skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a better problem than having the whole domain name be hard to remember. I guarantee you a lot of people will look at this site and go, "Holy cow, that name is total nonsense," because the two doubled letters in a row make it no longer resemble the word "jump" so much as a cat walking on a keyboard. Personally, my skim-reading more closely associates it with the word "app" than "jump," which makes me want to read it as "jumapp."

My personal recommendation: For maximum readability, consider something like "letsjump.in". If you're attached to a quirkily spelled "jump in", "jumpp.in" is fairly readable.
Google Tags Review
You know how you scarequoted the word genius to invoke a specific definition that you don't believe is really real?

It's really real.
I'm assuming this: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_a...

which I pulled from Google but I totally agree with you that it's not that helpful, since it mostly talks about agriculture courses.
That looks better, but it's still $150/month for a quad core with only 1GB of memory. In fact even their $270/month offering only has 1GB of ram. The specs vs. price is not close between the German and US offering.
That's awesome! Sorry, didn't mean to sound cheesy. Yeah, I find most shops commercially licensing open source software get pinched into an almost apologetic position. Seems completely counter productive and unfair to me.
Site looks pretty well done but it just doesn't seem like something I would use. I have Facebook if I want to share searches with my friends and I can just copy/paste my wikipedia/google/whatever URL there. I have HN, reddit, Digg, etc if I want to do w/ people I don't know IRL but who have the same interests as me.
A semantic search engine, costing just $1K a month
Part of the issue is you don't want 100 features but only one person uses one feature, like word or Excel. If you do have a lot of features that are rarely used, you should hide as many as possibly behind an 'Advanced' area.

If the feature is useful to a large set of your users, then I would agree and add the feature. If it is only 1 user asking for it, then I would not add it. I tend to be like you and think, its only 1 line of code to make it work like they want, they are a paying customer, why not make them happy. But I've been burned by this. I had a customer who really wanted a few modifications. I made 1 that would help everyone using the service. I was going to start the second one against my better judgement, but right before I did, the person using the software quit her job (where she was using it), and her replacement didn't want to use it.
IE9 SVG Handling
Space shuttle always was a military project.
I misread the url and immediately saw "player styles." Perhaps a more succinct brand name or url could help? EDIT: I see "Style Works" on the page now.
If someone is thinking "what could I get 'tptacek for Christmas for all his helpful comments", know that I can't justify dropping $500 for a book, but I soooooo want to. ;)

McGee and Ferran Adria both say this set of books is going to change cooking. McGee wrote basically the bible of culinary science (On Food And Cooking, which you should buy even if you don't cook much, it's just a great, great book to open to any page and thumb through); Ferran Adria is one of cooking's greatest innovators.
Clarifying that will help make mores sense out of the stats. The proportion of users to projects could be an indicator of productivity. Or not.
I think the "differentiated online services" part is a reasonable compromise, and they say there are safeguards and limits in place.

Your broadband provider is in the unique position of having super-cheap bandwidth directly to you, cheaper and faster than the vanilla internet they can provide. They'll be forbidden to prioritise one site over another, or to discriminate against individual sites. The question really is, do you want to forbid them from selling useful services based around this cheap bandwidth? That's what IPTV and health imaging are all about.

Enterprising startups in these spaces already have barriers to entry based around cost. They can either wait for the bandwidth to become cheaper, try to cut similar deals, or come up with a way of providing these services without the same bandwidth needs.
> Welcome to the mind of the Republican.

patio11 has said in the past that he's a Republican. And even though I think I'd disagree with him about various topics in politics and economics, I think he's got a pretty good mind.

And I would vastly prefer a site where I can talk with people like him about tech and startups, rather than the Nth echo chamber site about politics where you get a self-reinforcing feedback loop that tends to marginalize those who disagree with the majority opinion.
uh, I draft plenty of complex code on paper. The code I wrote today was drafted on 5 sheets of a legal pad yesterday.

