skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does that metric matter? There are bazillions of apps for Android and iOS.
This assumes that the kind of traffic you want to your startup is from industry peers - ie people who read industry websites.

I'd offer you'd be much better off using your resources to gain customer-traffic rather than industry-traffic. Spend the same PR resource getting into the publications and websites run by the people who will actually give you money or engagement.
Mealgrid.
Yes I did, finally built up the courage to produce something and try selling it to a global market. My first project: http://trollaroid.com/
Oh wow, this is really interesting.

For example, this is a monograph about the precautions and ethics in contaminating the moon and planets with our chemicals and bio-life.

As we study things like the brittle atmosphere of the moon, we change it.

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/607072main_WhenBiospheresCollide-ebo...
Save dynamic page as html from browser.

Upload to server as html.

Add.htaccess rule to redirect old dynamic page to static page. (when traffic dies, remove rule)

Or if you are running WordPress, just install wp-super-cache and when a traffic spike happens, click the "lockdown" button.
I use iTunes on both Windows and Mac for dealing with iPads, podcasts and grabbing stuff off of iTunes U and it sucks just as much on both platforms. It might be a great music player, but when they decided to make it a kitchen sink app for handling all those non music listening tasks just mentioned, they ended up creating a usability nightmare.
I don't think that's really irony...how is that worse then some obscure file in some obscure server somewhere? Or some obscure block of memory in some obscure cloud somewhere?
It is ironic because the real deep reason we share our thoughts is because we want them to stand out!

Databases are indeed good at storing millions and billions of things and they are designed for it.But no human being is individually capable of creating content that really justifies a "dynamic programming oriented query plan generation" each time someone wishes to access his thoughts!

tl;dr My argument is that static site generation for personal blogs is common sense!
haha good point but thats why I prefer the Dropbox based approach where I just create a text file and put it in my dropbox folder!
Fine on the iPhone 4S
Let's be careful not to trade one publicity superficiality for another: it's not only number of page views that counts, but the prestige of the referrer.

For example, I once received 150,000 views through a Reddit/pics submission on my Flickr account. If the New York Times featured my photo on the front of its Travel subsite, I would bet my Flickr photo page would get a negligible number of hits...it's as another HN commenter noted, HN provides more click-throughs because HN only provides links, not articles.

I would also wager that the NYT Travel section gets fewer than 150,000 views a day...but in terms of bragging rights, if I were to try to shop my portfolio around as a professional photog, front page of the NYT Travel would mean a lot more than front page of Reddit/pics.

If you were a VC investor, would you be more willing to evaluate a startup that made it to the front of HN or was validated by a TN post?
Sure. My counter-argument is that for multi-tenant hosting like tumblr where millions of people keep their personal blogs, keeping posts in a database is common sense because they're a known quantity. Backup strategies, optimization techniques, operations procedures are all well known and battle tested.

Also, creating content using a web-based editor that saves to a database is very easy for not-so-technical people to wrap their minds around. Static site generators? Not so much.
It was fine on my iPhone 4.
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I agree with your sentiment. However, I do feel the need to awkwardly defend ad-clicks on a purely philosophical level.

While not a particularly impressive raison d'étre, connecting buyers to sellers is a legitimate market function.

This lies on contrast to several revenue generation tools employed by the financial sector. For instance, high frequency trading is practically indefensible and arguably destructive.

This sadly does not change the fact that a legitimate contribution is not necessarily meaningful. I'm curious to see what the legacy of our current tech boom will be.
Easier: just put this into your .htaccess on traffic spike.

Header append X-Coral-Control "redirect-home"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CoralWebPrx
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^|&)coral-no-serve$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://your.domain.nyud.net/$1 [R,L]

Or even better, just redirect all traffic with news.ycombinator.com or reedit.com referer (before RewriteRule):

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?ycombinator\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?reddit\.com [OR]

You don't even have to manually disable caching after traffic dies down this way.
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I personally would recommend hosting on a VPS with a reverse proxy like varnish set up. Even if you've had very minimal experience with linux systems, it's a cinch to setup and you can get quick, fast caching up in a couple of minutes.
Name a comedian who hasn't had this level of big media exposure to capitalize on that's done half as well...
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> there's always going to be

