skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ten Sports Live
TEN SPORTS (or Taj Entertainment Network) is a sports channel, widely broadcast in Asia. Its key programming includes Cricket, Football and sports-entertainment shows viz. WWE. Ten Sports was launched on April 1, 2002, and became the world's premier sports channel for South Asians, reaching over 55 million homes across the Sub-continent, Middle East, Europe and Asia. Ten Sports was previously owned by the UAE based Abdul Rahman Bukhatir. He sold the company for 114 million USD to Zee Telefilms in 2010. TEN's senior management left the company after the sale.
Ethernet is absolutely worth it. Streaming video or audio will benefit from this. Having a wired network can help improve your wifi network because you can put wireless access points anywhere you have a wired connection.

The combination of Apple's iTunes + Airport Express + Remote app works very well. But it's much more reliable on a wired network. I used to have this setup on a wifi network, and the music would cut out every so often, but that was because my wifi network was unreliable. Also note when it is on ethernet, the Airport Express can also function as a wireless access point at the same time as streaming music.
I would like to point out that if it had been taken with a HTC Desire HD it would have been even better!
Come on, that's either because you didn't really adapt to induction, or because you had a crap stove. Induction is equally good or better than gas in every aspect but one:

- Lower energy use

- Induction responds equally fast as gas (i.e, instantaneously)

- Standing over an induction stove doesn't get nearly as hot as over a gas stove

- Induction is much much much easier to clean.

- No need to find matches/lighter (unless you get a gas stove with build-in ignition)

- No need to put in separate gas piping

- Safer: never having to worry about children turning on the gas, or accidentally turning it on e.g. by bumping into it with a pot

- Pots are on the stove in a much more stable position, both safer and easier to use.

- Induction comes with build-in timers to turn off the heat for a pot (maybe some gas stoves have this, but then only the very expensive ones - I've never seen an induction plate that didn't have it).

Only disadvantage is that not all pots work on it (i.e., you need pots with iron in it, aluminum won't work).
Life Without Photoshop
Don't spend time on trivial stuff like this. There are likely 100 more important things you could discuss with your cofounder, or things you could do to improve traction. Decide either way, then move on. Even if it's with a coin-flip.
Yet tinygigantic seems like a pretty poor name to me, even with the attempt to make it work using an ant logo.
Then perhaps you lack the fundamentals of business altogether. If there is one rule I have had to repeat to so many (and only god knows why this even needs to be said) is that YOU do not represent everyone. Everyone is DIFFERENT and because people are different, everyone will have different wants and needs.

Just because YOU don't want what Groupon or a similar service offer in your area for the particular deals you've come across does not mean this applies to everyone else around you. If you approach every business like that, 99% of the business in the world will probably be non-existant, after all, I'm sure there are a lot of things YOU don't use or want.
In short, not all that is rare and limited is valuable.

I have a few additional concerns with the adoption of bitcoin. One being that it displaces those currently in control and will therefore be made illegal. It would not be too hard to portray bitcoin as the tool of illegal traffickers to the general public.

Then again, just because there is some risk, does not mean it is not worth it.
It seems like a very subjective issue to me. What makes you think your opinion is more right?

Maybe dropping brand name from title tag is not a bad idea (even though your co-founder wants to do it for the wrong reason).

I think titles should be short and simple, and ideally not contain things like site name and whatnot. Except for the homepage, which should be only the brand name, and nothing else. e.g. just "Hacker News", as opposed to "Hacker News, your best source of interesting tech articles on the web!!!"

Considering tabs in most browsers are small, the user almost never ends up reading the title.

Titles are used as the default bookmark name in most browsers, so long titles with extra pointless words end up polluting bookmarks (most people don't bother renaming bookmarks).

I do agree though that SEO in general is not a good approach to building your brand (it borders on being spam in some sense). IMO the best way to build a brand is 1) making good products 2) having a good blog, like 37signals.
Are you just trolling? Or are you trying to promote the service? In either case I guess you are doing it wrong - flagged.

