skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not yet used it because as others pointed out I rely heavily on SQL Server 2005/8 to use Linq To SQL in my solutions. Even if I can host the application on a linux box, I still need a windows box to put the DB server on.

However, I've been looking at postgreSQL for a while and it looks ok. I am curious if anyone has tried this before.

Has anyone done this with MySql/PostgreSQL?
Now they have two problems.
I agree with you 100% that allowing recurring subscriptions is great news for iOS developers developing applications with certain usage profiles.

The people who are complaining are people with low margin businesses, for whom giving up 30% of a sale will put them at a loss on every sale. EBook sales, music sales/subscriptions, and video streaming don't operate on huge margins like Saas does, they operate on tiny margins. Apple is also prohibiting people from raising the price of their products to account for the tax, so for anyone whose margins are less then 30%, the app store will basically be closed in a month or two.

In short, app store subscriptions are great for your business - good for you! Use it and get rich. The terms are lousy for other businesses, who are going to have to pull their apps from the app store.
why can't you postpone the travel for a few days? tell them you have some responsibilities you couldn't manage to get out of on the short term but still are very interested.

if they're looking for you specifically and not just a warm body, they should understand. if they're just looking for a warm body, i'd think twice about the process.
Sorry, my final claim as originally posted was incoherent, and the exact opposite of my actual argument. You may have misread my final claim, which is unsurprising, because it made no sense. I've edited it appropriately.

I've heard mixed rumors on Facebook advertising: Not all the stories were quite so grim. As for the future, I've seen a much larger number of non-technical users (especially older adults) using Facebook than ever used MySpace, etc.

Personally, I don't use Facebook much, because their privacy policies keep changing.
i know a guy who works for two major software companies (as a presales analyst or something) and they don't know it.

just a story
>I don't see why Apple would reject apps that connect to external sensors.

They don't: http://itunes.apple.com/app/audiotools/id325307477?mt=8
Pension and endowment funds represent some of the largest VC LPs.
Not to mention there is much more of a precedence to have business models now than there was back in the 90's. That's not to say everyone has one (ahem, Twitter) but it's better than just an idea on a napkin in 1999.
I've seen Mark around town a couple of times.

The first time I was shocked. I had just moved here and was looking for some curry paste, so I went to Ranch 99 in Mountain View. I turn around the corner, and bam, Mark Zuckerberg and his girl. We had this weird eye contact thing.

I walked around the store a couple of times, running into him again in a similar fashion (I didn't know where anything was at), and ended up being behind him in line.

Second time was in PA, I was just walking downtown to the Vans store, and same thing. Saw him on the street, made eye contact, etc...

Next time I see him I'll probably say hi, but nobody was bugging him. I guess I was surprised that somebody that high profile would be out and about, even in a place like SV.
Why is this bad advice?
I haven't experienced the first bubble, so no context there. However at least from my own experience with VC and angel investors, they are all quite risk averse and insist on seeing solid traction/revenue befor even considering investment. Among all the most popular sites, Twitter might be the only bad example and exception here without a solid revenue model, whereas Facebook, Linkedin, and Groupon all boasted a stellar revenue already. I do think the investors have learnt from the last bubble and changed the mentality a lot.
Just because we're a techy crowd here doesn't mean that we can't allow a little poetic license.
Open Decision-Making (2007)
Apple To Build Biggest Store Yet In Grand Central Terminal
I don't get it. It sometimes is the case that early-stage investors sell off parts of their shares in later rounds, but this is not the norm. In which case yes, there is pressure on later investors to give high late-stage valuations for a company which had high early-stage valuations, but it's not the case that angels and early-stage VC's can ignore the company's final outcome and profit merely by bringing in later stage investors, which is the distinguishing feature of a pyramid scheme.
I think that you should fulfill your obligation at your current company and do the demo. The company you are interviewing with will understand your situation if they are professional enough. Go out strong and do the right thing, while maintaining your network and reputation. My two cents.
It's a great idea, and if I still had my Droid I would be a customer. I just complained about this over the weekend when at 4:00AM I got a series of texts from a friend in a different time zone. He does it regularly (I don't think it's funny, but I'm not going to unfriend him because of it).

