skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you accidentally mouse down on the page and begin selecting things (I do this habitually), Chrome will begin scrolling right, and then you're unable to scroll back without doing the same in the inverse. Weird.
Charge phone from your Tv and watch HD movie at same time
Wooden iPad 2 cover outsmarts Apple's Smart Cover
To be fair, the funding probably came sometime after the app development started.

I tried it as well. I can see the novelty of it -- watch in real-time what people are doing around you. It definitely has a voyeuristic aspect to it.

I think all that money could also be used to consolidate the market a bit -- do we really need 30+ photos apps?

PS - I'm working on a photo app. :-)
You can go to the linked M-Lab site to play with the visualization first-hand, which includes a scale, as well as with numbers that popup on rollover (note that you need to move the time slider to see Delaware):

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z6q5492nj009fe_&...

FWIW, they include numbers in the article's description of the figures. "Hotter" means toward the red end of the spectrum. Delaware's label can be seen under the orange circle (partly transparent).
My parental angst meter just pegged out.
Say hello to Google's online magazine
Yeah it's like herding cats. Good work anyway.
He's making an abstraction not saying a Microwave represents a 1-to-1 relationship with an iPad
i doubt Color will burst the bubble, but it sure seems to be a strong indicator that there is a bubble of some sort...
We recently figured out that a major problem with the SIAI Visiting Fellows program has been that we don't give Visiting Fellows a context in which they know how well they're doing - they're picking up rationality tricks of the trade, but there's no counter that goes up when they do.

I suspect that rich people who aren't just measuring their progress by net assets, acquire this problem with their entire lives - now that they're not holding down a job, they no longer have any sense of what constitutes "progress".

Existential angst mostly just consists of having one or more problems you don't know how to identify ("My life lacks obvious progress indicators" having not even occurred to you as a hypothesis for describing what's wrong) and so you find that everything you do to try to address the problems you think you have, never solves the real problem. http://lesswrong.com/lw/sc/existential_angst_factory/. If there's anyone out there who's reading this and thinking "Yes, that's me", you can go ahead and email me (Eliezer Yudkowsky) because problems like this really should be solvable. Similarly, now that we've figured out what was wrong with the Visiting Fellows program we're going to try to fix it, etcetera.
Yes we are but one of the reasons like it is that it's mostly about design. There are already enough dev dominated ghettos on the web.
I'm very suspicious of this piece. On the one hand, it's an interesting thing to read for those of us who aren't "super-rich" (if a bit... obvious). On the other, it feels like it's an apologia for the ever increasing class divide. "Don't worry about not having money, you wouldn't be happy anyway".

Honestly, I would be quite fine with a shitload of money and a meandering purpose in life. I think that's true of most people, including the larger subset of the "super-rich" that didn't choose to whine in an article in the Atlantic. Most people have a meandering purpose in life anyway, and mixtures of reliable and unreliable friends. It's not something special royalty gets to lay claim to.

The primary difference appears to be that the royalty can choose who they want to be, where-as not all of the plebeians have that luxury ("dream it, live it" self-help bullshit aside, one still has to pay for food and shelter and dependents). And the poor rich children are depressed because they have all their options open to them...

I seem to be saying this a lot, but here it is again: cry me a fucking river. :-)
Elite IV migh find it's way onto that list, if they keep up this pace.
You mean sizzle? As in http://sizzlejs.com/ ?
Judging between potential problems....I think the most apparent one is the op-ed writer missed a dose of Xanax, or missed a deadline and needed to churn something out.

He's imbuing way too much meaning in this.

40M views..The numeric is extraordinary, but that's it. What % of these views carries the face time of 2minutes? 1minutes of someone's life? How about 10seconds of someone's randomized procrastination or ennui schedule?

Contrast with the % that isn't the 10s Population...and what % are young, pre-adolescent girls (or boys)?

Putting probable numbers on these figures, and a real problem may be revealing itself in the writer's thinking while trying to harangue society:

an emotional aversion and resistance to the progressive openness of communication.

Fwiw, i watched her entire video...but i just liked the beat?
Considering how short the battery lifespan (or gas tank) of these RC devices are when in use, I don't think the battery consumption of the iPhone is going to cause any problems. The only issue I'm seeing is control. I'm pretty sure it's harder to be accurate with an iPhone than with a radio control, especially for such things as helicopters.
The answer to what you love to do will come by getting involved in things, one door opens another door. Volunteer, teach, go back to school, etc.
My favorite part is towards the end, "rich stare into the abyss a bit more starkly than the rest of us."

Not being rich, but being able to use my imagination and reason to figure out logical conclusions, I have come to realize that it is not about what you have, or who you are, but about how you're being. In the end everyone dies naked and alone regardless of how much or little money/friends/love/whatever you have.
Studying might be interesting, find a community and activity you're passionate about and can connect with people. Our jobs play a major social role in our lives. Not needing a job means you need to have that social community some other way.

