skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I agree with your post. Sales for CupcakeWrapperCreator have gone like this:

March	0.02
April	38.85
May	64.75
June	76.75
July	122.60
August	99.80
September	129.75
October	109.75
November	199.60
December	119.75
January	149.70
February 249.45
March	369.25

So, for nearly a year I didn't have any motivation to do more work, but then I signed up for a free month of SEOMOZ, and just fixed the low hanging fruit from their suggestions, and traffic doubled for last Feb.

So now it's a little more interesting. I can make $369 in a month with 150 uniques per day. What can I do with 300-500 uniques per day? And I think I can get there easy because just one blog comment I made is responsible for 20 uniques per day and I know I can outrank that blog page with a little work.
A very dramatic article with no useful facts or additional information. If Slashdot was "officially dead" then I would have expected something...you know, official...

People said the same-thing about Digg and while its traffic died sharply after the horrible re-design it's still chugging along. If Digg hasn't died then I don't see why Slashdot would.
These links (not mine) may help explain a lot to those who may be unfamiliar with Ulrich: http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/Ulrich_Drepper_Is_A_.html
We're a well-funded startup in the advertising space located in NYC. Currently we're in stealth mode. We're looking for a strong engineer to help us build the front-end (our analytics dashboard) in Python. The front-end is going to be responsible for presenting complex market data, suggestions and predictions (results of ML computations), and real time market feeds.

Things we are looking for:
* Proficiency developing modern web applications using HTML 5 /CSS
* Proficiency working with Python
* Experience with a Python web-framework (such as Turbogears, Django, Flask)
* Know their way around Javascript and Javascript frameworks (such as jQuery)

Pluses:
* Experience working with SQL databases
* Experience working with non-relational datastores (mongo, hbase, redis, ...)
* Ability to build data presentation UI (graphing, charting, ...)
* Knowledge of the online ad-space
* Open source contributions / github url

email: milosz@adfinsolutions.com
http://www.thinkinginanutshell.com/nootropics

But saying it's worth "10 IQ points" is a bit of a stretch. There's no drug that's like the one in _Limitless_. Piracetam and most other nootropics are either stimulants, like caffeine, or agents that protect against/repair damage.
This was discussed before... The person being discussed is on HN. Given his state of mind it's probably not a good idea to upvote this again.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Active Android Smartphone With LED-Backlit LCD Display
Sony Ericsson Newly launched smartphone Sony Ericsson Xperia Active has water, dust and scratch resistant material. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Active Android smartphone runs on Android 2.3 OS and powered by 1 GHz processor. The phone also has 3.0 inches LED-Backlit LCD Touch Display, 5.0 MP Camera with Auto Focus and LED Flash. It has an 512MB RAM, 1GB external memory which can be expanded to a maximum of 32GB. The Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and Proximity sensor for auto turn-off features are available on Sony Ericsson Xperia Active. The standby time offered by the Li-ion 1200 mAH battery is up to 351 hours(2G)/335 hours (3G) and talk time up to 4 hours/(2G) to 5 hours 31 minutes (3G). What's more, the phone comes with Audio Player, Video Player, with Loudspeaker, 3.5mm Audio Jack, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, USB, Java MIDP emulator, GPS with A-GPS support, WAP enabled supports Instant messaging. The much awaited Sony Ericsson Xperia Activeincorporates a host of user friendly technology features that make the handset a great buy.
It looks good to me. What are you seeing? What browser?
Sun Tzu's "The art of war" applied to competitive gaming
I know that some PL experts tend to write off syntax as an issue of secondary importance, but for many developers, it's a critical part of code readability. I've spent much too much time trying to untangle masses of ill-written JavaScript with various (or no) levels of indentation, and braces scattered across the screen. I love working with Python, CoffeeScript, and Haskell because the code is almost always very readable because of whitespace (from what I've seen, Ruby is also very readable). I'm intensively interested in Rust as a possible alternative to C or C++ -- Go is a notstarter since I can't even compile as shared object library in it. However, I wish the designers of Rust had taken the arguments for whitespace into serious consideration. There's a large number of Python and Ruby programmers looking for an alternative to C and C++ as a lower-level language to call using an FFI when we need more speed, and for most of us, readability (and therefore syntax) is a major issue. Nonetheless, Rust seems like a very cool language, and I'm looking forward to trying it out.
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Good luck with that. Up to 25 years in jail for that? Absurd.
This certainly makes Facebook look like a fat bag of asshats.
Put this code in a class or a library and let a smarter programmer maintain it.
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Three Kinds of Error
Instagram for Android
Agreed! I write a lot of fuzzers and often need to represent a large API with lots of interconnections. YAML makes this trivial.
This is old news. Jacob Appelbaum and Roger Dingledine discussed it (among many other interesting issues) at their most recent CCC talk on Tor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMr8Xl7JMQ
Be Ready for the hipster photos for All the Androids (I bet we have a lot of them)...
"The game has no major female characters who aren't hookers."

