skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that given the percentage changes in the way we view money, there has to be massive social change in thought.

I also agree that people filter what the news tells them.

However, I disagree that the two are related. I don't believe the news media causes people to spend more because they aren't having some sort satisfaction.

Other causes seem more likely to me.

1) People believe that their income will continually increase over their lifetime.

2) The increase in the number of advertisements over the last 50 years.

3)People have an accustomed lifestyle, but are making less money. Therefore, instead of cutting back they go into a little bit of debt. Which becomes alot of debt.

And of course, all of the above.
3)
Marin is a product aimed at large companies with their own internal SEM teams, and >$100K monthly budgets. AdGrok aims for the space below this lofty level.
I like your pitch, it's definitely compelling. I'd like to sample some of the content first, though, so I'll poke around some more on the site, see what I can find.

Thanks for responding directly.
Fantastic. Thanks for the tips and the link.
I'm laughing badly thanks to this comment :D
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It applies to much more than you'd expect. I've always heard it referred to as the golden triangle, in which the three best options are presented.

In IT services (or web design, or whatever, really), my first exposure to it was "Good, Fast, Cheap; Pick any two."
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Author here. It's not ass-kissing, it's a genuine compliment -- Antonio is a good writer.

Also, I think his success with the blog posts is instructive. Antonio freely admits that he's writing "linkbait blog posts to get us free PR" (http://adgrok.com/why-founding-a-three-person-startup-with-z...). I wouldn't advise trying this unless you have something genuinely engaging to say. But you have to admit it's an inventive, low-cost way to get your startup off the ground.
Beginning programmers make the mistake of abstracting too little. Intermediate programmers make the mistake of abstracting too much. Experienced programmers know when abstractions add value and when they just add another layer of extra complexity.

Generally speaking, designing your code up front to answer vague & ill-defined portability concerns you may encounter down the road means you're abstracting too much & too early.
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Plain text files FTW!!! :-)
Is Lucas providing good technical feedback or not? You seem to want to bury the technical feedback as well. That doesn't help anybody.
This idea is as old as systems; obviously, the distinction between "operators" and "developers" is a modern phenomenon, but even in the '90s, you had to be a systems coder to run (say) a competitive ISP (the only way we managed to get on the Freenix top 100 Usenet rankings was by independently inventing the INN history cache, for example; the only way to give our customers dynamic DNS was to code a hook into Livingston RADIUS).

So... I'd say DevOps isn't so much a new idea so much as it is a critique of the industry trend towards operators and admins who deal with software as if it's shrink-wrapped COTS. That's a criticism worth making.

For Hacker News, the better thing for us to be talking about, and something that is a genuinely new idea (I credit Patrick McKenzie for it, but he's better read than me and probably has 3-4 people who deserve it more) is MarkDev: software engineering applied to the problems of marketing.

If you've ever spent a dev cycle on your CMS, designing metrics, inventing feedback channels for your application, engineering search engine positioning --- you're doing MarkDev. Unlike Dev/Ops, where the dividing wall is flimsy and transparent, the wall between dev and marketing is 10,000 feet high, made of stone, and decorated with the skulls and entrails of the founders of a hundred VC-backed startups.
Gaming Foursquare, now in two lines
So, Alex our wonderful perl programmer, saw the 9 lines of code to game four square as an affront to his perl monkery. Here's his rebuttal.

http://www.pearanalytics.com/blog/2010/gaming-foursquare-in-two-lines-of-perl/

Can anyone think of a language to do it in even fewer lines?
It's not really a new thing. It's just a new approach and mentality.
Listen to the "many of people". Seriously.

I've worked on a lot of video games (indie and commercial), and this is a perfect example of something that is much cooler to you (the programmer) but not to the player.

You 100% need to have a player-controlled vs mode or the whole thing is a waste of time. You can ALSO have the autoplay strategy/design/creation (what does that even mean?) if you want. And maybe it will emerge as the winner.

But don't take my word for it. Spend two days and make a simple versus mode (two players on one keyboard, for example). Sit down five or ten random people from your target audience in front of each one and ask them which one they like better.
Agreed. CLRS > TAOCP.
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NoSQL isn't just about scale. Sometimes, modeling data relationally is a real bitch, and a document store makes more sense.
The "new school" is not about operations doing it all themselves, or about a new "devops" position that does both dev and ops. It's about greater cooperation between the team that's developing the application ("dev") and the team that supports it on a day to day basis ("ops"). It's not a new idea, but that doesn't stop it being useful.

