skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point of "assuming your idea is wrong" is a technique for managing risk.

The author fails to take into account a huge source of human error when it comes to what he's proposing: ego.

"Startups are about identifying what people want, and giving it to them. People tend to be pretty bad at doing this because they’re not honest with themselves about whether or not people actually want it."

People are even worse at being honest with themselves about what they're good at and what they know. The result of assuming you're wrong & testing all assumptions is discovery of the "unknown unknowns." Yes, it takes time, but there are loads of techniques/processes that have been developed in the past few years that minimize that time.

If your goal is failure, hand the reins over to ego. If your goal is success, question everything.
There's not a single reply bashing PHP here yet. This means that you did something good (and I totally agree!)
A lot of ideas start out half-baked, in brainstorming sessions, etc. Even if you don't like the ideas here, judging from other comments it's at least thought-provoking. And this person basically opened up their private journal of ideas for anyone to look at.
Why Is the United States So Sick?
Thank you for the compliment.
Yes it does.

If you did want a generator that didn't yield anything I guess you could write:

myEmptyGen = ->
yield if false

Which is pretty ugly, but it's not something I've needed to do often with generators (in Python at least)
Decoded Fashion Showcase Highlights Startups Using Subscriptions
Did anybody thought of the black market site "silk road" rather than the actual Silk Road before clicking on the link?
It repeatedly crashes Safari on my phone.
> Crush chaos and entropy through decoupled design, through APIs that are simple and affordant, crush chaos by making it everyone's job to make the whole simpler.

The author and yourself are talking about entirely different things. Decoupled design and APIs won't help you manage tens or hundreds of developers, it won't help you guide a team towards the same goal. It also won't help as a communication buffer between all the different areas/developers. This is where the PM comes in. The author's thinking _above_ the code level. With his 105 developers, even if they're all producing amazing software, you still need to setup a comm. and product guidance machinery [0].

> Don't add people who cannot code and hope they will improve things.

I'm sorry to nitpick this specific phrase from your comment but a lot of people has expressed this "people who can't add code won't add value" thinking. The reality is that the author never mentioned bringing non developers to do the job (but from the comments on this thread it seems this has been a recurring theme for many people).

Speaking from my own experience, the best PMs almost always started as developers. You don't have to bring an outsider with no technical knowledge, you can just find the right team member who's already starting to take over this and then make it "official".

This prevailing "but he can't code" ideation shows that most people's experiences with PMs has been bad and us developers bring it up because code is where we excel, it's what we can understand and fix. The reality is that if the PM failed to do his job correctly it was most likely not related to his coding skills (but again, we frame it in terms of what we understand, code).

[0] Keep in mind that this does not mean you need to add more layers to your company structure. Empowering current employees seems to be working just fine for companies like Valve and GitHub.
Holy flashback! I was sitting in Sun trying to explain why the next version of NFS could not be a 'pay' version to SunSoft leadership, and then President Ed Zander said "Chuck, look how many people use NFS, if we got $10 for only 10% of the seats out there we'd fund this company on that." To which I replied, "If you charge $10 then 10% of the seats will be 0 since there will be no seats."

This is the paradox of "infrastructure" services. Today the telephone is an amazing thing. But their value is tied up in the network effect (other people have them so you can use them to call). If nobody has a phone, you buying one has little value, if everyone has a phone then you want one because you can talk to everyone you know.

So Facebook is 'cool' when everyone you know has a presence there, it is 'not cool' when you don't know anyone there. Charging a subscription now, is not plausible, people will leave. Instead you need to sell entire groups and then charge them a subscription fee. Fortunately we have a really great example of someone doing exactly that, it was called Yammer. Put everyone in your business on Yammer (it felt like they just changed the CSS assets in the Facebook code, seriously) and increase connectivity and communication in your team. Instant value proposition if everyone in the company is using it. So you sell a subscription to the company and boom, done.

Now if you wanted to create Facebook for Enterprise to compete with Yammer, that might be interesting, and to bake in the notion of "Enterprise" presence and "Non Business" presence into the same user account, that would generate revenue. And if you told people, "if your company signs up for Facebook for Enterprises you're personal account will also be ad free and have these additional features ...." then you can create 'pull' where people actually want to lobby for it inside.

But just doing a subscription model probably won't work.
I honestly don't know, this was just a quick hack this morning while I had a hangover :) I think it's good to have the conversation though!
The anti-virus _never_ was anything but a high-pass filter (any illusion to the contrary is propagated by AV stakeholders): who needs to exploit machine-executable code when you can get the users to do it for you? Just promise them dancing hampsters, and voila.

