skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be posting an analysis of my expense projections (and the real numbers for the few days I've been living in the RV) sometime today. I haven't run the numbers for a hotel, as it wasn't a feasible option for me. If you don't mind staying in less interesting places most of the time, you can probably do it for roughly the same. But, high rent cities will probably kill your budget (though, there are usually cheap hotels in every city, if you don't mind living in a ghetto and in a crappy hotel). Since I can theoretically just park somewhere (Wal-Mart, neighborhood street, etc.) in even the toniest of locales, I can probably visit the highest rent places in the country without paying a fortune to do it. We'll see how realistic that turns out to be over the next year, as I visit Los Angeles, San Diego, Austin, Atlanta, New York, Toronto, San Francisco (I've lived down in the bay for 3 years, but never really properly experienced San Francisco), etc.

Weekly stay hotels would also probably bring your expenses down a bit.
Yes, it does. It will slow you down by a bunch at first. Then, you will learn to keep local copies of documentation and how to access them. Then, you will get to know your debugging tools better. Eventually, you will become more self-reliant. Remember, people used to program on displays that showed one line at a time.. and there was no google to query for answers.
Then I should no wonder I cannot program in Perl, and stick with Lisp, Lua, JavaScript & C.
Well, cheer up. If their president had said good things about Bush instead of bad things, Heritage would've ranked them a lot higher. Regardless of whether their direction is good for the Venezuelan people.
Not to mention the wild assumption of cause-and-effect.

It seems to me that it's just as likely to be true if I say that "someone having other qualities that get them more contacts is more likely to do X in their picture".
Users find newsmedia websites best for usability
Correlation does not imply Causation

For example, people who are more interesting, approachable and extroverted just happen to make more eye contact, not the other way around. Or girls who are more outgoing, open and easy-going are willing to expose a bit more and simply go with the 'myspace cleavage shot'

Either way, a fascinating data analysis!
So they always say when creating a startup find some "pain" and find a solution. You've identified this well.

My concern is whether you see this as a real "startup" or a side project that can bring in a few bucks. How are you intending to bring in revenues? Monthly/Annual fees? Ads? The problem I have with both of these models is that when I look back over the past year, only once would I need to use your service, when I left my job to start a company. Looking forward outside of an occasional title/profile or a rare move I'd use this very infrequently. Not enough by far to do a membership or drive significant ad revenues.
That's good snark lather, but if you actually look at the collectorz.com forums, you find that yes, the email WAS as bad as all that: http://www.collectorz.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15...
Thanks for the suggestion about themeforest; I'm browsing that now.

As to the not being willing to sign up without seeing it, this is an issue that we've been struggling with. By the nature of the site, we need to have an identity attached to the information we store. If you have a good suggestion on how we could safely do a demo version without compromising people's security, there's an excellent chance that we'd do it.
Show me a product from Microsoft that isn't terrible, and perhaps I'll start to forgive them. They have a fantastic track record of making terrible user experience products.
Freelance editors are pretty cheap. I don't know about their quality, however.
Internet TV will be a viable platform when more than 15% of households have a TV with an actual Internet connection. I have no interest in seeing Conan do a face plant for the sake of being Revision3's IPTV pioneer.
Very British of them to do nothing with this until the Yanks re-discovered it and took all the credit.
Here's some solid gold info about parking your rv...

http://vagabonders-supreme.net/nitecamping.htm
Immigrating to Canada and Finding a Job | canadaimmigrant.org
I can't easily read fonts that are that big.
Yeah but on a dating site you don't see how interesting/approachable/extroverted somebody is, you just see if they make eye contact in their picture or not. Even if you are very introverted, you could still create a photograph looking into the camera or showing cleavage (if you are a girl).
Are they awkward if you need to adjust the lacing - I like tying my laces each time, then I can adjust for when I have swollen feet (hot weather), the size of sock I'm wearing, the activity I'm doing and what have you.
If they change the default to Bing, it signals to me that they've stopped caring about user experience. Which would be bizarre for them since it's pretty much the whole point of Apple existing.

