skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be a selection effect at work here; people who are good at making videos get noticed on Kickstarter so it looks like everyone on Kickstarter has good videos.
I actually don't mind this question, even though it's a cliche. I've also been asked a slightly different version, "What is something about yourself you've improved in the past 6 months?"

I see it as a two part question.

1. Do you realize self-improvement is a life-long pursuit? What are you currently working on to improve yourself?

2. Do you have the ability smooth over a negative point when talking to a stakeholder? "Yeah, we released a week late, but on the plus side we found some bugs that would have been deadly in production."

Maybe the question would be less abrasive if it was phrased, "What is a weakness that you have?" (Which is really what they're asking, they're not asking for your biggest, darkest secret.)

The answer can be simply something like, "For someone working on internet apps, I don't know as much about socket programming as I'd like to. So I've been reading/working on a project to learn more about it."
Actually it was clear that your post was not accusational, but rather a genuine question. I didn't mean to respond with a bad tone... sorry about that.

If MathWorks didn't want to sell something to me (because they don't like the looks of roots of me), I wouldn't buy it even if my life depended on it (an ego thing) – the problem here is that MathWorks, Google, Apple, Amazon and other companies want to sell to me (it's their job, and I don't think they are any more racist than the average American!), but their it's government that prevents them.

This is where you and I differ slightly: I support MathWork's IP, but at the same time I know that they can't sell to me only because of US sanctions. I copy Matlab (not really - I use Mathematica) and I see no moral dilemma here.
You might be surprised. I ran some benchmarks[0] and found a significant parse time, and significant differences between browsers. tldr: a) parsing has a measurable cost, b) the parser is different from the interpreter, and the speed of one has little or no bearing on the other.

[0] A Hidden Cost of Javascript (2010)
http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/02/measuring-javascript-parse-a...
"Someone who has actually parked domains can probably shed some more light on the business model involved."

...you answered your question perfectly:

"I suspect this is the kind of business that is only profitable on the long tail - you only flip some exceedingly small percentage of your total inventory on a given year, but you can't tell ahead of time which ones are going to be the winners."

Exactly.

That said much of this also has to do with who owns the name, whether they need the money (what you are offering) and a host of other factors to numerous to mention.

As a general rule though I would rather be making an offer to buy a name off someone who owns a vast inventory of names than someone who owns only a few. Why? Because they know that if they pass up your offer they might wait another 7 years to sell that name. So essentially you just have to clear a certain point based on their experience and the names is yours.

Unless of course that person who owns only a few names needs money in which case (well you get my point) I'd rather have that person be the seller.

From my experience I've seen all sorts of things happen. I just helped a startup get a great name for a few hundred dollars that was worth much more simply because the owner didn't even google to see that they obviously would need the name.
I had fun making a horizontal web page once.

It might have worked better if the columns were more segmented so that you didn’t have to scroll down and up and then down again. That way you could get more content for less scrolling and maintain comfortable line length.
Indeed. I was about to say this.

It's hard to believe one who says "You're doing it wrong" when...they're also doing it wrong.
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If you don't like the direction that the current default Ubuntu desktop is going, I suppose you could always try one of the variants, such as [Lubuntu](http://lubuntu.net/). That's where I'll probably head, since I'm running an older Ubuntu release and I'm pretty sure I'd rather not switch to Unity upon upgrading.

I can't blame Ubuntu for wanting to make their default desktop experience the way they want. It's their project.
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Exactly right. The splash screen is there only to show what it's doing while loading all the libraries and parsing setting files. If this guy/girl really hated the photoshop startup screen, he should do two things:

1. Get a better harddrive setup for his business.

2. Have photoshop start automatically after boot.

A quick timed test on two striped SSD's: Photoshop starts up in 4 seconds from click to ready. Blender takes about 1.5 second.
I think Canonical's new direction is a breath of fresh air in the world of Linux. We already have so many Linux distros, and what has that gotten Linux? 1 % of the consumer market? Can we just have one Linux distro that is consumer-oriented, and tries to shake things up a bit?
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I'm happy to see a big player in the open-source world take a design-focused approach to software development. The author may not like Apple's design, but their top-down approach has led to products that are loved by many. It would be great to see this approach succeed in open-source, so that we end up with well-designed products that preserve the freedoms of open-source.
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Whether or not the programmers of Photoshop can make their app run faster, I have to say it's pretty sad that waiting 10 seconds is worth whining about. I understand this is unacceptable for a web app's page load time, but for a desktop app that loads an enormous amount of resources once before letting you use it seems acceptable to me.

