skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tons! I think about this all the time, since I feel a responsibility to try and talk about lean startup in such a way that prevents misunderstanding.

I would say the two most fatal misapplications are:

1. "up and to the right" disease. here you split-test everything and just do whatever moves the numbers. pretty soon you are selling porn or psychic hotlines.

2. "no vision, no problems" error. It's like trying to do science without a hypothesis. In lean startup we emphasize that people trying to predict the future are often wrong, so it's best to experiment and pivot as you learn. But some people interpret this to mean that the future is unknowable, there's no point in having any kind of vision, and you should just ship something and see what happens. the problem with this plan is you are guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens. after-the-fact rationalization will prevent any learning, because if you can't fail you can't learn. having a big expansive vision is really helpful because it provides lots of falsifiable hypotheses for testing.

3. "minimum viable crap" sloppy execution. Some people think MVP means just throw garbage at the wall and see what sticks, especially since the M makes people think lean startup is for doing something small. but the truth is if you're doing something small, you don't need MVP or lean startup. you only need an MVP if you're trying something large. further, part of the MVP process is to learn what customers actually value in terms of quality, so we can build something that they perceive as excellent. shipping crap isn't the goal, and people that go on TechCrunch with garbage and then claim "but it's an MVP!" are doing it wrong. the hard truth is that spending more time "perfecting" a product in the absence of feedback often makes the product worse, not better.
Consider this, if there's 10 human players you're competing against and they take turns occupying 2.4 hour spots, will those players essentially cover the entire space 24/7?

As far as you are concerned the rest of reddit may be either 10million human players, or 1 million robots, can you tell me who you are playing against? I'd say to you, it's the same.

Now, in a two player tournament, yes, using a robot gives you an advantage because the opponent probably has less stamina than your robot.

But in a competition involving thousands of people, there's really no advantage over any one person because the greatest force on any individual player is the sum of all other players against them, not one player with a robot. Do you think that sounds reasonable?

So the way I see it using a robot is really only a way to make things more comfortable for yourself, just like driving coast to coast is probably more comfortable and likely less time consuming than walking. It's not unfair to walkers, you're not stopping them from walking coast to coast. The only thing that might stop walkers is their stamina.

So while it's true that the reddit case does exhibit scarcity and competition for that (there's only so many click spots per reset), whether people are playing with robots or flesh doesn't make any difference to you, because wherever you are, at whatever time, there's always someone else there with you. It's somewhat ludicrous to think that you will have an advantage if it's all people because say at 2:14 am August 29th, 2015, all 2927 other people are all dozing off just at the same moment that the counter gets to 19 seconds and you push it. I mean, does that sound likely?

Not really, right, because there's always going to be people just alert as you. And robots don't really give you any more grief than people.

It's an interesting argument, and there's probably more to it. I'm sure I'm missing something, and thanks for giving me something to bounce off.

Hey, maybe you can try out a Chrome Ext robot yourself :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rthebutton-robot/m...

Please let me know if there's any bugs.
An interesting aspect of the discussion here is that the opinion is that there seems to be only a few options for funding an open source organisation: venture funded or organic growth. Venture funded is challenging, as it is all about gold digging. Organic growth is generally a slow and hard path.

If you have other goals than just money, there is actually quite a lot of opportunity to work on open source software, with viable business models and interesting things to work on.
Considering my initial point was that it's only a lack of political will that prevents action, I'm not sure what novel point you're making here.
I didn't find the beginning quite a slog but I did wonder if there was going to be a "plot" in the conventional sense. As you say, the rest of the book was a near-continuous crescendo. One scene in particular (Saunt Bucker's Basket!) made me literally stop reading while my brain processed.

My wife read my copy after me. If I remember correctly, she more or less read up to that scene in 5-10 page increments, and then read from that scene to the end in most of one night.
Great idea (Y)
Yeah they forgot. Just like a crack dealer conveniently forgets to charge for the first hit.
I understand and appreciate your approach that the best way to work on growth-engine-topics using lean startup way is by utilising fully dedicated teams in sandboxes. But if you were working for a corporate-client (as a methodology-champion), who is not in the position to assign even one dedicated team yet (instead: 14 volunteers (working in their normal full-day job) distributed across 5 sandboxes), how would you facilitate the work of the sandbox-teams?
I was talking about time to paying customers. Your distinction isn't pedantic at all - there's a big difference between something that requires physical R&D & a services platform. I'm doing biotech & I think 6 mo is incredibly fast.
LinkedIn has been making a lot of acquisitions lately. Do they feel that their revenue source from their main product is drying up?
World Bank Chief: Bring in Carbon Tax Now
I think I started, and then shelved, Anathem three times before finally powering through the first third of the book and like you was hooked once I did.
> Do not make the mistake of believing that online chat, gaming, forums, and Facebook is the same as meeting people in the real world.

