skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How feasible is this? To have interchangeable and commoditized component smartphones? Probably not feasible at all I would think. The desktop pc gives up a lot of performance and simplicity for compatibility and modularity. But the constraints that they're designed within are pretty simple - maximize performance and minimize price, and try not to pull any more than 15 amps out of the wall. Smartphones need to optimize for CPU performance, component price, power draw, component size, rf stability, and then they still need to have an attractive design to appeal to fickle phone customers. I don't know how much leeway they would have to establish a uniform hardware design to minimize os and driver customization that would be necessary for an installable-os platform.
Actually AppJet was summer 2007, Heroku was winter 2008.
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I have the $7 account type.

Don't really use the included private repos yet, but I'm so happy with them that I kept paying.
Tangent: So I'll be honest -- I was curious as to who the "jackass VC" was. After a little digging around, I think it's Ted Schlein: http://www.kpcb.com/team/schlein.
Like these ones: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-73222.html
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How do you look at their algorithms? Aren't they private?
With the YubiKey, there is an interesting possibility to set your own AES PSK in the token: http://www.yubico.com/personalization-tool . That allows you to depend only on your own server infrastructure and not the one from a third-party like YubiKey. (Might be useful seeing the recent RSA security issue)
If the rate of economic growth is increasing, even if the time gap is constant, you would expect that to happen. (Not saying that is what's happening, just wanted to point out that your two statements could be consistent.)
This is the second time this week, 'invest in people' - fitting a pattern to a series of events.

this is again, classic narrative fallacy -
http://statspotting.com/?p=396
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I second that. I have learnt quite a lot of programing languages this past two years (C++, Java, Haskell, Lisp, and Python), and Python has been the easiest to learn, by far. It is fast and easy to have your Python system up and running, and you'll soon get things done in Python. So for an absolute beginner, I sure recommend Python.

Now the downside for Python, is that imho, it starts to be boring after a while. Don't get me wrong, it is a "powerful language" (meaning that being high level, you can do a lot of things easily) and there are many libraries, so it is still my "production" language. But I have found a lot more fun in Lisp and Haskell as they tend to stimulate my brain much harder. But I will not suggest it as a first experience (especially not Haskell)..

Hope it helps,
A "D" coder is outsourcing. or code that is bad, runs slowly, has bugs and is often incomplete. Oftentimes things are written in one heroic coding session and simply cannot be touched after that. BUT it meets the "specs".

ooowww I've seen some of that.

An "A" coder's code is simple to spot: It's boring. There's nothing heroic or clever (that's hard to debug) it's well documented so even junior devs can understand it, and thought has been taken so that it can be extended in the future. To put it simply it shows taste*. That is a rare thing indeed.
Yup, that was the one, thanks. I'm a bit torn as to the work environment: On the one hand, I'd hate to be a cubicle jockey for a large corporation. On the other, the engineers at netscape seemed to be buoyed by being surrounded by many capable nerds. It's that dichotomy that makes me, on the one hand, want to work for Google, and fear doing so on the other.
The bulk of US Foreign policy can be summed up in -- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bigger%20Dick...
I think he was directing that statement more at the article poster saying that it is generally better to wait for a company to get everything in order and ready for an official release than to try to scoop it and post links to unrelated blogs that have further links to unofficial mirrors.

If you want to get a copy of Firefox 4 before tomorrow morning, I applaud and welcome you. You can download the RC2 which others have mentioned is identical to the final release, or you can use one of the links above to the mozilla website.
Most BSCS programs don't attempt to teach much software engineering (and rightly so because it's really a different discipline).
Well if you can carry those lessons on with you, then I'd say it was a worthwhile experience. They seem to be obvious in theory, but nonexistent in practice.
Fantastic job. You made great progress on the IDE.

To get people's trust to invest work into your platform, it is essential to provide a solution running on a server of their choice.
This does work for me, but I think you mean DVD rather than VCR.
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Only because I've never used (and only vaguely heard of) zappos. I'll give it a try, I need some new clothes anyway. Thanks!
OS 10.6.6 (10J567), Receivrd 0.7.5 (16). I expect to be able to drag a connection to a list, and drag a file from inbox/connection/list activity/received lists and the "sharing activity" lists to all other targets (including outside the app). The Re-Share button has not lit up, which did not surprise me given that I can't really get a file into a selection state. If all this is working for you, I can just try updating / rebooting.

