skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some insight in the 'new bike sale' process for brand bikes. The margins are very healthy. I buy 'regular' bikes brand new and I won't argue about the price, the margin on those is a lot lower.

The margin on high end (road/mountain) bikes is insane and their performance is not substantially different from last years issue (which can be already had at a subtantial discount new), second hand ones are much more realistically priced.

If you feel like overspending and/or justifying that then be my guest but there is no rational reason why last years model should be worth half of what this years model is worth.

That's why there are 'model years' in the first place, they are simply a device for getting you to upgrade, this suggests that there is a lively second hand market where you can find something of almost the same functional value for a small fraction of the new sticker price.

In that second hand market you will find bikes that have been used heavily in that first year and bikes that are 'good as new' and the prices won't be too far apart, usually around 40-50% of what a new one costs.

For instance, this bike is $6600 new but discounted to $2495

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2014-SPECIALIZED-ENDURO-EVO-EXPERT-C...

You'd need to inspect it and make sure that it is really 'only a scratch' rather than that it has impact damage but that's doable if you know what you're buying. And if you don't then you do not have a good reason to spend more than $1000 on a mountainbike anyway. (The difference between a $1000 second hand bike and a new one that's 5 times as expensive are still not large enough to justify the difference in price).

Craigslist is another good source for hardly used bikes at a fraction of their new price.

As for impacting stuff at 40Mph, your carbon bike will be bits and pieces at those speeds, an aluminum bike will be still in one piece but ready for the shredder.

If your main concern is impact damage to your bike then you have been very lucky so far. In my opinion the main risk in mountainbiking down-hill with trees next to the track is impact damage to the rider, not the bike.
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Glad that you ask! Let me explain. In fact, "automatically" is actually a bit misleading. The correct term must be "half-automatically", because everything triggered within ChatGrape still requires your confirmation. (If not, we'd be flooded with false-positives.) Think about tagging on Facebook, specifically, writing a status update and tagging a page of a friend. If you start typing his / her name, Facebook will add a drop down menu and suggest the name(s) - you can select it or choose to ignore it - and the drop down will disappear again. This said, if you were to type, "No, 11am is not good for me. [first drop down with calendar event suggestion, which you simply ignore and go on typing] let's meet around noon tomorrow?" [second drop down with calendar event suggestion, which you confirm, and thus send me a calendar event invite]. Does this make sense?
Why does Tux have to be so evil-looking in this coloring book?
>Reminds me of Uplink in a modern setting.

You just made me sign up.
The need for more accessible Google Maps
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The last 6 months I've been living in Romania.
What "illusions" do social media sites create? I don't see what this has to do with social media. Other than it makes it a bit more difficult to pull off. Because you need to make posts over the time period.
Yeah, it's either 35 bugs or 35 bucks per month, the choice is yours :-)
> when extremely tired on a very familiar route

Please don't do this.

You're going to get yourself or someone else killed one day. Remember that I can do everything in my power to be a responsible driver I am still subject to the sum total of the risks everybody else takes and driving when you're that tired is an un-acceptable risk.
It's crazy that Gary Fisher, Robin Williams, and Pete Carroll all went to high school together.
Point taken! Guess I was a bit too exciting about being on the frontpage of HN, that's like a dream come true, hehe :-)
Surely there wont be any unintended consequences.
We survived one back in the sixth century [1]. There's some speculation that the European Dark Ages were caused by this impact rather than the end of Roman rule (the traditional interpretation).

But the biosphere got itself back to its previous state remarkably quickly, apparently, though it's hard to tell if that event contributed to the end of the Medieval Warm Period and the start of the Little Ice Age.

[1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1248518/Did-a... apologies for the appalling quality of the reference but I couldn't find the journal articles from google.
It seems to be a talking point amongst folks who want everyone to ignore Sun (and subsequently Oracle's) determination to keep ZFS out of Linux. If there's a healthy btrfs project then the constant stream of suggestions Linux distros should just ignore the huge legal problems associated with bundling ZFS seems like a completely insane idea.
You probably also want to revise your discount rate assumption.
Yes it will. He tries to cash in now.

My "show HN" went peek on HN and then back to what it was before.

He is smart: Everything seems fine. From the media we know about all the companies, which have established business models with such figures. But they are the 1%.

Taking over (from him) is already so hard: If you were the inventor of [X], you would have done [X]. Taking it over and going on: ~IMPOSSIBLE~
I think your UX and other unique features should be so compelling that customers want to use your system (over than Adium or Pidgin).

