skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mind if I turn this around and ask you some leading questions?

Do you think that 7500 words can constitute an "Ultimate Guide" on anything, let alone a subject as broad and deep as, "Building a Recurring Revenue Business from Scratch"? Do the points featured in the blog post seem to flow naturally from one to the next? If you were to ignore the title of the post and what it claims to be about, what would you think it was about after reading it?

Does it read like an essay, or like an outline?

What kind of recurring revenue businesses will this guide help to build?

I had started to write an objection to this post hours ago after following the link to Maneesh's "first passive business" and doing a little more background research. About halfway through I canceled the comment, deciding that it probably wasn't constructive and probably wasn't worth my time (or a reader's).

(Side note: I was going to go to mixergy.com to try to also make the argument that the usual content from Mixergy is far better than this, but found that I couldn't actually load the site without first signing up with an email address. I look forward to the future messages delivered to my account, no@piss-off.com. I also realize that my argument would have been wrong.)

If Maneesh has been building fame and fortune online by using SEO tools to come up with subjects that $.01/word writers at http://thecontentauthority.com/ will blog about for him (it's "high quality" and "not spam", of course) and then post around the web for him so that he can make passive AdSense revenue from people directed to the ghost-written posts by Google, well ... awesome, I guess. I honestly kind of wish I could give up programming and do something like that; I certainly can't argue with his quality of life or how he's chosen to spend the money he's made exploiting a company that provides both ads and search results.

And if he's now coming up with ways to leverage his skills into enormously popular posts like, "How I quadrupled my productivity by hiring a hiring a woman to slap me", or, "How to learn a language in 90 days", or, "How to Earn $12,840 from a Single Guest Post", then that's awesome too, I guess.

And if he then writes a post that compiles a bunch of tips on building a social-media-newsletter-marketing-recurring-revenue business, then awesome, too. But, I find myself agreeing with handzhiev's sentiment that it's vague and incomplete and not polished, and I also find myself feeling like I should soon expect to see a follow-up post, "How I made $32,768 by having someone else write a guest post on my site and submit it everywhere", followed by the even more popular, "The ultimate guide to getting rich online".
And then you do an accidental implicit conversion from the iterator type (const pair<...>) to the function type (pair<...>), return a reference to one of the fields and BOOM, everything explodes.
Killing Sexy Halloween: The Ethical and Practical Complications
The app filled a niche that no one really needed. It was well designed and worked well, the winners in the photos space are providing more than a sharing mechanism though. They are either attaching it to the rest of your social media (Facebook) or providing new ways to take pictures (Instagram) which even there has beat hipstamatic because they have built social around that and developed their own network culture.
Agreed, though I'd add one other thing: one could argue the issue with Batch failing was the idea itself, or the execution. Perhaps the crappy "shutting down" message is a symptom of poor execution/management.
Thanks for the input!

My plan was to UTC-ed all the time and present them to the visitor based on their local timezone (so no need to convert PST, EST, or even worse for international visitors).

But the concept of <away team> at <home team> is definitely better! Thanks a lot!
Through hard work and continuous innovation. Scientific innovation is necessary for long term growth.
Renegades of Silicon Valley Moving to the Right
If the restaurant (and owner) are analogous to the government, could it not be inferred that the poorer of the patrons is given more while paying less? (not attempting to be classist, just seems like a reasonable inference)
I love my nexus 7, But you're right, most websites assume anything less than <768 is a phone and deliver a single column layout. Even though the n7 is 800px wide (portrait), it reports a device-width of 600px. And of course plenty of websites sniff UA and deliver mobile if they even see Android.
My co-founder (sabalaba) and I have been working on Hackerlist (http://hackerlist.net) - a selective network of great freelance engineers.

This seems like something many of you have been looking for as there are a shocking number of "freelance" posts (from both clients and programmers) on HN each month -- HN ids: 4596379, 4463692, 4323612, 4214767, 4184757, 4053078, 3914001 3783658, 2539892, etc.

We admit, at this stage Hackerlist is an experiment. We're only asking for your time and patience -- we'll help you land contracts with top companies, handle the logistics, and you'll keep 100% of your earnings. No catch. We'll handle the vetting process, source contracts, and continuously work one-on-one with you to improve our tech until it serves your needs. Unfortunately, to preserve high quality, we're unable to accept more than 32 candidates and 6 of these spots are already filled.

If you'd like to be considered for Hackerlist, email me at michael.karpeles@gmail.com or submit your github username on http://hackerlist.net

Our long-term vision is to create a realtime system (think the intersection of mechanical turk, stackoverflow, oDesk) where trusted freelance engineers can immediately clone a git repo, start hacking on a technical problem, and upon completion, get paid what they're worth.

