skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dull concrete? How about lake Tahoe, Yosemite park, Muir Woods park, Monterey Bay, Black Mountain, and I could go on.

I do miss living in California ;-)
Overseas outsourcing and intellectual property
how do you cover your liability if you use overseas sub-contractors with regard to non-competes, intellectual property, ndas etc. especially if they are not in the US. How can you enforce them? I am going to talk with a lawyer, but wondered if anyone had any advice.
One of the best things about my Nexus One, which comes with free tethering and can act as a WiFi access point.
WakeMate is Hiring
Eight years ago would have been right during the bust, when all the overtly Valley stuff was in hiding.
> The other bubble tea place across from Red Rock is open later than anything else on Castro but it's a bit dingy inside and you likewise can't pick up Google Wifi inside.

If you mean Tea Era, that's no reason not to go - it's one of the best places in the area. Who wants coffee anyway?

It's certainly not a great place to work, if only because someone will be annoyed that you're using up one of the 4 or so seats.
Hi, as I said to Groxx, this was just a quick hack, hopefully nothing to take too seriously.

There are definitely improvements that could be made, for example looking at the direction of travel, and if someone wants to try implementing them I would love to see it! (And yep, for full time use another method of getting it on to the page would be far superior. I felt like a bookmarklet was the most frictionless way to try it out personally, and to get others to give it a go as well)

Thanks for the feedback!
Venture Capital in Montana | Flathead Beacon
Looks like is still trucking, albeit quite slow... http://github.com/ccgus/letters
Hmm; I haven't done any GUI work with OpenJDK, but now that you mention it I do remember some caveats about the font rendering engine being one of the pieces that they were having difficult tracking down provenance on for open-sourcing.
The tv show eye on the bay seems to do a pretty good job:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/show/eye-on-the-bay/
Portland Seed Fund: Y Combinator, it’s not.
The advice that TC won't cover you unless you're much bigger is bad. They'll cover you however small you are as long as you give them something worth writing about.
Maybe check out FastSpring: http://www.fastspring.com/
Silicon Valley is becoming the San Francisco Bay Area. There are many startups in SF, East Bay (last year's startup school was at Cal), North Bay, Peninsula, etc.
The excellent research done under Jikes project in IBM cannot be forgotten. It to contributed to IBM's patent portofolio.

Bad to reply to own comment, but can't edit it anymore.
> No option for plain text composing.

You just prevented me from downloading this: none of the professors at my university allow non-plaintext email, and will ignore any HTML email that is sent.

I always thought HTML emails are for newsletters anyway?
I'd love to do a tour with other people that are going to Startup School.
Recruitment consultants and estate agents have a lot in common - both use limited vocabulary as props to fill adverts they don't spend nearly enough time thinking about.

A house with 'character' is in a bad state of repair.

A 'rockstar developer' is competent, but young enough to not know his or her worth.
New start-up links web shoppers with bricks and mortar
The problem with fractional reserve banking is that a bank can lend out any of the money it's keeping on deposit for its customers. In any other business, this would be wrong. Imagine a storage operator renting out its customers' stored belongings. Or an airport that rents out cars left in long-term parking. The reason this works for banks is because the government forces people to use fiat money, money that is without intrinsic value. By dealing in fiat money, the banking system can easily produce any deposit money that is demanded. The cost for this is devaluing of the money.
I found this the most interesting:

> My 3-year-old nephew in Seattle offers a window into my boy's future. When I sent a video of Luka to my brother, he immediately video-called us on the computer with his son on his lap. My nephew wanted to see us right away; he gets frustrated watching videos of family on the computer because they don't interact with him. Forget videos; Skype is his "normal."

(emphasis mine)

The next generation of internet users are not going to simply be used to an audiovisual experience, but a genuinely interactive one. I say 'genuine' because for years people have tried to sell 'clicking on links' as 'interactive web'; it's not, in the same way that 'switching channels' is not 'interactive TV'.
Ah - if his response to feeling undervalued is to improve (and draw attention to) his value proposition, then that's very admirable. Thanks for the clarification.
"He said, 'Well, I've just been named the finance minister. You know I don’t know economics, so please come to meet me in Brasilia tomorrow,' " Bacha recalls.