Also - I signed up for the service - I love the idea, but if you expect me to sign up to Facebook just to start using your service - then forget it.
Just a thought, but paper is a much more information dense medium. Perhaps transportation of the clay tablets was expensive enough to make doing them by hand each time easier than printing them.
Paper Ninja v 1.5
Highly disappointing that that final design differs so much from the one here: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/truepower-ucs-usb-power-outlet-...

I'm sure there are technical/electrical issues that forced a different design - just a shame it's not as well executed (and over double the price).
>I still believe mailing-lists are superior to web based forums.

I disagree - a combination is better whereby one can access the same content through the web as through your MUA.

Tyranny of the masses seems like the reason (for small values of tyranny).
Me. I started when I started consulting. I've had 1 office job after that, didn't like it. When I take a job (as an employee) now, it's with that condition. If not, I consult, and then I set my own rules of course.
Best of the Week - 26 febbraio 2011
Ecco la mia "Best of the Week" di questa settimana.

Se volete segnalarmi qualche risorsa sarò ben lieto di pubblicarla.

Saluti a tutti e... buona lettura!
cool....I hacked in some timezones - 4 clocks on the page - local, london, new york, tokyo...if I got my maths right that is:

http://www.coloringout.com/colorclock

someone should make the timezones selectable :)
It still wouldn't call it a no-brainer just because of the "only disadvantage" that you mention. I'd have to throw away half of my pots (including a beautiful tagine)
Are they asking for equity? Why not just hire them? You can always offer them to become partners later on.
How's your company doing?
A History of the World in 100 Objects:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/programme
The Greeks and Romans were societies of slavery, with very little need to industrial innovation.
Someone here on HN who works in the industry mentioned OFX is notoriously unreliable.
Really cool. I'm amazed how good some of these games sound.
Security concerns over new Thunderbolt I/O technology
Totally air-tight houses can be a danger as well; in my home (which is old and "breathes"), a heater once malfunctioned; when I noticed the malfunction (black accumulant around the vents) and called a technician to come check it out, the technician said that if the house had been air-tight I would likely be either severely hospitalized or dead, so sometimes a little non-air-tightness can be good, especially since it encourages you to open the windows and doors and get some fresh air instead of relying on the air conditioner all year round.
Well you can try your hand at screen scraping your account using the Wesabe script. Better than nothing. I've got a Bank of Ireland account and their online banking is crap also. They don't even have an export function, let alone a buggy one!
Wow, lucky guy! Did the plane follow it for a bit? I'm thinking about the remark on the speaker system at 1:28.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2200705
Ask HN: Torn between product and by-product. What to do?
We've been rather busy since early 2010 working on a technology (project) requiring significant amounts of R&D effort.

Of late, it reached a (very interesting) stage where it started spinning-off small (and some not-so-small) by-products, like there's no tomorrow!

(Those who're interested can seen some of the by-products below:

http://www.RapiDefs.com

http://IPLoc.info and http://IPLoc.info/api)

A recent off-shoot of this work gifted us with an idea the commercial potential (and the Whoa! or Golly! factor) of which can easily make the primary project pale into insignificance.

If we move forward with this (the latest by-product), we'd almost certainly have to sort of ditch the original one or, at least, put it on a back burner for a long/ish time.

As the sole owner of the company, I have pretty much a totally free hand in making decisions but I'm not really able to make up my mind on this one.

I'm turning to you all for your opinions/suggestions. What would you do in a similar situation? Please let me know.

ps. I've not mentioned specifics of either project for the sake of brevity. If you need more info in order to opine, please ask. :-)
There are lots of algorithms with very high time-compleity that are still usefull in practice. One nice example is the decision-algorithm for Presburger arithmetic which runs in O(2^2^n).
Job Opening: Electrical Engineer
Job Opening: Firmware Developer
I think it travelled about 59 miles in 2 minutes so they would have had a job!
Ouch: Consumer Reports slams the Verizon iPhone 4
Kudos to the Montgolfier for inventing the hot air balloon based on a need to invade a strongly held fortress.

