skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping you'd go into more details than this. What I gathered from this post:

- Riding on backs of tangentially related companies (I don't mean that in a bad way) was okay, but no conclusive numbers shared.

- Cold emailing: Worth the effort, but no numbers shared.

- Hacker News exposure: no visible effect.

- SEO: ?? Coming soon

Are you just cautious about sharing business metrics (even some?), or could you be tracking your acquisition channels better?

For anyone else who's trying different approaches (as you should be), please take the time to set up your analytics... It's not that hard, and it will pay off ten-fold because you'll learn what's worth spending your precious time on, and what isn't. I'd be happy to answer any general questions about this or offer help.
I'm pretty sure those athlete sex reports are highly exaggerated. Those numbers are based on a ridiculous calculation where they took the number of condoms shipped to the Olympics and divided it by the number of athletes.
Its all about Time Value of Happiness
Facebook had ~820M MAU at the end of Q4'2010. Twitter has ~230M MAU at the end of Q4'2013.

Sauce: http://lighthouseinsights.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/face...
I gotta think that the primary concern is WiFi hotspots. It's easy to create a bogus hotspot that spies on your communications.
Sony sells its VAIO PC business, makes TV arm its own subsidiary
Would it be safe to guess that this project is not something you are doing for pay at work?
>>Comparing IIT/IIM entrance exams to caste system is a very cheap shot.

Why?

Caste system survived because an exclusivity principle was employed to keep the lower caste's out of systems which could benefit them on the longer run like education, employment, religious institutions.
>IMO, that quote's garbage and really "back in my day". Our resources are just more powerful today.

Which is the whole point if the quote. And the "back in my day" is 100% true in the field of programming. Ever heard of Moore's law? Ever tried to program with 8K RAM?

>We still run into performance issues with things like bulk updates and computation times (MapReduce / distributed computing) quite frequently.

Yes, we still run into "performance issues". But with MILLION times the data they ran into performance issues with.

Heck, we can now do a whole computer of the time interpreted in a web browser in Javascript and still get acceptable speed to play games in it.

Perspective man.
I don't really buy that. These are smart entrepreneurial engineers. Too smart and too savvy to fall into a false choice like that.

Why not just release a PDF? Why make the choice every format or none?
Coding is not the literacy of the future, nor will knowing how to code let you use many software products easier to use. If you have to know how to code to use software products, then we as programmers have failed. One does not need to be a mechanic to drive, to be a doctor to be healthy, or an director to enjoy a movie.
Can it help you be more analytical, sure, and that might be a reason to learn to code.
> If you're so keen on algebraic data types, there are languages much better suited to that than C++.

Variants of this comment are often seen.

For any given feature, there's going to be a language that shines in that particular area. However, choice of language rarely comes down to a specific feature. There's usually a multitude of aspects that needs to be considered - some of them aren't even technical.
Hey Greg, awesome feedback. This definitely wasn't meant as a quantitive analysis of our acquisition channels, as you point out. The goal was to elaborate on what channels we use, and how our strategy has changed.

I definitely agree, there's nothing wrong with riding the backs of related companies! It's an amazing way to grow, if things align.

If there's enough interest I'd like to explore a more metrics driven post -- we definitely have that data :)
yes I was looking at that and also http://python-eve.org/

anyone know the comparison of both?
Why no Love for OSv on HN.
That seems like an orthogonal issue to me. The assert is to ensure that the data type matches some external requirement; a quote is a structure that as 28 bytes long, and if something changes to make a Quote not 28 bytes long, you'll be told. If it weren't there, the algebraic data stuff would still work fine.

Edit: I say this as someone whose primary language is Haskell
It's a personal project, an attempt at passive income.

It can't be help that there's a lot of boring work in the world and somebody has to do them.

Personally,I think those kind of work rarely pays adequate dividend in the end. But hey, we all have to eat.
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One of the realities with surveillance systems is there they create so many hours of footage, per camera, that it's impossible to watch them all. This is a good idea if:
- you can find ways to get the watchers cost-effectively (rewarding them per incident noticed is a good idea, but if the system works as a deterrent incidents per camera-hour will go down over time);
- you can algorithmically compress viewing time
- you can find high-value applications and verticals.
> To the extent that a law not prosecuted is a law that doesn't exist, you're correct, however I've provided the statutory citation which states that "every" contract, etc., in restraint of trade, "is declared to be illegal".

Laws are not interpreted de novo, to mean whatever you think they mean. In our common-law system, laws are interpreted by the courts, over a long period of jurisprudence. In the case of the Sherman Act, we have over a hundred years of case history to guide us.

