skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from your links:
The Pope says>> believes marital fidelity and sexual abstinence are the best way to prevent the spread of HIV.

Scientist says >>The best way to avoid transmission of the virus is to abstain from sexual intercourse or have a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with an uninfected person.

Sounds like the old dude knows what he is talking about. From those links it looks like the best plan of attack is condoms for high risk people and partner reduction strategies for the general population. The condoms for everyone approach seems to spend time and materials ineffectively.
It shows exactly what it intended to show.
This, or MIDIyoke creates virtual ports and is lightweight. MIDI-OX is better for programming and debugging though.
Useful lists. I would like to see them fleshed out some more. Maybe more programming languages and longer descriptions.
A bit cheaper from Amazon.com with a lot of information on them: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Trilogy-Harrison-Ford/dp/B00...

ADDED: tl;dr: a lot of people are seriously ... annoyed that Lucas refuses to supply the originals, as old timers saw them, in anything better than a copy of a non-anamorphic
transfer made for a Laserdisc release (i.e. it's Academy ratio with the widescreen letterboxed image inside that. Better than VHS (certainly a lot higher bandwidth), but you can do a lot better with DVD...).

FURTHER ADDED, especially based on this link off of the ars article: http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/savingstarwars.html:

It's hard to believe that I'll likely have to wait until sometime after Lucas dies to see as good a copy of real version of the first movie as the 70mm prints I saw in the summer of 1977....
Amazon's "attack" relies upon its continued physical goods dominance. Perhaps Google should find ways to help out Amazon's competitors.
Yeah, I enjoyed article as a Gibsonesque story rather than as a very informative piece on Wikileaks. Assange is definitely an interesting character.
CNET report (w/o Forbes paywall):http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20005673-245.html

Didn't the attendees realize that there would be a post-test at the conclusion the security conference? That's what the USB stick experience was. Can't wait to see what "grades" attendees received :/
And it didn't have pictures next to the number making it easy to target certain demographics.
Too many obvious anti-intellectual connotations, i.e. Fahrenheit 451, Nazi Germany or the Catholic Church.
Steve Jobs, is that you?
My favorite: "And justice wasn't something that came out of the justice system. Justice was something that you bring to the justice system"
Nice, but next time use (counter = (counter + 1) % SIZE) instead of burying an if() statement in a macro.
It goes on and on they deserve life in jail ...at the least  - NoF-ingWay
That kind of stuff always comes off as scammy to me.
Apple has a tiny sliver of the total phone market and
that's what he meant

That was mentioned in the article: Apple has 10x less market share than Nokia and still more revenue.
Android FroYo + iPad WiFi = iPad 3G
Are you sure all these people have actually been banned? You can flag posts to death directly.
I downloaded Rails, followed a few online tutorials to build the app, and ran script/server to run the server. As mentioned in the benchmarking document, we're not experts on Rails deployment and will gladly accept suggestions for improvements that can be implemented in a few minutes.
You did establish a good point with placing the photos/binary objects on separate tables, but take for instance the Contact/AddressBook example: almost 100% of the times I'm fetching a Contact from the database, I also want the picture to serve it to a client, so putting it on a separate table would force the RDBMS to an avoidable extra effort.

My DB spiritual advisor tells me the rule of thumb is <= 500KB -> DB, > 500KB -> filesystem. I'll have to test performance of storing the binary stuff outside of the DB.

PS: By "truckloads" I mean tables with anything over 10 fields. I hate god tables/objects :)
Hi Pierre,
Thanks for sharing this, I can see that you do understand the situation that I am facing right now.

Except the fact that I only have a handful number of customers, what makes a big difference....

I have the 50K number in my mind for the price, based on the code, domains and possible patent that we might get.

Tks also for sharing your contact, I'll be in touch!
Is not the "grammar" you refer the largely loose particles because of the lack of formal grammar, rather than the reverse? If so, I standby my original statement that the grammar (meaning formal grammar) is trivial.

