skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought the person running the development team should understand marketing, and the person running the marketing efforts knows how to develop. The two are so intertwined, but at the same time, it's important to separate the effort. Just like in engineering, the devil is in the details not the conceptual idea. You want a marketing person who knows how to get everything just right, to get in front of customers, sign people up, etc
Why start this in Kansas City? Is this like trying to produce a future Broadway show in New Haven or San Diego, so you can work out the kinks before you go to the big time?
$120/mo for cutting edge consumer entertainment is just a slap in the face to other service providers.

I pay $120/mo in New York and get high speed internet, and cable TV with HBO (conspicuously missing from Google's offering) and ESPN. Don't get me wrong, I'd switch to Google in a heartbeat, but I don't actually think that $120 price point is much of a slap in the face to existing providers.

EDIT: and this is just in Kansas City. Given the existing variations in price across the country, I'll be very surprised if we are all paying $120 when (if?) it rolls out nationally.
having spent the summer on true gigabit internet, it's a shame people won't even understand how big of a difference this makes. Their site makes a cute attempt at it, but I don't think it does it justice. Gig internet just has to be experienced.
What part - up in the mountains? I ask because I lived in Santa Cruz in 2010 (and grew up there too) and had 30Mbit internet from Comcast.
I disagree with all of your first sentence.

As a full-time Linux/Django and iOS developer, switching over to the Mac from Ubuntu is f'ing painful.

Linux's reputation is far worse than it deserves.
People are buying and using touch devices, and they claim it's easy to use.
This is one of the top 10 sites world wide being down for over an hour now.

Why is Google Talk down, which affects a fraction of the users, on the front page but Twitter is being actively censored?

Besides, HN comments are a lot of times more insightful and interesting than the link. We might have gotten a Twitter engineer commenting on what was going on or something else interesting.
Youre very snide. This is the Internet, I am posting an opinion, and further I stated it could be for any number of reasons.

This is a forum for discussion, and as such, speculation happens.

You appear to be more personally offended by whatever I said in a speculative comment than maybe you should be?

Whatever.
> Basing your display decisions by the price is like basing your car buying decisions on the monthly payment.

I'd say it really isn't like that, but to the extent it is... buying a nicer car that gets repossessed in 3 months isn't really a great idea, so that monthly payment is a pretty important factor.

> My single 27" LG is 6 years old and has gone through 3.5 computers in that time.

How much did it cost when you bought it? What would the replacement cost be?

Nevermind the issue of how quickly display interfaces seem to be evolving these days...

> In that regard, you've got $300 right now for a monitor, in 2 months you'll have $500.

So, it's a purchase that lasts for years, but you only save up for it for... 3 months?

> If it's possible to get a good monitor right now for $300 then I'd go for it. If I can't find anything that fits me (IPS, 16:10 are critical) I'd rather wait.

Hey, you should never buy equipment sooner than you need it. The presumption is that you need to buy a monitor now, not later. If you don't need to buy a monitor now, the smart play is pretty much always not to buy one now.
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OK, I've misread it, and retracted my comment.
Free internet. That's rather creepy from Google. When they roll this big it would hurt other providers, which in itself isn't bad, but having only Google as a choice is. Can they even do that by the way (anti-monopoly regulations)?
I think AppFog needs to figure out their branding, with regards to how AppFog and PHPfog are perceived.

Is AppFog the parent company and PHPfog is a product of that company? Are they two separate brands/companies?

We're using PHPfog for our MVP of matchist (matchist.com). Does the new AppFog free plan apply to PHPfog too? I sure hope so, otherwise we just got screwed by this.

I think they need to be a bit more clear about this.
This is exploding with awesome at every seam.
You are posting nonsense about real people that you don't know and then getting indignant when people call you on it.

If you don't like being called out, consider starting future comments with the words "I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, but just for shits, here's a theory:".
I have the 50/5 plan from Time Warner as well, and it's definitely best option around. But 5Mb upstream is still pretty chintzy.

Go up to Dallas and you can get 50/25, 75/35, 150/65, and now they're rolling out 300/65. It gets expensive on the extreme end of that, but I would sure love even 50/25. Major, major difference in upstream bandwidth.
So... I can get gigabit internet for either $70/month locked in for 2 years or $25/month locked in for 1 year. I'm not seeing the point of the $70 pricing option.
Espn is the only reason I have cable.
You know, the discussion of Chomsky made me realize something. I would bet that Chomsky's take on Norvig's approach (to put specific names on the ideas) is that Norvig is a resurrection of Skinner. Specifically, behaviorism as "study texts, make statistical correlations, but don't make up any grand theories."
I find this too, but I also think that it has something to do with the word "directory." People don't really think of collections of directories (like phonebooks for example), they think of a single directory in which you look up things. When you use "folder", this seems to go away and people get the metaphor. When a tech savvy person is explaining it, they frequently interchange the two terms and confuse the listener. A "directory" is list that you look up things in, like a dictionary, and a "folder" is a object that contains related items.

