skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only works as long as the segregation is securely maintained. The risk of hacks, subpoenas, or employee misbehavior is too high to make such a system trustworthy, in my mind at least.

The best and simplest way is to simply maintain separate accounts, such that the separation is enforced in your head.
Youtubed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzmRyyAbBIg

Now removed :/
I think your examples hit on a key point -- iPad use cases are decided by individuals, not by organizations.

I occasionally watch a CNBC trading show ("Fast Money"). The four traders at the desk used to have live market feeds delivered to laptops that sat on the desk, and those were replaced with iPads on stands last year. Now some of those traders have their laptops back in addition to the iPads, presumably because when you're looking at charts and numbers, bigger is better.
"Is there really any debate whether you have to execute an idea to make it successful?"

Mostly no. There are some cases where next to no 'execution' is needed for the big bucks. One example was the Sears employee who proposed a button on the socket wrench that would eject the socket. His 'execution' was a lot of legal wrestling with Sears after they implemented the idea but didn't pay him. Eventually he got paid.

"Are there really people who think you can have an idea, keep it in your head, and become rich just by thinking it?"

No.

"Ah, but the sage advice is to execute it 'correctly.'"

I believe that more "sage" advice is to have a good idea where execution is routine!

Here HN is trying really hard to get into a swamp and ignore
the standard, old "sage" advice:

(1) Identify some target customer 'pain'. Want a bad pain so that a solution is a "must have" instead of just a "nice to have" (I know, Facebook and Twitter are so far mostly only nice to have).

(2) Find a solution to the pain. Hopefully this solution is new, much better than anything else, and can be protected.

(3) Use the Sequoia statement: "A huge market with customers yearning for a product developed by great engineers requires very little firepower." I don't fully believe this, but it's not all wrong. It's a version of "Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door.", which is only partly true, also. Still, I didn't see a lot of Super Bowl ads for Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Here a crucial part, that I would call the valuable 'idea', is in (2), for the solution.
Please read my comment from a similar posting yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316878

I would add a few things: Get involved with local meetups/startupweekend/etc... Where are you located?
Dead already.

"This video contains content from TV Asahi Corporation, who has blocked it on copyright grounds."
$35bn apparently

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870402750457619...
Then I must be a naive programmer.

If I can accomplish something in 1 line of code that takes me 100 lines of code in another language, that matters. It also probably indicates that the more succinct language has a higher level of abstraction.
go to whatever tech/startup meetups are near your area, and introduce yourself to as many people as you can. Don't instantly talk about how you need a programmer to join your company. Just have a conversation, tell them what you're doing and find out what they are doing. Follow up with anyone who you think might be a good fit for your team.
Why the downvote? I thought I gave ample justification for my criticisms of the article, and my criticisms were constructive.
I get the point, sorry I forgot to mention the necessities.

I'm looking for someone who can code HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and other programming languages would be great. We are a start-up that primarily focus on delivering content (such as movies/games) to consumers in a short amount of time, whether it would be online, or at home.

Databases would be key as well.

Also, software programmers/designers are something we're looking into as well, designing a prototype of a GoogleTV similar device that can transfer data from an account to the device.

I can go in depth, but these are the basics.
Well our start-up has three founders, me being the CEO, I live near Chicago.
He said it's very possible. He did not say it is very likely.

It is also very possible that you'll win a lottery.

But having said that, my advice is not to worry about the future (or the lottery) -- things will work out to your satisfaction.

Or they won't.
This sounds great, my only concern would be where can I find these meetups? How can I interact with these people?
Ask HN: An Acceptable Erlang
I've been experimenting with Erlang, and it's perhaps the most frustrating language I've ever worked with. I've mostly been using Learn You An Erlang, and switching to Programming Erlang when I need more background.

I am fully on-board with the async, share-nothing, message-passing, "let it crash" paradigm. I think it's inspired, and I'd really like to build some applications in it. Except for the fact that the syntax completely mangles my mind. I can't seem to understand it at all. Given a code snippet, my guess for the correct statement ending is a total shot in the dark. Comma, semicolon, period? No idea. I can't imagine I'll ever be able to build something with any real functionality, apart from passing messages from one place to another.

I know this is the sort of question that will raise the ire of most aficionados, but is there an "acceptable Erlang"? Something you can write day-to-day, but get close to the same programming paradigm? I've seen Akka on Scala, but that looks like it's going to be really heavy. Node.js, AFAIK, is async, but the fault-tolerant bits aren't there. Stackless Python or Twisted don't seem to be very similar.

