skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. It is the same story when people say "Facebook ads don't work" or whatever the new ad platform is. If you could simply hand $X to an ad company and reliably return $2X or even $1.2X then the money would simply not last because there would be no barriers to entry.

Customer acquisition is not something you can leave to chance, it would be like placing a bet a blackjack table and saying you better quit if you lose. If you dont know how to count cards, you should have quit before even sitting down. If you dont know how to utilize different ad channels, you are better off studying them before betting anything, otherwise you are just playing blind.

Find a repeatable way to profitably onboard customers. If you cannot do that and have truly put the effort in to understand the different channels, then it may be time to pivot. Otherwise, you are just gambling.
Tinyterm: A silly terminal emulator written in Go
There a little here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines

and interesting detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sanguine
I've never used Moose, but in my limited experience, most of the cases where multiple inheritance is useful seem to be ones that basically amount to Ruby's modules/mixins system¹. Are there any examples of useful patterns that aren't covered by that?

¹in fact, under the hood, Ruby modules are classes, and mixins are multiple inheritance— it's an artificial, deliberate limitation.
A Eulogy: Customer of my previous startup moved on after 10 years of joyous use
You're off by 33% on the cost of a Prius. And even if that is beyond your means, there are plenty of small gasoline cars that would reduce most families' automobile emissions substantially, and they are cheap.
Isn’t that the basic justification for why we treat humans much differently than other animals? I think this is because we each know we’re capable of suffering and assume other humans are as well, and in the lack of other evidence, assume that animals with brains more similar to humans’ are more capable of suffering than less intelligent animals. I also think this reasoning is a major reason why research into differences in human intelligence between individuals is so controversial.
Do you buy your alcohol on the black market?

Once the legal market for marijuana matures, why should it be any different?
Send me stellar, I'll send you stellar
What is Stellar? https://stripe.com/blog/stellar
Goto launch.stellar.org to signup and get 5000 stellar. Then once you signup, you get 1000 for trading with me (brenfrow), and I'll send you 1000.
#5 of Build Tools and Runtime would cover that (encapsulating all global state into a runtime context). The ongoing multicore work at OCamlPro is taking this approach [1].

Erlang-style actors or lightweight processes would be my dream multicore scenario (no more monads for concurrent IO!), but that's likely too difficult to graft onto the current runtime, which is otherwise extremely well-done.

Also, I'd really like checked exceptions. The omission of checked exceptions has always struck me as strange, given the emphasis on compile-time checking. Considering how fast exceptions are in OCaml, it seems like a bit of a missed opportunity -- it is faster to use exceptions for control flow [2] than matching on variants (such as Option), which usually involve an extra allocation + dereference, IIRC.

[1] http://www.ocamlpro.com/pub/multi-runtime.pdf.tar.gz

[2] Odd as it may sound, it's encouraged to use exceptions as a control-flow construct in OCaml, but that is falling out of favor in modern code as far as I can tell.
I never thought it about as a coping strategy. It's an interesting thought though. I know quite a few people who couldn't deal with animal testing anymore and did something else. I guess that leaves a certain kind of people.
I still think there should be stronger rules for animal testing and how the animals are being kept. The cost for better treatment would be small compared to all other costs. I bet somewhen in the future people will look at animal cruelty (animal testing and meat production) the same way we look at things like slavery or chopping off a thief's hands now.
Primary channel for flirting?

When did that happen?
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The data on broad societal effects of legalization. Did you read the thread??
You can still call Unix.fork, and do threading the C way, although obviously it's not as convenient as real threading support.

Here's an interesting page discussing the current effort to develop a multicore runtime: https://github.com/ocamllabs/compiler-hacking/wiki/Multicore...
Potato salad is more valued than minimum wage workers in the US.
LG's Smartwatch Shows Android Wear Operating System Has a Long Way to Go
Many thanks thegrif. I'm actually quite experienced with PPC - though admittedly in completely different industries to this one - and it had occurred to me before I started that PPC was simply not a viable strategy for this particular market. Having said that, I'd still expected to get a lot closer to break-even, and the fact that more people aren't clicking through to the various theme description pages (regardless of whether they're actually buying or not) makes me think I've screwed something up on the ux side of things, particularly as the traffic coming in should be pretty highly targeted.

As I mentioned in my initial post, the fact that I personally would still use something more conventional (like themeforest) to find a new theme makes me think I am missing a crucial piece of the ux puzzle.
Sounds to me like his bank is the Commonwealth Bank of Australia(1), so Google Wallet is a non-starter. Coin is interesting, but the payments landscape in .au is rapidly moving away from card swipes to Paywave/Paypass. I've seen quite a few places that offer Cash or Tap, no swipe (I presume because of the fee structure).

