skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense. Nobody has the credibility Apple has in this space. When Apple put iPads in the stores, everyone paid attention and took for granted it was something potentially great. Samsung has no credibility, so they are fighting against the tablet novelty and a huge history of "me-too" devices put out to compete with Apple. (I'm thinking of the "iPhone competitor" phones many companies put out that were nothing but cell phones with a color interface, a gimmicky touch screen, some horrid interface for playing mp3s, and a crippled browser.)

Ordinary consumers will not feel comfortable buying non-Apple tablets until they have a better idea what a tablet actually is and how to shop for one.
TheFind (http://www.thefind.com), Mountain View

TheFind is solving fundamental problems in information extraction and search by using applied machine learning. We successfully crawl and extract products from a billion web pages. We currently have 25MM+ users visiting thefind.com every month, and are growing 100% YOY.

Our goal is to build a product focussed on all aspects of the shopping process like comprehensive selection, price comparison, coupons, product reviews, sentiment analysis, shopping at local stores, eco-friendly shopping, hot trends, shopping based on your personal and friend's tastes, mobile shopping etc.

If you've worked on things like information extraction, search relevance, text mining, big data etc. and would love to architect solutions to challenging problems, please email our CTO at kshashi _AT_ thefind _DOT_ com
I understand how the API works, but there is no publicly documented call for liking something for a user, whichh is what yelp and youtube are able to do.
Airfare prices seem line a swindle as they fluctuate - air miles are a swindle
Talk is cheap.

I don't mean that as a criticism of Obama specifically. There is a long history of people promising tax simplification. Very little has ever happened, quickly erased by further complexification.

(Broadly speaking, they're doing it wrong. The solution to a too-complicated tax code is to fix the incentives Congress has to make a complicated tax code, then let the problem address itself incrementally over several years. Simply burning straight for simplication without addressing the underlying problems is doomed to failure. Of course, trying to address the underlying problems is also mostly doomed to failure, so shrug.)
PainCamp: finding real problems for entrepreneurs to solve
Sharp. Informative. Funny. Absolutely Right On Tristan. You certainly got my attention. Sue
This onion article is now more relevant than ever:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/recessionplagued-nation-dem...
Apple: 4% of the Mobile Market, 51% of Its Profits
> I don't care if he taught a cat to fish for tuna

I'm going to try and remember that phrase; it sounds like it has 1,001 fun uses. :-)
I don't get it. Is this a forum with special rules prohibiting advanced rhetoric, or a natural-language processing tool, or a rationalist movement?
http://trackjumper.com is more or less the first version that was released.

You'll notice the design is less than inspired, there is only one subscription plan, and the product tour is weak. The product itself is a little disorganized, but functional.
All in all, it was good enough to release and get paying customers, but not good enough to be proud of or convert at the level I'd like to see.

Check back in about a week, and you'll be able to see a fairly major design upgrade. I redesigned the UI and the entire sales funnel based on customer feedback and will be wrapping that up later this week.
The price is simply wrong (for me). I haven't bought an iPad because I think they're overpriced. If either of these devices were £250 ($400) I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I did it when Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle.
What are they eating unhealthy in that movie! Boxes full of sugary donuts, cream cakes, piles of empty Coke bottles. I hope that nowadays they serve better food at those kind of companies.
Hey, now ... I bet a lot of banks do it, so it must be okay. :-/

Between that, and mandating short passwords, which a LOT of banks do. :-(
how does this compare to openhatch.org?
I often wish I had attended a big-name university.

When I chose a college, I didn't give it much thought. I didn't get much advice or guidance on what a big decision choosing a college was. Plus, I would have been too scared to move very far away from Nebraska, where I was born and raised. I wasn't surrounded by people who encouraged - or even considered - this sort of behavior.

Through a crazy turn of events, I eventually ended up living and working in Silicon Valley. I met many people who went to Stanford, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, and found that I got along with them very well. It was the first time I was surrounded by people I understood, and I was 25 years old.

