skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly using the open source platform, fairly unlikely on a hosted version. Why? I think it's almost certain that at some point I'm going to need some configuration or tweaks to the server side code that are application specific and cannot be done in client side code (validation, heavy lifting or secret sauce things). As nice as it would be to not worry about the service side code, once you get past the basics of a CRUD app, the server side become rather important.

Off the top of my head the biggest early concern I'd have would be how are you going to handle server side validation, since relying solely on client side validation is pretty much just as good an no validation at all. Especially complex validation involving multiple fields. The next would be interacting with things like third party APIs that have access keys that need to be protected or just can't be accessed from the client (because they don't offer a JSONP interface).
03/15/2011: Google donates Android phones to the project.

02/18/2011: Microsoft donates Windows Phone 7 phones to the project.

Cheap, multi-platform sensors. With a little tweaking, I assume they could transmit data over a phone line. This means you don’t have to build for any specific target platform: any no-name, off-brand phone in some Harare phone shop can record data.

What happens when we bake these into a toxin module, and distribute them to people in LDCs? It’ll be a lot easier to start seeing evidence and location of toxic spills, chemical safety violations, whatever.

A cheap platform shouldn’t be hampered by any specific pathway: we’re building a parasite here, people.
Awesome yes, but Gnome3 also doesn't seem stable enough yet.
Our awesome admin has a spreadsheet with all our sizes in them, so our t-shirts always fit :) (barring production variations in size, I suppose).
My favorite is when conflicting estimates are asked for, then BOTH taken as promises. Manager ADD

Manager: "How quick can you get this done?"

MFer: "3months (assuming price is no object)"

Two weeks pass...

Manager: "Our budgets changed. How much $$ can we trim out of this project?"

MFer: "We can cut it in half, but that will triple our timeline."

Manager: "cut in half! Great!"

3months pass:

Manager: "Hey why are we behind? The big guys want an explanation why you aren't meeting your targets!"
Witty, off-beat, beautiful, thoughtful t-shirts can be a lift to morale. The fact that you settled for just slapping the crappy product logo on a t-shirt with fabric that feels like ass wipe and was probably made by child-labour in a Latin American dictatorship doesn't motivate me nearly so much.
Not really, it's only about 40 meters in diameter. With trillions of dollars at stake, I imagine they'd find a way to bury one under lower Manhattan.

I've found some figures here -- this is an experiment which creates a focused neutrino beam with an accelerator, and sends it through 810 kilometers of earth to a distant target:

http://nwg.phy.bnl.gov/~diwan/nwg/fnal-bnl/report.pdf

If I'm reading Table IV correctly (page 26, and I doubt it), their expected signal rates are up to 10^3 counts per [(megawatt beam power) * (10^7 seconds time) * (kiloton detector mass), for μ-neutrinos. Some reasonable parameters (skimming in the article) are on the order of 1 MW beam power and 10^2 kilotons detector mass, for a theoretical maximum of 10^-2 counts per second. (But I'm not sure if the accelerator can run continuously, or just in pulses). For a 10,000 km beam the signal rate would up to 100 times lower, because of quadratic beam divergence (though attenuation is negligible). So that's 10^-4 counts per second. To send 10 bits (as on/off pulses) in 10 ms, you'd need a lower bound of 10^3 counts/second. That's 10^7 times more than this experiment. So basically feasible, if you have the resources of a hedge fund: scale the total beam power to ~3 gigawatts (by linear extrapolation ~$300B, but probably much less), and the detector mass to ~300 megatons (of liquid argon?) (also ~$300B by extrapolation. This about 6,000 times Super-K, or a cryogenic sphere ~3 km wide. Or an array of smaller spheres).
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It shows Google wants to be in this space and is willing to buy into it. I don't know that Google will specifically go for Hipmunk, but when any major corporation starts buying into a market, they tend to make more than one acquisition, and it's often the partners of the big companies they acquire first. I'm pretty certain they'll make a couple more strategic acquisitions in the airline/travel space, and Hipmunk is one of the more interesting partners of ITA, since they're new enough to probably be cheap (single or double digit millions, if Steve were looking to be acquired), and all the original team is still in place, no one has cashed out. Hipmunk is also one of the most interesting teams in the space.

