skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only partially. Maybe Airports would not make a good fit, but I'm positive trains would. Or at least the fairly comfortable high-speed rail we have over here in Europe.
Curious, who is "us"?
Like an evolutionary black box. All the details stored will help the brain make sense of the event and prevent it from occurring again.
He said they were going to replace their own offerings with OSS once it was good enough, and build a support based business around it.

So... if I recall correctly, that is how a company is SUPPOSED to make money from open source, by offering support. He did say 'exploit', which is more accurate, but seriously, it's not necessarily in a bad way. He didn't say they were going to 'embrace and extinguish' it, for instance, and that doesn't appear to be their aim.

That said, I'm pretty wary of their actions regarding Java.
Imgur opens up API
I hadn't realized git incorporated the much-maligned svn merge as a feature.
Drop-Down Usability: When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Use Them
Both those examples had a nice emotional component to them: automobile deaths and cancer patients. Try showing someone the harm of non-neutral networks without resorting to hypothetical situations or abstracts. I don't mean someone on HN, I mean the "average Joe" voter.
Pay.tel domain auction, any HNers interested? 20% to charity if you vote up
If this post makes the front-page then I'll give 20% of the final sale price to charity/good cause (suggestions welcome) - whether or not any of you actually bid :) The auction ends tomorrow:

https://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=pay.tel

The .tel TLD is designed specifically for the purpose of publishing contact information, keywords, and location data through the DNS network (see http://telnic.org to learn more).

Pay.tel would be ideal for some kind of mobile based payment platform, which is why I thought it might appeal to the HN crowd.
better tools certainly make for a better product, no question. I think this stretches the analogy a little bit though, if we're comparing java and haskell I don't think we can compare a steinway and a casio, maybe a steinway and some off brand.
I think it becoming to feel like a witch hunt because "Max" has not directly address whether he is Mark Essien, so everyone is speculating.

His apps are legit, in that they exist but they do appear to contain content scraped from internet without any apparent attribution. Given the random mix of sources i don't think he has written permission from demand media (ehow.com) or the other random places the content comes from. His revenue claims may or may not be true, or may HAVE been true.

I will point out one last thing.

This app (http://appshopper.com/education/paintings-you-should-know) now deleted "Paintings you should know", was previously uploaded to the feather moor account. The one app that appeared on Maxs now deleted "Cube Of M" site was this "Art you should know" (http://itunes.apple.com/app/art-you-should-know/id356153267?...) its obviously the same app.

Notice "Seller:Mark-Anthony Essien", so that links Max to Mark.

More importantly though his second name is Anthony not Max or Klein (like he claims in that blog article).

This combined with Marks willingness to actually meet people in real life as Max makes me question why he writes and his end goal with his writings and half truths.

I'll leave it there, people have the information that is out there and that was my only goal posting these messages, to inform.
After reading more about this, it sounds like they are going after sites who have not followed requirements to get safe harbor under the DMCA... specifically registering correct contact info with the US Copyright Office and clearly posting contact info on their site.
Drat, so no shooting wings off flies like in Wanted? :)

I had suspected for a while that it was memory-based rather than your brain actually "speeding up", based on an experience when I was mugged in NYC.
You guys are arguing past the article. His entire point is that "compilation techniques" are important to a whole class of programming problems, and the best way to learn them is the standard university compiler class.
"Actually, startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand. Which means, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless"

No, this is flawed logic. If you try to sell an idea, the act of selling it means it's not worth anything, because the worth of an idea depends on peoples' willingness to keep it secret.

Articles saying ideas are worthless are a dime a dozen, because great ideas are so scarce. Most decent ideas need great execution, and a lot of great ideas need good execution since they are easily copyable (so if they don't gain a ridiculous amount of traction, someone else can come win the new space).
H-1B rules
probably a combination of:

compelling vision / compelling problem
prior shared success with her on other projects
many were probably part time
strong people skills
Password crackers have a surprising secret weapon
Great work! Maybe you could ask Gabriel for permission to merge the lists ?
Maybe you could link to the new list from the old one too?
Why go through yc? Or raise a small angel round?
Thanks all for your comments. I have been able to put my goals in perspective because of your replies.

My understanding after this post is that for a web startup, it's absolutely necessary to get a .com. My app, however, is a mobile app first and a web-app second. I'm thinking it's probably OK to go with a non .com address for now. If the app takes off, I'll consider getting a .com. Right now I should spend my time in getting the app off ground. That should be my focus right now.
What I've always wanted is travel booking, not flight booking. I want to know how long, how much and what my options are for getting from $x to $y at $z time.

