skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unrelated but something that irritates me with company blogs is no easy link to view to product/go to homepage. I keep clicking logos on the page trying to reach their homepage and see what their company is about, but it's all in vain, I get frustrated and leave. I know I could manually type it in but I'm too stubborn.
"The fact that this pattern is so old and so widespread suggests that it is not a myth."

Or, I suppose, it could suggest just the opposite -- that it makes it all the more likely to be a myth... At the minimum it suggests that it is something which is worth a good ol' look at the empirical evidence to determine it's truthiness.

I mean, DHH isn't making an empirically testable claim either, but this seems like the kind of thing that in this day and age there ought to be studies about...
I envy you sir :) and thanks for the resource
You: "So, what are you guys working on?"
Interviewer: "You didn't sign the NDA; I can't tell you."

Yay!
Well, then why not rate all the elements in the periodic table? Silver is considered precious and can kill werewolves; Plutonium can send you back to the future. If you start talking about Gold as a resource, then what's the point?
I think "startup" has a pretty well established meaning at this point. Whether or not the meaning was hijacked, as claimed, I agree with the article - it would be useful to have a new name for businesses that are not designed to grow as quickly as a VC-funded startup.
A blog is 99+% anonymous users with a comment every now and then. Your database shouldn't receive more than 20-30 requests every minute and varnish / nginx should take care of all of the traffic.

I never understood why people had problems with traffic on blogs :-/
But what does it do that makes it apparently uncacheable? Your pages change when you write a new blog entry, or when someone posts a comment - and even then there's no hard constraint that requires their comment appear immediately - serve a stale-by-60-second page and I doubt most people would notice, never mind care. If your blog engine can't serve one page every sixty seconds to the nginx/vanish/other reverse caching proxy in front of it, just what is it doing?

(This is partly a genuine question and partly a rant caused by seeing my VPS go into swap death spiral when the googlebot came around, just because WP apparently couldn't serve more than about ten simultaneous requests. Intellectual curiosity says I'd like to know, but life really is too short to go back to having to deal with it fo rreal)
When is the last time that you purchased a product or service using gold?
In my experience you do a good job :)
I got a MBP 17 with 8GB Ram ..but I still dig the idea of a headless VM. Little surprised I never thought about it.
What with two children, I can assure you that my responsibility is anything but artificial. And no, I don't think I'm going to give them up anytime soon.

Now, do you have something concrete to discuss or not?
So because we don't have enough browser competition, we should have one browser monopoly?

Your cure is worse than the disease.
According to that wiki article, it's actually the top floor too.
Hey TomGullen, sorry you had that issue! We have a blue bar that says "Find friendly people to share rides with at Ridejoy.com! ►" and another link on the sidebar in the about section. Let me know if you have ideas for how to make the link more clear!

EDIT: We just edited the blog layout to make our logo go to ridejoy.com!
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Ew. Is there a version of that graph that's on a logarithmic scale?
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Indeed. I won't pay $10k for one of those chargers. Car dealers, shopping malls, and Starbucks will. I'm getting a Level 2 charger because I don't need thirty minute charges at home when the car spends all night in a garage anyway.
Is it really realistic though? The Wire seems to portray only cases that are relevant to the big picture plot, and they always seem to solve them in the end.
Ask HN: What kind of game mechanics would you use? 
If you were considering adding game mechanics to your site or blog, what features would you most want to see? If someone offered a third party solution, what would motivate you to add it to your site?
It is completely useless to verify that someone's investment choices were successful in the past without knowing why. For example, there are enough hedge funds out there that there will always be a few that outperform the market just through sheer luck, and there's no way tell the difference between a fund which has succeeded in the past through sheer luck and one that's actually well-managed. In fact, I seem to recall there's decent statistical evidence that nearly all managed investment funds with a track record of success were successful in the past solely through chance.

Edited: In fact, Warren Buffett has an interesting bet outstanding related to this, see http://longbets.org/362/
Hey Michael, We only store the differences between subsequent saves so the actual impact on bandwidth & storage is pretty small. We're still playing around with pricing but there will be a free tier with more options depending on the space used.
See also jwz reply: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se...
Erm, lets make this simpler. Lets say that in year 10 the economy produces exactly 100 apples and nothing else. And lets say that in the year 20 the economy produces 200 apples and nothing else. If apples were selling at $1 in year 10, then we would expect apples to sell for $.50 in year 20 with a constant supply of money[1]. We call this decrease in price deflation. The money supply does double, we would expect the apples to still sell for $1 and we would call this price stability. If the money supply were quadrupled then each apple will now cost $2, and we'll have had inflation.

