skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How'd you do your math? The sample calls they play are 30 seconds long. Assuming another 30 seconds for looking up the number and waiting for them to answer, that's 1 minute per call. 750 calls a day for 20 days (assuming they don't call on the weekend?) that's 250 hours of calls in a month... which is only $30/hour.
Complaining is always useful. It conveys information.

It's even better if you convey a suggestion on how specifically to improve things. But often the complaint itself contains that, implied.

For example, a what-you-would-call whiny complaint of "waaaaa... don't touch my arm with that torch, it burns!" contains the rather useful suggestion (implied) to stop touching my arm with that torch. To be more relevant, if Apple suddenly says you can't use any language but XYZ, and we go "waaaa...." what we are saying is "let us use XYZ". I hope that is obvious and implicit in all such cases. :)
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I've found that when "nothing is exciting" it's almost always due to the "resistance" you mentioned. Realizing this has really helped me to avoid getting discouraged when it seems like the thrill is gone.
Stephen Elop is a smart guy - really down-to-earth and easy to talk to; of the few MS execs I've actually met, he was definitely the most personable. Definitely sad to see him go.
From this kind of comment I remember why I feel sometimes a bit frustrated by the technical environment.

Unfortunately what open most your mind (as Graduating in English vs CS or Engineering) and make you a better person is not what is (probably) valuated more by our society.

And for the SA post:I feel bad reading his thoughts, sometimes. He is so cynic.
My reply is Offtopic, but same here. But to be fair, it only started to be this way about 2 years ago. I've also spent countless hours to configure my system to work the way i want it to.
Damn, I've been working on a web-based version on and off for a while now. I guess I won't find the time to finish it, especially if this gets approved.
OK, thanks, I might try that.
If anyone is interested in listening to a fun radio interview: http://blogs.965thebuzz.com/afentra/2010/09/02/zach-from-awe...
Some typical search engine strategies are on this page (and specifically in this subsection): https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Index_%28sear...
I actually like these logos. Lapland cracks me up.
Quora itself has a bunch to say on this:

http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Quora-a-valuable-service

http://www.quora.com/Why-Users-Love-Quora

http://www.quora.com/How-did-Quora-manage-to-do-what-Mahalo-...

http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-quality-of-discussion-on-Quo...
You're right, I thought they only called once a month lol
I typed in "marissa mayer laugh".
I can't belive no-one has been taken aback by your airbags are useless comment! Side airbags? Curtain airbags? All of these are proven to reduce that chance of brain damage and death in various impacts.

"Research conducted in the USA estimates that head protecting airbags can reduce driver deaths in the event of a side impact crash by close to 40%*."

http://www.howsafeisyourcar.com.au/curtain_airbags.php
Why is he "going" from MS and not "coming" to Nokia? Do you believe he wont be as good exec for Nokia as he was for MS?
WordPress (and a lot of plugins)
DropBox
Remember the Milk
Basecamp
Linode + Virtualmin/Webmin for hosting
Paypal
G Adwords
G Analytics
G Apps for emails and calendar
From the inside Quora doesn't look to be very big. Maybe its because I don't have a network within Quora, but browsing topics is kind of difficult. There doesn't seem to be much involvement outside of topics regarding Startups, Business, Technology, etc.
My 3 year old MacBook Pro with an SSD runs circles around my girlfriend's 2 month old version with a 7200 RPM drive.

Ditch the 7200RPM, get an SSD.

It is that big a difference.
One qualitative difference: the "I'm feeling lucky" button (which you can use if you hit right-arrow on a search suggestion) has actually become useful. You can start typing, scroll down to an entry you like, and check the snippet of the top result -- all without clicking any buttons.

