skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if checking multiple times in two weeks flagged your name as "popular but unregistered", prompting its' registration? I doubt any registrar would grab every single name, but ones that suddenly got search hits probably get snapped up.

Like the article suggests, I always search at the terminal. If the name is available it gets registered then. I look at it as 8 bucks buying me a one year option on the name.
Being bald is a huge stigma. Simply put (if overly generalized): most women find bald men very unappealing. I started losing my hair in my mid-twenties, and incidentally this was the last time when a woman was interested in me. Of course, some people can compensate for this, but apparently I can't. I probably shouldn't write this publicly, but I had some success going to parties with a wig. Really! So yeah, baldness needs a cure.

It's debatable whether it's an illness, however there are some findings that suggest the underlying condition not only affects follicle cells but also prostate tissue, leading to a higher chance of developing cancer. But even if there were no ill effects, a cure would still enable bald people to lead a normal life.

That being said, I don't believe this cure exists. There are good preventative drugs, but it's highly doubtful any medication could actually restore dead follicles in humans. Those effects on mice are very likely not transferrable.
To become proficient in PhotoShop will take a long time. If anything it will make you iterate slower, much slooower !

Just hire a comptent designer and work together to iterate fast, really FAST! It will work out less costly and your productivity will increase.
Never underestimate the power of small teams. Less communication overhead, more aligned set of goals, better delivery time and improved ability to address change compared to larger teams.
I truly hope this works out for them. It's great to be able to jump into something fun after hours of head down coding on something that may no be very interesing.

Best code I've written were always little tools for myself or team to use plus it keeps you sharp by allowing you to experiment with things you may never have tried with code meant to go into production.
Gotta break out all my old C64 casette tapes.
Edit: the link that one of the commenters provided is a lot more informative (if you came here lookinf for a "how")

http://www.dipoll.com/blog/2010/11/six-steps-to-run-cheap-an...

OP, if you're reading this, how did you get such low CPC rates on facebook?

No offense, but this post just sortof sounds like bragging. What were you targeting? What were you bids? What did your ad actually look like? What sort of picture did you use (facebook ads require a picture, last I checked).

Etc. etc.

This is really interesting to me, because I've tried facebook ads before and done miserably with them. I was planning on doing some more reddit self-serve advertising this week, but if you can get traffic from facebook for as cheap as you're claiming, I would definitely give that a try instead.

This would be a really great post if you could share some of the research you did.
Related article that appeared a while back (focusing on growing hair follicles from stem cells).

http://news.bioscholar.com/2010/12/a-cure-for-baldness-could...
Yeah, Arduino does have that same spirit.

The nearly direct access to the hardware was what made the C64 so cool. This new C64 has none of that, unfortunately.
If the resources are here and shit hits the fan (I don't see that ever being the case with Canada, but hypothetically), we can just take them. It's not a homeland security issue.
Anyone who is interested in this stuff that hasn't heard Jeri Ellsworth's Google Lecture about her life and her experience designing the C64 DTV 30-games-in-one joystick must watch this.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1053309060448851979...
You sure beat up that strawman pretty well. Good thing no chemicals are used in making fuel or in the production of your F350. And nobody is driving older Prii, you'll have to tell some of my customers they don't actually exist.
I don't get this mentality. I heard a lot of this sort of speak when The Social Network came out about how so-and-so was an early adopter as if they somehow made history. I could understand if you submitted your startup or tipped off TSF to help them grow, otherwise you're just another consumer, but with an overinflated ego. I'd like to coin this behavior "Backseat Entrepreneurism".
Awesome, long flowing hair... On your back!
Here's the key to this article:

> Tamny believes that insider trading laws should be abolished, on the grounds that they are vague and inconsistent. Tamny also believes that insider trading helps, rather than hurts, individual investors, because it results in information more quickly being factored into stock prices.

