skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are mistaken. It has nothing to do with race although people like you tend to want to make it about that. He resembles and talks like a thug, brags about "selling cavities" and making a living off of it, illegally nonetheless. It's frustrating seeing people like you make unequivocal blanket statements. He is in a subway selling candy and admits coming from a tough background. Whether white or black this is the type of person that one would associate with making a living illegally had he not afforded himself this opportunity which I applaud him on. It's you who makes it about race.
Cool project! You can add simple caching for free in like a minute with CloudFlare (https://www.cloudflare.com/).
Which ones have you tried and uninstalled?
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For reference, SAP's market cap is $70B.
Read the rest of the comments here. Everyone else is having similar problems. Also, please spare me the expected "This is all anecdotal/sample size of 30" follow-up. Perhaps you can answer the real question -- is this valuable to anyone if it has a significant error margin? I think it wouldn't be allowed a margin of more than 1% if it were to be useful, and even that is kind of pushing it if you intend to do anything important with the data -- if 20 sites are tested per visitor, a 1% error rate would mean that an incorrect detection would occur every fifth visitor or so. That's enough to allow plausible deniability in my book.
Mozilla not commenting on whether or not their Google deal has been renewed
If you came here to comment on the gulf between what this does and what you'd expect or want it to do, and you can write code, you know what to do: https://github.com/twidi/Repos.io
This is a dangerous but common crutch. The reason it's dangerous is people get used to it, and then when they go to a system where it's not there, pain and anguish (or hilarity, depending on your point of view) ensue.
There's a difference between design patents and utility patents.

Design patents are what stop you from making and selling your own counterfeit Mercedes or BMW, for instance.

Neither company pretends to own a patent on the wheel, and Apple isn't claiming ownership of rectangles or rounded corners.
A lot of nonsense here. They claim to have been "featured by Apple". This was most probably just in the "What's Hot" section buried under 5 levels of clicks on the iTunes desktop app. The rankings they claim are actually pitifully small. Selling 5 times as much wouldn't be such a big deal.

The apps themselves appear to be yet another bunch of spelling apps for young children. This has been done to death in the app store. Unless the app is spectacular, it's no shock that it didn't do so well.

I have an app that apparently is doing far better than this in the young kids iPhone space. I didn't spend any money advertising it. However, it is something that hasn't been done 1000 times already by everyone else looking to cash in.
You are probably stressed at work, and miss flow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) or what programmers call "not being in the zone".

Find a significant chunk of time, like a free Saturday. Make sure it's quiet and you cannot be disturbed. Set a manageable toy goal - easy enough that you can do it, but let it be a bit challanging to keep things interesting. Build it! That should give you a nice push forward.

PS. You could also find interesting questions on StackOverflow - many times they offer a bit of challenge, and you can cherry-pick issues in your comfort zone, also helps you practice writing.

Also, have a break from work! Cut the stress.
I have to agree with this point. Apple's patent policy seems to be to throw patents against the wall and hope something sticks. At the end of the day, there are a limited number of ways to design a device efficiently, so of course Samsung will take obvious steps like making a rectangular, flat phone. There are also certain types of aesthetics which will be more appealing to customers. Why should Apple hold a monopoly on intelligent design? Did they invent the concept of slimness or simplicity?
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I am right handed, but my thumb's length is close to the width of my phone's screen, so, when I'm scrolling, my thumb is closer to the left than the right. On the desktop I use the scroll wheel exclusively.
Why don't they patent the rectangle, the color black and emptiness itself.
My brother says that playing in a high traffic place like that is usually less successful than on the platforms, because nobody has to stop. He often plays on the platforms that have trains coming opposite directions on either side, giving him a captive audience for a few minutes at a time.
Really?

If so, it was only to apply, and only when I visited the local Social Security office (initial application in the middle of the last decade was online). I don't remember being asked for it, but if I was I most likely wouldn't remember.

After that, in the journey of a successful appeal because the denial was totally bogus (as in the denying staff doctor, who never saw me, wrote up a report that the administrative law judge, his assistant, my lawyer or myself simply couldn't understand), and dispersal of benefits, absolutely no demands for an ID card were made.

Side note: I have an official Missouri "NONDRIVER LICENSE" (that's what it's called :-). Amusing name aside, everyone understands what that means and for everything non-driving related it serves the same purpose. It's also very cheap to get. Heck, my father has one because Missouri's concealed carry renewal period is shorter than the driver's license renewal period so this saves him money and hassle.

