skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW: If you're asking about marketing after you've built a product, you're doing things in the wrong order. That's why I've included Rob's Start Small, Stay Small as one of core ideas is market validation. From a review: "not about coding but about [finding] a great niche, building a product that executes at a plateau and make it run automatically"

"The other resource I'd recommend is the one I'm releasing in ~3 weeks :)" https://www.julian.com/learn/growth/intro -- julianshapiro | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14026863

Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide "the only actionable Internet marketing guide out there" (2017) $40 https://www.secretsaucenow.com/ -- austenallred | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13807171

Marketing for Developers "Don’t build another software product no one uses. Discover what people will pay for before you start coding." (2015) $39 https://gumroad.com/l/devmarketingbook -- mijustin | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12034104

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth "I started doing a series of interviews on my blog with successful founders about how they got traction" (2015, 2nd ed.) $15 https://amzn.com/dp/B00TY3ZOMS -- epi0Bauqu / yegg | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346268

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup "The book is approaching 11,000 copies sold to date, so it's obviously filled a need." (2010) $10 https://amzn.com/dp/B003YH9MMI -- rwalling | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5361601

These guys all use their own techniques so they love bundling additional stuff besides the ebooks.
No, he's right, in part. UX & interaction design shouldn't be just about measuring clickthrough and abandon rates, or you get interfaces like Google's products, who use that design philosophy.[1]

UX design must be informed by data and field research (which depends on those "data structures, mapping processes, analysis of users' behavior"), but it still needs an opinionated designer who empathizes with the user pains and problems, and creates an interface that solves the needs as well as provides the adequate usage feeling (which, even being non-functional, is an important part of making a design usable) [2].

[1] https://medium.com/the-design-innovator/iteration-is-not-des...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_Design#Content
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It's more likely that you would take the stats from Running Ball, who are the market leaders in 'in play' sporting statistics. These power all the betting sites live stats and all the Live Score type sites you see.

http://www.rball.com/
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Or as my first boss and mentor had a habit of saying, when you run a billion trials, one in a million events will happen about a thousand times.
Not true. The CSS is inlined as strings in the js file, and benefits from caching just as much as the rest of your templates (this is for single-page apps).
Forget MITM, it also leaks information about your listening history which some may be uncomfortable with.
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Better because I have to ask for Apples permission to install applications on it?
Yep, it definitely felt like a couple of sentences of plot followed by a page of 80s trivia copied from Wikipedia.
9/10 wet races are awful. They're lots of laps under the SC, rolling starts, and a lot of luck.
Another bit of "FUD" I have is that I always consider the database (pgsql say) to be the one thing that won't change, so I create tables in SQL and would keep that even if the service changed from say Python to Go.

With Django, would I be able and would it make sense to keep the SQL schema if I changed languages?
> Given you have surgeon [x] what are odds of a successful surgery with [x]. THIS is the guarded secret -- yet the most valuable.

What is a successful surgery? One with the least complications? No complications? Shortest recovery time? Best return to function? Best outcome for that particular patient?

It's not an easy question to answer.
The language itself draws some inspiration from LISP, Smalltalk, Eiffel, JavaScript and Python. I guess, SICP was a huge influence on my thinking about this problem. Compilers (in particular cross-compilers) do something similar, but otherwise code generation has come a bit out of fashion (due to the limitations arising if you don't have a Turing complete language as a base). Some people have also looked at NN for code generation, but nothing usable has come from this so far afaik.
Agree, demonstrates driver skill of the frontmarkers and will make the race dynamic more interesting. Especially from under-the-table engine supplier preference.
I will post updates here on HN :) Stay tuned!
I've heard the term used at least as far back as the 90s. The phrase "cut the toxic people out of your life" comes up a lot. I suspect it originated with either 12-step programs or psychologists.

Seems like good advice, except for the part where it's basically running from interpersonal conflict instead of dealing with it. In some situations with really unbalanced people it's the best option, though.
Specifically, hydro was the cause of the worst single power generation accident of all time: 171,000 dead when the Banqiao dam failed.

Before anyone assumes that will never happen again: There are fears over multiple large dams, including Mosul, where a failure worst case could kill a million.

If we're lucky Banqiao will be a one-off, but large dams are massive risk factors because they need ongoing maintanenance forever, and are often upstream of some of the densest populated areas. On top of that they're also ecological disasters.
Reminds me of this: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/it/nsa-data-cen...
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That is correct. And no, people don't use jump links everywhere--only if their site is new and they are passing the links to folks on IRC, etc.

