skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First impressions. Please take with a grain of salt:

* I can see some market for this, but I have a strong feeling you've burned through a good bit of funds and may not see much come out of it immediately (like 3-7 years).

* Trainers will most likely provide sheets on what to do via printed sheets to their patients. This is cost effective and much easier than even logging in to a site and entering a patient's email address.

* To me you are not answering the question of how you are really making a trainer's life easier via this site until the demo is viewed. You need to have that front and center in the top of the page, not a big picture of a laptop with hard to read writing. Just the fact that it is online, does SMS (?), and email, is not describing the need or how it fills it.

* Could you pivot to aim the site at health insurance companies or others that might want to actually replace the trainer and provide physical training online? For example, there have to be some people that need rehab in hard to reach places. Maybe you could provide trainers via webcam that could interact with these patients. It wouldn't necessarily be that scalable, but it might get you more business than you would have had otherwise.

You can spend time getting the link to your site out in various blogs by posting them yourselves in forums, etc. like others mentioned. But, I'd address these questions asap.
The whole paragraph reads:

"Ideally a co-founder has the same level of standards when it comes to ethics and making business decisions as you do, they won't take risks that can affect the company in a negative way and they'll do everything they can to stay on the right side of the law. "

The word missing there is 'normally', I'll add it in, thanks for the feedback.

The idea I was trying to convey there is that someone that is not 'tied' to the company with stock might have less of a problem with making decisions that are not right, in the rest of the article I give one example of a situation where that did not work out as expected.
Tell HN: Microsoft DreamSpark - free developer/designer tools for students
You need to be going out and demoing this to physical therapists if you want to secure customers. Product looks great, under priced.
Well, in just 5 short days you will be able to see the final release notes - and final release :)

Some details about the release were also mentioned in a recent talk by a jQuery community member (I believe it was also posted here, to Hacker News):
http://addyosmani.com/futureofjquery2010/
The Art of Throwing Up
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For more please visit: - http://www.theartofthrowingup.com/
I found this via http://lifehacker.com/5658300/microsoft-expression-encoder-m... to get a Windows-native screencast tool (I have Screenflow on the Mac side, but a lot of Blueleaf customers are on the Windows side, so I wanted to have a native tool).

If you're interested in Windows Phone, DreamSpark waives the $99 developer license fee and gives you five free submissions.

Registration was pretty painless as long as you have a .edu and a Hotmail/Xbox Live account e-mail address. Seems like a pretty decent deal.
Just to clarify this entirely correct analysis: It's not a "peeking" error, it's a "stopping" error.

As long as you decide on a minimum number of trials to make a decision, it's fine to look at the data as it is accumulating.
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Volleyball Girls
A beautiful day on the beach, what could make it even better? Watching these beautiful girls playing volleyball in their bathing suits, falling on the hot sand and having fun.
The magical -- and not harmful -- rebase (Git)
I am a fan of Wordpress in combination with buddypress. There are tons of plugins to tailor the community to what you like, from Chatmodules, groups, extended profiles, etc. And it is very easy to set up a few pages about the community, rules, etc. All you need is some virtual server to install wordpress. Mine is about 8,95 € per month...
Only a copyright holder can bring legal action in this case. If you're just a customer, you can't bring action by yourself, as you're not a party to the violation or license agreement between HTC and the copyright holder(s).
The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi'
Is an mba worth it?
I am curious what the hacker news network thought about mba's..
Search engine placement service
...then you'll see, that it is not the loop that loops. It's only your program
The magical (and not harmful) rebase
You have a B2B product. Business rarely look for new stuff, you have to shove it down their throat. So just search for about 100 physiotherapy stations near to you and then email them a short email, asking them if you can actually email them with the product information.

A personalised email for EACH site individually. Hire someone to do this if neccessary. Track your replies. If nobody replies, then you don't have a product. Otherwise, lead them through it.

The more emails you exchange with a customer, the more likely he is to buy! B2B is all about communicating with the customer, making him feel safe with you, like you are a partner taking care of a small part of his business.

Always end every email with a hook that will make him reply to you.

Press-Release, Relevant Blogs and so on are NOT going to make you customers. You have to reach out personally! Your market is too small, too in-cohesive and too static for anything other than aggressive personal approaching your customers to work.

I've done years of these types of sales, and I hate it with a passion. If you don't like writing emails to people then figure out how to get someone else to do it for you.
He doesn't look very happy in those pictures. A reminder that all sorts of weird stuff can go wrong in life :-(
I think people would wise up to the use of url shorteners. We don't actually need them, we only need them for the ridiculously long URLs that some CMSs spit out, and even twitter doesn't need them, they can simply generate short urls internal to twitter and use those instead (and ban external url shorteners). That way if there is damage it is limited to one site, and that site then presumably has all the information required to plug the hole.
My telephony system supports it (I'm using Twilio), and it's one of the features I'll be adding in the next version--depending on customer response.
I used to feel the same, however having spent significant time on a project with a well-written (and factored) cucumber suite recently has brought me around to their camp. To each their own though, I suppose.
Interesting options for this form of overhead graphics.

