skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like they are also accepting 'pitches' which could be a great opportunity for any UK startup.. (I know I'll be applying)
Sure - technology will advance to a point where it will be indistinguishable from magic. So the world will look exactly like World of Warcraft. Everyone monotonously doing the same stuff over and over every day while dragons (and any other kind of genetic mutations) will roam the landscape (carrying ads most likely).
What is PR6?
Gramfeed - Instagram meets Twitter
the hipmunk path can be applied to any industry, given the existing condition (#1 bellow) on the field:

1. get solution used for 30yr in the industry but closed to insiders

2. provide same solution for end consumers

3. profit.
What would you do with Open.org?
@protomyth, re: "why wouldn't we want a.."because the criteria to be successful in business and government are completely different! In business the ONLY goal is to create value for your shareholders.

In government the goal is to serve your people. If you're in government and lose sight of this goal, then you end up like Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gadafi etc :-) All of them created value for their "shareholders", be they foreign oil companies or the domestic businesses that were run by the local oligarchy.
Lots of down-votes, but no replies. I can't figure out if the down votes are proving that I'm right or if I totally missed something.
Here's an experiment: I asked the same question on Quora, Sprouter, HN ... where will I get better responses?

Here's the Quora version: http://www.quora.com/What-impact-will-Sprouters-pivot-have-o...
Unity, Flash & 3D on the web
Cool. What tools do you use for daily design? I've been slowly moving from Photoshop to CSS, and want to start using stuff like Antetype early in the process. I've also figured out that Photoshop is good for finalizing a design that's been moved around, tested and iterated upon.
Product Discovery With Live-Data Prototypes
Someone on IRC just pointed me towards http://pwnieexpress.com/pwnplug3g.html which is scary as hell.
Watson and the future of machine learning
I did that once. I had a problem with upgrading Eclipse on Mac, a quick googling of the error found no solution. So I investigated the problem, found the solution and wrote a blog post with that error message. That blog post now has several hundred comments thanking me for fixing their very issue.
Sure, but recently it's been arguments about minor points with no substance. I almsot feel like we're getting meta here. heh.

Don't apologize about the tough love! Listen, when I don't perform, call my ass out. I don't like sugarcoated things and when I'm below par, I need to be told. To me that's just straight up love.
Hopefully this is the real deal and not an abstraction on the current datastore. When using the datastore in a relational way, you get some pretty horrid performance.
Step one is to abandon your initial requirements and rewrite ones that are compatible with robustly portable CSS.

After that I think the quoted statement works.
"So is "float"."

No, 'float' is a property - '<table>' or '<td>' are elements. Float has nothing to do with semantics, it's purely presentational.

By marking up content semantically - it's possible to do interesting things with your marked-up content. For instance, content can be scraped more easily and a screen-reader can use elements to make inferences about the make-up of a page's contents. xHTML can be translated to other forms of XML using XSLT - and HTML content can be shared between desktop and mobile devices with just a stylesheet change. Liquid layouts can be utilised and JS can be used to move content dynamically.

There are a huge number of reasons for marking content semantically.

Using a table is a bad solution for anything other than tabular data.
I don't think you could've picked a worse example for disruption. The choice indicates a comical level of insularity.
"One country he is certain won't be a customer anytime soon is the U.S., which doesn't yet have a certification process for reactors like TerraPower's. It would likely be a decade or more before the reactor could be tested on U.S. soil. "I don't think the U.S. has the willpower or desire to build new kinds of nuclear reactors," Mr. Myrhvold says. "Right now there's a long, drawn-out process."

This is the most disappointing part of the piece. This is too often the case with many forward looking technologies these days, high-speed rail, etc. Great news for the planet though!
Thank god, an app server with an imperative configuration file! Bliss! Declarative languages are not meant for programmers.
The Startup Sales Cycle: Part 1 of 3
Why isn't it important for new projects? I have a ton of projects that I can't do on GAE precisely because of this. GQL is extremely limited.
The great thing about offices is that you can go sit in someone else's half the day if you need to collaborate on something.
"a budding industrial espionagist could buy the SheevaPlug..."

Stopped reading at that point. People can use technology for whatever they want, including nefarious purposes. That's not an issue which is specific to plug computers.
I agree that Quora can and maybe should leech some of this away. However, I personally dislike seeing SO and Quora questions posted here. The fragmented discussion is a sign that something is amiss.

If HN is a bad place to ask questions because they don't make it to the front page but it's a good place to discuss questions, my guess is that the community's perspective has some value.

