skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I honestly can't tell how serious statements like that are anymore, even with significant amounts of context, what the hell does "nano-statistical" mean?

(because improving dating websites by better statistics seems like a good first step on one of my world takeover plans)
Should a singular they be used exactly like any other singular pronoun:

"I will say of that person: they laughs a lot."
(Compare: "I will say of that person: she laughs a lot.")

"They is the person you should talk to."
(Compare: "He is the person you should talk to.")

Or should it instead be:

"I will say of that person: they laugh a lot."

"They are the person you should talk to."

? And why?
No he did!
I'm very happy for Egyptian people. People of Egypt deserve a better leader, a better government.
The guy who said 'I am ready to die' yesterday on CNN almost made me cry. Thats the spirit, and that spirit deserved a victory which they finally achieved.
I hope the same happens for other nations that have been held under dictatorship for decades.
Reminds of 1989 here in Germany! Congratulation Egypt!
Google's cache on the site is all kinds of screwed up... it's missing quite a bit. Either way it doesn't matter though because I'll be conforming to a "standard" landing page to appease and appeal to the widest audience possible. :P

There are actually a couple of 1.5 minute long advertisements if you click play... that 9 minute vid is actually a tutorial for people who want to learn how to use it from start to finish.
>> it'd be easier to hire 18 or 20 developers in their 40s.

Great developers in their 40s have a wide range of contacts from their years of working, and rarely if ever look for jobs on job boards. Finding great developers in their 40s, and prying them out of their present jobs, is a non-trivial task. (One I am actually in the process of this week).
One of my father's favorite stories involves debugging an intermittent error, wading through all of the spec's until finally isolating it to a single subsystem. He pointed to and pressed on the IC package, and apparently reseated it. The problem never recurred.

Also, the often noted "magic switch":

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
I wonder what was the reaction if Nokia would have decided to adopt Android?
Could Apple Be Your Next Phone Company?
Oh I've been watching it. I'm mainly referring to the tent city in the middle of the square being there, but yes it's quite amazing overall. As happy as I am, I'm still feeling a little unsettled. It's a victory yes, but what comes next?
I don't know if I speak for everybody, but why should I go watch some random video about Brasil? I don't think the HN crowd has much interest in seemingly off-topic videos without the poster giving a comment as to why it's relavent.
In this case, those are exactly the customers you don't want and who don't want you.
A lot of what makes 4chan work is the lack of karma. There's no way to keep score on who said something popular or unpopular in the past, so each post or comment is necessarily evaluated on its own terms. I don't see a way to add karma to that without destroying that flatness.
Microsoft/Nokia Partnership Not Enough to Challenge Apple
Let's hope that is what they get.
It certainly surprised the Nokia staff. Wasn't it communicated inside the company? If so, why? I bet the answers to those questions are very interesting.
"... an independent consultant with expertise in quantitative investment techniques who will review disclosures and enhance the role of compliance personnel."

I assume this is press-release-based and so pretty thin on actual information, but if someone told me they had a $242 million software error and the plan for the future was to "review disclosures" I would not be reassured.
WordPress.com / CNN.com redirecting to superfantastically.com (hacked?)
I believe the best time to post on HN is Tue-Thur, in the morning in the U.S. eastern time zone. The problem with Friday is that the rest of the world is already enjoying the weekend.

How about pivoting into a field where the customers are spending more money and have more money to spend?
Co-founder & CEO, Chatfe
I really like the idea. A couple of initial comments based on a test photo I uploaded straight from my camera (http://loud.ly/yqyqns):

I really didn't like having to install a piece of code in my site theme. Although I've done it for this test, I'm effectively giving you a bunch of analytics, and I'm loading JS I don't need on every page. I'd much rather have a single piece of JS (or similar) for each photo that I can just embed. That said, I do very much like that it's not a piece of Flash.

I was expecting to have to drag an area of the photo to begin with, so accidentally created a hotspot in the wrong place. It'd be great to be able to drag existing hotspots around.

Also, you've got this far - why not include buttons to share on Twitter and Facebook? Comments would also be a no-brainer - you could have the comment and share counts next to the "x like this!" hover-over.
The OP is Al Jazeera. That means it's not on American TV, at least.
In fairness, those tax dollars could be used to "European-localize" WP7 as well.
Do you not see the stories on HN about the EFF constantly doing exactly what you say no one is doing?
It's amazing how hyperbolic people are being about this, presumably out of blind Microsoft hatred.

Pretty much everyone agreed that Nokia's Symbian/MeeGo strategy was a failure, that Nokia were quickly losing marketshare and that they needed a new OS.

The only options were Android and Windows Phone 7. WebOS would have been a better fit than either, but that option had already been and gone.

I think there are compelling reasons why Nokia would choose WP7 over Android.

