skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're really excited about the potential of Raplets: they make users' lives easier by integrating repetitive workflows into their email, and they help websites increase engagement by being right there in their users' inboxes.

For example, we have an internal admin page allowing us to fix and diagnose bugs, showing us what browsers someone uses, etc. It took us about half an hour to build a Raplet that integrates that into our email, so that whenever we get a support email, we're one click away from the admin panel for that user.

We also have some great integrations with web services like Crunchbase - see an investor's portfolio as soon as they email you - and MailChimp - when a customer emails you, see whether they read your newsletters and what links they've clicked on.
Unfortunately, modern Pyrex contains no borosilicate but is now made from "tempered soda-lime": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex
This is reminiscent of the way the old-fashioned cablecars worked (and still work in San Francisco): the cable snakes through the system and is operating at full speed always, while the cars start and stop by slowly releasing or catching the cable.
I'm reading this right now. I have to say, I saw Tony on an episode of the Apprentice and was left with the (apparently wrong) impression that he didn't have much personality.

However, in his writing, he comes across as humble, hard-working and brilliant. He also strikes me as someone who is a little crazy and probably a blast to hang out with.

The book is a great read and inspirational for anyone contemplating the tough road for a startup founder. It gives you a fascinating window into the mind of an entrepreneur who has built and sold quickly (LinkExchange) and then went on to build an "overnight success" 10 years in the making.
Incoming The Sun Unleashes CME at Earth
What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy?
dukgo.com - not quite as short or memorable as ddg.com, but a step in the direction you speak of!

(clickable - http://www.dukgo.com)
By nature I'm somewhat of an introvert, so I have to apply a conscious effort to speak out at parties and other social events. I see this as a great excuse for myself and others like me to keep practicing and improving. The fact that your personality type is "introverted" doesn't mean you actually have to remain an introvert.
The question is from Giz, the author provides the answer.
Great! Let me know if you have any questions. You can email me at troygoode@gmail.com.

If you're feeling especially generous, any feedback you can offer in terms of tweaking the "getting started" directions to make it easier to... erm... get started would be very much appreciated.
I personally enjoy having producers, which in a sense are like product managers. The primary benefit is that producers can deal with the client, whether internal or external. Programming and designing require long blocks of concentration and it's hard to delivery quality products if you're routinely interrupted.
Personally, I just don't like the way I look on videos. I think it is harder to make a good impression on video. I acknowledge that I might look as weird in RL as on video, but in RL I can decide not to think about it.

Anyway, I can imagine this video thing taking off, unless there are legal problems. Don't know why, but I think in the uk you are not supposed to include photograps with applications. Perhaps to prevent racism?
How do you get away with removing the ads from Gmail? is that not against their TOS?
Brian Skerry reveals ocean's glory - and horror.
In a perfect world, there would be no need for managers. Everyone would come together as a collective, agree on what needed to be done, and then go off and do it. People would always follow through on their commitments, or report issues immediately so that the group could adjust plans. There would also be no need to document and communicate a plan (like the barn-raising scene in Witness, the canonical example). People would understand their role, and how it contributes to the whole, and would always act congruently with the goals of the group.

Of course, we don't live in that perfect world. In the real world, we need managers at various times, to help make the group more effective. So, with respect to the title of your post, yes, managers are necessary. The secondary question that I believe you touch on, "does manager have to be a dedicated role", is more complicated. In the company I work for, many of our employees move in and out of management roles, in addition to their day-to-day project responsibilities. I've seen other organizations that are successful with a similar approach. I think that where the team consists of highly trained professionals, who have the requisite maturity, it is possible to operate with a part-time manager.
Same problem with low-resolution webcam video.

I'm not arguing against the value of seeing someone in person (although depending on the context I would be happy to give up the extra data to get the whole thing done faster and more conveniently). I'm arguing against badly-lit, amateur video postage stamps.
The spec work of this sort is not a proposal; it is the actual work. Your analogies in other fields break down, because for the designers, this work is like the lawyer's case (not a consultation) and like the consultants "large project".
I work in a small consultancy / contracting place. For a lot of projects I have to write the proposal, attend pre-spec meetings, come up with the costings, get the purchase order, deal with all the 'commercial issues', invoicing etc

Sometimes it's ok, but I would prefer if we had a dedicated person to doing that all the time.

Managers are definitely useful for paperwork and dealing with commercial / political situations :)
I have the completely opposite experience on my HTC Eris. If I don't use a task killer I get lag problems (especially with dialer delay) It becomes unbearable after a couple of days. Everything is perfect a few seconds after a trip to ATK. I'm not sure if this is a resource management problem or just a bug in the HTC Sense apps.
I guess hackers don't like predictions so much. Who is to say that such wont be the time in one thousand years. Are we going to dig down to earth instead, rather than find more effective ways to use the very finite space on earth.

