skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see it as crystal ball reading. The question that needs to be asked is, "If my new new thing takes off, what prevents the platform from cloning me, turning me off, and/or buying me cheap?"

In Zynga's case for instance, FB was pretty darn dependent on the advertising $$ Zynga paid them (among other factors). In Instagram's case, I believe that Facebook wished to avoid pumping up mobile app traffic that quickly. Etc.

Obviously, YMMV. The strength of the answers varies wildly, and startups often lose the bet -- even when the bet was calculated well. C'est la vie, et c'est la guerre.
Thank You to who ever posted this article. It points out how stupid college/car/etc... rankings are. I think people have a natural tendency to want to rank things, in the end it just makes us unhappy.
It's ridiculous that @font-face fonts look great on IE and Firefox, but jaggedy on Chrome.
>The biggest opportunities probably aren’t in social anymore

Economy struggles because there almost no new ways to increase labor productivity further. Making business tools more collaborative and social may boost labor productivity to next level. It's too early to dismiss social completely even if it's hit glass ceiling in B2C market.
>> Asked about the privacy aspects of the new app, a spokesperson for the Obama campaign wrote that "anyone familiar with the political process in America knows this information about registered voters is available and easily accessible to the public."

I think this is a cop-out. The information may be available to the public, but having it accessible on a map interface like this, by an app that can be downloaded by anyone, is a different ballgame. Especially in today's political atmosphere, it would make me very uneasy.

Sucks that it's opt-out, too.
Man. Mentioning Heroku while in the Rackspace offices. Awkward :D
I've been through several iterations of Apple power packs now, from the straight pin plugs of the iBooks, t MagSafe and and L MagSafe. In my experience the L is much, much better.

I've had several issues with cable fray and connector damage with T shaped ones, mine grips fine and comes out when caught fine. Maybe I've got lucky.
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Hmm, the theme of the two best beer jokes. Monty Python's (pre-microbrew) "How is American beer like making love in a canoe? It's fucking close to water." – and the old brewer's joke which goes like this (I'll use your examples): A Budweiser salesman, a Coors salesman, and an Anchor Steam salesman meet in the hotel bar at a beer convention. The Budweiser man says, "I'll have a Budweiser." The Coors man says, "I'll have a Coors." The Anchor Steam man says, "Just water for me." The other two look at him and say "What? Just water?" "Well," he says, "since you guys aren't having beer I won't either."
For the most part, even the feminist groups who welcome trans women are more accepting of feminists who consider trans women to be subhuman than they are of anyone who objects to those feminists. This is even true when, for example, the feminists in question have managed to get the law amended specifically so that the rape counselling services they run can turn away trans women who've been raped.

The issues of prostitution and pornography are even more interesting - most of the sex-positive feminists who fought against those being banned are still involved in much the same kinds of sex-positive activism as they always were, but they're not doing it from within the feminist movement for some reason, whereas the feminists trying to get them banned are part of the feminist mainstream.
Yeah... my bad. Definitely thought he was going to cut that out
Hurricane, or perhaps Tulane is a party school.
You're defining B2B too narrowly. You describe what sounds like a business logic app, probably mostly CRUD. And yes, that's pretty boring. But that's not the only software that businesses buy. Heroku, for example, is a B2B company because they sell predominantly to companies, not individuals. Heroku might not be something that the founders' relatives and college buddies would use, but it's far from boring.
Completely offtopic, but does anyone else find these google-plus "blogs" atrocious, design-wise?

The content drowns in clutter, not even the readability plugin works... I wince in disgust every time I run into one of these abominations.
It's boring that's why. It's like the Toohey's New of Mexico. Same with Stella. The Toohey's New of Belgium.

So easy to do so much better.
In my north east england area it is too, but a lot of the devs I know have moved onto craft (myself included, but mostly as I don't like lager much).
Apple and Dropbox are both successful in the "enterprise" (and more so in the small business) because of this. They didn't sell to the company, they sold to the users and employees.
> I will never for the life of me understand the hate people have for Corona.

If you have a strong sense of smell, the skunkiness is overpowering and nauseating.

There are so many examples of decent light lagers out there that it's hard to understand the love people have for Corona
It could be better, agreed, but I find the format much more conducive to this type of long-form post than Facebook.
Another thing is that the fav icon is too small to use for any meaningful notification.
wat.

