skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm old school, but I think it comes down to work.

When I was the publicity directory of a college radio station at a small school, I'd put up 300-400 letter-sized posters to promote a dance with maybe 7-8 distinct designs. This would change the appearance of the campus and pack the house.

A lot of people, doing the same job, would put up 10 or 20 posters of the same design and waste more energy vociferously defending their right to be lazy and that "everybody will see them" than it would take to just make all the designs and walk around putting the signs up.

The main reason people fail at SEO and SMO is that they radically underestimate how much work is required to succeed. That's good news for people who do work hard, because out of 20 potential competitors, 18 of them are easy to beat.
A $10 gift card for 10 mins of phone feedback is probably the best investment of time/money that I have ever heard of, I will be shamelessly stealing this idea for years.
I assume the programmer works for a company, and the manufacturer is simply building the device. If the problem was related to faulty components, then I would assume the manufacturer. A flaw in the software or design? I would then contribute it to the company that designed the bot. If the device is improperly used then it would be the owner. I think it all comes down the specifics inside the context.
1. How do they share with each other without going off to Facebook?
2. It might help if you bring the search to the landing page and have it on ever page
3. Is there a way for me (personally) to get in contact with you?
Ask HN: Review my Inspiring Quotes for Entrepreneurs iPad app - free codes
Hi everyone,

I recently launched a new iPad app which displays business related inspiring and motivational quotes. As an entrepreneur I find them useful, inspiring, and insightful. Basically I made the app for myself and figured it would probably resonate with the HN crowd as well.

http://firesnakelabs.com/?ref=hn

I'd love to get your feedback on both the app and the MVP site. Here's 10 codes for the first 10 takers.

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I've seen other companies do $10 iTunes gift cards too. I like Amazon over iTunes, though. :)
Freebase was seeded with Wikipedia, but we're always loading data from new license compatible sources. We've got books from Stanford Library, music from MusicBrainz, films from Netflix, and a lot more.

We don't have good coverage of product data right now though.
Assume for the moment that this article was read by everyone on earth. Now you're considering buying a BMW. Would it change your mind to know that people may think "he's irresponsible with money" instead of "he's rich?"

If so, then getting the word out may actually help people make better decisions. If they still want the BMW for other reasons, fine.
The Sony MH907 ear plugs

http://www.sonyericsson.com/putyourearsincontrol/

I don't think they ever shipped, though.
Many game companies can target this platform much more easily than the iPhone/Android handsets as it also works off XNA.

Seems like its lack of OpenGL offsets that a good bit... yes, a lot of Xbox/Windows games will be easy to port, but it seems like more ports will likely to be coming from iPhone/Android.
I didn't write the code & the copyright hasn't been explicitly signed over. So, yeah, they own it.

What if I get new code written?

I designed the system that the code implemented. Does that count for anything?
I used LFS in high school (8 years ago). It's how I learned 90% of what I now know about administering and troubleshooting Linux servers.

If that's your goal, I recommend it.
The only digit that can be 1/5 the last would be 1 if the last were 5 (because 2/10 doesn't work, 10 isn't a single digit and they need to be whole).

From there, digits 2 and 3 are the last (5) multiplied by 3. So: 1155. Add those up: 1 + 1 + 5 + 5 = 12.

I think. :)
Nobody owns the idea. If I knew what idea you were talking about, I could go make a new company based on that idea -right now-.

Copyrights are for art, and patents are for inventions. Neither of those cover 'ideas'.

You didn't sign a contract stating that you wouldn't take any business secrets away from the company, either, I assume, since you say you aren't even incorporated.

Walk away now, start coding for the new company, and don't look back.

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
Thanks. I wanted to go with something that wasn't blue.

I'm open to any and all ideas on getting the ball rolling-- thanks for that one.
Taiwan (amounts are in Taiwan NT):

Rent: In Taipei, $16,000+; in rural areas, you can find a good place around $6,000

Food, travel: I generally spent ~$8,000, but I ate out frequently (pretty normal there.) If you stick to mostly 7-11 food and don't eat much you can bring this down to 4,000. Food is also more expensive in Taipei than in surrounding areas.

Public transportation is excellent and cheap, there's little need to get your own car. A bike or scooter works great.

Total:

$24k ($720 USD) in Taipei

$14k ($420 USD) in rural areas (i.e. Yilan)

$10k ($300 USD) will get you by if you're really on a budget

Quality of life is very good for foreigners. The people are very friendly, and can speak enough English for you to get by (although speaking Mandarin is a plus.) You've got your standard McDonald's/TGI Friday's/Burger King/Subway/other American establishments if you miss them. Being an island, it is very humid and does get quite hot in the summer.

