skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of my favorite vertical lists/services are:

* Eater: they have a "Top 38 restaurants" list for each city they cover [1]

* Wirecutter: most WC posts aren't lists but rather "X is the best product in category Y" but many have runner-up products. They also have a lot of cool gift-giving lists [2]

* Producthunt collections: I'm not completely sold on PH as a whole, but their collections feature is pretty cool. I have a few I use as bookmarks more than anything. [3]

* Business Insider: they have a "10 things in X you need to know today" ... it's not perfect but a nice way to get the news while I'm waiting in line at the coffee shop [4]

* Trello: IMO its the best personal, flexible list making tool

[1] http://la.eater.com/maps/best-los-angeles-restaurants-38

[2] http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/special-gifts-for-your-favo...

[3] https://www.producthunt.com/@callmeed/collections/startup-na...

[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-in-tech-you-need-to...
Ask HN: Simple app marketing hints for naive developers?
A friend and I just released a free iOS game. Very simple with (IMO) a good concept/aesthetics/execution.

We have no idea how to market it, and have realized after a week that it won't be marketing itself. Looking for some hints on possible marketing ideas.

We have minimal budget, and want to explore cheap/free options first.

Thank you!
I'm happy to response that I'm neither 14, nor old enough to have realized the idea on my own before I came across it.

>And as for the schools, they were just holding pens within this fake world. Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done. And I have no problem with this: in a specialized industrial society, it would be a disaster to have kids running around loose.

http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html
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What kind of solution would you suggest? What is missing?
I still think it's relevant in determining how multiple partners affects social problems. The broader picture.
*mAPI = AloomaAPI.getInstance(context, “<Company_Name>.alooma.io”)

no api key ?

this looks interesting - but it would be nice to be able to get started immediately without "request a demo".
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A lot of this does showcase how to use Alooma's product, true.

However, I hope that the SQL queries provided would be helpful to anyone who would like to build it on their own.

FD: I am Alooma's CTO
cool. but I won't subject my cat to "kibble".
Strictly speaking not true. Monogamous marriage is the only kind of marriage that can be started in the US. The US does, however, recognize non-monogamous marriages.
That it looks like a new improved version, while in reality it is basically a completely new language.
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You are not saying anything original here that is not the complete median view on the Street. Eurozone 0%: check. UK bright spot: check. Japan a debt disaster: check. Russia suffering: check. China/US the future: check.

There is nothing here that if followed, will allow anybody to outperform because this is complete consensus, it's what's priced in almost exactly. Yet the real alpha-generation skill is to challenge the received wisdom which here, is light years from happening.

How about the view that the a 9% yield in Russia is actually hugely more interesting than a 2% yield in dollars. What about the idea that 40$ oil is cheap as chips and the bargain of a generation? Maybe China's debt situation is, if we dig a bit deeper than the surface, much worse than Japan's, short term? Perhaps the UK is a financial bubble far too long of Arab money and that the Eurozone's current travails represent the small potential for light at the end of the tunnel on the view of renewal?

Not saying these are true, just that they might be worth considering.

Still, thank you for paraphrasing in one short paragraph exactly what I hear in my inbox in PDF form 20x per hour from the analyst community.
Three Benefits of Workflow Automation You May Not Have Considered
I'm a big fan of [Segment](https://segment.com) who do a great job of putting an abstraction layer on top of the massive selection of analytics platforms you're likely to end up using. A particularly nice touch is some of their plans having a feature where you can replay your entire event history into new analytics tools you add, allowing you to almost immediately start analysing all your data with them.
What photos of Facebook’s new headquarters say about work
I was referencing my personal perspective.

I reserve the right to shut down my own opinions, especially the anecdotal ones. I have known my anecdotes to be 91.3% bullshit.
All true...but also makes it not friendly to new people. ;-)
Inbrowser demos like this should be a new category for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene!
What you need is evidence to show that the way this affects companies differs based on whether the company is paying Yelp for advertising. There are so many reasons why either positive OR negative reviews may be filtered. I've seen false review vote-brigades on a business because someone from the business made offensive remarks about palestine and the military.
Hiring for Fit Gets You to IPO, but Over Time, Hiring for Potential Wins
So, what did you learn? That bit is completely missing from the article..
Surely not how to write a (very simple) SQL query?
I wish Apple would spend some more R&D money fixing up their Mac application-level software, which in my opinion has been on a gradual decline since about 2005.

