skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the insightful reply which I will read again to fully digest.

One thing I wanted to add though on the issue of your costs increasing and the "retail" market. The retail market hates to switch (as much as you hate to move colo) and will stay with their current solution to avoid having to make changes (and that goes for the "tech" guy that works for the retail customer it's not to his benefit to switch hosting if he can simply pass the cost on to his customer or his customer pays directly).

So while your costs increase on a wholesale level the amount your customers can and will pay will increase as a much larger number. (If you want.)

I would explore a deal with your landlord that allows you to pay him a % for your success which takes the uncertainty out of your costs. This is similar to what is done at a shopping mall. The tenant pays for "sales" in addition to a base. While it might seem counter intuitive to do a deal like this I know I wouldn't want the uncertainty of pricing increasing and having to be negotiated in real time. That way your interest and that of the landlord are in line. And anything can be negotiated.

Generally in retail realty, a store will sign a lease and have options to renew at a preset rate that protects them. Starbucks doesn't sign a lease nor does the local pizza shop and then be held hostage. They do agree (nnn lease) though to cover any increase in costs that the landlord has in taxes etc which the tenant knows can be verified and make sense. Generally. It won't be a deal where the landlord sees they are successful and then makes a decision that they can't move and they play this game and jacks up the rent. That is what appears to be happening with your situation so I would work to get around that.

I'd be glad to do strategy with you on this further if you want. Feel free to contact me.
I've personally seen MANY shattered SGS2's and already 1 shattered SGS3.

If you buy a glass front Android device because it's "more durable", you're going to have a bad time. They use the same or similar glass suppliers, and it will break very easily.
Yes it looks good, but what about mature 3rd party libraries?
Unfortunately, it seems to be lacking many useful data structures. This bites you hard once you hit the limitations of the built-ins.
Most of the discussion so far has focussed on the development environment (APIs, languages, etc) and performance issues.

I would therefore like to raise the question “how will Firefox OS encourage a consistent and usable experience across applications?” Gnome[1], iOS[2] and Windows have comprehensive human interface guidelines and the systems tend to be user-friendly as a result.

The latest WHATWG HTML standards do make an attempt to improve user interface consistency by adding new, specific tags. While this will help to some extent, I do not think it will solve the underlying problem. Web developers are accustomed to creating whatever interfaces they like with little regard to usability considerations including consistency with other websites. Different colours, typography, borders, page structures, navigation styles, etc between websites and applications produces a difficult user experience.

[1] http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.5/

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/usere...
Considering the number of iPhones with shattered screens that I see, I'm not sure "full glass" is the best form factor.
The Minimally Viable Startup Pitch Series
There is so much WTF here I don't even know where to begin.

1) Whoever wrote the headline HN is using to link to this story screwed up: the story isn't about MS giving up on Metro/"Modern UI" for servers, it's about MS bringing Metro/Modern UI to servers.

2) The story is wrong, or at least misleading. While Windows Server 2012 does ship with Metro/Modern UI available, it doesn't require you to use it. It's there as an optionally installed component for people who want it.

See Ars Technica's review of Server 2012 for confirmation (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/window...):

Even though you can install the full Windows 8-like UI atop Server 2012, you probably won’t want to. Better yet, you don’t have to. Like its predecessor, Windows Server 2012 can be deployed with the graphical interface, or as a “Server Core”—that is, with a minimal user interface that includes the command line and the PowerShell command interpreter.

But there are additional shades of gray between the bare bones UI and the full Metro Monty—you can also deploy the Server Manager and other management tools with a graphical interface without installing the entire Metro UI.

Or if you don't believe Ars, here's word directly from Microsoft (http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/01/11/w...), going into more detail about how Server 2012 is more command-line friendly, not less:

In [Windows Server 2012], users can transition between Server Core and Server Graphical Shell at any time, with a single command and a single reboot. Accordingly, we enabled the installation and removal of server GUI components from the command line, PowerShell, and within Server Manager. In addition, we created over 2,300 PowerShell cmdlets to enable command-line and remote management of all server roles. We also introduced enhancements to Server Core itself to increase application compatibility; for example, the full .NET Framework 4.5 is now available out of the box on Server Core.

