skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the response. I don't think the reason customers aren't buying isn't because our prices are too high (we somewhat have competition and they're all more expensive), I think it's more of a case where they don't see a need for the technology, or really understand the benefits, or currently have the money (or are able to forecast what money they will have).

About it spreading -- yeah we're realizing more and more how massive that is. We have clients that have people who want to sell our product to others. We're starting to work with them on it now so it will be interesting to see how that turns out.

Disarming them is what we need to do. May just need to improve on our method :).
Here's two posts that you might find helpful.

Getting Your Machine Setup for Ruby on Rails Development:
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/getting-setup-for-ruby-o...

Then, check out this solid list of resources to help guide you as you learn:
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/resources-for-getting-st...

Good luck :)
Cloud Save for Google Chrome sends files from the Web to your online storage
I learned rails a long time ago from http://pragprog.com/titles/rails4/agile-web-development-with... (I learned from the 1st edition)

These days there are also:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

http://railscasts.com/
[On overthrowing the arbitrary authority:] That's what my generation believed. And my parents' generation. And their parents...

On my good days, I think your generation did a pretty good job. And your parents too. The amount of authority that has been overthrown in the last 100 years is pretty staggering. And I think we'll do a good job too.

The world is a mess. I widely despise our cultural practices. But I also see that there are armies of brilliant, good people working in the background to turn all of it around.

If you're talking total overthrow, then of course... tyranny will always remain. But I think overthrow for the better is a constant, largely monotonic process. And regression (for example, our collective environmental destruction) usually happens because the system is funtional, but unstable... people are living sustainably while living above a massive reservoir of free energy is not actually sustainable, because it's politically unstable.

So, while the system might get temporarily less functional (releasing greenhouse gasses), it is getting more stable (burning fossil fuels which are destabilizing materials).

Which is to say, I think we are overthrowing these arbitrary destructive structures.
Bitcask is an in memory datastore because it keeps a copy of the entire dataset in memory.

Begging your pardon, but I think you may be misunderstanding bitcask. The bitcask keydir is stored in memory, but the values are stored on disk. The keydir is a hash mapping each key to a file ID and the offset/size in that file at which the value is stored. The only time values are stored in memory on is when the kernel's fs cache or readahead buffer provide them.

http://downloads.basho.com/papers/bitcask-intro.pdf

Since a filesystem directory listing is likely held by your OS cache, you should see similar performance between bitcask and files on disk: an in-memory lookup to obtain the inode/offset, and a disk seek+read.

Riak will be substantially slower than directly using bitcask, however, because you may need to talk over the network to as many as N nodes, wait for all their responses, and compute the resultant vclock/metadata, and then serialize it for HTTP (huge TCP overhead) or protocol buffers (relatively fast). If you're running on a single machine, then you may incur additional time for that machine to run what would normally be distributed over three nodes. Without knowing more about your benchmark, however, it's difficult to say.
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This specifically has to do with fear, social fear, and how it plays out in the workplace and in one's relationships.

You cannot change your social background, but you can choose to recognize and transcend fear. You can treat everybody respectfully as a social equal regardless of your background.

Meditation helps.
Facebook's Photo viewer should look something like this.
Sharding (for free) on PostgreSQL is surprisingly painful
Guy Kawasaki: How to achieve enchantment [infographic]
Ask HN: Review my startup's teaser page, http://loqize.me
Don't forget to "Watch a video" and let us know if you like it!

We're a couple of Swiss engineers who built this location-based Q&A platform. Whenever you wonder "Where...?" come to loqize.me and get yourself an answer to your question.
Interesting. I've liked Sendgrid since when we've had issues of peoples email going to spam folder they are pretty helpful in tracking down why. (mostly saying gmail is a black whole (: )
Its interesting to hear this as we are currently building an app that we envision use Facebook Connect. Our plan to use FB Connect is so that we have a leg up on customer adoption than starting from ground zero, credibility (I flinch) of being associated with FB, and using the user's social graph to tailor and deliver content. But seeing some of the caustic (and valid) comments and fears about FB playing a central role, I am not sure if that route is such a good idea anymore.

We planned on using an Independent login along with FB and Twitter, but was planning to skimp on putting a lot of thought in to the Independent login. Would that not be prudent anymore? I would like to hear your thoughts (and of others).
Show HN: A node.js drawing app
Debugging is actually not THAT bad once you get used to the debugger.
The only sense I can make of people who continuously write this point, is that they will always be making some monthly payment for their phone. Therefore, they do not count that monthly payment, and only look at the upfront fee.
If it's not immediately clear, the purpose of the game is for you and everyone else online to collaboratively (or individually, but it's more fun if you work together) draw the image it asks for at the top and bottom of the screen.

