skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on what kind of business you want to start. I'm a fan of growing slow and not taking outside capital. It worked pretty well for me, and working with VC, not so much. But the fact that bootstrapping works for some products doesn't mean it works for all of them. In particular, a product with serious operating costs and high cost of user acquisition is hard to bootstrap.

It's one thing to sell products to, say, every freelance developer in the world. Freelance developers are (relatively speaking) wealthy and interested in products that improve their practices. Parents are not generally in an ambient state of seeking products to secure their kids Internet connections. That makes them hard to reach and sell to.
Nice! I am working on an editor (based on content-editable) which translates to markdown. If your script handles invalid html I might as well use yours.
I don't know why I did not pick up on that subtext. It must have been the attack component that threw me off. It is nice to see that there are no rhetoric asymmetries in the "war on drugs."

"If men with assault rifles, body armor, grenades, who use military tactics in their operations are not soldiers, what do you call them? "

Usually a Special Weapons and Tactics team and in Canada I think they are known as Emergency Task Forces. Does the DEA deploy units with fragmentation and/or incendiary grenades?
So, moral of the story is don't fix bugs because it might take a long time to make to the end user?
We recently started using Pixelapse (we're a development team that just welcomed our first full-time graphic designer a few months ago). It's pretty nice, but there is one huge difference between design and development that makes the idea of "Github for design" seem like the wrong idea.

Developers really only need to share code with other developers. There's almost no such thing as a passive receiver of code. The ability to easily collaborate on code with other developers and within a team, via cloning, forking, pushing and pulling, makes Github (and Bitbucket and Gitlab, etc) immensely beneficial.

Design interactions, on the other hand, tend to be made up primarily of designers sharing designs with non-designers, whether it be the client for feedback or the technical team for implementation (or the printers, or the marketing department).

I think Pixelapse is more like the "Github for design" if you just think of Github as a 3rd-party repository for easy version tracking and uploading of code, and which makes it easy for others to comment and compare different versions of the code. In other words, minus the forking and cloning concept. At least, that's how we use it.
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Coming from developing iOS apps first I thought it was strange that I received these user details when they purchased my Android app. I assumed it had already been brought up though and was decided to not be an issue.
I normally don't find these sorts of tutorials useful. But after reading these simple instructions I thought I'd give it a shot. Here's my feeble attempt:

http://f.cl.ly/items/003y1m2a0b2n0F1p2G3Q/lambda.png
I close the tab immediately and without a second thought every time I get their "you must be a registered..." page after following a link there.

This is like forcing a girl to say "I love you".
https://plus.google.com/106557483623231970995/posts/Bed6WUJp...

"With apple's app store you buy the apps from apple. With google play you buy the apps from the developer. If you are the merchant of record you need to know the address to correctly compute sales tax.

This is documented on http://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/a....

Google cannot give tax advice, so we have to give you the data to make the determination yourself"
The difference is that SO mods are actually trying to improve the quality of the site, or at least that's their purpose. Whether people perceive them as doing that in all cases, that's another issue.

Quora is hiding answers to make you sign up.
Quora seems to only whiteout searches that land on an answer page. When I search for a user's name in incognito, I can see their whole answer history unobscured.

You can disallow search engine indexing from your settings under Settings -> Account -> Allow Indexing (disallow) if you're worried about it.
I've always thought first-sale doctrine is an interesting and important check on price discrimination. People usually get angry with the concept of price discrimination, it seems to grate at the idea of fairness. Poorly or improperly implemented price discrimination coupled with a strong first-sale doctrine will lead to interesting new arbitrage opportunities.

The pending case of Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc is a good example of arbitrageur vs price discriminator. The result of witch will be really important.
Sure, sure... And you know this how? A gut feeling? Remember, there were multiple planes on 9/11, and this did not succeed or happen in any of those situations.

I like that you are so sure about this, with no data or anything.
You're right, I assumed Kontny was dogfooding too.

Some thoughts on the actual MobileWorks blog:
Here’s an idea. What if the network of disruptive startups being created in Silicon Valley could band together to disrupt unemployment itself, right here in the US? Today, we’re announcing a new experiment to try and do exactly that.

After "idea" there should be a semicolon. Also, in the U.S., formal abbreviations such as U.S. and U.S.A. are always punctuated in professional writing (see, e.g., the NY Times). Bloggers and commenters get away with not punctuating because they are not expected to be professional, but that is not an excuse a proofreading service should make. Note that this is exactly what I was referring to originally, as the standard convention in most European countries is that formal abbreviations in English are not capitalized, i.e. UK rather than U.K.

pick up the last few slots" should be "fill up...", as slots cannot be picked up.

