skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your comment, and I disagree with it. Most specifically, I disagree with the "long before" part of it. In my experience, code performance has been roughly as important as architectural and database issues. You will have to deal with all of them, and on roughly the same time scale.
Failure in (1) means that you made a not so good, or a not so balanced human being. I know parents of my parents' age who ultimately feel that they've failed because their sons and daughters got into drugs and crime, and destroyed the potential of those short lives.

Despite trying their hardest, things just didn't work out, and since the children are adults in their own right, the parents can only give love and hope that their children learn to make a life of their own.
I tend top agree...xbox excepted. I think Microsoft has worked very hard to get their platforms and tools into the enterprise space....and it has largely worked for them and been very successful. Has this been at the expense of a "consumer story"...maybe.

With that said, they can still be a very successful and growth oriented company but in the B2B/Enterprise space.
CNN nails it again. Next up: Year of the Linux Desktop.
Defining 'in-use' is the biggest problem people stumble on when making that argument. I think you've hit the nail on the head with raising the sorts of issues that it would cause.
market for this phone will be too small. Idea is not bad, but i'd better think to create additive controller to existing phones, instead of creating whole 2in1 thing.
It's pretty much the same Qualcomm hardware as every other Android phone (plus the physical controller). I agree that Sony will probably break new ground in Android lockdown.
Hey thanks for offering to help! I'm a C#/ASP.NET MVC developer and I want to start my own project in Ruby on Rails...so I'm not new to web development or MVC, but I'm new to RoR. I'm looking for mostly architectural advice. Basically I want to be able to give you a high-level design and see if you think I'm using the correct gems and how I should go about scaffolding the project. I have ideas, I just need confirmations from someone who knows RoR and how they would go about doing it. Thanks again!
Show HN: My friend has launched a christmas tree delivery site
A friend decided to launch a festive business this winter and I've put together this quick website for him.

http://www.goodelf.co.uk/

I like the tone of his copy and the design. It will be interesting to see how traffic converts though, personally I'd never thought of buying Christmas trees online before!

Not a startup per se, but geeks will be geeks, even at Christmas!
Microsoft can afford to fail many times before succeeding. It beat Lotus Notes, Borland C Compilers, Playstation, people continue to pay for Windows even though Linux is free. You don't measure what's going to happen in the future by taking a tiny slice of the present and projecting forwards.
Zynga Tops Electronic Arts as Social Games Spread
http://www.goodelf.co.uk - Clickable link

I'm sure he won't mind me sharing some figures when the project is over, so I'll follow up later.
A lot of registrars have integrated premium domains (already registered) into their search processes. IE go to godaddy, search for cars and click on the premium tab next to it. It lists priced domains there. Those are being pulled from various networks which offer exactly what you're saying and it's seemlessly integrated in some cases.
It's a letterpress effect, you basically use a combination of an inner shadow and drop shadow in photoshop. There are ways of doing it with CSS as well. It's been majorly abused already, although it's subtle enough in these designs.
It still looks the same to me, but apparently it's launching sometime today.

It might be a good time to visit Myspace and relive the glory days before it changes to the new logo and color scheme. I just did, clicked "Browse" and that was all I needed. Good times.
(It's not loading on my phone, but)

What makes it very difficult to compare jobs is the actual hours worked. My last job had great hours, but I had friends who earned maybe 1.4x my salary, but often worked double the hours. I'm not talking about the effective hourly wage here, rather money per unit leisure time. If you offered me an extra few grand per year, but every week night I'd get home completely exhausted at 9pm, forget it. Not for an office job for someone else.

Note leisure time includes time to learn and work on things that interest you.
Quora: Should I drop out?
Hah this is awesome. Not only from a coding perspective, but from one artist to another - congrats. I really enjoyed that comic about Lisp fleet. Comic also exposes one nasty thing about it - there is no single implementation that has all of the fleet's features. Do you recommend some specific implementation to go with your book? Anyways, first check that comes in November and I'm buying. Congrats on your project once again, really looks like something special!
If everyone charged 10x the price (and they rationally would), then I think most businesses would have to accommodate. Some would go under, sure. You would probably see less liquidity and more sales force focus.
Some people want secrecy, and some don't.

