skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first glance, I can easily agree with "professionalism is for amateurs," but the explanation is severely lacking. There's confusion between acting and behaving professional (professionalism) and being a professional (vs. an amateur).

You can act and behave like a pro and maintain the personality that the author's looking for. Being professional doesn't mean you're only subscribe to the conventional thought processes big business types may subscribe to.
We tried to use airbnb here in Bali to search for a house but we had to give up as there were too many kinds of accommodations. Houses dubbed as villas, rooms dubbed as houses, one floor dubbed as a full house and even a gazebo where we were supposed to stay 2 months.
All this is fine but I wonder how usable it will become once you throw the hotels in.
sigh We're in a bubble, we're not in a bubble...where are we, guys? If anything it feels like a VC purgatory. Blanks advice doesn't really amount to more than "keep doing Lean Startup, but think of companies looking to acquire as a type of customer as well." The 3/4 of both the blog post and the presentation will be nothing new to anyone who has been here for some time (and the last 55 slides are "backups"). The last quarter has some conflicting advice, "now's a better time than ever to be lean" but "seriously invest in PR so you can be acquired." It's a bit disconcerting that for a guy whose mantra is to create a lean business that is self-sufficient (i.e. without venture funding), he's advocating that people pivot their businesses so that they can be acquired. This article just feels like scaremongering.
A response to anti-web2py propaganda
Create a Whack a Mole like game for Windows Phone
Effective Communication: Getting All You Can Out of What You’ve Got
In a highly competitive business environment, good communication is the engine of success. As a designer, your grasp of the art and science of social bonding is just as important as your ability to put pixels together.
With social media so ubiquitous, much can be achieved… and overlooked. When sharing interests and experiences online is so easy, people put less effort into maintaining their relationships, thus shortening the average life of an interpersonal connection.
Congratulations and it sounds extremely inspiring to hear someone is doing something about education. I would love to get into the education space but I can't seem to pinpoint an idea that's sustainable.

If you have a moment, I would love to have a chat about the challenges you faced when you first began and so on. I know you're still facing challenges but I think the fact that you've proven to get the initial traffic is a big win. I think one of the biggest proponents you can do is to get your customers to sell for you - get the parents to spread it to their friends and other parents.
UI nit: In Chrome 10 on Windows 7, the "specific community" image is being cut off on the left.
I suggest that the cost to provide the service is either exactly the same thanks to amortization of equipment or only marginally higher for a small business with a single line.

Everything else is just the way they create price discrimination and exploit the customers' perception of value, much the same way that Microsoft have sixty-three jillion versions of Windows.
When you want news, go to the profile of a news organization, not a high school buddy. If you want a stream of tweets, put a couple news organizations into a list and read the list. http://twitter.com/#!/reutersflash http://twitter.com/#!/skynewsbreak
Ah. Let me rephrase again: it's " a Hacker News for specific interests"
You still didn't answer his question of what exactly makes your solution a "graceful combination of scopes". Follow the advice and write some kind of post that explains what makes this solution better
Also, after being enrolled you'd be able to call and/or log in to your account and simply have the tethering option removed without invoking the ETF...
It wouldn’t surprise me since French, Italian and German are three of the four official languages of Switzerland. (I don’t know whether that was the case in 1897 but those three languages were definitely all spoken in Switzerland in 1897.)

Today students in Swiss secondary education have to learn at least two non-native languages (besides their native language), one of those two has to be one of the official Swiss languages. Einstein only learned one more language, that doesn’t seem extraordinary.

It would be nice if someone from Switzerland could shed some more light on this. The situation in, for example, Germany is as follows: If you want to continue on to university learning two languages is standard, learning a third language is optional but possible pretty much everywhere. The four available languages in my school were English, French, Latin [0] and Spanish and you could pick up to three of those. (Only certain combinations were possible, English was always the first foreign language and you had to take it.)

[0] I still hate myself for picking Latin. It’s beyond useless.
Without defining "professionalism", this is a useless discussion.

Professionalism, to me, implies a certain standard of conduct: Delivering what you promise, when you promise it. Communicating clearly. Refusing unethical requests. Not flaking out at a critical moment. Keeping your cool even when you're a bit frustrated. Refraining from conduct that will discredit your employer, clients or partners. Being clear about your degree of expertise on a given topic.

