skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are also hideous. This may be a bit shallow, but as someone that has even a little design experience, there's no way I'd be able to look at a ThinkPad all day.
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Anyone know if this will really be mainstream someday, or is it still in the "maybe" stage?
> Necessity is the mother of invention, and technology is usually developed in response to need.

This is some position I respect but disagree with. For one reason: it is pure observation bias.

Those who fail to invent at the face of Necessity take the hit, hunker down and die in anonymity. On the other hand, the ones who prevail have their names written in history as legendary inventors and innovators. Rinse a repeat over a couple thousand years and everybody knows that "Necessity is the mother of invention, and technology is usually developed in response to need".

Malthus is highly misunderstood as having stated that doom in unavoidable. What he actually said is that unconstrained population growth will eventually be forcibly constrained by hard physical and ecologic limits. I'd rather have rational planning or cultural taboos limit the max human population in any given region.
This goes along with the story on Motorola / eFuse. Jail breaking a phone is not an exact science and can cause problems, especially in a situation like this where the person who jail broke it doesn't have the technical prowess to deal with problems. Even if the problem is not the new software, you are still on the hook and need to be able to deal with the situation.

Jail breaking cost companies support money (the staff people in this story) and they will try to minimize that money when possible (no repair for you).
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Not a real dichotomy though...
Can anyone explain the faint crosses on the photos? I've always been curious why they are there. See an example here:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5...
It's a Python script I run every 5 minutes with cron. It uses BeautifulSoup to scrape the newsyc front page, Tweepy to send out out tweets, and sqlite3 to keep track of which stories have already been tweeted.
If I were AirBNB, I'd be sending this to whichever organization coordinates lobbying for the lending industry to fight the law against this sort of activity. Mortgage lenders have a serious interest in having their customers pay mortgages, if this sort of activity helps them they'd be fools to not support it.
If Coke had simply let Honest Tea be Honest Tea, there's a strong likelihood that no one would have ever even made an issue of their differing stances on corn syrup. By attempting to impose its will, however, Coke all but guaranteed that it would become a public matter and that the company would look bad in the process. And along comes the New York Times to stir the drink.
I never claimed that the addressed value would be incremented, and that is not what is being discussed here, even though that too would have been a problem.

The thing is, at some point the compiler must calculate the address where to store the value. The question is then if there is a sequence point between calculating the data to store and the address which to store to. Otherwise there is ambiguity and the result is undefined.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_point there is no sequence point because of assignment (only initialization which this is not)

Btw was it you that downvoted my comment?
> Many of these sites have certain restrictions which make it difficult or impossible

Dude, you're getting nowhere in life if you just listen when somebody says "no" - get a virtual post office box with a USA address, register for a non-resident Tax ID number, get Paypal, and you're in business. Yeah, it really is that simple.

Good luck, and banish "I can't" from your vocabulary. The right question is "How can I?"
Nicely done, Jeff, useful!
Interesting that Motorola is willing to let go of its telecom equipment business.

Are they are going to focus more on their smartphone division? I mean they've celebrated big successes with their recent Android phones and have implemented all the necessary know how and workflows for integrating Android with their mobile phones. Now they could really start pushing them out!
What does the non-technical founder do that the technical founder can't?

I have see alot of cases where the biz guy says he has the connect or he will sell the product but when its built, he expects the techie to come along with him and sell it. Or he simply says the connect fell thru.

Alot of times I sit and think what would I have a business guy do?
Write a business case?
Write a marketing plan?
Raise capital?

Then I say to myself all these can be done by me and more than likely the the biz guy has just as much experience as me in accomplishing these goals.

But the point is i'm confused about a biz guy's value.
The situation with an MBA trying to get a tech guy for 10% (usually much less, actually) happens just as much in the Bay Area. In fact the culture of the first dot com boom was almost entirely comprised of startups structured like this.

There are more opportunities for nerd/nerd startups in the Bay Area, though.

Also, this article is a good example of a dude you want to avoid working with.
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Yes, it may. Hasn't been tested in courts to my knowledge though.
I stopped visiting both Google News and BBC News because of their respective and recent UI degradations; the former because I can't find anything and the latter because I can't find what I used to.

Both web sites have been replaced with the Reuters and BBC News iOS apps.
You are still supposed to use plural declensions despite talking about a single person.

