skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do I get people to my blog?
I've just created a blog (thestartupslayer.com), and that's all cool, but then it comes time to network with people and try to see if people are interested in what I'm creating.

What I'm wanting to do is sort of an experiment. I don't want to start off from my existing connections. I want to see what you have to do as a brand new blogger to get your blog publicised.

I created a new twitter account today, a G+ account, facebook... I've got 5 followers so far on twitter, and haven't invested much time on G+.

How would you go about attracting attention and driving people to your blog / site?
From a bleeding heart who has spent many years trying to find a little more balance: Let's not.

Thanks.
Done and submitted to HN.
And I thought it was because they were given all the cushy management and executive jobs.
It's not just administrivia/HR work, but there's a not-small constant factor to coordinating the work of every individual on the project. 40 people, each working an hour doesn't get you the same output as 1 person working those 40 hours.

(There's also an unspoken understanding in a lot of places that if a given week or two gets intense, that full-timers will silently/for-free suck it up, whereas part-timers won't. In my experience [as employee and employer], that generally works and is often "paid back" on or off the books.)
There is a large gap between true statistical significance and a fair coin toss. Bad testing (of whatever flavor A/B, MAB, etc.) is likely to land somewhere in that gap. Most likely worse off than proper testing but also quite likely better than tossing the coin or throwing darts.
He apparently knows several languages (including Perl, I've heard), and he learned Java specifically to try this case.
It doesn't do anything on (ironically) my iPhone.
Paypal's two-factor authentication, a hardware token in my case, has a screen to enter the security code but a link that says 'i dont have my token with me'. Clicking on that link prompts for the answers to two 'security questions'. Answer them correctly and you're in!
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..and pedophiles
Auto transport and car shipping, Shipanycar
DeShawn Stevenson's ATM
Why is Qatar investing so much in education?
Charity gives Boston youth a sporting chance
Noun definition 2 here: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/shingle
Ask HN: How can I differentiate this product/get it created?
I realize ideas are worth nothing without execution so I'd like to share my thoughts with the HN community in hopes of learning some insight. I'm at college and work a minimum wage job and the small business owner I work for literally writes all of our hours in a small notepad. He often forgets to text us when we're working and when we want time off we have to leave post it notes on his desk which he inevitably loses. I'm guessing other small businesses might not be this bad but if they're using the same paper method they probably have some of the same problems.

My MVP idea is simple: build a web site that sells monthly subscriptions for employee scheduling software. The employer would have his own log in and would be able to input employees and when they're working on an online spread sheet. Employees could view this spread sheet online to see when they're working. They could also log in to trade shifts with someone or ask for time off in advance.

I have two problems. First, there are a decent amount of software companies doing this: http://employee-scheduling-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

What intrigues me however is that virtually none of the businesses I've worked for or the ones my friends work for use any of these software. Some of these companies offer extensive features which is intimidating to me. But I feel like there is hope because a) this market is far from mature (not many small businesses have embraced this technology yet from my experience and b) I could offer less features initially and also charge a smaller fee than the competition.

My second issue is I'm not technical. If my customer dev interviews go well, I'm going to pay out of pocket to get this made. Is it realistic to think I could pay the same developer to do front end/back end development? Would this be an expensive project?

Thank you for your input
Does the LFS admin pick up other Django apps the same way Django admin does? Last time I checked that was the biggest problem with it. All of a sudden you need to give your client two different backend system for managing their site.

Mezzanine (and Cartridge) really go a long way in providing an enhanced version of Django's admin that's suited to handing over to clients, so your third-party apps plug straight in.
HootSuite Discontinuing Ping.fm Integration
link:
Hootsuite sidesteps the real reason why they decided to discontinue Ping.fm.

Is it because ping.fm is a major competitor? Or that if you schedule for ping.fm that message can be broadcasted even further with accounts connected to ping.fm that Hootsuite doesn't connect to?
i would like to know what is a healthy grieving process.

Any correlation made by glieck with his way of living is purely his own interpretation of things, and not feynman's. So, you idea that the idea of grief not being repressed doesn't stand up doesn't stand up (yes, read that sentence carefully).

You are not his mind, nor a psychic (no, not psychotherapist) to tell why he did what he did.

If you ever read his "autobiographies" you'll see he's been very well received by women around him (since his princeton years), not after arlene's death.
link: http://help.hootsuite.com/entries/21472723-hootsuite-discont...
Your background is primarily in Chrome and Android - are you sure your reply to my post isn't biased?

