skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who builds an app, he was essentially noting that:

Lots of investors made pre-traction mobile-consumer bets in early 2011. Some even built up teams of 5 or 6 people before having launched a product.

In late 2011 and early 2012, savvy investors quickly noticed that many consumer apps started to stagnate around 300-500K total users. Although their total user counts continued to grow, their active user count did not (often only reaching a few tens of thousands monthly active users) – some even had exponential decay.

Good examples would be something like Highlight (Sorry guys) or Mixel (Very well done app, but never grew that big, and got acquihired) or Cinemagram (Fellow Canadians, raised money, but with Vine and Instagram for Video are now getting trounced).

Another poignant statement is his closing statement on the closed garden App Store model, which seems to be having problem creating big hits now, or as Marco put it the other day, "the rich are getting richer." For example, Apple has been promoting video apps like crazy, stuff like Vyclone, or Directr get lots of love from Apple, but you just can't control the masses.
It's what I call a press release with hints that they got to touch it, and that touching it resulted in no additional information.
I love seeing stuff like this. If mediocrity and minimal effort can pay off, just imagine what genuine hard work and commitment can do.
does it run linux without issues ?
This is also an incentive to improve tech in some of the directly related fields: Solar, Battery tech, Self driving cars. Electric cars are huge improvement, which will lube lots of gears into motion 15-20 years down the line. But I also want to see what German and Japanese car makers bring to the forefront. It is also important to have competition.
I agree with that, but the presentation makes it look like C++ + EMScripten is almost a drop-in replacement for writing large web applications. Even for very large web applications front-ends like Gmail, AMS.js is probably still not a good solution. It's for very specific use cases, where high performance is needed, and not as simple as "Big web app? Compile it".
What, exactly, are you calling an "astonishing phenomenon never before detected in history"?

Are you saying that chickens and monkeys got fatter over time due to "record-keeping errors"? Are you claiming the "fat virus" effect - that if you give chickens or monkeys or rats or mice a certain human cold viruse, they get fatter - is due to "record-keeping errors"?

Have you read anything of Gary Taubes? He argues that the phenomenon of some local culture getting unusually fat in spite of the usual suspects not being present, is something that has been seen a great many times in history...but has been ignored or misinterpreted until recently.

> The preponderance of evidence is that net caloric balance predicts weight.

An equally valid way to put that is "the preponderance of evidence is that weight predicts net caloric balance." You can't derive the direction of causality from that relationship.
I'm looking a lot of money, more of meaningful work and enough to get by. The NYT API does sound interesting, will google for it. Cheers.
Congrats! Glad to see you ended up with such excellent investors, and will be looking forward to continued improvements in Firebase! Looking forward to more progress making all web apps realtime.
Maybe I'm crazy but if it is a physical battery swap then this brings memories of history class. Horses were swapped along the silk road to extend distance in shorter range of time. Same goes for horses as do batteries I guess. They get the job well on more available energy but take for ever to regain to keep going. 2c of thought
I've been adopting an incremental approach. Enough style to get you going, and as you produce content, you refine the design. So by the time you announce it to your friends, the world, etc., you've got a bit of content and a good looking site.
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Echoes of Jonathan Swift in the title but no reference to cannibalism? Color me disappointed.
Depends what you mean by real. It's very real for a two man team to build something into an app that brings in a few hundred thousand a year (and there are examples of those for sure), but building a huge company is an entirely different discussion.
You are right - committed a fix, but looks like github is taking longer to rebuild the pages.
"Same shit as everyone else." I bet around about, oh, November, we'll see real panels, and frankly I wouldn't be surprised if the Windows integrators have been holding out until people are starved for better resolutions. 300PPI starting coming out, what, almost 2 years ago? It's a Christmas racket.
I've been wanting these awesome screens for a while now.
Lenovo is still selling higher end netbooks with 1024x768 screens. This resolution is from 1998!
"Better" is Relative
If they can see the bits coming out of your VPS in NYC and heading to other data centers, surely they can see the bits coming from .au into your VPS and correlate them?
I have data mining and analytics background, but hope to use it for more than marketing and finance applications. I am not sure what are the equivalent roles are within in those industries. Environment is a cause of importance for me, so I hope contribute to it while making a living.

Admittedly, I have not heard of Suncor before. Thanks.
I know that 3ds (the company behind catia http://www.3ds.com/products/catia/welcome/) has an online platform where you can download and upload designs.

I can't find the name any more though.

