skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Co-CTO for Music Start-Up Berlin
We are seeking for a motivated Co-CTO with dedication and passion for music. We are changing live music industry with our techware and I have just 1 correspondence to leave as of now: Lineup Democracy! We are self funded and based in Berlin.The minimum requirements for this position are php, mysql, javascript, css, xhtml plus a lot of experience in building successful start-ups, as more often you failed as more welcome you are. This position is urgent, please leave a message to my private mail for further steps: klaus.gasser@gmail.com
Best, Klaus
on a similar note, I've been doing web development on my CR-48 with an ec2-hosted development environment. I documented my setup here: http://www.dustingetz.com/dev-etc/app-engine-web-development...
How to Use Amazon S3 & PHP to Dynamically Store and Manage Files
I was part of LaunchBox Digital class of 2009 in DC. We entered the program as http://www.ubernote.com ended up presenting "KeepFu" and ultimately are back to UberNote.

In the program itself we had a lot of really good speakers. Tim O'Reilly was probably my favorite. LBD had a great connection with the local DC tech scene. We got to talk with a lot of good startups from the area. Not to keep name dropping, but it was pretty cool to pitch Steve Case one on one in a meet and greet.

My biggest complaint is it went too fast. There is so much going on with the speakers and advisor meetings that it was difficult to be productive on the startup itself. Everything was geared towards demo day and the pitch.

One of the most beneficial things was the peer reviews. I sort of wish we had more peer to peer discussions as it proved very valuable.

Overall it was great experience where I gained valuable understanding on the funding process and some awesome connections. Pitching, going through investment meetings, and connecting with people pretty much sums it up.
Entrepreneurship truly is a journey and the program gave me a look into a areas that were previously harder to access. Even though we didn't secure additional funding for Ubernote, we are still bumping a long and LBD will always be part of our story.
The King’s Speech and the Reality of Stuttering
I have a Kindle, Ipad, and android phone (Droid X).
Kindle:
Pro:
One great thing about the kindle is battery life and how easy it is on the eyes. For reading fiction, it's great.
Con:
It is horrible for technical work--pdfs in particular. If you're like me and you jump around in a book, it's impractical to do so on a kindle given the slow page refresh rate.
Pro:
The nice thing about the kindle app on the android phone is the convenience--when I'm standing in line at the grocery store (or am on the subway), I can catch up on some light reading and have finished a number of books this way that I wouldn't have ordinarily.
Con:
Screensize. I used to use the kindle app on the ipod touch and find the screensize of the Droid X to be a much better experience--but it's still small.

Ipad:
Pro:
The screensize is great and bookmarking pages is intuitive.
Also, for technical books, I can get them in pdf form and
use GoodReader.

Con:
Battery life--for international flights, if you don't have power, you can survive, but the kindle wins with battery life hands down.

These are just my thoughts and as always ymmv.
I'm not surprised that they're growing, but the fact that they want to sell equity (rather than financing via debt and reinvestment) does make me wonder if they think they're getting an unreasonable price.
It is not a bug, it is a feature! :)

It is possible to build a configurable (dynamic?) keyboard on the Android, like the keyboard in http://www.alltechnologynews.com/razer-switchblade-laptop-fo... . (I saw an article about it here a few months ago, but I can't find it.)

And perhaps it can be useful for non game activities too.
What's the point of the cloud? Sure, EC2 scales well, but does desktop needs scaling? (Unless you want to buzzword that your desktop is web scale, haha)
Set up a keyword bookmark for it. I've got it set to 'd'.
We can't fault founders for building a profitable business and taking cheap money before the growth tails off. But shouldn't there be some evidence of a viable master plan to spend that $30m turning it into a $300 million business for it to be an investible opportunity? I can't help thinking the "ephemeral crap" market is looking highly competitive and that the competition is more sophisticated and addictive.
Also, this may be a completely separate issue, but shouldn't persistent cookies set over https also be encrypted on disk in some way? If a bank website was found to be setting persistent cookies over https, i'd sure want the browser to be encrypting that cookie in some way before putting it on my hard disk. Again, I don't know if browsers already support this, but I think they should.
This. With hard crash/memory bugs I lean towards the debugger, but viewing the flow over time is invaluable for more subtle logic bugs.
Seems like it should just reset in that case.

