skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some advice from a prospective customer: if you can't/don't want to offer free plan, at least give me a trial that's long enough to actually try out your product. Two great examples that come to mind:

1. Mixpanel vs. Kissmetrics: Mixpanel gives me a free account that I can use for as long as I want to evaluate all the stuff I can do with it. KM gives me a 14-day trial. I'm the only developer working on this project which means that 14 days is not enough time to implement the changes I need and actually start to see the results. Going with Mixpanel for this one was obvious. I will reach their free 25k data points way before the first month so I have to get a real paid plan or put a banner on my website. In any way, they won already. Even if I wanted to switch to KM for the lower prices, exporting the data I currently have would be a hassle.

2. The New Basecamp: Although they don't offer a free plan anymore, they do have a 60 days trial. They don't really lose much by offering those extra days and after two months I'm already hooked to their service, I know how everything works, and most importantly, they have my projects tied down. The work of those 2 months is already there so even if I don't like the product, I'll probably pay for it so I don't have to export it. Joel Spolsky has a great article that talks about this retention thing (his specific example was with email providers) but I can't find it right now :(
There are a lot of stories about Shop-owners begging customers to change their bad review, and some shop-owners goes further trying to bribe Employees inside Taobao company (to cheat on the review system), last year Jack Ma (the boss) fired quite a few people because of this.
I think you mean 3am.
Please do not substantially raise your prices all in one shot.

I watched in horror as the old marketing manager jacked our prices 50% one day. Everyone complained. He had to drop them back to their original levels.

Do it in baby steps.
It goes either way, depending on circumstances. For example, if someone has a new lover, the adulterer usually moves out.

It's actually rare for someone to evict the other, since it's entirely illegal and usually undesired by the evictee. If the separation is very much ill-willed, the person who wants the divorce usually leaves (often as a surprise).
The Artful Brain
eHarmony uses math!

OKCupid uses reader-generated surveys.
> "And so, the ability to rent computing capacity managed by someone else was born."

How poetic.
How do you hype a product, and release the lesser of the two variants (RT vs Pro)? How do you go months without announcing a price, and then don't price it competitively? How do you release a product where your flagship apps (Office suite) doesn't run in the new paradigm? How do you not have a working email client? Need more...?
I've said it once and I'll stay it again: this phone is a steal. It has comparable specs to phones that cost twice as much so it's not really a surprise that it's selling so well but like someperson said, there's no telling how many units were actually sold. I have a feeling that the entire Nexus line will do quite well this year.
Another App Academy kid here. Like Eddie, I too received and accepted an offer from one of AA's parter companies after I finished the program. I'm an apprentice at Thoughtbot now!
If you're into the workflow then check out git-flow, it seems to be a direct port of it.

Personally I find it way too specific, rules with no bend in them rarely work well.
My friends and I do online shopping a lot, so far as I know, Taobao is better than all other competitors in China, such as Amazon China / DangDang / JinDong...
If they didn't care, they wouldn't have answered.
Ugh, github. No thanks.
Is their any information that confirms this. $3.1 billion is almost .5% of China's GDP. This sounds wrong.
Are you trolling? "How does that change anything?" They're built in America meaning Americans are being employed to make them and being paid a decent wage to do so. I mean ... Jesus.
Ya, hopefully their product is better than their marketing.
To me, the real deciding factor that tells me that LuaJIT will win in the long run is that LuaJIT traces the high-level semantics of Lua, whereas PyPy has to work with Python bytecode, which may have a considerable amount of lost information. There are some good examples in the lambda-the-ultimate thread (for example, optimizing based on the knowledge that HLOAD and ASTORE will never alias).

PyPy can't feasibly optimize the high-level Python AST, because the language is very large compared to Lua, and more or less behaviorally defined by Python's bytecode compiler.
Tim O'Reilly: Value Creation vs. Value Capture
Sure, I'm game. Tied House?
Also note the Probe, Alliance, Citation, Omni, Vega, and Corvaire.

The award even went to the Mustang II in 1974.

It reflects zeitgeist as often than quality.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmontlake/2012/11/12/singles...

It's also all over the news in China too, as far as you trust that :)
"å" is perfectly valid text input in my locale.
> most US states are 16 too, IIRC.

Right, but it's 18 in California, where most TV shows and movies come from, so the unexamined idea in everyone's head is that it's 18 everywhere in the country.

