skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wristwatch is jewelry. Its primary purposes are adornment and display of wealth.

Your gadget just has to be cooler and more ostentatious than one of my present wristwatches. It's not about being useful. You don't have to do a better job of telling time, or run applications, or try to supplant my phone.
Direct link to the license (for the curious): http://code.google.com/p/box2d/source/browse/trunk/Box2D/Lic...
Counterpoint: If your company has developed a powerhouse franchise with a value roughly equivalent to the GDP of Canada, and all of that is built upon a little piece of open-source software, it wouldn't hurt anybody to toss him some credit or sponsorship. He did say he'd appreciate it.

Just because you don't have to doesn't mean you shouldn't. I'm not sure I agree with this little display, but saying he has no grounds to have a gripe is a bit simplistic.
Not, be you have the RIGHT to complain. It's a free country (short of).
Nothing. All marketing is organic and word of mouth. Good apps sell themselves. I was featured by apple a couple times.
I do sometimes buy Groupons to things I know I will probably not go to again. For instance there was one for a new vegan restaurant and as I'm not a vegan I have a limited tolerance for pizza with weird fake cheese stuff on it.

It's certainly an exaggeration but I don't think it has no merit.
MathJax for the win :)
Ha, I knew 0.05 was just convention and nothing special, but didn't know it originated randomly like that.
The Irken Language
Just a fora that hosts modifications for the online MMORPG, Mabinogi (Nexon)
How on earth do they backup all that to tape?

Must be a massive amount of tape.
It's PR, what else is it supposed to do? It doesn't need to be rocket science.

Brilliance in obscurity has no political impact.
grasshopper is easy to use and setup as well. set it and forget it. in fact, i actually forgot we were even using grasshopper until i saw this article.

if it is the same or better than grasshopper, you guys will do well in the smb space.
Looks like Akamai Technologies just posted for a number of intern positions: http://www.akamai.com/html/careers/index.html
We're hiring intern engineers at EverFi.com - we're based in DC.
In the US Android is up to about 1/3 of smartphones these days.
I interned at Google Sydney over the summer, and I really enjoyed it. They're always looking for interns.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/
You think Twilio owns all of those phone numbers? They are most likely just using another API as well.
Poll: Which company would you rather work at?
Just curious what the HN community thinks of the following.
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Redspin, Inc is hiring interns and Jr. Security Engineers working out of Carpinteria, California (near Santa Barbara).

We perform security assessments and penetration tests for large enterprises. If information security sounds exciting (and you can work out of Carpinteria--about 90 miles north of Los Angeles), send a cover letter and resume to jobs@redspin.com!
Ron Conway, Chris Sacca And Others Invest 800K In Dotcloud (YC S10)
Like all servers based in Australia, traffic is still ruinously expensive. $1 per gigabyte in and out.

This is why I have and will continue to host all my sites in the USA. It annoys me but I'm not made of money and I don't see why I should pay so much of my hard-earned to Optus and Telstra through a third party.
"Well, I just give it away for free"
I depends on how hot they are.
I've had a number of "please setup Wordpress" type requests. These days I just point them at a hosting company with a One-Click-Installer (Dreamhost has worked ok for me) and tell them to have a go.

If I don't think they are going to be capable of doing that, then I point them at Wordpress.org
"If you were affected by this issue, it’s important to note that email sent to you between 6:00 PM PST on February 27 and 2:00 PM PST on February 28 was likely not delivered to your mailbox, and the senders would have received a notification that their messages weren’t delivered. "

That's pretty scary to me. I would've hated to have gotten any e-mail alerts or payment due date reminders during that time.
my company increasingly uses google talk/google voice for our primary voice communications. we talk into our machines...be it via GV or skype. if we aren't in front of our computers, we fwd to our mobiles. we're business users.
ActiveX Filtering for Consumers
I heard a bit from Alice Cooper on NPR recently, about how he was the inspiration for younger musicians to shock audiences with fake blood and satan worship, but then he'd meet those guys back stage, they were all like, "mr cooper, I'm so honored to meet you. this is my mom. she baked you some cookies."
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(As another counterpoint)

I'm 21 and I usually wear a wristwatch. I wear an expensive wristwatch, actually. All it does is tell the time. It isn't solar powered, it doesn't synchronize with a server somewhere based on nuclear time, it doesn't even have a chronometer. If it had more features and did something other than tell the time, however, I might not bother.
The maybe saves it.
"One of the most fascinating things about Milwaukee is that it's the only major American city ever to have elected three socialist mayors."
While I agree with some of what you say, I take issue with the following:

> You're never going to say that "ah this treatment is a bit overpriced; I think I'll get more value for my money if I'll just die instead".

