skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only funded those with very specific tasks in mind. I don't fund projects that will spend 6 months. I sponsored two and they both returned. They were small gift ideas. Also on par with ebay issue. I never had any issue with buyer/seller. I only pick the one with photos and really high rating. If you want to buy a whole iMac, good luck on that because some of them arrive DOA and that usually has to do with shipping handler.
Can Instagram analytics be a business?
One small bookstore I know that is doing well is Borderland Books in San Francisco.

Borderlands is hyperfocused. I'd suggest you need to be MORE focused, your stock is spread out. I'd suggest you drop every area you're not amazing with.

You need instore events that draws in the people who read your new more focused stock. Borderlands has a constant stream of author readings, signing etc. that bring people into their store.

I can't tell if you're doing this, but you need to be selling outside of your bookstore at trade shows, speaker events etc. When the Grand Rapids economic club has a speaker who has written a book, our local store has a table full of them for sale and clears $3-800 per event in sales.

Borderlands made a fundraising appeal to their customers a few years ago. The pitch was invest in us with a Gift Certificate that can't be redeemed for a year, but got a discount when used. It gave them a nice slug of working capital while they were expanding and more than a few customers dedided to simply hold onto the certificates to support the store they loved.

You also really need to take a sharp look at you business, figure out what bits contribute and what parts don't. Some basic business analysis can often do wonders for a business.
Adding "/correct" to your submitted solution bypasses any further checking.

For instance, without entering any changes, I got:
http://codersumo.com/solutions/Id1SOh

[Not there yet. Your solution is not correct. Try again!]

Then, going to:
http://codersumo.com/solutions/Id1SOh/correct
gives a welcome page.
You are comparing apples and oranges: The reason a foreigner who marries an American gets a green card is because it is considered to be a preliminary step for the person who by virtue of marrying a U.S. citizen to acquire citizenship. The second case is of someone who is temporarily in the United States and whose family has an even more tenuous status.

Also, a citizen has additional rights and responsibilities: E.g. voting is a right and a responsibility so is selective service. Economic productivity is only part of the civic responsibility of a citizen.
Very true. It's always funny seeing someone super busy and rushed...because they are taking fun classes they don't actually need to land the business deals the company needs, etc.. Even easier for coders, though, I suppose, to just go do one more feature or tweak or whatever. People go on for years that way sometimes, just to find out they wrote something no one will use.
I sense a little sarcasm in your otherwise short and great comment, but let me tell you, rounded borders can be abused and combined with more intensive border colors, they can be downright frustrating to look at.

I personally found that a border radius of 1-3 pixels is usually a nice touch, but anything more than that should be added carefully.
I love bootswatch and would happily pay $5-$10 a month for regular swatches like this uploaded every few days / week, I'm not a designer nor do I want to spend time trying to be, bootstrap + bootswatch give me the ability to get something up ,running and looking pretty damn good very quickly.
Windows Phone 7.8: Microsoft Says “We Hope To Share More Details In Near Future”
It doesn't do a disservice to them at all. It's just that there are a few inherent risks to this model and I can't see how 'no merchant account' is a plus for any serious business.

A merchant account is expensive and integration can be a pain but there are also distinct advantages to having your own. That does not mean that I underestimate the smarts of the people running Stripe, anything but.
I have a set of tools I can use to target multiple output formats. The base of it installs the OS and configures the system how ever you want -- all onto a disk image. It can then be packaged into AMI or vmdk. Those are the only two I've had to target so far, but I suspect most vm systems ultimately use raw disk images so I suspect I can port my system to whatever format I need.

Using things like kickstart and chef/puppet has been brutal for me.. Spinning up a bunch of instances and hoping the installs go smoothly. You don't know for 20 minutes +. AMI's are so much more reliable. Of course, the cost is flexibility -- most changes require new images.
It is DEFINITELY (almost DEFINITELY, IANAL, nor am I a broker) against current securities laws. Securities laws and regulations make it very onerous to sell shares to the public (i.e. to become a "publicly traded company").
in Go, you declare a package for your file. Exported symbols start with an upper case letter.
At the same time, Windows 7 initially had an uphill battle in the market because consumers associated it with Vista. I even know a couple people who are still on XP because, in part, of their feelings about Vista.

