skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also easier to second-guess when it is not you or your children that would be in the invasion force. The U.S. is still using Purple Hearts that were produced during WWII for the expected casualties of the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.
Not to be harsh, but your argument is all over the place.
I don't mind it. It's not like it's high-contrast, large font, or bold, it just serves as a heading for the menus they show without making the font large or bold.

It's definitely nowhere near as annoying as intellisense randomly breaking and putting a red line underneath half your statements.
Just an observation: it is possible for the data to be normally distributed with a mean higher than 3, that just means that the distribution is truncated closer to the median on the upper tail than the lower one.

However, just from eyeballing his chart the data in this case do appear to be slightly left-skewed.
I can answer it for him: They pay more.
One's life != a business
If Bitcoins are considered currency, then it is subject to all of the same laws that would apply to any other currency. Money transmitter laws are currency agnostic--they apply equally to transmitters of pesos as they do to transmitters of dollars.

OTOH, if Bitcoin is not a currency, then it would not be subject to these laws--but in such case it would be unlikely for Bitcoin to ever become more than an extremely niche means of exchange.
The primary contribution of the U.S.S.R. (with U.S. material assistance) to the defeat of the Nazis is absolutely undeniable.

But I don't normally see "Stalin" and "hero" used on purpose in the same sentence either...
People migrated from Reddit as it became too mainstream and less tech focused. Reddit has a similar design. I like the simplicity personally
Not necessarily true -- you can report/dislike ads anytime/anywhere on Facebook and Twitter (maybe Google+? I don't use it really)
Sure, that would be better. It'd be awesome if they could transition to any type of better economy. But I think given all the circumstances and what is happening, facing and accepting reality is the best way to go. Because the robots are coming, waiting for the country to be ready just isn't going to happen.
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Go to the original ESO page instead of this retread teeming with hideous advertisements:

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1324/
I don't even understand the comparison. They were buying (not selling) Bitcoins directly from sellers. Western Union is specifically engaged in the business of enabling people to send money to others.
Answering from a throwaway: started my own software company 10 years ago, selling SaaS w/ monthly recurring revenue in the CRM space. I was 25 at the time, and left a 150K/year job as a lead engineer.

Endured 18 months basically zero income, then a slow climb from ~60K to 500K/year in 2012.

Monthly recurring revenue = stable income. Especially b/c our primary product is a low price point, so our revenue is well distributed across hundreds of clients.

Other than the sacrificial early years, the key points are:

1. No VC

2. Long, steady SaaS income ramp

3. Small company - 3 people total, I'm the only developer (and always have been), and I own the majority of the company. The company does over 1M in revenue annually, with a low cost basis.

If someone wanted to go this route, I would advise them:

1. Be a full-stack generalist

2. Build a revenue-generating company by selling software (vs. giving it away in hopes of attracting eyeballs & monetizing those).

3. Learn a vertical (CRM, in our case), and fix a pain point. Don't follow the herd into the sexy startup de jour.

4. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Don't kill yourself.

5. Offer extremely good customer service
Interesting for comparison could be Diaspora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_%28social_network%29) github final comment on why they would not implement a dislike button (https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/1474):

[...]

I can't find the records of the past conversations we've had about this, but the final decision was this:

A like (or whatever) button is a way to show appreciation without leaving a comment. It is pleasant to get likes, it provides positive reinforcement, and it's simple.

Dislikes would do the opposite, it's like someone spitting on you and not knowing why. You can express your dislike in a comment, which is perfectly adequate.

[...]

Moreover being Facebook a commercial system, dislikes would have negative impact on its advertisers. So I think that this togheter with the above reasons made up for a like-only rating system. No need to look for more esoterical reasons.

But still the article was appreciated and it might spin up interesting conversations.

Anyway, I'd greatly approve a dislike button :)
Start with something drastically different, much simpler and even slightly controversial. "Yet another yelp" or "yet another social sharing site" is not going to cut it.

