skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something wrong about doing all that around complete poverty. How much did he spend creating it?

No family could live like that, everyone would need a different mode.

I live in 400 square feet, can't imagine a family living here, it would be rough.
I stand corrected. Maybe it got through since it ties the depicted event or 'storyline' to search results.
Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization?
I noticed that a while back when it had the effect of removing thefacebook.com from the Wayback Machine. There used to be some fascinating reading in their old TOS and Privacy Policy. Wish I'd kept a copy.
A bar can now pave every square inch of surface with tvs - the ceiling, the tables, the floor. Another great example of what Can be done.
They can sprout up all they want. Adoption, however, is another matter, and I'm fairly confident in predicting that they will never be adopted. Alternate roots have been tried multiple times, and they've never gotten any traction beyond nerds like you and me.

The seizures you speak of weren't a failure of the DNS, either. They were the failure of registrars caving to pressure. The delegation of the domains did not change, GoDaddy (one instance I can think of) simply took control of the zone. Amusingly, everybody turned around and blamed ICANN as if they have anything to do with it, further proving that there are scant few people who understand how critical systems of the Internet work.
This stuff is shipping April 19th... I highly doubt that, in the less than one month between now and when it ships, the pricing will go up, the enterprise security features will break, the hardware will somehow magically degrade, and the battery life will be 1 hour, instead of the 10 advertised.

Also, what constitutes enthusiasm in your view? A factual argument as to why the product might actually be successful?

Finally, how is this product vapourware? It's in the wild - people have touched it, played with it, tested it, built apps for it. I actually have tried one in Waterloo, thank you very much.
Indeed. Their versions are based on candy named alphabetically. The last one was Gingerbread.
Beer Mug: contribute something small to an open-source project
And make the HTML <noscript> tag obsolete? No way!

P.s. - I'm just kidding. I run no JS-disablers or ad-blockers. Pure internet experience all the time (except when my country steps in, I suppose).
If its cheaper, that would drive adoption lots of places that don't have tv. E.g. Africa, dorm rooms, shower stalls...
Would love to see a blog post on how you guys did this. And also some of the other industries your boss mentioned :)
Mobile Performance Testing
Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb
Unlike say, Ubuntu or Google Chrome, Android has always been developed behind closed doors and then opened, usually a few weeks after devices ship with it preloaded.

That is a difference on the spectrum of openess, and on that measure Chrome or Ubuntu has always beaten Android. The only difference for Honeycomb is the time between device and code reveal.

It's a bit of a philosophical question as to whether changing that 2 week delay to a 2 month delay moves you from "open" to "closed".
> instead lisp is still the language that it was 50 years ago.

I beg you to differ. The original, McCarthy Lisp was a succinct, powerful, flexible, dynamic language based on a small set of axioms.

Through times, a lot has been thrown out for sake of performance (which was understood to require compilation). Um, well, in case of Lisp, it means a lot of cruft has been added (some say, bolted onto) -- the simplicity etc.etc. was lost. Those days functions aren't even lists anymore, and scoping is lexical!

With a few notable exceptions. Which are either hold-outs, or back-to-the-roots/back-to-what-worked-better efforts.

Arc is closer to the original Lisp. Also, is more pleasing to use. Not a coincidence.
I think that's half the purpose served by Startup School ;)

HN users are more likely to meet up given an excuse.

Conferences are normally centered around a series of core speakers- That's what Startup School is all about. The only problem is that it's dramatically limited in attendance.
Translation: "Android is open*".
Don't foret that Angry Birds was Rovio's 40th game. Stickability counts.

I think to succeed though you need to put out more than 1 per year. I also think there is likely to be a network effect, if someone likes one of your games they may try the rest... this is the equivalent of the McDonalds "you want fries with that?" - that is they know they only get a certain number of people through their door, so they need to extract as much value from each customer as possible.

