skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're in the pocket. At Unspace, we're CAD$200/hour and we do our estimates in sessions, which are six hour days. Given that some days are more, some days are less it makes for a good average. That means that if two people are working full-bore here for a week it'd be CAD$12,000 plus tax, inclusive (our project management fees are embedded in the hourly rate).

Feel free to get in touch with our business development manager if you'd like to talk seriously: Nathan Athay (nathan@unspace.ca) will be happy to hear you out. Tell him I sent you!
Be Ballsy.
Math in IE9: Less precise?
"Many of the hits in the App Store, like Angry Birds and Doodle Jump, have never been free."

My homescreen says differently. I don't get what he's trying to say here.
This sounds analagous to governing by polls.
Posterous can't load video this afternoon
We've got 403 error on posterous.com when we tried to load some short video to apply for Summer 2011 Funding. We have to post the video on youtube with password then.
Carmen Maria Luis Photographer
I'm reminded of the BW cover: http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Technology/images/kevi...

My, how times have changed.
What if Larry Page decides he wants the future is to colonize the moon. Then, he decides to invests all or a large portions of Google's money in colonizing the moon. Will anyone stop him? Would this count as a startup again?
This is Water (David Foster Wallace on Life)
Oh, I'll absolutely benefit from this. No doubt about it. But this is not how I would have picked to gain exposure. I like al3x.
Nobody should be forced to use anything. It has to be a standard that develops organically, and of course a lot of porn will continue to exist on .com. That's never going to go away. .xxx just makes it easier for what's there, and may earn pornographers some goodwill.
Ready, Aim, Fail
Concerning in-app purchases - I hit the same experience with Angry Birds. The text for their in app purchases reads: "Stuck on a tricky level? Out of levels to Play? Bring on the Mighty Eagle!" Not knowing what this was I clicked on the checkmark. Because Eagles are awesome, who wouldn't click on that! Whoops...
The framing stuff around tabs is SO BOTHERSOME.
In light of the disaster in Japan, a nice reminder to keep it all in perspective on this spring (on the eastcoast US) weekend.

Text Version: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
Richard Feynman

As an engineer (and I hope those who design spaceships - and nuclear reactors, as it seems evident lately) you have the obligation to do the best job you are able to and, if you are not able to do it well, to refuse to do it. Even if you'll end up missing your sales target or be moved to Siberia.

I feel for Komarov, for the Apollo I crew, for the Soyuz 17, for Challenger and Columbia and to a host of other people who were killed by careless engineering.
Hilarious: Libtheo
One of the things I admire about Larry is that 'impossible' doesn't seem to be in his vocabulary. The challenges of having Google be more 'startupy' are many, some that immediately come to mind;

* Part of the allure of joining a smaller organization is that you can have a huge impact, creating a business from nothing to $10M/year is huge. At Google adding $10M/yr to the bottom line is chump change and you're a chump if that's all you can do.

* One of the great things about smaller organizations is that not only does everyone have a general understanding of the big picture, they have a lot of respect for each other too. Google has grown so complex in its execution that nobody could honestly claim to know how it all works, and of the few who come closest they can't scale to be as many places as they need to be. There is an inverse square law that your level of respect at Google is 1/Jd^2 where Jd is your "Jeff Dean" number.

* Start ups in particular get focus from solving a problem that is painful enough that someone will pay you for your solution, Google invents problems that nobody has and then has to give away their work to get any traction at all.

* Start ups can fire their hardware vendor, pick and choose their own software, build methodology, hiring practices. All of those things are mandated at Google.

Next up I'm afraid is a big poster imploring people to ask themselves, "Is this good for Google?" That would be sad indeed.

I know adults who would like to simplify their lives to get back to a lifestyle that is more like the one they had in college. That is perhaps equally difficult.
He should merge Revision3 with Leo Laporte's TWiT network and go for the gold.
I can see why people would want this, but it sets an interesting precedent.

Now that we have a "NC-17" TLD, are we going to start seeing "R", "PG-13", "PG" and "G" TLDs as well?

Likewise, if the internet is going to have a redlight district, is it going to have a financial district, china town and so on?
Kevin is still a smart guy and he does have good ideas, digg just got out of control and suffered from some bad timing.

