skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest making the best product that you can. Whether it is accomplished over a single weekend or not is irrelevant according to me. If you release something unpolished, it won't make you look any better.
Render Kinect data in a canvas element using NodeJS+Socket.IO (skip to 21:50)
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Product Design vs. Interaction Design — from the designer of the first laptop
1. Remove the contact form.

2. Put a Gmail email address (in plain text) instead.

Gmail's spam filtering is better, and lowering the bar may actually get you more qualified leads.
Why couldn't this have linked directly to the Microsoft site? tideart.com didn't offer any particularly interesting or insightful explanation or analysis.
God is just. That's all you have to know.

Thou shall not covet, since God is just.

I get an idea, I'm set for life... is this just? No, you have to file for a patent--nasty busywork and money. Perhaps, you had to go to school for 4 years to be set for life.

You spend the rest of your life a wasteoid trying to live-up to glory days.

You win the lottery--you spend it on crass things... then what?

If you got to choose between money or accomplishments, what would you pick? Edison spent years in court rooms.

God is just. That's all you have to know. Everybody has highs and lows. Eat your favorite food every meal and it will become loathsome.

Thou shall not covet. God is just.

I bet Microsoft wishes it was Google. IBM...

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

n went their way: and when Micah saw that
they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

18:27 And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest
which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet
and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt
the city with fire.

18:28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and
they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth
by Bethrehob. And the

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If you cheat in school or get affirmative action -- you will end-up in over your head and fail and it will suck. Smart people go into good schools and smart people come-out. IQ doesn't change.

Marriage between equals is best. Otherwise, one has leverage over and dominates the other. Same for salary -- if you are overpaid, your employer won't let you forget it.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\WEALTH.TXT

art of the kingdom, cost half the price which they used to do thirty
or forty years ago. The same thing may be said of turnips, carrots,
cabbages; things which were formerly never raised but by the spade, but
which are now commonly raised by the plough. All sort of garden stuff,
too, has become cheaper. The greater part of the apples, and even of the
onions, consumed in Great Britain, were, in the last century, imported
from Flanders. The great improvements in the coarser manufactories of
both linen

------

Boredom might be a curse God sees fit to cure. When you get old and no job and sit around all day, health issues probably keep you entertained.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\PARADISE.TXT

to all.
Our Maker bids encrease; who bids abstain
But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?
Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring, sole propriety
In Paradise of all things common else!
By thee adulterous Lust was driven from men
Among the bestial herds to range; by thee
Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure,
Relations dear, and all the charities
Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Far be it, that I should write thee sin or blame,
Or think thee unbefitting
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I'm getting a 500 on that page (and the root, for that matter).
I wonder what happens when he sells for $0. An infinite number of buyers?
Sounds like another person in need of smarter inbox management. Coming back to 5,000 emails? Maybe he needs to unsubscribe from some mailing lists, and set up filters for project-related group discussions.
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Yes, that would be the easy thing. Is there no clever way to stop bots at least at the form?
I liked the article, though I do think he over-generalizes a diverse subculture full of both crusading, idealistic boys and girls as well as truly despicable characters. Regardless it does put into words ideas and feelings we have all had for awhile, or at least he tried.

Being post-emotional myself (I guess), I have no real opinion to add other than another observation that once again holds true: that the comments about the article here on Hacker News has been a way better discussion on the topic than the comments on the NYTimes site. Why is the NYTimes always so behind the curve?
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Is this why products often enter market at a high price, which is then lowered gradually?
I disagree. It would be much nicer if everyone understood that, while on vacation, you should only send the most important messages so the messages don't pile up and actually have a chance to get the attention they deserve.

Saying "I'm on vacation, try to deal with things on your own as much as possible and only send me the most important stuff." isn't obnoxious at all.
Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On
One problem may be that if someone sends you an e-mail and gets the responder, they may decide "Oh well I don't want them to worry about it then", except the e-mail was already sent.

Maybe auto responders should ask the senders to re-send the e-mail if they still need to send it?
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It will also lead to, if the app is a good experience for the customer of course, more word of mouth marketing which can lead to more publicity and more sales.
It's hard to do that with a product that's specialized in removing features
Probably, which makes it that much more impressive (IMO) that he never tried to emulate Steve's less admirable qualities.
"we're ±100 years from a development that results in (let's say) a 20 year bump, before those 20 years are up we will have accomplished a 60 year increase, within the following 60 we'll have managed to tack on 180, etc."

Predicting the future by extrapolating a trend without bound, that's kinda like the singularity. I have trouble with this sort of thinking. It's a little too pat, a little too wishful, requires a little too much reliance on faith. Things are never that simple. You can't just find one screw and keep cranking on it indefinitely. Progress relies on the occasional blacksmith[1].

