skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You pay $50. Email them asking for alpha access. They give you the account.

$100+ accounts are for developers & access to APIs.
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Sounds like the feature on Quora that's just been discussed here: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4377181
You don't have to buy everything you see just like you don't have to hit on every pretty girl that you see. We still have the power to say no, regardless of the messages. We could say that pretty girls everywhere leads to impure thoughts right? Advertising is just like a pretty girl -- you are under no obligation to act on your 'unsophisticated psychology.' if you disagree with me, then the terrorists have won.
Is basic arithmetic important to succeed at university mathematics?
Chrome and Safari push these notifications through the native Mac OS X Notification Center. Chrome on Snow Leopard has its own (rather ugly, IMO) implementation.
I'm actually going to try Plivo really soon for my PlayBook/BB10 app. I was going to use Twilio, but I ran into issues with their voice client. It doesn't seem like they want to resolve it. A pity, because it's likely a small issue with their Flash implementation.

With Plivo, it seems that I can get all the benefits of Twilio, at a better price, and it seems to be more open. Moreover, I can connect to it via SIP. And there are OSS libraries available to help me with that part.
It's not an uncommon strategy for clinicians to use questions like that to get parents or patients, who are dealing with an inordinate amount of stress, to let down their defenses with the intention of directing them to self-assess their resolve. The author may be able to take care of her child now, but how about when he's 18 years old, when his outbursts may start to hurt others. There are some families who are capable of overcoming the challenges of raising a developmentally disabled child to adulthood (such as this family) and there are some who can't. I've had patients break down and cry when asked pointedly challenging questions like this, however ultimately, this can be a helpful process for the parties involved when applied correctly.

I suspect that the author and others here have missed the true, veiled purpose behind the question, however that does not detract from the overall aims of her article or the clinician. In the end, the clinician's prodding has led to a led to a deeper raison d'être for both the author and the reader.
This is one of my favorite books (review - http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/01/25/book-review-linkers-...). I must have read it more than 3 times by now, counting all the partial re-reads.
I just created a bookmarklet to kill the shitty login form of Quora and keep reading it without logging into it: http://jsfiddle.net/PUyAQ/6/embedded/result/
Groupon shares plunge after Q2 results
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It's going to be a self-fulfilling conspiracy. All this talk about how it's gonna succeed, and how noone understands it.. sooner or later, some misled company like FB or Google will just acqui-hire App.net for millions of dollars because everyone is talking about it.
No, this thing isn't a software platform. You cannot build any applications with this alone. This is a library. We have these precise terms. Don't abuse them.
Unfortunately we don't have our own mobile interface just yet (the site somewhat works with iPads). If you're on iPhone, there's an awesome app called Clippt, highly recommend downloading it.
I had to zoom in like 3 times on my phone to vote this up. I know it may be bad form and all to comment on such, but guhdamn if as newb this doesn't wrinkle my britches.
Ian Lance Taylor is definitely a person I admire. Researching into these topics invariably brings you to his posts on binutils which are very helpful.

Moreover, he's written "gold", which does what "ld" does but has an actually comprehensible source code :), and speed, or so I heard.
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So how do you find out about anything? Even in the Bike shop, they have product displays to show off products-- that is advertising. The funny thing is you are likely subconsciously exposed to products that you eventually buy all while thinking that you 'discovered' the product on some hipster blog while pretending that you're impervious. You wouldn't know about any new movie unless they were advertised. Unless you read reviews which, are seeded by the film's PR department which is, in effect advertising. Don't be so sanctimonious. You cannot honestly say you never tried a new restaurant unless expressly recommended by a friend. Those signs in front of restaurants.. You guessed it, advertising. You're a consumer whether you admit it or not.
Static linking has its problems, especially when shared data and multithreading are involved. Or memory management. Dynamic linking has its problems though (DLL/DSO hell is just one). It's a tradeoff. But yes, it is also my understanding that dynamic linking is preferred. It's also what I usually do unless I have a good reason not to.
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> Why does this article feel like a YC ad?

Because it'll be a lightly-edited version of a press release that was sent to VentureBeat by Plivo.
So the author of this post can't see the reason why anyone would want to pay for this, and yet backed the project himself anyway?

It reminds me of the people you see who write forums posts like 'I just got my first Mac, now what?' when the answer is always 'do whatever you wanted it for in the first place'
"By the way, I put my $50 in out of pure morbid curiosity of what’s under the hood. In retrospect, I should’ve donated to a charity."

