skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quora Investor Scoffs At $1 Billion Offer Price
Principles of the Same-Origin Policy
Only in two-party states. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#Two-pa...

In any other state, if you (as the recorder) are aware that you are being recorded (ie, you're recording your own conversation with someone else), it's legal.
Networking.

I live in SF and go to tech events/parties, but I rarely feel like I'm getting the most out of them. Large events and events not focused on mingling (presentations, conferences) are tough for me to crack. I often don't meet anyone at those events.

'Getting the most out of them' being meeting interesting folks with whom I can work on side projects with or generally clicking professionally.

So far my solution is putting in solid effort chatting people up at at least one small, focused event a week and attempting to chat folks up at a larger one once a month. I'm finding having a current side project is helping the conversations along.
Pittsburgh's 1985 win (in the middle of the steel industry collapse) prompted a lengthy screed about how cumulative ratings are assembled from a UW psychology prof:
http://www.briem.com/files/Loftus1985.pdf

Pittsburgh keeps winning most livable city awards today for the same reasons it won in 1985: it's a city that rates good or very good in everything and bad in almost nothing.
I briefly worked at Winamp shortly after they were acquired by AOL.

They did this, but took it to another level and kind of tortured the incumbent manager assigned to supervise them. It was the only time in my career I have ever seen a grown man cry at work.
I was just thinking about this yesterday. Looks like you've built a really cool service. I'll definitely check it out!
Check this post from Joel Spolsky
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BetaTest.html

It's more focused on desktop apps, but it has good insights
>But according to the graph, Toy Story 3 was the least polarizing movie of 2010 and that seems like a prime example of a movie "safely" manufactured for an existing fanbase.

I think this is likely due to that fact that Toy Story 3 was superior to Toy Story 2, leaving people pleasantly surprised.

(It is actually unexpectedly complex. The first scene features the toys calmly discussing and preparing for their own deaths. It's quite stark.)
I get the "continue" button, not a download button, and it asks to verify my windows.
SSD's can't handle the amount of writes github tosses at them.
Apple to roll out retail-based ‘Joint Venture’ (Genius access via phone/at home)
World Science Festival Video
Launched today, WSFtv is the video platform for the World Science Festival. Tons of great video featuring a who's who of science.
Redis Twitter Clone Example - Speed Improvement.
Disputed "hang nail" treatment for multiple sclerosis
Contribute to your 401k through your employer up to the match level, and open a Roth 401k to contribute an additional $5k/year there. Build up 6-12 months of emergency fund savings. Max your traditional 401k to $16,500 per year. Invest in "target year" low cost/fee mutual funds to get started.
A year and a half ago I was working on a python realtime push server I'd serendipitously code named Cyclone. It was an alternative to having to use twisted or Orbited and I was super excited about it.

Then one morning I woke up to this http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/facebook-open-sources-frien...

I got drunk that night and whined a whole bunch feeling that my work was wasted, but the next day I dug into their code and was really excited. It was a much better implementation saving me a ton of time and I've been happy using it ever since.
I take it you work in an industry that is highly competitive. In my experience two weeks straight (ten work days with remote log-in for meetings) is standard.

It really depends on if the expectant mom has family in the neighborhood or willing to spend time. The first six weeks are really, really tough for everyone (baby included). Good luck, sleep when the baby sleeps and practice wrapping burritos. Trust me. You will need this experience when it comes time to wrap the little person in swaddling cloth.
Well, TBH, Win7 is really Vista SP4.
I knew exactly what your site offered and how to use it in the first 5 seconds. Awesome job, nice info layout.
My advice is based on the assumption that you are not having the child yourself and you'll have parents/in-laws/family visiting for a period of time to help out.

- Take up to a week as soon as the baby is born. You'll need time to recuperate from the delivery and get used to having the baby in the house. You'll find however, the first few weeks are easier than you expect: You have family around to help out and for the first few weeks, newborns sleep more and fuss much less than they will in about 3 weeks to a month.

