skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my first impression as well.
I wonder if it may have been promotional work done by the designer for cheap, in exchange for that giant front page advertisement.
This is a hilarious take on Tim Ferriss's style.
Introducing Gem Testers
Engineers are generally not considered end users.
Even the best solutions can falter on perceived risk and trust
Ask HN: Review my startup idea, Algonaut
http://www.algonaut.com - a hosted platform for algorithmic trading

We are still circling in on what the MVP should be, would love to hear feedback from any quant-types out there.
Google Tried To Buy Path For $100+ Million. Path Said No.
No one remembers how you got that--just that you got there.
A big problem I see is the focus on popular apps, instead of a mix of new apps, curated lists, etc. The home page solely focuses on top and popular apps, just like category pages. This might not be good for new apps to enter the system and get discovered through the market
It's called "harmonization". China does it all the time.
The problem with free dating sites is that they have to be fucking enormous to make any money. OkC is an amazing product with a huge user base and guess what? They had a tiny office and weren't making much money, then they were bought by (shock) a dating site with a sustainable business. IAC/Match sucks but they understand something the OkC guys don't—how to make money from their product.
They don't have to use it directly.

GET / HTTP/1.0

Accept-Language: en;q=2.2250738585072012e-308

If you're running Tomcat and you call getLocale() on that servlet request, you're toast.
Cool, I guess?

It would be good to know what some of these new features will be and why I (as a redmine user) should care.
Because it's fun.

Oh, there are plenty of secondary reasons, including monetary gain, feeling of satisfaction at seeing a program work, and happiness at solving users' problems.

But the bottom line is, I love it for the same reason that kids play with the cardboard box at Christmas. Because it's fun.
I have an LG Optimus T on T-Mobile. I got it a while back for $200 with no contract.

My $60 plan through T-Mobile is more expensive then the Virgin one mentioned in the article, but because T-Mobile reduces your bill if you don't take the phone subsidy, it is a lot cheaper than the other options I looked at when buying.

I can't stress enough how great a phone is for the price. The CPU is only 600MHz, but with Android 2.2 it doesn't feel sluggish to me (perhaps because I don't know how fast a phone like the Nexus S feels).

The best part of having no contract is in a year I can just buy a new low end phone with dramatically better specs and hand this one down.
That's precisely what I've been thinking about Tim Ferriss. His books look like get-rich-quick nonsense pawned off on the gullible. No notion of the hard work (and natural talent) required to build a great business or become a successful athlete. His next book will surely claim that we can all make Carnegie Hall with minimal practice.
If that's on mobilicty - they use AWS so you are bit more limited in your choice of phones, and where they will work.
Eh, I never bought anything for iOS but I've bought a bunch of stuff for Android. Tastes differ.
> I think this is a really strong suggestion that everything told from the point-of-view of the spiders is passing through the same narrator.

This is explicitly hinted at when, uh, Vinh finds papers in Trixia's room that are identical to the first chapter from the point of view of the spiders. The point is that everything written about the spiders/from their perspective is actually her "novelization" of what happened.
What a lot of people are missing is that a reflection tool like this probably requires a lot of development just to stay current with the newest versions of .NET. An OSS clone would not be a write-once ordeal, it would have to be a continuously active project.
In case you missed the word 'Humour' at the top (I originally did, but I recognised the parody), this link may help save you from wasting the next 3hrs 54mins planning to mutilate a patient - http://mixergy.com/timothy-ferriss-four-hour-body-interview/

I'm hoping somebody can provide a direct link that demonstrates just how wonderfully the OP nailed the style of Tim's book!
Our path to the Magical YC Whiteboard (Grubwithus YC W11)
I agree with your comments that toolbars should respect the robots.txt because even if a human is doing the crawling, it is still an automated system that is indexing information from that site. I would not want toolbars attempting to send data back to Bing based on my queries on a company Intranet or a site that would normally not be indexed. Personal data entered into what the toolbar thought was a query field could be sent onward as well even if the robots.txt on the site restricted it. I think they should respect robots.txt in this case even if they are only monitoring user behavior.
Anyone else get the Steve Martin Dentist song from Little Shop of Horrors in their head while reading this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM
Likely a Mac related problem. I have no trouble with VLC on my Windows machine nor on my work iMac. However, the home iMac has issues.

In my administrator account on the machine the video is fine, but in my wife's non-privileged account the video can stutter. And all video stutters--flash, VLC, QuickTime. And it comes and goes with various OS updates.