Any ideas?
Show HN: A few weeks ago, I started prototyping the Circles concept.
If you've thought about this subject yourself then you can create your own mix and don't need Poole or Zuckerberg to lay down the law.
Should I keep going?
Are all Dvorak's friends on facebook pre-teen girls?
It's probably worse than that, they are probably 'writers'

The fake people on facebook, at least on MY facebook, are the people that are fake in real life. Yes, it is easier for them to broadcast how fake they are. Luckily facebook also makes it easy to filter out their broadcasts. It's also much easier for the friends I care about to broadcast important information as well. For those of us without a media site/platform to broadcast our cra... err articles, facebook works great.

Also, I never get along with WoW addicts.
Really? I've been using RSS feeds for years over multiple apps/platforms and Google Reader has been, by far, the best.
(somebody stop me if I'm completely off-base)

It's been my observation that Japanese culture appears to be more accepting of and comfortable with people putting on personas to suit a particular mileu than in the west.

In the West we strongly equate what a person is wearing and their behavior at that moment with their overall identity. It's been my observation that in Japan a person may put on a persona like one might put on a costume and it be perfectly acceptable.

There's exceptions of course but nothing is more disconcerting to me as a westerner, watching an interview with a Japanese Rock and Roller or Rapper, expecting them to have the FU attitude I'm used to seeing during the interview and instead see them behave with politeness, nicely bowing at the right moments and talking politely to everyone.

It's actually quite refreshing in a sense to see this and I think it can encourage experimentation as it prevents people from getting too wrapped up with a persona they are building right now and drop it and try something else that suits their fancy.
Anonymously operating a Bitcoin gambling site, interview
So, download and save it. (Right click, save link as.)

Then open it in your favorite video player. Use VLC if you don't have one.

VLC can play it directly too, but it's probably easier to just download it.
There's certainly money in enterprise, but not so much for the hobbyist coders. If you or a small team make an app, you're not exactly going to survive off donations alone (my ~5500 user Chrome app has had all of two donations :| ).
Did I say anything about intelligence? No.

Is someone with poor English grammar skills likely to have an accurate understanding of either US legal codes or the legal implications of BoA's internal memos...both of which are written in English?

I can read and write French, but it's been so long since I did so on a regular basis that I'd probably have difficulty writing a postcard in that language. Would you trust me to perform legal analysis on a pile of French documents? Because if you would, I'd like to be paid up front, in cash.
"Tap Water Slowly Kills Brains And Drinking Tap Everyday You Can't Be Shocked When You Get Cancer Out Of No Were...." -- http://twitter.com/OperationLeakS/status/40235981365977090

"Tap Water Is Given To The Public By The Gov And They Really Hate People Living Long Healthy Lives... So They Cut Them Short.." -- http://twitter.com/OperationLeakS/status/40237539138740225

"Remember The More Your Sick The More The Insurance Company Makes Money.. Everything Is Connected.." -- http://twitter.com/OperationLeakS/status/40237925744656384
You can see the etymology of tycoon at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_magnate#Etymology

The borrowing pre-dates the Hepburn romanization system which wasn't developed until the 1880's.
Not much here, Apple schools the marketing experts because they opened a store at an event and many people showed up.

This is called event marketing. You have a large number of people with similar interests and if they are your potential customers, you put yourself there.

The one thing Apple is great at is getting free press by keeping secrets, this article is a good example of that.

It's a shame what has happened to cnet, they used to have good tech content. Now they publish poorly written articles with catchy headlines to get clicks. From the looks of this article it seems like they also employ the same standards as the new AOL.
http://m.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Met...
That said, burst speed is what matters if you are streaming or doing something else that is similar.

The typical user has no need for sustained output unless they are torrenting things, being used as a supernode for skype, ect.

I do like the idea though.
I had a go on this.

It was awesome fun.

It happened on a whim - it was noticed the tesla coils were powered by audio, and we could easily get audio output from a kinect.
Utterly off-topic, but did he pronounce redis as "read-is"? Is that correct?
Good news for you - startup weekend has an event near you in April. BTW, I'm not affiliated with them, but have participated in one in SoCal and find it tremendously valuable.

http://beta.startupweekend.org/about/events/

You really should share more about your concept if you want maximum exposure. From the sounds of it, you are focusing on a niche of something like what came out of startup weekend LA three weeks ago, got a million in funding already and is at SXSW killing it as I write this message! ;-) Check front page of techcrunch for Zaarly. I missed that boat!

Also, you made another comment about "not being able to find these meetups... Google is pretty incredible resource! But for starters, maybe go to meetup.com or search for local hacker groups around Chicago, IL.
Currently unassigned, if you’re wanting more than someone’s guess as to the category. It’s safe to say the event will be at least category 3, and that it is not (presently) above category 4, but we need to wait at least until the event is over before the category can be assigned very accurately.
> Only the most naive programmers think that LOC actually means anything.

Call me naive, then. Source code, even automatically generated, will be read, and may be modified. It does count. XCode template (unlike Yacc output) is source code.

