skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Troy,

We haven't proven who exactly our customers are, so these are still loosely validated assumptions, but we're doing our best to learn more about them.

Here's what we think so far.

A chill.ly customer:

* Is a customer of major telco in Canada (for the time being, at least).
* Has an app phone / smartphone / phone with a decent browser.
* Has monitored their personal finances, sometimes with services like mint
* Is a a premium customer for the telco ($70+/month)
* Ignores their phone bills, whether they're digital or print
* Typically sees their monthly bill as a line item on a bank statement
* Spends an average of 30-60 minutes choosing a provider, plan and device.
* Typically uses their phone in professional and personal contexts
* Travels out of their coverage zone
* Has combined many options to form their plan (IE chooses a base plan and adds various options/add-ons)
* Has been a customer of more than one telco in their lifetime
* Is concerned that changing their plan will result in a worse deal.

Max
The other chill.ly dude
I'm kind of surprised by the active state too.

I'd probably use this code and change the active state to use a different color (all in CSS of course). It might even be possible to have the text and icon shift slightly down and to the right (all in CSS of course). Those changes would give it a satisfactory active state IMO.
I don't know where you live, but I've had a lot of good luck finding nice libraries. When I spent a summer working in NYC, the SIBL library was just awesome in terms of facilities, hermann miller chairs, etc.

In Boston there's a few good ones too.
This is the biggest meta-shortcoming of vim: the fact that it doesn't come with a built-in programming language. This forces extension authors to bring their own, with the expected consequences.
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The reason why is that people don't expect to trust books. Open a random book at the bookstore, and it's probably a story that the author made up. Twitter is the same way, but people don't realize this yet.

I don't see why authors should be held responsible for their readers' stupidity, though.
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5, and that takes us back to the late 18th century.

In the center of the US, and there is actually quite a lot of moving around, just no overseas travel. (Go back farther and we find native americans, some possible Melungeons, a witch burned at Salem, and Scottish refuges from a civil war.) There are several who traveled in from the east coast, but from established families.

I'm not so certain your thesis has value going back that far. When one ancestor arrived in the state, from New York (he and his family were not immigrants) the state was a territory and almost completely unsettled. And he was most definitely entrepreneurial. Founded the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi in the middle of the wilderness.
"You are free to distribute this book to anyone you want, so long as... it is not altered..."

That doesn't seem consistent w/ the intended usage patterns of git and github, e.g. github's 'Fork' button is displayed prominently on every src page, for the purpose of alteration and distribution of src.
Hands up who considers themselves a 'migrant'.
My mother is not only an immigrant to the US but when she was an under-aged teenager (either 16 or 17), she escaped East Germany with forged papers, with her infant niece in tow to return the child to it's rightful mother who had been denied the right to take the baby home after a visit. She claimed the baby was hers. I have heard that the only reason it worked is because the baby threw up on one of the border guards while they were checking her crappy forged papers.

My mom was also self-employed for many years (something people here would call a "lifestyle business", not a "start up"). I definitely think my family background is part of why I have a fairly high tolerance for risk while being routinely misread and not really seen that way. Time will tell whether or not that will lead to successfully developing an independent income so I can leave my day job.
The farther back you go the less likely it is that they would be immigrants. Back in the day when people had to walk or ride to where they wanted to go...
I am now an expat so pretty close to being an immigrant but in my family there are no immigrants at least 5 generations back. The only half-exceptions are my parents who now each have different nationality because our (their?) state split into two. Also my grandma moved inside the state to a region speaking completely different language so she could be considered an immigrant.
The thread was something like, "name something you can't say on the internet" and my reply was "i'm going to kill the president". It turns out I was right.

Anyway, the cops did not check the content of the thread before coming to my house. After I showed them they agreed it was kind of silly that they were called out, and they went away. I never heard any follow up, but I assume I now have A File.
Miss USA 2011 — Should Math Be Taught In Schools?
Direct link to the rankings (pick a subject): http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-uni...

Direct link to the list for computer science schools:
http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-uni...
It's probably the industry that gets the biggest bailouts, the fastest, without any serious questioning and without having to make any changes.
I would have been OK with the 2008 bailouts if there had been any serious reform of the banking sector. I think they should have reinstated some version of Glass-Steagall.
I find Feeder on webOS excellent, better than any of the readers I have tried on Android. Likewise for the twitter client, Carbon, which is much better than Twitter's official client on Android.
He also points how Finder works today failing to realise Windows has been like that for a while with Libraries: http://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/articles/1/69/microsoft-...
So, you advocate tax revenue aggregating to the Fed, then the redistribution being managed by private banks? Shouldn't that up to the People?

