skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have often tried to compare Webcomics artists with say Independent game developers or app developers. They ought to be similar but yet so different. I think it boils down to the effort required in generating content.

It is quite hard to regularly churn good games or apps like a webcomic artist would despite all the higher level tools that we have today. I think once it becomes easier to convert a game design into a working game say in less than a day, then we would have the rise of artist-centric games as an industry.
why not just get an external regulator then? those things are dirt cheap, around 20 cents for one.
I don't understand the deployment section. Go has the simplest deployment I've ever had the pleasure to use. You compile the binary and copy it up. Static binaries make it so simple as to be trivial.
Not only that, calling this "karma" and identifying with the popular notion of "karma" which has no basis in any philosophy but irrational, illogical thinking, is quite ironic. If you do something good to someone, something good will not happen to you. That's the popular notion of "karma" and it's wrong. It's wrong from the traditional notion and it's wrong from the philosophical concept. But too many people want to live in the delusion of this pseudo-bullshit-karma world.
Shared with GPU, btw.
I think in genral too early to tell

some questions:
what's your cost per female aquisition cost?
what's your cost per male member aquisition cost?
Look at montlhy active users(how many users from last month logged in this month)

Test other advertising avenues to get costs via those channels

Do two tests(not at the same time):
1. setup up something like adsense for a couple of days maybe for like 10% of the male users.
2. stop advertsing for a month, does the site still grow?

if I were going to invest I'd like to know how are you going to make money. how much are you going to make per user. how much does it cost to get a user? so, if I pay for X number of users how long do I need to wait to double my money.
The "netbook" concept was not bullshit at all. It was the first inexpensive small laptop. The EEE PC which coined the term netbook, was inspired by / a response to the OLPC XO-1.

The price was achieved not primarily by lowering quality but by replacing Windows with Linux, a hard drive with a small flash storage, and by using an underclocked processor and dropping the optical drive.

Other laptop makers merely followed suit as soon as the saw that the EEE PC was a huge success.

Laptops were cheap and crappy long before netbooks appeared.
What about dependencies? Client-side resources such as .js and .css files, configuration files maybe, migrating the data even? A web app is (virtually) never just its server side code.
You can easily make a company not profitable, and generally you don't want to be because then you pay taxes on it. There's no way of knowing if that statement is genuine or not.
Too bad the signal to noise ratio is so horrible. Not to mention the addiction / anti-productivity factor. I still love Reddit. I quit because I love it.
The CMU study is most probably flawed as it looked at hardware replacement records and didn't take into consideration the different usage and threshold for replacement between enterprise and consumer drives. Most enterprise drives are used in enterprise servers and storage systems that monitor drive errors closely using SMART. The threshold for drive errors is much lower with such systems and drives are replaced quickly. My company (storage system vendor) replaces disk even when the SMART alerts impending failure and doesn't wait for actual failure. This will come across in hardware replacement log as more frequent replacement of enterprise disks. The consumer disks are used in consumer systems. The consumers don't proactively replace disks, they wait until disk actually fails. This will show up in hardware replacement log as less frequent replacement of consumer disk.

I have actually used 'defective' enterprise disks in consumer systems for years after they were labeled defective by storage system vendors. About a decade ago, I used to buy such defective enterprise disks in bulk at auction from server and storage manufacturers and sold them as refurbished disks to consumers after testing.
It's your choice to go in for the dogma, but don't force it on those of us who allow form to follow function on this one.
Gource is not new at all but it's damn cool.
Nice. Putpocketing. I'd say that's easily just as if not more so valuable than pickpocketing. I'll leave the reasons up to your imagination.
I'd put the date a little later: 1913. The ratification of the 17th Amendment got rid of the states' representatives in the federal government. Most citizens don't care about the particular divisions of power between levels of government, and now that state legislatures can't effectively defend their purview, it shrinks by the day.
You could just put on your screensaver as the way the information is presented is useless. Looks cool though. Just like my screensaver. Not quite as nice.
"Our core system of government ... is still better than the rest."

