skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the best ecommerce analytics tools?
wishing you all the best
Ah, thank you. Yes, additional credits will be able to be purchased at the same rate. (I'm actually just waiting on Android 2.3, which includes in-app purchasing, which would be perfect for purchasing additional credits.)
You can also check out Startup Digest's course on fundraising. The first lecture by Naval is free.

http://www.udemy.com/raising-capital-for-startups/
Interactive and intelligent food packaging (Video)
'Simplistic' is perjorative: a simplistic solution is one that's too simple to properly address the problem.
So you're saying you'd rather have a quick bump in pay than annuity, pension, access to the local's placement services and guaranteed working conditions/benefits? That's your call ultimately but you'll excuse me if I think it seems a bit short-sighted. Out of curiosity do you have your journeyman's book yet?

Edited to add: nepotism and "good ol boy" networks are pretty much how business gets done everywhere, regardless of industry. A lot of people have this knee jerk reaction against such things and don't stop to consider this is the working end of "Networking".
This is either a question or a suggestion but.. is there (or can there be) a more technical AMA-type site for engineers and scientists? I like Reddit but I can't help but feel the right person could curate the questions better for technical and scientific stuff rather than relying on the sort of voting patterns Reddit is susceptible to.

Frequent intelligently curated but publicly driven (i.e. not just "interviews") AMAs with scientists and teams working on cool stuff would make for great reading. Even AMAs with the tech teams of the startups we all know and love on HN would be a great start.

I'd do it (the "if you're gunna complain.." approach) but I'm not well enough connected. Imagine someone like Andrew Warner or pg (who could pretty much get anyone at the table) curating a site like that. It'd be a must-visit to both ask questions and read the answers.

UPDATE: Or is this essentially Quora I've reinvented?
What I find the weirdest is that schools can strip search students without a warrant or consulting the parents (if I remember the SC decision correctly), but will give in to pressure like this. I'd rather have the reverse be true.
It has been discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1944628
Thank you for information. Yeah, I was considering that you might be working hard on scaling these days. The site seems to work mostly well, so you seem to be doing a good job there.

Thank you very much for the email you sent me too.
I don't see why not...you can trademark a fruit(apple) and a a color(pink).
4 types of scale
Wow, this is exactly the kind of interface I dislike. It's way too verbose and I'm not sure why one would add this kind of layer on top of jQuery. I don't see where it makes things easier - it's more like it just provides yet another interface.
Apple and Industry Forces
Source? Example? I'm curious.
So in my mind, the reason this upsets people is this: Imagine you bought a Sony TV and all you could ever watch on it was Sony produced movies, tv shows, and Sony music unless the other studios gave them 30% of the revenue. You can even only hook up a PS3 and Sony speakers, and there's no other way to get something on the TV but by going through Sony.

Is there still tons of great content? Sure. Do the original artists have a right to go elsewhere? Sure. Could the other studios afford to take the hit? No. Would the other studios make deals with the other TV manufacturers? Probably. But because of their position, you as the owner of a Sony TV wouldn't get to watch some awesome movies and same for people who bought another type of TV. In order to reach a Sony TV customer, Sony would be forcing artists to have Sony produce their content, and that's where it's anticompetitive.

Stepping back to reality, how crazy is this analogy? Well how different really is an iPad from a 10" TV? Sony TVs play movies, music, have apps, etc, etc just like an iPad. Sure in the real world, you need a special partnership with Sony to install your apps onto the actual TV, but there's tons of other ways to get your content onto the TV. Difference here is that Apple has blocked off any of those other channels. And that's why it's an issue.
They do mention it. It's a little bit hidden, but see http://amplifyjs.com/community/#pull_requests
Brilliant idea, the image on your page describing it very well!
The program might be a minor league failure. Approximately 90% of research spending consists of minor league failures. Drawing a comparison to fascism, oblique or not, is ridiculous.

