skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First Look: Tagging Comes to FeedDemon’s Next Version
> you're fully relying on the individuals being honest and reporting their own usage

Both models rely on this. Just keep in mind it's not a service, but an application. There's no way to enforce certain usage, so it comes down to whether you want dishonest users running a hacked version or the original app (and thus allow them an option of going straight at some point).
Samsung M3200 beats Unlocked
Samsung M3200 beats Unlocked uses the latest technology invented by Samsung, the motion play system. This is crucial to control various commands.
Over 100 Semantic Web Research Papers
I agree. On the other hand, I drive by the Tesla showroom in Menlo Park almost every day, and there never seem to be any customers there. I'm not sure if that's normal for a sports-car dealer, but it certainly looks depressing to have such an empty parking lot.
I think he misses the real problem. It is easier to be noticed. It is easier to get "picked up". However, it's easier for everyone, which means that the supply of niche content is radically increasing... and when supply increases, the price drops. In the end, the key is still to move from niche to large, and we've moved from "like winning the lottery" under the old system to... "like winning the lottery" under the new system, too. The barrier of entry is lower, but it's even more random behind the barrier.
Surely this could have been worded to come accross as slightly less offensive:

"Y Combinator Mentoring from prominent businesswomen".
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/03/are-you-thinking-of-work...
The video games industry is full of physicists that for one reason or another though their programming module qualified them to become a coder... I share your horror.
Creating your product...it takes money.
Matt's mostly right, but the mathematical conclusions are, depending on how generous you want to be, minorly misleading or flat out wrong.

Leaving aside the incorrect graphs and potentially wrongly chosen distributions mentioned elsewhere, Matt missed the real reason VC's and entrepreneurs have different risk profiles.

Entrepreneurs have one company they're rooting for--their own. VC firms have tens or, over the course of their lifetime, perhaps hundreds. The law of large numbers says that as you sample more (with more companies), variance around the mean reduces, and you're quite likely to end up with your expected value at the mean. The entrepreneur has no such safety blanket and so would clearly choose to reduce variance.
there's a big difference between someone clicking "personal" on your popup to be dishonest on the personal/commercial license model, and someone spending the time to crack and reverse engineer your product to be dishonest with the lite/pro license model.

i disagree with your assertion that there's no way to enforce certain usage.
If any open-source platforms were to take a hit from a recession, I'd expect Rails to be first. "Just throw hardware at the problem" doesn't sound so easy when you're on a tight budget.
Doesn't this belong on the bacon subreddit?

(Looks around.)

Oh, wait...
Ask HN: How many lines of code do you deliver every day?
This might be a useless question, but I'm curious. I was reading the comments on another post and someone referred to the fact that they used to produce about 10x as many lines of code when they were at a startup as they do now that they have a corporate job.

I know every programmer and every language is different, but roughly how many lines of code do you deliver every working day, and do you work at a startup or a corporate gig? Feel free to throw your language in there too :-)
I wouldn't make a distinction. Your work is worth something, charge for it!
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Wait a minute. It's possible to cook bacon with halogen lights?
Let the customer choose where to buy lunch from
Say Goodbye to alert()
Walk-Through Test Coverage
Shorter version is here: http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/videos/stefan...
Three Years Later, Buying MySpace Looks Like One Of Murdoch’s Smartest Bets
Google is under no obligation to host any particular library, I think in this case due to the ExtJS split licensing they made the correct decision.

Also consider that by offering this code on their CDN it would be possible to argue that Google itself was deriving a commercial benefit from the code in question and therefore should purchase a license.
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They're missing the world's oldest restaurant, in Madrid:

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

(I ate there last year, it was excellent!)
As others have said before, the trouble with contemporary karma implementations (like here and on reddit) is that everyone has unlimited upvote potential and it doesn't cost anything to post. This means karma totals are more or less "chronocratic" -- those who spend the most time on the site have the loudest voice and those who submit the most invariably have the highest karma. (The only exception seems to be dhh, who has, let's see, 259 points for 18 posts. I can't find pg's post giving the highest per post average stats (SearchYC seems to be down), but dhh's 14.4 is certainly an outlier.)