A list of Artists, Rap, Prince, or Slow songs in some mp3 management software resembles people's ideas of a "directory" better.

One thing I've noticed about these silo/tagging systems and non-savvy users is that, though the users are generally comfortable in them, they also tend to lose data completely a lot and have no idea how to find it again. They also find it very hard to understand the concept of backups because they have no sense of location for any of their data.

"File," "Folder," "Copy," "Move," "Mail," and "Trash" are a really excellent set of terms to explain this stuff easily. Did AAPL or MS come up with this? I find the only problem with them is that people don't understand why you don't end up with two files of the same name in the same folder when you make a copy (because "Copy" is more like "Copy and Move".)

edit: or copy is more like "nothing just happened," really. I think the metaphor becomes broken when you go to clipboards and pasting. Maybe the right metaphor is to make the desktop the clipboard. When people "Copy" a file, folder, or anything else, it should appear on their "Desktop" rather than a "Clipboard," where they can see it at all times, and use it as a shortcut. The desktop doesn't have to be thought of as a proper directory.
Well, that depends on your ISP and where you live. I pay $160/month for a higher-tier internet (Blast) and basic cable from Comcast.
Not to mention their recent move of asking employees to return unvested options.
You are very alarmist and paranoid. No one is out to get you.

Oh my God Twitter is down....CANT--LIVE--WITHOUT---TWITTER....
I agree. I think it's fine when it's less than 30 minutes, but this is a significant bit of downtime.
After finding yet one more set of episodes removed from streaming -- in addition to however many movies I'd previously queued up -- I'm about done with Netflix. I'd hung in there because I liked the service and their early attitude.

But now, even if this is not Netflix' fault, I think I'm done sending any of my money -- even via the Netflix indermediaries -- to content owners who jerk me around this way.

There was a fellow -- in France, IIRC -- who wrote a fairly well-worded if polemic argument for no longer enabling these content owner abusers through one's financial contributions.

While I've never been a content pirate (not that I don't endorse some of the associated goals and principles), I'm ready to retreat further into my books and works and do my 2 cents to help "big media" starve -- perhaps, hopefully, at least enough to get hungry enough to try harder to find a better distribution model. Or to help the real content producers (in all their various roles) do an end run around these self-serving, rapacious middlemen.
You're describing a great CEO, not necessarily a great StartUp founder. In the beginning the founder's job is not to hire people (you're not ready for that yet). It's to execute and demonstrate some sort of traction--the traction you can use to hire great people. Ideas are a dime a dozen. If you want to hire great people, you need to show that idea can be executed before you can hire "the best people in every field"
During the live event it was mentioned that premium channels will be available at an extra charge per month. Google wanted to simplify the cable line up as much as possible.
When I was at Georgia Tech, I got 650 Mbps. You realize the bottleneck isn't your connection at that point -- it's everyone else's. Which means a lot of sites still download just as slow. Although the big sites have optimized data centers, so it was pretty cool downloading an entire OS in a few seconds (although I think my hard drive write speed limited that a bit too).

My father works in the fiber optics industry and has told me that if fiber was brought directly to each home, every person would have more bandwidth than they knew what to do with. One thin, tiny fiber can carry an INSANE amount of information. The problem is the processing circuitry that converts these light signals into digital signals. These NICs have a much lower throughput than the fiber itself, but if the fiber infrastructure was already in place everywhere, upgrades would be much cheaper and quicker. (In other words, Google Fiber has easy upgrade potential to 10, 100, ... Gbps).
No AMC, no FX either... this is basic basic cable here.
...and considering the epic failure message.
I've always had this suspicion that the "strong" form of any theory is a caricature made up by the theory's opponents.
I was a developer at digg from 2007-2010, and I can say his statement is just flat out wrong. Digg did hire great PHP programmers, but that was because they were great programmers, overall. Every single one of them moved, with ease, to other languages when required. In fact, a majority of the backend of v4 was written in Python.

It's also interesting to note that most ex-digg engineers primarily work in a language other than PHP currently.
This is because none of them are making it to the front page. Probably a moderator.
This is very disruptive on both ends, free and $120 per month. Hits the cable providers, telcom providers, and even apple, Netflix, Hulu, and roku where it hurts. Nice work google!

They are still missing a few key channels - CNN, Disney, and espn - all of which my household can't live without (I know, first-world problems). And I think those are some of the harder, more valuable properties to acquire. Anyone know whether google will be able to get those channels?
I agree that it's a pretty looking app, but I think there's quite a few Couch to 5K apps that already exist out there.
Thank GOD they're disrupting this industry. All the telcos are worthless "Soviet bureaus" that deserve death.

