skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Is programming fun?" I suppose that is the best question. You can make aptitude, but only from passion. Programming is problem solving then explaining the entire solution to an idiot child (the computer). All the higher concepts and buzzwords will come with time, it boils down to taking a problem, understanding it in totality, and describing the solution throughly. If you can enjoy and find passion in that process, you can find you place in programming.

I am more a mathematician then a programmer, I call myself a Logician. The culture and the languages are parts of programming, but the process is were you will spend most of you time and the most difficult part.

Sit down with a scripting language sometime like python, it is separate from a lot of the computer science implantation issues the lower languages have and the mathematical concepts the other scripting languages enjoy and write a few little utilities: Parse some input, square numbers, compute areas of figures, make a phone-book or simulate ballistics. I'd advise finding a few tutorials online and checking a book or two out from a library on python or another language

See if these kind of learning challenges drive you nuts and make you upset, or excite you and make you happy. If it is the latter, then welcome to the fold.
Not really surprising, since CUDA isn't a major selling point for most potential customers. The Anandtech review goes into a little more detail: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4239/nvidias-geforce-gtx-590-d...
What "more link" ?
Yeah, I really need one of those timemachines -- I bet there are more than a few of you on HN who are working on this technology for yourselves, too ;)
I was clued into this when running a woorank report on my website, and it didn't recognize our blog (even though we had an RSS feed at /blog). Adding this bit gave us the "green light", and also showed an RSS icon in Firefox and Safari.

I think this might also allow someone to type in your base URL into Google Reader, and it will pick it up.
> WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE THESE COMPANIES DOING?

At least in the Kindle's case: selling a hell of a lot of them, and a hell of a lot of books.

Ever since I got a Kindle, I don't really use my iPad anymore.

My Kindle cost ($139) and weighed a fraction of what my iPad did. I can securely carry my kindle in the pocket of my cargo pants or my jacket without weighing me down.

It's easy on my eyes. A LOT easier. And I can read it outside with sunglasses on.

I read & download books and PDFs like mad.

I use klip.me (http://klip.me) & Instapaper (http://instapaper.com) to shoot every interesting web article to my Kindle automatically.

I shoot work-related documents to the Kindle via Whispernet for free.

I keep all my tech books on it. I find the resolution completely fine for tech books, btw. I was worried about this after reading Kindle DX reviews. I am working through Big Nerd Ranch's latest iOS programming book, which is full of illustrations.

I keep cheatsheets galore on it (packetlife, wireshark, vim, ipv6, etc)

And what I've come to find out, is that I largely use my iPad to read stuff. I don't play games. I watch movies, but I can just use my MBP for that.

In most cases, I find the Kindle handles things better, for a fraction of the cost. I can browse Google Reader on my iPhone, or my MBP. I've already got two expensive devices to handle the Kindle/iPad gap. But your YMMV.
Bubble Times: "Share The Air" (Video)
Women are interested in much more than fashion and shoes (and there are many men who are interested in fashion and shoes). The market seems pretty poorly understood by tech innovators.
I know what you mean. When I've suggested targeting a female demographic with things that are somewhat silly, but most women just go crazy over (seen by how many women get into similar thing in several businesses) I was dismissed out of hand.
Sulia Helps Twitter Sort the Tweet From the Chaff
Radical Optimism
Sweet :)

We had a similar experience when we launched secretpoke : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179649

We have been on the home page for about 24 hours, and on the top position for ~3 hours. In those 3 hours only, we saw about 5K uniques on the homepage of the app. But the most valuable thing was the 100+ comments that we got, and helped us improve.

Here was our take on the subject : http://secretpoke.posterous.com/how-we-used-hns-feedback-to-...
Do you actually remember what the Turing Test is? I think a lot of people classify it in their head as "a test to determine if an AI is smart" but that's an oversimplification; that's the goal, not the methodology. The test is whether someone talking to both a human and a computer can tell which one is the computer, or less strictly, whether a human can tell that they are talking to a bot.

It has turned out that in practice, bots that "can't string more than 2 utterances together" in fact can pass the (reduced) Turing test when put online and made available to random people. People have been seen to spend hours talking to these bots with no apparent sign that they know they are talking to a bot.

"Not AI" and "waste of time" I'll agree with, but "doesn't pass the Turing test" is much less clear.

(Many have observed how every time AI sort of creeps up on something we define it as not-AI, but in the case of conversational "AIs" it turns out that it really is the case that blindingly stupid programs can pass it. Full props to Turing for the idea, no sarcasm, great paper fully worthy of its historic status, but it hasn't turned out to be quite as powerful a discriminator as we might have hoped.)
While I like some of the things Ubuntu did for Linux, I don't think that'a good example as a business. As far as I know, they still don't make money.

