skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but that's Manhattan -- one of the most famous and most expensive cities in the world.

Because of the way you (we)'ve been socialized, you perhaps see owning as respectable and renting as vaguely disreputable.

But, "only renting" in Manhattan is not like "only renting" pretty much anywhere else in the world.

Not trying to be a jerk here, because I understand the desire is real.

But essentially you're starting to feel entitled to live in Manhattan, without those pesky compromises.

In exactly the same way, I'm starting to feel entitled to owning a nice house in a nice neighbourhood with good schools, that's not out in the suburbs, with spending money left over for books and computers, and ...

Never mind that my neighbours have BMWs but I drive an old beater. My baseline (the things I'm not eager to compromise on) is already higher than what the vast majority of people in my country have.

Every step is reasonable, but you can end up in a strange place.

> Here every shitty 1br apartment costs $800K+.

Daaamn. Here that buys you a 3 bedroom house in an exclusive neighbourhood in mid-town, on the main subway line.
Does anyone have any experience using corona? How well does it work, how full featured is it, etc?
You can get most of the real benefits of TCO (including many mutually recursive functions) in Clojure with lazy-sequences. The harder (and less frequest) use case of TCO'ing CPS style code can be accomplished with trampoline.
Clojure does have TCO, though you have to be explicit about it.

I use Clojure's looping constructs and list comprehensions for most of the tasks; explicit TCO using loop/recur for problems which are best expressed recursively.
It's a myth. People who don't like Java moan on that it's so verbose and the only way to get anything done is by using an IDE.

Do people use IDE's to write assembly language? I'd say majority do not. You just learn to organize your code well and to be concise and tidy. A good skill to learn.

My current project (Mibbit), is about 25k loc, in around 200 files. I've never had any issue working with it.

I think the difference lies in if you write 'Enterprise' java, use XML for everything, use patterns, tons of threads etc or if you just write tight, tidy, concise speedy java.
Maybe when you're mentioning your projects, mention which languages you used. That way interviewers can see what sorts of things you've done with the language. Haven't done anything cool with it? Probably not worth putting on your resume.
That's pretty close to entrapment.
There's something kooky going on with that page. I think the CMS used for that site must be substituting one type of space character with another in Unicode, or something like that, so that the browser does not "know" how to collapse the two whitespace characters into a single whitespace character.

When I copy the two whitespace characters between sentences there into separate text files that contain nothing but those whitespace characters, then `diff a.txt b.txt`, the result is that they differ, so there is definitely some difference between the two types of whitespace characters used between sentences.

I've written a text formatting tool designed to preserve multiple whitespace instances on the Web. It used `&nbsp;` for the first of every pair of standard single space characters. Apparently, this CMS is doing something similar, but even tricker because it doesn't show up in the source as an HTML entity, and perhaps less well thought-out because for some reason the nonbreaking version space character used is the second of the two (which results in weird ghost-spaces at the beginnings of lines sometimes, as you discovered).
... and soon there were no more great worms and the spice stopped to flow.

Sorry, just couldn't resist.
ChartBeat hits 2m concurrent users
This is my ignorance showing, but are there actually Indian devs with 15 years experience? I was under the impression that the culture forced devs into management roles before they reached that point.
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I'm glad to see other tools for RAD succeeding but after trying it I don't know that it is the most polished game and probably wouldn't survive if it wasn't free (almost hate saying that about a 14-year-old's game).
The O'Reilly "iPhone Hacks" book has schematics and sample code to push RS-232 in and out of the headphone jack. You'll need a self-powered device to decode FSK on the other end, of course.
I set lead type as a hobby, and I can tell you the entire concept of a "space character" does not exist in typesetting. Space is not made of characters, it's made of space (in metal, it's made of tiny shims of copper, brass, or lead).

Any use of the space bar in a computer typesetting context is just a hint to some algorithm regarding how much space you want put between the characters on either side. TeX doesn't put "1.5 spaces" between sentences; it puts glue that is slightly stretchier than the glue it puts between words.
I'm a programmer, but not very good at statistics (as in I passed the class with flying colors, but I can't really comment on new situations).

When it comes to things like benchmarking, I find it easiest to avoid making absolute conclusions like "X is faster than Y", but to merely present the data, all the data, and nothing but the data.

