skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Won't this change as the need for iTunes and external synchronization goes away? Apple has made a big deal about future iOS devices not requiring a PC for sync. Does the app store on iOS devices provide similar discovery mechanisms or will iOS apps soon find themselves in a similar position as Android?
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> I think the binding of data to HTML elements is a perfect fit and natural extension of HTML.

Have you checked out http://agilityjs.com ? I tried to create a pretty simple abstraction for data-element binding.

The lib is being used in production at opdots.com, and could use some additional contributors :)
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Out of interest, what would an "academic transcripts" be anyway? Marked exam papers, essays, project work, dissertations?
Contrary to what cq might wish to portray, Israel is by and large a fair society to live in. There's a reason that 20% of the population are Arabs who choose to stay in Israel instead of living in one of the surrounding countries.
Sad but true...You can issue SIMD instructions on 4 doubles at once though (and put whatever you want in those 16 registers)....
I'd like to see the whole video. Here's some info on it - not sure where to actually get a copy though https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1261137
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A minimum viable product is something that customers can actually use. Something that you can sell, that people are willing to pay money for.

This?

> We did everything possible to not show that we hadn't even started the back-end yet.

Is testing marketing and UI design. Which is great. But it's not an MVP.
Without actual numbers nothing was refuted in the article either. The original article is trying to say that the 7% of revenues numbers could be wrong by pointing out some flaws in the data collection. But since it doesn't have its own numbers to counter with then the whole thing is a bunch of handwaving. Its strange to call someone out for "not refuting" an article which doesn't actually refute anything itself. Its like asking someone to prove a negative.
Clickable link: http://hnpickup.appspot.com/hnpickup_web_app_statistics_snap...
It is also worth pointing out Joel says "don't rewrite" specifically in the context of a software company, where I strongly believe it is largely correct. In the context of a decades-old open source project the decision may be quite different for legitimate reasons.

I find it likely that you'd be better off performing an algorithm extraction and doing a true from-scratch rewrite than trying to incrementally translate TeX and LaTeX.

For the reader's convenience and reference: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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I'm not a specialist in that field, but my marketing efforts have been basically the same for both platforms. Of course, I might have targeted the wrong users in Android while targeting the right users on iOS, but I think that's unlikely to be case.

Maybe I didn't make that clear in my previous post, but while the data I posted is only about two apps, the percentage is consistent across all our apps (mine and my brother's) and some of my friends who develop for both platforms. That's still anecdotal data, but I wasn't claiming it was significative, just my experience.

P.S: Not trying to sound rude nor defensive, English is not my first language
No one is giving a student $4,000,000 and expecting it to be $40,000,000 within 3 years either.
Looks like they are in 503 land right now...
I'm pretty sure there's only one solution (I have no proof of that) and I'm pretty sure he'll put up the solution I know. There will then be a deluge of replies from people who either don't understand the problem, think it's a different problem, or don't understand the solution.

Already in the comments we see the solution, followed by many many posts from people who really just don't understand it.

The cynic in me says it's a great way to generate traffic, but it's a really poor way to create understanding. It's almost a math equivalent to FUD.

If you want to know my solution, email me. Address is in my profile. Although the lack of upvotes suggests that no one is that interested, I won't post it here and spoil the fun in case someone wants to think about it first.

In case you're interested, I've uploaded a statement of the problem (slightly altered to make it a little more general) along with a solution. The MD5 of the file is 0a600b1f7f26c44854b8a8118f5491a1 - so if you ask later and download the file you can check that I've most likely not changed it.
So like a startup role playing game for those who are not ready to invest real time and money? What happens to the idea and the "products"?

This has nothing to do with a hackathon, please change the title.
No, I don't take (much) issue with your example's readability, I just thought you were offering a typical snippet for the easy path for "I need to perform a GET".

Of course, more involved interactions require an API with more knobs. Clojure has a number of options, including touching the JDK's HTTP client API, or using a wrapper around something more grounded like clj-http[1] / Apache HTTPComponents.

[1] https://github.com/dakrone/clj-http
I get and have built Probability monads often enough. They seem really cool since keeping normalization around is theoretically nice, but they seem broken in "real" applications.

Everything I do with probability ends up looking mathematically dissimilar to probability. Most algorithms go far out of their way to avoid on-the-fly normalization because it's so expensive. An EM update monad is just the State monad.