Wonder how much cash ms have offered.
I'll do a video in a few days once things are cleaned up a bit; the place got wrecked when I did the final move out of my house, and I had a lot more stuff remaining than places to put them in the RV. I need to do another purge and Goodwill trip.

And, no, I reckon YC interviewees and visitors will need to find a new Mountain View home to crash at. Though the RV does sleep six (as long as they're all good friends; three if nobody is sharing a bed). There are a handful of friends who've seemed willing to try a few nights on the road with me, so I'll see how well the dog takes to more crowded living for a few days, and how livable it actually is with more people. But I don't think AirBnB accommodates a moving house very well.
Screenshots or video make for an acceptable demo; it doesn't have to be interactive.
No surprises here.
What Mozilla Labs learned from Ubiquity
Details on Chirpie (iPhone Twitter App)
My dad has been doing this when he travels in his minivan to sell/buy motorcycles. He parks next to the rigs if possible.
I think we'd need more articles at the "other" end of the spectrum, for example something like:

"A 20 millions a year business built on 20k lines of Lisp"

In other words, something "really big" in a relatively small amount of lines, not something "meh" in a pathetically small amount of lines.
I don't like the way these people restrict the axes on their charts to make their data look more significant than it is (e.g. http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/four_myths/women_smiling.png). I seem to recall that they did this in earlier posts too.
> For women, a smile isn’t strictly better

That's because some people make forced smiles. The Asian lady on the left might look a lot better with a more subtle smile.
Dropbox (YC S07) Announces 4 Million Users, Hires A VP From Salesforce
Learning Styles Debunked
ISTM there's a strong risk here of mixing different people with different agendas. If some people are trolling for casual relationships, it's likely they're evaluating profiles in a different way than those who are looking for something more. Also, those looking for casual hookups are likely to be more active users, so over-represented in the "success" metrics.
Could a ‘Virtual Surge’ Fix Afghanistan?
They're usually too busy getting stuff done. Look for people getting stuff done and examine their work.
None of the male photo contexts are mutually exclusive. You could satisfy all of them, even the bad ones at the same time.
I've been a big fan of firebug, even though I switched to Chrome I come back to firefox just for debugging.

No, web inspector is no match for on the fly css modification to tweak a color here and there, even editing html right there if you need it.
And on the other hand, it seems more likely to lead to a real conversation.
Well, it's pretty good, though as wheels says, no real time pitch-detection algorithm can do much of a job with chords. Since bass is most often played monophonically, it does OK; then again I'm not a fast player to begin with.

I use a configuration of modules that implements a (very crude) averaging algorithm to smooth away the tiny pitch quirks from the way I slide or hit the strings, and then a note selector module to confine the output to semitone intervals, for when I want to control a different module or produce a completely different sound.

On the other hand, if I want to play a melody and have it sound bassy to begin with (with the kind of pitch inconsistencies from slapping or pulling the strings) the sky's the limit. It's also fun to set the synth doing its own thing and then use the notes to modulate filters or suchlike.

But MIDI pickup is still the route to go if accuracy really matters to you. Everything I record is done with the assumption that I'm going to edit it later. The 'midi guitar' thing cited in OP would probably do a superior job, but I really don't like the ergonomics of it. Another option is to hit eBay in search of a Casio DG-20, an appallingly ugly MIDI guitar from the 1980s that nevertheless has an outstanding midi implementation, or a Yamaha EZ-AG, which sells for $2-300 and has buttons on the frets but real strings on the 'soundboard' and is designed for students. They also made a MIDI trumpet if you can find it.
The article suggest that the Kindle business is a big money-loser so far? That surprised me. Why it should be a money-loser, when the Kindle itself is rather expensive and the e-book copies cost virtually nothing(?)
I grew up delivering a state paper. They did quality reporting about the small state. They still do. But I don't see how they survive without going hyperlocal. The problem is my parents (i.e., the generation that still subscribes) want a general news product in addition to the local stuff.
I did not mean to imply that he was uneducated. I was merely quoting Aristotle to frame my argument: that there is merit in reading both. If he believes it was meant as an insult -- straight-forward or backhanded -- then I apologize to him. Otherwise, I do not find fault in the way I framed my argument.

