jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is 'Early Adopter' Pricing Effective?
As a small startup, we're about a month (or less, I hope!) away from launching our product. I've worked out a business model and run it by about 5 potential users. Each of them was confident that the 'price is right' however I'm not 100% sure.

I've seen a few companies (e.g. Recurly) do 'Early Adopter Pricing' where they offer a certain price to people who sign up early. That price will be grandfathered forever.

Has anyone here experimented with this? Is it better to just set a price then change and grandfather people? Or does the 'early adopter' discount drive sales?
Response to DHH's "Not For Sale"
http://www.jimdeterman.com/business/for-sale-for-good-reason/
Selling a company, whether you believe it will grow or not, is not an easy decision. You need to factor in many things including your own risk profile.
Show HN: RSS Feed Discovery Engine
https://discovery.thirdplace.no
It accepts urls and tries to find a feed for it. Most of the work is O(1). Scratches a personal itch.
Ask HN: What information to store on the off chance of the Apocalypse?
Given 1 GB in printed pages is about 3.9 million (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+gigabyte+in+pages), how much would you store, what topics are most important (specifically in the areas of: survival in the wild, technology for rebuilding civilization, historical records, anything I've forgotten?), what media/medium would you store it on and how would you go about gathering it?
ZozzyTV, my Startup Launches
http://www.zozzytv.com/
The idea is to allow people to upload their video, which is then displayed on 3 huge screens in Dublin city centre (Ireland, each one is the size of most shopfronts). Any feedback, comments, suggestions? Its been running for 3 days now, and content submissions are just beginning to pick up.
Theres a version 2 of the website going to go live in the next few days, so I would love some feedback so I can work in anything badly needed before then.
Is it annoying to have non-hackers on HN?
As HN becomes more popular and mainstream, how do hackers feel about having more non-hackers on the site - favorable because it provides an opportunity to teach or irritating because it changes the dynamics and intent?
How to validate a startup idea?
I want to make a roguh model for validating startup ideas. I want some help.

Here are some of questions which come to my mind?
1. Where will the revenue come from?
2. How many users are required to get this revenue?
3. How to get user to use the product / service?
4. Is the product / service and absolute must, something which users cannot do without?
...

Can you add more or give me pointer to information?
Programming Hive from O'Reilly Media now available
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023555.do
Dean Wampler, Jason Rutherglen, and myself wrote the newly published 'Programming Hive'. The book is 352 pages! There are many reasons for this, but one was that I wanted to dig deep into hive and unearth many undocumented features. Other reasons are case studies from m6d (media6 degrees), photobucket, and Nasa.(Ow yes. I am name dropping). Other reasons are we tried to cover EVERYTHING from writing User Defined Functions, hive streaming, compression, SerDes, thrift support, as well as more complete version of the language manual with sample data and query output!
FBI withdraws national security letter following Microsoft challenge
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/fbi-withdraws-national-security-letter-following-microsoft-challenge/
Rather than litigating gag order, FBI goes directly to the customer.
How does 280slides.com do Cocoa on the web?
http://280slides.com
Apart from all the Objective-J talk going on, I wanted go in detail about how they managed to port Cocoa to the web. Apparently they write absolutely positioned divs for everything, and calculate position-size. This way they never have to deal with the actual CSS/HTML, and write only javascript code. This is really cool stuff, not only because it makes your frontend more stable and cross-browser, but also for development purposes. The people at qooxdoo.com have been doing it as well, but I havent seen many other folks doing it.
I'm moving to Sydney. Start-up community?
Hello mates,
I'm moving to Sydney soon and am curious whether a start-up community exists there, and if anyone here is part of it?

Any recommendations on places to live? Thoughts on the entrepreneurship culture?
Ask HN: Suggestions for a highschool programmer?
tl;dr: Do you have any good suggestions for a highschool student and programmer in regards to what to do after graduation?

Hey there HN,
I've only been a reader since about a month ago but Hacker News has got to be the site I visit most. I love not only the links and topics of discussion but also the community. I've been busy thinking with my parents about what I should do after graduation and, to be honest, we're overwhelmed. We don't have a lot of money, but I have good enough grades to go to at least a middle rate university. I'm extremely interested in math, computer science and engineering, and have been programming since elementary school.

