skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you here. But the only problem is... you need the stomach for the enterprise sales cycle. Meaning 6-12 months. Anybody looking to jump in should do lots of homework here and if a willing corporate pre-buyer is there, line them up and let them pay to build the product. Leveraging their connections could also be a benefit. What company feels the most pain from this/would pay for it?
CouchDB is designed from the ground up for reliability, so there's no chance you'd have data go missing, even in the case of crashes and system reboots. CouchDB also offers strong consistency guarantees on a single node, so you can use it for things like banking. So... yes.
> sure but you can't attach moral obligation or duty to a corporate entity, all you can do is regulate (and we are trying...)

Actually, that's not "all you can do".

Note that regulators "don't have any skin in the game" and that regulation is systemic risk (by definition).

Also, regulation is always behind.

And that's without even addressing the elephant in the room, regulatory capture.
Why is this on the home page? Its a worthless article with no substance.

Fan boys stop voting just because it says macbook...
Even if people were willing to host their own, people wouldn't keep their installs up to date. Then they all get hacked like all those self hosted WP.
Very nice.

Although I think the documentation would be better served by first showing the code. Its very short and very self explanatory. It's double awesome that it hooks into Functional Javascript.

Here is the code:

;(function ($) {
$.fn.K = function (fn) {
fn = typeof(Functional) != 'undefined' ? Functional.lambda(fn) : fn;
fn(this);
return this;
};
if (typeof($.fn.tap) == 'undefined')
$.fn.tap = $.fn.K;
$.fn.T = function (fn) {
fn = typeof(Functional) != 'undefined' ? Functional.lambda(fn) : fn;
return fn(this);
};
if (typeof($.fn.into) == 'undefined')
$.fn.into = $.fn.T;
})(jQuery);
err yeh, as mentioned in the other post, startup news is exactly what this place is.

YC is a startup seed fund / incubator, most of the first users were all from YC companies, as shown by your "90%" figure most of the current users are still interested in startups, its original name was startup news and a lot of people still call it that.

slashdot / programming reddit / lambda the ultimate might be better places if you want purely programming news.
I'm actually going to call tough shit on that, and respond with, "buy the dev kit/platform that supports more than one flawed platform"

A valid strategy as long as you aren't building a million of something.
100% when you look at data for UK, though it appears we're less educated - 23% "High School"
Though it's not really, they introduced new controls and chromes which don't make sense on a phone's screen (but do on a tablet's) and the device to screen ratio is completely different.

It looks like a big ipod touch (which means people are rapidly familiar with it), but it feels very differently.

And of course, even if it were just a big ipod touch none of Apple's (potential) competitors in the field have such a platform.
This idea is exactly how my and Bethany Soule's pet project, kibotzer.com, started. It has worked great for a bunch of family and friends (although they often yo-yo back when they stop reporting their weight to kibotzer!).

A tweak to your broccoli vs pizza day (great way to put it!): It's hard to take broccoli day seriously if it's just a random fluctuation. So we have a Yellow Brick Road that you follow to your goal. The centerline of the Road is what you call the line from C to D. And then there's a right and wrong lane of the Yellow Brick Road (lane width dynamically adjusts to account for random fluctuation) and broccoli mode starts in earnest when you're in the wrong lane and in danger of going off the Road.

The biggest failure mode of kibotzer/lineardiet seems to be painting yourself into a corner by going above the line a bit planning to catch back up, and then a bit more, until it's hopeless. We have a bunch of ideas for how to address that...
I thought Michael Lewis' "Liar’s Poker" was describing a world that was ending, not that a world was beginning. And what it was describing, it turns out, is a period in finance that went on for another 25 years or 20 years.

The incentives for people on Wall Street got so screwed up, that the people who worked there became blinded to their own long term interests because the short term interests were so overpowering. So they behaved in ways that were antithetical to their own long term interests.
> transactions, isolation, referential integrity and other feature were too long coming.

They had that years ago using InnoDB. I remember using it in 2003.

MySQL's big thing over Postgres was replication.
If you had a rare disease would you prefer a doctor who hasn't treated it before because of the potential for hindsight bias?
HTML5 makes me thoroughly excited for the not-so-distant future web. From both an end-user and developer perspective.
If you don't have a guaranteed job, don't take out a mortgage under the assumption you'll never lose your job.
Canon 5D Mark II with MP-E 65mm Macro lens
Hm, I'm not sure they're trying to protect the wireless carriers. When an Android device makes a Google Voice call, it works the same way any call would, except that it dials the Google Voice number first, which then connects you to whomever you're dialing. The call is never routed over the Internet.
Vista took 7 months to reach 4% market share, 7 took 3 weeks.

