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One such hotel is Smartfun 3 Stelle: a budget hotel which is all about taking good care of their guests. The rates include breakfast (served from 8am-12pm) as well as 24 hours reception attendant, safety deposit boxes at reception, bar facilities. The rooms have electronic door locks, ventilator or air conditioning.
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What I find most odd is all the talk about contractors. It sounds to me like being a contractor at Zynga is the same as being a contractor at every other company on the face of the earth. In exchange for not getting benefits or job security, you get a higher hourly rate and overtime. Nothing evil about that, just a reasoned financial exchange. If you don't want to be a contractor, don't accept their job offer!
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Made an updated version of that script here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/125021
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Gourmet coffee is equipped with the ability to be relished any time of day. No matter it is day or night, it can prove to be pleasing people at various functions. It can be quite reasonable to costly and ranges in taste from light to dark. It can be flavored or can be served by drinking it black.
he's probably not stressing about it too much.
This thing crawls to the next page on my iphone 4. Is this really a good alternative to flash if the only machines fast enough to handle this animation smoothly already have the horse-power to handle flash?
Right, which is why I said this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3556270

You and I also know that this isn't a problem inherent to just casual mobile games. It's a chronic problem to the gaming industry as a whole, and its not going to stop people from making entertainment for the millions of users who aren't addicts.
The real question I think is how often do people visit the 'new' section and upvote stories they like (perhaps we should have a poll on that).

Before Hacker News I used to be big in the digg community where to get to the front page it was "easy", but you needed to build a huge network of friends to do that and upvote each other. I hated that. When I came to hacker news a year ago I vowed to never do that and hoped this community was pure... which.. well I think is what you're questioning here.

Anyway according to my stats it looks like I've submitted 46 links.. 5 or 6 of them (I think) hit the front page (they have more then 10 points). Other then one or two (not the ones that hit) I don't share the links around.

At the end of the day again I think we should have the poll. As members of the community we need to make sure we're going over the 'new' section.. I try do it at least a couple of times a week myself.
Poor (urban) Americans DO have iPhones.

What would it mean if the most successful corporation made a product poor people used? How is that relevant? (Let's ignore Google, creator of perhaps the most valuable product ever created, which they charge absolutely nothing for.) It would be something like real estate, slum lording, which is a quite profitable industry (but no one consolidated company), that isn't helping anyone.
I submitted an article I wrote 14 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3497512). As far as I know, none of my friends voted it and it got the the front page with 21 points.
I'm not sure how long it stayed there but I received around 5000 visits during the first 2 days and I keep getting 30 or 40 per day to that specific article. I got almost a hundred new RSS followers from this and a dozen or so Twitter followers so I think this was more than enough "traction".
> Yes, we maximize for users who spend over $10k

That effectively means the only way to "win" is by becoming a whale; casual play is basically not rewarded. That's the problem I have with most online games; the greatest benefits go to those spending unhealthy amounts of time and money on them. IMO a mature gaming industry will be one that is able to reward a similar playing commitment to a weekly trip to the cinema; 2 hours play a week is still rewarding. That would make games attractive to a much larger audience IMO and be sustainable; you're not pushing players to burnout.

Just out of interest; do you track KPIs around hours of play per day? How many hours is a typical whale spending?
due process. noun. "An established course for judicial proceedings or other governmental activities designed to safeguard the legal rights of the individual."

The law, and due process, were followed to the letter. A grand jury indicted MegaUpload of racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit copyright amongst other charges.
People spend over 10k on microtransaction games? I find that kind of amazing.
Tokens are very interesting.

A key thing I've learned on my travels is how critical shared state is to performance.

At its crudest, lots of web frameworks read a request, wait to receive it all, dispatch it to a handler, gather all the output from the handler, buffered, and then write it.

This is great from the code organization perspective.

Hellepoll is so very much faster because it streams the requests.

Without a green threading approach, this necessarily makes the code slightly uglier, and much more for the coder to juggle.

Of course there are at least three layers in an event loop framework:

* the programmer making the event loop itself who has to juggle everything;

* the prorgammer making the various protocol handlers who has to understand everything too but fits the framework conventions rather than creates them;

* finally the programmer who is using the framework who gets to use the utility and decoration and wrappings made by the protocol programmer and who hopefully doesn't have to understand in anything but the broadest terms the way the framework ticks.

I'm a big fan of Clojure and STM, but that's correctness over performance. I would hope whoever makes some other platform puts as much effort into hiding and protecting the inner shared state that is so critical to performance.
I guess I'm just not understanding where you're going with this question.

It seems like you're trying to figure out all the variables that go into a high profile post. Quite frankly, I don't see the point in that.

