skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked with real estate technology, and the best way to get clients is to get to know the brokers. Create a relationship with a broker, "team", group, whatever you want to call it but that's what you need to do.

Find local real estate agents, and see who they are working with.

Just be careful though, chances are whatever service the agent is using for their website already has a listings creator.

I know that Zillow just created a service a few months ago, and there are some others out there as well.

Also, as far as the backend goes, you want it to be simple. Real Estate agents are concerned about making money, and for the most part they do not believe in the internet yet and they do not believe that the internet is a viable source for lead generation.

You're in a good position, because their mindset is changing especially with a wave of new real estate agents coming in.

In marketing it, you need to explain that your product is strong in two points, the front-end and the backend. Make sure your product at the bare minimum can export to a CSV file, but try to see what software agents are using to manage their agents, and create export features for that.

Make sure they get leads right away, and they are legit leads. I used akismet for our lead generator, and it worked great for the most part to weed out the spam.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I'd be more than happy to help you how I can in a general sense, I don't want to step on my previous employers toes though since they are also getting into the same market eventually (could be years though).
It takes a rather "brave" person to buy a WP7 phone at the moment since you know it is obsolete, and is something you wouldn't want to be stuck with for the next two years (or more). That still shouldn't stop them from trying to enthuse you with the interface style which carries forward into WP8 and Windows 8.
Apple contents that it actually doesn't spend money for most of the placements: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04...

I suppose you could put a monetary value on the free giveaways or horse trading that gets done though.
That's probably the right way to think about GA data in general; the only reason I highlighted it is because the bounce rate so heavily skewed the metric that it made it almost meaningless.
I'm a user of Titanium.

Or rather, I was.

This incident, and their response, is a complete dealbreaker.
Doesn't the same thing apply to Facebook when it started? Myspace, Friendster, and all other competitors had a ton more users and strong network effects back in 2004. Facebook offered a better experience though, and so users were willing to switch despite network effects (and even maintain multiple accounts for a period of time)
The Vision of Sin
A sample size of one store manager and one interviewer is pretty weak to be making bold claims such as, "This Microsoft is one that teaches its retail employees to be overly cautious of reporters or people asking questions".

Maybe the author didn't deal with the MS Store manager very tactfully, or maybe that manager was having a bad day, or maybe he got lucky with the Apple Store employee; who knows.
TL;DR: It may happen, but nothing about Microsoft's position in the market seems inevitable going forward.

Most people outside the HN bubble actually like and admire Microsoft because it's what they know ---- and most importantly, they don't care about computing enough to know the differences between things, so they go with the comfortable and familiar. Apple's premium pricing keeps a lot of people away from the Mac (not that Apple needs to care -- their business model is fantastic for their bottom line). So, for most people -- the Android crowd that uses MSFT at work -- Microsoft stores could become something meaningful in the overall landscape.

Then again, since most of the people I'm talking about just don't care that much...when the time comes to buy that new laptop they might not ever make it to the store when the (already familiar and comfortable) Best Buy / Costco / Sam's / Walmart / Dell / Amazon buying experience will do just fine.
Nope. Don't be afraid to release broken. As full quote goes: "Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers".

Trying to perfect a product by your self is hard and other people always find a genuine way to broke it. I believe that it is more important to be first out, first with samples and first with some kind of a product to sell that improves with time.

Thoughts?
Don't like it? Spend six hours and fix it yourself. This guy is well within his rights here.
looking good. found a typo in the adblock-banner: "you'll thanks us ater"
Put readers in train car vestibules so riders can tag on/off on the train.

...and then some people will stay on the train, necessitating conductors to check passengers repeatedly.
It's pretty easy to do in javascript.
Made a Gist with a simple example https://gist.github.com/3764261
Weird, they were fine yesterday. I'll take a look. Thanks!
^ Yes, this is exactly how I've solved this problem in the past. A slow user driven migration.
Library.nu alternative
library.nu (RIP) alternative ;)
He asked, not demanded, and he was going to release it eventually anyway.
There are only two types of store culture in retail: the right one and the wrong one. Apple obviously totally nails the approach, which when you think about it is actually very suprising, because ragrdless of the company culture, consumer electronics stores of any kind are manned by bored and/or clueless staff. Good examples are the Dell mini stores, Best Buys.

Not a consumer electronics example but a great example of just how big a difference employees who are both excited and knowledgeable about the products they sell is Marbles, the Brain Store. I always felt that the people working there would still be there even if they weren't paid.
Ask HN:Homework submission and grading Apps
Hi All,

I am trying to decide whether to create a specific focus on the assignment submission and grading capability of appynotebook.com.

However I would first like to know what's out there by way of Apps that simplify this often tedious task of managing assignments.

URLs would be helpful.

