skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since when is benefitting oneself by adding value to something a bad thing or a "Machiavellian scheme"? This is what you need to do all day: figure out how to establish yourself inside your customer’s head, no matter where he or she is - get the singer they listen to, get in the publication they read, get on the radio show they listen to etc. As a CEO you should chart out your customer(s) and go after them - establishing yourself as the best choice (every demographic has a different definition of "best" so be careful here) through all and any mediums.

Also, think about it like this if you feel "evil" doing this, as a CEO you are the mind of the organization, you must think for the organization because like a baby it cannot fend for itself. I am commending Jason for being creative - most companies throw away money year after on ads in magazines like Inc that barely get glanced at - Jason, on behalf of his organization, has sold you his product - correct me if he hasn’t.
It's off-topic, I know, and feel free to downvote me into oblivion both for being offtopic and getting meta in this post... but, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention:

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Love the Panda.
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Yes, presumably there is a difference, but it's not that much. The axons that conduct motor signals to the skeletal muscles have a conductance speed of 80-120m/s [1]. In 70ms (100ms - 30ms), at 80m/s, such a signal would travel 5.6m.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axon#Motor
I'm a parent, and I'm interested in improvement, not latent billionairism. So to me, such studies are useful, even without broader claims.
Agreed, although a lot of my indecisiveness comes from the fact that every single site I read talking about languages/frameworks, all swear that one is better than the other, and not to use 'x' over 'y', and then the next site you visit says the exact opposite.

There are SO many languages/frameworks, and all seem to say they're the "better" one to use.

You're right though, I will just pick something/anything for now, so i'm not wasting time, and if I need to switch to something else later, so be it.
Dell Stage:
http://www.dell.com/us/p/stage/pd

It's very much a consumer-facing product, built on technology somewhere between a game engine and Flash.

edit: Also working on learning Google Go and OpenCL in my spare time, as well as recovering from a burnout phase and trying to get my programming mojo back.
I like the idea, and I hope you focus your efforts on a mobile application. Having a good ride database is definitely cool, but there are existing ride databases out there (EveryTrail, RideWithGPS). What there isn't though, is an adhoc notification system for going on rides. What would be really cool to have is a mobile app that notified me when someone was going to start a ride in my area. As a motorcycle rider myself, I don't often plan on going riding a couple days in advance, I just get the itch to get out and go and will usually take off within 30-60 minutes from getting that itch. If I could, using my phone or the site, declare I was leaving on a ride and have that published, and anyone in the area also subscribed to the area could consume it (be notified automatically), that would be really cool. I would focus more on connecting people than on mapping. From my experience with ridewithgps, motorcyclists are more social hungry than data/map hungry, so I think you'll find better traction with this approach. Obviously you want to keep up with the mapping portion so you can have your marketing ideas work out, but I wouldn't make it the foreground of the user experience.
"You will stay at this desk and drill creative thinking or I will screech at you some more!"
My first guess at an explanation would be that the camera is actually a self-contained little image/video engine that's "running" (i.e., capturing images internally) anytime the phone is powered up, and that under certain circumstances tickled by FaceTime, polling the camera engine results in a cached frame getting kicked out of a camera-internal buffer.

Mind you, that's based on absolutely no actual understanding of the hardware, software or APIs involved.
Interesting that you mentioned it is 8 words in a row. The usual way duplicate content is checked for is using a moving hash. I had one that I put up online a few years ago.

Other content that should be checked is the printable versions should not be indexed. Wordpress also generates some crawlable urls that cause the same content to be returned, e.g. archives, categories.

Presence of session ids in urls used to be a big problem, but search engines seems to have matured and a bit cleverer. However, if you aren't using a well known CMS, then it is better to make sure you link to a canonical version and don't put the one with session id in the search engine index.
Most Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are rarely rich by Silicon Valley standards.
Hey bigsassy congrats on finally launching! I know you been working on this for a while now.

I am not the target audience, but I hope you get good feedback :)
Much as I like Wil, and as much as I dislike the TSA, can we leave the anti-TSA rants for reddit? This doesn't feel particularly appropriate for HN.
A potential client came to us several years ago with a similar idea, apparently there's lots of money to made since every local election needs a site + social media. Thus white-labeling the process, as NationBuilder is doing allows for your local sheriff or judge to harness the necessary tools they need to get their campaign going without a cost prohibitive price tag.

I thought it was a good idea then, and an even better idea now. I think NationBuilder did a great job. Needless to say the potential client got cold feet, and never executed their idea.
Or, as stated in Bertley's "Programming Pearls":

Pi seconds is a nanocentury.
Equity seems like the right approach for me. Either way (VC or no VC), it looks like I'll have to fork away the dream.

