skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I one really wants to get into the settings of Mac OsX, and have a marvellous scheme based tool, which securely performs requests, and are free as well :-)
Then Clix is the ultimate choice in my humble opinion.
It is published under the assumption that it is better to teach a man to fish.
The software can be found here:
[http://www.versiontracker.com/users/rixstep]
And their site here : [http://rixstep.com/]
I thought they sold elephants.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Find a flavour of the month or trend and surf it. Develop a Wave gadget, develop a Twitter app, use $BUZZWORD, whatever.

It's not obvious from an immediate glance at your site exactly what it is and why it's special. I have to read lots of text. Journos love pictures.
Fair enough. but then you should push for HN letting us downvote articles too, not only comments. I don't know how much impact one comment will have on whether an article (or class of articles) makes the frontpage. And by the way, please don't be prissy, I was just making a little fun.
Here's an interview I did about how I got into the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc:
http://blog.mixergy.com/wsj-press/

I also wrote more about getting press for blogs/companies here:
http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/getting-traffic-fo...

Btw, I now write for Lifehacker occasionally, so if you ever have interesting startups, send me an email.
I started a blog called uncov.com. Talked a lot of shit on a lot of people, built a personal brand.

Product ended up failing, but I made enough connections along the way that I landed on my feet.

By the by. If you're counting on PR as your primary distribution strategy, you've already failed.
Hoverboard. 2015.
With Feedback Army, I subscribed to "usability testing" blog keywords via Google alerts, and then occasionally taking some time to ping bloggers about my service. Ditto to giving away something to the bloggers. Make it as frictionless as possible for them to try your stuff.

By as frictionless as possible--make it so they can click a link and immediately without doing anything--see what your product does.

I also found having a media kit is useful and point them to it. In the media kit try to have a short/non-markety summary of your service, logos/graphics for their use, relevant links, the bios of your team, and direct contact information.
For a while we were putting in little Opera-specific hacks to work around its painfully slow rendering engine (which ironically is the reason it's such a pleasant browser to develop against)

I've only used Opera since it became free in version 9, but it's always seemed a lot faster than Firefox and IE. It's even gotten noticeably faster upon all the significant updates I've seen.

It's surprising to see you describe Opera as IE-like (broken) and slow, but since you probably have more experience in these things, I'll have to take your word for it.
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It may be a useful technique at times, but I think it's more productive to establish as much common ground as possible, then highlight where each person diverges.

In most cases, divergence among rational people can be traced to different priorities. I think the same would apply if discussing religion with a rational religious person (something I don't think is totally impossible).

For example, here's my argument about why I'm an atheist:

God gave humans rational minds where he gave animals teeth and claws. He surely didn't give us rational minds so that we would stop using rationality. Thus, God intended humans to be atheists at first. If He intended humans to be faithful (which you claim) then he intended it not as a counter to rationality but as the result of the application of rationality. Just as the bird is meant to flap its wings in order to alight, the human is meant to exercise the full strength of his rationality in order to thrive.

By contrast, God also created angels, who lack the problem of rationality-inspired doubt. They are in essence "faith robots" who are incapable of achieving faith, since they start out with it. Such a being is really little more than a slave or automaton.

As we all know, the plight of humans toward faith is a far higher cause than if we were simply pre-programmed. God intended humans to have a journey whose reward at the end (a solid, rational, unwavering faith) is not something that can be gained by reciting something as a child or sitting unquestioningly in a pew, but must (and should) be earned via the most earnest rational inquiry one can muster.

Thus I, an atheist, am completely confident that if God one day wishes me to be faithful I will discover that faith through the same process of rationality that currently makes me an atheist. QED.
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That's silly. There's cool stuff on pretty much every platform. Gaming, Unix apps, online apps, iPhone apps...
Just what OS X was missing - RegEdit ;)
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For great ideas about how to do PR, look at what Pingdom does. They are extremely good at getting their name thrown around by releasing reports about interesting stuff noone else cares to measure.
Myst was one of the first computer games I played as a kid and I still remember being in awe of it, so much so that my cousin and I dreamed up this scheme for a similar game called "Omega". I still have hundreds of pages of notes and drawings for the environments, puzzles, characters, etc.
Mmmmkay. . . I see that script.alicio.us is one of the projects I'm promoting in forum number 11 at oss.zentu.net.

Sorry about our old flamewar regarding your previous issues with google ebooks. However, since I am promoting the script.alicio.us project (read: talking numbers on pi day) in a useful way that I am sure somehow contributes to your potential millions as a published author, please forgive me for defending one of the potential sources of revenue from my sites.

