skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Red Bull is not "high caffeine." The active ingredient in Red Bull is taurine. The study was on caffeine but yet they didn't isolate the drug in question. The margin of error for this experiment is at least 1/√(80) or 11%.

This is science?
Looks good, though I wish they were a bit more original than nicking Apple's "S" suffix. The 3GS, while being a soft consonant, was dissimilar enough that it worked. Nex-us -ess. Blegh.

Anybody know the RAM spec?
Agreed, I love the taste as well. It doesn't work as well as 5 hour energy.
I have over 3000 domains on GoDaddy and I've never had an issue with them taking a domain and putting ads on it before it expired.
Thanks HN, I'm changing my life (In London?)
"I always spend too much time on HN instead of hacking"
Does this sound like you?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking aswell until two weeks ago.

I don't write or share much here on HN but I read a lot and found that a lot of you (not just the "big names") have very cool ideas to share which made me grow both as an entrepreneur and as an individual.

--

Less then 2 weeks ago I read a couple of posts by Ryan Waggoner about habits ( http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/07/more-on-habits/ ).
I just can't say enough about how much habits are powerful now that I tried them.

I ordered the book, started reading it but more important started my own habits.

It's only been 9 days but I haven't missed one and because one of my habit was "write a page of my book or a blog post each day" I wrote a post that got me a contact for a big client (45+ MIL euro yearly revenue, my usual clients are under 5 MIL revenue) that wants a web marketing project.

Also, the book is finally getting written, after 6 months of procrastination.

--

Some months ago I casually contacted Sebastian Marshall (www.sebastianmarshall.com one day to ask something about a game (Civilization IV), he was really kind and we started talking about various entreprenurial things.
I admit I'm pretty envious of his nomadic lifestyle… I don't see my self in Italy for too much time (no startup scene, lot more things...)

A bit of background about me:

I started reading HN at 20 while I was still in university and I really wanted to build a startup.
I finished uni and instead funded a now 4-person web agency here in northern Italy.
1 year after, at 22, I have more money then I wish and can focus on doing things that are challenging and fun rather than making money.
But I wasn't really happy… the agency has a lot of small clients and it's not always fun anymore - I can't do big web marketing campaigns because of limited clients budget and mindsets.

I've always wanted to work/start a startup but since I own a company I always tought I was stuck here…
But I now realized that since it doesn't take me much to manage current projects without taking new ones I can't go to the USA for sure but I can stay abroad in Europe for 2-3 weeks each month since traveling is pretty convenient from Milan.
Heck, I can even sell the company in this time and move to full time startupping later!

I'm not sure how I realized this, I probably already knew but had fear of just going out and try

--

Now here I am, going to London tomorrow morning to attend Devnest and the Opencoffee. I will be looking for something to do part-time there (2 to 3 weeks a month as I said), either work in a or start a startup.

and most important: I'm happy.
Thank you all!

Bottom line: Don't worry, Life is beautiful and HN Rocks!

If this somehow inspired you and want to connect feel free to message me, @paolomaffei or paolo-at-paolomaffei-dot-it
And once again non-Americans are left out sigh

I can't help laughing when they even write about how incredibly open they are.

And what, even the video is private ?
I'm guessing it's just location blocked. .. but why??
I don't use it myself. I use olive oil if needed. Some people recommend using a thinner oil, but I like this and it works for me.

I also don't use conditioner. Never seen the point. My hair is just fine. I've gone without shampoo too, and just whatever soap I use.
thanks! seems to work when requested directly, but not integrated / within HTML / jquery etc.
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It’s not always easy to be a model. Aside from wearing cool outfits, they walk in extremely high heels on the catwalk.
It's not 'inexcusable' to decide that it's better business to honor a request not to host wikileaks than it is to continue hosting it.

