skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pg - if one of the co-founders who won't be the CEO lives far away on another continent, is it required that he/she show up for the interview? While I don't expect this to be a problem either way, we're just thinking of ways to minimize costs.

Edit: I'm talking specifically about the interview. If accepted, we'd both come down.
I'd dare say being with money but no purpose can be a curse.

I have no proof to offer and some heirs and trust fund kids seems to be doing just fine, but I believe part of being human includes finding or having purpose - what you call something enduring. It can be a cause, a religion, a business, children, whatever - something!

Maybe we are all different and some people are happy living a purposeless life. To me, what Ferris advocates seems a lot like waiting for death in the best shape possible, to leave a good looking cadaver behind.

We are a different crowd here - as others replied, having less free time, they enjoy the hack provided in his book to get better health. Using his advice in this way, picking up interesting tidbits, to fix self-identified issues is one thing.

But drinking the koolaid on the 4 hour work week and leaving the purpose to be defined to today's guru is totally different. IMHO, that's very close to the "lifestyle business" quite often promoted here, and it might be a reason why it's so well received.

Yet it seems very wrong on so many levels. It's basically settling for a status quo, giving up on life and hope, trying to find some meager contentment in maintaining control over a self built prison-paradise.
To me this screams "hey! Our data says 'X'! Let's apply it in the simplest way possible, with little to no editing or afterthought, and then bask in the false confidence our data provides."

If you read the previous post they also do a lot of user testing and iterate it down.
We have not solidified the direction to go yet but we have few ideas in mind, both traditional/proven business models in the space and some creative ones that may be bit risky.
Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's not stupid.
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Wonder how well this is going to go...I bought the Orange Box for the 360 when it first came out. TF2 has not seen any of the updates that the PC has had for the past 3 years.
Oh, no question, SSDs are an improvement. I'm just clarifying the systems concepts involved. SSDs everywhere may change some assumptions in the operating system. For quite a while now, we've considered paging to "disk" as performance death, and have gone through contortions to make good decisions about which pages should be paged out. If paging to "disk" everywhere gets several orders of magnitudes cheaper, we may want to do less up-front processing trying to determine good victim pages.
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The menu style seems very close to the style already in Windows 7 for Wordpad. Personally I find that style both confusing and clunky.
Play! Framework does away with the Java EE convention of packaging application artifacts as a single file, for easy distribution, in compressed archive formats (WAR/EAR) for ease of distribution(Although you can still 'war' the artifacts and deploy it on some other EE servers like Glassfish). Play! ,in a manner similar to Django or Rails, creates a folder hierarchy as the skeleton for the application ,which can easily be added as a new project in an IDE, and Play!'s server(Play! ships with an inbuilt server) recognizes the same hierarchy for deployment. This takes a sometimes time-consuming step ( that of building the war/ear using something like Ant) out of the equation; usually shortening the development time;but on the other hand complicating the distribution part.
The best and most unique TF2 hats sell for over a thousand dollars on the market.
Thanks for the link and yes imgur is definitely a great success story. I'm sure it is doing well these days :)
I've already addressed this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2937832
That rhetorical stance you take is particularly irksome when someone is talking about giving away their own code. He isn't whining that library X isn't under the GPL/LGPL. He's saying that'd he'd rather just give away his code entirely with no legal strings attached whatsoever.
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It wasn't clear from the beginning (20 seconds) that this was a site to create a "corkboard" of travel from. I had to enter Rome, Italy and then "Create One[create one what? a duffel?]" to understand what the site did. Once in the implementation of the Webapp itself is quite nice.

If you could create an engaging sample 'duffel' it might show users its proper use.
> "It is an eternal, guilt-free spring break, bankrolled by ad hoc projects and detachment from any forms of obligation."

I stopped reading here. Where do I sign?

> "This can be a legacy, or a company, or children, or a work of art, or essentially anything that outlasts the expiration of one's body and mind."

I disagree completely that a legacy is a necessary component of having led a fulfilled life - even though I personally seek to leave behind some legacy myself. That said, how hasn't Ferris left a legacy? He's published something that's been read by more people than just about any of us would ever achieve in our lives, and that's at age 33.

The best most of us can hope for is to influence a few people in the form of children.

In my experience, "eye on the prize" styles of living is the surest way to miss out on all the flowers along the road.
Huh? Did you even read any of my previous posts? I don't care about how 'the internet will transform politics', and of course the current process is suboptimal, but those discussions are so repetitive boring and trite that I really can't be bothered with it. Nor did I ever try to. I was merely pointing out that your 'argument' isn't an argument in the honest intellectual sense of the word, it's just a cascade of slogans, and at first I thought it was going to be covered with a thin veil of content, but at least now you acknowledge that you're not interested in that and that you prefer to retreat to spouting empty rhetoric.

