skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I should have probably vented my frustration in an email to you instead of in public.

Apologies for that.
> Everything can be learnt: You can read [snip]

You can't read the experience of actually being in the Bay Area/Silicon Valley and meeting people face to face.

That said, you don't need YC to enable you to visit the area either. Go visit, meet people, chances are those contacts might lead somewhere...
RDF.rb: A Public-Domain RDF Library for Ruby
We have more senses than just our eyes, but I can see how this would appeal to people that are constrained in time and funds.

But it seems like it is no substitute for the real thing.

An item for the 'bucket list'.
Yeah, but shareholders in corporations have a much more credible threat of exit. The more people exercise said right the more the price falls, and eventually the management is replaced.
Probably a porn app.
I don't disagree.

After all, the entire point is to have a solution to start with, which might just be a personal itch, then pivot the more you interact with customers.

The pivot is key. You and I or a hundred other folks could debate for hours the merits or drawbacks of a particular solution. The key thing here is that there is a direction that is very clear, yet also very changeable. Customer development is much more important than initial vision, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have an initial vision.

EDIT: One of the interesting things I found looking for a partner was dealing with folks and initial visions. Either nobody could agree on one, in which case nothing could get started, or potential partners were so attached to a particular vision that it was going to impeded the required later pivot. It's hard to be motivated about something you know is wrong (to some degree)
Fair enough, so, yes, there are parallels.

Recording studios and very talented 'schmucks' are for hire though, but the distribution network is not, and I think that's where the big difference lies.

I know of at least one 'one man, one woman' shop that got a sequoia investment, so even if you don't expect it, it does happen.
'In his most recent writings, Ehman [the discoverer of the signal] resists "drawing vast conclusions from half-vast data."'
We grow white carrots in our garden. They have a much smoother and much less earthy taste when raw. My kids love them pulled right out of the ground and washed off with the hose.
When can we expect Red Hat Enterprise 6?
Copyright holders drop Pirate Bay legal action in Norway
Why would an alien intelligence randomly throw a beam around so we're only in it for a few minutes? I think I've read that when we do the same, we pick out a likely place, and track that while broadcasting - exactly for this reason: the reception need to be long enough that you can confirm that it's an actual signal and tune to it so you can actually see what it says.
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I was surprised to read "Assuming they would read my demo page this time, I spent all of my time focusing on the demo instead of the application" given the start of the application form specifically says "We look at online demos only for the most promising applications, so don't skimp on the application because you're relying on a good demo".

Did you miss that or just interpret it differently to me?
Tell HN: I created a google group for offline web applications
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> brilliant man

This clown made amazing decisions like taking Bush et al words_ that NATO won't spread to the East, sincerely thinking that West is here to help and so on.

> that the second election of Yeltsin and the first election of Putin were fraudulent.

It was fraudulent since 75% voted for preserving USSR
at 1991.
Couldn't find that many resources, so I thought a place to discuss the issues surrounding HTML5 offline web apps might be a good idea.

I wanted to use Zed's new groups thing as it's supposed to be spam free, but couldn't find it easily. Is it still around? So a tired Google group for now.
The Profit and Loss Statement
"Unfortunately for Android, many or even most consumers prefer a Disney-fied experience."

Even so, there is still the other consumers. I simply can't help the Disney-fied consumers.

Consumers also like to eat candy all day and watch TV, but I don't want to feed them candy and TV because I know it is not healthy. Should be possible to find some business model that I can also agree with.
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> Shock therapy was not bad economic advice.

If you don't count those who died of starvation because savings were burned in hyperinflation and pensions were (and still are) _tiny_, those who were killed during inevitable criminalization of society, Russians who were killed because of nationalizm in USSR republics, _millions_ of unborn children because of economical and political instabilities, then, yes, it wasn't bad advice.
> I'll stop short of calling up the pharmacy

What kind of hacker are you? :)
E Ink's big problem is the Mirasol technology that Qualcomm has.

Mirasol supposedly has better power usage characteristics than E Ink, and does color and full-motion video to boot. It's also basically ready now, with Qualcomm promising both 5.7 and 10.5 inch tablet/readers using the display by the holiday season.

To see the Mirasol in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmpBgaPGYKQ&feature=playe...

The rumor is that this is the display that will be found in the next Kindle, but who knows for sure.
My point isn't that you're not right in those points.

My point is that if trouble arises in either of those places (which isn't unlikely at all, considering a time-span of several decades), a travel advisory is sent out, and tourism to that area ceases temporarily. See Bangkok today, for an example. If that happens to any country on the route, the entire route shuts down.
The Partial Redundancy of Picnik
Ok, we have a winner!

