skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who runs a more grown-up anonymous discussion site, I was worried about Canvas as a competitor. Now not so much - it's mostly just an enhanced UI to /b.
learnboost is leading the way when it comes to nimble startups that take the time and effort required to open source their code. great work!
Haha, I stand very well corrected!
Node.js Interview: 4 Questions with Creator Ryan Dahl
Fact Sheet: White House Launches “Startup America” Initiative
Very interesting set of takes, thanks Jason.

I think "LP without the fees" is the most provocative...
Calif. firm acquires two D.C.-area Twitter-centric companies
Consumer broadband IPv6 routers
Android Wrests Smartphone OS Title From Symbian
Yup, we lived in Brighton for two and a half years before we started travelling.
http://blog.koopa.com
Another weekend, another amazing HTML5 app produced. If only I could put these minds towards making some money..
nice. what will the premium version have? is it a place to scribble notes?
I hope he's alright.

OT:
A Google spokesman said: "We care deeply about the safety of our employees."

It might be the WSJ's fault in taking it out of context, but whenever a PR flack says something like this my gut always yells, "lie!" like they had something to do with it.
I liked that one as well..... maybe I can blindly offer $10,000 to each startup.

At least I've got 100k+ followers, This Week in STartups and the @LAUNCH conference to promote folks. I don't think Yuri's even on twitter. :-)

Seriously, I'm super happy for any startup to get free money from two very powerful and successful people. It's a stunning turn of events.
I wish this investment had come from an American source. The large returns generated by start-ups are one of the ways the US economy can get back on it's feet. Siphoning this value creation off to other countries is not the way to get back to the top.
Are tech bubbles all that bad? They are periods of economic optimism where money flows into tech companies furthering R&D and technological growth in a society. In the long run this is a very good thing. Where would we be now if it weren't for the last bubble, or the one before that?
Lanyrd launches to change the conference landscape using Twitter
You say that like it's a bad idea. Look at the success Cheezburger has had appealing to the "facebook crowd" with 4chan memes.
Ahh, more and more I see that PG's dictum really does hold true:

If your first version is so impressive that trolls don't make fun of it, you waited too long to launch.

http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html
This is pretty interesting since I know of a Microsoft person who was talking to some startups in the Bay Area to find a potential role (this person is one of the most talented engineer/product manager I've met, has run some very critical initiatives for MSFT and extremely well-versed in both the Microsoft and the non-Microsoft landscape and is looking to move to the Bay Area from Seattle for personal reasons).

There were atleast two really terrible experiences with very well-known startups (think 'often on HN's front page'). In one case, the interviewer asked "So, you work in Microsoft - have you heard of this thing called an iPhone?" . And in another interview, the person at the other end couldn't hide his disdain for Microsoft and Microsoft-people in general throughout the interview.

I think there's an opportunity here for startups to hire some great engineers when they look past stereotypes (which is really what the OP's post is reflecting). Going into a hiring discussion with a preconceived notion is always a bad idea (and this post is full of stereotypes with the FB one probably being the most negative).
We, TriTek Solutions (triteksol.com), are looking for lot of programmers/consultants. You can chose between DC and NYC.

Contact me at sagrawal@triteksol.com. New grads are especially welcome.
Yeah, this doesn't smell right. There are two posts on the blog as of my reading. Neither has much content and they do not sound like someone who has actually been through this.
This does not sound like someone who is really looking to share information. It is too superficial.
5 types of programmers
If you don't mind another CDN, Microsoft seems to be hosting it: http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.5.min.js (that domain is cookie-less too)
For better or for worse is certainly up for debate too. On the one hand, closed systems suck and these valuable comments could get locked out of search engines. On the other hand, I've seen article commenting go through the roof with a simple Disqus include. Ease of sign-in and uniform appearance probably has a lot do with it.

It'll be interesting to see how they implement this.
Egypt Treasures Looted, but Public Strikes Back
With the huge amount of publicity and increased likelihood that more older entrepreneurs will apply, the probability of acceptance for some teams may decrease so much as to reduce the average return on investment. $150k seriously opens the space to entrepreneurs with a family to support and may draw out people who were previously hesitant to turn down a 6 figure salary. If experience grants a significant advantage, the just-out-of-college startups may find their acceptance probability approaching 0 and jump ship for smaller, easier sources.

I still plan to apply for this round but shall monitor the kind of startups YC funds in the future to determine how the probabilities change. It depends on how the selectors respond to changes in the applicant demographics.
Why is only one company singled out when there are a number that use foxconn?
Computer Scientists count from 0? :)
Nice detective work there!
It's an awesome introduction to "Why use Stylus to write CSS?"

