skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's shallow bravado and sociopathy if you think the rules don't apply to you.

The fine line is right at the point where if everybody did what you just did, would it work or would we all fail?

The rules are there for a reason, your ability to cheat your way to the top notwithstanding and there is nothing impressive at all about a lack of respect for a common resource.
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Depends on what you are really good at.
My question is how does this relate to market maturity? Look at the Linux server market. That market is very much at the peak of the curve or perhaps into the "Late Majority" phase. Does a company targeting that market necessarily have to start at 0? If I come out with a linux distribution tomorrow that gives large players some whizbang feature to simplify their lives, how far up the curve do I get to start?

Cloud Computing is definitely at the "Early Adopters" stage, and we are all rightfully starting at 0 when it comes to building new products in that space. It seems to me that the chasm in this case is the mindshift required to play in the new space. Thinking about all the different failures and redesigning entire architectures around failures is a lot of hard work.

Wouldn't a company get faster growth if someone came up with a transition technology: something that still fit the principles of the new mode, but still "felt" like the old way of doing things?
I think the forms of communication are there, and they work well. What it's ripe for now is "convergence". Remember when your phone, internet, and TV were all separate things? Now it's just all IP packets coming over a big pipe (for most of us).

Now, your phone, email, IM, SMS Facebook/Twitter/Google are all separate 'things'. I think we're in the early days of convergence, where all of these things are smooshing together. Think Google Voice (phone/sms) in your mailbox, or IM along with Voice/Video (Skype). And we still have too many identifiers... your skype id, your twitter id, your google + name, your home phone number your office phone number etc. etc.

I really think the 'next big thing' will be the collapsing of all of these ID's and services into one agregator(probably google). I'm not saying it's a good thing, or that it will go smoothly, but it will happen.
I'm pretty sure this is the kind of event where purchasers make deals with manufacturers. You're right, it would be logistically impossible for that many shoes to be sold one at a time...

http://nycfashioninfo.com/wholesale/market-weeks/Calendar.as...
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Probably an easier way would be a Glade-XML to HTML5 translator (an HTML5builder instead of GTKbuilder).
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> How many people in the world can run an organization of
that size and scope? Not many at all.

This is not actually self-evident, and I'd really love some (any) attempt establishing it, either rhetorically or evidence-based.

Personally, I think a great many people have the skills & abilities needed to run these companies, but that is not what headhunting committees look for/what is actually being valued. They are looking instead for choices that are defensible, i.e., no one ever got sued for breach of fiduciary duty by appointing the Harvard MBA who ran three other multinationals -- even if they ran them all into the ground.

(to clarify: i think that you're actually claiming that few people can run these behemoth companies successfully. I think that success is actually very difficult to measure: e.g., establishing what would've happened if you appointed an 'average CEO', vs. appointing someone from 'the factory line' who knows the product, vs. appointing a bum on the street. What trends were already in place for/against the company, etc., what cultural inertia did they inherit, etc. )
A Kindle DX that can take decent notes/todo lists (maybe with an add-on keyboard) and handle email and web tasks, would be pretty nice.
I think this really depends on your goal. Do you want to excel in a particular field? If so, you should pick one thing, and focus on it. Do one thing well.

Being a jack of all trades, and master of none is more suitable for managers.

I wrote a blog post about being an expert at something, if you're interested: http://philipthrasher.com/2010/04/11/want-to-be-an-expert.ht...
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Why are people dumb/crazy/lazy for continuing to use it? Some of use just want a clean text editor with syntax highlighting and a few other features. Some of us also do not follow Internet drama and know nothing about Allan's personality.
I think token count hasn't gained traction because of languages with syntax and types. "Surely all the boilerplate in defining a class doesn't make it more complex," goes the argument.

I prefer to turn the debate around on its head. Rather than argue complexity metrics (boring) I say I prefer languages without boilerplate because they make complexity harder to camouflage.
This is entirely dependent on what you do and what your goals are.

Generally, I think it's better to be really good at one thing. However, this wouldn't hold true in certain roles (think Enterprise Architect, Systems Consultant, ...). In different roles, it can be extremely valuable to have a broad, not necessarily deep, understanding of the various parts in play.

What are your objectives?
Facebook's new corporate statement should be "Let's be evil".
They probably don't care if you don't make the film (sometimes film-making fails), but certainly you wouldn't be allowed to sell shoes under this permit.

Bureaucracies arise because people take advantage -- rules are usually descriptive of what people did to cause problems in previous iterations.
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Whoops - yeah, we're working on that problem right now - at the moment it's back up.
There are tumblr subcultures that are more like a sequel to LiveJournal, which makes it more meaningful (at least to those users) than just a meme delivery device.

