skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is only one of the alternatives and in my opinion, not a very good one. I forget the exact details, but there is an extension by the guy who wrote igbinary that is specifically designed for this use-case.
> We're past the point where you can build technology that fits requirements and stop there. Everyone else has done that already.

You are too quick to close this big door here. You could do them relatively "ugly" and "difficult to use" if you'd do a driverless cars, a plane with real beds, a self-backuped unlimited size hard-drive for music and movies, a viable water desalinisator, a cheap enough 3D printer, a bodyless computer monitor, or even a working dating site.

Not that I disagree with the rest, but let's not say everything is done already and just needs to be done better.
This is easy to check in the source. memory_get_usage() calls zend_memory_usage(), which accesses the size field on a global structure mm_heap, which is updated by PHP's memory allocation system (e.g. if you call *_zend_mm_alloc_int)
People always think that e-books should be cheap because they don't have the physical costs associated with paper books--but really, how high are the actual physical costs of paper books?

Doing some back of the envelope estimates I can't see how the marginal cost of a book could be over a couple dollars or so for the typical novel or mass market non-fiction book, including shipping it to the bookseller. Add in some more for the costs of storage of the physical book while it is waiting to be sold, and the costs of handling at the seller--and I still can't see it going over a few dollars.

Thus, I don't see why it would be surprising for publishers that sell a hardback for $20 to expect to sell an e-book for $15 or so.

Of course, it is possible that if they sold e-books for a lot less, it would so greatly expand the market that they would come out ahead overall. However, I don't think that is likely--I don't think most people's amount of reading is determined by the price of books.
I have a number of checklists I use, from deployment to form design, but the practice that has had the biggest impact for me is creating on-the-fly checklists while I'm coding. I often set out to do one thing and realize there are four or five other things that need to be implemented or changed. I used to try to keep track of everything in my head, but when your mental todo list starts looking like a complicated digraph, that just isn't effective. Now I don't code without a scratch pad by my side.
You're right when you bring up things like "confirmation bias" where people believe "my opinion is just as valid as your facts" but that is the problem we're seeing here.

It has nothing to do with the fact that one side may not understand one another, that's the point of debate: to persuade the other or a group. What we're seeing here is one side plugging their ears and shouting "LALALALLA" when the opposition tries to create a point.

We simplify stuff for the less tech oriented to help them understand. This committee sitting for SOPA doesn't understand the internet yet they're trying to regulate it. When someone with knowledge comes along and wants to make an analogy to something they will understand they have none of it!

I understand your points but you're viewing everything through rose coloured lenses. What you want is unattainable because you need complete cooperation from all sides; if even one player breaks the rules then the whole system crumbles back to where we are now. Sure Google could provide those tools but the moment one party doesn't get their way (probably because it wasn't fair to the others) they'll go shouting to congress to make it happen, just like we have now. DMCA wasn't enough for MPAA/RIAA so they're in the back pocket of the government to make it worse. Hell, look at what's happening between UMG and MegaUpload right now!
I don't see how it's necessary for compliance or even sensible to interpret numbers that don't exist in octal as octal 0

It's not. That isn't what happens, either. The parser stops when it sees the 9.
Oxymoronic.

Yup don't get it at all. Unfortunately, the thing that would probably happen is their first point would get ignored and the second point would be investigated. (Even though it does throw a subjective shadow over the whole thing...)
wow, did reddit actually outnumber 4chan? impossible, no?
I have Facebook, Google, and Blogger OpenIDs, and probably some others I have forgotten. Probably Yahoo and Flickr, maybe WordPress and maybe even LiveJournal. I really have no idea.
This is an article about an article in the WSJ. Is it linkjacking?

It repeats a claim about a quote from the original article while providing no source to back it up: The whole agreement was actually launched at the behest of Apple’s Steve Jobs, who had wanted to create an e-bookstore for the iPad but didn’t want to compete with Amazon.com’s cheap titles, according to the story.

