skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bought yesterday and almost finished reading.

Although I could've read almost all of it through the blog (except for the few new articles), I find it much more comfortable to have everything compiled into a single file; pure content without other distractions.

I just started dabbling into software marketing and would much rather take advice from Patrick than general-level marketing advice.

The book (I used the pdf version) is pretty well typeset, so reading it is not headache-inducing (for the ppl worrying they might not enjoy it and would rather wait for a printed version).
based on the quote, assuming a lack of internet, would the average person know how to fashion a basic bomb?
What if for every person that agrees with the author, there are 2 people that will immediately dismiss the product if it does show this extra information in the status bar? I'm not saying that is likely, but it's certainly conceivable. What is likely is that more users will be discouraged or overwhelmed as the number of onscreen data and configurable settings increases.
But what about free currency competition? Allow all kind of currencies co-exist. Those who want inflation can use the inflatable currencies, the people demanding deflation can use more deflationary currencies.
I remember an old black and white film where a bad guy planted an illegal substance on another character (a trival slight of hand) and then sicced the police on him.

With possession laws, someone else can make you into a criminal without any intent or even awareness on your part.
What is the long-term plan for your company?

If you are going to be raising investment from Angels or VCs, are they going to look at your domain purchase and think this was a wise investment? Or are they going to think you were being frivolous with money?

Will the name actually have a significant affect on your business? You'd be surprised how many great domains are still available.

Do you think you could flip it? If the domain is only valuable to you, it probably isn't that valuable. Do you think somebody else would want the domain if you decided not to use it? Or would your money just be gone?

Just a few things to consider.
I disagree that this would be a bug. It's a design flaw that cannot be corrected by fixing bugs.

It's analogous to security flaws. If there is a flaw in the design, no amount of bug fixing will make the system secure, unless that 'bug fixing' changes the design.
> OpenVPN is blocked.

Are just the standard ports blocked? Or are they doing some type of traffic analysis to differentiate openvpn traffic over any port, be it tcp or udp (as openvpn can of course be configured for any port over tcp or udp)?
I'll take a small issue with the end of the article that claims linear programming is used for game theory work in poker. With the exception of Andrew Gilpin's work using the "Excessive Gap Technique"[1], almost no poker game theory work relies on linear programming. Instead, the majority of work is on iterative game tree solutions like "Counterfactual Regret Minimization" [2].

In general, real-world games with imperfect information and stochastic outcomes (like poker) are just too large to represent in normal form.

[1] http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2007/AAAI07-008.pdf

[2] https://www.cs.ualberta.ca/system/files/tech_report/2007/TR0...
Digital designs for real, physical objects. A Universe of Things
It's great that this was open sourced. Quite impressive what you've accomplished. For me to use it I'd also have to pay ExtJS $2500 and/or some combination of a fixed fee with royalty rights which I just can not do.
The debt analogy obscures the physical nature of whats happening. Its non-intuitive how to conceptually separate the value of debts from notions of money. Though it does clarify that someone in the future must be on the other side of the transaction.
Thank you.I knew there was something else.
Can someone explain to me if the problem with Hurd was that the basic idea was impossible, or it was the way they went about it?

i.e. was it the relentless restarting of the project that was to blame, or did they keep restarting because every way they approached it turned out to be impossible?
To me it seems like he really likes to make the most of all advertising opportunities, be it direct or indirect.

Publishing this book was most likely seen as an advertising vehicle for his consulting services. I think it's a smart idea which will most likely net him a lot more money in the future that just book sales commission and will help further consolidate his name brand.
That is a general complain which has a general answer. If you let someone do your legal work, it might not be done with the same priority as if you did it yourself.

But, general handwaving aside, has there been a case with GNU sed or gnutls in which the legal work was done in a less than satisfactional way?
I do PHP development and would be happy to lend a hand - I have a lot of respect for people like your friend who build things purely to help people so if there's anything PHP development wise he might want help with, send him my way. My email's alex@alexjeffrey.me.
The secret algorithm one VC firm uses to pick entrepreneurs
Exactly. That's what I meant by "And who decides?"
How publishers are getting over the app debate
In Canada, there is a product called Kinder Surprise. It's illegal in the United States, but it's just a hollow chocolate egg with a toy inside. The FDA says you can't put a toy inside of food. If you buy one at a convenience store in Canada, and come back across the border with it? Federal offence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise#Prohibition_on_...
What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
I think Rails developers made some deal with the devil where every line of code they write makes them more his dark Servant in exchange for the ability to write Ruby code. (They rarely know any others. Shoulda negotiated for some Erlang.)