On the other hand, I do want to read this book. I read some reviews for it just now and got the gist. Thanks for the note.
I'm responding to a hypothetical:

"After all, what if it was provable that a racial group was less intelligent than other groups? How could one reasonably and humanely find that information actionable?"

I didn't feel the need to carefully explain the exact policy implications of this fact since the hypothetical didn't give enough info to work from. I also don't feel the need to couch a conversation on this topic in terms of "I'm not racist" "scare" "quotes" and genuflections towards diversity since I think most HN readers can distinguish a positive claim from a normative one.
Saw the 1.9.3dev at the end. New hotness required for what you did or just for giggles?
Thanks, that post provides a bit more context.

I guess the debate is basically "At what point do you start spending on customer acquisition?".

The early days of any platform are a somewhat unique perfect storm of opportunity. Much like the launch of the App Store, that was a unique, transformative event that Zynga capitalized on. I don't think it's fair to extrapolate from that to an axiom.

I think it's a matter of different perspectives, and maybe a little confirmation bias. As a VC, by definition you're seeing startups that already have some traction, very possibly without having done any marketing, and are looking for growth capital. This is not the case for the vast majority of startups.

If an early stage startup needs to pivot and iterate in response to what users want, then it makes sense to get your product in front of users as quickly as possible. The quickest, most reliable way to do that is to to spend a little money on traffic to test your assumptions and get initial metrics of conversion rate, LTV, etc.

Not tweeting to the same early adopters that will try any new startup and move on to the next thing on Techcrunch a few minutes later.

"how did you start a company before Twitter?" seems like a pretty ridiculous question for anyone to ask. It's pretty easy to empirically demonstrate that the "I'll build something, tweet about it, and then it will go viral" plan fails 99.9% of the time.
While that's all true, RBS isn't the bank in question.

Also, both RBS and Lloyds Banking Group (who bought/'merged with' HBOS, which was the result of the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and it's Halifax's online banking the story is about) do have special Scottish-only rights, like printing banknotes.
> Nor do I propose immigrants have automatic citizens' votes,

Whether you propose it or not, they will fight it. And they will get citizenship through other means (such as ancor babies and chain weddings).

> Nor that such welfare issues be up for a democratic vote

You know that in many countries illegal immigrants protest for welfare benefits (even though they are not citizens). Whether you like it or not, they will claim it.

If an immigrant has cancer, you cannot just send him away from the hospital.

> You've argued that permitting highly-skilled immigration is beneficial; but not that restricting low-skilled immigration isn't. What's the economic argument for trade barriers on low-skilled labor?

The fact that low-skilled labourers are often a net-expense to most governments (i.e. more tax money is spent on them and their social ills).

The lower strata of society is also more likely to be involved in crime (which affects the rest of the population) and have explosive population growth. The latter is important since in 99.99% of countries, children born in that country gets citizenship.
That's basically what it says, yeah. It's cool that you can just skim the three graphs and take away the main points of the article.

But that's hardly news.. The problem is that achieving these guidelines on a burning MacBook without an option to remove the cell is impossible :-/

Good thing the engineers know this all along and try to design so that the conditions are met to some extent.
This is going to be a great event. I believe there are about 100 folks registered so far. Please inform developers outside of the traditional startup scene about this so we can ensure a great influx of new blood into the community.
kids are not allowed artificial flavoring in their lunch food...

Why would that make you cringe?
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Occasionally, you just have to wait a while for an instance to start. It's rarely more than half an hour.
I've researched this for my children, and there seemed to be significant differences. The amount of superstition in the Steiner teachings put me off big time ("Beware of right angles and potatoes!"). Montessori makes far fewer wild assumptions.
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My then-girlfriend and I did some work to help start a Waldorf school in western Massachusetts, so I've had a bit of direct experience with Waldorf schools despite not having attended one, and I agree with most of your assessment: the focus on creativity / learning to teach yourself is a huge departure from the traditional approach, "here is how we solve this kind of problem, now practice on these other, nearly identical problems."

One problem I noticed with the particular school we were helping to start was that the majority of the parents were technophobic to the point of hysteria: they literally asked me not to bring my laptop to meetings. As far as I can tell, this isn't a necessary feature of such schools. The general lesson, for me, is that in settings like this (e.g., an alternative educational facility bootstrapped by a small community) the school can take on the pathologies of the community, with potentially undesirable results.
I'm not so sure about that. Social problems like this are often deeply interesting because they don't have simple solutions.

