skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, you look like a Nerd dressed as a businessman. All good tho'.
"What happens when you touch the monkey?"
Come, look around. You can stay for a couple of months (I think visitor visa is 2 months and renewable with a quick trip abroad and back).

It's very quick to connect to people in the tech field, there are a lot of networking events where you can meet very interesting people and everyone's looking out for new opportunities.

Startup Weekend, Mobile Monday, Geek Dinner (this last one organized by me), and many other. You can also check Startup Digest http://startupdigest.com/taipei/

It's really a tech filled country, with many interesting but also weird characteristics, that definitely make it both tough and full of opportunities. :)

If you ever come, just give me a shout (same username at gmail) :)
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> You link to an article where they invested at a $4.5B valuation, and now the company is worth $11.5B.

Can they sell their $1B without the stock tanking, though?
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Wait, on that point (less government, not running for office), you might want to hammer on why tech entrepreneurs believe that. Say something like:

"We look at a problem like piracy and we don't see the need for more government, we see the opportunity for more business. In the 90s and early 2000s, the music industry was being hammered by things like Napster. Now, they're finally starting to get past piracy. But it wasn't Government that saved them, it was iTunes. It was Spotify and rdio and a bunch of smart entrepreneurs finding better ways to get content to consumers. iTunes didn't beat Napster and its successors because of the Government, and it certainly didn't beat them because it was cheaper. It beat them because it was better.

That's what we tech entrepreneurs strive to do: fix problems. Companies like Netflix are trying to solve movie piracy by getting consumers the content they want, how they want it. They're not there yet, but there's massive opportunity awaiting whoever finds the solution. SOPA won't get us closer to the solution; it will take us further away. It won't stop piracy, but it will stop innovation. It will bury entrepreneurs like myself under a cloud of uncertainty and legal costs.

Right now, sitting in a class at Stanford or MIT, there's a nerd who will figure out a way to solve piracy and get filthy rich and create thousands of jobs in the process. Don't stop him; get out of his way and let him do what government can't."
Think of it like entropy. Statistically a broken egg could place itself back together but that's never going to happen.
I've always thought that personal marketing/hawking of apps doesn't do much to drive sales.

The best marketing you can get is through reviews and word of mouth. In my mind, that money is better spent on improving the product.
We used to steal stuff from the chemistry storeroom and make bombs. Today that'd get you a visit from the DHS and probably onto some kind of terror watch list.
FYI invested.in can be used by anyone, worldwide.

Disclaimer: it's my brother's company
CutTheRope in HTML5
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A good start would to get App Review sites to review your applications. It depends on the category of the app, so if you don't mind me asking, what type of app is it?
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It stuck on 00% on biggest balloon and nothing happens. Is it only IE10 compatible? (running Ubuntu so can not see what it looks like in IE)
I handed out about 200 cards that weekend and there were about 3 people that scanned the QR code and bought it on the spot (right in front of me... now THAT was cool).

Keep in mind that this is 95% women in this industry, so I didn't expect them to be as "tech savvy" than if I was at a computer conference or something.

I believe that the personal touch of saying, "I built this for someone like you" has a HUGE impact on how people feel about your brand and your app.
It's always great to see people turn their (potentially quite narrow) personal experience into broad proclamations.

"I have never had a productive exchange via IRC, therefore it is not possible for anybody to do so!"

Meanwhile I have productive IRC, Skype and e-mail discussions all the time, both with colleagues at work and in the open source communities I participate in.
Didn't work for me in Firefox 11/Linux until I turned off my Flash blocker, then it crashed after hitting 99%.

Seems to work OK in Chrome 16, though.
Definitely. I'm not trying to build the next Cut THe Rope or Angry Birds here.

My wife is my muse and I try and make her life easier. In turn I make others lives easier.
Could this realistically be scaled to 10 such apps per year for a 100k income?
>I have been sort of letting this happen rather than trying to fix it.

Fix it - make it a priority. You've already recognized that it's an issue, just need to take the initiative to act on it. And not only is it an issue that you know needs to be addressed, but it's an important one. Treat it as such, as you would any important work goal.
Just applied (along with little bro)! By what date will we absolutely know if we are accepted? I assume it has to be within the next month or so - everyone will need time to move up there.
If anyone is interested, "Inside the House of Money" is a pretty enjoyable book about "global macro" hedge funds in the mid 2000's. It's just a series of interviews with hedge fund managers about their careers, their favourite trades and how they run their funds.

