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Ask HN: OK, I've started-up, now how do I continue-up?
At the beginning of this year I "soft launched" a video game recommendation service. I knew how to build the site and make it work, but I'm mystified by marketing (even if I had a million dollars to throw at marketing I wouldn't know where to throw it), so I applied to a bunch of incubators (including YC, of course), sure that one of them would pick up the project because recommendation services were pretty sexy last winter. Alas, they all declined, but the site kept chugging along. A few other opportunities came up that distracted me from it, but they've all either run their course or failed to pan out, so now I'm back to the game recommender. It's steadily grown to 670+ users who have contributed a total of 40,000+ ratings, but obviously that's not nearly enough users to attract a potential buy-out or partnership, or make affiliate links lucrative, or even support my clever original plan of serving ads specifically to users who the recommendation engine had determined would like each ad.

Meanwhile, just as I'm getting back to it, Penny Arcade has announced that they're launching a similar service. That quells my worries that "maybe there's just not a market for this", and (hopefully) the services are different enough that both could survive. Also on the bright side, the Penny Arcade announcement has given me a boost in activity from people who were reminded by the announcement that my service already existed, and presumably also from people saying "oh, that sounds neat! I wonder if there already is something like that..." and finding mine.

I'm sure there's a huge market for this service, and the internet is filled with video game forums that I'm sure would be interested -- the site was briefly mentioned (with a link) on the second page of an unrelated thread on NeoGAF and got over a hundred hits just from that one link. But all of those forums have a strict "no soliciting for your website" policy, and they won't even reply when I email them asking for their advertising rates. I'm gnashing my teeth walking through a market filled with millions of potential customers, but forbidden from mentioning my wares to any of them.

So, HN, please tell me: where do I go from here? On the one hand I think my startup is "successful" because it does what it was designed to do, and it's providing a useful service to me and a bunch of other users, but on the other hand it's growing at a glacial pace and it's not making any money.

Help!
A little! I've really wanted to get into Supercollider but... haven't had the time. Do you have any suggestions for other resources/software I should look into?
I Just Recorded a Podcast About Jobs's Resignation
The other half of Apple is big strategic decisions. Do the iPod. Do the iPhone. Do the iPad.

Maybe, but a lot of this is just a matter of picking the biggest new trend in consumer electronics and entering that market.

mp3 players are becoming popular? Great, let's make a better one!

Internet-enabled fancy phones are becoming popular? Great, let's do that too!

People like iPhones? Let's make a big one!

And what's next? I don't know, but it'll plug into your TV.
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Your strawman argument that I'm dictating instructions is rude and obnoxious. Read my post again.
And all iPod variants.
As a fellow foodie, but in Boston, tell your project manager his site is right on for the area. All really great suggestions.
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He is referring to the Apple Ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USn5t5nQWU8
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Dear Microsoft: take this

http://blog.codesector.com/category/code-sector-software/ter...

clean it up a bit, build it into windows

Thanks
It's a woman. Aging skin is very important for them.

As a man, I've found that at the age of 31 I look exactly the same as I did when I was 22, except that I'm slightly better-looking due to being more tanned. I don't regret not wearing sunscreen all the time.

(I reserve the right to take this back if I start getting skin cancer)
"Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself."

Source: John Gruber, Daring Fireball blog
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Ask HN: Mathematics in computer science
I have been asked to give a talk on applications of mathematics in computer science to a set of post-graduate and doctorate students in math. I am looking for ideas to convey the beauty of math in CS. The obvious topics are probability and stat in ML, Trig in graphics, number theory in cryptography, category theory in OO, sets in relational algebra. Let me know if you can think of more connections :)
NASA itself disagrees with you.
I'm guessing you are referring to this passage, but I can only guess since you forgot to specify:

"Q: What's the biggest surprise this technology will deliver?

A: The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

Q: That's going to break people's hearts.

A: I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.