I fear Windows 9 might experience the same thing because of Windows 8. It would have been much better if they had just delayed Windows 8 just a bit longer. Perhaps release it for tablets in the time frame they did, and then take a little bit longer to work on the desktop version. I know there was a real need to hurry and get some tablets out on the market, Windows 7 is still new enough that it could have remained the main OS for desktop PCs for another 6-12 months.
JS has no "proper lexical scoping"? How so? I'm really curious... what your definition of "proper" is here, because JS definitely has lexical scoping.
"Special interest," just like "big government," is nothing but a TV buzzword.

It's not as if these are political science terms of art. Imagine experts in a field choosing to use a term normally used for measurement of bulk to describe the function of a system, or wasting their time categorizing interests into "special" and "not special" based on a fixed set of criteria. Political science is deeply boring, but it's not THAT boring.
Apple has a lot of pushing power, probably enough to get this added. At least partially.
Pretty neat. I've been wanting to do something like this on my own for a while, but never got around to it. I had to write a few Smalltalk programs for a class and immediately fell in love with the language.
plinkplonk more or less said it all. PHP and Perl being the notable exceptions the vast majority of widely used langauges were developed by academics.
FloraJS | Simulate natural systems with JavaScript
"Apple's Module proposal..." Is Apple really who deserves credit here? Is there something I missed about Apple's management driving this, and not Gregor or the C++ standards committee?
Humble Bundles is an example that name-your-price model works for certain goods when you have fine-tuned the mechanisms.

Name-your-price model works on goods that consumers are expected to pay. I don't think that works with donation.
Dan was referencing specifically a factory setting, butt-in-seat time is not an outdated measure in such a setting.

Drunk/tipsy employees are a safety hazard in such an environment etc.

Do these directly apply to other industries or settings? Depends :)
Create an Exploding Logo with CSS3 and MooTools or jQuery
I fully agree about the documentation aspect.

Redline is very much lacking in that area. When we shore up some code related stuff, I am going to working hard on documentation that exists outside the code.
A Harsh Reminder
If we set aside religious and cultural reasons, there are often good legal and financial reasons to get married.

I'm not familiar with UK law, but in the U.S. the main advantage is that the legal system is predisposed to offer spouses a whole raft of rights and powers that, absent marriage, need to be individually constructed via some complex legal maneuvering.

You don't need to tell anyone you're married. Just schedule time at city hall and grab a couple of bystanders (or close friends) as witnesses.
That's true and probably by design. ;)

A workaround could perhaps be to use anti-virus software, at least Symantec has reputation based whitelisting.
First slide. It seems like he's employed by Apple and being paid to work on this. So yes, I think calling it Apple's solution an apt description.
Smalltalk isn't a new language. It has been around for decades. What he's doing is making the language run on the JVM.
Wheelcrowd: is the world around you wheelchair accessible?
ICOA Wasn't Acquired by Google, Executive Says
Okay, so the `package` keyword in Go is like the `export` keyword in this proposal? Does Go allow submodules?
Did you read the FAQ?
Ask HN: UK Based Hackathons
Hi all, I'm looking for a hackathon that will be occurring in the UK some time next year?

I've never attended one before, however I'd like to get a group of my friends together to work on something for the weekend or however long it spans.

Any ideas?
Those vacant apartments don't draw much power.
Actually you'll have to way from 2 to 5 years. Have a look at Herb Sutter's talk about "The Future of C++":

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-005
Apress.com has a $15 eBook special on all Apress and Springer eBooks today only and they were already very slow at midnight Eastern Standard Time when it started!
If it is released as open source, how do you identify potential clients for your services? And under a professional services model, they are clients, not customers.

