skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the BBS came along it was awesome, then it was too addictive and the phone bill was insane. Then we discovered blue boxes and PBX hacking and it was really on. It seemed amazing at the time being able to pick up the phone, make a few tones and be talking to someone on the other side of the world, or downloading "warez" from a BBS in Europe.

For some reason I particularly remember walking to the store one day pre-internet thinking about this whole "virtual" electronic BBS world out there that only 1 out 1000 people actually had a clue existed and how awesome it was. When the internet came along it was a obvious to me that was it going to change everything, but I was too young and naive to think about the business aspect of it.

Other stuff, hmm. When you finished work for the day you were actually finished, but more likely to be in the office late because you couldn't work from home. The phone rang a lot more often before email. Installing software on another branches system meant driving there - uphill both ways, barefoot, in the snow.
The last half a decade I would say users are not as much driven by office applications, but by network applications, specifically the browser and email
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They give you a one line bolded "why?" for each pick. All pre-tl;dred and everything.
+1 for Nectarine (or Apricot) cobbler.
This is one of my favorites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_(novel)
In the past, as PC's continued to improve past consoles, players switched to PC's, forcing the next generation of consoles. That's not happening this time around. It seems PC's have overshot the demand for power - a typical pattern according to Christensen.

The pressure on consoles will come from tablets (the next generation of Imagination Tech's GPU IP is comparable to xbox360's 7 year old GPU).
Once it ships.
One could say monks have historically been the ones maintaining archival data.
It's possible - see my post towards the bottom of the page.
Does this count as a Keynesian Ugly Contest?
excellent advice +1
Agree wholeheartedly. As my first attempt at iOS I built an iPad app for Tumblr. It was an experiment, and fun, and of course I put it up for free since I played the "I just don't know if it's worth it" game, teamed with a "well, I don't want pissed off comments" dance.

Fast forward over a year. 120K downloads and 1.6m+ app-based reblogs later, I still have daily feature requests, hate/love mail, a horrible set of reviews and no inspiration to build it up to be worth a few dollars. Of course my situation is only mine and one can say "now's the perfect time", but that's another debate.
* If you are using the JVM's generational + concurrent garbage collectors, generally the hoards of little objects disappear without hiccups or leaving much of a footprint.

* My beef with threads for concurrency revolves not around memory footprint (can you substantiate threads as "memory hogs"?), but instead around the necessity to be mindful of resource sharing. Yes, the JDK gives you lots of useful tools in this quest, but it's still not all that difficult to end up with a deadlocked app.
>“Forget everything you know about telepresence robots.”

Done.
I saw that too and figured it could be expensed by the company (similar to how a contractor can get per diem).
I wonder what makes this particularly timely...
I think that if you believe the goal of Windows 8 is to compel people to move from 7 to 8, you are missing the point. The goal of Windows 8 is to sell new hardware, specifically touch hardware.
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This is a guide written to tell you how to convert WMV to MOV on Mac with Video Converter for Mac.
Some really nice suggestions in the article that for whatever reason are not often brought up while discussing maths education.

A good way to bootstrap the "math avengers" website would be to get people to write up running commentary to some classic maths texts, e.g. Silvanus Thompson (out of copyright), Halmos, Rudin etc.

Essentially all high school maths programs are less than great to put it politely and often created by people with rather limited appreciation of the subject. Better university textbooks are not readily accessible without an instructor. Running commentary from several authors giveing additional motivation, examples, clarifications or alternative derivations can be of great help to students and wikipedia style platform can be great for organising such a project.

Sites like wikipedia and mathoverflow / stackexchange are great for specific questions but lack structure - centering the efforts around certain "canonical" texts can help to organise the material which otherwise would be overwhelming.
9gag is a pretty obvious selection - they have tens of millions of users.
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I was under the impression that quality triumphs over quantity for these cases.
WRONG TITLE: This post is about developer evangelism than marketing lessons. Please make sure you know what you're talking about @author
He said it better than I, that's for sure.
yes, the UPS truck stopping in front of the house to deliver a package full of floppies full of freeware. That was a 'download'. But more importantly I recall the wonderful years of 92-94 when the internet was really blooming and become a reality for the masses - there was feeling that something profound and very special was occurring and I was watching it come alive. Now if only I would have snapped out of my glassy eyed haze and snapped up some domains, that would be a cherry on top.
Very nice, and I appreciate the dark UI. I would like to see a faster UI though and an option to edit text in line. Also a native app for Android/iPhone would be good. I found the webpage loaded very bad on my Nexus One.
Context matters. (See, for example, http://hollister.ca.gov/Site/html/gov/office/police/document... ).

