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"In fact, this is a general problem of capitalism: over any interval, people who provide money to an operation at the beginning reap rewards far above the value of any managerial abilities they contribute."

This is not a general problem of capitalism at all. If in a venture, you don't like the actions or lack of them on the part of investors, provide your own resources or choose another investor. Who is to say how rewards should be allocated or deserved, other than by agreed local free and fair negotiation on the part of the people who created the enterprise.
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It's a disturbing feature of modernism that people are hyper-focused on "evidence". Most studies are pretty inconclusive anyway. People know, in their heart of hearts that these games are pointless and exploitative. We don't know what the effects are. In a better culture we would tailor our arguments in accordance to our ethics, not look for excuses to keep profiting off something questionable.
I'm not sure the example you gave measures conversion at all. Isn't it measuring avg visits against a single fixed purchase?
Can somebody remind me why we use facebook again? The argument that it's somehow more convenient than other communication channels is utter bull shit. It's just herd behaviour.
Thanks for the suggestion. There are others as well:
http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets
http://www.instapaper.com/m

Clear Read is my own take on this though.
Agree with this. Unit tests and other tests will catch errors in your code, but testing with people will show how your app really handles your audience. I try to use my apps as much as I can, and ask friends, family, fellow developers, etc. to test as well.
Sorry - I don't think this guy is as clued up as he thinks he is. And being the former head of "Google South Africa" (a tiny little office with no real development going on as far as I know), does not give him enormous credibility either.
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It's interesting to think that the whole notion of associativity and order of operations only exists because for some reason humans seem to find infix notation more "natural" for binary (or fixed arity) operators than more easily parseable and less ambiguous alternatives like prefix.
Can you not set custom headers in browsers?
Very faulty logic. 1 in 5 logged in with github, and 1 in 7 logged in with twitter, and this implies you don't need facebook? Measuring two other things does not have any meaning to another not-measured metric. One should add a fb button and then measure how many log in via fb to make such a statement.
Or:

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At the first glance I thought 3 is smaller than 2, 4 is smaller than 3. But after reading your note, I realize they're of the same size. That's what "conventional" means for me. :-p
It's funny that they want you to log in via Facebook.
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I'm sure the assembly code is shorter than the JavaScript code, right? Cause it makes no sense comparing the compiled/minified versions...
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I'm sad to see that someone downvoted factual information provided about you and the post you wrote.

And I'm not asserting anything about your motivations for why you started a for-profit company. I agree with you that the publishing models we have currently are broken. At the same time, I'm not entirely happy with some of the changes that have taken place in the past 5-10 years.

When you look to the changes that digital distribution have wrought in industries like the news media over a similar time span, the changes are not all healthy ones either from the perspective of publishers or consumers. The fact that HuffPo and Gawker have risen to the top of the pile as the sorts of money making enterprises is not such a great example to set.

Moreover, I'm unconvinced that adding more eyeballs to papers is going to improve quality of review. If your assertion is that we can make scientific review faster and cheaper without a subsequent loss of quality (let's just say "more scalable"), then I'd love to hear your response to a claim i like to make. I'd assert that publishing scientific papers is more similar to the trials and travails of online media than it is to publishing source code.

The thing that makes open source software work is that software behavior (broadly speaking) is verifiable. I can run your code and we can agree on the results, or you can tell me i'm an idiot for not configuring the software appropriately. I'd assert that FOSS scalability derives from this ability. More eyeballs helps because everyone is working from/over the same artifact.

The same can't be said for most academic papers, because most academes don't even publish their raw data, let alone possess have the facilities or the will to publish verifiable algorithmic processes for arriving at their data.

I'd love to see a project which encouraged better replicability and verification of results/test data. But you haven't suggested any of those things.

P.S. absolutely, please do be the change you're looking for. But I'm not convinced that you're the change i'm looking for.
I think I met more brogrammers working for Amazon in Seattle and hanging out with Microsofties, than in the Bay Area.

I almost feel like "real geeks" are a rare breed these days. It's so rare nowadays to meet a hacker that likes to hack, as opposed to a coder who's really in it so he can afford to rage at the club every chance he gets.
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I used to work for a company that (over my time there) seemed to use contractors more and more, and the justification was always to cut costs. I'm highly doubtful that their hourly rates were as high as one might imagine a temporary position to be.

I wasn't privy to all the details, but the impression seemed to me that it was a cost-cutting measure (no benefits for comparable pay), and a hiring-cap dodger, since at this company they didn't seem to count.

The increasing use of contractors-as-full-time was part of the reason I left. I personally knew two people who were getting strung along by HR with vague promises to turning full-time, and one who was unceremoniously let go when he was getting close to the legal limits. This seemed like a regular occurrence. I hated working next to people who had no benefits, no job security, and were doing precisely the same work as full-timers.
I hate to say this, but you're really starting to sound like you have a chip on your shoulder. You admit that GP has a good point, but then you go ahead and bash one type of person based on some ridiculously flawed notion that an "instructor put together" their knowledge for them. That's as far as I'm going to read this thread.
As there are lots of comments lamenting the fact that anyone might actually use this, let me give my perspective. I currently work for, and have been since the start of this whole online 3D-pageflip catalog business started back in ~2006.