The courts say that it must be an "unreasonable" restraint of trade. After all, every contract is a restraint of trade! If a grocery store signs a contract with a farm to buy all of their lettuce, then the grocery store isn't going to the central produce market, where everyone has a chance to compete. If Apple signs an agreement with Samsung to source its ARM CPUs, that means that Nvidia doesn't get a chance to compete for the duration of the contract.

But that's completely ridiculous, right? They got the chance to compete for the contract. And that's exactly why it's not an antitrust violation. It's a restraint of trade, but it's very much reasonable.

Note that the word "unreasonable" doesn't actually appear in the Sherman Act. It just says "restraint of trade." The Courts added this test because they felt it would be counterproductive to interpret the Sherman Act literally. As you're doing.
He didn't stop personally, just professionally. In the 1990s Gates would write articles about various personal programming projects -- the last one I can recall was in Java. (This was back when Java was the next big thing for MS, so certainly there was marketing aspect to this too.) IIRC it was about home automation.
Is that a real issue? They could generate struct types, but why take the performance loss? It only affects people trying to reflect over the unit of measurement types.

Additionally, phantom types in F# can make wrapping other types (like int -> AccountId) rather succinct.
Not at all surprised.

I work in NYC, and the last time few times I was out in SV to speak at conferences and such, I was attired in my standard suit & tie. (I'm the guy with the dopey photo and name-in-bold on http://nycpython.org/ which I run.)

This ends up working to my advantage. No one expects the guy in the suit to go up on stage and show off a Tweetable FFT in Python or give an in-depth talk on CPython internals.
I wouldn't have read this article if I were not procrastinating...
I'm not sure I quite understand apiary.io, is it used to create a mock api? what would be the point of this?

what does runscope do meaning what value is provided over me writing tests myself?
There are these large stores in the US where it seems like everyone but me is three finger discounting soda and donuts.
no.
in this tight job market most of the resumes are crap anyway -- even bozos can detect this.
Some talk on the racket mailing list was had for "numbers with dimensions[1]" in which contracts were being bent to do calculations which respected units [2]. The Frink language was also mentioned [3].

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-users/mnId0ux...

[2] https://github.com/Metaxal/measures#4-dimensions-and-contrac...

[3] http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/#SampleCalculations
Both are needed!
Javascript is great for portability of apps that would otherwise be done in a native environment (you wouldn't want to index these anyway). Isn't there a standard mime type to execute js directly in browsers? There should if not.
If you care about being searchable and having designs that are readable on a variety of devices, powerful and degradable markup is very useful.
>"competing engines would be good for the web"?
They will.

Citation needed. Because, to support my argument, we just saw a "competing engine" starting to divert from the others. And not only in this case -- just the other day the Google team announced they'd drop CSS Regions too.

Would it be as easy for Google to do so, if they were still sharing Webkit code with all the other Webkit partners?

>IE caught up already, and I don't see any evidence that it's "limping

Well, we still have to support IE10 (some also IE9). Everytime, every version gives something new, but holds something back that the latest other browser engines already have. E.g IE9 and WebGL.

>Webkit is not updating that fast anymore.
Well, there are fewer contributors now. But it's kind of hard to draw any conclusions about how fast it's updating given how little time has passed since Blink forked.

Nope, also before. Google had published commit stats in the time of the fork, and Apple had considerably slowed down commits for couple of years or so before that.
Facebook domain hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
Crowdfunding auction for digital goods (fund-io)
When was the last Emacs that didn't use arrow keys by default? 1987 on a VAX? Ditto with mice and such. And it's modeless.

People just ape things they've heard without thinking. Emacs and Vim may not be perfect beginner's editors, but they are much better than just decent.
Just a thought - how about having the categories "toggle" rather than "select"?
Yeah I need to fix that! :/
But they don't know any text editor. They have to learn something.
I had the same reaction. I believe using AGPL code within a website requires that the entire website be open sourced as AGPL. For nearly any company or non-AGPL project this is a huge barrier to using your project. Maybe someone with more legal knowledge can weigh in on if my understanding is accurate.
> Twitter brings in money largely by selling advertising space and data on tweeting habits.

It's the first time I hear about Twitter selling "tweeting habits" of their users. I don't know what that means, does anyone?
i guess that this idea could work out very well, if you can get the costs low and the "catch-rate" high. :)
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ML scoring of footage of customers near product, increasing and multiple watchers during peak times. The other service would be actively testing watchers with varying levels of red team exercise difficulty.
Resiliency at Yammer Yammer use NetflixOSS
The pre-product phase
Super Bowl Password Fail isn’t a Blowout
Really appreciate the balanced perspective. We're a very small team and we're constantly improving, so it's great to hear supportive feedback.

And yea, we've gotten crazy traffic, so the 500s/speed are load issues that we just pushed a fix for.
Cash is used anonymously and for shady dealings too. Compare this to the blockchain, which is public, not anonymous.

