skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are getting initially some good exposure when the app is first released and the app appear on the first page of the AppStore. If you are super lucky your app can feature in the noteworthy section or fully featured. But getting fully featured is not easy and it is up to Apple only to decide on that.
One thing that I will definitely recommend is to add some localization for a few other languages. Yes the US AppStore generate potentially the largest source of revenue but other non English speaking countries can be another way to climb in the chart and get some coverage to get your app noticed.
One of my app was featured one time on an italian web site and there was definitely a nice side effect on sales + ranking in the Italian store.

(edit: typo/re-wording)
Judging from the comments in this post, I don't think many people knew about the saved stories feature to begin with, and if they do I doubt many upvote a story purely to read it later. There are better services to do that like Instapaper.
Evernote Chrome Extension gets Simultaneous Search
I have thought about this concept for a while. Since you are broaching the subject, I will throw my thought in.

I thought it would be quite interesting if PG recorded all actions of all HN members. Then did some data mining on the results. I would like to see if there was some correlation between what interested folks, and their success as founders.
One of our main focus points is usability, building something that anyone can sign up and use immediately. we actually removed a number of features pre-launch, just so it make the core functions as simple as possible.
I find it interesting how many companies I am in a bad relationship with. We never break up, it's just loveless or worse. Sometimes, it's simply too difficult to avoid using some companies. I wouldn't pick American, but I would pick United, AT&T and every fast food chain that operates on the Jersey Turnpike. A monopoly is a terrible thing...not to have.

On the other hand, I happily pay healthy margins to Apple and Amex.
>you would have exactly one data point

and half-the-normal-life-expectancy of direct observation.
I wrote badg.ly a couple weeks ago, precisely to see if I could build it in a weekend. I already had the infrastructure setup, so that saved me a bit of time.

I also don't have a single user. That wasn't really the point of the exercise (I wanted to try new patterns out since I'm still learning Rails), but it reiterates what others have said - a startup and a website are two separate things.
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if you need directions you're kinda missing the point of flying...
Leave the company shortly after it was founded?
Thanks for the empathy with the situation. It is very good advice to make it perfectly clear what the intents of our VC is going forward. I sure will take the experiences from this process with me in future ventures.

Niels Bohr said that "An expert is a person that have made all the possible mistakes in a narrow field". Sometimes I feel like I'm getting there...
Tips from a frequent traveller:

1) I consider a $5 tip to the curbside check in guy a form of flight ticket insurance.

2) Federal regulations mean they owe you when getting involuntarily bumped off flights, and the amount of actual USD compensation increases with the amount of time you wait. (This assumes they believe your "I was on time" story.)

3) When dealing with large bureaucracies, document document document. Conversations held verbally didn't happen. Do you have a notebook? If not, go buy a notebook from the gift shop right now. Get people's names and either badge or desk number (it's an airport, they all wear them prominently) every time you talk to them, and write down what they tell you.

4) I can explain at length why your priority is that low on the waitlist queue, but it boils down to "AA could piss off an entire conference worth of you and it still wouldn't cost more than losing one high-priority customer like a twice-weekly business traveller."
Rush did that first.
Many of those foreign goods were made for US corporations. It would hurt those company's profit margins and they would whine to congress loudly.
172's were introduced in 1956. I'm certain if personal flight were more mainstream, flying could be quite as easy as hoping in your car. Further, it's easier to automate flight because of the vertical space available for traffic separation. The hard part is space for taking off and landing.

I personally don't agree that safety has held personal flight back. It's just not practical except for longer distances.
One of those "quotes" that come back to bite the writer in the ass down the line.
In other news, the sky is in fact blue. Of course airline customer service sucks.

The secret to dealing with any airline exception is not to run for the ticket counters with the mob -- call the 1-800 number immediately. The folks on the phone can usually do the same thing as someone at the counter, plus you don't have to stand in line.
We've used existing hosted PBX systems to run our phone systems in the past, and found them bulky and difficult to setup. We're targeting ease of use and quick setup - we aren't advertising that we have new features at our core, but the method of getting to those features and setting them up is a snap.
My company got a sneak peak using TellFi, and I'm pretty excited about it. We don't yet have a physical location, but using their service we were able to get a business number and setup menu systems ("for such-and-such, press 2") with appropriate forwarding to our cell phones. This gives us a legitimacy we otherwise wouldn't have.

Just as I personally don't see the point for a land line now that I've got a cell phone, I likewise don't see why I would want to worry about getting a real phone system when we have TellFi.
Theme-in-a-Gem: Maintaining Branding Across Multiple Apps
"Am I missing something here or did the author simply make a poor analogy?"