Usually I turn my phone off at night, but we were out of town and needed it on in case there was a problem with our kids that were being cared for by family. It sucked being on vacation, one of the few times I get to rest and sleep in, just to be alarmed at 4:00AM because of an inconsiderate friend trying to be funny.

Many, many use cases for your app. I don't care for the name though. Call me anytime, AlwaysOnForYou, ... I dunno. Just my opinion. Good job and good luck!
why lie?

tell as it is. they're testing your willingness to work for them. you test them: how will they value you
> And getting a good spot for the dating keyword seems insanely hard.

Okay, how about this:

* Make a Windows desktop widget or executable that sits in the system tray and polls for active Internet connection. Whenever the user goes online, it checks with your server if any 'matches' for the user are available and if so, goes Coooo! (and notifies the user.)

* Make it available for free download.

* Submit it to all the freeware/shareware sites out there...

... and see your rankings (and PR) soar.

HTH

ps. If you're going to do this, do it fast, before your competitors do. ;-)
Bloggers Need to Care About Their Computer Too
If you are a blogger, you most likely have your own computer and work from it daily. This means that you will definitely need to be caring for your computer to ensure that it stays in working order at all times.
>To me, an idea is a good excuse to go out and talk to customers.

I really like that point. When any idea comes to mind that seems worthy of a possible startup I immediately start to talk to potential customers to get feedback. If I can convince random people to believe in my idea before I even put effort towards it, it is probably worth pursuing.

My favorite test to evaluate my idea is the $20 Starbucks test. http://read.bi/gnVYKv
Be Careful When Representing Personal/Professional Self in Social Media
"[...] it's obvious the people around me have no clue what they are talking about [...]"

Sounds to me like you're completely sure of your own correctness and of their wrongness. ;) Just saying.
The Help Groups Distinguished Lecturer Series to Feature Rudy Simone
IMO what is wrong was that the student was able to fire a teacher for complaining against the student when the teacher is the boss. Yes of course some students will try, but it should not be allowed to actually happen.
It's pretty easy for me to sanity check - I sold a large block of YHOO in '99 because I was convinced it was strongly over valued, several friends congratulated me on my wisdom. Of course I spent over a year feeling like an idiot, but it does make for a clear memory.
Ask HN: "Watson" hardware to cost $1M USD, know of a better deal?
"Watson" is cool, but I thought some of the clever hackers around here might know how to get something almost as cool (or cooler?) for less than the expected price of $1M USD for the hardware alone?<p>https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Watson_(artificial_intelligence_software)#Future_uses
Google multiple account sign-in is finally here
When apple announced the iPad, it was near completion. Thats why it shipped soon. There was no pre-ipad were gonna make it but wont ship it till 5 yrs later release. That is the benefit of being first.
Hmm...the picture with the wings reads "Angle List"
Not to sound flippant, but there's your first problem. Rails really doesn't want to be layered over an legacy database schema. Doing so would definitely lead to essay-like queries.
@SeekingAdvice01, auditors, 7 men, TX. i think they already know :)
You can also use jruby now. I'm not trying to diminish rubinius, I hope it works out well and I worked with one of the contributors, but I've been using jruby for a while now and it's great.
Cubelets - "legos" for robotics
Nokia phone Codes
I want to burn my nokia phone but i don't know how to do it.Is there any code for it
I am definitely skeptical of this article's conclusion.

Just because Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg are poised to make a lot of money doesn't mean that there are a lot of people out there who are going to hop on tech stocks because they look hot and lose a lot of money.

It's certainly true that Facebook, LinkedIn and other tech companies are making something that has an impact on the lives of others, but that doesn't mean that valuations aren't going to get horribly out of whack.

