skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related anecdote:

For a time, I volunteered for a charity that provided general advice and support, mainly on issues of welfare, money and debt.

The longer I was there, the more obvious it became that most of the people I saw were simply fuck-ups. Although a minority simply had bad luck, most of them were simply unable and unwilling to responsibly manage even the most basic aspects of their lives. In hindsight, this is completely obvious - responsible, resourceful people rarely have need to seek help in running their lives.

Likewise, medics see a completely distorted picture of human health. They see a grossly disproportionate number of people from the minority of the population who are hypochondriacs, or have some form of somatoform disorder, or who chronically abuse their body. Conversely, they only infrequently come into contact with people who don't like to cause a fuss, or people with medical phobias.

There is data to suggest that police officers believe that they are much better than the general population at spotting lies, but are in fact much worse. The best explanation for this is that police officers habitually deal with people who are simply very bad at deceit - skilled criminals are rarely caught, whilst the most incompetent of petty thieves may be arrested several times a week. Officers believe that they know what a lie looks like because they are constantly dealing with people who lie, but in fact the only know what a very bad lie looks like.
The APM program teaches you quite a bit about how to innovate - in a large company. YC teaches you how to do it by making your own startup. It depends on what you want.
"Imagine if you could just pay $5/month for Sparrow?"

The word 'just' has no place here. If Sparrow cost $5/month I imagine that 99% of their customers would never have used it to begin with.
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>> Whereas a general app purchaser isn't costing in their saved time (for business or productivity apps), since they don't view their mobile device as a work tool, and consumers don't usually care that your game is good because their are plenty of alternatives to choose from when it comes to wasting time on the internet.

I like the way you identify the costing "point of reference" for various segments (web/mobile and business/consumer). To add to that, it seems the costing point of reference for mobile is the monthly phone bill. In comparison with that $1 is negligible (in the ballpark of carrier overage charges), but $10 or $20 extra is a "major expense".
I believe "flock" is the correct terminology
As long as Sublime can charge for upgrades in the future, it's not too large a problem. The problem is all the App Store software that can't and the user expectations of free upgrades that are being set by Apple (not familiar with other app stores to know if they are following the same path).
I always hate these tests because what is being compared is always lost. Are you trying to compare the best possible performance in these languages or the speed of the average program? The problem with that invariably ends up being the amount of work/knowledge gets put into the implementation. For example, gettimeofday is a terrible function to use for measuring performance. Furthermore, people for some reason get religious about languages. Every language has its benefits and costs. Use whatever language is appropriate to your situation.
Mean SATs, not their variance. I don't think that overcomingbias link is really adding anything to the discussion.

The paper that roguecoder referenced is just pointing out that SAT scores are not a perfect predictor, and adjusting the intake based on gender is probably a good idea if you want to maximise the real effect (academic performance), rather than the predictor (SAT scores).
Can't reply to him so I'll reply to myself. Where is the evidence of innovation? If Google is doing such a great job of innovating, why do they buy companies instead of spending their hoard of cash to innovate from within?
It's important to remember there are different types of analytics, both of which are important for any organization. Real-time analytics are what I would consider to be tactical. If your site is getting slammed you need to know about it - right now! And then you need to act. If you only focus on the RT analytics though it's easy to get stuck in local minimums, miss the forest through the trees, or simply not realize you're measuring the wrong things.

There are also strategic analytics. When looking at strategy, sufficient time periods are generally required. This type of analysis guides decisions in terms of months, quarters, and years. Strategic analytics are what drive the business long term. They provide the decions makers the data and visibility they need to solidify their vision.

Finally, I like to think of analytic data in 3 distinct iterative stages:

First is the data. This is the raw data spinning off the multitude of systems in any company. In any slightly complex system there are many datapoints that can be captured and counted. Companies often have entire systems just to capture the data, and this is before any analysis can occur.

Next is the information stage. In this stage all of that raw data is turned into some sort of reporting. It's still a lot of data, but is in a format that can start to be analyzed and acted upon (tactical reporting). In the past I've used various data warehousing solutions to execute on this step.