As a Unix guy myself I'm not particularly attracted towards Windows Server, but I think it's worth noting that Microsoft has been working hard for nearly a decade now to make Windows more componentized and command-line friendly (see "MinWin": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinWin), and I applaud them for doing so. That seems like a step forward for Windows admins, not a step back.
Why I'm Still Against SASS and LESS
Nice, im worried that due to Go's young age the libraries might be a bit flaky or lacking, I could be wrong though.
Can anyone confirm that 32-bit problems still exist concerning memory leaks and cgo? If so, this would confirm that it isn't a cross-platform "go-to programming language".
Many people will want to sell their iphone in a years time and buy the new iteration. A mint condition one will fetch a greater price than a slightly scratched one.
I know, right?

Considering how many times in the trials people have been unable to tell APPLE AND SAMSUNG products apart, you'd think readers here would realize that those people are obviously going to have trouble with products in the same family!
And after you have read it, read the documentation of apenwarr's implementation of djb's "redo", and see how everything about make can be simplified to the point that a 150 line portable bash script can be used as a non-dependency-tracking replacement (that is, rebuild everything on each run).

redo makes everything much simpler, more consistent, more dependable, and more robust. e.g all files are atomically replaced; dependencies are checked by a crypto hash of the content; dependency setup is sane; and it's all faster than make.
Flick-Scroll: A faster way to scroll through content
How much are a few hours of your time worth? Even a one hour savings easily saves $40. Absolutely worth it for the convenience, would shell that out in a second if someone would come by and fix it while I coded.
Yes.

The speed of development is far better than any other language I've experienced. I use it as a replacement for C++ and Bash, a statement I don't think you could make about any other language. Apart from the lowest-level kernel work and the highest-performance code, I think Go will become the NBL. Even on the subject of performance, Go is improving quickly, and if you're using it as a replacement for, say Python, your performance will be substantially improved anyway.

Its simplicity is astonishing. Very few things will surprise you whilst coding, although a few topics take a while to learn. I know many hackers try to work in accordance with the phrase "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.". I cannot think of anything Go has that it doesn't need. Not even goto :P

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26979.html
http://golang.org/ref/spec#Goto_statements
Yes, I have used it a few times on a small scale ($20 a few times).
The traffic comes in waves - they'll send a bunch of traffic and then it drops off for a few minutes and then comes again. Make sure your site can handle 20-30 simultaneous visitors.

The quality of the visitor (in my opinion) is poor. Although you may have filtered it down to a group that you think is interested, remember that this is someone who is clicking a button to see a random page. It's highly likely that they're going to see your page and click the random button again.

If you're just looking for traffic, it's a great, cheap way to get some. If you're trying to sell something, I'd recommend something more targeted and traditional, like a facebook ad.

One thing I did notice: In the weeks and months following a paid campaign I would occasionally see an 'organic campaign' - a sudden rush of organic SU traffic, several times larger than the paid campaign, for no good reason.
GPS Data Collection! I never knew such a thing existed. Is that a big market? You should have a demo :)

The big reasons I created the app were push notifications and offline data collection. The app is actually mostly JS, so in theory an android port shouldn't be too difficult... just waiting to see if people request that as a feature (or must-have.)
Pretty much. I've been experimenting with taking Amtrak from where I live in the east bay to the office in San Jose. The train is 2 hours each way, but it's like commuting on a cloud. I catch up on news or sleep in the morning, and finish my workday on the evening commute. it works because I can do 6 hours at the office and 2 productive hours on the train.

It does make for a very long day though. Between driving to my home station, taking the shuttle from the station to the office, the actual commute, etc, I'm up at 5:30am and get home at 6:45pm.

Connectivity is an issue too. Amtraks spotty wifi is fine for browsing -- queue up a bunch of tabs when the signal is good -- but it's terrible for anything else. Forget about ssh sessions or transferring large files or anything like that.
A Closer Look At iPhone 5 Hardware Specifications [video]
In general, great expectation makes part of the prefrontal cortex more excited. Scientists argue that the activity of this brain region shifts the preferences of the wine tasters when they are presented to an expensive wine, for example. [1]

"Wine experts and consumers can be fooled by altering their expectations. The expectation it (expensive wine) will taste better actually makes it taste better. Your expectations powerfully influence the final vote in your head over what you believe to be reality."
(from the book You Are Not So Smart).

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/should-we-buy-expe...
This is one of the main reasons that I use Go. Its libraries are of significantly higher quality than most other languages. And since most libraries are native, it's much easier to expand on their capabilities without having to resort to forking some C extension like with Python.
Not sure if this is meant to be funny, but it is in any case
Whenever the topic of nootropics comes up, especially when comments come critique, people seem to forget about the second most traded commodity in the world.

