skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What to expect? 
Guys,

We are about to release a web app, that targets small business. Yes, another one... but turned out to be a great product. We will be doing a "phased" release targeting different channels and integrations to services.

I am sure you guys have the experience of what to expect in terms of users that will sign up to the web app.

We will be doing some marketing as we have some budget but will work basically on viral strategies we have in place. I know that it varies a lot based on who posts about the app, etc but taking everything to normal, in terms of traffic, posts, banner ads, etc. Normal is keyword here. What should we expect in 12 months? 20 users, 100 users, 500 users, 1000 users?

It is a stupid question, I know, but any guidance or numbers from other apps that you know?

Price will average the 30-50/month.

Apps like flowr, blinksale, bantamlive, indinero etc as examples. Do you know how many users they are averaging?

Any insight will be much appreciated!

Thank you
I've heard it phrased as "money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy options."
You're probably familiar with the case of Henrietta Lacks. Do you happen to know how these things are handled abroad?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=31337
All very good points. Thank-you all for your feedback.
LabSlice | http://LabSlice.com

LabSlice allows you to create demos, evaluations and training environments that are stored in the cloud and can be easily shared. Deploy either thick or thin client applications that your customers can load, tweak and play with in just a matter of minutes.

We offer 1 month of free access, but can extend to 6 months to HN users (just request on contact form on our site to get this enabled).

Help from HN:

1) Our solution uses Amazon EC2 as a backend. This causes problems for those not familiar with EC2 or without their Access Keys being readily available. Should we bite the bullet and use our own Access Keys for 1 month trial environments?

2) The product is very much targeted at the enterprise market. What's the best way to reach such a group without the high costs of direct engagement with a salesperson at the customer's permises?
I think they are obsessing unnecessarily on the semantics of what "development genes" are.

I strongly doubt there is a bright line separating developmental genes from normal steady-state genes. A multicellular organism is one hugely complicated, parallel, state machine. If certain states become unreachable, that doesn't necessarily mean all the genes responsible for those states are no longer doing anything.
Definitely -- I can't imagine the 3000', as the most air I've ever had beneath me was about 250'.

Let everyone know when you do it!
Should You Hire Your Family To Work For You?
Bah I am totally doing this, motivation begin!
Nexus One vs. G2 vs. MyTouch HD: The Big Decision | MobileLuv
Watch/read the final comments that Stewart made towards the end of the rally to understand.
+1 million. She's still aging, she's just not developing

(by aging I mean the kind that kills you. Being an adult does not kill you; being old does.)
Offer HN: PHP/C/C++ Coding
I've decided to give this a go. I'm not sure the Offer HN paradigm extends well to programming but I figure I'll give it a shot.

Who I am: I'm a wannabe/aspiring entrepreneur. My start-up is waiting on our application to Twitter for fire hose access before we can launch. I am also the lead developer at B5Media (www.b5media.com), one of the world's largest blog networks.

What I am good at: PHP, especially Wordpress. I know Wordpress code like the back of my hand. I am also very good at plug-in reviews and security after having the privilege of working with Mark Jaquith while he was with B5. I am also quite good at going from mock-up (PSD or the like) to a working website with XHTML, CSS, jQuery, etc.

Outside of PHP, I am also decent with C/C++ on Linux/Unix server stuff and Windows (though it's been a while).

I feel my biggest advantage is getting code shipped. I dropped out of CS in third year (and was never a good student anyways) and am not particularly strong on the theory side of things. I pride myself on building quickly and iterating rapidly.

While I wait on a response from Twitter I am open to doing some small items (bug fixes, HTMLing, etc.). If you're interested, e-mail me at terry@icedteapowered.com or leave a comment here if you have questions. I hope to see and work on some exciting things.