So? It's just a game. If you don't like it, ignore it. But no, you would rather have it so nobody else can enjoy it either.

"but it doesn't have a place in a future that is trying its hardest to remove objectification of women from society."

Do you honestly think that a women that poses in Playboy doesn't want to be objectified? If you truly want society to stop objectifying women, women need to stop voluntarily putting themselves in a position to be objectified.
Attachments.me Raises $2M for Email Attachments Tool
As OP has pointed out, he's the LWN editor.

But besides that, LWN has a feature to allow sharing subscriber-only links for a reason. They want people to share those links and discuss them occasionally, as long as someone doesn't create an aggregator that posts all subscriber-only links. And all of the articles become public after a week, anyhow.

They are not trying to prevent people from discussing or reading articles; they are merely trying to encourage people to subscribe if they want to be able to see all of the subscriber-only content as soon as it's posted.
Sophos acquires mobile management provider Dialogs
I agree. you can get around the skeleton crew issue by asking everyone to be at hand, nearby in case shit hits the fan. no biggie if all take turns manning the update.
A poster child for irony. The 404 is so popular, you get a 503.
Is eglibc likely to merge into glibc?

I was under the impression that one of the reasons Debian moved from glibc to eglibc was friction with the project maintainer.
I don't have any Chrome plans (I work for Mozilla), but I've heard rumors that the Chrome team is working on their own push notifications.

Eventually I want to get these APIs standardized and in other browsers, not just Firefox and Boot to Gecko.
Interview with CEO of Find The Best and Founder of Doubleclick
This reply may never be read... but I was responding to the question "Where do you draw the line?"

So I pointed to where my line was drawn. The given thought was completely independent of what is appropriate for teaching.
Really neat. Is there a technical reason why it only allows you to receive notifications from repos that you own?
How to maintain a 24/7 RESTful API: What we learned from our mistakes
Well, Heinlein was a perv. ;-)
I'm glad simplicity is taken into consideration early on, because simple is not easy[1] to achieve when language goes into production.

[1]http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
Maybe this is being overprecise and I share your viewpoint here, but singling out Brendan is perhaps best left until he shares his side of the story. This could be a mistake/error in accounting. I don't know how the US donation system works and if that's likely at all, but..

Of course, if it isn't a mistake, I totally agree. I just find something published by the LA Times to be.. well.. not a real guarantee of authenticity.
"we believe people bet because of fun and social challenge and so we avoid gambling with money"

I believe that people bet because of the challenge and because of the money.

I think it can definitely work. There are many gambling-like features in some of the popular games out there today.
There was an article about this a few years back: http://blog.linkibol.com/2010/05/07/how-to-build-a-popularit...

I've found, in practice, a Bayesian weighted average is easy to implement and pretty effective. It's also a good candidate for "stream" processing (i.e., calculating in a single pass)
No. Google would of course be able to decrypt the content (I don't see how they would adopt it otherwise in this universe, google must comply if they get a warrant and they are not willing to fight that), thing is only google would be able to and noone else. And that alone is a huge win.
LiveDoco - A new way to document/explore/export SQL Server's database structure
Heh, a few days ago I signed up to be updated on when this was available, but apparently reading hacker news is more effective...

It didn't show up in the Play store when I searched on my phone, but installing directly from the play web site worked.
have there ever been any successful "skinnable" languages (or any successful language skins)? i'm thinking of things like SPECS for C++, or the way research functional languages sometimes provide both, e.g., a C-ish and a lisp-ish syntax that compile to the same thing.
Custom UI Design: +$1500
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the typos don't give me any confidence
I understand your reasoning, I find constructs such as:

if(foo) { doSomething(); } else { doSomethingElse(); }

to be rather unreadable. My solution is to not write it that way.