I was catching up on an old post and I came across your HN comment:
"Choice isn't (necessarily) beauty. It's one more engineering tradeoff among others, with its own upsides and its own downsides. Giving up choice in favor of the benefits gained from doing so can be pragmatic, rational, and lead to more beautiful results.

I guess I'm just saying: don't fetishize choice. Assign it a value like the one parameter among hundreds which it actually is."
from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108018

Your brief comment turned into a post for me months later."Choice is an Optional Feature"
http://www.victusspiritus.com/2010/04/09/choice-is-an-option...

Just wanted to say thanks for your input.
I think they missed a few.

I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_serving.htm
Local Storage And How To Use It On Websites
It's also worth pointing out that you can safely peek and make an early decision if you insist on a higher confidence interval for early stops.

The exact numbers depend on how often you test the confidence interval, but a multiple of 5-10 is for early measures will usually give reasonable results.

E.g., let's say you ultimately want a 98% confidence interval (2% chance of error). A 10x improvement is a .2% change of error, or 99.8%. Depending on how often you are sampling, an early result with 99.8% confidence can be equally accurate as a later results with 98% confidence.
I believe that patient information even at the Physical Therapist levels require HIPAA compliancy. I'd speak to a lawyer before you start having people use this, so that you are not liable.
Is your follow-up question rhetorical? Nevertheless: the market isn't rational. Plus people are used to skipping over EULAs and not reading contracts. Plus the people that actually care are a minority. Etc. etc.
Most smart people I know got a 'good' (say, better than ~1400ish) score on the SAT. I can't tell the difference between someone I work with who got a 1450 and a 1550 though (unless they tell me, of course).
There has to be trade mags for the industry, contact them. They will most likely be desperate for stories/content so you should be able to entice them to do an article on your site.

I'd seek some sort of accreditation from a UK authority. That would give you credibility within the UK/European profession. This will help with the next point.

To get anywhere in the UK you are going to have to interface with the NHS. This could take a long time but could be lucrative. They will need to see some evidence that your system provides a benefit to the end patient (less time to recovery, less readmission to hospital etc). This will be expensive. You should seek to set up a pilot with them where you provide the service for free for x months and they gather statistics (via an independent third party).

Bupa like to add value added services for their clients so you should approach them about possible tie in's. Since bupa essentially use the same therapists as the NHS you will be reaching the same customers but stand more chance of becoming the defacto provider of this service.

I don't know much about the industry you are in but my first impressions are that there are going to be a few BIG players (industry, government, professional bodies) that you need to get on board to make any headway.

Good luck.
Opening up personal genetic data (with an API and code)
The folks at Genomes Unzipped have made their genetic data, a genome browser loaded with the data, an API, and a github repo available.
GNU Parallel isn't needed to avoid this, using find's -print0 and xargs's -0 would suffice. The advert is unwarranted.
They also need new science reporters. It's unfortunate that the nation's paper of record can't do an even passable job at either tech or science journalism.
Getting Lean, Engaging Yipit & the Games are Afoot in November
I've only written toy projects in m2 ("look ma, long polling"), so take everything I say with a grain of salt. What I do is manually edit the sqlite dumps. The data flow is one way - edit sqlite dump, import to sqlite, run. I never import and then export the dump.

Actually, I don't do any of this. The sqlite file is in .gitignore, and run_my_app.sh does all this. As far as I'm concerned, I just manually config.sql and mongrel2 reads it. If I type ls, I see config.sqlite as well asmy_app.pyc and a few other files I ignore.

In principle, I imagine it might be less than useful if you edited your config with some complex sql query. Then again, if you do that, you can't complain the config isn't raw text.

Incidentally, why are people downmodding Zed? I don't get it - is his reply to a direct question really harming the conversation here? I'm now thinking I was simply wrong in my proposed solution - hiding the sqlite file from people won't make them any happier.
No need to be so harsh. I would consider StavrosK's advice "good, but not optimal" -- a far cry from "terrible."
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Why you should or should not get a co-founder
You should absolutely learn from failure
This is only become an issue because of the new security permissions on the phone. If the phone was easily hackable nobody would be complaining.

That said HTC played some mean tricks here, such as releasing the souce for the HTC magic with bits and pieces of the vision source clearly removed. At the same time while we were trying to reverse engineer this code and the binary we saw major inconsistencies even though the disks are the same model and spec.

