skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Browsers need a "Return without resending" option...
This is just a pet peeve of mine.

I get pretty annoyed when I can't hit my back button or refresh a page without resending post data (if post data was previously submitted of course).

The only two options have always been "Resend" or "Cancel"... and a lot of the time I just want to get back to that page without resending the POST data. I do realize that sometimes the content of the page is dependent on that data but 9 times out of 10, it's not.

It seems that anytime I want to return to the page, I have to manually re-enter the URL or select a few steps back into my history.

Anyone know why the only options are "Resend" and "Cancel"?
HP webOS event roundup.
Income Distribution Within U.S. Religious Groups
Another confound I would note is that Bing is highly specialized in certain queries, and that users may select Bing for the queries they know will result in specialized results, and use Google for everything else.
HTML + JavaScript + PhoneGap is a viable solution.
I really don't understand any advantages of Crate over Dropbox, which also has file sharing through URLs and folder sharing.

I asked this question the last time Crate was on HN and got a vague response.
I got my first client from a freelancing website (odesk), and after that all my work has come from referrals. As others have said, these websites are a bit hit and miss, and you end up competing with some low prices. They're ok for getting your foot in the door, but I don't think they're sustainable for most people.
I wonder how one could make money with a javascript version of Vim...
>Miniature auto differential created for tiny flying robots

http://www.gizmag.com/differential-micro-air-vehicles/16250/

>Harvard University's Micro-robotics Laboratory claims to have created the first tiny micro-robotic fly able to generate enough thrust to take off. It has a wingspan of 3 cm and only weighs 0.06 grams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATZzzeipags
Apple.com - 15 years ago
The referenced article is not even wrong.

Take the pool of qualified people who can do a job, order it by most able to least able. Now intersect that line with demand for people who can do the job. From the intersection point to the top you will see a gradual rise in salary with a sharp peak in the top 1%, below the line you will find unemployed folks.

Has nothing to do with vision, widgets, or films. The question is can you be replaced by someone who will be as productive as you are, for the same salary? Then you're on the short list. If you can be replaced for less salary, you will be.

Caveat the presence of an external force which warps the economics.
Twitter needs to stop fucking around and charge for their API (with metered pricing). Currently, their incentives are to restict access to save money and bandwidth. If they charge money, their incentives will be the opposite: encourage as many developers to use as much as possible. It'll suck for the casual developer that wants to build a free app on the Twitter platform, but it's clear that there's enough demand for the platform that is has some value.
get in.

the pattern is called redirect after post. It doesn't require browser changes it requires web developers to add 1 line of code.
I found the original response from the last comment to my question (the response is now dead):

* Nothing to download. * Easy to use. * Its the next New Big Thing.

Dropbox is incredibly easy to use, and "The next Big Thing" is not an advantage.

Not having anything to download is nice, but the side-effect is that everything has to manually be uploaded instead of automated.
For instance, the current #2 link on HN leads to:

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/02/11/bing-smacks-googl...

And if you wait a few seconds and hit your back button to return to HN, the "Resend/Cancel" window pops up (unexpectedly!)... I find it pretty annoying that I suddenly have to click it to do anything else.
I agree with everything you've said, but want to add that for new entrepreneurs, it's wise to start your earlier ventures with the minimal amount of money and grass-roots types of efforts. From this, you grow to understand your strengths and weaknesses. A good entrepreneur may not learn great marketing techniques as a result of doing self-marketing, but may learn that he is not a good marketeer, which is just as valuable.

Serial entrepreneurs like to start with more money because, in part, I think they already know what types of endeavors it makes sense to pay somebody else to do.
There's actually a search box in private repositories in the upper right-hand corner that searches within the project. It was turned off for public repositories for performance reasons, I think. Tom's sort of spearheading revamping search in 2011, though, (see: new Gist search), so I wouldn't be surprised if he just improves all the things.
I'm guessing all it did was fly around loosely controlled if at all. The miniaturization is impressive, but they were not likely able to do much more than a small internal combustion engine in the 70s.

Today however I would not be surprised if such devices exist and are in practical use.
No, I'm really not. That would be one extreme, sure. However reducing the meaning of the term "mainstream" by saying it applies to things as rare as tablets are today is to go to the other extreme.
There can only be one!
No? They said differently at the Stanford career fair a few weeks ago.
HP donates a hefty server to homebrew WebOS Internals Group
But what if I do like the option of being able to resend the data?

Browsers should include 3 options with this alert:

Resend, Don't Resend, & Cancel
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Does my 'search' for "skitsophrenia" as a lazy-man's way of spellcheck actually count as a query? IMHO this metric is flawed.
My greatest search success is when the information I need is in the displayed snippets. Others clearly agree: see DuckDuckGo's 'zero click info' and Google's 'One Box' results.

