skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps. But if I could buy 5% of their stated capacity? (i.e. 50Mbps up and down) for $50, that would be a huge improvement.

My theory is that Google realized they could not penetrate last-mile infrastructure in any significant way. However, by demonstrating an extreme amount of bandwidth is possible at reasonable cost, they could influence bandwidth/ prices/ availability over a much greater geographical area.

I also find it odd when people exclaim how unnecessary certain technologies are until other folks step-up and show what can be enabled with these "unnecessary" technologies. On top of that, I also believe hyper-decentralized services would be easily possible as consumer connections approach/attain 1Gbps last-mile, So, it is weird (to me) for a major "cloud" provider to demonstrate and enble that potential.
I don't think that's a typo.
You can still copy the feature without looking at the code. Sometimes its even preferable.
mikeash understood what I was getting at. You're acting like an eighth grader who just discovered logical fallacies on Friday.

In case you didn't know, Jean-Louis Gassée was, along with John Sculley, one of the principal figures who ran Apple into the ground after Jobs left. I find this adds an interesting subtext to his commentary on Apple now. He may very well be right, but it's amusing that he writes publicly about the subject at all.

A good comparison is this letter from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan about his handling of the Iran-Contra scandal: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/let-stillborn-midget-re... Nixon was probably right, but it's amusing that he of all people chose to give unsolicited advice about handling presidential scandals.
No need to guess, read the terms yourself before spreading FUD. https://fiber.google.com/legal/terms.html
LOL, no.

After the Reader-is-dead news cycle ends, the money will stop flowing, and the real work (supporting paying users) begins.
BeerSci: Are Hops Addictive?
Looks cool. One question though; you say "share anything with anyone", does that mean I can clip text, links and images from anywhere on the web, or only from the services you mention on the landing page?
So give it me straight: not satire?

You wrote a post to HN about how those who are complaining about Google Reader (a group you admit is not all programmers) should stop complaining about Google Reader's shutdown because these people could just whip up their own alternative? And you see no other facet of this situation that is worthy of being upset about?

You very successfully just trolled HN. And that wasn't even your intention?
It is tough to compare a healthcare "market" to any other market. Fundamentally, healthcare is a good that nobody will voluntarily want, but that everyone is going to need at some point. Furthermore, it does not lend itself for easy consumer evaluation. Imagine if doctors were reviewed on Yelp, and you saw a review that said, "My sister had cancer and this doctor performed the surgery to remove her tumor. Six months later, she died. One star." Did the doctor botch the surgery? Did the doctor actually perform a miraculous operation, giving someone on death's door and full six months of life? And is this something you really feel equipped to compare like whether you want the double cheeseburger at McDonalds or Wendy's?

We could also get into the further perverse incentives specific to the US healthcare system, but I've yet to see a fundamental argument about how efficient market forces can work Adam Smith's magic on healthcare.
I don't think Apple would still exist if they bought Be instead of NeXT.
Buttonizing social interactions
but delicious is still around, it was never shutdown, and from what i can tell, is better (from a functionality perspective) and has a bigger community than pinboard. the site design of pinboard alone turns me off to it
You would be better off by just copying features and writing your own code than taking NewsBlur's highly coupled code and trying to forge your own business out of it. I think they reserve that task for developers sent to hell.
This is a fallacy listed, "the fallacy fallacy", first column second row on the left with the symbol of a fractal.
I hope this also works for Chrome Remote debugging

https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/re...
This still doesn't solve the issue at all, all they've done is make their documentation more honest. Switching to an app server like Unicorn just means that a dyno will lock up after it's randomly assigned more than NUMBER_OF_WORKERS requests rather than more than one request. Slightly better, sure, but it doesn't fix the core issue.
Mostly done already via http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
> Your life is hardly over, it hasn't even begun. Justin Bieber is 19 and has quite a few #1 albums already, should every 20-something singer feel bad about themselves as a result? You need a new yardstick to measure yourself by.

Some of the best advice I ever got was "Never measure yourself by someone else's ruler."

Especially not Beiber's.

If you're not dead yet, you have all the time left.
Are you interested in working with others or just want to do something solo? I have some ideas, but obviously I'd like to be involved somewhat.
Have you considered releasing VM images? I've thought about it for open source projects that have a bunch of dependencies, but haven't actually tried it.

On the other hand, you may end up with people running the app that have no way to maintain/support it.
HootSuite vs Buffer | the social media age
Yes, the burden of proof for a prediction (slippery slope is an instance of a prediction) lies with the party making the prediction. The exact same goes for any argument, and such a prediction should get the same respect as any other potentially flawed argument.