Thereby, they seek to write as few lines of code as possible, at the expense of the sanity of everyone else.

Furthering the goals of the dark one all along...
I wonder how many of popular IDEs(Eclipse etc.) are ready for those new features, also performance wise
"Saving" makes much more sense when you view it as collecting debt for the future. It's in the Government's and banks best interest to inflate the currency to limit the repayment of your debts.

Other way around: inflation devalues existing debts. A small, predictable inflation is a little economic rule that says, "Actual goods and services today are this percentage better than a mere promise of goods and services one year from now."

This sounds like it's immoral, in a way, encouraging consumption and profligacy. But of course, your consumption is someone else's sale; what it really encourages is the production and sale of actual goods and services that hold value better than money (anything from steel to apples to video games). Predictable inflation is a check and balance on the otherwise-natural tendency of capitalism to eat itself by valuing capital assets above all else.
I think you're right, it's a European thing, and it probably shouldn't have been printed on a CD sold in the US. One recent Metallica CD actually says "For sale or rental for private home use only."

Of the US-purchased CDs I checked, major label and indie, none of them prohibited renting or lending.

Of the 3 CDs I checked that I purchased in Europe, 2 prohibited renting or lending. One from the Netherlands says "Unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performances of the record prohibited." One from the UK (from 1994, so it isn't recent) says "unauthorized copying, hiring, renting, public performances & broadcasting of this recording prohibited."

I think they use "lending" and "hiring" because "renting" in ambiguous as to who is paying or being paid.
You are absolutely right about it being the responsibility of the courts. But when government, police and courts are all lined up against the people, then that which was formerly unthinkable - such as armed revolt - should become seriously considered options. When, and only when.

In the case of Occupy Oakland, it is worth noting that the Oakland police were the first to escalate to violence. This is one of the central paradoxes of policing. It is the job of the police to see that the peace is kept. Surprisingly often, preemptive force is an ineffective means to that end.

Incidentally the phrase "a few bad apples" originally meant the opposite of what it means now. Originally it was a recognition that a single bad apple would spoil the whole barrel, so if you found a few bad apples your default assumption was that the whole barrel was at risk. It, therefore, was an argument that if you find some bad apples, there is cause for increased scrutiny.
... like a coprolite?
Don't get me wrong, he is doing it as a for-profit venture. We just haven't figured out how to turn it into 'for profit'.

But there are other guys that are doing it and making money. The first step is to keep it online.
Well we do keep some commodity reserves, but these don't show up on anyone's account books as "savings". They show up as illiquid assets.
This is getting rather silly. Ask any immigrant what "the American dream" is. Take an average of their responses and you'd have a reasonable approximation of the American dream. Nobody in their right minds would redefine the American dream to be 5 uninsured happy motivated apartment sharing guys one bathroom slip away from bankruptcy changing the world with their precious github commits. I lived 5 years in the texas heartland... nobody I know meets that definition. People are living paycheck to paycheck ans there is genuine concern that the American dream has passed them by.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't an altruistic venture. He found a need and built a solution. Now he is exploring ways to make money from it. It's just that it is much trickier than accepting a credit card from a US consumer.

If you are still interested, I would love to drop you a line.

Thanks.
Off the top of my head, I think https://leanpub.com/ is similar to Hyperink. I think if you do a bit of Google digging you can find stories from authors who decided to self-publish with specifics analysis of their process (what they used, how much time it took, revenue analysis etc.)

I think the new blog posts that were added to the book serve as an incentive to buy it, probably a lot of the HN users were already familiar with Patrick and might've needed a little 'push' to click on the purchase button :) Just one of the possible reasons.
Probably worse than that. I simply refuse to make any such key difference between math and science. In my opinion, both math and science are empirical.
Check Authlogic out, it is clean, easy to grasp sourcecode, maybe the closest to implementing it all yourself in the simplest way posible:

https://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic
How have borders continued to fade away when it comes to selling physical books in different parts of the world at different prices?
But then you have the new problems of what plugins to include by default, how users discover plugins and how they are configured.

Plugins, while valuable for people willing to take the time to learn about your product's eco-system are unlikely to help users who are willing to spend only 5 minutes evaluating your product.
Fractional reserve confuses me greatly, because I always end up thinking there will be more interests due than there is "real money" in existence. Which leads me to belive we need periods of very high inflation to reset the economy every now and then.

