skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw your comment and laughed, then realized you were serious.

If you are working with 500 programmers, they are likely to be mostly mediocre - the good ones would have run away screaming to better jobs.

Sure, if you have 500 mediocre programmers, you need to rope them in with systems. If you hire 5-10 great programmers, stand well clear and let them do their job.
http://www.techstars.org/thefounders/#logo
And maybe you're a 14 year old who really wanted to read something on NYT or in some country where it's hard to give money to NYT.

You could also just keep data from being given to the user in the first place, but you won't do that, either.
Catering your site to everyone rather than females only is certainly a better approach for what your trying to do. There are plenty of times where I ask female friends which shirt they like better on me or shoes etc. It inspires confidence before you go out on a date or a big job interview. WAYWN suggests that you want to be critiqued before you head out in public rather than after? The user should be able to apply options (2 different shirts) for the community to help make the decision. Interesting idea, I think your on to something. Goodluck.
I'm on Linux and I can't find the "tabs on top" option.

EDIT: oh, found it, but my tabs were already on top.

Problem is, Chrome also does away with the title bar.
This is actually taken a bit out of context in you watch the full interview. This response was to the question of what experiences from Digg are you taking with you to your next startup and what are you going to do differently.
I read it as: startups fail because they're not singularly minded.
Hackernews PSA: Things that are hacking
In no particular order, and varies depending on your religion and the year (especially the first two - many adopt one or the other).

- Writing code

- Exploiting code

- Chopping down trees with a hatchet or axe, using multiple swinging motions (no chainsaws, that is cutting)

Things that are not hacking:

- cooking is not food hacking

- sewing is not textile hacking

- media whoring is not PR hacking

- tying weather balloons to a lawn chair and floating away is not chair hacking

Overloading of the term 'hacking' to make it some generic wildcard verb considered harmful.

Thanks,

Larry
No direct mobile support yet, we're tied to the Instagram API and will autoupload any photos tagged with #waywn from a user who has connected their Instagram account to our service.

From the web, we support drag and drop photo uploading (one thing we haven't figured out is an easy way to expose that to the user) as well as via webcam.

Certainly, a mobile app would be a high priority if we push forward with it.

Thanks for the feedback!
I'm not sure I get it. Its somewhere between StartUp Weekend and YC but with a steep price tag (in my opinion at least).

What exactly am I paying for?

For the opportunity to meet potential co founders? I'd say StartUp Weekend is better for that since I can meet more people and I can do the vetting based on my personality and preferences.

For the opportunity to get a startup idea? I feel like anyone who is serious enough to pony up that kind of money probably has a few ideas already.

For the opportunity to meet investors? I would much rather have a founder of my choosing and a prototype of my idea before I start doing that.

Plus this is a whopping 1 month of nights and weekend activity?

I'm not sure I'm willing to buy some mentor time for $800 but feel free to convince me otherwise.
I think you're mistaking a "closed, really private beta" with Duke Nukem Forever vaporware. There are hundreds of people using Asana with great success according to the videocast on their site. Organizations ranging from software companies, recruiting firms to biotech institutions.

<shameless solicitation >Speaking of which if anyone from Asana wants to give an invite to a 5 man Django shop, we'd love to test it out for you guys. My contact information is in my profile :)</ss>
It's a different Nimmer. (David Nimmer is the real McCoy, Ray Nimmer is just some guy)
Now that's iteration, Motherfucker.
It's a beautiful visualization. While browsing through the source code, I noticed that there are a few numeric keyboard shortcuts. "9" is especially handy!
"Biorobot" was mostly an inside joke. "Liquidator" however was, and is, an official term in former USSR, there are no derogatory connotations with it.
Then there's nothing to stop people from just making a new free account each time they use up their 20 free stories.
I use keepass with something like a 30 character password that I can remember with numbers and special characters, it already has things like autotype and copy paste and generates random secure passwords for sites I use which are then encrypted.

My eggs may be all in one basket but at least that basket is heavily protected while your solution seems less good than the alternatives that already exist.
He states that he does it because the money is good, and because he can't do anything else.

He can't believe there are people who program on the weekends, for fun.

He can't be bothered to learn anything new, or to even hear about concepts he doesn't understand.

He posts all the above on a public (until recently) blog, where his boss and all his coworkers can read it. What more do you need? If he has any interest in programming, he's doing a good job of covering it up with his endless complaints.
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That said, this is useful for the high school or college student who doesn't have the 20 dollars to spend

I hear that a lot. Lots of people can't afford a subscription. I understand that.

A lot of the same people say its too much yet they spend more at Starbucks for their daily Venti, sugar-free, non-fat, vanilla soy, double shot, decaf, no foam, extra hot, Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha with light whip and extra syrup :)
Just what I was thinking. I'm interested in hearing how long Flow was in development versus Asana (2+ years?). Considering Asana hasn't launched diddly, I'd say flow is the incumbent.
It's not that hard to have secure passwords.

