skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, the design of the site is fairly solid. I think you did a good job there.

As johnrob stated, the name might be an issue–you don't want your brand to pigeon-hole you or give people the wrong impression.

I have no idea what your monetization strategy is, but I would look into a paid section of the site. Offer the 2-10 min videos for free but have a "premium" area where you have collections of 20-60 min videos available for paid members.

You could also organize premium videos into groups and offer some sort of "program" to entire organizations. Business training programs are big business–especially in areas like management, customer service, conflict resolution, compliance, etc. You could use something like Moodle (http://moodle.org/) to offer videos, content, testing, and tracking.

Yes, I know it's expensive to create such content but if I were you, I'd go looking for a partner–someone who has created these programs in analog/DVD formats. Offer to repurpose their content for the web and share revenue.

Anyway, that's my $.02 ... might be beyond what you had in mind.
no.

the word is "rap", as in "rap on the knuckles" - a physical strike used in punishment (mainly archaic).

http://www.google.cl/search?q=define:rap - strike sharply
He makes Elmer Gantry look like a shrinking violet.
There is another benefit of a sep ira -- Since the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCA), it is protected from bankruptcy. There are a thousand things that can go wrong in life -- and while you seem immortal now, bad stuff can and does happen. You can withdraw money early out of an ira by paying a 10% penalty and taxes. If you have an ira and bad stuff happens, you should NOT withdraw money from it. Instead, it's better simply to spend everything else first, then rack up on debt and go bankrupt, knowing that you have a sizable nest egg waiting for you on the other side.
Good point, I had not considered that. Agreed
Oh, I've long since given up on worrying about that.

Besides, this doesn't count. It's a humorous grammar correction.
You need to push your site on sites like styleforum.net and askandyaboutclothes.com.
The site you would use to market your part-time contracting could later be re-used as a sort of shop for related products, so you turn it into passive income and cash in on your marketing efforts twice.
The interviewed
Fossil SCM: an alternative to trac.
Fossil is written by Dr. Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite.
Years ago I used to beg for something like this to exist -- I couldn't understand why Cygwin's setup.exe was so obtuse.

But my boss at my current job showed me a trick that makes it all better: run setup.exe, click the root checkbox, wait a few minutes for the GUI to start responding again, and install everything.

It's only a few thousand crummy packages, none of which conflict with one another, only totaling up to a few gigs. It takes all the hassle out of the process, you never get frustrated that you're missing some package's goddamn headers -- If you don't have it, it wasn't there, so you can go straight to upstream without worrying you're doing it wrong.
Illuminato Labs computing fabric
"Evidence in economics is messy---and political. Trust logic instead."

The problem is, Rothbard's logic is also every bit as political as, say, Marx's logic.

You're talking to someone who was a confirmed libertarian, Austrian sympathizer, and Ayn Rand enthusiast from roughly the age of 16 to maybe 20 or so. I know the arguments and I know inside and outside the kind of thinking they come from, which is simply put, a tendentious effort to justify one particular political ideology over another. That is the exact opposite of what any science should aspire to, even economics. And that is the sin Rothbard is guilty of, a sin he relentlessly accuses others of in order to distract from his own guilt.

This is not to say he in specific, or the Austrians in general, were totally bereft of good ideas--just that their ideas should not be taken as proven unless tested. You're suggesting the scientific equivalent of "the code looks reasonable so there's no need to test it".
Well your Spanish is good ...?!

It's not a huge stretch to imagine someone sitting and redubbing one of these though is it?
Has anyone on HN bought one of these ?

What was your experience with them ? Links to projects ?
Let's say you absolutely want to stay in 9-5... than I would constantly propose interesting projects inside the company. That way over time I would work on more exciting stuff.
Ok, I can kind of see your point here. But most of those nights I spent "working" till 2 AM didn't really feel like work. They still don't most of the time. It's fun, I love doing this stuff. So for me at least, it's tough not to feel like a fraud when a great deal of my time has been spent having fun.
The Problem With WordPress
This is a very US centric comment, but the format of the dates threw me off for a minute. I suspect you're a European company, so you use DD/MM/YY. However, if most of your audience is US, they'll expect MM/DD/YY. As a compromise, you could do Jan-18 or 18-Jan, or something like that... that was the very first thing that stuck out to me though.

Well, that and the small size of the interviews. I would like to see the interviews be a little longer. Perhaps you're planning on splitting a longer interview into smaller chunks, in which case, it might be nice to let us know what is coming down the line. If there are longer videos available to registered users (which it looks like there might be), it wasn't very clear how much longer they were or what other topics they covered. Perhaps you could post two times. One for unregistered (2:30) and one for members (45:00). Then you could have a breakdown of the topics, and show which chunk the unregistered viewers get to see.

