skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did a Big Bet Help Trigger 'Black Swan' Stock Swoon?
- Yup, we should add screenshots. Developers behind the project don't think of such obvious things. :)

- Our intent was to create something with power on the scale of Eclipse, but with a more simplified UI + faster load times.

- We're trying to think of the best way to communicate our idea to developers who haven't used Eclipse extensively, since it's that audience who would appreciate this the most.
Here's some nostalgia for all. Its all the Radio Shack catalogs from the wayback in a beautifully done from.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/index.html
The worst case scenario I keep imagining is getting a lot of bad press with key social media folks (blogs, twitterers, etc) and then having my chances for good press be dried up even after I fix the bugs.
You make some political sensitive comments on your personal blog linked directly from your product site (affirmative action). I personally would not buy from you having read those as I disagree with your position.

It seems like putting out stuff like that while your trying to build a brand is risky, while some/many of your target may agree, I can see some not e.g. Libertarian types who believe in self reliance i.e. your own garden, but not affirmative action.

Up to you, personally I think why take the risk?
Highly recommend http://m5hosting.com - top notch technical people and so far has been very reliable.
Oh man, this is cool. Very neat. Congrats.
Intuit QuickBooks Discount Error Goes Unfixed
ah, cool idea. Hadn't thought of that.
The Simplest Java IDE

That would be notepad.exe. No, I'm not kidding. I learned Java using nothing but notepad.exe and javac on a Win98 box.
Syntax highlighting seemed quite magical back then. ;-)

(Ok, ok, I know, editor != IDE…)
As with all of these cli based www search tools I just don't see how learning/installing these is any quicker than: alt-j (I'm using wmii which is pretty 'raw'), "<imdb|slashdot|freshmeat|define> keyword" from your firefox google based homepage, cut/paste. I like to be minimal and love my mutt/irssi/cplay/vim sessions all wrapped in screen, but google based keyword searching via a firefox homepage seems hard to really beat in practicality.
Great idea and great website. I'm nearing the launch of my own MVP so I appreciate the fear that accompanies a launch.

That being said I do agree with profgubler. If I didnt' stumble upon your site via Hacker News I might just assume it's a Farmville competitor and click away.
FANTASTIC!!! I just planted half my garden last week. Going to do the other half next week. I will use this and recommend to a few others on my garden project...its my first time ;)

I think your pricing segments make sense.

Recommended quick fixes:

1 - first email I received has the "Plant xyz" list. Great, but maybe also include a link in the email that takes me back to my http://sproutrobot.com/<username>; page so I get this same info and also the related instruction links

2 - from the email header it looks like your using gmail directly for SMTP. If so, you'll hit a limit soon on daily sends at 500(?). I've been using sendgrid and critsend for these type of email...both are easy to setup and both are reasonably priced for a startup.
Installer wouldn't run on my XP 64 laptop:

This application has failed to start because MSVCR100.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Update: Couldn't figure out how to use it on my 64-bit Ubuntu VM.

I'm curious about this, because I develop Eclipse RCP apps, and I've wondered before about making a stripped down ultralight JDT.

I love Eclipse, but I understand it's overkill for many, and it forces a lot of strange jargon on you all at once (working sets? perspectives? wtf?). The concepts make sense once you bend your mind to the Eclipse model, but is there an easier, more natural model?

Eclipse reminds me of the old Mozilla kitchen sink -- we need a Firefox, I mean a Chrome.
Using a consistent color and style create a consistent look and feel for a brand. That consistently becomes something people recognize, and that's a good thing.

You can't measure everything with an A/B test.
Good point, good point. I'm redesigning the plans page this week so I'll definitely give this some thought. Thanks for the feedback.
I have worked for a university as well, and multiple logos I designed for the small grant that I worked for were shot down for misusing the official logo somehow. The review process seemed very politicized, subjective, and opaque. It would have been nice to have detailed guidelines (See dcurtis' link) that spelled everything out. I came away with, "your logo is round and so is our official logo - this can't work, sorry."
I doubt that some "social media people" can hurt you all that much. Above commenter was right, the worst is that no one uses it.