You will only get so many eyeballs, so if you have more than one game you may get people who try one also trying the other - free marketing. :D
GlamGaga
The data seems to agree. Django job growth is relatively stagnant:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=django%2C+rails%2C+node.js...
LaunchRock is the best!
I suggest you wait or do whatever you can to get on it!

I love it..u can check out my landing page for an example.

www.glamgaga.ca
I'm getting 20 downloads a day without marketing with my iPhone app. Trouble is, it's free.
javascript is a cpu hog. Reason 4 to not to turn on javascript- you are using older hardware.
The comment should arguably cite something, and the mention of "Muslim" suggests a less-than-neutral look at the data.

Looking at both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de..., India is not near the top. The top isn't characterized by being muslim, either. [EDIT: was "Neither are "muslim" states, though - with the exception of Afghanistan, the top "scorers" are all African."]
> Learn how to code in MVC architecture

First you need to pick a framework, unless you plan on implementing one yourself. I used to like CodeIgniter when I used PHP, although there are many more.

Follow the "hello world" tutorial for the framework you choose - even if you are familiar with PHP it will help you be efficient with the framework from the beginning.

> Learn to design/implement very basic design using CSS/jQuery

Google for some getting started tutorials for each language. Once you are happy with the basics, update the website you created in the framework tutorial so that it uses your new design.

> Making it scalable

Do the other two first, then come back to this. I am not suggesting you ignore it completely, but simply being aware of things like caching and optimising SQL queries is probably enough to get your first project done.

In a recent reply to someone asking how to scale I advised testing it under heavy load to see what breaks. Fix the thing that breaks, then test it until something else breaks. And so on.

"Making is scalable" is very broad topic - you need to break this down in to many small, easy to Google problems.
I understand the logic. I found browsing faster and more pleasant when I added a Flash blocker, for example. JS on the other hand is only occasionally a pain. It might all boil down to differences in the sites we regularly visit.
Would love to get some feedback on my landing page!

THX

@REDSINGH
Today is a memorable day. We're optimizing for IE9 the first time...wtf
We thought the cross-browser madness would be now over but IE9 made it suck even more... :-)
CAPTCHAs decrease conversion rates
Hanging these from the corner means that it's much less likely for them to flip, so you don't need the name on both sides.
Collapsible trees could be added at the same time.
13000 should do it ;-)
They also double park and park in drive lanes when there are driveways or side streets within a few steps. These efficiencies add to the costs of every other driver on the road.

Didn't they laugh at J. Edgar Hoover's distaste for left-hand turns?
Virtback: a python libvirt backup utility for kvm guests
The Great Yellow Hype (2001)
Launching A Startup? Go Watch The Star Wars Trilogy
karmaism
> But if all you’re doing is asking whether there is a Bubble, the Bubble is probably not here, yet.

Correction: by the time you're asking whether there is a bubble, the bubble is already getting ready to burst.
Hi kreci, so as I understand it, you are basically build a niche content farm? You would buy rewritten articles for $1.75 and then try to push them to Google using seo techniques so Adsense and Amazon aff links will earn more than the expenses are.

I'd like to ask what are the criteria to find out "a niche that has enough search traffic and earning potential." You just compare the numbers with other websites you own?
Teaching The Art Of Customer Support w/ Sarah Hatter, formerly of 37signals
Very clean, attractive design.

This might almost be worth an "Ask HN" but where does a guy starting a lean blog presence find useful attractive (free? cheap?) images that are topical? You seem to have done really well on that: are they from the manufacturer?

In either case: how do you determine (without long legal chase for just one image-use) willingness of original owner to have their product images used?
I feel like you're inventing this concept of Boston being a "startup curse" as an excuse to use a bunch of Red Sox analogies.

I'm genuinely curious if anyone else feels the same way about startups in Boston? The impression I get is that there's a fairly active startup scene centered mostly around Biotech and CS, a lot of smart kids, and historically not as much funding (but that seems to be changing).
The appeal to me is the thought that goes into new features, not the subjective complexity of the overall experience.
This model seems pretty common for content/Adsense-based websites. I've always been somewhat skeptical of the actual ability to produce profit in the long run - how much value are you actually adding to the Internet?

