skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations on your success. The site demonstrates a lot of your characters and it's all looking good :)

My (sincere) question is regarding the help you had. I noticed you credited extensively to a few folks and your boyfriend. Other than Django/Python, there's also server setup (BitCould?)--did you do that yourself as well? Did you work on this full time for 6 weeks or was this an after 9-5 hours project?

I don't mean to pry; just simply want other folks out there who are also self-taught and are working on their own projects to understand the extend of your hard work with great assistance from experts in achieving this great result. In other words, could you explain the "magic" a bit so we can have a deeper understanding of your process?

A lot of time, people gloss over the hard work parts and in some way that perpetuates a misunderstanding which says: "it's easy to create something good." I don't that is the case. Even in The Social Network, Zuck seems to somehow create Facemash or even Facebook in matters of hours while drinking beer. But I digress.

Thank you for sharing.
The woman who peed on her husband and other stories I have about stress.
I think the "root of all evil" comes from _discussions_ of premature optimization in public forums, not the act itself. Optimization discussions tend to take these archetypes:

* Existing performance problem

* Concerns about planning architecture/approaches

* I want to make it fast, is this plan a good one?

The first two can be OK, although in most cases the second goes nowhere because nobody has the deep and highly specific domain knowledge needed to help with estimating performance in the large.

The last kind is the worst - the person who initiates the discussion has already decided that there is a problem and tried to act on it, and oftentimes wants to brag a bit, and now people can either tell him he's right(boring) or he's wrong/premature(causing conflict). Since these days, most of the time it's premature, there's a huge cargo cult of programmers who essentially say "never optimize." This cult battles against both the performance freaks, and the people who are simply curious about learning and applying more optimization techniques.

Internally to a team, the discussion is fundamentally different as it's made within the context of ship date, spec, etc. Any debate is ultimately settled by the leadership, right or wrong. It only becomes a problem when people can hold the debate in a realm of unbounded perfectionism.

Besides, if you keep your mouth shut, you usually discover for yourself if it was a good idea to bother optimizing.
The WeddingInviteLove scheme was taken from WeddingType.com (tying the two apps together that way), which I believe was taken from http://kuler.adobe.com. No idea where the original color scheme is on there now, but I'm pretty sure I got it from there.
I never said you should like it. I hope that my post conveys the idea that I don't like Apple or Amazon's approach to locking people into content like books.
Nope. A guy wrote on a blackboard why you should hire him.
If you clicked on areas of the blackboard it went to different pictures with new, relevant text on the blackboard.
Right, perfect - that is actually more fundamental and exactly what I was getting at.

Is the game currently fair? It's hard to say but watching it seems like there is an advantage there for Watson.

I do like the way Jennings downplayed it though. I think he was being almost too kind but compared to how Kasporov handled himself, this is hugely better.
> It's a sad state of affairs for your company when an anonymous guy can put up a blog offering a fake plan to turn things around and get a boatload of attention and excitement.

No, it's not. It's a controversial state of affairs at most.

The reason this plan was given attention is because a lot of people disagree with Plan A. It says nothing about the feasibility of Plan A or how sad the state of affairs is.
Looks like it has already been registered, but it's worth noting that the .io TOS includes:

No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation.
Justin Bieber : Twitter :: Blake Griffin : Fanvibe
Yup, sure do. Can't wait to see the rest of the plan come out!
I really love your advice. I have tried really well in aligning them to extent where i have no time for regular activities, friends e.t.c... You got me thinking now!
Thanks Immad! There is A LOT more to come...
Absolutely complain, you always have that right. I am just saying that I consider most of the barking about this to be the Lion arguing with the Cheetah about how to divvy up the Antelope's flesh.
Sure. But that's the point of commending someone for handling loss with grace and humor: it's contrary to their immediate emotion.
Here is an interesting eyewitness writeup: http://www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=146

It says nothing about crying but portrays a very gloomy mood. It seems that Kasparov made avoidable mistakes and that really got to him.
Overwhelmed by the crowds from HN i guess :-)
obvious scam
Indeed. And I suspect the light comes on as the result of some human process – a person offstage following Trebek's cadence – so it has an inherent variance.

