skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're being overly harsh. He quotes Apple's legal papers in which they clearly state that the concept of an app store is unprecedented and then he exposes that as inaccurate. You might think of him as a "minor freetard business celebrity" but he took the brilliance of Linux software repositories, made them easier to use and more accessible, and integrated in the ability to pay for software long before Apple did the exact same thing. That makes him extremely qualified to offer some insight on the topic regardless of how big of a celebrity he is. It also explains why he focuses on countering Apple's claim that they invented the concept despite it being less relevant to the trademark dispute.

He was also involved with the Microsoft v. Lindows case in which Microsoft claimed to own the trademark on all words that rhyme with Windows. Remember that one? Where Microsoft couldn't win so they ended up paying $20 million to Lindows for them to change their name to Linspire? He's had direct experience with a frivolous trademark suit from a major software company in the past. Again, that makes him highly qualified to share an opinion on the current situation, which he does. He directly addressed the fact that that app store had been in common usage before Apple started using it. It would've been nice if he could have given more concrete examples but he did still address it.

In conclusion, calling him a freetard is childish and contributes nothing to the discussion of the article. Saying that he fails to distinguish trademarks from patents is flat out wrong and gives people skimming the comments a totally inaccurate impression of the article and its relevance.
As an avid Keystone Light drinker, I'm disappointed that you show it in a bottle! I have never seen Keystone Light in a bottle, only cans (and kegs).
You're right, I was imprecise with my statement. His argument is that it's better that inflationary investing is happening in private markets, and while that's true for the general public, I'd still say that that has no impact on whether or not we're in a bubble. If there is a bubble, and it does pop, that would be very bad for the HN crowd. The fact that VCs and investment bankers would be losing most of the money doesn't change the fact that a whole lot of devs will be out of work, and there will be a few lean years of funding for people trying to launch. In fact, for just about anyone who cares whether or not there's a tech bubble, its existence would be bad. So yes, while it may be better for the economy as a whole to have the risk taken by a select few, it won't matter much to the rest of us.
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You're suggesting that this vulnerability was introduced by Oracle?
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It seems to be checke by default. Does the binary have to be in a particular location to work at startup (/Applications)?
I initially thought this was going to let me sell my textbooks and have beer delivered to my door.

Sadly, it looks like it just calculates the beer value of your books (unless I am missing something here).
Why I'm unlikely to turn my blog into a book
Who downloads MySQL?
Julian Assange: The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
PG&E Offers Critics Option to Turn Off Smart Meters
Congratulations! You've found a problem that can't be solved in a weekend spent hacking! Despite the intricacies, it is still almost entirely a CRUD app, though: which means you have the skill set to implement it. No PhD in machine learning necessary!

Just because it can't be solved by one person in 72 hours doesn't mean it's impossible, as your comment seems to be implying (or at least, Very Difficult). That should say "defensible" to you, not "too hard, won't bother.". As far as technology goes, EMR is easy. It's the product design and enterprise sales that will kill you.
Same problem in Chrome 10.0 on OSX...
Actually he sounds like a teenager troll, and blatant at that.
Well said. From a strategy perspective, if there's a bubble and it pops soon, a lot of companies will discover that some of their core assumptions no longer apply. Seems like a great time to be a contrarian.
A word about color
Commenters on the tech blogs are eager to jump on the bandwagon and bash Color's $41 mil investment as a clear sign of a bubble. At first I thought so too. Granted, the app has a two star rating, is not immediately intuitive, and is otherwise only marginally useful. Yet, I disagree with all of you who are saying that this will be a massive flop. The way I see this, is that Color's app is just a red herring which diverts attention from the underlying technology. However, the underlying technology that they've developed is pretty impressive, and has a lot more potential uses than yet another social photo sharing location aware phone app.
And it looks like it's back up. Total downtime, about two hours.
True, although I think the growth of Jack's character was written as a transition to a man of faith, so I'm not sure where that leaves us.
I picked 6 purely because it's in the middle of my keyboard. I don't think "type a random number" is the same as "think of or say a random number"...
Mustache now has dot notation
It's implemented in the Ruby version, and part of the spec:

https://github.com/mustache/spec/blob/master/specs/sections....

https://github.com/mustache/spec/blob/master/specs/interpola...
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I do, every time I do an "aptitude install" or a "yum install", but not from their site. And the original source was probably downloaded from version control, not the public site. Also, when I do that with Drizzle, I am downloading a lot of MySQL with that.

But I agree. Most of the time, I prefer PostgreSQL.
I am not a business person. So none of this may be valid. But I can think of a few possibilities:

* Some of the lessons learned are highly specific to your project/team. They may not translate well to other teams/projects. Such things, while valuable, may not make sense on a blog.