If someone is saying "A will cause Z OMG!" without a strong causal chain, the fallacy you want is probably "non sequitur", or you point out what other thing is wrong with their reasoning. But you don't just assume the argument is invalid, as you do with formal fallacies, because slippery slopes are indeed real.

At the risk of going too meta, someday am I going to have to deal with some idiot who thinks "slippery slope" is a formal fallacy, because they were all lumped together like this? If the site gets enough traffic, it will get some people who can't tell the difference, who will come away with the wrong impression. Not that many, but the possibility is, IMO, an indicator that lumping them together like this is a bad idea.
It might be risky, but there are a lot of other companies that are doing exactly the same thing and and have shown a great path for newsblur.... (for example, wordpress, sugar-crm, etc).
Fast internet for all, except narrow-minded Farhad Manjoo!
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Interesting. Many people (including me) will choose the Steam version of a game if its available, to get all the niceties of auto-updating, easy reinstalls, a central list of games & achievements, and so on. Shows the difference implementation can make.
Thanks for digging in on the data (and practicality), I'm curious what the cost-difference would be when considering what capacity fiber to put in the ground (where the real costs lay). I would guess 'sky is the limit' when considering what to bury underground, but what type of switch to place at the endpoints would vary as paying customers adopt.
Announcing CUBRID 9.1 stable release with big improvements
I'd put it another way and say that generic quality brands merely inherit their social placement, whereas luxury brands actively seek it. The latter is a bandaid for a character flaw.

One of my friends has two kids - 4 and 7 - who live with their grandparents in Malaysia as they "can't afford schooling in Singapore." The truth is that it allows them to maintain their image with an LV shoe-rack and a Gucci bag cupboard. He recently changed his Whatsapp image to a photo of his new $1K Hermes belt - they see their children twice a year.
Thanks! You can definitely collect links from Chrome/Safari, just press Cmd+Shift+C. Unfortunately, we don't support clipping text and images from the web. Yet :)
No, I quoted the exact phrasing in a child comment as it stood at the time. Your later edit made your intent clearer.
"2.4.1 was rejected on Monday night for a reason that didn’t make sense (the reviewer said it wasn’t sandboxed when it was)."

I've had some incredibly fun (sarcasm) experiences with the review team for the MAS over the last few months. Reading that sentence got a belly laugh out of me.

The first major WTF that I had with the review team was their insistence that an app I had submitted was calling a private method. A method with the same name was present in an included library but rather than explain that to them I found it quicker just to remove the library (a workaround was simple enough). The hair pulling started when they again rejected the app for exactly the same reason. As the app relied on a heavy 3rd party framework it took a lot of investigation to understand what (wasn't) happening. Finally I took out a $50 tech ticket and after a week the engineer explained that the review team's tool for checking API usage was broken and it had nothing to do with my app.

The next time the review team rejected an app (seemingly within minutes of it going into review) because it was "producing garbage output". This time I just did a cursory review of the app before using another $50 tech support ticket. The app was sometimes writing files with the format somefile.ext.sb-randomstring. I suggested to the reviewer that the app was messing up an atomic write and given the sb- part of the filename had something to do with sandboxing. A week later the engineer explained what it was to me -- which was exactly what I had suggested.

My advice to anyone dealing with this is to spend zero time talking to the review team. Don't resubmit (unless it's something really obvious) and don't try to reason with them. Filing a $50 tech support ticket will basically guarantee that someone capable of passing the Turing test (have a conversation via iTunes Connect and you'll understand what I mean) will look into the problem. The tech support team will usually ask the review team to expedite your review once the problem has been solved -- something you'll rarely get if you ask yourself.
The art of decision making as product manager
I nearly pulled my hair out when a sandboxing bug in 10.7.5 broke one of Apple's own apps.

http://imgur.com/F5roY1h

https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1599
See https://duckduckgo.com/ :-)
I'm sure PG is aware of this, but is he going to do anything about it?
RSS is trivial to implement, and there's considerable value in having a machine-readable version of a publication. New media consumption tools often rely on RSS to get started at the very least, and letting your competitors get a leg up when the new hotness comes around isn't good for business. Publishers who drop RSS do so at their own peril.
If you're going to post pointless blog posts, fine. But why advertise it here?
I am guessing you're using DO VPS for very specific purposes. I have a VPS on it myself, but they do not provide any way for VPSes to network with each other, which is annoying for multi-host setups. If you have them communicating with each other, I'd appreciate it if you shared your approach.

