skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite the same. If a non-technical founder is looking to pitch a website idea to developers and they have they are choosing to spend time picking up HTML and JavaScript or throwing together detailed mocks for each page, the mocks would probably be better use of their time.
How long have you had the Dell? I bought a Zino HD intending to use it as an HTPC, only to have it choke playing Netflix or Hulu at 1080p on my 32" LCD TV via HDMI. I swapped it for one with an upgraded processor and video card, and it's burned up two hard drives since. After the second, I did some Googlging that I should have done in the first place, and it seemed pretty clear that there was a heat issue (and I give the device plenty of room for ventilation), so I gave up on it. I'll call Dell out to replace the drive again, and unless I can somehow convince them to swap in an SSD, I'll toss it on Craigslist or eBay.
#HashtagBattle - Fight on Twitter
This site is born from a friendly competition between two Startup Week-ends held the same day in Sophia-Antipolis (France) and Lauzanne (Switzerland). We wanted to know which side would get more tweets.
Camille, co-organizer of the Sophia-Antipolis event, coded the first prototype of #HashtagBattle in one hour on a Friday night.
On saturday night, with some kind help from the awesome Damian, the prototype was tremendously improved and the first release was deployed!
ThemeForest or TemplateMonster both offer some pretty great designs if having a unique design isn't important.
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Q: Who's Dominating Q&A Sites? A: No One
* I suspect that Bjarne would have discarded his own trash properly.*

either that or the wrapper would have caught fire and burned the whole terminal down.
What a bunch of whining about 'fair'. It's simply the market at work - nobody owes you anything, not a certain amount of money per hour, not a certain amount of work, nothing. As long as there are people who want to do the work for the payout they get, the system works. If you find you can't make enough money on 99designs, you're free to get a job at McDonalds.

RFP's don't lead to BIG gains either - there are many contracts with a cost plus model. And most startups fail or whither on for years, with no real prospects. That's just how it works - don't like it? Feel free to do something else.
There is a difference between being cheap and being frugal.
I don't view it as a 'good investment'. I view it as a large, high-risk investment that will likely leave one group of people saying 'I told you so!'

But it's not obvious to me which group will be wagging their fingers in victory.
Removing the CNNIC cert is not an option if you actually need to talk to sites that use it. And at this point there are literally hundreds of untrustworthy root CA certs in browsers. Just because I want to talk to some server in Turkey doesn't mean I ought to rely on a Turkish organization to vouch for the identity of Bank of America.

This is not a problem with the protocol, but with the criteria used for trusting a signature.
yesterday i was improving my excel skills about statistics, instead of use the random funcion i thought to ask a number from 1 to 10 to some friend and see the histogram. just after some question i was surprised about the results and so i asked more people. up to now i asked 24 people(46 number in total,the first 2 was just one question), i also asked a second number after recived the first. my result are: that 7 win with 31% of answer followed by 5 with 17% the last are 10 (zero answer), 1 with 1 answer and 2 and 6 with 2 answer each. you have to note that 83% say a odd number as a first one.noone told me a number that wasnt integer. whats going on? the majority of people was italian, some spanish and some german.Guido
How To Make A Million Dollars In 100 Days...The Fruit Guy Interview
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I like what 37signals uses on their job board (looks like an updated version of their wysihat). Are there other obscure favorites?
In fact it is an app - I have it installed on my dev machine and use it to generate QR codes for use on web sites.
Smartmontools - awesome disk utility to make sure your hard drives are healthy
WWDC 2011 schedule set; iPhone 5 may be pushed back until Fall 2011
Or a $.001 tax per transaction.
Walling off your industry to preserve profits that aren't in line with the real value of the product might be desirable but it is unsustainable in the long run in today's modern world. Ask the music industry.

I upvoted for the rest of the comment, but this bit seemed off. Mainly because the crowd-sourcing idea relies on the respect of copyright even more so than the music industry.
The issue is if you want to read 50-60 news sources you have to aggregate them using a reader. I use google reader which works fine and sort of works on my android phone. Sometimes I click through but it depends more on the article. Twitter doesnt come close to replace RSS at the moment.
It's the behavior that cheapskates and pirates make the system gravitate towards. There's nothing wrong or dishonorable about it. Incentives at work people - nothing new to see here.
Show HN: My weekend project to connect coders with non-profits
After a weekend of coding, last night I launched a very early-version MVP of Coders Who Care. - The goal of the site is to connect nonprofits with developers willing to donate time to a good cause.

Right now, it's simply a directory, but in the future I'll be adding more tools for devs and organizations, including ways for charities to post projects and tools to notify developers when a project is posted that matches their interests, etc. I'll also introduce some social components, like recommendations/endorsements, and I have plans for eventually adding a software distribution system that open source developers can use as a means of stirring up support/donations for their favorite organizations.

