skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simple basis here is that Bell Canada owns huge swathes of the Canadian network infrastructure. If you live in a city then you're lucky, because Bell might have at least one competitor operating, usually a Cable company.

If you live in even the least-remote rural area you're likely stuck with the choice of Bell or one of the ISP's that piggy backs off of Bell's network. The example here is TekSavvy, their speed on the Bell network is capped at 5mbps despite (in certain areas) Bell can provide 16mpbs to its own customers, however TekSavvy provides unlimited bandwidth for a very reasonable price. $30 for 200gb, $40 unlimited with TekSavvy, but Bell offers 100gb for $80 and thats the best you'll ever get. What Bell is trying to do is make sure all the smaller providers, like TekSavvy, will have to charge their customers more per GB than Bell does.

Bell wants you to have to pay $1/GB or more for any other ISP on their network, or you can choose $0.80/GB with them. When currently you can pay $0.15/GB or less with their competitors.

Back in the UK BT, who owns almost 100% of the lines, tried to do a similar thing, but regulators stepped in and now you can get internet access from dozens of different providers. You can buy it from your grocery store for god's sake!
If you thought the customer service at Time Warner was bad, have you ever tried replacing your Social Security card?
Not if they contribute meaningfully to their siblings children's survival. Your argument also assumes that homosexuality is primarily determined by genetics and/or that they didn't father or bear children in spite of their orientation.
Fair enough, though I would consider many many web apps to be document-oriented. It's a slippery definition to be sure.
(First off, Im not a big early adapter or regular web 2.0 site user. So some of these things may not be relevant if you are going for a tech savvy audience)

So immediately I think "Four Square". I see you arent, but that sounds like it'll be your biggest competitor. How you plan to get users on board? B2B? B2C?

Little things:
1) I like the map where I get to click on the bubbles of numbers to a point. But once I zoom in on San Francisco, its a little weird to still have bubbles over neighborhoods. At that point I'd rather just see a list of the top places on the bottom, with pointers ala Google that change as I scan through the list.

1.a) ah, and when I got too close, all the bubbles just go away. How do I actually find the places? I thought it would be through the map...

2) The white check is a little confusing for "I want to see it" Can it be a totally different icon?

3) Ah, was worried I would have to remember the address of the place I added. Love that you have ACCURATE suggestions. :)

4) Rating with the stars is a bit tricky. I love that you do %, but I was momentarily confused when it scanned back down even after I clicked.

5) Super easy to use, congrats. Your UI is clear and concise - I was able to post with ease.

6) Do you have a phone app? In the works? That seems like it would be your most important thing. I would never think to do this sitting at home, but I would definitely do it while just leaving a restaurant, or sitting in a park with friends.
the link was private, and that no one could access it but the people she sent it to

nothig ever happens to them

She already has many points of reference; she knows this isn't true. Why don't you?
"Creative Thinking" - John R. Pierce (Bell Labs)
The reason I draw the distinction is because modern training methods stress shooting an actual gun in certain circumstances. I think the fact that the training involves the physical act of shooting a real gun is important. This means that the only difference between training and combat is the stress level and what the solder is shooting at.

That's operant conditioning. If you remove a physical gun and replace it with a virtual gun, perhaps some operant conditioning can take place, but I doubt it will be enough to overcome our disinclination to kill another person. (I know the military actually use FPSes for training in some circumstances - but I think it's used more for communication practice than anything else, and it's used in combination with modern training methods.) The reason I stress virtual versus physical is that you want training to be as close to reality to get the desired behavior.

If you remove participant action completely, such as passively watching a movie, then I think you've lost operant conditioning entirely. Grossman spends much of the book arguing that humans' instinct not to kill other people is so large that we need operant conditioning to overcome it. He submits that the untrained combatant will sometimes literally die instead of firing their weapon. He ignores this argument at the end of the book.
A lot of my thirtysomething friends put things on their FB profiles that would be useful in a social engineering attack. Things like when they graduated high school, photos of their first car, etc, often as the answers to "25 Things," or quizes, or such.

Some of those nuggets of information provide answers to questions that online banks ask for account verification.
According to http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/facebook-selling-digita... facebook is selling digital gifts at a $35m run rate. A friend at fb tells me this number is significantly inflated though.
Thanks! The site was actually built as the backend for an iPhone app we're working on, so we definitely agree..
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I've never made a virtual purchase, but I found a rare object in a video game once and gave it to my brother as a birthday gift. I think he appreciated it more than any physical good I could have given him.
When do you have to decide?