Those who posted here, shall receive a reply here.

I don't have any motives behind this, except I want to help people out. Startups have very limited budgets, and maybe someone would like to hire me, and maybe I could end up having a good relationship with other entrepreneurs.

Networking first, money second.

I'm employed by a company who deals with printers, cartridges and paper, so I have some free time on my hands :)
Never get high on your own supply could easily be taken to mean, "Don't believe your own hype." Which is probably important for both the pusher and the entrepreneur.
Ask HN: What browsers do you support?
What browsers do you support? How do you use to test against the browsers you support?
This raises an interesting point. I've often expressed that same sentiment without examining the underlying emotion or motivation for it: I'm sad that you got something done that you wanted to do and I'm stuck here seeing other people coo over it while I'm working on crappy projects I don't care about.

Now that I see that I'll endeavor to never act so hideously towards another's creativity, for my own good, and try to make the time to waste on things I care about.
I came here to say the same thing. As an MBA student, this is better than what 75% of my peers could have produced.

Very, very nice work. You should be charging for this kind of quality :)
Bieber, Gaga, and Netflix: Internet heavyweights
Nice to see that they have 20ish people on platform/API. That's about 3 times as many people as Facebook supposedly have on theirs.
I checked our your product. Here are some of the points I find:

1. Your product seems too common place
2. I do not see enough energy in the UI - like stack overflow that looks warm and friendly.. Ask people to upload their photos etc.
3. Whats your niche? Why should I invest my time and not use delicious.

Contrary to what you think, your design is quite neat. Its just you need to select a niche and respond to what your early users are saying!

- Rushabh

ERPNext.com
I do not understand your thinking here.

If it's a ROBS, and you invest using already-taxed Roth IRA/401k funds as a rollover into a Roth 401k, you actually don't care about the basis. You just want to characterize it as capital appreciation on an asset acquired in the Roth.

My understanding is ROBS, aside from being hated by the IRS if they step even slightly out of compliance with 401k regulations, are basically close to magic. $50k to set it up, invest $50k in a company to give it $50k capitalization, and sell the company later for $10b; zero tax owed.

With the SBJA2010, you have a similar deal; as long as the capital gain is due to the sale of a qualifying asset, you owe no capital gains, and it doesn't fuck you for AMT either.
What's the first thing you look at when optimizing a site for SEO?
There is something interesting here though. I investigate computer crime and 18 months ago forensic submissions would be looking for "Windows Live/Messenger Chat". Now it is looking for "Facebook Chat".

It took about 3 months for the switch to really take note, and the forensic tools took all of about a month to catch up.

Facebook had some serious market penetration very very quickly with that product.

So in a way; it is not so much MS failing as Facebook attempts to build a chat app succeeded.
How do you go about purchasing it though?

$999 + ____ ?
Let me give you some feedback for isshort.com.

1. The landing page does not tell what the service is for and who is it for.

On the first look, it looks like just another URL shortener - but why would I use it over something like 3.ly or j.mp?

2. I tried to read the explanation but bored out. I don't care what "healthy link shortening" is or what rev="canonical" does. The blog post is longwinded and filled with jargon and terms I don't understand. "Publisher"? Am I a "publisher"? Do I want to be? What is the target audience? Am I in the target audience? It's difficult to find out.

3. I put in "google.com" and out comes INVALID_URI.

4. Not having a "Submit" button feels somehow awkward. I'm not sure what I should do in order to shorten the URL. I eventually discovered that pressing Enter and clicking on the "isn't short" text works, but I'd feel better with a "Submit" button.
The thing is, you need to make the users come to you. Marketing and perseverance are what make start ups successful. You can have a brilliant product, but unless you convince people it adds value to their lives, they won't come.
Six Allegedly Haunted Hotels
Interesting...take a look.
A few experiences with visitrs.

