skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote this comment somewhere else:

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They had 8 million unique visitors in last month:

http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/co29o/c....

To put things in to context, reddit ran a haiti donation campaign which was heavily promoted through their ad spaces and blog postings and individual "donation drive threads" and they raised $185k from 3783 users over a period of ~30 days. They broke their first 100k within 12 hours. So if they got 6000 people to donate within 48 hours or so, that pretty damn good, over next few weeks as they add subscription only features its bound to get much much higher number as it gets promoted more.

http://dri.convio.net/site/TR?pg=fund&fr_id=1030&pxf....
That's mainly NJ guido-style greed.

There are definitely areas of NYC where the predominant culture is, "are you doing something interesting/neat/cool" instead of, "are you working for Goldman Sachs;" be it art, programming, music, technology, food, whatever. The key, of course, is to make what you do sound sexy ;).

In some areas, dropping an employer name like Goldman might even get you scorned.
I would love to meet with fellow HN'ers!

Also, there will be another one in Barcelona soon, I will post it here as well.
How Zendesk integrated Twitter into its help-desk system
I think it's wrong to make the analogy to static/dynamic typing -- but this comes up a lot. It'd be closer to having a type system without any classes, structures, or prototypes -- just hashes. And once you write code to construct an object instance, you can't change that code.
Exactly. I get blank stares when I make this point around here but S.F. is big enough to be expensive, dirty, and sometimes dangerous but there's very little literary, musical, or otherwise artistic culture here and people just don't seem to be very intellectually curious outside of tech. If you're not into running around naked and high in the desert you'll have a hard time finding a social circle. Mass transit here is terrible and so is traffic and parking.

You can live well here but not deeply.
Except that its invite only to limited number of users. You might have to wait weeks to get invites. You can also get a publishers account, which I signed for too.
Not enough people are flagging these links to reddit submissions....
This is true however we offer much more then just funnel analysis =)

We also do offer a "free" type plan: http://mixpanel.com/free
There are a ton of stories of lottery winners who blew the lot in surprisingly little time, and have literally nothing to show for it.

The problem seems to be if you suddenly have x money, you start to live as if you have 10x.
Make sure to take HN's feedback in context. The average HN'er is NOT your target customer. So take their criticism of your site looking/reading too spammy with a giant grain of salt. In fact, I'm surprised you'd even ask them to rate your startup.

A better place to ask for feedback would be a forum for bloggers (your target demo) who would be interested in exploring other avenues for monetizing their blog/site besides adcents. I, for one, think that your design and copy are fine. Just split-test regularly and keep track of your conversions (which is what any self-respecting aff marketer should do anyway)

Do change your domain name though. It's pretty bad. There's plenty of good ones left, just be creative and use domai.nr to check their availability.

Also, check out your competitors - skimlinks, amazon affiliates etc - to get an idea of their design, strategy etc.
Secondly, remember that Java programs may actually be faster than C/C++ programs. Programs written in C/C++ require more time and knowledge to performance tune. Writing something in Java (or other high-level language) allows the author to spend more time focusing on the big picture issues rather than having to deal with a lot of lower-level issues.

No. C++ may permit more extensive performance tuning, but the same level of tuning shouldn't take any longer in C++ than in Java. And really I'd say C++ as a language is at least as high-level as Java (especially considering templates), just more of the libraries you'll want to build on are shipped separately.
people downvoting this clearly miss the point of the original submissions title plus the references all over the linked article itself.
Still invite only I think. I could be wrong, I have an invite but haven't bothered to try it.
You should put some contact info in your HN profile. As a fellow OK Hacker, I'm always looking for other interested locals to chat with! (And if you work at the main interworks office, we're in the same town as well).
There seem to be some missing pieces to your logic. The people making donations are making donations equivalent to a very large number of ads. The donations are equivalent to a fairly large number of ad clicks, let alone impressions. I'm not sure how this proves that ads are the only way to go, when it was this "easy" to raise the equivalent of millions (probably billions) of page views in a day.

This is why I'm uninterested in subscription Hulu for ~$10 a month; with my viewing habits and never-click-on-ads behavior there's no way the ad revenue for my viewing could possibly top $.50 for a month, but for that $.50 they're willing to do grave damage to my viewing experience. Ads don't make much money at all; it's not hard to make up for a lot of ads if people are directly giving you cash.
Arg! I keep barely missing these (flying back into town later that night).

I've been hanging out in nyc while trying to get connected. Seems like the Ace is a popular spot, but where else should I be co-working to meet people?
I present you the Linux kernel poster - made from the Linux source code
PCLinuxOS 2010.07 GNOME Screenshots
I agree with your sentiment but it may well be that his Greek quotation (being written in a far more intricate language than English) indicates this conjugation and pronoun.

