skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After looking at the options available that were linked in the article, I'm unsure that I agree that everyone wins. Specifically, consumers looking for the higher end of the spectrum.

At least, the only higher-end provider linked in the article, Demon [1], seems to offer abysmally low bandwidth caps on almost every plan, and generally low max download speeds (20Mb or less). How well are their bandwidth caps enforced? I ask because Comcast does not seem to enforce their bandwidth caps in San Francisco, at least for customers on their >$99/mo Home plans.

I realize that this is an extremely small sample size, how well does this trend describe other UK providers? Personally, given the option between any of the plans Demon has to offer, I'd still prefer my 50Mbps down/10 up Comcast line that has effectively no cap, for which I pay 100/mo. Is Demon the exception and not the rule when it comes to pricier third party providers in the UK?

[1]: http://www.demon.net/broadband
It's still B2B sales.

To sell to small, local and public facing businesses, it would help if your salesforce can talk intelligently about the business's actual market and the impacts your product will have on the specific services they offer.

To treat it like B2C is a mistake. Or to put it another way, small businesses don't go down to the ATT store and order their cell phone plans one at a time.

I will add that you don't really have a well defined market segment when it includes both restaurants and dry cleaners.
I think that MySpace was valued at $12 billion at some point; where there where rumours that Yahoo! would merge with MySpace, and News Corp would receive 25% of Yahoo's shares (they were valued at around $50Bn).

Here is the article:
http://techcrunch.com/2007/06/19/is-myspace-worth-12-billion...
No demo, no screenshots, and they're using somebody else's CRM for invitations to a closed beta? This has the appearance of being a "dry test" uncompensated market research trick from people who may not be admitting they haven't built what they're claiming.
I hear this was written by some FB Engineers last night. Pretty hilarious.
Am I reading these graphs wrong, or is his project totally not working?
Thanks. I wonder if the positive skewness has also gone down.

I'd guess there's less "piling on". Previously if a comment had a high point score, you would stop to read it, and thus probably vote on it, causing it to have an even higher score. The new system lacks that positive feedback cycle. Top comments still are more likely to get upvotes because of their page position, but there's no easy way to distinguish how much better comment #6 is compared to comment #7 so comment #6 will get glossed over more under the new system.
The problem is when people often buy said hardware from companies that don't give a shit about <random desktop OS here>. Money talks, but mostly in large quantities.
Lotta good info in there. I especially like the bit at the beginning that says you need to have a passion to run a startup.

While it isn't -technically- true, I think it helps a LOT.
I've never seen them myself, but I've heard good things about the videos on Lynda.com. This one looks a lot like what you're looking for....

http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-CS5-tutorials/for-the-web/657...
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They did have revenue besides google - In 2007 MySpace had $1 billion in revenue.

http://www.businessinsider.com/2007/7/myspace-1b-of-r
Facebook, now that Google+ is here :P
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Groupon!

I kid, I kid.. But seriously.
One man's robber baron is another man's philanthropist.

Did you ever use Windows Millennium Edition?
The $1B in revenue is only an estimate based on projections and a continued growth trajectory. Not saying it isn't true, but it isn't a solid source for their actual revenue.

Did News Corporation annual filings every break out revenue from MySpace? Given that News Corporation is a public company, there should be solid numbers somewhere.
Judging from the previews and looking over a co-worker's shoulder this finally looks like a social, singular interface for many of Google's products.

Iv'e been hoping they would stop thinking of themselves as many different products and start viewing themselves as users do: just one Google. Each product is really just a feature. Facebook does this right and I hope Google does too.
Out of curiosity, did you try riak_search as a solr replacement?
Do you use luwak to store the videos or are they small enough?
Learning Photoshop quickly is analogous to learning Visual Studio quickly. It's not the software that makes the difference, it's the wetware; and no tutorial is going to give you years of experience and a good eye for aesthetics.

So just fire that baby up and start drawing.
Does this really overcome awkwardness? I don't think awkwardness is ever a function of not having enough common interests. I've had brilliant dinners with girls who've had zero interest in theoretical physics, and yet, I talked about it for a good half of the dinner. Reciprocally, I have very little interest in shoes, but I've been fascinated by explanations of shoes.

Yet, there have been times where we share the same interests, but the other person is especially boring. It doesn't matter what interests you share, if the other person can't elaborate on their interests or offer insight/comments.

Also, sometimes I like talking to people with completely different interests. One of my favorite persons actually is my exact polar opposite. We get along great, but we share 0 common interests.