There's no argument here for why Sokol's actions don't constitute insider trading, and there's only a conclusory statement that they didn't harm anyone. I don't really see why it wouldn't be considered insider trading, and I think there's a good argument that he's breached his duty of loyalty to Berkshire.
Twitter DataSift Partnership
Skype's user experience designers -- assuming they have any -- finally have management's answer to the age old question. Yes, you are indeed chopped liver.
Headline is somewhat misleading. This guy doesn't think that insider trading laws should exist ergo it wasn't illegal.
Could you recommend resources for learning more about Arduino? Is http://www.arduino.cc/ a good place to start?
Generally cooperative multitasking systems like these (anything based on greenlets, I think) mean that you are running concurrent tasks in a single process, with a single set of shared data. It's basically the same as threads, only you can't have multiple tasks literally accessing the same data at the same time (though with the GIL I guess technically that's true with threads too ;).
Can Etsy Scale?
OK, I put it up on GitHub. https://github.com/shachaf/jsgif
> I also think taxes are needed. I think a bitcoin-driven economy is one that is hard to tax because it's hard to prove that person X has, or has received, some amount of money. Even sales tax seems difficult to collect. Is there some form of tax that would still work?

Real estate still works well.
It depends on how old-school your company is.

Play Framework, while it is still using Java, breaks the old-tradition of getter/setter. Your peers might resist instantly when they saw that part.

If Play Framework is too extreme for your workplace, I'd suggest to give Spring MVC 3.0 or use the latest Java Servlet 3.0 in JEE6.

Java Servlet 3.0 supports annotations (http://blogs.sun.com/swchan/entry/servlet_3_0_annotations) that provides routing capability (might not be as powerful as Rails routing, but still something new and nice to try).

For ORM, either JPA 2.0 (recommended) or Hibernate (Hibernate specific APIs, not Hibernate as JPA 2.0 provider). But as with any ORM: you need to know it well (ActiveRecord is not an exception either).

Additionally, JPA 2.0 provides Level 2 Cache API interface: you can either write your own but conform with the API (the API is very simple) or use the one provided by the JPA provider.

Hibernate (if you use it as the JPA 2.0 provider) supports a variety of L2 caching solutions (SwarmCache, EhCache, OSCache, JBoss Cache, Infinispan, etc). Plug n play baby!
Quora Makes Changes Aimed at Doctors and Lawyers
I am pleased to discover that youtube-dl can successfully download this video.
Hear me out, my chrome-domed friend.

This man, the women would not find appealing. His appearance reduces his status: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VlmHNP9So5Y/Sm86i7qHqLI/AAAAAAAACe...

In holding on to the effectiveness of his remaining fertile follicles, he fails to display the very might and youthful vigor he seeks.

This man, on the other hand, the women love: http://filmpopper.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Patrick-Ste...

This is not only because men improve with age (to a certain point), but also because he cuts his remaining hair very short. He is, as Stephen King once described a character, "unabashadly bald." His confidence is such that he does not cling to the ghost of locks he lacks.

Another example: http://www.philosophyblog.com.au/images/alain-de-botton1.jpg as opposed to http://metkere.com/images/alain-de-botton-thumb-500x356.jpg

Now, I would encourage De Botton to cut his hair even shorter than in the second picture. But by cutting it as short as he has, and shaving the straggly portions up top, he has improved his appeal by indicating his comfortability with the situation.

You might also note a certain Mr. Jason Statham and that fellow who used to be called The Rock.
Thanks for that Video Toaster vid! Really brought me back.

The Video Toaster was way ahead of its time. When I was doing video production, we were still using a Video Toaster for live CG and graphic display, and that was in 2002.
A few of my Git tricks, tips and workflows
>HN IS a subreddit, targeted at Hackers

However, we are talking about how the scale of HN is getting to the point where people are complaining about S/N ratios and as you say:

>exclude newcomers, aggressively moderate newcomers, or succumb to newcomers.

I think this is shortsighted, elitist or both. First, you/whomever posted this has clearly left out a better option; ADAPT to newcomers/scaling.