This still drives me nuts. If I'm at home in Berlin and have a meeting in in central London, I don't want to have to figure out that if I fly from one of the two airports in Berlin to one of the four airports around London that I'll have to use these kinds of busses and trains or taxis or rent a car and have to sort all of that out myself.

I want to know how to get there door to door, and I'll pay a decent premium to have it all put in front of me where I can buy my tickets all in one go. I hate travel booking because it seems to be without fail a minimum 2 hour exercise sorting out the options and picking one.

Back in the day I had a go-to travel agent for such. Unfortunately finding a good travel agent often requires checking out 10-15 of them and I've been too lazy for that as well since recent moves.

Blog post on this a while back: http://scotchi.net/2009/09/what-i-hate-about-booking-travel-...
spez = long-time nick of Steve from reddit (hi Steve!) and now hipmunk
Understand where you're coming from, but with Buxfer I am guessing they had more costs than the average start-up.

I base this on assuming that they had licensing agreements to allow for syncronising w/financial institutions.

Mint.com shared some data at one point noting that their largest cost had been those API sets and access, from a cursory glance I'm assuming that Buxfer had to use similar . . .
Are you sure? http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-04/ff_perfec...

As with so many other things in the brain, there's a reason (metaphorically speaking) why it works the way it does. Anything that's a small tweak away, like more perfect recall (which evidence like the woman in the article suggests can't be that distant from how our brain works), but has not spread through the population, probably isn't that useful. (With the caveat that our environment has been rapidly changing and what's useful and not may change. Though the woman in that article doesn't seem to be a beneficiary of the effect.)
Kiss your browser goodbye: The future of media beyond the Web (Wired, 1997)
How Never to Run Out of Ideas
My notes:

- "Hipmunk?" I don't get it. Why not tripmunk?

- I like the visualization and the "agony" sort. Pretty cool

- Is the plan to book the trip directly on the site eventually. Once I got to the end, I thought "Why don't I just go to Orbitz next time if that's where I end up anyway?"
So how are they driving traffic? They seem to have no SEO focus at all. When you're relying solely on brand equity, you're doing yourself a strong disservice.

Of course, that SEO part is going to be pretty expensive for them to compete in the travel space.
Right, we then have to agree to disagree. The domestic excuse for Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in USSR was also, to recite my schoolbook, "an attempt to postpone inevitable war with Nazi Germany", politicians don't really have much imagination anywhere. Poland's role in Czechoslovakia was marginal, however military contribution of USSR in Polish campaign was also insignificant. To me it's almost as if Hitler used cookie-cutter strategy both times, and both adversaries fell for it.

Never been to Czech yet, but I've spent three fine days in Krakow last month. Beautiful town, fortunately left mostly intact in the war.
I wonder if this ability is just a function of increased adrenaline in the system or the sudden increase of adrenaline. If it is, it would be easy to make a switch, but would probably be harmful for extended periods of time.
Just downloaded the iPhone app, just what I've been trying to find forever!

Comments:

- after doing a YYC to YVR search and getting the result, clicking on a price brings up a blank screen, is that a bug? Clicking on the airline shows results.

- the iPhone version doesn't seem to have the same flexible dates option as the website search, is this going to be added?
30 instruction TCP receive
My guess is that it worked the first time, so why not try it again? That and they may feel some loyalty to PG. Well, then there's the "instant post in TechCrunch" one gets when combining YC with a successful prior exit. They are bound to get lots of press and a running start going the YC route, especially when combined with past experience.
Not that I know of.

The Shiller index was one of the best metrics for prices themselves but didn't relate to relative inflation that I know of, the math would be easy enough.
Is this $50 + fuel tax + carry-on fee + baggage charge + a quid for the bog + check-in costs?
I can't speak for him, but I'd say the same thing he would, and answer your question with 'reject the concept of intellectual property.' AMA ;)
I reject the concept of "intellectual property" as unconstitutional. Read the copyright clause carefully, and read the letters of Thomas Jefferson on the issue in particular. There is no provision for treating ideas or expressions as property. Limited monopoly for the original artist or inventor was all that was being granted. Otherwise: Congress shall make no law -- meaning that if I tell you a joke, you should be able to repeat that joke without me coming to claim that you owe me money and potentially jail time because you "stole" something from me.
I've had to "reset" my iPhone a number of times. Sent from my iphone is one of the SMALLEST configuration details I worry about when resetting it.

This somewhat seems like someone is overly reading into something.
As an iPhone developer, I'd certainly think about using you if we had something with significant pirate traction (Especially something that utilized server resources).
I suppose you could counter-sue, but that's not very efficient.
I'd like to believe that it's because YC is actually beneficial. After all, a new startup by a founder of Reddit was going to get lots of attention regardless.
To everyone I've emailed, I forgot to add: if you end up registering a name, let me know so I can put up a list on the site.
It's not amazingly obvious, but you can do flexible airports by putting in an area code or city that is between airports in to/from fields. i.e. if you do from:"palo alto" to:"salt lake", it will show flights leaving both SFO and SJC that go to SLC.