I've tried to just draft stuff in a text editor but it doesn't work the same.
Quit Getting Tricked By Bit.ly Links
Your site is really well done but this seems like more of a feature than a stand alone product. What is the most compelling reason a user would have to use this and not an existing sharing service?
They did not reject Camera+ --- Camera+ is one of the most popular apps on the store (it's fantastic, by the way). They rejected a single release of the app which drastically violated Apple's interface guidelines, and specifically explained why.
P≠NP? Why Laypeople Should Care
Is Good Code Impossible? Part 2: Project Manipulation Patterns
> There was nothing in his original comment that indicated he believed there was an optimum point between 0-100%.

Would you really want to waste any of your time with someone who believed in either 0 or 100? They're some sort of True Believers and nothing you can say - neither facts nor logic - will dissuade them from their view. Luckily though, this community is mostly composed of cleverer folk than that, something that ought to be pretty obvious.
That's why you have the community here to keep you honest :p
Sure, I understand it's very easy to read that as me being arrogant (and I should've expected it). I certainly didn't mean it that way.

I've written and given away tons of code. I not-too-rarely meet new people and find out that they've been using code that I've written in their production environments.

I've also given away as much higher level information as I can in my blog posts, mailing list contributions, and on places like StackOverflow, here, reddit, etc...

I'm not by any stretch of the imagination suggesting there aren't large numbers of people smarter than I am, but I will say without hesitation that it's wrong to consider the only way to increase the sum total of human knowledge is to grant someone a Ph.D.
With Seekier, the search terms are the center of the conversation and Seekier is soley built around this focus. Thank you for the feedback.
more details without exact details?
Forget comparing the OSes, instead compare this to Apple's equivalent website: http://www.apple.com/why-mac/. I don't think there's any question who has the better campaign going.
Force10 will sell you a router that will fend off a DDOS attack with over a million zombies. It's going to cost you though.

Yes, there will be an interruption, but you will be able to get the situation back under control while the attack is still in progress. You will need your upstreams/peers to collaborate.

If you're on the Cisco platform, then good luck to you.
Is it that hard to see? The shoe importer is just doing something sneaky for his (and his customers - let's not forget the import duties are a net loss) gain, but he's not really doing anything at all to publicly challenge the law.

Whereas the supermarket guys are quite blatant in what they're doing to the point where the local government either had to relent or crack down.
Wrong: Arguing from one example.

You said engineers were not prisoners. This was not the case, and I provided a counterexample. That's all. I have no idea where you found anything in my post about American moral superiority. As for Soviet scientific progress, I also made no other points in my original post — but I will take the opportunity to do so now.

Yes, they had sharashkas up until 1953.

The Wikipedia article states that. Do you really believe that Khruschev, just because he chose to oust Stalin, gave up on such a convenient source of scientific labor? Keep in mind that history in the Soviet Union was always a complete fabrication dictated by the latest Party ideology. While I don't question that many forced labor camps closed, I seriously doubt that those closings were universal.
I've signed up too. I'm skeptical, but anything that helps with adwords directly increases the amount of money I make so I'm definitely up for giving it a try!
I do. But I never use anything but a pen, anyways, so I don't see why I'd need this.
All we need is for oil energy cost to goes up, than you'll get "green energy". Currently, it does not make sense to invest in green energy technologies.

It doesn't need to be solved right now, but it will become urgent in the future. Urgency will increase flow of capital. Increased flow of capital mean we'll get technological solutions faster.

Right now, we can put our money to other, more urgent things that's more important. Green energy is not that important, for now.
You don't think there's a difference between downing a cup or two of olive oil a day vs a stick of butter? That's a huge difference. They're chemically very different things.

You don't think eating two sticks of butter a day vs one stick of butter plus half a loaf of bread is different?

> People can't maintain diets

People can easily maintain high saturated fat diets. They can't maintain calorie restricted diets.