I don't know any significant business linked to linux on the desktop, actually, they all failed financially.
Thanks for sharing stats.
I hate to be the debbie downer here. I love her ambition and ability to market herself, but when you are attempting to sell yourself as a visual & UX designer shouldn't your design be original?

Both this page and her portfolio are blatant "adaptations" of inspectelement's html5 single page portfolio design http://inspectelement.com/html5portfolio/

The top bar, color choices, structure, font, her "logo" for her portfolio, the contact me portion... all of that comes straight from the template

edit: added "contact" part
What "More" link? (added in edit)
More accurately, "No Interest" in adding APIs to the SDK to support a niche (and somewhat misleading) iPhone app.
People are taught to focus on a market they understand, specifically themselves if nothing else. Women, on the other hand, are hard to understand, even to other women.
Slow Website Performance and 3rd Party Widgets
Microsoft spend $7.5m on IP addresses ($11.25 each)
If it is a daily email, I'd put a little note that says something like "Advertise here for $5 a day and be seen by over 3000 viewers!" If I was an active reader of the newsletter, and owned a small website somewhat related to what you email about, I'd spend 1/10th of a penny per eyeball.
Because, like pregnancy, businesses can't scale with more people?

I'm as skeptical as anyone about this insane valuation, but I don't see your analogy applying here.
I'm a little surprised by this move by Twitter so soon after recommending that 3rd party developers look at curation as an area of focus - by partnering with Sulia are they picking a winner already?
> Arguably, the difference is that Iraq (in 2003!) didn't have a democratic opposition movement with a fighting chance.

That's a pretty weak argument.

Shouldn't one give more help to the opposition that doesn't have a chance without help? Otherwise, you're rewarding tyrants who are more effective at crushing their opponents.

As to "democratic", want to take a bet as to whether libya or iraq will have more elections in the 10 years after "liberation"?

Face it - the real difference is that you folks didn't like Bush and you really want to like Obama.
When you do include an affiliate link, how does it do?
I just finished watching both seasons of Better Off Ted... I can't believe they canceled that show :( It was absolutely HILARIOUS!
No place like 127.0.0.1 :) I do agree having lived in quite a few cities and now 2 different countries. I still call home where I was raised.
When the (Digital) Natives Get Restless...
I only had a quick skim through the article (need to be off to the London HN meetup shortly!), but couldn't this be used to mount a DOS attack sucking up the number of available sockets on a server?
It isn't scientifically sound but it also isn't nonsense. If you find a simple trick that solves a problem you're having it might be useful for others with the same problem to try it, too. The limitations of this should be pretty self-evident to anyone reasonably intelligent. This is on a website that is all about self experimentation, after all. I don't know why are assuming you've stumbled onto a scientific study.
Exodus finds your Twitter friends on Identi.ca
working to build out the infrastructure necessary to
manage photos and videos **from what it hopes** will be
hundreds of millions of users.

Emphasis mine. I especially like that part.

They've been tricked by their investors that they've already succeeded. That they already have won the market for photosharing apps, yet all they have is a domain name, a crummy unfinished product and a lot of PR. How can they possibly NOT get those millions of users with this kind of marketing hype and capital?
Fair enough. I just didn't get the impression that the OP took an exercise approach to his experiment. It seemed less isometrics and more "I'm gonna stand on one leg until I get tired."
A lot of Facebook's growth was driven by photo sharing.
You could do a number of things depending on your subscriber demographics.

If you want to go the advertising route, it's best to go directly to relevant businesses. See this - http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/78967452/want-to-get-advertis...

The other way is to just sell something directly to your readers. First test a few different products (some rare history book, photobook etc) by adding a link to the bottom of your email and seeing which one gets the most clicks. Once you know what's popular, buy it in bulk and sell.
Only if their wages also get inflated, which does not always follow with price inflation of goods. And apparently would not happen on the free market, or else the government would not have to force it with minimum wage legislation.
What's the best Platform-as-a-Service?
Incidentally, my school's (optional) introduction to programming course teaches Python.
Due to the algorithm used, I've tended to find the "More" pages to be a mixed bag. If someone was on the front page a few hours ago, say, it's not necessarily even going to be on the 2nd or 3rd page now. And, often, the 2nd and 3rd pages have items with just 2 or 3 upvotes but that won't ever make it to the front page. So I use http://hackerslide.com/ instead to just skip back a few "front pages" to catch up with what I missed instead.
I have, when really bored, used the More link on 'new' but don't recall ever doing it on the front page. I have no idea why.
The Palm Pre used this strategy. Not that it's necessarily bad, but I don't think it's necessarily an instant cash-in either. You have to do things correctly and carefully, and I think the difference between appealing primarily to women and appealing to men is fundamentally a stylistic one.
I'm gonna play devil's advocate here.

