skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was using it, I had the idea of creating NFC tag/ QR code stickers and get gyms to put them on each machine/area. Then you could create an API for apps like Fitocracy to link in with that lets them read what each machine is, and the possible (and perhaps most popular?) exercises are for each.

So instead of clumsily tapping out 'lat pull down' you can just tap/scan the tag, and select from the list of exercises. Or at the very least the app could record the machines you tapped so at home you can enter in more detailed information.
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I hope this will be relevant for Adobe's Digital Magazine Distribution Suite - I'm really tired of waiting for new New Yorker issues to download on my ancient 1 MBit connection (rural area in germany). There's no need to provide text as a bunch of huge images resulting in several 100 MBytes in size.
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No, it's about DNS resource records generally used by all name servers (RFC 1035).
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Can your landing page do this? (Convert)
Well as a small shareholder/investor id be realy realy Pissed off if the IRS clamps down on my valid lower CGT just because some billionare CEO is taking the piss to be blunt.
There's a false dichotomy in a lot of these discussions. There isn't a contradiction between helping society and making money. Virtually every legal way I know of making money helps society.

The money you make comes from somewhere- generally customers who are parting with it. Why are they parting with it? Because they prefer what you're buying to the alternative.

People spend, in the aggregate, because it makes their lives better. Even hoarders drowning in needless stuff are spending the money to assuage the pain they would feel if they didn't.

The vast majority of software has a serious positive impact on the customers lives. We may wonder about Instagram, but instagram made a LOT of people happy. Making people happy is a positive benefit to society.

Plus, lets remember what money is. Money is a medium of exchange, its not the thing itself. It is a medium for trading your labor or your intellect. A ditch digger rents his body out at work in exchange for money. When he buys shoes, the money is simply they conveyance of the value from digging the ditch to the person selling the shoes.

When a software developer uses his brilliance to come up with a new program, he's trading his brainpower for whatever he ends up being with that money. Money is the medium that enables efficient transactions where barter failed. That's all.

Money is really another way of saying life.

People don't trade their life away, generally, except where it is profitable.

You make a billion bucks by making something people want? You've improved their lives probably by 7-9 billion dollars worth.

$7 for a movie? Worth more than $7 in entertainment to the person buying it... or they wouldn't buy it.

You don't get to be a millionaire by making people miserable.

(and I need to get a blog going, I think my comment is longer than the original article.)
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Can someone please explain what "...Kevin came to it organically based on the Burbn data" means?
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Got that beat. One of the previous places I was working was still on RCS (this is in 2010). CVS is what I was able to get them to upgrade to. And it was like showing fire to the natives once they realized they no longer had to "take turns" when it came to editing the same file.
>Virtually every legal way I know of making money helps society.

HFT and Domain squatting are legal.
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You do realize that you're killing plants, right? Unless you're planning to photosynthesize, you're still part of a food chain.
Academia, Teaching, Charities & Not for profit organisations all improve society and you wouldn't do any of those if you wanted to be rich.
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The people who make money doing this will spend the money on goods and services, which in turn benefits the people involved in providing them.
Hence virtually? It's easy to pick out a few examples of people making money (often lots) that do have a detrimental affect on society, but it really is a very small number of people. Compare how many people you know who are making money through 'bad' jobs such as HFT and domain squatting, and compare it to the number of people you know who aren't.
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Agreed, most of the wealth generated by most businesses is enjoyed by its customers, not its owners. Take Google or Facebook - while they enjoy huge profits now, and will in the future, their profits are dwarfed by the wealth (search and connection) they have created for their users.
And it was done before that in 1995 at Delft University, as the article mentions. (I saw it there!). Playing Angry Birds on the side of a building would be more with the time.
Funny: www.tgeltaayehxnx.com DDOSed themselves.
http://www.tgeltaayehxnx.com/

I copied the source code before the countdown struck since I didn't think I'd be able to access it on the hour.. "I told you so..." is what I just said to a friend.

Here's the ridiculous line.

if (timediff < 0) {
//console.log("LIVE!");
location.reload(true);
} else {
// Do stuff.
}

Presumably they are trying to switch out this page with something else.
But since they have 10000s of clients that hit location.reload(true) at the same time, they just created their own little denial of service.

