skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would rather back my data up than hope to retrieve it from a corrupted fs or, worse, a failing disk.
Thanks everyone for your replies!

@justjimmy, as for my understanding of what MVP is — there actually needs to be an actual functioning product... although, Eric himself does mention in his 'Lean Startup book' to products that qualify under the MVP title with just a video (Dropbox) and a Concierge service (don't remember the product)... I do find it weird that he mentions those as qualifying, since they really just validate the business model.

One of his (Eric) simplest definitions for a MVP was a product that could easily go through a full cycle in the lean.feedback loop: https://skitch.com/vince.baskerville/gixq3/mvp-feedback-loop which should/hopefully help distill what customers want & thus actually pay for.
Well, I'm no doom believer myself, but for the sake of completeness, here is something interesting:

http://farsight.org/demo/Demo2008/RV_Demo_2008_Page1.html

Mind you, these remote viewers are said to be used by military, so probably not a complete hoax.

Anyway, if time travel is possible then the future is changeable. Let's be optimists.
I dislike your timeline wall thing
He could have vetoed NDAA. He could have not extended the Patriot Act. Those are decisions he alone made. They are solely on him and no one else. If he was one tenth what he said he would be, he would have made the right decision.
Whatever the poster's ideas might be, I have to point out that it is a fallacy to imply that the person recognizing the problem necessarily can come up with the solution or has an obligation to come up with the solution - even if the person has recognized the problem for a long time.
I employ a few Finns, but also lack the comparison to other cultures to be able to tell. An interesting factor is that most Finnish men have also been through military service sometime after high school.
I'm not sure if they stole it directly from the sites (coupon site in my case) or from the clearance company. In any case it seems that the site who store the details broke the law by storing the CVV (not to mention that passwords were not encrypted..)
Yeah, that and "don't release shit". It doesn't matter how well it conforms to the definition of MVP, if its crap, it won't matter. A proof-of-concept can be absolute crap - i.e. cardboard, whiteboard, whatever... I don't think MVP can. An MVP needs its own legs, the ability to carry its own momentum and without that, simply can't survive.
Well, the point of the decoy i that you don't care if they can access it isn't it?
No-one is claiming the Finnish system is the only way to get high PISA scores. Although, the PISA scores aren't the thing to strive for anyway. How about a school system that is relatively cheap, comparatively equal, produces great learning results as measured by multiple studies, takes up relatively little of the students' time etc.?

I don't think Finland is trying to force it on anyone but it could give some people ideas about what's allegedly "just not possible" and what to possibly concentrate on. The success of Saxonia can be another interesting data point along Finland, Singapore, Japan etc.
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. 2008 was a long time ago, though. I'm ex-Red Hat and know first hand that there can be hiccups in the hiring process, but overall it's a really great place to work. Very few places have have FOSS as a cultural value like they do.
The issue, particularly with innodb on MySQL is that the row data is stored with the primary key. By using GUID's and not sequential ids, you end up having to rearrange the entire dataset to insert the row data at the appropiate place, to keep the index in order, instead of appending it, killing your write performance.
"He would then need to explain to the American public why the freedoms it eroded were unacceptable"

Why is this a bad thing?
A fairly common definition of "MVP" is something along the lines of "The least you can build to get validated learning." Depending on the situation, it's entirely possible what wifeframe sketches might be an early MVP.

It's also important to remember that this "lean startup" / "customer development" stuff is meant to be an iterative process. Your MVP today might not be the same as your MVP a month from now, or a year from now.

Edit: from Eric Ries himself[1]:

First, a definition: the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

[1]: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-...
Yea but no program is perfect ..!! A developer could be doing something completely weird/wrong causing his app to hang and slow down IOS. The real problem are the bugs in the software not the sales guy at the Apple store. The Geniuses are just giving a "non-developer" solution to the problem.
co ja pacze?
> You've never bought some food from a street vendor? Or gone in a coffee shop and bought a bagel? Or made a photocopy after seeing a shop on the street?

I've done all of those things, but never because of, or in a way that would have been altered by, the presence of advertising above said businesses.
There's definitely some self promotion in the book, and at times it can be a little repetitive. It's also fairly introductory and the information in it can perhaps be found on various blogs, etc.

It's a good introduction however for anyone looking to move beyond a trial and error approach to startups.
oh oh being politically correct? :)
I am bewildered by the amount of character typography experts seem to be able to discern from (what to me are) these plain little serif-less monotone Latin characters that litter our screens. I do notice when things are very wrong, but I'm sort of puzzled by the amount of design and individuality that is expected to be incorporated in such a small space. How much variance is possible under these types of constraints?
Really I think this guy comes off as being just as biased as Torvalds. He basically states upfront that if you have "The opinion that C is a much better language than C++" then you're obviously wrong. Then he accuses those people of prejudice!
I do find it weird that he mentions those as qualifying, since they really just validate the business model.