That's a pretty callous way to end a post, Alex. It's not either-or. If you really feel that way, ask for a refund. Donate the money to charity whether you get the refund or not.
What an echo chamber.
If not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl
I completely agree with Alex. I read the "App.net is not vaporware" post by Dalton, but still when watching the video and reading about it all I see is a vague promise and nothing special. He talks a lot about being "aligned with MY interests", but how does he know what those are? Its intentionally vague to avoid discussing hard decisions big companies like Facebook or Twitter need to make every day, regardless of where their funding comes from.
And Belgium twice, Puerto Rico as "Porto Rico", and Luxembourg as "Luxemborg".
Facebook Hits The Street: Act II
"More than likely, Hacker News picked up the your project website because of its name, and so now the spotlight is shining very harshly indeed."

FWIW, I submitted this after I saw the latest release announced at https://lwn.net/Articles/510286/ but couldn't find any previous discussion of the framework here.
I think the article is alluding to the fact that charging users gives a business an incentive to milk those users.

It's similar to the debate about customer support as an avenue for sales or as an expense. The business's incentive is to provide the worst customer support it can without making users drop the service.

Another example would be video games and DLC. Companies can wall off features that should be "in the game" and force their customers to pay extra for it.

I don't necessarily buy his argument, but it's not entirely black and white.
If "reserve your username" wasn't a benefit of pledging, the project wouldn't even have come close to reaching the funding target.
I don't know if red herring would be the way to call it, but the general summation that the "success" of App.net is due to marketing (particularly the out-pouring of Dalton Caldwell to the internet masse) is spot on.

Most people, especially on HN, pointed to the way "Dalton handled things" as the reason for wanting App.net to succeed. What drives the majority of the activity on App.net are these continuing discussions of what App.net could be, how fantastic it could be and what are the various kinds of pains it would solve. In fact, these very same conversations are as generic and ambiguous as the way that I describe them. Very few specific points are brought up, but rather, there are these sweeping discussions taking place on the platform.

I'm kind of curious whether what Dalton is trying to do with app.net is only capable of being accomplished with Twitter and with Twitter only. This is considering Twitter's userbase, Twitter's 3rd party app ecosystem, Twitter's traction and Twitter's history.

My point in saying this is that, it's impossible to recreate all this with another service (app.net). They are starting from scratch not only in function, but in context. I'd argue this is what's leading to the ambiguous dynamic and cloudy future for the service.
In that case, congratulations! You are the perfectly-informed consumer, aware of every relevant product category (and product). You use the Internet for price checking only. You don't need to be made aware of a new product in any category, because you are on all industry listservs. You are the only one of your kind.

Every other homo sapiens sapiens finds it difficult to stay abreast of all the submarkets he/she participates in. They spend their mental energies on other things, or simply don't care to research products costing under some threshold.

For example, I consider myself very savvy at computer purchases. However, I really can use guidance in purchasing power tools as I'm not a frequent user. In fact, I really wouldn't be surprised to learn that of the existence of entire categories of power tools. Just because I'm not seeking them out doesn't mean I couldn't use them around the house. Oh, and I don't really want to spend a lot of time researching them because I actually do have better things to do. Also, I freely admit that I have never researched tape; the benefits of one vs. the other are a topic of which I am wholly ignorant at the moment. (Obviously you are not possessed of such an ignorance.)

For the homo sapiens sapiens other than you, sometimes a little nudge is actually mutually beneficial. An ad might make us aware of a product category, or an upgrade to an existing category that makes it more useful to us. All of these might make us do more research, or simply go buy something.
Tutorials are best for beginners. They start from zero, so the author can build one bit of knowledge on top of another. It's easy for the user to feel progress, because every few minutes a new idea/concept can be introduced and explained (at a high level).

It's harder to make a tutorial for an expert. Different experts will know different things, so it's unclear how much time to spend explaining any particular concept. It's harder for users to feel like they are progressing because: 1) it takes much longer to get a "unit of knowledge" across because the concepts are more complex. 2) you are really "filling in the gaps" of stuff they already (partly) know, and they may not even know how many gaps they have. So progress is harder to see and measure.

