skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lol'd when I read "you're now a Muncher!" South Park episode of Catman's mom comes to mind.

Interesting idea, I'd probably try it if it was available in Miami. Down here, something really popular is the concept of Food by the Pound (Blue Sky comes to mind) or prepared dinner-type places for people too busy to cook for their family. You pay by the week and you can select from a menu what dinner you'll have for each day of the week. This would be a great high-end alternative as those places I mentioned are already crazy cheap (usually Cuban or other Latin foods/cuisines).
Inform the user why? What are they going to do differently as a result? I use Dropbox precisely so I don't have to concern myself with server downtime, database upgrades, etc. and I'm guessing most other users are the same way. Just sync it when the service is back up, I'm okay with not knowing.
BitBucket https://bitbucket.org

StackOverflow

The dictionary

Mnemosyne (for spaced repetition)

A pad of paper

Google Calendar (it integrates with my phone! and I integrate it with org-mode agenda)
Zuck's shares are on second market. Larry and Sergei's are publicly traded. BIG difference.
Does there exist some organisation which acts as an umbrella treaty against patent abuse. For example a centralised pool of patents held by all member companies in the organisation is used as a deterrent against patent abuse, in the event that any member of the organisation is attacked with a patent, all other members attack the aggressor with their patents?

Patents seem to be enough of a thorn in the side of business that it would be beneficial for at least a significant amount of businesses to participate in such an organisation. If this does not exist, why not?
I've followed Slashdot for years -- to me, it's a source of article links, whereas HN provides both links and valuable commentary. I suppose the real question is: "Is there a site with a community of comparable quality to HN that is less startup-focused?"

No disrespect to the /. crowd intended. I feel as though I learn as much from the HN user-base discussions as I do from the articles themselves. I simply haven't felt that way about Slashdot.
He absolutely can if someone reputable tells him so.
I would emphasize that the idea of a non-technical person getting some exposure is advice that I often got when talking to technical cofounders without having much programming experience. Now I can hold my own at Rails meetups and can actually contribute to detailed technical discussions regarding product development. Ruby on Rails, Python Django, and other frameworks have made webdevelopment at least very accessible to the masses ( = nonprogrammers). With so many books, articles, tuts, and helpful people out there, its easy to move fast towards being able to build your own web/mobile products with a little dedication. Having that kind of working knowledge of the stuff tech cofounders live off of each day makes you seem much more attractive as a potential cofounder. Also, reading HackerNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Reddit programming, etc...all help you pick up the "hacker lingo". Without at least some exposure, you will most certainly stick out like a sore thumb in tech startup crowds (believe me, I've been there...its no fun).
Mono can utilize all the libraries available for .Net, with a few exceptions (which are well known and documented on Mono's site here: http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility).

Mono is a complete implementation of the C# specification, additionally, the Mono project has ported many .Net libraries.

Moonlight is the Mono version of Silverlight. Visual Studio is an IDE, and doesn't have anything to do with Mono vs .Net (in the same way IntelliJ IDEA has nothing to do with Java portability). You can write code in Visual Studio and compile it with Mono with no problems. You can also use MonoDevelop on OSX and Linux.

The time between Microsoft releasing new versions of .Net / C# and the Mono implementation is very small, usually weeks but sometimes only days. Unless you need to work on the bleeding edge right now, I don't think that it really makes much of a difference.

Yes, you can write C# in a way that isn't portable, especially if you use libraries that are OS specific. You can do that in Java as well (or any other language). Just look at all the libraries that require epoll or kqueue - those won't run on Windows no matter what language they were written in.

It's unfair to say that Mono requires you use a subset of the .Net ecosystem. If you want to write cross-platform code, you will always be constrained to a subset of the libraries.

C# is a nice language, especially with Linq (which is in Mono). You should spend a weekend with it sometime to form an opinion :D. MonoDevelop works fine on the mac and is free.
I absolutely agree with this-

I've been in negotiations with a CDN for the last week. They refused to send me real numbers, or give me a test file.. It was "Let's set this up, and a third party source will verify".

What's the price?

It depends on you, and what your needs will be in 9 months, and the phase of the moon, and my mood and and and.

They ended up quoting me three different prices, each going UP because they forgot they gave me the more basic price earlier.

Eventually, I decided to go with a competitor- Went to their website, click, click, done. CDN is up, I'm rocking in 20 minutes.

Would I have been happier at CDN A? Maybe. But I'm not going to dick around in sales meetings for 2 weeks to find out.
Sketches of SXSW Archetypes - hilarious
MySQL Minutiae and InnoDB internals
I also go for the DVD when you can only get the dubbed versions of foreign films (mainly things like anime) on instant.
Apparently rightness is a zero sum game. In order to maximize my rightness, you must be wrong.
Good info, thanks for the thorough response.
Australian based cloud storage option
The Apple "App Store" trademark:

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4009:jg...
http://www.axure.com/tour.aspx -- secret is -- they will give it to you for free if you're/were a 3.0 + student. Just email them from university domain, and request a 'good student' copy.

