skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guide to Starting a (Really) Successful Business:

Step 1: Start a successful business.

Step 2: Use the money from step one to start your really successful business.

Step 3: Profit
Since you don't have a real Turing machine, why would you care? Your computer is not Turing machine.
We didn't really manage it well, and it was not sustainable beyond a year.

I remember feeling stressed out and exhausted all the time, having to manage client expectations and still keep working on my product.

What I would do is that I would start work at 12 p.m. everyday, and work until 12 a.m. from Monday to Saturday. Then I would crash on Sunday, and repeat the cycle.

We did this from Dec 2012 till end of Apr 2013, until our product was bringing in at least consistently four-figures a month, and we drastically scaled back on client work.
I like it! Very clean and simple, personally I find YouTube's built-in playlists pretty clunky so this is nice to see. As a bonus, with something like this I never have to read youtube comments.

I would make the "Search youtube" thing more visible... it took me a while to notice it, I think most people might miss it.
As someone who's anything but a greasemonkey, how good are Aston Martin from an engineering standpoint compared to the competition?
just because you're good at one thing, doesn't mean you're good at everything.

Marc has a terrible record as an entrepreneur and director.

1. Netscape = crushed by Microsoft

2. Loudcloud = six years as a publicly traded company. ZERO profit[1].

3. Ning = raised $119M. crashed and burned (acquired by glam)[2].

4. HP = "he's been there since HP's recent descent into chaos: firing CEO Mark Hurd, hiring Leo Apotheker, the $11 billion Autonomy acquisition debacle, firing Apotheker, hiring Meg Whitman, and the accusation that HP found $5 billion of alleged fraud on Autonomy's books.
Last month two HP board members stepped down and Ray Lane resigned his chairmanship after they were almost ousted directly by shareholders at the company's annual meeting.
Shareholders slapped Andreessen's wrist, too. Thirty percent voted to fire him."[3]

[1]http://www.siliconbeat.com/2009/06/17/the-curious-case-of-ma...

[2]http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20002611-36.html

[3]http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-loves-meg-whi...
My definition spamming is by market your product to untargeted audience. for path example, it's clearly the contacts in your address book is untargeted people as they have no interests in Path.

As for airbnb, this is more like junk emails, where everything is automated, fake, and you just pray that you can get 1-2% hits. yes, it's kind of targeted audience since the users are clicking the ads, but the ads itself is a FAKE ads because it does nothing but directs you to another site, just like the nigerian million dollar spam. I mean airbnb is a real site, but the ads content is 100% fake. maybe phishing is a better word than spam.
>I still find it deeply ironic that a website full of people saying that the U.S. is overreaching by prosecuting MegaUpload was in a different context calling for the aggressive prosecution of HSBC (a non-U.S. company who broke U.S. laws not on U.S. soil).

What on Earth are you talking about? Some other HSBC?

http://hsbclocations.com/united_states/

>HSBC Bank USA, National Association, an American subsidiary of UK-based HSBC Holdings plc, is a bank with its operational head office in New York City and its nominal head office in McLean, Virginia (as designated on its charter). HSBC Bank USA, N.A. is a national bank chartered under the National Bank Act, which means that it is regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a part of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

© HSBC Bank USA, N.A. 2013. All Rights Reserved. Member FDIC.
about to push some changes, will include this
Hmm. This comment shows up fine indeed. HN works in mysterious ways sometimes.
A Call for Strong Opinions in Software Development (2011)
Amazon is great for getting a pricing point of comparison - can't argue with that. In fact Amazon is great if you know exactly what you want to be / for finding the best price. I'd argue it's not the best place to find what you want.

We source from each individual retailer. No APIs.
It provides compatibility with Apple's more recent network technologies (Bonjour/Rendezvous etc), plus probably other stuff I don't know anything about.
Listen carefully, that is the sound of foreheads being slapped.
I think everybody knew it was eventually inevitable. Though the conceit in that blog post about "increasing amount of overlap" is decent PR-speak, it's really disingenuous and dances around the fact that there was always a large overlap between Fireworks and both Illustrator and Photoshop.

