skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"unless you bring some value to the game that the new guy can't." yes, like the supply of a scarce resource. This little get out clause renders your argument meaningless.

If there are only 100 tons of gold available per week, (the marginal cost of producing the 101st item is infinite, i.e. non-zero) it does not matter how many competitors there are in the market. If demand is for more than 100 tons, profit margins will not "tend to zero". This scenario illustrates that even in a commodities market a situation may arise where a large number of competitors will not cause margins to tend to zero.

Let alone situations where branding is involved etc. - all factors that we can assume are permissable under the stated condition of an "open market", and all in the category of "some value to the game that the new guy can't". So in other words your comment amounts to "yes it does, except where it doesn't"
Can somebody explain what Buzz actually does?

As far as I can tell, it is filling a tab on my inbox with random messages from people I've never heard of (though presumably are in my email address book or something), saying things like "I am testing Buzz."

How is this supposed to improve my life?
zsh with 'setopt noclobber' won't overwrite an existing file with '>', instead requiring '>|'. The history recall conveniently fills in the '|' for you if you up-arrow after a failed call. It works pretty nicely - I imagine other shells have similar.
the odd negative experience does not justify the massive wasteful expenditures of the horribly corrupt DoE.
1. src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1.min.js. Use http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min...

2. $(document).ready() twice in the same document. Use only one.

3. id='pagewidth'. Use id='about'.

My intention is not to point technical problems for the sake of it. But you should seriously treat this site itself as a little startup, invest your seed fund (your lowest band of 50k is enough. I know can do it for that amount :) into it and then start attracting other techies to join you. As part of knowing more about you, first thing any potential startupper will do in a browser (at least me) is press ctrl+u.
Perfect memory & recall seems to be a long-running theme in many near and far-future Sci-Fi books...

I commented to my girlfriend the other day that if I was ever given the option to have it I would refuse. An example: my cat died at the start of the year, a thoroughly heartbreaking occurrence. If I had perfect recall of that event, including my emotional state at the time, I think I would be emotionally and mentally crippled for the rest of my life...
Is this family part of a big movement that's actually a threat to the German way of life? I doubt it. It seems like a big overreaction to a minor threat.
Juventus
News, commentary and ticket information about Juventus, the most famous club in Italy
Most non-ex-googler engineers aren't either.
How to Request Bulk Datasets from Government
The appropriate question here is: do you have kids? This should be an obligatory statement (similar to IANAL) when you publicly question the way someone else is raising their kids.
speaking of astro turfing :)
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Historically, education was something for the elite because there was no need to educate the poor who would spend their lives performing unskilled labor; when it comes to education there is not a lot of historical precedent to fall back upon. In the US the concept of an educated citizenry was a core principle of the founders -- when you divest power to the masses you want them to be relatively smart about what they do with it. Public education predates the industrial revolution and while industrialists may have wanted a better-educated workforce that was not why public education was established. If a "pliable" workforce was desired then simple apprenticeship after basic literacy would have worked fine. Mass education gives a country more engineers, but is not required for simple factory work. It is in the interest of the state and it's citizens to seek the former and not just settle for the latter.
I second Kiva. I've been re-investing my original amounts (as it gets paid off you can either withdraw it or reinvest it) for over a year now.
You get to see real people and what business they need the money for. It seems more satisfying than generic donations elsewhere.
Basically seems like a new pseudo-VC who's roped in a bunch of rich civilians into this great-YC-idea-you-know-small-stakes-small-investments-but-BIG-returns Fund.

This is one of the cases where 'Launch Now, Fix later' doesn't really work out at all with your target audience.
The stereotype of the awkward homeschooler is not really accurate anymore. It's like saying all gay men wear tie-dye and talk with a lisp. Some people just tend to stand out more -- while the majority of people blend in with society.