Honestly, didn't find it too difficult; just dropped into chair-zazen for a couple minutes.
*chairzen

Fixed that for you.
It's also completely avoidable.

Concurrency is only hard because it's a stupid thing to do - to give a bunch of instructions to the CPU and tell it to execute them in a random order.
Meet The Entrepreneur Trying To Defeat Google From His Basement
Strangely "Fails" for me every 3 seconds (Chrome stable, Windows Vista, Vimium installed).
>In addition to the reasons given by others, Chinese culture is accustomed to associate multiple names to a person, a name given by the parents when young, nickname among friends, another name when one enters adulthood, a pen name when one publishes something.

If you have a 字 or a 號 in this century (or even most of the last), you're very odd.
As a customer at T-Mobile I have issues sending text messages overseas, or even back to the US when I am in Europe that I completely understand this, and also understand why Google isn't implementing it.
This does have the obvious problem that you need a PC / Tablet / Laptop to connect to Amazon EC2 in the first place so why not just use that.
When you fail it only resets the counter, and then continues to count down. Just wait another 2 minutes! :)
Why You Should Never Center Align Paragraph Text
> What I tell others: I'm so good that I don't need a debugger.

That sounds better than what I tell others, that I'm not smart enough to use a debugger.

Debuggers let me get away with code that is on the edge of my understanding at the time that I'm writing it. The problem is that I'm not nearly as smart when I have to revisit that same code later.

In addition, debugging with print requires more understanding, so it's more likely to be correct than debugging with a debugger.

That said, I really liked my time in visual studio.
factorization of course as it has never been demonstrated to be polynomially reducible to NPC.

Every NP problem is polynomial-time reducible to SAT. I do not recall the title of the paper off the top of my head, but it has been proven that the definition of an NP problem (a question that can be answered given some additional piece of information, a "certificate") is polynomial-time reducible to SAT.

The methodology was basically an algorithm taking as input a description of such a solution, and producing a boolean expression on the certificate and some other values needed to maintain integrity. The expression is satisfiable if and only if the answer is affirmative.

The reason that factorization is not known to be NP-complete is that the reverse is not known. That is, no NP-complete problem is known to be polynomial-time reducible to factorization.
Ah, lies, damn lies, and statistics.

It's nice and easy to compare the official numbers and compile lists and rankings, but it's very easy to be clouded by your own preconceptions and belive that the numbers tell the whole story. Not so.

For example, Sweden's weakest category was "Social Capital".

> The marriage rate is the 77th lowest, globally

I was fixing up my profile at LinkedIn today, and under my personal status I could choose between "single" or "married". I got slightly annoyed, because I am neither. I'm "cohabitating" or whatever the awkward English term for it is. Over here, such an arrangement is very common, and even offers some legal protection. There are many couples who live together, raise children, and never marry. There's no difference between these and married couples, except that the latter group shows up in global statistics and the former group show up as singles, even though it's not an accurate view.

> while rates of religious attendance are seventh lowest among all countries, suggesting a limited access to familial and religious support networks.

The average Swede would consider this being seventh from the top, not seventh from the bottom. There's also no lack of access to religious support, it's that people don't want it.

The numbers will tell you that a majority of Swedes are christians, because the number you get is the number of members of various churches, but until recently, membership in the state church was automatic, and a lot of people get married in a church or baptize their children in a church, despite being atheist or agnostic or apathetic to the whole thing.

So the official numbers say we are a christian nation where noone goes to church regularly. The truth is that we are a secular nation that uses churches for traditions.
You might say that Pubsubhubhub is the logical extension of the Google Reader concept. It allows you to "read" those feeds programmatically and enables the content site to notify Google Reader of updates so they get there quicker.

