skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lift on GAE:

http://distractable.net/coding/google-appengine-language-per...

http://groups.google.com/group/scala-london/browse_thread/th...
It's very hard work getting bespoke work alongside writing a startup. Sales is hard. You're switching between projects ALL the time. EVERY day. Organically financing a project is hard.

I'd advise spending time with past-funders and their networks to see if they can raise enough to finance you finishing development.
Opera's code may not be open source but its more available then any other browser. Mobiles, Wii, Linux, Mac, PC..

They always apply the open standards the same as FireFox, and never set their own standards.
We can't down vote articles so there is a flag link. The only way to get an article that shouldn't be on the front page off is to flag it and hope it gets enough flags to kill it or a moderator comes along and kills it.
Pro-apple and anti-apple biggotry really gets tiring.
One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot
The bootstrapping story behind Unearthed - Augmented Reality Game for iPhone
I flagged your submission for all the reasons ErrantX listed. I've read 4 articles from that site that have been submitted recently and I flagged every one of them after reading them.

This website has finally caused me enough grief to justify flagging without reading the next time it pops up. This it the first website to receive this treatment from me.
I wouldn't bother. It's made for reflowable lightly formatted text, like in a normal novel.
How to Create a George Orwell Essay
George Orwell is the author of the much acclaimed “Animal Farm” and “1984” where his analogies for the errors of socialism, fascism and communism are clearly depicted. There is much information which you will be able to gather easily if asked to create a George Orwell essay online.
1024 x 600, based on specs reported by tablets and netbooks that use them, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_tablet.
To have a contrast here, what do you think of Gruber's posts ?
If you have something that looks like it could be a viable business, you should probably (IMHO) look at Angel funding. The cash accelerant is probably more valuable in the long-run than the loss of equity on your part.

This is assuming (a lot) from the information you provided, which I seem to interpret as you're basically looking for some bridge money because you believe your company is viable, but just needs more runway.
This could be true. With "less reception" it could still fair well. I wonder if they will provide a software update that simply changes the calculations on what they consider "full bars."

If what right now is 1 bar becomes 5 bars and calls don't get dropped in either case, they have "fixed the problem," which is perception - not performance.

I'm still going to get an Evo when my contract with AT&T runs out.
One way to do this relatively quickly. Create a Formstack sign up form which creates recurring FreshBooks invoices. Use FreshBooks and Authorize.net to manage the recurring payments. If you don't want the hassle of using Authorize.net, just use PayPal, but the invoice has to be manually paid every month.

http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2010/06/30/create-recurring-i...

Cheers, Sunir, FreshBooks
>That is in itself an argument. You are asserting that capitalism is not an ideal system but you are not backing up that assertion.

I'm not sure he was asserting as much as hoping or maybe suggesting. You sound like you're getting close to asserting that it is an ideal system though. Care to back that up?

Neither claim could be backed up without trying different systems, but surely you have more optimism than to think what we have now is the best we can ever do.
If something makes it over 10 votes no amount of flagging will kill it. Before that it is open season.

You're also being unfair about "Apple Fanboys" - I'm somewhere between fanboy and apathetic (i.e. it doesn't worry me) and even I am tired of Hank Williams rants.

Ultimately majority rule wins; if some of us flag things to death then so be it. It only happens on particularly bad articles such as that one.
I'd also like to see Instapaper support. My flow in the app is usually: Open app, read headlines, check comments of interesting headlines, then possibly jump to the article. I'd rather be able to just save it straight to Instapaper to read later. Not sure if this is how any else uses the app though!
The new software update a few weeks back has enhanced PDF support.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_k...
I wonder: Is Amazon now trying to compete with Fedex? What's the benefit to them of building out a shipping network on top of their distribution network?

I'm sure there's some margin that could be potentially captured - and it might be neat to be dealing just with amazon - but why not focus on stuff that doesn't involve becoming a competitor to established shipping services. In my view, the US Postal services are already kind of underpriced....
Guilty - I posted a recent article about Chat Roulette. Wouldn't be surprised if this is the actual one you are referring to (and if so; I apologize - actually I'm sorry either way).

I didn't think too much about the title other than I couldn't think of anything to replace it with so I left it intact.

I'll be better about this in future. After discussion in the Comments I thought about appending "Linkbait Title" but that in itself would probably be a bigger draw...
malapropism
No. no. You got it backwards. The Kin is the hardware of a smartphone, with the cost of a smartphone and the bandwidth of a smartphone with dumbed down functionality. It's a terrible idea.

And the Courier was pure vaporware. It's like calling Apple's Knowledge Navigator a product.
People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip
Does anyone else see some but not all comments in tiny text sizes for no obvious reason, on iPhone?
It's funny I just noticed this the other day on my account -- they even tell you when you try to log in that your password must be 8 chars. Might as well tell you that all passwords must begin with A.
>Explicitly threatening to quit during any negotiation is the unreasonable part. Frankly, it's an implied threat in any conversation about compensation, [...] coming out and saying it, is wildly unprofessional and immature; there's just no up-side.

