skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not try again with a long sale copy but this time use adwords and have an affiliate programs...

Having an affiliate program is good because it gives you a chance at seeing how someone who is used to do this kind of marketing works (at least that's what I imagine, I haven't launched my website yet but was planning to have an affiliate program where people get a percentage of sales right from the beginning).

It seems to me that the most important to get sales is not the book but the ad copy and the use of sem to get the traffic there...

That said thanks for the book I'll see how it is :-)
There was a news.yc NYC meetup, which I couldn't make it to, but I imagine was neat :)

If you want it to be serious, I think the trick is to get people to sign up to show cool stuff ahead of time, and advertise what people will be presenting.

If you'd like, I can help you organize (not that I have experience with that kind of things). I'd imagine we can find a place, issue a call for presentations, see how many responses there are, then make a site with the list of speakers.
I refer to the book: how to measure anything. Measurement is the reduction in uncertainty, not paralysis by analysis. Often you can get great reductions in uncertainty with simple methods if you think for a few minutes.

Some examples that the book may help you with could be looking at the governmental statistics for new businesses by geographical location (e.g. if they are better, then this must show in turnover right?). Geographical distributions of the last 10 years Fast 50/100, breaking the groups up by funding type.

Are you so certain that the probability of success is higher in the valley? It seems to me that the majority of the people who say this have something to gain, directly or indirectly from this being promoted as fact. This is usually an indicator of a falsehood.
To help with the comparison, you can get emails when people unfollow you too: http://useqwitter.com/
"how do you get value from providing it" - how do you get value from publishing anything on the web? The same principles apply. The value comes from making information more readily available, so people can find out new things, make connections, do their jobs better. If you want to make money from it (and of course a lot of data has already been paid for by the taxpayer) then you can do all the usual stuff: charge for access, charge for services built on top of the data, provide it free and use it to build your brand or to gain attention of people that can be sold to advertisers etc.

One important use case is publishing data for re-use within an enterprise or other organisation - it doesn't necessarily need to always be public.
It seems that you haven't had the "benefits" explained yet.

Writing in a functional way allows you to express algorithms more easily than you could otherwise. At any given point, while doing something functionally, you only need be concerned about the state of your inputs and your output(s). Letting go of state frees your mind from worrying about so many variables, and it allows you to think about the algorithms more easily. Of course, it may take a while to start to think about things functionally, but you'll have that any time you are learning something new.

Another benefit is it makes things easily concurrent, which is a large challenge for the game industry at large. Caveat -- make sure you know how your language/implementation deals with this, however. Erlang is much different than Common Lisp in this regard, for example (unless there is a specific CL language with threads that I don't know about).

BTW, basically every lisp you'd ever use has objects, or multimethods http://clojure.org/multimethods << basically the same thing, as far as it matters.

Thus, Lisp, ML, etc allow you to use FP whenever it is beneficial, and allow you to confine your state changes such that you won't have to worry about them nearly as much. Thus, many fewer bugs.

I cannot encourage you enough to continue to look into this. My only concern is that you will run into a lack of libraries, which clojure addresses, as everyone has already mentioned.
Haskell has one of the best namespace/module systems of any language I've ever seen. It doesn't 'leak' these names; they're just the names of the data constructors, they're supposed to be visible. If you need to control access, use the module system.

I think it's perfectly legitimate for examples of particular features to omit other features (like modules, in this case).
module Fibonacci
def simple(0)
0
end
def simple(1)
1
end
def simple(n)
simple(n - 1) + simple(n - 2)
end
end

Ruby style syntax for this example seems too verbose when you consider the succinctness of:

fib(0) -> 0;
fib(1) -> 1;
fib(N) when N > 0 -> fib(N-1) + fib(N-2) .
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"Where do you get your parts?" is a lot more like "What editor do you use?" than "How do you declare a variable?". It's cool as hell to find a parts shop you never knew existed, or to find a useful component that Radio Shack sells, or to find a website which sells a drop-in solution for what you need.
"Either you run an installer, or you drag a file to Applications. Are you joking? That's actually one of the easiest things."

