skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I haven't researched this a ton, I've heard conflicting opinions about whether or not you must have a vacation policy in your handbook. This may also be a state-by-state requirement meaning TriNet optimizes for the blanket, you must have one, stance. Does anyone have a citation proving this one way or another?
Here you go: http://shiftedfrequency.net/

I agree that we need to know who he is and what he's done, but it was linked at the bottom of the post, so...
Note to self: get food editor.

You are right, we are using HN as a place to test different kinds of content. I hear every negative comment, I also get a lot of emails on both sides, helpful and hateful, and use that to figure out what kind of content is good. What I'm fundamentally interested in is answering is "what is good for X" - where X are all these different categories.
I want to learn about growth hacking
I want to learn about "growth hacking". I like the idea of studying analytics and making a plan of attack focused on converting one-time users to active community members and growth hacking seems to fit that bill.

Where can I learn more about this field? What blogs, books, etc do you recommend? Where can I find sample data for things like Google Analytics and Mixpanel?

Also, is there a less buzz-wordy term for what I am interested in?
Copyright Risks in Embedding YouTube Clips
Curiously, information printed on paper remains the key to enabling academic learning anywhere.
Noise canceling headphones from Bose - had no idea how quiet and focused I could get with them on in public spaces
They are not robots, they make choices. If I offered money to steal babies, that's an incentive. If someone did it and tried to defend themselves by saying "I was just responding to the incentive" that does not make them any less reprehensible.
Ask HN: What are some good tools for performing competitive analysis?
Any automated analysis tools or services you guys recommend?
Focus is clearly the most important.

Entertainment and the status you get from it is only as useful as the amount of influence that status yields, and influence is only beneficial in proportion to your conviction and the quality of your ideas. Improving the quality of your ideas require an unwavering focus.

Focus is the key.
Based on the title, I thought this article would be about Zuck's fashion choices, but it surprised me by diving into much deeper topics about individual identity, privacy, and revolutions. Great writing.
I think it's a combination of having some experience with free apps and being a bit of a pundit. He doesn't just give his opinions, though, he gives his reasoning too.
his comment on gosu made me sad. as a big ruby fan, i run into the "framework looks wonderful, but due to installation issues i cannot in good conscience recommend it to a beginner" far too often. the one-click installer projects for windows and osx are going a long way towards fixing this, though.
Nice, that's quite useful.
>When you understand that there are no "non-questionable sources"

Rubbish. Are you seriously telling me that nobody has done critical analysis of the data who wasn't associated with the energy industry?
From the article:

"The American justice system has issues, but it fundamentally works. The jury system is sound. Juries are people of good will and have common sense."

This system "fundamentally works" if you have the money to make it work for you. Most individuals, small and medium businesses simply cannot afford the cost of seeking justice. In my opinion this is true of civil, business an criminal law.

Example:

Back when I was younger and far dumber I client stiffed me for about $125K of work. Of course, off I went to a lawyer. By the time I spent about $8,000 in legal fees I realized that all I was doing was paying for my attorney and their attorney to write what I came to call "love letters" to each other. I called them "love letters" because every time they wrote one, regardless of content, they got paid handsomely by both parties. I decided to lick my wounds and move on. Good thing I did. The client ultimately filed for bankruptcy protection and stiffed a bunch of other businesses out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. They formed a new corp pretty much in parallel and have been operating ever since.

Would money have made a difference here? Maybe. Don't know. I had a similar situation with a large (multi-billion dollar global corp) that cause us huge damage. There was simply no way to go after them without putting-up at least $500K in the bank for legal fees. Not a fight I could have considered. And so, even though they were decidedly in the wrong, they, effectively, "wrote their own laws" or were able to ignore them because they could fight a fight I couldn't even begin to consider.

What I do know is that it sure felt like there was a huge asymmetry in justice. It's almost like one can exist in this parallel universe where the practical result was that laws simply were not applied in the same way to those with less money to "buy" justice.
> Look at the top sellers, and build things that fall into those categories.

This seems counter-intuitive to me. Just the other day we had an example of what seemed to be a really well-executed Sudoku game[1], which seems to be exactly the kind of app that falls in this category: the top Sudoku apps have 10s of millions of installs and hundreds of thousands of reviews. It definitely seems like the advice here is to "build a better Sudoku, and you'll do great." and yet the author was seeing hardly any downloads and no income.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5067709
7 Ways Mobile Apps Are Driving Revenue for Businesses - Giacomo Balli
From the guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

It appears many people in this thread find this interesting (particularly in the ways technology interacts with stalking) so it is on topic.
So then, why ARE they blue?!
How to defend against DDOS
How to get featured on the Apple AppStore - Giacomo Balli
I'm interested in learning more. Are you saying that one should deliberately take and store screen shots to document the chronological use of various technologies? Would screen shots have been pivotal or simply one more checkbox item?
FLPD Uses High-Tech Water To Catch Thieves
Where are you located? There's a Growth Hacking meetup in SF that's good.

http://www.meetup.com/SF-Growth-Hackers/
I work in financial software and many of the tools used by large companies are surprisingly archaic. I think there is a lot of opportunity in this space, but change is slow. What I think is going to happen is that non tech startups which heavily use new technology will displace the old.