I've never been able to find the root cause.
The tale of the global financial crisis has yet to be told, but Michael Lewis is piecing it together chapter by chapter, country by country. We live in interesting times. Lewis's prior articles on Greece (http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-b...) and Iceland (http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland2...) are also worth reading.
> Pressing "install" installs to your phone without having to plug it in, or sync, or worry about losing your shit.

From your desktop web browser?
Not to white knight Paypal, but selling tickets is a highly fraud risky payment event (opposed to just selling stuff). It has a high number of chargebacks due to possible event cancellation, people not showing up, or people just not liking the event. You would most likely be required to send this paperwork for each event to most any credit processor.

Typically I've found that with Paypal there's no immediate cost of entry (just start accepting payments) but paperwork is required over a certain threashold. But try to use any regular credit processor, they'll require your paperwork done in advance, and since you're doing an event with tickets, it might take a few applications until you find one with decent rates who will accept your risk.
After I watched the Mixergy interview a few weeks ago and read snippets of his books... this is so spot on.
In the short term yes, this happens. In the long term? You all seem to not realize that several centuries of navigation successes attributed to luck stretches the credibility a bit. It's not like this was one case of luck, it was a long running thing. All the luck cases in your examples rarely last longer than years, let alone centuries.

Doubly so considering the whole society built itself on the spoils of the raiders who went out on trips. Such things are not possible on just luck, there has to be an amount of repeatability there. Strongly suggested by the fact that viking raiders were so successful at returning that the ideas, treasures and people (slaves and whatnot) that they brought back fundamentally changed their society.
I read the paper editions of The Economist and Macleans and I read CBC news online and listen to the hourly news on the radio.

I've chosen a couple sources that I enjoy. I don't worry too much about missing much or whether I'm getting the whole story; I assume that what I miss will either become important enough to crop up in one of my sources or it won't and that the whole story is impossible to get.

I think the reason the slants are not very different between sources is the fundamental laziness of journalists who rely heavily on material provided by government and corporate press releases.
In the process of working on SUN Java Access Manager, we kept getting application server core dumps. To troubleshoot, I needed to grab all the logs and zip them up to send to SUN support. I'd been up and working on this particular problem for over 30 hours, and was very closely treading the line between asleep and awake.

I wrote something like:

BACKUP_DIR=/home/bmelton/backups
$LOG_DIR=/opt/alui/portal/logs
mv $LOG_DIR/* $BACKUP_DIR
tar -czf `date`.tar.gz $BACKUP_DIR/*

Anybody who's awake has probably already spotted that I tried to SET $LOG_DIR instead of LOG_DIR, and hence, ended up moving the entire operating system into my home folder.

It was a virtual instance, using Sun's zone virtualization, so fixing it proved to be trivial, but it was on a production system serving a federal agency, and that wasn't the only thing on the server.

Oddly enough though, after the script ran, the Access Manager (having loaded everything into memory, I assume) still worked like a champ, though everything else failed completely.
The FBI “Kamikaze Pilots” Case
Would a lawsuit be better? I think that this is a better problem to be sorted outside of the courts. Too often we rely on courts to solve our problems.
Yes. I'm sure there are some taxes and other fees that make it not such a huge win. IIRC there was a $35 activation fee that probably isn't refundable.

Personally, I would feel a little gross about doing that kind of thing, mostly from the "this is why we can't have nice things" angle.

So as much as I've regretted cell phone contracts in the past, I'm going to give T-Mobile a fair try. After all, I do need some provider even if I hardly ever use the voice (my previous phone was a prepaid thing I kept in the trunk of the car with the battery out mostly for emergencies).

I know I don't count as "someone else" but see http://www.bestbuymobile.com/article/google-nexus-s-faqs/
Are there two different versions of the Nexus S, locked and unlocked? No, the Nexus S is always unlocked, regardless of whether it is sold with a T-Mobile contract or not.

I'll confirm this as soon as I get my phone of course.
whoever downvoted this to 0: what is wrong with this comment?
What do I need to get started in Aquaponics?
I make far fewer purchases on my Android devices over my iPhone as well. It's just that the AppStore continually updates their Featured pages, and I'm constantly buying from there. On Android, the same scrolling apps at the top have been there a long time, and all you have are the categories that seem to stay the same (like the AppStore, BUT there isn't a Featured This Week section or anything)
The iPod touch is currently not two-thirds of the overall iOS market, it’s 38 percent (10 million units in Q1 2011 vs. 16 million iPhones). Non-iPhone devices (iPod touch and iPad) were a bit more than 50 percent of the overall iOS market.