TV Tropes (you knew this was coming) mentions this as an example of SoCalization. The infiltration of Californian idiom and assumptions into the global mass media is truly insidious. But hey, isn't Silicon Valley in California as well?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoCalization
I made chrome a command line to the web
I'd like to use Lua, partly to take advantage of LuaJIT and partly because it's an interesting language, but it drives me crazy that it lacks things like 'continue' and '+='. Maybe I should use MoonScript, but that completely discards Lua's aesthetics, which is hardly better.
Well if they sold out, wouldn't the units available and sold be the same? Unless they are selling units that don't exist yet. Apple does this too, they say "We sold out in x hours" and neglect to say how many units they sold. That info does come out later after the headline wears off.
White paint is probably irrelevant, but the important part is white paint formula. I own One X but it is not as clean-looking white as iPhone or iPad (it looks somewhere around #FFFFF6, if iPhone's white is considered #FFF). It's still a very good looking phone, though.
A world without Linux: Where would Apache, Microsoft -- even Apple be today?
This is probably how things work in most big old software corporations. It is not open to big surprises, like a revolutionary new product, or a catastrophic failure. If the company is on a profitable turf, I would say, it is the way to go.

For individuals though, it makes the utterly limiting environment, where gatekeepers and not the ones with merit flourish.

On the bright side, my unscientific observation is that, in the best case, such an organization can go on like this only for one career time (~20 years). So, if you are coming in towards the end of that period, you are in for an adventurous ride.
Great talk! I'd love to hear more of your thoughts. I'll actually be in Dallas for a bit starting this weekend if you're interested in talking. Shoot me an email at zach@codehs.com
I hear its almost twice as fast as Javascript, and runs the Internet.
It is. Or do you mean why isn't it in the default firmware?

For anyone interested in how one might build such a thing, this PDF isn't a bad starting place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Building_a_Rural_Wireless_...
Would you really want the default behavior to be the I'm feeling lucky result?
Not that I agree with the "expect people reading your code to Google things" mindset, but to be fair the only ambiguous thing is the ASCII table which is Googleable.
6am in the UK and still nothing in the UK Play Store :(
...AMAZING how much work some people put into fucking up their lives ...still, better than having a heart attack in front of your PC while stuffing yourself with junkfood and energy drinks though :)
singles day is kind of kidding among young people. Blogger will write articles/poets this day to comfort people whom is still single, also merchants will give a discount for the same reason...

The 1st-Jan is considered to be small singles day, then "11th-Jan" and "1st-Nov" the middle singles day, and "11th-Nov" the ultimate singles day.
In case if you are wondering, Chris Pinkham[1] and Willem Van Biljon[2] came up with the idea. Here is the story: http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pinkham

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Van_Biljon
I have a huge tattoo on my arm.

I am happy and I consider myself successful.

It depends on what you mean when you say "curtains for your career" I would imagine.
Coding life
Fucking wife
Technology companies do 'R&D' which stands for Research and Development. You can think of that as a spectrum where on one end you have 100% research, the end goal is a published paper, and at the other end you have 100% development where the end goal is the implementation of a solution to a specific problem. All of the engineers I've met land somewhere on the spectrum in terms of what motivates them to do what they do. When I was at Google most of engineering was very 'research' focused, there were a lot of what you might think of as science projects, prototypes and experiments which might, or might not solve a problem. I'm more of a 'products' guy which puts me much closer to the D side of the spectrum. I know myself well enough to know I don't do well in places that lean heavily toward research, and so from that standpoint there was always an impedance mismatch between my values and those of the company.

However, it was a company and there were people who put in effort day in and day out that kept things working, people that were indispensable to day to day operations of the company, who were not getting the recognition that folks who would create a solution to a problem nobody had were getting. These unheralded people were 'fighting the good fight' and I worked pretty hard to wake up HR to that oversight on their part. They had just started giving out 'infrastructure awards' as a way of recognizing those folks when I was leaving. I was glad for that. I didn't get a chance to work on one of the committees that evaluated that sort of work which was too bad. Given the changes I've read about since I left it would seem that the company has shifted away from some of that stuff.

To give you an example of how sad a case I was, when I came to the Bay Area I had offers from Xerox and Intel and was totally excited to go work at Intel because they were shipping the products that were changing the world. My wife worked at Xerox and so I got to see a company that could envision an amazing future, and not ship it, and even then I knew it would drive me insane not to get things out the door :-).
Do people within Microsoft really consider Microsoft Research to be a drain on company resources as implied by a couple of those comments?
The country can be scarily efficient given appropriate incentives and/or connections. If something is stalled beyond reasonable period, chances are there are wheels to be oiled somewhere.
I've been called an engineer when I've been programming, and I've been called a programmer when I've been engineering.
What does a dispute between two corporations have to do with their reported sales figures? Racist much? Just because they are a Chinese company doesn't mean they should not be trusted.
Fair enough! Appreciate the thorough review process, YC team.
What would happen to an unfettered internet?
I am always reading about the U.S. Government bringing down a torrent site, porn site, or lawsuits causing videos to be taken down. I am curious what a world would be like without the internet being regulated, any ideas?
Surprised nobody is talking about the most interesting part.