Finally, the organization turns the information into long term knowledge. This step occurs when the data has been analyzed and used to drive champion/challenger, A/B testing, etc... and those results are rolled back into the organization (vision and long term organizational changes). This knowledge also helps the organization discover what other datapoints need to be found and/or captured and the process starts again.
We do read/write, re. lock would you want to prevent all reads? Do a 503 or just hang the connection until the lock is undone?
Agreed. The companies that have tried to shut people up with strategic lawsuits in the past have salted the earth.
Oh, I think I said that. I think its probably 99% accurate, and I find it's easier to speak in absolutes, rather than ruin something with disclaimers, esp. on something like a podcast.
Yay, garbage collection and memory management! How do you know whether a URL has expired or not? I'm assuming temp URLs, which is quite reasonable in a lot of cases.
Certain things like inertial guidance systems were (and probably still are) highly classified for a good reason: ours were great, and theirs sucked.
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I'd love something this based instead on SBCL
This also explains how Reddit works so well
Sally Ride comes out as a lesbian in her obituary: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/first-female-us-astrona...
> Clearly you have not spent enough time on 4chan.

What's fun is that, thanks to the fact that 4chan happily embeds the Analytics/Recaptcha combo, Google may already know your creepiest fetish (along with your real name) in an instant. They can know what you say in 4chan by matching timestamps.

Unless, of course, you are a so called "nerd" and you stay behind 7 proxies and have a clean, incognito browser. dredmorbius' mention of http://33bits.org/about/ definitely applies here.

It's scary that having a name attached to other signals normally found in public profiles (schools, desires) will instantly yield an address for anyone determined enough.

It's scary that it became so ubiquitous. Sometimes, I really miss the old internet.
Sounds like they get blasted pretty hard, with the equivalent of several hundred chest X-rays over a 6-month tour.
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While I disagree with his views on privacy, the fearful, paranoid, tone of this article didn't really match the content.
Thanks for your (patient) answering of my questions. It's funny how just asking how things work sort of naturally leads to thinking about vulnerabilities, eh? :)
Um, no. Valentina was the first woman in space in 1963. However, the Russians didn't fly another woman in space for the next 20 years, not until we flew Sally Ride. We've flown a female astronaut almost every year since, they've flown one. The full count is: US, 45 female astronauts, Russia/SU: 3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_astronauts

To this day the Russians still have a superstition that flying with a woman is bad luck, and many of them refuse to fly with one.
Next weekend I will be digging an in-ground pool. I will use my backhoe and complete the digging in about 6 hours. No fuss at all.

How many days would it take to do the same digging with a spoon?

(unstated, but strongly implied point: Therefore, spoons are worthless)
Opera implemented it.
HEAD requests?
Right, but my thesis is that the upgrade-train model of software revenue is faltering. I think Sparrow is evidence of this (what you say about Sublime could apply as easily to Sparrow.)

I think it is a large problem, and we are seeing the manifestations of it now.

Time will tell, but I'm sure not gonna work on one-time charge software, nor would I recommend it to anyone. I'll work on free open source stuff, financed by work on whatever recurring models I can figure out.
(It takes a few minutes for a reply to be allowed.)

The article lists some of the bigger successes from the APM program. There's also a lot of smaller ones you'll never hear about.

Strategies for innovation don't have to be mutually exclusive. Google has decided talent acquisitions are one way to continue innovation. They've also decided the APM program is another, which is why it continues to this day.

Google's blessing is that it has a naturally large audience for showing new features/products. Its curse is that innovation has to be planned more carefully, both from a technical and a product point of view. That's where APMs do really well.
The central issue here is trust. If you trust the provider of the url to maintain the link, ensure that it stays alive and pointed to what you expect, then it's fine.

How can that ever be a realistic expectation over anything but the immediate and short term? Not to mention that in the overwhelming majority of cases the "provider" of a URL is not the party responsible for maintaining it.

I have to agree with the parent - unless the recipient of the URL [continuously] validates the source, she is simply asking for trouble down the road.
At the time she was flying on the Shuttle, the USAF was involved in the overall project and it was being used to lift military payloads into orbit, including some classified ones. The USAF stopped using the Shuttle after the Challenger accident.
I don't think the OP meant it that way.

To me part of being a grown up includes the ability to act with reason and tact under great distress. I've managed to do this once in my life when I was attacked by a good friend in a very harsh way because of complex reasons, and our friendship might have ended right at that point if I had let my emotions get the best of me.

I once had a boss who had an emotional breakdown almost every day at the office because things weren't going as he expected them to. He did not inspire me to do good work. He just instilled a fear in me that syphoned energy away and kept me from fully focusing on my work.

