skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can answer #3

It will be done by the date you want it done. Easy.

What changes is scope. You may not have all features, but it will be out of the door every coupe Weeks.
while I agree that it sucks, that would be really hard to change.

if parking pages were to become illegal, it wouldn't take long for parking providers to turn in to "blog hosters" or whatever.

I see empty storefronts in prime areas of SF all the time... I guess the owner's just looking for a big pay day.

sucks, but i don't think there's anything you can do.
In the area of trademarks I believe, you need to demonstrate that you are not just "parking" the name but also actually taking actions to sell and market the product/service. A similar regulation should be applied for websites to ensure they are using it for the proposed purpose.
Awesome! Merged it in and updated the site. Thanks!
Another good answer is "It doesn't matter. We're going to be re-estimating each time we close a sprint anyway."
That comment is perfect. I'm a developer that loves buying domain names that strike a chord. I'll get to that idea one day! I get approached a few times a year and the author touched on a lot of feeling a seller goes through when being approached via email. I've ignored a few requests because I can tell the prospective buyer is not serious. I'd be much more likely to "think" about a serious offer in an initial email.
Great question!

This is analogous to asking, “How does life as we know it differ from rust? They both grow..."

There is such a thing as trivial replication, the trick is non-trivial replication. I don’t have the background to give you the formal definition, but my layman’s understanding is that non-trivial replication works from a description of a thing and a general-purpose factory that makes things from descriptions.

I think the formal definition says something about the information encoded in the thing that is replicating.

A fundamental questions mathematicians and computer scientists asked themselves in the first half of the 20th century was whether it was possible for a factory+description to be encoded in the description. 70 years later, we know the answer. but at that moment, it wasn’t obvious how this could be done: If the factory required space F for itself and the description of the factory required space d(F), F+d(F) seemed to be larger than d(F), so the description of a factory plus the description of the description of a factory seems intuitively larger than the description of a factory, call it d(F+d(F)).

This seemed to go on ad infinitem, so how could you make a description such that when handed to the factory, the factory would make another factory AND copy the description so you would end up with a new factory plus a new description? Smart people figured out how to do this theoretically with things like the lambda calculus.

John von Neumann was interested in self-replciating robots. Stanislaw Ulam had been working with CAs and suggested von Neumann try buildinga self-replicating CA on these lines, and von Neumann showed this could be done with a 29-state CA. This led to John Horton Conway’s radical simplification that we call “Life” today, and it has been both proven and demonstrated that Life is a universal computing machine. You can build self-replciating patterns that have encoded descriptions, universal Turing machines, hexadecimal calculators, and just about everything else.

Some of the most amusing oddities actually “output” numbers and letters organized as dots as if printed by a dot matrix printer!

Warning: Life is addictive but unremunerative.
Dog or Tail: REST or Hypermedia?
Stypi is a more mature project with more features. Also they use the ACE-editor which arguable is more feature-rich (though poorer in documentation IMHO).

My project is open source: https://github.com/werg/snucode
So it's also an example use of the Node.js websockets framework SocketStream.

Furthermore I do operational transformation a bit differently (presumably, not sure how they do it): http://gpickard.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/my-approach-to-oper...
Yes. It was 7 years ago. I said "answering stock interview questions" ... and still got the job.
Keep in mind that a large amount of the time you see a splash screen (or five) in a game it's not because of loading, it's because of marketing.
I'll be paying attention to what disaffected Ubuntu users switch to... but I'll try the new Ubuntu out before I (possibly) switch away.
I don't know of any kickstarter that has offered equity.

I think the reason you do not need to be an accredited investor is that: they are not investments.
Why is the trend today towards installations like this?

curl install.amon.cx | bash

I'm looking at you, rvm, npm et al. Yeah, I'd just love you to poop files randomly into my filesystem, with no tracking, and a completely non-standard uninstall process (if I'm lucky enough to have one at all).

We evolved package management for a reason - I know it's a pain to have to make a .deb, a .rpm and a .tar.gz - but is it really that much more work than making an entirely custom install script?
"Many Domain Owners Think They're Sitting On A Lottery Ticket"
"I don't use them, therefore they don't exist"?

Of course Photoshop has plenty of new features each version. Just because you don't use them doesn't mean other people don't. It's a known problem: Everyone only uses 10% of the features in software but everyone has a different 10%.
Pinterest Allows Websites to Block Pinning
I don't see why that would affect anything.

