skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A month back we were planning to launch a deal site, to be different than others out there, we changed our business model drastically. So much so that we weren't going to make a lot of profit, however, we still wanted to pursue the business. Our model involved giving the deal to the user for free, customer pays the business directly. We charge the business one time flat fee for running the deal OR charge the business 10% comission based on how many coupons actually got used. This way, no one was holding the businesses money and the customers were out of a buyers remorse.

Well, while talking to a few businesses we've now found that scoutmob is already doing this. and As others have said, this is a sales heavy businesses that requires you to spend the money in order to get a user base. For example, scoutmob recently partnered with budweiser and sponsored FREE happy hours. I've mentioned our first day journey to local merchants in a separate HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2994673

The local businesses will continue to suffer from daily deal sites until the sites stop competing to get the customers.

We are still going to continue our business model of charging the business only a one time flat fee, however, since we are new, we are getting a lot of BLOCK from businesses as they would much rather go with someone who has a huge user base.
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How does that mesh with the increasing proportion of society that own their homes? Or the increase in technology in health care? Or the increase in the proportion of people going to college?
There's a bug in either VMWare Workstation or the Win8 HAL that leads to it crashing on startup, and that's VMWare Workstation in the screenshot, so... not long. :P
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He must so he can get back to his vim vs emacs article ;)

BTW, I do this all the time too. I sure a lot of us have had "OS fever" where you continuously install a new flavor of linux every day for a week until you decide to go back to your original. There may be no cure for this...
The actual linked headline is more accurate but I had to truncate it for here.
As you are the author, may I ask you how is it possible that the kindle edition costs MORE than the paperback one, without any printing, storage and distribution costs? That's something that has always baffled (and sometimes angered) me.
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The new lighting engine is welcome. Torches give off an orange glow, and outside light peeks through openings with a misty blue look. This makes exploring much more tense and atmospheric.

I'm also fond of the larger biomes. The first world I spawned in 1.8 placed me on a small island with one tree in the middle of what looked like an infinite ocean. Forests, swamps, deserts etc. seem to go to the horizon, which is nice.

Sadly, there's still the bug where breaking a block doesn't erase it from the world, so you can "step inside" it and see the tunnels and lava pools below the surface.
Agree 100%.

I think this sort of thing would work better as a list of common problems that you encounter when doing iOS dev and the possible frameworks with example projects.

Having one massive Xcode project with all of these things already integrated is just begging for abuse. Novice devs who make this their goto Xcode project template and not really understand what these frameworks do are going to hurt themselves in the long run.
Microsoft's big (unmentioned) problem with Windows 8
I am in! I live very far from Amazon.com and I don't have Kindle. Is there a place to source the book's pdf version?
I just logged in to vmware.com as I bought old Fusion. There is a message below. So an upgrade is coming.

>Upgrade Entitlements Timing
>Upgrades for the following products: View 5, Fusion 4, Workstation 8, Site >Recovery Manager 5, and vFabric will be available on the licensing portal by the week of 9/19.
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"for some ideas, it's just tough to fully appreciate if you don't understand the technical details."

This is also called "sales". If one can't sell their team members on the premise, then it will be exponentially hard selling the market on the idea as well.

Doesn't mean the idea is invalid, just that the pitch needs to be improved.
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KeBugCheckEx(), the method that displays a blue screen, dumps memory to the paging file (which is contiguous and fixed, so it doesn't need the FS driver). When a dump is about to be made, it hashes all of the pieces of the pager and the disk driver necessary to do the dump, and ensures that they aren't corrupted, then dumps. On reboot, the boot manager notices that the system died messily, and copies the paging file to a crash dump.

Now you know more than you ever wanted to about blue screens. :)
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I've been waiting for this book since now we're closer to having hackers and designers speak a common language where each group can now truly appreciate each other's profession and discipline. Discussions will be more productive and a better user experience will happen. Also, it will further legitimize the designer/hacker and allow for leaner startups.

Hope this is just the beginning!
Barring any significant development in propulsion technologies, they did what any responsible engineering design team would.

I would obsess less over the form factor and more over efficiency.
Having to copy in 4-5 frameworks every time you start a project is not a bad thing.

Alternatives are always emerging to even the most used frameworks. Every time I start a project it is a time to look and see if there are better ways to do things.

Also including frameworks that you will never use is bad practice. Most apps are not going to make use of MapKit. If you're not going to use it why bother bloating your project?
http://www.kadavy.net/portfolio/ looks like it.
Fab's daily emails are full of interesting products, so even if I don't buy something for a while I don't feel like I wasted any time browsing. With groupon, I found their emails annoying so I unsubscribed.