Further, if I were doing a talent acquisition, I can't think of many people I'd want more than the reddit team, and Hipmunk is currently pretty much made up of the early reddit team. Of course, Steve is already rich (by some definition of rich), so probably isn't desperate to sell for merely "talent acquisition" money, but Google can afford to stretch the meaning of talent acquisition, and have done so in the past to get really interesting people.

Also, saying "all they need is a GUI" is vastly underrating the importance of the GUI. I can imagine an Android app with a Hipmunk style UI being really powerful. Sometimes you want to find the perfect balance of price and schedule, and sometimes you want to do that while in the middle of a meeting or in the cab on your way to your hotel so you know when you're flying again, or whatever.

And, to get specific about YC-related acquisitions, Google docs had a spreadsheet when they acquired Zenter. All they needed was a GUI, but they acquired a two-man company that had a few tens of thousands of lines of code. Probably a talent acquisition (and a smart one, since Robby and Wayne are awesome), but nonetheless, an acquisition.

Anyway, I agree that Google will definitely be building this into the search user interface. But, when Google moves into an area they don't just do the search interface. Maps has loads of entry-points into it, including non-search oriented use cases, and Google made several acquisitions and developed a bunch of stuff internally to make Maps happen.
There's a cringe-worthy limit to how far you can carry this.
You got it backwards -- newer hardware is the problem ;)
Storing PHP Sessions in CouchDB
quoting:

What Services does Pageforest Provide?
<snip>
Cloud-based Document Storage - Each Pageforest user is given storage for their own document collection in the Cloud. When a user authorizes your application, your App can create and store documents to the user's collection.
This org chart is not accurate.
Using the Wizard Control to Create Forms in ASP.NET
In this tutorial, you will learn how to setup a wizard control to quickly create forms.
I always hated wearing the company T-shirt - I felt like a drone. Also at Sun they never gave women sizes - 8 years - not once. Tons and tons of night shirts for me.

Plus the damn logo is right across the chest - yeah that is exactly where I want people to look when talking to me.

My husband wears his as yardwork clothes especially the long sleeve ones since they are made of poor material and look crappy after several washings.

At another company the receptionist (a woman) bought extra tight shirts for the women - all 3 of us decided to throw them away - no way in hell were we wearing that. It was degrading. Then we were taunted by everyone why we were not showing company spirit.

If you want to give swag - give something useful like a electrostatic-free strap. That always comes in handy.

For something to display - how about a baseball hat. Sun gave jean jackets and other jackets - all too big - can not wear but at least it was different. I love the PR suggestion - put your benefit statement and then your logo and your URL.
How do I get to Hotpot in Maps?
In a number of ways I think Woz actually seems like an interesting fit for Microsoft, in terms of compatibility of culture and bringing values to the table that could move the business forward.

I'd be quicker to buy stock in Microsoft if Woz were signing on, than I would Apple.
MIT Scheme (http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/) includes a version of EMACS that runs in the same Scheme address space and is therefore well integrated. It's entirely sufficient for doing SICP.
I've got one years worth of transcribed Google Voice VMs that back you up on this. The way Google does "best fit" matching of words sometimes results in messages that are just hilariously mistranscribed. You can usually get the gist of what the person actually said, which makes the transcription useful, but once in a while the message just diverts off into total nonsense.

Here's a recent one:

Hey George, it's me does not seem to be working and it's going, but it doesn't seem to be having issue tonight and I was just wondering if that was. If there's anything that we did like If we're not getting any call. Walker, I don't if it's just been forever and it's not Brian anything okay if you get this call. Bye.
Google's Code search is heavily biased because there's a crapload of C code out there, which makes sense, given that it's been around for nearly 40 years and is used as the basis for... well, pretty much everything, including many other programming languages.

