skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Facebook has a big graph(on school peers and acquaintances.) Not too interesting, and even becoming a burden. Niches will grow in this next phase of interaction. The web is still so young.
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I've not seen any evidence keyword URLs give any SEO benefit. If they once did, it doesn't appear to be the case now.
They really live up to the borg ethics...
Devops as an actual movement / methodology is about dumping operations and QA as separate departments and making engineers responsible for the full end-to-end quality of the product. The automation like puppet, jenkins, selenium, etc is what makes this possible today. Ten years ago you needed a team of sys admins to keep your servers up and running, today, for most organizations, off the shelf software can do the same.

Of course, that doesn't give you anything to sell, so devops as a marketing campaign is about the same old shit repackaged with new slogans.
Yup. And then he ran it on his own for a year or so before getting into YC.
Congrats on your offer! Personally, I would chose the Firmware one because it will add a new skill set to your resume. The high-level software job sounds like just another job (in the context of your resume). The difference in pay is an important matter which only you can decide.
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If we're making inappropriate price comparisons, that 14mb is half a cent of hard-drive space. A whole 3 characters worth of SMS!
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There's some talk of SMS over GPRS. I have no idea how widely that is deployed though.
Thanks for all the comments. These are the steps I am going to take to change myself:

1) Keep a weekly schedule as suggested by salemh, including 'off-time' & 'force-yourself-to-reconnect' time

2) Work off my debt. One $ at a time. And YOU can help!

Check out this link & tell me if it's a good idea or if I'm nuts. If you like it, spread it!:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey...
FWIW, $50 is a very small amount to spend on advertising like this. So small that I don't think you can draw too many conclusions from it.
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maybe the stats are fake. i think thet want you to buy 5k minimum to get some start of a result
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I was expecting some animation upon my choosing :)
There are always inventory editors if you don't want to mine for materials and just build stuff.
Hmmmm. I couldn't find this server on storm's cloudharmony.com benchmarking page (It only goes up to the 48GB model), but it's interesting comparing nonetheless.

An OrionVM 16 gig of ram server gets an aggregate disk IO score of 156.79 vs. their 170.5 and an IOPS score of 159.79 vs. their 159.99.

And that's with redundant network backed hard disks in a visualised environment with all of those benefits and overheads.

What's also interesting is that this is a pxecloud with local 8 disk SAS raid 10 (Not san storage/etc.)

Overall, very interesting offering.

(NB: I work with orionvm a company that makes IOtastic servers)
I think the main rage people get here is when they get data on their phone and so can make a much more of a "like-for-like" comparison between various means of delivering 132 characters delivered to/from a mobile device.

I mean of the user experience, not of the very different backend networks in place.
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That's very fair, we're just submitting this as a benchmark.

We also (mistakenly) also spent $50 on Admob a few days before this. We didn't even realize we had spent it, that's how fast it happened.

I just can't conceptualize technically how these stats could be real.
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a plus link to a fb blog?

delicious at the beginning, will be tedious if you keep it up ;)
Ah. SQLI.
The only ad platform I have ever had any success with is Reddit's cheap $20 self serve ads. I haven't tried any Facebook ads though so there's that giant I have yet to try out. Reddit's great though mainly for the feedback and people who are actually interested in what you're selling and willing to critique/x post your ad.
Now, they are starting with both iPhone and android apps,
saying they need to nail mobile distribution, and saying
that maybe will never build a website at all, because it's
unnecessary.

This is especially true with location-based services like
photo-sharing, since the website is secondary, just in the
background.

I'm surprised this would apply to photo-sharing. If I'm taking photos and sharing them, I want some control over the organization and layout, the ability to add annotations, and stuff like that. I don't want to do that from my phone--it is fine for quickly uploading them into some kind of default setup, but I want to manage my information on my nice big monitor.
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Ask HN: What's the name of that website that pairs hackers with startups?
No, I'm not looking for http://jobs.usethesource.com/

I think someone linked to the website I'm looking for from HN recently. It didn't have much content, so I've been having a difficult time finding it again. I think it might have been advertised as "by hackers for hackers," and the idea was that you do a Skype interview with someone and they see for possible fits at various companies.

