skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My co-founder wanted to give up tender because no mail were processed so I checked google apps mail forwarding and found no errors.

As I was unsuccessful I've tweeted to @tenderapp and got a reply some hours later stating that there was indeed a mail receiving problem.

As tender/entp also uses google apps, it's kind of scary to see that there was a problem. I mean that's probably the easiest combination to deal with imho.
Isn't this similar to getsignoff.com?
GeoCouch: CouchDB with a spatial index (R-Tree)
What's New in FogBugz 7.3
One has to wonder if this story would ever have been written if the woman wasn't disadvantaged.

There must have been cases before that one for sure, but I guess that wasn't meaty enough for the journalists.

I do find it odd though that they don't accept cash.
That is great. I'll alternate backups between S3 and GS.
Ha!

It's back up, either way :p
don't miss out on _why's poignant guide to ruby:
http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
Facebook to Launch “Simplistic” Privacy Choices Soon
Thanks! Sent in a request.
This is great! Thanks for the offer.
Who else is sick of hearing this message?

Yes, we have unpreceduented access to information. But that just makes clear the real bottleneck to true learning is not lack of information, but lack of INTEREST.

True progress in any field is made by the tiny group of people with burning passion in that field, clustered together and sharing ideas.

Technology exposes us to more fields and connects us to more people than we would have been able to reach. That is its true value. Information by itself is worse than useless.
for any of the Javascript/HTML/CSS, you can just diff it with the GitHub code to be certain. Also, the backend Python code cannot do anything sketchy with your Facebook data since nothing is done using Facebook's API. And you have my word that I am doing my best to deploy to AppEngine after modifications are made in GitHub. I'm even considering putting up a postcommit hook when I have time.
Please, don't editorialize headlines. Let people get to their own conclusions.
Facebook Launches New Mobile Site with No Data Fees
nothing better than publicly poking fun at the RIAA/MPAA's continuous failure =)
Worked on http://Todoist.com while in university. Not really my active startup, but Todoist is bootstrapped, profitable ($1k+) and one of the largest task managers on the net.

If I was to bootstrap something again then I would do it in my free time until it took off (like patio11). If you have any questions feel free to ask :-)
I'd suggest you set your sites higher than $1k/month. $10k/month is a start. $100k/month is a business that pays you and your employees. And there are zillions of them out there to learn from. My blog isn't about the internals of our business, but I'm happy to tell any bootstrapper who asks.
I wouldn't say Chrome fails miserably at browser tweaking, but maybe I don't do enough tweaking myself. What exactly are you trying to do that Chrome won't let you do?
Let's not resort to ad hominems, please.

Do you really think this is so cut and dry great for everyone involved (Telcos, Facebook, consumers)?

I'm guessing we simply disagree on how high the lock-in costs are compared to the benefits of getting the free product initially. I believe that for consumers in emerging markets future lock-in costs > initial benefit.
Primer. It's the only time travel movie that gets it right.

Not only is it about plucky young geek entrepreneurs, but by the end of the movie you'll be constructing Feynman diagrams to explain the plot.

You won't believe the movie cost only $6,000

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/
see also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1359286
Drama, drama, drama.

Why don't we just get rid of Flash for good and end it all?
Pirates of Silicon Valley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley
Ummm, I'm not sure I agree with you financial definition of success. But, after all... it is your definition. I meet the criteria. I don't consider my business financially successful, yet. Although we make on average $2k a month and have made as much as $4k a month. Our blog is http://techneur.com
Subsidizing retail channels to a market you have dominance in can quickly get you into antitrust problems, though. This deal is probably on the okay side of the line, though, as long as the contracts don't have exclusivity provisions. But, it also depends on the antitrust law in all these other countries, some of which is more lenient and some stricter.
The annoying thing is precisely the conversation that is required to convince the person on the other side of the phone call that they do not, in fact, require your SSN.
This is a distorted view of history. Western societies in 1800 were among some of the sickliest and weakest that history has ever known, as population pressure was very high relative to available technology. Death in childbirth and childhood were both very common, and people from the Middle Ages enjoyed better health when using measures of average height. I've read speculation that the British Empire gained its edge because its people were able to get a small dietary advantage.

So we should not look at pre-industrial tradition for information on ideal nutrition. Those people were doing everything they could to survive, and they barely succeeded.
It seems from the homepage that Todoist.com is free. How do you make money? Ads? Can you share more numbers?
But bad for your stomach. :-/
Microsoft sues Salesforce
Poor-choice-of-words fail. I know I'm being pedantic but there's a big difference between 'simple' and 'simplistic.'

