skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you thought of starting really niche? Like for a specific city?

Also, have you thought of making an iPhone/Android app or something? Make it as frictionless as possible to upload videos and add a posting. Right now, Craigslist has all the users, so your value-add should be more specific. Nothing prevents me from linking to YouTube from my Craigslist postings, but almost nothing is as easy as tapping a couple buttons on my smartphone.

"The Local Marketplace to Buy, Sell, Exchange and Advertise Anything You Desire by Video" is a little too wordy. Make a large bold heading that says something like "Buy and Sell Anything With Video."

Mention the web site at every opportunity. Even to friends. Friends are the best people to tell. Not because they'll give you honest feedback, but because you'll know you've got a good idea if they begin to talk to each other and their friends about it. Similarly, comment on every blog that has a related post. Google Blog Search works wonders for finding recent posts to comment on. I've found that when I mention my startup, a person sometimes just goes and writes a blog post that drives a couple hundred users my way. Include a link in every email you send. Include it in your forum signatures. Tell everyone you get the opportunity to tell. On your blog, talk about something loosely related to the product. Write very thoughtful posts, but write consistently. Once a week is good. Once every day is outstanding. Your posts should produce some value well beyond the scope of your product. Your posts should be helpful on their own.

EDIT: I noticed a comment below about design -- I agree with it. If you look at Craigslist, it's minimal, but it's consistent. I'm no designer, but I use one technique that has allowed me to "fake it till I make it" -- pick a single color that looks nice on a screen. Use 3 different shades of that color (a light, middle, and dark). Use black, white, and 2 shades of gray. Take these 6 colors, and limit yourself to them. The more consistent your colors, the more professional you look.

Don't do a contest unless it's completely necessary. It's only been a month, and not many people actually buy/sell stuff online. See if you can narrow your focus a little more. Craigslist started small, and you can too.

Try branding yourself as a sleeker, easier, more intuitive Craigslist. Right now, your idea is good, just focus on executing small but with high quality.
You can store data for up to 24 hours, so all you have to do is look for a change on two consecutive days.

Edit: That was the old policy, the new one lets you store it forever as long as you try to keep it up to date.
Heh, no problems. Like I said, I planned to be persistent. You might think of a way to manage responses automatically so the sender knows you at least received it, to keep relations good.

And, as I've mentioned before, I'm a huge fan of what you're doing, and how you're doing it.
As someone who's had a iPad since it was released in the US, I have to say its a nice but it's been really hard for me to find a use for it other then it taking up space in my bag most of the time... I'm more a fan of how apple made tablet computing popular for consumers and a more common idea then the device itself ( I think the same thing about the Kindle as well)
So essentially it is ok to store data infinitely as long as you are updating it every 24hrs?
When I first read about dynamic programming, I was already familiar with the idea of memoizing a naive recursive program to make it efficient. After that, hearing all this talk about oddly-shaped tables was actually kind of irritating. "Why are they going to all this trouble to talk about specific ways of memoizing recursive functions?" I asked myself, rhetorically. "Using a hash table has the same amortized asymptotic complexity, and this shouldn't be hard."

It just seemed like way too much artificial complexity for what was, at heart, a remarkably simple and easy technique. This still bothers me. Perhaps it's a historical relic from the ancient times when dynamic programming was done by hand, and those oddly-shaped tables were needed to make it easier for the people working as computers.
You dont get 20k you raise 20k at 400k valuation
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...no doubt there will be multiple factors used to conclude this kind of information.
Well, I've drifted away from Twitter. I still use it for keeping in touch with people and putting out important information. But try and view any trending topic or search term, and it's just a vast pollution of retweets, spam and total agreement in an echo chamber. I've seen totally incorrect articles or news items take and spread rapidly, and virtually nothing worth following. Twitter in my mind has become like two (or more) mobs yelling at each other through loudhalers.

Give me a well-written blog or good community forum any day.
Undisclosed? "It's complicated" seems more appropriate in that case.
Blogs are a whole different format from the SNSs, it is like comparing billboards and the NYT, they both use ink and paper but they convey information in different ways with a different focus.