So, I'm turning to you, HN. Should I try to go to college (my grades are good enough and I could, but I would probably have to take out student loans), or do you think that in these times trying to enter directly into the workforce is a better idea?

Also, do you have any suggestions for projects I should try to build? Any languages or areas of programming that you think I should look into? I program in C and Python and a little Java, is there anything else that I should really look into? Maybe Lisp?

p.s. to see some of my projects, check out http://www.peterdowns.com/projects/
Ask HN: It's Time. Need a developer/team. San Francisco or Boulder?  
Hello HN,

A little background: I'm 32, live in Dallas, and have 'startup' running through my veins. Most of you are in my same boat - we have ideas all-day, every-day, but somehow find an excuse not to pursue them. I know, I know. Ideas don't mean sht - it's the execution. Well, I can't live with myself if THOSE people keep JUMPING and finding their wings on the way down. It's OUR time. It's MY time.

Sure, there are brilliant entrepreneurs with brilliant ideas. Let them be. Most companies that survive (and thrive) have iterated, pivoted, changed markets, etc.

So, I HAVE AN IDEA. Not a reinvent-the-world brilliant idea, but a workable one. One that would be cool to build, market & spend 90 hours/week working on. One that I spend every minute obsessing about, talking about, ideating on, wireframing...

My dilemma: I am not a developer. I know enough to not get screwed. I know what the first iteration looks like. I don't want to outsource - I want people who are obsessed about this idea as I am. Dallas has plenty of talent, but I want/need to be in an environment where ideas are flowing. Where people understand the game. Where smart people will tell me when my idea sucks. You get my drift.

I have all the typical bullsht credentials - MBA, Sales/Trading background with 2 'obliviated' Investment Banks. Experience with Digital Strategy, Consulting and Marketing.

So, San Francisco or Boulder? Thoughts, ideas, people to talk to???

P.S. If you are a developer or know of one who LOVES building algorithms, aggregators and believes there is ALWAYS A BETTER WAY, please let me know.
P.P.S. I am not opposed to working virtually with my team.

And yes, I do have MONEY to get this off the ground...

Best,
Woodward
Ask HN: Compensation for Remote Developers
I was going through job listings on stackoverflow. I saw a lot of job listing for remote positions.

I find it hard to believe some of these listings are offering 5x to 8x my current compensation for the similar role and experience (I am from a developing country).

I was wondering whether the compensation offered by these companies are dependent on location of the developer? If so how much would it matter?

I just want to clarify before I apply.

(sorry for my bad english)
What do you get when an Oxford anthropologist writes a guide to English pub etiquette for tourists?
http://www.sirc.org/publik/ptpchap4.html
i had no idea how much of this i did without thinking till it was pointed out. are there reader equivalents?
Tell HN: Take time off and spend time with loved ones
Don't lose site of the people in life you care about. Take the weekend off and spend time with these people.

Just a friendly reminder. Happy holidays!
Ask HN: Why no SQL Query Tools for iPad? Am I missing something....
I noticed that there is only 1 real SQL tool for iPad. That is SQLite Editor.

Am I missing something there? It would seem there would be more something like Sequel Pro or MySQL Workbench for iPad.

Are there not a lot of these for an obvious reason?
What's really behind Slack's crazy growth?
Slack is a messaging app that is less than two years old and already worth north of $2B with over 500,000 users. Many people are calling it the fastest growing business application ever.

Slack CMO Bill Macaitis (formerly CMO at Zendesk) is interviewed on this podcast to go behind the scenes on Slack's explosive growth and talks about why they care so much about brand and NPS.

What do you think is behind such crazy growth? IM and chat has been around for ever and other services like Hipchat are very similar. What do you think Slack's secret sauce is? If Hipchat didn't sell to Atlassian in 2012, would they be valued at $2B?

