skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that it is risky to design before you fully understand the problem you're solving. From my interpretation of the slides, they are often working on tasks they have little experience with. Instead of spending time thinking about potential design issues (which may or may not exist), build something that works and the patterns which the feature requires will emerge, enabling an elegant design afterwards.
> Second, I don't think an argument that most people choose based on quality is pertinent to the theory. The theory just states that the market decides.

It states that the market decides what? The article repeatedly suggests that what the market decides is which language is "good" or "better," which can only be true if people choose based on quality.

If the market choice is only loosely correlated with quality, then looking at the market tells us nothing about which languages are good (since "good" is a qualitative judgment).

There are only two ways I can see for market penetration to be relevant to the discussion of which languages are better:

1. The market chooses based on quality

2. "Good" is synonymous with "popular"

Otherwise you're measuring one thing and then announcing another. Market position is just popularity, and is only a reliable indicator of the things that determine popularity. If people don't choose based on the quality of a language, then looking at popularity to figure out which languages are good is like looking at the eating habits of the average American and concluding that Big Macs are the most nutritionally balanced food around because they're in the dominant market position.
I think we like to let our imagination and the vision of all the possibilities it brings us take reign, and that is good. Because of that, I can definitely throw a handful of monetary speculations into the air concerning this service.

To get this level of funding before even exploring the utility of these services just leaves me marveling, and suspicious.
Thanks.

All the text shadows or specific ones? I used it only in places where I thought that it made the text _easier_ to read because it helps increase contrast. I'm probably mistaken :)

I'm really surprised by people telling me to make the site fixed-width, all the work I have done with accessibility, etc has taught me to make it scale nicely and avoid using absolute units wherever possible. I'll modify it to include a fixed width on my dev environment and take a look.

Sociable is the name of my company, Splinch is the product. I note that basecamphq.com has a great big 37 signals at the bottom of the page too, but I take your point and will reduce the size and add text explaining what it is.
Thanks for sharing, this is why I love HackerNews - even fails are wins.
After installing COLOR on my phone and being linked to Some Dude And His Cat Somewhere A Couple Blocks Away, I realized what COLOR will become:

A total, complete, utter Cockshot Tsunami.

See: Chatroulette.

Unless they have some elegant Phallic Recognition And Elimination Algorithm (Phalgorithm?) much like facebook's nipple-liminator, they're about to unleash a $40,000,000.00 Dick Tractor Beam onto everybody's phone.
Yes, exactly. Both are fair, market valuations, but (as in any case when you have illiquid assets) a valuation and what you get if you were to liquidate (quickly) are very different things. Cash is King for a good reason!
Goal Hacks: How to Achieve Anything
Workshop offers geeks industrial-strength toys
Buy box from Dell w/ Windows pre-installed: Marine.

Install Ubuntu partition: Infested Marine.

Works for me.
I got a Google Adwords voucher worth £75 in the post the other day. I'm always getting them. Wait long enough, and they'll only send another one.

And yes, I thoroughly agree with your assertions about Labour, too. Right now, Parliament seems to be at its lowest ebb in terms of talent, honour, honesty or any kind of acumen.

We have not been led by so many, possessing so little clue, for generations.
It's more that I'll consider a lower offer from a remote-friendly company than I would from one which requires in-office work. It's worth money to me to not have to commute, essentially.

Actually making the offer to them of "I will take $X/year less if you let me work from home" wouldn't be smart, just because if they took it then it'd put me into a weird special-case category which wouldn't be at all good for my integration with their team.
I thought that was so cool, until I got the price - $400,000
Something makes me think they're aiming for the useless academic toy market.
TRIM Enabler Increases Solid State Drive Performance in OS X
Comebacks:

Despite all the equations, it seems to me that your work didn't require any real mathematical sophistication. Did I miss something?

Yes.

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Isn't this just a straightforward extension of an old result by Hartmanis?

Which one?

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Am I missing something here? Can you identify any deep mathematical content in this work?

