skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
our streaming server went down an hour ago. We definitely need to test more.
I'll tell you what's distracting: the flashing ad banner on the left.
For prints, it would be especially nice if customers also got a frame. Without a frame wall art looks cheap. It's no fun buying a beautiful poster and not being able to display it. If someone knows how to economically ship a frame, selling it together with the customer's choice of flickr art would be interesting.
Great start!

I've got a few comments:

First, as someone pointed out, you should not switch your quiz interface between the first question and the latter questions. I don't see that you gain anything by switching and it is a little confusing. I would stick with the first question layout, because it is simple.

Second, I'm not sure that you need the "Most recent results" feature. The investment your seeking from potential users is so small, I don't think I that you need to prove that you have traffic, and I don't really see this as morphing into a social app (if it does, I think you are straying too far away from what will make you money). Further, I think it detracts from the point, which I assume is to get people to take the quiz and click through to buy products. Removing it will make the interface cleaner.

Third, as someone has stated, I would make it clear how many images have been rated and remain. A simple "1 of 10" would do the trick.

Fourth, if you go with the second layout for the quiz interface, I would do away with or hide the "How to take the style quiz" text, like you do the "like or hate something."

Fifth, after the quiz, I would take people right to the "room" of stuff that they can click and buy. As it is, you are going to have a lot of people navigate away at the end of the quiz and they will never even see your money page.

Lastly, I noticed that you are using some magazine images. Although you will likely fly under the radar, that is copyright infringement. I see that you source it at least, and that may be enough to get them off your back.

All in all, good start for sure.
have you read the General Theory of Employment Interest and Money?
directly from the book:
"THE outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment" -from the chapter: Concluding Notes on the Social Philosophy towards which the General Theory might Lead

Keynesian economics focuses on full employment and income distribution as the primary failings of classical economics. In attempting to address these two non-problems keynes introduced blatant scientism into economic discourse.
That is the idea. I dont't like signing up for accounts either. The only reason we have account signup right now is for the beta period. Essentially to understand how people are using the site and to make fixes accordingly. When we launch we want it to work perfectly, right now its far from that.
It sounds like the guy just redefines work as non-work. I guess that's what happens when you have to build a book around a title culled from AdSense responses. You have to do some semantics ninjitsu.
I'll look into those suggestions. I always thought for some reason that MATLAB was kind of a black box calculator, where you pump in some commands and magically numbers appear. It's a good computational resource, especially for engineers, but I never learned how to implement it for anything.
Porn bailout?
Could you go prepaid if you got an unlocked one? I have no idea how that works.

Unfortunately the only reason that device is $200 is that they upped the plan price to cover the hardware cost.
Possibly, but I'm not sure I've got the bandwidth. Drop me an email and let me know what you have in mind (dave@paperstack.com).
so thats what was wrong, i just reported it as a bug...
Bartering doesn't get you in trouble with the IRS, as long as any income you earn from it (be that a cow, an hour-long massage, or sixteen clay beads) gets declared on your tax return at "fair market value". And then, obviously, you pay income tax on it. The IRS will accept just about anything to satisfy your tax obligations, as long as "anything" is US dollars.

The Internet has provided a medium for new growth in the bartering exchange industry. This growth prompts the following reminder: Barter exchanges are required to file Form 1099-B for all transactions unless certain exceptions are met.

See: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html
It's like watching a trainwreck. I'd hate to have to add news.ycombinator.com to my hosts file.
Thank you. Excellent article. I had always suspected register VMs to be faster from my days as a compiler writer. All of this is straight forward code optimization and generation. If anyone out there is contemplating a new language, I suggest looking at this.
I want a play button on the home page. Doesn't really matter what, but I want to get something happening without figuring out navigation.
Great. Definitely bookmarked. Looks like Python would be a useful tool in the toolbox!
it's not zero, it's just below expenses, and waaay below accumulated debt.
Every one of these rooms is so much more expensive than my living room that I'm finding it hard to judge.
I have FF and 1 other browser installed on each of my computers, and use each browser for different activities. But I see no need to delete cookies (and lose potentially useful information), when I can just create another user and use fast-user switching to go to that account. And certainly if someone only has a single browser installed, then I think creating a new user is probably easier than locating a new browser & installing it :-)
Oh good. It's not finished yet. I was afraid that I was going to have to buy it again when I hadn't finished the first edition. Apparently they can write faster than I can read.
Three myths about scientific peer review
On reflection you're right, we can do better! I deleted the post, apologies if that is "bad-form", but in my opinion better to undo the mistake than let more cruft accrue!
Nobody, anywhere, under any circumstances, has ever chosen Rails for the speed. So this is interesting, but not particularly useful.
What's full service publishing?
There's an offshoot idea actually. Could you make a pill or food that turns you sweat and or skin oil into natural sunscreen?
"... told me to expect some alarms due to some software revisions they’re working on. This allowed me to see the warning icons, feel the mouthpiece vibration, and switch to open-circuit bailout. No issues here."