There is no silver bullet, especially not when people are involved.
Lol no it's not a joke. We will be launching this coming week.
sorry, apparently digital ocean isn't very good. site went down and i can't get back into it. lesson learned.

edit: should be back up now

edit2: nevermind, digital ocean acknowledged that there's an outage in their SF location. definitely dead now.
No, this is a pretty bad idea and takes away focus from Facebook's advertising business which in the long term is far more lucrative and has far more potential.
Ahhhhh, I meant how many users are using it now. As in using the product.
Wow, I really wanted that to continue the path all the way to Europe. Really just a treat to use. The smoothness of the "gif-like" images just smashes typical video in my mind.
I just added yieldfrom (like yield* in ES6, includes the output of one generator in that of another) support in a separate branch:

https://github.com/almost/coffee-script/commit/67f2347685b45...
Closing Apps in the multi-tasking switcher has been the only way, on both the iPhone and iPad, to save your battery when apps on iOS run out of control.

I certain I'm not the only person who has felt their iPhone get hot, and shut down everything in the switcher to recover the and stop the battery from draining?

Likewise with the iPad, making sure every music, every voip, every downloading, every geo-fence, every GPS, every-single-app is shut down is the only way I can keep my iPad Battery from draining after running a good handful of apps.

That, or just powering it down - which, as I said earlier, kind of defeats the purpose....
>>> This is important because no one ever pours themselves 80 ml of wine.

Well, this is not completely correct - in wine tastings, for example, the recommended pouring usually is about 2 oz which is under 80 ml. Of course, tasting just once is another question that gets us back to the square one...
You can always host your own openID sollution.
Just like I and others are "not so sure" about your original statement.

Again I ask, how well can you claim to speak for the entirety of Europe? My observation is that Nordic women abstain from drinking during pregnancy at least as often as women who are native born to the US.

What would you accept as evidence that your original statement is incorrect? Perhaps the journal article "Alcohol consumption among pregnant women in a Swedish sample and its effects on the newborn outcomes", which finds: "Before pregnancy, 89% of the women regularly consumed alcohol and 49% reported occasional or frequent binge drinking. Nicotine was used by 15% before and by 5% during pregnancy. During pregnancy, 12% continued using alcohol and 5% also admitted binge drinking." ?

Compare this to the statement in "FOCUS ON: Biomarkers Of Fetal Alcohol Exposure And Fetal Alcohol Effects", which says that "roughly one of every eight women in the United States continues to drink during her pregnancy". 16% is higher than 12%, though I don't know the error bars to tell if that's significant.

If you don't like self-reported tests, then perhaps "Measurement of direct ethanol metabolites suggests higher rate of alcohol use among pregnant women than found with the AUDIT—a pilot study in a population-based sample of Swedish women" is useful. It concludes "Twenty-six women (25.2%) were identified as possible alcohol consumers by the combined use of AUDIT and direct ethanol metabolites."? (Note though that hair cosmetics and other things can cause false positives in a direct metabolites test.)

I interpret this to mean that 75% of Swedish women certainly do not drink alcohol while pregnant.

In other words, it's very easy in Sweden to find women who don't drink while pregnant.

Then for Germany, in "Smoking, alcohol and caffeine consumption of mothers before, during and after pregnancy--results of the study 'breast-feeding habits in Bavaria" the researchers report "25.3% of the mothers reported any alcohol consumption during pregnancy, 69.0% of pregnant women were drinking caffeine-containing beverages. The consumption rates were reduced clearly during pregnancy."

And for France, in "Is pregnancy the time to change alcohol consumption habits in France?" reports that "A total of 52.2% of women indicated that they had consumed alcohol at least once during their pregnancy".

Why did you make such a large, encompassing statement about all of Europe, when (1) there is such a variable rate, depending on the country, and (2) it looks like better than even odds that a 'European' woman does not drink once she knows she's pregnant.
Most engineers are good at discussing specific tradeoffs, especially technical ones. Finding tradeoffs that relate directly to a product's roadmap and its impact in the rest of the organization and then discussing them with the persons "outside the loop" (higher up, executives, etc.) is not a common trait.
Well you seem to be defending the "cultralism" hypothesis without actually committing to any sort of an explanation of the extreme differential among the Japanese and Korean airline performances. Again, note that the Japanese airlines are among the safest in the world. It's not just a marginal difference.

The vague point you seem to be making is that the Japanese pilots are trained to "suspend" the culture somehow. Soo... it's just training then, isn't it ?
I like the business concept behind Airbnb because it can apply to so many other industries - which suffers from the mismatch between supply and demand. It definitely helps spawn similar ideas that are set out to help eliminate inefficiencies in the economy. Now there are a lot of start-ups that help you share your car, vacation home, yacht and pretty much whatever you own that you would rather share with someone than let it sit rotting in your garage.
Its all about full disclosure for ethical reasons. Can't say that about them white hats.
Ah. This makes my comment look silly then. Sometimes that kind of context is not obvious when these things come up on a site like HN.
Ask HN: How much industry experience before attempting a startup?
How much industry experience do you think a new grad should get before attempting a startup? Is there a minimum x, where anything less than x would look bad to employers should the startup attempt fail?
I'd argue that a tiny, if vocal minority is obviously not happy about it. And therein lies the problem.