Yes you are. Next question.

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Wasn't all this done years ago at Xerox PARC?

No, only several of the underlying technologies. Can you identify which?

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Have you tested this on the chip Intel got running last week in their lab?

No, but I'm sure it will work because I helped design it.

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Am I missing something? Isn't it obvious that there's a bottleneck in the system that prevents scaling to arbitrary size?

Did you miss that function isDebugOn(){ return false; } is O(1)?
Why not just use JRuby?
I had a professor in University that beat some kid who thought he was all that at Table Tennis with a shoe, a baseball bat, a piece of cardboard, an empty plastic bottle, and then his bare hands.

It was absolutely hilarious how pissed this guy was getting with his fancy paddle and his attempts at tricking my professor with trick shots.
there's a great soundbite in that video from Reid Hoffman: "launch so early you're embarrassed by your product." the context is important (i.e. get customer feedback before you spend too much time building stuff that nobody will use).
Right. Tho the pop up restaurants that I've heard of have been set up by chefs with some sort of following via a previous venture... this thing here ain't that.
How Apple Has Influenced Web Design Over the Years
White Bear Yard launches $60m investment fund for European Startups
'..., keeps lights on at failing newspaper.' (SF techshop is housed in the empty half of the Chronicle's office building.)
Sounds to me like there is a disconnect somewhere between you and Google. Did you change any code that implements checkout? Or did they release any updates lately? Have you tried posting on Android dev forums?
The insult-backfiring section reminds me of some interesting experiences as an AI researcher, with a slight secret penchant (as many of us have) for robot domination. When a humanities or social-science researcher starts talking about "technological determinism", "machinic tyranny", "sapping of human agency by machine", the "instrumental society", and similar, the AI researcher sits, trying hard to suppress a smile, thinking, "yes, yes, PLEASE do go on!".
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Cobol? :-P
Apple reportedly yet to order iPhone 5 parts
Hahaha, oppressive regimes are funny because they don't have the technology (or healthcare, money, or quality of life) that we have!
It's all about price points. The crux of the problem is glanced in the last paragraph of the article "Imagine a robot that you could buy at Best Buy for somewhere between $2k and $4k." Right now, that just isn't feasible. For autonomous mobility you need components that qualify the following criteria: fast, quiet, safe, and precise. Unfortunately, such components just aren't affordable yet.

The revolution frenzy won't hit until your upper middle class income family can afford it.
They are, it is credibly alleged, pay-to-play; the overall tenor of what BBB reports on you can be readily influenced by giving them money.
Amazon Web Services Blog: Adding a Second AWS Availability Zone in Tokyo
Rogers, the isp from the article, has already done 404 redirection.

http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/rogers-customers-get-ad-la...

Oh, Canada.
Ed Reitler responds Fred Wilson's Challenge to Startup Lawyers
Bloomberg Game Changers on the guys who started Twitter
Reddit, World Backup Day, SpiderOak, March 31st and the power of Social Media
My little breakdown on World Backup Day, social media and from idea to 'maybe' Yearly event in a weekend plus 2 days.
My home network is based on the Batman universe:

My shiny new power tower (Windows 7): Batman

Same tower booted into ubuntu: TwoFace

NAS: arkham

Content Filter: gordon

Wifi SSID: TheRiddler

etc, etc
Here's a Phallic Recognition and Elimination Algorithm that will work for COLOR (but not for Chatroulette) (note: I am not endorsing this--just suggesting that this is what might develop naturally):

1. Girl in bar gets cocked on COLOR.

2. Girl shows this to slightly inebriated boyfriend in bar. He's had enough to drink to lower his judgement but not impair his ability to deliver an ass stomping, especially when he's got backup.

3. Boyfriend says to his buddies "hey, let's go find this ass".

4. Ass is located, and they explain why what he did was not polite. The explanation is done non-verbally.

5. Ass stops offering cock shots (assuming cock still attached).

6. We discover why COLOR needs all that money they just got--lawyers to defend against lawsuits from people like the ass, trying to blame COLOR for what happened to them after they posted their cock shots.
I don't see anything wrong with doing a little positioning.
'non-coding founders'

What a fantastic designation.

