skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it the Playbook that still can't check email, contacts, or a calendar without being tethered to a Blackberry? I could have told you day one that was going fail, doubly so if they were expecting their main customers to be enterprises. "Hold on, let me plug my phone into my tablet to check my schedule...wait, why do I have this tablet again?"

Hopefully they dump their CEO(s) and get someone who understands the current and rapidly changing mobile and tablet markets. If not, RIMs days are numbered.
For me, for this time of year, driving distance, TAHOE. Find a nice cabin on the top of a ski resort, facing west, hunker down, enjoy the view of mountains and snow, and don't get distracted by the snow bunnies (find a lodge further off the crowded areas). Personally, if your teams work doesn't rely heavily on having an internet connection, I'd go without it, being disconnected really helps sometimes in my opinion.

Going world-wide... hard to say, there are so many places, and sometimes I like urban scenery as much as the wilderness.
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This was published in 2005. Unicode in python has come a long way since then, especially with respect to python 3 [1], [2].

[1] http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html#text-...
[2] http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/howto/unicode.html
Gave this an upvote, since it's from the official Notch blog instead of what could have been possible conjecture from reddit.
I want to know why this is getting so much attention in the news? All they do is sell some sort of weird game on Facebook[1].

How do you IPO a business that doesn't... well... do anything? I've googled around and asked people I know who are into this kind of stuff, but I still don't get it.

I probably will get downvoted, but my question is legitimate.

[1]: Still don't have a Facebook account
You can include TCC without fear i guess, small and fast C compiler based on the self compiling C compiler you were talking about.
http://bellard.org/tcc/
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Not that I necessarily think it was a great naming decision, but in North America the football coach "playbook" is commonly used in business strategy metaphors. (Search for something like "page out of apple's playbook".)
Am I the only one this link isn't working for? When I click on it I get "index.php". file(1) says this:

/Users/zrail/Downloads/index.php: data

Edit: Here's a link to what appears to be the original paper:

http://pnylab.com/pny/papers/vptree/vptree/
Not if entertainment budgets are constant, which is the assumption in that study. Constant entertainment budgets means there is no room for volume growth in terms of money, unless you are referring to developing countries where it's probably different.
Godaddy stole phpiseasy.com from me too. Not sure who to trust anymore
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I suppose authors should rejoice now too, since those troublesome distribution costs have disappeared, marketing is free and they can travel about the country providing real value through public readings and book signings.
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Don't they already use quad-copter (human pilots) for logging in remote areas?
Yep, pretty much.

Not exactly fair, but that's the current 'system'..
I'm not quite sure what you mean (though I'm not arguing). I set up my own DNS manually.

Create a rackspace cloud server, grab that IP and use it in an A record on name.com.
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zynga has a much more real business model than many other companies. they make addictive viral games that encourage their users to make microtransactions and participate in advertiser deals to progress in the game.

unlike many well-loved companies with whom you're never quite sure how they make money or who their customer is, with zynga it is very clear what their revenue stream is and how they make money. as scummy as they are, i'd be much more confident investing in a zynga IPO than a twitter IPO.
In my experience with other apps, I think the GPU behavior is an artifact of Core Animation (I definitely recall seeing this in Sparrow, at least). Bit weird that OSX would default to breaking out the GPU for the smallest UI effects, especially because of the effect on battery life.
The only way the domain would be able to be moved from Go Daddy would be if the person stealing the name had access to the account, that's the only way to request the transfer authorization / epp code. Their support requires either a pin or last 6 of a CC used on the account to validate callers, if you can provide that they'll update the email on file and help reset the password, but he said his account email is unchanged. So the person taking the name would either have to know the account password, or have access to the email address on file where the reset requests are sent.

Given that this would have to happen from inside the customer account, I can understand why Go Daddy would want to confirm that this was indeed a nefarious act and not something like a domain being sold, transferred, then reported stolen to keep the cash and get the domain back. Or any number of other scenarios one might think of - shady domain stuff happens a lot. I can only imagine the hoops required to jump through for a registrar to get a domain back from another registrar under these circumstances.
So, IE6 owns "Embrace, extend and extinguish"?
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The Android SDK is based on QEMU. This is what lets you develop and test ARM binaries for Android on your x86 PC.

There are many examples of embedded development environments like this.
That's pretty much why I said make a real netbook. QNX would have made an interesting OS for a netbook. If they were going to go along with the crowd, they should have copied the Air instead of the iPad.
All of Zynga's established properties are trending down. The attention (DAU/MAU) new Zynga titles get does not last as long as it used to:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/27/towerdefense/

They're spending more to market new titles:

http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-11-26/business/30446059_1_zy...

As a result of the above two factors alone, their net profit is shrinking fairly dramatically. This is very similar to Groupon (also "profitable" at the time of IPO), and you can see how they're doing for yourself, here: http://www.google.com/finance?q=GRPN (-25% since launch, in case you don't feel like clicking)

Using the 'it's profitable' logic would mean that investing in Beanie Babies Corp while they were making money hand-over-fist would've been the height of financial prudence.

