skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Ads of some kind
2. Cross-reference with campaign contribution data from FEC.gov or opensecrets.org
3. I like maps
4. ???
5. PROFIT

Seriously though, politically active people love this kind of stuff and although the number of people who like to pore over such data is small they also love posting their findings which will result in regular waves - not many sticky users, but you can probably pick up some revenue by CPI ads or beachcombing the serious users with a freemium model.

The trick (if it doesn't consume too much in the way of resources) is to join up the disparate information - even though interested researchers could use your site and existing contributions databases to do so now, you'll only get a footnote credit. If there's a nice way to cross-reference the 13f data with other things, then they'll send people directly there, and a percentage of them will surf around and then announce discoveries of their own in a me-too fashion.

The reasons I think of political campaign contributions as a cross-reference: political people tend to be obsessed; they're usually quite partisan, so once they've found a resource they like such as yours, they tend to be loyal to it; election cycles, like SEC declarations, take place on a fixed schedule and are thus predictable (in terms of adwords or external marketing); interest is growing in this issue after January's Supreme Court decision to remove limits on corporate campaign spending.

Regarding maps, everyone likes them and they're more accessible than tables. but I'm also thinking of more abstract maps, like using processing.js or something to do dynamic node-based diagrams that would make it easy for people to surf the data without consuming much in the way of server resources. I love spreadsheets myself but that's because I'm OK at number crunching - for most people it's the equivalent of trying to make a picture using a mouse and MS Paint vs a tablet and Adobe Illustrator.
San Mateo, CA - http://epocrates.com working on an electronic health record system. If you have RoR && ( jQuery || moo || prototype.js || yui) skills, please email me. We use Shoulda, continuous integration (hudson), macbook pros with external monitors, &etc. This is a nice place to work with smart people -- we're working hard on the v1 of a new product, but have a midsize company's resources and maturity (benefits, experienced management, sane buy vs build mentality, &etc.)

It's also pretty cool to go into work each day and know that you are working towards saving lives and helping the medical industry.
Widows? Seriously? I thought we're above juvenile name-calling here.

Also, startup time simply isn't a big deal. It's a big deal for people who dual-boot, but I think dual-booting is just stupid when virtualization is so easy.
Your absolutist proclamations are a good example of what's wrong on all sides of the equation.

Israel is a victim to some extent, yeah. But until Israel ends the blockade of Gaza and lets them trade freely from their own coastline, they're still under occupation.
Well, change my statement from "no way to make" to "no way to have made, and released by that point in 2008". yes, of course it took them years to build the iPad. I wasn't saying that they weren't working on it at that point.

My point was that of course they've been working on it, but it was not possible to have completed it and released it in 2008. If it had been, some other company would have done it; so far though, both with phones and with tablet computers, Apple hardware (at least in the US, not talking about Japan) seems to be right on the edge of what is possible - all the modern touch-screen phones [droid, pre, nexus, motorola, etc] started coming out after the iPhone release; same as we will now see with all the new tablets.

Of course one could argue that the other manufacturers just weren't sure of the market, and only rushed in to fill in the gaps after Apple has proven that there is a demand for that kind of hardware, but I don't think that's realistic - if it was technically feasible for HP or Microsoft to release a kick-ass tablet before Apple, I'm sure they would've jumped at the chance. They hadn't.

As to changing his mind - that was referring to his statements from 2003, and I am saying that in that time his statements were reasonable. Just because 7 years passed doesn't mean that he has to stick by them.

Anyway, this is getting too long. Just thought your statements were strangely harsh.
Apple doesn't need to be building the actual apps. They need to run the marketplace/transaction engine. That they do very well.
Probably 80-90% of general-purpose mobile computing devices are iPhones.
Here's the non-shortened link: http://www.pluggd.in/startup-pr-firm-strategy-297/

There's no character limit on HN, and shorteners can be used to hide malicious links.
..and I heard Seqouia was pissed they didn't get to invest.
Here's my canvas-driven game where you hunt bankers for sport:

http://mikecantelon.com/demo/demo_blood_funnel.html

Targeted to Chrome: It's pretty slow in Firefox, alas, and sound doesn't work well in Safari.