Maybe it's time for HackerQuestions.com with users/karma integrated between HN and HQ. It's good that you can chat with journos on Quora. It's also good to have amore focused conversation within HN, that's why people discuss Quora or SO questions with such energy.
There's a censored comment in response here from the original author of the post. Turn on showdead.
TI-Nspire graphing calcs get full color displays, 3D, WiFi, and new OS
AAAAAHHHHHHH there's pictures of kittens at the top of HackerNews!
hmm, I thought Quora already was "Quora for startups". Am I missing something?
Ok no one is letting a robot cut their hair

Although we are using a electric mechanical device to do so. In particular with shaving we have devices that do all the cutting and make it virtually impossible to cut yourself. So kind of similar even there.
PR is Pagerank. Which Google uses for its Algorithms. However, despite what people tend to believe a PR6 isn't that hard to obtain.
I'm not entirely sure what you're competitive advantage is then?

From I've read, it sounds like you've made the following conclusions:

HN - Great community, but not always reliable.

Quora - Great quality and responsiveness, but lack of focus.

And you want to sit somewhere in between? What's in it for the people giving advice?
Upvoted assuming you're being sarcastic :)

Seriously, I'd love to hear how easy a varnish setup is to debug. Apache rewrite rules are imperative as well, just not obviously so.
Study: Universal health care does not close health gap between rich and poor
I see no kittens....

Using Chrome and thoroughly disappointed.
Or perhaps your point is couched in a way that antagonizes people for some reason? You'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/making-money-small-busi...

Everything in one view.
>What happens in 5 years, when those concepts are mostly obsolete and have been replaced by another way of doing things?

People stop using them.
Am I the only one who absolutely detests cats?

They're evil irritating virmin IMHO.
I think sjs382 is looking for a system that can send to both Android and iOS devices with one click. If Push Browser added Android support, it would fit that bill.
Bill Gates' new startup
What $480M in Gross Revenue Looks Like to Groupon (6MB SVG)
Yes; the servant carrying a wax cylinder for the gramophone device was a huge miss.

Yeah, I don't get that one. What was the advance here supposed to be? I would have imagined that's what rich people did in 1910.
It is one of the industry's leading tech publications: http://www.techmeme.com/lb ... though I do agree, this article is pretty crappy, as some others have pointed out.

I mostly just disagree with the parent's assertion that a short summary of a research paper posted on a major publication qualifies as "blog spam" or that the original poster had some kind of obligation to track down the source paper. Sometimes a tl;dr version is just what the doctor ordered.
Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don’t tell you
That is pretty brilliant. As a wise man once said, "Guba simpy bebo, zecco plazes moola gpokr."
What is the difference between "linking" and "deep linking"? Whatever else W|A is, it is a web server and it responds to my requests by sending me web pages. Why does Wolfram get to decide for me which web browser I should use to view those pages?
Great! Maybe server-side cache the images so they only need to be generated once?
It is the real deal and it will scale, and I quote, "as well as SQL scales".
Do you trust online dating services? If so, how about eharmony.com?
No doubt. Before taking that complicated step, throw the idea out there that you are willing to license it. Get a few developers to do that as single transactions, where you walk them through code integration. If it proves too popular for you to manage, you now know you have a market, and a reason to build out a full API and battle test it.
I think that there's a herd mentality here w.r.t voting.
Thankfully the system doesn't let the mob downvote too far
There are many CSS books that give concrete examples of various layout types that work in all browsers.

Dan Cederholm wrote one of the best:
http://simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270355
Ha, that is what I call it myself ;-)
100% of his income off is off Adsense and its pulling in $1200/month? You should tell him to look at the advertisments which his users are clicking on, THEN replace the adsense ads with CPA advertisements (of which the users are clicking on) and make even more than that per month as well as, diversify and protect income if he gets banned by Adsense.
http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/

EDIT: for the down-voting, disbeliever[1] ;)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
Two 17 Year Old Tech Entrepreneurs Launch Social News Reader Startup
Some loose remarks:

- off course Google is first; it is cheapest. Back in the day, its equivalent would be a visit to the library. That would come after ask a colleague, visiting one's bookshelf and thinking.

- for some classes of problems, such as algorithm selection, 'Google' requires quite some thinking about what your problem actually is.

- for others, such as figuring out the cause of weird error messages, Google may be about the only option, even though it isn't particularly good (e.g. because your query gives a zillion 'me too' posts plus a couple of five year old 'I did x, and it went away', where there is no reason to expect x to have any effect on the problem, where x seems to be pure overkill (reinstall, reformat), or where the poster readily admits 'it went away for a while'.

- typically, this isn't an either/or proposition. Googling, in particular, does not (have to) rule out thinking.
We are living weird times. Multitasking, copy/paste, SQL support, these things are old, but still newsworthy when added to new platforms/services.
Not really, though at my place, cats run the show.
Managers (and many programmers) tend to believe on a gut level that programmers are only truly productive when there are fingers on the keyboard.

