skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know when they say "They had almost nothing and they made it from scratch"? They are most likely talking about people like me (and you). Funding your dream with whatever you have (or have left..). No Serie A, B, etc. Just choosing to invest in your dream instead of buying that new suit.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails. I've got my shares of failures before this and will probably still have failures in the future. That's part of the risk you take when you try to make it happen on your own.

I know it's still way too early to declare victory.

ThinkTutorial.com's growth is for now only numbers and traffic volume increases. I however know that if I was able to help someone out there answering a question they had through our tutorials, then I am fully satisfied, and thus: Successful. It's sometimes just a matter of perspective.

Thank you all for spreading the word around. It's much appreciated!
For those who no longer trust Gawker even as far as to run their Javascript:

http://m.jezebel.com/5781523/horror-stories-from-women-in-te...

(This is generalizable across their sites -- at least, for the moment.)
Municipalities, by definition, engage in anticompetitive practices. Electricity, garbage, sewer, water. For utilities, the municipality is the arbiter of who gets to provide them. Often it does them itself. There's no reason Internet should be any different. Furthermore, there are a lot of reasons Internet should be exactly the same.
POST is not defined to be idempotent, although you're correct about PUT and DELETE.
Broadband access is a natural monopoly, and a municipality offering quality service should not be bound by the same obligations as a profit-making enterprise.

Neither of these statements make sense.

First, regarding the "natural monopoly", I just can't understand why you'd say that. You've offered no supporting argument. So I'll just point out that, 30 years ago, ATT said exactly the same thing. But we've come a long way from there, virtually all of it good. Why would you want to run your broadband access under the same ideas that gave us the evil old phone monopoly?

I don't understand why you'd think that a government-run service should have special privileges over a corporation. I would say the other way around, because the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and all that. Plus there's the dismal track record of other governmental efforts. Take sports stadiums, for example. Giving public education huge benefits in that business certainly hasn't delivered better outcomes.
com'n, we all have this complex of "born-in-the-USSR". No need for hysteria. Occupational hazard of living in a specific type of country :) If one can't stomach it, the one should have chosen another country to born in. [or correct the mistake at first chance by emigrating later :) ]

If Japan built the reactors with graphite and without containment - they would have exactly the same situation like Chernobyl now. Thanks God, they built more advanced version of reactors.
Follow the StartUp Visa Act of 2011 on OpenCongress
"Rally, it is a piece of the old "everyone will have a server" dream. Except, instead of having to define as new protocol for evry service, you just use JSON over http."

The key point isn't HTTP, it's synchronization. Rsync, git, and content-addressable storage in general are going to be the next big thing in the web.

One of the exciting things about the "everyone has a server" idea (http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox are working on it) is actually the move away from shitty one-way NATed HTTP and onto IPv6 and a full spectrum of two-way protocols.

The other exciting thing is the wider deployment of encrypted traffic (although that's more the fault of Firesheep), and public-key cryptography (how else are you going to build distributed social apps?).

"much can be made of a publicly available everywhere filesystme."

This is what HTTP already does.
To your rebuttal on the first link:

Obama denied 70,779 requests in his first year, vs Bush at 47,395 in his last:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/21/nation/la-na-ticket2...
Did you forget to put a sarcasm tag at the end of that?
Startup Visa has a bill number: S.565
Announcing autonib2cib
...the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it."

That's what "kids these days" refered to as the problem, which we handily solved, thank you.
Looks like shipping things (good or otherwise) is the name of the game here.

Thanks for your comments!
Ask HN: how do I deal with the barrage of feedback after alpha launch
just launched a group photosharing site at beta.flicsy.com. . . our demo video is at flicsy.posterous.com/flicsy-demo.

Have been getting a ton of user feedback, and now I'm worried about keeping their attention and keeping them engaged while we respond and build out the product. My biggest worry is about those for who the product doesn't yet add immediate value (very specific needs) but who will get a lot of value when we implement those features.
Why does Facebook think that virtualization does not scale? - Quora
I recall recently reading that Erik Prince the ex CEO of Xe / Blackwater in this interview takes his batter out of his phone so it doesn't get turned into a wireless mic.

http://www.mensjournal.com/an-american-commando-in-exile

Nice closing paragraph in the Network World article. Then again I live in Madison, Wi.
You seem to imply that being an asshole is genetic.

Only to people who have a shallow understanding of evolution. (Left as an exercise to student.)

(i.e. can't be "bread out")?

Unfortunately, no. [irony captioned for the impaired]
...and just because it's scary doesn't mean it is.

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated in a 20 km radius and many more are sheltering indoors due to a nuclear emergency. No exaggeration is needed to say this is a scary big deal, and calling it like it is isn't "mongering".
Why You Need Re-targeting In Your Ad Planner
Make sure that the break with your ex-co-founder is a clean one, i.e. ensure that company ownership, IP rights etc is resolved in a way that leaves no room for doubt at some later point.

