skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were me? I likely would have EOL'ed those FreeBSD boxes a long time ago. Customers, even the life timers, should not have been given a choice. Why?

Textdrive promised lifetime hosting. Where does it say they promised hosting on the same box for that entire lifetime? TxD/Joyent has been gracious to provide hosting on their new platform.

One could argue that the 'lifetime' was referring to the actual box, and if the downtime is increasing, the lifetime of the server is ending.

I say pull the plug and force the migration. Granted, it could be a small PR hit.
Monk lied to me? Are you saying Monk lied to me?
I must have missed the current common language "philosophies", at least what concerns their opposition to focus on stability ... what are these? Can I avoid them?
When I first saw Groupon coming up, it reminded me of a program I implemented at a Clear Channel Radio radio market.

Clear Channel Radio corporate was pushing this "weekly deals" idea to push online ad revenue. The whole idea was remarkably similar to Groupon and this article.

Our sales team would make deals with clients to provide something like 100 $50 gift certificates. The group of radio stations would then advertise and promote the deal using a combination of promotional and advertising airtime on the stations for an entire week until the deal was "on" at a certain day and time. When the deal was "on" station listeners could buy the $50 gift certificates for $25.

We had some spas, some restaurants, etc. It never ended up working out all that well as the businesses realized they were loosing money as they were buying a very short advertising campaign that would have limited reach and impact.

The idea of Groupon isn't new. They just had the genius idea of bringing it all online and with massive reach.
I'm not sure yet in which direction I should move it, but I wanted an app which allows to quickly post and find geo-located ads and messages divided by topics.
Counting "Nobel prizes" can go a long way[1]: if somebody was on a ship from Stockholm, and would be smart enough to win several Nobel prizes (on poker from drunk passengers)?

[1] actually, it is from a novel https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Rejto_Jeno
I got scared for a second and thought that the headline referred to Tungsten.
It's pretty much a requirement that the conference be run in the same city as the organizers. It's a huge headache to try to coordinate something like that when you're not local.
Angry Birds Shopify Store Sells 2 Million Plush Toys
"... In 2010, with the U.S. economy still wounded and U.S. consumers still wary, cash-rich investors often looked west: All the big returns were in Singapore or Hong Kong or Silicon Valley, they said, so they put their money into hot social-media start-ups and emerging economies. ..."

Buffet buys into (relatively) 'fuel efficient' bulk transport system, trains. Is the sudden increase in startup funding explained here?
Just an FYI to those who haven't seen it in print: "How to Get Good at Making Money" is the cover-line we used for the hard-copy.
Not too long ago I've written some simple CAPTCHA service with Node.js, node-redis and node-canvas. It was a simple application that generated a word from a specific grammar, saved it to Redis for further reference and returned a PNG.

While being ridiculously fast it leaked memory like crazy. So I've found that there were almost no debugging tools (except for old good gdb) to find out what was going on. (I've heard that there are some changes like `node debug`, though. Should dig the archives and try code with latest Node version.)

I believe this was an inherent consequence of JavaScript and V8 being tailored to short-lifetime (milliseconds of DOM operations, then lazy waiting for events to fire) applications with low amount of events (user in-browser activity).
Lesson to learn here: an idea is just an idea. It's all about execution.

I also had the idea, I'm sure Jeff Bezos has had the idea, Tony Hsieh, Nike execs...

Point is these guys delivered. The single greatest lesson any entrepreneur can learn.
The Football War
Right, I realize they reversed the cut after iBooks came out. But so now it's 30%, just like Apple.
Pardon the non-hacker entry - it was just too good to not share.
Google takes all of AdWords, since it's on their own site. They take a 32% cut of AdSense.

