skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of getting it with mi-fi... although it's a separate box which is a bit annoying, you can use it for other stuff, like your iPhone when ATT has no signal.
OTOH, 1GB is not a lot of data... it's $35 for 3GB and $50 for 5GB, with $10/GB overage
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/ipad.jsp
is the verizon page...
Oslo Court Sentences Traders for Beating Machine
The problem is, half-baked ideas themselves might not be fully fleshed out. Reading one of these ideas might generate a spark that will finish the idea.

That being said, a lot of half-baked ideas proved rather popular. I mean, seriously, does "post what you are doing, but you're limited to 140 characters" sound like anything really worth while?
Sure I will forgive you, but I will also note that again this is a case of blaming Javascript for bad UX design. The evidence is in his post. I just highlighted it.
The trouble is that this behavior swaps over. I often see people on IRC googled for an answer, but would have never thought about looking at the nice, shipped, and even installed documentation.
Designers are from Venus, Hackers are from Mars, Clients are on Earth
Twitter's Patent Strategy: Don't Bother
But that wouldn't be nearly as inflammatory.
No, "Perl's inverse" was unnecessary snark and you're right to call me out on it. Thanks for the explanation :)
I was an Opera fan for-frickin'-ever, but I switch to Chrome just recently.

Opera's been light-years ahead of most in the browser industry, but then Things Just Stopped Working. Updating my browser for any reason would mean that bookmark syncronizing stopped for a few days until I figured out why it was broken this time, then I had to manually re-sync my bookmarks.

It has a bunch of features I don't use (torrent client, chat client, mail client, Opera Unite), isn't supported as well, so you run into render problems from time to time, and hasn't copied some of the REALLY good ideas from its competitors, despite having ample time to do so (when I close a tab, I expect the next tab close button to align itself automatically under my mouse button like Chrome).

Opera's my #2 fave browser, but that doesn't mean it really gets any use. I use Chrome for browsing, Firefox for developing, IE for testing, and Opera...

Opera, we had a good run. But it's over. I'm sure you'll find someone new.
After reading Zed Shaw's post yesterday about how "Long Beards" are getting marginalized by "Product Guys" I cringe when I hear bullshit like this:

Ideas (and in most cases even the code itself) is worth little. It’s marketing that makes the startup.

(Mind you, ideas are worth little, but the rest... yeah)
This is a fairly informal site, so addressing people as "Sir" isn't really necessary.
I will have to agree to disagree on the value.

Your argument is valid, I just dont subscribe to it myself.

As noted thru all my comments, even tho we disagree on its value, it has great "knowledge" value to you and your professional capacity.
Why the obsession with EXIT strategies?
http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/14/7-more-critical-questions-for-emerging-entrepreneurs/

There is such a big obsession with EXIT strategies, why is that? I can absolutely understand this obsession from the investors prospective.. However, entrepreneurs?! Why?! Business ventures are not the same as war ventures.... ideally there should not be a finish line... Instead, shouldn't we be obsessed with building great companies with great products/services and knowing that our customers love us, cause we treat them like no other, cause we simply care.
I'm going to agree with you 100%. Word and PPT do not matter if the format changes a bit or whatnot (this already happens between different versions of Office). If you need to create a document that keeps perfect formatting, then you need to output in something like PDF.

Excel is a completely different beast that has so many features it's very hard to cover them all for all users. A big one we use is using Excel as the front end to MSAS. Normally we would have had to design some user/reporting interface, but instead we were able to use Excel pivot tables to access the data directly on the server. Since all of the analysts are already familiar with Excel and its pivot table interface I just had to show them how to to point it to our MSAS instance.
Recent imperialist ventures - Iraq comes to mind - where the US and its allies overthrew the local dictator - have led to a worse mess.

Apples and oranges. We overthrew the dictator, but we didn't conquer the country--at least, not overtly, the way an empire would. A full-on conquest, made by a federalized empire with experience of conquest, would be entirely different.

(Not necessarily better, but different enough that you can't easily extrapolate.)
Among other, smaller things - it's fast. And by fast I mean: it doesn't use 50-100% of processor. In Chrome, opening more than 2 tabs was a nigthmare. Same with Firefox.
Opera's net income in 2008 was about $90 million. And that's from about half a billion dollars in revenue that year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Software

Yes, Google is much bigger. But don't suggest Opera is poor.
I’m not sure how you came up with “3” (or for that matter how objects in view of a lion is comparable to “concepts” in the working memory of a programmer). As far as I know this idea was popularized by Errol Morris’s film Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control: http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fcooc_transcript.html

“Dave Hoover:

“The chair has four legs... Now, an animal has a one track mind, For instance, the animal is coming after you with the idea of tearing your head off... You put the chair up, and all of a sudden, he has four points of interest. He loses his original train of thought because this agitates him. He can’t comprehend those four points of interest, so what he does he attacks the chair. He takes his wrath out on the chair. His mind now had been completely distracted from his original thought: ‘Eat the man in the white pants.’

