skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a product that may generate profit, e.g. a SaaS application targeting businesses, not a money burning consumer-app train (see: twitter or another photo album app) one of the strategies that work is cold emailing:

0. Identify and name your target group, e.g. commercial real estate agents in CA.

1. Find these people on Linkedin using advanced search option and invite them to connect.

2. Once connected you have their e-mail address, so send them a short e-mail (better response rate than InMails) describing the business problem and your solution. Short means 3-5 sentences, no attachments, just try to attract their attention.

3. Don't forget about follow-ups.

4. They will reply if interested and bam, you have a lead! Now it's time to set up a call and go into details.

5. Rinse and repeat. Stay persistent, you should send at least 20+ every day. Track response rates and adjust, you should achieve at least 5-10% easily.
just to be clear, the "bitcoin" in this proposal is a token of network traffic, more like your example of bittorrent than bitcoin really, with the caveat that it's built using an architecture more like bitcoin's. the incentives are simply based on a mutual desire to exchange traffic, like bittorrent. there's no monetary incentive, and i shudder to think what the consequences would be of thinking about network traffic as a traded commodity on some kind of market or exchange. (oh god that's almost the status quo!)
I would rather see a single, well-defined and correct implementation, even if it's really slow, than to not have it at all...
You could go grab the copy we put on internet archive a few weeks ago.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

Pretty sure we'll have this worked out with our provider before you can finish downloading though.
This is bullshit rhetorical sophistry, and I'm pretty sure you know it.

Choosing an incompatible license is the fault of the person who chose the license. The FSF made a mistake in not building "... or any later version" into the GPLv2; they acknowledge this. They've been recommending for some time - since long before the start of the Git project - that projects interested in being GPLv2 compatible include "... or any later version."

Imagine it was a piece of software with a bug. There's a patched version, it's been broadly announced that there was a bug and there is a fix. You ignore that and use the buggy version. Whose fault is it when you trip over the bug? Claiming it is "entirely of [the programmer]'s own making" is absurd.
blazing fast it isn't.
TIL There is a subreddit for this. http://www.reddit.com/r/bubbling.
I think these appeared on Tumblr a year or so ago. Found a nice looking tutorial for making them here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmAWiVxOyto
Facetious, or an actual figure? If the latter, can you point us to a ref please?
Sorry but no.

Any language intended for large scale development has to support modules.

Until ES 6, this is what we have. I surely will keep on using them.
The technical version of the 'Grapes of Wrath'
At http://deep.is/deepdb-genesis-of-invention-iii/, the chief scientist of this company credits the following four "axioms" for his "General Theory of Information":

Axiom 1:
Information is a sequence of Information (self-similar)
that is segmented by consistent (well-formed) order.

Axiom 2:
Segmented Information is addressable by the First where
a sequence of Firsts is a Segment of Summarization.

Axiom 3:
Information of a Segment is equal distance to the sequence
of Information between non-associated Summarizations.

Axiom 4:
Sequenced Information is in direction relation to former and
later Information of which Patterns can be Matched.

I don't know what any of that means. Worse, it sounds to me like "cargo-cult" computer science.
This is my motivation for the next school quarter. Self taught myself html, css, and some php. But I really need to up grade my programming skills if I want to start the company I want. Wish me luck!!!
Terms like "mom and pop store" or "family business" are cliches for a reason. While not all spouses make for good business partners, having a business partner whom you can trust and whose vested interests you naturally share is a powerful asset.
is it okay to not be impressed with this 'effect'?
Well. I have tried modafanil from two different sources (both were modalert iirc) and noticed absolutely nothing. I tried various doses. I tried taking it before staying up all night and after. Each time was a complete disappointment. So it could be hype, me being unlucky with fake pills or differences in physiology.
What I find interesting is the fact that modafinil and caffeine ranked almost the same. I've always thought it would be interesting to try modafinil because of the widely claimed cognitive benefits and how it has less drawbacks than caffeine, but if it ranks essentially the same as caffeine, there's really no point to trying it that I can see. Caffeine doesn't really do that much to be honest. It seems as though none of these really have any profound effects on mental capability.
Stack Overflow gets around 7 million page views per day on the weekend, and around 17 million during the week (https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com?qcLocale=en_US).

Millions seems to be the appropriate order of magnitude here.
No, I outlined that your entire frame of reference is wrong, yet you persist with long winded and mostly irelevant time wasting.
>Designers have caused real harm to the WWW. They're clearly not the worst thing about WWW but they're pretty bad.

What does this mean?
I had the opposite reaction actually. You posted that, so I went to find out how many developers there are in the US.