I guess there's just some political dissonance I perceive in the comments here: On one hand it's not okay if the government uses taxpayer revenue to "redistribute wealth" back to the people because, and I'm back-napkinning here, it'll fall into an endless void of unsustainable amounts of soulless feral children, big and flat screen TVs in every room including the bathroom, and shiny accoutrements for unaffordable cars. Oh, and let's ignore food and clothes because these savage poor and old people wear tatters to protect their shame and also eat their rims. But, miraculously, all those products and pharmaceuticals and adult undergarments and electric motor scooters for the mall are somehow not units of work exchanged for units of money. It's a pit -- a hungry, ceaseless, unending pit of despair that we should starve and force into servitude and submission rather than give a dime to.

On the other hand, it's okay if banks who form the FOMC distributed tax revenue to themselves because it'll get reallocated to other rich people across the globe, who as we all know are accountable for 100% of the jobs and job growth that has or will ever be made in the history of US commerce, Amen. Oh, and (jedi hand wave) forget the crash of 2008, the S&L bailout of the 80s, the Great Depression, and all the various major crashes in between all fueled by speculation and 20x margin accounts and other toxic assets. They'll always do good by the taxpayer. Always.
You could do something similar by having each primitive type share a global prototype á la Lua's "string" metatable. Most operations are implemented as primitives in the VM, but any non-primitive operations on primitive types go to the type's metatable.
James and Peteris are two of the most amazing devs I've seen in a long time. They ship and ship and ship and ship.

The first version of StackVM (Browserling's underlying technology) was written in Haskell. They switched to Node close to two years ago if I'm not mistaken. I've gotten an early look at Testling, their cross browser testing web testing tools, and they're easily a year or two ahead of anyone else on the market. I'm looking forward to seeing it launch.

Hook James and Peteris up by purchasing a paid plan: http://browserling.com/pricing

Better yet, ping them about buying a corporate plan for your company: http://browserling.com/contact
The philosophy of PyPy - roughly
I think the main problem with Microsoft is that their strategies have been more focused on doing things that reinforce their Windows monopoly. I can understand why, since it's what keeps them alive, but it also forces unnatural behavior, like embedding IE into the OS, and prevent natural innovation, which is what Windows is suffering from currently.

Now their focus appears to be changing things so that people will upgrade their OS. This is also unnatural behavior, because frankly nothing really needs to be changed anymore, except adding more device drivers and making the OS faster. Changing things around for no particular reason will likely annoy a lot of long-time Windows users (like me). They are providing the exact same functionality, but are just moving things around, to give the illusion of change and value.

However, I think one strategy they are doing is that by using the "Ribbon" experience, they are trying to keep newer Windows users from being able to migrate seamlessly to Linux or MacOS. Right now, everything across all the OSes is menu based, so there's little friction in migrating. If a new generation of users are used to the Ribbon, then moving over to Mac or Linux will be "annoying" to them.

So I think the article is misunderstanding Microsoft. Microsoft isn't making changes because they want to improve the user experience. They are trying to change the user experience in order to preserve their desktop monopoly by leveraging their new users and preventing a barrier of entry to other OSes. Which makes sense from their perspective because they have the money to do the research, and they manpower and resources to make these sweeping changes.
That project isn't even in the same league of what I'm trying to accomplish. Collaboration wouldn't really make sense in that I'd basically just replace all 10 files he has there. I've already audited approximately 20 different django "startproject" enhancement codebases for the best that they have to offer, to see if I was missing anything useful after the initial development stages.
More specifically, this is one of the Nico Nico Medleys, a series of fan-made medleys of memetically popular songs. There are quite literally thousands of arranges of each of them.
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Yeah...I've programmed Trac internals. The Trac code is an absolute nightmare to explore - very little API documentation, and they ship their own poorly-documented Web framework in Trac, not to mention the craziness that is the Zope component architecture. The UI's really not that great either - it's mostly the Trac derivatives like Redmine and Google Code that actually look nice.

Also, what does Webkit have to do with Trac?
The problem is, as it's mentioned on the article, that living in an information vacuum Twitter gets to be over-trusted. Journalists are reporting very fragmented and incomplete news as Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist. Almost all the mass media have signed a self-censorship agreement ("Iniciativa México") to limit the impact of the narco messages on the public, thus leaving people to follow unreliable media. Messages are sent by narco through actions: murders as gruesome as the desired impact of the message. Read about "blog del narco" through Google translate (I wouldn't recommend to look for the actual blog del narco) http://translate.google.com.mx/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&#...