Is it possible for an unknown to get on the first page and get exposure? Of course it is. Does that mean he's "made it on HN"? I don't even know what that means.

In the end, my point is simply this; stop spending so much time worrying about how people make the front page of HN and focus on your project.

This is a forum for discussion, not Valhalla.
Ask PG: Submission URL change
I have submitted this story (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555102) 10 hours ago. However, I'm sure when I did the submission the link was from the Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/apple-makes-75-of-mobile-phone-profits-with-only-9-of-the-phones/252548/)

However, the link now refers to CNN Money. I want to know if this was a manual change or some kind of algo. since the Atlantic article was based on the CNN one.

Also the real source is actually Asymco (http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/03/first-apples-rank-in-mobile-phone-profitability-and-revenues/)
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If you are a bit careful when you download device drivers for Windows XP and get the right device drivers installed on your system, the compatibility issue is solved out completely.
I have never asked anyone to upvote my posts. Most of my friends don't do hacker news.

I don't submit often, but my bit successes were 3 blog posts for 21, 23, and 69 points.
It may smell, but clients that uses URL templates may still be RESTful. For this to work, 1.) the server must decorate the response with the proper resource type identifier, 2.) the client must be able to understand the resource type, and 3.) the resource type spec must specify how the clients should treat URL templates.

Web browsers are REST clients that understand the HTML resource type. They, too, can generate URLs. For example, in HTML, you can specify a URL template with the following code:

<form action="foo/bar/" method="get">
<input name="baz" type="text">
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Input tags with type="text" are, by default, optional. Newer HTML spec allows you to annotate input tags with the "required" attribute, which allows you to specify them as required.

You can define your custom resource type to do the same if you want:

{ "form": { "action": "foo/bar/",
"method": "GET",
"fields": [ { "name" : "baz" } ]
}

You can make the above example a lot leaner by trimming out features you don't care about. It's all up to how you design the spec of your resource type.
The study of medicine is grounded in hard sciences. There are many things that are known and many that aren't known but usually the line between the two is relatively clear. When something works or doesn't work, it is also often very easy to see.

The study of education is based on social sciences and everything is much more slippery. What is being taught to teachers right now is whichever theory is currently popular. When I earned my credentials to teach, it was quite frankly a joke most of the time. Getting an A was easy. Many of the people in my program were not competent enough to compete in a more difficult field or program.

In the years since, as my own children began working through the public school system, I am taken aback regularly by evidence that their teachers are poorly educated themselves.

I'm shocked that someone would be surprised that there is a gap between how people view doctors and teachers.
I don't think that at all makes sense. The finance business in general distorts pricing. There are a whole host of professions that pay significantly more in NY than they do anywhere else.
my core i5 CPU performance on Sony VAIO doesn't go up much (around 26%). But I don't have problems with demo being seperated as long as it is available and easily accessible
Understand, too, that the work schedule of musicians are different from most. Shifting the working day into the evening and after dark, plus ubiquitous artificial light probably alter sleep habits just as much as the nature of the work.
Agreed. The first example which comes to mind: not all pirate sites are centered around personal profit.
Well if I'm being totally honest, my wife kindly upvotes my blog post. It's shameful I know, but that's about all I get.
I think he's trying to open some discussion around the mechanisms that govern the front page. Something I'm more than willing to discuss as I think there is some room for improvement there.
I've had one of my articles from my site submitted and it hit the front page. I wasn't even aware of Hacker News until this happened. I've been a regular follower ever since.
Need Opinion. Will this project run into SOPA/Legal issues?
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...that's a hardly useful protest idea. the obvious protest would be to switch social networks. if you can get a good number of 'locked-in' un-tech savvy users to jump ship, facebook will get worried.
I find it most disappointing that someone here had to be told this.
I made all of my front-pages without having any of my friends upvoting.
I think so to, but usability research done by a partner company of ours showed, to their and our surprise, that "ordinary users" prefer this page turning effect.
THIS.

These agreements haven't gotten in the way that most engineers in the valley know there are a ton of other places they can work, including the "no poach" companies. Valley engineers switch jobs with an ease and frequency uncommon for the tech business in general.

Facebook alone certainly doesn't hire enough engineers for it to matter THAT much.
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The article's "At the end of one sprint, a QA dude was complaining about the drop rate of a specific item being absurdly insane, and therefore UnFun. I looked at the code, and tweaked some values, gave it back to QA guy, and fun was restored. Product Manager overrides this, goes for unfun, yet more profitable version." speaks against your "and users can be happy again."
What are your thoughts on the disruptor pattern? It seems to me to be something that tries to eat the cake of multithreading while still having a lot of the simplicity of eventing.

