skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Lumber Cartel is an ancient Internet meme. (People against spam must be shills of the paper trade, paid for by the lumber industry.) It gets mentioned when you're talking about cartels just because.
> While this may make us feel better, like we all played a role in ensuring that a terrible bill wasn't passed, what it really does is ensure that senators and their staffs will work even harder to make sure we don't see draft bill language

If we just stick our heads in the dirt, congress won't have to do it for us! You're either a moron or a dick. People took action against invasive legislation, and you reflexively belittle them. And that's assuming that your beloved Leahy didn't lie about not supporting said measure. It's not like a politician would... lie
This is great for lead scoring. Makes it really easy to see who might be on the verge of buying The Expensive Plan and lets you personally contact them for follow up.
This is a beautiful interface, but it doesn't provide any practical way to select dates in the distant past. "What is your birthdate" is one of many example questions that couldn't be answered without tens of dozens of clicks.

If it supported keyboard input, that problem would be solved.
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If the SIMs are indistinguishable, what else could be done (without removing the APN blocking, which is AT&T's will, not Apple's)? A solution for this should be part of MVNO agreements, either providing their own SIMs or dealing with it in their infrastructure.
I don't follow the first bit. The second is absolutely true - many sorts of arms races follow a similar pattern, where the marginal cost of beating out your rivals may be less than the marginal gain, but the total cost you're collectively paying winds up enormous.

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
Note that its not illegal yet to blind optical sensors on a UAV/drone.
It'd be cool to see something like this built on top of the Pingdom API. https://www.pingdom.com/services/api-documentation-rest/#Res...
San Francisco Approves 220-Square-Foot 'Micro-Apartments'
How will the world change when you have hundreds of virtual human brains, overclocked to think hundreds of times faster than a normal human?

Create the biggest MMO ever made, in a week?
This is really cool. I love the idea
Can the US tax code be simplified with computer modeling and simulation
I would fault some of the points listed, like "Embrace Unit Testing", to a failure of Software Engineering as a discipline.

Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Doctors, etc. all have bodies of knowledge.

We, as an industry and discipline, have no real body of knowledge. Do Doctors have the ability to make up procedure on the operating table?

Why is it, then, that we don't have standard practices, like unit testing, and help get these pushed into the educational system? Should students even be learning how to write code without unit tests? Without a backlog (if that is what industry agrees to)? Without an understanding of systems? And so on.
tl;dr!!
App Prosperity
> number of 500s (and slow requests) / non-500s?

Shouldn't it be (# of 500s)/(# of 500s + # non-500s)?

I assume of course, 500 is the HTTP status codes

Other than that, brilliant beautiful page.
Not sure if this is the right forum to ask this... but here goes: I have a colleague who suggests porting a complex PHP web app (including Spaghetti Code TM) to Play. Anyone have thoughts on how this would compare to using RoR?

Apologies in advance if this is not the right forum.
Bernanke's Slippery Slope...
Branding your startup: what, how, why (ft Fab, Holstee, Flipboard, Instagram)
Science fiction writer David Brin talks about this: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-losers-tax-simplifi...
Here the full link: http://www.versioneye.com
> Someone with dreams untainted by failure.

This sentiment is frustrating to hear because of it's misconception about what success is.

Those who have never faced failure are not good, they are just lucky. Replicable success requires contact with failure.
I could not agree with you more.

I would also add that it's not just writing those emails or communicating but actually taking the time to understand the office politics/social dynamics of the place you are working.

I've seen many talented engineers miss out on the success they deserve because they felt that their specialty being "technical" meant they didn't have to concern themselves with "the politics". Often it's partly true, and it's very tempting to those more introverted than average.

Write well first, but after that they should learn to tell exactly who to write to, what tone to take and when they should write to them. It can make a truly astounding difference in your career path.
not just gmail's infrastructure, but the google ecosystem.

it's like a microsoft enterprise ecosystem wet dream, but for individuals and small businesses, and without ANY cost. (iirc, it's free for companies with up to 10 people)

ps: if you don't get what i mean by ecosystem: docs/gmail/sites are the (un)holy triangle.
I think we've all recognized the lack of context this actually provides. Something for a scientist's history books could mean jack to the general public.
Regarding the first part, that is very much true for money spent litigating patents. It is not necessarily the case for money spent to purchase patents, which in theory is going (directly or indirectly) to people who are innovating (assuming the patents are actually innovative and useful).
I forked Datepicker. I added 2006.
http://jsfiddle.net/Na5gS/1/embedded/result/

PLEASE MERGE!
There are two (4) steps.

