skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a disruption:

- worse features than the leading products (Google Wave, Word etc)

- simpler, more convenient, cheaper, for a new use

The typical thing to do with such a disruption is to find the customers who value it (typically, enabling them to do something they couldn't do before but want to - "target non-consumption", or "non-consuming contexts"), and make a business out of it (i.e. a low-cost business model). Then, keep improving it til it has all the features of Word etc, but retains its special new qualities... thereby replacing Word.

So... who would really need etherpad? What situation would they be in? What do they need to do? It can be helpful to imagine less skilled people than you'd normally think of; or that the nature of the task means they can't afford the time for complex setup; or that they are poor. i.e. something prevents them from using Word. Maybe, a mobile app? And I understand that groupware had a lot of promise, but didn't really take off... maybe find where it did work (in large organizations) and transfer it to small (poorer) organizations.
This is a pretty good idea. It connects devs who want to sell apps with people looking to buy more apps. I am always looking for a cool game or app. Congrats!
I don't think that that's borne out by the data - sure, New Orleans saw some looting, but how many people do you think actually needed to protect themselves? We're not talking the zombie apocalypse here, just the regular flavour.
Good article. I set up a private etherpad for myself, friends and family several months ago. Not too much use, but I keep it running. Probably the sweet spot is local copies running for individual workgroups and maintain index pads so people can find pads by category.
ido is also currently in Atlanta Georgia ("The Deep South"), which is much friendlier than some other parts of the US. I've lived all over the US and grew up in Georgia. There are regional differences here as well.
Especially not if some of them carry the means to "persuade" the rest.
If you miss etherpad, we've been continuing development over on https://hackpad.com. You might like it.
Note that if a site is using a CDN like Akamai, the results may show some strange bedfellows and will be entirely dependent on the location of the host doing the lookup. Don't make the assumption that they're in any way related to each other or even that the authoritative origins are in the same hosting facility. Nice tool, though, does what it says and could be a useful check whenever you're considering implementing some draconian firewall rules.
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We are definitely exploring this option but it will have to wait until after we ramp up because we have to do it in such a hurry.

Not only that but I'd like to stay out of the hardware business as much as possible. If we have to pay a premium to do so we have to pay a premium...depending, of course, on the size of the premium.

We've fallen into the trap before of "We can do this. We'll just roll our own and save some cash." It has, without fail, ended up being more trouble than it is worth. Granted, that was on a much smaller scale so its not like we were hiring people just to handle that aspect (at first) but there is a lot to be said for focusing on core competencies and ours is software.

My first concern, funny enough, was not the cost but the loss of control...there is something almost aesthetically pleasing about owning the whole stack. But, surprisingly, I've found that it feels like we are actually more in control when I can pick up the phone and say "This is what I want done." or "We are having a problem. Fix it." and not have to worry about "Is this key person in my organization trying to help fix some hardware problem when they should be working on 'x'?" etc, etc. And if the provider becomes too much of a problem, we know we can always fall back to doing it ourselves.
the lack of communication between TEPCO, Japanese govt and IAEA is a cause of serious concern as well, IMHO.
Innovator's Dilemma is definitely the best - it was based on his PhD, it is brilliantly and simply written, and is also supported by actual data.

The above terminology is from the 3rd book, after Innovator's Solution, called "Seeing What's Next". Although he's refined and modified his theories with experience in applying them to many real situations, the book is no where near as well written, even includes a constant stream of ridiculous puns (in the aviation chapter), often uses casual language - and doesn't provide any actual data. Also, the second two books are only co-authored by Christensen (who is a Rhodes Scholar btw).

That said, something like this may be a better resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology and it's all over the web in general, so googling works.

You may also like Moore's "Crossing the Chasm" - the same ideas independently developed at the same time, but a how-to guide, rather than an academic description. He was a marketing guy, who noticed these patterns in how Apple etc succeeded. Andy Grove (for example) agreed with him. This is also a beautifully written book (guy's a PhD of English Lit).
I carry just about all that stuff (no chainsaw) in my round-the-world backpack, with space to spare for everyday items. Definitely not overkill.
From the comments looks like the OP lives in Japan, hence his family's concern.
As a tool, these visual diffs are amazing. I'd love to see this feature built into the Google Maps satellite view.
No difference, just duplicated.
Yes, you're missing something, because you are reasoning backwards.

Lean shouldn't be a way of doing business where you pick the method first, then magic happens. Nope. You look for the magic, then adapt the method. The results drive the choice of activities, not the other way around. That's the entire idea. That's why it's different.

So if your reasoning is "show me other people who use this method and do well" then you've already started on the wrong foot. A better question would be "what do startups that are successful do that we can copy?" Some of that might fit under the marketing term "lean". Some might not. Don't sweat it.

