skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will say that having large forms at the right side of the page kind threw me off. Those kind of things, you expect more towards the center.

Current background, its not at all clear what that means
The laffer curve would indicate that people would stop working and contributing once they stop getting incentivized. I would stop every year, once I hit the threshold.
Might have something to do with the wages and benefits they are getting from employment along with what sounded like great job security in the article.

This tax system is really only taking a large chunk if you have a lot to begin with, so I don't think you are going to lose your freedom because of it.
It may be just a matter of time before they follow suit. Who knows, it surely would not be a surprise.
I got a kick out log this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=393989
Is France more concentrated than the UK or the low-lying countries are? Why so empty there?

I mean, it looks empty in California too. A heat map might've looked a bit different.
Don't forget Tim Hortons.
You're right to some extent... which is why I said I can't think of any practical solution. I disagree in that I think the biggest bar is not the judgmental nature of it (we're all being judged anyway) but the fact that it would be a ton of work to categorize comments along those rules if it were not automated.

I just feel that part of the reason people descend to name-calling is because there's no feedback before they hit post. Nobody says "That's not a very good reply." Afterward, it takes someone motivated enough to call it out. In the meantime people see it and think "Lots of name calling on here." I think it's good that downvoted comments are still visible rather than removed so that people learn what is considered unacceptable.
Using SVB for a second startup; in my experience, they've been fine and even helpful. Good customer service. No experience with Square One, so I can't compare the two.
The dot next to Hudson Bay (North of Canada) => rofl. Who is this? :D
Can OpenCL be implemented on systems which do not support CUDA? I have a relatively inexpensive HP bought about 3 years ago that, well, just won't run CUDA even with an nvidia card :-)
I do not at the moment - I perhaps phrased it poorly - but the cost of the in-ground copper wire is but one part of the costs of an ISP - datacenters, call centres, exchanges + dslams, specialist staff, CEO's bonus pay, so on and so forth. To paint the cost of DSL as almost entirely maintenance of the in-ground copper is nonsense.
I'm usually very good at figuring out what an app does, but in this case I had to think about 20-30 seconds, that tells me that the explanation needs to be a bit clearer.

An interesting idea- I'll poke around and see what else I can say.
Its possible we shouldn't be too quick to infer too much from this article, however. Norway is a major oil producer and if Norway's startup creation rate is very different from Sweden and Denmark's maybe we should be looking at other factors.
This time around is different though, given that the speculation is founded on the heavy-handed hints from Nokia's own CEO during an earnings call. They didn't come out and outright admit it, but it was hard to interpret the comments in any other way than using another OS in the US while keeping at least Symbian and probably MeeGo around for the rest of the world.

Seems like a totally insane strategy though, whether that other OS is Android or WP7. Announce some new models with a new OS, admit that your own software development processes have totally failed, undermine your own developer story totally by further fragmenting the platform and by making the future of Symbian/Meego/QT uncertain. And then probably ship that phone 9 months later, when nobody cares anymore. I really hope they're doing something else.
A/B testing pitfalls and lessons learned
This is neat, i intend to use it. I've been thinking recently it would be great if there was "OkCupid for code" and once you have enough data to predict good matches for people <=> projects you could do some interesting things.
Anyone remember the 3-2-1 Contact episode (PBS show in US) where they showed this? It blew my min as a child.

Which leads me to: are there any science shows of comparable or better quality for kids today? Reruns of an 80s show won't cut it -- science has advanced considerably in the last 30 years (e.g., the controversy section from the wikipedia entry, plus all that intrawebs stuff, etc.).
Nice approach, I've always believed a coder should be able to code an application from scratch.

I wonder if on a long term your workflow is not too time consuming. We use Xcode to avoid writing each time the necessary boilerplate code that is repeated from application to application. I don't think this can be the way to go for a team of coders for example, for a single coder it could work.

