skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i see ~$83b valuation, and ~500m active users, putting it at around $166/user
like Twitter and Facebook? heh.
Flying manually is probably more fun and challenging but this opens the door to another world. Consider if the RC device was better controlled by the software with auto correction like many commercial and military jets. This could allow for a much broader range of RC devices to be created that are much more difficult, if not impossible, to control.
The FVG318, while inexpensive, is supposed to be "business class."
>Bill Nguyen, a serial tech entrepreneur who sold his last company, the online music streaming site Lala, to Apple for $80 million in 2009.

That helps a little.
Having going through raising startup capital for our business, the availability of it here in the Valley will make me think twice about trying to start a business anywhere else. The availability and accessibility of the angel and VC community is the reason so many businesses start here.
I think people are missing one of the key features. This is described in the video here http://vimeo.com/21413899, but not discussed in any article I've seen.

When you turn on Color it starts recording all of the pictures that others in your local area are taking. All of those photos _are stored in your "visual diary"_ forever!

This is a "life recorder" app. Remember this: http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-09/p... ?

In the future you'll be making a documentary of your life just by moving through space, and I think that's a beautiful concept. Your grandkids will be able explore how you lived your day to day life as witnessed by those around you.
Did you only use it once, or twice, as the article specifies? (Ideally within a relatively short amount of time.)
It's still kind of sad all of these homebrew projects need to use the serial-port-from-headphoneJack hack to make it work.

Is there anyone out there that actually got a license from Apple to use the dock API that can talk about it? There are development boards you can get from companies like Cypress, but only if you're already in the program.
Copy/paste, Motherfucker
That's true, but the original point was 'poor form', which this likely falls under also.
Did Apple patent their cover design?
No, it's useful. It means that with N upvotes, N people agree with the comment.

That gives a great indicator as to whether or not the video is worth my time. The comment could have easily said that the video is a waste of time, which would also be helpful. People won't upvote it if they disagree.
Yes, a sample size of two is certainly significant... If you want data it's going to take more than that.
I applied to forrst, but never got a response on being rejected or approved.

Is it always going to be invite-only?
Malware + MongoDB + Map/Reduce = Awesome Results
Edit: andrewstuart's said the quote on item 4. I am just responding that I do not agree.
reproduction:

It is a math model for infectious disease
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_modelling_of_infec...
I think you may have confused me with another poster regarding "rule the world money".

You're right, I'm sorry.

But it's curious that you cite the WSJ editorial pages specifically. One of the things the WSJ is known for is how incongruously stupid the editorial section is, compared to the rest of the paper.
The problem is, I have clients who aren't about to plug/unplug power cords. I have set up a few with wireless appliance switches. Even that is far from elegant imo.
The Pareto distribution goes as a power law -- the same distribution as self-organizing processes.
do you think you have any credibility to teach people here what to vote for? With 1.57 avg?
The good thing about the valley is that there's a lot of talent around, investors and so on.

An average/bad entrepreneur should be able to weight the lifecost there and what you get from being in the valley... I thought this article would give me more insight about what's like to live there(and why I shouldn't), instead of giving obvious reasons.
I just pulled it out of the air for dramatic purposes.
How Color Already Blew It
While an interesting personal anecdote, your comment has nothing to do with what DFW is talking about. He touches on multiple platitudes throughout his speech (and names them as such): this is not one of them.
How did Mike Tyson do it? He reportedly blew $300 million.
Last time there was noise about startup death clocks (let me find the link to the last discussion later), I thought it was a good idea but not at all what I wanted. What I wanted was to be able to plug in the actual income/outgoing for individual months/days and be able to see when the trend lines change, or choose which time frames to calculate over, and not just to determine "when will I run out of money?" but also "when will I become rich?" using the trend of the last month, six months, year, total, what have you. Not only that, but early in a startup, in/out costs can be highly variable month to month.

So I implemented some basic java scripts to record and update incoming and outgoing transactions and I realized as I was starting to put data in, that I would much rather not input all transactions but just get the data from my bank.

Then I realized that this would be much better as a plugin for a ledger/budget balancer program, or for something like mint.com. And I kind of abandoned progress on it there, as I don't use mint, and I started looking at various programs to help me track money but realized that keeping a spreadsheet of "money at start of month, money at end of month", still works fine for me, and with some macros I can determine what I want to know.

