skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prepending two spaces to a line will prevent ***automatic formatting***.
Disagree. You can be wildly successful by just hustling. I am.
http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/12/pandomonthly-presents-a-fir... around 17:45.

And yes, I had remembered it wrong from when I watched it a few weeks ago. I remembered the bit about dropping below sea level pressure, but not the rest of the cascade.
Google shutting down Google Apps for Teams
Yeah, we're aware of it. Basically, we plan on doing an Android app but haven't had time yet. No reason to squash something that's helpful to people.
You also have a rack of exotic blue hardware at every engineer's desk, can't complain with that.
The Web browser will eventually be an OS. It will provide a common language runtime for graphics and code execution.
Do developers really love beer, or is it just a myth?
>Not counting their initial failures, SpaceX has had a 100% success rate.

And other than the ones that exploded, NASA never lost a shuttle.
Peer2Peer group video chat with WebRTC
These are indeed all great examples of a differentiated strategy. But I am at a loss to understand quite how they help us parse the OP's para re a cannabilistic cash flow.
Reduce? The larger the corporation, the larger the overhead introduced, and less efficient it becomes for intellectual work. Your thinking only applies to manufacturing.
Just got off the phone with my client: They had an email exchange last week that was inconclusive. Then filed a support ticket this week when they had to turn Cloudflare off (business plan) and didn't hear anything back. I just had them re-file the ticket since it looks like Cloudflare had some support ticket issues.

I'm a fan of Cloudflare and would love to have my client running again. Do you guys have a network hacker on staff we could connect them directly with to get to the bottom of things?
On 37signals' no free accounts policy and pushing the software industry forward
check out the source: https://github.com/cavedweller/webRTC.io

Try using our library, feel free to give us feedback!

We'd like to eventually have a library that abstracts out the nasty parts of webRTC. Similar to how socket.io does.
Everything said here is absolutely correct, and yet getting people to actually adopt this practice is going to be a fight up-hill. Here's why:

- Many people will get nervous about the idea that someone can instantly watch them without warning, and simply refuse to buy in.

- Coworkers will start playing pranks at who they can spy on without them noticing, catching someone at an embarrassing moment, or snapping photos of the dumb look on someone's face when they're in deep focus.

- At most companies, there isn't just one person who needs to get ahold of you. If I walk to your desk and there's someone there already, I come back later. Auto-video lets you see one person only, rather than the whole environment.

- It's awkward to show your face, see they're busy and disappear, especially multiple times, and eventually you'll stop trying and just send an email. At most organizations, the good times to just barge in are rare, and the miss-to-hit ratio will get quickly discouraging.

All that said, I applaud the goal, and I might try using this anyway. I've worked with people remotely often and have wondered about how to establish the correct social conventions for chat/audio/video to mitigate some of the loss of subtle information cues you take for granted in an office environment. Keep experimenting, there is promise to the core idea.
Just got some Rhodia dot grid paper (http://rhodiapads.com/collections_boutique_dotPad.shtml) to sketch out layouts and icons and I love it. For brainstorming and general chaos organization, I use iThoughtsHD. If I ever run into a bump in the road, I highly recommend the free and beautiful Unstuck iPad app.
Pincus will lose all that money before you know it. He's nothing but a turd in the world of innovation. It's funny since Zynga is backed by KPCB and Bing Gordon (who was a big time player in EA back in the day).
I agree with your statement. Samwer bros aren't innovators by any means but they do solve internationalisation problems - no question. Good for them and I wish them success
I would frame it as a social vos virtual operating system.. or social dashboard. Its a good idea, monetization may be hard but its a needed product that should generate long page views.

Idea, long page views might make watching a video ad before the dashboard appears acceptable..paid version no ad..
Had to google roissyshere, so no. Hard to find anything specific about him as his blog has disapeared but in general I find the PUA community to be creepy.
I think the ultimate anti-Valve is a military and everything else falls in-between.

Some businesses are required by nature to be military-like - logistics for example.
Hellbanning [1] is a solution - let the bot think it's connecting to other users, but in reality it's completely invisible - even better when you address a small net of these - they're banned to the same hell so they can see each other and interact, but are all invisible to the greater populace.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbanning
Wow, I attended a university synonymous with Haskell. 15 mins of reading here and I've just had an epiphany that eluded me in all those years.

A most insightful post, thank you very much.
New York Times builds contextual multimedia into the flow of a story
Exactly - the beauty of the L is the flexibility it gives in running the wire.

"If you see a cover clamshell on someone's macbook, he/she blew it"
Is that still true with Mountain Lion? It is 64 bit only, so giving up say half the address space for kernel memory should not have any practical disadvantage.

