skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the logic here at all. If I start an application and it's called "buffer" and I have no money and the domain buffer.com is being sold by some domain squatting pirate for $200,000 then obviously I can't buy it. The choice then is to find a name like squeebo.com or whatever that no-one has yet or go with a less popular TLD like .co (which seem to fill up just as fast as they're released).

However, if I go with bufferapp.com and get it for $8.95 or whatever the going rate for a domain is, then if/when my company blows up and becomes Buffer the unstoppable international juggernaut, how valuable is the domain buffer.com?

No-one's going to start a company called "buffer" any more. So the value is in direct type-in traffic and monetisation through AdSense revenue. No-one else is going to buy it - you've got a market of one buyer and one seller. If the buyer decides to take his ball and go home, you're shit out of luck and have to monetise the domain yourself.

What determines whether or not facebook.com will remain "intractibly expensive no matter how big you get" (ie. facebook.com now has more money than most countries) is whether or not the type-in traffic for the domain facebook.com can be monetised using ads for more than facebook.com is willing to pay for it.

I have no idea about the stats behind type-in traffic but a lot of stuff I've heard indicates that "mainstreamers" would tend to type "facebook" into Google more so than the address bar so I'd be very surprised if the value of the domain didn't peak pretty early versus what the owner could have done with the money had they sold for a million or so in the first few years that facebook started to blow up.

Overall, though, I'd say that the fact there is only one buyer for a domain once a company establishes itself, and the fact that the risk of choosing a shitty name to suit the shitty domains you can afford, or of spending a lot of money on an awesome domain before you've even been able to go to market (holler.com anyone?) are far greater than the risk of having to pay what is comparatively a pittance once your company is making money hand over fist and needs to "cross the chasm" in order to continue to grow.
I think the dragonbox app [1] is a pretty solid empirical test of that thesis.

[1] http://dragonboxapp.com/
The computer scientist CEO
Thank you. So different densities are sufficient, not liquidity? From the same article on Wikipedia: "Dissipation of heat from the mantle is acknowledged to be the original source of energy driving plate tectonics, through convection or large scale upwelling and doming.". Mars is thought not to have the dissipation of heat any more hence the lack of tectonic movement?
If there is anything I've learnt by releasing many "unsuccessful" apps is that "release and wait to get rich" strategy does NOT work. This time round we are spending A LOT of time networking/promoting/pestering reviews etc etc.
I was thinking this. That is, even if a lot of the advice is bunk, as long as it's not harmful, anything that gets people actually thinking "Yeah, I can do this!" and giving it a go has to be valuable.

For example, if my prime goal in life were to get as many people coding as possible, I'd rather have an eager but bad VBScript developer I could train up than someone who doesn't really care about programming either way. Ditto for fitness, perhaps.
Of course policy holders can dictate results.

They can choose to whom they send DMCA notices so all other ranking factors being equal they will have the ability to decide which results go higher than others.

And this IS a really bad thing as it the equivalent to online censorship.
Pretty simple to see why.

Google needs a cosy relationship with MPAA/RIAA so they can sell content through the YouTube and Play Stores.
This is my recommendation as well. From the basics of Objective-C (for people already familliar with object oriented programming) to best practices, design patterns and individual components. No other single resource has given me a stronger grasp of all the important concepts of the platform, and I'm still amazed that it's available for free.
Not surprising that this is an unscientific article.

What evidence is presented that "ignoring the fitness advice of doctors" achieves "better results"?

Anecdotal evidence, that's what. 1 dude. The author even cites a "completely unscientific, but accurate chart." That says it all.
Makes me wonder: could you change the way you think by changing the way you eat your corn?
I don't know about studies on cardio or what not, but I'll say that as a D1 runner, I have never seen an overweight person who runs more than 50 miles per week (and I have met thousands of runners in my life).
But the point is, there is no meaningful difference between the two.

Takedown notices sent to google.com about YouTube versus ones sent directly to YouTube using YouTube's existing mechanism are both takedown notices. If one demotes you, so should the other. But Google has a clear conflict of interest here.
Nope, this is all coming together in the next two weeks. Those Reallocators are madmen, and know how to get things done.
Because as we all know, there are no independent games on the apple app store.

Sheesh, all consumer software is hit based.
People still search for games based on keywords. Can't you focus on this? Title your games with high volume search terms, use good keywords etc.
All the things you said are true but remember, not all doctors are up to date with research and even if you can find a lot of false information on the internet, you're more likely to also find the truth than you are with an outdated physician.

