skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that article does make a nice clear point, and while the ideas aren't worth that much in some regard, being a multiplicative factor is a pretty big deal.
Map/Reduce for real problems: Calculating TF-IDF using Hadoop [pdf]
thanks for the pickup. Fixed
If you recommend MediaTemple add a disclaimer to stay away from (gs). Their dv service is alright, but gs has terrible performance. I tweeted a few weeks ago that I was switching away from MT (gs) and their twitter support DM'd me admitting that gs "sucks" as they tried to sell me on their DV package.

I'm sure many people here would recommend Linode, Slicehost, or Heroku as competent alternatives.
My father works at the KSC location and his computer runs Windows :)
I need a poor-quality, low-sensitivity camera attached to the back of a foot-long iPad about as much as I need cameras built into my jeans, belt buckle, toothbrush, and turkey baster.

Just because you can build a camera (or two cameras) into everything doesn't mean you should. Cameras are a certain size and shape for a reason.

I see no reason to build a rear-facing cam into the iPad. Ever tried to hold a slippery, 7.5" x 9.5", 1.6 pound slab at arm's length before, and hold it steady? Not compelling.
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True, but it his hard to do a 3 lines article when you're called "Business Insider".

I guess TechCrunch will do 10 big paragraphs on the subject.
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If you don't take care of yourself, nothing else in your toolbox matters.
Would be cool to have a link to help. I ended up accidentally deleting the intro text that comes as the default page content and couldn't figure out how to make a new page.
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I like this, however, I'd rather this be something I could deploy privately on my own web hosting. I've been looking for a simple cms system when I write plain text files and something like this generate all the pagination, layout and so forth.
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The GPL's terms do not allow someone to make a derivative and then 'distribute' it to some (such as paying clients), unless they also make the source available to others under the GPL.

But, if an unethical or confused competitor did convert your GPL'd code into a proprietary release, you'd still need to find out, raise a public objection, and possibly threaten/file a lawsuit to truly 'enforce' the terms.
Just outputting something isn't particularly different whether it occurs at runtime or "compile" time. However, if you want to know how to execute Python efficiently that's a very different topic than how to execute C efficiently.
Here's the original blog post referenced in the BI article: http://thedivinecode.com/blog/?p=61
Why do you say that?

I think most people on HN would agree that before incorporating, its smart to build a product and prove its viability/desirability. Except, of course, in capital intensive situations where funding (and thus incorporation) comes first.
I wanted to test this and decided on the name "test", which was taken. I tried "test1", then "test12" .. etc.
My point: let me choose if I want a nice URL, and if I decide, then tell me if it is taken. I the meantime I would have enjoyed something like: pen.io/fjS7f
Besides from that: great idea and nice design.
Email Use Drops by 59% Amongst US Teens in One Year
Love the super simple sign-up. I think this combined with the basic gist of start.io would make a killer app.
Chained, but not oblivious.

Windows 8 will borrow heavily from Surface. Registry will be gone. It will be good, but it may be too late.
Breaking up the Romance between Malware and Autorun
I used to be an early-adopter and gadget geek. I've owned a few crappy mp3 players (never an iPod for some reason) and even a Nokia 770 (also crappy). I think that was the last of my tech gadget purchases.

These days I just own a nice laptop and a clamshell cell phone. I don't even have a camera anymore.
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s/vim/emacs/

(it had to happen.)

I tried it and keep hitting the basic emacs bindings on the keyboard, and nothing happened.
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Hard to imagine why someone creating a traditional Ruby-based web app wouldn't start with Heroku.

http://heroku.com
So like a blog? How would yours be different from a blog? I'm curious.
I couldn't find it when I was looking. Should probably be a little more obvious, at least early on.
> Jacques is in for a world of hurt when he next travels abroad.

Probably because I'm 6'3 and don't fit well into economy class sea-

oh, the other Jacques.
I don't think that waiting til iPad 2 pricing is out will help them magically hit the right price point, at all. This assumes that they can make a competitive product at a cost that lets them profit from it. Big assumption; nobody seems to be very good at that trick just yet. That's why their delivery date is still in Vapormonth, Two Thousand And Soon.
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It is a skin abnormality which result in white patches at any part of body.The patches can appear due to dysfunctional melanin cells.
¿How can I delete the page?
I don't want to promise more than I can deliver but if you want to give the business a go drop me an email with the outline, if it sounds reasonably interesting I'd be willing to donate some coding hours, if only to help you reach a MVP / prototype stage.
It would be good if I could delete a page that I just created!
What do you mean by collate in this sense?
I'm really wondering if any HN users actually use Octave in their daily lives?
I am not sure how the branding would work. Nokia X2351 Windows 7 Phone? How would this be good for Nokia? They would basically be handing over the smartphone part of the company over to Microsoft. I'm pretty sure you are correct on your outlook, I just don't understand how it would work.

edit: just thought of this... maybe MS will convince Nokia to sue Google?
I think you would benefit from having a more prominent call to action button. In this case, the link to the contact form to schedule a demo could be made more prominent.
I think that idea is overblown, simply because "Check their E-Mails" means someone has to write e-mails worth checking...
Why MediaTemple specifically? Is there something they provide more/better than other hosts to make them so much more popular among webdevs and creatives? I've tried to figure out how people justify their higher price relative to other hosts like Dreamhost on the simple hosting end to VPS.net on the hither end...

