skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that there is an advantage in having an older account under said system, it is more about freezing the ideologies of the rankings during the time at which you signed up. If you signed up during the time that the discussion was all about startups, then your feed should remain predominantly about startups. If you are a more recent subscriber, you will see more political and "learn how to program" type discussions as presumably those topics are what enticed you to sign up at that point in time.

Of course there is danger in that as well, but I see so many lament that they wish it was like it was in the "good old days", where good old days equals the approximate time in which they joined. The way to do that is to let them have the member base just as it was back then, while still letting the site naturally evolve for the rest.
In my understanding, the load-carrying capability of most ultralights is minimal. They give figures based on 250 pounds of drugs, but in some models of ultralight, I would have weigh under 190 pounds just to get airborne with a full tank of gas. I'm not able to find how many of those 223 "ultralight incursions" were actually carrying drugs, either. I question the reality of this problem.
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The problem is that they came up with a novel (and hopefully better) approach to UI that works wonders on smartphones because it's a greenfield - there is a new, suitable HID (touchscreen) and no legacy or broken interaction models to support in the first place.

Then they tried to port it to desktop, where touch interfaces make no sense whatsoever and still keep a ridiculous amount of backwards compatibility with everything, as usual. The obvious result lacks conceptual integrity and is so full of compromises that it doesn't even make sense.
Programming has been 20-30% female since it stopped being 100% female (because there were six programmers). The compiler was invented by a woman. Just because you are too lazy and ignorant and sexist to notice that women exist as peers doesn't mean they don't.

You have no citations, just your own bigotry. Do us all a favor and shut up: the adults are having a conversation here.
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I think even more important than volume is that 9gag, reddit etc have lots of bad content, with an occasional gem. That's the most effective reward schedule for creating compulsive behavior.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Schedules_of_rein...
Care to name any that let me target only Mac users? Or perhaps more than one? :)
>9gag aggregates memes and jokes from around the web — much like Reddit

Evil persons would mention that much of the content on 9gag is copied from Reddit's r/funny (which is on a large scale hard to proof) - but they got funding, so why not, looks like a viable business model.

The example-pic the article uses can be found on Reddit, with the same title, over Google: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ykrlh/when_links_are_...
Can't tell which one came first, as the article's pic doesn't have a time.

>Its founders say that in July, 9gag had more than 65 million unique visitors, compared to Reddit’s 39.7 million

According to Wolfram Alpha, Reddit has roughly double the amount of unique daily visitors when compared to 9gag: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=reddit+9gag (Keep in mind these numbers are daily, not monthly like in the article)
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I'm supposed that they didn't try to make a transition to a digital, interactive magazine like WIRED did. That kind of format would be perfect for this kind of magazine.
A common trend I am noticing amongst these startups are that they target a particular industry pain point, and have the ability to charge for their product. None of them seem the type that can be huge businesses, but they all seem like they can turn a profit. Call it lower risk investments if you want.
Sorry, I'm not usually a pain with comparisons but comparing "Super Bass: 268M views in a year; Khan Academy: 175M views in 5 years" is illogical as Super Bass, from my quick Googling is around a song lasting 2m30s to Khan Academy which probably on average has around 10-20minute videos.

This doesn't even go into the fact that people could easily passively listen to Super Bass in a non-active window while Khan Academy requires much more active watching from the user.

(i.e. I could have super bass on my iPad in my car while I drive somewhere as background noise but Khan Academy requires me to be sitting in front of my PC focused on it).
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>I have no idea what they are doing to upset Chrome so badly...

I think it would be Chrome's grammar and spell-check function that gets overloaded....
But why so often then? Surely at some point you'd know there's an open port there and stop querying it.
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This is a good crop and I can see a lot of success coming from all of these companies. There's a market out there and it's waiting to be tackled. Several of them are known solutions applied to another niche.

There is more of a real world feel to these companies. Robots, Big boxes of delivered things, instacart which isn't in this list, but is another example.

