skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a patient: keep track of simple things like my kids' vaccinations over the years, while moving countries etc. Google health lets me do that, but then it also tries to do 100s of other things, and it's too US-specific.
I'd consider that "featured" because you touch the little "featured" spotlight icon in the bottom of the App Store to get to these apps.

I probably buy a game from these sections every week, or 2 weeks, but I almost never scour the store for hidden gems myself.

I think this section of the App Store is a HUGE draw for developers because it allows them to use their imagination when creating a new game and they still have an inkling of hope that they'll get noticed or featured.

In the Android Market however - if you create something awesome but original, you're pretty much doomed to obscurity unless you find some other marketing avenue to drive traffic to your game.

Or maybe by some miracle Google will feature you, but they have pretty limited space available for featured apps, and nobody seems to know how those are chosen.
somebody's been taking seth godin way too seriously
Right on. Or just a full length curtain that sweeps closed whenever someone is outside. :)
Previous submission http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=681282
I looked at this and said, $90 freaking k? I bet the hardware costs are less than $1k.
Opportunity for a hardware startup? I'd say yes.

I second. There should be also a possibility for a DIY project. This doesn't look too complicated to build.
Interesting, please link me to the source
Bet your business?
Managing JavaScript Objects
http://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Special-General-Masterpiece...
I wouldn't kill or sell my children, but I definitely did so for side-projects. As well, children don't bring me money (at least currently), whereas the projects do.

That said I really like considering both as organic: you plant seeds, take care of them and they hopefully grow.
It would be a significant effort to put a board together to do anything with this, certainly more than the cost of the eval board if you place a value on your time (and aren't looking at this just as a hobby).

Most people who might use this in a commercial setting would buy the eval board first to try it out. That is probably what I would do even if this were a hobby project.
A question about Watchparty: isn't the trend for people to be not watching the same show at the same time? I mean, I can see networks desperate to stop this trend so I could see how some established network might want to acquire you. And that's not a bad plan but I'm not sure if that is going to reverse the trend.

I mean, if anything gets people watching at the same time it will be social interaction. I just don't know if it will be enough? Or do you have some way to connect people who are viewing asynchronously? If so, I'd love that personally. I do often want to share with other people but I never watch when originally aired. Somehow connecting me with everyone else sounds great except for the fact that at that point you're pretty much talking about a forum at that point and there's plenty of those.
I've made a bookmarklet to turn other pages into comic sans wonderpages and put it on the site ;0)
Johnny Fever, the Webification of the Power Grid, & Energy Entrepreneurism
a. “Microprocessor microcircuits ”, “microcomputer microcircuits”, and microcontroller microcircuits having any of the following:

[...]

a.3 More than one data or instruction bus or serial communication port that provides a direct external interconnection between parallel “microprocessor microcircuits” with a transfer rate of 2.5 Mbyte/s.

www.access.gpo.gov/bis/ear/pdf/ccl3.pdf
> The next step is to ironically embrace Comic Sans

done! http://comicfuckingsans.com
"I remind myself that pride is another I Ain’t Gonna Need and get on with it."
YAGNI applies liberally.
or we could add "don't have kids and don't get married" as advice
My, What a Big Balance Sheet You Have
One mistake many recent college graduates make is looking for openings in the wrong places. Its understandable- no one ever tells you how to get an entry level job.

To clarify, craigslist and monster.com are absolutely the wrong places for entry level job seeking. From what I hear, they kind of suck for any job seeking.

The best place is a company's website. Quite a few company's have a "students" or "new graduates" sub-section in their careers section. This is how I ended up at my job.

Networking and on campus recruiting are nice too, but they aren't always an option.
If we where looking at 1920x1200 vs 1620x1020 then resolution is not much of an issue. But, at lower resolutions you need to know where each pixel is to produce a really high quality interface.

Also, if limit yourself to a subset of Android phones that have the features you want, it's harder to justify supporting them. It's one thing to think 10 million users of this App store it's another thing to say well 6 million is still enough to go for. etc.
Arboreal: Visualize DOM structure inside FireBug
Pooling all of that information into one place is begging for it to be abused. Would you still be asking the same question if it was s/Facebook/NSA/g or s/Google/FBI/g or even s/Google/KGB/g? Once all of this information is in place how hard do you think it will be for such organizations to get access to it? Just because the 'big bad guberment' isn't the one doing the collecting doesn't mean that the information cannot be abused internally, or externally to the company compiling it.
Nah it was a good article, like Kliment said, tattoos are probably better, but i got what you meant.
It was 10-20 years ago. The funnest project I ever worked on was to implement a 17-function motor controller with 40-bit precision onto an MCU with 2K of RAM and 64 BYTES of RAM. That was in '93.