As much as the character assassination we're seeing is real, I suspect that people like Hayden are starting to capitalize on the possibility that Snowden is killed and does real damage. He can then turn 'round and say "I told you so!"
citation needed (on one sixth of the world's population)

Before you trot out their subscription numbers, I should point out that I know quite a few people who have multiple FB accounts for a variety of reasons. That portion goes up substantially when you add people who deliberately got rid of accounts and then created new ones.
Here's the primary bit the article says about implications:

"The two-part flaw, based on an old security standard and badly configured code, could allow hackers to remotely infect a SIM with a virus that sends premium text messages (draining a mobile phone bill), surreptitiously re-direct and record calls, and —with the right combination of bugs —carry out payment system fraud."
Solutions looking for problems never end well.

You can do it to practice your coding skills tho! Its cool, but not very useful IMHO.
Annoying how Ubuntu gives zero details. Does Ubuntu use bcrypt on their forums? Are they using Ubuntu server to host the forums and if so should all other Ubuntu server admins be notified how security was breached?
It's great to try new formats, but the experience is completely broken on my now-slightly-aging Windows laptop. I wish web developer/designers would test their pages on regular hardware instead of 27" iMacs or rMPB...

The scrolling is horribly lagging, and the gifs/videos are all black:

http://prntscr.com/1gq4he

http://prntscr.com/1gq5b6
It seems to me like we're finally witnessing the birth of a 21st century news paper. The New York times has always been well regarded for it's journalism. Now we're starting to see what can be accomplished when a credible journalism outfit is complemented by equally credible digital designers.
I wonder if something like making a donation to the EFF for every week that a warrant has not been served would work. Could they compel you to keep donating?
Kenji Lopez-Alt's turducken guide is a must have in the topic
http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/11/the-food-lab-the-ulimate-...
a 50% retention rate? That's not very good. That means that after you've installed Linux, half of the people switch back.
Training programs are cultures. Japanese pilots are better trained because the culture of their training program is different. What other explanation do you have?

If you don't believe culture has an effect on behavior, why do you think my ancestry has anything to do with my behavior?

You're also picking and choosing bits of my posts to hear what you want to hear. I specifically asked, "Who's to say that the lives of the individuals in charge aren't fully responsible?"
But when my point was that the author seems to think only gifted children are intense, why do you immediately assume I'm telling you you're not?

No, I had thought you were implying that adults are emotionally less intense than children, which made me feel alone because that's very much contrary to my experience. The big thing that freaked me out about growing up was realizing it feels much the same as being a child, except for having learned how to maintain a facade that it's totally different and I'm somehow actually as calm as I act.
You make an excellent point.

A wine tasting portion is a sip, that you slurp up and then spit out. No-one (I imagine) thinks of that portion as a real serving size!
To be fair though, it's been the only silk road in the news for the past few years.
Not necessarily. Maybe they don't have a computer at home; maybe they don't have reliable access to the internet. The more likely a person lives in poverty, the more likely the above is true. The more likely a person is female and black, the more likely a person lives in poverty.
Was anyone else prompted to "update their expired password" when attempting to login to iTunesConnect?

I did have the same password for about three years so it didn't seem too odd. Of course I double-checked the url and it looked good. Also I waited for a few days in the hopes that someone else would notice if this was a scam of some sort.

Unfortunately after updating my password I forgot the new one. At least I think I forgot as my new password (as best I can remember it) doesn't work.
No it doesn't. Mathematica only uses Qt on Linux, the Mac frontend has always been a native Mac app.
The problem with scaling back is that they'll just shift it around and do exactly the same thing.

The Justice Department has shown the way here. Just as they're aggressively hunting and prosecuting leakers, they need to aggressively prosecute and jail government and contractor executives for Constitutional violations.

As long as those in charge believe they won't be punished, they'll take that as a wink and a nod, and cloak themselves in patriotism.