The transition from a gay networking site to a design deals company has been amazingly fast.
I understand that spoofing one's identity is an easy enough task with tor, fly-by-night VPS's, etc., but when transfer of money is involved, could not security experts set up "honeypot" traps to get at the origin of these attacks? By seeing where the money is essentially ending up?
Use whatever you're most familiar with, this is not a hard problem (the data is fairly static, and you can always add a cache if you need more performance).

Note that the big ad networks usually allow fairly specific targeting (by some combination of geolocation, signup/survey data and tracking cookies), have lots of ad inventory and ad buyers, offer decent analytics, etc. Those are harder problems.
Some have suggested that using any kind of timer to remind them to get up and walk around will interrupt the flow, and if they don't have a reminder they will not get up often enough.

For those who like to listen to music while coding, you can use your music to help with this. Simply queue up ~30 minutes worth of songs, and then get to work. When the music ends that probably won't be enough of a distraction to pull you out of the flow, but realizing will slowly bubble its way to the surface that the music has stopped.

When that happens, you can put on another ~30 minutes of music after taking your walk-around break. Repeat.

I find that this doesn't disrupt flow, because the "time to change music" event is not an interrupt. I think being in the flow is a lot like sleep in that it goes through cycles much like the sleep stages, and you become aware of the music having stopped at a stage in the flow where it is easy to stop and restart.

BTW, music also makes a great way to keep track of time for billing. Back in our consulting days at work, I'd keep track of how much time was spent for each client by what CDs I listened to while working on that client's project.
This is a great idea.

Here's a 8h-1m time lapse of somebody implementing Snake3D in Clojure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHARNkMi5Lg

Time lapse could be a way of getting an overview of the session, and then 'zooming' into the bit you're interested in, like when you say 'wait! how did you do that!'. Perhaps this could be implemented as a scalable timeline scrollbar.

The timeline could include comments like Soundcloud so people can ask and answer how to do something when and where they see it.

The stream should include keystrokes and mouse gestures as well as video. There should also be links to things like dotfiles on github.

If the recording/uploading process can snapshot the process tree of the window it is recording, this could be used to automatically tag the video (e.g. vim editing Clojure code on Windows, Illustrator on Mac), which would be nice for subscribing to feeds of tags.
If I said I want to read this book because I am a coder with bad graphical taste and all, but I can't buy it because damn we don't even have proper creditcards in our country, would anyone consider leaking the pdf version for free? Secretely, just for those guys like us who are physically unable to purchase stuff online. :)
The US has rather strict rules regarding transfers of rocket/missile technology. The only way SpaceX could get "bought by a foreign power" is with the express approval of the federal government.
I picked up an OfficeRunner [http://www.officerunner.com/] headset last year. I spend 4+ hours a day on skype calls -- the ability to step away from my desk has been priceless. I originally looked for an app for my iPhone that would function as a wireless headset. There are one or two in the app store, but they all have latency issues...
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This would be much more interesting for the Android IMHO.

Anyone want to work on that and I would be up for it.
Or they actually don't want search engines to spider them, and instead of suing, they're using the preexisting technical solution.
This article has one sentence thats valid , i.e. microsoft will not ship on time. The rest is fluff. Typical CNET.
In theory, probably yes. In practice, good luck getting the police to do cross-border investigations into a crime they don't understand and that causes ~$16 in damage per victim.
320 was written in a manner that is very non-Cocoa like. We cringe when we get a project that uses 320.
I use this version of macfuse for lion

http://wualablog.blogspot.com/2011/07/wuala-for-os-x-lion.ht...
"Better" was probably the wrong term, but if you start thinking about enterprise technology, a lot of it is actually just straight up based on how much cost savings or performance improvement something can deliver (e.g., a DB that gives an order of magnitude performance improvement for certain verticals). You're right that consumer stuff is a different story.

And as far as the sales comment below...as mentioned in the post, sometimes it's not worth me shoving it down their throat if they're not going to be pumped about coming in to work everyday.
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Am mobile so can't check if it still does, but Apple's me.com login page used to inform you if caps lock was on, using the method in the article linked to from sibling comment's StackOverflow link:

http://dougalmatthews.com/articles/2008/jul/2/javascript-det...
I was actually just referencing the fact that I've read a lot of these kinds of posts :) I have read that one though and it is very good and well balanced.
The interesting part of this is the copying of code from the website. It is interesting to see how the lawyers do the "look and feel" versus "source code" copying.
Time to get more popcorn:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/the-2011-disrupt-sf-battlef...