Anyway, big plans, tiny beginning. I thought HN might be interested.

http://coderswhocare.org
The article oddly seems to be a converse of the often asked "how do i find a technical co-founder?" It seems to assume that you're a technical person who is looking for somebody else's start-up to join.

Personally I'd like to know what to do if you're a technical person with some technical ~AND~ business ideas, who's got a product that's got a little traction and is looking for someone who can help with marketing and execution.
So you only compete on price with those who charge more then you? ;-)
You're talking about a category of application which very few people are even using at the moment. Both Facebook and Google buy a lot of companies.

They're not "doing nothing", they're letting a small team try to develop something, which seems a perfectly appropriate reaction. How often has Google jumped into a totally new category with any real conviction? They half-heartedly launched Buzz long after Twitter was a hit, they killed Wave, etc.
It was too good not to be true.
They're a deal site right? So essentially their conversions are for the third parties, not for them.

It's possible that their sales to the third party companies depends more on their list size than on their conversion rate.
perhaps a good differentiator would be a blog/site with content and/or ui design that people enjoy so much they visit it directly? meaning it breaks through the rss feed, and they goto it directly. thoughts?
I believe you are presuming that all those super intelligent people are hacking on high frequency trading algos because of the big $$$ being made for it.

I think hacking on those things would be great fun. Others might as well.

I do like the idea of putting some kind of brake (or field-leveling force?) on the actual act of high speed trading - without any real economic insight of my own, it seem flaky/shady.
Jack Dorsey Returns to Twitter Day to Day as Executive Chairman, Product Lead
Depends on how you define 'High-Frequency Trading'
"The implication is that SCEA might be fighting dirty, providing misleading information to the court."

That's kind of naive, this is how the law works - you make your case by putting the most beneficial spin on everything from your clients perspective ("he agreed to this when he did X").

The defendant then makes their case by putting the most beneficial spin on everything from their clients perspective ("X only extends to cover Y and therefore is not relevant").

The judge or jury then rule on who is right. That's not fighting dirty, it's the practice of law.

This is an analysis of the defence motions which are always going to be worded to make everything Sony has done sound deeply wrong and evil.

The Julian Assange defence was very similar - if you read through it you'd wonder how the case had ever been bought and yet the judge found against them on pretty much every point. They weren't fighting dirty, they were giving their interpretation of things and this is the same.

Not saying this isn't good, or interesting, just that it has a very specific and obvious bias and that irks me a little.
Yes, exactly. I was mentally enumerating all the meanings of the Trojan Horse allegory and wondering why this has anything to do with iOS in particular. Yet, I cat't see what the point of the OP is. It reads like the script of a horror movie missing the last ten pages.

Google pricked the group messaging territory with a little incomplete flag. Anything else I'm missing?
Jack Dorsey Returns to Twitter as Executive Chairman
It's not meant to be run on dumb phones.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/myriad-alien-dalvik-runs-...
maybe they have an internal mailing list where the ultimate language flame wars take place.
Jack also confirms on his own feed: https://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/52407042966695936

Today I'm thrilled to get back to work at @Twitter leading product as Executive Chairman. And yes: leading @Square forevermore as CEO. #200%
Clickable link: http://coderswhocare.org
I was referring to the user-generated emblems, not the standard game art.

I'm tired of listening to American kids using near-constant racial slurs and using a Nazi swastika as their emblem.
We're all remote: how we deal with a 100% remote dev team
It doesn't work like that. There's some intelligence built in to the instance placement algorithm to guard against this.
If I had to guess, I'd guess that the Android apps in question are implemented via a layer like Wine, and what it really gives you is an ability to target both a feature phone and an Android in one build target, rather than actually running in-the-wild Android apps on a feature phone, which even if it can technically do is probably not a desirable experience. Still, for some set of Android apps out there, what takes the CPU is mostly the graphical geegaws the core framework provides, and one could provide less processor intensive core framework geegaws just as Windows widgets have changed over the decades and you might salvage some useful apps that way, too.
There's as much skill involved in managing/leading a software development process as there is in actually doing software development.

I've got a lot of respect for somebody who can scrape up some dough, envision a product, and get somebody to make it. Unfortunately, too many people think that their skills as a salesperson, manager, hairdresser, chemist or whatever empower them to lead a software development effort and too frequently they fail.
Sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem to me. How about designers who are still at school and trying to get some part-time work?
I'm very curious about how many people you get to volunteer time. One issue you may want to look at is, many non-profits don't need a developer, they need a consultant who can help them come up with what the developer is for. Getting people to understand the difference is important for both ends of the agreement.