It saves every image (you can watch previous images by hovering over the image to draw) when a few HNers have used it I'll create a gallery :) It's also available as a chrome app[1] and have been tested on the iPhone (every version) the iPad and a few Androids :)

In case anyone is curious it's running on an ubuntu server with 512 ram. It's heavily dependent on Socket.IO and is using the canvas module[2] to create and save the images.

[1] http://goo.gl/W1MYL
[2] https://github.com/learnboost/node-canvas
A good book exploring simple computational models of complex systems with emergent behaviour is Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams by Michael Resnick.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...
How to design the PERFECT product that your target customers absolutely CRAVE
While it's not what I would choose for my kids, the money isn't uneared. His parents or ancestors earned it and spending it on him is what they want to do. It's not like he took it from them by force? FYI, objectivists are also allowed to buy birthday presents for their toddlers.

Do I find the idea of traveling the world and surfing interesting? Yes I do. Would I consider that adequate job experience? Not at all.

Remove the chip from your shoulder. Someone who wasn't you was able to do something fun. Don't be jealous of that.
To create an android phone, means writing an OS, giving it away, and trying to get hardware developers, app developers, and advertisers on board. That is not going to be easy,

Microsoft might have a chance, if they started to give away their OS, but probably not.
Quitting your job is not for everyone, especially if others depend on you. In your situation, I say work really hard to simply what you are building and get an MVP out the door. The sense of accomplishment will get you motivated and hopefully the energy to go further. The just keep at it until you are comfortable enough to go at it full time.
I just wish I could afford one. Can you still use the pay-as-you-go plans with this one?
Anyone want to write a HTML5 version? Where the ants are each Erlang processes?
We've created a basic ant simulation as a Python library for NodeBox. NodeBox runs on Mac but the library is cross-platform.

http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Ants
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Yeah, you're right, if you have wife/kids/anybody depending on you, then it's not the way to go.

In your case, I would focus on being honest with yourself and force yourself to think hard what's going to bring money. In my opinion, "do what you like and money will come" is bullshit. Your first goal is financial independence. All your ideas probably have various degrees of how they can be monetized.

Some of your ideas might be that "really cool thing" that you like working on, but deep inside you know chances of it making money will be lottery-like (yet another todo-list, a video game, the next cool social network, etc). Your most boring idea that's a lot of pain in the ass to work on will probably be the most successful one.
Happy user of mailchimp here...

I think his points are very valid, and I appreciate his "mailchimp might be perfect for you" comment. As someone who went from doing it in-house to Mailchimp, I'll offer some advice:

Try an email marketer first, and only bring it in-house if you find that the marketer can't do what you want or is too restrictive.

There are an infinite number of things to spend your time on, and sending emails (and having them look good, arrive, get stats, etc) is a huuuuge time sink. If mass emails are not the core of your business then you should be outsourcing it. Build your core, buy the rest.
How to make Email List Management 500% Easier
You are mixing different things here. First, I did not take defense of the journal editors: the hoax was indeed a proof of lack of rigor of the journal's editors.

That's the idea that it shows something about the whole field which is nonsense (even though Sokal said himself that this was not is point, he could certainly foresee it would have been read as such). For once, if it did, the same technique could be used to discredit a lot of fields, and not just in humanities: writing pseudo jargon and getting it accepted, especially if you have a famous name, is possible in most fields (see CS papers which were auto-generated and got accepted). In many fields, researchers are unfortunately incapable of judging much more than the surface of the arguments, for various reasons (ultra-specialization, lack of time related to the continuous growth of published papers, etc...). I am not defending it either (that's one of the reason I left academia myself), but the actual meaning of the whole hoax is much more minor that people may think from outside.
Also maybe join up with a start-up group or other entrepreneurs in your area to keep you motivated and to share your successes, failures, and concerns. A support group can go a long way.
You're right! Previously users could create an event without creating an account, but I was worried that people would abuse the system. Therefore I added mandatory accounts and email verification. Thanks for the feedback.
More people use Facebook than Blackberry.
I completely disagree; if anything, I feel there's more relevant competition going on then there's been in a while. Certainly when Tweetie was on top, I feel like there was very little good competition, although I never checked out Birdfeed.

I'm currently using Echofon - it's not the prettiest, but it was the first native Mac client to support User Streams, does some really smart stuff with its conversation view, and actually syncs the last-read tweet between devices - something I've wanted for years now.

Twitteriffic 3 on iOS was my previous favorite, and I still love how simple and elegant it is. I think 4 on Mac shows promise, but needs more functionality before I switch to it.

I know several people who are using Oosfora, which I haven't looked at at all. I don't like it, but I know TweetDeck is still popular (especially amongst super-popular Twitter users).

