skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These aren't people who are using a free email service, they are people who are directly generating your company revenue. In many cases a meaningful amount of revenue (Google keeps ~30% so if someone is generating just $1,000 a month that's $3,600 a year directly for Google).

If there is ever a case worthy of using company resources, it's for activities that directly affect its bottom line. Google seems to have bad support for both AdSense and AdWords and it's not because they don't have the resources, it's because they so far have not had to. Competition is what will solve Google's people problem.

I have generated Google a lot of revenue through AdSense over the years and I still live in fear of being cut off and not having any recourse. Yes, I have other revenue streams, but it would be a huge loss that's hard to fill. With any other company I would be confident that they would want the [significant] revenue and would at least work with me, but not Google.
Pretty great documentary called Page One on Netflix about the NYTimes that has some running commentary on modern journalism.

There's a clip with David Simon (The Wire creator, former editor of the Baltimore Sun) arguing with Ariana Huffington about the legitimacy of HuffPo's encroaching empire.
HN Hackpad: Types of Growth Models
Direct link to Hackpad: https://hackpad.com/0tkoCTWDdHg#Growth-Strategies
I don't think calling Apple out on selling a faulty $3000 laptop and refusing to repair it counts as histrionics or spam.
Pretty sure this guy only wrote the article so he could use that great witty zinger of a headline he'd thought up. Not gonna waste my time reading design critique by someone using an 0.002pt font on their blog.
As anecdotal as anecdotal evidence ever was.
Everyone here needs to understand that they are talking about a computer WITH an understanding of computers. Ask mom and dad if they want to upgrade their ram. The answer is “huh?”. The concept of upgrading computers doesn’t exist to many MAC (or PC) owners.

Most users don’t give a shit about upgrading. When I was working in support, I remember a kid who had 19238012983 viruses on his computer. We formatted, reinstalled and 3 weeks later he was back again with 6 billion viruses. After formatting again, installing AV etc, he came back a few weeks later with a NEW laptop (back in 2002) because he thought the computer was the issue. He bought a whole new computer because he was too dumb to realize that HE was the problem.
Apple sees this, and makes their products to work for those people. And it works.
Hard drive died on your MBpro? Ahh man, time to get a new computer. (WTF?!).

Apple takes advantage of this and they do it really well. They purposely build items that you can’t fix/upgrade so you come back to them. Even if it is free, you come to the store and look at all the new stuff…which is enticing. It’s quite brilliant.
And this is why I don’t like the company. They are actually encouraging ignorance.
Engadget's review of the new Apple iMac
Surely a company of their size and resources could implement just an appeal system that is just a tad more useful.
I think the author has a funny perception of what a government is. The government is not a truly separate entity. We the people are the government.

Then we have decided to create money to help bartering.
in the DNS case asynchronous event handling would be super easy to do. in python asyncore with something like dpkt to construct and read DNS lookups works like a champ, as does twisted. i did a simple async DNS resolver in pure python (asyncore, dpkt) and can sustain thousands of lookups a second. GNU adns also has bindings in various languages.

you can get Go's parallelisms via CSP (e.g. python-csp, ruby-csp) and replace a lot of fragile threading/parallel code with it. i've been doing that in lieu of learning Go (i know i know .. i'm lazy) and been very pleased.

anyhow, many ways to skin cats. those are just two or three.
No. Einstein's reason for proposing a repulsive force (to balance an apparently static universe against gravitational collapse) had nothing to do with observation, wouldn't have produced the result he believed at the time (as any number of physics students will tell you), and was later abandoned by Einstein as "My greatest blunder."

To give Einstein credit for dark energy is a perversion of logic. Einstein's cosmological constant was meant to stabilize the unstable universe his GR equations predicted, whereas dark energy destabilizes the dynamic but predictable universe modeled by the Big Bang theory.
$50k for a bootcamp probably* beats the ROI for a similar stint at a for-profit college. Those colleges are able to finesse government-backed loans for their students though.

