skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just exposure, but exposure to the right two communities: many designers follow them, and many coders. These groups tend not to hang out (like biz and coder guys don't...). If there aren't any other intersections, it's a unique competitive advantage.

Perhaps the trick is also in knowing what you got; and what problems others have got.

hmmm... I do wonder if some kind of specific advertising like this was a thought very early on for them when they started dedicating themselves to blogging, speaking to build an audience, as a financial rationalization of what they wanted to do anyway. :-)
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I had a similar feeling until I read about your own personal experiences and saw what a hustler spirit you have.

Not smug though. But too polished.

This may help:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/03/its_how_you_...
Got curious, and I found this image on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkinggirl/3547853144/

Pretty damn nice.
That doesn't explain why the other group of kids did well. Presumably they should have been just as bored.
When I worked there a few years back, the developer tools team was begging for any feedback. The rest of the company would install Visual Studio Glacial Epic Edition and maybe fire it up to edit the odd dialog template, but did as much work as they could in vim or emacs and sometimes windbg (a much more powerful standalone debugger from the same team). Even if you wanted to use it, you were on your own getting it to compile your code, because the build system everyone else used (a make clone with specific support for win32 binaries) didn't interop at all with Visual Studio project files.
Let's start one!

On a related note, is anyone interesting in starting a HN for philosophy/politics/sociology?
Also, I don't think the difficulty of coding something up has any real baring on how well it does.
http://doctype.com/
Summary:

a) They started tracking conversions
b) They did tweaks to improve it
c) They split test the headline to increase conversions

Simple but effective steps which many online businesses fail to take.
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First of all... thats not the point. That statement wasn't meant as an absolute truism as much as something most people should keep in mind lest they get too cocky.

Secondly, even for someone X who is maximally smart, the statement "Y is smarter than X" can be true if its in a particular context. E.g. take two people who are maximally smart... there no one smarter than X in math (or whatever) and no one smarter than Y in history. Then X is smarter than Y and Y is smarter than X... depending on how you use the word.

Edit: So long as no one is maximumly smart.
Count me in for that one
To play the devil's advocate, there is value in CB radio too.
Awesome, the philosophy one or the designer one or both?
Yep. I think its been brought up before.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871418
That is a Stack Overflow clone for designers. Stack Overflow differs considerably from Hacker News.
Now, if only Common Lisp declared an anti-moratorium and decided to make some language changes, maybe it would become decently relevant.
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He did talk about it in his keynote at the 2009 PyCon.

Summary: http://pypap.blogspot.com/2009/06/pycon-2009-notes-march-28t...

From there:

> “I’m not retiring, but I’m tiring.”

> doesn’t enjoy traveling like he used to

> “I’m sort of thinking over the next five or

> ten years to gradually fade away.”

> Hopes in 5 years that the BDFL is not actually

> leading the community anymore, more of a figurehead.

> “Don’t look to me for guidance for everything.”
They were praised for being "hard workers" meaning they could expect social approval for chugging through boring tasks.

The first group already got their social approval for being smart. Once labeled "smart", they already "knew" they were smart.

But ones that were labeled "hard workers" needed to keep up "hard work" to retain the (desired positive) label.

Just compare:

"I'm still smart, even if I performed bad on boring task."

vs.

"I'm still hard worker, even if I didn't put much effort into boring task."
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If your `while'-loops would crash after a certain number of iterations (and use linear memory before that), would you call that an implementation detail or a leaky abstraction? I'd call it a bug.

And special case constructs for linear recursion like `for' and `while' are only a necessary band-aid in languages that do not treat functions properly.
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Perhaps. Though (PLT) Scheme seems (to me) the better basis for any work on Lisp nowadays. Common Lisp is just too ugly.
And a very clever zeroth approximation.
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I love ffffound . It's not really like HN but i think from a designers view it's as useful as HN is for coding an enterpreneurship. It shows you the trends and whta's going on in the designing universe.
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I'm all for this. Let's see what we can setup. Reddit's /r/design and /r/webdesign aren't very compelling and usually completely packed up with "28 great lens flares" type spam.

Somewhere where we can have a real chat about all aspects of design would be amazing.
Funny you should say that. How would developers market themselves? Generally speaking.