It's a chance* should be "This is a chance" because they are referring to WFA, not the project work, unless they truly are referring to the project work and not WFA.

The list has improper punctuation. Each item should end with a semi colon; the third item should not have a period; there should be a conjunctive or disjunctive joinder after the third item or the "and more" shold be made its own separate item.

participants will be able to take skills learned working on Silicon Valley’s projects with them as they're placed

As written, it means that participants' skills will only be useful in the initial stages of job-hunting rather than useful in the jobs in which they are placed; it should say something like "Participants will learn skills working on Silicon Valley projects. They can take these skills with them to full-time..."

There are more, but you get the idea. This service is decent but pointless for non-professional writing and not up-to-par for professional writing.
Looks great, nice work! Signed up for a free account to try it out. The pricing on the Large Booster Pack (150K calls for $159) doesn't seem correct given the pricing/value on the Small and Medium packs...
How many web requests are typically CPU bound though? Not many.
It's so utterly broken. At the beginning I was just annoyed because you could select the blurred text and still read it, but now (for the desktop site) they actually substitute the text with dynamically generated images that are a blurred version.

I became so enraged over this that I decided to install the "Personal Blocklist (by Google)" Chrome plugin and then added quora.com to the blocklist just so that I wouldn't see them in results when I searched for things on Google.

Like you, they've trained me to never want to contribute to their site, and to never, ever want to consume the content they provide.
I agree. I honestly think this is the biggest thing slowing adoption of psql. It is the one thing I miss from mysql.
"I have a photograph from those days showing me seated at the controls of a commercial airliner, which the crew of the airliner took after I boarded a flight early in the boarding process."

I remember when I was a kid in the 60s-70s, the flight crews would let us into the cockpit to have a look when we were getting on or off the plane. It's sad that kids growing up today might never have that experience.
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We received email after email from parents thanking us for saving their children’s lives, literally.

Yes, please tell me more about all these children whose lives your service saved. Just like To Catch A Predator's ridiculous premise (that digusting, fat 50 year-old men who live in their parents' basement are hooking up with hot teenagers), yours reeks of trumping up a problem that only exists on the extreme fringe. Literally.

one of the partners installed our software. He tested it, he used it, it worked. He got it. He called us and said he wanted to invest as soon as possible.

Who is this investor? I want to know because anyone who would vote money on an anecdotal experience like this is an idiot.

Your story is interesting, but only when it sticks to the parts about you rushing into an investment without due consideration or self-protection.

If you wanted funding, you should've asked Congress for it. They love to exaggerate child sex exploitation as much as your service did.
There are only two or possible three core contributors to APC these days and based on the serious problems with the newest apc dev (they even had to recall a beta) and the discussion on php internals they are likely to focus on optimizer+ instead.
Well, to be honest, why did Opera once had ads?

And on Netscape and CSS: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2108940
Try clicking around. They still obscure answers that aren't the top answer, though you're right there is a fair amount of content visible.
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Announcing the App Design Guides
It's probably somewhat relevant to mention that id did a layoff of their own a little over a year ago. I don't remember how many, but they let at least a few extremely talented people go.
Look, I love Quora and what they are doing. You like quality answers and want to get access to the community of users providing it? Then, at the least make the tiniest contribution back to that community by creating an account. Simple!
If you read the linked post the point is that if they fixed every outstanding bug via a JavaScript workaround, everybody else would have even less incentive to fix anything.

Also, if there is a long delay in the pipeline, that is no justification for even more delay in putting something into it, just like things being put into it quickly would be no justification for not trying to shorten that delay.

If you don't fix any bugs, but Apple etc. update overnight everything via WiFi or Ninjas, jQuery will still keep accumulating fixes for old bugs and explode - on the other hand, if you fix bugs quickly, even a 3 year delay with vendors means that jQuery will "only" have to carry fixes for bugs of the last 4-5 years, not for bugs that existed since the dawn of time.

I think that is not even the job of jQuery, anyway; it fixes bugs that have to do with using jQuery and plugins, providing a consistent baseline despite browser bugs.
The thing that baffles me is that you could do high-level random balancing onto smaller clusters that do smart balancing. This would solve most of the problem of overloaded servers. An entire cluster would have to clog up with slow requests before there was any performance impact. So why don't they do this?
I love the design of your landing page, but the app itself is kind of blah looking. It would be nice to see some of that design carried through to the app.