Now, this sort of professionalism isn't the only virtue in life: You also need to care passionately about what you do, speak plainly and honestly, and enjoy building stuff. Professionalism is never enough. But the opposite of "professional" isn't "amateur," it's "unprofessional." And I, for one, do not enjoy working with unprofessional colleagues or clients.
A comment from an ex reddit employee linked elsewhere in this HN discussion (http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...) seems to confirm that:

More recently we also discovered that these disks [EBS volumes experiencing performance degradation] will also frequently report that a disk transaction has been committed to hardware but are flat-out lying.
“you” and “i” are more than just pronouns. Little big words.
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Hey wasigh,
I'm in a similar situation, developer w/ teacher wife and education business. Two most important things I've learned:

1) You can sell to schools, but not by "selling" to schools. Instead sell to the teachers and they'll sell to the school for you. There are lots of ways for teachers to get schools to pay for stuff they want (grants, discretionary funds...). If you create a great product one teacher will tell another and before you know it a group of them want it and they'll pitch their principal.

I sold to 15 or so schools last year (big, small, public, private) and every one of them started with the school contacting me. I realize 15 is not a lot, but total time I spent on those sales was maybe 10 minutes and $0 each. I replied to emails, setup accounts and generated invoices.

2) As a developer you're going to want to solve the scale problem by coding. You need to fight this.

Take the money you make and buy adwords - they work (http://pseudocoder.com/blog/my-adwords-spending-for-2010)

Talk to your customers constantly - make incremental improvements based on their feedback. Only when there is overwhelming demand add a new feature or in your case expand to a new area.

Do more SEO. You're top 5? Not good enough. The difference between #1 and #5 is huge. Figure out what keywords make you the most money (might not be what you think they are) and attack those.

A final note (this one is tough and I'll try to be tactful). In the end your wife (however awesome she was in getting the site started) is just a user. If she's not interested in the business side then you need to take ownership. That means you may make changes without consulting her and that are unpopular with her that are better for the rest of the community.

Email me if you want to discuss anything offline.
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I didn't downvote, but the value of HN is that it usually doesn't have this type of self-promotional claptrap or borderline content farm BS.

Maybe users should be able to block certain domains/contributors.
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Reddit has subreddits. Some of them even stick to a topic.
If anyone is interested in this stuff, I recommend taking a look at "How Much Anonymity Does Network Latency Leak?", by Hopper, Vasserman, and Chan-Tin, published in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. (There's a PDF link listed on http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/, which is a very large and comprehensive list of papers about these kinds of things.)

The second half of the paper deals with an attack very similar to the one described here. They're trying to do it against multi-hop proxies like Tor though, and so what they have to do is a lot more complicated. Some of the multi-hop proxy stuff is on (in my opinion) somewhat shaky ground since it relies on an older published attack that's only been verified to work when there were ~15 Tor routers on the network (now there are ~2500), but other than that it's a very solid paper.

(My background: I've been doing research related to attacks on Tor since my sophomore year, and I'm now writing my senior undergrad thesis on that research.)
Wow, I am going to disagree with Steve Blank but I don't think it is a bubble. In a previous comment, I referred to it as a bulge as I do not think it will be nearly as extreme as the previous bubble.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2336204
I remember reading in a book ("Sparks of Genius") that he went to a very specialized school. The book talked about there being a focus on the importance of conceptualization/visualization. If I remember correctly, the example that was given was of Einstein doing a physics problem involving a sail boat. He describes the importance of being able to feel as if you yourself were the boat -- to have the waves cut through your body, to feel the wind against the sail, to feel and hence form a deep and comprehensive understanding of all the large and minute interactions. This focus would clearly be a very important skill in theorizing...
AT&T Cracking Down on Unofficial iPhone Tethering & MyWi Users
Why aren't more women airline pilots?
I think the biggest issue is duplicate voting.
German, French, and Italian being three of the four official languages, that wouldn't be surprising if it was common.

But Einstein did attend an elite university in Swiss, the Zurich Polytechnicum
Althought the [scribd] tag, it just a link to a PDF. Also worth noting it's an old white paper from sourceforge: At the time of writing (May 2005),
If you disable JS in all browsers, IE9, Firefox, Chrome and Opera render the page the same. This leads me to believe the web designer is writing brittle javascript somewhere. If you look at the JS, is uses conditional comments based on the version of JS, so I would probably start looking there.

In the end I don't think we can expect to push the web development field and browsers forward without dropping old cruft. From using IE9, it seems they've made a big jump with this version. Unfortunately some old code may no longer work the same, and for that there is the X-UA-Compatible meta tag.
Monetizing a pure web app is a lot more difficult than monetizing an app-store app. It may be coincidence that HTML5 is a developer friendly way of creating a multiplatform mobile app and that Apple has kneecapped HTML5 offline apps via the architecture of iOS.
Water should be boiling, not just hot. When you say 'heat up water', it suggests it's not at the point of vigorous boil to really extract the flavour. Allow me to quote Douglas Adams:

"One or two Americans have asked me why it is that the English like tea so much, which never seems to them to be a very good drink. To understand, you have to know how to make it properly.

