skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The formula you are using looks correct, but the value estimations are mostly wild-ass guesses, particularly the CTR. My own guess is that CTR for t-shirts would be much lower than traditional online ads, but who knows?

Suggestion: create a unique URL on the t-shirts so that you can test effectiveness-- a landing page for the t-shirt. That way you could even test alternative t-shirt designs, if you wanted to.
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> Many people, myself included, were skeptical of the value of Twitter until they used it.

I'm still skeptical and I have used it.
Where should I tweet... when twitter is down!!
Update: Sorry about that, we had a callback error in the public version. All fixed now. Thanks!
Well I didn't make any comparisons like that. Instead I implied an assumption about Hacker News that it's about news that interests hackers (in the lose sense of tech focused people). McD doesn't fit into that assumption. So ... something's gotta change (i.e. the assumption).
I had a great experience with Sean and FeeFighters before they were acquired. I can understand being in a crowded market and eyeing the exit. It could certainly be handled more gracefully. GroupOn should either support the product, or at the very least support people trying to migrate their data away. That's the really frustrating part of this. I lucked out to have this come to a head early on, with only 25 cards vaulted. If you have 250 or 2,500 ... :-(
Wow cit...I've been wondering if this exists for a year now. I remember reading about it when I first started learning vim but it somehow eluded me afterwards. Thanks!

I use ci{ all the time for functions and CSS. It's like magic. Whenever I'm using something like nano, I'll instinctively type what looks like a long string of gibberish: "jjjddo [oh crap] <bs><bs>..."

Once you really start getting used to the language, it makes it frustrating to use anything else.
T-Shirts are boring. That's why we give away embroidered socks! (with embroidered sock of course)

http://pic.twitter.com/1M6w281b
Wow. that's not an editorialized headline by bloomberg.
If Twitter never went down, would it be a bug?
That's definitely something I've been thinking about. It adds another level of complexity though, so I'm taking my time with it.

Do I add some type of "sign-in" functionality to save bookmarks to a profile? Or just let people save bookmarks to a cookie? (by bookmarks, I mean stops)
Copyright protects software, patents protect designs.

For some types of software, say operating systems, the hard work is writing all the lines of code. No device driver is ground breaking, but all those devices have to have device drivers and someone has to write them. The product you end up selling is those lines of code. Copyright protects those specific lines of code you wrote.

For other types of software, the hard part is figuring out how the software should work. That's where all the research dollars and engineer time gets spent. The actual lines of code are often an afterthought. If someone saw the code, they could easily figure out how it works and write an independent implementation. They can do that because writing the lines of code is the easy part. Copyright only protects the lines of code, so it can't help here. That's where patents come in.

In both cases, the law facilitates a division of labor. Copyright lets one company write an operating system, and sell it to others. Copyright creates and protects the subject matter of that transaction. Patents let one company design an algorithm, and sell it to others. Patent law creates and protects the subject matter of that transaction.

Now, I don't think the law should be concerned with protecting particular business models. However, it should be concerned with facilitating the division of labor. Indeed, that's one of the key purposes of property law. And that's why I think software patents have to exist in some form. Because I think it's good to be able to separate the process of design from the process of implementation, and without being able to protect design you can't do that.

I should point out that ARM is a very good example of this design/implementation separation. What do you think ARM uses to protect its designs?
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My son is 1 year 10 mths old.

To people with actual experience - when to start showing cli?
I think you're missing the point that many developers choose vim over "modern" editors because of its highly efficient text-editing capabilities. The same points could be made about emacs.

As to "user friendly" - depends on who the user is. Yes, this text box is infinitely more user friendly than vim when your mom is using it.

That a foot-pedal might make vim more usable has nothing to do with vim being outdated or unusable. Is your operating system broken / outdated because one might find a food pedal driving "alt-tab" more usable or fun?
I think the vector itself is an issue; but I don't think this will make it significantly worse. For any domain, there's already hundreds or thousands of possible similar domains across the existing TLDs - adding a few more TLDs won't make much of a difference.

I also doubt that the future owner of .shoes - whoever that may be - will be stupid enough to devalue his own TLD by selling second-level domains like candy. There's probably more money to be made by banking on its exclusivity.
Good disaster recovery doesn't cost a ton of money, but it does require testing.

In almost every disaster situation I've been a part of, the UPSes have failed. Almost every time.

