skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.coolsmartphone.com/news3968.html shows a demo to run android on an Windows mobile phone.

I thought about the possibility to run Android OS on embedded devices. One reason is that I just like the SDK. But I know it will takes time to add own device driver and customized apis for my customized device.
just in case some don't get it, it's a play on a Bible passage in Ecclesiastes Chapter 3.
it's not meaningless b/c i'm talking about studies published in serious journals, of which they are a limited number, all of which are supposed to have quality standards, peer review, etc

but there are endemic problems, including for example the pitifully low 95% confidence target.

and i think there are hardly any good ones. want to link a few of the very best, in your opinion?
fantastic, congratulation guys!!

Designing, running and monitoring high performance and highly scalable websites is still part art and part science. Abstracting that part away for developers is a very lucrative market to be in.
I have been getting the impression rails is on it's way out. It'd be neat to see this abstracted to apply to django too.
"By the way, 1% of a large market is a recipe for extinction. You have all of the cost of trying to reach a large market recouped over a tiny customer base."

This is actually a different argument. 1% of any market is a recipe for extinction...but less so in a larger market. The problem with the "even if we only get 1% of the market we'll make X million" fallacy is that reaching each new customer costs a certain amount--it doesn't matter how many potential customers there are...you have to community your product and its benefits to each of them individually. In the end, every sale is an individual sale...you have to convince someone somewhere that your product provides greater value than its cost to them (even if it is free, they have to learn to use it, remember to come back, etc.).

I don't believe this really counters anything I've said above. There are plenty of niches that are so small that they won't even support a lifestyle business of two or three people in comfort...sure, you won't have many competitors, but you also won't get any vacations or live very large. In many tiny niches you'd probably even have to have a real job to make ends meet.

My argument was, and remains, "be careful how small you go".
Growl for Windows and a Web Notification API
Wow! How long did it take to do this manually?
i don't see how you can call my position contradictory just b/c you disagree that morality is objective. that's not an internal contradiction -- i consistently consider it objective.
"Possibly the main argument against using Microsoft from the open source point of view has been the issue of expense. However the .NET Framework can be downloaded for free plus they also provide ‘Express’ versions of Visual Studio and their SQL Server
database software which we used and are also free."

This only addresses the development versions of their software. What about license costs for the production instances of Windows Server and SQL Server? That's where costs really start getting prohibitive on an MS stack. For a startup at least.
Please tell me that "community" was just a typo of "communicate" and that you didn't really use it as a verb.
cowmoo was being sarcastic.
Wow - fantastic. Good work guys!
Just out of curiosity, why did you choose the MS platform? I mean what advantages did it provide over the open platforms that would actually be helpful for skilled programmers?
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Well, I've been saving posts for a while, so that part I'm unclear on. The organization/building out part: ~8 hours. http://ask.searchyc.com helped a lot.
In addition to potential performance benefits, it's an interesting platform for potential optimizations and language extensions. Lisp is really a great language for writing parsers, and so it's great for extending python.

It also allows Common Lisp to use Python Libraries and Python to use Lisp Libraries. If you're on Allegro Common Lisp, this means you may have easy CORBA support, as an example.
Likely because it's installed on 99.9% of all web hosts and almost every LAMP software uses it.
This is essentially what the PyPy (Python-in-Python) effort is betting on, except that by building the system in restricted Python, they're also hoping the system can also optimize itself to higher levels of performance. It will be interesting to see how the results of Python-on-Python compare to Python-on-Lisp.
Addicted To Work
How To Be A Workaholic ... Without Killing Yourself
I'm glad that you understand that the problem with the author's post is not that he doesn't find value in github or Lighthouse. It's that he can't imagine how anyone could find value in github or Lighthouse.

And I don't want to argue that it's never better to DIY. DIY is an important learning tool: I've installed gitosis once or twice, and I've installed Trac once or twice, and that's good. And DIY is great if it's your hobby: I do a lot of my own cooking, for example.

But I'm afraid that, if you already know enough about computers to install git and Trac inside of two hours... unless you're marooned on a desert island with nothing but the git source, a statement like "it could be very difficult to turn an arbitrary two hours into $22" really is an underestimation of the value of your time. Here's some things you could do with two hours that are probably worth $22:

-- Bill half an hour at $45 per hour and then spend 1.5 hours playing WoW. Assuming that's not possible...

-- Spend an hour, spread out over a day or two, surfing the web and bidding on tiny one-hour projects (e.g. "install Wordpress for me") that pay $22. Accept one and earn $22.

-- Upgrade your client base: Spend two hours pitching new clients via email. Bid $11 per hour more than your current rates. Assuming you can make 1 bid per hour, and the average client project lasts 40 hours, your success rate need only be 5% to make $22 an hour doing this.

