skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you make a replacement for vBulletin, phpBB, and Invision I wouldn't be surprised if you could sell it for $50+ to more active communities.

The problem with search for forums is that there is no getting around the fact that you have to either search through the text of the posts (standard search) or have a massive index that gets out of date quickly (Sphinx). You can't get more creative than that and have your software still be compatible with most hosting (including $5/mo shared hosting that most people will have). When I worked at Internet Brands (makers of vBulletin), we used Sphinx on all of our forums, which worked, but was far from perfect. It's just the nature of the beast for forums...the interesting stuff is in the text fields (hard to index), compared to an online store where you can sort by category, tags, price, title, etc.
Wave just needed a good emacs mode to have been made for it.
If this is properly optimized, it should require much less finger movement than handwriting. And it can easily get even casual users to higher accuracies than even full size keyboards- the recognition is much more accurate because of the four quadrant, set, layout.
"Hipmunk fills a niche"

what niche? the niche for online ticket purchasers who prefer gantt-style interfaces? the niche describing the set of customers who rely on a single provider (orbitz.com) for their ticket-purchase decisioning data?

"in a highly monetizeable market"

i'd love see your CAC, CR/CRR, AMPU/AMPC, etc breakdown for the online air ticket space.

"Things are looking good for the team at Hipmunk."

when your only competitive advantage is a gantt-style interface, your outlook is not often described as "looking good".

i wouldn't consider a large base of online fanboys to be a significant competitive advantage in an industry where your competitors are 10 years established and have revenues in the billions of dollars.

"it's a great opportunity for Chris"

in the sense that it's probably better than staying at conde? --sure. in the sense that it will likely result in a significant payout down the road? --again, that's debatable.
That seems plausible (and the conventional wisdom), but I don't think it's a matter addressed in this study, which was rat-based. My understanding is that the difficulty in human birth is largely attributable to extra prenatal development that results in the baby being relatively large. So, even if birth pain is a factor in humans, there must be an additional driving force, a factor on which the research apparently didn't speculate.
I've used it a bunch over the past 5+ years.

Payer does not have to register. The money is just deposited into their accounts, though it could take upto a week especially if you pay using your bank acct and not credit card.

There should be a list of banks they accept. It's pretty comprehensive I think.
This was my first thought, as well. But after re-reading the article, it's not clear to me that women have a higher tolerance for pain, just that we require two types of receptors to be active to feel relief from morphine, and that the "complex" of proteins fluctuates with the estrous cycle. I can say that certain painful acts in the context of my multiparous experience have resulted in a flood of pain relief from somewhere within my person shortly after the onset of pain. Things that I was not aware my body could tolerate became tolerable. All very strange.
I believe our boss was pretty desperate to hire another developer asap (I'm not exactly sure why..) and we had known the guy for several months/year prior to offering him the job (so yeah, he sort of got the job as he was close to being a friend). We did interview him though and he was actually a fairly good PHP coder just a bit socially awkward at times (which wasn't an issue). Oh and he was also willing to work on a very low wage (something like £9k p/a) so that was a big bonus for our boss. Thinking back, I'm not that surprised he quit so soon considering he was only on £9k, lol. Thanks for reading the post though by the way :-)
I was going to try to just continue this via email, but I don't see your contact details. I don't have the industry background to know whether APS-C sensors are indeed "commoditized" but that sounds a bit spurious. Canon, Fuji, and Nikon make the best digital camera sensors in the world today, and I have not seen a single camera produced by a major player that uses one of the other player's sensors. They'd be insane to sell that advantage as a commodity part. In that environment, it makes a lot of sense for Panasonic and Olympus to push the development of their own supply of sensors.

As for whether there is nothing worthwhile in their smaller sensors, well, time will tell. Today, there is no MFT-competitor (Sony, Samsung) lens with Aperture below F2.8. That's pretty half-hearted competition.
This isn't exactly an answer to your question, since you asked for just one
programming language, but there is a book coming out soon (pub date listed
in Amazon is Nov 10th) entitled "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A
Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages". It's written by
Bruce Tate (author of books on Ruby, Rails, Java, etc), and published by
Pragmatic Programmers.

The book covers Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure and Haskell, spending
presumably, a week on each. According to the book description, "you'll
explore the most critical programming models of our time". This would seem
to be a good way to learn about a lot of different programming languages,
in a relatively short amount of time. Of course, if what you want is something
that will be immediately useful on your resume, this may not be of interest
to you right now.
Sounds cool! Or ask them to buy you a domain name and get a website going :P
IMHO, the killer technology for smartphone keyboards would be touch screens that can get textured programmatically. For example, whenever the OS displays the keyboard, the screen would instantly create a slight bevel over each keys. I guess we're a few years away from seeing this though.

