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> YardSale sounds to me like a more beautiful, mobile centered Craigslist

This emphasis on aesthetics gets banded around a lot every time someone releases a competitor to something else ("but look, it's more beautiful!"). However in this case I don't think it matters. eBay is cluttered and ugly to the point of being painful to use, yet people use it. Craiglist isn't winning any UI design prizes any time soon. But people use it in droves. Perhaps in this case time and money would have been better spent on effective viral or traditional marketing rather than on making the app pretty, because as some people are already pointing out, without that first minimum viable critical mass of buyers and sellers, this will get nowhere. Also, mobile only... seems really weird to me.
"It's not like the DJ is doing anything but playing other people's songs"
They actually built and ran those nuclear-powered jet engines! The two test beds are sitting in front of the EBR1 building near Arco, ID. I happened by it on the way home from a very long motorcycle trip:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lhoriman/3763287997/in/set-7215...

They ran the engines on the ground, and ran the reactor in the plane, but never had the reactor hooked up to engines in a plane. It would have been a horrible idea; to save weight, airflow ran through the reactor core, spewing radionuclides out the exhaust and contaminating everything it flew over. Not to mention the mess a crash would make.

More information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion
You've written hundreds, if not thousands, of words in response to this article (about a neat hardware hack lets remember. You've been on a tangent since square one...) accusing vi users of "being tribal" and "drinking cool aid", pounding your own chest, attacking the HN voting system, and in general just doing your damnedest to start yet another editor flamewar.

Then somebody suggests that you are acting trollish, and to you that is simply uncalled for.

Really?
Why I can't use this:

"This app will have access to your entire Dropbox."

Which still happens with pretty much every Dropbox app, despite fine-grained permissions many months ago. Dropbox, love the app, but the company needs a strong developer relations programme to get messages like this out.
I somehow agree with you, LaTeX formulas are simply easy to type, while typing MathML syntax is a bit involved. However, as I somewhere pointed out, I'm thinking at HTML5 as a product, not necessarily to be authored manually. A Textile/Markdown variant could easily handle LaTeX-style formulas and translate them to MathML for HTML5 publishing.
I accidentally created another bug that also crashes every single version of internet explorer. It's related to putting a filter: progID into an element modified by javascript.
There are a few absolute and total lies buried in .edu, and have been for decades.

I hesitate to mention the domain names, because I appreciate the humor in them.

Also because they were approved by John Postel himself, and he was a good guy.
This is also a big problem we have encountered, and I've even summed up most of the workarounds and hacks you have to employ to gain speed.

https://speakerdeck.com/u/hdragomir/p/fast-mobile-uis

It's still a long way to go from there, though.

I work on Pocket Island, at wooga.
I nearly burst out laughing when I read "Hacker Noise".
Awesome. I'll see what I can do
Great catch as always. I wish you'd included a tag so we could see how your post is spreading.
Day-a-tee sounds about right - but I'm not precious. It was a deliberate miss-spelling of "pie" with some other letters added on... and quite possibly a mistake.
That's very inspiring, but the reality is that many people are victims, and there are many who try to keep you down even if they don't know you exist. Society has a power structure, and those in power try to stay just where they are. One of the things working in their favor is that you, apparently, don't know who they are.

The bottom line is that you can do a lot to better your fortune, and there might be some quite powerful forces working against you. So your life outcome is a combination of your effort, social circumstances and a lot of sheer luck.
Editing efficiency, which is what everyone else here is talking about, is (I suspect), completely unrelated to business efficiency (which seems to be what you are primarily talking about). Your Bill Joy quote is talking about editing efficiency.

I do not suggest that editing efficiency has a measurable impact on business efficiency, and I do not see anyone here suggesting that it does.

You seem to be under the impression that when people talk about editing efficiency that they are meaning to imply business efficiency. This is what I was saying when I said you have constructed a straw man.
As far as I'm aware the debate of lognormal vs power law distribution on wealth is unsettled.

EDIT: google search suggests power law tail - log normal bulk.
Agreed. It's more an alternative to Minix (or Unix). If he wanted an alternative to Windows, he would have written ReactOS.
New Zealand is a small country highly dependent on the US for trade and tourism. If the US says "jump", our police and politicians are probably going to jump, whether or not it's merited. Hopefully now that the pressure is off a bit our court system can sort out the questions of merit properly.
"every time ICANN decides to add TLDs"? There are Top-Level Domains. You can't go any higher without knocking everything else down a level. ICANN has already decided that the top-level namespace is up for grabs, and the $2K fee is a one-time payment to protect your mark. Am I missing something? How can they "decide to add TLDs again?"
The problem was getting fresh content (missions, better assets, what have you) to the user.
If you go with long autonomy, you get a fairly static game which you can update in big jumps.
If you go with fast updates, you sometimes delay the startup of the app.

