skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they are playing on sunk costs as much $0.60 not feeling like really spending money.

If you've already bid a couple of times on an item, it makes sense to bid a few more at the end.

I can see how it could get addicting, and in that sense play on very similar emotions, etc of a casino. But that's not enough to fall under casino legislation.
Maintainability, Code Size & Code Complexity
s/anarchist/(anarcho-capitalist|right libertarian|Libertarian)/
Three tactics to speed company growth
This is good stuff :-) but .. s/Africa/rural Zambia/

I am from Somalia, and we're strictly a Redis country.
Wow, that opened my eyes! That use case didn't occur to me. I might have to add that to my box of treats, especially since I have apps on Heroku too.

(Love you really, Heroku).
It's worse than that.. there's all three of sales/use, income, and property.
The notion of competing again the browser developers is interesting.

Frankly, I haven't dug too deep into the economics of Firebug, but I hold the assumption that the project is not financially motivated. It's a typical open project where the developers' reward is the process of creative problem solving and also giving back to the community.

When financial reward is not the goal, my first thought would be to work with and not against the browser developers. There is a common goal so why not focus resources.

I'm glad that that is not the case because it is this competition, financial or not, that drives innovation.

I'm looking forward to learning more about the motivations behind FB since I use it almost daily. My preliminary quest didn't get too far since the footer link points to a parked (squatted) site.
If Apple acquired Spotify they could kiss those streaming contracts goodbye. There's no way the labels would risk handing even more power to Apple, paying only micropennies per play, when they're still kicking themselves over the near monopoly Apple grabbed the first time round.
page99test.com is gorgeous; who designed it?
Show HN: HN iGoogle gadget
Still in early development, but I made an HN iGoogle gadget (see http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&url=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/109361710563279833553/iHN.xml ) and wanted to get your feedback on:

1) How many people use iGoogle

2) What they use it for (news, social, etc.)

3) If an HN gadget is useful to you, what would you like to see added to the gadget I created

Thanks!
Ask HN: How many YC start-ups are already profitable?
How many of the YC start-ups funded are already profitable?
>> I have a project built in PHP (and CodeIgniter)
The Startup Diet (Lost 15 lbs while at an Incubator)
Was just reading about it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1835288
I made a list of crowdsourcing design sites, mainly logo and webdesign services:

http://binarymentalist.com/post/1378304988/design-crowdsourc...
Companies that have vast numbers of adjustable desks (e.g. Fog Creek [1]): How many developers use them in standing mode vs. sitting mode? Do many pick a mode and stick with it forever, or do they change it up throughout the day? And how many who are normally sedentary switch for a few days following a story like this on HN (or the hailstorm of similar stories on Lifehacker not too long ago)? :-P

Selfishly, my question can be boiled down to "build a standing desk or splurge on a GeekDesk?", but I am genuinely interested in how people use them long term.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMVeHFrgOpE
I've used PhoneGap to build an app not so long ago. I had a few early niggles getting it set up but those were mainly down to myself (I'd never used a Mac until then).

I did have to leave out a few features I would've liked due to it running too slow (same app rebuilt in Titanium is much faster) but overall it was a pleasant experience and the mailing list is very helpful & friendly.

The only things that pushed me to Titanium were the speed issues with the more complex stuff I was doing (perhaps my fault?) and the fact that Titanium enables you to use proper native widgets rather than simulating them with jqtouch or whatever - This was massive for me but no one in the real world has ever noticed :)
And it can't log in to HN (not, at least, through the built-in non-OpenID authentication)
As a programmer I've been trying to think of a way to do my own Offer HN or the like. The problem is that most programming projects are much broader in scope and there's a learning curve to learning my code for someone else who follows up. I'd be open to suggestions for how I could lend my programming knowledge to this phenomenon.
In my anecdotal experience, decreasing screen size has a significant impact on eye strain. I get the most train when I'm using the TV as a screen and the least on the iPhone. Well actually, the nook still has the least but the iPhone is negligible. Makes a fair amount of sense if the cause is due to excess light.
Er, I just signed up to page99test.com, and two "page 99's" in I think I'm hooked. This site isn't launched? Perhaps bloggergirl should do a "Review my startup" here on HN, because I already have feedback: I already want to read more than one page, and possible even buy the book, but can't...
Even TVs these days have better browsers than Windows Phone 7. It's not even funny.
Related:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442022 - Ask HN: What is your favorite TED talk? (644 days ago)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447418 - Ask HN: What's your favorite TED Talk? (128 days)
I feel bad for the thousands of kids (with well-meaning parents) that will get this under the tree instead of an iPad this Christmas.
Understanding and Writing Compilers [pdf]
By Richard Bornat who recovered copyright. http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/#vanitypublishing
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screenshot/blurb/feature boxes is becoming far too common
... and so, sales account managers around the country will be required to create company-owned LinkedIn proxy accounts to use the service, subject to strict contractual controls; "the LinkedIn account with your name and our company brand and title on it is the property of Foo Corporation and may be used only for Foo Corporation businesss".