Now Kevin will be free to really prove his worth again. I'm excited to see what he does.
Why don't you google it? It's not that hard.. http://www.alphonsolabs.com/

Pulse is a mobile application for news reading. Their android app is pretty slick (specially on a galaxy tab: looks great)
It weakens the argument because it will be trivial to block a lot of pornography, so those that say they need the government to block the pornography for them (since there is so much pornography it's impossible to block individually) have a weaker case; there will still be porn on .com, but .xxx can appease some, and I think that most reputable and/or serious pornographers will go to xxx.

It will have some effect, I think. I think that most reputable pornographers, in an effort to demonstrate compliance with standards and keep the adults-only vibe that keeps them on the right side of public opinion, will eventually migrate to xxx. It will be easy to block at least some pornography, which isn't to say that a filtered individual can't just go off to a known .com site. Porn will always exist on .com. It does help to some degree, however.

I don't expect the government to pass a law regarding xxx and even if it is passed I don't expect it to be remotely enforceable. .xxx is merely an opportunity to make life easier on everyone, if the standard is widely adopted.

It's also not entirely about filtration. People that want porn can peruse xxx domains and use scripts to highlight and/or prefer links to xxx.
"She's the director of IT services for the retail giant, although she has nothing to do with the main website operations"
The process for creating TLDs is very slow; even if someone proposed .app on July 10, 2008, ICANN would still be pondering the process for evaluating it.
My ISP is less likely to be available for long: coxsu.xxx
Eric Schmidt to be Next Commerce Secretary?
Node v0.4.3 released
From volo.tv:

"travellers in the FGW entertainment carriage"

"We've also made it easier to pay. No need to login, simply buy your ticket for £1.75 from the ticket office, by telephone or from the comfort of your seat!"

It says you pay £1.75 for a ticket. So this sounds like a way to get a seat if you're on board a busy train even if you've not booked in advance. Last I looked you paid £1 each way for a seat reservation which makes the marginal cost 75p, cheaper than buying a newspaper.
Recently I was traveling a lot, and therefore making regular use of TMobile tethering (I also have an N1). At one hotel in particular where I had a long term stay the wifi was very slow and intermittent, and so I eventually hit the point - 5GB I think - where TMobile starts throttling bandwidth (supposedly to EDGE speeds, but it felt slower than that).

I recognize that's an unusual amount of usage for one month and I would have gladly paid extra money to TMobile to continue getting full speed data, but they don't even offer the option to do so - I assume because that would require them to admit that the service advertised as 'unlimited 3G' isn't really.
Off-topic, but: holy cow is that auto-rotating deals widget in the sidebar annoying.
This is a subset of "require price close to marginal cost" option.
The more detail-oriented you are and the more you know exactly how you want the website to function the more you might be able to write a spec yourself and outsource development. The wisdom of this strategy would be contingent on your financial constraints and your desire to dive into the low-level details of product development.

I guess what I'm trying to tell you, and many others will surely disagree, is that I wouldn't sweat the lack of programming knowledge. If you can specify what you want and diligently hire someone to construct one you get to effectively the same end.
Australian Boy handles bullying the australian way.
GPS displacement maps of earthquakes in Japan
The traditional media has not been about journalism. It has been about portraying the appearance of journalism, which has always generated just as much revenue at a fraction of the cost. This is why I'll be happy when the old guard finally goes bankrupt.
s/like Dennis/named Dennis/
"Komarov was honored with a state funeral. Only a chipped heel bone survived the crash."

I'm confused by what appears to be a badly burned form in the open casket photo - appears to be more than a "chipped heel bone."
I really like this news. the whole world has watched Digg go down in flames over the past year or so. It had to be at least a little embarrassing for Rose. It's refreshing to see someone that public pick up the pieces, move on, and try again.
"I'm an Apple developer developing XYZ application that uses encrypted traffic."

Problem solved.

They don't have to know it's just the SOCKS proxy and you're tunneling with SSH to your server as another proxy.
Alex Payne is a self-professed afficionado of minimalism and good design - not just in software, but in physical products.

I'd venture to say that a great deal of good design work is done by small studios which would count as 'lifestyle' businesses by his description.