Also, while watching a video my scrolling position would frequently change. If I was scrolled all the way to the top, it would scroll down (presumably to make the ad visible?). This was distracting. If you need to have the ad visible, you might consider relocating it next to the main video player.

I'd like to see more though... good luck!
I didn't find forums to be all that effective in my initial marketing. A forum with supposed 100,000 members, usually means you'll get 50 thread views, and maybe 2-3 clicks.
How can they possibly prove it's you? This sounds pretty bogus
Don't even dream about using this to make your one-time pads without rigorous analysis of the data, making really random bits is a lot harder than it seems.
Keep in mind...

You're talking about a country that began totalitarian, that was tracking and controlling people long before Google arrived.

Under these circumstances, planting someone would seem to be a different matter - especially if you can plant or turn the right high level person, they can steer lower-level people as they chose.
Another programming font comparison:

http://code.frostglow.com/fonts/programming-font-comparison....
What if the weather forecast is usually wrong? I live in a coastal area where the weather is forecasted over a hundred miles away on the mainland which is typically wrong (despite local instruments).

Would be cool if the app allowed you to adjust for your own sense of what the weather will be. For example the forecast today was for snow, but out here on the water all we got is rain which is typical. Would be nice to be able to skew forecasts based on your own crazy formulas.
Norvig wrote that a decade ago. That's not arrogant, but a fact. It was not a time when people point to Wikipedia and are confused when a term has also a different meaning, which is not explained on Wikipedia.

Before that Norvig worked for Harlequin, who developed LispWorks and a commercial Dylan implementation (plus a lot of other things). At that time in the programming language community, they, and earlier Apple, talked about 'dynamic programming languages' - languages with a certain amount of runtime flexibility. The slides have some 'marketing' quality, trying to market 'dynamic languages' as simpler than, say, C++ - by demonstrating that with the mentioned patterns.

But you can bet that Norvig knew/knows the mathematical term 'dynamic programming' which is topic in any basic maths course at universities in computer science and mathematics departments - especially if you work in AI, like Norvig did. But Norvig did not make this presentation to a maths audience.

There are lots of terms with more than one meaning. I'm a Lisp programmer. At Cisco, Lisp is short for 'Locator Identifier Separation Protocol', a recent Internet protocol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locator/Identifier_Separation_P...
Ok Go on Why Labels Won't Let You Embed YouTube Videos
The page is trying to render something from my LAN in an IFRAME.

It does not look malicious, just a silly mistake. Boy, how I love thee, NoScript!

(the url: http://192.168.0.164:8581/feeds/PopularSciencehtml/PopularSc...)
not necessarily SaaS products, but I'm thinking of software for professionals:

- software for lawyers, accountants

- software for the health industry

- graphic software such as photoshop, 3DSMax or Final Cut pro

the overall market is smaller, but you can sell the software for more. Also might need a little bit more topical knowledge, but imho it's the same quantity of work as doing a Microsoft Office clone

another market with fat margins is MMO video games. I'm sure there are lots of niche markets out there wanting their own game
How do they know they have the right person?

Seems sort of like having a no-fly list based on name and putting someone named Ali on it... Even if it seemed legit to use this sort of info (which I don't), the potential for incorrect info seems significant.

The term "identity theft" now also includes having someone make a Facebook account with your name...
Ask HN: Do you know of a road conditions data source?
I've been trying to find one -- an API of some kind that allows you to enter a location or a freeway and get back road conditions. If you know of something like this let me know, thanks!
Pretty hard to move to "the future" when "the present" is paying you $20 million or so a year, and its only the delivery method that "the future" changes, not really the job itself (and even a move to Fox or Comedy Central would probably pay him at least $10 million, if not a lot closer to what he's current making). Good PR move to throw it out there through since it will get them a bit of attention.
Not really unknown - wasn't there a mention by Google of Zoho sometime back and that article was linked here as well.
The amount of self-employment tax is lower with an s-corp b/c your salary will be lower. With an s-corp you can also benefit from the standard deduction on your individual return.

Consider:

Sole Propietorship:
taxable income is equal to whichever is lower, gross income minus expenses or gross income minus the standard deduction.

S Corp:
you subtract expenses from the corp's income, and pay your self, say, 60% of the remainder as salary, which is subjected to payroll tax. However, you calculate your taxable income by subtracting the standard deduction from your taxable income. The corp then pays its half of payroll tax, but you can take the remaining income (not paid to you as salary or used for expenses) as a profit distribution, which is only taxed at capital gains rate.

So all in all it can save a lot of money, particularly if you have business expenses (which in a sole proprietorship are eaten up by the standard deduction)...