I'm not sure I understand your reading comprehension problem. The author not only explicitly stated his analogy about the similarities of Groupon and a Ponzi scheme but also defined and limited the scope of that similarity in the same sentence--not to mention the tediously long paragraphs that followed that were spent expounding on his thesis.
I'm not trying to be argumentative and I don't want to talk too much about who we use (I wouldn't want to endorse or anything) but it took like 20 minutes to get up and running with them.

Have you worked out how you compare pricingwise to the RingCentrals of the world?
The 10 Python Conferences Happening at PyCon 2011 (part 2)
I just learned of Placekitten and had to drop everything and write bookmarklets: http://hans.gerwitz.com/projects/placekitten.html

I didn't know about Kittenify, but they have better code. Though Placekitten has nicely curated images. A marriage is inevitable.
Let's take this statement at face value and see if it passes the 'sniff' test.

Q4 Financials: http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q4_google_earnings....

Lets see two quotes:
"GAAP net income in the fourth quarter of 2010 was $2.54 billion"

"Google's partner sites generated revenues, through AdSense programs, of $2.50 billion, or 30% of total revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2010."

If Google 'shut down all of Adsense' because they realized it compromised their search quality, they would have had only $40M in net revenue for the quarter last year. (Doing the simple math of removing AdSense revenue from the picture.)

So you think Sergey and Larry would put up with a 30% drop in revenue to take the high road? We're talking 2.5 billion dollars here, not mouse nuts even to Google.
The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder.

To me, a kid in junior high school at the time, it was an introduction, an inspiration...and a warning about how thrilling programming and computers could be while at the same time driving you completely insane.
Setting Expectations for a good Customer Experience
The Jersey turnpike brings out the worst in everyone.

After you recover from the food poisoning from the Roy Rodgers or Bob's Big Boy on the turnpike, you're feeling pretty down. Then, the blues turn into rage as you drive down I-95 and Delaware hits you with $7 of tolls to drive like 20 miles.
Fun analysis! Though technically, this only shows which cities have the most curse words in their tips. It's possible someone wrote, "Fuck yea, this place is great!" without any intention of being ill-mannered or impolite, and more as a colloquial exclamation.

But the Hadoop, Hive, RoR, Mongo, Redis, Resque solution is pretty damn cool IMO. I mean, pretty fucking cool.
I've read some of the books listed, but the two books that completely changed how I write code weren't---_Writing Solid Code_ by Steve Maquire and _Thinking Forth_ by Leo Brodie. The second one is by far the more mind bending of the two, and it's available online (for free) if you search for it.
How do you compete with someone like grasshopper.com ? They seem to have more features, are much cheaper for >500 minutes and I would imagine are just as easy to setup. Although, I haven't used either of you.

Then you look at something like OpenVBX, which would be significantly cheaper ($1/month for number, 1c per minute incoming) if you don't mind setting it up.
Internet Ad Forecast: Google, Facebook Expand Clout
Other than instant startup, how does this differ from Phonebooth.com?

We've been very happy with them, at $20/month unlimited calling.
We had an early beta of this. It literally takes 2 minutes to set up a phone for your business and take call routing, voice mail,etc.

Congrats on the launch Jason + Conor!
Are they using twilio/ tropo on their back end? Just curious
I'd say every programmer should read 1984 by George Orwell, to always keep in mind the big picture implications of their work.

When I first read it, I got shivers: "this book is about google!"

And after Amazon deleted the very same book from every Kindle remotely ... you could not ask for a more ironic example of how well Orwell predicted things.
I always (try to) catch myself when I start speculating in absolutes like this. There is little to no reward in being right about something like this, and if you're wrong, the Internet will remind you every year for the rest of eternity. So, do yourself a favor and start using more conditional words like "maybe" and "possibly".
Surely a parallel heuristic could be used. Enabling users without enough Karma flag, but counting for far less towards the auto-kill feature, or even just notifying people that it might be spam.

Clearly the process needs to be streamlined. This spam story has been live for over an hour.
Newsletter newbie scare tactics 
Something that is overlooked all to often is newsletter subscriber age.

Track your newsletter unsubscribe rates see how close to signup your users are comfortable receiving their first email. The closer the first email they receive is to the day they signed up the higher the unsubscribe rate.

Getting that first email from the newsletter you just signed up for an hour ago, will make the spam sensors go off and users will respond in kind.
Find some new investors and pay to play him.
But within your experience, has the loss leader been justified in the restaurants/services you used Groupon for? Did you see yourself going again, possibly several times, for the business to recoup its loss?
Have you seen their TV and magazine ads? Their ads are the only reason I do not use them.
Yes, because she says "I, lady coder" in the title. This implies that she's speaking for women. If she wasn't, then she shouldn't mention her gender.
Another well known phenomenon in old science fiction is the utter lack mobile phones. Flying around space, shooting at each other with laser rifles. And then they hop into a phone booth to have A VIDEO CALL! (Yes, I'm looking at you, Blade Runner.)