This doesn't demonstrate much sensitivity on their part.
i guess they didn't like my resume. ;(
"Placebo effect" == Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
Physical violence has, but I've still heard all too many reports of vandalism in political races and not just from the US media. I'm a brit living in Canada and I've heard reports of vandalism in political races in the UK, CA and US; incidentally I've only heard it being committed on left wing supporters.
Maybe it is just me, but I've never seen the reason for being "transparent" about internal business processes. While I am certain that the HN crowd here finds it interesting, our customers have never once asked us (in 8+ years) to divulge our monthly sales figures. We are 100% focused on our customers, and really don't worry what other entrepreneurs might think of our company. Does anyone here have any stats that show that being "open" about your sales/business processes improves the bottom line? That's something I'd love to see - even some anecdotal evidence from those that have tried it (i.e. you saw a boost in sales after becoming more transparent) would be nice.

You can add us (Talldude Networks) as a successful (almost 8 years) "startup", completely self funded and roaring along.
I thought Ashton Kutcher was the next Ron Conway...
Increasing functionality != subsidizing access with the telecommunications provider.

Does no one else see this through the lens of net neutrality?
When I was a teacher I learned about different learning styles: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc. It turns out most people are visual. Seeing the presentation is easier for most people to absorb than simply hearing it.
This is a great idea. I wonder how much state information we would have to track for this to be useful.
Obligatory:
http://xkcd.com/657/
Steve Jobs Worst Mistake - Video
Sues on violation of 9 patents.

1. Method and system for mapping between logical data and physical data

2. System and method for providing and displaying a web page
having an embedded menu

3. Method and system for stacking toolbars in a computer display

4. Automated web site creation using template driven generation of active server page applications

5. Aggregation of system settings into objects

6. Timing and velocity control for displaying graphical information

7. Timing and velocity control for displaying graphical information (later patent)

8. Method and system for identifying and obtaining computer
software from a remote computer

9. System and method for controlling access to data entities in a computer network

Sounds like they're being sued for deploying an AJAX application.
I wonder if the LED of the webcam was on when they where spyed (and more generally if you can disable those by software).
The fan boy within me screams watch this! The best movie about start ups to date.
"And high incentives can improve the perfomance of people who wants a collateral reward of money like social status."

Do you have any science to back that up?
You should have a look at the Joyent Smart Playform. I think it is very similar, supports CommonJS and Git style deploy. (Plus it is open source) http://github.com/joyent/smart-platform
All Manhattan stores were sold out the weekend of the 8th. I gave up after a few days and ordered mine online. It arrives Friday... Probably be a short supply for a while. International sales are gonna be big too.
I want to switch to Chrome but I can't live without a Firefox addon - tree style tab.
Its not like Facebook uses that much bandwidth. As the price of mobile bandwidth continues to fall, this won't matter.
This is one of the ways the net can be non-neutral. I actually think it's not so clear that this particular way is bad, since there's no meddling with other site's traffic (which would include things like offering pay-for-QOS as this would require to not maintaining enough pipes to serve non-preferred traffic at decent quality).
I'm not so sure you want people who are too lazy to read your four-paragraph post to advertise.
Net neutrality is about preventing ISPs from charging companies for preferential access to their customers who already pay the ISP for service. This is about Facebook paying (in some form) for their users' internet access. The customers have paid their ISP nothing.

This isn't a new thing. Plenty of WiFi access points allow you to access a subset of the internet while requiring payment for the whole thing.

Functionality and subsidization both affect consumer choices. There is nothing in your argument the justifies preventing subsidization while allowing product improvements.
"you don't matter, I'm the one in this relationship that decides what we feel about things"

Kudos to jdietrich for articulating so well what I was thinking. For this woman only thing that matters is her career as a writer. She is the definition of a manipulative partner. She makes material out of her husband's totally sincere mid-life crisis; she portrays her husband as a sentimental clown who needs her guidance; she portrays her husband as the week partner who is no longer the breadwinner; she portrays herself as the powerful woman who saves her family and so on... All this proves how much she loves her husband: none. Is there any doubt that she puts her career before her husband and her family?
I read several times that the light on the camera would come on periodically and they were told it was bug in the software...They were MacBooks.
H1B Sponsor?
A sort of indirect benefit, but I think patio11 will get more out of being open with BCC/Appointment Reminder than hurt by it. He's starting to become known, which will make it easier to find talent / co-founders / investors if he needs them later on. I doubt it will influence anyone to buy the software, though.
I would hardly call this a mistake. He choose taking smaller option package that would be more likely to be in the money than sticking with his larger option package that would only become valuable if Apple's stock skyrocketed.
Your first point is a good point and is good for HN. Can't say the same about your second point.
ServerDensity is a transparent bootstrapped startup.