$ mkpasswd
-tJ6yfcO5

Write it down on a postit note. Put that in your wallet. 2-3 weeks later you have a secure password that you remember. Discard the postit at this time. Do this for your bank, gmail, and a couple more high value targets.

Don't use the same password for gawker/plentyoffish/facebook.
The Piral: an animation of the first 400 digits of pi
"Don't hate the media, become the media."
Yeah, definitely angling to have people post before they go out rather than after. We've been discussing ways to expose 2 outfits and have people choose between them, but for now we want to just get discussions going around outfits in isolation.

Thanks for the feedback!
Awesome site and even more amazing team ^^
Show HN: Education News
Downwote it, quick. I want this thing buried. It hurts me bad.
It seems almost impossible to sell any web app

I think this is becoming (or always has been) a general truth. Customers now expect everything available on the internet to be free. But they're more than happy to pay money for things that aren't on the internet.
Nvidia PR on a future product. What's real, independently tested and shipping right now is PowerVR SGX:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4225/the-ipad-2-review/5
He's not getting any brownies for that
Cooking perfect eggs by hacking a crock pot to a controlled temp bath is hacking.

Dragging a block of ice around with money it to draw abundant attention is hacking.

Presumably there are some awesome sewing techniques I am unaware of that I would have no problem calling hacking.

More generally hacking is using a fundamental understanding of the underlying processes involved in a system to manipulate the system into doing things it wasn't designed to do.
Doctors, lawyers, and scientists hate talking about work, but they love talking about medicine, law, and science. Talking about a subject they love is different from talking about why their boss is mad at them and why their five o'clock meeting ran over.

But then again, maybe that's because there are a lot of nerds in medicine, law, and science.
We'll see. Keep in mind that we had about 2 million Firefox 4 RC2 users who already have the "final" version and are therefore not counted on the download map.

Also note that the map just started counting (yes, from 0) at 6am Pacific. So there's still time until tomorrow, 6am Pacific until the 24-hour count is over.

At any rate, this is not a competition ;)

(full disclosure, I work on the Mozilla webdev team).
Has Asana really been in development for 2 years? Maybe someone should send them a copy of Dreaming in Code.

Edit: Wow, I just looked at their "feature list" again. Do you REALLY need LDAP integration? Does it really need to be written in an in-house language? Why does a todo list that's supposed to work just as well for a single user need Gantt charts and a wall on each todo item?

If anyone's ever used Quickbase, that's what the feature set makes it sound like.
I have a similar side project.

How do you guys respond to seeing something similar launched? Assure yourself that you have better execution?
I pay $12/month each for GitHub and Harvest, both for personal use.
Yeah, I wanted something like this a couple years ago and was disappointed to find no true headless library. I spent a lot of time looking at WebCore, but eventually gave up after a while.

I wonder if there's a way to extricate some of Chrome's rendering logic to do genuinely headless stuff. I know that things are rendered in separate processes and then piped to the browser window process and I have to wonder if there's a way to launch one without the other, and thus, without any requirements for a display server like X.
> In Google's case, I find young, smart, cool people just like me who I trust not to be dicks and do things with my stuff I wouldn't want them to.

Not too long ago, "Google fires employee for snooping on users" -
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/16/business/la-fi-googl...
It was almost as successful as Apple's Beetles music launch. i.e. they launched something that was old news and tried to market it like it was new (Beetles) and/or innovative (Ping).
Sure, but there aren't a half dozen coffee shops giving away free drinks on either side of Starbucks.
Metered Internet just a matter of "fairness" (and profits)
I don't see how you can get that. The exchange was:

> "...those of us in startup mode don't need
> the time sink of keeping up with the news..."

That's saying that startups already don't have enough time to do what they need, so even more time sinks are a Bad Thing(tm)

The comment then was:

> And that is why startups are rarely successful.
> ^^^^

The "that" seems to be referring to not keeping up with the news. That, in turn, then says to me that not keeping up with the news is the primary source of failure.

Maybe I'm wrong. I'd love to hear what he actually meant. I certainly can't parse it as you suggest.
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Hm, don't know what to say. Perhaps disable the menu bar. That did it for me.

Here's what firefox 4 looks like running on windows XP: http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/460/20110322144851800x600...
Anyone have any idea of what SQLstream actually does/how it works? Looking at http://www.sqlstream.com/Products/products.htm all I see is marketing material aimed at execs.
1. mkpasswd

2. write on postit note

3. ???

