skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great stuff.

Another alternative is to go "classic" and use only older technology that is less network enabled. For example:

Buy a used mobile phone (from eBay) that just allows you to make calls and at most text without additional charges.

Get rid of cable, but still use your T.V. with rabbit ears or amplified antenna: http://www.antennaweb.org/

Read real books. Go to the library. Used books even have free shipping: http://www.abebooks.com/

Listen to CDs/cassettes. Audio books on CD available at the library.

Work in the yard, if you have one.

Forget the gym with its T.V.'s and pumped in music or fancy machines. Get out and walk or run for at least 30 min. (hopefully 1 hr) daily. Do pushups and situps.

Get a pet. Dogs are great because you have to go outside with them.

Find a mate and maybe have/adopt kids.

Move to the country or to a different country.

Travel.

Eat on the cheap.

If you drink, then drink good beer. Also drink cheap beer. Drink wine. Drink cider. Drink liquor. Just don't do it too much (1-2 drinks a day is the new recommendation vs. just a year ago, unless you are prone to alcholism or at risk for health problems).
The framework really depends on what it is exactly that you are building.

I would recommend a more modern version control system.

You can use something like redmine (set up yourself) or clockingit (free and hosted) to manage your project, but I might skip that part depending on the scope.

Definitely do analysis first. Design the program before you write the program.
Interesting that in the 1900's there were a good number of pictures with people removed. Not so much in the other periods.
NASA: Incompetent or lying to us?
Ballmer Peak
Maybe my article from a couple of years ago about the relative merits of Reddit and Digg may be relevant: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2008-January...

It doesn't really explain why Digg has been more popular for the following two years. Or does it?
What Angel Investors Want (How To Raise Money From Private Investors)
What's wrong with making the site region-based? Maybe don't discriminate by country, but certainly limit people to their own region/country. If people are looking for slave labour from India there's always Elance.
Someone should do a Schoolhouse Rocks cartoon about how a joke becomes a meme.

Well - now - I'm - stuck - in - 4 - chan - slash - b!

And - I'll - sit - here - and - wait

While - a - few - key - college - kids - discuss - and - debate...
The first user becomes the "Admin". We will indicate this.

Once you log in, you can add as many "employees" as you want to the company profile. (Note that one employee (admin) was already added during Signup).

This is sort of similar to basecamp. But we haven't done a good job explaining it on the site.
I'm actually working on this idea right now.
low signal-to-noise ratio if you ask me... I don't understand why this gets upvotes.
imo its not really a startup in the HN sense of "find and validate a business model"--the business model is known, so imo its much more about skill of execution than iterating prototypes.
Backstory to this: there's a bunch of commercial providers of code security/reliability scanners (Fortify, Coverity, Ounce, Klocwork; surely there are others) all of whom simultaneously got the great idea of running their stuff on big open source projects (as a "donation") and then press releasing the findings.
Maybe I'm being dumb here, but what's the 'one space after a period' rule about? I put two in out of habit and have never thought it a problem.

It doesn't seem to make sense as far as mucking up layouts go either. The extra space is dropped in HTML for a start and if it wasn't, any site that can't handle a couple of extra spaces isn't going to fare much better with any other text entered.
Note To Hewlett Packard: Hire Todd Bradley As CEO Before You Lose Him Too
I see "Abortion issues: Pro-life", so that has been accounted for somehow. I would be interested in knowing how it decides which version to show. There does seem to be a bias towards evaluating as true as much as possible in that bullet point.

Not ideal, of course. But if you're bound to simple booleans, there's not much more you can do.
The question I'd be asking is: if you were to fast forward now to the first funding round, and then look back on the project from inception to that date, what percentage of the value did each of you contribute?