The thing is, advertisers could use other channels to put ads up on the web. They can advertise with Chitika or whatever and get a bigger cut than they would with Google. They typically don't, because AdSense adds a lot of value by targeting the ads well. On the other hand, if you want to sell software on an iOS device, the only way is through the app store. Apple doesn't need to add any value to protect their 30% cut from competition because they don't allow competitors.
How Steve Jobs missed knighthood in 2009
It's funny because as I started to read this, my first thought was "I'm so thankful that nobody says dub dub dub anymore." My second thought was "I thought this was going to be about how difficult capital W is in deciding character limits since it's so damn wide."
Idea to Reality in 3 weeks
This is backed up by medical knowledge. It has been repeatedly shown that metabolism varies very little between people when corrected for body mass. What does vary considerably is appetite, and this is the major contributor to body weight.
Sort of reminiscent of squinting to see when you don't have your glasses.
Life After Twitter: What happens when you stop using Twitter
From the article, on going to college: "The way it works in Israel, you have to go to the army first"

I wonder how much this impacts the entrepreneurial mindset in male youth. I grew up mostly in Singapore, and they too have conscription upon reaching the age of 18 (with some exceptions, eg: for medicine and for national scholarship holders). From what I see from my friends' facebook channels, it's definitely a draining experience indeed, one that takes months to recover from once its done.

But Kudos to this guy! Greplin is pretty awesome and I've already put it to use.
I was added to a Facebook group.

It's something I'm only peripherally interested in.

It generates way to much content. It seems like a step toward Facebook becoming more spammy than it was.

I agree that Facebook understands the need to segment and the need to not be spammy. But suspect Facebook is still going to be drawn down that road because it has only a limited amount of things it can do make/keep the site interesting - aside from the impetus for public-for-advertising stuff.
Any idea where you will end up, and what you'll be doing?
What a place to be in. I would suggest you look outside of the Western World namely Central and South America. I'm a commercial broker and that's where I'm putting my money.
This is the point that I think will make the difference. It's not like Microsoft has trademarked 'Operating System'; they're using a generic word in a specific context. Likewise for Blackberry, Android, Twitter, etc.
This is important exercise. I was involved with startup that was ad based for revenue. On paper, you can make the numbers add up and everything looks good. Knowing what numbers you need to hit is important. The hard part is getting the 104,167 visitors. Saying 'all we need is 0.01% of facebook users and we are rich' is not addressing the situation.

How are you going to attract visitors?

That said, you've already made it this far which is a great firs step. Good luck.
Excellent thanks, shall be applying this to all my Gawker feeds.
(I think) you're starting with the flawed assumption of what "the" stack is, while functional languages like Haskell have a stack, it is very different from the stack as you may now it in C, so the optimization issues are different too. The assembly of functional calls in functional languages can be a lot more lightweight then in for example C.
I remember when that project was just starting out many years ago. They have come a very long way since then.
In that case, W pronounced "double ewe" does include the sound it makes.
I would hardly call window.prompt and document.write i/o since they never hit disk or network (to over-simplify). They're more like manipulating an object in memory.

For real i/o in JavaScript, look at AJAX: Callback based.
License plate-based social network Bump.com raises more than $1M
Do it. Seriously. I want to see that meme.
Could you also do the opposite: Take bulky feeds (e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/tedblog) and truncate them; showing title & first para & include a link? I use RSS primarily to scan what is available and mark some for later reading, and bulky feeds interrupt the scanning process.
Interesting to hear.

I think some of the difficulties I've had in these type of projects stems from the customer not knowing where they want things to go / not having thought things through.

In this situation they seem eager to bounce ideas, which is great, but once those new ideas start affecting deadlines and budgets, the relationship can get tense.
I'm going to start saying "World Wide Web"
I solved all of them in 30 min. using Python. Since it's brute force it's not that hard.
The Marketing of No Marketing
Steve Jobs has already commented, in an email, that this isn't meant for SaaS apps:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/21/steve-jobs-email-suggest...
Apple have done a great job of undermining their impending iPad 2 launch. I was on board for buying one (or the iPad 3), until the 30% subscription debacle ensued.
But if you'd like Amazon to make a concession as large as this, surely Apple should be asked to make a few concessions too?

