skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It messed up the depth of field."

Absolutely preposterous. Depth of field is a function of lens focal length, aperture, and sensor size. There is no way that Samsung's TV could in any way effect the depth of field of the original recording. If it could, then it would be a magical motherfucking TV.
Well, that's for login. For registration it is usually not that fast.
Maloder: OSX binary loader for Linux.
click on 'filter listings' in the bottom left. uncheck "Show Full Leases" and all you are left with is sublets.

I'm looking to stay in Berkeley from mid May to August so I've been browsing padmapper and this made the searches much more efficient.
Apple releases iPad 2 commercial - “We Believe”
This looks like my drag and drop fake heatmap generator, which wasn't my original code either, just a mashup.
http://www.robertivan.com/fakeHeatMap.html
Tabbed browsing is both a blessing and a curse. I found that I stopped wasting quite so much time surfing when I derived as much satisfaction from having only a few (mostly necessary) tabs open at any one time as I did from, say, cleaning the apartment or going for a walk. It was mainly a matter of rewiring where I get my sense of reward from, and acknowledging that the vast bulk of the stuff I read on the web just went right in one ear and out the other helped a lot. It's very sobering to tally up the number of hours a week you spend reading stuff you mostly won't remember by the end of said week - try it some time, it helped me a lot.
Read Revelation. Nuclear power is the mistake that caused Revelation to be written. Faster Than Light Data Transfer Results in earthquakes from Time Travel that allows man to write the Bible.

http://tinyurl.com/teslamadeearthquakes
That's silly. We are discussing a tech accelerator here. But even if I accept your rebuttal I'd like to see the amount of Plumbing businesses that are bootstrapped by people other then plumbers.
Can't speak for CoachRufus87, but I did because my business partner was not a US citizen and we planned on taking on funding.
Link: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#/c7pvw1whdkp6ggvw
Here's (updated) Alexa:
http://i.imgur.com/Tw8mh.png

According to alexa "daily reach", traffic from Mar 2009 to Mar 2011 went from reach ~0.0137 to reach ~0.104, so I scaled the Alexa graph to show ~7.9x more absolute uniques in the end than in the beginning.
The post above is deleted because I wasn't satisfied with it (the book sounds pretty great and I didn't feel like my comment had that much relevance). I'll bring it back since it got a reply:

The title is misleading; the book seems to be mostly about "information" in the colloquial sense, and only peripherally about information theory. For anyone seriously interested in the latter, David Mackay's book Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms is available online. It's great.
Time Bombs
It's a nice app... and nicely gimmicky. But I just can't bring myself to use it for more than a few days then it gets all out of date.

I guess if you're OCD about books and other items it may have a great use for you, but I feel it's gimmicky and while it looks amazing it isn't as valuable as it may look.
Few truer words have been said. Start with TextMate then work your way to Vim later.
Looking forward to China's inevitable Sputnik moment.
Fair enough but both of them are highly technical people. Not programmers but that's not the yard stick that I put down here.

Additionally it's not a good idea to use critical successes like that to extract any kind of lessons from. Groupon won the business plan lottery and found a real need in the market that wasn't being served. Zynga rode the coattails of facebook.

Obviously i'm not dismissing those companies accomplishments. The founders are idols to me.
Bananas are radioactive (a little bit) because of the high potassium content. Potassium is a little radioactive.
Does the average person actually shut down to the point of doing a cold boot the next day? I have the impression most just tap the power button (which hibernates to disk by default), or else simply walk away and let this happen automatically.
Now if only I could actually get one of the damn things...
I definitely agree that no option should be removed from the palette available to artists, just as long as the final delivery medium doesn't require deinterlacing.
Wow. I leave FF open for weeks with many tabs on a netbook with 1GB of memory.
Awesome stuff. Hopefully at least a couple of the Startup Stampede companies will go on to big exits, and the founders will become angels to seed the next round of Triangle area startups!

And on a related note... any Triangle area startups who are looking for a shot-in-the-arm might want to explore what the folks at TechStarts+ are doing:

http://techstartsplus.com/default.htm
It's weird that TechCrunch picked up Alexia Tsosis. She's totally clueless about technology and all she ever writes about is Twitter hype and Angry Birds news.
Stacy Horn's book Cyberville has an interesting discussion about using that approach on ECHO in the late-80s/early-90s as well, though in that case it was also tied up with a very anti-banning ideology (the cyberspace-as-unfettered-discussion idea that was popular in WELL-influenced circles). They experimented with various versions of totally-unrestricted forums, giving people their own forums for weird topics, stronger and weaker on-topic enforcement, etc. In a few cases they seem to have eventually decided to ban people, despite the initial reluctance, because some of the diversion measures just didn't work. Not sure how well it generalizes, but it's an interesting read for the $0.01 price of a used copy.
Calling all Inventors, Makers and Hackers...
View the video about the competition here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QenCwxx7x90
Do you have a particular city in mind? I can make some suggestions on who/where to contact depending on your target city.
I'm at a loss to understand the headline of the original article.

