skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conventional wisdom is that people are generally willing to walk about 5 minutes. I think that is probably a little too low, but I don't believe people will generally walk 20 minutes (1 mile) except in the most interesting of places.

In the case of Palo Alto, Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park is 1.3 miles away. I have walked there once but am unlikely to ever do it again. In the other direction, California Avenue is 1.5 miles away, and then after that it's another 4 miles to Castro Street. People are certainly capable of walking these distances but I don't believe that they actually do.
I own the book and if I want to see the bibliography I can pretty much see it there. So this article might be useful but I can't imagine many people going through GEB's bibliography in order to get some new reading material.
Also, no shortcut for going straight into DOM selection in the page. Right-clicking to inspect an element is a valid, but a robust approach, compared to seeking the right element out with the looking glass.
I think everyone online should learn to ignore 99.9% of all comments. I'd like to hope most of us already had.
It's a developer release, you should be wary.
But it's hard to give you valuable advice without details about what you want to build.

> It is not just a service, neither application, nor innovative hardware device, it is all three and more. When accompanied by and development platform and strong contracts with major market players this can easily reach the scale of an iPad market and buzz. Seriously!

Phrases like this make me think you're deluding yourself. It's always good thing to get a reality check before investing too much in an idea.
That is our most popular feature. Realtime news classification. Try typing your city in the http://twecan.com you get news of things that are happenning around you this minute. In the next release we will have heat maps of where things are happening.
Yes, I completely agree with you about seeing things from the church's perspective. What I intended to mean is that, post marriage, denying birth control takes it out of the public conscious, and possibly the stores, as an option. I disagree that they would be saying: don't, but if you do... Because I disagree with their stance on birth control on their terms, or at least part of their terms. And believe they ought to claim that abstinence and fidelity is how christians should behave while making no claims about birth control.

Specifically, I disagree with their interpretation of the passage about the man spilling his seed. It wasn't worth death because he spilled his seed, but because he deliberately deprived his brother of a child, rather than simply being infertile as other men who failed to father children were.

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So at what point did you know the publicity software was going to be a failure? What was the proximate cause of your doom?
It has IE7 "Mode", so you can use the IE8 dev tools to debug IE7 issues.
What do you think the odds are that it will be 2011 and still with no clear concrete release date planed for Java 7? I think very good. The plural of tomorrow is "never", here.

People are optimistic about Java as an evolving unified platform when there is no such indication. The important Java pioneers have abandoned the ship. Google is hedging their bets on Android by divorcing itself from the JVM and the core libraries. History shows that such things (open or not) require strong unified leadership, and Java has none. Even so, what indications of Java 7 being agreed on and adopted are there that should make someone more optimistic than about say Python 3 or Perl 6? The fact is that Java 6 is good enough for the spaces where it is currently used.

Java 7 will have no place in the mobile world. (Though a variant of Java, taken in proprietary directions by Google, might.) In the server space it has lost and is rapidly losing more ground to C# (by nearly all accounts now a superior platform which is evolving to be better), and other languages built on the JVM.

People have saying Java was in severe decline for many years, but never have the signs been so consistent and clearly aligned as they are now.
Next up "Etch A Sketch"-like iApps will be banned since the viewers will interpret de data from the server and display other users' sketches.

God forbid you use JSON to communicate with the server in your app and parse it yourself, that's too close to Javascript-parsing and you can only use the approved Javascript interpreter for that.

It's starting to look a bit like a joke.

Yeah, of course, typing this on my MacBook Pro... It's a weird love-hate thing with Apple these days.
Now THIS really got my attention. I was holding my nose lightly through all the flap so far, and I'm quite sympathetic to Apple's desire to keep Flash off the platform, but disallowing educational software just because it's running a Smalltalk interpreter?