What kind of 3d objects are you searching for exactly?
The problem described here is partially inaccurate. The problem of the app store market is that it is largely misunderstood by investors, as it is way closer to the CD-Rom market of the 1990s than it is close to the web of the post Google web. Most apps in the app store are games/utilities/social products...and this is what consumers go out and look for.

Games and utilities can be searched, but the Best Buy truth is that only a few actually make some money, and this tends to be the best ones that are featured in the Top 25 rankings (Turboscan, most camera+ or camera add ons, or SuperCell/Minecraft, etc...). Like at Best Buy, where being featured in the shelves triggered more sales (ask Intuit). Some vendors have created niche businesses for themselves, but they tend to be not VC-funded.

Social is a category with a lot of large mobile only players (Instagram, Snapchat, Tango, WhatsApp, Viber, Voxer, Vine, Grindr, Waze, Kik...) and a lot of web players (Facebook, Twitter...).
None of the mobile only players monetize their user base right now appart from WhatsApp.
What are the odds that another one can emerge from there in a niche? It's tough, and it's not a discovery/search problem, because the day that Facebook launched in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg could not count on search to drive traffic to Facebook as nobody was typing "pictures of my Harvard Econ 102 classmates" on Google.

If you go back to the web, with the exception of a few social products (Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter), which businesses make money online?

ECommerce? They do pretty well on mobile if you look at older models like eBay or new ones like Uber or Instacart.

SaaS? This one is a tricky one, the Apple Store tax of 30% even on SaaS subscriptions discovered on mobile does not help this market to thrive.

Media? Media is already tough to monetize on the web, but on the mobile with lower CPM, it's mission impossible.

Lead Generation? This is a very search oriented field, and the Google search ecosystem will dominate this market until the Google search stronghold disappears.

Overall, I am not saying that mobile app startups are easy - but I think that there is a misconception about what they really are - thus comparing to their web counterpart, when the right analogy might be the software rack at Best Buy.
A camera recording of how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VH4JloWFEI&feature=youtu.be
Here it is, I found it!

http://www.3dvia.com/search/
Similar to swap-n-go for BBQ gas bottles. You might've bought the original tank, but after the first swap, it goes into the pool for refill and supply to others.
Tesla 90 Second Battery Swap Coming Later This Year
Yes. As someone who was a (young) VC back then, I can tell you the dot-com euphoria continued during 1999. It peaked in March 2000, when the Nasdaq hit its all-time high. Shortly thereafter, the public consumer-oriented companies started dying off. The bust accelerated in 2001 when the storage and networking companies went under, along with the startup carriers who were buying all of the equipment.
The number of people each person comes into contact with daily has increased dramatically. Basically the R0 of most diseases is much higher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_modelling_of_infec...
I remember people around here being hired by defense contractors, and then sitting around doing nothing for months until their security checks went through. This was ten or twelve years ago.
I think what I really miss is reading web pages which were truly written from the heart. I remember even as far as back in 2005, for a search like "unrequited love", Google's top hit would be a link to a physics Phd's home page who had written about his multiple experiences of being declared 'just a friend' and how to get past being rejected over and over again.

Jump to today and the Google search yields following the obvious wikipedia link, is a whole bunch of wikihow, nytimes, urban dictionary and youtube links.

Those personal web pages with an intellectually rich content have just been lost to the dark internet.
I can let everyone in town into my living room but capriciously disallow you one day because I realize you have attached earlobes. That's just how license works.

No, it isn't, and it isn't how property law works, either. Free and equal access to private property has been bandied about for decades, and leans away from your interpretation.
Show HN: Google Maps Geofencing Tool
What is the current number of Tor nodes? What's to say that all tor nodes are now monitored? It's possibly a smaller task than storing all voice calls etc.
Instagram Introduces Video And No They Don’t Own InstagramVideo.com
Al nice and dandy...

But where Is my 15" 1920x1200 Thinkpad?

The fuck is this guys? Currently I am using Asus Zenbook UX32VD and it is pretty nice (the nicest computer on the market that is), BUT it has no trackpoint.

I really wish that Lenovo would get their shit together and start offering sensible displays.

Besides what is the point of these mega high resoltuion displays on 13" notebooks when either Windows or Linux support is just horrible?

I mean my current machine has 13" with 1920 x 1080 and while it is fine for me. 3/4 of people just cannot use that kind of resolution.
What do you expect? The product is only just being announced, once review units are shipped out you'll get a review, this is just an early look at what's to come.
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Drivers can either return the fresh battery pack upon their journey past the service station, or keep it. Tesla will bill later for the difference in value, and Musk says that the service will cost about the same as a tank of gas.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/21/4450664/tesla-model-s-batt...
Agreed with all except that I'm making excuses. By that I mean it's great advice for most things in life that you want to do.

