skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only reason the Microsoft Store "...[is] not even close to as effective to what Apple has built" is because of brand and hype. But I have a feeling this is going to shift over time. It won't happen overnight, it'll be gradual, but it will happen.
This. This would make the whole thing dramatically more actionable, efficient, and lovely.
Off-the-cuff thoughts: is a number (say "12") a word? Is a hyphen -- used, say, like this -- a word? They count as 'em in your webapp, but I'd be curious what the official definition of word actually entails.
editing Lisp without a paren-counting editor is just as tedious as one would expect

That's the real barrier, IMO. Who wants to switch editors just to learn a new language with an (apparently) impoverished syntax?
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Is there a difference between that and "release early, release often, release broken"?
But worse off in what way? My dad took pay cuts so he wouldn't have to uproot his family and move to a different province - we never noticed that there was less money, we did notice that Dad was home more. Still, that's his priorities (and mine), and I think the OP's as well, but to each their own.
since when did words of more than 6 characters become two words!!!!!

That is so bizarre.
> But the formalism is a barrier for building up a more convenient mental model about what is really going on.

Actually, I'd say that complex numbers are a wonderful opportunity for illustrating that math is nothing but a mental model, not necessarily with anything "really going on", AND at the same time incredibly useful.

IMO the best way to think about complex numbers is to start with the observation that sqrt(-1) cannot exist in the realm of real numbers, quite easily provable. Then you make the bold-assed assumption that it exists anyway and simply call it i. Then play around with it a little, and find out that adding the axiom "there is something called i, where i * i == -1" does not lead to any contradictions; instead you can work with this i just fine, and numbers of the form a+bi are closed under all your everyday operations, just by applying your everyday arithmetic rules. Neat!

Then you notice that those numbers can be interpreted as 2D vectors and some operations on them as geometrical transformations thereof. Super Neat!

Then someone notices that those numbers and the operations on them can actually be used to model certain aspects of the physical world. Holy Crap!

Math is FREAKING AWESOME!
It's hardly a free ride. Sure, journalists pay more attention to apple than they maybe deserve, but that's not because journalists have some great apple bias. it's because the apple PR department works their asses off to cater to journalists and make their product launches media friendly events. They deliver their product in easily reportable chunks, and they craft a public image so that news about apple is what the media's customers want to read about.
It's really nice to hear someone say "You're not my target audience" without any trace of shame. That's a good quality in an entrepreneur.
Just think of it as each value being plus or minus 50. I'm sure the idea isn't to determine the best film of all time, it's to expose you to excellent movies and series you may never have seen.
Author here, I appreciate your $0.02. It's more important for tech recruiters to know about what candidates are and are not qualified for than to know actual code and such, but we've all heard stories about back-end and server side folks getting submitted for UI design jobs. I think an agent would want to be sure to know enough not to represent his clients to jobs that aren't a fit, but also needs to know about trends and such that could be valuable career advice going forward.
I thought I should post this video here too - Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers has made a little known protest song about the plight of the information worker, which the article put me in mind of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDkmVo2fg4
I went to the stanford shopping center recently - and, because obviously we were visiting the Apple store while we were there, we decided to go check out the Microsoft store as well - it was only a few doors down. I was pleasantly surprised at how darn nice it was. It was much larger than the Apple store, had better air conditioning (though, maybe because it wasn't as crowded) - had a cool Kinect/Xbox living room set up front, and had these awesome video walls.

I did have a similar experience as the individual in question - I was kind of used to the very gregarious Apple employees, so I was a bit taken aback when I asked if they had any Lumias (I hadn't been able to find them that quickly), and, instead of being lead to it like a small child (as I'm used to at the competition) - I got a bit of a gruff, "They're in the phone section." - this, despite the fact, we were standing beside a table full of phones, none of which were the Lumia. :-)

The stores are quite nice, beautiful even, but the Stanford Shopping Center employees should take some Apple training.
IMO the Tent design is going to become obsolete with the arrival of WebRTC. With WebRTC, there is not going to be any reason to have servers running, as long as some of your friends are online. You can do everything by using public key cryptography and store-and-forward. You can authenticate with SRP/zero-knowledge password proofs. You don't need to have your private key with you, you can recover it from a quorum of your friends. Combine this with a public status/"who's online" server - could be any XMPP/web gateway for example - for bootstrapping the initial connection, and you can log in from any library/internet cafe computer. You can use broadcast encryption to address the privacy concerns of store-and-forward designs.

