skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found spotlight to be reliably instant since moving to SSD. That might explain the difference in experiences here.

(I also don't index docs -- just apps and prefs.)
If you don't use an open source project because they don't have a Twitter page or they don't have a domain name or gasp they don't reach out to you then you are going to miss out on really solid pieces of work. I don't think marketing prowess is something that should impede you from using these projects. On a lighter note I am imagining Stallman reading this.
Nice! Definitely do it. We've been so thrilled to be part of the program. I'd be happy to answer any questions or meet up sometime to talk about our experiences so far. Email's in the profile.
Wouldn't it be an order of magnitude easier to make a simple gas powered balloon? You could hook it up with an altitude sensor and make sure it doesn't drift away.
If I had known you'd be quitting after 50,000 karma, I'd have downvoted more of your comments!
We're pretty excited to be the first YC company to launch following the big funding announcement. It will be interesting to see if it affects the amount of attention we get from the launch.
this has to be a first. a windows UI feature worthy of ripping off (for OSX). maybe I'm being too hard on windows.
Android 3.0: Hell Yes It's a Fork. But Who Cares?
Successfactors (Redwood City, CA)

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Cheers Tom -- shutting down must have been a tough choice to make. My condolences for you and your loss.
What a tremendous waste. In one corner of the mind-sphere, we have a renewed focus on green technology, and the other, we have glowing cereal boxes.

One step forward, two steps back.
AT&T was not in the Android game because they had the iPhone. Verizon was in the Android game because they didn't have the iPhone. The carriers will go where the consumer goes. If Verizon's customers stop buying Android in favor of the iPhone it's of no consequence to Verizon's.

IMHO the reasons Android sells are:

1. It's not the iPhone. A minority of Apple haters rail against the notion of a walled garden;

2. US specifically: their chosen carrier didn't have it. One thing about the US I haven't seen elsewhere is that family plans are fairly common;

3. Android competes in markets the iPhone doesn't, specifically low end.

You'll note that I didn't mention cost as a factor, other than buying lower end phones (which is obviously a significant market). To reiterate this point: all the top end phones in the US have $199 up front and this isn't a significant factor over 2 years of service so, if this is a factor, it ranks far below carrier choice (IMHO).

Personally I think the Verizon iPhone will probably add a net 10M iPhone users in the first half at least.
Given the amount of work it would take to write yourself, I can't imaging 13$ being a bad deal.

If you could write it in less than 13$ worth of time, you're either an incredibly brilliant hacker, or seriously undervaluing your time's worth.
They should have mentioned FidoNet

If you want to, you can mention it - the article is a wiki, anybody can edit it. But, you do need to have a registered account.
That you're not paid for commenting on HN is certain; that people sometimes do things out of charity is equally obvious :-) I wasn't intending to imply an obligation, so perhaps "responsibility" is the wrong word. A crude analogy (since it's the first one that pops to mind) is how sad the Ruby community way when _why left.
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To elaborate: if your IP is exhibited with an app, please, please put that IP into a lib, or a separate API. Do NOT blend the app with the lib e.g. do not mix in dialogs, command line stuff or even platform calls if possible.

I do embedded work a lot, and it doesn't have any of that, or its so different as to be unrecognizable.

IP examples: encryption, protocols, file format interpreters, translators. I (and very probably others) need your magic code 'naked'.
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I posted Gaithersburg, MD above. Wouldn't be a terrible commute.
I wonder how easy it would be to improvise a "software" modem using the mike and headphones. Should give around 1k, plus compression... much better then nothing.

If there's any way to directly connect phones (mobile or landlines) to a computer without any wiring it would be even better. Come to think of it, could't one make an android or iphone app for this?
Shockingly, the business schools very much discourage the profs from having significant contact with real business.