Why not give an example of a grammar point that you think I am missing?
I think I got this to work. Email me if you'd like to test it out with me!
Le isn't even pronounced in the same way in different regions, but does that mean that there are a wide range of acceptable pronunciations or that there is a large range of variation with respect to a standard pronunciation?

Likewise with grammar. I'd imagine many of the complexities related in said books are due to attempting to list distributed evolved usages rather than what legitimately constitutes formal grammar. But I'd also like to know if I'm wrong.
Short-answers like this make me very nervous....

For me it means that you (or anyone who give those short-answers) do not care so much about the matter.... am I correct?

But I'm thinking about tell what is the product.... I can tell that we're making a script to add to any website and we have a handful number of customers.

We've been thinking of getting revenues by advertisement, but in order to get significant revenues we need to spread to many websites.
seems pretty vague
What's the startup?
Lyle McDonald has a comprehensive two-part post on supplements (specifically for athletes, but applicable to all) on his blog, Body Recomposition. Here's part 1: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/supplements-par.... And part 2: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/supplements-par.... Lyle's a good bro.

Martin Berkhan, of Lean Gains, has also written on supplements, though geared more for bodybuilders. Here's the link: http://leangains.blogspot.com/2010/01/supplements-you-might-.... Both "gurus" are legit.
I suspect it comes back to Job's strategy for the Mac back in 2001 (I think it was 2001, not sure). He talked about how computers had gone through several generations, and that we were moving into an era where the PC/Mac was the "digital hub" that kept all your devices in sync and playing nicely with each other. Google would probably argue that that's the responsibility of their servers.

With the iPhone and iPad doing as well as they are, I imagine conversations are being had at Apple about what the future of the Mac really is. Even if it has much of a future at all.
Built by Xzibit?
Be careful. Software Engineering is not a science. Computer science is a science but, as it is explained so well in the SICP videos I watched, compsci's relations with computers is the same as astronomy's with telescopes.

Software engineering can - and should - use scientific method, but it has more to do with carpentry than with physics.

And I, personally, regard medicine as the biggest offender. Homeopathy should be a criminal offense.
High end multivitamins scare me.

Most of them want to create the perception that you can "feel" the results of taking the supplement, so they contain stimulants like gotu kola, synephrine, etc. Some of these, like synephrine definitely are not safe (raise your blood pressure... small doses of that get me to 180/115) and other ones are questionable.
Still thinking if I should tell.
Read my comment above. :)
So giving people the option to hide their searches from tyrannical regimes, snooping schools and overbearing corporate IT firms, let alone a kid with a copy of wireshark at a local café is evil? Grow up. It's in beta and will unlikely ever become the default due to the extra latency and server load. Ignore all that and seek for attention anyhow.
Don't Talk to the Cops
This is a very interesting observation with respect to what Facebook is doing with their 'real-world things' Open Graph (http://goo.gl/xn4c) strategy and their plans for an internal currency. I say this will be at least a 3-way race:

1. Amazon attracts users with inventory, content. They will win share through selection, ease of purchase and branding.
2. Facebook attracts users through social interaction, peer-peer trust. They will win share by facilitating transactions within their community.
3. Google attracts users by helping find what they want to buy. They will win share by meaningfully indexing content and putting ads in the right place.