Also, the entire city of Taipei has really cheap wifi! A couple bucks a month gets you internet access from anywhere in the city.
It can't be worse than sitting for extended periods.
It's an advantage to marry young, then. The older the get, the more friends have invited you to their own wedding. Maybe I worry too much, but I feel uneasy about not returning the favour.

Then again, maybe attending another person's wedding is the actual favour. After all, it usually costs a lot of money to attend a wedding, too.
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I don't know where you are, but I've been involved in fairly serious litigation on that very point in the UK and the legal opinion was that unless the person claiming ownership of the code was literally dictating everything that was typed in then they don't own the copyright.
"86% of all luxury vehicles are driven by people who are not millionaires"

Or maybe they are just really good at hiding their money from the tax man/census.
Well he does say it is -not- for production use and only for learning/etc.
Well it's a step up from 4K :)

I'm not sure I'd especially like each site I visit to possibly use 100MB of my storage (storage may be cheap, but so am I!), but I wouldn't see the problem in having some kind of dialog asking permission to use xMB if it's over 5. I realise that adds another layer of complication and may "frighten your gran".
I wish I lived in one of those places where you can buy a decent house for $300k. In this area $300k = rundown bungalow in economic development zone.
I get it now. Was trying to multiply them individually, which doesn't work at all. Thanks. =D
Hey thanks for the feedback so far. I hope I get some more perspectives, also. I just wanted to address some of your questions...

First of all, my primary goal was -- I just wanted to make a site where there would be a continuous party mix for my parties, that people could add to during the party, or even add songs before they come to the party, so everyone can hear the songs they love.

what does it have that YouTube playlists don't?

1) continuous playing ... songs fade into each other if you just let it run

2) cut out non-music ... people who add a video can choose where it fades in and out

3) social contributions ... anyone can add their favorite songs to a mix

4) I kind of hoped that social contributions + people using the site would make it ALWAYS up to date, without constantly curating new and popular songs ... in 2011 it would be the best party mixes automatically, etc.

the dark color scheme - mainly because videos usually require a dark background in order to look good when playing. Especially if you are going to put it on your big screen TV, which I do at my parties (my primary use case).

why I picked youtube -- yeah, unlimited songs for free, and makes copyright not my problem since I am using YouTube's API along with thousands of other people. Muziik already made VEVO pull their videos, whatever's left is fair game
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You can bundle the JavaScriptCore with your iOS and be legal for the app store, you just can't use the private API.
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> Because cookies have been used to spy on people’s surfing behavior, security-conscious people and companies turn them off or request to be asked every time whether a cookie should be set.

Won't local storage run into this very same problem rather quickly?
I just finished up working on a project for an entrepreneurship class I am taking. The basis of the project was to promote various deals from local college town restaurantes that were being offered through a online menu service called Lionmenus. A lot of the groups tried to use Facebook, Twitter, and Google advertising techniques and they worked to some extent. However, my group won the contest by a landslide by simply making as many cheap coupons as possible and putting them under doors and even more revolutionary, handing them out directly to people.

I believe this worked because we were selling something people want, i.e. free food. I think that if what you are offering has a value proposition, or in other words people would want it, then nothing fancy needs to be done. You just need to force the what you are selling and peoples faces and they will eat it up.
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Seems like it should be a browser setting. 5mb sounds entirely reasonable as a default value.
Sorry guys...I don't get paid on commission...but I guess it may have been invasive. My apologies. I literally was bored on Friday night, and thought that advance features are an interesting angle that hadn't been discussed. I sincerely apologize for invading...I literally made the account just comment on this threat. There are several providers out there for outsourcing that I should have mentioned, and I apologize.
Copyright should only apply to the code body that was written - re-writing the same functionality from scratch should be fine but it might be wise to take extreme care to ensure that none of the original code gets included by mistake or that any similarities are anything more than superficial.

If you are going to have to take on new developer resources anyway then a re-write from scratch might not be such a bad thing.
The US Government runs credit checks as part of the clearance process. I've been pondering and give it about even odds that you considered this when you composed your response.
I think it's fantastic. As someone who has done a decent bit of iPhone development, I can definitely say that I prefer developing in VS with C# than XCode with Objective-C.