EDIT: does anyone know how to create those nice, thin, grey scrollbars on the docs page: http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/docs/js.html?
removing the scrollbars right away
Example of the in-language functions: http://bit.ly/fQ2SCf
Ask HN: what's the state of server-side JS in 2011?
Hi guys,

I'd like to bite the bullet and learn server-side JS programming.

What's the MVC you prefer and why? Is there a single, dominant MVC like Django or Rails for JS? Is it Rhino? Spludo? Or something else? Do they support Mongo? What template languages do they use? Maybe most people just use Node on its own?

What's commonjs packaging like? Can you find modules to handle a random task?

Where are good community sites to follow this kind of stuff?

Thanks!
I think a larger amount would definitely have convinced me to apply to YC, but 150K is waaaay more than I'd need. My issue is that I'm not 19 and I have a high cost of living--I don't fit either profile.

My real problem is that they, and other incubators to an even greater extent, have cultivated a hippy atmosphere where scraping by on peanuts is glorified and everyone drones on with a humorless "I'm not in it for the money." Pass.
How can rogue Flash code open the camera or microphone without prompting? On http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay... the only two options are Always Deny and Always Ask.
I totally agree. I was kind of hoping the authors name would be in the source (http://mta.me/js-conductor/) but no such luck. It is pretty interesting code to read through though.
Large Large Format
Egypt: Why the Web is Broken (And Why We Can't Fix it)
That's only part of the picture. What if you know what project you want to work on, but don't know what exactly needs doing?

An example from my experience: before I started working on Rubygems' testing infrastructure, I wanted to contribute to Rails, but didn't know where to start. The Lighthouse tracker is a bit intimidating without anyone to point you in the right direction. If there was a place I could go and find small "get your feet wet" tasks to then get to a point where I can rewrite major components, then I would have started contributing much earlier in my career. The way I got into doing things for Rubygems was via a friend: I got a direct request to help with a new project for Rubygems. I didn't know what needed to be done so I never helped out previously.

Githacking wants to be what that friend was for me: a way to contribute with no friction on either the maintainer's side or the contributer's side and a clear starting place for getting involved in a new project.

Taking that a step further: a major part of the platform will be feature requests from companies that depend on the project, not unlike the bounties large open source projects put out from time to time on a bug or feature. Companies request a feature from a project, it gets implemented, the contributer gets paid the bounty.
This might be the author? http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/
Facebook To Launch Third-Party Commenting Platform [CONFIRMED]
While we're at it, images displayed while in "Child friendly mode" ought not show ball sack. http://i.min.us/ibQ0Ci.png

God, and ALL of the top links take me to a "PAY ME MONIES" page? And I have to browse 6 at a time with nothing but a thumbnail? I'd sad I wasted the time to sign up to be frank...
It's about time for the people running Intel's chipset division to start losing their jobs. Since they greedily kicked NVidia out of the chipset business, they've done a great job of proving how bad a decision that was for consumers:

Intel's integrated graphics performance is still pathetic, though it has at least gotten up to the lowest level of performance that AMD and NVidia have been willing to put on the market. This has been a real sore point for anybody trying to make a good low-power notebook (ie. Apple).

Intel's chipsets have been slow to pick up new features, with this latest generation being the first to offer 6Gbps SATA (which is necessary to get full performance out of last year's high-end SSDs), albeit only two ports at that speed, and they won't be adding USB3 support until their next micro-architecture revision, which is at least a year away.

To top it off, the latest generation of chipsets exhibit one of the most disgusting segmentation strategies Intel has ever tried: the Sandy Bridge CPUs have on-die graphics chips that are an unavoidable cost for consumers, and their performance is insufficient for even casual gaming. Their redeeming quality is the top-notch transcoding engine, which offers higher performance than any CPU or discrete GPU can manage. However, in order to use it, you have to use the integrated graphics. There's a software hack that will let you use it with discrete GPUs, but only on the multimedia-oriented H67 chipset. The performance-oriented P67 chipset (which is the only one to support multiple discrete graphics cards or overclocking) completely disables the integrated graphics. If you want to build a gaming system, Intel forces you to pay for a couple hundred million extra transistors on your CPU that you won't be allowed to use.