Github's bias is based on the early adopter Ruby guys climbing on board quickly.
Top 500 web site vs. Top 50
That Webstock t-shirt is pretty nice. I think you could take it a step further and make a stylish / designer / funky t-shirt that a reasonably large subset of people will actually want to wear. Not just a blatant ad for your company.
One big problem with your theory - is there even that much argon on the earth? Argon, like all noble gases is extremely rare.
Facebook’s Ad Ineffectiveness is a Short Term Challenge « ex post facto
I think the article is a little over-the-top but essentially right.

I used to hate JavaScript, but now that I've spent so long working with it and Canvas I enjoy it a lot. Obviously it is not the best possible language for the future of browser applications, but it's here already, and it will do.

"use strict"; Cannot come fast enough.
Google’s Acquisition of ITA and Its Impact on Travel Companies
I recently completed my master's in Computer Engineering. I found Computer Architecture and the assembly & C courses to be very enlightening. In comp arch, you design data flows, learn how memory and cache work, etc. In assembly and C, you then interact with that same hardware in a pretty direct fashion. Great insights into how computers work.
I'm impressed to see a news article about Apple actually list Ronald Wayne as one of the original founders.

He might be the fifth Beatle in some ways, but he was there at the start.
Google Voice actually uses the same technology and same dataset, AFAIK, which is why I was so confused by reading this article.

Google's stuff is pretty good some of the time, but they've hardly solved this problem to the degree the article suggests (as anyone who has actually used this for more than 5 minutes could tell you).
I don't see any obvious benefit in using it.

Relying on the the platform to handle the user authentication and document storage is something I wouldn't be comfortable with, though I'd use it as an option (as facebook connect, google or any other authentication service out there).

In general, I think this would have been a hit 5 years ago. Now, with services like heroku, phpfog, app engine, even github having free plans, the "hosting" part seems to be solved, and something pretty similar can be done these days with some sparkle from FB Connect and a bit of rails/php for the client side storage.

Don't get me wrong, I like this kind of services because [I think] they push innovation in different directions. It's just that I think there are a few pretty well stablished and provide similar (or equivalent) functionality and I just don't see any obvious advantage between this service and the others, though I see a few drawbacks.
Good article, good insight into how the company started. Well deserved success for Apple
48÷2(9+3) => 48(1/2)(9+3) => 288
_The Craft of Prolog_ has a lot of good bits, but is written in response to something less readily available, so its organization seems a bit weird.

I also recommend the hell out of _The Art of Prolog_. Have done so here, many times. Also: Prolog systems with constraint extensions are MUCH more powerful. SWI Prolog (http://www.swi-prolog.org/) and GNU Prolog (http://www.gprolog.org/) are both good.
I am working an overall ranking now for teams. Less for the current players, and more for new users so that when they select a team, they can decide to pick a really good team.

Right now, some players can't handle losing and rebuilding a team, and they seem upset to get a team that is very bad.
Document storage? Saving an html page to a directory could be document storage.

They asked for comment and I think they need to be more specific that's all. If they're using the GAE db imho they should say so.
Yet the bulk of advertising dollars goes to demand generation (i.e. Drink Pepsi!) and not fulfillment (i.e. searching for Pepsi on Google & seeing a targeted ad for Pepsi).

Companies pay a lot to get people that don't know about their products to be aware and interested in them. The other side is actually the smaller market.
But GNOME3 is?
Not really. It's not rare, it's 1% of the atmosphere or about 50 trillions tons. And it's not essential for neutrino detectors anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth

Besides, I'm certain my numbers are large overestimates. I extrapolated numbers from a completely different scale; surely optimizing for this problem would yield very different designs. Like more focused neutrino beams. They have a large fraction of their neutrino beam going out >6 km off-axis (at 810 km distance); at 8,100 km, this would be >60 km off axis. So there's maybe 6-7 orders of magnitude potential in designing a lower-divergence beam.
Bit odd that the article doesn't mention the current research into scramjets (Mach 5+) or the Bloodhound SSC land speed record project (~1000mph).