Heads must roll.
I've always thought this would be their golden goose. It would serve two main purposes: give them a source of revenue (processing fees for their 'Pay with Facebook' button, and additionally get people to save their credit card with FB, converting to a lot more FB credits for games.
Apple Dev Center is still down
They're called http://www.reddit.com/r/cinemagraphs
Microsoft's share of connected devices will continue to drop as connected home appliances become ubiquitous. I'm sure what this number proves. How about Microsoft's share of computing power, say n connected devices x m processing power. I'm sure Microsoft dominates in a world full of under powered "smart" phones.
maybe they were using some parked or addon domain? I know the chances are that it was not, but the entire thread talks about the poorly designed apple dev backend, which includes links like that.
Heavy crack users would have, I presume, a wide array of other problems, from bad nutrition to bad living conditions to physical abuse to child neglect. So singling out one chemical and attributing a problem of a life in complete disarray to it seems wrong, especially if statistics suggest otherwise. Unless you are looking for an easy political fix - we'd just eliminate crack and all problems would go away! But then it turns out chemical is not a problem, the life that makes using the chemical an attractive option is.
I have to wonder, which browser?
Some web applications are more platform specific than others.
Since Linux is the most popular OS for running web applications it seems reasonable to assume it was chosen for a reason and therefor web developers would be worse off if it were not available.
Anthracimycin: New Antibiotic Kills Anthrax, MRSA
Sure, but in 1993 I'm pretty sure a #1 meal was $2.99.
I'd like to think I knew what the "real" Silk Road is, but I'm afraid that I would not answer this question correctly in quiz setting.
So will all users be able to update to the latest Firefox OS as soon as it comes out, or will there be carrier or manufacturer interference?
Funny how nobody ever quotes the opening and closing verse of Kohelet: "Fear God, and do His commandments!"

Interestingly, besides that verse, Kohelet was considered too depressing for the Judaic Sages to canonize.
Chrome latest... Maybe something's wrong with my computer?
| We do it because we as a society love to
| control women

This is a ridiculous claim. If anything erring on the side of caution and telling pregnant women not to drink alcohol falls under the "Think of the Children" banner. It's an effort to prevent babies from being born with issues, rather than some need to tell women to 'get back in the kitchen.'
Forstall has the backups.
Your About Page is About You
"People are even worse at being honest with themselves about what they're good at and what they know. The result of assuming you're wrong & testing all assumptions is discovery of the 'unknown unknowns.'"

True. There's absolutely an advantage to testing. The question (as always) is whether the opportunity cost outweighs this advantage. I think that "question everything" is a huge overgeneralization. You don't have time for that. To be successful, you have to have the ability to put yourself inside the minds of your consumers, and know what they want (at least in the big picture sense. obviously feedback is useful for smaller things).
The control group should be smokers not non-smokers and if all the cocaine using group are also smokers the difference should be the effect of the cocaine.
Why Don't We Just Kill All the Mosquitoes?
Each socket should have two file descriptors
Advice for everyone wanting to try Razor and use it on daily basis: Have KDE already installed and then install Razor. This way the functionality that is lacking in Razor will be covered by KDE, in my experience this is the most painless way to do it.
Slightly o/t: PG recently tweeted about YC's dissatisfaction with the Nest[1], but didn't talk more about it. If anyone from YC could tell us a bit more about their experience with the Nest, that'd be awesome. I personally like mine a lot, but I've noticed amongst my friends that it's a "love it" or "hate it" product. Then again, my thermostat needs aren't draconian either.

[1]: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/358420997591941120

"We installed Nest thermostats at YC and frankly it has been a disaster. Design does not end with the case, guys."
Ask HN: How many internet-connected microphones are near you at this moment?
It's a video : http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/07/21/silk-ro...

I have to give them kudos on the JS implementation, it's really smooth.
where there is no reason to believe power, control and deception will not be absolute and insubvertible one day

But neither is there a reason to believe they will be. If the universe has no teleology, that means it does not inevitably tend towards evil.
Doesn't matter. People aren't going to decide, gee, I actually wanted a Toshiba.
I was incredibly surprised to see that Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter) wrote this, because it's not just a bad suggestion but it's a bad suggestion without any real depth or analysis.

The hopeful side of me is saying it's an inside joke, because suggesting that someone models a company after Pandora seems like it could only be done in jest; if anything, I think Pandora is an example of how to succeed in technology and fail in commerce.

The cynical side of me is saying that this is linkbait with the purpose to generate clickthrough to Biz's startup, Jelly.
SIM card flaw affects millions of phones
Consider that some might not program for "fun".

They might do it out of necessity: to "scratch itches".

Limitation breeds creativity. This is true in general, but certainly in computers. Ever heard of demoscene? By comparison to the constraints we had to work with in the 80's, the power of today's handheld computers (one usage of which is as a "phone") is hardly a limitation. But I guess it would depend on what you are trying to do. I have no idea what you would want to do. Only you know that.

As for what others might do, were they to be able to upload their own software to their phones, well, the only way to answer that question is to let them and see what comes out of it.

Only a fool would believe he could direct, let alone predict, all the uses that might be made of a particular software program, a particular language or a particular computer.

One use of a computer is as a communications device, aka a "phone". Another is a "game console". There are plenty of other uses for handheld computers even if you yourself cannot think of them.