skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was more comparing it as a drink that you would consume away from home, going into a shop and choosing between a myriad of soft drinks and water products. Although I do see your point.

Coca-cola tried that municipal/tap water scam in the UK, but ended up having their product pulled from the shelves because it was contaminated with bromate. After that happened, they completely pulled the brand from the UK.

There's the other side of the local argument. Soft drink manufacturers tend to source the water locally, so you get reports of bottling plants competing with local farmers by draining water from aquifers in poor countries.

Anyway, I agree with all you have said, but I still think soft drinks are the worse of the two. They screw up peoples' health.
hmmm thats interesting, Indian citizens dont need to pay any tax on income abroad.
When I entered high-school at the age of 12 (15 years ago) someone in class showed me how to draw circles on a screen with QBASIC. I was instantly hooked.

SCREEN 12
CLS
CIRCLE (320, 240), 100, 15
We're using a desaturated version of the Pale Dawn map style [designed by Stamen] from Cloudmade.com -- check them out, most usage is free!
I doubt he is trolling. I think you annoyed him once, that colored his view of you, and now he evaluates your actions in that context and acts accordingly. Somewhat irrational, but that's how people are.
Wow. Just think about how much burnout he suffered before finally succeeding.
> but do consider that if you're a new developer and you go
> a'Googling, you're going to encounter JRuby, and Rubinius, and
> Macruby.

Then the solutions are relatively simple:

1. Forcibly prevent people from developing new Ruby interpreters, Ruby frameworks, and alternatives to popular Ruby tools.

-- or --

2. Force Google to adopt a old-style Yahoo / DMoz approach to internet search so that a Google employee can sort/categorize all of these things manually for presentation to the user.

The crux of the article seems to be that too many choices can be overwhelming to a newbie, so we should restrict everyone's ability to choose so that inexperienced, new developers don't hurt themselves (or run screaming due to information overload / confusion).
I still think soft drinks are the worse of the two. They screw up peoples' health.

I think we totally agree.
This is a popular WordPress theme for landing pages:
http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-domain-parking-theme/

That said, I wish I'd known to use it when I needed to make mine. I just cobbled it up manually. The link is in my profile.
Twitter is about any kind of status update. Readshout is focused only on the links that you're reading. I know it might sound like a small difference, but user behaviors can change dramatically based on how people are primed.

I also don't like sharing every single interesting link I find on Twitter, but I wouldn't mind doing this on Readshout.
Ask HN: Good alternative to Gmail?
Looking to drop Google from my life where possible. The big one is email - can anyone suggest a great web based email alternative that is not Hotmail...

CLARIFICATION: Not just any email service, but a feature rich version
The court reporter did a heroic job on this transcript. Not very many misspellings. Can anyone tell what the cross-examination is getting at?
We didn't need no net neutrality in Canada.

We have two network providers and you have a free choice to get your phone, cable and wireless from whichever one of them operates in your town.

Sure we don't get 3G on our kindles and we got the iPhone a year after uzbekistan and we pay twice as much as you do for the data - but that's our choice as Canadian consumers.
No, it's not actually IRC, just web-based chatrooms. That comparison has caused some unnecessary confusion. Embeddable is coming soon.

The problem with making a web-based interface to IRC is that you're liable to get blocked like Mibbit.
Download page is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html but it doesn't appear to have propagated yet.

Edit: Ignore this, read reply.
The only guy I can recommend for this job is this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_(video_r%...
I can only guess that the environmentalist fringe is opposed to consumption of all bottled beverages

You need not guess; I propose some explanations later in the comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1593158

I don't know why they can't target more realistic goals.

Who is they? And do "they" matter?

Making people feel bad about satisfying the basic human need of hydration is really stupid.

How do you know the desired goal is making people feel bad rather than informing them? Actions have consequences. Surely you don't think that everyone should be shielded from learning about the consequences of their actions in general?
yahoo. Or your ISP.
read the answer as "You wouldnt"

It looks like he is trying to make a chat application for the people who dont have the inclination to figure out irc, therefore people who already use irc have no reason to switch.
It fits quite well. He's addressing the market of people who don't know what IRC is.

The value prop is simply: FlyByChat is the best place to chat online. Any mention of IRC would be retrogressive.
The 6 Needs of a Startup (A Roadmap for Innovation)
In the U.S. companies can't have principles that don't suit their financial situation. If they try to, the board is exposed to shareholder class-action lawsuits.
They succeeded in getting Verizon to agree to net neutrality on the wired internet. Isn't that a strict improvement over the status quo?
These are really beautiful maps, and a nice game. I'm sure you're on to something much bigger with the company you're building, but many users will want to just show off where they've been all the time, and please don't take any offense if I say that this feels like "web2.0 onanism" to me.
English is my first language. American, not as much..and SV slang most definitely not. I actually like the term ninja when applied to IT depts because I actually do want my router installed without having to hear Samurai war cries. But coding? I admittedly don't get it. There is way too much baggage in those terms. Perhaps from being in the music industry for too many years.