It's disheartening that so many bloggers are dismissing this awesome platform simply because Microsoft is "late to the game", yet they forget how successful Android has been. At this point, it looks like Google and Microsoft are fresh and new, whereas Apple is trying to prolong the life of an old platform.
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But when you have that much money you can do both. After seeing what rich people (I mean really rich, not investment fund rich) will spend money on I really think most people are just mentally shut off from what a billion dollars means.
You would be surprised. My current company is looking for exactly what you have built. Willing to put dollars behind it. IR&D Dollars....
I tried a standing desk for about 5 weeks, with no stool or chair. It didn't get easier over time. First, I got some hemorrhoid problems, then sore knees and feet that killed me. It got the point that I had to take a walk around the block to be able to stand still in front of the desk for a short period.

The hardest thing I found was maintaining the right balance: avoiding locking the knees, and not shifting weight primarily to one leg or the other, which would give me hip pain.

To relieve the pain, I eventually found myself leaning more and more of my weight on the desk (which was only slightly below by elbows), and I'd have to catch myself and stand back up straight again.

Moving back to a normal desk and Aeron chair, I was in giddy heaven for the first week, it was that wonderful.
Just do it, tell them explicitly they can do the same if they want to for symmetry.

After all, they can :)
I can't remember entirely, but I'm pretty sure the idea itself isn't worth much. The value is in the method of execution or plan of execution. Just because I say we should build a social network for narcoleptic ex circus clowns doesn't mean I know "own" the idea (I couldn't patent it or anything). However, if I sat down and wrote out a plan of how to build it, that would be "ownable". Also, since you didn't sign a noncompete or incorporate or anything, you aren't legally tied to anything.

(ps, I'm just summarizing what I remember from some of my entrepreneurship classes)
i wasn't aware of this. it works fine on any computer i use but it seems like ur not the only one with the problem. i'll look into it.
Dive Into HTML5 has another good overview of using Local Storage, along with ways to fall back on other methods if it's not supported and some information about (potential) replacements: http://diveintohtml5.org/storage.html
The Story Behind "Free Public WiFi" - It's Not
I'd like to call it 'FeedHint'. The idea is very simple, you submit your feeds (OPML would be fine) and the algorithm sends back suggestions, in other words, feeds in the same subject &&/|| similar feeds, based on the previous submissions of the users.
Maybe related are 'criticality accidents', where by accident a critical mass is reached (either by bringing two masses of fissile material together, or by enclosing a fissile mass by a neutron reflector), and someone gets a high dose of radiation, often with lethal result.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident
or http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1106_scr.pd...
for a report about the accident in Sarov, where a physicist lost his life.
Completely unrelated, but the rollover on the logo made me laugh.
As a rule you should have a lawyer when you take money.
> (doctors were telling him it was nothing but he forced them to get to the end of it and find out why he was in so much pain)

A family member is currently unwell, and their immediate family isn't doing a great job talking to the doctors. The doctor basically tells her something using medical terminology that she doesn't understand, and she doesn't follow up.

Previous experiences with doctors, and your story, have re-inforced my belief that if I ever get ill, as far as I'm concerned, that doctor is now my personal tutor and servant, and that I will get clear answers, explanations, and whatever tests might be necessary even if I have to streak up and down hospital hallways screaming and whipping nurses with my IVs.
Ahh! I looked at it for a few seconds and didn't "get it". That sounds awesome though! Don't try to sell to every possible use of your site just sell to that one.

Also youmixer doesn't really tell me anything about this. partymix or crowdmix or... Something else. Target it to that and give it a VERY simple UI that gets the party started asap. I want an easy quick way to direct my friends and guests to it so they can add songs. A) I want to have it up and running on a computer at all times like a kiosk.
B) it'd be awesome if i could just have all of my friends register their email addresses with and send requests via email.

Get your interface out of the way of the fun and I bet you've got solid gold.
I worked for many years as a freelance developer in the UK market. I own all my code - it is only licensed to the end user who paid for my time developing applications to their specification (if any such formal thing existed which was rare enough).
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If you wrote the code and have nothing documenting who owns the IP rights, then you're likely in the clear (though still consult a lawyer).

But the larger issue is to not dick over your friends or associates. I can't stress this enough. The law may be on your side, but really that is only a small amount of the total equation. I don't believe in karma (except here - upvote the shit out of me), but it will just be easier in the long run to be nice and friendly about it, even if you never see them again.

See what they think. Tell them your concerns and you're thinking about jumping ship and getting a new team together to execute the idea. If they aren't that committed to the idea in the first place, they may likely accept it and move on. Otherwise maybe you could offer them a buyout as a gesture of good faith.

I do want to make it abundantly clear that I am not from the please everybody at any cost mindset. It is just important to not dick people over when you can likely easily avoid it with words.
If and only if you make the obvious assumptions, there is a really nice answer, easy to explain in a newspaper article. Otherwise, you'd need to spend three pages clarifying a three sentence question.