If that variance is above a certain threshold compared to Watson's light-triggered reaction time, then even a 'perfectly' accurate (on-average) prediction of the light-activation time could be dominated by Watson's precision, and rarely win any buzzes. (The lock-out for being a little too early – a mistake Watson can never make – makes it even harder.)
I love the design of the 6300.
You can easily remove the word "tech" from that comment.
Server setup was through http://DotCloud.com, who set it up for me (I joined them before they were officially launched so there were a few bumps in the road that were paved out by DotCloud themselves for me). Server stuff would have been a much bigger issue if I didn't have them.

As for hours, I worked full-time-ish. I don't have a "real" job — my real job was WeddingType until things fell apart for a bit. I started work on WIL but was also doing client projects on the side to pump up my bank account a bit. I have no idea how many hours total I worked on WIL — it was one of those things where you wake up at noon and work until 2am on and off on various projects, which was mostly WIL but a lot of client stuff as well.

Any more specific questions? Please pry away if I missed anything!
Yup, compare the two on cost of living calculators that break it out by category.

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...

Rent Per Month
Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre	1,202.29 $	2,433.33 $	+102.39 %
Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre	1,093.54 $	1,500.00 $	+37.17 %
Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre	2,660.64 $	3,965.49 $	+49.04 %
Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre	1,754.56 $	2,692.00 $	+53.43 %

Buy Apartment Price
Price per Square Meter to Buy Apartment in City Centre	5,897.44 $	8,250.00 $	+39.89 %
Price per Square Meter to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre	4,376.52 $	6,000.00 $	+37.10 %
Data-oriented programming produces programs that are a magnitude faster than object-oriented programs. It's the same difference as stateful vs stateless code. And it's the same difference as RESTful APIs vs RPC.

If you care about performance and scalability then you write stateless code and use RESTful interfaces. You also choose to write data-oriented code rather than object-oriented code.

Data-oriented code is not possible in Java because you can't create complex value types and you can't control when and where memory gets allocated and deallocated.
>If you can get 130k across the street, 100k _is_ underpaid.

If you're too lazy to cross the street than 100k probably is overpaid for you.
If you click on the graph, you can see "MIPS" (millions of instructions per second) on the dependent axis.
I think you could on the Android store. Android phones have a setting to "allow installation from non-Market sources", which means there is no restriction on distribution.
Sorry...I meant declarative_authorization.

Yeh, I don't want to handle CCs & submit for processing. I need assistance with the application logic, but I think I got it.

Thanks.
Ah, yes, referring more to the fact that they're a Drupal shop, but you're right, I didn't actually read up what tech they were using for TileMill.
This looks nice! I've long wanted a PDF viewer that had annotations that appeared off to the side and could be annotated collaboratively so I'm very excited to see that crocodoc has made progress in that direction.

Some misc. comments:

* The "chrome" isn't very android friendly. I'd really like to have something like this that would work well on a mobile device. In fact, it would be nice to have a full mobile app allowing local annotation/syncing with your web service. Currently, I just tried the site on my phone, but I have an android tablet coming soon and will be looking for a good pdf reading/annotating experience.

* When you download a marked up pdf file, it would be awesome if the notes could be included (possibly by shrinking the original document a bit. (or are the currently included and evince is failing to show them?)

* Syncing all of a users docs/annotations with Dropbox would be a killer feature. I really like this trend towards apps using Dropbox as user-owned cloud storage. (Dropbox isn't perfect for this, but is pretty nice).

* A bit more esoteric: many of the documents I read are two-column. It would be amazing if crocodoc could show just one column at a time to provide bigger text and more room for annotation. I've toyed with putting together some simple tools to display pdfs in this way, but never had the gumption to make something that worked.

