skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you just don't like this idea. But samples are typical in loads of professions, you can get sample tiles, and so on. Not for free. Why shouldn't you pay for a sample at a rate that is not the rate you will be buying the full product.

Maybe my specific examples are for a different market (always hard to say where people are writing from: is it the bay area, or a smaller city) but depending on what the developer and company are looking for and their stage of financing, etc, this can enable fits that otherwise just can't happen. Both of them take a risk (the shop that is non-technical and can't tell who is the right one, the developer who doesn't really want to work for 4 or 8 hours for 160 or 320 dollars) but if they do, it can pay off. When there is trust I just don't see why this is so bad. Loads of long relationships form this way (paid at normal market rates or higher - higher, explicitly due to the fact that the client is not in a position to shop around, can't do technical interviews, etc. Wouldn't you want a client like this? Where if you prove your ability above their other candidates, they can't find a replacement for you and are going to pay you approaching the "monopoly price" - what the business case makes your services worth to them?)
By weight you are absolutely right but considering density it is a much closer call. A kilo of Ronaldo (assume 75kg) costs 1700k and takes about 1dm3. In this space you can fit 19.3 kg of gold worth 1016k. So impressively Ronaldo is worth more than a solid statue of himin Gold.
Making computers accessible to everyday people is arguably one of the most important things for the overall development of the world. Apple is doing that.
NASA Space Pen Story.
Fastsoft have a good reputation amongst web performance people
Arduino around the world – Africa
Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome
I've been working on and off on a Chrome Extension for Hacker News, the extension focusses on improved usability rather than design. I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back to regular Hacker News. Give it a try, features include:

- Improved readability
- Quick inline replies from comments page
- Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames
- Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user
- Endless scrolling
- Collapsible comment threads
- Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer

Forks, improvements and comments welcome:
https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew
"Only non-European residents can use a Eurail pass." An English resident would need to get InterRail.

But see the cautions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterRail#Decreasing_attractivi... . Going from London to Paris by train requires a 75€ supplement on ~50€/day pass. The one-way price is 123€. While there is some savings because you can go on additional trains afterwards, France also charges a supplement for InterCity trains and has a seat quota.
That's an optimistic way of looking at it. I like that perspective. However based on my experiences I feel the article is pretty accurate. I've had a couple of base hits and several more strikeouts. Although lottery is probably not the right term.

Keep in mind too that the top 40% of good and crappy apps looks more like the long tail. Not all 40% achieve "gold mine" revenue

To the original point of OMGPOP being almost out of business - the fact that they have other apps no one has heard of and one big success also supports the article's stats closer than not.
It's about the work you would sacrifice a weekend for, not about sacrificing weekends.
It's much worse, in my opinion, nothing beats a straight stream.
The Sass code should use @extend [1] instead of @mixin, which doesn't insert the whole definition each time but extends the base definition:

.island, .header, .content { display block; … }

[1]: http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...
Thanks for the tips and the offer to help. I hope you come back to this post...

> My email is my username, but add a .com at the end.
I think I'm missing a piece of information to construct the email. Is it a gmail account?
If you write classes that have methods that can change a non observable state of the class then you have followed the wrong path. Not at all sure that functional programming will prove a cure though.
That's probably more accurate. I was conflating a long history with maturity/stability. I would guess most ~13 year old libraries are broadly more stable and bug-free than something a few years old but I guess anything that is being actively adapted to new problems will have inherent instability.

I seriously doubt the code for reading images into an OpenCV-native format is being actively developed though. Anything being done in pattern recognition would likely not effect the library's basic IO stuff. What I was actually using it for (their RDP implementation, image thresholding) were likely pretty stable as well.
I have one of those invisi-blogs too

http://ciocookbook.com/philosophy/thecodeisthedesign.html

Jack Reeves is the man here though - writing source code is designing the product. Before code can be written you need to take all the trade offs, the decisions and the research (or just make wild assumptions).

Once you have source code, it has been designed.

Which is why instead of sending out a 12 page form telling a client they need to think harder about something they don't understand, put out version 0.1, and ask them what they want changed.
The mean YC startup about a year ago [1] $22.4 million, let us assume 3 founds on average and 3 years of work, and that they hold 1/3 of the value, and you get an average return well north of 500k a year per founder.