It also gets some use as sort of an improved Twitter. If you like a post you can, um, Like a post, reblog it as is, or reblog it with a comment of your own. You also get much better options for embedding media easily.

Of course, if you don't have any interest in having a LiveJournal and don't want an improved Twitter (with a lower user count), there may still not be any point to you using it.
Personally, I just use an infinite number of monkeys so the work is done immediately.
Did Netflix screw up? I don’t think so.
There are some that take a religious sort of attitude towards not handing out personal information and/or interacting with entities that will, of which Facebook is surely a terrible offender.

Some people won't even use Google for this reason.
SpaceX is Building a Vertical Take of and Landing, Reusable Launch Vehicle
Here is a more informative link that I wish I had provided instead:
http://moonandback.com/2011/09/24/spacex-thinking-outside-the-box-again-meet-the-grasshopper/
If Google blocks it, Chrome and Firefox should.

http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/

http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/
Exacty. Between now and then is when things will really get interesting.
It's targeted towards games on all platforms really, so Mac App Store should work just fine. The only features that are iOS only are the promocodes and showing the average user rating.
I meant the 1/e neat solution (where the summation is replaced by an integral) assumes the large number. Otherwise, the sum can be evaluated directly, but no closed form solution exists.

I don't get your second statement, though, what do you mean by the "odds"? The 1/e solution is asymptotic.
FTA:

You should know these data structures inside and out.
What are the insertion/deletion/lookup characteristics?
(O(log n) for a balanced binary tree, for example.)

How does one achieve this? Not just being familiar with data structures and algorithms (I am), but being fluent in them, to the extent that you can produce the Big O complexity for different operations off the top of your head.

I didn't have a traditional CS education in college. Maybe there's some kind of magic that happens in Algorithms [1-3]01 that permanently etches these characteristics into your brain. But whatever it is, I missed out.

My main problem is that I don't seem to need this information to do what I do. I work predominantly with server-side, interpreted languages, and I just don't run into the bottlenecks and performance problems that Big O-knowledge seems to mitigate. Maybe I've been lucky. Maybe it's because none of my personal projects have gotten popular enough to be subjected to the kind of load that reveals such problems. Maybe it's because I haven't worked on the kind of project that needs this sort of attention. Whatever the reason, I simply have never hit a point in my work (which I assure you has been non-trivial at times) when I sat back and said to myself, "Gosh, if only I were more familiar with the complexity breakdown of the classic data structures, I would be able to solve this problem much more effectively or efficiently."

The thing is, I know that I'm perfectly capable of nurturing greater fluency in algorithms, so it seems like a waste to inevitably flub the more demanding portions of algorithm-based interviews. So what should I do? Is the answer as simple as biting the bullet and using flash cards until I know it all by rote (which feels like cheating), or am I "doing it wrong" somehow? Is my lack of fluency preventing me from understanding just how important it is (a la Dunning-Kruger)?
The Cost Of A Long Life
This isn't really about the main thrust of your argument, but I wanted to address this:

What would be the end result of this? On a particularly music-filled day I might send 100+ posts about songs I've listen to? Really? People will ever look at that?
If it's part of the main news feed, it's spam. If it's not, nobody cares... except Facebook, who can mine such data

Perhaps the key mechanism for new Open Graph developers to present their content in the news feed (and thus take advantage of the distribution possibilities there) is through aggregations. The workflow for signing up to be an Open Graph Developer actually makes you create one. What this means is that while there will be hundreds of posts from your friends about listening to songs in the Ticker, the news feed will have something like "10 of your friends listened to Foster the People today!", which actually happened to me yesterday and was actually the first time I had heard about that band. One click allowed me to listen to them on Spotify. I ended up finding a new band I liked through my friends, and I used Spotify a little bit more. So there are use cases here that can work really well, with aggregation making the volume of content that comes from autosharing more manageable.
Thanks for the info. One of the commenters in the OP mentioned that the reader in MIT Scheme was still buggy/slow in 1998, but I've been having trouble finding any MIT Scheme releases that are that old. I've never had any trouble with any Scheme reader, but then again I've never used one on pre-1998 hardware!
I dunno, it might be fun to work at a company run with algorithm #4.
Agreed, but then you decide to... gasp open jquery.min.js and your text editor decides to crash. Better luck next time.
Recursive: require the candidate to come up with the perfect hiring strategy.
Dear Hottie Smoking a Cigarette
The story of Radar, a location based classifieds born out of a hackathon.
Aren't neutrinos part of the dark matter?
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Worth noting: looks like they are also using Envolve from YC S11.
Only two features are iOS-only: promocodes and average user ratings. For everything else, it works great for Flash games as well.
I don't know how well those fly at ~650ft (he was consistently around this altitude in later videos). Perhaps a traditional RC helicopter might work as well, but the noise would probably be a problem (I think he has electric planes).

