skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that the super hero meme is specifically targeting the group of people who are already aligned with much of your stereotypical "geek" culture. The difference is that nowadays there are so many avenues to take following this path that won't necessarily end up at programming. I think the point that cicero made here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2350004 is crucial.

There was a time where being "into" computers meant you inevitably became exposed to programming concepts and eventually dabbled in a bit of it. That's no longer the case. It's helpful to reach out to this group of potentials and show them how awesome it can be to bend the computer to your will. It's just a matter of speaking the language of the group you're trying to reach. I think the superhero metaphor is a good one.
Twitter got a commercial filmed in fucking SPACE
I just came here to post much the same thing. In my answer I combined the metaphone results (also limited) to remove false positives...
I don't think a Mr. Godby would be too pleased to have airstrikes on his property due to using too broad a matching system :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5365283/regular-expressio...
I don't hate to shop and I don't need you to dress me. Your branding is insulting and pretty sexist.

EDIT:
Here's a selection of quotes that just scream "math class is hard!"

"Guys hate to shop."

Some guys hate to shop, some guys love to shop.

"There’s no way a normal man can find a way to pull it all together."

So men who can figure out how to dress themselves in the morning are freaks.

"(oh yeah, and he can specify how many items he wants at the outset, so as not to overwhelm)"

Don't worry your pretty little head, we wouldn't want you to be overwhelmed!

"...you’re not in the least excited about it, and somewhat fearful that what you do select will be horrible and you’ll offend your wife, a family member, the woman you’re taking out on a date, or whatever."

Notice how only women are judging the way men dress?
Libya, a Seventh-Tier Problem for America
This has been tried before, but good luck. I think the real opportunity in men's clothing is the lack of community around 'men's fashion' for what most men want to wear. Who actually wears stuff from GQ? Gilt group? There's just no community around finding cool clothing that isn't high fashion.
Why do Facebook app developers tolerate so much abuse from Facebook? This app to me seems like a perfectly well behaved Facebook app that is within the social spirit of Facebook, and during its moment in the spotlight a Facebook bot kills the app and the author's personal account, no warning, no explanation. From a business perspective I would discount Facebook as an unstable and unsupported platform simply because any app within can get pulled any time without warning or explanation.
That's actually a pretty good rule. But I checked the list on Stack Overflow and we might also need to include:
Kazzafi	- K210
Qadhdhafi - Q331

K210 a bit more problematic, since it matches names like 'KOSOFF'.
Trunk Club is exactly how I would of expected Dress.me to work if I were signing up. I think just recommending doesn't go far enough. Getting a box in the mail with everything put together for you seems much nicer.

Having a personal shopper is appealing I think. That being said, their brands are definitely on the higher end and more than what I'd probably be willing to spend on clothes. E.G. Denim ranging from $165 - $225 means a single outfit could get pretty expensive quick.

Still, I can definitely see the high end of the market being viable though. Seems like demand would exist at mid-market prices though too.
Color me skeptical. The whole idea of placing webOS on PC's strikes me as a "well what else are we going to do with it" moment rather than a well thought out plan.

They're going to have to show me a lot more before I take their plans seriously.
DIY Smart Cover for the iPad 1
Why messaging traders are like scared fish
It's a standard colorscheme of the Ace editor http://ace.ajax.org/
Google Getting Into the Social Networking Game: Could It Be True?
I was talking about an older major release (3.0 and 3.0 RC2 were identical IIRC). Even 4.0 RC1 had Firefox/4.0 into the user agent string as well as into the About panel.
I did a git clone last night and carefully read through the starter kits for Common Lisp, Java, and Python. A long time ago, in my book "C++ Power Paradigms" the last example was using a genetic algorithm to train a recurrent neural net for the Sante Fe Ant Trail problem. My original idea was starting with weights represented with relatively few bits, and adding less significant bits slowly during training. My hope was that I would quickly find reasonable areas of weight values so the search for good values with a reasonable number of bits per weight would not take too long. After I wrote that John Koza told me that I had an interesting idea but probably not useful. That said, I am tempted to brush off my old idea and try it again.
I fully agree that the iPad will increasingly encroach on the console games market. That may sound crazy but hear me out.

1. Already the graphics on the iPad 2 are pretty good. I would argue they're sufficiently good and only getting better (with better software and successive generations of hardware);

2. 3D realism has I think overshot the mark. Nintendo has proven--and continues to proven--that you don't need the latest and greatest 3D engine to sell consoles and games. Remember too that many people are nostalgic about arcade games and systems from the 80s and 90s;

3. Increased realism in games has really blown out art costs. I would argue that art now constitutes the majority of even big budget titles. The more realistic games get the higher this cost. Improved tooling has mitigated this somewhat but the cost continues to rise.