* Perfect transparency may be at odds with building brand confidence. Letting your customers see every one of your mistakes (in the guise of lessons learned) may work either way with regards to customer confidence.
Disapora picked up media attention to early in the game... That kind of coverage may not happen again or be entertained by people who were once engaged... Concept can remain but surfacing it to the public will be difficult.
"If I lived for the now, I wouldn't be going to college. I wouldn't be planning to study for a PhD in Neuroscience and researching assistive brain/spine implants. I wouldn't study programming languages and designs. I wouldn't be reading The Intelligent Investor. In fact, if you lived for the now, you'd probably be living in a soma-induced haze à la Huxley's Brave New World: it'd be the optimal choice, in fact. Pure neurochemical bliss."

Living for the now doesn't mean being a dopamine junkie.

I went to college knowing that it was basically useless for what I wanted to do with my life. I went because it was time - all the adults around me said that I'd be missing out on an awesome experience if I didn't, and while I was a little skeptical, I figured I'd give it a try. That, and the economy was about to enter the shitter (it was 2001), and the company I was working at was about to lay off 40% of its workforce.

I majored in physics because I liked the feeling of sitting out on my roof with sunshine on my face (yeah, New England, it didn't last very long), textbook in my lap, working on really hard math problems. As it turned out, I didn't like it enough to stick with it. I then majored in computer science because I had found out that I liked it enough to spend my weekends working on compilers and my late nights reading up on programming language design. At the time I did those, I was a physics major, and they were completely irrelevant to anything that might possibly advance my degree or career. But they were fun.

I read The Intelligent Investor because I'd just started working at a financial software startup, had an hour long commute, and figured it might be more fun to figure out what I'd just gotten myself into rather than stare at the silent faces on the train. As it turned out, after reading The Intelligent Investor I didn't much like what I'd gotten myself into at all, which is why I'm not in finance now.

In one of Paul Graham's essays, he says that you can tell an adult from a child because an adult will tend to "lean into" challenges, accepting them as part of who they are instead of shrinking back from them. There's nothing that prevents you from building the habit of leaning into challenges into your daily identity. It doesn't particularly matter what those challenges are, it matters that you attack them. If you build this habit, you'll usually do fairly well even if you don't make a master plan for your life. Heck, you'll probably do better than people who do create a master plan, because life has a way of biting you in the ass and tearing your plans to shreds.
"Freetard"? What are you twelve? A corporate troll or a Windows user? I will be so happy when this "*-tard" meme goes away, it is truly irksome.
Your last point is good and applies to more than Russians (though it accurately describes my experience with Russians too). I've noticed it to a lesser extent (everything is to a lesser extent compared with Russians) in East coast vs. West coast Americans. In California people are friendlier on the surface but harder to really get to know. In New York the surfaces are ruder but once you're accepted as not a stranger the interactions are warmer and more satisfying.

Somewhat related, the late cartoonist Callahan had a classic called "The Difference Between New York and LA". In one panel, labeled LA, was a guy saying "Have a nice day" and thinking "Fuck you." In the opposite panel, labeled New York, was a guy saying "Fuck you" and thinking "Have a nice day".
San Francisco still Hot and Gay?
Working to Impress vs Working to Be Impressive
Even GUI programmers need to be aware of performance. Painting can be expensive, especially on mobile devices, and event handling must be swift or else the app will feel unresponsive.
So you may downvote me, but i never 'objected to it', I never said "if you truly believe that what people mean === what they say". Suggesting I did is missing the entire point of my post. It's not about whether you agree with something or not, it's that answering a question specifically asking for 'something un-intuitive or not common wisdom' with banal un-cited generalities is quite worthless.

I guess you will have to continue to feel sorry for me.
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Hey, so I submitted it to reddit thinking it might get you a few more responses. It kinda ended up being the number one link on the front page. Hope that didn't hurt too much.

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gclpv/pick_a_number...
Is that a reference to a store, as in a place that sells things, or a store as in storage? I am not familiar with the topic discussed on the page, but to me, the term "app store" is referring to app caching/storage mechanism.
The bad news start with unit growth, it is out of sync with the rest of the industry where percentages are more in the 50% to 100% range. For reference, Apple’s iPhone unit sales grew by 93% from 2009 to 2010. More recent Android devices grew even faster.

I wonder if that's really a valid metric to be using. iOS and Android devices have much less market penetration than RIM, so, of course their growth rate will be higher.
Full Text Search in Mongo
syntax highlighting isn't that important. CSS is a pretty simple language
This is a minor and nitpicky point, but that's not what Phobos looks like. It's oblong because its tidally locked, and it's long axis faces Mars, not the direction of its orbit.

Also, that's a wee bit close. I demand accuracy in my sci fi watercolours.
something like that. we're actually offering links to online vendors (textbooksrus.com, chegg.com amazon.com, bookbyte.com, etc), that will send you a check for your books
"If we want everybody to own a Xbox, a car and a week of vacation per year - we need more energy."