* Citation needed
I presume you are talking about the recent "facebook related arrests". Just so you know, not every country outside the U.S., is a single monolithic block where just because some asswipe cop(s) decides to hassle kids, it means that the entire country has decided as an official policy to hassle people on that charge. Some other examples of similar specious arguments:

1. Austria is bad because a tor exit operator got raided.

2. The MPAA/RIAA decides to sue a bunch of kids for music torrenting. Ergo America is bad.

Also, presuming from the comment to the OP, I assume you are somehow leaping from "Charge people for criticism" to "unplug the internet": I would really love to hear your reasoning for this.

(FYI, this is not a defense of the Indian justice system or me "taking offense" or even an attempt to assert that India is not at low risk of being disconnected: I personally give 0 fucks. I just find these specious arguments silly and have no idea why intelligent people make these arguments when it comes to foreign countries. )
It's Not Just TechCrunch
Used it for years. Not sure that something else can match its speed.

The only downside is the tricky debugging.
Fun. Would be nice to have a way to attribute the quotes, so you show quotes from notable people. Sometimes a quote is inspiring for who says it as much as for what it says.
For the record. Devbootcamp would not have been possible without HN.

Just over a year ago I posted this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3267133

And this community's response is what convinced me to ditch my startup and start devbootcamp.

I only know very few of you people in person, but I'm sincerely grateful for the impact you've had on my life. Thank you!
A fucking large pile of expensive broken shit that just packed in is not anecdotal - it's known as evidence.
First gen iPhone here, still going strong. Thanks.
Can you say something about your availability numbers? Twillio is sometimes unavailable, something we notice when running a high availability service that uses them.
“auld lang sine” has lang for lenge, and sine for siden as well.

Does this mean that Scandinavian is a celtic language? :O
I don't understand. Isn't it better for this to get mainstream publicity rather than waving a hand over it saying that it won't change anything? My point is, shouldn't we encourage this so that it might get as much media coverage as possible - "All publicity is good publicity"? Can someone explain to me what it is I'm missing, please?
Looks like a Base64-encoded JS URI in the video player URL. Somewhat sneaky. How it ends up redirecting the page to a reblog URL isn't clear.
https://gist.github.com/4196142
Quora allows very public profiles and very private Anon User identifiers equally and powerfully..
Been thinking about this a lot lately. Opted for a 2-year program (Associate rather than Bachelor), because when I was 18 I figured I already knew how to code and didn't need to spend a lot of time or money to going to college to prove it. I'm still not sure if this was the right decision. Not much college debt, but there are a few doors that are closed to me.

Now that I do more interviewing I've also noticed a low correlation in candidates between education level and programming competency. It's important to note that this is /after/ they've passed a technical phone screen though. I'm sure for the general population the numbers are much different. I think all my experience is reflecting is that if you know your stuff, it doesn't make a huge difference how you learned it. I'm also wary of some personal bias. :)
Coolest robot toy ever - car transforming into humanoid
I would say that statistic is entirely flawed, since we're not only talking about Partner accounts which are far, far less in number than the 100,000,000 figure cited, but the likely minuscule percentage of them actually generating any substantial revenue.
Scala is really great for this too. The downside is the spin up time for the JVM, but the upside is that if you use SBT's script launcher it will compile and cache the script transparently for you , you can still pull in _any_ JVM dependency and you can run it just like a shell script. I needed to test for a port being open in parallel and it was a cake walk to use NIO's SocketSelector to do it reactivly.
I believe (and some quick Googling corroborates) that the iPhone 5 has a completely different antennae setup. I believe they also tweaked it for the CDMA iPhone 4 and all the 4S models, so perhaps you've not been having a problem because they fixed it.
Apple is using trademark law to ensure that no one can do to Apple what Apple did to the Beatles.
Indeed. I often use ps | cat to get the full command line for processes (that's otherwise truncated). All hail Java command lines.
I'm willing to bet that short attention spans play a significant role in making karma less meaningful - in the sense that it can penalise more extensive and thorough comments in favour of short, snappy one- or two-liners.