[1]Well, in the real world in the short term people tend to be upset by the idea of the amount of money they receive for a good or product decreasing, so prices and wages tend not to decrease as fast as you might expect in a theoretical perfectly efficient market. This is called nominal downwards price rigidity by economists and nominal loss aversion by psychologists. This is the simplest of the mechanisms by which inflation and deflation can effect the state of the real economy.
I must be missing something. The situation described is not a fold. When talking about folding, you're really talking about doubling. For $1 in gold to increase 87-fold, it would have a value of approximately 7.7 times 10 to the 25th power. I'm pretty sure that was not the intent.

What's really being said is that $1 in gold has gone up 8700%. Compared to the same dollar going up 17,400% in stocks.
A Mac port, whether throughout Steam or the App Store seems likely as well.
Can you explain how you're using salts?

Unless I'm missing something, either

1) you're using a "common salt" across all the hashes, which means I might need to generate my own rainbow tales with your common salt - but for only 10 digits worth of phone-number-space that's probably only a few bucks worth of EC2 time and S3 space to store it.

or 2) you're using a random salt for each phonenumber/hash, in which case you cant identify matching phone numbers.
Every time a person talk of hours of work as a requirement or measurement a puppy dies. I think she's trying to convey that passion and dedication are key, but the 90 hours reference is unfortunate. Why 90 and not 100 or 80?

Efficiency is they real metric. I know people who can do in 2 hours what for others would take 4 or 5 hours.

Now, I do think if you're passionate about your idea, you're constantly thinking about it, and you're going to spend a lot of sleepless nights in order to build it. I think passion and dedication is a requirement but I don't like the hour mark.
There are index funds that swap out exactly the same way the Dow does.
Coding on a whiteboard or paper/pencil may require you to use the academic portion of your cs knowledge. I know all my CS exams involve writing code on the test paper...
I'm not sure if it's a match featurewise, but http://indiegogo.com looks and feels very similar.

Nikodemus Siivola used it to fund SBCL threading improvements: http://www.indiegogo.com/SBCL-Threading-Improvements-1
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This was absolutely brilliant. Great work @margotleong!! ... and great work RideJoy too!
The privacy feature disables your location which is viewable to your friends by clicking their icon inside chat. I found that very disturbing. This should not be a default enabled feature.
Your answer is redis. But I don't have business cards.
Sorry about that! We had an error where our block data for Seattle was busted. It definitely isn't supposed to look like that :)

That fix has been made, but as I understand it our current heatmap tiles will still be in the cache until next week.
Too long, didn't watch.

Seriously though, she could learn a thing or two about brevity and efficiently communicating a message. I lost interest quickly.
You, simply put, utterly fail to understand how indexes work.
How do you expect the app to find other users that are in your address book without uploading your address book? It can hardly send all other users to your phone in an attempt to match them up.

I agree that the second notification is a little bit annoying, but in the case of Voxer you DID have a chance to cancel out -- it didn't secretly do it in the background, which Path apparently did.
SO I was recently trying to figure out why Bitcoins could be considered a rational investment (sorry to bring up that dead horse again =P). Much to my surprise, I realized that reasons for investing in them are much the same as the reasons for investing in gold.

* Relatively stable, predictable supply over time
* Not controlled or regulated by any institution or central authority (government or otherwise)
* Value determined entirely by market
* Will not decay or collapse: you can bury it for 1,000 years, dig it up, and it will be valid and unchanged
* Value not tied to the utility of an underlying asset[1]

For both gold and bitcoins, that last bullet point is both the cause of all their advantages, and the source of all their criticisms. By all rational analysis, bitcoins should be valueless and gold should be much cheaper. They don't do anything but sit there, unchanged. However, this resilience against outside factors is what makes them eligible as an "apocalypse-proof" investment. In order to fully attain this status, they merely need everyone to agree on their status as such, which is circular but nonetheless appears to have happened.

The lack of underlying utility is the criticism that Warren Buffet makes of gold. Fundamentally, there's no reason why we couldn't all wake up tomorrow, think "this is stupid," and stop spending so much money on gold. Bitcoin is 100% speculative. People will need food and electricity tomorrow, but they won't starve for lack of gold nor bitcoins. Yet somehow, gold's value has remained and in fact increased over time.

For my part, I find both gold and bitcoins to be irrational investments and I am annoyed that they cost as much as they do. Nonetheless, other people's actions may make them rational investments.