EDITED: Massachusetts has one: http://www.mass.gov/rmv/license/13bMAID.htm along with a "Massachusetts Liquor ID" (!) that appears to be the same thing except for the obvious age limit. A bit expensive at $25/5 years but that's Taxachusetts for you (says this refugee from that benighted state). One also heard horror stories about suburban DMV offices but I always found the central Boston one to be on the ball, pleasant and efficient.
Also, he's not paying any taxes and is likely stealing revenue from the legal tax paying subway newsstands. The MTA needs to step up and end this.
Well, I tried to download it. It wants to be able to send SMS, read system logs, know my location, and access account authentication tokens...

...for a todo list.

Yeah, no.
Even if Apple's industrial design is a revival and not original, by the timing it is clear that Samsung is copying Apple and not 2001. Whether this should matter legally is a matter of debate.
If Apple's value is tied to the shapes of enclosures, then let them sell enclosures.

I believe Samsung will continue to give consumers a much better deal on hardware than Apple will.

When the shape of the enclosure is commoditised, then the consumer's focus will shift to what they are really paying for: cheap electronics.
You might find Steve Blank's guide to Silicon valley useful: http://steveblank.com/visitors-guide/
I disagree.

Methinks the general public is capable of running their own server. Also, I predict a backlash against the hosted-at-X paradigm. Open source doesn't know it, but the battle for freedom "in the cloud" is just about to begin.

Option 1: Use fb, dbox, and gmail for all your shit.

Option 2: Start the "blog", "sshd" and "mail" daeemon-apps on your own server, which in turn could be hosted anywhere.

The big selling(freeing?) point of an FOSS and self-administered facebook is privacy.
Right now, people don’t seem to care about privacy all that much, and I can't blame them.
Every time the privacy debate comes up in relation to google or facebook the conversation is steered towards the following assumptions:

- The attacker is another member of the website or an anonymous web user.
- The platform (gmail or facebook) is a trusted third party.

This is not the debate I want to be having. I don't agree with the second assumption. Any “privacy policy” I can fill out for my data will not prevent the company from accessing my data. They own the database and the file servers and even have authority over my login credentials for that website.

What about the privacy in the following paradigm:

- The attacker can be any person or company on the internet.
- Your server is a VM in a distributed platform of hosts.
- You have a special credential (id-rsa), which is used to change settings on the VM.
- Host can be trusted most of the time, but sometimes (prob=0.2) they are malicious.

If we ensure there is a big ecosystem of hosting companies with a compatible API, then individual users could constantly migrate their hosting plans and change companies every month, or even every week. Thus in the worst case, a "cloud host" could eavesdrop on you just for one week. If you constantly change hosts, you will get a guaranteed 80% privacy, which is much better than 0% privacy.

Anyone who has lots of servers on their hands and wants to start a hosting company -- I say you get the whole "my home in the cloud" app hosting business started:
http://ivan.unixdaemons.com/blog/?p=513

Eben Moglen talks to the troops:
http://isoc-ny.org/?p=1338
To take it a step further, the <0.05 rule is basically an arbitrary assignment. There has been a (rather unsuccessful) push to publish complete p-values, rather than ones just under 0.05. It is then up to the reader to decide what they deem significant.

There are many cases where data is 0.06 or 0.055 but doesn't get a shiny little star.

And then there are cases where scientists just straight up don't understand stats (normality, sample size, what you can compare against, etc). A recent story highlighted that[1].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285742
We hired someone to handle customer service in the 2nd year. We also had some manual processes that they handled for building out the site. Since we'd been doing those things ourselves for a while, we optimized the processes a lot and had a bunch of templates, so training someone else was pretty easy.

W/r to hiring vs. getting a co-founder... I strongly prefer hiring if at all possible. The rule of thumb I go by is that you should only use equity to get skills you can't rent/buy (e.g. a big network or personal brand).

The skills we hired for, in order, where:

Sales/account management as needed (wife)
Accounting/bookeeping, part-time (wife)
Customer service, part-time (stay at home mom; part-time)
Sys admin, very part-time (did as much as possible myself)
Project-specific Java developers, part-time/moonlighters
All-around Java developer, first FTE (did everything including some light sys admin)
Additional Java developers
Additional customer service
Product manager

Most of our employees we found via Craigslist, or via our personal network. Later we used a recruiter to find Java developers. But hiring for developers was always a big problem.

I think part of the reason recruiting is a unique challenge is that you'll (probably) never be the hot shiny new startup with pedigreed VC's vouching for you. It's lame, but employees rely on those signals to separate dead-end startups from something "real". Of course, the more likely scenario is that VC-backed company without revenue is far more at risk for being an elaborately doomed ponzi scheme than your profitable micro ISV. Whatever... You have to try harder with everything else you can control-- comp, office environment, developer-friendly culture, technology stack, profit-sharing if you're so inclined, etc.

Good luck. You'll be glad you took this route down the line.
On WinMo 6, I think you are skipping over the history with that one. When it was released (WinMo 2,3,4,5,6,6.5) the hardware was too expensive for the consumer market, so it was sold to commercial consumers. They biggest concern for them was business apps, photos, gps, and --wait for it-- barcode scanners. The types that could be used from 30 ft away.

