skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion duck duck go is a prominent "brand" on HN for a single simple reason. It's (now forgive my language) but a ballsy startup for a really simple reason. Your competition is Google!!!... and not just a company who happens to be owned by Google, you're competing with Google in their primary business. You're also doing it by yourself, and to top it off you're getting results!! I'll read anything about it, because its essentially like watching the Boston Red Socks play some little league team from Milwaukee... the twist though, is the game is almost tied, and the Boston Red Socks aren't throwing the game. Its plain exciting!
What a super article. It is actually really good reading too for anybody that manages programmers and/or designers, outside the context of rent-a-coder.

Things like scope creep and how to return beta reviews are really spelled out well.
And a more recent one (a lot of which ends up focused on /usr/local and sudo): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1095793
I guess the trick is there aren't that many possibilities, so you precomputed them all can search through the list.
Net neutrality: Are all bits created equal?
Ask HN: Could HN be a dating bureau for entrepreneurs? 
Could I find my co-founder here on hn? So what if I wanted to advocate my interest in finding a co-founder, could that be a sub-part of hn?
Make sure you also spend some money on a security detail for your mom, specially when traveling in the geek parts of town.
You think you can build a model that is better than the bookies's?
Economic contrarians like me quite often experience a resurgence in karma points after a user point out how unfair the downvotes is.

My opinions may be unpopular but it is respected.
JGate adds revision control
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As to (1): I looked at http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=income+per+capita+in+ea... and noted that the highest income per capita is 12.64 times larger than the lowest. I'm not sure how that "quantifies" anything.

And before you say that the highest number, $21,000 is meaningful in anyway, let me just add that I've paid programmers $65,000 a year (in Poland).

Please, people, stop generalizing. "Eastern Europe" is just as silly as EMEA, "SouthEast Asia" or "North America".
Have you built and sold any iPhone apps?
Two other ideas worth considering:

GNU stow (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/)

Rudix (http://rudix.org/)

Completely opposite approaches, but they're both worth looking at - especially if you find MacPorts or Fink too much. (Stow takes an approach similar to Homebrew's use of 'cellar' + individual subdirectories for packages; Rudix provides precompiled binaries.) Rudix in particular is perfect if you just want one or two *nix items quick on a Mac.
... Then worry more about making linux more useable to ordinary people, who care about usability, not some fuzzy freedom ideals.

This has huge potential.
more tripe.... Businesses will act like Businesses. Google and Apple have very different ways of making money and they have now reached a point where their business models are in opposition. No drama, no betrayal, just business.

HTC is Google's weak link because they don't have a patent chest of their own to defend themselves. Apple and Microsoft already have agreements. Nokia and Blackberry have their own patents so they probably will get some resolution with Apple. Samsung does manufacturing for a lot of these companies so they are probably safe.
Don't forget Cappuccino!

http://cappuccino.org/
It would be neat if there was that sort of financial perpetual-motion. Oh wait, that would be like the financial services industry in the US for the past 10 years. It always comes crashing down eventually.
I don't think I can agree with that.

The difference between Northern Michigan and Southern California or New York is substantially larger than the difference between Poland and Romania or Ukraine.

The biggest difference between those countries and the US can be summed up in one word: market.

They simply have a very limited local market for these skills, but plenty of people there have some skills and are prepared to work very hard to get more. Their cost of living can - at least in the former eastblock - easily approach the cost of living in the US. Plenty of ex eastblock countries are now using the Euro, either for their day-to-day transactions or already for their debt, even though they still have a national currency (because the Euro is more stable, banks like to borrow money in Euros to individuals that get paid in a local currency, very risky but many banks got burned badly during hyperinflation at the end of the 80's).

We agree on the contract bit, I think.

The contract situation is something that is not so important when using systems like rent-a-coder, you're not going to use it to write the gut of an ATM or a mission critical piece of software for a financial institution or a health care provider.

Rent-a-coder is primarily intended for relatively short running simple projects that you want to get done on a minimal budget.

The whole idea of relying on such cheap labour for something that you put a very high value on (high enough to go to court over) is counter to the intended purpose of the service.
Security and logistic aside, "how many people vote" may not be the right metric for problem that needs to be solved.

Elections are just a substitute for real collaboration and daily participation in public life.
I don't believe this is good corporate strategy. The two are in a legal battle, and their future interests do cross. However, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. What exactly do they expect to gain from this?
quote from article: "One well-connected Silicon Valley investor, who did not want to be identified talking about the Google-Apple feud, says he is stunned by the level of rancor he’s witnessed."

I wonder who this is?
now, with happyness ☺
They say that so when you tell them it's dumb, they can claim it's because they didn't spend any time on it.