However, I wont add any more to this thread, as this is EXACTLY what no one wants to read on HN.
The problem with charging for news is that news as it's presented is unspectacular. Most people, if they don't have to-- won't pay for unspectacular information because chances are they can get it somewhere else because it isn't hard to produce or duplicate. I can get the same information from the NY Times at the Washpost. I do like their opeds though. I read David Brooks a lot. But I still won't pay for David Brooks' insight because it doesn't make me money or save me time or do something to make my life easier. That's the only kind of information you can form a business model around.
Sure you can.

Depends on your target audience. IE has vanishing small market share amongst several groups such as tech savy, non-MS developers, Apple fanboys, etc.

Also, if those capabilities lead to features that vastly surpass your competition it'll be easier to own majority of non-IE customers than it would be going after all customers with generic features.

You don't need every person with a web connection as a customer, you just need enough to be profitable/successful.
in general, okcupid is known more for casual hookups and flings than finding a serious marriage partner, so i think the results are pretty insightful for their target demographic
This is a really fantastic idea... I love it. I didn't sign up though, first the site doesn't give me any confidence that my information would be safe with you, and It doesn't tell me how I can be sure you updated my information. I think a better design, and some more up front info on how it works would really improve it. Once again though, lots of potential with the idea.
You kinda have to "exist" here in the US, as well, for federal income tax and other such things, but you can have a post box or registered mail agent to act as your "home address".

And, I'm not sure if tech startups, in general, require the ability to move from city to city. I do think it'll become a lot more common, though, amongst startup founders, now that Internet has become so close to pervasive. Most of the YC founders I know are already extremely mobile, and generally travel a lot more than the folks I know in other fields (except touring musicians, perhaps).

It also remains to be seen whether I can be productive as a tech startup guy while traveling. I suspect it'll work out fine, but there are plenty of variables in the year ahead.
One thing not mentioned is the chemistry part. It's kind of a dating game in a sense that you have to like something about the mentor, and the mentor has to take an interest in you somehow. E.g. perhaps you remind him/her when he/she was at your age, etc. It has to be a 2-way street. You can ask someone all the Q's you want but only a mentor will be emotionally invested in your success and want to groom you.

I have a few mentors, I find it an incredible experience that people miss out on if they aren't already. Finding mentors, is difficult. I've found mine by luck. But you can always optimize your odds by hanging out where people you think you would like to be your mentor hang out.
good point, but if they are trying to show a relative (percentage) difference, then their restricted axes make sense, right? perhaps they should be labeled with percentage differences as well as absolute diffs
It's Amazon's take on Ebay also
His comment is not negative in the name-calling sense of the page you reference. However, it could seem that Or have you expended your fount of criticism already? is, don't you think?
I think I would pay a small annual fee. Personally something between $5 - $10 a year.
Finding A Job You’ll Love: Negotiating An Offer
Do you honestly believe that it's not possible to waterproof/heatproof an iPod? The technology exists to do that, but it's not commercially practical, because no-one buys an iPod for every shirt they own.

I bet if I really wanted to, I could pull a shuffle out of it's case, use more expensive and denser flash memory, and shove all this in a tiny waterproof/heatproof baggie or small and thin container, swap the USB connector for mini-USB, insulate the wires, build caps for the external wiring ends, and sew the whole thing to the inside of my shirt behind my shoulderblade. It'd have exposed ports to connect mini-USB to my computer and earbuds to my ears, and if I wanted to wash it, I'd stick the port-caps in and seal it somehow. It'd take a fair few prototypes, but it could be done with today's tech.

