skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me or did Zuckerburg build Facebook on a foundation of ill-advised contracts or what?
Careful.

Ceglia can be a crook and have a valid contract.
Learning another new language is not on my list of things to do right now. If I hear that somebody has actually built something interesting in it I'll take a look but I'm much more interested at the moment in studying the basics of machine learning, figuring out how to build rich user interfaces in pure HTML5, and helping the rails team shorten its bug queue.
RDP (along with Red Hat's Spice and NX) is on my long term TODO list.

On the other hand, if somebody sent me good patches (or a pull request) that added RDP support to noVNC, reviewing and integrating them would be on my short term TODO list. ;-)
I do not know details about the situation with the untouchables. I know it is less advanced than the current situation with the blacks in the US.

What you said about the negative stereotypes about blacks is unfortunately very true. But: affirmative action does not fight against the stereotypes, it fights against the underrepresentation. As some other comments said, it may even reinforce the stereotypes (I am not sure if it works that way, however). While we cannot completely avoid stereotypes, we can try and make sure they do not affect how the people are actually treated. Well, to some extent, hopefully large extent.

You mentioned no stigma on a white child. Some people do talk about rednecks and so on. And indeed there are programs similar to Affirmative Action intended for, say, people from underprivileged backgrounds in the mountains of Kentucky. Another example is programs for Native Americans (or "first people", or whatever today's PC name is). They have been traditionally underprivileged, but I do not have they have a stigma, not for a long time.

accept that you will not get into those schools
because chinese immigrants and jewish people
will probably get the best scores

No problem, I am Jewish. :-) But more seriously: diversity of backgrounds is a good thing when it comes naturally. But not when enforced.
Believe me, I know how inefficient the market is. There are certainly overpriced and underpriced startups. But his claim requires more than an inefficient market. He's saying that startups in a certain phase are consistently overpriced. That I've seen no evidence of.
Android user since day one here and had skype lite on my g1. I upgraded to the HTC Desire and while it's a great phone, the official skype app is unavailable in the uk marketplace for this specific model - I've no idea why, so I've been using fring, but now I'm starting to have my first gripe with the Android experience...
Ask HN: Salesforce/Highrise/etc., what works for you?
We're growing our customer base and are increasing the amount of incoming leads that we can't deal with it by ourselves without the help of some technology.

So we're hoping you can provide us with some info:
1) Which CRM are you using?
2) Why did you choose it?
3) Any problems you are having?

We are a SaaS company that sells one product in a 3-tiered pricing strategy. We don't have a sales team at the moment, but will be building one out.
Thanks!
Looks like the answers subdomain is running the Mahalo answers code that they're using to create all those spam q&a sites.
Then say that. When you make your arguments, don't say "let's get rid of affirmative action". Say "let's make the admission process merit-based only".

Of course, you realise what you're saying then? You're saying you want 30% of all students in all elite colleges to likely come from new york. That's going to create a very monotonous, one-track kind of thought coming out of those places. Those schools that are currently the best in the world, will start producing similar thinking people with little exposure to diversity of thought or diversity of individuals.

Is that what you want? You are willing to fundamentally change the characters of these schools to meet some criteria of 'fair' that basically only uses a single attribute to judge people?
How about this guy? He says he was ripped of by Zuckerberg in a similar fashion. He had a site colloquially known as, guess what, 'the Face Book', and....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/the-end-of-the...

From Wikipedia, "Though the two entrepreneurs decided to work on their respective projects independently, they frequently discussed technological aspects of houseSYSTEM related to the Face Book, as well as Zuckerberg's latest project, about which he was secretive.[162] On January 11, 2004, shortly after using the Universal Face Book on houseSYSTEM, Zuckerberg registered the domain name "thefacebook.com" independently."
It's interesting how you imply that Jewish people are not white, since you broke them out separately. If we assumed that all Jewish US citizens are white (which is probably not exactly correct but close enough) then your breakdown would become: 68% white, 30% asian, 2% other.
Why pick just one? Write components that aren't tightly coupled to others, and you can use whatever language you like for the sub-components. PHP fucks you over? Switch to Python. Python too slow? Rewrite the slow part in Haskell.

Sure, you might have to hire people that are 3% smarter than the average homeless guy off the street, but you're already doing that anyway.

Programming languages aren't religion. You don't have to stick to just one.
My own impression so far is that the designers on Forrst are those who haven't/couldn't get a Dribbble invite yet. "Design" equals "web design", and its average quality is nothing to write home about. Lots of people are asking for a feedback, and this seems to be the biggest difference with Dribbble - on latter people present quality work just to show off, and here they present frequently amateurish pieces and ask for help improving them.