Product: http://serverdensity.com

Blog: http://blog.boxedice.com/
That depends on the expenses (incl. # of employees), doesn't it? The bootstrapped founders I know that I'd consider very successful don't make $100k/month, but they also don't have employees. A two-founder business with few expenses, clearing $20k/month profit, makes the founders $120k/yr apiece, which seems pretty successful to me. Certainly more than ramen-profitable, anyway!
The LED would flash green momentarily. Students who reported it to the school were told it was a harmless bug, iirc.
>'It's sad, but my first thought at seeing yet another weak "link" between something and autism was, "well, better to have wacko parents shield their children from PVC floors than from vaccines."'

I guess you'd call me a wacko parent then.

When we were offered the swine flue vaccine I looked at the medical literature as, to my mind, using an untested (long-term tests) vaccine against an unknown risk seemed a bit chancy.

My research showed that there were associated with one of the factors (Thiomersal) apparent risks of elevating occurrence of autism. I ruled out the risk based on the evidence from the USA that removal of this factor over the last few years had not lead to a consequential reduction in the number of children suffering from autism. This seemed sufficient evidence for me to rule out the link and go on to look at the other constituents.

Once an intial, if now discredited, link between the chemical factor and autism was established, lacking refuting evidence, it doesn't seem "wacko" to me to exercise caution. A large part of this is that the vaccines have been successful in reducing incidence of the once common diseases making them known smaller risks to weigh against the then unknown risk of inducing autism.

The evidence in the OP shows a correlation. Phthalates certainly interact in negative ways with human biology already and so are a good thing to test - if I were fitting a floor I'd be more inclined to something phthalates-free given this result.

But I guess I'm just a wacko ...?
Their best article so far IMHO. Let's get more of this. Articles where you actually learn something.
Freemium, but I don't promote it that much. When people pay they expect support, new features and new iterations - something that I don't have time to provide as Todoist isn't my active startup.

For numbers: Todoist has 100.000+ users and only a few % paying customers - enough to cover costs and make it profitable.
Very sad day indeed. One of the few online services I was more then happy to pay for.
True, CNN doesn't get your Facebook data directly, but if FB automatically creates a connection and CNN gets added to your interest then, if i have understood correctly, that network can see at least basic info about you.
Please re-read my post: looked at your requests months before you sent them in, and decided not to do them.

I have many users asking for things and they usually ask for them same things - things I already decided not to do. Sometimes after many requests I change my mind, but only one of the people gets the email "you're right I changed my mind" and everyone who came before him gets "I thought about this and decided against it".

It's impossible to have a popular product and not be in this situation.
Fuck. I love usnet, I hope this isn't the start of a trend
-- Personal Experience Only Disclaimer --

Caffeine has always caused me to have a heightened level of anxiety that lasts much longer than initial high. My recommendation is that you should sleep when you are tired. I like to take a nap in my car during lunch.
I worked at Panera (St.Louis Bread Co. actually) for three years back in high school, and this new store is literally down the street from me.

Every one of their locations already donates a huge amount of baked goods to local charities each and every day. I would say on average, my store either threw away or donated 75-100 lbs. of food from our bakery every night (and this is a low ball estimate). And that's exactly how a non-profit model actually might work for them. They're shifting the burden of all of this waste from the company, to the charitable consumer. Theoretically, pay what you want pricing will drive up demand for their food and thus eliminate the amount thrown away each day.

This certainly wouldn't work everywhere, but the Clayton neighborhood is perhaps the most affluent in St.Louis. Bread Co. customers are already accustomed to paying $3 for a muffin--the idea of sending all of that straight to charity could be phenomenally successful for everyone involved.
Since details seem very lacking between the link and the post in the link, here's a short summary Newzbin via Wikiepdia:

"One of the main technologies produced is an XML-based file format called NZB files, which contain a list of messageIDs that are related to specific postings on Usenet. Through the use of these files, Usenet clients are able to directly download material from Usenet without having to pre-fetch the headers for the target group. Thus, the main benefit of the direct link is improving the efficiency of Usenet binaries. It is technologies such as these that are increasing the popularity of Usenet for file sharing."

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

It seems their crime is indexing binaries. This does nothing to stop file sharing through Usenet, just ever so slightly impedes access.
Maybe, but it's useful for the 95% of us for whom this doesn't apply (because we don't have a startup). I don't have time to read every story on HN, so I'll often check the comments first to determine whether it's worth reading the article. His post told me everything I needed to know about the article without me having to read the details that don't apply to me.

(But yes, in this case it only saved me a whopping 30 seconds because it was only 4 paragraphs)
Post-natal depression in fathers 'often undiagnosed'
>"Wood flooring is more expensive than vinyl"

Vinyl flooring isn't cheap, floor boards are usually already there and sand paper isn't that expensive. A rug is a lot cheaper than vinyl were I am - perhaps very thin vinyl tiles would be cheap but vinyl requires a very flat starting surface so you need floorboards, hardboard, levelling compounds and then the vinyl on top. Most people can use sand paper but laying a levelled floor needs skills.
Artist uses barcode tech to create interactive portraits of pop culture icons
Probably semi-transparent, but 37signals/Basecamp?
Yes - I definitely can see that being a plus. Can you think of any negatives though (besides hiring) that come from NOT being transparent?