Next best is when the snippets make it clear I need to refine my search, rather than wasting my time wading through the result sites. Again, no clicks from the results, but a happier searcher.

So the Hitwise 'success rate' metric seems totally bogus to me – inversely correlated to the quality of snippets/OneBox.

I suspect Google's snippets are still the best in the business, though an objective analysis of that would be interesting news.
CouchOne and Membase merging. Ok, 1 less noSQL choice to be made?
I actually can see the use-case of asking someone for a large file. Having them download Dropbox is a pain, but something that is one-time use would be ideal.
As a Rails developer I agree, although not as much as a Java developer agrees:

com/ => company/ => moar_hierarchy/ => etc/ => even_more/ => files

Clicking though all of those empty directories, even with new slide from earlier this year, was still a pain in the butt.
The API should be done by the end of this weekend. When that's done you'll be able to upload your files however you'd like, provided that you are willing to write some code :)
Features Adioso's (YC W09) recent Valentine's Day promo under "Startups that Rock at Inbound Marketing"
JPEG for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information
On the other hand, the Android GMail app is so good that there's no reason to use the web version. So just setup your phone with a device specific password and you are good to go!
Why did a famous economist publish an ebook and forgo a print edition?
Agreed: if you're building a startup that simply recycles another successful company with hopes of being acquired -- and that is your predominant "business model" -- then you're in startup land for the wrong reasons. This isn't the dot-com-let's-build-something-that's-not-really-anything-and-IPO-or-sell-it-off-as-fast-as-we-can era anymore. Hint: look at the radical reduction in IPOs over the past 10 years (admittedly due largely to the onerous Sarbanes-Oxley regulations).

I'm already being asked by people what our exit strategy is. I'm like, "um, we haven't even launched yet -- the last thing I'm thinking about is exiting, I just want to build this thing and make it cool!"
As soon as I deleted my OkCupid profile I started meeting more people in real life. At least for me, where I was putting my energy was a zero-sum choice.
I wrote about a grubwith.us-esque dating site in an Ask HN submission a little over a year ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878657

The challenge with this model is that extracting money from users requires repeated action on their part. That subscription money is so much easier. With an average account life of six months, match.com gets about $180 per paid user.

If you went with a Groupon-like model for a site that revolved around sending people on dates, and assuming you could make about $10 on $20ish dates, each user would have to get out there 18 times in order for you to beat the subscription model.

I still think there could be a big opportunity in a site like this, but it's not hard to see why the incumbents hang onto their subscription models for dear life.
> IMHO it's a far better bet to predict whether or not two people can get through dinner without trying to kill each other... and just send them on a date.

That's the thing. It's true that a similar world view is important for a long term relationship, problem is that there's well known sociological phenomenon where by people will not answer honestly about their actual world view (choosing one they consider to be more socially acceptable).

The very problem of course stems from the term "online dating". As I stated in my comment, it should really be about "online discovery of people you can go on a date with". The algorithms should not be about matching, but about discovery of people where interest may be mutual.
No, especially if that API has become a de facto market standard such as Amazon's cloud APIs.

An interface is not a product or service. The company in question has a responsibility to continually innovate in order to remain competitive. That's how market economies work, or should work barring the involvement of lawyers who defend what is in the best interest of one firm (local maximum) at the expense of what is in the best interest of everyone, companies and consumers alike (global maximum).
He’s Back: Arnold Schwarzenegger Looking for Movie Roles 
Industry insiders had been wondering what Schwarzenegger's move would be after the former action-movie hero exited as governor of California Jan. 3.
I'll be honest, I don't think I could possibly even think of a way to improve the Dropbox workflow.

An API is great, but I can't think of what to code that would be better than what's available for free.
> The most open device is going to win this race [...]

The above is very far from clear at this point. In case you didn't notice it, the App Store just hit 10 billion downloads [1]. I'd say that's a pretty relevant bit of history. Also note the amazing 60 apps per idevice [2]. And don't conflate openness with developer profitability -- in one case, Microsoft had both, but it's not clear that the latter leads to the former. Right now, I'd guess there's easily one or two magnitudes more developers supporting themselves with iOS apps than with android apps.

The fact that my gf and mom's iphone and ipad can't run random executables is, IMO, a feature not a bug. I got so tired of telling them, "No, do NOT click yes on any dialog box. Do not install anything. Do not agree to anything. etc" And yet somehow, spyware / crap always ended up on their damn computers. Apple's vision of utility computing, where the computer is a tablet or a phone that just bloody works is one of the best things that can happen to computing intended for widespread adoption. Further, curation of apps similarly is awesome for them. I'm not as stoked about it for myself, but I'm very clearly a distinct minority.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/22/apples-app-store-hits-10-...