“It’s basically animal psychology. You try to keep the animal afraid of you in that he does not understand you. He does not understand that you’re weaker than he is. [...]”

(The next few paragraphs are also quite interesting, and I recommend the film generally.)
Canada Declares BPA, a Chemical in Plastics, to Be Toxic
Agreed that most of these would be good components of an overall browser benchmark, but the linked benchmarks are JavaScript benchmarks only, so things like browser start-up time and chrome dimensions wouldn't apply.
> If you're citing divide-and-rule don't quote Iraq. It has 5 races in it, 2 very dominant religions and several suppressed ones.

This is precisely the legacy of divide-and-conquer British policy!

The way the borders where set during the expansion of the British Empire was to put 2 or 3 different neighboring nations under the rule of a single governor. More over, if a nation was specially strong, it would be split into 2 different neighboring states.

This way, it was possible for the Empire to play the natives against each other. Favoring one of such groups above the rest provided the rank and file for the local law enforcement, public service, business administration and all other institutions needed to keep Empire dominion over the territory. England is simply too small a country to provide enough soldiers to populate garrisons around the world.

When the Empire imploded, the infrastructure for dictatorships was already set in place, but the checks and balances dissappeared overnight.
Crowdsourcing Your Ideas for a better founder conference
On Engineering and Design: An Open Letter
Unfortunately this confirms one of my fears with FOSS. The better the software, the worse the business model works. I hear politicians call for more open source because it creates local support jobs. Software shouldn't create jobs. It should kill jobs so other higher value jobs can be funded somewhere else in the economy.
Hi David,

It is a fresh implementation. We also have built our own metadata framework in Python (something like Django but with tight client side integration).

I have not had a detailed look at OfBiz, infact I had a re-look at it right now. Here is what I find

1. The modules are plenty. We can pick up a lot of ideas from it, though apart from e-commerce we do have many of the features. We do have a lot of depth - just comparing the inventory settings in the Product master, we have a lot more features and validations. But they have more breadth.

Even comparing the chart of accounts, we have a tree structure with a widget to go with it. Ditto with Item, Customer, Territories, Suppliers etc, we have a tree structure.

2. The code base seems very large, we have a much small code base and our metadata approach keeps our code base much smaller.

3. I would like to believe that our interface is also a bit easier to use and much more web friendly with Social Networking features... We are also adding social gaming features by giving users points for doing things like booking orders, making payments etc so that it motivates them to use the system better.

We have around 20 companies who are paid users so we are constantly learning from them!

Hope this was useful

- Rushabh
An iPhone app that helps me find relevant people for my startup (upvote if you like this idea)
I agree, if you go for dedicated clients (irc, mail, rss) you will get more power/functionality if you need them; but I feel that in Opera I get the optimal balance between functionality and complexity. To each his own.

Still, I don't understand what benefits are to explicitly disabling Opera's built-in torrent client; why not use something else?
How to raise money from angels (upvote if you like this idea)
Verizon offers iPad/MiFi Bundle on October 28, 1GB/mo for $20 no contract
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/958997/frame-buster-buste...
This keeps getting funnier and funnier :)... that must be the state of the art in recursive busting ;-)... And if someone is so obsessed that his page must not be framed... I guess it is best to leave such a guy alone...
How to make it to a big conference like DEMO or TechCrunch Disrupt (upvote if you like this idea)
A startup competition with a prize (upvote if you like this idea)
Ok, so your example just shows that you can be super successful using the vaporware strategy...
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Perfectionism was mentioned at least three times (3. Perfectionism, 7. Sweat the details, 10. Perfection). That says a lot about Steve Jobs. I'm still amazed how the 'death grip' slipped through.
How do you envision FaceTime being integrated into iTunes? (I think the iChat suggestion seems more plausible.)
Really though, if they had that kind of funding they could have afforded some serious mentoring, code review, reality checks, etc. I think the problem was/is their schedule and inexperience rather than the funding and publicity.
I see the benefit of a library as being that I don't need to write the code, but it still won't go in one of my projects until I understand what it does and whether it actually works the way it should. Personally, I encounter bugs and bad code in libraries all the time, especially in libraries that extend or hook into web frameworks.
Invite pg as a speaker (upvote if you like this idea)
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Once an itch is scratched it turns into a scab. And new itches appear.

Seriously though, businesses change over time. Are people who are great at getting things going the right people to run them long term? In some cases yes, in others no. In my case I plan to be involved in one of my companies for a long time, but for another I am involved in we are building to exit.
Note that it's starwars.com, not maxim.com.
Some wicked ideas here. I'm intrigued about (41) NonStarter. The starter in a cars engine is massive considering its relatively simplistic purpose. Did you elaborate on this one by any chance?

