skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, there are always way too many M's, never enough S. Offering a one-size-too-big shirt is a great way to get someone to take the shirt but never wear it because it looks sloppy.
Thanks to Youtube, Live Streaming is about to go Big
>"I build this and that, check it out!"

But people do that with other open source sites as well. Does GitHub provide this feature better than SourceForge or others? You still need to go to the user's page, they don't advertise it anywhere else. Do people go to GitHub to see information about person X, or project Y? And for the posts on social sites, are they more often about the creator or what they created?
Review my mvp: Myide.as quickly share and store your ideas
An ideas log where you store and share your last idea online. I've humbly create this app to response to my needs ... and learn rails. I consider myself an idea guy.... yeah I know... so I decided to learn coding and stop wasting time... Myide.as is my first rails app.

http://myide.as

http://myide.as/ideas/2

Last week I saw http://captainobvio.us/ which is kind of a digg for ideas to get feedback from the web. Contrary to this last app, myide.as is meant to be a simple idea log where you can get feedback from your inner circle.

Hope you can find it useful. Comments?, specially on usability are welcome! Tks a lot for your time.
Seriously, dude, nobody is out to get you. I'm glad you made Pow. Pow looks awesome. I don't control what gets voted to the top of the page, and I'm probably no happier than you are about the sprawling nerdwar that resulted.

Seriously, dude, get over yourself. It's pretty ridiculous how much FUD this project announcement received in here, versus positive focus. There are multiple other long FUD threads that missed the point of Pow; you only started (and kept throwing fire at) the one that doesn't even touch what the project is about.
I can't see those images... the links are broken :(
I second this, I use placehold.it constantly whenever I'm building with html or css. I never use the text feature like the link above, it defaults to showing the image size and I've found that to be more useful because it's a quick reference designers or project managers or anyone else can use to figure out the size requirements for that images replacement.
What about target market? Most tech companies are targeted towards the tech crowd and younger men. How about custom ties for companies targeted towards businessmen?

The difficult part would be designing a custom tie that looks great, but still represents your brand. Does it have to be on the outside? Can a tag in the back of the tie be enough? I'm just not sure...
Oh this is great, thank you!
New Net Neutrality Rules Rejected By House of Representatives
my 2 cents:

When I was doing recommender for a pet supplies company, I used log likelihood test.

Given they product A, what are the chances they would buy B.

Also since we had thousands of products I sometimes looked at correlations charts or even simple histogram to easily pinpoint what products and quantities were purchased after the initial purchase of A. It made crunching millions of transactions easier.
Ask HN: Foreign Student as Cofounder in the US
I'm not a US citizen, but I'm studying in the states on an F1 Student Visa (I'm an undergrad) and am interested in doing startups with some friends. However, a major concern I have is that as a foreign student I don't think I'm allowed to have equity in a company that my friends start.

My questions are then,
1) What options do I have in my position as a foreign student in the way of starting up?
2) If we apply for YC in the future, will this affect me?
3) If we build a web app and start to monetize it, how do I ensure that I don't break laws regarding employment? I would like not to be deported :)
Especially in hot weather I actually prefer short-sleeved shirts to t-shirts. The tightly woven, thin fabric of a shirt does not stick as much to the body as a t-shirt.
Though I have to admit, that I have never been to Australia in summer. And a suit would definitely be out of the question for me as well during the hot season. :)
You miss the point of OpenCourseware. It is to help other professors put together high quality classes, not for self learning. That is why they have lecture notes and not much else.

The only thing I would think you could do would be to provide better organization maybe based on MIT's degree plans, and forums so people could interact. Maybe "register" for classes so you feel like you have deadlines when homework is due and the like.
Please add value in your future posts. You could have made a valid point or given great advice with a bit more effort. I see you're new to the community so welcome and I look forward to seeing you add tons of value in the future.
From Sketchy Trends to Running Away with Fitbit
If you want to have a look, had just posted the Huffington Post article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2425997

Same info, though.
I'm on the other side of the spectrum, I'm a designer looking for developers, I have an iOS app completely designed, but no luck finding talented developers.
Might be interesting to think about why we don't have any other major languages in the browser?

Javascript suffers from a lot of historical baggage and a lot of bad javascript on the web. One of the most helpful developments in the past few years has been the emergence of a "better" subset of js, led by Douglas Crockford's mafia, jslint, jshint, jsonlint etc.

It's hard to argue that any language+platform has a more vibrant ecosystem right now than js+node.js
Libertarians call for permanent government shutdown
Five Easy Pieces of Online Identity
I created an account just to say amen. I can't tell you how many times this has frustrated me in IE. Seems like I would learn.
If you can't wait, you can buy a USB host shield for your arduino and then use the microbridge library.

