skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zenedy is taking the opposite approach by first determining algorithmically what content people are searching for, then identifying what portion of that content could effectively be monetized through targeted advertising

Sounds like MFA spam. So much for make something that people want.
Thanks for starting the thread, I would be interested in knowing what you eventually decided to go with. I too had been running our own analytics for a while and started looking at Mixpanel to see if we could possibly migrate to mixpanel in order to make more sense of the data we've collected and collecting.
Poll: Which YC Start Up Most Likely to Succeed?
Curious as to the communities view on which YC Start Up has the Best Idea/Chance of Success.
LaunchHear
NewsLabs
Seeing Interactive
Notifo
Zencoder
Nowmov
Gamador
Cardpool
Tweetflow
CHROMAom, Inc.
Answerly.com
Zenedy
Data Marketplace
Embedster
Etacts
500Friends
Infoharmoni
140Bets
Greplin
That's an interesting take. At least in the case of Buffett, I think he really likes what he does (I mean, the man still lives in a normal family house).

To me there is a distinction between people who want to make more money and people who want to build things. The former is in it for power, whilst the latter is in it for recognition.

I realize how simplistic that sounds. But many of our current problems came about because people don't care about what's behind the money. We need less indirection in the financial world. If I invest in something, I should give some kind of damn about it.
You're assuming that a replication of Pons and Fleischmann's original work is necessary for cold fusion to be an interesting research subject.
Well, my High School was about 20 miles driving distance away from my home. Much of that along a limited access highway. I suppose I could have biked it, but avoiding the limited access highway adds 10 miles onto the trip and detours you through some fairly rough neighborhoods.

Doubt a bicycle would have helped, there.
The new rules for reviewing media
Well it was aw3c2 who originally made the comparison that you responded to, so you'd have to ask them to find their reasons.

For myself, I'd suggest that Baseline might be the XP of H.264, good enough for most folk and with a big installed base out there. (Main profile would be Vista in this analogy as many people seem to suggest just skipping straight onto High Profile if Baseline isn't appropriate). Would you like to provide one set of images on your blog for most users and another set to iPhone users? I'd guess the same applies to video. Though of course this isn't an issue for centralised hosts like Youtube that host multiple bitrates, profiles and codecs.

It will be interesting, for example, to see if the next-gen iPhone allows you to play High Profile, I think the current 3GS has got enough oomph but is software limited by Apple to baseline, presumably to keep the iPhone line a homogenous target platform to some extent (or to avoid the hit on battery life making them look bad?).

Speaking of XP I'd also love to know what levels of H.264 video many existing computers, especially netbooks, can handle. I'd guess Google is the kind of company to gather this kind of info, and they have an obvious interest with Youtube, but I don't know if they've released any of it publicly. They are famous for conservatism in their encoding settings, though I believe they use High Profile for their 720p encodes now.
So when does someone take the logical step and make an "App Countdown" app?
Clojure's mini languages
Data Market place looks like a site I will be using in the future, and I really want to know more about embedster.
I always add the absolute path to the star, so I never accidentally issue rm * down the line when scrolling through the command history.
Wall Street.
I was giggling at Gamador's summary.

We make social games. We launch faster, iterate faster, and use metrics better.

"Use metrics better"? I guess that one wasn't crafted with consumers in mind.
Windmill co-creator joins cloud testing company Sauce Labs
Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1213092
Tell HN: Simple todo lists on your phone
Of course, not having a high school bus system doesn't defacto mean you'll start class late.

But bussing high school kids means you can't, unless you want to...(see my OP)
What’s new in Apache CouchDB 0.11 — Part Three: Replication
No disagreement there. I think Wall Street's only constructive purpose is to bid up the price of talent. This makes analyst programs (staffed with the untalented) a total waste, but that's another discussion.
Tag-along: Are there any alternatives to the long-closed Grand Central (or Google Voice if you don't have an invite)?
"Did you get your change signed-off by the appropriate stake holders?", "Did you do a production change request?", "Does this change the last technical audit results?", "Is this a certified configuration?" - these will all get you fired. Knowing whom to blame is more import than being right.
I created this so that I could easily get my shopping lists onto my phone ( like this one from 101 Cookbooks http://bit.ly/aXX1VU ). I'll copy and paste an ingredients list from a recipe blog, then go to my pantry and check off the things I already have. I also double check the list while at the store so I don't forget anything.

Thought some folks here might find this useful.
I can't have any sympathy for them in a case like this.

If Microsoft felt it was a victim of software patents, then it would be lobbying Congress and industry to abolish software patents. Instead they make rumbly noises at Linux over supposed patent violations, and continue to amass patents. "For defense only." Yeah, right.