Take the following scenario: you've got some interesting topic that most HN users will click on, and the #1 comment is like this:

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If you're in that jittery state of mind when you just want some infotainment without reading dozens of lines of dense and subtle text, isn't it more likely that you'll just read the reply to that top comment first, since it's short and snappy? It may even make you feel that you've made progress towards understanding what the parent comment was about, without actually spending the required amount of time on it. Topics on HN obviously have a strong bias towards solid intellectual content (and I don't necessarily mean academic topics), so it's probably unlikely that much insight can be gained from very short comments - unless the poster is particularly observant and skilled in condensing information, of course.

That's just one of the reasons why I'm sceptical about karma. I think it does serve a purpose, but if the majority of users go into a topic with no real intention to read or comprehend anything thoroughly, karma becomes a less meaningful measure of contribution.
Entrepreneur Mentality &#8211; 70 Dominant Principles and Shortcuts
Why is the feeling of owing your success to others a syndrome? It is the truth. Hard work and brains can get you only so much. You owe a huge chunk of your success (or what you are) to others. Anybody who doesn't accept this as a fact, and is in the illusion of being purely self-made is a narcissist, perhaps getting close to psychopathy.

The article is talking about feeling that your achievements are not significant. To me this is also a very healthy thought. As long as you can recognize it as such. It is a part of recognizing the fact that there is a lot to be done yet.
> languages
> Bergen speaking any form of normal Norwegian
> Norwegian words are from Sweden

And you just lost any and all credibility you may have once had.
You're just wrong.
The original article, this thread and my comment are all in the context of business functions. Specifically, taking clients out and attending conferences. You may not like your clients, but, at times, you are obligated to spend time with them in order to advance or retain your employment.

Nobody is saying you have to drink light beer, just that if you're going to drink light beer, pick one that isn't associated with daytime drinking rednecks and frat houses.
Christmas Experiments
There is a "why": the tiles are different sizes because I made them that way, based on how I use my phone. The tile sizes in WP8 are user-customizable. Examples from my phone:

- My email tiles are the smallest (1x) size because they still show unseen count at that size (also shown on the lock screen), which is the only "live" information I care about for them. At 4x they will show the name of the email account (which I don't need, since I can tell by the icon) and at 8x they show the subject line of the most recently received email, which I don't personally care for.

- Same goes for my phone and messaging tiles, as well as IE and maps, which have no live functionality

- I use a 4x tile for my calendar for two reasons: 1) I've put it in the top corner of the screen, and 4x makes it easier to reach if I want to open the calendar app, and 2) at 4x it shows the day, date and next calendar appointment (also shown on the lock screen, but I like it here as well).

- The pinned-contact tile for my wife is 4x because the vast majority of communication I do on the phone is with her, and because I like seeing her picture there. Plus, at 4x, it shows Facebook status updates and sometimes other stuff.

- I keep the Weather Channel tile at 4x because it shows today's forecast.

- Pinned websites are all 1x, because they don't update and I can tell from even small icons what they are.

- A few other apps that I use (I personally don't use a lot of apps except the stock ones) are pinned at 1x, since they don't have any live functionality I really care for.

I've always thought the "live tile" idea was a bit oversold since in the majority of cases I don't really find it useful (I don't really count things like email unseen counts as live tiles - even if WP8 didn't have live tiles I would still expect that information to be there, like it is in iOS), but the new WP8 ads about being able to really make it "your" phone definitely ring true. If I had other apps, workflows or priorities it would look completely different.

disclosure: works for MSFT.
Isn't this basically an argument against ever creating any iPhone app?
If not for this issue, the rMBP would be the best laptop for me personally by miles and miles. Of course I care! No one else makes products that get me but Apple, so this disappointment weighs extra heavy.