Is this a full-time day job sort of thing, or an on-the-side thing?

Also, by posting it on HN, you keep many of the more wanker-oriented SM people away.

It looks like an excellent app. Well done.
Good idea... I had no idea that Facebook worked that way for status messages. I'll add it to the list.
Go claimed := as the initialization operator, leaving = and == as before. Since you should avoid assignment after initialization when possible, anyway, I suspect = could be avoided altogether in a lot of code.
Performance comparison of CUDA and OpenCL on Nvidia FERMI Tesla C2050
C++ could use both syntaxes, old and new, just as programmers can use any syntax coloring scheme when viewing a program in an IDE. Anything sitting above a language's AST is customizable by programmers. It's just for historical reasons why programs in different languages are stored as consecutive text in files, instead of, say, tree structures on disk.
There are lots of places where I just did the simplest, easiest, stupidest thing I could to get it to work. Definitely we're going to have on-site instructions, but I wanted to get it out there as soon as possible.

Thanks for the feedback!
Fats are an excellent energy source that do not increase blood sugar levels.
No worries! Just one less bug for other people to find!

Wish you the best in your endeavor!
Did you even read his blog post? Or just see "affirmative action" and kneejerk it?

And what do his political leanings have to do with buying plant seeds?
Most major companies have these sort of guidelines.

When I used to work at Ericsson, there was a huge manual with all the design guidelines that specified everything from the exact shade of blue for the Ericsson logo, the font, and to how far the 'three sausages' logo should be spaced from the word 'Ericsson' (for the record, turn the 'E' horizontally and place it between the 'n' and the logo, that's the correct spacing).
Everybody that is a 'java developer' will have used some ide extensively, or at least almost as long as they have been using java. Using java nowadays without an ide is pretty hard (I know, I've tried), it's either intellij or eclipse.

To put a third ide on the market to compete with those two is going to be an uphill battle.

But simpler is better.

The great problem with those ide's in my view is not that the UI is too complicated, the real problem is that it is so very easy to mess up the build process. I don't know how many times I've had to fiddle with missing jar files, classpath settings and what not to restore a previously working installation to something that will work again.

It's also great when installing the same environment on a different machine and finding that there are subtle and very hard to resolve differences. But once it all works it works, as long as you don't mess with the machine. No automatic updates, no tweaking.
It's very feasible. I've been using mine for the past 2+ years. I also have a stool for when I get tired of walking.
Congratulations! Fantastic idea and really nice MVP site! Some minor feedback that may be in the comments already (I only read through some of them):

- zip lookup was very slow for me

- When I went to checkout on the Patio option, the text at the bottom of the page that says "You can easily change your choices later, or upgrade to a different plan." renders strangely. More specifically, the word "You" is just to the right of the "Radishes" check box, the word "can" is just to the right of the "Spinach" check box, and the rest of the sentence is at the bottom of the third column of checkboxes. (I am using Safari 4.0.5)

- Need a way to get back to the home screen

I'm also wondering if there is a way to draw interest (and user signup) from people who play Farmville. I have never played Farmville myself so I can't offer any concrete suggestions. But maybe there is something you could incorporate that is already familiar to Farmville users. Any readers here that play Farmville have any ideas? :)
Yes, it's the safetype (http://safetype.com). Much less wrist strain than normal pronating keyboards.
Erik, the design is really good. The signup page could get improved, but many people have suggested how so I wont get into that.

When I see how HN reacted on your idea and execution(which is simply ... FANTASTIC in my opinion), I immediately got more motivated to work. I'm confident that this will be a badass business!! :D

Congratulations, once more.
You have the advantage of shipping a desktop client, which affords you a variety of interesting methods beyond what purely web based apps and browsers can do.

The desktop client could even serve as a local proxy server for web/forum access.
I'm the lead web developer for a small design company with some big clients.

Not only are guidelines like this common, but this isn't half as detailed as some of the stuff we get handed.