And the reload is going to keep firing, and firing, and firing.
Was silky smooth for me on a Mac Core 2 Duo & Chrome. Nice game and looking forward to more levels!
Actually, the HFT people are more likely to sock their winnings away. Anyway, "I take money from people so that I can increase the national GDP by spending it" is not much of an argument for a socially valuable way of life.
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I remember (early 80's) when a box of 10 HP floppy disks was £100
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HFT: provides liquidity and increases market efficiency (suppresses pricing inconsistencies)
Domain squatting: allows market to set the value of a domain.

Not sure what's wrong with either of these, or why they are any worse than any other business that seeks to take advantage of market inefficiencies or speculate on asset prices (after all, most businesses are some combination of the two)
Your comment precisely describes the "Hacker Spirit" that I expect to see around HN. These are the kinds of projects that I gladly upvote.

Hacking (often just for the fun of it) is so much more rewarding and in the end provides so much more value than the usual techcrunch-style drama that often occupies most of HN home page.
This is why I said "Virtually". Seriously, think about what you've just said. Do you realize that you didn't even make a claim, you simply imply that these are somehow not beneficial to society as if it were a fact? Don't you realize that you should have made an argument here, if you're going to make that claim? Making a counter argument is simple: HFT adds liquidity giving better prices to traders, and domain squatting effectively provides a set of links to relevant sites when someone goes to a non-existent site. Shouldn't you have made an argument for your position, if it was worth making a comment?

Are you really trying to derail the discussion into a debate about HFT and domain squatting?

Do we really need to think of all the possible legal ways to make money that don't help society?

How about recognizing that the point of my comment is correct, even if you manage to find some legal way to make money that "doesn't benefit society"?
Note the decreases in both notable generalist CEOs since the 1900s and in numbers of notable recent renaissance men (or multidisciplinary achievers). This is a good article on the subject: http://generalistsunite.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-good-are-g...
CSS column flow will help a lot. However I hope print-minded-fixed designers will not end up flooding the net with rigid fixed-width designs mainly accessibility, edit ability, customisability is important in the word of flexible contents. papers or older forms of fixed rigid tech mediums have so many drawbacks, which ended up being a long exploitation area for designer hacks. in short I am for css-reflowing columns but i am against paper.
Books are designed. Lots of consideration is put into the typography, layout, rhythm and form of printed books, and those design choices stretch back over a hundred years. There is much more at play than "justification, and paragraphs, and if you're lucky a nice font."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Tschichold

http://www.amazon.com/Systems-Graphic-Systeme-Visuele-Gestal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_St...
People have gotten rich doing all of those. For instance, the head of the Red Cross makes a lot of money. So do the leaders at United Way.

Further, many of these organizations arguably don't improve society. For instance, the Red Cross monopoly on blood supply significantly drives up health care costs, primarily to the personal profit of the Red Cross bureaucracy.

But this is all sidestepping my point.

The idea that making money is to the detriment of society is the claim I wish to dispel.

My point is not that you can't help society without getting rich-- its easy to prove you can.

My point is, most ways of getting rich do significantly benefit society.
Why did you set up a software development shop in the BVI, are the problems they are solving specific to the BVI?

I'm asking because I'm considering starting a startup on a Caribbean island that I'm originally from. If you have any advice you'd like to offer, I'd be glad to read it.
I do not refute this, I simply try to play devil's advocate. In fact, I'm inclined to agree with you. I don't watch a lot of television because I enjoy being engaged in what I'm doing, but there are people out there who watch a lot of television and removing commercials could be a good thing for such people.
Yes but just giving examples of shit design doesn't make all design shit. Read Eric Gill on typography or look at an Edward Tufte book and you will understand how much design has gone into books over the ages. One of the ways you can tell when a design is really high quality is when you don't notice it.
This is excellent! I really feel some of this sticking in my memory for once. Thanks.
Is there a rich preview for URLs JQuery plugin out there?
I am developing a social link aggregator application and need a JQuery plug in which can inspect URLs and produce preview elements for them. You obviously need server side magic to get snapshots of web pages but it is possible to do stuff like converting a Youtube URL to the respective flash embed on the client side. Or getting the image from an Instagram page and such...

Before I dive into implementing this, is there something out there that already does this?
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Nice work. I generally hate the entire family of Pie Chart-like proportional comparisons, but I still find TreeMaps pretty useful. Unlike others, they are much better at surfacing more in-depth information and have an affordance for "drilling in" if so implemented by the designer.
Any thoughts on this HP research paper

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.html

"Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library"?

