skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Warner is going to be on "the new AOL". ;)
Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services
yes except facebook started out specializing as a way to connect with your friends which they've become very successful with. And now they are diverting from that goal which doesn't quite jive with the other companies specializing in those fields. Video gamers will still play EA games, photographers will still use flickr or whatever, movie buffs will still use netflix. I think facebook should stay within its social realm and OFFER specialty companies a way to use facebook to enhance those companies' services instead of trying to do everything.

The same way we want Microsoft to stick with making operating systems, Apple to stick with laptops and music, google to stick with email and search, netflix to stick with movies, etc. I think facebook movies may very well flop just like google buzz did in light of a company that specialized in it (twitter).

I was also going to say that I could see how microtransaction movies would be easier to manage than a netflix subscription. But I would argue that netflix is a one time payment with unlimited movies which is actually easier to manage than a lot of microtransactions.
So this is non-volatile RAM at r/w speeds of volatile RAM?!

If I'm understanding correctly, in-memory DB tech will enter a whole new realm.
maciej has stated previously[1] that his revenue is greater than the $42K-$47K being approximated:

> Right now it's 18k users, with 11k active. The signup fee has brought in just over $120k, most of that coming in December (thanks, Yahoo!).

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2205417
Hm, to me the value proposition is this:

There are many, many interesting projects that I want to look at, read, potentially use or learn from.

Every little help for reading and understanding many open source projects faster is a huge value and a huge timesaver for me.

I think that clean syntax is just the better tool, like other people would probably prefer an IDE with integrated toolchain and dozens of tools that are modeled after the state of a programming system at some point in time.

Readable semantics behind a clean syntax are the more flexible toolchain in my eyes. It's like an integrated user interface. I can easily read and understand CS/Haml/Sass/Ruby/.. in my own files, in some libraries that i installed, in posts on blogs and on github ..
to ensure their safety and our ability to sleep as much as possible, but still make it convenient to get her and feed her

Yes. As a co-sleeper I also agree that you want to find a way to get as much sleep as possible, and make feeding as convenient as possible (breast feeding, for us).

Having sleep deprived, frustrated parents is worse than co-sleeping or not, and breast-feeding or not.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, changing the table doesn't affect the shape of the parse tree. (and I'm not trying to be pedantic - I'm genuinely curious about this).
I started toying with CoffeeScript a while back for my own entertainment and found the administrative overhead was much less than I anticipated. I went from a clean slate to being up and running in like five minutes. Once I had node and CoffeeScript installed, it was just a single command-line to start a watch on my .coffee file and then I was back to "refresh browser window to see my changes" mode just like regular JS.
I've always wanted to be like these guys, living with nothing but a laptop and a mission haha! This has been my dream since high school, it's really inspiring to see that it's not as crazy as I thought it was.
Depends how much, of course.
This is a very very important thing. The package that I currently support needed to learn that years ago.
Some of the best services are the simplest. Most times over thinking and over engineering leads to unneeded complexity and ultimately failure.
The Most Important Principle of Leadership from "The Apprentice"
It's going to vary so much from child to child. This is your first, so you've got a lot to get used to.

I think you don't want to travel too early. Sleep is going to be at a premium. Establish your rhythms. Give it six weeks or two months and see what your bodies are telling you. On the other hand, if you have an ailing grandparent who cannot come and see you ... go. I am so glad that my two older children got to meet their paternal grandmother before she passed away. Circumstances will sometimes drive you the way you need to go.

Oh, and we haven't talked about cloth vs. disposables, either, right? I had never changed a diaper before our first, and yet I changed all of her diapers in the hospital, and then we used cloth diapers once the umbilical cord had dropped off. I never would have guessed I'd ever be rinsing off cloth diapers in the toilet ... it's another area where I'm sure you can find data about the environmental effects on either side of the fence. One thing I'm convinced of, though, is that when it came time to potty train, the cloth diapers helped, because they don't do as "good" a job at keeping liquid away from the body, so there was a desire on our kids' part to potty train sooner rather than later.
Yes but The Wire did not take place in Fells Point or Canton. Which is the Hoboken(yuppie) of Baltimore.

Every city has its west baltimore components to it.
That's part of the case, if I understand it: some of the plaintiffs are publishers who published sheet music that was at the time in the public domain, but was then re-copyrighted, forcing them to pull those publications.

What unfortunately doesn't seem to be part of the case, but would make for an even stronger plaintiff (at least rhetorically), would be an orchestra that recorded a public-domain work but then found itself unable to distribute its own recording, once it was re-encumbered.
Amen. Agree 100%.

(But I couldn't help busting you on the "you're going to crush your kid!!!" line!)

Parents who consider these choices carefully are modeling decision-making skills that will be passed along and benefit their kids much more than the actual result of the decisions.
I was on a meeting when the registration opened and, by the time I got back to my desk, all tickets were gone.