[2] http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/01/more-than-60-apps...
I highly doubt their tactics here. They're grabbing aggregate ISP data for users (http://www.hitwise.com/us/about-us/how-we-do-it) and running scripts to see if the search is followed by an address that appears on the search page. Also, it seems like they don't account for google's instant search, but it's hard to tell as their first "success" statistic was posted in October (Instant Search was released on September 8th). They do however, publish upstream traffic percentages for sites in various categories (http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/google...) prior to September. Note that in this case, the ratio between the upstream click throughs (75% for google, 15% for yahoo, and 10% for bing for health related click throughs) and the ratios of the aggregate search traffic (71.4% for google, 15% for yahoo, and 9.4% for bing during that month) allow us to extrapolate the "success" rates during this period, and it seems to suggest that everyone is in line for search results (with google being slightly ahead, at least for health. I didn't run the numbers for the other categories as we dont know the search volume for each of those, and as such you couldn't find an average statistic that was relevant). Just my two cents, but it seems like the data is highly affected by google's instant search.
The number of users that use Bing is much lower than the number of users that use Google.

This comparison is similar to saying that book X that has a total of 4 ratings, 5 star each is better than book Y that has 100 ratings, 4 star each.
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Actually it was Bank of America that hired Palantir and HBGary Federal to help them defend against the upcoming BoA Wikileaks release.
eh? You did say 'mere'...
Even atheism isn't a religion, I'd like to see what the distribution is for individuals that would classify themselves as atheists. I see there's an unaffiliated category. According to the site;

This group (unaffiliated) includes atheists, agnostics and people who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.” This latter group can be further divided into “secular unaffiliated” and “religious unaffiliated.”
You mention you use an online clock now and are interested in one that speaks information. Check out http://sleep.fm ... wakes & speak the weather, status of your airline flight (data from flightcaster.com), as well another option you can ask your friends to choose a fun alarm sound(youtube vid) to wake you up. Which ive heard many think is a crazy idea yet if you ever woke up to Pandora.com or a radio station it's the same thing, yet the alarm that wakes you was selected by friend(has some meaning to it).
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"Disruption" is fine as long as it's caused by white, male, Ivy-league hipsters in skinny jeans."
Given the volume of both though (they grabbed these stats from 10 million searches) the statistical relevance of each should be pretty definite, even if you're using a bayesian average.
Nice find in the article: the new Pre 3 uses an IPS LCD display like the iPhone 4. I'm sure it's beautiful in person.
"at least my startup is lean"
> "it should really be about "online discovery of people you can go on a date with""

I agree completely. Right now our systems are (purportedly) remarkably good at finding good long term matches, but fail disastrously at getting you first dates. One thing comes before the other - and let's be honest, compatibility is something you can discover for yourself.

I'd much rather use a service that can get me regular dates with people I'd enjoy spending time with, but may not be a good long-term match, than a system that almost never gets me dates, but on the off chance it does she may be my soulmate.
You mean "bottom right"? ;)
I have no phone. Not at all, not a cell, not a work phone, not a home phone.

I suppose this is what I get for being both a hacker and a luddite.

But this definitely will NOT work for me.
They used PhoneGap, in fact it was Nitobi that created the app.

http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2010/10/18/an-update-on-ou...
Is something weird happening with Facebook?
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An example of meeting friends-of-friends is soshi.com. They recently launched at Stanford and leverage your facebook network to display eligible friends of friends, it two people express interest in one another, it matches you up.
Is the lack of a link to a list of available jobs and locations or even a mailto:jobs@ email address supposed to be part of an indie appeal?
Ask HN: Where is the February Job Thread?
I need to find job thread besides the Y Combinator job postings. Front end developer here looking for an exciting opportunity
So... don't use it?
Make it easier to get installed/running rather than cleaning up the code for its own sake. Something working and out there is superior to the alternative.
I've tried compiling it for Windows (using msvc, instead of mingw), but failed.

Anyone knowns precompiled binaries for windows (even mingw should be fine, they link to KERNEL32.lib, and are binary compatible with MS).
Good Design! Super Effective. I think it is one of the best landing pages I have seen in awhile.
Twitter has Stopped Whitelisting New Applications
FYI If I'm not mistaken you can link to the mobile version of the story on NYT and it will be "free"
Nobody is saying that this advice is unique to Python. Feel free to use it for Visual Basic too if you want.
Nave plays well with npm, so you can have different sets of libraries for the different versions of node that you have installed (similar to rvm if you're a rubyist.) This is mostly important when you have libraries that are compiled C/C++.
What is the language?

numbers.filter( _ % 2 == 0 ).map( _ / 2 )

Zen of Python doesn't contain any lambdas (the link from the grandparent http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ ). List Comprehensions are 10 years old http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0202/

How do you write:

lambda x, y=1: x+y
lambda *args: reduce(lcm, args)
lambda **kwargs: kwargs.get('a') or kwargs.get('b')

def lcm(a, b):
return a*b // gcd(a, b)

def gcd(a, b):
while b:
a, b = b, a % b
return a
I agree... On a somewhat related note, Atheists have better grammar:
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-fir...
(search "religion")
On Android, the device specific password is used for your phone's Google Account. Which means once you set it up, all Google apps like Gmail, GReader, Talk, Market, etc. will work as usual.