Given the recent SNAFU over misquoting Google, I’m wary of jumping down Mr. Jobs’ long-dead throat on the basis of a quote of a quote of a source without being able to read the original transcript.

One thing I’m interested in understanding, for instance, is the basis of Apple’s “fear” of Amazon’s prices. I remember from the music business that Amazon did undercut Apple’s prices, but it wasn’t because Apple was unable to make money at a lower price point. It was because the music labels forced Apple to maintain higher prices and then allowed Amazon to offer the same tracks at a lower price in order to generate competition that would give them the leverage they needed to negotiate higher music prices from Apple in the future.

Which they got, and now they can offer a sliding scale of prices, with some tracks being $1.29, something that Jobs and Apple resisted.

So now I’m reading that Apple is trying to price fix all books at the same price, and I am mightily interested in knowing the full story. Perhaps the problem isn’t that Apple is trying to maintain artificially high prices, but that it is trying to prevent publishers from shackling it and it alone with higher prices.
Mission to Saturn: Beauty from the Final Frontier [video]
If I started out today with zero knowledge, I'd probably go the other way and just learn Python and let Pyjamas compile it to JavaScript.
One of the foremost intellectuals - I disagreed with him on Iraq but scoured youtube to watch his debates - mostly against religious rabbis. There really was no one like him.

"“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
- Christopher Hitchens
I don't understand why more people aren't using Rhino. Or are they just not taking that survey? Doesn't anyone else see the beauty in scripting with js, with all the power of the jvm?
It's not about population or country sizes, it's about the cloud
Some Startups with bad Design have managed to do very well (Craigslist, Ebay etc), but doesn't mean all the startups with bad design will do well.
Good Design is necessary, it is what makes you subconsciously love something and use it more often.
Christopher Hitchens obituary
Once you are at stall there is a protection in alternate mode (if I remember properly) that will pitch down the plane to help getting a recover speed (not like normal law that will prevent you from performing stall and over speed maneuvers), BUT that protection can be overridden (unfortunately in this case) by side stick input.

So ironically, the correct advice is not to "fly the plane", but "DONT fly the plane" and let it fix itself.

(This is what I would have expected from a reasonably designed automated system, anyway)

I don´t think you could engage the autopilot in such situation even in normal law(I´ll try at my next simulator).

Can you clarify whether going from alternate to normal law requires a specific action, or is it automatic?
How to Find Meaning in a Maelstrom of Data
Original Foursquare Investor Pitch Deck 2009
I don' really need a foo@browserid.org address to register there right? So I could actually get the same email address verified through multiple providers. How would the browser know which one I actually want to use?
Nope, he was joking: "As to what kind of product ideas he wanted to play with, Mr. Lodwick was coy. “It’s called mydunks.it...”
Ask HN: App/game developers, what analytic tools?
What analytics tool do you guys employ for apps/games?
I'm not so sure it's an issue of respect for developers. It was a different time over 20 years ago...
Dictionary author Noah Webster was in his office with his secretary, engaged in activities well outside of her professional duties. Noah’s wife opened the door and exclaimed in shock: “Noah! I’m surprised!!”

Noah looked up. “No, my dear, you are amazed. It is we who are surprised."
So frustrating that you have to virtually manipulate people to accomplish a goal that ultimately both of you want.
Cool!

Duly noted. I was using it as a catch all for "make more profit than the year previous".
Even if that 99.9% could get funding early, it wouldn't be on favorable terms. What gets overlooked a lot, is the cost of selling early equity. If you don't have much traction, or even a prototype, and you do raise money, you're giving up a BIG portion of equity in return.

A good analogy is the music industry. Lots of bands just starting out want to be signed to a major record label. They do everything they can to attract the attention of major record execs. A very tiny minority are successful and actually gets a contract, but they end up making almost no money, because they weren't able to negotiate from a position of power. The alternative is the band who sets up their own sales and distribution and builds their audience. Now they can dictate what deals (if any) they take. They don't need the major label anymore, but they're in a position to take advantage of it, if there's a favorable deal there.