I'm pointing this out as a consideration factor, not because I don't like your project. I think you do have a good start... but feedback never hurts? :)
Web-based IRC clients have existed for a long time. To use them all you have to do is point your browser at a website. The usernames assigned by these clients are usually something like "guest0", "guest1", etc. That's probably anonymous enough.

You could connect to any number of public IRC servers already set up all over the world. Then simply join the channel of your choice. No bots necessary.

As far as invitations go and teaching people what to do, you're going to have to do that any way. With existing web-based IRC clients it's as simple as pointing your friends/colleagues to the website and telling them to join channel #whatever.
If you empty the input for the URL path, it will generate a URL for you with a unicode character(s).
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If the power usage really is anywhere near as high as the graph says -- 30 to 45 watts range -- then the laptops aren't going to get much battery life. That is a lot of power to be using.

I suspect that they were testing on the plugged into wall socket power profile, where speed is the main concern, and not power usage. Power consumption changes when the laptop is running off of battery.

Edit: My X200 Tablet runs at about 12 watts on Linux right now, on battery.
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+1. Using Unicode in URIs is a very bad idea. It's essential that an URI can be written by hand on a napkin and entered into a computer again later, without any ambiguity.
Being skeptical of political crusades and trendy beliefs is very different from being a "denier". We can scarcely predict the weather one day in advance. Being skeptical of global climate predictions spanning decades is hardly on the same level as denying the internal combustion engine. And even if you accept the premise of global warming, as I do, it's a big stretch to make lifestyle recommendations based on that, and an even bigger stretch to start regulating personal eating habits.
Is it an internal tool or an off-the-shelf product? Could you tell me the name? I might be interested in deploying that here.
I very much hope I'm wrong but it sounds pretty fishy to me. When the guy in the audience asked the question about what modulation this new radio uses he got a marketing babble answer unworthy of a university audience.

Working in sensor networks we could really use one of these breakthrough technologies and in the past year or two I've heard at least three vendors give the exact same pitch but as of today there's no technical detail that gives me much hope.
As a developer, I have to admit that I feel a lot of ambivalence about this emerging discipline. It's taken a long time to convince the world of the benefits of a "developer driven culture", but I think it's critical to avoid putting developers into a box where they are simply executing specs. I see a lot of that creeping back in through the new concept of a "UX Developer".

Here are the three big quotes that are making me nervous:

"It’s our job to help translate their vision to the development team in a way that they can understand and accept"

"Similarly, we need to speak on behalf the developers to help reign in the designers, at times."

"However, for the traditional developer the application works if it executes all of the items listed in the functional specs. The focus of the traditional developer is centered on tasks rather than goals."

Oh man. So the role of a UX developer is to stand in between the developers and designers and represent the interests of each for us? All the while, assuming that the mindset of a "traditional" developer is to be myopically focused on tasks rather than goals?

Everything I read about UX as a skill set I like. Developers and Designers should be focused on goals. We should strive to acquire the skills and mindset that are often associated with "UX" (good developers were doing this long before "UX" became a term or job category).

Everything I read about UX as an actual job role, I don't like. I can't stand the idea of a worker in my organization deciding that developers are focused on tasks and need someone running interference between them and the users and designers.

As I've pointed out in other discussions around UX on HN, one key question is to ask yourself: would this person be useful on a small team? A developer or designer with lots of "UX" skill would be even more useful on a small team. But the type of person described through this post? Not really, and could even do harm by mucking up the relationship between developers, designers, and the things that they actually need to be exposed to to write good software.

In short, I believe that UX is a great addition to a developer or designer's skill set, but I'm not at all convinced that it would be a great job category.
This is actually pretty interesting.
Revenues != profits. If you don't know, or even have a decent estimate of, profits, it's hard to really judge the deal. However, I don't think Murdoch went into this deal planning that he'd have a $540 million capital loss in just five or six years.
there is. I've been running android-x86 builds for a while now, without much problems. On some builds the internet connectivity doesn't work, but that seems to happen less and less.
Part of me wonders if the big name firm was only a PR stunt to generate news and angle for a settlement. My other theory is that they found out something about their client that made them want out of the case. There could be other reasons, too, of course, but it makes me wonder.
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I think they need to strike a balance between releasing invites very slowly, and releasing too many at once, making them pointless. But I'm also dying to get one and I can't even from Google employees because they don't have any invites to give right now. So hopefully they'll give the first batch some invites so they can invite everyone else who is eager to join.

But they should have at least one more level of private-mode before they go public. They need to make sure the early adopter community is tight first, kind of like Quora did. Imagine what would've happened if Quora went public from like day one. It would've basically killed the product. Or what if everyone knew about HN from day one? Facebook, too, was once only for college students. The early community needs to be very strong before it gets diluted by the masses.