So... for some one who does use these programs, would a plugin (or just a script on exported data) be worth it? Should I learn to use mint or gnucash or whatever for this?
Beside obvious reason of existing bugs in software there is a thing that we are dealing on hardware level such as changes in the memory due to cosmic radiation and noise (popular problem in high altitude observatories for example) and since int can change any memory including working registers, adress pointers, etc. it means that gradually memory in your device turns into noise. Professional devices often have a watch-dogs basically a circuit that have to be reset. In some cases when there is extreme availability is required such as fire alarms on petrol and chemical facilities or process control boards two spare modules constantly monitor each other and reset if needed.
There is also a parity bits, ECC and lot of other options.
An upvote doesn't necessarily mean that you agree with the comment. They are supposed to mean that the comment is worthwhile or adds something to the discussion. IMO, the ggp comment doesn't.
I'm sure samsung, motorola, HTC have nothing to do with this decision.~
The word 'worship' has a widely accepted meaning (as defined in dictionaries, etc.). This quote tries to change the meaning of the word, while having no useful information/ideas.
I have to say, I agree. Just think about all those starving kids in Ethopia with no upvotes and here we are on HN sitting in our comfortable Aeron chairs just pissing our upvotes away.

Proof positive we are in the karma bubble here!!
When will we hear something new about Greplin besides this same old story...
Computing pioneer Jean Jennings Bartik dies
So it's not open for the people who bought Xooms then.
Ok I must admit I am by no means an AAPL fanboy. Quite the contrary actually. I hate how Jobs and company likes to get its users drunk with the Kool-Aid. But a credit should be given where it's due. Have you seen something as innovative and clever with a PC? Microsoft brought out first commercial tablet. Did that inspire anybody to do something similar?
I am not saying that I judge a book by its cover, but I won't put an ugly icon on my home screen. I might bury it in the one folder I have if I like it enough (I'm looking at you, Evernote, iTap RDP). Just sayin'
This is a huge idea. Makes me really curious about Color, since Sequoia put $4m into this and a whopping $41m into that...

But seriously, Greplin is one of those ideas that as soon as you see it in action you have one of those forehead-slap moments where it just seems so obvious, yet no one hit on it before. Bravo!
can't be solid. if it was tight when rolled up it would be loose when flat.
I love this. A small, sizable round for Kyle and his two employees -- I think there are three people building Forrst? -- to advance the product and see where they get. If all things go well, they'll get more financing and continue to build it out. If not, his options are to (1) sell for a reasonable amount; (2) reduce the team size and chug along on their revenue; or (3) let it run as a side project.
Unfortunately the author has the facts wrong..

There were other android releases where the opensource commit was delayed for similar reasons, in this case its to port parts of Honeycomb back to the phone branch and once that is complete than honeycomb will be committed to kernel.org.

Also note the opensource committers that work at OEMs do in fact have access..something author glossed over..as they commit code under the Apache License
But shouldn't the votes on the link itself already be enough to decide that?
Saudi retailer loves Windows Phone (Comparison)
It relates in the following way. DFW presumes to know the internals of other people's minds, and to instruct them on how to be better. Same with the no-atheists-in-foxholes conjecture.
Risk-taking isn't one of those things that's universally bad or universally good.

Thank you. Degenerate risk-taking is bad enough, but criminal when other people will suffer most of the consequences.

Good risks generally have limited downside. For example, R&D projects and startups that, if they fail commercially, only cost the money put into them, are good risks. Bad risks are generally those that have huge downside and low upside, that are taken because the consequences can be pushed off onto other people. An example of this would be eschewing a $500,000 safety device on an oil rig under a mile of ocean, thus admitting (realized, thanks to BP) risk of ecological catastrophe.

Corporations are notorious for externalizing costs but where they really shine is in the externalization of low-frequency, high-impact risks that most people can't evaluate. They're great at that.

I think that corporate executives often find themselves in a place where boredom gets the better of them. In dysfunctional companies, a well-studied executive can add value. The reward for this is moving on to a better job at a better company. Eventually, the executive ends up as the CEO of a great company like HP before some awful CEOs did it in. Problem: the company is running well and doesn't really need a CEO. People are already doing great work without direction. Result: CEO gets bored. I know a day trader who increased his profits by refusing to work between 10:30 and 3:00. He could find good trades in the first and last hour of the day, but "boredom trading" in the bland middle injected noise and didn't make any money for him. Most big-company executives are bored traders: making capricious decisions that just add noise, just to feel useful and fill time.
I am not sure who you are asking, but I will respond.

There is no such thing as an easy wins. Most companies do not realize a customer is not a sale. A customer is a customer that renews, tells others (referral aka word of mouth), or comes back as repeat business.

P&G has 4 moments of truth: First that the customer knows about you, second customer buys you, third customers accepts that you did what you claimed, and fourth customer tells others or buys again.

The more customers that are using your product the more sales you will get; kinda like network effect. They each can talk to each other about their experience and how it improved their lives/company. Since more people are using it, it is easier to get internal buy-in and sales on new accounts.