I wrote a series of blog posts about how such a system would work: http://carcaddar.blogspot.ca/search/label/ClearSky
I read this with the same mentality. What kind of bubble are we in where programmers require agents along the lines of professional athletes and Hollywood stars?

It makes a bit of sense in the context of the latter two; the contracts are worth so much money that an agent can make a living off of a small percentage of the take. But if you're a programmer who can't handle your own finances, PR or salary negotiation, how well-rounded are you?
There is no such thing as a layering violation. You should be immediately suspicious of anyone who claims that there are such things.
You lost me at "changes everything".
Why does hotmail has this 16-letter limit in the first place?

I would get it 7 years ago, but now?
> Thought experiment: What's the #2 complaint newbies make about Lisp? And how much longer did it take you to answer that question than #1?

I'm not sure what you're getting at, but the perennial #2 complaint is "There aren't any libraries!", and my response is typically the same (exasperated) answer as for #1: "You've written maybe 10 lines of Lisp in your life -- I've written several orders of magnitude more than that, and I can say that it's simply not an issue, and I wish the libraries we had in $(MAINSTREAM_LANGUAGE) were as high quality".

(I admit I am not a very good ambassador for Lisp.)

#3 is always "Who's going to maintain it?", at which point I remind them that more than half the team they've hired didn't know $(MAINSTREAM_LANGUAGE) when they started here, either, so apparently learning new languages isn't a showstopper.

There is no #4, because at this point they usually stop talking to me, and get that "He's one of those weird Lisp guys" look on their face, and politely make it clear that regardless of how many objections I can answer, Lisp will never be used for anything except Emacs.
Looking at this list renews my appreciation for the Netflix recommendation engine.

Also, I think I'm going to re-watch #1772 - Sunshine [1].

1: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/
Confirmed: Apple's A6 uses triple-core GPU
Oyster has the same problems as Caltrain, they just ignore it by making buses "single tap", and not bothering with pro rata charges.

Caltrain has made the business decision to model fares like those of the London tube system, but without the access control to automatically enforce the zones.
Am I the only geek in the world who wasn't THAT impressed with Avengers? It was a fine superhero film, great ensemble cast, good script and all, but I didn't find it revolutionary. #3 "best" film ever? Come on!
Isn't that how our economy works?
For what it's worth, the policy changes ship with changes to the API. TechCrunch published an article yesterday stating that IFTTT was in violation of Twitter's policy for "months," so it'd be a fair assumption that this is along that same channel.

> http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/20/ifttt-has-actually-been-in-...
I like this, it sounds cool. What's the tech stack? How do you handle sending / receiving email?
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And interestingly, "Research suggests that the best way to predict how much we will enjoy an experience is to see how much someone else enjoyed it."
- “If money doesn’t make you happy, then you probably aren’t spending it right” by Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert
Immigration Issues for a Canadian working for Microsoft
Hm, the page is not very clear about the scalability of this system. It only says the system performs 130k queries per day (~ 1.5 requests per second).

This page (http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebo...) claims that google search handles 34k requests per second.

I'm yet to see someone describing how you can easily create something completely descentralized that is able to achieve such a high performance.

And I'm talking only about speed. If you throw other issues like quality of results, privacy, dependability, how to get traction, and so on, the thing becomes insanely difficult.

If it was so easy to do this kind of stuff, someone would already have done it.
I think one thing people often miss about markets is that they tend to allocate resources efficiently ... over time. Sometimes over lots of time! As someone recently reminded us all, the market can stay irrational longer than an individual can stay solvent.

There are definitely things markets don't allocate efficiently - but those are "public goods," and they rarely look like infant mortality.

Along these lines, I'd love to hear what you make of John Robb's argument that the concentration of wealth and influence in the hands of Goldman Sachs and their ilk amounts to a shift to central planning, with the predictably disastrous consequences.
Show HN: How can we improve our platform?
I think it's awesome your reaching out for help. I think the problem your going to run into is the same problem I've run into many times before.

Your basically starting in the wrong place. Rather than coming up with an idea and trying to find market fit and leads you really ought to be finding your market and learning how to help them. If you take that approach not only will you know how to reach your market but you'll also know more about how to sell and talk to them.

A few questions to consider

1) Do real estate agents buy software?

2) Does the pain point your working on make them more money or drastically decrease pain?

3) How do you plan on reaching your market?

I'm not saying I'm an expert on this by any means but I'm learning as I go and have come to the point where I won't bullshit myself any longer on useless ideas.