For that industry, WinMob was much better than the competition (this is before the IPhone/Android was released). There were lots of models, multiple configurations, and some of them even made phone calls.

Since then, smart phones hit the consumer market, the app needs have change (consumers don't need lazer enabled barcode scanners and multiple gps hardware configurations). But, WinMob 7 doesn't replace WinMob 6, because of the complete lack of external hardware drivers. IPhone really doesn't fill that gap either. Just Android.

And, Silverlight (and Flash) are being discontinued as Web platform(s). It still exists for development on other systems. But it could be argued it is just WPF at that point.
How about replacing rm with something like https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli ? If you only purge the trash when it's necessary and not automatically after every rm, you'd save yourself.
I seem to remember you get to opt-in to this, I never agreed to carrier IQ.
And somehow the app is 'featured' on the Android Market - when you visit it from the phone that is.
I used to work there, circa 1999. It was a train-wreck (Austin-Hayne merged with SuccessFactors, and we lost most of the SF-side engineers). Lots of horrible, Enterprisey Java code, and a bunch of inherited Visual Basic.

I guess they got things under control. Good for them.

I'd invested about $1000 in stock before I left; I called 'em up a few years ago (after finding out they were still around) and found out they'd done some kind of restructuring that blew my shares into oblivion somehow. Easy come, easy go.
One team used a crowd sourced "game" method with some success. They had thousands of people register, and were able to solve the first few problems quickly, but they began to stall on the more complex puzzles.

I was surprised to find that this method doesn't scale well when the puzzle reaches a certain size.
I agree 100%. The thing is most of the men pulling stunning threesome one night stands are the type of men who unbutton 3 buttons on their shirt and have no trouble getting to a club alone and socializing with every social group in there. That is wether they arrive in a 100k super car or in a 85' Daewoo. Women like money and power, but they appreciate confidence a whole order of magnitude more. This probably applies to courting VC's and selling your product also. Balls is what give's a guy/gal the edge to succeed...
This headline sounds like copy for a sleazy weight loss ad.
If you've never worked in big corporate environments you probably are scratching your head at WTF SAP is. Though to be honest most people who have worked with SAP still struggle explaining what SAP is.

I personally think SAP is a ridiculously overblown and complicated piece of software. It is just asking for a bunch of smaller companies to come in and slice and dice it apart. However there is huge value in going with a single provider for all your logistics needs.

I see this move by SAP as wanting to shore competition up. If SAP integrates this into their product then I'd be happy. The product will get better. If they don't...well...who knows what will happen?
Nice use of Twitter's Bootstrap.
Does anyone else just freaking enter their todo list/scratch pad into a gmail message? I can't be the only one e-mailing stuff to myself.

Maybe one day I'll download a todo app (or write one myself).
This is an important issue. The article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, has good follow-up on what we CANNOT assume just because a study has a finding that has met the p-value criterion.
Django is a tiny part of the Python community as a whole. I've been doing python development for going on 12 years, and half the programmers I know use python professionally in one capacity or another, and I can honestly say I don't know a single person who gets paid use Django.
Seemed like they fixed :visited as best they could. What would you have done?
I only order pizzza online...that way I can be 100% sure that they actually got my order, and that they'll make it the way I ask for.

Sure if you are only getting a single peperoni pizza you can just call it in, but if you want anything custom or are making a large order, going online is the way to go

For other businesses, I always need to make sure that they a) have good reviews and b) have a decent online presence that shows they are competent
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For the most part I agree with HN's decision to not let us down vote stories. But stories like this make me reconsider.
IMO there's one missing from the list of alternatives: Markdrop (http://www.markdrop.com/) (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3089355)
I think the Nexus S and Nokia N9/Lumia show that you can create something that looks good without looking exactly like an iPhone.
BazaarVoice and WhaleShark Media are another two that come to mind.
I have just the sneaking-est suspicion that maybe you'd find plenty to dislike with passion even absent their protection of very expensive industrial design effort.

Just like they were litigious dicks when this happened, right?

http://en.akihabaranews.com/20416/legacy-unused/pc/retro-wor...
Kind of interesting I guess.

I find most of the repos I'm interested in on GitHub, so I've a Google Spreadsheet that calls the API and populates a sheet with all my watched repos' details - it's a pretty good way to filter and remember those good ideas you've seen.

The username is a variable so I also use it when interviewing people and seeing what kind of topics they are interested in. This could be used similarly.
from the same developers "Taskos To Do List", their previous Android app, is IMHO much better: same functions, a more useful widget and the app is much lighter.
I personally go with a two prong strategy:

1. Backups
2. Sudo

I rarely do anything as root. If I am switching to root I already know what command I want to run. Backups are for when I do something stupid.
Not to mention that Oracle is also on shopping spree... The question is really whether disruption in enterprise software (cloud, SaaS) will generate new companies or old one will just acquire and change.