In this case, I'd have wanted to see the response times per request, and perhaps the memory trend for the client. At the very least, I'd like to know how Mongo and Redis were setup, and if either had begun to swap.
Interesting, I didn't realize that loop/recur used TCO. Makes sense. :)
As far as usage, I do like a friend told me: Favor map and filter, but use loop/recur if you're stuck.
That is fascinating. I really liked this sentence: "I am much more interested in doing (type of work) here at (name of company) than I am in the size of the initial offer. " It's such a loaded answer.
Truth through Google ranking?

Yes, you can gain a massive audience by telling lies people want to hear i.e. "I can teach you how to be a competent web developer!" They are still lies and they deserve criticism. There are extreme errors on that site that will break you for years and cause a lot of damage. They have a blatant SQL injection bug in their MySQL lesson, for example.

And "I don't see you doing any better" is schoolyard justice. An entry level site that's accurate and current is a fine idea. Someone should do it. That's irrelevant to this matter.
Sauce: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTracki...
I'm curious about the same thing. I've done some research and generally I'm more impressed with Corona games than most of the other framework style games, but I'd definitely like to hear another HNers feedback.
eh, I know of plenty of people with all of those; they just prefer to focus on higher-margin markets.

In a business like this, it's kind of a lot of effort to get to the point where you are no longer bleeding capital in to servers (and if you want to compete with me, you would have to buy your servers; none of this on-demand stuff. You could, in fact, get one of the amazon ec2 HVM domains and run paravirt xen out of that, but the costs of ec2 would destroy your margin.)

If nothing else, Linode could crush me on price, if they wanted to. I think that it's probably more profitable for them to leave the low end to me and capture the next bracket up through superior features/support/etc... so it comes back to the 'nobody wants my market' statement.
I've used it for a few apps and am generally happy with it. Search for Wetwork or ConsultUtah in the app store to see what I've done.

I definitely congratulate anyone that can make that kind of headway. It makes me feel extremely humble that I can't get anywhere near the results that this 14 year old has... ;-)
Sorry. I'll remember in the future that Hacker News is no place for humor.
I have no experience with the App Store approval process but it seems like this might fly. It just uses the audio jack as any custom mic/headset might; conceivably they could use valid API calls to just play or listen for sound and/or drive a constant powering voltage.
Yeah; "diversify for safety by buying this one particular thing we're doing our best to make wildly popular" strikes me as disingenuous advice. "Diversify by holding a portfolio of small, mid, and large-cap domestic and overseas equities, ETFs, bonds, real estate, and other assets in proportion to your risk tolerance and investment horizon" seems to hold up better with a year's hindsight.
I believe there is unbreakable space character you could use for that purpose.
Try these reasons for two-space sentence separation (and against the Slate single-space argument):

http://blogstrapping.com/?page=2011.014.10.05.57
Facebook isn't a closed system because you can write apps for it. It's an application platform which I think (caveat prediction) will become web infrastructure. The social layer will be integrated with everything. FB could screw it up and someone else could pull it off, but at the moment it looks like they will win.
I think there is plenty of room for Android devices, at lower price points.
Here is a great follow-up review from someone that has had success in writing iphone apps with Corona:
http://jonbeebe.tumblr.com/post/2726165170/corona-sdk-revisi...
An alternative way to do this is for you to go buy your choice of equipment then get reimbursed by the company for the expense within a reasonable limit. I imagine this keeps it as a pre-tax expense for the company as well. One could argue that how it is now it's still "your" money that gets spent anyway since you need a computer to work - it's just that the company spends it for you and gives you no choice in the matter.
http://www.kickstarter.com/ ?
Square has their app on the marketplace. https://squareup.com/
That's an interesting idea. I wonder if people care enough about video quality on YouTube(!) for it to have much of an effect, tho...
Stainless steel can have surprising failure modes. For instance, crevice corrosion[1].

The shiny stainless steel fittings holding up your sailboat mast can corrode straight through without more than some tiny telltale signs.

You can see an example here: http://forums.sbo.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=107622 The manufacturing likely provided a tiny crack, splash a little salt water and next thing you know your sailboat's mast is in the water next to it trying to bash a hole in the hull.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crevice_corrosion
Lazy sequences are my favorite new language feature since learning Clojure.
Just to clarify, although the CL spec doesn't require TCO, every CL implementation I've used has it anyways.
Full article here: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20110112/verizon-iphone-w...
Yeah, or radium:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_dials
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Another approach is the Windows NT rout. Where you develop a competing product to your core product and then expand it's capabilities until it replaces your core product.
Nope, picking a lock and entering a house and entering a house with an unlocked door is the same crime the only differences between trespass and burglary are based on the intent with which you enter and what you do once you get there. Its also a lot easier to prove intent if you break a window or pick a lock.