The Web is going to be very important. Is it going to be a life-changing event for millions of people? No. I mean, maybe. But it's not an assured Yes at this point. And it'll probably creep up on people.

It's certainly not going to be like the first time somebody saw a television. It's certainly not going to be as profound as when someone in Nebraska first heard a radio broadcast. It's not going to be that profound."

15 years later...yeah, probably not an accurate call on "the web". But I think I sort of understand what he's trying to say. And am mindful that he was trying to be a bit provocative.
A lot of the popular computer languages were designed rather by individual persons, or small teams, not comittes.
Anthropomorphizing math as having a "concern" is also fuzzy thinking.

>If you want to know what something "really is", consult philosophy or something.

You mean like the "foundations of mathematics"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics
Yeah, this is great advice - the first person you hire is much more important than the coffee machine you buy.

About the machine: there's a ton of second-hand equipment in the market right now, so definitely contact two sources: restaurant supply companies if you want to do most of the word yourself, or a coffee distributer/servicer/supplier if you want an all-in-one solution - i.e. a company that brings you the coffee, cleans the machine, etc. AVOID CRAIGSLIST FOR THIS ONE.

The reason why there's a lot of second-hand machines out there is because, as said above, there are a LOT of food service companies that don't make it. Make sure you hire an excellent first employee, and have at least 8 months of operating expenses saved to cover your variable costs - that's after all the equipment has been purchased, improvements to your shop, etc.
Is Lenovo Advertising Thinkpad Tablet as 4:3?
How I wish it was 4:3. Seems Lenovo does too. The pictures on the site are, to my eye, not 16:10. Why do you frustrate me so, Lenovo?
For some reason this news is reminding me of the O Fortuna song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Fortuna

It is passing of an era and things will not be same at Apple or in the tech industry after this.
This will be maximally useful if you learn CoffeeScript.
Says someone who is almost certainly not 95 yet.

Expensive? Probably. "Wasteful"? "Selfish"? Not your call, thankfully.
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It's no longer a small company, but I was reading today that SpaceX encourages it, on a "one full week out of every five" basis.
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In my mind Raspberry Pi is a base device, leaving room for people to expand upon with USB, GPIO, etc. Once you start adding on, your $25 dollar generic device will be neither $25 nor generic.

For something fancier you want a Panda Board, Beagle Board, or Gumstix which are priced from $120 - $250.
Not to be cynical, but I bet the devs at NPR are already working on interesting side projects about 20% of their time, because if they don't they quickly become obsolete, and if they are grown ups their managements isn't monitoring them so closely they would even know. It's just that management (often) likes to pretend that they are completely in charge; "giving" devs 20% is sort of like "letting" a teen age son or daughter drink an occasional beer at a party.
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I can only speak from my American experience, working as a software engineer for ~12 years in NYC. I am 33 years old--I never feel too old for this. My non-tech co-workers and engineering peers respect me very much. I love them back. We do awesome shit together. I solve hard problems and make beautiful software. I work hella hard but get paid well and I love every second of it. I am so glad I do what I do and when I read about people not being respected and not loving their work, I can only suggest that you do something else or do it somewhere else. The world is your oyster. Life is short. Carpe diem!!
So you get a +∞ or -∞.
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It was a normal compilers class.

We compiled Python.

This was just an exercise for week one.
'Polarizing' seems to be your code phrase to explain 'why we keep relentlessly trolling with this name, in the hope that all publicity is good publicity'.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2920777
Steve Jobs, A Revolution Every Other Year
It's still pretty vague. He had the surgery to remove the tumor. Then an unknown hormone problem? They a liver transplant?

What is he dying from exactly? Does anyone know?
Except for at the top of the example you pasted, and at the top of the documentation page, under "Introduction" in big letters, whe it says "batman.js is a framework for building rich single-page browser applications. It is written in CoffeeScript and its API is developed with CoffeeScript in mind, but of course you can use plain old JavaScript too."