I don't like attention as much as some people do, but sometimes a gal has gotta defend her work. :)

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I just feel that a more dyed-in-the-wool geek is going to be less bombastic about announcements than someone who gets paid on the back of spectacle.
According to this,

http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16869&sid=5...

Myst was created on a Mac, and the first release platform was Mac. The game engine was Apple's Hypercard. The then-stunning 3D graphics were designed using Strata Studio Pro (never heard of it); this product it's still alive as Strata 3D CX:

http://www.strata.com

Later versions were modeled in 3DSMax.
While what you say is interesting, I consider it orthogonal to the statement given, namely that understanding _____ without real-world programming experience is not helpful when facing a real-world program for the first time.

Or more simply, _____ is never a silver bullet.
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The problem is not "big ego", the problem is missing attribution and acknowledgment. You cannot walk around claiming you invented the wheel even if you came up more or less independently with the idea. More practically, you cannot with good conscience take someone else's data, put it in your DB, do a little sanity check, and then make everyone attribute the source to WA!
I think efforts along these lines are hopelessly misplaced; all it's going to produce is a simulation of an autistic brain. It's not without scientific value but it's not going to cross a threshold and say 'hi there!'.

When reading proposals for creating AI, few researchers discuss (at least publicly) the idea of simulating hunger or pain. How are we going to create intelligence without simulating qualitative experiences which give rise to the basic drives of avoidance and desire, which intelligence helps to fulfill?

At the risk of stating the obvious, a cat brain is about 3 orders of magnitude smaller than a human's, but most will agree that a cat has personality (maybe mice do too, but I've never kept one). What we really want to create with AI is something that has enough personality for us to form a relationship with it which does not require us to pre-abstract our communication. So we would be far better off building something about as capable as (and no more dangerous) than a cat, and building 10 of them, which we can then play with and try to train. We can probably dump a whole lot of brainspace since we don't need to simulate the full complexity of an endocrine system etc etc; but we do need our ACats to have enough autonomy to get itself into trouble. We are never going to develop a machine that thinks if we don't give it something to think about, and it will never have anything worth thinking about if it doesn't have a sense of self, and it won't develop that without having to make decisions which feed back its qualitative experience.

I am not an adherent of Searle's Chinese room argument, but on the other hand asking the guy in the room whether he prefers noodles or rice is devoid of meaning if he subsists on an endless supply of burgers and fries; all you get int hat case is an expert system which parses Chinese but has nothing of note to say in that language.
Sorry if that was opaque, but I'm trying to point out that you don't have to be obnoxious to be driven.
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I'd say the number one bit of advice would be "Get people to use it".

Looking back at side projects that are sitting on a disk somewhere, abandoned, they went that way because no one was using them.

Once you manage to get some people using your side project, it's a lot harder to just shelve it, and a lot easier to iterate and grow.
I immediately emailed the link to my sixteen-year-old son, so that he and I can discuss it. (He's off to the ARML Central Region tournament, so he won't see it right away.) I too like the idea that learning how to usefully disagree is an important life skill.
What do you expect, your product sucks.
Exactly. It takes a "US-based credit card". Strange, and annoying.
I'm confused about what happened. You accepted an unpaid internship position, provided something of value to the company, and are now upset that they will not pay you for your unpaid position?
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My Scriptaculous cheat sheet, for example, has been downloaded about 500k times.

That's amazing. Does that mean there are on the order of 500k programmers in the world using Scriptaculous? How many programmers are there, anyway? (In this case, discounting non-procedural languages like Excel.)
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Lodging Real investment is on a downhill: It is honestly believed that in lodging investment recession is going to last for at least nine months more. Large properties and hotels etc will definitely be losing its value. Moreover financing for debt will also be difficult in the days to come.
What you say is echoed by, Every incorrect assumption in this post seems to think that 1 tweet on twitter = 1 database row = "So easy!". You've left out the user fanout! One Obama Tweet = 1M database rows, someplace

Assuming that is true, which I have trouble believing it is, it sounds like they need some help with normalization. I understand the tradeoffs, but it just seems crazy.

Select tweet.* from tweets inner join tweeters on tweeters.id = tweets.tweeterid inner join followers on followers.followerid=loggedinuserid and followers.followee=tweet.tweeterid

Yeah, okay, I know there are performance problems with joins, but there are performance problems with 1,000,000 inserts as well and you could cache the list of followees and do an "in" statement such as: select * from tweets where tweeterid in (cached_comma_separated_list_of_followee_ids)

or whatever to improve select performance.
Not that I'm in favor of rescuing the likes of GM, quite the contrary, but it has to be said, when a car company closes down, not just last century blue collar jobs will be lost. All the highly paid car designers and embedded systems engineers, etc, will lose their jobs as well.