> And then we get onto secondary claims, e.g. benefits of garbage collection. (See the pretty graph)

If I got it right, the little graph is about some aspects of runtime performance, which is secondary. But you sound like you don't acknowledge the primary claim of garbage collection: that it simplifies programs.
Not intrinsic to Japan as the OP noted, but it comes naturally to people. Zuckerberg's stance is mostly motivated by earning money off peddling Facebook.
Oh yea, I remember that. Everyone should read that!

So uh, adapted into the book?
Meetup.com is a good place to start. Also google phrases like "linux user's group" + cityname, "ruby user's group" + cityname, "java user's group" + cityname, "perl mongers" + cityname, etc., etc. Once you find a handful of interesting groups to start interacting with, you'll usually find that one group leads you to another (ex, groups cross-posting meeting announcements to one another's mailing lists, or standing up and making an announcement about an upcoming meeting, at the meeting of a related group, etc.)

Edit: plancast is another decent place to find out about upcoming events of various sorts.
I'm troubled by your implication that the end justifies the means. That path leads to evil.

I also think you're not understanding finance very well. There's no rational reason to insist that financial instruments must be "directly relating to the demand and supply curve of physical items". There are plenty of good reasons for such instruments, facilitating risk management [1] and liquidity in the markets.

[1] Of course, in this case, the particular instruments did the opposite of risk management. This is because their risk models were flawed. I agree with you regarding the moral hazard created by gov't meddling, making it so that financial institutions don't need to learn lessons about ensuring their risk models are based in better-understood methods, or are at least very conservative.
I chuckled a bit when the parked cars started bobbing, then made their way to the 'street' and floated away as if driving off to work. Everything else was horrifying.
I love the paper-thin justification here the most. "We have to do this because people don't want to pay for bandwidth they don't use!"

OK, where's my $10 a month refund for every 50 GB I go under the limit?
Your "friends list", sure google crawled that from your inbox, but surely you are aware they have that information and have in essence authorized them with it by using their service to email people.

The "friends of friends" bit is the one that could be creepy potentially, but here as well, all they do is take your friends emails, find other social services on the internet associated with those emails, and display the names of your "friends" (totally public) lists of friends.

This is something you could easily do manually with any search engine.
Dvorak hates facebook because it allows people like Dvorak a soap box to stand on.

In reality, my friends, on facebook and in life, are not Dvoraks. They are normal people with jobs, with hobbies, etc... People (usually) too busy to worry about online image or rant about popular internet culture. That's why I like facebook. If I had a bunch of Dvoraks for friends, I'd probably hate it too.
Anyonw know if they'll introduce lower rates, much like their move with mobile data?
"You know, places where they like nice big displays so everyone there can see the details of the x-ray pics?"

Where is this place you go? Because doctor's offices either have desktop workstations or a lightbox to throw up X-Rays (or will just show you print-outs). With an iPad they can just pinch out to zoom in. YC and Start fund seems to dig the idea of doctor's using iPads, seeing as how Dr Chrono got funded.

"Some of your examples seem contrived, like the office meeting where someone is dragging their power brick"

It's not contrived because I saw that constantly at the office I worked in (before I started working from home).

"Police in their cars don't need a smaller display"

The ones I've seen in cruisers have 10" display bog-standard notebooks (some I believe still use DSTN screens, which are ancient as hell).

"Delivery drivers already have solutions that are designed for their specific application"

Right, as if that gigantic gizmo with 1000 buttons and a tiny monochrome resistive pressure-pen screen UPS drivers carry for signature confirmation is the end-all technology for delivery drivers.
Code for this is here (and only works on OS X)
https://github.com/AndrewVos/pi-notes
It's amazing how much has been given to ATT & Verizon to build out new fiber networks (which they still haven't finished) and now when people start using them to their potential we will be hit with overages, awesome.

It won't get any better until the cities/localities remove exclusive territory rights for companies that provide phone and cable.
This actually sounds pretty reasonable.

Now I'm wondering if they'll continue being reasonable with a clear commitment to a specific speed, or - at the very least - a decent and reliable average.

If so, they'll be in a position to run marketing campaigns where they start assaulting those godawful "up to" claims by demonstrating what their competitors actually average.

Alternately, this really is about offering less for more. I suspect we'll know one way or the other within six months.
Thanks! This helps a lot! Hey, do you think I can get a hold of you personally?

Like do you have an email where I can reach you at?
You are making a common but fundamental and potentially very costly mistake: You are looking for a needle in a haystack. Then you are drawing conclusions about the needle from the hay you do see and not the needle you don't.

It may be that for the needle, you will have to sign an NDA and, then, be very glad you did.

We're looking for needles, guys.

We can grab some hay and just hope we find a needle there.