As someone said: "There are 2 hard problems in computer science: caching, naming, and off-by-1 errors"

;)
As far as I can tell Notes is designed to appeal to CIO's who write large checks --- it certainly doesn't appeal to the users or IT people.
> These people are buying houses on the presumption that they'll be employed in 12 months

If you're really making a quarter-billion a year in profit, with 60 employees, thoe employees shouldn't need a loan to buy a house...
This might be a good explanation for "like" today, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to be like that in the future and it certainly wasn't like that in the past. What "like" means depends entirely on what FB wants it to mean. If they decide tomorrow to charge you by the number of likes you have, for example, who can say otherwise?
this. this is what a status page should be.
As EFF reports, large email providers (one assumes this includes GMail) have a practice of demanding warrants for email, even though the FBI is in some circumstances technically entitled to email with just a subpoena. The FBI apparently (as far as we know) hasn't litigated any of these cases, and has simply obtained warrants.

It doesn't seem unlikely that we're converging in the short term on a legal terrain where all access by law enforcement to email is going to require a warrant.
I realize there are other ways to disable or destroy a drone and that you're curious about the legalities. But if you did literally shoot a drone, you'd probably go to jail. If you miss you'll send a bullet miles away, endangering others. If you hit the drone, you'll rain shrapnel on the anyone below. Even then, I doubt a hit would disappate the bullet's kinetic energy safely.
"And it was good"
That sounds like it would have been within R-2503A, which is the restricted airspace over and around Camp Pendleton. The Marines operate UAVs so it could have been part of a military exercise.
A bullet expends its kinetic energy via air friction. Unless it richochets off the drone, it'll fall harmlessly some miles away.
Where would you be eligible for unemployment after voluntarily quitting?
This is really the key to Facebook's entire strategy. By forcing you to make your main effort inside the walled garden (with failure as the alternative), they gain.

Whether it's a beneficial one for the artist really depends on their ability to live with the relatively spartan features Facebook provides.
I'd like a second click in the date field to dismiss the date picker. That doesn't happen in the demo at least.
I'm enjoying the irony of this comment calling out another for being "reflexive".
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Shopkick Sees Big Traffic, Engagement Bump After Major Redesign
Heroku Privacy Policy Has an Application Error
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It's the "learning" part that I had problems with. It just wasn't immediately intuitive that subject (customer) is being studied, not manipulated (i.e. "developed").

Those ones that you outlined - resistance and bond in particular - can be directly related to the phenomena they describe.

With customer development, well at least for me, it's a two step process, very much akin to working with a clunky UI - "no, don't click here, it's actually not a button, scroll down here and then click".
They are, they are also different for different people. There is no right answer to whether sacrificing person relationships for company success is worth it.
What?

It sounds like you've really misunderstood my comment(s).
I agree, but I do think there is more to it than a sunk cost fallacy at work, though that part certainly plays a large role. In my case, the first year doing the startup was absolutely miserable, it was indescribably bad from an economical standpoint. Then, things picked up and for the first time we got the feeling that we could actually accomplish our ambitious plans. We identified personally with our "specialness", behind it all was the idea that somehow we had the right stuff. After a period of good profits and rapid expansion, several huge projects suddenly fell through. If we had never been borderline successful (albeit for a short while) I wouldn't have had this manic pipe dream of a possible recovery in the first place. That hubris was fatal.

Of course, there is never just one reason for anything. Of course, there was a lot riding on making the startup work, not only in terms of financial commitments (that death spiral only appeared towards the end times) but also a large part of my personal reputation. Failing with a startup in rural Germany is simply different than, say, falling through an incubator in Silicon Valley. There is a lot of stigma involved and everyone knows your name. It's also a bitter experience when your own family and friends start seeing you personally as a disappointing failure.

The deeper lesson here I think is to watch out for this type of creeping overcommitment as well as keep a watchful eye on what it actually means to fail. The level of personal commitment I mistakenly applied to my startup was simply toxic, to the point where I couldn't do my job anymore. While maybe trivial for some, it's a huge and complex lesson for people like me who are too quick to put too much behind their ideas.
Don't tell me, tell your visitors.
Patent trolls come under US antitrust authority scrutiny
Or no revenue at all, in the case of Instagram.
Ouch! Two questions:

1 - Knowing what you know now, is there anything you would have done differently?

