skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visitors can't contact users which are not registered. We did it in the past, but you're right, it was classy, and we changed it. http://blog.masterbranch.com/post/3570253595/were-listening-...

The project page is under review and we'll link to the original page for sure.
Hackers & Founders SV is hosting a hackathon[1] in two weeks at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. It's going to be geared towards working with Factual's open data API.

Factual's[2] goal is to provide an API to connect all those available data sets, and they have a fairly impressive list of data sets available. Factual is very interested in hearing what datasets you want to work with, and they are willing to bust ass to get them available before the hackathon.

We still have around 40 RSVP slots open. You can register here: http://factualhackathon.eventbrite.com/

</shameless plug>

[1] http://www.hackersandfounders.com/events/16535156/

[2] http://www.factual.com/

[3] http://factualhackathon.eventbrite.com/
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Nice initiative but I doubt it will succeed in its current state. I think it would be better to develop it on top of facebook's social graph. Anyway, I haven't fully conceptualized it yet. Let me know your feature list assuming that you can develop anything and not a minimal solution.
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Much creativity is needed when doing subjects related to arts. Therefore, when doing postgraduate degrees in music or find arts, students will be assigned the writing of a music thesis which requires much creativity and inspiration from them.
But "amortized" is irrelevant in the context of quicksort, as it is not an amortized algorithm. You may hit an unlucky streak and get the worst case of O(n^2) behaviour on every call. An amortized algorithm on the other had would guarantee that while each individual operation on a data structure may hit the worst case, it will always (and not just in the average case) average out over many operations on the same data structure.
It's a 3-hour hack - built for the purpose of me meeting more hackers in the city.

The code is open source. Feel free to modify and I'll incorporate your changes. https://github.com/ninjagod/apps.ninjagod.com/
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I'm mostly self taught. The biggest gap I find is that I pronounce stuff wrong since I learned it from a book. It's embarrassing.
Show HN: MissBee 
Hey Guys,

This is my new website I created over the past month or so.

It is an automatic entry service for online competitions. For only $20 per year, Members are signed up to over 1000 online competitions to win anything from a $500 supermarket voucher to a vacation to Paris.

When members are signed up they are given a new email address which will be their competition email and all that is required of them is to check it every week or two to see if they have won any of the competitions we have entered them into.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

http://www.missbee.com.au
You definitely don't want to use PayPal for a service like this, unless you want to lose all your un-swept earnings when they catch on.

PayPal's TOS specifically prohibit running a payment gateway or aggregation service, ie collecting payments on behalf of many sellers and then re-distributing the proceeds.

A service like this would almost certainly draw their attention, since one could be selling warez, pr0n, stolen credit card numbers, or any number of other naughty files through this service...

Someone else posted a tale of woe within the last month about their "experience marketplace" getting impounded by PayPal, ostensibly for the same reason.
I haven't but I think everything has a reason. If you're really passionate about this idea than keep pushing.
"From that starker viewpoint its as crazy an idea as ever that the person who typed these abstract descriptions and made these shoddy diagrams deserves more ownership than Apple, who actually made the concepts real."

To be fair, Gelernter wrote several books about these ideas, founded a software company based on them, and tried to market several different desktop software packages using the ideas in the mid/late 90s. He's also a professor of computer science at Yale, and invented a bunch of concepts (in the same books) that were inspirations for JavaSpaces and Jini. He's not a wackadoo in some garage in Texas.

My point is, it's terrifically unfair to characterize Gelernter as a patent troll. He's been a prolific contributor to computer science, and (speaking as someone who was a fan of the books that first popularized the ideas in question), a lot of Apple's UI designs today really are fantastically similar to what Gelernter was dreaming up 20+ years ago. The Time Machine UI, in particular, was so much like the lifestreams concept that I originally thought that Apple had hired him to do the design.

There are situations where ideas seem obvious in retrospect, but completely out of left-field at the time of their conception. These ideas weren't even in the ballpark when Gelernter first started publishing them.
Thanks. I'll definitely look at that and try my best to contribute.
This is very related to a work/life balance discussion HN had recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386235