There is a very simple principle to the making of tea and it's this - to get the proper flavour of tea, the water has to be boiling (not boiled) when it hits the tea leaves. If it's merely hot then the tea will be insipid. That's why we English have these odd rituals, such as warming the teapot first (so as not to cause the boiling water to cool down too fast as it hits the pot). And that's why the American habit of bringing a teacup, a tea bag and a pot of hot water to the table is merely the perfect way of making a thin, pale, watery cup of tea that nobody in their right mind would want to drink. The Americans are all mystified about why the English make such a big thing out of tea because most Americans have never had a good cup of tea. That's why they don't understand. In fact the truth of the matter is that most English people don't know how to make tea any more either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants. "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A61345
Hackers tackle secure ID tokens
The path of hell is paved with good intentions
Jerry Pournelle discusses events in Japan
Looks very nice so far. It might be difficult to get people to use it though.
Interesting stuff. It's always useful to hear someone talking about having real-world tested the various "approved" IM strategies and seeing which ones worked and didn't.

Particularly interesting to read he's dropped consulting. £200 an hour does sound good, I agree - must have been some pretty scarybad clients!
There is a certain degree of contradiction between "a practical guide" and a book that purports to cover "(almost) all parsing methods, not just the popular ones".

As a matter of practicality, you could probably get away with just (a) finite automata, both in the hand-coded lexer style and regular expression style tools like lex; (b) LL(k), both in hand-coded recursive descent and tools like antlr; and (c) GLR, when you need to pull out bigger guns.
I didn't expect the quality of IPOs would go down so quickly. If Rovio can find another sucker to pay for their risk, good for them, bad for the sucker.
Alan Kay coined the term, so his definition was the first, and therefore the original.

But aside from your unusual interpretation of the word "original", I agree with everything you said.
jsmoov, I like what you are trying to do. Ignore the naysayers, there is definitely plenty of space for more HN-like communities..

Focus on building the community, not the site.
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Social media startups please
I run a social media news blog(http://fastgush.com) and I am looking for social media startups to write about. Currently the blog has a small readership, but it has been growing steadily for the past six months and will enter Alexa's 100,000 soon.

I have covered few startups till now and would love to cover many more. The main problem I have
been facing is finding social media startups.

If any of you is building or has built a site/app/anything related to social media, please get in touch with me at contact@fastgush.com

Would love to hear from you.
Tell HN: PayPal is borked for most merchants
If you use PayPal to process payments using services such as PayFlow or WebSite Payments Pro you should be aware that PayPal are currently royally screwing up some system migration activities, leaving (thousands of ?) merchants unable to process payments.

They are supposedly keeping merchants up to date here: https://www.x.com/community/ppx/system_status/payflowstatus/blog/2011/03/18/bulletin-system-maintenance-notification

That page hasn't been updated for the last 2 hours.

What they aren't mentioning is:

- The new endpoint for PayFlow processing is down (payflowpro.paypal.com [66.211.171.141])

- The old endpoint for PayFlow processing is also down (216.113.190.148)

- When it was up earlier delayed capture payments failed

- Anything related to trying to process new recurring payments also seems broken

Thanks PayPal !
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No, but Patrick could, for instance, try leveraging his reputation here to sell his marketing services (either as commercial software or as consulting - he's done this before). Or just set up a couple more BCC's; if one pays the bills, ten would be a very nice income. Etcetera - there's more than one way to do it, and patio11 does have some skills that can be used to make money.
History of a Startup: The Autodesk File
Anything bad in the title or comments about Microsoft or IE results in automatic upvotes regardless of content.
"Because Autodesk started out as a very decentralised organisation and has remained one to some extent, and also because of the prolix proclivities of its founders, who would rather write a book than talk on a telephone for ten minutes, the genesis, evolution, and history of Autodesk has generated a large volume of paper." [from the Introduction]
What's his risk tolerance?
Switzerland has the highest Mac OS X market share in the world
I'll work on a post - thanks for the feedback.

But to answer your question, by "graceful combination of scopes" I mean you can follow Hackers in New York (people who have saved Hackers + New York as a favorite) just as easily as you can share stuff with Hackers interested in Ruby on Rails (Hackers + Ruby on Rails) or even with Hackers interested in Ruby on Rails in New York (Hackers + Ruby on Rails + New York).
Very interesting. Not sure that the browser is the right place for dealing with large amounts of statistical data, but still it may have some uses.
Clicky: https://www.x.com/community/ppx/system_status/payflowstatus/...
According to TFA,
"No advanced mathematical knowledge is required; the book is based on an intuitive and engineering-like understanding of the processes involved in parsing, rather than on the set manipulations used in practice."
I'm guessing this drives the "practical" moniker.