In the best case scenario for Android, cheap phones can completely obsolete the iPod touch (I think that’s very unlikely), but even then they would only take 38 percent of the iOS market.
Hi,

Thanks for the response. You echoed exactly what my friend suggested, that I take a break and get my financial situation together. I agree with you. I ignored my personal life a little too long. I will take some time and rethink.

Yes, I am not a programmer. The reason I need 3-4K is for programmer and server costs. The process is semi done right now. The code is written with some bugs. But needs some more work and hardware.

Regarding the xml feed, I signed a year contract and they charged my card, so thats a loss I have to bear. I can just ask them to stop the feed so that the files dont get clogged up on their server.

But thanks again for taking time to read through rather long post and your detailed reply. I really appreciate it.
Me too, I was willing to spend 10000 USD, but now I guess I'll go elsewhere.
I just choked on an almond. That was hilarious and dead on.
> What's not to understand? Microsoft is colecting search phrases from searches people make though the IE search box.

This is not correct. From Google:

"We asked these engineers to enter the queries into the search box on the Google home page"

Google did not enter the data into the IE search box.

Edit: I see you replied to yourself acknowledging the mistake - please ignore this then!
this kind of sounds like what Diaspora was trying to accomplish. I wonder whatever happened to those guys. They were the toast of silicon valley and I haven't heard anything since then.
Perhaps you're thinking of a different phone? I believe the Optimus T/S/V line all have capacitive screens.
Any advice on the last bit?
Can't remember where I read it, but another way to look at the Zones was that it breaks the idea and occurance of a technological singularity from a temporal to a spatial dimension.
Most of the ones I've read about come much sooner...are you neck-talking, or do you have something to cite?
It's worth noting that they announced a new pricing system too - developers will be able to specify different prices for different currencies, like with the App Store.
I've actually had worse customer support with GC (who froze our account with 30k with no support phone line to call) than Paypal (their phone lines are up until 11pm PT).
No worse than me streaming Netflix over my Shaw internet to replace me buying Shaw cable.

In fact Amazon are going to be more careful about dealing honestly with Netflix. If they spy on / interfere with customers on their cloud service because they might be competitors they are going to attract government intervention and lose a lot of customers.
"they loved the team"

That's a lot of love.
I really hope that OKC keeps publishing articles about the online dating scene. They had some good insight about a lot of different online dating phenomena.

Match seems like a shady outfit that would not want to publicize this type of data.
NYC Lisp Summer of Code 2011
Flash game developers flock to Android and overseas markets
Any plans, or existing ways for Rapportive to support Salesforce.com?
personal experience
Zappos maybe, but Woot has been less than a year.
> "People who do business via GMail/Google Apps want their social CRM built in right there!"

Facebook? Sharing cute cat videos? idk doesn't seem like a business use case to me.
FCC approves GPS jamming Internet service
Yeah, I kind of get the feeling that there are probably reasons for the fork that aren't stated on in the blog post.

After a quick look around, here is the "why" behind the "what":

https://www.chiliproject.org/projects/chiliproject/wiki/Why_...

Reasons for using ChiliProject instead of Redmine:

https://www.chiliproject.org/projects/chiliproject/wiki/FAQ

It appears that the driving factor was one of centralization vs decentralization. Some of the developers wanted more openness with regard to contribution.
Dirty User Feedback, Done Dirt Cheap
Peered cache invalidation for Varnish
I think I'm in a similar situation and I have a question:
how does one switch careers to Lean, ITIL or CMMI without necessary experience under his belt?
Yes (and it works, just tested it).
A Classic 'Nontextbook' on Writing
> when Yelp and all the rest of the local businesses directories realized they were being scraped and the data was being used to google's advantage,

http://yelp.com/robots.txt

Not a mention of GoogleBot.
At the beginning of any kind relationship, it's generally best not to point out the other person's flaws - that kind of behaviour is traditionally saved for the breakup :)

I guess the same is true for okcupid and match.com.
Sorry, my comment wasn't terribly clear, i am mainly agreeing with you!

I actually work in online video development, and the company i work for has determined even prior to the WebM hubbub that we were going to have to stick with a flash based player definitely for the short term, most likely for the medium term, and the long term is yet to be determined.

The thing is, that for all the monstrosities inflicted on the web by Adobe and Macromedia (may their children be afflicted with irritating skin diseases), they're neither business nor developer hostile (except through neglect).

They want people to use their products, and their existing revenue generating business is based around high penetration. The structure of their business and their incentives are such that pissing off the entire developer community would be a very bad thing (and you can see this in the fact that people like you are now former flash developers, and next to no one is willing to cop to being a current flash developer).

