skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my first thought, too. I'd think you'd need to be charging around 10x that amount.

Plus, that's ~14k in revenue, not profit. SaaS apps have great margins, but there's still some cost to servers and marketing.

Still, going from 0 to 100 paying customers in a year is pretty great. The next year will surely be even better.

Best of luck!
When I rented my apartment, I used Homestyler to see what it would look like with my furniture, so I'll second that suggestion.

It's not as powerful as I'd like, but it works for basic purposes, and it's free :) :

http://www.homestyler.com/

When I tried it (2 years ago), it didn't allow dimensioned drawing, so it might be a non-starter.
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I disagree with "If you have drafting skills, paper and pencil plus physical model building is likely to be the most efficient approach".

See Homestyler (recommended below) and other programs, with a gentle learning curve.

I have limited drafting skills (did some of the initial courses for civil engineering), but the current easy-to-use programs are miles beyond what I'd get trying to draw or model myself.

That said, if this is going to be really long-term, I agree with your suggestion of hiring someone.
Yeah, I guess I'm not part of the "everyone" refered on the webpage. I'd rather a get a "best papers from Microsoft Research" or something similar.
"Does his epiphany matter? If you believe that his epiphany does matter, you also believe in the meaning of temporary things - of what leaves an impression, but not a legacy."

There are two things here I'd like to comment. First, the question is incomplete, it can be either "does his epiphany matter to the man?" or "does his epiphany matter to the reader?".

The first version has the obvious answer "Yes", of course it matters for him, he doesn't know he'll die soon, nor does he care at that moment.

For the second version the answer, for me at least, is also "Yes", but for a different reason than the one you give. I say his result matters because now we know (we'll we don't theoretically as he didn't get to tell the world) that the question has a solution which means that somebody somewhere will be able to rediscover. I think knowing there is a solution is a huge win for any hard question because you know there is a purpose in your search.
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I've become very used to this in Mathematica. That takes it a little further: Matrices look like matrices, greek letters are actual greek letters and division writes the parts as you'd see on paper - numerator over denominator. Any kind of mathematical code is vastly more readable this way. The way you access symbols is easy too: hit esc, type a short mnemonic, then hit esc again, for example esc-pi-esc gives you pi. Best of all, it's all stored as human-readable plaintext source under the covers. The display is just a convenience.

Can't wait for unicode identifiers and this kind of expression composition in general purpose languages like objc.
>Google is sinking pages on purpose so they buy ads.

[citation needed]
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I wouldn't recommend using that one. There is a newer plugin [1] that uses "after" in combination with conceal syntax to achieve the same effect but without buffer hacks on load/save.

[1] https://github.com/vim-scripts/Haskell-Conceal
The idea sounds cool but I would double check the legal aspect of it...
If he sells Medium to Twitter for stock and cash and the cash portion of his stake in Medium is worth more than what it would add to the value of his stake in Twitter, or he is for some reason unable to cash out some of his Twitter stake, then he might have good financial reason to sell to Twitter.

However, I agree that is unlikely to be his goal since he has taken enough off the table in Twitter fundraising rounds that he likely wouldn't need to sell just for the money and re-entry into Twittrr, which would likely be the purpose of such an acquisition.
Rust's syntax file for vim (and I assume emacs) does the same thing per default. It's quite nice, except when you rely on X's copy paste, which going to blindly copy the unicode characters.
27" Apple thunderbolt display?

My computer does not have thunderbolt.
I have quite a few celebrities signed up, without advertising to them, including certain inventors of Twitter itself, TV personalities, major investors and others.

And all of them (1M+ followers) have to wait up to 60 days or more to get past the login page due to a bug and limits of Twitter.

I feel there's a smart way to work around this and I have always managed to do so in the past, but now, I've hit my technical limits and need help.

I am willing to split upcoming PRO account payments 50/50 with anyone able to help me code moving forward / solve this issue.
I don't the same point of view as the writer in the article. In essence mine is: you need an adapted device to your needs.

Since casual users buy a device for emails, browsing the web and watching movies, they must buy a deviced adated to those needs. And the iPad v1 for instance is well suited. If you look at the iPad v1's tech specs, it is not tremendous. I don't remember exactly, something like 256MB RAM ... 16Go SSD disk .. and so on. Apple made technical choices (or design choices) based on the user needs.

