skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...you need to spend as much time talking to prospective customers as you do working on your product...

Better yet, use your customers' day-to-day problems as seeds for your idea. Better to scratch their itch than your own if you can. This would be a huge head start.
I enjoyed this response:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.be...

The formatting was so hard to read, though, that I had to put it into my editor and start performing surgery as I read.

http://akkartik.name/blog/2009-08-02-17-29-19-soc
a list like that missing hippo, wordpress, joomla & drupal ? Or are those not useful ?

EDIT: a slightly better list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_syst...

usefulness not guaranteed.
Senescence is one of the prices of having evolved rather than having been specially created.

It's surprising that we don't work harder on fixing this. 10x what we're spending on AIDS might be a good place for a start. Imagine what humanity could accomplish if the standard life-span was just 200 instead of 70. Imagine what you personally could accomplish.
The "Feedback" button is overlapping the most important UI element on the screen (the "Create" button) when my browser is at a width of anything less than 1036px. This isn't really acceptable... I shouldn't have to have a browser wider than 960px to not get scrollbars - much less to have something overlapping buttons.

Aside from that, I very much love this app. I'll definitely be using it next time I need a good domain name. One thing that would be nice is the ability to only show domains where the .com and/or .net is available.
Last time I checked, Firefox and Safari have built-in spell checkers too (and both browsers probably had the feature before IE did). The only reason not to use Firefox is because it would cost too much to make all of the IE-only sites work in it.
Your dreams are definitely worth pursuing!
The Wal-Mart analogy is perfect. Works on so many levels.
Even if you're directly targeting a known issue, it's very possible they won't want to pay for the solution. A tight feedback loop is necessary in damn near every product's development, I believe.
A 4GB card at retail, 5 months ago, was $7. How many pictures do you think you'll be taking? 16GB should be plenty of space.
I came back to read through the comments and realised I never actually complimented you on a job well done!

I’ve bookmarked the site and will definitely use it for my next project—I always find picking a name and domain a pain.
I must respectfully disagree. You can ask people all day, but unless you put them in front of a product and say click here, then it will be very hard for them to see its value.
Otherwise your prospects will be picturing your application in their head, and noone knows how they visualize it.

If you are confident about your product, build a simple prototype in a short amount of time and ship it for feedback.
I agree 100% with this. Apple's geek core is at least part of the reason they're growing. It's not easy to convince a barely computer-literate person to leave behind the environment they 'know', but I've converted my wife, my mom, my brother.

This s#@t is leaving a bad taste in my mouth though, and I'm not even a developer.
I like free services as well as the rest of us. But Google is making money indirectly off all/most of its free services. They certainly aren't creating great products for us out of kindness. There isn't an easy answer here. The free services are great, I wouldn't want to see them go away. But they are a component of anticompetitive measures into the market.

Saying adapt or die simply isn't an acceptable answer here. If you have a great map product but do not own an ecosystem of other products, such as Google has, you are on the short end of things and the market becomes smaller and less competitive.
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Make sure these scripts won't stack up

And that's exactly why you don't roll these things on your own unless you have a very good reason. Making sure a cronjob doesn't stack up reliably is non-trivial and becomes extremely hairy when the network gets involved.
Many people think "I'll just use a lockfile" - think again.

Since for monitoring scripts this kind of reliability is the whole point, I strongly suggest to use something like monit where someone else has already worked out all the little corner cases.
Hacker wifi
i want from all user to give me the solution about wifi hacking
Can China Save the World?
"Exponential decay is sharp, but an exponential within an
exponential is so sharp that I can say with 99.999999%
certainty that no human will ever live to the age of 130."

It pained me to read that. But because we don't know why the equation fits, we don't know that there is nothing that can be done to make it shift. Maybe one day we will talk about life span like a shifting demand/supply curve.
Would humanity really be better off by having individuals living longer? I can see the personal benefits of course, but younger individuals are less set in their ways and thus more likely to come up with the outside the box kind of solutions to problems that we need to solve.

Plus, they're more likely to accept the world as it is now instead of moaning about how much better everything was fifty years ago... (I think there's some kind of statistic or history tracking that has shown that in the mind of society, everything has always been better fifty years ago. I recall reading something about how the young are only interested in partying and fighting - written by a monk two hundred years or so ago).
And probably a lot easier in the modern day as more and more people get access to the web. I'm very interested in web learning and am trying to put something together for it too.
I had very similar experiences as a Computer Science undergraduate not many years ago at a prestigious British university. The expectations were so low that eventually I stopped attending lectures and got a full-time programming job and I still kept getting quite good grades. The problem is so widespread that it's not just about undergraduates; as an undergraduate I have met several PhD students who struggled with even basic programming or mathematical concepts.

