skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free Money In The Land Down Under: Startup Program Begins
Basecamp doubles starter plan price
Silicon Valley Shows First Year-Over-Year Employment Gain in Two Years
Thank you for the very useful feedback. We will take your advice to heart (we really will!) and work it in to the redesign specification.

And I agree with everything you wrote, the site is essentially unchanged from the last 5 years. The button and the 'there is a free plan' are actually part of an ongoing AB test to see what works in terms of conversion.

You've confirmed my suspicions there :)

thank you again, if I can return the favor let me know, j@ww.com is my email.
Offer HN: Design, Prototyping, and Manufacturing of Physical Products Guide
I’ve only been active for about a month, but lurked for awhile. While my transition from physical products to digital has encountered a few difficulties the information here has been invaluable. With experience designing, prototyping, and manufacturing physical products I wanted to provide a guide for people that are going in the opposite direction. Saw a few questions on the subject so here’s a summary of what I use.

Best Cheap Design Package: Ailbre Design (as low as $50)
http://www.alibre.com/
I used this before Solidworks, if the design isn’t extremely complicated this is the software to use. Make sure to find a coupon, they offer 50% off about every other month. There are 3 different price points depending on what you are doing. Very active community that helps newcomers learn.

Enclosure Prototyping in the US:
http://www.protomold.com/ or http://www.quickparts.com/
I tend to use Quickparts more, but Protomold is also very good. All you do is upload the design and they price it. Also Quickparts offers samples that show you different finishes, materials, and designs problems to avoid. If new, definitely order one.

Design Guidelines:
http://www.protomold.com/Resources.aspx
Shows you the general rules on materials and design.

Outsourcing Design Work:
http://elance.com/ or http://guru.com/
Excellent locations to find extra help, only accept companies after you have talked to them (I suggest IM for overseas) and only if they have sample projects and references within the US. Place a keyword at the end which they must reference in the bid so you know they read your requirements.

Electronics Prototyping in US:
This really depends on the type of parts, the mount, and quantity. Generally though I use http://www.screamingcircuits.com/. For just a couple there are a few cheaper options.

Electronics Layout:
http://www.cadsoftusa.com/index.htm
It’s cheap and gets the job done for simple projects. They have a free version to test.

Parts Supplier:
Small scale: http://digikey.com/
Large scale: http://arrownac.com/
If you get in touch with a sale or tech rep at Arrow they can be a great help in putting you in touch with oversea producers. Arrow’s website sucks so just find your local rep and call them.

Producing in China:
There aren’t really any go to firms, it depends on what you are building. For rapid injection and electronic assembly I have used http://icomold.com, they even do design and prototyping. The design work is done in the US while the manufacturing is completed in China. They sell steel injection molds for the same price as a lower quality aluminum mold in the US.

The general rule when producing in China is to NEVER have a product completely assembled in 1 factory unless you want copies going out the back door.

How to do it:
1)	Have the device produced in 1-2 locations without the software
2)	Have the boxes produced
3)	Ship the unboxed products to the US, (LA)
4)	Hire a firm to box the product and flash the hardware

If there are more questions I would be happy to try and answer them.
Offer HN: Help understanding online video
Online video is complicated. You have to worry about competing codecs, encoding settings, delivery protocols, player technologies, etc.

Ask me anything video related. Email address in my profile.

(Not mentioning my video startup because I don't want to turn Offer HN into spam, but it's in my profile if you're interested.)
Submit WTF Code Directly from Your IDE
Sure, here's a couple with less breathlessness, and more details:

http://www.intego.com/news/trojan-horse-os-x-koobface-a-affe...

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/27/security-alert-new-trojan-hor...
Color Theory and Aesthetic Gibberish
I don't believe so. I checked with wireshark.

