skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a market that has a lot of users who will use your product

Photo sharing fits the bill just right. Facebook has shown you can also make money off it.

Ecommerce is always a great market, but it's too vague because it's just commerce through a new medium. I'd prefer and love to read blog posts discussing specific ideas. Take that as reader feedback :-P

Did you see this Mixergy interview with the founder of Gemvara? http://mixergy.com/matt-lauzon-gemvara-interview/

It is one of the most innovative ideas I've come across recently, and apparently executed very well too.
That's a damn good list. Chain of Command is also one of my favorites, as is The Drumhead. I find it interesting how much of the political and social issues portrayed in TNG still seem to be talking about today, not just 20 years ago.
Weighing a kilogram: Metrologists to redefine the SI unit of mass
This is correlation, not causation, mind you; it could be that those subjects who started out feeling worse imagined that everyone else was getting along just fine, not the other way around.

Well, at least the article mentioned that no causality has been demonstrated, which is much more than most articles of this nature do.

But the notion that feeling alone in your day-to-day suffering might increase that suffering certainly makes intuitive sense.

Well, it might make intuitive sense, but that doesn't mean its correct. One of the symptoms of clinical depression is a distorted view of the feelings of others. In other words, clinically depressed people think that other people are having more fun because they're depressed, not the other way around. A similar phenomenon might be operating here.
Recall versus recognition for search
Obligatory: Mac is not an acronym. MACs are the Media Access Control address on network cards, Macs are computers.
Are you sure we're talking about the same "transformation"? Also that 17 lumps major and minor transformations together...

For example if someone starts a dating site but later transforms into a general social network, I would call that a complete transformation.

However if you start out making a ruby IDE but later realizes that real money is in MMORPGs or whatever, well you might have as well as waited.
Symmetry in Design: Concepts, Tips and Examples
I've been using FuzzyFileFinderTextmate for a long time. I'm not sure it's still in active development, but it's worked just fine for me; is there a reason for me to switch to Command-T?

I also stick to buffers rather than tabs (for terminal/gui consistency) and use buftabs, which I quite like.
One more tip: most of the big guys at the gym are friendly. If one of them asks to work in, let him, and ask him to watch your form during your sets.

Most people at the gym are either itimidated by, or presume that the biggest, buff guys are the most unfriendly.

The fact of the matter is, they have put a lot of time and effort into something they enjoy or are good at and are more than willing to help out with advice.

If you feel you're doing something wrong, or not sure .. just go and ask.
"...an API "bug" that allowed unauthorized persons to post not only on his page but those of an undisclosed number of other users." [read: a lot of other users]
For one simple example, I believe there are still serious incompatibilists/philosophical libertarians--even after experiments showing that physical stimulation of the brain and even transcranial magnetic stimulation can alter perceptions, actions, and even cognitive processes. Daniel Dennett is a great example of a philosopher of mind who takes cognitive neuroscience seriously, but I don't think he's in the majority.
The problem is that not everyone is awesome.
It'll be interesting to see when the startup was founded too, but I guess that would make it less anonymous
The markets were going to be about more long-term trends and political events - the sort of things analysts usually grapple with.

This too is one of the common under-informed criticisms.
You also see this a lot with the "cyber-bullying" crowd. Technology did not cause bullying, and technology cannot fix bullying. The only thing technology enables is for the bullies to act faster. Rumors can now spread through the entire school in minutes, rather than hours.
Did you study IP law?

That may help you succeed at failing to fail.
these cold South Carolina winters, though

Cold? South Carolina? Does. Not. Compute :-)

I know it's all relative, but I woke up to -24F last week. Makes it real hard to think of South Carolina (of which my only memory is driving there in mid summer in a non A/C pickup truck) as "cold" ;-)
Vim is easier on the hands, but Emacs (with ido-mode) still feels better for working with multiple files:

(length (remove-if (lambda (b) (not (buffer-file-name b))) (buffer-list)))
42
> "An incredulous stare is not an argument."