Its an over-simplification, but you go to Amazon when you know what you want; you go to Google to figure out what you want; and you go to facebook to buy something from within your network (when trust matters). When none of this matters, its all about the brand.
yup, having a photo associated with a phone number is more concerning than a name. In this case you can actually say, Think of all the children!
Am I the only one who was struck by the fact that every single laptop in that image is an apple?
As a long-time speaker of Mandarin who is learning Taiwanese Hokkien, I can't really agree with that. There are many characters and even words that are written the same way in each language, but there are many, many more which are not. Aside from the characters used specifically for Hokkien, there are numerous phrases which mean one thing in one language and another in the other. For example, 失禮 would mean lacking in manners in Mandarin, but it means sorry in Hokkien. Hokkien text, even when rendered in characters, is largely incomprehensible to Mandarin speakers.
Git would actually be easier, I think, for most people to learn if they didn't already have Subversion experience and hence Subversion ways of doing things coloring their preconceptions. It's a beast of a system though--you have to actually learn how to use it, rather than depend on your intuition and hope that it's usable--but it's worth learning and probably easier than learning 1 or 2 other version control systems and having to unlearn them along the way.
Right. I don't mean this negatively, but your post is not really about Google's prediction tool at all. It's a general setup to Naive Bayes. I understand that what got you enthusiastic to write this up was Google's announcement, but at the end of the day I could remove any reference to google and the post would be just fine. I suppose I got excited, despite knowing about the general procedure already, because I thought this post was directed at how to actually use the google offering. It's just a title issue, I guess.
Agreed, but the reality is that Amazon has over a decade of experience in dealing with publishers. Neither Google nor Apple is going to catch up with that. Google just realizes they have a risky high-margin business and they need to diversify. They're doing so on both novel and established areas.

Outside the obvious A9 disaster, Amazon doesn't usually chase the competition. They have a low margin business, meaning they don't have a fierce bite, but do have a long breath. They start early to become the leader and then try to maintain their position. Apparently quite successfully.
Interesting you find the UI to be pretty. From the stuff I saw it looked very hacked together and disgumbled. I'm looking forward to seeing an actual phone though. I have no interest in switching (I just got an Android based phone and love it) but I'd like to see what the actual user experience turns out to be.
Maybe obvious (?), but if you recognize (or at least accept) that your product might be a "feature", you probably have thought about who/what might benefit from that "feature". Have you contemplated calling the folks in that market to see if they might be interested?

Also concur with petervandijck earler. Might be interesting to just post your company name here. You might find a taker.

As to valuation, I wish there was a magic formula. I know from my own experience that the seemingly harsh valuation of a suitor will NEVER equal the company's value in your heart. Don't allow yourself to be insulted by an offer, at least publicly; you will almost certainly be angry, insulted, and frustrated at the value others will assign to your baby.
You can (easily) do that on Facebook, too. It even lets you view your profile from other perspectives. And it's even easier than calling the phone company to ask for an unlisted number.
Maybe booklook.com - it's for sale.
Everybody Loves Mohammed Day Group was not pulled by Facebook
A few days ago there was a Hacker News thread claiming that Facebook pulled the Everybody Loves Mohammed Day Group (http://bit.ly/cA30Ct).

This turns out not to be the case. According to the group moderators, "after one of our moderators had his email and skype hacked. His personal data was revealed. He then got scared and deleted the page, the blog and the emails. The rest of us, are now back without him after
he backed out. This is another scare tactic from the Islamic extremists. We won't fall."

The group is back online now:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Everybody-Draw-Mohammed-Day/121369914543425?ref=ts

I know lots of people thought this was bs (since the original thread was killed), but seems important in light of the possiblity that Facebook caved to pressure from foreign governments, notably Pakistan which blocked Facebook from their country simply because of this group (http://bit.ly/aLeDof).
It's neat, but I really expected some kind of iframe, so you could browse inside it.
there are lots of great comments on this thread, so i won't attempt to re-iterate them ... the one word i would add is:

grit

anecdotally, one trait that all successful people i know possess is 'grit', which i define informally as the ability to buckle down and 'power through' seemingly tough/tedious/un-interesting portions of your work.
This isn't Reddit or anything--the quality of discourse is (hopefully still) high enough on HN that people can be arsed to read a three line paragraph without needing a tl;dr.
Following up on my own post. Totally ignore and disregard all of the above if you have even a moments pause about selling. As others have mentioned, pivot or competing in larger market are both valid courses of action to be considered if you have an ounce of fight left.
It sounds like you are stopping at the first 90 percent.