- Save the rest of your time off for when your family leaves. This is the best advice I can give any soon to be parent. Firstly, with the family gone, you'll have to deal with the baby on your own for the first time, and it becomes much more of an ordeal with only two people (and one of those people still recovering from delivery.) Secondly, in a cruel trick of nature, typically around the time your family leaves you alone, the baby starts to become much more active and goes for shorter periods between feeding. Unless you are really lucky (your baby sleeps for longer than 2-3 hours or the mom agrees to do all night work and you're able to sleep through it) you will not be getting very much sleep, and it will take some time to get used to being so sleep deprived.

It may sound like strange advice, but you're far better off taking the lions share of the time off a month after the baby comes. The mom will appreciate the support you'll be able to give in the most difficult period of new parenthood. If you take all the time off up front it will probably wind up harder on your family.
The Real World Myth – The tale of two realities
You are here assuming that this source will bring enough traffic to be your only source? Otherwise, you'll need to advertise in many sites and at that time the price makes a difference.
VMware at Mobile World Congress 2011
Look at what makes you different. The twitter integration is brilliant, it means you can have much faster, realtime conversations bouncing off twitter. That's your angle.

Make the 'Share on Twitter' button more... meaningful. What it really does is open up a chat room for all your twitter followers to join.
I don't want to 'Share' it, I want to open my chatroom up to the world on twitter. Not sure how to word that :)

Can you imagine celebrities getting on board with this? It's perfect. 50 Cent would love this, celebs of that ilk on twitter already spend much of their time bantering with fans and this allows them to do it faster. You just need ONE of those twitter celebs to tweet a link to their chatroom and you've got yourself 10,000 new users.

It's twitpic for chatrooms.

Promote it to celebrity tweeps, hard.
His last post claims now, as of 1st feb, it has REPL, and direct dll loading, a bit interesting to me...
Just want to share something for newbies in Spring like me
So does Python.
There is virtually no reason not to apply, aside from the time-cost of filling out the application and recording a video. Go for it!
instantwatcher.com does a good job of indexing new and popular streaming titles on Netflix, if you haven't already heard of it or something similar.
Same here.

Then I discovered Windows 7 and switched back to PC.
A Different Way Of Viewing Things
Interning at the Eureka Ranch this past summer (eurekaranch.com), one of the key things they taught us was that through quantity you can often find quality. By coming up with as many descriptions of your company in as many ways as you can, you'll eventually focus in on what really hits you as right, even if you write down 10000 wrong ones on the way there.

Personally, I particularly like the concept of Kaizen (continuous improvement) when reading this post- this seems like essentially what your company is allowing people to do for their knowledge/brain. You could go for the whole stay competitive/stay ahead of the competition/professional-personal development deal, but eh. When everyone says the same thing it sorta loses its appeal.

I'd been toying with a somewhat similar idea in the past and wish you the best of luck with it. Knowledge transfer should be one of the most important industries in the future. When I was looking into it I'd found some that offer a similar idea, but for professors to post research articles about the areas they're interested in. The name escapes me, but if you poke around and are able to find them that may give you some ideas as well.

These are all more tagline type things, but maybe they'll spark some ideas:
'User generated Kaizen for your brain'
'Community created continuous knowledge improvement'
'User generated continuous skill improvement'
'Professionally generated Kaizen for your brain'
'A professional community designed to allow you to continuously improve your (programming/designing?) knowledge /skills'
I don't know about D.C. or Detroit, but here is my instance of the class "Pittsburgh":

85 year 2000 sq. ft brick house on 1/4 acre. 4 BR, 2 ba, 2 car garage. Totally gutted and modernized. 3 miles from downtown, 1 mile from Oakland (Carnegie-Mellon, Pitt, Carnegie Museum/Library, Schenley Park). Walkability index 92. Within one hour flying and 8 hours driving of 50% of the U.S. population. $160K. Same house in Miami: $500K. Same house in California: 7 figures + first born.