In other news "old media" continually misreports news in "new media".
Er wait, that was an old policy. Here's the new one:

"You may cache data you receive through use of the Facebook API in order to improve your application’s user experience, but you should try to keep the data up to date. This permission does not give you any rights to such data."
The JavaScript language isn't what's nice. What's nice is using one programming language to write an HTTP server, your server application, server templates, client-side application, client-side templates, communication code, database code, and be able to share your libraries and models between all contexts simultaneously. You fix one bug in one place, and you've fixed the bug in 7 or 8 different contexts immediately. In other words, your productivity skyrockets.
Semantic Graphs Derived from Triplets w/ Application in Document Summarization
You mean the girl who the Reddit community eventually realized was telling the truth and helped raise an extra $5000 in a day?
http://gawker.com/#!5752773/vigilante+targeted-cancer-fundra...
No, the most significant criteria will be how many times one looks at somebody else's profile. IMs and messages would also be quite significant. But that's even less likely to get released.
No, Google requires frequent code review. Coders told me when I visited that code which violates standards or raises any kind of compiler warning needs to be discussed with your team before it's committed and will be identified on review. (or nightly build)

Automated rules built into VCS seemed to be the kind of thing nobody there would tolerate.
This is how the author of the article has been responding to criticism.
The Firefox 4.0 beta is much better on Windows 7. http://i.imgur.com/iFGU8.png But for some reason the menu bar still shows up by default on Linux (you have to press the Alt key to show the menus on Win7).
"Buy the latest Arcade Fire album now." (Amazon affiliate link)
"yearly salary = hourly salary x 37.5 hours/week x 52 weeks"

37.5 hours per week??

In the gaming industry?!!

For H1-B visa holders?!?!
For the people who've always wondered why it was called "dynamic programming", there's a funny story there. I'll quote Richard Bellman, who coined the term:

"I spent the Fall quarter (of 1950) at RAND. My first task was to find a name for multistage decision processes. An interesting question is, 'Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?' The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word, research. I'm not using the term lightly; I'm using it precisely. His face would suffuse, he would turn red, and he would get violent if people used the term, research, in his presence. You can imagine how he felt, then, about the term, mathematical. The RAND Corporation was employed by the Air Force, and the Air Force had Wilson as its boss, essentially. Hence, I felt I had to do something to shield Wilson and the Air Force from the fact that I was really doing mathematics inside the RAND Corporation. What title, what name, could I choose? In the first place I was interested in planning, in decision making, in thinking. But planning, is not a good word for various rea- sons. I decided therefore to use the word, 'programming.' I wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this was multistage, this was time-varying—I thought, let's kill two birds with one stone. Let's take a word that has an absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it's impossible to use the word, dynamic, in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It's impossible. Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities."

So there you go: it was supposed to sound cool, and dynamic, and like something that any self-respecting congressman would want to fund. I'd always vaguely suspected.
you might want to turn off the django debug stuff.
From the Pew Internet and American Life survey results (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-You...) from last year:

In 2006, 28% of teens ages 12-17 and young adults ages 18-29 were bloggers, but by 2009 the numbers had dropped to 14% of teens and 15% of young adults. ... Additionally, teens ages 12-17 do not use Twitter in large numbers – just 8% of online teens 12-17 say they ever use Twitter, a percentage similar to the number who use virtual worlds. This puts Twitter far down the list of popular online activities for teens and stands in stark contrast to their record of being early adopters of nearly every online activity.
I think the strongest factor would be when they increase messaging members of the opposite sex?
I sure do hope The Startup Foundry perseveres. It's going to be one hell of a hard thing to do...but I hope they do it.

One bit of advice: Drop the "the" -- just "Startup Foundry" -- it's cleaner.
Steve Jobs gave Russian President an AT&T iPhone, still locked
One of the biggest commonalities between these countries is a very large bulge at the young end of their population statistics. These are countries with a large population of young people. That fits pretty well - a young person with no job and no prospects is going to have the energy and stamina to sit in protest.

My question is : how did these countries end up with so many young people from a (relatively) small older population? Did everyone have 10 children? Did all the old people die (or leave)?

I'm genuinely curious about this one.
I don't think it's about lack of pent up demand, it's that this actually doesn't offer the iPhone to most of Verizon's customers.

A lot of us will change, but that demand is going to stay pent up until our upgrade cycles stick around. The pricing just isn't right ($600 without an upgrade), whereas coming from AT&T $200 isn't that bad. Verizon still has many eggs waiting to hatch in its customer base.

I don't think lack of early sales reflect the lack of value of the phone, just the fact that people know they can wait a bit longer and get it for 1/3 the price.
The problem they solve is that ordinary computers are too complex and unreliable for the average user. Watch somebody over 50 with an iPad for 15 minutes and it makes sense.

That's not what makes them interesting to me though. They may make a better email reader for Joe Average but it's the interactive audio & graphics possibilities that intrigue me.
Is tagging an explicit feature of the site?
Since I have not seen it, I assume there's a karma threshold for it?
If you haven't seen it...

http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/

An amusing reaction to their winnings at the grammys
This app is useless until Felicia Day, Scarlett Johansson or Jenna Fischer accept my friend requests.
Yes, their reasons seam to boil down to, "because people often use them incorrectly."
NY Times tech reporting actually used to be pretty good, but I think that was single-handedly due to John Markoff.
Pretty sure this idea that Facebook can "predict" when people will break up was based on research by Lee Byron and David McCandless of 10,000 Facebook status updates with the terms "break up" or "broken up", presented as a nice graph[1] as part of a TED talk[2].