I tried some Google adwords for my freelance services and it was money down the drain. Granted, I am a lone freelancer so most clients would be looking for firms for their larger projects. But I would still be interested in the answer.
http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/ is alright .. but its not specifically for startups..
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Mostly well argued (in favor of Oracle acquiring MySQL), with a couple of weak spots. For one, overlooking Apple as a potential acquirer; it is unlikely, but they do have the cash, and already own CUPS (Unix printing) and invest heavily in Webkit/KHTML (the KDE HTML engine - not sure what's the exact status there nowadays).

The "never even worked for a profitable commercial enterprise" (thus cannot know how it would affect the market) bit actually weakens the piece. Yeah, right, it's a prerequisite and no one credible does that kind of thing, from analyst to critic to regulator ...
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And next week - a perpetual motion machine.

Still, ignoring the scant understanding of physics - there is something to be said for recovering some of the energy lost as heat and possibly electromagnetic energy outside of the operational frequencies for a given device.
Key-value stores develop fairly quickly. We need an up to date comparison between their features and metrics (performance, code coverage, bugs filed per month, etc.).
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I remember reading an amazing story about the arms race between hackers and (I think) TV companies. The companies would constantly release updates to break the hacks and the hackers would, within hours, have found ways around them. Eventually the companies hired a specialist who released a whole series of seemingly unrelated updates that didn't appear to do anything until the final update was sent - at which point the entire system rewrote itself, locking out the hacker entirely.

I can't remember enough details to track down the specific story, but I do remember it was a thoroughly interesting read and I'm guessing someone here might be able to recall seeing it themselves.
A bit of both probably. Balance.

>> "If your praise is about something that is out of their control, such as innate intelligence, you discourage them from trying to take control of their circumstances."

I'm not sure kids really understand or believe the above. The more you learn, the smarter/cleverer you become. So praising them by saying they're really smart/clever, is praising them for learning.

Personally I'm more inclined to say "Wow you're very clever to get that right" and gets a better response from my kids, than saying "Wow you worked really hard".
My reaction to this kind of article is along the lines of "yeah, ok, sounds right, let's move on to something more interesting".
You're thinking of the DirecTV H/HU card hacking.

Here is one random link I found in reference to this:
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/directtv-hands-out-smack-d...
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This looks a lot like what http://ubervu.com is doing
Does anyone know what is the concurrency control used by Redis? I couldn't find anything related to transaction isolation in the docs.
Redis is great. I use it in quite a few of my spare time projects.

The versatility is my main reason for loving it. From working on large a dataset without waiting for it to finish loading (…as mr. Willison explained), to storing object properties in a webapp-environment, to simple persistent object queues, etc..

It's a very nice tool to have in the box.
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You are awesome, thank you.
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http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/25/1343218.shtml

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/25/directv_attacks_hack...

(somewhat tangential but still interesting) http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/05/tarnovsk...
I think u need to have some factor which differentiates itself from app store. For ex., allowing users sort apps based on rating, date, price etc., One feature I usually miss ordering on multiple criteria like first on rating followed by price.
also: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001125.html
Have you used those successfully?

I got a good client off Guru in 2000 but that was a long time ago and I think I just got lucky.
Many of the operations are documented as being atomic - you can get a surprisingly long way using atomically incrementing counters and atomic set operations. If you search through the Redis mailing list there are some interesting discussions around lock-free algorithms, CAS and potentially adding a LOCK command. There's also a recently commited SETNX command for atomically applying a number of changes to a set of keys at once.
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"If people don't have new Python features to play with, they can spend the time learning new languages."

I'll just spend the time mastering Python, confident that it has a future worth investing in. ;-)
What he said ^^.

What's the next trend going to be? I'd guess something mobile (though Twitter already has short messaging covered).
Several observations on this:

1) You make your own luck - for the most part - and that what we call 'being lucky' is a skill you can learn. See here for the research on this:
http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/wiseman/research/luckmain.html

2) The Andy Grove/ Einstein thing, of trying, striving, working really hard and trying to strategically place yourself in the 'right place' will eventually pay off, one way or another. This is essentially what the article adresses. This is a different kind of luck though.