After all that, it's hard to feel sorry for Intel's biggest CPU architecture launch ever being ruined like this. If they still had a third-party chipset partner, then they would at least be able to sell some Sandy Bridge processors in February.
I feel this is a valuable post for us individuals who are not a part of YC but follow the companies and aspire to be. I've played out in my head and discussed with others what I would do were I presented with the 150k. For the most part, the points in the post are all valid, although I would place a stronger emphasis on bootstrapping if one is able to do so.
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Some ViewText for your Hacker News
I like my Tab for several reasons:

The form factor (it's perfect for reading eBooks at the gym or elsewhere), and the fact I can do what I'd like to easier with Android than with iOS. It does indeed feel like "just a big Galaxy S" (that will change with future tablets), but an Android phone feels a lot more like a real computer than an iOS device: I have a file system on it, I can copy files (eBooks, PDFs, media) to it manually from my Linux desktop, I can use an alternative media player (Winamp) or an alternative music store (Amazon MP3).

Perhaps these benefits make no sense to a regular consumer, but to a nerd like myself this is a major benefit: the iPad, to me, provides very little of the functionality that I'd look in a device of its size, the Galaxy Tab provides what more of what I am looking for.

It's true that there will better Android Tablets "tomorrow", but there will be even better ones "day after tomorrow". I wanted to read papers and eBooks, comfortably browse the web and watch video lectures at the gym; Galaxy Tab provides it now, there's no need for me to have the latest revision for that (I ran my entire site on a 40 mhz Sparc 10 running OpenBSD well into mid-2000s, as it handled mail, DNS and static web files just fine).
I don't want any money from YC. I would just want the advice and publicity that comes with it. If I could just get that, I would be a happy camper.
Affectiva wins government backing to measure your emotions online
I live in an area in the USA where Verizon has been testing IP6 for months. My solution for a business that I support is converting all the routers over to DD-WRT. So far it has handled all of it with amazing grace. Am I missing something?
You can do it with some custom webkit selectors, BUT I just removed them because apparently they cause some issues on iOS
I am an Anti-Programming Perfectionist Programmer. Why should I write code that already exists, and has been developed on for years? I use other people's code then fit it in perfectly with whatever I'm working on.
Toronto Startup Expert: What Toronto's got that the Valley Can't Provide
Nothing, including all of the justifications for the terrible security practices, should excuse Marcus Frind for the death threats and sheer hatred being thrown at the messenger.

Chris mentioned that this was actively being exploited by malicious hackers. Taking your rage out on the guy trying to help is not appropriate by any means.
All the more reasons to comment less on the websites.
5. Valley Power-angel: "An important part of being a first-time entrepreneur is the struggle of getting someone great to believe in you.

I don't think that's true. Getting into YC is "getting someone great to believe in you." And with this offer, getting into YC just became more competitive, and more rewarding. The YC "stamp of approval" is now more powerful as PG & crew have to evaluate more applicants with a closer eye.
Open Source Projects Partner to Offer Free Cloud Computing Training
Ok but, the speech to text ability really sucks right now. I use google voice, and the transcriptions are ALWAYS mangled.

So you have the transcription, which sucks right now. Almost unusable.

Then you have the translation which can be okay depending on how simple the phrase is. So you're going to inputting a garbage transcription into a dubious translation engine.

Then you can output the voice, which I know works well now, great.

But the other pieces doesn't seem to be good enough yet in real world situations.
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The page is down. Ironic :)

Does anyone have a cached version?
The Economics of Kitchens
Haven't read it yet, but it's sitting in my to-read statck:

http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Trading-Build-Algorithmic...

Sounds like just an intro. Some of the other books Amazon recommends on that page might be worth checking out too.
Loading Sound is always at 0% for me.
Sure it does; that post doesn't include the founder of POF threatening the researcher who kindly tried to alert the company to an actively exploited vulnerability.

To me, the breach is nothing special; the reaction and vitriol from POF, however, is inexcusable.
Facebook already has a "plugin" for commenting, so I'm curious as to how -- if at all -- this will be different.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/commen...
Thanks. I did not know that.

The problem of getting stacktraces for errors remains.

UPDATE: Just tested in Safari. I get nice stacktraces there. Its only a problem in Chrome.
I didn't see any suggestion that future YC rounds are guaranteed this, just this current round.
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Follow up to "I'm building a TechCrunch alternative that focuses on startups"
Three days ago I submitted an article describing my intentions to launch a news site that is focus on Startups. The original thread can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2153038 .

The response so far has been over whelming. I've had over 100 startups reach out to me from HN and I've responded to every single email I received (before today). I must say, the quality of submissions was phenomenal. There are some really sharp people here.

If you're a startup and still want to tell us your story, please get in touch with me by emailing me at paul@codesketch.com.

In other news, MediaTemple has very generously offered to be a sponsor and handle our hosting for us. I've already began writing several articles and we will be soft launching this Thursday. The site is looking fantastic, and the startup coverage will be unparalleled.

If you would like to sign up for our weekly news letter, you can do so via MailChimp http://eepurl.com/csrmr

If you would like to follow us our Twitter handle is @startupfoundry .

