skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to reinforce the "finally".
This has been requested on the AWS forums for years.

However, the fact that AWS crushes entire business models with every move they make relativizes their slow pace somewhat.
I am unsure if you could do it that way, but the water is likely mixed with copper, judging by the color.
Start-up accounting quandry I know you've faced.
What is the best way to structure your start-up to avoid the tax hit involved with taking founder's stock for sweat equity?
Because Microsoft Office is a paid app and Microsoft want to squeeze some juice there as well I guess where as IE is free...and so...
they were largely of above average intelligence and aptitude

From which pool? Certainly if you look at all people on this planet they may be above average, especially as related to computer technology. But if you take a sample from the technology-oriented people, they may well turn out to be at the bottom.
Cutting down on debt would be idiotic if the currency will default.

Savings in the bank would also be useless. Put the emergency fund in food, water and some metals if you have money left.

Edit: The Key is to be very practical in your thinking, i.e. what will allow me to stay home with the door locked for over a week yet is not too heavy or difficult to transport if needed?
> ...and future lawmakers...

I figure in the far future some giant AI will probably be reading the data, for anthropological or historical reasons. Reconstructing all our lives as well as it can to understand us better, or maybe out of boredom. So whenever I'm going to do some really off-the-wall searches, just to see what there is out there on the web, or because of some strange conversation at the pub, I search first for something like "these next few aren't really about me".

Wonder if that might help at a trial too.
That's a very good point, although it's changing; specialist registrars/resellers, directory publishers, and VOIP companies are all showing interest now. But I was thinking more about early adopters - the type of people who hang out on HN and register domains in their sleep :)
Background: Group Course is an online marketplace that connects students to teachers directly. We make it easy for people to sign up and create a course in their local community, we then advertise in their local area and take care of all the financials. If you want to take a class we allow a full refund if you don't like what you are taking in the first couple of days. For this service we take a 10% cut of the revenue that we generate.
Ubuntu currently uses Rhythmbox as a music player. Ubuntu added an integrated music store (https://one.ubuntu.com/music/) to Rhythmbox that is part of a service called Ubuntu One. Revenue from this is part of what funds Canonical.

Ubuntu has decided to use Banshee for the official music player instead of Rhythmbox. Banshee already has Amazon mp3 purchases integrated into the application. Purchases through Banshee use the project's own referral link. Banshee gives this money to the GNOME Foundation which is a nonprofit that coordinates GNOME development.

Ubuntu is going to use Banshee but they don't want it displacing Ubuntu One. They gave the Banshee project two choices. Either

a) Disable Amazon store by default, and if switched on by users it will still use the Banshee referral link where they get %100 of the funds

or

b) Leave the Amazon store enabled by default, but use a Canonical referral link that gives %15 percent to the Banshee project.

This probably isn't that controversial but I thought it might be worth discussing as it relates to the Apple marketplace restrictions.
I did a double degree in economics and finance. After a few years in banking I am going back to take the computer science core sequence as a non-degree student. If you want to work in the software/tech world, I would suggest taking these courses now while you're able. What's your end goal? Perhaps a minor would get you there a little faster?
a: I use Chrome

b: I turn off Java

How often have I needed to use Java on the web? Almost never. It's not worth the security risk of keeping it on.
...who doesn't mind commiting wire fraud.
What was the main factor for Watson's success? Hardware, software, or data?
Well obviously, but the question is how did he do it.
nice, let me know if you need any help. i did the same thing a month or two ago and wrote a guide about it.
What do you mean by data fidelity, you mean about how to represent the data so that it is comparable? I can imagine it is a problem especially since your scale can change. I know I am not showing accumulations graphically for a number of reasons myself. For a while I was showing snow accumulation on a graph where it would literally accumulate.

Or something about your data sources? I work with data from Environment Canada and the only annoying thing with the data was making meaningful unit conversions when the nature of the accumulation is snow.
You are mostly correct. According to an Ars Technica article from last year [1]:

* Google anonymizes the last octect of your IP address after 9 months. (So there are 254 possible IP addresses for each search.)

* The search cookie is kept intact for 36 months (3 years).

When I posted before, I incorrectly remembered reading that the search cookie is stored forever. Thanks for catching my mistake.

Edit: Regarding the sources, I think that Google's FAQ deliberately skimps on the details. I posted the AOL link because it is a good example of what can happen when search data is leaked.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/google-keeps...
I think for many personal websites Jekyll[1] style static website generation is going to become very popular. Previously you were always limited by a few dynamic parts of your site such as comments, newsletter registration and questionnaires but now between services like Disqus, MailChimp and Google Docs, you really don't need to pay for any of that anymore. All the dynamic parts of your site are external.

