skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread has been interesting for me. The first time I've opened the book in 13-14 years probably. Not exactly what I remembered. So just ignore my posts :)
You'd probably have more success posting this on Flippa if you haven't already.
You're being down voted because this is a discussion about Angular, not an opportunity for you to stand on your soap box about Knockout. However, I should point out that it's probably unwise to dismiss Angular outright over something as trivial as IE6&7 support. Angular's approach is well worth studying, even if you never use it. In short, I feel that the hierarchical view models (called "scopes") powered by data-driven "directives" and the preference for dirty checking over dependency graph management, yields a much cleaner internal design for the framework, and applications that both perform faster and are easier to maintain.
Solid point. On the other hand, getting 30k users in general is pretty expensive from a marketing perspective.

The real value is the potential.
Bill Gates and Microsoft were reasonably visible since... a long time. I think it's not easy to make that kind of money and stay out of the spotlight. And since Microsoft was always fairly consumer oriented, they needed the publicity, too.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/gates.asp
Interview time has a very high ROI.

The author says she did about 100 phone screens or onsite interviews; and they lead to 2 hires 1 of whom quit.

Seems to me how much profit there is in panning a river for gold depends on whether a river has much gold in it. And it sounds like she was panning a river that didn't have much gold in it.

What would you say is your interview-to-hire ratio?
To answer a question on the page: "I'm not sure how transferring apps from one Apple ID to another works. We can figure it out though."

I'm fairly sure this is impossible. I know people (with large apps and the right contacts) that have tried, and never heard of it being possible. Unless something changed recently. You could transfer the account (unless other apps are also on it).
Haven't heard of that. I'll post it. Thanks!
Interesting intersection of utility functions in finance and physics!
What are the unwritten rules of deleting code?
The people in recruiting should have been doing a better job on quality.

I see no evidence that they were doing a bad job on quality. They do as good a job as they can. But recruiters are fundamentally unable to evaluate technical skills. The OP would be the first person that interviewee talked to who actually could judge technical skills, and her job was to be a rigorous filter, to remove the egregious candidates.

The other team members should realize how important it is to do the screening instead of pretending working on code was more important.

That part of the process was not being criticized here, but I would agree with it.

If an engineer thinks there is a 1:100 chance the person will get hired and they have to invest 2 hours in each person they'll never bother.

Trust me, engineers are made aware of the statistics. But it is one thing to see them in abstract, and another to look through all of the candidates that you, personally, have talked to.
There is more to life than money. Writing such a book allows me to share my wealth of knowledge. So what if I don't make a million dollars out of it? That's not the purpose. I want others to benefit so they can grow their businesses. And in turn create new opportunities for others.
doh - thanks.
Parser don't handle comments at this time but it's could be a nice feature and not so difficult to implement.
Not selling because it's "failing". I consider it a success. I just don't have time to make it profitable enough to live on. I'd love to see some one take it to the next level.
Your stats don't mention how much revenue Cheddar is generating. That's the most important metric for determining the price!

Nobody cares how many hours you put into something when determining price.
Based on your traction so far, this acquisition would be based on a revenue multiple, not as a strategic sale.
For a niche SaaS product like this one, I would expect a valuation of 12X-24X monthly revenue depending on growth rate. Is this product making about $10K a month now to justify the $125,000 price?
Take a look at some of the products on Flippa to get a sense of how much you could get.
The post this is an excerpt from is already on the front page of HN, fwiw: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5013228
That's what I was thinking I'd have to do. The only other app on the account is Shares - http://getsharesapp.com.

Thanks for the info!
I watched this video once before, and there was a segment in it that struck me as so strange and incomprehensible that I have taken the trouble to transcribe it. It starts at 11:20 and runs through 12:20.

"Follow your passion." We've been talking about it here for the last 36 hours. "Follow your passion" -- what could possibly be wrong with that? It's probably the worst advice I ever got. "Follow your dreams and go broke," right? I mean -- that's all I heard growing up. I didn't know what to do with my life, but I was told that if you follow your passion it's gonna work out. I can give you 30 examples right now. Bob Combs, the pig farmer in Las Vegas, who collects the uneaten scraps of food from the casinos and feeds them to his swine. Why? Because there's so much protein in the stuff we don't eat, his pigs grow at twice the normal speed, and he is one rich pig farmer, and he is good for the environment, and he spends his days doing this incredible service, and he smells like hell but God bless him. He's making a great living. You ask him: did you follow your passion here? He'd laugh at you. The guy's worth -- he just got offered like $60 million for his farm, and turned it down, outside of Vegas. He didn't follow his passion! He stepped back and he watched where everybody was going and he went the other way.

This makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. For starters, it's completely clear to me that Rowe is totally passionate about the work he has been doing for Dirty Jobs! (If that's not clear from this short segment, watch the whole video.) I don't know that in his youth he would have been able to identify this work as his passion, but it seems clear enough to me that he has, as an adult, found it -- if not "the" passion of his life, then certainly "a" passion.

His story about the pig farmer makes no sense to me either. How exactly can we conclude that the pig farmer isn't following his passion? I'd say that the fact that he doesn't want to sell his farm is evidence that it is, in fact, his passion, and the clever way he's found to feed his pigs, to me, supports that conclusion rather than contradicting it. Where is it written that no one could possibly be passionate about pig farming?

And tucked in the middle of all this is the line "'Follow your dreams and go broke,' right?" Again -- where is that written? I've never assumed that following my dreams would lead to penury; quite the contrary.

Rowe is thus an example of a curious phenomenon I've noticed -- people whose passion seems to be telling other people not to follow their passions. (Cal Newport is the other example that comes to mind.)

The only explanation I can come up with is that these people don't really get what a passion is or how to identify it. I suppose that to the extent that there are a lot of people out there who don't get that, telling them not to follow their passions is, for them, sound advice! But I find it rather unsatisfying.
Waking up just in time to be late
OK Cupid has (had?) both ads and an ad-free A-list subscription package. However, I doubt either of those were their primary sources of income. OKC has an extremely robust survey platform baked into their question and answer system. I suspect that the demographic and market analysis data is extremely valuable and that selling it to advertisers, consumer packaged goods companies, etc. would be very lucrative.
Very similar but easier to install (I think).
The hacker_term don't work for me, so I do my own :)
Great post till the last sentence. But that sentence is doozy.

It's OK, we just need to try to continue to redesign our medical system with that in mind.

"We"? "continue to redesign?" - I'd never question that health care is being constantly redesigned. But given that the present situation is product of the previous redesignings, would not you say that the "they (big pharma, etc)" redesigning to keep their profits and influence up has so-far outpaced, beaten "us" redesigning? That the continuing process is broken, that if "we" is patients or doctors or whoever is most concerned with patients' well-being, "we" have to get off our duffs and do something if we are going have even a modest expectation of positive outcomes here?
I'd also argue we need better education.

My pharm. class followed the typical academic exercise in memorizing information which was 80% useless to modern medical practice. The heavy focus on biochemistry and mechanisms of action were interesting but mostly irrelevant, because they didn't help us answer questions most relevant to clinical practice; we don't typically choose drug A over B because of a biochemical property, but because there's evidence that one works better than the other, is more cost effective, has a better response rate in a particular population, etc.

Shifting pharm. education to focus more on those types of things - how do we choose the right drug; how can we use evidence to critically choose when a new, more expensive drug, is actually better? Or marginally better but cost-effective? This type of teaching is relegated to one-off class' and side-topics. Its not center stage.

The methods of big Pharma can definitely be unethical, but I think the real problem is our physicians are fundamentally unprepared to ask the right questions and make the best decisions.
>> The Library has not yet provided researchers access to the archive. Currently, executing a single search of just the fixed 2006-2010 archive on the Library’s systems could take 24 hours. This is an inadequate situation in which to begin offering access to researchers, as it so severely limits the number of possible searches.
Rendering is a little funky in Firefox 17.0.1, Win7.

[1] http://idzr.org/tcj2
I would set the minimum bid on Flippa far lower than the $125,000 asking price if you want to get any interest on there. People on Flippa are not startup guys and are a lot more realistic about valuation. I for one would be interested in exploring buying this, but it's not worth anywhere near what you're asking, so it's a non starter for me.
Wikipedia lost 30% of its editors
I think the salary numbers are not unreasonable. The variables that are iffy are:

* Can you hire and retain quality people? It's not easy.

* Can you keep them occupied at those rates? That's not easy either.

These two factors must also march in lock-step: get too much work without the people, and quality (or at the very least quality of life) starts to slip. Get too many people without the work and costs start to mount.

I do think that 'medium sized consulting businesses' might be in my category #3 though, so it's another area where it'd be very interesting to have some real numbers.

Personally, I think that even consultancies should try and productize what they do to some degree, to avoid being spread too thin, but it's tough.
AST Research used to manufacture memory expansion boards for the original IBM PCs that gave you up to 768K (128K of which was discontiguous, since ROM began at 640K).

The C compilers for the PC back then had different memory models (small, large, huge, etc.) that would make tradeoffs between code size and the size of the address space you could use.
She got one hire that contributed 2000 hours before quitting and another one that's still contributing 2000 hours/year.

