skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I don't really think of that as positive.

Maybe its the pain of my previous AI job talking but when the choice is just an opaque hunch of an expert, it doesn't feel like a victory for human intelligence. A victory for human intelligence looks much like the discovery of a physical law where you both deal with a phenomenon and communicate how someone else can also deal with it.

What is quintessentially human in the modern sense is human beings understanding ourselves rather than
Applied as no-idea, single founder => no cigar.
Path - $30M+ Round Of Funding (Incl Sir Richard Branson)
I'm curious, if you do you something like adsense, what kind of revenue can you expect?
If it was actually rare, wouldn't Google have nothing to lose by offering the safety blanket of real-live support (even if paid per-incident)?
If was doing anything related to music, I would be doing everything I could to build a spotify with a transparent business model that made it easy as possible to get artists music in front of monetizable fans as much possible (both through direct sales and indirect revenue, concert tickets, merchandise etc)

I love spotify, but they have had to make severe concessions to labels and it doesnt look like it will be possible for them to build an app that completely disintermediates labels, I think its inevitable someone will though.
.NET is foreign to the internet. Why would anyone do this? Non-standard, non-compliant, single platform dependent, stupid overall.
> Cadbury have been able to exert some protection of their usage of purple

To be fair, Cadbury has trademarked a specific tint of paint that they created (which is the important bit). It just looks surprisingly like purple to the rest of us. ;)
IIUC, Muziboo.com is a similar site and they do offer pro features : http://www.muziboo.com/tour/
I don't know if people should receive actual money, but it makes sense to me that they receive access to safe housing, food, healthcare and education. I don't think this can work in poorer societies, but in ones which can afford it, well, it seems most humane. If you aren't working, and can, well you won't be able to brag to your friends about having the latest ipad, but you should still have a place to sleep and food to eat. I think most people don't like sitting idly by all day long and since a lot of fun things cost money, they'd be willing to sacrifice some of their time to be able to afford those other things.
I have been to Norway a few times and I liked the way they managed to balance things out there. Also, I recently watched this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
How economic inequality harms societies and I thought it was interesting.
Flash I could care less about these days, and surely most things where source is available can be tweaked and compiled for arm6?

Also, midori has been tested and seems fine apparently.

Besides, why, unless you had no other option, would you be using this as a normal desktop? Surely it is there to tinker with and build cool stuff? The fact that it can run a linux desktop is impressive, but surely that is more of a demonstration of abilities, rather than the main use for the thing.

I'd be far more interested in seeing what new classes of devices can be built with one of these as the core, than in using one for web browsing, although I like the fact it can be used for that in a pinch.

One of the first things I am likely to do with one of these is to try mucking about with RISCOS, just for old times sake. I suspect that given that it runs so close to the metal, you could make some extremely low latency devices that way.
Our demo was viewed 4 times yet got rejection. We were very confident and feeling pretty bad now :(
That's pretty much what I do, but I disagree about putting the tests in their own top-level directory. Instead, each package foo in my projects has a sub-package foo.test that contains tests for all the code in the parent package:

foo/
+- test/
| +- __init__.py
| +- test_bar.py
| +- test-qux.py
+- __init__.py
+- bar.py
+- qux.py

This means that test-code is automatically part of the package, so you can
easily run your tests in production (assuming they don't depend on services or
modules only installed on your development machines) to check things during
a rollout. Also, because the tests and the code are part of the same top-level
Python project, you don't have to mess around with setting Python's import path
to get the tests running; one "export PYTHONPATH=$PWD" in your terminal will
get code and tests working in one go.
My theory is that only idiots get caught. If you read the article, it was a tiny operation considering the global illegal drug market. They only sold $1M worth of drugs in three years, that's silly.

They didn't catch some big fish criminals, they caught some idiot kids who thought they could easily make money.
Hear, hear. I think it's important to acknowledge that the drug war persists for the same reason the TSA does: that there are large-scale industries, with hundreds of thousands of employees, which would be painfully disrupted by a change in policy. The fear-mongering is how they defend their continued existence, it is not the reason for it.

Liquor companies; prison guard unions; police units who self-fund from drug raids; even semi-legal MMJ growers who oppose full legalization. All of these entities, and others, have a strong incentive to perpetuate the persecution of millions of Americans for the crime of questionable health choices.
Yes, Declarative Programming rules. Check out how well it's done in AngularJS.
No, that's the Silk Road.
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Thanks for the heads up!

Downloaded the app. You're right, I should know about them, even if they don't relate groceries and recipes in a meaningful way :)

One thing I will so though is that the syncing devices is something we entirely aim for, as well as adding family members. Their iPhone app could use some serious help though...
Is there a standard set of tools that are being advocated here, in addition to the repository structure?