The question is, are there enough people who want an alternative to the official apps for there to be a market? The answer to that is still up in the air, but I have a feeling the third-party client sales have been pretty good the past few days.
I know lots of people who started their own companies in fields that have nothing to do with technology, investment banking, etc. Most of them are doing well. Look around you - there are businesses everywhere. All started by someone. Heck, the woman down the street started a barber shop in an empty slot in a local strip mall.
Oh, I totally agree. I was just looking to make a point about statistical significance because I'm an annoying nerd.
It's better than one of the competitors called "whatsapp". I tried Kik out last week after hearing about it on HN and really liked it over the alternatives. Sadly the court of popular opinion in my country seems to side with Whatsapp messenger.
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No it won't, but its just a quick hack.
Pixar’s Up Movie House Re-created in Real Life
The actual difference depends on the journal, conference and field. In some fields (large parts of CS), the most prestigious conferences are more prestigious than most journals. OTOH, in biology, publishing in Cell or Nature may be career-changing.
Maybe another potential use could be fingerprinting/copyright content detection.
Link to the actual article mentioned in the linked /. post:

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/04/facebook-takes-aim-at...
I'd easily say the site is useless.

It only contains the bare minimum level of content to try and get you to click on an ad.
The first website I legitimately want to share with someone else (my roommate was talking about this exact idea the other day, he's not even a techie), and there's no share button to be found (referring to belugapods.com itself, not this article).
Coincidentally, I mentioned this recently in response to a thread about how traffic jams form: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2295135

I picked up the book over ten years ago and it has had a huge influence on the way I think about things.
I'd say it's because there are different milestones that people - fanboys, media, companies - set. There's so many ways to measure. Daily activations, current total market penetration... then there are variables like location (US or global?), range (smartphones or all mobile devices?)... Android is just winning them one by one, and this specific one happens to be one of the most important metrics, IMO.
Go for it on fourth down? Ask Coach Watson
The majority of Carsonified employees do not, however, code. I think this distinction is lost somewhere in all the anti-moonlighting ranting.
Should also mention that SimAnt is awesome.
...nice use of Vimeo's footer.
@LaunchHear

@Swagapalooza

(Swagapalooza is our event series, LaunchHear is the actual name of the YC w2010 startup.)
Evidently the application is full of bugs.
MacRuby is a free software project by Apple Inc. Many folks inside and outside of Apple contribute to this great project... -- http://www.macruby.org/contact-us.html
Thanks for this very comprehensive benchmark. I am going to have a look at uWSGI and gevent!
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zapon.com is a Mobile App. @zaponcom
I wasn't aware of it, I assume it's a coincidence and will have a conversation with my designer about it for sure.
Awesome watch.

I am the Product Manager of PostageApp (http://www.postageapp.com) and we're under heavy development still, but it's always good to hear the problems that heavy users are running into with email solutions / marketing companies.

Definitely going to write them down and see how we can make sure we solve some of those problems.

Thanks Noah!
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The article at one point asks:

>"What if we could resurrect marquee, but give it all of the screen real-estate of today’s large, modern location bar?"

What indeed. Sets my hard drive mashing - grunt grunt grunt - strangely enough.
If ST:N was the most heavy-handed you've seen, then I guess you haven't seen Transformers. Or any blockbuster action movie made in the last 5 years.

http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho...

Edit: I'm slow, this was linked in the comments below.
As I understand it, the cheapest plan is $25/mo with unlimited data, 300 minutes voice, and no contract.

Edit: also, I saw on Slickdeals.net that Target is/was selling them for $129 and you get a $20 gift card.
Does anyone know anything about the actual product Beluga made? The Slashdot post and CNN article don't contain much information about the actual product, so it's hard to tell, but it sounds like it's either a fancy SMS gateway or a dedicated group messaging system (that doesn't use SMS to deliver messages).
It's quite a stretch to say that Facebook's purchase of Beluga will lead to a "bust up" of SMS.

SMS will be around for a long time because it's compatible with every cell phone, regardless of OS or carrier and it's compatible internationally, even in countries where Facebook is blocked.

This sounds like the start of a cycle of "death of email" style stories for SMS.
There's nothing stopping you from passing unsanitized params to the database. I.e. where("name LIKE '%#{params[:name]}%'") instead of where("name like ?", "%#{params[:name]}%"). While the 2nd option is definitely the recommended way to do it, there's nothing stopping you from doing it the wrong way, and I bet many do.
Microsoft paying Nokia more than $1B to promote and develop WindowsPhone devices
If there's one thing I'd single out about Twitter for Mac, it's the non-standard window implantation. The titlebar at the top is invisible and tiny, the plus button is more useless then a normal OS X app, you can't drag the window off-screen, and if your configured displays are changed and you suddenly have less vertical resolution there's no way to resize the window.[1]

I could keep bitching about things (no font size adjustment, bizarre animations that give no context, poor highlighting of selected tweet), but there's no real point - if you like it, you like it, if you don't, you don't. :-)

[1] This was all in version 1.0 - perhaps they've changed/fixed some of this, but I haven't felt like going back and finding out.
How does ledger compare to gnucash?
It's the exact same image. Anyone at YC would notice.