Unfortunately, in most organizations you don't want to be 'that guy' who spends half his time scribbling notes, reading inscrutable documents, and frequently talking with peers. It's hard for a casual observer to tell whether you're productive, and many people will assume you're not.
I did a very similar investigation 5 years ago, to find the optimal way to fill-up a DVD from a set of files of various sizes (more than a DVD's worth). Have a look:

http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/fillupDVD.html
Under normal circumstances that's probably true, but in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, where uncertainty rules and everyone is cutting back purchases of everything until they see whether the govt will bail out the economy and how effective it will be, you can probably cut yourself some slack if your erstwhile customers are hesitant to buy from a new startup.
Whether they were serious or not, they'd probably find it weird to be held up as the canonical word on 'what people thought in 1910' (for all of 15 minutes)
I felt the same way until I married a cat lover. They grew on me after a couple years.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but was Meeker not the arch cheerleader for dotcom bubble compaines such as Netscape, 360 degree Networks, Aol, and many others? I recall her sending "buy" and "outperform" letters to clients for companies who lost from 90% - 100% of their values.
Maybe because you said you don't mind people getting ad revenue? Sadly, from what I've seen around here recently, that would do it!
Understanding Asynchronous forEach()
I read him as saying it's no more complicated to build; not that it's no more complicated to operate. This interpretation makes sense in view of his point that safety concerns (pre-takeoff checks) are what prevent widespread personal flight.
(And please excuse us if we sometimes punish you for trying to defend us.)
Nuclear is a special circumstance. Any reactor here that produces Plutonium 239 is a huge proliferation risk unless it can do so in a completely closed cycle.
Intelligent notification system, full web browser with tabbed browsing and Flash support, real multitasking, more ports and expansion, a better organisation system (not a wall of icons)....... Man, they can do something great!
good catch, thanks for the feedback. I've been thinking about adding another line of text explaining it a little more clearly...or maybe enlarging the "Viral music distribution via Facebook" text I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
I find it strange, that I have to download and install a 40 Meg statistics package to run an IDE.
Shops that operate like this, get exactly the code they deserve.
Depending where you are at, it might be March already :)
If you want to do this right now, check out Screens for iPad.
The called shot: I'm retiring in 3 months
I'd be curious to hear their calculus for why they thought this services route would be more lucrative than selling the product and services.

It seems like the type of product that people who would balk at purchasing it would be the same type to balkat most types of services listed (except maybe hosting).
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Reserve your username early on NearMine.com we're currently in stealth! But sign up early and we'll give you alpha access and you can reserve your username before anyone else gets there. ;)
Thank you, this look like a good resource. :)

However, a book is a very different investment from "maybe ten minutes of reading a how to guide".
Nudging People to Exercise
Kind of kills one of the main reasons for the nonrel branch to exist, no? Wasn't django-nonrel an outgrowth of efforts to put django on appengine?

I think that the nonrel project has utility on other places (redis, mongo, etc...) but ABP (all buttons pressed, creators of nonrel) was pushing django on GAE alot, IIRC.
yeah, I get that too, but here's what you are supposed to see:
http://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/02/naked-password.html
People that don't understand what the web is, why it's important, or how it works get mad when you link to

http://www.something.com/ANYTHINGATALL

They think you should _only_ ever link to

http://www.something.com/

If you couldn't tell by my first sentence, I find this idea repulsive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking
You hate CSS? Here is an actual rant by zedshaw: http://oppugn.us/posts/1287608776.html

"I absolutely hate CSS. It has to be the most inconsistent, poorly designed, bat shit fucking crazy piece of computing technology we have today. And remember, I used to code Ruby and Perl for a living. If I'm saying CSS is bat shit crazy I mean it."
That first sentence is amazing. Where did you get your MBA? :)
I was also excited to see VCU on HN. VCU has come a long way from were it was 20 or 30 yrs ago.

Though, it's still a great art school.
literally.
So long as the performance is reasonable, this will go a long way towards removing lock-in barriers with AppEngine.
CSS doesn't define element types. HTML does.

The proposed HTML5 spec. has definitions for many of these elements.
Can you gives some examples of requirements that must be abandoned?
Nodejitsu opens up a west coast node.js hacking house. All hackers welcome.
Cars were not as reliable as they were today either. Things broke down all the time 40 years ago.
At the risk of re-hashing a number of previous discussions, GQL appears limited when compared to SQL because Google's database is designed to scale to extremely large datasets and massive numbers of concurrent users. The features that are missing were removed intentionally because they don't scale. If you can re-think your database use to be consistent with this new paradigm, then you'll have a much more scaleable app when you're done.
"The datastore is high-latency and extremely unreliable"
- http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~silver/gae.html
It reminds me a little of ukiyo-e, where even beautiful and finely detailed images would have basic errors of perspective.

(For example, in http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g08423/ , the way the boat meets the water is baffling. As far as I can tell, this is an error, not a knowing artistic cheat.)