The only cost now is hosting the website at S3 and those costs are substantially lower than competitors. NearlyFreeSpeech[2] is the closest web host to S3 that I can think of and their prices for storage are $10/GB ($0.01 per megabyte month) whilst S3 starts at $0.140 per GB.
If your site gets hit incredibly heavily Amazon S3 will also handle the load transparently. If you find that your site is becoming popular in Europe or Asia than it's also supremely easy to push your site from S3 to CloudFront.

I wonder how far you can take this though? How complex a site can you set up using only static hosting and external dynamic services like Disqus, MailChimp and Docs?

[1] https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki
[2] https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/hosting

[EDIT] As TeHCrAzY said I ovestated the cost of bandwidth transfer but whilst bandwidth falls rapidly it still falls slower than S3 (at ~10TB of transfer it approaches S3's starting price). More importantly I realised I undestated the cost of storage - it's $10/GB and not $1/GB making it closer to 100 times more expensive than S3.
This is a brilliant idea. I wish I thought of it first. Its creative and gets the point across perfectly. Resumes need to be more creative and this is an amazing start!
OK, this was more fun than freaky.

It thinks I'm male (I'm a girl).

It knows about my horrible novelty YouTube habit (tons of humor/comedy/tv comedy categories). #guilty

It thinks I have pets/cats. (Nope. but given how many novelty youtube vids probably involve cats, not crazy.)

And yeah, lots of finance/tech/business categories.

For now, I'm leaving them all in and not removing.

And sidebar to those who say this isn't everything Google knows about you. You're right. But this is just about ads.

The main Privacy Dashboard for account stuff is here: http://www.google.com/dashboard
To me, this is all pretty irrelevant. The only way to reduce unemploymnent is to grow the number of jobs. Not all jobs can be open to already-employed applicants, otherwise they all couldn't be filled.

For eveyone not accepting an unemployed person, there must be someone who will, if the unemployment rate is to go down.

The simple solution if you can't get a job at your company of choice is to find someone else to employ you, and then apply at company of choice. Yes, it's more difficult, but it works better than complaining about it and expecting them to change.
> Any language that is only pure is about as useful as write-only memory.

That's actually not true -- you can write the core of a system in a pure language, then use that pure core as a library in larger applications. Pure languages like Coq and Agda are often not Turing-complete, so various sorts of verification and proofs can be applied more easily.
FF Meta is a nice typeface, but I don’t think it works especially well for math, especially the roman font, since math is typically set in the italics of some serifed face. It’s especially rough with the tracking so tight (around the '.'s there’s nowhere near enough space) and with the parentheses vertically aligned to match uppercase letters.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/lr5VW.png
In the article, there's a link to an article of what appears to be a modern day production version, combining conventional ship propulsion with a Flettner drive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Ship_1

It looks like it takes advantage of the fact that conventional ship propulsion still needs fuel and HAS wind if under way (and not travelling such that its velocity relative to its surrounding airmass is zero).

The article suggests that combining standard ship propulsion with the Flettner rotors saves fuel : "The Flettner drive allows for projected fuel savings of 30-40% at a speed of 16 knots."
Software Engineer - Vandelay Industries.
Physicists create 'anti-laser'
Interesting...it can be nice tool : )
Do you have a QR code for this app?

Market search doesn't find it for me (from the phone) and all QR codes I find on the web give me a 404.
"You're either on the bus, or off the bus."

This is a really fascinating example of a cultural phenomenon that seems to be brewing. It seems like the same kind of smart and imaginative young people who in 1965 would have been starting rock bands are now trying to create startups. Maybe in a few years from now the time will be right for Codestock Nation.
This method displays personality too often lacking in standard text-based CVs, so I like the idea of breaking the mold, but also agree with comments about not taking the idea far enough.

Facebook just recently changed the way Facebook pages operate, and you can now embed a media within an iframe. http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/462

I say keep FB (because, as you say, people will be checking for it) but throw in an intro video and some links to a CV and past work, and you'll be able to make the experience that much richer.
Australia is fast becoming a hot place to do startups
A blog post containing thoughts related to emotion in artificial intelligence and how it is more than possible. If I thought of it, you know "they" did.
Distribute equity to co-founders from day-1 or close enough to when the company has a small value. Its very legit to justify a small value of say $1000 (total share value) if you have no income and no investment yet without regard to when you incorporated. Equity comes with reverse vesting params. Each year, you vest 1/3 shares or tie vesting to hours worked, whatever fits...attach other params to taste, like "for-cause" termination, accelerated vesting for acquisition, etc. Bottom line is the shares are transferred prior to the company having much value...Whatever doesn't get vested gets sold back at the original purchase price (pennies to hundreds of dollars, small change)...tax problems gone.

