skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with some parts of your argument, but I really think that there is just too much content out there to consume. If you had "raw feeds of actual video, with absolutely minimal editing," I think you'll find yourself overwhelmed with information.

The job of the newspaper editor is to condense the material down, and like you say, correlate and aggregate it to form a narrative that is easier to consume. Sure, I'll concede that the majority of news editors choose to showcase worthless information -- particularly on television -- but you have to understand that it's a capitalist economic model and the newspapers are only delivering what the consumer wants.

"1st generation" reporting to me means a journalist who goes out and gets the interviews and video feeds. Do you think there were pre-existing "raw video feeds" out there for the Enron executives, the survivors of the Japan earthquake, etc.? "1st generation" reporting comprises the effort it takes a good journalist to identify which parts of the story need telling and going out and getting them. Yes, there is inevitable bias -- but we have to be able to take it with a grain of salt and make up our own mind based on potentially multiple narratives of the same story.

(Also, just to touch on this... I think you're underestimating the value of the news agencies. They provide resources to make quality reporting a viable economic model. In addition, they provide a name behind which the journalists' sources can trust. Would 'Deep Throat' have divulged his knowledge to Bernstein and Woodward if they had not been reporting for the Washington Post? Obviously, we'll never know the answer to that question, but I personally believe it's an important consideration for any potential source.)
Anything to do with lawyers, too.
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Shuffle Dance Indonesia - halo sahabat kahar ngeblog, baru saja saya melihat berita di TV one tentang Shuffle dance, merasa tertarik dengan dance gaya ini, saya langsung membuka internet dan mencari informasi seputar Shuffle Dance Indonesia, langsung buka you tube, dan langsung nonton video nya, luar biasa, sebenarnya aku sudah tau lama tentang dance seperti ini, tapi baru tau kalo namanya shuffle dance, yuk baca selengkapnya tentang dance ini :

Dance atau tarian ada banyak macamnya, namun, tahukah anda dengan shuffle dance. tarian ini sekarang mulai tenar di kalangan anak muda Indonesia. Dahulunya tarian shuffle ini dipamerkan hanya di klub-klub, Namun sekarang tarian ini ramai-ramai di pamerkan di ruang publik, dan menjadi salah satu tontonan atau atraksi yang menarik bagi para penontonnya.
The word "autodidact" hides a lot of complexity behind it that makes it difficult to make any coherent argument for or against it.

For one thing, a teacher cannot shove anything down your throat. It is always the student who learns and in that sense, everyone is an "autodidact". This is not to belittle a teacher who's role in directing a student, keeping her on her toes, challenging, questioning, probing, explaining, etc. which are all valuable. The thing is, a formal teacher is not the only source of those things. Our parents and peers do those things too.

You learn, you get good at something ... anything. In today's world, feedback from the community on what you need to get good at and whether you're getting good at it seems adequate to the point that if you know how to make use of that, you can learn stuff efficiently and effectively. You might say more of us are becoming "allodidacts".

The third point is teachers also continuously learn. Peer learning is how scientific progress happens, for instance. So if you do continuous learning at all, you're likely to do it for a much longer fraction of your life than the period that you're "taught".
1) Create Google alerts for relevant keywords and if it's a blogger, leave an useful comment with a link to your blog at the end.

2) Create Twitter searches to find people with the problem your product solves, and tweet them your solution.

3) Establish yourself as an expert in relevant forums and leave a link in your forum signature. Connect with other forum members.

4) Do giveaways in relevant blogs. Tie the giveaway to your web app in a creative way. You don't necessarily have to giveaway a premium plan of your product - it could be another product, or an Amazon gift card.

Protip: I know from experience that doing a giveaway > $100 and posting in in online-sweepstakes.com will yield over 100 0 visitors in a day.

Give more entries for retweets, facebook likes, etc.

5) Guest blog posting is easy low hanging fruit.

6) Do cross partnerships with another startup.

7) Find a similar new product in your space. Search Google news for stories on that product. Pitch your product to those same writers. Make sure you develop a relationship before that pitch.

