skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're exactly correct, but the mindset is much different.

Shit breaks when something's poorly coded, and has to be fixed (though, the DailyWTF would suggest otherwise). Whereas most people don't care if something's poorly designed and feel that a designer isn't necessary to just get it out there. Designers are fretting about losing mid/small-sized clients to stock templates, much in the same way that most businesses pre-DTP would buy stock letterhead and forms.

It's irrational, but when all of the clients talk about getting rid of the prissy designer one gets jumpy.
efforts in the reactOS project ultimately result in contributions to Wine as discoveries in one, help the other
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Canada is far less dense than even the United States and internet access is controlled by a duopoly, which is a bad combination for competition or affordable access.
Some of it is indeed stuck in the 90s style-wise and yes, some of it is badly put together clipart, but there are designers catering to this market who will do something that's acceptable for a startup. We used a similar site for our logo, because a real designer was expensive. You can also get too hung up on your logo and brand, and have no app because you're worrying about a logo...
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To be fair one of the selling points of Tornado when it came out was Speed. But that isn't really the point, my comment was about understanding how much choosing framework X is or isn't costing you relative to other choices. I'm not saying people should use Warp, I simply read the post recently so it was fresh in my mind.
Or something as cool as NeWS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS)
99designs exploits naivety and exploits economic hardship.

I can't see how the system is different to a pyramid scheme. The majority of the participants will see no benefit by submitting an 'entry'.

Crowdsourcing has the potential to be enormously beneficial to society - but the crowdspring / 99design model is unfair.
Do both. If you pick a completely different color scheme, it's easier to change $highlight = $red to $highlight = $blue than to remember the hex values.
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There is a bit more to YC than just investing in a lot of companies. If that were all the secret sauce you needed, the VC industry would probably rack up impressive average return numbers like cough 0%. (It has not been a kind ten years to the industry, to put it mildly.)
"You didn't understand how luck works"

I have written quite a bit of poker software and played close to 700k hands of poker over the last 5 years so I understand how luck works better than most.

My point is, that if you imagine 10 hypothetical identical players (they make the same move in the same situations) with $1000 starting bankrolls, all with moderate a positive expectation of 1bb/100 hands many of those players will lose a lot at the beginning, get discouraged and give up playing poker in the first 10-20k hands they play because they ran poorly.

The people who were "lucky" and ran well at the beginning of there careers (like me) have a chance to grow a larger bankroll and will be less likely to go broke in the future as their risk-of-ruin decreases.

This is exactly what the simulator does. It takes identical players, under identical game conditions and looks at possible outcomes. You can see for yourself how wildly different the results can be for a player with a 1bb/100 win rate. (Note: the simulator of course is inherently flawed because games conditions and the mental condition of the player are not accounted for)
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Your this seems like a really simple / elegant solution.
I have been using the Good Karma List machine at my site - http://www.formactivate.com/beta/signup.php

but your seems a lot more elegant. Possibility of getting the code?
The dumb phones of tomorrow are going to be the smart phones of today.

In other words. That superpower is bound to loose it's status unless it's able adopt to that mindset.
1. Separate presentation from layout. For example, all common layout (margin, padding, display, positioning, floats) go in structure.css and color, border styles, background, etc. go in presentation.css. It is far more likely that you will be making presentation changes going forward rather than to your core layout.

2. Only use the minimal selectors you need:
div#features ul.feature_list li.feature a{color:red;} could be DRYed up to be .feature_list .feature a{color:red;} which will be far easier to override later.

3. Avoid !important at all costs (sometimes you can't, but try).

4. This is personal taste, but I also usually avoid IDs for styling.

5. Grid frameworks (Blueprint, etc.) are usually overkill, but syntax frameworks (LESS CSS, Compass) are fantastic.

It really boils down to experience, and knowing what you DON'T need - most people add in a ton of extra cruft and end up with hard to extend and debug spaghetti.
Python has gevent, which is much faster than Tornado, at least at microbenchmarks (see http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers ). It's probably in the same league as Node.

In the article they also give the reason why Warp is so much faster: it auto-scales to four cores. The Python frameworks don't do this, you have to use multiprocessing for that (or just run an instance for every core).
That's his choice.
We use a combo of github/heroku. What has been especially nice is how easy it is to transition between people working on the project. As people come and go I can give/takeaway access and they can easily download the code, make some changes then push to staging or production.
On the other hand apple-computers.com would suck donkey balls even if the Apple stuff was 10 times as good as it is now.
"They are a stealth-mode startup"
I think for the same reasons as the US. Entrenched, equally-terrible service providers who co-conspire in their shitness. It's just magnified because Canada is so vast.
I was expecting an easter egg on completion. Instead, i got 200 alert messages.
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The flaw is that they've spent way too much time trying to figure out how to possibly squeeze the most revenue, before launching the digital subscription pay wall. The New York Times prematurely optimized profits.

