skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
McClure's 500startups invests in zozi $3M series A
Because interested parties can google it and in the reasonably likely case that the question goes unanswered, it's just noise.
I am still running android 1.5 on my phone (the Cliq) - since T-mobile and motorola are a bit slow to update their older platforms.
However, it still does what I need - browsing, email, calling. Bleeding edge usually add much more functionality, though I would sure like to try out the new voice activation features in 2.2
Yes, they're different articles by contents, but recap a lot of the same points (and probably are based on the same source).
On remembering and dealing with people's names
This really didn't add anything tangible to the discussion.
Army Deals With Unfit Recruits: drop the sit-up, downgrade the run
I'm not going to comment on the content of the article, but I'd like to take a second to point out how clever the writing is. I like how the first paragraph tells you about what you're going to hear: it's something special from the real world. Then he talks about getting his start in, lets say, the mid 80s. About 25 years ago. Then we hear of another VC, very experienced, that's 25 years you know?

A nice way to say, "I'm experienced, listen to me." He's probably right too.
I got almost all my news from Digg for the past 3 years. Watching Digg self implode like this is somewhat sad to see. It is fascinating, and scary how fast it happened. And I think Digg is in pretty serious trouble here regardless of what steps they take now, or whether they deserved it. The userbase seems intent on kicking them into the ground now.

I think their primary mistake was tying an infrastructure change with a complete recoding of the site. It appears they didn't even had a backup plan of going back to the old site in case "something" didn't go as planned.
What does a 142-day-old Happy Meal look like?
Women in Tech: How Anonymity Contributes to the Problem
appshows.com
Four Words: I Shipped. Feedback Please
Burning Man's open source cell phone system could help save the world
The psychological impact of being wrong is big enough to do it very often. Everyone going "oooooh... AHH" when they show the slow-motion ball cam, and most of the time its out.

Then everyone looks at you like you're the asshole. All of a sudden you're vilified, and home court advantage can shift over. There's little to be gained unless it was truly very close and the call went against you.
For Amber Lyon, CNN
> I got almost all my news from Digg for the past 3 years.

Wow. That doesn't seem like a good thing.
Great profile of a weak academic spreading his economic religion.
Can Open Source Be Saved From Itself?
How many had been completed as of Demo Day? I'll update the story.
This article would have been better argued had it provided stats on close calls which SHOULD have been challenged, by players with challenges remaining, but were not (for whatever reason).

In the absence of that information, and given more than 2 in 3 challenges are overruled, it's forced to boil down to the conclusion that players should "challenge recreationally" to disprupt an opponent.

Poor maths. Worse sportsmanship.
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- Build new features and interfaces
- Contribute to important UI/UX and product decisions
- Code primarily in Python, HTML, Javascript, and CSS
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- Ambitious, entrepreneurial, and enjoys autonomy
- Expert in Javascript, CSS, HTML
- Wants to work at a fast-paced startup

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- We're focused on technology, data, and great products
- We're early (+ equity, + influence of product, + business impact, + decision making)
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If you're interested, email your resume and/or portfolio to jobs@movity.com.
This would make the least interesting time-lapse video possible.
This is the best way to measure change on HN I think:

http://news.ycombinator.com/best

The ratio of HN vs non-HN items as observed by any individual is of course different.
Economics, especially macroeconomics, is a little too big to say which such certainty that "... he is most definitely an expert in the field."

We're talking about the problem of recovering from a leverage based bubble, an area where Ben "Helicopter" Bernanke (Chairman of The Fed) is an expert. If you look at what Wikipedia cites for Krugman's areas of specialty, they will touch on some of the issues of this but they don't seem to be directly related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman
You're being sarcastic, right?
Google is not always going to turn up the reference a parent post refers to though.

The 'citation needed' ones are another matter.
Taking the Drudge out of Drudge Work: Plug Testing (using robots)
Ask HN: How to motivate a non-technical cofounder
I've been building a basic CRM system for a specific industry that my co-founder and I have experience in. The problem is that he feels bad because I've been doing all the work developing the site. I've showed him earlier threads on HN about what non-technical co-founders can do to help out but I can't seem to motivate him to the point where he's just as excited about our software as I am. I'm counting on him to handle the sales/marketing part of the business once we launch while I continue developing and adding new features, I'm just worried he's not going to be enthusiastic enough to acquire customers.

