skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They turn the store off when they introduce new products, I suspect more as a tradition than anything.

You wouldn't want an uninformed person buying an iPhone 3GS after Steve has already introduced the iPhone 4, but you don't want to put it up for sale yet because the media should be paying attention to Steve, not the store. If they just launched the item with all the specs on the store as soon as it was introduced in the keynote or media event or whatever, then it would ruin the suspense. Jobs is a salesman.
Ok, but that sure sounds like a design flaw. I would have expected that they would still have an option to push the new products live at the time of their choosing vs. disabling online purchases of their existing products.

I would think an appropriate separation of content from the site itself would allow them to reach their same business goals without deliberately giving themselves an outage.
>1. Sometimes the best process is old fashioned communication between people with common sense.

I most wholeheartedly agree. Git, or a Source Control Shingle cannot replace effective communication. In fact, a solving a merge conflict is much more painful than a quick discussion.
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Not a sysadmin at a HFT, but am in personal contact with many of them. The only thing that I can tell you is that getting any information out of anyone in the industry is extremely difficult. Every variable (hardware and software) is considered something that can be turned into a competitive advantage.

To get an idea of the sort of platforms that are dealt with, check out http://www.stacresearch.com/
Reminds me of this: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Interview_by_Proxy.aspx
(It's the second story on the page.)
Sofa indeed has great talent.

However their track record with products leaves a lot to be desired?

Look at DiscoAPP. They put the app out, collected some money and left it to collect dust. I offered to buy the source and they said someday they would pick it up again. Never happened.

Versions is good app. But they simply move at a glacial pace. Again, collect money and development almost stops.

So I guess Cornerstone is going to get a lot more business as I think many long time Apple folks realize their purchases from Sofa are obsolete.

Shame because they have talent.
If we can't travel faster than the speed of light (a reasonably safe assumption), maybe we can take intergalactic shortcuts like black holes. So it seems to me that Battlestar Galactica-style "jump" drives (or Borg transwarp conduits) are more likely than Star Trek-style warp drives.
Most high-performance combat aircraft these days are rather aerodynamically unstable and only stay in the air because their computers are constantly correcting, and they do it all with thirty-year-old technology. Plus, remember those quadrotor drones. This thing will only crash if its computer does, and the government is going to force them to make their software so bulletproof that that's not going to happen.
Dear Gen Y please keep in mind that most Gen X managers were nicknamed "the latchkey" generation in their youth and as such bringing your parents to the interview will only encourage resentment (especially if your parents are baby boomers who are viewed as having a "charmed childhood" by Gen X with the exception of Vietnam).
Design is more than that. It is what users really want, but it is also how they feel when they use it, how it works, how it looks, etc. PMs are great at getting projects done. They herd cats. But very few have studied design, industrial design, art history, architecture, literature, etc.

Jonathan Ive studied industrial design. Steven Sinofsky studied computer science.
Search is sticky because the cost of trying another service is high while the benefits are (seemingly) quite low. For another search engine to supplant the notion that google = search they need to not only beat google in search quality, but do so significantly enough that others will immediately notice.
There is probably close to zero technical cost or risk associated with your social network. I have no idea what stage your concept is at, but from my brief flirtation with building a social networking concept, I would urge you to consider the following if you haven't already:

What problem does this solve?
Who are your first 100 customers? You'll be surprised at how little time even your best friends will spend humoring your service.
Who are your first 10,000 customers?
Why would any of them spend their precious time on your service?
How do you solve the chicken and egg problem? Most social networks won't be interesting until they have millions of users. How do you keep people engaged before then?
How do you make money? If you have a general audience, unless you have hundreds of millions of unique visitors per month, don't say advertising.
Yeah, but so is 'kilt'.

In the US, we consider that poor grammar, as in: "I done did kilt three of 'em skeeters on me yesterday."

OK, maybe yours is a noun, but still!
"Rolling in the Deep", by Adele http://goo.gl/doodle/DCvZJ
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And, since this is already being steered by a computer-controlled vectored thrust system, giving it more fans won't make it any more stable in the first place. This system is plenty actuated.
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For all his celebrity Dragon Warrior Po is still very passionate young man who has not lost an ounce of respect and admiration of his idols, became complicit.
One of my roles is reviewing the medical notes of independent corpsmen on Navy cruisers and destroyers. I assess everything from black ink to the quality of their differential diagnosis. Most of the corpsmen use one of the electronic documentation systems. From one of my reviews yesterday: "Nothing like handwritten notes: efficient & more pleasant on the eye. In future, focus on setting lowercase letters __on the line__ so the ascenders don't get lost among shorter letters floating away."
Ah, you're right! Here's the first part http://goo.gl/doodle/tdXk2
I think that people are aware of the distinction, but they feel that Groupon, while it might have been a "go big" hope, it is distinctly leaning towards the "go home" while at the same time it is trying to IPO. This means that some now interpret it as a "pump it & dump it" scheme, especially given that the major founders are selling stock by the hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's not about marketing, Apple is brilliant in making a feature easy and discoverable.

