skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/olsen_raptor_case_ge...

And the fact that the F-22's stealth coatings, even if they work, ablate in rain.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/f-35-gets-stealthier...

And of course the ludicrous idea that the F-35 can replace the A-10 Warthog in combat.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/a-10-f-35-air-force-...

The A-10 problem bugs me more than the others. The A-10 is a proven warplane that ground troops count on for cover. The F-35 doesn't have the capability to fulfill its role, which could place our troops in greater danger.
Oh you're just being so silly now. Here is my original comment:

I'm convinced anyone can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it.

Here is how I am comfortable revising it for the offended sticklers in this thread:

I'm convinced anyone (of typical mental capacity) can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it.
> Payroll tax is levied on companies not people

As a purely practical matter, payroll tax is levied on both sides of the employment transaction in the US [0]. Beyond that, diverse economic research in and out of the US suggests that the bulk of the tax incidence [1] of payroll taxes is on employees [2].

>> 2-3x more than any of these hippy touchy-feely types who claim that SF is theirs and theirs alone.

> Citation needed. This sounds pretty out of wack.

Here's some napkin analysis. [3] claims Google's average salary for a software engineer is 113k, and [4] claims that San Francisco / San Mateo's average salary is 64k. Since the 64k is dragged upward by the Google salaries, let's speculate that the Googlers on average make twice as much as the "touchy-feely" residents. It seems totally reasonable to think that someone making twice as much money will pay twice as much across the suite of payroll tax (they earn more), sales tax (they spend more), property tax (they own more property), and transfer tax (they exchange property more often). One would want to empirically corroborate this, but it doesn't sound unreasonable to me.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payroll_tax#United_States

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence

[2] http://www.nber.org/papers/w5053

[3] http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm

[4] http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/on-numbers/scott-thom...
Yeah, don't bother to wait until there's room to pass safely, just shove 'em off the road! Also don't worry about turning through their lane of travel, they can probably brake as effectively as a bicycle can't they?
Are you a bad developer if you don't take on side projects?
The Google Bus isn't the main issue, it's just a convenient and highly visible lightning rod. The class war that's happening in SF goes much, much deeper and has much more profound impact on people than just a bunch of buses zipping around town.

But most of these issues aren't nearly as viscerally visual and high-profile as an exclusive "you can't get on" bus fleet. It's simply an incredibly in-your-face reminder of everything else that is wrong with San Francisco.

> "I find this particularly hilarious because I would argue that ride-share companies are exactly the tech companies who are working on real problems."

As someone who lived in SF, and now lives in NYC, I find this statement sad yet hilarious.

Uber and Lyft exist because of a fundamental dysfunction in Bay Area transit. Lyft isn't even a thing here in NYC, and Uber is barely on anyone's radar - because we have working mass transit. These are only "real problems" because MUNI and BART represent the transit savviness of a wet paper bag. I used to spend more than a NYC subway monthly pass's cost on Ubers when I lived in SF every month, because the transit in that city is so utterly and completely fucked. Even among my social circles of relatively-highly-paid tech-workers, none of us have used Uber more than once or twice.

To be blunt, Uber and Lyft are solutions to the problem that San Francisco can't get its shit together to save its life.

Others in this thread mention that if the investment made in private company shuttles were poured into the public transit system then everyone could benefit. It would be nice, but I don't think this is actually true - the problem with MUNI, Caltrain, and BART isn't due to lack of funding, it's due to extensive corruption and mismanagement. At the agency level, at the municipality level, and at the regional level. Google could've thrown truckloads of cash at them and it would've disappeared into the ether with little to show for it.

I don't blame Google, Facebook, and Apple for running their own shuttles. It was the most rational, least evil choice in response to a fundamental governmental dysfunction. The protest against the growing divide is a red herring - the divide largely exists and is perpetuated by a woefully incompetent and corrupt city government.

There is a growing collection of startups whose primary purpose is fixing SF/Bay Area dysfunction - Uber and Lyft being among them. I'm disappointed at how revolutionary people seem to think they are, when they seem more like they're solving problems that shouldn't exist in a competent, working city, in a highly exclusive and upmarket way. Transportation is horrifyingly broken and people can't get around? Solution: upmarket shiny black sedans priced completely out of reach for everyone except the monied techno-elite. It may be necessary, but forgive me if I don't cheer loudly.

At the risk of making a crappy analogy, the roof is leaking and you're congratulating the guy who came along and put some buckets on the floor.
Domains at https://gandi.net include IMAP (1 GB). Combine that with Thunderbird or Sparrow and you're good to go. Another option is FastMail.
Did you compare with a JVM toolkit with similar concurrency libraries like Akka/Scala?