Think GMail for example. It's got full IMAP and POP3 support, and people who want to use a mail client are free to do so. If they do (and I assume many people do), then Google doesn't get to serve ads to them. But Google still gives you the freedom to choose. And they've succeeded in alluring even the nerdiest of people to their web app.

In short, let your users decide. Make your UI so awesome that they want to use it. Having XMPP support will actually draw many customers to your service, since it's something that not all competing services offer.
Let me know if you want, i can provide support some nominal charge for 2-4 hours a day. You can contact me at mail provided in the profile
Is this the "official" reason given by the media though?
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If people in the past had reacted to their 100% certainty that Malthusian predictions of imminent global starvation were about to be reached, then a lot of us would not be alive today.

If they had reacted by limiting technological progress (as you suggest) then we would almost certainly not be talking together over the Internet, and may have burned every single tree on the planet striving to maintain our civilisation without technological progress.

Luckily they did not, and our technological progress included a "green revolution" that managed to produce massively more food on the same land. Technology can and does solve problems like this.

Global government is a nightmare I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I live in a country with three layers of government (local, state and federal) and adding a fourth would just multiply the waste, corruption and nepotism.
Don't panic. You've made a great thing and credit is due, but at the same time you're in the middle of what could just be a brief peak of interest. The odds are good that it won't always be like this (unless you want it to.)

Your graph reminded me of a scene from The Simpsons where 'Disco Stu' presents a graph entitled "Sales of Disco Records, 1976-1977" showing a massive upward swing. Seeking investment for his idea, Stu indicates "If these trends continue... aaayyyy!"

Not trying to talk you down at all - but if this level of interest is unwelcome to you, the chances are good that it will get better. Most things run out of momentum pretty quickly if you're not actively keeping the ball bouncing.
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really? I feel put or post are more appropiate :s
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First map of Rosetta's comet
Re the emails / support / whatever being stressy... dude. It's been like no time at all, and you had a spike. You don't have to reply to EVERYTHING ASAP. All things in moderation. Set up an autoresponder politely telling folks that you're a single person and the spike in requests is a bit overwhelming. ask their forgiveness and let them know that you'll get to people as soon as you can.

With that out of the way, congratulations on the spike in traffic.

After having been on the front page of multiple programmer sites I can tell you it's just that. It's a good day. You may even get a good week out of it.

Unless you are incredibly atypical the spike in traffic will not last. There's absolutely no basis for assuming that traffic will continue at the spiked rate. It tells me your either naively optimistic (sorry to inject an unpleasant reality) or trying to sell it quick to someone else who is naively optimistic.

The upside is that the onslaught of requests is that since it's a spike, they will die down and you'll be able to catch up. The longest, and hardest, i had was a project that ended up with me stuffing envelopes every night and making daily trips to the post office sending of letters to people around the world because my offer started getting passed from message board to message board. It lasted about a month.

I'm very dubious of the belief that adding "more advantages" would get you a 10-15% conversion without any evidence to back it up, especially when you can't even be sure of the 1% conversion rate you think you can get for the current state of things.

You can't extrapolate an enduring income stream (or even an amount of work) from a single small spike.
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I think this needs some sort of marker for the compressed form to make it clear it's not to be digested as is. Maybe `$HMGNS$` or something as the first key of the array?
You won't find a legal framework anywhere that assumes your wishes years ago still are your wishes today.

The best you probably can do is to repeatedly state something along the lines of "if I haven't repeated this statement for a month, ask me about it. If I am competent, I will repeat the statement; If I cannot, and don't answer the question, try again a few times in the next month. If I never answer the question, I would want to die."

That would give those who would have to decide about your wishes at a time where you cannot communicate them anymore a track record of what your past self thought the wishes of your current self would be. It still would be a tough decision for them, but you cannot give them more.
If I recall correctly, distracted driving is the main cause for around 20% of the fatal accidents in the US. Drunk driving is around 40%.
30 people for 4 years seems far more than PH should need for even for even ambitious expansion plans.

When you consider the highly concentrated audience of product development users of the site, the valuation makes sense.
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Whaatt? – make a question, see who gets it
New kind of trivia game, the players make the questions and send it to their friends to see who gets it right. Questions are much more fun when its around a world of content close to you. currently for iOS only bit.ly/WhaattGame
I have no idea about the amount of diagrams in data sheets... But you certainly can generate all of these diagrams by simulation, which is frequently done when researching/designing new antenna types.

http://www.nec2.org is a very popular program.
This is like the peak of your game right now. You can't take it into calculation just yet. Let it cool off and see. If you get stressed from it, just leave it for awhile.
Everything in this comment is correct.