Either Google finds a larger venue or stops giving expensive gifts.

OTOH, I'd be perfectly fine with a GoogleIO podcast with the presentations. I seriously doubt many attendees would complain if Google decided to stream the presentations live.
Well it seems your assumption that "pretty" is purely a luxury, something that's nice to have but serves no practical purpose other than aesthetic satisfaction.

Personally I disagree.

I think a programming language is not like a car, at least not in that with a car whether it's pretty or not has no practical effect on the utility of the car.

You are using the computer language to express your own ideas, and to formulate your own constructs via it's syntax and semantics.

When the language's syntax and semantics are clunky, verbose, and full of line noise....those things become intermingled with your ideas and your semantics and it becomes difficult to separate the two.

I've been writing Javascript a long time, and what I like about CS is not only that it makes writing code easier by providing shortcuts for patterns I use constantly, but that the finished code more closely resembles the actual ideas I had when I wrote the code. With syntax and semantics that get out of the way you can focus more closely on your ideas and how to improve or fix them imho.
I've done my fair share of web programming. But JavaScript (for me) has always been to add the flash, not to write the app. In the past couple of months, I dove into Backbone.js, Sammy.js, etc. and while my JavaScript worked, it wasn't "the JavaScript way".

When I found CoffeeScript, I was very happy. But I've been moving back to more JavaScript recently because I've spent hours looking through the generated JavaScript and learned quite a bit from it. I did the same with my C compiler and x86 Assembly :) It's nice to read what the experts think the final product should look like.

So write some CoffeeScript, compile it, and learn some JavaScript from it.
I agree, but Facebook doesn't really need to do it well to be successful, it just needs to be good enough, for better or worse.
Not being a rubyist, I don't get the joke (if it is one...!) Can someone explain?
Awesome, the return of the Lean Startup Bundle! Sold!
There's also a real downside to living with your boss. When do you get down time? Do you really want him to know how you spend your working and non-working hours? If there is tension at work how do you prevent it from carrying over to home, and vice versa.
but what about residency? From what I gathered at your linked website (tnx btw, seems like a great resource) their work permit (aka working for an employer) rules are pretty lax... Is it the same for working on your own?
Hacker stumbles on upcoming Android/Google music sync service in the cloud
“We left everything behind to do startups, because that is what we wanted to do more than anything. It doesn’t feel like we are making a sacrifice.” - amen!
I was thrust into a similar role to this guy when I was all of 24 or 25... It took awhile to learn to say 'NO', not just because it's hard but because it often led to really strong disagreements. The guys on the sales side of the product just couldn't understand when we couldn't do something. There was always an undertone of 'are you guys just not good enough?'

I think that's the hardest part. Generally you say know even when it's technically possible. Hell you probably know exactly how to do it, just not in the timeframe you have. Learning to keep your ego (I can do this) from getting in the way of what's best for the product and the business is the hardest lesson a good developer has to learn IMHO. It's the programmers version of crossing the chasm.
But now the Senior Vice President for Bad Decisions at Yahoo had decided to give us a little help.

Jeez - who keeps hiring this guy? I think we had him or his brother at the next to last company I worked at.
It's going to be a while before there's another console generation. (In a sense, the Kinect and PS Move were an attempt to refresh the consoles without changing the base hardware) I haven't even heard rumors of new console development yet, so I'd guess they're at least 2-3 years out.
Do driverless cars degrade gracefully when GPS is cutoff?
Indeed, but I'm mixed on the change. I used to filled with the options while being able to see the webpage in the background, which I can no longer do (without pulling out the tab). But it's growing on me.
This ViewSonic ViewPad Thing Just Keeps Getting Funnier
1) Buy her gourmet cupcakes

2) Listen to her

3) Help where appropriate - know your skill sets

4) Learn a new skill set to help (diapering/bottling etc)

5) Buy her more gourmet cupcakes
Personally we had a crib that was just next to the bed. It made it possible to get the baby out of or back in the crib without having to stand up. Very useful.

Now the controversial bit: she would be the one to wake up and take care of the baby at night, I would just sleep. We found its better not to share the night time tasks otherwise everyone is tired and in a bad mood when day comes. In out case I would at least had a good night of sleep and I would take care of the house chores or whatever so that she can nap. By the way, if the baby is sleeping, try to get some sleep too, you don't know when it will happen again.
It's not a "people" issue. How does one discern the canonical source of a package on GitHub? Take GitX as an example:

The "top parent" project: https://github.com/pieter/gitx

Andre Berg's fork: https://github.com/andreberg/gitx

The Brotherbard fork: https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx

Which is "the project"? The answer is all of them AND none of them. That's the nature of GitHub. Zed's point is that for a sysadmin, all this obscurity is unacceptable. Having a canonical source for a package is important. That source should obscure away who the actors are making the package happen. If Pieter wants to hand the project off to Andre, who in turn hands it off to Nathan, that's great, but the sysadmin doesn't really want to track that for every package he/she installs on their server.

