skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Price high. Better yet - price ridiculously high.

At $25 a month, you are creating the limit of your market size at $1.5MM. If $1.5MM isn't enough for you, you're nailing your own coffin shut. You will never exceed that limit unless there is a sudden influx in businesses to the niche or you drastically change your product - neither are very feasible or ideal situations.

I read somewhere that you should set your price as high as you can without breaking out in laughter. Almost a ludicrous concept at first glance, but ponder this: to your market, that ridiculously high price might be actually seem ridiculously low for the value that your product adds to their business.

So instead of $25/mo, price your product st $250/mo. If your market sees the value in your product, it will sell - and your $1.5MM cap becomes $15MM instantaneously. If your market doesn't see the value in the product, adjust pricing accordingly so that the price matches the value. After all, it is relatively easy to lower prices, but nearly impossible to raise them.

Final thought - consider perceived value. The price itself speaks value to some. A low price might say "We are new to the business and don't really know what we're doing. The biggest benefit we offer is that we are less expensive than your current solution, but we might not be able to offer you the best service in the world." A high price might say "We're serious and we're here to stay. Though we not be the cheapest solution, our service vastly exceeds that of our competitors, ultimately improving your business."
You ever hear of a publication called Congressional Quarterly? Extremely niche market: people willing to pay out the ass for the best and fastest coverage of everything (and I mean everything) related to Capitol Hill. Government employees, contractors, lobbyists, and oh, you know, 95% of Congress because they're just that good.

They offer a large number of even smaller niche services; you're sort of expected to make your own bundle of subscriptions that apply to you. But as you may guess by their name, their flagship publication is the quarterly one. Yeah, their big moneymaker is published just four times a year.

You know how much CQ charges for their services? Hint: this is their subscription page: http://corporate.cqrollcall.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=79 Yes, that's like 30 different phone numbers you're looking at. No, they don't let you subscribe online.

When that happens, you're either dealing with someone living in the stone age or a hyper-niche publication that everybody who's anybody in the world of Federal politics subscribes to, despite its absurd pricetag (e.g., four figures for a one-year sub to just Quarterly). That subscription isn't a status symbol, it's a necessity. Their livelihood depends on the information Congressional Quarterly provides.

It doesn't matter how small your market is. If your product is only of value to a slight fraction of the population, then make it so good they can't live without it. And charge out the ass for it.
LuaJIT 2.00 calls "C" functions a bit slower than reference lua or luajit 1.00. Mike Pall explained that in the newsgroup, if I'm not wrong. But the idea with LuaJIT is to use "C" much less.
Alan Rutledge, one of the study's authors is on Quora if anyone wants to ask him about the study: http://www.quora.com/Alan-Rutledge
Since you're calling it the English plug, I should mention that they also use it in Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.
No reason except that, unless your blog is aimed at the early adopter crowd, people would go "chrome what?" and go away.
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This doesn't contradict what you said but: you can change what country you live in.
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That is quite dangerous, as it is unfused.
Electrons are a lot smaller than protons. Why wouldn't they go through the membrane?
> That is, Novell looks like it's going to be acquired and there seems to be no reason for the purchaser to continue with Mono

Contrary to other "open-source" projects, Mono has a very active (albeit small) community behind it. Right now there are very active contributors that aren't working for Novell.

Also, making a parallel with another active project, JRuby, its leader quit Sun/Oracle but it is still working on JRuby ... and I've been watching Miguel's commitment and enthusiasm about Mono ever since the start, and it has only grown since then.

It's a totally uncertain future for Mono.

Yeah, because whatever platform you're using is so much safer.

The patents grant by Microsoft also includes supersets (contrary to Java SE implementations), and the ECMA standard you have to implement is rather small, also making it suitable for mobile phones (MonoTouch falls under that community promise, even though it ships with a fraction of what is known as .NET)

It's also an open-source project that doesn't fall under the GPL trap ... yeah, I said it. The class libraries are MIT X11, the runtime is LGPL, it is appropriate for embedding in commercial deployments right now.

If commercial support is dropped, it can live on.

Get over it!
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I think this mostly has to do with the 'Batteries -not- included' approach of Lua.

This is mainly done to keep the language/vm compact and embeddable, yet what it leads to is many similar implementations of modules that do not play well together.
Why empty callback on 'connect'? It will go to event loop for every client, and yet do nothing of value.
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The "pillars of creation" image does not contain x-ray data, I believe you misread something out of that wiki article in believing so. The particular image is not true color, but it's also not just a photoshop job, it represents a very real view of the Eagle nebula, just not one your human eyes could see.