If I may also give a brief suggestion, coming from a place of a lot of love for bootstrappers and sympathy for your situation, there is a line in your post which suggests that people compensate you for the 2.5 years you put into this when making an offer. I am afraid that this is at variance to how the world works generally and how acquisitions of small websites work specifically.

People pay for their future revenues, not your sunk costs. In the world of small website acquisitions, you'll be valued at something like 1X your previously proven annual revenue, not at a linear projection from what spike day looked like. If that number is -- let me pick a representative example -- $100, then you have a $100 site, not a $60,000 site, even if $60k is a reasonable approximation of the cost of duplicating it using market labor.

Also, as someone who also has struggled / struggles with depression: it is much much better for yourself and the world on net for you to just say "I am under stress and cannot email today, therefore, I will not email today." than for you to be adversely affected trying to get people replies to their questions about a browser game. Some people may be discomfit by this. That's fine. There is an entire Internet full of browser games. There is only one you. Do whatever you need to to not have this adversely effect you and your loved ones.

Congratulations on shipping, by the way. Very few people can do it. You demonstrably can. That's awesome. You've got a lifetime of shipping successful software businesses ahead of you, regardless of what happens in the next short while.
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This hacker experience game with 6000 registered users in a day is going too much viral. Your have really a great taught, definitely there are alot of people who don't care about money what they want is just success as they are not greedy people. I personally say that you have made a great fun project whether you earn money or not or you shutdown the game.
well modern as in "web based". It's not really uplink (i loved the use of different nodes to hide yourself) but it looks like a fun pasttime that take the hacking scenario seriously.
Further i also believe that the day will come when you will earn alot of respect for what you are doing today.
Everybody's advising not to sell it, but looking at the game: Yes, it might only be a spike. The game is long to get into, a lot of reading, etc. It's like starting a complicated board game without somebody to explain it to you: a lot of people will just drop it to play a game in which the rules are explainable in 20 seconds.

There's a buzz going on around it right now, but don't expect it to be Flappy Bird. So depending on what you want (you seem tired of that game), I don't think it's a bad idea to sell it while it's hot
Actually. I don't see it as an insulting question at all. If you've demoed something cool and someone asks you what technologies you used it's usually because they're wondering if they can use them themselves. It's not them hoping to jump you for using the unpopular framework.

if i see someone build something awesome and would like the ability to build something awesome in the same sphere I ask them how they did it, so that I can emulate those strategies in my own work. Part of "how they did it" is what tools they used. Are they using something I'm unaware of? Are they using something I'm aware of but may have dismissed and should reconsider? Are they using something that they now regret and can warn me away from?

Yes, we are more than glue-coders. Carpenters are way more than people who wield power tools, but it doesn't mean they don't discuss tools with each other. If they see someone else who's constructed something they're not sure how to do with their current toolset you know they're going to ask what the other guy used to build it.

Yeah, I'll ask you what you used, but I'll do it because you've accomplished something cool and I want to compare and contrast strategies from someone who's (in my mind) succeeded at something.
But navigation was a very small fraction of the video, much less than texting and tweeting.
It doesn't do those two things, but I don't think that's a compelling argument for why it doesn't manage plugins. I certainly use it to manage my plugins.
It's free to play, you don't owe anyone anything. If you get emails and don't feel like answering, just ignore them. If you get praise, print it out so you can look at it whenever you feel down.
Have you thought about placing it on third party gaming sites? Kongregate.com is a great example (disclaimer I work there), they have a built in audience, handle marketing, payments, customer support, etc so you can focus on development. Solo game development, even in small teams, can be quite the struggle and there are communities that are happy to help.
When growing up in Warszawa, I played some great and complex fantasy/science fiction games. Just as with Stanisław Lem I figured they were part the unique Polish grass-roots creativity (they were pure paper, i.e no expensive molded plastic, and sold cheaply; in comparison all the cool Western stuff like the fancy ZX Spectrum was sold in special "dollar shops" that only took USD)

The Polish original -- http://i.imgur.com/w7Q9aw1.jpg (a great game of space trading with a supply/demand system, space combat and a unique feature where you could predict future events and act upon them). Many years later I found all those cheap games were translations of American cheap games, published in the "Ares" magazine: http://i.imgur.com/islQ8gW.png
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Sure. The given assumed discount rate of 3% was just meant as an example.
I hope you die in terrible pain. I hope it takes years.
Yes.

- Every UAV must be registered with (licensed by) the civil aviation authority

- Cannot operate within six kilometres of an international aerodrome and within three kilometres of a domestic airport
POST most definitely. POST stands for "process this" in REST semantics.
If you are not in a hurry (disrupting entrenched mindsets shouldn't be expected to be done in a hurry) then yes, you want to gradually sneak it into their daily life with an offering that's closer to their current mental model for the activity.