If it's implied then making it explicit is simply clarifying one-anothers position. I can't see how that's unprofessional: Being honest, open and explicit about your intentions.

Leaving because negotiation didn't work for you when you made no explicit indication that your staying was part of the negotiation, that seems wrong to me.
Possibly he is also talking about this (posted today): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477566

Which had quite a bit of discussion about the bait-y-ness (word?) of the title.

EDIT: I don't think you need to worry about the Chat Roulette article. Title seems ok-ish to me, and I think the generally accepted policy is "unless it is outright baiting leave as is".
Sad state of South Korean internet
The “Design by Committee” Straw Man
Sold out now. I guess people woke up.
Best Mobile Platform For Open Source Developers
Most popular platforms like Apple’s iPhone and Google’s android have become favourite of open source developers.
I think they're aimed at different markets, and the most important thing for the DX was to get the price further away from the iPad, which they did.
Yeah, because Microsoft and Apple are two companies that clearly failed while Sun and 37 Signals are clearly successful multi billion dollar businesses.
What does your company use for meeting room booking?
I'm wondering what others do to book internal meeting rooms. It depends on the organisation of course - our is medium; 1500 people, about 40 rooms. The choice seems to be Outlook + Exchange, specialized commercial software or custom solution. What do you guys use? How many people and rooms do you have?
I've not flagged any of his articles yet (well maybe one a few months back, now I consider it) but I stopped upvoting them a while ago.
Let's generalize:

Pro-_____ and anti-_____ bigotry is tiresome.
Idea here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383705

Implementation here: http://readmycode.org/
Quite similar to @ABrandt, I estimate the market using the stats of website visitor from compete.com/quantcast/alexa, etc. E.g. let's say my nearest/closest competitor(if any) get around 100K visitor per month, let's say I get around 20% of his traffic, and if 3% these traffic convert to be customers. I get a high level figure of the market size for my products.
Good lawyers use copy and paste all the time. ;-)
Great stories. The party story especially is very valuable.
I totally agree with you there, dhimes.

Today I noticed on my iPhone 3GS that if I hold it in my left hand in certain areas of my house - just like the iPhone 4 "flaw" videos - the signal strength drops from full to only 1 bar.

I only noticed this today, and I've had the phone for a year. This iPhone 4 thing is blown out of proportion.
This isn't going to go anywhere.

People (myself included) have been bitching about the iPhones reception issues since the first release. It hasn't stopped apple from selling millions of them.

Personally I was on the fence about switching to a new carrier and android but I broke down and got a new iPhone. I have some regrets already, it's still not the perfect phone. But nothing is, it's fast, shiny, and reception is noticeably better for me so far. Though AT&T in SF still seems oversubscribed.

I'd wager that the most vocal people here don't have iPhone 4s, they just want to poke Apple in the eye.

On a case by case basis there will be people who have reception problems. It does appear there are manufacturing effects that make this more visible. But there's not going to be a class action lawsuit. Just more people who own an iPhone and wish it was better for one reason or another.

I was on the fence about switching to android but broke down and got an
Flagging is NOT a means of downvoting. If there was a downvote, downvote would mean "On topic for HN, but I don't want to read it." Flag would mean, "Off topic for HN whether I want to read it or not."

For example, I enjoy free-riding, but I would flag most articles about it. Except maybe an article about how the North Shore movement got started by people building secret trails and using ladder bridges and other contrivances to sculpt trails over unrideable terrain... That's hacking of a sort.
Russians spies? Al Qaeda and porn? Ancient Greek messages? 9/11?
Just tried it with auto-orientation, and it worked. I generally keep auto-orientation off, but I knew that you can manually lock in all 4 orientation.
Dup from 6 hours ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477410

No, that submission has no comments and no upvotes either, but it just offends my OCD (which I don't actually have) to see a duplicate submission.
Just read the post. It confuses me a bit. It's mentioned in the beginning that the Lite version is a replacement for the local dev server. But later on in the post he emphasizes that it can also be used in production.

On the other hand, if you need integration into the web server, then Phusion Passenger for Apache/Nginx is for you

Can anyone throw some light on the difference between using [Apache/Nginx]+Passenger and just Passenger Lite in the production environment? Why would I want to use a web server when Passenger Lite does what I require (serve the ruby app and also serve static files)
Louis de Branges de Bourcia (possibly solved the Riemann hypothesis)
Likewise. I just installed it and it feels...really fast. My Facebook homepage seems to load much faster than it did in 10.5x, which was already no slouch.
Outside our office in New Hope, PA. I'll do better graphs when I release the higher concurrency stats.
Android 3.0 'Gingerbread' Elements Leaked
Science needs personality, passion and style
To: submissions@fsb.ru ?