All of the listed examples were security breach situations where having a cloud backup wouldn't have mattered. Having a cloud backup could theoretically be useful for these situations as a disaster recovery mechanism days/weeks after the incident, but restoring your cloud backup doesn't put the dinosaurs back behind the gates or somehow stop the navy planes from shooting down your alien spacecraft while the security breach is active.
I just integrated Filepicker.io with a client site (http://SetForMarriage.com), and it works amazingly well. Choosing pictures from Facebook/Dropbox is great for mobile users, and uploading via webcam is awesome for people who don't know how to get their photos onto their computer (a pretty good number of older dating site users).
Carlsberg?! Some fucking great beers:

* Darkstar Festival

* Darkstart Solstice

* Harvey's Sussex Best

* Langham LSD

* Green King IPA

* Hornblower

* Riptide

* Green King Abbot Reserve

* Brighton Stout

For Lagers I'd go Polish (Tyskie FTW)

But then, here in Brighton we're spoiled for choice.

Out of interest, in the USA can you get stuff like Anchor on tap? Or do you have to buy bottles? Because I much prefer casks to keg.
I still don't see how the size of the area matters. He's not showing it to everyone in the area, just ten bucks worth of them,

But his complaint isn't about the price per like. It's about the fact that likes per impression are ten times higher in certain countries. Can you explain that disparity?
Milk consumption has been linked to increased risks of many diseases including ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, bone fracture:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15203374

"In conclusion, we found a positive association between milk consumption and prostate cancer."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15069693

"We observed a 2-fold higher risk of the serous ovarian cancer subtype among those in the highest category of lactose consumption compared to the lowest

"For each 11-gram increase in lactose consumption (the approximate amount in one glass of milk), we observed a 20% increase in risk of serous cancers

"Women who consumed one or more servings of skim or low-fat milk daily had a 32% higher risk of any ovarian cancer and a 69% higher risk of serous ovarian cancer compared to women consuming 3 or less servings monthly

"Our findings provide some support for the hypothesis that lactose intake increases risk of epithelial ovarian cancer."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9224182

"Women who drank two or more glasses of milk per day had relative risks of 1.45 for hip fracture and 1.05 for forearm fracture when compared with women consuming one glass or less per week."
Serious question -- is it really that common for people to knock a laptop off a table with the power cord? I don't think I've ever had that issue, although I did knock a PDA off my desk once because the cord was draped over the front, and with it being a very light object (no damage, it landed on carpet). Or would this be an issue with the Macbook Air due to it's small size? (I'm used to lugging around much large laptops with high friction rubber feet, back when I carried one regularly).

And, instead of a magnetic connector, would a USB type connection function similar? I know that this type of plug stays in good enough so that it doesn't fall out, but can be pulled out without holding the laptop down.
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Hutton's book is excellent (and thin!). Work through that and you will learn about some deep stuff without even realizing it.
> Serious question -- is it really that common for people to knock a laptop off a table with the power cord?

If you're prone to tripping on cords, or have pets or small children, yes, absolutely.
Why would the DHS be issuing takedown requests on someone else's behalf, then? I believe that it's been established that isn't even legal.
Ah, but now you're talking about the relationship between Amazon and their paying customers. You take care of your paying customers.

An occupant of a blog is, as the saying goes, a product, not a customer.

EDIT: I re-read the article. I thought they were losing their Blogger account. Never mind.
The only challenge to setting up the ultimate competitor to Sage/Quickbooks is that it's so mind numbingly dull.

Yes, the dullness of the topic is why no one has bothered to enter the market and compete with the $3 billion Intuit, or the $1.5 billion Sage. It's just too boring for them to bother with that kind of money.

You're fing kidding right?

Do you think that maybe, just maybe, the 17,000 pages in GAAP have something to do with it? Or maybe the 3000+ counties.. or the long list of county/city/state/federal rules and regulations? and not just accounting rules, but employment taxes, credit card processing, invoice generation, etc, etc, etc.

I think you don't understand the complexity of the topic and don't know the full feature-set of sage/quickbooks, and that's why you think it's simple software.
It's been profitable in the sense it has kept my sanity in periods of boredom. Other than that, I haven't learned much, or found anything useful.
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Pretty much the same rendering here, Windoze 7 and FF. They're probably all on Macs.

As another case-in-point, check out the headlines at http://christianheilmann.com/ (Chris is on a Mac). Also note the transformed sidebar. I bet that looks much more legible on a Mac.
I'm a little confused. Is this a mailchimp competitor or is this for sending email to "someone who matter", eg my boss, my fiance, my grandma?
Agreed, and as computing grows messaging will just get cheaper and cheaper. zeromq is a great example of that, 5 million messages per second over TCP on a macbook air is not half bad.

Personally I like static typing, especially if somewhat optional, it's something we effectively do through documentation anyway (via JSdoc or similar), but makes it concrete.

I dont think light-weight threads sharing memory is so bad, symmetric coroutines are more or less the same as an event loop IMO, the thought put into working with them is more or less identical, just without callback hell and odd error-handling, but I suppose going all-out with message passing could be fine. I think that's still a bit of an implementation detail unless you get rid of the concept of a process all together and start just having a sea of routines that talk to each other.
Thought the concept to be interesting. Installed the mac version, as did my fiance. Signed up, launched (fiance remarked that it's ugly, including the installer - doesn't bother me), added each other.

