skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past the 0.2.x was the API stable branch and the 0.3.x was the experimental branch for the development of new features like SSL.It had an incompatible API against the 0.2.x branch.

All this went into the 0.4.x branch, which is now stable again and new features incl. API changes can be expected for 0.5.x.
Are you getting enough Facebook likes?
Still effectively zero ROI though. Been there, done that, and all we got to show for it was a couple rocks and a money pit space station. Personally I'd vote for Larry using his billions to refund the Superconducting Supercollider. Now that would be one hell of a startup.
I had a reply that said a few things along those line, deleted it. Yours is much better.

Just wanted to add a few things:

1- some contributions in this world are only accidentally world changing (see various open-source software). They were not done with some zealous ambitions. Their instigator merely had an itch to scratch and it turns out that the rest of the world appreciated it so much that it just took a life of its own.

2- I am a notoriously trashy person, yet I love a clean space, but I'm also notoriously slow to clean stuff. There's this little lady who has a business cleaning apartments in the neighborhood and she comes once in a while to clean up my place for 30$ (takes her about 30-45min). By some people's standards she's only making herself happy with her business. But I'll tell you, when she leaves my place my brain starts functioning again. The place is spic and span. I produce some of my best code and sometimes throw in new features for my clients for free. I'm pretty sure it might make their own clients happy. This is the butterfly effect of small contributions. You don't need to change the entire world to make a difference.
Biology's 'dark matter' hints at fourth domain of life
How Kickstarter Became a Lab for Daring Prototypes and Ingenious Products
You have to keep in mind though that the app store drives hardware sales. Looking at it in isolation obscures the point of its existence.
Free apps give you the taste of other paid apps. Everything looks free but there is always some cost behind it. I think app store as a freemium business.
We cannot discount the hardware purchase and the halo effect of the Apple products.
I agree with this in spirit, but it's important to realize that a pitch and a press kit aren't the same thing.

Having these things on-hand is great, and on your site even better (perhaps in a /press or /media URL). However, turning a pitch, especially a cold pitch, into a press kit can be seen as presumptuous and a turn-off to some members of the media.
Not the most auspicious introduction (for me at least) to Sarah Lacy.
I talked with one of the founders of Hackruiter (YC S10) last weekend and he told me Paul gave them the same advice! The two founders (or "the Hackruiters" as PG would say) are scheduling days completely full of half-hour 1-on-1 in-person meetings in different cities with people who might be interested in joining a startup. This is one of the most un-scalable processes I can imagine.

By the by, I was very impressed with the founder I talked to (Nick), and I would suggest that if you are a superb developer who is itching to join an existing startup, get in touch with Hackruiter. If they think you are a good fit, they may very well be able to either make the right connections on your behalf or at least point you in the right direction.
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Which is a key point, and probably the one wensing was originally trying to make. If you can build a business with the intent of doing something like logistics extremely well (which lowers your costs) then you can pass that on to the consumer of your products. They don't give a rats ass about your logistics, but they do care that whatever the blackbox your warehouse does ends up shaving 20 cents off that bag of chips. WalMart still gets about the same percentage of profit, but the overall cost of the product is less.

Lowering your price just to be cheaper than your competitors only cheapens the market and doesn't add anything of value to the product. You will quickly learn why everyone else keeps their margin up higher than yours when you can't expand due to lack of funds, or you have to cut something else out to keep in business.
"If Amazon isn't happy with Apple's terms, users can install the Kindle app outside the store"
There is a jailbreak for that and it would defeat the purpose of Appstore i.e. Walled Garden.
Jump and Dump
Yea, I know that top-down control of customer service agents is fundamentally flawed for a while now.
This is a very good thing. It looks like they're going with Chrome's model:

http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
Yes I find it offensive because it doesn't seem to contain real content but appears to be a revenue generation scheme and something I used to appreciate about hacker news was it's lack of blatant crap articles.

The point in time I created my account bears no evidence towards the duration with which I have read hacker news or any previous accounts I may have held here.
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In job interviews, never mention actual or imaginary pathology in an actual or imaginary workplace. It almost always works against you.
Being someone who's trying to live by something close Alex's mantra with my startup (CloudFab, in the digital manufacturing space), I actually think all those companies (Fb, Tw, 4sq) provide very societally valuable things.

How awesome is it that I can talk to old friends on Facebook (which does lead to in-person convo!), get great socially-vetted info on Twitter, or find local tips on Foursquare when traveling.

Okay - maybe Zynga is where I draw the line... ;-) it really does seem like like they're hacking our brains like that fluke* that causes ants to get eaten by animals to spread itself.

But still maybe that knowledge helps all of marketing by example...