1) https://www.commbank.com.au/paytag
Cherry picking dates isn't helpful, 2010 was the hottest year on record followed by 2005.
Building a simple crawler
He’s not saying it should be done on human beings, he’s arguing it’s also wrong to do it on monkeys for the same reason it’s wrong to do on humans. You, and many other people, are making an argument that I find at least somewhat uncomfortable that it’s OK to treat animals, even those very similar to humans, much worse than humans because they’re of a different species. Can you articulate why you believe that, and how comfortable are you with your reasoning?
>Evidence? None? Oh you poor dear.

Evidence is abundant. It would be immediately obvious if someone pulled off a 51% attack, because somehow service would be tangibly disrupted. That's the definition of a 51% attack. Otherwise it's just mining as usual.

>If I had 51% of the Bitcoin network, I could break it.

No, you can't. You can prevent transactions from going through, double spend, and cause mischief in a few other ways, but you can't steal other people's Bitcoins or anything of that magnitude.
Twitter… consider this:
The 3rd-party experiences are simply better than your native ones, and not because of their lack of ads. Additionally, your own Tweetdeck and (seemingly abandoned) Twitter for Mac don't display ads.
I like your site. It looks nice. I think the big thing your missing is a grid or list view. Paging over all the themes one by one seems like a pain. Don' give up! keep going!

Few more points:

-You need to make it clear what filters are selected.

-You need to make it easy to change the filters.

-I love the feature where you can try it on multiple screen size/ devices (thats killer)

-There are too many pop-ups and animation for my liking

-Its a bit slow (maybe bcs of HN traffic)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8090402
> The tldr is that many scientists do believe that a significant % of species will go extinct at the current rate of global warming.

A significant % of species ARE going extinct, today, under the current circumstances.
Thanks, but its something I'd like to tackle myself. I'm not too concerned with it failing as this would be a learning experience, you have to start somewhere after all ;-)

Also there is no budget to recruit anyone else.
Cool stuff being built. Wish I was there.
Is it me or is the scrolling behavior strange for this page?
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Thanks Spyder. To address your last point first - I'm actually already doing that :) For example, if someone does a search for 'premium wordpress portfolio themes', then I would send them to something like this: http://www.themebeacon.com/landing/wordpress/portfolio/

As for your point about the grid results page - this is actually something that keeps coming up again and again, so if I do decide to persevere, that will be one of the first features I add.

The loading thing - yeah, that sucks. It's not just because you're in the EU, it's pretty much across the board. We're actually already doing the next template preloading trick, but it's still slow. The big issue is that all these themes are hosted offsite on servers that I have no control over.

Thanks for the tip on those design oriented ad networks :)
So when do you plan on doing this? I signed up in the hopes of receiving a distribution only to find I needed an aged Facebook account to claim it.
Logically, preventing carnivores from eating other animals would have a similar effect on animal suffering as humans not eating other animals. This is not a valid argument against vegetarianism unless you think we should do things just because other animals do (I’m not currently a vegetarian, but a lot of their arguments do make sense). The easiest way to do this would be to kill all the carnivores (as opposed to trying to create and feed them all nutritionally-complete tofu-based meat substitutes), and while that would be an unusual action to take from the perspective of usual environmentalism with the goal of protecting species diversity, it might actually be the case that it would reduce the total amount of animal suffering, if we had a way to measure and quantify suffering.
I am the executive director of Stellar. Wanted to share my reply to the MTurk stuff: http://forum.stellar.org/t/stellar-updates/1026
You imagine a wall but it'll be a dike. Very tall, probably very gently sloped inland to allow for fancy housing projects with height difference! (no hills in the Netherlands, so people would pay a lot to live on top of one)
Haha, well thanks for not sugar coating it :)

Anyway I hear what you're saying. I agree that it's a growth market - my question about the concept being flawed was not so much about theme/template marketplaces in general, but rather on my particular execution of it.
This is a 5,000 year plan. It would be ridiculous to try to estimate what fraction of the globe could afford geoengineering in 2,000 years (if I'm taking a random guess, I'm saying either all of it or none of it).
Your CSS appears to be broken. Some sort of S3 issue.
SilentPocket-style cases also blocks wifi/3G/4G, it's much better privacy than simply blocking RFID/NFC. Preventing pervasive monitoring of cell phones is their target.
> Just like everything else, theme creation (configuration) will continue to get easier for most people to do on their own. As the barrier to entry is reduced, the market for themes will be reduced.

Thanks for the reply. Your post initially hit me pretty hard, because to be honest I had never really considered that I might have been entering a shrinking marketplace.

But after spending some time thinking about it, I'm not sure I agree with your premise. It seems to me that a barrier to entry being reduced is more likely to lead to an increase in market size than a reduction. For example, programming, web design, video production, etc. Due to improvements in editing software, educational resources, etc., these things are more 'amateur friendly' than ever before, yet (as far as I know) there is no indication that these markets have reduced in size. On the contrary, the reduced barrier to entry seems to make people appreciate a premium offering all the more.