So, I don't think any kind of market using current karma as the currency would work at all. Karma will only start becoming dangerous (in raganwald's sense) when it's transactional and capped, and thus scarce, and thus competitive with national currencies as a wealth proxy.
It varies from day to day. Most days it is somewhere between -500 and 500.

The shortest time interval over which I produce remotely consistent results is a month: Most months I produce -- that is, design, write, and debug -- between 1000 and 1500 lines of code.
no lol?
Tesla Model S to be Delayed, Unknown Number of Layoffs, Elon Musk CEO
The difference is not as big as you might think. The end-user won't be cracking the protection himself. He'll just create an (implicit) demand for the crack and other people will create it. Absolutely all protected applications are broken within few months (or weeks) of the release. Even the most boring and virtually useless ones. That's a first-hand info from various shareware devs that I personally know; and it's also quite obvious from a trivial Google search for any given app.

> i disagree with your assertion that there's no way to enforce certain usage.

There is, of course, a way to enforce the usage, but effective protection very quickly becomes very ugly. Proper protection requires rootkit-like functionality, some untrivial code encryption and self-consistency checks, etc. And in the end it's all about fighting users that have their mind set on stealing. That's just pointless.
Yup, I figured this out around 1995, when getting my first hotmail account. Keeping your normal online persona psuedonymous means never having to say "I'm sorry." Of course, it's still sorta easy to leak personally identifying information, but at least it'll take some more sophisticated data mining to connect those dots; something like what this one hosted java connection-finder whose name I can't remember does.
From some other DailyWTF articles, I get the impression that most video games are written with the implicit assumption that no one will ever see your hideous code -- writing security-related code requires exactly the opposite attitude.
"Just throw hardware at the problem" please watch this presentation and then see if your statement makes any sense:
http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/highlights/bl...
My dad died of pancreatic cancer. All I can say when I see Steve is, "Looks familiar." Sadly.
I was amazed to see the first truly interesting DWTF post since a long time ago....
Could you just explain the video? I don't have time to watch a 9-minute video called "Languages don't scale," especially considering that my post didn't mention any programming languages. Or do you equate Rails with the Ruby language?
Starvation eliminates the ability to execute on hard tasks.
Blame the Terrorist Black Muslims
I'm in 10th Grade now and I'm taking geometry. I don't have a graphing calculator and we are having to do difficult equations and my calculator cant handle it. in 9th grade they used to provide one but my school is low on them so i couldn't get one this year. My dad lost his job so there no money to buy one. I was wondering if anyone had one they could donate
Where I can use my personal email address as a login on any site?
Data scraping wikipedia with google spreadsheets
Catholic Church?
Personal data integration (part 1)
as you say, its about fighting users that have their mind set on stealing. the vast majority of people who actively steal your application have the mindset to steal it, and almost definitely wouldn't have paid you anyway.

the point i'm trying to make is that the subset of people who are actively looking to steal your application is smaller than the subset of people who will passively steal it by not registering it as commercial. you're providing the "do you want to steal this application?" button straight away yourself, making anyone, whether their mind was set on stealing or not, have to actually make that choice.

if you're looking to make money off of this, why would you even give your users that option?
Use the Web to End Poverty
I have been using this is gedit and it really does make a world of difference. I used to emulate which just led to greater overhead and often poor code formatting.
Wacky, But Serious: What would it take to set up a stock market?
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it” ~ Einstein

So, I was reading Matt's post about VC, which saw me following this link:

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/03/are-you-thinking-of-working-for-start.html

Raganwald States:

"A VC is having a good year when one in five investments hits a home run. If you honestly can do a better job of picking winners, drop your day job and go into venture capital. You’ll make way more money investing in start ups than working for them!"