Edit: I don't think this is commercial viable, but if one of you guys builds it and gets rich, I expect royalties :-)
One reason for Conan (and anyone with similar status) not to switch to the internet is that on mainstream media competition has a high entry barrier - very few people get a show on NBC, or a column in the NY Times - while online a PR piece by Revision3 can get published on a major news website like any other content.

If you're a newcomer who wants to compete with Conan O'Brien, the web can be a good starting point. If you are Conan O'Brien, the web is suicide.
Maybe I read too much Roissy, but my first reaction to this idea was that competition-avoidance is more of a beta trait than an alpha one, so while your suggestion may be useful, it might be a good idea to bring some game along anyway. But if you had game to bring, then why would you have to pick off stragglers around the herd's periphery in the first place?
> So they always say when creating a startup find some "pain" and find a solution. You've identified this well.

Thanks. :>

> [how do we plan to make money]

You're right that people won't need this every day, but even if you only need it once every 2-3 months, it's likely to be worth it--consider how much time is required to notify all your service providers of new information, then multiply that by your hourly rate. Needing it every 2-4 months is also not implausible: the individual changes (credit card expiration, email address, postal address, job title, etc) are infrequent, but when you stack them up they become relatively common.

Add in the fact that we provide a better interface than many of the services we are updating (e.g. PayPal and Yahoo, which disperse your information across multiple pages and show different versions of it in different places; e.g. some pages show title (Mr), some show suffix (Jr), some show middle name/initial, etc), and suddenly a modest fee starts to seem ok.

Our plan is to have a "one day" plan for very cheap--probably about $2--that is useful for a one-time use. When you're done, you can either have us delete all your data or archive it so that there is no charge until the next time you need it...but there will be a moderate charge to reactivate it. Alternatively, you can pay a small monthly or annual fee. In the long-term, we would prefer to negotiate contracts with the service providers and have them pay us to provide this service so it could be free to the users, but we will need a significant user base before we can make that happen.
How do you properly compensate those that do the hardest work in getting "the facts" if endless copies can be made cheaply?

I suppose the answer is something like iTunes for the news. However, I'm not confident that market forces can pick the best reporting. I mean, Fox News does really well financially. How many people do they have in Haiti?
Intrigued that the 'MySpace pose' is both the most widely known and most effective strategy for women, even though it's often ridiculed.

Did the population of MySpace naturally evolve the optimal strategy for socializing, without anyone consciously realizing it? In an established social network, do the best strategy and the most common strategy gradually coincide?
I my girlfriend's numerical linear algebra textbook once, fully expecting it to be a very annoying subject dealing with implementation of floating-point numbers. It turns out, the discipline is mathematically rigorous and looks a lot like standard analysis. It was eye-opening both to me, as a mathematician, and to her, as a computer scientist, how directly the fully-abstract theorems applied to real-world floating point operations.
Can you tell us what you would need to see in order to feel confident in the site?
Congrats, I want to try the same thing, but on a boat instead
I'm looking at it right now and it's working. Can you tell me what browser / OS / URL you're using?
What office suite do you use?

As a user who uses ubuntu almost exclusively, OpenOffice is not even comparable,

Also at the top of my mind, visio.
I really don't think corporate programmers have a problem with sql but more so TSQL or pl-sql. I think they intuitively have a problem with what is essentially a wrapper language for sql that is using 30 year old language technology (procedural programming). I have been in multiple environments with several thousands of stored procedures, many of them thousands of lines long. There is so much boilerplate in tsql and pl-sql that any self respecting programmer will hate it. It doesn't help that most DBAs are really not data gurus but rather vendor gurus either :/
> With a couple of trained guys with good weapons, armor and tactics it would be pretty easy to rack up a serious death toll

Indeed, the 2008 siege of Mumbai by about 10 terrorists lasted 3 days and brought the city to a halt. Death toll was somewhere near 200, with 300 wounded.
Yes, there are a handful of big box stores that permit this. Also, many state and federal parks allow dry camping (with no water or electric provided) for very low rates. I haven't really begun to explore these options, yet, but will. My solar panels were delayed, and so power when boondocking has to come from my generator for another month or so, which isn't really something I want to run for several hours each day (I could probably do it with two or three hours a day of runtime to charge my batteries and my laptop, but I haven't experimented with that).