Anyways, I'll definitely be following crocodoc.
Not necessarily. It's easy to forget that attacks typically depend on, admittedly very common, multiple layers of security failures. For example, using the same passwords on many systems, etc. Good security is defense in depth. Keeping every component as secure as possible and keeping any breach of security as restricted as possible. It may not be possible to avoid every conceivable attack, but it's certainly possible to withstand a large number of attempted attacks.

The other side of the coin is that attackers don't publicize their losses. Every attacker has a limit to their skillset. If they can't compromise someone they won't announce to the world their failure, they'll just pretend like nothing happened and move on.
But now I don't know what to build there.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2228700
There are a few factors to consider here. First, the Spanish housing bubble appears several times larger than in the US, and prices may still have a long way down to go:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/10/global_h...

Next, how many hours per week and weeks per year are you working? The typical american engineer is probably working 50+ hours per week, with only 2 or 3 weeks of vacation per year.

Finally, you should consider international consulting if you're being paid $30k/year while working 50 hour weeks. email me if you know ruby :)
@tassl: Do you live in Barcelona? If so, please get in touch with me: stefan.klumpp (at Gmail) - I'm always looking for interesting people to meet in BCN.

PS: is there no direct messaging system on HN? Or am I just too stupid to discover it?
This got a big laugh out of me.
TED Conversations launched today
I've changed it to:
The fun of the board games, jokes and stupid challenges, every time you go out with friends. Earn coupons, badges and become the King of the Venue!

It's better?
Ask HN: There room for another startup blog?
I don't want to steal Startup Foundry's thunder. They are doing an awesome job. The truth is I had considered doing something similar - i.e. replace TC - for a while now, but never got around to it.

These guys came and have done a wonderful job so far.

I am wondering if there is a need for another type (perhaps a different slant) than Startup Foundry.

Would love to hear some feedback - given you guys would be the audience.
My day job is pretty much all Django, but I would like to point out that this overly popular trope about Django templates is unmerited and not unique/interesting.

I would also like to point out that it's not a meaningful feature as templates still cannot be written in isolation by designers without a lot of previous agreed upon structure.

The django apps model is similar in getting an unmerited amount of attention/praise.
Watson can't do this: it only buzzes once it has an answer in mind and a sufficiently high confidence interval.

Well, they could have programmed it any way they wanted to. It would have been smarter just buzz in right away given that they knew it would be right most of the time.

Regardless, Watson dominated because it was confident about an answer most of the time before the light turned on. If a human also wants to buzz in right when the light turns on, he or she will always be beaten by Watson. So, the game again boils down to who buzzes in first, regardless of confidence.
Wow, looking at the site I feel like an elefant around Elephant's graveyard. It makes me remember people I loved and feel the lost... even when I don't know any of the people on the pictures.
I think this is in part because amateur design is far more apparent (and obnoxious) to the user than inefficient code.
I don't think you understand silicon valley: You basically are retarded to run a business there if you don't need that type of programmer which you're lampooning. Costs are stupidly high.

This isn't about average programmers. This is about this tiny pocket filled with overachievers who work stupidly long days for a jackpot and have a very high exposure to running their own businesses.

100k in silicon valley puts you in the top 47% of the people who live there, which means you're in the commute forever or live in a dinky house dialemma. (The average salary there is $96,299). It's one of the few cities in the world worse than where you live for housing, and housing there costs 2x as much for little places (rentals) and 1.4x for buying as Vancouver. How do you enjoy your 4 bedroom home? Oh wait, you can't even afford that where you live (most likely). Now imagine being able to afford 1/2 of what you DO have in housing.

So you live in vancouver, should we tell you to stop bitching at $54k?

