skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
direct link: http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/18/vital-juice-marketing-cmo-n...

"In 2006 they left their jobs and started a wellness consulting outfit, and for three months, worked with Revolution Health, a Steve Case-backed company. In May 2007 they went out on their own, tapping their own funds to create Vital Juice. In October 2008 they raised $1 million in Series A funding from Bob Pittman's Pilot Group"
Interesting, facebook questions has an ESP Game-like solution to answer questions, similar to hunch where you cycle through questions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP_game).
The poll seems to be based on the premise that whatever time we spend not earning money is time wasted. I recommend reading "Momo" by Michael Ende for a different perspective. Time we spend learning new things is valuable. Time we spend communicating ideas is valuable. This isn't to say that all the time everyone spends on the Internet is worthwhile, or that many of us wouldn't be better off spending less time in front of a screen, but it isn't always easy to know beforehand what time is going to be well-spent and what isn't.
Rethinking form validation
Turning your Product's Buzz into Real Orders
We were willing to learn new tech if it was going to provide benefits, ultimately stuck with what we know for quick dev cycle.
http://www.leaf.ly/
asp.net mvc
windows & sql azure hosting (free for 8 months with BizSpark)
Researcher’s Hack Can Make ATMs Spew Money
For programmers I would recommend a real computer architecture textbook (e.g. http://books.google.com/books?id=57UIPoLt3tkC) instead of Stokes's analogy-laden book.
Going away from MS platforms by startups is due to cost and quality (of developers).

Annoyances with the latest MS Platforms:

- Nasty URLs (capped, trailing file types) - although it can be done with IIS7 routes or preferrably IIRF which runs IIS5-current. They still dont' have a mod_rewrite solution unless you run server 2008 with IIS7. Look at how nasty this looks: http://www.ferrari.com/Italian/Pages/Home.aspx, why not just http://ferrari.com/? The reason, their frameworks suck defaulting to path cruft, file extensions and capitalized urls.

- ASP.NET WebForms single-form per page travesty.

- Again, File naming and the ASP.NET MVC again relies on their capitalized URL paths and .aspx extensions everywhere.

- XML and SOAP crazy over RESTful/JSON based services (they tried to remedy this with WCF but configuration failed)

- All MS developers are not free thinkers much, they use whatever MS tells them to use from LINQ, MS SQL Server, Sharepoint etc. Even such things as using JSON, jQuery and Entities they didn't use until Microsoft had the frameworks then all of a sudden they loved them. I kid you not most people still used the Microsoft AJAX framework until 2008ish.

- VB.NET

- DataSets just clutter all applications

- MS seems to have lost the skill to make simplified engineering solutions (sure their tools are simple but they are overly configuration nightmares or lock in by requiring the tool otherwise it is painful).

- All good .net developers when they become engineers or entrepreneurs typically leave the platform for cost and better solutions. MS seems to attract mediocre or enterprisey programmers like Java (this could be due to the popularity of both platforms attracting more developers overall)

- Sharepoint kills developers dreams.

You can do .NET like modern web development but for the most part the developers in the MS culture don't.
What next for Local Services?
I totally hear this, "using what you know" is really powerful.

Be careful here though ...

> I know better than to expect to converse about our MS technology with the HN crowd, though.

Lots of positive posts, even in this thread!
I've had quite the opposite experience with automated check-out. I prefer it over a staffed check-out, but maybe the machines at the local store are simply easier to use.

The reason why I like them is that I don't have a to deal with another variable (staff). The process is automated, I have full control and can be out faster. So for me, automating this process is a superior experience, interacting with another person is unnecessary complexity.
Startup Methodology meets Disruptive Innovation
The whole point of my comment is that PHK's analysis leaves out many downsides of leaving it all to the kernel.

His main argument against doing it is user-space is that you will "fight with the kernel's elaborate memory management." But if you just turn off swap completely and read files with read/write instead of mmap(), there is no fight. Everything happens in user-space.