How do you ensure that those downloading early versions of the software have a positive enough initial experience to commit to its use, in the absence of support...i.e. how do you get them to put up with perceived bugs, lack of features, cumbersome workflow, etc without some hand holding? It seems to me that a lack of upfront commitment contributes to few open source projects obtaining critical mass.

Products released for free start several disadvantages - the user has low expectations for value, support costs are unfunded, and the loose relationship between the developer and the user makes it difficult to have long insightful discussions about the user's needs.

Ultimately, the value proposition of the project you describe needs to fall within those typical of B2B, not ad supported smartphone apps.

The last question is, are you scratching your own itch as a developer with this project, or is it a startup idea?

Good luck.
Thanks for the link. I have some doubts about the validity of the conclusion, though. The only Republican group that showed the increase seems quite narrow. "Registered conservative, does not pay for renewable energy, does not donate to environmental groups, and in bottom 25th percentile liberal block group". How many people are actually in that group? Maybe it's a large percentage, but I kind of doubt it. If it's only a small percentage of Republicans that fell into this bucket, then it's inappropriate to claim that the conclusions apply to Republicans as a whole.

I'm also having trouble parsing the tables in the original paper, but it appears that there are groups with a worse treatment effect (e.g. college educated with above-average use) that the authors did not highlight. Perhaps this is a misreading on my part?

http://www.econ.ucla.edu/costa/Nudgew15939.pdf
My google-fu was weak today :-(
Or they could just, you know, put the number on the bills/letters sent to the customer.
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Ask PG: What core issues can founding teams disagree on but still succeed?
For instance, say one of the founding partners (an accomplished person in their own right) believes that while they work on the startup they can also work on other 'non-trivial' activities (like work in/help run a family business) because their entire life they have done (successfully) multiple major activities at once (e.g. graduate top of the class at a top-5 Ivy University, while getting the equivalent of a Rhodes scholarship in another field, while competing in a significant competition and placing top 8 out of 100+, and being married, etc.).

So they have committed and do what it takes, but they are still involved in other things.

If their partner disagrees (largely based on 'mainstream knowledge' about what it takes to build a large startup) - but it could very well be the case that this person can make it work - have you ever seen cases like this that work?

Or another example is:

- Say one partner puts much less weight (and value) on an initial idea, than the other. This matters when discussing equity breakdown. How do you bridge that divide?

- Say one partner has some assets that they developed, by themselves, that can help the startup - but is hesitant to include it (out of concern that the other partner will be gaining financially from this asset without much contribution). Is that a deal breaker?

Are these issues really very important in the long-term? Assuming you have a product that has traction...does it make sense to ignore these issues and just continue working, or will they come up to bite you in the long-run?
I actually haven't been following modules at all so I couldn't tell you exactly what's the problem. Watching from 30:40 of the following video may be insightful though:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012...
He wasn't using the default settings. When he left everything on fully-automatic, it was all fine.

This is a classic case of someone geeking out over settings and over-optimizing themselves into a corner. Hence the last line of the article, and an excellent moral.
As far back as 1998 I've got letters from PG&E that put my power bill in 'context' with the 'baseline' and 'typical' home in my neighborhood. The format has always been the same

Part 1, here are the base lines

Part 2, here is where your power usage puts you

Part 3, here are all the things you can do to reduce your energy usage including, if active, any rebates for various programs.

The funny part was that Part 3 was always created on the assumption that part 2 was significantly higher than part 1. It made me wonder if they were fudging the numbers in part 1 to make that always true.
I'd like to cover the app's closure. Do you mind forwarding the email to me? emil@thenextweb.com
The statisticians at Fox News use classic and novel graphical techniques
As written, the notice would forbid Facebook from even showing your posts and details to your friends.
In my experience, heating and cooling is the bulk of residential energy use. If you live in an older home, make sure to get an energy audit from the utility company (usually free - maybe you just need some additional insulation.