If that were true, all terrorists would have to do is keep their devices on. This cell phone rule dates from when the airline wanted you to swipe your card and pay $10 to use the seatback phone.
But for the majority of people constructing the html\css to do that is a chore\"impossible". Storing it into a database and providing a simplistic word editor to write up new things is the easiest way. Storing the information in a db just allows it to happen easily.
I don't think general PPP and GDP comparisons really make sense on the specific scale offered there. The cost of living in the Bay area and NYC are much much higher then the cost of living in say Alabama. I wouldn't be surprised if $2000 in rent went a lot farther in France (even Paris) then it does in say Manhattan or SF.
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The Jekyll recommendation is a great one. For quick one-off articles something like pen.io is great, as well. And GitHub Pages are just fantastic if you didn't know already :)

In my experience, MediaTemple handles traffic spikes remarkably well. Maybe not ideal for the super-techies, but running WordPress on it with a caching plugin handles traffic pretty well at the $20 / month plan. And using S3 to serve static sites is fantastic. I'm on my phone right now so it's a pain to find the specific article, but Kyle Shank uses S3 and wrote a pretty handy article at http://kyleshank.com. Check it out and try to find the article. Great read.
This is a common misconception. The US is the world's largest manufacturer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States#Ma...

Now, it's true that as a percent of GDP, China is the largest manufacturer. But per capita it is either Japan or Germany (depending on which charts I was looking at), with US not far behind.

(Unfortunately as the world's largest national economy, a beggar-thy-neighbor export policy doesn't work so well for us.)
Yes. I have worked in Asia, South America. There, you can be openly discriminated or fired without severance. Good is compared to most of the world.
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Chrome provides similar integrations, except it also can also sync extensions, passwords, themes, and lots of other data, making it very easy to basically carry the same environment with you no matter where you're using it.
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Not to be pedantic, but iTunes wasn't released until 2001.
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I know quite a few people with a stay at home wife, child, high cost of living, etc.. that have figure out ways to make money to supplement their cost of living so they can have some free time. There are ways to get side income that would be enough to free up some time to do these open source projects if you're willing to do what it takes and think about it. Just wanted to put my two cents in on this portion of your comment and let you know that it is possible if that is something you want to explore.

That said, I agree with Overshard that Kickstarter has have open source projects and is fine for that sort of thing. Don't use one example you find off Gun.io as a reason for it not working. By that argument, people shouldn't do startups because it sure is easy to find examples of failed ones... Diaspora was open source I believe and that did just fine on Kickstarter. Just saying.
In that quoted article PG said Sam had already succeeded. Making it an interesting question of what exactly is PG's definition of success, because he's been making it seem all along that a runaway nuclear reaction was a necessary ingredient for success in the startup world.
XMas for Hackers
I don't know if you are like me, but I have a hard time on the holidays focusing on just family. I mean I love them and all but the time together and the overwhelming feeling of wasting time has started to make me feel like I have a real psychological problem.

My brain is filled with code, new features, architecture, design, psychology, marketing, business relationships, spin, public relations, is the site up, how many signups did we have today, how many visitors, etc! I also unfortunately noticed that I check my phone about 50 times a day now...because on XMas you really got to put the phone away. The old folks find this behavior completely puzzling.

Last but not least. I finally got to checking email and Google Analytics today and you know what I found...not much activity. On Xmas the majority of people don't much care about the internet...so if you are reading this, go take a break (obviously I need to).

Maybe there is a good movie on...
Two quotes are better than one quote:

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." -- Bertrand Russell
I also prefer HN because I can comment without having to use FB.
He forgot the geekiest option: write your own blogging engine. It's a perfect excuse to use that new language and framework you're learning! Or, if you're not learning anything now, it's a great excuse to start learning.
tee has a simple main loop:

while not EOF:
(synchrounously) read up to BUFSIZE bytes from stdin into buf
for each output file:
(synchrounously) write buf to file

(source code here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/tee....)

All of the reads and writes are done through synchronous file apis. I don't see where you are getting one-thread-per-file (or any other kind of parallelism) there.
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The point is that Native Client binaries are arch-specific. You only get the archs that you build for: If someone puts up a NaCl site with only x86, it won't work anywhere else. This is a horrible thing for the web.

Yes, you can build for more than one arch. But if you have x86 and x86_64, you are missing ARM. If you add ARM, you are missing PowerPC (consoles) and MIPS (some phones). If you add those, you are still missing new archs that will be invented later.

For this reason Google is working on PNaCl - but it has other issues.
and in Chrome it's populated completely automatically based on your habits! It identifies site search fields in the pages you visit, and associates them with the domain itself and whatever terms you use to get to that domain.