On spot comment. Cloud file storage and auto replication, file and document automatic sync,Web versions of office. Msft has that. You can even extend sync through API's.

Features are there, but seems like nobody knows about it, discoverability is lacking.
I'm afraid the methodology described has little to do with Steve Jobs.
And some other specific texts -- written by some of our own:

Startup Law 101 Series:
http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup.html

Assorted writings on startups: http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/
Just because you're comfortable with it doesn't make it right. I am sure a lot of slaveholders were comfortable owning slaves, it's just the way things were.
Perhaps I am being naive, but hasn't the study of the mind now shifted to the neuroscience department?
I didn't read the Gruber post, but I think he was refering to the actual production quality of the video, not the UI itself.
Title is incorrect. That's not how other reports on the same recently published study have put the matter.

http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/09/studies-new-clues-to-t...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-he-autism-...
This is incredible. The lowest price advertised by Clickatell is $0.012/msg, and that price can only be reached by paying for 500,000 messages or more - that is, paying $6000 or more.
Vows and CoffeeScript
Implementing a high order programming language in a low level language, like C++

Oh dear, I can see the old timers coming up the hill, ready with their rants about how C and C++ are now considered low level languages. ;)
A month in review? Is that normal? What are the average review periods to be expected for both paid and free apps?
More complexity but more redundancy too.
I don't know, I've tried turning the water icy cold for the last few minutes of the shower (based on an Art of Manliness article), and it seems like trying to artificially create meaning in something very trivial.

I think there's value in changing things up so you don't get too comfortable, but to me this is about as meaningful or important as changing which brand of deodorant you use. Instead, I'd recommend things like going to see a play, listening to a new genre of music, taking cooking classes, etc.
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The resume site is ok. The narrow columns are truly annoying, provide bad user experience (which is not good for a resume site, and especially not good for someone looking for ui/ux positions), and promotes horrible readability.

On a resume site, especially for companies such as colourlovers and 37signals, it's all about first impressions. You've got to include something that stands out and really catches the persons eye. Just because it's a "resume 2.0" site doesn't mean they're going to give a damn.

The header font just looks out of place to me, I don't think it's the font itself. I think it's the fact that it has a glow about the text which spans across the different color columns.

One thing that kills me about this site is the fact that your portfolio sites DESTROY this site in terms of design. Your portfolio looks great, this site should have just as good, if not way a better, design.

I would declutter it (use more whitespace for sure), tone down the colors (choose another color scheme, they don't work well in my opinion), and definitely focus way more on your portfolio than you are. My eye is drawn more to the "Hi my name is unicorn" picture than to your portfolio. That's not a good thing. Designers need to know how to draw user focus.

Is there a reason that "Hi my name is unicorn" image is there? I would personally leave stuff like that out of your resume. Just because it's "resume 2.0" doesn't mean it's ok to steer away from the professional direction.

I apologise if this came off in a bad way. I truly am not meaning to bash your site in any way. I'm just trying to provide feedback and my opinion (that's all it is, don't take it to heart). I'm also at work trying to type this out as fast as I can.

Good luck with finding a job if you decide on moving on from your current position.
I don't think that ducted fans get a lot of wing in ground effect, given that ducts already prevent the formation of wingtip vortices.
"Take issue with" is vague. Is someone at a company allowed to think, "Dude, you don't talk about Fight Club"? Is that too extreme a reaction? Or are you talking about the legal department filing a lawsuit. Or something in between?