And there's no point in using another DNS provider if your network is compromised since they can see your requests in plaintext.
Argh, they're gonna revive and store the stuff I was so ashamed for that I hoped it would never resurface.
Have you considered implementing a NoSQL solution to store the files? I've successfully done something similar with HBase.
Mailing a form with $105 to "Copyright RRP" with a PO Box in DC seems pretty sketchy.

Second, is this really an issue that online communities need to address? In our site's terms and conditions, we clearly list a DCMA contact and registered agent. Is that not enough?

And who are these funds going to? A government agency? A contractor?

As I said, on the surface this seems pretty sketchy.
UCLA claims 300-GHz graphene transistors
I think the Toronto scene is especially sensitive to this because it is fairly small and seasoned developers are in short supply.
For the big stack frameworks, it's quite major. As he said, without the sheer market share that Rails has for Ruby…

That's true for big full stack frameworks, where most of the contenders disappeared. Real competition seems to happen mostly in the mini framework area, due to people being forced to ditch more and more parts of their full stacks and wondering why they couldn't instead build upon a small platform. Flask is gaining traction here.

And then there's app engine, where things run a bit differently, and forcing django et al on top of it can feel a bit unnatural. Tipfy seems to be en vogue there.

In Python country, you always had quite a number of projects that ran outside the mainstream, though. Tornado, cherrypy, web.py, web2py etc.
Man arrested for plotting to attack DC metro
On the subscription page, the border of the text fields is very light and makes it hard to see the text field. Can these be darkened a little?

Also, both FF and Chrome say their is unsecured content on these pages.

I think your site might be a good candidate for gradual engagement. Chech out this article:
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1128

Regarding the above, perhaps the subscription offers could be combined, so I can just start using the site and get everything for 2 weeks and then once 2 weeks is over, the site changes for me and presents me with subscription form if I come back. Right now, its hard to judge the quality of content before I sign up, even if its free for 2 weeks. Its still a barrier and makes me not want to.

On the about Us page and home page, I'd like to see more about the contributors. Quality of content on a site like yours is key, so I need to know more about who is contributing in order to get me to sign up. If you're just launching with no prior reputation, this is very important. As you get established and more known, this could probably be de-emphasized.

Think about possible redesigns for home page. Probably a good half of the page above the fold is taken up by the large Track image and the Track offers.
Wikileaks Iraq war logs: key findings
Fear the Beard: "The rallying power of facial hair"
If I'm reading the article right, the guy was "plotting" with law enforcement officials. Sounds a bit like entrapment, but I guess there's a fine line.
And that's the magic phrase right there. Along with "Terrorism", "Drugs" and "Rape", "Child Porn" is a bogeyman which many people feel justifies a reduction in rights of a serious nature.

Are they right? Well, that's not something I'm going to speculate on, but I believe the judicial system will push as hard as people expect/will permit them too. If the encrypted data was stolen e-books, I doubt they'd be so very harsh.

I think it's bollucks, however. I think you should have no punishment for refusing to help convict yourself, regardless of what you may have done.
Remember twich.me (node.js realtime chat)? Here is the source as promised.
http://www.kwiclick.com

My name is vin@ domain name. Thanks in advance!
Disappear? webring.com is still there. I dare you to enter "goth poetry" in its search window. Double dare, as a matter of fact.
no worries :) I've had a busy day too. I should have waited longer before poking you! I got your email, will reply tomorrow. Thanks!
Both you and Mark need to get off your high horses. You don't build Facebook for yourself, you build it for an audience. Otherwise, it's not Facebook.

Likewise, most people who love making movies do it because they love making it. A lot of those movies never get audiences. Just like a lot of software projects never see the light of day. But some do.
But LISP is immune to bugs!?! What gives??
The depths of dislike for Fiorina in the tech industry are somewhat impressive. A former-HP friend who strongly leans Republican lamented that the Republicans managed to find almost the only possible person who he wouldn't vote for over Barbara Boxer (who he strongly dislikes... but not as much as he dislikes Fiorina).
Thanks for the feedback and this feels so simple on paper. Yet when I dive in, the problems just feel insurmountable. But I guess taking it one step at a time.

