skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they require that price and have done a huge amount to facilitate it. I'd say it is absolutely fair to charge that price and implement most (not all) of their policies. Making the device, the OS, doing all the marketing, researching and testing the entire user experience, providing the infrastructure that makes it possible to even download the app and use it. It is a lot and they have every right to want their piece of the pie.

Do you think it would be a fair deal in the same way if Microsoft imposed that rule on Windows apps? Because I don't see how what you're saying is unique to iOS devices rather than PCs in general.
I, too, would be surprised if the Metro Detroit population rose, based on what I've heard from friends still in the area. But I'd be even more surprised if it declined by 25%.

Not saying that the area's not in trouble. It is. But the difference between "in trouble" and "dying" is significant.
Can tablets replace laptops and desktops in enterprise?
I have finally managed to fix it! :)

View the question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5409761/installing-mysql2... and I'm sure you will manage to install it too. I installed "Homebrew" the installed mysql then the mysql2 gem..

Just follow the answer with from ALoR

Hope you manage to install it too.
Interesting stuff, probably more appropriate for slashdot, reddit or 4chan or something like that than hacker news.

I will note that Australia (if I understand it correctly) recently decided that all cartoons are kiddie pron. So if you see a cartoon depiction of two people in their 80s getting it on technically you are considered a sex offender.

Also, they recently decided that all pictures of flat chested women (A cup) are kiddie pron, though I am not aware that they have made any arrests over this (they did claim in the last couple of weeks to have made a lot of arrests and broken up a child pron ring with links to 'Europeans' or something equally dangerous and scary - hopefully no one got hit with the blunt stick that is these two obscenely stupid bits of legislation).
It is most important to begin developing the community. Many communities have been formed using existing tools. Use them until the need for something new/different becomes apparent.
oh ok then. cheers :)
No, mostly black people are leaving Detroit. Most of the "white flight" occurred in the 1970's and 1980's.
Historic:

"The Reichskulturkammer forbade artists such as Edgar Ende and Emil Nolde from purchasing painting materials. Those who remained in Germany were forbidden to work at universities and were subject to surprise raids by the Gestapo in order to ensure that they were not violating the ban on producing artwork; Nolde secretly carried on painting, but using only watercolors (so as not to be betrayed by the telltale odor of oil paint)"
why do or did people claim there is visual learning aside from spatial learning?

I'm pretty sure that those are distinct neurological processes, as revealed by the differing individual deficits that patients can have after suffering strokes. But I don't have the medical references at hand, and you have certainly seen many sources that combine writing about both, as I have.
At this point, I'd agree with the 'off the shelf' solution that most are supporting here. Either starting with something like Reddit's code base, as suggested, or even the Google groups option could be a good start initially.

If the need/desire to roll your own becomes an issue, Kickstarter could be a good way to look at funding this, seeing as there are already 400+ people wanting to see this happen, who I'm sure would all happily pitch in.
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Nice. So basically he's saying that it's too expensive for an investor as of late.
Am I the only one to be offended by someone blatantly trying to profit from this unfortunate disaster while bodies are still being pulled from the ruins?

If the revenue was being donated, I'd understand, but to do it for profit, and to brag about it here...
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Incredible discussion going on right now with huge players in the startup world. Kedrosky, Dolginow, Nivi, Hotchkiss, Dave Morin, etc... WOW
"Older" hackers take note: Biz Stone, Evan Williams: 30+ founders club. They were both over thirty when twitter started.
I'm intrigued by the idea that you can have super high startup valuations and NOT have a startup bubble.
Who has made the argument that skipping commercials violates a corporation's First Amendment rights? Can you provide a link?
Ev had a bundle of pre-IPO google stock, so he could afford it. Also Odeo stil had cash in the bank, but he didn't want to buy the vowels until he was sure there was something to the idea.