I'm definitely interested to see where it goes and how long it takes to generate reasonable Adsense revenues (e.g. $1+ a day).

My only concern is that this isn't really a true experiment if you post it on HN and market it on your blog. Don't you think these websites (e.g. reddit, HN) could cross-contaminate what you're trying to determine?
Oops, sorry about that HN. Fixed.
Eyeglasses.
The existence of Clojure begs to differ.
That'll do wonders for UI consistency.

It's moves like this that comes back and bites companies in the ass. Now they're gonna be stuck playing keep up with Android for the foreseeable future. And when you're playing catchup, you're probably not gonna have the time to be the leader.
You can't spell "culture" without "cult" ;)
I think it's got an appropriate level of polish. The original version with the marbles was rather ugly, but the updated graphics look super-cute while still remaining functional.
Your Traffic Sources have a Half-Life
Employee rants about company on Facebook and is taken to court
I'll build one for you, for a fee of course.

example:

http://printableprompts.com
Seems like indians will not be able to access colors.xxx. I'd guess that other conservative countries, like Indonesia, plan to block .xxx.
Emailed contact@tastylabs with some names which are available.
Agreed. A rule of thumb I find useful: Any criticism of Lisp which opens with a joke about parentheses is quite likely to be flimsy and ill-informed.
There's no real secret to any of it (that's the first pointer).

The few things that spring to mind:

Be polite but persistent

Procurement people at corporates are used to really pushy sales people; so if you barely make any effort you won't get through at all :)

Judge who you are talking too

Most people you talk to won't be able to give you a "yes", get past them as fast as you can (I usually just ask straight out to speak to their superior/boss etc.), they are there mostly as a filter. Also consider what sort of firm you're calling - in a 50+ person company it is likely to be a specific department who buy things (even if it is just an individual), below that the person probably has a different day-to-day job. I've had a lot of success, when talking to smaller firms, with the line "lets just drop all the corporate nonsense, we're both small firms and there is no need for me to make this the normal pain in the neck".

Forget all the marketing nonsense

You'll see a lot of "marketing best practices"; I mostly ignore them, they are designed for a company with a number of sales people to normalise the sales routines. You're hacking the sales routine, so take it naturally.

I particularly advise avoiding the template emails that you stick a name in front of... keep the templated stuff to short paragraphs in your emails & material you attach (i.e. PDF's) and try to write an honest "personal" note.

Honesty does get noticed BTW, it can set you apart from the usual inundation of marketing they get.

Be open to adaption, but have a firm limit

I once committed us to a normal sale but "with a few tweaks", it took me the best part of a month to get the tweaks in place. :) Accomodating companies requirements gets you a good name, but really consider if it is worthwhile, and be happy to say no.

Be prepared to walk away

You can't sell every time. And if you are desperate to sell then they can take advantage of it! Either by getting impractical modifications (see above point) or drumming down your price. Either that or they are just not interested, and you end up sounding desperate and silly.

Invest in CRM

Biggest piece of advice IMO; it is so so so so so easy to forget who you contacted & about what. It might take you weeks to find the right person to talk to at a firm, but in 6 months when you try to upsell them the new product you don't want to have to do all that work again :) Plus I had a silly incident a while back where I kept emailing the same introductory email to a poor CEO; I think he got it about 86 times before calling to ask me to stop :)

Call the CEO

Doesn't work all the time, but sometimes (particularly in smaller firms) you can get things moving (and seal a sale) by calling the CEO. It takes a bit of balls and a fast pitch (or social engineering) to stop them hanging up :)

My favourite line was "X suggested I call you about this product, Y, we're selling you so you can have an idea of how it will improve your business"

Where X is someone in the middle of the food chain who has, at some point, said "you need to talk to my boss". :)
Once again, Google's 'principles' become a way for apologists to excuse bad behavior, rather than something that actually informs their actions.
Not necessarily Django-specific, but nice article nonetheless.
Reminds me of the german professor, whose lectures would consist of 40 minutes of nested clauses, then a 20 minute list of verbs.
I have every wish for success of this and every other business, but in the spirit of helping other impressionable developers, making a business is hard enough without making video games.

