skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's arbitrary, but this is a better implementation then most, BECAUSE of the link.

I don't actually mind the normal model of books... Sure, the reproduction costs are now tiny, but that shouldn't shrink the cost of the good to nothing.

The distribution of most pop goods has ALWAYS been cheaper, much cheaper, then the cost of the product. I don't see why the internet making it even cheaper nesscessarily means the product should become free, because as nice as that would be, free books won't keep their authors in anything but ramen. Maybe. If they're popular. And sponsored by people who make money not selling goods.
Oh how I wish this was intended as a joke.
I really like the dessert "structures" - highly informative in a "Good Eats" kind of way.
This response strikes me as being unnecessarily defensive. If your response to criticism is to dismiss it because you already have great traction, why do you want us to review it?

Still, hats off to you for actually sticking with a vision and building something. Best of luck and great job,
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The free new handset I got from Sprint in exchange for renewing my contract came with 2.2, and they had tons of them in stock.
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I just typed "utor" into google, waited a bit, and "uTorrent" appeared in the dropdown just fine.
So you're suggesting that women might be less likely to found companies that have big exits, and be more likely to try to found lifestyle businesses? Interesting.

I'm curious, do you have any numbers to back up this claim?
we asked kissmetrics for clarification - apparently order matters to the day right now with them, but they're changing it to be to the second.
Over the past year, Oracle's strategy for running open-source projects created by Sun has become clear. It's determined to retain control of names and roadmaps. And in an effort to justify this stance, it inevitably cites the wellbeing of Oracle customers and Oracle shareholders.

I'm not sure if this is truly Oracle's strategy or not, but if it is, it certainly seems to be a poor one. Whatever control they retain will come at the cost of alienating a huge majority of the developers to the project core and plugins whose paychecks are not signed by Oracle.

The only development like to continue in their version of "Hudson" will be that which Oracle or it's partners directly sponsor.

Retain the name but lose the people that actually make the project seems like a poor strategy.
Pretty sure the GP is referring to pattern matching as it exists in ML or Scala. Or, somewhat less elegantly (given the constraints of the language) something like what https://github.com/jfd/match-js does.
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The thin edge of the wedge, perhaps?
After Googling, it doesn't appear that there is a Android app of CardMunch. Or am I mistaken?
Yes, I use Quora. They didn't make me go through an endless questionnaire before showing me the goods (content).

Not sure what you mean by "It requires a little bit of effort for us to pull some basic info"?
It doesn't even take prolonged periods (for me at least).

I was participating in an obfuscated code contest a while back (making a simple command line multi-function calculator), and since I knew I couldn't compete on line noise I decided to try obfuscation through architecture. Somewhere around writing a RightSideOperandInterface (so I could catch division by 0), it managed to get into my head that it was actually more robust and extensible than doing it any other way. I came to my senses slightly after submitting it.
I think it may well likely violate SEC and/or lottery regulations.

From what I read, it sounds like you're running a lottery (buy a square for a chance to win $10k).

Then on top of that, you are calling the $10k an 'investment', which I think means that YOU have to be potentially considered an accredited investor if it's an investment and not a loan.

Aside from that, the kind of business that only needs a $10k investment is also likely to be one that it will be a VERY long time before that business can shake loose $10k of their own to give away as an investment (please deal with the legal issues of doing so)

I seems like a nice idea, fraught with grey legalities that you should probably at least get professional advice on.
Looking at 14 year olds isn't going to help the 30 year olds who did stick with STEM and are here right now. It's great to help girls, but I have to wonder that that is so often the answer when grown women point out there are problems.
FYI, if you are interested in a straight list of the APIs, you can browse them here:
http://code.google.com/more/

I believe the periodic table data is based on or generated from that list.

We do have quite a few APIs over overlapping areas, so the periodic table is a nice alternative way to get a feel for them.
A friend wrote a neat C one a while back: http://dwcope.freeshell.org/projects/spinningquine/
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My own two cents on the "finding a technical co-founder" section: Be aware of the differences between actual software development and normal IT work.

While there are quite a few IT people who are very good at programming and even do it as part of their job, the skills required for maintaining a server farm and developing an application are very different.

Of course, anyone with strong skills in both IT and development is likely to be a hero in a small startup. :-)
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Just noticed this update to gmail a few minutes ago. Looks like it's a webkit feature though, and only chrome specific for the time being.

Check some example code here: http://www.210computing.com/google/chrome_notifications.html

And the draft API here: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/desktop-...
I think execution on this is really great, even if the copy needs work.