At the contrary if I need to compile big c++ projects with more that 1,000,000 lines of code. I need to set-up a something suiting my needs. Either a big machine with a big horsepower. Or a compiling grid? Whatever. Something that suit my needs.
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The "enterprise" space is like this today. Enterprisey folks chase pennies. Most HN folks are living in a different universe.
my usage of social media plummets during election season. it's quite a nice change of pace when it all finally blows over.
Facebook doesn't have noprocrast, though.
This is also a big issue for small community groups which have a few hundred people and used their facebook page as a way to distribute news to their members. All of whom actually do care about it.
Also: I've helped Twitter fix two other bugs that I reported, but on this one, it's a grey area (they don't consider it a bug, but a safety measure in terms of traffic time out, but still charge me API call credits). so yeah.
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"I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers" – Stephen Hawking
FYI - The film referenced, Urbanized, is available for streaming on Netflix. I watched it a few weeks back and thoroughly enjoyed it even though I'm not particularly versed or overly interested in the subject.
Great idea, sleeper agents are ready to promote nukomeet even if they have their own projects.
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why don't you discuss this with some of the social data mining firms. they may have encountered similar problems
More details on the legal aspect http://www.acojur.com/cvia/apporteur-affaire.html
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A dictionnary made by young pupils reflects sexist ideas that school put in their young heads. Shame on board of education.
yeah, good point for sure. problem is that I am living in Europe right now (I miss the US), and it used to be a lot easier to just meet up with someone knowledgable from any industry back in the US. Here, it's hard to do so. And cold-emailing companies in that field might come off as me trying to drain their competitive advantage? No? I'd be curious who might be able to help out. But calling up Klout would likely not get me a call back at this stage.

and just to add: I think my particular problem is, and that's sort of the selling point, my analysis and reports is not just growth data (which is easy), but my calculations require all of your follower details to work correctly (to provide correct results). Twitter is sending me random follower details, so having a partial set means little reliability (for up to 60 days).
I'm curious about the results.
Its quiet a big feat that tht OP moved from writing first line of code to lauching a company in 10 months. Wonder how did he manage it?

I have been writing code/Mobile apps for 2.5 years still scared to take the leap.
What I found an interesting development in syntax highlighting is "semantic highlighting". Some IDEs support this by integrating directly with a compiler (such as clang).

At a primitive level it allows, for example, coloring nams of variables either by type, or by source (local/field/static field), same with function names (ie, is it a function, method, a static method, etc). See for example: http://doc.qt.digia.com/qtcreator/creator-highlighting.html.

But I'm sure much more is possible. Semantic highlighting could help understand the (non-local) semantic structure of the code, and allow finding mismatches between what the user intends and what he has specified.
Encouraging money wasting to make up for misdesigns and lack of education ? Hard to agree with that.
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Also: MOAI.
I noticed the same thing in Firefox on Linux.
I really don't understand comments like yours.

If a posting doesn't interest you, why not just move on to the next instead of feeling compelled to sneeringly comment in a deprecating way with an air of smug superiority?

What does your comment add to the discussion?
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Leave it to the users to sort out the clutter - allow them to specify for each page / person they "like" whether they want to see all, some or just popular posts of that page/person.

As for promotional posts I have to wonder about FB's claims (and the options displayed on the screenshot): I have had a promotional post in my feed recently that did not belong to any of the pages I "liked", nor to any of the pages my FB-friends "liked" (because I have exactly 0). So I guess that's a bit broken too.
I think the law is that if your "sleeper agent" makes its main activity out of it, then it is hidden employment and you can have troubles, otherwise it's ok
Just launch. Seriously what's the worst that can happen.

I say that like it was easy, it clearly wasn't, but you just have to suck it up and try it.
You say "passwords" were they all the same password or was your gmail password unique to gmail?
Strange to see so many Windows 7 products listed. Free stuff makes news, and I would have guessed that they'd try to drive all news to Windows 8.
More recently Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by Kraig Brockschmidt:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jgalasyn/archive/2012/10/31/free-ebo...
I'm willing to try the service for £12 pound, so the price is right for me. I don't think I'm willing to carry another monthly subscription for much more than that.

What I'm try to say is that from my vantage point, the price seems right. A data point.
Are there any organisms that could survive in the current martian landscape so as to slowly enrich its atmosphere?
Nothing like that happens at PayPal. Don't know what was being smoked when that slide was created. I assume that it is part of the new 'it is all marketing, dummy' initiative.
Thank you for posting that, I hope that I can die with as much dignity.
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I think you should really invest in your website. I did not know about Float before, but so it happens that I´m shopping for a financial/accounting/cash flow app and I got to be honest: Float might work and maybe is all I need but your site really does not convey the value it might provide me if I become a user (I´m refering to the home page, the tour page does a bit better but you could improve it by tweaking a few things)

I suspect your metrics might have some key info relating to what I´m about to tell you: grab the whole tour page and include it below the Start your free trial in the home page. See if that helps your conversions.

