On the other hand, I've met my fair share of legitimate idea people who also have an idea of how to architect and implement want they want in a real, functioning web application, they just would rather have someone else, who's really into it, dig in to the nitty gritty implementation specifics (read: code) while they do the high-level technical and strategical architecting. That's totally fine, and those type of idea people are far from worthless IMO.
Wrong.

People adapted and built upon other people's music, art and technology.
> Hacker News and Metafilter compete on the quality of their communities, not their codebase.

Ding Ding Ding!

A couple years ago at the Metafilter 10th anniversary party in Portland, after he made his entrance Matt Haughey walked right up to me and called me out for having made fun of his lack of programming skills in comments on his site -- it was then that I became enlightened: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138506
Since these questions always seem to be "Demonstrate you can cheat creatively, but in a way I approve of", I have to throw out "Print out the first 1,000 terms from a properly seeded random number generator. Discovery of the seed is a more interesting question, though fairly straightforward."
Build apps for YOURSELF, not for revenue (and you'll make more money)
Doesn't that involve just as much looping as any other solution?
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I have personal experience with a company that moved off of Linux because they couldn't get decent enough hardware to handle their load. We could trade examples all day long.

The OP made a comment about web pages with pricing. My point was that lots of companies target customers that are not THEM. In fact, they often choose a strategy that allows them to explicitly target those customers that they think are their most likely prospects. Sometimes they get it right; sometimes they don't. Like a lot of things that drive company success, picking the right way to reach customers is an important decision.

Don't forget that Sun was purchased by Oracle for a princely sum. A lot of those Sun customers didn't seem to feel that their dollars were wasted.
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2007/24c3-2378-en-mifare...

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2008/25c3-3032-en-analyz...

Nowadays he is busy cracking and hacking GSM. Remarkable person.
No.

There were guys in Columbia university who (supposedly) had a much better system than Mark Z, and are probably writing code in a cubicle at Google or equivalent.

I suppose Zuckerberg got his start because he knows how to code, but he is an excellent CEO, something neither of these 2 guys nor Friendster had. Do you really think facebook is winning because of a better architecture?

I despise facebook, and don't use it. But I recognize that Zuckerberg has been doing an excellent job in growing the company, seizing opportunities, thinking huge, and most importantly -- bringing the right people in at the right time.

I tend to agree with Fred Wilson about the three things a CEO does: develop vision, acquire talent, raise money. Zuckerberg has done all three very, very well.
Good point - I forgot to consider this approach. I'll have come back to it at another point.

Generally though, I think Haskell's approach of re-adding freedoms is more fruitful than trying to add bondage to Lisp. And "the Haskell movement" certainly has a different kind of manpower behind it.
Could you code a PSD into html/css and make it into a Shopify theme?
Art is created because people feel the need. Money should not be the incentive.

An example could be a fan-made translation of old works. Mashups. Redubbing of movies. Free recordings of music.
Ha. Did you take any precautions to keep the food fresh and not-messy? Do tell.
HTTP request visualization
He argues that some features - e.g., dependent typing (http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2010/10/notes-on-dependent-ty...) - won't emerge from Lisp, because they approach the problem from the wrong angle; no safety towards more safe vs. Haskell (and others') reverse approach.
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Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program
contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow
implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Replace C by Lisp and CL by Haskell? Rinse, lather, repeat every few decades?
How do they charge them?
While the CIA is prohibited from intelligence gathering activities within US shores, this doesn't mean they're prohibited from opening an office for any other activity.

The CIA is quite active in the tech world. For example, they underwrite a venture capital firm (http://www.iqt.org/). There are many other quasi government companies active in the tech world throughout the US as well. Most of them don't hang up a billboard with exactly what they're up to, for both obvious reasons as well as the same PR behaviors that govern all companies (for better or worse).

Before you break out the tin foil, consider that it's quite reasonable for an organization like the CIA to be interested in tapping into and recruiting from the sort of uniquely high expertise pool that forms around institutions like MIT.