Scott Yates · Top Commenter · CEO at BlogMutt

Hate to say it, but this comment from Michael Arrington is the absolute proof that Techcrunch is no longer to be trusted at all.

Michael Arrington · Top Commenter · Founder at TechCrunch

Scott Yates I'm worried too. I just had a tense conversation with Erick about the definition of the words "involved" and "final." Keep it simple. Keep it truth.
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I don't know. Tasting failure, working to avoid is different from lacking food, shelter, or clothing. As an adult, I know I'm more likely to take risks if I know that, for instance, gambling on this job won't kill me. And taste too much failure, and you hit learned helplessness. Like the girl who was chewing gum was experiencing:

> “She said: ‘I’m trying so hard to just grow up. But nothing ever changes!’ And I said: ‘Do you know what does change? You didn’t have a baby attack in front of the other kids, and two weeks ago, you would have.’ ”

That's the teacher being encouraging, lessening the failure the kid is experiencing. Because people's pride in themselves is a sufficient motivator to change their lives positively, without risking starvation.
Ask HN: Help me find a niche for my file sharing site
I launched Fileslap (http://fileslap.com) a couple months ago. The basic idea is that it's a better way to share small files (images, word docs, PPTs, songs, etc.) than emailing them which is what most everyone is currently doing, because Fileslap displays the file on the web without making the user download it.

The response has been lukewarm (lots of free users but only a couple paid users), so I recently started thinking maybe I'd see more success by targeting a specific niche.

One example that I thought of is targeting teachers who want to share assignments/docs with their students and maybe get assignments turned in through a website, rather than emailing back and forth with all of the students (like lots of college professors do).

Like I said, that's just an example (I'm sure there are already sites like that for teachers), and I'm wondering if anyone has any other ideas for niches that could benefit from an online file sharing/viewing site like Fileslap?
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Wouldn't the following be nastier?

"We have hidden child porn somewhere on your hard drive. If you send $25 via >this paypal link<, this will all go away. If we don't receive the money in 48 hours, this program will remove itself without trace - after notifying the police."
You have to downgrade the vmx to prep a fusion vm to be loaded into esx. Or you can download the vmware convertor app that will transfer the vm, convert the vmx, and register the vm in esx.

I use the application weekly for this task.
Nice to see that the most common reaction to this article, even among space geeks, is that this is a waste of NASA's focus and everyones tax dollars. I think that bodes well for progress.
This is a good idea, but the challenge to this is to try and keep it from falling into the whole "friend whoring" that myspace had going. Which, in my opinion, is part of the reason myspace died off. So if they can do this correctly I'd love to see it, but facebook needs to tread lightly.
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I don't even get how people can use VMware. I've tried it on my macbook and it's unbearably slow. I bought a cheap PC off of craigslist because VMware was too slow to use. 4 gigs of ram and still lagged like all hell.
No, unless you've found a way to make consulting companies scale.
I've used CyberDuck in the past too...of the SFTP options, I liked it the best.

With this mapping option, I can drop down to Terminal app...move to the directory, and then mate * to open a whole project within TextMate (great for searching all files in a project and other little things)...and I can also do other comand line like things, but semi-locally...so just a bit more powerful for my personal use cases is all.
This is awesome. My wife has Ulcerative Colitis.

I was thinking about building a similar site, and now I might not have to, so thanks! I'll tell my wife about it!
I don't know if emulating competitors' feature sets is considered being disruptive.
Software as performance art?
Ask HN: What do you expect from a coders profile site?
There are several sites creating profiles for coders right now. Some are listing your open source projects, others are have a reputation system for them and others creating just fancy profiles where you can add your stuff.

I'm the co-founder of a web site that makes profiles for developers (Site not disclosed to avoid people saying I'm promoting my site).

Our profiles contain verified information. We use Open Source, Stack Overflow and your actual code (thought webhooks in github and bitbucket) to build out our profiles. We don't just list your projects, we get the code and extract some meta data from them.

Our aim is to create your profile based on what you have done and create your identity pulling information from different sources and not filling forms about what you have done.

So, my question is, as a coder what do you expect from a site like this?
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This is probably the best thing I've read on the subject:

http://www.wickedfire.com/1279950-post39.html

Not sure of the original source, but it's just a paragraph or so, easier than reading a whole book. Some discussion of it on reddit here: http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/h7cce/the_purpose...
That is a direct competition to this new NASA job program. And will probably cost 10-20% per lbs to orbit?