I'm exploring alternatives, but that is years out.
I think your eyes must have crap in them if you think a T-series is flimsy. The big chunk of titanium in the middle makes it rock solid:

http://appel.hu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/rollcage.jpg

Lenovo's relatively low score is because they shift out lots of low quality consumer grade laptops (g-series) which are to be honest, just junk but earn them a lot of money. They don't even assemble them themselves. If you took just ThinkPad series machines, there would be a very different result.
My wife had a Lenovo that basically disintegrated in ~11 months, but my mom has had hers for years and has survived several drops and grandkids.
When Amazon delivers a £20 book to a lady in Cambridge, how much of that is UK profit? The brand, marketing, procurement, software development, author mindshare, etc. etc. all originate (if not implemented and housed in their entirety) in Seattle. 50%? 10% 1%? Who decides?

At the moment, it seems like the answer to that is: each company involved makes some kind of judgment as to what amount of tax paid will get the local authorities, committees, and press off their back.
Depending on your startup, (1) just equity can certainly be attractive to the right person. (2) The kind of marketing experts you're looking for can be found by searching on google for blogs relating to growth hacking, SEO, social media, customer acquisition, UX usability, etc. (3) I havent heard of Consulting Firms that do marketing for equity. There is a big company in Germany that takes equity in startups in exchange for ATL media campaigns (on tv, radio, etc). Its a long process though, like with any other investor.

Could you please share your Beta version so that interested parties can contact you?
Ask HN: Project Management for Freelancers?
Freelancers & Independent Tech Consultants: what do you use for project management?

I would like something that can handle some client communication, enable online discussions, and keep files & notes together so I don't have to search my inbox for them.

I think Basecamp is too cluttered. Pivotal Tracker isn't what I want either - it seems focused on keeping teams of developers organized for very complicated projects. Asana is too focused on tasks, and I don't think my non-tech savvy clients could figure it out.

What do you recommend?
Thanks for the tip. Will watch it.
That's actually a great article, loved to read it.
This is a great piece of history. A free digital copy is available http://trope-tank.mit.edu/10_PRINT_121114.pdf
While you're absolutely right, there's still one problem:

There aren't much, if any, advertising providers with ads as accepted and unintrusive as Googles AdSense...

Not to forget their huge portfolio of ads that will fit almost every context - so yes, AdSense is the go-to provider for most.
Under the hood: Facebook Messenger for Firefox
I'm grateful that you are grateful because you have had a big impact on my life.
I fully support the focus on education and I really hope this next decade could be the start of the "Golden Era of Education".

To me DevBootcamp is CCE, and CCE has been around for years (what is cce: http://www.ccc.edu/programs/pages/web-design-basic-certifica...). Unfortunately I don't believe CCE is at all effective in training people on being programmers or designers.

So here's my throwdown: Is DevBootcamp really effective or is there a participant bias? Would DevBootcamp's employment percentage be just as high when applied to the general population that would take CCE; unemployed, unskilled?

Disclaimer: I was involved in CCE with two colleges for about 7 years and frankly I see the whole thing as a scam. I would love to see that industry get shaken up.

edit: wording, formatting
I was banned from AdSense for a similar reason.

When I was 14 I made a flash games/funny videos website, and used AdSense as my only income. I learnt a lot about driving traffic and things just started to pick up - and then I was banned.

It later came to my attention that a few friends and (at the time) girlfriend had taken it upon themselves to 'help' me by clicking an ad once a day. Annoying, since I was making about $10 a day from ads. I didn't need help. $10 a day was great for a 14 year old.

That was nearly eight years ago. I recently contacted Google about it, and was completely ignored. I understand why, it makes sense for them to protect their business - but it's annoying none the less. I could think of good uses for AdSense right now.
> Glib and offhand attempts at humour are not much appreciated here, even though they might contain some wit, which reddit would gobble up.