Either way, getting your application across initially can take some time.
Originally, the game was meant to run within the Facebook app -- for which you would always need internet so we had to optimize for fast delivery.

I work on Pocket Island, at wooga.
Made one of these to enter and exit strafe mode in Quake, way back before decent mice were commonly available. It worked fine; I put it away when I got my first Razor Boomslang.
Nope, once you scroll to the bottom of the article it loads some extra stuff then you have to hit back an extra time.
Funny story, the early version of Heroku was an in-browser editor, roundabout October '07. They're vim guys - but it didn't feel much like vim.
Gee, I kind of hate to say this, but my expensive genetic disorder is why I am deeply in debt and homeless. It is not due to lack of intelligence, ineptitude, etc. It is simply expensive to treat. So I have difficulty with the idea that our genes in no way impact this outcome. I was STAR student, a national scholarship winner, etc ad nauseum. In fact, I am in financial trouble because I figured out how to get well when that is supposedly impossible. It all came out of my pocket.
Maybe, but the lucky ones who get into the good schools because their parents can donate a building or two, will also do well no matter how lazy or stupid they are, so life's still unfair.
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> It is really uncool how quickly other startups are to snipe at each other.

You abandoned your paying B2B clients, and left them holding the ball with annoyed customers and damaged cash flow. Isn't it unfair then to complain that they are badmouthing you?

Out of professionalism (if not contractual obligation), this situation should have been better handled. Finance is all about trust in questions such as: will they pay me? can my customers have faith in them? what happens if there's a problem?

To be fair, FeeFighters isn't the worst transitional incidident in recent history (AlertPay's was much worse), and hasn't harmed the most people (ePassporte and iBill before it were terrible).

I'm not one of your clients, and before this fiasco I had quite a bit of respect for FeeFighters, but in the future I'll find myself vary wary about using any financial product you create or invest in.
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Then, in the spirit of your last comment, for making pretty games on mobile devices, stick to native for now.

I work on Pocket Island, at wooga.
Funny, I've heard all these same complaints about second-level domains.

It's a human-readable addressing scheme. At some point, words will be used. The more memorable, the more usable. All those words that were "too important" to be used as TLDs should be allowed as TLDs precisely because they are important.

TLDs should be open to any string of characters, unicode if possible, and registrars should have universal single price registration fees for any site on any domain.

If in that nightmare world .llama should be bought by a fad in comfortable footwear, depriving some Llama rancher's association of their god-given rights to address space, we will just have to hope Mother Earth will somehow learn to heal.

Instead of imagining future conflicts, we should look at TLD behavior right now. Look at the rise of super short TLDs flooding profits to random countries. It might make you realize that appending the meaningless ".com" at the end of everything is a giant waste of time, since people will pay so handsomely to avoid this, all proceeds to random lottery winners like Tuvalu. (Nothing against Tuvalu, who undoubtedly needs the money for boats to leave their poor drowning island.)

If you look into what consumers want, instead of the complaints of a few random interest groups, it'd be clear we should somehow be able to go to "google" instead of "google.com" or "wiki" instead of "wikipedia.org" or "bit" instead of "bit.ly." Chinese users should be able to spell Baidu in their natural language, without resorting to a half-assed toneless Westernization.

ICANN's biggest mistake is not going far enough. They should chuck the whole TLD system and start from scratch, driven by the revealed preferences of those who actually browse the internet.
I would like to read a proposal for arbitrary names in a federated, peer to peer, global, and consistent naming system.

For anything really, but let's start with domain names, since we're on the topic.
I always get confused when I run apps like this and they don't work initially. If you use Vimium, press i when this starts up.
3.1 was very popular at that time. Macs were also more common, although their popularity was eroding. If you wanted Unix you'd probably run it on a 680x0 or RISC box. We all thought RISC would be the future. Linux started in the 386 era. By then, Microsoft owned the PC space. CP/M was a distant memory.
You are maybe thinking that it is difficult to identify powerlaws? (EDIT: s/identify/statistically verify/; s/powerlaws/TRUE powerlaws/)

But look: http://globalrichlist.com/how.html The bulk is indeed powerlaw.

Maybe you are thinking that a sufficiently winsorised US income distribution is lognormal.
In the case of this particular study, it seemed that the quality of the school as a factor was overshadowed by the desire to learn, as shown by the attempt to get into a better school. This does not mean that the quality of the school does not matter, simply that desire to learn matters much more.
You've never done DR have you? It's a business process with a cost and there are RTO's (recovery time objectives) and RPO's (recovery point objectives). Systems can and will go down. So long as the recovery meets the defined objectives, then DR has been performed correctly. There is a limited amount of money and resources that businesses can spend on DR, COOPs, etc. You should understand that.

