skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smooth flow doesn't get you there any faster than highly variant turbulent flow. This is obvious. Now given that there will be little difference in overall throughput would you rather a) have a relaxing smooth drive or b) a stressful highly variant aggressive drive? The answer should be a, because the increased of risk of a fatal crash vs. the miniscule return of a few car lengths is not worth the effort you put in.

You can verify this yourself. Drive as smooth as possible. Smoothly accelerate and decelerate. Leave large gaps. Try to use both your accelerator and brakes as little as possible. Now observe aggressive drivers and memorize their car's make, model and license plate. Observe the amount of risk and effort they undertake to get ahead. Then observe them only getting about 5-10 car lengths for their trouble. Finally observe them stopped behind you two traffic lights down.

Laminar flow = turbulent flow, but laminar is so much better.

This is besides the fact that laminar flow reduces traffic waves, reducing the variance for all those behind you, leading to a reduced risk of death and injury for everyone in your lane. My driving style has probably saved a life, or two.
The thing about your first product...
"As far as I know, nobody said that"

The OP linked to an article which said that, which sourced from the article referenced by the link to the rebuttal I posted.

"And it is obvious, no point is arguing against that."

No, it's really not obvious. Apple made very specific claims about the functionality of their product. Unless you can prove those claims wrong, you're just spreading a conspiracy theory.
I'm surprised Reddit doesn't offer a service where you can have your own "clone" of Reddit (similar to how you can pay for a white label Stackoverflow subdomain). Like a SaaS replacement of vBulletin or PHPBB.
I don't think I'd call a rectangular window a "damning mistake." Depending upon the application, maybe the energy spread is acceptable (and computationally quicker).

For the curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_function
First off congratulations on having a business that has lasted 100 years! That is a rare accomplishment these days.

I think you both have an interesting perspective on the future of apparel and e-commerce. The one thing that I think deserves mentioning is that it has been getting easier and cheaper to own the means of production so you can convert raw materials into finished goods with out holding lots of inventory. You also need the manufacturing capabilities if you want to do mass customization.

My limited experience with this has come over the past 3.5 years building DODOcase.com. We ended up building all of our own manufacturing and hold less than 2 weeks of inventory, while over 30% of our online sales are one off custom built products.

My hope is that the future is brands built online that actually make their own stuff. I agree with Jamie that the brands of tomorrow will have to be more hands on but just holding inventory and shipping D2C is not enough, I think they will have to own and master the manufacture of their own products.
Honestly, I reckon that using _much_ larger thumbnails would be a big step forward in the experience. Most people pick books by their covers, then check out the blurb on the back. Amazon's thumbs are tiny, hell even the product page has a tiny image. I think that experimenting with size alone would get you quite a long way.

Perhaps take a cue from fashion brands like Gilt who have had to recreate the retail experience for shoppers.

(someone please do this . . . please)
Is there actually a Series A crunch?  We took a look at the data
I wish I could find the quote but there's a long discussion by a former-RIM employee about the inability of management to come to consensus.

To my mind, that's also incredibly ironic because RIM had the dual-CEOs for specifically this reason, to avoid conflict over technical and operational requirements.

Edit: Look what I found!!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6462453
My sarcasm was actually intended to indicate that opinions can never be "wrong" in some objective sense as they represent subjective experience. The notion that your opinion can't be valid because you worked for "only" three months is nonsensical. People who worked for Google for a day have opinions as valid as anyone else's.
Or grammar...

> The less words you use
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We're pragmatists, not purists. We’ve bought into reality, whatever that might be, not married to our ideas. You'll fit in best if you are as well. We’re seasoned veterans with big wins and big, educational losses under our belts. We try to use the right technology for the job, with familiarity being a tie breaker. We’re not religious about platforms. Some things we use today: Node.js, ElasticSearch, Asgard, Redis and CouchDB and a slew of AWS services.

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I think the disruption potential is easy to see, but predicting it's success impossible, because it depends almost entirely on the company's execution over the course of many years.