In fact, Zuckerberg and Milner stand to make a big pile of money if valuations do get horribly out of whack. Just as the banks did during the mortgage loan fiasco.
The guys that shorted the housing bubble made a fortune. The Realtors never warned you about what was inevitable. Being eternally optimistic is just part of the job description: "Now's a great time to buy a house. Housing always goes up! It's just a price re-adjustment, the market will come back in the spring."

Facebook re-financing with Goldman reminds me of Steve Case grabbing real value in Time-Warner at just the right time. I'm starting to hear the same rationales this time around as with iBubble v1.0 and Housing.

The instruments for shorting housing are not for the retail investor. Is there a way for the little guy to short this latest bubble? what's available? Is there a way to target venture? I'm not talking about broad based -2X ETFs.
DIY Lego Camera at UT Austin - Mech. Eng from 2004
because lying will get you no where except in a very deep hole with no means of escape?
This is great and something I see as an immensely valuable tool for social measurement. It'd be nice to integrate Facebook into the mix as well, showing fan counts and competitive analysis.

As a potential customer, I see this as valuable as a free resource for basic insight, but a paid monthly service for more extensive analysis.
The more developers, the more conformity you need.

If you need a language to enforce coding standards, you have some big problems in your group!
Foreign activists stay covered online
Or at the very least, the unscrupulous leading the dumb.
When mathematicians are obsolete, computer scientists will be obsolete. When computer scientists are obsolete, we have by definition entered the Singularity.

So my take is that he's not necessarily wrong, but if he's right then lack of employment for mathematicians won't be our biggest concern.
Also, I've met Matt Lynley.

Not really a fan, but whatever.

(My Personal Opinion: I got the feeling he sort of has a sensationalist persona, but I guess that's what you need to be a "journalist" these days)
Not a bubble. A small subset of tech companies are over-valued, yes. Most notorious are Facebook, Groupon, possibly Twitter, Zynga, etc. But most are not. And a greater proportion of startups are 100% bootstrapped and then kept as lifestyle cash cows or flipped early in small private exits. Many companies have high caps but probably valued about right and they have real products and revenue streams, like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, etc.

I think that a couple factors are contributing. One, returns on safe investments like bank savings accounts are basically zero. Two, there's a lot of great free info on the web now for people to self-educate especially regarding entrepreneurship and angel investment, as well as more tools like AngelList and more social event series like Meetups and code jams and contests that help facilitate bring people together and leading to new enterprises and deals. Third, the top 10% wealth-wise have even more discretionary money now than they did in the 90's, and that combined with an increasing sense that the US salaryman has no guaranteed future anymore, so we we have to increasingly look to making FU/retirement from entrepreneurship and investments rather than doing the 9-to-5-til-yer-60 thing.
Thanks for the advice. I believe your post is the tipping point for my decision to leave NC.

I've lived in NC my entire life but a number of factors have basically been saying, "You need to get the hell outta there, dude!" Entrepreneurship is the main one. And maybe it's just me but I haven't come across many people here throughout my entire life who have a similar mindset to my own.

People out west seem very chill. California would probably be my first choice but I'll definitely look into the others as well.
Looks good. There are two things I'd suggest:

(1) gmail oauth integration: instead of having people forward tracking numbers to you, you can read their mail for them.

(2) If you can collect just a bit more data (destination address), you should be able to construct some useful statistical models predicting when packages show up at my address as a function of delivery service, day of week, season.
See "Major Supporters"
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup
I think you need to clarify your point. When you say

"The lock-in was iTunes, not the DRM."

do you mean iTunes the application? iTunes the online store? Or iTunes the ecosystem?

The app wasn't a lock in, as far as I know there were no rules requiring exclusivity on the online store... and if the ecosystem was a 'lock-in' there are alternatives.