The DARPA comment was serious. There's a huge military component to getting green energy moving.
Fantastic. It's really hard to come up with a good pricing scheme. I've found that simple is better than cheap. If you can figure out a flat rate, or some other scheme that doesn't make me have to do math, I'm much likelier to join.
Sure, he does infringe by using the color and the font of YC. But the YC gang know better than to shut down their loyal fanbase.
Hey dreww, did you signup for an account early on? I've taken steps to fix the aspect ration recently :) Right now we don't allow you to delete attachments out of your Gmail account from attachments.me -- great suggestion though.
...Or you could use Google Voice in the same way for free. In fact, you can selectively block from GV (send certain callers to "number is no longer in service"), which makes it better than a throw away, IMO.
This isn't relevant and as much as IE6 is a pain in the ass, it's time to get over it.
I think a more constructive effort would be to have a real discussion about cancer and things we can do to accelerate research towards a cure.

For those interested in joining that discussion, check out http://fastercures.org/
If you're looking at code on a white background and experience any discomfort, turn down the brightness. Don't look at code on a white background, a blue background, or in the "haphazard mix of neon and muddy colors on a black background" color scheme for 16 hours a day.

Editing code is a completely different application from editing images, watching video, or playing games. On my work box, I'm simply not concerned with "evenly discernible relative shading differences at all levels of brightness", so I run a a pair of ViewSonics at 70% contrast and 75% brightness in a well-lit room. I don't experience any level of discomfort from white editor windows; the only problem I ever experience is shifting back and forth between dark-on-light and light-on-dark windows.
This feels a lot like 1995 or 1996 to me. New technology (WWW then, mobile phones and cloud computing now), just beginning to get mainstream adoption. Coming out of a recession that had been a 4-year funk. Fairly loose monetary policy. A couple hot stars beginning to IPO, but nothing terribly crazy.

People said there was irrational exuberance in 1996, but it took 5 years before the bubble actually burst, and it went up a lot in the meantime.

Ask me in 5 years, and I think then we'll be in a bubble. Now, we're just in a recovery, but not everybody knows it yet.
I can just imagine the question of Steve Jobs' health coming up at the next White House press briefing or POTUS interview.

Given that his health does directly impact Apple stock price, I think it is fair game to a large degree.
With three of the best Jeopardy players ever, I thought they might make the questions a bit more challenging. I can see why this might not work in this case because Watson was programmed using regular questions. But I agree, I would have liked to see the skill level rise with the caliber of player.
No hate for philosophy; my view is that college is not about learning. I have a BA in History and a BS in Engineering. The BA merely taught me to b.s. (I learned more about historiography reading on my own). The BS taught me discipline. I learned engineering on the job. At $10K a year a student needs to get in, get out and get employed. Navel gazing and novel writing is for the summer.
IMO, a pure language would be one which is incapable of representing impure code. Or at least, where it's very hard. I don't know where the line lies, but I strongly feel that any language that supports manual memory management, pointers, and mutable variables can't properly be called "pure".

Some people get confused between purity and expressiveness. Inexpressive languages like C require using impure constructs to represent fundamentally pure constructs. More expressive languages like Python don't need as many impure workarounds. Haskell, as a very expressive language, can do amazing things in pure code that other languages must resort to impurity for.

If you want a pure language, look into Agda or Coq.
There were several rounds of layover at a startup where I worked and so I expressed my concern to HR that I wouldn't be able to find a job if I were laid off. Her response, which I never believed, is that employers don't look so unfavorably towards laid off workers and that finding a new job would not be so hard.

Well, this article states just what I feared. Fortunately, I have never been laid off or fired but I have never felt that it would be easy to find a job if it ever happened. Being laid off would make me feel as if I wasn't capable even if it wasn't the case. It would sure be a blow to my self-confidence.