The general practitioner that has followed me since I was born whenever I was ill or hurt is someone who has nearly stopped reading anything about medicine since he finished his study and got his job. On his own admission he doesn't even use computers much and doesn't read the research you can find on places like pubmed. He's nearing retirement and I'm going to change my physician (in France you have to declare one to prevent people from hopping to one place from the other whenever they're ill and "paranoid" and save costs to our health care) once I get done with the paperwork, since I am very lazy when it comes to anything that has to do with paperwork. Btw I know all this about him because he's rather talkative and love to waste time once he's done with the check up. One thing that enforced my laziness in looking for another one is the fact that it can be good to have a physician who knows all your health history from the start, even if he's somewhat incompetent.

When you end up with that kind of "doctor" the internet doesn't look so bad.
The minute or so starting at 5m40s in this video is apropos: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5935911405946587342

(You may be interested in the rest of the video as well. It's a fascinating show.)
The inverse power of praise
This isn't a pipe dream it's just dumb. Different languages are suitable for different tasks and communities grow up with different goals and acheivements to reflect that. Certain cultural movements are language agnostic (say, testing) but DSLs? HM type theory? Not so much.

We can just look at how hard it is to compare programming languages through common benchmarks is to do to realize what a bad idea this is.
Is there any way to forward the app's icon? Without that visual bit, it kinda ruins it for me.
The fact that the file list correlated to the contents of a directory was a huge deal. XCode and other editors require "projects" to be assembled. TextMate could also ignore certain paths if configured correctly, cleaning up projects considerably.

I used SubEthaEdit prior to TextMate and was quite happy, but it lacked multi-file editing and tabs.
Is the caveat in #1 actually required? As I understand it, there's nothing in the DMCA requiring that a copyright holder file a takedown notice with the site before they file one with Google, since those are independent. They could file one with Google for the search results first, or they could file the notices simultaneously. That would result in sites being demoted even if they do comply with takedown notices, because under Google's new policy they'd be demoted just by the fact of Google having received DMCA notices.
Interchange is a fixed non-negotiable set of rates, published by Visa & Mastercard. See http://usa.visa.com/merchants/operations/interchange_rates.h...
I'd love to give away free copies of my Android game but I don't think Google Play supports promo codes. You also can't start out with a free app and then convert to a paid app later. Of course, a common approach is to have a free version and a paid version (or make your game ad-supported, or add in-game purchases).

"Just In", if it worked, would be great.
No way. Try getting fat eating just protein. It is so incredibly hard. Just try it.

Now, try getting fat eating nothing but fat+protein. Hard, but much easier than just protein.

Now, try getting fat eating just carbs. Easy.

Now, try getting fat eating carbs+anything. Easy.

A "calorie is a calorie" isn't true now and never has been. It was a very simple model. Our understanding has changed and we now know much more.

For instance, there are hormonal changes that come from eating the above (re: hgh secretion, testosterone production (both up and down) and insulin (which we knew all along)).

Eating little does help you lose weight, but the key is the word 'weight'. If you are beyond trying to just be a certain number on a scale and care about things like muscle, performance, body fat percentage or how you look, there are other things to consider.

For instance, trying to build muscle? Eat protein+carbs post working out heavy with weights. Do not eat carbs before you workout. Which means, fat+protein only before a workout.

Trying to lose fat? Have a long way to go? (say upper teens+ in body fat). Do very low carb (protein+fat+veggies like broccoli) for 6.5 days a week. The evening of the 7th day, eat protein+carbs (the carb refeed). do this until you like what you see in the mirror. (this is a muscle sparring approach).

Just trying to live a normal life and don't care about the two above (and you don't exercise much)? Generally restrict carbs to around 100g a day MAX. You aren't using them, so your body doesn't need them. If you keep giving your body carbs it doesn't need, overtime you'll get fatter. Play with the number of carbs a day, but know this is the one dial you have.

You'll have much better results with this than lowering the total calories.
According to the article,

> sites that have a “high number of removal notices” of takedown notices that result in actual takedowns will show up lower in some search results,

That means that complying with the takedown notices is exactly what gets you demoted. Which means that this is directly relevant to YouTube, Vimeo, etc.

The logic seems to be, if you have a lot of valid takedown notices sent to you, you must have a lot of infringing content. Which is true. And YouTube does have tons of infringing content, people upload copyrighted music all the time.
"No, Tacocopter is nothing more than a product concept created by Star Simpson, an MIT grad who stumbled into the limelight in 2007 after being arrested for wearing a hoax explosive device comprised of a circuit board and green LEDs." - wired.com (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/03/qa-with-tacocopter/)
~>Amazon outshines competitors in e-commerce, even though Buy.com owns the perfect name for online shopping

I'm not sure i agree with this analysis.. amazon is a great name; i don't think sharing a name with something real is a disadvantage, there's pre-existing recognition (no need to spell it out, doesn't sound weird) but no real chance of confusion. By not being 100% generic (as buy.com is), it has a chance to build a brand. 'Generic'.com ironically makes it unprofessional, as they are handicapped in making a strong brand, imo. About.com is pretty much the only generic name that i could honestly attribute any benefit and success to- definitely not anything commerce related.

