skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of us aren't really in businesses where customers find us by Googling relevant-sounding names and following one of the first 2 links on Google.

The point of my comment isn't that there are names that are better than other names. There clearly are. My point is that the difference is unlikely to be determinative of success. Again: Heroku is meaningless. There are many companies in Heroku's space with much "better" names that do not manage to outcompete Heroku.

I am now repeating myself, but because this is worth repeating: there is a long list of things that "founders" procrastinate on that won't really help their business. They include logos, designing replacement web frameworks so they don't look like they're using Bootstrap, finding the optimal company name, business cards, attending SXSW or going to meetups... the list goes on and on. Most founders would be well served to at least note that these are likely to be unproductive tasks.

That doesn't mean you can't engage in those tasks. If you love web design, vent some steam by replacing Bootstrap. Just don't con yourself into thinking you're doing something vital by doing that.
Not sure why this was downvoted (I upvoted, for giving hard data, even if I think the reasoning is flawed).

I don't think these numbers are at all helpful - without taking into account e.g. how much openreach paid for the infrastructure it is using (did it inherit? did it create all?). Also, the efficiency of openreach is an unknown that makes every other number moot. They employ 19,000 employees, but that does not mean that a similar level of service cannot be reached with 5,000.

I suspect that your basic claim as I understand it: That if we started TODAY, wireless would be cheaper. But I can't tell if it's true when you ignore all sunk costs everywhere - which, practically, you do.
Lots of people are pulling Airbnb up on their name, but I think it's great:

Air = air travel, BnB = Bed and breakfast

I'm not sure if some people don't know what it means because it might be a British colloquialism or whether it's totally unintentional Airbnb's part.
A lot of companies have operational requirements that make running "a fairly standard rails app" possible in their production environments with managed JVM apps.
Is the data available to outside organizations or is it kept internally with the church?
Don't repeat yourself; consts are already static
Slide 7 is just priceless.
PagerDuty's CTO gave a talk that mentions it: http://blog.pagerduty.com/2012/10/ensuring-the-call-goes-out...
If you are looking to expand your research, I would suggest Family Tree DNA. It can test the paternal or maternal lines to get ancestry. I did the paternal tests since my dad was adopted and didn't know his ethnicity and it was really neat to find that his side is from the Balkans after migrating from East Africa (oh and that I might be an ethnic Jew as well).
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Congratulations, it looks really playable and responsive. Fun style, too.
That's the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
I tried Appcelerator's Titanium and the performance was never good enough. Not sure why.

I really do look forward to a future of desktop javascript, though.
Maybe I'm being daft. Why does this sh*t never seem to affect www.amazon.com
My favorite talk was the one given by Jessica Livingston. The way she simplified what it takes to be a good entrepreneur, resiliency and drive and the "monsters" you'll meet along the way was amazing.
My least favorite moment was Uber's founder talk. I love and use the app but his talk sounded too much like 30 minutes comercial on Uber...
A special award to Ben Horowitz for humor and to Robert Scoble who managed to speak (ask a question to Ron) even though he wasn't on the speakers's list :)
Thanks for not obscuring the source, I'm enjoying reading it :)
Is there any conceivable scenario where this is in any way excusable?

Deny continued service? Sure (though hardly in the way that is portrayed in the post, you must be able to know why and contest it). Remotely brick hardware and deletion of user data? Never, ever, ever. No - don't even think about thinking about it. NO.
A blog post [0] about a month ago explains better why they are on trial:

The prosecution’s closing arguments [...] made it clear that
the scientists are not accused of failing to predict the
earthquake. “Even six-year old kids know that earthquakes can not be
predicted,” he said. “The goal of the meeting was very different:
the scientists were supposed to evaluate whether the seismic
sequence could be considered a precursor event, to assess what
damages had already happened at that point, to discuss how to
mitigate risks.” Picuti said the panel members did not fulfill these
commitments, and that their risk analysis was “flawed, inadequate,
negligent and deceptive”, resulting in wrong information being given
to citizens.