4 distinct seasons, but some people still don't like the weather. I prefer these thoughts:

"Everybody complains about the weather but no one does anything about it." - Mark Twain

(Looking at gray sky) "What a beautiful day, Herman!" - Lily Munster
One strategy would be to initially continue to offer it as a "private beta", while allowing X invites to each existing user to expand the beta userbase.
Polarization is a measure of the assertiveness of an artist.. the degree to which they have executed an opinionated concept for a specific audience.

A niche film should be as highly opinionated as possible, with the objective of both catering to your chosen market and excluding all others intentionally.

For example, the musical act Prodigy do not do TV performances. This is a mainstream marketing method that does not appeal to their audience. By avoiding it, they increase their appeal to their true fans, while ignoring uninterested listeners. Likewise, the singer Adele does not perform at music festivals for the same reason.

The ideal niche product would repel exactly half the critics and attract the other half. This would create a core of hardcore evangelists, a bigger group of fans, a big group of uninterested bystanders and a small group of haters. The haters and bystanders can mostly be ignored, making marketing super-efficient.

Lack of polarization is a measure of beauty and popularity. Beauty is a measure of average-ness and normality. The most beautiful person in a given society is the one that looks the most an average of all the people. The most popular movie is the one that everyone can relate to.. the most profoundly average.

Case in point.. the Shawshank Redemption. This is a movie that is consistently voted one of the best ever made, but it's highly rated because of its familiarity. It's a near flawless execution of common mythologies that everyone can relate to: fall from grace, redemption, justice, freedom and so on.

Toy Story is another example. Pixar's entire methodology is to distill the world's archetypes and mythologies down into the "perfect" movie with every "i" dotted and every "t" crossed. The result is profoundly familiar, yet kept fresh with just enough plot twists and humour to keep it interesting.

Niche movies are just popular movies for specific groups instead of a general audience. Polarization is a measure of how effectively they achieved the goal.
I'd appreciate a denewbified Aero theme myself--less 'roundy' and 'bubbly' and more slick.
YC has funded competitors before, most notably Etacts vs Rapportive, but also Adioso vs Hipmunk.
That's an interesting insight. In New York, there seems to be an increasing trend that values both product (design) and engineering.
A few thoughts:

- Just a quick thing on the hosting: If Mashable is planning on covering you, you may want to invest in a dedicated / cloud server, and just downgrade later once the traffic wears off. I'm guessing that other blogs will write posts based on Mashable's recommendation, so your virtual server may not be able to handle it...

- One other thing on your homepage: Consider putting a call to action right in the center of your picture, saying something like "Get started now" or something like that.

- Take a look here to see what they did with their image in their A/B test: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/how-to-...

- On the page with the live map, maybe have a popup / overlay after a few seconds that says something like "Connect with Facebook to see your friend map."

- Do you have any viral sharing features in there?

- You should try and make sure your site can convert before Mashable writes their article. It would also be good if it could be shared / spread virally somehow.

- Also, by "keep him updated," I don't think he meant that he was looking for increased traffic, he's looking for a story. You guys getting more traffic probably isn't the most interesting story in the world.

- Are you able to add something new and even cooler to it for later this week? If so, that could be your story.

Sorry that this comment is a bit of a mess. Hopefully this makes sense, and helps you some how.
Maybe if there is so much itching going on you should make a niche site regarding skin disorders...
A lot of these are a function of management changes.

One regime excitedly acquires a startup. Shortly after, the large company's CEO is canned. The new CEO cleans house and brings in a new management team with a different vision. Startup's product is no longer a priority.
I ran it for Javascript, Ruby, and Perl, and I got this:

{"JavaScript"=>48, "Ruby"=>46, "Perl"=>28}
They forgot MusicMatch in 2007, there was a company that was on track to be iTunes became, except it ended up not going there.
I'm still baffled by the lack of a camera on the first gen iPad. I'm sure there must have been a good reason for leaving it out but it seems like such a no brainer. It's pretty disappointing since there are a bunch of iPad apps I'd like to write that would require a camera but I don't want to release something that only works on the new ones.
http://dropbox.jedsmith.org/graph.png
I don't think you have to be cruel about it, that's too bad.
While not quite a legal requirement, at the last company I worked for the timesheet was described as something like: If we don't give the government timesheets, they don't pay us our salaries.