But when did the idea of slowly floating towards your fortified, gun-toting enemy in a giant gas filled balloon seem a good idea?
Mac OS X Lion Building in Support for Super High Resolution ’Retina' Monitors
Hm, yeah I was referring to horizontally getting closer to the action of the launch.
The Recipe: How to Create an Eternal Empire
Yes! I saw the mixup before your signal and corrected it. Here's my blog, 'anchority.posterous.com' if you'd really care for the stretch. Thanks, anyways.
"hacker news porn" returns over 286,000 results...

As you yourself said, the actual jargon is "femdom porn", not "female domination porn", or even simply "femdom".

By adding "porn" to any keyword search, you will get many extraneous results (see "hacker news porn" above).

Most importantly, these "alot of results" all have affiliate banners to the same handful of "femdom" sites.

Next time, try looking at the actual content, not just the Google results. I should have taken you up on your wager!
Go pellet/corn instead of a true wood stove. I got so sick of splitting wood and cleaning a crappy wood stove that I replaced mine. Now I just dump in 40 lbs of pellets and let her rip. After a couple bags I just need to take my vacuum and 5 minutes later I have a clean stove. Plus I can keep the bags in the garage instead of lugging outside in the snow.
We Are Apple (Leading The Way)
No cofounder experience but I have two sons that I homeschooled who still live with me in their early twenties. Neither has a job. Due to my health issues, I don't get out much (other than my day job) and am also home a lot. My youngest is an introvert. I learned a long time ago to give him the space he needs. He and I get along well and he likes me because I lovingly leave him alone (which was completely counterintuitive for me when he was little). My oldest and I fairly often go somewhere without my younger son. We get to talk and he gets to be left the hell alone, by god -- which is exactly what he wants sometimes.

When we were still homeschooling, I had a computer in the dining area which was traffic central. I am the most extroverted member of the family and I was fine with frequent interruptions as people passed through on the way to the kitchen/other areas and also came to me to talk about stuff. My oldest had a computer in the corner of the living room behind a folding screen. He was the least introverted of the three folks I lived with at the time (two sons and a husband). He was okay with that, especially after we moved the TV out of the living room and into the master bedroom, thus eliminating the volume wars between his computer and the TV. My youngest had a computer in his bedroom, where he could shut the door and have some peace and quiet.

In other words, our work stations were situated such that they matched our degree of extroversion/introversion: The more introverted the individual, the more secluded and private and locked away their desk/computer area was. The more extroverted they were, the more centrally located, open and accessible their desk/computer area was. We found that the introversion/extroversion thing was a huge source of friction and finding ways to mediate that did wonders for everyone's ability to put up with each other all day long. Other personality differences seem to be easier to get past. This one took more effort than most other differences. Many other differences within the family are very compatible/complementary.

At some point, we all did some online Meyers Briggs Personality Type test (or something very similar). We talked about that a lot -- about how the Judgers in the family felt more need for external structure while the Perceivers were "pilers, not filers" and why this makes the other type crazy. While homeschooling them, I worked a lot on teaching my sons to get along well. These days, they never really fight, though under severe stress they do sometimes snap at each other.

Good luck with this.
What's special about the printing press is that it makes copying cheap; the comparable Roman technology was slavery, which makes labor cheap. (In the short term.)
A home that can breath is also more comfortable. It keeps moisture in check and helps with stale air transfer.
Clearly trains can't go at speeds approaching that of light, so Einstein's Gedankenexperiment is meaningless.
OS X Lion preview ably demonstrates that disc is dead
A typical system with a 5970 consumes just under 500 Watts lets say, including the GPU (some examples here: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3892.0 ).