I don't think it's fair to expect Steve Jobs to hop in his helicopter and track down Joe Moreno so that he can high-five the guy for writing something that got on the front page of Hacker News.
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shouldn't they be bronas instead of bronies?
I consistently take cold showers, and I actually really enjoy it. Has nothing to do with being tough. I just happen to feel a lot more awake post-shower, it's a lot more satisfying to dry off after (and when you get out of the shower, you aren't as cold), my skin feels better and Im quite possibly in a better mood. Also, if I have had a few drinks the night before, a cold shower is far superior than a hot shower.
We'd prefer to stay in business too! We're growing and as we get bigger we get better rates that we can pass on to you and the numbers still work. So you can have both: lower prices and we'll still be around in 10 years (and hopefully the next 50 years after that).
I am really curious to look at this beautifully designed Windows app. I am in the middle of running my own experiment trying to see if a truly high design polish in Windows app can translate to the higher revenues, and it'd be interesting to compare the visuals. If anyone has any pointers as to what the OP app might be, please share.
$3B profit or revenue? Theres a big difference. Revenue is just song and dance to look good in reports for investors.
Having never heard of slowear.it before, I decided to check out their website. If anyone else also does this, be forewarned that the UI assaults the eyes. It is extremely "busy", has poor (none?) navigational structure, and everything moves slightly and unexpectedly if you hover over it.
I know a few doctors, and each will go out of their way to dissuade you from riding if you bring up motorcycles. A few call them "donorcycles".
as a side not to my comment. This is one of the best employer targeted (37signals actually) resume sites I've seen. You can learn a lot about what ui/ux employers want to see on a site like this.

http://jasonzimdars.com/svn/
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Very good way to find real talent, very nice.
A really perfect hash table is just an array ;)
...but boy, oh boy is that screensaver interesting!
We've had 3 price drops on our services in the past year, so while I don't have anything I can promise you for outbound calls, we're committed to giving you the best price we are able to provide.
Excellent point. I never said it is good to lump anyone into any category, but I am not writing articles for Slate :)
this guy is into them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMOh-cul6M
Just because we know there is a problem doesn't really mean anything. That's just the beginning. Ask yourself these questions:

How much does/will the problem cost us?
IS there a solution?
How much will the solution cost?

Then you do cost benefit analysis and decide the best course of action. THEN you try to talk everybody else into it.

I'm happy to concede global warming is happening and will only get worse. Hell, I was one of the first people I know to understand and accept that. I just haven't seen the follow up yet. It's always "Yep, got yourself a problem there", but no solution offered other than "buy a Prius".
If I didn't already have a job I love, that would be an awesome place to work.

Also, I have to echo that the job description is really well written. I wish everyone was even half so good at it. The only thing I might add would be expectations for the job roles, but I suspect you only want people who already know what to expect. ;)
Truthed. My friends company struck a deal with groupon in a strategic attempt to get more exposure, even though they sold their products at a loss. Yes their website got a large traffic spike on the day it hit groupons front page, but no, none of the traffic stuck. Just FYI.
They posted the job listing to the 37signals job board, too: http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/9115
Why not just have everyone vote on their iPhone?
Good times at GovCamp Toronto
I don't think the book is particularly good for what people buy the book for (learning some strategy that can immediately be applied to make money), but it was chosen as an example of a book that describes some of the trades. I would like to emphasize that I wouldn't recommend any of the high frequency trading books.
I don't think ground effect while hovering involves wingtip vortices at all. His 'flying' figures are only speculation, and all he's proven is that he can hover.

His 'official' specifications: "Hover (out of ground effect) – >10,000ft (estimated)"

"Assuming mass moved is constant then a helicopter hovering in free air will be required to produce a force equivalent to V2 (speed after passing through the rotor) - V1 (starting speed of air) where V1 is some value above 0 given that the air is already moving downwards before reaching the rotor.

When close to the surface (generally considered 1/3-2/3 of the rotor diameter), air forced downwards through the rotor disc is restricted in its flow by the ground. This produces an area of high pressure below the disc and in turn, reduces the duct effect and hence the downwards velocity of the air above the disc. This reduces V1 while V2 remains relatively static, so the value of V2 - V1 increases. From the equation F = M x A we can see that the 'lift' of the rotor disc is greater when in ground effect."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aircraft)#Wing_i...
Any law enforcement authority is likely to have hardware for triangulating radio signals.
> a computer server that was used to coordinate and execute the attacks

lol, they arrested a kid with a laptop running LOIC. Nothing to see here, move along.
Huh? They've delivered lots of stuff. Some bad stuff, some good stuff. The real problem is the lack of cohesion.
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It seems like what Techcrunch fans really like is... Mashable :)
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It would be nice to be able to mark in the CrunchBase Raplet that the person the email is from doesn't match the CrunchBase profile.
paper & pencil can handle exceptional cases and ad hoc formats much better than software, that's for sure. one reason I still love notebooks like Moleskine, and blank scrap paper. Old tech: it's cheap and Just Works (tm).
it was rejected 4 times (for various overly pedantic reasons based on their in-app-purchase policies). Each resubmittal review took 1 week. total time spent updating the app to fix rejections was about 8 hours. total wall-clock time was a month. ouch.
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The professor for my software engineering course in college posed a problem with a non-tech answer similarly.