Don't bet against a world-class hustler who can also build cool shit. And that's Bill Nguyen.

Let's remember how Lala came to be. He built a service for swapping physical CDs, which promised to make sure that every album ever recorded made its way onto Bittorrent (since someone could rip and flip an album that had never been encoded for <$1). He managed to use that as leverage on the record labels to give him extremely permissive licensing for the Lala streaming service, in exchange for shutting down the CD swapping business. I've been involved in content negotiations with record labels, and they do not give up ground easily. Not even Apple seem to be able to get that far...and they're Apple.

Then, he managed to get Sequoia to give their highest-ever pre-launch funding round. Sequoia isn't known for being a pack of dummies. Color has probably spent less than 10% of that round so far. There's a billion dollar market somewhere in this mobile photo sharing thing (I can't see it yet, but I can smell it), and I wouldn't be shocked if he's the one to cash in on it. Color has an accomplished team, and enough cash to make plenty of mistakes. He might have used every buzzword on earth to raise the round, but it worked, and now he's got plenty of gas in the tank to build something genuinely disruptive. And if Lala is any indication, he knows how to disrupt markets and build tight products (Lala was at least 2 years ahead of its time as a product).

While Color app might sound like it was created by pasting together TechCrunch and FastCompany articles, this is only the beginning for them. Color is clearly in it for the long haul.
Instead of "git diff" followed by "git commit -a -m", I like to do: "git add -p" followed by commit.

You get to see the diff, piece by piece, and separate the independent fixes.
To provide another data point, I had a top story one day in January of this year, with about 5,000 visitors linking straight from Hacker News and about 10,000 total unique visits for the day.

I wonder if the variance is primarily due to the topic itself, day of the week, or if the community has grown significantly in recent weeks.
I wish it would support white-on-black default color. And not beep when you hit enter..
Yea no wonder it was rejected, they are trying to add crap ware to the SDK. No thanks.
Parent and (especially) all its replies are really depressing in their redditness.
Edit: Sure, okay, parent gets a pass. It is almost insightful. But the rest is noise, plain and simple, and that’s sad.

Final addendum: Redditization is a serious concern, and per broken windows theory, Reddit-like comments should not be encouraged at all: http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

> The most dangerous form of stupid comment is not the long but mistaken argument, but the dumb joke.

That’s what I am starting to see a lot of.
Dear Chinese Government (and other petty dictatorships):

Your time is coming to an end. You can try to initimidate, and beat down dissent all you want. But in the end, freedom will prevail. But to hell with it, Neo said it better:

"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."
Out of curiosity, why doesn't everyone dislike 'marketplace'? A marketplace is where people sell things, CodeSchool sells things therefore it's a marketplace.
Isn't that the strategy? How can it reach the 1-5 hiring people if the masses at HN don't upvote?
Facebook Traffic Takes a Loop Through China
How about something like those motivational posters or t-shirts? It seems like the same crowd would enjoy those that enjoy 'now you know' one liner facts.

You could also turn your one liners into partnerships. I saw you had a post about purple carrots and linked to seeds, why not have a partnership once in a while for things like that with sites that sell seeds and see how things convert. Hope that is helpful.
Perhaps I just live under a rock, but the whole concept (fad?) of someone specializing in the "user experience" barely hit my retinas within the year. Out of nowhere, a bunch of people who knew nothing about design were claiming to be experts in UX and asking ridiculous salaries and hourly fees. It was remnant of all of the people out there claiming to be SEO experts. Now it appears as though they're trying to breach the castle walls and claim a new buzzword for the "developer experience." God help me if I find some guy who doesn't know how to program claiming to be a DX expert in the next year.

I know that some of have legitimately studied how to improve the UX, but there seem to be an exceedingly high number of them out there that know nothing.
Not sure if this particular investment can be called as a sign of a bubble. Social networks, locality, mobile, and things are still new and unknown. But there is a huge potential. There will be soon 2B people on the earth with constant (mobile) connection to the internet.

In order to make FourSquare clone, you don't need a lot of investment for development but you need a LOT of money to acquire users and become a player in that space.

However, the assumption is that there will be only few players and that is why there is a need for these kind of bold investment moves. I disagree. The system will become even more fragmented, democratized, and complex with many unknowns, so classical ways of getting market share will not work. In other words, even with 41M of investment, the company will not be able to fight against some weird and original apps / social network or even coupon buying system.
ad. 1 - we have a use case of group of companies (4 different companies 1500 people in total). That is why we will have this external user invitation feature. I think that this could be used for partners and customers in cases like customer knowledge base (support knowledge base).

ad. 2 - Chatter/yammer has problem with the activity stream (we've discovered this while working on Discourse and the next version will get rid of that problem). Activity stream just like in Facebook is ok when you read content you don't care about (like your network updates about what that had for breakfast etc.). If you have customer communication or any other important business communication there is no way that you'll not be frustrated with facebook-like interface after few days.

ad. 3 - Good point - we are thinking of the value prop for the HR dept. I think that karma could be a great tool for HR for people development rather then promotion decisions :)
I guess that is the "More" link at the bottom of the newest or front page.
That's one of the things I hate about git (I like git a lot, in general). It makes it too easy to make irreversible damage.

