skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How should i growth hack my day old website
I have an idea for a website (wow how original)

I won't link it just yet as there is genuinely nothing to like to.

I want to obviously focus on content before looks just now and it's just going to be a lad bible / entertainment based website.

I have 0 money to inject into the project but I do have some time and a few friends to help me get by.

What would your top tips be for helping grow this website ?

I'm considering a youtube channel for a weekly summary of events and possibly a weekly podcast for commuters.

It's semi news/semi lols/ semi academic entertainment.

Thanks for any and every reply !
Also consider when there's say four people tagged in a conversation, and then someone needs the extra characters to make their point and they remove one of the names, then that person loses the context too.

Also, conversations look different when you're looking at them from one of your lists, or if the people you are following are different than the people I follow.

So many clunky issues that you need to be on top of for it to make sense, and this is what's lost on the general person.
Sony and Sega both released analog stick-ish controllers before Nintendo, fwiw. They might have spurred it though by showing it off really early. Which is also probably why the "revolution" aka Wii's control scheme took so long to be revealed.
I have a (2013) Samsung Smart TV.

Voice recognition for it isn't always-on - I have to press a button on the remote. It's like siri, surely, in that whatever you say to it gets shunted off to a third party API that recognises words?
Not quite related but if you found yourself wondering why Rust has semicolon based statement termination - there is a thought provoking article on that topic:

"Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust"
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/10/18/such-a-little-thing/
Choosing a challenging title like this in a blog where my eyes hurt from reading the font, is, well, risky. I'm no designer, and my eyes literally hurt, or to say it in other words, I'm not talking about taste here, but usability.
It doesn't seem wise to give people against you a reason to rise, gather, be visible and reward the protest with a decision reversal. Now you can expect similar demostrations whenever you step the line.
You might be interested in Copenhagen Suborbitals (copsub.com): A danish group trying to reach space in a DIY fashion financed by donations. It's quite impressive what they've already achieved with not that much more than duct tape!
You could still do it with nuclear propulsion. Orion, if you absolutely have to go into space today and don't mind riding a string of atomic explosions.
Using MongoDB as a Graph Database
Why? Making something look good and usable is quite different from writing interfaces and structuring code. Programming not being design doesn't necessarily mean that programming and design can not have some kind of common skill set.
Something quite interesting in the article is that it was intended to be a telecommunications tax and ended up being perceived as an internet tax.

In some countries there are already telecommunications taxes/duties that would also be 'internet tax'

I guess the phrasing can be a big deal.
Bash Horror Story: rm -rf ~
Asking HN

This might be a little bit of a far stretch, but based on the belief that anyone is reachable, would anyone have any leads to Mr. Rubin or would know how to make contact with him?

tw @carlosvivaldi
Hi, thanks for this incredible useful tool. actually i kind of working a similar chrome plugin. Now i dont have to :)

does it index existing bookmarks? seems its not doing it now. The reason i wanted to build this is because my bookmarks are grown toooo big. And i wanted a way to search.

Please add this feature. and indexing the history too if possible

Cheers
Or people feel satisfied with the cancelled tax and the energy for protest is safely released.
I can't talk for everyone but at Pearltrees, we do it because that we think there is a need :)
1. For developers, change is usually a good thing in regards to our careers. If you aren't learning and growing, it's not Angular that will go away, it's you.

2. They are following the http://semver.org definition of a major version change perfectly fine "MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes".

3. If anyone is bothered by the complete shift, fork Angular at version 1.3 and maintain it yourself. That's the joy of open source. You might even be a hero to many other developers.
Looks great so far :) Any plans to add a Firefox extension any time soon?
A graphic novel about understanding our role in world of Big Data
> Where is the line drawn?

I think that's the point. With a more community oriented system the line could be drawn at the single user's discretion. Like on Facebook. I don't agree with the author of the article that twitter should die, though.
I would replace the homepage with featured questions. Currently there are more questions with negative scores than positive ones, and most of them are not even voted on.