With bitgym[0], we originally tried to make cardio-gaming a thing [1]. We still want it to be a thing, as when tried in a properly curated environment with the right expectations, it was far and away the best experience for users seeking fitness. As such, we've had to start from their current experiences, and engineer something that they can relate to better as we slowly progress towards our vision of getting everyone to play VR mariokart to stay fit.

It's slow work, but it's definitely something a few people love, and they are quickly seeing things the way we do :]

Just an anecdote, we aren't roaring away with success yet, but it seems to be working.

[0] http://www.bitgym.com
[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id483991355
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Robinson is directly proposing global-level institutions of government, that prioritise long-term planning. Interpreting that as crippled economies and totalitarianism is all you.
You can be crippled or just weak, without being so far gone you want to die.
Were yo around in the days before package managers? This way is a lot better, keeps things organised.
Definitely. But it might make you more vulnerable to light - getting light into your night vision goggles will make you shortly blinded. With eyes altered due to drops or pills, it would make you vulnerable for the duration of the effect. Goggles you can take off quickly.
But for non-military applications, not to have to use goggles to see (better) at night, would be so much more comfortable.
It works fine for basic packages without many dependencies, but try a bigger package, where you have a few missing dependencies. Try installing those and you have more missing dependencies, repeat until you give up.
Great reference. Thanks for the link!
I find the question valid. Many tech people would think on the back of their mind that this startup is not cutting-edge, doesn't have a great dev team etc. Not that I am a PHP hater. Your nickname suggests that you use a PHP-based CMS. That doesn't sound cool for a startup ;)
Thank you for the insights :)
I'm running Opera on NetBSD 6.1 and it's faster than some native X11 apps. what's your point?
The foundation of good privacy regulation is the definition of ownership. All data about you belongs to you, no matter who collected it why and how.

If you don't own your data, you don't have any privacy.

Yes, that is very hard to properly regulate, leaves a lot of fair use grey areas and with the rapid pace of technologies leads to hastily created regulation like the "cookie-law" or the right-to-be-forgotten. (Although in both cases the industry deliberately made a circus of the implementation, and especially the latter is now backfiring hard on Google.)

But the bottom line is, if the law doesn't recognize your fundamental ownership of your data, you have no privacy and you never will, no matter what other forms of legislation and self-regulation get implemented in the areas of collecting and using that data.

The US is one of the few Western democracies that doesn't recognize this fundamental aspect of privacy, and in the information age, that makes any form of privacy regulation a complete joke.

Step one should be to put the individual in control of their data at any time. If people are not informed about what happens to their data if and when it happens and are not in a position to stop it, they've already lost their privacy.

Privacy should not be a faux "right" like copyright, something you can just sign away for someone else to exploit. It's a fundamental civil right, and without it we have no freedom.
Out of interest, do you have any size comparisons compared to gzipping the raw homogenous JSON text?

Edit: I did a quick test by myself, using the first example but repeated for 10,000 objects:

Raw: 550111
Homogenius: 150183

Raw gzipped: 1688
Homogenius gzipped: 419

Interesting to see a ~4x between raw JSON and Homogenius JSON both when compressed and not compressed.
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No intrigue.

It's a great video. Beautifully shot. I love it.

I'm just annoyed that the guy who made it broke the law in doing so.

The video is online, so if it ever comes to the attention of the Fiji Civil Aviation Authority, they could come down hard on local (fijian) UAV operators and hobbyists.
Let me ask you this: 'Why aren't there smells in dreams?'
I don't think anyone these days comes to religion as a logical explanation for observed facts. The nonexistence of a personal interventionist god (Clarke's "Alpha") is a couple of lines and Occam's razor; the nonexistence of a universe-creating god (Clarke's "Omega") doesn't even need the couple of lines.

The rationale usually given for religion these days is as a source of moral guidance; the bible may not be literally true, but it's full of wisdom you can apply to your daily life. The Church isn't really about preparing for the second coming of Jesus, but it helps bind the community together; it provides a place you can go for moral advice, a way to direct charitable efforts, shared rituals that help people know each other and so on.

But those matters are things you can judge through observation. If I know christians and atheists, and I observe that the atheists are living more moral lives than the christians, then even on the kind of grounds I've described above, I absolutely should choose to be atheist.
Are you open to different structures of the deal? Like:

* some upfront fee

* you remain onboard for X months

* each time period is a certain % of equity

* some monthly fee paid to you until X total