Today embedded systems generally run Linux. You get to write a bit of assembly language code in your bootloader, and then it's just bog standard Unix programming. It's even likely that you'll be doing most of your coding in a scripting language, although it's more likely to be Lua than Ruby...
AddictedToStartups.com
Ask HN: Review my web app
Hi everyone :-)

I've had my Twitter webapp on the backburner for ages, but after taking a friend's advice, I've finally bought a couple of themes and redesigned the service around them.

It would be awesome to get your feedback:

-What other features would you like to see?

-What do you think of the UI and design?

- If you use Twitter, would you use this webapp? If not, why not?

Thanks!
Tom.

Link: http://tweetingmachine.com
Clickable: http://tweetingmachine.com
Thank you! I knew I'd seen it before, and your reference to the creator's site was enough to let me track it down:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1792567

Submitted several days ago to a resounding silence.
MongoDB AND Redis, but no /dev/null ?
And Slackware's packaging is light enough that it is fairly simple to write wrappers around gems/CPAN modules/Python eggs. The latter two have prewritten SlackBuilds that you can use, assuming that the setup.py is not doing anything too shady.
It doesn't even automate the adding of seeds.
Programming Android (O'Reilly Labs)
LOL, I hope your second point is true! "I'm a programmer"
Hear, hear. I don't openly complain about it either, but I die a little inside every time I see it on a flyer or jam label.
I think that they may want to change their terminology. By plant they mean factory, not... er... plant.
Somali pirates in 2010
It doesn't matter how many low-end phones are sold.

It's near impossible to put apps on them and even if the user can find a way to install an app, the users that buy low end phones have very little correlation with those that have a data contract.

And even if they can a) get an app installed, b) have data, you have to deal with the crappy S40 UI. Totally not mom-friendly.

My point is, it's pointless even considering these Symbian^1(who came up with such a fucking stupid branding as "^1"?) as being anything as a write off. They don't play a role in the app economy and there is such price competition at the low end that few profits could filter up to subsidise the smartphone division.

So let's focus on Nokia's smartphone numbers rather than total shipments. Again... a big ship will keep drifting for a while. But eventually it will come to an end. I've seen many defections from the Symbian camp to the Android camp and have yet to find one developer yearning to go back.
I'm on the fence about using data to try and decide moral guidelines. In a sense, you want to remove the responsibility of making a decision yourself about proper courses of action and leave it to studies and derived 'data'. Have we all lost the ability to think for ourselves? When you want data to define morality, you are simply removing god as the source and replacing it with man.
I suspect they're using it to approximate the look of writing on a whiteboard.

In which case, there are better options, but Comic Sans is more readily available.
Doesn't that same problem exist with all password screens?
Standing vs. Sitting at Work | Calorie Burn Calculator
Problems like these are good for new programmers to think while keeping abstract thought farther away.

Using cats rather than eggs or dogs paints a story that's fun to imagine. I could also ask the question by saying: there is an integer to find and any integer guessed above this removes one chance

I wonder how people might go about constructing their answer if they worry with respect to the cats lives as compared to the abstract version
Whilst your thesis is trivially true (there must be differences in products, otherwise we effectively have no choice), in a practical sense it leaves a lot to desire. To have choice, the vast majority of functionality must be fungible between two different, competing products. If I have a Ford, and want to buy a new car, the new car can be used on the same roads, my driving experience can be transferred, I'll have access to the same fuel in the same service stations, I can park the car in the same places, etc. The two products are highly fungible, and where they are not, it's because they are being specifically targeted at a need that I have. I do not have to give up using roads, or the service station network just because I need a bigger car to hold my kids - the big cars are still designed to fit on the same roads.

To use a computer example, I use Fedora at work, because our CPU manufacturer provides their tools (port of binutils etc) only for Fedora, and it's a major pain in the neck for me to deal with having to repackage them for my desktop of choice when the tools or my OS is updated. I would prefer to use Ubuntu, but I can't, because the two products are not sufficiently fungible, ie the market is fragmented, and I don't have a choice.
About a year or so ago, Microsoft's campuses made a huge switch from all plastic cups/silverware to compostable materials. Silverware/cups literally made out of corn and potatoes and such. A common question was "why doesn't MS just give each employee a ceramic mug?" The response was that MS found it's actually more environmentally damaging to wash them than it is to compost a crap load of cups. I found that response interesting. I'm not claiming that response was true (it might have just been compostable cups were cheaper for MS). But I am often surprised to find intuition and the environment don't always go hand in hand.
Wired article from 2009 on their "business model": http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-07/ff_som...
Starbucks and Tim Hortons already do this in Canada, but without the need for a deposit. In fact, I believe they give you larger portions if you say you wanted your coffee "for here".
I went to try this, and then realized that I don't have gcc installed on my production (-ish) boxes.

Is this sufficient?