For example tons of people were super excited in 2007 because they had a full unix computer in their pockets. Some had the iPhone and some had a Nokia N810. The difference of course is that Apple remained focused and executed very well over the next 5 years whereas Nokia...

To use Glass as an example, it's simple: it wants to be the primary UI to your data and apps. Today you look at the output on the screen and feed it input via voice and the touch thingy, in a decade it reads your brainwaves. People aren't wed to tapping on flat rectangles any more than they were wed to keyboards and styluses.

But whether it's successful or not? No one knows, because it depends entirely on what Google does over the next 5-10 years.
If HelloMcFly originates from the "open lane", I am indifferent to where he decides to merge into the "right lane", as long as he doesn't force anyone to unnecessary slam their brake.

What really piss me off are drivers who move from the "right lane" into the "open lane", and then merge back after cutting perhaps 5, 6 cars.
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The company is full of great people, who are incredibly passionate about our craft. In Scotland, we're super active in the community: helping run the regional Javascript and Ruby conferences, organising and sponsoring local user groups, and encouraging events such as RailsGirls. Our other offices are very active in their local communities too.

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Google Glass is, ideally, the new smartphone. In the sense that it could change how people interact with the world in much the same way that smartphones did, but at the next level. A more personal, immediate level.

It's not just a smartphone stuck on your face. It's your constant link to all the information you need.
Where is Obama?
But spyder said that he tested on Canary too
hm, I just checked, and I was surprised to not see any either. Someone from Kongregate mentioned that they're hiring, but otherwise, seems like no one's posted a job listing with the characters "Portland" or "PDX" this month.
Longtime /. user here, and this redesign will probably kill the site...not that it's as healthy as it used to be.

I'm not being melodramatic here, but it's crystal clear that Dice have no idea what /. is about.

At least HN and Ars haven't been ruined by PHB's.
Fewer words are also easier to proofread.
How stress makes the world smell worse
Talk about non sequitur...
It's strange how in California hiring is completely absent in all parts but Los Angeles and San Francisco. No San Diego? No Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo? No Sacramento? Interesting. I knew tech was concentrated in the hubs, but I would have expected a little dissent.
Ok, good point, I probably could have responded better=).

What I was trying to say was that a lot of people focus on OJ's ability to create html/css and think that that is what it is for. They think that that means you can't CSS the way they are use to: with a designer created .css file. This isn't the case!

Instead OJ is about making reusuable website objects -- check out the plugin page: http://ojjs.org/plugins.html. You can make a YouTubeVideo in one line, but, just as importantly, the OJ plugin lets you change the video's volume or pause and play. In short, OJ creates web building blocks that can live edit what they create.
Perhaps the idea was to say "hey, thanks, here's a tshirt. Instead of us picking one, you go ahead and pick out any one you like." Or is a letter and a novelty gift also an insult?
There's an obvious tradeoff between speed and information. People tend to be biased towards information (writing too much), but that doesn't mean that "write less" is good advice.
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We are currently hiring for two engineering teams in Atlanta:

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There is something about offering a small amount of money that is worse than offering none. Like leaving a waiter a penny.

If cash is part of the equation, pay the going rate. If it's not, then acknowledge that someone did you a favor. Anything in between could be perceived as an insult/cheap.
So to me, this is like a mechanic saying "The engine on your Datsun is rusted out, let's fix your car by painting it Ferrari red." I mean I just went to the site and it looks like Gizmodo or Engadget 3 years ago.
Another option is to think of the smallest first step for your idea and hire all three to do it. Then you can judge the quality of work without going too far down a bad road.
I suggest that you add a typing-notation which means, 'search this'. Perhaps, "[supreme court smith maryland]". Then, when the close-bracket triggers the search, one of the 'pin' options on the results will offer single-click replacement of the "[*]" with a persistent association to that sticky sidebar-result.

If different users can plug in different search-backends, many hypertext-writing domains could be accelerated, including Wikipedia, legal, blogging, etc. Maybe even you could have an image-suggesting mode for finding quick (and perhaps liberally-licensed) supporting images?

(I'd add Pinboard/archiving-support as well... so everything pinned gets snapshot against link rot.)