[1] http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/peak-break-up-tim...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqjQ55tz-U (skip up to 6:30)
It's possible bit.ly would be bought up by now, but most less common ones I don't think would be. Poking around the internet, it looks like a .ly domain is at least $75 annually, which is a lot of money to just domain-squat on (especially since there are probably a many fewer accidental visits to .ly domains than to .com ones.) There doesn't even appear to be squatting on many variants of bit.ly (tried bti.ly, bot.ly, bpt.ly).
I just got back from the year's largest conference of orthopedic surgeons, and the number of iPads was mind-numbing. And they were all for casual use.
Will Wright creates interactive TV show
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse than the post about the Justin Bieber URL shortener... http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/13/bieber-ly-shortens-urls-whi...
About Tumblr: "raising the possibility that the decline in blogging by the younger generation is merely a semantic issue."

Its like saying right in the middle of the article: "Oh, nevermind."
What Happens to .ly Domains When Libya Shuts Down the Internet
I don't see anyone mentioning this but what about a karma threshold for any submission?

Bad submissions are usually made by users who simply haven't figured out (yet) what types of articles people are really interested in.
In the fullness of time, it will probably be traced back as one of Mubarak's mistakes, as well. Because it propelled the story from the background to the foreground - 'Egypt shuts off internet' is a pretty major headline. It also let the protestors know that they were hurting the regime.

But then I wouldn't expect a north-african dictator really understanding the consequences. They are much more likely to see it in a pure military sense - the enemy are communicating using the internet. Let's close the internet.
Nike Sneakers featuring Firefox, Twitter and Google
One key point: we were asking the French to help.
Not to mention, government TLA's do their own "research."
You can rename self to whatever you want in Python by changing it in the function definition.

class Flip(object):
foo=4
def flop(x,num):
x.bar=x.foo+num
It's an interesting language, and surprisingly easy to implement. Everyone should try their hand at it.
I'm not so sure. My step father just showed me his brand new verizon iphone he got the other day. He switched from bberry then tried and returned the android.
Book lovers fear dim future for notes in the margins
I'm curious why you feel the request/response model doesn't scale to more complex apps. SIP itself is request/response based, and telecom in general also is.

Their API may be lacking certain features, (I'm not sure you can do fine grained control of individual call legs) but is there a reason you don't like the request/response model?
Why I hate XML for DSLs
"... Books with markings are increasingly seen these days as more valuable, not just for a celebrity connection but also for what they reveal about the community of people associated with a work ..."

Forget book reviews, 100 word summaries, somewhere in "marginalia" there is a market to be tapped. src: http://twitter.com/#!/navarrotells/status/39531078679142400
The NY Times probably wishes that blogs would go away, since these days you can find higher quality journalism (and a higher level of journalistic integrity) on many blogs than you can at the Times. It's not just in tech, but in business, politics, economics, finance and other areas. And if I wanted to find that kind of content, I wouldn't go looking on Facebook or Twitter.
Agreed. If you stick to Arrington, Rao, Butcher, and a couple of others, you get some good content. There are just a few 'bad apples' there who drag it down.
I like 'self'. I don't mind it at all.

The error messages related to `self` in method definitions caused me some confusion when starting out with python. For instance if you define a method with no arguments, calling it results in "TypeError: your_method() takes no arguments (1 given)".
JavaDoc: The unloved child. A pragmatic approach.
Given how it's played out, the way I see it is this: Twitter definitely deserves blame for screwing over their users, UberMedia might also, but hard to say.

If what UberMedia claims is true, that Twitter didn't speak to them about these issues previously, then the blame lies solely with Twitter. Why the hell would they kill the API access before trying to resolve the issues - unless they were trying to push users towards their official apps?

If UberMedia had in fact been warned previously, then they're lying idiots - but at the same time, Twitter should have issued a public announcement and a deadline for UberMedia to comply with their demands. But no, instead they don't give the users of those apps any notice at all.

Either way, I'm pissed at Twitter for this one.
Correct, the argument, and also the reason he should be supported, is that it should be. We bought it, we should do with it as we wish (as long as it's not causing financial loss due to piracy etc).
Ooh so a hack is sort of an eigentransform of an algorithm in the sense that a hacked algorithm is still an algorithm.
Not everyone is meant to be a writer. Those who are will continue to blog. Others may talk on Facebook or Twitter, but it's irrelevant as authoring a blog and talking to friends are different sorts of activities.
I would be willing to bet he didn't leave with any paper based currency. I'm guessing that, like the Tunisian president, part of the delay was loading the gold into his vehicles for departure.

