skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am far away from SV.

>The issue is an insane attitude towards money and business, and in our case we have adopted it through idolizing Silicon Valley types
Thats is the standard attitude in any business driven community. The stock trading firms are the same all over the world. I'd bet that the silicon valley idols are much much better than any other role models I have seen.

>Ironically when he fails the community will congratulate him because in this industry failure for some crazy reason is good.
What I understand is that failure is acceptable there. This is the reason people can do things that otherwise would not be possible and is crucial to its culture.

>Mark Zuckerberg and any other Silicon Valley douche-bag you can think of are the worst role-models for kids because they teach kids bad habits.
I don't seem to have learnt any bad habits from them. I don't know of any douche-bags but I do know of a lot of people I look up to who are from SV.

>What happened to the real entrepreneurs? Remember those guys? Yes, The guys that built real businesses and not money burning doomsday devices! I miss those guys… because you could always learn a lot from them.
Is there a strict definition of entrepreneurs? and by some rule the guys at SV are not entrepreneurs. I'd like to hear that.
yeah but the problem he is having is that you'd need to have different a different method signature for each of these otherwise it won't compile, and he wants to have the same path/parameters for each, which is why you need to rename your method and then add the different attribute.

If your methods already have different parameters or a different name, you can just use the attributes like you state.
It seems that they have moved to GitHub.

https://github.com/higepon/mona
Patent infringement is theft of the money invested in R&D. If someone steals electronically from your bank account, is it any less theft because there was no physical cash involved?

Yes I agree that software patents are wrong, etc etc but that is a flaw in the implementation of the patent system, not its fundamental design.
Yet the deepest and longest recession in history was a deflationary one.
This has been in place for many months and will have been subject to gradual phase-in and constant incremental tuning, so nobody will have been able to notice a distinct jump in speed. It's about shaving off the milliseconds and the microseconds.

Also, they are just as much interested in the overall throughput at their end as the perceived speed at your end.
Sorry but this is a dupe
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=site:http://news.yco...
Indeed much of it is "functionally superfluous", but it does serve a purpose. For example Lowe's presents itself in a different way than Home Depot with friendlier colors, different typography, and messaging that on the surface may seem inconsequential. They sell the same things as Home Depot but it's those nuances that appeal more to women.

Simple and to the point designs often lack personality. And if you're trying to build a brand your site design needs to have a point of view.
I don't see how most computer screens - even the large widescreen ones are a problem when reading webpages. I sort of like scrolling... It would be weird for me to read from the top of the screen, move down to the middle and then make my way to the bottom. What I usually do when reading is keep my eyes in a relatively fixed position and I just scroll down very slowly. This thing is pretty cool, but it might be a little annoying to have tabs on the side just to save 10-20 pixels of vertical screen.

And while I don't find it difficult to click on tabs (keyboard shortcuts!) I really like the idea of having the url inside tabs - adding that firefox/chrome and then getting rid of the url bar would be pretty cool.
Asus Transformer styled detachable screen with two connectors (one one the long side, one on the short) should do the trick.
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Not sure if it adds much, but here's the Guardian's take on the same story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-fac...
And for the sake of convenience, alias the following to something simple like "ip":

curl -L -s --max-time 10 http://ip.appspot.com | egrep -o -m 1 '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}'
When I was younger and played games I always thought that it'd be nice to make a game that isn't about killing, instead it should be about building stuff. I also thought that it'd be nice if it'd be as general as possible, so you can build anything you like. But also simple, because simple is beautiful.

Minecraft is all that.
that's what I'm trying to say, too. I meant that you're not safe even with DH and have to use SSL
Those numbers are a drop in the bucket and generally are not targeted at increasing the size of the middle class. Remember that the lower class is literate.

Conspicuously absent:
- lowering cost of higher education
- lowering cost of mental health services
- lowering cost of land / rent

Literacy doesn't create a middle class. Higher education, mental health, and ownership of land does. These issues never seem to be touched by philanthropists because philanthropists are ambivalent about the middle class.

Peter Thiel is a total elitist by the way. He has no interest or love for uneducated, mentally ill masses and is just the kind of guy who would probably quote Ayn Rand when people are starving to death.
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Poorly written article, weak arguments, link-bait title.

I think it's a bit weird to use Mark Zuckerburg as an example here. How is Facebook a "money burning doomsday device"? It's one of the most successful web startups of the past decade (probably the most successful). And calling him a douchebag is just a dick move. Do you know the guy personally?

Acquiring skills like "marketing, business management, development" is clearly a great benefit to bootstrapping your own business. It seems like most if not all of the Silicon Valley "darlings" end up having to do this. How are they bad role models for doing exactly what you suggest is good?