In the past we've had wars, which have been paid for with inflation. If a war, or some other cause of inflation does not come about, won't the bankers soon have all the money? How does this work out?
Most academic jobs available these days are low-paid, part-time, non-tenure-track adjunct faculty positions, which don't bring a lot of prestige. The academia bubble burst quite a while ago, leaving lots of people with PhDs feeling the same as the law school grads feel today.
> I even went as far as breaking down the stylesheets so that you dont need to download CSS that does not apply to the page you are visiting

Doesn't this just result in five downloads of 1KB CSS files over the course of a five-page visit, when a single download (and cache) of a 1.8KB CSS file would have sufficed? Is that better?
And they're often closed source, so there's limited chance to add the features.

You might be able to ask users on some forum.

And maybe there's something on the website about feedback or feature request.

Having said all that how do you control the flood of "Why doesn't X do Y?" (when Y is in the menu, on the tool bar, on the splash tips of the day, in the tool tip, etc)
Every system is designed to an audience, that's not shortsightness, that's called focus.
One of the main reasons why I bought your book is the fact that it is well-organized and free of the usual 'extras' that one finds in a blog that in the end distracts from the reading experience.

I've almost finished reading it and I can pretty much guarantee that it would've taken me a lot more time to navigate through your blog and make myself read beginning to end.
Seriously, listen to this man. The FBI is actually doing their Goddamned job and you all freak out over it.

Call me when they're actually violating civil liberties or actually doing something they shouldn't be. This is a non story.
The poor people in this case are white/Asian.

If people don't have money, it means this should be a financially backed non-profit, or the underlying issues should be fixed first. It's not sad that you can't make money where there is none.
My buddy has been raving about this for years. He uses it extensively for geospatial stuff for the Intel community. I'm stoked to finally get a hold of it.
I know many people that save gold and silver
Theoretically it should be solved by making everything scriptable, but in practice this solution tends to only work for a small subset of users (who could benefit from customization).

We still have this road ahead.
Attitudes toward money proceed in
long cyclical swings. When money is bad, people want it to be better. When
it is good, they think of other things. Only as matters are examined over
time can we see how people who are experiencing inflation yearn for stable
money and how those who are accepting the discipline and the costs of
stability come to accept the risks of inflation. It is this cycle that teaches us
that nothing, not even inflation, is permanent. We learn also that the fear of
inflation which inflation leaves in its wake can be as damaging as the
inflation itself.

J.K. Galbraith 1975 Money Whence it came, where it went
Region locks are desired by copyright holders too, as it makes it easier to maximise incomes per region based on their ability to pay.
Windows 8 Sales Disappoint in Shaky PC Market
> But it's not that simple. HBO isn't a worldwide network. They need to make deals with lots of different networks in different countries and that takes time. Those networks then need to fit the show into their schedules.

National networks are similarly outdated. This is the 21st Century, for crying out loud.

If a bunch of kids can propagate high quality 1080i/720p copies of television broadcasts around the world literally within half an hour of the show airing in its native market, the content owners themselves can manage the same.
> give them electric shock

even better, force them to use COmmon Business Oriented Language
Nowdays you can order a book from any place in the world and have it delivered to you via mail.
Most articles like these commit the perfectionist fallacy. They point out that bad stuff happened under some governing system, but then we would really need to know 'how bad it could have been' to judge that for sure.
I think he read it just right.

Part of being an adult in the real world is handling questions and issues that may make you uneasy or just make you say "what the hell?!?" inside your head. Your mission is to suffer the fools gladly or gently educate them, not publish missives about how special of a snowflake you are and how you should be treated.

It's a big world out there and we're all unique snowflakes.

"Landmines"? Seriously?
I have it running on postgres

Gitlab uses the idea of a notable to signify things that can be commented on. For git commits comments they store the git commit in the column which you need an explicit cast for in postgres

I think there is one other thing too. But this was when installed version 3 they may have changed this

You can also read more about it on the original support pull request
https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pull/1666
The thing is, I actually did install most of the software you mentioned, and most of them just ask you for some credentials and run the db initialisation and population themselves.
WordPress goes so far as to do that via a post-upload web interface, which is a superb UX IMHO, and something I remember writing into my own open-source PHP projects 10 years ago [1].

I really don't mean to disrespect but I think in the age of Rails and ORMs, these sort of tasks can be implemented even easier for the user and cleaner for the integrating apps.

That being said, I realise that GitLab relies heavily on some system-heavy dependencies (cough gitolite), and whoever wrote the installation guide is probably a system guy that didn't want to hide any of the details behind some automatic script.
I just suggest that this should be the "Installation for Advanced Users" doc that's the alternative to some automated process.

[1] figuring this out made me feel very old.
The copyright owners have a bigger problem than what they may consider unauthorized copying. Drawing attention to compositions in sound and vision has become so much more difficult because it has become so much easier to distribute them. The scarcity has gone and so has the price. Quite a bit of the value has now decisively shifted to compositions in touch, smell, and taste, which cannot be distributed digitally.
Worse is better: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Oh my!

