skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add another datapoint, $10-15 is typically fair in my book. Basically for unknown content, the price of a decent lunch or a cheap dinner seems reasonable.

The key to getting a higher price is to "derisk" the investment for people. Demonstrate value with table of content, links to previous blog posts maybe a free chapter of intermediate level (not to basic to make the book seem trivial, but not so advanced as to not be understandable and useful without context).

Books with code in a github repo are worth more to me. The most valuable are those that go as far as to create an immersive environment for learning and experimenting with the concepts. Marijn Haverbeke's Eloquent Javascript book is one of the few that has achieved this with the console/repl that accompanies the book and is integrated with the example code in the text.
This link was already posted in this thread. And as I mentioned there, it wasn't Gowers but Martin Weissman who wrote the first answer. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4503359
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Ask HN: Where to find partners for building my first mobile app
Hello Ycombinator readers.
I have a question. I want to build my first iPhone or Android App, but i have a hard time finding a partner for my idea. I asked a couple of my friends, they are software/web developers
and they weren't interested. Should I keep asking people, or should I
1 ask people in my CS class ?
2 post an Ad at college, Craigslist?
3 ask people who or CS majors that my friends know?
Don't forget Greece.
Rodrigo is a caricature, an exaggeration. Real Rodrigos only exhibit one or two of the mentioned employee defects.

Gabriella, however, is an understatement. Not only does her work require QA to fix up, etc, but her backstabbing tongue causes the productivity of the whole team to suffer, and s/he's quick to blame the Rodrigos.
Somalia has elected their first new president since 1986. Meet Xasan Maxamuud.
I have similar experience but from the other end. I have a service similar to imgur. Quite different but for the sake of conversations lets pretend they are the same. You can create content, then save it and get a link to copy-paste into another site.

I have tons of traffic from both the landing page and directly to the creation- and save-page. Most users do save their content for embedding but there is hardly any traffic from the embed-links given to the users. It's not that other people don't click the links, even the thumbnails have comparatively low traffic. This means that most people save their work but they don't know what to do with it later, they simply don't understand why they are given a unique url and that it can be pasted into another site.

Googling for my links also shows that the ratio of published links out of all saved links is very low.
AFAIK and as an Android developer, I don't think there's a way around the need to hand-edit the XML files that lie behind the Android GUI layout. It's pretty labor-intensive and I don't think there are any shortcuts.

There are plenty of gotchas in Android development, but on the other hand, there are plenty of ways to get assistance online, primarily by doing research and looking at other people's code.
Also: Losers have "goals," winners have systems.
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The varieties of corn produced for each use are different but they are completely fungible. If livestock is culled due to higher feed costs from diminished production this year then farmers will plant more human-edible corn next year (along with more soybeans and other alternative crops) because there is going to be less demand for dent corn to feed the livestock. The system balances itself.
You would have to be a "controlling body" (per wiki) to engage in censorship. From the article it sounds like Instapaper is a bit player in the world of news and regurgitation thereof. Imagine if you write a news app for the iPhone but never display content from websites you find objectionable. If this means you're engaging in censorship then every bit political blog is guilty of the same.

Marco explained that he considered a libel suit, but thought it was an overreaction and instead settled for what he wrongly believed is a middle ground. If you think I am defending Marco's actions then I don't know what to tell you (besides the fact that you misread my comment). My bemusement was at the rampant and sensationalist cries of censorship.
This sounds like a fantastic feature! So much easier than checking logs and running explain manually. Plus it also looks like something you can trivially run in production.

Is there any close equivalent for mysql, which we use at $work? The slow query log is the closest I know about, but doesn't seem nearly as useful (or detailed).
> many of us seem to think that when a business hires us to develop software they're hiring us for our hard-earned skills. However, businesses really hire us because they want to achieve Objective X, which requires some software in order to get there. The overwhelming majority of of businesses frankly don't care about the code

Why, then, does virtually every programming job advert list screes of acronyms?
Are you willing to share what your evidence is that the big winners do the best during the interview phase? Do you rank all startups that are accepted into YCombinator?

Have later YCombinator classes had a larger percentage of homeruns? If you have more applicants and have gotten better at selecting, this should be the case.

Is it about selecting winners, or weeding out losers? Are there companies that you know will fail? Who would be least likely to succeed as an entrepreneur?
Dear sir, your prototype (really?) is just beautifully awesome!
apparently this is not new. last year American Airlines did something similar with AwardWallet: http://awardwallet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1567
I agree completely. I learn far better when I need to learn new tools in order to complete some project. In fact, that's how I've learned all the languages I know thus far: either for school or personal projects
I don't know about other fields, but in science, expertise is way overrated, indeed it's frowned upon -- by scientists. The public may still think scientific expertise amounts to something, but scientists as much more skeptical of the term.