Doesn't compare to more sophisticated Flash games, and my engine cries for optimization, but I think we're going to see a lot of HTML 5 games emerging.
I guess you'd just have to figure out some way to represent it, say a squiggly line or something, then remember not to count it's intersection, or you could just leave a big blank spot, but too many big blanks might throw off the ease of vertical grouping
I doubt this is a good comeback as the other person might very well also be thinking about some company related stuff and talking to colleagues on weekends.
Sizzling Report: Google will show TV software in May
Now if they could just get rid of Po and Tinky Winky...
How Google's Keyword Tool Can Point You Toward Profits
HP Windows 7 Slate might not be Dead?
What's awesome is that my team has grown from one (me!) to four as these threads went out. Sadly, none directly from the HN.

To correct that, drop me a line: sanj@tripadvisor.com

We're looking for intern, junior and senior folks to work on stuff that's cool enough that it is embargoed. We're in Newton, MA and you'll need to be too.

Warning: I'll ask you to write code pretty much the first time we talk.
You might be right. In contrast, Joel seems very clued up as to what's going on outside of his niche.
Rise and fall of a UI convention: The search bubble
For a couple of registrations, it doesn't really matter, but they usually have at least one "coupon" promotion running. A very typical one is for about 10% off a new registration. If you're making several registrations, googling "namecheap coupon" might be worth the effort.

EDIT: Also, if you want to pick up the free TLS/SSL certificate offered with a new registration, you need to click on the link during checkout. The link looks like one that just provides more information, but no, that's the link to add it to your purchase.

Note that after the first year, you'll have to pay for WhoIsGuard and certificate renewal (as well as the domain itself).
You've obviously never been in the room when someone wants to "call in the consultants to wave a dead chicken over the database" on a floundering ERP project.

Oh gods, the horror, the horror.
I think it's pretty simple.

Myspace was basically just a simple webpage maker that let you "friend" other "webpages".

Facebook was an actual social network where you could find people.

With myspace if you didn't know someone's myspace account, you couldn't find them. With facebook, all you needed to have was either your high school name, college class, or your past employer, and you could connect/reconnect with people.
That's true of all companies that contribute to open source.
http://www.effectgames.com/effect/
Imagine (or draw) a dotted line where the zeroes are..Count the dotted intersections as contributing zero to the diagonal addition step.
http://shotputterers.com
Digg! We're hiring engineers and product managers right now. We're in San Francisco.
I'm hiring four senior hackers at StyleFeeder and would love to hear from anybody who is interested! We're in Central Square in Cambridge, MA.
Is anyone familiar with something like this that is usable in commercial systems?
That's why I think names like "color3" are bad. If the orange is on headings, look for headings. If the orange is the page background, look for what represents that. I don't see a compelling reason to actually use the color name in the variable name since things should be easier to look up if the context is taken into account.
I am an independent contractor, and I probably spend more than 600$ at Starbucks in a full year.
As mentioned above, Apple has one patent out of hundreds in the H.264 pool, and one patent in MPEG-4 Systems Pool.

Maybe they'll be a part of it and maybe they won't, but it doesn't sound like they're big players in the video patent space.
Looking for embedded Linux/NetBSD developers.
CradlePoint, Inc. Boise, ID. 3G/4G routers & solutions.
http://www.cradlepoint.com/content/employment
They have $3,800 in the bank...but can't manage to pay off a $2,200 credit card balance

I have a wacky idea...
Those games look and play great (at least on Chrome).
This is what I'm using for a website I'm building.