The one before that said the timesheets were used to do reporting for R&D grants from the government.
Build your Wi-Fi app from an out-of-the-box Wi-Fi module?
Here's an idea for your next YC app: If any of you are thinking about building devices based on hardware, consider using an out-of-the-box Wi-Fi module from GainSpan. Unlike most Wi-Fi modules and chips you see in the market today, GainSpan has optimized their chips and modules for low data-rate, low-bandwidth devices. Think Wi-Fi thermostats, Wi-Fi blood pressure monitors, Wi-Fi enabled treadmills, etc. Note that these applications are the ones that can leverage internet connectivity for monitoring data and controlling some data parameters. There are tons of possibilities for apps that can come out of these modules.
http://www.simplyhired.com/job-id/6sgp7rljfw/sr-systems-jobs...

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sad/2218415377.html
Seeing as these are not major notable changes, what seems most likely?

1) They released a SP as a milestone because it was 'about time'

2) They released a SP as a rollup to bring everyone to the same page

3) They need to push the HDMI audio updates extra hard...?
Totally true. The hardest part of the whole process is cutting features out. For me, I imagine that our sink is shipping and we just have to throw things overboard to stay afloat just a little longer. This allows us to throw things out that aren't exceptionally vital for the product.

The funny thing is that once you throw out the feature that you really really thought you needed, you actually don't even think about it anymore. Strange how that works.
I found investments in the same space but not direct competitors

Thanks!
To be fair, some of those are hysterical.

In particular:

# no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
# no. fuck no. I am a fucking
# moron.

I think it's the punctuation. It's like angry japanese poetry.
Show HN: Cyberspace — an iOS browser that fits in your workflow
I posted about my Cyberspace web browser back in November, and received tons of helpful feedback from HN users. My third release is out today, and I'd love to hear your take on it: http://cyberspaceapp.com

If you haven't heard about Cyberspace, and don't bother to open the aforementioned link, here is a rough idea of what it does:

1/ Cyberspace is built for easy reading on mobile devices, with ad blocking enabled by default, text-only mode, Readability bookmarklet support, and shutup.css integration to hide most non-sensical comments you may encounter.

2/ Cyberspace aims to fit into your workflow. If you use any of these services, you'll feel right at home: Instapaper, Read It Later, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Posterous, Delicious, Pinboard, Zootool, Evernote, and Google Reader. Sharing any content to such services takes no effort, be it links, images or text.

Don't like to share things? You're welcome to use the built-in scratchpad to store notes and ideas collected when you're browsing. Even TextExpander and Markdown syntax support are included so that you can quickly jot stuff down.

Use OmniFocus, Pastebot and/or Delibar? Cyberspace supports sending content to them, too.

3/ Cyberspace is COOL. DuckDuckGo is its default search engine, and Cyberspace automatically gives you !bang syntax suggestions as you type your address. You can also tap-and-hold any text and select Learn more to get Zero-click info from DuckDuckGo.

Cyberspace uses tags to manage your bookmarks. Import your Delicious or Pinboard bookmarks into the app and it will let you browse everything by tags. Oh, and you can tap-and-hold on any bookmarklet to add it to your Bookmarks, too.

If you have an Instapaper subscription account, you can access your unread items right within Cyberspace.

Cyberspace is also the first web browser comes with full TextExpander support and 'Bump to share' feature to quickly share links between your iOS devices.

4/...

5/...