Suggesting that entrepreneurs raise money early is bad advice almost always. Regardless of the initial deal you might be able to get, having a more developed product with traction will get you a better deal.

Just build it, eat ramen noodles and take a second job if you have to. Meet with investors early and often, but not to ask for money. Let them see the trajectory of what you're building, so that when you want/need to raise money, they know you and see how far you've come and what you're capable of. There seems to be way too much focus on raising money early, and articles like this only exacerbate that.
It's interesting to compare this to what we had at Atari. Typically the game would center around the engineers (for consoles, the software guys), and they'd be supported by artists and sound folks who were a shared resource amongst several programmers. There was usually no game designer per se, just a bunch of management.

I think it shows -- the NES games were a lot more fun, more imaginative, more colorful, and (the big test) did much better in the market over time.

If this same book had been written about (say) Star Raiders, it would have been shorter and pretty boring.
That would be an interesting tactic. Could a company like google very publically donate a large sum of money to a PAC and get the results they want? I would imagine if they do it publicly, it could possibly restart the debate on campaign finance.
New Technology Magazine Launching Monday - The Kernal by Milo Yiannapolis
We wrote our book from the start to be complimentary to the thoughtbot book. They are creating a great introduction through intermediate content and lots of info on rails integration.

My recommendation: buy both, read theirs, then ours :-)

thanks @jayunit

xoxo ngauthier
pixel-tracker works with express out of the box and doesnt really imply that you will want to aggregate hits with a key or any certain way. It just provides information about a request you can use in your app (or separate it)

with pixel-tracker there is no aggregated information, but there is a little more detailed information about each request
Ah great. English is not my mother tongue and today I learned what coy really means ;)
1. Step into a public place almost anywhere in the world.

2. Count the number of Apple devices in use. White earbuds are a dead giveaway.

3. Go hire a designer that knows what they're doing and try and accomodate their ideas into those of engineering without making a capon out of anyone.

4. Keep iterating.
Abstract Algebra for developers - update
Fixed some typesetting stuff, and some other small details. Right here: http://poincare101.blogspot.com/2011/12/abstract-algebra-presented-in-non.html
Counter-trends to Open Data: Problems and Opportunities in Government Data
We included a few intro chapters so that people would be able to fully comprehend our examples. Think of them as pre-requisites.

Keep in mind Rails Recipes was written by the incomparable Chad Fowler and probably had five figures worth of editing over a much longer period of time.

Our focus from the start was to provide incredibly helpful and relevant code. If we had gone through pragprog the release would have been a few months later with less rough edges.

xoxo ngauthier
When contemporary reviews pan a product for poor design they usually complain about how it looks and weighs. Few reviewers take the effort to dig in and critique what the product does. Given this status quo its hard to blame anyone for equating cosmetics with design.

Fun question - is emacs well designed ? What would a reviewer on engadget etc say if they came across it. Would they concede it has a better design than say - Textmate?

When Apple fans talk about the product being well designed its inevitably about the physical manifestation of the product - how it looks, what its battery life is, its weight etc. I fully concede that apple products are well designed in their own right and have a fantastical attention to detail, but the only details that get covered in the press and by evangelists are the ones that have to do with cosmetics or physical attributes.

Lastly - someone on this thread mentioned craigslist as having bad design. I think that is the classic example of equating cosmetics with design. I have yet to find another website that allows me to finish the task at hand with as little fuss and as few clicks. There are flaws to craigslist - like their ability to curate content in realtime - but their design to me is unobtrusive and efficient.
VCs are more likely to give money to entrepreneurs who are already rich. There's a good reason for it: VCs (unlike angels) need home runs. Over the course of 10 years, a VC must catch a Facebook, a Google or at least a Twitter in order to be successful.