I agree with the person that said sales are hard initially. You have no brand awareness. Make it easy for your rep to sell. Sales is hard. Ask any CEO who has done it. I would pay the person for the numbers in each of the stages in the sales pipeline since that is how sales are made: step by step. vary the commission rates. Like the other person, focus on the process and then conversion rates for each stage.

My questions to you: How much profit will you make on 0 sales? What are you waiting for? Either close the business yourself or let a professional who has vested interest do it. In the beginning it is not about profit but market share and building brand equity.
Like the Second Coming of the Messiah, the arrival of DNF (The Second Shipping (or third, if we count the apocryphal side-scrolling Duke)) will be a basis for a future religion.
Firefox 4 downloads by percentage of total country population (Europe)
I agree that wages for top talent is lower outside the valley, but it's also very difficult to find that top talent.
> As I had virtually no understanding of the TCP code, I liberally sprinkled it with printf()s

And people say it's a stupid way to debug!
Here comes the "social camera"
Procrastinators Fear the Void of Efficiency
I always enjoy these types of posts! I think its very beneficial for those who are preparing for their own launch (or to just improve in general).
Honestly, to me, it sounds maddeningly frustrating. If you've ever been the guy telling someone else to type something while waiting over their shoulder, it's like nails in my soul if they make a typo. I usually have to fight very hard to not say something like "JUST LET ME TYPE IT PLEASE!"

This is that same thing, but on a much grander scale.

There may be somebody interested, and I certainly hope that you can get somebody qualified, but I guess the main question I have is why you wouldn't just bring on a technical founder and let them develop it? You'd still have the opportunity to learn by osmosis, and they could give you small chunks of coding tasks to offload some of the stuff that's less important, and you'd probably be done in a quarter of the time, if not less.
What's with this hostility on HN lately? Everyone has a choice to upvote or not and some people use upvotes as a way to identify with a response. I got the same vibes in the Instagram resume post yesterday. You are not protecting the quality of a community by barking at every behavior you don't approve of. This arrogance has been a turnoff lately. Maybe it's just me or I only come across the pessimistic comments.
Facebook Testing Web Search Box At Top of Site
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Get Ready for Dallas Entrepreneur Outbreak
Seems a shame that wikibon.org interview couldn't spell her name correctly.

See: http://www.hilarymason.com
Is a valuation actually given with the expectation that they'll make that amount of money each year?
Built in GPS gets +/- 40 meters in an urban canyon like SF (i.e. worst case). I think for all intents and purposes GPS will get you 97% there for 3% of the effort as any of these other methods (which probably aren't implemented anyway).
sorry, but the matrix was a mess of ideas. it shouldn't take DVD commentary, supplementary material, etc. to make any sense. The second two films should have been thematically simpler rather than try to cram everything into monologues (Ayn Rand anyone?).
Congrats, Kyle and the whole Forrst team! Looking forward to seeing what's coming in 2011 and beyond.
The article kind of assumes developers and 'coders' are mutually exclusive, and seems to suggest Forrst is not for people who write code, after a glance at their home page for a couple of seconds it seems apparent this is not the case.

Still perhaps I'm being pedantic.
I made this in the course of a couple weekends and wanted some feedback on how I can make it better. I've heard email notifications for comments and easier social sharing features so far, but I would love to know what else I can do to make it better.
thankuz: Browsing your profile and submissions I noticed that you are submitting 20 to 30 stories per day. Don't you think that is a bit much, and that this frequency makes it much harder for other interesting stories to get noticed? I would have written you an email, but you haven't got one in your profile.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=thankuz
I just can't trust a service like this with the data they want to search. Google and Facebook are already weak points for privacy; giving one company access to both is a complete nightmare for me. I could do it in theory, but not without an extremely compelling use case.
This also helps:

"In 1999, Nguyen sought to catch the burgeoning unified messaging movement by the tail by founding a company to develop an Internet-based solution. Onebox.com was a hit with host service providers and users, and within two years, Nguyen parlayed his ascending reputation and Onebox.com's buzz into an $850 million merger with Phone.com."
In the last month or two we've open sourced a bunch of useful projects and tools (http://github.com/Greplin), released a cool chrome extension that is constantly getting new features (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bjclhonkhgkidmlkgh...), added support for a lot of new services (including Salesforce.com, Yammer, Highrise, and Basecamp), added many advanced search operators (http://help.greplin.com/customer/portal/articles/15527-how-c...), and massively improved search quality.

And that's all this while we're in the middle of a major architectural shift and hiring/interviewing like crazy (check out https://www.greplin.com/jobs! We're still hiring across the board).

The best part is that this is all nothing compared to the changes you're going to see in the coming months :-D
Maybe less 1984, more _Mathematicians in Love_.
RIM adds Android app support to BlackBerry PlayBook
Boxer uses DOSBox as its emulation core, but it has a completely redesigned UI and workflow for preparing and playing games.

