skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I have no idea. Do they sell bikes? Repair bikes? Manufacture them?

If they do sell bikes, I think they at the very least need an inventory list. I hate store sites where I can't search to see if you have a product and what the price is.

While it is minimal, its about as useful to me a yellow page ad -- which is to say it also has minimal value.
Would the two cats receive equity equally or would the first cat receive more for coming up with the idea to live with you?

Keep in mind that you can always bring in a dog later, there's no reason to make it a cofounder.
What if the Big Bang was AN event rather than THE event.

IF for example, conditions in the universe were collapsing and the Big Bang was a result of a critical mass of, well, mass collapsing in on itself to result in some cataclysmic level of pressure that some quantum-fusion* occurred which we call The Big Bang?

*Quantum Fusion == some unknown physics state/event type that we know as the Big Bang...
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You're right. And I commented about it, too. My bad.
This reminded me of a pg quote:

“When you’re forced to be simple, you’re forced to face the real problem. When you can’t deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance.”

http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
Can also make the account do spammy things or change to a fake name, which could speed the banning.
wrt "honest, legit reasons" as opposed to selfish ones: the deal was scuttled by a person partly in charge of Google VOICE, which would have surely gotten killed if Google had bought Skype. Looks pretty selfish to me.

This is a very revealing article. Google is more dysfunctional than I thought.
Ok, I'll look into that, thanks!
Ask HN: How to find (F)OSS projects to donate my VPS's resources to?
I own a linode VPS, and it seems I barely ever go beyond 1% of the transfer rate.

Is there perhaps a consolidated place where FOSS projects can advertise a need for resources, so I can donate to them whatever I can? How do I go about searching for them? I've already paid for the VPS -- so I might as well see it used by the good people out there than to see it waste away.

That said, I'll be happy with any ideas of what I should do with my VPS (besides playing around with anything and everything -- which I sort of already do :) -- the Linode docs are fantastic on that end in guiding me with whatever piques my interest).
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Looks legal to me. It was done buy Boondoggle Films and it's posted to their YouTube channel and they are linking to it from their site here:

http://www.boondogglefilms.com/aardvarkd.php

(I'm not going to lie - I bought the DVD when it came out in 2005)
sigh

I remember getting excited when the Pre first came out. Sadly, it wasn't available in India. It still isn't. This is why Android will take over the mobile world: it's ubiquitous. Also, Samsung and HTC, the two largest players in the Android market, actually care about markets other than the USA and Europe. The Galaxy S II, for example, will launch in 120 countries.
I went through about 80K in savings. There was some extra stress on the marriage (wife, 2 kids, mortgage payments.) But I was working from home mostly except when pitching VC's. My wife was very supportive.

When the startup died, I moved into contracting. I was doing quite well contracting and then one of guys who was on our board of advisors needed some development work and that led to me having substantial equity in the company and still working from home.

So the start up was a total failure, but I learned a lot and it lead me to where I am today which is much better than where I started.
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Because it's a website. If I expected a business card, I'd ask for a business card. I go to the website because I expect it to give me relevant information. If I go to the website and find that I have to go to Google to search for directions or a map, you lose out on a lot. Number one, I'm no longer primarily thinking about your establishment. Number two, my time is wasted. Number three, as I'm searching Google, it recommends a closer bike shop.

It's a webpage, I don't see it unreasonable at all to expect or hope that it has basic webpage features.

As a customer, I know that the effort to insert two <a href> tags is microscopic compared to even a small number of customers having to do those actions manually. And if that tiny bit of effort causes even one additional conversion... it seems absolutely worth it. No?
Hey buddy, you might want to check your code. Your index's source is filled with drug-related spam links.

Edit: Oh, and by the way, I liked your site a lot better than the OP :-)
Wow. Work in the financial industry, mid-level is about 100k+
Thanks for the link to the paper, turns out to be both an interesting and useful read.
There are laws that restrict her from lobbying current FCC employees and even staffers in and around the regulatory body. However, these cross-overs are still too common, meaning the restrictions in place probably aren't strong enough.
It took maybe 4 hours, but it was fun and I learned a lot (not just about Heroku).

I've been using Heroku since near the beginning (we were in YC W08 together) so I was already vaguely familiar with the architecture. It was mostly filling in the details.