There's plenty for him to do right now, but I still found myself putting together a list of potential leads the other day. How can I motivate him to get started on the business tasks like building lead lists and other non technical things?
Agree, but the time-lapse video would suddenly be interesting if it had some other food next to it (like an apple) for comparison.
Isn't that a pile on comment itself?
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You're so right. I used to think reddit had deteriorated until I discovered subreddits. Some subreddits have very high quality and relevant content.
They do give you the choice to display the button as "Recommend" instead.
In my opinion, both "Like" and "Recommend" would be perfectly suitable names for this feature were it not for the ability of those pages to post to your feed thereafter. I think that socially, it's a genuinely good feature.
That's fairly logical though, a url shortener would allow re-submission of the same link over and over again and drops the hint of where the link goes to from the 'new' and 'news' pages as well as the ability to hover on the link for the full url.

All of which are useful. Url shorteners are ok for twitter or IRC elsewhere they're just unnecessary complications.
cmelbye, having grown up in Egypt. I can assure it is not a cesspool by any stretch of the imagination
I don't even know why it would take that long... I, and I think many others, would love an opt-in, light-weight, "simple collaborative documents" side channel in the gmail interface (with the option to push a document over to the full gdocs interface) should be doable for them as of about yesterday or the month before. Apparently the larger public needs baby steps on this sort of thing, but lots of us don't.
Let's hope pathogens don't figure out how to do heap allocation. That would be a lot of trouble. After all it wouldn't take too much extra storage for them to collect 'data' on enough antibiotics that we'd lose the race.
We had this here before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1256516

I sometimes wonder why people expect every food item to dissolve into green goo.
Dojo templates & google maps infowindow
I have been building mashups using Google Maps since 2007 and one problem I had is passing in the content for these bubbles that show up when you click on a marker. Here is a good way to do it using Dojo templates.
I also didn't expect this but it doesn't really bother me either. It seems pretty logical to me - if I like something I'd like to have access to more of it.
Do you not mean after being penalised for spaming google we learned to spam everyone else but google?
Think about this- you define "qualified" as having "formal economics education" and yet you feel that you are qualified to say who is not qualified, without knowing whether they have the qualifications you just specified. You presume that I, and others, are not qualified. How would you know?

Edit to ad: This is not meant as a characterization of you, or an attack, etc. It is food for thought. You think that I was not "adding to the discussion" so, I've attempted to construct as neutral of a point as possible.
Google Voice Is A Hot Mess Right Now
Not to mention a morbid fascination with death.
Good to know, and I will, once I have my needs characterized sufficiently to be able to tell you what it is I need.
Testers for www.SimpleConnexion.com
Would you please try http://www.SimpleConnexion.com and give me your feeback. The idea is to let people meet each other based on topics they are interested in
What is the best price for an iPhone App?
Any tingling, numbness, soreness is a sign of doing it wrong or overdoing it, so why not stop or change. I've gone to using a trackball alternating with a tablet to give my wrist a change from the dreaded mouse. The trackpad on the MBP is far better than those tiny travel mice (got big hands).
Appreciate Rails 3 with Chaos
Between the Khan academy and wikipedia, open source and a whole bunch of other things the internet has realized a lot of its potential.

That the rest is turning in to a giant billboard is a pity, but those few sites and the open source movement make it more than worth it.

They're some of the best things to come out of all this and for the most part they were completely unpredictable.

The Khan academy is the use case for youtube to put forward as to why they exist. There are many more, but hardly any on that level of dedication and quality of content.

Wikipedia does the same thing for text and has left 'old' encyclopedias in the dust.

Now we need something similar for scientific papers that develops real traction, so that those that use for instance the Khan academy have access to all the underlying materials.
Ed Witten showed mathematical precocity at an early age: http://www.maa.org/pubs/mar04.pdf (page 28). Without exposure during his youth, it's almost impossible he could've completed a PhD in math at Princeton.
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.
Testers for www.SimpleConnexion.com
HN voting ring improvement
The only trend I've seen lately that's bugged me is people creating "throwaway" accounts with names intended to be a joke specific to the comment they've posted.
Seconded about Beethoven's 7th, 2nd mvt. I'm no connoisseur, but that one disarms me every time.

A fascinating visualization of it (maybe less so for those who can read music scores?) If you haven't heard this piece yet, don't let the link below be your first exposure to it. It's Youtube audio and I'd like it a bit slower. But once you've heard it properly, seeing this fullscreen is fascinating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOxOgm5jQ4&feature=fvw
Would love to know more details about this.
This is not the worst way to spend money, but really, if Google doesn't need the money for its business, it should just pay it back to its shareholders in the form of either stock buybacks or dividends.
I have found that the majority of edits appeared in the before time(pre 2010), and the amount of edits that stick are relatively low. On that note, I would also like to point out there are still ones that do. I have no issue with a company editing their page with updated information and what not, but I do have an issue with companies writing about them selves in a word-game kind of way; in the sense that certain words have different emotional impacts.