Yes, we are living hard times here.
Pinax development's stalled, and it's only about halfway to what I'm hoping to accomplish. They've also made more than a few architectural differences that are pretty incompatible with how I'm doing things. It'll make more sense when you see Prometheus in action.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Ark just took that to the extreme and made the whole movie in one long shot. It is interesting to watch just for that effect. The content is only interesting if you care or are familiar with Russian history.
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Noted. Any suggestions on a good license to use for this document to allow non-commercial derivative works?
In an ideal world, ido-mode would be the standard for any kind of selecting from a list. Drives me nuts that there are still people out there writing programs that only search by prefix, or that make you actually click the mouse!

Users of Visual Studio can get something similar using the Visual Assist plugin. Works across files in the project, interesting symbols in the project, or interesting symbols in the current file. Works as well as you'd expect - or, if you don't like Visual Studio, better.
Excellent piece, thanks
Pry - an IRB alternative and runtime developer console
When done effectively, I'm still impressed by a product that screams simplicity.
Bohemian Rhapsody recreated on classic hardware
Entrepreneurs who are interested in setting up internet-related business in China and want to know more about the consumer scene there.
Solar Interior May Reveal Modifications to Gravity
Agreed - this is pretty much the only reason MacVim lives on my machines. It handles huge files way better than anything else I've tried.

I can use vim. I know it pretty well. But the inescapable fact is that, for me, it's clunky and requires more thinking than just using a mouse and pointing at something, then typing what I want to type. I use it because I haven't found something better (and I'm sure it exists, I just haven't seen it).
They are amazing and Browserling is very handy, but they really need to hire a designer. A lot of their customers are going to be designers, there is no reason to have such a dated look.
"Then go check the SEC filings."

Which ones? There are quite a few companies in the finance industry. If we are going to paint them as good guys and bad guys, then it is important to note that those are subjective criteria.

"This is precisely what happened, though. The large investment banks... Was it planned that way? Does it matter?"

Well, if your objective is to tar and feather people then I would suppose that it is important to find a villain.

However, if your objective is to understand what happened and how it could be prevented, then I think it is important to ask if something was planned or if it was a product of a flawed system. I can understand why you may disagree with me.

"Because you were once involved in investment management yourself, and you are a good & decent person, and therefore the industry as a whole must be comprised of similar people and follow similar patterns of behavior and judgement?"

No, actually quite the opposite. Please read my reply to another gentleman here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2962088

If you have any questions, please ask me, I would be happy to discuss with you (regardless of the beating that my karma would likely take).

"So you think paying regulators more would somehow auto-magically deal with regulatory capture?"

There is no magic solution for regulatory capture, but the disparity in pay is a glaring problem. People respond to incentives.

Right now, many people view regulatory agencies as a career springboard to higher paying positions within the large investment banks. If the pay at the regulatory industries was more in line with what an individual with a similar background would earn elsewhere, then that would dramatically decrease this effect.

While we are talking about fixes, one more possible fix would be to dramatically restrict the creation of derivatives, because their complexity exceeds their usefulness as financial instruments at this point in time.

These are the types of things that would be useful to talk about. Dr. Taleb has both the knowledge and the breadth of experience to talk about them. Unfortunately, he chooses to focus the majority of his influence on labeling people within the banking industry as ethical and moral evildoers. (South African apartheid? Really? I find the implied analogy to be disgusting.)
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Okay, and once the users have found their documents in the beautiful Finder, what are they going to do with them? This seems to be another case of someone confusing attractiveness with usability. The article fails to explain why the author thinks that the Finder makes it easier and/or more obvious for users to figure out how to manipulate their files. What are the motivations and needs of these users (apart from 'I want to see icons representing my files') and how are they fulfilled or not fulfilled by the Explorer and Finder interfaces? Instead of using a data-driven approach, what would be a better way to go about the motivation analysis, and what sort of end result might you get?

It's one thing to slag off Microsoft (unfortunately, they tend to make themselves a fairly easy target), but doing so with no constructive advice to others in the same situation is a bit pointless.
Though I'm not defending the NSA, you should be careful not to make broad assumptions based on a single data point.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
I wish someone would write a very simple databinding helper to let backbone do some of that ultra easy UI databinding too.
Has the OP even used Explorer? The 'All my files' is done through libraries and has been around for ages. And I'm not sure whether Finder is more visually appealing but it sure is not a great file management tool by any means.