I'm not aware of Microsoft, or any other large patent-holding tech company, being known for advocating against software patents. Microsoft certainly has the research dollars available to show harm to itself or the industry, if that's the case. Yet they don't do that.

So Microsoft must believe that, on the whole, they're better off with software patents than without. So I have zero sympathy for them.

You live by the sword, you bleed by the sword.
Thanks for the link. That's useful.
There's nothing contrarian about what you're saying, and your expectations aren't too high. You're just doing what most people (outside of HN at least) do: calling the game way too early and without enough information.

These companies need time to develop/morph/mature before anyone will have any real clue as to their prospects for innovation or success.
I have to say I'm not that impressed with the list either - but I offer the following anecdote as to why my opinion shouldn't count that much.

A VC was being told about a new web startup in the 1990's. The startup involved people putting their goods up for sale, where people would bid for them, then exchange the goods and money.

The VC said "People who've never seen each other, sending goods and money to one another, sight unseen? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard!".

The startup was obviously eBay, and I keep that story in mind every time I hear someone's business idea that I think is less than brilliant. After all, what do I know?

(I read that anecdote somewhere, but have lost the URL - if anyone knows it, I'd love to have a reference)
Most of us don't want to deal with academia's abortion of a job market.
I'll link to your TrueSkill post for those who haven't read it (it's excellent):
http://www.moserware.com/2010/03/computing-your-skill.html

Although I already knew and understood TrueSkill before your post, it helped solidify my understanding. I hope you write more articles like that in the future :)
Your questions seem to err on the side of researchers not doing good research. Why is that?

Experience in reading the peer-reviewed medical research literature since the 1970s. It used to be that one had to go to an actual biomedical library, as I have done on many occasions, and look up the articles through journal indexes and then walk to the shelf where the journals are kept. That still works, but now many of us also do online searches. Peter Norvig's article

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

is a good reminder that just getting into a peer-reviewed journal doesn't always establish that the published conclusion is correct (or important).

I see the Wikipedia article on piracetam

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

still has some "citation needed" notes up by some factual claims, and some very old journals cited for some of the claims that do have citations. Because I had recently read

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3534

about reviews of the actual effectiveness of one prescribed medicine that supposedly helps cognitive deficits, I was particularly interested in this thread to see what citations there are for recent, replicated research with proper protocol that back up the drugs most discussed in this thread. (I figured that anyone taking those drugs to good effect would readily remember the citations.) Over the decades, I've seen different kinds of smart drugs come and go out of vogue. Eventually, every use of smart drugs needs to ask, "What smart things are people who take this drug doing that aren't being done by people who don't take the drug?" People in the business of selling drugs have a lot of incentive to obscure the basic question of drug effectiveness in the interest of appealing to drug-buyers' hopes, which is why I request especially cogent evidence for claims such as those made about the drugs discussed in this thread.
I should see the site and try out the service and watch the result to judge. Nevertheless, I'll stay disappointed from Startups that are Twitter Apps or Twitter Related. Twitter is a new phenomena, it's hot because it got lot of TV, media coverage: 30% or even less are inactive and also consider the non-real users (Spam bot, feeds, apps...). It's too early to consider Twitter a success to build your startup upon it.
But they had to spend boatloads of cash to acquire users. I don't think YC startups have lots of money to spend on advertising.
Ask HN: How can you proof that your website content has been plagirized?
the first thing I thought, "is this a google wave alternative? can I use it as the basis for working in a team on goals in real-time?"
You don't need to know the details of a Maillard reaction to know how to saute. This is the difference between a visceral pursuit like cooking and an intellectual one like programming. Most of the people cooking great meals at well-respected restaurants have never read McGee (and probably don't read English very well at all) and would have no problem cooking a better meal than any recent CIA grad.
Well - they don't have unlimited resources. It might be just some loose change the first time. Losing the lawsuit a couple of times wouldn't actually go unnoticed. Especially if they would appeal all of them two times.
I initially had a similar reaction, but now I'm not sure that's quite fair. I think the innovations aren't so much technological, they're more like business model innovations. They have the potential to generate value for customers regardless.
That's clients, not providers. I use Gmail and have for years, but I don't have an @gmail.com address that I use or access my mail from the web interface. My mail client is typically Mail.app or the Mail iPhone app.

They are tracking these based on loaded images, which means Gmail users by default aren't counted. Some versions of Outlook (at least 2000) autoload images. Lots of mobile devices don't load images, which makes BlackBerry users undercounted.

Not to mention sample bias--I also don't sign up for email newsletters.

tl;dr those stats are a hot steaming pile
Nice. I bought a MEAP of Fogus' Clojure book: I assume that all of his mini-articles will be in the book.
Unfortunately, the time when 95% of the users will have a decent browser is still years ahead of us. I wonder if by the time IE9 with rounded corners support is widespread, they'll lag behind the other browsers on css transforms...
vi!
But the result of the rule is that submillionaires can't invest in YC-like companies, but they can still lose all their money (and whatever additional amount banks will loan them) on...