With my upbringing, I expected them to be God-like, but it seemed like most of them were coastal people with backgrounds through which it seemed natural for them to go to schools like that.

I made some great connections in the valley, but I still think I could have done better if I had college friends there from one of these universities. There was nobody in my social and professional circles that was from my school. Meanwhile, college friends from these schools were starting successful startups.

Everything has turned out pretty well so far, but I often wonder what my life would be like if I had been encouraged to try to go to a better school.
The system quellhorst describes does not require the user to know the password, or even their own username. They click the link in the email and they are automatically logged in; it's an alternate authentication scheme. If they have lost their password that's a separate issue that should be handled separately but similarly by emailing them a link, again with an 'embedded hash', that allows them to reset their password.

The assumption of course is that they and only they can access the email address specified in their account profile. If that's not the case then this all becomes a bit more problematic.
Intel's Billion-Dollar Mistake
Bump (Mountain View, CA)

Come work with me!!! I do iPhone magic at Bump.

We are hiring lots of positions in iPhone, Android, Web Dev (HTML etc), Systems Engineerings, Algorithms, and Designer positions too.

http://bu.mp/jobs
I will only say this about the Tab: They're crazy durable. I've dropped mine an absurd number of times from absurd heights. That gorilla glass is something.
Kontagent (San Francisco, CA)

We are looking for developers and sales:

http://www.kontagent.com/jobs/

I've joined the startup a few weeks ago as a developer. We are pursuing multiple initiatives and I excited to start contributing right away. Our technology stack includes JavaScript, Python, Django, MySQL, data warehousing, etc. Free group lunch is served daily.

Remote a possibility for top notch people. Some developers comes in San Francisco every few weeks or every few months.

Kontagent measures people, not pages, and is a leading analytics platform for social application developers. The platform has been built to provide deep social behavior analysis and visualization that provides actionable insights via a hosted, on-demand service. It works with many of the world’s largest developers and brands, tracking thousands of social applications and games with over 70 million monthly active users.
Well, Quick Sync (the new transcode stuff built into Sandy Bridge) is suppose to be the shit. As in just as good, or better than GPU solutions, and less power draw.

Zooom.

Honestly, I'm actually super excited about Sandy Bridge. I think if you downclock the i7s enough, you can get a quad core under 40W, probably clocked round 2.6 or something. And it'd still have turbo boost on, so single/dual thread performance will still be really competitive.
Part two: http://howtohft.blogspot.com/2011/01/building-trading-system...
Unfortunately that doesn't work from behind most corp proxies. They see the Google cache (and even Google Translate) as an evil way to get around their restrictions.
Could be interesting to integrate with http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/Notif...

I know Chrome supports them already, maybe others will too (soonish).
Affiliate Marketing in 2030
Weebly (San Francisco, CA)

We're looking for 2 front-end developers. There's a puzzle at http://www.weebly.com/jobs.html -- see if you can solve it under 30 minutes

(Remote is not a possibility)
Suppose you're correct and you would be Ramen Profitable by June (4 months). Taking the cash won't make you Ramen profitable today...by the time you quit your jobs and finish the project it could easily be April (2 months). So the question, "Is it worth selling 10% of the company (or whatever it is) to gain two months?"

I will add that there is greater risk in quitting your job prior to revenue than there is post revenue because taking the money and quitting is no guarantee that the venture will throw off revenue anyway (risk is times two - since your partner is also running the risks). It's one thing to grow an existing revenue stream, another to try and create one.

Sometimes on HN the emphasis on finding investors is so great that it becomes difficult to remember that the exit is where success should be measured and that taking funding means selling a portion of your company to someone with competing interests (i.e. other investments) taking up their time and energy.

