skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the main benefits of wearing the same thing everyday is the time you save shopping. Instead of going out to find something you like and try on different sizes you do it once and order the same size over the internet anytime you need replacements.

Personally I think it's a bit over the top to optimise this much but it would save more than just 10 seconds a day.
Totally true, but it doesn't appear that hiring another developer is in the works. So C# it is.
So we're allowing people to make money by using our software without paying, just because it might be confusing when they're making enough money that it's worth it (or even legal) to sue them? No thank you, NC option for me.

Not only are they using unpaid manhours and equipment it took to write and host the code, it probably also took a great deal of personal investment to learn how to do whatever the code does. If they are making profit that is fine, but be fair and share a small part. (And yes, I really would ask only a small part or perhaps even only credits – it's open-source after all and they're honest enough to contact me – but that's something entirely different from free.)
>> "He wore that famous black mock turtleneck, Levi’s, and New Balances not to make a fashion statement, but almost for the complete opposite reason: so he didn’t have to think about what to wear"

If I recall correctly that's not true. He actually asked a Japanese designer to create a uniform for Apple employees. The employees didn't like the idea so Jobs decided if they wouldn't have one he would anyway and got the turtleneck designed.
And as for Microsoft, it would have been more interesting than buying a client side software (Skype).
If it comes naturally to you then it works for you. Otherwise, you spend same amount of thinking time, every morning, that you have to wear same shirt to save time or promote.
ahem http://www.y-3store.com/us/short-sleeve-t-shirt_cod37259322b...
There aren't many things you read that actually change your life, but many years ago I read Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams, and the (asshole) main character had a little motto about people who wear advertising on their t-shirts (etc.) -- "assholes always advertise". To this day, I will think twice about wearing anything that could be construed as advertising.
Is this a problem with SSL per se? Or is it something that can only be a problem if you have enabled Javascript?

This post has been made without using Javascript.
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just tried a couple searches. one was for "breaking bad". Took a while then timed out
This is the next item on my todo list :)
I realize this is an issue of job listings as opposed to what developers are calling themselves (mostly..) but something that bothers me as a designer are the amount of portfolios that start "I build beautiful hand-crafted [user experiences, websites, pixels]," or otherwise bloat the person's talents right off the bat with words instead of examples. Maybe I'm being a jerkface here, but that type of language immediately makes me second-guess the person's capabilities (and usually, rightfully so). One's work should speak for itself and be the first thing someone sees when they come across the site.

I'd be interested in hearing what others think about this trend.
They didn't the last time I did that.

I had some dodgy stuff going on over at an amazon free tier, including; socks proxy, ping tunnel, Metasploit, semi hidden tor end-node, ctorrent, and a few other things. I also linked a 25$ visa card from a convenience store, so very limited traceability.

All they did was bill me for the bandwidth.
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Certainly fair questions. Here are some of the data:

1.16 billion of capital and 140 employees

6.0-7.0 billion valuation, estimated

In terms of profit per employee, you're looking at 50 to 100 million to 'break even' at that vauation

So, part of it is the $$ raised and part is the $$ valuation

Is it possible paint yourself into a box, strategically, if you take money at aggressive valuation?

Source: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter

Edit: Headcount data look out of date at TechCrunch. See comment below, this now ~1,000 not 140.
TorretFreak post = front page
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This reminds me a lot of Alltop.com - I believe you can create your own custom page there as well.
I agree with typicalrunt entirely - its not that men are not incapable of design/ empathy, its the lost of opportunity of not having including women who are equally able
There's definitely some truth to this.

I live and work in a manufacturing town. I've worked for medium to largish manufacturers (500 people), to small ones (~15 people), and a couple in between. There are a lot of opportunities for technology, especially software, to improve these companies. At the moment all of the software that I have seen implemented is focussed on accounting and production management. Office stuff. Very little makes it to the production floor - this is where I think the largest gains have yet to be made.

Specifically: AR safety glasses providing real data to production staff, Google Glass style. At some point, I want to be part of making that happen.
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oh lord..what about trying to be human for atleast some moments of the day instead of behaving like a production robot ?

I bet we have to face hundreds if not thousands of those trivial decisions each day and most arent reoccurring all the time so you cant automate them...
That article is refusing to load for me, but I found a cache and the answer we're looking for is: "numerals at the beginning of an article are one possible heuristic to identify linkbait, as top-N or list-style writing are a common approach to such articles".