All in all, I just think the ninja / rockstar meme jumped the shark long ago (how's that for slang?) to the point that I actually irritated myself while writing web site copy using those very words. Anyway, no offense intended.
In Search of the Mythical VP Sales & Marketing
Zoho looks interesting - checking it out now - thanks!
Dosage is exactly my point. Dosage is cumulative. Those studies do not correlate the dosage of water to the fluoride people receive from other sources, such as their food. Nor do they measure the concentrating effect that the use of fluoridated water in the production of various food-stuffs has on the end product. This is a big "?" that no one wants to address.
Why not a web client, to an IRC gateway, to your own IRC servers, though? That would be my strategy—scaling an IRCd is a very, very well-researched problem, compared to scaling your own proprietary backend.
Virtual Keyboard Makes Smudges a Must
Is this a good thing? They also have a higher occurrence of herpes apparently, go figure.
Two things:

1. 'Power of Nature'? The storm is very ominous-looking, but it didn't demonstrate any 'power,' other then the 'power of suggestion.'

2. I didn't see people panicking. I saw a lot of people getting ready to leave the beach, but I didn't see a panic. [Though I did watch at a lower res without the volume turned up too much.]
haha. 2nd best pun of the day (best was "P=NP'ing ain't easy")
You don't think the large amount of Android share that is Verizon based had anything to do with coming to a deal here? A possibility perhaps? Oh and now that we know Google can do evil, just a little bit, can we go back to China please?
Making the case for that payrise the hacker way
Actually for the same size lens, a larger aperture (lower f-stop number, e.g. f2.8 vs. f8) always results in less depth of field. More precision, better design and better optical quality glass all cost more.

Since more expensive optics usually tend to have a larger max aperture ...
Intellius settles with Washington State for $1.3MM
That keynote idea rocks!

I'm not designer, I wouldn't even class myself as a developer, but like everyone else I have a few web projects on the go. I've been searching for a low overhead way of getting a design mock-up down and your keynote idea hits it on the head.

Really being a hacker, I just want to mock-up a design that isn't butt ugly and for the tools to get the hell out of my way so I can start cutting code.
My passion for programming peaked in middle school. I'd pull all nighters building cool little apps in Visual Basic. I was just amazed I could build real apps that kinda behaved like other commercial apps.

Few months into high school, I started getting requests for contract work on RentACoder, a site launched by code sharing site planet-source-code(where I had a lot of submissions). I still loved programming. But overtime, I became a lot more conscious of the $ amount and optimizing for making a business versus learning programming.

Nothing bad, but my passion just diverged significantly. I went from being the guy who told his first dozen clients he didn't care for the money and probably worked at a dollar an hour for many of the initial contract projects...to a guy who was hiring full-time dudes offshore so I could maximize rev.
Google's stated goals have little to do with their real goals of making money. Personally after the AdMob deal I started to look at Google much differently.
Online Tracking: Creepy Commerce?
While reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1591225 about asking for a payrise, there was lots of talk of finding your market worth before asking.

This is the tool I use for that (Not mine, obviously). It gets source data from job adverts, so I assume that the upper bound might be inflated, and personal experience says that the lower bounds are typically shown as being higher than in practice. But the figures feel about right, and there is a lot of other nice bits of information too.
Add supporting Flash to the list. If both Apple and Google had took a hardline against Flash we'd be on the path to a better, more open, Internet. It might have been a little painful in the short term I admit. It seems to me they decided that it was a competitive advantage and that's all that really matters.
When you're sitting in your rocking chair and you're yelling at kids to get off your lawn, before you fall back asleep are you going to wish you stuck it out for a few more months to see what happened?
AOL News, of all places, seems to have been one of the first.

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/p-np-wtf-a-short-g...
Tell Your Customers Your Flaws
Reading this gave me the biggest involuntary grin I've had all week. QBasic was my gateway drug, too.
It moves pretty quick in comparison to other languages though, and I rather think the versioning system is a bit weird as 1.9 broke backwards comparability enough that quite a few ruby libraries and programs are still only functional on 1.8 without editing source
"Behind Every Successful Man Is A Surprised Woman."
Uh, Tinychat ?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/28/tinychat/
Lies, damned lies, and statistics...