It's like how kids always brag how little they studied for a test, even before they take it. It's an excuse for failure.
This is a great subject. Framing is essentially manipulating our bayesian priors. I am interested in the variation of this thought line that we can consciously vary our prior. I can do this with, for instance, a Necker cube. I can deliberately switch my anticipated model and have the rest of my experience line up with this switch. Although curiously, it has a rather slow switching time.
Politics and Mashups
I would like a bill that expressly prohibits the blocking of ports or protocols without the account holder's permission. I also wish I could prioritize my own traffic (skype > download). Yeah, I know, I want the pony.
Largest ever mathematical magic trick tomorrow on twitter.
Er... What!?!

> Why doesn't the square on the hypotenuse just slide off?

This is nonsensical to me. Could you please elaborate? You seem to be asking why an idea isn't effected by gravity...
Re. 1: it's not something people who never move from the country really experience. If I spend 10% of my salary on food and you do the same, who cares how much we earn? Of course it matters in some global sense and affects the prices of quality goods like electronics which are imported - but in a day-to-day life, I don't think it really matters.

Re. 2: Good luck telling people in Estonia and Ukraine that they're similar in any way ;) "Eastern block" was not a one big lump of states by people's choice and did not break without a reason.

Re. 3: What really bothers me in the previous post is something completely different than you say here. Of course - you can double check to be sure you're right before blaming foreign contractor for the quality of work - because of the lack of legal protection. But if your requirements are not fulfilled - why does it matter if the work was done in US or somewhere else? Your friend wasn't happy with the result. When you say you shouldn't be "pressuring some overseas consultant" in a post about EE countries and income, it seems to me a bit condescending...
Highly unlikely. I might be able to beat the local bar's betting circle though.
1. Get rid of the image on home page that others have complained about.

2. Make the 'search radius' logarithmic.

3. On the map, why are multi-item pins orange vs. green? It's unclear and confusing.

4. Remember my location, search radius using cookies/session.

5. When I click on a pin, highlight the corresponding item in the list pane on the left.

6. Why not show me both (the eBay link + item pic) when I click on a pin or when I hover on the list pane on the left?

7. Can I have a feature to see 'buy it now' items only?

Overall, great work. Keep it up :)
What size project would you typically get done for the $450-$550 mentioned?

I'm intrigued that this might be a way to get some small projects done I've been putting off done (like a simple shopping cart app with a few specific functions, that I just can't get interested in.)
Good experiments are those whose results are surprising, because these are the ones we're learning from. How much worth is an experiment teaching us what we already know? In that sense, good science is unintuitive by definition.

However, since this great stuff taught in school, the once surprising results don't surprise anymore. The next generation is grown up with it, so is develops a direct feeling for it. Science seems to be intuitive. But that's only the old results. Newer results are still surprising, at least to that generation. And the generations thereafter will have their moments of surprise, too.

That's progress.
The Writer monad is better suited to logging than IO.

http://www.haskell.org/all_about_monads/html/writermonad.htm...
Steve got burned a long time ago by MS copying many of Apple's designs. I think anyone in his shoes would go out of their way to not let it happen again.
XMLVM: a cross-compiler toolchain (e.g. .NET to JVM)
they really can only do that two ways

You left out differentiation, which has always been Apple's primary way of competing. Differentiation becomes a lot harder when the competition can simply copy you.
For most physical things, I like patents. As an example, without patents, no sane company would produce drugs. I don't even really have a problem with "Design" patents (pretty narrow, easy to avoid).

It's the concept of this ethereal stuff that bugs me. The IsNot patent and the One Click show the system is broken. Heck, look at the xor patent. I think the easiest way to have wrote the law is that it must be a physical object to be patented. Otherwise protect it with copyright.
allow city names instead of zipcodes
Well, you know that Apple will be unwilling to make a "cheaper" phone. They are in the 'premium computing device' business—i.e. they'll never sell something perceived as cheap, they'll never cut features in order to get the price down.

I think what we're seeing here is partly a tragic flaw in Steve Jobs's persona. He obviously has an issue when he feels that his innovation has been ripped off. What we may be seeing here is a replay of the 'look and feel' type dispute between Jobs and Gates. Jobs felt that his innovation was simply ripped off by a cheaper, tasteless knockoff (and in a sense he was right). In the end, there was nothing Jobs could do about it. Now he feels like the same thing happened. Just as Jobs had shown Gates his ideas in confidence and was then ripped off, Jobs likely feels the same way about Schmidt--he took Schmidt into his confidence, allowed him to be privy to Jobs's vision, and now Google is producing graceless copies of what he's worked so hard on.