The failure thing is clearly misunderstood here. No one is praising failure in the generic sense. It's a specific type of failure that involves trying something new and potentially revolutionary. For these kinds of things, it's very hard to know if you can be successful without actually trying it out. The failure is only bad if you don't learn something from it. Even if you don't, someone else likely will, and can build a better business based on a modification of your failed idea.

Regarding the money: no one is forcing angels and VCs to invest. They do so of their own volition, and in as an informed or uninformed manner as they so choose.

If we have such an insane attitude toward money and business, why is SV still a leading region for innovation and economic output? Clearly we're doing something right. We're not perfect, but why not direct your ire at entities that really are destroying wealth, like our friends on Wall Street, or, hell, the US government?
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From the full article:

The confidence of the SuperCollider programming language has been set to 80%. The reason for this is quite funny. In order to prove that the TIOBE index can be manipulated easily, Adam Kennedy created an empty Perl library called Acme-SuperCollider-Programming. This was to boost the unknown programming language SuperCollider by adding it to Perl's popular library archive CPAN. Now 20% of all +"SuperCollider programming" come from this artificial library.

Yes, quite funny indeed, but not for the reasons they think. Just to show that Tiobe methodology is a joke. I don't understand how people take this seriously.
Thanks for sharing this. Great resource.
Yeah when I saw this, it didn't really strike me as "news" considering news is really well just that, and this is months old...
My son plays it on my (admittedly underpowered) PC running Ubuntu 10.10, and it's rather crash-prone. I suspect it might be due to an issue with the graphics driver.
There's a long history (going back to at least "Rock Around the Clock") of single B-sides becoming unexpected hits. Searching for the phrase "started playing the B-side" brings up several examples:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22started+playing+the+b-side%22

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22started+playing+the+b-side...
Regarding the use of horizontal space: This is what the Reading List feature of Safari 5 is for. (Example for comparison: http://i.imgur.com/x2tkl.png)

Tabs are really only supposed to be used for things you're actually looking at simultaneously; any time you're just middle-clicking everything on a page (e.g. the HN frontpage), in order to queue those pages up for reading after you close the index page, you should be putting them in the reading list instead. It's kind of sad that Apple hasn't made a larger push to get people to notice it; it's a much better solution for the bottom-80% of what people use tabs for today.

Things you might not know about the Reading List:

1. It has quite a bit of accelerator support (you can put any link into the reading list by Shift+Clicking it; you can put the page you're on into the reading list with Command+Shift+D; and Command+Alt+Down is "I'm done reading this; advance to the next thing in the list.")

2. The reading list (as part of your bookmarks menu) gets iCloud-synced. Your open tabs don't. That alone was worth consciously forcing myself to re-learn my "eh, later" behaviour, because now I can just forget what I had "open" and read the rest on my iPad/iPhone/etc. (I suppose this might be why it hasn't been advertised much as a feature; they might be waiting to use it as part of the iCloud release pitch.)

---

On a separate note/rant, regarding the use of "tab groups": it seems like the author simply wants to re-invent the Springboard/Launchpad-style application management paradigm within the browser. Why bother? I don't want to have two different ways of managing my applications, depending on whether they're "web" applications or not. I want my applications in Launchpad, and my running applications in the Dock, with notification badges on them. It shouldn't matter that Gmail requires Webkit-et-al, just like it shouldn't matter that an app requires Java.

Safari, just like Mobile Safari, should simply have an "Add To Home Screen" button and be done with it. Apps that have been added as such should perhaps be able to access extra resources. (Their HTML5 offline-browsing manifests should be automatically downloaded, for one; they should have accelerated WebGL enabled, with shader support, for another; and this would also be an obvious place to adopt something like Google's NaCl.) I'm guessing, though, that we sadly won't see any of this support, because anything that integrates with the OS well-enough as a web-app is something that doesn't have to make a Mac App Store app instead.
Opera allows you to set the tab bar on your left (with little page screenshots) for years already. Works pretty well on large, wide screens.
How to create a good tutorial
Hey HN,

I was wondering if there is a good tutorial on creating tutorials out there? I remember enjoying the dropbox comic, they did a great job explaining why I should use their service. Right now I'm at the stage wanting to let users know why my service is great, so I was wondering if there's a "HowTo explain your website" Tutorial out there.