Note: You have to do payroll every month for it to be legit with the IRS, and you need to file taxes once you create the corporation, even if your situation changes and you don't use the corporation for anything. You also have to pay yourself a reasonable salary. If you're a single employee S Corp then it may be wise to pay yourself > 50% of the corp's gross income as salary, to avoid arousing suspicion that you're doing the s-corp purely as a tax shelter.
Ask HN: Review my webapp (Dominion Set Randomizer)
I thought the error served only to add to the humor :-)
"program manager" title has a long of history, it existed way before Microsoft was around. In the 1st half of 20th century, the common use of the word "program" was to describe an allocation of resources like manpower, production capacity, equipment, typically in the military setting. For example, the term "linear programming" as a mathematical optimization technique is based on using "programming" in the sense of allocating resources.

So historically, program managers handled decisions about how to allocate resources to accomplish a mission. These days, program managers usually allocate resources over a portfolio of projects and decide whether projects are helping to achieve the program's mission.

Product manager has a responsibility for one or more products and associated strategic and executive decisions , around business plan, marketing, sales, research and development.
NPR is the best thing that has happened to radio and media. All Things Considered, Fresh Air, On Point, and Car Talk are some of the best programs on radio.
what is special about it?
Wow, I hadn't noticed Menlo, thanks. I've been using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono for a while but I don't like how faint the hyphen is with anti-aliasing when I'm coding in haml – a problem that Menlo fixes.
Oh, thank you :-)
"It's a shame that your page is lost, but at least it's in good company; stick around to browse through NPR stories about lost people, places and things that still haven't turned up." Followed by: Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, Waldo, etc.
The assumption is that learning things increases your execution time. In the very short term this is true. However, if you'd spent all the time learning the things that you wanted to learn, how much more productive would you be?

It's like Jeff Bezos said:

"I always tell people, if we have a good quarter it's because of the work we did three, four, and five years ago. It's not because we did a good job this quarter."

This is a pattern that I've (anecdotally) noticed in successful entrepreneurs and programmers... the ability to focus on the long term at the expense of the short term
(but without sacrificing the short-term).

Long story short, if you are in an employment situation where your employer will not let you spend any more time learning new things, you should consider employment elsewhere.
Ask HN: Can my GPL webapp be a paid iPhone app?
I have created a webapp which I'm wondering if would be possible to turn into a paid app on the iPhone app store?

My web app is an open source multiplayer strategy game for the web. The app is released under the GNU General Public License.

I would like to turn this app into a web app for the iPhone, available here: http://www.apple.com/webapps/

However, the guidelines for the app store states the following:

- "You must either own all rights to your submission and the content displayed in or through the submission or have written authorization from the owner(s) thereof."

- "Your submission (and the content displayed in or through your submission) must not violate or infringe the intellectual property rights (including trademark rights) of others."

So do you think an open source civ-clone violates any of these terms?

My web app can be found on http://www.freeciv.net/
I probably have the best financial habits of any of my friends.

Which, by this logic, somehow makes me a credit risk.
There are a couple of ways this information may be applied. It can help creditors promote certain products, cutting down on marketing waste. Why sent pre-approval letters to people not interested, right?

Does this mean I can send one tweet that says "I do not want any credit card offers, unsolicited calls, spam, junk mail, etc." and be done with it? Sign me up!
Unrealized projects
After three years of searching for the Apollo 11 tapes, NASA concluded that the footage of the first manned moon landing is probably lost forever.

How come I never knew that Apollo 11 footage was lost?
Better yet, prototype interesting projects. Managers love turning down proposals. They are a bit less likely to turn down something that already has working code, even if it's just a proof-of-concept.
Obviously any educations is helpful, but getting published without a degree isn't anywhere near as impressive as getting a job as a lawyer or research scientist without a university degree.
What was the subscriber base of satellite radio before Howard Stern left for it?
I think you're taking this too seriously. Conan could likely buy Revision 3 with about half his NBC payout (if it's around what has been reported). Compete puts Revision3's uniques around 110,000 while Conan regularly averaged 2.8 million. Conan would be better off on radio at this point(Dennis Miller has a radio talk show which averages a little under a million listeners a week).

Internet TV may be the future (I wouldn't even venture a guess) but it's a future that's still a while off. This is just attention grabbing.
Change Blindness
please don't forget Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Greatest news quiz show ever.
Alan Kay on teaching children to program (1993)
Oh, yeah, for sure. They had They Might Be Giants on a few days ago. That was awesome.
That's a great question. I guess I just assumed they didn't want to be left out if the project became a product and made some money. They're a non-profit and any additional revenue would be a huge benefit.
The web application in question can be tested here: http://www.freeciv.net/
I have absolutely no idea what it does (then again I've never heard of Dominion Set Randomisation?).

Perhaps some more explanatory content would be good, or perhaps it is not aimed at me...
Newtons apple story goes online
Utter pablum. Slow news day? Ethically dubious journalist?