-- If you know Rails read some sites about Django. If you know Django read some sites about Rails. If you know both read a book on Drupal. Now, when someone in your network of friends asks "should I use Rails or Drupal for this project?" you can answer intelligently. The additional job leads that you'll pick up will be worth at least $22.

-- Write a tutorial on installing git and Trac. Put it up on your blog. Crosslink your blog with your resume. This will reflect positively on your value as a programmer and raise your future salary by at least, say, $1 a month. Twenty-two months into your next job, you'll have earned $22.

-- Flirt on Facebook (a task that is much harder to reliably outsource than git administration). Or try speed dating. Or take one dance class. By itself, this won't pay off. So follow it up with more of the same. Keep going until you meet a wonderful partner and move in with them, at which point you will realize that, while it took you several hundred hours to find that partner, by living together you're saving hundreds of dollars a year in expenses like rent, and maybe even taxes. Assuming you stay together long enough, your original two hours will end up being worth far more than $22... even if you're an utterly unromantic pragmatist. :)
In Praise of Workaholics
> We have people the commute from Dallas and Oregon to work here. Fly in, work 6 days straight, make 5K and then fly back.

How do I get that sweet deal? I assume I need to be a nurse, but are such gigs really that plentiful? I could work like three weeks a year at that rate.
To misquote Ambrose Bierce, a workaholic is someone you don't like who works as hard as you do.
See the Movie, Buy the Dress
Probably not--there's a lot of text in the charts. And I want to be able to edit them easily in the future.

Thanks, though.
we are building our product on postgres, because we like the sql features that mysql doesn't have, such as constraints and checks, or really much of anything relational.
Also discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181392
You sir, hit the nail on the head! We need the exact opposite: enter a regex pattern, and a sample string... then fire up a similar GUI to tweak the expression until it's working again.
Or maybe not. That doesn't seem to be set up for one-person jobs. More like hiring a swarm to sift through data.

I may give www.peopleperhour.com a try. (The Mechanical Turk suggestion did manage to break my brain-lock, though, so it was useful.)
Also in popular culture, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNopQq5lWqQ
Check out the cars from Ironman:
http://coolspotters.com/movies/iron-man/and/sports-cars/lotu...
RIM's iPhone killer: Not terrible! But no iPhone.
Ask YC: Leaving consulting to build a product. Is my consultancy worth anything?
I launched a design/programming shop a few years ago that has been reasonably successful (4-6 employees, profits, local name recognition), and I'm itching to move on to a startup that builds a product or a service.

Is my consulting shop worth anything? Do people buy web design or contract development firms? I've always assumed that the answer is no, because our value is in our people (who may or may not stick around), but a friend recently suggested otherwise.
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I have no idea why (or even how, now that I think of it) you got downmodded (I put you back up)... I think in this day and age if a platform is going to be closed and non-free, it should have to justify those disadvantages. Where does it make up the slack?
CPM ads and a custom PPC ad platform.
There is an implication that I specifically not hire from resumes, etc. If I have to make any categoricals, I will categorically avoid hiring through networks.
Frankly, I hate to see someone with your kind of drive, cleverness, and design sense working on something so trivial. Is a bookmarking tool the most useful thing you can think of working on? If so, post on yc, I'm sure people will toss out a few ideas with no strings attached.
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Gabriel, this is a gold mine - thank you.
Yeah, I had been thinking of doing it since first using the site and noticing the repetition in questions and lack of great search. Search has improved, but I still was finding it difficult to quickly find the quality discussions on a given topic. So I finally decided to just do it (and finish it today). I have grander plans for the Startups Wiki in general, but those will have to wait for another day...
I see your point. I’ll tell my marketing team to get to work on that ;)
Well, your collection of customers is worth something if it's substantial.
I think china is sovereign right? can make its own rules? - whats the problem? yeah it sucks; but we have to respect other peoples culture and rules.
Great work, this should really help out newer members, especially if we can get a link up in the navigation bar.
I heard one student in the class has worked on the school's website, but other than him, you've guessed right, no one even knows html.
$6,900 is quite reasonable in the US for a great developer. But for a bootstrapping startup, $6,900 plus significant equity is a little much.
I've worked for (subcontracting) through a couple firms that have sold. They both sold at between a 3 and 4x multiple of their yearly revenue (one was $30m and the other was $3m). Both of them were run by very well connected people.