Again, nice example of going to the source.
I'm amazed at Germany's dots. The whole country seems covered with them when the rest of Europe (save for the UK maybe) is sparsely represented.
I'm a co-founder at Catch, EN is the Goliath we are battling who gets a heck of a lot of press.

We are looking for hackers to join our team in SOMA. We have a bunch of ex-Metaweb and Googlers hacking on Android, iOS, JS (Google Closure), Python (Pylons), and MongoDB.

We have a crazy amount of users on Android. =)

https://catch.com/jobs

</totally shameless plug>
Germany has just abandoned compulsory military service - as a budget saving measure.

Ironically the reason for the draft in Germany was the belief that if everybody was involved with the military then it couldn't be taken over by a single political fraction.

So for exactly the same reason - if they and their sons had been dodging IEDs in middle eastern country of the month - they wouldn't be so quick to vote for any politician who wanted a war for oil
The parent sits at 38 points while being almost entirely wrong.

I want endless bandwidth as well, but this is absolutely the decline of this site, with "what I want" and "the way I present the world to support my bias" crowding out "what is real" and "actual fact".

Isn't that sort of tactic best left on reddit?
When it doesn't pan out
Israel is looking very busy
The bankers themselves are wonderful, helpful people.

The online banking (which I want to use a lot) needs a lot of work.

1) Does not allow logins from linux desktops

2) Password entry uses a virtual keyboard where you manually click on-screen letters with a mouse; this discourages logging in and encourages worse passwords.

3) The actual online interface has significant work to do to catch up to that of larger commercial banks.
Lots of functioninal things lower quality of life. That's not a very rigid or useful test.
It is anti-rational to try to establish a premise for reasoning by arbitrary assertion. In other words, an evidence-free reason is no reason at all.

Simply stating a position in order to propel a line of thought is just empty talk, to be dismissed without further consideration.
Works for me. I use an MBA as my main machine and it "just works". The first backup can take many hours, so that requires some planning, but after that, not so much.

I just forced an incremental back up and it took about 120 seconds. (Not much to push, it was only 20 minutes from last automatic one.)

If you don't spend time on the network with the backup device it isn't invisible. The backups get larger and take more time. I can see you'd have trouble if you primarily used your computer away from home, but backed up at home and only used it for a few minutes a day at home.
"the theft."

There was no theft. Their design is close to yours, but that is -not- theft.
Pure speculation.
The NYT just crossed a threshold with me: for the first time, as I clicked on the link, I thought as I did it "Ugh, I'll have to log in even to see what this article is about" and clicked on back before the NYT page even loaded.

Next stop: See (nytimes.com) after the link, and don't even click.
http://printful.com/mirrorizer/

It will check the referrer and redirect you to the mirrored copy of the linked article.
That's an open question. An autodrive in traffic might be much more practical if it can either predict or communicate with the autodrives in all the other cars, rather than having to adapt to our erratic meat-oriented behavior.
Looks like the French hackers all live in Paris.
link: http://leftright.me/

This site is basically a clone of something I believe OK Cupid offers, which is to let other users rate your photos to find the best profile picture. Based on their data blog it looks as though OKC let you pick some demographics of the people who vote on you too, which this site does't currently.
The Power of Comparison: How It Affects Decision Making
This might be premature (I'd certainly hate for someone to quickly do this and screw me over), but what would the HN community's reaction be to a new open-source project, offered as both a free site with subscriptions as well as locally installable on a server of your choice, with support for all the major version control systems (SVN, git, mercurial, bazaar), essentially like a cross between GitHub and 37signals' products, and wasn't just a clone of the GitHub/BitBucket formula?

Because I'm kind of far into development, and I'd definitely like some conceptual feedback / criticism / words of encouragement that my work won't be for naught. It could be that GitHub is too entrenched at this point, but I'm willing to take that gamble.
Wow, all you've accomplished is making me want to look at your competitors. What's "innovative and honest" about this?