Homeschooling does tend to focus on your strengths rather than making you average at everything. Subjects that take more discipline like reading or math are sometimes weaker. But by not forcing people to learn you don't squash their love of learning altogether. Most of my siblings were lousy at math early on-- now I'm a programmer and my brother is finishing his PhD in biology. We eventually learned math because we WANTED it. Maintaining a passion for learning is for more important than the particulars of what you are actually learning.
The first time I opened Buzz, I saw random thoughts from people in my neighborhood. If you're asking for restaurant suggestions, that's going to be far more helpful than Twitter, where you need to have people following you or searching for something in your tweet for people to ever see it.
Pingdom don't hash your password and don't mind at all
Here is my short email conversation with Pingdom Support :

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On 2010-02-08 à 09:16 AM, Support | Pingdom.com wrote :

Dear pingdom.com user,

We sent you this email because you requested your login data on our website.

Username: jeanphilippe.doyle@hooktstudios.com

Password: MyPasswordInClearTextAndNotHashed

With the above credentials you can log in to the Pingdom control panel at:

https://pp.pingdom.com/

The Pingdom Team
www.pingdom.com

Phone:
+1-212-796-6890 (USA)
+44-208-819-7490 (UK)
+46-21-480-0920 (International and Sweden)

Business hours: 3 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. US EST.

------------------------------------------------

On 02/09/2010 07:55 PM, Jean-Philippe Doyle wrote:
Hi

Why don't you hash passwords?

thx

Jean-Philippe Doyle

------------------------------------------------

Hi Jean-Philippe,

Thank you for contacting us.

Please note though that you can change your password by going to "Settings" in your Pingdom control panel and entering your new password in the "Password"-section at the "Settings"-page. Finally, confirm the changes by pressing the "Save settings"-button at the bottom of the page.

Please note that the passwords are store on a separate database server, and also that we cannot view the passwords stored in that database.

If you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Best Regards,

Aron Lander
Pingdom
www.pingdom.com

Phone:
+46-21-480-0920 International and Sweden GMT+1: 9:00-17:30 (Mon-Fri)
+44-208-819-7490 UK: 8:00-16:30 (Mon-Fri)
+1-212-796-6890 US EST: 3 am-11:30 am (Mon-Fri)

Business hours 3 am-11:30 am EST (Mon-Fri).
Isn't the 20% product owned by Google already?
I think the author should stop signing up for new web services. This is the path to happiness, for him.
"Osmosis vs diffusion is not difficult to understand. It just seems people use it to sound smarter, and thus fail miserably 99% of the time."

They fail 99% of the time with you, but if the vast majority of the people don't know the difference (as you said they don't), then the misusers aren't failing with the vast majority of listeners. :)
I'm not sure it's got anything to do with being open, but buzz is awesome because it's like a first-class email. I get notified of responses, my comments get saved in sent mail, I can even download buzz over POP!

Putting the pieces together, when I write this comment I'll get a copy in my email in a few minutes. Win.
That's actually a great idea. If people don't get the address bar, you might as well take it away and get more viewport. A couple buttons could actually do the job for that segment of users. On top of that, you can sell an app that enables users to map those buttons to other sites.
Most people who don't have kids (myself included) think they can still have valid opinions on child rearing. The more appropriate question to ask would be, "Have you tried this, and did it work?"
"So whats the deal with IAccelerator? "

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=842150
Alexander McQueen, Designer, Is Dead
Good point. The dev commentary for Half-Life 2 and Portal is really awesome, and very useful for level designers. For Half-Life 2 they talk a bunch about setting up dramatic scenes and in Portal they cover a lot of the ways they had to stop people from cheating. The Portal one is great for really learning how to do a great interactive tutorial. I remember a specific part where they talk about why they had to place a wall in a certain spot so that people would learn to use the portal gun in a specific way.
Alternatively, OpenFrameworks[1] (C++) targets the iPhone. I haven't used OF before, but I assume there's a speed/familiarity tradeoff here if you already know Processing.

