skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that Sandi does this. However, it doesn't scale. I signed up on the 18th when her blog post about it hit HN. I didn't get a personal email from her but I had the expectation to after reading the post. :/

I'm trying to figure out how to make this type of thing scale beyond your first 100 customers, and I've come up with a few thoughts.

1. Don't create that expectation of a personal connection. This is the most common thing you see at large companies. I don't think this is a good way to do it.

2. Hire someone as the face of the company -- the community manager probably, and send a mix of automated and personal mail from them. But make them the face of the company. This is something I'm responsible for now. And it still has limits.

3. Randomly assign a contact person within the company for every signup. And automate the insertion of their signature in every email. This however has issues with turnover, and the voice of the emails.

So far, I think what works best is automated (but specific) emails from me, the CEO. And then introductions to the rest of the team for problem resolution.

I'd love to hear what others think works best.
Anecdotally, adopting this pattern of sleep has helped with my workaholism and overall satisfaction. Before I was going to sleep somewhere in the range of 1:30am - 4:30am, depending on when I finished a project, and woke up between 9am - 10am. Now, I take a nap on most days, fall asleep around 11, wake up around 2:30am and do a little thinking and/or reading or most useful: note-taking. Then, I go back to sleep and wake up with the sunrise. It's really done wonders for how I feel during the day. It may not be for everyone, but it works for me, but I also have a work environment that is supportive of naps which makes it a lot easier.
Well, yes. If your email is sent such that you welcome replies, you don't use noreply@example.com.
It's good European Union does something useful for a change
Having Too Many Friends Social Networks Makes Life Unhappy
Point by Point: Obama and Romney on the Higher Education Crisis - The Airspace
From 0 to cryptography
> "Businesses that are good for society need to grow quickly to actually reach a large fraction of society"

That is not true (and is more relevant to manufacturing than to tech companies). Look at ARM, for example, it never needed to grow rapidly and it doesn't actually produce stuff - it just licenses intellectual property - but the existence of ARM benefits millions. Would this fledgling firm in the early 90s Cambridge not be called a startup (was Apple dumb to fund it as a joint venture?) - would VCs not have liked to have a piece of it in the early 90s?

EDIT: Same goes for id, Valve and other game studios - you see sometimes it's better to have the best engineers and researchers take their time, let them develop and mature the technology they're working on and build something long-lasting that affects millions of people.
also, sundays alone is 54 days off.
I wonder what point you're talking about. The one and only point you made was that dpkg force removes packages at runtime and it doesn't do that. What other point is there?
How do you store the key more securely than the database while still allowing your web apps to access the key whenever they need to verify or change someone's password?
Yes. Hopstop is free but has ads.
If companies, especially tech firms and startups, have become much more conscious and amenable to the need to allow their employees to work out, perhaps they can also start allowing a naptime break of twenty to forty minutes. It doesn't have to be "just a crazy Google benefit."
Does this speed still matters for people who aren't gamers ? Isn't the experience already "good enough" ?
Understanding the iOS6 AJAX bugs
> As a geek , I fully grasp Facebook's 12.24 pages/visit stat. Even Reddit is just a hair below, at 10.6. (source: Alexa). That type of engagement is insanely hard to get for a site as big as Facebook. Investors do not look at these things because they do not understand what they mean. They look at traditional investor metrics.

I think they grasp it. The reality is when it comes to financial matters, engagement isn't the only (or even most important) metric. In fact, it doesn't matter squat if you can't monetize it. And that's exactly the stumbling block FB has run into.

You can retort engagement is important because it's a sign of a happy user & monetization shouldn't matter. Which is fine, but then the stock price shouldn't matter either.
I'm saying you are clearly seeing a generational and tech savvy bias to the rankings. For Avengers to be so high shows it's good movie, and it is. But the fanboyism of the comic-reading, tech savvy audience is skewing the metric way higher than it should be.