My point is that in this instance I just don't care. Not enough anyway. I could do exactly as you describe to minimize the cost but the value gain is so minimal that it doesn't warrant the effort. Simple cost/benefit analysis with the result being that the cost is too high (even if it's really low).
Pretty impressive answer, and I agree for the most part.

I do believe there are a lot of apps that do get Apple's approval and get showcased, but never really make it -- which you do address. A great example in the video space is Vyclone which go promoted very much, and still gets front page promotions quite often, but they never really went anywhere.
I have used them and didn't know this was how they were implemented. Very cool.

Thanks for dropping the knowledge.
Interesting. Not long ago Better Place (at least in Denmark) went bankrupt, and now the Renault Fluence-owners are having problems due to all chargers (even home-installed onces) are/were connected to Better Place, and isn't providing any electricity right now. There's also the entire problem with the car-owners only renting the battery..

Anyways, Tesla were smart; they made a product people desired before building expensive battery-swap infrastructure. In Denmark, only about 200-250 cars that could use the battery-swap facilities were sold, so no wonder the company went bankrupt.
On my Android browser, I am usually typing with the box half-off-the-screen so I can't see what I've typed. On Android Chrome, font size for replies is incredibly inconsistent (some comments are huge and some are too small to read, and some are inbetween), and the textbox is still half-off-the-screen.
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Observations from India
I worked at a tech company in India briefly in May to learn about the country. Here are some observations... from interest rates to the toilet situation.
but if it comes at a 10x productivity boost it's worth it.
Both companies cross licence all patents iirc.
SSH now has a -W netcat mode, so your ssh config can be simplified to:

ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p <bastion>

this also means that netcat, or even a shell/ability to execute commands is not required on the remote bastion host.
Do keep in mind that your call will be recorded and stored for possible future analysis of trouble elements.
I rather see millions of people disappointed that no politician, no matter the race or creed, can ever be trusted. Obama had a chance to make a difference and he failed miserably.
fuck bitches, get money. that's what I do on the weekends.
>The point I was making is that there should be constant/regular automatic saves that don't touch the original file.

That's not quite what I want. I want the original file to be updated basically constantly.

>Anyway if you have issues waiting minutes for the program to report the error then something has gone terribly wrong with your install. Possibly you have a broken DNS? I don't know, that is weird and has absolutely nothing to do with the saving mechanism.

This issue has persisted for me across multiple desktops and laptops, on business and residential connections, from multiple ISPs over differing physical media across the Puget Sound region. If DNS were the issue, it would be a massive and persistent issue affecting a major tech hub...
Excellent Papers for 2012 ( Google Research )
Wow. Love this.
Of course, defense contracting is for rich white "welfare queens," by-and-large.

Think about how much cash has been funneled to the sorts of folks like those at HBGary. I wouldn't mind paying for my own oppression as much if the oppressors were at least competent.
New step towards silicon-based quantum computer
App that creates coffee shop hum and helps concentration
Q: Should I run an exit relay from my home?

A: No. If law enforcement becomes interested in traffic from your exit relay, it's possible that officers will seize your computer. For that reason, it's best not to run your exit relay in your home or using your home Internet connection.

Instead, consider running your exit relay in a commercial facility that is supportive of Tor. Have a separate IP address for your exit relay, and don't route your own traffic through it.

Of course, you should avoid keeping any sensitive or personal information on the computer hosting your exit relay, and you never should use that machine for any illegal purpose.

https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq
Actually, he couldn't be more right. This post is the internet equivalent of a newspaper article, really simple and some people will like it, but you can't really sell anything in that format or build a community.

Modern, design based websites, are the equivalent of magazines. People would rather read the Economist in color than (insert newspaper here) in black and white by far.
Tesla 90-second battery Swap (video)
Apple now shows iOS usage share on App Store
Its a link baity headline and a content free blog post posted by an account that is one day old.

The start-up scene today is nothing like it was in 1999, trust me I was there and I've got the worthless shares to prove it. That said, a lot of people want there to be a bubble so perhaps they were voting the headline rather than voting the article?
What do you mean? As far as I am aware, you only need to ask somebody to leave your property, and if they don't leave then the police will come and take them away for you.
Don't forget you have to use your main machine to send the random messages to your smtp server. If you do not it will be pretty easy to recognize what mail was routed through the machine and which messages were randomly generated by the server as a cover traffic.
Thanks for linking that - that's an amazing machine for the quoted price. I really wish Lenovo made something like this with a Thinkpad-style keyboard and pointer. Everything else seems perfect, assuming battery life and decent build quality.

