skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And on top of that, the source for the current estimated equity is a NY Times article referencing an analyst:

"Although Valve’s finances are private, Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, estimates that the company could be worth around $2.5 billion today."

So in truth, we don't know the company equity at all.
I agree. Cool tricks are great, but nothing beats content.
This looks impressive, until you realise that the jack, clubs, spades and diamonds are simply unicode glyphs present in many system fonts.
> So far, Java seems like a stinker to me. I've never written a Java program
could it be that the designers making this nonsense are actually too young to have ever seen or used the real-world objects these skeumorphic interfaces are imitating?

You sure have something there. I recently felt like a dinosaur when I was explaining line ending characters to a young programmer who had never seen a carriage returning or a line feeding.
I don't like it at all. Don't even know what I'm supposed to be looking at. Why would I give my email address?
Just one word... wow. This worked more than any tutorial on HTML 5 I have ever read. Very good job.
Thanks. What browser are you using?
Yup, sorry, caught my error. Thought that number was 2.5bil in revenue. Just changed it.
I don't think it's premature, a lot of people will want a product (MVP) before they go ahead and formalise the entire thing. You're going to be the guy doing all the work in that department. Up until the MVP is developed there's really not much else to do.

Pretty much everything you listed is most effectively after you actually have a product.
One reason Blizzard would do this is to combat RMT + selling your account to a third party. All they would need to do is set up a crawler on eBay or any other website where somebody has posted a screenshot of their account for sale, then dole out a warning / suspension / ban.
That's true but Microsoft caved in to Metro AG's demands that that not use the 'Metro' name in their Windows product.
Wonderful, mysterious... I really like it!
The riots in London were a (criminal) minority being blown out of proportion. I didn't even realise there were riots going on until a couple of days into it. From the looks of the videos, it seems the problem was not "riots", it was the police standing back and not interfering when they should just have arrested the looters.
That's true but Microsoft caved in to Metro AG's (German Retailer) demands that they (MS) not use the 'Metro' name in their Windows product.
This would have been an easy fix too. They should give everyone who loads the page a new referrer ID and associated it with that user's IP. Then just redirect or use pushState to modify the URI in the browser.

It's a shame that they made such an obvious mistake as it's a very cool visualization otherwise.
Is it just on my machine or does every single part of that web page start off a Amazon referral pop-up to Mists of Pandaria on click?
It seems that AirPlay is not built-in...
Right, so what you're saying is that when the primes are smaller, as they used to be able to be, strong (and safe) primes were a good idea because the earlier methods of factoring could exploit their potential weaknesses. However, it's now the case that with ECM and GNFS methods of factoring we've had to move to much, much larger primes, so the weaknesses are no longer relevant.

Thank you.
Can you elaborate? All I know about Telerik is that they do a lot to sponsor community podcasts and user groups.
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Agree with the benefits of having procedures, and great example also - but I'd change one small thing "determine highest performing picture headline combo by CONVERSION RATE". In my experience high CTR images don't always have high conversion rates.
probably due to wanting to recover as much information as possible in the event of data loss such as cropping, competing watermarks, compression, etc.
I am curious about that too. I'm taking it at face value that "talking to 500 people" is as trivial as setting up a twitter account.

Only way I can think of is to do a survey and enlist the help of bored college students to stand in front of of a busy intersection. I'm guessing part of the "soft skill" is recognizing that > 90% of the people walking by won't even be interested in stopping and talking. (Or send an email/twitter/whatever blast somewhere. Or something). But essentially, "talking to 500 people" is not necessarily "talking one-on-one".

I think that says a lot more about the difference in mindset between the geek and the suit than anything else.
I wonder if skeuomorphic designs will be looked back at and be viewed like we now view the interfaces from the 90s, with huge amounts of bevel and emboss, shadows and gradients.
Living in Clapham Junction, an area that was severely affected, during the London riots in 2011 I would say the opposite was true. Whilst many parts of the city were being trashed, the news struggled to keep up. It was much worse and widespread than they were able to depict.

Video I took at the end of my street whilst a local shop was torched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4n7uCeV5nU&feature=plcp

FWIW, earthquakes are different to riots. I did the same as you in Christchurch, New Zealand recently after the earthquake there and would agree, the majority of the city was untouched with the epicentre being destroyed.
Yeah, but it can't get that many. Not for a landing page.

Being #1 on HN for a few hours will bring you 20 to 30k views (cumulative with getting up and drifting back down). The reddit frontpage frontpage will get you the amount of views you need, but you're not getting there, I can almost promise you that.
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There are programmers using Java and C# than can run circles around your programming skills -- whatever those skills might be.