If you need help getting ramped up on their software, let me know.

JB
Receivd - beautiful, fast filesharing for everyone
Music
anyone passionate about, working on the next real and useful music platform? not talking about 3rd party apps like damntheradio or root music.

but a standalone site dedicated to both the artist and the fan. a working myspace music perhaps?
Nothing much happened
"So no one to monitor and encourage the students, to watch that they're not going lord-of-the-flies and building a bonfire out of the learning terminals"

It's an amusing mental image, but let's be honest with ourselves. If the system is intended to prevent the students from going lord-of-the-flies, it's already failed. School systems don't even reliably stop students from engaging in outright physical violence on each other on a regular basis.
Sprint's Opportunity: "We don't spy on you."
Thanks for the tip, I hadn't realized there was a reverse engineering Reddit.
It's a biased selection but, Google's Page Rank certainly says that the public tends to "link" the term 'App Store' to 'Apple' in a pretty consistant manner

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
Like the article's first comment, I too abandoned a project I was very passionate about simply because an API was lacking. I attempted something similar with a HTTP interface remote application for VLC. I had it working to a "good enough" degree, but the lack of access to things as basic as album art via the API were incredibly frustrating.

Was ditching the project lazy on my part? Most definitely. Did I have the skill set to get work around the shortcomings? Probably not, and that's what it boiled down to. My baby was ugly, and I wasn't capable of fixing it.
The website has been up for around 2 months. Sharing on Facebook and twitter have mostly been friends and families. We are in the process of going to yard sales offering them to list their products with us for free (probably we even have to do the recording for them). We have reached out to sellers on craigslist but it didn't go so well because they thought we were spammers. We are planning to reach out to pawn shops and used car dealers. As for the mobile app, we are working on getting one as soon as possible to make the process much easier for people to upload their listings. Thanks for your feedback. You gave me a great idea of having to do all the dirty work (uploading video, creating a store, marketing for the users) at the beginning.
China Tightens Censorship of Electronic Communications
I am curious about your opinion of this comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351266

It seems to me that both jokes are in the same vein: referencing a satirical husband-wife power stereotype. But no one is complaining about the male stereotype.
Looks so to me but I think the difference is transfer speed. I tried transferring a 200 MB file and it was very quick (over the local network).

I couldn't try that with Crate (I don't have a pro account) but uploading a 25 MB file had taken 10 minutes before I gave up and decided it wasn't worth it.
Ask HN: Do accounting firms specializing in Internet companies exist?
I have a 3 member LLC with members residing in 3 different states, earning revenue from all 50 states. We have 0 investors, nor plan on taking investment. My current tax accountant has to do regular research because they don't have experience with Internet businesses. I'm unsure if they're doing an optimal job reducing our tax liability (they are a small local firm) since it took them 3 months to finish our taxes, and after a long meeting, we discovered that their decision to classify us as a corporate entity rather than a flow-through has negative consequences to our tax liability.

At the risk of this thread turning into an advertisement, I ask for recommendations on accounting firms or help on FINDING a firm that

1) has experience with Internet companies
2) can confidently decide how to structure an organization to minimize taxes
3) can execute

Do the big 4 firms handle this well?
Do the Techstars' or YCombinators' firms handle this well (or are they streamlined for their boilerplate corporate entities only)?

If there's no answer to this question, then is there an opportunity for an accounting firm to launch specializing in Internet businesses?
As someone who has tried mercurial and are now firmly in the git supporters camp, can you relate how git is superior to mercurial? I've used git for a long time now and I really like it, but it's very hard for most developers to wrap their heads around and it seems like mercurial has a better cross platform toolchain than git, these things have made me frequently ponder how mercurial compares to git.
Exactly! It isn't enough for Motorolla, HTC, or Palm could create a really cool, unique, and powerful tablet. They also have to have a great shopping and support experience.
maybe a lack of good suggestions = idea validation = the startup idea that pulls you out of your "safe, sizable company"... wouldn't that be ironic
I know this isn't going to be a popular stance here, BUT...

I was really glad to see this, especially "Make things. Help people. Be happy." There are so many stories about financial success/failure, exits, and investing here on HN that it seems like the only way to be a "good" startup is to be one that's heavily reported on and makes tons of money/will be exiting soon.

My startup (Branchrock Books -- http://www.branchrock.com) is in epublishing and isn't glamorous -- there's no new tech, no big idea, just a guy who wants to pick out interesting things that people will enjoy reading. Of course, my friends are all largely positive about our first offering, but most encouraging is what I've heard from friends of friends who don't know me: things like, "I don't usually read this kind of book, but I couldn't stop" or "I'm really glad I read your story because I wanted to know what it was really like" and especially "I don't really read on the computer, but 99 cents isn't much and I wanted to try your book."