5 years from now, someone on HN^2 writes a comment about those stupid company handbooks, and why can't people just run companies like Nordstrom's used to, where the handbook was only 75 words long.
Maybe that should be maybe HN is too big considering that this isn't its main purpose.
I am a hostgator dedicated customer too, and overall am happy. Here's some feedback on them.

Downside:

- You pay the same price for your hardware every year even though that same hardware gradually gets cheaper for new customers.

- I pay $50 a month extra for a RAID 1 controller. This seems pretty steep, although I guess I'll find out the true value of this once a disk dies.

The good:

- Hostgator is a down-to-earth company with pretty good customer service. They aren't trying to re-invent the hosting business model to reap giant returns. They do the basics and seem to have enough competent help to do this well.

- Several years ago I had shared hostgator server get hacked via an insecure wordpress install. Hostgator automatically alerted me to this.
Ahhh; I see that client list and leap to the assumption: "hellaciously expensive".
I don't think tinycc and llvm are even in the same league in terms of optimizations.

Tinycc is, well, tiny. You can get a working compiler just using syntax-directed translation schemes and it would compile any valid program. The output would even boot, but it would make baby-Muchnick cry.
The touchscreen LCD offers a good enough experience with books, specially with ease and speed of zoom (something e-paper is nasty at) and an order of magnitude better experience with web browsing while at a price that's half the iPad. Does it have 3G to go along with the wifi? Does it allow capacity expansion through an SD card?
First shots fired in cyberwar
Well... The T-1000 was transreflective. And the Data General One...
You're forgetting to -0x20 or -'0'.

I guess this must be soviet russia.
By Richard Bornat who recovered copyright. http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/#vanitypublishi...

I've always been curious about this book after seeing it well spoken of in a bibliography/reading list somewhere.
Quicksilver made OS X useful, for me. It's absolutely fantastic.
I think the issue is the community that grew around Digg was very spiteful in general and felt quite entitled. I don't think it was Digg's fault per say, but the entire community involvement angle made the user base feel they owned a part of the site and were entitled to have a say, rather than the reality in that they were using a service and being sold as eyeballs for advertising.

And considering digg is an open forum the loud people can be very loud.
Number of Teens in Fatal Crashes Plummets
As far as I know, not much.

Rooting the Nook is straightforward (at least the previous version of the original one) and all goes well from there.

AFAIK, B&N doesn't support developers and, last time I checked, appeared to have no plans to do so.
I don't know, I see where the author's coming from but I think pg really nailed this one. I don't see any signs that adoption of this thing will slow down, especially as new technologies make the thing cheaper, faster and better.

I really think that the author's opinion is antiquated in light of technological progress. I'd bet that we'll see this thing becoming as much a part of our lives as the other thing pg talked about in that essay.
An entire major in business -- more than just a handful of courses and books -- isn't particularly useful, and even if it is you can get an MBA well after graduation, as most MBAs do. I wouldn't spend time on it now. You're better off with tennis.

I sometimes wish I'd taken more economics courses than I did (which is to say: none whatsoever) but don't make the mistake of majoring in economics with the idea that it's kind of like business. That would be like studying reproductive biology because you really like kids. Economics is about constructing highly abstracted mathematical models of poorly understood phenomena. It has potentially difficult math in it, which makes it hard, which is good: Your college major should challenge you. But it's not about building things people want. Unless your definition of "people" is "other economists".

If you want to help build complex stuff (which is what many startups do) take courses which are about building things. CS is a fine thing. Any form of engineering is a fine thing. Courses which make you write or speak are a fine thing. Courses which emphasize data gathering and analytics -- statistics, sociology -- are a fine thing. And, since building stuff often requires knowing how it works, sciences are a good thing. I don't regret having taken the hardest science courses I could stand.

(It also turns out that it would have been a good idea to study art.)

But the sad truth, for those of us who loved school, is that formal schooling need not matter that much. Building things is as much about practice as theory. Go build a website right now, in PHP and MySQL on a Linux VPN in the cloud. Or download the Stanford course on iPhone development and build an app right now. Don't let school and sports become some kind of excuse, as if you needed some kind of prerequisite or badge or four-year degree to start building things. Start the habit today.
And use JPG rather than PNG--the compression is designed for stuff like this.
Yeah, they're called sequences in CL, and they're even user-extensible (on sbcl at least.)
Here's one example: I've found that in certain cases Chrome's debugger sometimes can't link back to the line number where an error is caused when that line is inside an anonymous function, whereas Firebug often can.