This is a pretty big deal to people like me who go to great lengths to avoid using the mouse. I've not tried it much because I don't usually search from the google homepage, but maybe I'll try it now.
It's kind of like a REPL for your search queries. Kinda.
I imagine they're sent over top-quality Denon cables too, your packets never felt so good.
Yeah I considered Nokia for that comment, my thought was Motorala domainated first, then Nokia and now Nokia are failing to compete with Apple and Android which are likely to take over in the long term as every phone becomes a smart phone.
I want to clone/steal their ideas!

But actually, their originality and novelty is what gets them popular in the first place. I think if I tried to copy AwesomeReminders today, I'd probably fail the way most people expected the original AwesomeReminders to fail. Being first matters?
I tried that. I only got as far as "marissa " and didn't really feel a need to go further. (Note the trailing space)
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How is this different from how it is in the west?

Work hard to pay off the house (or to save to buy a house), an economical crisis that doesn't seem to end no matter the company profits. Etc...
EEG measures mass synchrony between different areas of the brain. That's extremely hard to control consciously and takes a lot of practice. Even when you can do it, it's a 1-dimensional signal. It's not even clear you want to control it consciously; EEG therapy is used in psychiatry every now and then for treatment of a few disorders, and can lead to personality changes. The "inverse EEG" problem, which relates to the distortion caused by the skull, is basically computationally intractable (which is why ECoG is used). EEG is also totally drowned out by EMG (muscles) if you aren't careful, and it's nearly impossible to tell EMG and EOG (eye movements) apart from "real" EEG.

In Emotiv's specific case, though, these fundamentals are the least of their problems. They're three (four?) years behind schedule without anything really shipping even now, and the units that I have seen in the wild are of low build quality.
What a weird creepy service. Only in America...
I think the productivity increase is more than the time saved waiting for stuff to load. That few seconds pause can be enough to interrupt my flow, at which point I think, 'hmmm, let's check out HN while I wait for that'. Of course, by the time whatever I was waiting for is done I'm deep into an interesting thread about how a faster computer will change my life...
I also forgot this… http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/02/pitchfork-steals-...
Ask HN: Has anyone here experimented with Numenta's NuPIC?
It appears to be an incredibly fascinating concept yet I've been struggling to find any tried and tested applications of the technology.

I figured this would be a good place to find out considering the amount of people here who completely outstrip my own intelligence levels!

http://www.numenta.com/software-overview/nupic-overview.php
Is it intentional that there's no timeline / 'skip to' possibility?
I think a lot of the complaints about having to use ObjC come from folks that (a) find it inferior to one or more languages they already know (Python, Ruby, etc.) and/or (b) feel it is somewhat of a platform ghetto (effectively only used on iOS and Mac) and therefore not as efficient use of one's time investment as another language and stack that you can use on many other platforms, and for many other types of applications.

The biggest problem with Objective-C, in my opinion, is that the syntax and philosophy is a step backwards in time in terms of programmer friendliness. It is so much more verbose and clunky compared to Python, for example. Use Python's built-in dictionary type a while, then be forced to use Objective-C's dictionaries. Yikes. Then the memory model is more complex and more prone to error due to inconsistent lifecyles and naming conventions. The XCode/iOS project model, build generation and signing crud is just nasty compared to how you can develop and deliver web apps to production in, say, Python, or even desktop apps. It's just a nasty and overly complicated rat's nest of special cases. I counted once and an iPhone app has something like 8+ different names or identifiers, each used in subtly different ways in different places, just asking for confusion and conflict. I ship a desktop app or web app and I have effectively one or two identities to deal with, and no Apple hoop-jumping to do, no publication delays, no long silly list of things I can and cannot do, etc.: heaven in comparison.