Working in a company of designers is kind of funny sometimes. They'll think of technological problems in those fuzzy, vague terms of non-techies, but once the conversation becomes about "branding", out comes a razor-sharp eye for detail.
Doesn't run on amd64. And, only 10KB in size? That can't be right...
Similar project for Python (that I believe predates Toto, could be wrong): http://www.blogofile.com/
I've recently spent a little time working on a Python-based GPG module for Vim, and I have to say the Python <-> Vim interface is... clunky. You do get a very basic object for navigating the current structure of open tabs, panes and buffers, but when it comes to interacting with Vim, the Python code is literally reduced to pushing keystrokes at it. Whatever the user would type at the keyboard, you have to put into a string and send - with no assistance for proper quoting or anything.

Given that "add integration with Python instead of inventing more Vim script" has been near the top of the feature-vote results for quite a while, I hope the situation will get better soon:

http://vim.sourceforge.net/sponsor/vote_results.php
Good stuff. Really like the artwork and the idea.

I just dug out a bed in the back yard which is waiting to be planted, so I would seem to be your target customer. However, I'd be inclined more to use your free email reminder service and buy seeds and seedlings from another source. I wouldn't describe myself as cheap; just that I want control over the source/type of the seeds and would like to know whether I'm paying a reasonable amount. One thing might be to make it clear what kind of seeds I'm getting earlier in the purchasing process. Bulk? Heirlooms? Makes a difference, I think. But maybe I'm just a snooty gardener.

And I know this an extreme suggestion, but I think a heftier garden planner would also make me more likely to buy... work on summer/winter layout and buy the calculated seed quantities. That gets away from the subscription model though.
My school, Texas A&M, also has this:

http://brandguide.tamu.edu/

They even have a page where you can download branded powerpoint slides, logos, etc.

http://brandguide.tamu.edu/bigPicture/downloads.html
Or Intel, Intel, Intel ...

You can pick the abstraction level to suit the argument.
Could be useful for scripting.
Weighing yourself hourly to see how quickly you're burning energy is misguiding. When you burn carbs/fat you're not expelling them from the body. You're converting them to another form in a process that releases energy that your body can use. E=mc^2 considerations aside, as you wouldn't be able to detect those differences anyway, your weight is still the same. The waste products later get expelled when you go to the bathroom, sweat, etc.
It will be interesting times indeed if the word "duck" becomes as antiquated and removed from day-to-day use as "bootstrapping".

I weep for the ducks. :(
And the presentation at MongoSF: http://www.10gen.com/event_mongosf_10apr30#gilt
The colors listed aren't that great, but I get the point.
Great idea. I don't have the love/attention/time to garden but I'm signing up my mom as a belated mums day gift.
You're psyching yourself out. Early adopters (especially people who write about these sorts of things) are pretty understanding about that stuff. Trust me, I've been there. If you have no bugs at all you waited too long.

Very few of the early adopters will dive deep enough to even find a bug before writing up their thoughts, and unless you do something like reveal credit card info to strangers getting a review that's actually damaging to your long-term potential is extremely rare. (And even then it's the internet, just get a new domain name and design and start over).

Much more likely is that you'll find some people who like it, maybe some who love it, and some who have yet to be convinced. If you're really lucky, they'll tell you how to convince them.

I meant the first comment to be encouraging btw, perhaps it didn't come off that way since it got downvoted.
I love the design!
The first thing I thought of was that this would be a great gift for my sister who just bought a house and loves gardening. Maybe you could add a "Buy as a gift" option or sell gift cards?
UI style guides are also helpful. Here's an example of Readernaut's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sketch22/4044799031/sizes/o/
I've been thinking about this too (http://blog.ianbicking.org/2010/05/04/browser-desktop-develo...) -- but I figured I'd just let go of Emacs in the process, presumably to replace it with Bespin: http://mozillalabs.com/bespin -- it is purported to have some Emacs keybindings (I haven't been able to enable them though).
This shows an axe to grind with C#, and not for the sake of C#. While you're information and insights were definitely interesting, I don't think that it really amounted to anything beyond, "Gimme a pony!".