In Firefox it has to be manually configured for each site, with a user-specified prefix. When the fuck is a normal user going to do that?
I was curious how type-generic macros can be implemented in C, so I looked up an explanation of how it's done in glibc. It's quite fascinating (despite being an unholy abomination):

http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/2005/the-ugliest-c-f...
Very nice. Can you provide some references you used, particularly the video side? I'd like to learn to build one for myself.
Go read _The Hubble Wars_ and all this schmaltz about a top secret project will dissolve in anger.

They knew a lot of things that could have made Hubble much more of a success; the "wiggle" of the solar panel booms, the radiation issues of the various magnetic anomolies that Hubble would have to fly through.

They didn't say anything.

Secrets. Feh.
Yes, TTS quality is far from real people reading. I think the service must be something like Amazon's Mechanical Turk but with a SLA since recordings must be quickly generated.

BTW, I played doing a voice recognition and TTS under .NET for Hacker News. It's a code example but real people is the best option. If you want to check: http://blog.databigbang.com/voice-recognition-content-extrac...
I wasn't a big fan of the Jekyll workflow, especially when I wanted to write a simple post from another device. My solution to that, an app that wrapped Jekyll, just felt hacky.

Instead, I just made a Rails app with fifteen minutes spent dropping in Active Admin and RDiscount to render @post.body Markdown into @post.rendered_body HTML. Then, I aggressively cached pages into the static `public/` directory. I chose Rails simply because I'm using Rails for more serious apps and I wanted a casual app that I could take seriously enough to practice on.

Otherwise, I'd have as much fun building the same thing in any other Ruby framework for Ruby practice and then cache the pages into a static directory.

Isn't that what any other static site generator does?
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It's not clear as a first-time visitor what this site does. Why not have a simple header like: "Have a drink with ________ at ___________?" Suggest something I want to do that will justify giving you my email address?

More pedantic notes on design:

(1) There is far too much text in general and the font is too small.

(2) Profile spacing is really bad. Top/bottom whitespace is not symmetrical and photos don't have equal padding on all sides. Profile content also crowds far-left, leaving a huge swathe of whitespace in the center of your webpage.

(3) Remove the text telling people they can't signup unless they're in New York. You will need all of your visitors to test the attractiveness of your splash page and iterate towards something that is more viral.

(4) There are too many signup boxes. Your signup box is your notification box. And you should remove it until someone asks to signup. Let a single button trigger a lightbox that asks for no more than someone's email address and location. Mail them their password.

(5) Telling people to go through the work of creating an account, filling out their profile, inviting friends, and browsing stranger profiles is not telling them how the service works. It is telling them to go away and never come back.

(6) The color red really jumps off the page. Using it for the signup button is smart. Using it more than once is less smart, especially since the first red profile button overshadows your signup button in visual hierarchy, and then the remaining buttons undermine the signup button by pulling my attention downwards and away.

(7) There is a lack of design consistency in user profiles. Some have signatures and some don't. Quite seriously, why don't you just put a number of photos there so you maximize the chance of me seeing someone I find attractive?

(8) If you want me to invite my friends, there has to be a non-weird reason for why I would do this.

Intended as constructive feedback. Good luck!
Is anyone building a website similar to Kickstarter but focused only on open source software?

Actually, I am :) I'm not quite ready to go public -- please contact me privately.

I think that getting crowdfunding contributions for a completely new project would be extremely difficult, unless you are already very well known in the Open Source world. I think you have to just write version 0 and put it out there and see what happens. Well, you can talk it up in appropriate forums, but if that doesn't attract users, I don't know what else you can do.

If it does attract users, though, you have at least demonstrated that you're solving some problem that affects people other than yourself. Then I think you might have a chance at raising some money.
> 86 and ARM is where its currently at, like it or not.

The important word is currently. As the GP said, 10 years ago "archs where its currently at" would not include ARM, and the ARM success on phones and tablets would have been impossible, because they wouldn't have been able to run the web, if the web used Native Client!

10 years from now, we could have entirely new architectures, and if we lock the web into the currently popular ones, we might miss out on those.
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I deign to say something like this then.

If the lower and middle class keep getting squeezed out of things like libraries and media, perhaps pirating is the best option. That alone would apply strong downward force in cost of media already created. We see this by the fact that movies take on range of weeks before in retailers. It used to be sometimes even years.

I can only see where these ebook loaning schemes go. I had a friend in the uni who bought an engineering text as an ebook. It was 50% the physical book price, so no big deal.... Until he found out of the conditions of sale as a EULA. He could only print 10 pages, and the book would self destruct after 180 days. So, I do what I do and cracked it for him. Took perhaps an hour.