There is significant economic incentive for game producers to curtail art costs by developing on lower-spec platforms.

3. The iPad is a multi-purpose device so, ultimately, more people are likely to buy it or devices like it than consoles (IMHO). Console makers continue to stretch the capabilities of consoles (adding VoD services like Netflix, etc) but ultimately it's still a TV. The iPad is a computer (albeit one with limitations). This will however take time.

I've been saying for the last year--and I continue to say--Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft should all be scared about the iPad.
Misconceptions about the Khan Academy
You should really wait until this hits their front page. The FF front page still has 3.6.15 as the latest.
Klout has me on a score of 56 and ranks me as a curator, which means "You highlight the most interesting people and find the best content on the web and share it to a wide audience. You are a critical information source to your network."

I don't think I have ever retweeted anything, and I very rarely share links on twitter, and when I do it is to my own blog. I mostly just troll people and make lame jokes.
Waffles - Machine Learning command line tools
Interesting analysis, but I'm not sure whether I think that any problems in the Middle East quite compare to the problems the US faces at home.
This site forces my browser (Opera) into a (roughly) 1Hz reload loop. Nasty. No wonder I normally surf with javascript off!
It's riddled with mistakes. SNET was never part of AT&T. GTE and Contel merged, keeping the GTE name, so GTE should be next to Contel. BOCs should be before the 7 RBOCs as part of AT&T. Many missing like NY Tel and NE Tel which became the NYNEX RBOC. MCI line should start with MCI. There are others, and arguably the Sprint/United connection needs to be with GTE. Nice idea, but I hope nobody uses this for serious information.
Except a Levi's 550 - 36 32

Nothing to try, nothing to see, just buy and wear.

Oh, and Hanes tagless white t-shirts XL

Oh, and Nike slippers 10'

That's my basic outfit 24/7 and I can buy it all online.
Restoring Copyright to Public Domain Works
Want a Domain Name? How to Buy a Registered Domain Name
Can someone fill me in here? Is there a marketplace for selling user accounts that I don't know about?
Hrm, any debug info would be helpful. I'm only running Disqus, analytics, cabel's fancyzoom.js and typekit.
You're DFL? I think I know you. You were at Summer School, right?
Zappo's has free shipping in both directions, thus making potential fit issues far less problematic.

I've bought about a dozen pairs of shoes from them, and returned about six.
Google's YouTube Revenues Will Pass $1 Billion In 2012
Yes, you're right ... I did think that after I posted :)
None of your data is broken out by major. That doesn't really help us, and you probably should refrain from going ad hominen immediately (troll, misinformed, are you serious etc) when your "facts" are far from conclusive.

I know in my college, in my two majors (mechanical engineer & computer science, 2007-2010) it was about 80/20 male/female in ME and 70/30 male/female in CS. The girls average was likely higher than the guys. I don't see how they are "dominating". You're numbers show there are more guys than girls in college - which was also true of my college which overall was 60/40 female/male. That doesn't mean there are more girls in majors related to startups like the ones we are talking about here (which I would highly doubt you can find numbers to say that).
About the sizes: It's true that clothes range from M to XL depending of various factors; however, it is not something impossible to fix. For instance, it's possible to make an equivalence of "small of x1" = "large of x2".

Also, by asking the user to choose something he knows he's comfortable in, the website can get really interesting metrics to help determine the good size.

Finally, I guess it's always possible to give more detailed metrics of you (how much you weight, height, arms length, etc.). So, basically, it could be optional but if you're willing to spend a little time measuring it, it could be of a tremendous help. In fact, if I knew I could avoid big stores by taking a few measure of me, I'd do it right now.
Looking at the maps, one might wonder if the level of personal connections between researchers affect citation numbers somewhat. For groundbreaking papers and useless ones, this may not be an issue, but the quality of most papers are in between the two extremes. This may result in fewer citations for papers from researchers in less connected areas of the world, noticeably developing parts of Asia and Eastern Europe.

An alternative hypothesis is that papers from those locations are in fact of lower quality. I think a debate is in order.

> Not least of these is the performance of Cambridge, MA, home to two of the world's top institutions in MIT and Harvard, which could reasonably be expected to feature strongly in the data. Yet, Cambridge, MA, does not appear at all.