You should try to avoid a situation where he can return at some later point with a potentially legitimate claim to a part of any business that your company may have evolved into.
There was "hope" for "change" from a regime that bullied citizens into supporting the government-blessed corporations. But this article shows (again) that our new regime still serves the entertainment industry (not to mention pharma companies).

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. We won't get fooled again.
Yeah, if you can interpret a data structure at runtime, you don't need to write out the corresponding code at all.

You could have all the redis connection instances share the same command dict, or make it a variable in the package.
> We won't get fooled again.

Yeah, we will (unfortunately.)
The easy answer: find another co-founder-- one who is as passionate about your idea as you are. Of course, this may not really be all that easy.

Which leads to the difficult question: what's there to love about your idea? I'm sure there are many of us reading this who are saying to themselves, "Another survey widget? Ho hum." To which you reply: "Yes, but this one is different. This one does X."

This "X", of course, is your secret sauce. Your "unique value proposition."

Now, if you don't know what X is, then figuring that out is what you need to be working on. It's going to be hard to attract co-founders or customers without it.

If you do know what X is, then pitch it around to other potential co-founders. Locally-- you want someone in the same city. Sure, it's possible to collaborate remotely, but I wouldn't recommend it, especially under your circumstances.

To summarize: define your "unique value proposition." Find a local co-founder who is passionate about it. And then, apply to YC.
The video is now gone. Does anyone know of another way to find it?
Well, you could say music must have rhythm, yet there's music with almost no rhythm at all. You could say music is about melody, but there's lots of examples of music with no melody. And as I hinted above, there's cultures where notes don't really have definite pitches.

I can't really think of anything that universally defines "music", other than that it's sound with an aesthetically pleasing structure.
And that's out of how many requested in each year?

Just to get this straight, you're contending that this is a matter of deliberate policy by Obama in direct contravention of all of his public statements and his official memorandums on the subject? Like, there was a "wink, nudge" in there? He met them over coffee and said, "I just published that memo to look good, I actually want you to deny more requests"? What's your allegation, exactly?

Both of your links emphasize that Obama has published regulations instructing the agencies to grant more FOIA requests than they were previously, but that the agencies are struggling with the implementation. Just going to restate that one more time.
You mean to say that you don't want to SQUIRT songs to your friends with Zune players!?
Chrome already updated: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/03/stable-and-...
Google Acquires Irish Video Tech Company
They're comparing an arbitrary and selective pool of deaths to the modern death rate of roofers & DIY and pretending it has some significance in energy policy. If you take that seriously maybe you need to look closely at why you're so keen on such questionable material.
This is now the second time you've accused me of not knowing what I'm talking about and yet your only difference of opinion is my terminology as to whether it's a meltdown or whether the process of "oh shit, dump water on it" is controlled or not. In fact, most of the information I have on this topic was from spending most of Sunday re-reading Wikipedia on nuclear reactors, but thanks for assuming I watch or read ANY mainstream news.

QUOTE: "A meltdown occurs when a severe failure of a nuclear power plant system prevents proper cooling of the reactor core, to the extent that the nuclear fuel assemblies overheat and melt, either partially or completely"

That has occurred. That's not in dispute, unless I'm just completely 100% off base here. A quick Google search reveals that fuel rods in both reactors were not only uncovered by water at various points, but were also "exposed" which I presume to be through a containment failure, AND there are numerous reports that the parts of the rods have in fact melted.

As I said earlier, this constitutes a meltdown and greatly increases the severity and danger of the problem at hand. It's not a total meltdown, I already "disclaimered" that repeatedly. Those rods melting pose a large risk to containment efforts. If they melt, they can escape much more easily and that means radiation exposure on a much greater level, even if only for workers at the plant.
Uncovering Spoken Phrases in Encrypted Voice over IP Conversations
I was on the edge of getting one for years because it had wireless syncing, but even at its "height" it seemed like a sinking ship.
Odd, my Chrome said it was signed by Verisign and everything was kosher.
Is it possible that with multi-tasking, having two threads of the new Nitro JS engine open in memory slows everything down? It's not that big of a deal with 512mb of RAM and dual core, but the iPad 1 could be sluggish. I guess it's possible they only use one JS thread for everything (even the 9 "tabs" in Safari), and this really is just a bug.
It's well known that traffic and SERP CTR has a significant impact on rankings. About a year ago, I wrote a post on my blog about how to write a bot in Ruby using Watir, and I submitted it here. Within 24 hours, I had gotten over 1000 uniques and had a front page ranking for the term "ruby bot" and "ruby web bot". I run Google Analytics on my blog, and Google has provisions in its algorithm to account for "breaking news" and because my site rapidly received traffic and links, they chucked it up onto the front page for these terms.

