skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a widget in the market that people can install to monitor how many subscribers they get each day on YouTube: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.socialblad...

Looks like I get around 10-30 installs a day
http://socialblade.com/c/2012-04-02_1300.png

That being said since it is a widget and not an app itself most people don't understand how to use it so I also get about 10 uninstalls a day.

End result: Since Aug 14 2011 I've had 4572 installs and 845 "active device installs" exist today. So that's 19.7 installs a day and a growth of 3.6 actives a day or 591 installs a month and 108 active growth per month.

Oh yeah, and my app/widget is free. I do it to give users of my website an extra utility, not to make money from the app itself. Since the cost to get into android is basically 0 ($25 one time) as opposed to the huge cost to get into ios it is totally worth it.
>Add me to the list of people that really don't give a damn.

And me.

There is a lot of value in expressing opinions which go against the grain, even if they are not easily accepted. It's only through honest debate that the truth can be found.

While HN's voting system is superior to that of other social news sites, I still think that the down arrow should have a "report" link instead to make people think twice about down-voting someone's opinion, assuming that the opinion is honest. Upvotes are harmless, assuming that spam is taken care of, and I see no problem with that aspect of the behaviour of such a system.
Document Automation Benefits
Programming language experience matters very much. Not least of all because it takes time to become accustomed to that language's idioms: Until you are fluent in them you are going to take longer to read others' code, you are going to write code that's harder for others to read, and thus you are ultimately writing code that is harder to maintain. And unless you are a very meticulous tester (and none of us are nearly as good at testing as we want to think we are) you are also going to write code that is more buggy because you are less aware of the quirks and gotchas that motivate many of those idioms.
I'm surprised that you were surprised. Around me, there has been a huge and obvious increase over the last few years in OSX market share among startup-profile developers.
Via Amazon - The Total Cost of (Non) Ownership of a NoSQL Database Service
I'm saying, what happens if more than one module provides a getOrElse() method?

In "classical" OOP, the type of the "dotted" parameter, the this pointer, the method receiver, tells the compiler to look in its own module/namespace for the method name.

If we just write getOrElse(herp,Darpity), then we now have to either make getOrElse a type-class method (type-classes are equivalent to certain usages of modules) to recover the same functionality of looking up the appropriate method, or we have to write herpModule::getOrElse(herp,Darpity).
I can't seem to find the blog post about the memory architecture in Mac OS X, but it was rather recent, under 8 months ago some guy blogged about the crappy memory management that was used in OS X and why he ended up switching platforms.

I have yet to try 10.7 stuck on 10.6 until the boss allows us to upgrade. This will probably be my next big upgrade before anything else.
In fifth grade I wrote a D&D random encounter generator in Microsoft Basic on the Mac, sometime in the mid-'80s. Even my rpg-playing buds thought it was nerdy. It used toolbox calls to get real buttons and fonts on the screen. I was a font and design nerd too.

In high school i was very active with several local BBSes in the san gabriel valley and learned a lot from people i met there. When mosaic came out, building web sites was such a no brainer natural fit, I took to it immediately and have been doing it inside and out, one way or another since then.
Deploying Tfoo and other Haskell applications to Heroku
Terminal Value - a thriller novel about tech entrepreneurs
there should be a tab at the top: polls
Man hoping to win lotto gets struck by lightning
Of course they didn't. They just left.
Study Says DNA’s Power to Predict Illness Is Limited
And now we get another poll submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3789065

Something is happening here and it's very bad.
Are the themes used in the pages open source? They're really awesome designs.
Yes indeed. I remember thinking I had gone to heaven when I got my hands on a Warp 3.0 CDROM. Installing any OS that has 40 floppies is painful. Kind of reminds of of the slackware days as well...
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The keywords are "co-worker" and "public" post(as "visible to co-workers and student parents) here. As much as I dislike violation of privacy by employers as parent I'd be concerned about this.
Original paper is here: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/04/02/scitransl...

Posting the NYT article because it contains good quotes from two big hitters: Vogelstein (study author) and Altshuler.

Actually, reading further, my PI (Kathiresan) is also quoted, so I guess this should also serve as a conflict of interest statement.
I lost 4 karma points off a dead post.
In business estimates, this is how it's done. You leave the reader to construct the error margins by clearly delineating the assumptions. The magnitude of the error bars would be left to his judgment anyway.
If you are programming for less than six months without previously knowing the industry and you already know HN, GH and SO you are truly lucky, you are in for a classy act.
I presume those articles were killed due to not wanting to feed the attention troll. Killing content-free controversy is a good feature of the non-democratic moderation - yellow journalism is designed to draw users in and make them passionately care about superficialities. Preventing further comments on a deadened article does really suck, but given the development status of the server, thats the breaks (btw, is HN actually still running on mzscheme-372, or is there a better implementation of Arc these days?). I've had showdead on for a while, and the sheer majority of dead comments are spam, one-liners, and duplicates (when you submit the same comment twice, the second one is automatically deadened). Occasionally I will see someone who's been hellbanned for a few marginal comments and it's clear that they're still trying to contribute - those are the real travesties.
This is what I'm thinking, I'm kinda spoiled at home with both my main box and my VM server each having 8 GB.