The first 5 seconds of looking at your page filled my head with 'This is just a page of shit that I'm not interested in'. It was not clear that I can participate in creating the list. your join now button is virtually invisible to passing users.

I have to click an 'about' page to find out what the site does. this is way too much effort. this needs to be splashed all over the front page.

Once I understand what it is, it's not as good as my existing bookmarking sites. Struggling to see where the USP is.

My gut feeling is that you might be able to get it to work if you work in the niches - people into baking would rather join a dedicated cake site than something that is as general as this. Buy 10 niche domain names and work in the communities they target. Makes SEO a damn site easier too.

Hope this helps!
Since Bill Gates left his posts, Microsoft is being run by bean counters and has no real tech leader to lean on; not one with enough power to tell the bean counters -Balmer- to back off -- that was Bill Gates, and he was good at it.

As long as that continues, there will be issues.
I just hit google, but I have many more urls bookmarked/instapapered.

setup for Mac OS X (not very different for Ubuntu just apt-get rvm)

http://pragmaticstudio.com/blog/2010/9/23/install-rails-ruby...

Get started->

http://railstutorial.org/

http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts

http://ruby.runpaint.org/

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/8/29/rails-3-0-it-s-done

http://railsnotes.com/rails-3/

Why Rails, interesting anecdote from how 2 pythonistas decided to go rails.

http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2010/09/how-two-pythonistas-ac...
Oracle Says New HP CEO Stole Technology
That's pure genius. Not yet ready for that but cool to know it's there.
Those scalpers create value for someone willing to pay a lot more money but don't have the time to wait in line.

We're not leeching off yours or any other business (unless it's trademark infringement case). Just because you didn't get the domain you wanted doesn't make it an optimal distribution. It's entirely possible it's less than optimal, you create something, it dies and a dead page sits there. Users continue to try and order and fail. With my ads, they are getting redirected to someone actively trying to get more customers and who service their needs. I've seen google ads match people better on paid clicks than organic traffic. Why? Because when you're paying, you make every damn click count.
If you're on Windows (or like Wine), it's worth checking out. I've used it extensively; it hits a sweet spot of quick yet freeform enough to accommodate different recording requirements. And the developer, Dan, is a quite nice bloke.
I always assumed it was a pre-acquisition PR splash for TC, and not a genuine concern on Arrington's part. Especially considering what alienation of wealthy tech investors could do to his professional future.
There are other cultures where sleeping with your baby is the norm, and they don't have issues babies dying left and right due to parents rolling over on them, so I think we need more than anecdotes to say that it's dangerous.
The live Diggnation episodes are pushed as being better than the normal ones, but a crowd of people screaming and jeering and dumb drinks promos don't make for a good podcast.

I know part of the charm of the Diggnation podcast is that it's kind of dumb, but you can only go so far!
I've used one great app that is written with LispWorks. It's called Prime Trader and is the brain child of Espen Vestre at Netfonds.no

I see they are listing it as one of their success stories:
http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/netfonds-primetrade...
This just reminds me of how underpaid I am and that the closest city pays an average of 10% higher the average. I'm thinking it's time to move ;p
As long as there are thieves and robbers, people will always need protection. And protection, unless you do it yourself, usually has to be paid for. Thus your statement, "you have to pay the guy with the gun" is true without the qualification of "without any government." In most ordered societies today, the man with the gun is government and if you don't pay him, he will take away your property and liberty, though usually not your life.

Corruption arises when government, i.e. the man-with-the-gun-who-must-be-paid, goes beyond protecting property and, abusing its power, begins infringing on liberty.