The same thing is happening with Game of Thrones. It's excellent but I've seen many, many TV dramas that are just as good if not better.

Comedy is a terrible example to criticize due to it tending to be very cross-generational. MASH, Seinfeld, and I Love Lucy are still shown on TV today. MASH and I Love Lucy on more obscure cable channels, but Seinfeld still is on in reruns for an hour before primetime TV on our CBS affiliate.
Return on investment for American interests: Likely zero.

You know. Congress knows, and they won't change the status quo.

The obvious reading is that the H1-B track gives a ready supply of workers with very little leverage. The interests of the American public or, God forbid, of immigrants are second to the desire to depress wages at the high end.
This iOS6 Maps controversy smacks of Antenna-gate. Picking on one shortcoming and heralding the downfall of Apple/iPhone.

Yeah, it sucks that iOS6 maps aren't as good as iOS5 maps.

Does taking a step backward on (important) iOS app mean Apple has peaked? Probably not.

Will the general consumer be happy enough with the iPhone5/iOS6 as a whole that they will tolerate (and then forget about) Maps's reduction in quality? Probably.

Will Apple improve Maps so that in 6-12 months where the iOS6 maps quality is on par with iOS5 maps? Probably.

Time will tell - but my money is this is a classic case of the media/blogs trolling for page views, the general consumer not noticing (ala antenna-gate), and all this will be forgotten in a month.

...and Job's reign had missteps as well - from imac disc mouse to iphone cellular performance on at&t to mobileme to iphone4 antenna. Apple's great power is they make the entire package so enchanting that consumers tolerate issues until they can be resolved.
It does for the times where the OS is poorly optimised or slows down to a normally crippling pace.
> Instead of writing an opinion piece that will likely influence a few people, why doesn't this guy use his exemplary knowledge of Facebook and the stock market for profit? Why not keep this information to himself and short $fb or sell the information to an institutional investor?

Couldn't the same be said for anyone giving financial advice.

(Note, this isn't necessarily a defense of those who do. :)
If Steve Jobs were still alive, would the new map application on the iPhone 5 be such an unmitigated disaster? Interesting question, isn’t it?

No, it's not interesting. It shows a simplistic view of Apple and how companies function. There were missteps while Jobs was alive, and obviously Apple's recent announcements were plans that Jobs was somewhat involved in (he worked almost up until his death).

In a month or two this Maps debacle will be stale news, and the bloggers will onto the next shiny toy or minor misstep.
Well, I say AJAX feels like a better feature than Canvas. Where would we be without AJAX?
Gevent will handle requests with high response times.
The Craigslist v. PadMapper legal filing
Or as Calvin and Hobbes used to say:

Verbing weirds language.
"A few years ago, Long Island's North Shore University Hospital had a dismal compliance rate with hand washing—under 10%. After installing cameras at hand-washing stations, compliance rose to over 90% and stayed there."

There's something seriously wrong with the medical profession if doctors only wash their hands 90% of the time, even if they know they're being watched. The words "reckless disregard for human life" spring to mind. How many deaths from infections per year could be prevented if hospitals just fired any doctors who didn't wash their hands? (Hospitals are a breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant pathogens like MRSA.)

Another interesting article is Atul Gawande's "The Checklist" [1] (later expanded into a book), which describes how the use of simple checklists, similar to those that pilots use, can prevent medical errors like operating on the wrong body part.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...
Thanks! I've activated my number. However I cannot get the IMEI. It has very poor UI. There is no UI for dialing.