A rich founder is less likely to take an early exit, and more likely to want to swing for the fences. Think of @ev refusing to sell Twitter to Google as an example.

Also, an already successful entrepreneur is less risky from a VC standpoint. He was able to endure the process of taking a startup from zero to something. He's more likely to have "what it takes" to succeed.

That said, this guy is not acting rationally by flaunting his ability to raise money. Like he admits, he doesn't have a team yet. My due diligence in applying for a job as an early employee would uncover this article, and it would be a red flag concerning the personality of a potential boss.
Civil RICO gets ugly fast.
the faster you buy it the less you have to look at the site. :-P

xoxo ngauthier
It appears the Anti-lean startup movement has begun.
Wow, the last I heard of this, it was an engine-less hulk bought from Russia in order to study how to build aircraft carriers.
One Man’s Quest To Disrupt Payment Industry From Iowa – with Ben Milne of Dwolla
A "password" program in basic that sat in a loop checking input unless you typed in a hardcoded string. Not exactly production quality.
After certain incidents within the Royal Navy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Iranian_seizure_of_Royal_N...) the training programme has changed to deliver more "Grit and Determination".

To answer the question on how to train it, the RN believes that it's done by pushing people through difficult situations during training and showing what's possible. I'm not convinced it's possible to self-improve grit to any significant level.
"I think about him (Bradley Manning) every day" - Hacker who betrayed Manning
http://youtu.be/SzRqd4YeLlM
>This is an article about an article in the WSJ. Is it linkjacking?

The WSJ article is behind their paywall, so it wouldn't be linked to anyways.
>Include the BrowserID include.js library in your site by adding the following script tag to your pages <head> tag <script src="https://browserid.org/include.js type="text/javascript"></script>

Not minified. Come on Mozilla, you did the same thing with the (rather large) Open Web Apps library. Minification is required. You are Mozilla, you should know this. YUI Compressor takes a few seconds at most.
Babelverse real time translation service Wins Big in Prestigious LeWeb'11
Can this be resolved by rejecting the idea that every statement must be one of true or false? If the professor's statement that there will be a surprise exam is neither true nor false, but merely not yet decided, then there is no contradiction. Indeed, the professor can't know for sure that his exam will be a surprise, as the students may have guessed, or placed a spy camera in his office, etc. The professor can guarantee that the exam is not a surprise by announcing it, but he can never guarantee that it is a surprise, only make a good attempt.

Similarly, "this sentence is false" is neither true nor false, but just nonsense. "The set of all sets that do not contain themselves" is not a paradox or a contradiction, it simply describes an object that doesn't exist. Likewise, the professor's statement isn't known to be true or false at the time it's made, and either outcome is possible.
I liked this blog post enough that I clicked through to the author's book, but it's gotten pretty middling reviews on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Questions-ebook/dp/B002T0I02Y/...
Keep your iPants on ;)

The European Commission and U.S. Department of Justice are trying to find out just what was in the agreements publishers made with Apple about e-book pricing:

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/1...
Interesting. Do you get something contractually guaranteed as a Googe Apps customer that is different to Joe Public uploading a video to YouTube? If so, are you able to link to exactly what your agreement says?

I think it would change the situation significantly if the organisation whose video was pulled in this case had actually been paying Google to host it for them on some sort of contractual basis, and the reason for Google's removal of the content was not a legal obligation but another private commercial deal.
Beyond manufacturing, eBooks also don't have the rights of a paper book. Can I buy and sell it on the used market? Can I loan it out? Can I return it?

Aren't those worth something too?
> no passwords / no typing / no memorizing (e.g. like FB Connect)

FB Connect requires you to memorize your Facebook password. It also requires you to have a Facebook account. BrowserID requires neither an "account" or a password.
>>"When Apple fans talk about the product being well designed its inevitably about the physical manifestation of the product - how it looks, what its battery life is, its weight etc."

