skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I clicked the link without reading the replies :[
Evan Miller (I forget his nick on HN) wrote the first - and the best - explanation of the analysis of Groupon's economics: http://www.evanmiller.org/golden-football.html
Something "remotely like YC" no, but there is plenty of industry specific angel and venture activity all over the country. DC/Baltimore is mostly gov/DoD/intel. Philadelphia (whole delaware valley, really) is heavily pharmaceutical industry focused. It's all off line.

The difference between a silicon valley web startup and most of the country is that in most of the country founders are getting rich off of high margin niche business software. They are selling licenses to specific industries with specific problems for thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, or doing lucrative consulting.

These people simply do not write blogs or do web published interviews. They have no incentive for mass market publicity.

There are only so many ways to make email and ebay/CL more efficient, which I think broadly sums up most mass market web ventures you read about. I'm firmly convinced the way to go is with a list of 20 specific corporate customers in mind. Make something you know they need. Ideally, they're already paying $80,000 a year for an inferior piece of shit.
I'm sure that moving off iSeries, etc. is a much more significant proposition than moving off of Solaris. But the barrier isn't zero. For an installation of any significant size it's almost certainly not going to be as simple as switching a deployment to legacy mode. You've got shell scripts to port, different configurations for core features like kickstart, firewalls, different package management. If you made an "environment standardization" bet on Solaris 10, you've got barriers to overcome.

But I'm not saying that Solaris is going to live. Just that, as someone who uses Solaris 10, Oracle seems to be tightening up. I think that they don't really care that much about Solaris and are just going to squeeze it dry. I'm far more worried what they're going to do with Java.

> In order to be kept alive, the Solaris boxes have to be able to perform tricks Linux boxes can't and, to a large extent, this is not the case.

True, but keep in mind that their competitors are often limited to "enterprise" distributions like RHEL and Ubuntu Server.
It's Trac though, nothing compared to BitBucket.
The amount of complexity it could introduce to an application doesn't seem worth the minimal amount of gain.
Caching is a substantial problem, and I imagine that DDG is happy to let Google handle that particular case – but I'm very curious about their business model too.
I put together a quick video for those wondering what the actual video workouts look like for the basic tier:
http://sproutvideo.com/videos/e898d2ba1d1de2cc60?type=hd

(hosted on my other start-up)
You'd be shocked how many technical challenges and headaches go into operating a major technology blog. Trust me, I should know.
That was my first thought too but as I think about it storing the info in the cloud is probably better for me. Sure on a large scale if the company stores the data on your phone the data that company stores is decentralized; however look at it from an individual perspective my smartphone is an extremely centralized "life storage device." If someone gets your phone they get your contact list, your emails, text messages, calender, social network info, etc. Why add credit cards to the list?

Additionally if you keep everything on your phone you need to spend more effort making sure your phone is secure. If I keep my CC's on my phone I need to make sure my phone is as safe as my wallet, and anyone who sees my phone will know that they can take my phone and get my credit cards.

If the info is stored on the company's servers than they are responsible for keeping it secure. Given the value of the data they have security would (hopefully) be an integral part of the system. On top of that, if a breech does occur the company is responsible for anything that happens, and the odds of the criminal using my specific info is less than if someone took my phone.
And it's silent!

Got an iMac (first Apple product ever, for us) for my wife back in early 2006, and that's the thing that stood out to me the most. Compared to my pc at the time, and every other one I'd ever owned, the iMac was as good as dead silent. You never really appreciate silent computing until you have one (a quiet computer, that is, not necessarily a Mac)
I assumed the 1% + .30 was on top of the merchant fees charged by the credit cards, which would make it not as nice for the merchants.
I like writing programming languages. No, I love writing programming languages. However, I don't expect that people would ever pay me to do it because there are so many people passionate about it that it gets done for free.

I believe I would feel the same way if my passion were English literature. The barrier to entry is so low that if that's your thing, after some initial training you can accomplish whatever it is you want to do absent the assistance of a highly-paid professor.