Both companies sell IP - and both rely on a various forms of DRM to enforce scarcity. I think selling IP will eventually be seen as a fruitless (and unsustainable) pursuit - but for the time being this is a way both these companies are making a profit selling digital goods.
Alright, 5x. I wasn't considering that the $ was so weak.

Same difference.
Nice, this will come in very useful for an RSS-based project I'm working on too. Hopefully I won't slam your servers too hard. Are you considering making the source available?
Whoa, same here. Got disillusioned with academic physics in college (though astronomers are cool). Been working through Haskell's Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours tutorial. There must be a few dozen of us.
I had a pretty different experience, I been to Japan probably around 7 times over last 10 years. Last couple times (within last 2 years) IPhone became big, but.. many people actually own 2 phones if they have iphone. I think huge reason is that in packed subway you want to be able to type with one hand. Other stuff like TV etc is also quite important.
Well, we do know about Costco dropping Coca-Cola and Apple because Costco wasn't satisfied with the terms they were getting. They came to an agreement with Coke but Apple products are still gone.

If you're a retailer willing to drop Coca-Cola, we can pretty much assume you're a strong-willed company. Whether that leads to triumphs of principle over practicality or displays of pettiness is, I'd say, a matter of perspective.
I just noticed the mark on the tiles, looks like http://www.o.cn/ are responsible

it looks by the detail that this is all hand drawn, its very very well done
Marketing for startups: what is marketing?
it's not mine, it's a project a friend threw together over the weekend. It's on a shared host, but I'm trying to help light the server on fire so he puts it on something more heavy duty. :)
Or just send the Kindle over to Cydia.
Makes me want to restart my 5th attempt at a Clojure project.
Yep, we felt that when you book an hotel you need to be able to easily compare two result sets. So that's why we made it easy to toggle amenities on and off and instantly see the result on the map.
I've always Stephen Fry's solution: "wuh wuh wuh", or simply say the whole thing, "world wide web". 3 syllables either way.
>>I used to be a big fan of Gruber, but I'm getting increasingly tired of his "defend Apple at all costs" mentality.

Contains a claim that Gruber's mentality is to defend Apple at all costs. Since Gruber does not do this in the post, it is a false claim.

This claim is used to lend credence to the idea that Gruber is in fact misrepresenting his feelings about Microsoft since the situation presented would force Gruber, with the presumption that he defends Apple at all costs, to say otherwise than what he said he would say. Except that the premise is false.

All of this makes you wonder why OP would single out this point to begin with since it's the least salient to the thrust of the article. This makes OP's point something of a straw man and character attack.
The text mentions World War II, so it’s clear from context who was running Germany at the time.

Germany was still Germany during the Holocaust, just as the United States was still the United States when it was committing genocide against Native Americans, Belgium was still Belgium when it was responsible for atrocities in the Congo, etc., etc.
If this works as advertised, it's a killer app for the on-line apparel industry.

I've had customers with consistent 60-70% return rates on footwear. It got so bad that customers would buy 3 sizes of the same shoe, planning to keep the best fitting pair and returning the other 2. They'd rather eat double shipping than go back and forth 2 or 3 times. The overhead from processing and restocking the returns consumed all their profit, but they had to keep the footwear to complete their product lines. This would have been great.
He seems to be making the case that a business model that insists that there is no difference between sharing and piracy is not likely to succeed long term.
that's a good idea. I will bring it up to him.
Virtual Ping Pong Tournament Pits Media Giants Against Each Other for Charity
Dear downvoter, in case it wasn't clear, the IEEE and ACM both have elected officials. I was suggesting he run for office within the IEEE or ACM, not for public office. Thanks.
If she didn't have the right genes to go with her hard work she wouldn't get anywhere either.
I usually try to fit everything in during the week and spend time with my friends on the weekends. It's been working out pretty well for me for the last couple of years.
Lisp macro addiction
Any links to a landing page?
I wonder what sort of achievements/successes this social network has achieved. Cool concept - just not too sure whether it has the potential to grow.
Krugman: Trains and Freedom
Matt mentions that in his write-up, but then mentions that the IEEE is changing its status of allowing uploads on author's pages:

