skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm puzzled by the psychology too. It seems counter-intuitive that people who pay a relatively large amount for the device + monthly contract would balk at paying an additional relatively small amount for an app which increases the utility of the device.

I'm not 100% satisfied with any of my explanations. Here's a few ideas I've been pondering: the $80/month can be thought of as a subscription fee for the apps that come with the device. So I'm paying $80/month to use Phone, Mail, YouTube, Maps etc. The amount of time I can use my iOS device is limited by time spent at work, with family etc. Therefore adding new apps into the mix reduces the time I spend with the default apps. For example I might download a game and spend a month playing that and ignore the YouTube app. But now my "monthly subscription" for the YouTube app has been wasted. Say I use 10 of the default apps regularly. That's $8/month for each app. Ignoring YouTube app for one month means $8 down the drain.

So when I'm deciding to buy your $3 app I'm subconsciously wondering if it's worth $11. And that's if I only use it for a month. What if your app is really great and I use it and ignore YouTube app for 10 months? Then I'm paying $3 + 10 * $8 for your app.

Now take into account $200 for the device + $80/month is a lot for most people. And it's a lot relative to the free basic flip phone + $30/month w/o a contract we all had in the not too distant past. Now it's clear why free throw-away apps are the easiest to download. Free implies no additional upfront cost in addition to the arm + leg I'm already paying. Throw-away app implies I won't ignore the other $8/month apps I'm already subscribed to for too long.

It's just a theory and I'd like to hear some counter-arguments. If it's true it could have interesting implications on tweaking value and price of apps with the goal of maximizing revenue.
As we approach "the singularity" or whatever you want to call it, the idea->prototype->product dimension contracts quickly.
So buyers are just a hedge?
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Is there any open-source, royalty-free technology you can think of that comes with a legal indemnity against patent lawsuits?
Yet more wild-eyed, open source zealotry. No GUI-based F/OSS product has ever achieved the level of polish and usability of things like Sparrow because the people working on open source projects only want to do coding, they don't care about design, bug detection, documentation or, God forbid, user interfaces. If the developers of Sparrow had not been paid for their work, which they ensured by keeping it under their control, it would likely not have happened at all.
Same here. I vastly prefer it to stock android both in looks and bundled functionality.
Nitpick: It's not drag friction as much it was compressive heating. I suppose if you can avoid the compression, it wouldn't be as much of an issue...
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The initial release was February 2011.

How is that "a few years"?
Yeah, because edit wars are surely better than editor wars, and what we're doing now (with Jeff here!) is not bikeshedding.

The only questions on SO are the trivial questions that could be answered by reading some documentation. If questions are broad or open ended, the value lies in the discussion, not in any particular answer. I also found that many accepted answers are blatantly wrong. For me, SO has no value. /r/programming doesn't have any value either, but that doesn't make SO better.
Does racial/gender diversity really make your business better? Actively preventing diversity can clearly be negative e.g. refusing to hire women, but blindly promoting diversity for the sake of it can be just as bad.

I would be interested in seeing the questionnaire. The article frames the question in a way that could easily mean "Should companies have a diverse range of skills in their workforce?" which most people would answer positively to. Asking whether they should try to hire people with diverse skill sets could elicit more divided responses.
Someone will always be better than you.

There's never going to be a point in your life when you are objectively the greatest.

Once you realize that, its freeing. Unshackling yourself from the world means you can get back to being happy.
If you do a feature comparison between Gmail and a 1998 version of Outlook Express, OE wins handily. I've never used Outlook, but I imagine since it was developed by the same company with much of the same needs and it's a much bigger application that a Gmail comparison with Outlook would have the same result.

Gmail doesn't even support group-level filtering!

/full-time Gmail user of more than 8 years
What will it take to grow it so you can bring someone else on?
don't be absolutist http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/ (the general point "do-have-a-business-model-please" is still true, but when I read it I felt something like "you can always trust your friendly for pay app")
Agile considered harmful?
A report on a survey of users of Agile methods comes to some highly critical conclusions. http://www.vokeinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=136&Itemid=206
(paid for content)

There is substantial comment : http://jordanbortz.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/voke-releases-research-report-on-agile-realities/
http://adtmag.com/articles/2012/07/13/report-says-agile-a-scam.aspx

My company has applied Agile patchily, and so this is very important for me as an issue that is live and difficult - there are highly valued employees who passionately advocate it and produce very significant and high quality work while using it, but we are simply unable to use it with some teams and projects, and worse, we have tried in the past in other places in the business and suffered some failures.