One hour RTO and RPO will cost way more than 24 hour recovery. Edit... and the business managers decide how much they wish to spend on DR. It's a trade-off and anyone who has ever done it, understands that.
No matter how many different platforms developers can target with a Win8 Metro app, the starting number of third-party apps for that platform is zero. There are no current Windows 7 desktop or phone apps or XBLA apps that will run on a Win8 phone. In some cases, porting will probably be easier than it otherwise would be, but it's still going to take some work.

Any game that already runs on smartphones will need to replace OpenGL ES with DirectX, and any app that currently runs on a Microsoft platform will need to be re-designed to work on a touchscreen, and still probably also re-write the whole GUI to use Metro.

The best that Microsoft can expect with Win8 as they are currently planning is for the first several months of app releases to be hasty ports that get their platform some credibility but don't actually make it look better than the alternatives, with good apps starting to show up by the end of the first year. But there's no way they'll close the gap quickly with anything other than badly-ported apps.

And in the meantime, barring massive bribery/subsidies from Microsoft, the only people who will be buying Windows phones are "early adopters" who just want to play with something different. That crowd isn't big enough to fund direct competition with Android and iOS.
Since you have done math previously, the best way to ramp up rapidly is not through fluff material geared towards beginners and to focus on stuff that will actually force you to learn. You might have noticed that the only way to acquire mathematical intuition is to solve lots and lots of problems.

One possible path to follow:

1. Start off with Sheldon Axler's Linear Algebra done right. This is a more theoretical book (than Strang) but should help keep you challenged and motivated. Work through most of the problems. The best way to attack the proofs is to do them yourself.

2. Feller is the best probability book barring none. This is the kind of stuff that Persi Diaconis went through. Solve as many problems as possible but remember that trying to finish it all will take you years.

3. An excellent introductory stats book that doesn't assume you are an immature child is Freedman's book on statistics. This focuses less on the math and more on what statistics really means. Techniques in stats are fairly trivial but using them right is hard.

4. Calculus is useful stuff. As you go through your probability education, you will eventually hit the world of continuous probability which requires a good amount of calculus to go through. Spivak is an awesome book which should prepare you for that.

5. Learn some real analysis. Real analysis from the machine learning perspective is useful because a lot of measure theoretic arguments in research papers have underpinnings here.
Thanks for the analysis, grandpa.
I'm not confused by what it is after hearing the definition, I am however confused as to why they chose such a stupid name.
Indeed. Remapping inventory would be horrible.
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How Facebook's unique visitor numbers could turn into self-fulfilling prophecy
More Diablo III wackiness (conversation about "72 hour trial" mode)
If you want to make up stuff about Microsoft, at least make up something believable instead of straight up nonsense FUD.
Interesting. I didn't mean to discount that possibility and my strong reaction to the GP's implication was in the opposite direction as my comment looks in retrospect. I think health issues are a huge cause of poverty for families that were uninsured or didn't have sufficient coverage and I could definitely understand that happening with congenital cases. I'm sorry I came across so un-understanding, I was reading the parent-parent comment as "people are born lazy" which I found myself annoyed at. There are a lot of "poor people get what they deserve/are lazy" comments here that are dressed up to seem nicer (that frustrate me) and sadly I managed to (to you at least) come off even more sourly because I didn't express myself properly. Apologies.
> A year after graduation, ten of the first sixteen Clemente Course graduates were attending four-year colleges or going to nursing school; four of them had received full scholarships to Bard College. The other graduates were attending community college or working full-time. Except for one: she had been fired from her job in a fast-food restaurant for trying to start a union.

It sounds like it was successful to me.
It sickens me that Citigroup acknowledged they fraudently bought loans without the required documentation and even in some cases said documentation was forged or incomplete and all they got was a $185 million slap on the wrist. What makes matters worse is that the people who have these mortgages are completely oblivious as to what is going on. What makes the whole situation even more laughable is the fact they got billions in bailout cash and yet were only fined $185 million.

They didn't deny the allegations, why didn't someone go to jail over this? They breached mortgage regulations and by the sounds of it most of their purchased loans were fraudelent. Disgusting.