Still, in a class of 300 people, there are still about 10 very talented and bright students who'd rather be (and not afraid of) writing Prolog interpreters and doing similarly interesting and cool stuff. There should be a way these students could learn advanced concepts with while being mentored by professors.
Have you looked at god [1]? If you're into Ruby, you'll love it.

I use it in a medium to high volume production environment [2], and it has done a very good job at getting our lighttpd and nginx back up on the air whenever we experience peaks above the normal workload.

[1] http://god.rubyforge.org/

[2] http://video.nrkbeta.no/
Thank you, Dave!
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Thank you for pointing this out. Lately I'd been feeling despondent, thinking that the Internet is mostly a sea of unsupported opinion. The surfeit of opinion seems driven by the fact that (a) unsupported opinion is easier to write and publish than carefully researched facts and analysis, and (b) opinion is also easier and more titillating to read. But really, things are improving.

Another great morale-lifter was Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. When you read how common and insane were the myths and fads of previous times, you think how lucky you are to be alive now, when the irrationality quotient is so much lower.
Graduating computer-illiterate students who had to do a project in computer science was more of a headache.

For whom, you or those of us you have to work with them?
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"You were made as well as we could make you".
"But not to last."
on my title link it says 'useful', not 'new and unique'. Sorry if I misread that.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=687065
While I found the book boring, I do like to read explorations of a world where the "obvious" (to us!) technologies grow and see what aspects of society change. In essence, that's really what any Sci-Fi book must accomplish especially if they don't have a good story to tell behind that.

While a lot of the key thoughts weren't really new versus what I was reading in short stories a decade ago, it did offer some further "what if" scenarios that are interesting with (especially) the wearables and contact lens UI. In addition, the (sometimes jumbled) interaction of people with their certificate authorities and groups was something that wouldn't have been discussed at all in older scifi-- those are problems we'll need to think about more eventually and I liked seeing those ideas explored a bit.

Overall, I think I like Rainbow's End more as a touch on a lot of different near tech since a good bit of SciFi focuses on one or two far-out tech concepts that become "magic" versus tech.

This one covers a lot of not-so-distant and not-so-magic tech concepts we can almost see on the horizon:

* Wearable computing
* Augmented reality
* GPS-guided air-mail
* Virtual amusement parks
* Library digitization
* Networks of trust and authentication
* Emergent AI (slightly more "magic", but has always been "any day now" in scifi)
* Ubiquitous software development
* Auto-pilot vehicles
* Virtual reality learning
* Virtual tribes/cliques/social groups
* ... lots more ...

Pretty much everything he discusses (maybe aside from body regeneration?) is near enough in possibility that you can see how we might get there and it's interesting to think about the interactions of all of the concepts at once.

While he's not a good story teller, the high number of topics he was tackling at once made the story something I kept reading. I think it's unfair to give him a low grade because he didn't come up with lots of "new" revolutionary ideas-- just exploring the interactions between them is compelling enough that I'd like young scientists to read this, even if they see a different future ahead.

I would also like to read more stories of the "near cool" future rather than only have access to deeper stories like Diamond Age, Ender's Game, and Steel Beach.
One problem with any auto-fix script is what if it goes berserk? What if your mail server is dying because of overload and the auto-fix keep restarting it? The overload will never clear out. If you go with the auto-fix solution, remember to add a throttle to the number of times it restarts a service.
It's too bad that sensationalist headlined stories get so much more attention than the mundanely headlined stories like this, which have great content.
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One in Three Is A Music Pirate
We should launch a campaign to re-re-rename it.
What you are saying is exactly what Customer Development says to do, so you're agreeing with the post, not disagreeing. Although perhaps I should have been more explicit :) Its all in Steve Blank's book.

Concurrent product development and customer development is the way.
Gee. A list of things. An incomplete, poorly written, poorly researched list of things. A list that contains no useful information.

This is why I hate blogs.
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A counter-opinion about generational perspective: http://curmudgeonjoy.blogspot.com/2008/08/strange-mirage.htm...

Choosing limited lifespan to achieve a particular political balance strikes me as a truly bizarre approach.

As far as science...just take care that smart people have as many kids as they ever do, and we'll be okay.
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WikiLeaks published secret information about Icelandic meltdown
Interesting idea but it seem much less of a search tool than a toy. The spasmodic loading of images is incredibly distracting and the lazy layout doesn't appear to have any structure.
I've had a long conversation with someone that is very much into this and there are some challenges but it definitely is possible.