You can always link to the framework, so at worst your user will find the site a few seconds slower to load.

Then if there is adoption, you can always be included in the next build of the browser. All these frameworks tend to be tiny(i.e. jquery is huge, but is something like 30 kb), so nothing is stopping the browser from including all the possible frameworks on the harddrive.
Wow. If your PC is on you will be able to stream video (and browse pictures and files) with a 2 factor authorization. Pretty impressive (even though that probably won't be available outside US). They took their sweet time with the SkyDrive desktop app but it seems it's worth it
If you don't like the choices made by Canonical for Ubuntu, just use Debian.
Comic about electronic music makers and hackers
I like the idea of getting together to demo stuff you are working on more than hackathons.
For a fun time, check out some of the statistics for large organizations with Github accounts (e.g. Joyent, Mozilla), or simply bask in the monochromatic majesty of Torvalds.

Does anyone know where the source for this data is? I was poking around in Github's API for this sort of thing just last week, with no luck.
You're definitely spot on, as evidenced by the fact that you can get lost merely browsing Kickstarter now. It's a repository of interesting people doing interesting things with signal/noise ratio far higher than the rest of the web.
With respect... What sort of answers do you get that encourage you to hire the interviewee? What do you actually learn from the answers?

The reason I've always disliked it is that it's just begging for a silly response. Sure, I have weaknesses; but you are asking someone to brag about the things they do poorly at the same time they want to make the best impression. That does not encourage or reward honestly.

It also feels like a "cheater" question, and makes me feel the way I do when a sports news person asks a team member, "How big is this victory for you?" What the heck does she think he is going to say: "I really don't care that we won"?
Apple replaces GCC with LLVM and Clang. Both are open source.
I'm pretty sure this exact Stack Exchange post was linked on HN before.
Convore was a pretty big hit at PyCon 2011. It was useful because it allowed people to create different rooms for each event going on at the conference. It worked really, really well.

Too bad it wasn't a product that could be sold. The technology and site were cool and worked well.
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James,
I really appreciated the article and the additional explanation.

I tried to figure out a way to word this question, so forgive me if it isn't clear but:

Did Steve Jobs even do the right thing? What I mean by that is that if you had 10 companies would you want all those CEOs making what seems to be illogical decisions in the off chance you get an Apple?

Take Blockbuster for example, sure they obviously did the wrong thing in hindsight, but no one, and I mean no one thought netflix was going to be as successful as it was when it first started. I remember thinking, gosh, that is a lot of mailing expense for $7/month.

How many ideas came along and went that were not worth replicating? I'm sure there are tons.

There is probably some new network being worked on right now that will displace facebook in 10 years. Should facebook radically change the way they do business to adopt to that new basically unknown threat?
I had totally forgotten about that patent.
The title is "How to Acquire a Domain Name (That Someone Already Owns)"

But the article essentially deals only with how to contact the owner.

It doesn't deal at all with strategy or research required to acquire a domain name at a fair price.

Acquiring a domain name is much more than contacting the owner. It's how you contact the owner and what you say and even how you say it. And who you appear to be and a host of other factors. It's what your initial offer is (and while some will say don't make the first offer that is not always correct) and even how long it takes you to reply to a counter or how that is handled.

There is much to the strategy (on both buy and sell side).

And even if you are using an intermediary to make offers on your behalf you will have to use a strategy with them as well.
What are startups all about? People and Ideas
I've acquired 2 or 3 registered domains in my life, so not that much experience. However, I get the feeling that people dare to ask more money when they have time to think about it, ie. acquiring via email. When I acquired my first domain, I didn't email, but simply called the person up. Worked like a charm!
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At no cost you could connect to the channel with IRCII (or pick any other logging bot/client), activate logging and write a shell script to pull the logs into a website at midnight every day.
Towards a better google reader chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fdnglondfcmoiakaol...
But the situation you describe should only happen once for each time you install or update what is a relatively major component of the OS.
I don't mind the some of the directions they have taken with Unity (I've switched to Gnome 3 at this time, I feel more comfortable it, even with no shutdown/restart option in menu ;p) but the shear lack of ability to customize is really annoying. I understand them choosing defaults but why take away all ability to customize?

Also, some changes still make no sense to me, the buttons on the left still annoy me. The dock sometimes interferes with those buttons when the windows aren't maximized.

