skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you reach Level 5 Vegan, you can exist only on sand and twigs (that have fallen naturally). Level 7 Vegans can exist on only air (but they still consume oxygen from it).
Just a note: you don't need to be a member of an army to get POW protections. All you need to do is fight openly and wear a distinctive uniform.

(Admittedly, most terrorists don't meet this criteria, and are therefore spies/saboteurs with none of the rights of POWs.)
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Testing, deploying, and supporting new software costs money. There's no way around it and it's not directly related to the expense of the software licenses required.
The guy doesn't even say it would be more expensive than IE. Just that adding IT support for a new browser is an expense question and hasn't been answered yet.
I would love to know what is being plundered that is supposedly being used to build all this military stuff.

I am pretty sure we buy our oil.
The value of a social media site is its user base and one should try and preserve that. Think of it as if you have created an 'economy'. Let the users 'trade' between them and charge a 'tax' like the government!
I agree somewhat - always use the best tool for the job. But, if you CAN'T use C, then you are not a "real programmer".
I'm not American, but I don't see the problem here. Why would you want to be producing polluting hunks of metal if you can avoid it?

As far as the Toynbee "plunder economy" quote goes, I don't find it applicable simply because the American Empire doesn't seem to be very good at extracting tribute from conquered territories. The success of the United States is built on something completely else. For recent examples, compare the economic benefits of the Iraq conquest to those of having Google in your country -- private innovation triumphs over imperialism as an economic engine.
Why does this article have to open with that fake "equation"?

I'm glad to hear the museum project is coming along, though.
Sieve?
All storms are perfect
Alan Kay: "An oral culture of assertions held around an electronic campfire?"
"Give money for" != "buy"
Makes you wonder how they recognize those terrorists on sight doesn't it ?
It's too bad that the people they pay to write web apps don't add "IE support" as a line-item. The project just goes over cost and becomes late instead, so they don't realize that "the expense question" actually comes out quite favorably for Firefox. (Your tax dollars at work.)
Ask HN: Is there some updated US/Canadian zipcodes database?
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I am not referring to a specific case.
We obviously need more data, but for starters:

Figure out what your users value on and off your site. Also, research competitive and complementary sites to get a quick and dirty list of potential options. There could be existing or future features that users would be willing to pay for.

If your site doesn't display ads, carve out space so that you ease them into it. Set their expectations and you're less likely to shock/upset them (sage advice from Reid Hoffman).
Indeed. The antiderivative, the actual production, has that pesky "+ c" term, which is different for the "military" and "non-military" graphs.

So this article is basically meaningless, and I've flagged it.
Well done app. Adding to my list of "what do we call this thing and is the domain available" list. Thanks.
Instead of "buy", it should say "are raped by the producers in exchange for".

The Iraq war was probably less about cheap oil and more about propping up government contractors, with a good amount of "let's not admit we are clueless" thrown in for good measure.
+ IE can be managed via Group policy => tweak once, deploy to all.

This could be possible with Firefox too(I don't know), but I would require a specific tool to be developed, tested (by Mozilla for example) and LEARNED by the admins.

The tool itself needs to be deployed...
Does Firefox officially provide MSI packages yet? I seem to remember people saying there were a number of issues which made it painful to administrate (for a large corporation) compared to IE.
> It's no harder to swap out different kinds of render methods than it is to swap style sheets

The point is that with css the client can change the rendering in ways not foreseen by the developers. If I happen to have a rare form of color-blindness that means I cannot perceive the color purple, I can create a Firefox extension that changes purple to blue, and immediately all websites in the world becomes accessible to me.

If we consider HTML a kind of object-code where presentation is hardcoded into the on-the-wire output (like eg. PostScript), I would have to call around to all web-masters in the world and beg them to change their render-methods to accommodate my unique disability.
Thanks. OP should have posted this link instead, it is much more comprehensive.
Well, part of your wish is coming true. Apple's announcing an average time-to-approval for developers. Which is a very small step.

(http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/01/apple-adds-queue-time-contact...)
These are all valid complaints. And yet, somewhere, a Procter and Gamble marketing executive from the 1950s is laughing at you.

Before 1997 (more or less) companies built mighty marketing empires on print ads, radio ads, and TV ads. No direct way to track sales, except for coupons, which had a down-market vibe. No selling soap to people while at work -- people had to physically go to a store to buy. (People at work couldn't even see the ads for your soap, unless they were allowed to read the paper on the job.) Yeah, there were refunds and trials for many products, but they required driving back to the store to return something.

It was like the dark ages! And, yet, go to a grocery store, or even a toy store, and count the successful products that were launched back then.