While I think concerns about oversight and ensuring rights are preserved are entirely reasonable, if the CIA weren't this active domestically, I think it'd warrant a call to your senator to demand more from your government.
And that is exactly why this doesn't make sense at all... it's just not possible to code it with these few lines.
It can't be 0.24mm, that would be too thick. On the wikipedia page there's a picture that says: A roll of aluminium foil, with micrometer showing a thickness of 0.013 mm (0.00051 in)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_foil
Ask HN: merging various small startups?
Was thinking that there are lots of startups coming every day. They work on lots of exciting technologies, lots of innovation, but not all get bigger or get acquired. How about a model where various small startups could be combined, in terms of technology, code, resources, people to make a better product. Thoughts?
I generally agree, since otherwise having a patent system would not make sense. Getting a patent, however, requires reduction to practice.
This is the first time I feel PG's `The Hundred-Year Language' may have answer different than Lisp. On the other hand, `a witty blogpost proves nothing', to misquote somebody.
Every single thing a user could do was based on FOAF-keyed permissions, and graph traversals were slow as hell.

In implementing Facebook, Zuckerberg redefined the problem space to give him an implementation advantage at every turn. Limiting it to manually-added colleges didn't just restrict the total userbase to be manageable -- it also introduced the concept of 'networks' that mostly eliminated the graph traversal problem. Photos were severely limited for a long time to constrain the storage problem. They also had a massive advantage in that they came of age in the post-bradfitz era of big consumer webapp architecture.
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Ask HN: Why Twitter don't show notifications in web interface?
Wondering why twitter don't notify me of a new follower or a new direct message while I am on the website, instead just an email ? That looks to me as usability fault.

Would like to know reasons behind this practice. Anyone would like to shed some light on this ?
The great thing is: if and when Haskell ever evolves as far as described in the post, we'll have Lisp again - inside "Haskell". ;)
All of the examples are companies built on a lot of know how and technology, surely covered by thousands of patents. So how are those not valuable ideas?
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If the prison sets up their own cell inside the prison they can control what flows over it, up to and including blocking encrypted/VPN traffic like the Chinese do with their networks. If you only allow plain text SMS/open voice calls/unencrypted internet packets and you monitor and record everything (like they do with the prison phone system) what's the harm?
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Yes, it was a sour-face moment when I saw that. In fact I came back to HN to see if anyone else saw it. The hidden majesty and serenity of nature, suddenly revealed, is defiled by our invasive devices.
But Foursquare being down, and losing a conversion from you, didn't affect your life any more than if you had just not heard of Foursquare in the first place. "Important" software can actually have negative utility if it's programmed wrong: it can take away your money, make you lose your job, give you a lethal dose of radiation, etc. Most software isn't important in that sense.

The applicable advice for startups here is: when you're just starting off, your software can afford to be hella buggy, because (unless you're entirely dependent on viral growth) one lost conversion here and there doesn't do anything more to your product's momentum than any other leak in your funnel. Make a buggy v1.0, sell it to the people who will buy it, and forget about the tiny[1] number of people who check out your 1.0 and write you off because of it. Then, use the money from 1.0 to fix the bugs, and release version 2.

Assuming your product survives, most of its lifetime will be spent beyond version 2—and so most of the customers your product gets (or loses), it will get (or lose) based on how version ≥2 works, not on how buggy 1.0 was.

[1] The people who will write your 1.0 off will be "tiny" in an absolute, not relative sense. You might be losing 50% of customers because your software is crap—but if that 50% is 50% of 100 people per month, then you still aren't doing yourself much damage. Once you have 50000 satisfied users, those 700 or so people who you scared away in the first seven months will be entirely forgotten. Heck, they might even come back again, if their friends are telling them about all the features of 2.0.
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>And "the Haskell movement" certainly has a different kind of manpower behind it.

Can you clarify what you mean by the words "movement" and "different kind of manpower"?

How is progress in languages like Racket different from Haskell?