How do I love games and hate games businesses, let me count the ways. User expectations are pegged by AAA games, whose budgets you cannot possibly match. Those AAA products set a price point at $DIRT_CHEAP. (Angry Birds costs what?) Your core users are thieves. When you fail at marketing on day one, which you will because everyone does, in any normal business you get progressively better but in games the obsessive fetishization of the new means your game is virtually sunk. It is virtually impossible to iterate based on user feedback because your users are a) transients and b) not wonderful people to deal with. Gamers are virtually immune to ads, don't search for anything gaming-related, don't pay prices sufficient to justify CPc spends, and if by some miracle they hear sbout you via word of mouth they will search for you on PirateBay/etc first and Google second. Meanwhile, in addition to megacorps staffed by people who have been doing this professionally for years, you are also competing with a virtually inexhaustible supply of hobbyists, because perhaps 3 out of every 4 CS majors got into computers to make video games and the fourth one is lying.

Does any of this get better for mobile devs? No, it gets worse, unless you're picked by the platform's kingmakers.
Turning documents into data: a tool for journalists
Domain name valuations
This seems fairly reminiscent of video card vendors. They're built on a single platform, but if they screw up the card, nVidia or ATI gets the blame. And the same issue with Windows. Sure, it could be a terrible scanner driver, but it's easier to just blame what's visible.

Multiple vendors means that the blame gets shifted to whoever holds the most mindshare. In this case, it's Google, since they're trying to provide both a platform, and a brand. Apple pulls it off through vertical integration, and their version of OSS is providing a big box of parts you can strap together to build your own, not to post-mod their thing. It removes all doubt of who's doing what.

Personally, I don't think it's that big of an issue if Google has to alpha/beta it in private before releasing to the general dev community. It's just somewhat snide to use complete and total openness as a selling point, when it's simply unfeasible to be completely open on technical, marketing and design standpoints from day one.
The second half of the article reveals that (in a specific case) removing the CAPTCHA improved conversion from 48% to 64%. I didn't much like the rest of the article, but this is interesting.
Did you just admit to paying for backlinks? Isn't that a good way to get penalized in search rankings by Google?
"If the NFL wins, the market goes up, otherwise, it takes a dive. What’s happened over the last thirty years? Well, most of the time, the NFL wins the Superbowl"

Standards of editing have really gone down over the years. The "NFL" always wins the Superbowl...
Well, it is the register, which I am surprised would be popular on a site like this. Regardless, google is pushing back the release date. Its their prerogative to do so. Not sure why this matters to 99.9999% of the population who will never look at the source or install a custom ROM, etc.

Not to mention there are several versions of android. There's the public version which is a little behind. There's the cutting edge version that members of the OHA get and if they follow their contract they get google-branded apps (gmail, youtube, maps, market, etc).

Dunno, seems much ado about nothing. They didn't give market access or gmail branded apps to the previous garbage tablets released so far. This is just google trying to stop this wave of horrible half-assed tablets from destroying the android tablet market. It may be too late, but leaving dozens of manufacturers selling non-capacitive touch screen based tablets with seriously underpowered specs on buggy software that was never meant to run on a non-phone is hurting the brand.