According to wikipedia, there are approximately 457,000 programmers in the US, which seems like a smaller number than I would have guessed. For contrast, there are ~1.2 million attorneys.
Interestingly, I am able to connect to SO when I VPN into the Southwest, but not from the Northeast. Availability zone-specific downtime?
You know, there is Google Cache.
folder structure does make sense, but default rails, php, bootstrap code, 960 grid psd's are not required, as most of the framework generate that code,

maybe if you still insist a txt document with comments for downloading/installing/generating the project would be more than adequate

also a 'old' folder inside each folder is redundant if we assume people would be using a version control system like git/hg
I tend to procrastinate and troll stackoverflow for questions to answer. I'd be more productive, but now I'm trolling Hacker News instead.
I have a fair bit of experience with modafinil/adronafinil, so if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. I'm not recommending trying them without docter's prescription, of course.

It helped me greatly to stay up longer, to sleep less, and to concentrate better. However, those effects get much weaker over time: the sleep effects for me were less clear after 1-2 months, the concentration after weeks. Side effects can be nasty though, including limited appetite and gastrointestinal discomfort.

For the rest of the list: I've also tried various -racetam's, and they did nothing for me. Creatine, vitamin D don't have nootropic effects for me (but I still take them for other reasons). Caffeine is meh. Haven't tried the rest of the list.
OK, I tried this on a random PG server I had and replicated the issue with a concurrent update; and running two such transactions in 'overlapping' way inserted two duplicate entries for the same key.

That is interesting - is the current behavior really considered WAD? I.e., shouldn't then the 'correct' solution be in fixing this behavior instead of extending syntax for 'upserts'?
That was fast; seems to be back up now
If anyone is going to throw cash into Tesla, it'd be Google. Tesla, combined with Uber (who GOOG already threw ~$250MM into), aligns pretty closely with where Google X wants to take mobility/transportation.
Seems to be corroborated in tech by some nice examples:

Jimmy Wales: founded Wikipedia at 35 and Wikia at 38;
Marc Benioff: started Salesforce at 35;
Mark Pincus: started Zynga at 41;
Reid Hoffman: founded Linkedin at 36;
Robert Noyce: started Intel at 41 with a 39 year old Gordon Moore;
Irwin Jacobs was 52 and Andrew Viterbi was 50 when they founded Qualcomm;
Pradeep Sindhu: founded Juniper Networks at 42;
Tim Westergren: started Pandora at 35;
Robin Chase: founded Zipcar at 42;
Michael Arrington: started TechCrunch at 35;
Om Malik: started GigaOm at 39;
Reed Hastings: started Netflix at 37;
Craig Newmark: started craigslist at 42

... and the list goes on and on. check out this Quora post (source of the above) for more interesting examples: http://qr.ae/tG78W
There's a theory that there's a group of people that has a genetic mutation that makes modafinil not work for them. That might be the case for you?
New DNS records propagating.
Maybe they should hire front end developers that can make a website that looks exactly like the design. Essentially, that is the entire job!
Probably not much it depends on if it's a hacked account or not and then if they do in fact know the identity of the hacker then it becomes a legal thing. They can't do anything to revert the theft. It would be an interesting court battle over bitcoins.
Try http://data.stackexchange.com/ ;)
Line count ~140,000, according to this: http://www.aosabook.org/en/ghc.html

And of course with more abstraction and less boilerplate, one line gets more done on average.

(Fixed the number above - read 139... as 199...)
Google could though. They have a ~400 billion dollar market cap, compared to TSLA's 24 billion. You don't even need to buy them outright; just buy a controlling interest.
There's plenty of other sources to get code snippets and solutions, besides SO.

This isn't really that debilitating of an issue, although I guess copy-and-paste code monkeys will find it highly inconvenient.
What you said was:

> BSD is a de-facto more permissive license. ... And people who want to use my code don't have to get involved in GPL politics and drama!

So yes, you statement was an "BSD as the right choice, GPL is the wrong choice". If you actually want to be tolerant of people right to license what they want, you should not badmouth their choices when they don't pick the same as you.

> as long as the KKK released the source code to their tracking app, the GPL has nothing to say.

I have said nothing about the license. I have said that the anti-tolerance movement would have something to say when that program helps KKK. I also said that it is an understandable reaction from the anti-tolerance movement. They are allowed to be both thankful for the help they got, and scornful about the fact that it is helping KKK.

This is the same complain when FSF dislike when proprietarization is made easier by other peoples license choices. They are thankful for the help, and also scornful about the fact that it makes their goal harder to achieve. If you don't find that relevant because "its a license" or because of godwin, then that is up to you.
One cool technique I saw recently (which isn't always applicable) is from a talk by Jason Cohen: http://vimeo.com/74338272 (around minute 7)

In a nutshell when he was building WPEngine he went to LinkedIn and found folks who were Wordpress consultants. He then sent them a follow email and said he's building a product for "folks like you and would love to talk to you about your pains, needs, etc" (customer development stuff) and offered to pay for their time. It worked well - he sent 40, 100% agreed to talk, actually talked to 38, and 0 asked for money. He suggests this worked so well because the offer to pay showed he was respectful of their time so they were happy to help. YMMV.
I realized this when using howdoi:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/howdoi
I guess the 3px was more a rhetoric to drive home the more important point that design (UX and UI) matter. As has already been pointed out by someone in the this discussion, if a designer is asking you to more "3px", it is to align that element with other stuff on that page.

