skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing happened for the last six months.
And nothing will happen for the next six months.
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It's like a late-night TV ad.

"You may be an entrepreneur and not even know it!"
I find that lyrics can distract me, but not when I'm in "The Zone". Classical music seems to help me reach the zone, so my playlist begins with a couple of classical albums then continues into my favorite modern music with lyrics. Once that starts, I'm usually so into the coding, that it doesn't adversely effect my concentration ... and I find I can even sing along with my favorite songs while still programming. (This is not so good for others around me ... but I enjoy it :)
"It's possible to build a quad-core PC running Eclipse and Gimp for less than $400 with refurbished hardware. At the time of this writing, the Mac Pro with one quad-core CPU begins at $2,300. Adding Photoshop and other tools can push the bill closer to $4,000."

It may be true that it's possible to do that, but part of the reason Macs are so expensive is that they don't (generally) skimp on parts, and there's a lot of design that they put into the system.
Dead Can Dance also sing in made up languages but it's not everyone's cup of tea.
generally motion sickness comes from conflicting messages to the brain from various senses (typically eyes vs inner ear). Just like feeling motion that you don't see (ie. reading while riding in a car) can cause motion sickness, so can the opposite: seeing motion that is not happening. Not sure how doing flips all day would make one less prone to motion sickness from this game.
Translation: I like it when I am mistreated by Apple because I can believe it is part of some greater purpose.

(I think this is a very meaningless argument. Some people care about one thing, other people care about other things. Products may be judged by different criteria by different people.)
wow this is seriously great. I couldn't believe how simple it was for how versatile it is in relation to how small the codebase is! (~8 lines)
data + methods
To be fair though, Microsoft is pretty much the company people think of when you mention an evil corporation (in the tech world), and I think they are criticized for largely the same thing. Cohesive, all inclusive environments that provide everything they think you want.

I think evil is bandied about as a proxy for "this corporation operates in a way detrimental to a world I would like to see", or something like that. In which case, I think the label is well deserved for both.
$18m is more than the imaginary billions that facebook is valued at...
Also remember that for the purposes of using caffeine to enhance productivity, the worst thing you can do is chug three cups in the morning. Instead, you want to drink your dose as slowly as possible throughout the period of time you want to be stimulated.
That's true, I really can't blame them for doing that. Bandwidth might cost more than you can make in terms of CPM in most of the world.
I have a feeling that in this case, ignorance is bliss.
Ask HN: Can you start an original, open source, project without writing a line of code?
I'm wondering if you think it can be done. What would be the pitfalls? How would the founder provide value in the early development stages? What properties would the idea require to appeal to developers' self-interest? Has it been done before?

I've been asking around about this and have some ideas about how it could work, and how it could fail, but I'd love to hear what HN has to say about it.
For once I'm curious so I'll ask: why the downmodding? I was questioning whether any amount of novelty could make a game worth it if it literally makes people vomit, since presumably that's a pretty big no-vote.

Normally when I get a comment this low I can just attribute to either Apple fanboyism or a general lack of humor. This one has me a bit stumped.
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It's very clever, but it's not very sophisticated; it's just data: URLs of the samples. Beatboxes are a kids project on Scratch; I'm surprised it took so long to get a good one in Javascript. =)

When someone gets the WAV/PCM decode and signal processing stuff written up in JS, then we'll have proved something.
Webby rocks.

I'm all for people scratching an itch and rolling their own, but I'm curious why Webby wasn't suitable for the task.

In fact, this:

http://github.com/mojombo/tpw/tree/master/index.html

looks exactly like what Webby does.
Well Yahoo has been doing badly.

But how much of that is really a management/leadership issue? How much is to do with the fact that Yahoo has been waiting for page views to equal money for a long time now.

People suggest that they should do X with their product Y, supposedly bringing them in tens of millions A drop in the ocean. Or that they need to do Q to get ahead of G! But as a small or local advertiser (the G! secret sauce), using panama is something you do at considerable hassle to get the last 10% of business. Like mining sandy Candian oil.

It's not clear what Yahoo is for, what it does or what it's business model is. That is part of their definition.
What exactly was/is their product?
I don't think they could survive a developer. What would he develop?
Some more names:

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/08/078245
But if YouTube increases search volume on Google by 1%, that equals $200M additional revenue to Goog.
A few more bad news days & Yahoo could become attractive as an all out buy.
http://www.pandora.com > Type in 'Cafe Del Mar' and get hackin'.
http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html is a very good short survey of the OO paradigm.
Could you be a bit more clear? Are you asking if an individual can come up with some idea, write a blog post about it, and have other people build it?

