skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry you felt deceived. I really did start writing within a day or so of the initial landing page launch because enough people showed interest. So the goal of those emails I sent was not to gauge interest (I already knew that), but to make sure I was writing the book people wanted to read.
For me, the Wake Back to Bed, when it does work, generally involves first the 30 minutes staying up, then 40 to 90 minutes of lying awake in bed before falling asleep. So that does unfortunately mess a bit with the sleep cycle, even though it should be just a blip in the radar in theory. Haven't managed to get any other method to work reliably. I guess what works and how varies by individual.
Great work guys! I think you hit the nail on the head with the template style being the best approach for easily putting together emails with clean code. HTML email editors are in a terrible state and that is why I have created Sendicate (http://sendicate.net)

For more reasons why you should ditch the traditional WYSIWYG style approach have a look at:

1. http://www.chadyj.com/post/21569743980/content-sections-as-p...
2. http://www.chadyj.com/post/21158280879/die-wysiwyg-die-lets-...
3. http://www.chadyj.com/post/20729167319/email-newsletters-are...
Surely there must be some people who are in the middle, who would gladly pursue training if it were paid for and if time were made available for it by their employer. Consider, for instance, those people who have significant family commitments who cannot work more than fifty hours each week without suffering some hardship (maybe they have children or elderly parents or both). Just because you don't have free time outside of work to learn new things does not mean that you wouldn't want to learn new things if you had more time.
The politics of Wi-Fi names
Actually, the whole point of the models is that GW sells them. The prices for GW products has steadily increased over the years, even though their material costs have not.

3D printing totally upends their business model.
Are we in a Lobster bubble? ;-)
I wish I could charge you for the 45 seconds of my life you just took
> Some of the best finishers I've ever met tend to be EE folks.

That's been my experience as well, but I think it's mostly because of the three types, EE's are the only ones used to making schedules and sticking to them.
2 years after I graduated with a BS in Computer Science from the LAS College the Engineering College introduced the Software Engineering program. It was a joint effort between the ComS & CompE departments. Becoming increasingly common.
> I think the intention is (a) prevent people easily repurposing machines to run Linux

Serious question: are there really many people who

• know enough to take a Windows machine, obtain a Linux boot CD or boot USB drive, do whatever voodoo is required to make the computer boot from that instead of from the hard disk, and then go through the Linux install,

but who cannot easily

• figure out how to invoke the BIOS settings menu and change the secure boot option from "enabled" to "disabled"

?

I understand that Linux is getting friendlier to non-techies, and many people report success in getting Grandma using Linux, but in almost all of these stories they installed Linux for Grandma. They did not just toss her a CD and say "try this!".
"Jiang" may refer to "Jiang Zeming" (former President some ten years ago).

There was some rumors a few weeks ago that he had died. China is currently in a transition of power from one to the next president (there have only been two such transitions so far, and there is no established legal process for it yet). Jiang Zeming is seen as a stabalizing factor during that process.

So, having rumors floating around that he died, would be potentially risky to stability (because people very easily believe stuff and easily get nuts about totally unfounded news, because you never know what to believe and what not if there is no independend press).
FWIW, I haven't used Office for 5 years and I don't miss it one bit. Google docs and gmail work fine and collaborative document editing is much easier.

The big challenge with business users are that they have established workflows and habits. Converting an existing Office-based infrastructure to Google Apps is a struggle mostly because it's expensive and difficult to retrain workers. On the other hand, if you start off with Google Apps, it works pretty well.

Certainly every now and then you have The Giant Spreadsheet Of Doom to maintain cost models or whatnot; this is more like custom application software that only a handful of users use. Give them Excel if they need it. There aren't many of these employees even in a large organization.
I started to write a C++ template class that would implement strongly-typed ints (so Celsius and Fahrenheit types could behave like ints, but have distinct types).

I gave up after this "simple" idea approached 200 lines of code implementing all the operator overloads. I guess the lesson is that primitives are complex, even if you just want to give them a new name. Also, the expression int/int produces an int, but what should the expression FahrenheitInt/FahrenheitInt produce? A unitless int? A FahrenheitInt?
N0tice Promotes Open Journalism with Open API
Why is that possible, when the Curiosity must use an elaborate floating crane?
Computing with ternary logic, base e, information theory and entropy
Amnesia was creepy, but I wouldn't call it excellent. Psychonauts is the 3D game that really shines in this pack. It's extremely memorable and utterly original. Fun fact: the Metacritic user score for Psychonauts is 9.4 compared to Amnesia's 8.8.
What OS? I'm aware of rendering issue in Windows Chrome because it ignores ClearType settings. Hadn't seen any issues in Firefox though.
How do you guys divide up your purchase? Default, all to someone, mixture?

