skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating thread. As a co-founder of a company in the wedding space (shinyorb.com) and having gone through the wedding planning process myself, I think there is definitely a need here!

Thought I'd throw in my $0.02 about customer acquisition to address some other people's points about this space. While it is true that consumers in the wedding area are one-time consumers, there are plenty of ways to market besides AdWords. You could easily offer incentives to your current customers for referring friends. For example, marking up a product by 2x and giving people a 50% cut or rebate for referring a friend works wonders for many businesses.

Echoing someone else's concern though, I'd be worried about how much I would need to fight with my printer. Certain kinds of card stock would probably be a nightmare to deal with. Not knowing much about printing, are there certain things that can be done to make the DIY printing process easier? E.g. Limit to 8.5 x 11 PDFs to make printing easier or recommend certain kinds of card stock or brands of paper that would work best? (heck, that could even be another revenue stream: either affiliate or selling actual paper/card stock) Etc...

I applaud you for going for it -- it's a good idea. I signed up for your mailing list. Let's see if we can work together...
Hopefully I'll be packaging some of the niceties as reusable libraries.
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the modern web should make this less of a problem though. just imagine sites where folks of a certain profession/industry gather. now somebody outside that profession can go to that site, post their idea, boom, it's seen, and somebody in that industry or with the right skills can act on it. it's not perfect, but it does allow something like you're describing.

now if you want to make something where the contributor's idea is "protected", while still being thrown over the wall like that, it would be harder. by protected I mean ensuring the contributor will get credited or paid if the idea turns into something. The standard solutions for that are to start a business and/or file a patent.
no matter if you think this article is well written or not I'm kinda tired of people's answer to gender inequality. We are not in some golden age of equality. equality has changed for the past 500 years and will continue to change. If you know it's going to change how can you not try and learn why it's changing and how you can affect it?
I'm not totally sure Apple has ditched NVIDIA for long - there are reports of Fermi based graphics cards working. Apparently the GTX460, GTX470 and GTX480 all work.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/03/imac.and.mac.p...

I have also heard other reports of users verifying they work, for both real Macs and hackintoshes.
Tell HN: Looking for non-technical cofounder
I have launched my first bootstrapped startup and am now looking for a co-founder. The product is built and live (check my profile for details).

My dream co-founder list:
1) Experience successfully launching a social media / advertising company.
2) Connections in the tech world with bloggers, mentors, and possible angels.
3) Experience with product marketing, business development, and sales
3) Has worked at, founded, or launched a startup before.
4) Lives in the Bay Area
5) Some coding ability or graphic design. Perhaps you are a "retired engineer" who has decided a marketing career path is a better fit for you.

I also believe that a good personality fit is key.

Some things to know about me:
1) I currently have a day job (summer internship)
2) I'm a college athlete

Basically this means I can't work full-time on this as I generally have only an hour or so a night to dedicate to the company.

My contact info is in my profile :)
Exactly.

Arthur C. Clarke is generally considered to be the guy who "invented" telecommunications satellites. But he didn't build the first one. He just had an idea. And he may not really have been the first person to have the idea, just the first one to publish a document describing it that was read widely by others. But if you want to somehow give monetary credit to anybody anywhere who merely "has an idea" for something, without really going into the critical details of making it real, and without making a real thing based on it, then that leads to a world where patent trolls are much more powerful and malevolent than they are currently.
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seems apple fanboi's downvoted you, how do you dare to speak evil about macs.
> The sole purpose of Old Spice (and scents in general) is to improve how others see you, and therefor whether your peers perceive Old Spice as being a superior choice decides whether it is.