I'd really be interested in any insight any MediaTemple users have!

Edit: I should mention that I recently purchased a domain from MediaTemple because currently you can registe one .com for $5. Otherwise, though, I'm currently using Dreamhost for site hosting and my other domain registrations. I'd really like to know what more they truly offer for hosting!
I meet a lot of first-time entrepreneurs who think that a company is some sort of magic thing that will give them credibility. In reality, it usually just costs you money in many cases.

I've learned that the most important thing is building a product, and that the actual incorporation can be done later. You technically don't even need a real corporation until much later in the process than you would expect (I have friends who run successful businesses as sole proprietorships).

As for what you can do now, IANAL, but having been in a similar situation myself (startup died and I was left with a C-Corp), you have a bunch of options. You can dissolve it right now, or hold on to it for a while to see if something else takes off. There's a certain minimum amount that having a company will cost you in taxes and fees (about a grand a year if you're in CA, and likely less if you're elsewhere). For a Delaware Corp that's actually elsewhere, you need to pay for a registered agent, which is like $200 a year. You need to file some report and pay some tax to Delaware as well, but the time/money involved with that requirement is pretty minimal.

If you want to dissolve it yourself, it isn't that hard. There are a bunch of forms you need to fill out, but it isn't all that difficult to do so (you can find them online). You could just let it die (if you don't pay the taxes/fees, it will eventually get shut down).
Good feedback thanks.
i am a college student, but i freelance quite a bit.
Calibre does not remove DRM as a built in feature but there are plugins available that do it.

DRM is bound to lose on books. One reason is the analog hole, same as with music. A dedicated hobbyist with a scanner and OCR could easily produce unencumbered e-books even if DRM were perfect. Also, the bits in an e-book are always going to be easy to pirate just because there are so few of them. A book weighs in around a half a megabyte of uncompressed text.
> Mockups: Photoshop (or Pixelmator for really tight budgets)

Only thing with Pixelmator is it's Mac only (unless I missed fine print somewhere). You might not have Macs laying around if you're on a really tight budget. Gimp might be good to throw out there since it's free and works on multiple platforms.
Recurly or Chargify for recurring payments.
Yep, that's one reason I submitted this URL. The other is that it's available now from Elsevier, whereas Amazon has the release date listed as March 1st.
Ask HN: Do you do most of your shopping online? Maybe we have the same problem.
I buy at least one item a week online. My fiancee may buy something every couple weeks as well. How do you keep track all the things being shipped to you? Any tools you use? I tried packagetrackr.com, but for some reason it never worked for me.
Conveniently, the USAF also has a lot of anti-radiation missiles that are very good at eliminating jamming sources.
That looks cool! However it's rotated from what I was hoping for. I literally want just a laptop w/ two touch screens. Too bad it was cancelled.
What is the track record of Microsoft in this kind of partnerships?

Genuine question.
This would undoubtedly have a negative impact on performance, no?
I use labels a lot, Sparrow's solution for labels is inadequate.
She has a blog post explaining the x's here:

http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2010/12/09/the-hacktasti...

Edit: I also agree with your sentiment. This seems to move away from what CSS classes are intended for, and gives things naming conventions that are tied directly to their internal CSS code instead of to their semantic meaning on the page. That said, I haven't used it either, so maybe it's way better this way, but something doesn't sit right with me.
suggestion: make the mac-photo be clickable. It could end up playing the video itself or take the user to a page with more screenshots of your system.

Update: just noticed that it changes when I mouse over the "share tasks" and such links. Not very intuitive for me that I should put my mouse over them and they are somehow connected to the monitor-section.

suggestion: "Project was successfully created" should auto-close after 5 seconds, since it is that type of message.
We're getting closer. Years ago, must have been 7 or 8 by now, I was talking with a friend @ Microsoft, and he was going on and on about how the phone was going to be the computer. "This Phone" and he'd hold up a generic GSM flip phone.

My objection then was UI, both on the input and output side. In a way, wifi and bluetooth have solved a lot of that, as they can offload the heavy duty stuff to wireless sometimes connected displays and keyboards.