Perhaps rather than trying to decode their existing pricing, it might be best for us to come up with a brand new pricing strategy that includes profitability from the get-go.
I don't think PHP will die in the next few years. For the same reason that C++ (and for that matter, even COBOL) haven't really died. There are enough people that need it kept alive that it will keep going for a while.
I don't know if you can blame her for that - I seem to remember her starting about the time of the split, so it must have been in the works before she started.

I felt the HP Way was alive at Agilent (at least at the time of the split).
Not to be overly melodramatic, but I think this is my last comment here on HN for better or worse, simply because this is exactly the microcosmic ideal I've hoped for HN from my beginning involvement--if it dies, there's no need to drag things out and I am grateful for all of HN's relentless resourcefulness I've encountered. And if not, I'll probably be helping HN continue to develop this idea further through action.

I think I can safely assume the majority of active members representative of YC here have startups that are in need of traction, but of a different kind not yet fully explored; but nevertheless, in need of resources. I hope I'm also not mistaken in the feeling most of us feel "not ready" or not in the right stage for official seed funding and don't necessarily fit into traditional crowd funding landscape, or simply don't want that much of a burden to worry about while developing.

Yes, money is a burden because it's an anchor you must tie yourself to in most cases, and is hard to come by. I've read it many times here before, as it should be, since this is the YC news. However, there could be something faster...

So, this new or new-old, dare I say model, is a natural progression--or in pg's adapted words, evolution (hopefully I am not putting words in your mouth). To where? Call it Crowd Ramen Funding (CRF), where the angels are the untold majority.

All that's needed is a standalone site to register your startup with the community, associate needed resources to your startup/project, and have others with those available resources either give or lend them to you while you're still getting off the ground. It doesn't have to be big; maybe some food, a sheltered corner to hack under, language manuals, maybe some light consulting, or other things of this nature. And like other crowd funding platforms, you make sure there are enough hands to help you down the edge so you don't have to take the dive by yourself. In return, the angels may receive the startup's product if it was something they personally wanted, or maybe simply the joy of having helped a hacker or two that is adding more value to the world than he or she is taking out, or maybe it's a kind of symbiosis not easily definable.

In short, I feel I'm not alone when I say this has much more potential than just being slash or pipe "Offer", and being so, it really is out of place in the header. HN community participation shouldn't be a function narrowed in scope by its site header, nor should the header sacrifice its functionality of directing users contributing and reading news. I think at heart it's really a classical inheritance problem, in which case, it's best to just extend rather than subtype the current functionality. May the entire community see this thing through to either a bitter end or choosing to forward it on into the future. That is all.
It's certainly troubling; I'm skeptical of inflation panic but Bill Gross isn't known for being a doomsayer.
This is the source code for the app I've been working on. It was featured in HN awhile back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1590173

This is the first time I'm open sourcing my code. Please be nice. Any feedback is welcome.

And a twich for the occasion http://twich.me/opensource
I have to disagree with at least one point in Ben Scofield's talk.
If you are doing deliberate practice and you are failing most of the time,
then you are either not trying hard enough or you are setting your
goals too high. Deliberate practice requires setting your goals
right at the very edge of your capabilities. If you are doing your
very best, you should be succeeding at least 50% of the time.
If your practice is soul crushing then it will be very hard
to sustain the necessary effort for 10,000 hours (or even much
less time).
An up-to-date iPhone is not trivial to jailbreak, especially if it isn't yours. Jailbreaking is a specific kind of rooting. It "ought" to be virtually impossible.

Then good luck hiding your trail, reassociating the Apple ID, hoping no apps broke due to the jailbreak (it's happened to me), keeping the device associated with the owner's iTunes, etc.
And after only two random clicks, I'm at a (bad) foot fetish site. Well, it was either that, or a "Mr. T ate my <censored>"…
If I owned a blog hosting website, could I register as the DMCA contact point for $105, and cover all blogs I host AS WELL AS THEIR POSTS?