Do you really think a criminal who walks up to a house with a lock pick in hand and then finds the door unlocked gets charged with a lesser crime?

From Legal Dictionary's entry on "Breaking and Entering"

"The criminal act of entering a residence or other enclosed property through the slightest amount of force (even pushing open a door), without authorization. If there is intent to commit a crime, this is burglary. If there is no such intent, the breaking and entering alone is probably at least illegal trespass, which is a misdemeanor crime. 2) the criminal charge for the above."
I am an android user with absolutely no intention of switching, that said, this is a completely reasonable set of arguments. The iphone will sell on Verizon by the millions and fast, faster than Android, hopefully it will force manufactures and Google to step up their game.

Not sure about the future of pad computing though.
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Estimates here:
http://www.bluelinemedia.com/billboard-advertising-media_13....
I'm ready for sales of both to settle at some equilibrium, whatever that is. No doubt there'll continue to be tons of competition/innovation, marketshare fluctuations, and strong rivalry. But I have to think that pretty soon there'll be some degree of stasis reached, and people can start to get comfortable with the idea that they're both valid models, they both have strengths and weaknesses, and they're both going to be very successful for a long, long time to come.
That's not what the article says at all.

The example he gives is the difference between putting money in at 3M or 5M pre and he's not talking about a problem filling up a round.

He's making the claim that 'better' investors won't participate in rounds they feel are over priced. That's a totally different problem than not being able to finish a round. (Not to mention what an unlikely and unsophisticated scenario it is to have the problem that 50K was committed at 10M. I feel sorry for both the investor and the founder. Not sure which is more naive...)

People on the board can definitely make all the difference, and I generally agree with the pricing numbers given the current market.

I just find questioning the founder's judgement on raising at a 3M vs a 5M pre, uhm, questionable.

If you are an investor and you know this guy who might one day be negotiating part of an exit for you isn't going to leverage the market to get a good price now, I question your judgement.
Petzold rewrites his color scroll app from 1987 in XNA.
You probably don't need to worry about duplicate content. Some SEO's claim that here isn't even a real penalty for duplicate content. The real issue is more simple, how to rank for things using content that lot's of other people are using. This is a problem especially for people using data feeds (affiliates for example) which could be used by a ton of other people.

Have you done your keyword reasearch? Are you trying to target certain keywords? Or are you just going for general search engine traffic? If you have done your keyword research then you should probably be able to answer your own question. After looking at the search volume available and competition for your keywords, then you pretty much have a blueprint as to what you need to do.

For example, if you are trying to rank for the general term of Blahblahwhateverwhocares, California then you are going to have an easier time doing so than ranking for the general term of San Francisco, California.

So, there are a lot more factors you have to deal with before you get to duplicate content.
> Strong push towards threading. Before NIO, there wasn't a way to avoid threads if you wanted to talk to multiple sockets. NIO has solved that for networks, but the whole java framework/idioms push you towards threads where it shouldn't.

Where? I'm starting to think people dislike Java for the community / way it's used in enterprise rather than anything to do with the language.

There's no push toward threading in the language :/ And NIO has been around for years.

- No way to tell how things are implemented.

What?? Look at the source code. Decompile the class file into byte code :/
About.me: Design over-confidence?
I think it's a very interesting project. I've been very interested in things that combine hardware with smart phones, since the Apple keynote that showed the first authorized hardware "extensions". (though since then, I've been disappointed in not seeing much of anything)

However, can anyone chime in about the differences there are between using the iPhone jack and using the dock connector? I know you're supposed to fill out some docs with Apple to officially hack on the dock connector, but I believe you can find hardware to do that without Apple's consent. It looks like one would have to go the jailbreak route with that project as well.

I imagine the main thing is that a hobbyist can much more easily/cheaply get a jack connector than a dock connector...
No -- he gives the reasons he agrees with those authorities. That's not the same as those authorities' reasons.
Interesting data point when a comment on a forum so clearly surpasses an article written by a professional writer for an online publication.

This, ultimately, is why journalism is losing. The stuff the pros write is no better than the stuff other people write for free in blog posts and comments on forums.

Which is why paywalls don't work. The stuff behind them isn't better enough that readers will pay to get at it.
"I have made a terrible mistake."
Great article, thanks!
Email is not the same as Usenet posting. Perhaps that's where some are diverging in this debate. Email evolved and is, as far as I understand it and usually use it, an electronic form of letter writing. If we want to talk about how you forum post (to use the modern model) then the discussion is different.
I'm not so sure. (1) The plan price already dwarfs the phone price in all cases (2) An older-gen iPhone on ATT is $50. That's pretty darn cheap. (As the current gen is replaced, I'd expect something similar on Verizon.)