7 sold 90 million licenses in its first 4 months.
There are CSS expressions to use to send certain rules to ipads; no user-agent sniffing required.
I skip the RSS reader for HN and use the Twitter feed. The rest of the time I'll check in on the main page occasionally.

http://twitter.com/newsycombinator
I haven't had much experience with database triggers, so it's hard for me to compare the pros/cons of using triggers vs using CouchDB.

Thinking about it, as far as the stats stuff goes, I don't think there is anything we did that can't be done via your suggested approach (triggers, materialized views, archive tables, etc). However, we're just a few developers here. We don't have a DBA. We're much more at home with Javascript than with the MySQL trigger syntax. So, CouchDB was a much more natural fit.

We're also making heavy use of the fact that CouchDB is schema-less. I'm not too familiar with the XML and/or JSON datatypes supported by the different relational databases, but some quick googling seems to indicate that querying the database for the contents of this data can be difficult. In other words, storing and retrieving XML appears to work OK, but (looking at Postgres) I can't seem to find a way to, for example, find all rows where the xml document in the 'xml' column has a <city> tag that is equal to 'Chicago'. Again, I could be very wrong here, I just don't see it after about 10 minutes of looking.

Working with documents is very natural in CouchDB, as that is what is was designed for. Not only can you easily find all documents with a city property equal to 'Chicago', but you can also programatically interact with that data in the map and reduce functions, using Javascript.
[the following is apocryphal, citations needed] The difference in how .net and java implement generics is a big factor; Java implements them with erasure (basicly existing only at compile time), CLR tracks them on the runtime. This makes it very hard for languages on the CLR to coexist with other languages if they do not provide that parametric typing information. This is for instance the big thing holding up the CLR port of clojure itself.*

Re:static languages on the JVM, in addition to the poster boy scala, see http://mth.github.com/yeti/ an ML style language.

[ * i have no idea how the DLR and .net 4 stuff changes this situation ]
there were lots of comments about Headius' missing JVM features post: tagged fixnums, value types, continuations , lightweight coroutines. TCO, reified type info; unsigned int

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1437802

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cfur7/jruby_cre...
Getting ridiculous? You joined 41 days ago, it hasn't changed that much in a month and a bit.
It seems that Andrew is suffering from a form of survivorship bias. They launched The Point with all these different group-power ideas, then struggled until they stepped back and focused on the 1 idea that stuck.

>Andrew: ...You’re way too dumb to figure out if your idea is good. It’s up to the masses. So build that very small thing and get it out there and keep on trying different things and eventually you’ll get it right.

The advice he's giving here seems to be saying two contradictory things. First, you don't know what feature will be the one that puts you on the map. Second, focus on that feature. Wait-- what?

He makes it sound like you should build small idea 1 and see if it works; if it doesn't, build small idea 2, etc. However, what if he followed his own advice from the start? What if they built some other group-centric idea first and that one seemed to gain some minor traction. They'd be faced with the problem of whether to stick with a mediocre idea or ditch it in exchange for a potentially great idea.

It's as if Andrew did a global idea search, found the best, and is coming back saying "If only I'd done a local search in that direction instead!"
It has an internal clock source that can be multiplied up to different speeds. You can also connect external crystals or digital clocks.
wow, didn't know all you need is a number!?

when I'll get the US number, what should I do next?
Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research
If this feature works well, I think it will eliminate possibly the biggest advantage of Chrome over Firefox. I already prefer Firefox over Chrome for usability reasons, and now soon I should be able to enjoy improved stability on Linux when Flash crashes.
I really like posterous.

I'm wondering about wordpress - especially migrating to posterous from an installed wordpress site (rather than having a site on wordpress.com). One thing that is missing from posterous is the ability to put ads like google adsense...anyone know if this is coming? (I haven't seen any hints on their blogs)
Skype was available Worldwide since launch, my dear US friends!
I adapted their HTML5 slideshow interface into a comic viewer: http://slippycomics.com/

Pretty nifty for viewing old comics linearly. Works okay-ish on an iPad too (click for alt-text/alt-comic).