Thanks for your warm reception HN, we have some great stuff coming down the pike! I'm really looking forward to unleashing this.
Such a thing is useless without half-decent translation. Google Translate, as far as I know, currently uses a phrase-based statistical model which is beyond terrible: it isn't aware of context or grammar. It's basically operating on the theory that if you stuff enough training data into a bad model, it'll magically stop being bad.

You're lucky if you can even understand the output of a
Google translation from Chinese or Japanese, let alone the translation being correct. Among machine translators, it's widely considered to be one of the worst in existence (e.g. see the "Translation Experiment" at http://amaterasu.is.moelicious.be/blog/?p=771).

Rules-based translators with vastly less training data than Google's tend to give far better results... and even then, they tend to be wrong constantly: "As you can see, four of the seven lines in this edited machine translation are almost the complete opposite of what the Japanese actually meant."
You're not wrong in terms of the sample code, but in general the "success" method might be called after the request is complete. It's like the "ready" event in jQuery, you're meant to use that even after the DOMReady has fired.
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A large part of the message I'm trying to convey is:

1. A DBMS is much more than just the interface. I'm going to write more on the subject. Whether you're using SQL, datalog, BSON, etc. -- there's a broader set of desirable features that's more important than the query language.

2. I'm not saying I agree with what the NoSQL folks are saying, or their justifications. Let's be honest: there's a prevalent sentiment that relational SQL based databases do not scale, and even further, that they somehow cannot scale. That's just not true.

I saw a video the other day of some guy at Google giving a talk about the database behind the app engine. At one point someone in the audience asked about scale and SQL. His response was "Well, how well does SQL scale?" Everyone in the room laughed.
Your car would drop you off at your doorstep and then go find a parking spot on it's own!
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Looks like my phone went a bit nuts trying to post this reply, didn't notice in time to delete them. Sorry for the spam!
Very true. Many refuse to think logically and accept whatever happens to be the fashionable idea of the day.
My family and I also had to witness a similar experiment. I join you in your wishes.
There's a video with working sound, here:
http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/
OpenHatch does some things well: they have a place to store tasks that get people involved on a basic level, and they let you promote your projects. Githacking is built directly on GitHub, however, so we have tons of data about the projects without the maintainers having to keep it updated. We can tell if a project is active, what language it's written in, and what open issues are up without anyone touching the Githacking profile. Github's api is fantastic.
"You say that like it's a bad thing. One could say that us Americans have a "sense of entitlement" about things like clean drinking water, functioning emergency services, and a publicly-funded education system; alternatively, one could just as easily say that we have a set of baseline expectations about the sorts of things that a modern society is supposed to provide to its citizens (in exchange for taxes, etc.)."

Having basics is a good thing (clean drinking water, police/fire). Too many of these things means there is less freedom for the people putting money into the system and less incentive for the people utilizing these services to get a job. There needs to be a balance. Too little or too much is a bad thing.

"OK, fair enough, but again- remember why it is that you care one way or the other about how big your "overall potential income" is. There comes a point where you've got enough to live luxuriously, have all your material wants satisfied, and basically do whatever you want on a day-to-day basis- is there a point to accumulating more than that?"

Like I said, it's not just me. With more money, I can help friends, family, and anyone else I choose. I don't want the government deciding what do do with my money. I also enjoy the freedom. It's something you seem to have trouble understanding.

"From the article, and from what other posters on this thread have said, it sure sounds like the "limited" potential income level in Norway is still quite high, by any rational standard, so what does it matter? After five or six million dollars per year, would an increase actually impact your life in a noticeable way?"

Why does it matter to you? It's my money. 5 or 6 million per year really isn't that much anymore.

If I am limited to this, I probably would just keep the money in a bank. Otherwise, I might try to invest in other businesses and or start another one. One leads to more jobs and an improved economy and the other doesn't.

"Especially since I know that, by giving up that money, I'm ensuring that my neighbors and employees don't have to worry about medical costs and will be able to retire comfortably? Past a certain point, can you really spend more? And if you do, will it make you happy?"

The US already has Medicade and Medicare. Over 70% of people are covered in some way or another by their employer.

You haven't talked about the negative effects of a socialized healthcare system and you are trying to use sympathy to get me to agree with you. Healthcare is a finite resource. We need some way to limit usage. There needs to be a hybrid system in place that limits total visits per year (and charges fees after that) or it will eventually collapse. Unlimited anything is a bad idea.

I also think that people that engage in risky behaviors (smoking, drug use, etc) should have more money taken out in taxes. It's not really fair that I, a person that doesn't engage in that behavior, has to pay for your poor life choices.
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