skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this flat structure apply to the entire company? Who cleans the floors, does QA, decides when to release a product, does the accounting, waters the plants, answers support calls? Can all of these people move their desks or is it only the developers that are free to move within development to development related tasks? If the accountant decided that they wanted to do art design, would they do so and then likely be evaluated by their peers and possibly fired(assuming that they are not a talented art designer in addition to being good with the books)?
In practice, I just don't think that's the case. The entire point of a responsive layout is that you don't have to test against every possible resolution - most responsive websites have 2, maybe 3 conceptual layouts. You can get sufficient coverage by separating the layout testing from the site logic - test the layout on desktop with varying window sizes and then test site logic on the major mobile platforms. That usually means 4 desktop browsers with varying window sizes and 3 mobile browsers... not too bad.
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I'm looking to jump start some sales for some items on our Amazon account by getting a number of items 3 sales each, by creating a unique coupon code.<p>EX: http://www.amazon.com/White-Gold-Oval-Sapphire-Diamond/dp/B004HWKAVQ/ref=sr_1_51?s=jewelry&ie=UTF8&qid=1344023179&sr=1-51&keywords=gold+sapphire+ring at 30% off.<p>I have about 60 items I would want to do this for. I'm experimenting with Reddit, what ways would you recommend? The goal is to have three sales within a 1-3 day timeframe.
The numbers suggest that more and more users are going to be hitting the web on mobile devices (numbers vary a bit, but the consensus seems to be close to doubling annually and around 10% at the moment).

It seems to me that it's not a question of responsive design or not; and it's not a question of responsive design vs. separate sites (completely or substantially separate code). Rather, it becomes a question of how much time do my analytics numbers suggest I should spend making my mobile presentation better?

It definitely cuts both ways, and for some using a decent responsive framework will certainly be fastest, for others, a quick mobile-only lander that directs to a native app might be more well-suited. This problem isn't going away anytime soon, and I'm keeping an interested eye on the almost classic 'responsive vs. mobile-specific vs. native' debate (and all of its variations).
The iWork apps are well-reviewed and have been heavily pushed by Apple so I don't really understand much of your post. :)
But raganwald wasn't talking about the "Apple vs Android holy war". He posted specifically about Apple vs Samsung which is about specific products.
How do I say this without incurring the wrath of people here on HN... Is this not what pg was talking about in this article? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

This entire thing appears to be just a paid advertisement.
"The lesson instead is: build something whose very nature makes it a cannibalistic cash flow hit for a BigCo so that their shareholders resist competing, but which their users love."

Can anyone explain more what he means by that? How can something that is a cash flow hit for a BigCo not be a cash flow hit for anyone else?
But the possibility that a device might not be a hit and hence abandoned in a few years might deter developers from developing apps for that device, thus reducing it's value. For a product like tablet, apps are especially important part of the overall experience.
Hah, mine is a directed acyclic graph!
I have an idea for a new game called 'Sue City', where you play the role of an office junior in a legal firm and have to complete tasks and make social and professional connections in order to earn promotions and eventially become a lawyer in a top corporate case involving two companies called Arpel and Sumsang.

Any takers?
I would argue the path to syzygy isn't "giving up" anything but "integrating". Instead of giving up "man" as an identity (complex in the psyche) why are we not "integrating woman" as an identity to be a stabilized, whole, pairing with "man"?

Our western society is very out-of-touch (IMHO) with how people's inner landscape is configured (through years of cultural stimulation, parents, western symbols, etc...).

The quick reaction is to "give up" or "repress" what you are in the present to be able to "see your true self" (ie, enlightenment); this process can work, but it is a distinctly Eastern way and their psychological configuration is very different from the Western one. The answer for the Western psyche is "integration".

How many men in our society have embraced both their masculine and feminine aspects without giving up or compromising either? Very few (I've only met one or two). The same is said for women, I have never met a single woman that has actually embraced BOTH their masculine and feminine aspects - feminists and lesbians are short circuiting it, they aren't actually integrating; gay men and metros are also short circuiting it, they aren't actually integrating.

Once the Mother and Father within are recognized and "given light" (enlightenment) will the true Self be evident and present.
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Point by point.
1. Gentoo ships without telnet, and I call this good. And RedHat is probably the most respected OS around. I sure do have a problem with Ubuntu including telnet; kudos to MS for leading the way.

2. So get rid of FTP too, you'll get no argument from me on that point. HTTP is harder to do without, but at least it doesn't send passwords in the clear. Is the argument here meant to be "parts of the internet are still insecure, so there's no point trying to be secure"?

