skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You've got to be kidding me. $10 a year may as well be nothing. I wouldn't do anything for anybody for $10/year."

That makes no sense in the context of selling 0's and 1's where the marginal cost is close to zero.

What you should ask yourself is this: would you rather sell one hundred subscription at $120 per year or ten thousands subscription at $10 per year? I'm not saying these are the numbers that GP would have but you must take this into account.

Another way to put it: quite some people are very happy sitting on hundreds of thousands --if not millions-- of dollars selling games on the iPhone at less than $5 a pop.

Another comparison point: there are desktop apps way more complex than the webapp we're talking about here that can bought (not a subscription, but bought) when there are bundle sales at way less than $10. Once again, the problem is trivial: would you rather make zero sales to that target demographic (people buying apps bundles) or would you rather sell a few thousands license for you app at, say, $5?

Basically the two concepts that you don't understand are: a) economy of scale and b) it's all 0's and 1's.

"I probably couldn't even be bothered invoicing you."

That just shows how lame and inefficient your invoice and tax filling process is. (btw I can help: no latter than yesterday when the tools of the trade were posted here there were apps taking care of automated invoicing and tax fillings)
I get blocked and told this website is adult or pornography...
It's the first 3 octets as RGB, shuffled around to create complementary and triad colours.
They default the user to search engines. And add default bookmarks.
People don't like change.

Using the word "change" makes it more obvious and the changes they made to their system (that were debatably for the worse) deliberately.
Hey guys. Sorry its not working, its on a shared hosting, hosting it somewhere else right now. Its just a bit of fun really, grabs the first 3 numbers of your ip, turns that into an rgb color then generates a color pallet.
It's using http://jsonip.com/ apparently. Does going to this URL works for you?
This latest test suggests that HN seeks membership of errorban club. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...
Roughly speaking, search engines pay browser vendors (including even Apple) for traffic.

See for instance some analyst's speculation about a Google-Apple deal here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5206764
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What do you think the odds are that San Bernadino paid for aerial photos that provide the highest resolution coverage?
I completely agree with you. But once I found this interest setup where you'd map the caps lock key to ctrl/esc and then the ctrl key to cmd+alt+shift+ctrl. That mapping can act like another modifier key. Aside from some games, I have yet to find a program that gets in the way of my setup.

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/
People are bashing this for being 'pointless', but hey, so is the next great to-do list app you made in 48 hours. This is a fun little experiment.

I can see an actual use for this. Look for example at Identicons, Wavatars, and MonsterIDs[1]. They all use browser variables to generate random avatars for use around the web, e.g. on blog comments. I imagine this could do something similar, and a nice colour palette is a little more classy than a monster.

[1] http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-an...
Really? Their tone is entirely wrong in my opinion. They sound like children who have never worked in the real world before. The issue they are facing is certainly a real issue, but they are handling it completely inappropriately.
It's on the same timescale as the European Blue Brain Project (and also Kurzweil's predictions, if you put any faith in that). If you believe that this an information technology that has an exponential growth, it's not a sufficient objection that we're far off now. The same objections were raised for the Human Genome Project, which was far from completion most of its duration, but followed an exponential growth and completed on time.
Really interesting, played around with it locally and it just kill two random neighboring tabs, while not effecting others.

Chrome 24.0.1312.57 | OS x 10.8.2
I have a 15 or so lines long .vimrc that I put on all the VPSes I work on without any plugin. It's great for keeping myself sharp.
@jonasvp: I would be extermely interested in reading about how many people signed up for the service if you would be willing to share. As well as any other one service products you guys sell.
Well, I have all the issues with me ;) http://h3manth.com/i/218150a91b.png
Sorry about that. Check out http://klipbook.net/brainfilter/
I read through the slide deck yesterday and loved it. There is a lot of good information in there. The personal touch makes it especially good.
"The argument wouldn't be that everyone would test foods with handheld chemo whatever's, but rather that private analogs to the FDA would exist."

What's stopping these "private analogs to the FDA" from existing now? If the FDA is doing such a poor job of protecting our food, why isn't private industry stepping up to the plate?

"The point I'm trying to make is that people who disagree with you look at the current situation with antibiotics and say "see, here we have the FDA and this is still happening". Whereas you say "See, this is happening and why we need the FDA"."

