skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point. My brother -- who until recently ran a small non-profit -- last year had a grant to build a new website and put out a RFP to a bunch of local and national design firms. I think at times he was overwhelmed with the responses and utilized me to sort through them. I spent a good deal of time going over the proposals with him and helping him understand the differences between WordPress and Drupal and PHP vs. Ruby and what sort of features he actually needed on his organization's new website.

In the end he told me that I could probably make a living doing consulting like that strictly for non-profits. There is definitely a need for that sort of guidance.

I think that's where orgs like NTEN can help, and maybe this site could also act as an information clearing house and community for those on the non-profit side to learn about what sort of technologies are available, what they need, what's possible, and how to get it done.
Despite my distaste for Sony, I worry that the tone and claims of bad faith in Hotz's filing will distract from the overall strength of his argument.

From Kozinski's "How You Too Can Lose Your Appeal:"

Let's face it, a good argument is hard to hold down. So what you want to do is salt your brief with plenty of distractions that will divert attention from the main issue. One really good way of doing this is to pick a fight with opposing counsel. Go ahead, call him a slime. Accuse him of lying through his teeth. The key thing is to let the court know that what's going on here is not really a dispute between the clients. What is really going on here is a fight between the forces of truth, justice, purity and goodness--namely you--and Beelzebub, your opponent.

http://notabug.com/kozinski/loseappeal
If it has to be updated on every page load I don't think there's anything you can do...I may be wrong I'm sure someone on HN will have some performance tricks. You can generate your headers and footers and store them in a file instead of touching a database every time. If you're killing your database server you're probably returning too many records or your queries suck. I wouldn't know without seeing them.
Demo Usability Test by Steve Krug
Robert Harper: The 'Holy' Trinity of Computation
Imagine if all of those smart people were doing something productive instead of helping people buy and sell options 1 microsecond faster.

From each according to his ability?
Wonderful! The HTML5 Boilerplate contained lots of little gems from different front-end devs. If this is just half as good, I'll be really happy.

Paul Irish is really making front-end development exciting.
A while ago someone made the interesting point that the costs of HFT are not being accounted for, from a free-market perspective. Exchanges typically charge for completed trades, not for orders, so traders can flood exchanges with very large amounts of orders. In practice, traders that flood exchanges will face penalties--but that only slows the arms race.

The natural economic question is: if HFT traders are making more orders than is efficient, who loses? The answer almost certainly has to be the exchange, and those traders who are losing the time race to HFT's order-spamming advantage. But when Joe the Consumer places an order on the exchange, he always get the best price--it's hard to imagine a way Joe, or even Joe's Mutual Fund, can anything but benefit from HFT.
Why can the banks have high-frequency trading, yet still not have instant transfers between accounts?
Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2377109
I think the point here is that there is no effective standard by which we can define "wasting time". Many people would consider a lot of the startups you fund as "wasting time". Indeed any particular activity could appear useless. But we prefer a market-driven system because in aggregate we are worse than the marketplace at identifying such activities.
i think this is a great idea. In austin there is a company convio which provides a platform for non-profits. It might be helpful to talk to them to see if you can form some kind of partnership - they have a lot of connections to non-profits.

This is a chicken and the egg problem and it seems like you need developers. But developers might need to see non-profits that inspire them before getting involved.
I personally know some of these so called party girls. The last thing on their minds when they're out doing what makes them party girls is emailing, cc'ing, social scores and ranking. These are women who have a hard time keeping the apps updated on their iPhones, or figuring out how to dial someone who txted them. I really doubt they're going to be enthusiastic about your app. Seems a bit too geeky for this demographic. Plus, cc'ing someone from your phone is a painful process for anyone - even the geeks. Think of how many clicks it takes to cc one person. Who's going to bother picking multiple people from an address book when they're drunk or having fun? I admire your talent, but you should probably use your knowledge of GAE for something a bit more relevant. Good luck, and I hope it takes off.
I often recommend 99designs to startups that need logos. For startups, logos are like domain names: they don't have to be great, just good enough. (E.g. Google.) And I have never yet seen 99designs fail to deliver in this respect. Often the startups that use 99designs get better logos than the ones that hire individual designers for the purpose.

The designers who complain about 99designs remind me of the record labels. Something you used to charge a lot for, you can no longer charge a lot for. But things aren't going back.
I know you're a reasonable guy. But, look: you either trust CNNIC or (like me), you don't. If you can't trust CNNIC, you axe their cert and click through to make persistent exceptions to the sites that need that cert.

At the end of the day, we're talking about a very simple UI problem. Yes, our notion of "trust" is broken. But it's broken in large part because nobody has put any effort into communicating to end-users enough information to enable them to make informed decisions. Then, after putting no effort into the problem, we look at and say "you're asking my mom to understand X.509 CNs!", as if that was the extent of what engineering could bring to bear against this problem.