I am not a lawyer. This is a summary of what a lawyer setup for a past company of mine. This stock structure worked well and passed many rounds of due diligence from subsequent investors.
I see what you are saying, but I don't agree. You are reversing the evidence in your assertions. There is no evidence that life has existed in the past on Mars. If there were, that would be fantastic, and many people believe such evidence will be forthcoming, but as of right now, there is none that is accepted in the mainstream.

As to your other point, the very fact that life on Earth has come close to extinction, and yet survived, so very many times indicates that there is an empirical (not theoretical) basis for my claim that life (in some form) tends to bounce back. The mechanism is the fact that bacterial and archael life forms live deep within insulated areas of Earth's crust and retain relatively (geologically speaking) modern genes for traits such as aerobic respiration. Survivorship bias does not imply that in some situations there are no survivors, that is a misapplication of the idea.

Now, it's certainly possible that life could be extinguished in a short geologic time span, that I don't refute. And of course, in around a billion years the sun's total radiative output will make life all but impossible on Earth's surface. But in the mean time, evidence suggests life is incredibly hardy.

I suspect, anyway, that we are talking at cross-purposes. The topic was sustainability vis a vis human activity. You rightly point out that we are not in total control, that things can go awry without our intervention. Nature is indeed a chaotic system. However, I suspect you do not disagree that we can choose to avoid certain paths that would inevitably lead to our own destruction. We probably can't avoid all of them, as we are not omniscient, but my main point is that it behooves us to think about it, and to attempt to act responsibly, not in a sense of maintaining the natural state of the world as a static equilibrium, but merely to survive as best we understand how.
When all the VCs are running around screaming there's no tech bubble, you can bet there's a tech bubble.
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Don't you run up against the minimum wage here?
I'm a a bit curious about "Apple's TextPlus" I don't think Apple has an app called TextPlus.
This post reminds me of how I "creatively" used CSS3 shadows for a job interview. One of my tasks for this interview was to mimic an overlaying drop-shadow effect from a PSD file. I couldn't figure out how to do it smoothly using transparent images, so CSS3 box shadows to the rescue!

Here is the result. The images would slide left to right as a slideshow, and the box shadows are on the borders to create the "layered" effect. The images however do indeed use real image shadows. http://i.imgur.com/0D7WQ.png
It might have been a genuine mistake - University and school are not really interchangeable terms here in the UK.
Some more background from quora: http://www.quora.com/StartupBus/What-do-people-think-of-the-...
Wow, people like Steve Jobs and Lance Armstrong are supermen. I fall apart with just a common cold. These guys can move the Earth while their bodies are failing them.

Edit

Of course, this is true regardless of the article, which I'm not sure I believe.
I think I am not going to open a Facebook account just to read it. Number one rule of resumes: don't get yours thrown in the trash unread. In the immortal words of Donald Trump "You're not hired!" Or if you prefer Paul Graham, I clicked your link, and waited for your resume to load with finger poised over the back button. If I had immediately seen some magical chalk board I might have spent a minute learning about you. But instead I got a login screen.
'Quandry' is actually spelled Quandary.
Crazy cool experience building relationships providing long-term benefit.
WordPress? Which static HTML files?
well, I do have something of an insider perspective - my startup is in this business :)

most flash sales sites will do a mix of warehousing and dropshipping depending on brand. it's faster to ship with warehousing so obviously for popular brands it's better to warehouse (your customer gets their order quicker). dropshipping has other benefits such as managing risk, but brings with it logistical problems e.g. the possibility that you could PO for stuff that doesn't exist because of a mess up earlier in the process, and then you have to explain to customers that sorry there was only 4 pairs of those shoes not 5, and you don't get yours - entirely possible when you work with a different brand (small/large companies) every day.

I can tell you that despite the lack of need for warehousing, dropshipping still brings with it many logistical problems of its own!
Apple Is Weighing a Cheaper iPhone
Not sure about most people, but I'd get motion sick after looking at a computer screen for more than 15 minutes on a bus. Wouldn't do great things for productivity.
I was trying to allude to the "This sentence is false." fiasco :)
well done. This definitely wouldn't work for most people, but it is a creative way to sell yourself as a social media guru, and I think potential employers will respond to that.
It's a cute idea, and would probably make good television, but as a programmer I've got to say I'd take my quiet office with it's few distractions over the back seat of a bus any day.
You put it much better then I could.

I feel the entire article was just linkbait. Scala and Java could be replaced with .Net 3.5 and .Net 4.0. Or C++ and F#. Or any other language pair. And it would still be sorta right, maybe, if you assume your programmers are just average, not-overly talented developers, who don't know how to compartmentalize code.
Is this serious or a joke about the latest Apple policy?
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The whole local coupon / flash sales aspect seems really easy to launch - not too much technical complexity involved etc.