Your comment is a fine example of the Dunning-Krueger effect...
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Man, if you can get 300 in a single day, you have my attention!
No, it's obviously wrong. Population does not grow to the limit of food supply: food supply has increased dramatically in the first world over the last century, yet population growth has flatlined in most first world countries.
This is a common sentiment, and one that's been around quite a while -- at least two centuries, dating back to Thomas Malthus [1]. Back then, he thought the world was at its max carrying capacity, and disaster was imminent. The idea keeps coming back, as with Paul Ehrlich in the '70s, which climaxed in the Simon-Ehrlich wager [2] (which was flawed, but still a pretty good demonstration).

The thing is, we're always on the verge of disaster, but the price mechanism of the market continually motivates people to seek out alternatives. So we always find a new way to achieve something "just in time".

Consider the history of lighting. There's no way we could continue to light our homes with candles or whale oil; as the whales got scarce, the price of oil increased, and that's a big part of what drove the invention of newer means of generating light.

The fact is that the single greatest resource at our disposal is the human mind: that's what allows us to invent new alternatives, to get away from the things that become scarce. All of human history shows that the more people we've got, the better off we are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon-Ehrlich_wager
Was hoping it would go into warp when I entered my email. Was disappointed. Thankfully I used a fake email.
Thanks for the feedback. I want to address your point now, but I'm going to wait a moment for a reason that I will explain at the same time.
What made you change course and focus on Rails development instead of continuing with iOS?
Presumably you answer it via speakerphone? I would expect (in a real product, not this) that the laptop and monitor shells would have speakers and microphones so the whole setup could be a phone.

It's not that different from your iPhone ringing during a game of Plants vs. Zombies.
> impractical

I believe if they kept the scale at 10km the page would be 53 kilometers long.
To quote John Graham-Cumming ‏(@jgrahamc[0])

Every time github goes down I think,
"If only there was some way to use git
locally without a network connection".

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc
I'd love a great payment service that works outside of the USA.
But without at least a bit of an outline this could as well be a email harvesting operation.
if you have access to a WP site you can find some pretty decent wysiwyg editors in the plugins for posts but not entire designs, and I don't know how well dreamweaver is doing these days. What do you need it for?
Well RadControls as a fine example: bloated, unreliable, impossible to work with, buggy, slow, expensive.
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Except that it is possible to hack together something in 24 - 48 hours, or a week, assuming you are willing to pare it down to essentials and fake parts of the demo.

Satire aside, it's enough to make me wonder if talking to 500 people is as trivial as setting up a twitter account. Setting up a twitter account or a C Corp is really not that hard to do.
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> What exactly is the contradiction?

The contradiction lies between the terms "billionaire" and "startup". Startups are not billion-dollar enterprises, and billion-dollar enterprises are no longer startups. They're mutually exclusive.

> Very few startups ever achieve the billion dollar threshold.

Yes, and if they do, they're no longer startups -- it takes too long.

> So setting the bar for a startup ...

That is a different thing entirely. Setting a goal of becoming a billion-dollar company at some point in the future, doesn't justify describing the company as a "billion-dollar startup." It would be like calling a baby an "Olympic-class infant," based solely on expectations for the future.

> and sets up the premise of the article ...

The premise of the article is to conflate two mutually contradictory states -- startup, and billion-dollar enterprise.
With all due respect, Crockford jumped the shark some time ago.
Valve is privately held. It was bootstrapped. The co-founders seem to be against the idea of selling, indicating that there probably haven't been any serious, negotiated offers (and if there were they are private). There hasn't been any actual concrete valuation done in years (that is public).

Putting a value on Valve is a complete shot in the dark, that $2.5B is just what some analyst hit when he threw a dart at the wall.
>Paul Graham's meaning of "is dead" is "has stopped producing exciting ideas"

Not really, he came up with his prediction:

"I have a hunch that it won't be a very successful language"

Java not just took off like a rocket, but .NET/C# (which built on top of Java) has encountered even more success, so much that companies collectively pay billions a year for Windows Server 2003/IIS/SQL Server while Apache/Tomcat/Php/MySql/PostGres/Ruby are free. You can say Microsoft takes most of the profit in the web server and server OS market (like how people say Apple takes 80% of the profit in the phone market).
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Without incriminating myself, let's say that maybe I've seen some files belonging to other people that I shouldn't have when I was a teenager.

