skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes the truth is partisan. The government really doesn't have any incentive to be efficient, and really does dump giant amounts of money into a bonfire on a regular basis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ
His/her ARP anecdote actually sounds like an STP problem, rather than ARP.
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> How does Steam compete with Games for Windows or EA Origin if it is orders of magnitude smaller than both?

Did you swap this around? Steam is much larger and more profitable, and has been around longer than either.

> How does the iPod Touch and iPhone compete with (and dominate) the dedicated gaming devices PSP/Vita and 3DS?

The iPhone competes because the hardware as a gaming device has an effective cost of $0, because you already bought it for it's phone functions.

> How did the Wii compete with the 360 and PS3?

And it seems weird to compare Nintendo with Ouya, Nintendo is a large game company with a lot of experience in this field, and competes due to a cheaper console that is innovating in a new and novel way.
Ah, come on, that's a bit unfair, no?

Do you really expect all the useful information to be custom tailored to exactly your requirements? If so, you might want to look into hiring expert consultants for thousands of dollars per day, not books for $10, mixergy for $25, or free blogs.

You do get what you pay for.

If you can't get something useful about tool X out of listening to how someone else used tool X in a different but related context, then I'd say you need to work on your ability to learn from incomplete information - not blame the informational medium.
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I (note: I'm not the gp) definitely do. Any time I have an unread notification, if I open up the official Twitter app and try to switch to that tab/page, it'll crash. It'll do so maybe 3 or 4 times in a row, before letting me see that page and mark that tweet as read.

It's pretty ridiculous since this has been happening for months on end now, and it didn't use to happen with the initial release. Twitter's OS X dev department just plain sucks - which is especially trying given that ML integrates Twitter into the OS. They need to step their game up ASAP - and definitely allow 3rd party devs and apps into the twitter ecosystem, because theirs just are simply not up to scratch.
BetterZip is really good. Thx.
Yes. All are moving video.

No, there is not a way to configure a side-by-side split.

The system does a pretty good job of detecting who is speaking at any given moment and switching the large view to contain their video.
I think this is definately useful for businesses that need to use a service sporadically and have a "project based" model.

I might need a LOT of help for 3 months, then no help for 2 months and then again for another 3 months.

I had to cancel my LegalZoom account because I didn't need it for awhile, but then opted to not sign up again even when I did need it again a few months down the road.
I'm sure that IBM Federal is as bad as you suggest. But part of that is due to how government works, which is in turn due to how citizens react to things.

Think about it like a government employee. If you do your job perfectly well, nobody notices. Despite the bureaucracy, despite unclear success criteria, despite insane budgeting. Nobody notices. That's just what's expected.

When something goes wrong, though, you get hammered. God help you if something comes to the attention of the public or makes the news. Nobody will take the time to understand the context; everybody just looks for the most plausible person to blame. If that's you, then you've got a black mark for the rest of your career. Welcome to the basement!

It's the total opposite of a startup context. And in some ways it should be. But it does mean that government projects drown in red tape and politics and procedures up the wazoo. Which is absolutely a recipe for shitty software and overpriced contracts, whether you're in government or a megacorp.

I'm in startups for a reason, and I have a lot of sympathy and respect for the good people who keep plugging away in government despite the fucked-up incentives.
Or a better solution, everything that's eligible for a FOIA request should just be made available on the existing Open Government page [1] rather than making people request it and go through the process. What is the point of this security by obscurity nonsense? If it can be released under FOIA, there's no reason to not release it without a FOIA request.

[1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/open
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IS ACTIVE! Duh.
We're looking for some comments on whether a service like this would be useful to you, and how you would use it. Thanks!
Linked PDF is an 'article' in "Chaos, Solitons and Fractals" titled "Photo Gallery", which is exactly what the title suggests: a gallery of photos of El Naschie with colleagues, photos of El Naschie on vacation, and one screenshot of a web page.

Truly a pioneering piece of research, this.
I agree that makes it worse, but if indeed it'd cost similar at a large private company, it's not clear how we'd expect the government to do better. If the private sector can't manage to bring down costs on enterprise software, why would the government be able to get a better deal than they could?

I would be interested in how software for large organizations, public or private, could suck less. A handful of startups have attempted to disrupt enterprise markets, but the going seems tough.
> “Our partner, Hynix, is a major producer of flash memory, and memristors will cannibalise its existing business by replacing some flash memory with a different technology,” he said. “So the way we time the introduction of memristors turns out to be important. There’s a lot more money being spent on understanding and modeling the market than on any of the research.”

