skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is that with your medical records in the cloud, an ER doctor in europe treating the ankle you broke skiing in the Alps would know right off the bat whether you were allergic to any particular meds. It would prevent the need for redundant tests if they had your access to your health data, thus saving money in an industry fraught with wasteful spending. I personally think this is a great idea, and to encapsulate the service in such an elegant and refined user experience is the stuff of startup success.
err APKs can reference other library APKs
Netflix touches down in Canada this fall
DODOcase (YC alumni) goes on to win Shopify's $100k contest
Just out of curiosity would "Ytterboe" mean "from Ytterby"? I'm wondering because my college has a dorm named "Ytterboe".
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lol this makes me facepalm. The Android SDK is super easy to use with Java. It's not like some of the major Java frameworks.... buuut whatever floats people's boats. At least this is perfectly fine to do with Android. good luck getting PHP iPhone apps approved. :P
I think the yacht one was worse.

But the beer can in the stadium I'm afraid takes the cake. Completely absurd.
Pfffft. I already have a working prototype, with 10k users and I'm only getting 35%? You can take a walk pal.
Broken for me as well on Chrome. I was going to report this but I thought I saw a ticket on your site for it already. I'm guessing GMail and Google Apps Mail behave differently with OAuth?
Thanks for the feedback some of which others have asked for and some new, all appreciated.

One our first beta users is already using it on a large display in their office http://yfrog.com/5fv5gdj
There is no ActiveSync component to WinPhone7 .. The data (photos, contacts, documents, settings, etc) is all synced up to cloud via a live.com account (which even includes the newly announced feature of tracking the phone in case of loss or theft ala mobileme)

The data can also be synced via the Zune software on a desktop much like iTunes (but Zune Software is a far better experience in my opinion when it comes to music and video).
Apple refuses to replace overheated iPad due to jailbreaking
Learn Basic of French Language
Basics of the French language are important for beginners because it’s the stage where you learn everything there are about French. When you know the basics, you can handle anything from that point onward.
Yes! That was the initial source :) I was amazed that I haven't seen this before... Then I realized that this info is/can be a little bit outdated and need refreshing, hence my question to PG.
For me personally, it is unethical, then again I have more ideas than I reasonable have time to pursue, so I really don't need someone else's. I would also think of it this way, if word got out that you are stealing ideas then your freelance career is dead.

As for legally, you should consult a lawyer but if it is not in writing, they are going to have a hard time proving that you had a confidential agreement.
For the companies one of the tabs will last all* of the companies. You can do searches with the state or city name. The result has info on what the company does and how many employees.
Yes and even more incredible that Obama has done nothing at all to change it.
"The United States of America has the oldest government in the world."

That's sure not true. Iceland holds that distinction. Google News might have screwed up their layout, but Google is still helpful for fact checking before publishing.
The Best Product Person of 2010 is....
Honestly, I'm not freelancer, but I know a lot of them. However, my startup has a lot of the same elements. I use pretty primitive tools: gCal, gTasks, gDoc for a "ghetto-CRM" & other customer/leads lists, etc.

I don't think it's really a tools issue; it's really a personal discipline one. It's very difficult to keep it all straight, but a lot of it is really just being anal and working habits into your lifestyle.

I'm still trying to perfect my habits, but a big part is discipline - even though it's not as easy as a just changing "tools". However, I'd have to say that having a smartphone changed my life for better this way. I can use my impulsiveness to check my tasks/calendar/docs from anywhere so it's at the front of my mind.
Additionally, it is one of those web page that hitting 'back' once doesn't take you back and tries to get you stuck. At least in Chrome on the Mac.
Americans Who Got Job Training Are Still Jobless
Well, your tone and language were authoritative. Typically, if you aren't stating a fact you should qualify it with something like "I think".
Twitter feed of Hacker News stories as soon as they reach 20 points
We're going to need a bigger cow...
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there are various color options for fonts/tiles/etc (green, orange, cyan, pink, red i believe and maybe 1 more) but the background is either black or white.
Not in my experience, but it probably depends on the type of game.
nice if you could zoom out.