The early adopters help shape the product before the "unwashed masses" join it, and I think they should give enough time to early adopters to get used to it, get to love it and have enough time to tell everyone how cool it is and how much they love it before they can actually invite everyone else and make it public.
on my @jperla.com account, I have a working page. Did you set up a google profile? I don't know why we have different results.
It seems to be a WGBH (Boston area PBS station) documentary from the 80s. All the libraries around here have it (we have two copies), but only on VHS, betamax, or film. It's likely out of print and you're probably best off downloading it online.

If you're at a university, you could probably order it through interlibrary loan. There are actually a lot of libraries with this item and it'll likely be loaned (we do international loans all the time).
There are may problems for which nobody is to blame. They are emergent phenomena of a system, to which all parts contributed. Assigning blame is not necessary to start solving the problem and attempting to assign blame is counterproductive.
Also, transmitting 30 miles. Is this an unlicensed frequency?
You know what would be great? A new social network NOT created by Google. The company is the Wal-Mart of tech; the modern day Microsoft of the internet. Let's join something created by entrepreneurs, not conglomerates.
That's right, it takes skill to make pretty wizzy things that don't scale.

UX Designer: Here's the mockup.

App dev: Did you notice the page layout falls apart when you resize the browser? You need to add a few float clear divs to fix it.

UX Designer: Oh. Uh, how do you do that? Can you fix it?

App dev: Yes. Now go away.
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Just FYI, we are hiring ex-Myspace developers at Leads360. We've hired four ex-Myspacers in the past six months. Our technology stack is similar, so the learning curve is only slight. And we have lots of interesting and challenging projects to do. Located in El Segundo; full-time local only.

If you got laid off or are ready to jump ship, then email Bill at bpaetzke@leads360.com.
It could also skew the other way. Previously, I would often refrain from voting up a good comment if its score was already "high enough", so that my vote on an equally good but lower-rated comment would have relatively more weight.
Sounds like interferometric based MIMO from the description. Not breaking Shannon's law in that case.
Hmmm, I usually argue this the other way around: if you could be sued for bugs in your software, many software products would probably be better designed, better tested and more usable.
That's not surprising in the southwest, due to transportation costs.
I will love Google+ when and if all my friends show up and
stick around.

Isn't the phrase usually "if and when"? I wonder if this was switched on purpose.
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Out of curiosity, was this inspired by my service?

http://iwbyp.chris-granger.com/
Howard Roark (of Ayn Rand's Fountainhead) would hate where Apple is taking their design.

From the book:

"His buildings are austere, logical, perfect, each a single thought in stone. He believes that buildings, like men, have souls, and that no part of a building should in any way betray its soul. No building should borrow its parts from others or apologize for its own shape. No building should present a false front."

And another quote:

"The buildings in these drawings are like none ever built on earth. They seem severe and simple at ﬁrst glance, but closer observation reveals the strict tension of thought and method, a cold, beautiful logic behind each wall and pillar. Every building seems to have a soul."

I hope Apple turns down the woodgrain knob and cranks up the cold, beautiful, and logical knob in their future designs.
Working out that way is synonymous with Crossfit for most people the same way desktop computing is synonymous with Windows and OSX for most people. They didn't invent it, but they deserve a lot of credit for making it convenient for people to just sign up for a class and do it. Most of the people griping about Crossfit getting too much credit weren't doing anything to make it accessible and convenient for people until Crossfit came along and proved there was a market for it. If I wanted to train that way before Crossfit, I would have had to: find a suitable place to work out, buy or construct some of the equipment, schedule sessions with a personal trainer to make sure I was doing the exercises correctly, recruit friends to work out with me, and so on. And there certainly would have been compromises. Most gyms aren't set up to allow you to do a set of cleans, drop your weights, and then run 400 meters without dodging cars or pedestrians. (Hell, most don't let you drop weights, period. As far as I am aware, there are only two commercial gyms in my city that have bumper plates, not including the four (at least) Crossfit locations, and one of them is a specialized Oly training facility that costs more than Crossfit.) With Crossfit, I just show up, pay attention, work hard, and have fun. It's a great service.
Just tried to sign up, and got a "Server Temporarily Unavailable" error screen. That was unexpected :P
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> Is it to make currently-unsafe Python code automatically correct? Or is it to keep the GIL semantics, but make it faster?

Neither. It's to improve concurrency in the interpreter (there currently is none whatsoever due to the GIL), so that multithreaded software can scale on multiple cores performing Python bytecode execution.

