skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The whole premise of stakeholder capitalism offers a powerful and distinct message, because it gets at both our desire to be competitive in the global marketplace, but also to be more fair and equitable in the way we share our wealth. True libertarians would be repulsed at the thought..."

This sounds to me like a fundamental misunderstanding of the dynamics of a startup vs big company.

In a startup, every employee has an important bearing on the success or failure of the company. Getting the right people on the team is priority number one for a budding startup, and to get the best people you have to promise them a piece of the spoils.

In a typical big company, only a handful of people have enough authority to steer the ship. For everyone else, their roles usually aren't mission-critical, or they're relatively easy to replace. You therefore don't need to pay them as well.

This isn't about "being fair and equitable" or "sharing our wealth" for its own sake, this is still just about economics. More people are getting stock at tech companies because those people's skills and contributions are more directly linked to the success of those companies. It just doesn't make sense to be giving stock to pilots, pharmacists, and factory workers - if they're amazing at their jobs, it has at most a marginal affect on the company as a whole, and if they quit, the show will go on.

Don't get me wrong, I'm completely in support of giving junior people meaningful equity, for a number of reasons. But it still needs to make sense. There are good reasons why we don't see it in other industries.
The Virtual Fitting Room : Survival of the Fittest
Tabs in a treeview is better again, and is not possible with Chrome.

I also object to the lack of a menu bar, for bookmarks in particular. I have an extension that emulates it, but nothing that can properly emulate treeview tabs - I can't imagine ever going to a browser without this.
My original thinking was that an outer borough would be more cost-effective, but my token Friend Who Knows NYC told me that if I'm visiting and I expect to do any business, stay in Manhattan.
Their technical lead Matt Dennewitz seems to post here too. It's high time for a blog post about Pitchfork Cover Story, Matt!
I posted this in response to another comment here (FWIW):

Here in the US, it's very difficult to prevail on a claim of either slander or libel (vis-a-vis many European countries), thanks to the First Amendment. While NYT Co may (may) be in the right regarding their first C&D, I would be shocked if they were to prevail on the second.
Thanks for the response. This is a very enjoyable read BTW:

https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/d4b68a8eca39e6...
My concern is that they are billing this as healthy with zero evidence that it actually is. The last few years of nutrition research has begun to show us that we know nothing about it. Pretending you can come up with an optimal solution when nobbody knows what healthy is, is just that, pretending.

I fear for the people who see this as a great "life hack" who wind up doing long-lasting damage to themselves. There are cases of people having liver failure when they go on a long-term liquid diet. I have no idea if that applies, because we don't really know why that happens.

I appreciate the hacker instinct, but, in this case, I fear it is a dangerous one.
The Hazards of the Buzzy Start Up
And which one is going to be your next phone? An iPhone? or a Windows Phone? Just curious.
Why is the difference meaningful?
I think you missed the authors point. When he wrote:

It took them six months and a powerful multi-person dev team to hand-code it [...] this is why we’ve spent the past year creating a tool that opens the ability to produce these stories

He doesn't seem to be making a, "meh, StackOverflow - I could write that in a weekend" kind of comment. Instead he's saying they made a tool that helps automate the process.
I can't believe this is anything other than a carefully constructed joke.

I guess that a few months from now we'll see a New York Times article explaining how a fake startup with a fake product managed to raise seed capital.
How the Internet will make Robots Part of our Everyday Lives
IANAL, but scrollkit appears to actually be a startup (judging from their about page), meaning that the video was more along the lines of a demonstration video of a product or even a advertisement than an educational video.

My understanding of the rational for "fair use" is use for the benefit of the public good and explicitly not for the commercial purposes, this seems to me to be very commercial.
>Apple and the rest of the MNC's are never going to admit this has a cost to America but it does. All they are saying is we have a legal right to do it.