// >> HEADER/FOOTER
// background color for header/footer
!nav_background = #5C504F

// border of header/footer
!nav_border = #5C504F + #2B2830

// text in header/footer
!nav_text = #F0F8FE

// >> BACKGROUND BEHIND CONTENT
// background between content and nav elements
!site_background = #2B2830

// border between background and content
!site_border = #ABAB8E

// >> CONTENT
// background for content
!content_background = #F0F0D8

// table odd row
!content_lighter_background = #F0F0CA

// text color
!content_text = #000

// regular links in content
!content_links = #2B2830

// control links (flag, edit, delete, etc.)
!content_edit_links = #8B8870

// secondary nav border, section seperator, table header seperator
!content_seperator = #D9D7A3

Screenshot: http://epochwolf.com/singleforestcom-screenshot
It looks like it runs its own server on its own port, so you'd most likely need a virtual/dedicated server. There are some shared hosts that allow you to run custom servers, such as NearlyFreeSpeech.net
Fair enough. That's interesting.

The article seems more concerned with goals and incentives, than with nuts and bolts.

By the way, how would your Tarot card system work? They could make for an interesting qualitative instead of quantitative system. Say, you try to do an action, draw a card and interpret "The Fool" as fumbling.
I do sometimes buy streaming services for a one-time cost, but I make sure to think of it as a subscription for ~a year.
Could you run this historically over the last 6 months? I'd be interested to see that percentage trending over time.
I guess weather forecasting and stock forecasting are equally "hard" problems? ... Too many variables.
LG Launched Optimus Smartphone For UK
Thanks. They explain "Ubuntu releases on a time based cycle, rather than a feature driven one."--but they seem to ignore the possibility of continuous updates.
That new node-based v2.0+ implementation can be 10x faster than the ruby-based implementation.

# Ruby version
$ time lessc -v
lessc 1.2.21

real	0m1.681s
user	0m1.492s
sys	0m0.176s

# Node.js version
$ time lss -v
lessc 2.0.0 (LESS Compiler)

real	0m0.104s
user	0m0.088s
sys	0m0.016s

Though it should be noted that Rubygems has introduced a bit overhead in
the Ruby version.
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I don't dual-boot, and boot-up time is still important to me. I don't want to leave my PC running when I'm not using it, but I do want it to be available as fast as possible when I turn it on.
Oh, and find some underemployed quant to do monthly postings of whimsical high level statistical analyses, like Nate silver does with election and polling data, or that guy at OKCupid does with their dating website.

You know, 'which companies have statistically unusual shareholding distributions?' or 'does geographical location influence trading/portfolio composition, or only prices?' or 'why do so many/few funds hold x & Y at the same time (where X & Y are similar companies or unusual combinations of sectors)?'.

It doesn't have to be hardcore market intelligence, in fact it might be better to be quirky unusual questions that make for good dinner-table chatter/blog fodder.
Do you have any proof that the "arrogant jerks" at Apple go after Theora themselves ? Steve Jobs did not state it anywhere. Way to get worked up over the wrong guys.
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The author isn't necessarily arguing that PCs are "going anywhere", just that the profit margins will largely be gone.
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Bump is hiring one full time Android architect.

Complete requirements: general awesomeness

Get into mobile!

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When working on a web project where I have no designer I inevitably get sucked into hours of painfully tweaking CSS. The biggest pain points is that CSS is not programatic and feels very restrictive(it's a declarative non-turing-complete language); Nor is it concise.
This one:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779448
Ditto what Sanjay's looking for. We have an HN candidate sharing agreement, so no need to email both of us :).
Why do you ask? What's the point?
That's not true, people I hadn't talked to in years found me on Myspace. It was pretty trivial through friends of friends.

And not building in simple search (rather than trying too hard to monetize through Google) would constitute blowing it.
Planning for Failure - Discovering Your Core Values
Back in January, I discussed an exercise where you would put your company values on the wall and allow anyone in the organization to remove them if they felt the company was straying from their core values.

But what do you do if you’re not sure what your core values are?
I don't understand how open sourcing or providing a distribution of Twitter would "save" it. (Or that it needs "saving" in the first place).

What problem does open sourcing Twitter solve?