You do make a good point about the extra cruft that isn't needed for a VM. I should actually know this as I have several LEBs on the web and optimize them highly for low memory usage. I guess personal time < work time.
It's ridiculous to try pin down one thing as the reason that tuition is going up. However, it is just as ridiculous to completely dismiss financing (both public and private) as a primary driver of tuition costs: always and everywhere we see a bubble (and prices increasing at 5x GDP for decades is a bubble) we also see debt-based financing.

Sometimes this is due to a predatory private sector, sometimes it is due to a benighted and nominally-well intentioned public sector. Typically it involves both, with baser true motives in the public sector. Why let either of them off the hook? Just to remain comfortably ensconced in our ideological womb?

And NB: the author works as a professor at a public university, so Upton Sinclair's dictum is in play.
Self-sculpting sand
Been programming since I was 13. Started off with Visual Basic 4, stuck with it until dot net. Now I hack on ruby, python, PHP, and JavaScript.
As with all submissions, they get to the front page because people voted them there. Do I agree with every article on the front page? No. Same goes for the polls. Either way, they provide something of interest to enough of a group of people that it made it to the front page, and to me that is all that matters - this site continues to provide interesting insight in to technology, start ups and the world that's been built up around it, so I won't complain about the occasional article or poll that I have absolutely no interest in.
Fortran in '70 - so 40+. It's been continuous since then
I think what's salient is where that number is relative to Apple and Google's revenues per iOS device, which also don't include in-game advertisements or ad revenue.

Edit: Miscomprehended the derivation, see reply below
>Because it's irrelevant.

On the contrary, it couldn't be more relevant. It's a fundamental issue of technology, and becoming increasingly important as we face the war on general purpose computing, a possible new advent of trusted computing with UEFI, and the list goes on.

I would go as far as to say Free Software is on of the most important things of the 21st century. We're moving towards an information society, and if we don't free the means to create, process and transmit information (as well as information itself), we will lose control to a few big corporations. I'm not planning to let that happen.

>When was the last time you hacked at your OS's kernel?

I haven't done that yet, but I occasionally poke around in the sources for things like the coreutils, read them, try to understand them and learn from them. I plan to do that with the Linux kernel at some point, too. You simply can't do that on unfree operating systems.
No, OS/2 2.0 and later could run any number of DOS and Windows 3.1 applications at once. I'm not sure about the 1.x series. You're probably remembering Windows 9x's feature of being able to automatically reboot into MS-DOS for running games.
>It will extract hydrogen from natural gas supplied by Piedmont Natural Gas.

And this is why I wish we'd stop talking about hydrogen as some sort of panacea for the environment or future source of energy. The most common source of Hydrogen is splitting hydrocarbons, resulting in Hydrogen and CO2.

This conversion is fairly efficient, but then you still have to re-combine the Hydrogen with O2 to get electricity which is also fairly efficient, but not nearly as efficient as just burning the natural gas in a conventional steam driven generator.

So what's the point of all this? Could someone explain it to me?

PS, go to the article, grab some text from the body, copy it, then past it anywhere. Pretty neat what they did there, huh?
Personally, I'm still convinced that a calorie is a calorie
Do you believe that a person can subsist only on mayonnaise?
According to this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=calories+in+mayonnaise, it seems that 50 tablespoons of mayo will get you around 2500 calories, so that should be enough calories per day, right?
Your answer might be "no, you also need vitamins". So suppose I add to this hypothetical experiment the daily recommended intake of vitamins through pills (and similarly for other things, like fiber). Would the hypothetical subject live, according to your estimation?
In the console programming world, cycles are precious. You don't tend to waste time doing things 'just in case', you're much more likely to assume a best-case scenario and engineer things that way.

In terms of endianness, it's not a huge problem - the toolchain normally copes with this, as assets are built individually for each target platform. This is what we did last time I worked on a cross-platform game anyway.
jimmyjazz14, I too worked for a large Fortune 200 company until moving to SV and working for a successful startup.

"working at a large company has meant I get to focus solely on the thing I care most about, programming"

There is a difference in just programming and efficient programming. You might be surprised how much time you spend doing unneeded programming that could be done more efficiently.

"plus I get a steady paycheck"

There's almost no risk at a successful startup. I remember people worrying about restructuring or layoffs at the large company... here everyone is too busy solving problems to worry about layoffs.

"It has also allowed me to learn a lot of new and interesting concepts (particularly dealing with scale) that one generally only finds in really large companies."