More seriously though, Apple’s revenue is much higher than these companies, and their R&D budget is still in the same order of magnitude (larger than Qualcomm or Facebook, about the same size as Google). So the answer here seems to be that they have a more efficient business model or participate in larger markets than Facebook or Qualcomm or Google.
Dude, I'm experiencing exactly this right now. This is the most obnoxious tech thing ever. All I can find out there are stories of homegrown metrics systems made out of duct tape and chewing gum, or SaaS solutions that inevitably have shortcomings.
What do you mean? What do you feed them instead? Curious. I have 3 cats and they are on the kibble. 1 of them has IBS. I always wonder(ed) if it's cos of this solid food full or "fillers".
doesn't HTTP require "VERB URL HTTP/VERSION" ?
I'm SUPER interested in how welfare/child support has had a negative impact on African Amercian men, and the community at large. More people need to study this.

I love examples of good intentions going bad.
Clickable: http://michaelteeuw.nl/tagged/magicmirror
> I am somewhat perplexed by the lack of breakout success to date in listmaking. It’s an obvious category. And it is certainly not for lack of trying. The commercial internet is 20+ years old now. So you’d think someone would have cracked the code by now. But I don’t think anyone has.

I bet someone has cracked the code, but it didn't become fashionable. The commercial internet being 20+ years old is just more time for fashion to change, and not an indicator of potential success.
Not actually requiring something to start with a fixed string doesn't really mean anything when every message begins with a fixed string because it's just the way to do.
I think when people use the "User for X" they refer to the disruption Uber has caused to an industry, not so much the service of Uber itself.
Not only that, but by taking out the Alpha, they not only created a power vacuum, they also put her family members on the chopping block. In lot of animal troupes, if an alpha is displaced (male or female), the new alpha and its heirs will attempt to kill the other alpha's family to extinguish the bloodline and allow their own bloodlines to be dominant - which is exactly what happened.

I'm puzzled they were so surprised this is what happened.
Yeah, I didn't know the details, but China for sure had to make some concessions to get in.

It will be interesting to see how much they allow their currency to float and how much more (if any) they will allow their citizens to expatriate the yuan.
We should really compare OK cupid with Tinder. Since its goal is different with OK cupid there may be some insights.
Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
I don't think of Trello as a "list app". It's a kanban app, which is a kind of list I suppose, but "list" is way too vague for it.

Kanban is a pretty specific case. There have actually been a number of apps attempting to do kanban boards. Trello is the only one I've tried that actually works well.
Tl;dr:
Apple only spends 3.5% of its revenue on R&D versus companies like Google, Qualcomm, and Facebook who spend 15%, 22%, and 21% respectively. (2015 stats)
Holy batman that scroll hijacking.
>Would you start a new business in Buffalo?

It doesn't take much capital to turn a 19th century mansion into an incubator/hacker house. Sure the weather and the Bills suck but inside you'll find a welcoming community spirit at a price you can start a business and raise a family at.

Buffalo has also been experiencing a boom in green tech investment (http://mobile.buffalonews.com/?articleRedirect=1&url=http%3A...)

As for Upstate NY in general, I think it's a great place to start a business. At the end of the day, most businessss can be run anywhere (hence the boom in remote work), and, again, putting aside the biblically shitty weather, you have an affordable region with plenty of fresh water and local farms, and isn't at risk for rising tides (NY,FL,CA), earthquakes (Cascadia,CA), droughts (CA, southwest, Midwest when the aquifer runs dry), name it. This is a great region to start a family, and at the end of the day, your best employees are the ones tied to your office and location, not mercenary college grads shopping around every couple years for a raise.

In 100 years, Upstate NY can exist without desalinated/pumped life support. Not so sure about the rest...
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We don't need a thinner iPhone if that means killing the headphone jack
I think that if you love something you will find time to spend. I have a 40hr/week full time job (i am not a developer) but development is my hobby and i start my challenge to take the chance and find a job as a developer. You also need a lot of support if you have family. I am blessed because my wife give me a lot.
Expecting anyone to do anything in their self-interest but stay alive is abysmal public policy and shows little understanding of history or human nature.
The flagship smartphone is dead
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My point is that "murder is wrong" is so much of a tautology to be a completely uninteresting topic. Nobody needs to talk about the fact that murder is wrong, the discussion is about which killings are murder and which aren't.
> Larry Wall is a linguist, and I think that is probably what sets perl apart more than anything.

He's also pretty good at telling jokes, which explains a lot of things about Perl ;-)
Sorry to be boring but a simple timer seems more sensible. Dispense the preset amount everyday at the same time.
And kitty needs water.
Before even reading your post I highlighted his name, right clicked, and searched on Google. It took me longer to read your post than it did to do that and get plenty of information.
we use the issue tracker to make lists of non-development tasks.
A good reason to be in Boston this week.
Cool, but you stole the name from Oscar's PiDP-8 project :( (http://obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.ch/2015/01/new-projec...) How is he gonna call is PDP-11 panel replica now?
They didn't save anyone from botulism?
Am I the only one still doing most of my front-end work for Desktop land? Feeling a little left behind with this announcement.