My interpretation of the current iPhone developer malaise is that the gold rush is over. Many of the people making theatrical exits from the platform are its fair-weather friends -- they were bound to leave, in droves, once they discovered that it's no longer a matter of putting up your farting app on the Store and watching the money roll in. The reason 99% of iPhone app marketing is via the Store is that this strategy used to work, in the early days, so nobody bothered to learn any other strategy. Now, faced with the grim reality that marketing software is slow, patient work, a lot of people are getting right back out of the business again, or desperately lobbying Apple to somehow turn the magic spigot back on (as if their competitors will vanish once Apple fixes some of its problems). Or they're cutting their prices to the bone, starving themselves in the process, like a desperate gambler throwing everything into the pot.

I was just reading about the real California gold rush. In 1848 you could literally walk to the right place in the Sierras, turn over one rock, and find a gold nugget the size of your fist. By 1849 thousands of miners had arrived and had turned over every rock, there was no more easy money to be made, and a lot of aspiring miners were staggering around the landscape, hungry and poor. Of course, the majority of the gold was actually mined in later years, by mining companies using gigantic hoses that could turn entire mountains into dust and pass the dust through separators. But that required capital, and a relatively long-term plan. The pick-and-shovel miners often preferred to just look around for the next gold rush; a lot of them ran greedily to Alaska when gold was found there. Not such a great plan: The post-rush climate was a lot colder and harsher in Alaska.
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The truth about grit
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Rounded rectangles are literarally easier on the eyes
This reminds me of Martin Luther.

Luther became concerned that everything he did was sinning in one form or another. It created quite a bit of cognitive dissonance.

For Luther, this intellectual pain led to a completely new idea of the concepts involved. Sounds like Aaron is ready for the same kind of game-changer.
Yep. If cheap oil was the goal then we can conclude that it did not work. You could have bought quite a few barrels of oil in return for the money sunk in the iraq war.
Properly integrating with Windows management tools should be a priority for the organization.

Many organizations won't even consider a switch unless it works with their tools.

As many big organizations, the DoS is dependent on Windows. The harm (depending on a single vendor solution) has already been done and it will take some steps to undo.

BTW, I would fire a developer who does a web app that only runs on IE, even if IE is the only browser mandated by the organization. Stupid rules are no excuse for employing incompetent people on public money.
"Lies, damn lies and statitistics..."
This article touches on a favorite subject of mine, the over-reliance on IQ tests as some meaningful metric of how someone will perform in a given job.

Smarts are good to have, but without hard work it's useless. Like a powertool without a competent handler. As an employer I've found over the years that the people that worked out best were not necessarily the ones that appeared to be the smartest, but the ones that were willing to go the distance. In my circle of entrepreneur friends the same pattern pops up.

In the book 'outliers' there is a whole chapter dedicated to the story related in the article about the experiment with the gifted children, it's an interesting read.
Instead of downvoting me can someone answer? Im not sure if i should be looking for more pages as it is a very short article.
Weapons are classified as "durable goods"? :-)
That's absolutely right. I was just reading about patents somewhere else and substituted the terms. Thanks for the catch.
Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that’s what grit allows you to do.

I love this quote.

Reminds me of Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant. All 3 very talented. And all 3 were always the last one out of the gym.

It also give me (and all the rest of us hope). Whenever I'm stuck on something (and think I may be slipping in talent, perish the thought), I know that all I have to do is keep at it until I figure it out.

Talent + Grit + Time = Results

The ratio of addends on the left doesn't matter. The sum does.
Constant Learning + Grit + Time = Results
I do.

Spend your time working with black boxes like I do, and you might dream of throwing away the technology stack to start talking to a processor directly.

Why do you feel the Chinese should do it? Because they're smarter than everyone else? Or because they should be doing the jobs no one else wants?
The problem with the hardware side of this is it would require dual-mode phones in the U.S. which consumers have shown very little interest in. If your phone’s subsidized you’re stuck on the same network for several years anyway so why pay a lot of extra money when you’ll probably want a better phone in 2 years anyway?

On the software most of what he asks for is either already available with mobile Flash or will be with HTML 5 implementation. That will give you the ability to make apps that pretty much pass for native

(You can really do that now unless you want to use the iPhone’s camera or program a game).

But what Adobe and the HTML 5 spec are notably missing is support for gestures and multi-touch. The iPhone has made it clear to me that both are necessary parts of a touch screen interface. Until web apps support those two they’ll always be 2nd class citizens and that’s a bad thing since no mobile web development platform seems to be focusing on either.
The initial expense of doing something is almost always greater than doing nothing.