Slick attempts at humor don't certainly get downvoted, they may not be the top comment. I still think that the reddit model when brought down to Subreddits still works. I am part of some very tiny subreddits and there is still a free flow of high quality information.
An alien race will find this, convince themselves it's some kind of divine code and drive themselves insane trying to figure it out.
The goal is to show you don't already have a problem with the company in question. So, the issue must be really annoying.
Career Arc - DNSimple
We are very serious about our availability numbers. Quite a few large Enterprise customers who use us, completely depend on us for their telephony infrastructure.

Feel free to email us at hello@plivo.com and we can help you with more specific details.
Antennagate was way overblown, but it was a real issue for some people. With the right combination of specific unit (varying tolerances for the antenna / radio assembly) and cell phone coverage, you would run into problems.

The iPhone 4S and 5 has a different antenna design and (i think) has some kind of coating on the metal frame to lessen the issue.
Petition posted to White House Web site seeks Death Star construction
It's a general problem when you're pursuing social mobility, particularly when you're in an area where there isn't a single well-defined path to success (computing or startups as opposed to medicine or MBA)

It takes many forms, from working with people who've got more faith in me than I do, to working on stuff that sounds like science fiction and dealing with a lot of skepticism until you release the right product to convince people it's fact, not fiction.
Ironically, I had to send my brand new Lenovo T420s back because of display issues.
I think there is two problems with Apple in this case.

1. The Services Level shown is subpar compared to what it is in US. Most of the time we see good services, free exchanges and repaired are actually stories in US. Outside US customers are treated like a second class citizen.

2. The guy bought AppleCare for Christ Sake. Why not just replace it when it is a known issues with LG display type.
Stopped reading it awhile ago. It doesn't portray the reality for most startups and tech companies and I think gives the wrong impression that you need to be heavily funded to be successful.
We are talking about your employers and co-workers here, not your peer group. "Not worth knowing" is probably a bad attitude to have in these circumstances.
I don't see how this correction adds to the discussion.

How are the actions of "invention" and "rediscovery" different? Is it less impressive that someone came up with a great idea simply because someone else did it first in a different context? Obviously Gauss should be celebrated too (and obviously is), but I don't see anything wrong with applauding Tukey either...
This is a guess:

User opens up their dashboard, which displays a post that contains the XSS.

That script then makes a post using the users account to their own blog, further spreading the rogue script.
Wait, the Surface Pro comes with 64GB ROM?

Who the hell wants their SSD to be read only?
PHP Validation & Sanitization
The first mover advantage goes beyond increased exposure. It means that one has maximumized their ability to shape the direction of the conversation in alignment with their thoughts. Because early comments are more likely to draw responses, the top poster in a thread has the most opportunity to clarify and extend their thoughts in follow-up responses.

Follow-up responses will tend to be received in the same vein as the initial post, and if the initial post gained traction the one's follow-up is likely to garner upvotes as well.
I had a similar dance with Apple tech staff. I took in a 27" iMac which had a faulty video card fan which made a horrible high pitched whine at low brightness settings.

First visit they couldn't hear it (in loud store environment..), I was sent home. Second visit they agreed to take it in for testing - returned with a chipped display, scratched glass and a report that the problem didn't exist.

Finally gave up with them and called Apple USA direct (from UK), complained to anyone who would listen. Was advised to take into a 3rd party repair supplier to confirm the problem existed. I went in with an audio spectrometer to visualise the problem, had a new iMac shipped the next day.

It's hard to accept that they're no longer the specialist hardware supplier who treats every customer exceptionally well. Now we're just being farmed like any customer.

Going hackintosh/linux for all future machines.
Same problem though. Other people deciding how much money an individual gets to keep.
A message from the ISS to all human kind
Just wonderful.
Just a heads-up: when I signed up, the banner that shows on the "thanks for signing up" page links to "http://dlewis.net/nik/ which currently says "OK" and nothing else.