It's too easy to ask questions, so most people don't bother trying to understand what they don't know.

As a professional developer, it has not been satisfying to contribute to SO for a long time (this includes asking questions) because the whole site feels like a massive content farm (to me anyway.)

With the massive community effort SO has, it could very well be a beautiful garden instead of a montage of jungles it became. Not saying I could coordinate the effort, though...
When I mentioned it I knew I really should have looked for a citation first, it's something I heard on BBC Radio 4 (!), which is usually a good source for science/mathematics based information ... but you got me. The article I heard was primarily on empathetic aspects of yawning.

Initially I was going to write "an O2 boost to the brain" but thinking about it I couldn't readily create a mechanism for that to happen - I'm terrible at human biology mind you - and so I reduced the claim in case I'd miss heard. Presumably to boost oxygen to the brain you'd need to increase blood flow (vasodilation or heart-rate) or increase oxygenation of the blood.

Taking a very quick look at scholar.google.com there are citations supporting humans yawning when they have low blood oxygen; there's also papers saying that hypoxic patients increase blood oxygen levels through deep breathing. A yawn is like a single deep breath ... so perhaps?? But I'm not in a position to look further.
Yes, lwIP only has smallness as a benefit, at the expense of a lot. If we knew what the idea behind the thing was it might be clearer, performance does seem to be an aim.
Nintendo also released PC software, e.g. Mario Teaches Typing. And they've released a Pokédex for iOS.
Spain is making Google (and others) pay news publishers a tax
Faster boots, on-demand running of rc.d scripts, &c.
great idea, I would definitely throw it into all of my ongoing projects.
Good to see that i'm not the single one that struggles with such existence thoughts. Yes, i am a software engineer as well. I love challenges, and really love to read a lot (marketing, entrepreneurship, things that helps create a business). As a introduction about me, I wanted to earn a living from my projects since 17 (there are more than 10 years since then). I started working on personal projects, and unfortunately, i got the virus. The little successes has got an amazing satisfaction to me, that couldn't be replicated in any job i worked. And no antidote found by now :)

For the last 2 years, it got worse and worse. I quit once my job, got a new one into a bigger company, stayed 3 months, offered the chance to work into a startup(moderate engineering, moderate decisions), and after 7 months, i am struggling again with giving up. What still keeps me in here are my personal projects. I invest some money in few of my projects, because i somehow try to buy my ticket to quit the full time job and go into the entrepreneurship world by myself. Or at least, i want to buy a year of my work life, working for me, as a try-learn-experience.

All successful entrepreneurs teach us not to give up the full time job until we have a plan, savings, and our business already make some money working part time. I hardly follow this advice, but this is the way i'm trying to follow with my projects. Thanks to them, i didn't quit. The last 2 weeks were so unproductive for me at job, my mind is only at my projects, investments, and planning my escape to work for myself. My projects, my business...

So far by now, i can only advice you in what works for me: part time work on your business, consolidate your escape plan. To me, DNhub.com, GetCode.org and easyCustomMaps.com are my source of motivation to continuing what am i doing now..
Last commit made 5 months ago, and no updates on the project anywhere. Seems abandoned.
That is amazing, thank you so much for linking it. I did not know about them, and it does indeed seem like they have made a lot of progress. I'll be following them from now :)
Focus on creating quality content that will make people come back and share with others. Sorry but it takes hard work, not a quick "growth hack."
In principle it is not that hard to repair a CRT TV, my grandfather owned the same TV for the majority of his life.
This is demonstrably untrue, as we've implemented a number of specs that originated elsewhere. (WebAudio, WebRTC). Just because something has a spec doesn't mean it is sensible to implement, however. As Vlad points out, there's no mobile implementation of that technology, so it doesn't make sense for us to push it, especially when there's an alternative spec that does have traction.