Edit: When was this thing actually posted? The ego-stroking Google Trends chart at the bottom cuts off at the end of 2008.
Well the central question is why did you raise the money? Your case seems to be atypical, but I think the best thing to do right now is to grow your business.

Instead of letting everything stay on a static basis of consistent 5k burn rate on a 9k monthly revenue, why not think of strategies to increase burn rate and increase revenue? If you took investor's money, I believe the key thing to do right now is to think how to increase your investor's stock value, which will also benefit you.

Don't even consider putting in a CD and Savings. If you do, it would be considered unethical if you're going to earn your investor the pathetic 3-4% in risk free asset, he's better off investing it from a mutual fund.

Hire. Spend. Grow. Never let cash sit idle, be a magician and transform money into more money.
After a quick search:

Israel's High Court has narrowly upheld a law denying
Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza married to
Israeli citizens the right to live in the country with
their spouses. -- The Independent

Government was more restrictive in issuing building
permits in Arab communities than in Jewish communities,
thereby not accommodating natural growth."
-- U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

3 times more money was invested in education of Jewish
children as in Arab children.
-- U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

the Law of Return applies to ones religious status, and anyone can convert to Judaism.
--jacobmg on HN (justifying religious discrimination)

Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes
by Jewish or Israeli forces, before and during the 1948
Arab-Israeli war, but remained within the borders of what
would become Israel, that is, those currently known as
Arab citizens of Israel, are deemed present absentees by
the legislation. Present absentees are regarded as absent
by the Israeli government because they left their homes,
even if they did not intend to leave them for more than a
few days, and even if they did so involuntarily

Regardless of your efforts at justifying it with excuses, it stands up to the definition of discrimination, whatever the excuse or the path to that may be. No racist person or entity in history has ever suffered from lack of excuses.

Given these, I am less likely to believe you compared to someone who has earned my trust. I have never claimed that whole of Israel has systemized racism, you are putting words into my mouth and giving me more reasons to doubt what you say. I am more disinclined to carry the conversation further, for several reasons (i) I dont like deeply nested threads (ii) this is no longer an active topic on HN and I do not come to HN to discuss Arab/Israel issues (iii) after much consideration you seem to be intellectually dishonest, so I do not consider it a fruitful use of my time. I would have more respect for you if you said for instance yes we have these well documented problems but not everyone in Israel is like that.
Nokia in Berlin are hiring quite a few developers at the moment, mainly for Ovi & Maps, but also for their Meego platform:

http://www.coderstack.co.uk/jobs/155-nokia-senior-c-engineer

http://www.coderstack.co.uk/jobs/154-nokia-senior-qa-enginee...

http://www.coderstack.co.uk/jobs/153-nokia-senior-frontend-j...

Which would seem to suggest that there's no immediate plan for a change in direction.

One of the added benefits of running a developer job board is you get a very good feel for tech trends :-)
There've been approximately 50 million of these over the years; it's a commodity.

Really, if you're looking at open source, I'd recommend joining an existing project that you find interesting. Nothing prevents you from making a site based on such a project, and they might even like the exposure it gets them.
The design is a bit _too_ much like http://threewords.me, intentional?
How do you guys manage 40 startups in one batch?

Practice. We could never have done that when we started, but after 5 years of gradual refinement, plus hiring more people, we do a better job for the current 43 than we did for the initial 8.
Ask your investor.
How to Hang a Plasma TV - DIY Life
it's still interesting and something most people may not know about.
Wozniak confirms white iPhone 4 camera issues, showers more love on Android
It has been my experience that if all other things are equal, working together beats working remotely.

Of course, if you are a young startup and you have a choice between an ok hire working locally and a star working remotely, all other things are not equal.

Some companies would always take the local guy. Some would hire stars wherever they find them. Some would hire neither and wait for a local star. I certainly can't generalize about which strategy is the best.
By most measures Denmark, far from being socialist, actually has a freer economy than the US.
Well, I see two pictures and the words compare who's hotter instantly. It's for the lack of a better word a FaceMash, which itself is a clone of a few dozen other predecessors before it.