Infrastructure is a side interest that I'm trying to learn more about, so I can't guarantee I'll be able to answer your questions, but it's worth posting them anyway. Hopefully other people can answer as well (of course that's what I thought when I posted the Heroku question... I ended up answering it myself)

Rather than directing the question at me, just post a normal question on Quora, and post the link here or message me.
What's wrong with a dead end? Isn't SSH a dead end, since we haven't seen any major modifications ina while? Maemo still has SSH, it's still linux, and it's still debian. There are community projects to update software and fix bugs.
+1 -- and having gone through publishing a book on Lulu and Amazon, both services are fine to get dead-tree versions of your book into the hands of your readers (and you don't have to build a payment solution -- or anything other than the marketing verbiage).
I completed an internship at a large bank this summer in their Technology Analyst program. They basically house all the technical people into technology and it ranges from IT people to developers. Within the world of finance front office > all and are treated like it and treat others like crap. If you're really interested in working in finance as a developer I would look into either doing quant development or working at a respected proprietary trading firm like Susquehanna International Group, Optiver, GETCO, Jane Street, etc. These firms are definitely more quant and your development skills will be utilized here far more than at a large bank. Hope this helps.
The starting salaries in the Technology Analyst programs at large banks in NYC are ~65k.
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interesting, can you shoot me an email with your quote
Two cats doesn't make you a crazy cat guy -- in some ways, two cats are easier to care for than one. And if the cats like each other, they'll frolic and cuddle together, which the theoretical women you bring home may find adorable.
Sure, but seems arbitrary considering what's on the front page at the moment.

* The Final Answer For What To Do To Prevent Piracy [of Indie Games]
* The most minimalist commercial website you'll ever see
* "The worst algorithm in the world?"

Mine at least was a play on a well known quote

EDIT: clearly not as well known as I imagined.
Aside from the fact that... she still is in the FCC. At least for a few more days/weeks. Good thing she doesn't have a conflict of interest.
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Ask HN: Google hates me, stumble upon loves me?
After paying for about 3000 visits from stumble upon, traffic to one of my sites has increased to about 1300 in the last 30 days from stumbleupon (non paid) and about 10 from organic google searches, over the last 30 days. This is a 10x increase in traffic over the last 3 months.
Has anyone else experienced a strange traffic pattern like this? I have had nearly 0 signups from this traffic so I'm concerned what will happen if/ when this traffic drops off, although it's been increasing steadily over the past 30 days. Your thoughts?
That seems really, really low in comparison to Silicon Valley. The typical numbers I've heard thrown around are 90-100k for new CS grads, plus bonuses. Does "Technology Analyst" refer to 'IT guy' or 'developer'? Also, the salary seems really hard to live on in NYC(being from the area).
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Curious, what was your role, if you don't mind saying? Were you a developer? Did you find the problems you were working on interesting? Would you go back?
Bootstrap Marketing: Find a phone book, find a phone, flip to a page, dial a number, rinse wash repeat.
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No need to code anything up -- it's already been done. Set it up on http://www.thepoint.com/ (which is the predecessor of Groupon, btw)
"1. Hone your analytical skills. As a mental exercise, break down anything around your in life into its base elements... You can break anything down into meaningful quanta. "

In general, I think this is a good "habit" for thinking critically in life - from job applications to planning a trip with multiple layovers to planning/executing a personal project.
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how exactly is that "not pushing it out" at you claim then.
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tl;dr: at most banks, the traders directly drive pnl. developers are seen as secondary since they treat the process as developers supporting traders. At other places, the developers are the true source of "alpha", and there the developers are treated like rock stars.

"developers are treated as second-class citizens" <-- partially true

There are two classes of developers: those who drive pnl and tose who don't.

To give an example, I built an ultra low latency trading operation. My development [granted, it was only part of my work process] directly resulted in pnl and it could be proven.

Some of my friends worked in the IT departments of some investment banks (GS, MS, JPM, etc). Many of them are doing things which do not directly generate pnl, nor could their work be attributed to the revenue of any division.

"paid comparatively poorly(though not absolutely) to traders" <-- partially true

Traders are paid more because it is easier to attribute pnl to them. Developers in a quantitative shop are paid better than the traders, because in those contexts the developers bring more value to the process than traders.

"are expected to put in long hours" <-- partially true

I've never had to work outside of 9-6. However, in some places, where they care about headcount, people work longer hours.

"- Is it true that developers are treated like support staff to traders?"

Depends on the place

"- To be blunt: What are typical salaries for software engineers in finance?"

For support, salaries are like 70K. At a quant shop, you are looking at like 100-150K. At a hft developer, 200-300K is pretty common (but those jobs are hard to land, mainly because those funds arent doing as well thanks to a low VIX)

"- For those who have experience working in the Valley as well: how does it compare?"

