skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Build a portfolio site that houses your work. If you don't have a portfolio, make some sites for your friends for free or cheap to get started. Then go to networking events, or find businesses that do not have websites, or who have really shitty websites. Unfortunately, knowing the person makes it a lot easier than going cold, but cold also works. If you want to do something for a local business, find one with a Flash website or no website and approach them in person if possible. This works a lot better than cold calling or cold emailing, but not to say that those don't work. I send 500+ emails some days and if you hit that volume you are guaranteed at least some responses...
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I just emailed Guy as per the suggestions of this forum (and a couple of other people). Guy kindly replied. Hopefully have a few more names on there soon :)

Re: making money. I plan to sell extras, like premium themes etc So keep the core product free and make worthwhile add-ons.
I can think of a dozen reasons off the top of my head. But if you prefer to avoid proprietary utilities that's understandable.
I finally understand "release early, release often"
For those that cannot wait:

Have (immature) fun with their 404 page:
http://www.blackmesasource.com/404.php

The soundtrack is released ahead of time for your pleasure:
http://www.blackmesasource.com/soundtrack.html
They probably should!

Counter-poll: should news organizations return to reporting actual news?
Yeah exactly. If one doesn't like Apple decisions, just open another App Store that sells IOS Apps... uhm... wait... not possible. Ok, another idea: just start producing another smartphone that replaces the iPhone with something with a comparable look and feel... uhm... wait...
Word of mouth is definitely the best way to go about it. I have also had success by going through friends who work at smaller digital agencies and PR firms. Places like that sometimes lack technical people, but they have a portfolio of clients who may be in need of web work. They basically refer the job to you or you work as a contractor under them.
I've found Linkedin to be pretty good at getting the odd job. Just connect with any one who looks like they might have occasional freelance gigs (e.g. agency directors, recruiters etc).

Once you get a couple of clients that have regular work your pretty much set
The User Experience Experiment
There already is http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID

http://webid.info/

http://trueg.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/webid-a-guide-for-the-...
I've never, ever hesitated in giving out my email address to anyone (that includes sites that I know are scammers and would sell my email address to anyone practically for the asking). In the past ??? years (since GMail was in beta), I've received less than 5 spams.

(I know it's a little irrelevant to your point though, but wanted to say at least with gmail you don't need to fear giving you email address out)
Interesting about the four dimensions point.

I studied the history of architecture at university (1660-1720 British). It was beaten into me over and over that to really get close to understanding what was going on you had to actually see the buildings to grasp the effect of them.

This came home to me when I stumbled upon Bramante's Tempietto in Rome.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bramante+tempietto

Only when I saw it, and having seen what came after it, and knowing that all the great British architects had seen this in Rome (or had been told about it second hand), did I grasp its significance to those that had seen it rather than
simply seen it drawn in a book.

Similarly with the Pantheon in Rome. A 2D drawing just doesn't cut it, and can mislead. And yet those are the sources we (mostly) deal with as architectural historians.

Of course, I was looking at it with "modern" eyes, so there was still a level of indirection...
Another way to install this on OSX if you use Homebrew package manager.

1. Install Homebrew if you don't have it already

http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

2. Install the brew-pip package

brew install brew-pip

3. Add Homebrew's pip path to your PYTHONPATH environment variable (you probably should add this to some sort of shell initialization file like ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc)

export PYTHONPATH=$(brew --prefix)/lib/python2.7/site-packages

3. Now install any pip pacakges with Homebrew!

brew pip Glances
I won't lie, it does sound unusual. However, Cf Cilk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDexbD06iyM. Their video is narrated by someone from New Yawk, who may have been in My Cousin Vinny. He also has the worst haircut I have ever seen in my life.
We mustn't forget the political corollary to the above: "Vote early, vote often."
Where else would it be? I wasn't aware there even were any other Usenet archives out there.
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fwiw amd does make documentation about their gpu's available to open source developers.
There seems to be logical explanations for all of these...Pizza is the cheapest food to feed a large group of people. Caffeine is a stimulant that makes people work longer and harder. Free beer is a good way to draw people to an event and it makes conversation flow more easily among participants.
At that point, exactly which of "something you know", "something you are", or "something you have" are you authenticating against? I am quite sure an attacker can get access to "a computer", somewhere, upon which he can claim to be me, at which point you will serve him a bar code which he will confirm does indeed correspond to the account he is trying to hack.