Currently, the GIL means the Python interpreter can only execute Python code in a single OS thread at a time (C extensions such as I/O systems can release the GIL). The result is that, even with a number of (OS) threads spawned in the interpreter, you don't get much parallelism benefits. And even if only one thread performs computation and the rest does I/O, there are churning issues with the GIL (I recommend checking David Beazley's research and presentations on the subject[0]).

[0] http://dabeaz.com/blog.html section "The GIL"
I actually did read the article. I wrote that comment before there were any comments, in anticipation of comments in support of subsidized broadband. It was a risky venture, for sure. Heh
They're able to provide much more energy as a food source, too. That means we'd have to eat several pounds of veggies to replace the energy we get from one pound of meat. If you're going to compare the cost of growing animals vs veggies, you've got to account for needing more veggies.

It's a complex equation because there are a lot of factors that have to come into play to do a fair comparison. It's probably as complex to model, and as sensitive to input-variable selection, as predicting global weather patterns.
Thanks to increasing focus on public transportation and ZipCar, cars aren't just optional in New York anymore. I've lived in New York, Seattle, and San Francisco with no car.

In both Seattle and SF my cost of living was significantly less than it was in New York and my standard of living was much higher.
It's surprising when people find it difficult to understand the importance of email/some kind of notification for the activity on your social profile, but the this cannot be the only reason to be credited with the failure of Wave. I still feel that Wave is a great product and it could not catch up just because it was ahead of its time. And the few admirers could not use it because others were not ready to use it. A lot of new age collaboration tools do the same what Wave did long time ago.
It has value in it, but I don't know what strategy could turn it around. Social networking adoption is a lot about fashion, and with the opinion that MySpace is old, tired, ugly and boring having crossed the chasm years ago, it seems a very tough sell to turn that around.
Of course, feedback is most welcome.

It's not that you need to have a lot in common with someone to get along. The hypothesis of the app is simply that the least-awkward way to begin a conversation is by starting out with the common ground you share. From this warm introduction, it's then easy to move on to other topics.

And, the awkwardness I'm trying to overcome is the small kind--how to make the first comment, how to send that first message. I personally find blank message screens intimidating.
I will make the appropriate changes. We appreciate your feedback.
Amazon will cancel their Affiliate program for California if this happens, just got this email:

http://pastebin.com/yRLUf0Zg
So are we supposed to believe that incumbent tech companies have no investments in new tech?

Canon is not working (or already passed) on the same stuff as Lytro?
Samsung is not working (or already passed) on the same stuff as Nanosys?
Cisco (or whoever) is not working (or already passed) on this type of stuff?

Anybody have examples of modern (within 10 years) stealthy startups/incubators that invented new hardware that revolutionized something?
Why?

If someone produces a good product, and they have generally pleasant business practices (and don't have glaringly bad ones, too), why does it matter if it is a large company or a small one?
Hey, Can you explain or point to rational for these assertions ?
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Your hyperbole can be deflated with a single argument.

Google embraces "free" while both Microsoft and Wal*Mart do not.
So basically what I understood at the end, is that your UX developer role... is fun!? and exiting?!

Let me tell you what a UX developer is.
UX developers are people that couldn't find themselves neither as designers or as developers and got stuck in between. Those became so many over the years; people interested not in being perfect at doing one thing, but at being intermediate in everything.
Others are project managers who gained some experience in handling projects, but got bored of all the wire-framing, analysis and actually doing nothing (at least the majority), so they decided to get more involved in projects on a technical/creative level.

The first group, the stuck-in-between, become UX designers/developers with a few technical tricks. The second group, the managers, became UX analysts and experts.

So, in reality, your job as UX designer/developer, is to make real Designers dumb, by not letting them learn how to create usable designs, but designs that follow your lead and your wire-frames which eventually affect real Designers creativity. Or maybe real Designers are too dumb to learn how to offer the user a good experience!
The UX developers, on the other hand, don't have an actual role. So if you're doing the wire-framing, the analysis, the content management, the information architecture, can you please specify what is a project manager doing?
Plus, if your skills enables you to prototype certain features, what if you're involved in a super complex project, who's gonna prototype now?
I know, the one who actually does the prototyping and is actually a real Programmer that knows his language very well and knows its actual limitations. Not the ones UX developers heard about.

The real definition for your job is ripped of from something every human should learn how to do and that's communication.
> In conjunction with the deal, we are conducting a series of restructuring initiatives, including a significant reduction in our workforce.

It actually takes some balls to come out and say that in the first email.