With the changes, we are pushing DevTools into a mobile-first future where mobile development is the default, and Desktop development is the “add-on”
Yes, but there are many VERBs and URLs.
Wet food is almost certainly healthier for cats. Less carbs, more moisture, fewer urinary tract issues, etc.

Kibble is great for when you need to get away for the weekend, however.
Patriarch, not alpha; there is no such thing as an alpha.
>So the answer here seems to be that they have a more efficient business model than Facebook or Qualcomm or Google.

Or perhaps the sorts of issues they're working on are simply lower-hanging fruit? (no pun intended)
Writing advice has certainly come full circle.

It wasn't that far back that the "simpler is better" approach was de rigueur: "if you can use 'said'," it was said, "don't strain for some artificial substitute." This advice would be followed by laughable examples in which a lamentable student effort would be cited as an example of strained dialog (e.g., so-and-so "ejaculated" and another so-and-so "emitted", all in an obviously strained effort to avoid having to say "said").

This article indicates that writing teachers today are going out of their way to teach students to avoid using lists of simple words that pretty much say what they say but do not do it in a colorful manner.

What is missing here is obvious to me. A good writing style uses simple words, and sometimes even copiously, but also uses pace and rhythm to mix colorful or even arresting words in with them.

It is as big a mistake to strive artificially to avoid simple words as it was in the past to say that all writing should be reduced to such words in the name of directness.

Neither approach is natural and neither works. Yes, strive to lift yourself up from the banal, the trite, or the Valley Girl modes of expression. But don't avoid perfectly good words for expressing perfectly good ideas just because they are widely used. By all means, do use such words. Just learn to vary your expression selectively so that you do not become boring or lifeless in how you say what it is you want to say. In other words, use your imagination and vary your language accordingly but do so against a backdrop that uses everyday words in their usual way. In that way, your reader's attention will be drawn to the part that counts and not to the backdrop part that doesn't need either emphasis or attention.

At least that is how I see it.

The advice to vary simple words merely for the sake of varying them is bad advice. Avoid it.
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R&D accounting for tech companies should somehow factor in M&A spend as this is becoming the de facto way to "generate" research and IP for large tech companies.

> Apple’s relative thriftiness extends to its vaunted advertising and marketing operations. The company spent $3.5 billion on advertising and marketing over the past four quarters, while Google spent about $8.8 billion in the past three. R&D spending isn’t worthwhile if it never leaves the lab, says Tim Swift, a business professor at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. “Apple’s products are going through some of the most effective and sophisticated marketing we’ve ever seen,” he says. “That’s the other half of what makes Apple the most productive R&D spender.”

Surprising to see that Apple also spends less than 50% of what Google does in direct advertising. Amazing what kinds of costs you can cut when you have such strong marketing already built into the name, look, and design of your product.
Thinking about this more, the problem isn't that list apps are an underserved market, but rather that they're an overserved market. Making a list app is easy - so easy that "make a list app" is the glorified "Hello world" used to demonstrate real-world code for lots of Javascript frameworks and other language libraries.

Successful examples are vertical, not horizontal. The obvious ones mentioned here are Trello and Pinterest, neither of which are "list apps" in the standard sense. Other ones coming to mind are Buzzfeed-style click-bait, of the "Here are 17 stupid things! Number 4 will shock you!" variety - but those aren't so much lists as bait technique.
"Didn’t give up on printing yet?" I appreciate the sentiment, but all of my customers love printing. Good browser support for print-specific styles allows me to avoid doing unpleasant things like rendering an SSRS report to PDF and then printing. At least for LOB apps, printing is going to be around for a while.
Heap (YC W13) is hiring engineers to build large-scale analytics infrastructure
I'd propose most successful social sites are successful list-based services, although the default filtering/ordering is not by author, which seems to be the specific case that the article contemplates.

HN, for example, allows me to go see a list of things that a majority of people in my demographic think is interesting today.

Reddit, as one example of a topical social site, takes it a step further and allows users to choose their "vertical," as the author would likely state it.
We're not measuring this as a binary value happy/unhappy. Not all losses are equal. Your children dying before you is worse than most other losses.
One of the favorite lists of all time -- in terms of both contemporary utility and in simplicity, is the MacRumors buyers guide: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

Maybe it was slapped together in a cumbersome way, but I can't imagine it having to be anything more complicated than 3 lists (or spreadsheets), if you're relatively anal about normalization: One for the list of products, one for the list of updates per product, and one for the list of of articles per product (which could be auto-generated via a tagging mechanism).