How much looking have you done for an internship in Canada?
Is this "news" if it is almost 3 years old?
Leaving Christianity and realizing that I alone am responsible for my destiny....my will be done...
There do seem to be some parallels. I was told I could lose weight, better my relationships and make more money. It reminded me of the self-help aspect of Scientology (if that makes sense).
(nods) Oh definitely true. I spent a summer with one of the BEST team's I have ever worked with (this I measured by their experience, the roughly equal ratio of seriousness to laidbackness and quiet time to social time, and the welcoming nature of the people there). And we worked in a small, windowless office with cement walls. Yuk.

But in that situation, team definitely won out. Sure, the environment itself sucked, but you hardly noticed because of the group atmosphere.
That's kind-of the point: emphasis should be on readability, not "this long, and no longer!", and that applies to all points in any style-guide, i.e. it's a "guide" not a rule-book.
Good point. To me, the emphasis on grid systems is mostly to improve designs made by people not necessarily talented in design. In that it's something one might not know about even though it improves a design without doing much.

Moving completely away from grid systems to have something different probably needs more talent in the design department and can not be achieved by anybody.
It probably matters how you program. If you spend more time doing research, then you are not so much in danger of wasting time with hacking away at stuff in the hope that enduring trial and error will solve the problem.

I try not to spend that much time actually coding stuff and probably spend more time working stuff out on paper and talking to people before using a computer.
nice. hopefully we can get some significant volume with this one.
Agreed, but it is worth clarifying Carnegie's statement:

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

More often than not, a criticism does not have the intended effect. Our instinct in the face of criticism is to become defensive.
1) Yup, looks like I need to tweak that a bit. Showing a list is a great idea.

1.a) Ah, that's probably a bug.

2) Good point.

3 & 5) Thanks :-)

4) Ah, right. I can see how that could be confusing.

6) We have an iPhone app in the works. The site was actually built as a backend for the iPhone app... We're both ex-Apple Cocoa programmers, so hopefully that will be our strong point. ;)
Out of curiosity, why the long wait before launch?
LOL, I just assumed it was written April, 2009.
So, tell me: what's so funny?

That innocent childhood naivety ("Mom! This looks scary!") coming from a very unusual source.

I'm 29, an age where a few of my friends "grew up" online, and a lot of them did not. It's remarkable to see the behavior of those that "did not": they tend to have really different attitudes toward things like sharing photos and exposing information about their lives to people. Social network "Friends" are a great example of this: people that grew up "offline" tend to treat the social network friend links like true friend connections, but "online" people tend to assign social network "friend" status to acquaintences.

Someone that grew up "online" might really find the "offline" behavior amusing or endearing, particularly when accompanied by such a dose of tech-antisavviness.

Counterpoint: I grew up "online" but ended up with somewhat severe sociopathic tendencies -- I go to lengths that surprise myself in order to keep my real and online names disassociated.
Its not a matter of being hard to remove. It can be the easiest thing in the world to do. But I would still have to keep doing whatever action is necessary to remove the bar. Over and over and over for every link. Plus the X is on the wrong side of the screen for me — Mac's have the Close/Maximize(ish)/Minimie buttons on the left hand side of the window, not right hand side like on Windows.

Reddit's bar is not on by default. Digg's is. This is a big difference. Having the frame and not simply redirecting means I can't see exactly what the pages URL is, it makes bookmarking, sorting and tagging that much harder. And site-specific scripts break.

The point is, it doesn't do anything to help enhance my browsing session. Being able to read comments on Digg is not a plus as far as I'm concerned. Being able to give a company that makes a website I don't use (or particularly like) my browsing habits is not something I have a huge desire to do. Besides, it doesn't put comments directly on the page. I still have to click through to Digg to read them.