The feature list goes on and on. If you're interested and make it this far, check out my app site: http://cyberspaceapp.com

Feedback is always welcome!
Thanks for the info!

flot is what I settled on, too, but performance with a lot of datapoints was not so great. Maybe it was just too much data. Also, the timeline view was really annoying, but JS' Date function are to blame for that. But with Flash out of the question and Raphael even slower, I suppose it's the best option for now.
Now THIS is interesting. Seriously? Do you know where the fat was cut?
Nose Works Like a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Yes, I am asking about a normal download link. I really don't get why they continue, years after Mr. Gates's memo, to make it so hard to download anything. The OS checks its validity, why worry about the updates?
Thanks so much this all makes sense! We were on the phone with GoDaddy and Rackspace at the same time last night trying to figure out our options and we think we will probably go with Rackspace if we get published.

RE call to action - will do, will implement that tonight. But what do you mean by adding a connect to facebook to see your friend map on a live map? While your own one is loading? Also awesome article! Very helpful.

RE viral sharing features - what do you mean by that? We tried adding share buttons with fb,twitter, and stumble upon on every page. But is there more you know we could easily do?

RE Cooler features/making a story - If not big traffic, maybe something tremendous will happen? We will keep our heads on the grind stone and try to think of something that could possibly make it even cooler. If you have suggestions though, we'd be glad to take them :)
So true. I think the overarching problem with that scenario is that the engineer is building the product for himself, and not for the team and end users. Rather than caring about what's best for the product, he/she thinks about his personal ego.
Perhaps 'anyone but Cisco'. There is a company that has more successfully than most integrated a number of companies into its structucture. Perhaps the most amazing (for me at least) is Linksys, which I predicted would result in an epic failure and yet their market share, and competitiveness has recovered after the post acquisition noise.

I'd love to hear a Cisco Exec's opinion on their secret.
In the past couple years Apple has shown a much better ability at predicting what the market demands than random internet commentators. I don't think their thought process for the iPad was "big iPhone 3," as they changed many applications. The iPad 2 may share many features with the iPhone 4 because Apple now has the knowledge to execute those features and the technology is now mature, but the reasoning wouldn't be to "make a bigger version of the iPhone 4."
"... The sting is even worse when you have invested time and resources already. The idea may be “worthless”, but it sure doesn’t seem that way when its YOUR idea. ..."

And you give up so easy?

First understand why determination is important ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html There are also multiple suggestions on how to generate ideas worth working on found in these articles:

- http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html

- http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html
The big reason a lot of stores do this is so that, if you pay cash (highly likely if item is $0.99), the cashier will have to give you the one penny of change. This means he has to open the register and thus the transaction is logged. If he price is $1, you hand him the dollar and walk away, he pockets it. Basically it's a simple tool to have the customers police the employees. Most theft in retail is employees.
Ask away. I'm female. I also need guys' opinions for my current app and would be happy to make the trade :)
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EFACTOR iPHONE APP LaunchES WORLDWIDE
EFactor, the world’s largest entrepreneurial community, has released an iPhone App to connect entrepreneurs worldwide. Its features include: Now Feed, One-Click Network, a list of EFactor events and EFactor message box. EFactor is a vibrant online community and virtual marketplace designed for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.

Do you find EFactor's iPhone App useful for your business or startup?
http://ycombinator.com/faq.html

Will you fund multiple startups working on the same idea?

Yes. If you fund as many companies as we do it's unavoidable you'll end up with some overlap. Even if you tried not to accept competing companies, you'd still get overlap because startups' ideas morph so much. The way we deal with it is that when two startups are working on related stuff, we don't talk to one about what the other's doing.

In practice it has not turned out to be a problem, because most big markets have room for several slightly different solutions, and it's unlikely that two startups would do precisely the same thing.
When Delicious was acquired, we desperately needed inverted indexes, which yahoo (eventually, slowly, painfully) did actually provide.

I do find the "there's no business model" talk in the comments pretty annoying. Of course we had one.
Twitter Puts the Smack Down on Another App: Whither Twitter as a Platform?
Yeah. This will only work against bot which fill everything with garbage and submit the form, but there are much simpler way to achieve this.