Here's a giant roof-turtle:

http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-fr.php?x=-31.115224...

If you look closely there is a tiny white number 6 close to his head.

There is equally a tiny number 3 just above the pi symbol if you zoom in all the way:

http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/?x=55.64285410150907&...

So it's part of the easter eggs. Damn what a wild goose chase (and a lesson in not making assumptions, you know what they make of you...)
The anecdote about the babysitters and the lesson he's explaining is lifted directly from Krugman's Depression Economics.

He mentions Krugman briefly later, in support of his argument, but doesn't properly cite the material in question or mention the fact that Krugman is in fact the one making the argument...
Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Fedora 12
A valid concern. This prompted them to implement oAuth for GMail, as described here http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/06/gmail-imap-etacts/ and discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172211 .
Or even just the Readability bookmarklet.
> VCs do months of due diligence before they'll write you a check.

That just simply isn't true. Early stage is much quicker. The only time a VC needs 'months' to do dd is when there is a substantial company already, so when you're doing a late-stage investment, usually in the millions.
If it is indeed extra terrestrial, it's possible that it wasn't deliberately broadcast to us.
He didn't use force against his own people, and this was in strong contrast to the sort of leaders you have pointed out. Mao and Lenin and Chavez wouldn't hesitate to use force to reach their objectives.

his goal was not some kind of communist utopia with a
completely centrally planned government

Central planning is a foundation of socialist thought, and he was pursuing this. (1) He was implementing a computer system designed to run a centrally planned state and used it in anger; (2) he had a stated aim to seize and redistribute property based on priorities to be determined by a central authority; (3) he was forming strategic relations with the soviet union; (4) he was undermining the separation of powers in the standing constitution; (5) close working relationship with the communist party, sometimes against the perspective of his own party and supporters.

In places where a tiny minority have a chokehold
on a country's economy land reform is a pretty
essential prerequisite to general political and
social equality

Social equality is an unachievable ideal though.

Chile never underwent that reform, and has for the last twenty years been the most stable elected parliament in the region, with economic growth at all levels of society. The UK has never land reform of this sort either.

... thinking that it was better for U.S. long-term
interests to overthrow the government...

I don't buy into your original point that what Kissinger thought was to have been more important than what the local powerbases was doing.

I don't find it surprising that the US took a dim view of Allende. He was supported by his local communist party and was setting up an intelligence relationship with the Soviet Union, and the cold war was on.

But I agree with you that the US would do better by leading by example rather than meddling in the affairs of other states, and that that sort of conduct is the 'right' thing to do.
Impressive.

You too can have Linux 3s boot time on one of 214 supported motherboards from the likes of Asus, MSI, SuperMicro, Intel and Tyan with Coreboot (GPL)

http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot
Buddypress vs. Mingle
This exists, for large businesses -

http://developer.apple.com/programs/iphone/enterprise/

In house apps can be distributed without the App Store.
Hmmm.. well ORG has been attempting to organise something similar: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/disconnection

Don't know how much success they've had.
Click the 'Share my position'/'Partager ma position' button at the bottom, among the Twitter and Facebook links, to get a link with coordinates.
Wrong on both accounts.
tl;dr Researcher coded fairly short conversations between about 60 married couples, then six years later he fed their marital status and self rated happiness into the computer. He used modeling software to create an optimal equation for prediction of marriage and happiness based on the variables he had coded for originally.

It's a good first step, but it's not strictly predictive. It's like an older financial model.
He fitted a curve to the training data and called it a prediction. How is this not fraud?
I recently tested your search engine and I must say I am utterly impressed. Your results are structured well and you hit the nail on the head regarding the relevance of search results in the few searches I tried. I am really impressed with your work!

I think it's a shame that any search engine always gets compared to Google immediately. They've had years and thousands of people to perfect their work. I would really love to see Duckduckgo grow.
Digital literacy (how to use technology/computers) maybe, programming literacy I am more sceptical.
The use of computers and basic tools is more vital than programming for the average person. Most employers require it, soon it will be necessary to buy basic services (plane ticket, concert ticket).
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Wow, what a bureaucracy. In Finland the State has simple database (called "Ennakkoperintärekisteri"). If you register to that database as a contractor, you are held responsible for your own taxes/worker payments, and you can bill companies. Then companies can buy your services without worries. Really simple.
In Aaron's very first example with scrip, people would just start babysitting for half a piece. "Not enough dollars" you say?
Web Laureate Insight, "comotivate"
Rate my app: online appointments done right
yes, its a very well done engine. The amazing thing is, its done by one guy, awesome. Another interesting thing is, it is done in Perl.
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Right, that would destroy the value of the property people have already earned and somehow managed to keep. That would be wrong.

