skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If pupils really will widen when you look at someone you love, then that's a cool idea for mobile app "Love detector".
This is just craziness, you can't blame a kid for murder for an ACCIDENT riding their bike.
You are already getting distracted by reading the post, no harm done I guess.
The fact that this blog hasn't received any Flattrs in 10000 pageviews doesn't mean that Flattr does not work for other types of content.

I have used Flattr for a while on http://freeciv.net and have received over 200 flattrs recently.
Force users to give a reasons when voting.

This would allow two things. First, users can downvote for specific reasons - mean spirited/dumb/insulting/off-topic. If a comment is technically correct, but unnecessarily mean, then I can its disposition.

Secondly, it would provide feedback to the commenter. If my 'me too!' comments are being downvoted, it'd be great to have some reason why.
Ask HN: Is there a NaNoWriMo equivalent for programming/apps?
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) kicks off tomorrow, and I was just wondering if anyone knows of something similar for coding/apps. I know there are tons of short "hack-a-thons", usually for a specific tech (i.e. the node.js one) or to solve a particular problem. Does anyone know of any longer and/or more general coding events? Or even some annual short but fun ones?
Facebook?
What about Youtube then?
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=715&#...

Reality is Yahoo wasn't going to make revenue after time, FB and YT probably will.
67-69 Camaro is an iconic car...the 70-81 models...not so much

i get it why you are doing it, but those "defaced" new cars raise plenty of money too.
A bunch of us are informally trying to get something written in November. I'm mentally committed to launching Appointment Reminder at the end of the month, by hook or by crook.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398
So you are suggesting that people who want to make movies should create a trailer as a MVP? interesting concept.
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Facebook hires Drop.io’s Sam Lessin, calls it an acquisition
Or you could just pay these two dudes to build ladders that have worked for 100 years.
It would be interesting to find out how many users they're getting from their semi recently launched API (http://stackapps.com). I know my iPhone Stack Exchange client http://sixtoeightapp.com has over a thousand downloads, and won't be counted by Quantcast. Whilst it's more of a complementary access point, other apps on Stack Apps might suffice as the sole access point for passive users (i.e. those who just want answers, as the API is read only currently).
Running The World: The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (1990)
Finding a technical co-founder has been surprisingly difficult as I've worked through my network of college buddies. The project is risky and I think my buddies who are also trying to establish their careers are more tentative than I thought they would be about this.

The people who like this project the most are the industry contacts I've pitched to. Essentially I've got three believers in my product: the IP lawyer I consulted with in fall of '09 when this whole thing started, the former coworker who is also a "guerrilla-style" marketer/graphic designer/photographer, and my current coder who I've contracted to do $2K of work to build the alpha prototype.

As far as investors go, I think the recession of '08 shook people's perceptions of Wall St. and made it easier for startups to argue for funding from individuals. I make the case of, "Hey, you lost how much in your mutual fund? This product is a high risk to be sure but the potential return for a small amount of cash is astronomical." I never say those words exactly of course but that's a theme of my financial argument to investors.

Its very very cheap to start a web company and I'm trying to run it that way.

As far as my status of being a nontech guy without money, that's true to a certain extent because I have no formal training. I have been working a lot on developing the marketing and product design end of things. Graphic design has been a hobby of mine for a long time so I've been doing all the initial UI design. I guess that's my "sweat" contribution to the thing so far.

There's always talk of "value" with startups. I would argue my "value" to my startup is in the fundraising, conceptual development, and UI design end of things. I communicate well with investors, I'm comfortable speaking to people because of my teaching experience, I know the difference between selling and educating (thanks to two failed attempts in sales) but I can do both if necessary. I also have talent in graphic design and can create meaningful mockups to guide coding development. People pay for those two functions in the industry. A lot of R&D money goes into developing ideas (Google Wave anyone?) so the conceptual work I've been doing is also not without value.

The only difference is that I don't have formal training so it takes me longer to develop these things to industry standard formats because I don't know what developers need to create a quality product. I'm learning though.
Most people already know what a coop is. You have to sell them on what your co op sells, and the value you would be able to deliver.
This one does however I gather violate the "no access to 'learning how to blow up the world'" or at least yourself requirement.

The OP didn't express a concern about that. That was my general rule of thumb, which was rooted in the fact that (as I understand it) specific knowledge about how to create thermonuclear weapons is classified, controlled info and simply expressing zealous interest in trying to acquire it can potentially get one in trouble with the government. Also, I pulled my kids out of school in part to avoid being the next Columbine: My oldest was fantasizing about running over the school with a tank and his father had the keys to a military motor pool. I'm not sure if it contained any tanks but I am sure it contained Bradley fighting vehicles. Most civilians seem unable to tell them apart and I'm sure an angry adolescent would not have quibbled about the difference while taking it on a joyride through the school building.