PS:

(43) NotFb

A place for facebook hold-outs or people that have left Facebook for whatever reason.

Diaspora.
The problem with more languages is that you fragment the community. Maybe it'd indeed be nice to use Ruby instead of Javascript for a project or two. But I don't think something like jQuery would be simple to port over and maintain (especially considering that the mobile landscape is even more nightmarish than desktop cross browser support). And what about plugins?

And what happens when you get the odd client that wants you to do some work for them and it so happens they are using I don't know, PHP or Java on the client-side? (or CL or Scheme, if that's your cup of coffee)
I suspect ignoring morality and optimizing for long term productive output is probably more effective than focusing on morality.

Everything has diminishing returns but a good mix of education, healthcare, research and infrastructure spending is required to optimize long term productivity. Corruption and protected industry's are harmful so you eliminate them. A simple tax system that focuses on maximizing revenue outperforms other approaches while limiting enforcement costs. etc.

PS: At some point further investment will have diminishing returns but the US is still well below that threshold with our current technology and we are constantly innovating. And a light hand reduces the tendency for revolution.
had to reboot the system because I've added more RAM to the VM (because 'gem mirror' uses A LOT)
Your post was poorly reasoned, and quoting Wikipedia was frivolous. Furthermore, it was written in a way that's grating for many people, regardless of your (poorly reasoned) points, because it

a) reinforces the notion that you didn't care enough about your message to spend 15 seconds longer on it to write it properly, a feeling which already existed in readers' minds because of the presence of your (poorly reasoned) points, and

b) requires readers to spend longer parsing your comment before being able to comprehend the (poorly reasoned) points you were attempting to make.
The flaw in your theory is that Carrie Fisher looks absolutely stunning in this picture: http://www.vanityfair.com/images/hollywood/2010/10/esb08.jpg
Only if that's all there was to Microsoft's success.
Dead Man's Switch-type sites are around in some capacity but I can't remember URLs either.

Quite similar, one of the lame ones on my list (working title: LockBox) was a vault where you could record a few (electronic) things that friends/family might need after you passed (funeral wishes, how to distribute your things, basic passwords, where you hid jewellery, etc).

Someone could hit the site and enter two email addresses - the vault owner's, and their own. An email would be sent to the vault owner (identifying the person attempting to unlock the box) and if a link in said email was not clicked within 24-48 hours (or whatever it was set at), the vault key would be sent to the requesting person.

Target moody teens that obsess over what music might be played at their funeral, who gets their collection of whatever, what happens to their dog, etc.
I use it because

1) it is available on all the platforms I use (Linux, Maemo, Mac, Windows, Symbian) and syncs bookmarks to and fro

2) it can be secretly installed in my home on my work computer which runs a heavily customized old Debian without modern libraries.
I posted the Circos link yesterday but it didn't get much traction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786722
The Mayas compared well with the ancient Greeks in many areas but were still stone age some. If you're looking at contemporary comparisons they support the article's point.
Point #1 is not quite true. US doctors certainly take ethnicity into account when it is a medically relevant indicator of genetic risk.
I would participate in a hacker's contest !!! I love this kind of stuff, just like google code jam, but maybe I would be good at it ;)
Introductory Guide To Startup Funding [2007]
Nice!

Seems like a lot of websites (Smashing Magazine and Abduzeedo to name a couple) are using Mobify -- http://www.mobify.me/ ... I have yet to try it out. Can't comment on it.
The Largest Woman on Earth
This woman lives with a rare syndrome known as acromegaly aka gigantism. She is not only tall but is also large, larger than any other woman alive.
Ruby code usually has the rdoc-style comments right above the method definition, and not all of those explanations make it to the README...

I did this yesterday. The README of Authlogic doesn't cover using a single access token to log in without a username or password, but the comments in the code does:

http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic/blob/master/lib/auth...

Okay, check out Params:

http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic/blob/1ba948eca149b9b...

Awesome!
That's not U.S. dollars, that's kroner. On December 31, 2008, that was $13 million on $71 million revenue (http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=NOK;to=USD ; change the date to get historical data).
I'd be happy with a certification that something runs without proprietary drivers.
OpenOffice is a horrible piece of software.