I love Haskell (never used Scala) but I find the very things you're marketing it with abhorrent to use.
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Thanks for the reply but your piece wasn't balanced and well below the quality standards I used to hold for your site (always re-balance expectations!). You didn't talk about power consumption or anything interesting about the platform. We can get press releases from intel.
This isn't MVP (there's no product!), just the beginnings of customer development, no?
You're right, it's irrelevant. Let's just talk about meebo and shmeebo here.
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Exactly. "Your viewport width is 1010" and many sites have problem with it (as in show horizontal scrollbar if I don't use fit to width). I would use more space for browser but as I have only 1680px monitor, the rest would be unusable.
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I think he could have pointed out the error in a tweet and I would have been fine if someone had linked such a tweet.

Having read a little more I was expecting a little more. And sure he presented a new idea, but it's a well worn argument with plenty of evidence on both sides of the issue. When you break it down there are two arguments one of which was well supported and another that was left hanging. And leaving me hanging makes me feel that the first point was simply a straw man being torn down which left a bitter taste in my mouth.

PS: I have little skin in this game, Edit: I suspect Android may reach parity with Apple, but this article did little but annoy me and convince me that we are far from that parity. aka years vs months.
With the Israeli government? Or with Israelis in general?

Not doing business with Israelis because you disagree with policies of their government seems nonsensical to me.
I know nothing about depression and even less about the "startup community", but I still think that this might be a good thread to throw in some of my thoughts, for what they're worth:

First, a little background...

In March, 2008, I attended my first Startup School. Even though I had been programming for many years, it was my first in-person exposure to the "startup community". It was incredible! For the first time in my life, I felt like I was immersed into the group of people with whom I belong. (The closest feeling I had before that was here at Hacker News.) Two great days talking about passionate things with like minded people! Then I got on the plane home and sat with 2 girls reading "People Magazine". All I could think was, "Welcome back to the real world."

Fast forward to today...

Sorry to say, I'm having trouble distinguishing our "community" from the "community" of those 2 girls. Sure, they were probably interested in celebrities while we're interested in technology & business, but the similarities are still striking: We're both often caught up in the latest fads, the "cool" stuff, what the fanboys are interested in, who got funded, who met with whom, who knows whom, where everyone's hanging out, etc., etc., etc. There are days when I come to Hacker News and have trouble finding a single reference to the most important thing: our customers.

I became interested in building digital things because it was such an incredibly cool way to provide for others. I still feel that way.

Whenever I start thinking about the "startup community" and all the details we mistake for issues, it's no wonder people get depressed. Sometimes we just lose our way.

But whenever I start thinking about my customers, what they need, why they need it, and how cool it is to help them get it, it's almost impossible to get depressed.

If you think you're getting depressed because of all the distracting details, find someone who needs something, focus on them instead of yourself, and build something.

Just a thought from an unqualified observer too busy and having too much fun to get depressed.
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Could some of those people have cached css files from a previous page view?
Track the time you spend coding on each project while in TextMate
Twusic = Twitter + Music
TWUSIC, your personal radio!

After being the first social network offering to all the tools to create their own radio for free, Twusic has now become a complete music application enabling users to create playlists, to follow the music of their friends and to discover all the new music played on Twitter, using the exclusive #nowplaying Radio.

Introduced 6 months ago to users in beta version, Twusic is now open to all.
It offers for this occasion a new interface with new features, many of them requested by users.

In 6 months Twusic has gathered 2500 beta users, it offers now a music library of over 500,000 titles for nearly 300 days of continuous listening!

But Twusic is also a team of enthusiasts who is listening to a community of music lovers and share everything with them on the blog, Twitter account and Facebook page.

The Lab team and myself are at your disposal by mail or through the @twusicapp account.
I just hope you'll appreciate Twusic.
That's why i created a supper simple app to remind me of stuff, ended up selling a few hundred thousand, till Apple copied our name.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/reminders/id389611206
I completely agree, and this is specially true when you're talking about highly heterogeneous environments, like user agents ;)
@amirmc, it is a little vague. part of the idea is to shape it to the attendees but let me provide a little color [sic].

the idea behind tilt is an event that actually involves each any every participant. we are aiming at cross pollination between various disciplines in the hope that people learn to mingle outside their inner circle.

instead of simply "networking", the game element behind tilt gives attendees a way to determine if others are people they could actually work with. how do they think under duress? how well do they respond to changes in the environment? how creative are they.
Is that all users? or just paying users? For profit, do you look at gross or net, or both?
If you could only look at one of those for a day, which would you choose?
For those of you reading this, we don't have access to the specific paper, but it should be heavily quant driven since it will be in the Journal of finance, one of the best cited academic journals for finance.
How were your cache control headers set up?

