skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Mac app isn't great. It works, but eats ~0.2 CPU on idle. Nocturne is better: it sets the gamma LUT to tint the screen and nothing else, but you have to switch between Day and Night mode manually.
Not every CEO has to be a visionary. If the CEO can hire good people who have good ideas and get out of their way, she doesn't have to provide all the ideas herself. But she'd need to create an environment where good ideas can be born and come to fruition. Giving people free food won't do this. You'd need to set up a culture in which good ideas actually get rewarded and people aren't afraid to fail.
Pipe is extraordinary, but to complex and with a scary interface. Can't nave success.
The protocol only gets you so far though. I'd argue that our (I work at IFTTT) value exists at a level above that. I would love a standard though, it would make my job waayyy easier.
It adds noise, but you compensate for that noise as you go. If the noise causes you to take in too many calories one week and gain weight, then you can make that up by reducing your calories the next week. If you lose weight too quickly, you can increase your intake. As long as the calorie estimates are within a reasonable range of the real value, it shouldn't matter much in the long run.
I hope modern MBA courses teaches things like this.
Likewise. I started using f.lux a few months ago, and now I can use the iPhone at night without getting fully awake.

I'm still getting used to it on the main desktop monitor, though. Installed, uninstalled, now trying again for a 2nd time.
i did something like that a while back if you want to take a look.
https://github.com/joelbm24/tablify
Incentives from the city, plus regulatory regimes. It's very, very, very much more expensive to dig up streets in the bay than in KC
You mean a smartphone, right? Why does it have to be an iphone?

And why even that? A laptop I could understand, but phone?
I don't think he was saying that todo lists were bad per se. I think he was saying that he implemented short-term fixes instead of more elegant solutions that would cause less problems in the long run, and that this was a result of the pressure of having lots of things to do, whether in list form or otherwise.

I love todo lists as well. Keeps me organised and focussed :)
There are many good projects and services out there that scare/annoy away potential users by whacking a "register or login" box in their face just before things get interesting.

My identity isn't "free" and managing yet another account comes with a burden (another password to remember or store somewhere, another security risk).

Whoever thought that creating pipes (i.e. experimenting) without logging in was somehow detrimental to Yahoo's business interests(?), had things backwards.
Someone once told me: "Never tell anybody that you're good. If you're good, they'll tell you."
> Yes, the digital divide that people thought was out there really exists: People in low-income neighborhoods in Kansas City and Kansas City, Kan., aren’t signing up for faster Internet service. And that’s despite aggressive publicity and the fact Google is offering a pretty low-cost version of its service to people.

It's disturbing to hear this, but not surprising. People in low-income areas tend to be less educated, right? If that's the case, then it stands to reason that you are going to have to educate them on the benefits. I don't think "omg this is superfast!" is the kind of education we need here. If I'm a lower income guy with a family and I get a flyer about "Google Fiber", I might think:

- I pay $19.99/mo for DSL/cable. Seems fast enough to me, why go through all this hassle?

- I don't see a lot of sports mentioned. I'm not switching to something without ESPN and lots of football on the weekends! (I'm not being mean here. This is in fact THE reason I haven't "cut the cord" and gone streaming only.)

- That one-time setup fee is a lot of cash. I could come up with it but, again, why is this thing so much better than what I already have?

- Is there going to be a credit check? (this is a big reason the "poor" might like to keep what they already have. Getting signed up for services of any kind when you have bad or non-existent credit is an exercise in frustration, humiliation, and "security deposits". Once you finally get the damned cable hooked up, why would you want to go through that again?)
a { ... }

and

i "next"

are not table elements, they are function applications.

All of your examples use more magic characters than the Lua example I gave.
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So what? So is Patrick McKenzie, people seem to be cool with him.
That's certainly reasonable. But this does not mean you should ignore fallacies either. Usually when I see people talk about fallacies it's part of a point-by-point rebuttal against some post--you refute some of the points in order, perhaps agree with others and also point out any points that are actually fallacies. I think this is perfectly reasonable, but I can also see how solely pointing out a fallacy would usually not be terribly useful.

Also, ad hominem is a special case: not only is it a complete fallacy but it is also often quite rude. Minimizing personal attacks is important in keeping discussion pleasant and civil even ignoring their logical implications.

If I could only have one rule for some discussion forum, that would probably be it: no personal attacks.
I am curious, why not just use a data-uri and inline the image?
Google is blocking "Is it going to rain?" from their weather API. Why?
"Google is currently blocking us from
accessing its weather API. Please check back later." http://goingtorain.com/
Different argument. The patent under discussion in this subthread is that of jury foreman Velvin Hogan, which was completely obvious back in 2001 when he filed it.
My first startup played in this space too, Grazr (http://techcrunch.com/2006/09/18/grazr-10-blasts-off-into-th...). We were way ahead of our time too (at least that's what I tell myself :) ). We were mostly known for an opml display widget but our intent was for the OPML to be a format for organizing packages of RSS (this allowed us to have lots of ready sources since feed readers all output OPML).