That's exactly what I was thinking...something like Android 2.1's pinch to zoom out on the home screen which brings up miniature versions of the 7 screens you could get to by scrolling left/right.
You should have listed more of that quote. Directly above that President Obama said:

Now, finally, there remains the question of detainees at Guantanamo who cannot be prosecuted yet who pose a clear danger to the American people. And I have to be honest here -- this is the toughest single issue that we will face. We're going to exhaust every avenue that we have to prosecute those at Guantanamo who pose a danger to our country. But even when this process is complete, there may be a number of people who cannot be prosecuted for past crimes, in some cases because evidence may be tainted, but who nonetheless pose a threat to the security of the United States. Examples of that threat include people who've received extensive explosives training at al Qaeda training camps, or commanded Taliban troops in battle, or expressed their allegiance to Osama bin Laden, or otherwise made it clear that they want to kill Americans. These are people who, in effect, remain at war with the United States.

The ease/danger of a transition from a democracy to a totalitarian regime was something of which the Founders were aware. Our freedoms are protected precisely by a Constitutional framework which provides safeguards, like habeas corpus. President Obama is a Constitutional scholar, and acknowledges our bindings to it. Compare that with Bush who was rumored to say it's "just a piece of paper". There may be case by case issues which are difficult as well as debatable for any president to decide, but altering the legal framework in ways which diminish civil liberties and protections is dangerous, and can too easily lead a public that is not paying attention to a place they realize too late they don't want to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmc60JmaLbE
True, but a billion does a lot of startups and research money leads to treatments.

Also, doing a small business equivalent to the charity that pays single bill for a person (since many people are one bill away from broke) would help amazingly well. Buying a expensive coffee machine for the local family bakery, or paying a months rent for the some other local business might put them on solid ground and allow them to hire people. I just think someone with his business talent could really build neighborhoods better than most generic charities.

Once again, it is his money and how he chooses to spend it is his business and is amazingly generous.
I know it is uncool to suggest Microsoft products... but have you looked at SharePoint? I've seen it used for ISO compliance and the newest release (2010) is a big step to making that easier out of the box.
swift is built entirely in Python using libraries like eventlet, greenlet, and WebOb.

Because benchmarks are very sensitive to deployment details, the only thing I can point you to is comparisons between Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3. Of course, even then there are all kinds of variables like cluster size and network connectivity.
Sydney used to have a problem with unscrupulous entrepreneurs who would (say) buy up a bunch of three-bedroom apartments in a fancy inner-city building, stuff sixteen beds into it, and rent the beds out to foreign backpackers for (say) fifteen bucks a night. For the backpackers, it was better than the regular hostels, and for the owners it was a license to print money, but for the other residents of the building, who would find the pool and gardens filled with drunk poms at all hours of day and night, it was pretty annoying. Eventually I think they came up with some new law to stop it.

Anyway, if airbnb is smart they should try to stop people from abusing their system by trying to set up pseudo-hotels, since it's these people who are going to bring down the regulatory hammer on the entire system.
Taiwan's lack of journalistic standards is a win for the rest of the world.
Even '279 olympic-size swimming pools' does not really appeal to the imagination. You'd probably be best of comparing it to the volume of a reasonably sized lake in the vicinity of the reader.
I agree, especially when I read this: "Cowboys stadium has an internal volume of approximately 104 cubic feet"

Somebody left out a "million" somewhere.
No, the -x% is subtracted off the techie's part. The non-technical founder gets 50% or more.

If you're a technical founder and have a prototype & users, the article isn't for you.
How dare you allude to what someone actually did?! Don't you know that Americans like appearance more than content?