--philosopher David Lewis (1973)
Experimental system for human-computer interaction
Every time I see an article on Project Voldemort, I'm surprised that J.K. Rowling hasn't filed a copyright claim on the name.
Well, a Starbucks manager in Los Angeles doesn't make that much far off from $60k, but regardless, you're right that that's the case for now, but I would point out that Silicon Valley is extremely young in comparison to Hollywood.

But most importantly, the point I'd make is this: If Silicon Valley is our Hollywood, where is our Broadway?
When I was in school, there were still some debate about ontology.

That doesn't mean there were serious papers about how much the soul weighs, etc., but rather that some were still puzzling over whether strict materialism is fully satisfying or not.

edit: I now see your comment about Chalmers below. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
HOW TO: Ask and Answer Questions on Quora
Firesheep, which allows people worldwide to steal other people's Facebook passwords over public wifi, comes out in October and they still don't redirect to https login by default. Zukerburg's fan page gets hacked with a message pertaining to Facebook's investors and they close the loophole that allowed it to happen in 1 day. Of course.
Shuttle needs to be assembled and erected (though in the opposite order?) somewhere and somehow as well. (And requires a giant hall to do so.)

But yes, of course, I tell it mostly as a joke to counter the space pen story. I'm sure that there is some reasonable rationale for this solution.
An open letter to Pres. Obama, RE: the "founder visa"
I think past a certain point, each additional startup funded would decrease the value of YC to founders as more and more startups have to compete for a finite amount of pg's time and investor dollars.

I suppose the solution is bringing on more partners and building the YC brand to attract more angels. But I can't imagine that scaling to 1000 startups.
DO. NOT. WANT.
There are multiple similar plugins for vim.
I really thought this excerpt was telling, although a little tangential:

I have vivid memories of sitting in the Oval Office as President George W. Bush tried to persuade me and the paper’s publisher to withhold the eavesdropping story, saying that if we published it, we should share the blame for the next terrorist attack. We were unconvinced by his argument and published the story, and the reaction from the government — and conservative commentators in particular — was vociferous.

This one was quiet interesting as well:

The Guardian seemed to have joined The Times on Assange’s enemies list, first for sharing the diplomatic cables with us, then for obtaining and reporting on the unredacted record of the Swedish police complaints against Assange. (Live by the leak. . . .) In his fury at this perceived betrayal, Assange granted an interview to The Times of London, in which he vented his displeasure with our little media consortium. If he thought this would ingratiate him with The Guardian rival, he was naïve. The paper happily splashed its exclusive interview, then followed it with an editorial calling Assange a fool and a hypocrite.
"My web apps are JSON/REST endpoints that also serve a few pieces of static HTML, JS, and CSS."

^^^^ THIS
But the article is talking about the fact that people present only positive things on Facebook and never discuss the negatives. I've witnessed it first hand - the lack of balance leads you falsely think everyone is currently better off than you are.

The fact that others hype their positive accomplishments beyond the norm only makes it worse, in my opinion.
My iTunes replacement is a jailbroken iPhone, SSH and dTunes.
Interview w/ Davy Kestens (Founder of GhostBloggers)
That's a real shame. I hope you still keep up to date with philosophical thought.

You might think that philosophy moves very slowly but a few disciplines that have emerged are bio-ethics, deep-ecology, connections between aesthetics and justice and all ground is gone over all the time.

I got a degree in phil. and math. I taught myself how to program and read theoretical comp sci books on data structures and algorithms, operating systems and compiler theory, type theory and symbolic calculus and the church / turing thesis and so on to flesh out the other side but I would dearly love to have been formally taught the comp sci stuff because in truth I went through it all for the love of it and have rarely applied that knowledge :)

I feel like I'm split down the middle, I am delighted that there now exists a course like this. The more I think about it, the more sense it makes.
Thanks to FB and LinkedIn, SecondMarket Became a Darling. Will it Stick?
Know Your Enemy, Especially if He or She Has a Sniper Rifle
Conversely, dropping a steady job for a crappy idea might be just the kind of motivation you might need to become successful. Full disclosure: I'm trying to convince myself of this every single morning.
I don't agree with some of the things Oracle has done as of late, but that seems quite reasonable to me. If usage levels are quite low, then it is a waste of time to keep devoting resources to it.