And now that I've seen that heuristic, I can't help but chuckle that many, many articles on TechCrunch seem to be list-style. :)
Mining means no one can create a fake block chain (version of events). To create a fake chain accepted by the network someone would have to solve all the hashing problem linking their fake blocks faster than the bitcoin network. The proof of work linking the blocks means they cant be faked.

The advantage nodes in the P2P network (people running the client software not necessarily mining) don't have to trust any other node or central serve, they just trust the longest block chain in he knowledge that's what everyone else will be doing.

As transactions are only accepted if signed by a private key, so the block chain is just an agreement of the order and time that transactions happen. Also if someone tries to double spend the same money by signing two transactions the block chain is the decision on which one is accepted and which ignored. No one can fake that decision without providing the solution to the extremely hard problem.
I guess HP was really onto something when they pioneered the no office doors policy.
It must depend on your definition of "abbreviation". For example, Hamas and Fatah (the main political parties in Palestine) are both acronyms. Fatah is actually a reverse acronym.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#Etymology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah#Etymology
Twitter is the batman trilogy of startups.

It took an old idea and make it new and relevant again.

In the second movement, it went huge and was the new sensation.

The conclusion of the story will be bland and all over the place. With pundits failing to see that the emperor has no clothes.
>I rep a Grouper t-shirt every, single day.

The comma there confuses me.
Ask HN: Launching an MVP vs Browser Compatibility
I've been building out our MVP for a social fitness game (social, questing, loot, rewards etc) and am very close to going live with it. However, we have a number of browser specific bugs that make using our site less than the entertaining and interactive experience we're targeting. We're pretty much good in Chrome, and mostly good in Safari, however mobile Safari and IE 9+ have some usability/functionality issues.

I could spend weeks getting all browsers perfect before launch, but I'm very excited about releasing to the wild and am flip-flopping on releasing our MVP vs getting it 100% working in all major browsers.

Where do you stand on MVP vs Browser Compatibility? Is it good enough to display a nice "Hey, we're working on your browser, but try Chrome if you want it to work" while working like mad to release updates that fix other browsers? What have you done in the past for your MVP? Where did you draw the line?

Our product is NeuFit, www.neufit.com and we're hoping to start inviting people that have signed up on Tuesday while we're at TechCrunch Disrupt. If you're planning on attending, come say hi!
If you have to put important thought on the back burner while you zipper your pants, you have more issues that cognitive context switching.
> How was Twitter changing the world, and how is it not anymore...?

Twitter was a utility. Now it's ABC. It could have changed the world in the way that, you know, the web changed the world. But instead it's changing the world in the way that cable news changes the world. That's what's so bizarre about Ev Williams to me. He's so damn talented but he doesn't give a shit about anything but the flip. It's true of so many founders these days; everyone worships Steve Jobs and not enough worship Tim Berners-Lee.
I love the idea in concept, but I hope people wouldn't actually use it. I'm not sure which I find worse: not being honest with your coworkers or having them judge you for not silencing your phone before a meeting.
"when I'm using xcode, i don't want other distraction to come in; so maybe find a way to make it harder for me to open browsers and other distraction"

How is that related to his application? Your idea would probably make more sense as a separate application.
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It's running on windows, which makes the "real-time" argument void. And if you are recording anything your hardware better have a built in buffer and real time stamps already. It's not exactly like you are bit-banging things to a serial port...

However i agree that making the hardware interface in c would be the best option. But in most cases your hardware would already come with this and using P/Invoke to call it from C# is then piece of cake.

It's hard to give a definite answer since the OP doesn't specify if the application also has hardware output or just recording. And what are the time constants? Are we talking seconds or microseconds?
To me, the spectrum ranges from Functionality to Aesthetic; each type of design can be approached from a more functional or more aesthetic approach.

There is UX that 'feels' amazing but is used in an insubstantial product (aesthetic UX) just as there is functional visual design—think of the IKEA catalog which emphasizes visual simplicity as a means to sell, in addition to the 3D rendered scenes used to save in production cost.
Excellent design. Within 5 seconds of visiting your site, I understood what it does and how it would be useful to me, and bookmarked it.
twitter irritates the least with ads. The same thing for linkedin or facebook would have been a lot better. Wait.. where is diaspora?
I have a closet shelf full of jeans. I also have hangers full of short-sleeve button-up work shirts. I don't do much thinking about getting dressed - I grab a jean and grab a shirt, based on what color I feel like today.

To each their own I guess. I don't begrudge you for wearing your own company's shirt every day. But let's be honest - it's 100% advertising, and 0% optimization.
The phenomena are normally distributed, but there are often steep threshold effects in performance. For example, no number of teacup poodles is sufficient to win a dogsled race. Most dogs have above average completion times on the Iditarod race.