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicrocoelium_dendriticum
Mosaid sues 17 companies over WI-FI including Dell, Asus, RIM...
I agree completely! I am working on a much better variation fo this theme, but with much better layouts and without all the goofy default UI margins and padding.
Kinect home automation - Questions and Answers
If you've built a good web app, you've already done 90% of this work on your main page. All that information you're trying to get across to potential customers is information that will inform the journalist.

A good about page can fill in some of the rest if you write it well. Your greater mission, team history... whatever's interesting. Write about it here.

A media or press page can do the rest if you decide to go with it. If you've done your work elsewhere, this can be as simple as a preferred contact e-mail and a clean, hi-res logo file (and yes, the transparent PNG is best here). Or, just put this stuff onto your about page for the same effect.
This is a bad idea. The main benefit node offers is that it _doesn't_ block.
Thank you for building this, I've been having trouble finding good podcasts lately and this is just what I need.

It keeps crashing my tabs in Chrome OS X
According to his Wikipedia article, he spent some time at UNLV pursuing a Computer Science degree (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rose#Early_life)
Even if he can afford to do the whole thing himself, remember the old adage:

If you need advice, ask for money. If you need money, ask for advice.

He may have raised money specifically to bring in some investors who can contribute some wisdom and experience.
"Most users of free services are douchebags."

It's a blunt way to put it but my experience has shown this to be generally true.
There's no reason to release android for it unless they have a color e-ink display. The entire point of the kindle is the e-ink screen, if they were to replace that with a normal LCD and install android.. I'd have exactly 0 reason to buy it.
HP Palm webOS SDK 2.1 Publicly Released
This is just a followup to the home automation Kinect hack I posted last week, addressing some of the questions people had here and elsewhere.

I'll have something more interesting in the future.
I got that with AT&T, not Verizon though.
I am seeing a psychologist. I considered taking meds but decided not to due to possible long term side effects (IMO... to each his own regarding long term risk I guess)
It might surprise some folks to find the US isn't much different. Although here in the US we're all at 60Hz, we have several regions with different synchronization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid

So we also have interconnections with limited capacity between the grids. I recall reading about a new interconnection plant being built between three of our grids on the border of NM and TX with superconducting cables, but can't find the link. Maybe someone else can post it.
Yea, HN and FB are the two great procrastinators :)

And Thanks!
According to MSNBC, that is PC-speak for the Chinese. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42152645/ns/technology_and_scien...
That's fantastic. I assumed that they kept a waiting list in order to keep the restaurant full. This is really interesting.

Does OpenTable have an affiliate program?
The number of comments shows that node.js is rapidly confirming its fad status.
While I guess that's besides the point, how long into the future were those goals set?
Last I remember, Kevin no longer has any involvement at Rev3.
Take a look at the source-- Backbone itself is written in the module pattern.

Underscore and Backbone will both teach you a lot. This chapter from Eloquent Javascript will also help motivate the rationale behind Underscore:

http://eloquentjavascript.net/chapter6.html
I'll take "Sticking it to United" for $49
The mental difference between 0 and X is dramatically larger than the difference between X and X+1, no matter what X may be. Focus on the offering and striking a chord with your target market.
Cell carriers really need to realize that they're effectively selling perpetually-connected pocket-sized computers, and that refusing updates because they're "not in the business plan" is going to cause them an inordinate amount of grief due to malware.
You should also consider how fast the market is growing too. Maybe it's only 1% of Apple's profits, but that's a lot considering it was non-existent 2 years ago. Perhaps in another 2 years it will be 5% of Apple's profit. That's incredible growth into a completely new profit market.
Analysis of Brisbane's dams and the flood
PG’s Foresight in hindsight, almost 3 years later..
I recently re-read this post (http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html) by PG from 2008, listing ideas YC would like to fund back then. I thought it’ll be interesting to revisit and discuss what he was absolutely right about, what is still relevant today and what didn’t pan out as anticipated.
I realize there’s a new set of RFS’s out there, I still think this is an interesting exercise simply because the no. of startups he was right about.
Some obvious winners:

2. Simplified browsing: I’d say iPad fits the bill. My mother, who’s never touched a computer in her life is quiet happy browsing our pics on the ipad.

9. Photo/Video sharing: Besides posterous and tumblr, there’s also instagram and picplz that have generated a lot of excitement in the area.

16. Some form of search that depends upon design: Not perfect, but this seems to the main USP of Bing.

17. New payment methods: Seems like the field is wide open but there’s been lot of activity in the area. Square, Zong and NFC related hype are good recent examples.

19. Application/data hosting: There’s been a recent gold rush in this area, Heroku being the poster child. As PG said, there’s room for more.

27. Hardware/Software hybrids: Well, square is one good example. This is something that I’m very keen on tackling personally as I believe there are a lot of opportunities still wide open in this area.