There are few large corporations where individual programmers actually deal with scale and if they do it's usually using old patterns. The successful startup I work for now has me dealing with(as a team) more 'big data' scale problems than I ever did working at a large corporation. I am also able to use newer technology and design patterns to solve those scale problems where the large corporation already had a standard outdated solution.

Bottom line, you don't have to settle for a large corporation to get job security and challenging problems when many successful startups offer the same benefits. I was a passionless drone working at a large corporation and since moving to SV I have never looked back.
Author seems to think that Java and JavaScript are the same thing. 'Alternatively, users can disable Java in each of their browsers; in Apple's Safari browser, this can be done by unchecking the "Enable Java" and "Enable JavaScript" under the Security tab in Safari's Preferences.'
So true. Now, if all entrepreneurs could just stop reading this advice and actually apply it to their projects, that would be amazing. As the article pointed out in the introduction, they knew to launch early. They were told to launch early. And they still didn't. I'm guilty of the same mistake. Why is this cognitive dissonance still haunting all of us?
Pro Trader likes to trade bitcoins because he knows how to trade illiquid markets. The civilians who are affectionate towards bitcoin are easy pickings for Pro Trader and his friends. Pro Traders say a lot of things that are not true about the capitalist system despite the fact that they personally benefit from the way the system is currently structured.
Pro Trader would not be happy to work at a bank in the 1840's, in a world where banks indeed printed currency, and failed constantly, and where credit was very hard to come by. The modern system makes Pro Trader rich, but Pro Traders like to complain about it because they are "libertarians."
Same here. While I was browsing themes I figured it WOULD put the README there, but I had to go back and edit everything after I published.
People may be creating polls for karma, but I don't know what the use of that would be. A certain karma threshold is needed for downvoting, and (I think, since I've never tried it) posting polls to begin with. So there may be some initial incentive to game the system, in order to get karma, but after that, why bother?
Ideal Sans is a proprietary typeface by the Hoefler & Frere-Jones type foundry, and it is most definitely not available for free on Google Web Fonts. http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLin...
It's incredibly difficult to make any kind of meaningful analysis, you're right. Perhaps I was giving the HN community too much credit by suggesting that only a minority would be misusing the flag button.
It's totally possible to create a simple svg file in different ways. I'd think of this posts headline as 'Showing the power of svg by giving you a nice albeit simple graph element (in this case, generated with Raphael)'.
Many cloud provider images vulnerable to RDP exploit: time for a Cloudworm?
We launched early, asked for money right away, and have been doing excellent ever since. Now our problem is defining what makes a 'final, out of beta, stable' version. Defining it, and then meeting it. We're constantly going 'this isn't good enough for a final release'. But hey, almost 300 paying users right now is motivation to make it better for THEM, and not for us and our imaginations of what is better. With those users who've paid for our product (when it was barely a product) tell us what they need, it's far more valuable.
The central bank does not have direct control over the money supply. In any case even, money supply growth is not synonymous with inflation. Only when it is outpacing the productive capacity of the economy to absorb it can increases in the money stock produce inflation. Given the slack in the economy right now, demand driven inflation is near the bottom on our list of worries. Take off the tin foil hat.
Java the Java 4 Ever - in cinemas soon.
This seems to go beyond individuals killing story. A few hours ago ALL stories were killed...

This is a screenshot of the /newest (page 2 now) that shows the gap in submissions: http://i.imgur.com/hLkwa.png
Jesus, that is really special. Using this for next project!
there are no such thing as a "cyber rapists". Rape happens in the real world

You're being obtuse.
Investors need to hear the BS. You should be pitching a billion-dollar idea, even if that's phase 3 of your plan.

Also, NC is sadly outside the seed stage bubble. If you have traction, you may get a meeting, but then you won't need it.
I tend to agree. A lucky throwaway account can end up with hundreds of karma points just for getting there 'first' on an item, or being the one that got upvoted enough to be noticed.
I'm guessing you didn't actually read the site?

"CAPS AND LETTERS
You have A to Z, plus the Norwegian characters Æ Ø & Å, and numbers 0 - 9. All caps."
Learnings from open-sourcing Bootstrap
My thoughts exactly. I posted a comment to that effect.
Prediction: Premium GitHub readme templates for $1 coming soon. Possible new category on ThemeForest.
Professionally, or as a hobby?

As a hobby, ten years this summer (or early fall). Full time professionally?

4 months and 2 days.
Heh, seems like you beat me to the punch by 2min both here and there.
I know the startup working to disrupt television delivery. I interviewed with them. Very, very cool folks.

>Tayloring your TV watching experience to your web browsing, social, taste, and purchase histories is where TV will ultimately be disrupted. When you walk into the living room to watch Mad Men, the TV should know it and adjust the in-screen Twitter feed accordingly. It should hear you laughing at Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia and provide suggestions to other shows people laughed at who laughed at the same joke.