I've been mostly working with Rails lately, and I'd like to continue using tests, mocks/stubs, and sensible build rules, but I'm not sure what the preferred Python tools are. What's the best test::unit equivalent? What's the best way to mock an object? Do people really use Makefiles rather than something else (like SCons)? Is there some way to use virtualenvwrapper without bash (e.g., M-x eshell)?
Agreed that premium probably won't net you all that much. I would guesstimate that to make enough to cover your costs with ads, you'd end up putting more ads up than your aesthetic sense would prefer.

I have no experience going this route, but what about helping the artists to make money off of their music and taking a share along the way. Something akin to etsy perhaps. You'd go from 400k musicians to ~4M musician's friends who are interested in supporting them.
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Depending on how many impressions you have, and how active your users are - putting a FEW adsense banners will almost certainly cover your costs.

What about a way to get musicians to sell their music through you? You make a small % cut on sales?

Why not try a premium profile? Musicians don't have money, correct - but some will spend a bit if you provide value, right? You have 400k users, even if 1% converts a $xx/m that is still something.

What can you offer musicians that they need? Sales. Production. Marketing. How can you make all/some of that software dynamic?

You should try multiple things and see what works. What do you have to lose?

The first thing you need to do right now is put adsense on. Not cover your page, but in a few key places to stop your monthly burn. It will be like magic...watch.

Edit: I just googled and found these guys: http://www.hostbaby.com/

What about adding something like that on? Music distribution, websites, online promotion tools. That site/service doesn't look amazing - but I am sure you can make something a step up.

Sure some time investment and a bit of money. But you have 400k users man! Keep going and good job.
Some (random) thoughts / ideas. They might or might not hit what you're looking for but they're some types of connections that came to mind when surfing the site:

- On first sight, I get the impression that it's a profile site. The musician in me wants to find others like me, or that complement what I'm doing to connect, relate, share music with, maybe collaborate with..

- Events - Maybe music related events (learning, or looking for performers) could be something to provide. A place to find gigs?

- See if there's a way you can help musicians find and take their next step. This could have some sort of value, as nebulous as it sounds. Kind of like Mixergy.

- Group buy deals that you can target to your team. You get to keep a cut of the deals.

- Adding musician tools that would be valuable. I don't want to go all cdbaby, but maybe there's something there to help musicians learn about and manage the business side of their music. I'm not sure if that means courses, a subscription, etc.

- If you can replace existing services musicians pay for, they will probably be open to paying you instead. An example of this might be voicemail, or domain hosting (very basic and cookie cut with their own email address.
> Drugs and things sent through the mail would be fairly easy to track to a consumer

Yeah, how?
Great points. Also allows him to learn, grow (both in business and to look for new opportunities), and adapt.

Plus, its pretty easy to just "get a job". Creating a job or a business is much trickier. Kudos to your uncle!
There's also a certain personality type that just really wants things to be done by the right person. That's something I need to consciously overcome: this is not rightfully my job, but I'm going to do it anyway, because that's the most useful thing to do.
Check Microsoft vs MikeRoweSoft:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft

Also: For the 2010 FIFA World Cup the airline Kulula called itself the "Unofficial National Carrier of the You-Know-What". The ad was pulled when a complaint was lodged, though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8576220.stm
Indeed if I had millions/billions to invest I'd rather throw it at Elon. Not only would I have a reasonable level of expectation of seeing an ROI, however long it might take, but also I could expect to see social return. Something that truly moves the human race forward. There are tons of teams that could make Instagram, Groupon, OMGPOP or Pinterest, etc. Very few that could do SpaceX. Bet on talent. Especially rarer talent with a track record.
I'm fine with more realistic graphics as long as that's not the whole point of the game (I'm looking at you, Skyrim). What I really have yet to see is AAA games put effort into making human behavior realistic (in real time, I mean, not in a cutscene). Like, would it kill ya to actually make the sound match up with the mouth once in a while?? This is 2012 and still there are only a handful of games that get even remotely close (Mass Effect, Battlefield 3 and then of course L.A. Noire and other mocapped games - I'm sure there are others, I don't play games but they're all the same to some extent). I think the thing about graphics game companies don't realize is, the better you make the graphics, the better you have to make everything around it to match -- character behavior, gameplay mechanics, etc. -- because the differences between the different parts of games are exaggerated -- you leave out some detail and the magic disappears. Games are just multi-faceted magic tricks, same for TV shows. The better you can hide the magic -- that's where the realism lies. Better graphics is just one part of the puzzle.
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So it's a templating language?
You could sell the site on http://flippa.com
Actually, that is also used in SGML. Doesn't make any sense for it to be there! Certainly there's no XML that I can see being processed in the page.
Another Tech Bubble? Maybe Not
Coldfusion? You built this with ColdFusion? Damn PUD, you're advice back in the day was to use CF for version 0.1

And still using it, impressive!