- day-trading

- real-estate-speculation

- investing in 'safe' public stocks like Enron, Fannie Mae, Lehman, and GM

- trading forex following rules they learned from late-night-informercials

- gambling in licensed casinos offering rigged games

- buying state lottery tickets

All these often-negative-expectation activities are allowed. So what, exactly, do the 'accredited investor' limits prevent a gullible person from doing? A fool will be parted from his money; these rules just change the form of the transactions that will be used.

Meanwhile, the limits prevent wise-but-poor people from being shareholders in small businesses that they actually have some expertise about, and which are more likely to be positive-expectation than the above activities.
Anyone who still doubts that we're rapidly becoming a third world country needs to read this article and multiply it by a few million.

It's not "the recession". This could just have easily been written in 2006. The US is in rapid decline.
Ask HN: What's the YC startup that detects motion changes in video?
hopefully to postgresql! I've been using postgresql as my main database since 2003. In the past if my client was using mysql, I would highly recommend that they switch to postgresql (almost 100% did).
http://www.postgresql.org/
I think it would be a hard sell to say you have to drop that feature in multiplayer mode, but I guess people live with split screen.
That's a flawed analogy. There aren't artificial limitations preventing you from then publishing your own newspaper. You have no such opportunity to compete with the App Store.

Pre-emptive note: countering with a response similar to "I wasn't referring to the App Store; I was referring to the iPhone itself, which you are certainly free to compete with." doesn't just betray your analogy as incongruous. It would reveal that your analogy was helplessly broken from the start.
always looking up would be extremely bad for ergonomics that's true.

Buying a small laptop is great, because I think laptops are there for mobility, so small = easier to carry = better. But the resolution height decreases with physical height. Thinkpads achieve 900 pixels in height. But i want to code in there!

What I've noticed is, that it bothers me writing on my laptop keyboard while staring at my external screen. I find it more comfortable having the keyboard right beneath of what Im typing.
I see, a thought exercise is proof that we are becoming a third world nation. I wonder how long it will take under this standard to prove that the speed of light can be exceeded.
I remember seeing a YC startup a while back that allows a user to analyze a long video recording and find the points in the movie where motion was detected. Does anybody recall the name of that startup? Thanks in advance.
Just two administrative changes will go a long way.

1. strictly FIFO processing of applications on a nationwide basis (currently applicants for green cards in regions with a large number of applicants such as California can be processed slower than other regions)

2. Reform the green card process so that job mobility is available when green card app is in progress but not yet approved. This includes formalizing a "grace period" during which time you can remain unemployed without losing visa status or your place in the green card queue (but not be uninsured, collecting govt. aid etc; most immigrants whom this will help save a lot so money is not a problem for them)
Quoting JWZ:

"How will this software get my users laid" should be on the minds of anyone writing social software (and these days, almost all software is social software).

They're not using "social" as a buzzword indicating a passing fad. They're using it because, as JWZ points out, that's part of what software is today.
This is a short story about someone who expected the world handed to them because they had a master's degree and it didn't work out. It's hardly a revelation and seems to skirt the line between pity party and reflection on hubris.

This isn't some upstart rethinking the way we work. It's an entitled person coming to the realization that they were wrong over the course of a few paragraphs.
Yeah, I'd love a "Tarsnap for email". GMail is good, but I do worry about it. But encrypting everything as soon as it arrives would push the burden of searching and filtering back out to the client. Haven't figured out an optimal solution.
We should teach our students earlier that it can sometimes be important to align your dreams with what other people will pay for. I.e. not journalism, at least not in the volume that universities continue to turn out journalists. People shouldn't have to work through six years of school before finding this out the hard way.
Ask HN: Your Failed Startups
If you've failed in the past...
- What was the idea - that is, what problem were you trying to solve and how?
- Why did it fail? (Maybe add to that: how would you have done it differently?)
From what I know Baseline is what is usually used for SD on the web, so it just makes sense to compare to that. Also many people say "mobile things do not have hardware support for Theora but for H264" and that, as you said, mostly means those devices have Baseline support.
This is probably the main (valid) reason why the "right to work" is enshrined in the universal declaration of human rights ( http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ Article 23).

Many people define themselves through their career and find their sense of self-identity severely damaged if that's taken away from them. And many people don't have the entrepreneurial urge to go an do their own thing if they can't make it happen "in the system".