The majority of people reading these very words are doped up on stimulants, probably from the ubiquitous stimulant machine down the hall.
Could you add a repeat function.
I open this site whenever I have difficulty concentrating...
I didn't buy an SGS2 "because it's more durable". But I don't have a case and throw the thing around with no trouble. Not a scratch on the thing.

I'm surprised you've seen "MANY shattered SGS2s", I've never seen one. Do you work in a phone shop?
I actually prefer the texture of my magpul executive case (which is fairly thin) to the stock iPhone 4 -- if your hands are sweaty, the regular iphone is somewhat slippery.

I might go without a case on the iPhone 5, though, because I'm not sure if my thumb would comfortably reach the whole screen while using a case.
Don't Waste Your Thank You Page
zsh also has a "setopt NO_CLOBBER", but it's also not the default (unfortunately).

Default behavior:

% touch foo
% echo bar > foo
% cat foo
bar
% rm foo

No clobber mode:

% setopt NO_CLOBBER
% touch foo
% echo bar > foo
zsh: file exists: foo

Manual override:

% echo bar >| foo
% cat foo
bar
Between the $15 hard-ish plastic case and the $20 screen protector, my HTC Incredible has survived being dropped more than 20 times across the past 2 years. Sometimes I've clumsily dropped it 5 feet onto pavement, yet the phone is still in great condition.
Whilst you do need to learn the basic editing keys to get anything done in emacs, a lot of the time you just use M-x which opens an auto-completing input for you to type a command. Also the built in help features such as apropos make things easier.
It has been pretty conclusively demonstrated at this point that a basic suite of "weak" FP tools is pretty useful in any language. No serious modern language should try to work without convenient closures and a functioning map and filter statement/function/whatever. This hasn't got anything to do with purity or academic goodness, and everything to do with the fact that languages like Python or Ruby, which are emphatically not FP languages, have simply shown such things to be indispensable tools for concise code.
Balsamiq is a tool you don't think about needing, but when you find it, it fits like a glove and you wonder how things ever got done before it.

Moreover, Peldi's blog is frequently featured here on HN, and he writes cogently and about interesting things. These posts, in particular, struck a chord with me: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/peldi/2011/09/07/policies/
Reddit pulled through on this one: http://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/search?q=buy&restrict...
Wii U system specs
Anyone using Xyologic.com? Is their data reliable?
I was wondering if anyone is using Xyologic service. They are a German company collecting and analyzing app data. It's still in beta. The reports they publish seem very detailed and valuable. Do you have any information on how reliable and verified their "numbers", their analysis are?

Thanks,
Alex
Ebay's new logo
Or maybe everyone should only buy the key, that would there would be no demand for the cars, and they wouldn't get stolen. Then people could just use any car that they happened to walk past.
I didn't mean practical, I meant beautiful.
Agreed.

I'm playing with the idea of a Cairo/Postscript type library with X, Win32, Quartz backends in Golang which would be a good foundation for such a thing.

I have got precisely nowhere apart from trying to connect to an X server unsuccessfully though :)
The plastic cover is sacrificial. It is intended to get grubby and trashed, in fact, the psychology works better if it does.
Custom iPhone App List View Interfaces
Nintendo introduces Nintendo TVii for Wii U
Repository style generic data access layers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11914712/writing-generic-...
>Most people can deal with the occasional ad in their face. No one seems to mind that Google searches contain more ads today than ever before.

That's because of things like adblock which (let's face it) a large portion of people use.

Hmm, I wonder if you can adblock Twitter ads, they have keywords you can filter out...
I don't believe that we evolved from apes, sorry.

edit, yes i realized later also the evolutinites have a common ancestor theory, so I should say:

I don't believe that we evolved from a proto-mythical-man-ape, sorry.
It would be a wonderful day for managers of the world if Balsamiq was acquired by Microsoft and integrated into Powerpoint. My brain hurts just imagining the avalanche of meetings with playable mockups; would it be good or bad?
I'm still rocking my 3GS from 2008 in large part because of the case I had on it for 75% of its life. Phones get dropped.
I disagree. IMO:

I think Go will be well suited for web applications:
1. Google App Engine will continue to play a major role in Go's development.
2. The speed of development in Go is equal to or exceeds that of other dynamic languages. Static typing takes minimal extra time and immediately pays off by catching silly errors, then continues to ease development (and documentation) in the future.
3. Go's standard library already contains powerful tools to develop web apps.