3. Irrelevant

4. Rarely. Telnet is not designed as a network testing tool, and there are better tools available for that use case. More to the point, anyone competent to use telnet knows where to find it. A tool that requires the user to be aware of the risks should not be in the default install.
Why my first startup in the valley “flopped”
More so for Facebook, in my opinion. Maybe it's because I rarely use the Twitter feed -- usually I read individual accounts -- but the noise on Facebook is much more distracting to me.
For a young person, improbable illness is probably best handled by bankruptcy.
Ah, that's probably it. I always use keywords, except when I can't get a hit for the life of me, which rarely happens.
That's what the high deductible plan is for. You pay your (in my case, $11k) deductible, and everything else is covered. Set your deductible according to what you have in the bank and what you're comfortable losing.

Of course, if that happens, your startup is probably going to be on hold, too. And that will be the least of your worries. ;)

My point in advocating Qliance is that it makes the sort of care you'll probably actually need -- you know, annual physicals, broken toes, vaccinations, "help, doc, I can't sleep" -- really cheap compared to trying to get that stuff done on a traditional plan.

Your other options are (A) get a comprehensive insurance plan, which in my case would be $300/mo instead of $50, (B) pay for primary care visits yourself, at over $100 for a week's wait and a 15-minute visit that ends in a referral, or (C) ignore health problems.

Those are all really expensive. I'm saying if you're paying for your own health care, you should do the efficient thing. Having a primary care physician on retainer for $60/mo is fantastic for your health and peace of mind, and pays for itself the first time you use it, in time saved alone.
Unlikely with modern computers and bandwidth.
Haha. I'm a WorkFlowy founder. A few people have thought this because it is so positive, but it really isn't. The author just contacted me on Twitter saying, "I'm gonna write a story about you, cause I love your product" and then called and did an interview. I guess he really just likes it.
Well, all the astroturfers, adspammers and sockpuppets need an OS to play on.

But yes, for everyone else, I agree with you.

PS. If someone does create one, I suggest "Sockpuppet OS" for the name.
Your title is terrible. "the Galaxy"? The phone? The universe?

What galaxy?
I offload my brain to Workflowy once a day. It's awesome, but it would be better if they had to mobile app I could use to reload my brain on the move ;)
OK, how about this developer, https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Best+Cool+%2... . Their Ant Smasher games has over 20 million downloads. All their games combined likely have 1+ million DAU's.

Note, the post I commented on assumed that with 1 million DAU's that VC's would be "knocking down your doors" to fund a Series A.

With the example developer above, they could probably get some kind of funding (ie., seed funding from somewhere) but I highly doubt reputable VC's would be knocking down their doors to fund a Series A.
PG's article was about sneaky PR for a given company/product that disguises itself as 'news.'

This is neither sneaky or disguised. It's literally just an
advertisement for a product.
Eventually one of these private space companies will have a highly public, challenger-type disaster. I wonder if a startup like SpaceX could survive something like that.
Why to auto-answer video calls
Understand the idea now. It isn't so much different then the model that article sites use. Content providers post an article (provide content) and get the opportunity to link/ad back to their businesses. Then the article sites make money by having ad network ads all over the place. Maybe consider ditching the $1 and introducing your own ads. That way you will get a lot more content and you won't have to worry so much about building a relationship with your advertisers.
I just tried, didn't work. (Firefox on a Mac, select all with command-A.)

Presumably I could View Source or something; but hey, there's no shortage of info on the web without the silly hoops.
Interesting that Tulane is called out here as an example:

"One common statistic used to evaluate colleges, for example, is called “graduation rate performance,” which compares a school’s actual graduation rate with its predicted graduation rate given the socioeconomic status and the test scores of its incoming freshman class.... Tulane, given the qualifications of the students that it admits, ought to have a graduation rate of eighty-seven per cent; its actual 2009 graduation rate was seventy-three per cent. That shortfall suggests that something is amiss at Tulane."

Anyone else think that those numbers for the 2009 graduating class has anything to do with the fact that Hurricane Katrina hit during the first few weeks of '09's freshman year, forcing students at Tulane (which is located in New Orleans) to take leaves of absences or transfers?

Just goes to show, in addition to inherent biases, rankings also don't capture extenuating circumstances that can have drastic short term effects that go unnoticed.
The sort of loans that these institutions take probably do not come due all at once. And if they do (certain kinds of bonds) then the institution plans for it. If they're borrowing the money and planning to re-borrow when it comes due then they are truly foolish, but it is more likely that they plan to pay the loan off over time.
Oh, you want to 'refactor the internet'? Go ahead. I'll make some popcorn.
The alternative is to send a single use link that points to a form to set your password.
To succeed with your idea everything that you need is perseverance
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Don't confuse statement of fact with racism, a common misconception. I've traveled over the world and liked everyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Demographics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Los_Angeles
how do you do due dates or start dates on your todos?
is it Astro?