I had more to say, but it got long. Expect a blog post in future.
"Loneliness" and "aloneness" are two distinct and separate things. A person may enjoy aloneness using a computer to collaborate and do work without being lonely.
I totally agree with this and if I had to choose between two ideas.
Open datasets are hard to come by. It's potentially easier to find problems to solve by looking at the available datasets than seeking datasets for the problems you wish to solve.
Can't libraries just own the digital content for unlimited licensing but restrict membership to people within residential limits? You must live within x miles of library to rent the book. The only hard part might be proving residence.
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I agree but I'm sure most of the people on social networks use it due to loneliness and not aloneness, except those who use it for professional purposes.
This is not about fairness. The author can price his book any way he wants for all I care. But I won't buy it.
I spotted this in the docs yesterday when I was looking to deploy a NodeJS app I was playing with. I kept getting an error suggesting nodes wasn't recognised as a deployment type. Do I need to upgrade my installed version of the Dotcloud software?
I find it hard to believe (me included) that anybody capable of having hacker news account is qualified to discuss about "normal peoples" computer usage.
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1) start a landing page using Unbounce.com and reach out to some 1st degree connections to be testers
2) start gathering some data to validate your idea--talk to the people around you and ask them questions that revolves around this topic.
3) If it's a Web app, maybe start working on the mobile UI
4) Research competitors (I would check out Okcupid), partners, financial prospects, etc. Learn the industry and do you homework!

Hope this helps! Let me know how it goes!
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I'm not lonely IRL, and I find real value in online social networks.

My cousin has ME, and she is lonely. Online support groups have really helped. A friend of mine, who has been single for a while and I suspect quite lonely, is currently getting heavily laid because of Guardian Soulmates.

But I agree with the goal in a roundabout way - too much of my online time is un-productive - not informative in a useful way, not entertaining, and often emotionally and psychologically draining. I want to spend less time online too.
Good question... I honestly don't know. I'm single at the moment, and don't really date right now, since I'm just too busy. A relationship would definitely complicate things, but this is pretty important to me, so any potential SO would have to be pretty understanding, at least for a while...
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Oracle was started with $2000!

That's insane.
I don't understand the link of the HN title to the article at all. It's pointing to a quora post about "Should I seek a cofounder before building a prototype?".

Never mind: I see it's fixed now. The title was "Hackers rule the world. They shouldn't".
I don't think you can come up with a stereotype for that.

I've seen just as many people with real-world experience that have trouble "getting shit done" -- because getting shirt done is hard for every human being on this planet.

That said, many people coming from academia do suffer from disappointment with the state of the industry, where boring projects are the ones that generate immediate revenue.
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Relationships are hardly written in stone.
Take the time to understand your feelings and talk to you ex.
If you can't get to an understanding then is likely that the problems between you two go deeper than you think.
Show HN: Evening project... when you just want to email yourself a bookmark.
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A USB based charger.
very spartan, just super simple in a pinch. anyone (with a gmail account) can login - just click login and follow along.
Great idea. Your email address matching is case sensitive, you might want to fix that.
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I put together a custom CSS for HackerNews to make it little easier to read discussions. I know that there are some available but this is modeled after Readability bookmarklet and the code is available at:

https://github.com/jorde/readable-hn

It's not perfect so feel free to fork and submit patches (or create variants with your own font preferences).
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My message is clear. You are free to disagree, just don't feel the need to bring down my piece sentence by sentence...
I also use Paypal for my SaaS applicationm (http://servermonitoringhq.com). I run a free trial so I'm not asking for payment upfront. Only when the customer decides to signup do they see the paypal subscription button.

My target market is quite paypal savvy so it turns into quite an easy way to pay. i.e. You just enter you username, password. From what I've seen all the current solutions for gathering monthly payments require a merchant account.
Not at all. My own experience with iPhones and iPads has been awful, with the touch recognition being finicky and the lack of force-feedback making it nearly impossible to use.

The core problem boils down to the exact same reason why the Wii's interface is terrible: it forces you to make much larger, slower motions -- motions that can easily be misinterpreted and have very low accuracy -- instead of spending 0.05 seconds tapping a key or clicking a button.

Tablets are another fad like 3D movies. They're popular with a lot of people, but in the end, they just give everyone pounding headaches.

The fact that the interface is a fat finger instead of a mouse does not magically make the interface any easier to use. What mobile devices (not just tablets) have demonstrated is the power of simpler operating system user interfaces -- not that touch screens magically make everything a million times better. This will be the primary legacy of tablets, not the touch screen.
Another thing to keep in mind is Wakemate works by measuring movement during your sleep.

I've noticed that if I'm asleep with my Wakemate running and my girlfriend is working on her laptop in bed or gets up to fix a drink the movement created can show up on the Wakemate and affect my score.

It's ok for couples but definitely the ideal situation is people sleeping on their own, I think.
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Doesn't wifi include retransmission (at the media layer!) for this very reason? (Yes, it's ugly.)
Why does the fact that the input mechanism is a finger instead of a mouse affect installation of applications, installing security updates, and updating drivers?