Once a fact of agent's communication is established, the encryption doesn't matter all that much. It's only a matter of time for beating the keys out of you (ok we know FBI doesn't do that anymore).
MathTran
Not to hijack this thread, but since we're having a meta-discussion about HN already... I am (mildly) aghast to discover that people are using the flag feature as a substitute for downvoting! There are numerous comments throughout this thread to that effect.

I always thought there was a reason that no downvote option was offered on submissions, i.e. so that people wouldn't bury articles simply because they didn't agree with them, etc.

Instead it appears that people are using the flag feature to do the very same thing. This is actually worse than downvoting, because if a submission gets enough flags it just gets killed outright. At least with downvoting, it just effects the point count, which I use as a shorthand to decide whether an article is worth reading or not.

I have only every used the flagging feature for articles that were completely inappropriate for Hacker News (e.g. stuff about politics, jokey stuff more appropriate for reddit, outright spam). I would never dream of using a flag to register displeasure with an author's style, arguments, choice of title, etc. as other people are suggesting here.

Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but I find it disappointing that people use HN like this.
Thanks!

But my doubt was close. I was just wondering how to mark lat/lang on a different image of world map. Suppose if the map image is other than the one being used in the app (different size etc), would it require any calculations to be able to mark the lat/long at the right place?
My $0.02: I think the concept is interesting, but the domain name makes it hard for me to love the startup. The domain name obviously has nothing to do with your vertical, has no story behind it, and was seemingly chosen only because it's pronounceable.

Likewise, the accompanying logo doesn't provide any insight into what your service does. What does reflected text tell me about your service? What does that odd, semi-rectangular polygon tell me about your service?

I read your FAQ: I don't think you should market it as a search engine, but rather as a social RSS reader. More people will be familiar with using RSS readers to get news than using search engines to do so.

Like I said, I think you created an interesting product, but I wanted to give you some food for thought.

PS Isn't the social news reader market fairly saturated? What, besides billing yourself as "spam-free" (in the FAQ) can you do to differentiate yourself?
Gruber's posts, while definitely pro-Apple, are very well written and technically insightful, so I have no problem up-voting them if they are good.

Whether you agree with Gruber's world view or not, the man has a pretty good grasp on what is coming out of Apple, which arguably, is leading innovation in a lot of computer related fields at the moment.
Perhaps you could include instructions to remove the extra "qa/" in the mail you send? Ugly, but much better than having the validation link 404 in on the face of new users.
I immediately got a bad impression of the site when I saw the 404.
Google Encrypted Search Moved to New Hostname to Address Concerns from Schools
Serena flip-flops: goes Google, then back to Microsoft
I just tried to run Mercurial's test suite with it and it segfaults all over the place, unfortunately. It's too bad -- it seems like it could speed up some Mercurial operations quite a bit.
Several reasons: You might want to run other (possibly non-Ruby) apps on the same server; you might want to tweak settings, like the headers for certain files, to improve performance; you might want to do some URL mapping at the web server level; and you might simply want better static file serving performance (nginx is very, very fast).

That last point isn't an issue here because Passenger Lite has an "nginx core." So if you can configure that core, then the only reason you wouldn't want to use Passenger Lite in production is if you have non-Ruby apps you want to run on the same server.
It's another great example of why buying Woot makes a lot of sense for Amazon; they thrive off of exactly that kind of inventory. And I'm sure Amazon doesn't mind being able to easily liquidate inventory while still making some money back...

Wasn't part of the reason they also purchased Zappos because of how good the inventory system was? I thought I read that somewhere...
Why was this downmodded? There's active internet censorship in Finland, see http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2008-02-18.html or google for more information.

I think it brings a quite striking contrast to the way the "internet rights" were bragged about in the news.
D: the embedded programming language the could...
Velocity 2010 Conference Slides/Videos
Based on other comments I read here, it seems that the screens are 1024 x 600. Why are they so expensive? Apple probably only pays $50 or less for the IPS screen in an iPad.
Thx for the support! Here's some background: full punctuation should be indexed; it's using the SO CC dumps (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/); only "good" Q&As are showing; additional logic to only show when relevant to search term.

I'm really against false positives, so I know there are a lot of false negatives out there as a result. If there are particular examples (where you think something should have come up but doesn't, or visa-versa), please let me know and I'll work on it. I'd welcome other improvement ideas as well.