Maybe try volunteering? Code for America? Geeks Corps? Try going to school and getting a phd in something which interests you. It's important to be engaged in meaningful activity to lead a rich and full life.
Burned by Daily-Deal Craze, Small Businesses Get Savvy
Isn't pivoting basically a decision you reach after realizing you need to iterate your "one thing"? I would argue that realizing you can iterate your one thing is as important as the idea of having one thing.
Tintri flashes unique VMware storage credentials
Personally, I think that it is unfortunate that the $41M investment has made Color everyone's favorite punching bag. Right now, three of the top 15 HN threads seem to be focused on Color

Sequoia had made an investment based (on among other things) what they consider to be a very strong founding team.

If they are right and if this investment has a high ROI, great for Color and for Sequoia.

If they are wrong, this investment will be a money-loser (like most other VC investments out there). In the meanwhile, I do wish that people stop beating up on Color.
In Rackspace's defense, this might be more of an issue of lack of community. Sometimes it's hard to get other people involved and excited about an open source project. It's a lot easier for them to go to NASA, Dell, CloudKick and others and get them to attach their name/logo to a participants page than to get real participants. OpenStack isn't something most web people will be interested in. It's infrastructure. Many, many companies need programmers and tools for them. Very few companies out there are saying, "you know, I'd like to build a server farm of 200 machines to give me a petabyte of distributed object storage with replication policies, failover, the works". Most people would rather just farm that out to S3 since, well, very few companies store that much. Like, OpenStack's Object Storage is a lot of work if you're just going to be storing 100GB. There's no way you could do it cheaper than the $15 S3 is going to charge for that storage since you'd need at least two machines.

How many of us could justify spending a lot of time on running our own object store rather than using S3? It makes sense that Rackspace is a lot more interested in it. I'd say that you'd need to be in the several terrabyte range before it makes sense to think about it. Clearly sites like Facebook, Flickr, and imgur want to run their own storage - they store a lot. But how many web firms do? I'm not saying it isn't an awesome project and I was excited when it came out. However, I'd have to be working on a site that stored a lot to justify building my own cloud storage cluster.

For what it's worth, it would be awesome for everyone if this engineer went on to create a Cloud Files and Cloud Storage competitor using Open Stack and worked with Rackspace without any grudge. Sometimes that's how openness happens. However, there tend to be fewer infrastructure vendors than web apps and so an infrastructure project like this can't be expected to garner the same attention as something like Apache or nginx which lots of people will be running rather than mostly a few infrastructure vendors. For most web operations, it doesn't make sense to pay a lot of money to build this infrastructure when you can get it for cheaper from Amazon, Rackspace, and others.

It might not be that Rackspace is being closed. It might just be that there are few operations that want to help develop these tools and most of them already have their own tools. Flickr and Facebook aren't going to drop their storage engine for OpenStack. Amazon isn't going to replace S3's software with OpenStack. SoftLayer does have their own cloud storage solution, but it isn't as widely used so there's a possibility there, if not a large one.

It's great that it's open source and if Rackspace keeps up the development and it's of high-quality it might start getting used by the next Facebook and Flickr style companies that need that type of storage. But it will happen slowly compared to the adoption of nginx, Django, MongoDB, etc.
I've convinced myself I need a tablet because nothing really fills the "pdf viewer" slot in a good way. I can print pdfs of several state law-specific reference books for free (at cost of ink and paper ~2500 pages) or pay ~$400 for paper copies in 3-ring binders - or I can buy a wifi Xoom on Sunday. No-brainer.

I have a hard time focusing on pdfs on a desktop or laptop when distractions like reddit are so easily accessed - but if I can keep myself focused on the content at hand I can have a portable copy of important references with me at all times for a small price.
"your original comment treated the statement "no one needs" as if he were saying "there's no value in""

And that isn't what I was saying either. Some people really do need a portable device like an iPad. However, as this article points out in its many examples, the average person does not need one.

Perhaps this article should be retitled to "The average person does not need a tablet".
Google to delay distribution of new Android tablet code to outside programmers
This article is in the same vein as MG Siegler's "The App Wall" http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/05/the-app-wall/

The app wall means that for every app in, one must go out. That means your
app has to be good enough to displace another one. If you’re not designing
an app that is meant to be on the homescreen of every iPhone or Android
phone out there, you’re not aiming high enough.
Try entering anything with monthly revenue >= monthly expenses.
Assuming the premise of your title is correct, that the bubble bursts.. what would this mean?

Funding dries up because all these ideas cant make money. Valuations plummet - nobody hires and we have bust 2.0.

except it is different because this time around we have a glut of seasoned developers that can build a hell of a lot of stuff.

