skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in knowing more, the Experimental Philosophy group blog has been running for a few years now.

http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/

It has a long and distinguished list of contributors, including Stephen Stich and Jonathan Weinberg, who carried out some of the earliest work in this nascent field.
oh, that is a valid point. I was more referring to post-install--e.g., once you install, you will be more likely to play an in-browser game than a standalone game, since you are (most likely) already surfing the web. And if games the caliber of Quake Live can be put into a browser, I say the future is here!
Gender research - a fruitful inspiration for building semantic technologies?
I really like that point of view. I didn't think about that when I wrote the post.
Indeed, I've written all of my posts on a combination of Darkroom and Etherpad. Etherpad lets me involve a couple editors who can make copy edits and suggestions while I'm still the draft.
Ask HN: Site for recent CS grads (jobs)?
I've been looking through job boards for the past two weeks and most of the positions available are only for senior developers - especially startup postings.
This in my mind is the interesting question ... does cloud computing provide the means for scaling. No doubt a web business can achieve profitability on much less than before, but the question of whether VC is needed is in scaling that business to something other than a small profit maker and/or an exit to a larger company.
Where's the part where Apple is forcing people to sell their apps for 99 cents?

I think the real value that Apple has added is in making it cost effective to stick something up there for $1 up to $5 and still have the transaction cost be low so that it's worth someone's time to develop at that scale (and not having to worry so much about people just stealing your program because of its somewhat marginal utility).

Easier for the producer, easier for the consumer.
the other thing to keep in mind is that apple makes 30% of every app sold. they can afford to sell the phone for less price up front, if they know they can make that money back by selling apps.
Magnetic self-assembly in slow motion
Ask HN: How to monetize 1.3 million page views?
Hey folks,

I run inpics.net, a computer tutorial site that's getting 1.3 million page views per month according to our Analytics stats. How should I monetize that?

I posted that question here a while back, and got quite a few suggestions along the lines of, "advertise for a sponsor on SitePoint." Tried that, didn't work.

I, like a lot of other people, think that display ads don't work well online, and never will. So, no banner or suchlike ads.

Right now, I'm using it to pimp consulting services, but I don't expect that will generate much revenue: most of the site's visitors are individuals learning on their own, not people using it at work.

Given that the site is used mostly by individuals to learn the basics of various computer subjects, what product or service would you sell at inpics.net?

Chris C.
There's a false sense of security with contracts in general. A lot of people tend to think that because it is written, they are safe. Forget about it, you still have to sue! Entrepreneurs are supposed risk-takers and not signing a NDA is a risk they should take.
The article is much more than that. Actually what are the actual words is not the main point.
Please let people read it. These two linner summaries are like somebody spoiling a movie by saying "the killer is John, and he kills himself at the end". Poof, no mater how good the movie is, you just took out some of the fun.

Unless the article was too long and really not worth reading at all, please avoid these shallow summaries.
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I understand; I think your frustration is completely justified.

There are full generations in America and elsewhere who are about to go step-by-step through the Kübler-Ross model. You're smart enough to have already gone from denial to anger. It will take a while or a bigger drop for most of these people to get there. Then comes bargaining, depression and finally acceptance.

P.S. Why is the original post dead?
Is Your Tribe Holding You Down?
Looking at that list reminds me of walking through the power tools section at Home Depot - full of tools I'd love to have an excuse to use someday, but don't at the moment. It's still always fun to look though ;)
Not too long ago I was what you are so nicely calling a "young loser". I never asked anyone to sign a NDA contract but I had this paranoid attitude that hurt me more than it helped me.

Oh and btw you are really asking for trouble with that kind of title ;)
Bravo. I am definitely going to try this out. A big barrier to entry for Scheme is getting a nice environment set up (you either have to tinker a lot, or just "trust" a pre-configured all-in-one environment and be at the mercy of the maintainer).

I think it could make having a simple, portable development environment for scheme much easier. Then you have a production environment for testing and deployment.
I agree with you for anyone that doesn't have an established name. However, from twitter:

@quakelive We currently have 8,500 players online and over 290,000 registered accounts.

(in a few short days)
I'm a few years out of being a recent CS grad and I'm assuming you have checked the normal ones like dice.com . I'm posting to encourage you to apply to any job that you find interesting, even ones for senior developers and particularly those at startups. You probably won't get the job/pay in those senior listings, but if you are a first class programmer and can prove it then the companies that are looking for developer's may have work for you, especially if they can get you at a discount. My startup (not a founder, just my employer) recently filled such a position with a new college graduate partly due to cost considerations. If you're not a first rate programmer, you should learn this and build a portfolio to prove it. That could be just an SVN repository you put code fragments into and send out as a URL in your cover letter. If you need any further resources on this, I can provide some for you.
Very interesting ... I think this is true for a class of startups, but not all. The question for this approach will be how to achieve scale (of if they even want/need to) to achieve their goals.