They(HTC & TMO) really made it hard this time but once we figure out how this works once it will likely be just as easy to hack as before.
Idea for November App Challenge - simple workflow app
I would suggest bit.ly people to register, say, bit.lt as back-up plan (Lithuania), then if .ly shuts them down, to fix links people would need to change only one letter. (Which happens to be next to "y" actually).
Websockets in Opera
Why do you bother about chewing gum and having cannabis if you are looking for a place to start or run a business? Doesn't factors like low corruption, safety or market size matters more?
This is the type of thing that concerned me about Mobile Safari and Flash. It's not that I care so much about Flash being on the iPhone/iPad (it'd be nice if it could work well though), it's that they're preventing all browser plugins and extensions. HTML5 is great, but standards tend to become standards by adopting the innovative third-party addons. Mobile Safari seems far too locked down at this point.

Same goes for the iPad's Mail App. I'd love to use it, but until I can add my own Archive button (I use MailActOn with OS X), it's far too tedious for managing my inbox (just use it for skimming).
Unparadox contest
Preventing Repetitive Strain Injury the Geeky Way: Productive Geek
I'd be astonished if blinking braking lights were allowed in a country like Germany. I once read that a truck driver was fined in Germany because he had a small illuminated Christmas tree in his cockpit, by which he was breaking the specific part of their traffic laws that regulates vehicle lights. That must truly have felt like the most wonderful time of the year for that poor guy.
One of the great inventions that never was – until now?
I am wondering, why doesn't the scroll wheel work like the right side scroll bar which is always 100% responsive?
thanks for the heads-up for the US, patient data is regulated under the Data Protection Act and ICO in UK (and a few other Health related acts about releasing the information). I will consult a lawyer about the EU and International implications.
I think any sort of "instant group" website would be a hit right now. I imagine you're outlining the ability to create a SubReddit, and have only specific people able to participate in it.

I think it's a great idea. However, the most crucial ingredient would be an absolute minimal barrier to entry. Don't make me provide and verify an e-mail address, or any of that junk. Just make an obscure URL for each group, and those that get the URL can participate, and/or have a password to enter the group.

As wccrawford pointed out, it's more of an add-on to a social network. What's important is the group, not the links per se. So, while bookmarks (and maybe up/down voting) would be important, so would sharing other things, like contact info, files, conversation (forums), etc. Bookmarks and conversation would be the bare minimum.
I joke that getting a .com job and a bmw was my rebellion, hippie parents, you see. in '99 or '00 I bought a '92 bmw 325is. I'd rate it in my top 10 financial mistakes. You are right that the things handle significantly better, but the other guy is also right, saying they are significantly more expensive, especially to repair. I ended up getting rid of mine in favor of a Japanese car, mostly because I didn't want to limit myself to living places where I had a garage to work on the thing.

Actually, if I had the time and space for the auto repair hobby, I'd probably get another BMW and maintain it myself; The things aren't any harder to work on than a regular car. You do take a reliability hit, but eh, I could probably live with that. The parts are more expensive, but after market parts are a small fraction of the cost of dealer parts (or what a garage will charge you for parts,) so if you look around for deals, you don't end up paying that much more.

(the auto repair hobby has a lot to recommend itself; It's an easy $90/hr post-tax for doing something that is not very stressful at all.)

Still, in a situation where you are paying someone else to maintain the thing, if you aren't willing or able to pay for a new BMW, (which comes with free maintenance for a period) you probably should also avoid a used BMW. too. This is why used 7 series bmws go for so little.

I don't think I ever got the BMW out of the shop for under a grand. Part of that is the BMW has excellent breaks, and excellent breaks wear faster than mediocre breaks. (apparently the metal dust coming off the pads and rotors are actually an important way to vent heat.) and for some reason, replacing the pads and rotors on a bmw was north of a grand by itself. (It was $250 in parts to do it yourself, and maybe two hours of work.) so I think a lot of it is just "oh, he has a bmw, he must have money" Also, well, the BMW reliability just isn't up to the same standards as the Japanese cars, so you'd have little problems that sometimes required a tow.
True Data Federation?
Can you please share the notes?
In Europe braking lights and turning lights are distinct and of different color (red vs orange). Many cars now flash the warnings (both turning lights together) when strongly braking, following a common usage among european motorists.
My guess (not owning the game) is this: even for playing offline/single player, you can earn rewards that will show up in Battle.net. So you could be cheating on the online environment by just playing offline.
It may solve a problem, but it creates a new one. Before listening to my mp3 player on a train, I leave the buds out of my ears and hold them in front of me, to gauge volume so as to not annoy my fellow passengers.

This practice is rendered impossible by this proposed technology.