As long as the police stick to preventing robbery, forcible rape, and other assaults on liberty and property, corruption is not a problem. It is only when they begin interfering with the free market, for example, trying to prevent the exchange of pot between willing sellers and willing buyers, that corruption arises. If the government would stick to protecting liberty and property, there would be (practically) no corruption because the overwhelming majority of people support laws protecting liberty and property.

The bottom line of my argument is: no abuse of government power, no corruption. This is helpful because it clarifies the legitimate role of government in practice. Corruption and widespread law breaking become symptoms of an abuse of government power. The cure is to rein in the abuse of government. Without this understanding, the natural tendency of politicians is to fight corruption by making it worse: by increasing government abuse of power, e.g., the war on drugs.
That mockups should be wireframes like Balsamiq. They are right that is the stronger model (I love Balsamiq) but that doesnt mean that there isnt room for other ways.
Well said. Very few people hit it out of the park the first time. You have to try, try, and try again, without ever having any more chance of success per given try no matter how many times you do. This is something too few have really wrapped their heads around.
Also, was Microsoft ever a big consumer brand? Windows comes pre-installed for more people and Office and XBox are brands by themselves. They didn't try to market it as a consumer brand, except for things like keyboards, mice and headsets.
i have a few hundred now, I sell maybe 10 a year.
I really have no idea on Canadians; you certainly are limited, and I think the standard solution here is to get a Canadian clearance and then use the bilateral canada/us or NATO matching to participate. Sorry!
I second that. Pomodoro Technique is dead simple and yet effective! No more procrastination while doing boring or where-to-start-with-that things. It really helped me a lot.

You can find out more about this at http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
I was interested to see that as a Lead Application Developer, you can add:

10% for Microsoft SharePoint skills
11% for SharePoint skills

There's gotta be some arbitrage opportunity in there somewhere.
Wow, I must have missed this the first time around. And while I haven't had exactly the same experiences (all the surgeries) My son(now 9) with Down Syndrome (and hearing aids for both ears since 18mo, and Asthma, and braces for both ankles, and thyroid dysfunction, and dairy allergies) had his own set of issues and I really relate to that post. He wasn't walking on his own till age 5, still potty training, daily meds for the thyroid/asthma, trying to get him to keep the hearing aids in, etc. On top of that my wife has had five back surgeries and really shouldn't lift him. I still wouldn't trade the experience, I think I am a better person for it.
Agree. The fact the xBox gaming console has the power of a supercomputer, as evident from its fans and overheating problems, but doesn't even have a simple webbrowser is all the evidence we need.

MS has never understood or indeed wanted the www to happen.

They were able to hold back www development for 5 years+ with their IE6 shenanigans, but the cats out of the bag now.
Nice points!

I think enterprise is not an easy market to enter. Enterprises are very shy of giving projects to startups and also you need to spend a few years fixing enterprise problems to build good solutions.

Another problem is that companies tend to take a long time and to make a decision hence lot of time and money gets blocked in the sales process...

I am writing this based on experience. I am trying to push the model but not too successful yet!

- Rushabh

ERPNext.com
They're also scared of phones. Check out their Phone 7 commercials.

They appear to be catering to people who think people with phones are douchebags who walk around staring at their screen all day.

I'm not sure how well this marketing strategy will work, because I am one of those douchebags, but it doesn't make me want to get one.
I think Common Lisp, Scheme, and Clojure each have a lot to offer. I wish there was one perfect Lisp :)
Very Long Odds in the Israeli Lottery
A lesson I've learned from painful experience with seasonal promotions: the right time to launch a Christmas site, if you can't pick "several years ago", is no later than summer. You need time to build up your Google karma.
thankyou.