I guess this is one of the reasons I was never allowed to cite wikipedia.
Ask HN: Any Python hackers want to make stuff?
Hey HN, I do .NET stuff at work and hack on Python projects most nights/weekends. I am looking for like-minded developers to work on side-projects with. I am by no-means some Python guru looking to write the next Django, but I think I am pretty decent and want to start making 'real' stuff that people will actually use.

Nothing formal, no start-up dreams, just hacking on projects with Python/git

Email is in my profile or find me on IRC (freenode #python-hn) if this sounds like something you're interested in.
Of course PageRank increases qualified, revenue-producing traffic.
I think the real win would be to transform the video to html5: transcribe the text and drawings, add some basic "slideshow" like control of the text (syncing his narration to the text. The result should require much less cpu/bandwidth/storage. One could load up a new kindle with the entire contents and have one hell of a "magic textbook".
as Chris said, it's more like the other systems. See http://blog.cloudant.com/dynamo-and-couchdb-clusters for more information on our clustering.
Will they wire it up with gigabit fiber to each unit?
I completely agree. The service has been horrible. I tried to make few international calls and none of them went through. It just worked flawlessly with Skype.

Comn Google, you seriously needs to get this right! I don't want to pay twice the fee to Skype
OR they could install to a protected partition and flag it as bootable. I understand that it is a nuisance, however, oh well. Sometimes shit sucks and you just have to wade it out until shit doesn't suck so bad.

It would be nice to have a program that wipes that part of an HDD from time to time; as to not get caught in the DRM trap.
A MacArthur award should be headed his way.
I think they both are right, just focusing on different parts of SEO. Ranking higher produces more traffic. That can be achieved mainly through on page SEO and, he calls it outreach and marketing, others call it link building.

The confusion therefore is caused by the use of different terminology.
The tooltip for the logo (I think it's one of the gold addons) says "pardon our construction: we're digging around for new logos this week"
New Site Renders Tech Reporters Obsolete
Good point. It could be a McDonald's vs WholeFoods bun.

I wouldn't want to run this half-year-long experiment at home, though.
My main annoyance with HN posts lately is the use of profanity in post titles and occasional posts that are, in general, NSFW. For those of you in startup land this probably isn't an issue, but on behalf of those of us who are still "workin' for the man" please take a moment before hitting the submit button to imagine that you still have a boss and consider whether your imaginary boss who just walked into your office and saw this post title on your screen would be A) pleased that you are taking a moment to keep up with industry trends while you're waiting for your code to compile or B) wondering why you would waste your time reading such trash. If it's the latter, consider whether this is because the topic of your post is really inappropriate for a professional forum (if so, please don't bother posting it) or if it is an appropriate topic but you're using profanity as a crutch because you're too damn lazy to write an articulate, descriptive title (if so, stop being lazy and rewrite your title).
What does he mean by "voting ring"?
Be civil. No need to tell us what we know or do not know, we know that much better than you. Rather tell us what you know which is of relevance to the topic in discussion.
He's not arguing for URL shorteners to be permitted. He's arguing that the prohibition should be made upfront.
I understand your point, but I appreciate the term "misapprehending"... like your point is trying to get away!

My point, which may have gotten away as well, is that there will always be a rationalization for the claim that "if we don't act now, the whole system will seize up and it will be a catastrophe!"

I believe this is a perspective that is popular among politicians because it gives them a chance to take Bold Swift Action in the Face of Danger.

But it fails to understand what markets are. Markets, if allowed to operate, will reprice correctly, and pretty quickly, things that are mis-priced.

Thus we can have a huge change in the market price of some particular asset due to new information--- and here's the point-- but we then have a new price.

Politicians think that achieving this new price, eg, the price drop, is the calamity. But it is actually the aversion of the calamity because it brings clarity to all the players and they can start dealing with the new price.

The alternative, to "prevent the crisis" involves regulation which inherently makes prices more opaque and makes it harder for the operators to know what things are really worth.

I am not presuming perfectly efficient markets, they can over react, but it is the ability for prices to move freely based on new information that is the mechanism by which things get worked out.

Seizing control over the market inevitably does more damage, because it prevents transparency about real prices.

It also creates moral hazard because it incentivizes bad activity-- you just have to be "too big to fail" and then your actions have no consequences, or perceived consequences.

The mental image I think people have is that the economy is an engine and it can sieze up if there's not enough liduidity like oil, in it.

But that's not really right. If allowed, it will react fairly quickly and seek the least painful solution to the problem by letting actors price based on how efficiently they can solve the problem.

It is important for institutions that act poorly to fail, so that the following institutions can learn from their mistakes, or institute controls to reign in their excesses.

