skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget the awesome recent and upcoming changes:
http://dipinsi.de/post/1166448458/things-they-wont-tell-you-...
You're absolutely right, segmenting the market and choosing one niche over another is great strategy. I wanted to point it out from the perspective of a "beginner" for one reason: lots of people won't move the blog after it gets started out of fear/inertia.
Excellent points - this is why I love HN, it's a great place to have an intelligent discussion.
*Visual* Git Cheatsheet
How do you know if the app requests access to your friends? Even if FB warns you about this behavior (I dont think it does) how can you trust that they won't change their policy in the future without alerting you?
Well, that's another way to do it.

;)
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Ask HN: Does anyone else want to know who is downvoting you and why?
I often wonder, who is it that is down-voting my comments and I would imagine it's probably mostly the same handful of people. I think anonymity contributes to this and encourages people to down-vote without any consequences.
Sometimes I'll have a comment where for no reason it gets down-voted almost immediately only to be up-voted back to its baseline (1) later. I realize a lot of people here think down-voting is a way of showing disagreement, but how about the times you get down-voted for asking a question in a thread? It makes no sense! It stifles the conversation and does nothing to further the discussion. It may be taboo to bring this up but sheesh someone should. I really think we should be able to see who is down-voting us so those who down-voting without reason can at least be known.

An example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1733897
Anyone care to explain?
Dark, dark day for the Valley :(
I agree with both of you. To borrow your analogy, they're like Rice Crispies and Mini-Wheats. Depending on your point of view, they're the same (wheat products consumed for breakfast with milk) or different (a frosted cereal in big chunks, versus a puffed rice kernel that snaps and crackles).
>Neither the current C and C++ language standards provide any support whatsoever for concurrent programming.

They're not supposed to. They're systems programming languages. When you're writing a kernel or embedded software, having the language mandate some kind of concurrency model at the standards level is nonsensical.

I wasn't linking decades to DragonflyBSD, I was saying that the techniques and methods have been known and used for decades.

The original point, restated here for clarity is this.

Go was supposed to be a new-age systems programming language. Its current design (mandated concurrency model and global GC) preclude that from ever happening without fundamental changes.

Rust has a better chance of becoming the next systems programming language.

I don't know what your niche or corner of the realm of software is, but I get the feeling you're commenting on a field you have no substantial experience in.

It's evident to anybody with any real experience or wisdom concerning software that having choices like concurrency made for you at the language-level narrow the scope of usefulness for that particular language and pretty much precludes it from being a top-grade choice for embedded/systems development.

Example:

Were it not for the glut of hardware performance and memory capacity improvements in smartphones, Dalvik/java would've been impractical at best on Android. It's still a vastly inferior experience compared to the iPhone, which is obj-c with optional drop-down to C/C++.

And don't mention the NDK for Android, it's a bad joke.

Bootstrapping a runtime for a language that depends on a particular concurrency model irrespective of the problem at hand is stupid beyond my faculty for describing with words.

tl;dr good luck using Go for hard real-time systems.

Why do you think C++ achieved popularity so quickly? It was pliable to the demands of the problem being solved just like C at the expense of complexity.
Grammar errors litter the page.

It should probably be broken down into sub pages instead of going on forever on the first page.

Show me what payment methods you accept on your form.

Make the form higher up on the page. Why give people the option to leave by making them scroll through all the junky content?

Remove the amazon ad, it takes away from your credibility.
True, that was mostly certainly historical relativism on my part. Maybe in 100 years people will look back on patent lawsuits similarly... but i doubt it
I'd argue that freemium works best when the "premium" part has value for the user. But, making money (i.e. directly contributing to revenue/profit) is just one way to have value. Saving time is another.

So, I pay DropBox not because it helps me make money, but because it's worth the savings in time and frustration trying to come up with an alternative.