Just sayin.
This is like the serious version of http://failblog.org/tag/autocomplete-me/

My favorite recently was "Do Not I...(ron clothes on body)"
The Apple Museum - 30 years in 2 minutes
First @souders gets to the front page of TechMeme, now he's on the front page of Hacker News. He's on a roll!

BTW, if you are interested in web performance, we could use your vote for this StackExchange community proposal:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6960/web-performan...
A room of one's own and GBP£500 a year? Now where have I heard that before.
SEO doesn't really work like that.
I wonder if they themself can't handle gzip, and that's why they remove the header.

Although if true, that's a pretty sneaky way of bypassing the virus scanner.

Caching proxy servers probably disable it since they need to be able to server uncompressed pages sometimes (and presumably don't want to deal with compressing/uncompressing).
Exactly. All that compute power may not be useful if you need the io/memory.
Another side effect of this is that the downloader doesn't work at all if you're on a router behind another router. I wasted a couple hours trying to figure out why my SC2 beta wasn't downloading before finding the problem.
Shades of irony? Skype blocks Fring, citing "misuse"
Here's something that I don't get.

Is funnel analysis even suitable for a monthly subscription service? Unless you're mucking around with your checkout funnel constantly (why?) this seems more like the kind of tool that I'd use once. Or at least very, very infrequently.

Discover what's wrong, fix it, the end.

The weird thing is, psychologically I would have no problem paying a couple of hundred bucks for a one-off experiment if it shows me results that I can make clear decisions from. But I balk at the idea of subscribing for $XXX per month to do experiments over and over.

Perhaps KISSMetrics needs a one-time experiment pricing option?
Thank you! I am already using ExternalQuestion forms and generating the exact questions at view time. In your experience (or opinion), workers do not object if a task just says "sorry, please return this HIT and try again later"?
I hear a lot of people saying this. Do you have any data points links for the same?. Just curious.
I bought a Velocity Micro PC about 5 years ago. It was very well constructed in a solid aluminum case. Hopefully it bodes well for this device.
Why Twitter waited to take ownership of its iPhone and Android apps
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George Steinbrenner, Yankees’ Owner, Dies at 80
Elevation of Privilege (EoP) card game
Sorry, but what does "FU money" mean?
I will always remember him as the guy who wanted George's calzone from Seinfeld.
No. C programs have fine-grained control over the memory layout of all their data, and thus are far better positioned to exploit caching in general and optimize for locality in particular. It's an attractive fallacy to suggest that most programs are I/O bound and thus are equally performant in Java and in C; while that statement does bode well for async code and poorly for threads, it's not as relevant for language comparisons.
If you just have a proposal, I think it is going to be tough to attract the right talent. I am not necessarily a hacker (or maybe I am, who freaking knows), but I am taking that role on so I can make the first versions of my product. If I can show some traction, I know I won't be wasting anyone's time with my business. Furthermore, the first version doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to be good enough to get by.
Sorry, but this whole iPhone 4 antenna thing is a non-issue and will blow over
I donated. I'm not a huge reddit user, but I certainly appreciate their candor and what they are doing.

I think social news is ultimately no good, however.
In the last thread they said that they are spending over 250.000$ a year just in servers. They could save huge amounts of money if they would just switch to rented servers.
BBC World Cup 2010 dynamic semantic publishing
I doubt filtering is set the same for both search results. Or else there is some other lurking variable I'm not thinking of. Just doesn't seem true that Indians are anymore into porn than any other people.
"Fuck You" money - enough money that you can tell anyone you want to fuck off and not have to worry about not being able to pay your bills as a result.
The most frightening part of this debate is that people who are too lazy to properly define indexes are considering NoSQL solutions (and most of those require indexes too)! Properly utilizing a NoSQL requires more work than an RDMS, that's trade off for using a more low-level technology.
Tesla Says It Is Testing an Electric Car Prototype for Toyota
Does this mean they are finally going to support Visual Studio?

Or are they sticking to their - we hate MS, so if you want to use it on windows you have to cross-compile under Linux and then do penance for your immortal soul?
China web filter hit by problems
I think about this all the time.

I didn't make "FU money" from an exit, but rather from the ongoing success of a couple of online businesses, which have been earning me far more than I know how to spend. When this started happening, my initial reaction was to be perplexed, because I no longer had a financial motivation to get up in the morning and work. Money had been the most salient part of my motivation for as long as I could remember.