As for image formats, there was a table going around Twitter that I can't find now showing implementation of new image formats by browser. Basically Google implemented WebP, Microsoft implemented JPEG XR, and Apple implemented JPEG2000 (IIRC). There is no consensus in that space.
Codecamp 2014
Ask HN: Any Functional Programming Interest Groups/meetups in Hyderabad,IN?
The title says it all. Anybody? Beginner in FP here.
If it is anything like the last time this happened (google 1-900 santa) the commercial will be pulled in under 10 minutes.
Sorry to be pedantic but perfectly executing a flawed design doesn't mean the design isn't flawed.

I agree twitter is not suitable for conversations, and also don't understand why it must go away. Like you said, it does one thing and it does it well.
Any popular internet connected always-on voice recognition device is going to be taken advantage of by future overly-ambitious intelligence gathering initiatives, period. It really doesn't matter substantively whether they upload the data to be processed in the cloud or not - typical home networks (see: Belkin routers) are not exactly fort knox.

If you haven't seen Laura Poitras' profile of William Binney recently, watch it again: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur... When this came out (pre Snowden), many techies pooh-poohed the suggestion that phones could be turned into remote microphones. In hindsight everything he says has either been verified or is quite plausible.

So why make it easier for a future big brother by building (let alone buying) internet devices with voice recognition? While they may be cool at a technology level, given the current political path we're building the infrastructure for a future dystopian society.
One more opportunity for my crusade to make the sci-fi webcomic about the future, the internet and the privacy "Private Eye" popular among HN crowd.

http://panelsyndicate.com/
It is a pay what you want directly from the author business-model.

I won't tell why this story is so relevant to the story because that would be a huge spoiler. But go read it. It is worthy!

PS: I am not affiliated, just a fan.
Or, the rest of the cartel can launch a denigration campaign against the defector, or poach the defector's employees, or other shady means that money can buy, even in a "free society". And of course, I wouldn't rule out outright criminal behaviour. I recall being told about a board meeting where they discussed triggering an "accident" to get rid of polluting chemicals, because it was cheaper than abiding to the countries safety laws. Totally illegal, very expensive if they get caught (both for the company and the board submerse themselves), but still within the bounds of a cynical cost/benefit analysis.

Cartels are a difficult thing to break. The light bulb cartel for instance still exist, even though it has officially been dissolved: light bulbs still only last a couple thousand hours, despite the existence of designs that can last 10 times longer. (Heck, that's one of the few things the centrally planned economy of the USSR got right: long lived light bulbs.)

Strength lies in numbers. Fascists knew that, popular movement know that, and cartels know that. Betraying the cartel is to fin yourself alone. The financial incentive may not overcome the need to be part of the same team. And sometimes, as is the case in the light bulb industry, it is not clear that you could actually take away the cartel's customers: light bulbs are fairly cheap, at face value. It's the planned obsolescence that's the real cost, and that cost is not disclosed to the customer.

You can only make your purchase decisions based on what you know. If the cartel is based on deceit, rather than on price regulation, it can be difficult to convince people based on durability concerns. People don't care about sustainability, because of hyperbolic discounting. (Why do you think we're trashing on the planet with little regard for future generations? It's not because of our rulers. It's because we just don't care about the future as much as we should.)
I wonder if this could be used as an alternative to systemd?
Yeah, I definitely think users of both platforms have seen immense benefits due to the "copying" of features. Some of the strongest recent examples have actually been things from Android showing up on iOS like the control center toggles and replaceable keyboards.
I have chronic and severe sleep issues - they're probably psychological but I've subscribed to a theory of being "non-24" for some time.

I've sworn off caffeine twice in an effort to regulate my sleep better and neither time has it helped me in getting to sleep. What it does do is in the "morning" [ie when I wake] make me more alert, I'm not in caffeine withdrawal, I feel better.

If you're going to try it then my advice is to ensure you still drink enough: substitute caffeine drinks with water for example.