There is a competitive advantage in being the flagship manufacturer of a platform, they won't have to play catchup against much more established competitors, or have to directly compete with cheap Chinese phones from companies like ZTE in the low-end. That's without going into the favourable terms that Microsoft no doubt offered.
Law schools. But I guess it depends on what you are trying to accomplish?
How much would it cost to re-host all these sites? If you hosted a snapshot it'd be completely static, a small cluster of Varnish servers would be trivial to set up and could take quite a beating (alternately you could leverage a CDN I guess? I don't know much about such things). Either way I doubt it'd be a huge investment to keep them online as static, archive sites (which is a very different commitment to keeping them actually live, which would obviously incur many more costs).
The stock market just reacted for admitting defeat, Nokia drilled that Symbian is the better option for years and only today acknowledged that is not the case.
The person at the desk doesn't really care, I often just say "it's the same as the store's" -- it's that or 867 5309, their choice.
Which makes me inherently think to never trust anything they say.
Is Mubarak still president?
A father knows best: Vint Cerf re-thinks the Internet in Stanford talk
Having a goal of not raising capital seems like a silly goal to state. I think you better addressed it in your actual post:

"concerned with creating an amazing product, growing slowly, having it cover its own costs, and becoming profitable as soon as possible "

I took amazing product and becoming profitable (same as covering costs, no?) as self explanatory and not needing explanation. However, growing slowly needs a reason in my mind. There may be some justification, but you haven't stated why. I also don't like limiting ones options for arbitrary reasons, you might need a big pile of cash to take your product to the next level despite being profitable. VC could really important at that point because the opportunity might be time sensitive.
This should come as no surprise to anyone who has a business background or has ever worked in retail.

I have no doubt their business will continue to be successful, as b&m stores are, but I have serious doubt about their sustained growth prospects as the newness of their model wears off. At some point Groupon is going to have to rely on the same sleazy sales tactics as b&m stores, which will turn off a majority of the early adopters.
If you think the CEO is leading your company or your job into the trash, there's nothing wrong with taking a vacation day to work on your resume'.

You can bet he's working on his on the clock.
We've subdomain-ed the site in case we extend the feature set significantly beyond tagging.
This is what the guidelines actually say:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Pagination for perf intensive queries using nhibernate and sql server tem tables
There is no such thing as a "warrant to pull a domain" (or sieze a bank account) in the US legal system[1]. So, if a "judge" signed a piece of paper, that does not make it a warrant (legally). These were criminal acts, and that is the fact, jack.

The TLD servers are root servers for the TLDs.

Also, your hostility is not appropriate here. Even if someone makes errors, attacking them just says more about you than it does them.

[1] Fourth amendment. The existence of a bank account is evidence, thus a warrant can be issued to seize a bank accounts records. But money is not itself evidence, it is fungible with any other money, thus these warrants are illegal under the fourth amendment, and anyone participating in their service or enforcement is a felon under USC 18-242.
I prefer advocacy organization or research outfit. Think tank implies inaction. If you live in the western world moving policy is literally like moving mountains the higher the scale or wealthier the opposition. "Action Tank" anyone?
the bad thing is that HM stole $50 billion from the citizens of Egypt..and the USA does nothing and UN does nothing
Well technically a company's stock value is supposed to represent the discounted present value of all future profits. So you can interpret a reduction in stock price as an indication that the market expects profits to be lower in the future.
Sticking to Symbian and finishing MeeGo were not their only options. AFAIK, the Android stack would run just fine on top of the MeeGo kernel. They could have gone with Android in their high-end while gradually pushing Symbian down towards their dumbphone range.
agreed - the fact that they let candidates build the whole interface -

leaves the impression that the company is just looking for cheap young talent,

if you get hired and start to ask for more salary - they will hire new young talented people
The hardest part of this is not posting the version I made in 5 minutes ;) I have no interest in working for Reddit, but as a SysAdmin, I can't resist a challenge.
What a badass.
The Song-Beverly Credit Card Act is a California-only animal. Having said that, it is unenforceable in interstate commerce. The only people who need to worry about this for their online stores are retailers with a business presence in California.
I don't see any "con" here, just a great demo.
It's not unusual to disallow coupons on the sale price of items. I admit that's questionable, but...

GroupOn didn't do this. FTD did. As far as GroupOn knew, everything was good, so far as I can tell. Throwing mud on their name without any proof at all is wrong.
I don't see EFF attacking people for operating under the current system, so obviously I wasn't saying they aren't trying to change the system at all.

I also haven't seen a proposal from the EFF for a constitutional amendment of any stripe.
The fact that you and some others do not care about apps is irrelevant. Apps are clearly important to a large portion of the market.
Startup Quote: Brad Burnham, co-founder, Union Square Ventures
I've wondered more than once if their growth as men is being stunted.