By what measure?
"Amen".
Also, how big is the market. Invests want you to be able acheive revenue of >$20 million. If we assume you make as much as facebook per year per user at something like $1 per user then you'll need 20 million active users. If you look at your current advertsing channels can you get there.
There's no services that allow you to buy bitcoins with a credit card, or at least, they don't stay around for very long after they start. I was going to mess around with making a trading bot, but I could find no reputable sounding services that actually allowed me to buy the initial coin.
IMHO, building a solid product that people want to buy is more important than your exact domain name.

If you disagree with this philosophy and choose a marketing strategy that depends on getting a strategic domain, you should have your domain in hand early on -- before you announce the product, so everything you have to say about it points to the same URL.

Also, if you're willing to be flexible about renaming the product to match the available domains, you can circumvent the whole mess.
anyone who actually picked up a netbook could tell that they were garbage

I'm going to skip a lot of things I am inclined to say, and end with two observations (as someone who hopped onto the "netbook" train right at the start):

* The 7" screen of the original Eee 701 was indeed pretty much too small

* The 10" screen of later generations was perfectly fine, except I started using the netbook as my primary computing device at which point it was not fine. (Netbooks are not primary computing devices; the fault was mine)
PHP has json_decode() and json_encode() which do all of this correctly ... GO is interesting, but production ready? Not for awhile.
"I thought this was going to be about an actual 26 hour day, which is entirely possible (and a very interesting subject).."

Do you mean sleeping 'x' amount of time every '26-x' hours? That is a very interesting notion. It creates an illusion of having more hours in a day. Of course, this comes at cost. If you were to sleep at 12.00am one day, you will have to sleep at 2am the next, and 4am the day after that and so on.
Yeah, and he's not wrong about the oil and gas biz. My company is doing a bunch of work with .NET/WPF and what-not, but to some large degree C++ code, literally millions of lines of it, pays the bills. And as someone who's always enjoyed debugging large complex code-bases, I'm really happy with my 80% support / 20% development type role.

But as he says, it's always good to have a varied skill-set, so I've dedicated at least 40 hours over the vacation-time to reading the SegY specification and building a Javascript loader/visualizer. Not much code, and it runs reasonably fast, but making lots of asynchronous calls to load, convert from IBM floats, and visualize data, is the kind of stuff that sharpens up the Javascript skills pretty quick.

The neat thing about something like this, is that everything you need is online. The SegY spec, plenty of available seismic data courtesy of the US government, and incredibly fast Javascript compilers with Firebug as a REPL.
Another thing to think about is dating is local so I would concentrate my marketing on one town to add more value to your users. You might want to think about partnering with a daily deals site and cross marketing dating type deals to your members. You might be able to become an affiliate. review the deal and then only forward the good date deals.
I wish Dresden Codak took a day to produce. I think you're underestimating the time it takes to produce a webcomic, especially ones that aren't independent, gag-a-day format.
I guess you should ask the people who you'd most like to see updates from, and see if they are on App.net. I am on there. I only follow a few people. I hadn't checked it in at least a month until earlier today. I won't be renewing though.
Summary: "I hate the US's form of government, therefore let's replace the rule of law with the rule of dictate." Thank you nytimes for making your multi-decade anti-democratic, anti-legal, anti-American agenda more explicit than usual.
I wrote gobundle[1] as one solution to this.

[1] https://github.com/alecthomas/gobundle
Is 7776000 pageviews/month the kind of traffic that you'd expect to be able to generate $80/month? $0.00001/pageview/month? If the average user viewed 1,000 pages a month, that would be $0.01/user/month.

Obviously it depends on the average pageviews per user, but what's your gut feeling? Should $80 have been too expensive?
The man behind the netbook craze
The word "Karma" is a Hindi word meaning 'Action'. No more, and no less.

