skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you please explain what differnece this makes , in a digital world , where once a digital copy is sold it can be almost instantly availble around the world for free ?
What are you building?

By the way, http://www.itschris.com is pretty great, too.
I saw that the language he is working on for his PhD was listed on Wikipedia and flagged for deletion. Then I saw that that page had initially been created that same day solely for the purpose of marking it for deletion.

Seriously, person who did this? I thought wasting time browsing news sites like HN and reddit was bad enough but this... this proves that the internet is a very serious business indeed.
Why San Francisco? Move to San Diego and pay a lot less... I'm out here building a startup and there are many others doing the same.
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> I do, however, find it ironic that the $199 555 model physically contains more "parts" and more manufacturing costs than the $349 595 model.

That's true, but imagine what they could do differently. They could have a whole separate assembly line to make the cheaper headphones out of different material, for example. But ironically, this might actually drive up the cost of both headphones, since they'd lose the economies of scale that they have now.

I agree that it seems wrong to intentionally make your headphones worse, but it might be the most cost-effective way of producing a cheaper set, given that you're already making the expensive model.
I tried 3 pictures and it only seemed to scan the top 1/8th as well before it gives up.

Chromium on Ubuntu
Exactly - the category label probably is very little help in narrowing down possible answers to a text-processing algorithm.
Speaking of which, does anyone know of a better app for blogging on iPad? If not, there's a great idea for any iOS Devs. Create a great one, and tons of us would be happy to pay the price of an iWork app or so for one!
How is this in any way different than MS and Windows Home vs Premium vs Ultimate? The code / SW you purchase is exactly the same no matter which version you buy, but MS markets them as entirely different products. You then need to pay extra to unlock features that are already built in. Does MS need to mention that there's crippling going on? Sure, you could go in and hack your way through and patch things up to unlock it, but most people don't have the time for that.
Thanks I noticed this :) not sure why I didn't put more time into security I have to keep deleting stuff from the database to keep my page from breaking. Thanks again for the tips
What about Dirac? It's for archive purposes, but still a public domain codec. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_(codec)

Furthermore, the insinuation at the end is uncalled for. Calling for cutting funding of public radio/tv is already a political talking point (at least in regards to cutting BBC), so can you imagine the heat they'd catch for trying to develop codecs as well?

Edit: removed PBS from list of cutting funding. Forgot they're donation supported.
That doesn't contradict the notion that the Semantic Web is of growing importance in any way. RDF triples can be encoded in JSON just as well as they can be encoded in RDF/XML or Turtle or N3 or what-have-you[1][2]. And work continues on a spec to formalize the relationship between RDFa and HTML5[3], so even though XHTML2 got shit-canned, it won't hinder the ability to embed RDFa.

[1]: http://webbackplane.com/mark-birbeck/blog/2009/04/20/rdfj-se...

[2]: http://n2.talis.com/wiki/RDF_JSON_Specification

[3]: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/rdfa-module.html
Anybody got the invitation code?
First thing that pops into mind is the Dunning-Kruger effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Do a quick tag replacer or stripper from your input validation. The script stuff is the biggest issue, but as you can see from the ORLY owl, HTML is still making it through too.
San Diego is also on the list. I should've put "The Valley" in general. Thanks for the comment.
What exactly are they trying to accomplish with this policy? The stackexchange network of sites has "fake" names all over and yet they do business just fine.
There is one: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page
What is the general consensus regarding hyphens in domain names?
I'm working on a project and we're stuck between a really good name with a hyphen, or an OK name with 4 syllables. We're wondering if the hyphen is a death-kiss for domain names.
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I would have expected only 2 quotes, given the title.
Awesome tech company office designs
"Since when has the thermal performance of a light bulb been undocumented and unreliable?"

By making assumptions as to what type of a light bulb it is (which in this setting one could not know beforehand). F.ex. LEDs give off very little heat.
Which is why I advocate splitting the difference, and moving there once you can already survive. Ramen profitability is a great boon to negotiations, remember.
I'm currently finding out what information we're allowed to share about how the avatar works and what went into developing it. The problem is we're so far down the totem pole I probably won't know for a while yet. :-/

http://automatastudios.com/automata-gives-ibms-watson-a-face...
I'm working on Project Hard Candy (http://cndy.co). It's an itch I wanted to scratch for a while. I need to come up with a better name.
Zen and the art of statefulness
Thanks we're definitely going to work on that. We appreciate the feedback!
Some constructive criticism:

Without logging in, there is hardly any information (beyond marketing language).

The latest blog post appears to have been November 18, 2010. Just below the title there's the default "Your Awesome Tagline" as a subtitle.