Sure the VCs who have funded the company up to this point are going to make tons of money. But that's their model: stoke interest in a business, take profit, and get out.
A bit too personal. Sorry.
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. Even if you somehow passed laws to somehow take away the government's legal authority to interfere in the market, the lobbyists could still buy legislation to restore that power and then use it.
After clicking the "next" button 3 times, I still can't get to the next page. Is that just me, or is their site broken?
I am really impressed that you did that :)

I'll make sure when I'm updating the CSS to leave <pre> styled the same way it is - if I change anything that messes with your formatting, let me know - I don't want to break what you've done!
At any given time, my wife has at least 5 "Words with Friends" or "Hanging with Friends" games going. They get serious engagement and that's worth a lot of money.

Zynga has moved aggressively into mobile gaming and, from what I can tell, they're going to be successful there. If they stay strong there, their reliance on the FB platform will be less of an issue.

EA has a market cap of $7.68B so I see little issue with this market (granted, I no nothing of their specific financials so I can't comment on their valuation).

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AERTS
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I think 10,000 quadcopters might be able to do something really amazing. I'm back down to "dog-sized," and I'm back to small payloads. It's a design challenge to come up with useful atomic units that such a robot could lift, but the number of them that can operate independently is a serious factor.

I'll recast this in terms I'm more familiar with: we used to scale software by getting faster CPUs with more powerful instructions. Now we're all being told to scale by numbers of CPUs. Can building construction be similarly recast?

Your CH-53E Super Stallion is effectively scaling up. Can we instead use quadcopters to scale out?
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got into philanthropy

went traveling

did massage school

set up a big art space in LA

tried to set up a media incubator in LA

made some large burningman structures

moved to india

worked in a startup as a coder again

did another incubator

set up another art space

...

I find that not being 'hungry'
has reduced my tolerance for spending time on activities
which don't seem important. This can make
me an awkward partner in some situations because the pursuit
of money is a very good unifier.

Getting clarity on what I feel is important has been a much
longer and more rewarding process than I expected.
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If you are referring to the University of Pennsylvania quadrotor construction video, they were doing pipelining, basically for collision avoidance. They also have some cooperative lifting videos.

Edit: this article has that video at the end.
Asynchronous comm doesn't need to lead to spaghetti code, but it certainly will if you don't know how to organize it.
To take this a bit ad absurdum, so is ordering someone to kill someone else (or a few hundred). I think we shouldn't confuse the dictionary with a legal text.
Thank you for this post. I think it is clear-headed: whatever rules we make about copyright, we have to justify them in terms of public benefit, not some intrinsic, inalienable right to intellectual property.

Practically, though, if you could make any law you wanted: what would you do? How would you manage the transition from the current regime to some more permissive regime? From the perspective of copyright owners, that will look like a legislative taking, like seizing a piece of real estate or canceling a pension.

Would you grandfather in the current IP holders, or give them some kind of grace period? (And perpetuate the old system?) Or just take their property? (Do you think that's generally a good public policy? Or is this case an exception for some reason?)
You can download the source to find out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830445
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Thanks very much, glad you like it. I like the /username idea too so that's on my list of things to update (I'll make sure that everything redirects properly so you won't need to update your links if you don't want to).

I did the back-end as well as the front-end, although I cheated and based the design on a chopped-up Themeforest theme. I love Themeforest for things like this.
It's funny how "backwards" in startup-land is "using basic business common sense" for every other business venture on the planet.

This isn't revolutionary advice here: get profitable, then grow. There's far less risk in doing it that way than the reverse. Even if you make mistakes while small if you are profitable or even on the bubble of profitability you can overcome them. Just about any mistake on timeline, acquiring investment funding, "monetization", or budget can easily sink a "grow then make money" style startup. Given that novel software development is already a rather risky endeavor that translates into quite a lot of risk.
> I don't think the facts are that easy to see.

The Swiss report is a 13 page meta-analysis with 53 footnotes, many of which are citations of other studies.

> the cost of providing the services doesn't [remain constant]

Actually, you're right. The labor of producing that track is unchanged. The cost of distribution goes down. The cost of the concert is unchanged. So, net cost of 3 minutes of happiness went down.
It's called skating to where the puck was.
> But you can replace the ECU with one of your choice.

As a counterexample: There are certain maintenance procedures for late model Audis that can only be done at the dealership. The diagnostic tool is connected to the car and then phones home to a central system to get vehicle-specific codes required to perform some actions. One such action, oddly enough is getting the car to recognize a new ECU[a].

[a] you can circumvent this by reflashing another ECU with special firmware to become a 'clone' of the original but this would be very analogous to having to 'root' your phone to install different software.
"The only way the domain would be able to be moved"

Not sure that's the only way. That's like saying the only way you could get credit card information from Sony's playstation servers was if you worked in Sony's billing department.

