skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting point. I'm from Nigeria and I've witnessed how technology cycles tend to work here.

In America and the West, the technology markets are efficient enough for incremental innovation to be viable enough for a new product. That's not the case in Africa (I can only speak for Africa, not the developing world).

We don't innovate incrementally but we take massive leaps between commoditized technology. we need to build a stronger internet backbone that will give developers an active Internet market to cheaply test new products. it will be difficult for us to incrementally innovate otherwise.
Before we laud Google's awesome engineering capacity too much, perhaps we can consider the fuck-awful interfaces for adwords and adsense... It's not without its weaknesses.
Ask HN: How Do You Consume Hacker News?
I'm curious since I for myself have not yet found the ideal set up and I'd like to learn more about how other USE HN.

- I bought an iPad app that crashes upon opening (no answer from the developer, can one get money back from Apple?), what apps are you recommending?

- I'm following ycombinator and newsycombinator as well as newsyc20/newsyc50/newsyc100/newsyc150 on twitter

- I have hacker news daily in my google reader, which lists the 10 most voted stories of the day before

- I periodically check the homepage and try to comment where I feel like I can contribute

That's it, so what's your "set up"?
Or Panoramio?
Fermi Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

It's even more relevant if what we're searching for are civilisations that are 'similar' to ours, ie use radio/electro-magnetism for communication at a distance
I second yoga. I have dreadful problems with my neck and back, and my arms - I am one of those who sits like a pretzel for 8 hours working on a problem.

Yoga works out all of the auxiliary, odd little muscles, and the stretches are great for my posture. And the girls in the class are beyond hot.
Wouldn't it be better to get them a cheap laptop or something they can use to learn development and/or longform publishing of some kind?
>>Time has the worst navigation I've ever seen for a collection //

It's pretty bad, I looked and saw "lists" at the bottom of the page but sadly it didn't link through to a list just the same page instead.

>page views equal banner impressions //

I wonder how this affects the sites ability to retain people, they're offering so many off-site links, every tiny bit of content has this big chunk next to it saying "please leave the site". For those that do make it through would any of them actually have been less likely to click through with less advertising on the pages?

What I'm saying is that it certainly is going to increase impressions but at what benefit to the advertiser and with what cost to the content host ...
He said Google uses over 200 signals to rank a page. I am not sure if Matt accidentally revealed small insight into Google's ranking.
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Has the news.ycombinator.com open on a tab in my chrome and check out the news about every ten minutes when I am on the pc to see if anything interesting has popped up.
What it really boils down to is this: you cannot have both caching and privacy.

For the cache to work your browser must reveal to the server what it has already downloaded, this way or another. And the browser cannot really tell which of the downloaded pieces of data were specially generated to track this particular user.

A possible workaround is to create an intermediate cache to share it with multiple other people, but this creates other privacy concerns.
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The pull-up bar is pure gold by itself. It's unobtrusive (I have the door-frame kind) and extremely easy to use.
Man, it's the internet. Just put your servers in another country.
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I know exactly what you mean. I have stopped classifying many of the new ones as games. Instead I refer to most of them as Interactive experiences which is more suited to them for what they do.
Why put yourself in hell?

For the enjoyment of seeing the other party in hell.
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Hm, startup programmers have no family? Wasting AM hours to sleep, when the kids are in school/daycare, does not work for me.
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His version is a bit more realistic analogy of what people do.
Your last sentence, made me think. We must not forget that this is short term investment advice. They are not saying that no one should ever buy Google stock again.
"The trouble is that in this industry so often a patent is not a clearly defined property right, but a lottery ticket of uncertain value"

That's why you need lots of tickets to guarantee a win.
Ask HN: When your startup IDEA has already been built by someone else?
Lately, I have been thinking about few ideas for my future startup that I thought would be better if I built them. Some of those ideas were really great and as I was diving into them for some research, I came to found that their exists same sort of service already that is doing an excellent job.
My recent incident just for an example, while I was reading http://www.thedeveloperscode.com/, I got an idea for making a social network that would enable people share what they are reading, host their books if they are writer and even enable them to sell them (or let peoples subscribe by paying money) depending on their preference. And I came to know that their already exists http://scribd.com that is doing great job for this. I know it sounds silly that I wasn't aware of it and neither was using Scribd already, because I am noob from a middle class family of a underdeveloped country Nepal (Asia) where Internet is just emerging and has barely touched peoples daily life, which surely has effected me too.

My point is, what would you guys do, if you found that somebody has already built a service that you were thinking seriously from last few months? Would you just swift change your ideas? Make improvements in your idea seeing what their demerits are and what services/features they lack? Or just dive into it without caring and start building your own? I understand that their already exist Yahoo search before Google came up, Friendster before Facebook came up, and as there was already Facebook, Google+ came up.
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When DDG fails, use !g followed by your query. It takes you straight to the Google results. Decent compromise while you wait for DDG to improve in certain areas (and it is improving).
Maybe I'm missing something, but just what useful conclusion is the linked article attempting to draw by looking at the typesetting of patents over the years?