At the time, I justified it easily to myself - I don't care if someone sees the contents of my hard drive, so why should it be unethical for me to root through someone else's?

I'm 28, now, and a year ago my mom reminded me that I'd said that. I was pretty embarrassed at how I'd acted, and how I justified it to myself. I hope I remember that sequence of events when I have kids.
I had a feeling that might be the case when I started reading about the 500 people in one day bit. The second half however, about assessing whether the future technical co-founder can actually build a prototype over a weekend, seems like reasonable advice.

Programmers aren't immune from overestimating their competency, and if you are about to get into a venture with someone you don't know well, I think it makes sense for both sides to do some due diligence.
Thanks for making me realize I've been using life expectancy tables incorrectly for most of my life.

One comment regarding the yearly progress of the cohort rate. I would think this would fluctuate with significant medical advances (e.g. the first few years that bypass surgery/artificial hearts started to be used). I can't see how medical progression is perfectly linear at 1.0%/year.
Hmmmm, email harvesting as a substitute for products/services.
But the difference is that the 'software geeks' are the ones in demand in this senario.

A geek does not typically approach an outsider and say 'I've got skills can you come up with an idea for me?'. But on the flip side 'you have skills, I've got this idea' is a -very- common occurrence. If you are the one doing the approaching applying your own quality control is a given.

If against the odds you are being approached by an unknown geek wanting to partner with you, then testing their skills should be part of the process yeah, you both have to be confident in each other; though I would consider the above methods to be a truly terrible interview...
A tangentially related idea that might be interesting: adding a mechanism as easy as Bump for transferring public keys between users, then automatically encrypting all communication between them. It'd be great for business; meet people at a conference, then easily communicate with them without worrying about MITM industrial espionage.
From my point of view doing it manually is still the best option. Because know what and how you are implementing the design, this will save you a lot of energy fixing or debugging things. I personally just use PHPStorm to edit and manage my files.
Not a good week for claiming credit...
It says we have enough "stuff," and so the demand for labor hasn't increased out of tune with the supply.

I suspect that the real average wage in the US would decrease quickly if falling wages weren't inconvenient to sitting politicians.
Why didn't they dispute the trademark during the opposition period. Unless Polish law doesn't have opposiTion procedure, this doesn't sound like a defensive move.
It pains me to see all this awesome stuff (CTF, Apps, improvements) from Stripe all the time here on HN only to be reminded that I can't use it and that my only actual option is Paypal or really expensive and cumbersome merchant accounts.

I hope Stripe, Braintree or another 2.0 payment solution will launch here in Norway soon.
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From the article: "So far, Java seems like a stinker to me. I've never written a Java program, never more than glanced over reference books about it, but I have a hunch that it won't be a very successful language."

I think that pretty clearly says that (at that time) he didn't think it'd be very popular.
"The service outage was not caused by external influences. It was not a "hack" and it was not a denial of service attack."

So Anonymous0wn3r or whoever was just claiming responsibility for something they had no hand in? The router tables just corrupted themselves?
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Entirely valid, and I appreciate that. How often in general do you enter your email into a landing page, even when you have very comprehensive information about the nascent product in question?
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hackers don't like Java

Speak for yourself.
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It's too say that this concept is flawed, because the Atrix execution was messed up on so many levels.

Personally, I think that any "problem" this tries to solve will be better handled in software. With iCloud, you can already work with (some) data seamlessly on multiple devices, that experience will only get better.
EA recently offered $1b.

http://gamerant.com/valve-electronic-arts-buyout-billion/
This would actually be cool if the characters where made out of CSS-styling too. Now, it's not.
My impression of Java, as someone who ends up having to use it every few years when I can't get out of it, is that the cumulative effect of generics and autoboxing can really change the feel of the language, but only if you use them, of course.

Also, I thought real closures were introduced in 1.7? That seems like a big change to me.

Re: C# I was mostly referring to annotations for reflection. If they ever wanted to add first class getter/setter methods that would be cool, too.
This is a new setting for the rMBP that hibernates to disk after something ridiculous like two hours. It drove me absolutely batshit, but thankfully you can change it to something more reasonable via a simple pmset command. (I brought mine up to 24 hours before writing to disk)

It is especially bad because the behavior is a frozen cursor while it reads the RAM image off disk. SSD's are fast but on the 16Gb model it still takes 15-20 seconds and feels eternally broken. My old MBP had a progress bar at least, not sure how they messed it up.