I've maintained the rankings because of the links I received during that traffic spike as well as the traffic coming in through the search engine results. What better way for Google to test whether a site is actually decent or not than to rank it quickly because it's getting traffic, then keep it there or drop it based on the CTR and Bounce Rate of the site? It's possible to game these metrics, but not as easily as something like link or content spam.

For reference, the blog post is: http://www.layeredthoughts.com/automation/how-to-write-your-...
This is really a helpful summary. Most citations I've seen of that article mention only the ten-year rule. I had never read before about the importance of rest or support structures.

Thanks for sharing.
Oops. Looks like, when I double-checked the RFC, my brain stuck POST in there. That'll show me for trying to be pedantic in the middle of doing thirteen other things.

Thanks for the correction.
SXSW Super Mario Film Trailer
The last line of the article was good: "If [Twitter] really had 90 percent of all tweet traffic, it wouldn’t need to lay down the law. The market would have spoken already."

This is along the lines of what I was wondering about when they made their announcement: Why are they so concerned about 10% of users?
No, it depends on the distance between the notes, which in the standard guitar tuning is a fourth (except between G3 and B4, as mentioned). You can take the lower note an octave up or the higher an octave down to make a fifth, but that changes the interval.
The last one had some great speakers. Really enjoyed Bob Metcalfe's talk.
If anyone has any questions not already covered in the FAQ (long & comprehensive as it is), I'd be happy to answer them to the best of my ability.
A couple of years ago, I was able to sit still and focus on my breathing, for upto 30 minutes at a stretch, and those days I felt more at peace with myself. It was like internal 'world peace' and harmony. Of late I haven't been able to sit still for longer than 15 minutes even when I try, but that may have a lot to do with the fact that I am in college, and constantly juggling n number of things.

These are some previous discussions that you might find useful:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=454146

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612276

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1462178

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1471244
Who Are Detroit Venture Partners & Ludlow Ventures?
>Solar power will not get a complex if nuclear is chosen instead.

I think we'll run out of economically extractable ore deposits of nuclear fuels a little before Sol goes supernova. Perhaps that's it.

Also, unless he edited, he said that Nuclear was "safe enough" not that it was the best option. Even if it were the best primary option I wouldn't want to rely on it exclusively; personally I consider that "renewable" sources are better. Fusion would appear to be the best if we can get it to work effectively but I'd still look to diversify to some extent.
Nice video, but I would add speech and make it shorter somewhat. Also; I enter my mail and Go with (x) Beta tester on; nothing happens. No feedback, nothing...
If you have to ask why TeX is still used as a tool, then you don't understand what TeX is. You should not view it as a program or a fad that gets outdated when the latest version of BozOS Release 9 comes out. TeX is a theoretical solution to the problem of computer typesetting. As an article ages but still remains a reference until the science has advanced, TeX stays the same until somebody discovers something that makes it a footnote in history.

The fact that you can install a program called TeX on your computer is marginally irrelevant.

The question you want to ask is: after Knuth has solved to the best of his ability the general problem of computer typesetting, why hasn't anyone bridged his theory with the front-ends that everyone uses? My take is: the shiny tools that exist were good enough for most people to toy with.
I think it would be worth doing with older students as a supplement to the curriculum. One of the bad things about my "major scale-centric" approach is that I never explain why a major scale is WWHWWWH, which is actually a barrier to some students, who are either curious or who need more context for their information.

I teach mostly middle-school and high-school kids, and we barely have enough time to get through what I have, so I skip it. I wish I didn't have to.
The problem with Kidney Stone Diet
Do tell what caused it then.
Skype introduces Qik video chat with live feeds for iPhone, Facebook and Twitter
We never signed any agreements so i don't think it would be a problem. Thanks for the advice
'''Maybe we should just give up on the term REST, since it’s become so diluted as to mean nothing more than "HTTP API that’s not as hard to use as SOAP"?'''

To be fair, I thought we were at this point already. It seems safer to assume that when one advertises a "RESTful API" they are really referring to a "REST-like" API which basically means "Hey, we don't use sessions!"

While I believe that the term is already diluted to that point, I still think it's valid to point out when people are doing it wrong.
I can't edit my comment anymore, but I wanted to add some more detail.

Building larger programs is about clean abstractions. What your doing only needs basic functions for abstraction, but when you try to do something larger you'll begin to need/want more ways to abstract your code. Then the differences will become clear.

But, you punted by not actually handling the errors. As others comments show, your example may need more abstraction tools once you try to handle the errors :)
They're kind of differently inflexible. :-)

So, they're both moving away from the generality of the bindings, which are a pretty faithful mapping of the capabilities of the API, to make simplifying assumptions to make the API easier to use. But they're so different that it's difficult to compare directly.