4. Secure, memorized passwords for your high value accounts.
Bad graphic design. The spinny wheel thing from the ads is way better. They still have hints of shading on the new logo, but it looks horrible and flat.
MIT's Open Courseware is also top-notch stuff. The intro-to-CS and programming with Python has a set of lecture videos and assignments, I think there are a few others with lectures (including the famous 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
I use a process somewhat like this (but simpler) and thus have a unique password for each site. I do this with my BRAIN, not with a script on my computer. I can prompt my memory with notes I keep in a secure location. I write the notes in a mixture of other languages I know, besides English, so that it is very hard for an onlooker even to recognize that they are notes about how I construct passwords. I change my passwords for my sites with the most potential for spoofing or other mishaps (currently Gmail and Facebook) from time to time.
Flow is a great product and emphasizes the "ship sooner, rather than later" model. They had a set goal in mind, and with a relatively small team, managed to create a family of amazing apps in a short space of time. Kudos! Asana and any company that has 2-3 year development cycles could learn a lot from MetaLab.
Well, it's a combination of two things:

1) We wanted to keep the price / trebuchet low, so our margin after materials is slim.

and

2) The laser cutter that we need to produce these is expensive.

But such is life!
Equity: Leave some unallocated?
When dividing equity amongst founders, should 100% of the shares be divided, or should some shares remain unallocated for future use?
Copyright troll Righthaven achieves spectacular "fair use" loss
In the countries with declining reproduction, I'd be interested to see how rate of procreation relates to income-level. Is it the well off who are not reproducing, or the relatively poor?
I didn't present it as a reliable anything. I pointed out that the parent had linked to the wrong comparison, and linked to the correct one.
Backstory: I'm starting a company to produce educational games (you can probably guess the URL) and I went looking for the "HN for Education" post from a while back. I think it's important to have such a site for the education community.

It turns out (for whatever reason) that news site was taken down, so I've spent the last week or so getting the reddit codebase running and customized on a VPS. (Many thanks to spladug and alienth of the reddit dev team for humoring all my dumb questions and helping me get the code running.)

The goal is to provide a central place where everyone in education/technology can come together to discuss news, startups, and ideas. This is all about the community, and I wouldn't have gotten this far without everyone who's helped me along the way. The education-startup community is very young, so I hope to see you guys voting/contributing there. If you're working in this space, I'd be happy to help you out however I can -- feel free to drop me an email.
Take species A. For whatever reason, species A splits into two groups, A1 and A2. A1 and A2 are (initially) the same species, but the split causes them to be separated for a long time (hundreds, thousands, tens-of-thousands, hundreds-of-thousands, millions of years).

You have already accepted that A1 and A2 will adapt to their surroundings. What prevents those adaptations from eventually making A1 and A2 no longer able to mate?
An even bigger problem than password reuse, in my opinion, is secret question formulas to reset your password. My banking site requires a strong password, which of course means that I often forget it, which means that resetting my password has become a regular part of the login process. The site allows me to reset my password directly from the site after answering my secret questions correctly. It does not send an email link to reset.

If a password can be reset by answering a series of secret questions, then the password itself is moot and the account is only as secure as its secret questions. Which in many cases aren't very secure to anyone who might know the person (What is the color of your first car? What is your first pet's name?).

Given the choice between being allowed a "weak" password that I might actually remember, and a "strong" password that I either have to write down or reset every time I log in via answering a series of questions that are even less secure than a weak password, I would take the weak password.
It doesn't address your question directly. But I find it a good opportunity to show you a visualization I've made for San Francisco Elementary school assignment by ethnicity. Clearly the city is not distributed evenly.

http://tungwaiyip.info/2011/2011_SFUSD_ethnicity.html
1Password was a godsend for this problem.
What's the difference between using these password managers and a plain old spreadsheet file?
I read the whole article, and he didn't say "peers," he said "friends." And he didn't explain anything beyond that.

People do not passively participate in a culture. We collectively create a culture by forming relationships with everyone around us, not just our friends. You have to get along with your coworkers if you want to succeed in any field, and if you are a software engineer, that's probably going to involve geeking out about programming.
Larry Ellison (Co-Founder of Oracle) was/is a hustler. It's served him well.
I use a similar technique (although I didn't make a script for it). I fail to see how it is "less good" [sic]. My password for every website is unique (15+ characters, mix of character cases, special characters, etc), it is not stored anywhere other than my brian, and the pattern is not easily discernable. Furthermore I have two different patterns, one for high value sites and a different one for social networks/forums/other low value sites.

With keeppass, someone with a keylogger on your machine can compromise all your passwords in one fell swoop.
FYI for others looking for this project: it's "Convofy".
>However if you feel that the Times content is worth writing a new browser extension for, or all the hours you spend keeping on top of updating code as we change DIV id and class names.... then maybe, just maybe, there might be something on the Times site of value?