That said, it's highly unlikely that a discussion about airport security is going to lead to anything other than idle griping about the situation. So maybe you're right and we should steer clear of the airport security line of discussion.
In the EU, I assume the OP was alluding to the fact that everyone else is forced to pay (most of) your college costs. Therefore, you owe very little debt upon graduation. Private gains, socialized losses.
Flag it if you disapprove.
This is a lot of BS, spoken by a Founder with no understanding of employee needs. Employees do not have their eyes set on always staying where they are. They are not reaping the monetary rewards the way a Founder is. To an employee, EVERY job is a stepping stone to the next one, eventually. This Founder is completely self-absorbed.

Job titles are free and it helps the employee along on their career. No, they shouldn't be inflated, but they shouldn't be held back either. Eventually the employee needs to put that job on their resume and if it looks like they were an entry level person because the Founder was a jerk about titles, it's better if the employees leave now instead of later.
NYC is becoming a great place to do a startup, but is NYC the next silicon valley? I'd say no (I'm a New Yorker). Silicon Valley has always been the place to run a techonology company. New York has always been about commerce, finance, fashion, art, media. NY and SV are good at 2 different things. What's happening now is not that New York is becoming good at what silicon valley is good at. Its that the things New York is good at are now becoming technology enhanced, so depending on what kind of company you're building, SV could be better than NY and in some cases, NY could be better than SV.

(I'm making wide sweeping generalizations of course and they may not be valid months from now.)
edit: yes that last statement was just to cover my ass. ;P
I'm sorry, are articles highlighting the erosion of your freedoms off putting? If you don't like it, go somewhere else. Fark has lovely discussions on it's page.
I've downvoted you, because it seems to me the correct action would be to flag the submission, rather than hijack the comment page for meta-discussion about appropriate content on HN.
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Yes. There's always grass to eat between the feet of the elephants.
I don't know, I grew up in both the bay area, and a more rural part of California, and there was definitely an agricultural bend once you moved to an area where 60% of the graduating class ended up not going to college. There is a little bit of satire in there, but it is also something noticeable from my experience.
I actually feel like I got quite a reward for my time at 37signals - Yes, that's me Jason's talking about :)

Since this topic is sort of centered around a small part of my experience, I'd love to shed some light on a couple points:

True! I started my own business! For about 7 hours of my life I didn't know what I was going to do if I couldn't bloom at 37signals, and then I told David and Jason I was starting my own company, CoSupport.us.

True: I left 37signals because I really wanted to do more support-wise, and the needs of the company didn't mesh with my ideas. They need people full-time on support, they don't need someone who's not there responding to tickets. After 4 years of answering 100+ emails a day, I wanted to do other things. Needing me on tickets interacting with customers is what Jason means when he says they can't have people working on a team not doing the work of the team.

True: David and Jason may sometimes come off a bit stiff, perhaps even cold, when it comes to how they manage their business, but that's the unfortunate aspect of print, edits, etc. In truth, working for them was the most challenging, educational, inspirational time of my career so far. They are the opposite of cold when it comes to their employee's ambition, ideas, talent and goals.

True: My experience leaving was equivalent to a professional football player saying to his coach, "Hey I think I want to try being a referee!" The player isn't on the team to be a referee. If he wants to be a referee, he needs to go to referee school and become a referee, not say, "I'm going to stay on the football team and be a referee, too." That's not how it works in football, or at 37signals.

False: I was not at all "rewarded" for my ambition by being shut down, put down, held down, or in any way shuttered by David or Jason. I was rewarded by them telling me I had too much ambition to be contained there, and by them supporting my new company as best they can.

False: I actually did my first job for 37signals in 2005, and started full-time in March 2007. So a little more than "just about 3 years."

The only bad thing I have to say about 37signals or their management or my leaving is that they stole my frog, which you can ask Jason Fried about.
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I was hoping you'd post here, considering you're also kind of in the same space and bootstrapping like me. This is some really great advice you've given me, and I think I will focus on the mobile app before improving the route generating portion of the project.

Thanks!
Motorola Xoom has sold about 100k units so far, Deutsche Bank estimates
I wasn't attempting to hijack anything, merely stating that it wasn't the kind of submission I expected to see on HN. I wasn't aware that flagging it was the [only] correct response.
Feedback: It wasn't immediately clear to me who this is for. A big headline telling me "Online Campaign Management for Civic Leaders and Candidates" would be helpful.
Two aspects spring to mind. First, we don't know how long ago this course was, so it's quite possible some of the story is either dated or a slightly misremembered anecdote for a physicist who was brought up with slide rules for his calculations. Second, the quote specifies "experimentally", which implies measurements limited to two orders of magnitude, i.e., measured vs theoretical. Alas, while I have a few slipsticks in the closet, I am not now nor have I ever been a physicist, so I could be totally wrong on this.
At DIA (Denver International Airport) they have both the scanners set up, as well as standard metal detectors. Going through the metal detectors doesn't require a pat down even-though they are supposedly less safe than the scanners. Yet when you are forced to be in a line with a scanner and you opt-out you can't just go through the metal detector instead, but have to be patted down.