And no it's not about learning something new. I'm personally on like my 8th language used professionally, and love learning new things. But sometimes "new" things are worse than what you already know. In that case, learning that new thing is bad, and a poor use of your time. I've learned enough Objective-C to be productive, but also enough to know it's a step backward from some other tools in my toolbox, so bad use of my time in an ideal world. I'm thrilled about Apple's change today because it raises hope I might be able to use a sexier language than ObjC/C/C++.
Just spent a lot of time today tweaking ubuntu 10.04 to work with intel wireless :/ Also the proprietary ATI graphics drivers the OS recommended I installed caused all sorts of problems with sleep\hibernate\freezing. Not really a linux problem as the default non-proprietary drivers I switched back to actually work great, but the OS did literally give me an icon reminder telling me to do what caused the problem. Also the battery on my laptop lasts half as long as it does in win7\cygwin.... so more tweaking ahead...

edit: on the plus side I love Gnome DO.... I can't believe I found something better than win7 start autocomplete or OSX Spotlight...
Definitely a positive step, but doesn't make (some of) them any less weird. The one about not using GPS to control remote planes and following one about not using for dispatch seems very odd. I'm sure there are plenty of people that could make use of this, and hardly seems harmful.

Likewise the kids-only attitude - why bother having ratings at all? Do we really have to confirm 18 years old for a dictionary and yet be forbidden adult material? But strangest of all that I've read so far:

"Apps utilizing a system other than the In App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an app will be rejected

Apps using IAP to purchase physical goods or goods and services used outside of the application will be rejected"

Doesn't this ban all real-world purchases? Ordering books from Amazon App...?
The main thing wrong about the Koran burning event
Yes, and if you don't realize you're being a hypocrite that isn't changed.
But the benefit of being a hypocrite goes way down, while the benefit of being truthful goes up. I mean this in a personal way: People generally like to say what they think is the truth.
Surprisingly civil, for all the fun that was occurring earlier. It's probably the best statement they can make on this.
If I knew a way to develop over $7k monthly revenue that quickly, I'd be doing it. I suspect that goes for everyone here. Props to jacquesm - I didn't think AwesomeReminders would take off like this but I think it's, well, awesome that it has!
I use Codebase to for source code management (mercurial) and for project ticketing.

I use Google Wave for most in-project communications.

Python/Django + jquery for dev.

WebFaction for web hosting <--- Opportunity here, there's definitely an opportunity to make simpler hosting for Django site. I believe there are people working on it already, though.
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Don't study the product. Study the distribution mechanism. (In AwesomeReminders' case, national press coverage due to having an appealingly quirky narrative.)

I've had half a dozen people clone my software product. They are apparently under the impression I'm in the software business. I'm actually in the educational publishing business, and I'm really good at distribution via SEO for it. That is the missile, the software is just the warhead. Without the missile, you can only blow yourself up.
One thing that people here haven't mentioned: Good furniture -- costs pennies per day, is there waiting for you after a long day, makes your place aesthetically pleasing, allows you to entertain guests, and you can sell it for at least half the price when you're done with it.
You should be able to avoid this by setting up Gmail to use a different SMTP server:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=m...

(Click "I'm a Gmail or Google Apps user sending from an external address", then search for "on behalf of".)
On the other hand, why pay $5 when you can get 20 microturks do the same for 5x less (and give you 20 choices)?
Apple’s restriction on Flash content running in the browser on iOS devices remains in place

Yeah right. More like: Adobe's incapacity to build a suitable mobile Flash plugin, one that doesn't suck and which won't make the web experience feel like walking through molasses, remains in place.
I thought AwesomeReminders was Zackattack's, not Jacquesm's?
I think he meant that the google apps address is more professional and forwarding everything to his private @gmail.com address (probably configured to allow this apps address as a sender address)
Doesn't need to be a strict child when using a graph (not to confuse with hierarchical) database. Not sure what you mean by dangling edges, at least the Neo4j graphdb guarantees that edges are always connected at both ends. It's also ACID compliant so rollbacks are supported. Sure, tanstaafl, but when dealing with data in a graph structure there's much better tools than RDBMS nowadays!
* Code Management/Bug tracking: http://unfuddle.com - I love these guys. The bug tracking is fairly solid and they serve as an excellent source code host

* Hardware : Amazon EC2. We also use cloudfront (CDN) and a couple of other services. It's worked out amazingly well really.