And, since it's currently the off-season, RV parks are pretty cheap. I'm paying $41.50 per night in a really nice place on the beach, vs. $71.50/night plus utilities at my house in Mountain View.
Outlook and Visual Studio are the first that come to my mind.
A Definite Assignment Anomaly
Good thoughts. The general idea is that it's more important to have a good algorithm with a lot of data than a great algorithm with little data.

Norvig's "Theorizing from Data" talk is very similar to this one: http://www.facebook.com/techtalks#/video/video.php?v=6443265... (He gave it several places, including Facebook and Google I/O)
Increased competition =/= increased quality. Increased quality = increased quality.

I had a life changing experience at age 22. A manic crazy group of Peruvian girls brought me home from a nightclub to their party. Okay, we had a nice night, but in the morning - seeing the girls without their hair, makeup, looking hungover - it's like, wow, highly sexualized doesn't mean beautiful. It just means highly sexualized, which comes from a lot of work on her part. But as you saw in the Okcupid article, highly sexualized draws men's attention - "flirty face", the Myspace pose, etc.

But getting one of those flirty, sexualized girls doesn't mean higher quality! It just means you got a girl who put work into appearing highly sexualized, which if anything, is the sign of maybe a fun fling but not a quality girlfriend.

Me, I stopped looking for that, and started looking more for just decent quality skin, a walk with some energy in it, awareness in her eyes, and so on. You can always teach a girl how to dress and make herself up to your tastes, which I did for my last serious girlfriend who was getting her PhD in physics. Too much jeans and sneakers when I met her, lots of skirts and dresses and leather boots and heels when I moved out of the USA.

But I like a lot of other things that most men don't - I prefer taller women, and I prefer women who are built strong with good musculature, athletes, and girls with wider hips and shoulders. It always amazes me when I meet a girl who is an athlete and she's getting so much less attention from men than a girl who is on the alcohol + cigarettes + no food diet.

But I digress, quality is quality, and if you can find quality with less competition, that's absolutely worth going and getting. Going for a girl who is equal or lower quality but more highly chased doesn't make your life better, it's headache for (at best) ego-gratification, at worst a waste of time.
Windows on Eucalyptus
I'd like to concur on the design element. You're asking me to trust you, but your site looks like it was designed by an amateur?

Secondly, I would change the presentation of your "is it safe" FAQ. Yes, I am comfortable with Amazon or Gmail storing my information, putting it on the web. But why should I trust YOU? It may be abstractly safe, but what reassurance do I have that YOU won't rip me off?

And, finally, how will you do this? Are you writing adapters that call each of the relative services' API to update information? What about my local credit union without an API? Will you tell my grandma that I moved?

As a possible solution to the above, you might want to seriously consider tying in with something like PostalMethods' API (http://www.postalmethods.com/postal-api). There's an addt'l revenue source opportunity as well; have people enter the info of everyone they want notified, and you can send snail mail to those w/o an API.
About the stakes for China in the Google showdown
Reading through this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Raymond_Kur...

I get the distinct sense that the person who made those predictions just watched far too many sci-fi movies. Nearly everything he predicted for 2020 in 1999 is something that already existed in some form, and his claim is that it will be smaller/faster/ubiquitous etc. The rest are just silly UI predictions (e.g. simulated persons, holograms, video phone calls etc.)
Ribbon Hero, a game to hone your Microsoft Office skills
why would they allow it it to become slower than it already is? It seems like they want more people to move away from firefox.