What consumer buys so many duplicative services?

Here's a piece of advice. Don't buy services that overlap in functionality. Don't buy items you can't afford to use. Consider the total cost of ownership.

The entire tone of this article is one of yellow "jurinalistic bias" and does not reflect accurate market research on consumer behavior let alone consumer need.

The author comes across as little more than a petty financially irresponsible, and technically ignorant, whiner.
Excerpts I found interesting:

- Tools provide a path, a context, and almost an excuse for developing enlightenment, but no tool ever contained it or can dispense it. [Cesare] Pavese observed: to know the world we must construct it. In other words, we make not just to have, but to know. but the having can happen without most of the knowing taking place.

- They love to do, even when they are not sure exactly what they are doing.

- What is difficult is to determine what ideas to put forth and how deeply they should penetrate at a given child's developmental level.

- Even very young children can understand and use interactive transformational tools. The first ones are their hands!

- They can answer any question whose answer requires the application of just one of these tools. But it is extremely difficult for them to answer any question that requires two or more transformations. Yet they have no problem applying [sequences] of transformations, exploring "forward."

- It seems that what needs to be learned and taught is now to package up transformations in twos and threes in a manner similar to learning a strategic game like checkers.
Yes. Also, the commentary about traditional IRS amounts "assumed to be 50% pre-tax and 50% post-tax" seems totally muddled to me. All traditional IRA amounts are pre-tax, AFAIK. Given this and the error about phase-outs, I wouldn't trust this blog post's summaries at all. Go to the IRS source or other better writers.
I'm wondering why my comment downmodded; I'd like to know in what way I may have violated community guidelines, so I don't again. I suppose my comment was not useful, is that it?
This headline, and the blog post, are so wrong I'm flagging so noone else wastes time misled by the headline.
Sridhar Vembu is a fellow hacker here :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sridharvembu
I tend to alternate between two extremes. One extreme is "get shit done anyway you know how ASAP!" The other is "learn, explore, take your time, and do things right." I let my own ambitions determine which zone I'm in, and they last from a couple weeks to months. What I learn while I'm in the "take it slow" zone always helps me be more productive in the "do it now" zone. And the do it now zone helps keep me motivated to learn more stuff, and the cycle repeats :)
Any tips on evaluating app ideas?
Yes. Only you know why you hadn't seen the coverage of the lost Apollo tapes. So, your comment was about as useful to the conversation as, "where oh where did I put my car keys?"
Your comment was off-topic, but given that this kind of a fluffy article I don't think that's a huge sin. Maybe people assumed you were making some kind of moon landing hoax statement?
If you're interested in this there have been several submissions of pretty much exactly the same thing:

http://searchyc.com/change+blindness

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020494

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020405

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=995513

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152842
Sadly it's not too different from the current situation where the activities of people with similar names in your area can sometimes sneak into your credit report.
Render Options in Rails 3
Tab to search in Chrome
I'm looking at it from the point of view that this is an entirely ridiculous proposition.

But, given that, could it work? What would be needed? When do you start to move into the realm where this is possible?

It's the MythBusters philosophy at work: show that a myth is utterly busted... then figure out how to really do it. Preferably with a large amount of explosives... :)
http://umbrellatoday.com/ is similar and you can get text messages in the morning when rain is forcasted.
I am not a license expert- but I am pretty sure if you can only release your app as GPL (either it requires a GPL component you did not write or you are unwilling to release it non-GPL) then you can not make it an iPhone app (Apple seems to be hostile to this). In principle there is nothing wrong with charging for GPL apps, so if it wasn't for Apple's license issues you would be fine. However, if you wrote the app yourself (or somehow own it) then there is nothing in the GPL preventing you from releasing a non-GPL version on the iPhone app store (dual licensing).
Well, the quote was from the 404 page, but I can see how it could be seen as off-topic. In any case, it seems the situation has reversed now, so no point discussing this minor point.
Apple officially announces January 27 event
The story of hope for Haiti prior to the earthquake was on PBS NewsHour:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june10/hait...
Really? My flat screen has a PC port (I can use it as a 42" monitor...) It is new and big but otherwise no-frills.

Computer monitors and LCD TVs use essentially the same technology...
Fair enough. I'll keep that in mind for the future.
Green Building Goals and Security Initiatives Can Find Common Ground
Not helpful for the person who's trying to find the missing page, but entertaining.
Microsoft: Better Off Split Up?
Free Freemium Workshop
In a lot of jurisdictions (California for instance) if you don't have any IP agreement then you are likely producing a "work for hire" that would mean the client owns everything (and you own nothing). So if you want to retain some ownership you will likely have to work out some (could be simple) IP agreement.
http://obama-weather.com/ also started out as a weekend project, but looks pretty usable now.
Found via http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/security_vs_su...