:)
OK here's my gut reaction:

1. You don't explain what you're doing and why I would want to do it. Even with all their publicity I would wager that 90% of the people you are driving to your home page have never heard of AirBNB. Calling yourself the AirBNB of food might work when you're pitching the idea to a VC but doesn't work on the actual website.

2. Two thirds of your potential customers will be using Internet Explorer. I know it's not fair but that's reality in 2011. In IE you cannot even see the fields to sign up.

If in fact I can buy dinner at different peoples houses every night that's a really cool idea. In my state you couldn't do it legally but you've researched all that right? To succeed you need more than a cool idea, you have to execute.
"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."

I've lost count of the number of times a theorist has told me that result -foo- shouldn't be possible during application :)
Given that he was previously asked if it's possible to become Batman in this day and age (http://www.quora.com/Given-our-current-technology-and-with-t...) , and he answered that in earnest as well, I think he's answering to the best of his ability here too.
@Sony, just drop the case. I hate to rant, but this is bad press. I am a developer and an early adopter; your attempts to make an example out of Hotz has further soured an opinion still bathed in the lukewarm wake of your infamous rootkit. If and when I have time to play games, I will do so on an XBox.
I am a very active host on airbnb (holson farm in Mountain View) and have been talking very seriously with my wife about branching out into restaurant-ing a few nights a month, so I am very interested in your start up. However in order to convince me to join I would have to believe that the number of people you would refer to me (and the added convenience of you handling the money) would be more important than the added risk of being shut down because my name is out there. (I'm not saying that you don't provide that value, I'm just saying that I would worry about it).

Also, are you thinking of this more like a dinner party (you eat with the hosts and all the other guests that night) or a underground restaurant (hosts have a few tables set up at their house for private parties) or both?

I'd be happy to share with you my thoughts on this as someone who was going to do this anyway, before your service existed if you are interested. (benjie@anybots.com)
From one beer fan to another, congrats! I really like the design. I haven't got into homebrewing yet but it's on my list of things to try soon.
So you work in IT? - works on me just fine.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/y/yogiberra141506.h...
Hey it's IRC for hipsters. Seriously tho, irssi works just fine and its $0.
Cricket World Cup drives traffic to Cricket sites in India
The perfect email
My one data point of experience with the BBB: The company sent a response to my complaint saying, essentially, "We have informed the customer we are unwilling to resolve his complaint." The BBB metric weighed this as a satisfactory response.
They have already got Guido, now Gosling, Bjarne is the next guy I guess!
More interesting to me than the article was a comment describing how iPads displaced PCs, one by one, in a law office:

http://technologizer.com/2011/03/28/my-mom-reviews-the-ipad-...

Edit: the link often doesn't bring up the comment. Whether it's due to the ridiculously heavy page (at least 298 separate resources, 4 of which don't finish loading for me, plus an additional AJAX request to Twitter every few seconds) or the system for loading comments from Intense Debate, I don't know. To find it, search for "lawyer", and if that fails, search for "Friedmann" on the page, expand the replies, and read the third. I give you: hypertext.
I'm ashamed to admit I'm using Jersey Shore names for my home network. "Situation", "Snooky", "Jwow", "Paulyd", etc.
Being funded by the people you're supposed to keep account of is not the best of strategies.
Hi Rick! The website looks great.I don't know much about homebrewing (but I've been interested in learning about it for a while); I think it'd be helpful if there was a section of your site with some beginner-level information about homebrewing. Or, make that a bigger feature of the site, with free beginner-level articles and require a paid-for account to read intermediate/advanced-level articles.

Another idea would be to allow your users to view and post reviews of homebrewing equipment. If I wanted to get into homebrewing right now, I'd imagine it'd take a while to get up to speed on which manufactures/models to look for or avoid. Since you're targeting a fairly niche market, this might provide a real value to your users.