[1] http://www.openframeworks.cc/
Kingston student Solves online copyright issues,already has over 1000 users
Presumably you accepted the default suggested people to follow. Go to the buzz tab, unfollow anyone you don't immediately recognize, and it becomes like facebook except integrated into gmail and only for people you actually communicate with.

Improve your life? I don't think anyone can answer that yet - it depends how people end up using it. And if you decide you don't like it, opt out.
The Drake Equation for the Multiverse
Not to mention that if you're successful at Goldman Sachs, you can quit and spend the rest of your life doing startups and still have enough left over for a golden pyramid when you die.
I know a number of people who after they graduate would love to focus on startups under the right circumstances, but one of a number of constraints they have is that they need health insurance, which isn't at present something that fits easily into a "Boot Strap Budget"
Bill Gates not impressed with the iPad
google should've integrated chatroulette instead. just #?@! and giggles.
To your point about camera focus: I believe that this was addressed in Avatar by rendering the whole scene in focus (which makes it look cartoony if you aren't viewing in 3D).

To your main point: The 3D still didn't feel completely natural. I did not feel like the camera was forcing me to focus on anything in particular, but I did feel like the whole thing was slightly blurry. Maybe it was my position in the theater (off to the right side of a huge Imax screen, rather than dead center), but it detracted from the experience because I wanted to appreciate the details and they were often fuzzy due to imperfect alignment of the images.
I can't answer to what the parent post specifically means here by it, but it just means "get everything in order". Pay attention to the details, plan for different possibilities, think through what might happen. That sort of thing.
All,

Thanks for your passionate inputs this is my friends ventures not Mine. All these inputs are conveyed to concerned teams.

BTW, I am working for NetApp, as a Marketing Manager :).

Don't have a start-up yet .
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I highly doubt that the price of the ic is going to drop as it still hasn't dropped a dollar. A oid controller is totally fine for a home cook, and if you can afford it the sous vide supreme is even better. A quality foodsaver would be just fine for home use as well. PS if any NYC HN'ers are interested in coming to an underground supper club for dinner, check our. Arazorashinyknife.com and shoot me an e-mail. Its a fun time and everybody Is welcome
"Scarcity of resources doesn't do anything to the profit margin,"

This is patently false. For example during a drought, most people would pay well above the cost of production for a glass of water.
Ah, I totally missed that he published the code. Thanks!
Google refuses to censor Australian YouTube
All,

Thanks for your passionate inputs this is my friends ventures not Mine. All these inputs are conveyed to concerned teams.

BTW, I am working for NetApp, as a Marketing Manager :).

Don't have a start-up yet. I can understand your anger, I am also an engineer.
BBC News - Skydiver Felix Baumgartner seeks to break sound barrier
Google shuts down music blogs without warning
Plus if it is a goodcrazy idea, chances are that it might be built as a google application.
Vatican Economist: Recession caused by low birth rate
25 seems pretty standard for angels, or even less if you get funding from an angel fund. That is the round may be 200K, but people may put in 10-25K.

I personally think I bring a lot. Check out my Web site for more info (in my profile). I'm willing to be very hands-on and bring all my experience (both business and technical) to help the startup become a success.
Maybe Greece Should Go Bankrupt
Actually, I do make French Laundry food at home sometimes. From the original cookbook, anyway.

I would think you still need something vaguely vacuum-sealer-like, since as the Baldwin guide says any air pockets will expand and insulate half the object.