I do take your point though, and I could see how something like the premium wordpress theme market's growth rate could potentially be reduced because new users are shifting to non technical / newbie friendly platforms like squarespace, weebly, or wix, though I think the closed ecosystem and lack of flexibility that are inherent to these approaches will frustrate more experienced users and people looking for custom functionality. One could even make the point that these services may ultimately increase the number of Bootstrap/Wordpress/Drupal, etc. users in the same way that smartphone users often 'progress' from iOs to Android.
I had the same thought: you can always shoot digital and make a film transfer; unless, of course, the only company making movie film goes under…
jmah's Wikipedia links are a good start. But be warned, water penetrating ULF is outside the scope of hobbyists and even most small governments.
Does it have chip & pin? It will need that to work well in Canada.
As a spectator, this is the biggest mass of (young) technical talent that I've ever seen at a hackathon.
Thanks Jay - I hear you on both points.

Actually, your second point in particular is one that has come up again and again over the last couple of months, so that will definitely be my #1 fix if I decide to persevere with this.

Also appreciate your advice re the marketing angle. The 'aggregator' aspect does seem to resonate well with people. In hindsight, perhaps I should have simply more or less copied a more conventional approach like Templatemonster, themeforest, etc., and focused more on the 'meta-search' side of things rather than trying to re-invent the ux wheel.
That's an interesting observation (that being fine with the idea of someone using modern perl is a thing), but perhaps there's a grain of truth to my level of Java ignorance - the last Java project of my own was written in the 1.4/1.5 days and left me feeling that getting reusable code out of huge towers of inheritance and interfaces seemed like more work than it should be.
They charge a 3% fee for currency conversion, and that's every transaction since you are paying with bitcoin.
USA emits 19 tons CO2 per capita, China only 5. As far as I understand, China refuses to sign any climate treaty that locks in a situation where US to emit so much more than other countries.

Btw, the EU average is 8, and Sweden (my country) at 5.5, so it's not like you'd have to give up your quality of life to reduce enissions.
The FAQ is not clear on this, does redeemoid host your files or do you have to take care of this yourself?
The Turbo switch! I had forgotten all about those. Did those actually ever have any function?
I doubt we really disagree; you're completely right on the ever
increasing complexity of web development. What I was talking about is
how things tend to get easier for "normal" people, not developers (but I
usually try to avoid calling "most" people "normal" since it also
implies that developers are "abnormal" ;).

When you take a step back from the actual complexity of themes, you
realize the mere existence of "themes" to control how things look has
made the task of changing how things look by just changing themes
extremely easy. A person using a theme enabled tool like Wordpress or
Bootstrap can figure out how to replace the default theme without much
effort, even if creating a theme from scratch is still difficult. The
ease of use with applying pre-existing themes is what makes the good
ones valuable. Plenty of people value their time a whole lot more than
they value their money, so buying a theme makes sense for them.

The trouble I was pointing to is the point when actually creating themes
becomes nearly as quick and easy as applying them. When the choice is
between easily spending a few bucks and 20 minutes to find, buy and
install a new theme versus just as easily only spending 20 minutes
creating your own theme by picking out some colors and styles, then the
value of pre-existing themes will drop. At present, good themes are
currently the result of skilled labor, but when the task becomes easy
enough for everyone to do on their own, it no longer requires skilled
labor.
I think that could be one reason/assumption. Though I think generally humans think that living creatures can all suffer. After that it comes down to acceptability and return.
IIRC you do need an app token to make requests to the Twitter API, at least for users' timelines. So like gdudeman said, the solution is straight forward - requiring third party apps to show promoted tweets is an easily solution to this problem. They would just include these promoted tweets in with the other tweets in the feed API endpoint (do they really not do this as it stands? Seems like such an obvious thing to do.) Perhaps there's a technical reason for them not doing this, or maybe it's political.
As a consumer, you can usually still avoid the installation of a smart meter. Ask yourself if it's practical that a washing machine starts in the middle of the night and wakes you up you or your neighbours and the laundry will have wrinkles in the morning? You can buy old refurbished analog/digital meters for cheap and measure what you want and it will consume no power nor will it send your confidential data (privacy). And you can combine it with a Arduino if you want the data on your computer. Many smart meters also send the data over a GPRS modem every 15min (have an inbuilt SIM card), that you cannot snoop so easy.