I don't think that this is true. The product being tracked here is a body wash; its purpose is to keep you clean (which does, I suppose, improve how others see you). I may choose one body wash over another based on how I expect it to be perceived, but I think it's an exaggeration to say that that's its sole purpose. (I used Old Spice deodorant for a long time, because it was cheap and it worked; it had nothing to do with other people's images of me.)
Occasional false negatives are the price you pay for filtering out the crackpot ideas and I, for one, am OK with that.
I'm not sure Apple actually stops using NVIDIA at all, but that's great news. Great news for Hackintosh'es.
I see this as being comparable to a premium theme price, those run $50-75 from woothemes or wherever. If you're serious about your blog, and a big ipad user or have heavy ipad traffic, its nothing.

that being said, i think we'll see a LOT more premium plugins and themes for sale soon for wordpress.
Great recommendations on books, meditiation/concentration/flow techniques, useful technologies...
or http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/
The simplicity of charging someone for a PDF is beautiful!

The pdf file really has some value in it (content, layout, typography, instructions for printing?, etc.), but ultimately boils down to a scalable automated process.

How much would Moo.com charge us if we were to use them as the \to paper backend?
Redux of PG's FanSnap vs TicketStumbler Post: FanSnap vs SeatGeek
Interesting that this was written while he was deep in Odeo but probably just before he realized it was untenable, and started doing the side project sprints that led to Twitter.

Odeo broke most of these rules, and Twitter followed almost all of them — save for the biggie #7. They followed #8 for way too long given that they never took the acquisition exit, to their detriment — at some point a lot earlier they should have either gotten acquired or stopped acting like that was their only exit.
In reference to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458925

The difference in funding isn't nearly as stark; according to CrunchBase it's exactly 10x. Still, notable how a big, well-funded company led by a former StubHub C-level exec is being challenged by a few programmers with a more clever approach.
Apple has held operating expenses extremely low, and hasn't grown its engineering ranks significantly in almost a decade.

Well - back in 2002 their R&D was about $100 million per quarter, now it's over $400 million, so I doubt your assertion.
Thank God for rule #11, otherwise rule #7 would look laughable in retrospect.

"give-everything-away-and-make-it-up-on-volume strategy stamps an expiration date on your company's ass. In other words, design something to charge for into your product and start taking money within 6 months"

Advice I hear echoed all the time, yet all the big "holy shit, what a huge valuation" consumer internet startups with experienced entrepreneurs at the helm seem to ignore it. Just a thought.
I can't speak to your daughter's specific problems, but since she has gut and, possibly, renal disease (given her diabetes)...

The complications of chronic hyperglycaemia take years to develop, and T1D develops fast. There's no way a newly diagnosed T1D would have renal complications at the time of diagnosis, never mind a year earlier.
I wish someone would disrupt the wedding industry itself and offer really nice, all-in-one, low price wedding services (including banquet hall, etc.) There is really no need for all of the insanity that goes on around planning a wedding. You should just be able to pick a date, food options, a decor scheme, music, and clothes to rent in an afternoon for a range of prices (with financing). I've seen some Korean wedding places like this, but nothing big. While there are many people that wouldn't appeal to, I would think there are many more for whom it would appeal to in the disruptive innovation sense.
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I was quite amazed that this is actually a purchasable product. http://www.emotiv.com/ has development kits for sale worldwide, and a consumer headset available for US customers. This seems a far more interesting way to spend $500 than on an iPad.

Currently window only, but apparently linux support is in the works as well.
Almost completely OT, but looking at limedarling's linkedin, I was pleasantly surprised to see 'Grails' referenced as something she's working at bring proficient in. Thanks LD - you made my day :)
EReaders, advertising and addictiveness
bad name... as there is a very established project already using the name.. http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html
Hi Tracy,

I'm also working on a wedding application. I just dropped you an email. Hope to hear from you!

Regards,

Alex
Software companies that use it for builds, with a dozen or so developers sharing it, each with 3 or 4 third or fourth generation iPads.
well you are speaking from "a guy" point of view. A wedding is really an event for the bride. She wants to be treated like a princess that day. Pricey things are better. Shiny things are better. Getting more people invited are better. Pricey bands are good. Fancy custom clothing is good.