Here's the link to the audio on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-slacks-explosive-growth/id963131164?i=338838103&mt=2
Average webmaster dumber than rocks: Response code survey
http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2011/11/server-response-survey-results-were-all-doomed.htm
2000 servers. 30% mis-configured. WTF?!
Mozilla's former president Li Gong poach 30+ people from his former office
http://technews.co/2015/06/13/china-poaches-top-talent-from-mozilla-taiwan-for-iot-projects/
According to this latest news, Mozilla's former president Li Gong is poaching his former executive Mozilla branch for more then 30 managers & engineers for his new startup 'Gong Fishing', which is in direct compete with Mozilla on Firefox OS field.
Ask HN: How to properly negotiate employee equity
As first employee in a well funded biotech startup, how should one go about equity negotiation?

given a market-value salary, is 1% stock options considered above/below average?
Facebook, this is creepy. And dumb.
http://i.imgur.com/gY9p0.png
I don't know why you would even try a feature like this...
Facebook Pages Get Compromised. Who Does It? Facebook Support
http://www.rewritetech.com/facebook-pages-get-compromised-who-does-it-facebook-support-1091/
Hundreds of Facebook pages are being compromised, all that by writing to Facebook support and miss-using a glitch in their policy.
Under 500/month plus room and Board
Show HN: Share Slicer Settings for 3D Printers
3D printers need slicer software to turn 3D models into print commands. Slicers have lots of configuration parameters, any of which could screw up a print.

A couple months back I was looking for slicer settings to get my new k8200 printer working with anything other than PLA. A kind Redditor shared her settings on a private Github with me, but only after a couple weeks of forum hunting and Googling. That got me thinking - there has to be a better, faster way to do this..

I put together www.slicershare.com to make sharing slicer setting files dead easy. You can browse for slicer settings by filament, printer, slicer software or any keywords. You can leave feedback on any settings you try. For those of you that have dialed in slicer settings for a new filament or a particular model, you can host settings on SlicerShare and point back to them easily, without needing to go to Github, Dropbox, etc.

This is still early in development, so expect improvements to the UI and functionality (particularly in managing the profiles you've uploaded). I’d love to get your feedback the website, as well as answer any questions you might have. Thanks for taking the time to check this out!
Commodore Amiga: A Beginner’s Guide
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/commodore-amiga-101-beginners-guide?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RetrogamingWithRacketboy+%28RetroGaming+With+Racketboy%29
probably the best source about amiga games stuff I've read
Ask HN: Why do people get absorbed by some things but not others?
As succinctly as I can: How and why do people have genuine interest in things? How do they maintain that interest over time? What initially determined their interest in that thing?

My thoughts on this question stem from noticing how people do a faster and better job when they are interested in a task. In my own life, I've noticed times when I've been obsessed with programming, or a video game. However, I've also had many times where I had to work hard to force myself to solve problems - I just couldn't convince myself to care. I want to understand what the difference is, and hopefully exploit the knowledge to have a more productive and comfortable life.

In other individuals, I've been envious of their ability to stay deeply engaged with things for long periods of times. Some of the most successful people I know are ones who somehow continue to care about a topic long after others would've given up. Why do they continue to care?

I've also noticed there is a difference between genuine interest versus actions driven by a 2nd order interest (e.g. "I'm doing X for the money", "I'm doing X because I'm obligated"). Activities driven by 2nd order interests seem less skillfully performed. Unfortunately, humans seem wired to have genuine interests in short-term rewards, which ends up meaning there is a performance hit for long term goals since "I'm doing X so one day it will pay off". It would be more ideal to just prefer things which would be long term good for you.

I've read a lot about Flow, but I don't think thats the entire answer. For example: I know a lot more about programming know than I used to...but I don't stay up until 4 AM coding stuff any more.