I feel we lack real evidence.

The "Hated Slashdot" has a long uniformed discussion on the topic, but I wondered if HN people had specific insights on either killer arguments & studies around using or not using Agile or specific anecdotes that could be used in the debate?
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The author defines "kiasu" as the fear of losing (out) which leads to avoiding risk, but I've always thought of it as the fear of missed opportunity which leads one to take risks.

I grew up in Singapore, and among many excellent things I can say about its education system I have but one criticism, which is that it tends to encourage students to think of themselves as a point along a continuum between a loser and a winner. This system quantizes an infinite combination of possibilities of achieving meaningful success into a few, e.g. doctor, lawyer, banker; and this article presents a perspective that is a typical product of that system.
Crashes Chrome on IOS too, even better.
Notes to AR adaptation: I believe that AR will be introduced not through everyday life experience but via event context. (Similar to the 3D dorky glasses that we use in the cinema today). In those scenarios, the environment is much more controlled and even process lagging can be forgivable.
For example: take any stadium close sport field, like Soccer Euro championship. How amazing would it be to go to a empty soccer stadium and just see using AR the game in your hometown. Not saying there are no tech challenges but it is definitely easier where the env is controlled and even been 3-5 minutes behind is still ok, for a new kind of experience.
Completely OT, but I'm really starting to like G+. I deactivated my FB account (reactivated because of a girl--go figure), and found myself browsing G+ for the first time in months. I was shocked by the difference in content quality. My FB newsfeed is full of inane posts by family and a few friends, whereas my G+ feed is almost a reddit/HN replacement. Quite impressed, although I don't see it replacing FB simply due to the family and distant friend aspect.
I'm always surprised at this sort of feeling. The collective actions of everyone else at the company, if the company is not run pathologically, exist solely to pursue the goals of the CEO. The CEO sets the goals: describes what it is that this group of people does, what value they offer to the world at large.

You may not like that that's the way it works, but I think it's impossible for the CEO to fail to have a huge impact unless the company's run terribly. I also think it should be trivial to see that, given that the CEO has such a huge impact on the direction the output of this large number of employees takes, that the CEO's actions have an enormous impact on the value the company provides, and consequently the profit the company derives.

If the CEO of Yahoo decided that their best move was to pursue 1990s era AltaVista style search, combined with the idea of 'being a homepage' (which afaict is their current strategy, plus destroying good products), I think it'd be hard for you to NOT recognize that they would be destroying value in the company at a much higher rate than $150M/year. The CEO, personally, would have that impact. If the employees were more efficient at their jobs, or less efficient, it would have little impact (rounding error) in the overall impact of this policy pursuit.

CEOs are the company, for many purposes. Why shouldn't they be paid accordingly?
Hello? There's Palo Alto, Shoreline, Sunnyvale, Sunken Gardens, Santa Clara, just to name a few east of El Camino. This place has the second-best year-round golfing weather in the country.

Edit: Also the U.S. Open was held this year at a course in San Francisco.
Some general advice that's helped me improve productivity since I started working for myself rather than for the man.

1) Don't "multi-task" ever. Make a plan and then do everything on the plan in serial and make sure you focus 100% effort at the task/project at hand. My immediate to-do list is only ever 2 items long. 2 items only because I am working on #1 and when I finish #1 I need to know that #2 is the next thing that needs to be done. When #2 becomes your focus you move it to #1 and add a new item.

I do this at the macro level i.e my startup has 2 big projects to be shipped, I'm not going to put any effort/thought into anything that comes after, only what I need to finish right now. I also do it on the micro level, each feature has X user stories, I only have have 2 of these on my daily to-do list at any time.

2) Use timers like Pomodoro technique - I don't subscribe to the whole philosophy, I just enjoy the fact that a physical 25min timer gets me over the 'procrastination hump' for getting started. Keep working in 25 min chunks till said task at hand from (1) is done.