If you're working on a team that is responsible for both then devops isn't a useful concept - you're probably doing it already. Many people are not so lucky.
The funny thing at our work is that we want to code and do our software development but the managers are the ones getting in the way, with things such as meetings, interruptions etc. If they actually left us alone we would get more done.
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> data structures, algorithms

#2 on the list, The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth, covers those.
Yeah, have tried different cables. Keep in mind also, the speed is still 20mbps, but yes, I have tried swapping cables. No effect.
I just shot you an email! Sounds like an interesting idea!
This is a plausible argument I haven't looked at before - thanks! Going to dig into this one this weekend.

I wonder if we could construct a decent model incorporating education level, economic freedom, income level, income equality, and entrepreneurship.
I have run mtr from wired and wireless clients, no difference.
But the climate models say that we can do this. The models are so accurate and trustworthy that we can totally predict what global climate will be 100 years in the future depending on whether or not we adopt Kyoto. We can also predict what they would be now if humans didn't emit CO2.

Why are you denying the consensus and being anti-science? You must also be a creationist.

</snark>

This is an interesting topic, because it really forces us to evaluate how much we actually know about climate. To draw conclusions like "the modern warming trend is anthropogenic in origin", we need to believe that our climate models are really good. So good, in fact, that they can accurately model virtually the entire climate, which is what allows us to pinpoint CO2 emissions and rule out all other forcings as the cause of modern warming.

We do this by running the models with those other forcings, but without CO2, and observe less warming. But then, we turn around and say "we can't model $geoengineering_scheme". Why not? Are our models simply incapable of predicting the response of climate to various forcings?
Herd effects, and company policies. Americans != programmers at startups.
No Discrete math book either. I wouldn't call anybody a "computer scientist" that didn't have a good grasp of discrete math. Though I suppose you can't make it through TAOCP without picking up some discrete math.

Also, does anyone else think listing TAOCP as one book is a cop-out?
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I always wanted to see if people who do management for films (producers / directors) would do better managing software than MBAs.
I'm not sure either but I think it might be because in the back of your mind you know there's about 5-10 sentences worth of actual meat to the article (ie. quotes from the interviewees) but they spread them out over dozens of paragraphs. And act like this is entertaining for the reader.

edit: there's a cute widget/plug-in/extension for someone to build - make something that strips newspaper articles of all text except the quotes. May need some jiggering about to make it readable.
Extremely accurate statement in my experience.
"But you have to admit it's an inventive, low-cost way to get your startup off the ground."

No, it's an awful gimmick which sets a terrible precedent.
I hope they didn't upgrade to 1.0.0.
Consider that the best athletes in the world have coaches. Even if it's a cooperative endeavor, it helps an athlete to have someone else to design training programs, objectively point out weaknesses, push them when the still have more to give, and pull them back when they've gone too hard.

In theory, the athletes can do this by themselves. In practice, they rely on their coaches.

In theory, you can read books on your own and hold yourself accountable so that you grind through difficult problems and projects so that you actually learn the material you read about. In practice, having a teacher to help you through this process makes you much more likely to succeed.
right -- they are in different spaces. but it is good evidence that google won't just shut down adgrok.
I hope the welding shop has proper ventilation systems... There are some pretty nasty chemical gases produced by various types of welding...
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This article:

1. Is from 2009.

2. Does not in fact even claim that everything anyone knows about global warming is wrong. (e.g.: "Everyone in the room agrees that the Earth has been getting warmer and human activity probably has something to do with it.")

3. Doesn't do much to substantiate what claims it does make.

4. Is largely about not global warming as such but possible ways to mitigate it.

5. Mostly describes the opinions of people who are not in fact climate scientists.

6. Does purportedly give the opinions of one climate scientist, Ken Caldeira -- but it turns out that he says he's been severely misrepresented by these people; see, e.g., http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/18/error-riddled-superfre... .
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Or a parking lot, street or intersection.

Let's put that Chevy 'Like A Rock' slogan to the test!
Try many, keep few?
If you have a scenario, I'd be happy to work with you to build it. We need more case studies, even if they're hypothetical. Write to me.
http://www.competinghypotheses.org/docs/About_The_Project
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Funny joke.

But I'm pretty sure this reinforces how far away our robot overlords still remain.
If you're running a website (YouTube, Posterous, nytimes.com) that publishes free video, this exempts you from royalties.

If you're running a transcoder (Zencoder, Quicktime Pro, ffmpeg) or a player (Flash, native HTML5 video in Firefox), you still may need to pay royalties.
Your numbers seem a little low for a high priced sale, but if your goal is to recoup server costs and some dev money, you should try selling it.