You'll get zero debate from me there's not really a quick hack and a key component of the obesity epidemic, perhaps the single biggest issue, is that people are lazy and gluttonous. But the fact remains the obesity epidemic exploded immediately after saturated fat as a percentage of calories came way down. Fructose is the other factor; it went way up.
I did not mean to imply that I kept my knowledge to myself.
I work at a company that did some "email campaigns" and many worse things in the beginning. And it helped a lot - getting as many sales from a smallish 10M country in Europe as from half of the US
It would've been a surprise to most, I think, if this had gotten through.
Seekier is built solely around seeing what people are searching in real-time. When users instantly see what others are searching, they can create discussions around these searches and help each other discover more. Thanks for the feedback.
So this is basically their business plan:

1. Write an angry blog post insulting New York, New Yorkers, and ibanks.

2. Ride the popularity wave as a heated discussion rages about whether New York is the greatest place on earth or an over-priced, roach infested pit of assholes and prima donnas.

3. Get on Techchrunch.

4. Profit.

As an ex New Yorker, the only thing I can say is "Why didn't I think of this myself!".
A startup I worked for did all of this and more - I left because some of their tactics were getting far too shady for me. Scraping business listings to populate your DB to make your ad network look like it was being used wasn't so unethical as some of their spamming adventures.
The Self-Referential, Executable svn Commit Message
What does an Apache v Litespeed benchmark have to do with anything?
Memo to Microsoft marketing: Piss off with the Mac comparisons
And let us not forget the more innocent days of 1996, when putting ads on free email was considered borderline shady: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/18/ps-i-love-you-get-your-free...
Taking the "Liar's Poker" approach eh? Cautionary tale >> guidebook
I can recommend a guy called John Berardi, specifically these 2 articles:

http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/masseating_rl_...

http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/7habits.htm
Does content farming have a future?
They should follow [Tapbot's lead](http://tapbots.com/blog/pastebot/pastebot-music-in-backgroun...). Play some music, have the volume buttons adjust the volume of the music (thus following the HIG) while also triggering the shutter.
Plenty of Jobs, Not Enough Workers?
It's curious to see someone who describes himself as "over a decade into my training as a professional scientist" commit the most basic of logical fallacies:

Gladwell: When we look at any kind of cognitively complex field ... you are unlikely to master it unless you have practiced for 10,000 hours.

Author: This rule reduces achievement to quantity: the secret to becoming great is to do a great amount of work

Err no. Gladwell says that to be great (A), you must have done 10,000 hours (B), i.e. A implies B.

The author then restates this as if you've done a great amount of work, you'll become great, i.e. B implies A. This is not a valid deduction!
I use Moleskin notebooks (go through about 1 a month) full of ideas, drawings, notes, just about anything. I also keep a stack of 4x6 notecards to hash out ideas on paper (1 step below talking them out loud to people).

Try it, it's incredibly effective.
If they plan on taking on FB, they should at least hire a graphic designer, to begin with. Cutting all the BS hype would probably help as well.
appropriate domain name.
Pair programming is worth discussing.

I've tried pair programming in person, and it's almost impossible for me. I have vision problems, and I just really need my own monitor, configured how I want it, with me sitting squarely in front of it. But even beyond that issue, I'm enough of an introvert that I have a whole set up thoughts running through my head when I'm in a social situation, monitoring myself for the image I'm presenting, and the other person for how they're reacting. I can still work, but it definitely takes up some bandwidth, kind of like if I'm working while speaking a foreign language.

But the experience of remote paired work has been surprisingly good, for more than just the vision reason. I'm started recently on a completely-remote development job, with the team spread across multiple continents. No pair programming yet, but I just got off a call a few hours ago where I worked with another developer for more than an hour, troubleshooting build issues.

- Whoever is driving shares their screen, but we both still have access to our own computers, so there's no "hang on, lemme run back to my PC to double-check my notes there...".