I think the real problem is that we are all so incredibly spoiled that waiting 10s is a huge inconvenience. I'm not saying it's not annoying. I don't like it either... that squirming feeling you get when you expect something to be fast and it isn't. But, like, get over it.

On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most important issue in the cosmos, waiting 10 seconds for an app to load would be about 0.0000000000000000000000000000000001 (if that). Perhaps there are more important things to write about.
Well, lazy loading is a way to hide loading time. But I didn't mean that lazy loading is bad since I think it is rather underutilized in desktop applications. Taking Photoshop as an example, I would explore the means to get the basic app up and running providing basic tools then load the rest in the background not waiting for demand. Loading on demand is nice as long as it can be done quickly. There's nothing worse than having the app loaded, click on a menu item, and then have to wait for that feature to load.
I don't understand why they would want to keep business's off of kickstarter. It seems there is a real opportunity to provide this service for small business's.
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To understand why the social web is so noisy, simply follow the money.

Salespeople need marketers to sell products, marketers rely on Facebook and Google to buy targeted advertising slots, who in turn optimize their social networking tools to encourage everyone to share even more, all the time.

Frictionless sharing, as Zuck puts it, because the more you share, the more keywords they can accumulate and sell as ad slots to marketers and sales people.

For the rest of us, we have our work to do and there's only a small window of our day when we're most productive.

Understand that the social web, as we know it, isn't designed in a way optimized for our productivity and happiness. It serves the tripartite of salespeople, marketers and social networking companies.

Sure it's free to use, but if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

I've since weaned myself from Facebook for more than a year with a little tool I made that helps me, my wife, family, friends and colleagues be more selective about what they share in a attention-respectful and considerate pace.

It's called Handpick, which helps you collect links for different groups of people and send a single email digest daily or weekly, totally cutting out pesky notifications in our lives.

http://handpick.me

Let me know what you think.
I never quite got Convore. Grove is sort of interesting, but I doubt it'll displace us from HipChat.

The major advantage of using a non-proprietary protocol like IRC is that people can choose their own clients... but the state of most IRC clients nowadays is abysmal. Colloquy on OS X, for example, hasn't been updated in years.

If I was going to use IRC to communicate with my team, I'd just create a private channel on Freenode. We'd miss out on archiving, but I don't think that that feature alone is worth $2/user/month.
What I find most impressive about Kickstarter is that they are becoming more of a marketplace with every passing day. In the beginning, it was mostly a tool to help project owners collect donations from close friends and family - and their immediate friends. That is changing by the day and witnessing the transformation is very exciting.
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It means that your interview performance is reflective of your real-life work performance. That being said, I think this is a far too cynical way to interpret the question for reasons I think other people have already answered in this thread quite well.
Linux Mint 11 and 12 are great alternatives. The Mint team has also made Cinnamon[1] which is also a great alternative to the default GNOME3 interface. If you don't want to reinstall Linux, Cinnamon is available for lots of the major distros, or you can compile it yourself.

[1] http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1910
"The 'usability studies' that get quoted whenever I have talked to people from Canonical about this have participation numbers that are laughably low. Having a focus group with two or three dozen hand-picked candidates to 'evaluate' complex user experience changes like these does not seem convincing to me. It seems ludicrous."

Dismissing out of hand as "ludicrous" that user research on small groups can and very often does produce useful results is enough to discredit the rest of this guy's rant. He wants to be a part of the design process but doesn't understand even the most basic practices of user research.

I am not a programmer and I do not demand representation in coding decisions and I do not criticize code choices I can't possibly understand. I wish that people who are not UX and UR practitioners would afford designers some of that same respect.
"But, with a domain name, there's only one."

How do you figure that?

You can get a name in a different gtld tld cctld etc.

It may not be as desirable as .com (because of course I'm assuming that is what you mean).

And why is there only "one". There is not only "one" name you can use for your business.

Especially if you are starting one. You are free to call yourself whatever you want.
If you're on Windows and you want an editor that loads fast, you can just type mspaint.exe. Oh, it doesn't do everything you need? Yeah, guess what, those extra features take time to load.
This approach is wrong, if you want to learn algorithms.
Also, you will not find an algorithms book that combines graphics, machine learning, and the usual suspects. Also, forget about learning this stuff 'without too much hassle'. There is no 'royal road' to algorithms. Practice, practice, and practice.
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I've never been asked this question in an interview but if I ever am I know what my answer would be: When I'm coding something I have a bad tendency to code everything myself rather than using readily accessible libraries or solutions that are known to be secure and effective.

I blame this on teaching myself coding as a kid with no Internet. I couldn't look up libraries so I wrote my own solutions for all my coding challenges.

