skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, TechCrunch had an ad for WyzAnt next to your article, so I just signed up for them. :) No, seriously, happy to help however I can.

Hey, if Ann Arbor can support a $200/hour GMAT tutor, then great. (Boston does have a base of bankers and consultants to whom my services were very attractive.)
A brick-and-mortar computer repair shop, inside a "strip mall" style shopping complex.
When you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Sure, it's good to keep disadvantaged users in mind, but some counterpoints:

1) As already mentioned, you have to go out of your way to double-space after periods in webpages. It's something to keep in mind, sure, but it's rare.

3) Gray on gray. As I started reading the article, I found that it was a little difficult to read because of low contrast.

5) Serif fonts. Used properly, serif fonts increase readability for normals.

6) Italics. You shouldn't be using italics for lengthy tracts anyway, because it's meant to be an effect signifying something (in-line quote, foreign word etc). It's meant to be 'unusual' to mark something as different and should be used in short doses anyway.

Particularly with respect to #3 and #5, the lesson to take away should be "know your audience". If you're writing for the general public, keep dyslexics in mind, but don't make readability harder for the majority to satisfy a minority - particularly with respect to contrast.
Er, sorry, accidental downmod from 4 to 3, intended upmod to 5.
My strategy is get $ at a good company first while ideas gel since my nerves just aren't good enough to try the consulting + start company thing. (I did consider it though!)
Eh, still not as invasive as FaceBook.
HTML5 Games 0.1: Speedy Sprites (and interesting browser performance analysis)
Actually I might be interested in hacking their code as well. I just sent you an email now. Feel free to reply back if your interested.
Too bad they make it so damn hard to spend $10k with them.

Few things on the Internet are as tricky to navigate as Facebook's ad guidelines. I know you what I'm referring to :)
It depends on how you view education, as simply a means to a financial end, or as a personal enrichment, a chance to learn and grow. Money isn't everything, there are many wonderful things to study, and who knows, maybe you combine your major and being an entrepreneur in a fulfilling way.
Following up on my reply, this post by the author of the language (on an unrelated forum) might illuminate the issue you were concerned with:

"Hi,
I'm the author of the Cobra programming language. I didn't write the
statement about it being intrinsically bound up in the .NET framework.
In fact, I'm the guy who started two additional back-ends for JVM and
Objective-C, as well as the refactoring necessary to support this.
These are not complete, and I would love any and all help with these
efforts. If you're interested, let me know. (Cobra is open source
under the liberal MIT license.)
In the mean time, Cobra runs on Novell Mono (which I use on Mac and
Linux) and Microsoft .NET.
You can learn more about Cobra at http://cobra-language.com/
-Chuck "

http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr...
Looks interesting. You guys should do a grubwithus for tutors and students!
Growl is great for all the reasons you state, but Chrome doesn't use it because Growl doesn't allow HTML, and it would require us to ship Chrome with Growl for all the users who don't have it.

HTML notifications can be powerful because they allow you to include live content (video of the person attempting to video chat with you) and actions (e.g. archive, reply buttons) if you choose.

It's not inconceivable that someone could write something that suppressed and stripped the text out of a Chrome notification and presented it in a Growl notification.
> It is declining to actively push certain terms on the user.

Let's say a search engine in China was obligated to "decline actively pushing a certain query", would we not call that censorship? Can someone explain my semantic hangup?
being a part of YC is really amazing. my experience with dreamit was cool too, though i wasn't a founder while i was there so it was different
so why not get an ipad with 3g? i wish they made 3g ipod touches, i also agree with you and would like a device like iphone without the calling functionality.
The conversions code is the standard adwords conversion javascript, added to the final 'thanks for your order' page.

I would agree with you about the myspace thing- but I ended up with 5 or 10 of these bogus conversions, all on pretty low total clicks (I'm talking 10's of clicks resulting in a conversion). My best referral partners don't go anywhere near those sorts of numbers. In other words, one case makes a fluke (and myspace is highly visited, so I can agree with your theory) but after a couple of rare cases, you start to invoke the law of unlikely statistics in your head and say 'wait a minute...'

Here are some stats:

domain___cl_impr__CTR__ACPC_Cost_Cv_Co/Cv_CvRate

xqno.com 13 1,138 1.14% $0.64 $8.33 2 $4.16 15.38%

There's more like this. Some have 1 click, 3 impressions and a 100% conversion rate. No way is that going to happen more than once in a very long time, yet my adwords account has about 5 of these. And none of the conversions shows up in analytics.

Anything that was giving me numbers like that- you'd say 'yeah, go for it'. But I could find no actual conversions in analytics for that domain.