Would love to hear more from others..
I hate how the article doesn't mention any numbers / metrics except for the final dollar value.
somehow I find the implication that bezos interviewed for the google CEO position in 2000 a bit far-fetched
That's the situation we have now, isn't it? Some things are easier to filter, since there are lists of porn sites under any TLD and appliance makers utilize them today. So, your improvement is pretty much nil.
Digg's CEO Matt Williams responded on Digg comments about this: http://digg.com/news/business/kevin_rose_resigns_from_digg_c...

Disclaimer: I work at Digg.
ICANN grants .xxx but delays opening domain gates
I'm intrigued; I'll have to try it out.
I would argue that both Reddit and Digg are like drinking from the Ganges river; in that the amount of shittiness is related to where along the source you decide to drink from.
Here's what a Google search for "at&t nsa splitter" turned up:

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/04/6585.ars
I heard a rumor that the actual first choice was Bill Clinton but the VCs balked because of his disbarrment issues.
I haven't actually used Zappos, but if you're saying a website has better customer service than an actual person, maybe I should. Unfortunately they don't ship overseas.
http://www.google.com/virgle/pioneer.html
I'm not sure why a patch version release of a software package qualifies for a HN post, but the fact that it's on the front-page should speak volumes for Node's current popularity.
I would also think that no Anne Hathaway news should result in no positive price changes for a correlation to exist

That's not correct. Imagine the stock price can be derived from two factors A and B such that price = A + B. A is correlated with the price, but a positive price change could also happen caused by B. So no change in A does not guarantee no change in price. And in the case of BRK.A there would be many such factors.
I think you raise one particularly good point in that while not everyone has the coding skills to make things many people have as you say "big" ideas. Bringing them to fruition by any means possible helps everyone as it brings the field forward. Digg started a trend of such sites and has in doing so made the web a better place to browse, even if the original site is no longer the best example.
Over the years I've found that Conversion Optimizer is not actually as good as dedicated bid algorithms like Kenshoo or Omniture Search Center. However, it does have the advantage of being free.

If you're doing small scale stuff (less than $1k/month in spend) and are not spending much per conversion already (anything below $10) it can work fine. Upgrade to a more mature tool if you're not - it is worth the cash.
Instead of going to the moon, he should consider mining an asteroid. Apparently, a 100m Fe-rich near-Earth asteroid contains ~$150 billion worth of platinum. There's at least a potential of ROI.
reddit is that way >>>>
From the "Making Oprah cry" section of this article http://blog.asmartbear.com/startup-marketing-ideas.html

Eventually I developed stories like the following, each tuned to a certain category of listener. Here's the one for the journalists:

It's always fun to tell a journalist like you that we enable software developers to review each other’s code because your reaction is always: "Wait a minute, you're seriously telling me they don't do this already?" The idea of editing and review is so embedded in your industry you can't imagine life without it, and you're right! You know better than anyone how another set of eyeballs finds important problems.

Of course two heads are better than one, but developers traditionally work in isolation, mainly because there's a dearth of tools which help teams bridge the social gap of an ocean, integrate with incumbent tools, and are lightweight enough to still be fun and relevant.

That's what we do: Bring the benefits of peer review to software development.
Isn't he dismissing the risk that the airline won't be able to sell the ticket within the next 48 hours? The potential for the airline to make $400 is there, but the expected revenue is below that.
Yes. ZFS has the concept of storage pools--what used to be called hierarchical storage management. So it can deal explicitly with storage in which some members of the pool, e.g. SSDs, are faster than others. However, this is basically a server concept. It has very little to do with how MacBooks might be used.
How was Digg fundamentally different from Slashdot? No editors?
In reality, since airlines love to overbook flights, they probably sold it anyway.
"it blocks only current thread!"

Is this satire?
Sorry for the broken link. Forgot to publish this before I submitted it to HN.
Exactly, the airline probably sold that same seat to someone at the last minute for $500 already, knowing they can bump someone who paid $199 and showed up late to the gate, comp them $300 in vouchers, and break even on the whole deal.
Careful, since who knows what rule of back to back/throwaway ticketing you could be breaking by buying a ticket and not flying. The airlines probably would claim that this is illegal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_booking_ploys
I suspect you're thinking of the Tres Amigas SuperStation (http://www.tresamigasllc.com/), which will connect the Western, Eastern, and Texas Interconnects - and should realistically be online in 2015 or so.
If your idea involves any significant amount of programming at all, start learning to program now, even if it's not realistic that the code you produce make it into the final product.

By all means apply to YCombinator. The chances for you are much lower (since you don't program and afaict you are a single founder), but you can always apply again in future rounds.

I'm applying this round myself and have basically taught myself to program over the last 6 months. I have about ~6500 lines of code written so far and the technical co-founder that joined me says that it's on par with code he has seen from people working 4-5 years in the market.