These are two completely independent factors.

There is nothing magical about a touch screen that instantly removes all the complexity in an operating system: you're drawing false correlations. "This tablet X is easier to install applications on than this computer Y. Therefore, touch interfaces make installing applications easier."
http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/index

For sentimental value: HIV sequence data (and other data) from 1980 till now. Did my thesis on these ;-).

In general, there is an enormous amount of gene sequence data around, not just HIV.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/

Whole genome sequences of eukaryotes (including humans):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/leuks.cgi
I've never heard of the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association before, but they've recorded some very interesting interviews. I recommend looking through their uploaded videos. There are a lot of gems in there.

I've heard some crazy stories about financial difficulties before, but Atari takes the cake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY8GpCCBWWc . Sheriffs standing in the lobby to garnish income. Everyone rushing to the bank to make sure their paychecks didn't bounce. It's totally crazy and I'm amazed they had the determination and luck to survive that time.
There are many good books and even videos of courses for those things you mention.

You can also join courses of interest if you've got a good university around you; as I haven't seen teachers objecting to outsiders participating in their course.

It is true that effort is required without immediate gratification (so it is hard to learn such subjects on your own), but it is feasible, because if the "hard CS" fields you mention don't peak your interest, I doubt they would've had an impact on you if you attended a CS college. Just go and learn, keeping in mind that it may take a while and you need to keep doing it.
The article forgets a step; it puts the question "will libraries become obsolete?" on the table. That assumes the book itself will not disappear, which is a very questionable assumption.

My prediction is that books eventually will disappear completely, and only nichebooks will be left. Encyclopædia Britannica becomes Wikipedia, novels become blogs, FAQ books become StackOverFlow-like websites, education materials become wiki's, how-to books become tutorial websites. And so on.

Print books will remain, but as a print edition based on the digital incarnation. The next generation will look to books as we look to magnetic tapes and CD's.
After two failed startups, my fiance later wife has let's say "become very wary" of new projects.

And that sucks. But, I wouldn't trade her (or our kids) for all the money in the world so the choice is easy.

That said, I have two active projects and at the moment and I'm treading very, very lightly with them. My plan is to remain stealth (from her) until/unless I get traction and then that would put me in a better position to further negotiate ala time commitments, etc. :)
Congrats to the DotCloud team. I am following the developments since the launch about 3 mounth ago. The stack is really impressive and NodeJS is an important addition.
It's actually a little weird. When you wake up with a normal alarm clock there's usually a sharp delineation between asleep and awake. With the WakeMate since it gets you during near-awakeness you feel as though you've already been waking up for several minutes when your phone suddenly stated chiming.

It's not like in sleeping pill commercials where the woman wakes up and gives a happy stretch, instead it's just that your brain is already booted up, there's isn't a wait time for it to start functioning.

If you didn't have enough hours of sleep it won't magically make you fully refreshed. However, we can often survive on less hours of sleep than we think if only we wake up at the right time. And I know that for me if I wake up at the wrong moment it can ruin my day (I remain tired all day even if I've had adequate hours)--this is something WakeMate definitely seems to help with.

Edit: I've found it to be a tad overly tight but I'm a pretty big guy. After a couple of uncomfortable nights I inverted the band which helped a lot and now it's just fine. The device is attached to a pocket on the "inside" of the band, when you invert it the pocket is now on the outside of the band, and the device itself no longer constricts the circumference. It's still just as tightly couples to my arm movements though so I don't believe accuracy has been affected.
Im building something to solve exactly this problem. Sign up here - http://laughingcomputer.com
Incredible how these world renowned companies we know today started out with so little and were denied by most of the venture capital firms at the time. Definitely inspirational and an example to look up to when bootstrapping. I'm keeping this bookmarked.
With Kindle, you can lend books out. I don't any internal details on Lendle, but the action doesn't actually stop lending services, from what I can see.

It's really a fine balancing act of trying to deliver the best customer experience (Which Amazon really does want to do). Without the co-operation of publishers, there wouldn't be any content, and then what's the point? Before Amazon pushed the publishers, the eBook market was tiny and unfriendly. Getting the experience as good as it is today has been a colossal amount of effort.

I don't know how enforcement is on scammy books, but I can't seem them being a positive user experience, so I can only assume that some action should be taken.

But at the same time, you really don't want to take down stuff unless you're sure you want to. It is non-trivial to determine who owns what content, and requires human intervention.
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To be fair, I think the US itself is a pretty good citation.
Arduino rocks. And I concur with your point that Arduino is a "creative computing" platform, especially if Arduino continues in this direction:

http://www.creativeapplications.net/arduino-2/computerless-a...
College students with no experience are not particularly valuable.