Instead of a graphical 'pipe building' interface, the way we did mashups was to have embedded scripts in the XML that ran in a server-side JavaScript environment (SpiderMonkey) extended with custom syntax and language extensions we called GrazrScript (and namespaced in the file as <grazr:script> tags). You could do some pretty amazing stuff with it by writing small amounts of server-side javascript. We had an interface for http querying, accessing and manipulating normalized feed representations.

You could have these files call other grazrscript files and create 'pipes' of functions (more directly like unix pipes).

I like to tell people we were doing embedded, server-side, javascript years before it was cool. :)
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I'm quite confident that I've seen it on GitHub before. It may sound harsh but no one will ever use it.
Can you elaborate on hiring interns? I'm doing my second internship at the moment, and it would be interesting to hear some opinions from the employer's point of view.
Sure, if there is a 'rest of the comment'. Usually, there isn't anything else to go by. There's just the fallacious argument. It doesn't matter whether you can think of all kinds of ways to support the point of view the other espouses: you're not in his head and you can't know whether he thought all the things you can think of in favour of his position. There's only the fallacious argument and that needs to be struck down. If someone else wants to support the position, he'll come along.
If Google are smart but evil they'll discriminate a lot, then force the government to sweeten the deal (which isn't crazy, given it's arguably the government's responsibility to provide infrastructure to the poor).
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How do you access your music/movie files & ebooks?
I'm always intrigued by these claims that you can get something basically the same as a Mac for much cheaper. When I've investigated in the past (but in the OS X era---it seems generally accepted that Macs were sold at a hefty premium in the 80s and 90s), I've generally found the price difference to by in the ~10% neighborhood.

I just priced out a grossly-similar laptop to the Macbook Pro Retina at Dell's website, and came up with a Latitude E6520 with a price of $1931. Less than a Macbook Pro Retina by about 15%. The Latitude has a slightly faster processor, a graphics chip with half as much video memory, no retina display, weighs ~1.5 lbs more, and (I suspect) lacks Apple's all-around build quality.

However, a System 76 laptop with similar specs as the MBPR costs $1153. But that's with only the Intel HD 4000 graphics (no NVIDIA chip), and, again, no retina display.

So, I don't know. Can anyone offer some insight into why the System 76 system is so inexpensive compared to the base-model MBPR and the Latitude above?

I know that Dell sells, for instance, Inspirons, which are much cheaper than Latitudes, but my understanding is that these machines are essentially composed of whatever components can be bought most cheaply this week, and so they pose maintenance headaches, because it may be difficult to obtain a component that dies a year after purchase. Also, my personal experience with Inspirons is that they have very poor build quality.
I wouldn't say GitHub is the best system for code review. Pull requests work OK for open source and outside contributors, but I'd rather use Gerrit instead.
... over-optimized for complex dataflows

Absolutely.

OSCMS 2007 was hosted at Yahoo!, and it was one of the first developer conferences I made it to after moving to the Bay area. My takeaway from the session on Pipes was that it was a bit ... advanced (at least it was for me at that time). Pipes was not necessarily "forgettable", but it wasn't quite to the place it would induce radical inspiration. The inspiration kinda got lost in the bog of over-engineered complex details.

This seems to be a common trend among Yahoo's many assets: build almost-prototypes of platforms that absolutely ooze potential energy. But then waste that energy by stretching it in too many directions at once, not getting very far.
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> It would be a disincentive to get out of the office and away from my co-workers once a day, which is something that I think makes me happier and more productive.

If stepping away from your coworkers makes you happy and productive, your company has bigger problems than charging for meals.
UPDATE: Looks like they quietly shut down the API: http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/08/28/did-google-just-quie...

Also: just found this submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441677
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So far all of Marissa Meyer's moves (at least the one's getting publicity) have made Yahoo! a bit more Google-like. While that's probably for the best, I will be real interested to see when/where she breaks with Google culture for the first time.
A few of us Chicago-area independent game developers have found ourselves benefiting tremendously from small-scale, personal meetups in which we play and critique each-others' games as works-in-progress. We're experimenting with formalizing that experience a bit, or at least facilitating it.

This is a pilot program, localized to Chicago because that's where we live and work. We'd love to hear any feedback or ideas y'all might have to offer!
"Cute" it may be, but if new leadership inspires enough people to step up, want to do something great, and their path for bringing those ideas to fruition are cleared, then Yahoo can succeed.