No further explanation needed. Your copy, however, needs work to compel me to bother spending 30 seconds to sign up and play with it.
Are you suggesting that founders find able co-founders with this method?
I think that's a bit high - possibly a lot high. You can likely find quite good qualified people at $70-$80k - base of $50k plus benefits and overhead. Be prepared to offer some equity stake in the operation in exchange for that somewhat lower base salary.
To confirm - does Yak own their own last mile? I'm under the impression this is the crux of the issue.
depends on location.
This is old, and got the author -- deservingly -- yelled at for having the gall to assume Github had invented the standard UI used by every source-code/project-management site in history.
No one uses F-16s for crowd reconnaissance. You'd be much better off with a few helicopters, which can hover over a problem spot, or any of the variety of fixed-wing aircraft specifically designed for it - good downwards visibility, low stall speed, etc.
Wait...Scott Chacon is with Pocoo Team? My favorite team of superhero coders now has the git guru too?

(see the fork me on github link)
Let's say there are ten people in a room and they each give five dollars to an "elected" member who gets to redistribute that money, after which all the members re-vote on the next elected member. A savvy elected member would redistribute the money to five members, plus himself, thus perpetually stay in power and continue to receive the majority of votes.

I use this illustration to show that as long as one official or group gets to continue in power, they don't have incentive to do right by everyone; rather, they are incentivized to do well to only a slim majority.

The short-term problem this article presents is that our country's budget crisis demands a surplus contribution from the wealthy. For argument's sake, I'll admit it does.

The understated, long-term problem is that elected officials are personally motivated to spend their political power on getting re-elected, which only requires making a little more than half of their constituents satisfied.

My suggestion would be to stop allowing anyone to be re-elected. Once they know that their decisions don't have to be popular, they're free to make decisions that help long-term, even at short-term discomfort or dissatisfaction. There are obvious problems (how this reflects on their party, for example), but I think that there's a solution embedded in this line of reasoning.
How a small angel investor can invest in conv. debt. without cap and discount?

That doesn't make it any more expensive to invest; it just decreases the eventual returns. But that variation in returns will be dwarfed by the variation caused by which startup you pick. Which means investing with no cap would be business as usual for angels.

Not that they would have to in any case. We don't anticipate that the startups' additional money will have to come with no cap. Ron and Yuri had to do this because to make their fund work like an index fund, they had to get the entire batch, which meant they had to make it an offer no rational founder would refuse.
As you've pointed out, the Luxi page was the advert for the workshop. If you're interested in the event that inspired @strandev's post, the slides are here: http://www.slideshare.net/clevergirl/luxi-for-designers.

Vivitek: the principles of lean ux (as we have them defined now) are on slide 55. Like agile, it is largely about how we work together, not what the work is.

Arkitaip: there is a slice of ux methods that work in a lean startup (tm) environment. But much of what we do in the UX field (and the HCI field) are heavyweight methods. I say this as the former ceo of Adaptive Path. See slides 57 and 58 for characteristics and examples.

Lylanm: I'm a fan of Jeff Patton, and was glad to hear his preso at the AUX Retreat in December. Did my first patton-style storymap last week.
I might be starting one up in Melbourne in a few months.
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Google to change its policy on mobile apps. Native apps to come.
That would be pretty neat - if they could have an implementation compatible enough to only require cross-compiling, we'd be going somewhere darn cool.

Many APIs have had the promise of multiple implementations (and some have succeeded in at least making them, ie OPENstep's many implementations, and Java) but it seems to have not been widely used.