In terms of the app, what I was really looking for as I scrolled down is something that could give me insight into managing and maintaining my home. For example, if I gave you some general information about my house and its geographic location, you could keep me up to date on preventative maintenance that I should be doing each season. And, maybe provide me with a way to connect to an expert if I had questions about a problem.
Reported. Thanks!
The license prohibits any sort of redistribution. It's valid for personal use, research, and study only.

As usual, Adobe doesn't "get it".
Needs more examples with charts to show off the historical data, patterns, etc.
Enterprise Just Like A Video Game
What is the site? Interesting.
Although things are subjective, it looks pretty ugly and flimsy. I'll sit this out until they can be as durable as a simple Casio watch or G-shock.
I'm a republican (think Barry Goldwater, not George Bush), from North Carolina.

No 'republican' around here is happy with anything, everything is broken and it's all Obama's fault. :)
For those with Pebbles, does it have any impact on the battery life of the phone? How's the battery life of Pebble itself?
No, it's that even after bugs are fixed in widely-used libraries, they will still exist in downstream projects and in the wild for quite some time. Given that jQuery exists to paper over implementation quirks (including upstream-fixed bugs) between real-world browsers, jQuery needs to worry these bugs long after they are fixed in the core library code.
Such liberal cursing - saying 'fucked' once. To hell with your overbearing conformance, I say.
When I click the "answers" tab on the sidebar of a user profile, I can see the entire user's answer history unobscured. Is this not the case for you? Maybe we're caught on different sides of an A/B test, although I keep getting the same results in new incognito windows.
He touched on something that few will appreciate.

UIWebView, (and android's webview) is on older implementations of webkit, and the gatekeepers of modern apps (Google included) have incentive to keep it that way.

They want devs to build apps for their own 'ecosystem' that are not interoperable on all platforms (eg: the web). They have disincentive to push for adoption of newer versions of browser tech as it encroaches on their respective babies (the OS').
Having a platform to simply deploy code is great, but there seems to be a lot of hate for sysadmins over the past few years.

Heroku and the like are fine for prototyping and small apps, but when you start developing complicated and/or popular apps, at some point you are paying a service tons of money to avoid optimizing at the systems level.

I'm a "devops" sysadmin and sitting with my developer every day makes us both so much more effective. "Hey sysadmin, if 1000 requests to this module in my app happen it breaks, can we figure out why it crashes the server?". To which I reply, "yes developer, after we ran some tests, it looks like your code is so efficient and effective, that there aren't enough available tcp/udp ports to support the number of requests it is able to handle. I can increase them on your default AMI if you like. It will result in a 3000% increase in the number of active users we can sustain on a given instance".

The no-ops position is: Let's just pay for more servers.
The DevOps position is: Let's optimize.

The difference may seem small, but if you are paying $20k a MONTH for your Heroku bills, not to mention supporting 3k servers for your app on AWS (or insert provider x), do you still think hiring a $100k/year sysadmin is such a bad decision?

The devs can still develop a method to quickly deploy code... or just use Asgard, and avoid all of the chaos that can happen if something goes wrong. The sysadmins understand your code and how it is interacting with the server. You don't end up paying tons of money to support a very basic application that has simply never been optimized.

Sysadmins in a devops world do not usually have any control over when builds can be pushed - they assist with optimizing. So if something breaks, the blame falls on devs, not ops.

Unoptimized app (rapgenius example): $20k/mo = $240k/year
Sysadmin: ~$100k+/year and a minor (given devops mentality) increase in deploy time = priceless

Not all cases are the same, but the start-up mentality doesn't usually work at scale.
I spent a lot of time trying to come up with a stable installation of EB for a Rails 3.2 app using RDS and just couldn't get it to a state where I'd ever deploy it as production. Here's where I decided to pull the plug:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=410445&#...

Quite a few people still report a myriad of issues with Rails applications. I really want EB to work well with Rails, but just didn't have confidence in it.
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Depending on the window that you use, you've lost that bet.

Using the numbers from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents... and including the fatalities on the ground:

985 fatalities in the 1980s, 1277 in the 1990s, and (excluding 9/11) 512 in the 2000s. This adds up to 2774.