Here's a now-famous example of an "expert" who wasn't:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal
Russ Cox, not Rob Pike, built that.

It's not what's used in the App Engine SDK. I believe it was inspired by what we do in the App Engine SDK, though.
After SOPA (or whatever that was called), ignorance is their only defense. Or that they are smitten by Danica Patrick.
Not sure if I agree or not, but reckon the mantra 'Always Be Shipping' works out pretty well for him :p
This guy's thesis has an approachable explanation of the conjecture, as well as some of the interesting theorems that it implies (including an asymptotic version of Fermat's Last Theorem):

http://jeffreypaulwheeler.com/Masters%20Thesis.pdf
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How do you get epsilon to appear in comments? The only docs I could find on formatting are http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc and it has no clues.
I doubt you'll like my answer, but the very best answer I can give
you is to learn how to write your own app. In the long run, learning
to code will be very beneficial to you. It will take some time and
some effort to learn it, but the investment is worth the rewards.
It's tough to remember now, but at one point GoDaddy was the small nimble competitor to Network Solutions. They were much cheaper and seemed more 'with it'.

I've collected so many domains from various consulting jobs, weekend projects, favors for family, etc, etc over the years that are on Godaddy simply because they were the one I started with, it's a pain to maintain domains on multiple services and I've got freaking muscle memory for doing whatever it is I have to do with GoDaddy at this point.

TL;DR Inertia.
This is starting to sound more and more like a crappy summer disaster movie.
Congrats! :)
Show HN: A javascript library lister from CDNs
I was setting goals for myself, failing miserably. Then I thought Dan was onto something. Oh no! Now I'm going to reevaluate my goal setting now. Maybe the best thing is to not read HN so frequently!
I did not go through the stats course from udacity, but went through the build your own robotic car class. I would like to say the opposite of what the author of this article says. The conventional education system is designed to suit people who lean deductively. They prefer to "stand on top of concepts they know"... Then there are people who like to learn by dabbling. People who learn by tinkering. Such people find too much formalism annoying.

Think of it like this... If your child is trying to stand up and walk, dont try to get its gait perfected. Let it enjoy the success of barely standing and moving a few steps forward. I would say "every child has the right to enjoy this moment"... Not just the Usain bolt's and the ballet dancers. I think irrespective of the subject, the initial learning event is just scaffolding. I don't think the best ballet dancer remembers any part of how she actually learnt to walk.

When I attended the robotics class, I left knowing that "Multiplying gaussians is a cool thing" I figured the skeleton of how particle filters work. Will I drive a car for which I wrote the code. Absolutely not. Will I ask my enemy to sit in a car for which I wrote the code? Absolutely not. But I still got something. Something beyond frustration of being less than "super genius". I left saying "hey that is neat". Tomorrow when I invoke a Kalman filter in say OpenCV, I will feel less insecure about the abilities of that "magic black box". To me the robotic car became a "product of extreme passion created by brilliant hackers" than "mysterious devices created by other worldly geniuses"

If I wanted definitions I would look up Mathworld or something better. If I am going to write a paper on genetics, I am not going to use a stats 101 lecture notes as my reference. But here exists a phase in my learning where I actually do not care about the difference in dividing by N or N-1 or N+1. What the guys obsessed with formalism do is that they make that phase such a huge pain, that I bother not to cross it.

I get a way lot more "per hour invested" or "per dollar invested" from online education. From my point of view. That is the major disruption. The barrier to exploration has been almost eliminated. I could dabble with writing science fiction and then take a peep at anatomy.

Somethings like "A guy walked in and it was left in the video" is a positive sign. It shows that they are a scrappy startup creating a minimum viable product. If people start using this product even without the polish, it indicates real value. This is a standard startup practice. Better production quality means fewer classes and slower growth and less data for analytics. So I actually congratulate them for not obsessing with stuff like Video quality. Do you have any idea how google looked when it was released?

Does it have its shortcomings? Yes it does. Am I glad such alternatives exist to "Colorless, Odorless, Tasteless, Expensive Credentialling". Between Stanford or MIT and an online course I would definitely go to the Physical school. But between a tier 2 Indian Univ, I would prefer an online education and use a university only for a credential.
<i>Reading is an unnatural act; we are no more evolved to read books than we are to use computers.</i>

That assertion caused me to frantically control-W. In how many ways is it, alone, bankrupt? What are we "evolved to" do? How unnatural were the pre-Sumerians? Why do we gladly immerse ourselves in the unknown seeking, as we are so inclined to do, new patterns?

Clay Shirky is the amateur he starts out with complaints about.
> How do you get epsilon to appear in comments?