For me going cold-turkey it takes about 1 week for the severely painful headaches to stop and for me to be able to think clearly again.

So far as I can determine caffeine has potential long term positive effects, doesn't have lasting negative effects. I slip back in to it because it's in the house and at times I have to use something to wake me up when I'm sleep deprived. It's pathological.
Psychology: The truth about the paranormal
People that have played different versions of Civilization will remember the Triremes.

They couldn't end a term in the ocean, only the coast. However, you could take a punt and travel over the ocean - with only the hope there was land on the other side.

Horribly expensive, but discovering new land or another civilization early could be transformative for the same.
The Best-Performing CEOs in the World
You're right, I forgot about the fact that it was "bundled" with an additional game. Personally, I only found out about this after I bought it; I'm not sure how much the bundling helped Mario Kart's game sales. But it's a fair point.

I didn't want to pick Nintendo Land because the way it was sold is not entirely straightforward. For example, some copies were bundled with a controller.

I didn't want to use NSMB or 3D World as examples because Mario platformers are often outliers when it comes to sales. I guess The Wind Waker HD would have been a good example, because it sold really well despite being an HD remake of an older game.
> It just goes to show you that even if you're at the top in a huge market, you could be forgotten about within an instant.

I mentioned Microsoft because they were at the top. How did Windows 8 go? From all the delayed orders for Windows 7 I keep seeing in shops, how do you think Windows 10 is going to go? Here's another example - how many people do you know a) use a Microsoft phone as their primary driver and b) actually love the experience and c) aren't waiting for their contract to expire so they can jump ship to Android/iOS?

They are slowly becoming irrelevant, more so as we move further online and our machines turn into simple dumb terminals.
I hope twitter doesn't go away.

I was a very late adopter of Twitter because I always thought that Twitter and Facebook were the same. They are not. Twitter is slowly replacing my RSS and news reader. Twitter is not a community thing, it's about broadcasting (in real-time, if you need it, most people don't, they are just addicted). I don't tweet and I'm just following 11 people. I don't follow friends, I just follow who has something to broadcast. Twitter is great for that.

Facebook is more noisy by concept. Their focus in communities and friends makes broadcasting side noisy. I had to turn off almost all my friends wall notifications, I don't have the time or will to read that one friend that I meet once a year went to the restaurant or played a game. It's just too much noise. That's why FB for me is nowadays mostly a chat/email friends app. FB is great for that once most people are there. (Not to be confused with: FB is great doing that..)
https://twitter.com/Arubin

Who knows if he still checks it though.
If it's just about nicotine though one can use gum, patches, vaporisers - in fact I can't really see why anyone would smoke now, you can get the drug in a cleaner way more cheaply by vaping.

It seems like choosing to chug anti-freeze when you've got high-class liquor available.
12 of the World's Cheapest Destinations to Travel on a Budget
Most of the protesters were civilized and informed. A few aggressors threw hardware at the windows, but I wouldn't say the overall tension against the Hungarian government has diminished.
The FreeBSD wiki page[0] has an updates page, with this, from a month and a half ago:

> 20140910: Outback Dingo has made available an older port of pfSense's launchd_xml.

[0] https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd
Top places to buy Bitcoins with credit card
Is this related to the recent "OSX 10.10 OpenSource" post? Someone did claim that Apple stopped posting the source code for launchd...
Very cool, and something I think would be great to have. To add to the questions, have you thought about a version that uses or can interface with owncloud (or something similar)? I think the cross-device capability would be great, but I would personally be more inclined to use it if I could keep the data on servers I control.
Product apart, this website is horrible. I can't scroll with my mouse. When I opened it on my vertical screen, all I had was a white background with "please adjust your screen"( http://www.lg.com/global/gwatch/images/common/rotate_bg.jpg )...