Oh, and http://skitch.com/zadr/bms2t/not-useful <-- Seems to keep happening. Very difficult to read content if I want to do any scrolling at all.
4:15PM, Wednesday, April 15, 2008 <- Edit: I'll assume that's a typo, as tomorrow is the 15th and the correct date is listed here:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/
A Local Revolution?
I think that's a typo, check http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/
Just for reference for anyone else, the Palo Alto equivalent of Red Rock is Coupa Cafe. It's smaller than RR, but it's packed with startuppy types either brainstorming or just coding. Incidentally, I'll probably be there coding up our prototype a couple hours from now if anyone wants to stop by.
Corn ethanol is stupid, but - you know - in some parts of the world water falls from the sky. Water use doesn't /have/ to be bad.
NUI is actually very capable of both. Here is a partial list of features (including widgets and layout containers): http://redmine.libnui.net/wiki/libnui/Features
You can have a small example of the way it looks in the widget debugger doc (completely done with nui and included in any NUI application):
http://redmine.libnui.net/wiki/libnui/DebuggingTools
I'm surprised GS wants to pay back the TARP $10billion so quickly. They are paying $500Million/yr to keep that $10Billion.

GS also "borrowed" $5Billion from Berkshire Hathaway, giving BH preferred shares for its $5Billion. The preferred shares pay 10%. So GS is paying $500Million/yr to keep that $5Billion from BH.

The BH preferred does have a 10% premium that GS must pay to retire it. But this means GS has the choice:
1) Retire $500Million/year of interest payments by giving $10Billion cash to TARP
2) Retire $500Million/year of interest payments by giving $5.5Billion cash to Berkshire Hathaway.

It makes you wonder just what is so bad about holding TARP money that it is worth $4.5Billion to buy your way out from under.
The assumptions that programmers are there to lead the way, and the rest of the organization is there to make sure they can do so is flawed, IMHO. Microsoft didn't get to where they are today because Bill G. is a great programmer, but because he is a great businessman. The fact that he's a hacker certainly helped a lot, but without his business sense (and a few lucky breaks) he wouldn't have gotten to where he is today.

The thing is that what you build is probably the most important decision a company makes, and the answer to that question is not something that programmers are uniquely qualified to answer. As a matter of fact many programmers live in a world that is quite different from normal people, and don't understand the fears, desires and motivations of normal users. Which you need to do if you want to answer the question of what to build.

Yes programmers are good at building things, and to use the yacht metaphor from the essay they should be in the engine room making sure the darn thing just runs. The one at the helm should be someone that understands business, people, marketing, and preferably technology.

Programmers don't need an implementation layer, they are the implementation layer.
I wouldn't be surprised. I saw James Hong from HotORNot talk about virtual gifts a while ago. You know what one of the biggest sources of revenue on their site was? Flowers.

You could send three different kinds of flowers to someone -- a cheap one ($1), a medium priced one ($3), or an expensive one ($10. Yes, $10 for a stupid little flower icon.)

People bought flowers by the hundreds of thousands; they became one of the biggest drivers of site revenue. Moreover, and this is interesting, James said that when someone sent a flower to a person, they were considerably more likely to get a response when sending a message.
From original thread: Team, Geographical location, Environment, Freedom to experiment, Impact, Size, Equity, Technology. Most important I think is personal belief in the product or result. Especially if working on a startup. For example, If I love all of the above, but we're building a silly twitter app, a new todo management app, or a POSN (plain old social network), no amount of cool people will make me like my job.
No Heroes Allowed
For the day when you will not be able to be the developer _and_ the designer of the application?
This is exciting as a disruption of the 86 series CPU (Intel Pentium etc).
Are you using a geospatial database?
I thought it helps to expand on this a little. (Feeling relived after 2 days of intense coding...)

Seaside is for building web applications, not web sites. I wrote about this difference sometime back at http://motionobj.com/blog/smalltalk-needs-a-framework-like-r....

But the approach of using code to generate HTML should be applicable for web applications, it just so happens that Seaside is not suitable, state-heavy for one.

The most common argument against code-generated HTML is this makes it hard to work with designers who work with HTML. But as a developer, how often do you change/tweak the HTML after a designer pass you a comp, either in HTML or a PSD? I always do, and I suspect it is the same for almost everyone else. Be it using templates or code-generation, the designer is not going to care, nor is he going to know how to structure the page so that elements can be shared or values substituted effectively. And if he tweaks the CSS, he can't change the HTML without working with the developer anyway, since that will break your code. So it's not like using templates makes the problem go away.
I guess in my heart I'm not really a hacker. But computers are good at getting things done.
Brilliant! Much better use of space. I can sort out the heap of information easily.

If I can get voting on there, I'll use this instead of vanilla HN.

Good innovation. He went further than simply displaying a pretty bullet list, like others do(digg, etc.).