So, three things had to happen:

1. A politician had to admit his ignorance

2. Some bright spark technocrat somewhere had the right solution to a seemingly impossible problem.

3. The right politician asked for help from the right technocrat

They're not kidding. It is a miracle.
This may sound cynical, but hot girls work. Given the subject area, hot girl in a bridal gown and hot guy in a tux seems like it would be attention getting.
I agree. Know how to edit the title? I can't seem to find a way to do it. Maybe I don't have enough karma?
For people outside of SV/SF, this is definitely the prevailing mindset. I've been all over the country the past 6 months meeting startups and developers and unless you've been there or lived there, Silicon Valley == Bay Area.
"Brazil's inflation rate hit 80 percent per month. At that rate, if eggs cost $1 one day, they'll cost $2 a month later."

Really.
i think it's pretty cool... how did you do the auto suggest? is it through an api? i don't really like the results in the section (frame? div?) where you might have to scroll. seem like layout could be more integrated.
Agreed - I was trying to head off what seems to be a frequent derail of late, and avoid the perception that I'm reflexively defending the lending industry against all attack.
Another book that is an auto-biographical business book is Lester Wunderman's Being Direct. Wunderman pretty much invented the direct marketing industry and relationship marketing. It's easily in my top three books I've ever read.
And HN currently has no way to remedy accidental down (or up) voting, which is particularly problematic on touch screens.
Not as of yet. I cannot think of a sensible way to show many different sets of results at the same time. Unless you have a huge monitor, it would likely be too cluttered.

You can search multiple sites easily by typing in your search, then clicking on whatever providers (or typing into "filter"), and it will update the results. Or, you can hit [up] and [down] keys to toggle between search providers.
You think end-users read TechCrunch? :/
Auto suggest is via a Google API, and a bit of JS hacking to make a reduced number of calls and to make the menu "feel" nearly browser native.

You can disable the results in the iframe by unchecking "Live Preview"
Good question. Here's the top 35: http://i.imgur.com/Qu61u.png
Have you had anyone use this for their wedding yet? Success stories about personal experiences can make for pretty attractive marketing.
Windows XP Still The Most Widespread Windows OS
Especially considering this is 3 weeks old.
Like for some others here, something feels off about the design. I think it's that the app feels a bit like an iOS app running natively on OS X: the icons on the left and at the bottom, the iOS mail app-style listing, and the tooltips that look reminiscent of the copy/paste menu. Not to say it's bad; it's just a somewhat confusing user experience, as if I'm running an iOS app with the Parallels like "unity mode" enabled.
Could San Francisco be close, but not the Valley?

I grew up in the Bay Area, back during the late 90's early 2000s you had multimedia gulch in the SOMA but there was definitely a gap between SF and about the Oracle campus in Belmont. I, personally, always considered Oracle the southernmost end of Silicon Valley (I still do). But even then you had a bunch of startups in the Foster City area. EA was over there for some time.

SF is definitely happening right now. Its interesting I worked for TechTV back when it and SEGA were the two main companies in the building that Zynga just rented (TechTV and Sega had portions of floors its insane that Zynga needs the whole damn thing) but for my money its not part of Silicon Valley.

Also my personal addition to the list is Bucks of Woodside

http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/08/01/checking-a-tech-bellweat...
That's not entirely true. Definition of failure varies broadly for different people the same way definition of success. I know few entrepreneurs very closely who made their first startup very successful. Sure, it was very challenging along the way, but they made it in the end.