[0]: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/09/porsecution-asks-for-fo...

So the whole thing looks more subtle (and sensible) than many news
headlines report...
>"Startup School is mostly an exercise in survivorship bias"

Life itself is mostly an exercise in survivorship bias. Startup goes into deadpool, you don't hear about it. Similarly, John Doe dies, and nobody ( other than his family & relatives ) hear about it. I mean, what are you going to say to the world at large ? John Doe was born, John Doe went to accountancy school, John Doe became bean counter at big-corp, John Doe died, ergo John Doe's 401K = $xyz => goes towards Junior John Doe's accountancy school. Repeat cycle. GOTO 1.That's what the obituaries are for.
I'm guessing your Chaos Gorilla helped to harden your architecture against this threat.

Since you've mostly recovered, how did your system do? Are there side-cases that Chaos Gorilla didn't touch?
Surely true, but that's the purpose of a system in the first place: to manage complexity and make it predictable. You could argue that we have such a system in place, given how well the Internet works overall. The fact that this system has problems goes against what I believe is fully evident proof that such a system can, in fact, work even better.

We're not talking about a leap in order of magnitude of complexity here—just simple management of common human behavioral tendencies in order to promote more reliability. "The problem is inherently complex" is always true and will always be true, but it's no excuse for not designing a system to gracefully handle that complexity.
No gamepad support yet.
Yes I can read it.

The argument I was trying to make is to bring attention to the difference between a file and a book, they are different beasts, sure you can read them, but its not the same thiing to read a book and to read from a computer screen or kindle. Its just not the same.

The author has no right decide how I am going to read the book. Its the redistribution which he holds a right to. Lets take the discussion to what form of distribution copyright should apply to. Lets discuss who can decide when to read and how to read a text. Who has the right and who has copyright?

Its not just so simple, oh hey copyright, do as I almighty author say. Where is the consumer-rights in all this debate?
Mormon developers do not donate their time. https://www.lds.org/church/employment?lang=eng (Must be LDS to browse and apply for jobs, but you can see the heading on the linked page indicating Information Technology jobs are available).
Italian court convicts 7 scientists for quake warning failure
Agreed, and I should have stated that more clearly in my first comment.
Again, this is not the case in Europe. For instance, format shifting is technically illegal in the UK, even for your own use.
Here's a fun game to illustrate why we should be interested in protecting consumer rights to maintain their own libraries of digital goods.

Go back through the New York Time Best Seller list in 5 year increments, and see at what point you start reaching books you've never heard of and that are no longer in print.

It's pretty revealing that except for novels that are in school curriculum or transferred to another medium (book, TV) the majority of best sellers are only relevant for 15-20 years.

If you're in your late 30s or old, try to find a new copy of some favourite novels from your adolescence. Good luck.
The point of my post wasn't to say that types of laws that companies are using to litigate against Uber and Tesla are equal in every way, and I don't appreciate you insinuating that I'm intentionally misleading people.

My overall point is that vested interests in many industries are using old laws and regulations to litigate against disruptive companies in their respective industries with the intention of stopping the disruptive company, and where those laws aren't sufficient, they are trying to pass new ones. And that despite this effort from vested interests (often times, government included), I believe that the true innovators will persevere.

Is there something about that you disagree with? I'm not sure what the point of your reply is.
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It's funny; first Google search result:

http://koi-z-are-us.20m.com/japanese_plant_names.htm

... and most of these are viable company names.
It was a joke. I made the same joke earlier today. No-one is seriously going to believe this.
> A bit like facebook for the dead :-/

How long until Google announces "Street View for Cemeteries"?

Start with whatever paper or digital records are available for each
cemetery, then scan each area of the cemetery, with multi-spectral
cameras mounted on gyro-stabilized (like a Segway) mobile platform.