IANAL, but based on the fact that Youtube does this with one contact address for all their users, I would guess you could do that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker%27...
Ask HN: Building a NAS solution
Hi - doing a bit of background research on the possibility of building our own, open source based NAS (for iSCSI) rather than a commercial offering. Any startups here using the likes of openfiler, FreeNAS etc in a production environment? Or anything else worth looking at?
The navel gazing is starting to bug me a bit.
http://www.in-n-out.com/secretmenu.asp
Sorry, I forgot about that one. Unfortunately I was working for the last few hours so I hadn't checked back and we've probably missed most of the people that would have voted.
The PDF is at "copyright.gov". Moreover, check out http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/ the P.O. Box 71537 matches. What's the "sketchy" part here?

If you get sued by a copy-right troller, you have the option of hiring a lawyer to defend your "Terms of Service" or pay $105 and avoid the headache.
The font is entirely too small, but the layout is nice.
Offer HN: Help with Content Strategy/Web Writing
I've been a long-time lurker here and really appreciate this community.

After working as a writer for ten years (the last several for the web), I just started my own company, offering Content Strategy and Web Copy.

I want to help groups align their words and goals. This can mean doing a web content makeover, drafting a new tagline, helping to craft the right tone for communication, marketing, or devising an editorial strategy.

My website and email are in my profile.
Google's big: Its $2B trophy purchase would rock NY real estate
Offer HN: I will back useful numbers out of your cap table
I am a 409A valuation professional. I spend my days unpacking hairy capitalization structures to answer questions like:

* How much money will my company have to sell for in order for me personally to make $1 million?
* At what exit value do certain Preferred Shareholders convert to common?
* How much does my company have to sell for for our $0.350 ISO holders to make $1.50/share?
* If we do a 20% down round and anti-dilution kicks in, what happens to me?

I will do my best to give you some useful insights into your cap table for free. I won't be able to spend a huge amount of time on each cap table, but I have analyzed thousands of these in my career and can see things pretty quickly. I won't be able to sign any NDAs, but you don't necessarily have to tell me who you are.

Though it wouldn't be free, I'll also give you an unbeatable deal on a 409A valuation if you're issuing stock options.
The writer of the movie seems to disagree with you.

Sorkin writes: "It was a revenge stunt, aimed first at the woman who'd most recently broke his heart (who should get some kind of medal for not breaking his head) and then at the entire female population of Harvard."

This page is obligatory reading on this debate (previously posted to HN):
http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/10/aaron-sorkin-responds-...

Now, I'm not saying what did or did not drive Zuckerberg - but Sorkin, who wrote the Zuckerberg character, thought the character was motivated by revenge.
reddit repost
What happens on the internet... stays on the internet.
Sorry for the OT question, but what tools did you use to make that video?
Offer HN: I'll take pro headshots of your startup team (SF or LA) for web/PR
Our company serves pro photographers but I also do a good amount of photography myself.

If you're in SF or LA (or in between) and need some good headshots of your team for your website or press material, I can arrange to meet up for a photo shoot. I'm on the central coast but I travel north and south quite a bit for meetings.

I've got pro Canon equipment, studio lights, etc.
Re "Could you provide easy examples where you would use a pair-wise approach, and a list-wise approach? Like, let's say I wanted to build a recommendation system for college football pick-ems (Ie, will Iowa beat Michigan State? Etc.). Which method would be preferred, and why?"

I had written a longer reply detailing what are listwise methods and how they differ from pairwise methods, but apparently it was eaten by the web hyenas.

Turian's explanation doesn't actually cover what listwise methods are. I've seen them presented in the learning to rank context (learning to rank is when you want to build a machine learning system that given a set of documents, say search results, ranks them from more to less relevant to a query), so I'll follow this context here.