Edit: seems like there are already some research in that direction (http://www.technologyreview.fr/computing/26506/page1/)
I wholeheartedly agree on this. I believe that the statistics cited in every tobacco study is exaggerated beyond belief because the criteria used is not transparent. What is the criteria for "secondhand smoke exposure"? With many other scientific studies being tampered to show favored results, why not these tobacco studies?

I believe these studies are tampered and the primary beneficiary are the insurance companies because if they can classify an insuree as a smoker, they can claim that the individual is negligent of their own health and therefore the policy is null and void.

If they want to run studies this way, I suggest we review the effects of alcohol on the individual and the psychology of the family that surrounds the individual.
I am thrilled by something new emerging - http://bitcoin.org

If you like emerging technologies - check it out!
What spin do you refer to? Shouldn't society be able to benefit from a novel cell line, regardless of the origin? If it were you or me, wouldn't we gladly donate the knowledge and utility of our cells if they can serve mankind? So what if we are not reimbursed or attributed? That's a minor misfortune that pales in contrast to the ultimate societal impact.

Haven't several things been done for her family retroactively? If not, then we should honor them/her because we can.

Lastly in respect to her cell line, I do object to all the patents that have been made in relation. All of this should be public knowledge.
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What the fuck has Obama done so far?
Your last line was going to be my reply to the questions in your first paragraph, so I think we're mostly in agreement.
Show me a real currency backed by something (Sorry, "faith" in the government doesn't count), and we can talk about progression on the GDP front.

How about the fraction of disposable personal income spent on food?

http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/cpifoodandexpenditures/data...

From 1929 to the present that has dropped from 23.4% to 9.5%. This despite what other evidence suggests is a considerable increase in the quantity and overall quality of said food. For instance today we eat far more meat per capita than people did 80 years ago, and meat is rather expensive.
BTW, you always can accept PayPal and never deposit it to your bank account. Instead spend it for purchases on ebay, hosting or domain name.
Clay Shirky has perfected the art of the bold, meaningless epigram.
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This AI isn't intended to play the game however; by analogy with chess, this is intended to determine the best opening to use, when you have no knowledge of your opponent's moves. Hence min-max trees make no sense (since there are no "turns"), and we can't use precalculated moves, since those are what we're trying to figure out.
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Tomorrow is the big day, where some fortunate applicants find out they have been given perhaps the opportunity of a life time to build their company with some of the smartest and well connected people in the valley.

Let's live chat about our anxiety, questions, and fears for tomorrow. Have you gotten any questions
from staffers on your application?

Look forward to seeing everybody there.

http://www.nodejscloud.com:8001

If your looking to spam, troll, prove you can break the chat, please don't bother. I will just add you to iptables deny, and it hurts everybody trying to talk with other applicants. Thanks.
For which there are perfectly adequate alternatives that do not involve Microsoft -- e.g. Google Apps.
This was a very interesting read in that it gives a solid example on how designing a system can be outperformed by a natural selection approach. Us humans are inclined to design things and it is very easy to dismiss a random trial and error approach to achieve best results.
There's a few of these kicking around.

The next stage I'd love to see is a timeline animation, where time passes and various vertices appear/disappear around the graph. :)
My dream is to one day create my own startup (possibly right out of college)

Be careful with who you say this to. Although this probably won't be a problem with an internship, an employer may be reluctant to consider someone who demonstrates a lack of commitment.

I was told of a student who said to one of his interviewers at Electronic Arts that he "wanted to be the next Jenova Chen." (Jenova Chen left EA to found thatgamecompany.) Needless to say, the interviewer was not amused.
I guess that does seem a backwards to me, probably because I don't type all that much on my iPod touch. My inclination has been to wish there was an option for the autocorrection to be a little less auto, offering a suggestion but assuming I meant what I typed and requiring me to explicitly accept the correction. If I did more text entry on the device, though, I could see myself coming around on the matter.
When I viewed a post of mine on HN earlier today with my Prē, the — was replaced with the typical gibberish instead.
why not give discounts to all startups that fit some criteria, not just the lucky ones that are part of yc and most likely funded anyway.
I have A/B tested this. GC + Paypal outperforms either individually for my site.
Yeah, who knows what the Dept of the Interior does anyways? If I can't explain it in 2 witty sentences, there's no way it's important.
How so? In the sense that the smoker is all messed up in the hospital bringing pain to his relatives, sure.