Then we throw up our hands and say "let's make a simpler protocol; who cares if predictably and reliably allows middlemen to hijack our connections, at least we won't have to explain X.509 to our moms".

Can you blame me for being a bit cynical about this?
For #3... I run my own servers for email and use IMAP. So, it's easy to sync multiple devices to the same mailbox, and I always have a copy on the server (plus whatever is cached on the PC).

I would vastly suggest Mail.app over Outlook on OS X, based on years of personal experience with both, just FYI.
I'd argue because it's really not that hard.

Prototyping a product, and implementing said prototype, are hallmarks of people with vision and determination. If you have an idea but can't execute, why bother?

Bare minimum reason: You understand how the product is created, and can empathize / call bullshit when something is delayed.
Hopefully he can bring a working monetization model with him.
I've learned (well, maybe) the hard way that if you say stupid things, it damages relationships. Now the reason one might keep doing so is that usually it's a lot more fun to say questionable things...

Alas. But yes, you have to be very careful with what you say. It's many times harder to overcome a negative impression than to create a positive one.
Looks like spam.
Business person should have a proven track record with good references.
A Detailed Analysis of Color's Privacy Practices
I imagine he would call the murdering part sinister, as opposed to the time spent doing something other than what is optimal.

I agree with the GP that the opportunity cost argument is so wholly dependent on the judgment of the debated activity that it doesn't really pertain one way or the other.

That said, HFT doesn't strike me as something that adds value to the economy.
Cross-Platform Social Experiences – To Do Or Not To Do
The interview seemed a little leading to me. The interviewer wanted to talk about apps a lot more than the reviewer did; she basically just uses facebook and email.

The interview also comes to the conclusion that doesn't follow from the interview: that tablets (and the ipad in particular) are superior to computers for most mainstream use-cases. However the reviewer only uses facebook and email (and assuming a 3rd party facebook app) and had lots of trouble with the facebook app (with it having fewer features that the site and with crashes). She also said at the end that what she hears from others is that they like the computer better. And indeed her facebook experience would have been better on computer than the ipad.
Internet Architect Paul Baran Dies
Sometimes, Kevin, a technical master will realise the limitations of the tool, and not always suggest it as a solution for a problem that clearly calls for something else.

Of course, that's over-simplifying things. Sometimes you asked for things that were physically impossible. When you need 1Bn operations to complete a task, you can't do that with 1M worth of resources, no matter if you try to use MySQL, Cassandra, or text files to get that result. You see, some of us at Digg actually had real computer science degrees, where we learned algorithm worst-case complexity, and we understood you were asking too much of too few computers. And if you think back hard enough, you'll remember the answer was actually: "MySQL can't do that unless you get 10x more computers."

Thanks for talking about your dissatisfaction with the theoretical limits of computing here, in this forum, where I had to find out about it third-hand, instead of actually talking to me face-to-face back when it could have made a difference.

Signed lovingly,
Your MySQL DBA from Digg.
Proven track record is good, but does that mean an exit, good network, can raise funding. I mean on some level any of those is better than none, but is there one key piece that says good track record to a developer?
It's not clear to me why I would be interested in Archfinch over, say, Reddit.

And the movie recommendation functionality is totally gone now?

As you were explaining your pivot, I thought you were saying that you were going to add a hn-style "hotness" feed to a movie ranking site, which I thought was a genius idea. Basically, people would write pitches for their favorite movies, why they're awesome, and then everyone would up/down vote them, and you'd get a feed of what rises to the top. It'd be even better if it was personalized based on your taste graph, but that wouldn't be necessary to start.

So, I don't know... different kind of idea than what you're doing, but it seems sort of interesting to me.
"Imagine... If we sent 100 emails then we’d be out of business."

Not quite. Then you'd still have 36.6% of your initial customers.
Great, let me know what countries I can immigrate to as a highly skilled person with a profitable company. I've applied to Australia/New Zealand and Canada and been denied from all three. I keep hearing about how the US is unfair to not let immigrants in yet it seems clear our immigration policy is far more wide open than any other country in the world, and meanwhile it is very difficult for Americans to immigrate to the countries that are doing all the complaining. Name for me the country you are from so that I may read of your immigration policies that are more generous than those of America. I look forward to learning all about it. Thanks in advance.
I like PowerShell SSH Server - it's a normal SSH protocol, unlike WinRM, and native, unlike the various Cygwin hacks.

http://www.powershellinside.com/powershell/ssh/
It can, actually, get much worse. While cross examining the other side, the opposition attorney can, and often does, state an assumption in the middle of a question that misstates a fact. If you don't object, then that statement becomes fact. In other words, every statement made must be considered. Is this something I am willing to allow?