Plus he included minors innovations that are very clever. For example, the size of the headlines are proportional to it's number of votes. It allows you to see how liked(important) a piece is regardless of it's rank.

It would be cool if the headlines would keep their current style and become links.
Um. I think the three different proportions (25%, just under half, "minority but majority in creative population") were simply to demonstrate that there was no clear agreement on the number of introverts (at least via Google).
Love the nice clean interface, couple of points:

1. Definitely go mobile

2. Detect my location and immediately show me stuff nearby (there was a geolocation database on HN recently)

3. You're making me zoom in too much with those nice aggregated bubbles, at some point I just got tired

4. Socialight built a nice community, but they don't seem like they're going anywhere (incidentally they're based in NY too!) - they do some good things, like mobile strategy but the interface is hard.

5. Don't force the sign up before someone adds content, let them add content and then ask them to sign up or provide an anonymous nickname

6. Placemarking and location based services is a massive but very hard and less understood market, keep innovating and develop based on feedback - community is very important!
Actually, I plug my TV into the wall. Which is my point. That we get a lot of sun, wind, and poop is kind of besides the point, isn't it?
One option not listed is 401k match. Next to base compensation, that is the metric I am most interested in.
I don't see why you need to stop complaining. The only step required here is adding a potential solution at the end of the thought process.

For instance, I could say: "John is such an asshole. Here is plan A for avoiding or removing this behavior in the future." Using kiddie words like "Muppet" makes me cringe. At least be honest inside your own head.
Will have to decide within a week.

I haven't done any searching yet except sending my cv to that company division in Canada to be told I have to go through the standard way (sending my cv by their website) to apply for an internship even if I already worked there.

I still have a little more than 4 months to find an internship.
Lack of access to fresh water is probably going to be one of the largest challenges of the 21st century. I don't think this is something to dismiss lightly.
I've often wished that our cultural values would reverse when it comes to gaffes and skeletons in the closet: that we would only trust politicians who are insultingly blunt and who wear their failings on their sleeves. Any candidate who looks too squeaky-clean would be laughed out of the room as obviously trying to deceive and manipulate us.

I can dream, right?
I appreciate the caution expressed in the essay; that it is unclear both that an event is on its way and that location is necessarily decided. No doubt SV is the capital of startups, but I still think in the world of startups it is slightly different than Hollywood or Wall Street because you can do it with little money or connections. The distribution of startups across the world remains to be seen, but I agree often it will depend on who is offering the money.

To address the randomness of the revolution, I sincerely hope someone out there is developing some kind of portal to find all of these neat tools being developed. There are several YC apps in faq.html that, when put together, give many people no reason to really have any desktop software at all.
I don't really share everyone's obsession with fighting "negativity". Actually I find the lack of nonconstructive bitching to be quite annoying: sometimes that's exactly what's needed.

I bet the public pressure to always appear "positive" makes people feel oppressed: perhaps that's the underlying emotional background that feeds audiences to shows like "South Park" and rants like Zed Shaw's. Because force-fed "positivity" is everywhere: from bloodless CNN reporting of wars to always happy-ending movies. George Carlin's famous "pussification of English" is like an entire nation wearing invisible bracelets like these. To me that's borderline to orwellian doublespeak.

Fake "positiveness" comes at a cost. Both big corporations I worked for were filled with always-smiling, "outgoing, positive team players" who'd pollute everything they say with "great, awesome, tremendous" and other positive reinforcers that lost all their meaning because of overuse, while real problems tend to be overlooked and forgotten - nobody wants to be that asshole. My experience at startups has been the opposite: no time/money for fake bullshitting, "this sucks and needs to be better" isn't a taboo, it's almost a mantra.
I did something similar to this last year as a satire. Whenever I had a bowel movement, i would update my twitter with my cell phone.

http://twitter.com/EricIsPooping
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Yup, PostGIS. Also using GeoDjango.
Love the maps. Where is the author getting them from? Are they available for other parts of the world?

And a little more on topic: when travelling through the south of Germany, you'll find about 50% of larger buildings in the countryside have solar panels on the roof. With the right incentives, you can spread this sort of thing pretty quickly. (as far as I know, they get to feed unused electricity back into the grid at the same price at which they draw from the grid; I suspect the initial investment might be subsidised, too) Cross the border to Austria and you see nothing of the sort.
Outliers presents evidence on how hockey players are affected by non-intrinsic factors (their birth month). The excerpt is online somewhere.