I worked on vaguely similar concept about 12 months ago and it is definitely an interesting space. Our angle was to try to remove the need for a real estate agent by empowering landlords.

My advice for your system is to get out there and sell, sell, sell. You'll only get better by direct sales, you'll only get traction via direct sales. They won't come to you, you'll need to bust your ass convincing them to get on board. If you do that then the copy doesn't mean a thing.
It would be helpful to have a little more info about the app on your site.

For example, it seems like it might only be for NYC restaurants given that it is an NYC BigApps submission and with 4Sq being so NY orientated.

For example, will it notify be of a bad restaurant in Palo Alto?
To my way of thinking, this is exactly the kind of stuff that makes mobile computing so exciting: Choice and control.

Imagine when folks are able to be just as discerning when they are shopping for clothes (was this made in a sweat shop? is it american-made?) or grocery shopping (were these chickens treated humanly?).

Good work man! The digital democracy is coming.
Track anything, collect data and gain insight over time
very interesting concept for sure...How do you plan to distinguish from Yelp and people commenting on Facebook?
This device has dedicated gaming controls. Most smart phones don't.
I second this. Fill out the About section some more.
There are a whole heap of competitors in this space. I would say the way to get ahead is via a direct sales force.
I was on the bus last year and couldn't afford the SxSW admission. It was still one of the best things I've ever done and many things I did and learned in the last year were enabled more or less directly by the StartupBu
I know that at least one hacker is working on getting Android running on these things.
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$ wget <my book URL> -O filename

Isn't it now a file?
Google is putting the interests of other corporations over those of its users or investors. This is not a laughing matter.
This is my opinion only, and I'm not a lawyer.

I read that as the management didn't think of you highly enough, or that they don't think you could pull it off or that what you did is significant enough. They may also have no incentive to dilute their shares for a workable solution by their existing employees (NIH?). Anyway to look at it, it is bad.

In other comments others mentioned non-compete. At least in California non-compete is pretty much unenforcible, but IP right protection is. During your employment they do have IP rights to inventions you made unless (a) they are not in the same field or (b) you have disclosed it as prior invention per a typical employment agreement. Now that since (a) no longer applies, you better make sure you notify them and file a formal amendment to your employment agreement that whatever you worked on is considered prior invention. Or else from now on they may claim the right to not just what you're about to do, but also the hard work you've done. This is serious stuff. People and companies had been destroyed by like this. Either way, I think you can no longer continue your moonlight path on this very subject under their employment (unless you get them to put an exception clause to your employment contract, but I doubt they'll entertain that). I hope you work out something with them so they use your stuff and reward you.
There are echoes here of the "Beacon" fiasco --- in which Facebook was briefly broadcasting users' activity on third-party sites (particularly on-line purchases) to their Facebook friends, whether the users wanted that broadcast or not. This isn't quite the same thing, but you can certainly imagine it going wrong in some of the same ways...
Do you mean "is not particularly hard to build"?
And after reading this comment (http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2145939) it's guaranteed! </snark>
I know this is a broad statement on my part. Apples says the following in the hello world tutorial, "In general, however, you should try to avoid using autorelease wherever possible since it means memory may be reclaimed later than it would be if you used release."
Good point. I didn't expect it to make HN. To answer your question: no, it does not work outside of NYC. It uses data provided by the city.
Apply this to actual products and services...Game over man, game over.
This could be exactly the kind of spark 4square needs.

You know, what scrabble was to facebook and "googling my name" was for google.
One thing I didn't elaborate on: Imagine pairing this with augmented reality. Instantly know who everybody is on the street, in a bar, etc.

Quite creepy.
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Let your users/readers invite you to talk. What does YC think?
"Visualization is not Periodic, Period!"
http://eagereyes.org/blog/2009/visualization-is-not-periodic...
Also in a similar niche are the Always Innovating products:
http://alwaysinnovating.com/
As you read the books suggested by others, I would also suggest referencing ( http://www.investopedia.com/ ) when you are unfamiliar with investment terminology. Per your link, it's a great tool for defining Mkt Cap., P/E, etc.
Excellent idea guys. Congrats on launching.
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Noticed that, as well. Interesting that the blog post from Google says that they are trying to make this a feature of the "standard Web platform."

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/desktop-notifications-...
Poll: Where do you work (physically)?
Inspired by confusion about this poll question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250

Where do you physically do most of your work?
An office (not a home office)
A coworking space
A coffee shop (or other casual venue)
At home, in a distinct office
At home, without a distinct office
Other (please comment below)
These answers don't make sense because I don't do my work at a computer.
According to the lawyer that I spoke with, I think I'm ok from a legal stance because you're not actually buying a chance to win 10k. You're buying a product (advertising on TweetFolk.com), and I'm simply selecting an idea from the pool of customers and making an investment in them.