And if they have a legal right to maximize their profits under the law in this way, one could argue that they have a duty to their shareholders to do it. The problem (for society) is that corporations' primary duty is to maximize shareholder value, and not to benefit society. If a corporation has a choice between doubling their investors' money or curing cancer, they have a duty to choose the former.
Interview With A Blackhat (Part 1)
The business plan appears to be trivial: he can claim it will solve the food crisis, basic economics (he simply won't be able to reduce the cost below current levels) makes this thoroughly impossible, but it doesn't matter to his real customers (you), in the same way that a Toyota Prius ad can show the car driving through a field of flowers and causing them to bloom, even though cars can't do that!

Now, not having any idea how difficult it is to scale production of a physical product is a pretty serious form of ignorance, so my apologies if anyone can verify that Rhinehart intends for anybody to believe this.
Mozilla should build a whole suite of services like mail, calendar, docs, files, photos, etc so they can start offering free ad-based or vip ad-free subscriptions.

They have the resources, the browser and the community to make it work.

I always say I'd like to have a myname@firefox.com account from where to manage all my web presence.

Imagine a hundred million people registering just to grab their vanity plate.

From there... profit!

Mozilla guys, if you are interested just reply to this thread, I'll contact you right away to get the ball rolling.
There's "photoshopped". In fact it's often shortened to just "shopped".

Even before the internet, verbing was happening. Hoover is a brand of vacuum and people say "hoovered" / "hoovering".
> The NYT then came back and said even having the text "The NYT spent hundreads of hours hand-coding “Snow Fall.” We made a replica in an hour." on his site was copyright infringement.

No, they didn't. They took issue with the fact that he merely set the video to "private" instead of taking it down and with the continued use of their name. They did not make the claim that the use of their name was copyright infringement: in reality, the new claim they make in the second C&D is trademark infringement. It's still specious (nominative use of trademarks is generally fine), but not nearly as absurd.
TED is edutainment, at best. The adult version of The Magic School Bus with less science.
I was going to point that out but it seems like such a trifling point to make when there's not even any defamation at hand.
Hmm, the first one would basically stop me contributing at all. You go in feeling all good and like you're going to lend a hand, presumably to people you respect if you want to work with them in the first place, and then they turn around and basically tell you they think you're a retard. It'd hurt pretty bad.

I'd be interested, would you find something like this to be as patronising:

"Thanks for your submission. Could you improve X, Y, Z and resubmit?"
The Series A USV invested in was only $775,000 and was at $1/share according to privco and confirmed by docs I've seen. So how much did USV invest? Obviously Tumblr sold for over $200/share, so please do the math and show what's off? Is it a few percent, in which case what does that matter when you've made 5,000%? You should be proud of that! As a VC I'm envious Fred.

But I've found the privco data reliable (but I'm a client), so I respectfully disagree with just throwing out ad-hominem attacks. So they called out your bad bed on Foursquare. (Foursquare was just forced to borrow $41 Million and even you blogged it would be massively dilutive. PrivCo said forusquare will be out of business by year's end absent raising "massively dilutive" funding.

So I respect you, I respect PrivCo from my working with their remarkably accurate data. You shouldn't take it personally, congrats on today, and if there's something we should all know and you DIDN'T do that well, well I guess tell us. If you did even better, tell all of us on HN and even more kudos! Just don't throw out attacks though something's "wrong" when it can be wrong by a penny or by alot and either way you're technically not lying...it's beneath you and USV and us VCs, c'mon you're better than that.)

Again hats off if you did even close to what's been reported on your Tumblr preferreds.
Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism
No your logic is just incorrect. This is simple propositional logic. If P -> Q does not imply If Q -> P. Bro gamers tend to like games like Madden & CoD. Because you like Madden & CoD does not make you a bro gamer.
> Well, if in a year, it hasn't gone horribly wrong, then he's produced something people can eat for a year without great ill effect.

No, he's produced something people can eat for a year without great ill effect in that year.