I understand what these libraries are fighting against. And I also know what's at stake for people who can't afford books. And then there's this short story about a right to read...
Putting everything on the line can focus you like never before. But if you fail, you may never get a chance to do another startup with a bankruptcy on your record and having to get an employee job for a decade.

Put up the money for the startup that is the extra from what you need to get by. Throw in your 401k and every penny you own as well as money you don't have, and you are risking living in the house of pain for 20 years trying to service it with an employee job as a desparate man.

Have a startup "complete failure" plan because odds are you will have to use it.
Crashed the HN app on my iPhone4 too. Not that I'm surprised, it's a pretty heavy page for the phone to load.
I'm sorry must have been drunk, and that one-liner is in reality easy to debug, or even understand.
I don't think that the analogy between speculative physical projects and open source software projects is that strong. Kickstarter enables people who have the idea and the people, but just lack the funds. Generally with an open source software project there's no funding required, one or two motivated hackers can build the first version on their home machines without any extra resources required, and then as the project grows they can get input and funds if necessary from their userbase.

Kickstarter is about lowering the barriers to entry for new products, but the barriers to entry for an open source software project are extremely low already. Perhaps a structure to make starting up new projects easier would be useful, but it wouldn't operate like kickstarter.
I am teaching myself Javascript (and programming) using "Javascript By Example". I like it a lot. However, it doesn't include libraries and DOM/BOM is taught secondary.
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Very nice indeed! Keep it up.
Don't most people with high-traffic blogs simply use posterous or tumblr these days so they don't have to worry about these kinds of things? That's what works for me... then the next problem rears its ugly head: bulletproofing your DNS!
Good question. Maybe this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_%28signals_intelligence...
There's a good set of articles about kh-9 on the space review. They go into much more technical detail.

http://thespacereview.com/article/1927/1
I am sorry. I was talking about why _perl_ programer (I am the one) should prefer lambdish syntax over classic one. The way perl functions defined below is pretty standard today:

sub something {
my ($a, $b) = @_;
do_something_with($a, $b);
}

Parameters in perl functions passed in @_ array. This is also default variable for many internal function, like shift(), which returns first value from array, and shift it to the left by one element. So your function might be defined like this:

sub something {
my $a = shift();
my $b = shift();

$a + $b;
}

or:

print sub { shift() + shift() }->(1,2);

If function do not use return(), last statement result used as return value of the function.

So perl already have everything you need to do lambda-style programing. And I was wondering why new syntax for something already existing. Or I could be wrong if this did not exists before and I am missing something.
Thank you for clarifying. Last example looks nice and make visual sense :)

Could you point me somewhere or give a name for $^a/$^b? Want to find out how does it work :)
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Tech PR is definitely overrated. Just take a look at the startups covered in January of 20102 and see where they are now. It's sexy having your site be covered by NY Times, Techcrunch, Gigaom, and all these publications, but it's no guarantee of success... I mean, whatever happened to Hipster????

Rather than focus on publicity, people should hang out in the communities where their target audience is. If you're building a travel site, that means Lonely Planet forums. PR is just smoke and mirrors. What really matters is reaching the people who will really use your site.
Where is the financial incentive for these hosting companies to do so? Most users will never see a traffic spike that can take down your average VPS or bluehost site. It seems there is a gap in the market for self-hosted sites that have built-in structures to build upon that allow for traffic spiking.
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Thank you for the great feedback, much appreciated. I see where you are coming from with a lot of your points and we definitely have some improvement to make on the design/user sign up.
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This is the most important line in your comment -

> Put your head down and fucking build something, then you can write a book in ten or twenty years and tell us about it.

Because it shows how you think. "How dare you! Put your head down and grind for 20 years!! That's how it's done!"

No, really. It doesn't take grinding for 10 to 20 years to make a meaningful impact on the world.

> And if I'm way off and you really are what you portray yourself as, post some fucking proof.

Ok, I tell you what. How much are you going to donate to my orphanage if I post some proof - a contract, a bank statement, something like that. You tell me what proof is, but you also tell me what you're going to do to eat shit after I give you your proof, and you're on.
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I made that project :)
It uses hashes for OpenSubtitles and TheSubDB. It uses file names for other sources (Podnapisi, SubtitleSource, ...)
Quick Github Link: https://github.com/mayanksinghal/HackerNews-Plus

I will try to add more features tomorrow. Hope this is useful for others as well.