That paper states that library-based threading implementations that don't also involve the compiler can't guarantee correctness of the resulting threading.
very good collection and summary for landing page optimization. i hope another version of this had conversion rate comparison, though i am not sure how you could do this..
Coming from academia myself, I'd have to say you've been deceived on both counts, there. At an institutional level academic research is all about the money, and the prestige used to bring in more grant money and student-loan money. For instance, I know a professor at a top-tier US university who received an award last year purely for being in the select group who had made the school $1M by bringing in large government research grants. And the people who do this do very well financially.

There are many individual academics for whom it's not about the money, but this institutional culture corrodes altruistic motives, and selects against them.
Money making is fine, but wanting billions is kind of weird imho. The goal of 'being the biggest search engine' is great, being a search engine and having the goal to make 10 billion $/month is not. Again, in my opinion.

He mentions 'feed the family'; no matter what your 'family' is here, with honest hard work you can do that without having too much money focus in your company. But yes, the bottom line needs to be solid and you are insane if you don't watch that like a hawk.
You seem to have seriously misunderstood what great presentation is and you are selling books way short. Good presentation is only about rounded corners if those rounded corners are actually an improvement. If they distract they are bad presentation.

There are good and bad ways to present text in books and this is not some subtle improvement, this is noticeable. Typesetting books is seriously hard and there are tons of pitfalls, even if all you need are paragraphs and chapter headings. To make this short, here are all things books can do and the web cannot (yet or in most browsers) do: Complete control over the font. A lot of microtypography. Complete control over justification. Easily creating and maintaining a rhythm.

I'm sure there are a lot more. (Those points are also the reason why typography in ebooks still sucks for the most part, some of that is caused by the ineptness of those who create those books.)

Anyone who has ever had the book of someone with no design background in their hands will be able to testify that there is a huge difference between books done by a professional typesetter and an amateur (if that amateur isn't self-taught and doesn't otherwise care about design).
Why reinvent the wheel? Spend time on smth of greater value.

There are a lot of good resources on beginner matters. So use existing resources:-

1. http://library.linode.com/dns-guides/introduction-to-dns

2. http://library.linode.com/dns-guides/configuring-dns-with-th...

3. http://serverfault.com/questions/301868/dns-entries-required...

4. Registering a GoDaddy domain name and point it to linode.
http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4226%3E

I have not seen a good, easy to understand tutorial to get me from beginner/mid-level to high level understanding [not even speaking about mastery] of DNS. Spending time on such tutorial and sharing it would be much appreciated.
Exactly. OK by who?
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Because money. CS education might make you rich but a successful sports program makes the university rich.
> $7 for a movie? Worth more than $7 in entertainment to the person buying it... or they wouldn't buy it.

What if the movie sucked but the person didn't know it beforehand?

> You don't get to be a millionaire by making people miserable.

Why not? I can think of several ways. You could make them miserable first by advertising, them sell your product as a remedy. Or sell a positional good and let your customers have bidding wars, even though the total sum of misery remains unchanged. Or sell a good with large negative externalities.
Alternative questions:
Is it OK to want to make money at zero sum games where your windfall causes other people's losses? For example roulette, poker, and trading cards?

Is it OK to want to make money at win-win games? For example restoring a vehicle, Writing a book or solving a new problem?

The problem here is that very powerful organizations in this country are daily trying to brainwash people into thinking that somehow the green slip contracts in our pockets are evil. Having money, or wanting money is morally suspect. These powerful organizations control media narratives, political talking points, church services, and pretty much every company in America who is interested in turning a profit from the masses.

Is it OK to get an education for yourself and your children? Yes. Is it OK to go to the hospital when you are sick? Yes. Is it OK to want to make money? No. Your money is morally suspect, take some out, and give it to me, there will be a net gain in righteousness in the universe when the money flows from your pocket to mine.
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> Surely most professionals used cross-compilers on real computers

I've often wondered about that. Writing machine code on an off-the-shelf Spectrum with a tape deck was extremely painful, and I never really got beyond a few funky machine code graphics routines. I'd be really interested to know how many of the people that did were working with the same limitations I was.
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Is there a source for this? I'm not sure how to view source of extensions.

I'm sure nothing bad happens, I just wanted to see how some of what you do is achieved. I wanted to make a similar extension for myself for browsing HN.
Cheers.
You might notice that it's also the only post on the site. I'm new at this. :)
The article claims "Silicon Valley, with all its wealth, intellectual resources, creative thinkers, and alleged determination to change the world for the better, has to lead the charge on all these fronts".