How does the typesetting of patents relate to anything meaningful other than how patents are typeset?
In my experience, from a short-term business point of view (read: how most people think), you're looking for the balance that stops just short of being such bad UI that people actually decide not to use it; but getting almost that bad is just fine, if it drives up banner impressions.

Personally I prefer to stay clear of anything that's actually annoying to users; I mean annoying as in genuinely annoying, rather than just "people will complain". For example, road block adverts (like when an entire page is taken over with an advert saying "your content will load in x seconds") are genuinely annoying, a sponsored site skin is (unless it's implemented/designed badly) not, because while people might see it and mutter to themselves, it doesn't actually harm their use of the site at all, and it's not nearly annoying enough to make them leave the site.

Interestingly, on one of my company's websites (our entire business is based around advertising), we had discussed the possibility of doing things like this and decided against it, on the logic that even though we wouldn't directly drive away users, in the long run it might contribute to their not liking the site as much. However after various pieces of user feedback, we ended up doing just this for galleries that our journalists take at events, now each image loads a new page cleanly, (giving new banner impressions), and feedback since we made that change has matched the suggestions we had beforehand: our readers actually prefer it.
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I'm sorry for that. We had to build it in Silverlight at the time since Microsoft was a significant contributor to Stanford Center for Professional Development. However, you can also find the same original material on YouTube, iTunes or BitTorrent.
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Time could save us a lot of time by listing it in a single webpage. I just dislike this stale technique for getting pageviews.
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I guess the implication is that if they haven't even made updates in formatting, that shows how slow-moving they are, and therefore the root of all patent-related problems.

Very shaky logic, but that's the best assumption I can make about it. Either that or this piece is actually written for typesetters rather than people on HN.
That depends on a lot of factors.

Do you really, honestly think you can make it better than what already exists? What is in it for your customers, can you make their lives better? Does your (financial) life depend on it or do you do it as a side project for the fun of it (1)? Can you refine your idea with real user feedback or are you on your own? etc...

(1) I develop a community climbing blog and a web framework as side projects, just for fun. The rules change when you do things just for fun - see also my blog post "Why re-invent the wheel" http://davidtanzer.net/node/81
* They are usually much more price sensitive and want things as cheap as possible
* The are usually not running businesses (ergo don't have a lot of money)
* They are very used to the free offers like gmail et al., and think since you're charging that you should be better.
* They also are a strong believer in getting justice if people (incl. them) get screwed and will readily post things like this in public fora.
Super! I like the fact my inspector now looks exactly like my TextMate theme :)
Google and Motorola: What the #*%?
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Giant_cheesecake_fallacy
Hated enough?, man, this must be the country where everybody hates everything. You hate it -> dont pay -> stop hating.
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My ideas are shitty so I'm going on an Internet diet
Ask HN: How to learn how to test code
I work at a company when nobody ever tests/tested anything. Therefore our software is very buggy. I want to change things, where do I start ?
I would appreciate comments about test-driven development and unit tests and where to learn about these and get started with testing.
Yea, why don't you just try? Step on a bus and start being a total dick and harass other travelers, chances are high you'll be kicked off the bus before you arrive at your destination. IMO that's exactly the same thing.
You are assuming that people in the developing world can afford a computer just as easily. The importance of having an information device that connects to the internet cannot be overstated in places where education is not the primary concern. Early access to technology will inspire many more kids to learn programming when they can afford one.
I don't think that's much of a secret. It's written into the maths as far as I can see.
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If this new Motorola entity is separate from Google and without patents (since Google would have them), this new Motorola Mobility would no longer have any leverage for itself and could easily fall prey to future patent lawsuits.
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Curved line means 2D.
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The west has a problem due to the oligopolies of the behemoths that control infrastructure. It is the reason for example why the US ranks low in broadband speeds.
No it does not. If you can only move forward or backward on it, it is still 1D, as your position can be described by 1 coordinate.
Assuming the exercises are going to be done during breaks from the computer, I'd recommend taking a look at Convict Conditioning. Most bodyweight training programs tend to focus on increasing volume, e.g. hundredpushups.com. In contrast, CC increases strength by progressing to more difficult versions of the exercises.

For example, instead of going from 20 to 100 ordinary pushups, you go from pushups -> diamond pushups -> uneven pushups -> one handed pushups. (I gloss over a few steps).

As long as you can ignore the stupid marketing name, CC is actually a very good program to follow. (Of course, lifting actual weights at a gym might help too.)
Link directly to duck duck go page:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...
have you seen Eddie:

http://eddie.sourceforge.net/what.html
Incorrect; a curved line is a 1-dimensional space embedded in a higher dimensional space. There's still only one dimension of freedom on that line.
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> Decent compromise while you wait for DDG to improve in certain areas (and it is improving).

Since it mostly uses Y!S's results, which tend to suck compared to google's (for my searches anyway), I'm not sure it can improve much in that area, which is by far the one that pains me the most.