I started to include the pre-1980 numbers, but it became too tedious. From what I got so far, there have been 3606 commercial aviation related fatalities since 1970, and over 4656 fatalities total in US-located commercial aviation history.

Pan Am Flight 830 had 1 fatality due to a terrorist bomb, which I put in the non-9/11 column. I put EgyptAir Flight 990 as a suicide+murder (or accident) and not due to terrorism.

However, this excludes accidents from US carriers not in the US (Pan Am 1736 in Tenerife; 583 fatalities in 1977), and includes accidents from non-US carriers which took place in the US (Air Canada 797; 23 fatalities in 1983). I did it this way because you qualified it as "in the US."

Just under 3,000 fatalities occurred due to 9/11. The full statistical analysis would decrease the chance of death slightly to remove the 19 hijackers and observe that the same person could not be on all flights at the same time, reducing the count by about 150. These minor details don't affect the overall analysis.

The worldwide numbers are listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incident... . From 2002 to 2011 there were 11,068 aviation fatalities. This likely includes fatalities on the ground because it lists 4,140 fatalities for all of 2001, which is about 3000+(11068/10). I don't know how many of those other fatalities are due to terrorism.

Worldwide then, if you pick any period of three or more years, you are more likely to die by a plane accident than by terrorist attack. In the US, if you look at the last 40 years of flights, you are still more likely to die by accident than by terrorist attack.

For the usual sense of scale for these matters, there were 32,367 automobile deaths in the US in 2011, or 1.10 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. Airlines have about 1 death for each 2,000 million miles traveled. (Neither of these statistics include non-traveler fatalities.)
I did some performance analysis on puma vs unicorn vs thin a while ago:

http://ylan.segal-family.com/blog/2012/08/20/better-performa...

Although as noted in the comments, I neglected to run threadsafe! and should have probably tried rubinius or jruby. I have been meaning to redo. Take with a grain of salt
Thanks for pointing that out. We're fixing it now!
I did not justify terrorism, nor was I attempting to. I am merely pointing out that even a 'terrorist' has reasons for his actions, and we ignore those reasons at our own peril. The CIA has a term for what amounts to retaliation in response to US actions overseas: blowback. It is obvious that if you fuck with a beehive long enough, you are eventually going to be stung. Is the bee wrong? Are we wrong? Who cares? The sensible course of action would be to just stop fucking with the damn beehive.

Unfortunately, it seems that we've allowed our government to get us caught in a feedback loop of retaliation - they sting us, we smash something of theirs. When does it stop? Must we eradicate all of the bees in order to see peace?
You don't think that page was chosen as an example because it should be a very inexpensive page to render? I read that as saying that the performance problem does affect all pages "even on THIS mostly static page."

As for your skepticism of the graphs, take a look at the annotated R source they provided. I didn't do a deep dive on it or anything but it looked reasonable to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan#North_Korea.2...
I get that feeling every time I read about North Korea. At the very least, the ongoing tragedy there thrives in the absence of attention. Imagine how much outcry and public pressure for action there would be if there were video footage of these concentration camps on the news every day. At the very least, helping give it more exposure and awareness could help build momentum for more meaningful action.
What is not moral is that there are still people willing to destroy the economical system of countries where people are, as of now, still free to talk and move. Once a state defaults it's typically followed by a more authoritarian regime.

I cannot begin to understand how there are so many people asking for "more state" when you see what too much state leads too. It first invariably leads to default. Then to a more authoritarian regime. Then a planned economy and from there it's the infernal spiral down to mediocrity and tyranny.

But of course people asking for more state will tell you that North Korea is not a good example of communism and that Argentina is not a good example of socialism.

How convenient.

The answer to our problems is not more state, but less.
Absolutely nothing I've read in the last decade exacerbates a feeling of complete helplessness as much as this article (and 60 minutes video mentioned) does.
The Hashashim were destroyed when the Mongols invaded. Not much of a haven.
Sure, if the "genius business model" was "charge everybody money for it", but the way that was phrased implied they had something more devious in mind. By going the VC route and asking for $7 million straight up, they bet big and lost big.
Since Nixon, all the presidents have been actors and nothing more. They realize this, and the malaise probably sets in at some time. GWB would have been a competent office manager. BHO would have been a good high school principal.
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Yes, exactly like that service everyone hates. ;)
Noted. I'm curious about the motivating factor though - would you like the graphs to validate the depth of the data, get you excited with potential possibilities? Or something else?
Where do you find sysadmins for high availability systems willing to work for $100K per year?