Surely if they wait too long purely for profitable reasons the market will punish them by someone else beating them to it?
I think that's a little simplistic.

Whatever capture finance has achieved of Congress is possible largely because nobody truly understands what's happening in hardcore finance.

The very best reporters covering e.g. the credit default swap debacle still have only a surface level understanding of how and why swaps are traded and what their relevance is to the whole market.

So you have a situation in which there's two strong ambient forces --- regulate vs. deregulate --- and no comprehension, and so it's very easy to push e.g. pro-business economic- libertarian-leaning into their default position of "let's keep our hands off this stuff".

Yes, that's a product of undue influence by lobbyists and the financial industry, but it works mostly because of ignorance.
Reasons I didn't sign up for a trial:

* Got Faceblocked.

* No obvious demo until I looked here.

* Demo profile suggests it's iOS-only.

* Demo profile has flawed animations.
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I'm working with my boss right now on attending a conference, or at least some sort of training. He wants me to do something RDBMS related, whereas I've been pushing for something a little fresher. As best as I know, we don't have a policy, but regardless, I'm being heavily encouraged to find a conference and go.
Could you give examples of Kickstarters you've backed that never shipped? How far behind are they? Do you believe they ever will?

My little project today is researching the Million Dollar Kickstarters, seeing how they're doing.

The Elevation Dock has had some production issues, seems to have some QA issues. Has a few very vocal critics. But then anything of any size does. It looks like their main mistake has been lack of communication.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hop/elevation-dock-the-b...
Why? You would use tls anyway with any service you think is even remotely important to you.
For folks interested in helping solve the root cause of these sorts of things ... the White House is looking for people to help build a streamlined procurement process:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows/rfpez

... hopefully making it possible for vendors build government web projects with bids for less than $150k, instead of millions of dollars per web site.
I'm part of a volunteer organization (community service) and we use Facebook almost exclusively to organize and publicize our events. This is definitely going to help us time our status updates.
Lots of people die, lots of people have terrible diseases. And I sometimes cry when I read these stories. The amount of hurt in this world unimaginable.

But most poeple don't get my money.

Most also do not have a trust fund.
On a positive note...

I don't know how much it cost to redesign the Federal Register, but federalregister.gov is one of the most usable, data-intensive sites around. Especially compared to what it used to be.

GAO.gov is also a hallmark in usability and information-taxonomy.
Unlimited vacation policy is a trick. If you really make it unlimited, you'd just be fired - they don't promise to keep you employed forever, just give you vacations while you're employed. And since you don't have defined vacation, you're under peer pressure to reduce your vacations - since your peers are working and you're slacking off.
This doesn't really seem like a public/private difference, but an enterprise/non-enterprise difference: Fortune500 firms are no more efficient than government contracting is, really. While it's a lot in other contexts, $33m for a custom enterprise software project, even one that seems like it ought to cost much less, is pretty middle-of-the-road as a price.
Doesn't it seem like a group might be able to use Kickstarter to "speedup" the something like the process Github used to get to it's Series A? You know, start a generally profitable business and then work with a very knowledgable investor to take on a huge piece of pie?

Just seems like a VC might even prefer a group that knows what it wants and how to get things done. They might be more ready to disrupt. And they might have a great culture with the right priorities.

I wonder if we'll ever see "Pixar in reverse". A company that can deliver an entertainment product turn into some kind of revolutionary hardware product manufacturer.
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I think that the point is that it's unlikely to.
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I imagine the episode of the Dilbert TV series where Dilbert had to design the new office.
Interesting, never heard about that. So I suppose I can install it from the Chrome app store and remove the air version?
Finish off your degree. Domain knowledge is about 1000pct more valuable than what App Academy is going to teach you (That's nine weeks to get you started with iOS dev right?). I went the "Drop out and do it yourself" route 10 years ago and looking back it was a big mistake. I would say it set my career back a good five years. It's only one more year. Get it done now.
Or I can share my personal experiences here on a forum for discussing our opinions. If I feel that I need your approval to speak in the future I'll be sure to ask.
You're preaching to the choir, man! :)

My MuckRock username is 'TransparentByDefault' for a reason! :)

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/user/TransparentByDefault/
Thanks for making Fb Insights clear, it's a mess in there. You also have to be sure Facebook is reporting the right numbers in the first place.
Other city-run free wifi initiatives have actually been run with AT&T. So, in conclusion: I have no idea.
This is my favorite: http://lallafa.de/blog/c64-projects/d64qlplugin/
Someone should send this article to every young person starting out in business, whether they're and entrepreneur or not.