The developer section pretty much boils down to jquery, css and php posts. Nothing interesting, and that's probably because no one really knows what to put there, and so it looks like a pile of random stuff at the moment. This section needs further partitioning, because unlike the design work, a C developer is not likely to appreciate JS posts and vice versa.

The links section is something I looked at once and never bothered to return to. For this I have HN and other sites, so trying to duplicate them on Forrst feels like a bit of a wasted effort.

All in all, I think Kyle did an impressive job putting this site together, but he'll need far more effort and help to fine-tune the community.
I heard of a VP of a pro audio equipment company who was on a quest to eliminate red LEDs from the front panels of all audio equipment (red LEDs are a de facto standard to indicate a clipping or error condition). Last I heard, he's no longer employed there.
My experience as en early-stage employee wasn't quite so bad. As we received funding my salary tended to increase pretty nicely. There was a point that I was the lowest paid employee (with the highest level of responsibility)... but I quickly moved to fix that.

The biggest mistake I find that folks in that position make is in how they value their equity (in that they HUGELY over-value it).
I'd be willing to argue that VB widened the pool of potential programmers more than it ruined existing programmers. I started Windows development in VB, and I moved past it in a year or two, but as a 14 year-old, I probably never would have started if my only option had been C++/MFC.

VB has a valuable place in the programming pipeline, because it helps the novice see his programs in terms of what he's used to interacting with. Starting him there lets him get a taste for it, and when he runs into a problem that VB (or AppInventor) can't handle, he says "okay, how can I solve this problem?" and moves onto the more powerful (and more esoteric) stuff. I wouldn't touch VB6 for real-world applications development today, but I readily recognize the role it played in getting me to where I am as a developer today.
Wait, you mean this was a serious question? Not a comedy routine?
No doubt reflective of nearly any 19 year old web developer's confused web of NDAs / Non-Competes / etc when doing contract work . . .
Well, I really enjoy what I do, and I'm passionate about seeing this company succeed.
Those schools have a huge pool of people to choose from. If they use skin color as a criteria to ensure that the people in the schools are exposed to different COLORs of people in a society where COLOR has been used as a discriminatory tool, then I don't think that's unusual. I think that's actually fair, and I think educational institutions choosing to educate in that manner is exactly what they should do.
Or excellent, qualified employees looking for a lot more security. For me to go that route again, I'd be looking for a lot of vacation time (6-8 weeks). Even then the salary would have to be pretty solid as well.
Anyone know what the original source Seth's referring to here is? Did Kevin Kelly elaborate on this somewhere?
Hey, I have an idea! Let's completely destroy well established foundations of commerce in favor of convoluted, complex and rather insane 'IP' laws. The BEST would be if you had to pay large corporations a tax on every single commerce related action you could conceivably undertake.
I've added some screenshots of my own in the past week: http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/screenshots.html

I'm also working on the ability to play back recorded VNC sessions directly in noVNC. No ETA on that though. Watch noVNC github commits if you're interested in that.
The people for whom things like skin color matter don't see jewish people as white. Hispanics are also white.
I think it depends. Sometimes all you need is someone who can get you to an answer faster. But, at least when you're running a business, it's often more efficient to have someone else take care certain things for you instead of doing them yourself. It's an obvious point but it's easy to miss in practice when you're starting out if you're accustomed to handling everything yourself.
"Furthermore, only 2% of all U.S. 9th-grade boys and 1% of girls will go on to attain an undergraduate science or engineering degree. In contrast to these troubling numbers, Mr. Chairman, 42% of all college undergraduates in China earn science or engineering degrees."

That's crazy. I wonder how many more undergraduates China has altogether.
I found the same thing starting in my late teens. I shave every other day, in the shower, without foam, gel or soap against the grain with a Bic disposable.
Also, I find as long as I can clean the razor out from the back one blade lasts from 3 to 6 months (Gilette disposables don't work for this as they are closed in the back).

I may not be normal.
Copernicium: How elements get their names
Interview with Sam Odio on the launch and sale of Divvyshot (YC W09)
Maybe for having an impact, but for stress? I doubt it.
How were either of those likely to be seen as impossible or illegal? Both commercial software and search engines were existing fields — heck, search was actually considered a mature field and the existing search engines had started branching out in other directions.
Why I can’t kick the Apple iPhone habit
Sounds like you're well on your way to the right attitude for that store visit ;-)
A Way To Work With Word Document On iPad
Basic points that have been rehashed a million times. Skip.
Selling my own ads seems like a lot of work.