Put another way: giving 25% to your co-founder means that you get the first half of the company for the idea/prototype, and you split the second half (the development phase) 50/50. Now, is your idea/prototype really worth as much as all of the development?
And then complete the survey here: http://bit.ly/9hZwxV

(though ideally would be great if could pass this on to our less than techy friends ;) )
Spoken like someone who is outside of the Valley echo chamber ;)
Ask HN: Best way to research companies?
What are good, hopefully free / low cost ways of getting basic and detailed information about companies?

For example, I'd like to be able to quickly and easily lookup the size (revenue, number of employees, etc) and location of companies that we're talking to or exchanging emails with.

I'm also looking for ways to research companies based on location / profile. For example, show me all companies with greater than 50 employees in the manufacturing business in region x.

Mostly for US and Canadian companies, but international would be great as well.
Since the capital requirement is no longer a large barrier to entry for web startups, I am wondering this mean:

- a startup should stay in stealth mode longer in order to give it a bigger legs up on its possible competitors
- silicon valley connection to VC money becomes less critical and the team makeup for execution becomes more important. This may mitigate some of the advantages of starting in the valley.

What do you think about the assertion above?
The iPad Got Serious
Startup Diaries: Getting Your First Customer
during college I came into the habit of trying to speak about a class of things in a general way, rather than speaking about one specific thing. this works great for math and computer science. this does not work great with your girlfriend. imagine holding your girl and saying this:

"women are so wonderful. the smell of their hair, the feel of their warmth when you hold them close and they press against your body...".

you might think this sounds romantic. women do not. instead, say this:

"you are so wonderful. the smell of your hair, the feel of your warmth when I hold you close and you press against my body...".

had to learn that one the hard way...
Have you also considered a mode in which the website first asks the user about his agreement with a series of political statements, and then offers the best-matching candidates?

(In Germany, there's Wahl-o-Mat which operates like that)
Unreasonably hard to pull up "Chicago"; your search didn't accept a Chicago zip code, the name "Chicago", or "Chicago, IL". Instead, I had to select "Chicago" from a list of every city in the entire state of Illinois.

Any UI decision that involves selecting from a list of every city in a state is a bad UI decision.
That's what the "flag" link is for. (You're new here, so I'm not being snarky - I realized you might not have noticed it.)
All about Common Wealth Games, Delhi 2010
Don't get me wrong. As I am learning JavaScript right now I am only interested in the real fixes and not the nice to have features.
Chaining comparisons, multiline strings, everything is an expression are IMHO "just" nice features.
Great OS, but it came to market too late. Not to mention WebOS was half broken when it was released. It STILL does not have voice recording capabilities, which eliminates a ton of app-potential. I love it...but it is too little, too late, Palm.
There's a data center in Lenoir, NC which they spun as a way of training and employing laid-off furniture / textile mill workers. The fact that this is in a paper mill shut down two years ago makes me think they would try to do something similar.

http://www.google.com/datacenter/lenoir/jobs.html
It all made sense when I was finally in. I don't usually have this much trouble figuring out sign-up forms, honest ;)
Well, the contest is being sponsored by a US only telecom just to promote their 4G network. Kinda makes sense.
Funny that the website where this is published has such a crappy design.

* Vertical scrollbar at width of 800.

* The dotted gray border right to the text is annoying (it flickers on my TFT).

* At lot of vertical space wasted on the left.

* I don't find it very pretty at a whole. (But that is of course subjective.)
The thing you will really need to push on in your message is ease-of-use and functionality. Continuous Integration is one of those things that you mention to most teams and they raise an eyebrow and go "Why would I do that? Our tests only take 30 seconds." For the teams that know how CI would help them, they're already running a Hudson instance, and will need a compelling reason to switch.

I think you'll definitely need to start talking about the sort of things you get with Hudson plugins: particularly reporting, static code analysis etc. above and beyond simply building and running tests.

I'm a big believer in CI. I work with Hudson every once in a while, and the devs on that project are very good indeed. It's definitely an enterprise hammer which doesn't necessarily make it too easy to crack small nuts (hudson.rb alleviates much as you don't need a Java web server, but you still need some private server somewhere), and more people running CI can only be a net benefit.
I'll repeat the commentary I left on Kennerly's blog (which is always a great read, by the way):

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This debate is fascinating.