Also, is that true on iOS? I would think that the better performance of say a 2G-2G split would be more than worth it there, as the hardware has, at best, 1GB or so.
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Programmers Don't "Build" Programs
What I find a bit surprising is that the two aspects are seen as two completely different things. As a soon to be father and current husband one of my motivations towards going to work and advancing my career is financially supporting my family.

Does that mean that I will spend lest time at my house than I would wish to? Sure but the key thing is to balance both, you can't take care of your child if you never see him but you can't take care of your child if you can't buy him food either.
Apparently if you ask for questions, what you get is critiques. I'll keep up the pattern. :)

This phrase struck me as out of sync with the style: "we have focused on creating compelling templates that drive influence." It's jargon-y, and the jargon is slightly creepy, at least the way all advertising talk is slightly creepy when it gets too specific about what it's trying to do. It's less about people [who] matter to me, and more about people who matter because they can be manipulated into doing something I want. I would suggest you think about how the phrase "drive influence" makes you feel, and then take out anything else in your site that makes you feel the same way. (Or go for whatever crowd you're going for that isn't me.)

Aside from that, I agree with another commenter that if your template design is what makes you special, I'd like to see some example emails before signing up. The world is too full of web startups to create an account for every one that claims to be better than MailChimp.

Anyway, thanks for your work -- looks like an awesome start.
Read my response to salman89 below.

If you don't have a clear strategy that protects you from competitors big ans small, don't start a company.
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Yep. If people aren't meeting expected reasonable results for no good reason, that's the issue in a nutshell, and that's the issue to deal with directly. The issue has nothing to do per se with working from home, so no fix should mention that aspect, especially not to a whole team.
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Consumer Internet Isn't Dead
I broke my $650 laptop by accidentally pulling the power cord. It happens.
CS and engineering jobs must exist in a different universe than the rest of the working world. I have yet to go through an interview process that did not require a verbal/written series of technical questions being answered.
I don't think you can have an "informal and spontaneous" hierarchy, or a "flat" one. Those are oxymorons. Hierarchy by definition is a formal gradation of ranks. No?

Humans naturally form dominance hierarchies even in the absence of formal rank. If Alice, Bob, and Charlie all work together on a project, typically one of them (say Alice) will quickly emerge as group leader. She will act (if necessary) with executive authority, even in the absence of the formal ability to hire and fire.

A "flat" organization is simply one that has few formal hierarchical levels. There is no essential conflict with a strict hierarchy. An army with one general and ten-thousand privates is both flat and perfectly hierarchical. Real militaries find it advisable to have a large number of formal ranks, but the essential notions of unified command and strict hierarchy are common to any well-managed corporation.
In every single example I gave, entrenched competitors were unable to copy a strategy without eroding their cashflow. For example, United is afraid to fly all their flights out of Long Beach instead of LAX, because they fear that American will have the perceived higher ground and customers will switch over. The other examples should be more obvious.
That should have been his expectation.

I mentioned elsewhere that, personal opinion only, of course, that this expectation is the sign of bad mindedness. Think of the logical implications of this point.
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I don't fully understand the parent's point either, but I think there is value in learning and using different systems, even as a hobby. As you agree with, programming a low level system can't be done with the same tools as you are used to, you won't have the same convenience, and you might have to do things differently, even think differently about otherwise common problems. There seems to be plenty of
learnings in there.
Hmmm... well games these days come on a DVD with 2 gigs of graphics. How could a JavaScript game streaming over the web do something like that??? PC games with high end graphics and gamers have pretty much driven PC sales/upgrades for the last decade. I really doubt that gaming enthusiasts are going to be happy with their FPS going into the toilet and loading times taking 5 minutes to download all the textures.

Are we going backwards in terms of technology?

Lets make a distinction here. Javascript is fine for phone games and puzzle games. That is about it. Same reasons why embedded chips are STILL programmed using 35 year old assembly/C and always will be. It is the right tool for the job that wins.

Hype can be a very bad thing for technology. I realize that web developers are creating quite a clamor with their aspirations of becoming game developers (better money, more fun, and higher status among peers) but the real game devs are going to blow you and your toys away (you are using the wrong tool for the job). Basic programmers did this in the 80s and we all know what happened to that LOL.
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I will never for the life of me understand the hate people have for Corona.

Granted, it should probably be classed under some yet unnamed category of beverage other than "beer", but I still like it.
This book (pop science kind of thing) was a lot of fun too: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594630380

Note that the Gros Michel isn't extinct. It's still grown as a boutique item. But the blight is apparently persistent in fields, and thus it can't be grown in quanitity without huge risk to the plantation.
Excellent advice. I am not sure it is addressing my concerns with the OP. Perhaps you could clarify for me?
My response: http://nbashaw.com/post/28654441223/consumer-internet-isnt-d...

In a nutshell, I think there's still a lot of value in creating web and mobile apps for consumers, it's just that there's been a glut in the market, especially for mobile. Too many apps that aren't very differentiated.