( https://code.google.com/p/disruptor/ )
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There is a natural problem with this question: people are much more likely to come out and say they got on the front page without help than the opposite. I think you would have been better off framing this as a poll rather than an Ask HN.
What WoW was and what it is now are different things.

WoW vanilla was an MMO, WoW Burning C was basically moving towards the disney land model and away from the mmo.
The overall business model has acknowledged the power of the Zynga model, and all actions so far have been moving towards Zynga's model and not away.
It's very educational to see things simplified to their most basic essence, and code golf is one game we can play that forces us to do that.
I don't see this as "mean government takes $2B" so much as "Mark Zuckerberg nets $3B"
I rarely go to new section. There's already too much news to read as it is. I may be speaking for 95% of HN community here. Only time I go to new section is after I post something. Which at that point, I won't even upvote anyone else in the fear of them out voting my posts (I know it's a bit un-ethical but can you really blame me for this? The whole point of posting on HN is so your post can be seen by the masses). So as you can see, there really is a bit of a problem here. I think the one way to go about it is by showing the new articles on the main page in a smaller sidebar but I fear that may also present a whole bag of problems with it.
I think his problem (the previous poster) is not that there are addicts who happen to play these games. Sure there are addicts out there and you're not going to stop them.

He is pointing out that, like casinos, these games are specifically targeting these addicts, and these games probably couldn't even exist without the addicts to support them.

>its not going to stop people from making entertainment for the millions of users who aren't addicts.

These games aren't made for the millions of users who aren't addicts. These games are made specifically for addicts.

>Yes, we maximize for users who spend over $10k

It's like the difference between selling alcohol and selling cigarettes. Alcohol is mostly sold to normal people, and percentage of the population abuses it, but virtually every single cigarette made is sold to an addict.

Alcohol manufacturers could exist without addicts, cigarette companies couldn't.

If you make a Farmville type game there's a good chance you are depending on "addicts" to keep you in business.

I'm not declaring casual games to be immoral by the way. I'm just pointing out the difference.
Ask HN:How to find where your target users hangout online?
Target demography for one of the startups I'm working with is {gender:female,min-age:18,max-age:60}. How do I find out which blogs/sites/social networks have

1) Maximum number of users of my target demography - Top 100 list.
2) How much time they spend on given site.
3) What is their percentage compared to total no users.

Is there any online tool/service for this?
Like problem with corruption.
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One feature I'd like to see on HN is to have a separate menu for any posts starting with "Show HN". I love coming in here and seeing what other hackers have worked on, it's post like these that make HN so unique to me.
I'm not an expert, but I understand reduced dream recall is correlated with sleep apnea, but being able to recall dreams is definitely not a strong enough sign to rule out sleep apnea: see this study (http://www.sleepfoundation.org/alert/sleep-apnea-and-dream-r...)
its been a long ride, bye!
Ask HN: How do you test your app?
Hey guys, how much time you all spend in writing unit test cases?<p>In early stage startups, since application design under goes changes with each iteration, unit test cases needs changes. And it gets harder to keep unit test cases consistent with the code with iterations. Suggestions?<p>Do you think is it OK to burn few initial customers? (if some use cases have not been tested, few customers will face problems)<p>Thoughts?
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This is scary. js1K is what 256bytes was in "my" days.
Thats right, 256 bytes of asm to get a nice demo.

And guess what. The 256 bytes demos are nicer and more complete than the js1k! They've sound, better 3d effects, etc.. plus they actually run those nicer demos on much, much older hardware without lagging (js demos use quite a bit of cpu even on modern hardware)

Four times as much space, not nearly as good. Show how much went into "language abstraction". Scary!

Reference: http://www.256bytes.net/
To my mind the meta-hack here would be to do away with the need for expense reporting entirely by giving everyone a corporate credit card like 37signals did. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/893-workplace-experiments

Your start-up might not be in a position to do that, but removing the task entirely always seems preferable to me.
Wouldn't it be enough to just move sites like this to for instance Russia?
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Hacker News of late has a much higher consumer Internet to producer Internet ratio than it used to.
Hrm. Your target demographic is super wide!
I don't think there's a tool that does this. But you can possibly do it this way.

Run a Facebook Ad campaign for 3 days (at $10 a day max budget), Then interview all those that "liked" your page or signed up for your form personally. To build their user profiles.
Amazing? shocking i would say. A family of 3 in a third world country can live moderately comfortably for a year with that amount of money.
Was there a conclusion from the article?
A hypothetical situation where this works out:

Torrent site serves up 1000 pirated DVDs, making $20 in the process. Only 1 out of those 1000 pirates would pay the $10 required to buy a DVD [1]. Assuming as little as 2 cents of consumer value per pirated DVD, this scenario has generated $10 more income for 'businesses' and $10 more consumer surplus.