Obvious was supposed to be a company which hacked out many ideas, a kind of incubator. The problem was one of the first batches of ideas turned in to a major run away success.
That's true assuming a linear or convex utility function. Most people have concave risk functions, so they would rather spend their time with the girl who's 5x better than the average girl, but have a 50% shot with.
It also ensures you can take my work for free, keep it to yourself and not pass on my contribution to other people.

I can also come around and clean out your gutters for free.
"She understand the ugly stuff needed to get to the pretty stuff".

could you be any more sexist/patronising?

"Her work is more important than her ego"

yeah, because a woman's ego = her appearance

yr analysis of that line is emblematic of the absurd good looks/competence false dichotomy - as well as the quasiautistic lack of social comprehension - that plagues parts of the tech world.

I will say this much, though - it's a fairly clever (if cynically so) thing to put in a CV, as it's perfectly calculated to fool geeks like edw519.
NY Times Printing Plant Will Become Huge Data Center
Great job with Tout. As someone who has emailed a lot of people it's nice to have the ability to have templates for different groups of people. I watched the video and was curious if there is a way to bulk message again a pre-defined a group of people. For example let's say I messaged the "bloggers" group about a product launch. Then 3 months later we do a big update and I want to message them again.. can I just message that group with a different email? Without something like Tout the process is pretty annoying (going through individual email address and crafting a message and then sending off)
Not too expensive. Just that the prices are in line with real value so the ability to gain a high return is minimized.
No bubble, it's a super bubble!
I think the alpha stage option is a good point. Get things moving asap with Google/Posterous Groups, and then turn some attention to a custom site including the desired features.
Related pg citation:

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Validating JSON with RSpec and pathy
Settlements are agreements. No-one was forced to release source code, which is the language you used. It was their choice - they could have held out if they had wanted to.

You can't force a GPL violator to release source. All you can do is offer them a deal where they release the source in exchange for less/no monetary damages.
Almost always based on either affiliate marketing or just sourced content. Source is cheap and common, and the same, tired adult content model still works: Horny guy, cock in hand, still whips out credit card. It's an aging model, but there's always margin on the dance floor.
I think when there is presumably a state actor involved, the issue comes up of how you could possibly trust any answer you got. If the iranians told you oh we traced it back to joe in columbus or victor in st. petersburg would you say "oh, thanks" and go knock on their doors? Pretty sure no one has been bothering to ask the CIA who they think made Stuxnet either.
That page seems to redirect to an incredibly minimalist welcome page saying:

Stripe

Payment processing for developers

Get in touch

I think I'd need a bit more information before I'd even investigate them!
Ev started his first company when he was a teen, and kept starting them over and over again. Biz had founded Xanga, many years before. Sure, they were over 30, i think Jack and Noah were too, when twitter got started. All of them had started earlier companies in their teen's and 20's.
Not if you're a VC. The whole point is to see value where it's not obvious, because it hasn't materialized yet.

If there isn't a huge spread between the obvious present value of a business and its /potential/ value, then you can't make an investment where you expect a 4x-5x return. Those kinds of returns only show up when there's a lot of uncertainty around both the current value AND the future value (and most of the value of a new VC business comes from the discounting of its future value, rather than a calculation based on its current performance.)
This is an excellent idea and an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone (improving my mathematics and learning clojure have been on the cards for a while now). I'm a professional programmer, but thanks to the over-specialisation of the British education system, only did two years of mathematics in high school. Increasingly in my work I find myself struggling with relatively basic statistics concepts and think it's about time to try to educate myself.
I'd be happy to evolve http://ongoingfeedback.com, it currently already does private mastermind groups.
It's basically HN but in real-life, and a smaller scale than HN itself (sans the trolls ;) ). People are nice and friendly. Generally unstructured, basically a social mixer. Main topic: techie stuff + entrepreneurship. Nothing else like this community in San Diego.
"Extremely subpar" may be overly charitable from my experience.