What you or others may attach to it doesn't matter.
PHP is dynamically typed, Go isn't.
I'm sure they paid dearly for it too...better to get the .com upfront
You need to give more details about what services you are freelancing. When you say "portfolio", it can imply design, coding, architecture, the gamut of potential services that can be presented in a portfolio is huge.

You also need to give more details about your goal(s). What advice you receive should differ based upon whether you need to make money now to pay rent by the end of the month, or sacrifice a little money now to build up your sales pipeline (in either quantity and/or quality) because you have some cushion cash built up for the next 6-18 months.

In extremely general terms, you want to move away from differentiating on price as soon as possible, and get as close as possible to directly helping people make/save money with your services. By "directly", I mean find the person with check-signing authority, and find a pain point you can clearly solve for that person.

Plan on spending about half or more of your time marketing and selling yourself. If you think that equals 20 hours a week, then expand your notion of "your time" to approximately 60-80 hours a week, likely in bursts separated by more sane 40 hour weeks. Take good care of your body and soul, you're going to need the literal physical stamina and the emotional fortitude to push through the really dark, hard periods.

Never, never, never, EVER, disrespect or show discourtesy to someone, no matter how menial their role, no matter how unrelated they are to your current assignment. Always. Be. Selling. This doesn't mean you are a doormat, however.
I think the main reason netbooks are considered garbage by many is that they decided to cram Windows XP into underpowered machines, which meant a horribly slow laptop with poor battery life, with the only advantage being that it was small and cheap.

For me, a netbook replaced a $2000+ Fujitsu subnotebook which ran Linux. It was fast enough to run a web browser and most of the CPU intensive work (compiling etc) was done on a remote server anyway. The build quality was actually about the same, the main difference was the lack of an optical drive (which I didn't need anyway).
Even worse is that you MUST have a mouse. Navigating with keyboard alone doesn't work.
I would offer to spec out their project for free. if you want to give out free time. This gives you the inside tracking getting the project and also gives you the most important part of the project which is usually skipped or glossed over.
E-Books Destroying Traditional Publishing?
If you're so well versed, perhaps you could provide a summary as to what is so wrong about the comment?
You are dead on. Plus I love the church analogy.

These games have to have some type of limited-time element. You have 2 weeks to get the special "one-time only" pink zebra and if you don't earn it in two weeks you'll never be able to get the pink zebra again.

Or you can just buy some credits to buy the zebra for $20 in USD.

These games require limited-time only things to make money. Every holiday (valentines, easter, 4th of july) is a big event. The cost of the game is not servers, it's 5-10 full time staff to run it.
Social Media Success Stories That Inspired Us In 2012
lol, I always though Asus was pronounced as 'A-sas' , sas as in discus, but it appears it is 'A-soos' actually, pronounce it 5 times, and you will laugh enough to rival Shih (the CEO) himself :D This made my day!
search youtube for "gource+virtulization"

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gource+virtuliza...

nice stuff.
We already have. That's why we're in this mess. The only time the constitution is invoked by politicians is to stall the other side because they know that the basic tenets are gone. The Bill of Rights? One or two amendments might still apply in reality. MIGHT!

If you don't like the constitution, get your officials to amend it. That was built into the constitution as the exact fix for this kind of problem, and it's the way to "modernize" the constitution.