Your links/refs column is also a bit reminiscent of https://gingkoapp.com/ – your two projects can probably draw inspiration from each other.

Good luck!
I'm confused. If I put code out into the wild, as a website, as an application, as... whatever, I'm supposed to compensate people that take it upon themselves to poke holes in it?

I mean, I appreciate the effort and the time, but just because you run a large web service or any web service doesn't mean that I should pay you for vulns. You should receive my gratitude, anything more than that is being extra nice.

Now, is there value in posting that there is some bounty for these things? Will it result in better, more frequent disclosure and give me the ability to close holes before someone nefarious comes along? Absolutely. Until I do that, people shouldn't speculatively be doing research and then retroactively bitching about how little they got paid.

If you do work like that, please let me know, I've got some projects you can work on that I might decide to pay you for.
For me, Slashdot killed Slashdot. The editors increasingly did not care about editing the content that was submitted (and not just from a grammatical standpoint). I stopped subscribing to Slashdot's RSS feed just in time to avoid shit like this [1] appearing in Feedly.

To be fair to Slashdot, however, they have removed the "stuff that matters" tagline from visibility on their site (it's in the source).

That, and Hacker News seems to be about 3 days ahead of /. so it's kind of redundant to read it. Unless I want to learn about new keyboard shortcuts. I read Ars too, which is sometimes a bit behind HN but also covers different material.

[1] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/08/26/0010239/the-greatest...
What are they trying to fix?

Maybe they have a requirements document somewhere that defines the goals of this redesign, but I don't see anything like it on their blog post. Just a couple of hand-wavy statements that don't describe the changes in any level of detail.

If they can't tell us their goals and how the changes achieve those goals, all I can do is take the changes at face value which is basically too much white-space and reduced functionality for reading comments.

Also not happy about the reliance on googleapis - as far as I can tell, every significant amount of javascript added to slashdot over the years has been of questionable usability at best. Maybe it is nicer under the hood, but from the user's perspective all they've done is add complexity without any corresponding improvement of the user experience.
Don't you think higher end brands have an aversion to selling on Amazon? Having tried to sell a brand product on Amazon I have found that the Amazon customer is very price sensitive.
Reminds me of Google Plus's War on Words.
> Imagining a robotics scenario, you could enable a simulated version of a swarm of robots that runs in a webpage.

For almost anything that runs in a web page, JavaScript is a better option. ;-)

> The nice thing about javascript of course is that, all though it is kind of dumb out of the box, it is expressive enough that you can build some useful abstractions- and manage the callback hell that people tend to run into with node.js coded naively.

Yeah, no question that binding to JavaScript is it is very expressive. In terms of intrinsic language properties, its hard to be both really expressive and a good language for learning. Some really beautiful languages manage to thread the needle, but I don't think JavaScript is one of them. Still, it is a tempting choice to introduce people to simply because of its ubiquity...

> What could be interesting though is the higher level event driven stuff which is harder to achieve with things like c/java/arduino

FYI, Java can actually do that kind of thing even better than JavaScript: http://vertx.io/
OMG they killing it slowly. The new owners do not get that the most important part is able to read the comments. I dont^wdidn't go to /. because each article had photo. I wnet because it filter news to news for nerds and the comments were informative/funny/insightful/interesting or just plain troll.

Poor CmdrTaco
I said this without thinking. I'm sorry.
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1048576) (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /var/www/raw.densitydesign.org/public/wp-includes/option.php on line 553
This sounds remarkably like how the squeegee men operate in a big city. Oh, hey, I just washed your windshield, you owe me some money. No? Oops, terribly sorry about that scratch as I walked by.
> "I was trying to find an explanation for the immediate rejection of the subject as silly."

"Space is big", "boy who cried wolf", or a combination of both.
It would be awesome to see this for the freelancer / seeking freelance posts too.
This is a great point, but I'd love to see a passcode system that isn't vulnarable.

The "swipe puzzle" things (I'm not sure what to call them.)? I've been able to see people enter them once and unlock their phone.
Passcodes? Even if people used secure ones, with a combo of looking while they're entering it and the smudges it leaves, it's not that hard to get.

