skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. I should add this to the home page. To be sincere, i did not think a bit about this stuff :)

I answer you here:

- your mail address will not get published

- it will be stored

- people will not see it so nobody can reply
That's not quite it either. The reason Kindergarten is important is because it's examining kids among their peers. Kids who are on average 6 months younger than their peers are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.
Of course the browser was never intended to be a general purpose applications platform... it was intended to allow hypertext browsing in a standard way. Apps were shoehorned into this environment, simple submit/response forms at first, then later richer UIs as browsers had more and more support bolted on... but web apps have never been and still are not capable of delivering the user experience of a native (fat) client app.

As Apple has finally invented an internet "appliance" that people like to use, it would not surprise me to see an increasing trend of consumer buying away from a general purpose PCs (which few folks really need and most tolerate only because there is no better alternative) and towards these much friendlier, easier to use, more specialized platforms.
I'm not so sure that any particular website will live or die from a lack of API or mobile support outside of the social type websites.
I have a good idea why you would carry a book, MP3 player or peanut butter sandwich. Your other reasons are much rarer and some of them even disturbing in itself (boyfriend threatened to kill you - a) you keep bad company, b) you want to defend yourself with a gun).

I think you mentioned the peaceful hunting village were everybody carried a knife to the supermarket. How would they look on a Samurai sword, I wonder?

You carrying a gun is my business because it endangers me. If I was allergic, maybe you could try to kill me with a peanut butter sandwich, but it would be much more difficult. (I am not only taking about you actively trying to kill me, but accidents or collateral damage).

Again, why would you want to carry a gun? It seems likely to me that if I see you with a gun, you have a paranoid or aggressive nature. Maybe if I accidentally cross in front of you in the canteen, you get angry and start a fight? Or if I look at you the wrong way? If you are on the shooting team, you would be kind of excused, but presumably after a while it would be known you are on the team and you would be excused.

Nobody calls the cops on a cop carrying a gun, because cops carrying guns is normal behaviour. Carrying guns into a classroom is not.
Perhaps I am old school but I cannot understand what your application does.

A brief description other than "Post your content on the web" would be nice. Additionally when you want people to send an email to you, you might want to have a Privacy Policy link to state what you will do with the email addresses that you will collect.
For sure having millions of credit cards already tied to an iTunes account would make easier to Apple to do anything payments related.
at 4:28 is that the launch plume on the left, the moon in the middle and the spent rocket on the right?
I work from home too, luckily I don't have a family to deal with, just my girlfriend and she works 9-to-5 every day. The only stickler that's annoying for me is uncleanliness in the house, I generally spend a lot of time picking up because I can't work with a messy home (even the kitchen). This is a case for having an office to myself, now doubt. Oh, and having the opportunity to work late and not be interrupted when she comes home...
This is effectively a vector image. It can fit any window without losing quality. Something like this could also be done with an actual vector image (and there should eventually be good SVG support in all browsers), but I think CSS might give you more control in some situations.
"you get state-financed retirement" ... how old are you? will that still be around when your turn comes to cash in? Retirement is a lie.
I'm a little skeptical when people say "this ad works and that ad doesn't" without providing even a shred of data to back up their claims.
Why not buy the non-free plan for a week, then cancel? Or email them. They might use PayPal, perhaps you could transfer money in there if you know the right account.
I'll answer my own question. McCarthy states in History of Lisp, "Part II was never written but was intended to contain applications to computing with algebraic expressions."

Here's hoping he gets around to writing it one day. :-)
Yeah, it's completely different when your first "customer" is in fact many small sales to consumers over several months after you've had to lay down the capital in the first place.
"Many of the programs in wealthier Europe require a demonstration that the skills sought are not easily found domestically". Said 'demonstration' is a joke. If you're good, you'll have no problem to get in if the company knows how to use the loopholes.
Conversely, if you have an app that is going to get a really large user base, and I'm talking 'millions', then it probably will work (i.e. google, twitter, facebook, ect.)

Actually, not. None of those are using a "freemium" model; they are all ad-based products. If your business model is dependent upon giving advertisers eyeballs, "free" is a great way to go-- but that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Is there any evidence that Dropbox's conversion rates are higher than the other apps the OP cites?
It's more than just being burned out. I don't believe the owners are good co-founders. This was my first venture into entrepreneurship. I think there's local value in the brand and potential for it to transform into something profitable. I think it would take another 6-12 months to find something profitable before everyone gives up on it. My problem is I don't want to wait that long.
OK, so I sent something and got this page:
http://brk.31337.it/210

Now, what do I do with that? (semi rhetorical question, it seems like some kind of social-ish, easy-blogging site)

Also, not sure if this is the intention or not, but if I enter http://brk.31337.it/209 I see someone else's post. That is a confusing behavior. I would expect to see my own immediately prior blog post (if I had one), not another users stuff.
In doing further research, I think this book may be an excellent starting point for me (and it's on the Kindle, unlike many agile books appear to be).