I don't understand why you would eschew the monetary value of something in one breath and then complain with the next that nobody is willing to pay you to teach it. If you're that passionate about it, screw the money and do it anyway. Either that or what you have is a hobby, not a profession.

Or maybe I'm wrong and society is lacking that final breakthrough deconstruction of Proust before we all happily move forward toward enlightenment. But I doubt it.
I have to add the obligatory representation for my home city of PIT here, given IMHO we have one hell of an excellent startup community. We've got various VC firms, incubators such as Alphalab, CMU throwing in its support, not to mention the fact that you can live here affordably with quite a nice lifestyle.

Once you're out of the valley the startup scene definitely changes, with a tad more focus on actual monetization :)
We have considered, and are still considering, single serve workouts. If there is a big demand for something like that, we'll probably implement it.
Clojure Faster than Machine Code?
Morgan Stanley Hiring Slowdown More Than a Pause
I guess the right thing to do would be to claim I was being ironic here, but really, it was just a poorly thought out late night titling decision.

If I could do it again, I'd go with (inc clojure), as below.
I found this analysis (previously posted to HN) a bit more rigorous and less ideological:

http://www.evanmiller.org/golden-football.html

The mechanism has some superficial similarity to 'Assurance Contracts', an economic idea for coordinating group actions that are best done all-or-nothing. However, it seems that at least now, with Groupon in its galloping stride, there's no real doubt most promotions will hit their target participation level. That is, it's more a promotional mechanism for focusing consumer attention, rather than a solution for a coordinated-decisionmaking problem.

There's room for other innovations in these areas, as well. The 'dominant assurance contract' gives an extra sweetener back to pledgers if the threshold isn't met, to make assurance contracts work for otherwise nonexcludable 'public' goods where bystanders might normally hope to free-ride after others fund. See:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/05...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract
30% of what was theoretically possible with thick film. I think this research is saying that what is theoretically possibly with the newer technology could be 10 times more.
I didn't think I was A) Complaining about sexism towards women, or B) Being sexist towards men. I mean, I'm a man. I know that because I was born in America and had access to a good education, I'm in great shape, good enough to control my own destiny. Whining about someone else having it easier seems like a strategy for losers. I suppose, if you're offended, you could say my tone was sexist. But I was really going more for derisive (of an idea, not a person).
Yup, the JIRA-Crowd integration experience sucks. It'll be fixed in JIRA 4.3 and Confluence 3.5.

What group membership restrictions do you mean?

(edit: I'm the Product Manager responsible for Crowd).
Am I reading this correctly? They have 7 people, and if you accept this job you would be the only developer?

Run away as fast as possible. This is not a company you want to get anywhere close to.
I initially decided on HG because I'm a Python developer, and a lot of other people in the Python community seem to recommend it (plus, HG is written in Python). Bitbucket had a free plan with a private repo, so I signed up. About the same time, my employer started migrating from Subversion to Git.

For me, the two features I miss most in HG are the staging area and cheap local branching. There plugins that give you rough equivalents, but I haven't used them and it's much nicer to have what you need out of the box.
Depends on your project, but you might want at least some level of visibility. If not now, then at some point in the future. Plus, the issue tracker and wiki are currently not versioned or linked to your code, so there's the possibility of them going out of sync.
Congrats BitBucket folks. My $0.02... I wonder if GitHub have had any offers to be bought out? It seems like they would, and they are continuously growing in personnel, so they can't be doing too badly. I'm also surprised that they said Atlassian will offer private repos for free forever. Forever seems like a pretty big promise, IMO.
> I don't sympathize much with Rodney King

Why not? He was beaten far beyond what was necessary to restrain and arrest him. I sympathize with him for what happened to him. It was a brutal assault.
Yeah, I would like to see real percentages of all the sunlight hitting a given cell that is converted to electricity.
At the very moment I can drop cable, I will.