If you are smart, clever, capable and determined, there is no reason that you can't achieve the same by the time the next class comes around. If you are serious about learning to program, look around on HN and if you need any specific advice, feel free to ping me.

What you don't want to do is end up asking this same question again in 6 months time.

Even if you were to really impress the YCombinator partners and get an interview and pass the interview, you will still need to recruit technical talent. Being able to program even as an amateur can only help.
Everything Apple does drives hardware sales. They're a hardware company. The App Store creates a virtuous cycle that makes their platforms more useful. The point, here, is that they aren't making money from the operation of the store – they're just barely breaking even. Would they operate at a loss to continue improving their device sales? I doubt it. And the crux of this piece is that Apple is doing what it can to keep this monster from turning into a money pit.
Larry is apparently a major advocate of Google's self-driving cars. Done properly, that's worth trillions.
Something you "used to appreciate about hacker news"?

What, like, last week when you first joined?

Oh, yes, those were the good old days!
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That's a very interesting analysis. Apple is breaking even on the App store, and the idea is free apps cost a lot of money to host because of volume distribution costs (as opposed to sunk one-time costs for having the store at all). If we assume this is true, then pay apps are subsidizing the cost of their free competitors.
True, which is why he should also complete his check-in online so that it looks like he is confirmed on thhe flight, at least until the last 10 minutes when they realize he is a no show.
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Yeah, articles on /. were approved by CmdrTaco et al. Digg was basically the first to let users vote on stories to get them to the front page.
It's worth considering that the people who watch cable news may very well want huge coverage of a royal wedding. Why not? It's a made-for-TV event. Very entertaining to some folks. Increasingly the people who want better/faster coverage are going elsewhere. Throughout the disasters in Japan one of the best sources of news I found was an individual doing live translations from JP news sources on U-Stream. From there NHK-TV doing live coverage of press conferences. I don't see any good reason to wait around for the western media to spoon feed me information in-between commercials for erection drugs.
If you switch to their distribution, do you get any benefit now?
Not that it wouldn't be great to see it started up again, but how is the supercollider any less of a money pit than the ISS? I can hardly see it being a profitable business plan for a startup...
What are they gonna do, arrest you and force you to get on the flight?
Show HN: Touch Tone Tanks, a phone controlled game built with Canvas and Node.js
You are both right.

AIUI, Net Neutrality can be defined as treating every endpoint the same. My connection to Google, Yahoo and Bing should be exactly the same, as what you said. But does it really matter which device I connect to Google, Yahoo or Bing with? No. My phone is still an endpoint on the internet, as the only difference between a starting point and an ending point is the direction.

You might have a point arguing that bad network users (spammers, zombies and over-consumers) should be discriminated against, but that is not a neutrality rule, since those users did something to degrade the performance of others. Blindly saying that an iPhone is not allowed on my network is exactly the same as saying no one is allowed to connect to Facebook on my network.

In this case though, and especially the Reddit thread early this morning that seemed to spark this debate, users were showing consumption habits of 150GB+ per month on their 3G connection. I have no problem enforcing some restraining rules against them (like throttling over a certain number). But claiming that every packet coming from my laptop tethered to my phone should be charged at a 15% premium compared to the ones that come from my phone directly is ridiculous and is a violation of net neutrality.
I'm not so sure about all that. Seems dying fish or beached whales is just his theory. Doesn't seem to prove anything.
Thank you for the information, sir.
Check the graphic below the article. It's got most of the numbers.
Good advice but I'd argue there's one tweak to make that even better: start outside the cloud (say, just some Linux VM's from Linode or whatever), then only if you get enough real customer/visitor demand to warrant easy/virtual scaling, then move to a cloud provider. Needing a cloud/elastic hosting provider is a bit of a Maserati Problem. If you get to the point where you have to build/manage your own data centers (like Google, Amazon, Orbitz), you have a Fleet-of-Maseratis Problem.
Actually 37 days ago right before you created your account...

Seriously donnacha you're being kind of a prick here. Given that I feel like this post is an SEO trick and your specialization appears to be SEO...
Without Tim Cook's ability to execute, Jobs' vision may never have come to pass. One person can't do it all, and, in particular, I don't think you can effectively be visionary and "execution-ary" at the same time. I think that will be one of Larry's biggest challenge.
While some people refer to the 1980's Iran-Iraq was as the "First Persian Gulf War" and the 1991 was as the "Second Persian Gulf War", most of the usage I've seen is to call them the "Iran-Iraq War" and "Persian Gulf War", respectively.

If it makes you feel any better, there were a half dozen world wars before World War I and World War II.
It's not illegal, I've had Virgin America actually tell me to just not show up when I was canceling a flight once because the cancelation fee was more expensive than my ticket. Essentially, I had to pay them $20 or something to cancel my flight or just not show up.
Very much so. Poll?