skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks very good. Would you mind doing a short list of differences or planned features between Goodsie and Shopify ?
There might be 6000 years of culture, but this app finds degrees of separation(i guess) between wikipedia articles and adolf hitler(that is its purpose). So the association isn't casual and in relation to Adolf Hitler its pretty on topic.
It would be much better as a kindle app.

I applied to enter the kindle developer program, saying I was interested in doing an interactive fiction interpreter, but I've heard nada.
I wasn't being entirely sarcastic. It never occurred to me that you could use a non-polynomial-time algorithm.
When you are starting out small or if you're still testing a public beta, having discussions with your most passionate (or frustrated) customers can often end up turning others into brand advocates. Show that you care and others will be impressed with your product regardless off the temporary shortcomings.
You need to read this essay by Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Its very easy to learn the syntax of any language, you can probably do 5-10 a day. But to really learn a language, you must use it. Try to solve problems and try reinventing the wheel a couple of times.
I doubt it.

I think I've seen one Nook 'in the wild' on public transit in Boston. I often see people with kindles, sometimes more than one person on a subway platform. And I've been seeing even more lately - people using the new black ones.
Hey let's open a google wave to keep in tou ... what ?
I stand. I have a standing desk at work that nobody used - I knew exactly what to do with it. Several people have asked why I stand and do not sit with the rest of the team. I tell them about the health issues of sitting all day - and to be honest the standing desk area has become quite crowded now. ;-) Funny, I was seriously just talking with my wife about this.
Challenge HN: Inspired by greplin's third problem
Let P = {2, 3, 5, ... 1009, 1013, 1019, 1021} be the set of 172 prime integers less than 2^10. How many subsets S does P have such that the sum of the least |S|-1 elements of S is equal to the largest element of S?

Please list the language used, number of lines of code, and running time (if measurably greater than zero).
http://theshirtsite.com (No longer functioning) - I aggregated t-shirt designs across the web and built a centralized/searchable site for them. Every t-shirt I linked to was hooked up to some sort of affiliate program, so if the user clicked through and bought the shirt, I got a cut of the sale. Never really took off, but made a little cash for beer in my college years.

http://yaperture.com (Still up in artifact form) - A site for users to submit photos, have the community vote on the best, then we would mat, print, and sell them giving a user a cut of each sale. The market for real photography isn't that great, so it never generated enough money for us to break even. Regardless, it was a great experience and nice intro into some heavier development and co-founder life for me.
That's very true; every side project I've ever done has a piece of it living on in my current projects. I've found its important in life to know when to kill a side project that just isn't working, understand its pros and cons, move on and don't repeat the same mistake.
I've bought startupmonth.org to house a forum or something. Any thoughts on what should be there?
Thank you. I'm doing AB testing on a few sms APIs, when I settle on one, I'll leave another comment here.
:-) yay, he's up to ten! I should point out that when I wrote this, the poor guys post was at negative 4.
It's going to be very interesting to see how aggressive Microsoft gets pushing Bing as the default search on Android phones. The rumor was VZ cost them $500-$600M. T-Mobile & Sprint are going to be much cheaper. So it seems for only about $1B they can capture a huge chunk of mobile search. It's way too late for Google to make some big anti-competitive push to ice out Bing. They'll have to pay their way onto their own platform. That's rough.
Especially given pg's comments on education in 'Hackers and Painters' (which I just finally read). Yeah. Why on earth aren't we solving this? It's because it's not just hard (as in hard math, or hard code, or hard sell) but it's actually very hard work, and while people like to be remembered as the billionaire who invented something, they don't care so much for being the philanthropic [mo/fa]ther of today's educational system.