I guess I'm no longer their target audience. I feel sad about that as their really isn't many alternative I find appealing. I could use Debian directly but I still find that Ubuntu was doing a great job at cleaning up tedious issues with Linux. Their new installer that asks questions while writing files to disk is such an obvious thing it should have been done years ago. There is plenty of other areas that they've truly improved in the Linux experience. The last UI stuff is just not there yet.

I'll continue to use it with Gnome 3 for now.
Flash intros are the fault of the people who made them, not the software used to create them. When HTML5 canvas replaces Flash for such things will you then blame HTML5?
Initially I started using emacs for AUCTeX, a great extension for LaTeX. Now it's become almost it's own OS as I can run Matlab (using Matlab mode), and several terminals from it (using ansi-term). If you're using ansi-term, just remember that C-c k is char mode (direct terminal entry), and C-c j is line mode, allowing you to use the power of emacs.
>2. The iPhone was launched when it was clear that mobile phone would integrate MP3 functions, and the iPod market would die. But it was more profitable than the iPod, so no dilemma here.
The real test for the innovator's dilemma is:you develop and sell a new product that might HURT your profits ,but is the future of the industry because it's better or cheaper, and you understand that having some some slice of the(smaller) future is better than nothing.

I disagree with your point that the iPhone was clearly going to be more profitable than the iPod. Data plans were expensive and the speed of AT&Ts network at the time of original release was horrendous. These obstacles alone were enough to kill the iPhone. Dropping the price from $699 to $299 and now lower really drove the explosion in demand. The margins they made on the iPhone at this point, I imagine, would call your claim into question.

Additionally, the iPod was not a one dimensional device. Apple made its real money off of iTunes exclusivity. The first gen iPhone was an insanely expensive iPod at the time with the added cost of a data plan. Apple absolutely crushed it when they created the App Store. The App Store is what ultimately catapulted the iPhone's profit margins way past the iPod. The world would look very different if the iPhone had remained an internet enabled iPod and cell phone.
> People here are reading way too much into it.

You are Dave Winer. How can you expect people to not read into it, especially one with such a provocative title?
It you truly believe this is right to give users from countries where you can not sell, use your software for free (not stealing/pirating), just give away free license once they could confirm they are from these countries. This way I do not have to pirate/steal it, and you got distribution in country where otherwise your software would not be presented.

I've seen this model, often with russian companies giving away their software for free to russian customers (only versions with russian interface) and selling software for real bucks for everybody else. I do not see a reason why this could not be adapted.

But! Adobe, Apple, etc countries do not want to give their software for free. It will damage their brand and/or dilute user base. And it is their right to limit whom they want to sell/give software, and to whom - not. And you can not justify stealing software by the fact owner do not allow you (for any reasons) to buy it.

Use opensource software if you are limited in buying options. Do not steal!
> it doesn't really matter if your opinion of them drops

Of course it matters, unless you don't care who you work for. You're interviewing the company just as much as they're interviewing you.
C++11 is a very modern language. It seems to be moving faster than Java these days.
Startup idea for someone?

I know YC funded http://www.co2stats.com/ to "Green Certify" a website. "Fair trade" labels work for selling some higher-end products. I would probably lend my attention to advertisers and advertising networks that have some sort of "scum-free" label.

I don't see any solution in terms of mandates. Ignoring the difficulty (near-impossibility?) of adding certain mandates to registration, it would probably introduce bigger problems than it solved.

I do agree it's a problem though. Sometimes, it's actually pretty disgusting. I wanted to make a forum for people with an extremely rare type (300 US cases per year) of cancer that I had about a year back. The domain name that was the name of the disease was owned by a guy parking it. He wanted about 10k for it. The sad thing I don't think that is a crazy offer in the case of the domain name's present value from parking clicks. Medical terms are valuable...

...On the other hand, from a patient perspective, half those links were to websites peddling really bad and sometimes dangerous advice, in addition to the usual "Vitamin C will cure cancer" garage.
Why the IT labor market doesn't clear
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It looks like Pinterest with relabeled buttons.
If you ask the question in the light of "how many people use this, compared to active Gmail users?" (11,616 vs ~ 200 million [1] = .006%), and then ask "how much is it worth to block this?" (probably a very small number), I personally come up with "a very very long time, if ever" for your "how long until..." question.