That is why launchpad is better for sysadmins. Not because it is better in any general sense. Just because it meets a different set of needs. These are not criticisms of GitHub, these are statements of the reality.

The closest thing GitHub has to a "project" abstraction is the organization:

https://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations

One could, conceivably, create an organization to manage a project's code, but that doesn't address all of the other package ecosystems that Launchpad executes more deftly.
I love the story and the writing style. He shows his passion in an honest tone; is proud of his successes and is honest about his (and the company's) mistakes. Very smart coder/hacker but also with a talent for writing (which people always think are mutually exclusive!). Props!
Ask HN: Stand-up desks on a startup budget
I'm interested in getting an adjustable-height desk that allows me to stand up for part of the day, and also solve the more general ergonomic problems of inflexible desk height that inhere in the tense relationship between monitor height, chair height, armrest height, etc.

I suppose in an optimal scenario it would be an assembly that would contain a holder for my desktop tower, and be wide enough to accommodate all my accessories.

I've looked at some of the stuff like Joel Spolsky recommends in "Desks" (the Details Series 7), which was my introduction to the whole concept:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/06/06.html

A Rectangular Series 7 would be perfect:

http://details-worktools.com/products/series-7-rectangular/

However, while it is certainly an option, list price is well over $1500 for a fairly entry-level configuration, including delivery and installation. That's a little bit tough for a bootstrapped company just trying to make it.

I was wondering if anyone had any alternative recommendations that are a little more practical from an affordability perspective, even at the cost of lacking some of the refinement and polish of the higher-end products.

I'm not too particular on electric motor vs. pneumatic style, but since I -- like many programmers -- am kind of OCD about environmental factors, I think trying to find a height from an infinite range every time I adjust the thing would drive me nuts, so the preset settings that come with an electric motor are definitely a huge plus.

I'm going to stay away from any do-it-yourself suggestions because on the one hand, I do want a finished product and not something completely jury-rigged, but on the other hand, trying to build something sophisticated just... wouldn't be playing to my strengths. :-) (Ask anyone who ever deluded themselves into thinking for even a moment that they could count on my competent help in some sort of home or car repair or other do-it-yourself activity.)
To people too cheap to get a new iPad, like me.
I would like to know more about this "Core i9" of which they speak.
Realtime graphics are finally blurring into stylized film. I expect in another ten years or so we will, for all intents and purposes, have the horsepower to render photorealistic scenes. The bigger problem may be finding ways to create this content without insane amounts of work. Cloth mechanics, particle/hair systems, realtime physics, constrained IK/semirigid body solvers, fractal elaboration, fluid dynamics, procedural character/animation generation... all of these problems are going to be really interesting as we start hitting the limits of what humans can imagine and express to a computer.
Apple hardware has always held its value extremely well. I've never had trouble selling my old Macs on Craigslist for a substantial fraction of their purchase price after upgrading to the latest model.
You just need a very hot atom.
The essence of the 'Net
Hi! Thanks for your comments, much appreciated.

Yes, I did change the title tags like you suggested. I see what you did and realise why it should have a positive effect.

I read one of patio11's blog posts last night (I think it was SEO for startups). Quite a lot to take in, but it has definately left me with some ideas for moving forward.

Thanks again.
Aside from the books and subscriptions, seemed to me like a lot of trial accounts, basically. It feels more like buying a coupon book than getting anything tangible this time.

I rather like the idea of AppSumo, just this time I have a hard time seeing which of these are good deals. After going through them all one-by-one I still can't tell if it's worth a hundred bucks to the average startup.
Tells a lot about the agency / customer relationship, or the corporate culture (in case this was an internal job) that such an fauxpass could even happen. I'd say it is difficult to find a more apt example that displays 'I/We don`t care' in such honesty.
Remember when YouTube had a similar issue with <script> tags executing from within comments?
Why? My Python code usually works with anything 2.4+ (some of it prefers 2.5+). Why would MacRuby code be any different?

Linking to a shared library should be painless unless the public interface changes in a way your app breaks.
If you don't like `Turing complete', use `Lambda-calculus isomorph', or `Post-correspondence-system isomorph'.

Turing completeness is not hand-wavy, or circular.

Or look up SKI-calculus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_calculus), if you want to be gob-smacked.
Patents, Reform and the Little Guy
I've been using a standard dresser for years, and I often use a balance board while working, so it is more of adjusting the height of the user than the desk.

However, I've also thought about building my own adjustable height stand-up desk.

I thought that I would get two adjustable height bar stools, like this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NVT1GU/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp...,
remove the seat, and mount a desktop in their place. The two stools will provide a stable base, though you may need to add a third for stability depending on where the weight is on the desktop.