2 - After you turn off the lights and walk out, what happens next? Have you managed to bounce back? I would imagine that the skills that enabled you to run a startup (even an unsuccessful one) would be highly in demand.
Hi Chwexy,

That's actually how it's calculated :)

I think mjallday had a typo. His anti procrastination settings are turned on so he can't make an edit to his comment :P

Happy to talk more about how this works, why we decided to take this approach and how we constitute 500s as down time.

I can also discuss our extensive automated testing and how it's conducted across all our services to provide transparency to our customers.
Right. Will do!
Lol I love catching stuff like this, especially for Yelp and Google.
It's Not That Hard
Why is the person's hand and phone keep shaking/vibrating?
Australia's Click Frenzy "Experience"
Loved this piece, I haven't been in that position, but I could feel the pain.
Israel's Vice Prime Minister's Twitter hacked by Anonymous
I absolutely agree that there's a swirling mess of emotions and impulses around giving up and walking away and declaring it over. I was, rationally, absolutely in the clear that it was time to walk away from my own experience. But I still deal with a certain emotional residue around doubts about my decision and worries about how the others think of me.
Because glib is a decent library of data structures and algorithms that will just need to be reimplemented.
A phone that slide open to become a tablet
http://www.indiegogo.com/hybridphone?a=1771784

A part of the Lean Hardware Startup movement.
Would you like to support?
Who's to say that they spent the $41.m million? What ever's left will be returned. The fact that Apple bought them for $9M hints that Apple may be covering the amount they spent but even that is pretty hefty. The investors won't be able to reinvest it in their current funds though.
Maybe artists should post messages on FB that reaches all of their fans and tell them to come to G+

Oh wait...
Heard this report on NPR this morning, and the impression I got was of a reporter managing to successfully salvage an interesting piece about the nature of scientific caution, the pressures on scientists to take care in announcing their results and even the restrictions placed on them by journals, from a visit to JPL where he learned about nothing specific, but did happen to be in the office with a scientist who got quite excited about an email he was reading, but then wasn't prepared to divulge any more details. I wouldn't read too much into it.
I find that updating a Windows server often requires a reboot, while other systems can usually get away with restarting the service that is being patched.
Looks like the account has been suspended. Here's some screenshots: http://gawker.com/5962371/the-israeli-vice-prime-minister-wa...
I didn't read the post. I came here to say, you should probably take the weekend to fucking spend time with your family. Oversaturation is a thing, and spending Thanksgiving weekend thinking about Hacker News and your startup is a stupid idea. Downvote away.
It allows you to build intuition of the actual singular customer profiles that are using your application. It's ineffective to design for a group. You have to design for a person. So this allows designers and developers to say "Ok - given what we know about Sarah - what is she trying to accomplish and how can we make it easier?". Currently the best way to do this is to hire a qualitative user researcher or be good at it yourself. And it's really hard to get good honest data and enough data to matter.
I've worked at companies where this seems to happen often and it usually comes down to two things:

1) Poor communication and/or planning as far as what the end result was supposed to be. The developer built it the way they thought it was supposed to work, they find out later that it's incorrect or the specifications for it keep changing making the developer add one hack after another to get it to do what it needs to do. They'd probably like to just rewrite the whole thing, but by now it's too late.

Jr vs Sr: Sr can see this coming and does whatever he/she can do to minimize it. Doesn't necessarily mean they can stop it from though, it might be too high up the chain of command.

2) Little to no testing. The developer built it and said "done" and then it was passed on to the end user. Anything of any complexity is going to be riddled with bugs if there isn't some kind of QA process in between. Developers typically suck and QAing their own work.

Jr vs Sr: Sr has more experience to see possible problems before they become problems and if no QA procedure exists, will at least try to run it by a colleague before claiming it "done".
Sounds like a startup idea to me.
The biggest one I'd recommend is "find a mentor." And I don't mean a manager (unless you're going on that path), but rather a technical leader that you can meet with once a week to month whose opinion you value and can provide you honest feedback on your work.

You should plan to drive these meetings; count on them only to show up, drink coffee, and answer your questions. If it is not your most valuable hour of the week/month, you either have the wrong mentor or are handling it wrong.

And if your company does not have such a mentor, you should either look to find one that does or make sure you're getting paid well.