You can very likely smoke cigarettes for a year without ill effect. That tells you next to nothing about its long-term effects.
Doc link for those of us that don't have a recent enough version of Vim: http://code.google.com/p/vim/source/browse/runtime/doc/patte...
It does sound a bit suspect to me... the particulars of the deal and who got what isn't public information afaik, so what exactly is "financing documents it says it obtained" supposed to mean?
PKmehta "I dispute the accuracy of your post." Ha. No specifics. I just dispute the accuracy! lol.
I disagree, this video was educational about his product, so there was a commercial interest behind it.

As such, this isn't a fair use case; there have been cases in the past where copy-shops copied parts of books for educational purposes, but because there was a commercial intent behind it US courts ruled that not to be fair use.

See: Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Services, Inc., 99 F.3d 1381 (6th Cir. 1996).

http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/fair-use/case-summar...

Of course, that one sentence they told him later to take down is a different thing I can't understand.
I've been putting oat flower in my shakes recently [0]. Nutrition-label wise it's the same as my steel cut oats, and I've had a tough time finding any solid information on whether or not it digests differently or if it's really meaningfully different at all. (It's easy to find forum posts saying they know what's up, but I haven't found much research or solid medical information. tbh I haven't spent hours searching or anything).

I started doing it because I really hate cooking. I don't even want to boil water for five minutes in the morning to make oatmeal. I don't use it for any kind of super-shake or full meal replacement, but that and some fruit for breakfast seems to work for me pretty well.

Hopefully I'm not unknowingly totally killing myself, heh.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Bobs-Red-Mill-Gluten-22-Ounce/dp/B003L...
I am a nice person, and I didn't actually say anything negative about you. I meant "transgressions" in a purely hypothetical way. Trying to make the point that now matter how pompous some blogger is, we should all be civil to each other here.

Don't mind me, I am just holding back the tide.
I have a soylent-like thing that I've started eating, and I've personally found the impact to be wonderful. It's arguably easier, and it's potentially healthier.

It is extremely inexpensive, delicious, vegetarian/vegan-if-eggs-are-omitted, flexible, nutrient rich, high in fiber, high in good fats, relatively "slow-cal"/low glycemic index, wheat gluten-free, protein rich, easy to digest, and very quick to prepare.

Pre-cooked in large quantity weekly/every-two-weeks:

- quinoa (2 minutes total prep time, in a large cheap rice cooker)
- sweet potatoes (4 minutes total prep time -- simply baked in foil 30 mins to a side at 425 F)
- beans (I do black beans, Mexican style -- this can take a fair bit longer, but they're super tasty, and can last 2-3 weeks if portions are frozen)

In the morning ...

Ingredients
- olive oil (1/4 to 1/2 a cup)
- pre-cooked quinoa (3/4 - 1.5 cups)
- pre-cooked sweet potato (1/2 - 1 cup)
- pre-cooked beans (1/2 - 1 cup)
- eggs (1-4)
- greens (kale/spinach/chard/whatever)
- salt and peper
- hot sauce!!

I pour the olive oil in a large cast iron skillet (cast iron is the best!). I then add the cooked quinoa and fry at high heat for maybe five minutes -- the quinoa should absorb most of the oil (there should be no smoking or anything!).

Then I add some beans and some sweet potato (skins on! and, for the last few mornings I haven't had beans so it's been sweet potato only) and mix it all up. Then comes some chopped up vegetables (kale/spinach/chard). When the vegetables are 70% cooked or so I add one to four eggs (this morning it was four). I mix the eggs in with the rest of the hot conglomeration and cook them very briefly, being careful to avoid having them spend too much time on the hot skillet (which makes them rubbery).

I then put the hot mess into a bowl. If I have avocados (as I do now) I chop one up and mix it with some salt and lemon juice and put it on top of everything. I usually douse it all with hot sauce, repeatedly.

I estimate that my breakfasts are typically between 1800 and 2800 calories, though some days (like today) I only get through a part of it, in which case I save it for later. If I get through it all, it usually means I don't have to worry about eating anything more than a snack at dinner time. This has the benefit of avoiding the afternoon food-coma caused by lunch.