Edit: there is apps to download which shows your IMEI.
"there're" is cringe worthy...
The City from the Valley - private bus routes SF to South Bay
I've heard of a few strategies around sleep... one is 'amount', one is 'waking', and one is 'quality'. Things like sleep apnea effect the quality, the http://sleepyti.me site helps with waking, and I'm still curious about the amount.
It was a little rough at first, but it has smoothed out. I like it.
Also, the data problem is not 100% clear-cut. Near my home, Apple has more details (showing e.g. sheds in back gardens and foothpaths along the water) and more recent data (showing road changes from over a year ago) than maps.google.com (speculation: that could be because TomTom is popular here)

Point of interest-wise, I think Google has way more data, and it also seems to be more up-to-date, but still, Apple has tons of (correct) data that Google does not show.
$0.00

I might be willing to pay if I could also control how it looks, maybe.
I am an EU citizen that signed up for FB while in the US, but ever since I used it in The Netherlands (where I am from) it has shown my account in the UK... meh, whatever.
compensation?
Drawback: that requires them to track the clicks of everyone, in order to know how much is their share.
Perhaps that falls into the "playing a game" part of the theory.

Mitt Romney wants to see "Achievement Unlocked: President of the United States"
Yep. Every person who knows India would find it incredible too until they see that it happened in Bihar.

It's sort of like Florida for Americans, except imagine that Florida was still under feudalism.
My favorite bash aliases:

alias canhaz='sudo apt-get install'

alias donotwant='sudo apt-get remove'
Seconded. I also recommend using gunicorn in conjunction with gevent (if you are doing http servers) to easily get multiple service "child/worker" processes in order to make use of multi-cores/cpus.
Duh, Minecraft.
The article suggests that buying a Verizon iPhone will give you LTE service on AT&T. This is not the case, as the two phones support mutually exclusive LTE bands. The AT&T iPhone 5 supports LTE bands 4 and 17, while the Verizon iPhone 5 supports LTE bands 1, 3, 5, 13 and 25.
When I used LXDE, it had a long way to go before it could be considered equivalent to Xfce, and I ended up switching back. The ultra-lightweight window managers may be in fashion, but Xfce is mature and polished and easy enough for my mother to use, and I can't say that about Lubuntu.

The typical Ubuntu user probably won't miss much on Xubuntu. When they find that mrxvt doesn't let them use Ctrl-C/V to copy and paste, they'll be mystified. Ditto for Openbox's wu wei panel management.
Great read, thanks.

"The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is insuring those therapies are delivered effectively. That third bucket has been almost totally ignored by research funders, government, and academia."
I started using _ after reading github's style guide. Never new it treats it in a different way. Useful.
The only real solution to healthcare is to reduce costs by eliminating hospitals/doctors altogether using big data/telerobotics/smartphones. Sadly, because of the AMA and FDA this innovation will have to occur offshore first.
I think that's the point. It shows that you're the kind of guy that can do that (and/or the company you work for). They are trying to stop immigration scams with TN visas filed by dummy corporations.
Every one who is interested in that should take a look at the great html2canvas library:

https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas
I can't say authoritatively for Python, but Twisted is probably what you need here (I have used both Node and EventMachine to do things like this, and I'm pretty sure Twisted is similar). The event reactor model will let you defer the request while it's doing things like performing external IO, so your application is freed up to handle other requests in the meantime.
Your argument is spurious at best. It's akin to saying the "big one" didn't hit San Francisco in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011, so therefore it won't hit in what's remaining of 2012.

Just because something hasn't happened in the past doesn't mean it won't happen in the future.
You could do this client side with https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas
Wages in India are irrelevant, as long as the comparison is made within the same market. The question is one of purchasing-power parity rather than absolute value.
This would be an amazing duo. Lenovo as a company hasn't been great about supporting Linux on desktop/laptop machines, but Linux OSes tend to work great on their hardware. Many "Linux is my only OS" users I known use Thinkpads for this reason.

If Canonical could handle the technical support for Lenovo machines with pre-installed Linux I think that would be a match made in heaven.
I would buy this. Even if Acer would come with Ubuntu instead of their Linpus thing, it would be a huge win. Knowing I get a 100% Ubuntu certified laptop would make me ignore the brand.
Why not open source software? They actually say something like "you can be free, but you can't be cheap". Making money with OSS is not easy, but there are certainly ways to do it.