There seem to be some serious flaws in their reasoning. First, as others have noted, it's likely that layoffs disproportionately affected low wage earners. Pay is a measure of the perceived value of an employee to the organization and the perceived value of the employee is precisely the criterion most likely to be used in determining who to lay off/fire. Without raising any individual's pay, simply laying off low wage earners raises median pay. Second, salaried employees are doing considerably more work to pick up the slack for all the positions that have been eliminated. Even if their absolute wages have risen, it's unlikely that their wages have risen in direct proportion to their increased productivity. Real wages, in terms of inflation-adjusted wages per unit of value added by the employee has likely fallen significantly.
I know and understand the feeling. Let it out and start managing the next second, minute, hour and day, little by little !!!
Technology bubble ten years later: The money’s not back
Conversely she was shocked to realize that people in mathematics couldn't. And that you could easily complete a masters in mathematics without once being asked to try to read a real research paper.

That shocks me, too. I'd expect anyone completing a master's degree in mathematics to have published at least one paper, never mind reading others' papers.
K9 is good. Not up to the standards of 6 year old ChatterEmail on Palm just yet, but vastly better than the builtin client of iPhone's Mail.

And it's an active Open Source project improving on original Android's source, a direct benefit of Android's openness:

* http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/

* http://www.slideshare.net/obrajesse/k9

* http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/source/list

* http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail/topics

Incidentally Mark Blanc, author of ChatterEmail on Palm now works for Google on Android Email (among other things?).

As best as one can tell he gave up on the idea of creating a killer email client for Android on his own or was acquired:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Blank

* http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Emai...

* http://forum.androidcentral.com/android-applications/22105-m...
I've always thought that IRC should be more of the technology, not the tools.

More importantly, being able to use IRC would offer the easy solution to the critical mass problem.
Is anyone else left scratching their head at how the facebook login overtook OpenID?
If you know Adwords/SEM at all it should be pretty easy to find a consulting gig for local small businesses. Charge a percent of spend or $100-150 hourly for your time. This is what I did when I invested lots of money into my business and needed some extra cash. Most businesses don't know anything about online advertising and would be extremely eager to let you set up their campaigns. My email is in my profile, feel free to get in touch if you want to know exactly how to pull this off.
yanw, the article points out what they had previously said before this comprimise. I like the old position, not the new "only partially completely incorrect" model.

from a post on Google’s official blog in 2007: “The nation’s spectrum airwaves are not the birthright of any one company. They are a unique and valuable public resource that belong to all Americans. The FCC’s auction rules are designed to allow U.S. consumers — for the first time — to use their handsets with any network they desire, and and use the lawful software applications of their choice.”

Read More http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/why-google-became-a-c...
Linux Foundation's Zemlin offers thoughts on Linux's future, App stores, Apple
No it is not. The status quo is that no one has yet made any binding decisions, and the telecom operators will try to get away with what they can until the FCC slaps them down.

Google just succeeded in getting Verizon to agree to net neutrality on the wired internet in exchange for removing any possibility of net neutrality on the wireless internet (which Google claims is the future of internet).
Great point. We built it this past weekend as a 48 hr project, but the bigger vision is to create connections and conversations around locations. Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah, PEP 380 definitely adds some more heft to generators-as-threads, removing a fair number of the problems I cited in that post.
I loved playing video games and I wanted to write my own. When I was 9 I learned HTML and took an online C class (which both got me hooked), then I tried Java and was scared away by the look of the "public static void main" of all things, so I went with C++.

Yes, I realize how utterly backwards that is.
Why not run your own sendmail ( or whatever ) server? It's not difficult, or expensive with most modern hosting plans, and provides great flexibility and learning.
...Or I'll save myself a trouble and just buy a $4 4gal jug of water with _guaranteed_ taste I like.
Nope, it makes perfect sense to me. Open ID made no sense to non-computer enthusiasts (and to plenty of the enthusiasts as well). Those same people all have Facebook accounts and probably visit Facebook multiple times a day. They trust Facebook, so clicking on it seems painless - and it's definitely effortless.
May I gently suggest my own Modern Perl? http://github.com/chromatic/modern_perl_book/
http://xkcd.com/463/
Exactly, the glaring problem here isn't that Google or Verizon make a deal that is beneficial to their shareholders. The problem is the complete ineptitude of the government to design regulatory law.

In time perhaps we will view the failings of the FCC as the failure of MMS, I hope not.
That question often bothers me in the following form:

1. Is it justifiable to speak freely?

2. John Doe announced that a crowded theatre was afire, and people died in a resulting stampede. Was he justified in speaking?

Nobody ever addresses the separability issue you describe.
The attitude in the agreement towards wireless is that it's too competitive to regulate right now, basically anything could still happen that isn't a "complete change" it's just a wait and see compromise.
Can someone explain to me what a landing page is? I thought it was a page on your site that you pointed visitors to when they were coming from different sources, but the OP seems to mean holding page by it?

I'm confused...
Please let me explain. I do not really disagree with your main points.

yummyfajitas comment about only expenses on services showing up in income was probably not very well worded. I guess he's not using the economist's definition of income. If you substitute wages for `income' in his statement, it makes some sense.