Will it sell? Only one way to find out!
Unmentioned in this story: what happened when a low-flying aircraft entered restricted airspace around DC? Did they already know it was this wayward drone, either by transponder or the drone's ground crew informing them?
what a linkbait article title ... sadly, if a company has a degree requirement for hiring, then no amount of self-learning can substitute for a lack of an accredited diploma.

i doubt that a hospital will hire you just because you read all the "books that will substitute for an M.D."

yes, i know that programming skills can be more easily self-taught than, say, brain surgery, but as long as companies hire based on degrees, there isn't really a 'substitute'
Geesh they are already on version 7 and Chrome? Maybe someone at Google forgot to include the "1." in front of the version.

It's interesting that Internet Explorer, which came out in 1995, is on version 9 while Chrome which came out just two years ago is already on version 7.

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Edits below to address the downvotes:

Maybe I didn't communicate my point clearly. I certainly didn't intend to knock Chrome - I use it along with Safari as my primary browsers.

My point was more to say "come on guys, 7 versions in 2 years while everyone else (FF, IE, Safari, Opera) has had one or two?".

Maybe I'm biased because I worked at a software company years ago who wanted to communicate their product was as mature as the competition's and skipped straight from version 1.0 to version 4.0. An no, I'm not implying Chrome is less mature than others.
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As an aside, I remember being a management consultant and receiving the following <sarcasm>wisdom</sarcasm> from my manager: "You don't have to be smarter than your client. You just have to appear to be smarter than your client."
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It's a consequence of the Java era where the black-box tendency of apps running in the JVM and the "javaschool" educational system conspired to produce a large number of programmers who could produce web apps, but didn't know anything about administering the boxes they were running on. Thus ops teams started loading up with admins who just made sure the servlet containers could spin up and the underlying machines didn't run out of memory or disk space, but had no idea what was going on inside of the app.
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probably because of the slow start from bootstrapping followed by faster growth recently, my 5 year old business feels like a startup. My daughter was born in March. It definitely changed my work pattern but I'm still coping ok so far. I commented about my new schedule on this post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1597627
Ask HN: viability of a startup based on screen scraping?
I'm working on a side project that involves scraping pricing data from a site and making it much more accessible and usable, and ultimately providing a better answer to the type of question a user would normally have about the data in its original form (sorry, I'd rather not give specifics at this point). I am considering evolving it into a business, where users would pay for access. I was wondering, what are the legal ramifications of attempting such a business? Are there any real world examples of successful businesses that used screen scraping at the core of their service/offering, as well as hurdles or obstacles they faced? Finally, would this severely hamper my chances of securing funding?
There are so many courses online now that you can get syllabi from.
If you would like to do some archaeology, the QuickDraw source code can be downloaded here: http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/

It's really nicely structured and has lots of comments!

EDIT: The code is in the BumpOval procedure in DrawArc.a
Ask HN:How do you know when it's time to expand into new markets?
It's been about 2 months since I "launched" my first start up with basically zero advertising budget (being a student means I don't have large savings yet sadly). To give a little background the start up is www.adsreloaded.com and currently it is essentially a CPA advertising platform for iPhone apps that pays users to download apps (this was discussed in another thread so I won't go into too much depth here). In the first two months I have seen some growth... about 120 "regular" users, 5 paying iPhone developers, and have received calls from 3 fairly large iPhone firms who were interested in buying a campaign but I had to turn down because I simply couldn't support the volume they wanted right now.

I think one of the big advantages over my competitors is that I can move faster than them into new platforms (I want to expand into Android, Facebook, and blogs); however my initial plan was to build a fairly large user base on the iPhone platform before expanding horizontally.

My question at its core is: How do you know when you should start expanding?
If they cared for data-integrity above performance, they would be running with delayed_commits=false anyway, and thus would not be subject to the bug.
Depends what you're looking for. This isn't a story about some bit of code. It's a story about someone (Steve Jobs) who knows how to inspire and motivate people, and a practical example of how he inspired this excellent programmer to push beyond what he thought was capable, by getting across exactly why it was so important.
Wow first time I hear about webbynode. Looks like you have some nice plans. Anyone having an account there?
It was just that British immigrants had the nasty habit of overthrowing the government in their new homes.

How many countries did that happen in?
These are always interesting articles, but this one definitely slips into what I feel is a dramatic overstatement about the differences between men and women.

In particular, I've never agreed that men shoot for the moon while women are happy to live more modestly in a low-risk way. Have the people who say this ever been to Hollywood? The place is full of young women who risk everything to achieve that incredibly high status position of movie star.

Or, like the Dixie Chicks wrote in "Long Time Gone"

Me, I went to Nashville
Tryin' to be the big deal
Playin' down on Broadway
Gettin' there the hard way
Living' form a tip jar
Sleepin' in my car
Hockin' my guitar
Yeah I'm gonna be a star....