But I suppose I'll try the $40 vacuum sealer.
You're probably on to something there, as both my parents are pretty weird (dad's a band geek and mom's a theater geek). I'd be interested to see a study of how a child's social and behavioral integration relates to that of their parents.
The NBA's Locker-Room Nerds
How to setup Windows 7 as a virtual machine on VMWare server
I couldn't agree more, bring it back home to state and local government at least, that way if I don't like the way my state is screwing things up I can move. As it is there's no way to leave behind the No Child Left Behind act without leaving the country.
Not necessarily. After all, Unix was built by brillant kids who glorified shortcuts and brilliant hacks.
Help my startup pick a new logo (redo)
You've excluded successful startups founded by non programmers.
I think the second point is a matter of taste. Aging is a fermentation process, and it changes the taste of the meat. Some like it, some don't. It's not like prime vs. choice, which is an issue of fat distribution: people almost universally like well-marbled meat vs. lean or fatty chunks.
> Especially in the early stages, all projects are more or less a crapshoot, so in order to tempt someone away from that 200k a year job, you're going to need to hand over a lot of equity, raise a lot of money, or overpower them with sheer force of charisma.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Frankly, I look for a biz guy who has an extreme amount of charisma because that can really help a biz.
More info here:
http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-shiny-tech-st...
Opting out is at the bottom of the page, by the way. It's right next to opting out of chat.
"Designers are from Venus and developers are from Mars. And they won’t ever really understand each other."

Utter nonsense. Or maybe it's true at giant enterprise silos more than startups and that's why I shy away from large corporate work. People at startups are a different breed than those at large companies, regardless of job role, and have to be interdisciplinary rather than divisive. That's the thrust of my talk tonight - Designers vs Product Managers - who's more important at startups?

http://ixdasf.ning.com/events/product-management-vs-design
CrunchBase Leaderboard: Where the Top VCs Invest (Infographics)
Ask HN: How come HN is not using CAPTCHA during registration?
How does HN contain spams? I do not see HN use CAPTCHA even during registration.
It only gets worse when you have a family to insure as well. Individual health insurance can have lifelong implications and it's a massive, massive amount of additional stress.

I, for one, don't enjoy worrying about a member of my family getting cancer or diabetes or something and dealing with pre-existing conditions clauses for the rest of our lives.
First of all, the electrical grid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid) is by this point a pretty well hardened and redundant infrastructure in major metropolitan areas.

I do think that for startps and smaller companies, receiving and paying for storage/compute power like electricity is the way to go.

But back for a moment to the A/B example. My point here is really with companies that are dealing with sensitive information. Let A = JP Morgan & B = Morgan Stanley.

JP Morgan, I would guess (somewhat wildly) probably owns and operates in the neighborhood of 18,000+ servers. At least half of those (roughly), probably contain mission critical programs and data. The other half, that don't contain mission critical data per se, probably contain either 1) backups of mission critical applications for emergencies, 2) email, documents etc of every single employee (sensitive data).

Now as long as JP gets the electricity that it needs who care where it comes from? It just needs to run its business. But the moment it lets important data out the door, all bets are off. Who accessed what? Is the network secure? Is the building physically secure from intrusion and corporate espionage? Does Morgan Stanley now know the JP automated trading strategies? and so on... Which is why I would say its not a no brainer to simply give up control of server infrastructure.
Ask HN: Does the Google Buzz icon remind you of the OS X pinwheel?
Google Buzz icon looks like Mac's pinwheel when something is loading or about to crash (and it's driving me insane).

Whenever I'm in Gmail now I have a moment of fear when I see the Buzz icon and mistake it for the Mac "I'm busy" pinwheel and hope that I saved all my work in Photoshop.

I'd love if it could at least be in gray scale when it's not being hovered over? Anyone with me? Bueller?
I cannot pin point what is different with GWT. May be I just need to try one the css frameworks to see if I get a better insight.
The author's objection to graduate school in the humanities has less to do with a lack of intellectual rigor than with the structure of the job market in that part of the academy.

So I think your comment is somewhat misleading in connecting this article (or "these articles") to your own criticism. (Which criticism may of course be valid on its own terms.)
PeekTwit - "Peek at what your friends are reading on Twitter"
Disk space is cheap, have some
Here is the problem with public school – it seems that it is an anti-intellectual place. I was bullied quite a lot in school (I was skinny, academically inclined and have extremely bad eye sight).

It seems that bullies single out people who do well academically to bully. In a lot of public schools, it seems that the focus is more on sport (and other activities) than education. In some public schools, teachers are lazy – due to the lack of performance evaluation and strong unions.