Expecting the "market" to work itself out is having a little too much faith in markets and consumers imho. Brand damage is real and is helping sink Android into the tech ghetto.
Show HN: Notepag.es - Markdown/LaTeX editor for quick technical documents.
Domain Name Valuations
Tool of the Day: HelloFax
How to Create a Unique Value Proposition
The entire conference design is supreme:

http://designforfun.com/display.php?id=99
You're correct, unless you're playing with ifrmes. tabs.sendRequest doesn't allow you to talk to scripts in iframes -- only the tabs.executeScript has the allFrames param, and but that script will be sandboxed from the content scripts (hence the postMessage workaround).
"But if you're wondering if you could squeeze a little extra performance out of your program by switching to QuartzGL — probably not unless the key limitation in your program is raw pixel fill rate and you have relatively few lines."

Perhaps unsurprisingly, fill rate is what improves the most when drawing on a java.awt.image.VolatileImage .
Hey entrepreneurs: Great chance to sharpen your VC pitch
Yeah, I actually had "(or any dynamic site)" in the title, but it was too clunky so I removed it right before posting last night. Thanks yuvadam.
Apache Hadoop takes top prize at Media Guardian Innovation Awards
If I'm not mistaken, innovative is a synonym of novel.
Do you mean the "add pages" concept on the homepage, or inside the app?
Hi, this is a resubmission now that I have matured the code and released the source. I've also added support for mobile clients using a jQuery Mobile served page (slight bugs from its alpha status, but much more usable than a browser targetted page).

The source is available on github here: https://github.com/fivesixty/notepages
Avoid Startup Opportunity Bubbles Ready To Burst
I'm trying to sell a number of domains. Take a look and see if you like any.
https://www.sedo.co.uk/search/searchresult.php4?showportfoli...

Thanks!
What they failed to mention is what percent of that boost came from autofillers/spammers.

They say they successfully used timestamp/honeypots to keep out spammers; if so, how many spammers did they keep out? If it was tons, then say so, that's useful information. If it wasn't very many, then they didn't need the CAPTCHA in the first place.
OK, maybe you should Google "farmer update" and read a bit about that.
Then check your backlinks. I could not find those 500 backlinks you bought. All I can see are 59 external links from 3 unique domains. So what have you done with them them when you got them?
This "Iranian hackers" thing is complete bollocks if you ask me.

The article's title should sound the same regardless of the hacker's nationality but if it doesn't (there may be a more menacing feel to it) then that's probably thanks to the media's propaganda which would like to put the words "Iranian", "nazi" and "pedophile" on the same level.

Are we going to fall back to the same silly "we're the good guys, they're the bad guys" cold war rhetoric? Come on.
I'll try and put something together.

There are loads of industries/areas to disrupt, a quick list from the top of my head:

employment databases,auditing,ISO,internal communications,document control,security control,anything government,caterers (booking systems, big area)
"Muslim" and "African" are not mutually exclusive! Top of that list is Niger and Wikipaedia says:

Islam, spread from North Africa beginning in the 10th century, has greatly shaped the mores of the people of Niger. Between 80 to more than 98% of the population is Muslim

So dimmuborgir was quite correct.
How much can I get away with?
Yeah, it's certainly not 'open source' in the traditional sense of an open community.

However, it's "the best we've got", and all things considered, it's pretty good: Google could have kept many things much more tightly controlled and still been somewhat 'open' (see Windows vs Mac).

Steve Jobs harping about it though is sort of nonsensical: great, pick your nit, but to really make me stand up and care, go them one better, which is something he will never, ever do.
Honeycomb originally started as a fork for tablets only. It looked like the plan was to have the 2.x branch for phones and the 3.x branch for tablets. I think recently something happened and they are now going to standardize on the 3.x branch for everything. This leaves google with its pants down as 3.x is barely ready for tablets, let alone for phones. So now they have quite a bit of work to do and don't want to give away the goods to smaller manufacturers (who will simply make shit phones and hurt the brand) just yet. I think these smaller partners can survive waiting a couple months for 3.0 while google puts in all this work to make it acceptable. Heck, its free expert level coding for them. I'd hate to see what Sylvania or A-Open or whomever would do with a half cooked 3.0 source.
Hmm. What's nice about this; there are thousands of these kinds of posts online and many without affiliate links hooked up :)