But I found that I still wanted to work, and it took me a while to understand why. It turns out there are lots of other good reasons to create useful things that people will pay for, like self expression, connecting to others, a sense of achievement, and a feeling of contributing to the world. The money was still nice but became secondary. Still, it allows me the luxury of working on interesting things that I think people will like, even if I doubt I'll ever make much money from them.

I found that the main challenge of being rich is finding a way to spend the money in a way which contributes to my happiness, rather than detracts from it. This is harder than it sounds. The most obvious way to spend money is to buy an oversized home. But this is a really bad idea. First of all you have to spend a lot of time maintaining that home. But most importantly it will likely alienate your (presumably not so rich) real old friends who are still working daily to pay off the mortgage. How will they feel about inviting you over to their condo when you live in a palace?

The solution I found to the "friend alienation" problem is to spend money on personal experiences rather than visible possessions. You can eat out at fancy restaurants, travel the world and enjoy the best shows without your friends knowing what you're up to, at least not in detail. It really helps if you have a spouse and/or children that you can do this with, since they can make these experiences all the more fun.

BTW this also neatly dovetails with recent research on happiness:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/10/happiness.possessio...

The one rich guy possession I'm allowing myself to buy is a second home in a foreign country that I like to visit often. This will (hopefully) make those visits less hassle and more enjoyable, and again, none of my close friends need to know.

And yes, I worry about losing the money a little, and have taken a self-propelled crash course in personal wealth management. But luckily I find the subject quite interesting anyway, and I don't let myself lose any sleep over a couple of percentage points in yield. In the long run, we all die anyway.

To summarize, getting "FU money" been a net benefit in my life, but it took a lot of careful thought and planning to ensure it worked out that way.

Finally if anyone out there who's suddenly landed FU money is feeling a little disorientated by their new situation, I highly recommend reading "Escape from Freedom" by Erich Fromm, which is a wonderful book about the psychological and existential challenges that freedom brings.
Not any hard numbers on % of lottery winners or anything, but stories in the papers are common:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/813314-top-5-lottery-winners-who...

http://loanscreditcards.co.uk/tag/uk-lottery-winners/
Great writeup!

There is one exception though: startup speed, it comes from just the fact that you're written in C, the same language the OS is written in, which means that majority of dynamic libraries you depend on are already loaded, that's what makes piping simple programs like "wc" possible.
BT in court to clarify pension scheme guarantee
I have noticed one at the gas pump when I use my debit card. If you use a debit card as a credit card, they pay the CC fee, so they want you to enter a PIN.

Instead of presenting two choices: credit or debit, they ask the question "Is this a debit card?" I am using a debit card so the answer is yes, it is a debit card; but you can answer no and they will process as a credit card. It makes me think about it each time. Pretty sneaky -- I am sure it raised their debit card rate
I had posted this on Reddit (see: http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/cmw9k/i_just_launched... and http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cp1wj/made_a_po...)

Someone from Reddit pm'd me suggesting to post the Linux poster here. So, here you go.

I hope you guys like it :)
Tech Sector Defies Gravity as Web Drives Upgrades
I just logged in to see if there were invites I could pass along (there weren't). My impression, in one word (well two). Kinda barren...
My friend got punched in the face by a crackhead in the Tenderloin for no apparent reason.

Just throwing out my datapoint...
That's an excellent point and one we should all bear in mind when dealing with sites that appeal to audiences that are far from what we know best.
This sounds like the waterfall model of software development to me.

I mean, don't get me wrong, this is what I do, too (I only started using MongoDB over the weekend after years of MySQL and Postgres), but the similarity to the arguments is pretty interesting.
It was uploaded through a client account via sftp, not injected into the actual directory by any other means. I think that's outlined in the post.
We using ExternalQuestions with the Ruby API lib for Socialmod.
We're pretty impressed the quality of work that comes from MTurk - questions get answered under 5 mins. All the logic is our side, especially the banning/blocking logic, which gives us a lot of control.

As to your problem, why not create a new hit-type for each group of similar images, and then restrict worker access based on that type?

http://www.socialmod.com
>Social interaction is one thing I miss about having a job.

If you're in an urban center you might want to try a co-working space if one exists.
They aren't - the authors are just using the wrong performance metrics.

The point of a large IT project is career advancement for all involved.

The customer managers get promoted or new jobs on the basis that they have experience of managing a $$$ project. The greater the $$$, the more valuable their experience.

The supplier gets $$$ in fees, the more $$$ the better obviously.

The project is paid for either by taxpayers (generally) or very large number of shareholders/policy holders. Their individual contribution to the $$$ project is a few 0.01$s and so they are irrelevent.