Interpreting "Legal speak" is not like a compiler checking syntax. It's more like interpreting a project's specifications in a way that makes sense. Just as in any important job, judgement matters.
good to know, thanks for the correction.
"Old-style marketing is where you run around to meetings and conferences, build relationships, convince people one on one. Old-style marketing is dead. I say this as an old-style marketer."

I'm pretty sure you're describing sales rather than marketing. And growth hacking, while a cool approach, hasn't replaced anything in traditional, old-style marketing - as a recent meeting at P&G has shown me.

To me, the growth hacking idea is simply another way of saying "how do we make our product viral", which was the question everyone asked me after Hotmail blew up. The difference, and I think there is one, is that you think of putting someone in a marketing role in charge of this, instead of product, with the assumption that the marketer actually has some clue as how to create growth.

That all being said, as a marketer, I'm intensely data focused!
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That all changed with the release of the full game last November. Animals no longer spawn at all, but are rather found in newly generated chunks and then bred. Seeds come originally, not from grass, but from Tall Grass.

I know, grass used to be a precious resource. I spent hours cultivating it myself back in beta! But these days it's mostly decorative. You can even mine it and put it wherever you want.
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Hey HN!

So this is something I have been working a bit on in my spare time (err, I mean, I just wrote it in 3 seconds :p).

I have been using Github since I got into coding a little while ago and I love it. It makes it super easy to store files, find projects that are helpful, and just encourages the idea of open source by making it easy and fun. I feel like I have learnt a great deal just downloading peoples code and making changes to it and seeing the process they went through. I have been wondering what a similar site like this would look like if it was made for people unfamiliar to Git and would never take the time to learn a new language or whatever do collaborate or use version control.

Right now it works very simply. It is like Google docs but everything is public (I will be introducing private projects). You can upload changes by dragging a new document onto the page and it will be stored. You can annotate files, highlight text, etc. Right now it supports images, text docs (code), pdf, doc(x), and excel. I think it would be exciting to have a system where people could come and collaborate on things such as books, textbooks, etc.

I have seen a few cases here on HN where such a system is discussed but I have not seen any solutions.

One of those was how Wired used Github to publish an article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3631618). They were not happy with this solution however and are looking for another system that is more user friendly. But the demand is there. I think it would be awesome to be able to easily suggest mistakes on articles and allow an easier way for the author to accept those.

Another was about a git powered Project Gutenberg (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3638917). Gutenberg is a mess (no nice way to view, no consensus on what the base text format should be) and git would be an interesting solution but again it is not that user friendly. As an example I put a couple PG documents on Rubberdocky (http://rubberdocky.com/ProjectGutenbergFiles/Siddhartha).

I am hoping to make use of a cool project I just ran into called substance.io to make it easy for people to collaborate on documents.

Rubberdocky is not the solution yet, but I am hoping to steer it that way by getting some feedback from interested user. If you are interested in the idea email me contact@rubberdocky.com and we could discuss this in more detail! Im looking for some web designers/UI to maybe join forces (I know supposed to find someone you know, but desperate times). If you get some errors email me or Tweet me http://www.twitter.com/rubberdocky.
Web safe here meaning anything except what it means.
Couldn't agree more - very difficult to measure your impact - we're using attribution modeling to get there.
Facebook has an enormous empire, but like so many physical empires and virtual ones before it, size is not always an asset. Facebook was built on the ashes of MySpace which grew in the fertile remains of Geocities.

I can't wait until something takes root in the post-apocalyptic wasteland that is Facebook's overly gentrified, douchebag-riddled internet experience.
I have updated the article to show both the git reflog and using the HEAD file.
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Those figures fit with what I remember about ad revenue. If I remember right, it's normal for around 2% of hits to convert into an ad click. If we pair that with a $0.50 mean earning-per-click (memory and a cursory search of the Internet say this is reasonable), we get:

$0.50 * (1.5 million * 2%) = $15,000/mo.

That leaves some leeway for Crranky to have worse performance and still hit his quoted $10,000/mo.
Things That Motivate Employees More Than Money
No bootstrapping? That's my favorite word.
Pretty much the latter. A few in our group also had kids over the last few years. That's a guaranteed premium hike right there.
If you didn't get my intent, the last part of the article which you recommended was highly biased and after reading it I was left questioning the author's motive.
Functional programming does not subsume imperative programming
Surely "Andale Mono" should fallback to "Consolas", "Lucida Console" on Windows instead of "monospace" ("Courier New").

Nice resource though, even if 'web-safe' isn't the strait-jacket it used to be. :)
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IMO 9gag shows how a reliable stream of quantity can beat out quality of content on the web. Every time you go to 9gag (AFAIK, can't say i've visited much) there is new content.