While I agree that HN may have been like a subreddit, with a target audience, HN is growing, entrpreneurship is growing, the startup ecosystem in the valley is growing, our knowledge base is growing.

Eschewing newcomers and growth is to operate in fear of progress.

Taking the spill-over and iterating what HN is to accommodate is not to "lose its cred" so to speak...

Further, I am not advocating a straight adoption of reddit, but I do feel that HN can learn a lot from how they enable the community.

I had written a bunch of suggestions in my first reply, but deleted them, but I was suggesting some options along the lines of:

Validate SMEs in given areas and give them high-level moderation/influence.

Post a clear HN-etiquette that delineates posting format/commenting format that the stie wants.

Earn further features/user abilities through karma - such as allow SMEs/high karma users to only create HN-subs.

There are a lot of things we can do, but to cry in the corner over newcomers is never a winning solution.
Python 3 added type annotations, but I've yet to see much interest in actually using it. Traits (http://code.enthought.com/projects/traits/) pursues the error-checking side of type declarations, while Cython pursues the speed side. If you want both then too bad ;)
+1.

But there are also people with track records at getting it right first time. Eventually the check signers (or the check signers bosses) work that out. (Hopefully before all the talented designers go broke.)

Reminds me a lot of this:
http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/10/dear_gap_i_have_your_ne...
Rails Hiring Tips
Definitely going to write an article on this topic, but image and keyword targeting are the two big ones. But a lot of it is just about knowing what to A/B test and the mistakes to avoid.

The best guide I've seen for optimizing online is the Shoemoney guide:

http://www.shoemoney.com/facebook-advertising-soup-to-nuts-g...
Suggest HN: Project summary instead of timeframe in submission titles
It has become fairly common here to share projects using submission titles like, "Show HN: My weekend project, Foo".

I really like that people share their projects here, but I would prefer if such submission titles were more descriptive, along the lines of, "Show HN: Foo, a bar for bazzing".

Do others share my preference?
The haircut is exactly the same in both alain de botton photos.
Neat application - keep up the good work. A couple points of improvement are 1) after being redirected to the site, I couldn't really go back to where I came from (HN, in this case), 2) not to be overtly meticulous but I was wondering why the buttons are pushed around 2px down on hover (tested in Firefox 4 on OSX 10.6), and 3) the comfy AJAX-y feel could be there if the box was a static size beforehand, when latency increases client side, the kill/keep buttons are really in a funny position. Overall this is definitely something to use again - cleaning up lists on Twitter seems to be egregious (and I'd imagine without the API rate limiting it'd be more than 1 person/screen :-P).
Why didn't you wait to submit this until you actually had something to show, then? Could you even give a couple of tips other than "be good at targeting"?

Sorry, I'm not trying to be snarky, maybe I haven't had enough coffee today or something.
From Gregory Clark's _Farewell to Alms_:

> However, in preindustrial England, and indeed in many preindustrial economies, inflation rates were low by modern standards. Figure 8.7 shows the English inflation rate from 1200 to 2000 over successive forty-year intervals. Before 1914 inflation rates rarely exceeded 2 percent per year, even in the period known as the Price Revolution, when the influx of silver from the New World helped drive up prices. In a country such as England, which had a highly regarded currency in the preindustrial era, the crown did not avail itself of the inflation tax, despite the close restrictions Parliament placed on its other tax revenues. Only in the twentieth century did significant inflation appear in England. By the late twentieth century annual inflation averaged 4–8 percent per year. Thus there has been a decline, not an improvement, in the quality of monetary management in England since the Industrial Revolution.
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> ...Thus in Roman Egypt wheat prices roughly doubled between the beginning of the first century AD and the middle of the third.[12] But that reflects an inflation rate of less than 0.3 percent per year.

I submit that it is unlikely that any of your explanations would operate over most of England's post-Invasion history and also in Roman Egypt a millennium before.
Highcharts is open source, but it has a restrictive license for commercial use. It is free for non-commercial use (personal, non-profit) and it is also free during development, even commercial apps.