There is no rule that says a currency has to be backed by a government, since people have traded without government backed currency since the dawn of man.
Finders fee per incident perhaps.
presumably you've trained it with hand annotated content, or bootstrapped from a few choice hn searches (like ?q=jquery will give you a web tech category)
The Camel Has Two Humps was not successfully replicated. The authors presented http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV78Bornat.pdf in 2008:

"Two years ago we appeared to have discovered an exciting and enigmatic new predictor of success in a first programming course. We now report that after six experiments, involving more than 500 students at six institutions in three countries, the predictive effect of our test has failed to live up to that early promise."
Syrian Electronic Army Gained Control of Facebook.com Domain?
Ironically, this is the same foolish anthropocentric sentiment that is preventing most people to care about the environment. Congrats, you're part of the problem.
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Yeah, I'm a season member of two sports - cricket and AFL.
But this solution doesn't solve the original problem described in the article. With your API, it is easy for a programmer to use a temperature in Celcius as a temperature in Kelvins and the type system can't catch it.
When the company floats they release a given amount of stock to the market.

If they then also release stock to pay their employees then the total stock in the market goes up.

If the total number of stock (i.e. shares) goes up but the company profits go and the money in the bank (and other assets) also goes down then the value of each of those individual stock items will also be going down.

Hence the drop in the share price.
Watchers in Appalachias, Eastern Europe, Malaysia, Africa might scale.
Article doesn't support the headline very strongly.
Are there any existing patents on this?
Your idea will only work if you can control the anonymous watchers. How would you know if they actually watched the footage properly? One way to do it that comes to mind is the captcha way - give the watcher two segments, one of which is know to contain a reportable incident. If they report the one with the reportable incident, then it is probable that they watched the other one properly as well.
Neither do 100s...
Nope, IE wasn't better, at least not in my experience. Even if it was better in some aspects, it wasn't decisive to gain huge advantage. IE gained it mostly by being preinstalled with Windows.
Review of the book Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner. A couple other reviews in the NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/books/bach-music-in-the-ca...

...and the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-revie...

The Bach piece that most moves me is the 2nd movement (Largo) of Harpsicord Concerto No. 5 in F-minor (BWV 1056) here played by Glen Gould in 1957 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0zPokdN2wg [video]

What Bach work moves you?
The word "work" is too often confused with "paid work to do boring things, because nobody would do them for fun" these days. And then people wonder why everyone is procrastinating at work.
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This is elegantly solved with immutable data types. The squash method of an Ellipse can be defined to return an Ellipse (a new instance, the original is never modified in place). This will work fine even when Circle inherits from Ellipse.
It's our next one - we're getting close to launching it, if you drop your email in the voting, we'll make sure to let you know!
You've made the point that they are making--Apple doesn't care about their customer's demands. They won't reinstate it, not because of some possible wishy-washy legal issue, but because they just don't care enough that some of their users want it.
Well, but you are now saying, "ignore the past 60-odd years of appropriation of the culture, and buy into this new appropriation! It's all different! We're marketing authenticity now!"

This site's theme uses the gravity of the old "Oriental mystique" trope to seem a little more impressive - to make programming practice sound "exotic" or "badass". What the fuck does a ukiyo-e image have to do with programming? No Japanese site would choose this theme, in the same way that you have observed that no Japanese person would think of 形 as a militant word. The Western equivalent would be to plaster a Dutch Golden Age painting onto the background and substitute Dutch words like "drillen" and "uitoefening" for "kata". It would be ridiculous and nobody would take it seriously.

The problem is, we already have fine English words for what is being done: "exercise" and "practice". "kata" remains associated with McDojos that want to impress you - it's not a borrowed word that has entered everyday use. And we've grown into accepting that it exists in that context over time. But its usage can still be considered not just offensive but colonial, in any Western context. It's an outright theft of culture.
Besides the obvious omissions of women, it's always hard for me to take an article seriously when there are obvious spelling errors.
More proof that refusing to make a fashion statement is just as much of a statement as wearing something bold.

(I'm not some crazy fashion person, I just think it's funny the way nerd culture shuns those that actually try)
We got hit with pretty heavy traffic, the load was causing the 500s and we've pushed a fix for it - it's ready to go, so come back and check it out!
For tactical pay-for-results pr, try our startup http://PRMatch.com

It's sort of like 99 designs for PR. 100% free to list your story and 100% risk free -- name your price, name your placement wish list and only pay if you actually get press.
This is not the Libertarian response. Google and Apple are now stewards of a captive audience--namely smartphone users. They possess a partial monopoly that should be unrestricted to competing products using their platform. IE vs. other broswers, etc. Sure they are free to censor pornography or offensive content, but if they launch a porn service and restrict others from offering a competing app in their marketplace, that could definitely be anti-competitive. Sure, users could flee to the competing device... but what happens if Google decides to do the same?
To start upvotes from the community was the best way to do it - though soon enough we'll be benchmarking solutions so you can order them by execution time.
It feels like a good idea.