And this is good. It helps social mobility. I have a hard time imagining a metric that wouldn't entrench a tiny set of haves if it grew without bound. Monotonic progress perpetuates the status quo, like trees stunting the ground around themselves. To avoid it requires periodic creative destruction. Ends of eras. The saturating of metrics.

(If I could still edit my original comment I'd replace 'weird' with 'interesting/weird'.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg
Not necessarily, stress is a risk factor in many, many problems, from illnesses to accidents.
1. If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

2. Success is measured in many ways, and one of those ways is dollars. There are many different ways to get dollars.

3. Failure leads to success.

4. Diaspora got GREAT and HIGHLY SUPPORTIVE press about 2 months ago from Free Software Magazine.

5. Diaspora had substantial cash flow shortly after launching the foundation. In fact they got SO MUCH MONEY that PayPal froze their account, probably because they thought it was fraud (fraud detection is REALLY hard and false positives are cheaper than false negatives...this is IMHO the most likely interpretation).

On the contrary, Ilya was in a GREAT position. LOTS of people would have given their left testicle to be him. Now, if he couldn't handle the stress, or he had one too many shots of Vodka, that is tragic, but don't try to bring Diaspora down with him. The facts are not on your side.

tl;dr It is WAAAAY too early to be declaring Diaspora a failure.
My personal favorite:

Q: If you could add one course to a student's curriculum, what would it be?"

A: Course title every university should offer: "How to tell when someone else is full of shit"
Swear words which are deliberately offensive or pejorative should generally be avoided.

But there's no reason why flavoursome language can't be used to get across the developer's feelings about how fucking awful the shit piece of code they've just had to kludge something into was, and how much they're looking forward to clearing it up in a later release.
Destroying the economy is the worst thing for Greek bond holders.

However I don't know if real damage is being done. Greece has import agriculture and tourist industries. Are the fields being left untendered? Is are there hotels being left half constructed?

I agree that unemployment is waste of human capital.

Perhaps the government should have just halved all there employees wages rather than laying them off?
> The truth is that youth culture today has no narrative.

You couldn't possibly be more wrong. The narrative of today's youth culture is passion. The passion to pursue your craft and the freedom to do it your way. To satisfy your curiosity without harming the world around you. It is unbelievably positive and optimistic. Liberty is the narrative of today and it's a narrative that has far more substance than those prior to it.
Linux does this too, but unconditionally: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.1.1/include/linux/jiffies.h#L16...

Note that this particular timer is not directly exposed to userspace, however.
Maybe he was looking for a logistic curve. Although I am not sure that any 2D graph of innovation has real meaning.
Payal is, um, horrible, but a standard paypal button is the simplest thing I've seen by a large margin. Just cut and paste.

I just did a Stripe implementation. It's pretty slick, but no more so than Braintree - although I will say the webhooks are a nice feature. The stripe benefit (over Braintree) is cost and not having to have to set up a merchant account.

Never used Dwolla.
How to Fix a Broken Cassette Tape, Part II
I would direct anger at the notion of "authenticity" in commerce, which repackages modern, progressive themes and topics like organic food into a romanticized form.
Attitudes to Jews in the 1930's (which is what your link refers to) and attitudes in the 1940's (especially postwar) were very different (in Australia and elsewhere).
Increase awareness of =/= fix, but I like the technique either way :)
No, that's for price discrimination.
It's not a question of "importance" or "purpose", it's a question of interest or relevance.

This young man's death is just as "important" as the young woman you mention...they are both tragedies, they both will leave an indelible wound on many people's lives.

However, this is a social news site for the tech community. The young woman's death is not covered here because it's not relevant to the tech community.

This young man started (with others) a project which is followed, used, and worked on by many in the tech community...it's of interest to them that one of the initiators died just as any other major development would be. It's also safe to say that there are a few people here who either knew him personally or had had some interaction with him, so it's of interest to the community when one of it's own dies.

Any time you load Hacker News there will probably be some stories that don't interest you. However, as long as they follow the community guidelines, are relevant to hackers, etc...it's best to simply skip them.

As for your other point(s), I agree somewhat with what you seem to be saying. I don't think it's rude per se to respectfully ask if anyone happens to know the cause of death. I would find it more rude to speculate. I also agree that a bunch of strangers offering their condolences doesn't accomplish or mean much, but I can also appreciate that people are just trying to be nice to anyone who did know him who happens to be reading.
I think Writer is a pretty successful app that is in the charts (and Apple may have also promoted it at various times). Maybe the dynamics are slightly different for less successful apps that are less exposed in the App Store?
I think that's the future pricing model for a lot of software products.