[1]http://ycombinator.com/nums.html
So when will we see this in our smartphones? I don't understand and, frankly, find it ridiculous that I have to wait about a minute or up to 90 seconds for my smartphone to boot, a device that is completely flash-memory based and that has no variability in hardware. I still remember the article about that industrial Linux PC that booted in less than one second, including initializing video4linux and two cameras etc., simply by optimizing kernel parameters, boot order, and driver timeouts. That must have been 2005 or so. Now it's 2012 and my phone takes longer to boot than my laptop (late 2010 MBP w/ SSD).
I've been working on and off on this for a little while, the extension focusses on improved usability rather than design. I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back to regular Hacker News. Give it a try, features include:

- Improved readability

- Quick inline replies from comments page

- Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames

- Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user (try filtering out negativity!)

- Endless scrolling

- Collapsible comment threads

- Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer

Forks, improvements and comments always welcome:
https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew
Indeed, and they've proved it further with the Space version.
I knew Adobe was bad but I didn't realise they were that bad.
A jQuery plugin that adds keyframe based events for CSS animations
It looks interesting, but I couldn't try it out because I do not use Facebook. I'd think you ought to consider having a simple sign up and login option in addition to the SSO plugin thingie.
In the spirit of the OP's point about tiny details, I can offer you two reasons why setting DST matters:

(1) I want my cats to be fed just before I go to sleep so the cats have the maximal period of full belly when I go to bed. I go to bed at 11:00 pm. Keep in mind that I observe DST changes for myself. But if I never adjust the feeder for standard/daylight time, then either the cats will be hungry until the midnight feeding or they'll be fed an hour early at 10:00 pm. In either case, they are more likely to wake me up for food during the night.

(2) The cat feeder is in my bedroom and since I have it set to feed the cats just before bedtime, I don't want it making noise an hour after I fall asleep. That's what would happen when I've switched to daylight time but the feeder hasn't.

The point is that there can be legitimate reasons why you'd care about a DST adjustment even if your cats don't.
This seems to be yet another example of the "X sucks because you can write bad code in X" argument, which is not really that interesting.
I have to say, having stared in to the abyss of large Haskell code bases, they're not necessarily easier to read than a large Java code base.

Reading bad functional code can be just as painful as bad OO code -- trying to untangle a mess of fold's that an overzealous developer who just learned of catamorphisms wrote can be painful. Even more so if that young developer is you, five months ago.

Sure, the language doesn't impose as much discipline in Python/Java/… as in Haskell(+), so it might require more of you as a developer to write clear, readable code (note: not saying that it requires more of you as a developer in general, just that it's easier to fall in to lazy anti-patterns). But if you work in a decent code base most of the pitfalls in the post are basically straw men. A well designed OO system will generally not be riddled with singletons and arbitrarily mutable state.

(+) I'm using Haskell here cause that's the only purely functional language I have any experience with. Substitute as you please.
Neat. I started working on a bookmarklet to improve HN last year called Hacker News Enhancement Suite:

https://github.com/driverdan/Hacker-News-Enhancement-Suite

I never got the code far enough to announce / release. The long term goal was to also make plugins.
This is really good and I can't wait to crib this once I have an appropriate idea :D
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Where's the no payment option? Only when you set up a new iOS device? http://imgb.mp/ic5.jpg
Just installed it - loving the added spacing, increased font sizes/etc; it makes far better use of the full screen.

I doubt I'll ever be uninstalling this :)
Just stop naming companies after 37signals already
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In the general case, I think you're not rude at all and is a valuable comment.

But if you're refering to a specific person to whom you don't know their individual circumstances, and you do it publicly, then it is extremely rude. For the record I'm from the UK in case this is a cultural thing.
It's about time someone disrupted things like roaming charges. There is no reason why data traffic should suddenly get expensive just because I'm in a different country to usual. I wish them every success!
Stone falls with no faster than quadratic speed and has a maximum limit if not in the vacuum.
I used quite a time ago a secondary iTunes US account without credit card. And now at least in my (german) account I can also edit the payment option to "none". But perhaps this is a regional thing required by law or necessity here (very few people have credit cards because our banking system doesn't suck and money transfer is easy).
That can go both ways I guess. You can do OO right, you know?
The lowest stress, highest paying per hour job I can think of is tutoring high school students. $50 an hour is normal, $100 is possible in affluent neighborhoods if you have a good pitch about why you're worth it; I have even heard of $500 an hour, but that was a math PhD student who found a remarkably rich Manhattan family.
Which Site is America’s Most Engaging Social Networking Site?
Try to guess America’s most engaging social network. Twitter? Wrong. Facebook? Wrong. Pinterest? Wrong. Google Plus? Wrong again.
Google "instant answers" is *live*. And it's terrific.
Can you add privacy details? It looks like this is using a 3rd party service for social profile data.
Ask HN: Is startups cooler than science?
One of the reasons one do startups is some kind of a spirit of adventure.
But there are much more adventure in discovering unknown and inventing new things, than introducing technology to the masses.
Don't you think so?