It is all the external solutions, like TARP and Stimulus, that are the sand in the oil, so to speak.

I've broadened my response, more to make my core point, and realize you may not be disagreeing with me.

BTW, the FDIC increases bank failures by having a government monopoly on deposit insurance. The rates are not priced actuarially and thus bad banks are not incentivized to be good banks less likely to fail. This is an example of the moral hazard. (not to mention the inherent risk of fractional reserve banking in the first place.)
Not that it would help even if it were a real name. It's far too easy to make someone else look bad by using a fake name on comment systems like that so even if it said "Mel Gibson", I don't think anyone should be making too many assumptions.
We've fixed the uppercase html, if you modify your mock and preview the code, you'll see the update.

Thank you for the feedback!
We had this here before:

Yeah, it's dead; that's why this submission came through.

I sometimes wonder why people expect every food item to dissolve into green goo.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect something that would decompose in one's stomach to be decomposable by other living things (bacteria and insect larvae).
Spoken like someone whose never been mugged. Ok, bad joke, what I'm trying to say is, California is bankrupt. The taxes and bureaucracy you have now will (in my opinion) pale in comparison to what you're going to have to deal with in even a years time.
Facebook stood their ground for a few changes that users didn't like. For example, users hated the newsfeed when it was introduced. The newsfeed is now one of the most important features on Facebook.

The only big feature that I can think of where Facebook backed down is Beacon.

It's important to listen to users, but Facebook has shown that it's also important to ignore them at times.
What kind of background are you speaking from? I see you do applied AI research, in what capacity?
Better rate limiting with HAProxy
Expert; meaning he's studied macro economics, holds a PHD, teaches at Princeton, and is widely regarded as such, I'm aware his specialty is currency crises but it's not exactly like that's the only thing he knows.

That doesn't mean he's right (any or) all the time but it does mean that his opinions, even when wrong usually have a strong basis in established research. I'm using it in the same way that I'd say Bernanke, Paulson, Tyler Cowan, Greg Mankiw, etc. . . are experts.
Far too often comments asking for a cite are voted up and comments that don't provide cites are voted down, even when the cite is trivially findable via Google. Take this thread for instance:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552233

Regardless of whether I deserved to be downvoted, there is zero reason for the person asking for a cite to get upvoted considering the the relevant article is literally the first Google result for "old spice" "hormone disruptor".

I think it's bullshit that people regularly get downmodded for posting comments quoting basic facts that everyone should know, or at least know how to verify, without citing a source. If you don't know how to, say, look up the GDP of a foreign country yourself then you really have no business being on this site to begin with.
I Officially 'Made It' On HN
24 will have ELPA as the canonical package manager, iirc. So in a way, we do have the package system.
I'm not sure what you mean by the OS image needs to be signed, but it's not true in the sense people usually mean when they talk about signed code.

Most Android phones have the bootloader locked down, but that is different to requiring signed code.

You can run 2.2 on the Samsung Galaxy S now (eg, http://www.cyanogenmod.com/home/cyanogenmod-6-0, and I think there are pre-release official Samsung versions around too). You do need to root it, but on the Galaxy S that's a one-click process.

(Sorry if you knew this - it's not clear if your jail-breaking aside comment applied to the updates for phones or the upgrade)
This looks pretty cool. I'm not a designer, so I don't know what's on the market already. But I have to say this is a simple (but real) problem for which you've provided an interesting solution.
There is just so much lost in that phone-tag of a conversation between the actual customer and the actual developer in the scenario I think you're describing. Agile estimating techniques seem to provide a reasonable level of expectation, while placing more importance on collaboration between the product owner and the developers.

Once you add development managers, project managers (who are often re-estimating for you, adding or reducing a number to align with some other expectation) and a product owner who's only hearing numbers rather than the details, it's a very lossy conversation.

How many estimates have you given where you wish you could have said "but if we just do it like this, it'll only take x% of the time", and how well was that communicated to your client?

I just think software estimating as a way of holding a conversation about a product under development is unproductive at best, and often leads to an inferior product .
Do people do that? It seems like it'd get expensive pretty fast.
I think Doug Hoyte put it best: "An auxiliary theme of this book, one that applies to any programming language, is that in programming, style is not something to pursue directly. Style is necessary only where understanding is missing."

For instance, as a python programmer, I find it intensely annoying when people don't follow PEP 8 and might complain about it. But the fact that it's the most important thing on my mind means that I haven't really understood the code.

Unless the violations are truly flagrant (such as putting commas in the left margin rather than after the word), then move on with life. We programmers have enough to worry about without having to nitpick over others' paren placement.