I wonder why the author wrote down that paragraph despite obvious contradictions in the maps. Cambridge, MA is featured prominently in the Physics and Chemistry maps. It is only missing from the Psychology map.
I think he was referring to the software and electrical engineering majors which should smooth out your flabbergastation a bit.
Don't really agree, sure you shouldn't sit there and obsess over your competition, but you should have a good idea of who they are and what they are doing. Not paying any attention could result in you totally missing the ball on changing business conditions and focusing on the wrong things.
Being a monopoly is the only way AT&T knows how to survive. Do you see them competing ever in a non-regulated field? Even the iPhone deal was a monopoly for 5 years....that's AT&T's DNA.
Tweak your Internet Explorer 9 and customize the browser.
Raising Some Kabbage: How We Did It
If a single founder advanced the position of the company (developed an MVP, secured some financing, etc) they would reduce the risk that the 2nd founder would face. I think in this sort of a situation, an uneven split wouldn't be unreasonable.

That being said, has anyone done it?

EDIT: founder, not "forward".
There might have been economic barriers, but they seem to be falling.

"Ethnically, 67 percent of whites reported home broadband; English-speaking Hispanics reported 66 percent; and blacks reported 56 percent."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367687,00.asp

African Americans use the mobile internet more than whites.

http://www.blackweb20.com/2010/09/23/pew-report-african-amer...

So it looks like to resolve this issue, all we need to do is let current trends continue.
I agree that the site won't solve the problem it pretends to address if it's just going to ask you what you usually like and feed you similar stuff.

However, this can and should be bundled with a more assertive counseling activity: "we're not going to force anything down your throat; however, if you're not satisfied with the way you're perceived, and you think your clothing style is part of the problem, we might have some suggestion to offer".

Counselling should itself be structured in two levels:

* generic help for free ("If you have $PHYSICAL_FEATURE and want to be perceived as more $QUALITY, you should chose clothes which have $CRITERION. Beware that $CONTRAINDICATION". Could be raw text with a couple of diagrams, could be something more interactive)

* referral to one-to-one counselors, with a commission on their fee.

However, it sounds like a real problem, with real solutions to be provided, to people willing to pay for it (nobody expects to get clothes for free, no freemium competitor will undercut you), and with enough diversification possibilities to find one successful way to grow. As always, and especially for very personal services, flawless execution matters much more than the initial idea.
A Visual History of Baggage Fees [Infographic]
>That said, I'd argue that unless you grew up with computers and were interested in programming them early in life you probably aren't the startup type.

"That said, I'd argue that unless you grew up with money and were interested in trading early in life you probably aren't the wall-street type."

"That said, I'd argue that unless you grew up with movies and were interested in acting early in life you probably aren't the hollywood type."

Can we put aside this drivel? People can learn after they're 10 years old.
Apple approves "gay cure" app
Those big budget games you're talking about make a gagillion dollars every time they get released. The iPad will never touch that market because the controls aren't nearly as good.
That is a much better solution than the "marker" or arrow approach that I've seen in many video games. The arrow approach basically only gives directional information, doesn't offer much feedback in terms of distance from the edge of screen.
GiftRocket (YC W11) Lets You Send Gifts That Can Be Redeemed At Any Location
You missed the biggest reason... cost of games is much cheaper. Even the Wii, with lower end titles, still cost much more than iPad games.

The big problem with the iPad is that it is not an enjoyable multiuser experience yet. Nothing beats having friends over and playing Madden on a big TV. This is one reason why I think PC gaming never really took off in a big way. Playing a game on a PC is basically an isolated experience (mitigated by online play).
I would buy this also, sounds amazing.
What if you could order the shoes and then return them no hassle if you didn't like them? That's what Zappos has done and it's lowered the barrier to buying something like shoes online.

Online clothing stores need an innovation like this.
Google needs to get more local to increase its revenues
I'm sure Lorenz University, like any good startup, was just launching their minimum viable product to start gathering valuable user input like this blog post to guide their ongoing iterations... ;->
It doesn't move anything onto the root space, AFAIK. Do you have a link supporting that assertion? My understanding is that this just creates more TLDs under which domains can be registered.

There is no more confusion created. (Almost) all existing TLDs have domains in them that should not be there based on the original "purpose" of the TLDs.

The .com domain only ever made sense in the context of a single language and a single country. It's only crowded because it is one of the first ones that anyone could register in. If all the TLDs that exist today existed at the beginning, the landscape would be very different.