So I cant see this burst being the same -- but I see a lot of stuff being built for no / little funding.
>> - Commits to open source projects

This is only adding value if you rate the value of the open source contributions.

>> - Answers on Stack Overflow
>> - Karma on Hacker News

These are essentially peer reviewed ratings, so the same comment does not apply.
Akshell: The HN Effect and Our Accidental Launch
As already mentioned -- the images are cheap to fix. Stick 'em up on S3 (with or without CDN), and they'll almost certainly be fine.

General HTTP isn't something we can really answer for you. If your PHP is memory intensive, there's a different remediation plan than if it's more CPU intensive. Regardless, you want to be leveraging a cache wherever you can. For the most part, unless you're excessively out of the norm on either memory or CPU, you'll likely be fine on a fairly small instance, so long as you abstract the DB away from there.

Versus petervandijck's advice, I would recommend a number of smaller, load balanced EC2 instances instead of one big EC2 instance. It might add a little bit of complexity, but if you start off load balancing an $11 a month micro instance, it's easier to spin up additional instances as you need them, while keeping your base cost low. Alternately, you could of course spin up an $80 a month instance, and have less to worry about on the higher end, but it also costs more even if you aren't under load.

As for the database, I'll leave that to my betters, but memcached is your friend.
if you're Warren Buffett.

I have invested in public companies for 10 years now and all I got were SEC filings...
Writers are not necessarily better people than bankers, too.
I found the about page a bit strange. Why doesn't she list where she was a professor? (Googling turns up Johnson and Wales University.) Saying that her "background" is in machine learning makes it kinda seem like that's not her particular academic field; no problem with that -- I don't think you need a PhD in machine learning in order to do good machine learning or data science work -- but it just sounds like something's missing. Googling a bit more turns up some research on developing a "virtual Morocco"/virtual classrooms for Second Life, so I think her academic field was about digitizing education?
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

-Abraham Lincoln
Seems there are several of us thinking along these lines.

My version: "Color" + "PhotoSynth" = "OMG-level 3D world modeling"

Hype a critical mass of interest, throw a lot of CPU cycles at the data, port the results to Google Earth ... yow.
Enormous wealth takes care of so many day-to-day concerns, that the remaining ones grow that much more frustrating.

It's hard for me to be sympathetic about this. They forget that the non-super-rich have all their same frustrations, plus the day-to-day "concerns" (read: money worries).
Relevant: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/pay-more-get-...

There are a lot reasons why executive overpay makes CEOs perform worse at their jobs. Foremost among them is that it enables them to make short-term plays that are risky or harmful to the company in the long run. A $500,000-per-year job is one that an executive desperately wants to keep. A $25 million-per-year job, with four years' pay as a golden parachute, is one that can safely be blown up after a couple years. (No CEO intentionally blows up, but many take stupid risks driven by ego and status-based avarice that they would be less inclined to take if paid modest salaries and thereby more attached to their jobs.)

There are two reasons why executive overpay exists. The first is self-dealing by a small, socially closed elite. They do it because they can. The second is to motivate younger people who greatly overestimate their chances of ascending to such ranks: printing dreambucks, I call it. I would argue, were it not for the cultural corrosion the overpay causes, that executive pay is actually a very, very cheap mechanism for achieving the 2nd goal. Overpaying executives does motivate people to want to get to that rank. The problem is more subtle and cultural: what does it motivate them to do? Be more creative? No. Be more ethical? Certainly not. Be more ruthless? Sure, but "ruthless" is a hair's breadth away from psychopathic and workplace psychopaths (cf. Fiorina) can destroy companies.
"Honestly, I would be quite fine with a shitload of money and a meandering purpose in life"

I think part of the point of the article was to say, "no, you probably wouldn't."
Key Ring Takes Home Two Awards at CTIA WIRELESS 2011
I think a major factor is that most people despise their "real" computers, even though they like what they can do with them.

Which is why they don't care about the locked down nature of the App Store - in fact it's an advantage.
I own the curio.us domain hack. I was going to start a small site on it but if someone offered me that much I'd really have to think about selling.
Social Media's Massive Failure
The risk of looking weak to competitors and shareholders is an inherent risk of market participation... but only after two years, apparently.
The incredible machine anyone?
Can someone summarize the vision here? Everything I've seen has made this look like a weekend project (except for the $41MM thing).
A tablet computer but no place to shit? Give me a fucking break - the iPad's magic won't cure dysentery.

I'll add that the whole ownership theme is in Marie-Antoinette-let-them-eat-cake territory because it ignores the most basic fact of urban poverty - people typically don't own the land beneath the slums and are occupying it illegally.
Amazing IE9 domination checklist
This seems like a classic, "OMG TC IS SCOOPING US!" reaction. They rushed to get something out ended up throwing some real crap over the wall. This is going to hurt them a little bit, but $40mm will help that pain go away.