I use that term to include anyone who develops for the iOS platform and wants to develop an App for AppleTV. Feel free to take yourself out of that.

How do you know that Apple hasn't created new parterships for their upcoming efforts? Do you have AppleTV? Have you noticed a slow growth in subscribing to new content? You can even purchase it In-App if you'd like.

There's many different potential ways to challenge the incumbent Cable TV business model. Don't assume that top-tier content producers are not interested. By the looks of what I'm seeing on AppleTV today, they are slowly coming on board.
it's the code word for "any interaction with women i do not approve of"
So far the time I have spent working with Mezzanine has been great. The code is very well written and understandable making it easy to dive in and make fixes and/or changes to suit your needs. Using Mezzanine's page_processors it is also very easy to add custom logic to any page you have created without having to modify the core codebase. The community around it is also great and very responsive, helpful and open to make changes to suit the needs of users.

Mezzanine provides all the basic features you would need in a CMS and then makes it very easy to add anything custom or unusual you might want. In this way you don't get overwhelmed by stuff you don't need.
It's a good point towards passphrases instead.

1Password gladly generates "pronounceable" passwords (e.g. "thax-lers-ponc-werv"). I usually think a bit about whether digits or symbols are required (some services and websites - Skype notably) don't like them.

A 20-char passphrase with spaces, dashes, or character-based (e.g. "S") word-boundary delimiter is often good enough to provide excellent (80+ bits) entropy.
I'd be quite interested in meeting up once a week with people at the beginning stages of creating a startup. It could be a good way to say what you did this week, where you're aiming to be next week, problems etc that have happened along the way.

Could be a good way to motivate people to do what they say, and get help from others. It'd be good to note down what people want to achieve each week, submit it all somewhere centrally, and then go around each person who gets 2 minutes to say what they did, problems they had, where they will be next week...

Lou
http://TheStartupSlayer.com
Indus Valley Civilization’s Collapse Explained
Warning: sweeping generalizations to follow.

Most people who end up being programmers are nerds. Nerds who, in their teens, spent time playing with computers instead of partying with friends and crowning the high school social pyramid.

There are many more outright nerdy high school guys than there are girls, and the nerd boys are more likely to turn to computers.

What makes someone become a nerd? Probably a combination of social aptitude and physical attractiveness in the early teens. It doesn't help that girls reach puberty much earlier than boys do. Combined with the fact that girls are easier on the eyes than boys, and that they tend to be a little more socially adept, probably leads to there being more boys than girls who have difficulties in middle and high school, and end up falling back on computers.

Lastly, the nerd guys tend to occupy themselves with things more technical than girls, for the same reason boys play with transformers action figures, while girls play with barbie dolls.

--

PS: I'm no PhD in social studies, this is all conjecture and probably wrong.
It allows loading pages without refreshing browser window. User will not notice any loading indicator/progress, pages will instantly "replace" each other.
I was the one who posted this. It's the same login used to report new hires to the attorney general... Luckily no child support issues here.
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I assume the support person is asking the security question, but the user entered his mother's maiden name as -K$%3{Tm,fsj$k8L or something similar.
Now you only have to a put a fake sign to prank your friends.
Computers for Cynics by Ted Nelson
Strong passwords. Password manager. Separate Accounts. Keypass or 1Password (which I prefer on OSX) are quite good.

I use gmail + 2-step auth. You can configure it to be quite paranoid.
Balloons.io: an awesome looking realtime chat on node.js
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=tekemea
AVRs have 8 bit words.
I use it as password hint if I can (e.g. make it show the first character of my password, I'll remember it then). As answer I enter like 50 random characters which I don't write down or remember or anything, since I should simply know the password or use my recovery e-mail.

The problem is that most sites won't let you set your own question. More about my idea on security questions: http://lucb1e.com/!65
Loads pages via AJAX and updates the browser history using `pushState`. This is an alternative to the PJAX library: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

Use either if you have an irrational aversion to page reloads.

Snark aside - jQuery Mobile uses a similar technique to cache entire pages in the DOM and for page transitions.
Vippit
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Bing gets everyone's search terms merged together, with no way to distinguish individual users. To Bing, it looks like one user doing a bajillion searches on all manner of topics.