Who says it's the same? What you seem to be implying is that it's somehow worse. But that assertion needs to be justified.

> If there's one thing that working from home does, especially if you have a job you really enjoy, it's that it makes it exceptionally easy and fun to just sit write code (or whatever you do) for 14 hours straight without actually talking to anyone face to face.

What's wrong with that?

> That will absolutely destroy your social life.

I think you're projecting. Not everyone wants the same type of social life that you seem to enjoy. People can and do have social lives while working long hours.
Yes. Optimize for data, not code.
This is just a wild guess, but the visible watermark could be the result of a legal issue.
Having hidden tracking elements in such videos could require disclosing them, whereas a visible watermark could be used to argue that the viewer is aware of the video being marked and therefore other included tracking elements do not need to be specifically named.

It has the potential side-effect of the watermark getting blurred out by the leaker, but leaving other tracking pieces intact.
Well this is true but ultimately the end result of my work is code and people tend to pay attention to that when you work remote. PS ping me if you need a new dev, my current contract is coming to an end :D
Notes on Patrick McKenzie's (patio11) talk at MicrConf 2015
We do a lot more than just WordPress. :)

But yes, they came aboard with the LearnBoost / CloudUp acquisition nearly almost two years ago.

A lot of devs -- both pre-hire background and post-hire focus -- have little or nothing to do with the WordPress back-end.

http://automattic.com/work-with-us/
Putty 0.63+ seems to at least DO it, still doesn't render all of the ACS linedrawing chars correctly. SecureCRT was the only windows client I could find that renders it all correctly. All linux terms and mac os x terms are happy-as with it though.
What books do you recommend, for people who are very new to entrepreneurship and stratups?
Learning to Read with Neural Networks
This person has no idea of how video production and editing works.
If I remember correctly there were some issues with StartSSL, but I don't have the details right now.
Maybe (probably) you're more skilled than I am at office politics but it's hard to find that point before "out of control" where you should say something. If you do it too early it comes off as petty; too late and it's already too ingrained.
It's actually very simple: most established organizations adopt processes designed to eradicate innovation. If you study management history it's pretty easy to see why they did this, since there were huge gains in the 20th century to be had by eliminating variability in both manufacturing and human resources. Consistency, standardization, and commodification all paid huge dividends.

Unfortunately, not all sources of variability are bad. Think about the antibiotic craze as an analogy. It was a major discovery that bacteria cause disease. But it was also a major discovery that certain bacteria are beneficial. Loading up your system with antibiotics 24/7 is actually detrimental to long-term health, even though it's awfully helpful during an appendectomy.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you find a remote position?
> cognitive dissonance

Off-topic, but why can't people say "I'm not sure" or "I can see both sides of this argument". It's just an overused geek cliche.
The first link in your source states:

>California's wiretapping law is a "two-party consent" law. California makes it a crime to record or eavesdrop on any confidential communication, including a private conversation or telephone call, without the consent of all parties to the conversation. See Cal. Penal Code § 632. The statute applies to "confidential communications" -- i.e., conversations in which one of the parties has an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation. See Flanagan v. Flanagan, 41 P.3d 575, 576-77, 578-82 (Cal. 2002). A California appellate court has ruled that this statute applies to the use of hidden video cameras to record conversations as well. See California v. Gibbons, 215 Cal. App. 3d 1204 (Cal Ct. App. 1989).

Emphasis mine.

It then follows with:

>If you are recording someone without their knowledge in a public or semi-public place like a street or restaurant, the person whom you're recording may or may not have "an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation," and the reasonableness of the expectation would depend on the particular factual circumstances. Therefore, you cannot necessarily assume that you are in the clear simply because you are in a public place.

Again, emphasis mine.

Your first link appears to confirm my claims and specifically contradicts what you claimed in your previous post.

Next.
Wonderful Idea !
Great work.
I'm a huge fan, Eric! Thank you for doing this. My question is of a more personal nature. When you were in your mid-20s, what were your career goals? Have they changed (if so, how drastically)?
Vonnegut spoke at my convocation. His advice for fiction writers was to write your whole work and then throw away the first chapter, thus dumping your reader into the action. He despised setup.
Open-source-first: front-end development strategy
TBH, don't read books, go start something. Then, when you're totally baffled by what's happening, use books to try and understand why.

Now, since you're probably not going to take my advice, I think a new book that you'll find helpful would be Startup Opportunities https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Opportunities-Know-When-Quit/...

I also recently curated a list of classic startup books on Product Hunt: http://www.producthunt.com/ericries/collections/classic-star...
So what is -sha256 doing?
Google ranks Google.com PageSpeed 92/100, recommends improvements to itself
Business reality, alas.

