skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might also like dailyburn.com - you can pick a challenge and see how other people are moving along to the same goal
Same here, and I was even considering it more when the 3G equipped iPod Touch cases leaked. Though I do notice the model in the FCC pics doesn't have a hole for the camera, I am sure that can be fixed (if not by the manufacturer, I have a drill that works just fine for a plastic case).

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/zte-peel-for-sprint-outed...
The iPad is killing off products before they are even launched
The new Zune! ;-)
I'll take a personal introduction over Craigslist any day of the week. Your relationship is more likely to convert to actually receiving work (people are, on average, flakes), it will last longer, and on average you'll get better work done.

You almost have to be a fascist with posting writing jobs on Craigslist because any solicitation will receive hundreds of applications, many of whom having writing skills that would be overpriced at "free". You spend as much time weeding through solicitations as managing your relationship with the people actually contributing useful work.

That said, some SEO buddies of mine have had success with Craigslist.
You are completely right, it was my fault with the post title. I think I sounded too against-Linux, which is not what I meant. I love having Linux around, and having Linux installed. But there are times when I don't feel like editing X11 settings from the console again :)
30 years from 2005 is 1975....

1969, let alone 1975, was considerably more violent than 1960.

Go to
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/dataonline/Search/Crime/State/State...
select all states and violent crime rates and the push "get table".

You'll see that the murder rate in 1960 was 5.1. By 1969, it had jumped to 7.3. By 75 it was 9.6. It peaked at 10.2 in 1980 with a lesser peak at 9.8 in 1991.

By 2005 the murder had dropped to 5.6. (FWIW, 2004 was 5.5) 2008 was 5.4, which is still above 1960's 5.1
You should also check out gevent (http://gevent.org) which is similar to eventlet.
They will offer a hosted option.
Ryan Bingham, played by George Clooney in 'Up in the Air' lives out of his suitcase and thinks he loves it. This sounds like something Bingham would say in one of his motivational speeches.
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Well - good job! Nothing like scratching your own itch, is there?

I'd say the biggest priority would be adding time estimates - the people who are going to be using this kind of service are probably uncertain of the geography. I don't think you necessarily need to add fillers at this stage, everybody knows air travel automatically adds 3 hours or whatever. But the length of the actual trip itself would definitely tip the scale into real usefulness.
All of their students? I'm sure you can think of a scenario where this isn't possible, even for a great teacher.
Here are the downsides to the MiFi:

- it gets really hot

- the battery only gets about 2.5 hours, max

- in NYC area, it is slow.

- it's not really cheap, it's $60/m for 5GB. Plus you have to pay $150 to buy it in the first place

If that still sounds good to you, I've got one for sale... ;)
Been there, went so low once it was dog chow just to survive for a few days. Proximity is a bitch when you don't live near a tech hub, even worse when the people around don't understand what you do.

Do yourself a favor, if not just for the peace of mind. Look into the labor laws regarding ip in your state. I found mine by searching for [state law labor code] then read through to find the laws regarding intellectual property and inventions. Find out how fucked you really are in terms of the law and the agreement you have with your friend.

Hopefully you're working with good people, and in my experience everything changes once money is involved.

Once you get back to your project, set a schedule for your milestones. It's one thing to be disciplined, and another to know how long it will take to get your product usable and to market. Especially if you're building alone.

Good luck, I'd be grateful for the community that's behind you.
If they want to deal with the kind of organisation that focuses their efforts on making better products rather than handholding their customers, by definition, they have to.

They don't though, that's not news, we all get it, we all live in the same marketplace, and we all get used to that eventually and just deal with it. Participating in it doesn't mean we have to think it's a great thing, I think it says bad things about humanity as a whole personally.
A note about being conflicted: if you are paying $300 USD or more per month to someone in the Philippines, that is already a good (though not "great") wage. IBM pays about $350-400 USD per month to start, for example.

Outside the country earnings are not taxable to the person doing the work (under Philippines tax laws), and anywhere outside of metro Manila (say Quezon City to Sucat and anything in between) you can stretch your dollar even further.
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San Francisco is a walker's paradise. In particular, there are the off-street stairways that take you to all sorts of interesting nooks and crannies.

There has even been an excellent book published about San Francisco's stairways: Stairway Walks in San Francisco by Adah Bakalinsky. There is also a good web site: http://www.sisterbetty.org/stairways/
Stop giving me updates. Ship me my product.

You are terrible. Seriously.

I'm not entirely convinced I haven't been suckered into buying into some giant fraud and there is no product.
Is it really that trendy? We're trying to move online behaviour to real life. This is something that hasn't been done much, short of Groupon. But definitely hasn't been done much in the name of healthy actions.