P.S. Suggestions and feedback are appreciated -- we don't want to build something you don't need.
Pilates is great for developing that sense of individual muscle fatigue and for strengthening the muscles that will hold you in proper form.
You're not alone. Guess which famous tech website uses flat files as a database? Hint: orange header, heirarchical comments...
Jquery.data() does not manipulate the dom
They were acquihired and will be working on other things, probably worth including that. Maybe something about the product, why it failed to catch on and what they think users should use in its place.

Will not surprise me at all that many users will miss this announcement. Turn off new accounts today, but give them 6 months and remind those that haven't signed in monthly.
I keep a very detailed journal. It's part of my therapy. The social stuff bothers me and so I stick to use apps like Byword which offers markdown support and Dropbox sync. What's lacking is the ability to link articles and images. Something I can do in markdown but is tedious.

Love to give this a try, if its not forcing me to use social networks.
Unfortunately selling to "companies that have failed" is a pretty unprofitable market.
Everyone in my accelerator always talks about tweeting and blogging, so I caved
Will Jonathan Ive redesign Apple's software?
> 2) Do a risk to reward analysis, where they would gladly pay out 7 billion dollars if caught

Where is the $7B figure from?

> This ONLY affected 28 million PCs.

That's over 3.7% of the European browser market (more, because I assumed each of the 739M people in Europe have a browser).

A few % in browser market share is something people care about very much.

> Also note that for 15 months NO ONE (well, just a few people apparently) contacted MS or the EU Commission about not seeing the browser ballot.

Why would the general public know this even existed or should exist? The only people I would expect to notice it are browser vendors and hardcore browser enthusiasts, a miniscule minority. But that doesn't mean the measure isn't important. It wasn't set in place so people would consciously notice it, it was set in place to have a specific effect.
Less is more and more is less
Seek out 'The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier'. Spare production, strong and haunting voice. These recordings are more than 45 years old and sound like they could have been made yesterday.
That's why you charge them before they fail. The idea being to make users more willing to trust random startups with data and business service.

In the enterprise space, a lot of software contracts include source code escrow, etc.
And when Batch was acq-hired by Airbnb in July they said (TechCrunch):

"An Airbnb spokesperson told me that if plans change in the future, Dailybooth and Batch users will be given ample notice before those services are closed."

Hilarious.
Preserving the self for later emulation: what brain features do we need?
"We're going to try the model again for the next release, see if we can do it next time," says Auwae. "It's really either that or leaving mobile game development completely."
Teachers with an ego trip, step back. Technology is taking over your job, too.
This paper is from 2008. Where is this being used?
Interesting anecdote, but my guess is that your last sentence is an incorrect assessment of what was going on. Chess engines almost all perform a min/max search on the game tree to bounded depth with static evaluation used to evaluate the leaves of the search. My guess is that what was going on is that the really bad moves weren't noticed to be really bad because it assumed the opponent wasn't going to capitalize on the mistake. It seems implausible to me that the engine was somehow able to look ahead to the end game and figure out that the only way to win at misere chess is to be winning going in to the end game.
It really depends on the type of risk. My assertion is that most startups have most of their risk in the market bucket rather than the technical bucket. If you can move some risk from the market bucket to the technical bucket, and compensate by using Haskell, that may be a good tradeoff.

in the case where your risk is in the market bucket, you may go through many just-barely-working prototypes before you hit product-market fit. at that point, if you've saved some time using Ruby (say) because of external factors like Heroku, Bundler, and ruby-friendly services, you're ahead of the game, even if your tenth prototype sucks and needs to be rewritten.
Yes, pretty much don't ever use .data()... or at least have a very good understanding of how it will bite you in the ass. I posted about other issues with .data() not too long ago. This blog post has received >15k views, so clearly we aren't the only people having problems with it.

http://lookfirst.com/2011/12/dont-use-jquery-data-method-use...

The floats part has been 'fixed' in 1.8.x, but it really was just a bandaid applied to an api that is fundamentally broken.