Is he claiming that by trying to make real but incremental improvements to relatively mundane things, these designers are wasting their lives? Should they give up their practices and instead concentrate only on the most world changing ecological projects, or trying to create the next iPod or Dyson?

If not, why does this apply only to digital goods, and not physical goods too?

Accusations of 'hoodwinking' aside, A successful lifestyle business implies that you're doing something that other people value. A failed 'shoot-for-the-moon' business does not.
The Apple store in Philly just opened recently and they've been wonderful so far. Ex.: A few weeks ago I spilled water on my iPhone, rendering it unusable in important respects. I went to the genius bar (unscheduled), told the genius guy I spilled water on it. He was a bit surprised, said that no one ever admits to doing that, and gave me a new phone, for free.
It certainly is a market failure, not a lack of a market, unless you define market differently than the convention I'm familiar with.

This specific form of market failure is a failure in market structure. Of course regulatory failures exacerbated this problem (or at least didn't fix it), but it's not the main "cause" of the failure, by which I mean "would it naturally without any regulation at all?"

Regarding your second paragraph, yes, that is a regulatory burden and it's true that it increases the barriers to entry into the industry, and I suppose that's an argument for why regulation caused market failure. But is it the main cause? I think it's because this particular market structure is inclined to a natural monopoly (or something close) because of the high-fixed-costs nature of the business.
Ask HN: Why such a long parameter for an Ad link?
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/emu/end.php?eid=AQDjZ-RIuSfrJtNQMxregeKzjOPPt5BVsGMb0m7VHvJs1ccor_3rZ61qEvJDzTd33ZH9C7oaVsbzX7VO-2nXVNVEWRN0FAiC72_fQRBDsyy91bcslQIG-CgbGFb5HaMeTg9XFXSCgyJWsAzTUFFePIYiz0EdxpfdG8Ipq-FSsDb9FY_sJ-Gbajy2mvnyoIDOadqhwF8IIVnPs_h7uCIX5pCSY4R3ZUh3JYrz2vxSPx5dWfACEzfF0fzNDiJZchJMgDlLcBcELruyTxusGoVt6MZJu1sTXAtADhJ1pAjdM11g3DaU0cQalvNxyrtCfnkZlghi8i1OAZMX-dlNelVzt-g48vAkMWaPAnjO69ATUDtLOAg3Mug9kMcMZSrk5TmcT6Mfp9zJhdNUUhkzhfGth1KoNt5FhZv3YyD7q-aB16Xutkx3QTxaRtMhW8tCGG8NpCh0LW_ZUBPW5ibd7kBXlMNdgAN1ABH5pXNxCelFOT1Eox8VuSqpnvRdMIv4a-iAQdSleYD6sp3Hmh9DtFoIKLV6vUrohrH3lokAnve-HC8gUsQxGC9L4Pv92i3YSfMzRm3RMuVT_a1hlVQgfyxy008GU_DMwPiK6MaBv7YSx-_0eA7BkqH0NRE816SN6srHrvL14zqfAlJ0MRRhB05gEhK_xGStbC3rB1g6EegWk1iJfzjnWbw9uM9m5IwYheyayycsK2YsgZY7UW8rjm84WGuN&c=4&f=0&ui=6003212234625-id_4d83d6d58b1177306737298&en=1&a=0&sig=92444
Given that the category is called "help desk software", ZenDesk has a lock on "desk" like I have a lock on "bingo"
EA uses DRM to punish forum behavior
You are on a forum about startups.
Regarding donations, I have no idea if this will be useful, but here is an email I sent to a friend after poking around online and bouncing ideas off my friend Yumi in Tokyo:

[response to email about Give2Asia.org]

I'm pretty hesitant to donate to these organizations I've never heard of before. There seem to be quite a lot of them, and it's not entirely clear what their plan for contributing is, how their organization is set up, how they're held accountable, etc.

Yumi sent me this link, and said it's an extremely well known Japanese NGO:

<http://www.akaihane.or.jp/en/index.html>;

That page links to this "United Way Worldwide giving system", which says that money goes to "The Central Community Chest of Japan," which Yumi also says is "a famous Japanese donation organization":

<https://give.liveunited.org/page/contribute/CCCJ>;

That looks like the best option I've found. I'm still very hesitant about donating to the American Red Cross (via Amazon, or direct) because according to what I've seen them say on the subject, they have no direct connection to the Japanese Red Cross Society, and no current plans to provide funds or goods.