Leaving it all to the kernel has many disadvantages as I spent many paragraphs explaining.
Do you monetize newsletters with ads only, or are there other ways? Also, what kind of ads can you use? I don't think AdSense can be used in emails.
The issue I always run into with the self check out machines, is that they frequently don't work right, so they require an attendant, anyway.
The Economist: "Never ... have so many been locked up for so little"
In a global header long time ago, a friend of mine (and big "C" lover) did this to his best buddy once (a C++ and especially boost lover):

#define class struct

#define private public

#define protected public
I think the movie Network (made in 1976!) was really close to exactly this hybrid.
"If I buy you a house and put the title in your name, but I mark some of the doors 'Employees Only', then you're not allowed to open those doors, even though it's your house. Because it's really my house, even though I gave it to you to live in."

Love it!
Sprint adds 111,000 new subscribers but down 1.4 precent
Sprint Nextel has added over 100,000 new subscribers to their network thanks to phones like HTC’S EVO 4G, but still came up short
I missed the 'if you just turn off swap completely' bit in the paragraphs above.

Edit: even on re-reading it all I can't find it.
Life in the time of Java 7
Looks great!

One question/suggestion I have is if you are planning to have some kind of forum on your site so people who are working with the book could help each other. Might be especially interesting for people who only have "general computer knowledge" (like me).

I know there are millions of other pages to look for help but have something dedicated especially to this book might still be useful. If you or other experienced programmers would answer some of the questions you could also charge for that (I would pay).
Unfortunately Cocoa# seems to be completely dead (mono website says project is being "revitalized" on cocoa-sharp.com, but the domain has expired and fallen into squatters' hands).
I sympathize, yet encapsulation is appropriate for some projects. Not all users of a library want to frequently update to their own code. Forbidding encapsulation and deprecation would increase this cost. Also, it's comforting to be able to refactor the guts of a class without harming users.
I was thinking about this recently in terms of normalized developer worth. Developers in the valley and NYC get paid a ton of money because of COL. What if we factored out COL (which is something software developers can do), then what is our worth? It is surely below the 100k mid level salaries for developers in the valley/NYC.

Could developers in those places end up pricing themselves out just due to location?
The current rules for the filing date for the copy of the recipient's copy of the 1099 is Jan 31. The electronic filing deadline for the IRS's copy is Mar 31.
This is a terrible idea. Big companies would set up a shell corporation for every single thing.

I'm all for lower tax rates, but only in general and when they're paid for. I can't support a new loophole just because it's tailored to my particular special interest.
The article says the stock has to be acquired after March 15, 2010, and before January 1, 2012. How does this play with vesting schedules? Is stock considered "acquired" when granted or when vested?
I used to work with MS stuff all the time. Now its a mix of everything. If I had a choice I would probably go back for one reason only: Consistency - Getting more work done and spending less time choosing, configuring and keeping up with the latest trends.
I think you misunderstood me. evo_ is saying that it's unfashionable to talk about it when you use Microsoft software. I replied that in my experience the reason startups don't talk about Microsoft stuff is that they're not using it, not that they are and are embarrassed to say so.

It may well be that YC-funded startups consistently differ from the average startup. But that doesn't mean that such differences are due to fashion. The kind of people we fund are more consistent in knowing what they're doing than in being young. So if as a group they differ from the norm on technical matters, the more likely hypothesis is that the norm is lagging.
You've really never seen anyone hired primarily for their communication skills?
Even a startup can scrape together $469. But $469 per server is another story, especially in businesses that grow to require hundreds of machines.

$469 is a significant percentage of the hardware cost. The last time I bought a bunch of servers, they were in the $2500 range.
> In Inception, every action sequence was over in 30 seconds, with everything happening in a dream (death just means you wake up), so it removed what little tension these sequences carried. (But then sometimes the in-game rules were broken, eg. the Jap. guy get shot but he doesn't wake up, so from then on shots are lethal? Well I guess not, because at the end everybody is fine after all.)