When I bought my AMZN I was buying a business, not a political lobbying organization. I'd view it as inexcusable if their management ignored their duties to me, so they could take some very controversial stand that would be likely to shave a few points off their revenues.
I remember discussing gestures and NFC back at Motorolas conference the day the iPhone 2g launched in the UK and back then all of us thought NFC would happen in the next 12 months! Glad to see its finally arriving, though this patent is going to prove interesting http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2010/12/03/35337...
The only thing standing between you and ideas is your own conscious mind. So you need to find a way to make it go away. Try doodling. A lot. Let your mind go and ideas will flow. Running, bicycling or skipping ropes - it could be any activity. You'll know which one works with you only when you try.

Ideas are often born via cross-pollination. Do stuff and read books, beyond your narrow field of expertise.

Internet/libraries are full of books about idea, creativity & thinking. You'll have to do several iterations to find a routine that works for you.
Same for me
The number of people who want to pay directly for something is far smaller than the number of people willing to view an advert. With advertising, you get more visitors, you get more revenue. And the number of visitors available is billions.

So with advertising, you can get 10x the traffic, and not need any more resources. It's truly scalable. With a 'paid for' offering, you're more likely to need to scale up customer support, handling charge backs payment issues refunds etc etc.

My comment about 'fun' was more about the overhead and pain required in managing premium payments. Cancelations, mess ups, people wanting refunds, credit card issues, etc. That's not fun (IMHO).

I've always found making money from advertising ridiculously easy compared to trying to charge people.
It means he possibly would have done what they did, not probably.
The Google Nexus S
Changes in Invoices is Directly Proportional to Swift Payments
I have the same problen and tried limiting my shampoo schedule on the suggestion of a friend and gave up after about six months. It didn't work out so well for the manageability of my hair or for its comfort. The best way I've found to manage my curly hair is to keep it short.
Taulia - curing cash constipation in buyer-supplier relationships
True, local doesn't equal quality. I guess the difference was that by going local, I was able to verify the quality of my developer's work by people I trusted rather than from people I didn't know. What's more important, the endorsement of a respected businesses person, designer, or developer that you personally know and respect their work, or the endorsement of a random person that someone lists as a reference? The back end developer that I hired was a speaker at a regional conference, seemed to have the respect of the web community that I was looking to enter (Rails development and MailChimp-esque design and UI,) and had glowing references from web designers and developers that I knew at least as acquaintances. These designers and developers were actually clamoring to use him for freelance stuff before I hired him. If this is the route you want to take, I would suggest networking within your local web design community and go to events.

If you want to go the other route, listen to/watch the podcast on Mixergy.com from Nov. 24 on Beanstalk. That guy used a distributed team across the world to do development for his company. The big difference is that he was already a developer.
You can always install a SIP app, but yes, I'd much rather have access to the integrated client.
I stopped using shaving cream years ago because it occluded my view of my face when I shaved. When I did use it, I always missed a spot and so had this awkward little soul patch somewhere on my face that I had to nail without the cream or else go into work with.
I want to read more into the issue, but all I can think is that if they withdraw their consent, then we should leave immediately.

When who withdraws their consent? The Pakistani people, or the (unelected) Pakistani military officials?
So, Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing Again?
> On the other hand, at this point it seems extremely risky
> to me to host anything that involves potentially-controversial
> content on Amazon, so I don't really see a lot of options there.

Everything that you host is potentially-controversial?
I stopped showering with soap and shampoo in high school after a bout of dry skin. After a transition period of length similar to the author's, I saw the same improvements. Today, I use soap (though not antibacterial) when cooking and whenever I'm covered in something like grease or rosin (hey, it happens) that could use the extra help soap affords. I only use the tiniest bit of shampoo to assist in getting the itchy little hair bits out after a haircut.

While I have personally gained from the benefits of this experiment, I'm not a fan of the rationalizations some use to justify minimalism/naturalism/whatever you'll call it -- the arguments that run along the lines of "we didn't need it years ago, why do we need it today?" As an engineer, I find this wholesale skepticism of technology especially repugnant. Thus, I really appreciate that Sean frames this in terms of experimentation and checking hypotheses--be they self or socially formed. That is cool.
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I have done this a few times over the past 10 years in the most egregious cases. You make a good point and it has been raised to me before.