The strength of Twitter is in the network effects: There's a single place to go and everyone's on it - your friends and @aplusk. And there's only one namespace, not a bunch of fragmented ones.

Twitter's already as open as it can be - their API is likely the most-used one in the world. Open sourcing wouldn't be valuable to them, and they're not incentivized to do it.
Its a good point about comma-delimited selectors reducing repetition, but constants offer other advantages, just as they do in any language.

One example is the ability to distinguish in code between !warningColor and !saleColor even if they happen to be the same value of red at a given point in time.

Another is increased readability, since scanning a stylesheet and quickly seeing that #f54e4f and #f5e4f4 are very different colors is difficult.

Additionally in Jeff's case constants would allow for one complex stylesheet which maps selectors to constants to be shared across all skins, and then each of the 10 skins can be simply definitions of constants.
http://www.iChange.com is hiring a web developer (php) in Los Angeles
"We ... are free to do business anywhere"

Well, for now. If there are people who use the economy as a basis to keep immigrants from flooding in, just imagine the reaction if citizens start flooding out.
You want your existing PHP code working? So what you want is a port of PHP to the JVM.

But that doesn't really solve the problems of the PHP language.

As I understand it, the goal of this project is to solve the main problems of PHP. And that means of course to have it incompatible to PHP code.
Well, I don't think that's what a portable lightweight bluetooth keyboard is for. It's very comfortable to type on, is fairly durable, and is quite light and reasonably small. It's not meant to replace a full keyboard, just to be a decent substitute.

That said, once I did the ctrl/caps remapping I've used that keyboard extensively with emacs and only occasionally did I feel any real limitations.
I don't know much about the past, but in at least the past 3 years, Microsoft has been incredibly committed to IE development and enabling it to be more standards-compliant than ever. They've been consistently pouring money, time, manpower, etc. into making IE the best browser that's out there. This is one excellent example of the fruits of our labor: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/

And no, I'm not speaking on behalf of my employer; it's just my personal opinion.
"Systems" is mp4 container.

Did you mean MPEG-4 Part 2 (Advanced Simple Profile)?
There is some merit to his comments. I recently watched Avatar in HD at home with my gf 5 and 8 year old. Both said they liked it more because it was 'clearer and brighter'. When I pressed the 8 year old he said that he thought he could see more detail in the background.
I don't get it.

In his open letter, Jobs explains why he chose HTML5 and H.264 instead of Flash, and the author here doesn't not answer about Flash but H.264.

Even though Theora looks more open than H.264 for video, I think HTML5/H.264 still stands more open than Flash for the entire web.

So, yes, Theora sounds cool, but that's not Jobs point. The point is, get rid of Flash.
> 16MB of flash storage

You're going to need to upgrade first.
You best bet here is to:

1. use BitTorrent to download the relevant albums.

2. resolve never to buy anything from Apple or any RIAA company ever again.

3. inform all your friends of (2), and warn them never to part with any money for any DRM-crippled service.

4. Join your local Pirate Party -- see http://www.pp-international.net/

If enough people do this, we'll get our revenge on the shits who want to destroy our freedom.
How do you come to that conclusion?
Impressive how fast and smooth his games are.
Ask a trademark lawyer of course, but given the existence of .net as a domain I'd guess you're relatively safe. The only problem I can foresee is if your application were a software development tool, then it would be hard to argue you weren't referencing MS.
I really don't like the $ prefix. The rest of your comment is OK.
This part really stands out:

When we created the PDF, we used the new reverse https payload that was recently released by the Metasploit Project. (Previously we were using similar but more complex techniques for encapsulating our reverse connections in HTTPS). We like reverse HTTPS connections for two reasons:

First, Intrusion Detection Technologies cannot monitor encrypted network traffic. Using an encrypted reverse connection ensures that we are protected from the prying eyes of Intrusion Detection Systems and less likely to trip alarms.