Edit: Forgot to add the continued advancement of high speed trains (~360mph) and the Vactrain concept.
Marissa Mayer Bypassed As Google Appoints New Head Of Local And Commerce
To walk a little further down that path, if there is database access how is validation done since none of the client code can be trusted to have been executed and all input from the client should be considered suspect?
Fedora 15 with the latest updates and official NVIDIA drivers, its been my main environment for the last week with very little problem (especially considering FC15 is still Alpha).

My main gripe is the lack of preferences in the GUI, but a little google + cl fixes that.
The difference is context within my social network. None of my friends have Google Profiles and are unlikely to reconstruct their graph on Google Profiles. Clicking +1 doesn't have as much social distribution as the Like button because of this fundamental problem. Facebook already has all my friends on it, so clicking a Like button actually has weight.
Honestly, considering the following facts:
1) The amount of cash still sloshing around in world markets,
2) That interest rates on loans in India are around 14-17%,
3) The fact that the Reserve Bank of India has not started to print money like the Fed, and
4) India has been hiking far earlier than developed nations - I'd say investment capital is not going to be an issue.

(Let me further add, that working in a financial firm which works with PE funds, I can assure you that interest in the emerging markets will NOT end.)

We, and almost all 3rd world nations, are also FAR more sensitive to inflation than the west, and have been working to curtail it for a while.

With regards to losing jobs to the Philippines and Malaysia - their competition is actually something that will do wonders for our competitiveness.

Perhaps what people don't see is the huge amount of work going into HR development in this country. For all those outsourcing jobs, India has had to take the HR manual, and rebuild it at a scale most people would not have expected.

For example the recent WSJ article on talent crunches in India - well that article was several years late. Vivek Wadhwa already wrote a comprehensive piece on how talent in India doesn't measure up in 2008. http://hir.harvard.edu/how-the-disciple-became-the-guru?page...

Its worth a read (also informative for any Indian entrepreneurs who are trying to figure out recruitment- which is a huge pain in the country.)
I wouldn't be surprised. When I tried Unity a few months ago it was riddled with bugs and memory leaks. It felt much like KDE4 did when it first came out - an incomplete product that focused on quantity of features over quality. It could be a great desktop environment, but it's going to need a lot of work before it gets there. With 11.04 coming in the next few weeks, I just don't see it having that polish on time.
Great advice.

When I get free t-shirts from work or conferences, they're pretty much reserved for being something to wear when I'm painting or mowing the lawn. One such shirt never even made it out of the office; it's still been neatly folded up at the bottom of a desk drawer since the day they gave it to me a few months ago.

But this is because I have yet to receive a company or conference t-shirt that either properly fits me or has a tasteful or clever design I'd want to be seen wearing in public. If you print two dozen sponsor logos on the back of a free conference t-shirt, I'll probably toss the shirt and wish you spent the t-shirt budget on better booze at the afterparty.

I know I'm not averse to t-shirts in general, since my wife will take any opportunity to give me trouble about how many shirts I've bought from Woot and Threadless...
What cohorts are the most important to track for a Freemium business?
Agreed. To me the most hateful thing about using javascript is that I typically write it to be executed in a browser. It's an absolutely a terrible environment to develop, test, and debug in. Plugins make this better, but it is still problematic. Server side javascript is a decidedly better development experience.
Wrote a post just yesterday about the power of advertising through T-shirts. Referenced a local restaurant, The Salty Dog Cafe, whose entire identity is based on a t-shirt. Has worked well for others also.

http://bfginteractive.com/blog/travel-tourism/2011/04/06/the...
What makes Hipmunk great is their UI.