Am curious to find out the results. There was a recent, don't remember which, comparison that put Scala way ahead of Go possibly because of a superior GC.

Wonder if the results correlate
I don't see any interesting military uses for this technology, beyond military applications for spaceflight in general.

This technology allows a rocket to maneuver while slow and close to the ground. The military terms for an object that is slow and close to the ground is "target".
Not really. Windows (Metro) is completely flat, there is no depth and it is very difficult to distinguish controls. The direction Apple is taking adds a bit of depth to help distinguish most controls, similar to Android design guidelines.
Move Fast. Be so good you don't break things.

EDIT: Downvotes? Hello SV echo chamber. SpaceX iterates almost as fast as any tech startup in SV; and how many vehicle losses have they had?
I hoped it was obvious:

There are huge advantages to having a small idea. There's a clear MVP, a clear short term goal to achieve. This has a big effect on morale: the developing team has a series of short development bursts ending with an achievement and the vision of the company in eyesight. The quality of the product tends to be higher sheerly out of being simpler.

A small idea can have very wide reach, and can be an essential need to users, or a new pillar of infrastructure. Often after building a small and strong product, a company has the freedom to apply and maximize it for the full range of possible use cases. The easy example is Google, but I like to use the StackExchange network. They started with a Q&A site for software engineers, and once that was successful they expanded to a huge range of fields.

Huge ideas often send startups down a path to failure. Morale gets drained over time as features get completed but the vision remains too far away. Complexity increases greatly, and the core product gravitates to unmanageability as it grows. Even a best in class engineering team can be toppled by the exponential complexity of a large product, there's a potter's field of large products being built by awesome engineers, in big companies and small.

I could go on and on for each side, but the main point is, having a company vision that is the MVP is amazingly powerful, and opposite, having a company vision that is massive even with an MVP that is a stepping stone on the way to the massive vision, is a swamp to trudge through for years.
If you drop stage 1 in Earth's gravity well instead of Mars's.. yes it does :)

Edit: as mikeash points out in the reply, I'm plain wrong. You could use multi-stages to accomodate different gravities when launching Earth-Mars-Earth (2 stage E->M, reusable as standalone second-stage, so single stage M->E).
Perhaps I just haven't spent enough time dealing with telephony, but I still haven't got a clue what BYOC is. Can someone give me a TL;DR?
I know plenty of people who work at Oracle and other South Bay companies who don't get buses and still work in the city. Anecodotes != confidence
A stage built to launch from Earth will surely be severely suboptimal for launching from Mars and vice versa. You'd want to use a first stage that returns to Earth to launch a separate Mars stage if you're planning a return mission.
There is likely an element of truth to OP's general point.

For example, journalist and author, Joshua Foer[1], talks about the astonishing feats of memory by average people. It becomes more persuasive, when it turns personal. While he starts out by writing a story on memory championships, he decides to take it further and delves deep into learning the techniques himself. Some time later, he ends up becoming the USA Champion!

"In 2006, Foer won the U.S.A. Memory Championship, and set a new USA record in the "speed cards" event by memorizing a deck of 52 cards in 1 minute and 40 seconds"[1]

The Ted Talk provides more detail [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Foer

[2] http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_...
Hey Amy,

I'm referring to the expertise required to solve a given problem. There's a difference between selling a software product and an info product, and I'm sure you would agree.

For example, you have the authority to teach 30x500 because you have created a successful business. The problem that I see with many students of courses like this, is that they want to sell the 'how-to' at the same time they are learning 'how-to.'

I haven't read your course materials, nor have I looked at the SaaS-Compass product beyond this (http://saascompass.com/), but it looks like it's a strategy product, which means the author has to prove that he/she has the experience and authority required to help someone do what the course says it will do.

I agree that taking yourself out is a great approach, but still, most prospects will want to know something about the author before they make their decision to buy/not-buy.
Here's another review of FastMail (shameless plug): http://blog.workhere.io/my-experience-with-fastmail-as-a-gma...
I just read it and I did not understand anything either.
I'm a student at a bush league school that doesn't have many connections to my field. Would it be in my interests to make a LinkedIn account for internship purposes?
Is it me or is it bigger on the inside?
You even gave him a 206 number, that's cute. :)
That looks more like what Windows 8 should've looked like in some alternative universe, rather than an upcoming copy of OS X. (Which is, I think, telling about the aesthetic movement going on right now.)
An empty loop that has no computation but loops forever has an observable side-effect.
At the very least, calling 50% more lines a "similar line count" is disingenuous. 5 extra lines doesn't look like much, but on a typical multi-thousand line codebase, you're looking at thousands of extra lines.
> I think your revelation that anyone can memorize anything is a load of silliness, and untrue for most people.