For instance companies like wealthfront will eventually have an advantage over most financial advisors because the company is built on technology from the ground up. This might take awhile, but I think it is inevitable.
> It is designed so that if one chooses to create a work
> that makes use of another GPLed work, that the license
> "spreads" to the resulting combined work.

This is true for all popular software licenses under current US copyright law.
Thanks for the feedback - I work at Airbnb, and I'd be interested in hearing if others share this feeling (or don't).
"Whether you like that or not, you have to admit it's pretty different for the developer"

I don't really think that is true in Go.
Twenty first century version of Catch Me If You Can.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/
So Marc now knows it all?

Every day they keep asking him about stuff and then "Marc this" and "Marc that". I am about to switch morning cereal but gonna wait until he suggests one...

edit: noticed the negative votes, still wouldn't change a word.
I am in Jacksonville, FL right now, but I will be moving to SF towards the end of June.
Startup dreams meet pop-up rentals (housing in SF)
"weird accents", really?

Where are you from and what do you think is "normal". I'm an Australian (currently living in America) who has traveled a lot, I have a lot of friends from all over the world. I've never considered any one of them to have a "weird accent".

Can you give me examples of podcasts which you've found difficult to listen to due to "weird accents"?
You are clearly the "friend's son" and this is pointless.
I don't necessarily disagree with the article, just opening with "I’ve had a hand in quite a few successful and not-so-successful iOS apps" invites the question.
"Making the world open"? Facebook doesn't even offer RSS feeds, so thanks for the chuckle. "Making the world connected"? The world is connected anyway, introducing middlemen into it makes it arguably less connected, that is, it introduces more connectedness that sucks, instead of the kind that doesn't. Thanks for honing my doublethink radar or something.
This looks really cool. But can Apache and other frameworks accomplish this?
I agree. It depends on what type of podcast (genre) as well and how interesting it is(obviously). I subscribe to Joe Rogan's comedy podcast and ended purchasing stuff from his sponsors / his albums.
> Is that also why I get "Unknown or expired link"

No, that is just something HN does.
Also consider using Connect (on which Express is built) as an in-between point. You get stuff like the Sinatra-style routing, but without the presentation-tier stuff like template support, etc. I've had good luck with it, FWIW.
I kinda feel like this was written for beginners, but if its not that, I can't say this was really well researched. There are a ton of more technical things that you can do to defend yourself, and any expert will tell you that pretty quickly.

Also, if a search engine crawling you is a "high volume of traffic" to your site, you are doing it wrong. Search engines are designed to be pretty lightweight in terms of crawl load, but occasionally can get broken with bad CGI/apps/etc, but never to the point that they would appear to be part of a DDoS.
ThemeForest require themes sold there to use the split licence. It's a requirement to sell on the marketplace. It's part of the agreement. That seems pretty standard, you get the power of the marketplace, they get to dictate the content they sell, including usage. As mentioned in the transcript, ThemeForest customers can by different usage rights, a system which may be undermined by authors including whatever licensing they want.

Maybe you disagree with it/don't like the split licence/feel you should have a choice/whatever, you've got the choice to not distribute via ThemeForest.

But it seems incredibly disingenuous and sort of shady to enter into an agreement which explicitly limits the licence, and then try go behind your partners back and tell the customer to disregard that licence for your own.

If you're also selling on your own site directly, and setting your own licence, sure those sales can be licenced however the author wants. But it still leaves the fact that files sold on ThemeForest should be provided as dictated by ThemeForest, licence and all.
TuneTether - The Social Stereo
Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
The market won't bear it. $3 is considered robbery, an unthinkable, unforgivable amount to dare to ask as compensation for an app, no matter how much work was involved and who can tell how much was involved anyway? So multiply 99 cents by a small thought-leader/early-adopter market of 37 people and you've got dinner at Chili's as just recompense for all that effort and risk. The next stop, coming soon if we're not there already, is $0 and I really doubt we're ever coming back from that.
What I got from that comment is that open source begets open source. With all the forking, related projects want to be hosted together. And with all the developers contributing to many projects, it's a social graph with a lot of gravity.
That is true, sort of. If you don't sell exclusively on Themeforest, the payout rate is approximately half what it would be otherwise. Its a very similar rock-and-hard-place situation that this article is about. You're throwing away significant revenue by selling on your own site and generally not accepting their license agreement because they are the king in the market.
Agreed. I recently wrote my first F# code because the boilerplate associated with emulating pattern matching/discriminated unions in C# was so unappealing. I very much like the ability to wrap a piece of pure F# code in a C# API. I actually think the resulting F# is easier to explain to another developer than a huge collection of visitor classes.