Those are the 2 most frequent models of password input I've seen, both flawed. Any ideas for a better one?
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I've been working with Python webapps (mainly Pyramid / Pylons) for the past several years. I'm also pretty good with Javascript and AngularJS.

My resume includes social networks, social gaming, and a stint at Google; I'm looking to pick up 10-15 hours a week in the near term to fill some gaps in my schedule. If you're interested in talking, email me at jon@inklesspen.com and mention this post.
Do they ever make decisions just to help Google?
Or threatened litigation, the hallmark of companies who have no clue about security policy.

Edit: the parent was deleted while I posted this but the gist was that 5-10 years ago all you would get for reporting an issue was a thank you and maybe a T-shirt.
You're stretching. Both can be irrational beliefs while not being particularly similar to each other.
You're correct, Bing It On is US only (although I believe there is also a Chinese version). As for Uruguay, we're always working to improve our international coverage - check back soon!

(Note: I work for Bing.)
Perhaps a more advanced camera technology that detects asshole driving behavior instead of speeding? Rich dudes pay to get ahead. Increased revenue for the police department. Improved traffic. Win-win for everyone.
This.

Sure, there exists a point where the input flow is great enough that traffic must move slower. OP's entire argument is based off of this. The problem is that there are many things you can do to slow down the flow rate even further, and merging poorly creates this "turbulence" which wastes further flow.

And, it's clear that no improvement in merging behavior can beat the maximum road occupancy, however we can approach that limit much more closely.

I think that conceptually modelling traffic as fluid flows is quite clever, and the "turbulence" idea is particularly satisfying.
It's amazing rant with any Apple story, there you are with an 'expert' opinion followed by a thinly veiled troll. I want to see your 5 year old son lift near perfect prints from a typical iPhone, no deliberate placing of prints mind you. I then want to see you recreate the CCC "hack" with the correct print. It's time to put up or shut up.
Evan, is it fair to say that it takes it a step toward Object Oriented web dev?
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Except they split the sample into three, thereby reducing the sample size (and power) in thirds. What matters is that there are still large enough to run significance tests on, both in the original claim studies and Ayers' study.

(Note: I work for Bing.)
You are correct. And it's not just the images either, it's to illustrate the point that difficulty merging lowers the average flow-rate below that of "maximum lane occupancy".
My Seattle post is missing from the map, so the accuracy is questionable.
> similar to how you can pay for a white label Stackoverflow subdomain

[citation needed]
If you run a large web service, how much is it worth to you for vulnerabilities to be reported directly to you, versus being sold on the grey market to someone looking for an exploit?
I prefer the phrase: "It's Always Free".
That's a remarkably clear-headed analysis; thanks for that. We at Bing don't always get the courtesy of people actually thinking deeply about what we do. =]

(Note: I work for Bing.)
The VLC team undertook a license conversion, turning "libVLC and most modules" LGPL. Consequently, VLC for iOS returned on Sep 9 2013.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.1.0.html
Completely agree here. I've spent the last year and a half building Pistol Lake - we make men's shirts.

There are the few of us who want to spend the years it takes building manufacturing and operational expertise necessary to build an online-first direct-to-consumer company - and there are a huge number of things in our favor:

1. easier to build audience than ever before
2. costs overseas are changing and making domestic, short-run manufacturing more economical
3. allowing you to keep less inventory, and if you don't have a billion SKUs, turnover can be rapid

That said, it takes a long time to build the expertise and a long time to make a good product, period. Nothing will change that. It also takes a unique skillset to be able to be creative in the design of things, process driven to build scalable manufacturing and logistics, technical enough to manage an e-commerce platform and sophisticated customer acquisition/economics hacking, etc.

Ultimately, I think there will be hundreds of designers going online-first, direct-to-consumer, making incredible things, and we all benefit from it. Couldn't be more excited about this maker revolution.
This is great and I hope more app developers follow suit!
I was planning on porting the engine to Javascript at some point, but maybe Lua would be better. The cool thing about JS is I could shuttle game logic between the server and the client easily.