skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some very interesting points. I think the thesis can be made even stronger by observing that the flaw in Christensen's model is that he views a product only as a means to an end. Two products that provide the same outcome are identical, so the cheaper one will win in the market.

This assumption holds for business decisions, but consumers are people and are capable of having experiences. I can love or hate the experience of using a product — that's a fundamentally different kind of evaluation that happens while I'm using the product, not after. A car is useful if it gets me from A to B - that means I get utility from it once I've arrived at the destination. Getting to the destination matters, but so does the journey. If I hate driving the car, if I feel stressed out and exhausted while driving, I'm going to value that in a way that a business won't and can't.
A little sneaky? I'm confident you will find a judge out there that considers this wire fraud.

And any email provider should obviously immediately blacklist them. Worse than spam.
West Africa is my favorite country.
Most people won't see it when it first appears. Eventually you'll notice it when it's too late.
One of the remnants of the Buran to this day is an ancestor of its programming environment -- DRAKON. It is a visual programming language. Unlike others, it seems this one has had quite a bit of thought put into it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON

I don't think it is enough to make it popular, but it is nevertheless an interesting niche. There is a small community still building and exploring it.

There is a DRAKON editor, with target languages like Javascript, Erlang, C++ and others. Here is the DRAKON editor program:

http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/

EDIT: (adding some interesting translated tid bits from Parondjanov's writings)

If you happen to speak Russian it is also quite an interesting read to go over author's (Parondjanov) writing on programming in general:

http://drakon.pbworks.com/w/page/18205516/FrontPage

He talks about visual programming languages. He defines provocative terms like "intellectual terrorism" and how information overload (he calls it "information stress") is akin to terrorism for the minds of workers tasked to tease out the solution to the problem. It often stems from an impedance mismatched between old methods of solving problems and processing information and the new type and amount of information available. Mind you this was written in the 80's before big data. His environment was building tools to write the avionics system for Buran. Many of the engineers involved were not computer scientists, there were mechanical, chemical, airspace engineers. He was probably wondering how to get them to program better and how to make the whole process more efficient and less stressful for them.
The comments downthread that point out that this submission appears not to be from the original source (contrary to HN guidelines) are helpful, as are the comments describing the original source methodology and critiques of that methodology. I'm not at all sure that there is reliable data here.
"Faulty assumptions" seem to be a thing with the soviets...
Apple hit a perfect storm, and hit it perfectly, partially because they helped create the storm.

Historically excellent product strategy, design, and marketing to enough fashion conscious, deep (enough) pocketed, perceived ease of use prioritizing, quick twitch, mass market of buyers without a second brand being strong enough (until now) to make it a buying "decision".

The masses went out to buy, not to compare or contemplate buying, partially because Apple created (much of) the market to begin with. Perfect storm meeting perfect execution.
We know what works, a look at Finland is sufficient. The subject has been studied.

Here's what's worrying: instead we got No Child Left Behind, we got the attendant testing, and no one has drawn any conclusions from all the testing that would have made an improvement to public education. If there were any you'd see them by now.

The only hypothesis that's left is that there is no political will to improve public education.
Both of those sites that you cited are terrible, filled with conspiracy theories and shrill rhetoric. Unfortunately more and more people on HN seem to be citing them.

Anyway:

> Do you recall any big American movie in the last decade (or even more) that painted America's military in a non-positive light?

The Bourne series. Though that was about the CIA.

Safe House, also CIA.

Avatar, as someone else mentioned, analogously painted the US military in a bad light.

Full Metal Jacket certainly shows some of the more brutish and shameful sides of the US military.

> I do remember The Hurt Locker, and a whole list of other movies, Iron Man and Captain America

So are you upset that these movies didn't pause to lecture the audience about the horrors of American imperialism? Are you upset that they don't serve your particular political agenda?

> To me, truly the most amazing thing about this is that pretty much no-one knows about this!

The people who don't know don't care. This information is readily available. And even some of the people who do know don't care (like me).
Just in Case vs Just in Time Learning
A barbell strategy for maximizing your career upside.
Fluid or crystallized intelligence ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_intelligence

and check : http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

"A recent study published in PNAS, an important scientific journal, shows that a memory task called dual n-back improves working memory (short term memory) and fluid intelligence. These findings are important because fluid intelligence was previously thought to be unchangeable"
Here is a cool screensaver about Buran:

http://buran.ru/htm/scr_en.htm
I love Grooveshark but disagree that it's any good for finding obscure music. For instance, Rare Essence is the most popular Go Go (a DC genre) band of all time excluding Chuck Brown and his band (the Soul Searchers), Brown having created Go Go. If you aren't from DC then this probably sounds like nonsense, but you really can't underestimate how big these bands are in the city, along with Junkyard Band, Backyard Band, and the Northeast Groovers.