My sons know quite a lot more than the average person about military tactics and weapons. It wasn't a real restrictive rule. The question of "how to blow up oneself" never came up. I had no reason to believe my sons were suicidal, just potentially homicidally angry about some of their school experiences.
Thanks for the tip. Too bad the iPad doesn't seem to let you open up a keyboard window if there aren't any text inputs on the page. I'll have to check it out later from a more fully featured computer.
I wonder how much this decision was based on the troubles Adobe themselves have had. Conceivably, Microsoft didn't want to get into an all-out war with Apple's iPhone/iPad platform, like Flash did, and find out they'd lost. Silverlight is certainly in a worse position to fight Apple than Flash was.
Building a List of Must Read Quora Threads for Startups & Entrepreneurs
Ok all, we're going to settle this once and for all. I'll work with my prof (behavioral economics) tomorrow to set up a risk profile questionnaire (like an advanced Ask HN) and we'll know by Tuesday how well this claim holds up, empirically. (edit: unless we're comfortable making claims about risk preference WITHOUT data...)

edit 2: these are specialized, refined tests that construct risk preference from a number of decisions from hypothetical situations. Assessing risk preference is not a simple manner of direct question (ex: "Hi, are you risk tolerant or risk averse?") or introspection.
The article says that Facebook is shutting down drop.io and hiring the founder. The terms aren't revealed but I find this very odd since drop.io has raised nearly $8 mil so far. Anyone have any additional info?
Actually, the ridiculous thing about the Acela, is that in some cases, it's both cheaper and faster to take a plane. Faster, sure; but cheaper? If I've justified the price of the Acela, why wouldn't I want to take a plane, especially if it's faster.
I think I'm a pretty nice guy, but I've written some mean comments when I strongly disagreed with someone here. Imagine most of the mean comments here are coming from nice people who would rather (if they thought about it for a second) not respond in a negative way in those types of situations.
Aren't you afraid customs will intercept and you'll be tossed in jail and labeled a drug offender?
Though let's also be clear that piracy was often a legal activity by the pirates' home country, and that the offcial navy was engaging in the same activity - but they needed more help from mercenaries: the pirates.

Is Iraq with our Army and Blackwater mercs really any different?
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You're assuming that users:

a) Haven't heard sufficient word of mouth buzz about the application such that they question why it performs so poorly for them. b) That this word of mouth doesn't cause them to seek out the source of the problem - i.e. the old age of their browser. c) that they don't look forward to using a platform that allows them to enjoy the application when they are blocked from upgrading at work/school etc, d) that it is not possible to infer the increased value of upgrading from observing the experiences of those who have, and e) given all of the above, still decide that your app is of no value to them.

That is to say, if you assume a) through d) then you assume your app is of little value and you shouldn't be building it.
Turkey lifts YouTube ban
While I would agree that it seems pretty insane, but I don't think they are being blamed for murder, it seems they here are being sued for medical bills.

Of course, the article doesn't say that she died of injures resulting from the accident, maybe something unrelated happened.
Also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847746

I said there:

There's never such a thing as a coincidence, everything that happens is ordained and brought about by mystic forces.

There's never such a thing as an accident, someone always needs to be at fault and punished.

Some people tut, sigh, and shake their heads, but it seems inevitable that people will try to assign blame and receive reparations for what in earlier times would have been called accidents. Insurance companies get away with clauses about "Force Majeure," but they have money to make sure the law-makers listen to them.
On demand (in the cloud) option is IMO nicer for startup teams.
…but if we remove downvotes, they will just stay at 1 instead of getting downvoted. Later they will still be able to shoot up. They will only get flagged if they are actively in the wrong spirit of the community. (spam, abuse, etc..)

The concept of "down" is conflated in people's minds in a way "up" isn't. It is used by people to mean either "I disagree" or "totally inappropriate". The first is not supposed to affect karma but the second is. If you simply replace "down" with "flag" it changes how people think about it.

As for accidental up-voting, moving the links so that there is separation would fix that.
Apple wants a cross-licensing deal. Motorola obviously has dozens of patents Apple needs to build iPhones.
Roger Ebert: Why I Loathe 'Top Ten' Film Lists
1337 != actual elite.
I don't think it's just a quality concern. The video mentions a 15-year "maturation period" for the wood to acclimate to the humidity in San Francisco. If that's a requirement, I doubt there's much of a market (and space) for manufacturing to take place out in the city itself.

Maybe wood used for wine barrels? Doesn't seem like much of a market.
Well it's about as much difference between a texan, a new yorker and a californian.
to add some more diversity: i settled on using jEdit.org on mac, linux, windows. it runs pretty much on anything that has Java (like irix).
Nice plugin system, solid file/folder handling. Give it a try.
I would argue that if there is a way to get a comment on the board at all, those who want to continue arguing will post those comments.