Anecdotally, I don't know of a single RoR developer who uses Netbeans. Vim, Textmate and Emacs seem to be the editors of choice.
It's not a "loophole"; it's a critical vulnerability in their API server. It doesn't just affect Zuckerberg.
How do they portray themselves as facebook? Just hyperbolic versions of themselves or as different people?
Ah, I miss-wrote. I meant "arranged" by the author when I said "done" by the author. As you and the other commenters say I meant an author can go out and find an editor/proof-reader/cover-artist etc. and pay them directly for their work. I've written enough reports to know full well that an author can't proof read his/her own work.
In comparison, living on $45k in California is about reasonable for a single individual.
What's the subtext behind this comment? I don't see what specific point you're trying to make. I could guess, but I'd rather just hear it directly from you.
HN needs an 'other' category. But I can see why PG keeps it off the site, once you add 'other' everything that is off-topic suddenly is 'on' topic and it would probably take people away from the topical stuff as well as lead to things that cause people to lose respect for each other (politics and such).
It truly is a matter of taste. The fact that you write something one way in Perl and a different way in Ruby mostly boils down to preference.

Metaprogramming in Perl? True metaprogramming?
1 hour = a stone's throw? Anyway, I highly doubt there are any places cheap enough to make commuting cheaper than living in London (not in West Sussex or Surrey anyway.)

Where did you live? Even with the costs of commuting was it cheaper than living in London?
The set of people with whom you can have in-depth conversations is highly location-dependent, and you will be sub-optimally innovative without having such conversations with the right people.
Maybe to avoid the lawsuits they will call it Project That Must Not Be Named.
This is not a very useful graph to assign blame. :) I've always wondered why I don't always get movies in streamed in HD even for movies available in HD.

Almost anytime of the day, I can saturate my DSL line's download bandwidth from fast sites such as Amazon S3. But Netflix doesn't always stream in HD even though my link is faster than what's required (4800 Kbps).

I suspect the bottleneck is at Netflix's end.
And now here you are berating people for having the temerity to take issue with a recklessly constructed, poorly supported argument.

I'm berating roc for making an ad-hominem attack in lieu of an argument (see the emphasis I added to my prior post, which was apparently unclear). My normal practice is merely to downvote such comments - I only bother responding to them when they receive a lot of upvotes.
This is a fantastic idea.

There are a few elements to it that one could use to dispute its value — for example, Netflix has no way of knowing what level of service a customer has paid for. They also don't appear to differentiate between different types of service from a single ISP (e.g., they lump together AT&T's old ADSL customers in with ADSL2/U-Verse, and, presumably Verizon's DSL with FiOS). I would hope that they are also filtering for sessions where a higher bitrate is requested, which Netflix's Silverlight app doesn't do unless the window/screen is large enough to benefit from the extra resolution.

Of course, one could argue that those differentiators don't ultimately matter, and that if its customers are opting for older or slower service levels, that can tell you something about the ISP's pricing competitiveness.
If you don't want to sync, why not choose Manually Manage Music?
Clearly you didn't spend enough time in San Francisco. :)
Hey, get this ...

Maybe Comp. Sci. is too important to be in the "Sciences". What about all those in the humanities that would benefit from knowing how to code and having the basics of knowledge about data structures and algorithms?

I know many numbers of people with history degrees, philosophy degrees (myself included), you name it - who taught themselves how to code because it was impossible for them to take comp sci course as part of humanities.