- You're never forced to code with someone else's computer/keyboard/monitor/mouse/system setup/chair/etc.

- No awkwardly bumping knees or elbows, no worries about the other programmer having overpowering coffee breath or odd physical tics, being distractingly unattractive or attractive, etc..

So YMMV, but personally I'd rather do pair programming this way even if I was at the office.

Side note: I am simply unavailable for jobs that don't allow telecommuting; that's been the case for years now.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443466
Actually, there's a lot more to it than simple 'key/value' binding, depending on how it's implemented. It allows you to build very live pages that are driven directly off your data model. Normally, websites build dynamic content using a templating system on the backend, but live updates need to be done in a horribly awkward manner using a Javascript builder syntax or manually gluing together things in JS. This avoids this problem and unifies it into one nice syntax.

I built a similar language like this powered a site of mine that was actually in production (well, Alpha) - and it was a huge productivity boost, resulting in far more interactive pages. (The site never got out of alpha, and never had designer love, so it's stale, but you can see it at http://www.magnifeast.com - try entering a los angeles address).

The downsides to this approach are compatibility (most libraries won't work out of the box), SEO, and performance problems for generating large pages (particularly in IE).

(BTW: this is a secondary account, I'm normally sshumaker - noprocast rule and all).
Here's a popular press article that addresses this:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857,00.ht...

I wonder if it's not more about willpower than appetite. Once you've used your willpower to get yourself to workout, maybe you don't have any left to resist bad food. Unless you're one of those lucky people who actually likes working out.
There are some differences:

http://github.com/languages
"I'm always surprised by those that will hem and haw over something that's not open-source." Open source has its place, as does proprietary software. Hemming and hawing aside, your market votes with their feet -- and that's exactly how you'll find out if you're properly situated.

That said, can you please not turn a post about Fun into a marketing platform for NOLOH? Fun may be fun, but your elevator pitch definitely isn't.
Didn't any part of you refuse to do this at a more visceral level? How could you sleep at night knowing you're cheating to get ahead? Does it even matter if you 'win'?

I can understand gaming Google and public opinion, but directly vandalizing someone's property and hindering their business is unconscionable.

I really want to understand the justification for this. And I say this as someone whose moral system is flexible enough to accept bank robbery (but not purse-snatching.)
> Also as a rule anyone who uses the term "ObamaCare" has an agenda

Everyone stop and think for a second - do you hold yourself to the same standard of debate as you hold the other side to? Would you, jsz0, call out a user of the word "teabagger" as coming from someone with an agenda? It's the same level of discourse.

A lot of people get upset when their ideal gets hit with a tacky dismissive label while simultaneously trying to slap one on the other side.
Interesting.

Not too long ago I found out that not only does California have incredibly high state income taxes, but it also has really high state capital gains taxes. It actually amazes me that silicon valley has thrived under those burdens which leads me to ask two very important questions:

1. Why hasn't the high taxes driven people out of Silicon Valley (and will it?)

2. How is California broke?

I come from Florida and in Florida, there are barely no state taxes at all because it's all on tourism. Somehow California has these insanely high taxes and still can't pay any bills. Other than blaming illegal immigrants (a dubious politically motivated response), I've never really gotten a straight up answer on what makes California and Florida so different.
That's not bad. 2x social security/medicare and you're a bit under 50%. I'm a wage-jockey in Canada, and I'm paying over 50%. So yeah, US taxes DO look like some of the lowest in the Western World.
I'm following the call for a clear pricing structure - I manage a lot of Adword accounts as part of my day job, and I'd be keen to look at anything that makes it simpler and easier. But only if it's also cost-effective...
Tech's most notorious CEO scandals
What exactly do you gain from this "poll"? If you want blackhat, go to PPC and adware peddling forums. Otherwise this thread does nothing but validate creepy behavior on HN.
Absolutely. I don't write much text with pen and paper, but diagrams, mathematics, music notation... all still much easier for me to do with a pen.
I often sketch out code, short stories, or (to me) fleetingly puzzling mathematics with a notepad and pen. Try it. It's the most versatile note-taking system ever devised.