I also notice there's a lot more traction already with these companies than I remember -- it's a more mature bunch. I wish you all the best of luck. The journey hasn't even begun yet, but you've come a long way already.
I love the meme I'm seeing lately in some of the articles like this, that "it's only been recently that it's been possible to teach yourself to program". Having flashbacks to 1981, personally. I'm sure some of you other oldsters are having flashbacks to the 70's. Yes, Virginia, it has been possible for a few decades now to teach yourself how to code, how computers work, and to write real software that people will pay you for. This is not a new phenomenon or new capability.
Well, it also had two drivers that had very large audiences in the community. As well, the interface was mostly, and still is, minimalist and fairly simple. But I think your basic point is something more like SO was successful despite some of these other things and I agree. I think SO would have been just as successful without all the pompous mutual-masturbation about moderation.
I'm not saying you should do this, but you can have an anonymous class like this:

type('', (dict,), {'__init__': lambda self, *args, **kwargs: not super(self.__class__,self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) and setattr(self,'__dict__',self)})

Python easily allows multiple threads to exist at once. The only reason they don't run at the same time is an implementation detail of the most common Python implementation. Python running on the CLR, the JVM, and extensions for both CPython and PyPy show that you can run multiple threads concurrently if you really want to.
There's a lot of different arguments. I can't remember them all, but the first one that comes to mind is the hope that legalizing softer drugs would reduce demand for harder, still-illegal drugs. Especially if legalization reduces prices of the softer drugs.

This could be powerful, for example, if we identify that a certain drug is fairly safe but its relatives are not. Legalize the safer form, not the dangerous forms, and market incentives will cause most people to favor the now-legal form. Everybody wins (Though this presumes we have "comparables" to pick between)
The problem is that the things I would pay for -- no one else would.

This is just not true. People value and will pay for lots of things that others think have no value and won't pay for. In most cases, you are not your audience.
I understand what you're saying but this particularly issue is a prime example of the problem so I think a discussion of it is very salient
We already have plenty of that.

We can penalize the scam artists. That's not excuse for limiting grassroots dealflow.
Excellent article on Arrays. I wish I knew about these before, there have been so many times I should have used this instead of serializing / deserializing JSON myself via TextFields :(
I wonder if the cartels will respond with remote-control drug zeppelins?
Phil - I agree :)
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1) I disagree with your assessment of 9gag. It's similar to previous social news sites, but different in a couple key ways.[1] Reddit was originally called a "del.icio.us clone" but now we call things reddit clones. There's some ick-factor from the way that content is copied from reddit and elsewhere, but that really goes both ways.

2) It's pretty clear how 9gag makes money: paid placements. Unlike reddit it doesn't appear to have a strong anti-commercial taboo. If it can grow big enough, it will make money. Remember: Facebook is already quite profitable (by the billions!) just not profitable enough to justify at $100 billion valuation yet. So this objection makes no sense to me.

3) Facebook was a HUGE success from the point of view of pretty much every investor except people who bought for the "pop" right after the IPO. Every VC investor in Facebook did great. Maybe they IPO'd above their true value, but it's still a $40 billion company. That's larger than 99.99% of all companies that get started. So I really don't get where you're coming from here at all.

[1] Specifically, it is image-only, presents the images inline, and uses Facebook likes and comments instead of native ones.
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David Brevik after Diablo 3 designer says: "f*** that loser"
>This is a good crop...

Personally, I am not to fond of that word... crop...
OS's I use in order of preference:

#1. Linux with KDE: For work, this can't be beat. KDE has insanely good virtual desktop support. You can multitask heavily and still be very efficient. I grew up with CLI's, so I view a good one as a pleasure to use, not a hindrance as some do. Customizability is nearly infinite. It's generally less work for me to get a Linux box set up to acceptable productive levels than a Windows box.

#2. Windows 7: This runs my HTPC and I use it for games, movies, etc.. There's pretty much no decent Bluray support on any non-MS OS, and I do like bluray! Win7 still has some bugs, but it's a very livable OS.

#3. Windows XP: Yup. Ancient! However, a lot of our lab gear has drivers that won't work in anything else. I use it because I have to.

OS's I have used and am glad not to anymore:

OSX. I had OSX on my laptop for most of last year. It's nice in that it has better interoperability with Linux software than Windows thanks to it's BSD roots, but if you want to use Linux you might as well use Linux!. It technically has virtual desktops, but management is primitive. I've never liked the OSX dock (Give me KBar or even the Win95 start-bar any day!). Bluray support (one third-party app that does key management over the internet!) is dodgy and gaming is still not so good, so it's not really a viable HTPC OS. Lion was also very buggy. Much worse than Windows 7. Customizability is the worst of any modern OS. Apple tries very hard to force you to do things their way. Oh, you can change things, but it's usually more trouble than its worth. I expect the OS's I use to be capable of adapting to me rather than forcing me to adapt to them. OSX is ahead of the game when it comes to trackpad gesture support, but hopefully other OS's will catch up fast.
imho, it's more like the difference between a college educated programmer and one self-taught. You can find inadequately trained programmers (dietician) with some impressive degrees and some brilliant self-taught programmers (nutritionist) who naturally take to the subject.