I wash the meal down with some homemade carrot-ginger-apple-greens-beet juice (mixed in with a bit of creatine).
Sometimes things can't be made until other things are made first. These subtle iterations are the root of why some inventions or discoveries are made at the same time in different areas by different groups. This is called "adjacent possible".

The second step is always easier than the first. It's just that even the first step is always the second step to someone else's first (and second) steps.
A lot of people here are suggesting moving from one closed ecosystem (Google) to another. Unless you are really moving to a fully open source alternative which has all - email, calendar, cloud storage, may be a browser and an integrated smartphone etc. I don't see much point behind doing that, especially since Google doesn't have much track record of "misusing" your data in practical terms (that I know of at east).

The only FOSS organization which is capable of doing and promoting it on a large scale looks like Mozilla. They already have a few of those, and a Firefox OS phone is coming as well. Mozilla guys, are you listening?
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Sometimes, I just wished people stopped trying to re-invent the wheel. All of this stuff is not new. It is covered in every DIY marketing book that has been published since the 70's. I don't get what is the fascination of trying to re-invent (or disrupt) marketing. No need for that. Just read a few books, take a structured approach to testing, and see the money roll in.

Also, if you make a post complaining how the book is too expensive and you wont buy it, guess what? you are not the target market. The target market is always people who can and will pay for something. Not people who can and will complain about the price.

Want to learn marketing? Start with the book Guerilla Marketing.
"Adii Pienaar of WooThemes solved this problem by refusing to support non-paying customers. If they’re not willing to pay you, then they’re not your customers"

Great article all around, but I thought that was the biggest take away for people running web apps & online games, or similar.

For a long time there was this "it's on the internet - it should be free" mentality. There is a difference between freedom of information, and giving away hard work with value.
You can have location-based services without tracking. You can improve those services without sneakily violating people's privacy.
>On the other hand, I do think the meanness of programming communities is a the biggest problem we have.

This is very true. I don't know what it is about it, I'm pretty sure it's the lack of social skills that is prevalent with us nerd-types, but it could also be the anonimity of the internet.

But yeah, programming forums can get WAY too snarky for their own good.
The Outrageous Cost of a Gene Test
I managed to read the article without further exploration of scrollkit. I think the front page (and most people's interest) is due to the copyright aspect.
AWS issues us-east-1
I'm a long-time AWS user. Know when something is "broken" (technical term) TM. I got an error message telling me that one of my micro instances in us-east-1 was going down etc. and, at first blush, was unable to create a runnable instance from a recent smapshot. Then, 12 hours later, I find that a long running (> 1year) instance in my us-east-1d has reachability issues and the AWS web interface is asking me to stop/start it. I can't do either. It appears to me that AWS has big issues within us-east-1, related to t1.micro instnaces (running the Amazon Linux ami) at this time. Anyone else seeing this???
In this case, it's enough to make sure that your key is encrypted with your (good) passphrase before you print it:

"if your key has a passphrase on it (i.e. is encrypted), the paper copy is similarly encrypted. If your key has no passphrase, neither does the paper copy."
The cost of backtracking up a decision tree to pick a new technology can be very high indeed.

Economists call this phenomenon "Path Dependency" and it's all around us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependency

And the costs are not just high because of the labour. There's also a high degree of risk. In practice we know less about the running code than we think we do. It usually contains enormous amounts of knowledge about edge cases that will, most likely, be missed on the rewrite and cause trouble.
Your sales funnel approach is deprecated. What is used now is called a sales ladder. Rather than have people pass through a funnel, you have them take steps towards purchase. Sounds to be the same, but it is quite different, and much more effective. Do some research on it.
Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is
Also at least one of GitHub's employees has an email address from a company that he used to work for. This just shows that not everyone who signs up for GitHub uses an email address that's under their control. https://github.com/github/linguist/commit/99c296264ab320d41c...
Agreed. That article is so terrible it actually lends credence to the Soylent folks.
You Are Never “Too Good To Step Aside” As CEO
Senate approves landmark immigration bill
Not at all. I was simply using an aspect of what happened to the author to expound on something we see often but disregard.