I did try at least, but Moniker's support site is hideous. It's one of these "read the knowledge base 1001" nonsense sites that try to impede you getting in touch. I did some basic searches for things like "expired" and "pending deletion" with no results from their search engine. And you have to sign up for a whole new account just to use their separate support site..

Separate to that, this does not appear to be a one-off mistake, but a policy. Even if I had the ear of their CEO, I doubt they'd do anything beyond placate me, but this policy could burn a lot of other customers. The more people know about and whine about the policy, the more likely they are to resolve it.

I will concede, however, that I am keen on using my social media skills and connections to highlight things I consider bad. I believe it's the responsibility of the connected few to drive fear of the customer into the hearts of companies in order that they give solid service and that they do not violate their own TOS/contractual obligations. If Moniker had merely double billed me or been rude to me on chat, I wouldn't have written it up. When they take a site down and replace it with spam while I still legally own it against their TOS, that's time to get pissy.
Interesting that FB notified a 'pending' friend (someone who's friend request I have not yet accepted) that I have switched to the new profile. Seems strange...
http://www.google.com/phone/detail/nexus-s

512MB ram, 16GB internal storage
How is that backward? People from large companies do quit to create start-ups, and it usually happen in the same city/circles.
That's what I'd say too. If hiring weren't our bottleneck, a story that made us able to add 1-2 people to every project we ran would be... lucrative. That's what set me off here.

(Our typical project scope is 2 people, 2 weeks; small projects 1x1/1x2, bigger projects tend to add weeks and not people).
What is it with Amazon that makes it possible for them to sell eBooks to anywhere in the world no questions asked?

I hate DRM and I love my B&N nook, but fuck it, I want Amazon to make Kindle app for nook!

Really tired of seeing "not available in your part of the world yet" for the last few years in most eBook stores.
Yeah, I suppose it depends on the type of business. If the business espouses the 37Signals philosophy of not overworking employees, then it can be a good thing. If not, then it could just lead to more work.
Starting a company is a roller-coaster ride like none other.
YCombinator actually has a graph here about this exact
subject (now updated to include MixPanel analytics FAIL!).

I would very much like to see that graph.

Also, did something happen to mixpanel? I thought they were doing well.
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Build counter examples to software marketing rules
Some engineers spent years of their careers studying this problem. How long did it take you to reach the conclusion that it is not viable?
Great to see some one successfully generating income from advertising.
I said serious enemy.
2010 & Hope: Our Stats World changes Quickly, eh
TechCrunch review:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/06/google-nexus-s-review/
No. I don't think Google will be selling the device themselves, like they did with the Nexus One. They will rather rely on external partners.
Or... Steve Jobs disses Flash because they cannot get it right :)
It says there's a 3.5mm headphone jack
Anyone want to help us integrate NFC into our Android app?
FUCKING FINALLY, Audio access from native code. This is going to be awesome.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how is boycotting Amazon taking a stand against the government? It seems to be more about punishing someone else for not taking a stand against the government.
I thought the same, but they updated it
I like my push TV service (i.e. cable) for the following things:

1. sports -- there is no viable alternative at the moment.

2. Sometimes I just want to veg and channel surf (be passively entertained). There is no good way to do this with online services or recorded stuff.

3. Sometimes I need push infotainment because I don't know about the existence of something to actively pursue interest in it. While HN and Reddit (and so on) are rapidly replacing this niche, there are some things they just don't do well, somethings are just more interesting when presented as a video first, rather than as a link (cooking stuff comes to mind...).

That being said, having the TV on in the background is different than "still watch TV", and I agree, it is a bit annoying and sad.
Congrats! It looks great!