For an actual true color (for humans) image of the Eagle nebula, try this:
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It can spawn child processes:

http://nodejs.org/api.html#child-processes-89
http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2010/07/14/multi-node-concurrent...
No analysis necessary, getting hit in the head is bad for your health/concentration.
You wouldn't just see black, you'd see a different set of colors, generally more muted than the false-color pictures from telescopes.
ruby startup speed is most annoying on windows. jruby is not a fix for this issue by design.
Wow - thanks for this summary. I hadn't heard a rundown like this before. That sounds great - I might give Lua a go!
Is a new Upoc upon us?

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_39/b3700106.htm
Good point. I inherited this design flaw from the snippet he posted on his blog.
It largely depends on your goals and also the work required to develop & run this startup. You wouldn't have to get too many of those businesses signed up to earn a full time salary.

Take a look at http://www.softwarebyrob.com, which is all about micropreneurial software businesses (basically targeting very small niches) - his book Start Small, Stay Small is interesting reading. Patrick McKenzie's (or patio11 on this site) Bingo Card Creator would be another good example (http://www.kalzumeus.com/).
Have you tried Highcharts? It seems a lot faster than Raphael.
The title is a bit overdramatic given the actual situation.

One team detected has produced evidence of a particular planet, another team has attempted to corroborate that evidence and could not, though their instruments are not sensitive enough to rule out said planet. And thus we await more data.

This is a tempest in a teapot.
How does that value proposition hold up for a B-grade
C# with patchy coverage of the forms et cetera

Comparing it to other open-source projects (Ruby MRI, Rubinius, Python, Pypy, Unladen Swallow, Perl 5, Perl 6, Ocaml) ... Mono is actually pretty solid and usable right now with good performance characteristics.

The generational GC took a long time to get developed, yes, but at least it does have a beta quality generational GC that you can use right now (compared to the alternatives) + Mono 2.8 also ships with a beta-quality JITer based on LLVM.

And about B-grade Windows Forms ... because you know, Swing is so much better than just porting the UI layer to WinForms / GTK# / MonoMac (Cocoa) and providing a native experience.
Can you give some better idea of why you're charging so little? The general rule of thumb is that the more niche/vertical you get, the higher the price (since cost is obviously being distributed over a much smaller client base.)

My (growing and profitable) company is in a market of roughly comparable size; I'd be happy to compare notes offline since you seem to want to maintain a low profile.
Well we don't know without analysis... Health concerns are mostly long-term, and there's no definitive answer on how much getting hit in the head is required for permanent brain damage. Re: concentration, I'm even less convinced; maybe it's not the getting hit that is bad for concentration but the switch between mental/physical activity. Or maybe concentration improves with more adrenaline.
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Why does everything have to be a billion dollar market? I would be quite happy to capture one third of a $1.5m/year market (provided that one person would be enough to do all the necessary work). If nothing else, that would fund me while I work on other more interesting or more lucrative things (obviously I would be hiring someone to do the small niche job after it was going).
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But then you'd have some of the population calling themselves a collection of humyn.

Back on topic: I still find both 'nerd' and 'geek' to be offensive. Although I don't find "geek chic" to be offensive... probably because it has never been associated negatively - it has always been a label for a particular style, which in itself carries no meaning.
There is a certain ELO rating required to participate; can anyone familiar with chess tell me how difficult it is to reach this level? Is it something an amateur can fairly easily obtain or does it really require significant talent and/or study?
The mainstream press cares more about the terminology they use for describing terrorists than they do about the words they use for security researchers.
Mixi (the most popular social networking site in Japan) has had this feature since the beginning and it certainly changes how people use the site.

Actually a year or two ago they finally added the ability to delete your tracks after viewing someone else's profile. I think you can only delete 5 per day though, so you still can't stalk on Mixi all day without any trace.
Just curious, why do you believe that Spotify doesn't make any money for anyone?
Point A comes from the fear that their children will turn gay because they have a gay person in their life. (Which would imply that children become janitors just because they have janitors around them...)
But for point B, is there scientific evidence for it?
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I think you have conceded my point against using Mono
for a startup i.e. there is a real chance you are going
to incur future costs of an unknown size.

And do you think that those (possible/unknown) patents that might apply to Mono cannot be used against whatever platform you're using?

Think again ... at least one of the Oracle patents (IANAL, but have been reading the independent claims) applies to any VM that starts interpreting code before doing compiling, which applies to many tracing compilers (from my understanding, LuaJIT, JavascriptCore are good examples).