No one is rationally arguing this. The free-market point-of-view is that multiple providers will offer you treatment, and you can select, based on quality, price, provider's reputation etc. etc. what best fits your needs.

Over and over in this debate I see this fallacy that a free-market system says "You pay this price or you die." If a procedure can be made cheaper or more effective, a variety of providers is going to scramble to provide it.

The difficulty we face in the U.S. is that there is no real competition in healthcare. As others have pointed out, the people making the purchasing decisions are not the people with a vested interest in the affordability and quality of healthcare, and price/quality signals are obscure at best, and typically hidden altogether.

You, as a consumer, can't make rational healthcare decisions when your insurance is selected by your employer, your doctor is chosen by your insurer, and your treatment is chosen with an eye toward liability rather than effectiveness.
If you look at http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/ta... it talks about the reduced cost of ownership for a 20PB tape library, so there are tape products available for large volumes of data. The SL8500 supports 500PB of raw storage.
I fully agree with you, but their lawyers may not.

Publicly acknowledging his contribution to their commercial success may be ground for a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

Yes, he's never going to sue them. Yes, the open source license says that they could use the software for commercial purposes. But large companies get sued all the time, often settling when dealing with lawsuits with even less merit than this one would have. So lawyers may have cautioned the executives against making ceremonies for the engine's developer.

This doesn't mean that it's the best strategy. Lawyers often fail to understand PR issues. In this case, giving the guy credit is the right thing to do in order not to tarnish their image and deal with the issue in a mature manner.
I apologize. Fairly new to posting on YC... I saw this and found it interesting, so I thought I'd share.

Not cheating - but I'll look for better content next time.
This is Canvas, not SVG.
http://placekitten.com/attribution.html
i love how they keep mentioning "0.02%" so you think it's some insignificant number, but it's actually something like 150,000 accounts.
MobileNotifier iOS notification replacement
Absolutely beautiful. Slick, and informative. I was not expecting the good visualization of data directly on the home page, not to mention the other tabs.

I previously used the Google Spreadsheet posted a while ago, but this has just replaced it. Very, very nice.

EDIT:
Funding is still missing for all companies, but you should be able to get that info from CrunchBase, etc. "Greater than" information is sufficient. Also, I noticed that there is a duplicate BackType entry, but with 0 founders.
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Myousic - Music Streaming Service Based on HTML5
Myousic is an HTML5 based music streaming service which enables you to easily find and play music online.
Very true point, as it's a crucial difference between your typical web app launch and an App Store launch.

Example: When I launched Brocabulary two years ago, I thought it would be a good idea to have a "free week" promotion. Results: 150+ reviews permanently attached to the rating that are far from representative of the current product. And a good chunk of those reviews are (justly) not so hot.

Ratings and reviews are killer on the App Store. Bad, edge-case experiences only really hurt you on the web if they're by a famous blogger or the like. On the App Store, you get a bad review because someone didn't read the description that says the app doesn't work on older generation iPod Touches without microphones and it's stuck there forever. It's just what comes with the territory.

Never launch a bad product, but there are many articles and examples that point out why it isn't a fantastic idea to build on an unproven idea for months. Just like on the web, you should go for a well-executed MVP with steady improvement. Maybe a little more than you might on the web, but the idea still applies.

Plus, with each update, you get a chance to reset your public reviews and ratings (after you hit a certain limit, Apple will display the average score only for that version). I wish the author had overlayed his update releases on the graph, as I bet that many of those spikes come from them.

Ejemplo: Path. Their launch product was pretty minimal, but just useable enough. They've released solid update after update adding new features. Now, it helps that they've got some players backing them and probably got Apple's attention ahead of time, but I think it's still a strategy worth looking at.

Ejemplo: Rdio. I've been an Rdio subscriber since when they launched last summer, and their iPhone app wasn't so great when it first came out. It worked, but all it could really do was play songs. Month after month a new update came out that added new, much-needed features. Hell, they only hit 1.0 a few weeks ago and it's obvious that all the iterations have amounted to a solid app.
More kittens to waste time at work with: http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/cat/

And I guess you could see if they'd let you use some of their pictures. :)
From what you say your VC is a vindicative and manipulative SOB who is wielding his veto power as blackmail to nix a deal unless you agree to give him more than his agreed upon terms.

It's a nightmare scenario. If it was me I would play hardball back. Walk away from the whole thing and let the company melt down, better that all should lose than he should win and all you should lose. Alternatively maybe he comes to his senses, but you have to be willing to carry through with it. I hate playing hard ball, but once you find yourself with someone who is going to do that, you have to play hard ball back or you'll lose for sure.