Along with terms like "It's really easy to use". The physical manifestation of any product, be it a torch, a pizza or a web based app, is part of it's design, as is the why and how of it's workings.
Grooveshark is coming to an end
Plasma Active — Get the Beauty of KDE on Your Tablet
Megaupload Video Reinstated
That is the aircraft carrier they bought from Russia, I believe.
Google App Engine. HN + Reddit together doesn't bring enough traffic to move the cursor over the free quota even.
Are "already successful" more or less likely to hit home runs?

I don't know the answer.

Netflix, redfin, and twitter are 2nd acts by "already successful" folk. Yahoo, HP, Amazon, Google, Disney, Apple, Cisco are by first-timers. (Disney had several failures under his belt.)

I don't know about Walmart. Sam Walton had been a regional manager for another chain but I don't know for sure that he hadn't been a "successful entrepreneur".
I lean towards amazon because I know that my usage should be low. I made a web app that is useful for my school, but it is not a revenue-generating site. I'm willing to pay for low-usage hosting, or have my school pay for hosting. But neither I nor my school would be willing to pay for spikes in usage. I think there's a pretty small chance of such a spike, but I want to better understand how to control for that before setting up hosting on a per-usage model such as amazon.
There are significant and notable cases where design is the major or one of the handful of value-driving engines of product (apple was a startup, people found value in design, jawbone, airbnb as a better experience in relation to VRBO, etc). It looks like your seemingly deriding view is of web app startups. To put this into perspective: we spend nearly 105K a year on Salesforce licenses on behalf of our company and clients. I personally think Salesforce is a particularly SHITTY, low value product because of the design. If competition gives me SF with a great UI, I find value I'm that and will pay handsomely. Value can be created by design explicitly.
If you’re an early stage startup with no revenue, don’t even think about design! Think hard about what problem you can solve that a customer will give you $10 for and work your ass off at delivering that $10 of value as fast and as cheaply as possible.

I don't understand what the author is so riled up about. Why not just delegate responsibilities? Let a designer focus on design, while the engineers focus on the actual product. Does it hurt to have a designer? I don't see why it would.

Good luck trying to sell something to the general public that looks horrid. No matter how well it works.
Do you disagree that the why and the how of what a product does are under represented in contemporary reviews?
Ugh. The standard argument, normally from a publisher's mouth.

Physical shops in prime retail places with appropriately paid staff are more expensive than essentially equivalent staffless operations (I'm talking per unit, retail side only). One of the reasons Borders folded was it overpaid on its leases.

Some numbers: "Retailer (discount, staffing, rent, etc.) – $12.58. That’s 45%."

Taken from: http://ireaderreview.com/2009/05/03/book-cost-analysis-cost-...

Now compare remote physical-book retail (Amazon) with ebooks, and you see the effects of the publishers' new pricing model. Your argument applies here, but doesn't describe the price difference.
Maybe a better term is "systems failure", where the pilot is part of the system.
I've always assumed that e-books are expensive because their buyers are known to be affluent. Once everyone uses an e- reader they'll find some new way to segment the market--e-hardcover vs. e-paperback, so to speak. Maybe you'll just pay more to get a book early.
That's survivor bias. The set of already successful entrepreneurs is much smaller than the set of first-time entrepreneurs.

To answer your question you want the distribution of outcomes for both sets. VCs have to have good estimates of that data.
There is no reason to remove past versions from the archive, since the licence exception allows that. You can still pin or downgrade to that version; I don't think apt-style upgrades should be considered destructive in that sense. The choice was to make upgraded systems secure by default, not to remove options.
What? Unintended consequences? Those are never something to worry about.
Flying the plane wrong is not flying. The point of the saying is to not get distracted by what's happening to the point that you fail to fly the airplane. And that's exactly what happened here.
I don't have a kindle yet, but I have seen e-book prices for a while on amazon. I was surprised recently to see e-books advertised at 24.95 and up in Harper's magazine.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes, Darth Siegler