Many of the most popular freemium products have a price point that is low enough that large numbers of people can easily justify the price, if they actually use the product.
You can register for Quora with a Twitter account. You can also disconnect your FB or Twitter account after registration.
Nicholas Negroponte: Don't Dissect the Frog, Build It (1994)
It likely auto-generates one and sends it to your email.

This is a good lesson on usability if you (I assume pretty internet-literate) are thrown by this. Very important to note this error.
IMO, the quality of MG Siegler's writing is barely a step up from content farms.
A light flat object is going to slow down _drastically_ in air. This has nothing at all to do with build quality, and everything to do with the fact that it probably floated lightly to earth, and then maybe skidded a bit.
I think he's trying to sell the case. So that's the answer.
Why does a price have to be monetary in nature? I'm sure that, were it entirely up to Steve, there is something that would make him sell Apple.
I have to agreed, it confused me as well a few weeks ago.

When I have a task or goal in mind on a site the last thing I want to do is tinker and figure out your new way to log in.
I don't understand how this is distinct from PHP's competition. Python is "apt-get install python" — two extra characters are not going to break even the greenest noob's back.
The young thrive while the old are overwhelmed because the young are more successfully discriminating. I caught myself slowing down my typing and pausing between words to give myself more time to scan the instant results. I think that's the "old" reaction -- new technology slows you down.

I suspect the "young" reaction to Google Instant would be, "That flickery thing Google does before it shows my results? I'm supposed to read that? I don't have time for that. If I ever type that slow, just kill me, because I don't ever want to be that old."
True, but completely missing the point of the comment you're responding to.
I don't agree with this. If you're writing something that's http-only, then this might be true, since that's relatively easy (get data, push data). But if you write anything else, require custom protocols and thinking about state machines implementing specific behaviour with retries and reliable timeouts... "easy to learn" language, is the last thing you're worried about.
I think more often than not I'd like to know why rather than who...
DataSift - Tuning the Social Web (real-time firehose filtering)
Ask HN: Please review my homepage. - http://thewillcreator.com
I previously asked HN to review my startup thewillcreator.com. I got some constructive feedback regarding how I could improve my homepage. I've implemented some of those suggestions and would like more feedback. Thanks. This community is awesome.

http://thewillcreator.com
How exportable is YCombinator? Much of YCombinator depends on people being in the same geography. I understand that to be the reason why founders are required to move to Mountain View.

Do you think it would be possible to start YCombinator prime elsewhere in the country? If we put together many of the same factors, angels, infrastructure, good mentors, could this be replicated, albeit on a smaller scale?
Since he never said anything about Ruby on Rails and he was talking about languages rather than web app frameworks, I'm pretty sure he meant Ruby.
I did.

I haven't logged int uservoice in a few months. So I was half guessing at my e-mail address and username.

Normally, when I don't remember, the error prompts on the log in page will indicate if I'm trying the wrong creds. Then I can try another set of creds.

But on this form, instead of telling me my creds didn't match anyone, it registered a new account with the e-mail address and username I entered and auto-sent me an e-mail welcoming me to uservoice. Ugh.

I tried it again with a different e-mail address, this time it matched the e-mail address against one in its DB and changed the username field into a password field before I could enter something into the username field. I took this change as an indicate that I'd found the proper e-mail address, entered in my password and was logged in. The whole experience was confusing and annoying though, almost as bad as the whole OpenID click-hear-go-to-another-site-read-some-legal-stuff-click-there-go-back-to-original site UX disaster.
More about DataSift:

http://blog.datasift.net/interview-with-robert-scoble-discus... (Video Interview by Scoble)
I would like to know both. If it's the same person over and over again then fine you basically have some person who decided they don't like you for whatever reason. But what bugs me the most is when you get down-voted and no one even replies to disagree, have some courage people.

See what I mean, apparently the first rule about down-voting is not to mention down-voting. Get a life you cowards who can't even reply.
I agree. I'm not sure if the "replacement" will be a single technology or merely a standardized interface for hooking up web applications on a host.
Agreed. I think this is a way to make some money and work out the kinks of QNX-as-a-phone-OS.