It seems that we want to think of a world that is logical and populated with verifiable facts. However, the world of the lawyer is fundamentally illogical (as are most humans most of the time) and facts only exist when either agreed to by the parties or determined by judge or jury. As a result events that you or I would consider to be unquestionably true may end up being not facts. I have seen this in supreme court opinions, appeals, and bench (judge-not jury) cases.

Sony knows this well. They have tons of money to throw at lawyers. Generally speaking, the more money spent, the more likely you will win.

The word "justice" is never used in law school.
Everyone initially believes they can "focus" on two big things at the same time. No one can. He's about to learn this lesson the hard way.
This looks great! I'm assuming you could then plug-in jQuery Mobile to take advantage of the UI widgets for a very nice mobile-optimized website. Then use something like PhoneGap to bundle it as a native app (if needed).
Dr. Mok Oh on the Future of Local Search: Let's Get Back to the Basics
I think that a lot of entrepreneurs leave money on the table because they're scared to do something that they think feels cheap. In a case like this, it's probably a tiny minority that would be turned off by this. I'd be absolutely shocked if having a blurb like that at the end of the post would have a negative effect.
@brk..Thanks, I do like Mail.app a lot and it is what I have been using. I do have some issues sometimes with having 13gb of e-mail over 10 years or so.
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I'll probably get down-voted for this being as though this is Hacker News and the majority of people here are "tech types" as opposed to "biz types". However as a biz founder its probably necessary to speak up:

Common philosophies I hear exposited in tech circles is, "Biz co-founders are a dime a dozen" and “Good ideas, in and of themselves, are worthless”. The argument being everyone on the planet is capable of formulating ideas, thus “good” ideas can be found in overwhelming abundance. One may hear this suggestion advanced amongst mostly “tech types”, such as programmers, developers, engineers, etc. Many of them believe value is derived from the conversion of an idea into a physical product. What group of people are typically required to convert the idea into a physical product? Why the programmers, developers, and engineers of course! In this type of climate, the notion that good ideas alone being worthless or that biz co-founders are worth less than their tech counterparts becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. This notion is advanced by none other than those that stand to gain the most from it: the programmers, developers, and engineers. Sorry guys. I don't buy it. Read more on this phenomenon here: http://thegeoffreyhull.com/post/3767537182.
Hugely impressive piece of work. I migrated a Wordpress blog to Jekyll a few years ago and was surprised how nice it was working with a flat file system.

However, things do tend to get a bit slow when you regenerate large sites, especially if you are using the "related posts" feature.

I also found myself endlessly hacking Rakefiles to generate tag clouds, embed twitter etc etc. You should ask yourself what you want from your blog before jumping off into Jekyll.
A lot of good points in there, but it seems to be a little bit on the "developer centric fantasy" side of things, particularly on the Traction section.

Non tech cofounders that are getting 30 users before trying to find a technical cofounder aren't having trouble finding tech cofounders. Non tech cofounders that have 10 people committed to paying up to 1000/mo and signed letters of intent from the 5 of them (120k/year, 60k guaranteed) before building a product are few and far between.

These guys are gems, and betting on them is a good bet. Its like non-tech founders trying to partner with proven Facebook employee #13. Unless you're equally proven as a dev, its hard to justify asking for that level of accomplishment from your cofounder.

Much of the "find a cofounder" game is about making good decisions when its not such an obvious call.
This is a really weird response. Classical liberalism, and its descendants, have had various answers to this question for a long time.

My personal opinion is that one is obliged to act in a way such that the world is not disadvantaged by one presence, but further obligations are dubious. It's not that I'm opposed to using one's talent "for good", it's that other people telling them what to do with their talent has been shown to be a very dangerous game. Particularly if the other people are motivated by the moral fashions of the times.
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This is some kind of reverse slippery slope argument that just doesn't hold up to common sense.
Any thoughts on why he'd choose to do this when he is focusing on Square? Could it be that he disagrees with what's happening with Twitter and wants to steer it in the direction he wants it to go?
On the folly of asking the same question once
Flagged. Doesn't actually have any criticism of StartupBritain, seems to be a badly worded attack on government spending cuts.
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My main annoyance with HFT is that it clearly is a "game". A few times algorithms have misbehaved badly, whole blocks of trades have been rolled back.
Patching Android Apps
This post originally appeared at OnStartups, where all my writing appears exclusively.

You know you're old when: you still remember when the term "exclusive" actually meant something.

Edit: on closer inspection, this version is actually truncated, so he sort-of has a point.
This open source:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Open_source_i...

Not this open source:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Open_source
like Steve Jobs with Apple and Pixar?

like Elon Musk with Tesla and SpaceX?

like Peter Thiel with Founders Fund and Clarium Capital?
The Wrong Stuff: How You Too Can...Lose Your Appeal
Exactly. HFT disempowers market makers b/c all those orders create extra liquidity with worse spread for market makers.

