skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great way to ask for tips.
Tip #1: Use market friend language and tone
I don't think jwz (who is much smarter than me) has many good things to say about OpenGL ES

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-t...
If it's only going to affect people selling free stuff to ignorant people, why complain about the restriction? Wouldn't reducing people essentially scamming be a worthy reason for having that clause?
Don't spend too much (like 50-70%) of you time in coffee meeting though :)
Two discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639647

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1030560

The original post:

http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/7/22/if-youre-typin...
Scientists find secret of why women live longer
I had no idea what it was. When I clicked, all I knew was that I had heard of Donald Knuth before.
I would encourage the author to read patio11's blog (http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/). You could be aiming higher, and I think you'd do well to switch your focus away from penny-producing efforts like Flattr and toward more scaleable things.
Last time I checked, Windows OpenGL support was half-hearted since the Vista days. From Microsoft's PoV, making OpenGL a viable target on Windows would make porting games to other platforms easier. My bet is that they'll try to avoid it if they can.
Have you ever checked into a business because you were there even if you did not buy anything? Have you ever gone to a business and not checked in even though you were buying something? I have done both. The number of people that check-in at a business has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of sales that business is on the hook to pay taxes for. One person might check in to Starbucks every morning as they purchase $50 worth of coffee and pasteries for their office. Another person might check in every morning when they buy their $2 double shot. Another person may go every morning yet check in only from time to time. There is no way this could be calculated to the accuracy that (dear god I hope) the IRS is held to.
Surprisingly it does! Being able to talk to cryptographic end users in a "relaxed" setting (1-2 beers) seems to increase the rate of information exchange.

The 10-12 drink stage later in the night is far less productive than baseline, and probably of negative productivity (I listened to people debating the origins of the terms cryptography and steganography, circularly, for a while...went to another room, and they were still at it 2h later). But light drinking seems to be useful in social settings with many people.
Can you help us improve the clarity of this part of our promises? Obviously, we don't want our service to be used to present hateful, threatening or abusive messages and providing a user doesn't do any of those things, we will do everything in our power to prevent their identify from being revealed.

We welcome your feedback.
I don't think email is broken. Personally a tool I really believe could somewhat replace email was Google Wave. It was a fantastic tool...just Google has not been able to market it. What I believe instead is that e-mail could be used as a transport for additional structured information. Today it happens with vCard, or ics but it could be much more I believe.
Maybe stick to a text-only format. Very little illegal text which isn't otherwise beneficial.
I hate to go back and forth, but I spent 6 years doing freelance work, and I hate to see people repeating my mistakes. They can be costly. I would "probably" be able to answer accurately, but we're definitely talking probabilities here.

I learned that estimating was really a negotiation of risk. When I put an estimate down on paper, I'm saying to a customer, "I accept responsibility to deliver the product for this price." I'm taking on the risk if I don't, so I pumped the prices up. Also keep in mind that "the product" is what's in the customer's mind, not yours.

At some point I decided that I needed to have the "risk negotiation" conversation with all new clients in very candid language. Once a client is aware that they're paying for you to take the risk, they're usually willing to buy some of it back. Customers who were willing to buy back some risk always turned out to be better to work with than customers who wanted to offload all the risk to us. It turned out to be a marker by which I would steer the course of client development.
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* You are a quick starter - and by that we mean hours, not days.

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What kind of answer do you expect to this question? Honestly, I'm curious.
Unless this becomes viral and ubiquitously popular, I imagine the average boss will perceive this bizarre mode of communication as being passive-aggressive/somewhat-creepy, and thus will instinctively have a dismissive attitude towards whatever feedback is sent through it. At the very least, he/she will spend a significant amount of time mentally sussing out clues to, "Who the hell sent this?"
Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Streaming" numbers
The solution to that is not to add two-factor auth to the forum but to fix the problem at its source, with a password manager or something like that.
On a related note, Fumiko Hayashi [1] has done a lot of research on the fee structures (much under the question of how one would regulate them and what constitutes an out of balance fee structure) but her papers are pretty accessible.

[1] http://www.kansascityfed.org/speechbio/hayashi.cfm
The point you raise is a good one and it's also what wizawuza mentions. Anonymity is increased the larger the crowd size. One way we're seeing Tell Your Boss Anything used is for all feedback to be directed to the CEO instead of to an individual manager.
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I guess there's a couple of reasons why I haven't gone that route:
1) I'm not technically skilled. I work as a banker, so in order to make some of these changes, I'd have to find someone who can do it who I trust. I'll most likely start searching some freelance boards to implement some of the ideas I got today from HN users.