They did not start building high buildings for no reason. Why would the solution be any different if a solution one day our roads needed?
Stagnate? Snow Leopard is just under a year old. I wouldn't expect a desktop OS to have a same release frequency as a mobile os.
Likewise, proud investor! And totally addicted user.

Rahul, Sam and Martin are really capable and some of the best at listening to users and to the market.
Software engineer is the generic title for a number of levels: software engineer II, software engineer III, senior software engineer, staff software engineer, senior staff software engineer, and so on.

I heard that the job titles for engineers above a certain level are shared publicly with in the company.
A diary from a correspondent at Foo Camp
If your site is being properly found by real people with Google, then does it matter if the search results page doesn't show the .com yet? My assumption is that anybody who wants to share your URL with somebody will do it after they've arrived at your page (as opposed to writing down the URL displayed on the SERP). The big issue with switching domains is making sure your pages can still be found, which it sounds like they are.
Related to pricing, your pricing page has a 'Free' option, but you said you are not going the freemium route. I'm assuming that you have just not updated the page yet. In the comments you mentioned $12 a month. Seems strange to offer this as a monthly service. I'd rather just pay a single price as a user. What happens after the wedding? Do they have to cancel? Since there is a definitive end date to the usefulness of the app, I think you should at least the option of paying for a 12 month price up front. But $144 might be a bit high.
The ".ly" suffix is the new "e" prefix. Startups that would be successful with a normal .com suffix will be just as successful with their .ly suffix. Sure, the trend is a little silly - but most of the current ".ly"s will eventually die and we'll be left with the few standouts who we can never imagine with a different name.

See: eBay, eTrade
My own personal experience agrees with the need for Advanced Task Killer. When I leave my nexus one alone for a few days, it inevitably starts to slow down (sometime pausing for as much as 10 seconds totally locked up). I'll open adk, and see that I have 40M of free memory. I kill everything, and the phone is instantly snappy and quick again.

It doesn't need doing as often as on my old G1, but it needs it. I don't know if that is because I am running cyanogen mod (5.0.8, which is based on 2.1) or what, but you can pry adk out of my cold dead hands. Maybe I have some buggy apps. But adk makes my phone usable.

Android doesn't seem as smart as it supposed to be, but I still like it.
I'm so making Wufoo-Foo
The question that comes to mind after reading the article is "Who cares?"

Nowadays - in my humble opinion - people purchase phones to satisfy a need inclusive of the basic phone call one. Some users think that the X phone is cool or easier to use than the other one. If say the iPhone is cooler than an Android based one, then no article from Techcrunch is going to convince the user to purchase one over the other.

Let's not forget that the people that do not follow stats and capabilities and specifications and purchase a phone because it is cool are not going to read Techcrunch therefore the article brings the "Who cares" question in my mind.

Concluding, don't we have better things to discuss than oh how the mighty iPhone has been surpassed by the even mightier Android one?
Here you go:
http://code.google.com/p/sofia-ml
I'm going to shock you lot and tell you I haven't read it although I've heard mentions of it from hackers that seem to live by it and quote it. What's so good about it?

EDIT: Just recalled that it's a book by Ayn Rand which to me came across as a total looney at the time.
The Magic 8-Ball Of Angel Investing
I'm not really sure that an uber-interest group that decides which special interest groups' policies it supports/opposes on any given issue adds much to political discourse.
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Plenty of existing interest groups are well-funded and organised enough to offer benefits to members; many do. The ACLU, the Catholic Church and reddit readers were perfectly able to articulate their views on financial reform that werent motivated by [obvious] special interests. The reason that the banks have been more effective in their lobbying is because they're much better connected, more-highly motivated and more knowledgeable when it comes to pushing for the financial reforms they want. Forgive me for judging your policy plans based entirely on a witty cartoon, but I'm not entirely convinced that simply going online, having a budget and claiming to be a non-aligned faction is going to help you unite different factions with different views on financial reform effectively enough to beat the bankers. They might even convert First Nation to their way of thinking (they're the ones providing the credit cards, right :p)
Everyone always seems to bail out on giving a good intuitive description of how quaternions are used as rotations. Sometimes I wonder if this is because most people just don't really understand them, or if they are genuinely hard/weird.

Perhaps they're the gaming equivalent of monads from Haskell - born from math, useful for real, but make your head explode if you try to understand them "properly."
I only bought a .ly domain for the purposes of having a super short domain im.ly (my company is infinimedia), and we don't plan on trademarking or branding that domain.
+1 for just doing it. You won't get any of the stuff in these articles without context.
Halo 2600 (i.e. Halo for Atari 2600)
I'm using Devise, an authentication plugin for Rails, to handle the user registration. The default max length for the password is 20 characters, but I've bumped this up to 40 to be on the safe side. I'll deploy this change later in a bit. Thanks!
Twitter User Streams Is Crack For Realtime Web Junkies
Congrats to the Rapportive team!