Except, well, unix. Heh, I suppose it has been done successfully.
Great question and I can admit that I have inquired on the same logic. However, I am wondering why you accepted $200K if you didn't need it? $9K monthly on $5k expenses demonstrates that you could have taken less and made other changes to better utilize current resources.
The really stinging part is that Bell isn't state owned, even though it certainly acts the part.
Pyramid discards the Pylons 1.0 code and builds on repose.bfg:

http://docs.pylonsproject.org/faq/pylonsproject.html
The Social Network: Faces behind Facebook
Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur?
Google Instant Previews On Their Way To iOS
Is a Community a Community if Nobody is There?

I guess in the same vein, HN isn't really a community either since graphing it against Reddit or 4Chan would produce similar results.

You will also be joining a site run by a team that is innovative and honest, rather than one that unapologetically plagiarizes that team when they see something they like.

Actually I think I prefer to join a site that works with Mercurial since that's what I use.
Indeed, this was pulled how long ago?
Yeah, I wanted to one-up Mark Bao.
He is not. I had that post mirrored on that website for a blog post about a year ago.

I have no idea who submitted that here.
For Washington, Renaissance for Technology Start-Ups
... why is this being reposted? It's old, really old, like 2 years old (or 317 internet years). Scott apologized, took down the original (this is someones backup of it), he and Jesper made up, drank some scotch (or maybe it was whiskey), and all was well with the world. In the meantime someone else apparently had nothing better to do than repost this to fan some flames, because we apparently can't have different services without hating each other.
Ask HN: What is the cost per install rates for free iPhone app?
AdNetworks for apps such as AdMob and Inmobi provide CPC/CPM ads but I'm wondering how much does it cost to get a new user for free iPhone app?

Tapjoy offers $0.35+ per install but it seems too cheap.
https://www.tapjoy.com/site/app_developers
While I don't condone the comment, let's be fair: This person didn't say that Windows was inferior to his choice, he merely implied that Windows was so badly broken that to run it at all is to be vulnerable.

While such a comment isn't particularly constructive in this context, it is different in tone from saying that it's inferior to some choice he has made. For all we know, the person making the comment is required by his job to use Windows and is expressing frustration as a user.
Also check out node-binary: https://github.com/substack/node-binary
which has a similar interface but nicer internals and only needs to keep 2 buffers in memory at any given time instead of a linked list like bufferlist.
At Flickr, Fending Off Rumors and Facebook
I missed the "Who's hotter"- it is too small on my laptop screen ;). Maybe I'm in the minority on this one.
You should put your money into gold bullion as a hedge against inflation.
No, it's like cruise control. If you want to use it, you hit the button. If you want to drive yourself, you don't.
Where do you live? I've lived in Quebec for three years and before that Alberta. In both places my internet service had a bandwidth cap and above a certain amount you paid an extra fee per GB. This is absolutely not new!

What really sticks out to me here is that the various ISP's have much less to compete with. The only real motivation for me in Montreal to switch to one of the smaller ISPs was the unlimited bandwidth option.
$6.45 million on 43 ultra high potential startups, I wouldn't call it a bubble. If anything, I would wonder why others didn't start earlier. I consider this move by DST and YC an innovative pareto optimal solution for both entrepreneurs and investors.

First you have many startup ventures that have limited growth due to the lack of cash, the $150k is a really good booster to achieve relatively high performance for most of the startups in this tech industry. The fact that this is a no cap/discount deal is unheard, which why it is bringing so much publicity. This is a game changer for the industry.

It might be a risky investment, but the odds are not bad since the investment is diversified into 43 talented ventures instead of one. But furthermore I think this investment is more than just money. YC and DST are investing in the future of the tech industry.

Don't think of this as an investment for the current YC portfolio, rather, think of it as a marketing strategy for future YC applicants. With this sort of publicity with DST, as well as connections with other Valley's giant investors (cough Sequoia cough) , all of the great talents across America will start to apply for Y-Combinator. I have a feeling that YC's going to find its Facebook real soon. It's just a matter of time.
So you're comfortable pushing those costs onto healthy young men?