I think that the most important factor in big companies such as SAP or Oracle is not whether leadership is smart in their answers to new disruptions, but whether middle management is agile enough to embrace these kind of innovations.
I think the writer heard the subject's rap lyrics wrong. I believe he's saying:

"I do what I gotta do, just to stay on my feet. I'm flipping them sweets, I sell cavities, the s* will leave a hole in your teeth."

That makes more sense than the article's last line, "and s* believer, hole in your teeth."
Nlp?
Sony Reader Wifi price slashed
Learn to program. Seriously. I know this isn't the answer you're expecting, but there is nothing you can do that will better prepare you to manage developers.

I managed one very technically complex product (VPS service like Slicehost/Rackspace, where the customers were also developers) and one consumer based product (micropayment provider for social games before I finally bit the bullet and learned to program (I'm now the hustler and one of the hackers at a startup I founded)

I would have been far far more effective at those previous two positions if I knew then what I know today.

My recommendation, especially if you work with any product where the interface and user experience matters, is to learn Javascript. Specifically, I would suggest Eloquent Javascript by M. Haverbeke.
It's interesting that it looks like a Windows Metro app. I wonder if that was a conscious decision on their part? Is the Metro look and feel resonating with people? Sales of Windows phones doesn't seem to suggest it is.
Too much competition in the market? Oh no!

... Or rather, that's the sarcastic response I would give if the people quoted in the article seemed to actually be agreeing with the headline. Instead, what are they saying? Max Levchin is worried that a lot of startup incubators have too much of a conservative, short-term focus, so he's starting another one to compete with them. Scott Brown said that doing YC for his first startup was worth it, but didn't think it would add much for his second -- hardly a scathing denunciation of such programs. Bill Lee, down at the bottom of the article, says that he's started avoiding very early financing rounds, which doesn't sound particularly alarming.

I'm going to chalk this one up to a journalist taking some creative liberties.
Waving Our Tentacles -- A demo of Tentacles, a Github API library
Has anyone here used SuccessFactors? My company implemented it, but it just never really got traction. I'd be interested to hear if anyone had any success with it (no pun intended...)
This is not a solved problem by any means. I finished in the top ten, and most competitive teams used a combination of image processing for chad suggestion and brute force. It required hundreds of man hours to reassemble just a handful of documents under controlled conditions.

Imagining a real-life scenario of dozens or hundreds of documents mixed together in a shredder bin makes my head hurt.

So, I wouldn't worry too much about your shredded docs just yet.
>> easy for a professor to write his or her own book, made up of class notes

Writing a good textbook is quite a lot of work. This seems very unlikely.

What will happen is a few professors will write books, and self-publish or distribute free electronic versions.

Perhaps crowd sourcing will become a popular way to write textbooks, based on a wikipedia or github collaboration model.
Most people tend to agree that it is not good to have NO competitors.

I believe this is primarily when you're starting out. You're trying to decide if there's a market at all and having competitors lends some credence to that.

Once you already have the traffic that FourSquare does, I don't think it matters anymore. One case where it might be different is if there were some paradigm shift where there were a whole bunch of similar companies for a long time and all of them had dropped out of a dying game while a single company was holding on -- but that's not going on here.
> As a narrator, he never changes or grows, which makes it exceedingly boring for the reader unless they have a feeling of personal vindication over what he’s stating.

...

> Maybe one of the reasons they ask “Who is this guy?” is because that essay doesn’t even bother to establish sympathy or credibility. No “I was once a confused blah blah and learned the hard way blah blah.”

The real problem people have with pg's essays is that he just says, as literally as possible, what he has to say. He doesn't pussyfoot around it or grease it in social lubricant. A lot of people seem to need that, but literal-minded people, the type who usually become programmers, just get frustrated and confused by all that grease.

Still, in that essay he openly admits to many of his own past mistakes, and refers to learning most of it from personal experience:

"I wish I'd grasped that in high school."

"I let myself believe that my job was to be a high school student. And so I let my need to be good at what I did be satisfied by merely doing well in school."

"If I had to go through high school again..."

"That's what I did, and it was a mistake."

"In retrospect this was stupid."

"When I was in high school I used to write "existentialist" short stories like ones I'd seen by famous writers. My stories didn't have a lot of plot, but they were very deep. And they were less work to write than entertaining ones would have been. I should have known that was a danger sign. And in fact I found my stories pretty boring; what excited me was the idea of writing serious, intellectual stuff like the famous writers."
The contest did not do that either considering it was more about x86 assembly.