I think that as someone running a startup of any kind, knowing that you've affected even one person positively is a great thing, whether or not you're aiming for or ever will get that first million dollars.
On the bright side, codecs are getting more efficient and consumer broadband connections are getting faster. A 20 megabit connection (Comcast's fastest residential plan) can download a 10GB blu-ray rip in about 70 minutes. There will be hiccups along the way (ISP bandwidth caps, piracy concerns, etc) but it looks like streaming quality will eventually be on par with blu-ray.
discussing how they handled the down time would have been better than the posted link.
Like you, I'm in favor of it too. But I think that it fails to address a lot of issues that could make it a force that is exponentially larger than it is at the moment. Of course, as you mentioned, a lot of these things are out of its scope and must originate from places like Congress.
It would be awesome for Obama to create a panel with proven Serial Investors and Serial Entrepreneurs and have them create a national federally funded YC like organization. Match all the investments with government grants up to a certain amount and watch startups revitalize America.
Everyday for iPhone: Make the movie of your face
You may have something there :-)

In any event, (a) I was coat tailing on your excellent and insightful joke, (b) I quoted someone else's brilliant wit, contributing nothing original, so (c) no matter how people arrived at the idea that my comment wasn't contributing to the conversation, (d) they may be right :-)
I've definitely had a few encounters where it seems there's a good chance the average, non-technical user, considers 'app' to refer explicitly to iOS applications. I remember somebody wanting to work on a project asking if I had written any 'apps', I assumed he meant applications and I listed off some of the more interesting projects on various platforms. He seemed utterly confused that I was talking about things that were not running on an iphone.
Those social mechanisms are a part of culture. I find it hard to conceive a definition of culture that does not include the systems of negative consequences that a society enforces.
A paraphrase of something my father used to say (a former teacher and worked in factories for a bit)

"at first, the workers were scared their job were being replaced with automation, then they realized somebody had to run and fix the automatons"

(There's a cartoon to the same point someplace, but I couldn't find it.)

Is it any wonder that the modern educational system, modeled on mass manufacturing techniques, is about to undergo the same kind of "manufacturing" revolution? The problem in the original model, of children as machined goods, is that children are participants in their own learning/building. With a car, you just weld here, screw here, paint this, hammer that. With a child, you show, you tell, you hand hold, you do all that, but in the end it's millions of years of evolution driving a self-organizing pattern recognition cognitive system that needs to do what it does best. You can't shape a mind like you shape a door frame.
Microsoft Research Watch: AI, NoSQL and Microsoft's Big Data Future
Men, that is, all 'real men' :-)!!, don't mind shopping and certainly don't "hate to shop" and, instead, 'hate' the attitude toward shopping pushed on young women by the fashion industry.

So, long the idea has been to play on the propensity for women to 'fit in'. So, use some 'authority', say, 'designers' from Paris, Milan, NYC, etc. to specify the 'new look', fill the stores with such rags and little else, and try to get young women embarrassed to be see in anything else. And have a 'new look' each 'season'.

Some of the seasonal changes have lost a lot of their punch, but there's another, related idea: Young women are easily frustrated and dissatisfied. This is an old point, e.g,, illustrated by the two sisters in the original Disney 'Cinderella'. Thusly, frustrated, the women want a 'MAKEover' which consists (as in 'Cinderella') of just throwing 'out the old' and 'bringing in the new'. So, lots of good clothes are just thrown out. Huge waste. Men don't like that or do that.

For men, now, for nearly anything, including business, shirts -- polo or sport. Pants -- blue jeans. Shoes -- nearly anything comfortable, but actually running shoes are only for more casual situations or athletic situations.

If an when a suit is needed, it's easy: There are only three colors, black, navy, and dark gray. A pattern is okay as long as can't see it more than 2 feet away. Shoes -- black.

But the effort to get men to be 'fashion conscious' will never stop and, I hope, never succeed.
I’m not disputing your comment per se, but:

1) Heading down the same road ≠ already at the same destination (pedantry, sorry).

2) I would argue they are in the same boat as entertainment industries (and newspaper industries) in that they are selling artificially (via laws & DRM) scarce “goods.”
I would be more likely to use this if it did RSS feeds instead of email. I already get more junk than I want to deal with in my mailbox. Having a news item pop up in my newsreader a few days after I "bookmark" the page would be far preferable.
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1)Name : The perfect gift.

2)Grade : AAA+

3)Package : in original boxes

4)Color : various

5)MOQ : 1 pc

6)Payment : Pay-pal/Western Union / Credit card/Moneygram

7)Ship-ping : 4-7 days with guarantee of customs clearance, drop shipp-ing is accepted to customers'demands.