To start out - I hate the pageflip effect. In the beginning, clients would drop the jaw to the floor when they saw the effect. They'd go into a coma when they saw you could drag the corners. We didn't have to do any sales beyond that - the effect alone sold it and the catalogs spread like wildfire. Sorry.

As time progressed, the pageflip effect alone didn't really cut it, especially as competition appeared. Since then we, as others, have gone in different directions, usually in the form of offering different addon modules, integration, etc. As time went on, the effect got diluted as well - we no longer offer the user the ability to actually drag the corners - usability testing proved that to be bad and cumbersome to use, instead you only get the option to flip the page by click big "Next/Previous" bars next to the catalogs. The effect is only seen while the pages flip automatically after an arrow click.

So why use the format at all? As many others say, normal scrolling is much more web friendly. However, there are billions of catalogs out there today, and millions more produced each and every day. Companies have hundreds of thousands of product manuals lying around, and they'd like to show them in a lightweight format that doesn't require you to download the 200mb PDF.

There are many retail chains that still send physical catalogs to your physical mail boxes each and every day. These catalogs are usually produced by print agencies on a weekly basis, and to also produce the same content in a webfriendly manner, that'd require tonnes of extra work. Instead, they can utilize what they're already producing and just put it online in an interesting format to read, for the common user.

To sum up - the flip effect was overused, but has now found a decent niche where it can be used. Lots of material warrant the format, even though it's not the optimal one.

I think turn.js looks very interesting. I have a boatload of catalogs running on Flash today, and I'd love to change that.
what sort of usablity research? did you show users a page with and without page turn effects and ask them which they prefer, or did you actually monitor their usage over an extended period and see which pattern encouraged more use?

because of course your users say they like the flashy effects, but you should never listen to your users when they say things like that. that's the sort of thinking that leads to sounds when buttons are pressed.
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I don't believe some people are willing to sacrifice sleep for a long periods of time in order to "do startups". The sad thing is that we even have to discuss if it is bad or not?
So, because sometimes you get it wrong you should go through life without considering the consequences of your actions? I don't think that's a good way to approach ethics. A better idea would be to learn from these incidents, speak out against your old employers and be more prudent with future employers.
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In social software you, the operator of the service, never delete anything. Everything is a datapoint - valuable now and potentially further valuable in the future.

The contract a user makes with most social sites is that the social site can monetize the user's data and that the user gives them a non-exclusive royalty free license to use that data.

Well, when the user then ask them to 'delete' the photo, they are saying that they no longer have any interest in that photo sticking around. That doesn't mean that Facebook (or whoever) shares the same view that said piece of media is now useless.

They have no moral or legal reason to delete their copy of the media just because the user no longer needs it.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game" - and if you don't like it, don't upload your media to social sites like Facebook.
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"The idea of a reputation economy is that by implementing the "reputation graph" and making it a public resource, everyone will be able to make better decisions about people."

don't think this is good idea making it public , what if you have good reputation of <name some activity that you don't want everybody to know.>
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Researchers that studied sleep for decades are now coming up with different suggestions than what Leo suggests. When people don't get enough sleep, they will die early. When people get too much sleep, they'll also die early. Recent studies show that probably 7 hours should be the maximum.
This is the problem with large businesses; they can always say the supposed positives to the majority outweigh the real harms they are doing to a minority. Don't you think inducing people to click on stuff over and over with absolutely no skill is unethical? Comparing "social games" to other harmless diversions is like comparing a culture of drinking a few beers at the end of the week with a culture of encouraging people to drink as much as they want.
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You can combine the Ask link at the top of HN, which shows posts without URLs (many of which start with Ask HN), with a search for "Show HN":

http://news.ycombinator.com/ask

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Show+HN
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> [1] This is the only conversion rate I've seen people give actual numbers for. Citation available if requested.

Please do :)
No it's not an exact analogy. For instance, knives can be made from any substance, and by anybody. This site, btjunkie is not a supplier of knives. It's a place where someone can find who builds and sells knives.
I've been doing roughly this for a little while now, and it works pretty well. Particularly the bit about splitting the settings file. There are a few ways to do that, here[1].

[1] https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SplitSettings
Yeah. I was thinking about it later in the afternoon (when I was more awake) and I realised my math is wrong. At face value, this would indicate that they are making $31 for every $1 that their competitors make. As opposed to $24 to the dollar when they had 4% market share and 50% profit.

So either they are increasing prices (not happening, we can see the price on their website), so they are increasing their margins in some areas.