Background/introduction: http://matt.io/slippycomics/introducing_slippycomics
Use a US-based proxy to sign up (to get past the geolocation) and give them the US number when they ask for your cell number. Then you'll get your own US number from GV and can drop the other one. You also won't need to use a proxy after signup. After that, you can use it for free US-based SMS and voicemail.
Fine, but "addictiveness" is a rather loaded word to use (which I understand wasn't your terminology, but is what I'm objecting to in the parent).
It's a shame he didn't have one of the many PC laptops that have higher resolution webacams and cheaper price tags.

But seriously? How did this even make it to the front page of HN?
Google Code Blog: HTML5 Rocks
I think this man doesn't get it, as a "former executive" he thinks anything in live is money.

People write apps for iPhones because they dream to do what they love without working for the man. Of course it is only a remote possibility, but it is real.

99% of the people that went to California searching gold didn't find it, as in SouthAfrica, but the now deeper old mine was discovered by a solitary man looking for gold armed just with a mining pan.

There is something in the human spirit that is as valuable as money that makes musicians painters, singers,movie makers or engineers that maybe won't get rich keep trying. Maybe they get to work on what they love.

PS: I'm an iPhone App developer myself, since Linux Click an run app store I believed that a "right" implementation of an Appstore was going to be the future. I expected to be Apple the first to to this. In contrast with this executive they just seem to "get it".

Steve Jobs is really smart in this too, when he creates something he diminish it, so the competitor's executives see an appstore and say: It's only a mere millions dollar market, not important.

IBMs mainframes were the "important stuff", when real money was, mini computers were just "cheap" toys with no real application. People who wanted "job security" deciced to work with the "big boys" because it was safe... until it was not.
I will be interested to see how this story fares in voting over the next couple of days. I'm not really sure how it relates to "hacker news", unless one interprets hacking to include masquerading as a businessman.

I trust The Atlantic enough to believe that they have fact checked the piece. So what is the point from an HN perspective? Caucasians can make money by masquerading as executives in China? Chinese high-tech manufacturing companies (or their subcontractors) hire people to masquerade as executives? Even the suggestion that they were circumventing quality control requirements was negated by the author's comment that the guys asked to stay on did receive QC training.

I'd love to see some comments here, explaining why this is HN-relevant.
I check a few times a day, as my schedule permits and try to up vote interesting submissions. If a large crowd only looked at stories after they were highly ranked, how would any stories ever get highly ranked?
For real cool cred, he should've Justin tv'd it! Of course, if it were next week, I'm sure some bloke would've used iPhone 4 to record it instead.
Amazon EC2 -- pay only for what you use, etc
I also didn't have any problems either. I'm currently using the gm seed, and it seems not much different (speed-wise) on my 3G compared to the previous OS version (I was using 3.1.2 before)
My local Best Buy (in Sarasota) is the same. A BestBuy employee said they're working through a backlog. People ask when the next shipment arrives, and when it does they come in to buy them up. In some cases the entire shipment is gone in the same day.
The wikipedia page says that it dates from the 90ies and is modeled after the PDP11. Main differences to AVRs seem to be that they are designed for lower power consumption and are von Neumann instead of Harvard architecture, otherwise it depends on your requirements which processeor fits your needs. For example, the lager controller included in this bundle compares to the Attiny 2312, which has the same amount of RAM and ROM, the same 16MHz maximum clock, more IO-pins, another timer, PWM-channels, some EERPOM and a hardware UART, but higher power consumption and fewer and slower ADCs.

As to why now, I think they are targeting the educational market (there is a special link for universities on the wiki page), trying to get exposure to students who would otherwise default to using arduinos for term projects. They are not selling these boards for profit, but for mindshare.
Well, the US proxy thing I was contemplating about myself. The OP seems to imply that all you need is US phone number, no proxy or anything.
Note that out-of-process plugins are not available for Mac OS X yet. (That's coming in a future release.) And Firefox does not yet have full process separation like Chrome, but that is coming via the https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis project (which will appear this year in Fennec 2.0, and then in the next release of Firefox after version 4.0).
> I mean that there's essentially a cartel of CEO compensation among all publicly traded companies, so that you can not just invest in a company which does not overpay the CEO.

Oh really? Google and Apple's CEOs make $1.

Forbes regularly profiles companies whose CEOs make significantly less (and more) than what you claim is the only game in town.

And if you think that other countries do it better, you can buy stock in many of their companies via ADRs. (IIRC, Japan's CEO pay works somewhat like you'd like.)

I note that you didn't acknowledge that CEO pay practices don't have investor benefits, so why do you care? More to the point, since you can easily choose companies that work the way that you'd like, why should my choices be limited?
It worked for me, if only as an interesting insight into how the world works.
You must be testing some trolling or flame-war detection app?
No, I can just use SMS and voicemail. It is really nice to have these two features, though, because it makes it super easy to communicate with people in the US for free.