For instance: "if such a person existed, they were very quiet about their existence". Note that it's not "they was", which is grammatically incorrect.
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Maybe I did something wrong, but I've compiled and run the original code and it crunches 1.7 million digits per hour on an not too old Opteron. Did I miss something?
"I felt about as good as anybody would, sitting in a capsule on top of a rocket that were both built by the lowest bidder."
-- John Glenn on how it felt waiting to for the rocket to launch
I often get the feeling that being under 30 is more important to Inc than other more obvious measures of success.
This article reminds me of an actual life situation I’m currently living. A friend of mine is an entrepreneur; MBA guy he has under his belt, couple of well funded, failed, heavily tech startup.

The guy is very smart and has tons of ideas, most of them requiring a lot of tech implementation. His downfall according to my own analysis: his lack of respect for tech guys, he is stuck with the ninety outsourcing mentality, he basically sees a tech guy as some dude that work can be outsourced anytime to India or any other place in the world.

I think a non tech guy, an MBA guy who wants to succeed in Tech startup need to get in trustful and respectful partnership with tech guy(s). Tech guy should have an equity base on how important his contribution really is to the business. With my friend startup I have seen poorly executed tech companies failing miserably despite being well funded.
rss support like the twitter-ticker would be nice as a basic need for a system like this...
JRuby would be the future if the startup times weren't so horrendous. It makes it very unpalatable for scripting. Nailgun is not robust enough. I have a feeling this is going to be more of a JVM problem than something Nutter and team is going to tackle. So is the future Rubinius and JRuby?
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I know it's pretty cool on HN to shout "fallacy!!!!111" whenever somebody claims something you don't like, but...

Since ancient Greece (and certainly before), some people have complained that the children of today are spoiled, useless, and will destroy the civilization. Sometimes it's true, but I'd say far more often it isn't. Is it really a fallacy to point out that the same claims have been made for over 2,000 years, and yet the world continues to advance and survive somehow? Could it be that (gasp!) people get crotchety and tend to forget what they were like as kids when they get old?

I'll bring up a counter-fallacy, the "rose-tinted glasses" fallacy, in which everything was so much better when you were a kid, and kids these days don't know nothin' 'bout nothin'.

Or the "I call fallacy" fallacy, in which you claim an opponent is committing a fallacy of some sort and hope it sticks.
He makes a fair point, those are definitely competitive advantages.

Now the question becomes, most companies won't have them but they will still be expected. Then what?

Of course, where do we draw the line? semi-fame? is that competitive advantage? I have 20,000 twitter followers? 100,000? 1 million? (or mailing list members, rss feed subscribers, whatever metric you want).
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Why not just build something of your own and put it out there as a product?

See http://www.tawheedkader.com/2010/04/how-i-used-heroku-chargi... for inspiration.
Was 'Antennagate' a side effect of Apple's secrecy culture?
It likely has more to do with PR agencies than anything.
Add 100k for every engineer on the team, subtract 150k for every MBA on the team.
It will be interesting to see what sort of difference Java 7 makes for JRuby.
I won't buy Honest Tea because of this: http://anerroroccurredwhileprocessingthisdirective.com/2009/...
It seems like a difference without distinction to me. I mean, sure, it doesn't fit the precise dictionary definition of tail recursion, but the function would be fairly trivial to implement in a purely tail recursive manner. As such, its close enough for most purposes.
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> Alternatively, you could also offer to take over the projects. Go direct to the C-level crew and tell them you're going to be put in charge of the project, you need $x dollars, and authority over the project to get it done. If the project is that important, they may give it to you, or tell you to pound sand.

I love this so much. This is magnificent, absolutely magnificent. It's from the school of, "If you don't want to do it, just ask for a totally ridiculous amount" - then you're either getting something ridiculous or you're out, which you wanted anyways.
I would recommend the Asus UL30A - 1.7kg, 13", very long battery life, about 650€ with 4GB RAM, silver color and matte screen. It has also good Linux compatibility. The display could be better, but I have yet to find a notebook screen with which I'm content.
Good article.

Asking questions like "what would you do if someone will fully copy you" is a bit dirty trick. Abstract competitors are always better, so it's meaningless to talk about them. Real competitors, even very smart and mighty, can't cover everything - they must limit themselves to something (market niche, demography, geography, price range etc.), and this may become a chance to avoid competition.
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Get one of those stand-up desk, then. Simply standing and getting up your toes can be quite active. There were quite a lot of discussion about these recently on reddit.
"However, I would like to maintain good terms with this company and get good references in the future."

Don't many companies now have a policy that they never give references, just confirm job title and dates of employment, to avoid being sued?
I'm even going one step further than just backing up that Mini server. I've got other dedicated servers running Debian GNU/Linux. On those I wrote specialized backup scripts for various installations: DB, mail, web apps, misc. daemons. Those backups get zipped up and put in a secure web accessible folder. When the backup is deployed a mail is written, my Mini receives it and downloads the backup.