Not to pick on you specifically, I see plenty of people saying one or more of those is a lock-in, but I haven't seen a good reason why yet. It just seems to be an article of faith. Why is iTunes a lock-in? It just is, that's why.

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But then there is all this heated debate. Why even argue about it? If someone wants to own a Zune and feel all special and unique and pay $15/month for music subscription, hey, they can just do it.

I think the debate is 'interesting', because at HN, surely we would all recognise that building an ecosystem (or community) around your product and giving the users a seamless end to end experience would actually be a good thing. Something to be emulated. No? If not, why not? What is it about Apple that singles it out from the herd for such uniquely irrational treatment?
It's not a bubble yet. We still have dead tulips hanging around.
Beautiful example how a combination of open source enthusiasm and commercial interest can generate some first class software. There's no way this could have happened without Evan's initial enthusiasm or Engine Yard's support. TBH I can list off dozens of open source projects that are one sponsor away from another level greatness. :P
I've been looking at Facebook and originally all my language was service-agnostic in the event that I toss Facebook in there, but now I'm kind of backing away from it.

1. Facebook doesn't give good access to the more granular stuff, mostly just superficial counts. Especially if you don't own the page/account.
2. Facebook already does pretty decent analytics. Is there a big thing they're missing?
The whole article is very self-centered. The Tunisian revolution didn't start because Wiki-Leaks informed them that they live under a kleptocratic and oppressive regime. They already knew that. I also doubt that Anonymous assistance was essential to the adoption of organizational forms that are literally hundreds of years old and spontaneously emerge in nearly every revolution (neighborhood commitees etc).
Summary judgments are often tough to get. In federal court (which the Oracle v. Google case is), summary judgment can be granted only when there is no genuine issue of material fact -- in layman's terms, when reasonable people could not differ about any fact that affects the outcome of the case -- and therefore there's no reason for a trial.

It would not surprise me if the judge were to hold that reasonable people could indeed differ about the factual basis for Google's proposed motion for summary judgment, and that a trial was therefore necessary.
Simple: consumers live in the moment. They have no idea how much work goes into creating a product, nor do they see more than a couple of months into the future.
Benchmark Capital Bets On Super-Quiet-Stealth-Shhhh ccLoop
There were some problems with the authorization process with twitter and I had to refresh the page several times before it took me back to the application's main page. Also, it's a little confusing when you ask for email and password before sending the user to twitter to be authenticated. Usually people do it the other way around by authenticating the user first and then asking for other credentials once the user is already on the application's main page.
Slacker Raises $3 Million To Equip More Phones, Cars With Personal Radio Service
AutomaticDJ figures out what you want to listen to by your face
I've never been massively keen on the carious implementations of ruby, they're all a bit different and those differences appear to be documented poorly. This is most visible if compared to the python landscape.
Cool, thanks for the clarification. Deleted my comment about nofollows.
Maybe it should be the other way around, maybe your homepage should be able to get "social" elements.
Most HR departments aren't burdened by an overabundance of common sense...
Of course. Create a main guessing algo running on a single machine using data mining from the internet and former questions, using pattern matching and smart googleing.

If you got it, parallelise it and distribute it in a way like SETI.
When This Company Switched From Free To Fee, All Of Their Customers Disappeared
Inflation. Gold is 7X today, wheat is 3X today, regular gas is 2X today.
Spotify Halfway To U.S. Launch
Goldman Sachs has access to the Federal Reserve's discount window.
Scroll to the very button of this screen, hover over the "Green certified website" badge. It's pulsating, what is this? 1997? Click and you'll delighted with the worst pile of steaming bullshit ever, along with some incomprehensible infographics that don't even look good. This is a Y Combinator backed venture.

