skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it's right on their pricing page. Maybe they didn't think of the line themselves, but it's on their site and not as a quote.

PHP Fog is like Heroku for PHP. But better. We will provide simple one-click installations of some of the most popular PHP applications out there.

ETA: However, I do agree that "like Heroku for PHP" is a big difference from "is Heroku for PHP." My mistake.
It doesn't matter. You get nothing directly, but that's not the point (and is part of the reason they got rid of the gold standard). The point is that the store will accept it as payment for an actual thing, and its employees will accept it as payment for actual work, and the stores they go to will accept it as payment for actual things, and their employees will accept it as payment for actual work, etc.

What you get is the stuff that you buy. Or more directly, what you get is buying power.
This is most certainly not true. Disks fail in ways where the whole volume becomes unreadable all the time.
1. Go to Google Maps.

2. Click "Labs"

3. Enable "Short URL" lab.

Problem sorted!
You're missing one definition:

an aggressively enterprising person; a go-getter

I think it depends on audience, but I hear this quite often in these circles.
It's funny that you mention this, because this is what I did this last year. I spent Dec 09 - July 10 traveling all around Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and South Africa. I handed out well over 500 business cards and would spark up conversations all the time.

It worked, but then quickly died out. The problem is that unlike most other niches, people don't travel all the time and are too lazy to add content about their own home location.

I am trying to use the Wiki as much as I can to give a more graphic interpretation of their data, yes. And I can see what you mean on the titles. I was making them that way for organic searches, but realistically I can't compete with all the deal sites and shopping sites. Very good point.

You are 100% right on the FB connect. There is no escaping FB and the like buttons thrown around everywhere.

If you considered something similar in the past, do you like where I have ended up? Would you be interested in joining?

Ahh, I will look to see if there are any hostels around here. i'm sure there MUST be, but who really knows until you look. I know Boston has 1 or 2 for the entire city (not where I live)
Became far less interesting the moment he started posing for the pictures, IMO. There's tons of photos on the web of geeky types mugging for the camera. It's those moments of unguarded excitement, waiting for your MBP to finish waking up from sleep that are novel.

At least in my opinion.
You pay no income tax in Texas? Really?!
For the record, upgrading Package::Stash fixed it.
R is sweet. Octave has its ups and downs--I'm thinking Numpy/SciPy/Matlibplot may be a better route for my own personal computing (still learning though)--especially since Python has bindings practically for everything.

I agree that Sage still needs work (the 100+ bugs submitted daily to the RSS support feed says so!) but it works really well.
Did they get their payment via Square? That would be a hilarious way to eat you own dogfood.
I meant instead of pulling out a block of code and interpolating it later. For example instead of:

<set up>
<do stuff>
<tear down>

And then describing them in the rest of the document, a better solution to me seems to be able to click on e.g. the <do stuff> part to expand it. This allows the reader to see the high level structure and drill down to the stuff he's interested in instead of spreading the code all over the place with references.
I ask both questions and get the same answer.
All other marketing efforts pale in comparison to the dramatic effect that an Apple feature has - at least that's how it was when we launched last April. In some ways, this has diminished (more avenues for app discoverability) but I'd say it still has the biggest effect.

However, it should be noted that iMockups has not been featured since June of last year and still is able to maintain a Top 50-60 ranking in Productivity in the US. As noted in the article, some of the key post-launch factors have helped us keep iMockups in the rankings.
I think this analysis is way off. Given two girls with similar average attractiveness, the one with the higher stdev (wider distribution, whatever) is going to have more "5" votes than the girl with a low-variance average. This is probably completely driving the trend. Guys are most-likely to message you if they think you're a 5. So, given girls with equal average attractiveness, the one with the wider distribution will have more 5's and get more messages.

EDIT: After looking more-closely, their formula basically agrees with what I've said: the number of 5's is weighted most-strongly (0.9 versus the second-strongest of 0.5). Also their R^2 value is pathetic.
I agree when a company's mission seems simple, it might be overkill. But this kind of analogy was the only way of getting people to reasonably understand what my first startup did. "We're the EC2 of manufacturing."
Great work! I was just inspired to start learning to work with canvas myself today, which will be my first graphics programming since the C64. It's pretty exciting once you start thinking about the possibilities of math applied to colors.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/04/15-mistakes-young-...
Haha - it's funny how much startups are the same... We're doing the same thing and had the same (a non-engineer?!?) reservations. I must completely concur.
I agree that it depends on your dictionary.

If a locally repurposed word like hustler has a very strong meaning outside your circles, chances are good that when you start talking about hustling in relation to business, a fair number of people are going to think swindler or worse.