I've been desperately searching for this, but I can't find for the life of me. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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About the chrome extension urls, the source they use to generate those hashes and some interesting trivia here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1882981/google-chrome-alp...
I couldn't figure out what the point of this page was... and then I remembered that I have the "Facebook Disconnect" extension installed. Doh.
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Do you know if this includes filters for length? For instance would rips of audiobooks be viewed as eligible for free storage?
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$50 is not really a marketing budget. You'll get more downloads from this being on Hacker News... oh, wait... clever.
Key to my application is I can write a good letter and CV/resumé, whereas most people can't. They also don't know how to research their industry: finding the right companies, working out who to address the letter to, how to followup a few months later (or by phone a week later) without sounding pushy.

So, your idea has "legs" :) Somewhere between a virtual personal assistant, a resumé-writing and mailing service, and a campaign planner for job seekers. I want royalties ;)
We actually got a clarification from Admob that I should include in the blog post:

"[P]lease note that budgets under $200 per day can still be spent in a matter of minutes."

I was just frustrated that they didn't include this anywhere in their campaign or ad group setup or their FAQ. I had to write them to get this answer.

And then, why even allow for daily budgets below 200?
If by soon you mean in six months...
but it's focused on just 25 spots on the front page each day

You can get 35k views in a day from getting to place 93.

and you can get 8k views in a day from the 175-largest subreddit
Just publishing the code is not enough, in any case. In order for the research to be verifiable, everything, from raw data to the final paper (and notes on how you went about the process) should be properly documented and available. Something along the lines of this: http://rr.epfl.ch/

Of course, the problem with this is that it's a large amount of work and in most cases probably doesn't have a good ROI.

I have recently started to try this approach of better documenting everything, mostly because I have found it hard to go back to work I did 6 or 7 years ago and understand it (e.g. a bunch of one-off, poorly documented data processing scripts that could, if properly done, save me some time today). I haven't yet published anything like this yet, but it looks promising.
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Interesting. We did think of Reddit but maybe thought that an iPhone app which is a Facebook utility is probably not a Redditor's cup of tea.
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Well funny
I don't know what "for a limited time" means, but when accounts get downgraded, you keep the higher storage capacity until the end of the billing cycle. Then they give you a limited amount of time to delete files and download them.
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Mobile ads are largely a money drain. Most clicks are accidental and will not lead to a sale. I'd only recommend using AdMob if you are promoting a free app and are doing a burst campaign to break into the Top 25 chart of a particular category.

Secondly, a $50 budget is peanuts and paying $0.25/click for relatively un-targeted admob clicks is crazy. We normally pay $0.05/click for such crappy traffic.

We've spent 1000's on mobile ads and it's only an effective strategy for pushing your downloads a bit higher so that you have a better chance of hitting a 'gold spot' in the charts. E.g. when you are 26th and you want to get into top 25.
The biggest surprise for me is the removal of IE conditional comments.
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"Microsoft hasn't had good products or good intentions in a very long time."

No good products? Maybe we define "good" differently, but saying that MS hasn't had any good products for a very long time is just not true. Maybe this proves how dangerous the press and the bad reputation really is.
I completely agree with the article. Not a week goes by where I don't see this reinforced further. Just had lunch today with a guy I met through a meetup, and it might lead to paying work of some kind if I wanted it. A lot of the stereotypical application process and resume paradigm is all about filtering out and sorting random strangers who ping you across the transom. And it's only a proxy for the thing you want, not the thing you want directly. By going around that, by avoiding it, you avoid a lot of the pain and inefficiency that's experienced on both sides of the table. Go meet people directly. Show them what you're like. Smile. Laugh. Be kind. Don't smell bad. Be efficient. Do good work. Put examples of your stuff out there. Be findable. Be ambient. Increase your "surface area" and more opportunities will come to you. And if you're prepared when those opportunities present themselves, and you recognize them, you suddenly experience "luck" (where luck = preparation + opportunity.)
please someone invite me on G+ .. imransyedh@gmail.com
explanation: stealth mode and/or 20-somethings
I agree. The ~$0.25 CPC bid was suggested, we actually only decided to go with the suggested bid because they had warned us that demographic targeting would limit exposure.

We actually ran a similar campaign a few days previous where we had over 1,000 clicks at a .04 CPC and didn't see any increase in downloads.
Good marketing strategy.
From a 1000 clicks i wouldn't expect more than 50 downloads of a FREE app, for a paid app, you'd be lucky to get even 2 or 3 downloads.
I don't think there's anything wrong with a big or small approach to social networking, as both are necessary and useful in their own way. I think it's all about how well the site caters to their audience.