In the long run I still think consumer is a good play, though.
Developers also, on average, enjoy sex, recreational activities, and going on vacation. And bacon. Never forget the bacon.
I wonder what the geographic breakdown was like. I'd like to see preferences in America, vs. Russia, vs. the middle east.
In case anyone else hasn't seen this: http://favris.info/
Email is text, now and forever, so mote it be, amen.
There only is one sure strategy for avoiding the potential steamroller of the platform company. Don't build on the platform.
I think you're indulging in extremism. "The perfect is the enemy of the good," and all that.
If he sent that email, he would be admitting to firing someone for reporting labor law violations, which is illegal.
Is there a Linux client on the horizon?
Contrary to popular belief, the evidence suggests that developers are in fact people.
Ask HN: How profitable has News.YCombinator.com been for you?
So far, if you can somehow convert the time spent on news.ycombinator.com into dollars, how profitable has visiting and/or contributing to this site has been for you?

Examples: I got a hired from a $100k job posted here. I found a technology which saved me weeks of work and thousands of dollars. I though I would need to buy this $2k software but this site showed me a cheaper alternative.

Things like that.
Software is a garden, and we are it’s gardeners.

I have a garden. Weeds grow without my assistance. The veggies and flowers mostly do their own thing as well. I wish new and strange things grew overnight in my IDE.
I think the command economy part of communism (the governance form) is probably the biggest problem libertarians have with communism. I don't think they have anything against equal partnerships between large numbers of people.
Dude you can do whatever you want. If you want to start something that's readily copied, go ahead.

But if Godzilla steps on you, dont act surprised and dont expect a lot of sympathy.
As a dev I can and do communicate with Apple reps.
Perhaps, but correlation does not imply causation.
Google released the Nexus 7 a month ago...
Okay, originally I was going to write this off as mere blogspam but I wanted to have some fun.

Issues:

1. An ordinal scale with subjective verbiage?

2. An ordinal scale with no natural middle (there are six options!)?

3. An ordinal scale with 'select all that apply'?! How does that even work?

4. The percentages add to more than 100%! That's not how percentages work. At least normalize the scale -- or change the Y axis.

There's nothing wrong with trying to promote your analysis firm (I like RedMonk!) but at least try and, you know, have good analysis.
> no one wants to fix anything

Is patently false. I like to fix things. I get way more satisfaction from cleaning up a mess, improving X, etc. Than I do from creating iteration 1 of something that may or may not be used.

I am not the only person in existence with this quality.
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I think that any couple who has honest, adult communication is already leaps and bounds ahead. Many seem to take tasks for granted based on gender roles. By the time one's gotten to "and then we have a conversation about our individual preferences" things are less likely to be grossly unbalanced.
Look at using http://blitz.io for load testing.
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We need some outsider opinions on what you think when you first come to hangtrend.com. Thanks!
Indeed. Furthermore a study has found that moth's memories are retained from one stage to the other (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080305-moth-...).
Thinking about this a little more in-depth now I actually can't believe that EA hasn't filed suit earlier. Maybe they were waiting and building a stronger case? Sim City was the definitive game of the late 90s - early 2000s, CityVille is a direct rip. Now with The Ville they are ripping off even more EA products.

By no means do I like the direction EA has gone in the past few years, they are very poorly regarded game company with bad leadership, but their IP is blatantly being ripped off.

I'm glad they're fighting back and if this goes to a jury trial, which I certainly hope it does, Zynga will be done. However, I think Zynga will most likely be taken off the NASDAQ long before a trial, their assets liquidated and the company will file for bankruptcy protection.

It's a shame so many investors, VCs, and etc. invest in companies like Zynga, but they're cashing out so it's a sound investment for them.
Like this: http://kormacode.blogspot.se/2011/11/c-style-haskell_10.html ?
I haven't clarified this yet, but what I'm really advocating is a combination of protocol and hosting, which when put together is, in my mind, something like a distributed virtual OS for startups to build social services upon. OS is probably not the right term, but I think it conveys the scope better to non-developer than "protocol" does. I'm not trying to confuse - I'm trying to think of something better.
Scott if I read you correctly I think this is a profound misunderstanding of how to potentially build a viable business on a platform. Let's examine two extremes.

a) dev builds software on the platform that doesn't disrupt the platforms economics, distribution, or organizational limitations.
b) dev builds software on the platform that does disrupt the platforms economics, distribution, or organizational limitations.

You seem to be saying that if he had done a 'proper job' he would have pursued strategy b. But surely that is precisely the case where you can expect to be bullied. It is strategy a. where you develop software that does none of those things, but adds value to the platform by adding value to the users of the platform where you are least likely to be bullied. In these circumstances you are no threat and you are complementing the platform.