That's 12kWh at let's say a $0.12/kWh residential electric rate ( http://www.bitcoinminer.com/post/2361900289/where-to-mine-el... ) that's about $1.44 per day for your electricity.

A 5970 hashes at just under 600 Mhash/s, per http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
so punch that 600000 number in as khps here:
http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php

and it shows that at the current difficulty level, you should generate 50 BTC about every 3 days and 29 minutes.

So in a 24 hour period you get about 16.55 BTC per day.
Converting that 16.55 BTC to USD:
http://bitcoin.1t2l.net/widget/?from=BTC
shows you earn about $15.28 per day with a rig holding a single 5970.

Then to send those BTCs to your PayPal, you use http://coincard.ndrix.com (starting again monday morning) and you lose 3% doing that conversion so you end up with $14.82 in revenue per day. Subtract the $1.44 in electricity that nets you $13.38 a day. If that were to hold, you'ld have the card paid off in well under two months.

That said, ... difficulty is rising (fast! ... http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed.png ). If the BTC/USD exchange rises more ( it's had quite a run http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60ztgSzm1g10zm2g2... ), then that payout might continue at these levels. Otherwise, the payout from mining will decrease.
On what setup do you serve 100 pages a second that is talking directly to the database?
Graph databases are fascinating, but as an engineer who cares about query speed, indexing, and how things interact with memory hierarchies, I'm glad to leave them to the computer "scientists", who can go ahead filling volume after volume of conference proceedings with minimal impact on the practice of computing.
Learn some Python hidden features
Look into passive solar design options. There are lots of "old" things that can be done to make the house functional without having to constantly run up the electric bill for heating, air conditioning, etc. Passive solar works best if you are building from the ground up because house orientation and things like that can be big factors. But that doesn't mean you can't incorporate some passive solar design principles into a renovation.

If it were my house, I would make sure all those modern gizmos are bells and whistles/icing on the cake and that the entire thing doesn't simply fall apart without them. That's part of my wishlist for some time in the future.
Yes!@mooism I saw the mixup before your signal and corrected it. Here's my blog, 'anchority.posterous.com' if you'd really care for the stretch. Thanks, anyways
Note that portable single "burner" induction cooktops are available at under $100 for anyone who wants to investigate the technology before committing to it. It will remain a useful appliance, whatever your preference (warming plate, at-table presentations, cooking on the porch, etc.).
Having read some of the comments already I vote heartily for radiant heating floors, green tech which does not cause more maintenance proceedures/confusion for next buyer, proper amounts of electrical plugs (id put them in the floor in the main living areas or at least at the very base of the floor molds. Lots of houses have ethernet cabling... I think you're safe with that. Air exchanges aren't sexy, but awesome.

hack summer - partly screened in deck/porch from mosquitos are wonderful.
http://groups.google.com/group/erlang-programming/msg/75cbea...

http://www.tilera.com/about_tilera/press-releases/linux-appl...

( June 2009, Erlang (BEAM) on Tilera 64-core )
i would build a urinal in my closet, or otherwise easily accessible from my room (seriously)
Pro Sports vs. the Web Pirates
In 20 years time, 10 Gigabit ethernet is going to be slow. Maybe he'll want to stream holographic projections or something and he can't do it because his wires only support gigabit ethernet. That's the problem with house remodelling: predicting the future. That's why you always overbuild while you have the drywall off and laying cable is relatively cheap.
Also consider a rocket stove, which are increasing in popularity due to their efficiency.
I think it's too late for moderation there. If you moderate, sometimes with a heavy hand, right from the start, you can build a good community (Making Light, Metafilter) - but once you have a community that isn't good, you essentially have to reboot it entirely by shutting off comments for a while, then starting over with draconian moderation (BoingBoing).