If you want a Google-voice like service that works in Europe, then try 3jam (although it's not free).
The article has already been posted, and it had great success. I have no idea how it posted again, it may be hosted at a different URL.
The iPad took 4 weeks to sell 1 million units.

The iPhone 3GS sold 1 million units in 3 days. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/03/ipad_sales_top_one_m...)
This seems like a pretty big change for a patch release?
Mark Zuckerberg on the future of Facebook
brilliant, didn't know that! (and I do know who w and k are in awk fame!)
My friend Peter made a poster of the Ulam Spiral that includes the Python code used to generate it: http://imprompt.us/2010/ulam-spiral-take-2/
But, unless I am mistaken, Skype does not represent the same threat that GV does. Skype does not offer services like voicemail and personal hunt-groups that potentially undermine telco value-added services.
(I'm the OP) Yes, but I also needed a US number to get started. The reason I didn't mention a proxy is because that's super easy, and I figured it was too obvious to mention (although I should have said that you only need to use the proxy for about 5 minutes while signing up). Getting a US number to get started is the hard(er) part.
You know, you're absolutely right. Even though this is a community-moderated site whose front-page articles are controlled by community voting, you, coned88, longtime user of 41 days and 15 karma, and you alone should be allowed to determine exactly what is and is not "on topic".

</sarcasm>

If you don't like it, go elsewhere, and stop polluting HN with your complaining.
This speaks to why people are afraid of Grand Theft Auto: it isn't intrinsically bad; it can sometimes, however, speak a lot about people playing it.

Even more so, though, it also speaks a lot that about our society that it places a lot of value on decisions people make _in a game_.
http://www.webnx.com/servers/clearance.html
8 cores, 32gb ram, $299/month or were you looking for hourly rates?
How polite of them to be balanced by saying "Firefox offers crash protection for Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight".

I wonder, though, if their crash stats for Windows and Linux also match Jobs' claim for MacOS, that Flash is the biggest offender. (The assessment should be controlled for frequency-of-use, of course.)
I think the author is dangerously naive because young children, much more so than adults, have a hard time distinguishing between the real world and one's imagination. For them, the border is much more fluid and harder to see.

And it's not like we're talking about a 14 year old playing D&D here with heroes and castles and dragons, oh my, but rather a 4 year old with cops, hookers, pimps, drugs, car chases, mugging and vandalism.
If you need the box only for a couple of months just get a softlayer.com box provisioned how you want it. I don't think they have minimum contract periods, you can probably get a box configured how you want it for one month, run as much junk as you want and prob end up costing around $350 or so.
now to see how many people will downgrade to ios 3 instead of being persuaded to upgrade to the iphone 4...
Folks, if you don't think this should be on the front page, click "Flag" under the headline, just like the HN guidelines say.
Well, those particular spams don't.
There is, I have plenty of saved Joe Schmoe (SMS) email addresses in my address book now. Writing a fresh email to this address sends a txt.
Update: I have publised a summary of the progress so far on my blog:

http://hackernewsexperiment.blogspot.com/2010/06/status-from...
There aren't enough ways one can say how totally broken science funding is.

Big upvote for the OP for actually trying to address some solutions. However what concerns me is that there isn't a single unifying voice; some people want to tweak the grant system, some want to get rid of it, and everything in between; while I personally I am in the get-rid-of-it camp, I would get on any bandwagon that had an actual chance of success.
few hours seems at this point bit optimistic. 5 hours later and constantly getting 502 Proxy Error. At least earlier it loaded after some tries.

This hopefully means also that there will be quite a community when everyone gets their order.

edit: I made order from Mouser. Free shipping too, and their website actually works :)
I hate when people say this. When they registered doesn't tell you how long they have been visiting the site. I probably lurked here reading articles and comments for a year before I finally registered.

Though, I'm not sure what the OP is complaining about. All of the submissions that (s)he has shown an interest in (by commenting) have not been about "hacking."
A bit off topic, but related....does anyone know of a website for industrial automation parts for bulding custom automated "machines"?

Specifically what I am in need of right now is a low cost solution for automatically proportioning (by weight) pet treats. They are an odd shape and a bit sticky so our existing machine can't seem to cope with them, and apparently a proper machine which can handle it is ~ $100k.

So in the meantime I thought perhaps a person could take some off the shelf parts and build something from scratch.

Anyone have any insight on this??