I also highly recommend. It's a pleasure to work with. Sites using it include MixPanel if you want to see it in action.

http://www.highcharts.com/license
Nice. Another service that I'm not going to give free data to anymore.
I'm the other side - the UX guy for hire.
Like all design the problems occur when you ask a designer to step in towards the end of a project, when all the fundamental mechanics are locked down.

Good design can improve things at any stage. However, great design needs to tackle the whole problem: give me a problem, ask me to solve it.

The most important thing for a UX designer is access to real users. Sometimes we can imagine it; often we can't. If we have to guess we might solve the wrong problem.

Often, outside designers bring an unencumbered view: one nicely away from development talk and developer think. We can create UIs that work like humans think rather than the internal structures that drive the software. It is that lack of distance that often makes programmers the worse people to design UIs (and generally causes the tension).
I assert that it is millimeters shorter in the color photo, and that this is an improvement.
> Hear me out, my chrome-domed friend.

Thanks for making me laugh :-)

Yes, I do shave my head as well. Sadly, I still don't have the charisma, the fame or the good looks of Patrick Steward. Like I said, some people can pull it off, but not that many. And what if Patrick Steward had the choice? Chances are, he'd opt for a full head of hair and probably even more women would find him sexy because of it.

Also, I thought Sinéad O'Connor was quite attractive without the hair. That doesn't mean I would recommend it for 99% of the women either.

On a personal note, two women told me point blank they'd be attracted to me if I had hair and others have made remarks about how important nice hair is for a man. Sure, it would be great to have other qualities to compensate for this, but since I don't it apparently comes down to hair over baldness.
The one you are more likely to finish.
If you liked this, you'll love the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. I'm amazed nobody mentioned it.

http://www0.us.ioccc.org/main.html
Either way, he's the kind of guy who would look better with hair.
Google's Product Head Jonathan Rosenberg Resigns as Larry Page Becomes CEO
Pandora, other app makers subpoenaed over user data collection
Quit Your Job Right Now
Wait ... he says he gets 5 x the sales on iOS but then drops this line:

> MLB recently expanded the number of supported handsets from 6 to 11

So out of literally hundreds of Android handsets on the market they supported 6?!!?! And they wonder why their Android sales are not very good? Am I missing something here?
The other site is interesting as they're using a somewhat unorthodox strategy, generally most people who do FB optimizations buy CPM rather than CPC as FB charge a premium for CPC adverts.

I'm guessing the reason they're getting cheap traffic is that their targeting countries where very few people advertise so there's almost no competition for traffic. It's an approach I hadn't really considered.
There would be some irony in that since it would allow Oracle to use them to defend against any counter strike Google makes in the Java / Android patent suit.
yeah, i really disagree with this article. although i've had good and bad experiences outsourcing all aspects of design here's the real trick in my experience: a totally amazing UX person is a rare bird. if you're doing a startup, the likelihood that you can entice them to leave their clients behind and come work for you full time is unreasonable for you and them. hiring them on a contract basis to do the work gets you first class work and allows you to build a long term deep relationship with them. if they love the product, maybe you can hire them later.
the other thing is you don't need a UX person full time. you need a UX person to manage someone doing your wireframes and then manage a designer to make them look cool.
frankly, i don't see any way around outsourcing UX for a startup. your and their risk is too high to join forces. you'd waste their time. they'd waste your money.
Do you mind linking to these studies? I am genuinely interested in reading them.
And if you aren't sufficiently impressed by that, look up her from-scratch pinball machine or her basement CMOS fab or any of a million other things. I am in awe of Jeri's creativity and her ability to find the time to do so much cool stuff.
Ask HN: What can the Point/Comment ratio tell you about the type of story it is?
I did a quick search and found nothing, anyone?

Basically I am wondering what information can be gathered from the number of points/comments, and the relationship between the two. It would really awesome if it was a function of time too.
Use Cython, then. It's my preferred way of writing C.
It's ok, I understand the frustration as I too am someone that has struggled with this and wished OP would have included said details.

