skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comments on the ones I found interesting (OP's already pretty brief)

#1 Lower management fees - Great idea from my outside perspective, but it'd worth knowing where those fees actually go in the first place. Some of it might even be useful (e.g spending time networking incurs costs - conference fees, travel, etc c.f #10)

#2 Keep a records of all employees in investee companies - Hmmm, nice idea but not too sure about the data-protection issues. As an employee, do I want my company's investors keeping tabs on me? Also, as a CEO, do I want my investors to keep tabs on my employees? What if we disagree about the impending death of the company and they try to pre-emptively poach someone for another portfolio company? (Perhaps this already happens).

#4 Have everyone tweet/blog authentically - Not convinced that all people in firm need to do this. One or two high profile folks should be enough. Public writing is not easy so leave it to those who want to do it.

#7 Have offices that look and cost like startup offices - If you're running a big VC firm, I'm not sure you can get away with 'startup' offices. Startup office are cheap because they have to be. Not necessarily because it's the best way for the company to operate. I see no reason why a VCs office needs to be anything like a startup's office.

#11 Have far fewer meetings with startups - i.e kiss fewer frogs. I don't think this works. You only get to do this if you're a very well known, successful VC because then good deals find you. Otherwise you need to be meeting lots of startups.

#14 Use brand to...recruit top talent (particularly engineers) from top schools [for portfolio companies]... - This is quite interesting, but I don't see it being particularly successful. People want to join companies, not necessarily join whatever portfolio company the VC thinks they might be useful for. It could also complicate the company dynamic e.g who does this engineer really report to? If there's a dispute, then what happens?

Edit: Removed the ones I didn't have many comments on
I love Don Quixote obviously. I find the symbolism to be something I can regularly latch onto as a way to describe things in my life. On the same note, I reread Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee for the same reason.
Most of these sound like pretty good ideas. Most firms probably don't do them just because they don't have to unfortunately.
I used it more during my last job where I spent 2.5 hours on the train every day. I am the last software engineer on earth who does not have a smartphone. So I'd instapaper long form articles on the web and read them on my kindle during my commute.
I once had a fairly elaborate zsh setup but over the years I've gradually migrated back to a more minimalistic bash environment instead. The dwim of some of the more exotic zsh completion functions just didn't seem to save me that much time in practice.
I think the next release will be the big major release android finally needed. Android 2.2 offered the JIT (which really is a HUGE difference!) and overall i think that Android is pretty much feature complete. Apart from the UI which lacks behind the polish of the iPhone. Development of Android 3.0 concentrates on the UI, Google even aquired some UI designer of WebOS (which is said to have a really nice UI). Also, i think Android 3.0 focuses on UI scalability in general, which might mean that we will see this UI in most phones/tablets/TVs/whatever in the mid-term, fighting the fragmentation :)
Might as well show you, since it is semi-relevant: I started to make my product after an acquaintance of mine wanted a particular activity for class. I told her to Google it. She told me that this was the printed output from the #1 result.

http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/free-comp...

Can you see a woman with a graduate degree feeling effing fantastic about herself for printing that out and giving it to a third grader? Just because it doesn't cost any money doesn't mean it is free.

Postscript: that competitor is still in the top 3 for a few related search terms. They run AdSense ads. For me. And they perform the best anywhere on the Internet.
Eh, I hear this all the time: It costs 30k min to do an iPhone app! Etc.

My company does mobile development (see profile for email) all day long.

The issue is letting your dev tell you what can be done inexpensively and starting with that. The hourly ranged mentioned in the article fits exactly what we charge (although on the lower side), however the time required is way off base. If you come with fully developed wireframes, etc, they're sure to include 3-10 things which would take quite a bit longer than an alternative, or will contain lots of things better put in a version 2 product. What you want is no approval requirements based designs with a developer you like the past work of.