If you do decide it is all for naught and you are probably going to bail, I recommend you open source your code base for some plausible business reason, and then wait a few months before leaving. This way you'll be able to recover your own work for use in future ventures should it come to that.

Obviously you picked the wrong VC but why on earth would you give him such veto power. That was your mistake and now you are paying the price. Oh well.
A lot of people here are also on convore: https://convore.com/hacker-news
Some objections, even though I don't use tables regularly personally:

Tables are usually more bytes of markup (have a lot of nested <tr><tbody> elements)

If you are concerned with size, you are gzipping or deflating and these tags should compress well

Tables may require you to use a 'spacer' image (!)

Div's require clear:both and other silliness

We're not living in 1998 (!!)

not really much of an argument--tcp/ip is older than that and we still use it

Tables lock you into the current design and make redesigns much harder than semantic HTML+CSS.

Perhaps a bit yes on your first point, but worrying about cross browser rendering issues twice will kill your time savings from "fast redesigns." If your table is object code, produced by a helper of some sort, this is not necessarily true either.

Tables prevent reuse of content on multiple device formats (mobile / desktop / tablet).

Not sure I follow. The current format for all these devices is just a standard browser + scrolling

Tables prevent content from being easily scraped or translated into other formats (via a screen-reader or XSLT).

Table headers and cells with classes and id's are plenty scrapable
Yeah, probably. Would take more effort to get balanced, though, and using an equation to see how much it's counted for would make the code more complex, and harder to modify on the fly. It's not uncommon for spam to be alive for a while either - check /noobstories sometimes, stuff stays alive for a while. I suspect that most of the dead articles are killed by filters, looking at what dies and what stays alive. Doesn't much matter as long as it isn't upvoted, I think - the links have rel="nofollow", or at least this one does, so no pagerank is going to the spam site, and almost everyone here is savvy enough to recognize spam.

But hey, I'm just one user; if you want the opinion of the community, submit an ask hn about it, and see what the community thinks. Or go out on a limb and write a patch which would enable it, and see if pg accepts it.
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Here, this one will work without requiring jQuery:

javascript:(function(){var a=document.getElementsByTagName('img'),i=a.length;while(b=a[--i]){b.setAttribute('src','http://placekitten.com/'+b.width+'/'+b.height);}})();
So... does this blue circle go away eventually? Been a few minutes and I still can't look at a white surface without seeing a clearly defined blue circle...
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Good catch; I just wonder how it can take more than 2 days, when you already have a bunch of employees as well as equipment and presumably spares, to build a replacement FreeBSD server and transfer data?
Congrats to the DotCloud guys—if they can crack the language-agnostic cloud hosting nut, they'll be worth every cent. It's a big problem to tackle though :)
That's because submitted -> upvoted, and upvoted = saved.
2-Ex-Apple employee pleads guilty in kickback scheme
well... it might be used by the military... i just figured that would be an easy way to describe the water/shock proof aspect. the target market is actually recreational boats. one of the partners is concerned about keeping the idea a secret... which i think is silly.
I would not leave Microsoft for any of them.
What about interviews ? Out of curiosity, did you approve of that 'searching for the next Facebook' headline ?
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First things first. How long are things going to remain in your impervious time-capsule? Microsd cards are just flash memory. Over time, the information will leak away. How long that will take is hard to guess, but if you are aiming for a century or more, microsd is likely to not be a good choice. Furthermore, what is going to be used to read the data you preserve on the microsd? Do you think there will be microsd readers a few decades into the future, much less a century.

Assuming that you do use the microsd, I would use two different physical cards, incorporate multiple copies of whatever I choose to include on each of the microsd cards, and add in some heavy duty error correction codes so degraded content can be recovered.

Oh, one more thing, it might be a good idea to use a card that has write protection so that revisionist history is difficult.
> Publicly acknowledging his contribution to their commercial success may be ground for a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

For abiding by the terms of the license? Unless the law diverges from common sense significantly here (we all know it does, but this is a stretch), there's no grounds for a suit here at all, with or without a nod in his direction. Any attempt would probably be simultaneously (1) rapidly terminated and (2) expensive for the plaintiff.

"Use this how you want, really. If your product makes a significant amount of money, though, and you point out that you use my software, you're at liability to me."