Instead of food, let people rate quality of restaurant toilets. There is a wisdom that you can judge quality of establishment by the condition of their restrooms. I found it to be true in vast majority of cases.

Then - migrate this review model to hotels and other businesses.

Be the first, attract attention and be useful and unique.

Gleb
Way way way way, WAY too soon Microsoft... most shops, including my current employer aren't even on 2012 yet... Honestly I prefer VS to be tied to desktop OS releases or SQL release or something other than yearly.

This is not a Madden game, nobody is asking for yearly updates for Visual Studio.
I'm actually a bit relieved to see a new version of VS so soon. The Entity Framework team said that v6 would come out with the "New" Visual Studio and I was wondering how long that would be. Apparently it's a lot closer than I thought.
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In a relationship? We'd love your thoughts on our new venture...
Hi everyone, I'm Danny. I'm one of the co-founders of Date Night Is... (http://www.datenight.is). We're a newly launched NYC-based startup that's aiming to help couples keep date night on their calendars without going stale. We're completely bootstrapped and launched our MVP recently.

Right now, our primary product is an email based reminder that offers up date night ideas (the first email reminder will go out in the next week or two). Our goal in the future is to grow the technology to better learn about couples and their interests in order to customize the ideas that we're sending on a personal level.

We'd love to get feedback from the Hacker News community about what we have so far, where we're headed, etc.

Thanks in advance!
Contractor != Full time software engineers, which is what the topic is.
All these wonderful tools and they still can't release an operating system that's worth a single plugged nickel.
Why do you think I am a guy? Sexist asshole.
Tablet thief forgets to disable automatic uploads, help me find my tablet
I'm graduating college with a BS is software eng next year so this grabs my attention. Programmers of the real world: Is it this bad? I can't imagine that it can be. I enjoy what I do. I even often enjoy frustrating programming assignments. Can a job really be that bad? I'm inclined to say that this attitude that we (programmers) are better than regularly jobs is a little too forward thinking.
Don’t sell your time for a living.
Starve.
They're still not there.
Zynga to lay of 520 employees
Some people believe that past experiences can be useful in helping you judge similar, but not identical, situations you encounter in the future.

I see you are not one of those people.
Chicago, IL - GrubHub

GrubHub is the nation’s leading online and mobile food ordering platform that shows diners local restaurants available for delivery or pick up.

We have been insanely picky over the last 8 years in hiring only the smartest, coolest developers we've been able to find. We are looking for a few more talented people to join our team and help us change how diners, restaurants, and delivery drivers experience takeout.

We run on a Java platform using lots of open-source, lightweight tools. We are heavily invested in iOS and Android and happy to both teach and learn from new developers.

If you are at all curious about GrubHub, I'd love to tell you more. You can read a little more at www.grubhub.com/careers/ or reach me directly at jake(at)grubhub.com
Yes, you may legally kill people, either by "standing your ground", through capital punishment or by waging war. You may also pollute, and I'm leaving it up to you to figure out how, because I'm not going to bother arguing for the obvious. Hint: gasoline.
Seriously! My company has been keeping up with the latest stuff but I have hard time understanding what the justification was behind releasing a whole new Visual Studio version. Are there new features that won't be available in VS 2012? I guess we'll see at the Build conference.
This is probably just me, but I would learn javascript itself first, so that the frameworks are not a black-box. It is not very complicated or expansive, so it will not take that much time, but it will save you a lot of time in the long run if you are able to just go look at the source for any of the libraries you mentioned, and see for yourself what is there. There is a lot of bad javascript code and using a framework first would only encourage bad habits, but that is my personal viewpoint.YMMV
The problem with a full range rating (positive and negative) is that over time people will abuse it. We've seen this on an older web project (http://www.trendbuero.de/dk/). If you have a negative rating sooner or later little groups in your community will emerge and they will try to dominate everyone with their taste. They will call their peers and ask for downvotes. And when someone get's a lot of downvotes for a post it's unlikely that he will ever post again - he's scared away - forever. In a just positive rating system: If someone does not get any likes, he'll try again - maybe with different content. So traffic wise it's besser to just allow positive ratings.
I don't think 'like only' reduces the breadth of communication that much more than simple like/dislike does already. Especially if only the net difference is shown (1000 upvotes - 999 downvotes says a lot more than 1 vote.)