Validation is exactly what you're seeking, especially in the earlier phases of the learn startup / customer development process. The whole point is to get validated learning as early as possible, and eliminate waste, where "waste" is "building something nobody wants."
The reason Finnish pupils are not enjoying school is because they lack motivation

In fairness though, I'm sure the same applies to pupils in other European countries, yet the point you were replying to said that Finnish pupils are enjoying school less than pupils in other European countries. That is not explained away by your response.

That said, it's kind of obvious that a competitive environment, especially one that is stressfully though, is going to be problematic for intellectual achievement, and a focus on equity can help. There are plenty of studies that demonstrate that stress impairs lateral thinking etc.
I can see how the search field works, despite being at the bottom, because "it works."

How does expired links "works?" What do they do for a user?
The theory I took issue with is this:

"Here is the advice - and remember it is wrong:

All those apps in the multitasking bar on your iOS device are currently active and slowing it down, filling the device's memory or using up your battery. To maximise performance and battery life, you should kill them all manually.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong."

I am saying that in order to maximize performance and battery life you should kill all those apps in the multitasking bar manually. Or reboot your iPhone.

Anybody who complains about very bad battery life, this is the _first_ advice I give to them, and 95% of the time, it fixes all their problems. Note that very-bad battery life is defined by a battery-life measured in a few hours, and is different from the suboptimal battery life that can be remedied by double checking your bluetooth, 3G, wireless, etc... settings. It is poor battery life that can't easily be explained by user behavior.
I prefer this one: http://fathom.info/allstreets/
Thanks for this. We probably should've posted this as a "Show HN" to make it clear that it isn't exactly content, it's more of an invitation.
If it is false data, won't the credit card companies say so loudly?
You're right. I shouldn't have attacked your blog article like that, and I apologize.

I maintain, however, that people without sufficient background in music theory have a right to complain (on HN, not on your blog) it's quite incomprehensible. And that it could have been written to better accommodate for that. Not that you have any obligation to, as you said it's a personal blog post where you can write whatever you want, however you want :)

Though personally, if you would put in a few links to some simple introductory articles--maybe the other commenters were right and it just takes 10 mins of reading the right definitions of notation, maybe I just read the wrong things before or forgot the important parts--that would have definitely triggered me to explore some more of the subject matter, and you can't disagree that would have been a good thing ;-)
Which American invention did Nokia "get a free ride off"? The telephone? (invented by a Scot) Radio? (an Italian) The battery? (also Italian)

Or do you mean the next generation stuff, like the computer, specifically ARM chips these days? (both British ideas), touchscreens (also British), GSM (pan-European project pioneered in Finland).

Or is it the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of patents Apple licensed from Nokia last year?

To put it bluntly, American exceptionalists would have a lot less room for triumphalism if they hadn't got a free ride off European investment in R&D. Or we could decide that claiming part of the process of invention on behalf of a nation and claiming everyone else was just copying is a bit silly?
I believe that post pull out, whenever it came, would be a time when Iraq reset itself politically. And it would be very messy time.

It will take a cycle or two of elections before Iraqis feel they have their country back. Might as well get that cycle started as early as possible. If the Iraqis go to an Islamic system that will be their political choice.

From a geo-political perspective, if the US wanted a non-Islamic state and, as a bonus, a buffer to Iran, then they seriously miscalculated when they overthrew the previous regime.
What about Spanish speaking countries? Spanish also has a very direct link between writing and pronunciation (I can't compare to Finnish, since I don't know it).
The entire country pretty much started industrializing a generation ago.

Not to mention that the bilateral trade with Soviet Union (that employed much of the country until late 80s) didn't really promote innovation.
Is that your "professional" advice there Dr. Phil. Getting outdoors and exercise are two documented treatments for SAD, so get over yourself. Maybe learning how to express your feelings without swear words would be a good winter project for you.
I'm Sorry It's Come To This
Pretty much,
Even with everyone running 100% FOSS the government could still pass a law that said "commits made by government agencies to any source code repositories must immediately be merged into all branches, compiling a binary without these modifications being intact is a violation of federal law" or something to that effect.

It would make such things easier to spot, but spotting them in itself doesn't seem to be the biggest problem.
It depends on the market. No, I don't have any case studies or anything saying freemium can make money, but I do have anecdotal experience, where freemium completely dissolved the paid market. If you're absolutely curious, fire me an email and I'll get into more depth.
Show HN: Boost your productivity in the new year with motivational kitties
I appreciate the thoroughness of the analysis, even as my eyeballs started to swim amidst the typographical lingo. The article doesn't so much 'explain' the font, though, as explain the constraints under which the font was designed.