A polite but forceful email to Jobs is on the way...
There's a lot of totally crappy software on the market. The key difference is that you can try a better application after getting burned by a bad one. Not necessarily so with drugs - they can do unrecoverable damage.
One thing a lot of it may go towards is infrastructure and expansion. I know my alma mater has always had to constantly come up with big new construction projects (new stadium, new academic buildings, new apartments, etc) because they needed something to do with all the money they were taking in. The construction seemed very clearly driven by the need to spend money, rather than the tuition being driven by the need for buildings. Providing value to students was definitely not a concern, because whatever tuition is it'll get paid - plenty of applicants were being rejected.
Cool. This was the only feature of Outlook I've missed since starting to use Gmail for work. Now I'm golden :)
Google replacement for realtime news?
Do you have any idea how much money Facebook is raking in with advertising? The targeting available on Facebook is unparalleled in human history, and they are making a mint on it.
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That's cool. Should have said "happy" instead of "impressed" -- knowing nothing about the technical side, I was imagining the impact of letting kids program ipods/iphones. They must have loved that.
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Do not use inadequately tested drugs, buy only FDA approved drugs. Why do you want to forbid other people to buy drugs not approved by FDA?
Will Apple hunt down German WePad tablet over the "Pad" trademark?
I bet they'll sue...
"Free" is a term that always benefits from definition. How free am I to start my own business? Well, that depends on relative power, and how precarious my financial situation is, my debt load, my family responsibilities, and other things. It's not just a simple question of "is it physically possible?"

I'm not sure how directly applicable that critique is to the analogy, except to say that I am well within my rights to be outraged at my own employer for many reasons, whether or not I have the opportunity to start my own business. "Love it or leave it" is generally a cheap argument for dismissing folks who are pushing for progressive change in a system.
"Yours is a beautiful site, I'm impressed!"

Thanks. Actually I did everything but the design :-P

"1. Going off on many, many tangents before buckling down and focusing on the core product."

Yeah, if I had counted those tangents it would have taken me longer too :-) It took me a little over a month starting from scratch, but there were a few weeks of learning before that.

"4. Learning about, and implementing custom localization on appengine (needed because there are no filesystem writes for .mo/.po files)"

Nice. I actually initially built my site for App Engine, but I decided I needed to have control over my IP address (Amazon's Product API, which I will probably integrate with if I continue working on the site, throttles requests by IP address.) So I went with Linode, which gives you your own IP and the option of renting more for $1/month/IP.

I'll bet people would appreciate it if you open-sourced your app engine localization solution, especially if no solutions are currently available.
The operational efficiency and profitability of SpaceX is extraordinary. Listen to Elon and you'll see where the trends are heading.
... except that the artwork goes on the INSIDE of the envelope...
In a way, the stack exchange product and ning are very similar. Both tried to create an out-of-the-box product to fill a need. The reason both did not succeed is probably the same as well - too many half-baked communities with nobody behind them.

If hindsight is 20/20, what could Stack Exchange and Ning do different to make it work?

Or on another note, what sites out there have tweaked the model and are doing well?
As someone who made the same decisions that Jamie did as a cohort member at Bootup, in reference to your comment I don't think this is accurate. We knew the deal, which was contingent, and I moved from Chicago with that knowledge.
oh yes, they do! much better than google! however there's absolutely nothing advertised on them that I'm interested in.

I literally can count on both hands number of times I clicked on google or facebook ads.
You will decide it because of mark "FDA approved" (or any other drug testing agency you trust) on the drug.
software doesn't kill people
This is one of the reasons I left Verizon--I was in a rural area they were selling off to Frontier and I found out plenty of rumors about them. Plus, performance intermittently dropped for stupid reasons (rumors were, Verizon was taking out all the "good" equipment so they could keep it).
Do you know if anyone has built anything non-trivial with Clamato?

(http://clamato.net/)
Works for me with 5.0.375.6 dev.
Uhh no. The biggest problem with drug research is the ridiculously high amount of initial capital it takes to develop a drug. You can't just throw out buzzwords like "startups" and "software" like they're a panacea.
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If anyone else is wondering (as i did) how this works, I believe they're using the w3c file api. Details here:

http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/
You can use only drugs approved by FDA, nothing would change for you in "no regulation" market.
Just tried it on mine, works just fine.

10.6.3 with Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta
Just to reiterate: this is our soft launch. All of these comments and suggestions have been awesome and we're making some design/point fixes.

The official launch is Monday 4/19 and we're getting a few education bloggers to write about this. Let us know if you have suggestions for any other people to reach out to so that they can get the scoop on Hacker News for Education.
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Apple blocks Pulitzer cartoonist from iStore for "ridiculing public figures"
The article mentions it, but the achievement aspect of Foursquare is a Very Significant Differentiator as opposed to a footnote.

You have two competing services with similar functionality and one is fun to use. Investors are betting that the fun to use one is the one that will catch on and stick now and in the future. The fact that the not-so-fun competitor is making money should make Foursquare investors jump for joy. It's a proof of business concept that's been done for them.
Maybe There: http://www.there.com

Wait, no, there's no There anymore. Maybe there wasn't a market for There with Second Life in the picture.
Startups as opposed to open source? I suppose that would cut down on the users, but how would you police it? To be honest I think that would just annoy people, as well as being a lot of work for you.