That said, as an idea, it isn't bad. However, I contend that the statement that ideas can't be bad, is wrong. The idea of eliminating all Jews, gays and Gypsies to fix Germany's economic problems strikes me as a pretty bad idea.
Best Jobs in America 2010, #1 Software Architect
They're using a Trainer.
For Single player.
Which is pretty common and quite fine if you don't buy into the idea that EULA's and other shrink-wrap adhesive contracts actually hold water in court.
HTML 5: New Web Code Draws Concern Over Risks to Privacy
Yeah, at least here in Italy it's pretty common that if you have to slow down suddenly because the road is blocked (due to a traffic jam or whatever), you turn on the emergency blinking lights so the people behind you will be aware of the need to slow down and stop.
The Value Every Business Needs to Create Now
It says "except". Except when he's having his occasional or rare seisures, he's functioning perfectly well.

Which is pretty good, since the initial medical reaction was to watch him die.
Thanks, yes pricing has been an ongoing discussion, we decided to set a price we don't think anyone would argue with, then re-evaluate it later – obviously without upsetting anyone on the current plan :)
For me the biggest advantage to having is a co-founder is the psychological support it brings. Being a single-founder is a lonely, pressurised position to be in, it can take its toll. The biggest problem is that there's no one there to share the burden, even if you have the most supportive friends and family and get the best business advice, nothing beats being able to have a frank, detailed discussion about the company with someone who's in the exact same position as you, whose goals and fate are intertwined.

For this reason, I think it really helps if the co founders are in a similar position financially, for example, if one co founder is struggling to pay the bills, can't afford to eat etc and the other is financially comfortable, this might become a bone of contention between the two. The struggling co founder might feel that the other isn't putting as much work in because they don't have the same kind of pressure on their shoulders, the better off co founder might feel obligated to support the other one, and that introduces possible equity squabbles later on.
Two other solutions:

1. Support Safari extensions in Mobile Safari. Users install it from the gallery, get a nice little icon to tap in the toolbar.

2. Support an HTML tag in the head, like web browsers do to detect feeds today. Something like <link rel="bookmarklet href="javascript:location.href...">. The browser would detect this, display some sort of notification icon in the address bar, and give the user the option to install it upon tap.
1. If in bed, focus on breathing with silent mind.

2. Otherwise, one can take a walk, or lie down and do #1.
I understand your reasoning, but I'm just a bit afraid that you won't get enough testing like this. As we know by now, even pre-releases with release notes don't get tested enough, often forcing a quite early point release.

By making the testing base even smaller than what it would anyways be, you'll lose even more bug reports.

I'm sure though, you weighted in both the advantages of both systems before going this route, so that's fine.

On a positive note: My huge webapp runs fine with 1.4.3-rc1 :-)
20+ Free iPhone Applications
iPhone is a device which is more that just a cell phone to call or text.The purpose of creating iPhone is to use it instead of computer and iphone developers are succed to make it computer because of its applications.
Ask HN: Is Providing an Annual Subscription Option Worth the Trouble?
I have a subscription based web service that offers monthly and yearly subscription options. I've found that a surprisingly high percentage of the time the annual subscribers simply forget that they've signed up for a subscription by the time the first year of the subscription comes up and it's time to charge them for a second year. Most of the time they're shocked and angry that they've been charged even though they agreed to the arrangement.

This happens so often that I've thought about scrapping the annual option altogether. I've also thought about sending them an email before the charge occurs as a reminder.

Has anyone experienced this and found a decent solution?
"Going viral" is not a business model
The whole "Millionaire Next Door" franchise is a massive example of selection bias. Frugality is not causality for millionaire status. There are plenty of valid reasons to be anti-consumer and frugal, but it might be a less then ideal path to riches.
I suspect that not having the correct ethnicity or religious beliefs would be an obstacle for some though.
It's the same here in Slovenia and pretty much every other European country I've ever driven in.
Need a Technical Co-founder?  Actually, There's a Different Hire...
I had to shorten the title in order to post this

Interesting perspective, not that I agree. I do think that design, in many cases, is just as important as the 'guts' of an app...
The gasonine subsidy is a non-level playing field.

Dcespite that, the cars being produced by Tesla are price competitive, and are on track to do just that, despite the subsidies.
Thus confirming that it's actually quiet a difficult problem, important given that quiet a few in the comments on the video suggested they should have definitely knew thing kind of thing off the cuff.
Creating the Thesis Outline
In order to ensure proper structure and organization for a thesis, students are recommended to use a thesis outline. The outline will act as the backbone of the thesis and will provide students with the direction required to submit a well written thesis paper.
I don't believe that "Nearly four in 10 millionaires buy wine that costs about $10". That does not look how our world works...