When fleeing despots flee, they take the original monetary unit with them. Universally accepted, not subject to government induced devaluations and virtually untraceable : Gold.
Why would they "accrue"? You get a subsidy because you renew your contract. Just because you didn't renew your contract two years ago doesn't mean you could somehow renew your contract "twice" now.
Security cameras and video surveillance systems
security cameras and video surveillance customized to specific designs and requirements
Cool! I also was amazed when I first learned that the human genome contains an archeology of ancient viruses whose DNA we incorporated over the millennia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus
Sexual Enhancers for Women
Former bloggers said they were too busy to write lengthy posts and were uninspired by a lack of readers.

I'm reminded of this comment from HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2012130:

I think there are two ways to blog: altruistically or narcissistically. If you're blogging altruistically you're blogging for others primarily and yourself secondarily. If you're blogging narcissistically you're mostly blogging for yourself.

Most of the great blogs that I visit are all done altruistically. They are well maintained, post useful information, and very rarely waste my time. They also require a huge amount of effort on the part of the blogger because they really have to do work to gather and present interesting and useful information for their readers.

What a lot of the press has referred to as blogging is "narcissistic." Instead of coming up with interesting information and vetting it for their readers they mostly just spew whatever thoughts they had that day onto the page. It doesn't take a huge amount of effort, but the signal to noise ratio is also very low.

It's really hard to write stuff that will be interesting to people who don't know you and have no real connection to you. I know because I write a book blog called The Story's Story at http://jseliger.com and know that producing at least one meaningful post a week is difficult. If writing in such a way that other people actually want to read your work weren't so difficult, we wouldn't have nearly as many professional writers as we do.

If your goal is mostly to bask in the relative adulation of others, you can probably do it more efficiently via Facebook. If your goal is mostly to communicate something substantive, you're going to find that it's not five or ten times harder than posting a 140-character message on FB or Twitter—it's 50 or 100 times harder. Twitter is easier than "A list of N things": http://paulgraham.com/nthings.html and "A list of N things" is easier than a blog post and a blog post is easier than an essay.

People who want to be real writers (or filmmakers or whatever) in the sense that people with no current relationship of any kind will find their work useful will probably still blog. But most of those who think they want to be real writers will probably find out precisely how hard it is to come up with useful and interesting stuff regularly. Then they'll quit, and the people who remain will be the ones who have the energy and skill to keep it up and write things people want to read.
I live in Vancouver, BC and I've seen tons of people using them. If you hit a few Starbucks in a day (as I tend to do) chances are that you'll see at least one or two people using them there. Saw one girl yesterday that seemed to be reading a book; another one today was writing something.

They're not ubiquitous, but I get the sense that a lot of people buy them and use them at home instead of dragging them around town. I've bought one for my mother, and I know several other people who have as well. My landlord bought one for her boyfriend, other friends have them for using around the house.

They're selling very well, but unlike iPhones, it's rare that their owners take them everywhere, so seeing them on the street just isn't a good measure of their popularity.

(Also, they're ridiculously expensive in the UK compared to the US or Canada.)
True, I hadn't thought about that. Have you heard of it happening before?

With that being said my backup dataset is way too big to make Dropbox a cost-effective solution so I also have Backblaze account that backs up everything including the local copies of my Dropbox, so personally I'm ok.
I bet they will provide you a private one if you've got enough venture capital behind you to cut the cheques... (I hear the Winklevoss twins are lawyering up again)
The article seemed like a lot of babbling from someone who spent a very short time at a company who's problems started over ten years ago. An insight here or there, yes.

Nokia for much of the later 90s and early 2000s was the handset of choice for the enterprise in Europe. Blackberry ruled the US market. At the same time, they had an amazing market opportunity in basic handsets in the US, Europe, and emerging markets. Nokia was the go to phone for "just working".

Things changed in 2007 w/ the iPhone and the subsequent drive towards an app based smartphone ecosystem. Before the iphone, there were "smart phone apps", but they were a small franctional percentage of what is available now. iPhone and Android have helped this app-based economy.

Nokia never got there. Developing on Symbian is a royal pain in the backside. Despite their working w/ Borland to develop tools for development, a simpler tool chain never emerged. Furthermore, a lack of an app store (ovi was late to the scene) didn't help things.

Nokia failed to adapt to this new world and proceeded to try and develop OSs at a glacial pace. The hardware has always been great, but an OS with an app (and developer friendly) ecosystem never emerged.
New MacBook Pro's coming later this week... wait to buy one