It preys on the 'seeker' human behaviour (like reddit, minecraft, even HN). Maybe next visit there will be something hilarious?

A lower volume of higher quality wouldn't invoke the same response.. visits would often have no new content, and users wouldn't regularly visit.
I caught that as well. Still costs less to put a sacrificial mule in the driver seat than to automate them. A long time ago when Georgia Tech was flying GPS guided helicopters in the UAV contests I wondered just how much it would cost to build a drug mule like that. Should be pretty trivial, drop via GPS and you don't need human pilots. Of course if you get spotted a human can abort back over the border but a robot will lead the follower to the drop point.
Is that at the expense of the desktop and enterprise users? Only time will tell, but if the touch hardware ends up not working out, are they going to still have the desktop users to fall back on? I guess they probably will because they'll have the people stuck on XP and 7.

Also, if the point is to convince me to buy Windows 8 touch hardware, it has failed there too because the desktop experience was so uncompelling for me, I have no interest in exploring other options.

For one final edit - if they don't want me to upgrade from 7 to 8 on a desktop, what's the reasoning behind the massive price cuts for upgrades. If I bought a PC in the last year or so, I can upgrade from 7 to 8 for $15. Or if I have an old XP machine, I can upgrade for $40. If they don't care about non-touch desktop and laptop users, why would they slash the prices like this?
So, you're asking: if making money for yourself to pay the bills was not a problem, would you prefer to work on a vaporware company that could get you rich like Twitter or on something serious that could change the world?
Crisis malware infects VMware virtual machines, researchers say
Instead of the internet, I lurked around the local library for game magazines with source code listings in the back.

I love this. I did the exact same thing at my local library looking for books on BASIC (now I lurk on HN instead of at the library). I always had trouble getting the code listings to work because they were usually written for a slightly different version of BASIC than what I had. Without the internet there wasn't really any way for me to figure out what the problem was so there was plenty of trial and error.

One of my best memories was finally buying Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus by Andre LaMothe. I remember reading almost the whole book the first day I got it and trying out all the great code examples. This was the first time I really saw how real games were made. It basically runs though making a game like Wolfenstein 3D only two years after it was released. I think it would be a struggle to write a book about how to make a triple A title from 2010.

Near the end of high school I stopped coding but when I got back into it several years later, I was amazed at the resources and tools freely available on the internet.
statistically?
Ls* Commands Are Even More Useful Than You May Have Thought
I've been noticing that if I open two or more TechCrunch articles in tabs, all of the TechCrunch tabs become unresponsive. I have no idea what they are doing to upset Chrome so badly...
For those who read the comments before the content, ABORT ABORT! It's not even worth your time to read about why it's not worth your time.
If we are measuring success solely on making money for investors (which I guess makes sense in this context)... then the closest option would be: It will be a successful investment, but it's trash as a product.

Or more closely: It might be a successful investment, but I think it's trash as a product and it's not innovative. I am not convinced it will make money legitimately. I'm not saying anyone will get bamboozled, but I could see a momentum-fueled, top-arc sale that makes someone some money at the expense of someone else being left holding yesterdays news.

Also, the part about "you see where I'm coming from" was strictly relating to Facebook being a massively successful product, yet horrible for stock holders... considering the stock is basically in the toilet. In the "make money for investors" category, Facebook is hardly a success.
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Interesting concept. I tried it and I was very confused what to do or what I should be doing but maybe that was sort of the point! I think an intro video would be helpful. However, I really like the colors and the font a lot, for me personally. :)
Yes, any self respecting ad network will provide targeting by OS!
I already dread the number of times I anticipate seeing users with 24"/30" monitors running some Metrofied equivalent of Notepad or Calculator.
Tools for students
There are quite a few sources in this thread for quality t-shirts, but I don't wear cotton anymore.

Curious if there are any t-shirt sites that sell on Nike dri-fit, Under Armour style shirts. You know the kind, moisture wicking etc. They tend to be polyester or even bamboo.