Which is not to say there is no market for chasing frisbies.
Without any offense, how/why can a post like this make it to the #2 spot in hacker news? I'd like the top #5 or top #3 entries in hacker news be for truly relevant, worth either reading and studying news or entries no?
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Those who happen to own domain name and some small hosting plan with Cpanel can easily redirect all mail to that domain for specific email address. This way you can replace plus sign with dot that works everywhere.

And I've have my problems with short addresses before with Microsoft. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/liveid-...
Yeah, weird thing about the verge, they use "entry" instead of "item" in their feed so it breaks. Anyone know why they do this?
"The first reason I stole from Steve Jobs. "...The second reason was inspired by Larry and Sergey.

Go to a freaking store and buy a bunch of t-shirts, you can get them for as little as $5 each, if money is an issue. Copying Jobs or the Google founders doesn't make you one of them, just makes you an ....
As someone who uses Creative Commons-licensed content from time to time, I've tended to steer clear of NC because of the confusion too.

A common interpretation (and the one I used to use myself) was that the non-commercial protection was meant to cover use of content as a fundamental piece of a commercial venture. So a photo on a t-shirt, a song being sold on a compilation CD, etc. But using a photo within the context of a blog post on a commercial blog would be ok.

It seems, though, another interpretation is that any usage that's even vaguely related to a commercial interest is verboten. And since no-one has drawn the line in the sand on this, I'll steer clear of NC stuff now unless it really is a hobby project.
Might I suggest different utilizing desktop management? A mode where application aren't closed as aggressively just opened in a fresh new desktop? This allows the user to abstract away the other programs and focus on those in the new desktop window.

Other suggestions include
- hotkeys
- spotlight / alfred integration
- Adding macros to launch when click a new set of apps
nice idea but why not mix it with other stuff..your company hat, watch, tie, jeans etc etc...laptop sticker...so one way or the other you convey the message and look good and feel good too!
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You aren't Steve Jobs.

- So what, who says he can't emulate Steve Jobs?
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"Q: What do you call a man who dresses well? A: Grown-up."

As for the advertising, I think a well-dressed young(ish? -- the assumption being younger, single people are more likely to use Grouper) person engaging with potential customers in casual conversation at the popular coffee shops and lunch hangouts in your area would go a good deal further than schlepping to work in the same shirt each day. However, I haven't lived in New York and perhaps the people there are less open to casual conversation.
Golden triangle is nonsense for design, by the way. Please don't let it inform your decisions. Most examples of it in nature are bogus.
Because of some misguided idea that picking a shirt to wear takes too long off of your morning? Hint: unless you're Lady Gaga, it does not.
Of course Amazon has a plan for profits. They've all but spelled it out, sell the hardware to sell the services. "They don't have a plan" != "I don't think their plan will work", or whatever else you've got on the right side of that !=.
You also don't need to wear the same thing every day to avoid thinking about what to wear. I never think about what to wear, just put on clothes randomly from the drawers. Sometimes my girlfriend has to tell me to go change, like when I wore a green sweater and green pants.
Slow news day, nothin else seemed to be of much mention....
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The parallel is both were trying to do something considered 'impossible' and doing it on the grandest scale possible. John Hammond wanted to clone extinct animals, Mark wanted to create a network for millions of people. Both projects are incredibly complex with a lot of variables and the consequences of miscalculation could be disastrous. Chaos is the underlying theme of it all...
The article is very interesting, much more so than the meta discussion here. Mark's thesis is that the middle class have no place to put their money except in real estate which is creating an unsustainable bubble which will lead shortly to a crash and a possibly violent upheaval. The Chinese have many unfulfilled needs, such as health care, which could be funded by their foreign earnings, but this would drive the dollar down and the yuan up, killing the boom.

He states that the consensus driven leadership is hiding from the problems of the bubble economy. Interesting times.
I say it. People don't like emulations of other people, especially if the "emulators" consider some superficial thing like this part of their success.
This is already happening. The TLD for Spain is .es
I have found a shirt that fits me perfectly so I bought a couple more of these. As long as it's a good fit, you enjoy wearing it, people don't scratch their heads looking at you, why not wear the same thing all the time?

Of course not looking sloppy is important (hair, fingernails, showers, clean clothes, etc.), but other things are much much more important. Integrity, getting things done, an inspiring and/or knowledgable personality..