From an accredited investor point of view, I don't think that applies. I've spoken with a number of VC friends of mine and they said that I'm in the clear. I can give 10K to anyone I want, from my wife to a random stranger I've never met before. The terms are just based on the agreement.

As for shaking off $10K being a very long time, I disagree. Many startups kick off with 10K and make a profit in their first year, especially in the product space. 10K is enough money for a young person to leave their job for a few months to build an invoice suite or iPhone application. It's just enough freedom to let you move on your idea.
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I was confused too, so I decided to create the work-location: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2146037
Would it be possible to recreate something like this as a Chrome extension?
Nor a blackbeery app... Though id prefer an android one.
Using compression to speed up IO/processing
Yeah I've thought about it before, and I suspect Facebook would likely object on copyright grounds. You could argue that it's simply an index to a visual search engine.

I wouldn't be surprised if people had done this though, just not made it publicly available.
My kitchen table. I bought a desk some months back but cannot fit a phone, laptop, and spare monitor on it at the same time, and I like having all three for doing work on Appointment Reminder.

Sometime this year I will probably rent a proper office at the local incubator.
I see that as a hardware problem, not an android problem. It's still the consumer's responsibility to do their homework and not buy devices that suck. Crappy COMPAQs didn't make people stop using Windows.
Sweet - just downloaded the free app!
Just iPhone right now, I've been bugging them for an Android app for a month or two now :).

Congrats guys: go CMU alums!
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Another reason to use DuckDuckGo. Slowly but surely Google is losing the patronage of nerds everywhere. Censorship like this will help to ensure an even more rapid abandonment.
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Well, I think that's it and you're right.
This company rocks!
Because it's cargo culting. The periodic table looks the way it does because it's about the relationships between the different elements organized spatially on the page. Because of that, it also lets us predict elements we haven't discovered yet! Amazing!

There's really no reason that the relationship between typography, dessert, vegetables, google apis look anything like the relationship between the elements. If it did, we'd really be on to something!

But! If the relationships between google apis isn't at all like the elements, what would it look like? And even more interesting, if there are missing spaces, that means there are google apis not yet written that we can look forward to!

http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/periodic/

Is an example where someone did a periodic table that tried to use space as a way to convey information about the relationship between the perl operators. Notice how it looks nothing like the PTofE. It has its own structure because the relationship between perl operators is different than the relationship between the elements.

Those of us that are sticklers about this feel so, probably because we find the beauty of the actual meaning behind the structure of the periodic table much much more interesting and beautiful than any joke you can make from it.

Sometimes, jokes are funny because they're the truth that no one wants to say. Like when Chris Rock says, "[When listening to your woman], you've always got to throw in 'told you that bitch crazy', because every woman has another woman at their work, that they can't stand"

Other times, jokes are funny because one doesn't know any better. Like when Chris Rock says, "If they can send a space shuttle to the moon, why can't they make an El Dorado with a bumper that doesn't fall off?"
Excellent, now maybe they can get an Android version out.
"Female would-be starlets: learn more about the movie industry by going out to dinner with established directors!"

It's different when you go to the link and realize it's a female's blog (and an established startup mentor too, at that), but the title does kind of give off a 'casting couch' vibe.
Does this work on Linux?
ugh, yep I did - edited. Thanks for the catch :) it's late and I've been typing a report for the last 5 hours or so ;)
GitHub has a wonderful 404 page
I sell plenty of web software to churches. My experience is that many are big into web as a way of both organising and delivering content to their existing congregation, but also as a low-impact way of extending their reach both within and beyond their communities.

Then there's all the side-charity-businesses that churches often run, like adoption services, funeral services, education, etc etc etc.

While some are often done by a tech-savvy member of the church on a strict budget, others are built by teams and seemingly have healthy budgets.

In short - www and churches is a growing segment in my anecdotal experience. Put it this way, I see more churches than, say, auto mechanics or pet shops.
Like I mentioned in my other post, I like to alternate my locations every couple months because otherwise I lose my creativity.

Currently, working from a hipster coffee shop. Makes for interesting scenery.

Previously, I worked at a tea cafe whose website I built, so I got all my drinks for free.