Even after the housing bubble popped it surprises me that banks are still doing these kinds of things. The saying history repeats itself couldn't be more true even if it tried.
Unfortunately, the objection process is thoroughly stupid. If I recall correctly, there's a fee of several thousand dollars to file an objection to an application!
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Risk management is about determining how to identify risks, as such, it is applicable everywhere. However, much like security is applicable everywhere, securing Fort Knox is a very different endeavor than securing a web site.
Yeah, I was hung up on that as well. Obviously no reflection on the product/code/whatever, but when you go with "sounds like", try to pick a word that can only be pronounced one possible way.
It should be noted that libel law in particular does treat attacks on politicians differently than attacks on the rest of us, so Carreon's response of "I am not a politician" (in response to the apparent discrepancy between his ranting about Bush and his complaints about Oatmeal's ranting about him) is actually not as ridiculous a response as it sounds out of context.
Trolling. Really?
This guy is expressing an equally valid argument. And one that I suspect a fair portion of HN readers agree with.
Personally, I thought it was April 1st when I saw a foot pedal for a text editor!?
Accusing him of trolling is really lowest-common-denominator fanboi bullshit. He makes valid arguments, agree to disagree and move on.
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Awesome article. Kudos for sticking to your guns, and I hope your revenues skyrocket, even though credit cards are the worst financial decision anyone could ever make. I'd rather YOU make money on their bad decisions than Chase or Citi.
So there’s good news, there are women on StackOverflow. The visible ones are far below the representative % of women in the industry. So you can safely determine that it’s an unfriendly-to-women place.*

Oy vey...
Cool, works pretty good.
Twitter suffers sustained outage in hacker attack
That's like when I unplugged what I thought was our T1 line, but it turned out it was a neighbor's, who happened to be an ISP, which was a new business direction we were just moving into. And they didn't believe it was an accident...
Same here. Looks like they've deleted it. I couldn't find a cached copy of it either.
> spewing radionuclides out the exhaust and contaminating everything it flew over. Not to mention the mess a crash would make.

Disturbingly, iirc, both of those things were considered to be "features" of the Project Pluto weapon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
No, not at all. I just hate to say it because it does potentially reinforce social darwinism. The reality is that there is some evidence that genetic disorders also correlate to high iq. In other words, it is very likely that my mental ability to solve my problem is rooted in the genetic disorder I have. So I hate listing it as evidence which might empower bigotry and the like. I am different from other people. That has its good points and bad points. But it definitely is the crux of my financial problems.

Peace and have a great day (and an upvote).
HED doesn't tell the whole story - in the article an unidentified security expert is quoted:

One security professional said the group probably used a DDoS-for-hire site to launch an attack against Twitter on Tuesday, but downplayed the likelihood the group was solely responsible for bringing down the social media network.
Your post sums up my fillings _unfortunately_. It's a beautiful dream and I'm glad to see people are willing to back such a project given the high chance of no return.
So are those do's or don't's? Honestly, I thought it was a parody until I got to "learn basic accounting".
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I've heard many an anecdote in support of this, except with the addendum that after a few years of grumbling and increasing in value, they do leave and on bad terms.
Not exactly spaceships, fusion, and feeding Africa, though.
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>but you don't necessarily have it with the tiling window manager and minimal UI applications - take for example the difference in keybindings between xmonad and emacs.

There should be a formalised standard for keyboard based navigation. In fact, two standards might be a better approach - vi-like and emacs-like, since each of them caters to one of the major ways that people think. Having said that, with a little bit of work, you can get most of your daily applications to use vi keybindings (plugins for FF, Thunderbird and Chrome, Vim itself, custom keybindings for the WM, vi-mode for Zsh - in combination they create a programmer's version of Zen).

Thinking about it, I wonder if peoples' preference for these things might come down to their personality type - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator I'm not aware of any studies attempting to draw correlations between these things but, given how predictable people can be, it wouldn't surprise me if they existed.

>You can fix those issues by modifying the configs, but that's an even further level of learning that most people have no chance of ever doing.

When it comes down to it, the current generation of hardcore tiling WM's are experimental prototypes paving the way for the desktops of tomorrow. Just as many aspects of functional programming are seeping into popular languages, so tiling window management is seeping into popular desktops. I don't know about OS X but Windows 7, Gnome and KDE all support dragging a window's titlebar to the left-most or right-most edge of the screen to vertically tile it. It's extremely basic but it's an obvious influence.
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This video (and 2 others) are now in the hands of the Greece NY police dept. The last I heard (on CNN this morning) was that Karen was not pressing charges since she never felt "threatened". The police are continuing to investigate the case in case she decides to change her mind, and urge everyone to not go all vigilante.
When you say "it's pretty simple: Humans are diverse" you are still making a pretty nebulous statement. What does diversity even mean there? On what basis are you resting your argument that evolution created human diversity, and is not in fact working against it? How do you compare genetic diversity to socioeconomic diversity in a way that is useful or sheds light on their actual relationship?

There is no question genetics play a role, the question is how big of a role do they play? You haven't gotten anywhere close to answering that.