Ah, but you can't... Having a monopoly position put these fellows in the position where they make money from customer who leave them for anyone ... if they could. In fact, they make the most money that way ... and the fiduciary duty they have ... to share holders, says they have to do that, doesn't it?
I avoided going to a tech interview there, because I knew they'd never have me no matter how sharp my Unix chops are.

No degree.

But I was laughing a couple months later when I was working across the hall at Akamai ...
California’s Electric Transit Ride
An appeal seems unlikely given that the Attorney General's office issued their own opinion that recording an officer during a stop is legal under state law, but who knows?
Notable industry figures likely weigh more heavily in this regard, but tens of thousands of emails from constituents is something a Senator could _at least_ use as a talking point, if nothing else.

Anyway, the EFF has a prefab letter to customize and send out. Shouldn't take anyone more than a minute.
I say it's underrated because a lot of people dismiss anything out of Redmond. There's a stigma that .NET Coders are just corporate drone code monkeys who don't care about their craft. Sure, some of them are, but there are plenty of very serious programmers working in the .NET platform.

You can write good code or bad code in any language, but the (many) frameworks that promote the MVC separation of concerns tend to nudge you toward making better code.

I agree with mellery451, stay in your comfort zone to get the product out quickly. Just be sure to venture outside of your comfort zone every once in a while. If I never went outside of my comfort zone, I would still be a Perl hacker.
Skale Music Tracker, ported from C++ to Flash
Here's a bit of background:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/09/28/a-powerful-music-tr...
Underground coal fires in China cause 2% of carbon emissions from fossil fuels
Couldn't this problem be simplified by considering the nodes and paths to be a resistor network, and solving for the effective resistance between the source and drain nodes?
I'm totally with you about being excited that the topic is getting the attention it deserves - if enough people are turning heads, lending a dollar and a hand, maybe we can fix the problems with our education system.

However, the hardest part about giving a lot of attention to a topic is that people who are not authorities on the subject end up with opinions about what's going on, purely based on the media or the propaganda campaigns of the bigger players.

Even in examining my own perspective, I find myself dramatically in favor of destroying the teacher's union, expanding school hours and curricula, and providing more freedom to the students, so that they can engage themselves in the subject that most interests them and appeals to their strengths. Sounds idyllic, doesn't it?

But the problem with this is that I'm not an educator. I don't know what conditions are like and I don't know what the real challenges are - I just know what I'm being told by the media. Just as in a startup, we have a lot of potentially unproven hypotheses that need testing.

This then to me is the real promise of the charter school movement - not that all of them are successful (most are not - even the ones featured aren't nearly as great as they seem, as I'm finding out from working with them), but that they represent the freedom to try new things, measure them, and figure out what does work.

What scares me is that people think they have the silver bullet, rather than the silver hypothesis.
Even in making these drastic changes, if no improvement is wrought, then what?
Will people give up? Or pivot?
Warrior Diet for Geeks
Prostate Cancer Term Papers and Essays
Writing term papers or essays on prostate cancer require sound knowledge of the illness. It should also include the causes of prostate cancer as well as the medicine and treatment available. This requires thorough research into the topic assigned.
Manga Here - Read English Manga Free Online. Manga is Here
If you've never used a "tracker" before, hit the "Disk Options" button, hit "\modules", choose a track, and hit "Playing" to start.
It's called mobile billing. Bango does something similar but requires the user to verify the charge to prevent fraud.
Cool project. That's pretty much what I had in mind, except maybe some sort of lightweight wiki, too.
ActiveFilings.com
I live in China and am on China Unicom. Not experiencing this now. This happened to me ONCE (one page view on a very familiar site, might have been HN) about half a year ago and I was shocked. But I couldn't repeat it so I just shrugged it off and forgot about it. Interesting that they're up to it again. Maybe I got a test run.
Is 10% really that bad?

