skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it's a trade off, I didn't deny that. I see it just like (micro) optimizations: in some cases it's worth doing it, in others it's not.

Regarding the size of DLLs, some of them are indeed small, but others have a couple of megabytes, e.g. XUL (from Mozilla Firefox), Qt, GTK+. Multiply this with the number of applications and it can be come an issue if you have a slow Internet connection.
Ask HN: Rate My Startup, Sprred
Almost - he is faking the love them part and people know it (even if they try not to think about it), which is why he makes $7500/month and not the trillion he would have made if he could actually make them loved.
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On a related note, a few years back I conceived of and actually launched a website called (roughly) $5 Business Ideas.com

The idea was to spend a few minutes on each and write 100-150 words the would constitute a half-baked business idea.

Never had the time to devote to it, and I left the company where it was spawned but I still think it has a legitimate place in the market.

As we always say here at HN, it's not the idea that's worth so much, it's the execution.

Another related side note, Fiverr appears to still be around: http://www.fiverr.com/
Anyone with the money and will to tangle with Paypal has the clout to get enough attention to make Paypal change their mind.
Give the man some time, he's only been at it for less than 30 days.
I suppose I could ask this separately, but what is everyone's favorite distro?
That's actually really clever, that way he gets to make more money with the same amount of effort.
this would be an incidental, to me. perhaps it would be annoying, but i don't feel like it would necessarily impact his actual work.
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...... It was a quote from The Simpsons.

You know, a funny joke? Haha?

WOOSH.
I think the answer to that is a 'yes' but it should come from her boyfriend, not from an anonymous stranger, but even so just the gesture of a thing like that might be a net positive.

Nothing beats the attention a real live human being can give you though.
I wonder what someone's legal recourse is in a situation like this. I mean what gives Paypal the right to claim 'suspicious activity, your money is ours' without having to provide some kind of evidence.

And IF something is a legitimate case of fraud, aren't they required to simply freeze the assets and turn the account holder over to the appropriate authorities ?

It's hard to imagine that this type of due process can be waived simply by having agreed to certain terms & conditions.
How do you know somebody didn't pay me to do that?
Seems it's Facebook's shortening url, perhaps for tracking?
The fact that it is on the list at all is enough. Buffalo, with all due respect, is a hole.
Now that is really smart!

But you could end up in a chatroulette style situation pdq too.
Man, that article certainly is ungrateful. Broadcom does something we can all accept as "good", and kragil's response is "it's about time"?
We moved into the Colo when Twiddla got accepted into the SXSW Interactive Awards. Good thing too, because we won our category, got written up by every major tech blog simultaneously, and spent a few days dealing with 1000 pageviews per second. This was before EC2 came out with Windows instances, so the machine was pretty much on its own. Today if the same thing happened, we could spin up a dozen EC2 boxes to deal with the spike.

That one box handled the load remarkably well, especially considering that I hadn't done much backend optimization at all, and that we were still persisting every single message to the database. It went a long way towards solidifying my faith in the MS stack, and making me scratch my head whenever I see somebody's blog fall over from a minor HackerNewsing.

As to S3stat, it runs on EC2 m1.small instances. Towards the end of the month, when each bucket takes longer to process, we'll step up the number of workers we fire up each night, and occasionally pull in a few c1.medium instances to speed things along.

It's a fun architecture, and I've been meaning to write it up for a while now. It uses six distinct AWS offerings to do its thing.
The good:
[+] really like the minimalist interface, very clean
[+] easy to signup and start using

The bad:
[+] On Firefox 3.6, Windows XP (work computer) I can't see the upload button for photos
[+] link upload sucessfull, text and photos no. Didn't have a video.

Overall:
Nice site but who would use it? Are you targeting bloggers?
Tumblr and even Blogger provide me a lot more e.g. do you even support HTML tags and java script?

What is your competitive advantage? Why would I use this over the multitude of other products with better features? How would you monitize this?
OurDoings, http://ourdoings.com/ the photo site designed for your memories, is implemented in Kawa Scheme.
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Yep, a new project, Black Market:

http://www.bigblockgames.com

Beta coming in a few days.

And yes, nearly as many failed projects as released projects!
I've had this happen to me with $50K and it wasn't 'lies or made up' in that case, I suspect most of them are much like mine.

You realize you're up against a giant in a foreign country that says they'll release your funds in 6 months time. So rather than spend 50 K on American lawyers and end up with nothing even if you win you grit your teeth and get on with your job vowing to never use the service again. And they did pay out after 6 months.