Called and got massive non-stop feedback. It's unfortunate that the complete lack of echo cancellation (skype, gtalk, etc work great for us using identical setup) makes this dead on arrival.
Eh, I don't consider it a replacement for other beers.

Sometimes I want a nice stout or porter, sometimes I want a lighter lager, sometimes I want a glass of red wine, and sometimes I want a corona.

The skunkiness certainly comes across to me, but I don't find it particularly more off-putting than the fragrance of a particularly pungent cheese.
I guess I should have been a bit more clear with my intro sentence.

"I can't relate" was more towards the title of the article (Why Men Can't Have It All) than the actual content. I'm not sure what's up with the title actually. The content is basically what "krktb" wrote as a reply. I'm not debating that.
I just merely linked my childcare experiences with the article's examples while refuting its title.

I can't relate to the "social stigma" that men are looked to be inept when it comes to child care. It doesn't make any sense why that would be. As I explained, child care is basically a task. Almost any task can be performed by either a male or a female. This includes taking care of a child. To do this task well, all that matters is the effort you exert. I explained the rest in my blab above, so I'm not going to revisit it.

I apologize if you didn't understand what I was getting at, papsosouid. I'll make sure I'm more clear next time.
The most generic hardware will win over the least generic. That's because most hardware is supported except maybe edge cases.

But as far as I know, unless you go with some obscure distro, most things work.

There are often quirks about laptops going to sleep or hibernating, and sometimes integrated sound cards, but it's really hard to predict in advance, I found. You could look up each hardware pieces by brand and see how well they're supported on linux. Often you should find results in google by using the model number, the brand and 'linux'.

To sum up, based on my experience with debian's, slackware and openbsd, it will depend on the distro and the exoticism of your hardware.

HTH
SGI still exists? What are you talking about?
yeah, I'm getting that look too.
It's awesome that they're making so many things open source.
The UX needs work for sure..but think its better than longer blogs and Facebook stories. The interesting thing is that since it doesnt have ads on it now it feels clutter free. Not sure how that will change once Google decides to monetize G+. Right now they are in "establish the platform" phase and that is bound to change.
in the US, I pay sales tax to the people who do repair work on my house and who fix my dad's computer, and for the software I get from Apple engineers, all of which are not taxed within a firm.

http://dor.wa.gov/content/findtaxesandrates/retailsalestax/

"Similarly, when a business purchases a retailing service for its own use, it must pay sales tax on the purchase."
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If there is one thing I have learned in this life, it is that locals always think their region has a better than average beer scene.

The reality of the situation is that (without exception that I am aware of) if you are close enough to a major city to be able to say that you are near that city with a straight face, then your beer selection is going to be just fine.

I would say with hesitation that this applies to larger geographic regions as well. States, 'coasts', perhaps even countries and continents.

(If I have learned anything else in life, it is that you should always be gracious when someone offers you a beer.)
One would think that Facebook will aggressively avoid finding themselves in a position where they have to spend $1b on a product they could build themselves. IOW, the next app that appears to be on a path to getting as much momemtum and traction that Instagram had will likely find FB competing much sooner. Who knows, maybe that's what was going on with Dalton...
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More recently, that is true. But it doesn't explain how their early successes (poker, mafia wars, farmville) succeeded before they had the money and the market share to do those things. Back before they were a monopoly and back before they did cross-promos.
Yes, if you do a good international launch, they usually won't, since there are lower-hanging fruit to pick.
None that I can think of or find, and space firms get bought all the time. I worked with someone who stayed in the same building for many years as it changed hands multiple times. Nobody ever told me they worked for "X, now NASA"--it was usually "Hughes, now Boeing" or "Y, now L-3."

Individual contractors, however, can and do get hired by the government, but it depends on the NASA center. Most of the people at Goddard are actually contractors, not government employees, I believe.
There's a difference between gold digging and being attracted to more successful men, in that gold digging is motivated by a conscious incentive to expend the man's economic resources. Unemployed men living in their mother's basements are unattractive compared to, say, machinists, who are in turn less attractive than doctors, but it's less a matter of golddigging and more a matter of social status and respectability. There's probably diminishing returns in the range between machinist and doctor, with a step function down for unemployed slackers and a step function up for multimillionaires.
I don't hate zynga, I just think they're irrelevant, they add no value, they move nothing forward, they are a wealth redistribution scheme. What they do, doesn't 'work' in my book, so I don't care.

so what's the point of your original post that 'Zynga is in fact pulling cash' that's a fact, but so what? why should I care if I don't like how they're doing it? is there something i should take away from the fact that they make cash?
My wife's non-unibody MacBook (not pro) from '06 also has no latch.
During the mid-90s, a high school math teacher gave me extra credit for presenting my class a slight variation of this CC verification algorithm, thus providing a real-world application showing modulo math to be relevant.
> In one exchange, she noticed the man’s password, “Ilovejason,” and was startled by the painful irony.