We don't. That's your premise, and you argue that reducing energy consumption represents a regression. A week of vacation per year would consume less energy than someone working in many of the places I have worked. "Our demands" for energy are not realistic, valid or sustainable. We don't need more energy.
Am I the only one to expect the guy who compromised a CA and generated a number of very high-value certs to use one of those certs to sign his message?
Sweet! Thanks.
thanks for all the feedback. we actually put this site together over the weekend for StartUp Weekend Kalamazoo. look for bug fixes over the next week.
Yes, do you have a question or point to make about MongoDB fts?
Gitmarks: a peer-to-peer bookmarking system
Nvidia already has grabbed a huge chunk of market and mindshare in HPC, and have stated that Fermi was developed as a compute platform as much as a GPU. The "most FPS" contest is really beside the point. AMD is going to suffer as soon as optional CUDA acceleration in common libraries becomes more widespread.
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I think Fake Steve Jobs coined the term... and it doesn't sound any worse than "fanboy" to me.
I'm not sure, I suspect it refers to storage, but that was the only example of the term 'app store' that I could find prior to Apple's app store announcement.
An old idea for a new conversation, Jaspan taps taxpayers for start-up
regarding the timestamp performance optimization, seems like the more robust solution is using setTimeout to avoid blocking the main thread with timestamp updating. basically you perform updates on a set amount of nodes and then defer the updates for the rest using setTimeout. This scales to any number of DOM nodes but the solution outlined in this post works for the vast majority of use cases.
For what period after a certificate expires is it safe to rely upon? Why are you trusting your judgement (in your capacity as a browser vendor) over that of the certificate issuer?

I ask again, why do you blame Firefox for warning (however apocalyptically) about an expired certificate, and not Wikipedia for using an expired certificate on a public server?
Seek cofounder before or after building a prototype?
I'm a technical founder working on a sweet new consumer app (iOS related). I want to bring in 2 cofounders (a designer and a fellow developer) at some point.

What's the right time to bring them in? I'm currently in the prototype building stage. If I bring cofounders in now, they get to contribute vision, help speed it up. However, I also run the risk of not showing them a complete enough product to convince them to join me. They may decide to pass me up, or worse - take my ideas and build it themselves!

If I wait till a bit later (e.g. after launching a beta), I can make a better pitch to potential cofounders, and also ensure I maintain a lead. However, they will feel like "employees" instead of cofounders, since my personal vision is so baked into the product.

So, what's a better time to seek cofounders? Any suggestions on timing greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
> People believe that once you compile human readable "source" code,

> that humans can no longer read the resulting binary "object"

> code. That is in incorrect. Code can easily be decompiled

> back to (nearly) the original source. In our (Errata

> Security) pentests, we regularly find embedded usernames and

> passwords that nobody believe hackers can read. It usually

> takes us less than 5 minutes.

Really now? When you are talking about .NET assemblies this is close to true (in some cases). Not so much for C. So much for a "high-end cyber security consulting company".
> I’m unable to make the source code for the test apps available publicly at this time.
and
> I spent nearly equal amounts of time (under two hours) to build the same app on nodejs and Play.

One actually wonders: why?
More like throwing some wood into the fire. Was instigated by the talk[1] "Solr Power FTW", and "Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style" [6] (where Justin Moore admits: We are dumping the data from Mongo and loading it into Hadoop over S3 files. Map reduce is in this system, not in our mongo databases. ).

Was wondering how much has this evolved over the last 6 months, how viable machine learning algorithms are appliable and clusterable over NOSQL databases, and which ones can do this without dumping the entire database.

I had some links talking about it:

Full text search with MongoDB[2]

Ask HN: What's the best way to handle full-text search with MongoDB?[3]

AskHN: NoSQL with full text search - which is better CouchDB or MongoDB?[4]

Is MongoDB a valid alternative to relational db + lucene?[5]

[1] http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP7455

[2] http://hmarr.com/2010/mar/18/full-text-search-with-mongodb/

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069271

[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1984666

[5] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2546494/is-mongodb-a-vali...

[6] http://engineering.foursquare.com/2011/03/22/building-a-reco...
This argument is stupid. Overall, they won't sell more than a few of these cards. The vast majority of computers out there (I would guess 99%) can't support a card like this.

At the mid-range, the two need to remain essentially price-competitive at most performance levels, leading to a stalemate. The two things this has done is:

1) Drive profit margins way down

2) Increase bang for your buck at lower price levels. It's amazing how much card you can get for < $150, and it almost doesn't make sense to buy a card for more than $250 (the current $200-$250 cards are nearly as fast and much cooler/quieter than the top-of-the-line from a year ago).