Also, when I read the word software, I immediately thought of little apps like recipe calculators -- maybe you could build a small "apps" section on your website (for users only)? If you already had formulas and things on hand, it'd be trivial to code them up with JS. This feature would be even more useful if you eventually made a mobile version of the site so you could log in and use the apps (and see recipes, etc.) on your smartphone.

Hope that gives you a few ideas! Good luck with the site!
Master... Incu... bator...

seriously??
After you've read it - what have you really learned?

I've not come across the "Theorists Favor Sophistication, Experimentalists Favor Simplicity" idiom before, and thinking about those people in my life that exhibit one or the other, I see that there's a kernel of truth there.

Though the article is intended to be humourous, I've added a little bit to my understanding of the human condition by reading it. And I got a smile or two while doing so.
Great collection of info. I especially liked your bit about "looking for a personal stake ... someone else's money so even less diligence". That's how Apple sold so many IIe's with VisiCalc.
OH NO, FAIL WHALE!

TL;DR until I get it back up...
I made http://www.weedtee.com one afternoon for a friend when he got obsessed with this story - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2173155

We put it up yesterday, it did not go viral.
from programming interface, the new Active Record Query Interface 3, is very similar to HIbernate Criteria API. I wish they could of been more specific on what issues they had with Hibernate. Other than that the comments about dynamic creation are correct. In Hibernate they try to create the idea that you're object model doesn't need to be a 1:1 model with your data model.
Anatomy of a Startup Hub
the hardware, as usually, is abstractable into drivers.

Take for example hand movement - you may have the model of the robot's hand including actuators' input/output abstractions, length/weight of the arms, etc... It is common for all the robots with arms and very mathematically-mechanically complicated task to calculate the dynamic of the hand from current position, at current speed to another position with another speed, including recoil on the rest of the body, ... Mathematically it is a complicated smooth manifold in the high dimension space and various analyses and optimizations on such objects have been a very fruitful source of many Ph.D.s and articles :) Though on practice any "good" suboptimal solution would do. The 3D orientation and environment sensing is also abstractable - here again the calculation and effective algorithms (which are really hardware independent - for example stereo analysis is dependent basically on the resolution and the speed of the input sensors and teh CPU power and effective algorithm - sounds familiar?) is the heavy part. The [speech] command processing - has been also abstracted into input devices and processing core algorithms.
It only took you an hour? Man I need a new MacBook Pro.
Wow. In what universe is this considered good copy writing?
If you prefer the flexibility of the class-first model, it might be better to use something like Mongoid (with MongoDB) instead.
WWDC 2011 sold out
Didn't even last one full day. Damn! Who says Apple developers are cutting back on T&E!
http://developer.apple.com/wwdc
too bad. I'd say save it for the next time prop 19 rolls around.
Want to know how to change the Twitter background or profile icon automatically?
Yes, it does sound that way, but unfortunately I'm very sure its not. I don't do any of the handling of transactions on the Market. That's all done by Google. All I do is post the app to the Google servers and they take care of the rest including listing it in the store, processing payments, etc. Additionally, I did post in the Merchant Forums but have yet to get a response of any kind. Thanks for the suggestion though! :-)
Thanks for the advice. It seems to mirror what some others have been saying and is something I've been putting a lot of thought into today-definitely going to give it some serious consideration going forward and see what I can come up with on that front.
Show HN: iSMS for iPhone
iSMS is a group txting app for iPhone that doesn't live in the cloud, rather it relies on good old fashioned SMS, meaning that all replies go directly to the default IPhone SMS app.
That is a pretty open ended question... could you share a few details about your objectives and market?
Nice read, really good app also... btw, clojure rocks!
As a technical founder, should I bring in a business co-founder? I think the article is pretty good. I'd want someone who is:

- Can sell without BSing.