3) For pesky ongoing stuff add some rules to your life e.g I must publish a blog post every Wednesday (and I'm not going home till I do)

4) Whenever you finish a large project that might've taken you a few weeks to complete, give yourself some time to decompress and admire the work you've done.
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enh - so ask puzzle problems. Microsoft and Google have it covered. IMO.
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Relevant:
"Putting creativity on a pedestal can also be an excuse for laziness. There is a lot of cultural belief that creativity comes from inspiration, and can't be rushed. Not true. Inspiration is just your subconscious putting things together, and that can be made into an active process with a little introspection.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better."
-John Carmack
Getting basic grammar poorly is not like having no tapestries on walls of server rooms. It's like having a big mess in server room, where machines lie around in unorderly fashion and cabling is a mess. Yes, it works. But it looks terrible. Also add unfinished pizzas laying on the floor for accurate representation of people who don't care about spelling.
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Usually mailing list software, not people, deletes HTML email.
I think this really reflects on how bad a writer I am. I wasn't trying so hard to compare myself to others, but rather to show that in my opinion, I'm not doing anything but the standard stuff, that's pointless in my opinion, while other people are doing things they care about and are interested in. It would lead to decency, but not satisfaction, contribution, or change of any sort. Might have missed the point a little while writing the piece.
Google almost certainly will try to invalidate these patents, using prior art and other arguments, when it comes to a trial (see: Oracle v Google).

Unfortunately, one of the problems with the current patent system is that it isn't in Google's interest to do that before it comes to a trial. The first problem is that using prior art before a trial is legally risky. If you fail to invalidate a patent (and you might fail on a technicality like not documenting the prior art in exactly the way the patent office wants to see it), you don't get to bring up that prior art later. Second, good prior art searches (necessary if you want to have the best chance at a challenge) aren't cheap. They could easily waste their effort on patents that turn out not to be an issue at trial (patents that are relatively easy to work around, become less important because of the way the market evolves, dropped during the legal process because they seem to be relatively weaker claims and so on). The companies suing generally throw lots of patents at the wall to see what will stick. There's no sense in helping them sort that out before you have to.
I forgot to add - if you work with someone else or a couple of other people (cofounders in a startup) rotate the role of 'motivational taskmaster'.

Basically it's this persons jobs to drive projects by saying to everyone else - 'Where the F is this? you said you'd have it done last week, don't do anything else until you've got this done. Oh you need help? let's jump in together and do it together now!'.

Only works in small teams and everybody considers their peers to be equal. I have an awesome cofounder who's a woman who nags me to do stuff sometimes. The more she nags the more gets done so I don't mind :)
Great, when are they going to support FLAC instead of these formats nobody will ever use?
sometimes I'm surprised by this sort of thing, but then I remember that Google is INSANELY GOOD AT SEARCH and I stop being surprised when that plays out.
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This is regularly done in R using the MASS library.
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Building my entire business around the idea of remote teams and there are few valid reasons why you should have an office and hire locally versus hire in any city or any country around the world
Yet the same community elected the mods who decided to close it.
Perhaps. But I was thinking of kiasu in the sense of going to a good university, instead of striking it out at an intership or picking a stable job over doing what you really care about. I was trying not to emphasize the success points but maybe I gave one too many examples. I was trying to explain that what the education system gives is a very pointless, bland experience that leads to decency but no real significant learning or satisfaction. Pointlessness. I think that if we did do what we cared about, then we'd be beyond that spectrum you mentioned, because you'd be passionate about and enjoying what you did, instead of aiming to be a defined "winner".
Many providers of Linux and Java products indemnify their users e.g. RedHat, Novell.
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Is now a good time to point out that "poor" would be more appropriate than "bad" and that it should be reworded not to use "with"?
But these kinds of posts don't interfere with learning.

I actually learnt a bunch from those jargon examples - I'll certainly start using some of them at work. Jargon exists to make communication more efficient - I just learned a bunch of new ways to communicate about my craft.
It's the exact same rendering engine, but with the JIT turned off. It's likely to behave the same.
iPad is great for reading, particularly with the retina display. It goes super dim at night too, which I like. Only downside is it's a little heavy and big to take everywhere, whereas the Galaxy Nexus is portable enough to literally take everywhere.

For me it's between the iPad and Galaxy Nexus, the Galaxy Nexus is the best Android tablet right now by far.
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A social media campaign goes terribly wrong for Shell
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Growl for Linux
How many apps have you developed in html5?
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Time, I guess? Tarsnap is growing steadily.
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> I've noticed that in general foreigners have a much better grammar than English native speakers

I have to disagree strongly - not my experience at all, with Indians, Chinese, Germans, Spaniards, Belorussians.. One exception, a Greek who could kick my verbal ass. But, of course, native speakers have the huge advantage of proper use being just intuitive but, still, you made an absolute statement.