Another thing I forgot to mention: if a name is unknown, your local HTTP proxy will ask you if you want to try to lookup the name from one of several popular "jump services", which are the same services providing address book subscriptions. This is where jump links come from most of the time.
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Those nuclear accidents are covered in those numbers. The deaths from nuclear have simply not been very high, and the amount of energy created is massive. The result is a very low mortality per unit of power.
This is an incredibly good idea. Everybody is using moderation in a centralized manner. Like there is one source of truth. But like curation, you need the moderation that suits you.

This solves elegantly one problem hard with moderation: allowing freedom of speech while giving a safe place for people to be.

You can imagine a forum where you have official moderators, and non official moderators. By default the forum display the very clean, politically correct moderated content. However, if you create an account you can switch your moderation source, and see more content.

People ok with dirty jokes or extrem opinions would be able to enjoy the site as well as children.

That's actually a fantastic idea even outside of the web-of-moderator concept, just as a implementation in a regular centralized software. Even better in a global ring of course, but one is harder than the other.
If the salaries are half, is the recruiting process accordingly easier in London?
> I'd suggest staying away from unstructured data and things that are primarily of interest to only the business side of healthcare--insurance figures, billing codes, EMR/EHR shit.

I would argue these are the most important areas to target. We need tremendous reform in this area, and if we can demonstrate meaningful improvement over what we have now, maybe we can let doctors get back to actually treating patients and not spending the majority of their time checking boxes on a computer.
This reeks of scientific racism.

Since they claim evolution can affect the human mind over scales as short as 10000 years (which is conveniently similar to the time scale of pre-historic human migration), are they saying that patience (and assumedly other cognitive traits as well) will vary between groups that were mostly separate for such periods?
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An example of such an EEG is the OpenBCI device, plus whatever set of useful machine learning algorithms are used for source localization and signal processing.

Other than e.g. helping people with locked-in syndrome to communicate with the external world, or brain-computer control of robotic systems,

1. what questions can it help researchers to answer?
2. what problems can it help researchers to find?
Yes, we've demonstrated that you can basically mismanage plants into meltdown, and even then nuclear still ends up killing fewer people.
This is an excellent idea! Lyme disease has more uncertainty about it than most people realize.
I agree with you: I would rather not give my phone number to companies either.

But once you start to see spam or get spam messages from other users (imagine a dating site) you would like this spam to stop. Having a (unique) phone number a mandatory requirement during registration can make spam fighting much easier.
Are you not assuming that research is infallible and settles such a controversial matter once and for all?
Or an alternate model / protocol for content retrieval.

Consider that SSL is largely used for connection encryption, though it has the additional side-effect of site authentication.

If you can still validate the site, and rely on a hash of the content to detect changes, then you're starting to get toward a cacheable, secure, autenticated, system.

I need to think more about this.
Most if not all GIS fans have seen the original. There's no use to compare it to lower standards. A reference point already exists, and makes it difficult.
> everything that can allow an app to give you a first diagnose before heading to the doctor.

Why do you want to have the diagnosis before seeing a physician? (I'm legitimately interested in the answer.)

In my experience, it's about 50-50 with helping versus hurting making the correct diagnosis and providing accurate treatment.
Devs – would you allow your Designers to use this?
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Following the zillionth HN's thread asking for help/info about starting side projects [0] , I've just created a "HN Side Project Partner Search" google stylesheet for people seeking team mates or help building side projects:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fDNE2O862oLmlojAPDXd....

This has been brought up many times, so hopefully we can establish a common place for fellow community members where anyone can potentially find peers willing to help or participate with complementary skills (design, marketing, product, engineering, w/e)

List your idea if you need help! =)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14039135
Very very cool. Good luck.
Hey, Thanks i really like that way more.
Also interested. Do you have anything online to explain your base ideas?
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We could take all the current nuclear waste, grind it up, and pump it into the atmosphere and there is still no reason to believe that it would lead to more than a blip in terms of mortality compared to coal.

In addition to the reductions in air quality that kills vast number of people from coal - multiple Chernobyls every year - coal plants also pump vast quantities of radioactive material like uranium particles into the air.