... and standard packages and plans, like what everyone else is getting, are NOT good
Good to hear that I wasn't alone in that thinking!

I would be an interesting experiment in pricing. All things "iPhone" get premium priced (except the amount a user is willing to pay for the app), so I wonder if it could be priced higher, or if since the iPad distribution is much lower, it will result in a lower price point.

Of course it is always easier to wonder when it is not your product that is being impacted :)
Unfortunately, this is exactly what I came in here to say. This truly is a sad day for anyone that wants to use anything but OSX on their Mac.

(Written on a Macbook Pro running Ubuntu 10.04)
referring to

http://daringfireball.net/misc/2010/07/url-matching-regex-te...

you can see he wants to match things like www.example.com, but not filename.txt

So www. can introduce a url also.
A Gucci Mane bot would be so sweet.
Maybe you weren't deficient? I had a blood test that said I was deficient, after taking about 4000IU of vitamin D a day for a long time (years). I upped the dose to 10,000-12,000IU, and I feel the same, but the blood test comes back as not deficient.

Interestingly, a strong immune system is not always good. I am allergic to everything. (But that problem is solved with immunotherapy.)
The open ATI drivers really are improving. From my own experience, my home desktop with an nVidia 8800GTS can run for about a week before the display starts getting crazy amounts of corruption, and KDE grinds to a halt. My work machine, with an AMD HD4650 card, runs smoothly and never has any issues. Support for KMS is also a plus. I don't really do much 3D stuff on either machine though, so I haven't been noticing nVidia's generally superior OpenGL support for a while. Both machines have dual 1900x1080 monitors, and the home machine is a lot beefier than the work one.
They'd probably call it a McWedding and not authentic. Look at the diamond people - the whole thin is a racket around this "love" thing.
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An article in the Atlantic that was posted here "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty" actually talks about this idea from the lens of international development. It dwells on the analogy with Hong Kong, and some city states in Mediaval Europe quite extensively. It's a thought provoking read, you should check it out here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/07/the-politi...

HN discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1426429
Who is dumb enough to run linux on a $2000 macbook pro anyway ?
Those exist, i.e. http://www.michrenfest.com/assets/MRF2010weddingpackage.pdf
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Coincidentally, the next generation of (official) Pokémon games are called Black and White: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon_Black_and_White
[Citation Needed] (please ^_^)
You don't need to qualify it that far. It's grammatically incorrect in just about all standard forms of English. Exceptions happen in various jargons like you'll see 'codes' in sciency and weapons-researchy contexts but I don't think this is one of them.
Stopped altogether from which frame of reference? ;)
I think they're early issues with Jason's new venture (PadPressed). It's a bad experience on the iPad for me too and I ended up reading it on my laptop instead.
Picwing might be able to help on advice for this. Their photo quality is AMAZING. Anyone know how they did it?
... you are a douche and a troll and just what HN'ers "DO NOT WANT".
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New iMac vs. Mac Pro direct comparison
Update: Multiplayer seems to be working now.
Well, I didn't have a good experience with NVIDIA even though it's been a great brand to me when I used a PC many years ago. The NVIDIA 8800 in my Mac Pro was a miserable failure, and neither NVIDIA or Apple would RMA it even though I had on record multiple complaints about spotty behavior before it completely failed.

I read lots of complaints on the Apple forums, and not just about this particular card.
Let me be the first to dispell the misconception that one has to be the size of twitter or facebook to "build" a datacenter.

There's enough competition that a single cabinet with 4-7kW doesn't carry a substantial premium[1]. My most recent estimate of the break-even point is around $10k monthly, well within even a conservative definition of the startup phase.