8) Encourage existing users to share it through email. Give them call to actions.
I may be missing something, but it seems like the purpose of this library is to solve the problem that if you run too much code in javascript in the browser at any given time you can hog the application thread long enough that it makes the user interface lag. So you can break up your operations into chunks that will be executed in order. This library will help you run functions in order and not all at once without having to use callbacks and setTimeout(function(){...}, 1).
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Since this doesn't affect read speed, it's interesting to imagine what would happen if there were a de-facto asymmetry between read and write speed for hard disks. I'd guess you might end up in a world where a "disk" actually becomes a "RAID-array-in-a-box" so parallel reads could make the read speed be close to the write speed.
I wonder if they would find a correlation between board members not getting voted out and CEO pay. Maybe shareholders tend to be pleased if boards hire big name CEO's?
There is one paragraph, and it clearly says "Please note this is not the actual Temple Run game". There's plenty of real examples of people trying to confuse players into purchasing screenshots, this is not one.
AIR is Adobe's way of targeting iOS.
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Huh? Why are you so sure that people don't use the iOS browser?

I use an RSS reader and the Twitter app (both pf which I also use on my PC). The rest (and majority of my time) on iOS devices I spend in a browser and I love it. The web experience on my iPad is awesome. I just don't see how Apple is hindering or sabotaging the open web with iOS. Sure, people like apps, but that's not unique to iOS, that's also true for Android. It's a property of native apps, not a property of Apple pushing native apps.
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I think you're assuming too much about the API, all it does is provide access to the address book so you can do things like create a "invite a friend" dialog, it's not meant to be used for bulk uploading to remote servers.
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To be anything close to useful, this system will need to accept input from reviewers, and build a library of white-listed exceptions to whatever the final formulation of these rules are. Those exceptions need to be weighted, too, since many of the rules are stylistic or subjective in nature.
> It's about control and pushing for non-standard features,
> not development strategies...

I guess the point he's trying to make is that if IE was open source, then MS would have much less control over pushing non-standard features. If chrome tries to pull the same tricks today, people will just build chromium without it and compete. So I agree with chime, that chromium being open source makes a big difference.
calloc differs from malloc, as it clears the memory.

From the Mac OS X man page:

The calloc() function contiguously allocates enough space for count objects that are size bytes of memory each and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The allocated memory is filled with bytes of value zero.
Rogers already does this (cripples download and limits upload to ~80KBps). They've forced me to switch to Usenet as even popular Torrents slow to a crawl on their Ultimate plan (50 down/2 up).
Completely agree... I'm in kind of a similar situation to the fictional MS employee myself but I have also built things on the side. If I received this kind of email from a company I would laugh and then click 'Delete' and never consider them again.

Someone with the level of experience he describes will be hounded by recruiters for all sorts of companies every day - I know because I put my resume online recently and it has been non-stop from both big companies and startups. None of the startups have any issues with my big company experience and neither should the author. So if we're generalising, then from that post it seems to me the author is rather arrogant and a bit deluded about what it takes to work at his startup...
Similar video of remote debugging for Opera. Might be a bit outdated as it is from 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZt-k93qLbg
I'm a big proponent of autonomous cars (did a lot of work on it in college, follow it closely now). I don't think all cars need to be autonomous, but I think overall it will make the roads a lot safer once the thing is worked out. The car will never get sleepy. It will never get drunk. It will never be talking on a cell phone. It will never be road raging.

The road block I see the most is the weather. In my experience designing cars, the cameras are falliable but the lasers are not. We trusted the lasers absolutely but the cameras were a lot less certain. That's fine for object avoidance on dry roads (or even wet roads with consistent slip), but on snow you really want to be driving based on the road surface itself. Is it loose snow? Ice? Packed snow? Slush? Is there a hump of slush between lanes? Is that a pothole or a bit of black ice? Can I get some pavement under me or not? I find it hard to believe that a camera will be able to distinguish all that perfectly (texture, snow depth, snow type, etc). I think they will punt and make the car just drive 15mph, but that is unacceptable for me. I have AWD & snow tires and routinely do 45-50 mph in snow. But there are other times in the exact same car that anything over 20 is unsafe. It is entirely dependent on the judgement of the snow surface that I don't think a computer will be able to do for a long time.

That's just my nit pick, but it is part of the larger problem. It is going to be super difficult to convince people to actually allow it. Most people are afraid of computers and don't trust them.
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As any other rule, 80/20 rule has to be broken if it doesn't apply to current situation. No rule should be obeyed blindly.
I'm surprized there's not a PyPy version of Ruby. _why's unholy showed it's trivial to compile Ruby into Python (in many cases). It shouldn't be too hard (famous last words) to make a Ruby VM with PyPy. If they don't like the idea, they could make a RPython <-> RRuby translator, and port the whole thing to RRuby.

Yes, I've heard about Rubinous (the Ruby equivalent to PyPy), but it doesn't have the resources.
Who do you use for app UI translation?
Our team needs to find a non-too-expensive, but reliable service to translate the UI strings of our iPad app.