That doesn't make any sense to me what so ever. AT ALL.
Some more specific feedback to the actual site, not the concept. The routes need more content - maps are important, but without ideas of what I am going to encounter, descriptions, titles, categories, it's not too helpful. Categories are important as well, because there are so many different styles of riding. Out on my dualsport, I don't care if I hit bad pavement (I might actually WANT bad or no pavement). On my R6, I want the smoothest pavement possible with the best banked turns.
Yes. It's not at all obvious the site is for politicians / public figures.
awesome! Are users picking it up?
Thanks for the feedback :)..Will talk to the designer and see what he thinks.
I'm not sure what you have in mind.

Our use case is explained on freeversation.com/about. Let me know if you have any questions.
I'm working at an agency that feels like it has a lot of the qualities warned against here. It's my first development job, and I've been on payroll as an 'intern' for eight months even though I take on full sized projects on my own.

The firm focuses on SEO and considers development as one of the things that just happens to be required in order to get great search ranking. As a result, we usually just need to "make it work," regardless of whether it's crap internally (I mean bad, like not sanitizing SQL query inputs bad).

There's plenty of pecking-order-making-one-another-have-a-bad-day business and I often feel like I have to finish projects by Friday in a panic because so-and-so keep dropping by my desk to "see how it's going."

Will I be better off looking for work elsewhere, or is this typical in the creative agency world? I know I don't really enjoy the things I do at work, but it beats delivering pizza and I do work on side projects constantly to keep myself engaged. However 8 months as an intern isn't the best set of credentials to find that awesome dev position.

Any advice?
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Hopefully General Zod will use this for 2012. I might have voted for him, but his page in the last election, http://www.zod2008.com/ , didn't have enough social network engagement and I thought he was a bit behind the times.
The problem here isn't criticality but waste heat: heat generated by uncontrolled radioactive decay of waste products (fission products and products of neutron activation). There's no way to turn off this heat; it continues uncontrollably for a long time, decaying super-exponentially (here's a graph: [1]).

As far as the nuclear reaction goes, the Fukushima reactors were "off" within seconds of the initial earthquake, and remained so since then. (Though, tangentially, there's been speculation of some low-power criticality events since then, but the evidence is flimsy. It's not particularly important anyway). That's the polar opposite of the Chernobyl disaster, where it was an uncontrolled nuclear reaction which destroyed the reactor building and released vast amounts of nuclear waste in an explosion (and subsequent fire). In Fukushima (and Three Mile Island, and others) there was no uncontrolled reaction; but there was decay heat and its effects. The big explosions at Fukushima were an indirect effect of decay heat: explosions of hydrogen generated by when extremely hot zirconium "burned" in steam. And the large scale fuel failure ("meltdown") was also caused by decay heat -- too much decay heat, and not enough cooling.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_heat#Power_reactors_in_sh...
For grading, I don't think much traditional preschools do grading. It begins usually with primary school. There may be more praises though, like drawing stars on hands, but until the age children buy such praises like 4,5.

Creativity is very important for Waldorf, but not the main issue in Montessori. For example, you must be presented by a teacher on how to work with a material (play with a Montessori toy) first. There is not much room to art, nor imaginative play in Montessori.

If Montessori has a remarkable effect on success, I think it's because it helps children the value of working hard at an early age. There are no programs to distract you. You pick something, play with it as long as you like, learn all you like from that one and continue with a more difficult one.

As there is no rush, you do your all work like wearing cloths, putting your dish to the table. Being able to do all work yourself, one very important skill that every entrepreneur must have :)
"What is 10 plus 1?"

"101?"

"I'm sorry M'a'm, your son is an idiot"
That would be exactly the kind of political flamewar stuff I don't expect on HN.
Competition doesn't matter. Look at Alta Vista.
It's not just for civic leaders or candidates.

While we built it with an eye on the non-profit and political world, it could also be of benefit to independent creators of all types -- artists, musicians, advocacy groups, small businesses, sports teams, public speakers, etc. Anyone who is a leader or creator with a following.
Wow, really good answers. Glad we got to hear from Drew Houston.
The day it's good luck to kiss a journeyman software engineer... will be quite the day indeed.