The book biz isn't as bad as movies, which are made or broken by their first 48 hours of box office receipts, but 80% of sales still occur within 3 months of publication (in hardcover, with a similar bounce when the book goes paperback). First-week sales are what count for (a) bestseller list presence and (b) bookstore re-orders based on (a). And pre-orders count towards first-week sales!
It's a fair question, but from my heydays doing ML research even good libraries can be pretty revolutionary. The engineering-side of ML is still in relative infancy.

For a great example look at all the papers Andrew McCallum's group has been able to publish by building on top of FACTORIE: they get to focus their time on the problem at hand rather than all the math required to solve it. Basically they can write code that generates a model dynamically but the framework handles all the inference. Compare that to how these things are built without such a framework: you spend most of your time painstakingly hand-deriving update rules and then implementing them as code.

IMHO, the exciting thing is that ML is getting closer and closer to being an everyday tool for engineers rather than something that requires you to be a full-time math person to use effectively.
Scalable Multi-Signature Web Wallets with Copay
I feel we are gettinf further and further away from the original discussion and moving the goalposts as we go along, but the key takeaway from this is that France should focus more on supporting weaker learners rather than just administer more and more tests with strict passing grades.

A failing grade is pretty useless to all parties involved unless it is used to assess and correct what the underlying problem is.
I just looked at the collection and realized Founders at Work isn't in there, which is an oversight.
I wonder if D3 (https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery) would be good for this?
Well, for one thing and a major enabler for the green revolution is nitrate fertilizers - which is a petroleum product. Without it, our population would be limited to a much lower number.

Also, without the food security that these fertilizers give us, much progress would not happen.
The Challenges of Beginning a Scholarly Debate in the 21st Century
Amazon Prime Stations
jesus god, what awful typesetting
The questions are "when does it fall off a cliff" and "does it work for more than one thing". Normally the answers are "as soon as you stop doing toy problems" or "no".

But, this (and Church) look very interesting.
Of course, boost is not as hard as some grumpy oldtimers make you believe. Anyone who refuses to use the massive amounts of tested, reliable code that is boost because 'it's too hard to install', should be banned from any real-world project for severe NIH syndrome.
I also sometimes wonder if we might create a slower buy culturally deeper and more contemplative civilization without the crystal meth that is fossil fuel.

But then again maybe not. Maybe we'd never overcome the activation energy for innovation. You can't do true experiments in history.
The post is timestamped "2 April 2015," but it still makes me wonder why they only gave two weeks notice.
This idea is such a win (Y)
The original cause might not stand up to legal scrutiny. Or any kind of scrutiny.
Parts of this article are repeated almost verbatim in that book. (That's a compliment, not a complaint. It's a fantastic book. Anyone who wants to write for a living, and most people who do not, should read it.)
Do you like the Bekant? I thought about getting one for my home office, but it seemed a bit expensive for IKEA furniture...
The actor model for concurrency is rather poor depending on use-case. I prefer to mix and match approaches. I mean, modeling concurrent state machines, with bi-directional asynchronous communication that makes you easily lose sight of how data moves in your architecture, what could possibly go wrong?

And yes, it's a pretty good model for concurrency, however I consider it to be a compromise on the way to finding better approaches. And in the meantime, it just feels wrong to use a language that forces this mentality on you, unless you have specific use-cases for which this model fits perfectly that is.

And also, on the FP side - many people say that Scala is less FP than other languages, like Erlang. That's a rather odd assertion, because my experience has been the opposite. But that's for another discussion.
They charge for certificate revocation, which became a bit of an issue during the Heartbleed massacre.
Linux Foundation to Host Open Encryption Project
It's a relatively (10+ years) old language, and it is innovative in that it combines a scripting language with ref counting as opposed to garbage collection. How many other scripting languages do this?
The page mentions accelerating over a longer distance, but wouldn't that defeat the undetectability of the whole thing?
I never thought to compare writing words and writing code, but it's true. The writing phase is simply getting all the ideas out, and the editing phase is to make... beauty out of chaos!
@ge0rg You said it right. In this blossom of startups, the ZR will be too heavy for startups to handle. Example is, if Uber has a ZR on Vodafone worldwide, then no other cabs startups are going to raise. ZR is a sure death-shot for startups and SMEs.
It's always been hard to DDoS sites protected by Cloudflare. Their business model is to promise to absorb any DDoS attack against you - and I think they've delivered so far.
As far as I can see this was posted on 2nd of April, so its actually almost 2 weeks notice. Thats not much either, but still a lot better than 2 days.
> if you're on a mac

Thanks. I know about that, but I am not on a mac.
I would be careful also with those who perceive themselves to be lower down in a social hierarchy as they lack the force to confront you.
(I mean: maybe you cause the same effect always, but only get push back from ppl. higher up)
Vonnegut was one of a kind in many ways.
> IE11 was fairly modern when it came out.