For Chuck Brown, I see 21 songs. I have double albums of his with more songs than that. For Rare Essence, there are 17 songs, including a couple duplicates and a misattribution ("One Leg Up" is by Pure Elegance). BYB has 11 songs, NEG has 6, Junkyard has only one (!). These are very prolific bands that have produced tons of records sold in the DC area.

The thing is, nobody ever really "pirated" Go Go music, that is, put it on the internet. Just lots of bootleg cassettes and CDs.

I find Grooveshark to be limited to fairly mainstream and popular music, the kind that at one time or another could be found in record stores across the US/Europe or at least over a very large region within those places.
What kind of lawyer comments on pending litigation in a public forum? A stupid one.
The subtitle is deliciously ironic.
Your point is moot. As soon as your fp is digitally available online.
E.g.,the CCC has captured and published former german minister of the interior, Wolfgang Schäuble's fingerprint in 2008 [1]. This finger of him is not secure any more and readily available via a google image search.

[1] http://www.h-online.com/newsticker/news/item/CCC-publishes-f...
How to retain your app users?
That pollsters do something does not make it valid! ;) Yes, they do ask dozens of questions of a small number of people. But this is also mathematically dubious.

If you do multiple random samples, the chance at least one is way off increases. If you have a 95% chance of being close to correct on your small sample, and you do 20 samples, it is quite likely you are wrong on at least 1 of them.

My claim is that (1) there is a very large number of relevant facial features for the goal of the survey (find the "average" face), and (2) that being wrong on even a small number of them is significant. My basis for both is a combination of intuition and that we know humans are extremely good at perceiving faces and subtle facial differences. There are parts of the brain that are apparently adapted specifically to facial recognition, and disorders where facial recognition is impaired but nothing else, for example.
Full Metal Jacket.

• Three Kings.

• In The Valley of Elah.

Good Morning Vietnam.

A Few Good Men.

Platoon.

• Jarhead.

Casualties Of War.

• The Men Who Stare At Goats.

The Deer Hunter.

The Thin Red Line.

• Syriana.

• The Green Zone.

• Stop Loss.

Also, • HBO's "Generation Kill".

(•'d relatively recent movies)

I don't think "The Hurt Locker" was particularly critical of the military and didn't count it. Also not counting documentaries like "Restrepo".

I hereby dispute the idea that the DOD has made it impossible for big-budget Hollywood movies to criticize the US military, and suggest instead that the bias Hollywood in favor of the military is responding to customer preferences and not leading it. Given what I presume to be America's default position of "supporting our troops", I'm struck by how many films Hollywood produce that challenge that default.

Remember also that Hollywood confronts at least two vectors of consumer preference in marketing films: first, Americans (in the large) have a (typical) diffuse nationalistic home-team support for our overseas adventures, and, more importantly, there's a less-political less-issue-oriented reverence expected for the sacrifices made by the young people we send into combat which is especially intense during times when large numbers of people are serving in combat zones. In other words, it's especially tricky to criticize the military during active conflicts.

Also, Three Kings is a fantastic movie.
Aren't drones (at least the more sophisticated ones, akin to modern fighters/bombers) 100% remotely controled by human pilots?
Ask HN: Looking to talk to people who purchase stock photos regularly.
Hey folks,

So my startup is targeted to designers and creative leads that end up being the ones to search for stock photos for their work. My goal is to help them find those stock images much faster.

I have a proof of concept up and I'd like to test out the idea and willingness to pay.

I'm looking to interview some people who purchase stock photos regularly and/or people who work in the web design / graphic design /advertisement industries.

Thanks!
i have never seen this programming environment. its a fascinating concept which resembles the Scratch project out of MIT.

modern scripting languages make iterating software much simpler. however, there are times when i feel having a drag and drop gui such as this to assemble complex operations would be really helpful. i know of modeling tools such as UML are used in the planning phase. but wouldn't it make sense to have a high level overview of your software? is there anything like this for python, javascript, or ruby?
I hope not. I would much prefer a future that relies more heavily on a sustainable form of energy.
Stunning 1-Page Marketing App w/Node.js
He specifically says no Vim or Emacs. So what was the point of your post?
According to low-end disruption, a bag is a bag is a bag. The credit card statement reflecting my wife’s birthday says otherwise!

Great line.
> Pretty good security would be to require both the fingerprint and a PIN

You're missing the point. Right now lots of people have no password at all. Touch ID is a big improvement over having no password.
Well it looks like someone is using express and didnt feel like changing the favicon.
Let's extrapolate from present trends. More robotics and automation means people will work fewer hours but still have disposable income. Medical advances mean people will live longer, healthier lives.

Conclusion? There's going to be a lot of energetic, healthy people with time on their hands -- even more than at present. So there will be many future opportunities in the areas of entertainment, computer games and travel.