Strategy a can only be pursued when you are not dependent on the platform and hence are much harder to bully.
I don't know if it's just my area of north England but Corona is consider quote a good drink, and you always get it with a lime.
We used gestures and a whole slew of iPad-specific media queries and rendering logic on bostonglobe.com. While I agree that you can usually write a lot of common desktop/tablet code in a responsive design, adding tablet-specific (or iPad-specific) features in a responsive design is a big selling point to your typical executive-type.

(Dislaimer: I used to be an engineer at the Boston Globe)
I'm vegan
When I drank Brazilian beers like Skol... Corona was like a world full of flavor in comparison.

Puts things in perspective.
Marissa Mayer, Fatherhood, and Having It All
I agree that this is very much an issue of identity, something I wrote about in my previous post: http://www.orianmarx.com/2012/07/24/a-better-social-web/
Are people really running away from advertisers on social platforms?
I understand why Pincus runs Zynga like he does. But I don't understand why Zynga's employees want to work there. They are (were?) probably hoping for a big lottery ticket, but they must realize that every day they go to work and rip off someone's original work.

I'm reminded of Pigdog's "d00d, Quit being a FUCKING ASS" rant addressed to the programmers of Sony's malicious copy-protection:

I know you didn't start off like this. I know that you're like me, that you're
like all of us. That you love these things called computers, that your fingers
itch when you're away from them, that your whole essence pours out of your
fingertips into the keyboard when you make that system DO YOUR MAGIC. It's
incredible, it's power, it's a tradition that goes back centuries, and it's
flowing through you right now, right this very second.

And you're BETRAYING it. You're standing on the shoulders of giants and SHITTING
on them. For something you believe in? For something you're PROUD OF? Or for the
dollars of Sony Megacorp and the opportunity that that brings?

http://www.pigdog.org/auto/software_jihad/link/2581.html
Memory leaks aside in Chrome, this is amazing and I can't wait to see how people use this.
Yup, I'm not trying to usurp this work. I'm trying to support it and also learn more about it. Thanks for the links!
Yeah, I like outliners. I've used them since the DOS days. I just wanted to know how this one is better/different than what's currently out there. The fact that it's web-based isn't new.

i.e. http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/22/online-outliners/ (2008)

The article starts with "For as long as I’ve been using computers, I’ve been searching for the perfect way to take digital notes" and then the author went through a list of popular tools previously evaluated and this made me think the author was going to talk about a new kind of tool.

Anyways, it's good that this article will expose people to outliners (and awesome Matt Cutts is using one).
It is a large effort, which is precisely why the post is relatively vague :)
Looks cool! As a designer, i must say you have kind of a lot going on and it's a bit unclear to me what to look at first. Maybe simplifying your front page a bit would help?
Your top end is limited unless you start your own company.
I'd say it's more like knitting than anything else.
> biggest problem libertarians have with communism

is ignorance of communism et al actually means. At least for the masses of "don't tax me bro!" tea baggers and other modern bandwagon, pseudo libertarians.
A few good beers:

* Delirium

* Anchor Steam

* Carlsberg

* Negra Modelo

Contrary to popular belief, Budweiser, Coors Lite, et. al. are not actually beers but rather beer-flavored water that also contains alcohol.
If anyone is interested in hearing more from Ronald Coase (and you should be), he was on the excellent Econtalk Podcast earlier in the year: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/ronald_coase/

The topic is "Coase on Externalities, the Firm, and the State of Economics", well worth the time if this topic interests you.
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I understand. My bad. On my original reading I thought he was suggesting the startup should have cannabilistic cash flow. Whereas he is indeed meaning that to competitively respond the incumbent will have to cannabilize his own cash flow.
The submitter's obvious intent was to get comments on the blog.
Hi, users were getting "Error 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED): The server refused the connection." on https pages. See original ticket #5880 and new ticket #6001.

If that doesn't come up my email is in my profile. Happy to connect you directly with their CTO.

[edit: added new ticket #]
I'm with you on this. I'm looking for implementation, which is why I'm writing about ideas. Nobody can adopt something that doesn't exist.
They are usually being tossed to the pagefile (except in the case of read-write non-anonymous file mappings, which are not super common on OS X and which are functionally equivalent to paging to the page file anyway).
In case A, what's stopping the platform from re-doing themselves whatever it is you've done?
i liked it, thanks
Is it just me or everyday is there a new story about Apple failing in some way? Whether it be a Microsoft-esque advertisement, patent lawsuits with Samsung, failure of a newly designed Apple power connector. I'm not an analyst so what I say should be taken with a grain of salt, but something is changing over at Apple. I honestly believe whatever magic Steve left at the place is now depleted, what we are seeing are ideas, products and ideals of a post-Steve Jobs Apple and by the looks of it, it is not doing so well.

My next question is: what's next?