In any case, fix it yourself here: http://www.qandasystem.info/apple/disable-stand-by-mode-on-r...
Skeumorphism is including or retaining historical design elements for now non-functional purposes.

The author asserts that Microsoft's Metro design moves away from it, but his screenshot of Metro shows several instances:

- a paper shopping bag icon
- MSFT stock symbol
- icon of analog alarm clock with bells
- gear icon for control panel
- manilla folder icon for windows explorer

And does anyone else cringe at the HTML slipping through on AT&amp;T?

The simple fact is that building on previous experience is useful. Anachronistic visual remnants of previous technology can lend familiarity to a new interface, reducing learning curve and increasing acceptance (e.g., rivets on denim jeans).

Sometimes designers go even further and purposely introduce even more skeumorphic elements, going for a "retro" feel.

Some people like it, some people don't. It isn't always done well, and it isn't always done badly.
Ah you are right, my bad.
That's the really interesting bit--it isn't. Most of your points are mostly correct. But that doesn't stop its being popular.

This shouldn't surprise people either; sitcoms, junk food and package tours are also very popular. More generally, quality is very rarely positively and consistently correlated with popularity. And yet, in the sphere of programming languages and operating systems, it seems people assume that it does correlate.

Please don't base your choice of technology exclusively off what most people use.
Wow, that's a great idea! Do you mind if I implement that?
Take a look at memrise, they combined flashcard theory with gamification.
Peer-reviewed science is built on anonymous reviewing so that assumptions like this are not an issue. Look at the data, not the publisher.
At first, I thought this was a repost of the "Helveticards" physical card deck that was released a while ago. It's not, but worth a look if 're a typography fan (or just like good design):

http://helveticards.ryanmyers.me/
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#1 - An estimated market cap of a private company is not accurate value.

#2 - The number of employees is those who attended the beach party from an employee guide from earlier in the year = there are more employee now.

The math here is completely arbitrary cause both the numbers used in the division are probably incorrect or just assumptions. Also keeping in mind that wikipedia isn't the best source for reference.
I routinely sign up for e-mail lists if it's a product I'm interested in and want to know more about in the future. A text box in front of a slogan and a cool background? Not so much.
>pg never said Java would be unpopular

He did:

>So far, Java seems like a stinker to me. I've never written a Java program, never more than glanced over reference books about it, but I have a hunch that it won't be a very successful language.
This is why you should have content on the page.
I never predicted it wouldn't be popular. It was already popular when I wrote that.
These guys are next: http://www.aappll.com/
It reminds me of the Amphicar. It was both a car and a boat! What a great idea! Only it wasn't a very good car, and it wasn't a very good boat.

This project seems to want to be a car + boat + airplane + truck.
> If you look at the mathematics there is really nothing so weird or magical about quantum mechanics or using it to perform factorization ...

Yes, if you examine the mathematics that's true, but if you examine the physics it's not true. The problem doesn't lie with algorithm design, the problem lies with putting them into practice in actual physical computers.

> QM in general is really pretty simple and even obvious if you ignore the silly mythology and just follow the math.

On the contrary, not at all simple if one must try create an actual physical realization.

This is not to suggest that the problems won't be overcome, only that they're more formidable than describing how easy it is in principle.
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I don't know much about hardware at all, but aren't routers fairly simple, time tested pieces of hardware? Can they really corrupt en-masse in this way?
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I know this looks cool and all but what about including more information below the fold? It wouldn't interrupt the cool design and would give more information to folks like me who don't just sign up for every service for the hell of it.

The lack of information conveys a lack of product, regardless of how true that might be. No screenshots, no information on features, not even a contact or Twitter. I'd really rather get more information before I start getting emails about the service. This is especially true when there are already viable options like PayPal and Stripe, where I can go and find full feature lists.
Ask and you shall receive, at least I did. :)
I've had mine wake up and sleep when closed when a magnet passed by.
Would have loved to see more than moving stars and a signup box.
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It turns out that I don't know my garment lingo well enough. That kind of closure on a coat is called a "toggle" so it's a sort of visual pun.
I think life-style businesses have enough in common with the general HN discussion that the community belongs here. Most issues faced by one will be faced by the other. One counter example would probably be funding in most cases.

patio11 frequents (and is highly respected) on HN and I don't believe he considers himself a startup in the "swing-for-the-fences" sense. He still continuously works to improve and grow his business which is where I think the common ground really exists.
If the link went to the Fast Company article, your comment would make much more sense!
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I bugged them on Twitter and they let me on. Everything's working really well, a pleasure to use. No AMEX yet though.