Biz Dev is usually considered more prestigious because partnerships of one sort or another can move a lot of volume quickly or can create new opportunities that radically change fortunes. It also requires understanding business models, strategies, etc.

Sales might require an understanding of the user or might not. The company I work for does enterprise software and I seriously doubt our sales people know a whole lot about the user experience. They do know how to schmooze and most importantly how to be persistent and by persistent I mean continually bothering people. I have found discussions with BD professionals to be interesting and occasionally enlightening. Most conversations with salespeople annoy me - whether those conversations are a sales job or just sitting around chatting.
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If you want to avoid that do a UG & co. KG. Costs a bit more, since it technically is two companies but you dont have to build up the capital and you are also exempt from "Körperschaftssteuer"-tax.
While keeping threads on-topic is important to the health of the community, so is surfacing legitimate concerns about the moderation. When it comes to this sort of thing, I'm a big believer in the power of voting and flagging.

If concerns over title editing weren't widely shared and worthy of discussion, this would not be the top comment in the Aaron Winborn thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4229330

Ultimately, I think it's important to have these discussions in context rather than in the abstract.
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And it's very up to date!

Usually.
Are you seriously suggesting that someone who is the target of a campaign of harassment is "using" the aggressors as a way to boost their visibility? The reason why this project blew up is because other people saw what was happening and decided to donate to the Kickstarter project.

Further, these people are not anyone's ally, least of all the person who is being attacked. You are very deliberately saying that she deserves what she gets and that it is her fault that she is being attacked and doxed. This is 100% victim blaming and you yourself are not only siding with the mysoginistic aggressors, but being one.
Sorry, I thought you were talking about Bluetooth 4.0, which is very low-power and very slow.

These two slides are from the aforementioned talk. Note that 'Classic' means 3.0 and 'Low power' means 4.0:

http://d.pr/i/cRvm

http://d.pr/i/qCHB
I mean, I imagine that the system can handle the density by progressive balancing the tree. The problem is that gameplay doesn't do the same thing, A client wants to see all characters within 10(or w/e) meters, not the closest 10 characters.
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Good UI comes from collaboration and iteration with users. Apple did something like 100 iterations on the first iPod. Typical consumer electronics companies do 3 to 5.

The government RFP and budgeting process is practically designed to prevent iteration and exploration. I can just hear Senator Blowhard of Cornhusk now: "So you want an unknown amount of money to keep building things until users are happy? That's an obvious boondoggle. Come back with a complete specification and put it out for bids from major contractors. We must be responsible with every penny of taxpayer money. Harrumph!"

So of course the software has terrible usability. Anything built like that will be terrible.
For just webapp? about order of magnitude less I think 3-4mil . Still way too much
In C#, it's up to the person defining the type to decide whether it has value/stack semantics (a struct) or not (a class). Structs have some limitations regarding constructors, and being passed by value is surprising to users used to classes. For these and other reasons, the vast majority of types are classes.

So you can have on-stack or embedded objects, but they are fairly rare.

In Go, the user of a type decides whether it will be used by reference (on the GC heap) or directly on the stack or embedded in an object: you can take a pointer to any type, or use the type directly.

That gives the consumer of a type much greater flexibility to not create garbage if they don't want to.
Why is this suddenly a big deal now?

What do you mean it's a "big deal"? Is it a "big deal" because people are talking about it? Are you not cool with that?

Someone is doing a cultural study and is getting attacked for it. Some of us think that's worthy of our attention.

You've written 11% of the comments of this thread (13 comments out of 117), and they are mostly angry/poisonous. If you don't agree that this has importance, why don't you move somewhere else? You'd do a favor to this thread and trust me, yourself.
I think his comment has more insight than you give him credit for. I would say that culturally, Europeans just care a lot less about startups (and business and money making) than Americans. I think that's the biggest reason why they're less common in Europe.

[Qualifier: I am a European now living in North America]
One of the dudes who developed the Federal Register site (i think as a code for america fellow) is now at AirBnB too. This is a world we can and should get involved in.

Ah i wasn't quite right. You can check out the full story here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839137 sunlight labs was involved though.
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several friends took jobs with the GAO out of school (data analysis type gigs) -- they have some of the coolest stuff to talk about; seems like a great branch of government to work for
You don't think Apple or Microsoft or Adobe or Facebook have 300 developers working on their projects? Just saying, 300 man years isn't that much, considering every full time employee working on a project for a year is a man year by definition.
For me, my neews feed is getting more and more noisy , less valuable and diffuclt to consume.
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But as a nation you also receive massive amounts of foreign aid, thus have an even larger safety net: someone else is funding a good % of your bills.