Two hard drives is a little misleading - it's a tiny mSATA drive slot plus a regular SATA slot.
Your comment has more information than the entire OP, but things still don't add up.

Take the Highlight app, for example. It's still in the app store, was updated today, and they have open positions on their jobs page. That makes them a colossal failure that over-hired and burned through cash like a dot-com startup? Please. They probably wont raise another round until they pivot and find a real business model, but it seems they're still in a position to do so.
If the average person understood the vagaries of intellectual property law and the distinction between copyright and trademark, then a swoopy design that looks a lot like the Jack Daniels label wouldn't cause confusion in the marketplace.
Really? They sound exactly the same to me. What, in your mind, does "knowing how compilers work" consist of, other than "the underpinning algorithms needed to implement a compiler"?
Small step for quantum computing, giant leap for qubits
> example, Apple has been promoting video apps like crazy

In the early days (2008/2009), a couple people I know got apps featured in the App Store. Basically, they got a call out of the blue from Apple.

Now, it seems that it is back to good old fashioned relationships and community [1] and marketing. Media coverage, for one, being the most important. Media coverage goes a whole long way longer if the editor actually knows who you are (e.g. you met them in person and had a real conversation) and likes what you are doing.

http://realmacsoftware.com/blog/how-to-get-featured-on-the-a...

And they still probably get a call out of the blue from Apple. But not by dumb luck, by doing the work required and getting better and better (at marketing, community building and nurturing, the app, all of the above)

[1] http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...
Thanks. Especially shkspr.mobi blog was informative with all the little details. I expected it to be much more, so I guess a single dedicated server will do just fine.
It's much more efficient to just give the money out directly via a negative income tax, or a guaranteed basic income if that's your goal.
> in a world where PNaCl is the "correct way" to run C/C++ code

PNaCl will never be the correct way to run C/C++, because it will never be standardized. The implementation itself defines what it is, it will never have a spec, as it depends on LLVM. Writing a spec for the standardization of PNaCl means you have to also write a spec for LLVM. It will never happen and the only browser that will support it will be Chrome. And unless Chrome wins a monopoly on web browsers, PNaCl will never be part of the web.

It also baffles me that people don't remember what happened with IExplorer and ActiveX. Are people here so young as to haven't lived the early 2000?

What makes PNaCl different from ActiveX anyway? Is it because of the Google branding? Microsoft was once considered to be cool you know. And IExplorer 5 was a kickass browser for its time. Is it because PNaCl has source-code? That doesn't warm me much. Mozilla and other browser vendors could have reversed engineered ActiveX. So what makes them so different that this time it's OK?

> 50% C speed is not enough

We managed to live just fine without C/C++ on the web. We could continue living without it for a very long time. What do you think is better, running C code at 50% speed, or not being able to run C code at all? And people have been using and running with languages that run at 2% of C. Achieving 50% of C, assuming it is true, is sensational considering the benefits (like extreme portability).
There is a DNS service in every VPC now, that shipped earlier this year. New instances are automatically added. Is this what you are looking for -

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/vpc-dn...
Quantum Milestone: Scientists Entangle Light with Optical Atomic Coherence
I'm probably not understanding something but couldn't you use Puppet or Chef for your manual provisioning tasks?
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I don't see mention of a 256GB limit anywhere. You also have 6 ports capable of 20GB/s, enough for way more external storage you'll ever need during the machine's lifetime.

The key in the new Mac Pro is extensibility (those 6 ports, each daisy-chainable). Thunderbolt is like a PCIe cable, you could add a better GPU, storage or whatever you wanted as external devices. It's much more open to third-party manufacturers than the current model of apple-sanctioned upgrades.
App stores may also allow you to leverage trademarks on your project. Even if someone were to upload a free (as in beer) version, you could still forbid them from using the same name. With the current format of app stores, it seems like this would be a much stronger advantage then similar trademark protections for desktop apps.
India launches CMS, the local version of PRISM
IANAL, but I believe the "fruit of the poisoned tree" doctrine only ties the hands of the State in criminal proceedings. The defense can put forth any evidence or argument at all, provided it's in good faith, and not knowingly false.
The title says, "hands on."
Very cool - I've seen plenty of GPU-based hair, but never just as a shader.
Love it!

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