Index by matching cemetery records to gravesite locations.
Try to do OCR / ICR in real time to cross-check / ground-truth the
imaging process. Publish images similar to Street View that allow
pan/tilt/zoom and 'try to OCR'.

Include searches that can combinate text, OCR, and Soundex sets of
names, and search for for 'anyone else with similar names nearby'.
The LDS was also strong in producing the GEDCOM data standard, which is widely (almost universally) used for family tree exchanges

And of course, since they are bigots, they don't let 2 men be married in their GEDCOM standard, or other non-traditional family structures. Get your politics out of standards.
> apart from going fully multi-cloud, but "nobody" actually does that, at least at scale

Pirate Bay might disagree with that sentence: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-become...
He seems to understand it just fine.
Looks really cool, and I love that the tech is pure html / js. I'd wish there was another option to buy except PayPal though.
Hey it's very stylistic which means it's of limited use in general, but I could see it being used in certain situations. I think what makes it impractical is how tall the menus are in the demo. If the menus were smaller then the fold out, roll up effects would happen much quicker (<1s) which would make it less annoying to watch. It takes almost 5 secs to unroll. You can adjust the speed of each menu item (default 0.8) so lower than to 0.4 and it might be less cumbersome to use. I think it's a neat effect.
Samsung makes tablets and laptops too, but as far as I know they don't have displays that compare to Apple products.
Could it have something to do with their $100MM sitting in the bank?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/github-pours-energies-into-...
I think my comment was pretty clear:

Incumbents in the automotive industry are trying to abuse existing laws to harm or extract rents from Tesla, but should and probably will ultimately fail to do that, because the purpose of those laws is orthogonal to what Tesla is doing.

Incumbents in the taxi/livery business are wielding their regulations against Uber. But their claims are not as specious. They are encumbered by legitimate regulation, and Uber is in part profiting from regulatory arbitrage. Even if they didn't want to throw up hurdles to Uber, they more or less have to lobby to have their regs enforced on Uber, or else be structurally disadvantaged.

This is a distinction you failed to draw in your comment, which drew a circle around "florist licenses", Uber, and franchise laws and claimed they were all part of the same phenomenon. No, they aren't.
Well there is one certain feature of many interstates in the US.... rest areas. NY to LA might not be hard to spread them out on.

Sure you can cross the country for free, provided you want to go this way.
Starting with the assumption of an afterlife, this would be a pretty crazy way for it to work. Can another descendant get you transferred back to Valhalla?

I understand the offense you can feel at finding out a loved one got baptized post-mortem into a religion they didn't believe in, but if the living could get the dead kicked out of any sort of heaven it would be essentially not be an afterlife.
$122M on marketing. They have big TV ad campaigns.

They spend $85 to acquire a subscriber.

see:
http://ir.ancestry.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-12-677...
Amazon doesn't run their site off the same set of EC2 servers and systems that everyone else does. They just used their experience to build it.
Search the sites that Daring Fireball likes
Here's a photo of musk with theil and bringing x.com. This is before Musk had his cosmetic work done, http://www.stepbrother.co.za/tech7.html
Netflix not down for me here (Eastern US).
actually, there's probably some few idiots who will believe it.
> Microsoft clearly wants to enterprise market and that takes time.

It's a pity that Canonical haven't seized on this and made their focus Ubuntu in the enterprise. I think it's pretty clear that Ubuntu as a consumer OS is a dead duck, but it does have a place as a viable alternative to Windows in the business environment. Sadly, this doesn't seem to be their primary focus and continue to put resources into 'touch' computing, Unity and mobile devices where they're never going to effectively compete with Apple, Google and Microsoft.
Amazon cloud outage takes down Reddit, Airbnb, Flipboard, Coursera, and more
jasonshen, you misspelled at least 4 of the names of the people you covered. I wouldn't have said anything if it was just one or two (everyone makes mistakes), but 4 (at least) is kind of excessive.