That said, I do most of my debugging in Chrome, only switching to Firefox/Firebug when they fail me, which isn't too often.
Thanks for the info. I wasn't being sarcastic, I just couldn't think of the term 'drafting chair'.
Thanks Ohashi for posting this (I can see from the Reddit thread you are the OP/subject of the thread).

However on a meta point to everyone: I don't see what value there is in starting another, semantically forked, conversation about a reddit thread over here on HN. Wouldn't it be best to keep the conversation over there for the benefit of everyone, including those Reddit'rs who don't read HN?
You have to give Heroku credit for selling major quantities of Kool Aid. They've been pretty flakey for the past couple of months, and people are here claiming that this is the first outage. Someone's even claiming that 99.7% is a good record.
Say someone has a site (blog or whatever) that has traffic, but few/no ads or other monetization. How do you estimate that site's value for resale purposes?
if it does have Android's stock browser, it may not be running Froyo/2.2 (which is needed for Flash support)
Because some of us are lazy and don't want to create Reddit accounts?
Whereabouts in the UK are you? Less than a year ago, in London, PHP was booming. The PHPLondon meetup was 10% recruiters.
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Perhaps, but maybe some HN'er doesn't want to make a reddit account, I don't want to exclude anyone, I'd prefer having everything in one place, but I will accommodate :)
Memory Latency Is The Real World Performance Killer
Thanks, I fixed the title--I don't know where the heck I got 16 from.
Maybe something like Wil Shipley's "Pimp My Code" series where he gives feedback to Cocoa programmers, but for your area of expertise, of course.

http://www.google.com/search?q=pimp+my+code+site%3Awilshiple...
The PlayStation Phone
Rose on Tail call optimization in Java JDK 8
It's not as hopeless with PayPal as it was in earlier years. Now you can get someone on the phone within a few minutes.
First I would look at the niche, is it something with a lot of monetization options and/or high paying opportunities?

If so, I can look at similar sites, I can look at PPC bids, affiliate programs/conversions. I could see if competitors with ads are selling and see what sort of price/value they are offering (also checkout their media kits if they offer to see what people are paying).

It makes a difference if you're selling a website or a domain alone though. Domain only gets complex because the nature of the traffic matters hugely. Changing things dramatically will lose search engine traffic if that's the major source (toys.com is a good example of this).
fish this response is inspiring. i appreciate this a lot. I admit to my fault that I let school and sports to be an excuse many times. I feel that I could get something going right now. Jeeze, all I need is a cup of caffeinated tea to start building things anyway.

Thanks for this. I appreciate it.
The E&O insurance I looked into getting when I moved into consulting would have covered it -- "lost sales" resulting from a "hardware or software malfunction." I assume if you start making recurring claims on that the insurance company will reevaluate whether they want to continue doing business with you, though.
George Soros Backs California Campaign to Legalize Pot
Could not agree more!!!! If you're a vimmy, be sure to add this friendly helper into your .vimrc

:set tabstop=4

:set shiftwidth=4

:set expandtab
Try Beatriz Lorenzo, she's an official at Spain's Human Rights office: beatriz.lorenzo@maec.es
"A rock exists. It is far away. You will never go to it." does not quite hit my care threshold. I love science fiction -- it makes extrasolar planets matter.
Comcast- NBCU Merger: Fear, Fact and Fiction
"Free Saeed" plastered all over Canadian government websites might get their attention, especially if followed by mailbombs.
I've thought about that. The problem is that I'm the first to admit I'm not a fantastic programmer. My strongest trait is just getting stuff done and getting code out the door.
Neat application.
I've looked at several competing services. I look for screen shots, videos, test accounts and finally a real account.

Just keep in mind that you don't want to be too focused on what your competition is doing. Its ok to check them out, but focus on your customers. They are the ones that really matter.
Any improvement is worthy of praise, that doesn't make the person worthy of praise. You don't just get to pretend the past didn't happen and the people you hurt don't exist. Some things are unforgivable and nothing can ever make up for it; ever.

Yes, people change and grow, that doesn't mean you get to leave your past behind and pretend it never happened. You murder someone, you're a murderer forever, not just until you realize it was wrong.

> There is no good and evil, only people with different motives.

I don't agree, though I'd never use the words good and evil, I'd use right and wrong and some things are objectively wrong.

> If you've never grown up wondering where you're going to live next week or where your next meal is going to come from, then you can't understand the thinking of someone who has, and you're in no place to judge their actions.

I did grow up that way, and I am in a place to state my opinion on their actions.
Totally agree. I would love to have a laptop that has an e-ink screen (color or not); as long as the refresh rate was normal. Backlit displays cause too much eyestrain.