Most browsers cache CSS files very aggressively (not even requesting a HEAD for them) once they've been loaded once - hence the common use of query strings or asset paths for CSS to ensure users get new versions on new deploys.
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MVP is one of the many words which has undergone corruption and softened in meaning through people's personal interpretations (Pivot, Startup...other increasingly vague terms).

The approach put forward here is not exactly new - if you read Ash Maurya's Running Lean (http://www.runningleanhq.com) he talks extensively on using a rich landing page (rather than a 'viral' launchrock-style page) to accelerate validated learning. The classic DropBox video example is another piece of classic Lean case material. What these both somewhat lack is the 'P' of MVP. Product.

I'd suggest this is 'practical application of Lean Startup principles' rather than MVP - people tend to talk about 'building their MVP' and that process hasn't begun in this case. Validated learning is critical, and getting a headstart on it in this way is a useful technique, but blurring the distinction of early-stage customer development and the actual MVP doesn't help the discussion. It makes the conversation around desirable qualities of a public MVP somewhat harder.
Our team is building real projects in both. We especially like Knockout's view bindings. I highly recommend Knockout Model to provide the model, and it also has a good REST API.

The Knockout authors are great about updates - new releases this week, and the Knockout Model author just merged our feature request.

If you're interested in these, our team's searching for a JavaScript senior developer to work on both these - see http://handl.it
We get over 100 support requests daily at JotForm. Users usually cannot describe the problem clearly. Many times, we have to ask them for further clarification. Screenshots make our support team's job easier. But many people don't know how to take screenshots. Even if only a small portion of people use it, it will still help.

During the private beta testing we found out that Wishbox is especially useful for two groups of users: Web Designers and Startups. When you have a new design or product, screenshots are very useful. I read somewhere that Google+'s feedback tool was used over 1 million times in the first month. That must have helped them sort out bugs.
1) The entire article is based off the incorrect assumption that every offense is a different person which the author proved to be incorrect in his first example (but ran with it because it fit his argument).

2) "Most people, it seems, choose a speed that feels safe to drive with full knowledge of their equipment, abilities and the current road conditions"

Baseless and plain wrong. People do NOT understand the safety thresholds of their vehicles and become overconfident with the situation based on past experience. The number of studies that show stopping distance, reaction times, and overall road safety when vehicles are traveling at a difference of 10km/hr is enough to disprove this. And real-world example exists anywhere that gets regular annual snowfall because you'll see how people handle driving when that sudden change in conditions exists.
Stoked to try it out! Thanks for making it free Gregg.
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It is freaking crazy that a progress report concerning a piece of public legislation should have to contain a bar graph comparing which side has spent more money.

When money influences the outcome, something other than democracy is at work.
I'm not sure LaTeX makes beautiful documents, that seems like a real stretch, but it does make creating good documents very easy.
I totally agree with you cq. Since Saturday 30+ people died in protests in Egypt. It was reported today that a news photographer in Syria got his eyes cut off before he was executed. Israel is such a douche.
I've noticed this recently. A fair number of ArsTechnica links have the #comment-bar anchor on the URL. It's curious.
Great idea. We should add it to the screenshot editor. Thanks!
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Hardware isn't software. I run open source on my hardware, but my hardware isn't open source. If your logic held, open source wouldn't be possible.
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Even the comparison to China seems like an overkill.

Israel is a democracy, China isn't.
Israel has free speech, China doesn't.

The two can hardly be compared.
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The cicles do not make sense to me. Minumum viable means the result of the lowest effort/functionality that leads to a viable product. Using overlapping circles just does not work at all, I'd say

Using minimal without viable is somewhat strange. If you look at a program: What is minimal? Hello World? No, I can still do "int main(){ }"! But wait, this still does a context switch... IMO it just does not make sense to say something is "minimal" (but not viable). it's better to say there is viable and not viable and within viable thing, you can head for minimal, too.
Yeah, your right. I guess my point comes with an obvious caveat - it depends what your business is. Our audience are particularly fickle, and there are lots of other places they can (quickly) go to satisfy their need (albeit not as well ;) ). As I say though, best of luck!
@exDM69 It is a great opportunity that we are trying to put together to help us all network with some new people and not have to commit a very valuable full weekend to a startupweekend style brainstorming session. We claim no ownership of the ideas but if a group wants to move forward with them they are welcome to do so.
(I disagree with cq but your argument makes no sense. Other’s failings don’t excuse your own.)
Good. As interesting an idea as this is, it'll just be exploited by worthless, lazy recruiters.
We sell a relatively expensive ($15) niche app. The Android app outsells the iPhone app 2 to 1. (We believe it is due to the fact that there are far fewer high quality niche apps in the Android Market.)
I use natural language machine translation to convert my "nays" into English. I can't type!