That being said, all things being equal, I'd take a brilliant dietician (who has been trained in the whole system and science), over a brilliant nutritionist (who might only be great programming in one or two languages).

again, imh(uneducated)o.
>Here's the thing.... who asked? I mean, I never would have had a clue that they were making cut-backs if they didn't publicly announce it.

It's better to preemptively openly talk about it on your terms as opposed to either Kotaku, Gamasutra, or even Techmeme telling their version first, which may or may not be extremely exaggerated and off-base. Rumors will spread given time.
Or something like the Ardrone2.

Adding to what was said above the craft looks like a powered parachute type not a wing and rudder type ultralight aircraft.
Stats source?
Where are the ''Kill Hollywood'' startups?
Adobe updates Flash Player and AIR, continues to expand support for game devs
The publishers answer to the threat of Amazon.com was (allegedly) illegal price fixing. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/business/media/penguin-and...
I'm biased, as I work with my spouse, but this is I think an overblown concern. People leave companies for all sorts of reasons, many of them dumb. They do not need to have made a lifelong personal commitment to their manager to find those reasons. Also, people do not need to have made that commitment in order to access their unprofessional self; normal team members find ways to be deeply unprofessional without entangling their relationships into their companies.

Yes. Strictly speaking, if you get into business with your significant other, you are increasing the cardinality of the set of things that can go wrong with your team. For people that think like us, maybe that's where you stop thinking, and if so, fine. But the set we're talking about is very large, and I also know high school statistics, and so can observe that the relationship stuff is unlikely to be the event that blows up your team.

Believe in working with your spouse (or close friends, or whatever) or not. Either way: it has nothing to do with negotiating for a job, and it's a little creepy to bring it up here.
Does any other profession have a Kaggle? Imagine a more general contest: build my company a tool that increases our market value by X%; we'll give the winners $Y and a job interview. The expected value of participating is $Y/n, where n is the number of participants.

It's like the opposite of a professional organization. I suppose the libertarians approve. It drives down the cost of labor and therefore might make the market more efficient. Yet I'm suspicious.

I'd like to propose a counter-organization. Analysts can band together and offer a contest. We collaborate to create a tool that gives your company an X% increase in value. Companies bid for the rights to that tool. I'd expect that the value to the laborer would be greater than $Y/n. I guess that just described a consulting company.

Perhaps the situation is not so unique. Art also provides much value in the act of production and many organizations hold art contests similar in design to Kaggle competitions. Open-source software often doesn't even have a competition sponsor.

It'd be ludicrous to imagine holding a contest to offer the best legal advice or diagnosis. I'm not saying that I agree with the restrictions that the American Medical Association has placed over the ability to attend medical school, but the free market is harsh enough competition.

Kaggle does promote the value of the field as a whole. I worry that it commoditizes rather than professionalizes.
I was surprised to see no squares had any form of the word "currated" in them.
yeah it was a good show - they had the founder of 500 startups on there as well as Steven Levy from Wired.
I just had a weird thought:

Could FunderesClub be an avenue for laundering money?

Think of it this way - an entity or a group could setup many accounts on FundersClub to invest small-ish amounts <9500 in many many avenues and be able to make interest on that money and then sell whenever they want. Because they invested smaller amounts than would be required to be reported, however you would have to pay tax on all interest/dividends received over $1500.

Although, I am sure there are some very creative financial mangers for the elite of silicon valley that do away with even these rules with a deft hand...
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Because of no-signup, there is a great opportunity here for creating to-do lists for small collaborative projects. But Google-wave style simultaneous editing is not there (yet?).
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Popular is not necessarily the same thing as valuable

Fair enough, but we're not talking about "Why does Vista suck?"

Maybe he chose the wrong example to make his point. But the only other example he chose was Python vs Perl, for which he cited his own blog post in which he hyperbolically characterized that question as "Sharks vs Gorillas".

That's not a rational argument. That's refusing to reconsider your position and engaging in fallacies to justify your position.

They're just fluff questions that drown out the important work of solving actual problems.

Like. maybe, avoiding database development mistakes made by application developers?
Yes, much better. Thanks.
Is Silicon Valley 'coming to an end'?
I wrote this article because I wished it existed when I was going through this. Even something as simple as an example of a early employee's salary at a seed-funded startup is helpful. I also think the links I shared are pretty good. I'm shocked that my post got over 150 tweets today -- many of them saying "read this if you're considering joining a startup" or "great read". I thought some people might take interest in the story, but I'm completely surprised by how many did. There have been over 16k unique visitors since I posted it this morning.
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On the meta point: I agree, it wasn't a great Keen.io boosting piece. Probably no blog post that has salary numbers next to equity allocations can be. But then, I found the honesty bracing in... mostly... a good way.
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My take would be that i DGAF if other people on the internet/US share my taste in t-shirts. My sole concern in that area would be geared towards wanting a free one. Personally, I wouldn't buy one I wouldn't be happy to pay the full price for, and of course my brain sees it as very unlikely that this would be the least popular. Also, it seems a poor gamble to go for one I like less on the hope that I might get another free. So if i picked the least popular, my reaction would just be 'bonus, free tee!' (i wouldn't have any feeling of 'special unique little flower', either).

