skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investors often flat out tell startups the opposite, go for reach first, then monetization. I guess if you are boot strapping then, fine, cripple your growth and start charging.
Funny but I was just thinking about scraping the site for data on what users were using 2 days ago. Dropped the idea when I didn't care
Yes, but not how you might expect. I don't conceive of it as something where Dalton has to build this 1 big social network to eat the rest of them. Its going to allow a lot more context sensitive (in product/app/content) social networks to form that will be smaller but way more relevant. I think even after the apis are all baked there will be a robust services industry around it, collecting filtering graph walking analysis services etc. I think people looking at alpha.app.net and thinking thats it are totally off base. Not even wrong, misled by internet echo chamber.
He's making a good point -- how can it be sustainable without profit? Of course it needn't be sustainable to generate profit, but that's not what he meant, or said.
Conversations with other students and faculty are a critical part of a college education. Certainly indispensible for sci-tech. Decades later I'm still remembering valuable tips and tidbits that profs threw at me during out-of-class discussions. If you come to class prepared, you can raise questions that can double the effectiveness of a course.

People just there for a degree might manage with online courses. People who love learning and are absorbing a discipline? Not so much. And thus, maybe, higher education will once again live up to its best potential ... not cranking spare parts on an assembly line.
Fuck you.

You lost. That's the end of it.

My insulting comment had _upvotes_. That's _pathetic_. I played the lower bound on how my comment would be received and still won as measured by applause.

You had to ignore that comment and respond to this one instead. That's how much you lost.

So dust yourself off, pick yourself up, and see where you went wrong.

It's not a bad thing to be a loser because we're all terrible. We're all really wrong about a lot of things.

But the difference between people laughing at you and people laughing with you is how much you laugh.

Dude, I _like_ you. You spent the effort to type, what, two thousand words, _three_ thousand words about how much you value truth? That's admirable. That's awesome.

But you fucked up big, because you thought we cared, because you missed the point of "No one gives a shit" so hilariously _truthfully_ that everyone is laughing at you, that probably the best response is someone's "tl;dr" down below.

You think you know things other people don't. No one knows things other people don't! I don't! I'm just trying to move truth around like every other sonofabitch that ever walked this planet.

Failure is the most terrible thing that can ever happen to you because it helps you access the truth. "Fail early, fail often" isn't about releasing early, it's about seeking evidence. Evidence of how much the thing you're spending your glory on, how much that thing you're working on will be received.

I'd be nothing without that evidence, even if it reduced me to nothing.

And what that results in is bazillions of startups built by pg and by HN and by this idea that even failed ideas are a part of success. Because they are!

Zuckerberg got lucky. That thread about years-old Y-combinator thread proves that hard work moves more people into success than luck ever could.

And I'm waxing melodramatic but _you've_ been so melodramatic, and maybe that's balance.

So fuck you. You staked out a position and lost it, and you're still trying to fight it.

Because if you really believed what you've said, that every word you've said is defensible and true and worth saying...

well, then you wouldn't have to defend it against people telling you absolutely base insults.

You suck.

You're awful.

But you're ok in my book, because you tried hard. You said a truth that resonates with me, even if I've heard it before.

I didn't even read your post. I skimmed it. I got the bits that mattered, which are: you're absolutely committed to making things work.

Which is the only thing that matters.

I hate you. But that's the best form of respect I can give you.

Please hate me. Hate me for being right, or hate me for being wrong.

Because then you have an opinion about my speaking my piece.

And I would never hate you for speaking yours.
Also, by using it I mean both keeping in contact with people I met in Alpha.app.net but using a different UI which somebody already built, but more importantly, using the apis to build new social stuff and helping to form the apis.
I don't think I made any claims about relative difficulty, or even in general that Biology is easy. If you look at my post, I have a ton of links to things I think I need to learn. I even included Intro to Biology on my course list. My viewpoint is not that tech people should should move into Bio-related fields because it's easier, but rather because it serves greater benefit to the world than using those skills to build 'cat picture sharing sites'. We have differing skill sets, but if we can become passably versed in each others fields and learn the basics, it would seem to make the challenges that need to be/are being faced a lot easier since we'd now be speaking the same language and can understand what needs to happen to reach those goals and why. I really appreciate your input and if you have any suggestions on starting points, that would be fantastic. My apologies if my post came off in a way that would suggest I was taking the difficulties of Biology for granted.
Let me see if I've got this right.