Also, thermal curtains (aka, black-out curtains) can help if you have a lot of window surface area.
Norbert Wiener's Apology for Cybernetics
Your last point is actually quite alarming: I have often been told that in order to be successful, I should surround myself with people much smarter than I am. But, when I see all these Facebook notices and FREE $500 COSTCO GIFT CARD shares, I can't seem to shake the feeling that I have thus failed in life.
I hope it helps with monetization! It's a potentially useful feature, which can bring in money to you, and it's not too annoying.

My only real concern that the site seems to have more latency than it did last time I used it - I'm sure sure if it's due to increased load, or waiting for the RTT to Sedo, but it's something to keep in mind.

Perhaps you could fill those in with a separate ajax call, so they aren't necessarily blocking the other results while you wait for sedo?
Yep, those types of operations are less frequent in k/v stores, but we believe it is because of the lack of ACID in most of them. When you have ACID and ordering you can use transactions to keep data and multiple indexes on that data in synch, and use range operations to query the indexes.

You can build all manner of higher level data structures with a transactional ordered k/v store, which is why our concept of "layers" is possible: www.foundationdb.com/#layers
Looks like the core issue is a poor preprocessor implication. It's a good idea in principle, however, we would be adding new features to address shortcomings in existing features instead of fixing the problems in the existing code.
Google did Not purchase ICOA, both companies deny acquisition
US law enforcement joins in world-wide seizure of 132 domain names
Only one major feature is planned to make its way through C++17, modules is considered a major feature.

And there are lots of people interested in other sets of major features.

So who knows if C++17 will include it, and even it does, how long one can use it in production.

Until 2017 many native developers might just had moved into Rust, D, Go or whatever comes along.

Just look how computing used to be 5 years ago.
Read to the end of the article, folks.

This is what happened: he tweaked settings galore, hoping to squeeze out more performance somehow. Nerds tend to do this; it's natural.

However by removing the automatic settings and forcing it into one or more configurations that may have been suboptimal, performance actually decreased.

When he returned the settings to "fully automatic" everything was fine and dandy and maximal.

Moral of the story (and I quote): "Resist the urge to tinker with these settings."

You can basically ignore everything except that last line—and if you're familiar with the excellent AirPort Extreme, you probably already knew that.
Right, they're dragging down the average.
I'm not a huge defender of telco companies, but isn't this like arguing that Adobe Photoshop has a 1,000,000% markup because the DVD they sell for $700 only costs $0.07 to produce?
Mark Shuttleworth does an AMA on Slashdot
Ah, eugenics.
That's US pricing. It's different over here in Europe.
It's not clear the courts would buy this distinction if someone who backed a Kickstarter project did sue, though.
Get Responsibility for Data Out of IT
Packages are given paths or URLs so they might be a subpath but it's not really a subpackage of any sort other than by name.
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> What's the % of smartphones in Europe that are sold at full price ? Please.

Most, in some countries all. Many of them come with a loan (so you pay $200 upfront for a $600 phone, and then $30/month for 20 months) , but unlike in the US, it's a line item; you can pay it upfront and not suffer any disadvantage. (I've tried to pay for me iphone with verizon upfront; it would have been $400-$500 more than on a 2-year plan).

> That's a laughable number. That's the cost of 8 senior Devs per year. Samsung has hundreds of people working on their skins.

Well, they should be more efficient then. There's no reason it would take so much man power.
How does 37 Signals respond to feature requests on Twitter?
Entrepreneurship and Envy
Two random ideas:

- Is there any kind of alliance to be had with Albertine Press? ( http://albertinepress.com/about.html ) I'm not sure what the angle would be exactly, but they're just a few blocks away, and might have equipment and expertise that would allow for a more interesting kind of print-on-demand than the Espresso printer. And if bookstores are increasingly becoming fellow travelers with letterpress printers and vinyl shops and so on, maybe there are strategies in common.

