skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd very seriously consider a reader at that price-point. I have an annoying number of magazines and books in my man-purse/go-bag/laptop-bag-without-a-laptop-in-it.

The only issue for me is eyestrain; reading on a sample Nook on anything but the biggest size was uncomfortable after a few minutes.
pretty much how my first interaction went too.

I also thought it was odd that the "you should upgrade here" balloon pointed at my status bar.

before i would sign up (and 2.99 seems fair. doubt i would pay more) i would want to see some reports, and i would want an android app that is equally as easy to use.
Alameda man charged in ticket-hacking scam
The cup is either half empty or half full. You can look at this list as a list of oversaturated markets or as a list of markets that have produced some great innovation and probably will continue to do so in the future. Hell, take Mint for example. They came after wesabe, fit squarely in the personal info space and are considered successful by most (not based on their sale, just the service). Looking at issue management: are Jira, lighthouse, trac, bugZilla, etc the best we can do? I doubt it.

Fundamentally I think any idea you are passionate about is worth pursuing. Nevermind the judgements of naysayers and lists of supposedly typical idea space.
> "Even the most modern car out there (arguably, the latest generation Toyota Prius) is still a mess of gears, oil, wires"

As someone who majored in mechanical engineering and has worked in the auto industry before, I take some slight offense to this - IMHO this comment is incredibly out of touch with just how much cars have improved, even in just the last decade.

This is about as accurate and insightful as saying "well the web sure hasn't changed much in the last 10 years, it's still a mess of clickable links and pages".

If you don't understand "gears, oil, and wires", learn a little about what you're complaining about before doing so.
The thing you're forgetting (at least, for the A/V space) is that these days there's pretty much no such thing as video content that hasn't been compressed at some point along the way. Broadcast ATSC tops out at 19Mbps (yes, mega-bits per second), and that's the best quality signal I can bring into my home. Everything else is compressed even more. So, there's plenty of bandwidth out there in a 54Mbps WiFi-style system to transmit several channels of "distribution quality" video & audio.

I guess the only sources of "pure" HDTV content are the rendered sources, like XBox, PS3, or a PC's framebuffer. Those are all never-compressed video sources.
I have no experience with either, but here's a recent blog entry about moving from HBase to Cassandra:

http://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/hbase-vs-cassandra-wh...
Linux From Scratch v6.6 Released
Instead of putting Ebay on the servers?
Christopher Langan: the other guy with the "highest" IQ on the planet.
Without opining one way or another about the debate happening here...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1158589

...I'd just like to let you all listen to what someone with an IQ that high actually sounds like. Regardless of which side you come down on, let us not forget that these people are not inhumanly, insolubly brilliant. Like all other people, they and their brains are puzzles, and when we measure their (or our) intelligence, it is NOT certain what it is that we're measuring.

And by the way, it's often said that such-and-such the historical figure was supposed to have an IQ of like 180, but I would also like to remind everyone that these figures were given by an assistant to Lewis Terman, whose ill-fated and decades-running IQ experiment successfully proved that IQ doesn't actually indicate how successful one is at much of anything, INCLUDING doing sort of computation except those types that appeared on the test. Those figures were manufactured before we had any indicator that really smart people like Einstein have necessarily high IQs. Just a thought. Lewis Terman. Look him up.

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBmnjD4Fw2U&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-cOe6AxtdE&feature=related

His website: http://www.ctmu.org/
I took a look at http://www.zipzoomauto.com/

Nice work.
One thing I dislike is the absence of PRICE until I fill out all the information. A lot of online fads ask for all your information (including credit cards) before they tell you how much they are going to charge. And this is really a bad practice. Just tell me upfront how much you want me to pay before you ask for my email/phone/name/address etc.
I dream of being a published author one day and walking into a book store and secretly signing my books :)

I have heard that technical books don't sell well, but then again, this author is not very well known and her books don't sell well either. She said that every agent and publisher takes on new authors hoping they become the next William Gibson (or other huge name). Most authors barely survive off of writing.
FWIW I think most people would google for the phone number. I did.

Trying to be stealth is just an invitation for everyone to start googling to find out all they can.
Scenario: Alice writes a program, puts it under that licence, Bob uses the program, Alice dies and her heir Eve wants to get money from Bob for using the software. Eve tries to get a court to declare the licence invalid, so that Bob has to re-licence the program under new conditions or stop using it.
A small victory for Flex, a bigger problem for Photoshop.
This is the law of unintended consequences at work.

1. Green groups spend countless hours and dollars fighting nuclear power plants during the 1970's and 1980's. They mostly win, and nuclear plant construction stops.
2. Green groups spend countless hours and dollars promoting the global warming theory, and the need to reduce carbon emissions during the 1990s and 2000s. Ironically, the best technical solution to this problem is Nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power plant construction starts up again, as a direct result of the green campaigning against global warming.
I'm currently using some products by your competitors ("Lose it!" iPhone app and "LiveStong") so I can definitely provide some feedback. First, it looks VERY nice, but as some others noted - a "for guys" interface option would be good.