When I see articles upvoted on HN I'm never quite sure if the number of votes is telling me 'good article', 'raise your awareness of this issue' or 'good discussion about this in the comments'.
"At least the traditional version of a job, in which you do something you sorta hate, from 9-5p, and are paid for your time to just grit your teeth and do it. Let’s call this the “sell your time” version of a personal business model: You sell your time to an employer, and they pay you for that time."

This is called being an adult and getting a job, much like the other 99% of the adult population. Some of us just end up being happier with what we do than others. Some people don't care about what they do at all as long as their non-work life makes them happy.
Maybe the fact he sent >12 million of his own citizens to slave and die in the Gulag in Siberia could have made it difficult to cast him as a hero. For a depressing account of the Gulag and other aspects of life under Stalin's rule, read a few of Solzhenitsyn's books.
But the business model isn't making things, it's butt-in-seat time.
Sardex: Euro-based bartering system
As a recent college grad (Carnegie Mellon University Class of 2012), I take issue with the "working on a startup is more meaningful than working a 9-5 corp job" stance. It's not about skills, it's about security and certainty, especially in this job market (which still isn't great), even if you have the technical skills and education to do basically whatever you want.

There's no harm for a college grad to wait a few years before doing a startup once they've built up savings and a positive reputation.

It's worth noting that very few Computer Science students my year created a startup relative to the amount of CS students who instead decided to work for a large startup/Microsoft/Google/Amazon.

http://www.cmu.edu/career/salaries-and-destinations/2012-sur...
upvote for you. I see you are mid 400. Need to get you back to 666.
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From the article: "I will not, in this post, be talking about many of the new VS 2013 features that are unrelated to the Application Lifecycle workflows."

It seems that the OP talked about what the blog's focus was first, then will come in later (maybe on a different blog?) to talk about anything else.
The issue I take is that the article puts strategy into a step in the timeline or process, whereas I believe it needs to be everywhere, all the time. You can't have product-market fit without strategy AND/ORD you can't build a solid, sustainable business without thinking about strategy/market-needs/biz model and probably more at the same time, holistically throughout your existence.

Yes. Business model and strategy are so inherently related (practically "joined at the hip") that I'm not even sure it makes sense to try and divorce the two and talk about them separately. And to the extent that you can talk about them as separate things, it seems obvious to me that changes in one are likely to drive changes in the other.

What is strategy? Well, one definition is "the things you do that your competitors don't". Another is "it's the things you don't do". Well, changing your business model is changing "what you do" (or "don't do" as it were).

And to flip things around... let's say you have some kind of SaaS application, and you've chosen "freemium" as your business model. Your "strategy" now is still "what you do that your competition doesn't". Changes to strategy that can fit within the "freemium" model are strategy that can evolve idependently of the business model. For example, you may have chosen to compete on "product quality" as a metric, so you may spend far more money on testing and QA than a competitor, in order to try and create a product that is better. That's "strategy" and that's independent of the "business model"... except when it isn't.

Like, when the freemium model doesn't drive enough revenue to support the dicated investment in testing and QA. So what do you change, the strategy or the business model? Which one is really more "primal"? I think you can look at it either way, and you have to keep things in harmony one way or the other.

So we're back to how business model and strategy are largely "joined at the hip". Some elements of either can evolve independently of the other, but you just can't divorce them totally and put them into a timeline.

So my advice is not to rush into business model without first finding product market fit and then taking the time to lock down on a crisp, clear, and smart strategy for your business.

My only argument with this is the use of the term "locked down" to refer to strategy. Your environment isn't static and unchanging and your strategy can't really be either. Strategy, IMHO, is a dynamic and iterative process that is never "done".
This is in sharp contrast to the rest of the ratings systems around the web...