You may be interested to know that when a conquered people adopts the conquerors' language, they take on the vocabulary but much of the grammar of the old language remains. I read an interesting paper about some grammatical trick you could do in Germanic languages, but not in English. Why? Maybe because, in this way, Celtic was shining through? No, non-British-aisles Celtic has the same trick. The paper speculated that it was a remnant of the grammar of pre-Celtic, pre-historic Briton. (Just to illustrate how hard it is to adopt a new grammar.)

Also, note, general foreigner, it's 'much better grammar' not '/a/ much better grammar'.
while 60% of men in start-ups believe diverse teams are better at innovation and problem-solving, only 41% would be in favor of a companywide hiring practice to increase diversity.

Really?

If 60% believed, for example, that knowing how to code made for better hires, would only 41% be in favor of hiring people who know how to code?

Those are... not the same thing at all. That is an extremely flawed analogy.

The survey is taking about what makes for a good TEAM - further, it's only part of what makes a good team - one factor of many. You don't hire a team, however, you hire an individual.

The comparison that she draws is significantly more black and white: "Person A is strictly a better hire than person B, but we're hiring person B."
What do VCs want?
> You'd look like a complete dork trying to take photos with a tablet anyway

"The best camera is the one you have with you" as we say, looking like a dork is irrelevant. The ipad camera is actually usable and if that's what you have in your hand you just take the photo with it. Now I agree at 200$ a super good camera would be asking to much for what seems to be an already very good device.
From what I see they do differentiate on quality. There's a huge range of android devices and they are going to stand out in any way they can -- software is just one more way of doing that.
Every time when people get to rule their own kingdom and get to decide what's Right(TM) and Wrong(TM) this is what happens.

It doesn't matter if it's informative, useful or, oh horror of horrors, entertaining, all that matters is that it is Right(TM) or Wrong(TM) in the eyes of those high on their power trip, and there is no point in debating it.

And no Jeff, most communities don't just tend towards increased strictness over time, they tend towards death and abandonment, no matter how big they were at the height of their popularity. Stifling the natural development of a community because it doesn't match your "vision" rarely works out well, both online and IRL.
They are almost exclusively on the business side of tech or journalists writing about tech.

What about women in the tech side of tech?
lcc(1) the C compiler. As well as having readable C source, you'd learn something about the innards of C, how it is implemented, and there's a good accompanying book by Fraser and Hanson that covers the complete source as a "literate program".
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Indeed. From the linked PDF, the numbers seem to have been percentage of startup men who 'agreed' with the specific statements:

"Diverse teams are better at problem-solving and innovation." (60%)

"I am in favor of a company-wide hiring practice to increase diversity." (41%)

In common workplace parlance, the words 'diverse' and 'diversity' in those two statements aren't necessarily referring to the same qualitative goal. "Diverse teams" can be taken to mean "diverse in the relevant dimensions for problem-solving and innovation", such as having a variety of skills, temperaments, organizational-responsibilities, or life experiences. Meanwhile, "hiring practice to increase diversity" often means a focus on certain broad categories (of race, gender, age) during hiring.

Such an interpretation does not create the 'striking' logical tension Klein ascribes to the data, as would exist if these two phrases were as closely related as Klein's analogy to "knowing how to code" and "hiring people who know how to code".
That's not cashing out.
> It IS proprietary.

Also, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and innocence is strength!
Here is an example of a one man entry system consisting of nothing but a strap on heatshield and a retro-rocket gun:
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It's easy in July 2012 for Linus (or whoever) to say "why mess with stock android" as if it's always been as good as 4.1. These layers were built not just for differentiation but for base functionality/gloss that stock eclair/froyo/gingerbread lacked. And try not to be shocked but many users preferred those ui layers and those phones way outsold the stock phones head to head. Also it's vaguely relevant to remember that users are not the primary customer, carriers are and if Verizon couldn't slap their bloatware all over the original droids they might not have pushed it so hard.
This reminds me of Wikipedia deletionism, as if either Wikipedia or Stack Overflow will run out of space and they'll have to move into a new building if they don't clear out these topics. Why not just keep them and keep getting the Google ranking and free advertising?
This is a actually a great, succinct review of Linus' short review. Short, compact and does a nice job explaining the components that will make the review helpful to readers.
Just curious, what about the functionality changed your mind?
no, at the bottom of the window/viewport when scrolling.
For the same reasons people build non-hardware startups.