No issues? Your life support system failed. You had to abort. Somehow this is a good thing with no issues?

It sounded to me like the system didn't actually fail, just that the alarms were going off when they normally wouldn't have, due to issues with the software that are still being worked through.

That being said, this did read somewhat like a press release for vaporware. The author wasn't even able to test the system at depth and in a dynamic environment, which is the main selling point.
I don't know whether this is a usability issue or not. But, I really don't like the extra long input text area:

This issue is quite critical on acquiring new users. A good read on designing sign up form.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/04/web-form-design-p...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/08/web-form-design-p...
I upmodded you because I agree with your broader point.

With better anchor text I would've liked this more. Maybe it is a sign of the times, or maybe it's about whether or not you can really pay like crap and get autodidacts to take a 50-hour per week job.

Another thing that's interesting is that they're not interested in bids above a certain level. Even if you're not willing to pay, wouldn't you want to learn about the skill level of people charging more, in order to gauge your market?
Agreed. Specifically, moving the controls from the right hand side to the left hand side was jarring.
As four bars wrapped in a poster, with pins (or glue) to put it together, perhaps?
I totally agree -- epsilons and deltas were invented to deal with issues of rigor that were raised 100 years after Newton. In the meanwhile, he was getting stuff done with his "nonrigorous" Calculus.
the network effect means that the top layer of connections are actually more valuable. But for individuals, the last 10 connections are either strangers (useless) or people you just met that you want to know better ( very important ). So this linear analysis is pretty bad. A slightly different algorithm could yield $180M or $18B.
So does anyone of you iPhone developers actually market your apps at all or do you just leave it to chance?
Mashup of Google Maps and Prop8 Supporters
How did he arrive at the assumption that the connections are where Facebook derives the majority of its value? Doesn't most of its existing targeted advertising revolve around user-volunteered information, not information about users' connections?

Facebook is interesting in the event that any of its concepts around creating value really manage to take off. The concept of an open platform for app development could provide a model for next-gen end-user computing (barring net neutrality issues and the tubes getting clogged, etc.). Also, the virtual goods being exchanged on facebook and other online communities make up a billion dollar industry (http://www.marketingvox.com/virtual-goods-make-for-billion-d...).
I see this problem in every social news site, and also here: it seems that over a few days, 3 or 4 posts will eventually refer to exactly the same "news". But unless the duplicate submission has the same URL, the redundancy isn't detected.

Users should be able to flag new posts as duplicates, and identify the "older" headline to use instead.

If enough users agree that a post is redundant, then it would become "merged". The oldest submission on that topic is then rewarded all vote-up karma points from all duplicates, and displays all comment threads. In addition, the duplicates either go away or are displayed side-by-side with the original in all lists, avoiding the problem where the "same" story is front-page news under one title and page 5 under another name.
Paris Hilton makes more money acting than the vast majority of professional actors.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/19/imagekind-scores-partne...

Sold to Cafe Press recently ($20m I believe).
i tried signing up a few times but couldn't make it work. username too short, then the invite code disappeared on the retry page. i tried going back to step 1 and it still wouldn't let me sign up.
Good response to roger ebert and his ranting about the topic.
Rethinking CAPTCHAs
> Phillips doesn’t talk about prisoners, but we have greatly increased our prison population, most of those incarcerated are working-age men, and none are counted in the workforce.

Many prisons have inmates who work at various jobs. Should those jobs count? If not, why should we count folks in prisons?
We did this with Yaperture (http://yaperture.com), sort of. The costs associated with the buying and shipping of frames was way too high for the average consumer. So, we compromised and sold the photos with thick museum-quality matting.
I went to signup, but your application would not permit it. The '+' character is valid in an email address.
Buy track by track?? Why?

I listen to whole sets, not single tracks... why have a per-track buy button?
I think to myself in the first person sometimes, in the second person at others, and even as a group occasionally.

For example my thoughts look like, "I should work from home today", or "Bill, you're a genius", or sometimes like "Why don't we just go see if there's any ice cream left..."
Love it. I'm about to buy a fixer upper and this would be really valuable. Also, it's an excellent market for advertising (lucrative niche).

Seems also very valuable for remodeling-- not just furniture. The most commonly remodeled rooms are kitchens and bathrooms.

The site is agonizingly slow. You are serving up 200k+ images scaled down in HTML. Seriously? Make it as fast as hot or not and you have a winner.