- Knows how to get in touch with important people

- Good at pitching to investors

- Real personable and good at communicating with customers

- Can write well

- Has an eye for UX

- Has enough technical knowledge to communicate technical issues with customers

- Understands startups

A non-technical co-founder needs to have skills. They just aren't technical. I think the term non-technical co-founder is misleading because it defines someone but what they can't do. I'd rather say sale founder or biz-dev founder.
LINK?
I had a similar thought the other day while using an automated paper towel dispenser. "Isn't this primitive robot?" Yet, I'd never really thought to apply the term "robot." It'll be interesting to watch the evolution from dumb/single-purpose robots to smarter/multi-purpose ones.
It's not all bad, Square just got in the news again as a result.
Failed because of a crappy server? I can't see anything.
So, not to put too fine a point on it, but I could give a sh!t about photography; I don't know what a single one of the filter names in Instagram "means" and invariably end up trying every one of them, on each snapshot, because I can't remember what they do.

And yet I'm basically 100% converted to Instagram.

So... why do I use Instagram? Because it doesn't have anything to do with "authenticity" or "artisinality".

One reason: because it cuts several steps out of getting a snapshot I take online, which is usually the only reason I take pictures.

Another reason: each of those Instagram filters does a credible job at making my crappy camera work look intentional (as in, intentionally crappy). You at least have to wonder if I meant to take such bad pictures. A win for me.

I think you're giving the app short shrift.
News Corp. Said to Approach Vevo.com About Myspace Joint Venture
The Easiest Company in the World to Run
Link: http://itunes.apple.com/app/isms/id387007449?mt=8
Fighting fire with volts: How water hoses could be replaced with electric wands
Hey this is seriously great. I've been using spreadsheets forever and using some pretty dodgy brew calculators over the years. One request, though, for a cider guy like myself: any chance of expanding it into wines, ciders and meads? I love the layout of the brew stats, though. Cheers.

Edit: just saw the bit abou the custom fermentables. This would make the site indispensable for me.
Unless those you're keeping account of are willing to pay you....

This is how Congress works.
I thought so too. LOL.
Awesome mocking presentation of colors.xxx (SFW and doesn't have anything to do with pr0n)

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AbbL7nVHKW7SYWpkdGN...
They almost feel younger, somehow, less color possibly? Interesting comparison. You can tell it was a smaller closer community then. I enjoyed it then and I still do, likely because of it's evolution.
thank god I wasn't the only one who saw this
TR1 added unordered maps/sets (hash tables) and tuples. Maybe it's because I use STL every day but the interface works fine for me. It takes some getting used to but it's pretty consistent. With the operator overloading it feels just like any built-in language syntax (that's even more true with C++0x's initializer lists).
So the purchase price is 50k, but presumably the fuel and maintenance costs are significant? If you actually want to fly the thing I'm guessing your outlay is going to be more than $10?
Once you go past the filtering (naked pictures) issue Color has a huge potential. I personally think if they tackle this one issue they will build something more powerful then Twitter (a snapshot is easier to take then writing 140 characters), Groupon (I can get deals just buy walking past a restaurant and looking at their photos), and many other big social startups. I hate to say this here, but I would bet on the idea. Now I am not even talking about social news. Can you imagine what this would mean for CNN and similar news outlet on breaking news. They can find and buy videos from all the guys capturing straight from the source.

In short color will be the most accurate way to answer "What's happening at?"
Interesting, thanks! This box looks so much slicker than the WDTV too. Since I watch quite a few foreign movies, one of the useful features with XBMC is the ability to adjust the subtitle display (add delay or speed it up by a couple of seconds) and also the ability to browse and pick a subtitle. I am curious if either WD or VMP has any additional options with subtitles. It is not a game-stopper by any means but I am still trying to decide whether to go with an XBMC capable box or these options which are also much cheaper.
I might be a bit paranoid, but I'm a little hesitant to use a service like this when there's really no mention (yet) of the liberties I'd expect them to want to take with the data.