Looking at that domain we see a Url shortener with one google ad at the bottom. Just knowing my other referral rates and conversion rates for highly-relevant sites, makes me believe firmly that these stats are just plain wrong.
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Fun Fact: The first three numbers are actually assigned based on your state of birth, as per this chart: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/stateweb.htm
awesome, thanks for signing up alan.
Thanks for the tip! I'll have to try that one next time I'm in NYC (visiting relatives on a work/vacation). I've found the other NYPL building to be pretty fun places to work.
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Awesome...thanks for sharing such awesome addons i am using some of them like the fireshot, as i am a blog owner my self i use it to capture screenshots of new web resources for reviewing.
So they censoring their auto-complete list, isn't that still censoring?
I'm on Linux, so I can't test the actual app.

However, I'll say that the website didn't feel very clear about what the app is supposed to do. My first assumption was that this was a game engine.

After glancing over the first page, I saw it depends on Corona. I had never heard of Corona before. (I'm slightly more familiar with PC gaming than mobile gaming.) My next thought was "Which of these two things is the game engine, and what is the second one?" I had to Google to find out what Corona does.

From what I gather, Corona is a Flash-like compatibility layer over iOS, HTML5, and Android. Your app seems to be a sprite editor that exports to Corona. Apparently neither one provides a full game engine.

Is that correct? Whether I'm correct or not, I would recommend updating your site so that people can find that out without having to dig like I did.
Exactly. There's obviously a difference between Google actively suggesting a term that could encourage piracy, versus providing the results for people who already have that query in their mind and choose to submit it as a search.
if you accept ecma script ~= Javascript then it has already taken over. pretty much everything connected to web except embeded and even some of those runs javascript. with crossbrowser fixer libs and to lesser extent standards it is closer than anything else to write once run anywhere. more people have access to js dev tools than any other language. js is the new entry drug for new ddevs.
I wanted to see if the numbers still applied for people who are naturalized US citizens, but I couldn't actually connect to the site.
There are a lot more classic console games that use a rocker and a/b buttons than ones that use multitouch. (This thing is targeted at emulation, remember?)
Hey, you must know Aashish! I was super impressed with him back when I was starting Dawdle back in 2007. Small world.
Thats a great idea. We've had thoughts in the same direction. Stick with us.
I wonder what percentage of responses come from the US?
Cancer disease will be more common in rich people
My own pet example is the peanut butter and jelly sandwich patent, which the J.M. Smucker corporation really and truly did sue to enforce: http://www.ipfrontline.com/depts/article.aspx?id=14617&d...

That link is to a pro-patent website which notes that Smucker failed to enforce the patent (against a grocer from Michigan), after multiple rounds of reexamination, and concludes, of course, that the! system! works! Strangely, they fail to mention the amount of money and time lost to the grocer in fighting Smuckers's overreach...
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Why Yahoo supports Hadoop (enlightened self interest)
According to http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/randomization.html the Social Security Administration has been centrally issuing all new SSNs since the 1970's, and has been basing the prefix on the postal code from which the application was mailed. In June, they plan to ditch the semantic groupings and start assigning numbers arbitrarily from the pool of unused numbers, so it will lose significance then.

Also, you can apparently request a new SSN if you object to the digits contained in yours: http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/292
As aheilbut stated you can use .htaccess to rewrite the destination if the request matches /signup. This question is highly dependent on your backend. If you're using a framework that allows you to explicitly define the URLs in your app then you can just comment that line out. You could also try triggering a 3xx to redirect them to the homepage upon requesting that page.

Really though, if your site is pre-alpha and if you don't want people to be on it to begin with you should have your entire site blocked by at least basic authentication. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/htpasswd.html

Any host worth paying will have some kind of option for "password protecting a directory."
I hope someone's applying to YC with a customer service startup designed specifically to serve Google's customers. You can guarantee Google won't jump in to compete and if you get traction, they might buy you.
Very cool. I'm torn on the strict requirements to be listed as a tutor. On the one hand I totally understand the need to filter for quality, and if you still have enough tutors, you've probably set the bar at the right place. On the other hand I am a graduate student and a Teaching Assistant and enjoy helping people learn, although it's not something I'm pursuing professionally.

Small bug: the last two questions in the FAQ under the For Parents And Students section are duplicates.
I just ran the script on Ubuntu 10.10 (64bit) but when i run "rvm list" or any other rvm command i get the following error:

/usr/local/bin/rvm: line 73: /home/myuser/.rvm/scripts/rvm: No such file or directory

Whats wrong here?
I can't find a work.
I always thought TNG was really first-rate television, and episodes like this still choke me up a bit. This is probably because I was just an impressionable kid when these aired live (I was born in the early '80's), but TNG did a tremendous amount to shape what I wanted to be when I grew up and the sort of world I wanted to live in. The Inner Life was another great episode, and I tried really hard to write a research paper on Darmok for a linguistics course in college (professor wouldn't go for it). This may very well have been Patrick Stewart's finest work, and I wish there were TV shows that dealt with ideas today in the same way TNG did 20 years ago.
Some feedback:

* My picture got stretched vertically when I submitted it. Not a lot, but enough to make me look goofy.