Also: I don't know why Steve Jobs has to mentioned in every second blog post on HN. Yes, he wore the same clothes all the time. But you don't need his permission to do so. You should be your own boss, and your own fashion consultant. (When in doubt, ask your wife or girlfriend though. ;))
I was thinking the same thing. I'm wondering what Germany will use as an excuse to implement similar system after telling Facebook to destroy their database.
What's wrong with that? The colors match ;)
I've been a leach for 2023 days :-)
Interesting idea, but it doesn't match what happens. Places with "moral right of author" are not Orwellian nightmares.
As long as the data is anonymized and aggregated properly and links with less then thousands of hits are never shown then there shouldn't be any problem.

One other interesting thing they could do with the data is if they started Amazon Search (they're caching a lot of the web as is) they could use their tracking of Google results to goose Amazon Search the way Bing did with IE tracking data.
Why would you want to switch to Postgres out of curiosity? Also, what MVC framework are you switching to?
Why I don't wear the same shirt everyday: I think shopping for clothes is fun. I'm not awake enough in the morning to do anything but pick out clothes. My company doesn't have branded T-Shirts?

I guess if I tried to do a start-up, it would surely fail as I stare bleary eyed into my drawer of shirts, having just been distracted from the most important idea I've ever had.
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>It's not so much "saving 10 seconds" as it is "avoiding cognitive context switching".

Humanity FAIL. As if you have some very crucial things to decide on the 15 minutes you spend waking up, dressing, shaving and such...

What "context switch"? You are not an OS, and you are not even fully awake, heck you're not even awake before coffee, much less just after you woke up.
I say it. People don't like emulations of other people, especially if the "emulators" consider some superficial thing like this part of their success.

- I call that BS. That is your small thinking and so you should limit yourself to it. I say go emulate successful people and do what you want to do.
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If my understanding is correct, these are web apps (as opposed to native mobile apps)?
Entrepreneurial solutions to government. Why not?
>For an end user, App.net looks exactly like Twitter and it won’t improve their experience in any relevant way that will make them want to switch.

The whole point of App.net is to be an API for other apps to be built on. The "Alpha" app or whatever is a twitter clone, but that doesn't mean that every app built on it will be.
I actually like the advice. The OP does not mention that one should not dress well but merely not wasting time to mix-n-match.
Indeed. Also add "ninja" to the list (WTF is that supposed to mean anyway?) Other tip off phrases: "must love fast paced environment", "ability to juggle multiple projects" (read: our process is non-existent or broken)
I created my own variable, which I did for two reasons:

First, I didn't want dependencies on Pyramid imports in certain sections of my code.

Second, this comment in the Pyramid docs: This function should be used extremely sparingly, usually only in unit testing code. it’s almost always usually a mistake to use get_current_request outside a testing context because its usage makes it possible to write code that can be neither easily tested nor scripted.

That made me think that they might not have done the due diligence in making sure that my code was safe (which is completely reasonable since they made it explicitly clear they felt that way). Since I knew exactly how I was deploying, I could make it safe.
Inspired by Sony, Jobs created a uniform for Apple employees (to bond them) but the idea was poorly received and thereby, scrapped. He ended up wearing the uniforms, which 'grew' on him. Even though he later justified his uniform as convenience, their primary intent wasn't to free up his cognitive cycles for Apple.
"Twitter already said that most people access Twitter through their web ui and mobile apps."

My problem with this stance is the same problem I have with so called "browser share".

I am not beholden to a single interface. I'm human. I'm dynamic. I move and change.

That means sometimes I use the website. Sometimes I use the mobile app. Sometimes I embed Tweets on a website. Sometimes I use a website's embedded tweets to follow them instead of following them on Twitter. I send photos and tweets from apps, and I consume tweets from multiple sources.

Twitter is almost as ubiquitous as water for me, the ways I consume and use it in my day to day. There is no single one size fits all interface to Twitter in my workflow, only Twitter the service. Because if there were, if I had to go to the website and only the website, or the app and only the app, I wouldn't use it. I don't use things that get in my way. You either fit into my workflow, or you don't.

And I'll miss the Mac OS desktop client if the rumors are true, because the website doesn't have a simple way to switch between multiple Twitter identities if I'm running a personal Twitter, a brand Twitter. And also because they bought Tweetie only to, eventually, kill it. But we've had this discussion before.
Well, an acronym is a very specific type of abbreviation.
>I call that BS. That is your small thinking and so you should limit yourself to it. I say go emulate successful people and do what you want to do.

Right, go emulate the dressing habits of successful people, that's so much better advice than my "small thinking".
Thats a good question. We ended up using a drop down for USD prices, we are charging in EUR btw, but it didn't help much.