Not only is it something that is useful to me almost on a monthly basis...it underscores how greatly lists can augment the limits of human memory. I mean, seriously, just a few years ago, Apple had just a handful of product lines, and even then I couldn't tell you roughly how many months it had been since the last iPod or iPhone release, nevermind how much that time period is compared to the average release cycle per product. And yet by tying those public and easily-gatherable facts together makes something incredibly useful. I'm surprised no one has seemed to have done it for Android...though to keep your sanity, you'd have to restrict it to the main manufacturers and lines (Nexus, Galaxy, Note, HTC One, etc).
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Detroit tries unconventional approach to restoring its housing market
I've recently been using an app called Mashfeed (http://www.appstore.com/mashfeed), which lets you create & follow lists of social media feeds from the top networks (Instagram, YouTube, Twitter). It basically combines all the posts from the selected feeds into a master feed, making it easy to stay on top of content you're interested in, without all the clutter. this app should def be on the "list" (wink wink) of apps for list making!
Also available as an Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
On the Role of Media Theory at Universities of Applied Art and Technology
This was an excellent, thought-provoking piece. Anyone have some book recommendations for further examinations of how the rise of the corporation has affected America?
So if I test the compound (sauerkraut) with PH test strips, and find it acidic then I'll be safe?
> http://vimawesome.com/

lol vundle
I think that the key is to make it safe to make mistakes...this also makes it safe to point them out...

This may be sematics, but in my experience, the bona fide assholes don't point out mistakes because they care about helping the person who made the mistake to improve. And so when an asshole sees they've made a person suffer, they don't care, and don't take the time to reassure the person that they have confidence in their abilities. When a person is being radically candid and they see the person is suffering, they take the time to show they care and to reassure that person they have confidence in their abilities--but it a way that makes it clear the mistake was a mistake, or that their work isn't good enough...
Well, at the limits of performance, you're still looking at additional copies to get the cached data from the cache to the program, then probably another copy to get it from the input to the output, plus several context switches (which, even if they may ultimately have a relatively small effect on throughput, will increase latency). Having it in-process can be faster, if you're willing to pay the complexity price.

Again, it's almost certainly premature optimization to start with that design, but if that's where your optimization leads you, it's not that surprising.

FWIW, I wrote something myself that hits a similar problem, but in a completely different dimension: https://github.com/thejerf/gomempool My problem was that I had an otherwise rather placid program (from an allocation perspective) that liked to allocate buffers for messages that were many hundreds of kilobytes to low numbers of megabytes in size. In normal usage, only maybe one or two of these are ever in use at a time, but I use hundreds per second. In my case, each individual GC was actually not that big a deal, but I was triggering them every few seconds. The GC would see a lot of large allocs, and then successfully clean them up, meaning that the next batch of large allocations would be seen as crossing the threshold again. My stats clearly showed that on this system, once I started pooling my []byte I never even filled up the memory pool itself, and my GCs plummeted so far that I wouldn't even particularly care if they took half-a-second apiece anymore, which they don't. Almost everything other than those large message buffers were stack-alloc'ed anyhow.
On a related note, anyone have any personal experience with iFixit's tech repair kit? I'm looking to gift a set of electronic repair tools for the holidays.
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I have paid my dues, thank you.

Here is what is happening: His writing has evolved to be laced with honeypot objectionables (on top of general obfuscation) so that he can sit on his mountain, avoid direct refutation, and look down at people that obviously don't get what he's saying. That they conveniently map with his ur-self's tonal ambitions is icing on the cake.

You're hitting a honeypot, flavored by all the pickup from his ur-self that's present in everything about what he chooses to write about. Your statement, which is about what he says, is not the true true (about what he says) because it's poisoned by what he is. You can unsimplify it back up to a lot of stuff that he doesn't say (in fact, stuff he doesn't believe he believes).

If you have an alternate theory, I should point out that mine also explains Urbit. Does yours?
On the example mentioned in the article about the "um" issue, getting feedback like that from someone (a boss, or whoever) is one thing when you have actually requested it or when it's part of some kind of formal meeting where mentorship or guidance is expected. But during some random/off-the-cuff chat "on a walk" or in a hallway or whatever? That's ridiculous. I wouldn't want to work at a company where every time I give a presentation or put some kind of effort out there, some boss is going to pounce on me and start telling me what they think I did or did not do right or if I seem stupid or whatever. Way to go turning your employees into cowering bundles of nerves.

Ugh. Every time I think maybe, just maybe, the cult of being a Jobs-ian *-hole is loosing its appeal in tech circles, this kind of stuff rears its ugly head. Meh.
Wow. Talk about "when all you have is a hammer."
Redistribution and charity are very different things. Redistribution comes from the idea that societies have goals, and that those goals are better served by thinking about where to spend resources instead of leaving it to blind markets.

I can see that you think of the government as 'them' instead of 'us', instead of something that we do as a society. We differ there.

Also, it worries me that you think (maybe I'm reading you wrong here) that is the spending of money, of all the things, what is the main problem with the war on Iraq.