The big issue was whether Adobe was ever going to be really genuinely willing to address a fundamental tension:

* on one hand, Photoshop has always been a fundamentally flawed tool for screen design (I'd even go so far as to speculate that by now it's cost as much in designer and developer productivity as IE6 ever did).

* on the other hand, it's one of the biggest brands ever and its status as a verb is gives a lot to its owner

I guess today is the day they've announced the other hand wins permanently.

The sad thing is if Fireworks ever had a chance, the creative cloud setup where professionals could play with it extensively at no additional cost might have been the best setup.
Here's the blog post about it: https://blog.dropbox.com/2013/05/introducing-dbx-dropboxs-fi...

It's also rather sparse on details, but the line about being the first to see Dropbox's new products as the most important thing seems to indicate an intention to use the conference as an announcement platform.

Edit: TechCrunch is also reporting[1] that you'll be able to interact with the Dropbox API team:

> Dropbox tells me the three focuses of the one-day conference will be learning about newly launched features on its platform, giving developers a chance to meet and get help from Dropbox API engineers and designers, and highlighting what third-parties have built on top of Dropbox so far.

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/06/dropbox-conference/
This hits at the key challenge with creating an MVP - how do you avoid ending up with minimal functionality that doesn't provide any delight? If your MVP doesn't have enough to inspire use (let alone love) how will you learn enough for the next iteration?
In some ways the question becomes how much Jobs he can channel..

What I mean is that he likely (obviously?) has a very good design instincts and aesthetic sense with respect to hardware. But can he lean on and lead a team to something innovative and new when he might not be the hands on designer he's been in the past. I think there's always a question how well "design" translates across various design disciplines.
Seems expensive for a single day event that will likely require travel, unless of course it's targeted at SF devs.

Great design though!
Try it on the "join" button and it "sinks" upward.
There is a paper online that proves fermat's last theorem in this way, by exploiting the C compiler's ability to optimize away non-terminating code that has no observable state changes.
Welp. That didn't take very long.
How much discussion of the iOS design overhaul, based on fourth-hand accounts of what somebody might have seen once as they walked past an office, will we have to endure over the next month? It's driving me nuts. Roughly nobody knows what it's actually going to look like, but everyone seems to think they're still very qualified to comment.
If there is widespread adoption of the Otoy's technology, it will be because their encode technology efficient enough to enable a multi-client per server low latency applications that are not possible because H.264 encoding is a compute and latency bottleneck for current applications.
First ‘Fully’ 3D-Printed Gun Had A Successful Test Firing
Rethink Robotics Opens Up Baxter Robot For Researchers
Even genomics isn't really that big. The human genome is three billion base pairs; that's 750 MB if packed as tightly as can be. The largest genome (that of _Paris japonica_) is 150 billion base pairs, 37.5 GB.

You might be storing multiples of that amount of data if you are doing a shotgun sequence assembly, or looking at polymorphisms, but then you're likely to have no more than 10 copies, and i can't imagine you'd have more than 100 copies. For the human genome, 100 copies would be 75 GB, which is still only about four times the size of Team Fortress 2.
My experience is, don't use Ubuntu if you don't want the defaults they ship. It's not meant to be customizable.

I'd recommend Arch Linux. It just makes sense.
I'd like to make the "Search youtube" visible for first-time users without making it in-your-face for repeat use. I'll play with the contrast a bit more. Thanks! :)
It's not just a technical problem. You've got a couple guys in an incubator, moving in with a few thousand dollars funding to start a website, who suddenly have to figure out how to safely float X million dollars in currency exchange on a rapidly fluctuating market with a huge ask/bid gap. If they overextend themselves too far on the BTC pool they hold in front of a spike/crash, they have no capital to correct, they could go under overnight.
UTorrent and BitTorrent Reject “High Risk” VPN Ads
Clearly the conference is organized by ignorant younglings.

