skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like someone else said here, out market them. Out maneuver them. Engage those key customers first. Don't over-promise, but tell them how "good" your product is.

It's definitely risky, but what other choices do you have?
If it isn't they could've picked a better date for the announcement.
Your assertion is debatable, but even accepting it: can just anyone figure out what functionality to leave out, and what functionality to polish?
What's so wrong in releasing a base product that is comparable to your competitor's first? Then add the differentiating features as you complete them. Releasing these new features will be good for PR/marketing too.
Is is no longer legal for anyone to show it. That's the definition of "classified".

Wikileaks is trying to have it both ways. On the one hand, they want to do illegal stuff for moral/philosophical reasons. On the other hand, they want the US government to stop treating them like they're doing illegal stuff. They're obtaining and releasing classified information, and at the same time complaining that the US government is spying on them. Doesn't this strike you as a little bit silly?
I think you are right. Seems like we have to do that. Thank you.
The only reason I'm looking to get a Hackinstosh is because I want a cheap computer that would allow me to develop for the iPhone/iPad. if the iPad came with a SDK and you were able to develop in itself, you would be absolutely right.
Yes, they definitely have. They are getting traction - and fast.

I agree with they buy "solution" and even if better, they will stick with that old one for a while - which is why it's more important to get selling early I think.
Checking out your code it looks like you're just polling (not longpolling)? Instead of just holding the connection open and waiting for a new message you pass the latest message and let the client reconnect.
I use node like this (really simplified but still): http://blog.dispostable.com/instant-mail-notifications-using...
That's the downside of a design-heavy blog post: people will talk about your design first.
Have a look at Plus+
Logic is a subset of mathematics.
Before reading the Article I thought it was about injecting special hidden marks in the movies to be able to detect if the movie was pirated, from which copy it was pirated.
It occurred to me that that may be an interested solution for a problem we have. But I haven't been able to hit the right keywords to do the search. Can anyone give me suggestions on what to look for?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman ?
I've always wondered why Southwest or some Airline startup couldn't take a 737, add second deck of passenger seating in the lower half of plane, where luggage goes, add HVAC, exits, etc. then make everyone carry on 1 luggage for commuter / weekend flights.
That sounds like something that someone on the Chinese government's payroll would say.
If Android is starting to scare Apple is because Google is doing ad revenue shares with carriers and device makers.

As for your example, first, it's requires too much qualification to really work on a feature matrix. Second, you really think that Apple can't/won't support app backgrounding or a more open app store if their current offering really starts hurting them?
>shameless plug as I don't want to post a message just to say this, but isn't HN too slow lately? I'm at the point that I visit the site less often than I was used to do as I don't want to experience the delay.

I've noticed that loading my comment and submission history is really slow, but loading everything else is as snappy as it's ever been.

I have a feeling that the front-page and comments get heavily cached, while our comment and submission history does not.
(disclosure: it's been ~10 years since I last had direct first-hand knowledge of this).

Giving away something for free in a "no purchase required to win" sort of promo is generally not a problem. The giveaway should generally be cheap (less than $600, or maybe it's $2000 now)... anyway, less than the amount that would be required to file a tax form in conjunction with the giveaway. Prize winnings are supposed to be considered taxable income, but at a low threshold point it is not an issue. In your case, I believe you're not going to be able to afford a big enough prize for this to matter :)

The contests where you have more issues are the lottery-ticket type systems where people pay to have a shot at winning a prize. The two big issues there (again, see disclosure above) are that you generally have to have some sort of non-profit status, and you have to have ownership/control of the physical prize before collecting money (you can't use a portion of the ticket sales to purchase the prize and then keep the difference).

For what you're describing, I think it's a good idea and easy to implement with no complex overhead or liability.
Define business plan: is it your sales pitch or is it your internal reference?

A nice complement to this can be found here:

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/03/are-business-p...
but its C—or a form of it—and it’s really hard to learn

I personally prefer Javascript to Objective-C, but HTML, CSS and Javascript are not easier to learn than Cocoa and Objective-C. Objective-C and Cocoa are very will designed, simple tools.
Gah. now I feel bad. I didn't know about this.
That's from T-Shirt Hell: http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/uncle-with-benefits
Oops I forgot to mention but there's some pretty cool wipeout videos that go along with this post.
I fully agree that freedom of information also means freedom to not publish things the entity(publisher) does not see fit.

On the other hand...

Should the government be allowed to intimidate an entity into self-censoring?
Should a corporation/entity be allowed to intimidate an other entity (with legal actions or other means) into self-censoring?
Should a group of people/corporations (majority or not) be allowed to intimidate a minority group/entity into self-censoring?
Should social norm of "We do not do business with entities deemed immoral (publishing anti-xxx materials)" be allowed to force entities into self-censoring?