I can send a file to any email now, but there's a lot of sharp edges. You make me click through a modal sheet wizard to intentionally setup a contact first, there should really be an email textbox / fb friend selector / etc. in your app. The worst part about the current setup is that it forces you to first send a no-context invite email minutes before sending a meaningful "x has shared y with you" email. The first kind of email really needs to only ever get sent when a user is explicitly inviting other people to share with them, which is probably not going to be the default path.

My email is in the 'about' area of my profile if you want to reach me.
Dropbox is selling convenience. For many, Dropbox's featureset and ease of use are worth the price premium over similar services in the space.
For what looks like a pretty sweet library to take care of graceful degradation, take a look at JQuery Tools:

http://flowplayer.org/tools/release-notes/index.html#form

They claim a size of ~5K over plain old JQuery and let you write HTML5 form markup even for IE6.
Feedback:

> Receivd - beautiful, fast filesharing for everyone

Everyone who has a Mac? Or everyone? I only see screenshots of a Mac app. There are sketches of other apps, but I'm guessing those do not exist yet.

“Real time file sharing” as a tagline seems kind of meaningless. Two reasons I don't like it: a) real-time seems overly technical, and b) real-time is implied. No one expects that there would be a delay (beyond the amount of time it takes to send the file.)

Finally, this seems like it occupies a weird grey area between dropbox and email. All the examples you give are things that I can easily do with email. If email proves to be too much of a hassle, I have to convince people to use something else, and teach them how it works. Between this and dropbox, why do I choose this?

Minor point: To look at all 4 screenshots in large-o-vision, I have to first click one, then close it, click the next, and so on. Arrows within the lightbox would be appreciated.

Also, I realize this sounds kind of harsh, but I don't mean it too—I'm just putting out there the first things that come to mind. I think there actually is room between dropbox and email, but you're going to have to work a little bit on positioning your product properly to define that space.
How is he blaming them? The whole point of his argument is that he failed to bring in good people. As you say, "He failed at that responsibility."
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Your post suggests that honesty is not only not the best policy, but will lead to personal failure, and should not be used. I agree with you that messages/information need to be delivered tactfully and with thought. But I disagree that the solution is to offer a lie.

Why isn't the obvious solution to offer honest, meaningful "message-level" answers instead of blunt, uninformative answers?

With your example, the spouse can answer that 80's leggings make anyone look terrible, that he loves her, and will plan to continue loving her, that he finds her attractive in ways that were not present when they were both younger. In business, you can answer "No our product doesn't do H, but it does J." You can answer "No I can't be sure that the lights will stay lit in the morning, but I believe that it will, because of X Y and Z." If your customer walks, and your business fails, then so be it. Your business did not fail because you spoke the truth, it failed because you couldn't keep the lights lit. There are many ways to appeal to people without resorting to lying.

I would encourage you to "conquer fear and embrace possibility": being honest is hard, it will cost you, but it is the only way for human beings to become "authentic and complete".
So LinkedIn is a giant Rolodex, eh?
I have not read the specification but it seems like they reinvented Quality of Service and the protocols surrounding it like RSVP and DiffServ. Of course it gives them flexibility to do a lot more than just QoS control but that is the one that stands out to me. Big data users might be able to change their bandwidth capacity in real-time.

It will be interesting to see the implementation/deployment scenarios. Does it mean that the ISPs will be giving the bigger consumers control over the percentage of bandwidth they use when needed? It will certainly be added revenue for the ISPs and Cisco and others should like it a lot too.
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I was walking past the building wondering why they had .mil style no windows for such a large building. Other exchanges I had visited had windows. If we had collectively given the NSA rights to check our data, this would be ok. We didn't give them the rights. Think of the insider trading, that could be occurring by corrupt NSA officials.
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Honest question: do you really think they store every piece of communication that flows through the internet, just waiting for some random teenager they spied on to run for president? The way I imagine it the data runs through a lot of filters that look for evil words/phrases/whatever. Those few emails/sms/etc will be stored and sent to NSA analysts. I doubt they care about the usual type of "dirt" you use against people.