These days I recognize this in myself and force myself to look up any libraries that I can import rather than coding the whole stack myself.
It matches HipChat's pricing https://www.hipchat.com/sign_up?src=pricing
No I actually cannot play back yet. But it's not hard to implement, it even would be relatively easy to selectively play back only certain edits.
I believe in the worst case a few thousand edits would suffice (though it would be rather tedious on the keyboard to do: type - then go back one with the arrow keys and type again).

Collabedit looks nice and solid! (Hadn't been aware of it.) Did you roll your own editor or did you use something like ACE or CodeMirror?
To inject a content script, you just need permission to access that site.
How does it compare with Stypi?

http://www.stypi.com/
Just to clarify:

- RC Flying (hobby): Line of sight, RC controlled radio aircraft (non-turbine) that stay below 400'

- RC Drones (hobby): Line of sight, RC controlled but capable of unmanned flight either via pre-programmed instructions or GPS (note: regardless of capabilities, these aircraft must sill stay below 400' and be non-commercial)

- Commercial Drones / RC-for-hire: These are aircraft that are flown for commercial reasons (aerial photography, crop monitoring, surveillance)--meaning someone is giving you $$ to operate the aircraft. They could just be normal, off-the-shelf RC airplanes -- but it's use is what is restricted.

The reason that the FAA is concerned with commercial use is that in order for that to work, drones need to be safely integrated into US airspace. How would you feel if you were taking a flight from SFO to ORD and some jackass with a "drone" gets his multi-copter sucked into your engine? Also, there are insurance issues with this as well. I have insurance through the AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics) which covers me if I fly my 5 pound airplane into a house or mess something up (so long as I'm flying in designated areas for non-commercial purposes).

What happens when someone who's doing aerial photography for a wedding and his heli falls out of the sky (they do that sometimes) hurting a guest? Who pays for that? Insurance companies need a way to asses the risk of these thing flying around commercially.

Lots to think about--privacy, safety, big brother...
So they burnt the Convore customers ... why would I trust them with Grove, exactly?

Pivoting in real life is an elegant move; this feels more like stumble-and-run.
I'm glad Canonical is trying to bridge the gap between Linux and an Apple-like design aesthetic. The Linux desktop experience has been extremely unfriendly to less than expert level users, and it'd be great if that changed. But if history is any indication, that means adopting a more top-down decision making process. Making tough choices, and streamlining design isn't something that comes out of forum discussions.

Of course, not liking the direction of Ubuntu is your prerogative. However, the great thing about Open Source is that you and like-minded buddies can move to a different distribution or remix Ubuntu to your preferences. In that case, everyone gets what they want.
Someone in another thread (sorry, don't remember which) made a good point that including several frameworks by default would discourage people from trying new/novel/less popular frameworks.

I think linking to the library from Google's CDN is a nice compromise since it greatly increases the chance that it'll already be cached.
Google makes money by displaying ads, and they do so in a fairly unobtrusive way. Why are some people so determined not to provide anything in return to the company that offers them a valuable service?
Done. not sure if it's optimal this way though...
I'll have to think of a nicer interface. Just couldn't make myself put up another bootstrap toolbar.
I think there are a variety of factors:
0) Many of the best computer engineers emigrate to US, where they do publish nice books.
1) US based developers often work with really good and experienced professionals (or at least learn from them).
2) US professionals are educated in a system that greatly encourages the "German Style" of textbook writing: clear, concise and to the point. This was started by the great mathematicians and physicists in Germany, who then came over to the US; the people who started writing computer books knew a great style and built upon it.
In contrast most Indian books are heavy on facts, low on insight, examples are crappy, typeset quality is terrible, many errors etc.
3) Most importantly, there just aren't that many excellent developers in India. A large chunk of the "computer engineers" are mostly doing grunt work that does not require much innovation. What will they write about?
4) Most Indian computer engineers work very long shifts; they don't get enough free time to try out and learn a new technology "in their free time" because there is no free time. Less people using a technology means that there is less expertise, less adoption. All of that adds up to a great inertia
How? I agree that something like that would be risky (you could style the delete button to say "reply"), but I'm not sure how you could do that. Stylesheets can't change a form's action.
I think loading on demand is a vast improvement in some instances. For something like Photoshop, I'd gladly pay the initial 10 seconds for a more responsive interface. Photoshop is already slow, imagine dynamically loading resources on top of its usual sluggishness.
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Have you used it recently?

You can taint your install with pretty much anything.

I have access to more firmwares blobs than with Ubuntu.
As both you and I already hinted at, you can get a name in a different TLD (or even prepend "get", e.g. "getAPP.com"), but you're taking a hit for a variety of reasons (perception, confusion). My point was only that you won't ever replicate it, and for that reason domains are unique.