Good luck with that!
E-books revived my inner bookworm, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Traditional publishers who snub the e-book market are throwing money away.
Not sure - I meant a dynamic server.
I think of dealing with daily deals site, but I don't have leverage yet (not incorporated, small userbase). Thanks for the "review the deal" idea, I didn't think about that! (I was simply thinking to pass everything). Regarding locals, I pinpoint the capital city (Jakarta) in my FB ad.
Low-Cost 3D Printer a Hit on Kickstarter
Reddit is notorious in producing content or making comments when it doesn't have to necessarily. It just makes me think why internet should be paid and why people should produce less content. Produce content only when it's urgent for you to show something to someone and not when you have to say something for propose of just saying.
The userbase would balk. Private subreddits are already a feature. Asking users to pay money for something they currently use for free would tick off power users who have ungodly influence among the users. I think I get what you're talking about, but Reddit is not like Github enough to pull that off.
Twitter and Loneliness
Doesn't seem too surprising. The atmosphere and magnetic poles do work pretty hard to insulate us.
I don't use AdSense because I think, "Why would anyone search for dating websites?" as dating is more like "as you go" kind of thing. Thanks for your advice regarding how I'm going to make money, I haven't really thought about that. I just keep on developing and spending ads (for growth) without thinking the other end.
You are DEFINITELY in a giddy mood.
For years I suffered with really nasty chronic back pain. I tried back specialists, drugs, massage, exercise... Then my wife told me (I think it may be a lie..) that the Australian Rugby League team did pilates, and so, my masculine pride unimpaired I went and I did a session.

It is an instant cure. If you have a really good teacher (there are lots of clowns out there, look for someone who is gentle and runs advanced classes as well, then go to the beginner class) Make sure that you let them know that you have issues, and don't be afraid to stop and miss exercises that you feel uncomfortable with or worried about.
Is anyone actually surprised they pinched out a stopgap deal at the very last second? This is not a victory for anyone, and most of the problems that led to this crisis are still unaddressed.
Seriously. Ad hoc methods are for querying RDBMSs not for governing people.
I just did it 10 times. I'm also in the UK and logged in. I subscribe to about 30 sub-Reddits. I got 9 sponsored links, 1 community link.

Specifically (and I hope this doesn't make this comment get marked as spam!): "SNES, SEGA and NES all in one", "Read 'Probability Angels'", "Save up to 76% on your vacation", "Save up to 76% on your vacation", "Need a degree to back up the knowledge you already have?", community link, "'The Year In Music 2012' Video: Tasia Ann Thomas' Impressive Live Mashup Of Hits", "MMS and SMS text messaging API", "MMS and SMS text messaging API", "Read 'Probability Angels'"

(So two of the sponsored linked were duplicates.)

Trying again in a different browser, logged in to a throwaway account. I get a sponsored link, a "blank" space, a sponsored link, a "blank" space.. a sponsored link, sponsored link, sponsored link..
"We need to trust trust"
The original article didn't discuss deploying assets, only the app/code. I suppose that might have been implicit, but I typically handle them separately.
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True. But does a better alternative to rule of law exist? Perhaps. I'd love to hear thoughts on this.
Package encoding/json from the standard library can decode to objects ("Object" in the Java sense, "void *" in the C++ sense) like json_decode does.

It also can decode directly into typed structures. An example from the documentation (you'll have to open the linked example): http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#example_Decoder

Anecdotally, a typed version of JSON decoding is much nicer to work with.
They do have that feature and it's free.
Nice suggestions. What was the main reason for you to keep those projects/apps free for all? Just curious, thanks
Yeah seriously. And what are "the rest."

It's better than Communism, but that doesn't mean shit.
[sorry for double post]
Mihai Bazon (of uglify.js fame) is also a big time lisper. His entire blog is powered by Common LISP. Check it out. AFAIR, he developed a browser based SLIME environment too

http://lisperator.net/
It's not laziness, it's willful ignorance. Much worse.
the last three projects, that I have seen, have been already funded long ago. One thing I noticed is that there is a significant room for a 3D printer, at an even lower cost since most of the people still can't afford it at 2.5-3k for hardware, and subsequent investment on different parts. Until it comes down by another 50%-70% on total costs
it would still not be a huge success.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fsl/affordable-20x12-las...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affor...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/b9creations/b9creator-a-...
Tablet + keyboard cover docking station is just an overpriced netbook. And this combo is on the rise - people want to be able to do real stuff on their devices, when you have so much computing power always with you. And for that you need screen space and keyboard.
I'd like to plug Zidisha ( https://www.zidisha.org )

It's a lot like Kiva, except there's no MFI acting as a middleman. Thus, borrowers pay far lower interest rates.