Feel free to email me at nalidixic@gmail.com or hit me up on twitter @nalidixic

Cheers!
The entire concept of employment hinges on one person giving another money. Just because you can call it something scary-academic like "leveraging income disparity," doesn't change the facts and doesn't make it wrong. Where then is the darkness?
Clipper customer service has a problem out of the gate since they're just an intermediary--you're buying passes from CalTrain or Muni or one of the other participating agencies.

But still, Clipper could easily improve their part of the system:

* Put readers in train car vestibules so riders can tag on/off on the train.
* Add more functionality to the readers so you can check current balance and see if the card is already in a tagged on state

Business issues:

* Find more retailers to handle their payments. Even better, install the add value machines at more stations--right now the only one I know if is at the 4th and King station, though I've heard they're also at Palo Alto and San Jose.

* Don't require monthly passes to tag on at all--no matter whatthe money is already paid and I doubt you can get a refund without, say, a doctor's note or similar.
I don't want to be a distraction here; this is a better time for people to get feedback from Patrick on the interview. So, very briefly: we solve (technology) problems for people. Probably my favorite story so far is that we successfully recovered all of the medical documents & pictures from a cancer survivor's failed hard drive. Total bill was $90. I'm open to talking about it further off-HN.

You're exactly right about subsidizing a set of customers, but there are all kinds of technical and psychological details that make it a tough problem to solve. I've really only just started thinking about it, so I don't have anything smart to say yet.
He thinks they should build a system that is more convenient for him, feasibility and cost, never mind those.
Decentralizing would be an easier sell on a mass scale as a hardware solution. I can't imagine asking my parents to implement open source routing software but they bought a wireless router on their own.

Maybe Tent should think about a strategic partnership with a raspberry pi or another one of the many great cheap computing solution available today.

Write some basic stuff into it, and sell the device as a plug into your router and go social network device.
So what? E-mail is still decentralized. That most people don't host it themselves is a completely unrelated concept.
I'm not trying to convince anyone that they're wrong. If I was, I could have easily said "If you use Fireworks, you're a bad person." I don't care what tools you use.

What I'd like to see less of is the obsessive fascination with our tools - it's great to be using cool stuff, but that's a means to an end, not the end in and of itself.
The problem isn't just hotmail. Most major banks (amex, chase, etc.) forbid special characters, limit the password length as well, or a combination of both.

Then again, banks are not exactly on the cutting edge of security, though they like to seem like they are. This isn't a surprise considering how shoddily their web apps are built.
Oh man, I am so excited about git-annex assistant. As nice as dropbox is, it still involves far to much file-shuffling for me to get full enjoyment out of it. (Also, its new Android application is... unfortunate). git-annex assistant really seems like it will become the killer feature of whatever device you put it on though.

Do you know if you can still donate to his kickstarter campaign to get in on the betas? I know he blew away his goal and time is up, but that guy works for far too little.
For what it's worth, sometimes a policy/api change is a paper tiger. When Twitter decided to do the cutoff on the 27th, that made it legit. No sense scaring users earlier than you have to.
I like the idea of the site, but only having 5 stocks available to test against doesn't allow me to get comfortable enough with the platform to pony up for a paid account.

Additionally, the choices you've made for inclusion could be more diverse. Where is SPY, SQQQ, GLD, etc?
This guy literally "saved" GeoCities hah.
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Or switch to new Vim buffer, then pg<C-g>
I thought so too, but it turns out he only made about 16.70 an hour. All things considered it was decent enough for a one time thing, but thats really not that much money.
It feels a bit slow now for me. Is it getting pummeled by HN?

By the way, cool project.
Rack middleware to add iOS 6 smart app banners to webpages
Better than that, an irrational dip in a stock's price due to an analyst recommendation or another factor may represent a good opportunity for a value investor!
Hmm. How many editors people actually use these days don't have a usable Lisp mode? I don't think your choices are limited to Emacs anymore. I'm fairly sure Vim has one; I don't know for sure, but would be very surprised if Eclipse didn't; not sure what else people are using.

If it really is the case that all Lisp needs to really take off is editor plugins for IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio -- hmm -- maybe we should do that.
You can leverage more money to do the same arbitrage on more stocks, and to get faster computers and connections to be able to do that arbitrage faster than anyone else.
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If they were doing anything other than holding a place in line, maybe.