Yes, that can definitely happen, but only if the original person has capital. Most developers who do opensource work have a bunch of ideas and projects they'd like to be working on, so you're going to have to pay them to work on your project instead. Payment doesn't have to be money, it can be reputation or an exchange of services, but basically you have to have something to contribute.

Otherwise you're asking them to do something for you for goodness sake without actually put any effort into the project yourself. In particular if you want to be the legal or cultural head of the project, people will sniff that funk immediately.
Procedural programming concerns itself with actions acted upon the data, whereas object oriented concerns itself with data upon which actions can be applied. Think of code as verbs, and data as nouns, and procedural languages are verb oriented, object oriented are noun oriented (I talk about it at http://boston.conman.org/2004/10/19.1).
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Restricting your customer base to those who purchased a new computer in the past year will greatly harm your income (particularly if you're selling business apps).

As for the feel: Don't get bogged down by the implementation technology. The vast majority of your customers (presuming you're not targeting the rabid fanboy subset of Mac) will not notice nor care about the language you've implemented your application in.

If your software does what a business needs and looks reasonably good while doing it, you'll make a killing.
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Right, but now there is a toll on the bridge to producing that item. If the best items command the highest toll (license price), great ideas are now de-incentivized. The public good has not been served.

The need for a patent license prevents, delays, or slows the idea from being executed upon by adding a cost to it, and the execution is the valuable part.
I'm guessing it's the "Haven't actually played it" you stuck at the end of your post.
you are correct, I skimmed/misread the post. I thought it 75 richest LIVING people (and could not for the life of me figure out why they were using such an old Forbes list...), not in history.

Thats why I was assuming we could assume dead people and those under 25 wouldn't be as relevant and fit all potential candidates to a 50-ish year birth-year block.

Taking any arbitrary 9 year period in a 50 year period and finding that it captured ~20% didn't seem odd to me, which is why I screwed up with my bad argument.

Good catch.
Webby is a great system and very close to what I needed; indeed I took many ideas from it. But webby does not help me with the blog specific parts that I wanted to have automated. The entire point of Jekyll is to remove every last bit of pain associated with creating, maintaining, and posting to my weblog.
Obviously the definition doesn't transfer perfectly to the internet.

Traditionally breaking news is reserved for news deemed important (see previous definition). The problem is, everyone uses it too much, and if too many things are deemed important, nothing is. And we're back to where we started :).
nightmare :)
Based on the buzz around this game, it seems that the answer is yes.
You did. The whole point of the article is that everybody are anaware of how dumb or smart they are.

If you wanted to reinterpret and not misinterpret you should've name it "If you believe that dumb people don't know they are dumb you are likely wrong: all are skill unaware."
That's about what I was imagining.

I've had people tell me that setting up the SVN, moderating discussions in a mailing list, twittering project updates, and orchestrating the cultural/public facing side of the organization are the most productive early tasks.

My question is: will people start working on a project without even a line of code, or will there be paralysis until there is something to work off of?
So, you mean, "no". ;)
Good definition. Smalltalk is the only appropriate starter language to learn objects well. Sure there is the difference between class based and prototype based languages, but this hardly matters compared to "getting" objects right in your head in the first place.
Actually, e-ink is now up to at least some video. See: http://earthfirst.com/a-look-at-the-paperless-newspapers-of-...
> An entrepreneur is anyone who can see an opportunity or an idea and turn it into hard cash. If you can do it through someone else's business then even better. You are simply reducing the calculated risk.

No, that's called a profiteer.
Nice cached response.
I think you mean restricting your developer base.

You know.... as it's Java. It should run (with modest effort) on a few platforms.
In the long run yes, but I think they did the right thing to focus on the high end sports market initially. It gets more attraction from the media and creates brand awareness. It's a cool project that attracts the best engineering talent. It allows them to experiment with and push the technology far beyond what would be needed for an every day car with more room for early failure, and perhaps more understanding from early adopters. If they are able to execute on their plan, when regular folks are thinking of purchasing their first fully electric vehicles I think the Tesla name will have a more positive association in people's minds than the Chevy volt.
If you're interested in some commercial companies currently working on this, check out the LiftPort Group. http://liftport.com
> Whenever you're cribbing euphemisms off of eight year old 50 Cents' songs, then you're probably driving the wrong way down a one way street.

I understand what you're saying, but that's the wrong way to say it. I've learned more about entrepreneurship from hustlers I've known than anyone else, and hip hop usually captures that spirit better than any other music. Entrepreneurship takes balls, and your stones have to be massive to flip dimes and quarters under the noses of teachers and cops.
hmm... correct.

my apologies, offense not intended, though looking back I can see that wasn't the nicest post by me. You didn't claim it was science and you're right it shouldn't be critiqued as such.

i AM a scientist by training, so sometimes the stuff i see on the internet people try to pass off as science perturbs me. i wrote that hastily after a quick read of the article and i confess i was out of line.