Any advice?
I'd bet that just about every search engine (aside from Bing, but probably part of that one too) is built in open software. I wouldn't pick this out to be Duck's distinguishing feature.
I wrote a payment system called 'webpay', and sold individual licenses. One day some guy calls up and asks about a source license. I didn't feel like selling so I asked an outrageous price, $100,000, and jokingly I added 'in small bills'. Three days later (Christmas eve, no less) some guy shows up at my house with a suitcase full of fifties... he'd been on 3 flights from Minot, North Dakota with a bunch of lay-overs. We waited for the banks to open so the money could be deposited and I burned him a CD.
I expect my smart phone to be really good at making calls too.
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Yes, but this is a question of ownership of a corporation. I doubt he has any claim to whatever Facebook's legal entity is. He may have claims for copyright violations if the contract included ownership of the code, etc. Which the contract appears not to include. He may have other claims but I doubt he has a straightforward ownership claim over the legal entity.

My reason for thinking this is the amount of VC that went into Facebook and the common sorts of IP issues that VC's regularly deal with it's extremely likely a new corporation was created and Zuck's assets transferred to that company.

Zuck may have transferred assets illegally to that corporation (copyrights, domains, etc) which would create a legit claim, but it's unlikely that he can prove a straightforward 83% ownership. Even if he can prove that it's going to be very hard to overcome the subsequent VC rounds that would have reduced everyone's equity stake.
Given that most genre's of media are moving (at least partially) away from magazines, books, and videos to the internet, I can't see how it's surprising that porn is also.

I don't see how that makes internet porn any less health or moral than other porn.
BizSpark/WebSpark are only free for a certain amount of time (3 years, I think), after which you'll have to start paying for the licenses you're still using.

Also, the Express versions of Studio are quite crippled - fine for hobby work, but not worthwhile for an actual startup where you're going to be working in the tool for hours every day.
And the fact that using anything Amazon is pretty much off the table...
This has nothing to do with features or platforms.

Fring said it was based on Skype, it provided a bad experience, and therefore damaged the brand of Skype. Skype has every right - an obligation, really - to protect its brand.
I have to admit some confusion. Where are you seeing the Hello World code?
I'm not defending what the article said, I'm merely pointing out that the parent comment should be downvoted rather than upvoted because he's arguing something no one said.
That's about as easy as getting a drink out of a Vogon.

You'll need some collateral outside of your business, a debt free house or something like that would go a long way. If you do have such a collateral you can probably do much better (lower interest rates) if you mortgage it and then put the money into the business. That does put you privately on the hook if the business folds though.

In other times banks were stingy borrowing money to companies that don't have a long track record and solid profits, especially companies without assets. Today I would say that it is impossible, but maybe I'm wrong and you will find a way to swing it. If you have a credit union locally that might be worth a shot.
See my advice to endlessvoid94: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1509160
It may have been unrealistic but I hope nobody makes a sequel.
I take it you've never worked at a major electronics retailer. People will drop several thousand dollars on impulse if a slick sales person does a catchy demo.
I'll be there.

And just so that my comment brings something, here are some clickable links:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/jupiter-berkeley

http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news

I'll double the invitation to join the Google Group, especially if you can't make it this time and want to make sure you're not missing next time.
Afaik ddg does not have its own crawler (yet) but is built on top of other search engines, it does pull in a lot of data from different sources.
Kind of a good thing, really. Pittsburgh was at what, half a million people in the mid-1900's? It's since been halved. It can't support the same population as during Steel boom era, and shedding so much population gave it a good base to reinvent itself as medical, financial, and educational centers of the region. It's one of the things that Detroit might want to pay heed to.

The other side effect was that since everyone moved across the country, the Steelers are now one of the nation's most popular teams. And everyone knows the best barometer for a city's success is sport teams.
We are not creating spam sites.

sigh....

we are creating vertical Q&A sites like www.ipad-answers.com. These vertical sites are doing well and starting to build audience.

Please don't fall for the SEO rhetoric.
But RTMP was designed for this. This is totally possible using a web client.
Paul Graham is from Pittsburgh. If he still has some emotional attachment to the city, perhaps he would be willing to invest in some of the great startups we have here?
This is the concept behind "Being Yourself for a Living": http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/be-yourself-for-a-living-th...

If you just blog about everything you know and experience, eventually, some surprises will pop up in your Analytics. By virtue of the fact that you know something about these topics, they are viable for you to pursue further.
The p2p streaming and encryption is overengineering for this problem. RTMPE works just fine for this.
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Their programming languages will be frighteningly similar to Javascript: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mendhak/2643251456/
I'm going to be a bit of an echo. "Thank you for doing this."

I live in San Antonio, Tx so I must admit I sometimes I forget about our beaches and the Gulf. I've been totally fed up with the crap coverage and the crazy restrictions they're putting on public beaches along the gulf. It's just crazy to think how much damage is happening.
New to those outside of a very limited audience.

Just like google wasn't new by a long shot any more when suddenly the mainstream press started writing about this great new search engine.
From the article: "DuckDuckGo also uses it's own web crawler: the DuckDuckBot."