But hasn't this already happened? How are Android phone sales for AT&T?
Sorry to sound like an ad, but this is the best service ever. I wish they had an affiliate program because everyone I explain it to signs up.
Real Life Star Wars AT-ST Walker?
Visualizing the Haiti earthquake
The mouse is bullshit!
http://www.bluelinemedia.com/subway-advertising-media_11.htm...
Actually these would be a lot better for a kickstarter funding campaign- it's easily scalable; and if you donate ~100 dollars then you know that there is one more directly added by you!
Like $2839 for the iPhone over two years vs $2689 for a $50 Android phone over two years?
"Facebook is a simple system for the masses that do not really care about technology and do not want to learn anything new except something easy like Facebook."

"There is no reason for anyone with any chops online to be remotely involved with Facebook, except to peruse it for lost relatives."
I remember when colourlovers.com came out with a similar post a few months back and I said something like this:

http://www.colourlovers.com/business/blog/2010/10/26/color-o...

And so while this is still a nice, shiny piece of infographic eye candy, I don't really see the scientific basis behind any of this. It still seems like cherry-picked data to me. Why does it matter that these companies' colors be analyzed compared to any of the thousands of others that were successful in the last year?
no matter how cheap Android handsets get, the monthly plans are still the biggest cost

While technically true, are most people really aware of that at the time of purchase? The service is something you pay for down the road, but the phone is something you pay for right now.
I was curious about the lack of green and wondered if there's a reason behind it. Came across this website (no clue how accurate it is) that breaks down color meanings across cultures.

http://www.sibagraphics.com/colour.php
That's truly amazing what they're doing here. I'm sorry if this is an ignorant question, but wouldn't it make sense for there to be some kind of USB port or something that's actually designed for I/O on the iPhone? I mean, surely there'd be less power loss if the port was actually designed to power other low power devices. Especially if it could mean that you don't need as powerful of an external microcontroller for doing the hacking and encoding that's necessary for doing all the work-arounds from not having a real IO port.
Who really cares, as long as they're not infringing copyrights? This site design may have been tested to work for attracting their audience and converting interested eyeballs into sales.

They are not selling a continuous service or "lifestyle" product, so I'm not sure if they would benefit from having a site with a unique visual identity.

At $349, the Corona SDK is not a cheap product in a world where most development kits have become free... Looking like Apple may be just the simplest way of reassuring their customers that they're getting something that fits the Mac development environment like a glove.
There are quotes from two typographers (less than "several" by my estimation), and they don't even give meaningful support for their positions. They just claim to be right.
"You don't often see monotype in emails..."

Well, maybe you don't... and most technical manuals I see, use, and write are never printed.

"(as pointed out earlier) in web pages."

Well there it doesn't matter in the slightest. You might as well just use double-spaces and not bother yourself to change your habit.
Ask HN: Selling my first commercial software and would like some feedback
Hi HNer's,

My goal since I started developing software 11 years ago was to some day release my first piece of commercial software. My goal for 2011 was to do it this year. Well, in the second week of 2011, I've done it.

Today I launched Kwolla, a piece of social networking software so you can build your own social network.

You can browse to http://kwolla.com to check it out.

I'm rather proud that I finally have a piece of software I can market, sell, and hopefully make money off of.

Right now it sells for $149, but if you use the coupon code HACKERS20, you'll get another 20% off. There is an easter egg in the site and if you find it, you get a coupon code for 30% off.

I want your opinions on how I can improve my chances of selling my software and making it enticing to buyers. It's perfect for a wide array of uses: setting up a social network for your office, or fraternity/sorority, a book club, a Linux Users Group, and so on.

In addition to Kwolla, I wrote the software behind the site which powers the PayPal integration and digital downs. I plan on releasing that soon so other developers, musicians, authors, or otherwise digital content creators could easily set up a site to handle sales of their products.

If there's any glaring omissions I've made or you have any and all input, I'd love to hear it.

Thank you for your time.

http://kwolla.com
Agree, and the founder (as acting CEO) needs to have the vision for not only the seed round, but how valuations are going to play out in Series A, etc. Too high a valuation at seed could result in a down round or challenges raising at a higher valuation, from my understanding.
In a rather-unrelated matter, does anyone have a Swiss bank account? I'm looking for a bank to open one in but apparently most have a 500k minimum, I just want a personal account...