That's just my opinion, though.
That's called Evony.
An Amazing Musical Mission Statement
it says 100% open source... but where do you find the code?
Hi,
I think you need to use a commercial VPN as most of the free ones have been blocked.
Give the art a transparent sky, then make the sky gradient a repeating background image.
First off...
Congratulations on getting it out the door. For me that is by far the hardest part.

Second, please forgive me if someone else mentioned this but I did find a bug. I first entered a zip code for a place in Arizona. I then was telling a guest how interesting the site was and what a great idea you have. I went back and tried to enter their ZIP (Idaho). Unfortunately it was a pretty new one so it wasn't in your DB. They told me to try another one that is near their location and a bit older. It acts like it finds it by taking me to the sales page instead of an error but when I click on "preview your calendar" link it takes me to a calendar for the previously entered AZ ZIP.

This isn't a super big deal and again I apologize if someone else mentioned it already.

Great Work
Congrats!

BTW, thought you might like to know: Your buy page is using SSL certs from an unrecognized CA, as far as Opera 10.53 is concerned. I got a nasty warning.
Not knowing much about the Verizon buy-one-get-one deal, does that mean that their are actually only 1/2 as many android and blackberry phones sold last quarter that are in use?
Plenty of people live on their own at the age of 17.
I gather that what happened to him has grown into something of an "urban legend" of sorts, with some saying he was summarily executed and others claiming that he lives peacefully in Tibet, etc.
Realtime Election Tweets (twitter + websockets + node.js + nginx)
If you're trying to run it on OS X, it looks like the actual jar is at http://www.getbreve.com/BRE.jar.
This is a very cool idea! The graphics look extremely good. One little thing you can fix: when I clicked on the "Sign Up" link, I received an SSL certificate alert in the browser. This might prevent people from proceeding further.

Good luck :)
1st Point
Yeah I read the blog post, he stated a position in support of it and articulated his reasons.

2nd Point
What does if a presidential candidate is bald or not have to do with his/her capacity to run the country?
What does Whole Food's CEO"s John Mackey position on health care have to do with buying groceries?

Your question implies a lack of understanding of the motivations and impulses that drive consumers to take actions such as voting and purchasing products.

My questioning of the value of putting and linking such rhetoric with a product or company represents an understanding of impact of the overall messaging around a product/brand that can very far removed from the core value/solution a product/brand/person is delivering.
How Genentech Uses Custom iPhone Apps to Sell More
I agree that the rollercoaster ride is daily for me too!
Don't you love knowing that

1) you get to ride a roller coaster all day

2) when you're down, the next up curve is just around the bend
…or it could be in transition.

I'm still waiting to see the new branding book for the company I work at. I thought the old branding sucked, but I was very pleased with the quality of the branding book, and I'm "just" a dev (a back-end one at that).
The Only Person Who Cares About Your Idea Is Your Mom
I also had problems running the installer on by 64bit machine. I looked in the binary and it seems that it basically downloads http://www.getbreve.com/BRE.jar and starts it.

It downloads slowly, HN effect?
Freebase releases Gridworks 1.0
Attn: Startup Founders, You Need a Hobby
That would be cool. It actually wouldn't be hard to adapt Hummingbird to pull from the logs, or of course you could use another existing WebSockets server to serve the requests. WebSockets is a pretty simple protocol, and Hummingbird just sends short JSON messages over it.
Anyone remember Heathkit? The real DIY shop?
TELL HN: My side project - SaaS Interviews
Hey HN,

I'm starting a podcast/mixergy-like show where I'd interview successful SaaS(software-as-a-service) like Balsamiq/Wufoo/Basecamp/OneHub, basically I'd interview a lot of them so that you could find out about them and to show you what went well with them and how it could help your saas.

What do you think about this idea? .. I've had it for a while now and think you'd love it!
Actually I think that's true, but it takes experience to gain sufficient humility to know that you have to respect the differences in domains. Obviously (for example) manufacturing is different from software, but motivating people, managing costs, solving customer problems - those are universal.
Update (6:30 PM PST): We’ve finished our cleanup of the spurious followings generated a result of this bug. If you are still seeing folks you are following who you didn’t choose to follow, please use the block or unfollow tools to remedy.