Here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Iterative-Development-Managers-e...

And a relevant review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R30MMFW7LTO35K/
You are mistaken about the economies of scale involved, you can't compare to the economist or any other large volume print magazine, the financial picture there is completely different.
There is a 30-day free trial.
Well, I've been reading HN since before it was called Hacker News and I don't think I'll stop any time soon. It's not HN news which it making me want to start my own business but a desire to work on meaningful projects which fulfil my need to turn my imagination into reality... and ultimately provide a stable financial circumstances for my family.
Ask HN: Is totlol.com alive?
Totlol.com is (was?) a Youtube for kids which got into trouble over the Youtube API ToS:

http://www.totlol.com/t/story

Does anyone know how that turned out? The site is up, but it's hard to tell tell how it's doing.
And VC's are accused of being lemmings...looks like doctors get to share that label.
I lasted 1 day before I stopped updating it. This is an interesting spin on keeping a diary, but the fact that I was storing it someplace without a privacy policy that I didn't implicitly trust made me walk away instantly.
I'll admit I'm a free-dropboxer, but that's almost exclusively because their plans are all too large and too expensive. I'm one of the multitude calling for a 10gb / 20gb plan. I've got photos elsewhere, but my main set of stuff I'd store is only about 5gb, and duplicating that (much less the 50gb of their smallest paid plan) to every computer is a waste - I'm using it for temporary storage and backup, across two (eventually 3) operating systems, none of which are more than 50% happy with each others formats without freaking out the next application I use.

In the meantime, though, my main Google account has 20gb for $5/year, and for the equivalent-lowest of 50gb/$100 I can get 400gb, which will also store my emails and photos. I can back up any email account on my machine by dragging the messages to a gmail folder, and waiting a little while. Docs now allows 1gb any-kind file uploads. I can send my photos to Picasa (the reason I have the extra space).

I'm a massive word-of-mouth spreader of Dropbox though, especially as I'm the Geek of a few families + their neighbors. I've probably gotten them more business than what I cost to host.
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Is your project scalable?
I loved this article, but after thinking about it for a bit I realize that there is an argument for going free. Two pretty strong ones, in fact.

1) If you want to get acquired - and we're talking about a big acquisition here - it would do to go free so you manage to score a big-enough user base to get noticed. And so the bigger company is interested in acquiring you not only for your technology, but also for your users. (That said, acquisition may be a risky bet.)

2) Going free also makes sense if you want total market dominance. In which case, free is really the only way to go. The writer is speaking from the POV of a micropreneur, and it makes sense for him to retract his free plan (in fact, it makes sense for 37signals/the 37signals model to do so too).

But if you're in the position of being the next Facebook, going free and dominating the market is really the best thing to do. (Or Youtube, or Google, or Flickr).

You find lots of users, lock out the competition, and then you can figure out how to monetize.

Which only goes to show that there are all kinds of businesses out there, and the advice you read on the net really should be done through the context of your particular business and/or market.
There's this too:

http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
Most important reason: laziness

I am not going out of my way to give them money. However I am perfectly willing to pay when they change their price structure. [For dropbox I found their prices per GB are almost double of cheaper competitors. They could charge much less per GB if they would get money from more customers]
Actually, it might be that doctors are quite accurate with diagnosing ADHD. The problem is that the sample of kids that they even get to examine is already biased - they may be the younger ones, in which parents or teachers just observed immaturity (which is probably uncorrelated to ADHD). Just a guess - maybe the paper addresses this issue.
I'm not touching Evernote again until they get exporting features. It's a really impressive, useful service, but despite their repeated claims of supporting open formats they've provided utterly squat in the past few years I've watched them.

Years. More than enough time to write exporters (not even .txt / .rtf!) if they value it at all.
I would definitely bite at the chance to pull $50k so I think you're right - that valuation would be too high.

I could walk away for $10k. That puts the company valuation at $40k. Before we brought on the last 2 owners, we talked about creating a separate agreement between me and the original founder where he pays me $9k back over time if the company makes money. So I think the $40k valuation is a good place to start.
Sounds like a good freemium upsell to me.
Perhaps a good balance is, instead of free, charge a small one time setup fee. pinboard.in for example does this and it seems to work really well. They offer a premium version with a monthly fee and a "free" version, which cost something like $5 or $6 to set up.