Every chance I get I browse the web on my Kindle - even though the browser sucks + refresh rate sucks; at least my eyes are comfortable. I'm already staring at a laptop coding ~18 hours a day.
Wow - the site freezes my Chromium (nightly) tab for it. Never had that happen before for websites - only plugin-related issues. Guess that is what you get for using spankin' new features!
U.S. Companies Hoarding Almost $1 Trillion in Cash
No ... companies that have merit tend to get the attention they deserve. If not immediately, eventually. As for the community, anybody who contributes is much more likely to get attention in the long-run.

Also, what is the "excess inventory" that you are referring to?

A submission to hacker news is a pitch to the community ... the community will vote up anything that has merit ... that was the point of the community in the first place!
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You really want to argue that security system salespeople are terrorists? Really?
Just an FYI: my blog (see profile) seems to have busted your iframe. :) The code I'm using (not included in <head>):

if(top.location!=self.location)top.location.replace(self.location);

For what it's worth, it's "diggbar"-style garbage that I added that to thwart, and as much as I like your interface, I'm going to be leaving the iframe-buster in place.

Edit: it looks like A List Apart's feed also breaks, likely for a similar reason.

And I'll have to admit, the more I'm using this, the more I'm liking it.
I discovered the post via here :) don't hate me but I don't browse reddit, only navigate there from other places (primarily here)
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Physics for Lazy Game Developers
I feel like I just completed a mini-course in writing web copy.
Blog post announcing the same: http://skookum.com/blog/simple-game-physics-barcampclt/
It's now generally accepted [1] that C code is faster than all but the most carefully handcrafted assembly. How did that happen? C compilers got "sufficiently smart".

Extrapolating, I posit that high-level languages will one day be faster than C, because of the additional implementation freedom they afford.

Consider maps. In C, there is no built-in map. I have to write one myself. So I choose an algorithm (a hash-table, say) and implement it. The compiler is then forced to do exactly what I asked for... But then, I wonder: would a binary tree be faster?

Write, profile, debug, iterate ... Most of the time, that isn't done. Performance suffers.

Now consider maps in Python. When I write d = {2:1, 3:3}, what algorithm does Python choose? It may use any data structure it wants. And indeed, it already has some heuristics to efficiently handle the most common usage patterns. Conceivably, it could silently try many different data-structures, profile the result, and choose the best one, JIT-style.

Python will one day be faster than "all but the most carefully-crafted C code".

[1] But to be honest, I don't know how true that is.
Startup Quote: Richard Branson, chairman, Virgin Group
Seems low on Zinc, Calcium, B12.

Even if you're a vegan you should consider Oysters. They are the most concentrated natural source of Zinc, do not have a central nervous system, and oyster farming actually helps clean the environment. Diets that are mainly vegetarian have too high of a copper to zinc ratio, so Oysters are a good way to offset this.

Also sardines are a really good, cheap source of Omega3 fatty acids, Calcium, Vitamin D, and B12, which also all might be low in such a diet. Also unlike much larger fish such as tuna, they contain much lower levels of Mercury and other heavy metals and are much more likely to be sustainably fished.
I'm thinking of offering to help someone create a weekend project, if they can design but not program or whatever. I've been looking for a small project to do (no longer than a weekend) to familiarise myself with AppEngine, but I don't know what sort of uptake this would have, in a community of programmers.
Android emulator development should pick up real fast after this is released...
When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

- Richard Branson (@richardbranson)
How opinionated are they?

A novice programmer probably doesn't have enough experience to create any informed opinion.

A slightly experienced programmer is probably very opinionated about his tools.

A very experienced programmer knows there are trade-offs in every choice and isn't so passionate about voicing his specific opinions on the choice between 2 similar duck-typed programming languages.
I'm sorry, do you know how I grew up? No, I didn't think so. Growing up in Brooklyn is not an excuse for bad behavior, nor did he have it particularly rough.
Yes. There's a strategy of "gradual engagement": http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1128 (HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1774007) gives some specific ideas on implementing it - and some impressive results.

Basically, don't require more info from the user than you need right now. An example is you can read HN/reddit without an account - but if you want to vote/submit/comment, you need an account (and that's all: email etc is optional).

Although you might really want signups, and so it seems to makes sense to get them ASAP, the counter-productive result is that people don't go further. I didn't; the GP didn't - and that's even after the wonderful publicity here on HN. You've got to make it as adoptable as possible.
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Looks great.

However, the login/registration does not allow the '+' symbol in email addresses.
B&N opens preorders for $250 color Nook, not Mirasol unfortunately.
What about '99th page'? 99thpage.com doesn't appear to be taken.
Wow, that's amazing.

bloggergirl, you need to write and sell an ebook on web copy. Marketed correctly (and I have no doubts that you'd be able to), you'd make tens of thousands of dollars at the least. I mean, a $20 or even $25 ebook on web copy that will increase my conversion rate? Incredible value prop. I'd buy it.