Software development doesn't start with the last line of code written, it starts with the first user. They should have look to optimize as they go. The problem with the online subscription for newspapers is that there is no standard baseline to base price off of.

Yet, they won't fall short. It's relative. They dropped $40 million on the pay wall. They don't have to pay to create content, per se, it's already there (or will be there as it is written). At the cheapest subscription ($15/mo.), it would take 2.67 million subscribers to pay it off in one month. That's very liberal. Or a 1/2 million subscribers over 6 months to pay it off. In the end, they will very quickly the $40 million spent.
Also the regulatory body (CRTC) thats is supposed to be watching over these companies is run entirely by ex-staff of said companies. So it's very similar to the big banks in the US (their negative actions don't have market repercussions because of their ability to dominate the market with the help of regulatory bodies).
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Just imagine where they'd be today if only Cuil had the foresight to buy cool.com instead...
The new 30% subscription services that Apple deployed this year? Basically, Apple handles delivery, technology, etc. Producers just produce the content and essentially hand off deployment to Apple. The discussion surrounding this new deal from Apple seems to suggest that this is somehow some new thing that Apple is doing. It's not. In the online world, adult has been doing this for some time.
you make it sound like the swoopo of design!
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When do people ever say, "I bought an Apple computer"?

1978
This is pretty interesting. It seems we struck gold with the invention of the internet if information is as important and fundamental as this author says it is. I am hesitant to buy in though, as I still see information as the thing which depicts and explains matter and energy. Twitter and facebook shows us about people, bloomberg shows us about businesses. The information is near nothing without the substance it stands for. Still, We developed math beyond the concrete, so I think this guy might be onto something big. And like math, if we can shape the constructs into something applicable, like calculus to dynamics, this sort of thing can be very useful beyond the purely academic.
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At MySpace, it was management's failure, not Microsoft's
Interesting thought. This whole time I keep thinking that had they only raised a couple million or less, no one would have paid attention. The sheer size of the funding has made us all look at it and scratch our heads. Even if we think it is overvalued or another dumb social media startup, we've all looked at it and given it some thought, which is hard to buy.
The real problem and real solution for HTTPS
It's worth pointing out that "peer to peer" is a network protocol architecture, one that the Internet was designed for.

Technically it's unrelated to illicit file sharing, other than that game companies, free operating systems, and pirates all distribute large DVD-sized files and thus seek the most efficient way to do so.
- Government-barred foreign investment.

- Corrupt duopoly (the collusion is so deeply obvious to anyone not mentally crippled).

- Regulatory capture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
TechStars network appears to be helping smaller microfunds
I agree! I would make games for the iPhone, and let my imagination run wild!
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This line of thought is perplexing. Wouldn't want someone else's enterprise to succeed, now, would we?
The whole point is that the rest of them have built a recognizable brand. You can do that with an offbeat word like yelp relatively easily, but they'll never do it with color.
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Nah, the previous answers have it more right. Strange regulation has enabled this kind of a situation.
I dunno if this indicates anything, but one of the former core contributors to ReactOS co-wrote the latest edition of the book on Windows internals published by MS Press.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2009/07/0...

"You can watch me and David Solomon talking about the book and our history of collaboration in this Channel 9 interview we recorded a couple of weeks ago. David and I coauthored the previous two editions alone, but this time around we add a third contributor, Alex Ionescu. Alex came to our attention back when he was a primary contributor to the kernel of the ReactOS project, an attempt to develop an open source clone of Windows. Alex now teaches Windows internals training classes with David Solomon, including on campus here at Microsoft like I used to do before I joined Microsoft. Needless to say, Alex was a valuable addition to our team on this revision of the book."

(weirdly, Alex's LinkedIn page also indicates that he is now simultaneously employed both by Apple working on iOS (!) and as a consultant on Windows security and internals. Maybe it just hasn't been updated correctly? It's also kinda funny that MS apparently hires outside consultants to teach their employees about the internal workings of their own operating system.)
Again I think you're missing what I was saying. I'm not saying you should chose Node over Tornado or making any kind of value judgement, I'm saying it would be interesting to state the costs of choosing various frameworks to help make better decisions.