At some point that also has to be accounted for when taking into account a country's economic conditions.
Great. Many people have stated that and given why they believe that will be the case.

But my question is what will count as success? What will it take for this company to succeed? What are the pieces?

As a visitor to this site, that's the kind of thinking I'm really looking for.
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Sheeeit. We've had animated gifs on TheAtlantic.com HOMEPAGE since like 2011.
"What makes the web beautiful is precisely that there are multiple browsers and, if you build things correctly, your sites and applications work in them all."

I work for a company that develops web applications, and I can tell you that the above statement is absolute hogwash. It's a major PITA to implement features such that the user experience is uniform and consistent across all major browsers. In a lot of cases we have had to decide against implementing certain features because they required technologies that were available only in browser X (and X almost always turns out to be Chrome or Firefox).

This is not good for the web, and it does not make the web "beautiful." It's basically fragmentation.
"Mobile" phones come full circle. Cell tower coverage still isn't even sufficient for a lot of my use. Unless I'm at home or work, I almost never am in range of a wifi hotspot. I am very frequently not at home or work.
Don't know if anyone will read this. Requiring to enable JavaScript was expected, but enabling images too? I rarely see web pages that don't even try to work at all with images disabled.
Sure. The original context I'm thinking of: the rewrite of:

"A Drupal Developer is Dying and Needs Your Help."

to its actual title:

"Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust."
If the NYTimes accuses me of having syphilis or being a child molestor, damages are assumed. You don't have to specifically show that you have been harmed.

You may need to show that the NYTimes knew it wasn't true, or had "reckless disregard for the truth," depending on your state and the specific case law.
For simplicity let's say that IBM charges $300/hr for a consultant (developer/PM/etc). That would be about 100,000 hours of work. Let's say a consultant bills 2,000 hours a year and it takes them 18-24 months to build this thing. That would be a team of 25-30 (developers, PMs, account managers, etc).

The time frame is realistic considering poor original design, scope creep and federal government counterparts not being particularly quick in gettings things done (getting access/fighting through bureaucracy, etc).

So why would the federal government hire IBM over you; who can build a totally bug free version of this in half the time for half the price? IBM is:
- Not likely go out of business anytime soon.
- Not be unavailable for support work because you decided to start/join a startup
- Not be able to deal with turnover since they have 100k+ employees, steady stream of college recruits and have been around for 100 years.
No, they just moved it to the Dock preference pane.
Siri doesn't replace email, they perform different functions.

Email is sticking around for the foreseeable future. Mailcules hopes to facilitate a variety of these workflows you achieve through email. Eventually you can replace writing emails with voice recognition.
> Now that is obviously bad style but it's definitely not something that only exist in games and media and thus treating it as if it's something specific to media or games is probably what created the outcry (not defending it just explaining it).

Uh, this project has nothing to do with blaming sexism on media and games. The project was designed to be an examination of those areas and how they relate to sexism. If you are suggesting that examining an issue is just cause to harass someone, you are most certainly silencing those you disagree with.

> In some countries they suppress this behavior by forcing the women to wear vails so no one can see them and stoning them to death for adultery.

This is just straight up islamophobia. This whole situation indicates you don't need to look any farther than your own back yard to find people willing to attack, harass, and silence others.

> Whether receiving "dick shots" is the other side of men and woman having equal rights I am not sure, but calling an end to misogony is like calling and end men.

You can be a man and not be a misogynist. Heck, you can be female and be a misogynist. What you are saying is that you consider misogyny to be the norm and that we shouldn't change it nor discuss it. In other words, you yourself are admitting to being a misogynist and you have no problem with that.
This looks interesting enough to give you my email, but It would be great to have a shorter syntax perhaps? That looks like an awful lot of typing, especially for smartphone users.
That passage leapt out at me too. In my simplistic geek mind this is totally arse-about-face, like the tail wagging the dog. Are these companies more interested in money than what they're actually doing?

But to answer your point: Patents.
Complaining that a one-off video joke doesn't work with flashblock is awesome and contributing to the conversation; pointing out the absurdity of such a comment is downvote material.

Get a grip.
YoruFukurou is great and I've been using it for more than a year but I already use Tweetbot for iOS on my iPhone and iPad so switching to Tweetbot for Mac makes perfect sense, especially if you're like me and obsess over synchronization and UI consistency.
"In the age of video, why should I read?"
Interesting article. However he forgets to mention that this will be much easier in Java 8, with the support for Lambdas. Which comes wich JSR 335.

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/lambda/