The whole smart meter movement is not about technical advancement, it's about they want that you pay higher prices for consuming less and they don't have to build a better power grid infrastructure in the next few years. It reminds me of the telcos 15 years ago when phone calls and internet over modem was cheaper in the night when most people sleep, and very expensive during working hours.
These swaps are clearly "non-organic" (i.e. didn't emerge from gradual changes in colloquial language). Are they the result of a change in editing staff? Spelling correction software?
Seems like something like this would be a really good fit inside of Atom.io (Github's webkit based editor), it could be done probably a lot more seamless as well. This looks like they got very lucky with some of the features they were able to cram in :P, clickable buttons for instance.
We're lucky to (generally) be white and affluent. Here's what can happen to people who aren't so lucky:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6lX4-XKSOE

* http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/san-francisco-police...

* http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/staten-island-man-dies-p...

* http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/08/01/police-...
Glad the conditional/ternary operator's atypical associativity is documented now...
How about the data on the broad societal effects of prohibition? Are you a tool?
Under that line of reasoning there could be no science done involving any type of living creature, both big and small (like bacteria), unless it was purely non-contact observational.
I was in Ontario for a few days and saw no problems using a mag stripe instead of a chip. (We do use a chip when we can thanks to Amex though)
That's true, when I saw Moose roles I immediately thought of Ruby's mixins. They're a little more expressive though; Moose gives you ways to interrogate roles and classes that use them in more meaningful ways (IMHO), and it's not uncommon for roles to use method modifiers (thus making roles co-exist more easily) rather than clobbering methods outright.

This is all achievable in Ruby of course, the Moose docs sort of codify it and provide sugar to make these patterns the path of least resistance.

Most cases of multiple inheritence I've seen is in non-Moose Perl code, where it's being used a little like a mixin. DBI classes and code making lots of use of meta-programming (Class::MOP stuff).
Smart given the fees they must be charged for using the Visa network.
The only trouble is that Twitter seems to be taking the opposite approach and blocking third party clients from functioning all together.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/03/twitte...
http://mashable.com/2012/08/16/twitter-api-big-changes/
Orwell predicted it, and now it's startling to happen. As we speak, the human individual is being deprecated by a new kind of organism. Cells are to us as we are to "it:" expendable little things to be controlled and regulated.

The age of the individual seems to be coming to a close.
That's a little abstract.. Without deep diving is there a quick summary of the economic/political/technological reasons why one would pay an extra 1% fee to pay this way? Apart from curiosity.
I think the individual has always struggled against the system. It's just nature.

I'm just surprised anyone would be excited about Singapore. You need to get a permit to give any kind of free speech in the 'free speech area'. Unsurprisingly, they don't grant permits to people who want to speak their mind.
Nice! I've been pointed to this in the past actually, glad to see it's progressed. Trying it out now.
Alcohol isn't my fucking medicine, alcohol is a lot cheaper, I seldom buy alcohol, there is no black market for alcohol because alcohol is a lot cheaper, the means of producing cannabis and alcohol differ starkly, alcohol abuse can have serious health effects, ..

What a lazy hypothetical. And very disrespectful.
Twitter's support for Twitter power users, like those who use Tweetdeck has been abysmal. After buying it out, they turned off a bunch of great features the original client had and now rarely issue any updates. I assume they are trying to drive visitors to use the 'official' Twitter site, but it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

No Tweetdeck user views ads, even though Twitter owns and operates the software. The only alternative for PC users is Hootsuite, and it is browser based. For anyone who wants to have multiple columns open at the same time or have notifications of direct messages or @replies, Tweetdeck is (essentially) the only game in town.
Ok, I am a complete noob in this regard. I have a VISA Gold card with a chip and payWave, what should I do to protect myself from this?
Singapore is an oceanic pinch point on its line of longitude. Just as lots of shipping containers go though its port, a lot of undersea optical fibres go though its switching centres. The article doesn't mention it, but logic would dictate that the surveillance would include the submarine fibres?
And also, the more your startup gains traction and the more your product is built out, the higher your chances of getting into YC.

I'd also like to advise against finding a random cofounder you don't know well. YC actively tries to filter out those kinds of matchups (for good reason); I suspect it might hurt your chances more.
This is some truly frightening stuff. There are large groups of people who relish the idea of a surveillance state in order to eliminate uncertainty in all things. And if privacy has to be sacrificed then so be it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'd rather be dead than live in a fishbowl.
I could have really used Chronicle in high school english (1987) - I was constantly getting essays handed back with the accusation that I was making up words (said evidence being the lack of the words in my English instructor's somewhat dated dictionary).

"Horrific" was one that always got me in trouble - though, apparently, it is a somewhat new word.

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=horrific
They updated their style guide.
Yes, but I like receiving phone calls ;-)

I do understand though -- they look nicer too.
Until I read this article, I thought Singapore was a heaven - thanks to likes of Derek Sivers who had been beating drums on this without ever mentioning the its other side: http://sivers.org/singapore. From now on I would read his stuff with huge grain of salt - or perhaps just stop reading him and wasting my time on these top tier bloggers who are out there to make money out of their readership.
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