Regards.
GhanaWeb.com vs. reddit.com: same traffic
Misleading.

Dev requests a non-zero tip as sign of appreciation for fixing a rare and obscure bug in 6 hours, for a minority. For a tip over a certain threshold he offered to rework that existing fix (aka invest more time) to include it into the next stable/support release instead of in v-next.

(For the lazy people:He did exactly that after receiving a 75 USD gift certificate for Amazon)

Now, why is this title (to my non-native reading comprehension skills) negative, if patio11 is (again, and probably rightfully so) repeating his mantra of charging a higher rate in a sibling thread? 75 USD seems quite a good deal for 'someone works 6+ hours to fix a tricky bug that has a trivial workaround and is rare to begin with', right?
That depends on how you pay your agent. If you pay an agent an annual fee not tied to a job change or activity, that agent would not be financially motivated to have you move. I think the model works best with a long term relationship with annual fees instead of just some tax when you change jobs. There is quite a bit of guidance in between job changes that could be of great value in getting to that next job.
I had a similar experience in a T-Mobile store a few doors down from my local Apple store. Wanted to get my hands on the Galaxy S3 to check it out, surf, etc. before purchase. Took the sales guy 10 minutes to find a demo model in the back-room. Then fumbled with the phone with the sales guy looking over my shoulder, constantly peppering me with questions and small-talk. Apparently he had to keep an eye on me, as they don't have their demo phones secured and didn't have the staff to prevent theft. No internet access on the phone either. Very awkward experience. Needless to say I did not purchase the phone.
I think that zwieback was implying that Steve was kind of a dick, and that he might have just been dickish to his kids. Truth is, though, that kids love their parents and benefit from their attentions, even if they are jerks.
If they don't, other people won't bother because they'll see all the regular travelers ignoring the tagging machines.
pseudo-ml

factorial n = case
| n <= 1 -> 1
| else -> n * factorial (n - 1)

i can see what's going on at a glance - the syntax and layout of the code are a positive help to understanding it.
Or card readers next to the train doors. People usually spend a few minutes next to the doors before exiting -- there's no reason why they couldn't tag off then. The train would be smart enough to round up this tag location to the next stop.
Given they carbon copied everything you immediately notice about Apple stores (look, feel, employee uniform), I do find it surprising they didn't try to ape the store culture too.

There really are Microsoft fans that know how to relate with people. And a lot of them (and others) have a pathological hatred for all things Apple.

I'd hope for some swagger going into any branded store even if I thought their products were overpriced crap (I'm looking at you, Sony Store). Otherwise, it's just depressing.
It looks to me like twitter is hurting for money, and they are trying to reduce costs by reducing API usage.

It could also be they want more ads, and 3rd party usage of the API would bypass that.

If anyone wanted to buy them, now would be a good time.
I feel so behind when reading comments like this, so behind that this could have been a sarcastic parody and I wouldn't even notice. Is there anyone who understood this comment fully? is this something any developer should know? I'm fighting the urge to Google every term (or read the blog) but I'll probably won't understand much of it. Can anyone translate this to plain English?
Email essentially IS centralized at DNS.

The difference between DNS and Facebook/Twitter is that DNS is regulated so that bad guys have to go through some kind of due process to shut down your domain. It's not perfect, but it's better than what else we've got.
thanks, fixing asap ;)
Um, what? You think we need more layers of metacomments upon metacomments?
Most Reported Genetic Associations with IQ Are Probably False Positives (.PDF)
Detroit Dont Play Google Maps
How about an "open" port with nothing listening on it? What does "open" mean?

I think his point is that two nodes should be able to open and then connect on any port they choose, not just TCP 80. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Are we saying that a user should not even be _allowed_ to have an application listen on any port except a known few?

Isn't the more important issue whether an application/process is actually listening on a port? I mean you can send me all the nasty bits you want but unless I'm prepared to receive them, what difference does it make? And I thought the whole premise here is that the only people on this social network are ones you know. They shouldn't be deliberately sending you nasty bits anyway.

I am a unixnoob. Please go easy on me for my ignorance.
> Website idea: show two random movies, ask them if they've seen both, and if they have, ask the user which one's better without prescribing what "better" means. Repeat 1 trillion times.

http://flickchart.com
Aren't those turnstiles exactly the solution?

Building the walls and gates at every station would cost a lot of money, and would require a significant increase in fares.
If you move one position to the right, you'll see a clearer image of the gun
This doesn't shock me in the slightest. It's (apparently) a fairly esoteric bug, and the developer openly wonders whether anybody actually care about it being fixed quickly. For that reason, he asked for a proof in the form of one donation of $1 or more. That's a cheap way to test whether anyone cares about it.

