skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last one seems like a problem because I'm not sure someone would pay. but you could test that out. So, if your relying on advertisers you need to get really large users counts and minimal revenue coming in at first. my opinion only.
"I always volunteer to work for free prior to getting hired."

This sounds like a perfect way to devalue yourself to any potential employer.
That's a straw man. While no one is forcing me to rent it out, it's common courtesy to let your landlord know of any activities you wish to pursue. After all, it's not your property you're staying in, there's a reason why you're renting it. After all, people rent out their homes on AirBnB for leisure. What porn film makers are doing is capitalizing on AirBnB rentals by circumventing not only regulations (not a fan of but sometimes it's necessary) but they're making a profit from your property. Not to mention the fact that they left this person's house a total mess which is already a dick move on the film makers part.
First, someone might prefer python on a microcontroller for the same reasons one might prefer python on any other system: interactive development, clean string and list handling, no need to explicitly manage memory, familiarity with the language ...

Now that one can buy a 100+ MHz 32b CPU with 256KB RAM and 1MB of FLASH for $5 (and dropping), using assembly or C to make it fit into an 8b PIC with 2KB of RAM to save $3 isn't a worthwhile trade off for many applications.
This has been my MO for a while. Even big name sites and articles that I am interested in.

If you block me because of ab+, I will just close the tab.
Seriously. Zero days are my favorite days!
A less extreme version of the Stephen King story Quitters, Inc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quitters,_Inc.
Show HN: command-line color scheme selector for iTerm2
Like what? Like creating a currency of comparable strength and amount as US
dollar, to simplify international trade in Europe? Granted, it took the place
over from ECU, being a currency with banknotes and coins.
What is the "must"? Good hardware or a physical keyboard?
A key factor that needs to be considered in adopting these tools is how well you can manage your risk exposure to abuse.

If you are paying fees based on "usage", what prevents a bad actor (competitor, hacker, a bug in your own code) from causing you to rack up huge fees?

And if these features are providing critical functionality for your own app or service, it might not be feasible for you to simply "turn it off".

Another key question is whether or not the third-party you are relying on is an actual reliable business partner. Will they get acquired and/or go out of business unexpectedly (a la Parse)? Will they get hacked and create a risk exposure for you that way (PII, PCI, etc.)? What kind of internal controls do they have?

And lastly... how do they integrate with devops? A lot of these tools have web-based administrative consoles that require you to log in and make changes. That sort of thing flies in the face of using tools like chef/puppet/salt/ansible--instead you've got to write detailed release notes that typically a product manager will execute, not an operations person.

I agree that this is a new reality for a lot of companies/developers. But it comes with a lot of risks and issues.
Is this a submarine PR piece for Kensho? The company is mentioned over thirty times in the article.
Even someone with a family can manage 10 minutes a day to work towards a goal.
People ask for meat, businessmans provide agriculture for the animals and the animals, why is only the businessman responsible? most of the agricultural land is not used for direct human consumption, humans need to stop being ignorant and start to change their habits.
You would be right to be skeptical in that case - often buyers for younger sites have teams already in place or other sites in that particular industry making it less risky. We tend to avoid "trendy" niches or at least make the valuation reflect the trend (or risk associated).

We also take into account owner time in a valuation. 2 seemingly identical businesses would be valued differently if one owner worked 5 hours a week vs. 50 hours a week by another.
I agree with you that the box-checking cost me my job, and the decision was easy for Reuters. But the company now has a blanket policy in place not to hire from my former employer because of the non-compete. So other employees are now prevented from moving there.
A couple of things. For one, the motivations, constraints, and goals of a software development team (or the vast majority of business units, for that matter) are clearly quite different from those of military units. For another, that same culture which you are praising to the rafters (that of the U.S. Special Forces) is also famously knowing for producing colossally obscene fuckups -- of which on one in particular

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike

may, in just 45 minutes, very well have undone all the putative good the U.S. and its allies were trying to accomplish in all of their 14 years in Afghanistan.

So on balance it seems that the culture of elite U.S. military unites is something to be shunned and avoided in civilian contexts, rather than followed and replicated.
So in short, you are monetizing procrastination?
It sounds like you've tried PR and social media, but haven't tried any other channels.

If you've made something people want, and it sounds like you have, it's time to invest in getting customers. A good rule of thumb is that you should spend 50% of your time working on your product and 50% of your time getting customers. I have a feeling that's higher than what you're currently doing.

There are a number of distribution channels you can try. Here are a few ideas:
1) It sounds like you have some great customers (pebble, flipboard). Do you know them personally? Get to know them, in person or over the phone ideally, and then ask them for referrals. CTOs / hiring managers all know each other.