Think of games, for example, where you could sell the basic version for $5, then big chunks of DLC for a few dollars apiece. So you get your game into the hands of anyone willing to pay a small fee, in the hope that those who like it will continue to pay additional small fees for more content.
Vitamin D levels affect state of mind, and if you're coding through the night and sleeping through the day, you're probably low on Vit D levels - or rather, you could be a lot higher if you wanted to.
Apple's new gesture:Hold and Swipe
The most likely thing to go wrong with a reseller is that they won't actually resell anything, resulting in a huge waste of time. Make sure the boots on the ground really want to sell it, not just the execs.
In some sense it is irrelevant whether or not revenue is independent of price...if you're extrapolating from that dataset, then you really need to give yourself a few good whacks on the head with a stats text. I mean, N=2? Give me a break.
this somehow reminds me of the movie "Antitrust" ...
It's easier to have more windows on the screen, but it's still no easier to manage them. It's not a problem of pixels, but of cognitive load. For many people simply having more windows visible is distracting, even if those windows are in the background and can be ignored. Its the same reason that people would prefer a clean desk, with only one or a few things on it than one that has lots of things on it. A cluttered desk, no matter how well it's organized, is still harder to manage than a clean desk. A cluttered monitor is the same.
Nokia Lumia 800: The first device that would make me give up the iPhone
What you're describing is fine. It doesn't require me to write emails twice (one that goes to /dev/null and gets instructions, then the re-email with the special don't-delete-me-bro code that makes it go through).

Just keep my first email and have your auto responder let me know that you're not reading email until <date>.
Another technique is implementing a honeypot field which is hidden with javascript. It's supposed to be empty, but bots often fill them out too.

I recommend to evaluate Akismet[1], the blog spam detection api from Automattic. It worked very well for me.

[1] http://akismet.com/
I did something similar on a recent six-week international trip. I set up a dedicated "urgent" account (urgent@mydomain.com) and put an autoresponder on my primary account telling people I was out of the country, with instructions to send their message to the urgent account if the message was indeed urgent. I checked my primary account a couple of times during the six weeks, and handled a couple of things that needed to be dealt with (e.g., the expiration of the UPS box where all my mail was being forwarded), but otherwise I restricted myself to the urgent account. When I got back, I went through my main inbox, but it only took an hour or so and I wasn't overwhelmed by the results.
My condolences to his family and friends.

A good example of the Werther effect is the string of copycat suicides in South Korea after an actress, Lee Eun-Ju, took her own life in 2005. After her death, the suicide rate of the general population in Korea spiked with notable celebrities also taking their own lives. Here's a frightening statistic from the LA Times "In South Korea, 15,413 took their lives that year [2009], or 28.4 for every 100,000 residents."

As an individual who has overcome manic depression and dealt with suicide personally and amongst friends, it is a difficult issue to approach and conquer, especially because when caught in a downward spiral everything seems to perpetuate it and nothing seems to help. It is not enough to simply ask if a friend is doing alright or has harmful intentions but it takes a person (family or friend) who can weather the storm with them. I feel that it is almost equally difficult for the person helping because they have to be willing to listen to and be understanding of the irrational thoughts that plague a suicidal mind. From an outside perspective, the burden of the troubled is vastly greater than the burden upon a helping hand but I think the cumulative process of helping someone can be equally detrimental and taxing. I hate to make a movie reference but the movie What Dreams May Come paints a good metaphor of the risks involved with trying to pull someone out of their sorrow, although not quite as dramatic.
Ask HN: Marketing with minimal hours? (small desktop app)
I'm working on a desktop utility for sale via the Mac App Store. (category is graphics/design, price $5 or less)

I have a day job so I'd like to avoid channels that require lots of attention - Twitter, Facebook, topical blogging, etc.

My question: How should I market the app with minimal time input?

- Is AdWords worth it? What should be my minimal spend?

- Should I suck it up and write some sort of blog? Even if the reader segment won't be the same as the app segment? (I can do a build a mac app tutorial)

- What other options do I have?
Industrial Designer Ron Arad Reinvents The Wheel For A Smoother (Bike) Ride
I will hazard a guess that anyone who cares about the freedoms we are discussing is capable of rooting and installing a custom ROM or researching a purchase to ensure they get a device that is free to do what they want.

Of course, these same users would also be able to jailbreak an iPhone, but does that lock you out of the Apple loop (i.e. App store, Siri, iCloud)? I honestly don't know so that is not a rhetorical question.