(And before anybody mentions Star Trek - Those were actually more like small and fancy Walkie-Talkies. Deal with it.)
Are you the famfamfam guy from the Silk icon set? If so, let me say thank you, you did a huge service to the community by releasing those high-quality icons at a time where there were no decent free icon set available for web apps.

Keep up the good work. I love kittens, too :)
You wouldn't believe it but for many of us non-native english speakers, his pronounciation is obvious and sounding naturally, while the "english'ized" one is funny if not ridiculous.. ;)
One that I am surprised to not see mentioned (here at least as opposed to stackoverflow) is

4 Steps the Epiphany - http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...

As a technical founder and general programmer + startup person, I was always told that sitting in my room coding more and more features wouldnt help a startup succeed but this is the first book that both explained exactly why that was true and what I should be doing instead.

Its not a "read this and your startup will succeed" by any means, but its the most useful and practical book along those lines I have read.
http://habreffect.ru/files/a9d/72856cf6c/242622165.png
Defining Internet "freedom": Ars interviews Senator Al Franken
HDR (high dynamic range) displays are those that can reproduce wider differences between dark and light. What you're talking about would be called a wide gamut display, such as an LCD with RGB LED backlighting or a special wide-gamut fluorescent backlight.
we're working with our telephony providers to keep the pricing as low as possible, and will also be adding a some new features soon to further differentiate.
Why do mathematicians use single variable names?
Pwned from the outside and then barred from within. Nice.

Anon's comments under that article really rub it in. No mercy at all.
That's not our fault, that's merely a product of the fact that hackathons are mostly guys. If it were mostly girls and only a couple guys, then the reverse would happen when guys showed up.

We shouldn't have to pretend that it's not weird for the one girl who shows up to what was an all-guys event. We should figure out how to get the gender ratio closer to even in the first place so that it's not a big deal when girls show up - no pretending necessary.
> what are they doing if too busy to notice pop culture? Just living in a cave and staring at the shadows?!

If they're doing that, then they're doing philosophy.
They totally stole those images from Paleofuture. Lame.
I mean, yeah.

But come on, TechCrunch. Let the whole Calacanis thing go.
GoDaddy is the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in the world, so their target audience of "everybody with a functioning libido" seems to have worked out well for them. I think it was the Super Bowl ads starting in 2005 that basically got their brand stuck in the head of anybody considering starting a website. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

Inc magazine did a segment on Bob Parsons: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/the-way-i-work-bob-pars...
Convert Time to a Fraction
>...a large number of little hurdles add up to a big hurdle. Maybe not for them,
>developers who have already committed to this platform and have a stake in it

A quick perusal of the BlackBerry developer forums will show how much this nonsense matters to individuals who have already developed their applications and have a large stake in the platform. Yes, getting started with BlackBerry is a pain, but the minor errors continue to compound the longer you develop for the devices. This adds up to an impression of institutional incompetence and leaves one considering whether time spent developing for a BlackBerry device is a waste of effort.

It's not as though any of these issues are a surprise to RIM. Just running a search on their own forums will show the same topics appearing over and over again through the years as developers find themselves bitten by bureaucratic quirks, frustrating quests for direct internet access, or surprises due to poor App World implementation.

No, these problems cannot be corrected overnight, but one would think they would be addressed in some manner. This thread alone gives an example of how RIM's developer-oriented initiatives seem to completely miss the mark:

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Development/New-...

Android and iPhone have shown the value small and mid-sized developers bring to a platform through quality applications, but RIM remains completely out to lunch on developer support. It's gotten so bad that RIM has had to offer a free PlayBook just to get developers to bother with the device, and now there's talk of providing Android app compatibility on PlayBook's release to make up for the lack of professional BlackBerry developers addressing the tablet:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-busine...

Seriously RIM? Why should I go through the pain of developing a BlackBerry app when spending the same effort developing for Android will give me access to both Android and RIM devices?

Should I just abandon the platform now and focus 100% on Android?
Who's hiring interns?
This thread is for companies that are hiring interns.
Spread an article across three pages to display the highest amount of advertising possible per visit.
Out of curiosity, who is Jason Calacanis, and why does anybody care what he says or does?

(Honest question. I see his name pop up on HN pretty often, but can't really figure out what he does beyond mahalo, which looks similar to eHow etc.)

Honestly, this quote just looks like it was boo hooing facebook's success.
Academia.edu is hiring intern engineers in San Francisco.

Academia.edu helps academics follow the latest research in their field. Here are a few bullet points that sum up the atmosphere in our team:

- obsession with exceptional engineering

- obsession with building a great web product, and a great user experience

- intellectually inquisitive - we like delving into ideas, whatever the ideas are about

- fun and friendly - we enjoy each other's company a lot, and have a great deal of respect for each other.

We are hiring intern engineers. Here are some of the technologies we work with: Rails, Nginx, Node.js, Redis, Memcached. We are based in downtown San Francisco.