Branch : Invite-Only Online Conversations.
Email : Invite-Only Online Conversations.

Can someone help me bridge the gap?
You can achieve the same effect without using eval, which his many known problems in terms of security and performance.

function render(tpl,data){
function lookup (obj, keys) {
return (keys.length === 0) ? obj
: lookup(obj[keys[0]], keys.slice(1));
}

var matches = tpl.match(/\{[^\}]+\}/g),
max = matches.length,
i, rep, keys;

for (i = 0; i < max; i++) {
keys = matches[i].slice(1, -1).split('.');
rep = lookup(data, keys);
tpl = tpl.replace(matches[i],rep);
}

return tpl;
}

alert(render("{a} is all that i've {b.a} {b.b} {b.c}", {
a: "this",
b: {
a: "ever",
b: "really",
c: "needed"
}
}));
The language is named Perl, not PERL. See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq1.html#Whats-the-difference-b... for proof.
I'm not sure anyone's ever said "this templating framework is too big"
Why is a YC- and angel-funded startup doing the Kickstarter dance?

http://www.wattvision.com/info/about
Amazing 360-degree panorama from the Mars rover
Better interface for one.

Email has notoriously not been updated for a while. I remember when Gmail putting threads as conversations being revolutionary.
I didn't down vote you but I think your initial down votes were based on two things:

1) you stated your opinion as a fact. There is some research to point to shorter life expectancy but stating it as a fact that will happen no matter what seems a little strong.

2) you state that life expectancy will "plummet". Plummet indicates a very large dropoff. From what I've seen, some respected paper suggest that life expectancy might dip by a year or so.

But to have a say 10 year drop, which is what plummet would indicate seems rash as no credible scientists are predicting that.
I'm inclined to think that that's more a bug on their part since Ctrl+K isn't one of those unstoppable key combinations (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+N, Shift+Esc as far as I'm aware are the only ones). Perhaps they just aren't calling e.preventDefault() on their event handlers.

And even for the combinations which can't be captured, the new Chrome platform app API lets you stop those.
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The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck [video]
the code i use in production doesn't use eval, but a recursive function.
i like the anonymous function passed to replace, but think the catch destroys code beauty :)
I was thinking the same thing. Only Facebook makes such disrespectful moves... and then i remembered where the Quora founders came from.

I hope they fail, Facebook is a horrible example and everybody should realize that.
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I am... What are you seeing when you get on the site?
As someone who has extensively used Xcode, I can assure you it's not a "carbon copy".

And hey, here's a screenshot of Visual Basic: http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC158544.gif
Needs to set the font for the popup Wikipedia pages to be something screen-friendly and sans-serif like the font used for the table itself, rather than the default Times New Roman.
There's always the "Star" button on GitHub.

Or, there is now, anyway.
Well,php has had "suck balls" from the very beginning.
sigh

Okay 2016 when we can use it in Trident.
Giving kickstarter donators special treatment doesn't really change anything. Why don't you just charge for access to the web UI/feeds/etc, but still leave the hardware open and usable independently for those inclined and able to set up their own software? You certainly wouldn't lose many subscriptions to it.
Sounds good, but how does this fit with the app.net, $50 per year model? AFAIK, app.net is still supposed to be a walled-in social network, but with supposedly better support for third-party developers, no ads, and less spam.
"What seems to be standard practice is to use quantlib as a module which is used as part of an in-house module. Usually to make third party software work with internal systems takes a lot of masking tape and sledge hammers."
- twofish, on the Wilmott forum, 2005
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> The frequency of security updates over the last decade is a disgrace.

Would you have preferred they only released security updates once a year?
Branch Comes Out Of Public Beta To Foster Conversations Online
new Option("<div>in the browser, yes.</div>").innerHTML
What drives decisions, the post says, during seed stage is survival, and during growth stage are values.

I would contend that during seed stage the company is still churning out MVPs to get to PMF. While at growth stage it is about refining scalable repeatable business model. In both stages the company is driven by the core values of effectively solving customers problems and not take survival for granted.
Hey slap_shot, thanks for your comment.

You also can send an email with HiMom. Good thing is that we try to enrich the email for your parents as much as possible. We are retrieving automatically Wikipedia information of the place where the picture has been taken. Also we are detecting the location of the picture and displaying that in the email.