Obviously Google's side of the story may be true—they bought Android and developed it for a long time, well before the iPhone was revealed. Apple doesn't necessarily have a right to prevent other companies from copying touch interfaces and other aspects of the iPhone that were unique when it was first introduced. But if I were Steve Jobs I might feel like the same thing that happened to me in the early '90s is in danger of happening to me again in the late '00s / early '10s. It's one of those fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me situations, and I'm sure it's frustrating for Jobs at a time when he's rightly perceived as being at the top of his game.
Experimenting with governments is dangerous and can have percussion of biblical proportion. Meanwhile, our current form of "government" continue its path toward oblivious social upheaval because we could not fix the engineering flaws even if we want to. Not to mention our ability to notice societal causation and effect is stretched to its limits as social policies took decades and years to realize their terrible effects, making it difficult for us to accumulate knowledge about the design of human institutions.

Meanwhile, technologies has increase our ability to grow and feed the parasitism that exists within our stagnating social system. However, technologies have the ability to speed up social evolution and increase our ability to create new social institutions. This in turn, may allow us to experiment with better social institutions and crush old malfunctioning ones. More dynamics in governmental system mean economic growth can accelerate to levels undreamed of.

This is why the sea-steading movement is immensely important. If we can generate dynamicism in the government market, we can increase competition and generate better designs. Revolutions of the bloody scale would be kept in check with increased physical mobility and increased pressure to improve.

In other words, it's technology or bust.
Steve Blank had an interesting post about this: http://steveblank.com/2010/02/08/emulating-empathy/
There’s something that puzzles me. The author found a rootkit and saw that it was integrated very deeply in the system. Yet he tried to fix the system from within!

Only after some failed attempts to download and install a new kernel, he finally did the Right Thing and shut down the server to analyze the hard disk from outside.

To everyone who encounters such a rootkit, I strongly recommend to skip this second step. If you see such a deeply integrated rootkit, shut down the computer immediately! No fiddling! Then, take out the hard disk and copy and analyze it as described in the article.

Otherwise, you’d enable the rootkit to hide its traces, and to maybe destroy some data. You don’t learn anything from that fiddling. Satisfy your curiosity only after perpetuating evidence! (i.e. after copying the hard disk’s data)
I would prefer legislation that attempts to nerf the power of broadband providers by increasing competition. This might look like open access rules, it might look like something else.

The problem isn't that particular providers do things that their customers might not like, the problem is that a large number of those customers have (at best) the choice of two companies to buy from... and those two companies are state subsidized monopolies.
True, but on the flip side, demand for China's goods might be significantly lower if they weren't manipulating their currency. If their goods had a higher valuation from being priced in a more valuable yuan, the demand would probably fall. I guess we have to wonder whether it's politically more important for China to sell high volume/low price or eventually more to medium volume/medium price.
Lack of wealth through lack of empathy — Can you produce what you can’t consume?
Dropbox is awesome and it has single-handedly made me a backup freak.
My favorite is "I can't believe I only got 3 hours of sleep last night because of that party".

Now you can claim you are cool cause of your lack of sleep and because you don't need to study.
Look up anything related to "digital signage".

I used to work in kiosk software, sort of a similar area.
OK the best textarea editor I've tried today is "It's All Text!", found here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125

It reliably places a little blue "edit" button below the lower-right corner of
the text area. When you click the button it reliably grabs any text in the
textarea and puts it into your external editor. When you save changes in the
external editor, it automatically refreshes the text area with the new content.

I also like "It's All Text" for security reasons. It puts temporary edit files
inside your own ~/.mozilla/firefox/$profile/itsalltext directory, with access
set to owner-only (chmod 700).

In contrast, the Texto plug-in puts temporary edit files in /tmp, granting read
access to group and other (chmod 644). I'm not too comfortable with that.
That you are not serious. I like 4chan and can laugh at pedobear jokes, but no way would I give you any money because you're trying too hard to be one of the cool kids and don't seem to understand or care that it might offend future customers. Keep business and personal stuff separate.
Interview with Chris Dixon on the Founder Collective
Former P.A. Semi chief leaves Apple for chip startup - report
Maybe if I use your mashup you'll repost my personal data for the lulz, too.
Welp.

I submitted this several hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1189162

I like your site, how have you been attracting users?
The World Of Salamanca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-handicapping
I like the concept and the name--and second pulling the registration, the ads, and the Share rollover. The rollover is especially annoying at the bottom of the page (i.e., in the last item) because it can interfere with Next button, about which there is very little cursor-friendly space. You could move page numbers to center, like Google, or box them, like Digg (I think). Good luck.
Two anecdotal reports do not constitute 'substantial evidence.' I'm particularly skeptical about the incident last week, which could very well have been staged in the hopes of a big settlement. No one inside or outside of Toyota has been able to reproduce the alleged defect under controlled conditions, despite the great potential reward for doing so. On the other hand, incompetent, greedy, and crazy drivers are very common.