I dumped everything to the developers with the mentality that games are hard work - I'd like to reward that - where as charities are much more common, but I'd love to hear other's view points on this.
Open webOS Might Have a Future Now
Of course, if you use F# you can just have units of measure on your types...
As you said, gauging interest is validation (recommended by guys like Steve Blank).

I've been guilty of something of the sort, but I made clear that the product wasn't finished (and it looks like the author was as well).

However, it's nice to have a data point of someone who dislikes this approach.
This is seriously one of the best bundles released yet. All these games have been lauded, and all were on my to-play list. :D
For what it's worth, this presentation was produced by a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Partner), not by someone at Microsoft.
Cool, well feel free to drop me an email if you have any questions or suggestions. My email is in my profile. Thanks :)
Windows XP (Spanish), and it's a spanish-version Firefox 12. Maybe some XP settings or something.

It also says "Me gusta" on the Facebook like button :) which is sometimes jarring when mixed with English, but that's because of my default language I guess.
The Internet: A Series Of 'Tubes' (And Then Some)
> "(although closing your eyes in a dream is not always"

I've been lucid dreaming for a good many years now. Losing visual sensations in a dream typically leads me to waking up. I attribute this to me being a rather visual learner/thinker while awake. Early on I tried the spinning-around trick, but it led to confusing visual-blurs and often me unintentionally sensing my real-body's proprioceptive channel, all leading to waking up.

My best dream-stabilizing trick so far has been to look at my dream hands and use one to scratch the palm of the other. That ties my visual perceptions to my dream-body's tactile sensations. Once I get a dream stabilized like this, I can just keep one hand scratching its own palm all the time, serving as a good, constant reminder that I'm still dreaming.

Or, if I'm flying/hovering, I just crash into something or the ground (the harder the better), also linking the visual to the tactile.

Just my personal experience, ymmv.
It's simply good economics for Google to support the expansion of TLDs. When the costs of your complements go down, your market expands and/or you can charge more for the same service.

For the interests of the public, additional supply also means lower cost in general. Although desirable new TLDs may be relatively few in number, it will still help drive down the costs of doing business, esp. for new startups and experimental projects, at the expense of domain squatters. As an entrepreneur, I welcome this.
Agreed, let the YC thing go. Be "Browserling - Growing Success with 100 Customers!" instead of "Browserling - YC Reject".

Congrats on hitting the 100 mark!
It sounds like something I would be interested in checking out. Regrettably though it'll be less often than I would rather, simply because it's downtown. I'm not sure I understand why, and why virtually all the tech meetups meet downtown either. Almost all the programmers live in the north because that's where our day jobs are...
How Android can make Fragmentation a Non-Issue
I respect that you might not like some things I offer, which is why I describe them accurately and then deliver exactly what it says on the tin. My favorite sushi guy sells lots of raw fish attached to rice. There are cute little pictures of raw fish attached to rice to help you decide whether raw fish attached to rice is for you. If raw fish attached to rice is indeed not for you, my sushi guy will not think less of you. You may believe most people seeing raw fish attached to rice pictures would be uninterested in that. My sushi guy, if you asked him, would tell you that he really doesn't need to sell to most people, he only has to sell people who love raw fish attached to rice, and as to the topic of whether anyone could possibly want something disgusting as raw fish attached to rice, he might just modestly shrug while standing in the middle of the building that raw fish on rice built.
A while back I decided that I wasn't going to play any more AAA games, except the absolute cream of the crop - I just don't have room in my life to spend 40-50 hours glued to a screen playing a game any more.

Psychonauts was one of the games I made an exception for. It was time well-spent.
There is news:yc that supports comments http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id434787119?mt=8&...
Sorry Patrick, you couldn't be more wrong.

I always read the articles that pop up in you feeds, if at all possible. Even if they are long. There are few others I do this for.

I don't do it for all feeds, and I unsubscribe if I feel like they haven't posted sufficient high quality stuff as of late.

On the other hand I dread getting an email newsletter. Most are deleted or marked as spam on sight.

You know that emails are worth less too, or you wouldn't need to bribe with great content.

I realise I am not the average user, but the average user doesn't need to know how to improve his software either...
I looked into energy drink costs compared to amazon and 7-11 and the difference is minor. Sometimes 7-11 is cheaper than amazon. Energy drinks are surprisingly price controlled.

I can't read the article you linked, but what would be the difference between drinking a 8.4oz red bull (~70mg caffeine) and drinking 1 espresso shot of coffee (~65mg caffeine) with a B-complex and taurine pills?
We definitely want a mix of people to get the class balance right. Without entrepreneurial folks the group would lack spark.
I don't normally do that much gaming, but I may give it a try.