There are two very obvious approach to design a learning system that outputs sorted data: the first is to learn to assign a real number to each "document" (and then you sort according to these numbers) and the second is to learn a classifier that predicts given a pair of "documents" if a <= b (and then you can use this classifier as a comparison function in a sorting algorithm). Both these approaches have a common flaw, however, which is that they are very easily myopic, and will make decisions only looking at a very small window. This is clearly suboptimal in the learning to rank context because, for example, mistakes in the top elements of the ranked list are a lot more important than mistakes further down the list, and sometimes you want to maximize diversity or something like that, and it's hard to do that in an elementwise or pairwise approach.

So they invented listwise approaches, and there are actually two sorts of these: you can either learn a classifier that scores entire sorted sequences of documents (with features like document trigrams, features connecting similar documents, etc) or you can learn one of the above models with a loss function that depends on the entire sorted list of documents.

So essentially a listwise approach is better if you can do it, as listwise approaches come closer to minimizing error measures you actually care about (like precision among the top 10 documents) instead of bogus measures (like number of document pairs misclassified). On the other hand, precisely because listwise approaches allow you to be more specific, they are less generic, and it might be cumbersome to adapt one of them to your recommendation system.

Also, it fundamentally depends on how the results of your recommendation system are used. If you present something like top k recommendations then listwise approaches can be better, but in some other scenarios you will actually care about all the individual decisions, so a pairwise approach can do just as well.
Didn't the HP board destroy the HP Way by placing the outsider Fiorina at the helm?
Apologies for the annoyance - we should have added a warning up front. In fact, I'll add it to the blog post right now.
How Meg Whitman Nearly Destroyed eBay
So...effectively does everyone need to pay $105 to start any sort of website?

Seems like a barrier to entry to me...
"I feel like my co-founder is talks down to me, lectures me, and is extremely stubborn. He does his part though...."

I have to disagree. No co-founder who trashes the morale of his partner(s) (or others in the company) is really "doing his part" to make the company succeed.

As others have said, try to work things out, but it sounds like either he doesn't respect you or is incapable of expressing that if he does. A big enough, soon enough improvement in either is unlikely.

Speak to him frankly (should be easy in so far as you're willing to walk if ths can't be worked out), give him a short but bounded chance to improve, and then the right path should be obvious.
This may be the largest public torrent ever created!
Consumer search without clicks or ads
"Code Brown", in our family's vernacular.
Both Opera and Firefox support WebM.
It's still a political hit piece which would not exist in the alternative universe where this week's California Republican senate candidate is, say, Tom Campbell.

There may be a time and a place for discussing the upsides and downsides of any particular CEO's tenure at any given company, but it would probably be much better to discuss it when said CEO is not standing for election in less than a week, so that people's feelings on politics don't cloud their opinions on technology management.

I know nothing about Carly Fiorina's time as CEO of HP, but am disinclined to trust anyone's opinion on the subject this week. Can we talk about Geoffrey Immelt's CEOship of General Electric instead?
You can definitely do this the API. If you can handle doing some manual work, you could export files from your program to import into the Adwords Editor. The fees for the API can be limiting when you're dealing with w/ a lot of changes.
It is legal to jailbreak an iphone but not an xbox
Former Chairman of the CBOSF(CambridgeBreweryOverpayment SlushFund)
I very much agree that the devil is in the details, and the largest detail here is how Foursquare goes about calculating badges. So without knowing that the article can't fully evaluate alternatives. That has less to do with the author not being an engineer on Foursquare's team rather Foursquare not detailing the calculation. Maybe on Riak map/reduce is fast enough and Foursquare can shard by checkin, which would be much easier to balance.

Maybe they should just implement their own sharding based on user activity. Maybe a few SSD drives on their Postgres server would solve they issue. They through the issue out there, if nothing else works tell us why.