Good Luck
This is VERY relevant to my interests. I can't wait to read more from you on this topic. It is amazing that you did this with two people, very inspiring!
Well I'm definitely on the Android side of things, but never would I recommend buying the Galaxy Tab over the iPad. The iPad got accused of being just a bigger iPod Touch, but here they've literally just put a phone OS, which isn't even the latest anymore, on a bigger screen. On top of that it's also smaller and more expensive than the iPad.

Things will get interesting with the arrival of Android 3.0 tablets, but for now I'd rather stay away from the Galaxy Tab.
That the Galaxy Tab is priced as such is even more frustrated when you take into account the lack of OS development occurring at Samsung.
That's what I thought you were trying to argue and I don't think you're right. Even software that does not ship with the device is covered by the GPL. Because of the new anti-DRM features of GPLv3, there is a new "loophole" that allows a limited locked down for software shipped with the device--essentially protecting some actions that were allowed under GPLv2 from the new anti-DRM provisions present inf GPLv3. While I agree that the loophole does not apply here, that does not at all mean that the rest of the GPL is not in force.

You should read the FSF's position on the App Store. They have stated that it is sufficient to rely on the "no additional restrictions" provisions in deciding that both GPLv2 and GPLv3 software cannot be distributed there. However, sufficiency is not equivalent to necessity and the FSF also mentions that GPLv3 provides additional conflicts specifically related to the App Store DRM.
reimnds me of eventvue before it died.
Don't go there if you're having a good day and want to keep it that way. I don't tear up easily.
Interview: Heroku Founder Talks About $250M Salesforce Acquisition
love this quote!
Does today's XKCD describe you?
If so, can you take 3 minutes to answer a quick survey on why you want to cook more often? (You'll be helping a side project of mine and I'm happy to return the favor.)
I also work at Bump and even though they're technically paying me, they're not paying me to say this: Bump is a super fun place to work! Join us!
* will not attack anything someone says just because I think they frequently say stupid stuff.*

That's where we differ. I don't attack Siegler as a person. I don't have any reason to believe isn't a great guy. But I do think his writing shows a very strong bias.

It seems like your broader point is that its just tech writing -- who cares? And I generally agree. I certainly don't lose any sleep over it, but I do think it is fair game to comment on in the spirit of commenting on things that generally don't matter that much.

Do you really believe he should cover Microsoft and Apple equally?

Yes. Or at least cover them fairly. But I don't expect that he will. And he probably gets paid not to. He's the Sean Hannity of tech journalism. Everyone knows what he's going to say, and that it will be a trainwreck, but you tune in anyways -- because its a trainwreck. Good work if you can find it.
"Ordinary consumers will not feel comfortable buying non-Apple tablets until they have a better idea what a tablet actually is and how to shop for one."

Bizarre.

The Tab hasn't sold well simply because it's not that great of a product (largely because it came with Froyo which is decidedly not ready for the form factor), sold at a really high price. I'm an Android guy, but I had zero interest in the device (just as I have no interest in the Nexus S).

The upcoming Honeycomb devices are far more convincing, however.
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Poll HN: Are you more likely to apply to YC now that you could get $150K? 
I'm curious if the offer of a guaranteed investment of $150K would convince people who wouldn't otherwise be interested to try YC, or if the amount of money YC startups are getting is largely irrelevant.
Yes, I wasn't going to apply to YC before but the guaranteed extra funding changed my mind
No, I was going to apply to YC anyway
Other/I'm not applying to YC for another reason
Very cool stuff! Its a shame you listed java in the system admin posting.
These [incorrect] rules are not explicitly stated in the methods; we inferred them... from formulae embedded in Excel files...

One of the things that most puts me off from using spreadsheets is the difficulty of validating calculations. The formulae themselves are not visible, so it takes a lot of mousing around to convince yourself the cells do what you think they should. For example, I've seen problems where a long "vector" calculation is correct in the upper reaches, and wrong down below, due to failure to completely "fill down" the calculation.