I tend to agree, but of course I don't have the "fuck you" money to try my hand at VCing. What I need is a market that allows me to invest little bits of money into new ventures... What I need is a stock exchange, version 2.0.

So, I googled "what would it take to set up an online stock market" (I know, worst query ever) and I found this:

http://www.globalchange.com/stock.htm

Some wishful thinking, but interesting. What does HN think? Could a bunch of Hackers legally set up an alternative to stock markets that would work?

I'm fully aware that this idea is out to lunch, but I'm interested on hearing other people's opinions.
Help Twitter Find a Revenue Model
If Twitter fails to find a revenue model and hits the deadpool, it will have a chilling effect on innovation. That matters to all of us in the innovation economy. Sure, you could live without Twitter, but what about the funding chances for that brilliant idea of yours?

Hmm... the idea isn't so brilliant if I can't find a revenue model either.
Self-promotional post alert! This is from jiparker.com, the homepage of the guy who posted this item:

"After almost 10 years at Ameren as a developer, I will be taking an Account Manager position with the internet start up Engine Yard out of San Francisco."
I love Muji's notebooks anyway. I think I'll try this - luckily, there are Muji shops in Munich and Berlin, in case anybody is wondering how to get their wares in Germany.
In my experience the ability to develop large and complex software without much if any frustration, is one of the things which separates great hackers from mediocre ones.
This is not all that crazy.

To be perfectly honest, reading this was quite a shock, though. This is (loosely) the idea I have outlined for RailsRumble 08, coming up this weekend. Ours will not (at first) involve exchange of real money, but the concept will be the same: 'Normal' people will be able to choose startups they find promising and invest in them.
I heard somewhere the industry average was around 10 to 15 lines a day...
The book Peopleware has a statement about an old company that stuck in my mind for years as it's such a haunting image:

The few remaining employees of the Dutch East India Company (founded in 1651 and once the largest company in the world) now spend forty hours a week filling out paperwork...

If this were true, they'd belong around #45 on the list. However, I once heard DeMarco and Lister (the authors) give a talk. Afterwards I went up to DeMarco and told him I'd always remembered that story and was wondering where they had gotten it, since they hadn't given a reference.

He looked at me for a second and said, "Did we say that?" I assured him they did. He paused again and said, "Huh. Usually we only make stuff up for our talks, not our books!"

(I don't have the book anymore, but the quote helpfully comes up in Google book search: http://books.google.com/books?q=peopleware+dutch+east. I had to add the last two words from memory, so they're just a paraphrase.)
It's really hard to use a daily LOC measure. Some days I'll just be cranking out boring stuff, in which case it could easily be 300 lines a day (my record was about 1200 lines in the 24 hours before my OS design final project was due). Other times, I'll remove 90% of those 300 lines because I found a more efficient way to write it. Still other times will be pure design or research.

That said, here're some long-term averages for projects I've worked on, with total code size divided by project duration. Except for FictionAlley and my OS design course, I've adjusted for working days when figuring out lines/day (so GameClay uses a 7 day/week schedule while projects for my employer figure on only 5 days/week).

First professional job, startup, Java Swing, 1200 lines in 2 months. ~30 lines/day.

FictionAlley.org, part-time nonprofit volunteer work during college, PHP, 8000 lines in 3 years. ~10 lines/day, but that includes many days when I didn't work on it at all.

OS Design final project, college course, C++, 8000 lines in 4 months. ~67 lines/day, ostensibly part-time but this course ate my brain so much it might as well have been full-time. The result didn't really work, though.

Scrutiny, college volunteer project done over vacation, PHP, 761 lines in 2.5 weeks. ~40 lines/day.

Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 hours, part-time hobby project, Haskell, 400 lines in a month (not counting time to write up the tutorial). ~10 lines/day

Second job, startup, Java Netbeans plugin. 20,000 lines in 5 months. ~200 lines/day.