My observation is that code style is very important to Ruby and Python developers and less important to those from C-family backgrounds. That is, a lot of Ruby developers, for example, refuse to touch anything containing braces whereas few C-family developers require them.

I think the solution is that developers with a Python/Ruby background need to create a systems language, instead of expecting those with different backgrounds to be converted to the Python/Ruby-ists mindset. But in reality it seems that few Python/Ruby developers are all that interested in systems languages whereas those with C-family backgrounds are very interested (hence the situation that presently exists).
re the what/further/hint: good point - pre-coffee grumpiness. :) sorry.
I'm 35, so I'm not in your target market which is probably 25y/o males and younger. That said, I'm not sure your branding will appeal to that crowd.

As a concept I like the idea though. Again, best to ask your target market, which I kinda doubt is floating around HN.
I disagree with your assumption that machines will never be creative, but regardless, how large do you think the market for creativity is?

Throughout history artists have been poor because nearly nobody wants to pay for art. You could reasonably say that we're currently living during highly creative times, everybody has his dog has his own youtube channel and blogs, yet virtually noone can feed a family from that. Why do you think that this situation should change in the near future?
I don't really think it's the format of the registry that causes issues. It's still a pretty simple key value at each node, and you have multiple nodes with access control much like having multiple .ini files in different places in the file system.
Show HN: AppThwack, automated Android app testing on real devices
Using Github Organizations in the Real World - Part 1
I have never used Instagram. Could anyone please explain/justify the 13Mb size of the App?

I'm just wondering, because the biggest App I have on my phone is Google Maps, which takes around 12Mb. The next one takes 6Mb at most. I know games heavy on graphics might take more, but a how does a photo App take so much?

Just curious.
We created AppThwack for developers to test Android apps on actual phones and tablets before releasing to the market. In addition to addressing issues with fragmentation by running against many device-OS combinations, we provide a centralized tool that combines screen-shots, logs, and full logcat dumps in one place, sortable by test, device, or result. We keep historical results and track trends as well.

When a developer uploads an app, it's tested on all of our devices in parallel and results update in real time. Our basic service runs a generic set of smoke and performance tests requiring no configuration at all, and we also support custom tests, including those made with Robotium (http://code.google.com/p/robotium/).

The demo does not allow uploading apps or changing project settings, but otherwise shows results in the same format as the full version. It's also using emulators hosted on EC2 instead of running against our actual device lab (10 phones, 2 tablets, and growing every day).

My co-founder and I recently quit our day jobs to work on this full time and we'd love to get some feedback. We're starting a small private beta this week.

Thanks for looking!
Emerging from the silence
If you release on a weekend, you're right: you might lead your employees to resent you.

However, if you don't release on a weekend, you might not even have any employees that can resent you if things go bad consistently.
Arizona and Florida are out of touch with effective legislation for modern issues. Laws like these (with broadly worded clauses) are either unenforceable, or only enforced through (illegal) targeting of potential suspects.
We'll never be as fast as Go in compile speed: just to name a few issues, we do flow analysis (so we check whether your variables are initialized before you use them), our typechecking proceeds by unification (so you can say stuff like [] and the typechecker will figure out what the type of that empty vector is), and we have an extra IR-generating step (so we can take advantage of LLVM optimizations). It's a question of different goals; one of Go's primary goals was to compile quickly (which is a fine goal!), which isn't one of the goals of Rust (although we definitely want to compile fast, of course, and we have continuous integration benchmarks to that effect).
A really great resource for the less design-inclined. I often feel design (in general, not just in tech or with startups) tends to get less attention than it warrants.

It really should get more focus. Too many times have I seen poor design break an otherwise excellent product (and likewise, great design lift a not-so-great product).
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Congratulations on your launch and getting your first few customers.

Would you mind to share your strategy on entering a crowded market (in this case, project management tools)?

Did you do any market research on your competitors?
>> In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was "terrible," describe it so that we'll be terrified. Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, "Please will you do my job for me."

My high school journalism teacher (and I'm sure many others) phrased this as "Show, don't tell". I wish all writing/journalism classes devoted a week to this precept.
I see the broken-image image in Chrome, OS X Snow leopard.
Danso - agreed. this is a gem! will make me think of how I use adjectives for ever
One more checked off my list!