Also, it has the plus-side of being 'interesting'. People are attracted to scribbles they understand them - but crack open your laptop in a pub or cafe and people will assume that you're a rabidly, uninterruptibly busy, professional. And hell, maybe you are, but whose day isn't brightened by someone asking them what they're so engrossed in?
I'd love to see other examples of commit messages along these lines ;)
Whether you'd like people to change their definition of personal privacy is a very different question from whether it's OK to invade their privacy.

I mean, if I'm poking you in the face with my finger and going 'nya-nya-nya,' and you ask me to stop, and I respond that you really shouldn't be bothered by that because it doesn't hurt you, how convincing would I be?

People don't like having their nudity exposed. Saying "it shouldn't bother them" is really not anyone else's place.
What would be even more entertaining, is a non-constructive proof of NP=P.
I enjoyed the article, and in general, I agree with the general philosophy of government behind it - a conservative, small government mindset that is practical enough to see a positive role for the state.

One thing it missed, in my opinion, is the extremely negative consequences of prop 13. Proponents of Prop 13 often argue that it lowered property taxes. As a recent home(owner/debtor), I assure you that it really did not. My taxes are extremely high. And when I move to a more expensive house (all part of that upward mobility), they will adjust upward once again.

Very wealthy individuals and corporations who bought a long time ago and never move pay extremely low property taxes. Young families and new businesses pay extremely high property taxes. To me, this is the most loathsome outcome of prop 13 - a low tax aristocracy of established wealth that keeps its own taxes low but enjoys a bloated state paid for on the backs of young families and new businesses.

I have no idea why principled small government conservatives can't see this problem with prop 13. You'd think that someone who wrote an article like this would be opposed to putting young families and new businesses at a tax disadvantage.

Aside from this (in my opinion) glaring omission that doesn't reflect well on self-declared fiscal conservatives, I think it was a good analysis. It's a shame, because while the article is measured in tone, it clearly does show a (deserved, I think) distain for the big government liberals who created a bloated state. C'mon, dude, hypocritical, fake "small government" conservatives who create a low tax aristocracy are also to blame here.

On the bright side, hey, my parents bought an expensive house in SF and an expensive vacation house in the wine country long ago, so their property taxes are far lower total then what I pay for a small 2br house in an unfashionable district of SF. If I inherit these houses some day, I'll also inherit their low taxes, too. Aren't aristocracies wonderful?
Ask HN: File a patent startup way?
I would like to file a patent for our product but also we are a busy startup with not enough resources to go to great lengths to filing a patent the right way. So do you have a suggestion to shortcut this process?

Particularly:

- Would it work if we filed it ourselves looking at similar patents?

- Should we patent our finding later when we have a better chance? Maybe we should just do it anyway since it would provide better protection than no protection?

- Any other ideas?
You wake up and realize ideas are worth nothing, everyone has them, and they would much rather work on their own, than steal a half baked idea from some random guy.
Completely tertiary to the primary feedback being requested, but: Your default avatar (which appears to be a zoom-in of the logo) looks (to me) like a zoom-in of a line drawing of a woman's cleavage, with one nipple showing.

edited: for punctuation
Google goes "evil"
BitTorrent's wasn't unethical or shady (unless you think all adult content is shady). They'd licensed the content - which was, IIRC, an kind of free teaser ad for 'LightSpeed' porn - which I remember as being an odd name for a porn site. Caused a huge fuss on Slashdot.
you really really need to be attacking your organic search rankings to get yourself some traffic -> sales. Contact me privately through my blog in my profile, I run something that can help you.
The interesting bit here is that that tactic did come back to haunt myspace, but in a different way than you'd expect. The guys that built youtube used the same tactic but by bitting myspace users to come and use youtube.