skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Where does the other 50% go? And what "cancer research"? A recognised charity?

2) It's a simple message, but that means it's not quite accurate. The people making the product make a profit (noe of which goes to cancer research); the people selling the product make a profit (none of which goes to cancer research); so really it's only 50% of the affiliate fees that go to cancer research, right?

3) the mix of different colours is weird and jarring. (And yes, I appreciate that compared to Amazon's own website being jabbed in the eye with a stick is more pleasant.) There's red, grey, blue, black; then the links blue and purple.

4) I dislike the dropshadow on the curecart sign. I thought my eyes had gone funny.

Good Luck though, it's a neat idea.
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To copy files to it? Music, documents, videos, etc?

Sure, you can use Wifi, but that's slower, more cumbersome and wastes battery life.
He probably doesn't keep active tabs. I doubt he wakes up and says "I wonder what <my name> bought yesterday" (if he did, that'd many boring weeks, followed by a day where I went grocery shopping).

as caw[1] said, it's really more so that he can easily transfer money to the account in the event I need it.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3158076
It's a massive multiplayer game with 1million+ users so seems they're constantly transmitting the state of every active player to their server farm acting the game hub.
I think it should be easy to see which organizations can be donated to up front.
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Thanks for sharing your figures, it's always great to see indie developers succeed. I'm constantly surprised by how many hidden opportunities there still are in the iOS market - you just have to be creative and produce really polished stuff.
Wait, if there was more "opportunity in fundamentals" back then it would mean that stocks were further away from their fundamentals, right? That's pretty much the opposite of what the OP is complaining about.
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Will it run on AT&T? A couple of my friends want that phone NOW.
My conclusion from bit.ly stats for my app's Twitter feed with 130 followers and my own behavior is that people use Twitter to read tweets, not to click on links. Especially on my iPhone but also on a laptop, I can read 10+ tweets in the time it takes me to follow and read one link, where I don't know what I'll find. So if you want people to read what you've written, put it into the tweet.
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Thanks for sharing Pierre!

These are the posts that encourage one to continue on, I strongly believe that, as an Indie Developer, you need to laser focus on a niche and do the best you can on it, sometimes it's best to have a small and concise goal instead of a really broad one. It's all about baby-steps.

I hope to finish my app soon, also in education, a category that has a lot a potential. As a parent you go to great lengths to enhance your child's education.
For some people, though, any use of the default variable is overuse. Nothing to be done about that whine.
"Recognizing the artificial/restrictions and subverting it to make your life better" - I think we all strive to do that. Like you, I have some reserves will the article, but it definitely rings a bell.

Yet how exactly is creating a company any better? If you keep servicing other people interest, it could be called an illusion of freedom. You will compromise yourself at a time or another.

If you hire people to really get your freedom, it's subjugating others, and it may not be any better if you consider other persons besides yourself also matter.

There's another great article on HN at the moment - passion and professionalism (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6523/the_designers_not...), that explores this on a one-person basis.

Passion is great but it can become a self-imposed slavery too.
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Like eru suggested, I had an idea of what was to happen based on my understanding; I would incur an overdraft free on that purchase. Little did I know there were cases I'd not known about.
It also knows the time of day (to figure out where your sky is pointing).
well known pain, I did similar prototype a month ago to introspect templates in python/django:
https://github.com/235/django-template-introspection
it shows for each html tag the templates which include it (processing chain) and corresponding views in python code that rendered them
I would suggest that you pay attention to the prices on Steam during Summer and holiday sales. You can get best selling, triple-A titles for less than five dollars. I think Mass Effect 2 was down to 3 dollars.

At the sale prices I would think that the convenience of being able to download it from Steam would outweigh not being able to re-sell it for you.
I usually respond to conversations like that with "you started this conversation with a blatant lie, why the hell should I trust you enough to do any sort of business with you?". They often call back almost immediately in the hope of someone else picking up the phone instead of me.

Other common lies are "I'm a personal friend of Mr Anderson" (Mr Anderson doesn't exist, we made him up and listed him in a couple of places as our resources/personnel manager) or "I was talking to <some person> earlier today" (that one is particularly fun when they state they were just this minute talking to someone I has been sat opposite me talking to nobody for the last hour or few).

I've stopped being nice to them. I don't even make an effort to be professional.