There is an incredibly simple tax calculator at (http://www.corp.delaware.gov/frtaxcalc.shtml) that makes it obvious that there are two alternative methods of calculation with vastly different outcomes in terms of tax liability.

If you're going to bypass using a lawyer or tax advisor, you need to do your homework. Franchise tax for a C Corp with, say, 10MM shares at no par value and no assets should be about $150.
I take it you need something that can be embedded in a webpage. Otherwise, there's always: http://projects.gnome.org/cheese
IMO you're focused on trying to convince the wrong people. You should be figuring out how to sign up clients, sell them the product make a lot of revenue, then you don't need angel investment. In the case you have growing revenue have hundreds of clients, and you just want to blow up at that point there should be no reason for any angel to turn you down. If you have something thats making a lot of money and have a huge market, then angels will take the effort to learn about your market and what you are doing.
You say you don't need money right now, so launch even if it's a beta and show it makes money. Investors will get interested if you can show your product makes money and you can explain how additional capital will be used to make even more money.
April Fools' Web pranks
SEEKING FREELANCER

I am looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to help me with http://taskarmy.com

I am based in Australia and would love to work with someone in Eastern Europe or Asia.

Thanks!
Thanks--I'll look into that.
Ask HN: What do you use to monitor your server clusters?
So, my co-worker and I have been developing a tool in our free time that monitors our servers at work. Most of the existing solutions that we tried were either low quality or did not meet our exact needs.

What services or tools do you currently use to monitor your servers? I'm talking about CPU usage, memory usage, etc.
I was going to say this is a good idea, but after downloading what they give you, they don't let you change what people had the most problems with--the window layout, etc. Seems more and more like a publicity ploy to me.
You are totally right. Please check it out now and let me know what you think of the new design and color.

Remember to refresh your browser, it may cache the css.
See also "built to last" by Jim Collins which covers the same ground from a different angle.
Much, much better.
Ok, your personality and self is such that just by acting naturally women are attracted to you. Congratulations, you get yours, Jack. It just isn't so with me. I have one personality with everyone, women, men, pets, kids, who-fucking-ever. I don't even raise my pulse much meeting women anymore because I'm so hardened to romantic rejection, and I know the pained looks they get when they realize they aren't attracted to me and can't quite figure out why.
I've noticed this problem too. I think a lot of investors in the Valley are simply ignorant. Granted, they're busy, but many of them overplay their busyness and take a fairly myopic approach of if-I-can't-get-it-in-thirty-seconds-it-must-not-work. That's not true. Some problems worth solving are actually complex and require time to understand, somewhere between 30 seconds and an hour.

My solution has been to do as much as possible without their money.
Proven returns isn't being cocky. If your plan to compete directly with the coasts startup for startup, idea for idea I wish you the best of luck. I'm going to have to short your stock though. The Midwest at this time and possibly forever can't compete against the coasts for the types of startups project skyway is looking for. They have more quality talent for web/mobile/social/etc. They have more advanced networks and streamlined capitalization. They also have founders going on startup three, four, five and not all successful. If I had a web/mobile/social/etc startup or saw myself being a founder of one, the first thing I would do is move. The statistics of success dictate such.

Things brings up a problem see with project skyway. You are left funding founders not dedicated enough to their startups to move and give their startups the best chance. I would have serious reservations about investing in such a founder.

Incumbators were great even two years ago but now they really aren't as necessary. Thanks to Angel List you don't have to pay an accelerator for access to the network. In the world of Angel List an accelerator is actually a decelerator. If you have an idea for a startup, get a prototype done and submit it to Angel List. If it's got merit, you'll get interest. If not, move onto something else. I view project skyway more as a founder school that you pay with equity rather than an accelerator. I wish it would market itself as such.

The Midwest can kick the coasts' ass any day of the week but not with the type of companies project skyway wants. It's with the type of companies it specifically doesn't want.

I wish project skyway the best (that's Minnesota nice for I don't think it will work).
Have you thought about buying one second hand or refurbished?
I think the intent of the lawsuit is to stop that episode from continuing to air rather than get damages.
After doing Rails for about 4 years, and Django for about 2 months (but I've been doing python for 10 years now) ... save yourself some pain and learn Django instead, if you can at all help it.

Ruby's documentation culture is hair-tearingly frustrating. Half a paragraph, 3 examples covering the barest functionality of your module, and pages of badly-interfaced mechanically-extracted documentation made me want to punch the monitor several times a day.
Oh, but it's got a pretty web-2.0tard design-minded web site, and of course gitardhub, which is especially a joy if it goes down during a deploy.

Think I'm exaggerating?

http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/doc/files/README.html
Incorrect, at least one of Zynga's co-founders (Justin) is a programmer -- though he's probably not doing much of that anymore. One of the common misconceptions is that Zynga has only one founder ... it actually has many.

But I get the point you're making and it's still valid.
You would have used Perl or PHP - I was using both from early 1996, and they worked just fine. Yes, they hadn't "matured", but they were functional well before Java or ASP were even available. Server-side Java was not something as widely available as Perl or PHP, and Java as a language was not written for the web like PHP was (easily embeddable in HTML, straightforward DB access, etc).