First time I used a Mac, I opened the .dmg. clicked Firefox, and wondering why Firefox didn't work properly, having no idea I was meant to drag it somewhere and that it wouldn't work when run from the image.
Try pgBoard. I don't think it has anything to do with Paul Graham (the pg stands for pretty good). Some examples:

board.vivalavinyl.org
board.crewcial.org

Here's the source
http://code.google.com/p/pgboard/

It's actually a lot like HN.
I'd say Powershell is better than bash, dut to having ata properly abstracted from presentation.

Ie, you don't to find regexs to match your data, you can just pipe to 'select' or 'where' and tell Posh what you want.
Taking over from a success would hurt the overall efforts to be a protocol, as other developers and companies wouldn't take part.

Much better for everyone would be some kind of official support with a rev share.
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The market makers, those tend to be human beings who buy and sell stocks, watch the market and continuously adjust their actions based on their observations of the market.

No elaborate theory here, just stating the oversimplified obvious.
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I, for one, am glad Zed's still got (at least parts of) his "fucking awesome" persona...
This is very interesting - does anyone know just how many of the polls we see on TV or in magazines are voluntary response polls?

Polls in general interest magazines, especially women's magazines, are usually wholly unreliable for modeling reality. (One thing that happens is the college-age men stuff the supply of replies full of phony responses, especially if the survey is about some salacious topic such as sexual behavior.)

I responded to a telephone call that came to my home phone number from Gallup Poll a few weeks after the United States presidential election. Gallup attempts to proactively call all households in the United States, and to correct for households that refuse to answer its calls. The interviews are quite long, and they ask a lot of demographic questions for stratifying the data gathered. If my caller I.D. box had not said "Gallup Poll," I never would have picked up my phone for a cold call. I got another poll call just this weeked, and many years ago got a call from the Harris Poll. The major polling companies attempt to actively gather random data samples, so what they do is distinguishable from voluntary response. But a magazine that writes a little sidebar "email your response to [email address]" is simply gathering worthless data. The same is true of TV stations that tell viewers to cell-phone text a response to some number they designate, or websites that have a poll form for anyone who surfs by.

If you are gathering data to improve a website, you are much better off conducting a live usability study in which you observe the user directly than simply polling visitors who voluntarily respond.
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The twitter management apps make a big difference. It's like looking at email without spam filters or automatic folders and say-- man! the signal will never make it through! --yet most of us use email daily with no trouble.
"In the case of primate color vision, trichromacy based on the "new" M and L pigments (along with the S pigment) presumably conferred a selective advantage over dichromats in some environments. The colors of ripe fruit, for example, frequently contrast with the surrounding foliage, but dichromats are less able to see such contrast because they have low sensitivity to color differences in the red, yellow and green regions of the visual spectrum. An improved ability to identify edible fruit would likely aid the survival of individuals harboring the mutations that confer trichromacy and lead to the spread of those mutant genes in the population."

Sean Carroll has a very interesting discussion of the evolution of color vision in primates, and the consequent loss of selection pressure on many genes that develop sensitive sense of smell, in his book The Making of the Fittest.

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Fittest-Sean-Carroll/dp/0393330...
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I use facebook for showing my twitter updates (as most of my friends don't use twitter), showing my google reader shares (as most of my friends don't have google reader) and for event planning. The ability to easily share videos and photos also helps greatly. My last couple of birthdays were a little different and people took a little convincing. The hardest one was convincing people to buy into throwies, as you're "throwing money" around the city. Facebook make that possible without having to convince every single person myself. Once I got a group going they were convincing each other. And yes, everyone had a lot of fun. =)
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This is promising. Probably the best technical solution to spam I've heard. Twitter + PGP + Good UI could work ....
Thanks for the input guys, think I will go for it but obviously, monetizing/paying the bills might prove difficult therefore I'm going to work on it part-time for the moment.