Or we can try some solid means to find and/or create needles. Examples? Sure, look at the last 70 years of the US DoD. E.g., they bet on just the 'idea', just on paper, for, for just a short list, the proximity fuse, the atom bomb, the turbojet engine (GE once told me that the first prototype for any jet engine costs > $100 million), the engines for the SR-71 (both a turbojet and a ram jet), the SR-71, the Navy version of the GPS, the F-117, and much more. They start with just paper, and the failure rate from there on is surprisingly small. The US DoD can evaluate far out projects just on paper with high reliability. I almost forgot, the Internet.

It was DoD, the CIA, and NASA that mostly got Silicon Valley going. Now just what is it about how to evaluate projects that got Silicon Valley going that Silicon Valley now doesn't understand?

May I have the envelope, please? Here it is: DoD does evaluations with people with both technical and military competence, and Silicon Valley uses marketing, 'biz dev', Wall Street financial analysis, management consultant people. Hmm ....
It works here in Opera on Windows 7. My guess is that QuickTime is messing with you.
Mitigating OWASP top 10 without any code
In theory, what you'll get is faster transfer rates for the data you do use.

In theory...
AOL keyword: Facebook
Yes, you should. It's much needed. How you do it will determine your success. I've got my own ideas around this, and played around with it minimally last weekend. The first person that gets this right and can execute will win big.
If this isn't simply a way to generate more cash while still appearing price competitive to the newcomer, why not implement soft caps?

I anticipate many technically disinclined people receiving very large bills as a result of running an open wireless network.
Rejection Therapy. Seriously. You meet more people, get more stuff and lose the ego. I find I'm a lot friendlier and social because of it: http://www.rejectiontherapy.com
I think we can both agree that bootstrapped companies != lean start-up.[0] Cool. However, it irks me that you think these largely successful companies didn't innovate based on lean principles and therefore couldn't be considered lean start-ups.

> I think you're misunderstanding what a lean startup is.

It also irks me that one of the most well-known cases of MVP/Pivoting discussed on HN has been by Dropbox, and yet you were completely unaware of it. I'm sorry if I'm coming off crass but the lack of research on your part doesn't help your argument. If I've goofed somewhere I'd like empirical evidence. It's important I understand this fully.

> The point of a lean startup is to identify a profitable product using a very low burn rate. Google and Facebook's burn rate was massive.

Really? When was the burn rate massive? From Steve Blank:[0]
The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is

1) hiring a sales force too early,

2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, [1]

3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship.

Google:[2]

1) Google hired their first head of sales nearly 7 months after it incorporates. I wouldn't really call that hiring a sales force (nor is one guy a force) too early.

2) AFAIK Google wasn't out there actively promoting with their 8 member team. They continued to develop the product.

3) I'm pretty sure there is nothing more minimal than this: http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.stanford.ed...

Gmap - Yes, they bought a very early staged mapping software and transformed it into their own. But it was very much the baby project of Lars, whom they acquired. They continued to reiterate through the development of it, with sometimes weekly, if not monthly updates.[3] Yet, the source of revenue for gmaps has continued to evolve (adwords, enterprise, premiere-api, and now featured listings)[4] gmail was built for internal use and then made public. And how is that not lean? They had zero burn rate and they developed a product with the minimum features for the first customers. CLASSIC case of lean principles, if not THE BEST.

Facebook:[5]

1) Did Facebook even need sales people? It spread word of mouth.

2) Read #1

3) "Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service."[5] - It literally was minimal for several years. Do you know how many features they've added over the past 7 years? Too many to count, I could write a book on it.

Other notes:
Facebook wasn't available to the mass public. You needed to have an EDU e-mail. They did a MASSIVE pivot making it public to anyone.

[0]- http://steveblank.com/2009/11/02/lean-startups-aren%E2%80%99...

[1]- http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-definition-of-demand-creati...

[2]- http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

[3]- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Development_history

[4]- http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/05/13/google-maps-developme...

[5]- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
The idea that 2% of users using 20% of the bandwidth is hurting "normal" people is a PR move that is going to do great harm to future innovation. The way I see it those 2% of users are early adopters and a couple of years from now "normal people" will be using as much bandwidth as the current 2% does. Limiting bandwidth now hurts future innovation.
Sure, email is in my profile.
I think it's an amazing testament to the safety of modern nuclear plants (and the plant in question was commissioned something like 40 years ago) that in spite of being hit by both the largest earthquake in Japanese history AND a tsunami, the worst-case scenario is probably not going to be all that bad. Sure, it will be very expensive to fix, but it looks very likely that even in the case of a complete meltdown there will not be a catastrophic release of radiation into the surrounding environment.

Contrast this to Chernobyl when an OPERATING reactor suffered an explosion INSIDE the containment vessel, and you see that this does not even come close.
other day friend quipped "Japanese are so smart designing quake proof bdgs". seems they forgot the tsunami thing after.