The long term expense of doing many things is often less than doing nothing. Otherwise, no one would ever do anything.

A myopic bureaucrat? Naaa...
Cargo Containers for Building Homes 
When most people think of cargo containers they think of a big steel box that you put cargo in…but shipping containers have many uses and one of them is for building homes. Now I know what you are thinking…”why the heck would someone use a cargo/shipping container for home building?” Well, because these very secure strong shipping containers make excellent and very unique modules for building homes.
By their very nature shipping containers are obviously strong and very durable…after all, they are made from strong steel and are constructed to mainly haul cargo across the country or around the world hundreds if not thousands of times during their lifespan.
The construction industry has been using cargo containers for many years as add on modules for homes and even the main component of homes. Cargo containers come in a variety of sizes and can be stacked on each other, welded together. set side by side, and have many modifications done to them….so they come ready to configure to whatever the builder needs.
The most common sizes of cargo containers are the 20 ft. cargo container (commonly referred to as the 20shipping container), the 40 ft. cargo container, and the 40 HC (High Cube) cargo container. Because of the different sizes of containers they can be used for single rooms or be made into mulitple rooms.
One of the common uses for shipping containers is for panic rooms, these are rooms where a person or family might go into in case of a home invasion or severe weather. They can be modified with doors, windows, electricity, or many other modifications. Shipping containers, believe it or not, are a very versatile product!
Another great thing about using shipping containers as components of your home is that they can be purchased fairly cheaply! Sometimes for a lot less than other products that go into building a home.
So the next time you see a shipping container remember…they are not just used for cargo anymore…they are an excellent componen to home building.
Thanks, that's useful advice. Googling CNC machine, I see that I can download software for some models to tinker with, to see how difficult that might be.
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Please provide some examples of job postings for low paid embedded system dev jobs. Or was that speculation?
Panel Wants Deep Space, Not Landings as U.S. Goal
This doesn't make sense. If they are mandating IE for all their computers than their whole App is built solely for IE. For all it's faults, of which there are many, IE isn't harder to use or harder to develop for if you're just writing for IE.

(With the notable exception of lacking the Canvas element. Seriously IE team what is up with that?)

Look, I'm no fan of IE. But if Firefox advocates want to make headway in business and government arenas they need to stop making BS arguments and start looking at the facts. Saying there's no expense to switching to Firefox (on a mass level) or that IE development is a big money drain are both so easily discredited that they make the overall argument (that Firefox is better) look invalid. Because they make those making the argument look like they're just acting of irrational hatred of IE rather than actual facts.
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/fmfirefox.htm

First result for "Group policy Firefox"
I find it funny that the US is doing this, while here in Canada, the government still only officially supports Netscape, even though Netscape itself is no longer supported.
My buddy runs a social networking site for a niche market and they run a freemium model along with ads. The one mistake they made was charging too little as the difference between charging $6/month and $15/month is not as great as they expected (they have 2 levels of paid subs). The bigger hurdle is just getting the user to pull their credit card out in the first place. So don't be afraid to charge a fair amount, if your site offers good value.
Product is Just the Beginning
It's the Carol Dweck stuff again - always worthwhile.

It's more straightforward to apply this to a goal that has been defined by others, such as a test, a sport etc. In product development, it's more difficult, because one needs to define what the product is to do* - and to redefine that when and if needed.

* You can have a problem-in-search-of-a-solution, or a solution-in-search-of-a-problem. The first is easiest: to make a product by setting out to solve a problem - problems them become a resource, a raw material. The other way is to come up with a fantastic idea - a solution - and then to go in search of a problem it solves (or one can just "throw it over the fence" and see if anyone works out a way to use it).
I firmly agree with both of your points, pclark and mfish. Marketing is the missing piece for a lot of developers, but having tried a fair amount of marketing ourself (news interviews, print/newspaper, blogs, etc.) — there are some inherent problems and particularly for indie/bootstrappers.

The pricing pressure to .99 distorts consumer's perception of value, therefore your marketing margins are often wiped out if you give in. A lot of people think $.99 is what every app should cost, they really do.

It's impossible to get quality metrics on your advertising initiatives. There's no way to really track an accurate conversation so you don't really know what works and what doesn't. You can loosely connect a few stats you setup yourself, but it's pretty weak and time consuming of a process - certainly a step backwards.

The inability to offer a demo of your product is a secondary issue with conversation. And, the inability to have a two-way conversation with user reviews, especially the ones that leave arm-chair feedback about your product and have no idea what they are talking about.