Conservative commentators like Bainbridge et al should be taking the stance that eBay loses this case because an investor takes the company he invests in, poison pills, staggered board--presumably minimized profit aspirations--and all. More-liberal commenatators on the other hand should be crying foul at the blatant shareholder disenfranchisement. But those roles are reversed. Which just goes to show how weak legal arguments are in the face of moral instinct:

Disenfranchisement is okay--you take the company you invest in--when the company is doing something good. Minority-shareholder activism is okay--you aren't bound by pre-existing rules--when the shareholder is trying to do something good.
"Nice country you've got here... be a shame if something were to happen to it."
Ask HN: What do you think about our medical iphone app?
Ctrl + click is the only combination needed for right clicking. This provides a context menu in most situations. This has worked for as long as I can remember. Two button mice have also worked for a long time. The newest Apple mouse has two "buttons" in fact, but this functionality is not enabled by default.
Looks like a cool idea. I am definitely interested to see your interface, and how you schedule your builds. Having a reliable continuous integration system setup is super important if you hope to keep a large test suite up-to-date and relevant. I also really dislike configuring servers (like a CI server), so it is nice to have a hosted service that would handle a lot of that stuff for me.
More information about the application and development process is blogged on http://blog.medicaljoyworks.com/
Okay. I'll build it. bbiab
Working on a web startup in Europe the big majority of advice I get is saying "Go to the Valley".

The thing is, in Europe, nobody takes web startups seriously yet. The web is still seen as something that neighbour kid does perfectly well. Why start a company based on that when some kid can do it for a fraction of the price and just as well?

In the Valley, I hear, the attitude is a lot different and if nothing else that means it's a lot easier to get traction.
It's Omar Yo
I used to work as sysadmin in a research institute. the language difference between researchers who program, vs your typical coder in a software shop was interesting. the researchers were in the habit of referring to "a code". to a programmer, its either "code" or "a piece of code", but never "a code". that would be like saying "a software". when I hear "a code", I think of "an error correcting code".
Greplin: A search engine for your life
You can take my Magic Mouse when you pry it from my cold dead hand.

That said, regarding the geek fascination with multi-button mics - IMO Apple got it right with one-button (and pseudo-one button like the Magic Mouse & Might Mouse) mice. Yes, you guys/gals can handle multi-button mice. I can handle multi-button mice. But I've witnessed far too many people (even today!) who have a hard time distinguishing between right/lift clicking. Add to that the propensity of many Windows-software authors to provide options that can only be accessed via right-click (some Mac software does this also, but IME much less than Windows software) and you have a recipe for confusion.

Provide one-button mics for everyone and allow advanced users to upgrade to multi-button mice (which is what the Magic/Mighty mice do without having to buy additional hardware) is a good compromise IMO.
I sense parody but can't retrieve the source.
It's 40s but otherwise correct http://www.talkswindon.org/index.php?topic=5471.0
Our next decade via IFTF aka One Step Ahead of Disaster
Apple's iAds "Will Fall Apart," Says Yahoo's Bartz
ACLatraz: Redis-powered access control for your ruby apps
It's true. I meant to say a license specifically for these additional versions.
I wouldn't call the secret preferences macs have
easily disabled. The vast majority of users encountering this problem won't be able to take advantage of this!
Your password will be shown to you in plain text
Today i accidentally entered wrong login details for facebook and this is what i got "Your login password will be shown to you in plain text below to make text input easier(Your login is still secure)". That message on its own made me even more suspicious. Of course the message was from facebook but the fact that am so used to never being shown password it got me thinking otherwise. Is it any good to show users their password on login and assume they will feel safe ?
If you're building something you expect people to be able to install themselves, surely your #1 priority would be to not build dependencies that regular hosting can't provide.
How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Fedora 13
I get great mileage out of this "hide replies to comments" bookmarklet - it allows me to quickly read the best-rated comments that reply directly to the article. If a comment is thought-provoking I'll click through to see what discussion it's spawned.

