skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something rings a bit off to me about this. Just because you aren't willing to grind yourself into the dirt working 70 hour weeks on someone else's project doesn't mean that you must lack an amazing passion for a craft that could be an enormous part of your life and your identity.

By the same token, working long hours doesn't intensify your accrual of experience, skill, or talent, nor does it automatically make you a better or more passionate developer.

Passion is passion. Craft is craft. Whether you spend 1 hour a day doing it or 17.
First, thanks for checking out the site. To your point, Lookcraft gives you personalized recommendations based on your style and fit. As a result, it doesn't really make sense for us to not collect registration info up front.

As a more general point, the reason you see this kind of stuff all the time is that it simply converts better. I spent two years working full-time on funnel and conversion optimization and unfortunately things that many people would view as 'user unfriendly' are the things that convert the best. This is not just measuring the next step in the funnel either, you can measure all the way down to purchase (or whatever your unit of conversion is) and this method of user interaction just works better. I may lose you as a customer, but the statistics dictate that I'm going to do much better overall if I do things this way which is why everybody does. (Groupon, Fab, Gilt, etc).
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The way the system is set up makes it a tax on global efficiency. All of these resources (crazy smart people, money, equipment) are needlessly wasted on getting lower latency when really it adds no systematic value.

Instead, just as the system disallows fractional penny bids, it could discretize order times to the nearest e.g. 5 seconds. Boom. Suddenly you have more MIT/etc grads solving better problems for the world.
Exactly, that's my reference. If a reader app doesn't work as well as reading the page in Chrome for Android, I'm not really going to want to use it. This is close, and definitely doesn't suck. But it's not really as clean as I wanted it to be. I honestly think I'd be happier if it just synced the web content and let me read it using the browser.
Only support people with a proven track record. Simple. They can still fail, but it won't be because of fraud.

If you contribute to a project with nothing to show, where nobody involved is a known industry name, then of course you're taking a gamble.
I agree 100% with this sentiment. fab.com, one kings lane, gilt.com etc. I don't know if I want to join your site and/or be a customer until after I've had a chance to see what you have to offer. I did register with one kings lane but haven't found much of anything I would actually buy. Then I got their daily marketing email which I didn't want and became even less likely to be a customer.

I don't understand why increasing the barriers to potential customers is in fashion right now with shopping sites. Anyone can sign up, they aren't exactly exclusive clubs.
Yes. You can.

You're going to need to work on customer service, collection, sales, development, UX, etc, etc.

There is a LOT you must master.

I just reached the point of depending on being a freelancer for my income. After 4 years of 'practice', I feel I have mastered it.
This would only be better than PHP if it also had goto statements.
It'll probably stop once this is implemented in browsers, so every article declares a basic set of sharable info, and the social buttons install themselves and read that info. Until then, every one is running in a sandbox, they'll never share info, they'll never allow an intermediary, and they'll all be competing for screen space and article install-base regardless of your existence on a network or the number of networks.

I, for one, find it crazy that I can Like and maybe +1 a blog entry, but I can't Pinboard it or ReadItLater or Orkut it without the site implementing those buttons, despite them all doing roughly the same thing with roughly the same data.
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It is legally identical to the MIT license. The prefactory clause is purely hortatory.
Thanks - alternative trading systems can surely only come into existence if they offer a clear advantage, and of course this drives the evolution of the markets. That's great.

My question: how much do network effects matter. Internet guys always assume network effects are a primary force in marketplaces. I'm an Internet guy, so I can't help but have this bias.

It's fascinating to me that there are so many ATSs. What's the endpoint? Will we eventually see hundreds of ATS's, each with some benefit valued by some arcane subset of traders? Or can an individual ATSs incorporate the range of improvements, and through network effects crowd out the others?
Do I understand correctly that the order book is public (albeit anonymized)?

Yes.

...submitting into a black box what some security is worth to them.

These are Dark Pools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_liquidity

Are there any good papers/articles modeling different market set-ups?

These are often called Crossing Networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_network
I dont really agree. I prefer lists and bullet points. Try and sell it to me when I have the first interaction/interview.
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I'd agree with you if the campaign finished the moment the funding goal was reached, or if the rewards for the pledges were not tied directly to the value expected by the backers.