3) Apart from personal 'luckiness' and hard work paying off, there are also occasional black and white swans - large random external events which affect peoples lives in good or bad ways. These are unpredictable and outside your control. Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a (quite hideous) website about this kind of thing: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ He may also have written a popular book.
I intentionally left Apple out, actually. While Apple definitely has done work in some back-end technologies, a $1Bn acquisition for something so clearly outside their current strategy (which is far more consumer and mobile focused than server focused) wouldn't make much sense. They invest in Webkit and CUPS because they feel they're necessary (in the case of CUPS so that printing actually works) or strategic (in the case of Webkit); MySQL? Not so much.

My point on RMS was that he's actively and completely rejected the commercial world in every form. A stronger argument is that he's been talking about there being MULTIPLE paths to financial riches using the GPL, but then whining because if OraSun stops selling commercially licensed versions of MySQL, nobody else can. While I agree with a stance that F/OSS is superior for consumers, RMS has been completely useless at figuring out how to make successful business models, and should be ignored.

Quite frankly, why RMS didn't speak up when Sun acquired MySQL, but is now, is just another one of the mysteries about what in the world actually goes on in his mind.
We made a start on this at the NoSQL meetup, the spreadsheet is here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ale_YaCwKEUVclVFVFlr...

It covers a bit more than KV stores - it's basically all of the non-relational data stores.

If anyone wants access to update it, let me know.
Agreed. Although If you're reading Renai - a large part of the value of HN is commenting. It would be nice if you did so every now and then.
I didn't realise the R18+ issue was state-related. Who's the hold out?

I hope you're right about the web filter debate. I would have said the same thing about the GST, but then there's a big distinction between a PM's personal agenda and a "rogue Labor minister".
Anyone who has ever been to a school meeting where there are a large number of parents will realise that some adults are scared of the universe and everything it contains.
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You know, recently in the UK, there was a case where the authorities said a woman was too stupid to have children:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland...

This law should be applied in this case.
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Sorry, was that somehow inappropriate?
Why do you use DRBD instead of the built-in mysql replication?
"Schools need wireless networks; the pupils need a device (handheld computer, or laptop) each, which they have access to whenever it is needed"

Why do we need one laptop per child in a school? Computers are useful tools but hardly central to learning.
I don't think it's that Twitter is utterly irredeemable in value; there are a few valuable uses for it, imo. I think it's mostly that the way the public regards and deploys Twitter is incredibly obnoxious.

Twitter is ascribed far more value and relevance than it deserves. Seriously, valuations in the hundreds of millions just because CNN thought they could foresee the "next Facebook" and tout the product incessantly? Twitter has not devised any system of profitability and to do so seems a very difficult task indeed.

To me, Twitter is annoying because it represents a desperate, clinging ignorance on the part of its proponents. The value Twitter actually provides, which is basically broadcasting SMS messages across various formats and aggregating popular discussion topics, is so miniscule compared to its assigned preeminence. This gives off the impression that Twitter's major proponents are impostors.

And I think that's true. I think that Twitter has come so far because the executives at several media companies beheld Facebook, Myspace, and others, and were determined to get ahead of the "next big thing", so that they could exploit the platform as it took off instead of buying up a fad all too late (News Corp buying MySpace). Twitter had cel-shading, big letters, coordinated colors, and a Mac-esque chic about it, there may have been consultants involved, but for whatever reason, these ignorant, angry old media executives ordained Twitter as the instrument-of-choice in their hypercharged desperation to remain relevant and profit off of the internet.

The promoters of old media's franchises have likewise endorsed the platform, and I'm sure the first thing every celebrity agent instructs is a Twitter account. The agents are probably the ones updating it, too.

So, to many of us, it feels "unclean", as it were. The utility obviously doesn't match the praise and promotion that it gets. It's a platform flooded with wannabes and fraudsters.

It's a darling of media pundits, which we find asinine not only because it's so undeserving as a consumer service, but also because it's so undeserving as a business; Twitter generates no profit now and I've not yet met a proposal for profitability that makes sense. Hacker News is filled with businesspeople who work hard on businesses with tangible profit opportunity, and I'm sure many of us are annoyed to see so unworthy a competitor get the glory as we toil away on useful but unrecognized products.