Actually, this just sounds creepy. I want my machines to do what I demand of them, not try to plant ideas in my head.
My OS of choice is OSX, not because I find it the best OS ever, much more because I don't want to use Windows! I used to have a laptop with ubuntu on it but in the more recent versions the UI just isn't it.
I do. Why do you ask?
It's not that game developers are indentured servants (with the potential exception of first party studios like Naughty Dog or Lionhead, owned by Sony and Microsoft respectively), it's that the console manufacturers give big piles of money to good game developers in return for platform exclusivity.

So it's basically a business case thing, and a matter of leverage. Big, successful studios - say, Rockstar, makers of GTA - have a very strong bargaining position, and they know they can sell lots of units on all platforms. Whereas a weaker developer might be happy to take a boatload of money for an exclusive, as it de-risks the development somewhat for them.
A terminal without a command shell is hardly a first class citizen.
Don't forget to add the man-hours related to the licenses:

1) Navigate the licenses

2) Talk to the 3rd-party re-sellers (their response time varies)

3) Approval to purchase

These are "hiccups" that will slow down all projects were you had to go through them (and it is uncommon situation in Microsoft shops).
جباري نمي‌تواند براي استقلال بازي کند
you are ignoring game sales, the average xbox360/ps3 user would have bought many times more games than the average wii user.
What a curious reply. Obviously a person needs more than calories to live. Protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water are all essential to life. Dietary fibre is pretty handy, but being indigestible is not counted as a nutrient.
Then perhaps submissions need downvote buttons- because what you are describing is not what the "flag" button is for. I don't like the idea that a group of users are deciding what is "superficial" for me- if I'd arrived on HN an hour later than I did, I would never have seen the GeekList post and been able to make up my own mind.
Looks the same to me... maybe it hasn't rolled out to everyone yet?

What exactly has changed?
I think it's because it's a separate branch, but yeah, it would probably make sense to just pull the readme from master.
Maybe if everyone did follow the advice and "launch early" then some of us would realize we really DID launch too early and the popular idea of launching early would lose some of it's appeal?

I believe there is a growing number of startups that are realizing the importance of launching with a (fairly) polished product. There's just a ton of startups now, and standing out in the crowd is becoming more difficult.

When I hear "launch early" what I personally take it to mean is "iterate based on _real_ customer feedback", with the intention being you'll minimize wasted work. But this is how you should be running your business all the time - not just at the MVP stage.
عاجل وهام جدا بيان من المكتب التنفيذى لحزب الحرية والعدالة شديد اللهجة
I see a LOT of people mentioning the MacAir. I'm an Electrical Engineer and need an absolute powerhouse to do signal processing simulations, or other involved tasks. MacBookAir would never cut it for me. I prefer Ubuntu on a 13" quadcore processor + 8GB RAM. The HP Pavilion dm4t Beats Edition has all of the above, and weighs a mere 4.5 lbs.
Started at 11 with an apple IIe and assembly and basic. Remember coding out of old programming magazines
To be fair, I shell into a Linux box or mount a directory over SFTP from OSX. Linux is the common server OS amongst a couple client environments I use
Thought this was impossible? IP address failover across cloud/provider networks
I've had the same pair of mid-range Shure's for 4 years. I take appropriate care of my gear though.
>Is C "fundamentally broken" too?

C was designed and released in, IIRC, 1972. If someone designed and released C in the year 2012 as a new, state-of-the-art systems programming language, I would tear their guts out for releasing something so fundamentally broken, unsafe, obsolete and simplistic!

>people seem to get a lot of work done.

Quite to the contrary, the entire shift to virtual machines and scripting languages happened because people didn't like using C and C++ for application domains where their advantages don't count.
I don't like the idea of everything using HTTP. I prefer ZMQ.

There is a substantial work done to process all the HTTP overhead. In addition to that there is no load-balancing included and it would likely be delegated to a whole new service or machine, when ZMQ could just provide this.

Instead of relying on Werkzeug and HTTP, I can use DictShield models, serialized to JSON or Python, and send those across ZMQ sockets. The ZMQ sockets don't time out, like HTTP, they are instead removed when a host goes down. PUB/SUB messaging is possible, round-robin routing. Lots of patterns instantly available.

Ease in using HTTP itself is welcome, but I don't want to use it in my infrastructure. It's a band-aid for WSGI instead of a solution.
I started learning in a hotel near where I still live. My dad taught me some HTML and Tarpipe(http://tarpipe.com/) then. I was really fascinated and I learned more and more. Soon I picked up python then CSS and JS. Now I am looking at more low-level stuff like OSes and programming langs. I am very happy that I, as a 14 year old, get the chance to learn all these things!