Taobao runs almost entirely on Nginx-Lua-MySQL. And I mean entirely. There is no application server just Nginx. And every request is non blocking all the way from user to database and back. Very, very fast.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390816

In fact one of the developers from Taobao wrote the Lua integration.
What kind of article is this? Pretty much everything that's wrong with the art scene in a trite little article.
Wow; node.js comes along, and its like there's a hole in collective memory. Both Netscape and Microsoft had javascript rocking serverside late nineties / early 2000's (the same time as VBScript and CGI).
Also, other language interpreters ran code client-side (IE ran VBScript as I remember).
It would be nice if history was as clearly delineated as stated, but it isn't.
The jist of the argument is accurate tho; even people writing VBScript thought js was 'hacky' on the server :o)
I assume this is a not very subtle troll? Java source is unicode? (The offhand reference to dd and xargs is a bit too much).

How do you define "English-speaking world", btw? Those too ignorant to have heard of non-ascii-characters (ie: excluding Canada, as anyone doing business there should at least have heard of French)?

Anyway, for anyone actually burnt by something similar on a GNU system try looking up recode(1).
Twitter Password Breach Leads to “Aging” Advice
I just found about it today actually - http://code.google.com/p/postgres-learning/
I've gotten used to it, I convinced a couple other friends to try. 1 liked it. 1 hated it.

I thought I'd post it here too and see if anyone else liked/hated it, or if they had a slight modification suggestion that might be agreeable.
MongoDB read preferences for replica sets
I find myself rewriting queries a lot more to be more specific, in the chrome toolbar.

And then I also start to remember those long specific queries. Using google as the old second memory bank there ... most of the time.
Tablets are all about the screen, as you pointed out. The Surface is at least one model behind and is playing catch-up here.
Most of the time the experience is fantastic but like any shop you can get ripped off. I've been ripped off a few times on ebay and craigslist too. Certain product categories tend to attract scammers and I know many people who have never had a bad experience (other than getting things months late but that is usually caused by customs or courier services at either end). As always, until the product is working and in your hands you should be wary of the seller and take precautions to avoid becoming a mark.

Taobao has one factor that generally makes it better than ebay and most other online retailers and auction sites: it is the sole source of income for many companies that sell through it. Many Chinese manufacturers are only selling their products through the alibaba ecosystem so they really care about their reputation. That is why they get defensive or start offering all sorts of things to remove bad reviews, because it can shut down their whole revenue stream.
Rob Walling on Startups for the Rest of Us had a different take on it. One of the things that dropping to a shorter (14 days vs 21 vs 30 vs 60) is that it lets you iterate your marketing A/B tests much faster.
Download: Android 4.2 (JOP40C) for the GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Very nice. I noticed an irregularity in the dictionary though – for some reason "farewell" is seen as having 3 syllables when it only has 2. (At least the way I pronounce it...)
Twitter trend showdown mapped live
It's probably worth mentioning that in Australia, off contract phone are far more popular than they are in the US. We have many competitive pre-paid options, so buying a phone outright often is cheaper, or better value than going on a plan. The Nexus 4 may have found the perfect market for skipping carriers.
Maybe OWASP needs an update too? https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Allowing_password_aging
Writing: Diagrams
Don't know if it is legit but looks about right

http://i.imgur.com/VieLy.png
So that means I now have to disable JS as well as Flash?
Kickstarter Project for Cloud Revolution Manifesto
So it in case you don't have a GPU, it only requires a huge assload of CPU to work.

Why not turn the damn effects off? it is that hard?
Why would people be crying that knockoffs of US sites have not rolled out to the US? Perhaps I missed your sarcasm...?
I personally had a great AP CS teacher. It was my favorite class. I remember that most days we just went to class and worked on an assignment which was programming something specific in Java. The days we had lectures were always the worst. :D Point is, in HS you can put students in an environment where coding is fun quite easily.

Also, great idea. I'm still stunned about how little attention programming gets in schools.
Clearly there are pluses & minuses to each path. But if a young student is interested in doing a startup, he/she should definitely try (while young).

It is no less of a "real world" experience than it would be if you worked at Google. In fact, it might be more "real" because you have to deal with everything from coding to tech support to marketing to taxes (and if you do well enough, payroll).
is it webscale?
If Android doesn't provide suitable password management facilities, they could use the wallet approach and encrypt the password wallet with a key derived from/protected by the user's unlock code.
Link to full paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2082
If you're asking the question that means you have doubts, and a tattoo isn't the kind of thing you'd want to have a doubt about. Also keep in mind that tattoos go in and out of style, so what looks cool today may look like Popeye in twenty years.
I hope so as well, the WinRT API is stripped bare. I was shocked to see how much of .NET's functionality they didn't port over to WinRT.
Somebody please remind the community about this post the next time someone says "You only have to care about Google algorithms if you're a fly-by-night spam site."
iOS 6's Do Not Disturb feature has an option that lets the caller through if they call twice, which can achieve a similar effect, though not only for a specific group.
Stay at home wife and two kids in private school...
moonscript to the rescue!
http://moonscript.org/reference/#update_assignment
If you care enough, I suggest filing a radar.
No, you don't need '[' and ']' ? Also you don't need the '&' to get the equivalent of the above, but might have to add support for spaces?