While nuclear waste would pump nastier stuff into the air, we know the consequences from Chernobyl: Most of it gets washed out and end up on the ground quickly. What doesn't tend to be less dangerous particulates like cesium isotopes.

I'm obviously not suggesting that we should, but that pretty much the worst possible scenarios you can think of would still end up killing fewer people than coal.
The code base (and libraries and packages) serve as a knowledge base of definitions (what things are) and procedures (what things exist). The symbolic AI engine can then take information from this (essentially code snippets) and combine them in novel ways. Example: If you know what a RESTful API is (how it is defined), what MongoDB is and which data models you want to deal with, you can generate the source code for an API handling those data models with MongoDB backend from this. Other example: If you know what requests your API supports, what the semantic data types of the objects and fields are and what a UI-based application is, then you can generate a web, mobile or desktop application from this providing a wrapper around this API.

The goal here is not to replace programmers entirely, but to alleviate the pain of having to code things up manually, especially boilerplate. Because you can deal with issues at a higher level of abstraction now, this can make programming more approachable to (so far) non-programmers.
You say all that like it's fact. Personally I love F1 for the strategy. Watching a car slowly close on another car 0.25s a lap for 20 laps is thrilling. Trying to figure out where people are coming out after pit stops and whether they're lap times are good enough is fun.

I feel like the argument that 'there is no overtaking in F1 so it's bad' is akin to people not liking Soccer because there are never more than a few goals a game. There's much more to it than that and their are other series that cater to people who just want lots of passing.
Very nice idea! Reading the comic is much better than reding the original terms and conditions document.
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The system decides. Charity after siphoning off labour is a poor second.

http://savingcommunities.org/docs/george.henry/helpunemploye...
> For a while, Solar was essentially "let's import energy from Asia in the form of pretty sand", but I think this has changed.

Considering the fact that efficient pv panels need less than 4% of their lifetime output for production (if in service 25 years (most panels last up to 40 years)), that must have been the late 70s or so.

You were probably remembering that 2010 study talking about the rapidly growing solar industry as a whole becoming net producers of energy, e.g. current industry energy input is now lower than current running PV output (http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/april/pv-net-energy-04021...). But that doesn't say much about net energy production per panel over the panel's lifetime, e.g. if the PV industry would disappear this very moment, existing PV installations would still produce energy for decades.
Stackoverflow definitly fit that description, I wouldn't call it uninovative. Incremental changes often make all the difference.
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What? It wasn't blurry for me. In fact, I'd say it was probably the best 3D variant of a film I've seen.

Well, except for the scenes that were intentionally blurry due to it being seen through the eyes of Major and shifting depending on what she focused on.
Wow. Isn't this a trojan horse? People start to use it because of it's convenience and then it will spread and spread and spread. I mean what's up when google will run more or less everything?
Yes, I agree, that is what I was saying also. I just wonder if the human body doesn't also change buoyancy with depth, making neoprene density variation pretty negligible by comparison.
You don't need to be able to guarantee safe storage for 10,000+ years. For starters most of it can be reprocessed and reused, resulting in less dangerous waste. But no matter how reckless you decide to be with it, the amounts are small enough that it'll be nothing compared to the devastation caused by coal.
It's amazing how much cheaper this (i.e. the double-edge "safety" razor) is, and it's amazing how many people don't know it. Over three years ago, I spent $11 on a pack of 100 blades. I'm not even halfway through the package.
This technique also works for Wordpress plugins, and just about any other paid category with reviews.

You can go into wordpress.org, just take a look at the download numbers and it will tell you flat out like whether somebody’s downloads are increasing overtime or are they decreasing, when the last updates were, all that kind of information. And you can get a sense from that information alone as to whether or not it would be possible to put another plugin that offers similar functionality

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-249-f... (search "12:54")
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> If you prefer knocking together a site to sell your own books, it is essentially an hour to get the minimum thing to charge money and ~2 days to get something which could plausibly be the kernel of an ongoing business.

But what about traffic? How do you get eyeballs to your book-selling microsite? Do you reach out to people who might be interested? Do you post on forums? Do you use paid advertising? I can guess it's a combination of various methods but the problem I have seen popping up often, at least with me, is reaching a meaningful conclusion.