Our next step is to build in sensors like Nike+ and do verified activities, which should be pretty cool but hardly trendy/hipster.
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You're right. I compare the Cabot campaign to a glorified Facebook fan page with the added engagement of people doing things in real life around the Cabot brand. Lots more to move on from there.

As I mention in another thread, we're working on building in Nike+ and other sensors so you can actually verify you did something. That's our next big step.
not in my firefox :(

well, I haven't really thought about it, but, yes, textarea is pretty ugly. and try to make it better (with weird wysiwyg javascript libs) can end up worse.
hail _why.
I have over $100k in student loan debt from undergrad, and have nearly run through savings for the startup I'm working on. My loan payments kick back in in two months.

We're launching in 2-4 weeks, and the nature of the project is such that if it doesn't take off immediately then it may never take off. Talk about a fire under your ass!

That said, I'm loving it. I'm actually living in India at the moment, working from my laptop. Its dirt cheap over here, and during the breaks I take I get to experience India. And did I mention its cheap? $5/day food, $6/day housing, $5/day miscellaneous.
Ha, nice. Of course it always seems like a good idea in theory, but it's another thing in practice.

It's really too bad municipal WIFI got crushed by the telecos, they really know how to hold onto power. I give them that.
I did notice that wakemate/paypal charged my credit card this week... I guess that means that you'd better be damn close to shipping these.
Translation: I wish they would have built something I like.
Come on. Hardware is hard. They've clearly made a huge amount of progress recently, and I'm glad to see them update the blog. That doesn't excuse their pretty bad communication over the past few months, but they're a small startup and they're learning. They're improving. They're iterating.

If any group of people should be able to give a company like Wakemate some slack, it's HN.
So true with the contracts on the side. A lot of start ups end up taking years, need something for living/server costs so you can keep following the dream.
not to forget $3 per month mobile phone service.
textarea was never meant to be an actual text editor, just a place to input multiple lines of text for forms
Good timing on the article -- I actually ran the numbers early this evening to see if (financially) ZipCar + public transit was cheaper than TCO for the car I sold 6 months ago. I looked at 6 month of each, living in Nob Hill. Owning a car ended up being $2700 and ZipCar about $1600. The cost savings, while validating, is not the biggest gain. Not worrying about parking tickets (or towing!), finding a parking spot (always the worst part of my day), getting broken into (happened once already), mechanical problems -- it's hard to put a price on that burden being lifted.

Outside of that, since I moved to SF a little over a year ago (to a smaller place) it made me realize how much junk I have that I don't need and have been actively trying to minimize my possessions. So far, I've shed a lot of extra weight and my entire life feels a little less cluttered. It's very re-assuring that articles like this keep coming up on HN.
Orc - a novel language for distributed and concurrent programming
I should point out the URL of the actual post was w3mIsMyAmbassadorToTheWikis.html, and w3m, a text-based browser, opens up your $EDITOR for you whenever you edit a textarea.
I am in the same boat (except for living in SF not India). Been doing startups since I graduated 2 years ago. Near $100k loans from undergrad, needing to pay off the convertible note from my first startup that didn't convert to equity, car payment and a few months into working on current startup where I haven't taken salary yet. Though the best thing I did was cancel my credit card a year ago.

On the "up" side, I have never had a real, structured, paying job so I have never made real money. Just some scraps that my blog makes each month. So being broke and (trying to) live within my means has become natural.
"Orc in 15 Minutes" tutorial

http://orc.csres.utexas.edu/tutorial.shtml

Edit: btw, Orc is a Haskell EDSL

Edit2: Orc also seems very well documented. Here is the User Manual http://orc.csres.utexas.edu/userguide/html/index.html and a very neat "Try Orc" page http://orc.csres.utexas.edu/tryorc.shtml
It'd be nice if it supported OpenID.
On Point 2 (I think this killed it):

I literally stopped by three brick and mortar T-Mobile stores back in May (my family's contract with Sprint was ending) to simply try a Nexus One out and not a single store had one anywhere in site. There were no promotional banners, there were no phones on display, and even when I asked the employees I got one response of "We don't have any in stock" and one response of "We don't show that phone".

All in all a terrible experience, and when confronted with 3 other family members who aren't very tech savvy, a phone they couldn't hold in their hand turned out to be an impossible sell.
I'm sure the practice won't be greeted here with open arms, but I often 'rent' items from big chain stores with long return policies when I need to and just return the items before the time goes up. 90% of the time I don't keep the purchases, but the 10% of items I do keep I use very often and am very happy with. Call it using the system.
This is important; to me at least. I'm a tinkerer, and I like to mess around with things I own. While it might be worth avoiding ownership for the decrease in stress, the fear of damaging someone else's equipment by toying with it would be nightmarish.