2) You guys don't seem to have a blog. Content marketing is great for your space because engineers love to read posts about how much hiring sucks - there's practically a daily thread on this on HN. There is so much you could write about the best way to do technical interviews. Each time you get a post like that to go viral, you'll pick up some customers.

3) There are lots of recruiting conferences and events. Those are good places to meet customers.

4) It might be possible to negotiate distribution partnerships with other companies in the hiring space. ATS's, job boards, and new models like hiring networks (i.e., Hired) are all upstream of an online interviewing tool. Maybe they should integrate with one directly.

5) There are a bunch of standard techniques that rarely work amazingly well but usually work to a certain extent that you can start with: everything from adwords and facebook ads to email campaigns to hiring managers.

Overall, you need to be very experimental to find good distribution channels. A good book to get your creative juices going is "Traction: how any startup can achieve explosive growth"
That's why smart programmers use 2x monitors in portrait mode.

Try it once. You'll never go back.
> Learn once, write anywhere

What's most amazing to me about React Native was how quickly we were able to go from idea to product (~3 months working only part-time) using our existing knowledge as web developers. We did have to write a few lines of Objective-C here and there, but for the most part all of the views and interactions fell together the same way a webapp would.
Currently working on a similar app and I definitely agree that if you're going to be charging it should be towards a charity. This seems like a terrible cash grab with something that does not even provide an enticing service.
I'm closing in on year 25 of programming in c, and I still refuse to use the ternary operator.
The struggle that many people have with API based providers is that they don't abstract that functionality in their application to a driver based system. For something as crucial as mail, payments, sms, etc you absolutely need to build it as if the provider could go away at any point.

Case in point: Mandrill announced two days ago that they were going to merge their product with MailChimp which included a terms of service change that banned marketing emails from Mandrill after their forced migration date in April. At work we have a commercial real estate app which lets our customers send marketing emails. We had built this functionality on top of mandrill but using a driver based system. Last night I launched a Mailgun driver and we have already started to migrate customers with their own Mandrill accounts to MG. If we hadn't used a driver based system we would be screwed for the next few weeks.

Build your api integrations via drivers. Even if you only have one driver. You will be happy you did later.
Oh, good to know!
More really stupid shit at the top of hacker news. Thanks guys.
In ‘Strategic Refocus,’ Troubled Zenefits Lets 250 Employees Go
With the #N syntax, Redis is getting dangerously close to having C-struct-typed fields (i.e. product types with a known bit-level encoding.)

I could imagine a STRUCT LOAD command (like SCRIPT LOAD) to push a struct definition to the server; and then STRUCT GETFIELD and STRUCT SETFIELD commands to manipulate the structs. The GETFIELD and SETFIELD commands would just boil down to the same BITFIELD command after dereferencing. (Heck, Redis could probably cheaply tag the fields with their struct definition, and then you could GET/SETBYFIELD would be polymorphic.)

...thinking about this more, this is possible now, isn't it? The struct-definition loader command, and the dereferencing commands, can all just be Lua functions passed to EVAL. The struct definitions could be loaded into a sorted set; the dereferencing commands would read from that set and then translate your query into a call to this BITFIELD command to do the work.

Anyone care to implement this silliness? :)
> Non-porn people are very capable of making a real mess. Talk to any hotel cleaner.

I'm well aware that sex can be messy, and I still maintain that professional pornographic shoots are far worse.

It sounds reasonable to compare the two, unless you've ever been on the set of a professional pornographic shoot.
There are government agencies that can give you a smack down for mishandling PII even if you're not hacked. They do do audits now and then although from what I've heard they are a little stone age in their methods and might not catch on if you're doing something shady unless it's obvious.
Thanks, where can I run benchmarks (either the ones in your video or others) so I can compare it against Firefox? It still doesn't "feel" as smooth as Firefox, but then again that could be unrelated to WebRender.
Funny, there was an April Fools website about 3 years ago that was exactly this concept.

"Hey, pay us in escrow while you're still motivated and inspired, then we'll rake ya when you falter. Bwahahaaaaaaaa!" (in a humorous way)

All of the links to sign up just popped up a "Just kidding! April Fools!" link. My google-fu is weak, apparently... Not finding it now...
There's certainly arguments for accumulating towards a target number. You can also combine this with the streak method and say "through date xx aim for yy frequency" - in effect having a goal number and the rate at which you plan to reach it.