P.S.
Inspired by recent thread on HN
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3936320
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Ooo, this is quite nice. I like all of the inline features you added (though inline comments aren't currently working for me --- scratch that, they were just really slow).

Nicely done! I predict, as with all HN re-themes, that someone will soon comment about how article density is less than on standard HN, so I took the liberty of adding it to your GitHub issues :)
I'd be keen to try it but it seems your email validation only accepts first order domains which kind of rules out anyone using .co.uk, .com.au etc :(
I had a very similar revelation to the OP in the article. Coincidentally, I also happened to be writing semantic analysis for a compiler using the visitor pattern.

From this I can conclude two things:

- It's definitely the wrong choice to do abstract syntax tree traversal using the visitor pattern. But what would be a better choice? When using Java?

- Writing a compiler can be a life changing experience.

These days I call myself a recovering object oriented programmer.
Haha, thankyou very much. Hopefully the endless scrolling takes away some of the pain of more readable titles ;-)
> And as such I blatantly discarded the whole idea of feedback systems.

That happens far too often. You have to disconnect yourself from only looking at one element though. Generally, you have an interaction taking place in the form of Event > Action. Something occurs, and then something happens. In this case, the method of eating is the event. The sound happens to be the action. However, you can always replace the Action with anything else (you can also replace the event with anything else.

Basically, this is how you should approach demos. Not as the end, but as the possibilities.
Impressive revenue and great profit margin! Hopefully they will be able to keep this up for 2012. It is worth noting the jump in employees (28 to 224) - I kinda wonder if they will be able to manage them all, with such a sharp increase.

Comparing to Mojang (Minecraft) Rivio have done very well, both having a huge jump in revenue from one year to the next:

$78.8m in Revenue for Mojang and $9.5m in profit before taxes. Quite the magnitude of difference in terms of profit rate, 12.07% for Mojang vs 64% Rovio.

Licensing seems to be profitable?

Source for Mojang financials: http://www.allabolag.se/5568192388/Mojang_AB

(Don't you just love that annual reports for all companies are public information in Sweden?)
Ok, I googled…

This support doc details how to do it on creating a new account:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2534

But I honestly don't know if you can change it on an existing US based account to "none". Like in the other reply I can do it in my german based iTunes account (Keine = None)

http://imgur.com/c91MA.png
Related is 37signals' "Ignore Details Early On" [1]

So shipping is a feature, but continual improvement once you've shipped is necessary, too.

[1] http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch04_Ignore_Details_Early_O...
I wonder what the verizons around the world are going to do to prevent this. More lobbying dollars?
Quite an aside, but... I see many things going wrong with processes in businesses all the time. Simple processes - things like following up with me on an inquiry that I made, or correcting an invoice and sending it to me. And those get borked constantly. And almost inevitably, I get something like "oh sorry, our computers were down" or "oh, the computer made a mistake". Hrm...

But with software development we are in charge of the computer. When there's a problem with the computer, there's no ability to shrug it off or make excuses - it's our entire purpose on a project is to make the computer do stuff. Oh, no doubt we can (and do!) make excuses - the compiler versions are wrong, the tool doesn't work with this other platform, etc... but no one outside our field can even understand those problems, nor do they want to. It's just our fault, and we have to fix it.
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This is a silly excuse for anyone who started grad school after google was invented.

It's also a silly excuse for anyone in their 2nd year who ever spoke to a 5-6th year.
Police forces in my region, as a requirement, take an intelligence test that has to fit within bottom and TOP boundaries, for one to be accepted.

In absence of adequate personality test for the top-ranking, I guess all the organizations benefit from such strategy, as employment of highly intelligent individuals at non-leadership functions are correlated with organisational disruption. No citation on that, just solemn personal experience.

Rock and roll.
I see OO as a way of imposing model constraints in a problem domain... there may not necessarily be a need for objects to maintain state.
To be fair, I can see one difference, though, at least here in Euroland: you have all sorts of standards and regulations that buildings and contractors have to adhere to and especially on bigger changes or constructions you would get an independent expert to check whether your contractors and subcontractors did obey all the rules and when they frakked up somewhere along the way, they have to fix it, typically on their own bill. So it is not enough that you have a house standing there, material, construction and architecture are evaluated as well.