..but if the design is just a rough mockup, I guess it wouldn't matter.
Distribute it to wide audience via Tunein Radio mobile app. check radiotime.com
Very cool. What do you guys use for issue management?
Here's one I made that lets you transition between URLs: http://bodytag.org/rollstate/

We didn't have the button/title flicker when it was first implemented though :\
I think Intel would be the company to give it a shot. They were part of thing Nokia walked away from.

Android uses Linux, you don't have to write an OS from completely from scratch.
I did a course on modelling complex systems for my honours studies; this was one of the recommended readings. I'm glad I bought it.

Most books about systems modelling refer to one of the commercial modelling programs. Or they are quite generic and hand-wavy. The nice thing about TTATJ is that the software (NetLogo) is downloadable[1]. The book is on the Kindle too, which is convenient.

[1] http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
Up voted and seconded.

WebOS' got the usability right. Sadly, their execution with the Pre and Pre 2 was late and poor.

Now if only Apple stole WebOS' style for multitasking...
To reinforce this point: advertisement's like the linked ones would be illegal in Australia, and the vendor would be heavily fined and/or forced to deliver the phones for free.

Ads here have to display the minimum cost over the terms of the contract, which makes it slightly easier to compare them.

Of course, this means that telcos do stuff like making plans that include "$300 of value for $30/month", which is an absurd claim when they set the calling costs too, and vary them depending on the plan.
It has the ability to work on Android, iOS, WebOS, and any future platform.

Which part of that benefit wasn't obvious to you?
I have the same problem.
I think this is very similar to how some of us were using Gizmo5 with GrandCentral before Google acquired both of them:

http://groups.google.com/group/grandcentral-help-poweruser/b...
I'd imagine many people would be excited at the prospect of sending free texts to all their Facebook friends.

The main stumbling is how to get free/really cheap data plans to get younger users online on smartphones so they can send the texts via Facebook. I might actually view Facebook as useful if they pulled this off. The downside would be even more worrying implications for privacy - would you trust Facebook with your intimate texts?
Why oh why is it still not available in the UK :(
Oh, that's cool. If you're talking about flicker in Chrome, you're probably seeing this bug:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50298
Hey, Eric from PadMapper here. Thanks for the callout :-) I agree that if you're looking for something very specific, it sucks to not be able to rely on a site showing you everything that's available.

Mind sending email to eric@padmapper.com about any obvious omissions?

Edit: you can also uncheck the "accurately located" filter and it should show more of the missing Craigslist posts.
I think learning ruby and rails at the same time is a mistake. Make sure you have a good grasp of the language first, because Rails uses advanced features of the language extensively.
Thank you very much for taking a look! Its going to be a grind but hopefully we can be the outlet mall for some great boutiques...
If you want getgrapevine.com let me know (see profile)
My understanding is that it is not actually easy to subpoena records from all the VPNs cloaking traffic to a specific site. In fact there could be a significant cost attached to doing that. So while it might make you look guilty in some situations, it can protect your innocent behaviour from being snooped until you do something to justify appropriate suspicion.

As stated
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The approved subpoena requires the company to turn over “documents reproducing all server logs, IP address logs, account information, account access records and application or registration forms” tied to Hotz’s hosting.
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I'm pretty sure they would need to apply for another subpoena in order to uncover any IPs coming from a VPN. Now this could be done if it was warranted, but most of the time I doubt it would be pursued and it might even be hard to prove it was warranted for each VPN?

Now just for fun, let's say you're tunneled to a VPN that's tunneled to another VPN, to another, etc. While you could still be chased down, it probably not practical in most situations like this. I wonder if one company could provide a service that uses multiple routings like this through different registered entities requiring the authorities to request records for each of the different entities in order to track down just one account. Then implement this on a large scale...
I can't quite put my finger on the logical fallacy here, but there must be one.

For example, applied to a compression algorithm, it fails, too, yet we have lossless compression.
http://www.facebook.com/share_options.php Should work with every site, if they have a like/share button or not.
Likely because it's significantly more expensive to call a UK mobile than a US one. I believe that they announced free calls until the end of the year. Maybe they'll roll it out in the UK at that point but expect to pay for it.
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The original post is much more insightful.

http://www.businessinsider.com/business-insider-the-full-mon...

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2297351
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