Just gave it a try and it works as smoothly and plesantly as on my iPhone.

I have to wonder why they still don't have pull to refresh though.
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You sir, are a genius. I'm always surprised with these simple ideas (i.e.: Cupcake Wrapper Creator).
RIM to support iPhones, Androids; opens up its secure network
This isn't really an HN topic, is it?

Also, anyone can fucking donate to whoever they want. Notice in the "name" column it says "Brendan Elch", not "Mozilla, Inc." What he does with his money is his business.
Does anyone happen to know what the arguments for big-endianness versus little-endianness in the Unicode format were?

I've never really understood the advantage of one over the other, but this section on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Optimization helps explain that there are optimizations that can be made at a hardware level when performing arithmetic on little-endianness values.

Is the argument for using LE in Unicode similar?
OmniAuth with Sinatra
Sorry, if I appeared as I tried to sell you something.

> No, Scala cannot optimize all forms of tail recursion (such as mutually tail-recursive functions). In that case, you have to use scala.util.control.TailCalls to do it via trampolines.

I guess we are just nick-picking each other here. :-) I think be both understand what the compiler can do, cannot do, what it does automatically and what not.

Have you seen the Complex implementation which uses an underlying Long as Floats? (Sounds ugly but seems to work quite nicely.)

The biggest problem at the moment is putting value types in an array. Currently it seems like some ugly clutch/work-around ill be used. I hope SIP-15 gets either rejected or delayed until there is a better solution, Because the difference between an array of references and an array of primitives really matters imho.
Interesting! I am curious how it develops.

Another option (addon) would be to use commented invariants like in SPARK which are tested against the code by an automatic verification system even before compile time. To get an impression what it means, please read:

http://www.adacore.com/home/products/sparkpro/tokeneer/disco...
You mean the OP's example is contrived in the same way as writing a program that takes no user input, and does nothing but print the string "hello world"? It doesn't even use data to solve a problem! How is that a good illustration of the use of algorithms?
»The computer decided not to and I have no idea why

This just means you need a better notification system, not a dumber model. I am fairly sure Netflix and Pandora use complicated recommendation algorithms - we don't complain because the complexity is abstracted away behind labels like "dark cerebral thrillers" or "songs with rhythmic gyrations like Pretty Lights".
Australian court rules Google liable for misleading ads
Can I just say that if you can subscribe, LWN is definitely worth every penny. It's everything a professional tech journal should be: detailed, topical, opinionated without being arbitrary, and consistently informative. They also do good deals on institutional subscriptions, which is useful if you want to talk to anybody else about what you've read :)
Rather, we became our big brained selves because our progenitors cooked their food.
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Jamiat Al-Hikmah
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Here's a link to the actual meetup for 4/4/12: http://www.meetup.com/Coders-Hackers-Founders/events/5801220...
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XML Schema is so incredibly complex than even XML advocates avoid it.
This is one of my favorite sites and always the first thing I read when I see there's something new in my RSS feeds. Kurt Vonnegut's letter on book burning published last week was also great http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-am-very-real.html
I would assume that is mostly the filters. A few weeks ago someone posted the filters on github, and there were some really complex opengl filters in there.
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Exploring Ruby's Regular Expression Algorithm
Sure, and today middle-class Americans don't have to worry about food on a daily basis, but worldwide conditions have been dismal for most, if not all, of humanity's history, and are just now getting better.

For example, these rich cities frequently had to defend themselves against the poor and hungry. Being sacked was a common occurrence. It's a recent convenience (over the past few hundred years) that cities aren't surrounded by walls.
Right, the solution here is that if you're going to sort by Bayesian average or Wilson score confidence interval or something besides what we're familiar with, reframe it to avoid my "something's wrong" detector. Hence the fact that people accept "trending" or "popular" but if I sort by "rating" and the results don't make sense because I expected an average, I don't think "I should probably understand this algorithm". I think "this site is broken and dumb".
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As encouragement to the poster, and evidence to back up what you are saying, here's the month-by-month subscription figures since launch for one of my SaaS projects:

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The problem with significant whitespace is that it makes routine tasks like copy & paste and shifting blocks around a tedious and error prone exercise instead of a trivial editor task. Give me instead a syntax that lets my editor completely and correctly reformat an entire file with a keypress.

Significant indentation is the #1 thing keeping me at a distance from Haskell and Coffeescript.