The Japanese Red Cross Society sounds like they are heavily involved, but I don't have an affordable way to wire money internationally:

<http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002070.html&#...;

There is also the New York Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, which in this case has an option which routes 100% of the donation to disaster relief in Japan, and it's a 501(c)(3):

<https://www.nyc.gov/html/fund/html/donate/donate.shtml>;

The Japan Society of NYC was also suggested, and it's a 501(c)(3):

<http://www.japansociety.org/earthquake>;
Saw the word "cloud", scrolled down, yep-- business guy.
Start with the real story of why your startup/product exists, the way it evolved, who's problem (your own?) it solved. etc.
A Cavalcade of Open Source Music Tools
Kevin Rose usually gets a lot of crap about Digg when posts about him show up. And you know, sure, Digg might be considered a tragedy to some (which, come on, really isn't), but I really, really respect the guy.

He really helped usher in the social web era, as neither a designer or a coder, mind you. He hustled his site using the opportunities at hand, raised tons of money, got shot to be on covers of some really huge magazines, and probably had a ridiculously fun time through it all.

If you listen to some of his videos, it's easy to see that he's got lots of big ideas, and he's put himself in a position to make it happen (again, without bringing any technical skills to the table, which, I think, is impressive and speaks to his ability to inspire people). If you look at his about.me/kevinrose, you'll find that he's also an investor in lots of really popular services, and he's well-connected with the best of the best in the valley.

So, props to Kevin. He's done some big things (Digg, Revision3), other smaller ones (Pownce, WeFollow), and seems to be onto others. I certainly would love to be in his position.
Canada's Open Data Pilot Project
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier: Marketing open source projects
Should point to http://www.gizmag.com/aerovironment-nano-hummingbird/17918/ which was even credited in the OP but has more pictures.
As a warning, a lot of the controls seemed pretty broken on the iPhone. The auto-complete field totally screwed up Safari (couldn't de-select it), and the sliders were impossible to drag.
It seems to me that if one algorithm did this, other algorithms would start to notice a correlation between Anne Hathaway news and BRK stock, so they would also want to buy when there is Anne Hathaway news. Something like this could easily "infect" large portions of NLP that way if there is insufficient damping in the system.
I don't see why not, it can be done entirely in CSS with a box shadow: http://www.css3.info/preview/box-shadow/ and an animation: http://www.the-art-of-web.com/css/css-animation/
"One of the reasons we are using a general-purpose language rather than a stats language like R is that for many projects the "hard" part is preparing the data, not doing the analysis."

quote from week 2 of the accompanying lecture notes:

https://sites.google.com/site/thinkstats2010b/lecture-notes/...
"16 exabytes ought to be enough for anybody"
Potentially a source for new business initiatives or ventures!

I'd like to see more datasets but let say that's a nice start for now.
Slick but there has to be a way to do this without another utility. Backbone objects already have an extend method.
Kevin Rose Resigns From Digg
You are mismatched statistic with risk analysis. I asking for summary of risks multiplied by their effects.

PS.
If something will blow up our Earth, it will be even safer than nuclear energy! (If we calculate number of deaths per TWh).
USGS says the probability of a 6.7M or greater in the next 30 years is 63%.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/ucerf/ The ripest is the Hayward fault which last erupted 143 years ago. The historical interval over the last 1900 years is about 155 years. It has a probability of 31% in the next 30 years.

I work in SF about 10 miles from theHayward fault. Maybe I'll work from home in Cambria > 200 miles away for the next month or so. We already had our earthquake in 2003.
Accidental downvote, sorry! You make a good point of course.
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This isn't about devs versus ops. It's about bureaucracy versus getting shit done. If it takes 3 weeks to ensure reliable infrastructure and backup, I wouldn't complain.