Re. joshsharp, good point about the proprietary nature but hopefully Twitter will allow further customization of profiles/data in the future. For me, the reason Twitter has grown so quickly has been due to its simplicity, both to a regular user and developer.

There's been some great apps though, some mentioned here I've tried, and hopefully one day aside from takeovers, there will be real options to earn revenue from them.
Hi, I made a dynamic background changing twitter applicaiton called Weatherizer. It's mostly for fun and pedagogy. In the spirit of learning I'd love to get feedback. Thanks.
Very true, but the appeal, to me, of Reia is better string/regex support than currently available in Erlang.

At least that was stated in their goals somewhere, and admittedly my Erlang-fu is fairly weak, so I could be missing something awesome in that area.
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Click on "submit", then type in an "Ask HN" type title and type your question in the body.

If it's an interesting question, it will get voted up, probably.
Much as I love the tweets, Twitter's signal:noise ratio has always been very close to zero, so I don't think spammers will be able to ruin it the way they ruined Usenet.
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If it's true alcohol addiction, but with alcohol psychological addiction usually presents long before physical addiction has completely taken over. Essentially heroin might kill you if you're a long time addict, but alcohol is pretty much guaranteed to kill you if you're a long time addict.
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I don't know how to say this without sounding like a troll, so I'll just come out and say it: the people who have responded to your question so far sound like they know a lot about Lisp or functional programming and rather little about games.

You came to HackerNews, where all the functional programming boosters hang out (myself included) and asked: can I use functional languages for X? What, were you expecting an unbiased answer? To HackerNews, functional programming can do X optimally, forall X.

All languages have tradeoffs, though it sometimes seems like we have yet to face up to the tradeoffs in functional programming. But in truth, functional programming kinda sucks for games, and the more functional it gets (that is, as it approaches Haskell), the more it sucks. Because game logic is all about the one thing that pure functional programming disdains with all its heart: global internal state and side effects. The purer you get the more you have to jump through hoops to manage this kind of stuff. So IMHO you're really asking: can I learn a functional programming language by coding something which functional programming is fairly hostile? And people here are responding: sure, you'll love it! It's perfect for you!

Also note that real game programming is also often about speed and soft real-time guarantees. Sure, games often have a high-level scripting language in which certain gameplay elements are written. Lua, for example, is one popular choice. Variations on Javascript are another. But if you're looking to write a game in a programming language, and need to eek out that extra bit of cycles to do something nifty, most of the languages here are bad bad choices. This is probably not something you care about since you're just looking to learn, which I applaud. But it does tell me that boosterism is in effect when people recommend Lua and Clojure and ABCL and SISC for game programming that they've not considered, and they don't bother to tell you that these languages are quite slow, for an environment (games) where speed really matters.

So if you're trying to learn a functional language by doing a game, I'd pick the least hostile functional language that has highly portable graphics and event support and which is decently fast. Ordinarily I'd say CommonLisp, but ABCL's not there yet. One language in this category is Kawa, a JVM scheme which can be optimized to run at a decent fraction of Java. PLT might be another choice: it's not super fast but has very strong and portable libraries.
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That's a good idea. And if you're still pitching when you get older, you can reference this other study about the brain peaking at 39: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=345785
Looks cool, but I would feel a lot happier about Boxee if they made it possible to compile on 64-bit/non-Ubuntu platforms without lots of patches and frustration. I even installed an Ubuntu VM just to use Boxee, but it runs like crap in VirtualBox (the rest of the virtualized Ubuntu install is fine). ;(
This makes parrots a great subject choice.
We already have this: Twitter DM
Good suggestion... for slightly more money but in the same form factor these sound better: http://www.amazon.com/Technica-ATH-A700-Closed-Back-Dynamic-...
Nicely said. That very fact bothered me for a long time & now I'm happy there's at least one in this universe who think like me.

I was unlucky that I was not there when "home brew computer club" formed. Dammit I missed the golden age. I regret that.I really do.