CLUELESS_BOB PHB "Hey, can you do this for the project?"

CLUEFUL_ANN DEV "Well, I could do that, but the question I want to ask is 'Why the hell would anyone want that?'".

--

See also the confusing non-match between password echoing in gui or command line environments. Someone needs to ask "Why would a user want to do that?" and then get it done.
Movie Ratings and Rotten Tomatoes
I used to run a relatively successful internet-oriented startup in mainland China. Having spent most of a decade there since 2001, in fact the majority of my adult life, I considered it home. Unfortunately, the government - who initially woeed me to return to China with a reasonably lucrative scholarship - keeps making shitty decisions that just make it less and less attractive to live in. Increasing levels of internet censorship is one of them, making visas ridiculously hard to acquire (the Chinese consulate in a neighbouring country actually just flat out refused to even discuss issuing a tourist visa, earlier this year) is another.

I really hope the next generation of the communist party sort their shit out. Otherwise, China's basically going to continue breeding vast generations of uneducated, inward looking nationalists and stifling anything remotely like innovation that somehow manages to occur between the cracks. Foreign business professionals and overseas Chinese will continue to view time in China as a non-negotiable sentence of rice wine banquets, pollution, a complete vacuum in the upper-eschelons of conversationalism, a constant redoubling of cigarette smoke, spit, and bad Chinglish.
Yes, Facebook Is Working On A Deal That Could Kill Google In Online Ad Space
Sky+ works fine with one feed, just with the obviously reduced functionality (i.e. you won't be able to record one thing while watching another)
The academic career and the "life of the mind" are done-for in this society. The US has already decided that it doesn't care about these things, and there really isn't an option to turn back. There will be demand for teaching, for sure, but basic research is gone and the academic career no longer has the resources to create enough decent positions that would entice the top people to stay.

What's happening now is that the best people are going into industry, and spending time in academia after they are rich enough to retire. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the future of academia: a place where successful older people teach the young, but not a lifelong career.
> something interim, like a presenter code which takes data from the models and helps views to show it

..something like a "controller"? :P
I think this is a well meaning but misplaced assessment of Chris's goals. I thought his point was more along these lines:

Angel Investors are helpful for the resources the provide. One is financial and two is non financial (intellect/network connections etc) It seems like Chris has decided that the focus at YC companies has become too much on the former and not on the latter. He seems willing to reduce the amount of value he receives via the monetary piece (not less dollars, smaller valuations) in exchange for much higher value on the non monetary piece. "I'll give you a lower valuation in the hope/expectation that you'll be much more vested in our success and thus leverage your non monetary resources towards our success."

In a nice reinforcing circle: by taking a lower valuation he creates, or perhaps reinforces, the right economic incentives to do that.

On a side note I thought he was extremely brave to challenge the system with his original post.
In the end, legitimacy is decided by the country as a whole. In a well-working country, laws, courts, and police are a reasonable proxy for that.

Incidentally I had not read about bill 78. The anti-protest portions of the bill I am strongly against. But the tuition hikes that were being protested, well, I was paying more tuition 20 years ago in British Columbia, Canada than Quebec students would have paid. I have little sympathy with the student protests about tuition. Furthermore I am personally of the political belief that the culture of widespread entitlement in Quebec is among the reasons that it is much worse off economically than the rest of the country.

Note, this is coming from someone who, while I was in Canada, was politically fairly far to the left. And Canada is fairly far to the left of the United States. This is not the time or place to debate it, but in the case of Quebec my opinions are shaped in part by the separatist movement there. I grew up with friends whose families left Quebec due to Bill 101, which is likely the most racist law passed anywhere in North America in my lifetime. Before objecting, go read it, and educate yourself on why the Bank of Montreal is now headquartered in Toronto, and what economic impacts that has had on Montreal.

It didn't help that the value of my Canadian sourced scholarship dropped sharply due to the the widespread belief in Quebec during the early 90s that they had the right to take not only their marbles, but all of the marbles that they had been given while abandoning all of the debts that they had run up, on a straight majority vote. (One of those marbles being a lot of land with good hydroelectric power, built on land given under the condition that they take good care of the natives, with natives who voted 99.7% that if Quebec left Canada, they would leave Quebec.) Yes, I am sure that you see things differently and think that Quebec was entitled to do that. But explain to me why the natives were not entitled to leave Quebec, and find an argument that cannot be turned around and be seen by a third party as an argument that Quebec not be allowed to leave Canada.