HiMom is not focusing purely on postcards. Our main focus is to simplify the communication with the tech-savvy generation. Postcard is one medium of it. The current version is just the beginning..

Let me know if you want to be our beta tester to always test out the newest features.

Cheers
Markus
I'm convinced that being ruthless and unfriendly with pricing can have a negative impact on the business in the long term

Optimising for price isn't necessarily being ruthless and unfriendly to customers.

In my experience more people like pricing models like these. It's easier to understand. They know what they'll be spending each month. It saves them effort and work.

I worked with one organisation who just killed out of hand any service that had variable pricing since it played merry hell with their accounting processes. They would much rather pay $99 a month every month than deal with the hassle of figuring out what this random number was on the invoice (because you had to check that that number was the right number somehow - which cost them money in admin, tracking, etc.).

Yes - models like this make some customers unhappy. Some of those customers will be good customers. That doesn't mean that other who go for the new model are unhappy - or being screwed.

Changing pricing models like this are in many cases more a way to resegment / target your market. The revenue increase is just evidence that you're doing it well :-)

Also - money for the company should mean more resources for building a better product for the customer, so a long term win for the customer.
There's more value in having Emacs cloud hosted, I think. The old joke that it's an OS masquerading as a text editor is actually somewhat true. Hosted in the cloud, you have really great bandwidth to other cloud environments, all accessible through low-bandwidth requirement TTY.
If you are in learning mode, read several books on the same subject/language/whatever. Skim the similar points and look for the differences. Test. Don't just assume a singular point of reference is going to help you learn. More importantly, like with any information, take everything with a grain of salt, INCLUDING everything you find online, google results, searches, and answers here.
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I'm designing a mini-configuration-language as I go along while writing a large application.

I am amazed how powerful and useful to my purpose I can make this language. Yet I would be the first to admit this the language has some fundamental flaws that would prevent it from becoming more general purpose.

So I feel like I can appreciate from the outside the effectiveness of languages which are designed to incrementally scratch itches. You can come up with a program with a fiercely loyal user base because if you've managed to roll the proper set of things that "just work". I imagine that this is the secret of both Perl and Matlab.

The only thing is I personally hate both these programs, somewhat irrationally I'll admit.

But I think it show the weakness of "grow like a weed to touch the necessary bases" school of language design. It ultimately fails for those outside the immediate target audience because they have assimilate the entire accretion process to really get the language. For a lot of situations, that feels an impudent, almost obscene demand for someone who likely comes to the language wanting to do something simple.

So I feel like that explains the rise and fall Perl. It rose with the Unix community and the web grew together and fell as more and more people felt need for a coherent general purpose language not tied to all things Unixy.
I don't understand how the anonymous blog author identified that this is feature new in "Mountain Lion" specifically, as this is a window.webkitNotifications is a javascript API introduced and adopted only by WebKit.

In other words, my copy of Chrome 20 running in Snow Leopard runs this site example fine.

I think he/she meant it's new in Mountain Lion's Safari.
I think the $50 model is going to get changed. My bet is that businesses building social into their sites off of the app.net infrastructure will end up paying. That was just to see if it was pursuing. Its not better support for 3rd party devs, the entire focus is 3rd party devs.
Plivo makes it to 50 countries in 30 days, outstrips competition
WTF has NASA done to make your life awesome?
Oh I like this. I was messing with a similar tactic appending a textNode to an HTML element but this is much more elegant.
Fighting this much with a business partner, in my experience, doesn't end well.
My best friend and I opened a PC repair shop when we were 20. After 6 months we were at each other's throats. The business stagnated and ultimately failed.
Luckily it failed before we had completely ruined our friendship.
Dalton did back standards

http://daltoncaldwell.com/a-response-to-brennan-novak
What is a "natural market outcome?"
Clearly the game of Telephone has never been able to have a higher impact than it does today with the speed and scale of the social internet.