Same employer, JSF trade-verification webapp. 40,000 lines in 12 months, but I had a partner. ~70 lines/day.

Gameclay, my own startup, Python + JavaScript. 18,000 lines in 5 months, not counting false starts we threw away (that'd be another 3 months, +8 months part-time). ~120 lines/day.

ArcLite, hobby project (but given my full attention), JavaScript. 1200 lines in 8 days. ~150 lines/day.

Tetris, hobby project, JavaScript. 321 lines in 5 hours. ~500 lines/day.

YC startup, 657 lines of JavaScript in 6 days, plus there was some Django and server setup that I didn't count. ~100 lines/day.

Eve, hobby project, Haskell. 1773 lines in 2 months. ~60 lines/day.

WhatShallIDoNow.net, hobby project/startup, Python & Django. 400 lines in 4 days. ~100 lines/day.
Tesla Motors - Big Changes, New CEO, Layoffs
Specialty niche and/or very high end products.

So the only truly timeless business plan is luxury?
I don't actually agree with their lead in quote. Twitter has taken a stupidly simple idea and become the center of attention in the circles of tech entrepreneurs and many of others. Things like Yammer come and piggy-back off of it and it grows into it's own sort of ecosystem.

The only effect of Twitter going into the deadpool would be shock about how they could have possibly blown their momentum.
Haha, well... maybe you're onto something then. Good luck to you!
The article, on the other hand, contains no Apple-bashing at all. More likely the article was voted up by the same people who voted up the other rumor articles leading up to the announcement.
Thanks! I've definitely got some technicalities to figure out before Friday.
The non-obvious goal being world-domination and the end of Microsoft.
Please don't ever ask about "lines of code". This measurement means absolutely nothing, and I've been programming for over 20 years. Any responses would be misleading at best.

There are huge programs that should be tiny. And there are small programs that are so clever that they're unmaintainable, and should be bigger. There are many ways to show that lines of code won't tell you what's really important about a program or programmer.
> the subset of people who are actively looking to steal your application is smaller than the subset of people who will passively steal it by not registering it as commercial

Well, yeah, I hear you. Your conjecture is exactly what I'd like to validate. My guess is that it's not that much smaller and that a commercial trialing period may steer passive stealing crowd towards buying.

Consider the case when a user is super happy with the application, the purchasing process is streamlined and he can in fact afford buying it. Do you think lots of people would cheat ? Especially considering he's a commercial user and the $$ come from company's pocket.
Microsoft's considering opening a data center in Siberia, but the other side of the equation is the local electricity costs. If the juice to run the computers in Outer
Freezistan costs more than computers + AC in San Francisco, you save no money. Unless you're building a floating data center with built-in hydroelectric and solar thermal or something.
Wikipedia II (2.0)
Jim Gaffigan on bacon:
http://vodpod.com/watch/683907-jim-gaffigan-bacon
My biggest issue is that it seems so obvious that there's got to be something fundamentally flawed with the idea. At first I thought it might be illegal, but I'm not seeing how that could be.
Let us hope for my sake that it is not illegal :)
This may just seem silly and superficial, but I find the demonstration picture with colored indenting would actually be quite useful. Perhaps not coloring the code itself but more the number of tabstops until the code.
Facebook Announces 25 New fbFund Recipients
Maybe make a rubber stamp with that analog clock and make your own chronotebook page wherever you need one.
That's true. I realized the left side of the curve had to look different.
who cares? The post is either good or it isn't, where the poster works or his intentions are unimportant.
Very cool. Will be using this regularly.

Only problem I see is that the panda attaches to the very bottom right of text areas and can be oscured by scrollbars
Only because the market ensure we have to though. We'd rather take on greater rewards with no more risk.
Well, do we want Mark writing in his "speaking voice" or not? He and I used to play on the same Ultimate team. I don't recall him using that phrase back then, but if--and I say if--he would use that phrase in conversation to describe an Ultimate team, or a stock, or my chances of monetizing my own dead blog, then I'm okay with him using it in his blog.