On a side note I'm very skeptical of the claim that gevent is in the same league as Node, the numbers in this site are close to the Warp numbers and gevent is still about 6x slower than Node. (Unless I'm reading the microbenchmark wrong). But that's the problem with microbenchmarks, they don't really tell you much.

EDIT: Clarity
For me there's a bigger issue here than price, and it affects a larger market than just graphic design. I completely support the free market argument, and when 99designs and crowdspring first came out I viewed them as a great opportunity for young/inexperienced designers to work on small low-stakes projects that lacked capital and produce innovative work that would get them noticed. My experience with both sites and their users in the time since has dispelled that notion.

Sites like 99designs guarantee a certain number of users will submit entries for your project. While that's a great way to counter the possibility of low quality work, it poses a serious problem for designers (and eventually customers).

In most projects there is only one cash reward. That means if 30 people submit designs, only one gets paid. From a pure efficiency standpoint that means 30x the work is being done. Not only is this wildly inefficient, but it eventually leads to lower quality work overall.

Compare this structure to something like Amazon Mechanical Turk or SETI@home. In most 'crowdsourced' systems each user contributes value to a project by performing a small part of the overall work. There is often a small duplication of efforts to maintain quality and speed when a small number of users produce aberrant or delayed results. But overall the entire project is cut into small pieces and distributed to individuals. That's not the case here. Multiple submissions act as an insurance policy against poor quality work, but the very nature of the system treats that as the norm.

Requiring a dozen or more submissions suggests the management is aware of this issue. Higher quality designers will eventually tire of the much higher workload required to generate returns and migrate to other systems. The longer this system exists the more it will become the home of an unscrupulous breed of designers who simply change text from project to project.

Many 'designers' have a collection of 30 'logos' that are basically clip art that they use for every project. Since the return on their investment is so low it's not worth creating something new for each project. That leads to heavily recycled work and what can (and often does) become little more than a non-automated clip art text replacement tool.

There must be a better system in which creatives can actually divide work instead of duplicating it, and in so doing create a more valuable final product. The same problem exists on sites like Victors and Spoils for advertising
This is an incredible and thorough amount of work. The SEO optimization was the next stage of my transition, and I was sort of dreading the research :P Thank you for this. It is invaluable.

I've been looking for an answer to the following question if you have any insight. I have a suspicion that it is not possible without tweaking the code:

http://groups.google.com/group/jekyll-rb/browse_thread/threa...
I can remember a couple of nights in my youth when I might have enjoyed putting together a location-specific ad hoc social network... right around closing time.
Yes, but that doesn't stop the ISPs here from treating all P2P traffic with the same hammer. As far as they are concerned, P2P = bad for network, and so they throttle it.
Actually curious on this point - is there an app for jailbroken iPhones to see what data is being sent out from your phone? A simple way? Packet sniffer with your phone's IP?
I would almost rather turn down $41M in the first round. I just don't need that much money so early on, and quite frankly, I think it would corrupt me. I'd be much more prone to making expensive, wild, ultimately bad choices. I'd be more liklely to overhire and overspend. I'd be more likely to get reckless. I'd probably, even if not consciously, scale up my company more quickly than I'd scale up my business. And I'd probably have an army of financial overlords demanding that I do so.

That's just me, obviously, and I can't generalize to everyone out there. But I have a pretty good feeling that plenty of others would fall into the same traps.

$41M is way too much for an early-stage startup for most people -- unless we're talking about a category with extremely high capital barriers to entry, like biotech or energy.

$41M to scale up an existing and growing business? Definitely. $41M to start up a business? No, thanks.
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Seeing a comment on Jeff's blog, I was jut looking up the WDTV ( http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Network-ready-Media-Pl... ) and tempted to try it out. I currently have XBMC on a classic Xbox and was wondering how this compares to XBMC (video formats, updates).
What you're describing sounds like the way SSH works. Here's some discussion about that (along with its downsides) from the other HTTPS post.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2376619
The issue is that Firefox still includes CNNIC by default. A few hundred (thousand?) people on the planet know that's a horrible idea.[1] When the community can't manage a no-brainer, pro-user change from the Mozilla foundation, maybe there's something to the compounded self-interest problem?

This isn't to say TOFU/POP is the right move. But there's a very real problem here. One that HTTPS's strengths do nothing to address or offset.