Not saying this is necessarily a hack, as it most likely is insecure practices on the part of the user, be it passwords or phishing. But seeing a cluster of them raises some concerns that it could be some otherwise unknown method.
I agree. I gave it a 20 minute test drive at Best Buy alongside TouchPads and Samsung Galaxy Tabs and it blew them out of the water, the only thing I've seen so far that felt close to an iPad in terms of useability and overall design. What's there is very good.

But it's pricey, there's no apps, it's missing key functionality, and RIM execs have their head up their own ass.
First, you can place a UTF-8 byte-order marker at the beginning of your file, if your editor supports it. Secondly, you can place the following special comment in the first or second lines of your script:

# -- coding: utf-8 --

Does Python actually parse comments, or is this just to get your editor to do the right thing?
The rule I was taught was that PhDs use the title Doctor in contexts related to their professional expertise, but not in generic social situations. Going by that rule, Doctor Hildebrand is perfectly correct in this instance.
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5? Lightweight. My wife has 20 going and that's only because 20 is the max.

But she purchased the $1.99 mobile app and hasn't bought anything from Zynga since. She abhors Farmville and all Facebook games in general. She doesn't see the ads from the paid app. So where is the revenue in users like my wife?
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"To the Swiss government, the people of the country (or, the impact to the people of the country) are/is considered before an external interest."

How would you consider the American music industry an "external interest" in the USA? While the RIAA and the labels aren't citizens, they're generally comprised of citizens. That is, when a music label gets special treatment, that means those citizens who work for that label get special treatment.

I'm not advocating the craziness that is current copyright law in the USA by any means, and while the above statement might sound like justification for all the evil the RIAA and the like have done over the years, the issue is hardly black-and-white.

"Artists will continue making movies and music because that's what artists do – with or without the entertainment industry."

I think this is a very broad, gross generalization. Sure, musically-inclined folks will probably still continue to play instruments or write songs as a hobby, even if there weren't a financial incentive -- but I hardly think the thousands (hundreds of thousands? millions?) of people currently involved in the entertainment industry would all be starving artists/producers/technicians/special effects artists/movie theater operators/etc. purely out of some all-overriding drive to create/produce/engineer/operate.

Let's say we flipped the law and made it illegal to sell music & movies. On the plus side, we'd probably have relatively little low-quality "pop" music & remakes of remakes in the theaters. On the negatives, we'd almost certainly never have, say, the Beatles White album, 2001: A Space Odyssey, WALL-E, etc.. It's not because without a financial incentive the Beatles wouldn't have made music, they just wouldn't have been able to devote the time and resources that they did. Kubrick might have still made a film like 2001, but how possible is it he would have been able to make it of the same quality?

Again, I'm not saying I agree with our current system of basically entertainment industry-by-fiat, but it's not nearly as simple as "we'll always have art regardless of if there's an industry to support it!"
Nice. But, I've always felt, if there was no time and money restriction, work would move at a lot slower pace than otherwise. Which would in turn impact our ability to launch. Has that happened to you?
Another vote for NameCheap. Have had ~50 domains with them for nearly 5 years now, never a problem.
Same problem here. Splitting articles up into pieces to generate page views is bad enough when done competently.
Same here, although I've only been a customer for two years. Never had any problems with their website either, always fast and responsive.
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It's definitely worth watching, IMO, especially if you view SEO as "fluff".

Rand does a great job of explaining how SEO and inbound marketing are attractive alternatives to interruption marketing. If you're annoyed by paid advertising and believe that what you build should benefit your users, then I think you'll get a lot out of it.
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The main thing for me was being able to pursue an idea no one would fund. I could self-fund it to the point where it was obvious people wanted it, at which point fundraising is easy.

And having done a few startups, I also had the confidence to not need anyone else to tell me it was a good idea. I just needed to build something customers would pay for. Those can be two very different things.
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On that note, does anyone know what's the case with .eu? Can ICE do the same as they've done with .com/.net?
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I've used and trust http://nfshost.com/ and http://asmallorange.com/

Big ones like MediaTemple and RackSpace seem good too. I used 101domain for international TLDs, not pretty but everything is going fine.
I thought something weird was going on since the sohtonaka.com domain is available when I checked at namecheap.com. Then I noticed that both the tweet and the above message misspell sohtonaka.com - it should be sohtanaka.com.
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They make games and monetize them with a "Freemium" model - users start playing for free, but they can pay real-world money for in-world currency to advance faster or unlock special items.
And they've dropped their valuation target from $20B to $7B.

OK, so you think it's worth less than $7B, but I suspect you also think it's worth more than $0. What do you think it's worth?
Good example (I think it's most similar to "conspiracy", though it might depend on what kind of implicit threat is backing up the "order").

btw, I'm not necessarily advocating free speech at all costs. If I'm going after anyone in this thread, it's the U.S. for hypocritically advertising "WE H4Ve phR33 5P34CH!!! unlike u european 1o5erz" and not being upfront about how delicate the line is.
I worked from 2002 to 2005 in a company in Colombia that did the same. We had only about 20 customers, and we also did mistery shopping for car salesmen.

Not looking for a job, just found the post interesting.
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