And for cheap consumer software, it's just that you need to be really big to win money being cheap. You can't do it as a one man company.
When Will This Low-Innovation Era End?
No, it's more akin to somebody arguing that the "big one" will hit in what's remaining of 2012, and somebody else responding to that argument by noting that the same conditions used in the argument prevailed in past years when the "big one" did not hit.

In other words, it's not an argument that this can't happen, merely an argument that the original argument is baseless.
I get up at least 3-4 times each night, I'm assuming in between my sleep cycles. I'm completely awake for a few minutes before falling back to sleep.

I don't have any problems during the day and don't feel tired. I always thought we needed 8 continuous hours, but some research I've read says it's okay to actually get up in between, as long as you get 8 hours total.
$10 is the price point I've been expecting as well.
It doesn't matter. All this tells you is that there is no reason to pick any of the current flagship smartphones over another because of their speed.

That's kind of a big deal, given how small the iPhone is and given its above average battery life. Both those things might only be possible because of an underpowered CPU/GPU – but they are apparently not.

It's quite impressive that Apple apparently didn't have to make any really obvious trade offs, it hits all the high notes across the board (even if it isn't necessarily number one in any one category).
Don’t take growth for granted
There's also a Facebook file-sharing app called Pipe. I guess this project could use a less-overloaded name!
Google to pay largest fine in FTC history for bypassing Safari privacy settings
Striking.ly - One page websites.
I use an alarm app called Sleep Cycle, which basically monitors my movement and tries to wake me up at a good time. Similar idea to what you're showing, but a bit more dynamic (which could be good or bad, I suppose). Any thoughts on the two approaches?

For anyone who cares, I recommend Sleep Cycle most highly, or anything that gets you awake at a time more suited to your natural rhythm than an arbitrary alarm clock, whether Mr. Shaw's solution or something else. The difference really is remarkable, just as he says.
Well I ran it in IntelliJ and saw the same results. Then I found the problem...

I used compile_static3.groovy from your repo for the test which contains the following:

bench(d, "fib_dynamic", 30, "Full dynamic ")
bench(d, "fib_integer", 30, "Groovy w/ explicit types")
bench(d, "fib", 40, "Explicit type w/@CompileStatic")

Notice the '40' on the last line :p

Corrected results:

Full dynamic took 305 ms
Groovy w/ explicit types took 22 ms
Explicit type w/@CompileStatic took 7 ms

Which is much more like what I expected compared to Ruby at 475ms.
I think this message is geared toward startups. But it's not explicit. It's a good point for startups to try to increase the understanding of their customers. But obviously is not relevant for companies with much larger reach.
Single-page article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/rethinking-...
I strongly agree with your #2. PG's essay makes it sound like you're only a startup if nothing else matters but growth. But if all you care about is growth, does that make it acceptable to exploit your users Zynga-style? Obviously not to all startups, so even for many startups that are heavily growth-oriented, they are still constrained by other priorities.

So why would balancing lifestyle, minimizing dilution, and maximizing founder control not qualify as valid constraints for a "startup" on the principle of growth as a priority? After all, no startup, ever, has grown as fast as they could have if nothing else truly mattered.

EDIT: removed a reference to criminal activity deemed to be a strawman
Yep, you're right and I'm wrong! I misinterpreted the comment I replied to!
Title is misleading. In your second link, it could be seen that Dashrath Manjhi carved using two hands.
How is it FUD? Every search query I make on my computer will be sent to some remote Amazon server by default. This is what's called "spyware".
Apple Ships Podcasts with iCloud Syncing Support
Buying a bank - may be. There are many countries and I assume there will be couple places where you can open "bank".

Getting SWIFT to do transfers - I do not think so.
The US is rated worst among developed nations for this sort of thing: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/News/News-Releases/2005/Nov/...