This entire debate:

300bpm: people with average memory skills can memorize far more than they realize

sillysaurus: I have a memory deficit, and by the way, you're also wrong about people with average memory skills

300bpm: no I'm not

sillysaurus: yes you are

This is an incredibly useless debate (made worse by nitpicking over semantics) and based entirely on anecdotal evidence on both sides. 300bpm was just trying to be inspirational, which I find to be harmless in moderation. The end.
You've received a lot of criticism for that comment, but, considering myself as having a very bad memory, i'm grateful that you posted it. It made me reconsider how much of my "terrible" memory is because it actually sucks or because i already have a preconception that i'll forget about everything if i don't write it down.

You see, it's not that my memory is equally terrible for all things. Sometimes i forget about things i was told literally seconds ago; but somehow i remember quotes from The Simpsons episodes that i haven't seen in years, or equally seemingly useless stuff. So, what makes these things different? Maybe the situation of being told something and thinking "shit, i must remember this! [but i probably wont]" actually makes things much worse.
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Anchor CMS and Fortrabbit. It's what I use for http://blog.vpsstat.us/. Totally free.
What is your experience with large capital projects?
> Sure, and most people don't try to memorize things because (again) they think that they can't no matter what technique they use.

Citation? I mean, you're saying "most people" after all. If we're just talking anecdotes here, I've never met anyone who couldn't memorize something with simple repetition technique. When people say they have "poor memory", they are referring to not having eidetic memory. For example: "I don't remember her name! I have terrible memory." Well, it's probably because you only met her once in passing. It's not like you went home, wrote her name on some flash cards and crammed it into your memory. You weren't holding yourself back thinking "I can't remember her name because I have terrible memory!" It's simply that some people have eidetic memory and some don't. You can't learn eidetic memory by "thinking you can" or sheer will. It's developed at early childhood. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory)

> I'm not selling anything. I'm merely passing on my own experiences and those of my friends. If you choose to continue to believe you can't memorize things because of some innate lack of ability, it doesn't affect me at all.

You are overly pedantic. It's just an expression.
Yeah, seems crazy to me they are releasing it when it's so slow. Unusably slow in a very modern computer.
I've worked in a couple of big projects (250+ developers) where we have introduced Gerrit Code Review [1] that has mandatory code reviews.

In all cases, there has been a lot of initial scepticism and worries.

Some things that I feel have contributed to people accepting code review, are:
1) Gerrit enforces code review, you have to get it done somehow, in order to get your changes in. It's integrated in the workflow.
2) You choose your own reviewers.
3) We have had a clear message, that code review is about communication, knowledge sharing and bug hunting is just an added bonus. And communication is always our biggest problem in big projects. Just by letting someone do code review of your changes, the knowledge inside the organization about the change has almost doubled.
4) We ask people to treat code review request as number one priority, as the changes can not get in before it.

Before Gerrit we tried to encourage the culture by using Reviewboard [2], but in our case it just wasn't used that much. People did not treat review request as a high priority. Maybe because it was not enforced and sometimes you'd do a review for a change that the developer already merged in.

It's interesting to see how small tricks can change peoples behaviour...

[1] http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
[2] http://www.reviewboard.org/
Read my comment again:

'The problem with courses like the one the OP took is not that they offer bad advice, but they get people thinking about what they can sell instead of a) what problems they can solve and b) what problems they have the authority to solve.'

This has nothing to do with what the course teaches, but with the perceptions of the students during their time in the course.

I haven't analyzed the OP's business success, so I can't say whether or not I'd feel comfortable taking her advice, but I can tell you that were I to buy something like this, I would expect that it should come from someone with a good reputation and a volume of experience in the field (authority is a function of this).

I'm not damning the course or the OP at all, merely stating an observation based on my own experiences in the field of info-products.
A really cool idea would be a site where people can submit anything they want with any title they want, and users' votes will determine how the stories get sorted. That way, the community could easily express and realize their preference for titles by upvoting the ones they prefer.
and one of the reason everyone wants to move to the bay area is that there are so many damn jobs. Sure housing is cheap is hell where I live in Ohio but you can't get a job to pay for it.
I'm curious why you feel that the extension of Muni is a waste of funds. As the project is to extend it from Caltrain station through Powell and then on to China Town, do you think the entire thing a waste, or just the latter portion?
If this page is anything worthwhile (and cross-referencing it with wikipedia, it just seems out-of-date) http://pi-world-ranking-list.com/lists/memo/ you clearly aren't in the normal demographic considering the few people who made it on that list.

15 minutes to memorize 100 digits of Pi should get you higher on that list if you dedicate some time to it ?
The on-board charger is that smart. If you're charging off of a 440V quick charger and the battery gets too hot, it will shut off, and the car will send you an email telling you what happened if you've added an email address in the car's settings.