Also, if this thing was 3G in addition to wifi, a lot of people would ditch their BBs in favour a PlayBook. As it is, I can't see this generation being a big hit. Kind of hope it is though.
This is from the author, Brian Wang. If you look in the comments you will see that Locklin replied on my site. He did not address the fact that funding was not provided but just said that my article was increasing his faith in the US government for choosing not to fund molecular nanotech. As for my authority, I do not say believe me because of my background or my certifications. I provide the logical connections and historical facts which are not dependent upon authority. As for how much I know about molecular nanotechnology. I have lectured at the Singularity university twice on the subject but the nature of the lecture was to provide a review of the latest developments in the field. I show that I am current what is happening by writing 99% of the articles on the website nextbigfuture. There are a few hundred articles on nanotechnology and a few dozen on molecular nanotechnology. I believe that I am qualified as a scientific journalist who covers advanced technology and proposed advanced technology. I had the link to Locklin's site until he would not engage in a reasoned discussion. He did not publish any of my comments on his site and if you look at his article and discussion thread on his site you will see that the level of discussion is one of flamewars. Frankly he just annoys me.

As for Smalley. There have been mechanosynthesis experiments which have broken and made covalent bonds. So anyone who claims there is a scientific flaw in the concepts of mechanosynthesis needs to address this evidence. Also, Smalley promised rocking chair carbon nanotubes for transforming the electrical grid. But tens of millions have been spent there and there has not been one commercial watt transmitted with carbon nanotubes. I am aware that there is slow progress but there are huge gaps between what Smalley promised back in 1995 and what has been done. I was also present when Smalley was giving a talk at one of the Foresight conferences and said that within a year he would be creating carbon nanotubes so long that they would be spooled onto a spindle. Meters long. It was about 13 years later that anything approaching that length was produced and it was done by Windel at Cambridge and only for a few strands. Of course Smalley died but it was not Rice University.

This is just to show that Smalley (nobel prize winner) and his authority does not make him immune from being wrong. So neither does any authority claimed by Locklin. And I do not expect any authority from me to make a case. I expect facts and logic to make the case.

currently there is a project by Philip Moriarty in the UK to try and prove the computational chemistry work of Merkle and Freitas. There has been a delay getting the equipment and the perfectly smooth surface acquired. the equipment took a little over a year and is there now but as of a conversation with Merkle and Freitas a few months ago, they indicated that Moriarty indicated the atomically smooth surface was holding up the main experimentation.
Interesting point. I'll think about this more in depth. I can't say I'm convinced yet, but there are certainly persuasive arguments in your favor.
The logo doesn't seem to fit the style of the rest of the website

The Start now font is a little hard to read (and seems to be your third font in the first part of the page)

Pricing is a small link at the bottom of the page, this should be more apparent (otherwise you might be accused of bait and switch)

The footer -

The information provided on theWillCreator.com is not legal advice, but general information only. theWillCreator.com is not a law firm and is not a substitute for an attorney. theWillCreator.com cannot provide legal advice and can only provide informational services.

Worries me... so this Will is not a legal document? what am I actually paying for..
Suggested post #1: candid thoughts on why I still work for people dumber than me, and my plan for changing this. (It isn't wrong to not have a business, but if you aren't starting today, have a good reason for it. "I like eating" is a good reason. "gtg WoW raid" got radically less persuasive after I thought about it for a while.)
Is Warren Buffet About to pull out of Chinese Automaker BYD?
That's the thing, though. They're not in the fight. They're still in the locker room putting their socks on.
I think I'd still rather have a Notion Ink Adam (http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-notion-ink-adam-prot...). It's supposed to be coming out Q4 this year, and has a pixelQi screen (combines the best qualities of e-ink and LCD). iPad like price and form factor, runs android, what's not to like?