My old earphones started dying the other day; they'd cut out whenever the moulded 3.5mm jack moved. So I cut it off and resoldered a new one, and now they work just fine. If I'd rented (a bad example, I know), they'd probably be sitting in a dump right now because no doubt the economies of scale dictate it's cheaper to simply manufacture a new pair.

Similarly, I live in a rented house with flatmates at the moment, and the things I'd like to do - install a couple of solar panels, run Cat5e through the house (instead of running it down the halls), rig up some neat project ideas I have with an Arduino - I can't, because it's not mine.

I guess my point is that we shape the world we live in, and we can't do that to other people's stuff (at least, not within social norms anyway).
Are these items that couldn't be legitimately rented from somewhere else? I'm personally very opposed to the practice, but am curious why people feel OK doing it.
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There a couple Urban Airship cofounders that read HN, myself included - please don't hesitate to ask us any questions. This has been a really, really fun project with some very interesting technology coming out of it.
Yea, 150k. I thought I had enough savings to last about 2 years; I was wrong so I am seriously cutting back.

If mainly feels like its going fast because I was accustomed spending what I want and not seeing my bank account drop.

Now that I don't have anything coming in thats not the case. The impact of what I spend is much more visible now.
I'm a student so the return policy way is really the cheapest out there. As to why people feel OK doing it, why shouldn't we? Costco, in particular, offers an unusually long return policy. I don't exactly return underwear or dirty plates, but electronic devices I don't see a problem with. A good example would be needing a good laptop for about a week or two when the university Debian based towers just don't cut it anymore.

I mean, anyone who's used an IDE written in Java will agree.
Not sure if he wanted to he could get past the conventional meaning of peer review.
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Seriously? I watch almost no television, and most of it is utter mind-rot.

But of course watching something can "accomplish something" -- it can broaden your experience of reality by showing you something that took place on the other side of the world, or ten years ago.

The best television shows you moments of life that otherwise only the people who were actually present might have had a chance to see.
I am not sure, if user service updates are a good idea. This would open a path to other risks. Anyway, I agree, there is currently no good solution for updates.
Sure, but if it's going to treat it like HTML, then why not just send proper HTML?
I am not at all discounting efforts by vinay deolalikar. Nor passing a judgmental remark about his proof.

My only comment to the parent commenter was that:

1: Falsifiability principal suggests that we assume any proof to be wrong until proved otherwise.

2: Its job of Mathematicians and other researchers to be skeptical and not to accept any proof unless rigorously proven otherwise, irrespective of the status of person proving. And researchers are doing exactly that.

3: Just because a proof is convoluted or uses methods from different field is not a valid criteria for acceptability of a proof or deniability or even novelty.

Now talking about this case in particular:
His proof relies on connection between Complexity and Statistical Physics. This connection isn't routinely used to prove results in CS Theory, also it is difficult to find experts in both areas. Thus it is difficult for even experts in one of the two areas to correctly gauge importance of his methods.

Finally my only point is that other researchers have been doing right job, by not passing a direct hasty judgement.
Don't mistake a publisher's problem for a language's problem.
This is serious. Even bad sensor readings open the system for attacks.
They sure are operating more like a dot-com vaporware startup than an open source project. I understand not releasing code right away, there's reasons for that, but why no specifics about their approach? Why is everything about this project a guessing game?
Another thing: Outlook costs $140 by itself while iOS Mail and iCal are free. The rest of Office is an additional $150. iWork on iOS costs $30 if you buy all three apps.

In general Windows apps cost more, are a pain to install, and aren't designed for touch. For a Win7 tablet to compete it will need an App Store that has a section exclusively for touch apps.
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While Zipcar is nice, that $1600 will realistically buy you 10 trips, in NYC anyway. Due to the high price of Zipcar I usually find myself avoiding any trips that would require one.

Fortunately in NYC there aren't much of those, thus making Zipcar or similar a good option.
Not surprising at all that the windows pad is twice as thick and has a clunky interface that is not suitable for fingers. They have something called corporate strategy in Microsoft which means that every new product must carry all the mistakes of all previous Microsoft products on its back.

But one big question I have which is not answered by the video, is can this windows pad play flash natively and thus can it play all Internet video natively? If it can it would be a big improvement. I own an ipad and while I am very happy with it, it is just not very good for video. It does not feature most video sites i like and even for youtube it does not feature most videos i want to see (which are accessible on my computer).

While this seems already doomed, I do hope it has some success, because if it does it may open the possibility of Linux pads to come.
It feels to me like living outside of one's means.
Sounds like your camera is seriously screwed; mine doesn't have this issue at all.
Motorcycle is an under-considered car alternative. Fuel is peanuts and total annual costs only a few hundred; a small fraction of car ownership. Only a few grand of capital is tied up in the bike.