But i agree with the sentiment that if you get a name that is not awful, it will not hold you back.
I'm not a geologist much less an astro-geologist so I can only offer what I've picked up on this topic through curiosity along the way but here is my understanding:

Tectonic movements are caused by temperature, density and other material differences, upwelling as you've mentioned and I've also heard that gravitational influences are important, effects of the moon, sun and earth gravity vs the density layout causing strain.

My understanding of the Mars issue is that the planet cooled off much faster than the Earth did, as a result there isn't as much thermal induced stress and upwelling going on. As for why Mars cooled off faster, I don't think anyone knows definitively. Mars has very little atmosphere so it doesn't retain much heat. It is also much smaller than the Earth so it would be expected to cool off faster under equal conditions. On the other hand Venus is also smaller than the Earth but is one seriously hot place, and not completely due to its proximity to the Sun.

So why doesn't Mars have an atmosphere?

Well, it has little to no magnetic field so it is very poorly protected from solar winds, a massive solar ejection could have just ripped the atmosphere off. On the other hand maybe Mars used to have a magnetic field and it was only lost due to cooling effects that occur even with an atmosphere. Using Venus again as a counter point is also has nearly no magnetic field yet it maintains an extremely dense atmosphere so there is no 1:1 correlation with not having a magnetic field and not having an atmosphere.

I don't know of any consensus on what it takes during planet formation to end up with an atmosphere to retain heat and a magnetic field to protect that atmosphere, I've heard lots of theories but its still an open question to be answered.
I think that drug addiction could be partly the nocebo effect. After all, we are told repeatedly as children: beware drugs, because you might find that once you start taking them, you are unable to stop. Then all sorts of terrible things will happen. So for some kids, this may seem like the perfect opportunity! http://AddictionMyth.com
I think the search function is biased pretty heavily toward more popular titles. Even if you put an obscure word in your app's description, if it is not very popular it will be behind pages of approximate matches.
Sounds like you're a new developer. You need to be able to see the big picture and gain a sense of progress. Apple lays out a learning roadmap for you here:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#referencelibrary/Get...

After that, go with the tutorials that everyone else is recommending.
http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials
> It's hard to tell exactly how it will affect YouTube, especially since we don't know how it affects results at all. I suspect the deciding factor will be how google knows about the takedown requests, since it will almost certainly treat YouTube specially.

And that is what is wrong here. Google is treating websites it owns in a special way, promoting them in google.com results unfairly compared to the competition.
This seems almost identical to Sendoid which appears to have died completely. For asynch file sharing, we can use Dropbox, for synchronous file sharing, Skype. Is there a file size limit on Skype?

I must say that when I've seen a very very similar product completely die as recently as Sendoid did, I get pretty sceptical about the viability of the idea.
Ever see a local marathon? There are tons of people who are overweight that run them. I'm sure some of those overweight people are running high mile numbers.
Perhaps I'm niggling, but even adaptations which evolve by sexual selection have everything to do with survival.
You don't seem to have any idea about how complex medicine is. You wouldn't say the same thing about a specialist in IT ("This DBA doesn't know enough Java!").
How many of the business processes that software manages were better before the software took over? MOST companies I've seen inside were a hodge-podge of bad/missing/sloppy paperwork and poorly documented or even understood guidelines and policies. Software amplifies everything about a business, both the good and the bad. The downside is that because so much is networked today, something "going wrong" can have much larger consequences (and faster) than a wrong decision carried out on paper 30 years ago.
How Big Data Became So Big
An App.net / HN username list
Thought there might be some interest to create a thread to match up who you are here and on App.net. At least until Monday happens one way or the other.

It's a tight community of smart people chatting about things and the future.

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hxf148:hxf148
Explain Tiny Wings. One dev, no marketing, massive hit.
Would love paypic if still available - email in profile
All the restaurants currently on Caviar have really long lines. Which places are you thinking of in particular?
Since there's no fraud and no money, I hope so.
I'm actually thankful for the focus on near-term goals rather than living to 75 instead of 70.
Sadly, this is too filled with over the top platitudes to even be realistic.

Drones, IMAX domes, and 3D printers have nothing to do with building sustainable businesses or Burning Man.

If anything, this is funding an art project so that the artists can go to Burning Man for free. =/
"I swear this crazy weather has created new insects. Have you noticed that we have new insects this year?" - My brother, we live in Michigan, says this to me all the time.
As much as I can't stand 37Signals, Basecamp is a pretty good product that works very well with smaller projects. Also whilst I haven't tried it Trello looks like it would be perfect for most startups.
It does use X11, but ChromeOS uses its own WM (chromewm). If you check out the sources for ChromiumOS, you can see what all it uses, although there are parts that Google add on top.