That's my opinion anyway. I really don't like Twitter because of this; perhaps that's unfair in itself because Twitter isn't really responsible for the actions of its external disciples. It's not a jealousy per se, as I don't hold [much] contempt for Twitter's employees or founders directly, but it is an annoyance at the insensibility of the world we live in.

tl;dr Twitter has some utility but mostly it represents old media's desperation to exploit a space that they refuse to understand.
Well if you are not expecting investor to take money out of his pocket (or hat) after that pitch you surely have to prepare (a) executive summary 1-2 pages (b) slides/screenshots 1 page(can be four colorful slides on it)
just because this guy might want to share something with other decision makers. Of course if you dont think that after your pitch will suddenly became beter advocate for your project than yourself ))
Basically, if your smart, you risk under achieving because compared to your perceived peers, your doing well and don't try any harder. However, compared to other people who are similarly smart your under achieving.
Interesting post, but they could provide a simple comparison that would help enormously. They should calculate how much they would have paid on a traditional 10% royalty based on the gross amount the publisher receives and compare that with their 40-50% royalty based on their net (I'm calling it net here because they are deducting a bunch of fees from the money they receive).
Some simple filtering and sniffing with tcpdump
If Monty isn't happy about what's happening with MySQL, he could always buy it back with the $1Bn Sun paid him for it. But it sounds like he wants to have his cake and eat it.
It's also for WEB design, not design in general.
Pretty interesting, but I hope no company here is ever forced to take his advice.
I kind of can't believe that both google and microsoft seem to have given in: We knew for quite some time (document leak this summer) that twitter was trying to make the search engines pay for access, but I would have hoped that Google and MS had more guts to not make such an agreement.

There are various reasons for that:

1) it sets a bad precedence. Up until now, all (significant) content was accessible to the search engines without barrier and to index the web, aside of general algorithmic improvements, no changes in the way how spiders work were needed.

2) I don't see why Twitter should decide who can and who can't access the content I made publically available (by tweeting). This should be open to anybody requiring the data.

2) The information in twitter, frankly, does not need to be exposed into Google as it IMHO does not contain enough original information. Twitter is about conversations and links to stuff that is in the search engines anyways and the conversations don't really provide that much added value.

3) Twitter gains as much (or even more - see above) from Engines indexing them as the engines gain from being able to index Twitter.

And lastly: In all other places of the internet that are indexed by search engines, I as the author can specify whether I want the content I create to be indexed or not (robots.txt, X-No-Archive-Headers and so on).

As far as I can see, there is no way to make my conversations not appear in Google or any other place - and yes: Conversations. Tweets are not always real content, but often times just bits and pieces of conversations.

In a perfect world:

1) there would be a standard on how to feed search engines (or any other interested party) with that content.

2) Twitter and other micro blogging services would adhere to said standard

3) Twitter and other micro blogging services would allow me as a user to chose whether my insignificant content is archived/indexed or not, preferably per tweet.
His conclusion - throw yourself into your life and your work whilst you are still young enough to be able to, so that you don't regret it when you are older.
Bit wierd that someone who has failed to sell a premium digital product is stating they know why it failed and providing sage advice (without proof i'll add). I'd guess the reason it fails and is failing is because he doesn't know why it is failing. Otherwise he could just fix what was wrong with it and turn it into success, no?
Moving to San Francisco...
Is there anyone (who is into the startup culture/world) who is looking for a roommate?
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I've written my own wrapper for Enum.Parse that has _exactly_ the same structure as their Enum.TryParse. Glad to see that they're bumping into the same problems internally that we do in the real world, and doing something about them.
This is essentially what we have been writing at friendbinder [http://friendbinder.com] for a couple of years now. There are also a number of other systems attempting the same thing. One of the key issues is lack of standards in the APIs and RSS/Atom are not designed for this.
Maybe it needs to be white to be appropriate?
Quite telling is the data point (not a very accurate data point, but the only one around), that the radiation from wi-fi was below detectable levels, but the child's night-light was not. If wi-fi is fearsome, is it fearsome compared to what?
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