Relative salary is important for purchasing some goods, namely housing. As a person who lives in a city almost as bad in that respect, I'm surprised you don't have a better feel for that.
But really, though. How will it make money if it doesn't sell ads? Future business extensions? I'm not being cynical or critical, I'd just genuinely be interested since a lot of smart people invested in it.
Hey, glad you like it! My verbal descriptions of things sometimes set unrealistically high expectations.
We'll change the about page, thanks for the feedback.

We have a privacy policy, but I'm considering writing a more prominent, "human-readable" version of it. We definitely want to make people feel comfortable and reassure them that we aren't evil.
The site looks amazing. I sent it to my gf who is just finishing up restoring a Kelsey Excelsior letterpress for this exact purpose.
That's pretty idealistic, borderline naive. There's a huge percentage of working programmers in Silicon Valley who are dead wood. Beyond that, there's loads of good ones who are working on doomed projects.
Spam Botnets Are Declining, But Likely Not For Long
I suspect they could have done this, the technology certainly exists to read the screens and parse text from an image. They could also have tried to recognize when a human gives a wrong answer, like with the 20's question, and presumably the same logic used to play Jeopardy could interpret that statement and not give the same answer again. Watson took four years to develop and is the first of its kind. I suspect that something fancier never would have been finished, and too many features would have been a distraction from what IBM has actually accomplished.
I agree; one of your best bets would be right here.
TSA drops, breaks laptop after opt-out
I'm confused. I spent 3 of the last 4 paragraphs talking about the potentially life-changing consequences for all those website owners whose domains were mistakenly tagged with child porn warnings, and why I expected it to result in a big class action lawsuit, and how irresponsible and unacceptable it was for ICE to make such a mistake. Did you just not read that part? I know I'm long-winded, but you're basically agreeing with 95% of what I wrote.

Where we differ is that I'm saying the seizure warrant and the legal procedure before and after are OK. Most of the time they work as intended. The court didn't issue a warrant for the shutdown of 84,000 subdomains due to laziness or ignorance on the part of law enforcement or the judge. They issued a warrant for 8 or 10 specific domains, and when it was executed someone accidentally ran the same process on mooo.com, which was never included in the warrant to begin with (unless I am very badly mistaken, in which case I'll eat humble pie when that comes to light).

The website owners whose reputations and blood pressure were put at such grave risk have a claim on ICE for the needless trouble they were caused. Which will get resolved in a court. I appreciate that you would like to see someone prosecuted for criminal negligence, but that usually happens only in cases involving immediate loss of life.
Steve Jobs Is Receiving Cancer Treatment at a Clinic in Stanford
That was actually the biggest question we had for them when they decided to work on this idea. They decided they were up to it, and they seem to have been right. I think if you're sufficiently benevolent, the thought of the good you're doing counterbalances having to deal with death all the time.
Watson presses a mechanical buzzer, it’s not Ethernet.

(I don’t know the reaction time on that and would like to know it. If read about anything between 1ms and 200ms.)
Looks like they have some kind of development support for LiveView: http://developer.sonyericsson.com/wportal/devworld/downloads...
Some doctors and nurses have to deal with it almost daily, you can ask them.

My uncle is an oncologist and says what affects him the most is seeing children die from leukemia and similar illnesses. You can handle old people dying, it is natural, but children affects you deeply.
Not sure of your point here.

Are you showing me that there are many sites that cater to startups or that there is A LOT of demand for startup related sites - due to the volume of the term 'startup' on Twitter?

Some clarification would be appreciated.

Basically though, it would be very similar to what TechCrunch was when it just started - discovering new startups, and news related to that (along with other articles that are specific to startups - both funded, bootstrapped, etc.).
So is there a reason you have to send the code to an external server to compile it? Would like to be able to use this a year or so down the line if your server isn't around or is having issues...
Enter CLIPPY

It looks like you're writing an algorithm that is O(N^2)! Would you like me to optimize it? Let me take a screenshot so Jon Skeet can laugh at you. click

PROGRAMMER frantically presses CLIPPY's close button
You should add "...and did this by sleeping 10 hours each day!" to your main title.