That's because the like button isn't a rating system. The like button is simply capturing one subjective reaction (the desire to express your overall like of something with zero context) to provide a objectively comparable metric (number of likes). We're talking about apples and oranges here. Rating systems at least try to achieve feedback by providing context, likes do not.

Why people don't usually leave negative reviews - People don't dwell on things they dislike

None of the analysis here takes into considerations around the motivations of people to leave reviews in the first place.

people avoid things they will dislike, causing universally disliked things to remain unpopular. Its important enough that I thought I would sneak it in twice in different forms though.

Or maybe there are loads of hidden variables that are affecting this data. Like, for example, why people chose to write the review in the first place? I'd love for someone to do a scientific experiment to draw conclusions about humans motivation to write reviews.

Nobody sets out to write a terrible novel, open a crappy restaurant or create a horrible movie, and people mostly succeed in not being abysmal.

That chines restaurant down the street has value sets that people can't articulate correctly when describing their feedback (low price, quickly made, etc), and yet will get 1-2 stars on yelp for being "poor quality".

Recommendation systems are complex because we're effectively trying to scale subjective attributes into objective context. It will never perfect and will always be gamed. This debate will last for centuries...
Numenta is completely self funded. No VC would touch Numenta - (in the beginning) Do you really think Hawkins a man who dedicated his life to reverse engineering the neocortex will determine his success by a quick and dirty 'feature' sellout to Google?
Going from 11 to -11 is not that bad.
Can you give your colleagues on the App Engine team the number of the Dell sales rep you buy your servers from, because a quick comparison of App Engine vs. Compute Engine prices shows that App Engine is at best 10x more expensive per unit of RAM:

| Instance Type | MB-mem | $/hour | $/month | $/hour/GB |
|----------------------------+--------+--------+---------+-----------|
| GAE F1/B1 | 128 | 0.080 | 57.60 | 0.64 |
| GAE F1/B1 (reserved) | 128 | 0.050 | 36.00 | 0.40 |
| GAE F2/B2 | 256 | 0.160 | 115.20 | 0.64 |
| GAE F2/B2 (reserved) | 256 | 0.100 | 72.00 | 0.40 |
| GAE F4/B4 | 512 | 0.320 | 230.40 | 0.64 |
| GAE F4/B4 (reserved) | 512 | 0.200 | 144.00 | 0.40 |
| GAE F4_1G/B4_1G | 1024 | 0.480 | 345.60 | 0.48 |
| GAE F4_1G/B4_1G (reserved) | 1024 | 0.300 | 216.00 | 0.30 |
| GAE B8 | 1024 | 0.640 | 460.80 | 0.64 |
| GAE B8 (reserved) | 1024 | 0.400 | 288.00 | 0.40 |
|----------------------------+--------+--------+---------+-----------|
| GCE f1-micro | 629 | 0.019 | 13.68 | 0.03 |
| GCE g1-small | 1783 | 0.054 | 38.88 | 0.03 |
| GCE n1-standard-1 | 3932 | 0.115 | 82.80 | 0.03 |
| GCE n1-standard-2 | 7864 | 0.253 | 182.16 | 0.03 |
#+TBLFM: @I$5..@>$5=($3/$2)*1024; %.2f::@I$4..@>$4=$3*24*30; %.2f

No matter how good or bad the OP's GAE code was, that's a heck of a handicap to overcome.
OP here. Posting this to encourage other companies and startups to hook up with Watsi and fund medical treatments for people in need.

Ping Chase or Grace @ Watsi - I'm sure they'll be super excited.
If you don't see that it is being played out like a zero sum game, then you haven't been paying attention. That is exactly what I am saying.

>More people with money also means a bigger market for western products.

A bigger market for western products that are also manufactured elsewhere cheaply, giving the corporations higher profits that generally benefit a relative few shareholders who continue to grow wealthier.

I put quotes around progress because there is more to the story than just pure
progress.