The FAQ only says, "A complete support page is been put together based on popular questions."

In short, these are some big red flags for any business interested in your product.
Firstly, best of luck with your startup! That's an exciting move. I'd also recommend moving somewhere like New York, SF, Boston, Austin where there is an active community of technologists with whom you can bounce ideas.

I wanted to point out though that your startup's name brings forth strongly negative connotations.

Your startup is photo sharing site called Hard Candy.

There's a movie called Hard Candy about a 32 year old pedophile photographer who gets castrated by Ellen Page's (Juno) character and then kills himself.

Something to be aware of as people see your site.
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Excellent! I did the same thing about a month ago (although I left another startup, not a BigCo).

Haven't decided whether or not to move in with Mom & Dad though. The savings would be nice, but I live in Santa Clara already and they're an hour south of that. The connections in the valley are worth more, IMO.
> if a teammate messes up, you help them, you don't shoot them down.

If a teammate (WP editor) deliberately sabotages the team (by deleting useful information instead of creating it), what do you do then?
How about IE7 :(
It was pre-taped a few weeks ago in line with Jeopardy's usual schedule. There were a number of untelevised practice sessions beforehand against other Jeopardy contestants and wannabes. IBM did their tweaking then and promised that the actual competition rounds would be televised regardless of results.
Good luck, and come to the launch conference next week as my guest, ping me @Jason
he calls them epiphenomenon which is correct, their primary property is light production, heat is a secondary feature and not reliable, take for example LED based lighting, or even the low energy fluorescents.

But RF was just being a well deserved smartass. Besides, who would ever interview RF, it would a waste of time, Unless you have Newton, Einstein and Larry & Sergei already on your payroll just give the man an office, s stapler and let him do whatever comes to mind.
>Mr Schmitt says it should be possible for a robot builder to specify what a servo needs to do, rather than how it needs to be made, and send that information to a 3D printer, and for the machine’s software to know how to produce it at a low cost.

This is where I will shamelessly plug my startup, DesignByRobots. The overview of the technology is here: http://designbyrobots.com/2011/01/17/first-post/
Clickable: http://www.itschris.me
Fine, jeez. I should have found a better quote, maybe. I spent 10 seconds grabbing a quote from an article written two weeks ago about this subject, because I think it's related. And it's NOT the concrete number of articles, it's about encouraging more and different types of contributors besides the policy lawyers. I was TRYING to say the same thing you are saying, and all the rest of this just shows I have a lot to learn about the internals of wikipedia (I know nothing about how they work, really)
If prospects are already sold on it, would they really mind reading through the text (which is nicely styled and not that much of a read)?

Usually I would agree with you on keeping the contact info and address separate somewhere up at the top, but in this case I think this approach works. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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I think it would have been better to have asked us for two quotes.
Not just opiates, cough syrup (with dextromethorphan) too. It's very dangerous for kids who heard of Robotripping but haven't had resources/time to learn that while DXM overdose will make you trip, acetaminophen overdose will slowly and painfully kill you.
I really like the idea. Your landing page could use a little more info though. I don't have enough saved content to try it out at the moment but cool none the less.

I was wondering how you plan to make money off if it (if you do).
Group SMS is a very interesting space but the economics are very difficult to work with. At my first startup http://inactiv.com we had a very similar product in 2006. We were seeing about 50-60000 messages a day and that was limited only by our rudimentary infrastructure.

Over time we realized that those SMS costs add up so rapidly that you need a very good monetization to pull it off. Recovering such high ad rates will be very difficult. Maybe with Groupon/Foursquare like models, something more substantial may be possible.

It will be interesting to see the direction GroupMe takes. Do wish them the best though.
Yes, but that's not hard to fix either. For example, Google's binary deltas for Chrome updates would be huge if they couldn't easily fix those addresses; see http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software...
You don't need to. By ignoring or laughing at their juvenile antics, and by not engaging them as adults, you win.

I have to disagree. You would win if your position was not absurd. But if you, like Scientology, or for that matter politics and most religion are yourself preaching something quite absurd, then ignoring them is not an effective defense.

If you are a naked king, and there's a crowd that keeps shouting LOL, you gots no clothes on, they are winning.
Thanks. Yeah, I'll change the name. It's not intended to be the final name. Just until I can think of something better. I've never seen that movie.
Without wanting to drag the discussion down, it seems remiss not to link to this image that's been going around forever.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maitri/1444965179/
I'm hiring. iOS and/or backend. js gurus welcomed as well. E-mail is in my profile.
I'm currently off-shoring the development of my startup to India and it’s been working out great, but it took a lot of trial and error - kissed a lot of proverbial frogs so to speak.