Still is. IE11 is an evergreen browser with constant improvement.

> It will likely be legacy long before IE12 or whatever they decide to call it comes out.

There won't be another IE. There will be Spartan.

> They're not really going to be able to play keep up until they divorce the browser from the OS.

They basically have, long ago. IE10 and IE11 aren't Windows 8-exclusive.
I was flirting with this a weekend ago..

http://ayal.github.io/spacedout
I'm sure traditionally aged sprits would remain with luxury-pricing if this took hold, but this is fascinating from a scientific perspective.
The entertainment industry operates some 40 actual satellites that were put up into space using actual rockets, engages in petabyte-scale asset management as a matter of course, and constantly reworks its content acquisition pipelines as new digital and analog technologies come to market. We're a little bit more technologically sophisticated than you seem to imagine.
One of the common themes at my last gig is that I would start conversations and presentations with "There are no technical problems here. These are people problems."

Eventually they tried to solve both problems by adopting a technical solution so bad that the people left.
Well the first thing to think about is: are you in a position to tell your client the truth, which is that this is not going to work. A giant part-time committee isn't going to accomplish this kind of work.

If you can tell the truth, try to win the argument now, before it's too late.

But not everyone is so lucky. If for whatever reason, you can't tell the client the truth, you're not totally doomed. What I would look for is an opportunity to make a trade with the various middle managers involved in this situation. Try to ask for fewer, but more dedicated, resources. In most corporate situations, nobody ever asks for less money, smaller teams, less authority. But you'd rather have a dedicated team of 5 than 14 volunteers.
Anyone who was going to get hooked on Game of Thrones is hooked, and anyone who is still on the fence isn't likely to torrent the leaked episodes. Incompetence is a better explanation, I think.
MQTT Security Fundamentials
Mobile apps have the same chance of replacing websites as eBooks have of replacing printed books. At least in the near future. The reports of their demise are greatly exaggerated. In truth, eBooks and mobile apps are still a tiny fraction of the total markets, respectively. It is a lot easier for a new technology to exhibit rapid growth than it is to sustain it as it gains market share.
Nice blogpost :-)
Oh just THINK of the contracting opportunities!
Since no one else is respond to this post, I will offer some very quick advice.

Firstly, what you are suggestion is very doable. You might want to look at Jquery UI draggable elements https://jqueryui.com/draggable/#scroll. There is nothing technically challenging about this concept.

Secondly, your specification is too vague for anyone to actually build. Programming is an exact art since the computer is the most unforgiving thing to work with (computer = fast + stupid). I would suggest that you work with a UI/UX (user interface/ user experience) person to refine your specifications. It would be helpful if the UI/UX person has some experience with programming to validate your concept and turn the idea into build-able specs.

Usually programmers work with UI/UX designers (and sometimes visual designers and marketers) to vet out the concept before starting to work on the code. The reason for this is that coding is a big investment in time and just the slightest change can have profound effects on the underlying code because fairly simple things can turn out to be very complex when you factor in everything.

The way that you have your description right now, most competent programmer would not be interested in this project because there seems to be a big gap between what you want and what you know from the technical perspective. My advice is to narrow this gap by enlisting the help of a UI/UX designer first.
Helium - Floating Browser Window for Mac
Their customer service is appalling, but you pay for what you get.

The original point was that requiring HTTPS would mean free-to-host HTTP services would go out of business as it was impossible to provide free HTTPS certificates, and in that sense, StartSSL proves them wrong.
Wouldn't the cheapest way to move water about just be a big pipe from somewhere with water to spare?
I had the opposite trajectory. I loved the early worldbuilding but didn't really care for the magical powers invoked at the end.
> Improving communication flow between departments, building better processes, discovering metrics, these are things that you can do to help make your company better without having to get the leadership involved.

This requires someone with a surprising amount of knowledge and ability, outside of the normal field of software development. It's a rare skill to find in anyone, let alone a highly skilled tech worker.

Ideally everyone is thinking about the processes and systems that impact them critically, but even that requires a minimum of knowledge and ability to think in systems. It's one of the most under-appreciated and ambiguous skills to learn.
>IMO, I think the majority of use cases that people care about with HTTPS are about integrity (i.e. authentication) rather than confidentiality.

I disagree, and so does the IETF: Pervasive Monitoring is an Attack[0].

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258
federation couldn't have used these against the Borg? might have saved picard a lot of trouble :)
Were religions startups of their own era anyways?
Ah, I see. I hadn't thought of the 255 issue, in hindsight that seems obvious.

Still, I think LSB replacement steganography is useful if only to provide an example of how it steganography can be done, even if it's not particularly sophisticated.