Also, on the medical front, because psychiatry and psychology are in the midst of a historic meltdown, in the future society will increasingly look to neuroscience for guidance about the issues that psychiatrists and psychologists are mishandling right now. My favorite example showing what the possibilities may be, is the story of a severely depressed woman who didn't respond to the available anti-depression drugs and was finally institutionalized, her life essentially over.

But a new procedure has come out of brain research (not mind research) called deep brain stimulation, that shows great promise for addressing depression's cause, rather than its symptoms (the present treatment approach).

In this specific case, after electrodes were put in place, the neurosurgeon threw a switch that began stimulation of a location of present neurological research called "area 25" that seems to play a role in depression. The woman's depression lifted instantly -- instantly -- something that no other treatment had been able to accomplish.

This is still very experimental, and the procedure is still too risky for everyday use, but if it matures and is made safe, it will revolutionize the treatment of depression. It will also accelerate the present trend away from psychiatry and psychology toward neuroscience.

Reference:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/magazine/02depression.html...
You're right.

I only remember Stargate SG-1 that very early on dissed the NID (=NSA) and other agencies (but I rarely watch TV). They went so far to criticize agencies and senators and many other privately working corporations as control addicted, corrupt and inhuman moneybags. Senator Kinsey was exposed telling lies to the voters like: "We do the best a christian can for our God blessed America", just to get their votes. Even though he seemed to believe what he said, the actions he made were all but "christian". He willingly destroyed an entire solar system, just to test a bomb. The arrogant evil joy was truly revealing his real character. He was obviously an opportunist, who collaborated with evil aliens just to remain in power. And that last part sounds like our governments, who sell our data to other governments, when the price is right.

That's why I really admired how this was the only series (except star-trek) where most stuff, contrary to most beliefs (imho) was a pure mix of fiction and actual ancient history. Although it was clear that Colonel Jack O'Neill had strong prejudices against the Russian and communists in General (and russians always died first) he had deep respect to them as a Soldier. To me it looked like the authors tried to express some of their true thoughts, but were often forced to change or include parts into the script to reflect a more positive America, that really stood out. Unfortunately Star-Trek was very pro American, which is hard to believe, because a developed human in the future would most probably see all of us as greedy, barbarian, war-hungry hypocrites and not focus one just one continent.
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Ask HN: what's it like to develop on Blackberry, vs say Android/iOS?
I've heard that perhaps BB is inferior to Android/iOS for app developers, and would like to know why exactly this is the case from your experiences.
They didn't feel like taking the time to understand the Chinese audience? Easier to employ Edward Bernays techniques of misdirection and diversion in order to try and associate good feelings with the movie?

This is the same film industry that still seems to typecast roles by race, to the point of whitewashing minorities out of leading roles they feel American (read "white") audiences will be uncomfortable with.

I doubt they thought it through much further than "You know what Chinese people want to see? Other Chinese people!"
Ok lets agree to disagree :). Just FYI, 10 Yr Aug UST low yield (best price for bank to buy) was 258bps. Highest rate for Aug was 278bps (highest point at which the fed could have bought). By doing the flip the bank could make a yield of 20bps. It has to front cash for capturing this yield. If it just kept the cash at the fed it would earn a risk-less 25 bps (IOER). The fed is sterilizing the purchase by IOER so it isn't monetizing the debt! This is the fundamental misunderstanding with QE, its just a tool to target the rate. If we were truly monetizing the debt, inflation would be soaring through the roof! I would strongly recommend reading this -> http://pragcap.com/understanding-quantitative-easing
Electric vehicles & associated infrastructure. Very high speed transportation air and ground transportation.
Damn straight. They built a better shuttle, then had the common sense to realize the idea was silly.

They were right about the Space Shuttle and the US military too; much of the design of the Space Shuttle was influenced (compromised) by the DoD so that the Shuttle would be able to get into polar orbits for military missions (such as launching US spy satellites, and stealing Soviet spy satellites). These design requirements forced them to design a shuttle with dimensions that were not optimized for the missions the shuttle ultimately carried out.

One of the problems with the ultimate design is that the Shuttle stack relied in part on the SSMEs to get into orbit. This meant that the fuel tank/SRBs were worthless for anything other than getting the Shuttle into orbit, while the Energia from the Energia/Buran combo would have been useful in its own right (sadly the Energia was discontinued with the Buran).

As for the Russians "ripping off" the Shuttle, I think the Encyclopedia Astronautica article for the Energia engines is interesting: http://www.astronautix.com/engines/rd0120.htm
Agreed, "avatar" means 3d.
You are quoting the FSF's stand on the issue (which I don't have a problem with) but not Stallman's.