If GM and Chrysler were let go, maybe the world would see a wave of auto startups once again. After all there would be unused car plants as well. And I bet GM engineers are on average less incompetent than GM management. They might have some crazy ideas that would work well in the market and would never have been approved inside GM. Maybe that's just wishful thinking :-)
Point taken.

It's actually more similar than might appear at first glance. Google Wave is real time, and when someone types/edits the wave you're looking at, you see that. On Browseology, when someone types in a search or any other text, you see that. When you change pages, so does everyone else. It's this real time updating that lets everyone browsing together see the same thing.

We're really excited about Browseology, it's true. Of course I have a lot of respect for what we've built from scratch. We tried to let people know about it while Google Wave was getting a lot of attention. This wasn't the right place to do that.

And you're right - we're not Google. Does that mean we can't build something that would be useful for you? We wanted to let everyone know that they could try this out now (instead of waiting months for the public release of Wave) to see what this aspect of real time collaboration looks like.
The Kindle isn't for research. It's for reading. Just plain reading. And for most people, it's a great replacement for a stack of books they carry around. I don't think anyone's really trying to make it more than an eBook reader with some very basic search for purchasing content.
See, I'd credit Heinlein with predicting the internet back in the fifties and sixties.
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Patches, PEPs and bug reports welcome. If you see a problem, it's polite to at least assist in fixing it.
You sound like my Dad. . .which isn't bad but I've heard it all before. I don't know why I resisted this list making mantra for such a long time, but nevertheless, I gave in a little over a year ago and started making lists my college course work.

But a list in college is different since the assignment is my constraint thus it is much easier to work within because the assignment or project provides the problem and upstream requirements for me. For some reason reading software requirements, doing a mathematical proof, or looking over case diagrams for pre-existing problems puts me on the right train of thought by forcing me to focus on how I'm doing it not on what I'm doing.
This assumes that Page's Law is said negatively. That's not necessarily so. Speed is a feature like any other.

The vast majority of programs are written to solve a need for a human being, and if the answer comes in a human-acceptable time frame, it's Good Enough. Why waste time optimizing outer loops?
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Smart Google people worked really hard to get this right. But they used the wrong comparison function --- one that leaked timing information --- and so attackers could forge messages.

Atwood really thinks we should be trying to educate developers about how to build crypto?
what do you think the MBA is for?
A counterargument that I've heard to abbreviated forms of this argument runs like, "God gave us the ability to feel lust and envy, as well, but that doesn't mean that He intends us to follow through with fornication and coveting, and we know this because He told us so in His inerrant Word..." ;)
Apart from the keynote, everything else at WWDC (except the parties throughout the week) is under NDA. If you attend WWDC, you implicitly agree to be held under that NDA.

This also means no pictures or videos of the sessions, so I don't know how thorough of job someone could do live-blogging the conference.
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"Like Ghandi, like Martin Luther King, we need to educate and enlighten the public," said Miller, who joined the Free State movement after breaking up with his fiancée.

uhh...yeah. I think these emancipated white boys are a far cry from Ghandi and King.
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hey tricky, I'm interested in what you imagine a drill sergeant would do? How would it work? I'm creating a productivity course which might involve something extra like this. Any ideas? Thanks!
Pick an interesting fight.
Yes, software is getting more bloated, but it's also getting more powerful. The VIC-20 couldn't do any number of graphics related things our current range of hardware does on a regular basis. Take all your best engineers, and try to make it play a HD movie at an acceptable frame-rate. It's not going to happen.
Complaints around infelicities in the Python stdlib are fair enough - I don't think anyone would defend them, but what can you do? You can't change published APIs.

Fos most of the rest of his issues, I think Zed's problem is that he thinks there's one obvious answer, but lots of other people would disagree with his one answer. Python tends to be either very opinionated, or very agnostic. Where there's One Way To Do Things, that's what you must do; except where there's obvious disagreement in which case it doesn't bless a single answer.

API doc autogeneration; I can guarantee that if anyone came up with a default tool with default output such that "doctool module html_directory" was all you needed (and indeed people have) then there would be widespread, perfectly legitimate, disagreement on any number of choices in the design of it.

(Prsonally, I think API doc autogeneration is entirely pointless, and indeed fundamentally the Wrong Thing To Do for most Python libraries. When I come across pages of JavaDoc-ish API documentation, I groan internally and just look at the source instead.)
They can just make it a point revision or a standardised extension. There is no point in supporting this command on something like a hard disk, so it would always have to be optional anyway. It's quite possible the SATA 3 standard was too far along, or they wanted to make it an extension to SATA 2.