The anti-HFT sentiment is similar to the opposition to electronic exchanges and demands that all pricing be centrally routed -- the old school exchanges realize they have a sweet deal and so they try to fight off other sources of trades/liquidity/pricing.
There is a significant difference between optimizing ads and HFT.

By optimizing ad revenues, you are increasing the number of people who find a product which they find valuable. This is useful - some people are better off than they would be otherwise.

A significant portion of HFT is simply about winning a race. The first to trade gets the benefits. Doing a better job of HFT merely redistributes the benefits of trade rather than creating them.

(Of course, there are other more useful aspects of HFT. Providing liquidity where none existed before is useful, and providing a better bid when you lost the race (i.e., if you lost the race to bid $10.01 first, you can win the race by bidding $10.02) is also useful. But I don't think the criticism of wasted effort is off the mark.)
The title is sensationalist, and yes, the guy has something to sell, but the interview audio and transcript are available for free, and it's a pretty good tale.
Care to explain or should I just take your word for it?
Class :-)
FAQ: What programming language should I learn first?
Baberuth and I are talking about whether it's sinister for A to criticize B's actions, not whether B's actions are sinister.
Flagged. This belongs in /r/ukpolitics, not here.
Ask HN: Review the demo video of the site for programmers [youtube]
Here it is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m43J5g3s_1g

What do you think?
Does it explain and show the main idea?

Is intro not too long? I mean everything before the moment "Let's see it in action."

I appreciate any feeback.
Kickstarter funded full-length movie about Mojang and Minecraft
Riak and Scala at Yammer
I'm a technical developer currently looking for a non-technical cofounder. What I'm looking for is someone who:

1) is well connected with the startup community (the Scoble's and MG siegler's of the world, as well as angels and VCs)

2) enjoys shmoozing with people. Is usually the last person to leave a meetup or tech event, and always a pleasing guy to talk to with a drink in hand.

3) can think of creative, non-technical ways to get buzz for our product and is great at implementing those. For example, if we were launching at SXSW, he would cover all the event planning, parties, invites, swag, PR stunts etc.

As a developer, these are the skills that I personally lack - and I'm sure there are others like me who would rather focus their energy coding. I find social schoomzing to be a boring and challenging part of my job as founder, so someone who was born to do that would be a huge asset.
I see your point, but it would be a pretty easy line to draw that traders need to hold stocks for more than a few seconds/minutes without disrupting much but the HFT aspect of the market right?

edit: or even that the trades must be ordered by a human. There are really easy dichotomies to draw here.
I'm getting nothing but "1800".
Yeah, that's a problem in lots of languages/frameworks. Rack automatically parses URL parameters like that, too. The solution is to cast your parameters to a string before using them.
To paraphrase from LL Cool J: Dont call it a comeback, he's been there before!
Preposterous. No one buys it, and you shouldn't be selling it.
What's going wrong with Tesla or SpaceX? They both seem successful to me.
Sounds like some spinning of his own in explaining why he did not fully comply with a judge's order that he take the code offline:

"The Code was also posted on Pastie. org and Github.com. Originally, it did not occur to me that these locations counted as within my custody or control."
Things to consider in a business development deal
Maybe Color raised 41m so they could build a paywall.
Not yet, though IP addresses are one of the metrics for each vote. I'm still working on efficient ways of going through everything.
His real html5 boilerplate isn't very useful. it's basically doctype html5 and css reset. It seems to me he's complaining that http://html5boilerplate.com/ doesn't have a better builder UI.

Maybe his blog post is old? checkout http://initializr.com/
Mark Suster On Why He's "Very Long Twitter"
I think it's funny that tickets are $1599. That will definitely attract more people than when it would be $1600.
One creates directly attributable profits with little, if any, ongoing exposure. The other creates little, if any directly attributable profits.

Furthermore, if the transfer is from one bank to another, the sender wants to hold onto the funds for as long as possible to earn more interest.

Lastly, most retail banks probably still run ancient code that is not as conducive to innovation.
I wish I could have bought (not rented) a static IP address for $12.50.
The parent comment is trying to point out that it is in fact possible to focus on two things at once.
Cambridge (MA) cable TV to air Al Jazeera English, racist commentary follows
The idea that there can be good and bad ways of spending your time is a separate question from whether other people are telling you what they are, or whether you are deciding for yourself.
Resumatic - personalized online resume/profile pages
I think that's the point - Musk is running both successfully.
This would probably increase transaction costs for the rest of the market.

If I can liquidate a position whenever I feel like it, I'm happy to provide liquidity even with a $0.01 spread. If you impose restrictions like "you must hold this stock at least 60 seconds even if it tanks", you have considerably increased my risk. Now I'll hold out for a $0.05-0.10 spread before I bother to offer liquidity.

This raises the cost for others to trade from $0.01/share to $0.05-0.10/share.