Also the black on white and white on black on the homepage is hard on my eyes.
Oh really? Because every medium-to-large website I've ever looked at or developed has had a stylesheet that large. Facebook? Twitter? GitHub? 100k+ compressed stylesheets. Hell, even if your site is small-to-medium sized but very design-intensive, I could see you reaching that mark.

Don't worry, I'm sure all those developers are "doing it wrong" too.
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Jack Dorsey back to work at Twitter leading product as Executive Chairman
The main problem with your argument is that you assume some central authority is able to correctly judge what activities are worthwhile and what activities are not. They tried that in the Soviet Union and failed miserably. "Something productive" is very hard to define and that's why we let the marketplace define it.
They're not saying the case should have been bought in Japan or under Japanese jurisdiction (they admit it should be bought in the US, just that it should be bought in New Jersey as that's where the alleged offence was committed and because to bring it anywhere else is deliberately inconvenient to the defendant).

The point about SCEJ is that it should be them that should be bringing the case rather than SCEA.

Personally that one feels like clutching at straws as it doesn't invalidate the alleged infringement, just this particular case.

In the unlikely event that the judge threw it out based on this SCEJ would just bring the case using the same lawyers and the same materials (SCEJ and SCEA are both after all Sony and to assume that they wouldn't co-operate and share resource isn't really realistic).
The developer preview of Lion makes it pretty clear which way things are heading. I wouldn't expect much deviation from that on the Mac side. I'll be interested to see what they're planning for iOS 5 though.
ISPs (I work for one) dislike traffic, which heavily saturate channels. Total uplink capacity is comparable with total customer demand at peak hours. So, ISPs have to distinct between immediate (VoIP, gaming, SSH), normal priority (web browsing, email) and bulk (BitTorrent et al) cases. Although, throttling to pre-defined per-customer value seem like stupid idea, but putting them into different buckets is a must.

ISPs also dislike high-PPS low-packet-size (significantly lower than MTU) UDP traffic of uTorrent's uTP protocol, because it quite negatively affects the network hardware.

And, most important — ISPs, in fact, love P2P traffic when it happens between their peers, because such traffic does not consume uplink channels. When it's legally possible — they endorse it (for example, by setting up gaming servers or introducing locally-hosted software-update mirrors), when it's a gray waters of file sharing — they just don't stick their nose in other's business (unless law enforcement requests them so). Of course that's unless they want to make customers dissatisfied their service as network connectivity providers.
Jack Dorsey Takes Over Product Again at Twitter as Executive Chairman
I'm a capitalist, because I feel it's the best system we have. However, there's obviously a wide spectrum of views that can be ascribed to capitalist philosophy.

I'm quite happy to be able to state my politics places me at the opposite end of the spectrum to you.

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"That's just how it works - don't like it? Feel free to do something else."

I'm happy to argue to my case - and to disagree with practices that I feel are unjust or unfair.

Logically and morally - this type of crowd-sourcing involves exploitation. If you carry out work for someone - logically they DO owe you something.
I find the "talented people not fulfilling their potential" argument terrible. That's often cited as one of the costs of HFT, but its really true of a lot of human pursuits.

It just so happens that the prevailing sentiment is that finance, and HFT in particular are particularly immmoral, so its a popular notion; I find it as "bad" that hordes of talented engineers work on optimizing ad revenue for Google.

Humans will always be underemployed from some perspective ("Oh but she could be doing X"). Penalizing them for not operating in a way that is consistent with your (or anyone's) world view is far more sinister.
The results for 'select' seem strange. That's the only place where random specified/not makes much difference. It also indicates that a lot more people picked numbers under 'select/specified' than any other condition.

Have you checked your logs for possible vote stuffing?
People have a predictable and powerful tendency to put everyone into buckets via easily quantifiable properties and treat them very differently based on whether they see themselves as sharing those buckets.

Ergo, if a jury gets involved, it's worse for Sony if the action is framed as "Japanese corporation vs New Jersey citizen", given a jury composed of New Jersey residents.

If they can get SCEA/California jurisdiction, it's "California corporation vs New Jersey resident", given a jury composed of California residents.
Warner Bros. Expands Test of Movies on Facebook
I see a need for both, actually, but yes, you're absolutely right. Guidance in this area is just as much needed (maybe more so) than someone to hammer out code. I'll look into finding ways of addressing this need more in the future, when I start expanding. - Also, thanks for the design feedback. Design is definitely something I'm going to revisit as well, time allowing.
The fact that smart people's time is also wasted on other types of work doesn't mean there is no such thing as wasting time.