Even the whole "use a cell phone for auth" is not really a good idea. It at least sort of qualifies as "something you have", but a great deal of the identity that you "have" isn't in the physical hardware, but in the cloud and the connection the device has to the cell network, which as "something you have" goes is pretty low-grade security.
So perhaps this article serves the function of helping consumers make that decision.
Sample now added - hope you like it.
nice job. nice mashup idea. i could see myself using this for various reasons ("what is that song i've never heard that i keep hearing people talk about because i only listen to NPR?")

sole nitpick - (on chrome) while a video is playing, the 'All Charts' dropdown falls behind the video. when the video is paused, it works as expected.
Well it doesn't look like they're doing a great job at the whole increased secrecy thing...
Sure, but when your chip tends to overheat, you should design mechanisms to reduce the thermal output when the need arises. CPUs have similar mechanisms integrated in them since the early 2000s (remember the videos of AMD CPUs melting down seconds after the removal of a heatsink?).
It might surprise you just how full featured and useful plain ole Linux top really is. I made a YouTube video based on a training session I did at my old job on how to configure top to show you a lot more interesting things than it does by default.

Shameless plug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFKRsLj_Jhg
I've made almost a million dollars in 2 years as an indie developer. I also know many others as successful as myself or more so they are definitely out there. A top grossing iOS app makes 500k per DAY, so there are definitely a lot of success stories out there in the app world. Not many of them hit techcrunch, as they are mostly "lifestyle businesses"
I recently "declared vim bankruptcy" and rebuilt my vimrc from scratch. I want a full-featured vim, but I want to keep it responsive.

There are many fancy presets out there
https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles
https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim
https://github.com/vgod/vimrc
but they freak me out. They turn vim into a singing, dancing, syntax/spell checking, indexing, buffer Whack-a-mole. My philosophy is that vim shouldn't do anything behind your back, but it should do great things if you ask.

* Jumping to definitions
* Finding all uses of a symbol in a repo
* Running things
+ A test
+ Code in a repl
* Git blame, diff
* Summarizing methods in open file
* Navigating my (rails) app

When putting this together, I found Vundle to be the easiest package manager. Just specify any desired vim plugin github repos in your vimrc and let the :BundleInstall, :BundleClean etc commands do the rest.

I used the standard plugins for most of the stated objectives, but there are places where I found some tricks. The coolest trick is running external programs without locking vim. You can send commands and selections to a tmux terminal using Vimux:
https://github.com/benmills/vimux
After wrangling with running vim under tmux, I discovered that the vimux plugin works in MacVim too when tmux is running alongside.

The thing I run most often is tests. In Rubyland people advise using Guard, which runs tests automatically when test files change. However this goes against my "don't do things behind my back" philosophy. Vim-turbux is more my taste. It extends vimux to run cucumber and rspec tests with the press of a key: https://github.com/jgdavey/vim-turbux

The next area where most megadotfile presets are lacking is finding the uses of code. Finding code definition is pretty well handled by exuberant-ctags and vim-rails, but finding code uses is trickier. The cscope utility does this, but its language support is limited from what I could tell. Another contender is GNU global. Its setup is...interesting:
http://simple-and-basic.com/2008/10/using-rtags-ang-gtags-fo...
I couldn't get it working and the GTAGS files it generates cluttered my repos. I cheated and just mapped a key to do :Ggrep (git-fugitive) on the current word. While cscope or global would give the finest results, a massive grep comes close. Let me know, anyone, if you've gotten the tagging systems working better.

My work in progress is here:
https://github.com/begriffs/dotfiles
I'd appreciate any criticism; I have lots to learn.
How effective are ads in local papers or even online search results?
Actually it does exist: http://www.ecdl.com/

The world is not better off with this, as it merely teaches people how to use MS-Windows and MS-Office. It doesn't go into any detail at all how a computer really works.
How can he charge it without a dock connector cable?
I've been on the receiving end of emails from content marketers and I absolutely despise them. However, I'm currently in a situation where I need to promote my business and make sure it ranks highly in search results and I've seriously been considering doing some of what the OP is railing against.

Whenever I write a blog post or write a comment on HN, I always try to add something valuable to the discussion (I don't always succeed, but that's a discussion for a different day). This is why I'm not a promiscuous user of HN/reddit/what-have-you, and this is why my blog postings are highly infrequent. I take satisfaction in giving back to the Internet instead of banging out flamewar-inducing piles of words, and the kind of writing I want to do takes time. However, "growth hackers" tell me that I should be posting content often, that I should be compiling easy to consume top-10 lists, image macros and videos. I've even seen some tutorials on crafting linkbait headlines to generate more clicks. Some marketing advice out there actually encourages people to start flamewars on HN and troll people to create discussion and ensure that their story stays on the front-page for a longer period.