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9947

http://code.google.com/p/microbridge/

MicroBridge is an Android Debug Bridge (ADB)
implementation for microcontrollers. MicroBridge allows
stock, unrooted Android devices to talk directly to USB
host enabled MCUs, thereby enabling phones to actuate
servos, drive DC motors, talk to I2C and SPI devices, read
ADCs, and so forth.
I'm not the only one! I just don't like feeling like a billboard. Just plain color, please.

The use oft-shirts as achievement badges is interesting, but I don't like storing things that I don't use.
what is a good way to share something like a db connection between modules?
mindflash.com
I believe it represents a demonstrably superior way of distributing validated knowledge than academic publishing.

This is where he goes wrong. As he demonstrates up to that point, the purpose of publishing in the academia is not to "distribute knowledge" but to gain academic points.

And academic citation is not the same as copying code. Academic physicists routinely cite papers without reading them. The reason is that academic physicists cite like lawyers; to establish and assert precedence. So I would add "legal" citation to "prestige" and "popular" type citations. http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1012/1012.4871.pdf
> And for the posts on social sites, are they more often about the creator or what they created?

You hit the nail right on the head. Github is about sharing code. The code is the creation. Github's unique selling point is the webinterface to show the code: It's the best designed interface in the industry to show code in a browser.

> Does GitHub provide this feature better than SourceForge or others?

Various software is available to show code in the browser, but none works as well and is polished as well as Github. The creation (code) therefore can be best shared on Github. As such, others willing to check out the creation are, from the moment they arive at github, mostly busy this exactly that: check out the creation (code). Every time I visit repo's visualizing the code in html on other places then github, I get agitated by the annoying interface. Example: some interfaces require you to click on a file, after which the postback returns a site containing a list of revisions, and new buttons to 'view' a revision. This causes me to wait for a postback, and click, twice per file I want to view.
Github instead instantly shows the last revision.

All these small tweaks account for much better usability on Github compared to other sites.

I guess for scientists, there must be the same approach as Github approaches programmers. For programmers, it's about code, and for scientists, it's about data and the conclusions derived from it. Instead of showing code, show a paper with the possibility to drill down on data. The data being shared can then be treated the same as code being in a source repo, so the usual git stuff (branching, merging, pulling, pushing) can be applied on the paper+data.
And employee incentives isn't threatening customers into being social like the title implies.
Why not focus on actual achievement instead?
Didn't quit my job but very recently and very suddenly moved to a new team at work -- by "new team" I mean one that didn't exist before and is doing work without clear parameters. It's been a bit stressful, not knowing how performance is going to be measured and so on. One of our first priorities is determining how we will measure productivity. I suggest you do something similar. "Wishcraft" and similar books by the same author might help in that regard.

Best of luck.
It's probably the greatest motivator, pound-for-pound, that I've come across.

Status signals are important and useful in tribe-sized groups of people, and they work best when they can't be bought or faked. It doesn't really mater what form they take.
I checked that out before I bought. As far as I could tell, it's not really an issue with any half-decent SSD, since they automatically level below the file system (so even though swap is a small part of your disk, it doesn't mean you're putting all that load on a small part of the memory) and also the numbers seem to work out like you'd still get many years of use.

Anyway, for me, I suspect it means I'll keep this laptop for an extra two years. It was starting to feel sluggish if I had, say, firefox and eclipse open. Now it's like new. Would really recommend it... (but it is true I am on Linux...)
One thing that can be done is to increase the general public's participation in science. StackOverFlow has several proposed science exchanges. These could be a stepping stone for people. This one sounded particularly interesting:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/12194/sciencehome
They need to advertise that
Ask HN: Mobile Startups in Seattle?
I currently work at a large company doing .NET development (c#, sql, ajax). I built an iPhone app that hit top 30 for paid apps for awhile when Apple featured it. I'm interested in doing mobile programming on a fulltime basis. Unfortunately there isn't any need for Objective-C, XCode and open source software at my current company.

I'd prefer to stay in Seattle and was wondering what companies you could suggest that are looking for people with iOS programming skills.

Thank you!
I would look at it this way: say you've started a new job. You've been told that you're expected to behave "professionally", but not given any specific guidance as to what that means in this company. You're seated at the head of a large table in a conference room, with a mixed audience of people who work for the company. You don't know who any of them are or what they do -- they could plausibly be anyone from mailroom people to senior executives. You're asked to introduce yourself.