- Others have mentioned affiliate fees. If book stores are no longer efficient ways to store and deliver books, but are still great ways to look at and play with and explore books, is it possible to fully transition to a book showroom instead of store? How would the business change if you were no longer thinking in terms of inventory, but only in terms of sample copies? You obtain exactly one copy of the very best books that fit comfortably in your space; the customer collects ones they like; and then they're scanned at the front desk, searched online, and the cheapest available copies of the quality they request are shipped to their address. So customers are getting Amazon prices (or better, because you might be better at running the search than they are), but the experience of discovering physical books. You could pay for it either with affiliate fees, if there's a program that works, or with a surcharge.

If you went down that path, your focus on the supply side would change from acquiring second-hand books, to finding really interesting ways to discover books. For example, shelves where you can flip through the top-ten favorite books of Bill Clinton, or Neil Gaiman, or Natalie Portman, or David Foster Wallace. Cyberpunk shelf curated by Neil Stephenson (with a blurb taped inside each cover if he'll write one!). Law & Tech shelf curated by Larry Lessig. Books by TED presenters. Make it so poking around the store is itself a learning experience.

Good luck -- I hope you manage to find someone, and their ideas are better than mine.
"Like if you support this child with cancer, keep scrolling if you want everyone them to die".

JUST EFF THE EFF OFF.
It's beautiful. For better readability on the demo page, I recommend the following:

section { margin-top: 60px; }
Smartphones poised for PC replacement duty [video]
When Mobile Retail Goes Wrong
I was watching the news last week and was struck by a fact that I didn't consider:

Iron Dome missiles cost upwards of $50,000 to shoot down rockets costing ~$800. I suppose those $800 rockets could do way more than $50,000 in damage if they hit an important target, not to mention causing casualties, but man, that's crazy.
It the risk of starting a fight, I really don't want this. I'm quite happy with headers and know how to effectively manage them without shooting myself.

Granted there is some compiler overhead for importing large header files but I don't really notice it at all.

Also, we already have an Apple/Next non-standard C extension (objective-C). I don't think we want anything else added without proper standardisation regardless of the motivation. I'd rather they forked the language.
Herb Stutter heads the C++ standards committee and credits his employer Microsoft [1]. Is C++11 or C++17 "Microsoft's"?

[1] http://isocpp.org/std/the-committee
Backwards compatibility is a Big Deal for these communities.
Why the USA will get over its crisis and Spain may not
Paste this into your browser location bar (it won't navigate away):

javascript:void(function(){a = 1; {var a = 2;} alert(a)}())

That var a doesn't declare a new var within its scope, it declares it in the function, plus it is counterintuitive how that var a "retroactively" makes that local scope. Javascript has lexical scoping, but only within functions, not within all the scopes other languages have.
Their steel-cut oats make excellent oatmeal. I'm not surprised they won the competition.
Hello HN —

Super duper tl;dr:

- Christensen's theories of industry disruption fit digital publishing like a glove [1]

- Marco's The Magazine is a pretty good 'subcompact' example [2]

This essay is the written + expanded version of a talk I gave at The Internet Archive (Books in Browsers) last month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmGwM6hWbMY&feature=youtu...

Watching the video or reading the essay both take about the same amount of time, but the essay has much more information.

You can skip to my UI/UX deconstruction of The Magazine here:
http://craigmod.com/journal/subcompact_publishing/#sub_thema...

Or, skip to the 'Subcompact Manifesto' here:
http://craigmod.com/journal/subcompact_publishing/#sub_manif...

[1] Innovator's Dilema; Also: this Neiman Report: http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102798/Breakin...

[2] http://the-magazine.org/
and rust,

but yeah, maybe its the name
Do you have a source for "Only one major feature is planned to make its way through C++17"? Wikipedia tells me (without citations) that C++14 and C++17 are minor and major revisions respectively, but doesn't indicate that "major revision" stipulates only a single major change at most.
This style is what Bootstrap should have been from the start. Well done.