Random brainstorms:
- Different people learn different ways. Some people want to learn via audio, some via video, some via text, some via diagrams, some only learn by hands-on doing.
- Talking is pretty low-bandwidth compared to reading. That usually includes most video, since it's just video of someone talking, sometimes with a few low-bandwidth slides.
- Staring at talking heads is boring. Partner with an artist to create animations and diagrams for your talk.
- You could try an "expando" tutorial: One that can give high-level details to novices, and expand into nitty-gritty details for experts. I'm not sure that would work in video, but it could work for text or diagrams.
- Or maybe you could try something like "VH1 pop up videos", where a novice could listen to the talk, while an expert could be reading all the sidebars while listening to the talk.
- Each of the areas you mention (learning programming, learning kernel internals, etc.) is a world of it's own that would take a long time to make materials for. You could start by re-purpose existing content (technical blog posts, "Open Source Architectures", etc) to turn into a "video explanation". This would be a quick way to get started and see if you have a useful concept.
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Likewise, and thank you for the story. I too came to Perl from C and ML and only later encountered Java. From 2008 I was completely blocked, barely wrote any code at all because I couldn't have Fun anymore.

It was not until I recently made myself learn Ruby and Erlang that I rediscovered the joy of programming.
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The site says it charges with a wall adapter. This may be a silly question, but can someone driving the Double manoeuvre it into "charging position", or do you need fingers to plug it in?
> Although if you know of anywhere besides HN that is mostly reasonable

Quora.
Just like with Zynga and OMGPOP/Draw Something, and look how that ended up. :P
If anyone is interested in this topic, you should check out Louis Theroux's Extreme Love series http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gvt26.

Some parents seem to echo the same sentiment, but many of them don't. While larger families seem to be able to cope, and actual appreciate having someone slightly different, many single mothers are forced into having their children taken in by the state.
I'd they are just in it for the ideology, then I fully expect then to run the company as a non profit. Oh, they aren't are they? They want to make money too? And they're trying to convince people that they're in it for openness and all that? If they made App.net into a Wikipedia style foundation, I would have gladly jumped on board. But instead they're just trying to create an angle to justify a twitter clone. I can build my own twitter clone. I don't need to pay App.net for that. I have yet to see anything original about this idea. They're just trying to profit on a rather limited crowd of tech people. If it was such a great idea, then the VCs would be throwing money at them. And no, they didn't turn it down-- it isn't there because their business model won't scale. There's only a limited amount of social network inbreeding that can happen before a niche paid network runs out of cousins.
I created and am continually improving Indie Intern which is software intended to help filmmakers go from script through production.

http://www.indieintern.com

You didn't say what you were working on.
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What's so surprising about a comment like that? It seems like a way to build some rapport with the parents - a recognition that they have a hard job - a harder job than other parents with handicapped kids. And how the parents respond to a question like that would be illustrative to the doctor as to what sort of support the kid is receiving or can expect in the future.

I had a friend at uni who really struggled financially through no fault of her own (parents where farmers going through a drought, she had a serious illness, her sibling was mentally handicapped) and when she went to see the financial counsellor at uni, she asked him "So, what's my situation like?' and he replied 'Well it's pretty bad ... to be honest, your situation is the worst I've ever seen!"

She actually laughed when she relayed the story to me. She said it was a bit of blow to have confirmation that her situation was so bad, but it was also an immense relief to know that she didn't have to feel guilty about struggling. Her situation was bad - but she was still coping. That gave her a big boost of confidence that she could one day escape her troubles (and she has).

In the same way, I read the comment from the neuropsychologist in the same way, an attempt to build some rapport with the parents.
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Since we're talking very explicitly about costs and savings: about how much did it cost to identify the hot water system problem and get it rewired correctly?
Could the iOS app be the 21st-century HyperCard stack?
5 Points to the first person who works out how to DDOS the mars rover.
Much better to honor the lower price for A and B, but promote the lower price to only B via special codes or something.
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I don't find a use for app.net at all. 50$/year for a glorified "curated" Twitter clone?
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My current suspicion is that Dalton has no idea how to build what he wants, in fact he doesn't even know what the thing he wants is. So he's fanning the flames on this discussion to let everyone else come up with something for him.
You guys should have had vesting in place. I am going to guess you didn't. Vesting is designed to protect founders for this very reason. Typical vesting is usually 4 years to earn the full 100% of their vested shares with a 1 year cliff.

So to break this down, lets PRETEND (i.e. example scenario) you guys started out as 50/50 partners. The way vesting would have worked would be, for simplicity sakes, let says there are exactly 100 shares and that suppose you both had vested the full term (4 years) and stuck it out, you both would have 50 shares each.