Also, anyone can choose to be a hub, not just Google Reader. There's your simple and well tested solution wrapped in a standard for anyone to implement.
Kauffman Foundation Doubles Down on Entrepreneur Program
Nintendo hackers have been having to buy special screwdrivers for years, but they weren't completely unique like these. Still, they are unusual enough that they are commonly referred to as 'nintendo screws.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Proprietar...
That doesn't look like the Wildfire from CR Technologies - just a product similarly named.

Wildfire as a phone service ran on Dialogic cards and acted like a virtual assistant. Calls you made were bridged through, so, you could have an 800# pointed to your wildfire number and call from a payphone. You would call in, listen to your voicemail and with voice commands be able to direct it to call the person back, conference in someone, etc. If you were listening to messages when an incoming call was coming in, wildfire would tell you that you had an incoming call, etc.

The real power of it was building your contact list. If you called my number, Wildfire would interview you. I couldn't find any of the old audio demos that used to be online, but, it went something like this:

Chris isn't available can I take a message? you speak the message, Wildfire would say, can I ask for a callback number? you would give the number, I heard, 555-1414 is this correct? yes. Is this a work or mobile number? work. I don't recognize this number, may I ask for more information? Yes (would register your name, additional numbers, weekend number, etc) Ok, thank you, I'll have Chris call you when he get the message.

At this point, Wildfire would page me with a code, # of messages, etc. Keep in mind, while you were on the line, Wildfire was already calling any registered numbers I had to try and contact me and would bridge the connection if possible. You call in, listen to the message, Wildfire would connect the call. During the call, if you needed to conference in someone, you said WildFire 'Here I am' Call Bob, 'Do you want to add this call to a conference?' Yes. 'Dialing'

If you called into the 800#, you could also direct calls from there. Depending on the interview Wildfire got from an incoming caller you could say: Wildfire, 'Here I am' Call Bill, 'I have a work and mobile number' Dial work, 'Dialing'. Wildfire would listen in, make sure the call was connected, offer to dial the mobile number if you didn't get a connection, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOq2Ks-aPcA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYCxtagsvdM

are two demos that I could find.

I've written so many notes regarding this. With sip service being as inexpensive as it is, and contact management software being in the cloud, it would be a very powerful tie-in. For a product in the mid to late 90s, it was very ahead of its time making road warriors very efficient.
Interview with Jen-Yi Wuu - PhD candidate and DFM intern at Mentor Graphic
Are European start-ups lazy?
I had to, two times:

- when I exchanged the HDD for a SSD.

- when my keyboard didn't respond anymore and a strip was loose

It's just the fact that they don't let you open up your owned hardware, by deliberately placing other screws.
I'd say that's part of "give context".

Most people do identify their startup in their bio, anyway.
T-Mobile will let you block your for-charge SMS. I use them on a Canadian iPhone and use Google Voice for SMS text.
It's converting a two-tier one-to-many pull system with 5 minute polling to a three-tier one-to-many-to-many push (err.. PuSH) system. More efficient, allows for quicker dissemination of update notifications.
2noobs questions:

- Do you think that it's possible to use AWS Free Usage Tier with micro instance do to that ?

- Is it possible to have a graphic interface?
Free beards for everyone: WebM and "Freedom"
I've hooked up the resetCounter function to quite a few events, including "blur". Have you got another window that's stealing the focus regularly, such as an IM client or something?
Of applications or cryptosystems?
You can type it in and try it out... :P
My Startup Advice:

Stop writing "startup advice" articles and put that energy into building your freaking product.
This is the first I've heard of the site so I just had a look. It is very polished. But is there anything to it beyond the "woah!" factor? I checked out the Goya page and it provided a fairly shallow flash montage about him.

I see it won award from TechCrunch, which describes the site as disruptive. The interface, while slick, seems like it would be an interference to any practical usage.

Is there more to it? Genuinely curious.
The idea for this comic came when I was required to design a pico-ampere measurement circuit. The circuit was uber sensitive to just about anything including hands, cables, vibrations, etc.