Cheers
Ben
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Sorry I came across as douchey. That's what I get for trying to write a terse reply from my phone. It just felt like an incomplete analogy when you were talking about abstractions and it felt like you knew a TM was an abstraction. Like trying to call everything a car.
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This article was not about laptop displays.
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Who has a better methodology? Is there even a good one?
Bit of a tangent, but a real question: If a writer doesn't approve of a site's behavior (in this case, Glassdoor is desribed as "a site that does not seem to mind when interview candidates violate NDAs"), why does the writer still link to them? Inbound links (w/o a nofollow) help sites, why help sites you don't like?
Maybe they are, but I'm more concerned with their primary purpose, and the "everyone vs. Google" setup of the bid-teaming seems to point to the offensive nature as primary.
If claiming ownership is not your intention, you should make it clear by using blockquotes or otherwise setting the quoted text apart from your own observations.

I find it difficult to give you the benefit of the doubt when it looks like you have used text from other sources in the past without giving any attribution at all.

http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/myth-by-reporting-infrastru... seems to use text from a HP whitepaper on infrastructure monitoring from 2008, "Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring: How End User Monitoring Can Help You Improve Customer Satisfaction".

http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/www-or-no-www-is-not-same.h... seems to have some of the same text at http://www.awebguy.com/2011/02/seo-tip-www-or-no-www/
The fact that they are willing to trick their users into clicking on an ad tells it all.

I consider this shameless placement of ads as an insult. It was reason enough for me to not read any further and close the site.
Edit suggestion: replace "C#" with "VB.NET". Just saying.
If you tax it much, there will still be a black market for it, with all the associated crime that brings.

It already happens with cigarettes.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1299345...
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> In similar iOS style, screens should be rotatable and shift their content accordingly.

I have a 24" rotatable screen.

1. The amount of cabling hooked to the screen makes it a pain. The size also makes it unwieldy, and if your desk is anything worse than spotless you'll likely have to move a lot of crap around before you can rotate the screen without shoving stuff around and on the floor

2. A 24+" 16/10 (let alone 16/9) screen is very wide, putting it in portrait means you have your nose in the middle of the screen when the screen touches the desk, it requires significant (and uncomfortable) neck movements in the vertical plane

i do use smaller screens in portrait mode as "side windows" to the main one, but I would not work with a big widescreen in portrait.

And even more so for coding: widescreens let me keep IDE crud (content panes) on the sides out of the main content, and when using a text editor (Emacs) it allows me to view multiple files side by side (or — with follow-mode — multiple sections of the same file).
But that's no answer at all - all of this "free stuff" you talk about is available to other groups who did not loot.
Definitely true but this scenario worries me:

1. Get a signed cert from a recognized CA (fraudulently - not impossible).

2. Hijack the DNS (e.g., get their GoDaddy password, or point them to a DNS server you control)>.

3. The user is directed to the fake server with the fraudulently obtained cert, and does not receive a warning.
it's not about saving 10-20 pixels vertical screen. way more space is needed to make the adressbar readable on bigger screens.
I actually think the problem with perceptions of taxes in the US is not that we are taxed too much, but rather that many people feel they are taxed too much relative to the value they get from paying the taxes. If everyone had free, universal healthcare, I'd guess people would feel better about paying their taxes. The fact that a large portion goes to funding a largely unseen war machine doesn't help.

The other issue, of course, is that many people don't seem to realize that they benefit from the taxes they pay - a classic example being the tax credit for owning a home.
Though I do agree that the current generation of developers are incredibly fortunate and most of us wouldn't be able to do the same job 20-30 years ago, the line "there’s no shame in standing on the shoulders of others and building on their work" pretty much sums up the way this should be perceived. Its basic DRY.
I recently bought the same for $15/year.

Care to share your squid.conf? I just want a non-caching anonymous forwarding proxy and am finding the huge amount of options a bit of a muddle to work through. Seeing yours would be a help, if you are ok with that.
*>Why would the borrower ever aggressively inflate away its debt, as opposed to gradually inflating it away?

Because if it happens gradually it doesn't work as lenders would demand gradually higher interest rates every time a debt tranche is rolled over.

I have looked up the terms of credit default swaps and it turns out that inflating debt away does not constitute formal default in the CDS market. Formal default (a so called credit event) only results from missing a payment or restructuring the terms of payment.
That's IMHO not beeing cynical, just realistic. In a world where the bar of what it means to be competent is constantly raised and where the amount of places where competence is needed is growing constantly, you would expect to observe incompetencies increasingly. Add to that the fact that your own abilties to spot incompetencies grow over time too.
I always got a kick out of these buses. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmu%C5%9F

These share taxis depart from the terminal only when a sufficient amount of passengers have
boarded, and the name is derived from Turkish for "apparently stuffed" for this reason.
He's made it clear that all the text is a quote now, which means this is pretty much a duplicate of the (months old) original.