Even in understanding the constraints, I can't help but feel that Roboto is a font that's outsmarted itself. All of this hyper-sensitivity to the finer points of smartphone typography is great, but I think it may be achieving effects so subtle as to just not be there for most of the audience. In the meantime, it punts on actually providing a detectable personality (at least IMO). Helvetica has a personality, and eighty years of baggage and connotation that goes with it. A frankenfont is never going to have that.
Claiming Richard Stallman was right all along is like claiming the paranoid street preacher predicting natural disasters as God's judgement was right all along when a hurricane hits.
From the "Yeeloong Notebook" page:

"If you prefer warm interpersonal dialogs in solving problems, you can dial our hotline. Technical personnel will provide help in the first time."

Now I can understand Mr. Stallman!

On a more serious note, the only question is: How much worse do things have to get, in order to start getting better?

Besides, the Yeeloong thing coming from China, I wouldn't be so sure it doesn't contain a bit of tracking circuitry.
q e and y appear to be available (according to my man page).

There should be some kind of rule that if you run out of option letters your program is doing too much.

For comparison ls has e j and y available.
It might be a better platform to get kids to program. It's probably easy to get it connected to a big TV, and it's cheap enough to mess around with.

But you're right to say that the price comparison is pretty meaningless.
The people who believe in these types of predictions don't put much stock in science anyway. Someone who doesn't believe in carbon dating isn't going to listen to an argument regarding the Earth's age based on carbon dating.

If you really want to provide a counter in these types of discussions it is more helpful to speak in their language. My favorite example of this was when last year astronomers announced that the zodiac signs were incorrect due to a shift in the planet's position relative to the sun since the time that the zodiac was created. This produced more reverberations in the astrological community than any number of studies showing the falsehood of their predictions.

In this case, it may be helpful to point out that the December 21 is simply the date at which the next cycle in the Mayan calendar begins, as occurs every 400 years or so, and that the Mayans themselves made no predictions about cataclysmic events occurring on these dates.
yes, or it could even be open source spyware that you have to run anyway to be compliant with the law.
Apples and oranges for-sure. However the bigger trend here is accessible, speedy computing for all. That is really exciting.
Well, infuriating except for the fact that it works in a number of scenarios with very little risk. My advice would probably be simpler, "Just reboot your iPhone. "
Perhaps a better competing use for a $25 Raspberry Pi is Apple's Airport Express ($99 retail).

I would love to make every one of my USB peripherals be decoupled from my computer. Printer, scanner, external hard drive, etc.

All you'd need to do is a $10 USB Wifi dongle, slap it into an enclosure, and resell it for $75 as a more customizable Airport Express. Bonus points if it prints from and scans into my Dropbox or Google Docs.
Is public shaming without warning allowed?
In that case I got a couple of sites here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3406144

Some of them been told how to fix it by yours truly, yet remained unfixed.

Let me know if public shaming is frowned upon or not.
> the biggest effective gdp/person after oil-rich Russia

I assume you mean among countries that was part of USSR? Not exactly:

Estonia	18,527
Lithuania 17,235
Russia	15,612
Latvia	14,504
Belarus	13,874

Not to mention countries that have been soviet sattelites like Hungary (18,841), Poland (18,981), or Czech Republic (24,950).

To be fair Belarus could still do much worse - for example like Ukraine (6,698).

Data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
> Couldn't we allow for the possibility of a bug in IOS that results in a deviation from the behavior explained in the article?

No, because there is absolutely no reason to believe this is the case and no one has ever observed a non-privleged app store approved app outliving its OS-mandated termination deadlines.

> Or, more likely, an application that is using IOS as designed, but in a way that results in extended background processing and CPU drain?

ie) there's a bug in a background process that causes it to eat CPU? Yes, this is what you are actually experiencing, and this is 100% compatible with the facts presented in this article. Accepting this means you've entirely moved away from your previous "theory vs reality" nonsense.

> Until then - count me in that category of users who believes (through experience) that the advice the Apple Geniuses are giving, that is, to terminate applications when you have an iPhone that is performing differently than when it is initially booted up, is good advice and is a real-world fix to this class of problem. (Though rebooting your iPhone accomplishes the same thing in my experience as well)

Indeed rebooting your phone will terminate all processes running on the phone. This should be pretty obvious. Clearing out a list of previously run applications willy nilly is, on the other hand, superstitious hokum. You need to specifically target only those apps with infinite background privileges, which are few and far between.
Except that isn't what it is. MVP is a term taken directly from Lean Startup, in which Eric even includes concepts like the Dropbox "Video MVP" (http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-prod...) which arguably isn't actually a product and more importantly no one was paying them for it.