Note: I also always love bouncing ideas around. If you want to talk start-up ideas or programming bugs out with me, e-mail or Skype me (ternaryworks).
Nice strategy. If a customer doesn't give your products fair consideration, sue them. There's no doubt Google has a very strong cloud product, one that's superior to Microsoft's in certain scenarios. But to start a lawsuit over this seems kind of extreme. Not the strategy of a "don't be evil" company.
Maybe we should have a policy of not interrogating people who carry live ammunition on planes or returning from countries known to harbor terrorists because no real terrorist would be so inept.
Announcing reposurgeon – a tool for the good new days
Great idea. I look forward to pushing hard for the next month with you guys.
How is that an argument against the article?

Most accidents do happen between 35 and 75 mph. So most of the energy of the road safety agencies should be directed at making roads where people travel at those speeds safer.

This is what the study is intended to demonstrate: that the harm caused by alcohol is so much greater than the harm caused by Ecstasy, that alcohol should get a whole lot more attention than Ecstasy.

How stupid would it be to focus all our energies on regulating race tracks where people are allowed to drive above 130mph, "which are so much more dangerous than 35mph"? This is what our drug policy is doing... focusing on the 180mph roads even though most of the accidents are happening on the "safe" 30mph roads.
Is this sarcasm? It sounds completely unreasonable to me.
On a side note - veni vidi@vici.tv? Well played.
And to iOS as a whole? I'd bet those numbers aren't as tilted toward Android.
Ken Perlin produced a number of these systems; http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/ (check under pen input)
I said to a friend of mine, girls like a man in uniform because you think we're all interchangeable anyway.

Nah, she said, it's just because men in uniform are clean and employed.
I wasn't really interviewing for a specific position. They reached out to me and I thought it would be interesting to see what they would offer. I did two interviews, but didn't take it any further than that. I mentioned I was good at front end stuff which was why I was asked the CSS question.
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), which Nutt used, is a tool for decision making, not something "sophisticated" to generate scientific evidence!

I have not read the papper, but informing public policy ("decision making") seems to be what this study is trying to do.
I think this is a great idea. I'm only 1/2 through the interview, but it seems like it's inspired by things Amazon Fresh, etc.

What does <demographic> hate to do? Shop for food, shop for boring types of clothes.
Wanted to add that we're working on support for Parallels and VMWare Fusion.
It's interesting that they include Blackhat SEO techniques on the list. I'm fairly certain that you could get more than $3133.7 for interesting vulnerabilities on the Blackhat side.

What is interesting is that the base value is higher than what I've seen for XSS vulnerabilities being traded in the past. It'd be interesting to see what effect this has on the vulnerability marketplace.
About a week before my contract for my job in New York City was up, I decided to take the plunge and try my hand in landing some work in the Bay Area. In less than a week, I had been contacted by four companies here, and was offered a position by one of them, which I accepted. I asked them to give me three weeks to be able to move - This meant selling whatever I couldn't afford to move, flying out here to find an apartment and preparing to start a totally new life by myself. They had no problem with that, and let me know that if I needed more time, that I could let them know.

I'd say you should start approaching companies about a solid month before you're going to move here. That should give you enough time to find a good fit, enough time for your new employer to prepare for you, and enough time to for you to begin preparing for the long move. Best of luck!
GAs are not pure hill climbers. Variation operators introduce new solutions into the population at random.

In searching for non-obvious solutions a GA is no better, probably even worse than an exhaustive search. You are essentially gambling to find the absolute maxima by increasing the mutation rate and population variance. GA is merely a heuristic to speed up searches by assuming the global solution is close to your randomly seeded population, something which is unlikely to be true in non-obvious solutions.

Let's say you increase the mutation rate to the point where you are guaranteed find the "non-obvious solution". Well then you've essentially just created an insanely inefficient exhaustive search.

This is a tautology that states "the harder a problem it is, the harder it is.