Some time in January, the IEEE apparently quietly revised its copyright policy to explicitly forbid us authors from sharing the "final" versions of our papers on the web
And there's plenty of third-party development already happening:

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules
Why do a couple of articles in that feed say either "Unable to parse this page for content" (daringfireball.net) or "unable to retrieve full-text content" (nytimes.com)?
Being in the middle of fund-raising right now, I can't say enough how much I appreciate their approach to timeliness and giving direct responses to where you stand.
Intelligent app search and discovery startup is looking for a business development person and a UI designer.
http://iApps.in/jobs
Computing Technology Develops Emotional Input and Response
Going Global Video: VCs, CEOs & Entrepreneurs provide Tips & Best Practices
The Pros And Cons Of Facebook Comments
Internet Explorer share surges, Firefox wanes based on new CIA data
I'm 15. I just got covered on Mashable and TNW
Hi, you may have seen some of my other posts about my new project http://5factsabout.me

I submitted a release to TNW an hour ago and within 20 minutes it was on their site. http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/03/02/15-year-old-creates-viral-true-or-false-questions-app-fivefactsaboutme/

Another 20 minutes.. it's on Mashable. http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/find-out-how-well-your-friends-know-you-with-fivefactsaboutme/

I'm pretty amazed at myself at the moment. If you've got any questions I'm here to answer them. Well until midnight GMT, then it's time for some sleep.
The startup incubator I work for in Beverly Hills is looking for an intern. They posted the listing below on craigslist a few days ago, so email job-5k6be-2228641808@craigslist.org if interested and in the subject line include Hacker News.
--- http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/bus/2228641808.html

Curious Minds brainstorms business ideas with the potential to shake up the status quo. As a technology incubator, we whittle sophisticated algorithms into simple, intuitive solutions. Our businesses have landed partnerships with Fortune 500 companies and nationwide press from ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR, Fox TV, KCAL 9, Good Morning America, CNET, Esquire, and USA Today.

We’re seeking an assistant to perform routine business development tasks. You should be tech-savvy, outgoing, and eager to get the job done.

Responsibilities:
- Transfer data from online databases into spreadsheets
- Actively seek new accounts through cold calls, emails, and faxes
- Research and write answers to support healthcare technology projects
- Resolve issues throughout the project cycle
- Develop new marketing collateral
- Write emails

Qualifications:
- Consistent, reliable, hardworking (e.g. we can count on you to show up and produce accurate work)
- Superior organizational and time-management skills
- Good writing and communication skills
- Ability to adapt in a rapidly-evolving entrepreneurial environment
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Benefits:
- This is a paid (hourly) internship
- Has the potential to develop into a full-time position as an early employee in the company
- Exciting work environment that serves as an entrepreneurial training ground
- Assist in driving and managing one of the fastest-growing startups
- Kitchen filled to the brim with delicacies
- Beautiful office in the middle of Beverly Hills
Yeah, 104,167k visitors a month to make $100k/year.

To make a million/year, you now need more than a million visitors a month.

Ad based models (solely) are tough.
Venture Capital’s Biggest Fear
...look at all the Peace in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pre-emptive war along with a pre-emptive prize. How encouraging for peace.
Even now, to get Amazon's cut down to 30% you need to agree to a list of restrictions about pricing and availability that are favourable to Amazon.
interesting project. I was doing a similar thing with yahoo pipes, but it got blocked because of robots.txt.
What do you do about it?
OS X Lion Interface Tweaks
I am not very knowledgeable about Clojure, so I would not be attending anyway.