And you know what? I don't have a problem with it, and even if someone does, you should tell 'em to screw off. Worse than bad science, is when one person tries to prevent others from the act of content/idea creation. naysayers provide no value and you're right to be annoyed by my response. my initial response to your article wasn't intended to be in that spirit, so my bad, guy.

keep it up.
Well maybe I should have said brand/suite of tools. Yahoo's search engine is their main product but really they collect a lot of data, use it to provide useful services, and then try to monetize it- like Google. They are both really information companies, not just search engine companies.

When I said their product isn't the same I meant they are no longer the main info collectors of the web. When considered on the international stage they are still players, however, they have a downward trajectory right now- Google is gaining on them and has all of the momentum.

Consider this: Yahoo is #1 in the WORLD based on traffic (Alexa.com). But nobody will touch their stock? The writing is on the wall. Like I said, there is a downward trajectory there. Good companies find a way to leverage a #1 ranking into dollars and dominance. Floundering companies find a way to allow their stock to drop below 15 bucks while another company sets the standard for the info collection industry (Google).
For the record, I do "accept that sometime, somewhere laissez faire markets may produce a situation where a good chunk of society is undernourished." I think that it's the pro-welfarists and socialists that seem to have a problem accepting that.

To me, wanting minimal government interference in private choices is purely a matter of practicality, not one of morality. I'd prefer that the government not be a nanny to the entire population, constantly at the ready to wipe the nose and dry the tears of anyone who gets hurt. I do agree that if the government is going to serve that purpose, then they'll pretty much have to take away the rewards for good choices, as both a disincentive to take large risks and equally importantly, because it's going to be damned expensive to prop up everyone who chose poorly, someone's got to pay for it, and only those who chose well can afford it.

We're pretty far afield of hacker news at this point, and I suspect we understand each other views at a gross level and simply disagree on where the optimal point for a society's government to strive for is located. If it's any consolation, despite having made good choices, I have no say or sway in the matter and that people who think more like you are in power and are determined to wipe the noses that "need" wiped and dry the abundant damp eyes, so you'll get your way anyhow...
Finally a way to monetize YouTube. ;)

It's pretty neat that the technology not only handles pans, zooms, and rotation, but also shadows and people walking in front of the 'screen'. It seems like a much more advanced version of the first down line for football on tv. I wonder in what other interesting ways it will be used when this can be done in real time.
I enjoy his writing, and enjoy reading about ideas for generating sites, but I'll use my own blog compiler, thanks.
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I invested countless hours in the Facebook platform only to be swept under the rug along with all the other developers. I will not be investing any money.
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On the topic of blogs and CMS...

Does anyone else think that Wordpress is getting too complex with all the added features due to it being open source?

I feel like people like my dad, who would be happy with a very straightforward and simple-to-use interface without all the added features, are turned off by the complexity of Wordpress.

I think a very lightweight CMS that would basically be a password protected AJAX textarea that could easily be embeded into any template would be ideal. No back-end interface or complex editing tools.
I have a dream where their developer division comes out with something amazing, reviving the company into Web 3.0 -

http://developer.yahoo.com/

Some brilliant stuff there.
agreed. Very little insider trading gets punished. When it does, there is almost always a political angle.
"This guy" would be interested in seeing your blog. I've not seen what Emacs Muse can do and would love to see an example.
Touche. Still, tanstaafl.
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But this isn't a recipe for the kind of profits Apple wants. And it's not like Apple is alone in this restriction of virtualization, Microsoft does it too.

People get so feisty that Apple doesn't cater to them. Apple makes the products that Apple feels are profitable. There are a lot of other choices and a variety of alternative OS's. You shouldn't feel pressured to buy a mac.

I think a lot of the anti-apple sentiment that you see on the net is a mix of resentment and jealousy because modern macs are such coveted machines.

Why are you motivated to be an anti-advocate? The product isn't right for you. Do you go around making fun of deodorants or toasters that you've decided not to use? Do you make fun of Ivory soap because you're a Dove man?
High end cars also have much higher profit margins. To make money with an affordable car, you need to sell a lot of cars, which takes a lot of infrastructure. As a new company, you don't have that infrastructure yet. Why not sell more profitable cars while you ramp up?
Software development is an exercise in managing complexity.
Being able to isolate the functionality and verify the correctness is valued. OO is one attempt to make this practical in the large[1].