If you want jobs, let people accumulate capital and invest it how they like.
I agree, since showdead is only available to logged in users, they might as well see the links.

No 'link juice' or anything would ever flow to those sites.

And I doubt the folks that look at the site using 'showdead' need protection from malware or spam sites.

The one reason I can think of is that any clicks from HN would lead to those users re-posting under different accounts because they got some traffic. And in that way it might be beneficial to really get rid of them.
Fraud implies he did it on purpose, it seems likely in this case that he didn't realize that his methods were invalid.
Validating RDF from public linked data sources like Wikipedia
1) Just under 6 months (part time).

2) No, didn't apply.

3) No, haven't tried.

4) http://www.brightspoke.com/

My goal is to put more people on bikes by creating educated consumers and helping them discover the joy of cycling.

I did a "rate my startup" post a few weeks back at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1111941. I got a lot of good feedback from that and have been making a lot of changes, but there's a lot more in the pipeline.
You should never eat wild white carrots or parsnips. They are difficult to distinguish from hemlock root, which is highly poisonus.
How is this different or superior to languages like Objective-C and C++ ? Both provide C like syntax and have similar features as the system described here.
"Additionally the C in ACID is not equivalent to the C in CAP."

It would help if the people writing papers about CAP knew what the C in ACID meant before they wrote their papers.

Here is the relevant paragraph from the paper "Brewer's Conjecture and the Feasibility of Consistent, Available, Partition-Tolerant Web Services" Created: 10/08/2003 14:42
http://lpd.epfl.ch/sgilbert/pubs/BrewersConjecture-SigAct.pd...

"Most web services today attempt to provide strongly consistent data. There has been significant research designing ACID2 databases, and most of the new frameworks for building distributed web services depend on these databases. Interactions with web services are expected to behave in a transactional manner: operations commit or fail in their entirety (atomic), committed transactions are visible to all future transactions (consistent), uncommitted transactions are isolated from each other (isolated), and once a transaction is committed it is permanent (durable). It is clearly important, for example, that billing information and commercial transaction records be handled with this type of strong consistency."

Notice it says "... committed transactions are visible to all future transactions (consistent), ..."

This is not correct because the data can be overwritten by a subsequent transaction.

In this version of the same paper
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.20....
Created: 09/11/2007 01:17 the paragraph is the same except it says

"... transactions never observe or result in inconsistent data (consistent), ..."

If we go back to the people who seem to have coined 'ACID' in this paper "Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery" Theo Haerder and Adreas Reuter 1983.
http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/dbis/lehre/ws2005/dbs1/HaerderR...

We see

"Consistency. A transaction reaching its normal end (EOT, end of transaction), thereby committing its results, preserves the consistency of the database. In other words, each successful transaction by definition commits only legal results."

and later they say

"... a database is consistent if and only if it contains the results of successful transactions. Such a state will hereafter be called 'transaction consistent' or 'logically consistent'. A transaction, in turn, must not see anything but effects of complete transactions (i.e., a consistent database in those parts that it uses), and will then, by definition, create a consistent update of the database."

that is for consistency the trasaction only has to have isolation and to commit consistent results, not 'observe' consistent data. This is because the database up to the point where the transaction starts has been created by a number of committed transactions against an originally empty database. By induction the data the transaction 'observes' must be consistent because the previous transactions have only committed consistent results.

I do not know what the C in CAP means.
Even in this case iPhone OS sells only on two devices (so far) and Android is on ~20 I assume.
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I had envied Peter from afar for two years but he had a girlfriend, Ginger. She looked like a super model. Long dark hair and eyes. Her legs were a mile long and she had smile worthy of a tooth paste commercial.
Exactly, or maybe not broadcast by the dominant players! The speculative possibilities for this are huge - if we assume that the Zoo Hypothesis for the Fermi Paradox is correct (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Earth_is_purposel...) you could theorise that some renegade alien scientific faction tried to communicate with us before being obliterated by the dominant civilisation in our part of the Milky Way.

No proof, but a delicious tantilizing thought :)
1) 2 years. 2) no. 3) no 4) http:// windycitizen.com
Bridges are designed with a lifetime. The wear and tear of weatherization, vibrations, and entropy. The vast majority have no initial design problems. Bridges get old and need to be replaced. A lot were built in the 50s along with the interstate system. Many are coming up to or are past their expiration date.

And for a long time American corporations and people really didn't think in the longterm. Now that we've found out what the real cost of short term gains are there has been a resurgence in thinking local. For example, the locavore movement, popularity of hybrid and electric vehicles, and the healthcare debate can all be considered long term strategies.
I wrote a booking app some years ago, and the biggest UI win was to choose the date and time first, then enter all the details. This matched the workflow of the customer much better: someone would phone up, and the first thing they wanted was a time for the appointment. Once they'd got something which worked, then they were very happy to hand over their details.