Here’s my experience and if this helps someone gain a better handle on how to deal with the issue, great! The first time I looked to off-shore my development, I went with traditional off-shore development providers and was severely disappointed. The developers I found had big firm coding experience – having worked on projects for Goog, Msft etc and probably could build software on a consulting basis but just didn't get "startup" development. They needed a defined set of requirements within which they could work and needed for those requirements not to change. You can forget about pivoting. This "big-company, back-office" mentality obviously won't work for startups. They don't understand agile software development and are terrible with communication. And by communication I don't mean English, that’s usually not the issue; the issue is their approach to communication with a team - closing the loop on emails, replying in a timely manner (or doing anything in a timely manner for that matter) and addressing all the issues you communicate with them.

After spending time with 2-3 different teams I changed my approach and started searching for people who were passionate about and contributed to open-source, were active on forums, on Twitter & Fb, and were excited about working on my idea – as opposed to guys wanting to make money from a consulting gig. I found my current developer through such a search and so far it’s been great. There have been some hiccups, but I daresay these aren't issues that would have cropped up even with a team located stateside.

So I’m running a distributed company and it’s working out to be very cost-effective - which was the reason I started down this path in the first place. Anyways this is my experience. I may be one of the lucky few; but I do believe that you can find folks with a mentality suited to startups. And if you do, the cost savings are worth the pain.
JavaScript isn't simple enough already? I think libraries are the way to make syntactic sugar, not trying to replace the language itself.
Unshortened URL:

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/products-and-services/mil...
Are you trying to find a hacker to join you as a co-founder, or are you just looking to outsource the development? If it's the former you might find it difficult. See: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2010-1...

If it's the latter, just ask your connections to recommend a good outsourced development shop, or wait for somebody here to chime in.
I was curious about the same thing - did they ever mention what languages were used in the documentary?

The screenshots looked like Eclipse with Java. The brief snippets I could make out certainly looked like they had to do with evaluating rules and scoring judgment, but that could have easily been stock footage.
Email to A-List VC sent regarding Jon Crawford/Storenvy.com
I was forwarded this email a little bit ago. I wanted to share it with the Hacker News community:

I was reading the article Jon Crawford of Storenvy.com wrote and posted to the Ycombinator website. Can be found here - http://joncrawford.com/how-i-got-kicked-out-of-y-combinator-and-rais

I checked out his business at storenvy and was alarmed and disturbed by what I saw. I only looked at a few pages, but their are many to go thru. I am not an attorney, but i think this may not be an acceptable use of Disney images:

Racism, Antisemitism and bigotry and what appears to be infringement against Disney.

Mickey Mouse made to look like Hitler on a swastika:
http://www.storenvy.com/products/59223-dickies-official-fan-club-shirt

Niggabear??
http://www.storenvy.com/products/59357-niggabear

Nazi bird:
http://lovelessapparel.storenvy.com/products/1111-revolt

I am having a hard time believing how such A-List investors can be affiliated with this kind of company. One can make an argument that the items in question are posted by users and not the views of Storevny. However, does storenvy not monitor the items on it's website?

Also, one of the brands, Loveless Apparel, is based in Orlando, Florida. Isn't this where Jon's original tshirt printing business, Threadbird.com, is from? Doesn't Threadbird.com print tshirts for Storenvy customers? If that is the case, then can't one assume that Threadbird.com knew exactly what they were printing and allowed it? Then allowed it to be offered it for sale on Storenvy? If these assumptions are true, then I think there is a problem here. Free speech doesn't give people the right to distribute or market Antisemitism and use an American icon like Mickey Mouse to do so.

Why do I care? I did not like they way Mr. Crawford tried to subtly insult the Ycombinator team and belittle them. In addition, the tshirts in question are extremely offensive to me and my grandparents. Don't shoot the messenger.

Thank you.
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Looks like the above referenced shirts have now been removed. Cached pages are below.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yo1RYEz1zyMJ:www.storenvy.com/products/59223-dickies-official-fan-club-shirt+http://www.storenvy.com/products/59223-dickies-official-fan-club-shirt&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mjZroUvpXHkJ:www.storenvy.com/products/59357-niggabear+http://www.storenvy.com/products/59357-niggabear&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SqCpz3yAGHEJ:lovelessapparel.storenvy.com/products/1111-revolt+http://lovelessapparel.storenvy.com/products/1111-revolt&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com
Thanks for the advice. We're very excited to show you what we've been working on. Stay tuned. :)
At the cost of mental cycles of your recipient reader to parse what just happened, which come in much less available quantity than network bytes or CPU cycles.
Why did the VC invest in Lebron James?
Calling a system "bigger steamroller" is easy and may make one sound cool, but actually designing and making one that is as good as Watson is hard, much harder than non-engineers will believe, and such attempts often give more insights than mere paper-logic and debates IMHO. Ability to entertain drastically different ideas is a feature of great minds.
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Two weeks ago one of my co-workers (HN name: coreyloose) participated in build madison (http://http://www.buildmadison.org/) a hackathon in Madison, WI. For our project we built Brainsy (http://brainsy.net), a visual suggestion engine for etsy.com products. We won the cash prize and a years free hosting. This past weekend we pushed out version 2.