It's important to remember that Go is still very young. Could you explain why you still prefer Python over Go?
Install iOS 6 Right Now - Don’t Wait Until September 19th
University of California Sues Facebook And Others Over Patents
It might be nice for a quick script or standalone program, but most decent size software projects need plenty of mature libraries to be of much use. Python and C have decades head start here.
The Geckoboard Co-founder Story: How Paul met Rob
Dang, my cousin and I have been working on a similar idea for over a year. This is awesome to see that you've done this, and awesome to see how you've implemented it!
FedEx Is One Of The World's Biggest Bellwethers, And It Just Cut Its Forecast
Rekognition Launches An API To Detect Scene Types
I enjoyed reading this. I mostly know Java and not so much Javascript, but there's something delightful in the idea the writer lays out. As much as I like Android, it isn't really 'hackable' by the average user, and Firefox OS seems capable for that.
The point of marketing is that you don't necessarily know what a great product is. You might think you do, but that's not based on evidence (except if you have loads of experience in a market and industry, as in 5 years +). And even if you do manage through experience or sheer luck to put out a great product, selling / monetizing it through luck as well is unlikely.
No other programming community on the planet cares so much about how they're perceived.

I suspect there's a silent majority...
Not that I've heard. But there should be...
Yes because from my comments it is obvious I am delusional. I'll be sure to make sure my views coincide with your accepted world view before commenting next time.
Not if you're a vi user.
Can Go make use of C or Python libraries? Or is that a crazy question?

(Part of Python's popularity is that it is such a great glue language)
You're right, the difficulty isn't the language in use. Languages are easy. But learning each of the platform-specific APIs is a much more daunting task. Learning web-based APIs are no less daunting, but given that a huge proportion of new developers are starting out with web dev, being able to leverage their existing knowledge is a powerful advantage.
It's now been over three years since the 3GS was released, and there's essentially zero difference between the 3GS and the iPhone 5. I honestly don't see any point in upgrading unless I drop my current one, which isn't likely.
Python, your performance will be substantially improved anyway

Except not really - if you are doing computation in Python you are probably using NumPy which in turn is using hand-tuned assembly language BLAS or whatever under the hood. And if not, you are probably I/O bound.
What case are you using?
Well, there's a difference between things you don't want to give up, and things you can't give up because you'll get sick as a dog, and/or require hospitalization and maybe die.
This post is pretty light on information. Definitely need more to make a good recommendation. Just like there are different types of developers (different languages, different areas of the stack, etc.), there are different types of marketers. It really depends on your specific needs. I'm happy to answer any questions about finding a good marketer (I have 9 years of marketing experience). My email is in my profile.
I realized it's satire after this paragraph: “Well Grumpy Nerd maybe you’re just not smart enough for Linux…”
Its okay to criticize and be angry without any expectations that Twitter change.
Direct link, nothing worth reading at the submitted page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4
"Remember Darwin? The strongest will survive."

"Social Darwinism" has very little to do with Darwin.
I don't see it happening in the near future but it might.
It's not that easy to filter, for example I want to keep in touch with my smaller cousins, and I like seeing family photos, but I don't want to see more One Direction or Justin Bieber pictures.

I can either block every photo or none, but there's no "block Justin Bieber and Zayn Malik photos" filter.

Edit: that said, I find Facebook extremely useful for keeping in touch with my family, which is spread all over the world (from here in Uruguay to the U.S. to Europe to the United Arab Emirates).
The rest of the time it is a competiton and is bloody damned important.

Exactly. The academic system has much competition, and some professors teach through competition. Have you ever had a prof who failed the entire class then graded on a curve? So your 32% grade in the class translates to a grade of 3.6?

Who is going to have access to these drugs in a third world country?

Get ready to see articles about the "Nootropic Divide" between the more and less advantaged people of the world. Better, how long until employers start drug-testing for these, to make sure you're getting a sufficient dose to maximize your performance? I could see EA doing that.
This is a terrible article, with no substance. I'm baffled as to why anyone would up vote it, other than "because it's about Go and I like Go".
Yep, in the same way that the window repair at your house business is fantastic.

My car recently broke down and won't start, in my driveway. I plan to use this service to fix it.
I am a bit lost on the syntax, but its always good to check for division by 15 first. You have sort of caught that I think in 5 and not 3, but that just seems an odd idiom.

The homepage shows a simple example in C.

Oh, I used to use this on coding tests, the first guy who asked can I do it recursively in Scheme - I could have kissed him !