I think Jolie's right, to some extent -- we are selfish, and the demands of selfish people make us think we are creating things of value. It's easier to create something for pleasure and gratification or to solve an obvious problem than to entirely overhaul a nationwide, endemic problem with hundred year old roots, red tape up the wazoo and a severe shortage of cash.
No matter how classy you are, there are some people for whom there is no other description as well-suited as "giant, flaming douche." Good writers avoid cursing when adjectives will do—but great writers know when to pull the rare curse back out as an extreme, jarring intensifier.
Not ready for open signups yet-- I don't even have a homepage explaining what it does, nor any help docs.

I'll try to bang some out next week...
Dude, Total Finder owns ... except when Chrome downloads something and I click to open the finder window. Then it pops out in the middle of nowhere and no chrome around it. I have to click on the tab to get it back whereit belongs -- Fix that please! :)
How many weekly hours of labor are you guys able to put into a side project?
http://www.feedbackarmy.com really surprised me. I came up with the idea from a HN user asking for a service like it. It was on the front page of delicious the week I launched it (it was a slow news week, given). Since then it's served as a source of extra income.
Glad I'm not the only one who had this reaction <_<

Denver NaNo represent \m/
I'm in, but not in the quite the same way as many people here.

I'm not looking to launch a full business right now, as I am still in college. I plan on making an Android app to provide a small side income source, and to learn about the Android platform.
Hum. Do you always check a user's profile before downvoting if you don't remember seeing him before? I can't imagine myself doing that.

Or are you using some sort of plugin that gives you more info inline?
I created a facebook group,

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_141079939271952

Lets keep in touch here !

edit: i'm off to sleep now. so , for joining, just hope that facebook works ! Added 2 people to be admin of the group, wait&see , or cay tomorrow everyone
I used Haskell for the first one (was my first actual Haskell program, everything before was just xmonad config), C for the second one (already had the needed code for generating fibonacci sequences and a prime number sieve from when I went through the euler problems using only ANSI C) and Perl for the last one. I initially used Data::PowerSet for the Perl code, but decided to write my own after it took several minutes to build the combinations and I discovered that I had the wrong answer because I improperly read the problem.

I should note that I used the existing C code I had because I had no idea where they would intersect and didn't feel like writing Yet Another Arbitrarily Large Integer Handler.
Basecamp was profitable fast. We were doing about $5000/month after the first 6 weeks. We only had a few people at the company so our overhead was really low.
It sounds like you can firmly state that "Miami is empty in terms of investors for startups that we can find", which is what really matters.
I am already on an HSA so this actually is a pay increase for me.
I couldn't help noticing:

a) No time allotted for bathing. It's up at 9am, breakfast, then to work. None implied in the evening. I wonder how often 1890s English officeworkers bathed...

b) No time allotted for housekeeping. I suppose that was the job of the wife or the servants

Interesting read, though. The idea of doing exercises to build concentration is almost Buddhist.
So, what if you all oversaturate the market with applications?
From the context of the post, I think the OP means exactly the opposite by "food vs. freedom".

However, to address the point in your last paragraph, "freedom" is not a word with a clear definition, despite Rand's strong assertions to the contrary. Virtually any political philosophy purports to protect "freedom" in some of its senses.
suckers ... no really, you are.
How do you go about solving #2 on pen and paper? Well, calculating the Fibonacci sequence, ok. The sum of prime divisors of X+1, I guess... though it gets slightly harder for me after dividing by 2, 3 and 5. But how do you know for sure that X is prime?

Based on bd's link, I'll just assume that you have super powers. (or I'm approaching the problem the wrong way)

edit: I was starting to think about what to write for #1, but ended finding the answer by looking at it as well.
It's a highly misleading statement. Oracle didn't own MySQL for 6 years so they couldn't have raised MySQL prices even if they wanted to.

What it really means is that MySQL price was the same for past 6 years, when it was owned by MySQL, AB and then Sun, but as soon as ink dried on Sun acquisition, the first thing that Oracle did was to rise the prices.

Have they even released any new, improved version?
Very well designed, would be especially delightful on an iPad type device.