Can you foresee me needing to install gcc, and to leave it installed? I.e. should I install it to do whatever compiling I need to do, and then remove it?
> I'm guessing this is not x86

Nothing really interesting is.
Seems similar to Microsoft's JQuery plugin: http://api.jquery.com/link/.
mymint.com cost $3,000; mint.com cost $181k in Series A equity:

"They offered him [previous owner of mint.com] equity in the company's Series A funding round rather than a cash payment, and assured him that he'd be the only New York financier they'd let in."[0]

"I said, “I will give you $181 thousand in Series A equity. If we do well, you’ll get an asymmetric upside. If we go bankrupt, you’ll be in the situation as a preferred investor to get your money out first. I won’t let anyone else from New York into this round of financing"[1]

[0]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10457870-36.html

[1]: http://thinkvitamin.com/asides/aaron-patzer-on-how-to-take-y...
Go read the website I linked to. NASDAQ publishes their methodology. I'll quote it for you here:

OUCH Measurements of Order Latency

* The time it takes to accept, process, and
acknowledge or fill an order.

* Measured as the complete round trip for an order
or cancel transaction leaving a customer network
port, through the co-lo network and application
firewalls to the matching engine and back.

* Measured in the production environment during a
full trading day including opening and close.

As you can see, they are including the time it takes to acknowledge and fill the order. It is the complete round trip time, and does include transit latency through the co-located network (which I thought was excluded).
You might want to try it from the other side for a while. It can actually be quite nice to have a job that does nothing other than provide money to pursue your true passions.

For most of my 20's, my life revolved entirely around rock climbing. 4 nights a week in the gym, and a roadtrip every weekend. Vacation time saved up (and exceeded) for trips to Europe, Asia and the Desert Southwest in search of good rock and good times. My friends were all doing the same thing, and those were actually some of the best years of my life.

Now, I'd deeply into building software products to maximize my free time. Not surprisingly, the skills I'm using today are the ones I picked up during those years of paying the bills. The outside pursuits are still a major part of my life (I'm typing this from the climbing mecca of Kalymnos, Greece), but now I have several months a year to pursue them instead of just a few weeks.

So maybe you should take another look at those guys. They just might be leading interesting lives while you're not looking.
Also complete control over your own future without being beholden to a 3rd party.
Why do you need to do anything? It's their life, just live yours the way you want to and let them be.

I can't content myself to just cruise along, either, but I'd be annoyed if someone tried to change that about me. Therefore I have to show them the same respect: if they want to just cruise along and take the easy way, that's their right to do so.
Exactly 2.5Mb/s?
This is one my favorite posts I've ever read on HN. Thanks for sharing it. :)
The Changing Income Distribution
Usually these discussions sound like some people are worried that the corporations themselves will do something bad with the data (sell you more stuff you like !gasp!).

Government misusing data is the only thing I could think of. But what's the evidence for that fear? If the organisations you mention wanted to go after people, can't they already do so?

With this kind of reasoning, the internet itself should qualify as a huge setback to privacy. The point is that the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages.
Kids are ok, really.
Self-counting functions
"but some people are just satisfied with having a huge disconnect with their work and life."

While true, I think "disconnect" has unnecessarily negative connotations. You could equally say, "some people are happy when work doesn't dominate their whole life." Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on what you want out of life and what you want out of your work.
- iphone/android vaccination tracker for travelers

- vision prescription app for iPhone/android

- iPad book reader app for people who have vision and mobility impairments due to stroke

- trackers for blood pressure, diabetics, diet, mood, etc.
(there are already tons of these but there are many UI improvements possible.)

- travel/immigrant related medical apps for mobile devices. for instance, if I'm in France, how do i get to a doctor? how do I get a new set of contact lenses? Likewise, for someone who just moved here from China, how do I do the same in the US?

- many physicians have to use this horrible EMR software called "EPIC." all of them hate it. the UI is amazingly bad. If you made some sort of app you could sell to physicians which they could overlay on top of EPIC with a usable UI, they would pay good money for that.
CloudBees is a bunch of ex-JBoss/Red Hat and Sun folks building a Java PaaS. Our first product is Hudson as a Service. http://cloudbees.com

We are completely distributed across three continents, so remote is the only option. We are looking for several roles including:

- Rails/jquery developer

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I wrote about my experiences with NOOKStudy:

http://www.publicstatic.net/2010/10/nookstudy-not-so-great-f...

To summarize:

- The reader sucks

- No price advantage over renting

- Have to "return" the textbook, no option to keep it if you wanted to
Reasons startups move to Silicon Valley And Things Boston can do to keep them
There's an inverse correlation between the numbers of tattoos you have and the amount that you care about getting another, though...