So...facebook is storing passwords in plaintext. Can't wait for that security breach.
> Here's why it's likely the manned Dragon capsule will be one of the safest manned spacecraft in history.

Lets not forget that the two shuttle accidents were as much about a human factors failure, as a systems failure. Make no mistake about it, If a company like SpaceX ever got complacent about safety, it is game over. They will not get a second chance. Remember McDonald-Douglas, and how many DC-10 accidents, that basically forced the company out of the airliner business.

The Launch Escape System on a Soyuz capsule has been used once, in 1983 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-10-1
That's a poignant quote, and also one of the biggest pain points in selling to enterprise / federal customers.

The less spoken, easier way around is to target smaller companies. The people making the decisions have more direct influence on the purchase, and are also a lot more likely to be involved in the actual use of the software. This has worked out well for FogCreek, 37Signals, et al.
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Which is not nearly as useful since the G+ network is not as important as LinkedIn or Facebook.
My apologies to everyone for the mistake. This will be fixed in the next release.
Most laptops I have used just add a battery light to the laptop it's self which makes for cheaper cords, is easier to see, and is just as useful.
One of those cases where you've heard "three" and "figures" but not "three figures" :P

(I've probably heard it used only a few times in my life)
The paragraph titled 'Identifying a problem vs fabricating one' is a rewording of the most important lesson: make something people want. The problem is, we all know this one and have read hundreds of version of it.

Experience is the valuable part because, after hitting the wall, you look back at the same advice and realize how much of it you ignored.

The lessons are valuable; they just fall on deaf ears for most of us.
It's tough, particularly if it's your first time out. Thankfully the cost of trying out ideas in the software world is very low. Try experimenting with hardware to see the other extreme.

In many ways doing hardware ventures teaches you something very important: Ideas are not what's important; Opportunities are important. This, because the cost of failure can be very high, and so you learn very quickly that the idea is almost of no real value until a matching opportunity is identified.

Everyone has ideas for a million different gizmos. I certainly get approached on a regular basis with "let's build this thing that does this and that and that". When I ask about the opportunity I usually get blank stares. People think in terms of ideas. Business is about opportunities that are then matched with solutions and execution in order to turn a profit.

I used to be on the "I have this great idea" camp. After a number of businesses all I really care about are solid opportunities. Ideas are nearly worthless on their own.
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eh, but if china is automating as much as we are, then there aren't going to be a lot of jobs in manufacturing even if we can compete with them. My understanding is that manufacturing just isn't as labor intensive as it was. Go back to the agriculture example. If a sector is automated away... then we need to find something else for the masses of workers to do, just like we did after Agriculture was automated away.

My point is that the fact that we haven't found new things for these people to do is the biggest problem. A far larger problem than owing paper money. (I'm not saying that debt isn't a problem; it certainly is. I'm just saying unemployment is a bigger problem.)

Are you suggesting that I'm wrong, that manufacturing jobs aren't being automated away? (It sounds like you would know better than I would.) I mean, if there are enough manufacturing jobs to go around, and China is just taking them, then that's a different problem. But my understanding is that the days of having large number of labor jobs in the manufacturing sector are gone; it's now mostly machines, with Engineers making new designs and technicians to keep the machines running.

The thing is, you need something for the masses to do. That used to be manufacturing, but not anymore. Until we figure out the answer to that, nothing else we change matters.
Enterprise Software is a subset of "B2B". B2B encompasses any business that sells products and services to other businesses. The universe spans Alcoa (the world's largest aluminum producer) to Oracle (perhaps the world's most evil software producer).
It does compete with Mailchimp and other ESP's. We think that "people who matter" are your customers and subscribers. Bulk mail has a stigma of spam so we wanted to make a product that focused on the message, content, design and innovation rather just a tool that can pump out email.
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Oh, right. Same here, come to think of it. I wonder what other cliche phrases we can ruin.
Would like something like this up in the Pacific Northwest as well.
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I used Calculus (4th edition) by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards for my calc 1 and 2 courses and I would not recommend it for independent study.

Consider Calculus by Briggs and Cochran instead ( http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-Briggs-... ) for good explanations with example problems and for the superior images, which are particularly helpful for multivariate calculus.
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Yes, this is how it works with all major credit cards as well as many gift cards. You can also find ISO/IEC 7813, the track data standard, on Wikipedia. However, if you're thinking of programming some kind of payment engine, I urge you to carefully research the security and liability issues you are likely to encounter.