It seems that a number of people like to use it as a self-description because it does have negative, edgy traits -- in the same sense of 'ninja'. Unlike 'ninja', however, 'hustler' can easily lie a bit too close to the truth.
I live with a girl (non-girlfriend) and she worries about all this and occasionally I get a nagging post it note to do something.
Yes really. No state income tax.
Tech/iOS Angel Investors
I need to be in contact with someone, looking for individuals with investing experience in these fields. Any suggestions or direction? Thanks.
Asking for "the best" is subjective. I've never used the following but recent HN post regarding wireframe apps for Apple iPad was:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2090046

http://www.imockups.com/

Using the search link on HN with the term <wireframe> should provide plenty of hits. I think there's a YC funded company that deals with wireframe software, but I'm not certain if this is correct?
Thank you for sharing that. I've never heard of source mswin.vim. The standard copy paste shortcuts are platform agnostic at this point, hell, even my phone uses them (webOS). This is where I've found vim and emacs incredibly frustrating out of the box.
The salaries are proportionately higher.
You would've liked my university papers then. They were very mad men before there was mad men.
This is a great point -- this was originally (and still is) a deck geared to founders. The large issue is to try to find people (as employees) who would prefer less short-term salary for more longer-term equity. Not only because it saves $, but also because it shows the right owner mentality.
Florida either, but the humidity is even worse!
Actually, people in the time of Columbus knew the the Earth was round. That's been in European cultural knowledge for about two thousand years. It was Columbus who was mistaken. He thought the earth was much smaller than everyone else did. That he could sail west to Asia in a few weeks. He was completely wrong. A fool who was funded by a fool.

But you're right, in that they had as much evidence as you have about Mars. As in, with a some hours of observation, you too could establish that the Earth is round and that Mars is a planet and know as much as a 15th century nobleman. All from first principles. You just need to view the evidence.

That's different than religion and "faith". Those don't require evidence. In fact, faith require the absence of evidence.

You can try to equate evidence-based beliefs and non evidence-based beliefs, but they are not the same.
Yes, but he has a point. You can concentrate on the subject better when you're relaxed. Just like you can do linear algebra better sitting in a comfy chair at home than you can in Kabul.

Also, a good suit looks good on anyone. Not just a "businessman". Programmers too, try it!
Funny, I wish Firefox's awesome bar let me press enter to go to the first result without pressing down first.
I think "hustler" is exactly what it is and isn't hyperbole at all. Come on - who amongst us haven't played Rick Ross - "Hustlin'" after closing a deal. I'm guilty and so are many fellow foundas - er, founders... ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9TouRnO84
I've messed around with my own literate programming system that was a more "true" system (where you have a kind of macro-like approach), and I have to agree: the docco approach is missing the key bonus: organizing your code into chapters and paragraphs and then statements.

Think of it this way, if you're building an API, you should consider usage. So you then generate examples. But not just one, maybe 3-5 of them to really do it right.

Then, as you proceed, you implement and build tests, probably down towards the end of "the chapter".

It's a different way of thinking about how your code is consumed. The "documentation systems" of the past (e.g., javaDoc) really are reference documentation on details of a method. But if you want to really grasp the system, you probably lead with examples. Maybe a picture. And you probably don't need to have to navigate to 7 different implementations of your interface Foo to figure out what the design is.

But having those 7 different implementation files is nice when you know the system later.

Where literate programming systems completely break down is the toolset. You typically can't work in "example down" mode and "single source file" mode at the same time - like, to debug, or make a small change. I've tried to build "diff and patch" between the source and the literate documentation, and when that's buggy, whew, that sucks.
Awesome! I was thinking of something like this last year but on a bit of a 'I want to meet somebody right now' scale. I'd use this if I didn't end up moving away form the bay area. Good luck!
Why Austin (and not New York or Boston)? What was it like doing YC and then not staying in SV? Was there any disagreement among the founders or investors about moving away from the valley?
Was the relaunch of Tapbots' Camera+ featured? I don't think so, and it would seem weird for Apple to do it, after they initially blocked it - considering that it would look like a concession on their part - but I'm not completely sure.

Tapbots is one of the really big guys on the app scene, and I wouldn't put it past them to pull something like this off without Apple's help.

But people obviously shouldn't assume that they could follow in their footsteps.
I am also confused. What are the benefits of phpfog if it normally only takes 15 min to create a linux server with php/mysql on amazon ec2? The only things I could see different are db slave replication and http caching, but generally those you don't worry till much later, and are not critical.
Horde of Neurons, no.1 - A web comic
The only advantage I see in blu-ray discs is the image quality - everything else is a severe letdown - the glacial load times, the unskippable trailers and warnings etc. I'm actually less inclined to purchase blu-ray discs than DVDs - I used to buy DVDs for all sorts of movies - comedy, drama, action. However, I find the user experience of blu-ray discs so annoying that I now only limit my purchases to action movies.