Seriously now: I upvoted you, and I wish I could upvote you twice. This myth that JFK was a saint has to die. He handled the Cuban Missile Crisis quite well, but he also escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and had Diem executed (one of the greatest mistakes the U.S. ever made in Indochina). The fact that you're being downvoted for countering an admittedly pretty (yet meaningless) quote with facts is surprising. I thought HN'ers were truth-seekers, not flag-waving retards.
(a) Gold: shiny, heavy, and generally useless. Valuable only if someone else agrees it is valuable.
(b) Guns, ammo, food, and fuel: Useful. Inherently valuable and good for barter.
I was expecting app engine support for PHP before this.
"Batteries included" refers to a comprehensive standard library, which Javascript doesn't have.

The fact that Javascript is an in important feature in software that everyone runs is a whole different kind of advantage.
Okay so my car Autonomously Powerslides Into a very tight Parking Space. Good luck getting out of that same parking space.
Reddit programming FAQ
Something like Aconex? http://www.aconex.com/

It's got a pretty heavy focus on the building industry though.. perhaps something more generic?
Also, a feature that I thought was useless and stupid when I heard about it, but that I've actually come to use upon occasion: Shake a window (grab its titlebar and move your mouse quickly left and right) and all other windows (some exceptions, like dialogue boxes) will minimize. Handy if you have a bunch of stuff open, getting in the way.
Let Interns Be Your Startup Competitive Edge
Somewhere Edward Tufte is crying.
This is the fundamental risk of building your life or business even in part on SaaS. People can and do still use ancient client-side software for their own reasons; much to MS' and other's frustration. With SaaS you are trusting the operators of your key service to respect their users. No surprise that some users are disappointed.

SaaS works but I think it works best as a cooperative rather than an corporation with interests separate from that of it's users.
Google Boosts Data Center Spending
Erm... this is great. But what if I'm a PHPophobe and a Javaphobe?
Just a quick point: Your beta signup form (http://www.loggly.com/signup/) requires far too much thinking in order to complete.

After almost a minute of figuring out how I can fit what I want to say into your pre-structured dialog, I gave up.
> Panadol (paracetamol)

Translation for Americans: acetaminophen.
Ask HN: is it bad to leave in the middle of turmoil?
I have a job that pays really well, but is turning into a disaster. I'm currently assigned to two clusterfuck projects which involve multiple departments. Yesterday this stuff escalated to the C level execs because certain people keep dropping the ball.

From my estimate, this particular project will take at least 6 weeks to solve, due to vacation schedules. Probably more like 8-9 weeks. After it's done, I have 3-6 months of similarly boring, but hopefully not as managerially fucked up work to do.

I would like to walk out on this. Even if everything was going smoothly, this particular project is not anything I would put on my resume, out of fear of being asked to do something similar again.

However, I would like to maintain good terms with this company and get good references in the future.

What would you do?

Edit: I should mention that 2 people on this project have already quit. I don't think the project itself is why they quit, though. They had it planned in advance.
And it uses Flash for static images. Can't they get anything right?
An iPhone or Android app that uses DSP to help people learn to make music. Recognizing notes from instruments should be fairly easy, and it should also be easy to time those and line them up to pieces of music that are internal to the app.

The idea being, that you take your piano or gutair, and pluck away, while the phone gives you feedback. You could do this with voice as well, with the phone telling you when you're off-pitch.

If this exists already, let me know -- I'd love to not have to nag my buddy's fiancee for voice lessons. :)
This is a big thing for us and something that will definitely be included. We're working on a design for that at the moment and I hope it won't be too long before we can include it.
The Node.js IRC channel displayed as a live Wargames-like map: http://wargamez.mape.me/

It was discussed a while back on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477084

This source is on GitHub here: http://github.com/mape/node-wargames

Also, Node Knockout (http://nodeknockout.com/, a 'build a node app in 48 hours' competition) is happening at the end of August, and I expect some cool stuff to come out of that.
It won't be long before traditional grease-monkey mechanics are replaced by code-monkeys.