I like to say that anyone who thinks all Apple products are designed well and work as you expect means that person has never used OSX Server.

My biggest gripe was discovering that for a user foo, you can't just give the user permission to access a file on a network share through the GUI, you must also make sure that foo can access the file at the Unix level.

In some sense, this is the way samba works (it uses file system permissions for user share mode, once they've been authenticated, unless you override it with things like the force user, force group, or force mode parameters -- which you can't effectively set on OSX). Unfortunately, since the GUI hides actual samba configuration from you, you never find this out.
Custom-made build systems tend to break conventions that are useful to packagers (destdir) or home-directory installs (prefix) or developers (ccache, though your example isn't guilty of the last one). I'd rather build something that handles all this and integrates well everywhere than see variations that need custom patching.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art
Looks nice, but it consistently crashes Safari on my iPad 1 on every blog I tried.
Litmus Test: Can You Be an Entrepreneur?
You're right, but that's because there was (relatively) enormous growth downtown (up 359%) [0]. Downtown St. Louis looks nothing like it did 10-15 years ago.

[0] http://www.stlmag.com/Blogs/SLM-Daily/February-2011/The-Top-...
Its funny I had a similar argument with someone last week (2 weeks ago?) when the Westboro Baptist's won their supreme court case [1].

Speech is free, period. Once you try to put any restrictions on then the whole thing isn't even a slippery slope, its a frictionless cliff.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03...
A much more interesting chart is here:

http://www.freep.com/article/20110323/NEWS01/103230444/Detro...

Notice the blue areas of 20% growth. These are areas where young people are moving in. Around downtown and the midtown area near Wayne State.
Sometimes, I really wish the ~, rather than @, had gained popular traction for referring to users. @ already had meaning, and stuff to the right of the @ was the location of the stuff on the left. Now there are things on both sides of an @ that indicate specific identity.
On the stolen laptop theme, I recently saw a youtube video by an Australian chap which went like this:

Tenant/house-guest (who is wanted for fraud in several states) ran off, leaving several thousand dollars in rent in arrears and in the process stealing three laptops.

FAB (the victim) gets some reports from friends a couple of weeks later that the perp is staying in a nearby motel. FAB goes around early-ish in the morning, knocks of the perps door, and the perp opens the door and the discussion gets heated. FAB is 'forced to defend himself' cough and after he finishes bouncing the perps head off the walls and is waiting for the police and ambulance to arrive (perp is un/semi-conscious), eh enters the motel room, recognises the three laptops, and puts them in the boot of his car.

Police arrive. Ambo turns up and hauls perp off to hospital. Police insist that FAB give the laptops to the motel manager, and they tell the motel manager to await further instructions.

Later that day perp checks himself out of hospital, goes back to motel, asks for laptops, manager gives them to him, and then high-tails it off to Victoria (the other end of Australia).

Moral of the story: police are useless no matter what country you are in.
I'm sorry but it read a bit much like 'hey if you can visualize it you can learn it' but that is a cruel joke to someone who can't visualize anything. Sort of like laughing at someone for not being able to see the number in a color blindness test.

Some people just don't visualize. Not even a little bit. And I'm not sure its "just because they never learned to." Myself, I've always seen the 'picture' in my head and even dream in full technicolor (like this means anything) but my wife of 20+ years just can't. She is definitely smart, graduated with a CS degree from USC and is a much better planner than I will ever be, but those questions where you see a flat piece of paper with a bunch of dotted lines on it and you need to guess the shape it will be if they were all folded, just can't see it.

When I was growing up I used to think they only put those kinds of questions on tests so that everyone could get a few answers right, they were just that easy for me.

So Newport's thesis that if you can visualize it you can gain 'insight' is no doubt true for some people, but it certainly isn't a panacea for teaching complex subjects.

If you've ever seen the online math courses that Stanford did [1] under the EPGY program, it has some excellent tools that seem to work well for a variety of learning styles. Worth a look, and just down right priceless if you're home schooling your kids.