The only way to get a reliable reading was to put the entire board inside a metal enclosure - but that of course limits your ability to debug the circuit.
I had a lot of fun writing this, and it's great to see it taking off. Waiting 2 minutes was impossible for me, I had to set the counter to 2 seconds while testing it! :)
> so many of the trustfunded hipsters here

How are you identifying "trustfunded hipsters" and how do you know that you're correct? Or, are you just assuming something about people whom you don't like that lets you feel good about yourself?

Data point - I don't have a trust fund and I'm too old to be a hipster. My parents are comfortable now but grew up below "dirt-poor".
In fact, the mazes are implemented in CoffeeScript:

https://github.com/jamis/csmazes
Years ago I visited Vanuatu. A small pacific island.

The people there were incredibly laid-back and friendly. When traveling around the island by bus, the people in the fields would literally look up as we passed and wave. When I asked a tour guide why, he said it was because they were happy and wanted to wave to us because as tourists they knew we were contributing to their economy.

At the time, I thought they seemed to be the happiest people I'd ever met living on an island paradise.

Did a google search for 'happy vanuatu' and lo-and-behold:
"The 178-nation "Happy Planet Index" lists the south Pacific island of Vanuatu as the happiest nation on the planet, while the UK is ranked 108th." (2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5169448.stm

The submitted article is bollocks.
US Companies Dump Billions into China
Why public markets fail to serve small and mid cap companies
Is there something new here? PubSubHubbub has been out for a while.

(Not trying to be a snob...just seeing if I'm missing something...)
Confessions of a procrastinator
Well done, the waves are actually quite relaxing.
I'm Only Socially Isolated When We're Together
One reason that someone might want to do this (besides learning about ec2) is if they are itinerant. For example, suppose you work for a company where you travel a lot and there are restrictions on vpn usage--you could start an instance of this (assuming that you can still comply with the IP/PII policies of your workplace) and access it from anywhere.

Another thought--if you are playing with web services such as twilio for example, you need an IP address for the response to your REST requests--this could be a problem for people doing development at home without a static ip (sure, you could use localtunnel, but this does have some appeal). This way, you can test this on your development machine without going live...

Anywho, just a few thoughts.
Installed for one of our production servers for InvisibleHand (http://www.getinvisiblehand.com).

- the default 40 minutes dot dying interval is way too high. I changed it to 5 seconds, otherwise the browser was unable to redraw all the dots.

- You'll have to install all the libraries it complains about manually

- It doesn't work with the current stable version of Node.js but if you install 0.3.1 manually, it's ok. I haven't tried the latest unstable, though

- It requires patching if it must be used on EC2: the local interface to bind to and the public IP are different on EC2 but maptail assumed they are the same

Everybody in the office loves how the screen looks, so I emailed the author to discuss if he's interested in joining our company :)
Distributed Fortran, Java, and ARM to X86 Cross Compilation
I just learned how to do this! If anyone's interested I could write out the steps for doing this on Ubuntu.

I've been toying with the idea of offering managed dev environment using this. Some pain points it would solve:
-no new installation/configuration when you buy a new laptop
-let an outsourced sysadmin take care of annoying things like installing java, adding environment variables, installing mobile app sdk's etc.
-environment is accessible anywhere you have Internet access

The ultimate benefit is: spend less time installing things and more time developing.

I probably don't know enough about UNIX to do this myself, but I think it's a worthy idea.
Nice. Doing arithmetic encoding might be a good continuation.
:-) I wanted to test out the device-independant quester events after I saw this from Boaz: http://code.bocoup.com/html5logo/
It would be fun to see a graph of how long people last. :)
LessLettuce v1.1
Their business model is steal content with proven attention quality and then publish it with dubious marketing and sell advertisement on this. This is the same business model Ebaumsworld had.