Faced with this situation, what is a guy like me to do? I don't have an advertizing budget of thousands of dollars per month. I can produce bullshit lists that grab eyeballs, but I can't do that without feeling slightly guilty. Plus, I feel it kind of ruins your "brand". (Note that it's not all bad. I have some great ideas for quality content I can post on my company's blog, some ideas for videos and pictures that are actually useful, etc.)

Does anyone have an opinion on this? How do you go from 5 to 500 users without generating megabytes of fluff? How do you get word out on the Internet about your startup without seeming like a complete sleazeball?

EDIT: fixed minor stylistic snafu.
I thought this was going to be a site that compared app icons against each other...
I like the design, color and texture on the back. Also I think the centered front-facing camera is elegant. However my excitement over new iPhone releases has been steadily declining.

The iPhone 3G was my first device. The difference between that and my crappy flip-phone was enormous. I basically ignored the 3GS because my 3G was fast enough. My anticipation for new iPhone models peaked with the release of the iPhone 4. The retina display and increased speed over the 3G was quite nice. But it wasn't the same as going from cheap phone to 3G.

I'm currently using a 4S. Honestly I can't tell the difference between this device and my 4 except for the home button that actually works every time it's pressed. I've never used siri for anything other than novelty questions. And the count of those is about ten in six months.
Ask HN: Social music sharing
I have an idea to develop web app where I allow users to create a playlist by uploading songs and share it. My friends can start using the playlist, like, comment and inturn share it. Similar to a facebook, pinterest but for MUSIC. <br>
But my query is that, suppose users upload songs downloaded from internet illegally is it going to affect me anyways due to copyright or licensing issues?
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Rumors.

From TC.

Great.

Like many of our peers, we also fell for this good old British tabloid rumor at first. We have updated the story now that Willis’ wife has denied that this story was true.
Perhaps it was charged when he got it. He's probably not turning it on too frequently since the only feature is showing the "connect to iTunes" prompt.
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One observation I've made is that if I eat any food at an event, I am more likely to stick around and not bounce out if I think the speaker/topic/people are boring. By eating the food that organizers have provided, psychologically I am committing to staying there and providing value in exchange for the food I provided. So, to maximize this effect, it makes sense to serve the lcd of foods; junk.
What freight would there be to mind that isn't minded already today? The only thing I can think of is the freight on the driverless cars, but I do not see how that would lead to "less total hours away from home"
Maybe it's not just startup culture -- but nerd culture in general. I also think that you want to be a bit obsessed and while that works well on tasks like code it doesn't work well if your default meal is pizza and red bull.

By the way I'm a fortysomething geek and I've watched my fellow geeks who are the same age undergo all sorts of health issues as a result: Everything from open heart surgery to diabetes. It's depressing to watch...

So I don't want to sound like my grandfather, but if you don't have your health you really don't have much else in life. So if you're a young geek reading this please try to find some balance in your life.
I've bought 10 of these, and gave 3 for free to my colleagues. One of them was able to turn it for few hours into something usable for the stuff he does at work.

I'm currently looking into the Broadcom provided libraries residing in /opt/vc - written in "C" they are easily reachable by luajit through the ffi with just few lines of code.

Also with these libraries you can stay in console mode, and program as you were back in Apple ][ days. I'm actually thinking of deleting X11, and with mc, git, emacs, and few other tools it brings backs memories of my old venerable BASIC on the Apple ][

Oh, and the 1080p decoding is awesome. It's even more awesome when there is an example how to do ti (again from Broadcom).
he means write in your natural tone. many people write in a completely different manner than they speak.

I wish he had said this, however. Many people do think that writing requires a windy, pretentious tone, which it doesn't. But I specifically tell students not to write the way they talk for the reasons the GP hits.
While this may very well be a problem within the startup community, I don't think this is a problem specific to nor originating in the startup community. Pizza, caffeine, desserts, beer -- these are all things that are easy to come across in many (most?) common social situations.

The office "christmas party" from the white collar mega-corp where you work is usually a big hit because of its free booze. After you win your game of adult <whatever sport you play>, the team goes out for pub food and drinks. When you invite a bunch of people over to watch <some important event>, you usually supply sandwiches, pizza, wings, booze, etc.

Heck, I can't remember the last time I've actively set up a meeting with someone that wasn't over a cup of coffee or a beer, and I don't own a startup or live in an area that even remotely resembles the common hubs for startup culture in the US.

People are just unhealthy, and in social situations, it is usually important to cater to the needs/expectations of the masses rather than the few.
You're absolutely right. I should've posted it as a possibility.
Nice! I like how it shows all the vital information in very little space.
I've been using nmon for a while, which has some interesting features like graphing, but doesn't utilize all the screen space very well.
It's scientifically proved on various occasions.