At some point, we're likely to have enough power in a cellphone to run most of what you'd want to do for day to day stuff. And do it all day on a charge. Couple that with always on networking and the availability of machines in the cloud for bigger jobs, you start to be able to have the phone/tablet be most of what you need.
I’ve got something stuck in a hole and how I got it out.
I think the point is that structure and style should be decoupled, i.e. the way something looks (color, fonts, borders, etc.) should be defined separately from the way something is shaped.
Or, as he points, out, idealogical threats are the largest threats to humans. People blindly following idealogies and ignoring data is the most likely thing to cause large-scale deaths.
And both of them look pretty close to one of the SaaS themes.

This is not one of my favorite critiques of startups. If you're selling to businesses, the only thing that matters is that you look competent. So what if there's an idiom people are falling into with their websites? That's a good thing; one less thing to worry about.
I'll try to explain by personal anecdotes—two of them. In my household, there's just my wife and myself. I'm an übergeek; she's a technically competent teacher. Computers are merely tools to her.

We went to Italy this past summer. We took my iPhone (data turned off), an iPad 3G, my SLR, and her camera. Because I couldn't find someone locally to sell me a photo tank, I also had to take an Airport Express, a netbook, and a card reader to save the pictures I took (I didn't have the camera connection kit at the time). Except for that, we did not use a laptop. We used the iPad extensively in Italy, paying our bills, making calls on a SIP client, browsing the web, writing blog posts, and even uploading edited photos to a photoblog at http://aureolastatua.tumblr.com. We didn't once feel like we were missing out on anything or that we needed to go to an Internet cafe. The portability was astounding. We needed a laptop in 2006 when we went to Europe to do much the same.

The second anecdote is current. When I get home, I rarely get on the single "real" computer unless I'm programming. When my wife is doing report cards, I can't get on until shortly before bedtime. In years past, I would have quickly been annoyed by this and gotten a laptop by now. I don't need it for my evening browsing—because of the iPhone and iPad.

The PC isn't going away, but it's not going to be the main screen soon. That screen won't be the iPad 1, either. It'll be g4 or g5, but it will happen. I don't need a "real" computer for a lot of what I do, anymore.
Starting A Business: Products vs. Services
Why Chinese Aren’t Holding Their Breath for Facebook or Twitter
Zuckerberg is not particularly unique in terms of his intelligence, ambition or connections. Men and women like Zuckerberg have come into and passed out (or dropped out) of the USA's elite universities for centuries.

Yes. Luck played a big role.
Not only that, but it's good practice for the methodology you should be using when developing your product. Constantly measure and keep track of your results so you can see what's working and what isn't. Keep track of trends and don't overreact to short term changes.
As a solution to the bug you mentioned ("The Dropbox API supports the standard OAuth web flow which just requires you to have an active session on dropbox.com"), where you say that you need an active session on dropbox.com to use Dropbox's OAuth API.

Judging by your response, it's clear that there isn't a bug, and you either just don't know how OAuth works or you don't understand what an active session is. OAuth doesn't require an active session on a website, and an active session is having a page loaded in your browser.
It's good to see some of the UI elements from Premium Pixels in use. I always liked those text boxes. (The submit button as well.)
I'm not sure if anyone remembers the Microsoft Courier tablet demo, which came out before iPad's announcement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI

This video left me with a strong impression of future general computing usage patterns. It has also been my personal gold standard of a superb video demo.

Interestingly enough, they abandoned it right after iPad's release:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Courier#End_of_Courie...
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The Kyocera Echo... while a phone, has what you describe:

http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1970&ne...
mixpanel: for specific analytics and metrics

yammer: to communicate with your teammates

gomockingbird.com easy way to create mockups browser based

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"Homeless" billionaire's mission
Good book to check out on this is "Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns" - http://www.amazon.com/Pro-CSS-HTML-Design-Patterns/dp/159059...

The author uses OO-based css examples all throughout the book, it was my first time reading about it and thought it was pretty cool. You could read through the descriptions on Amazon to get the general idea.
I was wondering the same thing. I've used Linode in the past and been very happy, but I also feel like I have a lot to learn when it comes to "proper" server administration. Does MediaTemple alleviate any of that (ala Heroku)? Or is it just another VPS host with a good reputation?

I'm genuinely curious!
> Judging by your response, it's clear that there isn't a bug, and you either just don't know how OAuth works or you don't understand what an active session is. OAuth doesn't require an active session on a website, and an active session is having a page loaded in your browser.

The OAuth web flow requires an active session on dropbox.com. Without an active session Dropbox can not verify who the user is.