Best of blessings to those who are unemployed and still looking.
Try F# in a browser
$script.js – Another JavaScript loader
Will this be JS only? Or will we be able to integrate this into Objective-C? (naturally, this is non-cross-platform) Would be useful to have an Obj-C library.
Philosophy teaches critical thinking and, to varying degrees, rhetoric and sales. I know plenty of CS folk who cannot think critically, nor articulate their thoughts or convince me of their ideas.

Drop accounting.
I would say that Rubinius needs to be significantly faster than MRI and production ready to be successful. Otherwise, it's an "option" and having "lots of interesting options" at the level of your language is actually detriment to your development process. As someone said, you want your setup to be "as boring as possible" so you can concentrate on your application code instead.

Having "lots of exciting choices" in your web server, your database, your object server, your language implementation, or monitor size just says your time will be sucked from real work.

<almost a flame> I have been tempted, in the past, to wildly claim that if you compare Rubinius' relative failure compared to PyPy, Rubinius is kind of a poster-child of Test Driven Development's failure. IE, languages need semi-formal specs, not tests that claims they are a standard (no amount of testing can prove two implementation equivalent). </almost a flame>

<CAVEAT>But listening to the PyPy folks describe their process, I realize this stuff is uber-hard and I'd just like to hear what a real compiler developer would say about this. </CAVEAT>
Glenn Greenwald is a "him":)
Actually, I use Google Voice as my main phone number. I don't even want to give _that_ out -- so same exact problem for me. <shrug> Selective blocking is only a partial solution; your number is still "out there".

Well, that is why I built the app, anyway =)

Something neat about just being able to "buy" an extra number from the market.
Unemployed need not apply, some firms say
Price per credit?

Very nice idea, and the page is a great sell. Definitely need a more useful developer website landing page, though.
That Netflix has one's money makes it profitable. Is this a for profit site you're designing?
Banks do not use the discount window unless they are about to fail. GS stock would tank if they went to the window, as any other bank should provide sufficient liquidity. There is no clear mechanism for Goldman to take money from the Fed and invest it in Facebook.

Also, Goldman has used the investment bank version of the window in the past, but they've already repaid all loans. [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Use_of_Federal_Re...
These guys are incredible; so much potential!
Have a Math Theorem Named After Yourself
I wish they would put him up as a webapp. It may not be economical to have a supercomputer online that can only answer one question at a time -- but they might find enough overlap that he could start caching frequent requests or even queuing requests as necessary. Or better yet, scale slowly by invite only.
Here are a couple of articles that have helped me;
http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
http://spencerfry.com/idea-shaping
She got it right with Smalltalk as well.
How Attractive Are You...Scientifically?
Hmmm, I was going to argue against this, looked up the stats to defend my point and found: http://content.spencerstuart.com/sswebsite/pdf/lib/Statistic...

that you may be right. See page 6. At least for CEOs.
Wouldn't I get phone calls from the disgruntled last person who had the phone number? I suppose even then at least it would be temporary ...
Why wasn't Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer invited to Obama's innovation dinner?
"The majority of startup companies will end up losing money" is a tautology: true no matter what the inputs are.
Apparently nothing - I have no id cookie. I assume this means I'm not tracked at all? Maybe I've just never clicked an ad on this laptop.
I hear you codeslush, and again...that's how it seems on the surface. Maybe that's how they started off, but I suspect that they are now living off of the fruits of an organic traffic generating machine - that was perhaps inadvertently created.

Either way, it's an interesting lesson for other web services/webapps to learn.
I for one am sick of seeing, day in, day out, a new start up that has raised 20 million in funding from doing nothing. Also, crazy valuations put on companies that don't turn a profit. Generally in business, a company is worth its annual turnover if a sale was going to happen. How are companies that are turning over 0 worth 15 billion?

I think everyone has forgotten about the .com crash 10 years ago and thats where all this crazy investment is coming from. Google offering 6 billion for Groupon, then Groupon turning it down??