This was not my experience at UMass Lowell's undergraduate College of Management program (graduated 04). One of my professors was CEO of a manufacturing company in South Korea, teaching at the same time because he loved to teach. Another one came directly from Gillette (now P&G) and shared tons of personal experiences which were extremely insightful. A third professor was a consultant to numerous companies. I can go on and on, but virtually all of my professors had strong ties to the business world, and that made them extremely good teachers. While I can't speak of their MBA program specifically, many of my professors taught those courses too.

There were some academic professors, but they were the exception rather than the rule. In fact, come to think of it, I can't name one of the top of my head. In other departments, sure, but not in their management program.

I think it's safe to say that every college is different, and you'll get a unique mix of backgrounds and experiences from Professors pending on where you go. There very well may be academic-only business schools, but that's not everywhere. Some schools are terrible, while others are great.

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One thing that I wish I had more exposure to in college was working directly with businesses. There were internship programs, but during my Junior/Senior year the economy was utter crap, and opportunities were virtually non-existant. As you pointed out this is something you see in medical and legal education, and I wish I saw more of it in business school. I agree with you that it's an area that needs improvement if it hasn't been universally implemented yet.

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(A) The prof's idea is to set up a business "from the ground" up "with a 30,000 square foot facility" and an "efficient administrative and executive structure". Uh, generally that's a lot of money spent and likely at risk before any revenue. So, it is more common in practice to start small and, if successful, then grow.

This touches on the "level of abstraction" that some business types fall into. It's basic South Park Underpants Gnomes logic: Phase 1: Collect Underpants. Phase 2: ???. Phase 3: Profit! (http://cart.mn/aYOY1h - maybe NSFW)

Basically, skip over the most difficult parts and focus on the easy ones. It's "easy" to walk out with a business degree and not understand Phase 2. Real world experience hopefully fills in that gap. Definitely another opportunity for business school improvement.

When it comes to web-startups though, I can't say this loud enough: LEARN HOW TO HACK! Otherwise you're nerfed because you can't do Phase 2.
I'm not seeing the same behavior you're seeing. Try using $.get instead of $.ajax?

Edit: I was confusing X-Requested-With and Origin. My apologies.
Not that good at JS yet. My background is in design and crafting enjoyable user experiences. I am very passionate about education though.
I am really, really bad with names -- even more so on Hacker News where the names are grayed out...

But jacquesm is definitely one of the few that stuck with me. You will be missed!
In consulting, esp. in telecoms, there are lots of deals and politics at the higher manager level. Pretty good strategy is to work as a subcontractor for several consulting companies - when they see you're good they will spread a word about you which helps getting next project - under their flag or even other. The good thing is that they will handle most of the political stuff for you.

I successfully shuffle several consulting companies each few years or even months - they have no problem with it assuming you work for only one of them at a time and you do really work hard to bring every value you can to their project. Of course one should negotiate to not sign non-compete agreements when working this way.

The crucial thing is to communicate to them in a polite way that you enjoy working with them but you don't necessarily want to become part of their organisation. Not easy, but doable.
This guy was responsible for everything, being the sole developer.
Perhaps, but the title is specifically "won't use".
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Ewakened is always looking for Flexible Rails developers to work remotely.

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Everything that has voice is not 'just skype'. Sococo is betting that the 'phone call' model will become obsolete, like email is giving way to chat and twitter.

Try it, its free. And only about 6Mb download (most of that graphics) because the app is essentially a 'dumb terminal' - the meat is on the server.
> you're getting this for free so you'll take what you get and like it

That's putting words into my keyboard. I think most of it is reasonably good marketing advice, and some of the items listed are horrible reasons to not use something.

The title is the problem, really. If it were something like "how to help people find your open source project" it would all fit into place much better.
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Yea I am probably describing the implementation more than the idea, and of course that may not be the best way to do it. Its probably easier to think of it as a way for template dev/designers to get paid for plugins or incremental updates. It could also be used by open source project owners to monetize their work by selling features to corporate clients. Before today I hadn't really considered it for what you are trying to do, but some variation might make sense.
This is just how I read it and I might be reading a lot of my own experience into things but I was a very young foot soldier the last time (still in my teens) and I think there's an important point here. The thing about the last bubble is most of the foot soldiers that I knew weren't working to cash out. They were working to change the world.