Not buying it. Maybe I'm naive -- and it certainly wouldn't be the first time -- but if that were true I feel like there'd be far less money makers built upon open-source. Wouldn't that pretty much end "powered by Linux"?
Solomon and crew were incredibly helpful in providing hosting for us when we were trying to get into YC this last round. Solomon even took a couple hours with us to sit in a park near his apartment and give us some guidance on the day of the interview. These guys deserve all the success they can.
That certainly makes a good joke. :-) But no, I didn't have that in mind.
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If I was talking about the estate, why would I be mentioning Evangelion?
I plan to combine this with the jQuery konami code plugin for lots of fun.
"Spend it, cheapskate."
There actually are not too many good providersin this space. The only I can think of off-hand are Phonebooth and Grasshopper. Most of the others are much too cumbersome.
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Hopefully this sociopath will be in jail for some time. That's what he deserves.
Is this named after the alien race in Jhonen Vasquez's Invader Zim?
"We released a storage software update that introduced the unexpected bug, which caused 0.02% of Gmail users to temporarily lose access to their email. When we discovered the problem, we immediately stopped the deployment of the new software and reverted to the old version."

Some bug!!
Very promising concept. This could be the killer app for the cloud. Good luck!
Looks like people don't stop thinking over the weekend and come in with fresh ideas on Monday. I know that happens to me. Nice to see that it might be happening to others too. I mean, really, who leaves Friday without a commit?
Like the parent, I had an informal "pre-flight" inspection that I'd execute on my motor home on travel days. Hatches closed and locked, hoses and cables and steps and awning retracted and secured, ceiling vents closed, LP gas shut off, tires aired up, engine fluids nominal.
"Existing government regulations give certain companies oligopoly power"

So your answer is additional regulations? Cato's solution for a more efficient and freer internet should be more regulation? I am not using "Orwellian language". Neither is Cato. When they say they want less regulation, they mean less regulation. Cato has always been opposed to Federal power not explicitly granted in the Constitution. Can you site me an example where they haven't been?

What supernatural power do you have to know the true motives of the Kochs and Cato? Just because their interests are aligned with AT&T's in this instance do not mean they work for AT&T. But I'm pretty confident if Net Neutrality wins, AT&T will still win. They have so many protections (laws and sympathetic politicians) in the government that they can only lose if the government loses power. The consumer and citizen who has benefited so much from an unregulated Internet will suffer with more regulation. Big companies don't mind regulation, because compliance and lobbying are so much more costly for their smaller competitors, mostly due to economies of scale.
This was my first thought too. I was half expecting an essay on how they imagined the Irken language from Invader Zim. Then I realized that they all speak English.
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Please specify if you are hiring unpaid interns! Also, remember that no one likes an unpaid internship ;)

(RichardPrice, please add this to the post?)
I take the post as more of a commentary on TC. This is arguably the most powerful startup news source, and it is posting silly gotcha quotes?
You forgot to include your email address :P
GroupOn has no votes so far (and I prefer working for myself but..) but I suspect it could become a very interesting place for developers to work in future.

High profit levels often convert into high levels of R&D and I'd be surprised if GroupOn didn't end up with a skunkworks pulling off all sorts of crazy projects (data analysis and social apps come to mind) - that'd be an interesting place to work for sure.
DotCloud is interesting but I think I'd prefer a set of comparable Fabric scripts and an AWS account. But that wouldn't be a very good business I suppose.
Agreed, watches are no longer for keeping time. Phones have long taken over that role.

In fact, my watch still gets worn after the battery died. (Hard to explain, but the OLED time shows up after a button press http://www.google.com/images?q=DZ7080)
While they're at it they should probably toss Isaac Newton and von Neumann some credit, too. I mean, who did the real heavy lifting here?

And let me be the first to acknowledge all the authors of the floating-point math libraries that power the physics simulation that powers Angry Birds. Whoever you are: Nobody ever thinks of you, but I know how much work you did. Thanks.

Also, somewhere, probably in China, there is a crew of people who work long hours in a clean room, peering through microscopes, inspecting the tiny wire bonds on the RF multiplexers that will filter all those Angry Birds levels out of the ether and capture them onto our iPhones. Let me thank those people, many of whom are young and work very long hours, because I doubt that many of them will ever come to a tech conference and stand up to demand credit for their work, perhaps because they don't speak English well, and perhaps because they probably can't afford the tickets to the conference, but mostly because they're just too polite.

Meanwhile, what on earth should we expect the Rovio folks to do when some passive-aggressive person stands up in the middle of a crowd at a conference and claims to have written some underlying component of their product? Make the guy pull out his open-source license, put some lawyers on speakerphone, and adjudicate the thing right in the middle of the Q&A? Or are they just supposed to casually give credit to anyone who asks politely, without doing the necessary research first? Are software licenses supposed to be taken seriously or not? Do people not realize that copyright trolls and cranks exist?
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No disrespect, but (not knowing how long you have been at MS) dont you think that thought-flow between companies is good for overall technological progression?

Whilst your reasoning for staying put are surely sound for you, is your comment that, because of those reasons, your staying put makes sense - or that it is your opinion that MS is better than all the options, for anyone?
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