You think you're safe, think again.
Since they're inferring the (non-)existence of the planet by observing the motion of the star... that wouldn't matter.
This type of article on the front page makes me not want to read HN anymore. Yes, it is slightly interesting, but how does this apply to hacking or entrepreneurs at all? It is just a basic physics problem. I fail to see any value added to the HN community.
Project time is always billable. Sales time is not - although (of course) sales time costs have to be recovered and must form a part of your project hourly rates.

I would worry about a customer who does not understand this basic business concept - "there is no such thing as a free lunch".
Does ARPANET mean anything to you? Without ARPANET, it's quite possible we wouldn't have the massive growth that has resulted from an open internet that doesn't discriminate packets. Would you have preferred Telcos (or other "private endeavors") designing the internet protocols with proprietary standards and full control over every packet (or lack thereof if they had had their way)? Yes, entrepreneurs have redefined the internet, but both complement each other very well and without one, you can't have the other.
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Good point.

Well, let's do some projection on the IT, because I think it's somewhat better known for most of us here.

How many good women programmers do you know? Do you remember them because they're exceptionally good or because they're women? If you believe my statement that they're "dramatically underrepresented in IT" (if you don't, I'll have to bring in some statistics like [1]), is it because they're:

a) less suitable for IT jobs (for whatever reason)
b) don't tend to like IT
c) b) because of a)
d) a) because of b)
e) strongly abused at IT work [2]
f) not their fault, employer's

Given that I don't believe that IT guys are aggressive towards women, I am left with five options. f) is probable but I thought USA was an example of sex tolerance and stuff. So I am left with statements a) to d) with d) being my argument of choice.

There was an interesting insight on the subject of gender differences in [3] and some not-statistically-worthy-but-probably-scientifically-correct proof of the fact that women's brains are wired differently than men's.

Now back to military, cooking and teaching. There is a reason why women were "dramatically underrepresented" in military in Paleolithic era. If you pick most animal communities the male species are generally the defenders, the warriors, the aggressors. I believe that to be hard-wired to the brain. I admit that point about endurance is probably not valid, my bad, but women still can't run kilometers with full equipment on them. There was another point with totally anecdotal evidence: women-only teams work worse than men-only teams in my experience. Is it because males tend to be ultra-competitive and better team players? I think so.

Teaching. Now don't get me wrong, I admit that mothers have really great positive impact on their children, but I also think that in school and universities the teachers should be mostly men, at least for the "male audience". Boys need an authority, an example, a leader.

Cooking. I guess that's most controversial of three, because there shouldn't be any hard prerequisites for chef that women cannot meet. Yet they're "dramatically underrepresented" for one reason or other.

This is a long comment already, but the core idea is that in a good company you shouldn't be afraid to express your opinion, even if it doesn't have some fundamental research base behind it. There's nothing wrong in being wrong. It's wrong to be wrong and not admit it.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Csbachelors.jp... -- data is somewhat old but it shows the proportion. Believe me, percentages are even worse for Russia (probably because Russia is overwhelmingly sexist)

[2] Which makes me think of http://asset.soup.io/asset/1056/5293_e98d_500.gif

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646105
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The story I've always heard about this is that as you grow older, your immune system becomes less active in defending your teeth, and so you have to correspondingly brush more often to maintain teeth health. So if you're brushing the same amount as you were as a teenager, you will get more cavities. I don't have a citation though.
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No definitive answer? Surely there are plenty of boxing champions and football players for data on this.
Ah so thats whats up. I was wondering why I had heard/seen so little of mixergy on HN recently.

Now that you talk about it, I've actually watched very few of the live interviews but I think the live interviews due to the time sensitivity would hit the #1 story quite often and thus kept mixergy's name fresh in my mind.
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Visualization: Guy-to-girl ratio of foursquare/gowalla/facebook checkins for every bar, restaurant and other random location in SF/NYC frequented by foursquare/gowalla/facebook places users who remember to check in.

There are so many baises in there about the only solid fact you can take away from any of this is the relative popularity of locations with people who feel the need to broadcast their location.
Question: Are you looking for an angel investor, or has one approached you?

If you are looking for one and have no contacts then I don't think there is really an answer to your question, but somewhere close to zero.

However if someone has approached you then that is a different question. I've talked about ideas in the past and had people ask me about investment. The way I value that is if I am going to work the next five years at startup levels of stress and hours I value my income at US$200,000 a year. So five years (commitment I would assess putting into it) x 200K is $1,000,000. Then it is up the investor as to what percentage they are after. So 10% means I would want them to invest around $100K.