May be the fair statement would be - "Failed in one startup doesn't mean you failed as an entrepreneur. There is still hope that you can make the next one successful."
Why is a (graphing) calculator necessary to learn calculus?
Good point: you do have a strong duty to retain your weapons, and while they're concealed, being intoxicated will make it harder to maintain the concealment and much harder to fight off a grab for one of them.
OK, sure. But I think that's the problem. It's either wilderness, or concrete. Nothing in-between.
I started developing sites in 2000, so...many years of frustration have created my "unnecessary bias."
@Home:
iMac 27" w/ core i7
I use aperture + photoshop, or, vstudio,intype and console2 depending on what I'm doing.

@work :
Dual HP workstations, Core 2 quad.

Mostly vstudio,sqlserver,console,pshell, terminal services, and beyond compare( best license purchase ever, 3 way merge FTW)

oh, and Outlook.
But, but, but -- SF isn't a valley. If you want to claim a new term, let's say Startuptopia, to mean "the place where I think stuff is happening," then fine. That's your twisted prerogative.

Don't become someone who lives in SF with no viable transportation who pretends anything south of SFO doesn't exist or is meaningless because of the unfamiliarity.

The article is exactly as advertised (alternative title: "The Top 9 Things You Can't Afford To Miss In Silicon Valley!")
Wow. That's ambitious. Let's see how they will compete with Milo. Goodzer will have better coverage obviously 'cause they cover small stores as well. iPhone app coming I guess?
I got a nice bit of traffic from killerstartups as well (800some referrals I think). Before submitting there, one should figure out when their busy days are, when they seem to have slow days, etc.; my startup unfortunately got placed into a second page early on for their daily reviews and it stayed there most of that day.

Also, despite their audience, I didn't receive a lot of feedback initially. That took some more time.
Foolish of me. Here's the top 35: http://i.imgur.com/Qu61u.png
Taking a page from the myriad of sites that require cookies and when cookies are not enabled throw up some horribly cryptic error unrelated to cookies or fail completely.
Is it just me or was spam arriving in the main inbox? This client would work well with an integrated to do list also.

Some feedback:
- Not sure its exact name but it needs the minimize of the toolbar to gain extra horizontal space.
- Spam in the inbox? Wasn't appearing in my gmail, only in the client.
- Something about the Compose window, from a visual perspective seems rather ugly.
- Growl support
- System resource usage seems sporadic.
- Either have a menu icon or a dock icon, or let the user choose.
- No attachment support
It's basically an advert - they're trying to appeal to developers.

EDIT: the article has a purpose .. it's content designed to complement the main purpose of the site - which is to get people to use their recruitment service. They are showing that they understand what developers think - and at the same time, they 'might' also be educating hirers.

A less cynical response for the downvoter - and yes I expect to be downvoted again ;)
Correct link:

http://geoffreynuval.devhub.com/blog/526362-why-is-virgin-am...
We are putting an enormous amount of time into the underlying technology that goes into the ball to make it mobile device controlled. For instance, we have built our API on two levels. A low-level API which gives us a set of basic functions such as toggling a pin on the actual microcontroller and a high-level API for the ball which abstracts these calls to something any app developer can easily use with absolutely no hardware experience. The high-level ball API uses the low-level API and allows a developer to simply say, for example, moveBall(direction, speed). In essence we have a platform for connecting the app world with the real world and this allows us to place our technology into any type of device from simple to extremely complex very quickly. The ball is our first product and it is a good way to prove the technology in a fun way.
Yes, much faster!
Jquery or YUI
Which is the best Javascript library... It can be something other than jquery, yui too
Seems strange to appear now as its last month news..they been trying to get it noticed on Digg for about what 25 days?

But from I understand about the way the TOS read they do not have a case to stand on..

I had a chance to sign as writer but after reading the TOS realized that they could change program at any time without any guarantees to writers and thus declined.

But, however that is true with any writing content contract About.com, etc..
I'm totally with Eric on this one. I've been on both sides of the issue. I like to think of myself as relatively transparent, but getting into gory details in a (relatively) short public talk is hard -- and there's the added challenge of no alcohol.