The interviews all take place prior to the financial crisis and it's neat to see how they were thinking about the economy. It ranges from "we're in trouble" to "I'm confused about what is driving the CDS market so I am on the sidelines."

As for the story, I am totally apathetic. If you invest in a hedge fund you are well aware of the fee structure going in and you are a sophisticated investor. Ultimately these guys only make money if their clients make money.
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Hedge funds across the board lost more money since that post came out. Its hard to tell exact performance on the bet though since they don't disclose exactly which hedge funds are in the basket being evaluated for the bet.

To give a sense of how bad it's been, one of the top hedge funds, led by John Paulson who made a few billion dollars by betting contrarian during the subprime crisis, lost 52% in one of his funds this year.

Some more recent data:

http://www.economist.com/node/21526326

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/misery-continues-complete-nove...
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If you are really determined, you can refine it yourself.

http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistry...
The niche market I'm going after here HIGHLY values the personal connection (Network Marketing), so it's a perfect scenario for me to market my apps.
Ah, so the code sent someone's iPhone directly to your link in the App store?
Managers take no haircut when the fund gets hammered

Which is exactly why I think carried interest should be taxed as ordinary income.

/soapbox
My adjustable standing desk: $5?

http://i.imgur.com/GfGpq.jpg

When I get tired I can switch from standing to sitting (use USB keyboard/mouse when sitting, laptop keyboard/mouse when standing).

TL;DC: Laptop is on a bunch of small plastic storage boxes stacked on desk (and a random router box); keyboard/mouse on the desk surface.
Works fine for me on Firefox 9.0.1/Mac!
+1 for wording it so well. I might add that it also takes a person who is willing to accept full responsibility for his actions and the actions of others in his group since nature takes no excuses.
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I wonder if the author changed the title or keywords when he shipped version 2. That's one of those hidden factors that can make a big difference in sales.

(Not to minimize the importance of word of mouth and a great product, of course.)
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I wouldn't say FP is big in finance. On the other hand, financial companies are probably over-represented among the industrial users of FP.

There are several prop trading firms (Jane Street, Tsuru Capital, etc) that use functional languages heavily. Also, many of the big banks (Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, etc) use some FP in production, but as far as I know it's only used by small, strategic groups. FWIW I've interviewed or applied at many of those big banks in Tokyo and not one of them ever mentioned interest in FP skills. As far as I could gather the typical developer there doesn't know or is not interested in FP.
The hidden language and "wonderful experience" of product reviews
Just like with iOS, there are non-base platforms you can write apps with.

Javascript, Actionscript, C++ all work on android.
That's a good question. I guess the answer depends on if you can find enough underserved niche markets that you know enough about to create something unique and special.

And remember, that $10k was in 6 months. So potentially, we're talking about $20k/yr for this app. 10 apps would be a potential $200k a year.

Right now, I'm content with this being supplementary income, but I never imagined that when I paid that $99 developer fee that I'd do so well.
I've found it can do a lot, especially if your app is for a niche market like the OP's. When you go to a conference or a trade show, you're surrounded by people who will buy your App. It doesn't get any better than that when it comes to marketing. Good reviews only help if people find your app on the app store to read them.
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Up top http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3444688 I gave working code that comes close. To be fair the reason why it gets closer (works with both F# and C# lists,arrays, sequences,dictionaries,maps,strings etc) is clerical. From this thread, I understand Scala and Java arrays are divorced.

But the problem is: put in a string and it gives back a list of characters. So I use the term it is "topologically correct" heh. To be honest I do not think there is anything functional about what he is attempting but perhaps the idioms in Scala are different? My knowledge of scala is mostly horizontal (from Ocaml,F#, haskell).
do you write your programs in sharepoint designer, too? ;)
Very cool, runs flawlessly in Safari.
I'd like to add a bit of personal perspective to this op-ed.

I personally know the author, Jon Levine, in fact, I'm the guy that got him the "dead-end job" with my family's firm. He's a member of the "I have an Ivy League degree, I deserve a job" a set. Never mind his degree was in history and political science, he felt entitled to a prestigious, high paying job in the worse economy in 70 years.

After a 5 month job search without a callback, I stepped in, did a favor and got him an entry level position at a very small PR firm. This was not a "dead-end job", he was the first hire at a newly formed company, there was definitely an opportunity for him to grow his career in a highly lucrative field. But, being that he went to NYU and Columbia (notice the name dropping in the article), growth didn't come fast enough for him.

We accommodated him (time off, flexible hours) while he spent two months trying to find another job. When nothing stateside panned out, he gave us three days notice before leaving for China. It's been a very surreal day for me, I'm incredibly disappointed that he chose to criticize a job which he only gained through my action.