And congrats on your increased traffic.
Take that back to $lashdot, please.
Or me yelling out to my wife at the other end of the house "Are you watching Survivor on YouTube?!" because my travel research tabs were all performing glacially. Then realised the TV was paused (and thus buffering) Food Safari on SBS OnDemand. Oops.
I think you (and to be fair, a lot of others too) might have skipped most of the article; what you've said basically agrees with the latter half of it- from
"The inability to anticipate the utility of Google Fibre is understandable" onwards.
Two things to note:

1. Co-investment is a poor way of measuring a connection between two investors. Just because you have invested in the same company as another investor does not indicate you have ever spoken to the other investor. In fact, the greater # of "connections" you have (companies you invest in), the less likely it is that you actually play an active role in the company. This is especially true for investors/funds that invest in hundreds of companies.

2. Since the data comes from AngelList, the data is particularly skewed towards 1) angel investors, and 2) people on AngelList. It under-estimates the influence of people who have networks beyond just angel investing (Andreessen), and completely leaves out others (Ron Conway).
Yep, our final interview is a hack/opensource-project all together. It's a great way of finding out if you can work with someone, as well as how they interact and solve problems.
In that case, there's a preference waiting for you that you're going to just love...
I agree fully – the danger of the walled garden platform has been illustrated quite quickly. Though, part of me wants it to happen more, in bigger ways, so that everyone notices how bad it can be.

Relatedly, I think it's somewhat amusing – I find myself using the Mac App Store the way I sometimes use brick and mortar stores – to look and see my options and then I go see if I can find a "better deal" from a website – in this case, the software publisher's site.

Similarly, the stuff I have actually bought from the App Store is either items that are only available there or are so cheap/single use items that I don't care about shopping around.
Exploiting a flaw in JavaScript with a Chrome Extension
The Innovator:Jack Dorsey
Good luck with your endeavors!

I thought I would share something kind of relevant: http://paulgraham.com/reminder.html
Ask HN: Full Text Feed Reader or Summary Based?
Would it be mandatory/your preference for any new feed reader you use to show the entire article on the site rather than forcing you to go to an external site to read the article?
I think the Thoreau quote is closer to an antidote than an analog of your quote.
Really? I think he's mostly being fair and he can be very critical of Apple from time to time. Most recent example of this that comes to mind is his latest podcast (may be the one before that, not sure). The whole podcast is about Apple's mistakes/problems.

MG Siegler on the hand...
Reddit has really gone through a transformation in the past few years. It's painful to see interesting discussions turn to memes and viral marketing. Just seems to be inevitable. I had an idea for how to limit the influence of the masses and bots by giving trust to known high quality "trusted" users. When a high quality user votes on something, he spreads his trust trust around. Effectively it means that people who post cat pictures have no trust and therefore no influence with their votes, and the admins have a simple way of steering the content by picking and choosing the trusted and non-trusted users. Trust could be computed similarly to how you calculate pagerank.
The question is, what kind of HN participant upvotes a comment like that?

After upvoting your comment, I will answer your question. It occurs to me, because of, um, examples I have seen, that sometimes a person who has no personal knowledge of what the underlying facts are (that is, whether TechCrunch is a good citizen of the Valley or a bad citizen shot through with conflicts of interest) may upvote a comment that appears to differ from the HN consensus just to bring that dissenting view to prominence in the discussion, the better to encourage people who know facts about the matter (pro or con) to speak to those facts. In any one thread, I have at most one upvote (or downvote) for each comment, so I'm never completely sure if I'm part of the thread consensus or part of a mistaken group of outliers if I vote in a thread where I don't post. In many threads, I plainly don't know enough to vote either up or down on disputed factual matters (and thus don't vote), but I try to read in lurk mode and learn something. Maybe some people who upvoted the offensive comment in this thread, whoever they were, were "upvoting for disagreement," just as some people submit articles for disagreement, Even though the consensus here is that submitting a story endorses a story, and upvoting a comment implies agreement with the comment, there are definitely some participants here who submit or who upvote to provoke critical comment from other participants.
It's easy enough to tap a menu to get it to open. As an iPad user, I don't think I would mind a well-designed hover-centric workflow, as long as it works okay on touch too.

It would have to be well-designed, though. Apparently it's really easy to wind up with a moronic hover-based menu, judging by the number of them I see around.
Try http://rssident.com

The UI needs work but it is very simple.

Scalability will not be an issue. It was designed from the start to be scalable. Just add servers.
Articles like this are toxic for a community.

First, it's largely unsubstantiated, predicating most of its arguments on insinuations without much substance if any in the entire article. Without the usual navel-gazing about Journalism, it's still worth pointing out I wouldn't associate trustworthiness with any brand willing to publish an article as poorly-sourced as this.

Second, it ascribes to single-minded malice what is much more likely a vast and complex series of behaviors, some of which probably involves spammers but much of which does not. This kind of reductionism is rarely constructive IMO.