They received VC funding from Kii Capital.
Pygame is effectively just SDL.

If you are going to depend on OpenGL anyway, Pyglet is even nicer for newbies
I thought it would provide a sound reason to learn Lisp.
It's actually just a normal, genuine review of a product :)
Thanks for the idea. By the way, have you heard of my new product, Sue Ville?
Sure, for a billion per flight you can more than double check even the most abstruse piece of that nightmare construction. Wings for instance, which we all know are super important for a spacecraft.
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> all coordination costs follow the technological cost curve as there is no longer a difference between internal and external actors.

That's not true.

For one, internal actors have pre-arranged deals.
No, he means he lives in the third world and it is very dusty where he lives.
There's no way they have 1MM DAU. People play that once and then leave.
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Because of the fear that if you didn't go you would never have the opportunity to become rich, or even to become middle class.
"Closeness to metal" isn't really the issue.
As an Asian American with parents that broke most of the stereotypes regarding "tiger moms", I hate to hear stories like this. My blood boils when I hear Asian parents talking about how they only want their kids to go to either Stanford, MIT or one of the Ivies so they can become a doctor, lawyer, or engineer.

With the crapshoot that is college admissions nowadays, it's completely unreasonable to expect your kid to go to such a small list of schools. Especially when there are a few thousand other 2400 SAT, valedictorian Asian Americans with identical goals...
From TFA, SpaceX will demonstrate the launch escape system both static on the launch pad and at max dynamic pressure (worst case in-flight).

It looks like the Apollo system had good abort coverage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_abort_modes

The shuttle could not pass the tests that SpaceX will demonstrate. Post-Challenger, it was substantially improved, but still had survivability gaps and questions whether the some of the abort modes were truly survivable (especially under the more severe conditions). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes#Post-...

The best the astronauts could do on the launch pad was a "zip line" escape http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/how_t... (with scary pictures: http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/001111.html).

While the SRBs were burning, the shuttle could not abort at all. This is the ascent period when the Challenger was lost.

After the SRBs detached, there were several options to abort, all of them assuming the shuttle was mostly functional. For the first four shuttle launches, the shuttle had ejection seats so the astronauts (two, anyway :-O) could escape a crippled shuttle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes
This must be the American way of thinking. Doesn't sound like a good plan to me.
A wonderful resource in Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book ( http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/graphics-p... ); this gives you an appreciation for a lot of graphics and low-level issues (how to wrestle with VGA, etc.).

The problem with "intuitive code == simpler" is that it doesn't account for the scaffolding your intuitions are based upon. Like it or hate it, C is pretty straightforward in what it claims to do, and assembly moreso.

Remember that a machine is ultimately the world's stupidest idiot savant following your directions according to the rules of its hardware--any abstractions built atop it to make things "more intuitive" will only serve to shield you from the underlying simplicity of the system.

I'm not going to claim that high-level programming is anything other than a productivity boost, but I will state that for learning the system and writing system-friendly code you really need to be able to operate at a low level. Oftentimes, that low-level is very reasonable and as "intuitive" in its spartan domain as Ruby or something similar.

Unless you're the x86 isntruction set. Fuck that guy.
> If you poke around for feature requests for various open source programs, you'll find XDG basedir compliance come up occasionally (moreso for CLI utils).

What fraction of those requests are by XDG advocates?

I ask because every standard comes with folks insisting that it be followed. While those folks claim to represent the interests of users, those requests are different.
I disagree--a bankruptcy should be avoided at all costs as it will leave you in a financial world-of-hurt for a long time. The sad thing is, given the state of health insurance in the US, bankruptcy is on the table and that just sucks.

But I'd rather pay high premiums than risk a bankruptcy.
I don't see anything there that would make me want to buy Facebook analytics services. I see an example of Facebook not being useless -- using advertised events to get real people (not bots) to show up somewhere and buy things.
That works after a car wreck, but if they get cancer they're going to die. A hospital is only required to get them stable enough to discharge, not treat long-term conditions without any prospect of payment.
If you have never used RoR, it's unlikely that you actually do see what is going on. But it's nice not to feel intimidated, I guess.
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1. While RedHat is respected, Ubuntu is very widely deployed as well and is the most common distro that I run into (in my own limited experience).

2. My point for 2 is that not all traffic needs to be encrypted. If there's no confidential or private data, why waste the CPU cycles?