It's explained on the about page: http://www.horsesaysinternet.com/about-oscar/

Xerox had a major influence on the internet. The idea is also echoed by those such as Jaron Lanier.
The article points out that the purpose of the two libraries is different (I believe it was saying Knockout focusing on binding and Backbone providing more of the MV* functionality).

It also highlights two projects combining them:

https://github.com/kmalakoff/knockback

https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.modelbinding
I'll admit I'm never a huge fan of other founders asking me how my startup is going as a conversation starter. There are often three scenarios:

1.) Nothing new or exciting has happened since last time, in which case I feel pretty crappy.

2.) Something cool has happened, but I don't feel particularly boastful nor do I want to get into a long discussion of why that thing is cool.

3.) Something very amazing has happened, but I'm actually not allowed to talk about it.

I do notice when I return the question, I almost always hear the answer this article suggests ("awesome, best month ever, crushing it"). I guess that's why people always gave me funny looks when I used to give an honest assessment.

Now I just always answer, "Good good, we're pretty close to (some lofty feature or pseudo-pivot that is months away)". It's a convenient way to change the subject. Keep in mind this primarily applies to casual meetups with people I see regularly every 1-3 months but don't consider close friends.
I feel your pain; and wrote about it: http://danielmillsap.com/blog/culture/cultural-artifacts-in-...
Hmm, apparently I'm wrong then.
Right now we make very little money from the advertisements and / or products we sell (We sell Fitbits, Withings scales, our book, tshirts). We have a strategy that we have not executed on yet but have been heads down working on for the last few months.

You might be surprised by the buying behaviors of "Do-It-Yourself" weight loss users compared to the rest of the industry. Much of users come from Weight Watchers because they don't want to pay anymore. Moreover, no one goes to WW thinking they are going to get anything for free, where 100% of users come to us thinking they will not be spending a penny. This is something we will work and try to rite the ship as we execute our plans. Once we do that, we will have the other half of the data that I mentioned (in my original comment) about which one brings in more money. As of right now, Lose It! is free and we lose money as we build our platform and brand.
Is it really taboo, or is this just the simplest framing for a trend story now that a writer at BetaBeat has heard two stories about startup founders killing themselves?
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Awesome, I will start this tonight!
What is there that is "interesting" about the platform?

Power consumption was mentioned at a number of points in the article. It's just there's not a whole lot to say about it--it's not exactly a strength of the architecture.
In their own country, of course they do, im not sure why you are so set on straw manning, but hey, whatever floats your boat
Get on it I want to read the article! :)
"Your practice should be personal, for you (and the big you) and should be a part of your Bodhisattva work, not a device used to enlarge your ego."

Why not? People train at the gym to better themselves (and thus enlarge their ego). Why should meditation be any different?
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That makes sense, then. So yeah, the long wait is actually something that I'm dreading first time I actually have to send something off...

Thanks again!
I must have a very special iPhone that comes with a very special version of the reminders application, because half of the 10 steps he lists are simply not necessary, and also, the application seems respond perfectly fine to my inputs.

Let me see:
1) Tap + button
2) Type reminder text, hit enter, reminder is added to the list
3) With the keyboard still up, tap the reminder text
4) Tap 'remind me'
5) Tap 'on a day', then tap the date select box that appears and select the time and date
6) Done

Hardly rocket science, and I can't really imagine how you would do this with less user input. I call BS on this article.
You haven't heard of BDS then?

http://www.bdsmovement.net/bdsintro
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Citation needed, can you point to evidence of this? Also ... this has nothing do with Liblime trying to trademark Koha in NZ.
@exDM69, certainly there is a play on the word hackathon. the aim here is to take the hacking out of it and yet keep the fundamental brainstorming that is central to any group think. just because there isn't any code created, doesn't mean the ideas/concepts are less valid.

the attendees are investing real time - just not an entire weekend. both myself and @neosavvy - the creators of the event - are hackers who work full time. this event is aimed at people who are curious to work with others in more than just a hacking sense. the aim isn't just to involve developers, but also individuals who have skills in other industries, such as robotics, media and biotech.

what happens to the products is whatever the teams want to do with them.
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