Under these circumstances would you, with no prompting from your audience, consider it "professional" to start talking about your interest in strip clubs?
Perhaps if it caught on enough. There are many people that had to learn LaTeX who were not programmers, which is IMHO not a trivial feat.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you--But making git point-and-clickable doesn't strike me as being very simple.
It would be lovely if every feature could land and be 100% complete and bug-free, but FOSS has never worked like that and never will work like that. Release early release often - that's always been the mantra.
What you are asking for is conservatism, which isn't a bad thing, but it's not something you're going to get from an OS with a 6 month release cycle and far reaching ambitions :)
I hate to break it to you, but Rockband doesn't score you based on what you say. It just scores you based whether you're hitting the right notes. :P
Humorless clients wouldn't mind http://lorempixum.com/300/400/sports/10/ http://lorempixum.com/300/400/sports/4/ or http://lorempixum.com/300/400/fashion/7/ ?
I agree.

I think that github is such a good tool to interact with git repos that if they made a version that can work locally (the main difference is explicitly dealing with the index and the current tree) I'd use it to manage git projects in a heartbeat.
paulofisch - are you planning to make a replacement ami that does not include the security hole, for those of use who still want to use ubuntu 10.04 server?
Pretty sure I read that applications increased 85% on the last cycle, so (on your numbers) that would take it to 1850 which is close to your estimate.
Why do so many blogs fail to perform the most basic thing on the web? Why do they fail to deliver dead-simple, small, static content?
Encouraging start-ups at universities
They probably would. (It’s not my website, I only know its history.)
Perhaps not at the academic level, at least not initially, but drawing more people into science by making it easier to ask questions and get answers couldn't hurt.
http://area51.stackexchange.com/categories/7/science

Someday there might be 1,000,000 well-defined science/math questions, along with great answers.
We definitely have orphaned data in the mix and are working to purge it. However, most of the data has to be kept in case its needed in the future (however unlikely that may be).
Why is this better than a gas turbine?
You're taking what Silicon Valley media reports and slapping it onto the face of YC. YC's most successful startups are not "iPhone Apps". DropBox, Heroku, CloudKick, Justin.TV, etc. These are real guys tackling real problems. Your sarcastic remarks belittle their accomplishments, which is immature at best.

"Though we fund all types of startups, we're especially interested in web/mobile applications. We've been thinking about that problem longer than anyone else, and by now can visualize much of the space of possibilities."

This means that they are more comfortable investing in an area where they're the experts. If you're going to blindly apply to a VC without reading their "About" page, that is you being irresponsible, not a problem with the VC.
Scalathon - How You Can Help
>Secondly, search engines don't play too well with the Ajaxy web apps.

Search engines are for finding content, not for apps. If you have data in your app that a search engine could reasonably want to index, give it a resourceful route of some kind, and tell engines where to look - if that doesn't make sense, it's probably not a resource an engine would be interested in.
There is nothing stopping YouTube from running, say, a RTSP recorder and re-packaging the media to use RTMP (Flash streaming). In fact this is probably preferable, since there is no way to encode H.264 from within the Flash client.
How Corporations Can Support Startups
Ask (Challenge? Beg?) HN: How to get help from here to there.
Hi, longtime admirer, first-time poster. Please don't laugh but to make a long story short, one of my part time jobs while finishing my coursework is as a barista at Starbucks.

I'm trying to organize a drive effort to get as many coworkers as possible to donate a week's worth of tips and a week or two worth of the free coffee we get to ship overseas as part of the continuing relief effort for Japan.

All my ongoing research so far indicates that there is a huge discrepancy between the "everything will soon be under control" image in the media and the reality of people who still have many, many challenges to overcome at the local level (kinda like Katrina).

Just yesterday there was a front page New York Times article about a viral video on YouTube not too long ago where a mayor of a small town in northern Japan put his pride aside and literally bared his soul in front of the YouTube community and told everyone that his village is slowly starving to death.

The biggest problem I have so far is overcoming the logistical hurdle of getting items from the store-level to a central area and then from there to Japan where there are plenty of groups/organizations/local governments who say they'll gladly welcome anything they don't have to pay the shipping fees for.

I've tried working with FedEx, but they keep referring me to the Red Cross, whose official position seems to boil down to "Nobody wants food, just send money."

Other companies seem to have a mind-meld with Red Cross PR as well.

My attempt to reply with a photo taken from a story in a Japanese news site of people holding signs that translated to "We can't eat money, please send food and supplies" made no difference whatsoever.

Anyway, you people seem to be much smarter than me so I'm putting this out there; think of it as an intellectual challenge whose answer would be appreciated by many, many people:

How would you, if you were me, overcome the logistical challenge of shipping free donations?

I found excellent agencies that can deliver the non-perishable foodstuffs (mostly instant coffee), I've found a charity that specializes in, among other things, a website with "live maps" of food caches that people can figure out how to travel to (keep in mind the area is mountainous, and transportation is limited due to lack of automobiles, gas, and destroyed infrastructure).

I can't figure out how to get the stuff there without just, you know, paying FedEx to ship it, which would kind of make the whole money-raising aspect pointless.