It's really sort of amazing to think about. In all my years on this planet I have never been pleased with a telecom company. Never. I have always felt like I was paying far too much for inferior service, contemptible customer support, and endless efforts to further "monetize" me through harassing phone calls trying to sell me more stuff, intrusive DNS systems that redirect me to their crappy web sites, etc.

There is not a single other industry I can say that about, certainly not one that comes to mind so quickly. Hell, I can't even say that about the government.

As if that's not bad enough, this industry seems to spend a lot of money lobbying to destroy the open Internet, which is like a car company lobbying to increase the number of annoying traffic regulations in order to make it less enjoyable to drive.
Sure. But now you're contrasting the philosophy with what politicians actually do in office. If your argument is that politicians engage in lying and hypocrisy, I don't think you'll find many takers.

But I sincerely hope you'd assert the same (with tweaked parameters) for Democrats.
How is $70 w/o TV and $120 w/ TV not a slap in the face to other ISPs when it gives you gigabit without data caps?!
The free option is 5Mbps down/1 Mbps up.
The Free plan ($25/mo 1 year)says:

Up to 5Mbps download, 1Mbps upload speed.

The $70/mo for 2 years says:

Up to one gigabit upload & download.

Big difference
> why no one has made a Couch to 5k app yet

I've been using this, a little buggy but definitely helped me acquire my running habit:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ease-into-5k/id301233668?mt=8
That 25/month for one year on the free plan is only for 5Mb down, 1Mb up... not Gb speeds.
It has a different name, is made by different people, the two apps have entirely different feature-sets and focus, etc
The third package is not having gigabit connection (at least, for now). The speed is 5Mbps/1Mbps (D/U) only
It doesn't seem likely to me at all. In fact I think it's much more likely that you'll see THIS permissions system end up on iOS than vice-versa.

It's actually a fantastic security feature for the average user, so it doesn't worry me that much.
It begets simpler software, which is a win win, at least in my book.
Cutting edge is right...

"Record up to eight programs simultaneously, just because you can. And with an unprecedented two terabytes of storage, you will never have to worry about having enough space to record your favorite shows."
"For once you start down the path of the mealy-mouthed forever will it dominate your vocabulary."

It already dominates the world.
What about smaller markets like Seattle, Portland, or other cities up here?

Is there any more info about their plan for build-out or how soon it'll be available in our neighborhoods?
that's exceedingly arrogant. All I'm asking for is a link to the Apple rules. Surely there is a document that explains the rules. That is all I want to see.
What am I supposed to do at work now?
just been reading about the debacle with xml and w3c snd this whole oAuth business sounds like it's heading down the same path. Seems like the browser vendors had the ultimate say when it came to html. in terms of oAuth i wonder where the ultimate power lies because those would be the factions that need to do something right now to deal with this mess.
Given that I pay $69.16/month	for service from Comcast that in theory should be 30 mbits, but in practice ranges all the way down to 3 megabits for hours at a time, depending on time of day, yes, it would be a no brainer. $70/month for an actual 30 megabit connection would be a no brainer as far as I'm concerned.
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Good points, I haven't really noticed this all that often.

I'm actually designing a blog for a new startup now and the first elements I created were at the top of the right sidebar with a quick "what we do" summary with a call to action button at the end. Also used the author summary box at the bottom of the article with similar content. I think just a quick "We're xyz company and we do [whatever benefit you offer]" and a "Learn More" button is a quick, clean and concise way of putting that out there.
It was a speculative comment, I'm happy to be wrong and free to admit it, thistle you no less snide, which is something I've seen from you in the past.
What if your company was acquired by them and you're in vesting period? Are engineers of the acquired company guilty of a career move that they had nothing to do with?

(this is the exact situation my friends are in)
They'll have a hell of a time getting in other cities in the first place. AT&T and the major cablecos typically have an absolute, legally-sanctioned stranglehold on their markets.
In Orlando I'm paying $240 a month to get 40Mbps down / 5 up with a full channel lineup, plus Showtime and NHL Center Ice. So THIS would be a huge deal to people in my area where only one cable option exists in a lot of Central Florida.

Edit: Fixed bandwidth
You are missing the point here.

Just because you understand something in real life does not by any metrics mean that you understand it on a computer.

You grew up with computers for you it's secondary but you learned it.

Someone who have never used computers before do not understand the metaphor.

So no it's not insulting them.

2) Folders are non-intuitive if they aren't learned. There is no natural transfer of understanding between putting documents in a folder physically and then using your moves to drag some icons around. You assume there is, but there isn't, it has to be learned.

5) What people complain about is that it's not the web. They just want to click a link that takes them to where they want to be taken. Of course folders are a mess and confusing cause most data is a mess an confusing.

6) I am pretty sure that it actually works.