[1] http://epgy.stanford.edu/courses/math/
look Europe has a problem in accepting non western cultures, lets not enter into that useless debate here on HN..
Facebook at 78 billion. Money for nothing and your chips for free.
Yes right, "chips", as casino chips that you can play.

Sorry I don't want to be a game spoiler but:

When valuations run high, you can see the balloon coming. I don't say that Net 2.0 is the balloon. But I can see a few balloons.

So you want to place your bets for Facebook. Ok. Due credit for a game changer.

Huge Member community? I agree. But let's face it 500 million active ain't not.

And what exactly is Facebook? Well lots and lots of people learning what social internet is. Most of us are in the learning curve. Do you know if people will get bored in 3 years? Think again before you reply.

Facebook is no Microsoft in 1985-2000. Moreover Facebook doesn't create value or earns money, in the way Google does.

So the valuations run high depending on the activity that happens "inside" Facebook. Will Facebook increase as exponentially? Well if you look at the demographics that's highly unlikely.

So I believe the moment expectations run outside real economy terms (ROA, revenues, profit, demographics etc) you can see the balloon coming.

I suppose this would be a good time for Mr Zuck to cash out, but then again I don't know what happens on the legal side.

I would think in the long term, it might have been better for FB to stay well under 40 Billion and build up.

Then again I don't have a Crystal Ball around.

Play your chips wisely.
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From my point of view it's the single biggest drawback of OpenSolaris (and descendants) as storage servers, but I see no fundamental reason why it couldn't be fixed; it simply wasn't high enough up Sun's list of priorities.
Cheap but warranted. Because I use Google Analytics, my GAFYD account is in "migration limbo" and I can't use some newer Google services like the Android Web-Market-to-Phone installation feature, etc.
- i love gunderson. i have used them for delicious, for tasty labs, and personally

- fred helped us keep our own costs way down by having only one law firm in the mix. we produced the term sheets and they okayed it.

so he's actually practicing what he's preaching here!
1. We have all the native iOs fonts. We're working on something cool with typekit :)

2. is it??? I think it only counts as closed IF the comment count is zero. I use disqus too as does a lot of the world+loves it.

Thank you for the kind words. Wait until you see the newer stuff. We'll be showing it off soon and it's mindblowingly fast/slick.
A great story (thanks for sharing) and product. I look forward using it to tout my startup.
> people talk about utilizing multiple availability zones in EC2 as some sort of burden

My use case isn't for an ongoing server where you require availability. It's purely about compute power - I don't care where the compute power comes from but preferably I want low latency to my customer. So ideally I would just get all instances for any given customer from a single region.

I did find in the end that, as you say, I would sometimes not be able to get an instance in a region even when I was below my 20 limit for reasons internal to Amazon, so the failover work was going to be something I had to deal with anyhow ... but it just added complexity to my life earlier than it would have otherwise.

Edit: I would also mention that I certainly don't think of it as a "bad" experience. I think it is something of a small miracle that Amazon offers the service they do in the first place and I certainly understand why they have caution about handing out large limits to just anyone. I only made my comment above as a kind of caution to not just assume you're going to get a raised limit from Amazon immediately and especially don't leave talking to Amazon about it until the last minute if you're planning to launch something.
Wasn't there a case in the US where schools loaned children laptops and the administrator secretly videotaped the children in their bedrooms and reported them fro some activity?

I assume that this was illegal even though the laptop was the school's property
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Tell Huffington Post not to promote liar and race-baiter Andrew Breitbart
Great line & sentiment -->
"And you can see where that line is?
Well, this is why we pick based on founders."
> The problem is that open source projects are not accepting of anyone who isn't a male programmer.

Your are so out of touch with real life. Contributors to an open source project are usually identified with an email and communicate online. No one cares if you are a woman, a man or a green alien. Open source is a meritocrasy and what matters is what you contribute.
I agree with the current majority. Use off the shelf software to get started.