Unicode, of course: ε

When I need a Unicode character, I find it with my Unicode search page:

http://arachnoid.com/unicode

Then I copy the character into the document I'm working on. Others have more efficient ways to enter Unicode from their keyboards, like having a list of codes and a keyboard layout that allows the codes to be entered efficiently.
The biggest irony is that this question is being asked on Quora - Where this phenomenon can be seen very frequently.
It's incredibly annoying to see some people discount any design if it is anything more than flat and solid colors.

Everyone of all design understanding levels understands a sense of craft. Subtle gradients, shadows, textures, and effects go a long way to creating a 2d digital object of worth.

Nothing in the real world is a solid color--it has light, texture, and materiality. Stripping a visual of all of these characteristics creates an uneasy steril-ness that can feel flat and or cheap.
As chief executive, commander in chief, and leader of the free world, I'd like for him to have some experience leading something other than his own campaign for president.

Again, not to defend Obama specifically, but anyone who ends up on the (D) or (R) ballots for POTUS has unquestionably passed a hardcore test of their organizational and leadership skills, and likely their budgetary skills as well.

That's as true for GWB as it is for Obama, of course.
Nice work Mike!
Simple answer: Don't vote. Why provide legitimacy to someone who you think is not "good enough". Voting is not something you do by default. It is a choice.
Quick note: "HK" stands for "Hong Kong", it's not the author's name.
Because approximately all managers are retarded. Consider how many programmers can't program, despite daily feedback from their compilers and a pretty objective definition of success.

Now consider that managers don't get errors when their teams don't perform well, actions are not going to have a direct outcome on the user, etc and it should be clear why there are so many bad managers.
Ears-a-ringing: How the medical industry keeps me up at night
The fact that there are people who use boost heavily is not news to me. So if you're confused by my assertion that everybody avoids boost as a general rule, well, I'm confused as to why you believe I made such an assertion.

(Note that I don't completely avoid Boost either. The thing is, the parts that are nice to use are simple enough to reimplement more situation-appropriately, and the other parts, I'll use, but I'll use them with trepidation, and if I don't feel like thinking about whether they might be useful, avoid them. For example, it's better to write a recursive descent parser than it is to use Spirit, and it's better to write your own serialization stuff than to use Boost Serialization (if only for compile times, but also, there's some disturbing complexity hidden in that library). I don't exactly know how you use LexicalCast without exceptions turned on, but if you're going in the int->string direction I generally use a printf-like function that returns a std::string.)
WeChat Hits 200 Million Users
Future Fun - 8 Steps to Truly Anonymous Internet Surfing (BitCoin + VPN)
This entire post could be summarized as: 'Vague goals don't work, make them SMART instead'

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
The expendables? World's 100 most endangered species listed
Current Candidates political experience.

Obama, 7 years state senate, 4 years Senator of the State of IL, 4 years President of the United States.

Romney, 4 years Governor of MA.

So I guess by your metric this year you're voting Obama?
Managers are always claiming coders have bad "communication skills". That's fine because on the other side most programmers feel that managers are incredibly stupid and focused only on their careers and getting attention above all else.

For example, this article:
Managers as lazy, stupid careerists?: Contestation and stereotypes among software engineers
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1615745

Software devs for the most part understand that many managers and analysts have no concept at all of what it means to develop software and be required to produce complex deliverables. Their only taste of what it might be like is to quibble about things like capitalization and punctuation in their powerpoints. Yes, if you spend all day going to meetings and aren't required to produce anything except opinions, then it would be very easy to see someone working a software component into existence for the entire day while ignoring all the super important, self-absorbed people as a 'bad communicator.'

As for what Rodrigo should do, its obvious he needs to move to a start-up as a founder as there's never going to be a satisfactory employee position for someone like him.
IT support doesn't require any programming skills.
Great question. GetVocal, inc. is the legal entity running all of my start-ups as DBAs. Each start-up is a service of GetVocal, inc. The acquisitions are easier than buying a company with liabilities and shareholders etc. Only the product/service (Nodester) is sold by GetVocal, inc.
Hey,

Thanks for the reply, I gave the wrong idea with the word convert I mean't manually code but I can't seem to find many online resources that go into detail about going from a photoshop design to a coded user interface.
References on Obama supporting Internet privacy?

I believe Obama's publicly stated position in 2008 was to set up this system: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/pr... and http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/pr... and http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/pr....

Hard to be a hypocrite and a liar when you follow through with your own policies. Not that I agree with this one though.
This is so amateurish and everything is broken.

1) Your explanation didn't make any sense. If I want to tell something about myself to an employer, it will be on my resume.

2) Graphic design and typography suck

3) What's the point of "repeat email" and "repeat password"? This kills your signups.

4) No HTTPS? You're sending password in plain POST request. What's the point of having a password then?