Some companies will call repeatedly, day after day, sometimes several times a day. The only way to get rid of them I've found is immediately asking to talk to their boss to discuss being taken off their lists and demanding to talk to their boss until you get to or then hang up. And if that fails find the company's address and send them a letter by registered post stating that we do not want to deal with them, will not give them any more of of our time for free, and that any further calls will result in them being invoiced for our time at our consulting rates (we've gone as far as that twice, both times we heard nothing else from the company in question afterwards).
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Once registered, all new orders, and any updates we generate to existing orders, will be automatically sent to your Dropbox. You can also send existing orders:

This is incredibly cool. Now my beta ebooks can automatically update themselves to the final version.
Yes - the article is making an obvious point but its a huge point. How about this: my 2.5 year old niece is more adept at handling a touch phone than my mother! Thats crazy! The perceptive power of today's kids is mind boggling (maybe it always was but today's technology affords them a chance to express it more powerfully)
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This is known to anyone who's ever monkeyed with any type of machine learning: genetic algorithms, Bayesian filters, anything.

I agree with many of the commenters in this article. This should be common knowledge.

I also, like many commenters, couldn't help but think of model-based climate predictions.
I think the butterfly has gone extinct when it was replaced with CO2.
The situation for PHP is just as bad, try googling for php mysql tutorial... The first five results are all using oldskool mysql_connect like back in the day. This is deprecated in php 5.4 and much better alternatives exist nowadays. Definitly a bad situation for any language IMHO.
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Manually? What century is this?

Isn’t there a way to sync? That would be strictly preferable to a mass storage device.
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Influence, the psychology of persuasion by Robert Cialdini. An oldie, but a goodie.
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I doubt this is significantly more expensive than sending the execs all out for professional portraits. And better yet, it got them free advertising on HN, and who knows how many other sites. I'd say this scheme has already paid for itself.
The tech scene is not (yet) persuaded that Meego is a dead end

Perhaps the tech scene isn't, but everyone else is. Aside from anyone else, phone operators really aren't going to be interested in stocking Meego handsets because no-one wants them or even knows what Meego is.
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Don't you mean a C++ to CIL compiler?
I had the exact same experience coding Perl in my last company. I found myself, just like Steve Yegge says in his ancient languages blog post, having to memorize all the special edge case rules and idioms of the language just to get anything done. Whenever I got to choose Python, Ruby, or C for a task I felt like I was breathing fresh air again after being stuck in a musty room for a while.

I remember being offered to choose any toolset I wanted for a particular project and finding out that Perl was the only scripting language that had the bindings to the C libraries I needed to use. Naturally, I decided to to do the whole project in straight C instead. :)

The funny thing is, whenever I would code in Perl for a while, I would actually grow acclimated to it. I would start to think to myself, "Hey! I'm finally getting things done. I CAN be productive in this language!" It was only after switching away to another language again that I would re-recognize just how painful Perl really is. This experience actually repeated itself multiple times for me as I moved on and off Perl projects and it helped me learn to sympathize more with others who are perfectly content to code in Perl for a living.

At one point, I had enough and began recording all the weird Perlisms that were wasting my time as I encountered them. My goal was to compile a "95 theses against Perl" document and post it on my manager's door as a joke. Fortunately, I only got into the 40s before my manager offered to let me move to another team where I never had to write a line of Perl again in that job!

It's possible to write good Perl just like it's possible to write good COBOL, and better tutorials would definitely help newcomers to the language do just that. I would rather spend my time writing good code in other languages, however.
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It’s an evil thing originated from JavaScript. PHP always has borrowed evil things from other languages. As a result, PHP keeps getting more evil by the version.
> Right now, I'm working on an implementation where Node.js is receiving calls via websockets and handing that off to PHP-FPM via FastCGI for processing. A hybrid system like that has advantages of both the event model and the thread model. <

That sounds pretty cool. Personally, I was blown away what difference Nginx<->PHP-FPM makes compared to the old Apache way of doing things. Nginx is an absurdly fast evented web server as well. It would be very interesting to bring this kind of thing to Node.js because it would allow for some awesome customization which just isn't possible with Nginx.
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> So, even if you had a perfect model for the market without you applying your model

Actually, most trader's models do take market impact into account. If you had a perfect model for the market, I'm pretty sure that you (as a participant) would be included. In fact, your own actions are the easiest part of the model to get right, because you control them entirely.
The second problem is even further exacerbated as early startups don't want "employees". They want "Employee #1"; someone who is passionate and ready to help push the company forward.