Don't get me wrong. Money was a nice consolation prize but still.

The problem today is most of the people I meet in startups seem to have the same goals. For all the talk I can't recall meeting a founder who openly admitted to building a company just to flip it. Yet they're repeating the mistakes of the late 90s because our industry has very little institutional memory

(perhaps all that looking forward makes us forget to look back)

I think his point here is that those of us who were there need to remember what happened and make a point of imparting those lessons to those who weren't there. Because they were too young to really see what was going on.
I work inside dropbox. Means I can leave my desk and pick my air and go and work somewhere else without thinking about it and without relying on a network connection. As a special bonus there is an extra level of backup (on top of the mercurial repositories, the jungle disk and my time machine - I'm kind of paranoid about backups. However when I had a hard disk failure a few months ago on my main disk on my main machine I barely even noticed)

I can just pass things over to my colleagues by shoving them in a folder. For project documentation where ever I am I have the latest copies.

Access via my phone means I can usually pick up things I have forgotten easily as well.

I do have almost all the rest of my data in the cloud - but for stuff that is local Dropbox is the next best thing
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Link about AlphaLab's involvement: http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2011/01/31/alphal...
It is an important distinction to make. Relational databases are all about how to structure your data, and then how to manipulate that structure. In particular a key value add is that because the database understands how your data is structured, you can tell it what data you want out, and it can figure out the most efficient way to extract that data.

In practice it isn't perfect. There are times that the database does things wrong, and it is useful to have a bag of tricks for figuring out when it is going wrong and forcing it to do the right thing. But on average it does much, much better than most developers could, and does it with a lot less work.
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Sharing files, and generally collaborating, with non-programmers.

I also use it as a secondary backup for particularly important files (in addition to my physical backups)- it's replaced the "email myself a copy of the important presentation" process.
New York City or remote.

We need a flash game developer--someone who can take an idea like "parachuting onto an island" or "cracking a safe" and work with us to turn it into a clever game. Close enough to NYC to work on-site or pop in for meetings would be great, but we would also consider remote workers.

gbrown at scholastic dot com
Are you a time traveler from the past?

You might have had a point a year ago. Now, sorry, your argument is tired and dated. People want something that can play a couple of games, access Facebook and Twitter, visit websites, etc. There is a lot of competition, and the iPhone is only one option.

It has no entitled right to that market, nor is it necessarily the superior option. For many users it is the inferior option, rhetoric and flag waving aside.

A lot of customers are deciding among the available smartphones and walking out of the store with a Galaxy S or some other high-end Android device (which overwhelmingly dominant Android sales, despite the continued notion that it's some sort of low-end platform). It does what they want.

And that competition is only getting fiercer. Gingerbread, plus the upcoming (meaning weeks) gauntlet of devices == Android is putting aside the training bra.

But again, let's revisit this in six months. I'm sure there will be some new angle.
This is a good idea being that the concepts of startup thinking can probably transfer over. That said, it might be even better to use the badge acquisition as a stepping stone toward the real experience and have them do it like the article after, so they can understand how the different contexts affects their assumptions.

When I was in middle school all we had in terms of understanding "business" was an annual pushcart fair where most of the kids just chose to sell gobstoppers and we call it a day. This program seems to go more in depth in terms of giving these kids a genuine problem, having them think, communicate, and plan their actions, and most of all, putting their theories of business to the test with real world results they can use to assess their predictions of the world. These types of applicable real world activities WITH resulting data to challenge ones understanding is crucial. Probably why for us older kids with startup dreams, it's so important to just do something rather than just think/talk only about tech projects and ideas. The earlier one gets real projects out (first foray need not be perfect) and starts getting real user results the earlier we can test our assumptions and adapt, grow.
Very readable code, I'm sure I could learn a lot by perusing it :)
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Jacquesm- You were the first person I ever "noticed" on HN, and whenever I'd scan through comments I'd always stop to read yours. While it's sad to see you go, I understand all your reasons. I've been involved with other communities and had to do the same thing.