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Online Contact . thank you.
I.e. I couldn't name my grocery store "Grocer Store" and then try to trademark the term...
There was some interesting discussion about the current state of the hg-git plugin on the Changelog show last month (episode 0.4.9) when they interviewed Scott Chacon from Github.
My password might be considered private.
Do they use their own DB or is it based on Amazon RDS? It would be interesting to know where the downtime is coming from.
If you don't want to build anything, it doesn't matter.

Patent trolls are basically ghosts with guns. There is nothing to really shoot at to kill.

You can potentially take their gun away by invalidating their patents, they have no big downside risk. There is no profitable software development portion of the company that you can blow up.
I've upvoted you, because this is ridiculous.
I would totally use this. I buy clothing online all the time and have had great success but I do tend to stick to big name brands (birkenstock, levis, converse, ben sherman) that have easy to use size charts online or I have bought in shops before anyway.

If they had a way of matching your favourite clothes to others and making recommendations based on style and fit I think it could be great.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate that you may be "seeking technical cofounder."
I don't know what dropping out of college has to do with it. Inside a company, the developers know who's amazing and who isn't. In my experience you can know varying skill levels based on what everyone else thinks, sort of like reputation pagerank.
It would be interesting to track the age-group of this app.
The best bet is to do it yourself :)

I found that most tax firms arent aware of the subtleties of accounting for most internet businesses. Even quickbooks is pretty weak.

You know, if there is enough interest, maybe I would launch such a firm ...
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on building a system where we will do all the dirty work for our users.
I should add, though, that I know the original code I wrote for digg was not very good. But I learned a lot there, especially from the first 2 developers and the dba we hired at digg after me, and I think its a mark of a decent programmer that they're humble and willing to learn. I think the code I write now is better because of the lessons I learned there.

Also really shitty programmers, when confronted with better ones, often do lots of crappy shit to sabotage the process and cause infighting. I did little if any of that (probably because I had significant equity). I stayed in the background, learned as much as I could, and contributed as much as I could.

I don't think Kevin learned anything there.
Yes. TechStars. We went to 'TechStars for a Day' in NYC and met their crew. Gary V. is a crazy passionate mo'fo -- we received good advice/feedback from him and David T.
I'm all the above and I love my Blu-Ray player. Netflix Watch instantly is full of mediocre B-rated movies. Good for background noise on a saturday afternoon, yet too boring for night time viewing.

DVDs are decent but all my movie purchases or netflix rentals these days are Blu rays. I refuse to purchase drm time bombs from itunes or amazon.
I flagged the story hours ago. Didn't do much good.
Was it not always called 'App Store' on the phone/ipod?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#2.x:_Second...
Notational Velocity with Simplenote syncing. An awesome combination.
Someone named Alex posted a good rebuttal to the hash function example. Very nice explanation of how hash tables work.
a whiteboard, a moleskine notebook

for scribbles I haven't found an adequate app replacement for either of these.
Ok, so you determine that it isn't working. Then you try to figure out how and why so that you can fix the problem and you find out that it's death by a thousand cuts.

I'm not so delusional to think that there will be some magical shrinking of the government, but you seem to be telling me that it isn't a worthy goal, which I disagree with. You can have the goal of making the government work now while at the same time trying to trim away the useless pieces.
That's a good idea. I'll make that an option as soon as I finish writing user pages.
Apple A1185 battery
Oh I don't know, there are already some pretty odd TLDs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma...

Why do we even have ".biz"? And why do such arbitrary things as ".museum" exist, when there's no ".fruitstand" or ".bodyshop" (much less the fact that non-English speakers would probably hate to have full English words stuck in their domains)? It's that kind of hacking of the DNS that makes me wish someone else was in charge.

Even country codes are somewhat meaningless, now that people have managed to repurpose things like Tuvalu's domain (".tv"; gee, never saw that coming).

In other words...even though certain domains are supposed to be used for certain things, you really can't depend on that anymore because there are exceptions for whomever has enough money. It might as well be "www.mycompany.sdfdsfsdfds" for all the good it does.

At this point, I honestly think it would make much more sense to create TLDs that are a single letter (in any language) that indexes every site starting with that letter. So "apple.a" gets you to Apple, "microsoft.m" gets you to Microsoft, and "ébb.é" might get you to École Bilingue de Berkeley. This also implies that the TLDs don't have "owners"; there's nothing special about any of them so they are registered implicitly, and no one can set any rules because any site that starts with "b" goes in ".b", etc.
> Unlike email, all photos and videos sent via Receivd are delivered at the same high quality resolution that your camera supports. No compromises.

What? Whose email client does this?
Can't wait to get an invite to start playing with this!
Why directory owners should consider Google Panda/Google Farmer