Question 1: Can I run the games on a laptop with an intel i3 and no discrete graphics? Question 2: Is it okay to just pay a dollar or so to start, and then pay more if I actually enjoy the games?
Depending on how you provide the data for to the game, that doesn't sound too difficult. Just make sure the contractor knows how to make it look (provide graphical assets and whatnot), and also how you will be supplying the level information (hardcoding values is never the way for quiz style games, I would decide on a format to go by for providing the data). From there, just check up periodically on them and see how the app is doing. I'd create a private GitHub page for them to commit to and then build and test the app nightly to make sure everything is going well before they build or finish a feature.
The problem with TLD-less system is that we already have mismatches of site names with different TLDs. Facebook is great a example of one that would work. But let's say you have callmevlad.com and I have callmevlad.net. With the TLD-less system, who gets the traffic when someone puts "callmevlad" in the Awesome Bar? All those conflicts would need to be resolved before this would work. Maybe it should have been that way from the start but I think it is too late to make that kind of switch. You can't get poop back into a horse without making a big mess.
Why Backbone? Flexibility.
This stinks of cowardice.

If Google has reason to suspect that these interruptions are caused by active censorship by the Chinese government and are unwilling to do so out of fear of that censorship we are all in trouble.

It's not as if the population of China is unaware of censorship. Helpful reminders of what is socially acceptable and what are not have appeared in colorful cartoon form for years online.

It's not as if the Chinese government denies controlling access to information. They see it as a fundamental good to maintain the stability and health of society.

The only place and time where this matters is where the censorship is cast is a negative light. China doesn't want to be insulted on the international stage, and it doesn't want companies promoting unrest among its people. However that criticism is exactly what must happen.

Google could describe what's going on as relating to 'sensitive' terminology. They could describe the 'restrictions' as being imposed for the good of society and apologize that non-sensitive terms are being caught up in the fight for the greater good.

OR they could grow a pair.

Corporations in power have a responsibility to fight for the rights of those people without power. They have a responsibility to do so visibly to set a good example for others, and they have a responsibility to directly and honestly criticize people, companies, and governments they see as violating those rights.

This is an active debate with no guarantee of an outcome that favors American style freedom of information. If the players who can fight this fight won't, we're* fucked.

*We being those who want American style freedom's to exist globally.
Looks pretty good. I'm a big fan of http://newsyc.me/ and use it every day on my iPad and iPhone, I'll give yours a shot too.
Out of all these "real-time" JS frameworks, to me, Meteor seems the most promising. Looking forward to how it evolves. Congrats and good luck to the team.
Something you might not be aware of: browsing https://www.tokbox.com/blog/ yields a 404 whilst using plain http works fine.
I'm curious what you think the proposed value is and what exactly you want to avoid. (For serious, I'm curious, not saying you're wrong.)

Obviously, if you're not in the business of making money from software or websites, you're not the target audience, but at first glance, I kind of read your statement as "I want to avoid making money".
How important are all those ugly Tweet Buttons to news sites?
413 Celebrity investment funds you need to know about
The gaming industry is increasingly making games more social. People are now getting more and more used to playing with strangers online. The whole idea of achievements and badges definitely enable this. Yes it's great to beat a game, but now you can beat a game and then boast about it publicly - feeding his/her's ego and that is immensely addicting.

Diablo 3's DRM is practically invisible, because you need to be online anyways, how else would you boast to your friends about that new legendary item that you just got.
Scala Typeclassopedia with John Kodumal of Atlassian - Marakana
Somewhere between $8 and $12 if you're a value investor.
Neither here nor there, but FYI in English "software" is typically partitive and not denumerable, i.e. you should say "some cryptography software", or else something like "a cryptography program" or "a cryptography application."
Not to sound glib, but it sounds like you need to work on your business model. Soma has been 'in business' as a community supported operation for over 10 years now. They have the occasional shortfall, wherein they blast to the community and usually make it up.

It should probably be pointed out that they have more than one employee, and donations aren't their only source of revenue, and they're still able to operate their service without commercials, which would ordinarily be their entire source of funding. Simply put, they've found their business model in spades, and if they absolutely had to, I'm sure they could fall back to a commercial-supported endeavor, though I don't know if they would be willing to.

I'm sorry for you and your situation, but I don't see any reason that should begrudge you their continued success.
whats the monetization strategy?
Whilst I agree with much of this, there is an issue with the point about the 3 iPhones that Apple are selling currently: as a result of the 3GS running the same version of iOS as the iPhone 4, it performs sluggishly and is nowhere near as slick. However, the Android devices from the same year still run flawlessly because they haven't been upgraded. I'm not saying that you should never upgrade customer's phones after they've bought them but there is definitely two sides to the story.
I agree with your analysis of the competitive aspect of Google's decision.