If it's the bottom 10%, it should actually improve company's performance.
I trust you. But how much of that is Arrington's headache? The server is hosted by Wordpress VIP, and they mostly like down't have a full-time developer and sys-admin like Mashable does.

Does the editor and founder of Mashable maintain the server and fixes software issues?

I hope not!
I've never really used drawing much other then for making rough thumbnail sketches for websites or icons. Knowing basic techniques, like perspective and lighting, greatly helps to improve a sense of realism in more advanced/trendy site design concepts and icons.
This video of David Rothcopf talking about his book "The Superclass" mentions the megalomaniacal drive of that 'upper eschelon' of persona in our culture. Worth checking out the whole talk IMO:

http://www.youtube.com/earthintelnet#p/f/54/LHtNFZ6K0pE
Hell, I would love to get some extra electricity at home for $0.11. Do they make a 5 kW cell?

There are more than 2 people at home, and we often go over PG&E's "baseline". Electric water heater, etc.

My marginal cost for the extra kwh's is $0.30, and often $0.40 for the last little bit. Having something (out here in the hills) to spit out some electricity for (T.C.O) $0.15 / kwh would save me money.
The newer laptops are a lot easier, and they reflect it by labeling the HD as user-serviceable without voiding the warranty.

Meanwhile, I have this: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-MacBook-Pro-15...

Which definitely qualifies as a PITA. Easy enough for me, though, as I've had far nastier, also from Apple (12" Powerbook): http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-PowerBook-G4-A... (they don't have a HD guide, but that's all the screws). And all those screws are different sizes (or close enough).
The thing that annoys me about DuckDuckGo is that the page doesn't load all at once. The first few items on the page load quickly, but then others start popping up. Which might be fine, except that they start crowding the stuff already there, sometimes changing its position. I have to wait a few seconds before I know I can start reading.

I haven't noticed anything that I could find better with DuckDuckGo than Google, but the results are usually pretty good. For finding error messages and quotes it seems slightly worse (incidentally, does anybody know of a good search engine for finding quotes when you don't know the exact wording?).

Zero click info is a great idea. Half the time when I search for something, I just want the Wikipedia page, and half of those times, I just want a few sentences or definition.
PHP: Bringing you yesterday's IPC today!

*: SysV shared memory is incredibly clumsy to implement anything more complex than a cache in, and memcached still does a better job of that. There's really very few reasons you would ever want to use it in production code.
Energy-generating soccer ball wins Popular Mechanics prize
Xmarks is Worth Saving If They Want to Be
Hi Tim! Glad I can provide more info. Yep, apparently it was in the middle of winter too. Trekking camera gear all over the place. All in all, their grassroots story is very inspiring to any startup founder. I have a lot of respect for those guys.
The Deque Game
"Several job offers with companies I respect"

This is a powerful outcome of writing frequently on the web. Have any other bloggers experienced this?
Pretty cool how easy it is to deploy, but I wonder how much work went into the app first. Deploying with Heroku is always simple due to the pure git workflow (ie: git push and you're done).
o-l-d.
How do you work 19 hours a day?
Can you tell us a little more about your experience? Hard to judge salary expectations without knowing more about you.
Yes, this is the case. However, they want me to immediately hire another 1-2 developers to work with me
It's never as easy as "hire some contract programmers to [insert thing here]." Management is a pain in the ass. Finding talented contractors is hard. Finding one's whole be available past that one feature you need is harder. Finding folks who will deliver when they say they will is even harder than that.

Making sure that the 3 guys working together are actually working ltogether is tough. Then you deal with schedules, deployments, personality conflicts, and the whole thing.

Managing things is a profession unto itself. My guess is Arrington doesn't like doing it.
Kurzweil’s Blio Finally Launches – Here Is A First Look (FAIL)
You stole the quote I was gonna use!

Besides storing all your important information remotely, how about the fact it won't work in areas of no connectivity or when your battery dies.