Any and all ideas would be welcomed.

Thank you for your consideration.
Cool- definitely happy to let you know when the web app launches.
Dup:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337237
I don't get it, are you saying become some groups might misuse the clothes donated to the Salvation Army or Goodwill I should never donate my clothes and that I should just throw them away? I really don't understand what point you're trying to make. Donating clothes to thrift stores helps people everyday if you don't believe me just go hang out at one in Chicago during January or Minnesota, people would literally die in these places without thrift stores.
The Woz Would Consider Returning to Apple If Asked
There is nothing in this story and video to back up any of the claims they are making. He just waves around a rotating disc.

He could be talking about cold fusion in just the same way ;)

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looking at the duplicate link, they refer to their own article from 2006. Cold fusion would either have been laughed away or taken over the world. Same thing here I would assume.
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Yes, his link (me) realizes that. The point of the graphs is that Apple is the only manufacturer growing significantly relative to the market, so to call them dead in water is ridiculous.

Also, the share growth for all phones is relevant, because smartphones are almost certainly the largest component of that. Absent a breakdown of Samsung's growth by phone category, the most generous way to evaluate their smartphone share growth is to make the simplifying assumption that all of Samsung's growth comes from smartphones. Even then, their growth is a fraction of iPhone's growth and the point is made.
The Data Center Is the New Server
Wow, that looks awesome. Thanks for the suggestion. Have you setup any scripts to run with it? If so I would be curious what you setup?
The lambda Reader
"The people who are signing your paycheck."
Of course it shrinks. I'm a medium size after the shirt has been shrunk. If I were a large after it has been shrunk I would have said that's my size.
His first three concepts already have names: authentication/authorization (he's conflated here), non-repudiability, and availability. The last two topics seem like applications and not properties of identity.

I think you could solve all of "2" - "5" given a workable solution for "1" --- that is to say, if everyone could agree on an Internetwide scalable authentication system, the other benefits of identity could be built organically around that kernel. But scalable authentication is a galactically complicated political problem involving virtually every single one of the largest technology companies in the world.
there is a lot of ingenious engines. The question is which one can be made into practically usable product.

There is even productized version of rotary-vane engine coming supposedly next year in a Russian car:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1709400/russian-billionaire-unlea...

I'd be though very surprised if they pull it off as beside Mazda rotary i don't know other mass-produced cars with non-traditional engines.
Respectfully, IMHO this comment is a load of nonsense. Is your opinion informed by experience?

Dismissing javascript as a 'play language' is to ignore, well, the internet. Sure, it's imperfect.. maybe more than most languages. But it's also wildly powerful, and there are plenty of ways to make large js codebases quite reasonable (ours is, and we build one of the most complex javascript front ends I'm aware of).

Suggesting that C++ would be a better language for writing web UIs really seems especially ridiculous to me. Have you written GUIs in C++? I have, and I assure you they're no nicer to maintain than javascript ones. In fact both languages require a similar amount of discipline and order to grow maintainable codebases with. The same is true for pretty much everything.. and when it comes down to it.. front-end code of any format can be very hard to keep manageable.

Javascript with tools like google's closure kit is about as reasonable as anything else I've built a front end with.
APIs Are Not Just for Developers
apple fanboys
Colour my cynical. There's been alternative engine development for almost as long as there's been the combustion engine, and nothing yet has made an impact.

Ralph Sarich invented the orbital engine [0] almost 40 years ago, formed a company and spent millions on the idea but it went nowhere. Interestingly, they knew when to change direction and ended up making a number of breakthroughs in the field of two stroke engines. The company is still in business today [1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_engine

[1] http://www.orbeng.com.au/
The 50 most innovative companies 2011 according to Technology Review
Apple Working On E-Ink/Touchscreen Hybrid For iPads And iPhones
Do some googling and make some calls to your closest military installation concerning "space available" shipping. If they are flying out there anyway and have space available, they sometimes take charitable donations with them. I don't know if there is any fee involved or what have you.
Given what you and martincmartin are saying, I am left wondering why Google was able to buy ITA for so little. How can such a thing be worth less than a billion dollars?
Overtly political; indeed, partisan promotional material. Flagged.
Automatic email footers are legally useless
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monkeyrun: Just like why google can open source Android, because they are in the business to sell Ads, not OS.

and trilby: Not to get soapboxy but is it a good thing that the pillars of innovation in America are companies that run free consumer services in order to sell ad space for products manufactured in China? I'm not one to ignore the global economy but I wonder in this innovation and new economy are really all their cracked up to be or if China really will own the west within 20 years.
To be fair.. Gmail is not one - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/06/gmail-to-use-more-h...

Still... 440k+ isn't small.
Also http://www.technologyreview.com/tr50/