Instead of being a system where people could get projects to get off the ground and be tested on the market, it has become some sort of marketing/sales channel.
My first computer (or my family's, at least). Thanks for helping me find a career.
Conventional wisdom circa 1770: "State governance will remain an aristocratic process".
That "interconnect" is the secret sauce of any modern supercomputer. Cray's proprietary link connects CPUs directly, almost like they were all on the same motherboard. It's easy enough to buy tons of cores. The hard part is reducing latency between them, and maintaining reliability if a link fails. Cray's networking package forms a "hypetorus" to reduce hops between all nodes, and will automatically route around damage. It's incredibly intelligent for such a fast system.

And I guess you didn't see the software environment either? It's really impressive. Check out the "Brochure" PDF for a lot more information.
I love and enjoy learning about all of those things as well. I also play acoustic guitar, bake a mean baguette, and play the occasional videogame.

I also enjoy learning about code. One need not crowd out all the others.
I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's comments! I plan to make a series of individual tax products so that they all tie together and solve the problems like cogs in a machine.
The underlying dilemma is that so many of these stores are not really "related". They're just the same story, rewritten off of a press release. The ideal system would pick out clusters, but also have sub-clusters within the cluster that would contain articles on the same subject but with diverse info.
linh,

Do you have an email I could contact you at? I'd love to 1. give you a better idea by attaching a bplan and 2. get more advice because clearly you've been through this.

Justin
An excellent point. Definitely something we should all keep in mind when promoting cutting edge tech choices.

That said, I don't think the matter is quite that straightforward where I come from; I would imagine Clojure dev head count in the whole of Finland is in the low double digits. If I were making business decisions involving future staffing, I would not feel confident I could replace the (hypothetical) only in-house Clojure dev in this job market.
It happens, there are people who will not share content because they have to (god forbid) open a new tab. But if the content is good enough, little to nothing will prevent people from sharing it. If your content is that catchy or helpful or entertaining, people will share it.
HFT is a badly abused term that gets applied to any firm that uses computers to trade.

In reality, there are many other strategies that use automated techniques to model the values of securities using internal metrics and then trade when the price is above/below the internally calculated value. Such conditions usually indicate that the market has "mispriced" a security and will quickly realize it's mistake and return to fair-value pricing.

Many "algorithmic traders" use statistical techniques to determine optimum times to trade so they capture some profit margin with a high degree of certainty. Those statistical techniques can involve anything from automated balance sheet analysis and natural language processing of news items, to pattern-matching techniques designed to notice when a large buyer/seller has entered the market and needs to move a large block of shares.
We're doing something a bit different here where we actually do need your info to give you a good experience. We're creating a style/fit profile for you and providing a more personalized experience. However, as I mention in a comment above, the reason everybody does this is because it works better, so really you're just a victim of human nature.
As with most things, easy to say, hard to do.

Someone comes along and sues you for patent infringement, you have two choices; pay them off or pay lawyers.

Either way is expensive, and expensive can kill you. Now it would be doubtful they would be willing to simply disband as an entity in the presence of a lawsuit, so minimizing the expense means having a defense, and that generally means building an arsenal of patents.

Then when you are running out of cash, and maybe looking at death by a thousand cuts, those patents stop looking like defense and start looking like a way to save the company. Voila, you've just become an active combatant in the patent wars of the 21st century.
There are lots of joke languages that are simply isomorphic to Brainfuck - Ook, Fuckfuck and so on - so congratulations on not just taking the easy way out (changing their eight keywords instantly gives you an interpreter, compiler, sample code, ...)
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Heh. I've been immersed in video coding for the past few weeks, so not only was I shocked and intrigued at the title, but it took me a few passes to realize what was actually being said. :)
Iran publishes "Request for Information" for "halal" Internet
I don't see why you need to rate them. What problem does this solve?

Posted talks on the internet? Well, you're on the internet, there's 5 million things worse than what you're watching, all fewer than 3 clicks away.

At a conference? If you're going to a professional conference then you're probably old enough to be aware that such things in the world exist.

Would someone skip an event because they might be offended? My opinion would be to let them be offended. If many people are offended, the speaker isn't appropriately addressing the audience (in which case they won't be a speaker next year), and you always have the option to just leave the room.
A nice idea, but many developers' employment contracts already state that they assign all inventions created during the course of their duties to the company, free and clear. How would this help such a situation?
Did you consider weighting of the different feature types (on top of tf/idf)?
Not everyone who programs loves programming, but everyone needs to make a living. You are lucky that what you love also makes money.
I just wish there was more accountability and less waste. There are plenty of big companies that aren't pissing away money left and right.