No. For example in an exhaustive search, the obviousness of a strategy has no bearing on whether or not it would more likely be found.
Not to mention the main reasons Al Qaeda doesn't like us seems to be to our support of Israel and our lack of action on global warming. I'm sure they don't like the way we treat Muslims in the airport, but it doesn't seem to be a big source of terror attacks.
Interesting. I always thought that living beings age just because they were programmed to do so, because that's how the genetic algorithm works I guess.
Interesting, and I hope that we can learn from her condition.

However, I wouldn't call it "immortality" until she's 70 and has the body and development of a teenager. Unfortunately, unless that happens, it's just a rather sad medical condition. Even if we can learn from it.
I didn't mean to sound like I was being skeptical about ramps. Ramps make the most sense, especially the enormous three mile ones that lead right to the top level of the pyramid being built. I love big ramps made of dirt!

Egyptians also used the "build an earthen ramp to get the heavy stuff up, then clear the dirt away after you're done" strategy to build their ridiculously awesome temples. Any History Channel fan knows that.
NASA Team Has Plan to Send a Robot to the Moon
Sorry, you're right. To a layman, though, a "bullet" usually means the whole shebang.
You're missing the point. There's questioning, and then there's questioning. What these officers were doing was not "questioning", it was berating. They were just trying to act like sheriffs from an old Western.
If they really wanted to question him, they would have done so gently, by gaining his trust and slowly loosening his lips.

This is why the FBI is dead against torture (I know, this was not torture by any sense of the word) : it doesn't give them anything of value. On the other hand, they have had huge successes by winning the suspect's trust and letting him talk.
Android devices outselling iOS by 2:1 in US (q3)
The contract was for Microsoft's cloud products. Not locally hosted Exchange.
It's interesting that you mention wanting someone to implement the "core concept" more effectively, because I think that one of the biggest problems with Wave was that it didn't have a well-defined core concept. It was billed as the Next Big Thing, the replacement for email and instant messaging and everything else, but it wasn't particularly good at doing any of them, and nobody had any real idea of what it was supposed to be doing. "Do everything well" is a pretty problematic core concept.

I do think that something can be a subset of Wave's functionality and still be useful (I use Flowdock[0] every day, and wrote GitChat[1] for Rails Rumble, and both are essentially web-based persistent chat applications). However, I'm unsure if Wave's codebase is the best place to start. It's very hard to apply a new (much narrower) focus on top of an existing project than it is to start from scratch.

[0] http://flowdock.com/ (Persistent chat with searchable tags, uploads, and some other useful features.)

[1] http://gitchat.com/ (Flowdock-inspired persistent chat for open-source GitHub projects. Originally developed for Rails Rumble, and we haven't had a chance to work on it since, so it's still very buggy. It will definitely be stabilized/improved at some point though.)
Uncheck the autozoom checkbox to keep the same perspective.
Hawking doesn't have a learning disability
Looks fun. Simplify the page though.

1. Use a real picture for the male/female on landing page.

2. Watch your kerning. On the guys_ladies.png the text could use some adjusting. (and the first instance of 'For' should be lowercase)

3. Remove the "Risk Free". I can't find the article, but I've read, and would agree, those labels lower one's trust in a site.

4. A stat breakdown of "your ladies" undermines trust even more. That is not "meeting the ladies" but getting to know their demographics.

The idea is interesting, and I imagine the market could be good for it. How do you see incentivizing the right "ladies" ?
That gross simplification robs the original post of its point. Yes, I agree with what you said. Yes, I agree with what the parent said.
Another perspective: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/nuclearwar1.html

(kinda long, but worth the read)
Whether or not they're plants, they are certainly not representative of the movement as a whole, neither its former nor current self. The bigots are the people "we" associate with the Tea Party because CNN focuses on them. And CNN focuses on them because they, like everyone else in the media, are in the business of re-confirming the worldview of their audience.

Who is a loyal CNN viewer? According to CNN, he is educated and informed and secular and (implicitly) liberal. Also according to CNN, Sarah Palin is none of those things. So, it becomes part of the loyal CNN viewer's worldview to dislike her.