Good luck!
Launch and then keep working and developing the product.
I actually checked it in Xombrero on OpenBSD with no issue. To be honest, I hadn't expected anyone to read the article outside of people in the IRC channel, where practically no one is running Windows.
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btw, is a sleeper agent allowed to be a sleeper agent for your competitors, like a double sleeper agent? ;)
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if I contract you do I have a 10% discount (I've put you in touch with myself) ?
Hmmm, I've hacked with mst a few times and I could have sworn he used highlighting, albeit basic.
This is fine though for MS developers. The titles are very clear about the technology. It would only be cause for concern if they used misleadingly generic titles, like Securing Your Server where the whole book after the intro is about security tools for MS stack.
Do you have spellcheck enabled?
Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory - if everyone else is willing to pay 2.25% then that seems pretty fair...
Original post: http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.it/2012/06/anti-patterns-...
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Hi Alan,

There are a few extra factors at play here,

- Our price is somewhat anchored by the accounting packages we integrate with, but we do intend to try and push that price up eventually (I should add: by adding more powerful features, rather than just hiking it).

- We offer founder plans for people keen to support us (think kickstarter) which works out about 2-3 worth of lifetime value up front, and has really helped us month-to-month.

- I was still working a full-time, then part-time, job for the first 10 months or so.
- We were partly incubated for a year or so by my co-founder's web design company, which allowed him to keep drawing a salary from that and gave us an effectively free office. Although we are now both full-time on Float.

- We've spent a number of our weekends this year helping start an incubation space (by literally knocking down walls) which has got us free office space while it's being finished off (http://techcube-ed.tumblr.com/).

- We have raised a tiny amount of money, which obviously helps.

- We live in Scotland which I am sure has a much lower cost of living than London/the Valley.

- I have a _very_ supportive wife who works full-time.
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That's just what I was about to say. Make the tour more accessible. Either what @fabiandesimone suggested or have a big type "take the tour!" appear on top of the laptop screen on hover, and then make the tour slide down the already existing screen shot (which is the one on the laptop as well as the first on the tour).
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Hi Fabian,

We are currently quite focused on our target marget of FreeAgent customers, and Float is not currently mass-market (yet) but you are right.

We recently released a page, more like you are suggesting, for Xero customers here: http://floatapp.com/xero what do you think?
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Hi everyone,

I didn't post this, but I am the author. Thanks for all the kind words on the post.

As far as Float goes, it currently only works with www.freeagent.com, so if you are a FreeAgent user, feel free to sign up.

I am (as we speak) working on integration with www.xero.com, and there's more detail on that here if you want to try the beta: http://floatapp.com/xero.

All thoughts and feedback on either the post of the product are more than welcome :)

Thanks!
Phil
Your words:

When you’re working on your product, you’ve got some beta testers, it looks shit but you’re making progress, and you’ve a huge list of things you want to do, it’s easy to put off marketing.

“We’re not ready for loads of customers yet”

“We’ve too much to do to be marketing”

“Let’s wait till the product is great, then marketing will be easier”

The truth is, marketing is really hard. It takes time to work, it can be hard to know when it is working, and you don’t see instant results so it doesn’t feel very productive.

Getting started earlier, and doing a little as you go along is, I think, a much better strategy than waiting till you launch. It gives you time to learn about what works and what doesn’t, it let’s you learn about the process and get better at it, and it gives your marketing time to work.

Market the hell out of the app man!

EDIT: What I meant to say is that as you put it marketing is very hard (I know, that´s what I do) so don´t narrow it down. Go for it, right now!
Lets say I hate such primitive attempts of cheap manipulation. At least not here.
Hmmm.. The ready availability of low cost labor in Russia and India must be why Microsoft, Google, and Amazon shell out 100k/year + 80k in stock to new employees.

In programmers, you get what you pay for.
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Fair play sir, fair play.
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While searching for a domain to new and I came across nodejs.com in the auction list. Would be interested to see how much it is sold for. :)
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Haha! Good question...
Yes! We'll do that for you, as we won't have "sales expenses" ;)
What manipulation do you think is going on here? Do you think recoiledsnake is a Microsoft-shill, or something else?

Looking at his previous posts and comments, I seriously doubt he is.
This is starting to look better :)
While personally I think this is a great idea, it's nothing new.

In a technocratic society; specialists rule. It wouldn't matter whether the President would be a programmer, engineer, or theorist. Any scientist would do an equally good job at re-factoring the government's inefficiencies.