More information about the team, and about how we think about software engineering and product development, is here http://academia.edu/hiring. Specifics on our developer internship program are here http://academia.edu/hiring/developer_intern
United and Continental Joined Forces to Create Even Smaller Seats
Ah yes, the house rules. Fair enough.
any services like this available for the uk?
Great resource! Nice job!
Just scraped all 345 of my saved stories and exported them to Google Docs using the Scraper Extension[1,2] and the XPath:

//*[contains(concat( " ", @class, " " ), concat( " ", "title", " " )) and (((count(preceding-sibling::*) + 1) = 3) and parent::*)]//a

I got that nasty XPath using http://www.selectorgadget.com/

Anyone who is interested, the equivalent CSS selector is:

.title:nth-child(3) a

Note: this just scrapes the title and url, not the submitter or number of upvotes

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mbigbapnjcgaffohmb...

[2] https://github.com/mnmldave/scraper/
Factorial in Python with the Lambda Calculus
SICP, The Art Of Unix Programming and The Little Schemer are on the list. Those are the only books I've read that actually influenced my approach to program design. What other books do you feel belong there?

Arguably GEB?

Edit: Nevermind, GEB is on the list too
New Australian Cloud Computing platform gets launched today
Snow Crash was always considered to be Stephenson's best work but I thought Cryptonomicon and Anathem were far better.
OK, I realize it's not pure lambda calculus because I'm using recursion, but that's not hard to eliminate. I wanted to be more instructive than mathematically sound.
Unfortunately right now we only support US and Canadian numbers.
This makes TechCrunch come across really childish, if it was in the context of an post sure go ahead and post it.

There was talk of TechCrunch having jumped the shark a couple of weeks ago. Is this another sign of that? Certainly seems that way . .
Show HN:Status Scheduler - My 3 week sprint.
Hi everyone,

I want to share my latest creation. I have a few beta users using it, but would love more feedback.

I spoke to some HN users and they suggested I revamp the layout, so I did that before posting it to the HN site.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. http://www.statusscheduler.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Calacanis

The LAUNCH <> TechCrunch 50 split gives some background: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_17465035?nclick_check...
He's an entrepreneur who is very good at making noise and getting attention. While his public persona is grating, he has actually done more than most of the people who complain about him.
'Sophisticated' armed robbers hit Fremont high-tech company
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These sorts of questions are a popularity contest. Books aren't upvoted based on how influential they are, but based on how many voters have read and liked them. So _because_ it is chosen by the whole community you can expect a book like Code Complete: it touches on some of the fundamental principles of programming and is a book that almost every programmer can learn from. This works well for SO I think.
here is a link : http://www.statusscheduler.com
Intel CEO: I need some anti-virus. Can someone buy me McAfee?

Minion [2 hours later]: OK, Done.
So forgive my ignorance, but would the following be of value in a system design/architecture.

(I dont know what type of cards you have which you would use in this, such as a multi-GPU cored PCI-e card, so in my ignorance, I will assume these exist and are separate from a traditional "video card")

I would be interested to see a system, as a brick, which has a mobo with multiple PCI-e slots, as many as one can get then fill it with both GPU based cards, as well as Fusion IO cards that provide extremely fast IOPs on the storage side. The main CPU in the box, is effectively used to boot the OS - all the other processing and IOPs occur on the GPUs and the Fusion IO cards as data storage and caching...

Is this a realistic idea?
Too bad I'm in Chicago
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Show HN: YCPages.info (Info about YC funded companies)
Please give me some feedback on my weekend/evening project http://ycpages.info

YCPages is a CrunchBase sort of service just for YC funded companies.
Company/founder details are pulled from CrunchBase using their API.

I have checked founders info by looking their LinkedIn pages/Twitter etc. So i am confident 95% information available on YCPages are accurate.

Next Steps,

== Adding the Tech Stack info
== Rankings from Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, etc

If I can get the founders answer few of my question about their experience I will add them as well.

Any feedback would be highly appreciated.

http://ycpages.info

P.S. YCPages is not affiliated with or endorsed by the YCombinator. Everything on YCPages are generated from freely available content on the Internet. If any of the founders doesn’t want their info on YCPages please send an email to ycpages at gmail dot com and I will delete them.
The FCC already makes sure that absolutely everyone who can have access to a phone line does have access to a phone line. They've more recently announced their intention to extend this mandate to broadband internet access. The reason the feds are getting involved is because the states want them to. Anyway, the FP deal involved Maine, New Hampsire and Vermont. Vermont is considering banning FP from the state, Maine and NH have launched investigations already, and since Verizon investors lost $1B due to lies FP told, I think the feds should be getting involved on several levels. This is a bigger deal than just FP vs NH, and it fits right in with what the FCC is already moving toward.