That said, the biggest gripe I've read about Yahoo is the insane amount of middle management. If anyone (regardless of position -- an intern, an engineer, an architect) has an idea, I would hope there is a path for that idea to be evaluated and, if show potential, is allowed to come to fruition.
A bunch of Bay Area cities applied, judging from this map
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/next-steps-for-our-ex... but maybe releasing it in Bay Area first would provide a distorted impression that everybody is bananas about fiber access and willing to pay through the roof to get it.
If they're using the initial deployments to get an idea of public interest then Silicon Valley would give them a very skewed perspective.
I understand, but if things need to get done, fixes need to get pushed out instead of wasting time working on more elegant solutions. Isn't that why one plans and ideates beforehand? If the work appears to be overwhelming, you can at least fall back on an organized list so if you do have to cut some corners, the structure of the project doesn't get damaged too much.
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It's the fallout from them axeing iGoogle.
California also has a notoriously difficult regulatory climate. It might be easier to start the process somewhere else, where permitting and other requirements are favorable.
The sample size for this study is 13 people. I can't take it seriously. In any case, I play Asphalt7 on my iPad in bed before sleeping and haven't noticed too many problems.
> Her approach seems to be to make Yahoo a great place to work, attract and empower talent, and let said talent churn out great products

Why isn't that, in itself, "visionary"?
Citation needed, since you claim that doctors actually used the results of experiments to disprove him but at the same time didn't heed to the results of the experiments that showed that using lime was obviously beneficial.
That's actually what I'm trying to say - she doesn't come off as a visionary (in my opinion) but if she is able to set up a good and healthy work environment then she won't need to be the one coming up with all the ideas.
As I said, I barely know her/of her so my opinion is based on superficial things like reputation. The main point I was trying to make is not that she's not a "visionary" but that the things she's doing to help Yahoo are admirable and worthy of praise >.>
I seriously have no idea how John Browett got this position. His resume makes him sound like a complete ill-fit for this position
The late Jobs years really were quite something!
When you start looking into terrorist incidents, however, you find that ransoms are indeed often paid (even by governments, even by the US government). They try to keep this secret; sometimes it works, sometimes not. One example is Iran/Contra, but there are many others (e.g., http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48779,00.html , http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns... , http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/18-10, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_history_of_the_United_...)

Secretiveness, in this case, is a mechanism to avoid the slippery slope. As a sister comment to your comment points out, often other effects will step in so we don't go all the way down the slippery slope, and the "secret ransom" is one such effect.
The problem isn't that people are writing less than before, it's that so many are doing it so poorly such that we're overwhelmed with information and easily prone to overlooking the stories that are worth telling and are still being told. The author alludes to this: if the Federalist Papers were published today, it would be very easy to dismiss them as tl;dr and move on to the next update. There's no quality control anymore.
Ha, and here I thought it was too libertarian leaning so I must really be off the deep end. Maybe the author should have stuck to non-political examples since the examples are really not the point of the article, though I know all the fun ones are political.
That's part of the reason I put visionary in quotations. It's a slippery term. In this case, when you think Steve Jobs = visionary you don't think "he made Apple a great place to work." Since Steve Jobs seems to be one of the paragons of "visionary" leadership in the valley, all I meant to say was that Marissa is not in the same mold.
Ah, I see your point. One might argue that working on more elegant solutions saves time in the long run rather than wastes it, but that's a different debate it seems.
I gotta say I reckon f.lux is the only thing on Cydia worth jailbreaking for.
Yahoo! is a conglomerate with many, many offerings. It isn't a company with one product. From the tales in the valley, it seems that bureaucracy and infighting are the greatest impediment to doing good work. "Hire great people and get out of their way" is a great strategy -- not everyone has to be a despot.
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I played with something like this a while ago. Interestingly, I found that my gzip'd table html had a smaller file size than the source png, even after png crush. Though I suspect I was doing something wrong to get a result like that.

http://disruption.ca/code/png2html/
"So, son, why do you think you're fit for this job?" "No idea sir, you tell me."
It would be nice if someone would make a painfully simple interface (a la the "requests" python module) for doing XMPP.

Perhaps though XMPP is just too much of a quagmire.
Thanks to this article, I can finally put into words what bothers me about "Copyright infringement is theft"!

Yes copyright infringement share some of the properties of theft, but they are sufficiently different that we shouldn't apply our intuitions about theft to copyright infringement, just like we shouldn't apply our intuitions about theft to taxation.
I would say that is a standard job description for a CEO in certain types of company, particularly most smaller growing enterprises.
I don't mean to be mean, but someone who is just now thinking of converting an image to a table in 2012 probably doesn't know about data URIs.
It's good to see the other side of the early riser fad (which isn't really a fad. If you think it started in 2006 with Steve Pavlina, you need to read more Benjamin Franklin).