Note that there is a lag because I'm using the dumps, so anything within the past month or so won't be there.
This is the technology I've been waiting for ever since I first saw a laptop. I don't care if it is monochrome, or washed out in color, this is huge news!
New tech at low volumes. Of course it's going to be expensive.
Not a form of AC necessarily but I know Chinese people put straw woven mats on chairs and on the floor to sit/sleep on when there's a lack of AC to help keep cool
When I studied NLP one of the first thing that was drilled into my head by that book (http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/promo/) was that these are all statistical techniques and context based understanding of a corpus is still a while away. The problem really is to condense all of that knowledge about the real world into a form that is computable. As that really famous example goes, how do you tell a computer that water is 'wet'?

However, this is still an extremely important development and it shows that sooner or later by leveraging the things computers are good at we will be able to solve such problems. I really don't think that it is something impossible to do. It just requires a new approach that none of us have thought about. After all not too long ago nuclear fission was said to be impossible, until a chain reaction was conceptualized.

Perhaps AI will go this way too, the difficult almost intractable problems will turn out to be easy under some new paradigm. Perhaps not. We'll never really know until we try.

So kudos Regina Barzilay and her team for pushing the limits.
Here in the UK they are obligated to by the Consumer Credit Act.

Having said that, Amex would kick ass on your behalf anyway, since their target market could have any card they wanted, they compete on customer service.
DIY: http://mozaiq.org/encrypt/
Steganography is not a modern invention and if you don't get the hint, neither is linking unrelated terms to get a hot title on a tabloid.

This Yahoo post is not far away from one.
You're right, I read that in the wrong context. Thanks for clearing it up for me.
I have one. I was hoping to use it for this purpose as well, but it's rather unpleasant to use for PDFs IMHO. As another user noted, you can always convert books to a free-flowing format such as mobi. I use Calibre for this but I find the output to be rather hit-or-miss. I find that the formatting sometimes slips through as text and that I have to wade through pages of extra text to get to the content (a pain in the ass on the Kindle.) Still, it's better than toting a dozen technical manuals with you everywhere you go.

Mine was gift so I couldn't tell you whether it was worth the money.
I agree that the ideal leader is cool all the time, but not every human being worthy of a leader can manage to stay everyone's favorite dude while terminating careers out of necessity. In those cases, I'd rather the leader be a hard-ass than have him be Michael Scott.
No, other way around. The monochrome mode uses a 1-1 pixel mapping, so it's true 1024x600, but the color mode uses a novel pixel layout that does not have each color component in every pixel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1#Display_resolution

So, while the resolution always remains 1024x600 as far as software's concerned, the effective resolution is a third when using color.

(Note that the new screen is, I'm sure, not identical to the XO-1 screen, so you can't assume that the Wikipedia description will be accurate for it.)
Thx--thought I fixed this :). Will revisit.
The dreaded "I don't know what I want, but I'll tell you when I see it" client should be added to this list.
I've got an Asus 1005P, which cost me £240 when I bought it. It's also got a 1024x600 screen, but adding one of these would mean I could work outside and, if I believe what the blog post says, possibly add a couple of hours of battery life to boot. Is that worth almost the same price again?

Hell yes.
Flagging stuff because you personally think it's poorly argued, disingenuous flamebait is a bit dangerous. I can't tell you the number of times I've read some article that's been upvoted dozens of times that I think is a piece of garbage. (For example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1392140). That doesn't mean I should flag it for deletion and try to force my view of the world on everyone. I just point out the flaws and move on. If you want to ignore me that's your loss.

You should try to use a more objective standard when flagging posts. Flagging is easily abused should be a last resort.
Is angel investing headed for a crash?
Five Drivers of Real Opportunity for Startups
Best Web Design and Web Development Tutorials Roundup [June 2010]
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According to http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/063010-russian-spy-rin... law enforcement officers found a 27-character password written on a piece of paper at one suspect's house, and then used that to get into the stenography program that the suspect had, which then let them extract the hidden messages from the images.

Therefore the cryptography does not seem to have been the weak link. (In truth, it seldom is.)
Global Manufacturing Shows Weakening From China to Europe
In this sense "cutoff" is a noun, possessed by you: "your cutoff."

While grammatically correct, it is confusing if you stop and think about it while you are reading.
Would it really tho'?

I mean, PE (or CEng in the UK) is an "elitist, protectionist mechanism" but it hasn't hurt innovation in aviation or civil engineering, has it?
XM keeps doing this to me too. Thanks for reminding me to check for it again.
Symbian-Guru.com Is Over
Actually a colleague just pointed out that the reddit code is available:

http://github.com/reddit/reddit

Could use that and the last.fm API or MusicBrainz do have a stab at getting the genres?
Kindle DX has always been released independently of the smaller model if I recall correctly.
No. If you've hidden the details in the finest image details, then any form of lossy compression would ruin the message.

But there is no shortage of popular sites that will let you post innocuous seeming files unchanged that could serve this purpose. So that is not a problem.
What Constitutes "Use" of a Trade Secret?