How can CNN re-confirm this worldview in their coverage of Tea Party rallies? Easy. Since the loyal CNN viewer knows he is educated and secular (after all, CNN told him so) then he knows he's against racists, who are neither. So CNN turns the Tea Party into a bunch of racists and makes Sarah Palin their leader. Worldview re-confirmed. "See! What did I tell you about that Sarah Palin lady..."

(Note that I am not making any judgments one way or the other about the Tea Partiers or Palin herself. I am just explaining how this works.)
Beautiful design is not a prerequisite for success
I'm pondering the idea of launching for the Sprint (this MIGHT be the first I've heard of it) -- but after I saw the list of 'speakers', I signed up just to receive the emails, if nothing else.

I have to say though, this IS a good idea, and is encouraging.
First thing first "Mindset"
How the "big daddy" works
Networking
Name: Ex-Googler
Hand writing is also much slower and tiring than typing...
I must have read the article a bit too quick, I missed that part :( In that case, then this isn't really immortality. I wonder what it does imply then.
This isn't a private company looking to make a software purchase. This is the United States Federal Government. As such, I would expect them to have to give fair consideration to other vendors and their respective technologies rather than defaulting to Microsoft.
Yeah, but border guards are a self-selecting group.

A friend of mine served in the IDF, he said about 80% of the worst treatment of Palestinians he saw came at the hands of the border guards, not infantry or special forces. These are people who, given the choice, explicitly chose the security position with the highest ratio of bullying people to being shot at.
The thing is, _every_ cocoa mac app currently uses the old UI classes, and it might be difficult to get existing mac developers to move to UIKit.

Typical Apple style is probably to move the UIKit stuff in for a release, then deprecate the old stuff in the next release (e.g. powerpc on snow leopard). Remember the Office 2010 apps that were being praised at the Apple event? Bam, deprecating the old UI APIs means that Microsoft has to re-code all of that to get their apps working again. And Adobe, not to mention all of Apple's apps, both internal and external. And devs can't target multiple versions of OS X.

The alternative that Apple is probably going to choose is to make the old UI stuff the new carbon - supported for a while, but not getting any updates. The real people this would hurt are, again big corporations, but some of the open-source projects who could spend their time on new features but are instead spending their time re-coding for the new UIKit APIs.
Planning to launch private alpha of http://www.createens.com
AcquireThisName is eNom as far as I can tell. It seems to be one of many companies they own (eNom and Demand Media being th parent). Names that expire that they retain often end up with AcquireThisName being the owner.

NameJet is an expired names company that also do pre-release. They are partnered with quite a few registrars to get inventory to auction, not just demand. Pre-release being auctioning off names that expired but didn't go through the regular expiry process but are renewed by the registrar after some period of being on-hold pending the original owner's decision to renew.
There must be a way to create an indent, or some kind of tactile homing device.
Offtopic-ly, avoid using motion blur to deface private details: in many cases it can be undone. Moderate pixelation is also fairly recoverable when the font is known.

It’s usually best to blank it completely (with a bar of solid color) or to add noise into the distortion.
> their IDE does a lot of parsing/mangling to turn "sketches" into C++ programs. It can mangle perfectly legal C++ code.

AFAIK the parsing is limited to extracting function prototypes for creating the function declarations which I wouldn't call "a lot". This has been known to miss certain legal C++ function prototypes formats though. Normally the solution is to manually write the declaration yourself and format the prototype so it doesn't get parsed.

It's not a hugely common occurrence though.

It is true that optimisation/efficiency hasn't been a huge focus and the lack of focus on it is "development policy": http://code.google.com/p/arduino/wiki/DevelopmentPolicy

While it's definitely not perfect the fact that it's based on avr-gcc makes the risk of lock-in less of an issue than some other platforms.