I was looking for a place for me to fit in. A guy with the hacker gene. Grown so carefully in me thanks to all those hackers lived & left their experiences behind, on text files or whatever media. A guy who has lot of things to learn but struggling to find people who are willing to make another hacker with their knowledge & skills, like the real hackers who lived on this planet some times back.

I was looking for the right place. Right place for me to grow. I went there, I came here. No where is perfect. Maybe that's the way it is. Since the time is changed, the hackers of new days has to build their own world like a kid building a lego castle with pieces picked from HERE & THERE.
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Neat modeler, not so much a simulator.
I'm head geek at a London based UK startup and have the same question.

I just follow Hacker News mostly :)
Enormous. Shows the YCombinator model is working, or in the future it'll be working. (which it will)
Never trust anybody over 30, man

http://www.bartleby.com/73/1828.html
what startup? would kind of infrastructure would we need? ning?
Oh, lord. Go do layout for a newspaper. There IS NO FOLD... http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of
The weird thing about this story is that it is so true… but if I would have read it one year ago, I wouldn’t have believed a word out of it. Especially for the “narrow your audience” tip. Couple of months ago, I’d say that our project monitoring app is for “anyone who works on a project”. I was wrong, we need to redefine our user description.

That is a tip that should be more written about. It currently exists in the “find your niche” form but it is wrong. People think “All I have to do is to find my niche then, everyone will use my product”. Instead of finding your niche, narrow down your audience.
Dude, Google is your friend.

Mike was being coy when he described himself as a "former Microsoft employee", but dismissing him as a "random investor from Texas" is silly.

http://people.forbes.com/profile/michael-j-maples/49137
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE2D81038F...
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Ok, it isn't spam. It's a denial of twitter attack. :)
I'm Southampton based and find I spend huge amounts of time scouring techcrunchUK, mashable and very few others for UK startup news. The Times online and The Guardian online are both good sources. The most fruitful is probably Twitter though.

Perhaps there is a need for us to band together and start driving more engagement - i.e. really champion a tech startup group?
Yeah, California's a great place for a wound-up guy who doesn't want to hang with entrepreneurs.
Thanks for that. I am so prone to the endless tweaking of design minutiae rather than the much more effective sculpting of functionality and usability. I will try to follow your advice! The part about word choices and font-hue really hit home, ::sigh::.
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you don't happen to still have the hourly scrapes do you?
A line graph showing when age-groups were online/voting might be of interest. (I noticed that 20-24 was first, and has dropped to 2nd now)
Ask HN: Do you watch cartoons?
Ive been a hacker for quite some time now, I find myself watching cartoons occasionally when I get my hands on television. I find them a very effective way to relieve the mental pressure. The absurd activities take my mind off of the issues at hand for a little while, which to me is a great mental relief.

To my surprise, a lot of hackers around me also watch cartoons. Compared to non-hackers, most of whom consider cartoons a childish activity and waste of time.

So here is my question, do you still watch cartoons?
SSD's are getting cheaper at a much faster rate than demanded capacities are increasing ... Firstly just nipping at the heels of the low end, then biting a chunk out of the mainstream, and eventually consuming all but niche applications

This is a classic Innovator's Dilemma/Innovator's Solution situation. People were buying for capacity, soon they'll be buying for convenience (speed, power consumption, etc). Tape drives are cheaper than HDD but no one is buying those.
I think it is worth noting this form:
http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

And in short:

(X) users of email will not put up with it

(X) requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once

(X) many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers

specifically, your plan fails to account for:

(X) extreme profitability of spam

(X) joe jobs and/or identity theft

(X) extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers

(X) dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves

(X) outlook

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

(X) whitelists suck

I would like to conclude that this is not some snarky elitist comment to this insightful blog post. I'm simply stating that spam is a very old problem, and many people have spent a lot of time trying to stop it. This form exists as a reminder that many of these options have been thought up before, tried, and found to fail. We've learned from some of our mistakes :)
Whilst at the same time making URLs in downvoted posts plain text rather than a <a href=""> tag. Accidently clicking on a greyed out link because you couldn't see that there was a link there is just plain annoying.
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