I am against the illegal spying, but what you're saying seems like a conspiracy theory.
A follow up blog post to the one discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2345483
Assembly.
Imagine if you can control Cisco and Juniper device with the same command. It make sense for you to be oblivious of the device's make and model. Same command, same effect. What's more is that, by saying your device is in OpenFlow version X, you can assume it can do this and that. This is unlike your Cisco box: same device, different IOS options, different capabilities.
I interviewed with Digg in the early days (not sure you remember me but with you Owen)

I think while finding big successes can be hard, dealing with them once you have them can be even harder.

Kevin was pretty quick to realize that Twitter/Facebook were going to eat Digg's chances of become a huge company, but it wasn't trivial to figure a response to that. It's a valid question: should Digg have even tried to grow grow grow or just been happy owning their area?

Engineering gripes I think were mostly focused on acquisition and investment attractiveness. There probably is also some elitism in the Valley: if you don't have the right pedigree and look the way that fits what people expect you don't deserve success
Assuming it works well I think it's a nice idea. I assume that you're planning on taking a cut from sales and if so it would be nice to have something on the front page or in the FAQ that indicates what your cut is.

I'm not a big fan of the green and orange colors, even if they are the colors of my alma mater. :-)
Oh, then I've had it wrong for a while now. Thanks for pointing it out.
I'm doubtful of the idea that performance evaluations and performance improvement plans are the answer to lack of management, but only because the way I've seen them implemented so far. They seem to be used mainly as threats from management or as a CYA step to firing someone rather than serving the needs of the people subjected to them.
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I've read two books recently that shed light on Buffet's investment strategy - "Seeking Wisdom," which quotes a lot of the principles Buffet and his partner Munger use, and "The Intelligent Investor" which deals primarily with assessing fundamental investment values and making intelligent investments instead of knee-jerk reactions to booms and busts. Buffet has said "The Intelligent Investor" is his pick for best book ever written on investing.

They're both quite good. Seeking Wisdom is more about mental models and getting better heuristics for quick decisionmaking and assessment of complicated things. Derek Sivers's notes on it are good:

http://sivers.org/book/SeekingWisdom

I don't know a great summary of Intelligent Investor to link to, but it's definitely recommended - it's a finance book so not beach reading, but it's light and casual enough and not too academic. It's as about as readable as you can get for a serious book on finance.
They make money from subscribers like me. It's just so damn convenient that I had to send them some money - and it just so happens that I exceed the basic amount of space, so it was easily justifiable.
I recently watched a blu ray at a friends, then tried to watch the special features listed on the cover. We couldn't. Turns out the blu ray player didn't have the most current firmware. WTF was my reaction, and I came to fully understand Jobs.
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Most mac apps have no investment, and I think they'd count. For example, http://www.panic.com/, http://www.omnigroup.com/.
It's easy to look smart predicting startups will fail if you're judged simply by the number of predictions you get right.
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Those are usually DRMed copies and/or in worse quality. Besides that, the download codes usually invalidate after a certain amount of time. So, for older (cheaper) BluRays, this is often not an option.

That said, people already cracked BluRay DRM and using MakeMKV it is trivial to rip most BluRays to DRM-less MKV. I put most of my movies on the Apple TV 2 (which can take surprisingly high bitrates in high profile): rip with MakeMKV, transcode with Handbrake, and you are done ;).
Free storage that they allocate but that you don't actually use costs epsilon more than nothing at all at the margin. The part you do actually use costs them about 10 cents a month on Amazon's published pricing, and one could reasonably assume they have a better deal than publicly available. At a buck a year and what I make out to be a viral factor of something like 20, you're approximately the cheapest cost of customer acquisition ever. (If that worked for my business at scale I would be rolling in it, and my LTV is much lower than Dropbox's is.)

How they make money is fairly simple: use you as a customer acquisition channel to get people who have money using the service. Charge those people many, many times what servicing them actually costs. Does it matter if there are cheaper options? Pfft, no. There are cheaper caffeine delivery vehicles than Starbucks coffee, but since people don't choose coffee primarily based on price, if they hook one more weekday latte drinker that gets them a LTV of several thousand bucks at a margin of ZOINKS%. Dropbox isn't Starbucks, but their unit economics can be reasonably assumed to be "quite favorable indeed."
"Ted was the founding CEO of Fortify Software" doesn't mesh with "lifetime middle manager from Symantec who had never started a company"
I don't think it's an argument against Dixon's point, but I found this funny because I remember being so impressed with demo of Dropbox at the time. I remember knowing nothing about who Drew was, seeing this on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
and thinking something along the lines of, "that's brilliant, I hope he gets funded so I can use it."
Would you be targeting experts, semi-experts, or beginners? If beginners, are you looking at people who just want to get a website up and running, or want to eventually do web development regularly (i.e. they actually want to learn to build websites)?