You see, borrowers of Kiva loans actually pay a lot in interest, with an average rate of about 35% - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_(organization)#Current_int... . At Zidisha, borrowers pay as little as 5% in interest.

Kiva has a pilot program inspired by Zidisha called Kiva Zip.

Disclosure: I'm on the board.
It depends. A MVP is basically used to test if your core functionality is popular among users and also to collect some useful feedback from users via a simple system.

I personally never developed a MVP for my first start up, Tune Patrol.

While, while making Tune Patrol, a social music discovery platform, my MVP would've involved just putting up a few songs and letting users play them. Like I said, this would've helped in two ways,

1. Get traction. Users know that you're up and running.

2. It helps test to see what kind of features a user might want by using a good feedback system.

Instead I went on to develop a product with a lot of functionality. My first problem was that I couldn't immediately determine if users liked my understood the functionality completely. Luckily for me turned out users understood pretty much everything and now we are developing on it.

You could also read "Lean Startup" by Eric Ries where he stresses upon the importance of a MVP and quotes a few examples from his own experiences.
> I don’t want to read any more stories about how Facebook cloned something they couldn’t buy. Or that Twitter banned something that they tried to buy but Facebook got there first. Or the press regurgitating how Google+ is somehow not flailing. Or about the number of Android v. iPhone devices. Or Samsung’s patent mishaps. Or how Yahoo is winding down things in Asia.

The funny thing is that techcrunch is one of the most guilty sites when it comes to writing about these things.
11" MB Air. Nowhere close to $500, but you shouldn't expect that. No, it's not dead, and it's not resting.
Web Predictions for 2013
I'll offer my perspective as a parent of a 10 year-old:

For #1, I see it as trying to preempt the "but it's my iPhone, I don't have to follow your rules!" argument. The last sentence I read as self-deprecating humor: read it with ;) at the end.

#2, this is doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Same as I wouldn't allow my son to have a lock on the door to his room that I didn't have a key to, I need to have access to his phone as well. Hopefully she'd only use that access in a serious situation (suspected bullying, suspected drug-use, etc). It could be she's always going through his things and never allows him any privacy, but this rule doesn't necessarily mean that.

#4: I see this as setting a strong boundary around when phone calls can be made. When I was growing up, it was very common to see calling late at night as being rude. I don't see this as not trusting his opinion but more as saying don't be on the phone late at night. 7:30 pm doesn't seem very late, but that's hard to say without knowing when they have to be up in the morning.

#5: Many schools ban phones or disallow their use in school, so not taking the phone to school seems reasonable.

#18: I don't see anything in here that says the rules are set in stone. In fact I'd read the last part as saying the opposite. The first part I read as trying to defuse anxiety around breaking the rules. My son often gets anxious when we set a new rule and worries that he'll break it. Letting him know that breaking the rules won't be the end of the world helps.

Presumably #11 trumps number #3. I assume they'd expect a common sense approach.

#1 and #6 don't contradict each other. If I let you borrow something from me and it was broken or lost, I'd expect you to pay for it. I think that's pretty normal.

Finally, 13-17 seem to be more aspirational than actual rules. 13, 14, and 17 could be replaced by: don't become so obsessed with your iPhone you ignore everything else. I didn't read 15 as an exclusion of the son's peer's music. More a suggestion to take advantage of the wide range of music available.

I don't see this as insane, but it's very hard to judge from the outside. We don't know the kid or the mom. It could be she's crazy overbearing or it could be she's just setting up reasonable rules for he son. Being a parent of a high-strung 10 year-old, I tend to read it as reasonable rules for a very smart, very obsessive young teen.