I think one of the biggest concerns small companies have is that divulging their monthly income can give their competition insights into their revenue stream and customer count - something that I know makes me a bit uneasy. But maybe there's a way to be more open/transparent without divulging "too much" information - and maybe there is a benefit in that to your customers?
Why do you need a search bar in Chrome? Just type what you want into the "address" bar, and it will search your default search engine.
I worked with someone who told me about a hiring strategy he encountered at a former employer. HR came across some study that showed that people with high IQs were the most likely to have personnel issues (or didn't work as well on a team, or something like that). So they decided to avoid these personnel problems by giving job candidates IQ tests and only hiring those with IQs that weren't above the company's mean IQ. I kid you not.
If Firefox Mobile doesn't catch on they are doomed... That's where the world is going.
Here's hoping that her voice will someday be reconstituted from recordings the way Roger Ebert's was.
You are right. It does sound very similar. I think they are the closest product I have seen that comes close to what I want.

However, they didn't do it the way I would have done it. So, I guess there is space for at least two apps :)
Will they accept resumes from outside the US? Im just finishing my software engineering post-grad in Ireland, would love to work in a startup like Airbnb.
Passing On Know-How in the Internet Era
Is there any precedent for this kind of situation? The product is free, and Facebook is paying someone else to make access to their product cheaper. The more typical cases of dumping[1] involve companies subsidizing their own products. The net result seems the same, but it feels a little different.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
You should start by questioning what health benefits people say you are getting. For example, you may not need omega-3 from fish if you reduce other sources of omega-6 in your diet. You should also question anyone that tells you to substitute beans for fish or any vegetable for an animal- the nutrient (and anti-nutrient) composition is going to be entirely different. Fish is generally a good source of vitamin D and iodine in addition to the nutrients of land animals. You can get iodine from seaweed. Eating more than small quantities of properly prepared tofu is making yourself a human experiment. Pasture raised meat is sustainable and healthy. Hopefully we can figure out some sources of sustainable seafood!
the Pickaxe Book is maybe the best resource on starting Ruby. The Poignant Guide ought to be its preface.

http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

Also, check out the Rubyquiz. It's a weekly programming challenge much in the spirit of Project Euler; something to cut your chops on.

http://rubyquiz.com/

Edit: These aren't quite what you're asking for, but you'll find plenty of very elegant code to study.
He chose the safe play rather than risking it on the company he decided to devote his life to. The numbers show that he made the wrong choice, hence a mistake.
Thanks for the input & suggestions :).

I see Majel unfortunately passed in 2008. Here's a vid of here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USH7LaXXQ7k&feature=relat... and I learned she was the creator of Star Trek's wife. Interesting.
I think CSS is the easy way. CSS rotation of text looks just fine in any IE and in Chrome, but I'm afraid that Firefox will have to come up with a new text rendering engine to get the text readable when rotated. It looks terrible in Firefox.
It doesn't, but you miss an important point: essentially, the "product business community" -those, who are in for the long run- is a small one. The real ROI does not come from having more customers, but rather from business contacts, who can (and will) provide important info, and valuable insight, for you, at the right time, which will have real impact on your bottom line.

There are, of course, many others way to do that, than blogging. But the level of needed transparency is roughly the same.
Fundamentally, the problem is so much bigger than just Texas' school board and this particular rewrite.

Fundamentally, the problem is that any state can end up with wrong, objectionable, or offensive curriculum simply due to enough nuts getting elected to the school board (or enough people who are nuts on one particular issue), and if that happens, there's very little parents can do about it in the short term aside from leaving the state or paying for private school.

As long as the average person is stuck sending their kid to the nearest public school, we're also stuck with the possibility that the school board will choose to educate our children inappropriately (along with a whole host of other problems, like that the nearest school will simply be terrible.)
Google Chrome's extensions are purely based on HTML, CSS and some custom Javascript. That's incredibly limiting, especially when you're talking about UI manipulation. When you're creating Firefox extensions, you're writing the same native language (XUL) that the Firefox developers use to add features to Firefox itself.

Chrome's extensions only have similar capabilities as Mozilla JetPacks have.
Did you see the screenshot? Article is based on the 20 votes that the competing answers got.
Agreed on MXML+binding.
How do HFT bots help in your example case scenario? While the mutual fund is buying up Ford shares, the HTF are buying them up and selling them back to the mutual fund with a premium.
Every reason he described there is pertinent to this video. Thanks so much for posting this, I don't know why I skipped it when it made its rounds the other day.