I expect some responses about burnout at well, which is actually part of the question. How do people go harder than others, and not burn out? How can I have this for myself?
GitHub Styleguide - CSS, HTML, JS, Ruby
https://github.com/styleguide/
Welcome to the GitHub styleguide. This is where you should look if you're interested in how to write code. We have a living CSS styleguide, JavaScript styleguide and some recommendations on how to write Ruby code.
Startups can do email marketing for free, from CakeMail
http://www.cakemail.com/startupoffer.html
CakeMail offers free email marketing accounts to startups, up to 25,000 emails per month.
Picking up that entrepreneurial date.
http://troggerpath.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/find-that-entrepreneurial-valentine/
A bit of advice from one female entrepreneur, from her experience at start-up parties and tech mixers. Hopefully it helps you score at least A date with that cute young founder across the office/bar.
Hacker News Redesign
http://dribbble.com/shots/266800-HN-Redesign
I took a couple minutes to redesign HN.
If someone is actually interested in making it work, I'd love to talk about it.
Toddlers' Favorite Toy: The iPhone
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/fashion/17TODDLERS.htm
Smartphones may mollify a fussy toddler, but does this new Toy of Choice inhibit a child’s development?
Cat *.c &gt;tmp.c && gcc -O3 -fwhole-program $YOURFLAGS -o ohmygawditsfast tmp.c
This will get you warp-speed if there're no clashes. -Os instead of -O3 makes another wet dream come true (guess which).
Ask HN: Meditation
Can you change your mind through meditation? does neuroscience back all the buzz about mediation lately?
Show HN: Krita Stable Diffusion Plugin for Windows and Linux
https://github.com/w4ffl35/krita_stable_diffusion/tree/feature/windows-support
17 days ago I showed off a plugin I created for Krita that allowed you to run Stable Diffusion. It was only for linux and required you to install lots of python dependencies.

Now I am compiling Stable Diffusion with Pyinstaller and all its dependencies and have added Windows support.

All you have to do is run the server and pass it a PID (this manual passing of a PID will be removed in the next release).

Here's how it works:

* I forked and cleaned up Stable Diffusion https://github.com/w4ffl35/stable-diffusion/tree/feature/win... that's what this version is using to compile it.

* The Krita plugin is just a basic client that communicates with the "sdrunner.exe" process ("kritastablediffusion" on linux)

* That process opens up a local socket server on port 50006, while the Krita plugin runs a socket client on the same port

* binary json strings are passed between server and client server gets a request and runs Stable Diffusion (which it keeps "hot" in GPU memory waiting for requests)

* after an image is generated it is stored to disc, the response is sent to Krita

* Krita imports the image

I plan to add more features, including more models and a cloud service.

If you like what you see, please consider starring the repo or even supporting me on GitHub. This project is currently my primary focus.
German Pirate Party Blackout - Nice Visual Effect
http://www.piratenpartei.de/
Seems not to work on IE9, though.

As a sidenote, almost all big German news sites are covering the Wikipedia blackout quite prominently at the moment.
Too many students attend college, said former UCLA prof
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071202/OPINION03/712020312/1031
Wanting to be in college is not the same as wanting an education. Among the other reasons for wanting to be in college is that it is a social scene with large concentrations of people of the same age and the opposite sex.
Functional programming: A step backward
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2012/120705-what-s-wrong-with-functional-programming.html
You could almost consider it trolling to submit this here. Rather than rehash a discussion of the advantages of functional programming, I would like the comments to focus on a specific issue this article exemplifies: why isn't functional programming catching on?
Ask HN: What techniques do you use for gradually learning some topic?
There was a recent post here about handy git commands, and some of the comments mentioned a few commands not covered. It reminded me that I've been meaning to expand my git-fu, but have not gotten around to it.

Likewise with improving my vi skills, my German vocabulary, and some number of other things.

Since I often don't follow up on setting aside explicit time to focus and study and practice, I've been playing with background or ambient learning. For example, I have a twitter account that posts a random German word, with English translation, each hour. I don't check it all the time, but I do read it when I'm glancing over a twitter feed. (I also wrote a desktop flash-card thing to do the same thing, sliding into view every N minutes.)