While profitability can be achieved on $15k, is it sustainable and can it achieve scale on that money? Cloud computing may help, but may not solve it all. Facebook, Google, etc. all needed VC $ to fuel scale.

Implications exist for founders and early investors if future capital is needed for scale or an exit. If the goal is to either sustain the profitable model and owner control at lower revenue, then this model works. Also, if the goal is to sell to a larger company to achieve an exit and return, then it also works. All depends on the market opportunity and founder goals, but don't think it kills the need/importance of VC.

If the goal is to capture a significant market and be the leader, and software markets tend to be winner take most markets, then achieving scale fast is necessary and VC$ necessary even in a cloud model. Under the new landscape articulated by PG here, the underlying platform could be built & proven with angel money or no money, and thus preserve more upside and better terms for the founders that choose to seek scale in large markets.
If complexity can be "objectively measured", then surely you can provide a citation to a peer-reviewed article that supports your hypothesis?

Or has your objective measurement only been performed in secret?

The conventional wisdom, as I was taught it, is that the role of writing in language development and evolution is so small that it's only hypothetically detectable. That's partly because it's only in modern times that literacy has been widespread, but also because the vast majority of humanity learns to speak before learning to read - generally years sooner.

Anecdotes aren't data, but in the absence of data I'd note that Navajo has a legendarily tricky grammar and no tradition of writing, while I believe that Mandarin Chinese grammar is said to be fairly straightforward once you get past the phonology (which I have not, so I cannot say.)
Our government (both parties that matter, anyway) have no interest in encouraging fair telecommunication prices to drive innovation.

Well, the high wireless data rates were one of the stated reasons for last year's spectrum auction -- I don't think any of the companies which bought spectrum last year have started operating yet, but I'd guess that rates will come
down once they're up and running.
It seems like you could easily step into a huge spider web of having to ensure that everything uploaded to be sold is legitimate and not restricted by other copyright holders.
This is the key, and the argument that grandmotherly Italian women will make: it's essential to bring the water back to boiling as soon possible after you put the pasta in. Therefore you need a lot of water so the overall temperature doesn't drop (more important for fresh pasta than dry), and you need to cover the pot too so less heat will escape.

Italian grandmothers who make the best pasta would hate this article.
Twiddla does Replays now.  Thanks for the inspiration, Etherpad
Right now I'm working on a large data set where there is a set of players and each player has a score. I'm using a Python dictionary from player ID to the player score, but I also want an easy way to grab the top N players from the set. The players' scores are updated continuously, so the quick mapping from a player ID to their updated score is also critical (if the scores were constant I'd just put it in a list, sort it, and be done with it).
I think your site's layout is not really great for ad placement, which is why that failed. It's very much a brochure like layout that you'd see for businesses. Contrast this with http://net.tutsplus.com/ where it's "blog" like, but still a great format for presenting tutorials. If you're getting 1.3 million page views, you're almost certainly ranking high in search results, which is great, because those are the people who are exploring and clicking on ads. Check out what some of the other sites in your genre are doing, I bet they optimize their design for making money with ads.
Support for Mac is coming, I can't say too much other than that and I have no idea how long it will take them.

Do know this: almost all of the guys at id Software are Mac enthusiasts. Most of them prefer OSX over Windows, it's just that the current gaming market is still predominantly PCs.

There are also challenges with OSX that Apple hasn't made easy for game developers, so keep that in mind.
Ask YC: How do I find a good intellectual property lawyer?
I'm currently employed at a startup as a developer and I'm working on a side project as well. These projects are in totally different areas and my employer has agreed to this in writing. However, I have signed various intellectual property documents and I want to make sure that I am covered. I'd like to get the documents I have reviewed and get a professional opinion. I'm trying to conserve every dollar so I can launch my own startup. Where could I find a good intellectual property lawyer and how much should I expect to spend?

thanks for your advice...
Looks great! One thing -

The decay on the "name tag" for a particular stroke seems too long. I can't see what they just drew because their name is in the way. The effect is more pronounced on lightning speed.
This looks great. Thank you so much!
How much of people's time is the ecosystem worth?

Environmental costs are very clearly not computed very efficiently in our current market. Instead, they're external costs that get passed on to the public as a whole while the individual incurring them benefits. Maybe it's not worth cooking pasta in this way, but the dollar value you assigned misses all the externalities involved.
You use Hacker News, you don't fall in to my teen category. :) (That's a compliment.)