Mobile is not an easy platform. It has lots of constraints that normal PC's and the Web do not have to deal with, and so it's harder to train qualified devs for it still. However, the projects created on this platform can be done economically with the correct guidance.

If you try to run the project too completely, try to be too involved, you can very well get the prices and timelines in that article.

Even if you have the cash to spend 30k on the App: My suggestion, get something done for the 7-10k range which satisfies part of your original vision, release, then work on adding more. Iterate on the design you got in the first version, after you can get solid quotes on the changes in it, and after you have some revenue to justify additional expense.
Why is anyone voting up "good call"[1]? Agreed, good call: both sound like vote up.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668060
Almost no useful information can be found in the article. Basically it's about a couple of students who constructed a washing machine out of "junk material"; the machine uses "kinetic energy" to run. There is no explanation of how the kinetic energy is provided to the machine, nor what materials were used apart from a plastic bottle used as the "box to wash the clothes".
"Ultimate" Arduino Doorbell – part 1 (Hardware)
Mastering the Art of APIs – Part 1
That example is going in my playbook. (And the product is available for free, in nigh-infinite quantities, in every occupied building in America. You don't even have to ask for it. In fact, asking for permission to take some would have whomever you asked immediately question your mental state!)
Bomb Blast in Kohat, Pakistan
High Availability MySQL in Yahoo
I downvoted you, and expect to be downvoted myself ...

But I laughed.

/me is, apparently, twelve.
Is there a space program which we could win?
CloudSigma launches first in-browser VNC for cloud servers
This isn't that much different from jailbreaking your iphone and using Cydia though. Both techniques rely on exploiting flaws of the security framework put in place by $VENDOR.

Don't get me wrong: I do like the slightly increased openness of Android, but that just stems from the fact that the OS provides more hooks to hook your app into - it's not more open in the sense that there's less control inflicted upon you on what you may or may not do with the device you legally own.
I'm inclined to think that eventually html5 "apps" will largely displace native apps for the same reasons so many desktop functions have migrated to the web. The porting issues this article describes are just some of the many disadvantages of native interfaces.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668340
I do the same thing as this guy, though with Firefox rather than conqueror. It's great. I'd MUCH rather read a lengthy article on my Kindle than on my computer, and Instapaper is the only one-click method of getting it there that I know of.

Beyond that I'd sooner just click Readability and leave the tab open until I get to it.
What is MongoDB?
Ah, I see. Yes, that does sound very useful.
(1) You should never "ignore" a cease and desist letter. I would have it reviewed by an experienced lawyer in the field perhaps over lunch (to save on legal costs) and get their input on the risk and likelihood of getting sued. Then I'd go back and make a business decision on whether that risk makes sense vs. giving your users what they want.

(2) If they can ban you via IP, they should be doing that already. I wonder why they aren't.

(Disclaimer: None of the above is legal advice or forms an attorney client relationship. The statements above are only for informational purposes and should be used at your own risk.)
How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps and Child Traffickers
OK! I'll take your comment at face value! I live in South America, grew up in the southern US (deep south), spent 11 years in Seattle, worked off and on in California, spent lots of time with friends from all over the world, but particularly Korea, Japan, Norway, England... I've never met a more passive agressive group of people or place than Seattle. And I say that as someone who still really loves the city and will probably go back there.
The Paulson Portfolio Post-Mortem
I like to use this dictionary to check pronunciation, meaning and stroke order:

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&...
Ah, yes, the Canon Cat. A real world-changer, that.
Thank you for writing this - I'm facing a similar situation and I think you are absolutely right. Understand users needs, but also try and develop as quickly as possible.
AsyncHttpClient 1.1.0 released
The new version of Async Http Client 1.1.0 is now available and for Java and scripting language like Jython, Clojure, JRuby, and Scala.
Where is the video available?
"- don't talk/tweet/blog about your vineyard, yachting, golfing etc while you tell your CEOs to work non-stop and be frugal etc. "

I don't really get this one. It seems like great advice for the CEO of a company, but not for a venture capitalist?
Year One Labs Brings A Startup Incubator To Montreal
It's the first result on google:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw
Outsourcing has it’s own pros and cons, and I’ll leave it up to you to decide if it’s a worthwhile approach for your apps development.