I was originally thinking about the relative percentages, which is not right.
On a very unrelated note when I type "(2^3)^4" in google i get "4 096" and when I type "2^3)^4" I get "4096" (notice a space gone)
Wisdom and collective decision making are not the same thing. Wisdom is not a shifting changing quantum, nor is it a set of rules. Wisdom at its best has always insisted on clearly defining the parameters within which we are to play and within which our lives can be best enjoyed.

The fool at his best will doubt the goodness of the goads of wisdom and will insist on his ability to define those parameters for himself leading him to folly and ruin. The tendency of wisdom is to be absolute. The hubris of the fool is to say there is no absolute.

If anyone would be wise, let him start with Proverbs, quoting from the beginning of chapter one:

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Seriously. It's unbelievable how people on HN have noahc's attitude.

Look, if you want to build a Rails app, go build the app and post it on HN afterwards. If you want to

(1) develop an incremental optimization algorithm,

(2) push the boundaries of appsec,

(3) revolutionize mobile software UI at a handset manufacturer,

(4) or research cryptographic algorithms for the NSA,

well, you need school. Period.
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730 gigabytes? Why isn't there a binary diff?
I do the same, sleep when I'm tired and have the problem of sometimes having to match my sleep/day to being awake at specific times for one off things and sometimes that throws me off productivity. I have also found that I too in general do 24-30 hour days, I'd say the average is 18 hours awake and 10 hours asleep, although I've done as much as 34 awake and 16 asleep.

I've been doing this for over a year now and I think it's hugely beneficial for me, although within a month I'm moving to working from an office so I'll be trying standard 9 - 5 (I think, unless I'm allowed freedom!) so it will be interesting to compare. Personally I think structure is good for me, although the freedom is great I can find myself wasting 2 days without doing anything productive... definitely something everyone should try anyway
But they shouldn't bind a^b^c to (a^b)^c without parentheses.
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> Even 2x2+2 gets the treatment

2+2x2 I can see (Smalltalk has strict left-to-right evaluation of operators, so it parses as (2+2)x2), but for 2x2+2 to give the "wrong" would require `+` to have a higher precedence than `*`, something I've yet to see (short of abusing haskell to redefine the operators with fucked up precedences)

edit: god fucking dammit HN can't you get any markup right?
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I don't like that analogy. TPB has faced serious legal troubles but has stood up for their principles. I don't necessarily agree with their principles, but I don't think this is fun and games for them.
This post is interesting but it is from August 2011. The author experimented just a minimal functionality and planned to work on a more complex program - a pong game. I looked at his blog, but did not find any follow-up except a post from January this year where he tries the UHC JavaScript compiler:

http://chrisdone.com/posts/2012-01-06-uhc-javascript.html

What does this mean?
That's exactly the difference between binding to the right and binding to the left (aka left-associativity and right-associativity). A left-associative exponent will parse to `(a^b)^c`, a right-associative one will parse to `a^(b^c)`
We manage the deployments of our Django application, in multiple environments (production/staging/experimental/development) using Buildout. It probably is quite difficult to learn at first, but very rewarding once you get the hang of it.
Deployment is all about being confident. And the confidence that Buildout has given us, is uncomparable to anything else.

A cool way to produce various settings/configurations, is using the Buildout recipe collective.recipe.genshi. This enables us to create settings based on templates, using buildout configuration parameters. Very flexible solution!
Yea, This is exactly what I do and it makes writing rest clients a breeze!

eg http://pastie.org/3326375
Hmm, have you actually got everything working that way? I've found there's a few too many tasks to do that way, and wrote a Fabric script to deploy. It pulls git, checks for dependencies with a requirements file, compiles translations, runs collectstatic to put static files in the right places, and reloads Apache (and could run tests). Works quite well.
(4000+1.1 has a space and (4000+1 doesn't, not sure what that means.
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My point exactly. Had I had to do something in Smalltalk and not known that, that would have been a fun bug to find had I decided to be frisky and write it as 2+2*2.
Have you looked into things like Fabric for automating installations like this? It sounds like you're only deploying to one (or a few) machines, or is it more?

This part of the development cycle has always interested me, especially to see how other people do things.
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Ooo - Very interesting, I've been looking for something like this.

I even wrote my own version of this a while back, and scrapped it due to the complexity. A standard would allow for the complexity to be wrapped away in a library :)
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It is a collection of articles for the "Electrical Experimenter" magazine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_Experimenter The articles were written by Tesla and they are autobiographical.

There are also some versions on the internet which include fake sentences inserted later by some religious zealot mentioning "God, Divine Being." Take care not to link to those.
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This seems to be an unscientific conclusion. There's no mention of other conditions the patients may have had or acquired before the follow up and how those conditions may have played a part in their sleep habits and/or lifespan.

It's like saying, "a random sample of the population showed that people who take insulin are found to be at higher risk for glaucoma." Of course they are, because people who take insulin are probably diabetic, and glaucoma is a common complication of diabetes. That doesn't mean taking insulin causes glaucoma.