It's a dangerous place to be, for any society, when a large chunk of its society (particularly middle class, like this girl) feels like their self-identity is crumbling.
It's 2010 - there should be things in this list that are more awesome, even at first reading, than 'embedly' and 'embedster'.
Did you miss the part where she mentions that she has a "Masters in Journalism"? That and $5 will get you a latte at Starbucks.
Given that Facebook has >300M users, how necessary is this? Are there really many people who want to play social games but not join the largest social network in the world?

Edit: The thought occurred that Facebook may be blocked in China, and it appears that it is (or at least was for awhile? My hits were all for one instance of them blocking it, but I couldn't find anything about whether it stayed blocked). So that could be part of the reason for doing this.
http://chartbeat.com/ is pretty impressive.
Step 1. Make private investment difficult and costly. Step 2. Save the day with gov small business investment. 3. Pick winners based on political agenda.

There's more than one way to build a command economy...
And could be raking in millions in advertising dollars, like the non-profit Mozilla, if it chose to.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply private funding.
Heh. Ironic that thought experiments first led to the idea that the speed of light is a constant and can't be exceeded. Thought experiments are not proof, just useful and potentially enlightening.
Then she probably shouldn't have chose to get a degree in a largely pointless major.
Apple is in the middle of the pack on revenue, but crushing on operating profit
It is selfish for the intellectually gifted to not give back the gifts of new knowledge.

Perelman has given fruits, but being as selfish as he is now makes him as good as dead. Imagine if Ramanujan had went back to India and given up just after the Ramanujan conjecture. Or if Erdos had called it quits shortly after working on the probabilistic method.
Thought experiments can be used to prove almost anything. There are thought experiments that disprove the speed limit of light, and ones that prove it. My point is that merely claiming that one should imagine this situation copied a million times is no evidence at all. It's not even good rhetoric. It should be lent no more credence than would be lent to the thousands of people each year who post on forums their disproof of special relativity.
she can't be doing so bad... she just got published in the csmonitor...
Goodbye FriendFeed: So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
They forgot to mention one of the dangers of working from an office : paying exorbitant rent that you could save by working from home.
An Interview with David Drummond of Google
This service just makes so much sense for both readers and the media outlets. Now every game in every sport can be summarized, plus it frees up time and resources that can be invested in expert analysis and other enhancements to the user experience.

The only thing I'd like to see is the ability to incorporate commentary from fans. ESPN and others already do live chats on various games and it seems like you could extrapolate meaningful events from that data if you had access to it.
This is because unscrupulous universities mint more degrees than there are jobs for. That should be stopped. The talented people get in, and those who don't have the talent don't. Right now, because everyone can get in to some kind of grad school, it dilutes the value of such degrees to almost zero.
Are Millennials lazy?
I get the feeling that Perelman's a purist, in every sense of the word. He gets the math done, and then he steps away and feels happy that he's contributed something to humanity.

Maybe he's not as obstinate as we think he is. (Frying pan to the head notwithstanding)
Call bullshit on the idea in those words, sure. But don't downvote the comment that describes it. That's the actual rationale developers have received for app rejections in the past.
Analyst says Apple will enter HDTV market in next 4 years
She still has the right to work. Just maybe not on what she hoped to be working on. And maybe not at the salary level she hoped to be working at. But no one is preventing her from getting a job or making her own, so her "right to work" has been preserved.
I guess I should have mentioned that I have a Bluetooth mouse(the magic mouse, I love the scrolling on this so much that I can live without two separate buttons.) and a ps/2 to USB adapter for my Microsoft keyboard. It's like I am on a desktop but I can take it to go. I would love to have 3 monitors but I might go with a 30" in the future to mitigate that desire.
when was the last account of this happening? i haven't read much about a rejection of that kind for ages.
HilightCam
I read this thread again, saw the * next to my comment, and got instantly reminded of an KV art..
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One man's "right to work" is another man's "obligation to pay"
It's a dangerous place to be, for any society, when a large chunk of its society (particularly middle class, like this girl) feels like their self-identity is crumbling.

Yes. Whether French Revolution-style pwnage is in order is a subjective point, but if the country keeps sliding in the direction it has taken since 1980, it's inevitable that something like this, right or wrong, will happen.

(Personally, I think 1793-style pwnage of the actual upper class-- not merely "the rich" or politicians, most of whom are decent people, but the few hundred people who really run the world, e.g. Bilderbergers-- would be in order, but for that the problem with violent revolutions is that blood lust takes over and people kill a bunch of innocents, because the people who actually deserve to die are few and far in between. I'd obviously prefer to see no violence over an inane and unjust slaughter.)
The idea is widely understood and discussed among college students, so I'm not sure what can be done further to teach them to live in accordance with it. I think it would be more useful to teach them not to despise knowledge of how the "trivial" aspects of the world actually work, so they find it easier to make themselves useful when and where they need to.
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3) Our "If you're not happy with the first 7 minutes, we're gonna send you the extra minute free." policy