Can anyone recommend a good company?

Thanks,

JH
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Sometimes. It depends on what I'm typing. Documentation I mostly touch-type. Code, never. Touch-typing is one of those skills that pays with an economy of scale. The time it takes to place both hands on the home keys isn't justified when I will have to remove them too frequently.
Sounds like you take it coming and going: someone else is holding on to your money, taking advantage of the float, and you on the other hand, have to pay interest to the government on money you don't even have yet.

Why do people put up with that?
Bet they aren't pulling the games Zynga have been ripping for sometime now.
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Just a small warning: don't click the menu items too quickly in chrome - it gets stuck in a loop scrolling back and forth.. Whether this is due to Pot.js or not I cannot tell without delving deeper!
Please excuse my blatantly rude question and over-analyzing from across the pond but... you hired fresh-out-of-college/university hotshots into leading and crucial positions: CEO, CTO, "product guy", co-founders and programmers positions - what the frakk were YOU doing there? I always had the impression that, if it is your "shop" one way or another during starting-up phase you fill those positions and do those tasks, you are the CEO, CTO, "product guy" and if you are lucky and get things off the ground and only when things get TOO much to handle on your own, THEN you start taking people on board to help you out - but then you are stuck with having to lead them?

It sounds a terrible lot like you hired good résumés, probably even ready and able people, but never succeeded in uniting them, giving them a common vision, a direction to go into and you had no idea what you could request and expect from them or you failed to communicate it well, so you could only believe their big promises even they had nothing to show for it. Which would also be in accordance to that CTO bad-mouthing you, obviously you were no authority or respected person to him because you never managed to effective "jump the chasm" and switch into "boss-mode" and make the whole bunch of them row to the beat of YOUR drums.

> what's the right thing to do, how to reason about it in a logical way, how to do it, how to finish it, contingency plans, etc.

I think that also takes good leadership - not everyone who might even be FANTASTIC at their job has that quality of being a SEAL-type "lonesome wolf" who can move heaven and earth completely on his own, commando style. Most people need some sort of guidance, a feedback between expectation and how they met them to get them to a productive level.

> hired them because of a sense of urgency (e.g. need to demo X to VCs soon!),

In your position, there is no excuse to NOT knowing that throwing bodies at rapidly approaching deadlines will only make things worse and more complicated, not better... you have heard of Tom DeMarco, right?

> At the end of the two years, I think I must have went through 2 dozens of people, co-founders included.

That can also potentially poison the whole team that probably hardly ever existed to begin with because there must have been people coming and going ALL the time...
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Yeah, my guess is that CoffeeScript took direction from those languages for this feature.

Nice function to convert annotated string to a regex. I wonder if this is being considered in the next versions of JavaScript? Or better yet... native annotation?

I like the CoffeeScript approach since that logic is done at compile time and not when it is being executed.
I agree, most of the arguments from individuals I've seen against Flash are simply, "I don't like it therefore I want to stop others from using it".

I find it interesting that one of the leading arguments against Flash is that it's a proprietary plugin that is not "open". So clearly the solution to this is to close off the option of using it, doesn't seem like a very "open" attitude. I thought it was about choice but I guess it was wrong.
I wonder how this will affect Phonegap.
to be fair, I don't think it's fair to judge their business plan from this blog post, but their attitude towards potential hires is pretty arrogant
To me, this is absolutely harmless. Skimlinks doesn't alter existing affiliate links, and it allows Pinterest to make money without resorting to obtrusive advertising. Win/win.

Of all the privacy issues to get riled up about these days, this is at the very bottom of the list, if on the list at all.
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And this is a surprise? I didn't need research to determine this, I just kept up with the news.
ok, name it "motivation" instead of Business case.

for GNU Emacs, the motivation is completely clear: it's a tool for developers, and some of those developers contribute and make it better for everyone.

For ReactOS... ok, someone seems to have a motivation, but that's completely beyond my understanding :)
This person severely misread the book. I could give quite a few examples from the writing. For instance, the child labor issue he brings up is ridiculous - "Rich Dad" obviously didn't benefit from this labor in any financial way.