Cannot say
My first post with a lot of swearing... You gotta start somewhere, right?
They should really call it a "mombook" because it's ideal for parents or grandparents who just want to get on the internet and have a computer that just works and is simple. Imagine setting your family up with these and never getting tech support callsanymore.
I wish this post was about how to 'truly' get customers...then again, I might have read this as 'how to get your first customers' which is different than getting marginal customers once you get going.

Sure, blogging and establishing your founder's profile is nice and all. But when you are just starting out, have zero customers and your customers are NOT interested in your 'founder profile'...that doesn't help much.

Now that I want all those blog posts about getting from 0 - 100 paid customers, I can't find any.

Does any have any references that are similar to picking up a phone book and calling ?
This post is a great 101, but it doesn't provide much info on what kind of setup you run at Mixpanel. I see you ditched Cassandra, though, and you mention Riak. Are you using Riak, rolling your own sharding layer, or what?
Any medical transcription is required to HIPPA compliant, which basically requires that you have your own facility and protect the data. We can't ever be able to do that, which kind of rules out the medical transcription market for us.

White-labeling and partnering with other recording services is a really good idea and we are pursing it. We are working an API using which you can offer transcripts and use our service in the backend. That's high on our list of TODO things.
Front-office technology staffers at fixed income shops easily make 200K first year. The drudgery there comes from having to support trading software.
I also wondered how they were doing this. I tried to do something similar with donations for non-profits and got shot down.
What are all the Jeff Dean facts?
According to the HP webOS Developer Forums' Hardware Section, the offer's done. In fact, a lot of developers who took part are still waiting for theirs from back in February/March. The Pre 2 giveaway to developers really could have been executed better, IMO. Some folks who were approved back then don't even know if they'll still get one, which is disconcerting. Google can drop 5,000 special-edition Samsung tablets in a day, and HP's had almost three months to fulfill.

I respect that they could have just not given any away in the first place, but HP's in a critical spot right now trying to keep webOS relevant with developers--especially given that many in the first wave of webOS developers from '09-'10 have already long left the platform. Better communication on the status of the program and fulfillment would have gone a long way. I'm really hoping they can work the kinks out of the system when it comes to things like this with the resources HP has on-hand.
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"You don’t have to jailbreak or root your device. What other platforms call jailbreaking or rooting, we call entering developer mode."

As an iOS jailbreaker, <3

I mean, it removes a bit of the fun, but still.

I ought to get a Pre.
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Hi guys,
I have a question for you guys. I'm a fairly good hacker/programmer and have built a lot of cool stuff but I am not so proactive at the business end of things -- it's not something fundamentally interesting to me. Recently I've built an app that is sort of like pulse but it's for displaying and browsing products... any store can add their product. I'd like to get businesses to start putting their products on it. I built a landing page but I don't know how to get businesses to start registering -- How do I build the initial userbase? Here is the simple site I put up: http://muonmobile.com/
[can't reply directly to your latest comment, so doing it here]

'first year' == new grad? What is the income "ceiling" in this role? And why is supporting trading software bad? What does it entail?
Ask HN: Specifically, how did you get your first 100 (B2B) paid customers?
I always see posts here about marketing and 'bootstrapped marketing', but those always deal with the continual marketing efforts you do once you have the first set of customers. i.e. keeping the flow of customers into your funnel. What do you do if you have no funnel or no stream of customers ? How do you get that process going ?

How did you get from 0 - 100 paying customers ?

Tangible things like picking up the phone directory and calling people. I imagine there should be some interesting war stories about how people might do that.

For starters, I am in the process of contacting people through Quora. Once I have the process down pat, I will write a script that will make finding those leads much easier for me.

Do share.

Please note I am talking about a regular old web app or web product that is being sold to various types of businesses. The boring kind. Not the sexy 'social' apps.

Also, assume that I do not have any special insight into the industry - except for a problem that they have, that I believe I have created a good solution for.

How do I get to industry players to get them to look at (and possibly pay for) my solution?
Idle hands are the devil's tools and an idle mind is the devil's workshop.

That feeling is healthy :) By healthy, I mean that at least you aren't suffering from overconfidence. I've been having that feeling for months, and I cope by trying to occupy all of my time. HN helps :)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/gc-tuning-6-14... is the canonical source.
I did actually think of Rust, but after looking at the website I got the impression it was still very alpha. I'm all for competition, it's cool to see it's in active development.
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That depends. I don't have a good answer because I don't personally think Go qualifies. Rhetorically: is that really all you want out of it? Does Go really do it well enough in your opinion?

The thing about compiling to native code is interesting. Why is that important? And are you excluding VM languages which nevertheless produce system binaries in that?
Alcohol has some societal benefits. Some people find it pleasurable, it helps some people overcome anxiety in social situations, and it helps programmers cope with the horrors of programming in Java.