Where were you looking?
To improve your own body language, it's important to understand the body-language of others. Be 'tuned-in' so to speak.

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Jobs' resignation comes as a surprise to no one, Jobs least of all. That is, this has been a long time coming and it seems safe to reason that Jobs has made it his primary duty over the last five years to ensure that an Apple without him will continue to thrive. And, as his letter makes a point of noting, he will continue on as the Chairman of the board and as "an Apple employee"--his final act, passing Apple on to others, is not yet complete.

He was the most important man in tech in 1978 and he is in 2011. The legacy he leaves is not just that of beautiful objects and sensational business intuition, but the generations of people he inspired. My first computer was a Mac, and it was love at first touch. Since that first moment I have always been profoundly fascinated with consumer electronics and computers in particular. I'm sure that I have kin, even among the haters.

And call me a fanboy, but any man who can relentlessly carve a path for passionately crafted objects in the face of largely monotonous, analytics; well, I'm glad he stuck to it.

Thanks Steve. I hope you're well.
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I think this is simply one of the best quotes I've ever come across.
This is precisely the problem, though.

The same 10 year old draws two lines: 0^x, and x^0.

They clearly do not meet.
If this litigation influences you against Apple and in favor of Samsung, then you must either think that Samsung is a more ethical company, or you are holding Apple to a higher standard. I think you'll find that neither position can be logically justified.
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Right, multi-billion dollar problem and they can't rent some satellite time?

Heck most UAV pilots operate out of Nevada, and it's not like they're flying over first world countries.
Which is particularly annoying if you think software developers shouldn't be called engineers.
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Is there a good book out there dealing with how steve jobs actually evolved from birth to the production of the Macintosh ? That´s the part of his life that interests me most.
If Apple shares come down to $100 you should buy more than one.
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Why in the world would he care about lucre? He's a dying billionaire who remade the technology world in his own vision. Twice.
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One of the most beautiful applications of math+cs (for me) involves genetic algorithms. Being able to have two models duke it out (via survivorship), or mutate - to see your code select the best models to fit a set of data is beautiful.

Basic Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm

You can also increase the complexity of this field by using GAs to train neural networks for fitting data or processing it in innovative ways: http://www.generation5.org/content/2000/nn_ga.asp

YOUTUBE:
NN + GA simulation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDUqAmdEq4

Neural Network at work:
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I love this way of prioritizing. At the moment I am looking at "essential features" to do most important task for v1. Then I add another important scenario and I add the related features.

What the approach given in the article teaches me is: what features should I really pay attention to. How can I improve the top right corner rather than adding a top left corner feature?

This insight, although obvious to many, was what I got out of the article.

I am going to list the most used features and make them great.

Thanks.
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Here engineers do end up doing some sort of design. To a designer these things I imagine are bare basic. To an engineer maybe not.
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And that's just Apple. Lest we forget, he changed the music industry, the film industry, the telecommunications industry (and maybe the gaming industry, see Nintendo's struggle vs the iPod and the iPhone as premier mobile gaming devices, but I think this is still up in the air)

Steve is truly, truly an American legend.
I disagree that our country would be a better place
if we all spent even more time blowing sunshine up
each other's butts.

I completely share your view. In fact, the software industry is a perfect one to be in if you want to enjoy life without having to make noise and conform to social norms. And while I personally like to have diversified relationships, the industry as a whole has a rich enough culture for us to be comfortable on our own.

In comparision, I love Mathematics, but the field is too narrow. I have heard stories about how investment bankers hate their crowds. And lawyers are always in stiff competition with one another. Looking from this perspective, the software community is similar to the designers' community. We share a lot and we genuinely like each other. Well, maybe that's a problem itself. We tend to form into cults and we are too ignorant with what else is going on in the world, hence we tend to be more socially awkward. But that's an internal problem and not an external one. We have to fix that individually.