Also I do see that income and production have to be equal (modulo effects of moving wealth in and out of the system, perhaps). Different consumption patterns may lead to different distributions of income and wages, even if the sum stays the same.

(I don't know whether `the debt fuelled boom' that was mentioned, depresses the median income while boosting the rich.)

My side note was really just a side note. The central bank does create and destroy money. I am not a gold bug. If you want commodity based money, tie your currency to a basket of commodities. Even the BigMac index is better than useless gold.
First Look Genelia Desuza vasco da gama Movie Hot Stills
Python's Logo turtle module
The big challenge you have isn't appealing to a different market than traditional IRC. That one is the easy problem to solve.

The hard bit is getting critical mass. Without enough people logged on and chatting, no one new would stay logged in and chatting. As it's only text based, there's none of the voyerism that chatroulette offered in return for sticking with it.
wow, if you did this in 48 hrs, I'd love to see more! Will follow you guys on twitter :)
>in exchange for removing any possibility of net neutrality on the wireless internet (which Google claims is the future of internet).

[citation needed] This is explicitly not true according to the text of the agreement. The agreement says that it is too early to determine whether net-neutrality provisions are necessary for wireless networks, because it's a newer market and there is much more competition.
Amen. I'm buying only Poland Spring just because of this reason. Actually have to go to different grocery stores because of that.
I'm a network engineer at a telecom. It's a very dangerous precedent to set for a variety of reasons. The big one that stands out to me is the wording of legal vs. illegal traffic. That's very concerning. It also raises some interesting questions for my industry (cable) If we move your cable modem out on the pole and shoot a wifi signal into your house are we not wireless providers? We can argue the same rules should apply to us. Now that the precedent is set that wireless is a special anti-competitive clubhouse I think we're going to see some major changes in future strategies. Why invest in wired infrastructure? It's a loser. Many of the big cable companies (Cox, TWC, Comcast) are dipping their toes into wireless already. This will just accelerate that trend. We'll expect the same deal from Google.
That is an extremely naive view of things, Google is a publicly traded for profit company, any good or ethical maneuvers they make are just surplus, they tend to do it more than most, I suppose if they were completely rotten no one would criticize them this much as people would expect the worst.
Pentagon to shut down Networks and Information Integration group
Will you add more than 5% of value to the company?
What do other execs have?
Is it late stage, or early stage?

5% seems somewhere between about right and a little low, depending on the factors above ( plus others).

Also, step back and think about the big picture. A typical startup will have a CEO, VP of Engineering, VP of Marketing, VP of Sales, CFO, VP of Biz Dev ( maybe not all of these in all cases). If they each got 5%, that's 30% right there, which is quite frankly probably high, depending on the funding.
He's referring to a page on a site for a product or service that is not yet available to buy/use/sign up for but that might do one or many of these things: collect e-mail addresses for a mailing list, collect e-mail addresses for future invites to an app/site, show "sneak preview" images of the future app/site, merely say "coming soon."

Going back a few years, though, "landing page" almost always meant a page that people are directed to (usually through advertising) that then attempts to "convert" them into a customer or subscriber of some sort, though this is not necessarily (but can be) a goal of the modern startup-type landing page.
I just tried zoho with my gmail account... seems pretty good to me.
By the way, that's why real estate is one of the better things to tax. Those taxes don't distort economic activity as much as e.g. a tax on the house that's build on the real estate, or taxes on wages.
Google gave the market the option to go for a completely open environment with the Nexus One, and in the words of this wired article what did it get in return?

"Not cool enough."

The phone is brilliant, but the market went elsewhere with it's carrier locked subsidised junk models. That's just a market reality, like it or not. Google tried to "do the right thing" and the market went somewhere else. Making all these points about what they could've done instead which basically amounted to "become a direct competitor with Apple on the retail level" are not realistic considering everything we know about Google and it's views and practices on direct end user support.

If the market wants to shoot itself in the foot by choosing shitty products, that's their cross to bear. It's not reasonable to place the blame on one of the few companies that provided an out and had it thrown squarely back in their face. The only problem I fear is that due to the failure of the Nexus One they won't invest in a Nexus Two and the Android ecosystem will become a swirling morass of telco crippled product, thus ending differentiation between it and the competing iOS ecosystem.

The article does however make an interesting point, HP might do better with webOS, they are accustomed to end user hand holding and playing the retail / marketing game. If they can push a truly open ecosystem and manage to be successful in units moved as well, they may well end up being what Android might have been if the market had let it go in the direction Google had clearly wanted it to go from inception.
indeed i can please check out MiniG http://code.google.com/p/minig/
its meant to do what you want exactly.
If you have a Duuit! account then its the included email service with smtp, imap, xmpp, and web clients.