* Can I suggest sorting teaching experience by year? Mine's in a goofy order and I can't see how to fix it.

* It would be nice to have a way to charge a "travel fee" under circumstances determined by the tutor (e.g. to meet at the student's home, or to meet more than 1/2 hour away)

I love the 50% cut once / 5$ thereafter scheme. The 50% cut forever scheme that is prevalent drove me to look for clients on my own, especially since I tend to form lasting relationships with clients.
The business of providing links? They're hosting most of those blogs!
Why doesn't Google hire people to fix their existing cash cow product, instead of trying to copy Groupon?
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>TNG did a tremendous amount to shape what I wanted to be when I grew up and the sort of world I wanted to live in.

Same here. I still watch TNG episodes nearly every single day. You can learn a lot from them and I try to expose others to the "teachings" that can be gleaned from the show. Always like to see another huge fan who feels the same way I do. By the way, it's The Inner Light. Sorry, huge TNG fan that just couldn't resist. :)
I'm pretty sure he means land, once you move away from large cities, prices drop like rocks. The house my grandma lived in Missouri sold for on par with three years worth of rent here in California.
the screening process favors people who have experience teaching kids in front of a classroom

Interesting.

Some of the best tutors I had in my life had no classroom experience but were exceptional tutors who knew their stuff and knew how to teach it one on one. They were hands down better than the teacher in the classroom--as sometimes the case when students need tutors.
WebMynd (YC W08) Receives TechFellow Award To Focus On Addon Developer Platform
At least that gives us all a revised target! (Holy crap though - I would've thought even $5k/mo got you service and answers. Are the savings really worth the customer dissatisfaction?)
OpenPandora had great promise. When they started it there was nothing more powerful. But now it's slower than even the most dated Android phones on the market.

600 mhz A8? We're in the 1.2ghz range right now. Two, three, and four core designs are about to be commonplace.
You can't. Great software engineers prefer to work in great companies.
Good job of posting the bleeding obvious but politically incorrect truth.

All of the women I know who are full-time mothers do so out of personal choice. Most left careers of some type or another to do so.

Obviously there are exceptions to this rule, but there remains a large amount of families out there where the man is happy to bring in the money and the woman is happy to look after the kids. It's still the mainstream family model, even if the mother is working, it's usually for financial rather than career-aspiration reasons.

I do hope this post leads someone out there to make the big jump. A world with a female version of Zuckerberg out there would be a very interesting one indeed.
That sounds like Objective-C. One of the reasons I first liked working with Objective-C (before the iPhone made it trendy) was that it seemed like a much better-executed version of what C++ was aiming to be. It has optional garbage collection now, but only on the Mac. Its type system is even close to what Steve described in this article.
Great feedback. Consider it added to our stack.
They should just offer a search api and and adwords api together. The publisher can get a cut of the adwords revenue, and there should be some sort of checking that search is being served with adwords - just by looking at comparative bandwith from the one ip.

If Google don't have social in their dna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyOqNE7H9Ng/), then they should work with those that do.
You should definitely sign up. You'll notice a lot of high quality grad students with TA experience in our community. We use our requirements as guidelines for making decisions - not intransigent rules - and we're always refining them and making them better.

Thanks for pointing out that bug. We'll fix it.
If you look at the pictures, it seems he is in shaded area. Thus, no sun to worry about.
Still just as opt-in as Facebook. Go baseless Facebook bashing!
I didn't say it was intrinsically bound to .NET -- but it relies on it, right now. See: http://cobra-language.com/docs/why/

Hosting on .NET has given the author access to some very useful facilities. A VM that understands generics, with two major independent implementations, and a large ecosystem of code and tools.

But for many open source programmers, anything to do with Microsoft, even at arm's length, is seen as suspect. This is a cultural memory that can't easily be erased.

Hence my original remark: good language, but it will struggle to gain traction.
This article reminds me of an application we were developing for a health care billing system. Back in the days when Spring 1.0 was evolving and was the 'hip' technology, architects had used spring, and had written wrappers around spring. No one could make the head and tail of these 'wrappers' except for these few 'talented' individuals. I mean, as if Spring wasn't slow enough, the wrappers made the application even slower. Finally, management went berserk over the application performance. It's ridiculous how the developers wanted to create an aura of exclusivity by using some technology that was probably not required at all.

Oh and Amen to 'Brevity is the soul of wit'.
Wow, look! A bell curve!

Who knew?
i'd like to know more about finding a tech co-founder in nyc, how can i reach you?
In general I agree, AdWords (and indeed other Google products) could improve its customer service.