However, while I don't think we should strive for more publicity and social status, not having enough cash can hurt. This is a real issue. In my country, on average, a programmer gets paid as much as an accountant, if not less. I know a lot of couples where the guy is a coder and the girl is an accountant, and they eventually had to break up partly because the girl is earning more.
There was an existing market for MP3 players, smart phones and tablet PC's. Apple didn't create them. It expanded them and introduced the products to the masses.
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> I could try to break it down in a neat little bulleted list,

Well, can you give it a whirl, anyways? I'd love to hear how it came off to you/ what made them different from other vendors who approached you to make them stand out/ etc. I (and other HN'ers) would really appreciate it, I'm sure.
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Yes. Tying to define f(0) as 0 or 1 won't make it continuous, as approaching from the lines x = 0 and y = 0 will make the limits differ (the definition of lack of a limit).
> Because sometimes it's better not to. Sometimes it's inconsistent with our definitions.

I'd love to see even one example of 0^0=1 being inconsistent with a definition. The closest I've ever seen is that it bothers people that for reasons of their own had their hearts set on (x,y) -> x^y having no discontinuities...
Looking back, I think the original price was $299. I hadn't realized it earlier, but Archos also has a low-end series that runs from $99 to $199. I doubt the hardware is very good in that price range.

http://arnovatech.com/home.html?country=us&lang=en
Nonsence! why do you have to go to the extremes? The fact is by my personal experience an average software developer (the person the article talks about, not a millionare, not a begger) can perfectly live in a 3rd world country (like, most of south america) by following simple common sence safety rules that apply to the whole world.

I am not sure what your 3rd world experiences have been, but sounds like you where on either of those two extremes and had some sort of traumatic experience.
The End of Innocence at Apple: What Happened After Steve Jobs Was Fired
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Undoubtedly. However, from a standpoint of teaching a class to Math and Computer Science students you can and should present the backing theories in full detail. Student benefit greatly from having a common write up on the proofs. The philosophical discussion can be saved for the classroom (with supporting supplementary readings).
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Now that I think about it, using your method, User Registration shouldn't get much love because it isused only once and would end up in the bottom right.

The chart needs the "essential" aspect of a feature or business value?
Semantics, especially Denotational and Axiomatic.
I still don't really understand when I would consider using it. Would you use it to create some or all of Shopify?

Maybe this blurb from the documentation could find its way to the hoe page:

batman.js is a framework for building rich single-page browser applications. It is written in CoffeeScript and its API is developed with CoffeeScript in mind, but of course you can use plain old JavaScript too.
Very nice. It would be nice to see it compiling down to the typed lamba calculus as well[1]

[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf , pg55
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Either that or he wrote all of the post in that nervous jolt.
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Knowing when the time's right is key - everyone else made shitty stuff, some because the components just weren't ready, some because they didn't know how to make anything better (still true for many MP3 players).

1999 Can we sell this Tablet? NO

2002 Can we sell this Tablet? NO

2004 Can we sell this Tablet? NO

2006 Can we sell this Tablet? NO

2008 Can we sell this Tablet? NO

2010 Can we sell this Tablet? YES
You could just as easily say it should be "Software Design Secrets for Engineers" right?
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These are design decisions which were built in eons ago; there was a valid reason for it that was explained to me once but I forget now.

Anyway, there is this in the default vimrc:

" Professor VIM says '87% of users prefer jj over esc', jj abrams strongly disagrees
inoremap jj <Esc><Right>

So you can use jj (or any other mapping) instead of Esc and get the behaviour you want.
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A number of Shopify future products are being/have been built from the ground up using batman.js :)
Talk about clueless!

Have you "really" lived in Argentina?? The article is not about a developer going to a shanty town in Johanneseburg or a favella in Brazil! it is about a developer going to a nice area of Argentina where kids who can afford computers can be developers but still work for less as they have a lower cost of living.
Good job! Seems like writing the python wrappers and making the data more accessible was an important accomplishment. I'd say your summer was well spent!

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