The absolute best startup conversations I've EVER had are small group dinners with peers. Most of the really useful insights I've learned have been through those smaller gatherings where there is no agenda, no structure. I think of it as a support group for startup founders constructed on an ad-hoc basis.
What's different about Firefox for Android
The problem with fractional reserve banking is that a bank can lend out any of the money it's keeping on deposit for its customers.

Nobody is forcing you to allow your money to be loaned out to other customers. Rent a safe deposit box and put your money into that. You won't earn any interest, of course; but that's inevitable, since the bank has no means to pay interest on money it can't utilize.

Or an airport that rents out cars left in long-term parking.

Imagine an airport which paid you to park there rather than vice versa.
It's like this article was written by a high schooler.
Yeah, I think the functionality of toggling between search providers is really well done. It just came to mind.

You know what be pretty amazing, IMO, is listing top 10 or so URL's of Bing, Yahoo, Google right next to each other for comparison sake (removing the display window).
good article. Yes, SF is full of startups. My half baked ex-stackexchange site has a nice list:
http://sfanswers.com/questions/429/list-of-start-up-tech-web...
Inner Platform, new loop constructs next
One of the downsides to billing $12/year is that you have to really start thinking about unearned revenue and all that fun stuff. This might be a way to avoid that mess and give him the ability to reprice in three months if that becomes necessary.
Based on what other posters have mentioned, I think the OP's point is that double-clicking on a preference item is unintuitive in a Mac app.
I received less than 10 emails from people offering to review my site and/or interview me on their blog/site for prices ranging from $10 to around $50. About a week after my review on killerstartups I stopped getting them.

Most were really generic and irritating. I could tell I was just being spammed. However, a couple were well-written and polite. I emailed them back thanking them and letting them know I'd consider their service in the future and they were very nice about things.
Not for Hackers. DSRC has no outlets. Or rather, they cover up the outlets.
I really like this app, particularly since I can click the notification and take action on an email almost immediately.

A few tweaks I'd suggest if there was a way to email back some feedback:

* Better performance (think it's slower in the beginning since it's indexing all past emails)

* A way to archive emails while in single message view (when I click the notification of an incoming email)

* A better way to visually separate unread messages. That blue dot is not good enough.

* Allow me to select how often to sync. I want to check email every 30 minutes so I can get real work done. It would probably help performance as well.
The article is full of hype but nell is a serious project. Tom Mitchell is one of the pioneers of machine learning as a field, and there's still interesting research coming from his lab.

Information extraction is not a new thing, and even unsupervised information extraction has more than one competing approach, although obviously none of them solves "the real problem". NELL attempts to do unsupervised information extraction over time, correcting itself as it goes. How successful it can be depends fundamentally on the algorithms behind it (and I'm not familiar with them), but given the state of the technology the most likely thign to happen is what they describe in the paper, which is having a huge database with a ridiculously unimaginable number of true relations in it but also a bigger-than-you'd-like number of plain ridiculously false relations.

It's definitely not something that can solve AI.
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yes, the law prevents anybody from interfering into your personal religious beliefs or from making various economic, social, political, etc... decisions based on your religion. Ie. you're guaranteed to have the same rights as anybody else. Nothing in the law guarantees you preferential treatment or more rights just because of your religious beliefs or practice.
Well, to be pedantic, I didn't get a degree at "a typical university", I got a degree at a really expensive private college (courtesy of a scholarship which made it not so expensive to go). I got there by being raised to read a lot, engage in critical thinking, etc., etc., which skills were then honed over the course of four years.

Anyway, college was a boost, yes, but my main point was that one doesn't need a CS degree (and, honestly, there aren't many CS degrees out there anymore -- just Java-programming degrees masquerading as CS) to be able to do this stuff. Any sort of good liberal-arts background, even one not involving an actual piece of sheepskin from a four-year institution, should be all anyone needs to pick up CS or just about any other subject.