Do you really believe it's meaningless to talk about time being misspent? Would you call it sinister for example to criticize someone for spending their time murdering people at random?
Sorry, I probably should have said full-time freelancing. Part-time freelancing is a good way to build up your client base.
The fact is, if your browser trust roots contain only trustworthy CA's

That would be the empty set, because neither have I any idea of what criteria I'd use to trust a CA [1], nor do I trust CAs not to give up their private keys to the govt given even the slightest pressure.

[1] Thinking about it a bit more: I'd trust a CA that I'd set up myself. But I wouldn't necessarily trust the hardware it was running on.
The example of diapers.com seems like a poor one in that its one of the few domains that I actively think about when I need to place an order -- "almost out of diapers. oh yeah, I have a coupon for diapers.com somewhere". It's one of the few domain names that has probably resulted directly in a sale to me.
How about turned based trading? Once an hour, on the hour, results published at half past...
Expose text message scams and get sued
I agree with you. That said, where does it cross the line from beneficial spin to providing misleading information? Can, for instance, a landlord claim to a court that a tenant agreed not to throw loud parties in the rental contract (even if there was no such provision) and leave it up to the the tenant's defense to correct that no, the rental contract says nothing about parties? To me this would be misleading information, but I am highly ignorant of how courts work.
It's more of a team culture aspect.

I would imagine that developers who have an interest in learning about art also happen to be design-minded or at least aesthetic aware.
I might be wrong, but I don't think many professional designers in western countries take part in 99designs.

Perhaps the prize is worth comparatively more in 'developing' countries, but the base argument still stands.

People are competing for the chance to be paid. The vast majority of people will gain nothing.
Absolutely, and all traders should be required to use rotary dial phones to even the playing field further. While we're at it, speaking into the phone at faster than 200 words per minute should also be banned.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play review
One thing I definitely have to say, is that NK really had some courage in trying to re-email the users who had unsubscribed.
It is common best practice in email marketing to not contact unsubscribed users again, but kudos to him for testing out the concept of re-engaging unsubscribed users and specifying in his email that he made a mistake and would like to get a 2nd chance. Risky business, but I call it a success when he managed to win back some of the customers who had initially unsubscribed!
As the article points out, certainly not a problem specific to design.. In fact, I wonder how many of the designers who're complaining have taken advantage of the microstock photography explosion, or turned to flickr for their stock photography.
Firefox 4 doubles Internet Explorer 9’s usage share in half the time
Ask HN: Now can I cut down mySQL queries on dynamic pages?
My products home page has 4 sections of data that should ideally be updated at every page load, how can I do this without killing my database server?
Ask HN: Dropbox, but not store locally?
Hi All,

I have e-mail into Dropbox 3 times and asked and no reply.

I have a new MacBook Air, 128gb SSD. I want to use Dropbox, but if I pay for the 100gb or even the 50gb plan, I dont want to keep all files I have on Dropbox local to my machine due to space limitations..

1. Is it possible to have files live on Dropbox, but not retain a copy locally on my machines?

2. Does anyone have any advice on how to (after a certain time frame unused) to have files move from my MacBook Air to Dropbox and remove from my MacBook air to free up more space?

3. What about moving my Outlook or Apple Mail (I am deciding which to use) location to my Dropbox on my local system so I always have a backup, totally current copy of this data in case of system failure, etc?

Advice is appreciated.
Can you really be traced from your IP address?
Interesting, front-page-worthy subject but holy god is that a badly written/"put-together" article.
Hilarious use of browser UI. I think the best touch is the scroll bar being the paddle.
If the case was brought up in Japan, then wouldn't Hotz just need to avoid ever stepping on Japanese soil in order to stay out of trouble (regardless of the outcome of the case).
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Ask HN: What entices you to work with a non-technical cofounder
Every day there's a new post from a business person thats non-technical looking for a co-founder. Sometimes they're simply looking for a code monkey and not a true co-founder, which it seems easy to write off. If they don't value the full process that goes into getting a product built and launched from a technical side then they would likely be a headache to work with.

But even for those that do want a true tech co-founder it seems that most come up empty. I admit many don't understand what needs to be built or how to go about executing, but if thats the case is it simply technical individuals want someone that understands more of the tech than not before working with them? Myself I've split the sides technical for many nears, now in more business roles, but still overall am hands on with technology. I haven't had problems first hand, but often hear the question raised from business people of how do they find a co-founder.

For those that are technical co-founders are open to that what items would entice you:

- Business person already having traction/funding
- Business person that on some level understands the technology
- Must be interesting on a technical front
Wonder how long for "The real HTML5 boilerplate" to arrive. http://csswizardry.com/2011/01/the-real-html5-boilerplate/
And in my experience, the proposal with the lowest cost is rarely the least expensive.