Already there are tons of lectures online in flash video format. It's amazing the stuff you can learn about but to actually make lesson material and tests work in an online environment is far from simple (cheating for instance!).
Surprised they don't have SilverStripe listed on there, that's a great up and coming open source CMS that I've used numerous times when clients demand more out of WP. http://silverstripe.org

It's lot more flexible than WP but the admin interface is extremely thick in .js (and buggy), thats my #1 complaint. I've grown fond of WP's admin interface and plugin handling. I use WP for my own stuff because I build around its limitations, and can move quickly with it.
If you're not smart enough to figure it out yourself, you're not smart enough to use the information wisely.
I'm not sure Tufte would agree. This is data that would probably be better served by a table in many ways.

For example, it's easy to see the large-scale differences between demographics using this animated graph, but the details are difficult to grasp. And since the differences in these graphs tend to be in the details, I'm not sure that the selected visual treatment is particularly useful. Why not an animated table, with significant changes highlighted on transition?
The university I attend uses frontmotion. It's great.
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Not necessarily. If Google's antitrust claims against Microsoft were true and in good faith and the new claims against them are false and in bad faith, the new false claims gain no legitimity from Google's previous claims and they do have "the right to complain".
Java is an improvement though, especially under Eclipse.

Even better would be using Python followed by Scala.

Perhaps the issue is that too much class time is spent teaching details of a language and its libraries.
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w00t for UW (CEng student here). pew pew.
Have you done a Google search? There's lot of info and easy enough not to need to ask this question.
I'm not trying to excuse Apple. I'm just suggesting that the standards of "morality" in American business certainly encompass tying people to one-sided contracts and then taking advantage of them. That happens all the time.

So if your plan of action involves convincing anyone but a diehard geek that Apple's actions rise to the level of moral injustice... we've got a lot of work to do. There are a lot of people crying "moral injustice". We'll have to stand in line.
A buddy of mine is on a holiday and asked me to monitor his pages for him. Little did I know that his goes off a bit more frequently than I like :) One of the problems I've traced back to a java process that hangs with some regularity. Because I don't want to go and mess with it beyond my current understanding of the system and the system seems to come back up reliably after restarting the service I figured that a quick & dirty way to guarantee a good nights sleep would be to auto-restart the process on failure to retrieve a url due to time-out or other connect issues.

Nagios will do the job but it's total overkill. Ideally a simple solution such as:

./monitor http://localhost:someport/ 60 "/etc/init.d/someservice restart"

should do the trick (resource, checkinterval, action)
Look at the words used in algorithm books for selecting the maximum - "maximizing" and "gradient following" and etc. Maybe one of those is appropriate.

Since all the english words are likely to be already taken as domain names, find out the Tibetan name for when the monks go around and find the baby that the Dalai Lama's soul has moved into, and then use that.

Or maybe do something that reminds people of seeing who can pull the sword out of the stone, or the playoff process in sports.
It seems to me that you have it exactly backwards.

First, as a university professor (in the U.S.), I don't have a supervisor in the sense the term is used in business. Yes, my department has a chair, but this is a "first among equals" position, periodically elected from among the members of the department. Governance is mostly collegial in nature, and much of the evaluation & promotion process is handled by committees. (Note: all this varies a fair amount from one university to another.)

Second, I do whatever research I want; no one tells me what to research. My work needs to be able to get through a peer-review process and be published, but that is not much of a restriction on topics.

Certainly academia has its downside; things like political nastiness, low pay and other budgetary woes, and excessive paperwork are often cited, along with various troubles with the tenure system. More related to what the article is talking about, there is the question of the value of research. If research topics are chosen on the basis of interest, then there is not much incentive to do something that makes the world a better place, generates money for someone, or anything like that.
It's also really interesting the differences in sleep habits between white/hispanic vs. black.
"The relevant question, before you throw out the entire institution, is: Are there real opportunities to do good work?"

I disagree. The relevant question is, "What is the best possible way to do good work, including practical concerns taking into account the behavior of real people and not just theoretical people, and is that what we have? If not, how can we get there?"

The way you ask the question is basically the same thing as the sunk cost fallacy. Yes, we've got a lot of investment in the current system, but if it isn't working, it's time to change it to something that will. Whatever that may be. And, again, the question is whether it is working with real people, not hypothetical people who are custom-designed to work with the system you want to be ideal.
it's blogspam, check authors post history.

edit: hilarious, did you really think submitting 15 links in as many minutes is going to make a difference ? It is also against the guidelines of this site.
Wouldn't you say that pursuing a startup is better than both industry and academia?
Old men will be young men more prone to partying and risky deeds. This will be especially true when all their children grows up.
You don't have a supervisor. You have many and they hide behind anonymity -- namely your peers who evaluate your papers, grant proposals, etc.