Bringing this in a full circle and back to topic, I'm sure Steve Jobs pushy attitude is one of the reasons (perhaps the only reason) iPhone's aren't tainted with carrier garbage and upgrade(less) shenanigans. Just because it worked for him doesn't mean it will work for you.
Nice!
You can set up the following aliases in ~/.zshrc (or ~/.bashrc):

alias json="python -mjson.tool"
alias xml="xmllint --format -"

then pipe into them like so:

echo '{"one": 1}' | json
echo "<one>1</one>" | xml
I tried the javascript method - didn't work at all. Not even once.
Some nice points by otoburb to think about for sure.

One other thing that popped into my mind is, if they bill and then pay you, they can always replace you and keep the customers, and revenue stream.

If your business is not about flat rate, it might benefit from staying pay as you use. Flat rates should probably mean a jump in price to reflect.

If in your business the customers are the most valuable part, act according to that.

From what I've known, Lead Gen, and/or affiliate agreements don't veer into revenue sharing, or in this case, out right re-selling.
They have also finally released the 2006 winning entries for the first time, so be sure to check those out.
Has it occurred to you that being a "power user" on one platform doesn't necessarily translate to another or that another platform may be signifantly different to what you are used to? This isn't a case of OS X being different for the sake of being esoteric or being aimed at the 'average' user; rather these shortcuts have existed in Mac OS since at least the early 1980's.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't YC focussing on relatively high-risk ventures in the hope of hitting it big? If they picked a roster of less ambitious projects, but with the same quality of personnel, then surely the failure rate would drop.
Who let people start dying this fall!!?!
I would appreciate a much expanded version of what you just said. I am aware that Poe's Law states more or less that no parody is so extreme that it cannot be taken seriously by at least one person in the faction the author is atempting to parody.
Holding out hope here... but this whole ball started rolling with one tweet like 14 hours ago. I haven't seen a single source confirm anything yet. Any chance the net is getting punk'd right now?
Maybe the author just needs to surround himself with some different people? The things I see in my social circles certainly aren't the sort of feel-good, homogenized things he's describing.

And is this really new? Haven't people (and I'm half tempted to apply the term pseudo-intellectual here) been complaining about life being a bit passionless "lately" since...ever?

The longing for the "old days" of the wild west is such a common complaint that its just a cliche now.

If this article feels like it has any sort of merit to you (and you agree with the implication that this is bad), I suggest surrounding yourself with a different group of people.
What is "consumer surplus"?
He is one of my heroes. So charming, funny and educating at the same time. His speech on the islam downfall in the 13th century due to some "prophet" claiming that math and devil were interconnected was much enlightening on how religion actually stops scientific progress.
Horrible. This news is so tragic I really can't focus on anything else now. Which is probably the way it should be.

Our community stresses the importance of achievement, success, and technology so much that it's easy to forget what's really most important: each other. Sometimes it takes terrible news like this to jerk us back to that reality.

I never knew Ilya, but if any of his friends of family visits this forum, please know that many thoughts and prayers are with you.

I have no idea what was behind this, so just a few (possibly related) thoughts:

- Let's never forget that everything we do is for other people. They outrank all the ones and zeros. Go hug someone important to you.

- If you ever believe the possibility of something like happening is > .00001, do something, anything. If you don't know what to do, contact me (see my profile) and I'll help in any way I can. Nothing can be more important.

- This was the ultimate failure. I'm so sorry to hear this and hope that Ilya's family and friends somehow find peace.
Yep, sometimes thats called piracy too, in case you're wondering...
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Poor man. I've been through some of what he must have experienced to come to his conclusion and it's very unpleasant. I hope his family and friends are all OK.
Well, you can't just go changing the price of your app every week just to see what happens. I expect they wrote the blog post to see if anyone else had observed something similar.
Show HN: Hyve - Search & normalize many popular social APIs in JS
We started doing this in Seattle last year with some success (http://startupsanonymous.com). I've kept it dormant during a busy move to New Orleans, but if anybody's interested in working together to get it started again I'm up for it. There's a need.
So charge more for removing even more features. Call it Zen instead of Pro.
That's exactly what Cmd-h and Cmd-Opt-H are for. This is a solved problem on OS X.
Let's say there was an product that you were willing to pay $10 for, but someone was selling it for only $6. By purchasing the product you get $4 worth of consumer surplus.

In general you probably get at least a bit of consumer surplus for everything you buy. The more surplus, the easier the decision to purchase (Of couse I would like to buy that brand new MacBook Pro for 10 bucks, thank you good sir!).
I believe there is a reason something succeeds and there is a reason something fails.
Of course, cracking a safe just to screw with someone (and, you know, to remind someone that their safes aren't in fact secure) is perhaps the single most honorable thing to do with a safe.

Better that the safe be left around for spies to infiltrate?