In my case I've not even managed to stand by my vow because I had to pay a few people using paypal. But I'm no longer accepting paypal payments myself and I would advise everybody to keep their account balances as low as possible.
I'd love to see every 5th response Rick Roll the user, but that's just me.
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I'm surprised he writes selling yourself sounds almost noble. To me it sounds literally like prostitution.
Now this is what it is supposed to look like...
But I think that it is down to technique rather than the cameras.

This guy lays out most of the obstacles with the process in a very short comment:
1. Maintain consistent depth of field between two cameras by using separate Neutral Density filters for each camera
2. Spend time tweaking your luma keys for each video stream.

People that work on lighting crews should be getting nervous right about now.
This is incredible
He was recently visiting Bethesda, Valve & Bungie - seems like "friends" are already learning :)
A night of drinking is an experience as well. It may not be a 'new' experience, but it still is. Blowing a fifty on a pair of socks is another story.
Yes I do. A simple gesture like that. She would like. Think of it like a $10.00 set of roses. I think she would very much appreciate the gesture. Most women like it when you show that your thinking about them.

On another note, I talk to her every night and say shes beautiful. So whats another gesture telling her shes awesome.
Here's what I have done for my most recent project, I have abstracted work units of any generic project and drilled down into probably components.

I have taken three major groups: System, testing, support. Each of these will change the timeline and cost of the project. Support is an after-delivery agreement, they may want testing, or run into problems that I have the answer for. This is also the cost of producing the manual.

There is testing, I estimate this system should be tested over 5 days with different stresses.

The system is broken into hardware and software groups. Hardware expenses are quite obvious: networking, connecting devices, the server/machine it runs on. Your needs may be greater if you are in the hardware world, but all professional projects I'm involved in are software-based.

The software is broken into the OS configuration, tools related to the platform (like setting up Apache), and the application we are creating. The application will be composed of logic and storage.

The logic will require specific things such as a framework, a UI, system inputs, and debugging. The storage exists of either a DB design, a flat file design, and any reporting requirements.

I found it best to draw the above as a hierarchy. I then estimate time for each seperate component, and if there's something I don't know how to estimate I need to clear it up.

The difference? My "geek estimate" (as posted by frossie) was about two weeks, and after doing this above method, it actually is looking like 2 months and 2 weeks of time. I built the time requirements using a gantt chart.
Thanks for the feedback!

I'll look into the bugs you mentioned.

The advantage is, it helps you create a complete profile with full-fledged Photostream, Videostream and profile info, unlike tumblr and blogger.
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So is Farmville. One of the biggest motivators in those sorts of games is the comparison bar at the bottom that shows your level and that of your friends. Notice that is in every Flash map-based game on Facebook.
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I'm not a driver author, but I'd hazard a guess that the source for a Linux driver is a lot easier to port to BSD than the binary.
You've almost got it.

Now think: How come for certain people, whenever Castro comes up we hear about how he was/is some exaggerated monster yet those people don't actually seem concerned about Latin Americans or any other monsters in Latin American history?
You wouldn't need apples seal of approval though, would you?

All you'd need is a web page with the flash app embedded in it.

I really wonder how much of apples anti-flash stance is due to the fact that it would allow instant bypass of the app store and another way to get apps on the iphone.

The whole battery life and user experience argument is nonsense, if a user wants or needs something they should simply get it.
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I have been coding in .NET since it was introduced. While these are nice improvements for the .NET platform overall, I cringe at how much more code you have to write to do simple things compared to langues like Ruby and Python.
http://blog.yafla.com/Flash_on_Android_Slightly_Better_Than_...

Many web sites rely upon hover, don't operate with touch, and demand a keyboard. Most canvas demos (all the rage right now) make the highest of the high end smartphone absolutely beg for mercy, with a miserable experience that can choke a high end PC.

Once every website is infected with heavily dynamic, non-segregated HTML5 ads, experiences will slow to a crawl.

Nonetheless, I'd rather have the option of using the web than to have someone else tell me what's good for me using worst examples. Every justification used to try to pretend that Jobs' Flash embargo is good for consumers is just as applicable to web applications.

I have Flash on my Android phone and I quite enjoy it, as, it seems, do most Android owners so equipped. It's far from a perfect experience, but it has come in very handy in a pinch many times.

It strangely seems to be a lot of iPhone owners telling us how poor of an experience it provides.
A good example of Closed and Open integration
Since the question refers to a developer (a special category of employees) the answer is a strong "Yes".
Some say bypassing a higher education is smarter than paying for a degree
(Yes, it does. You should install it.)
Hope that finally makes them wake up to the new world! Nokia is one of the poster childs of a successful corporate giant missing the famous 'clue train' completely. Would like to see some really open handsets/mobile OSses to boot.
Unless you want a job in Academia. College is still a big barrier for many professions, and probably the only way you will have adequate training for those professions.