It was depressing, really. I will never know what Steve Jobs was like to work with, but I don't think I would have liked working for him, although he obviously got some good stuff out of his people.
The point is that under a subscription model these developers would be able to provide you with ongoing updates and quality service, w/out having to surrender to Google.
Nice, didn't notice that! (For those interested, it's actually documented here: https://developers.filepicker.io/docs/web/#fpurl-contents)

A 501 sounds like the closest error code, and I'd say having both asynchronous and synchronous modes of locking might be useful. Synchronous just holds the connection open (certain frameworks don't mind long-lived connections) while an asynchronous method might pass in a callback_url in the request to be hit when the file is ready, in the case of lockage.

(NB: to be honest I'm not too sold on the demand for locking vs ovewriting, I guess I threw it in the list of [things that files can do]. Might be interesting to see this need evolve as files move to the "cloud" though.)

EDIT: While I'm at it, a PUT method for creating files could be cool too, to let people use filepicker without the JS widget.

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I agree. I didn't really think you literally meant everyone.
As a Buddhist maybe not. Buddhism and Enlightenment Era ideology are both anchored in the idea of the "self". There's a great synergy between the two. To get what I mean look at the former CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey. The staunchest of Libertarians, a legitimate Buddhist, and a pioneer of "Core Values" Branding( e.g Apple ).
So is Excel.
Whilst funny, and the photos cute, surely we're past this?

"Annual leave? Sure mate, when you’re fired", yeah or when you're unemployed from burnout and a lack of balance.

It is well understood that workaholics don't necessarily deliver the best results (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/902-fire-the-workaholics/).

"I'm sick is another way of saying I don't like making sales" - that attitude drives people to not take leave when required. Taking one day off early in a bug can stomp it on its ugly head, but soldering on like a hero can end up knocking you out of action for a week.

I know I'd far rather have my sales person off for one day than a whole week.
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It's more like noting that cutting off the frogs legs makes the frog unable to jump: after cutting off all future revenue from a user, you no longer receive revenue from that user.

Regarding your second point, software is plagued by the zombie minimal-viable product. Sparrow is a pretty damned good email client right now. What could they offer to make me upgrade?

This is why smart developers and good software will move into SaaS, whether users are excited about it or not.
Self-made man doesn't mean nobody did anything for you. If an olympic athlete wins a race, he didn't build the stadium, didn't sew his uniforms and shoes, didn't grow and squeeze his morning juice drink with his own hands, didn't build the car he used to get to the stadium and didn't personally extract the oil and made it into the gasoline to power his vehicle. All these things are done by other people. That does not mean these other people share the success of the olympic athlete and should get gold medals too, even though if he had no shoes, no clothes, no food, no car and no gasoline, he probably couldn't win the even he won.

There's a thing called separation of labor. It is one of the biggest advantage of civilization, one of the biggest thing separating people from most of the animals (some animals have primitive separation of labor, but most do not). It allows people to be much more prosperous and successful by offloading many tasks to other people and gaining enormous specialization and scale advantages. We - as the human race - literally could not exist in the current form without it.

However the existence of the separation of labor does not mean that we owe fruits of our labor to every other person on the planet, even if for many of those it is possible to trace their part to something you used to produce these fruits. People invented money for exactly this reason - if you want a car, you pay money for a car, and since that moment you do not owe anything to the car maker. The car is yours, and if you drive it to work that makes you a billionaire - it's your billion, not car maker's. If you hire somebody, you pay them money. If somebody cooked a meal for you and you became a billionaire, you owe him a decent cook's salary, but you do not owe him your success.
I paid for my desktop email client (The Bat) upgrade just couple of weeks ago.
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We posted a bounty for the Python library this morning and it is already done, so I'm hopeful this can go quickly as well.
On the other hand, infrastructure can only be as useful as the applications they support. Technologists love solving hard technical problems [1], but ultimately, isn't the main goal to improve peoples' lives? Almost all the engineers I know would prefer to work on sophisticated interesting problems than "another web-app," but there isn't much point if it is just for our own edification.

I can understand your disdain for Instagram's frivolity, but people said the same about Twitter and it ended up playing a major role in the Arab Spring, whereas almost no one outside the techworld knows or really cares who runs their infrastructure. Of course without this infrastructure it all wouldn't work.

Like you say, comparing the two is like comparing apples to oranges, you can't really argue one is fundamentally more important than the other.