I wonder how many of the spreadsheets studied by Baggerly and Coombes expressed input errors, rather than errors of understanding?
Nice work. I'm stealing the js-style `arguments` variable idea, by the way. It makes complete sense to have.

I still can't agree with breaking CSS compatibility, though.
New Transistor for Plastic Electronics Exhibits the Best of Both Worlds
Stanford and Intel test the boundaries of visual computing
We are also hiring interns, just apply to any of those jobs and say you are interested in interning.
Resolution Urges White House To Keep UN Away From Net
Android tops everyone in 2010 market share; 2011 may be different
I learned that Bump was hiring through one of these threads last year. I am currently gainfully employed here.
Cindy: Might wanna remove that html {overflow:hidden}

Your site doesn't scroll, obscuring the rest of that form (OSX 10.6, FFox 4.0b10)
Graphene and 'spintronics' combo looks promising
My co-founder and I have been planning on applying since we started working on our prototype. The announcement of the 150K definitely helped my wife rest easier about the decision. Either way we want to do YC not for the money, but for the mentorship and growth that is difficult to attain here in the Midwest.
I use Quickbooks for OSX, cash accounting, and update it monthly by manually entering revenues/expenses. It's worth it to avoid the end of year pain of doing it all at once, and you force yourself to really understand your expenses day to day.
It seems to me there is a fundamental difference between today's market and the dotcom bubble. Right now, sites with ridiculous valuations actually provide a great deal of value. Facebook has >500,000,000 people using it and makes a great deal of money. Groupon also makes a great deal of money. Google too.

Sure, it seems like we might be in a bubble, but at the same time things seem different.
Not at HN, apparently...
No, this isn't Apple's business and if you think this is how they operate then you haven't been paying attention. An SSD degradation issue would destroy the trust they (Apple) have built into their brand in a way that the supposed "scandal" of Antennagate never could.
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From what is written in the post it seems that they managed to solve both problems.

"Fresh out of college... trading tens of millions of shares daily for a billion-dollar hedge fund."
"The mid 2000's when I finished college..."
"My firm finally went out of business in 2010 for a number of reasons."
Facebook Owned 42% of Egyptian Web Traffic Before Blackout
I've switched to using Alfred, and I'll never go back. Bought the powerpack as well for those handy extra features. It's fast as heck, and has a lot of little niceties, but while I never liked LaunchBar, Alfred is just fantastic.

It's also available from the Mac app store, or you can grab it from the website (http://www.alfredapp.com/). Highly recommended.
My point is that your conclusion was solely based on what you "know" and not what's really going on. You've illustrated my point very clearly. You "know" three things:

a) SSDs "need" TRIM support and driver support or the storage performance will greatly suffer
b) Apple doesn't support TRIM, at least not officially
c) Apple hasn't stated they will have TRIM support in the future

and from those three things, you're just sure that Apple's customers will pay some terrible price.

But you need to ask a few questions to back up what you "know":

1) Where are all of the "my MBA/MBP slows to crawl when the SSD is full" complaints?
2) Why would Apple bet the future of their OS X and iOS line of products on storage performance that painfully degrades with usage?
3) When, ever, has Apple displayed a stunning lack of foresight with their technology shifts that left millions of customers to twist in the wind?

When you add these to the mix, something doesn't add up. That should cause you to pause for a moment and say, hmm, perhaps I don't "know" everything. My reply was supposed to get you to say, "ah, I hadn't considered that." I was adding to the discussion by (trying to) provoke a bit of insightful reasoning beyond the typical "I'm sure I know what I'm talking about even though I haven't tested it."

Ignore me, though. It's just a debate with our opinions and perspectives. Look at the data, instead.

ugh's comment deserves to be upvoted because it links to benchmarked testing of Apple's SSD-bearing devices. The conclusion is clear: Apple's SSD performance isn't affected by a) and thus your line of reasoning is garbage. They were stunned and you should be too. I can confirm these benchmarks, if you don't trust them, by filling up the SSD on my own MBA. No performance penalties that I can see.