1) This is big - needs to recognize the food and automatically enter the number of calories. I don't really know how many calories the food I'm eating has at all times.

2) Same with exercise - the site should ask me what exercise I did, and for how long.. and then based on that, plus my weight, etc, figure out how many calories I lost.

3) Autocomplete would be great for those two.

4) I think iPhone app, or a iPhone-compatible website needs to be an essential component of this for me to use. I can't wait until I get to a computer to record this stuff - I need the functionality to record this on the run.

Hope that helps!
> Why haven't displays followed Moore's law like everything else has?

They have: they shrunk. In depth.
Tell HN: Hacker News iPhone App w/ login, voting, and posting comments
Demo video at http://michaelgrinich.com/hackernews/

iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news/id339408916?mt=8
I actually do have it installed on chrome.I find it to be a little clunky. Like sometimes when I want to inspect an element, I will press the inspect button and nothing will happen so I have to click the button like 5 times, between that and a few other issues I have had I have found it to be unreliable at best.
The case against Opera Mini on the iPhone
OP here. Without opining one way or another about the debate happening here...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1158589

...I'd just like to let you all listen to what someone with an IQ that high actually sounds like. Regardless of which side you come down on, let us not forget that these people are not inhumanly, insolubly brilliant. Like all other people, they and their brains are puzzles, and when we measure their (or our) intelligence, it is NOT certain what it is that we're measuring.

And by the way, it's often said that such-and-such the historical figure was supposed to have an IQ of like 180, but I would also like to remind everyone that these figures were given by an assistant to Lewis Terman, whose ill-fated and decades-running IQ experiment successfully proved that IQ doesn't actually indicate how successful one is at much of anything, INCLUDING doing sort of computation except those types that appeared on the test. Those figures were manufactured before we had any indicator that really smart people like Einstein have necessarily high IQs. Just a thought. Lewis Terman. Look him up.

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBmnjD4Fw2U&feature=relat...
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-cOe6AxtdE&feature=relat...

His website: http://www.ctmu.org/
Thanks!

Nope, no secrecy. I really don't believe in it for most situations.

It's mostly my tendency (weakness) to focus on developing new features than to update the marketing site. I'll be updating this with pricing very soon since I finally hired a great developer to help out in some of my coding responsibilities and to help shape ZZA's policies and future.

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Here's our current pricing:

10 cars or less $55.
70 cars or less $125.
200 cars or less $225.

No contract. No limit on features. No setup fee.
--------------

Here's what we did/considered to reach these prices

0. We wanted to serve the startup dealerships. We know how hard it is to start one up (we did it, after all), so we wanted to provide a cheaper entry point.

1. We looked at what competitors were charging and what features they were providing.

2. We talked to more than 10 dealers to get their input.

3. We definitely don't want to convey that we are competing on prices. We're not! We're competing on understanding of domain, features and quality.

4. I read some blogs regarding this subject. Like Joel's and some others.

5. Had tons of discussions with people who's judgment I trust.

6. Estimated at what volume of vehicles would a given price make the most sense.

After doing these things, I simply wrote down 10 @ 55, 70 @ 125, 200 @ 225. It felt right.

As you can see, it's very non-scientific and many would disagree with this way of doing it. But it's what we did.

Maybe when it's time to rethink our prices, we'll have more time for surveys and research.

Hope this helps.
Thanks!

You are 100% correct. I feel the same way. Read my response to inovica for an explanation/excuse. :)

This will be updated soon.

-Nash
I've been using PwdHash. It's basically the same thing, but it's a Firefox addon. It will automatically hash a password field with the domain if you start the password with "@@" or hit F2. It also has a bunch of guards to warn you if you're entering your password in a field that might be insecure.

https://www.pwdhash.com/
Thanks for introducing me to alternatives; I am of the same predisposition but had not heard of Moria/Angband.
It seems to me that you would use this license if you specifically intend to spit in the eye of copyright laws in general. The use of this license burns quite a few bridges even without the profanity, but the profanity makes it a political statement in addition to a legal document.
Sorry for the really late reply, but the Mozilla Jetpack project is their lightweight extension system. It's still in development, but there's enough going on to be pretty useful already. https://mozillalabs.com/jetpack/

Also, from the View menu, you can disable various toolbars and the statusbar. Right-click a toolbar and click Customize to use smaller icons or even text-only labels.
It's clear that the author doesn't know what he is talking about. He is argumenting as if the whole FB dev team would drop everything and only be working on HipHop, when we all know it was 2 or 3 guys that did it.
And even if that was the case, if your web page is not working due to performance reasons, you won't gain anything by ignoring that and developing new features.
Fix the performance first, then bother with cool new stuff for users to play with.
Go easy on the help tooltip pop-up things. It's unexpected and does more to startle me than help me.