On second thought, maybe they are a good analogy.
I didn't go throughout the frameworks, but I imagine this scenario:

Backbone is the main platform. You'll use it for pretty much everything except one thing "templating". Knockout will fit well with templating. The example that is present in the home page is what I think of. This will help separate the two processes. I'll have two different files reducing the complexity of each one. jQuery is the rescue when dealing with other DOM issues, animation and also AJAX.
"If I’d played around with every piece of technology I should be using whether I felt like it or not, I’d never have got anywhere."

I feel like this all the time. Sometimes it's better to do a less-great job in a language you know backwards and skip the learning curve of a new tech.

The site works really well btw: after entering a handful of my favs it took my a while to get through all the games I already like to find new ones - so it's doing something right :)

Thanks for the interesting read.
from what I can tell, side projects are much better than children! :)
A browser extension to block a single service?

Use a general "browser firewall" and add http://*.connect.facebook.*/* to the list of blocked urls...
Came from a startup discussion I had a long time ago. We were talking about Google's 20% idea.
You really ought to read the article before arguing about it.
"Understanding the legal sleaze behind the bulk copyright lawsuits"
It is and it will be for the long time to come. Bit twiddling has important role in device drivers, firmware etc.
It would be pretty powerful if online textbooks linked together like wikipedia. It wouldn't be too hard for a online textbook company to create a script to find instances of words from their index and link them together. If I could mouse over an important vocab word and have other relevant pages pop up, then online textbooks could be seen as more powerful than paper, rather than as an alternative.

Makes me think about why online dictionaries are so powerful compared too flipping through paper dictionaries.

Personally, i tried to buy online versions of my textbooks, but they required me to download their own client to view the textbooks, which didn't work in ubuntu(I wasn't being stubborn about switching to windows, my textbooks were for programming classes so I definitely needed to stay in my programming environment). I can understand not needing to cater to the small niche of people in linux, but a web based app to view the textbooks through the browser would have been much more pleasant for everyone of any OS.
According to the WWF (http://www.worldwildlife.org/sites/TED/change.html) it takes 53 gallons of water to make 1 latte. A great deal of this water is used in making the cup. So why use all that water for a product that gets trashed?
Market volatility is certainly a valid reason to stay out of investments. Just take a look at this:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^VIX+Interactive#chart1:s...

VIX is going down, but fear is not as low as it was in 2005. It's not exactly the time to be jumping in head first.

For those interested in VIX:

"VIX is the ticker symbol for the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, a popular measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options. Often referred to as the fear index or the fear gauge, it represents one measure of the market's expectation of stock market volatility over the next 30 day period. The VIX Index was introduced by Prof. Robert Whaley of Vanderbilt University in 1993."

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIX )

There are a wealth of reasons to be bearish with the market right now, not the least of which are:

* Market instability over the past few years.

* U.S. government warning public of poor economic outlook.

* Banks having second half of mortgage crisis ("foreclosure crisis").

* USD, Euro, Yen fluctuations and "currency circus" going on internationally.

* Economic crises internationally.

* Continued political issues and terrorism threats on global scale.
Great, I'm glad to hear it's proving useful! I'll do a follow up with how well my NoDB implementation stood up to the pounding it's getting at the moment later in the week...
We are hiring a short-term, front-end designer for a javascript heavy application related to data analysis and statistical computing. We use coffeescript, knockoutjs, and socket.io. We're based in Cambridge, MA but are open to remote work. Email info@statsia.com.
It's nice to see stories like this, that walk you through the entire process, even if it's a simple feature. This is pretty much the essence of agile development, but without the ceremony.
Right. I guess what I wanted to point out is that you may be overestimating the super angels' strategy and the returns VCs would have to get to compete ("10^6—one million x"). If the super angels can't reinvest all their returns, they won't actually make anywhere near that much. Even if they could reinvest it all, their returns would diminish each year.

So the question is, how much will they make with their current strategy? I don't know enough about the relevant numbers to do anything more than speculate. But if I had to, I'd bet the super angels are better off focusing on finding big winners than they are worrying about valuations and quick returns.
Just throwing this out there...

Why is it that when a woman does a reverse job
application she gets 4 upvotes, but when a guy
copies her two years later he's 'a genius' and
gets 450+ upvotes?

Because it was two years ago, and the link is to a landing page.

Your implication that sexism is the cause is pathetic.
Why I Am Excited about Riak Search
"...the Valley is an order of magnitude closer to being self-aware." LOL.
Aluminum would be a terrible material for a container that holds liquids at temperatures of 150+ (65C+)
Perfect situation to drop "defenestration". Wasted opportunity.
The issue is addressed in http://www.netmba.com/mgmt/ob/motivation/erg/
> especially since they've introduced HTTP.SYS (parts of the HTTP server now run in kernel level).

Isn't it something Red Hat did a long time ago that was widely regarded as a Very Bad Idea?

And why would you use HTTP in this scenario anyway?
Making something hard to read means it is more likely to be remembered
Smart way to record presentations
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