I just use .attr() all the time now. Works great.
But aren't all allocation styles basically the same once you get GC? (I guess unless you broaden the scope of the word, and let it describe the lengths you go in Haskell to avoid allocation at all, aka triggering stream fusion and automatic deforrestation in general.)
ReZoop, Universal mobile loyalty program
I didn't know they sold Kiko on Ebay. That is crazy, I didn't realize people were in the market for that type of item on there.
They seem to be talking about the abundance of carbon in comparison to the indium used in silicon-based panels, rather than because silicon itself is scarce.
Cutting Carbon and Alleviating Poverty
SAP's vision for enterprise-wide social business
Twitter, envisioned in 1992 as cyberpunk data pool that replaces the CIA and LoC
Help define an awesome MongoDB GUI tool
Google Research: Large Scale Language Modeling in Automatic Speech Recognition
Shameless plug: you might like Remembary (http://remembary.com/) - it's based more around writing in your diary, but it also pulls in Twitter and Facebook and RSS feeds like Momento. It also automatically finds the pictures you took each day, and puts any geotagged stuff into a no-work-required map. It automatically fetches your calendar entries (well actually it doesn't at this exact moment due to an iOS6 bug but it will in about a week), It doesn't have a desktop client but it was originally built for iPad and now has an iPhone version. It has a manual data export/import option instead of 'syncing' but I decided that privacy is more important than seamlessness. It doesn't really have tags or address book integration, but given your other other requirements I think you might find it interesting.
DOS batch file programming reference and tutorials?

Joke.

Anyway, you would do anything with it. It's generic enough.
Integers and Strings aren't edge cases. Their literals are polymorphic and typed.

C++ could also type its list initializers with some polymorphic type (similar to Haskell's Num) but didn't do so.

This is not inherent.
Looks great, certainly some points in there that anyone thinking of a startup should go over.
not caremad, just clarifying. I'm as baffled as you are.
A better analysis on: How Long Before 1st Accepted Answer on Stack Overflow?
ha. I didn't think that at all when I was writing it, but I can see how it's applicable. I'll be sure to analyse that more explicitly next time I write a presentation.
Can you describe exactly what is "Virginia's ABC"? And how were they able to shut you down? That part of the story was completely lost on me - I feel like there is some context that I might have missed.
Got my son a Nexus 7 for his birthday and he loves it, am impressed as well (currently have a iPad 1). One thing I don't get though is how some top games are free on android and cost money on iOS ? Bad Piggies for instance, is 1.99 for iPad and free on Android and I can't see any ads on it or that it's a cut down version.

Dave
I am not able to select two for this question.
Which scenarios are the most import to you?
I like the concept but it wouldn't work for the very reason people don't save for a nice funeral.

Source code in escrow works because a large customer builds it into the contract; meaning you only get paid if you agree to the terms.

Consumer startups work by removing payment friction for their users, which inverts the dynamic. Plus, most consumers aren't as tech-savvy as HN so it wouldn't enter into consideration when they use an application.
Show HN: An interactive graph of film ratings built with D3 and AngularJS
I wonder how a app like this got through $7 million of funding or do you think they would be giving some back after deciding to shut down?
Your username is a little too on the nose here. Plus you seem to have somehow entirely missed my point, to a degree I wonder if it is deliberate. Is this some sort of troll?
The honest truth about dishonesty
Almost a year to the day:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/130875076110323712
Show HN: Python Tools for Visual Studio
Congratulations! I think sync is much easier when it's done up front rather than bolted on later.

I'm wondering if sync might have stalled the Momento guys - they had big plans for Android and iPad versions but haven't brought anything out besides small fixes in over a year. (Disclosure: I'm in the iOS diary space too).
This is the future of education at the "bottom" in the 21st century. In several years (perhaps a few decades) solar powered tablet computers will be mass produced and so ubiquitous and inexpensive that they will flood the world. And one of their key uses will be education.
Manually capturing free variables via:

def __init__(self, x, y, ..):
self.x = x
self.y = y

Is so tedious and DRY-violating.
Can you try now?
> these tablets are vastly more expensive than just hiring teachers locally - by orders of magnitude.

What are the actual prices over a multi-year period? Something that's a penny is a few orders of magnitude less expensive than something that's $10, though that doesn't mean you can't scale with the second thing.

> the tablets educate in English or Amharic ... trying to exterminate local languages and culture

Good, many cultures are despicable and the ones that aren't shouldn't worry. Also English (and other languages widely in use) is the language of the rich and powerful, consciously refusing to teach it to kids in poor countries is a great way to keep them poor. Not even teaching the official language of the land is a great way to keep them ignorant on official matters.
And delightfully loose with the history. (But they admit to that in the epilogue.)
Same here. A person who knows how to program and who are easily annoyed by things like inconsistent computer behavior or lack of design aesthetics should probably avoid Linux if their interest in an OS is to help them be productive.
I don't use a lot of new consumer web apps for this reason (I did use Batch just to test, but didn't start using it heavily because I was afraid of something like this happening).