Of course you don't need my permission, why would I care, I don't even know you. I just thought that you were debating on content, and was annoyed that the one person who was providing sound reasoning was being downvoted for it.

Anyway, good luck with your revolution, be sure to post back when you're done.
If it works, how's it stupid?
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I was hoping to hear something about demographics, but it seems to be wishful-thinking about games being something more than an entertainment medium. Maybe that will happen, maybe it won't. On the more prosaic question of what will change in the pursuit of separating people from money with video games:

1) Gamers will continue to get older, more female, and richer.

2) Games will increasingly use -- and players will expect -- variable monetization such as item sales ("Free2Play"), aggressive discounting/bundling via e.g. Steam, and the like. This will cause aggressive price discrimination. A large portion of the "traditional" game audience will be very discomfit by this. They will be ignored.

3) The AAA games industry, built on games with feature-film budgets which need feature-film audiences to be profitable, radically contracts to serving the needs of a few intersecting core markets. Almost everything you see will be sequels and variations on themes which are known to work, such as $PERSONALITY $SPORT $YEAR.

4) Spending on games by teenagers increases because disposable games on their mobile devices perversely bring in more revenue than full-price traditional games, since a) they can trivially effect payment for things on their mobiles and b) piracy has almost totally cannibalized traditional games.

5) Physical distribution of games becomes a niche industry which attracts the worst possible kind of gaming customer. Steam and a few winners in social/MMORPG/MOBA/etc games print money. GameStop collapses with the used game market, with the thin edge of the wedge being account-locked bonuses with retail games which destroy their resale value among core gamers, and continuing organic growth of Steam and similar platforms.
There are huge differences between JVM and cpython. First of all - Python isn't trying to be an isolated VM with its own, hardware-independ type system, complicated FFI which involves lots conversions, memory copying and reallocations and other crap called Native Interface. You need no servlets, containers and other useless abstractions. You're just loading a module (linked with a shared library) and calling necessary functions.

Of course, if you are getting paid (very well) just for lines of Java code (because technically incompetent investor believes in all that hype about Java and JVM) it makes a lot of sense, but don't even try to say that utilizing useless abstractions and thousands of lines of code to do primitive tasks is 'the right way' or even a competent one.
"His diplomacy here, as well as with Bethesda, has been stellar"

I don't think his diplomacy regarding Bethesda has been all that great. Openly mocking their claims probably hasn't earned him any goodwill. The quiz was pretty bad, especially the insult at the end. The tweets and encouragement of people ironically getting the two products confused also hurts his case.
Em, if the author would actually fact-check, he'd know that most of those buttons dont't exist yet, so they'd hardly have more than 0% usage.
Try Opera--my only multifarous-tab problem is clicking on one to select it without closing it when I have so many open that the "x" is the entire width of the tab.
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Re: people in countries without public domain... is that a real actual problem that actually impacts people?

I mean, suppose a user in Nopublicdomainistan uses some software that is released in the public domain... clearly the author is never going to come after them for a copyright violation, even if their local government doesn't recognize public domain as a concept, so what is the actual real world problem they face in this situation?

I just don't see this as being a real problem.
> In general, this is true, but some countries do not have a concept of public domain and so releasing it into the public domain would make it completely unusable to people in those countries.

I've heard this in the past. Functionally, what's the issue with this? The person who placed it into the public domain seems unlikely to sue in a country that doesn't recognize the public domain status.
I just showed this to a Mac user who responded "Streamlined! Intuitive! Look at all that stuff, why would I use that?"
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working perfectly fine.. there are some small bugs here and there that will be fixed once we are passed the "voting" stage. During this stage new commits can't be pushed, and server has to remain the same
In Windows 7, the menu bar is hidden by default, that's why no one uses it. Also, "no one uses" those other commands only because no one knows they exist now. The whole point to the new UI is to change things to be better.
I think the point is missed.

It's hard to claim that the context menu is good UI. The fact that so few people use the menu bar means that it's currently useless and needs to be reworked. It's not as if they're replacing the context menu with the ribbon, they're replacing the currently-unused menu bar.
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2 months after launch, many many iterations later, we got our first paying customer today!!! :)

Our post on HN ( 2 months back ) : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2687898

All our traffic is still from free marketing by getting featured on a few startup blogs. We've not yet been featured on high traffic sites like readwriteweb / webappstorm etc..

This is a huge break for us and even though we aren't even breaking even with server costs yet, it's still a wonderful feeling and we know that we are just getting started.