It's true that the rules are changed, but they're changed almost immediately; we have one encounter in a dream where we see that being killed means that you wake up, and this understanding is then taken away from us during the next dream (not counting the various tutorials). One may question the utility of a rule that is given only to be immediately taken away, but I believe that the point here was to make us feel the shock of the unexpected danger in which the characters found themselves—we are supposed to be shaken out of our complacency just as they are.

The second point seems truly bizarre. I think it's fair to say that a large chunk of the ‘meaning’ of the movie is that we are left to wonder at the end whether we have reached a ‘real-life’ ending, or are still watching someone's dreams. The fact that everyone seems fine, despite the severe dangers that were advertised, is, from this point of view, not lazy story-telling but a way of making us uncomfortable with the easy answer of taking the ending literally.
Not even close. And Marijuana is less dangerous for society and individuals as alcohol, automobiles, etc.

HOWEVER, if we say that anything should be legal as long as it doesn't encroach on someone else's freedom, where do you draw the line with hard drugs such as PCP/Crystal Meth that may increase violent tendencies with the user?

I could potentially see many making the argument that legalizing certain things simply hurts the lower class or keeps them in poverty, such as crack, etc. Should there be rules protecting people who aren't educated enough to make good long term decisions for themselves?
Is there room to innovate in RSS / Feeds / OPML? Is it worth it to try and rebuild the feed and widget technologies in Grazr now that they're shutting down?
Anybody have a standing work space?
any body stand while coding/at the pc? Im swapping my office around and I am curios whether anyone does it
I have a hard time getting excited by R as the future, given that the entire core development team has been talking about why R needs to be replaced since the late 1990s. See the OmegaHat project and the motivating paper behind Incanter. I don't think these efforts are the answer, but I doubt R is the future.
* Adobe's (the biggest name in content creation) current answer to this problem is a horrid mess of gigantic, flat images embedded in a rudimentary framework. Think flat images and image maps. It's a technical shortcut at best. *

If I'm not mistaken, Adobe's solution was thrown together simply as the only way for one magazine (I think it was Wired?) to get their zine on the iPad since Apple threw away the first solution. Of course nobody wants to craft their own, superior solution, Apple may/may not reject it/make up a rule preventing it/embrace it/whatever and the solution that finally makes it through is a horrid mess that's clearly not the best possible for the platform.
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I know basically nothing about this business.

I just read Jason Baptiste's two articles about how this is "serious business" and that was a nice overview.

Anyone else have a suggested reading list for learning more?
There is no adsense for email (big opprotunity) but right now monetization is through directly selling ads or through ecommerce like groupon and thrillist do.
Startup Digest is amazing. They started picking up our Hackers and Founders Silicon Valley events a few months ago, and our total membership has gone from 800 members to 1250 members in 3 months. Our San Francisco events have gotten 30% bigger per event.
To channel patio11: any stats on how many users have no idea what JavaScript is, let alone how to disable it?

Sorry for the slightly flippant response (but thank you to patio11 for training me to think that way). I just couldn't help myself, since you phrased it as 'disabled' rather than 'not JavaScript capable'. In regards to the latter, you might find this StackOverflow post useful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/121108/how-many-people-di...
Consumers prefer the underdog, study shows
We're on the Microsoft stack at SocialBlaze: http://www.socialblazeapp.com (Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, asp.net MVC 2.0, c# 4.0)

We do a lot of processing and storing of data, SQL Server is awesome for that.

Microsoft has a bad rep, but the libraries/tools/services they have are pretty powerful, bug-free, and easy to implement.

Only downside seems to be cost, but with BizSpark you don't have to worry about it for 3 years. And after 3 years you really shouldn't have to worry about it either because paying for it shouldn't be a problem.
The big problem with digital and electronic locks in general is maintaining the power source. Mechanical locks have extremely low maintenance requirements, and could be left unattended for months or years without issue. Even if they then stick, a quick shot of WD40 will usually allow entry.