[1] Technically, there is a physical asset underlying gold with some utility, but I believe its market value is primarily determined by its investment value and not the underlying asset.
You can't question someone's integrity without bringing a good deal more than this.
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Of course the article doesn't fully come up unless you're a subscriber, or coming from Google. Here's a link to the Google search at least: https://www.google.com/search?q=Google+Developing+Home+Enter...
Since we give them access to our Address Book, I wasn't too surprised.
Want to code for the devil?
And given that such a thing can happen even in the US, which all things considered is very free and democratic compared to most of the world, what does that say about a strategy based on the allegedly intrinsic value of gold?
What are your issues with nginx and Wordpress? Seems to work for me and I haven't had to do anything special.
Yeah, I'm very curious to find out how this whiteboard stuff got to be considered universal. I too am an emacs user who programs in diverse languages (and never uses an "IDE" unless you count emacs), and find it disturbing that corporate gatekeepers really seem to believe things like, "Being unable to program on a whiteboard means you don't really know the language you are using."

I have two whiteboards and a chalkboard at home; I never code on such contraptions. (I like to draw pictures for programmers, but using Balsamiq or something.)

Now, obviously if I were in a situation where showing off whiteboard-coding were useful to me, I'd practice until fluent. But it's so bizarre, this fetishization of whiteboard technology.

Maybe it's good to communicate using pictures, rather than symbols. But if that were the real reason for whiteboard interviews, interviewers would speak of pictures; not whiteboards, nor syntax. Or one can argue that companies like rely on whiteboard tech to communicate; but then why not ask prospective workers to practice it as they would vi or emacs? Or spread the gospel somehow? Is this some weird entrance test, to see if a candidate proactively adapts to this weird obstacle?

As an interviewer, I'd feel I've ironically failed a meta-test, if I didn't accomodate a significant number of people's feelings on this matter. I would therefore not be fit to judge anyone's ability to think effectively.
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What, my browser is too new for your website?
You can do this on SkyDrive today.

Onenote & Word (and probably the rest of Office) know how to save to SkyDrive, and there are web editors for Onenote, Word (and Excel & PPT, I believe) available on SkyDrive.

Granted, it's not entirely the same as Dropbox - the client needs to know how to talk to SkyDrive, but I also think that SkyDrive knows how to communicate via Webdav, so it's probable that you could get a 3rd-party client to read/write to SkyDrive.
Because they aren't caching.
We are the media industry, and so are you.
They can hash the values they want and compare them with hashed values from other phones.
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He did disclaim his involvement, and indeed, his in-the-middle mention of doing client work for them came exactly as he started talking about why WPEngine was so great. You literally can't get to the part where he's praising WPEngine without either finding out he's worked for them or skipping part of the article (in which case, you don't get to complain about him missing something).
"PC" these days is often a general name for "desktop or laptop computer" - it doesn't mean it won't have a mac version.
Please elaborate on game mechanics. A point system ? Enemies on a blog site??
The functionality that you've outlined in your second paragraph wasn't obvious to me and I'd be interested in hearing more about that. I've been considering using GitHub:FI (I think it's called something else now) for a while now and their image diffs are helping to swing me in that direction. My first reaction to your service was that it was a nicer version of that without the rest of GitHub and I assume a designer friendly upload interface.

Sounds like you're aiming at teams and small ad agencies? Is that correct? I do like the idea of being able to share the versions as it progresses with other stakeholders. That is valuable. I didn't grep that from the demo. Admittedly I didn't poke around too much, I spent a few minutes on the site.

Is this for web design teams or mostly traditional media teams (Packaging, branding, print)? If the former, how do the developers work with it? If the latter, I like the functionality you've described.

I apologize if these questions and my critiques are too early in your dev cycle, I realize that you just released this (And it does look well polished!). I really just have an interest in this space and would like to see something work for my needs.
Let me just add a different perspective here. To me there are 3 things I think about when picking the technology:
1. cost
2. scalability - how big do you want to be and does the stack you pick scale?
3. talent - how easy is it to hire top talent going forward

Other than that, I agree with all the comments here. Users couldn't care less about your technical decisions.
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I love this concept and hope to do some remote working like this soon. Most important factor though, how good is the wifi?

The world needs a website with tropical resorts rated by wifi quality.
Wilco!
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Like everyone else has said, use what comes naturally to you. It all comes down to your users and if they like it or not. They are not going to drop you for using php instead of Rails.

On the other hand if you are like me, I have an idea and I want to implement it. But if it fails I alteast want some new technical knowledge. For eg, I learn xcode and write an iPhone app and it bombs but I know iphone app development and that is valuable.

The way I'm tackling my tech stack dilemma, is to look at other successful websites find their tech stack and see if that fits my needs. Good luck!
I interviewed with Google at the end of last year. The only thing I took away was that their recruitment people aren't very good at pre-screening and they seemed to like wasting my time.