The advances in automotive technology within the last three to five years have been staggering. I'm genuinely looking forward to seeing what cars my kids will be driving, or not, as is the case here!
I'd be curious to hear how Swift compares to MogileFS. MogileFS never took off like memcached did, but it's another piece of infrastructure that came out of LiveJournal and similarly allows one to create a storage architecture where files are redundantly stored on commodity nodes.

I'm guessing that both Amazon and Rackspace took a look at MogileFS and its architecture so it would be informative to hear what you liked and what you might have found lacking.
Just fyi, directly addressing your comments (using @user) and signing your comments are both frowned upon on HN.
What browser/OS are you using? Can you send me a screenshot of the problem? That'd make it easier to fix it. :)
Fascinating interview with Richard Stallman on Russian TV
If it's a good prototype that proves the concept and acts as a target, then it mightn't matter if there's any reusable code there.
This is the biggest piece of BS that I have ever seen. If you want to work with a reward system then hire someone as an employee and give them a bonus (money, options, whatever) when they reach those goals.

Having this sort of stuff between co-founders only builds up pressure, tension and will ultimately lead to people leaving.
I see what you're saying about the value of the prototype. How would you account for whatever risk the non-technical cofounder took on to build it? Risk has to coordinate with value added though, so if a prototype didn't really generate any new value, it's worthless. Perhaps there is some value in "lessons learned" from messing up the initial prototype, but maybe future investors/partners shouldn't be penalized for them.

You're right about not accounting for business skills the technical cofounder brings to the table. I need to state that somewhere. Great point.
I can't see people being allowed to use a smartphone during an exam --- how can the invigilator know they are using the approved calculator app and not asking the internet for help?
Also, I've been in numerous situations where the technical team (and techie co-founder) deliver time and time again while the non-technical co-founder does not manage to sell or monetize the product. If you want to play the blame game then this should work both ways.
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Ask HN: How to bring order to a chaotic web dev process?
Hi All,

I'd be grateful for any advice you might have on the following.

Our company is currently searching for Project Management software. Our office setup is a web design team based off site in central Europe, and a management & marketing team based in the UK. Currently all changes to our web sites are requested by the management & marketing team via a web request system. These requests are then passed on to the relevant developer by the web team leader. However as there is no project management in place the staff members that request the changes have no way to keep track of them and the developers have no way to update staff on their requests other than email. The company also has 7/8 new online products launching every quarter so the project management software that we eventually use will need to keep track of these as well.

The biggest issue that we are facing at the moment is tracking projects. We have enough skilled developers but no software to keep the rest of the company updated on the various web projects. This combined with the unlimited number of emails & docs that go back and forth (& get lost) between project stakeholders and developers make tracking project progress almost impossible.

Any PM software recommendations would be great and also any advice on how to bring order to a chaotic web development system would be very welcome.

Thanks,
T
If you've already done "significant work" on the business idea without discussing the split, you've got problems.
That's not a matter of fact, that's a matter of semantics. Checking up on your fact, I find that the Althingi was founded in 930 but suspended in 1789 and Iceland was ruled by Denmark until 1918, so that doesn't sound very continuous.

England has had a (Cromwell aside) unbroken series of monarchs since 1066, does that count?

Still, the US should get some kind of old-government distinction since it's had absolutely uninterrupted constitutional democracy on all levels since Washington's time. (At least in the states that didn't secede.)
A classic first-person survival account.

Argentina after TSHTF

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2008/01/most-important-need-in-fi...
Being 'interesting tech' is a pretty good reason to experiment/learn something in my book. But besides that:

- You get to write JavaScript on your back-end and your front-end.

- It's evented (like Twisted, EventMachine, etc) which has proven popular/robust/fast recently (think FriendFeed).

- It handles insane amounts of requests/second (due to non-blocking IO and V8 awesomeness among other things).