Something else interesting I noticed is that it seems to also return results for Amtrak.
Biological systems are approximate. I would assume that they can deal with a little rounding error.
Ocaml 3.12 released
ALthough this submission was first, and is a single page version, this has the comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1610703
It sounds like they are happy with the results they get but they're aware that it takes a lot of work; you can't just promote someone and expect them to know what they're doing right away. That they gave up on hiring people they don't know who have the word 'manager' plastered on their resume tells me they're a lot wiser than most other firms.
Eh??? By that account everyone should be able to pay off all their debts.

It's not enough to have a "renewable" source of income (such as tourism, moderate farming/fishing, solar energy, etc...). Everyone, including countries, also have bills to pay. And if you have a debt you also have to pay the interest on your debts.

As long as the money they make from this renewable energy source is less than what they need to pay for their bills (e.g to import food) plus the interest in their debt, they are still losing money.
Anyone with a background in law know how easy it would be to automate copyright infringement suits? It seems like the logical endpoint of professional IP exploitation companies like this is an entity that identifies violations, files lawsuits, and settles them with a minimum of human intervention. Software already exists to detect copyright infringement and file takedown notices; it seems like automatic lawyering is the next logical step.
I leave the "sent from my iphone" signature just to bug people who get bothered by things like that.
Freebasing with Haskell
I know, otherwise I wouldn't have picked an endangered species versus one that sends a billion members whenever you have a picnic! :p
I'd actually go a step farther and FIRE anyone who regularly works a lot of overtime -- for exactly the same reason.

As far as I'm concerned, sillycone valley can have the rockstars. It will keep them out of my hair so that I can get things done.
What kind of premium would you (or the average traveler) be willing to pay for a travel agent replacement webapp? I've been thinking about this as well while working on my own travel based project. Perhaps this is an opportunity for me to pivot in the future, if need be.
Discovery of Earliest Animal Life Pushes Back Fossil Record
It's happening right now, it seems.
I was actually hoping for a version with a slightly bigger screen. I was a little surprised at the small size of the iPad when using it for the first time.
The experiment with drawing the letter 'E' on their foreheads seems like a huge leap to me. Some people who don't do spatial reasoning on a daily basis might not be able to even determine which way the letter should be drawn so that others could read it. My first instinct was to draw the letter so it was backwards to other people, but it would appear correctly in a mirror - because, I think, anytime I do something to my face, I'm looking in a mirror.
As you decrease your chances of dying from old age, disease, etc., then injury will become the limiting factor on longevity. Even someone who never ages and never becomes sick will have trouble surviving a fall off a cliff, or being shot in the head.
'When' the bombs fall they likely wont be targeted at remote areas of Iceland, some could pretty easily survive. After that they could probably survive at least long enough for some kids to gossip - "I heard those things blew it all up!"
Thanks, it's a bit odd that people didn't get it from picking a ubiquitous, numerous species versus one that's almost extinct...
If one sees a person doing something out of ordinary, such as carrying a weapon where no one else typically carries any, then it is an event requiring attention. If this happens to be the same untypical pattern that led to a bodily harm in the past, then it requires even more attention. That is a common sense.

You are arguing that it's a pity that carrying a weapon is now an out of ordinary behavior, which is different and not directly related to the point I was making all along.
The show has started, but I'm not on yet. It looks like they can see the IRC chat feed and that they respond to it.
I agree with your observation that not everyone can be amongst the lucky ones in the entrepreneurial lottery.

However, luck always goes in hand with superior skills and correct timing. Warren Buffett provides some great related reading material here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham-an...
One of the comments on the song says, "I love the smell of a new genre in the morning."
Whenever I see that line I can't help feeling like it's super-pretentious. I have to remind myself that it's: A)Set by default, and B)Actually kind of useful as an explanation for bad spelling and short responses.
Further, it was submitted 5 hours before this item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1610309
I do this, but found it _tons_ more effective to open the "reviews" section of the app itself. Lower friction, etc.