I marked one of my own record exams because the teacher was too lazy to mark it himself. He was angry at me because I insisted to have the subject in higher grade (he pushed everyone to take standard grade so that he doesn’t have to compose two tests).

Certainly, a private school would be better. But parents should have the choice on how their children are schooled (whether in private school, home school or religious school). It seems that every group wants children to be schooled in their public schools to teach them their ideology. This is BS.

The government should be forced to give vouchers to people who send their children to private school (instead of forcing to pay twice for education if they don’t want the mediocre government education).
When Is Transparency Useful?
In a small startup the analog to this is turning on a wide-scale Google adwords campaign with no site optimization, no keyword optimization, and no idea about what your customers/potential customers want, and watching Google charge you $2000 in a week.
It seems the Judge has an agenda of his own.
When I was in college, I went to the career center looking for a job. I had my resume all spiffy and on it was a startup I had been working on in college.

The recruiter asked why I didn't pursue the startup idea and I said, "I need to pay the rent."

I think that sums it up right there for most. We enter college with nothing, and we leave college with less than nothing (i.e. $100,000 in debt). So we go get a job so we can pay the bills meaning we get $5k a month coming in pretty easily and that's a lot of money. It's definitely enough money for a college kid to pay for rent and be happy for a while and they probably end up being so happy that nothing else is worth the risk.

Why risk $60k a year on a startup that will buy you (if you are lucky) some ramen to eat and some space in your parents' basement? A BMW plus a phat apartment in a high rise is difficult to turn down for something that appears, for all intents and purposes, to have about a 1 in 1000 (at best) shot of success.

That's why we have no entrepreneurs anymore. Life is too easy without them.
Zynga Buys Social Gaming Startup Serious Business
Ah, that explains things a bit more. A RRW'ing is actually a little rougher than a TechCrunching in my experience, and loftier webapps than yours have crumbled under the load.

Still, I'd be worried if a single-query homepage like yours was showing even a hint of a load spike under that sort of traffic. It's amazing that even cheapo hosting can really be that bad.
Yes, but once you're "the guy/gal who wrote $SUCCESSFUL_GOOGLE_PRODUCT", you have a lot of credibility, experience, etc. as resources to make your own product that you do own.

The point of the 20% products for Google is to give the company startup-style flexibility. It works the other way, too - if you take a product from whiteboard doodling all the way to an official Google product, well, a startup is like that, except 100% of the time, on your own bank account, and with no admins/middle managers to take care of the business side for you.
It's a good summary of existing plugins, but... Like dmix said, it's hard to find the demo: http://bugsvoice.com/applications/bugsVoice/site/test/tagBox... , and once I tried it, the list of suggested tags didn't match the tags it was actually auto completing, which lead me to believe it was broken. IE: it says "suggested tags: jquery tagging tag component delicious javascript", but "tag" doesn't complete.
AppScale and the Commoditization of Cloud Infrastructure
Interesting. They might be using a heuristic, or they might be auto-following people who follow me from their address books.
They wouldn't be selling "at a loss" based on fixed costs. They'll eventually recoup those somehow, much like AT&T or Comcast or anyone else will. Comcast may hope you'll buy On Demand movies while Google might settle for more Youtube views.

Is it selling at a loss if I pay someone $100k to write software and then sell it for $15/pop?
Yeah, but there's the rub. I unfollowed everybody it would allow me to, but there's still a couple people there without "unfollow" in the dropdown list of options.

They're marked "Twitter - Public" instead of "Buzz - Public", which is probably the reason they're un-unfollowable. Unfortunately, they're also the loudest and most innane of the bunch.
Did anyone reading actually go out to a coffee shop and ask random people to test their apps? It does sound a little weird...
My hunch is you need both adults and peers to learn social mores: adults as role models, and peers as test subjects.
Entrepreneurs Who Succeeded without a College Degree
Or it could be that they didn't even know it was an option for them. Going to work for Google is the easy thing to do after college.
Starbucks’ Midlife Crisis