DBX is Dolby X - a Dolby noise reduction system for audio recordings, from the late 70s and onward. We had a separate box in my dad's audio stack that essentially had just one push button on a panel. That button was called DBX and it caused an audio signal to get mangled if it was recorded and de-mangled when it was played back. Good old analog times :)
"Error establishing a database connection"... Looks like hn can overload even adobe.com. Or at list there blog.
Don't we already have unbundling for shows? That's what you get when you buy a season, or a single show, from Amazon or iTunes. There's no reason to argue for that since we already have it.

What we don't have is unbundled channels, or sets of channels/content based on IP holder (which I think makes more sense in Netflix's case). I wouldn't mind paying for whatever A&E allows for streaming, and NOT paying for whatever licensor supplies TLC and the History channel.

I also wouldn't mind a service that allowed me to pay two different levels for the content, one for the shows with advertising, one for the shows without, preferably toggle-able per IP pack.

Then you can start talking about whether we are referring to all (including current) shows for a rights-holder, or just back-catalog, or just the ones they pick (as Netflix is now).

In the end, it's all very complex, but I think there's room between Hulu and Netflix, so hopefully someone can fill it.
Beautiful name. I hope you make awesome stuff out of it. Don't sit on it!
Technically, this is entirely possible. We have developer builds which support both kinds of code generators in a single app. We're still considering this.
American Dialect Map
And to be fair, that's what CoffeeDregs did originally.
Is DBX going to be dropbox' stock symbol?
Am I the only one who thought DBX was Dropbox's new ticker symbol? :)
His previous tweet before that read "Chris Porritt from Aston Martin just joined as head of vehicle engineering at Tesla"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/331489911842689025
ALL domains available on all TLDs should be listed freely.

Charging for access to information like this is deplorable. Just because you can does not mean you should.
Kind of a cool effect. How does it work? From glancing at the source code, it looks like you're calculating the force on a damped mass-spring system 60 times a second, using that to update the speed, and using that to update the position, until eventually it comes to a stop?
I'm no expert, but I know that they're highly respected in industry.
>> Amazon is great for getting a pricing point of comparison - can't argue with that. In fact Amazon is great if you know exactly what you want to be / for finding the best price. I'd argue it's not the best place to find what you want.

Im not sure I understand your argument: are you saying that amazon mobile suffers from item availability and/or discoverability?
Are Application-aware Firewalls Displacing Traditional Ones?
Yes, it is.

I use Linux servers mostly, but about a year ago I installed openSuSE on two new desktops. The problem was that, while sound "worked" in general, only one application could use the sound card at a time. That means when you have your audio player open, Youtube won't work at the same time. You'd have to close both apps and then re-open the browser so it could then hog the audio.

The most annoying thing about this, however, were some of my desktop Linux friends who insisted this behavior was totally acceptable and not a bug.
Well, the issue I'm alluding to here is the issue of avoiding collisions. Even the password generator will not create the same long random passwords precisely because they're random and long... So even with a password generator these are still long random passwords that no user would create on their own and therefore do not collide with the honeyword passwords.

Also, the combination of password generator and honeyword is actually even more secure than either one; in a "Greater than the sum of its parts" kind of way.
This is pretty cool, I enjoy hearing different accents and dialects, they remind me that even though most of this country speaks "english" everyone has their own little pocket of something. I was a little surprised to see that the SFBA has its own little dialectical changes, but I'm pretty sure its more than just a few pronunciations.
I completely agree. It's not a tech company unless its core business is some particular technology, which it either invented or improved upon.