In other cases with a 110V or 220V charger, it's highly unlikely that the battery will ever be too hot to charge unless it's 120F outside and you've been pushing the car hard.

Look, it really is a minor issue that never crossed my mind until I came across the recommendation in the manual recently. It probably will impact the battery's life only slightly, but it's easy to change the timer and start charging a bit later. It's certainly true that any heat a battery sees will contribute to its degradation, especially while charging because that also generates heat. I figured I'd pass along the recommendation as an additional way to take good care of the very expensive battery.
They need to update the iWork suite as a whole. All the iCloud bits have the new UI (Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Find my Phone) but the iWork bits all have old UI.

Maybe it's going to be an overhaul of the iWork UI across all their systems?
It really depends on your field, however networking should never require money. Build your network with those in your target field. That will pay off far more than a paid LinkedIn account.
This brings up an interesting question: if Steinway were liquidated, would the patents be up for sale?

It is my understanding that much of their unique quality comes from over 100 patents, many of which are over 100 years old [1].

Presumably a competitor could buy the patents and make significant improvements to their design.

Part of the Steinway brand is built on tremendous marketing savvy, generation after generation. But the technology remains unparalleled. As a professional pianist, I wouldn't use anything else for a recording.

Don't get me wrong, I would love for Yamaha, Fazioli or the others to make the market more competitive. But nothing compares to a Steinway in terms of sound quality and balance throughout the registers.

All the first-class piano technicians I know agree.

[1] http://www.ilovesteinway.com/steinway/parts/steinway_patents...

Edit: IvyMike and ryanhuff brought my attention to the 20 year maximum term of patent. It is surprising that Steinway's competitors still are unable to match the quality of sound. Perhaps their technicians are better?
Although interestingly, both the London and Stockholm riots were caused by police shootings.
> ...one of the most important things Silicon Valley has that is not found in most other cities is a deep and pervasive software engineering and computer science talent pool that startups can draw from.

I disagree with the notion that it's "difficult" to build a tech startup in most cities outside of the Bay Area, although I would agree that certain types of tech startups, particularly those seeking funding, have very good incentives to set up shop in Silicon Valley/San Francisco.

But to your point about talent, I think the Bay Area is a double-edged sword. Yes, candidates are in theory plentiful, but just about every startup I encounter is hiring and a common complaint is that it's very difficult to find "good" engineers. Is the pool of truly skilled/experienced candidates not large enough to support the ecosystem? Are startups being too picky? I don't know, but I don't see any evidence whatsoever that startups are generally finding it easy to build a team here.
It seems unrealistic because the US has such overwhelming firepower. But historically, there have been wars and losing wars has historically been very detrimental to the well being of the citizenry. There is no reason to believe that we've reached some sort of point where war is no longer likely.
Find My iPhone is still using Google Maps. Guess they don't have Apple Maps set up for web embedding.
And I'm not saying anything negative about your launch. I'm saying that as you spend more time building a reputation as someone that can help people with a 'SaaS Compass,' you will have better results selling products like that.
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Here's an inconvenient fact: Headline-making civil unrest in Europe is "Tuesday" in the American inner city.

The European riots are only significant because they're unusual against such comparatively low levels of background violence.
Yep, amazing documentary. It was inspired by workers' pride in their work.
Edit: Disagree.

The Nissan Leaf is an atrocious electric vehicle, with the same baggage the GM EV1 had. 80 mile range. Barely. If you don't use the heat or AC.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/how-does-gms-fabled-ev1-st...

Nissan has to continue to slash the price to move them, while people will pay top dollar for Tesla vehicles (and, I argue, will continue to do so, not only for the high end but also the lower priced models when they're announced/produced).

Disclaimer: I'm super long TSLA
> I actually convinced a friend of mine many years ago that he could in fact memorize pi to 100 digits... and he did and still remembers it to this day. I'm convinced anyone can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it.

I have similar experiences with (re)teaching basic math tricks and approximation to adults. "Oh, I wish I could to that but I suck at math" is a quite common response. I love the flash in their eyes when, after a short explanation, they make their first multiplication by 9 or division by 5 without the use of a calculator.

What I still don't understand is why some people are satisfied after learning the first trick while other (only 1/10th max) ask for more tricks. Shouldn't the idea of having learnt something new _always_ sparkle the interest in learning more?
OK, but I don't really think it's relevant which gender they are.
I wish one of my neighbors worked in tech.
Looks like a much better alternative just revealed itself: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/haptix/haptix-multitouch...
This doesn't feel like a Humble Bundle to me. I loved Humble for spotlighting great Indie games. If I want cheap older triple-A titles I'll buy them during a steam sale.