I don't see what societal benefits structurally unsound buildings provide.
What skills do HFT shops look for in a developer? Do they require finance knowledge, or do they "just" want a rockstar systems hacker who can optimize packet delivery latency by hacking the kernel?
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This question may be naïve, but I have Angry Birds for Mac on my laptop and when I play it, the computer works fine. When I started playing this version, my cooling fan almost immediately turned on full blast. Even when I'm streaming HD video, that never happens. Is it the fact this game is written in HTML rather than objective C the reason that it's so processor intensive?(it's a 13" MacBook pro running OS 10.6.7 if that makes a difference)
Thanks I checked out both Play Framework and Stripes Presentation Frameworks. There is so much out there, it is amazing!
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The argument about desktop apps may hold, but I cringed when I saw them included in the same boat as mobile apps.
i thought this was just an auxiliary service to other google services.. not really a competitor to s3?
So as far as I can tell the kindle app is a big reason why a lot of people use the ipad - kicking it off is going to hurt Apple in terms of publicity and users.

Apple tend to be quite good at acting in their own interests.

What worries me more is that if I was Amazon I would be aiming to get my kindle app kicked off the store (by doing something that pissed Apple but not my customers off) about the time I launched my shiny new kindle tablet.....
Ask HN: Technically interesting vs. a good business
If something is technically interesting is it likely to make a good business? How do you balance between doing what is technically interesting, and what is profitable?

If you have some tool to make programming 10x more efficient, do you have business, or just an open source project? Meanwhile, if you have a new way to do e-commerce, you may have the Groupon?

In the current environment, is pure tech devalued while everyone needs good, simple technology? As a hacker do you focus on building tech or a consumer business?
Has anyone ever done good research on how a minimalist web site might compare to a fancier version with respect to the various objectives of the site owner? Some other minimalist sites that perform quite well are Hacker News and Craigslist. Have site owners been mis-led into thinking that flashiness equates to credibility or customer satisfaction?
Are you using any Javascript plugins at all? Regular jQuery, Zepto, Backbone, etc?
this amounts to saying people are not competent to manage their own lives. which is true, but don't cloak it.
Thanks, I have decided to use RESTful JSON with Spring 3 + Jackson, mysql db.
I'm surprised no one has considered using CIDR notation for sharding. If you SHA-256 the key you've got 256-bits of address space. You could store the whole table very compactly and there are plenty of algorithms out there for making the lookup VERY fast.

You could use DNS to transmit the server info eg. do a lookup on a4.c7.3a.d4.ec.1f.5d.f4.c6.f6.5f.77.f3.71.f5.3d.fa.e8.ea.15.cluster.foo.com

In your DNS server just have a record for *.15.cluster.foo.com this effectively gives you a /8 on a 256-bit routing space. To find all the servers you need to query to query the entire keyspace just ask for an AXFR request on cluster.foo.com. This system also makes mirroring and partitioning extremely simple. Say you have disparate servers that can handle disparate amounts of data? Just turn your smaller servers into /9s

Note if you're considering implementing this there are some patent applications around it. Look in my profile if you want to code around the patent application.
Valves approach is best- Try to make the multiplayer experience worth paying for.

Unfortunately, The market is being forced by execs to move to a platform that is "internet connection required" for playing single player games and the tools to do this without piracy being a issue are going to be here soon ( onlive ) - Yes, occasionally a source will leak to the public but for the most part this new system is going to be worse across the board for the consumers.

Sometimes 'progress' sucks.
You've given us very little context. Are you bootstrapping? Are you an employee in a large company? Is your concern over specific projects? Or your place in this profession in general?

Maybe you should just step back and try to enjoy life more. Work out every day, learn to cook, take a trip, read more.

Maybe you should seek professional help. Or speak to your friends and family about it.
I've worked on a single, medium-size app to date, but I think these might have an impact:

- try Coffeescript. It may look strange at first but ends up way more elegant and readable

- use [Step](https://github.com/creationix/step) to ease sequential async calls

- visually organise your code (formatting, lined up declarations, well separated pieces of functionality). This can help a lot after you've moved on from one part of the codebase to another
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> More like the companies selling mortgages were desperate to get the loans off their balance sheets so that they could release the capital for new mortgages.

Selling them to GSEs. You do know what the "G" stands for, right?

And speaking of the GSEs, they lied about how many of the loans in their portfolio were subprime. As a result, no one knew that those loans were as common as they were, which threw off everyone's risk calculation.
meditate. It's a great way to bring some peace up there :P
No. It makes you more of a man.