Edit: in fear of downvotes for calling jason out on such a detail: I think getting people's names right is important; it shows attention to detail and respect for the people you're naming. (It's also a pet peeve of mine, but that's irrelevant). So my comment is meant to be constructive criticism. BTW, the names that are misspelled (that I know of) are:

Kalanik -> Kalanick; Collision -> Collison; Andressen -> Andreessen; Preston Warner -> Preston-Werner

(I didn't write them before because I was on my phone and it was time-consuming to do)
I would be happy even without the "cheap".

I would really love it though if they made an open (in the sense of iOS/Android at least) operating system for such phones (yes, monochrome and with CPUs in single digit MHz probably) It would allow for third-party applications (or, at a pinch, I could write one myself) that no phone or watch manufacturer ever makes right. Like UI customization for texts or alarm clock that makes sense for polyphasic sleep. But this, I'm afraid is a thing that will never be made: all innovation seems to be in the segment of touch-screen slate phones nowadays.
Hm. Motorola Fone was released in 2006. No successors since?
Yes, see https://familysearch.org
Somewhat off-topic, and then again, maybe not.

Interesting Concept/Term. I'd been looking for an official term to describe my problem with The American Dream(sm) and the Bootstrapping myth.

I feel the reason why large parts in our society simply don't care for the plight of the failed (poor/bankrupt/downtrodden) is a combination of Survivor(ship) Bias combined with the "I did it all by myself, which means you can do it too, now get off my lawn" myth/mechanism.

This is also a major issue in the startup world. So often we are led to believe that successful startups are the result of mere perseverance, blood, sweat and tears (and a little bit of luck), instead of'I got money from my uncle/grammy/mommy/daddy/mentor'.

It irks me that there are many self-reflecting stories on startup failure and what went wrong, but so very few on the financial contribution received from family, so often described as 'investors' or summarized as 'self-funded'.

Don't get me wrong, it's great to start off with positive thoughts, but for anyone to make an informed decision, it makes sense to have all the facts, not just the myths.
What's odd is the implication that if you went to a sorority (or some other all, or mostly, women enclave) women would not be taking about mathematical proofs, or a South Park episode on evolution, or about their latest mountain-climbing adventures.
Well an interesting check would be to look at one of your pages in the cache that fires an AJAX call and see where that call comes from. I agree it would be 'weird' if it came from Googlebot instead of the browser looking at the cache.

At Blekko we post process extracted pages of the crawl which, if they were putting content behind js could result in js calls offset by the initial access but 3 days seems like a long time. Mostly though the js is just page animation.
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Dropbox runs on S3, they are unaffected? And Heroku's website seems okay. Only reddit is down. That's because of this?
Nice! This is very encouraging to me as I'm also working on an HTML 5 app that I plan on using with CocoonJS to distribute as a native iOS / Android app, in addition to the web version. Have you looked at mobile HTML 5 "players" like CocoonJS? You could double your potential market if it works (though it requires that the game be drawn entirely through a canvas, not sure if that's what you did here).
This is a mostly a case of personal taste, isn't it? :P

I would love to travel to both Japan and South Korea, but I'm sure they're not for everyone.
Would it make sense that loading from the cache makes a call to the origin server?

I just checked one of my sites which loads available delivery dates via ajax through the google cache, and yep, it caches that as the dates are when the cache was taken.
Including companies like Amazon that aren't properly architecting their control plane.
I believe I'm a part of that younger demographic, as I'm nearly 25.

My hands may be too big. I still can't find a mobile "smart" phone that I'm comfortable typing on (including the iPhone 5). I've tried several.
This is hilarious, and really impressive.

"Der der der-der derrr der der-der!"

I think the whale's just making fun of us.
If you ever wanted to ask yourself, "What does the John Gruber-recommended web think about Apple's new A6 chip?"

http://daringfiresearch.net/searches/a6

Well, now you can find out!
That's probably more a function of era than method. I doubt any constitution these days would be highly likely to construct such a turn of phrase.
I've glanced over some Coffeescript, but I'm probably one of the few people on earth who just finds it ugly. Typescript I've never really looked into. What are its advantages over vanilla Javascript?