It has the potential to become exploitive, but until companies start hiring employees through task rabbit in batches of 90 hour shifts, I'm not going to worry about it.
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Thank you tech crunch, I'm now more confused than before. So, what does the homework quote have to do with anything. Either IFTTT is allowed to use the Twitter API or they are not. I don't see how a laziness accusation is relevant.
Ask HN: Any feedback on how to improve our platform?
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So the Microsoft store culture is not like the Apple store culture. Well that's surprising.

Considering their margins are less I'm thinking they don't spend as much money employing customer facing people.
It's also important to note that "no one else" includes your friends, coworkers, family and partners - if you save passwords in the browser or forget to log out of Facebook on a computer they can access.

It is obvious that Facebook has this data, Google has your search history, a telecom has your call logs, and an ISP might have your web browsing history. However, even making it available to the user themselves opens them up for accidental or socially pressured privacy invasion.
> “We continue to spend an extraordinary amount of money providing a free API” that’s being accessed at “a ridiculous rate of queries per second.” As Twitter continues to build out its platform, it will do so in an open way, he added.

If the proportion of API calls are increasingly from Twitter's own apps, does that count?

Also related, this quote from @dickc:

> Twitter's committed to stay open & is building free tools to access the stream, saying it's closing misses bigger picture

(via https://twitter.com/saila/status/249248288472199169)

Maybe I am indeed missing the big picture but I feel like their words aren't matching up with their actions. Unless they mean they'll be open to consumers and getting more users onto the network, without consideration to third-party developers who want to create their own vision on top of the API.

(I acknowledge that Twitter has the right to do all this and more--that's not my point.)
Did you mean Railscasts.com, with the extra s? Railscast.com does not look anything like so helpful!
Done. But still not ready for the "do everything in a graphical web browser" crowd. And that's what tent appears to be aiming at. People who think all connection must be made through a web browser.
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This. When the iPhone 4 came out, I hung out in the queue for two hours even though I wasn't planning to purchase a phone (I was keeping a friend company who was in it for the long haul). It was a lot of fun and we met some cool people.
> The ones that are market taking are usually at the expense of OTHER HFT algorithms, the ones that are slow and showing out dated prices.

Isn't that exactly the point the GP was making?
Part of the process of evaluating advice is evaluating the credibility of the one who gave the advice.

In particular, if a person's behavior or circumstances conflict with the advice, it becomes important to evaluate why that conflict exists. Is the advice fundamentally sound and there's something wrong with the advice-giver, or is the problem with the advice itself? There may be some subtle implementation detail that you overlook in your theoretical "ignore the person" evaluation, which is actually a fatal flaw with the advice (for example, it may require an unrealistic amount of discipline to undertake.)

Likewise, if a person's advice and their behavior/circumstances match up, it's important to evaluate whether the advice is actually effective. Did this person see this result because of the advice, or because of something else? It's possible the advice is fundamentally sound; likewise, it's possible the advice is a mistaken conclusion based on coincidence. If the person giving the advice is known to be insightful, self-examining, etc. that suggests a greater likelihood of the advice being valuable.
Adaptive Design for A Superglue Company
"store full plaintext passwords in their db; compare the first 16 chars only [or] calculate the hash only on the first 16; ignore the rest"

Not entirely true. They could have stored the full passwords. Upon successful authentication, overwrite the saved hash with the hash of the first 16. Otherwise, retry authentication with just the first 16 characters. The password database would slowly adjust.

Doesn't begin to explain _why_ they'd put this limitation in after the fact, but it's not impossible.
I don't understand what ReelSurfer is. At first, I thought it was a way to clip several different videos together, but it just looks like a site where people upload videos.

What is the value proposition?
Good stuff Joel! This is clean.
Email is a decentralized service and the task of discovery is solved with DNS. If you have an address, jackalope@example.com, you can find out where to send the message if it is explicitly set (MX record) or not (A record). I don't see why you can't do the same with a decentralized social network.
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ReelSurfer lets you cut short clips from any video on the web and string them together into reels. We do not let anyone upload videos.
Well, he's demanding any non-zero donation, so, it could be done for $1. I don't see how this is really newsworthy at all.
What an absurd argument. You have to tag off when you leave a station because there is not a single flat far for the Caltrain service - same as on BART. The only difference is taht Caltrain stations are open and don't funnel you through time-wasting gates as you enter and exit. You may or may not interact with a conductor during your journey; the probability of meeting one (which involves almost zero effort from you) is proportional to the probability that people will abuse the voluntary fare payment system, and is much cheaper than installing the aforementioned gates at every Caltrain station.