5) The slideshow on the front page is just buzz word garbage and images make no sense. How is this revolution?

http://www.workzstation.com/final/images/3.png

6) When I try to update my information I get this lovely error:

http://i.imgur.com/YY5YZ.png
at times I do get intimidated
He said when he took office that we absolutely had to pass the stimulus bill, and if we did it would keep unemployment from going over 8%

Politifact says that statement is "Mostly False". He never made that claim.

http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2012/mar/02/er...
I'm pretty sure that his/her negative rating for "killing Americans without trial" is due to our recent practice of killing Americans without trial: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0718/Families-sue-...
What Costs Are Considered Reimbursable To The Founders Of A Startup Company?
FoundationDB can scale once across a distributed
infrastructure. That’s opposed to SQL database
technology has to be installed on individual servers.

Can anyone explain?
I am not sure she's more motivated than I. Perhaps she got better abilities to focus on tasks. She's truly an exceptional person with an exceptional range of abilities.
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Miami-FL-startup-scene-like...

Now, obviously Miami is a long ways away, but at the very least looking into some of the links in the Quora response may lead to interesting things. Or

http://jacksonville.startupweekend.org/

Alternatively you could find an OSS project that fits in your wheelhouse and could be something you could get into. Most projects have lots of 'grunt' work that needs to be done, it isn't glamorous or really challenging, normally, but it can get you familiarity with the codebase (necessary for more interesting changes) and it can get you into 'the scene' so you can get to know other project members, get CR's from them (very helpful for learning, though can be scary for beginners...or even experts :)), pointers to jobs opportunities, etc..
Not sure "press the button" is the case for some. I can't speak for CouchDB but I know many people finding it not so easy for MongoDB.
Is this material dangerous? What if you breathe it in?
Okay, now a real example:

Gabriella is only able to explain the technical stuff because Rodrigo explained it to her first. Her summary is the watered down version, so more people understand her. She doesn't quite get the details anyway.

Mostly, Gabriella gets her job done because Rodrigo helps her at every turn. Without him, she'd be lost. He has to spoon feed the solution to her often. He leaves out the last step occasionally to see if she can figure it out on her own. He enjoys this game so both win. Gabriella feels like she's actually contributing something. All this happens while Rodrigo is getting his own job done. The team is happy.

Rodrigo gets more work done since he tries to avoid distractions. He understands that the most important 'thing' is actually what he's currently working on and not what project managers have coming down the line. Gabriella is focused on what is coming down the line so that she can identify and get assigned the easy work first. Rodrigo gets assigned the hard stuff.

Gabriella keeps her job by appearing busy through socializing while Rodrigo keeps his by keeping the ship afloat.

At standups Gabriella can talk half an hour about a single line code change while Rodrigue provides a single brief statement on an entire system he's currently working on.

Gabriella's checkins:

+5 -2

+1 -0

Rodrigo's checkins:

+78 -45

+22 -10

+55 -0

+85 -20

Rodrigo makes 1.6 times Gabriella. Gabriella leaves early, Rodrigo puts in a full day.
Page Me When Its Done
Sweet spot for startups (excerpt from PG's post)
Use version control.
Edited to correct the attribution. Thanks for pointing out!
I'd love it if someone would make something that would let me see answers past the first without creating an account. Presumably it could be done with an extension plus a database of accounts a la (or even from) Bugmenot.

Incidentally, does anyone know why Quora wants to force me to create an account? They can already use cookies to tell which pageviews are from the same user. What difference does it make if there's a username and password associated with them?
Yeah, it was cutting edge back in the day, but Wave is kinda oldschool tech now, being easier and faster to build with the latest RTW frameworks out there now. (mostly built on JS).
Where is EOF? I use that a lot in my Bash scripts. I think it should be on this cheat sheet.
$25,000 to be split by 5 utah startups based on your votes
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An ear infection can rapidly become a dangerous acute condition. The last time I had one I realized I needed to see a doctor on Sunday. By the time I saw one on Tuesday (first available appointment) I couldn't walk. I have fairly good insurance, all things considered.

The doc prescribed ear antibiotic ear drops and painkillers, scolded me for not coming to see him sooner, and blessedly gave me 2 refills on the antibiotic prescription "just in case". The prescribed course was only on bottle.

The bill to insurance was almost $500. The antibiotic was $10, not covered, just $10. My takeaway: they risked my hearing (and possibly worse) to gatekeep a harmless, topical $10 drug with the intent of over-billing an insurance company.

What did I do? Oh yes, I filled both of those refills and stockpiled them. Next time I'm in agony at 12:30am with an appointment 2 days away, wondering if I should risk my family finances with a trip to an out-of-network ER, I'm pulling out those drops and giving it a try.

Is that dangerous? Hell yes. I wouldn't have dreamed of it even a few years ago. Damned if it doesn't seem like an acceptable risk nowadays.
Just curious, how many current DAU's do you have?