It's great if you only need to drive a couple times a week and can resort to other means if necessary.
Whether or not they give updates is completely irrelevant to when they ship. Many customers asked for more regular updates, they are responding. Chill out.
1/ "behavior programming": it is what you do with it that determines if it is "marketing" or not. I think of the Gamepocalypse of Jesse Schell: games&reward mechanics are there (like mattmaroon just said). But now who will win? Big selfish shortsighted corporations driven by profit, maximizing shareholders wealth? or more open types of organizations driven by value to people first and money later.

2/ think of all the health pb in general. Huge. Now isn't it important for insurance companies or the government to get more healthy behaviors from us? The possibilities are numerous. And nobody has nailed this yet.

Therefore I agree it is interesting to see how they'll be reinventing themselves along the way.
Ask HN: Which Authors@Google videos should I watch?
I've watched a few already -- Hitchens, Shirky, Woz -- but there are hundreds and I don't know which one to watch next. Which talks are good?
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Yes, good point. And some of these street views (thanks everyone - most interesting!) actually look okay for walking as long as the traffic was light and slow.
2008 grad too.

I like your second point here. I still live basically like a college student which makes it easy to live off very little. Heck, you should see some of the shitholes I've slept in in India to save $5 for the night.

I made great money one summer working as a management consultant, but hated the work. The perks were great though: first-class international plane flights, no per diem and lots of extravagant meals, blahblahblah.

None of that stuff means anything though. I'm not an ounce happier for sleeping in a nice room, or having an extravagant meal. Those things fade away as soon as they're done.

But I've never been happier working for something that I care about and that's mine.
Ask HN: Google Sold You Out? What does this means
Hi folks I have reading a lot of reports(Blog Posts) about how Google and Verizon are having a under the table deal and ignoring all the other for self economic gain. What all this actually means for a start-up. Me as a consumer.<p>Is this an international issue or US only?
Hats are fairly common among young Japanese nowadays, including ladies. You might still stand out by wearing one, but not too much. I usually wear one myself and I used to worry if I should take it off inside restaurants, but I noticed that nobody else seems to bother.

(Incidentally, I now have an easy opening line: "nice hat", often followed by "thanks, yours too".)
Ask HN: Jelp choosing a business model
Would like some input on choosing the best business model for our app. Some details about our company:
Biz type - B2B
Sector - Mobile
Value Prop - Cost reduction, time/effort reduction, Management tools
Competition - Carriers, Telecom Management companies
Business model - charge 50 cents per wireless telephone line/month
Decision: Fremium (i.e. first X # of lines free, then 50 cents per line with price break at Y # of lines) or
Feature based (i.e. 50 cents/line for feature set 1, 75 cents for feature set 2, 1.00 for feature set 3)
Other ideas?

Thanks!
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This blows my mind every time I watch it.

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

Also this is a fantastic mix using Carl Sagan samples from Cosmos.

I'm sorta a massive fan ^_^
I'm not broke, just poor. A bit over a year into my startup, about to launch the version that'll actually make money.
If there is an opportunity to have something you temporarily need and likely wont need beyond the given project, then how is that not simply utilizing the system in place? It's a life hack.
Well of course, do did I, so did most people here. We read tech blogs a lot. Most people in the world do not.
I'd love to explore this option at one point (Vespa drooling time). In the meantime there is the ebike and ordinary bike options too. Until you need to grocery shop for a week or two ahead that is.
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>Which would be a shame because I really like those technologies.

Have you checked out JRuby/ JPython?
Thanks for the pdf!
Didn't know that they were using eventmachine and ruby. Lovely choice
Two possible outcomes:

1. Newspapers would be really upset about the leeching of their bandwidth and would cry around that this is "copyright infringement". Also the RIAA and other such organisations would show that you could search for torrents on them and would try to shut them down.

2. Newspapers and others would see the use of such a thing and would let them do their thing.

I think it would be number one.
People are generally overreacting and free-associating, Verizon and Google announced an agreement about how the neutrality debate may move forward. They agreed on non interference in wired communication, but kept the mobile question open, also there are some loopholes left there that are somewhat worrisome. It's a non binding agreement of course and it's a US only issue.
If you're on a mac and use Safari, QuickCursor (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor) is a nice free input manager that solves this problem. It lets you use a real text editor (Textmate, BBEdit, Smutron amongst others) in place of a text area. Pressing a hot key opens the text opens the text in your editor, and saving copies it back.

Sadly it doesn't yet work in Chrome, but the chrome team is working on it.