In a somewhat related fashion, I have a similar system that I apply to myself on some of my hobby projects. For the more serious ones, I aim to achieve near-100% code coverage in unit tests. One of the side effects is that everytime that I ponder adding a feature not out of need but out of curiosity, challenge or completeness, I ask myself: "do I care enough about it to write tests for it?" It's basically a litmus test for keeping bloat at bay.
But as you can see from dundun[1]'s post, the rank is very biased towards the more recent times; according to it, 43% of the best 5000 movies were made between 2001 and now.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4555723
First of all: Qantas have had more "incidents" than that.
The Bangkok mishap was the first "accident" (substantial damage to the jet) since they started flying jet airliners.

A Qantas pilot explained the details of how it could have happened. If certain pre-landing checks were not done, and the module was missing, its Plausible for non-functioning autoland in a 747-200 to go unnoticed.

Accidently going off the side of the runway pavement could result in little damage, assuming the jet stayed controllable.
It's pretty well known that Einstein was a horrible husband and father
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Mari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Einstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Einstein
It's not "public data". Illustrating example: people can and do make different offers on Craigslist than they do in other channels.
Add to that every time someone tries to log into my account I get an e-mail asking me to confirm or deny the attempt; instead of the option to ignore it.

And multiple attempts by other people to log in to my account by other people locks me out.

It's a good thing I only use it for Xbox.
"what kind of bubble are we in" - good question, and that was the key point. Tech recruiting is a big business, but recruiting in lots of other industries is not nearly as big. Why is that?

There are more programmers than athletes and Hollywood stars, but there are many more people in industries where using a recruiter/agent is not the norm. If you think that programmers are good at or enjoy handling their own finances, doing PR, or salary negotiation, I'd encourage you to talk to thousands of programmers and ask them how they feel about that. I have programmers come to me for advice on negotiation and what career moves to take that aren't even active candidates (jobs they found on their own, yet still seeking representation). Programmers that I have met hate that part of the business, hate negotiation and building their brand. Of course there are some that are willing to do it and are good at it, but the majority seem to be completely fine passing that off on to somebody else if they can.
I think you could at least make an argument that Firefly is comparable to Citizen Kane. It makes a lot more sense than saying that The Avengers is the third best movie of all time.
Well... There are many phone makers who would be happy if the iPhone 5 got less press coverage.
3taps will file an antitrust countersuit, alleging that Craigslist maintains a [monopolistic control] over numerous markets related to online classified advertising. If successful, 3taps could open up the market to numerous innovations atop Craigslist data and bring about the user interface and search features, whose lacking seem to be exemplified by the popularity of sites such as PadMapper

-- Anti trust is an interesting angle.

The Irony is that newspapers (the competition) were all reliant on classified ads, which have been decimated by craigslist. As it is, Craigslist is just a good competitor with a more efficient system and better pricing. There are other choices, just at different pricepoints. Its not clear this is a winning formula.

It will be interesting to see if there are other angles of attack -- such as fair use -- which would also allow re-purposing of data posted to quasi-public internet places, that hold non-exclusive rights on said information.
Beautiful exposition. Even in the late 1700s, many mathematicians rejected the use of mere negative numbers, viewing them as anomalies which indicated that one had phrased a problem wrong to begin with. On the other hand, Euler understood everything very well and even calmly explained how to take logarithms of complex numbers, which bewildered most of his contemporaries.

Someone once said that a lot of confusion could have been avoided if, instead of the terms positive, negative, and imaginary, they had instead used the terms forward, backward, and lateral.
I'm sure Zuck is hanging on their every utterance.
> So the Microsoft store culture is not like the Apple store culture.

Microsoft and carrier shops tend to have a thrift store culture. No guidance, no expertise and lots of low-quality stock.

Or worse they have used car dealership culture. Agressive, slick salesmen who see a commission and not a person.
Getting off the BART is terrible when it's crowded. Especially at stations with only 1 exit and not very many tills (16th and Mission)
Thanks, I use nodejs for both the webserver and the smtp server. Sending mails isn't supported at the moment, but will def. be in the future, already have it in my dev build ;) Gonna add a second smtp server as a failover too.
IPhone 5 Benchmarks: 30% to 160% Faster than iPhone 4S
I was recently setting up an online account with Charter because my wife and were having issues with the irregular nature of their paper billing. After securing the PIN number that was only on the paper bill that they weren't sending us, I created the account with a 30 character password string that was generated and stored within Password Gorilla. Charter's webapp took the password, which was to long for them, and instead of throwing an error and telling me to choose a shorter password, it truncated it at some arbitrary position to fit their policy. Locked out! Ten minutes get to a human on the phone, another five to explain why someone would use a 30 character password and how they might go about doing it... eventually the password was reset. Good times.
You Might Be Able To Download Your Tweets By The End Of The Year
How is that even close to the point he was making? HFT vs HFT algo trades happen infrequently. They do happen, but it's rare. But guess what? This forces each other to be better, just like any other competitive industry. The ones that do poorly consistently are just being told by the market that they should leave and go find something else to do, because they're not any good at this.