That all needs to be balanced by your level of experience, financial expectations, how much you need the money - and how likely you perceive the potential to accept the concept.
No it definitely wasn't that - I had to go to an "official" dentist who had a look as well (I forget which obscure branch of the UK civil service they belonged to).
OMGPOP started as iminlikewithyou.com

if that helps piece together the tangled history :)
I think "Ludic fallacy" might be a more accurate fallacy to cite.

The Ludic fallacy refers to making predictions based on past events, even though the probability of future outcomes includes variables not contained in the past dataset.
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It's not that much in all honesty, but then again, I already have a place to meetup (at Meetup, which also provides us beer and regular drinks). All in all it's probably about 5 hours a month, in addition to about an hour total for setup and teardown the day of the event.

But, this of course would be a hell of a lot more stressful and time consuming if I had to beg for a place to host it that can hold 40-50 people, and find sponsors to get drinks and things.

Also, I can't imagine how much harder it would be if I wasn't using Meetup. Now, I work there, so you might think "Oh, he's just promoting his product" but, it has been instrumental in my success so far. It's worked well for promotion (there are emails that go out for topic alert lists, and we're often a "trending" meetup due to RSVP patterns), as well as member management, and communication. I ask people to talk about what they'd like to present as part of the RSVP process, for instance. And, if we needed to pay for a venue, or food, or something else, charging people $5 to RSVP is dirt simple to do and collect, manage etc from Meetup. (Sorry for the shameless promotion, but as an organizer, it really does work)

That said, there are certainly successful groups in NYC that have a standing meetup once a month, that aren't run via Meetup--just Google Groups, so it's certainly possible to do. It depends on the group who you're attracting, etc.
I agree, but you have to admit that this type of article has alot _MORE_ to do with HN than some of the other crap, errr..stuff that's been posted and subsequently voted up. HN is becoming mainstream very fast.
Kilimanjaro, what do you do for a living?

Just curios, because if it is anything remotely similar to selling commercial products or closed web-services (as most developers here do), you can't talk about trapping users or about the virtues of free-software with a straight face: that's called a double standard.

And most people that do that (according to surveys I've seen) are either still in highschool/college or just hypocrites ... with the occasional "real deal" that manages to live off consulting for open-source development (core project devs mostly) and writing books / training.

So which is it?
I don't mind the group getting bigger--that means a larger pool of projects, and a larger variety of presenters. But, if I only have space for 50 people, and 50 "leechers" RSVP before I have 7 presenters, that's a problem. Sure, they could be there because they are curious and, like I mentioned, even be contributors in some way (maybe they brought 4 of their friends from their CS program or something), but at that point we don't have a show.

Maybe the term "leecher" isn't a good fit for what I'm talking about, but that's the basic problem. We ultimately need some percentage of people willing to present that have interesting projects, or the group can't survive.
HN is not just about hacking and entrepreneurs, it's about anything interesting.

I found it mildly interesting, not interesting enough to upvote, but a bit - it had a tip on an interesting piece of software too (Tracker Video analysis). Obviously other people found it a bit more interesting, there's nothing wrong with that.

The title is a bit cheating though, since I thought it was about actual birds, not a game.
If I googled it correctly, elo 1800 is required. I'd say with average chess talent, it can take about 4-5 years of regular study and competitive play to reach 1800. So taking your description, it's something between...but hard to quantify since how quickly one advances in chess play levels is highly individual.
True indeed.
It's like homeopathy. No analysis necessary, it's just works, you know.
I doubt it's skin effect. More likely to be a safety margin so that it doesn't risk overheating.
I love the timer which claps at the end of five minutes :) Great way to get round that awkward 'Oh, it is finished? Should I clap now?' moment.
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I just skimmed opentracker's sources (they're surprisingly small, < 5K LOC of clean C). Not sure why ocelot wasn't based off of opentracker.

One possibility is that (as I understand it,) What.cd is a "private" torrent tracker -- meaning they have a ratio for each user that they need to keep track of. Opentracker doesn't seem have anything to support this and up until the very end, no one at What.cd seemed to be comfortable writing C, let alone C++ for ocelot.
If you want to raise Venture Capital, and are looking for a big exit then it's a problem.

If you are hoping to create a lifestyle business (and I mean this in the best way - I own a lifestyle business!) then it's not a problem at all. As others have mentioned, you can make a great niche business. Furthermore, the skills and experience you gain will be a great platform for expanding into another business. You've created the ideal software for pet shops? Well, expand to fruit stores.
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