Also I'd be very wary of investing my money on people with such malleable ethics. But I guess with so many new VCs without a clue there's a lot of money to be made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBaums_World
When I find myself spending time over and over again on repetitive tasks like fighting an inadequate editor or tools, or writing CRUD-like code over and over, I take some time to automate away the nuisance, for example, switching to a more appropriate editor, or refactoring out common code and only describe the differences from there on, or maybe find a better tool for the job.

I have experienced coworkers who didn't do this. They figured out how to do certain tasks and keep repeating it into eternity, without giving a thought to how they could work more efficiently.
Somebody should tell the author not to use JPEG for diagrams. There are ugly artefacts. How do you comment on that site?
1:58 FAIL

Kinda like my sex life.
Great idea! I think I can see it. I'll have to sleep on it and try to build it tomorrow. Thanks!
No incessant Techcrunch posts. (Although, hang on, actually...)
So why is anyone investing in them? That would only strengthen the bubble observation, with people just desperately throwing money at anything that has ever achieved any success (or simulates something that once had success).

"NOW WITH MORE LOL CATS!"

"THE MILLION DOLLAR HOMEPAGE IS NOW OFFERING FRANCHISES!"

"TRON GUY CELEBRITY APPEARANCES INCORPORATED"

"FAIL BLOG, NOW WITH 40% MORE FAIL!"
Here are a few guesses—
1. The Constitution doesn't prevent it.
2. Citizens haven't voted to stop it.
3. People still want citizenship/residence, so they must be "worth" the tax burden.
4. The tax code doesn't really care about tax-payer's use of resources. Not using public resources is no excuse for not paying federal income tax.
5. The U.S. government is afraid of people hiding income overseas. We lose money. Countries may begin a income tax race to the bottom.

Note, the government doesn't tax all foreign income, only citizens and residents. There are even deductions available to citizens living abroad.
This summer, we joined the first class at i/o ventures out the of Mission in San Francisco (http://ventures.io), after being rejected from YC many times.

We had three things we where hoping to get out of joining an incubator and i/o seemed to offer these things (plus it was in the mission in SF, which rules):

1) Ability to hang out with other people doing start-ups. My co-founder and I had been coding alone for the last few years and we really wanted some people to develop relationships with who were doing the same types of things as us.

2) Introduction to the top angel investors in the valley (to get our next round of funding). The guys at i/o definitely gave us a huge amount of introductions. There were 150 angel investor / VCs at our demo day for only 6 companies (that is a pretty badass ratio!)

3) Help with our product. While we thought we knew what we were doing, the guys at i/o taught us a lot about how to build products people want.

Overall the experience for us was great. From the time we joined in June we went from around 200K users to over 1.7 million users today. We just recently wrapped up our seed round of funding (400K) from some of the top investors in the valley, including Charles River Ventures and Dave McClure's 500 Startups. Additionally we made friends that will last a lifetime.

i/o has one of the best track records I have heard of as well. There were 6 companies that joined, 3 of those companies (including us) went on to raise a solid seed round, 2 were acquired and 1... well is pivoting, so we will see what happens with them.

Jim Young (Hot or Not) was the main i/o partner who got us to join. I will never forget the way he described incubators (as it was one of the main reasons we joined as opposed to waiting for the next YC cycle). He said, "Incubators are like martial art houses, different incubators specialize in different things depending on what you want to do." I found this really true with i/o, because they seemed to specialize in costumer facing startups based around social media and entertainment. That was exactly us so it was a perfect fit.

One main point is this, there are many good people out there who can get you to where you want to go. YC is just one of many routes to what I think is every entrepreneurs goal: Building a successful company that greatly benefits your life.

Enjoy yourselves!
Someone should make a hard polymer mold kit to create your own custom drivers on the end of a Torx tip. This would be able to adapt to any screw companies could devise, and would probably be safer from stripping the screws than improvised drivers. It would also keep repair people from asking questions about changed screws. Most importantly, it would defeat companies' attempts to keep us out of our own property. These tips wouldn't be as durable, obviously, but the typical user only needs this sort of things a few times a year.
Persistent desktop accessible from anywhere via VPN.