Flash sale sites with real inventory are hugely complicated. E-commerce and warehouse/logistics are already a giant pain in the ass, now combine those two with millions of people all submitting orders between 12pm and 12:01pm.
I like the Facebook spin because it hints at what they want to see-- social media savvy.
I don't find the facebook login page a terribly compelling resume.
now with less blogspam

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2011/02/art-and-design-of-u...
I have to agree, have been having the same feelings about the current startup scene for the past few months.

Startups are cool!

What loser could possibly want to start a band!.
would love to see the guide, if you're inclined to share it widely...
That has no information content. Eliminating the unemployed does, assuming you believe that P(fired | low quality) > P(fired).

P(low quality | fired) = P(fired | low quality) P(low quality) / P(fired) > P(low quality)

(Since P(fired | low quality)/P(fired) > 1.)
This is a live community discussion, so we can put your webcam up on screen!

We'll be discussing recent HN topics live, and facilitating audience discussion.

Since this is broadcast on Vokle, audience members can be edited into the broadcast, so long as they have flash and a webcam.

Additionally, we take text questions.

Also, we have a much better connection than last time, so there should be fewer stream issues.
Apple founder Steve Jobs has 6 weeks to live
With applications deadlines quickly approaching, you have to submit one soon if you wish to become a part of this experiment.
Final Fantasy VII Rap... Its actually Great
Right. Why cut down on debt? If anything, you should double down and max out your credit cards 3.5 months from now.
Do you hate laugh tracks? Me too. But research shows that people think shows are funnier with the laugh track than without, even if they say they hated the laugh track.

Why is "more funny" the goal? What's wrong with just "funny"?

The social proof may be true, but so what. I would enjoy my life more if all I ate was candy and ice cream every day. For a few months, anyway...
I that resume is perfect for applying to Blackboard :) On a side note, I'd forgotten they even still make blackboards.
yeah sure: http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-wordpress-to-jekyll

it was on HN not too long ago
If the company does hire an already-employed person, isn't that person's previous employer likely to look for a replacement? If the total number of jobs increases by one, the total number of unemployed people should decrease by one. This seems like a way for one company's HR department to offload some of their work to another company's HR department. Of course, the added cost of training a new worker might mean that the previous employer does not replace the employee.
My only concern is that some of your friends have commented on the pictures, and it kinda detracts from it. (example: second picture, comment at 9:30 am) What if someone were to say something negative?
That sound you hear is the collective groan from every oversold cheapo shared hosting company owner.

Unlimited hosting for 5 bucks? How's world class with a CDN for 45 cents?
What strikes me about this is the positions he is looking at would be great with a creative thinker on board. And this shows his creativity.

It might not be as efficient as some of the other ads for being hired but it does the deal in being interesting and catching your attention. In the end, does anything else matter?
Launch at Startup Madness in Durham, NC - March 31, 2011
Seconded. Several billion of us don't use FaceBook.
What's codestock nation?
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For platforms where an older version of python is standard, can that not be worked around by using virtualenv?
What about bing? If they have better privacy, then they can use it as a selling point to capture market share. A quick google search on google vs bing privacy policy seems to favor bing. I have the disconnect chrome extension to block google tracking.
Magsafe goes up to 85W for displays and 15"/17" laptops.
Perhaps they believe that FaceBook is the Internet? Many people actually think that. I recall the days when Grandma swore that AOL was the Internet. Facebook has displaced them.
Perhaps the type of people that would employee a man of this skillset are more likely to have a facebook account than the general population. It's also not that far off to imagine that those folks would be logged in already via cookies. For that target population the user experience probably works.
Just bought a red one in Small. I'm a girl, BTW. Great work. Thanks !
It's not new. I saw Sketchup demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 12 or 13 years ago, when I first heard about Maya too. At the time I thought Sketchup-style UI would take over the industry. Possibly it hasn't because of this:

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6628279
1995 tech bubble: spend all your VC on Aeron chairs

2011 tech bubble: spend all your VC on a bus that goes back and forth across the country
Anyone who is familiar with the term "gruntle."
Who cares? So one guy posts his code to the Internet for people to look at, and there are a lot of one guys. What's the solution to this "problem"?
The naysayers below aren't part of your target audience. As someone who is, I think it's brilliant.
So Kitt would have to be a software patent then?
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you probably aren't his target market.
The Age of the Educated Musician - Interview with D.P.
Indian Company Plugs Gap In Google’s Enterprise Solution
Fair enough. One of the surprising ones to me was that obesity is a leading, preventable causes of cancer. More are documented at http://www.canceriq.org/causes.html

I need to go to McDonalds less :)
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