But I don't think people sell their mom's furniture to buy marlboro, and haven't seen moms chaining their kids to their beds to stop them from going out smoking.
Anecdotally (from a government scientist), when hiring individuals for gov't work, if you know a good candidate, you write the job description for the candidate. This is because all hires (to avoid nepotism) go through a central office, which works with a checklist of qualifications from the job description.

It could be that when writing a RFQ that there is a similar method: one decides first what product/team you want, then write the RFQ to match that product/team. Not that that excuses the gov't just that it's a standard way to game the system.
1. Site seems a bit slow.

2. "Meet the ladies" - I would expect to see some pictures. Graphs? That isn't cutting it.

3. I would expect to see some sample Q&A. You don't demonstrate any value, so I'm not compelled to sign up.
Wow. That is the most mean-spirited thing I've read about a new startup in a long time. I also bet it turns out spectacularly wrong and deserves to be preserved in a glass case somewhere.

Come to think of it, someone should collect the worst comments like this for posterity. It would help immunize new founders to see how the predictive value of these things is zero.
Sorry can't reply to your post for some reason.

I'm not american but have multiple copies of my own country's passport. I keep one 'clean' by not using it when I visit terrorist countries - ie cuba and anywhere that uses squiggly writing - and enter america on that one.

In the 70s and 80s it was trickier. If you had an Isreali entry stamp you couldn't go to any arabic country. I was even refused entry to Egypt once because some Egyptian immigration moron (they aren't all American) thought my Nepali trekking permit was Hebrew.

Similalry if you had a S African stamp you couldn't visit most african countries or anywhere describing itself as the 'democratic republic of'

South america was in theory tricky since every little tin pot dictator was always against every other little tin pot dictator but in practice their immigration was never organised enough to stop you
Having trouble getting in... Im using chrome. I would love to join in on the conversation!
Humm, working for me. Make sure you put the port, so:

http://www.nodejscloud.com:8001
Yes.

The Khan Academy is a prime example of how to use technology well for learning, particularly in instances where there is a "right" answer (such as math, at least how it's taught now).

The danger from this is that the interactivity is lost; I can assign the questions from the end of a chapter in a textbook (which requires no more original work on my part than assigning questions in a digital textbook), but if things are checked by computers then they're likely things that are easily checked.

When I taught, I used those "objective" questions as launchpads, Bloom's Taxonomy-style (one cannot understand "Romeo and Juliet", for example, if one thinks that they lived happily ever after).

A combination between this and some type of small-group/1-on-1 interaction (and even some larger discussion groups) could be extremely powerful.

Given how much curriculum feels like a list of checkboxes to be ticked off (and in many cases, given how it is a list of checkboxes to be ticked off), computerizing the brute, low-level stuff would allow more time for the high-level stuff, particularly if all we're concerned about is rote memorization and recitation.

There are more ways to branch out from there that foster critical thinking and creativity, but this would be a start. This would be a very definite start.
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This looks really exciting, but I believe we are not ready yet
Seems a bit off-topic, combatively presented, and oversimplified. Then again, I guess attention doesn't garner itself.
I've been looking for material about Eurisko. Other than this championship, there appears to be no credible documentation of any of Eurisko's reported achievements.

It might be super-duper, but the fact that he wouldn't let anyone else use it, and that those amazing feats have not been reproduced by others despite huge advances - might just mean that there's more myth to truth in the stories about Eurisko.
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I'm not familiar with that package, but there have been several openbsd-misc threads about running on nothing but a CF card, particularly on constrained platforms like Soekris boards. That's probably a good starting point.

I haven't put OpenBSD on a real "embedded" system, but I've installed it on stripped-down, ancient attic hardware over null modems. I don't doubt that it would scale down even further. It makes an incredibly dependable firewall.
It worked fine for me?
I got it...it was glitchy connection. Thanks although it looks like after 25 members joined the chat it just broke down
and voted for the patriot act, and laughed at the prospect of legalizing marijuana, and continued a war of imperialism, and went on the daily show.
He has one comment and this one submission. No point in deleting the account.
Oh, I dunno. Remember that repeat letters with QWERTY are distance-less, while with 8pen they always cost the same (just look at how to type "pizza", as they have it at the end. Even assuming best-case, that's hugely more costly with 8pen).

There are also few advantages / disadvantages with letter combinations, and I'd bet most QWERTY words average close to 1/2 the keyboard-size travel between letters or less. That's slightly less than 1/2 the narrow width of the screen, in straight lines. A single, near-center gesture seems it would exceed that pretty quickly, especially as people are likely to be much sloppier than staying near the center.
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Why is the text inside the document hard to index? Isn't that what Lucene/Solr is for? Not sure what you mean...
Can anyone clarify exactly why a backgrounded application would become suspended? Obviously, it's supposed to occur when the OS becomes low on memory, but does the App's icon actually leave the -- for lack of a better name -- double-tap-dock area?