But, I explicitly acknowledged that giving people a better life is a good thing. My point was that it is not the product of some grand benevolence and it comes at a price. Look at poverty rates in the U.S. alone, for example. For instance, in 2013, U.S. child poverty rates reached record levels.

All we have really done is redistributed jobs and wealth from the working and middle classes of the developed world to developing nations and the wealthy.
The Nexus 4 is 370 EUR? The large size is 370 USD including sales tax...
> If Bitcoins are considered currency, then it is subject to all of the same laws that would apply to any other currency. Money transmitter laws are currency agnostic--they apply equally to transmitters of pesos as they do to transmitters of dollars.

The main reason many Bitcoin-related business are potentially covered by money transmitter (and related) rules is because of how they handle traditional currencies like US dollars in connection with their Bitcoin-related business.
I personally don't mind the menu caps, but I do find the way they are forcing their design choices on everyone somewhat antagonistic, and generally not smart.

The same issue happened with their forced grey or white color schemes. It's not hard to give users the option to switch things like this to suit their preference. Yet MS has deliberately not provided any way to adjust these settings, and this gives users something to rant about, and rightly so. Really not a smart move in my view.
Read half the article - he lost me when he used that hackneyed phrase '110%'
No, it's really not this bad. I "sell my time" for a living and I frakkin' love it. I work with really talented people I respect and love, working on interesting products that I like, with little to no bullshittery.

It's not like this everywhere, but these spots in the industry exist, and if you're halfway decent at what you do, they will want you also.

As rayiner said also, entrepreneurship is also "selling your time" - you're just trying to sell it at a very high price with no guarantee that anyone will end up paying you for that time.

There is also no guarantee in entrepreneurship that you'll spend a substantial portion of your time doing things you enjoy. A lot of startup life is thankless toil. Putting together a startup is a lot more than writing some code and slapping together some designs - as a founder you will go neck-deep in territory you do not enjoy, whether that's sales, marketing, business development, design, or something else.
Hard Fun
I hope somebody makes an ImageNet classifier or does some other standard machine learning benchmark so we can directly compare the performance of NuPIC to the state-of-the-art in machine learning.
Rich Ex-Facebook Exec Still Working Because "I Don't Want To Be A Douchebag"
Stock halted. Bracing for a crash.

This will be bad.
I'm a third year computer science student from Maseno unversity, I'm really interested in learning about AI and unfortunately we'll only be learning more about machine learning and so on next academic year. We've done a basic unit called Intelligent Systems. So my question is, what next from there? Can someone please recommend what I should read to advance my rather basic knowledge?
Could somebody please explain what andrew chen does? Is he an entrepreneur?
A good reminder to not get stuck in local fad maximums.

Remember when the future of every single company was gamification or bust? Remember when the seemingly only viable business model was skinner boxing rube middle america housewives with no self control (oddly, middle eastern princes also would spend tens of thousands a month on those silly in app purchase games, except they can afford it and don't have their lives ruined with addict-induced credit card debt)?

I don't have a point. Just notice how the "tech press" and fads and media sweeps through in its ever-shortening attention span to the point where they aren't good signals for anything anymore.
Well in fairness, that's the exact way the argument is usually seen deployed by those opposing state regulation of anything who eventually end up hyperventilating about jackbooted thugs forcing you to register your car at the DMV.
Did we really expect any other endgame?
Nobody pays anyone to keep a seat warm...

For a counter-factual to the article, consider a Subway franchise. The people who really make things in that business are the sandwich line workers getting paid $8/hour. Everything else is in support of that core productive function.

So why don't you want to be a "maker" at Subway? Because while the sandwich line workers are the ones making things, it's the store owner that has the leverage--he gets other people to make things for him. You want to be the guy with the leverage, not (necessarily) the guy making things (though sometimes, if what you make is valued/rare enough, you have a lot of leverage).
Cool and funny dogs
I really love dogs! What about you? I want to show you my favorite funny dog pictures to you and lets smile and have fun!
With respect to employees that have lost their jobs. Good, fuck Zynga.
Why don't the medical tools get reused? That seems absolutely insane to me.