The problem is finding the buyer, but if you're in a major metroplex there are likely some middle sized companies that would buy you out. The larger shop I worked with had bought 4-5 companies over the years in order to build up their competency in other areas like app dev, system support and design rather than try and recruit the people and the clients. Try pitching it that way :)
Is This Microsoft-NBC 'Copyright Cop' Thing Bullshit or What?
Having about 3 meetings created per day on average since launch would not qualify this app as a success by any count. For this amount of usage, a shared account on a cheap web hosting service would probably do. Most probably any 32 bit item in my interesting computer collection (if I had any Windows boxes, that is) would be able to carry that load without breaking a sweat.

However, one could not be able to base a startup on this structure, much less a successful one.
Use Odesk there are some talented developers there. Odesk has great management software for you as well. It's a numbers game, hire 10 ppl, put them all on the same simple task, by morning you will most likely fore 8 of them. Keep doing that until you have a large and reliable stable of developers. Oh and stay away from Indian developers. Sorry if I offend but my real world experience has shown me time and again Indian developers aren't good. Feel free to report me to the anti defamation league and the thought police.
This is amazing. Someone needs to make a version where people don't even know they are protein folding. It would be like an altruistic Ender's Game. Only instead of getting a medal for wiping out the Buggers, you get a Nobel Prize for wiping out muscular dystrophy. Rad.
I'm not sure it's the best advice but the nugget of useless wisdom I liked most was:

"Never give people advice."
You use JIRA too? What do you think of it?
I've built custom search engines using Lucene before -- http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html -- problem is that you have to build a lot of extra stuff to make it work for your scenarios.

Wikipedia lists a ton of sites that rely on Lucene:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene

You might also want to look at Solr -- I haven't tried it, but sounds like you have to make less special sauce to get it running.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solr

Ferret is actually a port of Lucene to Ruby.

If I were engineering something, I'd probably want to use Facebook Thrift to make my searches a service that can be called from anywhere -- just use the Java Thrift binding on top of a Lucene process, and then call into it from my web app.
Kickstarting Your PR Campaign (The Art of Selling)
http://faviki.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/9/
a) The professors realized midway through the semester that they would need outside help to do this and gave him permission to use me.

b) I really don't know
I'm not an expert on copyright law. Not in my own country and not in the US (those $s were US$s, right?).

Having said this in these ~60 comments you probably have at least 10 different opinions and everyone seems to KNOW that their interpretation is right. Assuming half of the people here actually know what they're talking about then this is clearly insanely complicated and you need professional help.

As such my vote, for what value it has, goes behind this idea.
"Recommendation #1: Find out if your bank and the other institutions you depend upon for financial security are safe. " That's it. I'm out.
What gives you hat impression?
Does this help?
http://www.anddev.org/first_android_hardware_development_boa...
TinEye: Search the Web with images instead of words
Vodafone gets iPhone rights for India
+1 Awesome. Thanks for your effort, this is an excellent resource.
Might want to checkout Zigtag in private beta.

http://www.zigtag.com/

mention YC when applying and I'll fast track your invite.

We are doing some great things with semantic bookmarking as well.
Simply awesome. Great job!
ASP.NET and C# has worked well for Workpost so far. We were able to get version 1.0 online quickly and any issues we've had lately are not related to the platform.

Scaling will be a difficult (but welcome) problem though SQL Server does not have to cost quite as much as most people think it does.

Microsoft could, however, offer more incentives and assistance to startups who choose to use their platform. They've made a lot of progress in the last few years toward being more developer-friendly but they need to go even further.

Finding talented ASP.NET / C# developers willing to work on startups can also also a challenge.
there actually are people who need work in a psychological sense. but abstraction and creativity aren't their fortes (they are detail-oriented are rule-ish) so most of them stay away from technology development
Why is this "insane"? Or do you just mean the usage of MySQL in general, not the behavior described by the article?
I agree that something like that (a link or a page of links) would be useful to new users (and old). There are other services like HackrTrackr and searchyc that would be useful to link to as well. I can't speak for the others, but I, for one, plan to maintain this page.
It's not like that. Their professors gave permission to get outside help because they realized how absurd their expectations were midway through the semester.

There's nothing wrong with selling copies I don't think. What about that girl who made millions selling the same sparkly MySpace skin to thousands of different high school girls? I've mostly copy and pasted old stuff and changed it to fit this project. So it's not really work I've already done. Think of it like when the Quake 3 game engine is customized for Jedi Knight II or something.
I would have already, but his grade is on the line. I just want to give him something he can turn in.
when i was in high school and college i wanted to get into game development. but stories about multi-month 'crunch times' eventually turned me away. in fact the games industry was renown for them. it was likely through a combination of poor planning and wishful hoping. it's quite sad, because not having me is about the biggest loss the videogame industry ever suffered

http://www.igda.org/qol/whitepaper.php (download requires account, but page has few stats)
Very nice find, Thanks!
Brackets of Brilliance
You're right, my roommate hasn't read the contract. I'm really just scared of his dad because I don't know what he's thinking.
I read a while back that Flickr's conversion rate for the "pro" accounts was dismal, as in less than 1%. Sorry no linky to back that memory up but there's no way it's even close to 10%.
Not to be a wet blanket, but the allusions to curing malaria and HIV are simply dopey propaganda.