I still don't know how HN happened. I suppose making it a private community to start, then opening up once the culture was established, played a large part, and I know pg does some moderation. But I personally haven't seen much evidence of moderation, so my mental model is a little soft there.
A couple things I wish I had after visiting some friends. Wire the opposite sides of your rooms on different fuses. Run gas lines to your backyard for access to heaters and grill. The gas from your house is different than what you would use for your grill/outside heating you may need to change the aperture of the openings. Walk around your house and find somewhere you would like your garden. Find a window that looks over that spot, and install a switch inside next to the window that controls an outlet outside the house. It's nice to be able to water your garden with a flip of a switch. :)
Context is important. A no-Photoshop approach makes sense for Quora since their product is text-heavy. For a product that requires, say, rich data visualizations like Google Analytics, some design ideas need to be mocked in a graphics package (Googlers often use Fireworks instead of Photoshop) first, then prototyped in code.

Context is also important in terms of what stage of the development process the designer is at. If a product design is already well defined (e.g. "top nav is global, 2 columns in the core content space, right column is contextual nav, left column is the content stream, here's the style guide ..."), then going directly to code makes sense. As Joel suggests, going directly to code is great for day to day new feature iterations.

But if your product is completely undefined, Photoshop or Fireworks can be excellent tools for mocking up design variations and sets of use cases or states within those variations.

Hats-off to Quora for going straight to code when it comes to design. It works for them but it's not going to work for everyone in every case.
Sounds like you live in an area where Groupon hasn't been widely accepted.

In Dallas the most common deal (that interests me) is $10 for $20 food at restaurant X. It is quite obvious how this is a good deal for me.

I also once used it to purchase 2 opera tickets for $25. After I went to the opera I found out these ticket would have normaly been $115 a piece. Although I did research a bit and call the opera before purchasing try to make sure I was getting a good deal.
Don't worry about it, Dan.

Here's something I've noticed in the years I've been on HN: Many seem to be so utterly pessimistic about others' ideas, executions, and successes out of what I suspect to be nothing but pure jealousy. Seriously. Take a look at every Rate My Startup thread, every thread about a company being acquired, etc, and you'll find people left and right throwing criticism after unwarranted criticism.

The difference between you and most of the people on the thread about you releasing your new product is this: You're actually creating stuff, and I'm willing to bet that a good 80% of them are not.

If Crush Notifier doesn't work, it seems like you'll quickly jump onto the next thing; so keep pushing, and don't mind the disgruntled, cynical, vain naysayers here on HN or TC, etc.
It seems an odd choice to argue this point in the comments on a story about how Groupon did 3/4ths of a billion dollars in the 2nd year of operations.
To be fair, Quora isn't a very graphically rich site.

I'm not totally sure whether an absence of Photoshop (and other Creative Suite products) is particularly worthy of explanation.
A SSD that understands NTFS and the other major file systems while "cheating" is not impossible. Also The TRIM command does not work on RAID volumes so there is plenty of room for improvement.
I think they have a 40 mile no fly zone around the launch site.

Good picture of a launch being guarded by an F-15... http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123205663
A short word on nomenclature
One more vote for "everyone gets this", and I do mean everyone. BCC received the following comment on July 17th, 2006:

Am I the only one who is a little annoyed?

Patrick, you spend 8 days, budget $60, spend most of your time blogging about what you did, and you call yourself a MicroISV? It's more like NanoISV to me. A real MicroISV pour a lot more energy and soul into the software they develop.

If somehow, your blog gets popular and what you did is considered a "MicroISV", I will be very sad. There will be no more pride in being a MicroISV and I will stop calling myself that. Spend a few days, a few bucks, to get a few extra bucks is a MicroISV ? Shame on you man! You give those real MicroISV like Bob Walsh and few others a bad name!

I should really get that framed.
I was going to suggest that Stackless is dead, given that I haven't heard any news about it.

But that would have been foolish of me: http://zope.stackless.com/Members/rmtew/News%20Archive/3.1.3