Also, if you can edit your comments, you're opening the door for twisted threads where replies are in one block per person with "@person timestamp," although that's easily fixed by only allowing editing for a short while.
"I have no difficulties seeing authenticity in what I do vs. the pill-popping programming regimen"

Yeah, that's how cognitive dissonance works. Please articulate where the 'authenticity' line is. Plenty of people 'feel' the way you do, but I have yet to meet a single one who can rationally explain their 'feeling'.
Oh, cool! Although a different month would have been nice for those of us who are also trying to write a novel :).
I would say that many do not know the flag options exists, because you first have to click the comment's link, and then click flag. If more people knew about the flag button, and if more people remembered to use it, then I think these threads would disappear more quickly.
You can't down vote old comments, so there history is safe.
It's a tricky question and there are far more practical things to know than current affairs, e.g. customs and taboos, language, currency etc.

For example, I've met people (American and others) who weren't aware that the UK hasn't switched to the euro. I once pointed this out to two surprised Americans on a flight to London - when you are a few hours from landing this is more useful than knowing the prime minister's name!

Beyond knowledge and ignorance (there are certainly ignorant Brits too) there may be a difference in attitude which sometimes comes across as ignorance. I'm relocating from London to NYC in just over a week so it will be interesting to experience the differences, I've heard that despite being quite cosmopolitan NYC is generally a little more inward looking.
Would you mind taking a look at my Project and sharing your feedback?
I was glad to see that these new locomotives include regenerative braking to put power back into the grid. Is that a new feature for these routes or did the electric locomotives that are being replaced also include this feature?
When Apple follows standards they are a few steps ahead, and when they sidetrack them in favour of an non-standardized tech they are still thinking a few steps ahead?

Am I the only one who thinks Apple is treated slightly differently when it comes to...anything?

I'm not pro-anything, but sitting on the sidelines, it seems as though Apple is always right regardless of what they do, how they do it, or reasoning behind the decisions.
Elmore Leonard's 10 rules also worth a read: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/16/arts/writers-writing-easy-...
Try out http://gobolinux.org/

-- MV
For every one mean-sprited comment, there are probably at least five comments that are just plain wrong about something. Are mean-spirited comments really that big of a problem compared with, say, commenters critiquing the methodology of academic papers they haven't read?

edit: Jon Stewart is generally quite mean spirited, in that he goes out of his way to get people fired and treats people he disagrees with like little kids, but if he were an HN contributor would he really make the community worse?
As someone who was a "bad" user (under another username); posting rather useless, short, unsighted comments and submissions; I think the best way is to "educate people".

This is not only a HN culture, it's a civilian culture. Limit the freedom of newbies until they are more mature. When you are committed to the community, you become more responsible and work toward creating a name/friends. When you are new, you pretty much don't care.
Don't allow downvote without a comment. Maybe use a different color font for username who downvoted.
Ask HN: Web application (primarily image based) hosting - S3?
Hi,

I'm looking to deploy my startup on a scalable solution and was hoping you experienced folks at HN could give me a few wise words and tips. The start up is effectively an image editing service which will allow users to host the edited images for use wherever. I anticipate about 1 MB storage per edited image including all overheads. I intend to take a freemium approach with a free service for up to X images edited/hosted and a charge beyond that. I will possibly consider in-image advertising on the free images as a source of revenue. The problem is, I have totally no sense of scale for anticipated take up, although doing a few quick calculations for a worst case scenario (no paid subscribers) shows a significant cost per user that can potentially skyrocket in terms of Bandwidth where one simply cannot anticipate demand. How do I deal with this? Do I start off in a private beta on a simple shared/virtual server and then consider dedicated/S3/others? Also, possibly dodgy, but what about considering free image hosting solutions out there for free users on the freemium approach - I realise this is a huge liability - but just thinking about it the porn industry is probably a pretty good paradigm. I have read through the other discussions on HN on AWS/S3/Smugmug etc but they are outdated if I'm not mistaken. Any advice much appreciated, thanks!
I upload to YouTube and make it so only people that have the URL can access the videos, meaning they don't show up in search results. You can also make the videos private so you have to specify who can view them (25 max). Not exactly what you seem to be looking for, but it's an idea
The reason Apple has stayed with C2D on the 13"ers is because Intel has disallowed manufacturers from using any integrated graphics chipset other than Intel HD Graphics, which is very poor compared to Nvidia and ATI's chipsets. Since the 13" is too small to support a discrete graphics card, they have to stick with a C2D and an Nvidia 320M.
good question. there are reports of recipients taking on personality traits from their organ donors after the transplant. in this case, there would be cause to be attached to one's own original organ as the one from the donor might "change" you (somehow).

if the new organ was "seeded" from your own dna / cells though, then there should be no need to get attached to the original organ as the new organ will be 100% yours too. (well in theory)
Revenue is being made by the company that is selling the ads. The issue is if the CTR's aren't high enough or the ROI on the media isn't coming through to the advertising businesses, they will pull out and go elsewhere.