Yes, we're in a bubble.
"W3C makes no assurances that sites linked from the Supporters program will see improved ranking in search engine results. W3C instructs search engines to ignore links from the Supporters page."
This story, which has come around for the second time in less than six months, is pretty blatantly an example of what PG was talking about here:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Some recruiting firm is paying whoever Zachary Graham works for to write this story. Dead giveaway:

"...said Matt Derp of recruiting_company.com, which brings recruiters together to collaborate in finding jobs for candidates..."
I have lost 40lbs
s/cajones/cojones/

cajones .- crate, drawer, or box http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caj%C3%B3n
If you're sitting on a large chunk of a commodity (early stage equity) you're unlikely to go around saying that it costs too much.
I'm just not sure any excuse as to why I couldn't be at the office for this would be believable.

This isn't a final version demo, either. It's just a display of our progress. So, if I were to go interview on Monday, I imagine they'd just not have the demo meeting.
Yes, so if a consumer wants a tablet now they'll get an iPad. If they want one for the holidays, they'll have 4 different OSs and 10s (if not 100s by then) of individual tablets to choose from. Unlike some tech bloggers, consumers don't get aneurysms because RIM delayed shipments by 3 weeks.
Not sure what the comment was, they do say as earlier linked in the FAQ that they instruct Search Engines to ignore links.

This I just found in the HTML for the linked supporters page:

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX, NOFOLLOW" />

It would appear they are nofollow'ing the links and they should not really be considered 'paid links' WRT increasing pagerank.
Cloud Security Alliance Summit at RSA 2011
I really like the followers-over-time graph.

Question: is there a way to embed the graph into another "dashboarding" tool? I.e. through an API or even a simple URL?
Quickly and efficiently search attachments on gmail with attachments.me
what a deal
Actually, I didn't. I bought a first-gen iPhone before the App Store was a reality. Now I use a Nexus One and don't suffer from these shenanigans.

No need for snark.
From 1 visitor a day to raising $4m for charity, Give Forward’s feel good story
I would definitely not lie about it as other people here have recommended. I would not burn a bridge with your current employer either. Here's my take on things: If the startup in SF wants you, and if they are WORTH working for, then they will accommodate a schedule change, recognizing it's happening very fast and you have other obligations. In fact, they should respect you for saying -- Hey, I don't really love my job, but I've made a commitment for Monday and don't want to leave them hanging. Can I fly out over the weekend or on Tuesday or Wednesday?

If they aren't willing to work with you on this, then you need to look for something else -- IMHO!

Never burn a bridge. Always be honest. It's a small world and it's not worth it. Not only does it affect the way other people think about you, it affects the way you think about yourself. Build character one step at a time, not the reverse.
A way AngelList could monetize is by allowing establish businesses that offer enterprise or startup tools to advertise and reach out to these entrepreneurs. This includes server providers, analytic tools, shared work spaces, and based on geological location local lawyers/CPAs.
Yes, I think blhack knows that after almost three years ;)
They have a nofollow meta in the head of the page, which according to http://www.seobook.com/robots-txt-vs-rel-nofollow-vs-meta-ro... is as good as rel="nofollow" when it comes to PageRank.
In the spirit of selling pickaxes rather than mining for gold, I actually sell software which helps people practice surviving a zombie apocalypse:

http://DeadByZombie.com
I ended up here by Googling for "secretpoke spam" so yes, it totally does look like a spam email.

Particularly since the "hint" given narrows it down to married people, people who've moved overseas, and people I can't even get along with for a 5 minute conversation...
Well you'd expect such a reply from Paul right? He benefits from the lofty valuations when any of the YC incubated companies get bought. So no surprises here.
I have HP Slate. It's "Win7 tablet with desktop software" which is exactly what I wanted.
Honestly? Yes, I am anxious to jump at the opportunity.

No, I'm not convinced about that, but in terms of myself and my future, I do not want to postpone this interview. I value the opportunity infinitely more than I value this current job of mine. I could go into the tons of reasons why my current job is depressing, but I don't think there's enough time. haha
Startup idea: testimoniac.com
A company that gathers and beautifully presents customer testimonials.