They're likely not significantly less valuable than college graduates. So, by this logic, why not refuse to pay them, too?
There are even sub-sub-culture examples. Rovers (http://www.rovers.com.au/) for instance have RAT: Rover Adjusted Time, which is approximately "the next x.30 to occur after the start time" and which is compensated for by the "car park meeting" that occurs after the event is over.

It wouldn't be notable except for HOW often they both occur in a pair.
I am a self-taught dev and I dropped out of a Comp Sci double-major because I found it frustrating, slow and boring.
Doh, screw up on my part. You are completely right. An amortized algorithm would be something like a dynamic array (std::vector or ArrayList) in this case, which is doubled every time it hits capacity.
Thanks, yeah I think proxying is the best solution. I'm still not sure if that's a route I want to go down though... The nasty stuff served through my server is what I want to avoid. Gifexplode became quite popular on 4chan you see...
The Open Pandora runs all Commodore software pretty well, is portable, has a decent keyboard, has USB Host and Device, WLAN too, and is an awesome little Linux box to boot ..

(As for your Pravetz, I wish I had a Pravetz 8D - Oric Atmos clone! Still got my Atmos..)
Err, as fhars poster pointed out quicksort is not an amortized algorithm, I should have used a better example. It is, however, a good example of an algorithm with a worst case running time of N^2.
Really? Huh. I guess. Being someone with ADD I've stopped stressing about being consistently 5 minutes late, but I guess you're right, people are/were disproportionately upset with it until they've come to know me for a while and know I'm often like this.

Although sometimes it backfires and they get more annoyed because "Can't you fix that if you know it happens every time?"

No, you fuckwit, if I could reliably fix it I would have. It's not for lack of trying, so back the fuck off!
I've been thinking about this. Touch-only devices have lots of appeal, but fall short for a significant number of use cases. Slide-out keyboard + touch (+ mouse?) seems better.
Just spent a little while watching through 5 of those videos. Incredible stuff... good clips to play in the morning just in case you need that right kick in the pants.
Finding someone you really like is not easy and may not happen again.

Pushing for more efficiency may help. Some tips:

1. Rid as much of time-wasters as possible. Ditch your tv, game set, etc. Avoid reading too much news, forums, etc.

2. Be more time-conscious with your activities, i.e., don't stray. E.g., reading is good but be selective. I've seen some non-startup related topics making getting so much upvotes even on Hacker News. E.g., debating to get feedback is good but debating to win is not.
How to imoprt TS to iMovie with TS to iMovie Converter for Mac?
It was not active for everybody yesterday and we pushed the docs a bit early:-)

It will work without an upgrade.
Atari was $250, crazy stuff.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe it's pretty good, they promote critical thinking with humor and they give some nice insights into the mechanisms we usually use to judge information.
The friendly touch UI does help, but the real reason seems to be that iPad is a much simpler system compared to Windows or any other full OS.

Google is doing the same thing with ChromeOS: how simple can we make this thing while still being useful?
i love the idea, i hate the new "We have a tiered system for pricing:" basically it says: if you earn less, we will take even more. so basically if - lets say - earn 2 dollars (casual user who sold a psd template for 1$) this service now takes 2$ - 230c = 1.40$ - (1.40$ 0.3) = 98c

this tool should encourage casual use
and
it makes a perfectly simple product complicated.

please overthink your pricing-strategy. make it as simple as possible, iterate from there.
Well I hope you called out apple when they sued HTC on patents like, sliding an image to unlock a phone...
That's why NetFlix was greeted with open arms by the TV networks at first - because they could make money from their shows that are sitting in their library that they weren't selling on DVD and syndicators weren't interested in. Now that NetFlix is as huge aas it is the networks are getting greedy and want to grab the whole cookie back again thinking consumers will pay first-run rates for third-run content.
could you put a small settings screen to adjust font size for lazy users like me. love the clean look :)
Just posted a screenshot today of what I was going to upload tonight! http://twitpic.com/4h5a5d

Will submit it anyways in case you all feel the need.
OS version fragmentation is one thing that often blown out of proportion. The overwhelming majority of devices in the field are now running 2.2 or 2.1.
Should be possible to do both. Mark Zuckerberg has had the same girlfriend for 7 years.
I guess that could be done easily by injecting JS. I have to take a look at it later (not high priority as fonts are adjusted to my personal preferences already :)
Why not add a code puzzle that has to be solved before accepting a submission? Then you'd weed out some of the spray.
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