Regardless, I like having end points on these projects because they give you a sense of relief at the end. It also helps to aim for low frequency with each goal so that your daily schedule isn't rigid - a 15 minutes per day investment is actually quite a lot.
"I've worked for companies where the primary focus was put on "empathetic, tolerant, and good listeners" where everyone was afraid to rock the boat. "

If they're afraid to rock the boat, then you don't have a team of "empathetic, tolerant, and good listeners"
check out yardbook.com they gave away something similar to lawn care companies. have 11k users in less than a year.

health and beauty trade shows?

buy mailing list of new salons?

Can you work out a deal with a franchise company to be their official software?
And, at the end of the day, that "epic server" I am talking about would likely have some big limitations of working with big amounts of data. It seems like it would be more suited to a kind of "grab some small amount of data and do a little bit with it then leave it alone" type task.
"Common courtesy" and "contracts" don't belong in the same conversation. It's a recipe for having people take advantage.
No you're not. Scienter would apply.
Hi YC partners,

We're a link shortener called Credhot and our business model is to syndicate (potentially sponsored) content on an interstitial page. We also rev-share with our users based on the number of visits. The biggest hurdle to this strategy has been building an interstitial people want to share with their friends. Here is an example of our latest attempt at that, leading to "coinmarketcap.com": https://crd.ht/H7TLMpn.

Our volume is low enough that we haven't tested syndicating sponsored content on that page. Right now we're mostly focused on "building a product that users love" but at some point we will need to strike a deal with a publisher. When should those conversations start happening? We're currently bootstrapping but will want to raise capital in the next few months as we're growing (we've doubled since the last HN office hours ~34 days ago). Should we wait until after securing funding?
This is not true. Some platforms, such as Clojure, are usually very stable once released, and there is rarely the need for point releases, as the code was stabilized during the alpha/rc periods.
How are you growing right now? Specifically, how do users find out about Growthzilla? How many users do you have and how many did you add last month?
It's odd, but I keep feeling like the pace of progress is slowing down. When was the last time you used a product and said “this is vastly better?”

A PS 4 feels somewhat better than a PS3 which was release 10 years ago. Cellphones seem stuck on the black rectangle design. Cars are getting ever so slightly better cruise control every year vs. becoming self-driving.

We almost have a cure for AIDS except not quite.

Or is that just me?
Predictions for Financial Technology in 2016
I think he means that the attendant “background noise” of virtual particles occurs within the notional radius of the compound proton just as they occur within any other volume of space.
Is there a question here?
It's not like that is a significant amount of money for a company the size of Samsung.
I see everyone's point, but they did write one hell of a SQL statement, and having written a few of those in the past (seems typical with ANY kind of "report" for some reason), it's too bad they got penalized for it instead of just reprimanded/most (but perhaps not all) of the profit confiscated. cleverness, if not overtly malicious, should not be penalized too harshly IMHO
Hi Jared and Trevor,

http://nestify.io founder here. We're improving PHP CMS hosting (WordPress, Drupal) with better scaling, on-page optimizations, better security. We have paying customers and ~100 die-hard users that will be really sad / lose revenues if we shut down.

Should we focus on building our brand while scaling or switch to whitelabel and API services and partner with hosting providers?
It's a great way to get back on track, too. Without guilt. Different strokes for different folks.

Especially useful in diets.
> What porn film makers are doing is capitalizing on AirBnB rentals by circumventing not only regulations (not a fan of but sometimes it's necessary) but they're making a profit from your property.

What many people renting property out on AirBnB are doing is not only circumventing regulation (regarding, e.g., short-term occupancy rentals) and rental contract provisions (with their own landlords), but also making a profit from someone else's property.

AirBnB has largely grown, and knowingly leverages (with deliberate structure to try to keep the legal risks that result on other parties in the transaction), exactly this kind of evasion of regulatory and contract restriction to make profit off of other people's property.

So, while its been well-known to occur on the side of the transaction renting-out property via AirBnB, it shouldn't be too surprising that it happens on the other side of the transaction as well.
I believe you will be able to incorporate a company, including things like naming members, releasing token representations of stock etc. on the Pax platform. So the actual legal entity will exist autonomously on the blockchain. In this situation, a legal scripting language would very easily handle all the agreements involved in your negotiations- transferring ownership of the company, stock etc.

The line about didactic contracts being unread was related to the example of "terms and conditions". As you admitted yourself, even for high stakes contracts it is your attorneys who read and understand the contracts, not the people who must consent to be bound by the terms. It would be better to simplify legal matters completely by focussing on executables.
Wow. I didn't know it was this bad. They probably have too many developers and "product manager of x" types, with no one person really in charge? So it ends up being a race for lots of people to get their pet feature in... Repeat for a decade.