Color would have been much better served by a "Give us your email address" page like http://lifepath.me/ to drum up excitement.
This is how a lot of businesses work. You place an order with company A. Company A orders from company B, then delivers to you.

There are reasons some companies do well at this. A lot of it has to do with setting expectations, and giving accurate information about pricing and availability.

Company B may only ever sell to a handful of other "retailers".
Ask HN:  Looking for Datavisualization/Design/UI type
Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a freelance Data visualization type.. having a hard time finding resources to even look for a solid fit for our project. We have all the back end code taken care of, we simply need someone to aid visualizing the data and provide input regarding user-ability of the front end system.

Purely looking for a visualization type...any suggestions as to what resources I could use to find someone like this would be appreciated. I am interested in portfolios and previous work experience as this is not for a start up, but an established company.

Thanks,
J
Using Google's WebP Image Format with Open Tools on Linux
I have nothing but positive things to say about the team that created this app. Good luck!
GB Packers use "Decision Lens" to gain edge in '10 draft, win superbowl.
The Problems of Open Source
one is a loan, another is investment.
It's a working fix, but isn't the proper fix. The real issue is the size difference of the long type for 32 and 64-bit architectures. Bruce Evans doesn't explicitly mention this fact, but it's the core of his reasoning.

Since long is 64-bits on 64-bit architecture, and 32 on 32-bit architecture. This is the reason that 0xffffffff is showing up as a non-negative number on the 64-bit machine, but shows up as negative on the 32-bit.

Changing the type to int(which is 32 bits long on both x86 and x64), while it does break 16-bit systems(which don't exist anymore), fixes this completely by removing the x86 and x64 behavior differences with the long type.

The two style issues that he mentions are easily fixed by moving the variable declaration to the top of the function and initializing it there. However, these may be forced by the function structure due to the gotos present in the code...
MMJ site w/ traction seeks tech cofounder
420list seeks technical co-founder to take things to the next level. After almost a year of doing my best as a non-technical founder, it is time to take things to the next level, which requires a technical cofounder. Site receives over 12k monthly uniques and over 45k monthly pageviews. Many changes needed in order to compete with WeedMaps (annual revenue over $6M) and disrupt the online MMJ space.

What do I bring to the table? Industry knowledge (I cofounded a MMJ dispensary in Sacramento, CA), passion and whatever else I need to in order to make this happen. There are currently ZERO legitimate MMJ startups in the Valley, and it is time to show the rest how it's done. For more information, contact me at jon@420list.org, @jonhearty, or @420list
I'm having a hard time with the line, each detail was hand-painted.

Most paintings have this feature.
She also made a twitter bot of the Berkeley Calculator: @bc_l. Hott.
Ask HN: Mentoring for equity
I have a proposition/question for the HN community:

Would you be willing to Mentor For Equity?

The idea is this - There are tons of people (like myself) who have ideas they want to build out, but don't have the development chops to implement.

Rather than joining as a technical co-founder -- would you be willing to be a mentor with stake?

You meet on a regular schedule one to two times per week for two hours.

The goal is that the non-tech founder shows up with an agenda, and a goal. You provide guidance, tutorial help and technical knowledge but no development work.

Instead you teach the founder to code towards his goal.

In return, you get some advisory % of the company. Think of this as a personal incubation effort - a MYCombinator.

Does this sound of interest to anyone? If so, meet with me.
Hi Cody!

Color is the foursquare of photo apps. Which is to say: novel, silly, and, ultimately rather useless.

For group photo sharing, which I think is an awesome idea, there's an app/site in private beta called Chute (getchute.com) which does the same thing with less emphasis on users nearby.
I disagree. Iterating your way to finding your one thing is just experimenting in hopes of landing on something. That's possible, but that's more a science project than starting a company.

What I'm advocating (from experience) is that you should/must settle on a one thing before you start your company. You can then iterate towards figuring out how to make your one thing work, gain traction, etc., but you need to at least know what the one thing you are trying to do is before you start your company.

e.g. just saying "I want to do something in the storage space" isn't enough. You can spend the next 2 years trying a lot of things in the storage space. That's experimenting.

But identifying a specific one thing you want to do in the storage space enables you to start a company. Then, you can iterate towards the solution, but you need to start with a specific problem you want to solve.
Explanation of The Matrix
Awesome to hear this. I am on Forrst daily and find it to be a great community.
You would be better off buying a used mobile home. Not only would you save money over converting a shipping container to a dwelling but you would have a far more habitable space.
SV Angel's David Lee Interview
I somewhat misread your question, sorry.

"Pivoting" imo means choosing a new one thing.
The article set out the analysis's premise and disagrees.

"Either they’re in agreement that we’re in for something resembling a global plague starting in six months or they believe Apple is singularly positioned to drop the ball."