However, if you just want to get rid of the pigs, not kill them, I could imagine that you could do pretty well herding them with a loud RC helicopter... perhaps even herd them into a trap or kill-zone.
Will Your Next T-Shirt be Made from Trees? (cellulose vs cotton)
Was that a O(n!) query killing the DB? :)
It's shallow bravado and sociopathy if you think the rules don't apply to you.

That's total bullshit. Sociopathy? Really? Think maybe there's some hyperbole here?

Lots of rules were created simply to make life easier for some at the expense of others. Other rules are place long after they make any sense.

The fine line is right at the point where if everybody did what you just did, would it work or would we all fail?

That's only true in a broad view. Also "everybody did what you just did" may point out just why a rule is foolish. Or not, but blind obedience is no virtue.

* ... and there is nothing impressive at all about a lack of respect for a common resource.*

So it's OK for one business (film) to tie up traffic and inconvenience the locals, but not another (apparel)? And this is based on some objective assessment of the common good and not back-room deals, tax breaks, and cronyism?

I'm skeptical.
> Being able to capture all possible 'state mutations' of a value in one assignment is good.

I think there's a duality here. If there are 20 buttons, each of which can affect some of 30 counters, then the Haskell code would say "this counter is affected by these buttons", while imperative/OO code would say "this button affects these counters". It's not obvious to me that the former way of organizing code is better.
Terms-less Terms of Use
Chargebacks are a pain to deal with. I was involved in a business for six years, and had to deal with this situation on occasion. I noted a pattern: 90% of the chargebacks were initiated by AMEX customers. AMEX makes it very convenient and easy for a customer to request a chargeback. It can sometimes be "I don't recognize this charge/company..." -- and that's really frustrating. You don't have much time to respond to the request either. If you are legit, you'll generally win the disputes, but you have to respond and have your tracks covered. Small businesses aren't always organized enough to respond in time and lose these disputes simply because the response wasn't a priority. I actually think there is an opportunity for someone to tackle this problem (streamline the process, have template responses, backed by business specific data points, etc...).

If you have too high of a chargeback ratio, you will get cancelled. I think you might be worrying about something that you don't need to worry about. As long as you are providing a real service/product and not out to rip people off, you will be fine.
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I can say it works as intended in Linux (Ubuntu 11.04, Firefox, ton of fonts installed) and has for years now.
Good thing I have absolutely no idea what spotify is.
Hello HN! I am nubela, the dev for the app. Just wanted to share my publishing of a simple location-based classifieds app, and also would love to have a discussion about my ongoing startup.

A little bit about the software stack about Radar if you are into geek porn like these. It is a Phonegap app, with SHPAML and SASS, and a little file watcher that I wrote (https://github.com/nubela/transcompiler-watcher). This massively speeded up my web dev for Phonegap.

My backend was a written in Flask (Python Microframework), with a MySQL DB, ORMed by SQLAlchemy,

The app interfaces with the backend via a ReSTful interface (Not so restful for my first try, took this attempt to learn about ReST).

AMA! :)
I'd give him his 20% time and hope he'd come up with the next big thing in search.

Some people you fit to the company, others, you fit the company to them. Brin is in the latter category. Rare, but they do exist.
I don't like the insertion sort. Couldn't it do a binary search on the sorted part of the list, when it's looking for the place to put the next element?
Game music engine that changes music as game state changes
This was very reassuring / inspiring for me... Goes to show you that we all have to start somewhere and we shouldn't spend our formative years worrying about experience and credentials before we try to start something.
As a hacker who lives and codes from his ranch in Texas that has problems with feral hogs, I give this two thumbs up!

One thing to add for those not familiar with feral hogs... these animals are a non-native species and highly invasive. They can have at least 4-6 piglets at a time, 3 litters a year. They damage crop and farmland, carry disease, and compete with native wildlife for food.
Why do indie games often have weird controls?
This is...just a bullet-point summary of Joseph Perla's original bullet-point article?
Alternatively: Don't think before you hit send.