Of course, if it's an affectation thrown in their to foster some sort of forced hippery or phoney commonality with his readers, then I agree it ought to go.
How many people here use tabs? I find them pure evil. If I press left/right arrow, I want to move one character/space. Not 4/8.

edit: obviously I setup tab to insert 4 spaces etc
I was part of a project about a few years ago to do such a thing. The algorithms for writing a stock exchange are quite well known. I was just working on the interface, so I don't have a complete understanding of what was going on under the hood, but it was my understanding that we were using the same algorithm as the London Stock Exchange, which was developed using public funds and hence was made available to the public.

The most difficult thing to do in getting a stock exchange off the ground is not developing the software, but developing trust and liquidity. To do this, you need market makers - people who are obligated to provide buy and sell orders that keep the markets liquid. This is very very expensive.

We actually had an operating stock and commodities market, where you could trade the world's top currencies, gold, silver, platinum - for about 6 months, then 9/11 hit and it became very difficult to maintain the kinds of banking operations necessary to run an underground stock exchange.
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Atom chip demand redefining Intel
i don't necessarily think a lot of people will cheat, but i think you're lumping two different types of trust into one.

the one trust is trust that your users won't steal your stuff -- trust that they won't actively look to break the license.

the second trust is the trust that your users will not be lazy or incompetent -- trust that they won't passively or accidentally break the license.

with both personal/commercial licenses and lite/pro licenses, the people who break the first type of trust will always exist. you'll have your pirates and thieves no matter what. however, only with the personal/commercial licenses will you have the second group. only with personal/commercial licenses can you break the license without actively looking to do evil.
Ideas that are initially wacky often seem brilliant in retrospect. I like it a lot.
Was Karl Max Right?
When you type an abbreviation, if you type a comma right after that, the expanded text is doubled. I'm assuming this is a bug?
Cowboys: Past and Present
Karl Max? Is that Peter Max's brother?
I'm normally very anti-tabs, but if vim supported this I'd switch in an instant.
I would just use the karma on this site as a credit limit. Of course if my market became more important than hacker news I could not just piggy back any longer because it would pay to hack your karma up here.
I'm having trouble recreating this. What's your OS/browser?
TextMate. Now.
You still wouldn't want more variance even with a larger sample unless with it came higher EV too.

I know my graph is wrong (think I mentioned that in the post) since 0 should probably be the likeliest result.
Hrm, liquidity is certainly a factor. What if you simplified things though? Take the focus off of trading and put it into the investment aspect? I suppose there would be something to be said about the obligation of the startup to actually be held to pay up though.
Never quote Einstein. It generally has the opposite effect of what you intend.

What I'd like you to do is to think about the effect you intended to create by quoting Einstein. Then constrast this with the effect that would have been created had you quoted someone obscure.
"... What Intel appears to like most about Atom is what it calls "margin characteristics." In other words, it's a low-cost processor, but it yields better margins than typical inexpensive chips like the Celeron ..."

The Netbook is the new Notebook ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/2872451270/in/set-72157607...
I would definitely check with a lawyer before doing something like this.

There're certain situations where you need to be an "accredited investor" (liquid net worth > $1M) to take money from the public. I know hedge funds are one of these; I think private companies are another. If a private company has more than a certain number of shareholders, they need to file disclosures as if they were a public company; this is why Google went public. These protections were put in place after the crash of 29, when a great many ordinary investors lost their money investing in companies that weren't much more than a piece of paper.

Again, talk to a lawyer. This is one area you don't want to dick around in without good legal advice.
Betaworks entrepreneurs rub elbows with tech dealmakers at Betaday
Not Beretta.
Automattic Acquires PollDaddy
Java/Ruby does not generalise to static/dynamic
John Borthwick: What changed last week
That's a good point. Fixed.
Look at Smalltalk, for example: Sometimes things don't need to be directly successful to have a huge influence.