Lean is about copying what works and stripping out what isn't helpful. That's it. Yes, there are some general things that generally work better than others, but those things are just templates for you to take and adapt as you see fit. Lean is about nothing if not adapting.

I would never look at a lean practice and say "This practice will make me successful" because that's whacked. In a startup situation even if you were "perfect" you will probably fail. Instead, I would look at a successful team and say something like "Cool. There's a lean practice I can test in my situation"

We don't know all the answers when we talk about how lean applies to startups. Hell, we don't even know the questions. But it looks like there are some useful concepts we can copy and experiment with. That's what so cool about it.
I think it's really easy to confuse "cute" with "more productive", and the vast majority of attempts at creating DSLs are the former. I think very few are worth their weight, since it seems I always eventually have to be aware of their exact nuances and code paths anyway, and that being so I'd much rather just see ordinary syntax.
Amazon´s bar has ruined the Internet for the rest of businesses. Now if you have to make one click too many or wait a minute there's going to be a blog post about it.

Oh no! The Internet is getting better, more user-friendly! It's terrible, it's a disaster! /sarcasm.
Good article, but: I think that a family should plan for several weeks of total self-reliance, not days. Add: solar cooker, additional water, CO2 packed rice and lentils, extra vitamins. A gun, if you know how to use one, for hunting and self protection.

Another reason to have requirements for a longer time period: if there should ever be a fatal large scale flu epidemic (or some other pandemic), it would be really good to isolate the entire family.
I'm trying to do something similar with outlines. It isn't so much a text editor as it is a social collection builder. I call it insanely organized social media. You can call it http://MindWallet.com .

Here is how I used it to cover the startupbus: http://www.mindwallet.com/?ItemKey=787541c7-0860-41ea-a21a-2...

You probably won't use it. No one else does. :-(
I loved Etherpad! When I joined a startup back in 2009, I pushed hard for the team to keep our information together in Google Docs, but one of our non-technical leaders stumbled upon Etherpad and after trying to tear him away from it I finally came around and realized how incredibly beautifully simple and useful it was.

We were all working remotely, and we'd hop on the phone together and gather around an Etherpad and it was so easy to tell what everyone was doing (as opposed to Google Docs which had a major delay in updating the screen at that time). I'm glad to see that it lives on at hackpad and PiratePad.
* Compound interest. Friend AND enemy.

What does this mean?
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I think the presence of buildings in the before, and the absence of buildings in the after is pretty noticeable color or no color.
I think a social network that has the ability for friend groups / circles is way over due. Will be interested to see this!
Ok, but what if a company takes two rounds of convertible debt? Wouldn't the first one expire while the company is still burning through the second round?

Or is it standard practice when a company raises a second round of convertible debt to extend the maturity of the first round?
The Apple board reduced Steve Jobs's role at Apple to ceremonial/figurehead. Steve Jobs actually resigned from Apple.

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
>the site is getting hit pretty good right now.

and

>Either the crowd hasn't really come yet, or I actually did a decent job with the server

Isn't it more or less a proven fact that traffic levels are generally lower during the weekends? With this in mind, I think you should definitely expect - and be prepared for - at least somewhat higher traffic come Monday.

On the other hand, as you said, current traffic is also fairly heavy and the stack is holding good so it may continue to hold up with higher traffic too.

I'd add just one point to what sidmitra and amccloud have suggested:

- check/tune MySQL config too
(although in our experience, this usually affects cpu usage more than it does memory, it may be worth giving it a look.)

HTH
This is really a great step forward from Apple. I like the idea of them not just creating a product, but creating the accessories, and building some of the functionality into the product. Keeping both in mind whilst developing each other for best functionality.

Will be cool to see how Apple does this on future products.
I checked it out - didn't get past the first bullet point of what it does:

"Organize your life in a todo list."

No thanks. I don't need that.
Most of my life I have worked a maximum of 32 hours a week. Not only does this give me time for exercise and extra fun, but also time to promote my career, not a particular job, by offline learning of new skills and writing. The 20% "lost" revenue is a reasonable cost.
The Pacific Coast from Northern California on up into Canada is probably one of the most human-friendly environments on earth. My apartment in SF has a heater I almost never use and no air conditioner at all. The same was true in my Seattle house. A huge portion of the energy here is created by dams, not coal or nuclear, which keeps the air pristine. There's plenty of sustainable fresh water in most areas, and some amazing natural habitats nearby, like Yosemite, Mt Rainier, and Mount Hood.

I'll happily deal with volcanoes and earthquakes to live here.
I actually thought this post was brilliant. A few items I liked:

"First, startups with large debts on their balance sheet will have challenges securing loans, partnerships and vendor credit, impeding their growth. "

Debt by any other name is still debt on the balance sheet, so this is a great point.