Seriously, this looks like something out of a consumer/UI facing open source project with 1000 contributors. (My favorite example: The glorious spectacle that is the VLC settings dialog.)
Did elsevier/springer pay for the research? if no then the answer is no they shouldn't be restricted.
Hey, a lot of companies I interview with use coderpad, which I'm guessing you're competing with. It does seem like your product has more features than them, but my guess is that it is not enough of an improvement to make companies already using another online interviewing tool to switch to yours, especially if they have no problems with their existing tool (ie your features are just nice to have).

Also, I like coderpad's landing page more. Have you done A/B testing?
Software patents are just the best. So much innovation being promoted!
Anyone interested in developing desktop apps with Github's Electron the folks at Nylas have done several presentations with lots of good information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIRXVGVPzn8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO9e8r6RQhE
A world where everyone has a smartphone
... just imagine!
I could swear I read somewhere that Seinfeld later said he never actually did this.
Not yet! You can track the issue here: https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/96
You can write a CRUD like app without any hardware/native code required. However, even when you do need that code - for example I'm building an app that records and plays audio - react native still gives you an advantage in the sense that you only need to expose a hardware API but all the logic still stays in javascript. I've managed to write just enough Objective C and Java to expose some APIs I need, and no more.

There is also a lot of react-native npm packages that abstract away the hardware issues, quality & completeness varies however.
Here's a short quote from the article on Project Aristotle:

"Imagine you have been invited to join one of two groups. Team A is composed of people who are all exceptionally smart and successful.... This team is efficient. There is no idle chitchat or long debates... Team B is different. It’s evenly divided between successful executives and middle managers with few professional accomplishments... At the end of the meeting, the meeting doesn’t actually end: Everyone sits around to gossip and talk about their lives. Which group would you rather join?"

I knew I'd want to join Team A: smart, efficient people who get stuff done without idle chit-chat.

If you believe the article, Team B will be less effective because they are too individualistic, and walk over other people. They didn't actually say "self-centered", but it was implied.

I don't see how you can't be both efficient, smart, and empathetic; I don't see why there has to a choice. I've worked with my fair share of a-holes, and it's no fun. But it's also not fun working with schmoes who spend more time gossiping over the watercooler than getting stuff done.
It would depend on what you mean by "are" (only now?, in the past? in the future?), by "popular" (is a programming language used by one person popular? by two?), by "interesting" (is brainfuck interesting), by "non-English" (is APL non-English?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
https://www.quora.com/Are-there-programming-languages-in-lan...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7700691
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9874488
am I crazy to think the cultural shift in the rich world will actually be to more local communities, a return to rewarding physical labor such as gardening and craftsmanship to form a low ecological impact society of selected technology?

I don't see the upcoming generation as being dazzled by accumulation and owning stuff. Nor do I see them wanting to ride on the hands of leisure. I see a culture of rejection of the codependence of infrastructure.

When looking at 2040 you have to look at teenagers right now and understand what kind of society they'll be building.

And personally I don't see one with a bunch of robotic assistants.

Sure they have lots of screentime but that's for communication far more than labor reduction. These teens aren't tabulating Excel columns for hours on end. We are amidst a revolution of distributive communication that's being manifested by a revitalization of community.

The barriers to engagement will eventually be expunged, not fortified.
"Lucas contends that the film is the most expensive gay porn film ever made due to a budget of $250,000 and multiple celebrity cameos." -- your wikipedia link.

So, doesn't literally hold the world record.
The philosophy hits the nail in terms of battling procrastination. It doesn't burden you with guilt of not doing enough but just tell you to make an effort to take the first step which will make you take the second. Sadly, where it can fail is same as where it succeeds - It is easy to slack off another day, if you slack off on one.

There is no magic pill for procrastination that will fix everyone's problems even if you follow every productive hack out there.
I never press for details, but if something's on a resume it's because the applicant wants me to consider that in my hiring decisions, and therefore should be prepared to back it up.
Can't they just offer paid subscriptions, that remove all ads by paying the publishers?

Framed differently: AdBlock as a micropayment service.
I can't imagine long term sustainability for any business that depends on their users failing.

I once heard a really smart marketer say that self-help is the best niche to target because perfection is impossible, so once you get a customer, you have one for life.

In reality though, any app or service that the business interests are misaligned with the users best interests, can't keep users forever. The users who benefit wont make you any money and the ones that fail will resent the service and leave.

While I see where you are coming from, this is an extremely shortsighted monetization strategy.

A better strategy would be gentle push reminders to not let the day go to waste, tools to make it easier to see progress, and monetize with premium add-ons.