If it's bad that one firm capitalizing on the situation of another firm making a mistake is the point, then I think he should really rethink his participation in capitalism.
The main reason for the temperature constraint isn't actually temperature but rather the presence of liquid water. We currently know of no life form that can exist without it. I believe the 'goldilocks zone' is more specific in that its looking for liquid water on the surface. There could be liquid water underground in bodies well outside the goldilocks zone and there are some indications that this is true of some moons in our own solar system.

'Planet temperature' doesn't completely rule out the possibility of life. Venus for example is hot as hell on the surface but there is actually a band of the atmosphere which humans could hangout unprotected in, its breathable, the pressure is about what it is on Earth, etc. There have been some attempts to send a probe to hang out there and look for bacterial life but I don't think any have been funded.
I think lore.com does this to some degree
While already quite clean, your JavaScript can be simplified somewhat. split() will take a regular expression:

var wordCount = value.trim().split(/\s+/).length

Additionally, JavaScript's regex dialect has a special character of "\W", which matches any non-word character. So if you split on "\W+" instead, you ought to get a more reliable list of words, eliminating cases like "foo -- bar" counting as 3 words.
Pre-release benchmarks didn't lie. The iPhone 5 is dramatically faster than the 4S and even the iPad 3 in some tests.

Of course, this only has value for those looking to stay within the iOS ecosystem. Many current and upcoming Android phones score as high or higher than the 5.
Seems like an extremely reasonable request from the developer to see if anyone actually gives a crap about what he's doing. Good on him.
The Guru Effect: Why being a “How-to” expert will destroy your potential
Why would anyone post Ideas here? So someone else can develop your idea and you get nothing from it?
The Air Force Has Us a Little Freaked Out About Facebook
I found this thread searching for the same answer.
That's a bit posh minded isn't it? Lower margin stores don't have the "right culture" because its not affordable and not part of their business strategy.

Not saying that MS is low margin per se but its certainly lower than Apple.
A Real Information Age Veterans Job Act
Closed source is a definite dealbreaker: how do I know there aren't horrible flaws in their cryptographic protocols? Short of reverse engineering their binaries there's not you can do.

The features AeroFS provides seem incredibly similar to what you can get from open source alternatives, for example the Tahoe-LAFS distributed encrypted filesystem and Duplicati:

Tahoe: http://www.tahoe-lafs.org/

Duplicati: http://www.duplicati.com/ (can store data to Tahoe-LAFS)
Oh I'm not surprised at all. They're not very good at copying Apple after all! :D
Great way to balance the demands of the minority against the billion other things that affect the majority.
Does anyone here even have any experience in NYC, or on Wall Street?

Wall street knows what business it's in...lots of them. It does bond research, equity research, investment management, sales and trading, and yes, investment banking (to raise capital to all these poor companies that can't find anyone to pay millions of dollars in fees to do)

Do people really think that there are no investment bankers who raise capital anymore? That because of HFT, a job that pays 1mm a year when you're 30 has no more interest to anybody? That there are so many humanities majors graduating from princeton and harvard that normally do client relationship investment banking but because of HFT, they are going to write algorithms and optimize OS code for latency instead?

Have people seen how many layoffs are happening in investment banking division on wall street? (where they raise the capital for companies) It is NOT A ZERO SUM GAME. HFT doing well is NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF CAPITAL RAISING.

What kind of point is this? Is it even informed by any facts?
Twitter's directory of public profiles
I would encourage you to pitch, It was a bit nervy for me, but pushing through those fears are what makes a good startup (not saying that you have those fears just that i did). Plus I had a great time. and who knows? maybe your idea will be one that wins!
OK, my main point restated:

A number is whatever we want it to be, whatever it is useful to treat as a number.

That's it. That's the whole gag. Saying something isn't a number is pointless: It is if it can be, and it isn't if it's more interesting to treat it as something else.

This leads to something more fundamental:

Math is all about modeling. Math is a language for making models that are logically consistent.

Confusing a model with the thing being modeled is wrong. Saying complex numbers aren't numbers because they're rotations is going at it backwards: Complex numbers can be used to model rotations. That doesn't tie them to that one model. They can be used in other ways, too.
Accepted Answer TL;DR:

[sorry]
we will not charge for development that happens under the “App Explore” product (i.e., the free version). Usage of the Appcelerator platform (Titanium Mobile SDK, Titanium Studio, Analytics and Cloud Services) at this level is permitted for all applications, both commercial and free, with no financial obligation to Appcelerator.
[sorry, we aren't transparent enough]