I don't know whether any of you should go to China, but hopefully I've given you a little perspective on why he did.

TL;DR: I know author, he couldn't hack it stateside, took China job as last restort, not as some enlightened life decision.
Looks like the url needs the "www" to work: http://www.cuttherope.ie/dev
Hey Phil, I don't remember WHAT exactly I changed in the keywords from version 1->2, but I'm pretty convinced that making the app prettier and easier to use was a key factor in the growth in popularity.

Keywords are one of those things you don't think about right away, but they can have a HUGE impact on search results in then end.
Can you qualify that statement a bit? There's more to HN than meets the eye.
My experience is similar to a lot of others. I've spent the last two years working with quite a few social media APIs and while Twitters API documentation and reliability could be a bit better at least it looks like there was some level of design/thought to it. On the other hand is Facebook, which to say appears to have come into existence organically would be beyond generous. Examples are non existent, bugs are either unacknowledge or unfixed indefinitely and documentation as simple as what permissions are needed to access a property are a challenge to find.

In general APIs are going to suck unless you're paying to access them. It may be less than perfect, but being able to ride on the coattails is better than nothing.
Almost... it sent them to my linkshare link that then forwarded them to iTunes (which opens the App Store app on a device). So i gained back that 7% of revenue from Apple that my linkshare referral program gives me. Sneaky, huh?
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These guys are what I've been dreaming of. Thanks! Now you should casually point Reddit their direction :)
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I'm reminded of some stellar advice I read years ago -- to launch a new software product, just hang out in the forums of a group of people focused around a topic / hobby / area of passion.

Ask them what they need. Build it.

This doesn't minimize all the work that goes in, but I think it's a great practical reminder that building for an audience with a need is the first step of product management and product marketing. When Amazon launched the original Kindle Development Kit, I posted in ebook forums asking for 'requests' for apps. I received many, many pages of really pretty good ideas for applications.

I couldn't build any because Amazon turned me down for their early-access program, but I was gratified to see how much time and energy enthusiasts put in to helping design and spec an app.
would the c compiler actually pull that restrict annotation forward without declaring the locals as restrict?
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Chrome 17 is a beta release. It seems to work fine in Chrome 16 on OS X.
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I'm convinced that this is the future of music production. My favorite band, just came back after 8 years. Their goal was to raise $30,000 on Kickstarter to produce a new album on their own. They still have 11 days left, but they have raised $182,759 from just 3,090 backers.

You can't pirate CDs that don't exist yet. You are commissioning a band to make new music. Kickstarter does take a decent cut, but not anything like the labels, and the band has full creative control.

Wondering what band? Five Iron Frenzy. You probably haven't heard of them, but that's the great part. You don't have to be a band like Coldplay to make an album like this. I've also backed small, local bands making their first album.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fiveironfrenzy/new-five-...
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Make sure you enable Flash. Not sure why it's necessary, maybe cross site loading?

Works really well (Chrome 17.0.963.26 dev, Linux), I got sucked in and played several levels.

Kind of sad that at the end of the "trial", you're prompted to buy the game on iOS or Android.
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Works for me on W7 64-bit with Firefox 9.0.1
EDIT: Try this if it's not working for you: http://www.cuttherope.ie/?html5audio=true (read below for more info)

Runs great in Chrome for me. I have the android app and this html5 version runs really well... after playing the first couple of levels, it runs just a well as the android game.

Tried loading the game in android browser, no go... also tried loading it in the dophin browser within android... no go (both just site at 00%).

Was curious what they were using for playing audio so I had a look at the code. They are using SoundManager2 (http://schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/) which will play audio using either html5 or flash (it's great, have used it on a few projects in the past)... I believe it dynamically detects what's available. Looking at the code though, I see they (MS/Zepto Lab) are only using html5 audio on IE9 or greater, and flash for everything else... if you want to force html5 audio, use this link:

http://www.cuttherope.ie/?html5audio=true

This might fix issues people are having for browsers that don't support (or block) flash. Haven't tried in an iOS browser, but that link might increases your chances of it working there :)

Using that link I was able to get it to load in browser on Android and started the game, but couldn't cut the rope, likely cause it's not built to handle touch events. Too bad.
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Someone managing a pension fund is a sophisticated investor. My sister is a teacher with a claim on the sizeable Ontario teachers pension fund but she doesn't pick the individual investments they do, nor should she.
I'm not thrilled about the block syntax either, I do prefer it to java. I'd much rather a C#, F# or ruby style syntax. It's not that you CAN'T accomplish a bunch of things in Java it's just that it's a pain to do so.