A couple nitpick things I noticed which may be helpful:

1. When you go to the pricing page (https://www.appointmentreminder.org/pricing) the top navigation disappears.

2. You probably want the email address in the top right corner to be a clickable link.

Best of luck!
Just a little update. I got a reply from Monte. He's traveling at a ICANN event but his reply was irrelevant to the complaint:

Yes Peter because these are special ccTLD's with
these rules. I suggest you renew prior to this
expiration date that the registry has in place for these
domains.

I have a screenshot of the .io registry's own WHOIS saying the expiration date is December 31, 2010. I'll sort of let Monte off because he's traveling and time might be in short supply but it's still a silly response.
Keep Innovating Google..
1GHz CPU, 512MB RAM...

Kind of sounds like the iPhone 4 (from July) with NFC support and a built-in VOIP client.
Julian Assange Defense Fund (30K EUR) frozen
Android 2.3 Platform officially released
Luckily, no-one's rights are at issue and no-one's going to be forced to do anything.

It's a simple question of whether people want to support a company that acts in ways they don't approve of. A boycott is simply voting with your wallet. There's no rule that it's only right or just to boycott if laws have been broken. I'd be surprised if more than a tiny minority of boycotts were based on corporate behavior that wasn't 100% legal.
"Chrome 8.0.552.215 FireFox 3.6.12"

Thanks. This explains it, neither of these browsers does support WebGL.

"It sounds like you're targeting the next crop of as-yet unreleased browsers for your thing. You might want to note that on the demo somewhere, since pretty much nobody but you will be able to make it work right now without downloading a new browser."

Exactly, you are right. WebGL demos are very much work in progress. They are targeted for browsers which should reach mainstream just sometimes early next year.

There is supposed to be an alert about missing WebGL support, but yes, this could be handled in a nicer way.

Khronos (WebGL standards body) has some plans for handling this "properly". There is a site where should be "official" explanations and instructions how to get WebGL running:

http://get.webgl.org/

Idea is that application developers could then just point users to this. Though as this is not ready yet, people resort to own case-by-case solutions.
Agreed. more than that, though, what you need is a series of very successful exits to create entrepreneurs/early funders with the cash to fund the next generation. We're getting there, in NYC, but the numbers are still tiny compared to the west coast.
I'm writing an https frontend in Go which proxies to App Engine. It increases the bandwidth bill slightly, but means that you can take full advantage of the App Engine APIs. You can see the work in progress here:

https://github.com/tav/ampify/blob/master/src/amp/tentproxy/...

In the next weeks, I'll also be adding optional support for WebSockets which could be linked to a local process for support for custom "comet/long polling" use which App Engine doesn't properly support yet. Email me — tav@espians.com — if you'd like to know more or need any help with the code.
"Audio / headphone jack	3.5mm"
From someone who doesn't know, how are Android apps currently DRMed?
The lack of a physical keyboard rules it out for me
HTC Evo's battey life is dismal? I have a Desire HD (the European equivalent) and I get two days of normal usage. Of course, I never use it normally, as I'm always browsing websites or playing games, but I did when I attempted it.

However, I do imagine that the AMOLED display will not draw as much power, so it might indeed last longer.
If so, that strikes me as difference without distinction.

"I might have done the same thing" and "I'd probably have done the same thing", in practical conversation, end up being sliced at the difference between 49% probability and 51%, right?
I've been trying to cut back on soap/shampoo for a few years now. Currently I shower daily, occasionally twice depending on workout schedule. I have a few natural, non/naturally scented soaps and shampoos which I use sparingly.

The one area where I really have noticed a need for shampoo is my beard and mustache - even when being extremely careful when eating, after a day or two it can start to get grimy. I typically rinse with water as needed and use Bluebeard's Beard Wash about 2x week. I've noticed a huge improvement since using a beard wash.