http://gist.github.com/582630
All you need to do is download the new images. I mean, this entire thing is a huge PITA anyway, so as far as testing sites for IE6 and IE7, this is the least of your worries! I'm just pointing out is that it is possible to use this product continuously.
I would love to have a third partner. But finding a designers/developers who love MMOs and live in Los Angeles proved to be kind of hard.
I assume they are getting a big chunk of local/national/eu grants to support the depressed area and a quick pass on building/environmental permits which you wouldn't get for building it in the capital.

Plus as the article says - this is really the St. Petersburg/Stalingrad/Leningrad data center without the political problems of having to keep renaming it.
The palm pre has an app called zocoder that can act as a voice / sound recorder

The apis have changed a lot, perhaps since you last looked?
AFAIK, this has nothing to do with the diaspora team, it's just random people tossing up public instances.
I don't think it came to the market too late. It had a lot of potential to be a solid #3 competitor in the mobile space behind Android and iPhone. I think their main problem was their crappy hardware they put the OS on.
Sure, I think that's how they get to these positions. Aggressive ambition and a lack of concern for the wellbeing of others relative to one's own wellbeing pays off. It seems pretty obvious to me.
> is that design is not about testing a set of obvious solutions and then declaring X el ganador(the winner) because it was tested well.

If that is true then Google's immense success proves "Design" is not the only way to design and strongly points towards big D Design with traditional designers being not the best way to design.
Signal-to-Nothing Ratio
KXEN - Automated Regression Modeling
The two space rule was based on the monospacing used by typewriters.

With proportional text, one space typically creates better typography.
Yes I can see the value of an open attitude towards web startup would help you hire or partner. And if you are trying to solve a technology problem, you also have an easier time to reach your target customer (other techies). But if your web startup is not tech focused (i.e e-commerce, b2c), does the valley really help you any more in getting traction by growing your user base?
I think this is a great idea, but am I the only one who thinks the minimum rate should be more like $70? This would widen the perceived quality gap between this and Elance IMO, but I'm guessing you've probably done a lot of research before settling on $35.
Phone service for users that can't afford a handset
Similar quote attributed to Henry Ford - "if I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse"
How big an issue is corrosion when using sea water for cooling? I thought this was why fire departments don't use salt water to put out fires.
The irony is that the Randian "individual" is applied collective entities like corporations.
I have used, extensively, every single mouse Apple has ever released. Including the very first mouse for the Lisa and original Macintosh. Every single last one of them is terrible. Some were so terrible it boggles the mind (the hockey puck, shudder). Before the optical mouse, it always amazed me that Apple mice tended to gum up and get clogged far more than any other brand.

When Microsoft first released their first optical mouse (was it the very first optical mouse? I don't know, but it was the first one I knew of. This was about '98 or so) I eagerly paid the $80 for the behemoth (the thing was huge). Not having to deal with an Apple mouse getting clogged all the time alone made this mouse worth it, nevermind actually having more than one button.

People always point out the magic mouse. I hate it just as much as any other Apple mouse. I have a magic mouse about 2 feet from me as I type this. It seems like Apple can never get everything right. The Magic Mouse is fine on the top side of it, but the bottom has so much friction that moving it around on the desk is a stuttery, frustrating chore.

Interestingly, I've always found Microsoft makes the best mice. My current favorite is the Arc, which is meant to be a travel mouse, yet I use it as my daily mouse. The whole "Apple can do everything right except mice" and "Microsoft often gets things wrong, except their mice" thing has always boggled my mind :)
Did the fact that I enjoyed the essay mean that I read the essay right or that the author read me right?
IANAL but I imagine having the site open to all countries is a legal nightmare.
I have actually used each of the mice I mentioned - let me give you some feedback.