The larger point that it lends credibility to your product is mostly overlooked. I have seen in my consulting experience that taking care of small UX flow and info flow issues has led to veritable gains by companies.

Going by the discussion, it seems there is a good opportunity in the space of "engineering-design collaboration" :)
Great way to visualize skillset match for co-founders, I however feel that this isn't isolated to doing a startup with a spouse but with any co-founder choice; making sure you have the right skill balance.

Since starting backstitch (http://backstit.ch) with my wife we constantly get this question: "How do you work so well together?" We really don't see it different than if we were just two best friends from college that decided to start a startup.

We were used to working together on projects in school and post graduation weekend hacks. Our careers led us to work on different things and pick up different expertise (font-end design vs operations vs data analysis, ect.) Yes you need to consider thing such as establishing a work vs personal relationship but the same is true when going into business with a close friend as many people do.
I think you have to have certain conditions for nootropics to really do anything.

I take Aniracetam and it makes a big difference in my life. I take a LOT less than most people, and the thing I notice is that I don't have songs stuck in my head.

This may seem like a weird condition to be trying to get rid of but it makes a huge difference in my life and my concentration. There may be other effects, and some fuzzy metrics we could test for like how well I do at Baby Animal Match, or how fast I can do a Sudoku, but I can "observe" this one in my day to day life.

I talk about my experience here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcHkTuMlqys
BACK UP!!!
I think it is being called 'The dreaded Home Key syndrome.'

It is that cringing feeling and a moment of hesitation that one has when pressing on these home/end (and ctrl/fn/command/alt/option/control/arrow left/arrow right) keys.
Not post on HN or Reddit, that's for sure.
the weekend is on Friday/Saturday in the Arab world, so yes, lots of people write code on Sundays...
Real-time Search as a Service
Same thing here. I was thrilled to learn it could be prescribed for sleep apnea and was provided with free samples. I felt nothing. An acquaintance mentioned it did wonders for resetting the internal clock when traveling to different time zones, I'll try it again when that occurs.
By picking up the phone
> This is bullshit rhetorical sophistry, and I'm pretty sure you know it.

No, I don't know it. The GNU's license absolutism is what got them into this mess in the first place. It's inherent in their aims.

> Imagine it was a piece of software with a bug.

Imagine that it's a piece of software with a new UX direction not everyone agrees with.
What about Nicotine? Back in college and for a few years afterward, I used to put in a big fat dip (or chew) for all/late-nighters to help me buckle down, focus, and stay alert. I stopped for all the standard health reasons, but I find that caffeine is only about 2/3 as good.
I took modafinil in the form of Provigil. Wasn't very similar to caffeine. It's more akin to Adderall. However, I still rank caffeine as more productive for me than either Provigil or Adderall. Provigil was weird, seemed to increase my hearing, and put me on edge. I was certainly more alert, but to an extent that was just excessive. I'd pay attention to so many trivial details that it was mentally and physically exhausting me. Things I never noticed before, song lyrics, instruments in songs, people's mannerisms, etc.

Adderall wasn't as bad, but it just wrecked my physical state. Twitchy, nervous, jaw hurt, wouldn't eat. In low enough doses, adderall is probably as useful as a cup of coffee. Long term health risks though seem pretty bleak.

Wellbutrin is another wonder drug that's not always talked about. Increased my concentration, increased my sex drive, increased my athletic performance... But! The first week on a full dose and I wanted jump through a window. Does very weird things to your brain (epileptic seizures included). I described it as being able to feel things in my head that I shouldn't be able to. Started hearing lots of high pitched humming. Apparently all side effects, bleg.

I'll stick to coffee.
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If the articles I've read are to be believed, Apple has at least $150B in cash just lying around. Tesla wouldn't be a huge chunk of that if they were so inclined.
That 82% failure rate seems suspiciously low. May I ask where you got that figure from?
Would love to hear your general thoughts on Modafinil. One of the things they say is that it has minor side-effects and that tolerance builds up really slow, if at all, in comparison. What's your take on it, empirically?
I really enjoyed this article. Most of the stuff I read makes me feel guilty for obsessing over the details. I'm a single-founder, work alone, and do the design and development myself, so I end up moving slowly.

Now that my product is launched and fully functional I've been able to to back and polish things as I have time. This really makes me feel a lot better about the product. If I feel users are having a bad experience, it's frustrating to me and I can't get it out of my head until it's fixed. I don't have the resources to make everything perfect, but every day it gets a little bit better.