Have a look at some of the sites here if you have time: rev.iew.me/users & you'll see what I mean.

For the record, I agree, code shouldn't have to come with a warning label; but I have seen many a site taken taken down by similarly bad code. I do my very best to help these youngsters where I can, because I was in their position once too. (Hence why I am here, to learn more and be able to offer more help to those who don't know so much.)
Is the author here referring to himself as his boss in third-person? The last paragraph somewhat implicitly states it but isn't 100% clear. . .no one else I asked so I felt I obligated to ask it.
Gah, marketing people.
Beatport is mostly an outlet for electronic music, thus satisfying a particular niche. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, as I've bought music from Beatport before, however I think it's a bit harder in the general sense to sell music online.
I got inspired after watching that Etherpad replay demo last night, so this morning I rebuilt Twiddla's replay viewer from scratch and threw it live.

It's still pretty rough, but I think it will make a good addition to the service. Thanks, HN, for the inspiration!

Here'a another good one, by the way:
http://www.twiddla.com/Replay.aspx?sessionID=75448&delay...

edit: that one is cartoonishly NSFW in places, but then that has always been a typical use case for Twiddla. Drawing "appendages" onto things.
CODE injection, and SQL injection are two different things. I am talking about injecting malicious JavaScript etc - XSS attacks primarily.
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Rat-Killing Champion Crowned in Bangladesh
Nokia to launch laptop range
I have thought about doing something similar but with mathematics. My suggestion would be to package up various tutorials into a course. Instead of static pages I would add videos using Camtasia or Captivate. There are lots of colleges and universities that sell courses on this stuff and you could sell such courses for a lot cheaper.
Indeed. This is running on the same codebase as Twiddla itself, and those little tags are timed for real people using the thing in real time. You're right that it's a bit overwhelming to have 50 of them onscreen at once. I'll be sure to dial that back.
Introducing SelectorGadget: point and click minimal CSS selectors
Would be nice if there were comments so you could use this as a learning tool.
Or in Smalltalk? http://ruby.gemstone.com/
Small Cars Are Big in Canada
A great, crucial article.

Even after reading the article, I think that folks often don't understand that Technical Debt is not a "bad thing" but a thing that must be understood and managed.

When you understand this, it puts software engineering into a very clear perspective.
This is a terrific idea, in that it exploits one of the big reasons people listen to music (others recommend it).

However, I think there is a real decrease in the real value of music recordings. While the internet does cheaply connect fans with musicians in widely different geographical regions, overall the supply of music has gone way up. Why should I pay one band for music when there's another band, just as good, giving away their music for free one click away?
I've never seen my perceived view of marriage so succinctly summed up with stick figures.
Interesting, had no idea their point had been put to such a scrutiny. Thanks for the very interesting links.
Execution is most of what goes in to bringing a product to market successfully. It takes a lot more than a good idea to succeed; secretive dreamers abound, but the vast majority of them never ship.

This is old news:

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. [Howard H. Aiken, as quoted in Portraits in Silicon (1987) by Robert Slater] [from wikiquote]

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. [Thomas Edison, spoken statement (c. 1903); published in Harper's Monthly (September 1932)] [from wikiquote]

Actually, startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand. Which means, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless. [Paul Graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html]

NDAs may have uses in established companies with very specific trade secrets that established competitors would be able to use right away (see, e.g., http://www.mbay.net/~heuer/Spystory/Industry.htm -- though that points out that some people are willing to risk criminal indictments, not just civil suits...). They're not worth the trouble for your cool idea to, say, monitor eBay auctions via Twitter and bid by tweet. Uh-oh, I guess we're not in stealth mode any more, Toto. ;-)
Very helpful thanks
I'd bet that if you changed your site a bit you could get decent ecpms -- maybe even in the $6-$8 range. Also, links to amazon / whoever sells the software. If you want to talk more, hit me up over email.
Your tutorials are one screenshot per page.... so I'd guess that your pv per visit is high but it's fluff traffic. No one is going to abandon the "slideshow" to click on ads. Your best points to put ads are at the end or near the begining of the process of viewing a tutorial. Consider taking the pv hit and putting the whole tutorial on one page.

You say your audience is mostly people at home, learning. Maybe you can advertise for rentacoder (eg "make money working with Access!") or similar services.

Think about what other computer-related problems someone in that situation might have, like anti-virus, certification, jobs.

Hmm. reading back these options sound kind of sleazy.
You could experiment with a tip jar as well. Don't write off display ads either -- give them an honest try for a couple of months.
It seems that this article is wrong-- today Twitter confirmed that there are no additional fees. http://blog.twitter.com/2009/02/bell-mobility-and-twitterno-...
Entrepreneurs are supposed risk-takers and not signing a NDA is a risk they should take.