There are ways to run native apps on it, but they are definitely tucked away for normal users/uses.
Well, damn, it looks just like some desert landscape on Earth - nothing surprising, but still really awesome!
Backbone.js Performance Tips - cincijs August
Save money: http://bootswatch.com/
Another option for SMS from your computer is to use Google Voice. If your with Sprint you can link your number and call and text from your browser.
What's your chin doing in all this? I would think you'd be bumping either your chin or your nose (or both) against the cob as you eat this way.

This whole discussion has made me hungry for some corn on the cob with nice butter and salt, damn.
Node.js Frameworks Comparison
Im not sure if you can find many places where they have both in great detal as most machine learning material assume some knowledge in the specific math but you could always write down the terms that you dont understand from any ML material and look it up on khan academy. For all the material you need for Andrew Ng's classes (on coursera) for example you can pretty much find all the required terms (matricies, probability etc) on khan academy
Ask HN: What can a CS undergrad from abroad do when visiting NYC for two days?
Hey friends!

I will be visiting NYC tomorrow through Tuesday. I am not from the United States, and I was wondering what cool things can a fellow hacker do around NYC. Any possible meetups that I could attend, or companies that offer visits will be really cool.
You would be surprised, but the overweight people doing marathons still do less than 50 mpw. I am meaning a consistent 50 throughout the year -- not "peaking" at it.

If you know some counterexamples personally, I'd be very interested in hearing about them -- it would be an unusual situation.
To an extent, winning the lottery.
For every big hit indy game on the app stores, there are probably lots of similar quality which don't see the top lists.
Nice job, seems to work well. I love airdroid but it annoys me that I am constantly having to reconnect after I walk out of wifi range. If this gets around that issue then I'd swap.

One comment I had is that if I was to download this app on my device, the initial experience could be improved somewhat. The first screen is a login one and it says to go to your website, sign up and come back to the app. I did this on my mobile browser (chrome) and it was a bit clunky to sign up (I had the feedback/need help button hover over the form a bit). Perhaps instead of that, you could have a registration function right in the app? even if it was just a web view with a mobile optimized signup web page loaded. That way I don't have to leave the app.

Not a major thing but thought I'd offer you some feedback.
Honestly exams are very weak once you really get the idea of what you are learning. I can absolutely know nothing about what I am learning and get a very high score in the exam. Richard Feynman also pointed this out during visiting years in Brazil. Students in China and Brazil suffer the same problem. There are first rate students, but without first rate guidance, most of them will be turned down to the levels of their teachers.
Holy crap, wish I would have seen that sooner. Thanks for the link!
not yet arbitrary data. The protocol is also really hairy, I recommend using https://github.com/webRTC/webRTC.io
EWG Joins California’s Fight To Label Genetically Engineered Food
It does seem to be a bad idea to me. If you had to implement it I would institute a very harsh signal for takedown requests that are proven false.

Get 3 false claims in YouTube's internal process (being unreliable I believe is most useful as a state of the systems used by a source, I would use the data I have on false claims from "rights holders" as a way to judge if they are reliable) in a quarter and no influence is given to your claims of knowing what is infringing and just being an abuser of the "rights" system. Most of the big media seem like they would get bounced by this as they seem to flag all sorts of stuff improperly.

Again, I would just not do this at all. But if I was told to do it, then I would want to have very strict measures to avoid using "advice" (claims by big content of infringement) from extremely unreliable sources.

A benefit of setting up a system that punished false claims is to make those currently spewing out false claims find ways to be accurate. Currently there seems to be no reason not to just claim tons of stuff that you have no right to claim (and it seems there are even incentives in the system to do so - YouTube starts sharing revenue with you on the video you claim). And if they didn't become more accurate then at least not mess up search results by treating the poor signals they provide as trustworthy.
The Tech Celebrity Effect
Ask HN: Weekend side projects?
What weekend side projects are you working on?

I'm working on a mobile HTML5 social game that backends into Parse.
The first part of your comment isn't exclusive to "a calorie is a calorie." Protein has been shown to be more satiating than either fat or carbs, and the low blood sugar following an insulin spike from a high glycemic, carb heavy meal will strongly promote hunger. If you can manage to eat a ton of carb and protein calories, you will probably lose some water weight initially, but overall stay the same relative to other macronutrient distributions.
No problem, I hope you find something you like.
Originals here, in some cases clearer than the corresponding spots on the mosaic. I suppose due to whatever method they use to project the images into a cohesive whole.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/
Agreed about using other channels. But I think his main point remains, finding something other than top 100 on Google play is near impossible. I mean, I've pretty much given up completely. Separating the wheat from the chaff is quite difficult.

I rely on places like /r/gamedev, and /r/android for finding new apps. If someone could aggregate all of that data into something that actually usually it be freaking awesome. As it stands now, the playstore is horrendous. Google is doing a pretty overwhelming job in my opinion.