Maybe having the highest-performing card will give the perception that the lower-end cards also perform better, but I would guess not.

In real news, I recently bought a Geforce GTX 460 for $90 after rebates. It's pretty much enough card for the vast majority of games, and I could buy 7 for less than the price of one of these cards. And, best of all, it's quieter than my case fan nearly all of the time.
Such is the nature of disruptive technologies. The "yet" in your comment speaks volumes on the impending doom of traditional, multi-channel television. The core value of Twitter, however, is the fresh and organic nature of the information flowing through it. Netflix relies much more on quality than newness. The major difference here is that advertisers are paying to have information artificially inserted into the Twitter-verse where the core value is the organic nature of the content. A subscription greater than marginal ad revenue would greatly increase the amount of organic info on Twitter (both to subscribers and free users) which would lead to more users which would lead to more overall ad revenue.
Does anyone think RIM would be a prime acquisition candidate?

I know it sounds crazy, but hear me out - what if Microsoft bought RIM?

WP7 hasn't gained any traction, RIM seems lost in the weeds - the could merge the two entities and ring-fence the entire enterprise market. MS could convince enterprises to buy their phones/tablets/etc and achieve "full synergies" with their other enterprise applications.
IELM: a REPL for emacs
Ask HN: What is the best text-to-donate application?
Found mgive and others, but a $500 setup fee seems steep for a charity. Others have requirements of over $500K donations to be considered for a text-to-donate service. Found little documentation over at paypal x and Twilio says to use 3rd parties.
One thing I haven't seen yet:

Generally, in most companies you have as much authority as you dare. The best way to get promoted is to just start doing the job you want to have and then have your title changed later. The idea that the organization and leadership of a company flows in exactly the manner the org chart specifies is a complete and utter fallacy. In reality, in most companies there is a lot of leadership coming from unexpected places, especially at a tech. company. If you sit back and wait for authority to be given to you that'll almost never happen, if you start spearheading worthwhile initiatives and start being an advocate for useful change, you'll get that authority in practice before you get it officially.
How did they change fonts on a typewriter?
In New Zealand we call these PMSs, or Patient Management Systems. This is not confused with Pre-Menstrual Syndrome here as we use the acronym PMT, or Pre-Menstrual Tension instead. When speaking to colleagues in the US however, I always have to remember to use EMR/EHR!
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[Infographic] The iPhone has become the world’s most popular camera
Contrary to what one might perceive from reading the recent press, not all capital is flowing towards mobile photo sharing apps.

Cleantech and biotech startups are very capital-intensive.
This guideline applied when this site was populated mostly by hacker entrepreneurs. There have been polls in the past that revealed the HN userbase is now comprised of mostly "non-hackers." As this site has become more popular it stands to reason that we're in the minority now as there simply aren't that many people who identify as hackers (let alone entrepreneurs).

If you reduce it further to "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" then you open the gates to anything. That is why we have stories about smiling in Russia on the front page.
It is important to notice that when Greg Mankiw writes "if we had chosen to tax ourselves..." and "they saw sickness and created Medicare..." and "we borrowed increasing amounts..." he is talking about himself and his fellow budget arsonists. He is not talking about President Clinton, Clinton's appointees, and Clinton's supporters...

Is it too much for me to expect, from him, an apology to America? A whispered: "I am sorry"? An admission that the unfunded 2001 tax cuts that he cheerled for were a mistake, and that we as a nation would have been better off had they not been passed? An admission that the unfunded 2003 tax cuts that he cheerled for were a mistake, and that we as a nation would have been better off had they not been passed? An admission that the unfunded 2003 Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit that he cheerled for was a mistake, and that we as a nation would have been better off had it not been passed?

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/03/greg-mankiw-budget-ars...
You have a serious skillset, why don't you use it to find a hacker to work with you?

You can build some serious prototype of your idea using a site prototyping tool like axure. test it with users and refine. it's not exactly a minimum viable product , but it's close.

Also do market research , and some general business plan.

It would be a lot easier to convince a hacker(or maybe even an angel) to work with you on your project after you finish those two things. And those 2 artifacts would take your project a step further.
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I think it's a bit silly not to acknowledge that a weak version of linguistic relativity holds. Anybody who's ever learned a new word can see intuitively that language has an effect on your conceptualization of the world.

This is an interesting read on the way that the so-called "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis" has been used as a straw man argument over the years. There is also some fascinating material on Whorf's work: http://www.enformy.com/dma-Chap7.htm ("The Great Whorf Hypothesis Hoax")
I'm not Russian but I have the same reaction to people smiling without reason. There are few things that annoy me more than someone putting on a fake smile. Especially in customer service. Bank tellers seem to be the worst. "Hi! Nice shirt! How are you today?" You don't care how I am today. Stop talking and process my transaction.