> \p{L} or \p{Letter}: any kind of letter from any language.

vs

> \p{L&} or \p{Letter&}: a letter that exists in lowercase and uppercase variants (combination of Ll, Lu and Lt).

Along with:

> \p{Z} or \p{Separator}: any kind of whitespace or invisible separator.

Considering the op matches everything printable, including whitespace (or actually just space, not tab), numbers and punctation, I think the equivalent would be "\X" ?

All this based on glancing at:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html
I did when I worked there. The return on investment relative to what the product groups were creating was off the charts. I was all for taking the money and talent to think about long term issues, but it was just distasteful how poorly value was captured from it.
You have to read those blog comments with a grain of salt though.

Most of the commenters appear to be very unhappy employees. And some of them are obvious trolls who have never worked at MS but pretend to.
I'm surprised to see no mention of the Decoy Effect..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoy_effect
I really doubt "won't bow down to windows/office" is the problem here, saying as Sinofsky was head of windows. A more likely interpretation is that he expected other teams to bow to windows.
People in China are well-informed about all these companies overseas and often question about the Chinese version's originality. Companies like Amazon do have their own branch in China and it's not really that isolated as you seemed to suggest.
I couldn't even get past this:

> On August 24, 2006, the public beta of Amazon's "Infrastructure as a Service" (IaaS).

How is that a sentence?
There once was a guy from HN

Who ran out of ink in his pen
He made a site
And it's working alright
But only for then and again
There once was a guy from HN
Who ran out of ink in his pen
He made a site
And it's working alright
But only for then and again
I've had the good fortune of working with both founders and they're highly qualified with a lot of experience in the teaching CS space having helped teach Stanford's intro CS courses. Keep an eye on them and recommend people wanting to learn to code - this is a great way to learn fast and learn well.
I like the idea of rhyme suggestions. It'd be even cooler to add n-gram support for smarter suggestions.... maybe I'll try adding that.
Not all of Taobao. Most of the business logic is still written in Java.
Yes they will (most of times). One thing to remember: Taobao is entirely third party sellers. Nothing you buy come from Taobao itself. So from item to item, the terms vary quite a bit.
To the average person, that is a very reasonable expectation.
There are companies setup that will buy things for you on taobao and ship them to you overseas. They help with customs etc and have sites in English. Google 'taobao english' and/or 'taobao agent'
People in our industry occupy, how shall we put this, a broad range of the continuum of compliance with middle-class American values. You can find people with tattoos. You can find people who subscribe to religions which are, broadly speaking, against tattoos. You can find both of those people at the same table, talking about code.
The primary emotion I can recall coming from the left during the George W Bush years was hate. Come to think of it, they still hate Bush, c.f. the town-hall debate question this time around.
An interpreted operating system written in Python
Honestly I think Apple kind of gypped people by not putting in the retina display. The competitors in the 7" tablet market have the retina displays already, and for cheaper. They seem to be banking off the idea that they sell enough iOS devices that people will buy the mini no matter what. What sucks is you know the next update (which based on their new release schedules probably isn't that far away) will sport the retina as the big new feature without many other changes.

This is all coming from a huge Apple person. A tad disappointing.
> Does anyone know what they did in 2011 from a sales perspective?

The 11.11 fest began in 2009

2010-11-11: RMB 0.936B in Alipay

2011-11-11: RMB 5.2B in Tmall+Taobao

2012-11-11: RMB 19.1B in Tmall+Taobao

source: 2010年，淘宝当日录得9.36亿元支付宝交易额；2011年，淘宝和天猫当天的支付宝交易额约为52亿元；2012年，当天的交易额大幅增长至191亿元
Ugh, I need to have the company's purchasing department buy a Nexus 4 for our dev team, but if it's going to sell out so quickly, I'm virtually guaranteed to be out of luck :(.
And 7 and 8. 9 and 10 are still strutting around non-standard implementations of half of everything require custom code work-arounds. They still don't have full html5 / css3 support either.
http://www.joshlehman.com/thoughts/stop-using-the-cup-of-cof...

s/cup of coffee/29 cups of coffee/g
While you're at it, I see the same thing in Firefox on Linux. There is no horizontal scroll bar, either, so I can't scroll to the cropped text. My window size is currently 1066x891.
How To Become A Better Designer (Mobile, Web And Desktop Applications) - Part 1
Have a look at Tor and you'll have a pretty good idea. You can buy drugs, guns, prostitutes and download all the warez and illegal pornography you want.
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