It's ridiculous to classify Yet Another Social Network as a startup that focuses on the "technology of online interaction".
Finish your shitty project before you start your next shitty project.
It "hurts" in that it takes time. It's also not just math, but figures as well - diagrams and experimental results. There are automatic Latex-to-HTML programs, but their results are not pleasant. And I have difficulty putting up things that are ugly.
How Does App Store Ranking Affect Sales? (Numbers Post)
> have abysmally poor performance in many areas of the world

Twitch in europe still sometimes have horrible performance too. I don't know if this is a peering issue to french ISP or something, but every major tournament I watch I have to use 240p at some point or another because it lags like hell. And everytime you mention it being in their chat or reddit, you get a swarm of users telling you "no it works for me", "it's probably your bandwidth", ...

I was sad when own3d closed because they always had great performance for me, some people said "but they suck in country X" but hey, that's exactly like twitch for me.

Worst part is, I would glady have suscribed to tons of "720p for paying users only" starcraft 2 content if it was working.
Actually there are additional costs to using Mt Gox and other exchanges as well.

Aside from monetary ones, I know from experience that Mt Gox has horrible customer service. The size of their operation does not match the level of customer service required. Granted, banks suffer the same but at least they have B&M presence.
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs,
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/magazine/30IPOD.html?pagew...
"When the iPhone came out, nobody used touch devices. The signaling benefits of skeumorphism were very useful, especially since most iPhone buyers were buying their first iPhone."

I would hope so, the iPhone _was_ the first iPhone. It was not the first touch screen device, or the first smart phone.
Even if you ignore the binary adding part, looking a the behavior of a single gate is a fantastic, concrete example of what a flip/flop is and how it functions.
"understanding of usability and how people will see, interpret, feel, and use your product"

This is the foundation of design (all kinds) and, what I think, the post is about.
The Magic of Emacs Comint
I can support this from the other side. Coming out of a maths degree at a reasonably good university, a lot of the mathematicians who became teachers were those who struggled and pretty much gave up at some point in undergrad. Pushing many of those who will become teachers to mathematical breaking point seems like a bad way of doing things, and I think contributes to this. It's hard to think of a good alternative that still produces enough teachers though.
indie flower.
learc83 is referring to the "annual commitment" plan (see the drop down) of the "complete" package, which includes all software: https://creative.adobe.com/plans

But you are correct that if someone only wants Photoshop, they only pay $19.99/month with no annual commitment.
Thanks. Yeah, it was a great learning experience about Go, and it also turns out to perform pretty well (50%-90% of the throughput of redis, using redis-benchmark). My hope is to use it for a work related project soon to put more development time into it.

But I'll try to write up some docs and put it out there, incomplete as it is, it beats having it sit in a closed repo.
How does one go about signing up?
410 Gone means that the URL is permanently gone. It would generally be inappropriate as a response to DELETE, because a client with permissions to delete likely has permissions PUT, and could therefore cause the given URL to become valid again.
Discover new Internet startup.
What do you mean by 'nicer' word? I really honestly don't get it.

I mean if it were some consumer property, like say the size of a hard drive or such, then yeah makes some sense, for a term used in strictly in technical circles to describe a precise technical property, I don't understand what 'nicer' means.
A figurehead who can create new seats on committees and arbitrarily appoint people to them doesn't seem a "figurehead" to me, unless you're insinuating that he's merely doing someone else's dirty work.
Primarily discoverability.

For example, if I know I want a new iPod dock - sorting through all of the potential products and processing all of the information associated through each one is a lot of work. Amazon doesn't do a great job of making this process simpler.

Availability is also an issue with clothing in particular.
Nobody reads footnotes...
Did you run A/B tests? I'd love read some more about the metrics!
Also, wHy not do both pay-as-you-go and tiered pricing?
To me that seems a very good idea. Doing security at a place where you don't have to be on guard at all times (something like a receptionist job) means you can work on your product and get paid to do it with some distractions.
Hey HN: inspired by Trevor's recent posts, I've decided to share some of my App Store sales numbers. I'd love to know what you think!
CFTC Considering Bitcoin Regulation
Awesome demo by Adobe: CSS regions, exclusions, filters, and more
I recently asked for a recipe for running GUI apps e.g. browsers in dockers. Here's how:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16296753/can-you-run-gui-...