The text is too long. Shorten the tooltips to a sentence.

Also, add a slight delay to the tooltips: http://snipplr.com/view/4163/highlight-menu-on-hover-with-de...
Wow! I feel embarrassed.

Thank you very much for this. Much appreciated.

Fixed.
I always thought this license was misnamed since it does have one restriction:

"and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed."
Is there a guy version which just black and white and not pink?
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.

Doesn't that just apply to the license document -- not the software itself?
Same in Firefox
Assuming that it's possible at all to declare the WTFPL invalid (why would it be?) - he can re-licence the program to a licence giving everyone exactly the same rights. It is allowed by WTFPL.
Books is now the biggest category in the App Store
How to Save Money During the Early Days of a Startup
Fear and Loathing in JavaScript DSLs
“Let me just stand here totally relaxed while someone destroys my property.” :)
I like the idea! Looks like most of your reviews are from men, and their style advice is to lose the pink for a guy version. I agree this is a good idea, but I'd like to give a woman's perspective (even though I am not a woman). My girlfriend, her sister and my mom all recently vetoed the dark gray from my website. The male audience seems to respond to it, but the females find it dreary/oppressive. They recommended going lighter, if grey at all.

Anyway, I like the site and linked to it from the company blog. It's not much traffic at this point, however some of our cyclists will probably enjoy checking it out!
I guess Chili's doesn't scale?
Google AI Challenge Results
"It turns out that this one little decision makes it so that we can't horizontally scale that layer of our architecture without losing all the data already there (because all of the keys would point to the wrong server if we added a new one)."

I'm surprised they're looking to switch stacks entirely as opposed to a consistent hashing / distributed hash table (a la chord, dynamo, etc.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(peer-to-peer)
You're all so completely right about providing default food & exercise calorie totals for people, it's not acceptable to have to Google for that. But it's a lot of data to scrape and organize so I saved it for a later release. I love all of your feedback, thank you so much, I'll probably implement most of these things.
That's the first thing I thought too. I wonder the deal will be some clauses, if it includes something about exclusivity (to later become some sort of 'Google Docs Photo Editor') I guess Yahoo! will need to dump it or change for another like Aviary (which went free last week).

Why didn't Yahoo! bought it? I really would like to know

Edit:

4. Will I still be able to access other social networking and photo storage sites from Picnik, or access Picnik from those social networking and photo storage sites?
Yes!

It seems so
ACTA Leak: Internet and Civil Enforcement Chapters With Country Positions
If I'm not mistaken, the GPL has had to be defended in court several times. It's a situation where someone tries to charge money for a product, but a GPL'd source code was used in the product. That particular situation doesn't apply to this license however, since you can, apparently, do whatever you want.
Tten stuff ::
Sites similar to twitter are worried about Read/Writes and up time rather than concurrency and locking mechanisms. All flavors of NOSQL databases are best suited for this. Sites like amazon.com, or any transaction processing site can't think of using NOSQL.
tl:dr; NOSQL is good until transaction processing & concurrency comes in to picture.
They're advertising for journalists on Poynter. That's definitely the place to do it! Well-played.

http://careers.poynter.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3311446
Try Reddit - I'm pretty confident a very small percentage of HN's user base finds work like this interesting.

However, I'm curious: does anyone on HN use Personas? I'm not particularly interested in it categorically - Firefox is already such a monster when it comes to memory management...
The broken web
"[memcached] can no longer return data fast enough for our needs, due to the way it interacts with BDb (its underlying data store)."

Does anyone know what the specific issue being alluded to here is?
The general idea's been around for a decade or so, and a new site starts up every few years aimed at it: http://www.google.com/search?&q=sell+gift+cards

One problem is that a large portion of the market is already taken by eBay, which does a brisk business in gift cards: http://gift-certificates.shop.ebay.com/Gift-Certificates-/31...
I think that there are many, many markets that have not been noticed by most progressive developers and people who are interested in creating startups. (By progressive developers I mean those who develop really polished, usable software in the vein of web 2.0 - there is software for every conceivable market already, but there are plenty of markets that are dominated by hard-to-use, crappy software.)

I suspect these areas tend to be those that are not at all among the core competencies or hobbies of software developers, for obvious reasons. For example, I recall someone who started up a site devoted to exchanging knitting patterns (or something similar) that enjoyed a lot of success.

Just think about how many markets for software you could find if you just talked to women about what they want.