* Accounting: My wife (PhD in Accounting). She uses Quickbooks I think. We use ADP for our payroll for quite awhile and that was nightmare. They were late with W2's and failed to pay the proper taxes they said they were paying. Just awful. My wife does payroll now.

* Email: We use authsmtp as our gateway. They've been very solid. Very few spam box issues. We also use mailchimp to manage our actual contact lists.

* Analytics: we use a combination of homegrown tools, google analytics, UserFly and CrazyEgg for usability and conversion analysis.

* Email: we use Google Apps. That's also worked out extremely well for us. No real issues and we rely on Google Docs quite a bit.

* Other services: We use Twilio to handle phone-tracking (it's an integral part of our product). We used UserVoice at one point and that was excellent.

I'll update with other stuff as I think about it.
Maybe not great for real uses as the top hit isn't always right, but I know of several parties where this on full screen would be an instant win at least.
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Hey, you're welcome :)

Maybe one day you'll do the same for me.

Let us know when you have changed your message/brand.
I use PostgreSQL and change my schema constantly, adding/removing columns, changing data types, switching around foreign key constraints, all within safely guarded transactions that I can roll back if I realize that I'm doing something wrong. (And yes: adding/removing/renaming columns is "instant": it doesn't actually do the work of rewriting existing rows on disk.)

Frankly, I also use MongoDB, and I'm terrified of screwing much with the schema, because then I either a) have to make certain I have anal documentation about what fields are in use on what subsets of objects, keeping code around to make certain to detect and interpret old kinds of data, or b) use "simplified queries" (really, write a bunch of manual code as if I didn't have a query model at all) in order to find and update these old objects, non-atomically and with no transaction safety.

Seriously: the only reason I've so far heard for why having dynamic type verification in my database server is valuable is when you have /so much data/ that it is now fundamentally infeasible to make changes to it with any centralized transaction control--specifically, Google's "it's always the interim somewhere" scenario--not because it is somehow more convenient to do so when you only have in the tens of millions of rows.
When I started to build "my" template engine, I took a total different route than django template. I wanted the HTML and the logic(javascript) strictly separated. The designer can build and maintain the HTML while the developer can write JS code. It is called PURE http://beebole.com/pure
We exhibit a degree of control over our environment not exhibited by rats, ants, or birds.
Works for "San Bruno"
Read the code to etherpad now that it's freely available.
OK, but that's not value adding to the organization; it's friction that you have to overcome in order to do your main job. Your company, when it needs to do this, employs full-time specialists to do it, they're called salesmen. Not to knock your skills, but technical and presentational skills are often uncorrelated. There simply isn't time to master both. Where do you think PHBs actually come from?

It's also why huge organizations are often running obsolete technology, no-one can generate enough "activation energy" to overcome the molasses.
i found there's a great deal of pro-higher-ed elitism here. the "if you didn't do grad school CS you can't possibly be as good as me" mindset, in particular.
Know that SEO in general is the act of second-guessing several algorithmic black boxes. I'd argue that, besides some fairly simple guidelines, SEO is a bunch of blind guys in a dark room walking around with short sticks, excitedly blogging when they think they've hit something.

I'd second the suggestions of reading through Matt Cutts' blog as well as SEOmoz, but here are some consistently referenced tips that I think are defensible.

1) Robots can't parse your images. Render your text with @font-face, not as a JPG.

2) Make sure your URL, your <title>, and your <h1> and <h2> have keywords that are relevant to the material on the page.

3) Register with Google and Bing's webmaster tools, and make sure the keywords they think your sites are relevant for are reasonable. Use Google Analytics to see what organic keywords are sending you traffic. Measure what you want to improve.

4) Generate original content.