I was referring to the advanced gestures which is not a fair comparison to simple scrolling. But even simple one finger scrolling I struggled with - it could just be my hands in particular.

The entire frame clicking that they have had on various mice including the Magic Mouse just doesn't have the same clicky-ness as an average Logitech or Microsoft mouse.

It is marketed by a touchpad - they refer to it as a multi touch device "The world’s first Multi-Touch mouse". That is the same thing they call their touchpad - "The largest Multi-Touch trackpad ever."
It does seem to have gone too much the other way though - magazines doing a complete hair-shirt act because somebody made a cover image which is obviously meant to be a cartoon ie adding the floor shadow to an election booth, or the highway signs to the politician's coat.
Twitter Needs to Become More Open or Die
I poked around to find the long-haired guy brandishing that controller, which led me to a page of some interesting snapshots of people from the early 70s SAIL:
http://www.saildart.org/saildart_pix_1974/index.html

If your imagination of what the game looks like is lacking:
http://www.saildart.org/saildart_pix_1974/d/d7.jpg
Man, applying to YC has got me addicted to this news site a bit :) Before, I used to dismiss it because I thought it flew by too fast. I remember passing by it a few times in the last couple years. If there was only an indicator of something psychologically reassuring for someone like me, I would have bookmarked it.

This is the stuff I understand. Technology, web design, psychology of people online, etc. I notice that when I design a business plan, I think in terms of actual use cases from each participant, and why they would do each step. And if there's a missing piece somewhere then that's a red flag. I ask how it would spread virally, or how it would make enough money to spend on user acquisition. This is how I approach business, using what I know.

But there's other stuff out there, SEO, guerilla marketing, PR, etc. and I completely avoid it in my designs because I don't know too much about it. That's why it's good to have a partner who can be involved with talking to PR people and marketing agencies and architecting real-world campaigns when the time is right. Whenever there was a problem, I tried to solve it myself using the tools that I know. All my business plans have been of this nature -- sites that are viral by design and get people to spend money by design. Not that it can't work spectacularly, but it's a one-sided, internet-centric approach.
To be fair though, you could get a similar reddit experience by subscribing only to subreddits you find interesting.

For example, I never go to reddit.com. I go to programming.reddit.com, the subreddit for programming related articles.
But isn't it also true that "crowd-sourced, micro-equity" can easily be understood as [bootstrapping]?

No. I'm talking about something else. Micro-equity means giving up a small amount of equity for a small amount of money. Instead of an angel getting 100,000 shares for 200,000 dollars, you get lots of investments of 50 dollars for 25 shares.

Take a look here: http://www.me-vc.com
Promises are definitely gone. The pattern now is that functions taking a callback always take it as the last parameter. The callback always has an error argument as its first parameter.

Since the pattern is predictable, it's easy to write a higher level wrapper around it. I like Kris Kowal's Q promises [1] for most things and Tim Caswell's Do [2] for simple sequencing (a la shell scripts).

[1] http://github.com/kriskowal/q/blob/master/q.js
[2] http://howtonode.org/do-it-fast
What would be needed to create a secure equivelent of OpenX in terms of architecture and performance?

Is it more than a glorified image/snippet server and counter?
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I'd say it came to the market too late to not have huge marketing behind it. I bet we'll see Windows Phone 7 which is far later do much better (at least in terms of market share/units shipped). Yeah, crappy hardware hurt badly, too.
Don't forget RIM and Blackberry in that list.
What happened that put you off?
The "Technology" edit box in your profile is absolutely horrible; I spent about 5 minutes trying to type stuff in - it randomly deletes stuff if there is a typo.
Looks like they reinvented HyperCard for 2010. I love it.
I think it would be better to say it was incomplete. What shipped worked quite well and did what it was supposed to do, but there was a lot more functionality that should have been there (voice dial for example). As meowzero says, their real problem was the quality of the hardware, it is probably the most fragile phone on the market.