My credit card and dollar bills do not suffer from the aforementioned dependencies.
He was drunk driving at over 100 miles per hour, didn't pull over for the cops, then he resisted arrest. No one deserves to be beaten up by the police unnecessarily, but he's not innocent in this.

If a criminally violent asshole beats up a criminally reckless asshole, I don't have sympathy for either one. The police were in the wrong, and Rodney King was also in the wrong. There's no sympathy to be had in the entire incident, not from me.
What a terrible explanation..
My web app has a large amount of data that needs random portions to be served by a PHP script. Because speed is of utmost importance, the data resides in RAM.

I first built a working solution in PHP using IPC Shared Memory Segments and later ditched it in favour of PHP+Redis (you could use your own NoSQL datastore of choice of course).

For me, it was way simpler/cleaner to implement and I got a bunch of features for free.
The article makes a good point about salaries after college but what about the fact that there is a growing gap between men and woman going to college? This is completely glossed over during the article.
Spot....and kill them
Javascript obfuscation | Team Abutor
The greatest issue, as you acknowledge in your post, was that you weren't testing the point closest to the sale. The first thing to test is the final registration page. I often spend a fair amount of money to drive traffic that I can optimize against to single page landing pages. If you can't make enough money through Google Ads or Facebook ads (e.g. your cost per sale > revenue per sale), then you either have a bad business or a shitty landing page.

Rather than just optimizing existing traffic, buy traffic and find out how far off you are. The best part of these ad systems is that they are relatively efficient. That means you should be able to quickly figure out how far you are off.

While I'm sure "learn Japanese" has already been taken, there are probably plenty of long-tail keywords as well as people on Facebook who haven't been targeted. Your key is going to be to find out who those people are and drive them to your site.

I tend to be pretty straight forward with my own investments in projects: if there's a huge gap between cost of acquisition and revenue per customer (or present value of the LTV of the customer), you probably need to build something better or change your product all together. Your own internal cost per user will end up being just as high as google ads (if not higher), except google provides an instant vehicle for testing. In other words, it will help you fail quicker ... something that's extremely valuable in the world of startups.
Free VoIP calling for iPod touch users
Raytheon XOS 2 exoskeleton
What do the merchants install?

Surely they don't trust us to simply show them the confirmation page on our iPhones?
The level of difficulty the government has in spying on people should be inflicted through the judiciary - obtaining a warrant and the like with appropriate punishments for setting aside this process.

I have not looked deeply in to this though, so apart from that point I have no position on this proposal.
The vibe I am getting from this is that it is not about online dating or finding a partner. So what's the point? Well, if you are a man who can't talk to women and haven't figured out how to write a convincing ad about yourself on Craigslist this could be the service for you. Basically, a site for men who are lonely and women who will take advantage of that. What a positive and endearing business model.
the efficiency of these things is measured by: produce a beam of light with known/fixed cross sectional area and total energy. point it at the cell. measure how much energy you get out. what the cell is made of doesn't affect the way this is calculated.
Actually there is one big one I can think of: women's fashions vs mens fashions. The fashions and hairdos and whatnot for women just plain require a lot of work to look right. Combined with makeup, it is a big deal. To look decent, most women need to spend 30-60 minutes a day on that stuff. This really adds up, imagine an hour of your day on nothing but preening.

You could argue that "they don't need to" and I call bullshit. Go down to the nearest college and pay attention to the comments made about the female grad students who do eschew the preening hour vs the comments about those who don't. It is absurd. A man who doesn't bother to do his hair right is "eccentric" or "a bit of a slob" but this trangression is quickly overlooked (a fact many geeks take great advantage of). A woman doing the same will forever be looked down on as 'that frumpy chick' or 'she could really be something if she took care of herself'. Do you see the difference in how the value judgement plays out?
Mysql "Swap Insanity"
Yes this is like a bad copycat of Awesomeness Reminders.
Fighting Layout Bugs