[1]: http://www.quora.com/Gmail/How-many-total-active-Gmail-users...
Module-based application template for Titanium
What nonsense. I'm Canadian, I had symptoms of an arrythmia, went to a GP to describe what was happening, and I had an ECG done and bloodwork drawn at a nearby lab less than an hour later. This was all while I was not exhibiting symptoms.

Like msbarnett says, you can't just roll into a clinic and say "I don't feel well and I'm scared and my cousin who's totally a doctor thinks this is what I should do! Also an MRI please!" Go see a doctor, and let them decide what diagnostic tests are appropriate, and you'll get them done.
That was the purpose of linking to the Fred Wilson blog post comment. It covers almost everything you just mentioned. This post is an outline for others to handily reference.
I've asked this question of interviewees in the past. (Though I don't much anymore.)

It's sort of a stupid question, but so what? I don't think I've ever disqualified anyone based on their answer, but for sure there were candidates who answered it really well and it helped them.

I notice the people who can't answer this question also tend to be the people who have a hard time explaining why someone would choose Rails over Java, or identifying strengths and weaknesses of PHP, or expressing a strong opinion about anything.
Any change in the legal structure of domain name ownership will challenge the ownership of all domain holders. That's really scary.
If you control your reactions to these things, you have a stronger will than me. This interpretation from the OP lines up better with my observations of myself and everyone I know who gets text messages, Facebook notifications, email notifications, or a red box at the top of a white page:

These notifications are not meaningful requests for your immediate attention, they're things designed to get you to lose half your day to the service that created them. That's evil.

No one understands human behavior and motivation, conscious or otherwise, better than advertisers. Google and Facebook are the new advertisers, and thanks to the internet they now have better data than ever on how people respond to what's put in front of them.
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I saw this header a few days ago in curl, and I wondered why Google would send something like this. Now I know.

P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."
It's making a couple of calls: 1) grab the list of repos for the given user, 2) use the "List languages" call to the github repo API to pull in the language data for each repo.

http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/
I still get a weekly email from Convore telling me about new posts in the groups I belong to, and when I try to click through to them, I get sent to arbitrary pages. How can one unsubscribe from the mails?
Two candidates have Javascript skills that are a bit weaker than you'd like. All other things being equal, you would prefer the candidate who already knows they need to work on their Javascript over the one who doesn't, right?
Think form factors, not PCs
Articles about static code analysis
Reviews of articles about static code analysis: http://www.viva64.com/en/r/tag/code-analysis/

My favorite: A Few Billion Lines of Code Later - http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lines-of-code-later/fulltext
This is one instance where the github documentation is lacking. Actually their entire API documentation site could use some serious attention.
Red Dead Redemption dev worked on “interactive girlfriend project” for Microsoft
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Even Seagulls Know What A Horrible Person Chris Brown is..
Windows 7 already does remote streaming.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/feature...

It's an awesome feature that not many people know they have.
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+1

I think it's also important to follow up with how you've been improving it over the last few months. "I sometimes do #{bad_thing}" is a good start, but I want to know what you're doing to work on it. If it truly is your "biggest weakness" and you're doing nothing to overcome it, nohire.
Like the original author I was also speaking from the perspective of an early stage startup. I should've been clearer. I'm sure you're right about AdWords being sold that way but in the end sales, real sales, costs money that the companies don't have. It's a chicken/egg situation. You've got something people need but no ones using it because you need to pay people to sell it. In the beginning that won't work unless you're paying pure commission and even then you've got to have a really healthy margin per sale for it to work like the author says.
Nope, programmer time is indeed not free. But so many of the people reading HN are trying to "go wide" and appeal to very large audiences. Quite often they are services offered in some sort of freemium model where you hope that the user comes to love and depend on your service. That depends on a positive experience.

You're thinking like your existing users will have to "pay more" to get a faster experience, when in reality you are losing money because of the would-be users who give up and go away. A few days spent reducing load times and ironing out delays can make an application feel fast and increase conversion rates. Plus it makes everyone feel good about using the product. Delay==Frustration.

Now if you're lucky, perhaps your startup is in a situation like Adobe where they pretty much have a lock on high-end graphics editing and can say, "You will wait for our splash screen because you have no other choice and we're kinda busy making money here so just wait." That kind of thinking will get your users mad, but since you were lucky. But they'll remember, and have no qualms about bailing out the first chance they get.
> Now each instruction (increment, load register, occasionally multiply) invokes >10M transistor operations

This was the most interesting statement in the slides to me. Can someone explain why so many?