So it's no big deal, but I'd still like to see this standardised ASAP as I think it will drive quite a bit of file system innovation.
In some contexts (like a class on philosophy, or pitching a startup) I agree with you. "That is a valid argument."

However, for most parents the colloquial meaning of "arguing" or "being argumentative" understood as the opposite of "being reasonable".

"Go to bed now!", insisted Mom.
"Don't argue with me", she told the six-year-old.
"We can talk about your bedtime tomorrow, after you have had some sleep, but I am not going to negotiate your bedtime at 11pm on a school night."
Bingo. That's what I did.
Is that running on Google App Engine? The response headers say, "Google Frontend".
I'll tell you two things that are wrong with your site for free. You allow people to shop together. In general, men compete to display their technical knowledge about things in which they are interested, but don't shop socially. I like sharing my knowledge with friends, but not with strangers or I'd pursue a career in retail. I tend to note things and hunt for them later. Mrs Browl likes to know what her favorite suppliers have on offer and forages about until she finds something that interests her. They're equally valid but quite different selection strategies.

Women love shopping together (frequently without any impulse to buy) because they learn about their friends by seeing what they are interested in. So I think your business model is much more interesting to women shopping for clothes than men shopping for digital cameras. If you buy into this idea, then your target market is female friends separated by geography, not men who would be equally happy working at Best Buy.

Now, your 'big elephant leading little elephant' logo reinforces your site title 'browseology', which is presumably the study of how to successfully browse Amazon for shopping purposes. For men, you're putting them in an inferior position, implying they have less knowledge and bruising tender egos by suggesting they lack browseology skills. For women, you're suggesting that they are elephant friends. Women like elephants, but they don't want to identify with them.

The idea and the technology both have merit. But the social contract you present to potential customers is a double fail. So: rebrand. You could do worse than grab a few co-workers, load up on weed and beer, and lock yourselves in a room for the weekend with a TV that tunes only to Bravo and TLC, to immerse yourselves in gender stereotypes.
please post video of the lectures online. thanks.
Though I agree these things are best addressed patch in hand, it's worthwhile pointing out that there are design issues that people do need to be aware of to prevent future occurrences of the idiosyncrasies he is mentioning.
"Build something people want."
I really like the keyboard!

The future of the developer network and app-store is the real question here. How are they going to build that?
Interestingly enough you are arguing that breasts evolved to make women more honest - makes it harder for them to lie about their age.
The author argued that breasts allowed the women to be less honest - removed indication of infertility.

But in either case, the rest of the argument of how men evolved to like breasts could still be true.

All this really tells us is that the range of possibilities are large. I think the question of how one could prove, or at least narrow down the possibilities is an interesting one.

For example, if one could demonstrate that our ancestors had an aversion to breasts, and that the change to liking them was in a reasonable probability of occurring in the way the author describes, then his explanation is reasonable.

But, given the random nature of evolution, finding the precise answer may not be possible and the best we can hope for is a set of weighted possible explanations.
Good points... I'd counter-argue something like:

Lust is a variation on an emotion that is necessary to truly be close to God, known as rapture. Lust is simply the profane version of it. We may misuse any of the gifts God gave us, but that doesn't mean that their intended purpose isn't to bring us closer to him.
I agree this could become a problem. But don't forget that one of the most pressing issues we face is an aging society. In Europe it's even more severe than in the US. We will need a large number of people who care for the elderly.

Hey, and instead of noting and then punching in product numbers, couldn't we just scan the numbers using the phone camera and press OK at the checkout to have the amount appear on the next phone bill? I'm sure something like that already exists.
There are 13 users with 1000000+ and the top 100 all have over 450000. (http://twitterholic.com/)

But, long tail and all that, I hear average follower count is in the 120 range, you're right there. (http://gojko.net/2009/03/16/qcon-london-2009-upgrading-twitt...)
I have been on both sides: having a startup to pitch, but also being a journalist who needs new news to talk about.

Mass e-mailing journalists and issuing formal press releases is obsolete, that's for sure.

You need to build a relationship with a few key influencers. The problem is that they tend to behave like deaf people and typically won't answer your e-mails. And being obnoxious is not the way to go past that hurdle.

So it takes months of being smart, showing smart, getting to know other people like you, or slightly ahead of you, maybe piggy-backing from other events, etc. If you persevere, eventually you'll get the connections and the coverage.
and google also has perhaps hundreds of thousands of servers and tens of data centers.

His point is just to provide some measure of scale against a "known beast".