If you really want to limit signups, I would just allow only X signups, or Y signups per day. That way you're being honest with your users: the message is "We're in trial mode, so we're only taking a few users now". People will understand that I think.
I see the point of LinkedIn groups, but it feels like the groups are starting to get polluted. It almost feels like Facebook. I really enjoy Hacker News and see why I would want to be part of that group on LinkedIn.

But I don't need another badge, another forum for questions, and another list.

Which is a shame because I think the a Hacker News LinkedIn group makes sense.
So obviously nobody else clicks on Facebook ads either, right?
Are you sure about this? I imagine they are keenly aware of their burn-rate vs. growth-rate. At some point they may have to make a course correction to bring in real revenue. FB's primary goal was probably to out-pace myspace and they've obviously done that. I'd say they are in an excellent position to make good money.
Yeah, but we kind of have that already here. LinkedIn presents it a bit better I guess, but it also loses a lot of the context you get on HN.
Example code from Mozilla Hacks: http://hacks.mozilla.org/category/fileapi/
"we are offering a $20,000 reward to whoever refers this critical team member"

The X Prize proved that contests bring in operational efficiencies in the magnitude of 10x. This may be of similar benefit when you weigh the costs of recruiting and advantages in hiring the right person.

This is an A++ team and they will find who they are looking for.
It may be a confusing name, but it's not hard to google. They're already #1 for the term "where": http://www.google.com/search?q=where
"the putative theory that..."

this is bad usage. it's definitely a theory.
I'm not sure that it's a good example. They seem to use a custom architecture : http://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast .

Maybe the OP should talk about basecamp/highrise/whatever from 37signals ?
Facebook has 300 mil, and they're profitable..
Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can’t get his app past Apple
Microsoft Research experiments with finger and pen touch interface
But then the program is still not originally written in JavaScript, so no dice. I think a subset of JavaScript plus a nice library would be ok, though.
At the time, e-commerce had only just become legal.
this looks like a Google wave killer; wow already a bunch of people.
If it really was this simple as with loosing weight (basically eat less and workout right?) then all dieting courses, pills, books and so on wouldn't sell. But they do and that's why this would sell too.
They could take a hint from Hacker News. Creating a successful community is all about pre-seeding it. Of course, the problem is this can't be scaled. Making enough friends to found a domain specific website with a good group of them isn't easy work. Communities aren't easy.
That is the trick to admissions at elite colleges. They admit people who would succeed regardless. Sure the name brand and the alumni you know helps, but it helps by saving time, you don't need to prove yourself so much. You still need to be you tho'.
I live in a big city, in a neighborhood full of students. My three roommates and I pay a total of $60 a month for a residential connection with a soft cap of 250G per month. The cable company claims that it's rated for 12 megabits, but it's more like 3 or 4 in reality.

If you want an unlimited plan from my provider, you'll have to get a business connection. A friend of mine has that. He gets 50M down, 10M up with no cap for $100 per month.
In my experience, a good click-through rate is about 0.1%, which makes sense since they're essentially banner ads 2.0, there's no intent captured at all. That said, they were cheap enough that I was able to acquire new users for my Facebook app at around $2 each in my small-scale tests.
Fair point. I didn't know it was custom.
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But then the program is still not originally written in JavaScript, so no dice.

I believe he meant as a web app.
This concept of gorging the beast reminds me of something I read in a book called "Being Sovereign":

"Individuals tolerate limitations and control, obey mindless bureaucratic nonsense, make a sincere effort to "follow the rules," until they don't. While their own best interests seem to be served by obedience, people try very hard to obey even the most idiotic of directives. When it becomes clear that they cannot prosper, or may not even survive, following the rules, they revolt. It should come as no surprise that people have limits, and there is always a straw that breaks the camel's back, but the perception of people accepting more and more nonsense as they try to "go along to get along" misdirects those in power to believe they can continue to be arbitrary and capricious far past the breaking point."
I see a benefit in this case (indeed this is the first thing that convinced me to join linkedin). There are a lot of people here I'd personally love to connect with more - of this helps with that then great!
> People are optimistic about Java as an evolving unified platform when there is no such indication

You're not asking the right people ... http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages

> Google is hedging their bets on Android

That's because Dalvik is a register-based VM (versus stack-based) optimized for efficiency on a mobile device that's using solid-state memory (which has sloooow access times). The bytecode itself lends to better interpretation (and it wouldn't be useful on a general purpose PC where you have the resources to JIT).