Thrilled to be on board as an angel investor.
Google is still the best big publicly held company in the valley to work for. I wrote this to guide the thousands of Googlers they'll add this year.

Having said that, I've been at well functioning startups, and I've been at Google. Google when I joined was better than many many startups. Google when I left was not so.
Why would one apply to a YComb job when if one is skilled enough he can apply to YComb itself?
Update: there's some intel from a costume designer that does seem to add new insight to the meaning of the last scenes. Link here: http://io9.com/5602799/did-inceptions-costume-designer-just-...
While it's true that a handful of states have health plans, it would be advantageous to have a federal health plan, due to economies of scale. Furthermore, a federal health plan would ensure some consistency from state to state, making it easier to choose between health care, or your livelihood. Remember, some of us were cursed with poor genetics and are a guaranteed loss for any health insurance company.

Your statement suggesting that the government is more liberal than the population is unfounded. Recall, in the last Presidential election Barack Obama won on the currently enacted platform by a significant percentage. Furthermore, if people were actually aware and educated in political issues, it's my opinion that the country would lean more leftward. The only reason why any network or news source can possibly suggest the country is a center-right country is due to the vast perpetual amounts of mis-information and political propaganda.

It's also my opinion that the "Tea Party" are bogeyman. Their entire platform is empty of anything constructive, instead the platform seeks to incite, destroy, and push people apart. One need only look at Tea Party donor records to see who the Tea Party truly represents.
Yes. The advice was given to help people move up the ladder, grab the brass ring, and get the big payout. If you want quality of life, that advice is not for you. Then again, if you want quality of life, and money is not that important, I think that a good startup is hard to beat.
We believe the context we provide is a much more valuable use of the limited sidebar space than the ads it replaces; and we think that adds value to the platform, both for Google and for its users. People evidently agree, as (nearly) nobody complains about the loss of the ads, but lots of people love the utility we provide - and indeed have switched to Gmail to get it.

We're not interested in cheating Google out of their ad revenue, although we suspect the Gmail ads aren't making that much revenue anyway.

We have a good relationship with Google, and we were a launch partner for their contextual gadgets platform: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/putting-email-i...
If you are using CGI, then those memory leaks will be short lived, limited to one request.
Turned out I had javascript, flash and some other things turned off. It uses Abcpdf component to create the pdf, I just found that a bunch of options are turned off by default.
I do not think anyone predicted the 2007 crash besides whoever is in the business of predicting crashes. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom then declared that he had eradicated the cycle of boom and bust. We all felt that it could only get better. Now if some guy is so smart, then perhaps there is something very wrong with our system of selecting the top banker, which is the governor of the Bank of England in this country.

I would like however to suggest that higher education is very different from estate or technology. Higher education is slightly more like electricity or clean water. It is a necessity. The universities may charge however much they like, as may companies which provide electricity, because people simply have to bear it.

Someone who is interested in exploring the world, even if that may be through such a low field as you suggest of sociology or psychology or indeed philosophy, will still be willing to take the grants that states provide in order to fulfil such desire. They think and so they may be right that they will indeed die and the aim as long as they live is to explore the reality of the life that they do choose to live. What is the nature of people, how could we be governed better....

What I am suggesting is simply that there is no bubble in education nor can there be. Whatever the number of people that are educated so the better it is.

Education you see is very different to an eighteen year old than to someone who has gone through life so well perhaps and has the freedom to provide us his wisdom through the internet. That eighteen year old perhaps your have forgotten does not actually quite know yet who he is or the nature of reality. Higher education provides him a good grasp of that.

What I would be much more worried of is the hierarchy in education, the only place where it is feasible and desirable for a communist system to be implemented in as far as providing all with the same standard of teaching and holding them all to the same standard.

As for bubbles, there are no bubbles here. Nor will there ever be. Bubbles happen in the for profit sector. Not in the most basic service besides food and water that humans require.
Oops you're right.
Google has a software engineering ladder. It was introduced in 2002-2003. Many old-timers considered it Google's biggest mistake.

Past a certain point in the ladder, promotions were a big deal and those who got promoted to that point got it publicly announced. Past another point, the CEO himself announced it in a company-wide e-mail.
If you've got the skills, but no experience with the start up scene, it would be a great time to hone your skills while learning about what it really takes to make a business work (from scratch) first hand. You would come out (more) ready to do it on your own idea on the other end.