Most problematically, it lays the foundation for the delegitimization of dialogue in a community. This kind of paranoid accusation soon empowers folks to stifle dissenting voices as part of this outside group trying to bring down reddit. This kind of paranoia has already infected dialogue on the middle east in reddit, for example.
OS X has awesome updates, though. Almost every single OS X app uses Sparkle [0] to check for updates on startup. I feel bad giving the credit to OS X, but Windows has no such prevalent counterpart.

0: http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/
scipy/numpy has compile time dependencies which can take some time to resolve.
Random load balancing still wouldn't be optimal because, on aggregate, the dynos that happen to receive more expensive requests still get overutilized and the dynos that receive less expensive requests still get underutilized. This is assuming--probably validly--that there's a power law distribution to how expensive requests are.

Maybe you need entirely different load balancing strategies for different designs of web application, which means Heroku's promise of a single infrastructure stack for everything is bogus. But I'm skeptical that they deliberately chose to favor evented frameworks rather than choosing what was easiest for them to implement.
FWIW, it looks like I'm at least the 3rd person today who would have added your rss feed if it existed...
Hi
This is Pia Sen, the study leader. Your point is excellent. Actually, in our earlier study published in Preventive Medicine, we looked at that question -- whether people just 'substituted' other means of violence for guns. We did not find evidence indicating that is the case. That's why its no longer a primary research question in this round, but it is something we will revisit as part of specification checks.
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To me, the most interesting part of the story is the parenthetical comment at the end:

(Incidentally, because of some of the changes we are being
required to make, we cannot guarantee that Scrivener on the
Mac App Store will have as good support for .docx, .doc and
.odt formats in 2.4.1 and future releases. This does not
affect the version on our site.)

I wonder what's behind this, how it actually affects Scrivener and whether it will hit other apps in the future.
Reddit has minimal barriers to churning accounts to sybil attack the community. It's all too common to hear founders trying to maximize users and accelerate growth before the long-term externalities have been considered or the stack is ready.

Some times taking your time is the best decision for the long-game.

Crawl->Stand->Walk->Run->Jump
Doesn't work for me either. Moves really slow. In Chrome 25 stable.
I've always preferred keeping all that stuff in a VM (usually linux).
Law of large numbers, central limit theorem etc. If enough people give stars, with their systematic biases - we'll have useful results.

The market could work in healthcare. It should be our goal to make that a reality, because the alternatives sucks.

UK, US - sorry but that sucks.

These system are worse than what the market could provide with proper deregulation. We did that for airplanes. We can do it for healthcare.
Just wanted to say, NewsBlur and Pinboard are both big inspirations for me. It's awesome to see people making money off of open source software.
I've been bashing Apple for years for free. Now I feel like I've been robbed! Where's my Apple bashing money, China?
First-person Tetris
the reviewer said it wasn’t sandboxed when it was

I'm afraid I'm utterly ignorant about Mac programming, but how is that even possible? I thought sandboxing was built into the execution environment, not the app.
I have a Windows VM that's snapshotted with all of my favorite tools. When I need to test something, I do so and then roll back. No mess, no cross-pollination of tests.
but on the TV you can't measure snack runs. on the web you pretty much can.

and even if you can't, you can always pay a 3rd party company that says they can and then you can bail out the payment to the publisher because that 3rd party metrics said so.
You should make an intelligent feed updating algorithm.

If you have at least fifty previous entries from a feed it's easy to predict fairly accurately when that feed will need to be updated again.

That's how the indexer for http://rssident.com works. Saves you tons of cpu cycles.
Both of my co-workers and my managers are still on 10.6 because of perceived concerns about 10.7, and the fact that our IT department wants to do a full reimage to upgrade to 10.7 or 10.8 rather than just running the upgrade.

I actually have more problems with 10.8 than I did with 10.7, so I understand some people's reluctance to upgrade.
Your second sentence is a bit rude, and unnecessarily so. Lots of people think the status quo is perfect as it is quite an improvement over what they used 10 years ago.

Even for an idiot like me, after utilizing the bittorrent protocol for a few months, it is quite obvious to me what we could do if everyone had consistent 10Mbps up and down for $10/month.
Agreed. The approach we used in our earlier gun study and will also use in this study is to try and control for cultural differences across states using various standard econometric techniques (fixed effects, lagged dependent variables etc). Otherwise it would be foolish to just eyeball Massachusetts and Mississippi and assume what works in one will work in the other!
The app requests sandboxing. That request then causes it to be run in a sandboxed environment. Apps can refrain from requesting it and run non-sandboxed, but such apps are not accepted in Apple's store.