I would to hear your comments/views about our product and if you can give me a few tips for marketing, it would be really helpful.

HN has been a great resource for me and the feedback we got from fellow hackers a few months back was just awesome!

Thanks Again!
What are the best blog solutions for a website?
Hello friends. I am getting ready to install a blog onto my personal website. However, I am unsure about the best solution and potential pitfalls. I want blog software where I can post tech related articles based on my own research, and share them for all to see. I would like for it to work well with SEO and allow readers to post comments. For the record, my website can be found here: http://www.nicholas-morgan.com/

I would greatly prefer to write my own software. Wouldn't be too difficult with PHP and JavaScript, but it would still take a lot of time to make sure it's perfect. However, I worry that this may not be the best solution, and it may just be a better idea to use an existing piece of software, such as a Wordpress. I was wondering what are the pros and cons of writing and using an existing blog software and what the best ones are for this type of thing, and if it would be worth it to create my own custom one.

I searched Google a little bit but I feel like many of the answers I receive have been "dumbed down" and I would rather ask a community such as this that knows what they are doing.

Thank you for reading and (hopefully) your input.
Parallelization is a constant factor. If you have 1000 processors, you get a constant-factor one-time speedup of 1000x (or less). No complexity class changes.
This is a grossly-skewed assessment of the interface. Wouldn't the under utilization of features warrant an analysis WHY they are not being used? Wouldn't there also be a UX overhaul to make those features/commands/buttons/menus more approachable? The data and infographics would only be relevant if they were based upon the Win8 redesign.
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Valve: Xbox 360 is too closed for Steam [1]

Notch: Steam is too closed for Minecraft [2]

Minecraft is coming to Xbox 360 [3]

Head Asplode!

[1] http://www.vg247.com/2011/08/25/valve-ms-needs-to-be-comfort...

[2] http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9550850116/why-no-steam-notch

[3] http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/06/e3-2011-minecraft-kinect-xbo...
Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple?
The article really only touches on the absolute basics. It would have left me hurting for more specifics. However, I've read Ulrich Drepper's epic paper on modern memory architectures. (http://lwn.net/Articles/259710/)

You should do yourself a favor and read it.
Most of us here certainly wouldn't have any trouble, but an almost defining characteristic of newbie computer user is being afraid to take any action without understanding the consequences.
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He does have a point although he might not have meant to. I've setup both Cloud.com's stack and the OpenStack for smallish private clouds and I have to agree with him. Java was a poor choice for the project and my experience of it (6-7 months ago, caveat emptor) was that it was riddled with bugs and suffered from more than a few bad design decisions. It's 200k+ lines, with very few tests (I'd wager on single digit coverage if I was a betting man), has a homemade ORM (why no hibernate?), the design of the instance image delivery system defies all human logic and there's no proper messaging queue anywhere to be found. Add to that colourful spectrum of inconsistencies and you end up with a lot of issues. However, I'm not saying that those issues are Java's fault, they clearly aren't. But, with any language choice there comes a culture and I don't think I'm being unfair when I say that I see these kinds of things more in Java projects than in Python. For comparison, the OpenStack is about ~70k lines (~30k of which are tests).
I'm curious, what were your motivations for diving into this market? Are you looking to do it better than Dropbox and everybody else out there?
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>> This statement could actually be used just as easily against voting for representatives as we do today.

True. I'm no big fan of representative democracy, it just happens to be the least bad system we've tried.

>> The real question is do you trust public at large to make a better or worse opinion than <name your representative> on some issue you are deeply informed on?

Well, yes, because they are at least (usually) experts in business or law, which are the domains that are most important to government. Some will be military or foreign policy experts, and they will (hopefully) be appointed to the relevant subcommittees. It's a fairly broken system, open to all kinds of abuses and with little assurance of wise leadership, but I still think the competence of the average politician in crafting policy is higher than that of the average citizen.

>> My perception of the demagogue is that their power comes from railing against the current authority.

I think there's quite a bit of truth in that. I don't, however, think it's a necessary truth. Hitler was a classic demagogue, even and especially after he gained power. He appealed to antisemitism and a fierce nationalism, rather than to the incompetence of politicians. While the current crop in the US gain power by railing against the established political class in DC, that's not the only possible source of power for them.

>> It'd be hard for Sarah Palin to keep up her 'regular joe' persona and reconcile it with being in major disagreement with a majority of the country.

Reconciling her views with reality has never been particularly important to her, and I don't see how that would change in a direct democracy. She could just as easily rail against the liberals in the MSM who poison the electorate with their propaganda.