I bet there are tons of huge moneymakers lurking in fields that most software developers think are silly - like people who love to ride horses, or love to do crochet, or enjoy (or make a living from) any of a number of fields that are far removed from the average software developer's mind. Right now, those markets are dominated either by amateurs making crappy sites, or big established players with no creative spark.
Does this work the same if I want to gain weight?

Maybe you should be more specific as to what exactly your application does. "Body management" may not be enough for some people. It might be a better marketing approach to explicitly say what your app can do. i.e. "we help you lose weight", or "gain more mass" , etc.
Exactly... it all starts with finding a problem that needs solving. If you can find friends, family members, or local businesses where you have a connection then it may be easier to get started.

My first business was started when I had an idea for a software program and talked to a college professor. He put me in contact with another professor who just happened to know of someone in need of a software like what I envisioned. I agreed to write the software just how the customer wanted and they agreed to test. After the software was done, I began marketing it commercially and have since sold it in 56 countries.
Interesting Review of "You Are Not a Gadget" by Jaron Lanier
The discussion of Penn Station (http://www.slate.com/id/2246104/) in the same series has more concrete examples, and is pretty cool if you've spent time in Penn.
Assorted Brief Observations and Thoughts Regarding Windows Phone 7
What is the difference between IDE and AHCI
FTA: "Why wouldn't they be working to allow users to experience the entire Internet through a Facebook portal?"

Is he suggesting that the future of Facebook is to become what AOL was in the 90s?
I would absolutely LOVE to read the italian judge's comments.
if I type "milk" in the "food and drink" and press save, I get "NaN". It also asks for calories: shouldn't the website provide this information automatically? Does she know about http://www.mypyramid.gov/ ? It has all the info and also http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov/planner/ seems more complete, although a bit more complex to use.

EDIT: I found many other errors in the number entry validation: height: inches don't go more than 9; if I type 9999999999999 into the calories intake, I get funny values in the deficit, etc. let's hope it doesn't have some misplaced ' ;)
My new game - Pathillogical
You should also remember the choices made in the past and offer them with one-click actions. I cycle every morning and night and I often eat the same things over the course of each fortnight.
EU moves to prevent 'shock' mobile Internet bills
Even being a free marketeer, building codes are one of the few government interventions that have had huge positive impact on society (i know, i know, there are others as well).
I didn't spend quite so long as windsurfer on his great new game:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1159068

But here it is anyway. I use my revenue from games to fund my little startup which not so ironically is an analytics service for exactly the kind of games I make. I tend to alternate between bigger games and little ones that are fast to make, this is a little one with about 5 days of dev and with levels designed by some fellow developers.
Is Charles Veley [founder of MicroStrategy] the world's most-travelled man?
Not sure why I should upgrade...? I clicked the button and it took me to a PayPal checkout link. There should be some intermediate step describing the benefits. Sell me!
I think DisplayPort will still require another wire for AC power.
Having a high IQ can be as much of a curse as it is a blessing. Sometimes the pressure is too much and you want to try and stop thinking and just observe.
Obviously you are a perpetual motion machine. It works fine for everyone else.
Right. Sentence was non obvious, sorry.
Maybe the picnik acquisition has a purpose, possibly to ship it with chromeOS considering it is based on the cloud.
The GPL has nothing to do with "charging money", so no, that's never been tested in court. And in any case, in a suit regarding any distribution license, it is the copyright owner who would bring the suit, forcing the alleged infringer to "defend" the case.
I have founded a group called Hacks/Hackers at http://hackshackers.com bringing together journalists and technologists -- sounds like a good fit with what you're doing. Let's get in touch -- also glad to hear from anyone else here interested in this space!
I think heading is somewhat mistaken. Day is shorter by 1.26 MICRO-seconds. It's the axis that has moved by 2.7 milliARCseconds. See quote below.

“The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second),” Gross, said today in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters or 3 inches).”
That Firebug is an extension is one of its worst features. Every version of Safari or WebKit I download has a working inspector built in.

Every time I launch an archived version of Firefox, or get a new version of Firefox, I get warnings about incompatible Firebug plugins. It's a real pain when it comes to testing across multiple versions.
it's kinda weird, but throughout the interview, I got the feeling that Jessica was meeting these guys for the first time.(I know that they met before)

anyone else got that feeling?
I sortof like the idea of this website, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to use it.

Maybe I'm missing the point?

It's for tracking how much you eat and work out, right?
He mentioned two recent government initiatives; Bush-era airport security and an Obama-era policy that exemplifies the broken window fallacy.

His stimulus example was fictional, as was his "man marrying his maid" and "magical 2x productivity gain" example. His other real life example (slavery) was hardly recent.

I think your beliefs about the intent of the essay reflect your views as much as his.

By the way, utility is not vague. It is hard to measure, but that's not the same thing.