Also, I would not give a 18 year old $10,000 to start a business. You need at least some training or experience working before you head out on your own. If I had $10,000 I would give it to him only if I saw he had a real plan.
> The two were married on July 26, 2008, at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Taipei. During the reception, Gou mounted the stage, shed his tuxedo jacket, and did 30 pushups to prove his virility. Nine months and four days later, Delia gave birth to a daughter, Hsiao-ru.

That gave me a chuckle.
That's tough... How much would it cost to a college lab to duplicate some of his results?
Bookmarked. Nice project.
From the comment here http://vimeo.com/12828140 it looks as if this guy isn't even using a beam splitter, just two wide angle lenses.

I think that most of the magic in this technique is in the luma keys. (duh...)
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I knew this was coming when I didn't elaborate on my response, but I don't really see what the parent was trying to get at. Apple uses Foxconn/Hon Hai because they are the biggest and the best at mass manufacturing consumer electronics. Foxconn is the only EMS company with the scale to depress supply chain costs to a point where they can actually make money on tiny margin products (like cell phones, mp3 players, and even PCs[1]). I am 100% sure the tooling debate arose during the planning phase, and I'm also 100% sure that it's in both Foxconn's and Apple's best interest for Apple not to have to go elsewhere. At the end of the day, a machinery investment like this isn't just going to support the iPhone contract (though it will be used by Foxconn in future negotiations, I'm sure), but other similar business they win. Here's another tidbit: Foxconn doesn't use Fuji pick & place machines. Anecdotally I've heard it's because Fuji is a Japanese company, and since there's a viable non-Japanese alternative -- Siemens[2] -- there's no need to use Fuji. However, what Foxconn did was negotiate an exclusive contract with Siemens so that they'd have the exclusive manufacturing contract for Siemens Siplace line and in return they'd commit to only using the Siemens equipment themselves. At their scale -- thousands of SMT lines, with each machine costing in the $250k range, this saves many millions each year.

I work in this industry and am happy to answer any questions about electronics manufacturing.

[1] Taiwanese companies like Quanta and Compal are excelling at laptop design and manufacturing, and in some cases Acer and Asus still build their own products, but almost all of it is outsourced to Quanta & Compal.
[2] http://ea.automation.siemens.com/11116/Products/Placement-Sy...
Supposing it was New York Time, sure something quite unimaginable, but supposing this web host decides to terminate their contract and no other host in the country would provide them with a hosting service, would that be an infringement of freedom of speech?

Perhaps if we view it from the perspective of the black letter of the law, that is the constitution, the highest law of that country, it might not be an infringement. However freedom of speech goes beyond the constitution, it is a principle ingrained in our society and culture.

To address your differences between private and public, a newspaper of course has no obligation to give him space in their platform, nor the television, but the internet is different. The former two are selective, the internet is free for all. If private bodies are able to go around policing the kind of content that is to be found on the net, the difference between them and the government is a mere technicality.
Is this really news?

So what your trying to tell me is that thieves are opportunistic and dishonest? Imagine that.
From World Health Organization, 1999 for "selected rural & urban areas", the suicide rate is 13.0 (male) 14.8 (female) suicide per 100,000. Wolfram Alpha shows 20.9 suicide per 100,000 persons per year. Both looks pretti high compared to other countries.
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicider...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=china+suicide+rate
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As I said somewhere buried in this thread, it's not fair to say Farmville isn't fun. It is only fair to say Farmville isn't fun for you. It is fun to many people. Not me FWIW (I live next to farms) but I've put a lot of time and effort into figuring out why, and I at least get it.

There's more than strict compulsion, though compulsion is present in every fun game as well. Compulsion is simply operant conditioning, and this happens as surely in golf, chess, or Scrabble as it does Farmville.

It is important to distinguish between Facebook games and social games. Social games are massive, innovative, and at least one is orders of magnitude more successful than Farmville.

Facebook games have severe technological limitations (web and Flash are still, right now, quite limiting, making something as immersive as WoW far from possible). They have clear-cut incentives both coming down from Facebook (API, platform rules) and coming up from customers (as you mentioned, their attention span is low, largely because they're at work).
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It's like Bruce's ant farm through the mail service... "Wait a minute! You mean I can fill out this post card and they'll actually mail a real, live ant farm to the address I write down! This is awesome."

Citation - I replied: "What's really interesting is that these people will send a tube of live ants to anyone you tell them to."

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_m...
Better than what I should ask when. When the time is appropriate. When I feel like of it.
Writing: "The easiest way to share your entire content." is not a good sentence. Better option: "The easiest way to share all your content."

From a glance, I don't understand what the product does. From reading the boxes below, I kind of get that I can post by email, and some other stuff, but I still don't really get it.