5) Get backlinks. Good linkage from HN/reddit/delicious/twitter/whatever can generate multiple orders of magnitude more traffic than long-tail search traffic.
Or... just start your fricking company. pg rocks, YC rocks, but you can actually start a business without either one being involved. without any outside investors in fact.
If it isn't obvious (it wasn't, for me), "RC" in this context means Release-Critical.

Here (http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/) is a handy graph showing Debian's trends for the number of open RC bugs.
It is. Making a new chip is very very expensive, but copying it is cheap. People demand millions of low end systems but only thousands of high end.

What companies do is use mass production for lowering the price not only of their low-end chips but high end too. They just disable and don't test the "advanced features" in low end cards.

With drivers you could enable it. Some blocks could be damaged(as it was not tested) but as a much lower price you just can buy new cheap ones.
The Rule of Doubling (Developer estimates)
To provide some balance: the reasons that many people /do/ keep files in their database are 1) to extend transactions around the storage of those files, and 2) to allow a single backup or replication infrastructure (such as write-ahead log shipping) to handle all forms of data that are being managed.
This is nothing like DOS extended memory. It is quite similar to Intel PAE, allowing more than 4GB of physical memory. Each process has the usual 4GB virtual address space; the MMU simply maps it into pages taken from a larger pool. It makes perfect sense when running multiple large processes or doing virtualisation.
of course it'll compile to ARM code. That's what XCode does too. Applications you build for the iPhone using Objective-C are compiled to native ARM code.

If you want to display something on the screen, you will have to use the native API (which, too, is native ARM code).

What Adobe did here was to statically link a flash player to the flash movie. So what you install is basically the flash player capable of just playing that one movie of yours.

It's still native code and doesn't load external code either, so it's fine with Apples new rules.
right now, not much.
cf. MillionDollarHomepage.com epic fails
Servers:
Linode, Slicehost, EC2

Project Management/Version Control:
Unfuddle, Github

Billing and customer tracking:
freshbooks, highrise
FSF supports Google with Oracles patent claims
Jesus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSujceZDmg
Hope this helps Nokia renew their smart phones and their user experience...

Just yesterday I used the Ovi store to install Mail for Exchange to a E71, an that was a truly horrible experience; a reminder of how out-dated the Nokia services are. Doesn't help if the HW is top-notch.
Thoughts on Scribe
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> If Google had made Android based on a mix of Mono and code from .NET Micro Framework, they could likely have made it so all parts are covered against Microsoft patents

But all that would be only to allow the use of language as described in the given document. The way they took gave them the nice functional development environment not bound to the Windows OS.
… but it was nothing more than an elaborate art project.

The Greeks and Romans certainly had it in them. I wonder whether their reliance on slave labor hindered bigger leaps. If you were rich enough to let someone construct such technology you probably already lived one of the most luxurious lifes in antiquity. Where is the incentive?

To be fair, though, building a toy is easy. Improving that toy in a manner that makes it actually useful for real world tasks is much harder.
You can experience lens flare in your eye because you have two lens in your eyes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_flare

Close your eyes and only let a slight open aperture to your eyes, you will experience all kinds of interesting effects made by your eye lashes too.

Totally real, like HDR(we see far more dynamic range than digital cameras, and have exponential, not linear sensors).
"a few thousand a month" is quite ambitious for a single, "super simple" app. You should consider building a dozen super simple apps that bring in "a few hundred"... seems more doable.
Open Source Community Types
Do you not mean "Ancient Greeks"?

I thought pretty much everyone knew that Hero invented this steam driven turbine, but there's no evidence any work was ever extracted from it.
Knowledge, relationships, experiences, health.

Eg, books, education, travel, new skills (be it Haskell, spelunking, or Spanish), good times with friends, family, and significant others, etc. And good health makes it all possible (or rather prevents it from becoming impossible).

Things, only insofar as they facilitate the above, but not for the sake of having 'cool' stuff or the latest 'must have' gadget.