On balance, waking up early seems better than waking up late, but there are real consequences to waking up really early, and not all of them are good. Unfortunately, the internet can be a confirmation bias echo chamber, leading those who actually try waking up early on their own wondering "is it just me".

No, it's not "just you" if:

- None of the clever tricks successfully "train" you to get up earlier

- You're up, but are mentally incapable of doing anything other than staring at the wall or browsing reddit

- Even after several days, you haven't really seen that mythical burst of energy and mental clarity everyone talks about

- You do enjoy having those hours before anyone else wakes up to get some work done, but it doesn't seem to matter because you're out like a light at 8:45PM instead of your normal 11:30PM - 1:00AM range

- You get hungry at really weird times that seem out of sync with everyone else

- The 4PM nappy time feeling turns into a 3:30PM coma time mandate

- You don't think you can "tough it out" for weeks at a time just because you've been reassured that "your body, family, and friends will get used to it"

I'm not saying that getting up early is a bad idea or that you won't benefit from it. I just think it can be damaging to have all this ra-ra self-help guru stuff all over the web that turns to incredible loneliness when you actually try it out (because no one on those forums seems to be having any of your problems).
I really like the "we'll provide free food onsite, and if you go out to lunch with anyone, we'll pay for that too (but keep it reasonable)" -- encouraging employees go to out to lunch together, or to have lunch with people from other companies, or potential customers, or hires, or whatever, seems worth the cost of lunch. You may or may not be able to deduct the cost of the meals (depending on who they're with), and only at 50%, but who cares.
Discriminate? They are giving people the opportunity to sign up for their service, and bringing connectivity to those that want it.

I don't see why Google should be forced to support users that don't want to pay for their service, unless it was part of their original deal with Kansas City (which I expect it wasn't).
Well, it's on my business card. I guess that's what I'm going to be defending for the next few years.
The internet is not killing storytelling or long form writing, and photos are not the new storytelling culture.

There is plenty of long form writing on the web, which the people who read long form writing will happily go and read. And storytelling in all media forms, from written, to filmed, to animated, to comic strip and illustrated, etc, is more directly available than ever before.

There is however also another factor at work. More writers. Vastly more writers. Before the internet, the idea that an average person would spend their free time by sitting at a keyboard and communicating mostly through the written word would seem insane.

Look at all the pre-internet sci-fi about communication in the future. Is all video and voice. Almost no-one predicted a mass attempt at literacy by the general public.

But it turns out people just like to see their own words out there.

The act of writing is not just about storytelling, it is also about communication by territorial pissing, and so there are many websites, like facebook and twitter, that are setup to serve this desire to tag the quick epithet and leave a mark.

Complaining that there is little long form narrative in these sites is a bit like wondering why no-one has bothered writing an elaborate dissertation on the theory of mind, on the side of the local bus station.
Interesting, sure, but most of that stuff worked amazingly well for Google back when their engineer headcount was at what Y!'s is today.
I did something similar a while back: http://zephyrfalcon.org/weblog/arch_d7_2003_11_29.html#e420

It was more of an experiment than anything else. Certainly not too practical. :) One nice thing is that you can easily "scale" the image by changing the size of the table cells.
I actually like my co-workers very much, but being an introverted type (as I suspect many developers are), I need a break from people once in a while. Even being with my best friends for ten hours straight would be a bit tiring for me.
While the term used is irrelevant.

I would say there is a big difference between the typical marketer and someone that's able to execute something like the airbnb/craigslist integration (and by execute I don't mean code every line).

Or someone that's able to take a product from 0 to 500k users.

I do agree though in terms of online, not knowing about any of this stuff makes you a much less effective "marketer".
Not sure I get it. How do you sync with the physical notebook, shown in the main image?

Also, you may want to get this on Evernote Trunk.
I remember reading that Google did this for their checkout shopping cart image since it meant faster loading times. At a scale like Google's where they can measure the impact on the bottom line, something as ridiculous as this can make sense.
The argument could be made that a smartphone-as-tool-for-company-business should be as appliance-like as possible.

Years ago, that would have meant BlackBerries all around. Today, it means iOS.
Patrick proudly promotes himself as an SEO/marketing consultant, not a "growth hacker".
> The sample size for this study is 13 people. I can't take it seriously.

Why can't you take it seriously? Whether or not 13 is a sufficient sample size depends on factors that were not given in the article, so I don't see how you can so easily dismiss it out of hand.
I think a lot more people use tablets in bed than use(d) laptops in bed. I for one read a _lot_ more from a backlit display since the iPad.
This post is at risk of becoming a "reverse" self-fulfilling prophecy by exposing more people to the buzzword. I have personally never seen it in the wild (except once through HN, when the term was first introduced).