But by un-censoring the results Google removed the information about what was actually being censored, which is actually more available than the censored content itself (which, if it has any value, is likely readily available if you know what you are looking for).
Either/Or Arguments and Social Media
All about Domain Names
We'd love to hear what you guys think. Everyone at the office spends all day on hacker news :)
Google Will Aim for a Merger of Android and Chrome OS
Dude, you created Vitamin Water? I'd PAY you to pick your brain over some food (I probably wouldn't eat).
Umm, at 6$ a share I would call it expense at 15P/E, but probably worth it. At 12$ and a 30P/E your expecting 4x+ earnings within 5 years and continuing growth after that or it's not worth it and IMO I just down't see FB getting there.

PS: It takes 32% annual growth for 5 years to be worth 4x in five years. FB is not expecting 32% growth next year and large companies rarely see sustained double digit growth let alone increasing sustained double digit growth. Now you can make the greater fool argument, but that's not value investing and FB has been on the market for a while even if it was not a 'publicly' traded company.
This Collapse In US Interest Rates Is History In The Making
This assumes that the Metacritic user score is a useful measure. For example, Diablo 3 has a user score of 4.1/10 while the critic score is 89/100.
If additional good domain names, even if it's few in number, become available at a lower cost, it will only help innovation, startups, and experimental projects.

Apart from aesthetics, what's your reason for feeling 'bleh'?
To be honest Italians prefer .it to .com, and I wouldn't be surprised if other countries did the same (It seems to be the case here in the UK, too).

Also hulu.com even before meaning something would have retailed for the sum that you mentioned.
Support and hosting?
I'm reading the transcript right now and it's already given me several ideas on how to improve my web application. Just because you're sarcastic doesn't mean the whole world is.
Grotesque sans were uncommon before the (say) 60s, and were very stylized for the time. You just don't notice that because we've been accustomed to them for so long, and because they are very effective for their purpose.

The parent comment is correct. Comic Sans isn't just stylized; it's a stylized face designed for a very particular purpose (as a stand-in for the hand lettering in comic books). And the problem with Comic Sans isn't that it's overused. It's that it's used in inappropriate places.

There is nothing wrong with making safe, popular choices in typefaces. Designers may gripe about how cliched Gotham is, but Gotham works. Comic Sans virtually never works. This post does not make a case that Lobster never works.
Fuuuu now I'm seeing it everywhere. Thanks...
You need a faster connection, it only ate 5 seconds of mine ;).
And effective, apparently. The average has been growing a penny at a time for the last half hour that I've been watching.
I don't send more email because I personally don't like to get that kind of mail. (not saying everyone needs to do this).

I just don't like getting the mail the article mentions. Quote from article: "[Give me your email address] (link) and I’ll send you things that you’ll enjoy. For example, immediately after you confirm your email address, I’ll send you a link to watch a free 45 minute training video on improving the first run experience of your software."

How many of you clicked and signed up?

edit: Several people downvoted me (fair enough) but did anyone sign up to the guy's link?

edit: elsewhere in thread there's a valid point about not everyone being like us. this is ok, though I don't know anyone who likes getting this type of mail. anyone?
Care to be a little less heartless? SOMA FM is great and helps many of us get through the day at our jobs.
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Professional designers can spot Gotham instantly, and will make fun of you for using it in a logotype. The relevance of that to a web app developer is zero.
I don't buy the article's claim that Facebook is a "natural monopoly". A natural monopoly would be something like an electric utility, which would be very hard to compete with since you'd have to build out a very expensive alternate network of power lines before you could even start selling.

So let's look at what business Facebook is in and whether they have a monopoly in that market. Facebook is not in the business of running a social network -- most of their revenue comes from selling ads. Their customers are advertisers, not their users. Their competitor is not really the puny Google Plus, it's the mighty Google AdWords. And Google is currently beating them in that market, so no monopoly there.

Number of minutes spent on the site per month is the wrong metric to measure Facebook's success by. What really matters in both Facebook's and Google's business models is ad revenue per dollar spent on operations.
I'd be interested to see a comparison, if you have time to write one
The first pic of Dragon touched down
Articles like this always bring out the part of HN that simply can not understand normal people.

It's kind of funny that as a community we make a bunch of web apps paid for by ads, yet all swear we don't click on ads. We all swear that we don't read spam, yet somehow half the businesses on HN heavily use email marketing.

There are people out there that click on ads. There are people out there that click through emails. If you don't understand that, and your competitors do, you will get crushed.
From underground metal bands to mainstream pop, it seems pretty accurate from the demographics and highlights sections. Some other interesting tidbits in there about device usage.
The crew capsule will probably never land in the ocean as they plan to land on a pad with thrusters.