Zynga copies a game that would have had 1000 customers otherwise. They're Zynga, so they get 1500 customers and the original creators get 100. Unfortunately, this makes the game unprofitable for the original creators and the development dollars Zynga had to spend copying the game are not offset by the 600 extra players they generated. Furthermore, this game is seen as a substitutable good- no real consumer value is generated when Coke is drunk instead of Pepsi.

(Honestly, I think consumer surplus is the intuitive reason people support file lockers and not Zynga. They're probably right.)

[1] This is the only conversion rate I've seen people give actual numbers for. Citation available if requested.
Yes. I really agree with this. The reason I asked the question was because I've been seeing several interesting projects posted as "Show HN" and go ignored because of bad timing or any other factors. I tend to check out most "Show HN" posts if the title sounds even a bit interesting.
Its a very different approach. I do like their presentations and I've really got a thing for the "mechanical sympathy" term they coined.

At a glance I'd say its not really the solving the same problems and isn't generally applicable to, say, application web servers.

I would love to be educated on that score ;)
I don't think you feel as bad as the next person wondering if the people spending 10k are addicts. If you did, I don't think you'd be willing to maximize how much money you can get out of them, and I don't think you'd be willing to call them whales. You can justify it to yourself saying you have no real evidence they aren't getting 10k+ value out of the game but I rather doubt you are particularly confident of that, either. And I doubt you went into the industry to spend your time trying to satisfy 5% of your users, especially given you have a deragatory name for them.

Which isn't to say I think terribly poorly of you, but it isn't entirely non-creepy.

Out of curiosity, do you offer users a feature to prevent themselves from spending money if they self-identify that they have a problem?
None of these demo binaries will actually run on my OS, so maybe the extra 768 bytes are a fair tradeoff for abstracting away the platform.
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The purpose specification principle of the OECD Privacy Guidelines (which all substantial privacy laws are based on - EU, NZ, HK, etc.* ) says this:

"Finally, when data no longer serve a purpose, and if it is practicable, it may be necessary to have them destroyed (erased) or given an anonymous form. The reason is that control over data may be lost when data are no longer of interest; this may lead to risks of theft, unauthorised copying or the like."

Keeping an image URL online three years after it was requested to be deleted almost certainly counts as keeping personal data for longer than is necessary. When you upload a photo, it is usually for the purpose of sharing (as the case may be). When you decide to stop sharing, the data no longer serves that purpose and hence should be removed as soon as practicable.

* The US and Australia notably have not implemented the OECD guidelines.
Nice advice. I will give it a try.
Yes, we pretty much try to pair on everything. It doesn't work out when there is an odd number or someone gets pulled elsewhere, so it's not all of the time. When we don't pair, we do code reviews (also by a pair).
My favorite example of this is Archimedes. When someone touts the virtues of being at your desk without turning your head away from the monitor and lifting your hands off the keyboard I usually ask "where was Archimedes when he had his "Eureka!" moment?".
And? Megaupload has only been shut-down temporarily due to a court injunction. If they succeed in court then they could be back online.
the bottom line is that america's eternal quest for a teacher metric is failing in relation to systems like the (perhaps overly touted) finnish one, where the discriminating factor for teacher quality is much more a measure of trust in the intuition of experienced teachers.

I think the 'I NEED MORE NUMBERS' mentality of empiricism you're using here has neutralised the prospective utility of the intuition of experienced teachers who would make effective consultants, if they ever come across something that works that they simply can't explain. Obviously, questioning their suggestions and looking for answers is the next step, but to insult their ability to think and view their opinions with derison? How are you helping anything talking that way?
Awesome! I recently came to a similar conclusion for my blog, http://mvv.io . I've released the source code on github at http://github.com/mvanveen/Dropblog
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I understand. But who is to say that these big spenders are actually addicts? Is the probability of this type of user being an addict greater than the probability of being plainly rich?

Targeting is your word, not mine. We cohort users by spending activity and learn from them in the same way a Macy's buyer will learn from their most loyal customers. My friend works as a buyer for children's clothes and they make the same business decisions I make about inventory and store layout.

We maximize for users who spend large amounts of money (incidentally none of ours have spent $10k, more like $100) because this and engagement data is the only data we have in determining customer loyalty. So we ask ourselves questions like "If this user found enough value out of this feature to spend $100 on it, we should make more like this".