"It is a cliché in our business that the first 90 percent of the work is easy, the second 90 percent wears you down, and the last 90 percent - the attention to detail - makes a good product."

— The Graphing Calculator Story http://www.pacifict.com/Story/
In an ideal world all "standards", de facto or de jure, would have two independently developed, open source, BSD licensed implementations as part of the process of standardization.

This stops people writing specs that are impossible, or ambiguous. It saves people having to go off and create their own half-baked implementations from scratch. And it serves as as a basic test suite for those occasions when you do actually need to write your own for whatever esoteric reason (to do it in hardware, or a managed language or whatever} as well as testing each other to catch stupid bugs in the implementation and/or spec.

The crazy future date that Flash evangelists have been throwing about for when HTML5 will be "finished" is actually the date they expect to have two inter-operable implementations of the entire spec. This is a lofty and noble goal, sadly they just get dinged for it by people who are happy to call Flash "open" while there is still only one complete implementation.
Isn't there going to be security with this feature? I don't think any app/website can send remote commands without having your credentials. If spyware has your kid sister's Google credentials, pop-ups are the last of her worries.
You mean actually charging money for Lotus Notes and ClearCase isn't a practical joke on clueless big companies?
Cut your losses and move on. Your fatique (after only 1 year) is a symptom of your heart knowing this is a waste of time and that your efforts are better spent on another project.

Move on.

Startups rarely succeed in a year. I've done 3 so far (the first 2 went for 5 years before they sold. I'm currently 5 years into my existing company - and we've got another 3-5 years ahead of us.

Expect "no money" for 2-3 years (minimum).

1) Code means virtually nothing in an acquisition.
2) Yes, sell all of the "assets" as a package.
3) Word Doc Summary that tells the story to the acquiring company. A PPT deck won't be as compelling.

Firesales are about details - not "top line story pitches."
What someone searched for is very valuable when it comes to context, you can crawl and index a page to see its about iPod Accessories - but you can look at the referral and see the person searched for iPod Touch Case and make the ads that much better.
How iPad is Changing Art and Music
Not true. Or am I missing something?
Your post struck a chord. About a month ago, after almost two years of running a small start-up, I made the decision to sell or close. The product had reached a plateau, and I realized that I didn't have the resources -- and more importantly, I no longer had the interest -- in pushing the product further along. It still has a ton of potential -- just for another organization.

The first thing I did after making my decision was inventory every salable asset -- the product, domain names (absolutely, sell those!), databases, intellectual property. The second was to write up a five-page prospectus that covered the basics -- what was for sale, the product's history, the product's numbers (how it was doing with users, etc.), revenue, and potential revenue. Armed with that, I approached companies I believed might be interested in acquiring (and let others in my industry know that I was planning to sell, if possible, or close, if not). If a company indicated it was interested, I sent the prospectus and answered follow-up questions. I am now in discussions with one serious potential buyer.

Re: Question #1, you have to forget how much time you've put into the product. Unfortunately, no sale price is going to recoup your hours. Depending on your product, its potential, and your industry, a sale price will likely be based on the value of your assets and/or multiples of income.
How long will people keep on buying MP3 players? Eventually, phones will be good enough to replace them 100%

Also, will iPhone OS 4 be available for iPod Touch? I rather doubt it?
The best way to get started is using one, pick one and use it, generally when I am learning a new tool I try to get the basics emulating my workflow, i.e. I edit, create, move, rename and remove a couple of text files in the case of a VCS, this also serves when I need to learn the commands and the concepts of a new VCS (I'm a git user, but often I need to work with mercurial or subversion).
Programmable would be nice. I'd like the "snooze" functionality to change after x presses.