I'm in my senior year of college here in the US and this definitely nails it for me. I've had some solid internships where I've done actual coding / ops / etc, but I don't feel like I'm at the technical level where I could graduate and make huge impacts for a startup.

Are startups who are past the "Employee #1" phase (or even employees 2-5, I'd imagine) in a different position in regards to this? (ie more willing to bring on a recent grad, because they already have strong technical employees/leadership pushing the company forward)
Personally, I never use my debit/check card. I only use credit. There are much stronger consumer protections. I can contest/deny a charge, and not pay until it's resolved. No fees. Cash back. A free, no interest loan on which to float my purchases until the end of the billing cycle.

It is amazing to me that people use, or even sometimes prefer, their debit card over a regular credit card.
The only time I'd want a spoken command line is when I can't type; that is basically only while driving (or while dodging being shot/bombed). Admittedly that's a big use case (the driving part), so siri makes some sense there. Otherwise I'll stick to typing -- I prefer textual communication even with another human in the same room, so maybe I'm an outlier.
They weren't originally intended to provide namespacing, as far as I know. They were there to make the compiler's life easier.

The reason that an array subscript is "$foo[0]" is because the $ sigil means "HEY COMPILER, the expression here is going to evaluate to some scalar".

@foo is the entire list and the compiler treats it as a list type; $foo[0] is an element of the list and needs storage/behavior of a scalar. Same thing for hashes: %bar is the whole hash; $bar{quux} is an element and must be treated by the compiler as a scalar.

The programmer must remember that square braces mean array subscript and curly braces mean hash lookup.

So basically, this is a compiler optimization implemented by having the programmer provide hints to the compiler. It's overhead that probably isn't needed in the modern age, but we're effectively stuck with it. It wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't made the second (and IMO worse) decision:

You can reuse symbols across contexts. The way this works is that the compiler maintains a symbol table where each symbol has a slot available for each of the types (scalar $, array @, hash %, subroutine &). This was originally the way to emulate pass-by-reference: you'd write a subroutine that assigned its arguments into typeglobs (* foo — think of it as a wildcard for all things named foo that behaves as a magic scalar with the contents of foo's symbol table entry) and then pulled them back out as the types it wanted:

local(*foo) = @_;
foreach $bar (@foo) {
do_something($bar);
}

This amounts to telling the compiler "I want to alias the name foo in all contexts to my argument, and then go look at what's stored in the array at that name" and is a poor man's pass-by-reference.

Perl 5 has a real reference system that completely obviates the need for this, except for the case of monkey-patching a subroutine, where you still say:

local *Package::quux = sub { ... }"

What's left is an unfortunate case where things like the GP mentioned ($bar = $foo[$foo]) are possible, and people who think they're being clever will do these things. Like the parent said, this is not a good thing to do.
Here is my 2 cents.

I like the concept and I think your little cartoon is a good way to describe the premise. I would include a "recently searched items, or screenshot of a search on the home page. Something that would re-enforce that you are legit to outside people.

When I went to terms, press, etc.. I noticed that you are using the search layout to display the results. I initially thought this was a little strange. I then realized my expectation was to have a typical document experience not the same experience as a search.

Finally you mention that the profits go toward cancer research, but you don't mention which type of cancer or the fund you are donating the money to. I think having a link to how/where/when you are donating the profits would be a very good thing to have. Maybe even include a counter with the dollars donated.
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Would you react the same way if they had boring but equally expensive professional photos instead of bobbleheads?
Having owned S40 and S60 I doubt that any Nokia phone would be easily jailbreakable.
Did you notice if any adverts affected your sales? I'm starting to think about advertising but am doubtful if any sites are really worth it.
I wouldn't say that was unfair. Ability in the right areas, demonstrated first hand, is a perfectly valid filter and the ranking you give it with your scoring system seems fine to me (unless the difference between the low and high ends is dependent on how much you like them!).

Yes you might lose someone who could be a star, but no system is perfect.