Where do you draw the line?
You have to read the whole site to appreciate the genius of it. Who cares if there are grammatical errors, the guy is hilarious! It's a great Friday read if you are looking for a laugh and then consider that if he got a proofreader might be the greatest copywriting you find this month.
One of the better startup business plan frameworks I've come across was one Dave McClure included in his post Startup Metrics for Pirates (http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/01/startup-metrics-...). Check out slides 26 and 27 - the One Page Business Plan.
I just wish someone would offer a decent hosted NoSQL platform that I can start using already. https://cloudant.com/ is invite only. So is http://hosting.couch.io/ apparently. https://app.mongohq.com/signup is overpriced, considering it's a cloud service and only 2GB. SimpleDB isn't bad but it has tons of limitations (can't even sort by numbers).

This is why people still use MySQL even for projects that aren't suitable for RDBMS. I use hosted MySQL at dreamhost and don't have to bother with anything except my app and data. It just works and is free with the web hosting package. Is there anything out there that comes close? I don't mind $1/month for 1GB of data. $25 for 2GB is not worth it.
I don't know why this comment is being modded down, this is a good idea (IMO). Maybe not always possible in every scenario, but worth considering.

I've been doing more things with mturk, elance, RAC, and so on lately. For a recent tradeshow we did I had someone on elance doing a short video production for me for $150. The money was a no-brainer and allowed to concentrate on other stuff. I also hired someone on elance (for $500) to write an xcode framework for me for an iPhone app idea. I could probably figure it out myself, but (I'm hoping) it will be easier and more efficient to get started in iPhone app programming by having someone more knowledgeable than I put together the basics so I can see how it's done. (Yes, I know there are a ton of xcode examples on line, I just wanted something specific that I could build off of).

Depending on the price/problem, outsourcing a solution might be an excellent use of time/resources, and may also teach you something new seeing how another person tackled the issue.
I would like to add to the author's realization -- Frequently, if you look at code you were "going to do better", and compare it to the original code, you'll find you arrived at the same basic architecture, no actual improvements or major differences.
I am really interested but not sure if it is for me. I currently do lots of Django work but due to contract reasons contribute little to Floss projects and I don't know a lot of other Django hackers personally. Also I would have to pay for myself. Hmmm.
There aren't that many because there's not a big market for it. You ideally want the DB in close proximity (latency wise) to your web server or what ever uses it directly.

Why not host it your self? Deploying a server like MongoDB is trivial to get going.
I tried to write a business plan with the intent of developing the idea. I wrote about half of it but then I gave up on it so that I could focus on building the product.

I will make money if people use my product but I won't make any money if people read my business plan.
It is really impossible to argument something based on the fact that people that are supposed to be very smart are doing it. The only way to support arguments is by showing facts...

I read that as the obligatory appeal to authority that seems to impress some people. The rest of the post however was extremely interesting and likely as fact-filled as it gets when it comes to these SQL vs. NoSQL arguments.
And if you're specifically trying to design an algorithm, you might look into "How to Solve It by Computer" by R.G. Dromey, which was inspired by the former:

http://www.amazon.com/Solve-Computer-Prentice-Hall-Internati...
They should probably go NoSQL :)
aking a hard look at the data above, it appears that the rise in obesity is due in large part to an increase in caloric intake across the board, rather than an increase in carbohydrate in particular.

Doesn't Lustig propose that a change in the proportion of fructose to other sugars in the diet causes a decrease in satiety, leading to more overall caloric intake?
Southwest's airplanes aren't quite identical. They fly 737-300's and -700's. The 300's are a bit smaller, with a lower service ceiling and a shorter range. At present, the 300's also have older avionics. They are not completely interchangeable.

Still, maintaining only two types of airplanes that are very close to the same size and specs is a lot easier than maintaining ten types of airplanes with very different sizes and specs. The extra expense of sending a 700 on a flight that's only full enough to require a 300 (because they need a 700 on the other end) is much smaller than, say, the expense of flying a 747 for a route that only needs a 737. The extra expense of bumping one or two people (and giving them free flight vouchers) to free up a slightly larger plane for a different route is also quite small.

As you correctly note, there are a lot of efficiencies that come in to play from having a nearly-uniform fleet.
i'm looking to hackintosh a real notebook, not a crampy netbook
I think in some cases this kind of appeal to authority can be valid.

Facebook has absolutely insane sparse matrices to handle. They handle enourmous volumes of traffic querying very specific (read: not cachable between users) datasets. Moreover, they've already invested mind-boggling amounts of capital into their stack. Same goes for Amazon with Dynamo. These people operate on scales that startups like us can't even comprehend; and they've found it worthwhile to write their own datastores for those scenarios. Moreover, their use of those databases has apparently contributed to their success. That, to me, is strongly suggestive evidence.