That's horrible. I had never seen this before.
Making Connections to Facebook More Secure
To put this in context, for a violent crime you would probably not get more than 2 years in Sweden either as a first time offender, which makes his sentence extremely harsh actually.
List of articles about CPUs and architectures for faster and optimized software
CueBuddy – A Digital Cue Extension (3D Printed, + iOS App)
They're coming. The initial code for them is written; it's just waiting for a few other things to get checked in first.

Also, quite a lot of people use floats for every data value.
Speed does not matter much. Does it work in the wild? A TCP/IP stack developed from specifications would work very well if you dropped it on the Internet.
Actually basic voice recognition is done in the TV itself. By 'basic' I mean things like switching it on or off, changing channels, adjusting volume or navigating the menu. Also this is limited to a few selected languages (most notably English and Korean, not sure which others).
As soon as you get to things like entering text into text inputs or want to control your TV in 'unsupported' language, this gets delegated to cloud services.
Sounds a lot like MenuetOS: http://www.menuetos.net/
Peopling gathering and protesting before decision makers with the expectation of change isn't something new, every protest is a little revolution, and they go back as far as history.
So giving people a personal issue to protest can be a pretty fair tool to distract them from other problems at greater scale.

Dooes Hungary's Government needs to distract it's people? that is another question.
Hi all,
I've been working on a hardware/software product for the past few months and it's now time to show it off.

It's called: CueBuddy, it's a digital cue extension for playing pool or snooker. You attach it to the end of your cue. It sends the movement/force of the shot you take to an iOS app where it visualises the data.

Thanks for looking!

Chris
I love Lafferty's work. It is so funny, quirky, and insightful. Nine Hundred Grandmothers, Continued on Next Rock. Brilliant stuff.

Lafferty's critically acclaimed, and has a small, devoted following of readers, but somehow most scifi readers haven't heard of him, much less read him. Perhaps his work is just too strange for mainstream readers, who can only appreciate traditional scifi.

I've tried reading Stapledon (Last and First Men, and Star Maker), and I wanted to like him, I really did. His ideas and sheer breadth of vision (billions of years of history, spanning galaxies) sounded amazing. But when I got down to actually reading him, he sounded so dated, so tedious, so bombastic, so clumsy -- he's just a poor writer. His ideas might be worthwhile, but they're just not expressed well. Given how highly he's regarded, however, I intend to give his work one more chance someday.
Hello, I'm the author of this list - I compiled it primarily for my colleagues, but hopefully it will help others.

It isn't complete yet and I have more stuff to add and some stuff still needs clarification, like Rule 4.3 (just created an issue for it).

If you have suggestions, feedback, things you disagree with, I'm happy to make edits or to accept issues and pull requests :-)
> If there was no jail time, then everyone would try to do that

Really? Have you any studies to back that up or did you just extract it from your arse?
Why do taxes always have to be so artificial?

The reason to have income tax is to have people who can afford it contribute to society. I can see how that is a good thing.

The reason to introduce an internet tax is what? To only have people who make enough money use the internet? What kind of nonsense is that?

Please, let us agree that whenever a new tax is introduced, it is justified.

And perhaps lawmakers should ask system/OS programmers for help, because they actually can come up with good and fair rules to make complex interacting systems work as they should.
The worst case scenario, at least in many european countries, would actually be that you loose all your stolen money and that your future income above a state-defined 'existence minimum' is automatically seized.

Prison, on the other hand, means that society spends a lot of money to make your live worse without any obvious advantage, at least for non-violent crimes.
> We can't leave it up to ignorant and fickle consumers.

People like you infuriate me to no end. The fact is that a lot of consumers are willing to trade privacy for convenience, price, etc. Privacy just doesn't weigh much in those people's list of priorities. I'm glad we still have a semblance of free market capitalism because if people like you had their way, a lot of modern technologies simply wouldn't exist. That being said, I personally won't be getting that TV.
If it's going to be a "lad bible", I think quality content is probably less important than outrageous headlines and spamming social media...