And the biggest reason is because I can't trust the browsers. They run in a fragile environment that can easily be destroyed by a single update. For example, Chrome refuses to run Subbania unless it's installed as an extension because it directly modifies the pixel contents of the screen; Firefox doesn't. However, the way Chrome forces me to break up my code for "security" reasons also resulted in Firefox not reading keyboard input, which is why I provided separate HTML files for each browser. I'm sure there's some better way of handling it, but I just went with the simplest and most obvious solution.
You need what's called a senior phone or old person phone, which is a huge market in China, but somewhat limited in the US. Huge keypad, small black and white screen, long battery life, and few features.
Best of both worlds: Order the physical book and download a digital copy from The Pirate Bay.
You do know Ulysses is out of Copyright?
You paid 2$ for the convenience of not using project gutenbergs version.
So with about the same CPU time, JRuby will use up to 100x memory in worst case?

Anyway Ruby 2.0 is suppose to solve the Ruby is Slow problem. although i have yet to see any evidence that will the case. Sigh.
Well, obviously... otherwise there wouldn't be a place in the market for the solution you are providing.

Many of the SIS providers have failed to make these solutions easy to implement and they've allowed these standards to become overly complex. I've kinda said that in each of my posts.

But that's besides the point. I'm not arguing that Clever and LearnSprout aren't adding some kind of value. Of course they are.

But they are merely letting schools trade out one piece of vendor lock-in for another. And as we see play out in this industry, over and over again, is that vendor-lockin comes back to bite everyone involved.

So, instead of changing the conversation, why not address my question: why not offer the specs for your API and data formats under a free and open copyright regime? Let the market decide what format is best and what providers are best, but let the data be free and open.

With that, you'd even be beating SIF at their own game.
I'm glad to see another take on the data. I'm also relieved to see that our results are along the same lines! :)

You say that "Red light violations" are automated. That didn't even cross my mind! I just assumed that they were manually issued without even thinking about it. I think it'd make more sense that it would be referring to automated red-light cameras, but are you basing that on anything or did you just make the opposite assumption?

I'd also just like to point out that I made an update yesterday with some more conventional statistics (standard deviation, Z-scores) and new weights accounting for days of the week.

http://robert.io/posts/4.html#updates
Make sure you use your personal account when you do this: self promotion is only allowed if your account is contributing to reddit in some other way. I tried to create a separate account to promote my iOS game Super Smart but the post was immediately removed for that exact reason.

Congratulations on shipping!
You're welcome.

I knew that obscuring the source code wouldn't do anything to prevent piracy, so I figured I'd just leave it as is so people can see how I did things.
These are just as subject to abuse.
Responsive Advertising. Finally!

:(
The example of airport regulation does not make the idea of content sale regulations less ridiculous.
We struggle with our name: Bitesize Irish Gaelic.

It's a language learning tool.

The Irish language is called "Irish" in Ireland, but often "Gaelic" elsewhere (depending on who you're speaking with).

The name we've ended up with is a mouthful of a compromise :)

I don't know if there's a fix for that...
Ah the argument of iron over cloud. It would cose significantly more to buy the hardware to be redundant enough to avoid a situation like today. If these large sites still aren't buying their own hardware that seems go along with that thinking.
I love it when startups share. Thanks joshuarudd. =)
In a sense, Ancestry is doing something similar. We are all related at some point in the past (more recently if we are from the same country, less so for Americans with their high rate of immigration). My relative has succeeded in joining our family tree with that of people we had no idea existed, because one of their family members uses Ancestry.com. My relative can now see their family tree, including pics of gravestones, etc.

So, if you are into that kind of thing, it suddenly becomes interesting to know that you are related to this or that famous or semi-famous person. Such connections are increasingly likely (and vicariously ego-boosting) the more people join and the more research they individually put into documenting their family history.
BYON: New Acronym, Same Problem
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