In the AOL case, while IP addresses were stripped, users were identified with unique keys so you could see individual users' search sequences. That is not the case here.
As a teenage "nerd"... you're pretty much right. sigh

Being a nerd is largely involuntary. Sure, I'd love to climb the social pyramid, but the reality is I can't. Being at the bottom has its advantages though. People don't expect me to be "normal", I can be who I am.

And because of that I've invested much of my time in, for instance, learning JavaScript, C, Python, BASIC, HTML, CSS, etc.
have watched it, really movies like Donie Darko and Memento can't be grasped in a go.
Simply brilliant. You should submit this together with a security issue report to Facebook and Hotmail and whoever else uses security questions.

Do you mind if I quote you (with link) on my blog?
Rethinking "Out of Africa" (Origins of humanity)
Bingo. It was people without Internet access who built it from scratch.

As I add to abuckaplate.blogspot.com, I'm struck by the incongruous fact that our poor's greatest malady is obesity. Uncomfortable to say: the problem the poor face isn't, on the whole, access to XYZ (food, data, etc.) - it's doing something sensible with it.
Ask HN:  First Day of Software Development Internship
Tomorrow is the first day of my first software development internship ever, and to be honest, I'm pretty nervous and not sure what to expect. What advice/things to expect/things you wish you'd known when you started your first job does HN have to share? It is at IBM.
I think Tavis put it best: C is easier to audit because it's transparent. With C++ you can have innocuous-looking source code and have the compiler doing all sorts of crazy things behind your back.
I like the metaphors in your comment but cannot imagine anything specific. What do you mean with the layers that support each other?
Or the digital (secure) equivalent: a password manager.

Seriously, any decently sized organization should strongly recommend or mandate usage of such - they are also great when a transition needs to be made - known external credentials can be exported or passed during knowledge transfer and passwords reset.
On the plus side, the model on the home page is smokin'.
> User will not notice any loading indicator/progress, pages will instantly "replace" each other

Um, no. The pages won't "instantly" load - the browser still has to make a round trip to load the page content.

A loading or progress indicator should still be shown letting the user know that this round trip is taking place - especially important if you're on a slow US cell network. If a user is on a slow connection and no visual feedback is given they may end up mashing a link, making the load time worse - or, worse yet, assume the site is broken.
I don't know whether this is cool or sad. Fallout 3 passwords were trivially easy to infer from a single guess. They took extra time to reduce the ambiguity and make it easy once you understood the principle.

Were you running a mod?
Go ahead... hotmail by the way still let's you take over someones account by only knowing email address and answer to security question which is often maiden middle name, name of first pet, best childhood friend etc... you can find that information freely from facebook for an example. Or just ask :)
Did you read the article? The journalist is in fact saying that the "digital divide" doesn't exist because that conceptualization of the issue is too simple and doesn't leave room for the nuances of how people who aren't seen by the dominant cultural narrative as being technologically sophisticated are, sometimes, very wired in their own ways.

The critique is trying to draw attention to the ways we provide enormous amounts of money for programs that try to get people to use technology in the "right" way, which is, as the interviewee states, basically measuring everyone by how much they use technology the way affluent white men do. Other people are finding ways to appropriate technology for their own needs and uses that are just as valid and valuable for their own situations but these aren't recognized in the way this money is meted out and the ways the success of these programs are measured. For instance, you could argue that teen engagement with online social networks now serves a crucial function in identity formation, which is valuable and possibly, more useful to some of the kids than some of the things you learn in class. If, for instance, you're a 16 year old kid coming out, I'd venture that having social support in that process will probably be more valuable 20 years down the line than memorizing the difference between sine, cosine and tangent.. but when it comes to what NTIA will use as a measure of success for their programs, it'll be the trig scores.

Edit: a good starting point for research into the (imo, really important) functions online social networks serve for teens is danah boyd's dissertation (as well as some of her other work). She's not my favorite but her stuff is probably the best known. http://www.danah.org/papers/
It sounds like Judge Alsup handled the case well, but is 'very strong case management' scalable to the the a large number of judges across the entire country?

If our system was designed for minimalist handling of civil disputes, can it adequately handle the complexities of modern copyright law given the resources (human and otherwise) it has available?
Yes, towards the end of the generation each number is tested for uniqueness within its horizontal and vertical lines as well as its sector.