When I switched to Mac, I tried MS Office 2008, and it was buggy as hell, so I've been using OpenOffice, which sucked too, but slightly less (on Macs). Now MS Office 2011 is coming out, bugs fixed, looks great, UI/UX is great, so I started converting all docs back to MS format and will ditch OpenOffice in a couple of weeks.
Getting clear answers from the Enterprise types is akin to the Socratic method

Or to quote Bob:

So what is it you DO here?
Opera always override default torrent application on my machine. I found it to be easier to just disable Opera's built-in BitTorrent than changing back the default every few days. I wish they have this simple "Use Opera to handle BitTorrent" checkbox in the Preferences.
Ask HN: How do you deploy your PHP apps to production?
I have several php applications for various projects and the code is deployed in production using either rsync or subversion. But I want all apps to be deployed with scripts using one method for consistency. Which methods have been successful for you?
For the second company, did u plan for an exit right from the start?
Ask HN: Popular bloggers writing about retail and technology
Anyone knows popular bloggers writing about retail and technology?
9 Insane Natural Phenomena
Mother Nature is normally a very sweet lady, she can sometimes go off the deep and blow your mind ... or ruin your shit, as evidenced by this nonet of natural madness.
I think I have non-starter worked out to the point where you could try it.

That's the reason why there is an 'open ecu' somewhere else in the list, most ECU's are sealed tighter than a gnats arse to avoid liability.

There has been some work on an open ECU though.

Another advantage of this would be retrofit start-stop trickery on existing cars while removing parts :)

Fuel saver as well as an emissions boost.

And I always thought it was a great name :)
As I said - "more importantly, exposure". Not that Opera is poor but they can't compete with Google's brand awareness.
Andi Robot turning Android OS inside out
In my case specifically, and in a wider scope too (IMHO), the limit is removing the barrier of having to explain in any detail. Forcing me to post the TLDR version of what I want to say encourages me to make the effort much more often.
Personally, there are very few experiences I find more miserable than looking at other people's code. I'm sure other people feel the same way about my code. If I were in this position, I would probably start by looking at the documentation. If the feature I needed was in the code, but not in the documentation, I wouldn't want to use it.
It's just as likely that the second researcher would make a subtle mistake in the process of replicating the results of a paper that didn't include code. And unlike in the scenario in which the first scientist publishes a mistake, it would be impossible for a third party to find or correct it.
Though, of course, Anderson's looks certainly changed over the course of the show's run. By season 5-ish, she was much sexier, and wasn't afraid to use that.

That said, I agree with your general assessment of the gender balance in the X-Files.

Also, I agree with the other comment regarding how good Fisher looks in a few of those photos.
I'm with you: I use OO, and I also think it's not great.

I have tried to switch multiple times, but thad did not last for long. OO severely lacks polish.
I am lucky not to have either MS Office or OO installed on my machines, my simple needs are fully met either by TextEdit or Google Docs. If I want something more fancy I have a copy of iWork—once again I am lucky I don't exchange document often.
Frankly, I have little hope for OO.
Andy's an awesome dude. Him + SteamBirds are of the earliest users of my analytics platform and biggest supporters - I even get a shoutout towards the end of the video (although I'm not SWFStats anymore I've rebranded as Playtomic).
Especially Sunspider, which has the doubly whammy of developer and to a certain extent power-user mindshare, but yet doesn’t test normal site behaviour.
Does Opera have an Awesome Bar (i.e. find-as-you-type in the address bar autocompleting from browser history and bookmarks)? Does that integrate with Delicious?

That's probably the biggest reason I stick with Firefox. Chrome's autocompletion doesn't compare (it only does prefix search on the URLs or entire page titles, whereas Firefox does infix search on URLs and words in titles, which makes it much easier to recall a given page).
Damn, that could have been a great angle. Not really my skillset, though. Besides, I have a job. And other plans.

Please, though -- my name is Danilo, not Dan.
I agree that user base IS a barrier for entry but hardly unique to any business, startups. Almost, and not ALL, business plan that I've seen cite "ability to achieve massive user base" and "first player in the market" as barriers, I choke almost every single time reading that.
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I think Jobs himself said that the problem with Microsoft was that they had no taste.
Recent research indicates no link between red meat consumption and heart disease:

http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/CIRCULATION...
Hey Guys, this is my little project that keep seems to slowly be turning into a startup of sorts. Looking for some feedback on the idea, execution and thoughts going forward with it.

Thanks!

Here was the previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1747797
1GB per month for $20? What is this, 2001?

Of course, you just know all the Dogberts at Verizon are wagging their tails over collecting those juicy overage fees.
This one:

(17) Cameria
Anagram of America, the 'free world' where you can join in groups to roam the internet at large. Any page you visit you take your 'followers' along with you, and everybody shows up as little avatars on top of the pages visited. Now known as 'crowdsurfing'.

Made me wonder if those avatars couldn't be represented by some mischievous vandals that could interact with the page somehow (thinking of the Asteroids bookmarklet that was mentioned here a while back).
State of Project Voldemort
Agreed. I'm just using development builds (and lately the official beta), but Firefox 4 is leaps and bounds better than Firefox 3.6 (which was already pretty good!)