A little googling uncovers a Second Edition, also available on pdf.
No, two hour project is not a company and thus not a startup. Lemonade stand and two hour projects are startups when they have a legal entity, registered name, employees and pays taxes.

Author is right, there's too much "take a look at my startup I've created during my lunch/on commute to work" posts thrown around. Time to man up and call things for what they are.
I'd rather have a nice clean interface where I can filter relevant articles than go near that cluttered rats nest of links called Reddit.

So far so good. Concentrate a bit more on the filtering/finding new topics a bit more. You could become whatsupedia.com to crowd-rated news sites as Quora is to Answers.com.
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But if it’s so blindingly obvious that a certain product is something that people need, then someone else would be making it already, right? It seems to me that the sweet spot would be something that, once a potential customer sees it, thinks, “Oh, there’s this nuisance in my life that I’ve always taken for granted, but now I realize that I can buy something to make it go away.”

(Think of the drugs you see advertised on late-night TV for syndromes you never heard of. :-)
Professional : comes from a french verb meaning, among other things, "to teach".

Etymology's very deceptive. It's generally not a good idea to use it to discover the "true" meaning of a word, whatever quality that "true" meaning would have over the common acceptation.
Author specializes in disappearing acts
Khan Academy would presumably we willing to permit this for a relatively small amount of money.
Not sure about the blog post, but the linked Johnny Cash song is worth a listen for the hilarious analogy and well, it's Johnny Cash.
Possible compromise of PHP.NET servers
jsmoov

Ignore the naysayers.

There is plenty of room for this.

99.99999% of the population does not use HN or Reddit or Digg.

It's beautiful and well structured so that's a good start.

Now I would work with a couple of things like how you have source and comments aligned on one page, that might be giving you trouble for longer headlines. and create a more unstructured look.
I had two machines running in east-1 last night and one of them went down around the same time reddit did. The other one made it through the night O.K.

EBS problems do seem to be the biggest reliability problem in EC2 right now. The most common symptom is that a machine goes to 100% CPU use and 'locks up'. Stopping the instance and restarting usually solves the problem.

The events also appear to be clustered in time. I've had instances go for a month with no problems, then it happens 6 times in the next 24 hours.

My sites are small, but one of them runs VERY big batch jobs periodically that take up a lot of RAM and CPU. Being able to rent a very powerful machine for a short time to get the batch job done without messing up the site is a big plus.
While I agree with the previous comments re: "why are you doing this?" - I wanted to provide some more usable feedback for the product itself.

I found the UI to be rather lacking from a new user perspective. The design is nice enough, but the layout and the usage is poor and could use some rethinking.

Not sure what you're wanting from all of us here - perhaps you could let us know. Are you wanting to know if we would use it? How we would change it? General recommendations?
I dunno. People love Angry Birds. I kinda believe in this team.

Somewhat related recent discovery: If you ever find yourself in the position of needing to entertain a 3 year old who doesn't speak your language, Angry Birds works wonders. The gameplay is so simple and universal that anyone can play it.
Very interesting. Particularly the bit about 'there's no reason they can't be the eBay of location'
Hey, a friend of mine from university works there. Hi Sparsh! (It's Howard)
I like the use of tags to filter the story kinda like how reddit works in creating a front page based on the tags you want.

Unlikely to change from using HN but I might use your site as an aggregator if you could aggregate stories from top sites (like http://alltop.com/) ... but then that's probably not what you're trying to do?
I am not a fan of IE (6 in particular) but all these bashing of the latest IE 9 seems to not have valid arguments. Modern browsers by whose standards?
CorelDraw Graphics Suite – design software
CorelDraw Graphics Suite is a design software which helps the users for the best visual communication. It is a combination of vector illustration, page lay out, photo editing, tracing, web graphics and animation facilities.
مشاهدة مباراة الاسماعيلى وسوفاباكا بث مباشر 18/3/2011
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Ham radio operators are "amateurs" but they're a lot more "professional" in how they use two radios than the average person who uses 2-way radios for their work.
Can Technology Reinvent Education?
Pretty sure you can use this on the server with something like Node.
It's sort of a blanket overview of AI technologies and a plug for IBM Watson, but I'm kind of shocked they didn't bother to mention Imagine K12 given its timely relevance to this topic.
Thank you! I like Orwell's take on tea also :D

http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm

Thanks again!