These problems happen because the FDA is too much in bed with the private industries they're supposed to be regulating. What needs to be done is to make them more independent from those private industries, and strengthen the FDA, not to get rid of the FDA and replace them with some pipe dream that only works in some libertarian utopia.
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People generally are more influenced by their friends and acquaintances than by institutions.

If everyone you know has a smart phone you are going to have work hard not to feel that you should get one too.
Opera sells to hardware OEMs that want an embedded browser for their devices (Nintendo Wii, Feature phones, etc). Lots of feature phones have Opera Mini.

That as well as the search revenue that was already mentioned.
The 1% don't look at ads, they make them.

> As a result, 99 percent of us live on the wrong side of a one-way mirror, in which the other 1 percent manipulates our experiences.
Agreed about the horrible tools. Unfortunately, this is an extremely difficult market to break into. Most academics want free and open source tools and don't care how many research assistants or post-docs they have to torture to use them. Compounding the problem is that the market is so small any commercial product is going to have to be very expensive (>$1000.00) to make it worth while re: development and support costs. For instance something like BrainVoyager (http://www.brainvoyager.com/) which is a commercial competitor the tools you listed starts at $4,000 which is a pretty good chunk of any equipment budget on a grant.
I think programming is about logic and facts, which for me don't really gel with 'faith'.

I'd be uncomfortable.
Mirrors for 4 of the issues:

Issue 12 - https://mega.co.nz/#!1JBAhTrD!TFJGnCL0WZoYFiyQ1l-EkSSdpoEHFK...

Issue 17 - https://mega.co.nz/#!5VhF2T4Z!RHrGVhq5niaR_yT-a0ELDB1CAuhQKl...

Issue 21 - https://mega.co.nz/#!RdomTShI!J4aRultSbwh7ylwxUUoNzQDCwJYZIg...

Issue 26 - https://mega.co.nz/#!RJxzwLBL!Dzgd71TrFl-gTtQajNFSYF3aqpVOjZ...
Yes, it is used by lots of people, but will it still be relevant in 5 or 10 years?

EDIT: Also, it doesn't pay that well. In my current job, for smaller internal projects, I proposed using Rails (or Sinatra) but keep getting turned down
My suggestion: Get a familial domain and use something like Google Apps for Domains (though you have to pay for it now). In this case, there is someone with admin/root level access to the accounts. There's still an issue if the admin passes on, but you could always have two people with admin access.
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Actually, to be fair and honest, Trello's main UI design looks suspiciously similar to the Excel templates that I used for project management 10 years ago [and freely shared with many people], which in turn were inspired by GDPM (Goal Directed Project Management] book [1]. The UI design was listed in the book's appendix.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Goal-Directed-Project-Management-Techn...
This is the 4th edition of the book, the first was published more than 10 years ago.

quote "Goal Directed Project Management (GDPM) is a unique methodology that has been developed and refined by the authors over a period of more than 20 years. In this time, organizations all over the world have adopted it as a standard approach."

Unless there is a pixel for pixel copy, why don't we stop implicating that similar UI designs and ideas is an offense and wrongdoing?
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Also, keep in mind that Halo was only on the xbox 360. Destiny will be available cross-platform so the market is even larger.
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So who's going to create a colour map for these?
Filling the Gap
Didn't expect this to hit HN so soon :)

I've just fixed all of the download links. Kindly try again.

And I'll forever remember the ironies....
Nicely done, though it's more focused on launching a "web service/business"...yes, it's a business that consists of a web application, but the term in the title makes me think of it being a technical guide.

One of the things that would be useful, for technical and non-technical founders, is a nitty-gritty checklist of all the things you have to think about when launching a web app. Everything from deciding on the framework, the database, the schema, to having a favicon, og-meta tags, non-Javascript degradability, and setting up Google Analytics and Webmaster.
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Using the cheap wine for the experiment means the professor had to drink the good wine to empty the bottle. The worst part about this "experiment"? White vs red. You'd have to be fresh off the street to think they taste the same. This entire article is trash. These undergraduates are as much "wine experts" as 11 year olds are "education experts" just because they attend school every day.
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Indian here. It is.
If the thing refuses to do what I want it to do because it thinks I shouldn't have the knowledge I am asking for, either because that knowledge is forbidden me or because I cannot afford it, if the thing I am facing is making that decision then changing the way that thing behaves will change what I can have, therefore will change who I can be because what I get determines who I will become. -- Eben Moglen
> Considering how many people/companies fail so spectacularly at it, why would it be baffling?