We wanted to share our work with HN. The algorithm is pretty simple now. It looks at the list of tags for the products that you like, and searches for products with similar tags. It's not perfect but works pretty well givent its simplicity.

We would love to get HN's feedback on the design, possible improvements for the algorithm (or any good reading I could do on the subject), and thoughts for monitization. We never really intended for the project to make any money, so we're pretty happy just making something that's useful. Corey is trying to get a job at etsy, so he figured this would be a good project to help out with that. But if you have any good ideas for how to monitize that would be an added bonus!
Going to give https://www.isocket.com/ a try.
They made at least £4.8 million which is not bad for the "pay what you want" model. Of course you have to be a famous band to even try this.

Average selling price was £4, and only 30% of people opted to pay. They get to keep 100% of their royalties, whereas most band get a minuscule fraction of the album price in royalties.
1) Why isn't this feature built in to smart phones? I know it's a big pain point for me on iOS. I assume it's not on Android if there is this much uptake.

2) How on earth are they going to make money? Their suggestion for location based sponsored group chat sounds terrible to me, because you'd be opting in to miniature twitter feed that clogs up your text inbox instead of being able to read it asynchronously.
It's a perfectly reasonable thesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Mind). Do you have any objection beside some transitory subjective distaste?
New web application to manage your pet's life.
1) Regarding the kinds of mailbox names an email provider will provide you with, it's up to the provider. My employer, for example, only lets us have firstname.surname, With the addition of a single digit in case more than one employee has that name. These limitations have nothing to do with standards compliance.

2) Gmail does allow you to send mail to non-legit, but standards-compliant addresses like {^|~!}@example.com, because they know that their own mailbox name rules don't extend to other providers.

Regarding your point b) evidently they're not smart enough to grasp that addresses with + in them only work on the theoretical internet, and not the real one.
Watson Will Win on Jeopardy. I Know. I Played Against It.
Mobile web will grow but native apps (still) have an upper hand
Not sure where you're geographically located but San Diego isn't anywhere near anything that could be considered "The Valley".
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The Feynman I know from the _Feynman Lectures on Computation_ would have quickly disposed of the information-theoretic problem posed, and then have gone on to discuss all the interesting variants.
It seems to me that the smart thing for GroupMe to do is to use push on smart phones and sms on non-smart phones. If they aren't already doing this, it's an easy win to reduce their volume over SMS.
"Dear Katy, ever since I met you...
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Aw, so romantic :)

Not bad, really.
Somebody just created a new stub for Alice ML and Nemerle. Let's start filling them out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemerle_(programming_language)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(programming_language)

edit
Nemerle appears to have been frozen and deleted

Alice has gone down 3 or 4 times, but it's now up for the last 10 minutes.

They're down again, looks like semi-permanently.
I like the idea of searching my own online service accounts, but how do they implement visibility layers ? There are reasons why online services don't allow indexing content.

The outcome could be either really good or a privacy nightmare.
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Me neither. I was trying to file an issue for false positives and got denied due to a false positive error. No wonder these things never get fixed.
To be fair, "Hard Candy" is also the name of a cosmetics line and a Madonna album. I like the name and have never heard of the Ellen Page movie.
He didn't get called out. He got harassed excessively. People with no interest in a language they've never heard of suddenly began venting irrational rage at a guy for suggesting that a language article might not be notable.

The solution to a wiki page being marked AfD is to improve the article with useful citations or discuss why the current citations are enough to verify the article.

It's not to stalk both online and offline the person who suggested a discussion should be had on the notability of a topic.
Most of the service revolves around you authenticating greplin (using oauth or xauth) to provide them with a feed of your data.

Greplin's core service really is tied into reading all of your stuff. That is a privacy nightmare in some regards, but all of this data exists in other services already, so you trust someone else with it. Question is whether you trust Greplin i suppose!
I was thinking of San Jose :)
I've heard their stack is actually really well built.
Agree. And you might end up making enough money not to bother moving.