I also feel that I wouldn't want to write the whole app in F#, because I don't feel like the OO/FP approach feels as natural for some parts of the app as plain old C#.
I participated in Startup Weekend University of Washington this weekend. My team developed TuneTether - a working prototype of an app that lets friends play back music in real time simultaneously across any number of devices. We took out 2nd place and won bragging rights :)

We'll be looking at developing the prototype further and publishing a completed app soon.

Feedback and comments welcome!
This is in line with advice that other people that I know have received.

I am glad that it seems to have worked out for you.
Given that the two comments by pohl and yareally are appreciative of a functional language that interoperates well with a host language, I would like mention Felix, a language I have been lloking at the past few weeks.

It is whole program optimized, strongly typed, polymorphic, ML like language without a default evaluation order that can interact effortlessly with C and C++ code and compiles down to C++, another differentiator is the presence of coroutines

I can point to two tutorials. One explains Felix by beginning from C++ [1], the other describes Felix the language [2].

[1] http://felix-lang.org/web/nutut/intro/intro_index.fdoc

[2] http://felix-lang.org/web/tutorial.fdoc

No analogies are correct, but roughly

Felix is to C++ what Scala is to JVM (or F# is to C#). Note however Felix predates all these languages.

@Ingaz the analogy is a little more literal because Felix compiles down to C++ (unlike OCaML)
I recently asked Jon about getting Braid on steam and he said it being listed as Linux compatible was an error. So I think someone at Humble Bundle did the port for him.
Not exactly what you're talking about, but you reminded me of this study I came across a few days ago: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news/unseen_disadvantage...
Distraction is a 4 letter word
The sad part of an entire article about Mark's hoodie, is that the significance to mark himself was missed. What is inside the back of his hoodie?
Here are some benchmarks (that I'm not really fit to judge the quality of) that have been going around the Clojure mailing list for comparison: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/clojure-web-server-benchmarks
Is there a resource that ranks apps by sales numbers which might also include some idea of in-app purchase stats? It seems to me that there's a lot that isn't known from simple popularity or download figures.

The other item that could be interesting is to be able to drill down and have a view of the sub-categories each popular app "owns" and how it's competitors are doing.

To beat the Sudoku example to death, maybe Sudoku apps are popular at this point. However, what I suspect is that one might see a small handful of these apps doing very well and then hundreds starving to death.

This, to me, would be far more valuable data. If the money is spread around nicely among top apps in a sub-category it might indicate that users like to look at other options and experiment. If, on the other hand, you have five apps that are killing it and 200 that are starving, well, you probably want to stay away from that segment.
Electronic Health Tracking Increasingly Common, Researchers Say
1B people disagree with you.
Bloomberg's donations have made possible a physics building, a school of public health, a children's hospital, a stem-cell research institute, a malaria institute, and a library wing.

Unless they left some money for operating them over the decades, they just burdened themselves with more future spending.

But there's a major difference: Bloomberg is donating his money for what he sees fit, Cuban is commenting on that. Let Cuban donate a billion to pay for tuition
That cash-whore has lost any respect I had for him in the past few months. Loving people just because they're rich is retarded.
Yeah, what I'd do is what Quora is doing (or should be doing); find awesome editors/curators per topic. Build referly in a way which lets them build up their own reputation.

For food, I'd get Jonas or Makitoh from Quora; both are authors working on books, so they would love to self promote.

It might be interesting to not go after big categories like "food" or "photography" but crossover like "food photography". I doubt even the world's number one food stylist or food photographer has too much publicity. There are what, 10 big categories? But then there are at least 100 crossovers, and more if they are more than pair wise (travel food photography)
I see nothing about this particular hobbyhorse of yours that is relevant or useful.

The assumption that you were trolling was the charitable one. This is a very petty issue to start a thread-derailing argument about.
The Amazing Form 1 3D Printer
The Form 1 3d printer from formlabs is the most successful 3D printer that was kickstared with the highest amount of money at kickstarter.
The main advantages this printer has toward other printer is printing in small microns in a lower price, there better 3D printers out there but it will cost you big big money.
I don't think anybody really expects it to happen overnight. But "it doesn't run games" has always been one of the major sticking points behind home Linux adoption. Just the native availability of major titles would be an enormous boost. Then throw in that Microsoft has given game makers a financial incentive to promote Linux gaming because game makers keep more of their revenues when their customers use Linux instead of Windows, and you have the seeds of change.