There's no original content here at all - flagged...
Does it? If you can come up with the idea -- lateral thinking or not -- in a couple hours, then any number of other people could do so too. In that sense I don't find the idea "valuable" enough to warrant strong patent protection.

Patents are an economic tool, not an "I'm clever so I should get paid" tool. The point is to help people push aside concerns about time and money when developing a new idea. Because if a competitor of equal skill can duplicate your work in a fraction of the time, just because they have access to the results of your R&D, that's a strong incentive not to even bother in the first place. So it's about time and money, not about smart thinking or elegance.

(Regarding patents in general, even this argument falls apart a little bit for me. I think trade secret law is sufficient in many cases where patents are traditionally used.)
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Because on a conceptual level you are above that. Relevant links also improve the web. Also you may want to spare your inclined readers the fun of googleling the site for themselves.
I remember reading somewhere in the discussions which I linked to that the bench ended up being at that height simply because the nearest structural pipe (to which it is welded) is there, and all models of the bus stop have benches at different heights because of where the skeleton happens to be (and most are much too high). I don't know if that was part of Lebedev's brief.

Anyway, Lebedev apparently didn't give much thought to how these stops would actually be built (or used, for that matter), leading someone to say that the sketch was by Studio Art. Lebedev, but the actual industrial design was by Vasya the welder - who had no choice but to pick up the burden where the Studio dropped it.
Nope, just moved to GitHub. https://github.com/higepon/mona
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Could you tell me about this solution? I have a solution that works in O(n lg n) time, but I haven't put any thought into convexity.
http://www.langpop.com is better because

1) I use more metrics and

2) I don't go around making statements about how, from one month to the next, someone displaced someone else, or climbed into a certain ranking, or things like that.

3) I let people reweight the chart based on the metrics they like.

I think the numbers LangPop comes up with are pretty good, but by their very nature are a bit fuzzy.
Off at a tangent, this links into a problem I've had recently actually, and the problem is that I don't use social networking sites for anything but looking at friends' photos.

I'm travelling this year and am using airbnb to arrange my accommodation in advance. I've had my phone number verified and my credit card billed/verified, but many hosts are reluctant to trust someone who is new to the site and doesn't use social networking. It's a barrier to entry that doesn't exist anywhere else.

I'm left in the bizarre situation of a credit card not being good enough to establish a reputation, and of knowing that someone who builds a facebook page - even fake - would be more trusted.
Emacs perfection - selecting fonts according to screen size
Except now your fonts are rendered like trash because the subpixel rendering and hinting assumes each RGB pixel triplet is in a horizontal line.
It is ambiguous when the coder intended to return directly without returning any value like so:

while (word = getNextWord()) {
doSomething(word)
if (i > limit) return
i++
}

Sure, this can be written better but a semi-colon after "return" makes it less ambiguous.
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Yeah, in hindsight I realize that from the user's perspective, this really sucks. As a user who knows and understands the developer's perspective and how Amazon (intentionally or otherwise) screwed him over, I'd be sympathetic, but the vast majority of purchasers would not know any of that background information.
love to see something similar!
Add Option to the mix, and it won't ask you to confirm the action.
bzzt wrong.

>>> re.findall('(a|aa|aaa|ab)', 'aaab')
['a', 'a', 'a']

The correct answer would be ['aa', 'ab'] but unfortunately findall works greedily and so will not find the optimal solution. It is possible to specify it as a regex, but common implementations might take too much time to come up with the good solution.
That's interesting though, because you seem to be implying (forgive me if I'm wrong) that we shouldn't have typewriter fonts, yellow highlights, etc. Or at least that it somehow isn't worth the trade off. But as you say, they do work.

Don't get me wrong, I find those design elements you're talking about to be far from my tastes, but provably I'm not "normal" within the markets under test. At what point what you say to a business "you might make more money like this, but don't do it anyway because it's awful"?

Apologies if I'm reading more in to your statement than was intended. I've seen enough of your work to know that you get both design and business hence I think that statement interesting!
>sometimes I think the world is awash in incompetence. We see so much of it in tech because our incompetencies are (marginally) harder to hide.

A very candid Philip Greenspun in Founders@Work( p341-2) : "In aviation, by the time someone's your employee, their perceived skill and actual skill are reasonably in line. JFK Jr is not working at a charter operation because he's dead. In IT,you have people who think 'I am a great programmer'. But where are the metrics that prove them wrong ? Traffic accidents are very infrequent, so they don't get the feedback that they are a terrible driver.

Programmers walk around with a huge overestimate of their capabilities. That's why a lot of them are very bitter. They sit around stewing at their desks. That's why I don't miss IT, because programmers are very unlikable people. They are not pleasant to manage."
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