I think the only thing that would not describe this as a bubble, is the exeprience of the last bubble and what it has taught us. We have learned now what the "internet" is. We have learned its boundaries (as such) and therefore we can make a reasonable evaluation on what the next "big thing" is and whether it will all come crashing down.

I for one, slag Facebook off to death. I think Mark Zuckerburg is a robbing bastard that stole someones idea and ran with it himself. The thing is, it's the ideas that he didn't steal that make him and the site brilliant. Facebook too did not have a business model and even after creating the advertisting it did not do much. Now, when Facebook started doing targeted advertising and to a greater extent, the new location based advertising, that's when it became brilliant in my eyes. These non-profit start ups that eventually find a business model that works are where the real treats are and its the fact that these startups are finding a business model that makes this a new era, rather than a bubble.

To coin a phrase, its the face of things to come. "The future internet defined"

Now all I need to do is find a stupidly easy idea and make money from it so I can stop being jealous already.
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Ask HN: Should I add a CS major? Is late better than never?
I'm currently a sophomore pursuing a BA in economics. I'd like to add a CS major, but I'd like to get some advice first.

I would be double majoring, not getting a dual degree. What this means is that while I would be taking the same CS classes as a BS student, I will be getting a BA in CS and econ vs a BA in econ and a BS in CS. I simply don't have enough money to extend my time in college and switch to/add a BS in CS, since it also requires other engineering classes.

The issue is that I only have 1 semester before having to figure out what to do summer of junior year. What this means is that I will only have taken 3 CS classes, as opposed to maybe 8-10 for the people who started off in CS.

What does this mean for getting an internship at a large firm? Working for a startup? I guess I'm looking for more than a yes or no answer (that part is somewhat obvious) - I'm trying to see what the implications of starting late are. Thanks for your opinions.
Overall I really like it, I don't know whether it's intentional but for today in Oakland CA the area to the left of the yellow "now" bar in cloud and precipitation is blocky columns that don't really tell much. To the right is the great graph of prediction vs history and I'd expect this to look similar to the left but reflect actual data instead of prediction.
I don't think this helps much with the problem outlined in the original post. All you need is one guy running this "persona management" software to offset lots of guys refusing to use it.
True, I read "current" as "constant."

Even using constant dollars, though, our economy is 18% larger between then and now. That's not "drastically" smaller. [0]

[0]http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=real+us+gdp+2001+to+201...
Cool idea. It also has other possible uses outside of giving it to potential stalkers. Adding basic analytics would make it useful for A/B testing offers on TV or in print media, for instance.
Ask HN: What would you do?
I'm a regular reader of hackernews using a throwaway account for soon to be obvious reasons.

I don't mean to bring up the hacker vs. business major co-founder debate once again but I'm concerned about my startup's future and what I should do. You guys are the only group of people I know that could provide insightful input to this situation (or have experienced it yourselves).

Here's the context:
I'm the tech end of the website based business. I code the backend, frontend, main idea and the majority of the design concepts are primarily mine.

My co-founder is a business major with little experience in the web or funding space.

We are splitting it down the middle and we have spent most of the time of the business with him waiting for the product to be finished. With a working prototype we are now considering seeking funding.

I feel like he feels as if the business is more his than my own, ready to become the head and that I'm merely the replacable wheel in his money makeing machine.

I'm concerned that I may be going down the wrong path here or that my cofounder may cost us investment from outside. Are my concerns unfounded? What would you do in my shoes?
ConceptDB - A platform for storing large semantic networks on MongoDB
Never forget that people "outside" and people on internet are, in the end, always the same people.
Facebook Adds hCalendar and hCard Microformats to Millions of Events
3D Holographic Architecture Models
For precipitation the prediction & averages are in percent, but the past is in actual hours of precipitation - hence the blockiness for the past (the vertical axis is from 0-1 hours when zoomed in).