This is why I oppose most major government programs like health care: Based on previous history, I just can't trust the government with something as important as my life.
link to original article instead of yahoo aggregator:
http://mashable.com/2012/04/16/sergey-brin-worried-internet/
So when will Objective-Semicolon and Semicolon.NET be available?
here they talk about random jitter (when it is a result) of approaching a Gaussian distribution. I bet the random jitter they are injecting for time delay in the article is not Gaussian, but flat.

http://www.tititudorancea.org/z/jitter.htm
Why are you assuming "501 developers" don't do any of the things you list?
I think the point is that you can have balance in your life and be a good & passionate coder.
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Tweetie's developer is indicating this applies to pull-to-refresh: https://twitter.com/lorenb/status/192298232968249344
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Thanks for the tip! I think this is the link you were referring to: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/karroubis-unlucky-7s....
The author fails to abord the issue of how will the service treat user data in regard to third parties.

Isn't that worth mentioning when you claim that you are taking privacy seriously?
>Isn't it simple enough already?

Pick one:

- click a button & sign in (if not already signed in), & click share

OR

- Find the permalink of the information you want to share (not always obvious to people. e.g. the links my mom sends me via email), open the service you want to use to share, log in, navigate to the area of the service responsible for sharing information, paste the permalink, click share.

The buttons not only make it more easy and convenient they add a suggestive quality. Especially if the buttons include # of shares indicating a form of popularity.

So no, it's not a matter of something being "too much trouble" or "easy enough already". It's much deeper and if you really knew people well, you'd know there is no such thing as "easy enough already".
Great to see the woz posting!
Haven't seen it before, but it looks exactly like Node. Is it just the Node API on top of Rhino?
It does appear to be largely identical. Is it not common practice to include the name of the MIT license with the distribution, as is the case with the GPL and Apache licenses?
it seems to have goto.
"Then you play the same game on the opposite side to unload your position."

Don't you have to play the game at both sides of the book simultaneously? Otherwise, you would risk adverse selection.
that's just too much like Python to be funny
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We have subscription timeouts working in a feature branch.

We are going to be testing the feature this week, and they should be released early next week.

Look for another blog post announcement.
Having put an email address into your landing page, it doesn't appear you've actually launched so I couldn't evaluate how necessary it is on my own of course and will have to take your word for it.

As for the other sites... this process might increase conversions up front but for me at least it causes fatigue. I'm much less likely to register at another site, or deal with any other product that requires registration before I can see any of the products based on my current experience.
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I don't usually upvote jokes on HN, but when I do, I provide some actual content in the same post.

OT (obviously): This is an example of a facet of humor I find rather difficult to explain. Most comedians pull this trick once or twice per show - the good ones, more often. You take the current topic of conversation, and link it (in a somewhat skewed way) with some previous joke. Somehow, this has an amplifying effect on the old joke, which continues to get stronger as you do it a few more times (to the same target). Anybody know of an explanation / name for this?

(Did ... did I kill it?)
How many of them are successful, though? Meaning... what's the ratio of projects that upon completion would be rated successful by the backers relative to the total number of projects that met their funding goal?

For the art projects on Kickstarter, I'd assume that ratio is pretty good, but for consumer electronic devices and software I'd assume it to be very low, though of course I'm just speculating based on the small sample set of projects there that I've ever been interested in.
Unfortunately, the current OpenFlow specification (v1.1) doesn't support IPv6...
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The article doesn't really get into the privacy implications of loading so many tracking beacons, but there are ways to compromise (2 clicks):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957119
We actually do weight them differently, but the post was already pretty long so I had to gloss over some of the details.
I think a happy compromise might be to have a dropdown widget labeled "Share" (perhaps with Twitter & Facebook icons to further afford meaning).

I've seen this in some places, but my pet peeve with those is that they usually open up on mouseover, but then don't collapse on mouse leave. IMHO, they should be click-activated ONLY.
There is no good reason why the article couldn't include a link to the Kickstarter page in the actual article text, preferably at the top where they first mention it. Are they that worried that people will leave and not come back?

Shame on you, BBC. Shame on you.
>I may lose you as a customer, but the statistics dictate that I'm going to do much better overall if I do things this way which is why everybody does. (Groupon, Fab, Gilt, etc).

I've bought 1 thing on Groupon, 1 thing on LivingSocial, 0 on Fab, 0 on Gilt, 0 on One Kings Lane, and I initially signed up for all of them.

And yet reading that your site was fashion for men still (at least initially) piqued my interest.