You still didn't answer my question about how a frame would help. Iframes should never be used to to embed OAuth provider authorization pages and embedding dropbox.com in general would be pretty useless if the user does not have an active session open.

As far as active sessions go dropbox.com is going to have two kinds authenticated and anonymous. Since we are clearly talking about access to users Dropbox accounts the only type of active session that would be useful would be authenticated.
Actually, I passed patio11's blog post around widely within Google. Feedback like that is welcome because it prompts us to think about what we need to do better.
Great suggestions - thanks!
Why would I ever give this extension my Dropbox credentials when Dropbox supports OAuth?
The prospect of a new iPad has motivated me to hurry up with the iPad development. Recently I got an iPad and the dev experience so far has been great. Some other considerations: Apple has been pretty good IMO in supporting old iPhone apps on the new retina displays... so it seems reasonable to assume Apple will be mindful of old iPad apps running on the new device. Also the iPad is a larger investment/purchase for most people... so I don't see all iPad owners instantly updating when the new model becomes available.
For the bootstrapping budget startups:

bitbucket.org --> Free private repositories

amazon ec2 --> Free usage tier for a year

uservoice --> basic functionality is free
When was the last time Apple entered a new product space without having something fundamentally different to offer?

The Xserve is the only recent example I can think of, and they discontinued that product recently. I'd be surprised if Apple makes a TV.
This is pretty dope. The design is particularly excellent. Nice work
Can't agree with you enough! Do the developers of Textmate ever listen to these demands?
Having a company in CA is actually not that expensive - just formed a partnership and paid about $100.

Having a C-Corp/S-Corp/LLC is pretty expensive, though.
If he'd paid attention to maths, he wouldn't be playing the lottery.
The Design Matrix: A Powerful Tool For Guiding Client Input
I like the ebook part, but I think I'll pass; they appear to be using their own format, and it's DRM'd: http://www.elsevierdirect.com/article.jsp?pageid=8258
How accurate are these types of measurements? Even if teen email use in the US dropped dramatically last year, how do we know it was replaced by facebook use?
The only thing I like about this is the code pane as it renders code decent enough. Everything else is a bit unfinished work it looks like. Time to change my Dropbox password then!
Twitter as Tech Bubble Barometer
There is an entire generation of youth who have grown up with Facebook and social networks at the center of their internet experience. While email will likely not be extinct any time soon, it may be used less as a social tool, and more as a business tool.
If anyone is curious about online editors, I recently wrote about Cloud9's Ace Editor, IBM's Orion, and CodeMirror.

http://endofline.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/3-browser-based-ed...
Google Apps, Dropbox, Evernote, LAMP, VIM, Google (learn the advanced search operators)
Used it a lot as a replacement for matlab at the university. Nowadays, I just fire up ipython when I need some calculations. Then again my calculations now are nowhere near the complexity of what I did then. If I ever need to go back to the big matrices, I know where to find scipy/numpy.
So, Nokia is said to prefer a 'partnership' with Microsoft, as opposed to being just another hardware vendor working with Google's Android. That means Nokia would have a special status with Windows Phone 7.

Would the other hardware vendors Microsoft has been working with be kicked out, leaving WP7 to run only on Nokia hardware? I find it hard to think of any other 'special status' Nokia can have, if other vendors also offer WP7 phones. Or would other vendors be forced to offer ones with severe limitations, to differentiate Nokia's? If so it seems to not make sense for the other vendors.

Also not sure why it makes sense for Microsoft. Giving Nokia special status means limiting the amount of hardware vendors. Perhaps Microsoft just wants to do the iPhone thing - tightly integrated software+hardware - but they could have done that in-house, like the did with Zune. Why have a single hardware vendor that isn't themselves?

For Nokia, I can see how this might make sense - they have had lots of delays while developing their software platform, and Microsoft has a viable one now. However, it seems it would make much more sense for Nokia to just fork Android, which is also a viable platform, and a more popular one at that. Also, it is free of cost, unlike WP7.

So overall this is very odd, but I guess the details will come out soon, and maybe it will make more sense.
Email me with some details about your project. I might know people who will be able to help. My email is in my HN about.
I could imagine Nokia becoming just a phone hardware manufacturer (many have pointed out that they have great hardware) like LG or HTC, and integrate software from companies such as Microsoft. If Samsung, LG, HTC do it, how hard can it be?
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The text input boxes look completely messed up in Safari on iPad. Needs fix in' perhaps?
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its queries were very similar to SQL

You may want to learn more SQL.

If you're interested in picking up a more complex document database, I would recommend Couch. For a simple k/v store that will get you thinking about concurrency, perhaps Riak.
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For the ones that haven't heard about Bitcoin:

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http://www.bitcoin.org/
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