That is pretty bad advice. Baiting with the "outsourcing is cheap" but not citing the statistical increase in failed projects is a disservice to those looking for genuine information.

Worse yet taking an easy exit like "I'll leave it up to you to decide" is punting the responsibility of disclosure. You should either not mention it, or inform you readers that outsourcing required intricate detailed knowledge in technical development, or one can loose control of the project, which directly translates into a higher risk of failure and total loss of investment. It is also your duty to inform your readers that recovery of funds is impossible due to the disparity of legal systems and protections afforded under international law. AKA, if you get ripped off you have little recourse and the recourse you have is more expensive that the money lost, in regards to sub $200,000 projects.
It is - thanks - excellent response.
Google logo & BuckeyBalls
As a user I find the way some of those bug tracking systems are used infuriating. This seems to happen to me often:

- You submit a bug or find one that's active and comment on it
- there is no activity
- then vendor posts needsinfo
- info posted soon after
- then ignored for while longer
- reassigned
- ignored for while longer
- then closed because release is obsolete, need retesting in new release

This is mostly in RedHat's bug tracker, but elsewhere also.
To be fair, the reason that Android background apps don't drain the battery is because Google put a _huge_ amount of engineering into power management (witness the lkml flamewars about "wakelocks" as they try to merge this code back upstream).

Android also has the lovely screen showing which apps are burning the battery. In my experience, an _overwhelming_ fraction of power use is by the screen and the radio. (And by games running in the foreground, but that's to be expected.)
I did look at that but then I looked at the reviews, mostly 1 star and lacking features like being able to edit documents..
> About half the things on that list will cause releasing something to take longer. Every day you delay trying to make your code "pretty" for other potential developers is a day your competitors gain on you.

Excuse me? Shouldn't you normally make your code pretty enough for you and other developers inhouse to support?
I would even argue that even if the FOSS alternative is inferior, it is more attractive than the MS option because of the price. Look at this: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/pricing.aspx vs this: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/
> that it doesn't support, like rounded corners for example.

Maybe you should use the current version for your tests, which supports rounded corners.
The business men's guide to open source licenses
Three sad tigers ate wheat in a wheat field.
That is not totally true: there is a fundamental difference between a closed source OS purposefully locked by its maker, and an open source OS tentatively locked by a mere distributor.
On almost every Android phone, you can just flash the entire OS and replace it with a plain vanilla one or your own custom build. Try that with an iPhone...
Coetzee is on my wishlist, heard great things about him - as soon as I am done with my current read I suppose: Portrait of a lady (Henry James) ;)

Update: Great, thanks for the suggestion - I'll go look it up at the uni library.
Dude. No.

They're both 100% useless.

Mechanical Turkers are incentivized to give positive feedback because there's a chance (lurking in the back of their minds, surely) that people are emotionally sensitive and if they get criticized, they will be emotionally wounded and won't approve their HIT.

Do you know how I know this? I asked Turkers to give me feedback on one of my sites, and it was nothing but sunshine and razzmatazz smoothies.

You know you're building something people want when they vote with their wallets or attention (give you their email address, phone number...)

New Theory: hell, an even better test might be are they willing to "invite their friends" to tell them about it? People share things with friends because they like their friends - is it of sufficiently high value that they will get a "social credit" for sharing with their friends?.
New Startup Incubator in Montreal,  Year One Labs
Kind of inflammatory post that boils down to one reason--there's no point in having a bug tracking system if you're not going to address the bugs.

I disagree with this article. Especially if you're open source, you gain a lot by having a bug tracking system:

1. It's another way to get user feedback. Are people excitedly opening lots of new enhancements, or frustratedly reporting lots of crashes? Building community is extremely important.