This was the result 200 hours of her work and some number of hours of work from others.
Looks like the fonts weren't loaded or some other component. The server seems be quite overloaded right now.
I've heard anecdotally that you can transfer apps but you'll need App Store support involved. It's not immediate though.
This is the most intense fan fiction.
I can see demand for a BOM creating web app here.
People locking themselves into one service provider for everything voluntarily, being completely dependent on it, subsequently missing out on better alternatives outside that walled garden until it blows up.
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Its the not because its a legal term, its because its a highly specific term. You can freely call someone a whore. If you call them a prostitute, you had better have some evidence that they actually trade sex for money.
First Usage Statistics for Steam Linux from Valve
the page shows "error".
I'd bet on services businesses being substantially more numerous. There are probably tens of thousands of consulting firms in the US. Most of them produce bespoke software for businesses at five/six figures an engagement.

There are also lots of non-software consulting firms of various kinds; I'm part of one, and we do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies (see www.seliger.com if you're curious). Small non-software consulting firms you've never heard of probably outnumbered software consulting firms.

Still, one thing I'll point out, which The Millionaire Next Door points out, is that it helps to play good offense (i.e. make a lot of money) and good defense (i.e. save a lot). Many of the high-income people I know are bad at the second. That's the force counteracting gravity for many people.
I think the closest thing for women is not weight but age. Older women tend to do really poorly on dating sites. That has been discussed on hn before. As a 47 year old woman who has been alone by choice for some time, this year I finally seem to be getting the hang of deflecting male attention. It makes me wonder if I am merely getting "too old". So I am facing the possibility that if/when I again want a relationship, I might have trouble finding one. However that sort of irony seems to be the norm for my life. The universe seems to have a sense of humor and seems to like making me the butt of the joke. Still, the age discrimination that women face only gets worse over time and then gets compounded by the fact that women tend to live longer than men. So being a lonely old woman, no matter how in demand she once was, is a very real possibility for all women.

Have an upvote and best of luck, whatever you decide.
I was on the free plan. I didn't see any reason to pay for the service, because the free plan had everything I wanted. It seemed too good to be true. Until I saw that captcha page. I was surprised, as I had read all the docs, and it was nowhere mentioned that ads would be shown by cloudflare to my customers. Made me feel amateurish. I immediately deactivated cloudflare and decided to be more careful with 'free' services in the future.
Go is not shooting for the same space. Go is garbage collected.
When selling most big ticket items you need to start with your dream selling price and hope someone will pay you that.

Most buyers will start by counter-offering half your advertised price.
The era when anything that MS put out was an instant success is over.

When was that era? The same year MS shipped Win95 they also shipped BOB.

XP and Vista both started slowly and of course ME never sold well.

The difference now isn't that Win8 isn't an instant success, but rather there are other products that are.

The underlying difference is that Win8s competition are actual competitors rather than simply the previous version of Windows.
No doubt, and it wasn't meant as a potshot, although perhaps it came across too sarcastically; anyone that can build an audience of that size, especially with paid users as a portion, is doing something right. I wrestle with free user bases barely 20% of that, and growth is harder to achieve that most people think.

Serious question here: what portion of the audience base is using this because of you personally? Not that you know 30k people, but perhaps a large part came because of your connections. Relatedly, how many of them might leave if they saw it changing hands to someone they didn't know (or perhaps everyone would cheer because someone with more time for new features was taking over)???
In what way is it superior to Firefox sync, for example?

Personally, I don't want my work PC cluttered with random bookmarks from leisurely browsing at home - and if I did, I'd put them on Wuala, where my stuff is client side encrypted (FF claims that too by the way).
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Somehow that also makes sense
ATS is far better than Rust and C.
Salaried position for putting content into a CMS and helping others get their existing and new content web-presentable (for lack of better words)
That's pretty awesome opportunity and investment.

I wonder how they deal with understanding/measuring performance with these short engagements.

(Facebook has a "hackamonth" program which people who have been at the company for 18 months are encouraged to do - work on a new team for a month, and then decide to return, stay, or join a third team.)
So the sexist guy has an incorrect opinion on women in tech. He encounters one, who decides to play along with his stereotype rather than just be who she is. While it's not her responsibility to teach him not to be sexist, it's also specifically avoiding allowing him to see a positive role model. And all out of a vindictive power play. If he has 'already lost the interview', then there is no point in keeping up with the charade - you've already made your evaluation and now you're just being a cat playing with a mouse.

And at the end of the interview, we are left with a sexist man who has had his preconceived notions confirmed by encountering a female tech. That's something of an own-goal.
That makes it seem as if English is the same as just another European language for a non English European. That is not really the case.

Most music and movie culture, especially for teenagers, is in fact English. Less often it's your own native language, and even more rarely (but still existant!) other European languages.