So, at least one of the three things that you "know" from a), b), and c) is wrong. Since you seemed to be teetering on the side of Schadenfreude with your original comment, I'm going to guess that you generally avoid Apple products and had genuinely wished that you were right or will be proven right. Ask yourself some questions from a different perspective next time or, better yet, look up some hard data. That way you will either learn that you are wrong earlier or will have some evidence to back up your opinion.
It's not a forum and it's not a movement(yet?). It's a web platform designed for 1 on 1 debates with spectators as well as argument presentation. But it combines rules and simple natural language processing.

For example, one of the rules is, when presenting an argument, you cannot ask a question. We try to check for questions in your argument and warn you against them.
I'm always interested to see where the first design comes from.

Did you guys have any inspiration?

Did you start with a template and tweak it?

Do you have a solid design guy on your team?
So then you look at whose word seems more reliable. It would be very weird if all of Markus' employees plus one of his competitors made this crap up. It would be much less so if Russo were trying to avoid the repercussions of his actions.
tl;dr = The influx of potential startups due to Yuri's $150k investment offer is going to cause problems for PG and YC.
> It sounds as if Russo denies having any data

I don't get that impression - I imagine that if he didn't have any data, he'd say so explicitly. If he didn't have data, though, I'd totally agree with your observations.

> I guess time will tell.

Indeed.
Anyone, please ?
Mixpanel (San Francisco, CA)

We're looking for frontend engineers, a designer, and backend/data engineers.

We're also hiring interns!

http://mixpanel.com/jobs
Yours must be the only site on the whole wide internet where the logo in the masthead doesn't link to the homepage; you can then get rid of the then-redundant 'home' tab...
imo is hiring! Based in Palo Alto, CA, we are a small startup founded and funded by one of the first ten employees at Google. Our current team consists of top TopCoders, ACM ICPC World Finalists, and medalists of the International Olympiads in Informatics. We work on challenging projects that we choose from the ground up that have direct impact on our users. You can view all openings here: https://imo.im/jobs.html
Yes I used to work for one of the largest employer of graduates in the UK and we looked at this.

Equal opportunities is about not discriminating on the basis of gender, race or disability. Also various bits of legislation also prohibit discrimination on the basis of financial status, nationality, religious or political beliefs and sexual orientation (although these don't normally come under the "equal opportunities" banner).

You can legally use performance correlation in hiring (people who went to X tend to do well, so we'll prefer to hire people who went to X), as long as it doesn't violate one of the legislated areas. In the legislated areas you can only discriminate on where there's evidence for a link. So for example you can favour Computer Science students for Developer jobs over non-CS students even though that contains an implicit gender bias.
The headline is wrong; they're not recalling the processors.
Err, I don't think the H&R Block lobby is conspiring with legislators to keep taxes complicated.

The tax code is complicated because it's layer upon layer of incentives and disincentives and hacks and amendments and loopholes and counter-loopholes built up over decades. It evolved into its current state, it wasn't built this way.
Ask HN: Capitalize Internet brand name or not?
This may be somewhat trivial, but I'm wondering whether to go with a capitalized or lowercase brand name. Examples of lowercase brands: facebook, msn, amazon, twitter, craigslist, hulu. Capitalized brands: Google, YouTube, WordPress, PayPal.
Yes, it does. I'm a young bachelor, and I actually run through this exact scenario every several months. Right now I'm in the point where a few months has passed and I'm thinking of cooking again. During lunch today, I saw an advertisement for pasta primavera and thought to myself, "Wow, I should totally make some of that for Wed night when that girl wants to hang out."

I couldn't think of a real clever solution to the problem besides bundling the necessary fresh ingredients into portions that would feed one or two people. This is pretty much what a meal in a box type thing already does. Perhaps someone can come up with a better solution for this pain point.