2. It's a way to MEASURE the priority of bugs. Are 30% of your users running into this bug and piling on with "me too" comments? Then you'd better fix it. If you keep closing bugs because you dont want to fix them, you wont see that feedback.

3. It's a way to organize your own thoughts and priorities. Is the new feature X that you want REALLY more important than fixing the existing functionality? How broken are things currently?

There's nothing wrong with leaving a bug open and making the comment that "it will be a while before we fix this" I'm more likely to submit a patch in that case, as a user.
The Parable of the Toaster
While its true that native cantonese speakers can generally be identified, its not the case that they lack the ability to speak mandarin. They just speak mandarin with a southern regional accent. Native mandarin speakers from taiwan are also easily distinguished from beijingers.

Generally, cantonese speakers actually pick up mandarin a lot more easily than mandarin speakers pick up cantonese.

Adopting an accent can be a lot harder than adopting a dialect because 1. your brain doesn't parse the new sounds well if you didn't grow up hearing them and 2. you have no experience creating these sounds and its a lot harder to learn to produce them. There's a lot of literature about native accent adoption in second language acquisition that suggests an age dependency due to increased neural plasticity in youth (even though there's a lot of dispute about that critical period for language (not accent) acquisition).
something something ate corn in a cornfield?
..,and maybe some male receptionists
Raskin said that as a response to Jobs' claim that (quoting from memory) "I feel I still have a couple good designs in me." It's unfortunate that the article omits this bit of context from the original interview in Programmers at Work.

He's not saying that Jobs is without merit, just that he steals credit from those to whom it rightfully belongs.
Advertisers get hands stuck inside HTML5 database cookie jar
I sometimes use LDA (using Hadoop and Mahout) and it is not an inexpensive calculation for large document sets). I wonder what the costs are for using this large scale.
OK, that's an argument. You're doing it right--"here is some evidence, therefore women in software are oppressed".

But erikpukinskis didn't say, "here is some evidence, therefore women in software are oppressed". He seemingly implied that the "why are there few women in software" discussion was inherently a "conversation about women's oppression". He took the "conclusion" and implicitly put it in the "premises" column, which is exactly what I was criticizing.

It's not a conversation about women being oppressed--it's a conversation about why there are few women in software. "Women are oppressed" is an answer, erik was characterizing it as the question.
The price of Happiness: $75,000
"This thread is useless without" mp3s. In all seriousness, I'd love if it somebody took a crack at this because I'd love to hear it. (And I'm sure the karma would flow.)
Where "business men" means "people who sell software (with footnotes for those that sell software development services)", rather than the more normal definition of "people who run a business" as the latter as a general group are far more likely to be buying and/or using software than creating and/or selling it.
It's much simpler to track and predict the position of objects orbiting the earth than moving though the atmosphere. Wind, temperature gradients, particulate matter, mist, etc add a lot of uncertainty to the predictions.

PS: As you increase accuracy more things become important factors. Large Ship guns actually started to track things like temperature at different altitudes to increase accuracy.
Politics of Pot: Marijuana on Four Ballots Energizes Political Debate
Ah, I was sort of hoping to find that someone had made a theme with syntax highlighting as useful as fish's.
Yes it is. But that would be a pretty long headline, doesn't it? :o)
Do you mean something like Flipboard for the iPad but with a PDF output?
It'll be boring since most of the time you hear will be shi.
Actually you can get a 1U 48-core (4x12-core opteron) these days: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/1U/1042/AS-1042G-TF.c...
Apparently the author agrees with you, because he complains about "how sluggish some manufacturers are to release critical operating system updates for their devices." I'm curious to know how he reconciles that with the comment that you have quoted.
Beyond vi - Towards a modern command mode
The site is beautiful. Nice work!!
http://www.clickworker.com is based in Europe, with European workers and has a good reputation.