Maybe you can advertise the hell out of this, and make a threadless or kickstarter for musicians and take a haircut every month for some sort of product the consumer would pay for, downloadable mp4 at a certain quality?

Or maybe add video ads like youtube, or maybe a radio player for users to pay for to queue up entire albums/genres/suggestions streaming.
That blurry line between business and ethics
I like all these ideas and want to do all of them in one form or another. Most of them I'd want to make free (like the learning stuff). But.. events... that could be a fun one. Specifically, I envision a huge trade show like CES but for musicians. There's currently one called "NAMM" but it's not open to the public. It would be a lot of hard work but I think would be fun. Ideally it would be free or cheap for musicians, and money would be made via sponsors and selling booth/demo space.
Note that this applies to hiring. A candidate who can write FizzBuzz given a spec but can't derive a spec given FizzBuzz is not a programmer. Do not hire them.
In fact, it's the spelling used in many countries, including Australia.
This happens all the time in big companies, people are especially wont to throw the shit over the fence to another team they don't work with. I found it interesting how Steve Jobs dealt with this reality.

The janitor gets to explain why something went wrong. Senior people do not. “When you’re the janitor,” Jobs has repeatedly told incoming VPs, “reasons matter.” He continues: “Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.” That “Rubicon,” he has said, “is crossed when you become a VP.

http://onproductmanagement.net/2011/05/12/leaders-dont-make-...
Googles Complaint about Facebook and Apple is Bunk
Starting at 10c CPM, if every user viewed one ad... $405, most sites have 3 ads per page so $1200 if every user logged in during one day.

Better targeting and click through can get that CPM up, most places I know of managed a consistent 40c through automation, through sales teams $20 is achievable (big diff between google and agencies huh).

Now the real trick is how many pages does each user view per visit, and the daily visitor rate. Going off a user visit per month and 3 page visit. (((((400,000 users) * 3 ads)* 3 pages)/1000 cpm) * 40c) = $1440 from basic impressions without including click throughs and targeted spends...

Not much for a month unless you are in an area where the bidding is high like travel, I've seen travel ads going through at $20CPM, at $20CPM the above calculation is $72k.

So a huge range in profits, I would assume music sales would be a highly bid on thing, so maybe $30-50k a month ?
I like this idea. One request: I wish there were more convenient links to unminified source for each of the examples.
"My theory is that only idiots get caught"

No, only idiots do this to begin with.
Imagine:

You have a growing successful website and you wonder what to do with it, would your answer be: I should sell it on flippa?

I think this is a poor advice, especially in an entrepreneur community.
there are bonuses and promotions. Or another words 'discretionary' compensation. Your formula above does not work in unless you work for a 0 discretionary compensation place.

Promotion paths are also important -- a position or title that is externally recognized as 'achievement'. Is akin to a 'vetting/classification' that was done for your talents. VCs look at that as well as anybody else.

So to summarise,discretionary compensation and promosition creates competitive environment. That drives the stress, long hours,and success or failure within a corporate career path.
One thing, though, Dragon won’t deliver is volume. There was lots of space in the Space Shuttle. (But I just wanted to add that for completeness sake, not to claim that the Shuttle was super awesome.)
Or what about...

Making a Pandora like music player to discover new music from profiles on your site? You can throw ads all over that, and maybe charge a couple of bucks? Plus have musician eCommerce so people can buy stuff they like.

So I say I like "Nirvana" and your player matches me to undiscovered artists that are similar? I LOVE discovering new music.
Why not go the CDBaby, Bandcamp.com or Threaded route? You have musicians, they have music, why not create a marketplace around their persona and talent?

Feature them, give them exposure. Get them sales. Just take your modest cut. 400k users is an awesome sandbox, don't waste it!
E.g.
"Police link 25 deaths and counting from tainted Canadian ecstasy"

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/can...

"12th death linked to tainted ecstasy in Alberta, B.C."

http://www.vancouversun.com/12th+death+linked+tainted+ecstas...

"8 Alberta deaths linked to ecstasy-like drug"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/01/31/calga...
You will never get rich or successful if you listen to this advice: according to Gervais Principle[1], you will end up as looser.

Of course, you should tell others to behave like that.