And before that I worked at a local coworking facility.
There are a bunch of patterns that simply disappear, or are greatly simplified when you have first class functions in your language, namely, observer, strategy, visitor, and a bunch of others i can't remember right now
You're welcome :) I found it via Cody Brown and thought it was interesting.
I wonder about the legality of this. Can Facebook claim ownership of your data and block this?
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it is similar to a service that was mentioned on hacker news a week ago or so: http://www.newsfeedemail.com/

just putting that out there as a datapoint.
I thought that feature was cut from Google Goggles because of the creepy feeling.
Any way to use one of those on Verizon? Googling around, people claim that (a) the F3c (CDMA version) isn’t available in the US, and (b) non-Verizon-branded phones can’t be made to work on their network.
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If possible, you should also raise flags for restaurants that have low scores in their initial inspection, but corrected it in the follow-up. You'll see lots of restaurants hit with a failing number of points, then they get the mandated follow-up visit the next week which they "clean" up their act and get an A (and all its privileges). I want to know if the restaurant I'm eating at is one of those so that I can make an informed decision and possibly avoid it. The grade postings only show the last grade, and not the last 5 or 10 point scores.

You can also issue a warning for a serial offender, one that makes a habit of repeated high and low scores.
I do not know either of those things. However, you are a landlord. To me, it is highly likely that your customers don't like your customer service.

I have hated every single landlord I've ever had. They have no online payment systems. I can't lodge tickets easily. I have no transparency if work is being done, if my ticket is moving.

The reason your customers whine is because they LIVE in those properties. You're making a fair chunk of money from having someone live there, and for the most part it seems the estate agents just want to take their cut and have the customers leave them alone.

It's so prevalent that I now assume it's the default case for real estate: sucking.
I'm two and a half hours west, but I'll plan on a pilgrimage!
Yes, your options for recourse are numerous and likely to cause YOU significant pain.

Why should my option be "Sue or pay thousands of dollars to move" if the landlord just elects not to fix something?
I think you would see JRuby used as an industry de facto before you would see Scala.
I’m not really sure why I need faith to be fairly certain that the sun will rise tomorrow. I don’t need to be certain in any absolute terms, being extremely certain based on past evidence is good enough for me. I’m not plagued by doubt and suggesting that living without faith would leave one in doubt seems dubious to me.

I can work with not being absolutely certain.
right, oracle easily beats most of these so called web company. small ponds, people.

one deal from these companies can feed a cool startup for 3 years.
Bummer. In the Inland Empire area for business and would be willing to drive down but now I've got something else going on.
Or as a Kohana module: https://github.com/DanHulton/kohana-jscompile

(Plug warning - I wrote this.)
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Interesting timing. tdfx just asked for this 8 hours ago.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2143881

What powerful influence!
I always think it's funny when I buy mate and it's spelled "maté." I don't want to slaughter myself with any caffeinated beverage.
Other: my garage... but there's two small offices built out here.
Accurate face identification over millions of identities without any context at all remains challenging. Fortunately or unfortunately, though, machine-readable context that can constrain the search is accumulating quickly.
Why do many men often have more power than women do in general?

I suspect those are the same reasons that women are less inclined to start a business.

Men are more inclined to leave where they grew up, venture out, confront the unknown, focus on just one thing relentlessly and disagree with the group.

That doesn't mean women don't or can't, just that they are less likely to, for whatever reasons.
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I like upping the sloppiness on layers 2 and 4 to make a sort of "Two-Face" logo: http://imgur.com/z1iSH
Good points, thanks. According to the NYC health department, the followup visit is "roughly" within the next month after the failed inspection -- but my guess is that they fall behind often. This is truly a MVP but I will continue to develop it if there is enough demand.
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I don't like Blue Bottle Coffee, we prefer Ritual.
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What? Hayes Valley Roast slays anything Ritual can throw down. Blue Bottle forever!!
To quote myself, yesterday: ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140893 )

It's really easy to get customer service from G. They provide, free, to each
customer their famous "fuck off and die while we totally ignore you" brand of
customer service that has propelled them to the very bottom of JD Power Customer
Service Surveys.

Or, you can have a blog with huge reach and bitch on that, whence Matt Cutts
will swoop out of the sky to cover up their fuckups. viz slow email and
Gabriel Weinberg.

So the real question is if you complain on the internet, how many people hear
you? Honestly, letting G get their hands on anything that's critical to your
life seems an enormous mistake, unless it wouldn't be a big problem for you
if your phone stops working.

What a perfect example -- Patrick is going for the "have enough readers that G gets embarrassed when you bitch" customer service plan. The only problem is most of us don't have that many readers.
ah yes, the coffee wars are alive and well here in San Francisco. what is it about their coffee you like more... you get heart swirls on top of the blue bottle mocha!