Plus, it's fun. :)
I don't think Andrew got the domain back. It looks like it was John from DomainNoob who retrieved the domain for Sal.
"Biological immortality is possible," says Walker. "If you don't get hit by a car or by lightning, you could live at least 1,000 years."

Interesting that the definition of immortality is living 1000 years.
OpenBSD is one of the BEST engineered Unix systems out there. It always amazes me at the quality and professionality they put into each release.

It's also very simple - an installed base system will have around 20 processes, all of which are instantly recognizable, and nearly everything is configured and documented in a straightforward manner.

Go build a firewall with OpenBSD. You will learn something new and be a better sysadmin afterwards.
This case has no application in aging research, and is of no interest to the biogerontology community. It's an interesting developmental abnormality, but nothing more. Aging is caused by accumulated biochemical damage, and this person is apparently aging normally at the level of cells and macromolecules.
Awesome! I hope you get some good utility out of it. Just to be 100% clear and avoid disappointment, this isn't original / exclusive content written just for us; we're not quite there yet :). However, I've been a voracious HN reader for two years and I missed at least half of these articles, and the other half were good reminders.
Couple of things:
1. You ask for registration information far too quickly. You should allow the users to get a little more invested into what they're doing before prompting for registration/payment information.

2. Meet the ladies doesn't have any information on the actual women who would answer your questions. It's just generic pie charts.

3. PayPal only? :(

4. To the end user what sets this apart from Yahoo! answers?

5. No examples anywhere that I could find.

Otherwise it's a clever idea and you're off to a pretty good start.
Super excited to be on board! Please, please let us know of anything that we can do to help you succeed!
Why the journalists and PR folks probably figured out calling her condition "immortality" would attract more attention just like it did here on HN, it appears obvious that there are many possible explanations for her condition, other than retro-aging. She could simply be suffering from a combination of genetic or non-genetic disease creating her very small stature and mental disabilities.

See a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBbG2tSDfOo
Wouldn't a company that is such a significant user (by volume) have already negotiated a rate of their own? It would seem silly to be in the 1+ PB range and paying the going market rate.
Try these that I pulled off Google or wade through the hell that is web optimization blogging. Your best bet is to just start playing around. You can't break anything, so go have fun.

www.google.com/grants/education/Google_Analytics_Training.pd

s3.amazonaws.com/portent-ian-files/google-analytics-cheatsheet.pdf

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/fang.pdf

www.mivamerchant.com/conference_2009/presentations/MivaConf%202009.ppt

publicmediametrics.org/documents.php?docid=94

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.imcanet.com/use...
www.adamhowitt.com/resources/GoogleTechnologyFinal.ppt

http://seattletechstartups.com/docs/Google_Analytics_Present...
Oracle is like an compulsively over possessive mother who told her son "no girl is ever going to replace me sonny, I am going to keep you from the world".
In the end the son may grow up with personality issues and terribly deficient in many social skills and perhaps even impotent.

But the mother does not realize that the son is 15 years old and perhaps has more than sufficient brain function to contemplate escape plans.
Sadly this interface reminds me of the parody video as created by The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary...
I posted this on HN. I'm always interested in how messages spread, so here's the breakdown AFAIK:

1. manpacks guys make the product.

2. post facebook ad

3. my brother see fb ad(nice targeting?)

4. bro shares link with me on gtalk

5. i post on HN

6. <lots more coverage?>

7. profit???

The real thanks should goto my brother Shadab!

Here's our original chat between me and my bro from March 8(he works in advertising so I thought he was doing a campaign for them):

12:46 AM
Shadab: http://manpacks.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&...

LOL

12:47 AM me: LOL!

doing campaign for tht?

Shadab: clicked on FB ad

hahahahahaha

What I'd like to know from them is what other marketing ideas they tried?

How much did they spend on FB?

How did they go about targeting?

How are they scaling sales now(all WOM)?

I'm yet to watch the interview so I'm sure they've answered some of that there!