One way of reassuring me in using a product like this would be to have something in the app's settings menu that allows me to point to a different production server, and a commitment in the legal Terms of Service that in the event that the product is shut down, that the server-side code will be open-sourced.
Io futures in Ruby
Then either

1. Stop claiming they are disaster tolerant, because they aren't. Flooding is a common case.

The exact rule i'm aware of is "406.5.3 Storage tanks. Motor fuel storage tanks shall be installed below ground, except
as authorized by the rules of the Fire Department"

So get the fire department to authorize it.

2. Datacener folks should lobby new york city. Bloomberg would likely care.

3. Find something other than motor fuel, which is what is restricted :)

If all else fails:

4. Stop building disaster tolerant datacenters in new york. This is why a lot of financial folks who aren't HFT's build in Seacaucus, etc. There are very few people who need to place a DC in new york, and can't afford to be across the river.

(I'm very keenly aware of the bandwidth situation in both places, FWIW)

I'm sure if datacenters start moving across the river, Bloomberg would care.

Building codes and other restrictions are taken into account by the big boys (Google, Apple, Facebook, etc) when they build large datacenters.
How is this different from Obj-C? Seems mostly like syntax sugar on top of what already exists in C.

The call and call_with are intriguing though.

Please change the name to something searchable and easily remembered before it's too late.
Think about what? Your sentence ends right there.

So billions more people are able to survive somehow now...but our "health" has gone down?

There is the health of the human species...which has gone up undeniably, evidenced by the billions more people being fed...and then there is the health of the individual human.

So you were referring to the health of an individual when discussing agriculture's impact? Sample size seems kinda small. Also...seems that most of us wouldn't be around for that discussion as the non-agricultural food supply would not allow us to be born.
Backward compatibility is for chumps. If you hide behind that and inertia in tech you will be replaced.

Everything will run in the cloud on the latest tech and whatever software you want will be streamed to you direct. And those servers will run on Linux.
BTW, if you're signed in you'll be redirected to your activity feed - try http://goodfil.ms/graph in that case
> In fact, if you have bad vision, sharp good high-quality fonts will help.

As someone with absolutely terrible vision, I'll have to disagree with this point. I've been keeping my screen res around 1024x768 for years because moving it higher just makes it so darn hard to see. I've now come to the point where some monitors and video cards won't even go that low. I'm probably a unique case. Still, I do wish accessibility was better for visually impaired users.

FWIW, Macs do magnification the best out of the box. Zoomtext on windows costs a bit, and I'm not sure anything exists for Linux that's even comparable to MacOSs magnifier abilities. Even with a mac, there's too much mouse movement involved for my tastes.
FWIW Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) has a maximum memory limit of 16 GB.

Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate can go up to 192 GB. Windows 8 is limited to 128 GB, but the Professional and Enterprise editions can do 512 GB.

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...
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Disclaimer: PTVS is built by few Python/OSS enthusiasts at msft & I'll be around in case people have any questions!

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I doubt paying to retrieve your data would go over much better.
Imagine if you just started a 10 day vacation, aren't checking emails and such. You get home and find everything deleted. Ridiculous.
The problem with gradient meshes is that they are 2D grids that run all the way through the shape. Thus you can't add control points on one side of your mesh without adding a bunch of useless ones across the whole length or width. Each mesh segment has to be a 4-sided bezier patch. If you try to gradient mesh a curved shape, the mesh lines run at very awkward angles, it's often better to start straight and bend it only after subdivision. Diffusion curves solve all of these problems, and seem to have no obvious downsides.

I don't see how they would match the artist's intention any less, quite the opposite. You can alter any small part of the image without compromising the overall structure, and you can control spline tension through the blur radius. The only thing I would say is missing is the ability to skew the blur to be more intense on one side of the diffusion curve, thus creating asymmetrical gradients.

In tools like Illustrator gradient meshes are flattened to images anyway when exported to PDF. So if a technique like this was implemented, it wouldn't change the workflow at all. In fact, I expect to see this in Illustrator in the next two versions.
http://www.youtify.com
I remember reading an excellent biography of von Neumann. But it was in German, and I can't seem to recall the title.
Here is the Tucows winner.
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&...

I guess eBay was the few option available back then (fees must hurt!).
how is this better than evernote?
My friend had his Nexus 7 in his pocket (as he always had done) and just the process of sitting on the couch caused enough pressure to destroy the screen.

Google / ASUS provided no support and he just went and bought a whole new device (he was told the price of repair was basically the same as replacement).

Unlike most of the devices I've seen when the screen was cracked (really just a hairline crack across the face), it became completely unusable.