Given a simple explanation (human incompetence/greed) and a complex one (a serious mechanical flaw that cannot be reproduced and displays a bias toward the elderly), we should prefer the simpler explanation.

(Update on new questions surrounding last week's Prius incident: http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/2010/03/questions-rais...).
Sure, why not ? Just write up a nice description of what you are looking for in a co-founder and post it, I'm sure you'll either get some real respondents or you'll learn about what's wrong in the way you approach it.

have a look here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950

and do a google search for

site:news.ycombinator.com co-founder wanted

and

site:news.ycombinator.com looking for a co-founder

best of luck!
Consider these points
1. Most of the technology needed for spaceflight may be both developed and tested on the ground.
2. Therefore, the exploration of near planets without a solid technological base (and we don't have one, do the research: I mean the correlation between developed and required technology) has merely a sign value, and remains close to none practical use for scientists.
3. Spaceflight and exploration might be a great inspiration for the whole planet of aspiring space engineers, but even I, a space-geek, agree with your administration on this matter. This is not a time to inspire, this is a time to pull up some strings in the economy. And in the meanwhile a competitively set industry private or not might push the technology forward to earn the financing they long took for granted.

Many people fail to separate two things: a) the process of evolving technology and exploring space; b) the process of putting people to orbit. Why do you think the space station will be trashed so soon? It has little to none value, but sucks the resources FROM the technology.

So if we want to 'harvest' H_3 from the Moon surface, why do we need people up there? The fact is that we actually don't. Even modern robotics as simple as it is, may do most of the resource gathering job cheaply. While human presence and life-support will increase the cost and move this perspective even further into the future.

All eyes are turned where there is a prospect of financial gain. Right now, the gain is negative because of the lacking technology that needs investment. That is exactly why we have 3-5 people in space and not a large colony of workers. We use more money on supporting those three, than on making ground for some larger operations.

Where am I wrong?
While it's nice to build a cool narrative around Steve Jobs and a long time "tragic flaw," this doesn't hold up. Steve Jobs was not at Apple when they sued Microsoft. It was filed in 1988[1], and Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985 [2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso....
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
I made slightly more than 42 quadrillion dollars* in less than a nanosecond. Doing nothing at all. Suddenly all those 'overnight millionaires' look like punks. Wait, they are punks.

*Zimbabwe dollars (approximate value in U.S. dollars: 0.00001
I suspect that YC data is similar to TechStars. TechStars is actively making it public, which is probably a smart move to encourage some budding startups to apply.

As part of a project last year I tried to collate information on a bunch of accelerator programs, including TechStars and YC. (I need to update it with the new TechStars data in this report yet, though.) Link is here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1...
How Entrepreneurs Should Feel Fear
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1189470
Yeah, but there are plenty of places in the USA (and I suspect other countries) where there will only be 1 or 2 providers based on geography and profit analysis. So, I really would like the protection.
Hmm, looks familiar.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1185345
While I agree with your sentiments, it should be pointed out that Steve Jobs had nothing to do with the 'look and feel' lawsuit against Microsoft.

'Apple Computer, Inc. vs. Microsoft Corporation' was filed in 1988, and finally resolved in 1994. Steve Jobs was at NeXT the whole time.
Often the most mundane / everyday things are the most profitable. Online greeting cards, competitions, myspace layouts, avatars, ebooks etc etc.
I think some of the posts are clearly in jest, to propagate the meme but with a wink saying 'you don't really believe this do you'.

Then there are those that want to promote a platform or a technology showing how rapid they could develop a toy website, basically a functioning prototype. Most of those would fall apart under the first serious load (and some do right after posting here), but still, you have to hand it to the people that can push themselves like that just to have something to show off their favourite piece of kit.

Then there are those that really believe this is the way to do it, to whip out some site in 24 hours and to call it a 'start-up' instead of a one night project.

Usually the latter two fail as fast as they come, but every now and then one of them shows staying power.

pingwire.com comes to mind, after several iterations it now looks a lot better than the first announcement, and there are plenty of others.
I'm sure ideas are affected by gravity (think Aristotle, and the idea of rest), generously understood, and according to one story about an apple even effected by gravity, but as for the square falling off the hypotenuse, that was just a joke, which has itself fallen quite flat.
Maybe it's just the pure creative joy? I know that as a maker I get kicks when stuff I built works.
I think that's interesting but sad when a person makes a good-faith effort to help out, because it deducts from that person's karma even though they don't really deserve a punishment for trying to help.
Another one is Xapian (http://xapian.org/), but really why not postgres - it has very high-performance full-text search built in.