Then I figured I'd connect a rod to the adjustment bar so that the stools move up and down together, or else you're going to dump everything off your desk when adjusting the height.

I haven't gotten around to doing it yet, but I'm moving in a few months, so maybe I will then.
I guess Noah needed to do something to make up for the long-form sales letter debacle. :-)

There are a hell of a lot of services here... What are your must-haves?
I really enjoyed this article in a way that I enjoy so few like it. It had just enough detail in the right places while being a really fun read.

And thanks for mentioning apachetop -- I somehow wasn't aware of it, and as one of my hosting customers is expecting 6 digits of page views over the course of a couple of hours tonight, it now has a terminal window all to itself.
For competent Javascript developers the learning curve to CoffeeScript is an afternoon tops, because it is Javascript. If you consider that, it essentially becomes a free lunch since now you can express your ideas more clearly than raw JS.
Yhea, it's pretty solid.
I had that same feeling, and was not convinced it would be worth the time to research the true value.
Intel Inside: An Exploration into the World of Microprocessors
Paul G. has given Lisp a lot of credit for enabling ViaWeb to push out new features in minimal time, compared to competitors who were using languages such as Java. While your choice of language might not be a make-or-break decision, it's good to have all the advantages you can get.

(I think Twitter ended up using Scala, didn't they?)
Only took us 5+ months to get this setup :)
Wow, its interesting to see the mix of 'its cool / its stupid' remarks. I couldn't find any mention of the terms of the equity but lets say its not an incentive stock option as most people seem to be assuming, rather lets assume its actually stock, as in actual equity you can hold (and sell on secondmarket :-)

So you give someone say 90K shares in restricted stock on the condition that they complete their 3 months (maybe you unlock it 30 days at a time). Now at the end of their 3 months they have 90,000 shares which were probably valued at say .05. So a $4,500 taxable event (and free rent and board? for three months, so perhaps another $4,500 in non-tangible benefits.

If the equity now lets say the equity has participation rights in the series A. (As in you allow this coder to contribute their 90K shares if/when you go for a series A) and your series A rolls out with a 0.20/share valuation. Now your programmer can either take $18K for their three months or perhaps wait until series B.

I could imagine a lot of ways to structure this which would win both from the perspective of the entrepreneur and the programmer.

The key though is what are the terms on the equity.
Both Google and Perforce have talked about the install from time to time - for example this 2007 paper: http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/34459.pdf
I'm excited to give Braintree a go someday, but what I really wish is that someone would come up with a system that was orthogonal to and independent of the existing banking system.

The banks and the regulations make all real credit card processing a major PITA, and while Braintree eases the process, they are not an exception as far as I can tell. They still have to underwrite and they still have to vet accounts for underwriting. If you have bad credit or anything else that would prevent you from getting a loan, you're not going to be able to process cards without PayPal, which means it's difficult to bootstrap yourself out of a bad situation.

One of the main reasons I think Bitcoin is cool is because it's a great experimental platform for this kind of stuff.
They probably mean the 6-core i7-9* series, distinguished from "regular old i7" by their Gulftown architecture and 50% higher transistor count. But yeah, I thought that term died a while back.
I can see there was a lot of timing and coordination involved, though. Worth the wait!
My questions for you:

1. What do you mean by "confusingly high-tech"? Does the
product solve a problem that is known to the customer?
The best product is one that gets out of the way. This
part sounds like the root of your problems.

2. Does your product actually have
that many different uses/market
segments? If you do,
I'd recommend you talk to Sean Murphy (I heard
him over at TechZing podcast where he was
explaining how to
repurpose or repackage and reprice a product based on
different value propositions). He is ex-Cisco manager,
and now advises small high-tech start
ups which have a high
engineering focus (i.e. not in the social spaces).
You need someone who has some emotional distance
from your product to give you impartial advice.

3. Is the following a dead certain assumption "I feel it must look polished for a customer to buy"?
For example, if the sponsor/champion think you are on the right track and closest to what
they need for their business, then you might convince them
to be the pioneer/reference customer, where in exchange for
a steep discount and/or deferred payment until all bugs are
fixed, they get to steer the product in the direction their
particular industry needs. You have already said that it
has application in several industries, so there is no way
your competitors can focus on them all. Try to find a niche
where you can get buy-in and then focus on it.

Remember. At this stage, you are a nobody. No matter
how polished your product is, there is no track record.
The person making the call to buy this is risking his
professional career to support you. He needs to be
convinced that you will be there watching his back,
fixing bugs, and supporting him.

4. What do you mean by "Time is running out"?
If you are running out of money, then
make sure the other 2 founders understand the concept of
vesting. This way, if they leave, they'll lose
their share
in the business. A single founder can survive off the
fumes of an oil rag and push the project along.