All I was saying is that if you have to wait 3 weeks for the simplest schema change request (which I saw it happens in big corporations), then you should take charge and workaround it before throwing your hands in the air ... sometimes management listens.
And when the flow of money from that second .xxx sunrise category starts to slow down, they can introduce .sucks on which, for a one-time fee, each trademark holder can park a "no it doesn't" rebuttal page. Then .isterrible and then .OwesUsMoreMoney .
This is Techcrunch we're talking about here, not the New York Times.
Hacking For Freedom : Pycon 2011
no video, no vote from me.
How to go away from bad mood
I recently was cheated on the internet for quite a large sum of money for
me. would like to ask you how to get away quickly from this state,
when you realize what you've been an idiot, why did not immediately suspect anything ..
I voted for you. Great Story.
The combination of live conversation style TWiT shows and the highly produced Rev3 stuff would really be unstoppable.
Removable wall stickers can be used for business campaigning and promotions
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If they've paid out 2 billion to developers, that's 850 million to Apple. Does anyone think they're close to spending 850 million to run the App Store system?

It IS a profit center.
>* Part of the allure of joining a smaller organization is that you can have a huge impact, creating a business from nothing to $10M/year is huge. At Google adding $10M/yr to the bottom line is chump change and you're a chump if that's all you can do.

Google has 25,000 employees. I was unaware that on average their yearly income was increasing at 250 billion a year. Impressive.
I don't buy it. I am sure they admire Jobs and would love to have him (at least at the time), but this seems more like Larry and Sergei being intentionally difficult with the VCs forcing a CEO on them by selecting the most difficult one to get than an actual choice.
Ask HN: Why don't spent fuel pools have a containment strategy? 
Honest question. We spend so much time and effort on "defense of depth" strategy for the nuclear reactor itself, with multiple containments, etc. But for the spent fuel rods, why are we content to basically drop them in the bottom of a giant rooftop swimming pool and call it a day? Is that really it?

As I understand it, the final consequences of a loss of cooling event for the spend fuel rods is the same as for a reactor - the rods melt down, you reach a criticality, they start burning and releasing radioactive smoke and ash into the atmosphere. Then why don't spent fuel pools have a containment strategy?
It's fairly likely that the "talent drain into FaceBook" is itself a PR campaign to speed up the talent drain into FaceBook...
Doesn't this kind of undercut the argument you made above about simplifying the censorship issue? If .com sex sites continue to exist, then nothing really changes at all... (?)
Did he make so little money from digg that he needs to raise funding to get $1m for his new start-up?
Lloyd, I'm not sure if it's just the machine I'm on (XP with Firefox 3.6.15), but I'm having a lot of trouble reading your text.

Either way, exciting news, and I look forward to seeing what you guys have planned.
Goldman Sachs Code-Stealer Gets 8 Years in Prison
I don't think this is true at all. Jobs re-invented Apple in about 6 years and did an amazing job with it. Being a startup means lots of things. At the core of it is to stop worrying about what you have to lose. Apple was able to do this because they had already lost. Google may be able to do this before they lose in any meaningful way because that's Larry's personality. If Larry can do half the job that Jobs did in setting the bar for his company (vision, execution, product quality) then Google will do really well for the next ten years.
http://www.sportsgrid.com/media/video-of-bully-victim-body-s...

:)
It's amazing that a country known for its industrial standards is stuck with such ancient compatibility issues.
Change management in a chaotic environment
I'm in a 3rd world country so $10K a month is more than enough for me to more things. Like 1. Start a foodstore, business; petrol stations (Startup cost around $50K), a popular restaurant etc. So this is what I'm doing now; trying to create a lifestyle business.
How the Japanese Can Make Money Right Now
> a financial district

.biz?
I've written a few job ads and I'm sure I've said fast-paced and other filler words.

I wish I meant "When reality and the plan don't match, we change the plan," in reality it was "Hmm, this text needs to look longer -- I'll use adjectives!"
.me is a ccTLD is for Montenegro.
Exactly. While Amazon clearly tries to make single-zone reliability as good as possible, I think they expect customers to use a multi-AZ setup if they expect true reliability.
Conversion Optimizer: AdWords, Done Right
You're in education, right? Does what you make help overstressed teachers pressured by budget cuts to educate poor kids? Bam, a story. Tie it into a narrative they want to tell and you're just about done.