Now, one place where I agree with the author of this article is that there there are most likely meaningful innate differences between women that may have resulted from evolutionary pressures, and that we should not be suppressed by a culture of political correctness from honestly discussing them, even when some of these differences favor men.

But the conclusions still seem very spotty to me, not at all consistent with my observations. The big about diapers? The men I know are deeply involved with their children, extremely paternal, and change a hell of a lot of diapers. Women may not start tech companies as often as men, but they are definitely willing to take great risks to seek status.

I don't mind the question, and I'm not at all offended by the answer, but I am not at all convinced. There's a lot more to this story.
disclaimer; I have not read the link.

I'm bothered by this title. Had a water cooler chat yesterday and was talking about question structure. This came up, yes/no; "do you still kick your dog?". Say, no, and it implies that you used too.

The title seems to imply that we need to explain what's good/bad about men when the entire question is dumb.
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The Arcade Fire make's an HTML5 Video, but it's missing.
The idea is that we want to offer hosting for the blogs we host, for example we could offer you a Webby, for exchange of a small ad saying we host, you. Can be something under your main ads, a simple placement like this: http://grab.by/grabs/4a7553e298ee14a8d047283e2da7d7f7.png
That's a ridiculous comparison. If the pirates were building the software instead of cracking it and selling it for cheaper that would be comparable. Pirates depend on a honest person doing the hard work for them. Chinese workers do not.
No, he is not. Good technical feedback is actionable. All else is ego-boosting, regardless of its merit.
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It'll be fun to see them go after the CIA World Factbook.
I especially don't buy the idea that Bill Atkinson, after demonstrating fast ellipses, would then claim that rounded rects would be "really hard." Indeed, the enhancement would be trivial.
His references to C++, C#, and Haskell were about language size relative to Scala.
Beautifully, beautifully beastly :-)
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I disagree. Rounded rectangles are a signature Mac OS user interface feature. Thanks to post-Steve Jobs Apple, there is renewed interest in everyhing Apple, and rounded rectangles are truly everywhere. You would have a hard time finding a popular web site not using them.

What is really interesting in this story is not the algorithm itself, but how Steve Jobs convinced Bill Atkinson by taking a walk outside with him to show how common rounded-corners are in "real-life".
Some of the NoSQL solutions take durability very seriously, some put it second to looking good in benchmarks. NoSQL is about choice, and the most durable of the NoSQL stores are more durable than many of the venerable relational databases.

For instances, what CouchDB treated as a major bug, is the accepted behavior of many relational databases. (Eg, data isn't lost, but must be recovered via a long-running process should there be an uncontrolled shtudown.)

Riak and Cassandra also have modes that treat durability as paramount, and give you better assurances than MySQL or even commercial RDBMS products.
I agree...I want to see the algorithm for drawing rounded rectangles! I assume that he was able take his oval rendering code and use it for the corners of the square. Never mind, that would probably still leave the story unsatisfying.
Anyone else thought that the site will try SQL injection and stuff to tell you how vulnerable is your database?
Doesn't really matter. The version numbers are for internal use and for tech blogs, the consumer is never exposed to it because of the auto update.
It's a measurement of how likely it is that a citizen in a country want to become an illegal immigrant elsewhere. The small, "nice", western european welfare states have always scored very high on this for a long time.
I think it's a legal can of worms any way you look at it, but especially if you plan to charge for it. I think you would have to get permission from all of the sites you plan to scrape before you sell the data to someone. It might be ok if you gave it away for free and linked back to the original source, but even then it's sketchy.
First question: considering the fact that you have a limited amount of time/resources to allocate, how will moving into Android (for example) effect your efforts on the iPhone platform?

Second question: is there some reason to believe that the growth path on Android (for example) would be significantly better than you've experienced on the iPhone?

Without knowing the answer to those questions, I can only surmise that the fact that you had to turn down 3 large campaigns because you couldn't support the volume required suggests that your number one priority ought to be building up the volume to the required level before diversifying onto other platforms.

According to you initial plan, how did you intend to get traction?

My answer, at its core is: unless you are talking about pivoting (which is different than "expanding into new markets"), the time to consider secondary markets is after you've got momentum in your first.
For the record I should note that CouchDB's durable storage format ensured that all the data affected by the 1.0.0 bug is recoverable. We think that in the end, because we announced the bug loudly and clearly, and provided a repair tool within days, no one lost any critical data.
On the bright side, at least they're computer science books. I was half-expecting to see "Teach Yourself C in 20 minutes" or "Visual Basic .NET For Dummies"
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I was quoting the essay when I referred to rich people. Also, my original post was relevant to the article posted.

Looks like a lot of karma-flaming on my posts. Awesome, guys.