[1] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
If you write such awesome well tested code you won't mind being primary on-call to support it, since it won't break and you won't get paged.
What about sponsored content? Pay a per-day fee to get promoted in the listings and therefor be a more visible part of the network?
Musicians are already using kickstarter.
There are untold corporations whose entire enterprises are powered by .NET and Windows Server. You'll have an income stream on .NET for the remainder of your natural life, nothing to worry about. As for the small company bit, maybe. Small teams within a large company, sure.
Also, 95% of HN readers are doing work much closer to Zuckerberg's than to that at SpaceX.
My new thing is to make my own popcorn in a pot as a healthier evening snack. I must try this!
I realize it's easy to craft a story that somehow connects all of your unsuccessful projects into some narrative that indicts your skills. Don't go there. I know it's hard. Just don't.

I'm a mentor for a much less prestigious accelerator program, I've sold a company, I've selected companies for our local angel network, and I've had business ideas flop, funding doors close, and (much earlier) been rejected from schools I wanted to attend.

A few lessons learned:

1) application processes at this scale are very inaccurate at picking successful companies. at some level you entered a lottery with a merit component. that doesn't mean YOU got a fair, deep, true look.

2) investors/mentors surprisingly often don't necessarily know wtf they're talking about. When they're in an area they don't know about, some of them get hyper critical and knee jerk dismissive. Take any criticisms with a grain of salt. Since you don't know who at YC saw your app, you can't judge their ability to judge it. If you want to double-check your work, get feedback from someone who has built a similar business... that means the business drivers were the same (if consumer- same traffic gen strategies; if b2b- selling into same spot in similar orgs).

3) Startups are truly 50% skill and 50% luck. The key is to stay lean so you can stay in the game, solve the smallest problem that's interesting (@ev), and get it in front of real users and iterate.

Keep your head down and keep learning, and luck will find you. It's a cliche, but I'll just say it because it's true in my experience: people who succeed are willing to do things that others won't. You're at a point where you may have to make some tough decisions about how to manage your time. If you believe there's merit in your business, make the sacrifices to continue working on it.
That's even less interesting. I give 2/10 of a crap about what the best way is for me to avoid missing-semicolon errors in Javascript, but I give 0/10 of a crap about who wins an ego battle between Crockford and some other dudes. Why on God's green earth is that on the front page of anywhere?
So after this is perfected, you could grab my image, make it look like I was the person who held up a bank and shot a hostage, and all the eyewitnesses would say it was me, and could give a positive ID? What would hidden security cameras show?
I can see that being true, but I've also seen good reasons to push back by saying "not my job": when you have a very talented or skilled person who _can_ do almost anything, it can become very unhealthy and unproductive for them to keep this person constantly context switching and doing work outside their job area. Essentially, they are compensating for the inability of others to do their own jobs. The thing to realize is that just because you _can_ do everything, doesn't mean you _should_.

In fact, I've even seen such people go out of the scope of their own work so regularly that they end up appearing to perform lesser than their peers (from the perspective of some idiot PHB of course), again because they're compensating for others elsewhere. In that way, it will actually hurt you to think of the companies interest first and not your own.
It's far less of a big deal, though, with a $30 price tag. I don't dislike upgrading from Windows 7 to windows 8 because I think it will be hard. I don't want to pay upwards of $100 to install an OS on another machine. I'll definitely pay $30 though. That's the equivalent of beer money on a night out with a few other friends.
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Going along with the idea of helping musicians find gigs, make the venues pay a membership fee to get connected with musicians. I would think venues more likely to be able to pay for a service over an aspiring musician. Also, I enjoy seeing such an honest response from someone in charge of a business :)
There are two major misconceptions around MDMA, both funded by flawed government studies. The first misconception is that MDMA causes "holes in your brain" but this study was debunked. The original claim was based on the notion that MDMA "destroys up to 80% of your serotonin neurotransmitters irreversibly." This was shown to not be true for two reasons: a much larger study (the largest study ever conducted on MDMA use) showed that it's only possible for MDMA to affect up to 5% of your serotonin levels, and it's reversible after a period of weeks or months of nonuse.

The second major misconception is that MDMA causes Parkinson's. The original study was retracted because the drug manufacturer mislabeled the MDMA bottle as Methamphetamine, a completely different drug. They gave the Methamphetamine to monkeys instead of MDMA.

I would recommend checking this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjvNCijeYlI

Skip to part 3 if you're wanting to get to the scientific studies.
Build another site aimed at musicians with an clear revenue stream from the start (i.e. the Zappos of Music or the Groupon of Music) and use Fandalism site as a free traffic source/advertising platform.

Continue to grow Fandalism as a social network which in effect will grow your revenue site.

Another Idea:

- Use your platform among musicians to build a music festival and again use Fandalism as a free traffic source (and it's users as free promoters) to build a large reputable production (a la Coachella, Bonnaroo, SXSW). Live like a rock star.
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If consumers always thought about why a company charges what it does, then sure.

But that's not how consumers think. Or companies, for the most part.
A really great idea. If you can help people make money, you can easily make money.