Good job in getting this done! Makes me want to tech my wife a thing or two about web-development.
Sure there is! Didn't say everyone was making bank deservedly. I said you're stupid to run your business there if you don't need some of the very good ones who flock there, as costs are absurdly high. One great guy can pull a company along if its small enough and the deadwood does little enough harm.

(Note I keep saying "there" etc. I live in Atlanta, a much more reasonable cost city for businesses that don't need stupidly good people to really work).
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Apple Just Made Jailbreaking Mainstream
That would certainly exceed the 80 character limit that HN allows in it's headlines, otherwise I totally would :)
I wanted sum.io, but I was too slow. Did anybody here get it?
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Crazy that it got so far. I have to admit, I was pretty much convinced when I saw it almost 2 days ago now (even if I was a tad bit skeptical). Crazy that print media picked it up today, too. Though, it does say something about what people think of Nokia's decisions lately...
Sort of a catch all answer, but bears repeating:

Did I need another search engine in 1996?
Did I need another social network in 2007?
Another mp3 player in 2002, etc.?

If you really want to do it, you should do it. It's all in the execution. I'm sure Startup Foundry is not serving everyone's needs (and they probably don't want to). Figure out who they aren't serving and cater to them.
In my view it would be difficult. You really need to have a passion, maybe target a technical audience.

What's your background? Most startups are looking for capital.. can you help pitch startups to investors: can you refer them to investors?

Can you pierce the entrepreneurial mind? Ask questions like on the YC application form?

How are you going to differentiate?
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Why do you think OpenBTS is illegal in Brazil? There's a research group at UFPA in Belem that's been quite active in the OpenBTS project. I met two of the guys at the OpenBTS Workshop in Germany last summer. See-- http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5304...

A license for the GSM spectrum used by OpenBTS from the relevant government telecommunications authority is necessary almost everywhere in the world.
I am not a designer, I am a programmer 
But I want to do a bootstrap application, I can do all the coding and paying for servers but I need a cool design

Can anyone recommend a source of excellent web templates. And not that rubbish you get when you type in web templates in google!

Alternatively any designers want to hook up?
Help HN: I'm a young Alaskan entrepreneur down in the Bay Area. Tips?
Hello All!

Long time lurker on HN, with little karma (I read, don't post).

I will be in/around the Bay Area (SF down to San Jose) through the end of March. Combination of Airbnb, staying at friends places, etc. I'm currently in Palo Alto.

Our company serves advertising agencies by converting Photoshop Documents to HTML (PSD to HTML, nothing revolutionary). See: www.SnobbySlice.com

We're angel funded by a group of Alaskan Businessmen that inclue the dean of the business school, entrepreneurship professor, business owners, and other local prominent mentors. You can read more about them here: http://tylersystems.com/our-investors/

Our angel round was small (Y-Combinator style), and is more about mentorship and learning versus returns and profitability. Our investors have brought leads and knowledge of business, teaching me most of what I know today.

Our business allows me to work with designers, developers, and like-minded geeks every day. It lets me travel to meet our clients and interesting startups all around the world.

I was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska (no, not a Sarah Palin fan), and this is my first time in the Bay Area. If any of you have suggestions for things to do, places to crash, startups to visit, I'm all ears!

The idea of being within walking distance of Stanford and startups in Palo Alto is truly mind blowing to me. It's still weird to be within reach of these prestigious institutions/companies that seem so distant in Alaska.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!
Email: tyler at tylersystems dawt com.
Phone: +1 907.227.9541
I guess I'm missing something, but nothing has changed in my gmail after installing the extension. I see no taskforce buttons. I even set my theme back to the default one hoping it would solve my "problem". Help?
I hit my sendgrid limit, it's now been upgraded so you can try again.