2) I don't want the 'social' aspect to seem forced. Giving people the ability to create accounts to track their favorites or to track how many hours they've studied is an interesting idea, but I'm thinking about how many people would actually use it. I think I will try to go to route of providing a better interface / search system to give users a better experience, then go into the social aspect as the site gains popularity.

Thanks a lot of the comment though. Gave me something to think about. Why would people trust what I recommend? Great question.
Beatings are not a good way to raise a child. However, it's not really abuse -- or it might not have been by the standards of U.S. law and I can almost guarantee it wasn't by the standards of local culture.

Also, he did steal an appliance. It's not like his father was just beating on him.
As I was ranting a bit about Fog Creek's choice of label colors in Trello (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4330851), I started to wonder: do development shops of 30+ people typically not include anyone who is red-green colorblind? Typically all that's required is to show someone a screenshot and say "does this work?". In the case of Trello labels, I have to assume that no one on the team at Fog Creek was colorblind, and that (i) the palette choice was done lazily, (ii) there was no one with red-green colorblindness at Fog Creek to do a quick "do these work?" check, or (iii) there were very strict design restrictions on what colors could be chosen to fit in with the rest of the site's aesthetic (personally, I think this is a bit silly, because the wacky patterns of colorblind-friendly mode clash a lot with the rest of the site's design, but 92% of users seeing a non-clashing experience may have taken priority). (ii) seems the most likely option. As a left-handed colorblind redhead, sometimes I take my 'deficiencies' for granted, but that just seems odd.

The biggest irony? Assuming statistical independence and that 8% of the population is colorblind, there's an 8% chance that a group of 30 people would not include anyone with colorblindness.
I once posited the question to a group of friends, would you rather drive a car with a 60% chance of crashing fatally in your lifetime, or use a robotic car that as a 2% failure rate. Everyone chose the 60%, even though statistically it makes absolutely no sense.
What the Next Rails Will Look Like
1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD
This website was confusing to look at. Thought process:

1. This is a new Microsoft website

2. Wait, no, it's just a website that copied MS's new style

3. Wait, it is a Microsoft website, it just looks like an independent website that copied Microsoft ("Who We Are", "How We Save IT Pros' Time" don't seem MS official)
The background music is a little distracting. It would be nice if it were at the same volume the whole time.

Other than that, I wouldn't have minded if you talked faster, but I have an attention deficit. :)
This was linked from some Twitter posts from cellist Zoe Keating, who makes some interesting modern music. I'm impressed that she's making here numbers public.

She gets more from Pandora than Spotify. https://twitter.com/zoecello/status/231126328924061696
Assuming this feed back is about giving the boss bad news about him or the company, and not about fessing to to a personal error:

You missed one very crucial bit of advice: Don't do in public. The split second your boss feels humiliated or under threat it is only a matter time. This also gives you an added bonus, your boss will trust you and believe you have his/her back. You have "confided" rather than exposed. Their egos love that BS. In many or even most cases, they will owe you one.
Entirely possible. for a long time in California it was illegal (state law) to require a minimum purchase amount in order to use credit cards I believe (but can certainly be mis-remembering) that this was only recently changed. And yes, his business does include a lot of 'small' transactions like someone coming in to get a key made etc.
What we're seeing (and what we hope continues) is managers proactively using the service as a place where employees can turn to provide feedback that they're not yet comfortable discussing in person.
I buy that in principle, though it'd work better if Senators represented a larger spectrum of opinions, rather than two fairly partisan camps. There's something like 5 Senators who regularly vote with the "other" side (e.g. Susan Collins from Maine), which means that you have a pretty bad situation whether either the chamber is 55-45 and nothing can pass, or it's 60-40 and everything the leading party wants can pass. If there were more of a gradation of politics, 60-40 would maybe lead to only the better ideas passing.

A related problem is that some things really should get done, such as replacing retired/deceased judges, which the Senate is way behind on due to the practice of the past few terms where basically all nominees get filibustered.
I think you are purposefully missing the point. He means they might as well give away every hamburger they make for free.
What's the catch or is there anything that is obviously not possible to do in rubymotion ?
Interesting, but the cost would be insane.

I live about 8 miles or so outside the closest incorporated town. I have 1Mbps DSL that costs me, along with basic landline phone, about $90/month. I think the fastest connection I can get is about 7Mbps. 2015 is only 3 years away, I very much doubt that I will have 100Mbps available by that time.

Now consider the very large number of Americans who live much farther from a town or city than I do: the people who do monthly grocery shopping trips rather than drive 80 miles round trip to the store every week. The costs associated with providing them with high speed internet are going to be even higher.
If you have an expectation that there will be little or no variance in a population of 1,000,000 people your expectations are not realistic. If you bought a billboard, would you get angry if a car drove past with a sleeping passenger?