But sadly, a FPTP voting process means it's a popularity contest. Fix the voting system, and open up this possibility. My vote's on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
I'm fairly certain one of the managers at my old job used to very strongly encourage his interns to type properly. And by very strongly encourage I mean threaten to fire them if they didn't show typing improvement over the semester. I'm not sure he could have legally, but it worked as motivation for those guys. When he came in to the shared office area, he'd point out to them that they were typing wrong. So it's really about the motivation to change (which I think you have), and maybe external reinforcement (tell your coworkers that if they walk over to talk to you and catch you typing with 2 fingers to say something).

Other than that, yes, the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing programs of the world can help you learn to type. When I first got a computer, I just learned to type by using 1 finger, then 2 fingers, then 2-3 fingers on each hand. I did one of the typing programs and started learning how to type properly. I was nowhere near 110 WPM though improperly, more like 20-40 wpm. 110 with only 2 fingers is pretty beastly :)
This:

> set1 ∪ set2

Looks good until someone confuses it with:

> set1 u set2

Having two characters that are similar enough to be confusing is bound to cause problems.
There are remote debuggers for Lua, like Zerobrane Studio (http://studio.zerobrane.com/), that allows to patch the code at runtime, enabling live coding, or Koneki (http://www.eclipse.org/koneki/ldt/).

I know there's more, see here for the full list of IDEs:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaIntegratedDevelopmentEnvironmen...
Apparently some alpine and polar lichens could survive on mars:

http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151...

However, my understanding is that these have such slow rates of growth that they might not be terribly good at "enriching" the Martian atmosphere, at least in their current natural form.
Can you please post links about this? It's incredibly interesting, and it would be great to see what's the reason behind it coming into existence and what the output has been because of it.
But we'll never know because Amazon and google won't release sales figures.
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Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but you write that:

So I scale back up to 100 follower requests for the next call. It goes through. Next 100, fails. I scale down again …

So, that sounds like a cache is being primed on the first request. If this is a consistent pattern, you should be able to issue a request for one record, followed by a request for 100 and get it through most of the time (E.g. unless you run into a garbage collection cycle). If you code against this assumption, you should be able to utilise 50% of the theoretical limit of a 100/hour.

Is there something I'm missing?
One moonscript implementation is a loader, so this would be pretty easy to do.
Might I suggest putting an extra "Request an invite" between "Let me know when Float is ready for Xero" and the extra form data to get early access? It's a great idea to collect meaningful information in exchange for earlier access, but you might be losing people who just want to drop their email and go by having them scroll over the much longer form.
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I did know a company that placed someone in a large business primarily to sell their product a few years down the line. It did work too.
Yeah I used it to while I was recovering from an operation. I like lua but still feels like a joke language to me.
Anyway heres a video of what I did http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOV8j7GM3JA
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I think the author greatly exaggerates the assumpitions he makes about "programmers", just because you know how to write computer code doesn't mean you will want to spend more money on the space program or be opposed to software patents. Furthermore this list isn't the benefits from a technical person running the country its someone who agrees with his ideology. How about we need a engineer to be running this country so that

* They understand how to break down large problem to small ones
* Are efficient and always looking for ways to make other parts of the system efficient
* Understand the technical issues facing the country
* Knows the value of having, and the benefit of relying on expects in each problem domain
* Knows how to plan and implement solutions to complex problems
* Knows how to map problems across domains to leverage existing knowledge
* Isn't afraid of getting into the details of problems.

I think thats a better list.
Thanks Philip,

I find myself letting the fear factor of not having money completely control my life and actions. I am very impressed by anyone who's able to overcome this fear.

Your story is truly inspiring, and I wish you the very best of luck!
I don't know where in Europe you're currently based, but Datasift are in the UK and seem to be one of the hottest "social media analytics" companies out there. Their staff seem fairly active on twitter itself, maybe give them a try [1]

1 - http://datasift.com/whoweare/team
Ironically, this made me sign up, thereby adding to your load. Sorry.

I'm sure before the end of today someone here would help you out. Better still it might help trying to contact a few peeps directly.
This is the one I'm looking at. I make most of my calls via my PC using Google Voice anyways. Also they only throttle you when you go over (as opposed to charging you big overages).
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This isn't surprising. I remember when Apple (before the iPhone) had a niche of the PC market, 10% to 15%, and that was it. You can't keep the image/price of a top tier product, and try to take the whole market.

I'm surprised they got this far. We're in a bit of a stagnation as far as mobile technology, and while I think MS is also making big mistakes by dropping it's business first image, Apple should have started creating lower priced devices if it wanted to compete with my $150 no contract android phone which basically does the exact same thing. More people are realizing this.