What techniques to you all have for gradually acquiring new knowledge of some domain, in lieu of actually sitting still and studying?
Scribd.com - New Media Life Cycle Analysis
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13465814/New-Media-Life-Cycle-Analysis-Scribdcom
With their formal publisher announcements this week, Scribd.com is officially entering the monetization phase of the life cycle.
Ask HN: What's the best phone to write an app for for Linux C programmers?
I don't own a mac, and I don't know or care to learn java. What phone platform can I write code for? I'm a Linux/C guy.
Show HN: Feedback on our new multiplayer game API?
http://www.playpi.net
This is a two man team and we're in full-on development of a new platform to assist in multiplayer games. We're looking to launch in about a month or two with an OpenID server accessible to customers (or they can use provider like Facebook/Twitter) and a couple cool multiplayer features. After we launch development will continue until we have a well-rounded API.<p>We're primarily targeting HTML5+JS developers but the system will work with any language that can make RESTful API calls. We know there's some stiff competition out there but we're looking for feedback and what features may make you swing towards our pay-for model?
Steve Ballmer Moved to Tears at Employee Meeting
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/09/26/steve-ballmer-moved-to-tears-at-employee-meeting/
And, he exited the stage to the song “(I’ve Had) The Time Of my Life.”
All that You Would Want to know About FB Graph Search
http://lurnq.com/lesson/all-that-you-would-want-to-know-about-fb-graph-search/
An exhaustive article on the Facebook Graph Search covering all aspects including dating, advertising, entertainment, recommendations, recruiting, the war with Google, privacy concerns, drawbacks and more.
DOGESTARTER – open-source Node.js Dogecoin crowdfunding
http://www.dogestarter.co/
I decided to polish up and open source my crypto-crowdfunding (is that a thing?) app. I'll release the BitCoin version soon, but for right now... DOGECOIN... To the moon!!!
A proof that the quicksort algorithm terminates on all inputs
https://gist.github.com/868615
Testing my new language... This might be the slowest quicksort implementation yet, but hey, I didn't claim the code was optimal.
The New HondaJet
http://www.honda.com/hondajet/?ef_id=1097:3:c_913fcb9c9f966e0808dd4cf73d0aa205_841615408:Won2fUGvMUIAAA4EeR8AAAAP:20080409010932
It's a beautiful craft.
4 Advantages of Self-Employment
http://blog.taskwise.com/2011/08/4-advantages-of-self-employment/
f you work a regular 9 to 5 job for a corporation, you may have thought more than once about starting your own business. Maybe you feel like you could perform the same tasks efficiently without office politics or gossip standing in your way....
Ask HN: What's your favourite podcast?
Hey guys, I'll be driving down from Toronto to San Jose next week and I'm prepping my podcast list for my trip. So far my list includes ECorner, This Week in Startups, The Startup Success, Mixergy, and Startup Story Radio. Would love to hear what you guys find interesting/education/enlightening. Thanks!
A Business case for Indian offshoring to deploy its “bench” towards FOSS
http://sandeep.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/a-business-case-for-infosys-to-deploy-its-bench-towards-foss/
An open letter to several of India's IT offshoring companies, who are suffering the problem of too much idle manpower to utilize this lean period to contribute towards Free and Open Source Software and in the process gather free PR and Marketing, as well as expose their employees to excellent mentorship.
Four Steps to the Epiphany: Sell before delivery
http://seriouslackofdirection.blogspot.com/2011/03/four-step-to-epiphany.html
I recently read The Four Steps to the Epiphany and I have summarized my thoughts. Especially with regards to selling a product before it's completed, and I'm curious about your war stories and thoughts related to selling before you deliver.
Show HN: A clean directory of awesome startups
http://startupontop.com/
Most of the directory or listing services are worthless from a browser's point of view. Your startup(or any listed business) gets lost somewhere buried under categories and sub-categories. So, while these directories do offer a link or two, they really do not provide any value or a good user-experience to a casual browser who simply wants to check out cool startups, quickly find out a bit about them and explore further if interested.

I created StartupOnTop to address this very issue and offer a directory that presents startups in a clean, clutter-free manner. It offers a top-down view (startups first, categories later) and also shows a "quick - view" for users to quickly learn about a startup.

Most importantly, I intend to vigorously maintain it - I would like to keep it ad-free and spam-free. That means, the site is not meant for ‘every’ startup and will try to prevent the site from generic dilution. After a free first month, charging a basic maintainance fee.

Here is the submission link: http://startupontop.com/submit-startup/

-Paul