Also:

"The majority of convertible debt deals have no mechanism to convert to equity without the occurrence of a Series A, and standard convertible debt deals come due in 12 to 18 months."

This is startling. If this is true then many startups are facing a big unknown i.e. how renegotiating their convertible debt will turn out. Will you lose control of the board? How much equity will you lose? etc. While a pat on the back and a "this has never once been a problem" may work for some, it wouldn't make me sleep better at night.

I think this is excellent advice:

"negotiations should start sooner rather than later about converting the debt to equity upon maturity with your debt holders"

Remove the unknown ASAP and give your company a more predictable and stable environment to operate in.
What's the acid test that qualifies startups as lean or not-lean?

I think lean startup advocates would argue that lots of household names (google, facebook, youtube, etc) utilized lean methods, even if they weren't consciously doing so. Not sure if I'd agree with them, but they probably would say that.

Consciously promoting lean startup ideals != doing things the lean way. The lean startup movement is more about a label and a tribe than it is a set of behaviors (not that this is necessarily a bad thing).
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Pyrex is the original. Cython is the fork by people who wanted to add more features.

I think their relationship is reasonable, but not reasonable enough for the two projects to link to each-other.
Dude, why on earth do you need all those FB permissions? hackpad requests only email, and the barrier is still too high.
Of course you want to treat employees as individuals. Customers, too, if you can afford it--but I'm sure that any successful consumer company can't keep your and my individual preferences in mind when designing their next product.

That said, it looks like your proposed solution is still a probabilistic filter. So even by your standards you're still not treating people as individuals. Nor is it clear that your solution is any more cost-effective than the other approach.
There is one confirmed death (a crane operator, but I didn't find any clear cause of death) and several injuries.
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Are we in a startup bubble?
I too would love to hear this.
Hrm. I don't think you have any information about how those things operate, no offense.. just an observation.

I highly doubt it would work 100% of the time; further, both lines are being manned by federal employees.
This story will probably get lots of votes because so many of us loved etherpad. However, this isn't the "story of etherpad", is it? Isn't this more like "What some outsider thinks happened to the etherpad team"?

Maybe I missed his quotes from insiders on the deal or on the current thinking of the AppJet folks. When I see this kind of thing, it makes me wonder if this whole thing is speculation that is presented more along the lines of a "What really happened" or "behind the scenes" type of thing:

"But, you see, I don't believe that's what happened. I think what happened is much more strange. I think the people who made etherpad really believed Google Wave was better, and they still do. That's what fascinates me."

He goes on to say that his research uncovered this whole thing ("See, upon further investigation, I learned that etherpad was never meant to be a real product - it was an example product."). Does he ever cite his sources? Or is the source just the comments in the HN post?
This is becoming a thoroughly overused cliché. Generally true, but so overused, there must be cases in which it is wrong.
The article is mostly correct, but a few corrections from a nuclear engineer:

1. What he refers to as "moderator rods" are actually control rods. The term "moderator" refers to a material that is unlikely to absorb neutrons, but likely to scatter them. This helps lower the average neutron speed inside the reactor, which actually increases the fission rate. Since water serves this purpose just fine, most reactors do not have specific "moderator rods", although BWRs actually run pipes of liquid water through the fuel assemblies for additional moderation.

2. BWRs are not run all-rods-out, like he claims. BWRs are generally run with significant control rod insertion, so that the water stays liquid for a greater portion of the height of the core.

3. He doesn't quite explain that the source of the hydrogen is a replacement reaction where zirconium and water react to create zirconium oxide and hydrogen gas.

4. Xenon-135 is a fission product, not produced by neutron activation, and neutron activation of coolant is nothing to sneer at (the half-life of tritium is 12.3 years).
I remember when I was first learning Java many years ago...about this convention and asking why one would use this as a namespacing convention. Even back then domain ownership was fast and fleeting and it never seemed to serve any particular purpose. I think because it was always couched that the Java namespace convention was supposed to help you track down the originator of the code even without documentation that I always found it strange. Now with this change, vast swaths of the primary codebase no longer map to the originator of the code!

Are namespace issues such a big deal in other languages that something like this is needed? http://search.cpan.org/ seems to muddle through more or less okay without it. (But then it requires a centralized namespacing system as you pointed out).

So yeah, I do see your point regarding leveraging an existing system. It has just always struck me as a bit oddball.
The leftover fuel/waste is the bulk of the problem. Although the majority of the "waste" is actually usable nuclear fuel, it is illegal in the US to recycle it.

So instead, it needs to be safely buried in a place like Yucca Mountain under extremely stringent criteria (must survive 10k years with no maintenance, etc).