I'm branching off from the original discussion to talk about something tangentially related but often overlooked.
I clicked the link, but only because ironically on my android tablet i couldnt scroll the page! I think it must be an android chrome overscroll-y issue, because i can scroll it on the native android browser.
What would make it a bad idea? Just delay sending it for a user-specified amount of time (I think Gmail does 5s, 10s, and 30s), then have the UI for undo-ing the send disappear after the time elapses
Poor execution. You should follow a standard like poco http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html
>Because they're costs in replacing an entire infrastructure that go beyond simply making the choice to switch to something else.

I'm assuming that they don't have to worry about any of that and are given three platforms (PHP/Ruby/Python) that, for the sake of my argument, all do the same thing. Then we ask the question, which would they choose and why?
* The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U.S. is the virtually universal practice among tech companies of distributing meaningful equity (usually in the form of stock options) to ordinary employees. *

While me may already be better than the rest of the country in this regard, we can definitely do a lot better than we do today. I'd be preaching to the choir so I'll refrain from elaborating on the equity compensation of single digit employees, but there must be a way to share the success more equally than we do today.
And it depresses salaries. Companies could afford to pay more in salaries if they didn't have to pay for health insurance. This could potentially make up for the higher taxes we might have to pay for a national single-payer health plan.

Of course, we might not have to pay higher taxes at all if we didn't have all these private health insurance companies skimming the pot.
It shines a light on the problem with inflationary currencies - one, costs of real goods tend to go down as technology advances, this is the "rising tide that lifts all boats", and is supposed to bring the lower economic classes to enjoy luxuries only available to the riches in eras long ago. Why are we trying to raise the prices on these goods?

Secondly, why are we urging the economy to have exponentially increasing production to maintain nominal value, when we have limited resources on this planet?
McCain To Apple CEO: Why Do I Have To Update My iPhone Apps All The Time
> Not sure whats wrong with blending some protein powder (ON is tasty)

Quoting from the list of ingredients for ON[1], this is wrong: Natural and Artificial Flavors, Acesulfame Potassium.

[1] http://www.optimumnutrition.com/products/100-Whey-Gold-Stand...
I'm not sure, but I've got about 154,567 guesses.
Here is the canonical presentation about Brad's fun with scaling Livejournal (including memcached). It's still a good read even now if you want an introduction to the whole topic:

http://www.danga.com/words/2005_oscon/oscon-2005.pdf

edit: Think about the number of decade-old pieces of software still used almost universally because they're still one of the most effective solutions in their field. That is what makes me appreciate memcached most of all.
hey, matt here. we (pitchfork's dev and design teams) have traditionally kept a low profile, but that time is quickly moving behind us. i'd love to talk about how we build our cover stories, our philosophies on integrating tasteful advertising, etc. what would you like to hear about?

edit: here are our cover stories: http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/. we've been at it for a while, and you can see where the idea grew legs, learned to walk, and took off. pretty neat.
Free as in Freedom
>Less kids get STEM scholarships and more H1B visas.

And more taxes would just put well meaning hard-working fellow Tech community members out of work at Apple. It's not such a clear trade-off as you make it seem with your logic.
And frankly, the issue comes down to the key quote in the WSJ article:

"The investigation found no evidence that Apple did anything illegal."

You should be upset at your Congressmen/women that make the laws rather than the "big bad corporations" that obey them.
Given the choice between a lecture in which I am more engaged, learn more (however slightly more), and am fundamentally just enjoying myself more or the alternative: give me the fun lecture every time, if only because I will keep coming back for more and not be afraid I am going to pass out mid-sentence.