"More than a blog" -> so you provide a blog service with easy crossposting? I'm trying to understand the service, not easy.

"Create a complete profile" -> So I can create some kind of Facebook-like profile?

You need to improve the writing on the front page a lot, try to find a way to better explain it. Don't try to explain every feature on the homepage, but search for the one main thing that you are awesome/different at, and explain that. Good luck.
Yes, for instance WorldPay and others, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2556/whats-the-best-onlin...

You'll usually have to pay monthly fees, and some will keep your money for some weeks before they release them, to cover for chargebacks. But as mentioned earlier, as soon as you have enough sales to cover the cost, switch to something other than PayPal. NEVER let it become your only source of income.
What do you mean by "Complete profile"? What is that?
So you call most of the people who've ever claimed to have a problem with PayPal liars (unsurprisingly no less) and the nearest thing to a citation you provide for this claim is an anecdote and some naive pop legal analysis about "if they were bad they would get shut down!"?

Stay classy.

EDIT: Fixed faulty word selection.
edit (recovered because parent deleted their comment):

> citricsquid wrote:
> And you're in the "legitimate claims" part, like I said. What's the story behind your problem, why did they take your $50k?

endedit.

To this day I haven't a friggin' clue. We were in their beta program when they started with batched money requests, we helped them debug their stuff and came with a bunch of helpful suggestions. We had over 30% of our customers using the paypay monthly money request to renew and had a whole pile of back-end stuff to handle the details.

boom one day to the next our account is frozen. But, and this is the juicy part, outstanding money requests were still being honoured and the money was taken from the users accounts when they tried to pay us.

So, from the users point of view they had paid and wanted service, from our point of view we did not receive the funds. Of course we realized the users couldn't help that so we gave them service anyway and only got their payment 6 months later. If PayPal would have at least stopped transferring money in to that account we could have made a different arrangement with those users for that month (fortunately this only affected the 'running' month for which money requests had been made).

Not a single person at paypal ever thought it worth their time to tell us why our account had been frozen.

I realize wallet systems are hard, that there are lots of people that will flock to a system like that in order to defraud it and so on. But when you're that close with a customer that has been in your pilot program and you freeze their assets and stonewall then you have a bunch of issues in your company that need taking care of.

PayPal, and by extension their parent company Ebay, sucks.

Re. Ebay, I alerted them recently to a bunch of guys that moved from Africa to London that are on their dutch auction site (yes, it's that complicated) using ripped images and fake details on vehicles and they're still at it, again, no response whatsoever.

I think that plenty of people are in the 'legitimate' claims part, and I'm giving you an illustration why we don't bother fighting. Personally I recognize too many elements in most of those stories to chalk them up to being bogus, what do those people have to gain from claiming paypal froze their accounts for no reason.

On my end there is nothing to gain, it's just another experience with a large company.
Print version, no ads, single page, faster loading:

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Thanks, these are really good suggestions!
Just a note, the title reflects the opinion of the author, not me. I have no opinion on the matter, but thought a counterpoint was useful.
toast76, rdrimmie, jon_dahl and ketanb, thanks for the advice.
Italo Calvino and his "Six Memos for the next millennium" should be a must-read for every developer/entrepreneur

He speaks about literature but I personally see the Memos having a lot in common with how to make a lean startup.

They are:

1. Lightness
2. Quickness
3. Exactitude
4. Visibility
5. Multiplicity
I think I mean complete 'personal website' here. With all your content and information.
We know, however as there is no other simple option -
you just have to use it and pray/hope it does not happen to you.
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To me it looks a bit like a heretical preacher (e.g.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus )
being burned at the stake. I think the connection is pretty obvious and i find it strange that they designed the logo like that.
If you knew him, or knew people who have had personal relationships with him, you'd understand why this is a reasonable lead-in.
The comparison to OSX's Spotlight isn't entirely fair - it's more akin to Google's QSB, Launchbar, or of course the venerable Quicksilver.
Nice link!
A house that I own.
Overall it does look nice and kind of feels like a mix of Tumblr and Posterous.

Not sure if you asking for advice, so feel free to ignore.

IMO, it feels like you are trying to hard to compete on features. For me, a better approach (ie, one that would pull me away from the other services) would be to focus on usability and simplicity.

Examples:

Uploads - Why not just one screen? (note: Upload Text definitely tripped me up since my first though was "I have to upload a file")

Tags/Future post dates - not features folks really need (IMO of course :)

After Posting - I would expect to see my content right away. Instead I have to click around to find it

Viewing my Sprred - Not sure why there is a home and blog tab. Feels like there should be a single tab

Name - I will never be able to say check me out on Sprred out loud without spelling it.

Apologies if this this overly negative. It is generally easier to pick out things you don't like.