Disaster recovery has a horrible track record.
Even if you stick with C# and XAML and use no new hardware features, WP 8 will produce a different binary than WP 7 simply due to the differences in the .NET frameworks. WP 7 runs Windows CE with .NET Compact Framework. WP 8 runs Windows NT with the full .NET framework. The Compact Framework is a subset of regular .NET, so 8 will be able to load 7 apps, but not the other way around. (Try making a .NET project that shares code between WPF, Silverlight and WP7 and you'll see what I mean)
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Once I read this comment, I think it clicked. The result of what we calculated is customer acquisition cost. But, we were trying to figure out if T-shirts were worth the upfront cost. I am not a marketer, so I am 100% sure I am confused by the terminology.
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Cato isn't right wing, it is libertarian, which to a first order approximation means conservative on economic issues and liberal on social issues. Among other things, they took a strongly anti-war stance during the Bush administration and have long been in favor of drug legalization and gay marriage, and against abusive police tactics. I don't think anyone would typically call these positions "far right".

I think you may not have a clear picture of what libertarianism (Cato's motivating political philosophy) is. One starting point for learning more is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
Look, no matter what phone or OS is, there will be something that you won't be able to run unless you want to update every piece of hardware/software every few months. There's always a trade-off if you are not trying to be "current" at all costs. It's OK, there're more important things in life than an ability to run a piece of software on the phone.
Maybe it's built only on top of the streaming API? https://dev.twitter.com/status
You mean like holding down ctrl in emacs?
This is amazing. I remember being horrified after seeing this on reddit a few days ago. Glad there's somethiing we can all do -- this campaign really shows internet support and kindness in a great light.
Exactly. My first company did this for me, and I stayed and was loyal for 2 years beyond when they stopped treating me fairly. I'd still be there, happy and productive, if they had continued paying me what I was worth instead of claiming the economy wouldn't let me.

Shortly after I left, they put out a job posting for 7 people, each at more than I would have accepted to stay.

The job I left for was paying even more than that job posting, and I'm still here today.

So why did they do that? Why treat me fairly initially, then stop? They didn't really gain much. I was unhappy for 2 years and my job performance suffered for it. They replaced me with people who didn't have my knowledge of their systems, and they paid them more. It was absolute insanity.
Here's a moving head Lego Turing machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYw2ewoO6c4

I'd be more interested in a Lego Turing machine that isn't using a microprocessor to run the motors and sensors. I believe I saw a link to such once, but can't find it now.
I'm going to try this: inoremap jj <Esc>

I normally use C-c. Is there a way to make the time between j...j to be really short? Like the delay for it to count as a double press? I'd like to reduce any chance of accidental typing (although I can't see any reason I'd type "jj" a lot).
That's actually a completely valid test to run: what happens when the API's results change on you? You should test that.
yep @hendler LOL @MattRogish RT I just ate lunch. It was sooo good! [Checked in to Shake Shack, NYC]
I'll be excited if it also serves Earl Grey, hot.
This is an interesting idea. However, I think the result would be people searching for the company name, rather than typing in the URL.
A camera that takes gigapixel photos?
To me the CTR seems reasonable, if anything I would guess that 0.14% is a low estimate. The conversion rate on the other hand is sky high. Even for a free software product expecting a 7% conversion rate on fairly untargeted traffic is unreasonable.
Suddenly, Microsoft's purchase of Skype makes a lot more sense.
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I made a chrome extension to clean up my news feed a while back. With help from others its getting better and better (doesn't need any privs, just cleans up the page):
https://github.com/dforsyth/gh-girdle
I completely agree with you that adding cross-linking to referenced papers would make research hundred of time easier. On the other hand, I think that that would be better served by adding link support to the bibtex parts of pdflatex than switching entirely to HTML5.

As for the rest, I was referring to the literal \footnote command. I'm not sure that the CSS approach is really the best, simply because you don't view webpages the way that you view printed documents. As you scroll down, you'd have footnote bars at the bottom of the screen populating and depopulating depending on which marks just entered or left the screen. That would grow nauseating very quickly. It might be better to include some sort of mouse-over method, but that still feels hacky.
Ctrl+w for switching split windows.

Ctrl+u,d for page up and down.

Ctrl+e,y for shifting the screen up and down.

Ctrl+],t for moving in and out of tags (with ctags).

Ctrl+v for visual block mode.

Ctrl+[ instead of escape.

Ctrl+p,n for autocomplete.

Ctrl+r for redo.

Ctrl+o,i navigate location jump history.

...and probably more that I don't know about.

Additionally:

I have Ctrl+h,l mapped for tab switching.

Terminal multiplexers like tmux and screen use Ctrl for switching terminal sessions.
I find it interesting that this is what you took out of the story. I'm not suggesting it's wrong. My immediate reaction was:

1) These kids are evil.
2) Are they spoiled rich kids?
3) How do I reduce the odds of my kid behaving like that in 10 years.

btw - I'd like to hope the kid who video-taped it knew exactly what he /she was doing. Maybe a silver lining in an otherwise depressing bus ride (that and the 100k).
This is going to be a much bigger problem for indies than it will be for AAA devs.