But I also know, having worked for several years at Google, that the volume of requests is enormous. Many of them come from advertisers less honest than you, and dealing with them takes time.
The current version of Less is really impressive. It's written in JavaScript, which lets you do crazy things like:

<link rel="stylesheet/less" type="text/css" href="styles.less">
<script src="less.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Since it's a superset of plain CSS, both the migration and the learning curve are really pleasant.
I think some of the most amazing 10-20 liners of code I've written, I wrote in my dreams. Made a major effort to memorize them, and then implemented once I got to a computer.
I'm going to echo that this is not Java, this is just OOP ideology specifically and the culture of programmers generally. It's this sort of programming that has made me seriously reconsider my life choices. Programmers are very opinionated people, and that's great, they're just shit at acknowledging other people's opinions.

Here's the thing. Most code that is written in the world is not difficult code. It's pushing data between clients, databases, and consumers. Wrap that shit up in a web interface. Put a transaction log on top of it. Whatever. It's not hard. But some idiot with an MS in CS has to justify their existence. This should be a solved problem by now and we get every Tom, Dick, and BS fucking CS trying to come up with their own solution, complete with articles and white papers on how wrong you are for not doing it their way.

I'm sick of the judgmental nature of it all. There is a common phrase in my current office--a certain bit of buggy code is "Doing it Wrong" (and yes, the capitalization happens). In the cases I've seen there, there was certainly a wrongness to the code, but there is no "right" solution, and the proposed fixes weren't any more "right" than the original, they were just politically favored patterns.

I need to get out of programming because I hate programmers. The stereotypical programmer is a culture fascist. He sees one way and only one way.
It is called globalization
In most of Western Europe, the buckets proposed by rdl hold as well. And in most other places, the numbers would be pretty meaningless because of the big difference in purchasing power. Most people in the developing world are in a low bucket, measured in USD, but relatively they might still earn a lot of money.
I was able to get a much better grasp on what the Holometer aims to measure on the Fermilab Holometer website http://holometer.fnal.gov/index.html, really nifty stuff!
Same. I have a ATI Radeon X1900 XT on a Mac Pro 2,1.
That was my point. People will voluntarily give up far more information to FaceBook, so why should one be surprised that they'd answer a poll about the first 3 digits of their SSN? (Which are based on their state of birth anyway, which is usually public information.)
Here's a PHP->C->Python->JavaScript->original PHP quine I wrote a few weeks ago: https://gist.github.com/749686

And here's a little write-up on how I approached the problem: https://nolancaudill.com/2011/01/01/how-to-build-a-quine/
Are you outsourcing dev work mainly?
Polls are becoming the new "Offer HN"! Hopefully this trend will not last too long

EDIT: I am not talking about this one of course
They have similar plans in the Enterprise segment. For integrating GMail and Google docs with your website, and for building your own custom apps for the same.
How was that your point? You called Facebook invasive and made no mention of users opting to give out information. Invasive suggests that Facebook is "intrusive without right or permission." (Yeah, I Googled for backup.)
feel free to drop me a line: aaron at tutorspree dot com
It would be interesting to know why a portable, cross-language serialization format beats out the language-specific one.

Odds are that it is because the language-specific one supports features that the portable one does not. A feature I'd be particularly suspicious of is, "Did we already encounter this data structure and serialize it?" Supporting that feature means tracking a LOT of information during the serialization process, whether or not you get to use it.
When I looked at this poll I was really curious as to who would post their social! I'm sure tons of others did too!
I am not a citizen but I have SSN. This things are not mutually exclusive. Every US citizen has to have one but even non permanent aliens can have one.
Those videos don't play on my iPhone, vimeo mentions there is no mobile version, so a text summary of those videos would be helpful for scanning...
Women have different & distinct priorities in life.
There's plenty of excellent research out there -- "Unlocking the clubhouse" is a good place to start.

And maybe you're not interested in why we don't have more women, but lots of other people are.
Is this really a better approach than using Cython to wrap a c++ or c implementation?
Starting from zero is too much for all of that. However, just the fact that you know what you need to start with isn't starting from zero.

You don't need to know everything. I have been a freelance back-end developer for something like four years and I always get the CSS / HTML / designs handed to me. Sure, I need to do some light HTML / CSS work when I need to tweak something or just to know what I'm looking at, but that's pretty easy to pick up. The same goes for the other side of the coin. If you are a good at design / CSS / HTML then you could be the guy handing that stuff off to the back-end developers.

Part of being a freelancer is the technical side, the rest is the business side. A sleazy salesman can sell anything. If you are good at BS'ing people then you could sell jobs for higher rates than you mentioned on day one and outsource that work.

So, going from zero to freelancer is very doable in three months. Going from noob to proficient developer in three months isn't so easy and depends on you. If you work full days at it every day and focus on the back-end then I imagine you could be proficient in Rails in that time.
Great work, sir. You inspired me to try that for my own office :)