Author can also follow up with me via e-mail if they want Stanford-specific advice. There are a specific set of things that the perfect-A average and BS+MS degree in CS in 5 years crowd runs into during their first few years out of school that I'd be happy to share. It's true of every school, but we had a lot of experience with the A students from Stanford, Yale, MIT, Princeton, etc., and they all seemed to run into the same problems as their alumni forerunners.
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I don't think it really compares. For the majority of artists Myspace was their website so they never thought about being locked in like they do with Facebook. Back then setting up your own website, hosting it somewhere, selling content and merchandise through it, and blogging on it wasn't such an easy thing for someone with little/no technical skills to do. Now you can setup a Wordpress site, use Bandcamp for sales (which you can easily integrate with your site), stream audio using Soundcloud (which you can embed) and it's pretty easy for anyone to set it all up.
Thank you for not calling it a "self-executing anonymous function".
I also know people who may be interested. I put my email in my profile, if you want to look into this, send me a note.
Ask HN: Survivor Bias. Why don't we focus more on startups that fail?
I think this comes from a book somewhere or other but it was paraphrased to me:

During WWII planes that made it back from combat missions were analyzed to be reinforced. They found that these planes were shot in the wings and tail so they reinforced those areas. Really though, planes shot in the fuselage were much less likely to make it back so they should have reinforced that area. They were biased by trying to avoid the problems the survivors faced.

So my question is: why don't we try to learn more from startups that fail instead of focusing so much on the successes?
It's interesting that when companies like Microsoft are politically correct, we get blast because of it. The on the flip side when they seem pretty aggressive we blast them because of it also.

Personally I like seeing facts not just words. If you're going to be aggressive about your product, fine by me, but.... where's the proof? Where are the un-bias comparison graphs? What use case are you using to prove your point? Without data they all come off looking like two politicians.

All this said, I love SQL Server but never used it at a super large scale though. What I prefer most about it are it's tools which seem to be much more user friendly then Oracles. I'm no DBA though.
The Designer’s Economy: An Introduction
I really like the datepicker on https://www.google.com/flights/. I wish someone would clone it for jQuery.
I actually was a Sybase ASE DBA for quite some time, too (spent a lot of time in the DBA trenches - Sybase ASE is my favorite SQL DBMS) and it's my understanding that SQL Server around the 2000/2005 mark was completely rewritten. Although the origins of T-SQL are Sybase, the rest of the product isn't (some of the philosophy and core architecture still is a carry-over from ASE).
I asked the same question elsewhere, and someone came up with this hypothesis: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=16266984#post16...

...I still think APN blocking is entirely irrational on the part of the carrier. There's no way a user can subject their carrier's network to fraud or abuse by having access to the APNs (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=16266682#post16...)
Hopefully this is a fictional account of at least the emotions felt by the subject, Mr. "CEO."

If you're going to be in business, I suggest throw out your hockey sticks, pivots, titles, and other nomenclature associated with any romantic fiction you think you're embarking upon. All business is about profit - the "math." Most often that means selling something that costs you less to acquire/produce. Sometimes for a savvy few, that means the business itself is the product.

If you generate substantial profit, you'll be a hero who can do no wrong, with admirers in proportion. If instead you run out of money, you quietly close up shop and start over or take a real job for a while.

If you're really cut out for business you have to be thick-skinned and rational. Any emotional attachment you have to the business will likely just impair your judgement and cause you to miss opportunity or worse take you down with it someday.
1 - Absolutely, there is a huge list of things I would have done differently - and there's a huge list of failure modes I now know how to look for. The most obvious thing: I would never again borrow money personally to invest in a failing business, that was just unspeakably arrogant and stupid. But there are also a lot of operational and technical details that I would never screw up like this again.

2 - I took a job pretty much immediately. I consolidated my debt into a more manageable package, I'm still paying it off though (it's really huge). The alternative would have been declaring personal bankruptcy, which in hindsight might have been a much better move, but at least I am taking responsibility this way.

I did bounce back in a sense that my life is in order and I'm financially sound again. I have a good job (yes, my crisis management experience paid off), I travel a lot on business, I have a nice car. But it's not the same as succeeding with your own company. On the other hand, my job has taught me several key things I should have known when I did the startup, so I'm really thankful for the opportunities I got.

I'm pretty sure I'll try this again, in a safer and saner environment. It will definitely involve less dreams and more math.