I used to feel that Facebook was just as necessary as Ravelry is to me (I am a knitter) until they started adding so much extra cruft and decided I want to read things like friends' comments on posts written by people I don't even know. So much extraneous information forced into my news feed and into the site in general made me stop using it as often. That doesn't even begin to address how anemic friends lists and such are for addressing how people really interact with the people they know.

In that way I'm really loving what I've experienced of Google+ so far. The idea of communicating in circles is so thoroughly baked into the product that it feels effortless to share one thing with, say, my coder friends, and something totally different to my family, without the other group needing to see that stuff.
btw - did you use AdMob's download tracking?
You can use profiles.google.com/yourname (if you haven't excluded your profile from search)
Interestingly, google.hk is blocked everywhere (which wasn't true when I visited last summer).
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Who the heck knows. I think adding an email address to your circles and then sharing something with them will trigger an email notification that doubles as an invite that works whenever new signups through invites are enabled, which isn't often. If anyone has better insight, please let me know.
This comment on the site is pretty much spot on:

If only I could trust you.

1) Your marketing text used to claim files were encrypted in a way that made it so even YOU could not see the data. This was a flat-out lie. But hey, your false advertising worked, since I trusted that you wouldn't be so unethical as to lie in your promotional materials. Stupid me.

2) You had a massive security failure, and you covered it up. Sure, some techies heard about it (usually third party) but for the most part, you decided that your customers didn't need to get an email letting them know that this was the sort of problem that happens at your company.

3) After you f--ked up with security, Arash didn't even pretend to care until it was obvious that there was massive outrage.

4) You edited the ToS so many times in a row that it served mostly as a reminder that your ToS is subject to change on a whim. So we need to not only trust the agreement as it stands on the website, but we also need to trust some proven liars, as well as all possible future acquirers of your company. That's... not feasible.

Basically, I think you made a great product, but that you have a really lousy and dysfunctional company. And it's kind of the predictable result of how your company came to be.

Maybe you two will be competent management in a few more decades but right now, only a f--king idiot would trust you dishonest ----s. Fortunately for you, the world is full of idiots.

Good luck, and I hope that someday you realize that Arash should never talk to customers (seriously. never.) and that you'd be well-served to find a way to fire his dishonest, customer-hating, utterly incompetent ass.
I've been out of California for almost 20 years, so maybe things have changed, but when I lived in Silicon Valley and worked at a small young company I often wondered if it would make sense for small young companies to hop over the mountains to the San Joaquin valley.

Suppose, for instance, you were in Merced (as it was 20 years ago--it has changed a lot since then I believe). Not much nightlife or culture, but most of the time you'd be working too hard for that anyway--you'd only have time for the occasional movie and Merced had sufficient movie theaters to get all the major releases.

When you could get a weekend off, you'd just drive up to San Francisco and stay for the weekend in a nice hotel.

The difference in housing costs between Silicon Valley and Merced were such that even if you were buying a house in Merced, you'd be paying so much less than rent on a decent Silicon Valley apartment that even if you headed up to San Francisco every other weekend for the culture and stayed in an upscale hotel and ate at good restaurants, you'd still come out ahead. For variety, instead of heading up to San Francisco, Yosemite isn't too far from Merced.
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Windows 7, .NET, Visual Studio, Office 2007 (Ribbon overhaul), WP7 (though a way to come yet, but tends to get good reviews, particularly for the UI).

Just because they are not your personal preference doesn't mean that they aren't good products.
Hi,
Tito here from OpenPCR. That's a fantastic question! The typical use case for PCR is "doing stuff with DNA" along the lines of what you read on the wiki page about PCR.
We hope that OpenpCR will enable new uses of PCR, where perhaps the user doesn't need to know much about DNA. What if PCR could "tell you whether you have the flu or a cold", or "is this sushi really yellowfin tuna", or "is this genetically modified corn?".
What do you think of those apps?

Tito
Might just be me, but with Google opening and closing invitations like this all the time, it's not even "like Gmail all over again". It's much worse. With Google creating this much artificial scarcity to bring buzz, demand and publicity, they are really creating immense expectations and putting themselves up for slaughter.

People are going crazy right now trying to get invites, to find the invites closed, their received invites not working because it's closed again, etc etc. People are putting up lots of work to get in, and the more work Google make people put in, the better the product needs to be.