I was actually thinking of releasing some code that does this - essentially it monitor the ratings an app gets and dynamically settle on the best time to ask for a review.
Can Mobile Save Print Publishing?
Yeah, that's definitely an accurate workaround I was just hoping I could factor in how my college years will affect my investments (like you said projects are pretty sensitive, so a few years and a few thousand each year may change things a lot)
And here it is, exactly the same stuff, covered by wired, and all on one page so you don't have to click through.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1610703 <- This has comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1610309 <- This links to a single page version.
I respectfully disagree; there was a very robust HN discussion about the "All-You-Can-Fly" last time it came around.
There's a picture right at the top of the page of a crappy wooden one still standing...
What are the requirements for a legally upholdable copyright? If I write a paragraph of random words and apply a Creative Commons license to it, can I require anyone who uses that sequence of random words to adhere by the CC license going forward? Is it more involved than that?
Because people leave "Sent from my Blackberry" and "Sent from my Verizon Wireless yada yada"
I change mine to "sent from phone" or something brand-neutral like that so any terse language or misspellings might be excused by the recipient.
I've had my blackberry for over a year and send emails from it daily.

I never knew before now that it had a signature attached to it. Now that I know, I have no idea how to change it (though trivial, I'm sure)
Like someone already said, his software that he's gloating about is probably pretty simple. Crawling the web somehow. Any chance that the reverse could be automated? Write the same type of crawler that can let people know this guy will be coming and exactly how to modify their stuff so that they'll be just inside the "safe harbor" laws? Whatever those are?

Maybe just a pipe dream, but sounds like a fun way to spend a weekend, and such nerd heroics are the stuff that dreams are made of.
It's still easier if you don't have to compete with pirated Photoshop.
A story about localisation and the WinHelp pen-writing-in-book animation
I rebranded mine to help build MY business - not Apple's.
Why do most VCRs still say 12:00? People generally only change stuff that interests them or bugs them, and for most people this occupies neither category.
In Montreal there are a lot of buried cables. I worked in a research facility for the only power company around and they pointed out several problems for this method. It costs a fortune so its not really applicable for very long distances. Also, whenever there is a failure you have to reel a few kilometers of cables, fix them and rewire everything in a tube full of mud, water and who knows what. During autumn the water in the tube freezes and expands causing stress and fissures.

It was discussed extensively since we had a massive power outage in 1998 caused by icing rain that affected about 3 millions for 3 weeks.

So burying cables might work well in a city for a while but I really don't think its any silver bullet.
And do you accept/support a limited monopoly for the original artist or inventor? Presuming that you do, do you believe that that monopoly right is transferable?
Signatures have existed preconfigured on smart phones since the beginning of time. The iPhone did not by any means change the game here. Have you never seen "Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry" before?

By default, most users are not savvy enough to realize that the signature is something that can be modified and/or removed completely.

In any event, I modify my signature to read: "Message sent from a mobile device, please excuse typos and brevity". This is a completely legitimate practice (although subjective at the same time) in that if I am replying to an e-mail, I want the recipient to know that I am not cutting them off short or am attempting to be rude - particularly if my responses to said individual are typically thorough with details.

If I am on a train ride and take the time to write a 2-3 paragraph e-mail on my mobile device, I will simply just backspace the signature and be done with it.

I am not attempting to portray a snob when I leave my signature in tact. Quite the contrary -- I simply want to get a message across to someone who took the time to write me an email in a timely fashion without offending them if my response lacks proper email etiquette and length.
> No, they have a best effort obligation to deliver what
> they'e sold. The fact that most of them don't make that
> effort does not mean they're in the clear.

Well, Jacques, once again, that's actually precisely their argument: that they are "making their best effort" to preserve the user experience. You say they're not providing what you pay for and tell them why, and then they spin around and tell you that they are providing exactly that, because they are doing what you don't like.

And on top of that, they're not promising what you tell them you were sold: there is no bandwidth guarantee. It's like if you showed up to someone's house and bought a stereo, and then after you paid, loudly proclaimed that you actually bought their wife. Saying doesn't make it so, and since this is not a promise they have actually given you, it's a bit unfair to expect that they be held to it.

Remember, though before you head down that hole, that I'm not supporting them. I love net neutrality. It think it's great. I'm just saying that your buying bandwidth is not a good basis for argument of the position you elected.

>> If you are buying a strict guaranteed bandwidth, do tell me why it is that the ISPs don't actually say that themselves?
> Because it is to their advantage.
You're right. It's to their advantage not to sell that guarantee. That would be insane.
I'm not a psychologists (or anything related), but it seems to me that the article is based on flawed reasoning. First it presents studies that demonstrate how "people give authority to people that they genuinely like", then they wonder why "when you give people power, they basically start acting like fools."

The subtle flaw here is the assumption is that people are given power in the same democratic way as in those studies.

When we have any power to hand over directly -- and the inclination to hand it over -- we will tend to hand it over to someone we like, true. But people like the ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard didn't rise to power just because someone said "Oh, here's a likable fellow, give him more power."
"A method of inertially stabilized propulsion by the serialized placement of one supporting appendage in front of another"
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