In a way this is much worse than having a supervisor in industry. At least your supervisor wants you to succeed. Your peers not so much unless it suits their agenda.

The freedom you have is only an illusion. What good is this freedom if your grant proposals / papers get rejected?

Moreover, your freedom is severely restricted by the scientific approach demanded by computer science. It is hard to fund/publish novel ideas that are not easy to evaluate.

In startups, you can more easily explore novel ideas and change them without worrying about evaluation methodology. Ultimately, your criteria for success are simple: how many users do you have? how much money are you making? etc.
I get very excited about hearing of things like this ...even if there's a strong possibility of failure. In our lifetimes, a few of these efforts will lead to great things.

Michio Kaku described in 'Parallel Universes' the concept of 5 civilization stages (with respect to energy harnessing) and the concept that if we get past the next 50 to 100 years, well ...we might have an easier time of things.

Those who are willing to look under every stone get my well wishings.
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What's interesting is this is the same way Microsoft got into trouble. A developer says, "It would be really neat if..." and then the playing field isn't level anymore. Allowing a web app to take pictures with Safari would be sort of neat, but then you've got other browsers that can't compete fairly. Next thing you know you've got a bunch of people griping about lock in, lack of standards and Embrace/Extend/Extinguish, etc. I'm not sure if it's right or wrong- just saying it's next to impossible to keep people happy.
Games are still hard to do properly in the browser. Eventually, they might add OpenGL support to javascript, as well as full audio control. But I don't think that'll be happening for a while yet, so any app which does heavy 3D work or audio work will need to be native.
Look, new cities will soon have WiMAX
Limitations and egos
Today's "younger individuals" who are less set in their ways used to be the old folks, back when life spans were much shorter. I think if life spans extended to 200, someone in their 50s would be considered to be at their peak of productivity, optimism, and creativity, because they haven't yet been saddled down with the need to provide stability for their family. Risk and reaching for the gold ring is a young man's game, afterall. A 50 year old today can't take much risk because they don't have much time to recover. A 50 year old who can expect to live to 200 can take greater risks, because there's plenty of time to recover.
Well, my little Buffalo mini-station (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000UEFQ1O) is pretty small, and has a lot of other stuff on it, so I'll be carrying it anyway, but as per my final paragraph the option of just loading up on a few more SD cards is one I've considered. I'd just like to minimise the loss in a disaster scenario (such as everything I'm carrying getting stolen). Hardware can be replaced, photos can't.
Agreed. I didn't read it until I saw this comment and I went back. Even then, I only skimmed.

The combination of the first line (search bar, languages) plus the set of words that start out on the front page give a pretty good idea of what it is.
I guess so. The Customer development model (customer discovery > validation > customer creation > company building ) works best when you have a niche market for enterprise applications. If you consider consumer apps, then how do you go out and talk to consumers? "ASK HN:..?". Consumer applications, read free, are doomed to follow the painful "Customer Acquisition and Adoption Model" . In other words how fast do we sign up new users and how much do they use the product.
I understand the value of TechCrunch to get publicity with the general (tech) public. I just meant that within HN, I think sharing directly with each other would create a stronger community.
The context seem to be a lisper who want to assert that Smalltalk has grown from Lisp, which seem to be only partially true.

Secondly there seem to be a slight misunderstanding - Smalltalk was influenced by biological concept according to Kay, while the poster he replies just denies that Smalltalk has its origin i biology - I would assume he meant used for research by biologist, which to me is something rather different than inspired by biological metaphors.

So basically different perspectives and misunderstandings escalate into a total unnecessary flamewar. What else is new.
Not if you enjoy really theoretical work which is far away from the money.
Absolutely. But let's contrast that with a topic that quite a few of us here have probably come up against at some point in the past: I used to sell software, license based. When the open source revolution happened there was not one free competitor for the kind of software that I was writing, there were many. The quality wasn't there, the features were not up to spec but the basic functionality was there so overnight my market dried up.

I could have gone and sued the pants of whoever was 'destroying my market', but instead I adapted and found new ways to monetize my skills.

Google has a method, and you've correctly identified it as indirectly making money off a service and that is a principle that is out in the open.

The same with newspapers that suddenly found themselves faced with free competitors and then on top of that had tons of online competition, also for free.

Nobody has a 'right' to their businessmodel, whether you have a great product or not does not enter into the equation, the marketplace is constantly shifting and you have to be prepared for such shifts.
Covering the cost of only the phone, the contract, and the developer program is not what I'd call "great".