It's easy to say "marketing is a quick fix" for everyones problems. It's not, believe me, but that's not to say we're quitting anytime soon. The beauty of our company structure is that we're so low cost to operate that we essentially have an infinite number of iterations. We can pickup the mic after the fat lady has sung.
Comparisons to the modern US aside, that's a pretty misguided analysis of Rome. The territories whose loss cost Rome the most economically were Africa and Gaul, and calling them 'conquered territories' is like calling Texas and California the US's 'conquered territories.' At some point in the distant past they were conquered, but their inhabitants considered themselves Romans, and the Roman government reciprocated. Rome didn't 'plunder' 'booty' from Africa any more than we 'plunder' produce from California.
I like it very much. I wish it faster though.
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Apple Expects Google Voice App Developers To Pay Refunds Out Of Pocket
Constant learning is part of grit, and you can't take talent out of the equation.
If it's a more casual site where users hang around then satisfying self-expression needs by selling virtual goods around avatars, gifts etc. can be a possibility.

It has been quite successfully used by several casual gaming sites and visually intensive social sites (Habbo, Playray, Stardoll ...)
Not talent? Some people violently deny that people have any difference in potential. I can't even formulate a reply, how do you argue with someone who claims the sky is orange and never blue?

Talent is roughly the ability to learn and apply that learning. So you want people to have 'constant learning', but ignore that they first have to be capable of learning that material at all.
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I think it should advise that the process could take a little while. My initial inclination was to x out of the window after watching all those things spin for a bit with no response.
How Different Groups Use Their Time
Google Maps accused of unfair competition in France(for being free)
I hope Google makes a nice product here, but I honestly can't think of a more frustrating company to deal with for identity management.

I've got a:

- Gmail Account

- Personal Domain w/ Google Apps

- Business Domain (my LLC) w/ Google Apps

- Another Business Domain (shared LLC) w/ Google Apps

- Several other related Google logins/associations for Google Group invites, Feedburner, Youtube, etc

My email and calendar are on my personal domain; however, that breaks the calendar links that sites like EventBrite provide since they assume a gmail-style URL. Also, I've found that my Google Apps email account lags behind the standard gmail features (themes took forever to get enabled).

I try to keep my business-related activities isolated from my personal Google logins, so I'm always switching accounts when I log into Analytics/Adsense. I made the mistake of signing up for App Engine (w/ Java) under my personal domain's google account. I eventually made a business-related application, so I tried to setup App Engine under my business domain's google account. However, I had already verified my cell phone number under my personal domain and couldn't use it again. So, I had to borrow a friend's cell number and get the authorization code from him. However, I was logged into Gmail at the time, so the authorization ended up going on my gmail account. I finally gave up when I was prompted to validate a 3rd unique cell phone number.

Knowing the hassle of Google accounts, I started consolidating new services under my gmail account. So, when I finally got my Google Voice invite, I used my gmail login. However, if I'm logged into my personal domain's email when I visit Google Voice, then the contacts page is completely broken. I'm always logged in under my personal domain, so I end up having to use a different browser just to access Google Voice.

I would really like it if Google started working on a way to manage/consolidate all of its accounts. The reality is that most people have more than one Google account, and switching between them is a major hassle.
The quiet presence of sleeping is amazing. Also I'd be interested if there were regional comparisons.
It's a short article.
I need to make a blog, where I can pontificate on things I don't understand and get lots of pageviews.
The app store is not awesome for consumers. Like he says, it is poorly organized (why can't they implement tagging?). Finding something worth spending money on is time consuming and near impossible. Finding something that is free and interesting is also quite difficult. I monitor Pinch Media's feeds, and filter based on free, but most of the apps are worthless.

As for pricing, I think the realistic price for a well developed app is $5-10. I have spent money on a few games, but most of the non-game apps are either useless or targeted at something outside my wants.

A great example of a free app is Word Warp. It is one of my most frequently used apps. Supposedly, they make serious cash from advertising. If it's a game, and worth replaying, you can make good money. Maybe there's a way to do this w/ non-games that isn't too intrusive.
Talent definitely does matter. Michael Jordan trained like a madman it's true - but training didn't make him that tall. Genetic potential fully realized (through effort over time) is that part of the equation.
Great talk, very glad to see it again. I especially liked the question response (at about 25:00) having a day job as a framework designer is probably the worst thing you could ever do, because if you want to create a tool for developers, it's best if you are intimately engaged with the task that they are, as your day job. Or: scratch your own itch, as the openies say.

BTW: Larry Niven (scifi writer) said it's a mistake for writers to give up their day job, because then they run out of raw material (work that seemed a curse was actually a resource). I note that Vernor Vinge's most recent novel (after he quit his day job) was much worse than is earlier works (in my opinion, and in other's).