I feel that the image below perfectly sums up how the movie industry has done more to encourage movie piracy than anyone else:

http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/why-p...
Thanks for the link. I will indeed have a look over this site. cheers.
timanglade -

Great idea, and it looks well put together.

But I'm trying to watch the map reduce video, and I find your constant interruptions exceedingly annoying. Let the person run through their presentation and then follow up with questions
Chrome extensions can have binary componants with NPAPI : http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/npapi.html
> What if you've got a few dozen local variables?

In that case, I would consider that I have a larger problem than merely one of documentation.
Crunchbase.com is a great resource for this type of research. Try searching for companies in the categories you mention and see which investors are in those deals.
What I'm saying is that I can go up to my SQL server and disconnect the power cord and my database will not be corrupt when I start it back up. Sure if your HDD gets taken out by a meteor then nothing will save you but that's why you have backups.
Putting Numbers on the Scoble Effect
Is there such a thing as the Scoble Effect?
I use http://balsamiq.com and love it.
This is a brilliant free textbook about synchronization for concurrent programming. It doesn't only present the essential knowledges, problems and solutions, but also the underlying patterns that are useful for synchronization problems.
Yes, because this petition will change things.
Winklevoss twins gamble $65m for Facebook fortune
In this market, when you find someone willing to take 1/2 salary for 6 months for 2x equity, beware that you may be creating a system geared largely to suckers.
Eyes are the Gatekeepers of the Uncanny Valley
Incoming governor seeks to cut $1.4bn from California higher education costs
One of the developers of iTerm2 also liked the idea responded to my tweet by opening an issue request for it:

http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=454
The book [1], was excellent.

It introduces several different techniques for extrapolating from large datasets (machine learning). The book uses python, but obviously you can port the code to the language of your choice.

Some topics it doesn't go incredibly deep into, which is totally understandable. Thankfully, there are tons of resources online to fill in the gaps. I'd recommended it if you haven't dabbled around with "collective intelligence" yet.

[1] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321
If the author is here, could you comment on how often people use your app? Are these statistics commonly measured for iOS apps?
Does it really take that much time to create a linux server with rails on EC2?

Energy barriers seem to matter.
I don't recall Camera+'s relaunch being featured and I agree, I don't see Apple featuring it after they pulled it from the store.

However, Taptaptap (not Tapbots) has a massive mailing list that they leverage whenever they have a product launch. That definitely helps!
At least this was done after the holidays (unlike Yahoo which gave it's employees an early christmas present).
Congrats Lucas!
I've browsed around a bit there already, it's a bit tough to get peoples direct contact information though. Rarely ever can you get an email, usually a Twitter will help, but it's still not a surefire method. Thank you though, I'll be digging through CB more.
Going Beyond Rejection Therapy with Accuracy Therapy
I can't seem to get the shift+mouse to control the wind to work using Chromium on Linux.
Best Buy rumored to add Apple Genius Bars, display more Macs in stores
Well theoretically it should work in Burlingame.. but realistically you'll probably have to wait till more people hear about this.
Octave is free and I used MATLAB in school so it made sense to install it. I've never had problems with Octave though I've heard others complain about it. I don't use it that much. For graphics I always use R.

Maybe I should have mentioned Coq in my previous list. I installed it a few days ago. Haven't learned to use it yet.
If the amount of data you're storing is so small you should definitely consider de-normalizing it until it's easy enough to work with. When you eventually scale up to millions of Foos you'll probably want to get it back to 3NF.

There is nothing wrong with denormalized data in your DB and denormalizing doesn't mean you'd have been better off with some random NoSQL solution. Especially considering that the entire rest of your DB is still very much relational data so what happens to all of that when you dump Postgre for Mongo?
Have you tried getting mentioned on travel blogs? Try looking specifically at the ones targeting backpackers.
By now, you deploy Ruby applications in the same way you deploy PHP applications, for the most part. We've come a long way since a few years ago. An Apache + passenger setup looks basically the same as Apache + mod_php.

Here's the secret sauce of Heroku: I know how to set up servers. I don't want to.

Paying for convenience is always a good business model.
How to win friends and influence people?
Hi guys,

after read this amazing book "How to win friends and influence people" I was wondering how to leverage people-skills.
Anyone knows some kind of technique, metodology or even a software (CRM for personal use) which could support the Carnegie's advices?
Here we go, they are back again!!!
You Can Call Yourself an Entrepreneur When...
https://github.com/37signals/wysihat Pretty sure thats what they use.

https://github.com/80beans/wysihat-engine might help too.
Unless nVidia changes its policy and starts releasing documentation, this will be bad for open source and bad for security.
The Coming Startup M&A Shakeout (And What To Do About It)
I admit to playing "We are the champions" and "Eye of the Tiger" a few times after signing large contracts, but I never have had the feeling I was, well, hustlin' anyone:

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rickross/hustlin.html

I think it's a minor but telling difference of perspective of what we, respectively, do in business.
Not really. The investors like it because we save a bunch of money. And the founders are both from the Midwest so we like it. Actually, we're a Texas-based company (maybe the only YC company that's not a DE corporation) and have always planned to have this be our base of operations.
Well perhaps "hates school" might really mean "needs an independent education". Maybe an independent study around great minds would let a brillant, yet academically unsuccessful student, flourish.