To me, the difference between free and a one time $5 fee was minimal, but to the people running the site difference in revenue is probably pretty huge.
I've started part-time and wanted to know if this Ask HN was directed toward people like me.
In Sweden, the only real difference is between companies and persons, and the former don't pay VAT, but the latter group should. EU didn't complicate matters, you still pay VAT based on the country you buy from, not where you are located.

So if you make a print catalog and send it to companies, you can print prices without VAT. If you make the same and send to people, you have to include VAT. Same if you have a store, you have to include VAT in all prices.

Webshops usually have a simple global toggle somewhere on the site where you can choose to display prices with or without VAT.

In the US case, you could simply use GeoIP to guess the default and display all prices according to that state, and somewhere on the site have a "We think you are in <state>. Change?" and a dropdown.

It's really not rocket science, and the end result is very nice for consumers since the total you see is always the actual total, not a bullshit number that gets magically larger at the last step.
What, people with money and experience are taking advantage of the young and intelligent by paying them crap and building profitable businesses on the backs of the inexperienced?

Alert the press! Call the White House! Shocking revelation!

Nothing to see here. Move along now...
I'm fine with the pricing, mostly because I'm not going to pay it. The reason for me is that HN is worth so much more with the comments and the ability to follow all those links. But I can completely understand that you have to charge this much at the current volume to make it worth the time you invest.

What I don't get about the whole thing though is that you seem surprised by how much time it takes and how little money it makes from advertisers. But that really shouldn't come as a surprise, after all, whether you get this circulated to 50 or 50,000 people the editorial work is the same. Only with 50K readers your financial picture would look a lot better, both at a lower price-point and from an advertising revenue perspective.

Maybe it was too early to start charging, maybe you should have counted on some more runway to get the volume up to a point where the price would be low enough that it would not become a substantial barrier to the success of the magazine?
Vs Google's storage costs (Docs lets you store up to 1gb files of any kind), they're 8x more expensive (400gb for $100 vs 50gb).

Granted, the service is very different, and Google is ever-so-slightly larger. It's still a big jump.
For the launch of my next site I am going to do a limited number of free accounts a day(starting at different times in the day). Then you won't get overrun with free users, but allow people to give you their email to let them know when more free accounts are available. Not sure if this will help but worth a shot. Might force people to try it paid if they don't want to wait.
Sorry, updated. What i meant is that the general public still usually ignores (confirmed in the linked report, can't attest its accuracy, btw) the existence of this disorder and so i expect that the number of diagnosed cases is still quite small at the moment.
What i fear is that with more awareness, more inept parents will find in the ADHD an easy way to explain what is only the result of their educational ineptitude. And sadly, it seems clear that this disorder can easily be misdiagnosed.
Ask HN: Which developer portal is the best? Why?
Ask HN: For API's, who has the best developer portal and why?
You got the answer right there in your sentence: educate people. And then make sure the center of power lies with educated people. Only trouble is, that's not how this things called democracy is supposed to work
"Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc., then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your customer base."

From Fred Wilson's mouth (he coined the term "Freemium")
That is a confusing behavior

Yes, I guess I should overwrite the to_param method of the post model to return text instead of the id.

That's a really good idea, and is more seo friendly too.
The web might be becoming slightly less of a Single and Obvious Answer as a platform for internet technology investors and entrepreneurs - how much so, well, they'll figure it out.

Rumours of the web's death are greatly exaggerated, though. It's the largest generally accessible, indexed, hyperlinked, searchable repository of information out there by a crushing margin. Oh and you can add essentially whatever you want to it for essentially nothing. It's effectively immortal, or at the very least, undead. If you ever find yourself regularly spending an hour online without doing a search, clicking, saving or sharing a link then the web might be on its way out. We should all live so long.
I, on the other hand, tend to agree with the author. It would be nice to have an alternative to the JVM / .NET hammer. Note that I am not saying that those things are useless, just that I am tired of them used as the one true way to develop "business" apps.

Additionally, I have had to do a lot of "batch" type work in my career, such as "extract, transform, load" kind of work, and having to deal with GC sucks. It might be cheap to create and destroy temp objects, but holding a map/hash/dictionary in memory gets expensive, since the GC is always stomping around, and paging memory in and out of cache outside of the region doing the "real work".