Problem is, no predicted protein structure is anywhere near the quality necessary to do drug or vaccine design. This particular research group has long assumed that the problem of protein structure prediction is search-bound, and hence has been putting a lot of effort into things like distributed computing, and this. But there's tons of evidence accumulating that the methods that we're using to predict structures are just not good enough. Our understanding of the fundamental physics and chemistry behind this stuff is deceptively poor.

Now...it's certainly interesting to make a game like this, and it's not a bad idea in itself. But claiming that someone is going to cure a disease by playing the game? That's irresponsible. The true story is that this particular group has ongoing projects related to HIV and Malaria, and that if you play, you might contribute in some infinitesimal way to their work. Just don't hold your breath while waiting for the Nobel....
I haven't played with it myself (though I intend to) but Lucene might be an option. http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html

It has also been ported to the zend framework if PHP is your thing.
Using The Web To Uncover "Terror". Yay or Nay?
Mr. Tron is probably referring to the #django channel on irc.freenode.net (select the Freenode server from the drop-down list on http://www.mibbit.com to connect quickly), but he might also be referring to the #startups channel, where a lot of people from around here hang out, also on Freenode.
What a Botnet looks like.
Saw the article on Slashdot. URL: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/08/1632258&from=rss

Interesting how the botnet topology is remarkable well designed. Most clusters have multiple slave nodes connected to masters with each slave node connected to at least two masters. Makes for a very resilient design. This seems to be the point where botnets stop being some teenager's way to cure boredom and start getting used for monetary gain (like the Storm botnet).
i was annoyed at first too, but i think they are right about these things. and if they are able to disseminate them to the point where a few more companies take heed, they will have done something good

the thing to watch out for is being selective with evidence
I haven't cashed the check yet, but I was approaching this as helping a friend out in exchange for lunch money or something so I feel like I should keep it?
Years ago, I had the idea that the human computational power wasted playing Tetris and Solitaire could be harnessed if only someone could find a mapping between these games and a real problem. Of course, others have had similar ideas, as early as Philip K. Dick's "Time Out of Joint".

This sounds like the most effective game-to-real-world mapping yet.
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In fact, according to twitterlocal.net, there are roughly as many twitterers in New York City as San Francisco (on May 6 it was almost even). More in London UK than Los Angeles, CA. Almost as many in Wash. DC as LA. And Tokyo is the Twiteringest city by 3 to 1.
Forget Web publishing; the big money is in t-shirts
Hi All- I'd love any feedback on this. Thanks for checking it out!
Thanks, I'll look into this. (Enjoy your blog btw)
'completely neglecting the subjectivity of morality' <--I did not disagree with you on this, I assumed your position.
> Taking example something like blogs: it has instant appeal in a lot of people, because basically it is an online diary.

If you think back 8 or 10 years, a lot of people didn't understand blogs. They were dismissed as being the online diaries of a bunch of self-centered 20-somethings and teenagers. Who would want to read that What were they good for?

I think Twitter (microblogging) is in the same place blogs were, and where the web itself was in 1994 and 1995. We're still determining what can be used for and how it can be used. Already, the Twitter community has changed the rules. Twitter isn't what Obvious originally thought it would be two years ago. Keep in mind, Twitter began in March 2006.
Point taken. Thanks for feedback.
Importer will be available soon.
Look at buglabs.net too, there are a few threads in the their forums about Android
I'll do this, but I still own the prototype, right?
"...the important thing is no longer what a song, movie, or book does to you. The big question is its relationship to its reputation. So instead of abandoning yourself to the artifact, you try to exploit inefficiencies in the reputation market."

The investment metaphor is interesting. I often meet people who are clearly trying very hard to like obscure bands. Perhaps they do this (consciously or not) so that if the group becomes famous, they can retroactively claim coolness; they can point to their early investment as evidence that were (and supposedly still are) in tune with artistic trends.

But this theory predicts that people who make a point of liking obscure bands will be happy as the band gains popularity. And that doesn't always match my observations. These people often seem genuinely upset as their favorite obscure bands become popular.

At least for this example, the investment metaphor doesn't seem to work. These kinds of people appear to be after social exclusivity, not growth.
FUD Busters: The games Executive Hiring Agents like to play?
Software Blueprints
Blueprints for software, is it even possible?