Boxer bundles DOS games into gameboxes, a self-contained app-like package format that appears as a single file in Finder and can be launched by double-clicking. Each gamebox is a self-contained DOS ecosystem that contains the game and everything it needs to run: drives, configuration settings, documentation etc. They're path-independent, which means they can be stored wherever you like, moved around, backed up easily, and shared with friends, without needing to reconfigure anything inside the gamebox.

You can create gameboxes by drag-and-dropping game CDs, floppies, disc images or folders onto Boxer's game import window. Boxer guides you through the game's installer if needed, then packages the game up into a gamebox (and rips its CD if appropriate).

Boxer aims to make games require zero configuration and zero knowledge of the emulator's esoteric inner workings. It automatically pre-configures dozens of games that need custom emulation settings, and more automatic configurations are added as they are found. If needed though, you can tweak common emulation settings (like CPU speed and mouse behaviour) while you play, using Boxer's inspector window.

The inspector also lets you add cover art to your games, again by drag-and-drop: images are processed to look like shiny game boxes and become the Finder icon for the game. These icons fit in especially well in the DOS Games folder - the default location for imported games - which can be optionally given an iBooks-style wooden shelf appearance.

Additionally, the inspector lets you add and eject DOS drives by (all together now) drag-and-drop, at any time while you're playing a game. This lets you easily hot-swap CDs and floppies. To this end, Boxer also auto-mounts any CDs or floppies you mount while playing, and removes them from DOS once they're ejected.

Boxer's emulation window lets you resize and zoom it to your heart's content, and allows you to toggle between rendering filters (HQx etc.) on the fly. There's a new renderer which has much sharper graphics at large window sizes, and has markedly improved fullscreen support (allowing you to access the menu and switch to other applications - handy for checking up a PDF game manual for instance, which Boxer incidentally scans gameboxes for and displays in the Help menu). While you’re at the DOS prompt, the window also displays a slide-out program launcher tray; while you’re running a game installer, it displays installation tips instead.

Apart from that, Boxer has the usual trappings of a Cocoa app: proper menus, sane keyboard shortcuts, integrated Apple Help and automatic application updates.

I think that about covers it.
Please drop the "s around everything. The picture being there and the context forces me to associate it with a person and not the site, the "s are redundant. Especially in comments. Also scrolling is insanely laggy for me, I have no idea why, but I assume it's all the JS.
What does his average have to do with it? spoiledtechie has been around much longer than you or I, and was only expressing his opinion about the usefulness of the top comment.

Now I happen to disagree with him and may down-vote the comment because I think meta-discussions about the quality of HN are much more annoying than any decline in quality that may or may not exist, but that has nothing to do with his credibility, and neither does his karma, comment average, or much of anything else.
Definition of a bubble.
I don’t think many people on HN like watching videos. Linking only to videos is often criticized. My assumption would always be that most people on HN do not watch videos if it doesn’t seem obvious what additional information the video could provide (like in this case).

Pohl’s comment makes perfect sense in that context. My assumption would be – and this might also be pohl’s assumption – that the video would simply not be watched if nobody says that the video is truly worth watching.
Because if you spend $100 a month and make $200 a month, you're profitable, but by no means living off that money (at least in the US).
Maybe making it elastic-y would be enough extra length to work in both states?
They've given a long runway to Color

A long runway? Sorry, but I had to chuckle on that.

That would be one hell of a runway. More akin to a wormhole.
Why on earth did pohl just get 16 points for nothing

Whoa there, cowboy.

I posted that so that those who clicked-through to the article but impatiently left would stay for the demonstration.

Only lever-pushing, pellet-munching hamsters care about the points.

P.S. I modded you up.
Meh. All I get is "37Signals?".
It's going to be different for me.
3 years development (2 if we discount the abandoned Quake engine work) is standard for a large project with lots of content. Although, around 1996 there was little experience in what a big project entailed.
You have to do this if you want your codebase to get better over time rather than worse over time.
you really think there are 500m active users? My BS detector goes off when I hear that number. Unless they have a couple billion total users...

Edit: just to be clear, that's not a rhetorical question. Anyone know how they define "active"?
Am I misunderstanding the nature of Y Combinator or did the article really miss the mark about Gross? He worked for Y Combinator?
I realize it is supposed to be funny but it comes off like sour grapes, just saying. Even the Cuil poster [1] (which is strikes me as really funny) is really only funny in hindsight.

[1] http://blog.reddit.com/2009/11/interrobang-your-wall-with-th...
Same experience, here; never received a response.
Yes, this has been happening to me too. It's particularly frustrating when I search from my phone.