It's baffling because it's always meaningless PR-bullshit-we-hope-you-won't-stop-giving-us-money, and people should be aware of that already.
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These three examples seem to me to be coming from a person with ridiculous amounts of time at their personal disposal. Let me know how this goes once you have a kid or two.
Nice! I will check it out!
Engineers that spent many years working on challenging problems in highly performance-critical areas of the core engine might not be all that interested in doing UI design on iOS.
If a competitor fires people with the skills you need, the hiring process gets a lot easier and as such cheaper.

It not necessarily means low wages, but more "easy grab".
There's a difference between how the general public, who only sees celebrities at high profile events, perceive someone and how the people you're around every day at the office or home might react.
It's nearly impossible to tell good wine from bad wine instantly. A wine may seem very good but give you a terrible headache the next morning.

Every time I drink some wine and someone tells me it tastes good I answer: "let's wait tomorrow".

The only wine which I know ain't giving headaches is champagne (unless you really* abuse it).
Looks nice, but again...:

* another closed source service ?
* Are there import/export options ?
* There is not even a RSS feed ?

Sorry for looking like parasiting a topic, but I need to rant: I'm sick of close-source online bookmarking services, especially when I can't import/export all my data. So I'm moving away from them. I want to have control. This my data.

I developed my own bookmarking application, Shaarli (opensource, bookmarklet, html import/export, private links, tag cloud, picture wall, "daily" digest and many other features).
http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli

My own instance is: http://sebsauvage.net/links/

I don't say hosted services are bad, but I'm definitely done with them.
Thanks everyone for your interest! The class is filled and overflowing at the moment, but there will be a next time.

If you're still interested, send me an email (see profile) describing why you want to learn JavaScript and your current level of experience. You'll be the first to know about the next event.
I contract, which means I get to work "as much as I want" over the longer term, but it still means full time working for extended periods. It's not a bad deal at all, but I'm starting to feel like I'd like something more stable. I am hard to please.
I love what i do.
Any one interested to hire an experienced hands on technical guy who loves his job?

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contact me on sid4it@gmail for a profile request.

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Doesn't work for me in Fx 18 but it does seem to work in Chrome (both Win7)
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Opera sells "speed dial" bookmark promotion, for one.
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I don't understand the disagreement...isn't that the same thing I said? IIRC it used to be the case that all links could expire, then he did this transformation from closures stored on the server to closures manually serialized in the URLs (which results in a normal URL as you say). What I'm describing is how a web framework could do that automatically, which means you get the behavior and expressiveness of closures without the link expired issue. Though I can see that the explanation isn't very clear, but I don't know how to make it more clear. Edit: don't downvote him people, it is a perfectly fine comment.
FWIW, there's also a "Show: original" button on the top right of the Translate page.
I really like that this is DRY.

In programming for OpenGL I don't mind the dancing with the state machine, but I hate the repetition and desynchronisation. The cognitive / ergonomic inefficiency wears me out pretty quick.

This is very very nice. Hats off.
> Unification of code, UI, and styling. The DOM has to go, as does CSS and JS as separate entities. It's a ridiculous model for UI development and it makes producing genuinely re-usable and interoperable component toolkits very difficult.

How does separating UI styling from UI construction code make creating reusable components more tricky exactly ? Other points might be close-ish to the mark but this one seems way off.
Data-driven design vs. Data-prejudiced design
I always found that 50-50 screen split impractical. Many websites want more screen estate. Some apps are sidebar-happy while some aren't. A terminal is just fine with 80 columns, thank you...

What I've been doing many years now is getting a 80 column terminal/editor/im client/whatever on one side of the screen and other apps on what's left. Seems pretty near perfection :)
It's like this:

* Indian PoV: I get to study abroad, make more money and increase my social prestige.

* UK PoV: Indians bring in a lot of money, making our country even richer. Let's have more of them.