Plus I'm pretty sure I've heard the DDG guy mention it before on HN.
@ ruby babies

Get over yourself....]

No one in their right mind uses Ruby, The Failure of twitter has shown everyone that ruby is worthless if you ever wish to make millions and scale. Unless of course you are living off pennies like 37 signals ppl otherwise get over it, Use python all smart people use it.
If this was true, someone would agree to a settlement or someone would disappear.
"moviegoers' craving for 3D films"

I'd love to see some surveys. I do not go to any 3D viewings and go to the 2D ones instead (of which there are less), but they always seem completely packed full. So presumably I'm not alone in hating the most recent 3D movie craze.
oops, you're right. i got it mixed up with another "new language" post I saw today. deleting my comments...
It does according to the DDG FAQ: https://duckduckgo.com/faq.html
Mea culpa. I wrote the title from my main take away from the article not the original. Thanks for correcting.
£3,000: one year of car insurance OR an 8 core Mac Pro, 30" ACD, and an iPad. Hmmm…
I don't hack nearly as much as I would like to so that wasn't the deciding factor in choosing a box to work on, this machine is as big as it is mostly because of my browsing habits.

Hundreds of tabs open is not rare at all when I dig in to a subject and I've seen the browser top 10G resident. Amazing how much memory it will eat up.

And when I do program (especially if it is in java) the IDE will use what the browser doesn't.
PostgreSQL High Availability options
That was my initial thought as well, but reflecting more it's a decent question.

On the surface, would you expect that a network exists for university libraries to pay for articles included in student class packets? Would you expect that the venue is expected to pay when a cover band plays in a bar? That musicians theoretically get paid when their song is played on the radio or streamed on the net?

There's a lot of 'magic' happening, and it wouldn't be that much of a stretch for libraries or used book stores to participate. For all I know, there's even a country somewhere that already does it.
When work on Go started in late 2007, LLVM wasn't what it is today. I think that if we were doing Go again, starting today, it would make sense to use LLVM, but if you look at the kinds of things that were being done in LLVM in 2007 (llvm.org has the release notes linked), it wasn't a viable option (yet).

I for one would like to see a Go front end for LLVM. In fact, the front end used by gccgo is a separate project from gcc and BSD - not GPL - licensed (http://code.google.com/p/gofrontend) specifically to make that easier and so that gccgo and an eventual go-for-LLVM can share code.
Echoing Salesforce.com, Microsoft announces CRM SaaS and app marketplace
Nativeclient is very cool, and it allows you to run native code in your browser, but that does not mean native applications. You still have to port applications and any libraries to the nativeclient API/SDK (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient-sdk/).

Nativeclient only currently exists in Chrome (and only if you run it using a special flag). Nativeclient itself is not yet mature. Javascript is everywhere, HTML5 will be everywhere soon. Nativeclient has a long road before it's widely supported in most browsers and on many architectures.
This seems fairly reasonable of a prediction. What I wanna know is when there will be more Android developers than iPhone developers?
The 9th circuit does have a pretty terrible batting average, so I'm confident that this will be overturned.
I agree. I think federal funding, scholarship, loans, and research dollars should be withheld from all schools with alumni preference rules going forward. Period.

Most arguments against removing alumni preference only apply when you look at one school in isolation and simply disappear when you consider all schools removing them at once.

(Federal non-profit tax-emempt status should probably be included in my list of things-that-should-disappear-unless alumni-preference-is-dropped, but I haven't thought seriously about the likely objections (religious schools etc.))
I thought it might be something like that :-p
good point! i hadn't considered that. yeah and they might also be afraid to host anything with Google, the other big cloud-ish behemoth out there. unless they thought it desirable and likely to be bought by them, etc.
I think they're already starting to break through that barrier. Look at companies such as Huawei, TCL, Lenovo, and Haier who are competing at the global stage with many US tech firms. If you are limiting "technology" to what most of us do around here (software) then I might be able to concede the argument, but that is an incredibly narrow view.

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On innovators: I agree in the current climate the environment in the US is more conducive to raising people with the entrepeneural spirit, however China is rapidly changing. This is the time when the first batch of college grads have parents who had white collar jobs. They aspire to be more than their parents, and this desire/greed/ambition will inspire a new generation of business men and engineers. Their children will be even more so.
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> I love it when the faithful think that features and price are not competitive.

I don't love it when jerks deride Apple fans as "the faithful". We're a pretty damn discriminating and thoughtful bunch of folks.
I don't think this is really an appropriate post for HN. There is some self-promotion of consulting work in other threads, but nothing quite as self-serving.

Please do not post this type of material here.
err sorry but there is nothing more important than "TO RULE THE TECH"