Contrast that to software, it is typically more than enough that you can click through the links and it basically looks like it "works" and if you delivered all that on time then it is already better than probably 95% of all software projects out there and in all but the most critical cases (money or human lives involved) absolutely nobody will check what exactly you programmed and how terrible the underlying software structures and architectures are. If anything, symptoms are being checked and there are requirements you have to meet when money or lives are involved. But that is it then.
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Hey,

The extension queries Google's social graph API to gather information about users profiles - you can find details here: https://developers.google.com/social-graph/
Nice but it doesn't work if you visit http://hackerne.ws/

Only http://news.ycombinator.com/
Looks nice, but I perfer Georgify
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...
For designers, how is this different than Pixelapse?

http://www.pixelapse.com/
Systems are your friends.

1. Track the things you want to accomplish. Joe's Goals is good for that. If your problem is working enough hours a day, track hours.

2. To-Do lists. I use ToodleDo religiously.

3. Block distracting internet sites. I use SelfControl (for Mac.)

4. Quit your biggest distractions altogether. (For me, that's webforums. I deleted all my webforum accounts.)

Systems are great if it's just forcing yourself to do stuff you're really going to need to do. In a way, that's the easy part. The hard part: when you chronically avoid doing something, often it's because you genuinely don't want to do it, and the right answer is to find a way to stop doing it entirely. One of the biggest improvements in my recent life was to identify certain kinds of work that made me miserable, and make a plan so that I'd never have to do them again. Discipline is a good thing for work that's a little hard and boring but still worthwhile to you; but discipline can't get you through work that you really hate, at least not for long.
> learning to manage software projects gets you an almost unfair advantage at managing "simpler" and more mundane projects

I'd add that learning to write software also gives you an unfair advantage in managing the "complexities" of all other processes you'll encounter in day-to-day life, to the degree that it's (at least for me) incredibly frustrating going through life seeing inefficiencies and "incompetence" (not meant as an insult) everywhere around you.
And you make them accessible by charging more than anyone else for them?

Hello from the third world.
The original mail has a very scamish tone anyway.
The jarring switch from "show amazing new tech with countless possibilities" to "you can train your child how to eat cereal!" made me question whether the whole video was really a clever parody.
> it's just a motivational poster

Here's my favourite quote about motivational posters, DeMarco & Lister "Peopleware":

"These motivational accessories, as they are called (including slogan coffee mugs, plaques, pins, key chains, and awards), are a triumph of form over substance. They seem to extol the importance of Quality, Leadership, Creativity, Teamwork, Loyalty, and a host of other organizational virtues. But they do so in such simplistic terms as to send an entirely different message: Management here believes that these virtues can be improved with posters rather than by hard work and managerial talent. Everyone quickly understands that the presence of the posters is a sure sign of the absence of hard work and talent."

More on this:

"Motivational accessories are phony enough to make most people's skin crawl. They do harm in healthy organizations. The only place where they do no harm is where they are ignored—as in companies where the harm was done long, long ago and people have ceased to register any further decline."
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Until there is a major flooding event.
That's of the ones that got funded, of course.

And most of that money doesn't actually go to the founders - YC owns a chunk of them, and so do other investors (as PG says, 94% of them get funding from elsewhere too).

Interesting stats though, thanks!
If it's not for you, that's fine. I think you're overlooking the fact that many people will find it interesting.
Probably makes more sense to use inflation instead of ROC for purposes of putting the cost of the tickets into the perspective of 2012.
The NASDAQ is down 4%, the past month. Zynga is down 30%.

The social gaming space has plateaued. It got incredibly big incredibly fast, but those days of growth are over. Zynga has built a dominant position, but isn't making money yet. I'm not sure what that means, but it isn't good.
I didn't even know that URL existed - i'll add support in the next update :-)
Would they accept someone that's working towards a Bachelors in CS? I've heard that most of the jobs need a Masters or PhD, but for an internship, do you think an undergrad would be able to score an internship?
Historically, most innovations start expensive and as luxury goods, then the innovations are copied and diffused and become cheaper, and eventually commodities.

That seems to be happening here as well.
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> The US was an ally of South Vietnam at their government's invitation

Oh come on. South Vietnam was an American client state from the word go. American advisors helped run Ngo Dinh Diem's campaign in the 1955 referendum that set up the South Vietnamese government. When Diem didn't turn out to be the man the U.S. government had hoped he would, American money helped finance the 1963 coup that killed him.

> and never did actually invade North Vietnam

No, we just bombed the holy hell out of them: see Operation Rolling Thunder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder) and Operation Linebacker II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Linebacker_II) for examples.
How much of this will work on a Mac?