Treyarch aren't going to be worried about anybody cloning Call Of Duty, not because the gameplay is hard to copy or especially innovative but simply because they have put up big technical and artistic barriers to making anything close to their game.

Pandemic for example looks like something that could be cloned pretty exactly over a week or two by an MBA type with $1000 worth of outsourced developers. This doesn't make the game bad, it's just that some genres don't require much technical sophistication.

Having said that , minecraft clones do not seem to have been particularly successful in comparison to the original. Perhaps because minecraft is sophisticated enough that it would be difficult to keep up with the original. It would be interesting to see what the result would be if a AAA developer decided to release a huge budget but shameless minecraft clone.
The engineering that goes into macbooks or nest is not comparable to the angry birds art assets or their launching tweak. That also ignores the fact that the former are physical products that also require an entire ongoing, expensive and complex manufacturing process.

The casual game market, at this point, is more about luck than anything else. These companies produce game after game, many with an equal amount of polish to angry birds, hoping that one lottery winning recipe. Draw Something is another good example, minus the polish. Zynga's entire company is based on this understanding. Their strategy is to wait until they observe a success by another developer, then produce their own more polished version of that product. Thus they get all of the profit and none of the risk or cost of experimentation.

The market is not "rewarding" anything. It doesn't have ethics, it doesn't recognize innovation, it doesn't recognize hard work nor difficulty of implementation. The allocation of profits in the casual games market is as fickle, nonsensical, and random as musical pop stars. The music industry has learned how to "manufacture" pop stars and the casual games industry is now starting learn to do the same in their market.

I also feel that pop stars have unwarranted sums of money allocated to them. Obviously I am in the minority in this feeling however, and that is ok.
I recently tried this with something I talk about often, which is The Overview Effect and why I think it's important to think about in relation to data visualization. Using a tool that was more visual than a blog post, but not clickclickclick like slides + speaker notes was really helpful.

http://shashashasha.thenewhive.com/the-overview-effect
But VC investing is a hit-driven business. One big hit, like a Dropbox, funds all the rest. Unless you're really good at picking horses, you'll have the same median as everyone else.
.com was for companies originally. It's been a long time since that was true.
That's not really fair, we as humans are bad at risk analysis. Bruce Schneier has written extensively on the role of cognitive biases et al in measuring perceived risk.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/risk_intuition...

Googling "Schneier risk" gets you lots and lots of reading material.

The only question here is whether Arrington is going to write another Amateur Hour post about this.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitte...
In addition to being uninformed about the basic facts here, I think you are overestimating the market for $7 - $50/yr blog hosting and underestimating the brand value of an exclusive Blogger TLD.
In ruby, at least, there are some good tools to automate this for you. Using, say, vcr, you can automatically "record" your API calls (into "cassettes") as your tests run; these data are then used when you run your unit tests subsequently. When you plan to integrate/push, simply delete the "cassettes" and run your tests again. That way, any API changes are picked up prior to integration.

I have a suite here that takes about 3 minutes to run from scratch, but just over 1 second as unit tests.
Sales numbers for boxed copies of Netscape/IE are irrelevant because in 1998 everyone just used the browser that came with Windows. You had to intentionally try to download Netscape. In fact, you couldn't even download Netscape without using IE to do so.

I will admit that when IE 4 finally came out it was better than Netscape 4 (minus the active desktop crap that bogged down the 64MB RAM systems of the era), however, previous versions of IE were far inferior to Netscape.

Proprietary tags in Netscape? Yeah, I guess if you consider the <blink> tag proprietary, sure. They can be counted on both hands. IE had entire proprietary APIs, not just a few tags. There's a huge difference.
I can understand it too, and I'm not sure the VC they had behind them were the enlightened kind (like USV, Spark, Andreesen, etc.) so there may have been some pressure from that end as well. But Groupon? That just says acqui-hire to me, and that sucks because they had really built an awesome product that I've used multiple times for multiple companies.

So, I'm with you on the GroupOn Fucker that ruined this. I hope Sean and the gang got handsomely rewarded for their years of work.
twitter is up for me
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Well, it's not incredibly useful right now, and it would be had it been a single node and not the entire damned thing.
The Swiss are flush with money at the moment, because of everyone trying to avoid the possible Euro crash. Other parts of Europe may not be in the same bubble.
Perhaps my first sentence overstated it a bit; I was reacting to the person that was "a little queasy." Sure, it's possible to use an iPad in a way that is not actively bad, and probably beneficial.

But it's still a box sealed shut that someone else built. And, perhaps most devastating, it's designed to just work out of the box.

I'm drawing an analogy to the maker movement here. I don't want childrens' experience to be defined by others, or to live in the boxes invented by others, whenever I can avoid it. Left to their own devices, they invent their own boxes all the time. I would have never imagined that one of our trees would be a pretend locomotive, but there you go.