But yeah if you've got an idea and the skills and the motivation required, by all means apply you YComb yourself.
Because it's P.R. for HiveHire. Why does P.G. use Posterous sometimes?
91% accuracy for spam classification is pretty effing weak.
Different people enjoy different things. For example, many hackers would prefer to work at a company where they could concentrate all their time on coding rather than start a startup themselves where they'd have to spend much of their time doing other tasks.
I've been following the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (RIP) which is one of the most famous fantasy series of the past 50 years, and all of Peter F. Hamilton's novels, which can only be described as epic space operas. Both authors are worth reading, but be forewarned that getting through the (currently) 12 books in WoT will take quite a bit of your time.
I think "Lamb" is my favorite Christopher Moore book.
Marketing Lessons from the Dead
Oh wow, this brings back memories of applying to all the UC schools.
Can someone explain why his early point about having lost common ground has come about?

Seems likely to me that a lot of political parties might tend to come closer together over time, because they will always have the support of the extremes (ie. if the Republicans move a bit closer to centre, the hard-right conservatives might grumble a bit but won't ditch them and vote Democrat) but by shifting to more centrist policies they can potentially pick up more middle-of-the-road voters. What is happening in the US that makes the reverse true, that the parties are becoming more polarised?
Making Freemium work: Venture capital leaders talking at Google I/O 2010
Just finished reading "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" (http://www.smallpieces.com/) which is a wonderful read on why we care about the Web.

The author's previous work called "The Cluetrain Manifesto" (http://www.cluetrain.com/ ) is also a nice read
The 8 legal steps to creating a startup
I thought I had this redirection setup already! It turned out that this was due to the default server setting block was still in the nginx.conf file and overriding the redirection (instead of serving the correct marrily.com site, the default site was served instead)

Thanks for pointing this out. The redirection works now.
Rethinking 'Fuck You' money
If you were to make an iPhone app, let's say to facilitate the mobile entry in a cool way, would you still own the app after the contest? I assume it's all just whatever you want to do with it? and they just pick a winner?

or are you submitting to them "for keeps" ?
Ask HN: Possible to hire as W2 but w/ 90 day probation?
Wondering if it's possible here in CA to hire someone as a W2 but put the employee on a 90 day probationary period where the company is not responsible for unemployment if we have to let the person go.

Note: I'm a regular HN contributor; using a throwaway ID just to remain anonymous. Thanks!
fixed :) Thank you!
As much as I love seeing other people on video, this method of applying for jobs is not for everyone. Somehow I feel really uncomfortable when there are cameras pointing at me.
Think of apps more as asynchronous event handlers rather than processes. When you take an action, some app wakes up and handles the event. They are always memory resident, but that doesn't mean they are doing anything.
Also BTW, we've done it in the past as "hire as 1099 on a project basis then convert to W2" but we want to start this person as a W2 in this case.
The terms of the contest say you get to keep it:

"The code from all submitted entries remains entirely under the ownership of the submitter. The exception is wrapper libraries which we require to be open source and permission given to us to put up on our GitHub repository."
Totally agree; monthly fees make little sense. A big one-time fee might be reasonable in theory given that weddings are expensive anyway, but tricky if users cant see the value without using the service (a lot cheaper than a dress or a cake; but they're necessities and you know what you're ordering).

I'd have thought advertising or big affiliate commissions from wedding service/gift providers would be an easier way to monetise this
Screenshot + OCR = Copy/Paste for Android phones
New solar energy conversion process could double solar efficiency of solar cells
And also because its failure (from a sales perspective) will further entrench the dysfunctional model of subsidized phones that are deliberately crippled.
There's no substitute for reading good C++ code, especially larger projects that still manage to be usable, maintainable and somewhat consistent.

For example, the code of LLVM, Ogre, Box2D, bullet and the Second Life viewer, even though they're not always perfect, have all taught me useful things and all look far better than any of the large commercial C++ code bases I cut my teeth on.
I would absolutely do business with PirateNinjaRobots. I don't even care what they do. Take my money.
The people watching those streams were probably not going to pay to watch it anyways. They didn't lost much profit.

If anything they probably gained more viewers who might pay to see the next event.
I'd snap it up anyway and use it for links posted to Twitter.
there was already a war about this.

non-geographical based governance doesn't work unless respect for property rights is uniform...in which case the motivation to do this will be nonexistant since that is the biggest issue.
How is Unladen Swallow doing anyway? I've had the impression that the project is stalled, their Subversion has been mostly stalled this year: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/source/list
I wonder what Justin.tv would have done.
That site missed one: "Become a grade-A dick by intrusively engaging with people who tweet shit about your shit."
well, no, the math involving Hilbert "systems" and entropy is not esoteric as such. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

I agree that Ars should have tempered the sensationalist headline.