But then again I already have a Nexus One, so I've clearly drunk the Android kool-aid.
Sorry to see them go. I've been using their extension in Firefox since the beginning and it has always performed exceptionally well while synchronizing thousands of bookmarks.
Thank you for this feedback. I'll make the pricing page more prominent and change the "start now" font to match the rest of the page.
Who keeps giving AOL money???
I think StackOverflow is Knowledge-Management.It facilitates the collection of expert's knowledge from all over the world, stores it, rates it, allows others to search on it and comment/correct/elaborate on it. But at the moment it is a push-model - someone has to ask a question first and the experts reply to it.
He's said before that he's fairly tired (it was a bit of a tempest in a teakettle when he said this... right around the time he moved north).

http://www.businessinsider.com/techcrunch-editor-arrington-h...

""It has been five years, and I can tell you, I am ready," he said."
You are being too kind.
Any one have a link to a video showing an actual Qwiki-created video?
I'm constantly make WRONG searches now with Google Instant. Based on habit, I type my searches quickly and hit enter. However, with Instant, the Auto Complete isn't able to catch up and I end up selecting an outdated incorrect SUGGESTED query instead of my ACTUAL search query.

Google Instant actually slows me down since I have to wait for the Auto Complete to catch up.
I really hope they will. The Android market has so many problems Google just doesn't seem to care about, because they would be really easy to solve (better sorting, more payment options/allow more countries to buy/sell apps). Competition can only be good.
I think this is exactly the point he is missing. I find it annoying/distracting, and disabled it after a couple of days... but I don't think it's a feature aimed at people who run their own technology blog.

Picture people who hunt and peck their search query one painstaking key at a time, and finally look up at the screen in triumph once they're done... now the search results are already waiting for them.
The Will is a legally compliant document. However, we cannot offer legal advice and must clearly state that. We did use the help of a lawyer to draft the Will, but since we are not a lawyer or a law firm we cannot give out legal advice.
China: The Glorious Housing Bubble Perpetual Engine
I think there good business in helping other people make money, or at least attempt to make money.
Normally I don't do "I agree" comments but given how downvoted the parent comment is (-4 at the time of me writing this), I am going to make an exception.

Disregarding the technicalities (Mr. Jobs owns only a small part of Apple's shares) the parent has a point in that if you're happy with what you're doing, no, if you love what you're doing and have financial stability already so that you don't need to worry about money, ceteris paribus, you might not want to sell your business. It might not make you any happier or your life any more meaningful. Of course, if you feel like doing something new, then it makes sense.
Electric Car Runs 170 Miles On Single Charge--And It's 98 Years Old
HP Has No Plans to License WebOS
I don't know since when hugeurl is around, but I built http://maul.ubermutant.net/ in 2004 as a joke on TinyURL, without knowing hugeurl or anything like it. Surprisingly, it seems to still work ;)
Habbo Notícias - A batalha vai começar
How often do those situations happen (ie- take money from a low quality individual or close the doors)? Startup sucess rattes are very low as a whole, so it seems as if there may be a culture of "vulture" investors in SV to prey on entrepreneurs who just need cash. It'd be good to know the warning signs.
ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Tomorrow (Tuesday)
I've used sprinkle in the past when I first started out with Rails. It was way too complex and broke too many times. One of the reason for ezror was to make the process a lot simpler. ezror asks for just 6 things and it takes care of the rest for you. Takes about 20-30mins tops.
(I would hope that) AOL should know enough to identify what makes something like TechCrunch successful. If they start filling it with shammy writing and mediocre content, it will lose its audience and die.

[edit- grammar]
Yep, Amazon Launching Their Own App Store For Android Too
Just an observation: Techcrunch for page rank with high-end electronics reviews bolted on would give your neighborhood SEO enough money to buy his soul back, twice. Try convincing an external MBA that that is off the table.
Is AOL buying Techcrunch?
Intuit, GE Executives Trade Notes On Innovation And Acquisitions
> Companies should really learn from Apple. When you announce a new product; have it ready to ship within in the month.