As others are suggesting, Crowdflower works, and works well, with an excellent API. Also they are just good people. (They use an assortment of workforces)

For smaller jobs self service jobs like the one described in this article SmartSheet UI is amazing. http://www.smartsheet.com/ (MTurk based)

And if you need bigger stuff (or text oriented stuff), with some consulting you can contact me, or my company http://castingwords.com (MTurk based)
Yeah I had no idea about this either - it is so encouraging to find new stuff online. New markets, new experiences, new ideas. I think for a lot of us, being out on the forefront of technology and innovation (especially regarding the internet), we forget what it is like to discover a new thing, and how much fun it can be just to feed our curiosity in a new way. I think if you can deliver that same feeling to your users you've got a winning app.
One other way: Post it to reddit denouncing it based on the title and read the top comment.
I've been pondering making the switch, but I refuse to buy a smartphone that I am not in control of. (The current solution has been to not buy a smartphone.) Can someone who has done this share how practical this solution is? Does your carrier retaliate in any way? Is this a constant task to keep updated? Do you lose features? Or is this something so simple any techie should do it without any pause for thought as it is all upside and no downside?
I've been pissed off at my HTC incredible not being updated with Froyo, and being UI-ily inconsistent (why when I hit the Home button when I'm already at the Home screen does it proceed to give me a zoomed-out view of all my desktops? Why do I even have multiple desktops on a phone?), and being excessively carrier-branded, and Google lost the not-evil designation with the net neutrality thing.

And, I've been impressed with the iPhone 4's physical and software shininess (and yes, I'm willing to not hold it that way), so much so I was leaning in the iPhone direction for the next round of phone, assuming they did a deal with Verizon (big if), but this now has me reminded of the sucky elements: namely, no Google Voice, bad notifications, and the potential to get hurt, rather than helped, by OS updates.
I'm almost the same age, I had a PC, a console (first my older bother's NES, then a SNES, a GameBoy, a Saturn, a PlayStation and a GameBoy Advance) and I played with Arcades as well, each one was good for some genres of games, PCs hardly received Japanese games in 90s, including fighting, shot 'em ups, some cool puzzle games, platform (although you cited Commander Keen) and some JRPGs that were absurdly good.

The PC had it genres as well, strategy, the nascent FPS genre and adventures were far better in the PC. I tried to play as many as I could in every platform, turn out that I never played much attention to quality if I had fun playing them (this partly explain why angband is one of my favorites). Maybe I'm an oddity to have played them all.
The original quote was 'nobody has ever got rich betting against Steve Jobs'. The fact that at times Microsoft had close dealings with Apple does not stop the fact that their biggest bet of all - on the IBM-PC, commoditized hardware and the Windows OS itself - was quite clearly in competition with the Macintosh and Apple.

This was 'a bet against Steve Jobs', and it made Bill Gates (and many others) quite, quite rich.
Please let HN know if you do in fact do this, as it would no doubt be beneficial to a good percentage.
No matter what you do, if they want to pursue it you will end up in court. Even if their claims are baseless you still have to show up in front of a judge. The judge will then decide if it goes to trial or not. So you will be paying legal fees if you want to re-implement the feature as is.

Also, violating a site's terms of service is not illegal. It will just get you banned. Facebook tried to bring someone to court over terms of service(and other items) and the terms of service part was dropped by the court.
there is a whole lot of Chinese stuff like this:

http://gist.github.com/568487
Found one on a spam site

http://www.dvpod.cn/TC9KZ2E4/
I actually agree with both of you. MTurk is not solely about the money - but there is enough money in the system for it to be the main motivating force.

Getting honest feedback probably depends very heavily on survey design, instruction sets, and, if you've been doing it for a while, reputation.

With a jobs size this small you'll get information that might be useful, but will probably be biased. I wouldn't trust it - but I would use it as a starting place.

For the incredibly low price I think it's worth it.
The actual app.

I'll wait the screenshot, thanks.