This is great because all it costs to sell the media is the sales guy salary, any commission he makes off the media sale, and if you're good any in-house media guys that create the banners/ads etc. The more traffic you bring, the more "inventory" you can sell.

Selling advertising and media is very profitable. Most internet companies make their money through advertising if their product is free. Only companies that sell actual things like EBay or Amazon make legitimate sales of real goods.

The trick is to keep the faith in your advertising platform. Yahoo, Google, Facebook ... companies advertise with them because they know eyes go there. What the product is determines the audience it brings, which will determine who your advertising clients are.

The more qualified the audience is, the more impactful the advertising is, especially if they know enough about you to target the correct ad (most advertising-revenue based companies will collect some form of data about their users for this - this is nothing new).

The loophole in the OP's logic is that people invest in the internet due to revenue growth of Yahoo. If Yahoo was the reason the investment was made, and all that money went back into Yahoo - yes there could be a false feedback loop. But as long as the advertising that is sold on Yahoo is somehow benefitting the advertising company, there is a sustainable model.

Only if they sell a bunch of advertising that later turns out to be useless will you have a pot of hot water to climb out of.

Edit: Impaction is definitely not a word.
Reasons: "The difference between the two societies is that in the society which performs poorly:

a) the stupid members of the society are allowed by the other members to become more active and take more actions; b) there is a change in the composition of the non-stupid section with a relative decline of populations of areas I, H1 and B1 and a proportionate increase of populations H2 and B2."

http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/basiclawsofhumanstupidit...

Solutions:
"1.) If you were going to build a piece of social software to support large and long-lived groups, what would you design for? The first thing you would design for is handles the user can invest in.
2.) Second, you have to design a way for there to be members in good standing. Have to design some way in which good works get recognized. The minimal way is, posts appear with identity. You can do more sophisticated things like having formal karma or "member since."
3.) Three, you need barriers to participation. This is one of the things that killed Usenet. You have to have some cost to either join or participate, if not at the lowest level, then at higher levels. There needs to be some kind of segmentation of capabilities.
4.) And, finally, you have to find a way to spare the group from scale."

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
This is a better reference: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/facebook-makes-money-.... According to this article, I'm also pretty sure they're profitable (but maybe not "hella profitable").
I checked out ThemeForest and Digitalpoint, the former means you have to sell 100 copies to actually make something, and the latter won't pay more than $500 for anything.
Designing Web Apps - Lessons from Ryan Singer
Not sure about that (planes being radio-sealed). Planes are getting more and more composite materials to save weight. One of the key features of the 787 is the composite fuselage that I am not sure will effectively block GPS signals. Also, many cargo planes are remissioned or dual-use passenger planes that still have windows:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/XMBDcG2dmr-Z1QoGBdXu2g

If all else fails, some phones are coming with gyroscopes...
Ask HN: Please help me test.
I am participating in the HN November launch pad and launching LocalStrange.com

I need help testing the video chat. You will need 2 people. Go to www.LocalStrange.com and enter a nick name then click the ">" button.

Zoom out to see more people. You are the red marker and other people are green markers. Click the green marker to start a chat (Note: its stupid right now so please on click once). If it does not work for you please post OS / Browser & Ver

--thx
> the terrorists could have done much better with just a bomb on a street corner.

Not sure. Do you know how much money would it cost to replace the plane and shut down the airport until officials make sure that was the only bomb?

Besides that, the loss of signal could start a countdown.
Best Posts I Have Read This September, 2010
Chrome / OSX / Latest Version - Works
It seems to work reasonably well* on my small blog :) anecdote, data etc.

*With reasonably well I mean I make about break even, which is good enough for me.
It's interesting to me that there are so many programs dedicated specifically to girls.

My issue growing up and being a huge science/math/history geek wasn't that I didn't have access to these things as a girl, but that the clubs and groups didn't seem that open to girls and the boys in them certainly weren't.

I organize tech groups and barcamps in Milwaukee and, being the only female organizer, I'm frequently asked what I do to promote more activity and involvement from women. It's interesting to me because the community puts it on the minority to make the minority comfortable when it's the exact opposite that needs to happen. Women/girls aren't attending events or clubs because they aren't populated with other women, but because they feel they are singled out for being women instead of being science geeks like everyone else there.