I think your understanding of how normal users think is probably as inaccurate as it could probably be.
He appears to be referring to the writing of benchmarks. Specifically for those in which functional programming excels over imperative (for example undo support), it becomes a significant undertaking to write the C version so it just doesn't get done. This means that there is a selection bias towards benchmarks that can be easily written in C. These simpler benchmarks tend to lack any need for the higher-level constructs that functional programming provides, which FP advocates would argue is exactly where FP gives the greatest gain.

edit: slightly less snark.
Living in Argentina, and paying quite a lot for a 3Mb/s connection, now I hate America a bit more :D
And the included remote is a Nexus 7. Sounds almost too good to be true.
I get decent internet, home phone, and sdtv for around $200 here :( Worst part is, I don't think my situation is that uncommon.
There is nothing that is intuitive unless it's learned.
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Did it come with a free Nexus 7? Google's going to decimate the existing cable and DSL offerings in Kansas City in less than a week.
Would Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, Amazon cloud storage, et al exist today if we could send data across the US at even just 650Mbps?
Hey buddy, the active.com guys have been suing anybody using couch to 5k into the ground for a minute now. You should change your name or expect a not so nice letter.
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They had a big competition where lots of cities bid to be the first city, and they won. One issues was that all utilities in town are above ground on poles. They wouldn't have to bury any cables, just string them along the existing poles.
I still plan to get it once it gets to Seattle, but I'm kinda bummed out that there's no Cartoon Network (specifically Adult Swim).
Was looking for something like this last year when I was doing a C-2-5K program. Been on a couch a lot recently, so maybe I'll do it again. Question: why is the free version a separate app, rather than the entire program being an in-app upgrade?
"As a gamer"

Thanks for your perspective. I'm not a gamer and don't follow the inside story about zynga to understand it from that point of view (ask me about certain domain registrars though and I will have plenty to say along the same lines).

Correct me if I'm wrong (can't find any links) but I think Pincus was the one that fired some employees for not pulling their weight prior to the IPO or something like that. That gave me a distaste for him although I also noted that Fred Wilson defended him personally on his blog.

Here's a link but not the most relevant on the matter:

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2010/01/fred...
> This is one of the top 10 sites world wide being down for over an hour now.

sure, and it's big news on outages@outages.org. (which used to be just fiber cuts but has evolved into 'major webapp down' notices, too.) - the idea behind outages@outages.org is to notify network operators when services that may impact them are down. The idea is that if my customer is complaining about things being slow to boston, well, if I read outages that morning, I might remember a fiber cut that would explain it. I guess the same could be true if my customers were complaining about not being able to get to twitter.

(personally, I'm in the camp that gets irritated when "random webapp is down" messages are posted to outages@outages.org. I don't care that twitter is down. I've chosen my customers well enough that they don't complain to me when something that is obviously not my fault like that happens. But, I am only one person, and the majority have spoken; I won't fight it. I will whine a little, though.)

News.ycombinator is not about outages, and really not about network and systems operators. Most of you use IAAS or PAAS. Though so far, I've seen a lot of tolerance for interesting network and systems operator stories.

But yeah, "x is down" is... not an interesting story. "X went down earlier today; here is what happened" sometimes is.

>Besides, HN comments are a lot of times more insightful and interesting than the link. We might have gotten a Twitter engineer commenting on what was going on or something else interesting.

I think uninteresting articles ought to be voted down or flagged or otherwise gotten rid of. If the comments are more interesting than the article, then it's an uninteresting article, unworthy of the front page link.

>Why is Google Talk down, which affects a fraction of the users, on the front page but Twitter is being actively censored?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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They courted communities about two years ago for this. The idea was to find an area that would work with them, and actively help. KC "won". It makes things easier, I would imagine, if an entire city council was lobbying for you.
I think it's a great principle to design from, it challenges one do to better. And: users wouldn't need to know what a USB port is, if the design was self-evident.

I don't think reasoning like "must" (or "never") pushes innovation and great design.
Definitely agree here. I have a Marketing background but have been learning how to develop the past 3-4 months.

Marketing = Principles/Thoughts
Software Development = technical/tangible skill

Marketing = Ideas; Software Development = Execution of those marketing ideas.
and for mercurial

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChurnExtension

user LOC

$ hg churn -t users@email
30454 ****************************************************

users' changesets

$ hg churn -c
user1 65 ****************************************************
user2 41 *********************************
user3 2 **
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Do you know Alex?

Do you know anyone who works at Simple?

Do you have any other sources for what's going on at Simple?

Alex is a real person. He is not an Xbox game. Internet or not: he is not up for your review. If you're going to "speculate" about his "performance" or "relationships", you should be ready to go to bat for what you said.
ESPN is the most expensive cable channel. They charge the provider roughly $4/month if it is part of a main package, or $20/month if it is part of an upgrade.
What was painful about it?