[1] Over 2-8 cabinets or even a large cage.
I'd love to beta your guest list software (it would save me from building my own!). I am about to do the invites for my wedding so I am on the lookout for sweet wedding related web services.
There's an app for that: http://www.halfbakery.com/
They do say they are working to restore it in the long term, but it's not clear if it's a technical or a regulatory issue.
Astrotrain powers Lighthouse and Tender Support: http://github.com/technoweenie/astrotrain
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Mailman

Very popular...very well known.
On the other hand, frequency defines correct grammar eventually, doesn't it? If enough South Asians use that phrasing consistently, you can't argue it's bad grammar in that context.

Personally I find 'a software' and 'softwares' extremely annoying.
PayPal : No more withdrawal's to bank account for Indians
Customers have never heard of them.
We'll get more OpenCL & OpenGL focus on ATI cards now :)
Briton Given DNS 'Key To The Internet'
Good luck. If there is an industry out there that deserves to be disrupted, it's the wedding industry.
Awesome! Who says geeks don't have a sense of humor!

Oh! And while we are at it, jquery also makes my breakfast every morning.
please tell me this was faked for april fools day, or may fools day or well... just please tell me it was faked.
I'm no paleo advocate, but your statistics are totally wrong.

Denmark is the world leader in per-capita meat consumption, followed by New Zealand and Luxembourg. The USA is number 4. Canada is in the top 10, but the UK and Mexico are not. Mexico isn't even in the top 30.

Likewise, consider two of the main diet-influenced lifestyle diseases: heart disease and diabetes. Countries in Eastern Europe are all ahead of the US in heart disease incidence and deaths per capita, as are Germany, Norway, Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia. There is a higher incidence of diabetes per capita in Germany, Argentina, South Korea, Spain, Mexico and Puerto Rico vs. the US.

If you don't adjust per-capita, the countries with the most heart disease and diabetes are China, India and Russia.
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I think he's referring to Schell's talk at DICE 2010: http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/dice-2010-design-outside-the-bo...

He mentions around the 3 min mark that lead generation generates more revenue than direct payments (and then goes on that topic for a bit).
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Seems you need to make better comments.
As a point of reference, I did print-your-own wedding invites. Bought them at Michaels. Just use a text editor and a swirly font, then run them through your home printer. We actually got compliments on them and I think they were less than $1 per...plus about an hour total to write up the invite and print it out 60 times.
Have you considered using 3d printers to generate the press template on demand?
Could you tell us what other similar projects/gems exist in ruby? How is this different or better than them ?

Are you handling gmail accounts, TLS authentication ?
Is this 1.9 compliant ?
Harnessing the Superstar Effect
I only just looked that up. Apparently Gucci Mane is a rapper.

My mental image is spoiled.
Looks a lot like a light version of the Pythonic and much beastlier Lamson (http://www.lamsonproject.org/) created by Mr. Shaw.
at the moment it seems like fake gift card software is very much in demand. This request fills almost the entire list
It was faked: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=add+a+number+to+another+nu...
I'm pretty sure it's faked. Look at the related questions and the job ad.

My favorite: Where are my legs? :)
lovely story snippets... a must read!
Thanks! I don't currently have Newegg prices yet, but I hope to add those soon. Their prices are usually competitive and they're known to run some pretty good deals from time to time.
I think the main enabler of political corruption is politicians aren't paid enough. In the U.S, they oversee trillion dollar budgets yet are paid less than $100,000. It's a recipe for corruption. Politicians in Singapore pay themselves a few million dollars annually and Transparency international rates Singapore as the 3rd least corrupt country in the world.
I thought blinking text went out with MySpace...

As for the info, it sounds like it isn't PayPal but the Indian Government that is the problem here.
I think perhaps my dictionary is different to yours.

What I'm talking about is this: The web is a wonderful place, originally built to share academic documents, but which has blossomed into so much more. Government documents and many other things are now shared on the web, and discussion and openness is rampant.

Now I hear the suggestion that academic documents should be limited in some way - that they should only be discussed on "academic" websites, whatever that might mean.