(Yeah, it got closed. Oh well, Stackoverflow colour me surprised)
Amazing UX design. These Dropbox designers have really stepped up their game. Try resizing the browser window or submitting a blank form. It's the little things that matter.
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I just spent a big part of my weekend debugging why sound stopped working on my machine.

It ended up being several different reasons:

1) pulseaudio/JACK integration problems
2) my audio hardware moved from one device number to another.

ultimately this required editing config files, running strace, and inspecting log files closely.

linux is only free if your time is worthless.
> You are asking, gwern, a question about what people like about your writings.

tokenadult, do you have an Ed.D or Ph.D in Education? Or maybe something related to Social Work?

Did you know that this communication style, which you use rather consistently in your HN posts, and which is prevalent in the education community, is poorly-received rather outside that community?

Not saying your style is wrong, just that is extremely grating outside the Ed world. It sits in the uncanny valley of faux-familiarity, and as such it breeds mistrust.
Parse introduces a redesign of its Dashboard
What about the additional security implications?
N.B. Pipelining can be used for any idempotent request (so PUTs and DELETEs work too). That said, lack of broad implementation support for pipelining is still an issue. Since HTTP/2.0 is being based on SPDY, hopefully we'll see a day where this is less of an issue.
Except that:

A. It doesn't do a lot to 'secure' the password credentials (in the way most people think of the term). It just tells you that someone tried to login with a honeywords. What happens then is a difficult process.

B. It's only belt-and-suspenders redundant to the extent the difficulty of cracking the honeychecker server is independent of the regular login server. It's certainly beneficial that it has a much simpler API, but if your honeychecker is just a different Ruby Gem hosted on a different Linode (for example) the benefit are lessened.
Are there any similar services with terms that don't allow arbitrary termination?
I Am a Bad Developer
Bill Gates: A lot of iPad users are 'frustrated'
Graphic Photo: Bride and Bridesmaids Burned Alive inside Ford Stretched Limo
EY TÜRK MİLLETİ ,  BAŞININ ÇAĞRESİNE BAK  - The World 11-11-11
One point that I had from experience is that Wikipedia tends to entrench the bias of its editors, through seemingly sensible policies.
A specific example happened to me while contributing to the Arab spring pages (while the Arab spring was ongoing). It was claimed that the Tunisian revolution was the first by an Arab country. I disagreed because Sudan had a couple, which I know of because I am Sudanese. Sensibly, the admins requested citation needed and no original research. Given that the statement in question was mentioned in the NYT and the British Guardian.
I had to contact the journals, and the Guardian actually published a correction, before the issue was settled.
For other issues involving Sudan I was generally not so lucky. Wikipedia reflects the US understanding of Sudan, with a European slant, much more than it reflects the situation in Sudan.

My lesson: we must try to understand the New York Times effect on man..
Just write your passwords down in a safe place.
Beautiful interface! I actually was throwing around the idea of an audio only Youtube player, can is there a way to toggle the video?
Be biased towards action and interpret 'failure' as education and opportunity.

At 15, you can explore a number of avenues that you consider 'dreams'. Spend 2-year blocks of time focused on an outcome, and then 'pivot' after two years if you enthusiasm has begun to wane.

In 10 years, by age 25, you will have built a large knowledge base around your interests. You will be adept at 1 and 5 core areas of expertise. You will have either discovered an extremely rewarding life/work path, or have created tremendous employment opportunities for yourself in areas of fair interest. You will know how to teach yourself.

Best of all, at the tender age of 25, your worst case scenario is having almost your whole professional life to fumble around like everyone else.
This is THE thing that governments should solve.

It should be illegal for companies to refuse service to anyone or offer them worse terms that someone they never did business with.

Even more generally, it should be illegal to ban users from any service, and censor public speech in any way, even on private forums.