My first computer, a TRS-80 CoCo II, turned on to a BASIC prompt. Yes, you could run software others wrote. But you were almost inevitably learning concepts about the computer, too - how can you copy data from one disk to another when you only have one drive and your RAM is smaller than it, for instance? Sure, you can use something Tuxpaint on an iPad, but you wouldn't be using it on something you built.

Apple's ecosystem is the antithesis of the "I can do it myself" approach. (If you do jailbreak it, then I start to see some more value.)

Linux is the embodiment of the "I can do it myself" approach. I remember as a kid opening up a hex editor and modifying the boot sector of a floppy so that when you forgot it in the drive at boot time, you saw my name instead of the "Non system disk or disk error." But my boys will have source code, if they should ever want to use it. How cool is that?
I think every scientific lab has a story of someone in the group being scooped for whatever reason. From my experience it's most often from presenting unpublished work at a conference or presenting data where next logical step for publication is obvious.

In my own experience, from conferences and word-of-mouth, I know the X other labs in the world that are doing the same project as me. If I was involved in pre-publication sharing and one of these X individuals published first, my years of work would no longer be accepted in a top journal and my publication record would suffer.

My dream would be to have a prestigious journal that publishes the reproduction of an entire experiments rather than only novel discoveries. All labs already do this, reproduce published results, but it is rarely published.
Hmm it's up for me.
True, but now it's a much, much larger vector.
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I didn't mean hosting, I just mean selling the subdomain. Like Verisign sells *.com subdomains.
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Know what you mean. One of my favorites is the Netscape Lighthouse T. Only nit I have with what you say is that you should get over the 'too worn thin/ragged' thing. Far as I can tell, no one cares anymore. How often do you see jeans without holes anymore? Admittedly since I come from Idaho, there are a certain class of cowboy who wouldn't be caught dead in un-starched holey jeans, but every study needs outliers yes?
You make it sound like it's just a few crooks at Citi and BofA.

No, but by the same token, it's hardly the case that all business leaders in a capitalist society are crooks. This is just particularly galling because it's so blatant and because they're basically saying "yeah, we're guilty" and still no one is being punished.

I believe unfettered from regulations, transparency and oversight, this is what capitalism devolves to.

But we're not in a system that's unfettered from regulations, transparency and oversight. At least not in the sense that we don't have a "government" that purports to provide those things. But the current system obviously doesn't work, so I'm not sure how more government, bureaucracy, rules, regulations, etc. are going to fix anything, when it's clear that certain groups that break the law with (near) impunity.

I'm a liberal, but I hate too much regulation. I do think, however, the pendulum has swung very far in the lack of the features I mentioned above.

I think lack of enforcement (which I attribute to cronyism and corruption) are more then problem than lack of rules, and laws, and regulations. This is one (but not the only) reason I am so skeptical of government, because the more power you grant it, the more there seems to be temptation for it to devolve, along with the "titans of industry", into this quasi-fascist, corrupt, cronyist system. sigh

Times like these, I tend to think it almost doesn't matter what political ideology one believes in... you almost just have to accept that the system is always going to decay and become corrupt eventually, and you just have to scrap the whole thing, throw it out and start over.
Most important of all, if you want a patent, provide working code.
I heard a FeeFighters employee speak last year and she recommended objectivism (Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged) as a good philosophy for entrepreneurs, saying it worked for FeeFighters. When I heard they sold, I assumed that the deal was bad for FeeFighters customers because FeeFighters staff were so compassionless due to their philosophy. Unfortunately, it seems that I was right.
> It's accessible on your computer, your phone, even your TV if you try hard enough.

Note the irony of this comment existing in a post about the service not being accessible, anywhere. Which wouldn't be the case had it been a protocol.
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So how about using photos that are well exposed, starting with the opening photo with the blown out sky, and then the dreadful photo of the dogs/family in front of the Hudson.

There's one good photo in the whole book, and that was taken with a p&s (s90) - something you claim cannot resolve more than 15' in front if the lens and takes a second to shoot. Both point are of course are completely wrong and misleading.

The 'book' (quoted because its really just a few dozen paragraphs) looses any credibility when it's accompanied by photos that are so awfully made.
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I've actually been using this for a dotjs file. Exactly what I needed!
Well yeah, but 3 years after the fact.
Agreed. A browser extension/greasemonkey script would be a better option in this case.
Surely these guys were perfect anarcho-capitalists.

No, being an An-Cap does not necessarily mean a "profit at all costs mentality." Anarcho-Capitalism, as an ideology, embraces the idea of private property rights, enforcement of contracts, and rejects fraud as a mechanism for achieving one's ends.

Some of these crooks may have chosen the An-Cap label for themselves, but I damn sure don't claim them, FWIW. And neither do most of the other An-Caps I know.