It's not just IT - it's the reason that a metro line costing Bn$$$ or an 8 lane freeway bypass is always built in place of putting on a few extra buses.
World peace, art, and technology?
The just want to get some money!
If it is not archaic then it is not witty. If it is not witty then we do not listen.

Or, if you say it in archaic English then you can something without the burden of being judgmental and uppity about it.
Careful people treat reporters differently in conversation. I'm surprised Brooks failed to mention that.

The "princes" are interesting to a reporter (Brooks) because their career is enhanced and their income largely secure when they are quoted.

The "grinds" don't want the reporter broadcasting their ideas before they have achieved product-market fit and begun scaling.
Lawrence Lessig Responds to ASCAP Attack on Creative Commons
Mostly entirely new professions. Design agencies has a tendency to suck people dry for ideas and then discard them.
QF is no different than other areas of engineering, like programming, where there is some exchange of information about methods between professionals. You can exchange a lot of information without revealing a specific trading strategy. Also there are usually auditors and risk managers that need to understand what is going on in a position and QF provides a language to describe the reasoning behind why a trader has a certain position.
yeah i was wondering something. Let's say we are bound by I/O, wouldn't we reap more benefits by using lower level languages in the event that I/O boundaries improve? like faster drives or types of drives. Same applies for memory.

shouldn't the paradigm be "least amounts of bottle necks possible"?

Also the points mentioned by other comments are also valid (battery, VM behaviours)

However, his final point, or at least the crux of it, still stands: "Focus on stability and features first, scalability and manageability second, per-unit performance last of all, because if you don’t take care of the first two nobody will care about the third."
Carlos (aristus) and I co-work/hack from cafes in the mission on Wednesdays. Current choice is Sugar Lump at 24th and Byrant.

We'd love people to join us.
"I hate paywalls"

If you mean the NYT paywall? There is none. Yet. Being asked to log-in to a site to view content (still for free) is annoying but it is not a paywall.
Of course, you could also just use cljr: http://github.com/liebke/cljr
I'll normally word a query differently until I find answers (ie I'll try "how to skin a cat," and if that gives no good result I'll try "skinning a cat," and then "how do I skin a cat" etc until I find the answer)

if that fails, if the question is related to software and/or business I will do site-specific searches at HN and lifehacker (eg site:ycombinator.com skinning a cat).

Sometimes I'll do this in reverse.

I have found that in most business settings I'm the only one who will search for things with this effort. Most people around me give up after a query or two, and then think I'm a genius when I find the information we wanted.

From mobile device, excuse typos etc
It is like that statistic about prostitution in the Victorian era. Most men lost their virginity to prostitutes.

I am not saying that Indians are more into sex than other populations in the world. I am remarking on how it manifests itself. I am talking about direct observation over here. I walk down the street and there is this guy who barely knows english who is watching porn on his chinese phone in the middle of the street. And this is not a one off incident.

I might have a skewed view point but I honestly believe that cultural impact works out in some pretty fascinating ways.
I'm getting the exact same results. Thus, I doubt it's something that's personalized for you. More like generic entries when they don't have anything better to show you.
Curious if anyone has had a problem moving away from GetSatisfaction before?
I'll throw out my vote for the Haight and Hayes Valley in SF, they're pretty laid back, and there's surprising number of tech people.

Just ignore all the 18 year old fauxbos in upper Haight, theyre harmless.
Poll: What OS do you use?
What operating system do you use on a day in, day out basis?

I want to know your optimal environment, as most of us use at least two OSes weekly or daily.

I'm going to stick to just one option for Linux; feel free to elaborate on distro/wm/environment in the comments.

(FYI: It's been a year+ since there the last poll of this nature and traffic has doubled since then, so I think it's allowable :-) )
Emacs :)
Ending the Security Business of Guessing
There's also the problem that split brain patients (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain) exhibit some nonstandard behaviors, but nothing that would indicate lack of conscious thought.
> I suppose it could theoretically be a threat to their livelihood.

Bingo. Every time I've seen someone hating on an ORM, it's always a DBA.

You wouldn't believe the number of queries that I've written by hand while thinking "ActiveRecord would have just written this for me" because An ORM Couldn't Possibly Be Performant Enough For Us!
I am sorry if it sounded like an extreme generalization. It was wrong on my part, but you're from India and you know how this society is setup. It is just interesting that it spills over like this.

P.S. - I might be the only person I know who doesn't like porn. I know it's weird, but I just find it to be undignified in a lot of ways. Oh and I didn't take the screen shots I found it online a while ago.
What is the difference between convincing people to do something and convincing them not to do something? Both are the same thing: Convincing people to exhibit a desired behaviour.