There is this new field of electronic poetry where poets use the power of computers and the internet to create a new kind of poetry. These people generally come from a background in literature and they are very creative types but they have to enlist the help of graphics designers and programmers to do computer side of things as opposed to the poetic side of things.

It is like literacy. Before the twentieth century pervasive literacy was not the norm. I would argue that computers are nearly too ubiquitous and will only become more and more so that computer literacy is a real hindrance. The option should be there to those that want it.

Computer science, mathematics and logic should inhabit a third academic space in academia I would argue. Science/Engineering, Comp Sci/Math/Logic, Humanities ...

Any takers? :)
Take a look at the documentation for Journaling: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Journaling

This covers what MongoDB is doing for durability.
Outsourcing has gone farther than that --- at this point, they often outsourced even the business of coordinating the editorial and production functions, and you can hire those people too. (There's even a professional association: http://www.abpaonline.org .)

My running joke used to be that they'd outsourced everything but the rolodex. Then I found out that a lot of the production of the latest edition of my mother's "The Bond Book" (no fixed income investor should be without one!) had been outsourced to one of these guys; they'd outsourced the rolodex itself.
Reminders of Art Buchwald:  Why duopolies don't work
Vim is my primary editor but I think the only really good part of vim is the keyboard navigation. The rest could be much better.

For example, to this day I haven't figured out an easy, built-in way to copy from one vim window to another. I'd love to have some features of other editors have but the key bindings always hold me back.
I am in a similar situation, where I am 'founding' a company where my cofounder is fronting the money and has the sales contacts to make our venture happen. I am doing all the design, planning and development (hiring a dev team).

I require 10% preferred with up-to an additional 10% common in addition to a monthly salary (we are still negotiating the salary)

If I were you, I wouldnt take anything less than 10%

Here is what you should think about:

Assuming that you will need to go get a series A from VC if your venture gets momentum; you're really talking about splitting up 40% of the company. So at max - your share would be ~20%

As he is fronting the money - and may not need VC, therefore keeping the 60-80% yet your founding and BUILDING the thing, upto 20% is perfectly reasonable and fair.

I would ask for a mix of common and preferred - with a set min of preferred that you want.
$3 million data mining prize for health data
Google's Android Tablet Software Inches Closer
It is all a matter of where we stop asking questions. Mostly, good philosophers keep on pushing and end up with something ridiculously hard like Chalmer's hard problem of consciousness. But most of us refuse to recognize that this is even a problem: the brain produces it.

Just because we answer one of (what,when,why,how,where) does not mean the whole problem is solved.

Feynman on a related problem : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

Unfortunately, this tradition of honest and deep questions and answers has mostly sort of tapered off...
Ask HN: Are you a Georgia Tech student/recent grad?  
I'm looking to connect with recent GT grads (CS/CompE) or students. I'm an alum myself (IE '05). Been in the startup world for a few years now and in the Bay Area for a year. Don't care where you are based, just want to connect and see what you are up to/building/wanting to build..

Drop me a line at vladik dot rikhter at gmail
Doing it live: operations and extreme scaling tech talk (Facebook)
"when something has been solved by science, philosophers stop worrying about that realm so much"

I think this sums up quite well why philosophy is perceived the way it is. Once something becomes useful it turns into a new field, which explains why it may seem as if philosophy accomplished nothing.

Historically speaking, all (sans math? ~) western science stems from philosophy in its broadest sense.
For a summer I sang on the subway with a friend for my living :)
Distribution of Law School Graduate Starting Salaries
I've looked at it and thought it looked like a very clean and (for a functional language) quite readable. But the ties to MS's VM dooms it IMO. If they made it cross platform (JVM and / or native compilation) and put it in third party hands, then it might stand a chance.

BUT, I can't see Joe Public programmer adopting a functional language, even one as nice as F#
I did my BA in philosophy (focusing mainly on ethics and political philosophy) and my MS in computer science, and I personally found the mix to work incredibly well, though not in the obvious way many people expect (which tends to be around epistemology and logic on the philosophy side and AI on the computer science side).