How do you stop me signing up with 20 accounts and just running the feeds while I'm sleeping?

I'm watching some footage. I see someone clearly stealing something. What do I do?

I watch all the footage but I miss people stealing stuff. What do you do?

I watch the footage and say that I see someone stealing something, but they haven't stolen anything. What happens then?

But it feels like a good use of lots of people.

One thing that might be handy is to gather all the footage where someone has been seen Stealing something and analyse that footage. If you gather the footage for a town you may find some prolific thiefs. Supplying the footage with that thief in to the police would be good.

There might be a problem offering the service in some regions because of privacy laws - but I guess you're using surveillance cameras for surveilance so it's not a problem? You might need to ask someone who knows about data protection laws if you offer this to the UK.

But I like the idea!
I'd find that interesting too. I was kind of shocked to see the majority of comments on tfa to be attacking the author for not doing that. To me it seems like it would be much more civil and productive to nicely request a follow up on women's fashion or (horrors) write it themselves.
No, there is still no dress code. Sure, there are trends and there is fashion, but it's all optional! Most programmers dress like other programmers, most designers dress like other designers and so on because most people dress like other people. It's just easier, and that's how fashion works.

But you don't have to!

There is no actual dress code. There are no actual rules¹. And most people in the industry won't look down at you for dressing differently (except maybe subconsciously). And people take advantage of this: I know plenty of engineers who wear button-down shirts, nice sweaters and blazers because the can--not everybody goes for jeans and a t-shirt.

What people actually wear is not important. The dress code--or the lack thereof--is only important because it illustrates a deep principle that I think is very important to the SV culture: departing from petty rules and embracing as much individual freedom as possible.

After all, individual freedom includes the freedom to conform! It's the freedom that's actually important, not what people do with it.

¹ Well, there are some ground rules--you can't just walk around naked all of the time--but they're very limited.
Seems Eve is to be used with Mongo, and Sandman is to be used with relational databases. Sandman uses SQLAlchemy, which allows for integrations with SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and OracleSQL.
Out of all third party UIs for Hacker News I've seen (and have since forgotten the URL for) you probably have the best domain name. It's clever and memorable.
My go development environment
Why should he have to avoid NJ, though?
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Be my guest =)
M'eh. I don't think there is actually anything to be learned here unless you think you can put up better up time numbers than Facebook. And if you can then it would be logical to go with only home grown authentication in lieu of all social providers, in which case you still end up in the "one basket" scenario.

People will choose a single authentication scheme when joining a web property or app so not "putting all your eggs in one basket" doesn't really apply. If Facebook authentication is down I'm not going to hope that the website owner implemented multiple authenticators so I can create a brand new account tied to my Twitter identity, I'm just going to leave and come the next day. To users, the only ones that really matter, they don't care about all eggs and all baskets, they care about their one egg and one basket combination.
Hoarding engineers.

Copy-cat to the old google strategy. Hire way, way too many engineers than your core business requires and maybe they'll figure something out.

Worked out good for goog, but I feel bad for engineering talent that goes to twitter.

Wake up! Yeah you'll get your proverbial "gold star" you've been chasing since kindergarten , but you are being warehoused and hoarded according to some mba's "strategic plan"

Come work for a small company and make something happen!
Will there still be humans in 300,000,000 million years?
Just for fun, try wearing a suit to a programming job. Nothing ostentatious, just a well fitted medium priced conservative suit. You'll quickly learn there isn't an explicit code, but there is certainly an implicit one. You'll get about the same reaction as if you wore parachute pants with a neon shirt.
I'm not going to argue your point much, as I largely agree with it.

There is the question of use-value vs. exchange-value, and you could argue that social networks, as with other electronic communications systems (say, Craigslist) serve mostly to facilitate activities which wouldn't otherwise have occurred, and/or leave money in the pockets of those who make use of the services (where you'd previously have had to use newspaper classified ads, or staple flyers to telephone poles, or stand on a soapbox in the town square, or go out and meet your friends in person).

Most of the social networks have had fairly modest revenues. Let's see.... Facebook are claiming $2.5 billion for the three months ending 2013-12-31. That's actually not too bad. Google's $16.8 billion. Most of that's advertising, and if you think of it that way, Google, Facebook, and the other social networks are skimming off of the total advertising market (not insignificant).

A horrible infographic showing Google's ad spend breakdown: http://www.wordstream.com/articles/google-earnings

(When did the world forget how to create bar plots?)

Here we go: http://i.imgur.com/tTVUkwL.png

Roughly 10% of that is finance. The rest various consumer categories. That's the economic impact of social networking, roughly.