But from what I know about Rich Hickey, and the language specs he designed for Clojure, and the HDD and other talks he has given, I would be extremely happy to be able to attend Clojure Conj.

I may be a bit of a homer -- most of my family members are still in VA/NC and it is rare that a conference for a respectable new language would ever happen in Durham.

Obviously Rich has a reason for it, I don't know if he lives near there...but I would expect that Clojure Conj would be 1000X less self-absorbed, and anyone who would lower themselves to travel to Durham might be more interested in the language and the author's views than the hype on HN.
Nomad Editions - New York (sorry remote not an option for this role)
http://readnomad.com

Developer for Digital Magazine Startup

Nomad Editions, a startup creating digital weeklies for mobile devices, is looking for an awesome web-standards focused HTML/CSS/JS developer to help build our content on top of Treesaver (treesaver.net), one of the most exciting new open source frameworks for digital news and magazine publishing.
The developer will be responsible for taking wireframes and translating them into standards-compliant web pages in Treesaver.

We're seeking: - Expertise in standards-based web development with HTML/CSS/JS - Experience with source control (Git or SVN) - Ideal candidate would also have design skills - Interest in working with a very exciting company doing something no one else in the digital publishing industry is doing: making digital content look amazing everywhere

If you're interested or have questions, please e-mail Martha Rotter at mrotter@readnomad.com
HP derides BlackBerry PlayBook OS as a 'fast imitation' of webOS
High Tech Heroes: Heinz von Foerster
I have published in ACM and IEEE conferences, as well as had an article in IEEE Computer. The experiences are very different. The conference paper was all us - formatting, editing, everything. The article in Computer we had multiple iterations with a professional editor whose job was to maintain a consistent "voice" throughout the publication.
What's he using to pull out the articles? I had a hacky version set up using the Readability algorithm but never bothered to make it public.
Does this work for anybody? I've plugged in 3 feeds, one was "unable to retrieve full-text content" (an sfgate.com feed) and the other two returned nothing at all in the preview (one a feed from kqed.org, the other an older wordpress blog).
I found it pretty hilarious when Gruber quoted Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Gruber owes his good fortunes to being the premier Apple shill, and no amount of logic, reasoning, facts or ethics is going to change that.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/02/23/dhh-it-dept
So what do I do? I'm good with programming, I know nothing about SEO. Shoot.
It's worth remembering that Hollywood was created (as a movie making center) to escape the suffocating regulatory environment created by Edison on the East coast (specifically the Motion Picture Patents Company).

This debate isn't helped by demagogues on either side pedaling excluded middle fallacies. The future lies somewhere in the middle, not in either extreme.
it's still just a weekend project, but if everyone keeps throwing love at it like this, it might be more than a weekend project. he's working on it now. :)
PS3 imports banned in patent row
WHAT! this isnt about Bush!??? but but but.... everyone knows he was harmful!
Funny, I just added sfgate too and it worked for me: fulltextrssfeed.com/www.sfgate.com/rss/feeds/news.xml
works for me. did you test out the default CNN feed? does that work?
Not necessarily, as a counter argument consider some of the giants such as Michael Faraday (physics and chemistry) and Bernhard Riemann (Mathematician), who were born into poverty and later in life had many conflicts with the people that would be considered elitist. (Especially when the elitist believe that they were better and that people such as the son of a black smith should stay away (a crude summary of some conflicts in Faraday's life). Riemann died of TB, a common infliction of poor people (not elitists).
Thank you so much! :-)
Ipad2 & apple products = sick/dead chinese workers
I don't mind commenting with usernames that people can attach to my real life persona.

What I do have a problem with is commenting using a login for a company that has proven they don't give a damn about user privacy.

I will keep facebook blocked using noscript, and if I can't comment on those sites, oh well.
It feels that way, eh?

Now, how about how it reads?

Have you RTFA? Noticed the "arguments and solutions" in there, the ones that he "couldn't come up with"?