Most schools though, love to promote those who are a reflection of their definition of "greatness", so this sort of independent course is widely discoursed.
Just wondering, how much control do you have over configuration settings for Heroku?

I imagine you could save a lot of money by optimizing apache/mysql rather than using the default configuration Heroku sets.
I think most of the people that could do that for the LAMP stack could probably get through setting up a Ruby or node server without too much extra time. Also, once you're done it, how hard is it do repeat? Yet I don't see folks making these same arguments against Heroku. One of the key points I got from talking to Lucas is that he's focusing not just on scalability, but HA, which is something that while not hard to do for the LAMP stack, isn't trivial either (usually it's just a matter of time spent setting it up).

The other neat (or annoying step) is that PHPFog goes the git route for handling your code. Just signing up and creating a site puts a default codebase for the platform you've selected into your git repo, and you just check it out, and commit to get started.
I follow the Twitter bot so I can get updates, but I still find myself checking the site frequently to see if there are replies to any of my comments.
Thanks for the input, all. We're changing it.
Recognizing that I'm part of a group that works smarter, not harder. Also having the means to spend my life with a mixture of work and play.
This is the first time I've seen a product where my first thought was, "They need to charge 5-10x more." Looks amazing, thanks for sharing.
NV too.
I get why that would be the issue for IE <9, but the latest preview version of 9 has canvas support. Hardware accelerated, even.
With Phusion Passenger, a Ruby environment is just as easy to setup these days as PHP. Back when Heroku first started, I don't think Phusion Passenger existed.

However, the point of these services isn't necessarily to save the developer from having to setup these environments, but rather it's to save the developer from worrying about having to setup a solid, scalable production setup. You still should have a development setup which lives somewhere other than Heroku.
>Here's the secret sauce of Heroku: I know how to set up servers. I don't want to.
>Paying for convenience is always a good business model.

This.

I really wish that the Pantheon folks would scale up and open up their platform to generic PHP apps. It's everything I want setup and ready to go: Varnish, Apache, MariaDB, PHP5 APC, Memcached, Solr, Hudson all on one box, configured for dev, staging and prod environments, and managed via git and Hudson for deployments and automation.

https://getpantheon.com/about

Edit: Forgot to add that the best part about the Pantheon service is that while you can use it as a total SaaS like Heroku, it's also 100% hackable, you have root on the box, and can change anything that you want to, quite an amazing idea (have to see how their support issues pan out).
Eschewing the usefulness of rss and similar solutions, the endless articles on productivity and discipline, and ultimately all good sense, I find myself visiting hacker news more times per day than a productive person would/should... and it looks like perhaps i'm not alone
It needs an option for "Way too much." Unless that's meant to be covered by 10+ times a day. It's time well spent though.
Eh. Prototype seemed revolutionary when it was first being developed: adding prototype functions to objects & HTML nodes? Crazy!

Now it's silly. Closure still seems random.
I tend to complete forget about my comments
Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud
Ask HN: Whiteboards - porcelain or melamine?
Is porcelain worth the difference in price?
It's sad that there are so many copy-pasters out there in the javascript world that this is called "advanced" and not introductory.
It really depends. Some days I'm commenting and submitting and reading and interacting a lot, and sometimes I'll go for a few days without saying or really reading anything.
Hardly anyone here in Australia is on a connection that could stream a full quality blu-ray, not that there are any services that I know of that provide it.

When we get to the point that you can stream first time and keep for a decent price compared to physical media, the connection is fast enough not to be any issue at all and probably even slight bigger hard drives become the norm I think the physical media will be done away with.

Right now that it's far easier for me to pickup blu ray disks that which can be around $10-$15 in sales here for anything not overly new.
You don't get a ton of control. And yeah, you could save some money by setting up your own servers and fine-tuning them just the way you want to.

But I don't want to. Like Steve above, I can set up a server, but I really don't want to deal with that stuff. Heroku's value-add to me is that my time is better spent on being a software engineer than being an ops engineer. That value-add is worth the extra money.
Austin startup here as well. I actually moved from San Francisco to Austin to launch http://www.ideaffect.com.

Also, hey Jason! Still owe you a beer sometime.
Notifo (http://notifo.com/) can help you with notifying you when you have replies to your comments, although you still need to visit the site to find out what they are.