And yes, the Mini itself has Timemachine as its backup(;
I love my HP-50G calculator, although I think they could improve the screen a bit... I'd appreciate higher resolution, faster refresh, maybe color.

However, having completed all the math and science courses for my degree, I'm not using the HP much any more. Usually it's more convenient to fire up "bc" instead of hunting up the calculator, despite the limitations of bc.

Oh, and I just can't see smartphones replacing graphing calculators. I like a calculator because it has all those buttons conveniently placed--for most things, I don't have to go through any menus. You simply can't fit all that on the screen of a smartphone and still be able to press the buttons on-screen. I ran an HP-48 emulator on a Droid, and while it was good, it was certainly no replacement for the real thing
> If you want to do that you have to – at least temporarily – save all packets that are coming in.

So, maybe something like:

1) Capture incoming packet
2) Store its MAC address
3) Discard packet data
4) Repeat

This turned out to be difficult for Google's programmers?
A good FAQ can really do wonders at highlighting the great resources and hiding crap.
None of these are competitive advantages that are the opposite of the suggestions from the previous post about things that are not competitive advantages.

There are plenty of people who are passionate about their startups, working in a team of talented people, with customers, and insider information.

If a company went to a VC and used these competitive advantages, they'd be shot down in a second. Imagine this scenario:

Hi, I'm jargon. I am really super passionate about this idea and it's in my knowledge domain, because I have retail store. I'm a programmer with a retail store who has this software that I wrote to help me manage my retail store. I got 5 other retail stores on my block to buy it because it is so awesome. No other company is going to be able to compete with it, because all I care about is retail store software. Plus, we got Donald Trump to market it for us!

What VC in their right mind would ever invest in something like that?
Just because someone signs up for a free service doesn't mean they're going to use and spread it. When you get them committed through paying, then there's an even higher usage rate as they figure out the best way to maximize it.

Under the original free plans we saw a lot of people just signing up for free to play around with it, only to end up paying a couple weeks later. By making it an actual free trial system, we're able to put a lot more pressure and messaging throughout the upgrade process.
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Supply and demand applies to equity distribution, whether you're technical or not. If you have skills that are rare for a particular startup, then you should be able to demand a larger share of equity.

Every cofounder should get equity based on the question "What is this idea worth without this person?". If you could hire any skilled programmer to replace the technical cofounder, then they shouldn't get a large amount of equity. If they are bringing domain knowledge, specific experience or an uncommon level of expertise, then they should get a lot of equity.
Denigrating MBAs is no different than denigrating degrees in CS or CE. The question is always 'what do you bring to the table?'

This might illustrate how utterly moronic your statement was:

> I would take a proven entrepreneur over a random CS grad and a proven uber-coder-geek over a random CS grad any day of the week, and most VCs would too.

Sure... it's still true. But it's only true because your original statement is utter nonsense.
Not yet, but it is definitely worthy a look. Thanks for the link.
Beautiful. I like the simplicity of it.
These images are fantastic. I just wish they had a better interface to flip through them.
The new bottle is designed to use less plastic. The design of the bottom of the bottle is necessary to the bottle's structure.

"Have your plastic bottles changed size?

Unlike other companies that are reducing the size of their products, ours still remains 16.9 ounces. We redesigned the bottle to use 22% less plastic and therefore lower our carbon footprint and utilize fewer natural resources. You’re still getting the exact same volume as before, just with a new design to help with stability and strength while having less plastic."

http://www.honesttea.com/mission/faqs/info/#15
I still think that the best predictors for success are variables that characterize the founders (smarts, perseverance, adaptability, etc), rather than their initial ideas or pitches.

People like to dissect ideas and pitches because that's a lot easier to do than assess the competence of the founders. (Via for example, recommendation letters, but that's a whole new topic).

Try doing this: Read "Founders at Work" or some other collection of startup stories, and try to identify any pattern in the initial ideas that were reasonable predictors of success.

I am sure you will scratch your head for a long time before realizing that it's all about the founders: how they adapted to the circumstances, how they dealt with the tough times, etc. (Ask the very author of the post above!).

My family is full of successful entrepreneurs in totally different market segments (ice cream shops, uninterruptible power supplies, ornamental rocks, etc), and frankly if I didn't know them I'd think they'd all flop: their markets were saturated at the time, they were non-experts, and there was no clear "competitive advantage".

I love the following quote from my cousin (the most recent and already very successful entrepreneur in the family), when talking about how he dealt with all sorts of difficulties with his company:

Sometimes I'm afraid of what I might want in the future. Because it seems like if I really want something, there doesn't seem to exist anything I can't have. (Loosely translated from Portuguese).
Here I was hoping for "Loinsgate".
You certainly don't need any special app. The TI program editor makes it extremely easy to store your notes as programs. HP calculators are a little more annoying for editing, but it's still easy to store text in a string variable.