The first two interviews were OK, basic UNIX admin and software type questions, I could answer most off the top of my head. The third was with someone who certainly had a maths degree and wanted to make sure I knew it.

It all left a rather bad impression.
Man, this space is filling up so fast. We're working on a similar product, we're funded and a little further along (shameless plug: http://www.revisu.com). When we started working on this, there was no one in this space. Now there are a ton of offerings!

I think you hit the nail on the head with regard to what designers need from version control. We bill ourselves as Dribbble + Github for creative teams exactly for the reasons you describe.
Good point! My understanding, from speaking with the SlideRocket team, is that it's kosher to use another artist's song as your presentation soundtrack as long as you attribute the song in your presentation somewhere. But if I were doing a similar project in the future, I'd absolutely love to work with a musician to record something - that's a terrific suggestion.

EDIT: Just spoke directly with a representative at SlideRocket, Sogol Motiey, who says, "Nope! No copyright issues."
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Hello--

I'm the author of the map. I meant for the lines to introduce the form of the map: that when you click on a county, you see connections between that county and other counties. You can always explain that in the text above the map, but most users don't bother to read the text, so in some informal trials without lines lots of users misinterpreted what they were seeing.

The lines also give the map a sort of immediate visual punch--especially when the map is shared via a static screenshot, which lots of users have done.

I figured lots of users would turn off the lines pretty quickly, since they obscure nearby pairings, and the analytics suggest that a substantial number of users do switch the lines off.
In the FAQ, they mention additional release platforms would be one of the first things they would add should they raise enough money.

I think chances are good then since they've quite surpassed their initial goal!
Could you normalize at the census tract level? Better yet, assign average occupants, shoppers, cars parked, etc. to the locations at which the crime occurred.

A bigger issue is variance in less dense areas. It looks like what you're doing today is simple counts whereas for areas with lower crime rates, more history might provide a more stable crime rate. It might also be useful to weight against a demographic prediction of crime or at least average the crime rate over the period that the demographic prediction is stable.
In order to fully attain this status, they merely need everyone to agree on their status as such, which is circular but nonetheless appears to have happened.

I'm not so sure that works.

With gold, it was not the case that everyone just "agreed to agree" that it was valuable.

Rather, gold was valued independently of its "investment value" due to its use as a status symbol/decoration/jewelry.

Likewise, because of that, there's no risk of everyone suddenly "disagreeing" that it's valuable, causing a huge collapse.

With bitcoin, it's unclear to me that there is a way to either bootstrap this "agreement" in the first place, or to sustain it.
We're talking about Linux. If you want Linux on an ARM tablet, buy an Android tablet and jailbreak it. You don't have to buy a Windows tablet (unlike, say, PCs in the 90s).
In the server as well as the client?
I would agree that to be counted among your "thousands of examples" of outliers, one would have to be obsessively dedicated. Not everyone wants to be a Newton or a Da Vinci though. And there is nothing wrong with that. FogCreek and 37signals are certainly nowhere near as publicly visible as many SV startups, but they are successful and they became that way without the extreme levels of energy that SV startups seem to demand.

Now those firms and their ilk may not fit your definition of "startup", but they are still ex nihilo undertakings that have been able to supply some very demanding consumers. They'll never be as sexy as the Valley kids, but their continued existence serves as ample evidence of their validity. And in that sense, it is a myth that startups must be all-consuming.
That's useful to know. We just bought a house and are in mid-move (some renovations still going on) and I have been fascinated to see how junk mail companies (ab)use prublic records to extend their reach. I look forward to trying the service.
It has everything to do with Flash. Flash was the only reliable way to record via webcam and have it instantly available.

Citation needed. I don't know of ANY remotely popular flash vlog recording service of the time. Not to mention that vlogs in general never got that popular, period.

You have to respect that YT is a community, one with a pretty significant voice. Type in "sopa", "war in iraq", or "arab spring" and see how many cat videos you get.

YT is not a community at all. It has tens of millions of extremely diverse members. You can find any kind of shit in YT, from democratic, to republican, to anarchistic, to pro-nazi, to various nationalisms, to kittens, to porn, to full length movies, to ads, to high culture, to fart jokes, ... What part seems like a specific community with a voice to you? It's just the assemblage of millions of individual tastes and opinions.

The fact you can find things about sopa, war in iraq, arab spring etc does not mean anything of the sort of YT being a "community" with a "voice".
It's like finding emails and blog posts about such issues: of course you will, there are millions of bloggers, thousands of them are bound to write about the issues of the day.
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Thanks for the reply Shravan, that's awesome to know. Definitely sounds very promising, I'm looking forward to seeing the subscription plans when yous are ready.
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