In France (and other places), the leftover fuel/waste is actually a valuable resource. They recycle it and get new nuclear fuel. Some of the waste products are used as radiation sources in medicine.
Interesting, but we already have Facebook groups, Diaspora, Frid.ge, I even developed my own site to solve this problem last year, Buddify. What exactly is new here other than social group separation? Speaking from experience in this field, I'm certain this won't take off, it's very difficult to gain traction with a new social network in an age where facebook is still growing at a steady pace. Unless I'm missing something here?
I suppose then that somebody running off of GAE (my company) should see a huge number of sites.

Yup www.kymalabs.com brought back a couple pages.
OP (by Shuttleworth) is very hard for someone not intimately familiar with the history of who said what and who did what to follow.
"Disruption" often involves a low-cost business model, which fits with lean.

I'm intrigued by the Xerox example, because it seems like a disruption, but in fact it was much higher performing than the incumbent technology. It reminds me of how the iPhone beat the Nokia with a better product (instead of a worse one, which is usually how disruptions start).
And if you owned a Kindle you'd know exactly what people mean.
The iPad is heavy for one handed use, not to mention bulky. It does excel at PDF use though. To each his own. I prefer the Kindle for anything that is just words. Anything else is a toss up between iPad and nOok.
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kind of like a bank run on startups? scary thought
You may want to save your $20 and read "Surviving in Argentina." http://ferfal.blogspot.com/
>The IndexOf algorithm is also O(n)

The author doesn't seem to understand big O. His indexOf approach is a linear algorithm in the average case, but not in the worst case - the author himself demonstrates this.

>Computer Science (always suspect any discipline which feels the need to add the word 'science' to its name) is often an exercise in compromises.

This kind of pissed me off, which was probably the intent. CS is about math, not implementation. Once you start engineering things of course you have to take practical considerations into account (such as the classes of strings your algorithm is likely to be fed as input), but that doesn't invalidate (or devalue) proofs which make no claims about practical usage.
This is a company that has been caught falsifying safety reports, and had resignations because of it. I would not trust them to choose in the interest of everyone - but instead in the interest of the company.
Honestly, whether the fuel is UOX or MOX is not particularly relevant at this point, since the primary differences between those fuels are neutronic, not thermal, and even there they are qualitatively very similar.

I'm pretty sure the author is not an 'expert', exactly, because he seems unfamiliar with some of the nuances of BWR operation, but his summary is generally correct.
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It even inspired and enabled us to create:

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>It follows that the fastest approach should be to implement the KMP algorithm natively

Not exactly - well, depends what you mean by "fastest". The KMP algorithm is optimal in the worst case, not necessarily in the average case. If you implemented KMP in C and then fed it typical rather than pathological strings, you might still do better with the indexOf algorithm.
Well designed site, but if you do not mind my saying, what prevents me from returning to hackerstream.com is that the text in the left column moves while I am reading it. (I'd be OK BTW with my having to hit a refresh button to get an update.)

But thanks for trying to improve the "HN ecosystem".
In modern distributed architectures, you might see a lot of completely unrelated sites on the same IP.

I used to work at one of the major CDNs, and we spent a lot of effort segregating some of our customers into separate IP space, so they wouldn't cause the rest of our customers to get firewalled by the likes of China.
Google Wave wants me to live inside it: it's presumptuous. Etherpad is a tool I grab when I want, and put down when I'm done.

Right. Real-time remote collaboration is novel enough to be able to say that not only interfaces need to be developed for it but also behaviours, etiquette, metaphors -- culture. You could see this with Wave. They were so desperate to hold peoples' attention that they came up with all these new and slightly silly words to help people conceptualise what it was they were suddenly able to 'do'. Too much. Too soon. Too not-for-you-to-determine.

Meanwhile an idea that anyone on the street can easily formulate (shared text editing) is still not widely available in a usable form. It's like promoting the Twitter API and ushering everyone into a new world where everything is a tweet and a tweet is everything, before you have a working tool for personal subscription-based SMS distribution. All these other 'features'... they're not. They're proposed desirable activities. Whether or not they're actually desirable is a cultural development, not a software development. Until people begin to take living, multi-author, simple documents for granted on a large scale, it's really too soon to say if it's a good thing that Bob can embed a sudoku game in the agenda draft or whether a poll and comment thread is a good way to decide where to have coffee or just a bit weird actually.
Fail, fail, fail until you succeed; I really like Google's resolve when it comes to breaking into social networking. I guess I also like any serious challenge to Facebook.

Can't wait for the details.
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Does anyone have solid details of when/where the launch will be?
What are the largest cost-per-install networks right now? I'm just curious.
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The benchmarks they link to are from 2008. Not sure what the fuss is about.