If your landing page fails to gain meaningful traffic, what do you need to tweak? Your book pitch, the idea, or the marketing technique?
Well, Murphy's law. Any non-zero probability event will occur at least once given infinite time.
Self-driving car races sound like the most boring thing imaginable to me. Drivers don't have to be risking death (and they are, and they have died recently) to make the sport exciting. They have to be in immensely good physical condition to drive those cars and they have to have better race craft than ever as overtaking has become more difficult too. I'm not saying self-driving cars couldn't be it's own series but it would never reach the level of F1/WEC/WRC in terms of popularity. Nobody wants to cheer on a CPU.
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I completely agree. Wouldn't it be nice if code did what we meant instead of what we said too though?

Not everything can be solved with code, but it's fun to think about, and leads down some interesting paths, even if they're ultimately impossible or impractical.

What if we could encode ambiguity? Legal code could have some wiggle room. Of course, you'd want to be able to do things like ask 'Is X legal under Y circumstances' and receive an answer, and at that point you effectively have human-equivalent artificial intelligence.
My apologies if you're already aware of this: there are cheap VPS providers with unlimited bandwidth, perfect for these "streaming middleman" type of audio/video applications.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023
Glad to hear it. Trust is hard to win back. I don't envy you the task of trying to make sourceforge relevant again but I hope you succeed!
"I’m humbled to receive the namesake award of a computing pioneer who showed that what a programmer could do with a computer is limited only by the programmer themselves"

That's like the exact opposite of what Turing proved, with the halting problem and all.

I'm any case, a well deserved award!
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> It's similar to what ideas 2.1 and 2.2 are in the blog post - a local directory that is maintained and authenticated centrally and then distributed to browsers that perform a central lookup. The downsides are that it is too centralized...

It is only centralized for users with the default install, who never go into their address book.

I think the real achievement of I2P's name system is that _they have made it easy for users to understand_, and the tight integration in the UX is the main differentiator I see between I2P's approach and any of the approaches in this blog post.

While I think Namecoin sounds cool and all, I really hope Tor considers a simpler approach. I think it's a mistake for us to make this into a technical problem, when it's a UX problem. We're never going to get 100% secure names in a trustless environment, so why not focus on making the default pretty secure, and making the system understandable and useable?
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Thanks ! very nice overview.
It is about the experience that the user has when using your product.
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> Honestly, i hate it when book SciFi gets put into movie shape. Its rarely looks like i imagined it.

Well, that problem is hardly specific to SciFi. If you read a book first, then watch the movie adaptation, the result is nearly always disappointing.

In fact, the only counter-examples I can think of right now are Inherent Vice and No Country For Old Men.
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With "self-driving" cars, the next logical customer termination technique will be speeding up to 100mph and then steering into a bridge abutment. I think I'll keep my bicycle.
I've seen some newer style (often grey/blue/wight on grey) tower / control radar screens and they seem so much better than the old black ones.
It is not a question of private vs. public companies. It is a question of regulation.
This is a great idea to gain experience building an audience, something tremendously valuable as you continue to build additional products.
It's Stack Overflow.
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I partly agree. Though removing one or two bytes more than another minifier doesn't really matter that much, what matters is being able to deduplicate CSS as well as doing the usual whitespace elimination. SASS and SCSS seem to have a bit of a problem with duplicated CSS.
Wait, what? While the Singapore MRT (subway, metro) system is top-tier (along with Seoul and Hong Kong) it is not a deregulated free market wet dream.

The public Land Transport Authority built and still owns most of the assets, and enacts strong regulation for the duopoly of service providers (SBS and SMRT) - not only on service levels, but also on operational processes. Even so, there's awkward UX quirks on the boundaries between lines run by the different companies.

If anything, the Singapore MRT runs closer in spirit to a US taxicab system - that is, surprisingly regulated on a global scale.
Swipes, pinches, shakes, 3D effects.

One phone UX thing I hate for example. Phone makes random noises at night. Now try to pinpoint the app or setting or setting within an app that causes that.
It's a one in a million shot. But it might just work.
I love this idea. Makes a lot of sense. Good luck.
I think that there is merit in designing a minifier that is explicitly designed to optimise the gziped size rather than the uncompressed size.

Things like:

* Rearrange rules within the file to put similar rules within the sliding window.

* Rearrange rules so that tail of the last declaration of one rule and the start of the next selector create the longest possible common substring.

* Rearrange the order of declarations within the rules to maximize the length of common substrings that span two declarations, ie ": 2em;\nbackground-color: rgb("