Second, most companies allow outbound HTTPS (port 443) because its required to view many websites. The reverse HTTPS payload that we used mimics normal web browsing behavior and so is much less likely to set off any Intrusion Detection events.
Interestingly enough these Ex-Adobe engineers are likely just as affected as Adobe. On their blog they believe their project Corona will prevail, I'm not so sure.

Unfortunately, I can't go into much detail, but Apple is definitely cracking down on these multi-platform developer tools.
Myspace is trashy. That's all there is to it. They gave everyone full ability to do whatever they want with their pages, and ordinary people make terrible design decisions. Facebook gave everyone a standard template and told them they weren't allowed to fuck it up - which meant that people could just socialize instead of laughing at the gaudiness of it all.
I agree, this reminds me of how people would get up in arms about 2d artwork created on a computer.

Sadly, many people confuse craftsmanship for art, this leaves people who like things the way they are angry, and those who want the new shiny drooling over crappy art that happens to use new tools.

This all brings to mind Duchamp's 'Fountain', and various people's reaction to it. It's amusing how some debates never end.
Debugging Ruby with MongoDB
Jurors more likely to convict unattractive people
> the work being done is much more impressive than with the other browser makers

Are you serious? All the other browser vendors also have blogs, on which they have routinely discussed the details of web rendering for years. How does Microsoft also adopting this practice within the last year or two make them unique?
If you don't know what "Bilski" is (like me). I founds us a link:

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Bilski_overview
Readable: http://whenwillapple.com/thoughts-on-horses/
United Virtualities (Company I work for) is hiring a Sales Manager: http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Digital_Sales_Manager_2232_2.a...
Yelp is hiring back end, front end, and mobile engineers (check http://yelp.com/jobs). We use Python for a lot of the web site and search services are mostly Java. As an engineer you'll be working on new features and scaling existing features to work with our ever increasing traffic. Best work environment I've ever had the pleasure of working in.
We're located in downtown San Francisco.
“Flash was designed for the desktop world, for web and large screens, not the user experiences you want to create in these new devices with touch, accelerometers and GPS,” Luh said. “It wasn’t designed with that in mind at all.”

Bingo...
There is a large thread about this on emaildiscussions.com:
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=59311&p...

I am displeased that the FAQ doesn't mention any relevant privacy concerns, even though for many people the fact that FM was a small company with a good track record and privacy policy was an important reason to choose the service.

I also recognize the dismay of this comment:

- 'FastMail's practical approach to user privacy has always been to be extremely protective of customer privacy'.
...or we may just sell your all of your data to a third party, giving you zero days notice or an option to cancel without refund.

I really wished they would have at least given us some time to figure out what we want to do.
I moved to SF from SD in late 05 and there wasn't much of a startup scene outside of biology or wireless hardware. Has that changed much since? Any YC alum down there?
There was something called "Flash Lite 1.0" that was usually on cell phone demos circa 2004-2007. I don't recall any apps ever being built for it, getting any buzz, etcetera (especially on my Treo 650 which was a great phone). I do remember a few Vaporware™ press releases though. Sorry, plugins are ghetto.
Revisiting notes, much later - thanks for the comment. Also, some of the ZDnet comments attribute iPhone 'removed' app problems to API breakage, not deliberate deletion.

"That Saurik" :) http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/13/360idev-saurik-on-the-mobile-... , http://cydia.saurik.com/

P.S. submitted the TUAW link, good piece.
Road to Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac: A New Hope
WHOA!

OK, absolutely yes, Intel is deadly serious about this market given that they did that.

On the other hand it looks like they've got a customer demand problem with this attempt: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/a-tie-up-between-in...; the partnership is on "hiatus" as of the end of February but Intel hasn't given up.

And on the third hand, much of the commentary I found on the net suggests that Intel has a disruptive technology problem here. Until they have a few notable successes that may be the way to bet, however hard they are trying.
"Receive alerts when something happens via email or text"

Doesn't this mean I'll receive an alert when I receive an email?

Wouldn't this be better:

"Receive alerts via email or text when something happens"