When one looks at java they see a language spec and virtual machine dominated by a bunch of people who are resistant to any improvement that might break compatibility with code written in 1994. Those people or their employers also use various capricious tactics to stall anyone else from improving it. It's essentially been left to rot while the owners of the language strip mine the value.

When a situation such as that exists I think the word ghetto is the perfect way to describe the ecosystem. Java is an ecosystem designed to cater to the task masters who oversee the pair programmer chain gangs in the cube farms. If they are happy with that lifestyle then so be it. Who am I to say they can't live that way. But it doesn't make it not a ghetto.
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it's cause they are using flash for audio if not IE9 or greater (as in IE10). you can force html5 audio instead of flash audio using this link:

http://www.cuttherope.ie/?html5audio=true

Let me know if that works.
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Try this:

http://www.cuttherope.ie/?html5audio=true

(see my other longer comment for why)
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Dance 1,054,763.95
Fashion 1,351,659.85
Comics 1,763,628.48
Music 19,801,685.21
Photography 2,116,261.93
Food 2,809,503.31
Games 3,616,530.88
Film & Video 32,473,790.40
Theater 4,051,962.62
Technology 4,673,470.41
Publishing 5,134,388.55
Art 5,900,166.14
Design 9,180,637.55

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Run:
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Not just a catalogue, an alternate market with only FOSS applications.
no it doesn't. with flashblock it's 00% all the time (ff)
The answer just has to be "yes", subject to the number of party-based network marketing type operations, especially those for "soft-goods" such as semi-precious jewelry, soaps/toiletries, candles/ornaments, lingerie/(err)novelties, etc.

Hostessing these sort of deals successfully takes a lot of prep and work up-front, during and after to make sure it runs smoothly, customers are totaled up correctly, orders placed, items delivered etc.

There's likely a wider scope for checklist and CRM-type apps...
Programming language research is a very large and deep field, though a lot of industrial languages are fairly divorced from it. All of these languages have a strong theoretical foundation. This pays off well. One common statement from ML programmers is "If it compiles, then it works."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_theory
I'm confused why Microsoft would sponsor something like this. Google going after game developers and getting them to port their apps to HTML5 makes sense, as it supports the Web as a platform as well as promotes the Chrome Web Store.

Is the plan that the Windows8 App Store feature Chrome Store-style URLs-as-applications?
Loads fine on my iPhone, and plays the audio, but the swipe motion doesn't work, it just wants to pan the screen from left to right.
In hunter-gatherer societies, elders older than 60 have been observed as 1) looking healthy and 2) still being able to hunt, fish, trap, build, and pretty much everything else along with their younger counterparts. Perhaps at a slower pace, but they're generally far more fit than the modern world's old.

Survivorship bias.
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Hi mjg59 - I saw it here as well, downloaded the source, and posted to xda-developers. It kind of feels like it could possibly be user error at this point:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21226212&...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the complexity of the situation though.
you have to turn flashblock off.
Unfortunately there are lots of OpenType features without a good representative name.

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

As thristian points out, font-feature-settings should be a last resort for rarely-used features without a separate syntax. It is not meant to set all features down.
Ya, I don't they are handling the touch events unfortunately.
Bonus gripe: the pie chart is totally misleading, for two related reasons:

- Some segments are arbitrarily taller than other segments (makes them look bigger)

- Some segments are deeper than other segments due to where they are in the bubble.

"Real identity" is listed as 4% of the graph, but it's not clear if they intended for it to be 4% of the volume, top-down area, or horizontal distance on the graph.

It's the worst kind of chartjunk: not just unnecessary, but actively misleading.
it amazes me that anyone listens or cares what MG has to say. His posts are full of factual inaccuracies and personal opinions stated as fact.
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mercurial, as of 2.0, can: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LargefilesExtension
I thought this paragraph was particularly insightful:

"I learned a lot from releasing my first iPhone app: Six-Pack Equivalent Calculator... primarily that you shouldn't release an ad-supported app that does not have high user engagement times. The app was a utilitarian "one use and quit until you want to use it again" type of app. I can see an RSS reader or a Facebook client being free with ads, since there's a long user engagement period, but this revenue model simply didn't work with my application type."

It's a pretty good 'rule of thumb' on when you should or shouldn't consider ads as your monetisation method.
Just watch/read the news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E
exactly 'why i hate mg siegler'
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