The problem with MVP is people assume it's about how the adjectives "minimum" and "viable" apply to the noun "product" which is too a view (but one I had myself before actually reading TLS). The reality is it is just a placeholder for the process of lean validated learning.
Which is to say, some places like Las Vegas might not want to implement it.

However, it is the purview of government to legislate things like this to establish protection of the "commons".
Updated to be more clear; thanks!
I paid for three years up front, so hopefully plenty of time for a bloodless coup :-)
Jack Dorsey Would Tell Average Aardvark To Fuck Off
"playing up to the libertarian crowd is not going to win a vote"

It sells music: http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/30/news/kelly_clarkson_ron_paul...
The algorithm isn't happenstance, but any individual label placement on the map could be.
"If smartphones are any indication, it's difficult to design a device that cannot be convinced to run unauthorized code."

True, but you could require that the device have a little semi-autonomous widget attached that monitors the rest of the device, can't be controlled by software on the main device, and can't be removed or deactivated without seriously reducing functionality of the device.

The government would simply have to say "put this in your phones, and require devices on your network have it enabled, or you don't get FCC approval."
Your Appendix Could Save Your Life
I feel like part of the point of this comment went un-understood: my "I'm willing to believe" aside was meant to downplay the importance of user applications; the fact that system applications do not get randomly killed when suspended means that the low-memory notification system is actually much more expensive than "kill some processes" (which, honestly, is still quite expensive, given that the detection is done asynchronously in a different process and requires a bunch of context switches, page-table flushes, and zeroing in order to reclaim that memory).
No mention of indeed.com? Or even usajobs.gov?
If somebody is "launching" (as in public launch) an "MVP" then they're doing it wrong in the first place. You don't normally take an MVP and put it out there for the entire world. You release it to a (carefully?) selected subset of users, that you've pre-identified somehow, whom you expect to get validated learning from.

If somebody builds a crappy app, pushes it to the world, and slaps an "MVP" label on it, they haven't built an MVP and they're not really following the lean startup / customer development process.
OSE Community in Germany
Since i found my CC details over there I assume this is not false data. Can we call it a cyber terror attack?
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A few people in this thread mentioned that the notation used in this article is in fact quite simple and could be learned in 10 minutes or so.

Personally I find the article quite incomprehensible, and I thought I knew a littlebit about music theory :) Just a tiny bit, however, and I don't even play an instrument--I always found it very hard to even just make a passable tune on a tracker/software synthesizer. Even though I love music and spent a lot of times creating mixes and mash-ups in software such as Ableton Live and Traktor (which were pretty good according to those who heard them both on and off the dance floor), as well as coding software synthesizers, instruments and sound effects (which were also pretty good according to my rankings in 4k demo-competitions over 10 years ago).

I wonder, can anybody perhaps provide a couple of links to some good introductory articles that would tell me about how to interpret the things discussed in this article? (I'm willing to spend more than just 10 minutes on them, btw ;-) )
> The theory I took issue with is this:

Again, that is not a theory.

> I am saying that in order to maximize performance and battery life you should kill all those apps in the multitasking bar manually.

Again. You are wrong. That is not a multitasking bar. Most of those apps are consuming no CPU and no memory. They are simply apps that you had, at some point previously, run. This is only solving your problem because, in the midst of superstitiously clearing out this stuff, you're stumbling across the app that is misbehaving and signalling to the app that you're done with it, at which point it kills off its own misbehaving background thread.

You're doing the equivalent of throwing out all of the food in your house when the milk goes bad; it works to eliminate the problematic food-item only by coincidence, and not for whatever magical-thinking reasons you happen to hold.
Maybe we need to separate the two more clearly? It's kinda blurry atm. PoC/MVP is basically boiling down the product to the core and validate if it has value. (Whether it's through an initial working product, wireframe or a video) But the actual working alpha product that a startup put in consumers' hands has to be a non PoS with minimum bugs, as pointed out in the article.
What filesystem are you running?
This post is really just a teaser for possibly interesting posts to come. In that vein... Dear everyone who has a blog: make sure there's an easy-to-find link to your RSS feed. (There's one here in the comments, which proves my point.)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

That essay is what made me a firm supporter.
Yes. Military service is compulsory in Finland. About 80% of males undergo military service. The rest is either exempt for various reasons (medical) or opt for a "civil" service in which one is essentially employed somewhere for 12 months with pay coming from the government.

As 80% is quite a high number, most is indeed correct here. Thus you will find that regardless of one's education or background, it is safe to assume he also has military training. (Myself, a Finn, I have a Master of Science in mathematics and also a 2nd lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force.)