What makes a board a "good" one is of course the quantity and placement of the initially displayed numbers. My code does not address that aspect. It only dabbles in randomly generating the full board so that players aren't subjected to the same pre-generated ones over and over.
My Diablo 3 account was hacked because my password was 'abcd1234'. This is no longer the case.

So yes, sometimes. And no, I'm not certain why on earth I set that as my password...
It truly depends on what you are looking to do. If you are tired of PHP and want to learn a new language, build it in RoR. If you are tired of CRUD apps and want to build something more complex, build it in PHP. If you just want to mentally stimulate yourself and learn new things, do both.

Figure out where you are and where you want to go. Then, take the shortest path between the two. Note: it might just be that you need to get lost, wandering through the woods for a while. If that's the case, go nutz and build something crazy in a language you've only heard of in passing in an HN thread.
Howdy!

Well to answer the last question - yes a decent dev will be able to MAKE the frontend and backend. Designing the front end is a different story...

The advice I give in these situations is to sell the product before you have anything. See if your boss would buy it - tell him you've found a great solution which does x, and y, and costs $Z per month. Don't underprice your offering - if it's good, and it solves a real problem, then people will be willing to pay a decent amount for it. I don't know what prices you were thinking of, but you could tell him it costs $50 a month.

If that's too high for him, ask if you could get it down to $30 if he'd be willing to pay for it.

Before you pay a developer, do a front end design - make it look nice (I'd steal someone elses design), and have it explain what your service does. Then set up adwords or advertise your site, and see if anyone clicks to buy the thing.

If people are clicking to try what you've got then you might have a product -otherwise you've just saved yourself a shit load of money by not building the whole friggin thing.

Lou

http://TheStartupSlayer.com
The interesting submitted article refers to "and as-yet undeciphered writing," but there is considerable controversy about whether or not the Indus Valley script

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script

is a writing system at all, rather than the kind of ornamentation from a pre-proto-writing stage known in several other sites of ancient civilizations. (As a reality check, we can remember that several regions of the world had elaborate empires and cities with extensive trade routes but without writing.)

Some of the controversy about this issue arises because of the extreme sensitivity of cultural heritage claims in south Asia in a region that spans a heavily militarized border. A good popular book about the nature and origin of writing systems in general, worldwide, is Visible Speech by John DeFrancis,

http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Diverse-Interactions-Co...

and the definitive compilation of international research on writing systems to the date of publication is The World's Writing Systems

http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Writing-Systems-Peter-Daniels/d...

edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright and published in 1996. I haven't concluded absolutely that the Indus Valley Script could not be a writing system, but there is no sure evidence that it is, and the earliest attested writing system in a nearby region is the Brahmi script

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%81hm%C4%AB_script

that is much more recent in time (a few centuries older than the common era, that is approximately 2,300 years old) and unquestionably based on the scripts of the ancient Near East.
Show HN: Stroll.io - social pictures filtered by geolocation
Whole-Brain Circuit Mapping Project Reaches Major Milestone
I can't remember who said it but there's a saying "There are no great things to be done, just small things with great love." It seems that nothing great can emerge unless you do what you love to do. And when you do what you love to do, nothing is great: you just do what you love and keep wondering why all these people think it's great and think you're successful.

What's success anyway? It's not money; probably all successful people didn't do it for the money and consequently they also kept doing it after they got money. Is success about not having to worry about mundane things? In that case anyone can be successful, just stop worrying. Is success about doing what you love? In many cases doing what you love invites success but that alone doesn't necessarily equal success.

I think success is close to arriving at a point in life where you stop "needing" things merely to complement who you are.

By this rule when you become the advertisers' nightmare you've succeeded because you don't "need" anything you don't need. Anything you think you "need" will give a warm feeling of security that always vanishes too soon, and there's always more. Success is not having to chase shadows to always get something better: success is to accept yourself as who you are so that you can be in silence from all the worlds noises and listen to yourself on how to play your life and out into the world.

If you agree with that then mastery is a device to reach success.
Ann Coulter is famous for saying that fascism is optimal locally. Something tells me you aren't happy you agree with Ann Coulter about the benefits of fascism.
SSH is the transport you're using when you use github.

git@github.com:git/repo.git tells git to SSH using the 'git' user.
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Or use if your site plays music :).
I wish he had started with "Rather, creating and shipping products needs to be muscle memory" because that's the true gem of the article.

Oh yes, and I added the Doctor Suess book to my Amazon wish list.