I'd also break it down by room. Kitchen, Living Room, Bedroom, etc.

Of course, as with many sites-- there's no build in marketing. How are you going to get visitors?
As Alex_c said: log the user in when he registers. The extra step loses you a lot of potential customers.
form the specs I've seen of the Pre, it is about twice the thickness of the iPhone and the other dimensions are only slightly less. I guess you will find the Pre also large and clunky.
Github Commit Chart Hack
If ambition were all it took YourNight would be sitting on gold
I would happily trade everything in the app store for a faster UI and decent phone service (AT&T is unusable at my office and home).
I would like a shopping list on my mobile phone.

The main inconvenience I have with my shopping list on paper is that the things I forget to buy are not automatically on next week's shopping list. And I might forget less things if I could easily delete the items I buy while I'm in the supermarket. This sounds like a small easy-to-write application.

The application should also have the advantages of my paper shopping list. My wife should be able to add things to the list using her phone. Adding items to the list should be extremely easy. I hate writing text messages.
Actually, the subtitles tell you the content. The titles themselves are still more marketing labels that look good 6" wide in bold. They may relate metaphorically to the content, but they would be scrapped in a heartbeat if they didn't sound sellable. In fact, given that most non-fiction books are sold to the publisher before so much as a chapter is written, it's not unreasonable to say that many such books might not even exist without an edgy and sellable title.
Though I think it is ridiculous that prop 8 failed (or succeeded, I'm Canadian, so not sure exactly what the prop said), this video was great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HpTBF6EfxY

but isn't posting the address of supporters an infringement of privacy? Is one better than the other?
For both of the companies referenced, the founders have been reported to have "cashed-out." I don't think either 1 or 2 is part of their thinking. Just follow the standard VC Web 1.0 agenda - get big fast. Home run or complete failure.

People seem to have forgotten all the failures that produced. VCs are fine with 9/10 complete failures, as long as there's 1 home run.
On a related note:

Porn games for the Wii.
It is extremely unlikely they want to fund you. I'd ask at the outset what their motivation for the call is. Ask them to give you their own understanding of the market: how your product compares to others, what they think about the industry, etc..

What they tell you will make it clear if they have looked at your product in more than passing detail. It is more likely that someone has named your firm as a potential competitor in their business plan and they are just doing due diligence as parent-post suggests, in which case they may not even have visited your website.

If they cannot tell you anything interesting about your own product or market then what is the point in talking to them? Politely tell them you'd be pleased to talk when they have a better understanding of the industry and understand what sets you apart. Then get back to coding.
Sure. Who doesn't?

Isaac is always saying to himself, "You should really use the first person singular," but he knows how much we hate that.
While I agree with the author's main points about peer review, I think it's a bit of a stretch to conclude from those that peer review is useless.

As a peer reviewer, I've sent papers back with comments along the lines of "this work seems quite similar to the published work of X in the following papers (which the author doesn't cite): ... I wonder if he if the author is aware of this earlier work", and subsequently heard nothing more (presumably because, upon looking at said papers, the author came to the conclusion that he had not in fact discovered anything new). On the opposite side of the coin, one of my papers benefited from very similar comments, in that having related work brought to my attention allowed me to revise my paper to better describe how it fit with the rest of the field.

I think it's in cases like this -- where peer reviewers point out things (whether other research, or possible errors) of which the author(s) do not seem to be aware -- that peer review really shines. If reviewers respond merely with a 'yea' or 'nay' they're not doing their job properly; their job is to review, not to judge.
This is interesting. I wonder if they do a one-click conversion of Flickr account to online store. And do they sell stock photo rights?

Clearly, there is a lot of money to be made in the photo space. It's universal - everyone has a camera and a hankering to be an artist - me included.
Step one: Define art.

Step two: Define game.

Step three: Read off from your definition whether games are art.

It is only people's insistence on running this algorithm backwards, or that there are universal definitions for either term, that keep this pointless debate alive. The answer is yes and no and maybe, for some good definition of either. It can be worth thinking about, but don't think you can actually answer the question once and for all.

You'd think after the thirtieth or fortieth medium that we'd all understand this. "Well, I guess musique concrete is art and I guess interpretative dance is art and I guess these 'moving picture' things are art and I guess the crucifix in a jar of piss is art, but I DRAW THE LINE at video games! No!" Sheesh. What a crock.
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Spoiler: It's not solar powered, theres no carnot heat engine or solar cells involved. It's evaporative.
That sounds good expense-wise. Maybe also include a rectangular sheet of clear, flexible plastic to serve in place of the front glass. And one for the matting.
fun-employment

Please be a dear and forward that woman's contact information to the New York Republican Party. She has excellent career prospects as a talking point. (Hey, it worked for Joe the Plumber.)