That and HA/fault-tolerance is a no-brainer; Cassandra's scaling characteristics rock the socks off of any SQL DB I've used. The consistency tradeoff is well worth it for some use cases.
"Let’s say you have 10 monster DB servers and 1 DBA; you’re looking at about $500,000 in database costs."

I wonder what he thinks is a "monster db server", and considering he included the DBA in the price, is this the price per year or what?

Having recently set up a dual E5620 with 48GB of RAM and 8 SSD drives(160GB each) with a 3ware controller as well for just shy of 10K USD, I guess my understanding of "monster" is quite different. For 13K USD the same server would have 96GB of RAM.
Interesting comment.

This reminds me of all the "build your own PIX firewall" hacks that were going around about 10 years ago. I seem to remember that the general outcome of those was that people were doing it to try out the concept cheaply, and then when satisfied purchased the actual product (or, realized it wasn't the right product for them).
Understanding the limits of NoSQL from a RDBMS perspective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=LhnGarRsKnA

(slides: http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=no-sql... )
Airbnb hiring back-end engineer
I've yet to meet a VC who actually reads a business plan.
I'm sympathetic to your overall argument, but not to this specific example. It's very much in US interests to know that someone else knows the launch codes. The consequences of having them made public (a public scandal, the cost of changing them, internal investigations, etc.) are much less dire than the alternative - when your potential enemy knows them and you're not aware of the fact.
To me, this is a Big Deal. I work with a coder with 20+ years of experience who randomly re-implements parts of a massive legacy system to avoid reading and understanding. Refactoring is unthinkable. Predictable results, now we have two versions to maintain. :)
The Russian intelligence agency does not have to release the code through wikileaks. If they have it, they can release it anyway they want, there's nothing the CIA can do about them.
Mamet's "True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (Paperback)" is recommended reading. It's a quick read and gives a refreshing and blunt opinions about method acting.

From the editorial review on Amazon.com:
"To hell with Stanislavsky. To hell with the Method. "The actor is onstage to communicate the play to the audience," says David Mamet. "That is the beginning and the end of his and her job. To do so the actor needs a strong voice, superb diction, a supple, well-proportioned body and a rudimentary understanding of the play." Anything else--"becoming" one's part, "feeling" the character's emotions--devalues the practice of a noble craft and is useless to the play. "The 'work' you do 'on the script' will make no difference," he cautions. "That work has already been done by a person with a different job title than yours. That person is the author.""

However, what I personally think is even more interesting is that before and after reading Mamet's book I've always found Mamet's movies somehow lacking on the emotional level. Either Mamet's opinions about acting (and directing) are a crock of shit, or I don't understand anything about the subject.
I also got a kick out of his Maddox/Zed Shaw-esque title.
I take it you've never been in the lower "half" of a 737.

Passengers actually sit with their bellies about at the midpoint of the jet. The area below the floor is about the same size as the overhead bins. It's really not suitable for anything other than bags.
What's really driving the Toyota controversy?
FYI, I'm running Snow Leopard in a VMWare virtual machine on windows 7. Works great and allows you to write iPhone apps.
I would agree, that felt like a little link bait to me.
True - they're not easier to learn but beyond the browser they are more applicable across different mobile platforms (i.e. Android, Blackberry). Objective-C and Cocoa will always be iPhone specific. I've been learning Objective-C though I wonder if my time would be better spent on javascript/html/css and usage of environments such as Titanium developer or Phonegap.
norvig actually does make incremental progress in understanding the problem/solution space in terms of constraints, bounds and correctness.
Of course media bias favors Apple
Airbnb hiring Engineering Operations Manager
I know this is very much a minority opinion, and I suspect your question was rhetorical, but my answer would be "yes". Actually, my answer would be "I don't use social networks," but that's rather beside the point.

You know what they say about two people and keeping secrets. It just happens to be a lot tougher to correct your mistake when one of the "people" (the database, in this case) is fully mirrored in three or four different places. Much easier to just be cautious and not make the mistake in the first place.
The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds)
Could anyone recommend particularly good Python code?
HN: The distress of a young padawan. (rant)
Warning: rant.

I have an MIS degree from a mediocre university, but I am quite smart, and I am doing my best to become a good IT professional. I am doing extremely well at my company, but some day I could be a real master at something.

Here is my problem. I'm learning stuff -- doesn’t matter what -- and trying to pull myself up by the bootstraps. I have to if I want real mastery. For me, personally, I want to become great at something so badly it becomes emotional. Most newer developers are asking for technical advice. "Why won't my code compile", "Why is this outer join slow" (heh). I almost never do that, I figure it out for myself.