Some people have two wives. Sometimes it's legal, and sometimes it's not; either way, it happens. Maybe Jane's only husband divorced her and remarried, and his new mother-in-law is in the same boat with respect to her husband. Also, one or more of the daughters may have been adopted. Also, there are multiple definitions of "relation" and of "husband" that you might use. And, it all depends on what the definition of "is" is.
It forces you to have a domain name if you want to sign up. You can bring your own, or sign up through them... But the blank is www._________.___ so you are pretty limited by it.

Still, I'm considering getting a new domain just to play with it.

Edit: I can't bring myself to put a credit card number in. Too many things scream 'scam' to me. It probably isn't, but I just can't be sure.
He was the only one besides Larry and Sergey who had first hand knowledge of some of the stuff he talked about, because for quite a long time the company was just those three.
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Here's a nice public list of ideas from one person: http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/

Here's another one:
http://stealchoofsideas.blogspot.com/
Ask HN: Why can't I search in quora?
Looks like if a user is not logged in, she can't search in quora. Am I missing something here, or is it intentional? (I am not sure if you can search if you are logged in, I didn't try that)

I can see related questions, tags etc, but there doesn't seem to be a search box
Blog posts absolutely do help.
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Nice change seeing the Django settings.py file scrolling by rather than the typical 'C' or unix command line output. Hopefully, that isn't the real secret key on display though.
I found that using a Kinesis freestyle keyboard improved my sitting posture a lot. The keyboard is split in half and connected by a wire and I have them set up about shoulder width apart. With a normal keyboard I pull my shoulders inward which causes me to slouch. Now I can lean back while typing.
yeah really. great idea, and a particularly good example of how it can pay unexpected benefits!
This is true. We had a cash bar, and opted for the cheapest chairs and people had to use paper napkins and plastic utensils to eat their BBQ off of paper plates (gasp!).

But the part friends & family still talk about years later is, "Hey, remember when your German Shepherd was your ring-bearer at your wedding, and you sent her running down the aisle? That was great!"

Doesn't take money to be entertaining.
I'd agree with using OpenBSD as a learning tool (although it obviously makes a top notch deployment platform as well).

Once you get your head around it you'll realise that Linux is a complete mess and you'll understand more about UNIX and UN*X.
I'm really not trying to be mean, but imagine your ancestors for a second. You know, the guys who ran down and killed animals that weighed several tons. Imagine how befuddled they'd be, sweating and bloodied from defeating the mastodon that just tried to kill them, when you told them that you can't be bothered to stand up for a little while while you type. It says something pretty embarrassing about society when we've collectively decided that myriad orthopedic problems are better than standing up.

That rant over with (sorry, again), I just went to the local hardware store and got some cinder blocks. The price difference (~$7 for the cinder blocks versus ~$1000 for a height-adjustable desk frame) was worth the slight lack of convenience. That, and without the adjustability, I won't be tempted to just leave the desk in the 'down' position.
We are going to have to come up with something "sustainable" with only 1 or 2 people in the vehicle, because the US still has a lot of rural areas.
I'm currently working on several applications for WP7. The development experience for WP7 is a million-billion times better than it was for past Windows Mobile operating systems.

- The emulator is snappy and you don't need to mess around with ActiveSync.

- I'm not a huge fan of the XAML (the Silverlight/WPF markup language), but that is not an issue. I put a XAML place holder element in place and add controls in C#

- The built in controls look great and are surprisingly functional. I specifically thinking of the Panorama control - which allows application content to basically flow off screen. Some may find that style of having content get cut off by the edge of the display off-putting, but its effective if that truncated content is limited to titles.

- putting XNA in there is great, mostly for familiarity's sake. You still have to design for the phone differences (form factor, input, and library). Porting games over from XBox live probably won't require an enormous app-rewrite. Can't wait to see how this particular piece plays out.

The one drawback I can see has to do with Windows Phone store. I'm not really sure what the story is there. Is app distribution really limited to the store? How about enterprise apps?

I don't have experience developing iPhone or Android apps, so I won't comment on whether or not WP7 is better in that department.
OK--you need personal vehicles a lot less. Seeing the nightmare of gridlock and freeway my country is, though, cutting out the easy 80% is something Americans have tragically left undone. (The USA has low density because of vast areas of flyover country where virtually no one lives--most Americans live in metropolitan areas.)
Successful test flight of Virgin Galactic VSS "Enterprise"
I love that font. Unfortunately, he wants it to be a corporate identity and has priced it as such. I'm not faulting him for it, but it makes me sad that I'll never use it.