I haven't been so disgusted since my $40,000 a year university had a newspaper publish instructions on how to apply for welfare benefits, "as most students are legally entitled to them and, hey, free beer money". (Some of us worked our way through college. Surveying the few I can remember, I think all moved rightward over their four years. Wonder why.)
thank you. my thoughts exactly.
This guys reasoning is faulty and he doesn't even know how facebook friendships work, so why would anyone take his funny valuation seriously? waste of time.
I recommend you use the Polyvore model. Let people pick items from different categories and create their own furnishing style. You are definitely in the right space.
How do you think desirable audience will likely search for your application?

(It's hard to get on that first page of result for some incidental bodytext that you may happen to have, particularly if it's loaded dynamically.)

A sitemap still seems good, because it lets you explicitly include those terms on which you think you can be competitive during a search.

But start with the user... what terms will they likely be using when they're seeking what you offer? and on which of those terms can you realistically compete?

jd/adobe
Same here. Perhaps there are no more invites?
Some tech at Microsoft chose the wrong server to host a download, therefore Microsoft's corporate strategy with respect to the Web is "clueless"?

Hard to argue with that kind of logic.
we can do everything from start to finish (design, develop, publish, promote)
I completely agree. The big G was awesome, visible, recognizable, everything a favicon should be.

I even went out of my way to put it back: http://foohack.com/2008/06/hacking-the-google-favicon/

This one is better than the previous iteration. Not as nice looking, but easier to pick up in your peripheral vision when scanning a list of tabs.

Favicons don't have to be pretty. But they do have to be recognizable and distinctive from the bluish gray of a web browser's chrome.
I actually carry sunscreen with me at all times. I use it maybe once a year, and I can't predict when.
Doesnt Flickr already have this?
http://www.flickr.com/do/more/
I really like it. But I have no interest in your topic of furniture.

I also got tired of looking at pictures.. perhaps a little more reward after going through 5 or 10 images?

Can you take your engine + make it work with different categories?
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I have this running on my blog as well, if you'd like to see it in action: http://trending.us
Step one: Cut a hole in the box.

Step two: Put your junk in that box.

Step three: Make her open the box.

And that's the way you do it!
I find that I have the exact opposite experience from Doctorow. The hardest thing for me is to get started. Once I'm going I can bang out a lot of text. I always get my best writing done after I'm warmed up and emotionally involved in the scene.
what it's gonna come down to is the price of the phone. if the Pre can not compete in terms of price, it will not fair well. this is the same thing that happened to the ipod. there were a lot of competitors, who essentially had a very similar product, but just could not compete in terms of price. also, the fact that iphone has a running start in the app development market, just makes it more unlikely for the pre to complete effectively. also, from what i hear inside palm, they are still trying to make webOS "smoother".

by the time Pre comes to the market in a few months, apple will have the iphone 2.0 to announce. i'm just really glad, we are finally seeing some competition in this market space. this will drive the service providers to compete for my data plan purchase.
If people like the new bartering system enough, trying to enforce such onerous reporting requirements will incite a tax revolt.
Dragon's Egg (Robert Forward) is an excellent hard science fiction novel, in which merely from knowledge of the fact that it could be done better figures prominently.
If you are looking for a quick hack, i.e. getting existing code to work on a free platform, then try Octave. Its source-level compatibility with Matlab is fairly good.
I don't get what it does after reading your front page and about page. Why should I sign up?
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Yes. Art is in the eye of the beholder. The end. Can we let this silly discussion die please? (I didn't read the article)
And for many of the same reasons, it gives a sense of surety in an uncertain world, it provides a sense of tribal belonging and ready-made membership in a like-minded community.

That said, I find it somewhat creepy to base one's life around a work of fiction.
I agree with your point (+1), but clear is a relative term.
That idea's been done, but if you could develop a packet of goo that could be used as both ketchup and sunscreen, then you'd have something. You could put half on your burger, and the other half on your face. Huge time saver.
How does that work? You're both rejecting a book for having a title which you feel is misleading and for the content which you assume the title would indicate if it were not misleading.

That is literally judging a book by it's cover.
Yes, this is my mode as well.
this is like comparing Apache vs Rails.

OCaml + Ocsigen is just a web server with handy features to generate clean modern html. Rails on the other hand has an ORM plus the other libraires to make it a real web framework.
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Just wanted to post a quick message - very cool! I don't have time to go into details, but the site is very slick, and strangely enough, something I would use.

Well done! I'll try to add some more details later.
Absolutism: Simple. Satisfying. Wrong.