I want options, not religion. http://roboprogs.com/devel/2009.07.html -- OK, I happen to agree with this guy's post.
RE: Dropbox - just wait till you run out of space. I love their product, and I'm currently not paying. But trust me - when I finally run out of space (and I will!) I'll do it, no questions asked. They're giving me so much value already that I can't imagine living without them.
No one is sure about sticking it out with this company and I doubt any of the owners would want to put the time and money into becoming an investible entity. Without becoming an investible entity, I have no guarantee that I will receive anything - other than the written contract we sign, right?
Raising (and properly training) a dog is wonderful opportunity for the trainer. You'll practice patience, creativity, empathy, and the value of having a long-term plan. These are maybe not bad skills to develop as a hacker or startup founder.

That said, some of the most trainable dogs are the easiest to get into trouble with and I speak from experience. Most people probably don't have enough experience to gauge the effort or different ways to undertake a dog training program.

I recommend Karen Pryor's "Don't Shoot the Dog" for people interested in training philosophy. Be aware, there are rabid (sorry, couldn't resist) advocates for various dog training approaches online and they take great pleasure in destroying forums, online discussions, and generally making sure that only their viewpoint is "the one true way."
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From the comments:

Adrian @ 2010-08-18 02:28
@kurisu : That is one thing that I noticed recently too was the weight in grams per serving. If you divide 40 by 27 you get a ration of ~1.48 so take that and multiply by 120 calories in the Nabisco cookie and you end up with ~178 calories. So it changes the differences section slightly but they are still pretty close. Definitely agree, but like you say the point here is the human body is not meant to run on cookies. If these things were like $8.99/pack and marketed as an aid to a good diet this post would probably not exist(heck I’d probably buy a pack, I want some cookies), but the price is pretty crazy and their claim/directions are too.
I absolutely agree. I tried to get the my data into other formats by creating a RSS feed for the non-critical information. But the RSS feed you get is a joke. I still like their service very much.
Have it delivered there! Then go pick it up.
Trust me, the Chinese won't be buying Sushi.
It's even worse when your not following a fixed schedule and freelancing is the only constant going on in your life at the time. When I've had this I'd occasionally get up thinking I'll spend the day working, have my girlfriend come over and want to go out or something else come up and convince myself I can put things on hold to later/ tomorrow.

The other thing I find, working out of home, if I hit a tough coding/ design problem I tend to get distracted doing something else. Whereas working out of home I can stay focused and get it done.
Is it advertising or is it spam?
I think you have more accurately described the problem the article was trying to point out.
It's counterïntuitive to be physically present but mentally away, so it doesn't make emotional sense to your social circle to not help out when the need arises.

I don't think it's a good idea to disregard the basic fact that we're human for an extended period of time, we haven't adapted (yet) to support this unnatural state called 'work'.
...What's Wikileaks, again?
It's "democratic".

Every time someone uses the word "democrat" as an adjective, they reveal themselves to be more concerned with focus-group phrase mongering and tribal loyalty than attempting to understand the truth of the situation.

Ditto for "victim disarmament". This isn't 1984, and changing the phrasing doesn't change the facts or your argument. You're not a victim, and there have not been serious efforts at disarming anyone since the assault weapons bill was allowed to expire.
> Expect it to be every bit as geek-tastic as the Nexus One -- Google won't want to disappoint its early adopters.

I've got a G1 matey, so I'll be skipping this tablet after being lumbered with Android 1.6 until I get a new phone.
He said the revenue was remaining flat. That is the revenue was not increasing, so the core number of paid users was not increasing either.
What's the business model? Affiliate sales?
Yeah, but the Kindergarten cutoff mechanism is irrelevant -- the point is that if you group young kids by some system that's aligned with the calender year rather than their actual age, they're not really peers. You'd get the same effect if you group them by what year they were born in (i.e. used January 1st as the cutoff date).
A Glimpse Into the Strange World of Today's Digital Youth
I might actually go for it if that were the case. It'd have to be damn-good exporting, however - quite frankly, I don't trust them with my data, especially given their lack of export progress + claims. The company as a whole doesn't seem too trustworthy. I want a panic button.
Just seems a bit arbitrary to me.
maybe you aren't creating a compelling enough product to get a user demand that supports a 'freemium' biz model.

That sounds backwards to me. It seems that most web startups are not creating a compelling enough product to get people to pay for it. So instead, they are trying to get famous by giving it away for free and try to run the business on measly conversion rates until they can sell the money-sink to a big company.
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Is that a funny way of saying that you dont want to start a startup or that counts a real excuse for you?
Foxconn to Hire 400,000 China Workers Within a Year
Nationality, lack of respectable degree, being from one-parent family, a lot of stupid mistakes in the past, age. ^_^
This isn't how discrimination works in employment law. Discrimination is for the most part only relevant to those who fall under Protected Classes (age, gender, race etc). Political affiliation is not a protected class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class