MPEGLA's incentives are different and their revenue sources are exclusively through licensing and enforcement.

So the bit of FUD that i find frustrating is the notion that the Flash or Java plugins are similar to codecs. They really aren't, except superficially.
The metaphor I use with my startup students is this:

PPC (even banner) advertising is like scrounging for scraps at the table of someone successful.

AND, of course, if the ads work -- if the advertisers get their money worth -- then of course the ads are leading your users away from your app, which means of course a lower rate of returns.

Ad-supported biz models are difficult to achieve, fickle, counter-productive and, frankly, more work than charging people.
Huzzah! A straw man attack!

Am I seriously the only person on HN who has gotten useful, effective stuff from both of Tim's books? Does everyone just hate him because he's such an effective promoter that they assume he must be selling snake oil?

4HWW led me to quit my job and start freelancing, spend three months traveling through Asia, build some online passive income streams, and generally have a healthier respect towards my time and how I spend it. The 4 Hour Body has led me to completely change my diet over the last 6-8 weeks and I feel incredible, better than I have in a long time.

I know I'm not the only one, but am I the only one on HN?
Do you have the slightest idea of what we've been doing in that country for the last 30 years?
here's the original post this one spawned from: http://blog.dloh.org/2011/01/varnish-cache-riak.html
Excellent notes from Eric Ries talk in Boston by Mark Bao
There are so many goodies in here. Here is one that nails it:
measure two things:
value test: does it make value?
if yes, does it have an engine of growth that is working?

Thanks Mark. I wanted but was too low on the waiting list.
Massive Health: Raised Money, Spending On New Hires
Users are creating the associations, Google is discovering them and presenting them back to other users, and subsequent users are confirming the associations.

Going down this road of debate, we'll be getting into the semantics of "inventing" vs. "discovering."

Turning data into ranking is the whole purpose of a search engine, just as turning data into theory is the purpose of science, and turning experience into art is the purpose of art. Essentially here, we're debating whether search ranking is more like science, in which there's a correct answer that you are uncovering, or like art, in which all of the product is subjective.

Having worked in the field for five years, I'd argue that it is far closer to art than science. Google's rankings are its subjective determination, and the courts have agreed that Google's rankings are its constitutionally protected speech.

Though the data may all ultimately come from the human-created internet, the transformation of that data is still important, and subjective. To claim otherwise is to miss the whole point of search technology in the first place.
100M for path? Talk about highly inflated valuations. We are clearly in Tulip Mania times.
Open question: is there any material valuation to the business (and operations) besides the team in a story like this?
Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews
The US gives over a billion dollars in military aid to Egypt for strategic reasons and also to maintain peace between Israel and Egypt. This aid is not meant for Mubarak but it is for any government Egypt supports. So US should continue providing such aid even if Mubarak is toppled. Hope peace is restored soon. Thanks for posting the email. So informative.

http://bit.ly/gxLfZj
They have a longer history, but waaaay less traffic. Also, their early business model was a paid directory, not organic search results.
It is not a script, because he mistypes things and hits backspace. Not to mention all the commands that are downright invalid, eg. cd ". "

A script sophisticated enough to replicate the behaviour of a real user at a shell like this would likely actually achieve something.

Anyone clever enough to write a script that does this, wouldn't, because they'd also be clever enough to realise that it's utterly pointless.

The win2k service pack was likely filling the role of "a big file from a fast CDN," for the purposes of testing the machine's connection.
Ask HN: Know of a service to notify of new books by author?
I'm looking for a service that will notify me via email when an author I like has a new book out. Ideally this would be hooked into Amazon since I get all my books through there but I don't think they have this. Right now I accomplish this by continually polling Amazon's author pages or by signing up to the individual author's email newsletters.

If this doesn't already exist, any idea where I might get the data to build something simple? Some sort of publisher/bookseller data dump, or, even better, API service... I doubt Amazon would appreciate me scraping their site for the info.
Nobody really uses the non-blocking channel receive operations. I didn't even know it existed until now.

Selecting on multiple channels is, however, is used very often, so this fits that paradigm quite well.
Looks fake to me.
Wow. He screwed over his cofounder(s).
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Why Only 9% of Startups Make it to 10 Years
That's an insane offer for such a young company.

I guess the team turned it down in the hopes Path will be many times the offer. I just don't see how an iPhone app can worth more than $120 million. I think the most successful app would be angry birds, but i doubt even the most optimistic valuation would put them over one billion.