Looking forward to his detailed write-up.
Despite being "dirt cheap" for potential clients such as companies, I find the 30 cent barrier an awkward price point since people who will want the data are probably willing to pay more, and it definitely bars the casual developer from access to social data.
You may also like Michael Steil's awesome "Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk": http://www.pagetable.com/?p=54

Amazing technical overview of the C64, including the latest in demo effects, in 64 minutes.
It's a complicated question. I faced the fact that some people give to the outsourcing is because they do not know how their product should work. This is no joke, these people still have. And outsourcing for their only salvation.
On the other hand, I like the author, a loner and a totally different perception of the work when you're not eager to discuss the project with a friend, and nonemotional silently looking at the monitor. And at this point of view, too, has its advantages - all seems quite a different perspective.
The 4 Things Startups Should Know About Their Customers’ Budgets
> Cramming a modern PC...

Sadly, there is little option to that these days. A computer that can't run Windows instantly loses 90% of its possible buyers.

If you go that way, you'll have to price the computer as a novelty item and you won't be able to use high-quality components like the cherry keyboard these computers have.
Cheapest CPC, maybe. But usually very low conversion rates on FB.
The shuttle was only ever built because of massive military funding for toys and wargames: http://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
There are a lot of things we can do, but to cry in the corner over newcomers is never a winning solution.

I'm not suggesting that we do, obviously. However, newcomers have the disadvantage of not knowing the history, the ethics, the goals/ideals. They only know what it was like 'when they joined'. When I joined, I was corrected a few times for missteps I made. The growth rate makes that less and less feasible. It isn't that I hold a grudge to new people, they are just disadvantaged when it comes to the communal etiquette standards.
Twitter had an XMPP feed at one point, but shut it down due to scaling issues and later brought up their current firehose/sitestreams service. Does anyone know if they ever talked about why XMPP didn't scale for them?

Site streams requires making one connection per 100 users; perhaps they were having trouble sharding with XMPP?
The most important thing isn't the fact that these Salamanders have photosynthesis capabilities, it's that they don't have to eat any algae to get those cells. They're passed down, generation to generation. There's a sea slug that robs algae of chloroplasts, then uses those chloroplasts for photosynthesis, and may go the rest of its life without eating. The slug, however, has to eat some algae at the beginning of its life.

If the linked article makes mention of salamander photosynthesis, I do not see it. Therefore, it will be valuable to coordinate these two lanes of research, to end up with a genetically photosynthetic animal.

Sea slug link: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16124-solarpowered-sea...
Google updated their stuff this year, so 2011 is fine.
Investors and raising capital are the top ideas these days. I also think about how if I could go back in time and change one thing at my startup, it would forcing myself to get a co-founder.

As a solo founder it is already difficult to work on product development and handle business operations. You throw in raising capital to hire four people and your workday in the short-term hits 12+ hours if you want to make any progress.
Among Commodore fans? I doubt it.
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Health Care Incubator Starts Up
> access to shared variables leads to race conditions ...

Race conditions are a type of programmer error, not an invariable consequence of shared state. You seem to be implying that high concurrency increases the risk of race conditions, which it doesn't. A race condition is either present or it isn't. A correctly written application that uses threads isn't inherently less reliable than a single-threaded application, it is just harder to write.
Ask HN: Is my co-founder not suitable for a startup?
He likes to have leisure time and take things slow. He produces great work, but only after many delays (everything takes about twice as long as the original timeline). He doesn't like to rush things and hates to be uncomfortable in any way.

Once, he took a 10 day vacation, even though we would have benefited from him working during those days. He also took an entire weekend plus Friday off to celebrate his girlfriend's birthday.

When I bring this up to him, he implies I'm the one being overly intense. Am I? Ideally, I'd like us both to work 8 - 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If his attitude and behavior aren't suitable for a startup, then should we split immediately? We just signed a significant distribution deal and should launch our product in two months. Splitting now could mess that up.