Electronics, on hte other hand, rely either on external power, or some sort of internal battery. A battery is ill-suited to heavy duty-cycling when the lock will be opened/closed regularly, and an external source is potentially subject to tampering.

There do exist many electronic locks, typically for fairly low-security shared access doors, or where various additional requirements make them more suited (such as easily rekeyable card-locks for hotel rooms)

There's an interesting article at http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/electronic-locks-de... regarding some work by Marc Weber Tobias and others in defeating hybrid electro-mechanical locks and their built-in audit logs.

Electronic locks on the whole don't magically ensure security, and open up a whole new set of attack surfaces, whereas mechanical locks have been around for centuries, and have well-defined failure/exploitation modes.
Great idea, we will compile a list for our next post :)
Is this serious? I'm reading this after the Steve Yegge blog and can't tell anymore.
> for a summer action movie it lacked a "crowning moment of awesome"

Wow, the fight in the hotel hallway didn't do anything for you? For me, that topped anything I saw in a Wachowski brothers movie (I was literally gasping); it felt like a character expertly manipulating rules of physics that he could not manipulate, rather than simply ignoring the rules that were inconvenient.
Crime Visualization of San Francisco
This all comes down to AT&T's desire to keep voice calls special, so that they can charge a premium for them.

The moment they let the magic of people talking become something as mundane as data, their entire revenue model collapses.
I think this is probably fairly accurate.

People will (generally) use whatever tool they're familiar with, regardless of whether it is actually better for the job or not. Therefore it makes sense that the person's background will be a fairly large determining factor in what language they use. Someone (like me) that comes from a decade of developing "enterprise" .NET applications is most likely going to choose .NET. Someone with that same background is likely to be less concerned about the latest "cool" tech, and more interested in just getting the job done.

It also has a fair bit to do with resources. If you're running on little cash, it makes sense to use the cheapest tools and hosting available. Whilst, MS offer free version of all their tools, you still need to pay for hosting your app. That's the big turn off for many.

For us, it is a combination of my .NET experience, the fact that hosting price isn't a huge issue (our web design and .NET consultancy work covers our costs), and most importantly I DESPISE Linux with a passion. Queue here to flame me -->
Very interesting. The top 10 are pretty expected, but the rest are more meaty. Great to see @dcurtis at #11 and @yegg at #32.

Wouldn't have expected @garyvee to be big with the HN crowd.

Definitely some people in the bottom half of the top 100 I would have expected to rank higher.
Not sure what exactly it means to be "sponsored", but quite a few companies and individuals give financial support to clojure:
http://clojure.org/funders
I believe that repeated bumping can lead to damage of the tumbler pins and surround, since you're having to impart enough energy into them to force them to jump against their spring in order to make the procedure work.

Wikipedia notes that hardened steel tumblers are more susceptible to this mode of attack due to them being able to take more force without becoming deformed (which seems plausible, although I don't have any authoritative source)
Of course not; that's half the point. It's an interesting interaction effect that could only be assessed by asking. And with only 2-3 additional questions, you could cover a wide range of educational and post-educational experiences (where education refers to an institute of learning; not meant to imply that learning stops after you leave school).
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Alcohol has been known to cause people to do stupid and harmful things too, e.g., drunk driving.
There are lots of things that are secured with a padlock only.

Say a burglar is trying to break into the shed in my backyard because he wants the tools in it.

He could:

* Bring a heavy, obvious bolt-cutter and cut the lock.

* Bring a sledghehammer and smash the lock off of the door

* Use the same sledge to break a hole in the side of the shed

* Battery operated angle-grinder

orrrr

He could bring a pick and a torsion wrench, make no noise at all, not look at all suspicious to my neighbors, have the lock off in the same amount of time as he would with any of the methods above (faster, in some cases), and leave no traces, meaning I won't even know anything is gone until I go out to the shed again.