3. I disagree. Having telnet available by default does not open any new attack vectors.

4. Telnet may not be designed for it, but that's how it's widely used. SMTP and port troubleshooting have been done with telnet for years, and quite successfully. I think there needs to be a balance between availability and protecting the user, and on a server OS, that line should probably lean towards availability since an advanced user is assumed. By your reasoning, the 'del' command shouldn't be available by default because an unassuming user might delete an important file.
I think it means to build something that the shareholders wouldn't want to expend internal resources to duplicate, but it's hard to tell for sure.
Some mathematicians did a reanalysis a few years ago where they investigated how sensitive the rankings were to the particular choice of weightings. They found that the answer is "very sensitive", to the extent that you can produce a wide range of desired outcomes by carefully choosing the weights to assign to each criterion: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37207/title/Math_...
Awesome. So essentially, SpaceX will go ahead and add an escape and life support system to dragon. Plus, they will use the escape thruster for ground touchdown as well!
I use mailinator.com for most signups unless I'm sure I want to keep using the service. If I like it, I will change my email later (if possible).

Unfortunately this site tried to be clever, so I had to use one of the alternative domains. I don't understand the thought process behind blocking mailinator. It must surely be better to have a potential customer, than blocking them because they don't use a "real" mailaddress?
I agree with the guy's actual statement but I agree with you that the coarse phrasing was unnecessary and unhelpful here
No, they could have bought 4/10 of an Instagram. Building it cost a lot less.
Important! Overall a good piece, but one glaring inaccuracy: if you are self-employed in the US, you can deduct your health and dental insurance premiums without needing to reach the 10% of gross income threshold. The 10% threshold [probably] does apply for health care costs other than premiums [1]. Assuming family premiums of $1k / month and a marginal tax rate of around 40% (which may be low after state is taken into account), being able to deduct your premiums is worth about $5k / year in tax savings, so this is not a minor detail.

Source: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch06.html#en_US_2011_pu...

1. Depending on whether you setup an entity through which you do freelance work (and what type), you may be able to setup a plan that allows you to pay for healthcare expenses with pre-tax dollars, even if you don't reach the 10% threshold. See your friendly CPA for details.
Pie charts in your favicon
Yep he's right
More than likely. Still does highlight that its not just the news but also when you and as you say many prevailing aspects come into play. Like comedy timming is everything and that does seem to carry for many other aspects of life with regards to interaction. Fascinating though non the less.
Exactly. It's a news organization. You have to milk that trend while it's there and rack in those pageviews. This wasn't a scientific academic study, it was a marketing ploy with a pre-conceived result in mind. Honestly I might "like" it as a result sheer quirkiness, or as a result of curiosity it would inspire.
Responsive (and real-time) websites are fundamentally more complex and more expensive to build. There’s no getting around that. If you're going to make the leap, it’s a business decision like any other, and you need to decide if it’s worth the significant initial investment and ongoing maintenance cost.
Pygame can be a pain to install sometimes. Things that package dependencies into a single binary (like Love2D) are easier to setup, but often lack the out-of-the-box interactivity that JavaScript tools provide.
Well at least in ECE/CS fields, we have the luxury of more liberal hiring practices in which personal projects on resumes and githubs can matter just as much as what school you went to if not more.

It's much harder to measure the quality of candidate in other fields without the context of what school they went to and how well they did there. (Unless, of course, you have time for a full-on interview. I think parent is referring to the screening process though)
Not in Emacs Org mode?
I have several friends in the UK and Canada and they tell me that universal coverage is more comparable to the US situation than everyone thinks, for several reasons.

If you are healthy, it's a wash because, well, you are healthy and it makes no sense for you to have health insurance at all, just pay out of pocket for what little you need. If you are sick, it's a wash because there are waiting lists and eligibility requirements, so they (my friends) all choose to carry extra insurance, for which they pay out of pocket, just in case by the time they are able to get that fancy heart surgery, they may no longer be alive.

What is your take on that?

Edit: Curious that all the responses so far are all about money. Surely going bankrupt beats dying because you never got that life-saving surgery on time?

A less dramatic example: I just had a wrist fracture. According to google, if I were a Canadian or a Brit, I would have had to walk around with a broken wrist for roughly 2.5 months (official average wait times).

I am not saying the US healthcare system is not broken. Of course it is. I am just saying universal coverage is not all it's made out to be either. At the end of the day, if you want good healthcare, you have to pay.
I am a free user of WorkFlowy and I absolutely love it for the work I do on it. I don't use it for the list or a to-do, I use it to take and organize notes for the certification I intend to complete. Although I know that I can use the bullets in MS Word or anywhere but I love how smooth and time-saving it is in Workflowy.
It flopped because you didn't make it into an incubator? C'mon.

I don't know what product you built but it sounds like it flopped because no one needs a better way to gather their friends. That doesn't sound like a problem (or a business) to me.