But I think there is one question left unanswered: Why are we assuming this story itself is in fact true? Because it's written on a blog? :)
Ack, typo. What I meant to say was that, even if you're not completely uniquely identified by your information, if you're so rare that only a few people on earth have your information, it's just as bad.
Trapwire surveillance linked to Anonymizer and transport smart cards
cool but what was wrong w mustache or handlebars?
Silicon Valley is postgrad-friendly, workaholic-friendly and millionaire-friendly. Families tend to find a better environment elsewhere.
When I'm reading an article (on anything other than my iDevices or Mac, as they all thankfully have 'Reader' that show a no-bullshit version of the article), I like to press 'space bar' to go to next page. It just drives me nuts when I have to 'press space bar, press up arrow 4 times' just because some designer thought it's clever and nice to have a go with a reincarnation of navbar iframe (that everyone agreed were heinous)... What the fuck is the purpose of a giant bar that shows some silly social icons? You already have that damn 'like' button on 20 other places on your web2.0 page... Just look at TheNextWeb: vhttp://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/07/20/apple-gives-developer... (you have to scroll a bit to see the "feature")
Tables are easier to code for a functional programmer. That's why.
Google Same-day Delivery: A Possibility?
The statement is certainly correct for webapps of a certain scale, meaning enterprise-scale, not startups. I'm not sure where you get the idea that Java is successful in anything else - certainly not in desktop apps, games, embedded (except for Android), etc.
Dalton has announced that APP.net will use Activitystream.es, Webfinger, RSS, pubSubHubbub.
(not sure about Salmon, an excellent open web standard)

Albert Wenger is a venture capitalist at Union square Ventures (earliest investor in Twitter).

So it's genuine statesmanship that he would praise APP.net for its effort on openness.

@Blaine (a world-class expert, open web protocols)
Applauded the article, as did I and nearly all 17 commenters.

It just that kind of "crossing the aisle" collaboration the tech world (and Silicon Valley) needs to produce a protocol as superb as email or HTML for social networks (federation). Beautifully written.
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Distribution of Musicians Age of Death. Interesting
Oh goodness gracious no, if you're going to measure in linear bit-years it isn't even remotely close. It's hard drives, because the amount of bits stored on hard drives is just so staggeringly enormous it dwarfs the faint traces of fragments of bits and pieces of the ancient world that we've managed to barely save. Orders and orders of magnitude off, even if you decide to count things like raw scans of the ancient stuff as opposed to merely the bits of information in the text and the other handful of useful details like the carbon dating.

You need to do some sort of correction that nonlinearly accounts for lasting more than a few years.
Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet
Encryption is mandatory. Currently, the implementation uses SRTP, but the proposal is eventually to use SCTP over DTLS over UDP. [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-00...]
We arrived to a similar conclusion as part of our work on this problem at PolarMeter. I do however think that the digitization of an old-school analog meter is a very smart move that will bridge the gap until everybody has a PG&E-style meter.

This company in my opinion has the best mix of cost, convenience and monitoring granularity out of all the ones I found: http://www.powerhousedynamics.com/residential-energy-efficie...

I just posted the retrospective for our attempt at this very problem. Maybe our research can be of help to the folks at WattVision: http://www.kurilin.net/lessons-learned-the-rise-and-fall-of-...
Don't make the mistake of thinking that because the communication channel is "encrypted", it is secure. SSL can already be compromised (so much for trusting encrypted transport) and the WebRTC client code could be compromised (always a problem).
"It would a huge benefit to society if we can get with social networking to where we are with email today."

If Twitter, Facebook and other Social networks are controlling their APIs, they may as well choose to create restrictions around App.Net accessing the APIs. So do you think App.Net will be successful in creating this open platform?
> "too many better alternatives already exist"
> This is utterly false.

There are tutorials on VIM in English that are well written. Many are good. Thus, my claim is not "utterly false" it is true. If I did not think it was true and had not seen evidence that it was true I would not have said so.

> Not reading their work seems like a perfect way to miss out on learning things you might not otherwise learn.

There is an overflowing abundance of material from which to learn in the world. In English alone, even. And there is only a small finite amount of time and energy that I have available for focusing on it. Thus I try to filter out the crappier stuff. Thus I filter out things in bad English when better alternatives exist. This does not seem like an unwise strategy.
The text node approach is cross-browser, whereas I don't think this works on oldIE.
I've heard similar stories before, many ended much worse. Now I can appreciate much better that they really do happen :)
Bingo. Why bother coming up with a business model for your ahem business when you're hoping to get a hiring bonus when Facebook buys you - I mean, selling your company.
Honestly, I saw that and thought visual studio. The example code colors are very visual studio like.
The Facebook camera that can recognise you every time you walk into a shop