Ambiguity is a given -- is Facebook defrauding you if I say I live in Manhattan, but for 3 months I'm at my summer home in Lake George, NY, 200 miles away? You probably wouldn't be happy if you were a summer venue in Manhattan paying to reach people like me.

That isn't fraud. As an advertiser, you need to do your own homework and adjust the relative effectiveness of Facebook vs. other mediums.
2/3 of the way through 2012, and less than half of April's predicted 930,000 disconnections have occurred. Will more people disconnect during the fall and the holidays?

I got the impression from the article that these are numbers through Q2, so only half the year. If so, the pace would be about right.
> Is there a lack of fonts?

That really made me laugh. I love it! :)

Is there a lack of cookie recipes?
Ok, I have to agree on the front end, and I can enthusiastically endorse bootstrap as a great start. The UX is rough, and I would recommend a lot of 'mom testing'.

Explore visual representation of the inventory, lists can be overwhelming, and push a new user right back to their excel spreadsheet.

I find that I'm really wanting clearer, and more compelling calls to action.

I recognize it isn't your target market, but I would suggest going to a small business owner that does regular inventory like a restaurant and take a look at what they use, there might be some interesting learning there.

I did it for many years using excel, and the constant need to catalog and maintain inventories is a legitimate pain that needs solving.

Good luck!
I think that one of the classic problems with the notion of passive income is the belief that it cannot have any ambition.

A case in point is that my wife and I created a web site 3 years ago. This site has not been touched in over a year, and that was the first and only update to the site in over 2 years.

It has been consistently banking $2,500-$4,500 per month for the entire time it has been online. I put in maybe a few hours of time each quarter just to check in on it.

Now, there is a catch - you can't just make a site and call it a day. You first have to do market research, come up with an angle, partner with a merchant or five, write a content plan, build it, market it, etc.

Now, assume that your time is worth $100/hour. If you spend a full 2 weeks on it at 40 hours/week, you'll rack up $8,000 in overall opportunity cost. At first glance, that is a steep price.

However, if you've picked right, you'll make that money back within a few months, probably less. This does mean there is going to be an upfront cost to you in order to get it out the door, but you will also have a better long-run profitability.
In my opinion the number of cores is kind of a red hering. The actually hard problem is about memory access. A 1000 core system is either NUMA with potentially very big latencies or cache-incoherent. The NUMA approach offers backwards compatibility, but dropping cache-coherence provides more flexibility since the memory partitioning can be changed dynamically.
Agree, i'm dying to have a play with this but I begrudge paying 200 bucks before I even know if I like it! Maybe they should allow you to develop your entire app for free but put some sort of kill switch inside which makes it fail to pass app store validation or w/e.
I'm reminding of a picture of a board meeting at NeXT, and I vaguely recall Warren Buffet being mentioned, as either on the board, or giving Jobs advise. And one of Buffet's stories about getting turned onto stock trading by a guy at another firm telling him that the market in the short term is a voting machine, but in the long term, it's a weighing machine. You want to guess the right weight.

Here's the picture

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/305285_1015047964...
As Dad helps control Curiosity, whole family will live on Mars time
If his employer decided they weren't okay with this, then yes, he might try to argue that it's discrimination. However, this argument would almost certainly fail, because he stated, in writing, that fasting severely impairs his job peformance.
I think it is easily sorted out without the lawyers...stop using CL data on Padmapper. Problem solved. :)
Full text search in Heroku's Postgres? This just made my day!
Looks like cable peaked in 2001, with increasing losses since then.

http://www.ncta.com/Stats/BasicCableSubscribers.aspx

It's also interesting to see that HSI over cable exploded around 2001.

http://www.ncta.com/Stats/High-Speed-Internet-Customers.aspx

EDIT: Posted a graph on my blog: http://www.bradlanders.com/2012/08/02/cable-television-subsc...
Which engines are those?
Why Spotify Doesn't Make Sense for Musicians
Milton Friedman used to point out that the only reason the government balanced the budget in the late 90's was not because Republicans controlled congress, but because gridlock.

He accurately predicted that if both Congress and the White House were controlled by the same party (whatever party) spending would get out of control.

As others have pointed out, gridlock is a feature of the US political system, not a bug.
Finally a new monospaced font!:)
I understand the problems, like any other business people are paid to solve hard problems.

Gehry doesn't get all those laboratory buildings and museums for the sake of style, he gets them because he can execute complex programs using forms requiring expert detailing within time and budget constraints.