Meanwhile, I'm quitting smoking (6 mos. by the way) while I try to do exercises to improve my memory and reading comprehension because college never asked me to cope with those personal failings, but my job did. I’m smart, but I have faults in the way I learn and other personal problems. I feel like if I want to become good I can sit here on my laurels and keep grinding away, but if I want to become great I have to change my entire life.

The thing is, right now I have no mentors and nobody seems to be aware of what I'm struggling through or has been through this process on their own. I don’t know anyone that has ever wanted to change as badly as I do and succeeded. I feel like if my IQ was in the genius instead of just very bright range or if I graduated from MIT instead of a Tech school, I could someday command actual respect about some kind of technology without completely overhauling my life. But I’m not. Yet I want to be.

Can any of you remember what this feels like, as a young developer with no credibility? Have you ever been there? Can you just empathise?

I go online and see the most brilliant people who know so much, and they are all older than me, and brighter than most of the folks at my company. It's terrifying to witness their level of understanding and realize that someday, I must follow in their footsteps.

To the online developer communities -- is there a way I can start building my online credibility as a worthwhile developer / IT Professional without 20 years of experience? Is there a way I can prove I'm at least promising enough not to be dismissed by reasonably intelligent people?

How do you guys find MENTORS and ROLE MODELS? I want to be great. Right now, I'm above average and exasperated. Can you relate?
I believe that he is also including the costs of the licenses for SQL for each processor in that 500k figure.
"As engine of ultimate driving machine, as the Swiss watch."

-1, breaks haiku format. Please try again.
Logo Process – Keyboard Kahuna Identity Development
I'm sure people will, indeed, run the concept ahead of him. I hope they do (or he hurries) because I can't wait to play it.

Variations would also be awesome--- Spy versus Spy would also be a stellar spin and maybe even more fun. Imagine trying to figure out if that "guest" is also a human spy who has identified you and is about to stab you when you turn your back.
China may make the most money by doing the manufacturing, but we also make the most money by letting China do the manufacturing. This is a basic tenet of economics called Comparative Advantage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage ).

(I note that in the presence of market-distorting factors like tariffs, comparative advantage becomes much muddier)
The numbers in the article are strangely inflated. In addition, as if the need for DBA disappears when you've simply changed your data storage software. Somebody still has to know how it works and manage it.

If you don't need a 50 node cluster because your RDBMS is pulling down big numbers, then you don't multiply the cost of the RDBMS solution by 50 either.

The numbers posted here are pretty reasonable. 37Signals spending $7,500 on disks isn't outrageous. That's less than the cost of a single developer integrating a different solution over a few months. How long has Digg been working on this transition and how many employees did it require? They've probably spent a fortune. Just not on hardware.
http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/witchdoctor.xml
http://garshasp.com/about-garshasp

cool but damn, couldnt they have stolen a little less of their site's style from blizzard?
Naive question: if as described in point (2) of the OP, the bill would "eliminate federal pre-emption of state regulations of accredited offerings", would this not allow some states to create less burdensome regulations than other states or even than Federal regulations? State governments who wanted a Silicon Valley in their state could then take advantage of this to attract a much better community of investors and startups.
How do you know it's centralised?
Hah. I had an idea for a startup a while back that would provide free wifi to local businesses; the plan was to monetize by replacing ads with our own ads of similar sizes; I mean, the user doesn't care about the ads, right? so we'd get our money without annoying the user more.

I talked to a lawyer about it and was told that I'd get sued, and that I'd loose.

It is an interesting business model, if the lawyer was wrong.
Could be, though he speaks about MySQL, PostgreSQL as well, and in other places about MS SQL, mostly hammering the license cost, which is obviously huge.

One more thing I'd add is I have no clue who these upset DBAs are and who is thinking Stump & Co. are dumb. Everyone making these sql/no-sql blog posts seems like they're starting a war with made-up enemies.
I feel for you. Eight years ago I worked in a department encouraging that workflow, except I was on the DBA team. We could be a little (let's be nice and say) menacing at times.
"I don't know why this comment is being modded down, this is a good idea (IMO)."

Because some people do not think about everything in monetary terms.
Next steps for our experimental fiber network
Probably you will not be able to read this site any longer.
I often find it instructive to solve a simple example problem by hand. This can give you the insight needed to solve it computationally
"I honestly believe that you don't have a firm understanding of what a monopoly is, nor how they are expressed in the market. A large market share does not automatically make a monopoly."

I love this kind of argument - the straw man argument - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man. "You don't know what you're talking about. A doesn't automatically follow from B" - usually following a comment where nothing was said about inferring A from B. I only asserted that monopoly destroys competition, which I'm sure you can agree with, and that in Microsoft's case the anti-trust lawsuit came too late, at a time when Microsoft had already abused their monopoly to bully hardware vendors/destroy the competition by any means necessary.