I don't have a design or tech background, so I always thought I was just doing things wrong (maybe still I am). This makes me feel a bit better about how I work.
How do you get that doctor's prescription in the US?
Those bios are a bit strange. They all manage to fill multiple paragraphs without actually saying anything relevant about themselves. Instead it's just strings of empty phrases like "I make magic happen" or "my DNA pushes me to always seek out the vanguard of technology". (Your DNA, really? Did one of your ancestors invent fire?)

To read the real bios, you need to click through to the people's LinkedIn profiles. This reveals that the founders come from companies like Oracle. I don't know if that explains anything.
I'm really happy for the author and simultaneously really disappointed because I have recently started work on a very similar venture.
You don't change? But do you shower after? I get very sweaty, don't you? Just curious. I'd like to know more about how you do this at work in practice :) Does wherever you work have a good location for it?
Wow, a database actually designed for both big data and the cloud! Sounds like deep science to me!
...and i've just collect my first +15 this week. Great. :)

Doesnt work in Europe either.
Arrrrrrrrgh. Engineers. If I were to say "I had a design bug" and leave it at that, they'd do it. Even better, if I were to say "I resolved some design flow lag" they'd even smile. Engineers can't stand lag (and that's exactly what the fix is about).

As for PS mocks - stuff is entirely different on the screen. And the 3px difference could have been a dev mistake and the designer is correcting them.

Anyways, designers: just call it design flow lag.
7 minute workout is good AFTER my workout. adds to the burn and gives some direction.

you need to workout and lift weights if you want to get muscles
Thx ! Nice to get some feedback, maybe you can open an issue on github so everybody can discuss it ? I'll make some changes on the next version based on your feedbacks.
A study of this was done during WW2. They found that 60 hr weeks initially boosted productivity, but that boost faded over time to less than that of a 40 hr week. (And this was with a motivated work force.)

They discovered that going back and forth between 60 and 40 hr weeks did produce a sustained production increase.
For a link, http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

I backup locally using duplicity, then I ship those files off to Amazon Glacier using mt-aws.

https://github.com/vsespb/mt-aws-glacier
Yep!

I have my own domain email on google, plus a personal @gmail, and have my work email hosted...

It can get laborious.
I don't see this in the FAQ ...

What if I create an entire libernet network (say, 8 nodes, all meshed) and isolate, or fork them, from the rest of libernet ... and then generate massive traffic between them all to "earn" traffic currency ?

So, 8 nodes all connected with gigabit ethernet, all maxing out their traffic in one big circle, earning "traffic" currency ... and then I rejoin the mainline libernet in the future with my massive store of traffic currency.

How do you avoid that scenario ? Certainly you can't make the network inoperable (or non-earning) if a network link breaks somewhere in the mesh ... because there would always be links in the mesh breaking.

Is there a minimum number of peers accessible in order to earn traffic currency ? Is that number larger than the number of freebsd jails I could quickly initialize with a script ?
Most of that $150B is sitting in overseas tax havens. Just repatriating it to buy Tesla would cost them a bundle.
This is really wrong, and the arrogant tone doesn't help a bit.

The truth is that a designer who spends 100% of his time doing design will definitely be better at design than a designer who spends 50% time designing and 50% time developing. These are two very different skill sets (even though their fundamentals may be closer).

Anyway, a good designer's decision to move something 3px to the left should be respected (because he knows better - he's a good designer). And moving a button 3px to the left shouldn't be a problem for any self-respecting developer.
You need to be diagnosed with narcolepsy or shift-work syndrome to get prescribed modafinil in the US.
I fondly remember organizing football, basketball and baseball games with kids from the neighborhood as a child. I'd get 2-4 people together at a time and we'd have a blast! Small, suburban, rural neighborhood.
OpenBSD's kernel modules are for development only. They require a securelevel change and a reboot to enable.
Your task now should be obvious: Come up with an agreed-upon definition of "the Linux community", and run a valid survey.

That's your problem not mine; history has already established a precedent and you seem deadset to prove otherwise. I don't need to disprove what is already apparent.

You've established nothing more than that the kernel contributors are willing to work within that framework, not that they feel the same as Linus does.

No, I've established that not only are they willing to work within that framework, but that it's logical to assume that they agree with both the licensing and direction. Otherwise, why would they devote so much time and energy?

As they, "actions speak louder than words" -- and your words seem very dim compared to the action of thousands of contributors.
He is an accomplished liar. Catch him if you can.
There are some cases where customers don't know what tooling they require though ;)
When have you heard of someone getting strong-arm robbed and the robber NOT taking their phone and their watch?
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This is why the only two options we have right now are a) volunteer-based carriers and b) market-based carriers. Some in-between probably won't work very well.