The Shopify app is a pretty normal web app. None of its users know that there's anything API-ish about it, nor do they care. You can set weights, but only for pre-specified things:

https://skitch.com/scotchi/rw5a3/directed-edge-expressrex-fo...

There are a bunch of features of the API that aren't exposed via the Rails plugin (even a couple that are used in the Shopify app) and it does, at present, assume that you're just latching onto a preexisting model.

That said, using the Rails plugin is kind of like using a C API from C++ -- you can drop down to the lower level of abstraction if you need to. So while the plugin is, say, a minimum viable plugin at the moment, you can still get the full flexibility of the bindings at will if you're willing to trade some simplicity.
What's Really Behind Charlie Sheen's Meltdown
Nice description and congrats.
YouTube Acquires Service That Makes Your Videos Better
I just released yesterday too and I had a pretty good response. I think that your initial surge is just the beginning. If you've captured emails and twitter follows you have something to work off of.

I'm personally back to focusing on building more features and interacting with a limited amount of users.
You'll get more surges and users with newly announced features, when being mentioned by media, and when doing presentations at conferences.

My release is here: http://emotely.com: for reference.
"I'm not an environmentalist"
What exactly do you mean by this?

I don't understand how someone can make such a bold denouncement about something as crucial the system that keeps us alive...
again, at the beginning [while they were driving] the firefighters possibly didn't know the exact specifics. But, these were firefighters driving to a fire on a nuclear power plant in the country where high schoolers were taught to use radiation measurement devices. People knew the country they were living in, i was 14 in 1986 and i remember it very well how people read things "between the lines". Obviously, the firefighters got the right idea when they came. They still did their job though. The closest to depicting that i think is "K-19 The Widowmaker"
To add to the bug report thread, there is no way to get out of the very first dialogue the app presents (choose shared folder to use). If I don't select anything, I can't close the app in any way except for using Activity Monitor.
This reminds me the time that I ranked #1 for something in the news because I wrote an article about the incident before it happened.
If an entrepreneur can get funding to start a business in this country, he or she should be able to get a visa.

Or, as seems to be the case in the new bill, if an entrepreneur can convince enough people to pay enough money for their product (a type of "funding" in itself). An important side point, I feel.
Why can't you support chrome?
If there were ways to save large amounts while maintaining economic output, people would be doing them and making massive amounts of money from the savings.

There are ways to achieve a mean world GDP, or at least a standard of living similar to ours at a much lower rate of single-use resource consumption, but we're at a local optima. Civilization is a greedy search algorithm.
Thanks michael_dorfman. I would try looking for one but can you offer marketing advice. There are competitors in my space including kissinsights. We don't use an obstructive and annoying widget to collect feedback. It is more affordable and simpler to use than my competitors. We give even free users the power to set their own questions instead of forcing them to use templates or pay a hefty price for that option.
Anything graphics + text heavy I switch to Scribus. The closer what I am working on can be described as a brochure the more likely I will use Scribus.

TeX, for me, tends to be articles, reports, and documents that I expect to use the same format again and again (or the format is provided, such as from IEEE).
Indeed, the allusion to syntax directed editing in the article is due to MPS.
The REST folk disagree with you. If the picture and the contact information are different representations of the same resource (which is not that much of a stretch conceptually), then they absolutely should be reached at the same URL. At that point, the only way you have left to distinguish what you want is the mime type.
Why is the Apple Magic Mouse the #6 Best Selling MP3 Player? heh
This is great writing. It might not satisfy those looking for a studied approach to the topic, but it's definitely real world. Made me laugh. Thanks for sharing.
Ask HN: Need feedback on a project idea
Hi,

I have an idea to build an iphone app. Main idea of the app is to provide information to the users based on your current location. This information is about the nearby places. It can comprise of historic significants, reviews and any intersting facts.

One use case would for tourists to get the required information. Also, if possible I can add a virtual tour which will guide the tourist to see all the important things on that spot.

Please let me know what you think.

thanks.
Thanks. You're the second person to report this. I will fix it next version.
Flash really is that bad. As a potential malware vector & as something where most users are probably hopelessly out of date (and not by their own fault).
Show HN: HTML5 Appcache Facts
> We won't get fooled again.

What makes this time different than the last dozen?
There's one thing to be offering these services but another thing to ban competition in the same areas. Even worse, the monopoly is justified in the name of 'natural monopoly', yet there is still the need to legislate this monopoly (as if nature needed any encouragement).

Furthermore, as soon as you get a local monopoly on internet access, you are only one city council decision away from local censorship. After all, he who pays gets to call the shots ("Porn on the tax-paid internet? No way! Think of the children.")
Chrome is fully supported. It's just not one of the icons shown on the launch screen, which I am now deeply regretting.