I assume that the drafting skill of even low-quality drawing went up quickly as photographs became ubiquitous, but I don’t have the art history background to support the notion.
We are: http://sucuri.net

Looking for an entry-level (junior) support person to help us out. Great way to get experience and work with some cool security projects (dealing with all types of malware, infected sites, etc).

What we are looking for? Someone that learns fast, loves to automate boring tasks, knows Linux / PHP (or shell scripting) and is fun to work with. Experience with WordPres/ Joomla/ Wiki and other popular web apps is a plus.

Email me dd@sucuri.net if interested.
It's not that strange when you realize it's an IDE for a statistics processing language.
http://goo.gl/XuTXn

One view via ViewText.org
Motorola: all our high-end smartphones will have Webtop from June onwards
Developers are expensive
Have you ever seen The Big Lebowski?

"You're not wrong, Walter. You're just an asshole."
Please demonstrate it then. I hear many more people saying CSS isn't difficult than showing it.

To be sure, I'm talking about CSS for layout here, not styling. I find CSS for styling to be relatively straightforward.
Republicans: No compromise possible on net neutrality
Data Destroying Machine Sought By Canada's Public Works Department
Apologies there, I was reacting to the exaggerated choice in anecdote, but actually meant the "practical" line favorably. Science and practicality can be at ends, but at the end, practicality wins by definition, right?

3. I agree that complex model building is fertile ground for hand-waving, this-is-too-complex-to-understand-so-just-accept-it false justification. I don't think large models are endemic to either Bayesian or Frequentist methods, though Bayesian methods do allow them to be built more easily. In both cases, I think simple sanity checks form a foundation that is necessary for the presentation of complex models.

1. I think the idea of being "interested in results" is a false hope. Experimentation does not always produce results, and when it does you probably don't even need statistics because the results are so obvious. In all other cases, uncertainty has become a major factor and demanding clarity is foolish. Tempting, but foolish.

4. I think under-modeling is dangerous, too. At the very least, it can rob you of the ability to quantify educated conclusions short of doing meta-analysis. At least with priors you're telling everyone you're a bit tipsy instead of stamping a bar chart down and having people swallow assumptions under the stamp of 'objectivity'.

It's kind of like Python 'import this'. Explicit is better.
They're becoming a pretty sharp political group.
How I back up Gmail (my relay is doing it for me)
Dup:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2262693 <- Many comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270294
Ask HN: Are there legal barriers to this kind of promotion?
We've come up with an idea that would help our startup AND a non-profit organization: We want to pledge to give, say, $1 for every review that's written on our startup's website during a given time period.

Has anyone else tried a promotion like this?
I'd like to have bindings for various languages, to be able to use it like

placeholder=new Kitten('random');
Former RealNetworks Execs Want You To “SocialEyes” With Video Chat
Dow Chemical Spending $100 Million On Energy Efficiency, Emissions Reduction
I've written this quick tutorial after my post here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270785 got some interest
The experiment does not mean anything. You will have very little response or no response at all.

Why? A lot of Q/A startups come and go and personally nobody cares if yet another new one shows up.
Yes it sounds ridiculous, but I'm going to work as hell and make it happen.

You should be skeptical, and if you were saying it, I would be too. Naysayers, I'll see you in 3 months.
How does plugging a computer into a power socket compromise the network? Wouldn't it be the same if I, say, camped below the office window with my netbook? You still have to hack into the WLAN network, I suppose?
Why chmod text modes are more powerful than octal
Just curious - in what way was IPX better than this?
Making Fun debuts as the video-game arm of Rupert Murdoch’s empire
Cry me a river? There are plenty of other types of market research you can do.
Tools to make your Joomla website mobile compatible 
Great Tips
Ask HN: Using quora to get exposure to your startup
Is anyone doing that?

A common technique in the "free" marketing tips is to participate in forums/blogs related to your startup to build an audience and meet with some peers.

However, if I want to meet potential investors would Quora be useful for that? Anyone having success?
Pinterest, Dribbblr, and Quora in the early days were all invite-only and read-only to the public. I don't think it's confusing at all. However, you would benefit from exposing some awesome content on the home page to entice people to request an invite.
How does that compare to thorium based reactors?
The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHs2Ugxo7-8
The end goal for every app doesn't have to be scaling on the order that GAE's original design provides. People have lived for years creating apps that use Excel or Access as a datastore.

Being able to use SQL on GAE will allow more widespread use of GAE for things besides "the next twitter".
Strongly agreed, I started asking for discounts as par for the course for my tiny company on everything. Usually of the form "we'd really like to stretch the budget on this one, can we get an extra..." and it's working a third of the time with nothing more than that.

I read that article more as being about dealing with jerks, which I don't have a good strategy for.