For example, "If snooze has been pressed 2 times today, on next press, double volume instead."
It would have been nice if they didn't use so many -webkit- properties (I counted 34) so that other browsers could at least have a shot at rendering it. Several properties they use are supported by Opera if given the chance.
I'm pretty sure it isn't a practical joke but I'm sure someone over at IBM is laughing. I would be.
Actually, you discarding his hypothesis without testing is the kind of thinking Feynman is criticizing.

He has a hypothesis. Let's try to break it.

If we fail, good for him ;-)
And of course the first page I'd visit with it would be itself. And again. And again.
I didn't look at all of those users, but I did randomly sample a few, and all the ones I looked at had recently made some pretty low quality comments. So I'm not sure I agree with you.

Also, I assume it wasn't intentional that piguy314 is on your list twice...?
Why is this so proud of using HTML5/CSS3 and no images, when the site General Metrics seems to imply that they value Photoshop over non-PS methods.

// We help design agencies build
websites and web applications.

if ( Photoshop > (TextMate || Coda) )
{
contactUs (”email”);
}
The player seems broken for me in all my browsers. Would it kill anyone to post actual music files?

Edit: This is because I had changed my personal settings for Flash in an attempt to disable "Flash cookies" which do not respect private browsing mode and work across all system browsers, and the the SoundCloud player needed my permission to increase its storage. Because the Flash runtime absolutely sucks, it was "rendering" the permissions window "in" the SoundCloud player, but not within its bounding box -- essentially off-screen.

Anybody still want to argue Flash is … anything positive?
I read it as: if you prefer to use photoshop (i.e. you are a graphics designer that wants to just send a mock-up and have it implemented) you should contact them.
I think it is still too early to say that. Microsoft has yet to recoup the money they invested in the Xbox, and they probably won't anytime soon. And while they are still ahead of Sony in the console race, the PS3 has picked up quite a bit lately. Microsoft could very well finish the race dead last at the end of the current generation, with Sony at the top spot and Nintendo a close second.
Godel's theorem implies that in a consistent system there are unprovable truths. I've always wondered if those truths could be things no one would care about anyway. Are statements like "this statement is unprovable" useful for anything other than proving the Incompleteness theorem?
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1301115

Stripping utm_ get parameters would greatly improve HN's URL canonicalizer.
And the number of correlations grows exponentially with the already exponential growth of the amount of data they can analyze.

It's been highlighted before we need better standards for what's meaningful and what's noise.
It's the common creative's problem of: what you can imagine vs. what you can produce (aka "moving the goalposts").

When you first imagine a solution, of course it's great and inspiring and you want to dive in. But after time it becomes "work." Worse, your imagination can see more to add to the project - to make it even better! Meanwhile, the longer you work on one project your imagination starts to think up solutions to unrelated topics... and those are now better because they're fresh.

The simplest cure - recognizing this is a natural paradox for the creative process. This will reduce the massive downer to comes from not chasing every dream and at the same time provide long lasting satisfaction through respecting the few you picked and stuck with.
Helveticons, at http://helveticons.ch are incredibly well thought out icons, which I use everywhere.

Their minimalism is their strength.

Well worth the money.
Well. That should be a simple decision. Would 'many websites' want/need it, if so would it be enough to generate more ad revenue than you'll loose in subscriptions/customer revenue?

If so than you have a viable business model. If not, than stick to your current 'sell it to them' plan.

Give away, and ad support, things that everyone needs or wants. Charge for niche content. It's the way of the internet, currently.

Really though more info is necessary. For instance if it's a certain type of SaaS you may be able to make a living on paid support without either option, or if it's a cool webapp than perhaps a freemium model should be embraced.
For me it means that you (or anyone who give those short-answers) do not care so much about the matter.... am I correct?

sorry to sound rude, but you were the one who asked for advice here ... if i were you, i'd be grateful that people chime in with any thoughts at all, regardless of length. you can't expect people to write an entire inspired essay based on your (very short) question
There is.

It's just more rare than previously thought.
I think it's just their way of saying they're looking to hire a graphic designer as opposed to programmers, not their design philosophy.