Why do you think that adding "interesting" type systems in Lisp would be "heroic" and less "fruitful"?
Your assumption is only true if the user experience stays the same. Some things (like web mail) take off even when the user experience sucks, but other things that people actually want can be held back by poor user experience. For an example that has spanned practically the entire history of the internet, consider online gaming. The first internet gamers (MUDers? my history is weak) were a small population of hardcore geeks, but as the user experiences got better, the number of people playing rose in a kind of slow-motion explosion. When each breakthrough game appeared, it attracted a new crowd of players who until then had not found online game slick and engaging enough.

In 1985, 1990, 1995, or 2000 you would not have extrapolated the current percentage of online users playing social games into the future, because it was obvious the experience was going to get better. It was easy to imagine better graphics, sound, responsiveness, and social interaction, and everyone assumed the better experience would attract a broader range of users.

With RSS it's not so easy to imagine how the user experience will improve. We're suffering a failure of imagination. We have the use case: Checking for recent updates on a web site is something people do all the time. They even do it on web sites they're visiting for the first time, and it can be really frustrating depending on the organization of the web site. We have the technology to serve this use case: RSS.

So the users want the information and the browser can get it. We can't yet imagine an effective way to present the information to the users, but proof by failure of imagination is no proof at all. Personally, I think it's likely that someone will find a graceful way to present RSS information to the user, and RSS will disappear from our sight and from our vocabularies into a heretofore-unenvisaged UI element.
"A witty quote proves nothing" -- Voltaire
Why WebGL?
Where's the loop in the array initialization? Where's the loop in "map"? That's why one's clever and the other's a cheat.
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"a few additional years" does not mean "indefinitely".
You'd like the Ruby world to be different from what it is, and more like the Debian world. So you broke Ruby. Yes, I get it.
It actually works with any file, it's just that HTML files get a DOM and jQuery to help you manipulate the page.

It's conceivable to add additional tools in the future (YUI, dojo) and even maybe some tools specific to help creating css.

Having the filesystem be the API makes the caching semantics quite nice and extensible.
There are probably hundreds, if not thousands of researchers, who use Haskell (and related PLs) as their vehicle for type system research. People working on "gradual" type systems like Typed Racket are probably around a dozen, which means that progress in Haskell happens much faster and with more breadth.
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But RSS is like 10-15 years old. How long until it takes off?
Reminds me of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/284797/hello-world-in-les...
I'm fairly sure at least the posting tweets part of this won't work anymore since basic auth was turned off a few months ago. It looks like this was posted not too long before basic auth was turned off though.
Look into GBBOpen. Beautiful, industrial lisp code, thoroughly documented, though self-documenting as well.
Does any "on site value guide" exist like this today? I find a simple eBay search so terrible for it because it doesn't keep past auctions/prices up for long and current auctions don't show true value until they're over.
Of course you have to subscribe to the idea that this
safety and verification is something that's good and
superior. I do.

Why is it superior? I've always believed that a superior language is one that is as close to natural language as possible. Natural language doesn't have strict type checking, and a great many things were told with 'incorrect' grammar.
There are too many people in US Prisons, that's why they can't keep tabs on everyone.
However accounted for inflation, it's only $76 of 1999 dollars per user. I'd say at this valuation it's a steal!
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The Short: I need a hosting service that knows what the hell they're doing, and that includes password management.

The Long: I recently (tonight) had to cancel my subscription to VPSLink since they can't manage passwords in an intelligent way. (Hint: If your response to a password bug is "Make your password shorter" then screw you.) I need some insight into the best hosting services. I need control over my server, I need to be able to upgrade when I'm ready for more, and it needs to be within the right price range.

What does Hacker News suggest?
China and India were economically nowhere some in 1950. They had to take whatever investment was coming in from other countries. So whatever the USA sold to India/China. they had no choice to take it whether it was beneficial to the environment/people in the long term or not.

And I think Americans opted for bigger cars was purely due to non availability and zero motivation of efficiency in Life in General.USA has lots of land, it has sources to get cheap oil (or it creates them). So there might have been a neglect towards efficiency.
If foreign agents are moving with impunity in the US and watching recruitment operations without anyone knowing I think the CIA/FBI has a bigger problem than recruitment.

Anyway, this still doesn't explain why I can't find another source that supports this article.