No, it's not. But just forcing oneself, and redirecting your attention for something that you dream to turn big.
The best one is about "lean startups"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J9KhpgYVB0
Create something simple. Let the market pull you in.

- Brad Burnham (@bradusv)

http://startupquote.com/post/3235292136
World’s first programmable nanoprocessor
Yeah, the title is tongue-in-cheek I'm pretty sure.
If you are starting a Social Network, then it would be a bad idea, yes. For most applications, I think it would be pretty practical. Social media related sites might find it useful though.
In this case, then, the parent comment is correct, and you are wrong.

If I invent something, and neither sell it or make it known to the public (thus it continues to meet the novelty requirement), then there is nothing preventing someone else from patenting said invention.
If you don't think Groupon knew about this, I have an awesome bridge to sell you.
Reports are the anathema of the profession. Research is critical for reasoned discussion. But once you add political machinations people don't want reason. There are entirely too many winner takes all games played on the backs of the people. Do we really need 'regulated monopolies' providing energy? Or 29 for-profit multinational companies owning the entire electrical grid? Something's afoot!
They've set an example on how to do a peaceful revolution. They've earned the right to choose their own government.
Now, they'll have to learn from their choices, good and bad ones!
Misleading title!!
What's the distribution of revenue per customer?
How many users will make $10 a month? $100? $1000?

Once you have that info you can segment your customers and maximize your revenue while being fair to your customers. The more money your customers make the more incentive you'll have to keep them in the FREE category because it maximizes your revenues, but your customers won't be too happy - it's a balancing act.

You may consider just keeping the free account and seeing what the usage is like before segmenting... as badkins pointed out it's hard to raise prices on your existing customers. If you introduce a new "tier" later the high revenue customers will be happy to move over to it, regardless of the price, if it will save them money.
FTC: How to be wise about use of Wi-Fi Networks
And I loved this because I would go around to all these angel investors and VCs and charge them $5 or $50 to show them my new idea.

Great litmus test. Anyone willing to pay to see an idea is probably too naive to be a dependable business partner.
The article you quoted is confusing for me. It says they store only one copy of each file and serves it to all requests originating from different users. Sounds good!

But how can it be viable? Like most files in my account are personal. Only few are such that others too might have them. Isn't it same for everyone? I think most people have mostly unique files in their account.

So how can dropbox rely on the model mentioned in the link?
Does anybody have a good idea of how much it does cost for a big organisation to keep this kind of content online?

Intuitively, it seems that the answer should be 'not much' -- perhaps on the order of a few thousand dollars/year. A couple of servers, bandwidth, and a sysadmin checking in now and again to apply security patches &c.

But here (also with e.g. yahoo closing geocities), it's argued that the cost of keeping them up is much, much higher. Where does the expense come from?
I apologize for not fully reading the story before I commented. Using your own PTO is quite admirable. I was under the wrong impression.
For me, the thing that really made the lightbulb go on was learning OCaml. Working with complex data structures is where ML really excels, and it dispenses with many superfluous details that appear when studying algorithms in C/Java/etc. Working through the exercises in chapters 2-4 of this book (http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/) should give you a solid intuition for algorithmic performance, as well as an excellent notation. (Though as OCaml books go, http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf is probably better overall.)

As a reference, volume 3 of Knuth's _Art of Computer Programming_ is quite good. I know a lot of people just namedrop it and haven't read it, but it really is. Volume 3 focuses on searching and sorting algorithms (perhaps the most practical volume). It takes a bit of mathematical sophistication to follow, but you'll need that for algorithmic analysis anyway.
Given that this is a press release from MPEG-LA hosted on its own website stating that MPEG-LA is asking for information about possible WebM infringements, I assume it's being driven by MPEG-LA.
Because we wanted to get this done as quickly as possible, we choose to for now make the dynamic placement of tags via Javascript the only way to do it for now. However, making a standalone script plus data rich img elements that hold the tag data is definitely on the roadmap.

Thanks for the ideas though - they are going on the backlog!
Now imagine what Nokia could have done had they picked up Palm and installed Jon Rubenstein as their CEO instead. facepalm
‎"The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, patience."

- Howard Zinn
Go for it. http://www.longbets.org/
I am a little unclear on something about Qt. I though there was a clause in its licensing that made it BSD if TrollTech was acquired. Since that didn't actually happen, what is the future for Qt when Nokia cans it.
The press release is referencing this FTC site: http://www.onguardonline.gov/topics/hotspots.aspx
That's the existing market. It also makes sense, businesses generally don't behave altruistically. Perhaps approaching businesses at all is a mistake, maybe wealthy individuals, social-angels per se.
Many Egyptians were talking about having a constitutional convention to decide what sort of government they want. Perhaps it will acknowledge inalienable rights reserved to the people for example.