Typically if anyone leaves sooner, the way it works is, if you leave before the first year (hence 1 year cliff), you leave with zero equity. At the 1 year mark, you earn 25% of your vested stock (1 year of 4 year vesting period). That means 12.5 shares of stock (1/4th of your 50 shares). From that moment on, for the remaining 3 years, shares would vest 1/36th of the remaining share for each month that goes by.

Thus at the end of the 4 years, you are fully vested. In this case, I would treat this the same. You would need to do a termination agreement (you should talk to your attorney about this), give him any vested shares he would have earned or if he is leaving before he's been there for a year, and give him some additional compensation for the termination agreement you think is fair (not stock; usually cash). In either case, you are recommended to do a termination payout whether he gets stock or not.

Talk to an attorney!
I agree that a lot of people are cathecting their desires onto app.net. I'm probably guilty of that as well (and yes, I coughed up the $50).

But what got me excited was his basic insight -- not entirely novel, I'll grant -- that any giant social media company selling ads is going to be beholden to advertisers, and that a social media company that is beholden to their users might be a different thing.

Lots of things are possible here. The product might suck. They might get totally overwhelmed. They might not be able to sell it. Their API might end up being worse than the others (though it doesn't look that way to me).

But people kick in to kickstarter-style things because there's some idea they want to get behind (e.g. "sword fighting games should be better"), even if it doesn't pan out. And to be honest, even the OP -- in the throes of his cynicism -- is obviously experiencing the same sensation.
And bizarrely their most prominent hire before Snoyman made a loud point of starting to learn Haskell when he got the job.

I hope this means FPC is investing in Yesod. Otherwise they just killed it by districting Snoyman with the new job.
No, I can reason the multitude of reasons that someone would pay, including my own. Empathy is a helluva drug.
>So, I suppose you would describe yourself as being absolutely in favor of unrestricted free speech. Nothing is off-limits. All shall be discussed.

Yup.

>Now, what happens when you mix this attitude with a self-moderating system?

/r/AskScience

You can't make horrible opinions less horrible by making them invisible.
"Heliocentrism is and was obviously right, minus the blinders of religion."

It is easy for us to judge now that we have pictures from space, but the concept would have been very non-intuitive in centuries past. For example, one does not feel the movement of the Earth.

"I don't think the situation re. many-worlds is even remotely comparable."

I agree that the comparison is not exact, yet it seems to be the best one available to support my stance. Both geocentrism and wave collapse were theories that appealed to commonsense notions but ignored irrefutable evidence. Geocentrists invented the preposterous epicycles, which supposedly allowed the planets to move "as if" they were orbiting the Sun. Single worlders invented wave collapse to allow photons to operate "as if" all possible paths were taken.

As far as literature goes, I'd recommend the two books by David Deutsch. He gets extremely ambitious at times, but I would classify the writing as "compelling, credible yet accessible literature".
That's not unreasonable. I too have spent money on stuff that I did not understand just to see what it was. It was only $50.
I donate regularly to donorschoose.org and organize a blood drive for the Philly tech scene 3-4x a year. I hope you've got a favorite cause, too :)
Show HN: Need feedback on my first iOS app
I've been learning obj-c using the Stanford course over the last couple of months and my first app just got approved.

If you have any ideas to make it better let me know. Any feedback or reviews appreciated.
"yet backed the project himself anyway?"

Per the OP:

"By the way, I put my $50 in out of pure morbid curiosity of what’s under the hood."

I think you can both think something probably isn't going to work or have issues with it and support it as a hedge or out of, as he said, "morbid curiosity". People do this with politics quite frequently.
That last sentence tipped me off to the real matter at hand. I think the problem is that you can't appreciate the ROI of the product until you've experienced/received the ROI of the product. And in truth, it isn't an easy choice - the most likely way for me to save money on electricity would be to change my habits. If it were easy, then I could do it without this $250 device. If I wanted to change, then I would just do it. This thing would guilt or otherwise convince me to change myself, which is typically not an easy or pleasant thing.

I'm writing as someone who could afford the $250 device (and would probably benefit from it, given the quantity of electronics in my home), but I'm just not convinced enough to take the plunge. What it would take for me is seeing one in action and laying hands on the device or talking in detail to a friend about their outcomes with the device. But right now, it all just seems like a pipe dream, and I can spend less than $250 on a pipe dream.
Show HN: Vooza
Good for OMGPOP...