Stallman has always believed that software should not be sold, either directly or indirectly. For example, a quick Google search returned this interview [1]:

> BYTE: A cynic might wonder how you earn your living.
>
> Stallman: From consulting. When I do consulting, I always reserve the right to give away what I wrote for the consulting job. Also, I could be making my living by mailing copies of the free software that I wrote and some that other people wrote.

Stallman has been consistent for decades in holding this view.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview.html
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What would be a good book series (preferably a classic one that's stood the test of time) on math (Algebra, various Calculus topics, Statistics, etc)?

I'd like to edit this some more during the edit window for this comment. To start, the books by Israel M. Gelfand, originally written for correspondence study.

http://gcpm.rutgers.edu/books.html

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Israel%20M.%20G...

An acclaimed calculus book is Calculus by Michael Spivak.

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/0914098...

Also very good is the two-volume set by Tom Apostol.

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Vol-One-Variable-Introduction...

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Vol-Multi-Variable-Applicatio...

Those are all lovely, interesting books. A good bridge to mathematics beyond those is Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach by Hubbard and Hubbard.

http://matrixeditions.com/UnifiedApproach4th.html

A very good book series on more advanced mathematics is the Princeton University Press series by Elias Stein.

http://www.amazon.com/Fourier-Analysis-Introduction-Princeto...

Is this the kind of thing you are looking for? Maybe I can think of some more titles, and especially series, while I am still able to edit this comment.
Why not link to the YouTube video directly?

There is almost no added content on that site.

Is this self-publicity? Your post-history is filled with mavish.com
The experiment was insufficient to prove that the "salts" did not benefit the athletes.

And, a simple fact was conveniently neglected -- if you don't swallow the glucose, no matter how you tricked your brain, you're still not getting that energy, which will kill you if you're running a marathon, for example.

So why hate Gatorade? After all nobody stops you from putting glucose and whatever you feel "scientific" into water. Or tricking your brain using whatever chemicals.

P.S. I like honey.
The page doesn't explain at all why I should care, especially when compared to gravatar, or a client side library that uses multiple sources.
Wow, he sounds just like Assange.
Touch ID is competing against pins chosen from a universe of 10,000. This isn't great security, but it's appropriate security for unlocking a device you already must have physical access to.
> Touch ID is better than nothing... but not by much

You can't be serious. A completely unlocked phone that anybody can trivially access with a swipe.. vs. a scanner that you'd have to lift and reconstruct someone's fingerprint to bypass. That is definitely a significant improvement.
You should be excited to see this:

http://www.dabodev.com/
> I'm confident you will find a judge out there that considers this wire fraud.

Eek, I hope not. That would make me and anyone else who's ever written a form-mailer or similar with "-faddress@net.com" or "From: address@net.com" guilty of wire fraud.

> And any email provider should obviously immediately blacklist them. Worse than spam.

I'm a mail provider. I'd like to, but the reality is that a lot of people are on LinkedIn on purpose, and it would be wrong for me to blackhole them just because I don't like them. Fortunately, anybody on my mail system that doesn't like LinkedIn can easily adjust their own SpamAssassin settings right from the webmail interface.
Anyone who doesn't need to trade right now is free to place ALO orders, not cross the spread, and collect a few fractions of a cent in rebates. The fact that most traders choose not to get paid to do this should suggest to you that maybe you are incorrect about the need to trade right now.

I have no idea what you are talking about with "buy and sell orders without attached prices" (market orders?). You are correct that HFTs probably do not provide enough liquidity for Bill Gates to immediately liquidate his entire portfolio. So what?
Probably to a similar extent as airliners these days, though without the pilot actually sitting in it. They can take off and land themselves, though they still have a human sitting around (probably reading a paperback most of the time.)
If the rapid obsolescence cycle of chip fabs end (ie, Moore's law ends and process nodes stop getting smaller so there's no reason to change processes), it will kick off a golden age of ASICs and a Cambrian explosion of chip diversity and software design tool progress.

You can produce fully custom chips now but at any reasonable cost you have to use decade-old gate sizes making it hard to compete with general purpose parts. The lack of a busy market feeds back into itself making every step of the process more tricky and expensive than it needs to be.

Imagine the change from massive recording studio engineering to 'a laptop with pro tools' only in silicon instead of music.
It is interesting to separate consumer from business when looking at this theory.

Prof Baba Shiv is a Neuroeconomist from Stanford, and has been looking at the neurological effects of "emotional attraction" to a product.

His current thinking (as of Nov last year at least) was that a positive emotional response to a product has a multiplier effect on the premium that we will place on that product. Thus, if a product can get an irrational emotional positive response (through how it looks, feels, makes us feel connected or cool, etc.), then this needs to be taken into the mix when discussing relative positioning. As mentioned - it is way more than the mere product specifications.
But the effect of it existing in the U.S. keeps smartphone prices artificially high every where. It benefits Samsung just as much as it benefits Apple.