Using Chrome on a Mac though, nothing happens when I click on images from my feed. I'd expect that to at least preview a larger version, or maybe take me to the post itself.
Wow, I strongly recommend reading this (or, better yet, the full back-and-forth leading up to it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35068 ).

I wish I had discovered HN back then.
Aristotle said that drama is more philosophical than history, but (it seems to me) sometimes history may be more philosophical than philosophy, so, with an obvious American bias

_The Federalist Era_
_The Machiavellian Moment_, J.G.A. Pocock
_The History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison_, Henry Adams
_The Old Regime and the Revolution_ by de Tocqueville, also his history of 1848.
_The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution_, Bernard Bailyn
Polybius

Lionhearted recommends a book on Castiglione--Castiglione's own book of the courtier is well worth reading and should be easy to find.
Marco Arment on 5by5
Another nice benefit of gratitude is that studies have show it improves the thanker's happiness.

"The Happiness Hypothesis" covers some of the research on this. Participants would write a thank you letter to someone they felt they owed something to, or keep a gratitude diary.

There are a few details on this page: http://www.happinesshypothesis.com/beyond-gethappy.html
Yahoo Boss moving to a paid model
As the drizzle guys have pointed out in detail there are really two mysql customer bases. One wants to treat it as a sellable/supportable component of ISV packages, i.e. as a cheaper replacement for MSSQL/Oracle. The other wants to use it for "internet scale" things (high traffic websites, saas providers, etc). This price hike really only affects the former, and frankly, who cares, those guys have controlled the feature roadmap for 3+ years anyway they're welcome to pay for the mess they've created.

Those of us who build websites will be just fine with Percona until drizzle is ready (or maybe even forever).
Following the numbers in that article here:

Say they're break-even on $70mm of annual revenue.

35% of annual revenue is gross profit - so of $70mm they keep $24.5mm - so say that's their operating expense number.

I think you'd have to expect a 3-5x bump in revenue (assuming gross margin stays the same and no significant growth in that operating expense number of $25mm) to justify buying at a $2bn valuation.

4x revenue growth from $250mm expected this year = $1bn revenue

$1bn revenue * 35% gross profit margin = $350mm gross profit.
$350mm - $25mm operating expenses = $325mm pre-tax income.
$325mm less 35% taxes = $210mm net income.

Assuming they can keep up a steady growth rate at this point and you can value Hulu at 15x their net income number, this implies a value of $3,150. Which is about a 15% annualized return number over 3 years off a valuation of $2bn today.

So some of the questions are - how much do you expect online TV to grow, what percent of that market do you think Hulu will have, and successful do you think Hulu Plus and any other initiatives will be, and do you think Hulu can keep their operating expenses relatively flat?
when I was a graduate student, I wrote tutor (http://github.com/mathgladiator/tutor ) which was a student-orientated compute algebra system. The idea was to give it a college algebra to calculus II problem, and it would spit out a right answer with a complete step by step explanation.

I actually had students using it, but I got distracted by my game engine.

If I go back to teaching, then I will probably make a start-up out of this.
I wonder what this will mean for DuckDuckGo. More ads? Shut down? :/
Ok we'd like to be in but have to qualify what we are committing to. We already launched v1. We'd like to launch our android/iphone app in November
Safari lets you profile a web site too. It even has nice little graphs to show you what is so slow.
There is actually optimized versions for iPad and mobile (iPhone and Android).

The photos in the feed do not open larger at this point. Still trying to work the black magic that is the Facebook API. The cursor pointer is some dev code that made it through to production be accident, whoops!
Brain cells of rats used within experimental robots
I've heard of people who've worked at microsoft for exactly their chosen childbearing years. It's equivalent to 2x+ salary, and a nice paragraph on the resume.
3-4 minutes!

Try this:

for i in range(len(str)):
for j in range(i, len(str)):
if str[i:j] == str[i:j][::-1]:
#...