Are you planning an API so that other sources can read and write data? (eg client contact details)

Is the Pro version suitable for use with confidential client lists?
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Sweet, delicious over-fitting. What a way to start the day d;D.
I agree, it's not fraud, strictly speaking

However, to create a "predictive model", and then not check it on fresh data, is so staggeringly inept as to be reckless.

He should have known better, and the zillions of folks who parroted the results really should have read the study carefully.
I'd much rather take Eurostar than a plane from Paris <-> London, sure there's security checkpoint but the whole process is far more painless than flying.
Thanks for linking to Mirasol, I hadn't heard of it before and am now terribly excited.

I think E-Inks main problems are two-fold:
1) It took forever to come to market in any meaningful way. I think I remember reading about it in the mid 90's if I'm correct.

2) It cost too much once it did come to market. I'd expect an 8.5"x11" display capable of showing PDFs to cost a fraction of what they do now.

okay, actually three-fold

3) It's dead slow and leaves artifacts all over the place unless you do an annoying blank out of the entire display area.

There's plenty of room for B&W digital paper displays in today's world, but it just seems to have come out all wrong, too late and too much money for the industry to stick with it. E Ink just won't be able to keep up with the technology demands of the market space it seems to have created.
It's surprising how some non-programmers cannot wrap their heads around source control. I work in a high-regulated environment, so we produce reams of documentation for a project, and various non-technical members of the team must be able to use our bug tracking system (even for so-called spec defects) and version control.

My current project's manager (the "product manager," who isn't necessarily technical) uses source control, but checks in/adds a new file for each revision. We've tried to explain that's what version control does but he just doesn't get it.
This compiles with a standard C compiler, so it's more appropriate to compare to something like GLib. Cos has faster single dispatch than Objective-C and has extensible multiple dispatch with significantly better performance than C++ (as implemented using Visitor, which is only extensible in one argument).
Look man, all Im saying is what language you should use is matter of personal preference. If you prefer Windows to Unix or vice versa more power to you. Dont make people feel inferior just because you like one tool better than what they use.
The Weekend Hack: 13-14 March, 2010
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1186429
Yep - single founder

1) 2 years since action / 4 since idea
2) Nope - haven't applied
3) Not yet
4) www.sketchl.tv

I'm crowdsourcing a sketch comedy show - anyone can submit, rank, vote - it's like Saturday Night Live, but with the best writing around that week, no writer's room inside jokes and stale humor. It gives writers a chance to get noticed, build a resume/reel, and get exposure on a national level.
Maybe a little education is in order - meet everyone at the door and tell the people that didn't RSVP to leave as you don't have enough food. I'm sure they will RSVP to the next party.
I know I'll get my ... kicked for this comment, but anyway.

The iPhone experience is not sterile at all. It comes with a browser and there is no restriction for the websites you can open. Google ('the web is the computer') should be the ones to best understand this.

Since when is controlling the quality and security of the content at a marketplace that you operate equal to limiting people's freedoms?

If I own a grocery shop and refuse to sell someone's rotten tomatoes does it make me necessary evil?
Not letting people charge 0.99$ for balloons in swimwear using your own infrastructure has nothing to do with their freedom of speech. They can always create a web page and show it to the world.
1) I've been positioning myself to work on a startup full time for about two years and have about another two years until my situaiton will enable me to do it. I've been working on Preceden, a platform for building timelines, for a little over four months.

2) Haven't applied, though I'd like to one day depending on my situation.

3) Negative

4) Currently working on http://www.preceden.com
Thank you for referring to me as the devil. Thats quite a compliment.
Is this another WolframAlpha joke?
The slow update is my main problem with E-Ink. I want to browse and make notes in documents/code on an A4-sized screen which is as easy to read as paper. (Preferably sized as two A4. Color and video would be nice, but optional. Minimal power need also optional.)

I don't really care if Pixel Qi, E-Ink, Mirasol or one of the others solves this, but is seems I'll finally be able to buy one in less than a year.
1) Objective C certainly does not provide generic functions and I doubt that Objective C++ does (C++'s static overloading is something completely different, although it might look similar).

2) And this is different exactly in that it is not a complete language, but a library of CPP macros and some supporting infrastructure.
I was trying to figure out how much the price of fish fluctuates through the seasons. Instead I got this. Is this another geek joke? What's it referring to?

EDIT: Bonus imaginary karma points to whoever can point me to a graph showing the fluctuations of the price of various fish...