Seems to me that his friends just wanted to chat, not have a deep philosophical breakthrough. Just reply with anything and get on with the rest of the morning. That's certainly better than -not- responding.
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Looks like it. Original: http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/how-to-launch-in-a-month-sca...
This is fantastic for teaching sorting algorithms visually. I'm going to see if I can forward this to my former professors and teachers.
Thanks for the pointer; I submitted it to the arc forum as well:

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=15177

Lower volume but better odds of conversation about certain topics.
Is Wordpress.com the most expensive blogging platform out there?
This is not a link-bait, I am genuinely wondering. The link takes you to a simplified summary at my blog. I am curious what people think in general about this as this was not the case with Wordpress.com just a few years ago. The thought came to mind as I notice Tumblr's success and the failing of other blogging platforms (let's also not forget the merging of Microsoft's blogging space with Wordpress not too long ago).
Typically movie making permits are given under the assumption that there will be no abuse of such permits (after all, only a limited number of movies will be made) and because cities like the exposure.

Selling apparel is so common that if everybody that sold apparel would get a movie permit that no traffic could use the road anymore.
s/Lunch/Launch/ (I hope...)
My inclination is probably towards teaching logic, probably as part of the maths curriculum, and by extension teaching a little programming as part of that logic.
You don't hope for vehicles delivering reusable lunch? I can't imagine anything better.
Luckily, I've never worked on a non-open-source C project with anyone but myself. So my builds are warnings clean :)
This is not a link-bait, I am genuinely wondering. The link takes you to a simplified summary of costs at my blog. I am curious what people think in general about this as this was not the case with Wordpress.com just a few years ago. The thought came to mind as I notice Tumblr's success and the failing of other blogging platforms (let's also not forget the merging of Microsoft's blogging space with Wordpress not too long ago).
If you want to simplify it even further there is this: https://github.com/technomancy/bludgeon

Bludgeon is a tool which will tell you if a given
library is so large that you could bludgeon
someone to death with a printout of it.
I don't think it is legal to sell feral pig meat.
They fixed it..
The most effective way of removing feral hogs is by trapping since you can catch multiple animals at a time. Shoot one and the others scatter.

Feral hog meat, unlike typical pork, is a deep red and can have a wild-game taste. It makes for great sausage and barbecuing but you wouldn't necessarily want a ham sandwich everyday in your lunch.

Many outfitters charge both the hunter for the opportunity to hunt and the farmer for the removal service.
So does "the cloud" mean "web applications or services" now?
I just don't want to spend the time uploading my library. I wish that these streaming sites just had copies of the songs already.
I think I have all the things you mentioned, aside from semi-transparency (which I only use when the app is backgrounded).

My full-screen mode can fill 2 displays, with the most-recently-used window on each display; and by setting options everything else can be removed, like the menu bar.

What is the ideal way to switch between terminals? Right now I rely on the window manager, e.g. command-tilde keys, clicking with the mouse, Exposé, and I have a separate window that lists every open window (also usable for switching).

What would make copy-paste handling "better"? I did implement a way to get auto-copy-on-select like Unix terminals do, and drag-and-drop. I also detect a multi-line paste, which provides an option to join into a single line. Larger pastes are buffered to try to avoid overwhelming the program running in the terminal.
This.

Programming = problem solving with logic and consideration of efficiency.
That's the risk every entrepreneur takes. Next time you need a job you have have a 10 year 'gap' in your resume.

Other than founding Google, their supposedly big ideas are just on gambling shareholder's money and make more money via Google in suspicious way. Search still makes 97% of their money, Android was * from others and market share is being lost to Microsoft.
Thanks, I fixed it.
Here is a link with some more info:
http://moonandback.com/2011/09/24/spacex-thinking-outside-th...
That seems like a heavily stretched metaphor.
The pendulum may be swinging, but I'm not sure I see it. Mobile computing isn't really different from the PC/web of the 90s. The shift is in the access pattern, not the access paradigm. Napster/Kazaa/BitTorrent is an example of the pendulum swinging. The Web was originally envisioned as an open access community, but we have yet to move it beyond the client-server (centralized) paradigm. Home servers preserve this paradigm. Many of us here run home servers because we're geeks, but that doesn't apply to most people on Facebook. Look at Diaspora: great idea (wrest control of our data from Facebook), but still the centralized (seed/server) paradigm.

Distributed computing at the level we want is still WAY too hard for the end user. The goal should be to make it as simple as using Facebook today, but retaining control in a much better way than Facebook or Google let us do now.
Hey, I'm getting an error:

http://use.fontorie.com/5d90df57ffffffkkf000efn
Only if they make it past the electrified fence. And minefield. And machine gun nests.
Maybe a bug-me-not that uses a VPN for a consistent IP and sends a spoofed user-agent for added uniformity would be an improvement.

Additionally, each time the account is deactivated, the service time-bans the users who most recently were assigned the deactivated account (suspected to be Facebook's security team) for 6 hours, sends all other users the credentials to a new auto-created account, and looks for repeat presence of IPs in the time-banned group to be perma-banned.