In short, it's all about money, not about education or freedom of information.
We use Around in such cases - it can put original method call to callback of asynchronous method.
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As more complex frontend apps are being built , IMHO, learn some Javascript stuff like
Backbone + Marionette, D3
Knoockout.js

You can always leverage any backend with these frameworks. The JS is getting trickier. PHP will not die.. So called good programmer who claim they know PHP well - yes they know it - how well is dependent on the quality of code they write. It is the quality that matters.
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It may be harsh to sum up this article in a single word, but
I recognise this as "burnout". It's not uncommon, and it affects people in different ways, but is usually accompanied by a (sudden?) drop in ambition.
Waiting for it! Thanks for our last email conversation!
I don't think you can sue Heroku because it was "slow". Were any SLAs offered by Heroku explicitly not met? If so that's a different story.

If AWS was able to be sued by every customer who didn't understand how their infrastructure config worked with the underlying EC2 network, or did something incorrectly for a time due to a documentation mistake there would be more lawyers working at Amazon than engineers.
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We're just talking about what ads get served. Ads.
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Don't confuse "censorship" with "freedom of association".

And just because a few might abuse that freedom doesn't mean everyone should be denied the right thereto.
An open source mirror of my file-based blog written with Python Flask
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The reality is that the policy in India, has not been formally formed about copyright. Whoever takes this battleground, will have a significant advantage on his side.

IIPM, is actually a viral sort of university, with an aggressive strategy of hard marketing, slight overstatements, and over time, they are indeed becoming better and better. But at the cost of many lambs.

as someone said here, its a degree mill for now.
RSS functionality and exporting will be available in a little while.

I wanted users to be able to import Delicious links upon sign-up but my developer ran into some trouble with the Delicious API limits. So I'm looking into alternatives.

(Perhaps I'll need to get users to export their Delicious links and upload them to Klipbook. -- If anybody have any suggestions or alternatives, I'd love to hear them.)
My reply to the question "What should developers who want to blog use?", my answer was "Roll your own, it's fun!" Additionally, you can fine tune the experience to fit your ideal workflow. After user samstave asked for a writeup/tutorial on my setup, I mirrored my site on github and improved the README to explain installation and uses.

My favorite feature so far is the ability to quickly embed source files into a post with links to the raw versions automatically generated. I frequently find myself wanting to wget some code snippet from a tutorial while on my server, but without a direct link to the raw file I have to copy/paste.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.
Ask HN: Thoughts on dev bootcamps vs. self-learning?
Does anyone have any thoughts about all the dev bootcamp programs that have sprung up of late, programs like Dev Bootcamp, App Academy, Starter League, Hack Reactor, and Hungry Academy?

I'm unsure of whether it would be worth my time and money, and if I would be better served learning on my own thru tutorials and side projects, even if learning on my own would take twice as long.
Area under the curve is distance. (Integral of speed over time is distance.) We know what the actual distances are so the actual distance could be compared to the area under the graph to verify its accuracy.
Not a credit card, but Coinbase offers to link your bank account to their hosted bitcoin wallet.
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You're very welcome. And I allege you know that's not how I meant it. Do you really want to assert that the subject matters at HN are part of mainstream culture? I do believe that IT people tend to use the internet differently, this is not an elitist observation in case it came across as such. It's just different.
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I almost always want only one window available (except terminals) - but don't want to have to think how to get to the other ones. When doing web development, I generally have some terminals open, my editor, and my web browser. If I use alt-tab, I need to remember which window I came from most recently - with xmonad, I _know_ alt-1 gets me to terminal, alt-2 to editor, alt-3 to web browser. It's minor but it is something I have to do hundreds of times each day, and avoiding the minor irritation of having alt/cmd-tabbed past the one I wanted is worth it.
What you see as 'burnout' I see as closure.

Don accomplished pretty much everything he wanted to, and more.

Why continue running laps around a familiar track when you could go someplace else?
I don't think "abuse" is the correct word. "use" is the correct word.
And for all the 'not-so-power-users', you can use Spectacle - http://spectacleapp.com/ (Free)
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Excellent point.

I've also found that situation (though admittedly to a lesser extent) in languages that are dynamically typed. My first experience with Python rapidly turned sour when I discovered that I was going to have to use guess and check to figure out what types of parameters some functions in a standard file-handling library expected.

The less discipline the compiler demands of the programmer, the more discipline the programmer should demand of himself.
Good to know you're working on it.

In my experience, Netscape bookmarks html export worked better. But even then I experienced a lot of broken exports from online bookmarking services. This is a pain. Good luck with that.
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And if you don't need it to be free, there's Sizeup http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ . Spectacle looks nearly as nice as Sizeup though.
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