[1] And of those, I doubt they all remember to check their CA list at every browser install/upgrade/borrowed laptop browsing situation.
That's interesting - the only machine I've had which couldn't sleep under Windows is my Mac Air, whose drivers are supplied by Apple. The Mac Air Windows drivers also don't provide a way of turning off the wifi on flights, amongst other things.
> Wouldn't want someone else's enterprise to succeed, now, would we?

Not when it revolves entirely around data mining and hype.
Huh? Let this particular business succeed on its merits, just like the average start-up. Not merely on buzz fueled by 41 and six zeros.

No need a celebrity type success here (where ``celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness'').

Anyway, thanks for pointing out my post could be mis-understood that much.
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This post came at a pretty good time for me - I had been considering 99designs for the next redesign of one of my company's micro-sites.

What alternatives would HN recommend over 99designs? We've got our own coders, so need nothing more than an actual design/layout.
Many modern, enforceable (even in Cali) non-competes have a clause that provides you full salary/benefits in exchange for not working for any competing firm during that period. Pretty sweet deal for hacking projects you never got around to -- I've seen several folks in finance basically just go dark and hack on the beach for 6mo-1yr before returning to the field.
last time i checked ATI drivers were not supported. Not sure about Nvidia.
As long as there are so few sites that do this you could actually just check the list by hand before banning them from the index.
Nice looking JavaScript charts from AMCharts
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totally. such a simple idea...but I've done it a bunch of times, and it's pretty awesome to get an unexpected surprise from the past.
Err, from your website:

"We offer... consulting services at rates that are much less than you might find from other US based software firms"
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I once saw Gosling in an airport terminal waiting for a flight. He was consuming a large hot dog. I considered approaching him but decided to respect his privacy. When he finished his hot dog, he threw the messy wrapper directly onto the carpet. It was not a missed shot at the trash can, it was just blithely dropped on the floor. That's when I realized his work on automatic garbage collection had gone too far. I can't prove this, but I suspect that Bjarne would have discarded his own trash properly.
$300 - for a logo? This is way too expensive. You can hire someone on oDesk.com for $1/hr =))
Wait, zero need for marketing spend?

The publicity that this move bought them only extends to the insular tech news/blogger community.

Do you really think JoeSixPack or Kerligirl13 reads TechCrunch? And even if they did, do you think they'd try out the app based on the amount raised?

I'm sometimes guilty of this type of thinking myself, but really, stop thinking like a geek when it comes to marketing.
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Not entirely true. I know several startups (through the UofC b-school) that have used 99designs to get a first design and then stuck with the designer separately from 99designs for all future, higher-pay work.

99designs is a very nice way to find someone to work with long term when you have limited design needs (and money) up-front.
Impressive approach. Keep up the good work!
Is it? If traditional college guaranteed excellent this would be fraud. Think of money vs. fake money.

But both college and experience are no guarantee of anything. They are more like a faint hope. Hopefully someone with this resume will be as good as the resume suggests they might be!

Now on the other, if this hard crash course + hard working intelligent people results in true valuable skills, then is it fraud? Isn't who ever hires them getting exactly what they hoped they would get? It's like someone slips you Australian dollars instead of US dollars, but enough of them that even after exchange fees you're left with exactly the amount of money you wanted.
As they say, "anonymity loves company"
Some interesting optimizations in the changelog, like the -Ofast optimization switch that rolls up -O3 and other non-standards-compliant optimizations:
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html

And a switch to dump stack usage: A new switch -fstack-usage has been added. It makes the compiler output stack usage information for the program, on a per-function basis, in an auxiliary file.

But I was more excited to hear that the C++0x standard is finally going to include a foreach structure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Range-based_for-loop

And lambda functions too? Never thought I'd see the day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Lambda_functions_and_...
Love this quote:

"I think, at the end of the year, if you picked your team right, you'd have a pretty good shot at a profitable business. And if it fails? Well, good news, you can do it all over again. 40 times. And still have $5 million left"

As someone who has bootstrapped a company to profitability, you're definitely right about people the most important ingredient.

I think Color definitely took a lot of money, but the goal is to get the app installed on every phone possible - and that will take a lot of advertising money.
Something similar http://justbenicestudio.com
As with any co-founders, the best place to look is always within your direct or extended networks. For a female co-founder you trust, a savvy girlfriend or ex that you broke up with on good terms should do the trick.
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Should I seek a co-founder before or after building a prototype for my startup?
Yeah, unfortunately you'll get a lot of warnings from Xcode if you do this.
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The APLs (APL, J, K, and Q) have a very strong concatenative element to them, as well.