Hiring someone just because you know them is simply wrong, but giving them a chance because they've shown you an aptitude relevant to the position should not be seen as unfair IMO.
At the moment WP7 is an obscure product, if Nokia successfully push the OS then Microsoft will gain hugely (being the owner of the platform), whereas Nokia will suddenly face competition from manufacturers with much smaller margins.
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I've thought of that, and I'll probably end up doing that. Somehow I feel like a therapist might be annoyed that I'm just shoving a paper in their face instead of talking to them, but I suppose it's the best I can do if I'm not depressed at the time.
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I think what the author is describing is simple overfitting.

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

It is quite a newbie mistake for a scientist to be surprised by it. It affects every kind of modelling.

I thought maybe this article would talk about why economic models are worst than other kinds of models. There are issues that arise when applying scientific models to the economy caused by the fact that when even good models are used to predict markets, the use of the models themselves to do trading, distorts the markets. When multiple parties use good models to compete in markets, they distort the markets in such a way that destroys the predictive power of the models.

There is a great explanation by Glen Whitman of Agoraphilia, that uses grocery line wait time predictions as a metaphor for this:

http://agoraphilia.blogspot.com/2005/03/doing-lines.html

See also:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
Ruby does indeed have continuous testing for major (and even not-so-major) gems at http://travis-ci.org/.

I'm not quibbling with the rest of your response; just wanted to shout-out Travis since I learned of it myself recently.
Thanks for jumping in, jrirei!
Most of the ugly code can be avoided nowadays.. but for special cases (as that one) and a few not-so-special cases, the code can get ugly. At least until you get used to it ;)
Also, perl is very flexible which is a good thing. But for better or for worse, perl lets people do crazy things.

Actually, that flexibility is one great things about perl. If you know what you are doing, you can adapt the style for the purpose. For example, hack together something fast, and if it looks like a viable solution, flesh it out into something more maintainable. This is true for other languages as well, but IMHO, even more so for perl.
Thanks Federico, that's an interesting idea - we'll have a think about it. We're keen to keep a good balance between adding options to the text area and keeping it lightweight. Your input is much appreciated.
Imagine pointing that device at a president. I wonder how long that would last. =)
Engadget has the side-by-side specs up now: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/nokia-lumia-800-vs-nokia-...
A lot of things on there are the ones that you're missing but not the general public. Just look at the iPhone's success.

If you're a Linux type(or MS hater) then these phones are not for you. The rest of the 99% of the planet might consider them.

>It's a pity they didn't go with Android, which would give them the freedom to do whatever they want, not needing Google's permission. I would buy a Nokia Android phone in a heartbeat.

Android giving them the freedom to do whatever they want? Huh? The source code of a new version is dropped over a wall after their competitor has already released a device with it(if the source is released at all). Android dev is nothing like the Linux kernel dev. Maybe you would know that?

Also, Nokia was in talks with Google over Android but Google wouldn't give them many concessions. Your anger should probably be directed at them.

And it's not even like you can complain about the lack of options on Linux. There's a ton of Android phones coming out every month, each better in specs than the month previous and they're pretty popular and have loads of apps.

What next, you'd buy the iPhone 5 but the only thing stopping you is that it doesn't run Android?
A nitpick:

Games aren't movies; we don't hand total creative authority to a single director
and let his passion rule the project. Games are collaborative efforts, and that
requires compromise and diplomacy.

Auteur filmmaking in commercial cinema is very much more the exception than the rule. Even where the director has free reign, it is seldom at the expense of a collaborative process except at a very high level. On the surface at least the two industries seem to have many more parallels than contrasts. Each, I'm sure, require both passion and professionalism in droves (though like the author, I think I'd make the second my preference).
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xiaoma, I was really interested in smart tots sdk and really want to implemented in my app but I was really having difficulty in trying to find out what the sdk does. I created an account, downloaded the sdk, looked around and I couldn't figure out what it does or how some of the stuff will show up in my app. Because of that I didn't follow thru.
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Personally, sleep and exercise are definitely things I should be getting more of. I guess I just kind of need to take this seriously enough to just make myself do them unquestioningly, like you describe.
Perl culture has largely moved from static pages to blogs and Twitter, and Google doesn't do well in that situation. Disclosure: I work for a competing search engine. But that's why I know.