Smalltalk is a great start. If you want to read more, this poorly named book is by far the best I've read on the topic:
http://www.amazon.com/Software-Development-Principles-Patter...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_in_the_large
No, I mean customer base.

You cannot deploy Java 6 applications to Mac (except 64-bit Intel Mac OS X 10.5 after September, as mentioned above). You can build Java 6 for all other platforms (back to Windows 98, FFS), but to work for Mac customers you have to adjust your build to create a Java 1.5 version.

You also have to add in special Java upgrade instructions for those using OS X 10.4 (since the 1.5 upgrade isn't included in automatic updates), and tell anyone with a Mac earlier than that to piss off, because Java 1.5 (released over FOUR years ago, in 2004) won't work on OS X 10.3 or earlier.

That is an exceptional pain which isn't present on Windows or Linux.

Apple makes wonderful hardware but they treat their third-party developers like crap. Microsoft is absolutely awesome in comparison and realizes that "Developers, Developers, Developers" are the secret to their OS's success.
That was a disclaimer in hopes someone might say something like "the game doesn't actually make most people who play it sick" in which case the whole thing would have made sense.
I'll do one better. I'll summarize OO in a haiku

abstraction, hierarchy, modularity, encapsulation

manage complexity reduces resistance to change over time

design patterns give best practice advise
What was surprising is how long it take for it.
It seems almost inevitable that software projects become more complicated over time. Unless simplicity is a core requirement, complex features are constantly added to popular software (and rarely removed). By trying to solve a wide variety of problems, the number of options and screens must correspondingly increase. I'm really impressed by new approaches like Posterous that challenge the way blogging has been done in the past. It's these kinds of approaches that can lead to software that can be either as simple or as complex as the user needs them to be.
It's not myself I'm putting on a pedestal, rather engineers in general. I think that a single engineer in charge can of course be disastrous. But a general policy of engineers as decision makers seems pretty win-win.
What kind of applications have you developed?
What can you do with a car? Move it forward, backwards, stop, turn. Those are the methods. What features does a car have? Doors, color, age, stereo, etc. Those are the properties.

What can you do with a string? Set it, save it, match it. What properties does it have? Length, value, encoding, language, etc.

Object Oriented software is built with methods and properties.

(Do I get extra credit for using 64 words exactly?)
I don't think all lowercase is professional. But I doubt it has anything to do with his competence for the job. More than likely, it is a reflection of the type of culture he wants at yahoo.
How do I play this?
I find that it depends on what mood I'm in and what I'm trying to do. Sometimes I like metal when coding, sometimes trance or europop type stuff, and sometimes classical. And there are plenty of times when silence is best.

Now excuse me while I put on some Armored Saint...
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Pirates pass-off AVCHD as Blu-ray - viewers don't notice the difference.
I disagree, you can have a technocratic democracy, a technocratic oligarchy, technocratic monarchy etc. technocracy is just a form of meritocracy where the the definition of merit has been more strictly defined.

I think it fails to work when the metric by which technical expertise is defined is easily manipulated. Since power is involved everyone is going to constantly be looking for ways in.
How else would you write software with modular and re-usable components?

Hah! However you want!

The first few chapters of Paul Graham's `On Lisp' does a great job covering closures, which can provide elegant encapsulation. But even in Java or C++, objects aren't the only modular or reusable components - consider packages or name spaces, for example. Data types such as streams, arrays, and trees don't have to be classes, either - take a look at Haskell's data types.
It would be much better still for them to implement WebSocket: this is a marginal optimization at best, while adopting WebSocket would be a fundamental improvement and would much more significantly reduce bandwidth, etc.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#network
I agree, Posterous is awesome. It would be even more awesome if you could somehow just embed a little code on your own template in order to display your blog on your own design.

As far as I know, you currently have to learn the platform (Wordpress, MovableType, etc) in order to make a custom design. I feel like there needs to be a way to have the blog fit into the design without having to code your own CMS.
Although it depends on individuals, I imagine most of the crowd here, myself included, doesn't have any hesitations about designing systems ground up from scratch. Some times you screw up and have to redesign later, but that's part of the process of learning.

That said, it would take exceptional circumstances for me to work on such a project. Programmer time has a high market value, and--personally--I'm still having a hard time not looking at your idea as asking programmers to work on your idea for free.

Project management that your discussing is a non-issue until the project grows considerably. I think for many programmers it would feel like you were just taking credit for their work, rather than providing a valued service. People become project leaders by contributing publicly recognized effort and talent to the project, and I just don't believe the efforts you are suggesting would be viewed as valuable.