Google is not known for revolutionary UI.
Please get your website redesigned...current UI sucks=)
Virality Design Patterns 
A Collection of Great Examples from Quora
I have a marker icon in the top right of the maps screen which opens the "Places" menu. That seems to be what has become of it.
Original GigaOm article: http://gigaom.com/2011/04/08/is-amazon-entering-the-display-...
I think 11 stars is a better scale.

Additionally, a great body of work in behavioral psych tells us that humans have a tough time measuring preferences on any absolute scale; however, we can consistently compare two items as better or worse (particularly when they're of the same type, instead of apples versus oranges). "Riffle independence" is a recent method for modeling these kinds of preference distributions, and has been used quite successfully for social curation of the blogosphere - i.e., showing the best set of blogs that span the topic space and have little redundancy.
Most of my co-workers seem to be moving from iPhones to Android phones. I get the "Nexus S on AT&T" update from one of them every day... he can't wait to ditch his iPhone for a Nexus S.

Of course, we're all scientists, engineers, programmers who recently took a course in Android programming, so my experience probably isn't standard :)
Server-side JS exposes the strengths of the language; in-browser JS exposes the weaknesses of browsers.

How much difference a platform can make!
Orbiting Data Centers for Global Connectivity [video]
ASUS 'Transformer' is way more compelling IMO.

ASUS seems to have done a fantastic job of really differentiating their product from the slew of Android tablets set to hit in the very near future, while keeping the cost reasonable.

I just wish they were a bit more clear on when I could actually buy it here in the US.
I think you've got a bit of a surprise in store for you, too, when you find out what Matt does for a living.
Did so for me too at first. Kind of ironic actually :)
Shrinking a shirt is easy, you throw it in the dryer. You can't make a shirt bigger though. That's all I think the OP is saying.
Places is different. Hotpot was a website where you voted on places in a supposedly social way. I don't think it is in Places (at least not yet).
Building a JavaScript Module Framework at Gilt
If that's your stencil in that pic, any idea of where I can get a hold of one, would be great for my notebook mockups
I think the idea of the disappearing caption was to let the reader guess the source of the screen grab without spoiling it.

FWIW, I completely agree that adding more stuff to the page when the user scrolls to the bottom is just annoying.
Sorting algorithms interpreted as Hungarian folk dances
Serving small static files: which server to use?
This document should be required reading for anyone doing a startup.

The biggest takeaway for me from this is that marketing isn't just driving traffic or contacting bloggers. It's a comprehensive process of optimizing landing pages, tracking and split testing, implementing social proof appeals, etc. If you're wondering what a nontechnical founder can do before launch, this is a great start.
You have been constantly adding comments throughout the thread which add little in way of enlightenment or perspective. I have know idea why you have an axe to grind, but please be more constructive in your efforts.

I can abuse India eloquently, and criticize her very vehemently, having suffered at the receiving end of its failings. Complaining about them is a common Indian past time and we are all past masters of it.

That said, there is more to be done than just slanging out negative comments without constructive suggestions or criticism.
They do tell applicants to check HN daily in the instructions.
How to create an install image in WDS
Why not donate or give it away?
As a second-language speaker and weak third-language learner, thank you. That's pretty much perfect for maximizing benefits for everyone involved.
OOps! Thanks... just fixed it.
"In this episode, while investigating the 75 year old wreck of a Federation transport vessel, the Starfleet starship USS Enterprise-D crew discovers the former Chief Engineer of the Constitution class starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701, Montgomery Scott (James Doohan), alive in a transporter buffer. After being cleared by Dr. Crusher, Scott is eager to see the advances in technology including a tour of the Engineering deck, but quickly finds that his old knowledge has long been surpassed and his efforts to help are instead getting in the way of normal operations..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_G...
here's the actual link that the bit.ly link directs to:

http://www.thoughtsonconsumerweb.com/why-google-needs-to-bui...
If you've never seen it, their pitch deck is also pretty interesting:

http://www.slideshare.net/hnshah/mintcom-prelaunch-pitch-dec...