For clouds it's percent cloud cover, so a full block means fully overcast.
We've met?

Sorry you aren't a fan — but it seems like there aren't many of us in this line of work with fans to begin with.
Awesome. I'm starting a comic called "The Adventures of Mathan Nyhrvold" consisting almost entirely of computer software and hardware carrying out the most banal and mundane of tasks for our anti-hero.

"Everything in just one click."
The problem of sourcing components and getting them delivered in a timely fashion is harder than you think. Especially on the heels of a global recession that caused suppliers to cut back on their manufacturing output.
I'd like to emphasize that this is music only. Not video content or non-music audio content etc.
My brother had an internship at a nuclear power plant and used Sketchup to model the new reactor core head (just for fun, you know). The rendering itself blew everyone away, but I think the fact that he did it in just a couple hours was really impressive as well.
Strictly speaking, this is horizontal integration -- offering complementary goods as a package.

It would be vertical integration if he had bought (for example) a music company, a stereo manufacturer, a distillery etc.
Are you in North Jersey? Recognize the 201 in the screenshot :)
If you can't afford a BS in CS, and the alternative to a double major with a BA in CS is just a BA in Econ, then YES, absolutely positively knuckle down and take the classes.
Nokia and Windows Phone 7
Some Chinese people say, that the government only prevents them from seeing/reading bad stuff, and that censorship is, in general, a good thing.
"...with the black box auto-generated code produced by early J2EE"

If this comparison were analogous, your point would make no sense, since it would boil down to in the bad old days, we got stuck with code we couldn't understand and lived with it, so now, code we can't understand isn't a problem.

And it's not analogous. We're not talking about black-box generated code nobody on the project understands, but instead people on the project making code that other people on the project don't understand. To harp on the one detail of incomprehensible code ignores huge differences in those situations. So, it's gratuitous to evoke that.
I've been on both ends of the startup spectrum so allow me to elaborate a bit.

1. No one wants to partners with a guy that can't code and hope he can learn to become a technical cofounder from scratch. Typically speaking, you find someone with coding chops. The same is true of business cofounders BUT unfortunately most idiots don't realize they don't have the business knowledge needed to be a good business cofounder.

2. Your cofounder should NOT be waiting around for the product to finish to do his part. There is a SHIT TON of stuff a business cofounder can do while waiting for the prototype to finish. In my honest opinion, if he doesn't know what to do, he should be hauling ass to figure this out or he's not pulling his weight. I'd argue that in the long haul, while the technical guy mostly codes and do some of the other stuff, the business guy got a lot on his plate. If he sucks now, he'll do even worse as time progresses.

3. I hope to god you guys formed a business, have vesting in place, and so that if things don't work out, you're not going to run into more issues than necessary to make this separate clean. And no, just because you guys agree to separate on good terms does not make it clean. There is a process for this.
Visualizing Skillsets in HTML5 Canvas: Part 1
Platform war at Mobile World Congress 2011
Can someone explain the cross platform part? Are they going to publish to the AppStore?
The car-driving thing would only count if Knight Rider included details about exactly how the automation works.

The Donald Duck comic was pretty specific about exactly what was going on: they were feeding ping-pong balls down a tube into a submerged ship until the boyancy of the balls raised the ship. Knight Rider and friends just say "Hey what if there was a car that could drive itself? Let's make a show about that car fighting crime." Same way (to use another 80s show) MacGuyver doesn't have prior art on the idea of blowing stuff up with improvised materials.
Yes. The SDK will provide apps that you can publish to the Android or iPhone app store.
True. Yes it is a for-profit site, although as of now only through amazon affiliate links. We have no plans for any kind of subscription model similar to theirs.
I thought the opposite: "Wow, cool someone made a orange HN shirt. I am going to buy one right this minute if he sells them."
How we know, by freeman dyson
Ruby's talks about popular older sister... who is that supposed to be though?
I agree. I also think it should be some what lowered.