For instance an year back for patient with chronic trigeminal neurological pain, we have given cyberknife treatment. Most advanced radiation thearphy for this kind of pains. Initially everything was ok and the pain bounced back in 3 months. We kept the patient continuously in pain killer for so many months, before they found a very old Ayurveda practitioner somewhere deep inside southern part of India. He assured them they can take the ayurvedic medicines along with our allopathic medicines and can discontinue all the allopathic and pain killers gradually.

We have accepted to that as honestly, we left with no other option as this is an very rare case and we recorded the patient status on day to day basis. After 2 months of consumption, to our surprise, the patient has shown gradual improvements and discontinued the pain killers in the 3rd month. After an year, she discontinued ayurvedic too and living a normal life.

We still have the entire medical history of the patient, and using ayurvedic as a lost resort for trigeminal neurologia issues. But I agree, this is a rare case, and it has to be thoroughly experimented for general practice.
My iPhone 4 runs noticeably more sluggishly than my 4S on the latest versions of iOS. I think you'd be pretty annoyed moving from the 4S to the 4.

I think the nicest things about the next iPhone will be the larger screen and LTE. I'll probably be sticking with the Galaxy Nexus for personal use though.
Just a heads up the top recipe link on http://www.theyummylife.com/recipes/browse/Appetizers_%26_Sn... seems to just redirect to the homepage (maybe an error?)
Your programming language does not know about elementary mathematics
They bought them for 20mil, that's pretty cheap given their userbase. I bet Conde can sell them for more than that now.
Using a similar idea is one thing, but cloning is another. They don't just take the concepts, they rip of the design as well. If you look at the Samwer's version of Fab (which is shut down now), they completely ripped off the look and feel, you can see a screen cap and read this article http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-...
Silverlight is still interesting? We have a 26-free-video course waiting for you
Can you elaborate a bit... what sort of shape were your friends in when they were 20-something? Were they overweight? Underweight? Sleep deprived? Full-time employed? Did they exercise not enough or just not at all? Or were they regular looking guys who you might think were healthy but actually were living on terrible diets and lifestyles.

Don't want to be nosy... just genuinely curious.
I agree, but generating "harder to debug" output isn't really a big argument against generators.

The first argument is that "the style is different". I use a js generator language (not this one, I don't want to shift attention), and it does "nice" things that would be a pain for me to do manually... like setting up namespaces for code, spacing everything perfectly. Even if the output is not to your taste, at least you know that the style will be 100% consistent in style and implementation. I never have problems debugging.

The other argument is that "the generated code is complex/ugly". Unfortunately, "fast" code is often ugly. Static compilers can do some optimizations by default (e.g. optimized for loops), and you only need to worry about the "pretty" code at the higher level of abstraction. I doubt you will ever have to debug one of these optimizations, any decent compiler should get them right. You merely have to understand why they were used, which often makes you a better programmer to boot.
Smartphones have become a commodity in the developed world. Do we really need constant updates about the latest leaks and rumors?
I don't think it's 'nerd' culture - look at ANY gathering. Open bar, free food, etc. is kind of a hallmark of societal gatherings?
A micro SD card? This is either fake or Apple is changing their philosophy quite a bit. If they thought people deserve SD cards, they could have integrated them a long time ago.

I would appreciate an SD card but I doubt Apple wants to give up the incentive to buy the most expensive version with the largest memory.
One of my favorite plugins that hasn't been mentioned so far is vim-powerline https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline. It makes Vim have a really polished look to it, and more important: tells you which Git branch you're currently in.
Yes, I believe you will have problems.
I'm offended that you've spoken of pizza in such a disgraceful manner. You're not welcome at any of my parties.
IMHO the needs are for healthy food, the expectations are currently for crap. Perhaps it would be possible to raise expectations? Or do people simply not desire healthy living?
Maybe he is a hacker.
Very inspirational, best of luck to you.
I'm glad they made the back all black. Hopefully I like the new screen size. That is the only thing I am worried about.
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I wonder if the "app ecosystem" will move towards paid web services that people use on their mobile devices. I know the whole native vs web app debate has been done to death. Many games probably won't run in mobile browsers in the future. Would be interesting if apple's (and other companies') mis-management of their centralized app stores ultimately incentivized developers to move to the web as the "app store" to the extent that one could make a living.

One data point or trend that seems to support the above idea: The popularity of free apps that are monetized via in-app-purchase. Would be great if the future saw more free web apps monetized via app-in-purchase provided by Stripe or similar.
What makes you think it has a SD card slot?
Only available in 360p? Has to be fake to cover up the dodgy video editing when the phone is turned on.
Apple is really slipping in terms of leaks prior to their major product releases. We have had major leaks before but this is getting ridiculous.