I've never seen that happen, and nearly every app in my full Springboard is also in the double-tap app switcher.
When bio-engineered replacement organs become viable, I wonder what proportion of the market will be based on hedonism.
The switcher is merely a list of recently run applications, not a list of backgrounded applications, which some people have been mistaking it for.
Apple has the highest SueRank of all these companies
I put like 3 months of cpu time into generating coins, while the difficulty raised an order of magnitude and the value has gone up a couple orders of magnitude.
For better or worse, the US government has a lot easier time dealing with a central point of control and owner's of products are their institutional experience. Also, I gotta wonder how a change that was not popular would work if made by one of the distribution companies.
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(I'm a big fan of Buzz, and I loved FriendFeed enough to build a very similar service a couple of years ago)

One of the problems with Buzz and similar apps is that they don't allow people/celebrities/marketers a way to control the view of the conversation like twitter does.

In Buzz (and blog comments, Facebook, FriendFeed, HN and just about any other service invented) the comment thread is attached to an original anchor post. That seems like a feature from the usability point of view - or at least I always assumed it was a feature.

BUT, it turns out that if you are famous you don't want random people's names and comments attached to your own.

On Twitter, Oprah can say something and no one else sees the millions of people who doubtlessly beg her for giveaways. Government departments can tweet and not have to deal with the politics of approving/disapproving comments on their posts, etc etc.

Buzz etc promote interaction, but it turns out the the grief associated with interaction simply isn't worth it after a certain point.

I'd note that almost all the Twitter leadership group use it continuously. OTOH, while there are assorted (great) Google developers and PMs using Buzz I haven't seen any senior leadership using it - let along interacting on it (OTOH, most of the FriendFeed leadership did use it - maybe that's what kept it going).

I'd also note that this problem applies to Facebook, too. I think that in many cases Facebook pages are run by professional marketing people, so that pushes back the critical level of grief somewhat

I'd love if there was a better explanation for this. If this theory is true then I'm not sure what Google can do to fix Buzz - attaching a broadcast-only mode would be a difficult change to make.
> to see how the predictive value of these things is zero

Just because the response was blunt doesn't mean it wasn't well-founded. I would actually -love- to hear the dirty internals of Hipmunk, the best you'll get out of Techcrunch is a sugar-coated hype story detailing how nice their house is.
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Thanks for your input and sorry the site has been down part of the evening. I have no access to the web server right now but it will be back up tomorrow.
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Test ! Test ! Test!
In your copy & image, a minute variation can drastically change the result. Play around.

Really no other way than testing stuff out.
Screw over Indian land management, but I gotta like their fish and wildlife guys and gals. (really hoping you were being sarcastic)
Trust me, Chris, there's no quota ;)
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Take a look at iDitDahText: http://iditdahtext.com/iDitDahText.html

I used this for input when I had an iPhone and it worked surprisingly well. There's also a similar android input method but not quite as well executed as this one.
I'm going to disagree with the people on this thread and vote for Plantir.

It is cool to say that Facebook is doing 'world-changing' and 'revolutionary' things -- while I believe such is true on some levels and that we can't ignore what it is -- but a company like Plantir has a much better opportunity to do things that are simply mind-boggling.

Finance and the Government are not popular things, especially amongst the hacker crowds, but the US Government is capable of doing incredible things. The power wielded by the State is huge, and directly affects hundreds of millions of people a day. Facebook may have become a staple in some peoples lives but they [as a company] are not responsible for keeping citizens safe, regulating commerce, building infrastructure, waging war or brokering peace.

Facebook is a company that finds better ways to serve up advertising. That's not all they do, but that's how they make money.

Plantir is in a unique position to change an increasingly inefficient/ineffective system. US politics suck right now. We can all agree on that. But a company like Plantir operates on a different level than the fork-tongued politicians.

You say: network with people in the startup industry and create my own startup which tells me (and I might be wrong, please correct if so) that you enjoy the idea of disrupting the status quo. What better place to do this than Big Government and Big Business/Finance? This might seem backwards but as these institutions crumble at their seams there is no better place to be.
Global 2-child policy + colonize space. When people like Einstein can continue building on their knowledge and understanding for ~1000 years instead of ~60, I imagine we'd develop the science and technology required to colonize space at faster rate.