Love to hear if anyone has other beard advice.
Ah, thanks. I was on the phone's homepage and it wasn't listed.
Why not support the Kindle? Creating books in the Kindle format is easy enough. I don't understand this decision.
How David Garland built a community of 100,000 followers in 24 months
Anyone remember Google Video? Me neither.

Amazon and Apple own the ebook market and Google doesn't even have a tablet. Can you read Google ebooks on a Kindle? So much for read anywhere. Sorry Google but you're late for the party.
Patent application hints at Nokia’s business model for NFC
I agree with _Rahul that ideas are born from cross-polination. I read a lot of business books and blogs, but also read other stuff - novels, science, faith-based, humor, etc. Most of my ideas come from combining something that I've read from a business book/blog with something completely unrelated. Also, something else that helps cross-polinations is traveling to developing countries. Oftentimes, there are so many new experiences, points of view, and ways of doing things there that it opens your mind.

To document my ideas, I just type them in Notes on my iPhone.
Imagine that the Bradley Manning Support Network decided to use my previous startup Qworky ("meetings that don't suck") and that Lieberman or some other politician criticized us for it. What would Amazon do?

For that matter, Qworky's first public usage, early this year, was with the Get FISA Right activist group about strategies to fight the PATRIOT Act. We all know what side Lieberman's on there ...
Given the manufacturing partner is Samsung the "S" may be related to their Galaxy S line.
It may be an OS version issue. I'm not sure what the Droid runs but I am pretty sure apps aren't visible if you can't run them.
Enough wikileaks already.
Sure. The point being that if it were taken away they'd no longer be New Yorkers -- they'd move to somewhere more reasonable for their income. The employment market would adjust.

What would happen if only rich people could afford to live in New York? Gee, I dunno, probably about the same thing that happens when only rich people can afford to live in Beverly Hills.
The product release landing page is here: http://www.google.com/nexus/

Quite a simple/beautiful HTML5 design, IMO.
It sounds more like this: "If Amazon is wrong for refusing service to someone that is hosting potentially-controversial content, then that implies that no hosting company can refuse service to such a person. I.e. that person is 'untouchable.'"

This seems to cross lines with the 'Affirmative Action'-type arguments: that in an effort to 'make up' for past wrong against black people we are making it impossible to refuse X (where X could be employment, etc) to a black person, even if the reason isn't because of their skin color.

{update} I was only attempting to clarify what I thought that the parent poster (gp to this post) was getting at.
Even if that were all that happened, it would still be a more efficient way of avoiding procrastination and sharing knowledge within the team than email and meetings. In my experience, though, the copilot often suggests simpler or less duplicative ways to do things, finds logic bugs rather than just syntax errors, and maintains state in their head that the driver would otherwise have to keep written down. I'm talking about my personal experience here, not how it's supposed to be.
Since I know that many Googlers follow HN, I just want to say:

Thank you. Thank you for ensuring that a clean, root-able, modern phone is available for developers and all those who like to fully own the devices they purchase.
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"Near Field Communications (NFC)"

So the ability to both emulate a contactless smartcard and interrogate passive rfid devices. Pretty damn cool - the ability to open doors/start cars/unlock computers/pay for stuff just with your phone without resorting to bluetooth/wifi hacks or addon hardware. Also opens you up to lots of potential applications for extra information in the real world on things that otherwise don't have barcodes.
MonoTorrent: Writing a profiler for mono
Instructions under OSX

To get this working in Webkit Nightly - webkit.org

1. install Webkit Nightly from http://nightly.webkit.org/

2. paste the following into terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitWebGLEnabled -bool YES

3. visit the link
(this has minor render issues for me under webkit)

To get it working in Chromium:

1. first install latest chromium from: http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/chromium-rel-...

2. Drag into Applications folder

3. launch from terminal using: ./Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --enable-webgl

4. visit the link

You might want to check out http://www.chromium.org/developers/demos-gpu-acceleration-an... for some more awesome webGL demos.

or, mrdoob's awesome site of course: http://mrdoob.com/