Ultimately, I picture direct democracy working quite similarly to the reddit hivemind, and I'm not convinced that's a good thing. It would likely be passionate and dynamic, but liable to go off the rails from time to time.
Everything I had to explain to my ex-boss about dealing with files is there in one click. I could hide it if I wanted and have my usual experience. I really don't see the problem.

I actually think that overall this a big improvement. Minimalism can go screw itself when it costs me hours of free labour :)
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I wonder this too. It sounds like he's not evaluating the Finder, or any other window manager on its own merits. He's comparing it to what he's used before (command line) and assuming that any new way of doing things won't need relearning, or at least that relearning should be easy because he's a "poweruser." (Sort of how doctors end up being worse than average stock investors because they assume expertise in one field means skill in another.)

Someone might have a better feel for temps in degrees Fahrenheit over degrees Celsius. That doesn't mean Fahrenheit is inherently better than Celsius.
Such is impossible under current copyright law
How many solo founders were accepted in summer 2011? Has the % accepted increased with the larger class size?
I'm not sure why I'm different than most commenters here, but I really like the ribbon UI. I hate menus, they are too small. As a Windows user for more than 12 years, I find the ribbon UI and functionality for Explorer a quite good improvement. I need to copy/paste, changes views, search easily from one bar. The menu is too small and requires an additional click.
AFAIK a very restricted version of Minecraft is coming to the 360.
Maybe it's possible that some entity within that country could pick up the code, slap their own copyright on it, and claim to now own the code? Probably a long stretch but maybe that's the case.
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On an apocryphal Dijkstra quote
See also http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jy1zw/psa_dijks...
Also see this Korean article: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ko&tl=en&u=...
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Have you thought of using Context.IO to eliminate the need for end users to CC My Inbox Assistant at all? IMAP enabled mailboxes can have My Inbox Assistant run in the background without any need for CCIng/BCCing. Take a look at our docs at http://context.io/docs/2.0/, specifically the messages calls: http://context.io/docs/2.0/accounts/messages
Your second link was an eye-opener. Can you recommend any textbooks or an online class (or its remains) that teaches Cobb's recommended curriculum?
Judging SSD's by their little performance bits is a kind of amusing endeavor: the latest SandForce already saturates a 6Gbps SATA III link, and others are catching up real fast. This pretty standard unit of measure is hitting the limits of the interface, not the drive.

What other criteria are there? GB/$, performance/watt, watts at idle, IOps, and warranty or lifecycle costs. Personally, I find something "big enough", ignore power consumption and iops (neither is going to make a huge enough difference for me to concern myself), and then get whatever I can find that has the longest warranty.
Ok, using "Like" isn't infringing on anyone's rights, is it?
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I found Play easier to grok, it runs out of the box (and didn't require a bunch of dependencies that fubar'd my Ruby), and I really like how routes are defined in a text file:

http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.2.3/routes

As a side note, I implemented a similar (but basic) routing for Rack apps in Ruby:

https://github.com/delano/otto
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The forum thread linked in the headline has been removed from the Google forums.
Although they may want it for a myriad of reasons, most founders probably want to get rich. From http://paulgraham.com/start.html:

And that's kind of exciting, when you think about it, because all three are doable. Hard, but doable. And since a startup that succeeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies getting rich is doable too. Hard, but doable.
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To all of you Comp Sci majors out there: How well has the major prepared you for programming modern frameworks and languages? Will the work pay off for someone who wants to learn frameworks like RoR or languages like HTML5, CSS3? I'm asking this because with comp sci, you usually need to take heavy math courses. Would a programmer be better off going into design so he/she has more time to teach themselves?
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I'm a long-time Pythonista and there isn't enough money in the world to get me to write Java, but you're completely full of it.

Python is an isolated VM with its own hardware-independent type system, complicated and expensive FFI, etc. Ctypes has a beautifully clean interface, but it's certainly not cheap, and the JVM will crush Python in terms of performance in the vast majority of cases. Servlets? Containers? Why would you need these in this context -- you seem to be throwing out Java buzzwords to see what sticks.

Simply put, there's absolutely no reason why Java couldn't be a good choice here; that doesn't mean that it is implemented well in this case, but there's no reason why it couldn't be. Python, from an architectural standpoint, is by no means better suited than the JVM for this, even if the language and libraries are subjectively much, much nicer.
Justin.tv's strategy of using their video-hosting infrastructure to aggressively pursue verticals within the video watching/sharing/hosting space is working out really well. They seem to have a knack for identifying how people use video and streaming on the web, and are creating products that serve the specific needs of each group.
I definitely recommend "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Steven Skiena.

Will see how this grows...