And if I'm going to use google 9 times out of 10, I can just remove the indirection.
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Part I agree and part I don't.
chat with someone is never the same as sitting face-to-face.
When you talk with 3 or 4 people, chatting simply lose something on the way.
It start from simple response time that are much larger in chat and go into much more.
Measure hours as sign of productivity is never good, but ignoring hours is bad as well.
Estimate how long it will take you to accomplish something is the hardest and very important quality of everyone including developers
From experience, if you screw up and the other guy responds badly, saying "I screwed up, but the other guy responded poorly" is not going to be received as well as just saying "I screwed up."

Only very rarely have I seen more benefit actively defending myself from a customer's accusation rather than apologizing and taking responsibility, even if it was only partly my fault.
Change your gemfile. Change your config/environment.rb if applicable. bundle update rails. autotest. Commit when all tests pass.
Dont really agree with the parent's tone, but yes you are completely right. I am a 'relatively' new user and I have noticed this trend with downvotes as well. As far as I think, downvote if you think the comment adds nothing to the discussion, not if you don't agree with it.
One thing, run your code through debugger after successful compilation with warnings set as errors. If your code does not compile when the warnings are set as errors, then fix them. Afterwards run your code in a debugger. Do this as often as you can.

Unit testing is checking that function returns the correct data in different scenarios. This can be easily done with unit testing functions for your language.

For example C preprocessor macros I use for unit testing.

#define equal(a,b) printf("%X == %X = %s\n", a, b, (a == b) ? "true" : "false");

#define diff(a,b) printf("%X != %X = %s\n", a, b, (a != b) ? "true" : "false");
I think you need to qualify your point a little..

American middle class parents. Middle class parents don't have any problem doing so in plenty of other countries.
Uh, even in the west, less than 1% of the population does any real development. Why bump the cost from $80 billion to $200+ billion to give everybody a big power-sucking device that can't be concealed and will do them only limited good over a smartphone?

These are people living off the land in third-world areas. Many are nomads. A communication and educational tool that fits in a pocket can be invaluable. In comparison, a bulky laptop does very little good at this stage in their development.
Could the big companies use the patents to make investments in startups? So companies with an investment from Google/Microsoft would come under the protective umbrella. That could be a value add.
Regarding flexibility and the problems of the office chair, don't forget the third-world squat![1]

Also, you don't have to be sitting to cycle—I assume this is why you mention that two hours of cycling is akin to eight hours of sitting at the office chair?

[1] http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai...
Strategic technical debt for startups
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Things that work for me: long walks, swimming, talking to myself, writing furiously, reading Sherlock Holmes, wandering around town. Note the internet does not feature in any of those.
On the web, you are the product.
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I just landed and I can confirm that things are very bland here (and somewhat confusing).
In the UK at least, you may be able to start charging statutory interest after the the second +30. Whether or not you think that's a good idea is up to you...
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Time.com is certainly not one of the best, given the terrible user experience they have created with this list in order to maximise page views...!
OT, but the font used in the blog makes it very hard to read. Font face rendering seems to differ depending on OS and browser so I'm not sure if it's just my system (OSX / Chrome).
> There are a bunch of people out there right now solving #firstworldproblems.

> A waste of talent!

No, it's not. You know what's a waste? The common "appeal to worse problems".

Just because you are not working on curing cancer or solving poverty in Africa, it doesn't mean that your work is trivial, useless, or a waste. People in the first world have problems. Solving them is anything but a waste.

Every time you bring civilization a little step further through technology, you inevitably end up helping those who work hard at what you consider worthy problems. I'm sure at some point someone considered the creation of the web as a self-serving project for academics in the first world. It turned out to be the biggest innovation of the century, greatly benefiting people everywhere.

Innovation can come from anywhere. As an example, memcached came from LiveJournal. It's important not to fall into the trap of considering #firstworldproblems as not worthy of consideration or a waste.
Mmmh, would have been good if he would be stricter. I'm not sure why someone can't stay away from Facebook & Co. for 30 days.

However, in general I agree with his perception that the daily flow of news doesn't help us in focusing on the important problems of life.
If you do not want competition then find an idea where there is no products already, but this will be quite hard as there is so many companies already making products and lots of em.

If you want to compete which might be fun and drive you to make your service/product better and better everyday. Then do that and try to survive.
You know, doing anything can actually hurt you more then it helps. For example "just go outside running" can be really bad to your feet and joints, if you don't wear the right shoes/clothes, do it too much, without warming up. It can also be bad for your heart, if you run too fast. "Any exercise" is really the worst thing possible.
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Mmmh, he probably refers to things like developing Farmville. It is unclear why this solves any problems and not just wastes the time of users. But to be fair, if people wouldn't play Farmville doesn't mean they wouldn't find another way to waste their time :-)
One of my sites was also listed. TouchArcade:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...

I was pretty psyched.
I wouldn't say it's as bad as 9/10. They don't mostly use Y! results from what I've heard from Gabriel. They do their own crawling and ranking too, so I do expect results to improve. They can afford to be more liberal about banning spammy sites, which helps a lot.

0-click info and search ideas are really nice features. Another useful hashbang I use a lot is !a which searches amazon directly.