My personal favorite "fallback" is to use .io or prepend "get."
He already rebutted this in the article with the example of GNOME 3. But I agree with nextparadigms; if "Linux is about choice", why not have one distro that does things differently? The only real problem with Ubuntu IMO was the fact that they built a community of volunteers and then disregarded their input, bait-and-switch style.
Is application logging done via UDP?
This is not possible; scripts cannot be added through `<link>`, so there’s no way to add them through the `Link` HTTP header.
It's not exactly hard! Just compile a package, run it and forget about it...
Every, I'd say, 6 months or so, someone on the qemu mailing list posts a patch to add a splash screen to qemu.

I don't understand why people persist in this:

(1) Most hypervisor start-up screens aren't even seen by most users.

(2) Spend that time and effort making the boot faster, not slowing it down with utterly useless stuff!
Kodak can save itself: launch a Print API
Done. Thanks for the input!
This is just an extreme example of so called 'first world problems'.
If you want to buy a domain somebody owns, just get the email address from the WHOIS and send them a quick note, 'are you interested in selling this domain?'. Response rate from this is > 80%. Payment always via Escrow.com (PayPal does not provide protection for domains) and you're set.

As to the discussion of whether domain parking should be allowed, think of it like real estate. Those who own vast tracts of land may develop it, they may sell it or they may just sit on it for the rest of their life and pass it to their heirs. Premium domains are exactly the same.
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Does this article strike anyone as vague?
Question: Why aren't kickstarter backers required to be accredited investors? I ran into that problem trying to join SecondMarket. How is the kickstarter model different?
We built something very similar a couple years ago except all encryption/decryption is done broswer side, so no keys are ever sent through our server. Also, it uses actual tweets as opposed to DM's.

http://cryptwit.com

You can see an example here:

http://cryptwit.com/decrypt

Enter "yickster", then passphrase "hackernews"
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A splash screen tells me "you can do something else, the window will show up when it's ready". A nonfunctional version forces me to poke it periodically until it works.

If the author has the splash screen burned into his retina, (s)he's doing it wrong.
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Anyone have any insights into the common set up for the videos (camera, editing software)?
"It's unconscionable that one can simply park domains wholesale"

"unconscionable"?

It's a business model and it's legal. There is no requirement to use a domain name and there never has been one.

"people wanting to create value are held to ransom by parasites"

And what if the someone "wanting to create value" got to the name first and has their idea of a site is not as good as your idea of a site. The name would also not be available for you to use.

This idea that if people weren't parking names they would be available when you wanted the name is simply not true. Someone else could have registered the name and used it to put up 3 picture of their cat. Then you'd have to approach and buy it from them.

That said I can certainly understand the frustration that people feel in trying to obtain names for their startups (as I consult with these people).
I think more complicated machinery fits the analogy better. Photography, for example. For many people a simple point & shoot camera is good enough (e.g., notepad). They start quickly, they are cheap, and they get the job done, but push the boundaries and you'll wish you had more. For others who want more power, there are digital slr cameras with a wealth of features available (e.g., VS/Eclipse). Then there are those who insist that their 1970s vintage film camera will always outperform the latest technology (e.g., Emacs/Vim).

Another analogy that I thought of was heavy machinery (they are complicated machines that are designed for complicated tasks), but I have no idea if there are construction workers that discuss the merits of Japanese vs American earth mover design or think the controls from some 1980s era Russian dump truck can never be matched.
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I don't use XCode regularly--so I honestly wouldn't know. If the rant was about that constant crashing, I wouldn't have said anything.
>(And, also, that if we want to help the poorest off, we need to pull some lever other than tax policy.)

Yes, 100% true. I agree: the resolution obviously lies in pursuing redistribution more aggressively.

I'm just uncomfortable with regressive solutions as a whole. If your answer is "it raises overall revenue which allows more redistribution" I may be persuaded, but again your correlation between Gini coefficients and the regressiveness of a given tax system feels specious at best.

I reserve the right to admit that I am wrong at a later date, however.
Working too hard is a big deal. It leads to burn out.

Being too much of perfectionist means that you can't deal with it when others just want to slap a bandaid on issues to get the job done for now.

Sure you might put a shysters grin on it, as if you're really revealing a positive trait but the reality is much different I think.
Indeed, you don't explicitly make that assumption. It's just the only one I could think of that would make any sense of your leap from "quality software takes a long time to make" to "hackathons are nonsense". If you won't warrant that assumption, then I don't know what the point of the article is.