Choose the start and end indices. Then take a slice to see if it's a palindrome. Nice and speedy! :)
Too bad I do not have a FB account, but the screenshots look awesome. The stream page is kinda taking away from it, imo. I would focus 100% on photos.
Guys, we need to use ONE central place for coordination. How about the facebook group posted by ritonlajoie?http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_141079939271952

I've joined...
Now I have to try this.
Wow, I'm honored by all the feedback, Thanks! Pretty psyched everything is still responsive under the load too.

The dates are pretty lame, luckily looks like Wikipedia removed all the links to dates so when I run against the latest data set they won't be there.
I think you have a bug.

Elliptical Curve Cryptography -> AndrU00c3U00a9 Weil -> 1906 -> Adolf Hitler

'AndrU00c3U00a9 Weil' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AndrU00c3U00a9_Weil) doesn't exist.

Very cool though.
Except that many of the latest and greatest and most hyped apps use Android's latest features and thus don't run on older versions of Android. This is why users will care.
Consumers aren't going to tolerate that kind of lock-in, and in many cases will use Google just the same.

In order for Microsoft to actually get anything out of this, they're going to have to treat Android as a first-class platform, and beat the user experience of Google Maps, Search, Voice Search, Gmail, Goggles, and so on on Android.

Microsoft doesn't have those kind of engineering chops. They can barely even manage a decent UX on Windows Desktop. (We'll see about Windows Phone 7, but I will be very surprised if it's legitimately better than Android, even Android with Bing baked-in.)
It is also MOvember!
Gelernter isn't exactly what I think of when I read "entrepreneur". Technically, I suppose he is, but I just think of an entrepreneur as someone with more on the line.

It's like the old joke about the chicken and the pig and their commitment to breakfast.
He's the tenured chicken providing the idea eggs, not the pig providing the bacon and working to make a viable business.
This could be fun. I'm in for Nov 28th.

Could we arrange to start voting for the best apps on Dec 1st?
Thats a encoding bug yeah, supposed to be André Weil. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andr%C3%A9_Weil...
Rather than a rumor, it's just the way Google works. They are as data-driven as you can get. Think of all the AI work they're doing that one easily takes for granted: computer vision (image search, goggles, street view), nlp (translate, voice, search, etc), machine learning (search, et al), etc.
Your email validation code is too strict.

From Wikipedia:

The local-part of the e-mail address may use any of these ASCII characters:
Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a–z, A–Z)
Digits 0 to 9
Characters ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~
Character . (dot, period, full stop) provided that it is
not the first or last character, and provided also that
it does not appear two or more times consecutively
(e.g. John..Doe@example.com).
Wow this is pretty awesome. The photo perusing is quite fun with this UI.

In your Privacy Policy, you state that "We[you] only collect user analytics data. " For being more open with data, could you create some page within your application to report what bits of data you are storing about me?
@abraham. Dude's way up there in terms of Twitter knowledge. Found a replay bug 3-4 days ago they still haven't fixed... I'm surprised he hasn't gotten job offers. If anyone knows him, they should hire him.

That being said, I'm with travisjeffery and Osiris on this. Twitter may be a good way to start a conversation related to coding and such, but is by no stretch of the imagination a good place to hold that conversation.
Outlook search is powered by Windows Desktop Search I think.
I'm in for November 28th. Great Idea!
My non augmented finder is about that right now. 12 threads, 174.1MB real mem. two windows. The extra memory might just be a sunk cost of the app and might not increase appreciably with the number of tabs open. I guess you need to decide if it is worth the 60MB of ram usage.
Jonathan, I just checked out the HiiDef team site. Looks like you have a fantastic group of talented people who actually seem pretty cool.

I'd love to setup something similar in the near future. I'm sure I'll be seeing big things from your group!
The assumption is that those are mutually exclusive.

I've been watching PostgreSQL development back in the days and to me it's clear that the biggest mistake PostgreSQL made was not responding to market demands as quickly as MySQL did.

Windows support, built-in replication, built-in full-text search - those are all things that MySQL added much sooner than PostgreSQL. Those are also the features that people cared about and a big part why they were choosing MySQL over psql. At some point early lead turned into crushing defeat in terms of market and mind share.