But the merits of a real liberal-arts education are a whole 'nother thread.
In general, stick to a service like odesk or elance -- they both have built-in NDA/IP stuff that assigns everything to you.
A very good start!
My thoughts:

* menubar icon needs to go, not useful

* needs a performance upgrade, scrolling is un-smooth, switching accounts takes too long

* as a long time Mail.app user I miss save and send buttons being on top

* I can haz plaintext composing?

* it started crashing on me after I've added a second account
> I still don't quite understand what the value-add of mint is though.

For me personally it meant I could throw out MS Money but still track where my money is going w/ much less effort. Mint is pretty good about correctly categorizing transactions, so I have to spend very little effort manually categorizing transactions.
I use Python mostly, and I was asked this in an interview question (shortly after being asked if I could enumerate the differences between 2.6 and 3, when I said 'quite frankly no, I'm building a real world app and focused entirely on 2.6 at the moment since migrating to 3 isn't an option').

I was actually working closely with Django so ended up listing things I disliked about Django rather than Python itself. I think one of the easier ways to answer would've been with a Javascript/C/ML/Lisp hat on - was chatting to someone at the weekend who was totally against the space-indentation, for example.
Everything you say is true, but the catch is that they can loan out the money while still saying it is in an account readily available to the depositor. So, they could say get a deposit for $10, loan out $7, and still be telling the depositor the whole time he can come get his $10 back at any time.

As so often happens, wikipedia can explain it far better than I can put into words on the spot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking
How many employees does ___ have?
►Twitter/300+ (http://j.mp/aQEVyN) ►Facebook/1,700+ (http://j.mp/awIeY1) ►Google/20,000+ (http://j.mp/buDzb7) ... note that I made an update to Wikipedia just before posting this, which was showing 140 employees for Twitter.

Anyone have any other (current) interesting numbers?
I love the concept! I decided to try it and got the following "shoutkey": http://drp.ly/WfCx

Would be funny to shout to my friend across the room "HEY, GO TO SHOUT KEY DOT COM SLASH HOMOSEXUAL"! (not that it would bother me in any way haha)

Definitely an interesting idea!
Android ads already covering development cost
Ask HN: Examples of startups aiming at the Real Estate Industry?
Are you working on a project that is aiming at any part of the Real Estate industry? I'd love to hear about it. If you're not and know of projects please do share.

Being a Realtor and a hacker in training I'm hoping to find projects to watch or help with that touch both things that I love.
you may be right, but just because there's a TOS doesn't mean it's binding.
The article never mentioned it, but it's a called a wage-price spiral.
Verizon also has a MiFi card.
I totally agree with you on this. Its been remarkable how Mark is handling one of the best companies on planted today. I have been working in startups for more then a decade, and i know how difficult it is to run the show with ups and downs almost everyday. Hope Mark will write a book about how he managed the show.
FYI, Dojo'ers are coffee snobs. We buy green coffee and roast it. We have a good selection of different single-origin beans in our kitchen.

We also have 24/7 access!
> “Hal [founder of Halted] remembered them driving around barefoot in a Volkswagen van,” Mr. Ellingson said. “They [Wozniak and Jobs] were a couple of young, scruffy-looking guys. He said, ‘I don’t want to give these guys any money.’ ”
It's a 100% real story. I lived in these days. I had to put a feature called "currency change" in my softwares because every year we had to divide by 1000 all values in databases.
One major work was to adjust fields sizes because currency values are allways causing data overflow.
Previously it would have been kind of a dick move to make alternate reader apps, but maybe now he could perhaps support an official API for subscribers
It's an interesting story but the frightening thing is the comments of people wondering out loud what's wrong with inflation, or asking for more inflation in the USA.

Out of control inflation is a terrifying, society-destroying phenomenon. Stable and prosperous societies rely on stable money values.
where is in the law it is said that you must accommodate and bent over to whatever quirk/fantasy my pastor/guru can come up with?

Lets say there are 2 guys - one with long hair as personal preference, another - as part of religious practice. The company would fire the number #1 because he doesn't follow the dress code, yet coudlnt' fire #2 because of religion. Is this what the law provides for?