Good luck, and like swombat said - I hope you stick around the chat. :)
Assuming that they should be bite sized is a mistake, because the best "intimate sharing between exclusive groups" message might actually be long and detailed. Go look at how exclusive groups communicate now, and model your design to promote those qualities that you find. The problem is you're saying "I want them to be bite sized" not "exclusive groups tend to send bite sized communications."
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I prefer CloudApp (http://getcloudapp.com). There's almost no UI it at all: it just captures OS X screenshots and uploads them.

I gave Skitch three minutes and gave up. Its UI is far too complicated for what it does.
If you want straight-up OpenGL bindings for clojure, there's Penumbra:

https://github.com/ztellman/penumbra
Has anyone noticed that almost all the Android tablets will hardware accelerate Flash? I admire Apple's stance on this issue, but think it might come back to bite them.

In particular they need to keep selling a big chunk of all tablets in order for people to see Flash as non-viable for tablet experiences. How low does their share have to get before people think "We'll do this tablet optimised site in Flash and work out a plan for iOS later"?
My point, whichb probably didn't come across clearly, was not that HN will go haywire if jacquesm leaves, you're right there are many more good commentors. And the thing about karma is, lacking any other measure, I take karma ~ knowleagability.

My points were (1) the good commenters have a big influence on us noobs, who learn a lot from them; 2) each society has ratios of different members, which when they hit a certain level, can bring about nonlinear changes in the society; I thought that if jacquesm's leave becomes an exodus, that can have a substantial effect on HN.
Carriers besides AT&T were so desperate for anything modern, they would have taken Android if it was $0 and "curated/opinionated" instead of open source. Google probably could have used licensing to lock out Bing, Sense, and other junk while ensuring that the ad revenue continues to flow.
>It is not a separate discussion, is THE discussion right here.

"GAS" providers like TekSavvy are not DSLAM terminators -- they use Bell's final mile, plus their DSLAM, plus their Nexxia network, etc. THAT is how they are vulnerable to this sort of action.

Providers who have their own DSLAM equipment, which Bell has to host for them, have no such limits: Bell can't shape their packets, nor can they impose any pricing being the CRTC regulated last-mile charge. That has nothing to do with this recent decision.

People are pretending that we're talking about the latter when we're actually talking about the former, which is all this applies to. Did anyone ever wonder how TekSavvy -- some micro operation in Chatham -- magically became a Canada-wide DSL provider? Hint: Because they aren't.
Excellent point. MongoDB doesn't claim to be any faster than other dbs at the simple stuff (in fact, it's often slower because we haven't had years to optimize everything). The speed gains that people usually see are because they can just fetch one document, instead of doing complex joins or aggregations.
We need a flash game developer--someone who can take an idea like "parachuting onto an island" or "cracking a safe" and work with us to turn it into a clever game.

gbrown at scholastic dot com
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How does being funded affect your long term goals of lanyrd being a lifestyle business rather than "the next facebook"(tm)? (cf. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/nov/04/lanyrd-twitt... )

Are the two activities mutually inclusive? Just curious really.
ShiftIt (https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt) is a capable, open-source alternative to SizeUp and Divvy.
Catch.com (San Francisco)

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. =)

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Most non-hams don't seem to be aware of the distinction between "transmit" and "broadcast" (transmit to the general public, no reply expected). There are likely to be other legal issues involved anyway (e.g. restrictions on handling international third-party traffic: I cannot legally receive a message from an Egyptian ham to pass on to a non-ham recipient).

This discussion also reminds me that I ought to get PSKmail set up.
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Does that startup-y environment include options?