"git clean", "git reset --hard", "git checkout" all provide ways to irreversibly trash the working tree.

"git clean" has no other function except doing irreversible deletions, so that's OK, IMO.

"git reset --hard" is a pretty useful way to make a branch jump around between places, so having a secondary feature of trashing the working tree is unacceptable, IMO.

"git checkout" is a useful way to take a file from a specific commit. The fact it may also trash uncommitted changes is also a secondary feature. I think without "--force", "checkout" should refuse to irreversibly lose content.
Hi Dan,
You can partner up with startups that are really hungry for reviews and exposure... just like us www.quoteroller.com :)
A little blog post and paragraph about our app won't hurt while would be happy to pay a little fee for it.
Well, by going on Hacker News quite often you don't really need the "More" link.
btw, I just added you in LinkedIn
I am a fan too! Considering the first blog post was back in Feb 2010, it has come a long way in this one year period. Good market, not too crowded! Nice app! Way to go!
How ‘American Idol’ Will Make Money Off Facebook
In partnership with Cameo Stars, which sells celebrity virtual goods, the show will allow users of the social network to spend $1 to send video messages recorded by the 10 “Idol finalists.
I never visit the HN homepage. I drink from the firehose (RSS feed) and scan topics, digging in to interesting articles based on the title only. I wish there was a way to see the score for the articles from within the feed and have it update to within a 30 minute window.
Building a Non-Trivial App in Node.js
Good points about the domain name being an asset of the company. They should get Mark Cuban on their board, he could sell that domain to Yahoo for billions.
> Inflation helps the proletariat, you know. Most of them are net debtors, so inflation makes it easier to pay off their debts.

Not so fast. Lenders factor in expected inflation, so it's only unexpected inflation that benefits debtors.

And, making payments isn't the only way to handle debt - bankruptcy works too. You don't get any more "pay later" pizzas, but you get to keep the ones that you already ate.

However, inflation hurts folks whose income doesn't match inflation. After they stop paying their debts, they still need to buy food.

My cat's favorite food went up 25% last month. Since she was already on the cheap stuff....
Second that.

My guess is that "intelligent people" are more likely to see trough the "If you touch that devils marijuhana cigarette your gonna end up with a needle in the arm, boy" and have a higher curiosity towards things that make them see things differently.

It would be cool to see some data about what drugs higher intelligent/educated persons tend to use. My guess is that weed, coke, LSD,Mescaline,Psilocin have a somewhat higher user base than say Opiates, Meth and stuff that actually can turn your life around for the worse very fast.

I shall investigate with a poll. :)
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Embedly (YC W10) beta launches mobile support.
Is Stevens vol. 2 in the public domain now? If not, that's pretty poor form, linking to a scanned pdf of the book.
Seth Roberts has made his entire reputation on self-experimentation. (Partly on the strange things he claims to have learned by doing it, and also partly on his defense of it as a methodology.)

He's written some papers that talk about the methodological concerns. Here are two that Google churned up:

http://sethroberts.net/articles/2010%20The%20unreasonable%20...

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xc2h866

I can't honestly claim that he has successfully made n=1 experiments respectable, but I think it's safe to say he's very well aware of the criticism on these grounds and is not ignoring it.
Can't you have both? Take option A for a few years. Save most of that money, then quit. Take option B for a lot longer than you could have if you didn't take option A first.

But seriously, I understand that option A almost never pays that well and is usually not guaranteed. For example, working for stock options that you'll most likely never see vest.

Also option B is not guaranteed to make no money either, and at least you like option B. So, I'd take B too.
provide good content and (most likely) no one will mind affiliate links, even if there are a few per email. people will only start to care once you start generating content specifically for the ability to link.

just keep doing what you're doing and don't shoehorn them in. only insert them where relevant.
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Color, the new amazing mobile app that crashes your phone within minutes
Ahh, I didn't know it had hit the vernacular. Thank you.
I use RSS feed so I almost never click in the links of the homepage... I only use the links when I add something to HN..
I don't get it. I just don't understand what is so big about this.
I haven't visited hackerslide in a while. So happy to see it's current iteration. Love how useful it is! (0.02)++
Not just that, it will take us to the future faster.

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