The premise of the book is solid; invest in assets that make money for you without you having to be there. He specifically says in the book a few times that he doesn't necessarily advocate real estate investing, but to invest in what makes financial sense, as long as you invest in something. He gives this as a representative list of such investments:

1) Businesses that do not require your physical presence I.E. a web app that you have someone program once and people pay $10 a month for

2) Stocks

3) Bonds

4) Mutual funds

5) Income generating real estate

6) Royalties from intellectual property

7) Any other recurring sources of income
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I have no fucking idea what people find attractive about mobile flash

Being able to watch video?
Conflict of interest where the CEO (or his friends on the board) decide how much to pay him? Say it isn't so.
Or CEOs who wow the shareholders get rewarded by board members?
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> I think there are parallels to right-or-wrong issues that we face in our own industry on a regular basis, for example:

If our software deals with privacy and personal information then it can even become life or death in some countries. A dissident in a brutal authoritarian regime could lose his life if the software has a bug in it, for example.

The other area were moral choices take place is in licensing and patents. Can be on both large scales (like we see with big companies use busybox for their platform) or smaller scales (copying code from one project to another without even giving credit).
Then I guess we should stop using a good chunk of internet capable software, such as browsers.
Vim and awk use the old syntax, and that irritates me to no end.
Definitely a good point, but they're such a cash cow that you have to figure they will mysteriously avoid this new policy.
Yeah, it's just a hacky way of getting onto a server, you can think of it like a special device, like /dev/null maybe.
While it doesn't say anything about his arguments, it should be noted that John T. Reed is far from unbiased, he's Kiyosaki's direct competitor.
How exactly does a user "force" a developer to fix their code when they use HS+HTML+CSS?
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The Apple trend, which is engaged in iPhone has earned more than Microsoft. The analysts come to these decisions while comparing the accountable figures of the first quarter of both companies...
I agree that it is poorly written. However if people take away from it the idea of getting out of debt and buying assets then I believe it is a great step forward!
I really don't understand why people think any amount of pay over, say, a few million, for any position, makes any difference to anyone.

Think about the people you know who are good at their job. Do they give a fuck about money if you give them enough that they're taken care of? No, they probably care a lot more about prestige, interesting problems, other ego-feeders besides a silly 8-digit number.

Of course, CEOs are bound to be good negotiators and will negotiate themselves a higher number because why not. But is anyone going to argue that there's a serious quality of life difference between 20 and 100 million?
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In “Visual Explanations” http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex Edward Tufte wrote a must-read analysis of why admonitions to postpone the launch were ignored.
There is also a difference between "uploads" and "sends".

If they send my address book to their servers, compare it with current users and then discard it that is pretty good for an opt-in process.

A lot of this seems to be they upload the address book to their servers and store it permanently. The fact that they don't state this and don't ask for permission is disturbing.
"Their pleas and technical theories were rejected by senior managers at the company and NASA, who told them they had failed to prove their case and that the shuttle would be launched in freezing temperatures the next morning. It was among the great engineering miscalculations in history."

Horsepucky: the engineers calculations weren't mis-anything. The historical record has long since proven that the engineers were repeatedly ignored by their management and by bureaucrats at NASA.
I personally don't find this example very helpful in showing why I would do this. The regex is simple enough and to me the comments are the equivalent of "return here", needless and distracting.
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Wouldn't it be possible to randomize packet padding and delays to get around this?
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I disagree.. the most important message in the book is that business and entrepreneurship is the path to success, NOT being an employee and staying in the rat race. While it may be common sense to someone who's been in business for a while, or read a lot of similar literature, it's far from obvious to most people.

I'm not ashamed to say Rich Dad Poor Dad has been one of the most influential books I've read in my life. At 20, I had very little idea about business - I thought my path was clear: graduate with a degree, get a job, work up corporate ladder, etc. Reading this book was completely mind-blowing and eye-opening.

Yes, most of the advice is trivial, as I look at it now.. But there's certainly great value in the book - business vs "rat race", building assets vs liabilities, learning to sell, active vs passive income, what you can't afford your business can, value of financial literacy, and much more. But most importantly this: you can very rarely get rich working for someone else.
I've actually been using C++11 for two years now (experimental stuff in GCC), and yes I agree: C++ is loads better than it used to be, and it's a pleasure to work with.

That still doesn't mean it's a good idea to write a full web app in a C++ event loop while doing your own memory management. I've tried this (in C++11 no less), and it took nearly 30K LOC for me to admit defeat. I wish I were joking.
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a project of this scale needs proper funding, otherwise it would take forever (which actually seems to be the case).

the guys are building a competition to Microsoft. Some may do it for the pleasure of doing that, but I see it as a dead-end, as there is no business driver.
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And here I totally agree. I guess the message that needs to be made clear is that doing machine learning is really quite easy and really nothing special, doing something meaningful with the numbers that come out from your program is the hard part that should be focused on.
Clone games qualify as innovative and creative?
Ok, how about asking the first time?
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