I don't care about most of the content, but like Feynman picking safes the interesting thing is the intellectual challenge of seeing if one can break the lock.

Also last time I tried to sign up (back when it was free) doing so was a total pain in the ass, so I ended up deleting the cookies instead.
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That's half the fun. :-)
Re-evaluate founders' equity?
When founders divide a startup's equity amongst themselves, are those numbers set in stone (ignoring future dilution)?

I ask this because one of my co-founders has been pondering whether we founders should re-evaluate each founder's shares at regular intervals, based upon on how much work they've put in since the last re-evaluation.
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I'd like to try to switch a browser, if I see a simple and cool sync-from-chrome (google account) feature. maybe I don't really need one, and maybe I can use some XML thingy for it, but I'm too lazy
How many examples of web apps can you give me, which are being sold directly to consumers for personal use? By personal use, I mean not for use at or for work. I can barely think of a handful and even those are quite often paid for by the buyer's employer as a perk or productivity investment.
Scala enthusiasts just upvoting anything with Scala in the title without actually clicking through first, probably. I was tempted, hence my suspicion.
I disagree with you about the quality of the content, but the only reason I would care to break that security is to show that I could, for the intellectual challenge of it.
I personally would not be able to convince myself that my side project's execution is /better/ than something MetaLab (or any of the many companies I admire) built, but certainly it would be better suited to my personal itches.

That is not intended to be a comment on your execution though, I don't know what you've built.

What I would try to do is refine the niche that I am satisfying. There are a ton of task management applications out there, which means that there is a large number of ways people like to track and do their tasks, which means that something that solves your particular problems very well is going to satisfy more.
And easy access to birth control by living in an industrial society with the capacity to make it.
It was more than just security-by-obscurity; these guys refused to use an existing package that would solve their issues... the "mujahaddin secrets" package (ostensibly jihadist in origin) that did implement AES cyphers.

Guess what, if you're so purist you can't trust experts in your own field because they use "contaminated knowledge", then you better be a true genius, or you're not going to be very effective.
lol. a few months later you stare at the login screen and think "uh, what was it again?"...

Use KeepassX! http://www.keepassx.org/
Not true Oliver... They've been working on Flow for at least 2 years.
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Do families pay recurring fees for web apps? Apart from some high-quality photo sharing apps, I can't think of any examples.
Interesting points.

With regard to #1, your chances of working your way up to getting code review comments from Linus Torvalds or Rob Pike is a lot better if you're contributing to (other people's!) open-source projects than in almost any non-OSS work environment.

I don't think people have this attitude because of these theoretical reasons, though. I think they believe it for empirical reasons — because they don't know any first-class programmers who only code at work and don't work on open-source software. Do you? I was just trying to explain the evidence I've observed, not trying to convince you from first principles.
Amusing at the very least, though I do feel some empathy with the sentiments expressed as well. I think the real trouble is its very hard to distil the act of programming into abstract 'methodologies' (I hate the [ab]use of that word) that are not language and technology specific.
Basically that password managers

(a) store the passwords encrypted and require a master key to see them

(b) generate random, long, secure passwords for you

(c) allow you to group passwords in folders and subfolders

...
Sure but so what? I have discussed the best way to get away with murder with good friends.

Not that I would kill anybody, but simply because it is an intellectual challenge.
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>>>Can we sometimes be more relaxed about what is submitted?

That path leads to http://www.reddit.com
Not true. We've been working on it for just over a year.
No, sadly, it does not, and the Keychain Integration add-on isn't compatible with FF 4 yet.
My first reaction was "but there's no way Fukushima even gets close to Chernobyl", but then I realized I sound like a nuclear apologist. So I looked up the most recent news about the plant.

The evacuation zone only covers 20km - and the IAEA just recorded levels of 161 uSv/h in a town that far away. That's 1410 mSv/y, compared to 2.4 mSv/y normal from background radiation. These are levels high enough to cause health effects, and one has to wonder why the government has not extended the evacuation radius if there's proof that health-affecting levels of radiation has gotten that far into the general environment. It seems like the US NRC's recommendations are wiser than the Japanese government's. That's a disturbing thought.

I really wonder how history will look back upon this - a well-executed response to a unforeseen disaster in the most difficult of circumstances, or an example of governmental coverup exposing civilians to unnecessary danger?
I'm kind of thinking more like sending a message to an area, where other people in the area can respond. Mobile is probably ideal but no reason not to be web too.
I remember when pg asked for Erlang submissions... it didn't end well. The entire front page was Erlang and the links just kept coming.
Beatles*

shudder
By personal use, I mean not using it for work. You may be using Github purely for personal use, but Harvest is clearly for business.

Do you pay for any other apps?
How did you end up with 70% compared to his 30%?