- Did I mention you get to write more JavaScript? :)

- It makes it pretty easy to implement servers for other protocols than just straight vanilla http -- for example WebSockets implementations and so on.
Hi HN, I'm Director of Marketing & UX at CareCloud, if you have any questions or comments, I'd love to hear them!
The general public cares too little.
Period.
Yeah those work good.
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It's not much of a political rant; I can't even tell which side of politics he's on by reading it.
Well, although you can't eat it, gold has been considered to be of value for a good couple of millenia. Why? because you can't print more of it. And a gold coin can represent more food that you can carry with you.

Fiat money is consists just dead trees with ink on them or worse, it's created digitally.

The story goes that over half of the current USD money supply has been created in the last 4-5 years or so... can you say inflation?!? :O
GitHub uses it for their download links to get an archive of a repository. There's a blog post about it somewhere.
Those keyboard shortcuts are what I miss the most in my Ubuntu.

I haven't even found any way to assign keys corresponding to those actions in Ubuntu.
However, a pool that is 1.36 square miles, 1 milk-jug deep does actually does put it into perspective quite well, especially compared to the volume of the ocean.
HN: Hire me. For free.
THE OFFER

I'm willing to do a few small web development jobs for a few HNers at no cost whatsoever.
Bonus points if it's for your startup or you have continuous web development needs.

WHAT I CAN DO

I like making web apps. I'm primarily a Ruby guy, and I love Sinatra, but Rails is cool too.
And while I've done some PHP, it's not for me. I also do frontend work of course (XHTML, CSS,
JS with jQuery, amateur/minor graphic design). Minor Linux system administration is
manageable for me too, like configuring web servers or databases and deploying apps.
But I'm no expert, having learnt what I know by being an Ubuntu user and managing a few servers.

If you need something that I can't do yet, note that I love learning new things — how do
you think I got myself into all this?

WHY I'M DOING THIS

I've been teaching myself this stuff over the last few years, but I don't have too much to
show for it. I want to freelance, so I'm trying to build up my portfolio, and doing some free
work occurred to me as a great way to do so while making new contacts at the same time. I tried
this approach with success a couple of weeks back and I'm trying it again at a larger scale now.

CAVEATS

I'm obviously not terribly experienced in anything at all, though I am free.
I just ask that requests be very limited in scope (say, something that would take a decent
developer a few days), and I should be able to show the work in my portfolio. Also, I'm only
free the first time. Finally, if I get many requests somehow, I may have to turn some down.
But I doubt that will happen.

YOU SHOULD CONTACT ME

Even if you're not sure, or don't need it until later. What do you have to lose? Not money.
What might you gain? A reasonably competent coder, or at least some work done by one.
Contact me now!

Email: meh5@njit.edu
Skype: ehsanul_g3
Apparently, there are calc apps you can easily get that will store text. Apparently, a number of my classmates used this ability for tests - storing various information and formulas we were required to memorize.

I'm not tooting my own horn in saying I didn't participate - I'm no noble man, but one thing I will not do is cheat in college. I was, however, very disappointed to learn that apparently such cheating is rampant.
Have you seen things like Alfresco? Or even MS Sharepoint (I know companies using sharepoint in very heavily controlled environments like pharmaceutical companies).
My prototype of a pure JavaScript chinese checkers runs fine on my Nexus One http://halma.artifia.com

I created a small wrapper for it, similar to PhoneGap, to be able to put it in the Marketplace, too (not yet published, for lack of visual polish).
On The Bugle (a genuinely funny podcast) they were amused by these ridiculous types of comparisons, so they calculated how far cricket bats made of frozen oil would stretch, placed end-to-end.
What is the goal of using something like php-cli without popular modules (blah-blah.so) as device-scripting language?
Spending all of this money and having an allegedly free society subjected to this level of government secrecy would be difficult to justify under the best of circumstances. Given that no one knows if it's helping -- or even necessary -- nudges difficult pretty darn close to impossible.