So far, most of the innovations in transport, be it high speed railroads, autobahns or moon missions, have all been done by government. That's simply because it's very hard to build a viable commercial model around infrastructure projects, especially if you expect to see a return within 50 years. If someone does find a way that would be great, of course, and in that case there's a good chance this person would from Silicon Valley.
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Agree. Everyday many software-as-commodity are released.

The goal now is not to write good softwares, that makes the difference. People are doing the same boring software several times, each time faster and over a new "revolutionary" technologie/method/approach.
The interesting thing about pythonanywhere, to me, is the integration with managed hosting.
Couldn't move at first, then I realized I had to disable the vimperator plugin. Cool game though!
Very slow on my Firefox 11, Ubuntu 11.10, fglrx
Fantastic! This game had me laughing instantly...gaining a proficiency in 'hjkl' via a crazy web browser game is a great idea!
My dad has a great poster on his wall in his home office.

It says: SUCCESS - I've managed to eat and not be eaten and find a place to sleep every night.

Success is a personal measure, we often externalize it and try to measure it against other's perceptions. If you choose to measure yourself against people who think "Money is Evil" or "Greed is Good" then that is just a choice. No different then choosing to put sugar in your coffee or not drinking coffee at all.

I've always considered myself a passionate pragmatist. I've started many companies, sold some, bought some, crashed some and put some in mothballs. I love the creation process. It's my hook. At the same time I try and estimate the financial impact of those decisions and balance my passion with a pragmatic review of the risks. Sometimes I make boat loads of money and other times I am lucky to get out with my life. But always it's a balance of rewards and money can be one of those rewards. The reality is that the most rewarding parts are the people I meet along the way, the things I've learned and the passion I felt for those projects as I executed on them. If you look at money as just a game token like many other tokens in life then you might be ok if you don't obsess about it. I personally think often about how many people would be willing to take time out of of their busy lives to visit me when I die. It sounds morbid but it's also another interesting measure of your impact on the world. Don't focus on the money, focus on the tools you need and goals you have for yourself in your life. But know that money is just another tool that might help you meet your overall goals. That said you can become a monk and let go of all possessions and I know some people who have done that and they say it's the most rewarding thing they've ever done. But clearly its not compatible with the goals I currently hold in my life. Maybe when I get a bit older I'll change my mind. Because again, the power to change your mind is still yours!

I have managed for 30 years to follow my passion and the whole time I've managed to eat and not be eaten and find a place to sleep each night. I've done amazing things, met amazing people and learned more then I could have ever imagined was available to me. What more can you ask for in life?
Since my dad had built a ZX81 from kit, we were on the Sinclair mailing list. I remember reading the promotional leaflet announcing the Spectrum. I could hardly believe what it could do. This leaflet would have been classic Uncle Clive hyperbole. Yet, the reality of this little machine was even more magical.
Excellent step-by-step tutorial. Like you've mentioned, there are a lot of resources on the web about Backbone.js but its not easy to get a grip of it if you're new to this whole paradigm.

This is the first article where the author has taken the time to explain things to the audience, considering that they might be new to this. I also like the choice of sample project - its not a To-do app nor Gmail.

Eagerly waiting for the next installment :)
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Or if it inferred the exercises you've been doing from some initial training and your phone's accelerometer data/camera.
Of course it's a half-assed solution, but why does that matter? This was simply a proposition and a call to action. If I this were actually a project of mine, don't you think I'd give it more thought?

EDIT: After giving it a second thought, perhaps "disrupt" would have been a better word to use than "hack". What do you think?
thanks for the link to DJB - this is gold :-)
Building a solid landing page seems so easy until you have tried one and failed to sell. The formula really isn't too difficult, but it does work if you get yourself out of the way: 1) outline a clear value proposition, 2) provide a call to action (+ a cost if there aren't multiple pricings), and 3) build trust. #1 and #2 should always be above the fold and the most visually prominent. Anything else on the page that doesn't build trust should be ruthlessly cut if you want to focus on pure conversion.

It's easy to forget that YAGNI also applies to landing pages. Don't waste your time giving secondary information. They can get to it later. If they don't convert, they ain't gonna need it.
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is it better because node > ruby? ;)
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