[1] http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html
You can't charge a subscription price without providing subscription value. No one is going to buy a subscription to an email client. I do agree with your (and the article's) point, but that doesn't change how purchasing decisions are made. Either you provide marginal utility or you don't.
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The Constitution is not holy, but changing it is very difficult by design. There is approximately zero chance we'll see the Second Amendment removed in the next 20 years, and virtually zero chance beyond then.
It's not really an economics problem. It's unfortunate but an email client is a feature of a platform, it's not a service itself. You can become an email provider and make a kickass client the differentiator, but that won't happen with a 3 person team either.
C is worth it. C++ is not.
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As it happens I almost never play games. It's hard to find time when you have a startup.
what about changing your code to the following? any noticeable speed changes?

size_t size = data.size();
for (size_t i = 1; i != size; ++i) {
data[i] += data[i - 1] ;
}
Thanks for the nuanced analysis.
rvalue references actually let you guarantee this in C++11.
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Couple important caveats with the provided graphs:

The graphs are rankings not revenue (understandably he doesn't want to share). But this introduces the problem that a week in the top 10 and a week at #500 does not equal to two weeks at #250. Not even close.

Further 250th place today =/= 250th place in 2009 or 250th place in 2016 or 2030.

Ron Nicholson [1] roughly fits the following formula for app store sales:

unitSales = totalPaidApps * ((1 + rank) ^ -1.0) - 1.5

This suggests that a week at #5-10 is worth about 23-42 weeks at #250.

[1] http://www.musingpaw.com/2011/04/estimating-iphone-app-store...
Exactly. My reaction to this article was somewhere between "Duh!" and "Wasn't recruiting one of the big arguments in favor of hiring her?"
Because some investors don't mind 4x returns when the company exits to Google.
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> My first example is the ridiculously wide-scale enterprise adoption of Microsoft Outlook and Exchange ...

Yes but there is a completely different dynamic driving those sales: top-down adoption mandated by people whose main goal is not to get fired. Same reason as why you see so many middleware posters in the airport raving about security. Most users, given the choice, would not choose to use these products.
A little story - I wrote a DJing application in one language and then released it for the HP Touchpad, Android, and Playbook. I'm going to release it for the BB10. I released a second app using the same framework for Android, and another app for iOS.

.. Surprise! It's all in C++. It uses libSDL for input and audio, and openGL for graphics. With that framework I also released an app for iOS. Everything under the sun has a SDL port.

The downside was I had to write my own UI widget framework and cannot do any native features. The upside is "write once, port to everywhere".
American stores don't typically have guards either.

Some stores do, but it's not usual.

It's not really that hard to steal from a grocery store, but in general people are honest.
For better or worse, Excel is still the most widely used general-purpose business application. Even SalesForce, Freshbooks, and the ungodly Quickbooks have failed to put a dent into Excel's dominance and pervasiveness as a business planning, management, and operations tool.

It will take something quite extraordinary to dislodge Excel as a tool for simply and effectively managing a business. There's something to be said about a business app that can so handily meet the needs of such divergent business audiences.

That said, I think businesses can really do a LOT better than Excel. I'm working on fixing that.
For a moment there one might have been thinking he meant atrocious actions with high death tolls against a civilian population, in which case the OP is definitely failing to understand it with his "for something no other country has ever faced", and the "spare yourself embarrassment by not making such witless pronouncements" is spot on.
I agree some of the quotes go too far, but I don't think the startup in question means them ALL to be taken literally.

Is it an agressive way to drive a sales culture? Absolutely.

Is it for everyone? No.

But you have to admire the sheer focus and drive they have to build up their sales.
In order so that they could do ... what, exactly?

There may be lots of things the vendor could do. They could contact their customers so the hotels have a chance to consider their options. There is a good chance the vendor knows the protocol better than the guy who reverse engineered it; maybe there is a kill-code that they could give their hotels.

when hotels suddenly have to start replacing their locks with less-flawed ones. And I'm not sure a company that produced a flawed products deserves that.

You don't know that other products are better. In fact, he's said that there are other products he hasn't tested but still have the port. Maybe they are even easier to hack.

The company is going to have to deal with bad publicity regardless. It's just that know hotel managers are going to be in panic mode because of this guy is giving out all the directions so anyone can make their own skeleton key.
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His benchmark did not mention anything about memory consumption. I'd imagine that C/C++ used a fraction of the memory Java used in his microbenchmark.