As for the language specifically, firstly, 'least popular' is functional. It tells me exactly what you are talking about. If i read 'most unique' i would have no idea how you were measuring that, and would probably feel uneasy about it-- like you were using the phrase as cover to pick whatever you wanted to. (Which is funny, since 'least popular' is already the best financial option for yous!). Secondly, it doesn't seem too negative to me (compare 'least awesome' vs 'worst'). That is for the landing page (and if any commiseration email), anyway. As far as congratulatory email, I would probably agree to frame it as 'most unique'.

Hope that helps!.. I know how difficult it can be to get basic perspective when you are too involved with something.
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A simple UAV is not far off and I am sure they are working on it. You can bet your bottom dollar on it. It is a very interesting problem to solve. The U.S. government has to deal with subs, tunnels, and now ultralights.
That's roughly analogous to Joel Spolsky's "striped allocation" concept, from his Stack Overflow answer on the same topic.
or TaskPaper, http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper

There's a vim syntax for taskpaper's file format.
It'd be pretty strange for a startup's first hire to be an office manager ;-)
Not sure what happened, but the title of my post has been changed by someone. Why? How?

People were responding to a completely different title.

Is someone else able to edit what we post?
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9gag.com, new "kind" of entertainment.

PS: I saw 9gag.com often in Facebook. OFTEN.

While I never visited the site, I noticed their presence.
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Too right.

Oddly enough, the ebook publishing ecosystem has encouraged newer genre authors to go back to the serial-style storytelling of those old Golden Age magazines. Many of the most promising new sci-fi writers, like Hugh Howey or Matthew Mather, are publishing their stories piecemeal as short-form ebooks. Howey's "Wool" series, in particular, might be the best body of science fiction I've read in years.

When you follow these new authors, you definitely notice how much they grow as writers and thinkers as they release new works every month or two. Contrast this to the old model, in which an author would agonize over a single manuscript for years and years, hoping against hope to get a bite from a publisher. I think the new incentives for serial publishing are helping these new players rapidly perfect their craft—just like the classic sci-fi authors of the Golden Age. Thanks to ebooks, we may be getting a new crop of authors to match some of those old giants.
Of course it would survive deep packet inspection.

And what relevance does statistical analysis have? It's about providing access and preserving privacy, it's not about covering tracks.
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Also: if your relationship is strong, and the working relationship is hurting the personal relationship (or vice versa), one of the two will just find another job. People change jobs for their relationship all. the. time. --- for instance, almost every time one spouse wants to move out of state for a better job.
If this model could be implemented into Sublime Text 2 (or your editor of choice) I'd be all over it.
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Ah I see the problem, the example would need to be larger for the classes to be more than data holder classes.

Do you think when the classes are larger with some logic, the ratio of Java/Python LOC would change?
It's true that being romantically involved with a direct report is fraught, because the whole team will assume favoritism. But it's also obvious, and it does not take a management genius to come up with mechanisms both to avoid the problem and soothe the concerns of the team.
Object.freeze and Object.seal should absolutely not be used in production code unless you have no choice. They incur a tremendous performance penalty in V8 [1] and aren't great in other engines either. Combining them with the window object (aka this in global scope) isn't going to be great either since that thing also comes with a terrible performance penalty [2].

[1] http://jsperf.com/freeze-vs-seal-vs-normal/3

[2] http://jsperf.com/variable-access-performance
The list of languages covered made me look at the date on the article. I was almost certain it would be pre-y2k.

Sounds like a blinkered enterprise Java-centric worldview to me. To have ASP as the only scripting environment listed is just plain crazy in 2012. If you're going to include scripting at all, where are Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, Javascript? If you want to talk about the productivity boost from high-level languages, you have to include these.
Neat idea. I like the design of some of the shirts. One nitpick, the preview images could be bigger...a lot bigger.
Part of the perceived increase (though certainly not all of it) is that the batch sizes are several times larger than before. Whereas before you might have a shooting star or three in a single batch, now you might have a dozen, even if the proportions remained about the same.
Absolute consistency