Just like the iPad was announced in late January to ship in April, right?
Best sentence in there: "Perhaps that’s when the announcement is likely to be made." :) Om must be pretty pleased to be able to post this news about a competitor.
I'd like to know more about the details of the bill, but as presented in this article I think it's a very bad idea indeed.
Summary of Om Malik story from September 27:
* AOL is on the verge of acquiring TechCrunch.
* The deal is at a sensitive stage and might fall apart yet, but I don’t think so.
* Sources familiar with both entities says that the announcement is likely to come onstage at Disrupt, TechCrunch’s flagship conference currently underway in San Francisco.
* AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is likely to make an appearance at the conference, and perhaps that’s when the announcement is likely to be made.
* AOL in the past had acquired Weblogs Inc., the blogging company behind popular sites such as Engadget. Those blogs have helped AOL compensate for steep loss of traffic. The service has been in the market to buy a technology blog, and is rumored to have been linked with other technology blogs.
I agree. I think it's silly that RIM says their playbook will be 7", but cost the same as an ipad.
Smaller, but not cheaper? I'm not sure that's going to make things easier for the poor salespeople in the shops trying to sell these.
Does anyone know if there are any premade projects or gems for rails that include support for Twitter OAuth, Facebook OAuth, Opensocial OAuth and your own authorization system?
OneTrueFan Is The Foursquare For Websites
here's my problem with google instant + suggest

type "maple" into google. don't click enter yet.
your eyes then wander down the results, wondering wait, what's all this "maplestory" stuff? I typed in maple. you then finally realize to click enter to only get results related to "maple", and not "maplestory"

Sure, my mind will get used to it, but I'm not really crazy about suggest being the first result. And you're not saving yourself a click or type of the enter key in that case.
No one was convinced 10" was the right size for the iPad before it was announced, came out, and people liked the experience.

I'm hearing a lot of positive feedback about the 7" Galaxy Tab. Have you used a 7" tablet?
How to work with imperfections in RSS 2.0
Vacant Stares
How to: Out Yourself for Buying Links
sucks to have this ending after all your efforts. Xmarks was a great product. Hats off to you and your team and good luck in your next adventure.
Those dates don't say what you're claiming. They say that PHP development started at most a year after Ruby was "conceived of" ("December 1993" could be as little as one day before something that happened in "1994"), and PHP/FI 1.0 was released before Ruby .95.

Also, I'm not sure comparing languages by when somebody started toying with the first prototypes is very meaningful. You could say Clojure is decades old by viewing Lisp as a prototype.
Not exactly - if we're going to have a counter-example, we should have a valid one (e.g. a privately owned company, since it's self-evident that every public company does have its sale price).

Maybe Facebook a few years back?
Send them a link to this thread
you will eventually alienate 'the next Zynga'

One can only hope.
On page 11 of the paper I reference above Spielman makes the following statement:

"The most obvious way that sparsification can accelerate the solution of linear equations is by replacing the problem of solving systems in dense matrices by
the problem of solving systems in sparse matrices. Recall that the Conjugate Gradient, used as a direct solver, can solve systems in n-dimensional matrices with m non-zero entries in time O(mn). So, if we could find a graph H with O(n) nonzero entries that was even a 1-approximation of G, then we could quickly solve systems in LG by using the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient with LH as the
preconditioner, and solving the systems in LH by the Conjugate Gradient. Each solve in H would then take time O(n^2), and the number of iterations of the PCG
required to get an ǫ-accurate solution would be O(log ǫ−1). So, the total complexity would be O((m + n^2) log ǫ−1)."

I'm not really sure how you get O(n) 1-approximations of G (or even really what a 1-approximation is yet, as I haven't really read the paper), but that seems to be the idea, I think.
Arrington's timing on breaking angelgate was impeccable - likely sweetened, or at least helped seal the deal at the 11th hour.