The point of a philosophy education is not to teach you anything in particular; there's no body of knowledge to absorb in the same way that there is for math or any scientific or engineering discipline. At most, you can treat a philosophy education as a history course focusing on the history of human thought (which is why, in response to some other posters, it's important in philosophy to study the past, even if no one believes such things anymore: it's more like history than physics).

The really valuable thing for me, however, was learning the process itself: how to make assumptions and pre-conditions clear and separate them from the rest of your thinking, how to make arguments clearly and fairly, how to break complex questions or topics down into smaller pieces and the put them back together, how to not take it personally when someone disagrees with you. A philosophy course of study will also make you a better, clearer writer and communicator. (And yes, sure, there's plenty of room for BSing and incomprehensibility in there, but if you take that away from a philosophy course you're missing out.)

All those skills translate and complement computer science very well. At its core, the process of software engineering (as opposed to just programming) is the art of taking something really complex and breaking it down into the right set of components: ones that are large enough to be useful, but small enough to be correct, and with the right relationships between them. Taking a large program or problem and breaking it down like that is basically exactly the same set of skills that you develop when you study (and do) analytic philosophy. Being able to clearly separate assumptions, facts, conjecture, predictions, and arguments is also a key skill in a domain like CS where thinking outside the box, as it were, is always important, and where the rules and possibilities change so rapidly. And of course, it never hurts to become a better writer: I've worked with and known some brilliant engineers who were far less productive than they should have been simply because they couldn't present their ideas clearly enough to other people, and there's simply no way to get a team to all work in the same direction if they don't all share the same vision. A brilliant idea that no one else understands because it's been poorly communicated is usually fairly worthless.

As an aside: I know PG doesn't seem to think he got much value out of his philosophy classes, but I wonder if his essays would be as clearly thought out and put together as they are without it. I certainly know my own writing would be far less clear (and far less rigorous) if I hadn't done my BA in philosophy and if I'd just focused on CS.
Does it matter? I think the point is that (Great People) + (Profitable Idea) = (Success)

Consider: The variant of (Poor People) + (Profitable Idea) = (50/50 Success) and the variant of (Great People) + (Unprofitable Idea) = (Failure). If (Great People) it is far easier to get (Profitable Idea) then to change (Poor People) to (Great People).

To use your example, if you're making a Ruby IDE and no one pays you, you will never be profitable. If you make a Greate Ruby IDE and no one pays you, you will never be profitable. Discovering that MMORPG's are more profitable one day, you build one, and people pay you, you might be profitable. You could consider the time you spent on your Ruby IDE a waste, or you could consider that you've learned something about software development as a business. It is far easier to change the idea then the people.
Thanks that is exactly what I was looking for.
I was talking about spotting the fake conversions. If you're using the standard code, it might be worth seeing if you can make it slightly non-standard enough that any standard way of faking it won't work.

But maybe that requires something on Google's end; I haven't looked at it so I can't say.
Defining a defect
development agility is a goal of the project too, in addition to scale-out. i've seen a lot of happy users with a single server (or two) and that's all they need.
Alright then. I'll keep an eye on you guys. I like the payment system you've got set up; the service I currently use takes a rather large cut, and I need all the cash I can get right now.
I'm afraid I can't give you anything informed ... as I haven't used either of them in anger.

That said, they take a very different approach: less about data modeling and events, and more about binding JSON structures tightly to specific DOM elements. I have my own concerns about if it's possible to build truly high-performance web applications with such a granular scheme -- for example, Knockout.js calls JavaScript's "eval()" on every "data-bind" attribute in your HTML. But without someone taking the time to port the same app to all three libraries, and then evaluating it with benchmarks, it's all just speculation.
WebKit World Clock
"...you can see it with Safari and Google Chrome."