English is also the one non-native language you kind of learn automatically (unlike other languages we had to learn at school), due to being surrounded by it so much, and the internet.

Slightly off topic: When seeing one of the extremely rare movies made in my own country, I'm always surprised by how awesome it is to see something I actually can relate to, e.g. when they speak some juicy dialects or show some typical living room in a house as they look here. American movies always seem "fake" or something to me, and also always use the same dialect, but I wonder if for Americans they can actually relate to that just like I can relate to native movies of my own country :)
In the case of my sister-in-law, she most assuredly knew since the paralytics still worked but she was awake and could feel pain through the entire procedure (gall bladder removal).
TACK only helps with clients that have seen a site before, right?
So unit sales are down and margin is down and Windows' perceived value is down and the new touch paradigm isn't adding perceived value and the app store revenues are barely calculable but we shouldn't call Windows a flop because it might go back to the way it was when it was being firesaled on garbage low-end netbooks that further degraded the mainstream PC experience if the industry would just cut those fat cat 4% margins further. K.
See "Cancer tumors as Metazoa 1.0: tapping genes of ancient ancestors"
Using 'perfect' in that sense is very common in British English.
Totally agree, I have several people in my life who seem to have the same attitude, and I've come to the same conclusion: pathological narcissism.

My commentary, "Realizing you were foolish in the past does not make you wise in the present."
It's not good for the company if it disturbs you so much that you leave them.
Which ones are giving you calls for papers? I'd be interested in knowing.

Here's what I subscribe to:

http://heybryan.org/mailing_lists.html

I really like:

http://www.neuroinf.org/mailman/listinfo/comp-neuro

http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grg

http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/tt

https://groups.google.com/group/diybio
I read through the article and the comments and felt I almost understood what was going on but was still missing something. Your example then made it all click for me in one of those "Aha!" moments.

Thank you.
Of course I can't draw definitive conclusion from a couple of cases, but the 3 linux netbooks I've bought in 2007/2008 are still in use. And AFAIK my mother's 2008 aspire one only recently failed afer 4 years of heavy use.
How would one begin a relationship with an agency? Is it possible to do on a less than full time basis?
because everything is injected, it makes writing isolated unit tests very easy

I agree with that statement regarding DI; however, have you evaluated whether you NEED a DI container or just DI?

Angular forces you into a container even if you don't need it. Is that what you really wanted? If so, fine, just be sure :)
On a tangential note, does anyone know what he's using to generate those bar graphs automatically from those tiny images? Nifty trick.
Uhm, I hover to not trigger outbound traffic and check the actual url of the link before I click. Wouldn't want my browser to try and render a page that I didn't even click.
Stop investing your time in dating sites and go outside.
i don't know enough about how inrix generates and maintains its traffic data, but perhaps waze could compete because its data is user-generated (and should be cheaper) ... enabling it to offer data at lower prices to less demanding customers, and therefore reaching out to new customer segments.

at the very least, waze need not beat inrix to remain independent but merely capture a portion of the traffic data market.

is it incomprehensible that waze couldn't be worth more than $500M? let's do a quick calc.

inrix is a private company. we can't use its multiples as a benchmark. let's use garmin and tomtom instead for argument's sake. garmin has a PE ratio of about 15, tomtom's is about 20.

if we assume waze gets a similar multiple, it needs about $25M - $33M in earnings. assuming 25% net margins, it needs about $100M - $132M in annual revenue. if the net margins are more like 33%, waze only needs $75M - $99M in annual sales. waze could need even less if it attracts a higher multiple (assuming it offers a disruptive model).

i know too little about the traffic market to say if $100M in revenue for a new entrant is feasible.

but i'm sure it's not impossible, merely a calculated risk on the part of waze's founders to continue acquiring users and implement the revenue model.
Two separate points there. On Flippa, you want to start lower to generate interest and start bidding, but you want the bidding to build up to a higher amount. But it's also true that Flippa users tend to be "value investors" not ones who buy high potential. They also are not developers.
I think our definitions of "service provider" and "walled gardens" are different. There's nothing about Google that prevents me from using any service that I want and even thought they are integrating many things in more tightly, I still have an incredible range of motion for things outside G+, as well as integrated with it.

I know this is a religious argument - I've tangled with it 9,341,759 times over the years. No one ever wins it - time is the grand determinant.
> Since it's a proxy response times will be higher for dynamic content it needs to fetch (the page itself, unless it's cacheable).

This is actually not true; I mean, it might very well be true for CloudFlare (as they may be doing something exceedingly stupid at the edge, might have bad connectivity for their servers far from the trunk, etc.), but it does not follow in general: due to how TCP works, there are numerous advantages to both throughput and latency from adding an intelligent middle-man. For reference:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823268

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4203371