What would you do? If I was the thieving type, I would choose a lock pick.
Thanks Jonathan, your event rocks and people love attending HF
It's utterly disgusting.

The only thing you can't patent is a live human being or a mental process. Everything else is fair game.

There has been an enormous row over for instance the patenting of basmati rice, a staple food in many countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmati
I wouldn't worry about the net loss in the short term, due in large part to the infrastructure outlay as they build out their 4G network. As they release more 4G phones, they'll pull in more revenue to offset as people upgrade plans with the $10/mo 4G premium (on top of already pricier Everything plans starting at $69/mo).
> Everyone has one

How does a flat-out falsehood like that get to 9 points? Most people have dumb phones or feature phones. In the smartphone crowd, most people have Blackberries. Not even close to everyone has an iPhone.

The fact is, a smartphone of any stripe is a status symbol. The thing about most Android phones is they blend in and tend to look just like feature-phones.
A Simple Breakdown on How to Get Website Traffic
A high level, simplified perspective on how to get visitors to your website.
You might be able to get it turned off for all of us if you're willing to contact their advertising networks and tell them about it :-)
Plenty of people have claimed enlightenment while taking drugs, which might well lead to knowledge and understanding.
This is a new visualization layer on PadMapper (an apartment hunting site) which shows the relative frequency of crime in different areas of San Francisco. It's not differentiated between nonviolent crime and violent crime currently (should be at some point). Red is bad, green is good, and nothing means very little crime reported for that area (even better than green within the bounds of SF, simply no data outside).
Network Automation is Inevitable
It would be nice if you could filter by the type of crime, not even necessarily violent crime. I might care if someone's selling heroin outside my door, or cars are being stolen, but probably wouldn't care if prostitutes are running about or dogs are unleashed.
Interesting Developer/Hacker Women to Follow on Twitter
Not without any other relevant experience to speak of, no. I've seen good communicators beat out poor communicators, but there is almost always something else that makes them attractive to the employer as well.
What is Extended Static Checking?
Good point. It currently needs to be precomputed as images, so it's hard to make it customizable, but it probably makes sense to make a category of unsavory crimes. I would assume that most people dislike living near the same types of crime.
you could probably stop that by saying small businesses owned by corporations can't claim this deduction.

you could say over 3/4 of the corporation must be owned by individuals or it doesn't qualify.
What's worse is that most of the podcasts that make their home in the network Scott runs are technology/gaming focused. So his audience is the exact target audience that a company like Bluehost should be catering and advertising to.

This would have been a perfect opportunity to work out some sort of sponsorship deal and they could have ended up benefiting from their customer's success!
Not I. But I have considered it. You need to keep in mind that Microsoft will open doors for you that open source won't.

Now before you mod me into oblivion think about it. What does Microsoft want? To sell more licenses. So if you wander into MS and say you want to use their stack to do X but you need buy in from some people they will know who to talk to to make it happen. That way everyone benefits.
How GitHub Does Enterprise
Wow, this is excellent. I'm looking at moving to San Francisco later this year and this is such important information. I knew that places like the Tenderloin were dangerous, but there's an unexpected hotspot in the middle of the Mission that I know to avoid now. Thanks.
How do you define success?
How do you define success for yourself?
The languages have fundamentally different goals.

If you explained Unix file permissions to a Windows guy, he'd probably think it was silly. They exist for a purpose though- just not a purpose the Windows guy has spent much time with.
That's an interesting feature for an apartment hunting site. However I think you have to add some information like the time-interval this goes back to. If it's only for a couple of days the statistic might be full of relative false-positives and false-negatives.
Personally, I'd be ok with pot and coke, but not heroin or meth.

Also, preferably decent-looking prostitutes, not any of those skeezy ones you see outside the 16th street BART.

Yeah, I think this needs a drugs checkbox selector widget, just like padmapper itself.
No luck getting the presidio data?