The buzz around G+ is also just insane. People are creating news websites, tutorial websites and twitter-accounts for G+. People are gaming others to like and follow them on twitter and facebook(!) to get G+ invites (makes sense, eh?). There are already several third-party URL-shorteners dedicated for G+. Why exactly? If G+ is going to be huge, who cares about twitter's 140 char limit? The buzz-machine is working like crazy and people are desperately trying to cling on to what's hot right now, even though it doesn't internally or externally make any sense. Expectations are way high and are still going up, up trough the roof.

G+ seems 100% marketing-driven at this point, just look at the demo-material. In the Circles video they even say "You take a chance on people, because they take a chance on you". For a feature which lets you put a user in a list. This is Apple-grade marketing BS, so it's hard to not think the overall deployment strategy with the associated buzz is intentional.

I'm however starting to doubt if G+ will be able to deliver on the expectations being created for it. They are just going way too high now.

Although probably not as bad, this is definitely moving into Wave-land. People had to go trough hell and back to get Wave-invites, but they went trough whatever crazy means they had to, and once they got there the response was "This is it"?

Unless G+ can really deliver, it might end up the same.
Iterative search with a backoff strategy is called backtracking, no? Seems an obvious way of solving the problem, especially since if I was to write a solver I'd definitively do it in Prolog.
I have a PhD in Comp. Sci. too, and continue working in academia.

Regarding your code, you could have just uploaded it to SourceForge or any other OpenSource repository. I know a guy (Steve Phelps) who did exactly that ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasa/ ) with his PhD code.

On a related note, the institute where I am working now has this "great" simulation program (housemade in C++) for which a lot of publicatios have been written. However, the code is closed source and thus cannot be third-party verified.

This is wrong, and actually, a colleague of mine who just started doing her PhD found an error in the simulation program, bad enough that it makes me question the previous research.

In my opinion it must be a requirement that all software related to a publication must be made open-source before (or at the same time) the paper is published.

In the traditional research method, computer programs are part of the methods of the reserach. It is amazing that nowadays researchers can publish research without clearly showing the process they used to arrive to those.
Small typo : Shenzen should be Shenzhen.
I guess that is normal. 150 clicks and 0 downloads for 1.99$ app.

I think around 50+ clicks were accidental, and immediately back key was pressed before loading the content.

And with other 100, i guess your assumption was wrong that there is big enough market for this.

But something else is interesting here, you really can make money on ads from free apps --
I'd love to know more about this, if you have the time to point me to some place to learn/read/listen. I'm an amateur backend developer(yay node), and I'm trying to figure out how to make it so that even I'm not able to read the contents of a users uploaded file/generated content without a key. Can I use the password as this key? How would I go about this?
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Cool!

The concatenation in Stitch and Sprockets is generally pretty great and reminds me a lot of Python modules. Unfortunately, I really missed the auto-loading `const_missing` behavior from Rails.

To minimize imports, we export most of our classes to `window` and simply `require` static class dependancies to enforce sequencing. Then we loop over every module & make sure they were all required at least once before instantiating any classes.

In CoffeeScript, exporting to `window` is as easy prepending '@' to the class name. We then `require` base classes and other statically needed modules for sequencing. Example:

require 'model'
require 'static_thing'

class @User extends @Model

# Explicit requirement needed as the class is being defined
@foo = StaticThing.bar()

# But not here, if we `require` everything before kicking off the app
x: -> new DynamicThing()

I wonder if burrito could be used to automatically add those require statements for Model and StaticThing to the top of the file. Then, it would be nice to wrap DynamicThing in `require('dynamic_thing').DynamicThing`. That would be super awesome.
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Fair point. I think the lesson learned was that the targeting that we thought we were employing was not nearly as effective as we had anticipated (25-44, limited geographic area, iphone 3GS, iPhone4, iPad2).

We also were just amazed at the clicks registered in just seconds. The stat reports were already in and email alerts received in less than 2 minutes time. (Daily Budget and "Spread throughout the day" notwithstanding)
This is a really bizarre post.

>No one believes Steve Job's cares more about money than making good stuff.

Really? He gets blasted for being evil almost daily. Personally, I think he doesn't even care about money (since he's thrown away huge sums of money by just not exercising stock options), but a very loud minority (?) disagree.

>Google has the best products and undeniably great intentions.

Disagree on both counts.

>No one believes Larry Page wants anything more than to improve the world.

Couldn't disagree more. I believe Page wants people to think that's all he wants but I don't buy it.

>and their intentions have always been kind of borderline acceptable.

You're being overly kind here, but I agree with the sentiment.
Wow, you all know a surprising amount about PCR! Are any of you regular PCR users?

Tito
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