You have a cabin in the woods, with electricity and a freezer. You go hunting and bag a deer with much more meat than can be used in one visit, so you freeze it for use on a future visit. But you want to know while you are away if the electricity fails for any length of time so that the meat may have thawed and spoiled.

After the class spent most of a period arguing over remote monitoring systems and temperature sensors and the like, the professor revealed the simple answer. Freeze a block of ice in the freezer and mark its height. If it is shorter when you return, the power was out so some of it melted.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9876278

What's bizarre?
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For princess, out of love.
http://bitquabit.com/post/cache-me-if-you-can/

That was a better link with actual information, but I can see why you didn't post it. Something from fogcreek.com is much more likely to hit the front page of HN.

Anyhow, good article.
..and Mashable fans really like Techcrunch (just not as much) ;)
Seriously? Who would be dumb enough to try sending proteins to another star in the first place? See you at Proxima, and I don't mean in the flesh.
Yep. Of course there's no particular reason to think that the muscle analogy needs to be accurate either way, though.
Does anyone know an European service that is as great as Twilio? All provider here in Germany suck more or less, offer a bad API and are totally overpriced.
Or lift weights. It has more benefits.
How about trying a benchmark that mimics an actual program that someone would use.
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"The men realized they had a commodity. But no one would touch it: Mad Libs was too gamelike for book publishers and too booklike for game manufacturers. So in the late 1950s they published it themselves, storing the first printing — 14,000 copies — in the dining room of Mr. Price’s Manhattan apartment. He ate standing up for the next several months."
It's a joke that stocks can be diluted afterwards by insider offerings. Thats almost a license to print money. Surely theres a law for this scam?
Yes, that's the plan — we can then crowdsource that data and increase accuracy for everybody.
> you're told that you weren't allowed to think of obvious idea X because someone has a patent, pay up $10 million dollars. (Actual dollar amount varies widely.)

And that's not counting the torturous legal fees, if you wish to try your luck at court in a case that is likely to drag on for eons.
I've tried this twice in my life in the US. Both times I came down with fever. In India, you really want cold showers during the summer.
If you are really serious, does that mean that the county must provide iPhones to those that <GASP> don't have one?
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People downvote when they don't agree with what you said, which is not what the downvote is really for (filtering unhelpful posts), but there you go.

Thanks for the useful links.
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Plus the technology involved in storing, organizing, formatting and printing the data. This is more an example of an effective use of technology to solve the problem. Plus it serves as a reminder that the system to be created extends beyond just the computer.
Moleskine is hardly cheap.
You might be interested in Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_equation
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I had to implement a B+-tree using only a 2D byte array as a sophomore, so I don't think I'll ever be able to forget how they work.
the points he made are old and well-known to anyone into space and SF and not too young
Ice evaporates, how do you tell the difference between evaporation and power outage? Sure there should be more loss in the case of an outage but you don't know the exact evaporation rate to expect.

Your computer has a setting on whether or not it should turn back on after power loss, build a low cost circuit that does the same(turns off in case of power loss) and you are done.
97% of mobile end-user response time happens at the front end
You should try Unicorn instead of Passenger if you haven't yet. It's the cat's ass. Zero downtime deploys are great.
Also from the ground effect page:

Wingtip vortices are a major cause of induced drag,
which refers to any drag created as a side effect of
generating lift.

Less drag -> more efficiency -> less power required to maintain altitude. I don't know how much of a factor this would be compared to the cushion, though, so we'll just have to wait and see. Given that he's already bought and engine and molded a nice, shiny shell, my guess is that he has plenty of power.
Precisely. I was raised on 'Kneipp Kur' showers and I still do it every day. The thing is, its a lot more effective, if you taking changing temperatures. Hence, I shower hot first to get clean and then cold at the end. Makes you feel awake and also you won't freeze when you get out of the shower ;-)
After a paragraph of how terribly Italy is doing in the world rankings, the governor of the Bank of Italy is leaving ... to take the reins at the European Central Bank?

Is this a case of being awful therefore promoted, or was he spectacularly good at stopping Italy from getting worse?
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His answer is a clever one that is very cheap and effective, but personally I'll be the first to admit that I would've been among that group talking about going the more complicated route because I figured:

1) A block of ice will occupy room that could've been used for more deer meat(I suppose the size wouldn't matter, of course)

2) A temperature sensor would let you know right away if the power failed, instead of finding out after the fact and forcing you to clean out a freezer full of rotting meat

3) The sensor may also act as a silent alarm system. If the temperature changes suddenly then goes back to normal, it's possible that an intruder opened it up looking for money / food / valuables.

I realize that misses the point of the discussion since the professor was going for the easiest possible solution, but we're hackers here :)
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