Perhaps you should target a different customer: me -- a minimalist who just wants a good, focused product line that incorporates color (e.g. like J.Crew).
"Careers" pages on websites are not particularly effective recruiting vectors.
I am also confused about how latency arbs work. If you are co-located at one exchange, wouldn't you be further away from other exchanges?
My impression is that OpenFlow is most useful for internal networks. Instead of having smart switch, you have controllable switches and a smart controller. But I guess it would be useful for splitting up border routers into a switch and controller that does the routing and talks BGP.
"He didn’t seem to target specific types of industries: everything from sports companies, to tourism services, to adult entertainment, to search services were attacked."

It's because he didn't have a choice. It's "random" because it was what his scanner picked up.

"The young man reportedly admitted to being responsible, saying that he was bored and wanted to prove himself. He was described as anti-social, and so looked to the online world for praise and affirmation, possibly being inspired by reports about the hacktivist group Anonymous."

How does this "prove" anything? It takes no balls and nearly no skills to run a scanner and deface a website.

"Eventually, however, ACK!3STX’s anonymizing software failed him and his IP address was visible to BMI’s C4 (Cyber Crime Competence Centre) unit"

Probably because he didn't actually know how it worked.
In my thinking at least Apple (as the market dominator) isn't properly open so let's sue Apple and, assuming the suit is won, the rest will follow.
Let me take the quiz and get some recommendations before I register. When providing those initial recommendations, suggest that I should register.
Am I a good enough programmer?
It's a myth that the financial industry pays amazingly high salaries. The maximum programmer salary at a bank is probably bigger than the maximum programmer salary anywhere else, but the average salary is about the same. I worked on electronic trading systems at BofA, but Amazon and Google both offered me more money to work for them. (Some people get good bonuses, but the best way to guarantee that is to threaten to leave for somewhere that will give you XX bonus on paper. I did that but realized I actually wanted to leave :)
You market these products differently.

The minimum-viable is going to have to be a free game. It may be of demo length, and it is not supposed to monetize. The goal is simply to maximize early feedback and find your customers. If it's in the zone you're looking for, you can announce the big followup and aim for monetization. This path is taken by countless indies.

Gamers are not disappointed by bad games, they just ignore those and move on. They're disappointed if their expectations are already high. With free games, you can fail as many times as you like.
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That's a strategy that does pretty well with the kinds of people who will apply to jobs randomly, hoping that one of them will sell them in the first interview.
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Was there that much hating on Crockford? Most of the posts I saw were in support of his position, if not his (probably justified) grouchy attitude.

I find it hard to disagree with him. Eichs has admitted ASI was a mistake, every half-decent JS tutorial states unequivocally "use semicolons"... if you don't want semi-colons, don't use JS.

I find semicolon hilarious. We need to lighten up!
I can answer that for you here. This article is more about privacy as our product although it is also our policy. Our Privacy Policy and TOS outline things in legalese, but in human language, we take it seriously on the backend as well. We even put our legal documents on GitHub so you can track changes to them. We abide by all TOS provided by other APIs. We don't store your address book or your friends data; we don't want that liability. All connections are made through SSL. We will never share your data with anyone else (outside of legal obligations, I suppose - but please read our Privacy Policy and TOS for the final word as I am not our lawyer).
What are you now pursuing or starting now?
An interesting concept and a nice design. But, I don't see a business here.
I didn't say we shouldn't pay taxes, or that there aren't benefits of having the government those taxes pay for.

But nobody gets a say in the matter. And everybody should be aware of this most basic function of the government.

I'm basically advocating taxpayer awareness, and government oversight. I'm not a member of the tea party and I don't want to get rid of all taxes. I feel that some friction is welcome when paying taxes, because otherwise people will be less aware they exist, and the government will have an easier time raising them.
But can it get the mindshare of Whitespace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_lang...) or Acme::Bleach (http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Acme-Bleach/lib/Acme/Bleach....)?
But what's the number of good developers? I think the point is that good developers can learn whatever language they need. You don't need to hire Clojure developers.
If you've got the numbers to show that this sort of thing leads to more active and involved users then I can't really argue against it but you should stop pretending that this is the only way you could possibly give a good first experience. Off the top of my head it seems you could have an awesome first experience by starting with a bare minimum style quiz. I haven't seen what you have so far but odds are you wouldn't need the entire quiz you currently use up front. From that quiz you can present a page with a handful of selections that would fit the user's responses, giving them a rough view of what they can expect. From there you can prompt the user to properly sign up and take the full signup.

I have no idea what the numbers would look like, but it would certainly provide a pleasing no-registration initial experience.
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