No, I've never done contract work. I won't go into details here, but I feel I have good reasons for leaving C2. They were great to work for, but just weren't quite in line with my career goals.
What the hell is the difference between:

Developer/Programmer Analyst
Software Engineer
(Lead) Applications Developer
(Senior) Web Developer
The value is in typo squatting co. No doubt about that. Lookup the .cm story (The Man Who Owns the Internet on Business 2.0 back when it was running - Kevin Ham). He wildcarded the Cameroonian DNS and caught all the typos. Since he didn't register them, he wasn't typo squatting either, everything was wildcarded. Brilliant business move, .co is the same thing in terms of opportunity. As far as riskiness, you never know.
Features absolutely do sell software if the demand already exists. If you are entering an existing market, where the product category is known -- your set of features (not # of features) is a big part of what will drive sales.

StackOverflow, for example, was sold on features. Look at the early pitches -- it's a reddit+wiki replacement for Experts Exchange. Developers already knew that PHPBB and EE sucked for Q&A. They added voting and editing of old answers, and the demand flowed to them.
> people continue to pay for Windows even though Linux is free

99% of that is only because Windows is available in stores and Linux typically is not. I think this will all change in about a month when Chrome OS comes out and is preinstalled on cheap computers in stores like Best Buy, Futureshop, or wherever people buy computers these days.

Most consumers no longer care that they are running a specific OS; they want to type documents, read email, watch videos, look at pictures and use Wikipedia. And Chrome OS will satisfy that perfectly. If stores decide to stock Chrome OS devices, I bet you'll see a huge rise in consumer "desktop Linux" usage.
It actually isn't a redirect if you have it set up correctly. Did you configure your DNS to point to the Posterous server? If so, your domain should be directly bound to Posterous without a redirect.
Escrow.com - I do basically every transaction through there. Sedo and others offer escrow services as well.
Part of the problem with the characterization of "Angel Gate" is that it is so hard to say what collusion among angel investors would look like, and even if it occured, if collusion as independent organizations would be sustainable.

There are lots of pools of angel investors around the country, I didn't see "angel gate" as anything different then a precursor to forming some sort of investment pool.

Those independent or newly pooled investors would still have to compete with VCs, other pools of capital, private investors and a number of other smaller investors.
I think my comics at lisperati.com predate all of these, clearly inferior, rivals. (kidding- both are great)
Correlation is not causality. It seems that all these studies are simply observing correlations.

Some of the things in this article are just wrong. For example that sitting will cause "bad" forward pelvic tilt. Sitting generally eliminates forward pelvic tilt- which is the real problem. Forward pelvic tilt (sticking the but out) is the posture all humans used until recently in Western civilization.

Also, the idea that sitting will make you fatter because you aren't burning calories is fairly silly. In that case, an hour at the gym would be able to make up for all your sitting. At any rate, most people's appetites/metabolism will simply adjust (read Good Calorie, Bad Calorie for an overview of the obesity evidence).

All this being said, as a personal theory I consider sitting in a chair to be harmful. Any time civilization does something like this it usually has bad consequences. Sitting in chairs could be the number one thing we do that ruins our flexibility. Humans are supposed to be able to squat with their butt on the floor.

Standing while working is a fine alternative (and a treadmill desk would seem even better). However, other postures are going to be required to start re-gaining natural flexibility. I am experimenting now with different postures- squatting, sitting on the ground, and standing with a bent back. It is possible to work at a computer while doing all of these.
I think paper-based works well for many people because it is (or seems) easier than technology-based tools. Grabbing a marker and writing on the white board just naturally feels easier than opening the todo list and correctly organizing the task. A technology-based system would surpass paper-based if it can replicate that natural feeling of ease.
Thanks for the link. I didn't know of this site. Can you recommend any cheap tablets that would be fun to hack on?
I get the impression that Microsoft themselves are downplaying the `Microsoft' brand, in favour of market/product-specific brands: Windows, Office, Bing, XBox, etc.
So it was:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815682
The rate of improvement in Chrome, particularly in snappiness, is very high. I'd recommend you try it at least every 6 months. It is noticeably snappier on Ubuntu than Firefox for me, especially when switching tabs.
With respect to Balsamiq, the strongest model is to do both. :)
Correction: 54% of Web Video is now available in HTML5