This statement to me is analogous to "Government white papers should only be discussed on Government web sites" and reminded me of the recent Australian censorship to prevent "unnecessary premature debate".

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/no-minister...

I don't like Saint-loup's suggestion at all. If it's a social suggestion that we shouldn't talk about such things, then leave the conversation - don't try to shut it down. If it's a serious suggestion about controlling the conversation, then it is a censorship proposal.

No-one is blacking out words here, but what is the problem with discussing these papers? I asked for a reason, and Maro's very nice response seemed to indicate that it was justified as the material can't be understood by mere mortals. I don't think that's enough of a reason.

I understand that you don't like my response. I don't think I was ranting. I just really like the openness of the web and abhor any attempt to control it. If you don't like the conversation, move along.
Astrotrain is the only other ruby project I know of: http://github.com/technoweenie/astrotrain

Mailman is very lightweight, has Rails integration, and doesn't require a database to store routes (Astrotrain does). Instead, it uses a Sinatra-like DSL to define routes and conditions.

Gmail accounts can be handled using a MDA like getmail and the built-in maildir support in Mailman.

Mailman works fully with 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, REE and JRuby.
He didn't really diss twitter, just that it was a medium that people used to talk about him
Yes, it was modeled after Lamson in some ways, but I didn't think that writing yet another mailserver was necessary, and I wanted Rails integration.
It's comments like these that make me wish I knew somebody within a company well enough to speak about a company on more than a first name basis. You know what I mean, speaking through the doubly speak, or speaking frankley about a company's goals to know why they make certaint actions. Zi understand the legal ramifications this would raise, knowing this sensitive information about a company's long term plans, but it would still be neat to know simply to know.
I think you'll find that Mailman is much more lightweight (it doesn't require a database and uses Mail, not TMail), and easier to use. Obviously you had very specific requirements when writing Astrotrain, but I'd love it if you'd try Mailman.
Then get out in front of that potential. If you don't, someone better funded will take your idea and immediately run past your v1.
quizzle.com gives you a 100% free credit score check every 6 months. I'm not sure if its the same level of access you're talking about, but it really is free, as opposed to all the commercials you seen on TV. It's like mint.com, they fund it by trying to hook you up with service offers.
"I need a software that controls US defense systems to remove human error from strategic decisions must not become self-aware" (via @laughlitmus)
Not to mention:

* Change the saved game format to store and load all this new data.

That aspect alone throws the whole thing into doubt, since you would have to change hardware to support the enlarged save data. The original Red and Blue games already had unusually large amounts of save data for a GB game, enough that emulators at the time of their release did not properly support them, and I'm pretty sure it was well-compressed(within the constraint of guaranteeing a worst-case size). It's unlikely that it would fit after adding additional state to every enemy trainer and species in the game. (see: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_data_str... )
It is, as the URL indicates, from doxdesk.com and is meant as a joke. The author says, "I thought this image would be An Hilarious Joke-humour for SO users..."

You can find the article with the image in place on the front of the site.

(though, like some of The Onion's eerily prescient humor, this hits a bit closer to reality than might be believed)
Wigflip's roflbot has my personal favorite implementation of putting text on images. It's very intuitive:

http://wigflip.com/roflbot/
Except the whole point of this thing, as clearly explained in the article, is for everyone with access to a regexp implementation to be able to reuse the same few-line regexp, as a drop-in replacement that works better than the the shitty regexps they currently use to recognize URLs. (Examples of currently bad matchers that might benefit from this code: hacker news’s, gmail’s)

When they get a tiny bit clumsy, but before they get so clumsy that adding a bunch of parsing machinery is really worth the trouble, regexps are still the best solution.

* * *

Markdown, on the other hand, John Gruber’s more famous project, would be much improved (especially for people interested in extending it) by having its specification written in terms of a real grammar.
Look at the related questions, the names of the users and other page elements. Someone's just modified the DOM content.