If he didn't have that skill set, he wouldn't be hired by real-estate developers - unlike Venture Capitalists, real-estate developers expect to make money on every project. What's more, the reason he is able to bring projects in profitably or in line with institutional requirements is because he spent the "three lost decades" between undergraduate studies and the project which put him on the map (his Santa Monica home) working for the Army Corps of Engineers and the developer James Rouse. It's not the software, he started using Catia in 1992, and then only for a small project.

The difference between software and other endeavors is that Zuckerberg is the iconic practitioner not Spolsky and when someone runs their business like Gates or Ellison, they tend to be looked down upon.

Incidentally, no canvas is quite as one of a kind as real-property...except perhaps a block of marble.
Sean Parker's Airtime deflates
I moved house recently and decided to no longer pay for a TV subscription (which as I'm in the UK would be Sky). I don't watch much in the way of TV, my girlfriend watches a bit more so it was a tricky choice.

We've ended up with NetFlix through an Apple TV as our primary source of content, it's not perfect but there's enough stuff on their that we have an interest in to keep us entertained.

I'd be interested in seeing the stats for how many in the UK are going down this route, we've got slightly less services available, and as far as I can tell we have much less choice than over the pond.
I'm reading a 2300-year-old philosophical treatise on the Internet. I am seriously tickled by that.
"Seriously, I have no idea why we discuss some of this stuff."

There are times on HN when I laugh because people discuss things that could happen that in a practical sense stand little chance of happening. But they hang on the fact that it is possible the same way they might know someone who got ticketed for going 2 miles over the posted speed limit.

The IRS has (or had) a program called TCMP where they dissect everything on a tax return to see if it's kosher from many different angles. They will also see the "lifestyle" that you are leading and dig depending on that.

The IRS doesn't need foursquare to gather information to determine tax cheats they have other ways to do that if they wanted to. They could rely more on information on snitches or they could simply do a better job of correlating where someone lives with what they pay in taxes as a starting point (I believe they do some of this already but it's probably only at the zip code level). A good test for how they don't do this is to try and tip them off to someone who you think is cheating. Without hard evidence they won't do anything.

"check-in regularly at expensive restaurants and travel the globe"

You can buy some of this data in various forms the same way any marketer does. Or you can access property records. If someone has two houses and is reporting $20k in income that's a good place to start asking questions. You could then correlate it with what their reported income is as a starting point. From everything I've seen though the IRS doesn't operate that way.
Here's Valve's viewpoint on user configurations: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

To understand a somewhat more casual audience, it's interesting to contrast the users of Unity: http://unity3d.com/webplayer/hwstats/pages/web-2012Q1-gfxcar...
I want the second thing. Where do I get that?
The only thing I've ever seen work (and I've seen it work well) is to avoid estimating based on time. Instead, you estimate things relatively and then empirically measure how long things take (known as the "velocity" in agile parlance). So the programmer doesn't have to think about the 1001 things that they have to do in order to complete a task, or all the distractions or BS or overhead they'll have to deal with, they just need to think: is task A about as hard as task B, or is it twice as hard?

There are a key pieces to making that work. First of all, you give your estimates in terms of "points", not hours or days. Secondly, you estimate tasks relatively to one another, not absolutely: a 3-point task is about 3-times as much work as a 1-point task. Third, you have multiple people give the estimates, often using something like "planning poker" (where everyone on the team selects their estimate and reveals them simultaneously, then discusses if they're different), which ensures they're more reliable. Fourth, you measure the velocity of the team (not individuals, the team) over time. It often takes a while for it to get anywhere close to stable, as people get used to the project, the technology stack, each other, and so forth.

That's the only thing I've ever seen work, and it can actually work pretty well. It prevents the developers from having to account for all the non-coding things: you don't have to think "Well, this will take 2 hours of coding, 2 hours of test-writing, 1 hour of debugging, 1 hour of docs . . . but I also have 2 hours of meetings a day, and I get pulled off to firefight customer problems periodically, so really it'll take 4 calendar day." You just measure all that stuff empirically: if you have a bunch of meetings or firefighting, your velocity slows down, but your estimates don't have to change to account for it.

It also avoids wishful thinking, especially if you're rigorous about what counts as something being "done". It's harder to lie about whether or not you're going to hit your dates if your measurements say you're going too slowly; it's far easier to be in denial when all you have are time estimates, since those are easier to fudge than relative estimates of difficulty or empirical measurements of velocity.

(Of course, as with any measure of productivity, it's subject to abuse by idiots. But as a scheduling and measurement tool, it can be invaluable.)