I did it on occasion, because sometimes there's such a ridiculous number of complex formulae that I'd rather spend my time practicing their use rather than memorizing them.

The students who bank their whole grade on the notes in the calculator... typically can't pass anyway, because they don't know how to use the formulae.
Not that I'm aware of. Anyway, my question (not directed to you, but to everyone) is why does everyone bring it up as this great point to his credit, when it was never released or used?
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In addition to other responses, I would have to say, working for another programmer also gives him the added value of a reference that actully knows what they are talking about when it comes to technical matters. In freelancing and consulting, a network of individuals that can recommend your work is a valuable asset. It makes the difference between a $150 an hour freelancer and someone who is competing in the market of mediocrity at $20 hr rates.
You must be very non-technical indeed :) Admittedly not the clearest flowchart, though...
>Alternatively, you could also offer to take over the projects. Go directly to the C-level crew and tell them you're going to be put in charge of the project, you need $x and authority over the project to get it done.

Although I agree with the rest of your post, I don't think this is a particularly good idea. From what I've seen of politically fraught projects, asking for authority just gets you more entangled in the bullshit that's dragging down the project. Its best to just put in the work that's asked of you and start hunting for greener pastures.

The C-level folks made the bed. Its not your job to sleep in it.
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I jailbroke my 3GS a couple of months ago before getting the 4. It was by far the worst experience ever. The battery was garbage and it heated up like an oven. If it overheated to death, I would have not been surprised.
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Ask HN: What web apps do you pay for?
Especially the ones that have free counterparts
For scripting, that's definitely a problem. But it's not a big deal for long-running processes (e.g. a web application server). But Ruby definitely benefits from both: a fast Ruby with ~zero startup time, and a fast Ruby on the JVM.

3 years ago, Ruby implementation problems became the hot topic at Ruby conferences. Ruby was a beautiful language with an ugly implementation. It's great to see that the community has executed on this concern.
Regrettably only a few hundred kilometers above groundlevel (the ISS is at a height of about 350 km).
PostgreSQL is well-known for it's focus on data integrity and durability first, performance second. The team didn't really focus heavily on performance until the 8.x release series, after the database had been proven as extremely stable. Also, it has a much more complete implementation of SQL and larger feature set.
Also see the trailer for Frontline's documentary, based on this investigation:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/topsecretamerica/
In April, NASA's Nebula project was based on Eucalyptus

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/28/nebula_goes_to_godda...

Does this mean they are completely moving away Eucalyptus?
This analysis ignores the possibility of a cyclic-nature to such claims. I'm sure you could find a citation for a 'kids these days' rant in every decade of the last 200 years but such simple analysis ignores the evidence presented for the claim and the overall popularity of the sentiment.

in other words: curmudgeons are universal and constant, societal apathy is cyclical.
Excellent analogy and insights - the bit about having to "deflect their various attacks and attempts to kill you dead" as being part of the test is spot on. Very much enjoyed the post!
It's called a reseau grid. The crosses are used as a reference points for measuring distances between objects in the image. They can also be used to correct distortions after development or scanning..

This page talks about it in detail. http://www.clavius.org/photoret.html
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That visualization is unhelpful, but at least it isn't grossly misleading, like the graphic corrected in this post:

http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/three-decades-of-maj...
Post solutions in your preferred language, here is in python for starters:

def solve(puzzle):
from itertools import permutations
words = open('words.txt','r').read().split('\n')
valid = [word for word in words if len(word)>3 and puzzle[4] in word]
result = []
for n in range(4,10):
subset = [word for word in valid if len(word)==n]
result += [''.join(w) for w in permutations(puzzle,n) if ''.join(w) in subset]
return result

print solve('reactions')

There might be better solutions, I just had fun with it and this is what keeps me addicted to programming (in reference to a previous post)
Suggestion: if you don't care about compensation, join an open source project. There are dozens of projects out there with crappy project sites. Completely revamping their public facing can draw in significantly more people (I know I've skipped past a few projects because I couldn't make immediate sense out of their site). You'll have the same effect that you're looking for here, without having to wait around for someone else to give you permission.
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I agree that while this is a good idea, Github probably has bigger fish to fry and that at this point it should do fine to put the notice at the top of the README.

Perhaps someone can add the feature to the open-source Gitorious.
From http://openstack.org/projects/, most open-source cloud solutions don't scale with the exception of the software behind NASA's Nebula cloud, which as of April was Eucalyptus.