So NASA now has incentives to kill SpaceX, since they'll never be able to compete (except with political weight)? :-(

Edit: OTOH, I guess NASA will never make the SLS fly anyway...
I am not sure we will see lower prices. Firstly, prices in Apple's store already are, let's say, 'affordable' for most apps.

Secondly, I think many apps are priced to what the market will bear, not to recoup costs plus some profit.

Thirdly, running that store will cost MS money. They are not a charity, so I guess they will try and recover the costs in some way. What that way is, I do not know, but I would guess it would be in adverts, non-free options with better exposure and/or in the cost of Windows.
I have a sophisticated layman's understanding of stuff like orbital mechanics, launch energies, etc., but one thing I've never been entirely sure of: Why are rockets always round?

I'm guessing it's the least-questions-asked shape as far as aerodynamics goes, and gives good weight efficiency assuming you can build what you need into a round shape. Is there anything more fundamental than that?
Agree on line breaks. And also on labels.

RE: onboarding, we want to do something like we did with webputty.net using Optimizely's Guider https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS
The "artificial" limitations are what keeps the iPad performant. If you loaded a web server, database, etc. on it, it would fall over and be truly unresponsive. It is a package.

I would imagine someone will build a tablet (Microsoft seems to be on that trail) that will fit the needs of developers / power users. Truthfully, I am surprised there is not such a tablet offered by a company producing Android tablets.
The fundamental problem with daily deal sites is that by large and large the customer profile they attract are the LEAST attractive to local merchants.

Who wants a customer who only buys things that are on sale and has no loyalty?

The only time i really see it making sense is if the profit margin is huge that even after the discount and fees, the deal is still profitable. (Imagine something like a portrait photographer with lots of empty appointments...where even a fraction of the normal fee is still better than nothing, and where there is potential to upsell at full margin.)
DCaldwell, I agree with you on the limits of the lean start-up philosophy. I think the minimum viable product idea is hyped up immensely and is often an excuse for someone to release a half-finished product and call themselves an entrepreneur.

A minimum brilliant product, on the other hand, is something I could unreservedly support. And I think that is what you have achieved. Well done!
As someone just getting into iOS, this looks very useful, because it's a bunch of coherent ObjC code to read, presented in a beginner-friendly way. I'm also glad I read the HN critiques, though - knowing that some of this will be batteries-included in iOS 5 is valuable.
Nope, long before it first launched we knew the Shuttle was a shoddy design:

The SRBs saved money on development but are very bad for human flight, you want engines you can turn off.

The insane fragile tile and leading edge heat protection, all to satisfy a "requirement" the Air Force didn't care about, a Vandenburg single orbit polar mission (to return to the same spot on Earth while it's rotated under you requires serious maneuvering using your initial high energy state).

No crew escape system after the first few test flights with only pilot and co-pilot, who had SR-71 class ejection seats (the best available). The state of the art of "rocket science" simply isn't good enough to forgo this.

Since then we've learned from the two fatal missions:

The SRB joints were grossly misdesigned, forcing their O-rings to seal on expansion (any of us who've worked with a faucet or shower head know how terribly wrong this is).

Especially after it was made in a more "green" fashion, the fuel tank sheds ice and insulation chucks with sufficient momentum to destroy the above mentioned fragile heat protection systems.

That's all that immediately comes to mind, and I've already pointed out one Ares I inherited potentially fatal design flaw in the Senate Launch System. How many obvious design flaws can you or anyone else point out in SpaceX's systems? (I don't know, I haven't been closely following them.)
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Just got it in the mail yesterday, completely forgot I had preordered it a long time ago!
Open source is usable only by some vendors. My Opera pals say they can use it (I'd heard differently from others at Opera in the past). Microsoft, I'm told, cannot -- they cannot even read open source. This is public knowledge, it came out, e.g., as part of the IronPython project.

So Microsoft objected to WebSQL, since it depended on SQLite as source-code-is-specification. Writing a spec for SQLite or Dart is very hard. SQLite is >100KLOC in one .c file! Dart is at a guess bigger. Hence, reverse-engineering is required.

Reading code at this scale doesn't tell you enough. Testing, with good coverage, is required. Then you have to separate the over-specification due to abstraction leaks and bugs, from the intentional specification. That's hard work too, and while source code comments may provide clues, the source itself does not say what's what.

"Well shit. I definitely don't want to be one of those!"

Sorry, I was not addressing you specifically, rather the (many, more than I expected) people here and elsewhere who are asking for the new and good monopoly to rewrite the web by itself with more awesome languages.

The IE monopoly with ActiveX and all that was so long ago, the new generation did not live through it.