If you suspect your device password is compromised, you can revoke it from your Google account settings in a regular browser.
A Facebook App That Predicts College Admissions
Most Python people are okay with relying on the behaviour of what is truthful and what is not. They would often prefer to see

if foo:
do_stuff()

over

if len(foo) > 0:
do_stuff()
From the article:

Meeting friends-of-friends is the best way to find cool people, because liking is transitive AND because the low social distances force people to be on their best behavior.

If I were looking to date friends-of-friends in particular, I think I'd just use facebook directly. Though more often then not, I've already met such friends-of-friends via common events.
When powerset launched they had very impressive snippets. Now that they've been bought by microsoft, I wonder how much of the technology has been integrated.
Ugh, I hate the fact that BBB charges you an extra $xxx just to put their seal on your site, in addition to you paying their basic fees. It's extortion in my mind, but yes, Mafia like protection
That will turn out poorly: http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/therobot02.jpg
>The fact that there's so many variables isn't the reason such an analysis would fail. The reason is that there's just not enough input to predict personality type with any statistical significance.
Isn't this the whole idea of factor analysis/singular variable decomposition?
I would pay good money for a surfing text, along with a suggestion about why I'm going to be late for work that morning.
CMU here also. I graduated several years ago, but I distinctly remember groups of CS students banding together to create things on their own. That's start-up culture. You get a bunch of motivated, technically inclined people together and build something. The CS undergrad lounge always had people fiddling around with things and geeking out.

At CMU you are free to do what you want with your spare time. There doesn't necessarily need to be a class for teaching start-ups. A class can simulate anything (DDOS attacks, power outages), but whether or not that simulation is a reflection of reality once the student leaves the classroom remains to be seen. Furthermore, if you need a class to learn something, then there are many hard lessons waiting for you in life.

The reason you get a CS degree at CMU is to become a better problem solver. It's a very difficult course of study. When I was there about 1 in 4 students dropped out of the SCS program. If you make it through the program, it is a badge of dedication, and you are definitely transformed into a problem solver. The environment in which you use these problem solving skills - at a start-up or a large corporation - should never be an issue, nor should it require explicit handling.

Often when I see a start-up populated with dropouts I'll think "They couldn't even make a 4-year commitment? Does that mean they'll only stick around here for 2 years before they split?" And that is often the case. The infatuation with dropping out and start-up "culture" is purely romantic.
Well, http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/ is a converter from LLVM to C. Build an ncurses wrapper around one of the many JavaScript terminal emulators, and hook all the file I/O into Dropbox, and it should not be particularly difficult.
Great design. What did you use for the front end?
Yeah, that's definitely one of the things we're going to be adding to the service.

Person 1: "Hey, send me that file, use this: url"
Person 2: "Oh!" drag and drop

All updated in real time (so you could potentially link a whole group of friends something and see them all drop in files for an event or some-such). Perhaps a school trip or something to that extent.
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> Athiests have better grammar

Yup. And some of us can even spell "atheists". :-)

(I think it's worth distinguishing between "atheists have better grammar" and "people who identify themselves as atheist on dating sites use better grammar there". It may well be that both are true, but from the second to the first is quite a leap.)
What is most fascinating about this is that before an Author might waste 2 years of his life developing a book and get nothing out of it. Now an author can test the whole way.

1. Twitter - 140 Character Thesis Statement
2. Blog Post - 500 Word Overview
3. ebook - 15,000 word Essay
4. Printed Book - 35,000 - 125,000 word book.

You could kick out 10 twitter tweets a month, convert 3 to blog posts, 2 to ebook, and finally 1 to a printed book.
I kinda doubt that, for $9/month, Crate wants to act as a CDN for your hugely popular feature-length HD film.

I don't see anything about limits in their TOS, but the strong implication is that the service is for sharing with friends, and I don't see any guarantees either. Dropbox is pretty lenient about bandwidth, and I imagine Crate is too.
Yes, you can change the amount with ARB -- once you have the subscription id, you can change pretty much anything about that subscription.
More accurately: Vicarious says it is trying to make its vision system the real deal. Smaller problem, and (at least according to the article) they haven't solved it yet.

Of course, smaller and small are different things - this is still a very hard thing to do. Hope they succeed.