This statement is too broad to be useful. While entrepreneurs should be comfortable assessing and managing risk, it's invalid to say that entrepreneur = risk-taker, therefore they should take risk X. There are situations in which NDAs are useful to entrepreneurs and the risk of ignoring them doesn't prove your entrepreneurship, just your ignorance.
Reads like you've got all the incentives right, to stimulate both purchasing itself and the proliferation of buyers interested in bringing in more buyers.
Worm causes computer crash
Please tell me when you find sites that it doesn't work on, there are so many edge cases.
Adding more gas to a car will not burn more. There is a system to regulate the consumption of fuel (throttle) just as a human body. Its not a burn pit.

And is this old metabolism debate still going on? Last time I checked most overweight people actually had higher metabolic rates.
No, he's asking for clicks.
It seems that the bigger the telecom firm, or the greater their level of incumbency, the more evil they are.

I have seen this as mid-size companies like Broadwing and Telcove got absorbed by Level3, and the quality of customer service going down while Level3 invented additional charges on set-price contracts out of thin air.
Walk Like Us: 1.5 Million-Year-Old Footprints Look Modern
Nope. I am British and used to be a journalist. The first place I worked had a very large sign on the wall:

"Companies are singular".

Which indeed they are, although staffed by multiple individuals.
Experimental philosophy is called science.
Obviously you can correlate DNA with geographic location.

But in-population differences of individuals are bigger then inter-population group differences because all the populations are so similar.

And because the differences between the populations are so small you'll only be able to measure them, when you measure very, very, very narrow things. Like PCA does.

For example you could measure skin color. The amount of melanin deposited in your skin is controlled by one gene.
So that's about as narrow a measure as you can have.

But can you draw conclusions about broader characteristics in phenotype?

Nope. That's why the whole race concept has fallen out of favor, not because it's a lefty conspiracy to avoid hurting people's feeling. It's not that, it's science.

The same goes for IQ and societal success.

Can you correlate education levels with a phenotype or genotype?

If you could, scientists would have already done it, and they would be famous. Parents would be screening their embryos. You could do it and be famous.

Again, it's not some lefty conspiracy, it's just not possible.

Oh we do have genes that seem to result in more scientists and engineers, the Ashkenazi have them, but they correlate with neural disease. And the Ashkenazi don't have a higher incidence of CEOs and politicians and musicians.

And who's on top of the societal ladder in western society? Politicians and CEOs or us geeks?

And who has a higher reproductive success, musicians or engineers?

That's why people talking about poverty, race and IQ, are like people talking about Monster audio cables.

Your assertions about IQ and Mexicans are not evident from the real world genomic data. But if you're prejudiced you can try and twist the facts to match your prejudices.
What about TuneCore? http://www.tunecore.com/ Their prices don't seem that bad to me - nothing like what a label takes from you.
CEO: Nokia Considers Entering Laptop Industry
Midly informative. I can't believe the G5 outsells the Focus/Versa/Matrix.
In big companies in the valley, I guess the starting salary for a software engr is 80K+
In 2008 there were essentially three real candidates for president of the US: one had degrees from Wellesley and then Yale Law, one was a third-generation Annapolis man, the winner had been editor of the Harvard Law Review. I guess one could argue that the US counts as a large organization.

In Trollope's autobiography you will find an interesting defense of patronage as against the then examination system for the British civil service.
Microsoft Going Too Fast? 36 Changes To Windows 7 Since Beta, Still No Beta 2
What about something that combines making money with instruction? For example, you could add anothger page after each big section where you put a list of links to other helpful tutorials/blogs/official websites, helpful books, etc.

I really think your opportunity lies in putting something at the end of your tutorials. It means you don't have to do a site redesign. Just stick another page at the end, which users get to when they click next. and then you sell something.

I think Amazon can be key. People are looking to learn. That means some of them will be open to buying a book about it. You appear to be an expert in many of these programs, and people will gladly take a recommendation from you about what books are good on which particular subjects.

I'm not saying randomly list books, I'm saying go get them from the library, read them, and actually list what you think are the top three tutorials for each subject you have on your site. If you're upfront somewhere on the site that you earn money from Amazon commissions, I know people don't mind it.
I don't think anyone denies there is a huge part of dieting that is changing habits, lifelong habits. But most of them are just methods of consuming fewer calories.

Most people would have an easier time losing weight if they just stopped eating before being full. Being full should be a luxury, not a daily occurrence. All the studies about "obesity genes" are more focused around the appetite, not anything about metabolism. Appetite is a feeling, sometimes in life your feelings are not always the best method to drive your actions.