Hopefully that will be the next step, anything less than starting from scratch with their government is going to leave the old system and those who gained power from it in place.
Symbian has not been doing well, and their fans won't support it forever.

Prominent Symbian enthusiasts (Symbian-Guru) on giving up the platform:

(engadget summary)
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/symbian-guru-shuts-down-s...

(same story summarized by TC)
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/self-declared-longtime-noki...
It's surprising to a degree, yes. But less surprising than if he was to announce, say, that Nokia is pivoting to become an oil company. He came from Microsoft on a rescue mission to a company where software was widely acknowledged to be the biggest problem.
Mubarak resigns; hands power to Egyptian military
Which began in 1980 in Poland
Doesn't bugzilla (although ugly) handle the same workflow that he is describing? We have svndiff linked in for the side by side diffs, but that is the only thing missing.
I could easily imagine one of the problems could be the BBC not knowing what rights they have to the content. Likely some of it will be stuff they only have limited rights to; donating it to an external project could plausibly get them into trouble. And hiring somebody to check the contracts over 172 websites won't be cheap.
Have to disagree with you about Windows 7. It's the best OS ever made for personal computers, especially for 64 bit.
All the examples work for me. Something local? Solved?
>highest concentration of pure happiness and elation on this planet

Very well said. This is just fantastic. I hope the Egyptian people get everything they're hoping for. How exciting!
No, the statement is "things have to be patented...". It's incorrect because you can either patent it, or publish without acquiring a patent. (I'm focusing on this part, because the statement was made to justify patenting. It's not, you don't have to patent anything.)
By this logic, you might as well hire people in less expensive parts of the US and avoid the (small, but existant) cross-border business issues. Also, Vancouver and Toronto aren't particularly low cost-of-living cities. Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Austin, and Raleigh are all cheaper.
Anyone know why google is so committed to perforce?
When do we get to see who is really in power now? It's hilarious to me that all the pictures of the 1-10 powers in Egypt are grainy screengrabs from old TV programs.
MOBILE PHONE DEALS THAT GO EASY ON THE WALLET
Doesnt it just irk you when you get heavily charged on those mobile bills? Dont you wonder where all that money goes that you earn each month with such huge bills knocking at your door? First of all, the mobile phone itself must have cost...
Not to mention that a democratic government, in itself, doesn't guarantee anything - large-scale corruption and incompetence are still a very real possibility.

Still, hopefully a step in the right direction - more options are now available to the Egyptian people.
Nokia Share Price Takes A Hell Of A Nosedive, Down 14%
Enough users upvoted it to get it in spot #1 on the front page. The userbase thus finds it relevant to them.
It's certainly "case of not cool/new".
No, but he's apparently working for github now!
You didn't read the end of the post, did you?

Because I'm sure that Authorize.Net has never frozen anyone's account and taken their money.

PayPal is not the only company that does this.
Limonade - Sintra-like PHP micro-framework
I sure hope so. I trust apple more than google, microsoft, at&t and verizon combined. Every one of those other companies has betrayed my trust at one point or another, and in some cases- microsoft and AT&T, has defrauded me.

Nice thing about libel laws is that the truth is an ultimate defense, so I can say they have defrauded me, and just hope they decide to sue me... love to have my day in court.
Rushing the net: Nokia’s coming fight to the Finnish
Don't be very enthusiastic, especially for Egypt. They have got a very sensible position. They are Israel neighbor, they have the Suez Canal, and also the most populated Arabic country (They can become a power). That is, I don't think that the U.S will give up that easily.

Also keep in mind, that the Arab nations want to unite. If you give the people the power, you'll see tomorrow that most of the borders are removed, which let the place for the building of a very strong and influential civilization.

As I said in my other thread, we have just began and it'll be a very long road and will need a very long breath.
Ask HN: Cheap/free sites for design workflow? (i.e. similar to Draftboardapp)
I'm looking for any sites similar to www.draftboardapp.com that allow for designers, developers, and whoever to collaborate on the design workflow process. I like Draftboard but $24/mo is a little too much for me to pay in the beginning stages of a project, and just for two users.

Does anyone know of other sites that are cheaper, or free, which allow for the upload of designs, commenting on them, etc.?
Best post he has written for a long time - catches the Nokia/MS deal absolutely right.
It seems they fixed already (not local, as you can see from the twitter stream).
Just signed up. Neat application. I like the colors.

1. The font makes things hard to read. Have a clear font.

2. When I say "Next Wednesday" in the Event Time, it calculates the date for me, which is neat. But when you show the list of events, you show the date and not "Next Wednesday" -- which is the way I remember it.

3. An option for DD/MM/YYYY date format would help.

4. If I say "Next Wednesday", you'll assume "At around 12.00PM". I think you should just say "Next Wednesday", and show timing info only if the user has entered it explicitly