And nobody ever said it would start with grandma buying a computer with Ubuntu from Best Buy. Standard issue grandma is not a big gamer. Instead the gamers who are already at the margin of Linux adoption, who just need a little push, get it from game makers who now have the incentive to promote Linux adoption because it puts more money in their own pockets. They charge less for the Linux version, or release it a month earlier than the Windows version. Soon a lot of the people who call their computer a "gaming rig" are dual booting Linux, and bitching at any game company whose game requires them to boot into Windows. Only after that happens do you start seeing Ubuntu on computers at Best Buy.
1B people aren't even asking themselves those questions.
I think somebody should get James Lasdun on the horn and tell him to start using GPG on all of his emails....just sayin'.
Maybe I'm not understanding what is going on here but it appears the author's client is communicating over a socket on the same machine as the server. The author is seeing insanely high numbers because she/he is bypassing the entire TCP/IP stack.
"Do you want to post this comment to your Facebook timeline?"

[ Yes ] [ in 1 minute ]
Oh yeah, visitor would be a great example since F# has support of multiple dispatch. When I learned the Visitor pattern at the University I attended, it was one of the hardest things to wrap my head around initially until it finally clicked what it was while writing the code. It's just so counter intuitive to what most would think imperative language design is initially that it can take a bit to sink in. It seems simple enough, but trying to understand it and implement it are two different beasts. I would have gladly done it in a functional language or a Lisp variant if given the option.

Having to explain the Visitor pattern though to someone else would be much more painful than that I imagine versus just writing and explaining it in F#. The code just reads much more naturally for it, since the language supports it without a quirky design pattern.
More than a Billion people disagree on pretty much anything.
Very cool, thanks. I'll have to try that out.
The article wasn't really about the hoodie..
Folks, recursive data-strcutures are CS101. Processing them is also a trivial, template-filling exercise. First you specify the (recursive) datatype, consisting of the simple "leaf" elements, along with the complex forms. Then you write your program consisting of a series of mutually recursive functions.

What matters is that once you specify the data type, the code that processes it follows immediately from the grammar.
What I meant was to question whether responding to an incentive is ever not willful.
I don't share the GP's feeling, and I think I speak for the majority. It's very boring to express mild appreciation and general high regard, but much more interesting (to one's self) to express irritation with an internet stranger. I myself would not be posting if not for being irritated with the GP.
I don't see it that way. Anecdotes are not data, certainly, but the article really only uses those anecdotes to disprove the premise that education == success. Anecdotes are more than sufficient to accomplish that. Just one success story would have been enough.

He does go on to question if a degree could even be a liability, but I would suggest that the wording acknowledges that he doesn't have sufficient data to form any hard conclusions. I didn't take it as an argument, just a tangent on something that would be interesting to measure in the future that relates to the rest of the story.
It's easy to say that from the sidelines. I think it's a small price to pay for maintaining your sanity while its under siege by a mentally ill person. So long as you're not harming anybody, who cares how you frame your aggressor?
I would receive advice from someone who has dealt with these issues before even thinking about such a course of advice.

"Lock em up!" feels like a great idea. Until you wonder what happens between them hearing about it, and showing up in court. Or after they are released from the psychiatric admission.

This is a plan that can backfire..badly.
Thanks for the note - I wonder what this mean for Braid on Linux Steam though. Do we expect it to show up later?
Chi straighteners
But not lock-picking. Why are you trying so hard to label this hacking?

Earlier you argued by fear, that a badly configured server could send private data, and therefore editing URLs is hacking. Hell, I've seen servers with private data in the root dir. This is disconcerting, and bad for the company, but not hacking if you view the documents.

Similarly, incrementing as number, turning a page, clicking next, those are the expected, default, uses. They don't magically become a cyber attack simply because your software does exactly what you told it to.

Why are you unwilling to separate questions of legality long enough to make it clear that anyone in the world who can place one number after another could have done exactly the same?

Someone who unintentionally released private documents but thought they were hacked wouldn't have any incentive to change, or idea how. But if we were honest with them, they would.
Having tried both systems from early times, I've never been able to like Android due to the cheap look/feel of the devices, the horrible battery life, the clunky missed-the-point UI decisions everywhere. But times change, and I have to say when my contract is up, I am sorely tempted to get one of those big Samsung screens. iOS is starting to look really dated and the half-hearted updates we're getting lately don't give me much confidence that Apple is running out in front of where the smartphone market is going anymore. I would love to be surprised this year, but we'll see...