You can claim that some other features constitute "best free rdbms" but clearly PostgreSQL team does think that those are included in that definition since eventually they added all of them. The problem is that they did it long after MySQL had them. Too little, too late.

The sad part is that it wasn't always a matter of coding but a matter of bad priorities and bad marketing (where I include defining what the product is and isn't as a fundamental part of marketing).

For example, I believe psql had high-quality full-text search coded before MySQL did but the core team resisted shipping it by default. Instead for a long time a super valuable feature was part of "contrib" package i.e. you had to jump through hoops (like compiling it yourself) to get it to work.

The main reason why PostgreSQL failed to MySQL was that the project was driven by extremely bright coders but terrible marketers.
Thoughts on design in short blursts
How To Estimate Software
thanks for pointing eBookPrice. Didn't realize we already had an app for that. so, should I go with my first idea?
What Mortal Kombat Characters Can Teach Us About Entrepreneurship
Nice to see TechCrunch got the memo about how to write like engadget ... summarize someone else's article, link to 10 of your own.

Wonder when they'll tuck the source link away somewhere discrete.
I am using Google analytics to measure trafic as well as events. On the backend I store the email address the user used to create their account, their Facebook ID, favorite friend ID's, and hidden friend ID's. I wanted to be as private with data as possible. 95% of the code runs client side and never talks to the server.

I plan on updating both the privacy policy and the terms of service. I modeled them off of Digg's but I am no lawyer, I am a hacker :).
Nice try, but the the excise tax on "premium" plans doesn't go into effect until 2018. So if their only motivation was taxes, they'd have waited.

Furthermore, I'm not losing any sleep about the government taxing only the portion of the value of a health plan that exceeds $27,500/yr -- in other words, the first $27,500 remains tax-free -- when the average employer-sponsored health plan is valued at $13,375/yr (2009). And here's what a $20,400/yr plan looks like:

For the secretaries and environmental engineers, game wardens and van drivers who work for the state of New Hampshire, surgery is free, even at Boston’s top teaching hospitals if it’s necessary. So are MRIs, CT scans, and X-rays.

Pregnant women pay nothing for prenatal care; alcoholics aren’t billed for short stints in rehab. Seeing a therapist costs just $10, as many as 20 visits a year, and prescription drugs top out at $30 for a three-month mail-order supply. New Hampshire state employees get $450 annually toward gym memberships, if they go regularly, or $200 toward their own treadmill - and there’s a $150 annual reimbursement for yoga classes, diabetes clinics, and nutritional counseling.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/0...

Yea, cry me a river if well-paid employees now have to buy their own treadmills or pay for their own rehab.
He answered a question about his own quote, which led to the thread about inventions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/357813/help-me-remember-a...
Thanks, I will update the regex in the next release.
It's probably good to note there are some differing opinions on diveintopython, (well, mostly zed shaw's opinion).

Here is his rant about it: http://oppugn.us/posts/1272050135.html

Here is the hn discussion of his rant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1289186
I agree with your point of "Launching an app, for whatever the reason, is an accomplishment in itself"
WebCommandPrompt sounds like http://yubnub.org/
This provides a good intro to a historical variety of political theories and includes everything from the ancient Greek traditions to Marx and Heidegger.

http://www.amazon.com/History-Political-Philosophy-Leo-Strau...
Unlike the Gap logo change, this one is actually pretty clever. But it isn't going to make MySpace relevant again.
Then it's like trying to interview early D&D artist Dave Trampier about why he suddenly gave it up and started driving a cab.
This was definitely a conflict I had. I wanted to focus completely on photos but most test users wanted to be able to see their stream and comment/like. This is the most volatile feature in Portrit and will most likely change in the future.
Which software niche is not already oversaturated? :)
Not really. It's web-based. So you're using the wifi or 3G network, which eats battery.