> what indications of Java 7 being agreed on and adopted are there that should make someone more optimistic than about say Python 3 or Perl 6?

InvokeDynamic.

Dynamic languages on top of the JVM are already fast. Jython / JRuby are already ahead of the reference interpreters in many benchmarks. And in real-world projects it is much nicer to drop to Java for bottlenecks than to C/C++.

In JDK7 InvokeDynamic provides a way to specify a handler for a call-site the JVM doesn't understand (and I think the caching is at least monomorphic). Thus it is possible for dynamic calls (with an unknown interface) to be as fast as virtual methods invocations (blazingly fast on the JVM).

And for JDK6 there's even a backport (using Java agents) for backward compatibility (also with speed improvements).

I haven't seen any real project (or any significant open-source project other than Parrot / Perl6 itself) that's based on Perl 6. And it was started when? 10 years ago?

And many people would argue that Python 3 only brings a couple of syntactic improvements. Only Unladen Swallow makes it exciting for me.

Until then, some reasons why it's not exciting for me ... GIL (no parallel threads), reference-counted (huge memory usage on long running processes), still slow as fuck for expensive computations.

Python is my favorite language, but I'm moving gradually to using Jython more and more.

> losing more ground to C# (by nearly all accounts now a superior platform

No, not really. Both have strengths and weaknesses.
obviously a lot of people do for now, since it's kind of novel and obtrusive way of advertising.

the point is - online ad market is getting saturated.
I think you are wrong.
There are a lot of small pharmaceuticals startups.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/14/436028/drug-startup-a...

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2355897150

http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10006932/biotech-start-up-fl...
The best ideas are a combination - ideas that come out of consulting for a real business with a problem that the business will pay to solve. Like with the organic idea, the founder will have great original insight into the problem and possible solutions. But it avoids the trap of the organic ideas, in which developers all build the same type of "me too app" for people just like them.
I couldn't agree more. This is a major oversight. When your customers are kind enough tell their friends about your service, you don't want an Abbott and Costello routine to play out...
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No, but I am sure Ford would not forbid others from providing spares for those Ts still on the streets.

But wait! Other companies can build parts for cars. They can't for closed OSs like Windows!
Actually, I mean that she will say "Thank you so much!" on the way out of the door.

If I was going to TA to get hit on, I would probably TA something besides Introduction to Computer Systems. The girls I've dated tend to be more attractive than the girls who show up at office hours, and I'm deliberately cold to women who hit on me at office hours because it's insulting (and I'm kind of a dick).

And if ever there was a student who bought me a beer, s/he would be the first one to get help at office hours without a doubt. The problem is that the men tend to interrupt other students getting help, call for my attention across the room while I'm busy with something else, and just act with a general sense of entitled arrogance.
The phone's interface is completely exceptional and a very different take on what the big three vendors are offering. I wish I had something like that on my BB.
profitable? last I've heard they are cash flow neutral, and that's considering how many billions invested?
Kudos to Google for that... but it's still hard to find discussion about 'Where'. Try for example [where reviews] or [where company management].
Oh, I was thinking they would actually print out the envelope. If it is "just" a website then of course it is fine.
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Cool you like it! Next up (when I get time) is a full OpenStreetMap importer writeup, so you can run deep algos on a real dataset. Have tested routes with depths around 1000 in under 1s :)
Our really cool manipulating robot, named Cody, uses an RMP-50 Omni...

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/03/15/cody-new-humanoid-mobi...
CrowdVine vs. Ning (2008)
'There's a reason Jobe rides one in Arrested Development.'

Or Weird Al, in 'White and Nerdy'.
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I like to try an experiment on HN. Have your say
I have a web app idea I would like to see come to reality.

I want the very first step to be an HN post explaining my idea, and then calling for talent/partners from this community to build a team around the idea.

Next, produce a prototype and finally apply to any startup accelerator program that will have us.

There is a real business potential here and the biz model only works by collecting a transaction fee from day one.

Before I make that post, I was hoping people could chime in with some advice.
Is it even feasible to find partners just like that? without any background knowledge..
Is it risky from a legal perspective?
Should I do it?

Will I run the risk of burning future investment possibilities by discussing everything in the open?

I have the post ready in a doc. Just trying to second guess the thought of posting it here.

Any advice?