My company uses an install of Wordpress with the GTD theme (P2 Theme is also an option) for communication - it is basically a twitter/yammer clone. We have 20 people and it has been an awesome tool. Of course you can easily add forums (bbpress) and a ton of other functionality with 10k+ plugins available.

This could be built/ready in 1-2 days.

http://p2theme.com/
No, I prefer it.

Lately, I've even stopped using external monitors, keyboards, mice, & Ethernet cords. I come into work, plug the laptop into a dedicated power brick and start working. I'm able to focus more without windows spammed across multiple monitors.

I have one of the new MacBook Pro 15" (with the Thunderbolt port).
I don't think I'd be the only person outside the US to be thoroughly intrigued by the opportunities provided by $300 houses. I'm in Adelaide (AU) which is about as far from anywhere in the world as most places and house prices here are crippling.

I know a $300 house is going to be a shithole in the middle of nowhere but you could buy 1,500 of those shitholes for the land value alone of one place in a mid-range suburb here!

Does anyone else dream of buying up a suburb, fencing it off and creating a CoD Nuketown-style paintball arena?
Could HBO be the Next BLOCKBUSTER?
Unless your startup is Facebook.
I don't think it's fair to call a program that links against a library for some subset of its functionality "selling software they didn't write." I believe Firefox uses zlib and libpng, but I don't think most people would call Firefox a version of zlib or libpng.

Anyway, I'm not saying that people shouldn't be able to license their software under the GPL. If you don't want me using your code, that's your right. But if they do GPL it, from my POV as a potential user of the code, it might as well be closed-source. Thus I object to the statement "It is free to be used commercially," when it is actually free for any other use but impractical for commercial use. (Even in your Sleepycat example, it was the non-GPL version that they used in their commercial pursuits.)
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Krugman: America's Superiority Complex
there are a number of security issues surrounding Android tablets because the application development ecosystem is much more open than Apple’s closed development system

Sounds like BS to me.

For tablets to really take off in businesses they would have to become more capable of doing Real Work.
Emailing files around isn't the answer to file sharing. It should be possible to print easily without having one of the 3-4 models of printers in existence that support AirPrint. If Apple were interested in addressing this market at all, I'm sure they'd be able to solve all of these. Otherwise, it's a good opportunity for the other tablet manufacturers to enter into a segment that Apple doesn't own and may not even want to.
This is great Justin, thanks for getting it together.

I vote for Open Source. I think everyone is champing at the bit to join and share with each other, so getting it off the ground fast is best.

Also, as others have already said, this seems to be a predominantly altruistic group, so funding a better solution later won't be an issue.
redo and ninja are replacements for make. They have a dependency graph and build it. Tool integration, configuration, feature detection, lifecycle (install, release, deploy…) have to be handled by something else.
I wish other commenting systems would implement this feature.
Your opinion about developer salaries and getting a raise
Location: Toronto, Canada

Job: PHP, Symfony, LAMP

From the outset, the job began rather plain. I joined a team that took over a Symfony framework application. After about a year, the company took on a new project and I became one of the three developers tasked with making it happen.

Fast-forward 18 months; the project is doing great and I have amassed tons of experience. Despite not being lead, I took charge submitting ideas that pushed the project ahead. It sort of became my trademark and I saw my value rise. With my hiring anniversary just passing in February, I asked to have a meeting concerning my compensation.

I'm asking for feedback and your opinion regarding salary negotiation. Do you feel that salary guides are accurate or inflated? One comes to mind: http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/External_Sites/content/DM-FreeResources/RHT/downloads/RHT-SG-2011.pdf

Is it realistic to assume that a base salary of 63k x 18% or about 75k is an amount to shoot for ? What is your experience in these types of situations ?
Epic convo with some major players. If you're in strtupland or a fan of it, you need to go listen in now.