The notion that "once a name is allocated, it's gone forever" is no different than today. More TLDs provide more opportunities for similarly named companies or organizations to have some form of their name. It "prevents" large companies from dominating all forms of a name.
Based just on my experience I would say Zappos does have the same problem, but I guess the margins are high enough to overcome it. I frequently buy shoes from Zappos and end up buying either a bunch of different shoes and returning most of them, or buying two or three sizes in one shoe and returning the ones that don't fit. So I think the OP comments were spot on. Just because something is a significant problem, doesn't mean it's something that can't be overcome.
Some Powerful Apps That make Your iPhone Into A Knowledge Hub
What a frustrating article! http://dress.me is a default index.html. The link to AppSumo Lean Bundle just asks for my e-mail. Same page linking to AppSumo Lean Startup Challenge. Why bother linking to all this?
I agree, it's an excellent example of good visualization. My dad taught me a few years ago, it's very effective.
This isn't about you, founder. (Reminder to myself as much as it is to startups)
Destroying the de-centralized part in the process.
I've used Swype a fair amount. It works well enough for one-handled input, but it's still much slower than using the Epic keyboard with two thumbs.
The real problem with Swype and other virtual keyboards is that they occupy ~40% of what's already a tiny screen. So then I can't see the context of what I'm replying to, or more than a few lines of my own text.
Debugging on the actual device is a much, much better experience than debugging on the emulator.
Leveling Up for JSConf and NodeConf
Absatz takes a new standard of webdesign
I think I saw something like this on a T-Mobile commercial with Dwayne Wade. He was showing off an app that shows him his wardrobe. I've also heard about well known celebrities photographing everything in their closet so they never wear the same thing twice.

Seems obsessive but I think there's a use for everyday folks. Although opening the closet door and looking at your clothes is pretty much the same thing.
21 Social Media Predictions
25% of black people live in poverty and about half have a household income of less than $50k.

I would say, in general, very few tech founders come out of poverty. I'd also say that relatively few come out of <$50k households (plenty of exceptions, here, of course). Most of the American founders I know come from pretty flush backgrounds.

Of course, I also read that the majority of funded startups are founded by people born outside of the states.
Thanks for the input: I should make that more clear. It was originally going to be $18/month, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I wouldn't want it that way if I were the customer.

Every month, you get an email with pics of 2-4 different ties. If you like one, you order it. If you don't, you don't order it.
Real-Time Radiation Monitoring in Japan - Internet of Things in Action
Dare to Shave
How reliable is Google Voice? I'm a little wary about switching my phone over considering my Sprint service has been rock solid so far.
Michael Sherrill of Addmired seems to be another one.
We've been using Talker with our team in Minsk. It's been fantastic, some things, like JavaScript plugins are ingenious.

Cobbled together a plugin to auto-link FOO-1234 to our JIRA installation. Plus, multi-line pasting creates an EtherPad session.

plugin.onMessageInsertion = function(talkerEvent){
$('td.message').replace(/(FOO-\d*)/gi, '<a href="https://foo.onjira.com/browse/+$1.toUpperCase()+ target="_blank">'+'$1'.toUpperCase()+'</a>');
$('span.msg').replace(/(FOO-\d*)/gi, '<a href="https://foo.onjira.com/browse/+$1.toUpperCase()+ target="_blank">'+'$1'.toUpperCase()+'</a>');
}

It's a fantastic, fantastic collab tool.
I definitely will! Thanks!
It sounds like a great idea... but where's the demo or screen shots?
If anything screams BUBBLE it's this video. I can't put my finger on it, but something about this video just has such a 1999 vibe to it.
Ask HN: are your business ideas too technical too?
I have this problem: I am an engineer, and I see technical problems everywhere which need to be solved. I recently realized that even if I think my ideas are business ideas, someone comes and will tell me that it is still too technical.

For example what I am working on now came as the following thought process:

- Product idea by fustration: I want to mostly automate the boring job I had to do creating CRUD-like aplications with typical reports.

It then became a bit less technical idea:

- I will create the most intuitive database client ever written (using lots of heuristics and convention over configuration), which non IT-people could easily use.

With the help of my friends this turned out to be still too technical. I did not start out from the user's point of view, but from mine. For example the question was: can non-IT people design a database even if it is done on a very intuitive GUI?

Now I have this concept:

- I will provide a tool for users which will help them manage their business data in an agile way. Maybe they 'design' their tables improperly, but they start somewhere, they enter their data, and my tool will focus to make it easy for them to refactor/modify the table structures on the fly easily. I will provide automatic refactoring advice using some redundancy checking and other heuristics.

This is still to technical I am afraid for most business people. My question is: did you have this problem that your natural thought processes were too technical? How can someone work on changing this?
Yeah, but in a sense that makes them your support network. Out there trying to make the same sense of your market as you, acting as an early warning system.

Not only that - startups work in small markets. Having more companies in the market actually makes that market bigger and lends legitimacy to it. So having more companies "competing" for slices of a pie they're actively making larger is ... not really dog-eat-dog. More have-some-pie.