Obviously, their so called "cleanup" is incomplete, at least for me :)
I second that. Using Flash to simply play video on Linux/Firefox drives my CPU up to 100%. No matter what benchmarks or graphs you contrive to show me, I can HEAR my box's fans getting loud.
(not the author)

Inside C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.
- Bjarne Stroustrup

Clay is an attempt at creating that language.

Link: http://tachyon.in/clay/
I am currently employed at a retail startup in Seattle that could be described this way!

http://www.metrixcreatespace.com/
Japanese iPads will be SIM-locked to Softbank Mobile
This makes me wonder how many customers had overpaid without noticing the tax problem.

Actually it also makes me wonder how many times I have overpaid for something because I didn't check the register's math.
Result-Oriented Term Paper examples 
Term paper examples would certainly guide students, who are searching for controversial or meaningful topics to make their presentation, unique in the perception of their tutors.
USPS cited by OSHA for ‘Willful’ Safety Violations
For yet another violation by a company, OSHA has slap them with a fine of about $558,000. USPS, a postal service was cited as they ignored the long established OSHA safety standards and put their workers into harm knowingly. The violations was for exposing the workers to serious and potential fatal hazards of electrocution, shock and arc-flash at the Providence facility.
I need a very aliased picture of an envelope circling a globe. Then we will have fully regressed to 1996.
My thoughts on improving education system (Part 2)
Ask HN: How much would I give away on fundraising?
I have a solid near-finished product in a new market with a lot of potential interest but no customers just yet.

I estimate the company and product to have around 1M - 2M value. How much would I have to give away from the company if I raised 500K? How much control would I lose of the company? Would I have to report to a board of directors?

I know I only gave rough figures, but I would be interested to even have rough answers.
Cool idea, looks nice. I live in an apartment with no gardening area and the cats attack any indoor plants so I can't make use of it right now, but I just wanted to drop a quick post to say great job and keep it up! Best of luck.
http://anonymouse.org/ worked pretty well most of the time I was there.

The best option though is get a cheap VPS and install your own proxy on it.
The manager-programmer face-off over NoSQL
Surprised at the order of their web font fallbacks: "Arial, Helvetica" or "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"

Verdana has much less in common with Helvetica than Arial does. It's also rare to see a designer spec Arial before Helv.
Really, a great idea. I'll be signing up for a paid account as soon as we get settled into our next house.
Online OSHA Safety Training Courses
Online OSHA training is more affordable and also saves money many ways. You will not have to travel anywhere to attend the traditional classroom teaching. You can complete the online courses at the comfort of your home or even at your office. There is no need take leave to attend these courses.
You should try having approximate location based on IP address already filled in. Something like, "We can get you started in New York, New York. Or give us your zip code:"
Would be great if you can share your sales figures 24 hours post release.
Seeding a Start-up Culture
It seems to have a problem with large numbers.

=> (type 10)
java.lang.Integer
=> (type 10000000000)
java.lang.Exception: EvalReader not allowed when
*read-eval* is false.

Edit: a few bugs or limitations:

=> (defn pow [base exp] (apply * (take exp (iterate #'identity base))))
#'net.licenser.sandbox.box1712/pow
=> (defn long-compute [power] (def p (pow 10 power)) (loop [i 0] (if (> i p) i (recur (inc i)))))
#'net.licenser.sandbox.box1712/long-compute
=> (long-compute 6)
1000001
=> (long-compute 7)
Execution Timed Out!

=> (import java.lang.System)
java.lang.System
=> (System/getCurrentTimeMillis)
Disabled for security purposes.

=> 10000000000
10000000000
=> (type 10000000000)
java.lang.Exception: EvalReader not allowed when *read-eval* is false.
=> (type (pow 10 10))
java.lang.Long
Art Sets for Kids
Good for them. Heroku provides great service, and I wish them well.
Firefox 4: fast, powerful, and empowering