I was in hospital following an accident last year. When I was discharged from the ICU the following day, the nurse gave me the paperwork for the patient in the next room. I didn't notice, being still rather beaten up by the whole episode - it was my wife who spotted it. For a 12 hour stay I ended up paying over $15,000, and then I hard to fork over an extra $90 to get copies of the medical record. On paper.

I'll take socialized medicine any day of the week. the private sector does a terrible job of healthcare.
A. Roger Ekirch "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isle"
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.2/ah00034...

This is the seminal article on segmented sleep. Pretty fascinating stuff.

And a shorter TED video: http://www.ted.com/talks/jessa_gamble_how_to_sleep.html
How, exactly, would Jobs have made it better? Would he have somehow made the Maps team overcome the inherently intractable obstacles they faced given their position? Would he have jumped in and single-handedly crafted excellent data? Would he have extended the use of Google Maps, despite the indications that this transition was forced on Apple?

I keep seeing people say this, but I never hear anyone say exactly what he would have done to make it happen. People basically treat Jobs as magical fairy pixie dust that could be sprinkled on a project to make it awesome. As if Jobs never oversaw the production of anything bad.
It will also be incredibly difficult for Facebook to monetize its games, which still represent a sizable portion of their .com revenue. No game company will be willing to give them a cut of their mobile revenue when Apple is already taking a 30% take. That should be especially concerning to investors.
So if you're used to sleeping for eight hours at a time...should you set your alarm for four hours, wake up, do something sedate for a while, and then go back to bed? Should it be more like 4.5 so that (in theory) it happens at the end of a 1.5-hour sleep cycle?
Well.. I have to agree that it might work in particular bank with particular rep. Although still - you will visit them in person, meaning you will get on all cameras..

What I am trying to bring - is that whole "untraceble" companies is not that easy. Although I bet having right people in a right departments might allow you to make one.
Terrain mode shows it more clearly: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&ll=24...

(you'll want to view all of the maps linked to in this sub-thread)
"To most people, citizenship is the one thing you go all in on."

I've not seen that. I know English people who became US citizens in part because they were moving back to the UK, and if they decided to move back to the US then it would be much easier as US citizens.

I know a South African who views his Irish ancestry mostly as a way to get a Irish passport, which makes it much easier to visit Europe.

I know an Australian whose didn't visit the US until an adult, but who is a US citizen because of her mother's citizenship. She's lived in the UK for the last 10+ years.

I know a Romanian who got Swedish citizenship because it was easier to stay in Sweden that way. He didn't want to be forced to move back to Romania. He's then got US citizenship a few years later. (He actually got Swedish citizenship while waiting for the US paperwork to go through.)

Yes, my father got US citizenship as a teenager, and doesn't consider himself Canadian. So I know there are many who "go all in." But to say that most do that goes against my observations.
Actually, if this is the case, then it seems reasonable as a transitional step towards actually allowing longer than 16 character passwords. This way users will start entering the 16 characters of the password that is hashed (hopefully) and stored, then users won't enter their longer truncated password when longer passwords are allowed.

However, this transitional step could be skipped with a truncated password flag that is set for all old passwords, and cleared for new passwords. Although, this would mark easier targets if the table is dumped through an SQL injection.
That's precisely why Facebook purchased Instagram.
generating good karma is a shitload more fun...and pays off
Having played with the site for the past 20 minutes now, the by far most difficult thing is choosing between two horrible movies. I really wish there was a "they're both equally horrible" button.
Please don't spoil the parent comment's excellent arguments by introducing a strawman.

Most organizations have goals - be it growth, profit, advancing a nonprofit mission, or whatever - and in all cases, the rider "Oh, and of course we mean to pursue this end by legal means" is so obvious that, unless we're talking about a criminal organization, it doesn't even need to be stated.
It's baffling. The G4 cube, Motorola ROKR, retroactively downclocked Power Mac G4s, Mac OS X pinstripes... the man was behind some amazing stuff, but it's not like he was somehow immune to screwups.