I ask because it sounds like you are casting a very large net with a tool like this.

My theory is that much of these tools are obsolete not just because they produce bad code, but because the market has been eaten up by better alternatives. Experts are more likely to use a good text editor and CSS frameworks and great new features of HTML5; thus they don't need tools like dreamweaver to produce things that they now can do more easily. New users who just want to build a website but don't want to learn to develop websites regularly are more likely to be drawn to a service like wix.com or wordpress.com. The only segment I'm not sure has been touched (perhaps because I'm uniformed), are new web designers who want to learn web design, not just to create a one-time project. In that case you might be better off interviewing college/university students who just finished their first few web design courses.
Right. What all these different examples of licensing do is provide some level of protection from complete technical incompetence. Which of course is a worthy pursuit, I just don't agree that the best way to do it is necessarily by licensing. (And unfortunately I'm not going to be able to precisely articulate some alternatives at 3am :)

The historical pattern in the US seems to be that professional licensing, introduced as protection from incompetency, inevitably evolves into a way of limiting competition in a field by restricting the number of practitioners. At least on architectural exams, to the best of my knowledge, the maximum number of those who "pass" each year is set in advance.

It's a slippery slope once you start regulating entry into a field. The regulating body comes under political pressure from anyone with a financial stake, especially practitioners, educators, and major consumers. I'd wager that soon after you need a license to call yourself a software engineer, you'll need an accredited degree and years of internships before you can sit for the licensing exam. It's played out in similar fashion in the other professions.

There are other ways of ensuring competency without the use of government or quasi-government institutions. In software development, incompetency generally wastes time and money, not lives. With stakes this low, perhaps something as simple as a standardized testing service that could be used by HR departments to screen applicants would be viable... (Please pardon my designer's ignorance if something like this already exists in the development world :)
> "It's pretty much to clown other noobs and throw errors at them."

I find it heartwarming to remember the blissful days when I thought the same thing about function parameters.

And I happen to think that we could all learn a great deal about intuitive modern programming language design from posts like this.
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I'm not sure if you've done so already, but an AMA on reddit would be really neat if you're interested in talking about the early digg days.
So you're saying that despite hundreds of female acquaintances going on nightly excursions, you've never heard even one of them express exasperation or jesting concern over men in general over the course of years? Never once a comment on how men don't pick up on things, never once a comment on how men don't understand, and all possible criticisms are individual-specific?

Either:
a) You're just making this up. Humans are just not that invariable. I've had hundreds of casual night-out buddies of both sexes... and I would be lying if I could state any thread that ran through all of one gender, anatomical traits aside.

Hell, I'd be hard pressed to find a thread that ran through even half of them, with the possible exceptions of 'likes to imbibe some form of inebriating substance' and 'speaks English'

b) You state 'joking', so perhaps all general criticisms of men were considered serious statements?

c) You state you don't remember, so perhaps you get so blind drunk you can't remember any conversation?

"all women, always" is not that much worse than "no women, never"
Investing in people over their ideas is always advisable. But let's not forget how brilliant people can still fail. Tons of bright kids come out of MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc... Should you blindly invest in all of them?

Instead, I prefer Mark Suster's "invest in lines, not dots" strategy. You really have to spend more time to have a better idea on whether you should invest.

In hindsight, of course Drew Houston would be a good investment.
Another agreement. My pet peeve. Real-estate agents should put a price on houses they are trying to sell. I'll either buy, or I won't. Who wants to pay for building reports and lawyers before an auction just to turn up and realize they can't afford the property? Agents underestimate sale price to get people to come to auctions. And what's with silent auctions, and all their other BS. Ask for what you want by putting a
price on whatever your selling.
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Yes, he forgot to add that the imperialistic country in question tries hard to push its draconian ideas about copyright to the rest of the world. Spread the hurt...