The real question is - what does success look like? If MSFT is able to prove statistically that users are able to perform file operations quicker, find commands that they never knew existed before, would that validate this design?
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Actually this blog post I think is a perfect example of how "designers" in the large don't get it. The ribbon was largely maligned for Office too by the web intelligencia, but as someone who spent time in the enterprise both consulting and selling apps, the ribbon is generally loved by its users. The people who hate the ribbon are the people who use OSX. Try giving Word 2003 to anyone who has spent any time with Word 2010 and you'll be seriously reprimanded.

For example, Had they per­for­med a dee­per ana­ly­sis of the moti­va­tions and needs of the users, they would most pro­bably have ended up with a com­ple­tely dif­fe­rent solu­tion. They might have had a solu­tion that wouldn’t be held back by assump­tions and limi­ta­tions made in ear­lier ver­sions of the appli­ca­tion.

This article assumes that this is the second version of Windows ever shipped. They assume that this research hasn't taken place at all in the past. That the existing set of functionality hasn't evolved over time. For example the Win7 task bar is the result of this evolution. File managers are a very specific beast though. I get the feeling the author of the blog post doesn't know them very well.

And the author concludes comparing Finder to Explorer. I don't think I'm alone in finding Finder an inferior user experience. And frankly, I think that most users will find the ribbon to be a vast improvement. The mere addition of a more obvious "Open With" button will save me on support calls.
But don't you find it odd? It's too much to pay for just a talent acquisition. IP + talent, perhaps, if it's really important IP.
And they denounced trust in all certificates that are issued by DigiNotar and currently migrating to new CAs (Getronics). The digital identity portal DigiD for government services is already migrated to Getronics CA.
Watching this at the moment. Steve is going through a story of mowing robot business case using Business Model Canvas.

Has anybody in HN used Business Model Canvas extensively as a part of their startup? Any stories and tips to share?
I have the same feeling, but it's not just code that are "easy" to learn now. I think that things like stanford engineering everywhere, MIT open course and Peter Norving's AI-Class will have a big impact in learning in general.
Every time I would try to learn and like Knockout.js, I was always put-off and immediately stopped from disgust after seeing all the data-bind attributes all over the place, destroying the separation between presentation and business logic.

But, after reading some of those answers, I'm very happy to see that you can now work with a fork of "unobtrusive" knockout. I'll definitely have to give it another chance.
My biggest concern about 2007 collapse is that we DID NOT reform financial system after the collapse. Everything remains the same. The banks still operate in same way as before 2007.

And everybody should be careful to bet on recovery: we have a financial system which relies on public funds to be viable. We did not envolve.

We should do two things:

- allow failed banks to fail (ok maybe some gov oversight but essentially they should be broken up and sold in pieces)

- the regulatory system must be reformed (reform credit rating agencies, etc.)
I agree. It's a shame to have such a forward looking product be encased in such dated design
There's a difference between collecting the maximum amount of stones and collecting more stones than the opponent. I suspect the winning program also tries to minimize the stones the opponent will be able to collect, thus preserving its marginal advantage.

Edit: Apparently colanderman beat me to it.
I know a lot of people that worked there. Here is a reddit thread from one

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/k0xky/iama_former_empl...
The closest that is known in my family tree would be two generations, when my fathers father came over from England around the time after WWI (exact records we never knew, since dad didnt' care about genology until it was too late, and I was three when his dad passed on). Two of the other branches have Scot last names, and we traced one back to the highlands around the early 18th century so I'd estimate that's at least ten or so generations?

On my soon-to-be wives side, she's actually an immigrant herself (from the United States to Canada), but her family has been in the mid Atlantic area of the US since the 1840's. was told it's around eight generations or so.

In fact outside of myself and her, our family trees seem to find a place, and then stay there for generations. Rarely any moving at all.
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No offense, But this is a great story for a film.
When iPad first shipped with iOS 3.2, there was no support for traditional Chinese input. So anyone wanting to log in with a Chinese name, or type some Chinese into a form, would have been out of luck on an iPad unless they had some kind of add-on solution. Just a guess, but maybe Opera came with some kind of built-in Chinese input that compensated for this shortcoming?
This is expected behavior. Browsers follow the link on mouse up event, if you try to drag it away then mouse up happens outside of the button area and link won't be followed. Button remains active as last clicked element, this behavior is also consistent with operating systems.
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I'm a five now, but if you asked me two years ago, I'd be a 0.