My favorite at the moment is this one I got from Lids. It is AWESOME. http://www.lids.com/NCAA/Hawaii-Warriors/20304981

I just wish I could find more! Anyone know of any sites like that? And I of course I know I'd pay a premium for that, so no worries there.
Agree with Softbuilder. Treating all function points equally and trying to come up with a generic "programming hours per fp" is about as useful as asking "How heavy is a rock?"
This is one of those situations where the regulations were effective so we don't remember why they were put in place. Basically every other grandma was having her purse emptied by a good looking scam artist.
I've been using computers since the '70s, so there's a lot of highlights that will be left out, but here's a few choice memories: Building a Apple II+ clone with pirated EPROMs so we could play Ultima 2 and Wayout. Using a TRS-80 4p and 1200 baud modem to connect to the university mainframe since remote users had a higher job priority. Helping my father teach Autocad 2 on DOS. Seeing the Xerox GUI and networking before the Mac was ever created. The joy of VMS clustering and other big iron features, which everyone is slowly reinventing. Build Ciarcia's designs from Byte. The first Mac, Amiga, Next and BeBox machines. Wirewrapping, soldering and assembly. Ham radio RTTY and packet systems. Printed documentation in walls of colored binders. User goup meetings. Swap meets. Hours spent in libraries and bookstores. Building some of the first web sites. (Pre Netscape)

Things I love now are the powerful affordable systems, free quality software and virtualization. Like many older folks I hate the users that can't read the basic documentation or even try to expand their computer skills. (But I end up helping them... :) )
I'm not sure how distributing flyers is perceived in California but I'd be really surprised if anyone ends up in jail for this.

At least it shows these hackers are willing to go out and some promote their ideas.
$16 million is revenue, not profit, but I agree the scale is amazing. I know the price of cocaine in America is thousands of times more than straight out of the lab in Columbia. I wonder how big of a cut each group takes from the massive profit as it works it's way to America...
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Love the visual style. Doesn't solve an unsolved problem for me personally. But I like the fresh approach.
Predict closed questions on stack overflow (Kaggle Competition)
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I'm in Australia. If only there was some way to get an Arduino Uno in Australia. OH WAIT THERE IS, SNAP.

http://jacobsdirect.com/arduino/1-arduino-uno-rev3.html
It costs $35 million to send an HD video via text while roaming on AT&T
I'm sure a great many web companies that have 20 people today had 2 people not so very long ago. Stats have associated timestamps :)
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They have a lot of JavaScript stuff going on, in addition to their own stuff:

http://imgur.com/vt8Qq
I don't think hardcovers are going anywhere. The hardcover book already represents a premium product. That may remain the case even if/when ebooks rot out the paperback market. They make great gifts, look good on shelves, hold up in libraries, etc.
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As each new market is locked up, new markets emerge. This is what's fascinating about technology.

Fashion isn't changing the same way. People are still wearing shirts. They don't need smaller shirts for some new appendage they didn't have six months ago. In technology this happens all the time.

Now you need a spreadsheet for your phone but Excel is a bit too clumsy? There's a whole new opportunity.
Now I know not to use Cobol for my next project, with data to back that up. Progress.
Why Buffer integrated with App.net from day one
You can get Columbian coffee for $7/pound in a grocery store in the US. It can't be that much different in the raw manufacturing costs.
Yeah, there will be both jobs lost.

While I can see hedging your bets by having your spouse work a normal job (and possibly get you on their health insurance), if a failed startup is going to doom your marriage, your marriage is already doomed.
I only end up on Reddit when I accidentally click on a link I didn't know was going there. It looks like trash too.
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/

I wonder how complicated it would be to adapt that to a larger craft.
This will lead to long debate. As for developer job: I have seen (many) incompetent CS graduate. I have also seen genius self taught developers. As for research job, it requires strong CS foundation.
Again, what part of this is in any way worse than funneling tens of billions of dollars a year into the hands of the most violent career criminals?
One of the biggest selling points of BufferBox originally (to me) was that it was in the main student building of uWaterloo so pickup can be any time and you don't have to miss class or go all the way to a post office. Given that they've already expanded to Union Station in Toronto, their next expansions will likely be targeting similar situations (places where people with busy lifestyles go on a daily basis). So chances are you won't be getting a BufferBox nearby for a while.

Regarding price, IIRC the prices for service (in the Beta at least) were extremely attractive, only a few bucks for the couple of credits needed for a decent sized box. For larger item's I'd probably find a cheaper way to get it shipped direct and avoid their charges, but for small items (4 or 5 books from Amazon maybe) their fee is pretty insignificant.
Agreed.

Also -- ASP is not a language, unless they're talking about VBScript, which I would have thought would be lumped with VB.
Honestly, I agree. I just use SO more as a destination from Google; I don't get involved much anymore. It's a great place. But, it's just gotten so pompous I just can't stop rolling my eyes whenever I see many of the moderator discussions or see much on their blog. The "niceness" graph or whatever it was, really just took it such a strange level for me. I feel like Joel is much smarter than this. It's almost like they took Atwood's unabashed overly aggressive moderation stance and made a religion out of it. Actually, a lot of the groupthink over at SO is kind of preachy.

But it's OK because they say "we're making the Internet a better place," :) That's kind of an annoying trope at this point too but that's for another discussion.
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