WebObjects - didn't have any direct experience with that back then, but it and many other proprietary options were quite pricey, IIRC.
It's a signal, just like northface jackets and ugg boots are a signal or threadless t-shirts are a signal. It's not about personality formation, it's about group identification.
Apparently their fiduciary duty also includes waiting almost 3 years after the review to finally do react. Seems like well-timed headline grabbing to me. I'm sure in 3 years they'll sue me for saying that.
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Well, the marketing ploy got me to watch the review, anyway...

The massive fuel savings makes me think a shorter-range, lower performance vehicle would be more popular (for city commutes). But I'm guessing the real problem Tesla faced was that the batteries would be ridiculously expensive even for that - so targeting a premium performance, upscale market, where other qualities of an electric car (torque) can come into play. Presumably, they would go down market over time, as battery technology improves. Which seems to be on an extraordinarily slow trajectory (esp. in the context of silicon).

Jeremy suggests two Teslas (while one's charging), but you just need two batteries. Reminds me of early razor technology (before Gillette's safety razor), when sending in a razor to be sharpened was a popular option - but you needed to have two.

Fun fact: electric cars were fairly popular over 100 years ago (for trucks mainly IIRC), with batteries being the problem even then. Edison worked on their batteries for a while.

btw: the caravan jump is at 12:05 in part 2 (http://www1.peteava.ro/id-641379-top-gear-uk-season-12-episo...)
Perhaps I’ve missed some obvious reason why the industry still does this.

Because if you get a random email from some site you've never signed up for, there are two possible scenarios that you cannot distinguish between:

1) Somebody has maliciously signed you up to a legitimate site.
2) A malicious site is trying to get you to click a random link.

This proposal suffers from a common flaw, in which people assume they can change just one thing and have everything else in the world stay the same. Systems don't work like that.
My servers are all Linode's and they provide an iPhone app that looks like it uses RRDTool for graphs
The real site is http://worldbackupday.net
I see stories go by on Slashdot that were linked on HN days earlier. I used to read Slashdot to get up-to-the-minute tech news. They need to move faster and get rid of all of the cruft on their page. As much as I hate seeing people say cliche'd things like "this is 2011, get with the times", this is 2011, their site design harkens back to their launch and it's just not what I would consider the forefront of usability.
This article misses a key point. If you want to confirm that the person who opted into your service is who they say they are. Otherwise, you're looking forward to abuse complaints from email recipients, and it only takes a few of those to suspend your Mailchimp (or whatever delivery service) account. You can also add non-compliance with spam, privacy and other laws to the list of fun things that could happen if you take this article's advice.
Rails has more plugins than Django.
If you choose Ruby go for Rails. If Python have a look at Pyramid and TurboGears
Ask HN: To Beta Or Not To Beta?
So, some background here about us:

We're a team of 4 people; 1 business/sorta-coder-guy (me) and 3 crazy-smart-programmers (not me). We are nearing the release of our first major mobile app release and are nailing down our beta strategy. Our app is consumer oriented, hyper local and fairly addictive to our current beta users.

The question is whether we should bother trying to do:

An exclusive beta where people ask to get on the list and get priority based on the number of other people they get to signup.

...or...

Just do an open beta and be done with it.

Now, I like the exclusive nature and the scarcity of a closed beta. One that does really well can even get a quite a few people signed up on our list whom we can all notify immediately when the app gets a full release. Conversely, we need lots of usage data to make our app the best it can be and limiting the number of users could hurt that effort.

With that said, we need to know the opinion of HN startups that have been there. What do you think? Did you do it before and would you recommend it again? Is there a reason you wouldn't again? Should we just do the closed beta and go open if not enough interest comes in?
They didn't take worst case mileage, they took mileage on their track. They said, quite clearly, in the show, that it would have only gone 55 miles on their track. It was being driven like a maniac, they clearly showed it being driven hard, they're not a walking tesla advert pretending that it'd go 211 miles at top speed.

The 3 day journey reference was debunking claims you could charge it with wind power and again was clearly stated in the segment of the show. It's specifically addressing claims tesla are making, from their own literature:

The Roadster, which consumes no oil whatsoever and plugs into conventional 220-volt sockets throughout Europe, can be charged with solar, hydro or wind energy.

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-debuts...

See other reviews spouting pie-in-the-sky about how the tesla could be recharged by renewable energy:

http://www.topspeed.com/cars/tesla/2011-tesla-roadster-race-...
I'm not really sure, there's an O'reilly book "Metaprogramming Ruby" (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356470) which i flicked through once. It seemed to mostly dicuss how ActiveRecord works. At the point I had access to a copy I was already pretty familiar with the concepts, so can't really say how good the book actually is.

I mostly picked things up by reading code and some blog posts whenever I came across an odd idiom.
Kevin Kelly interviewed Gleick about the book in last month's Wired:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/mf_gleick_qa/all/1

Kelly: The extreme view would be that all these bits that make up atoms are running on a very big computer called the universe, an idea first espoused by Babbage.

Gleick: That makes sense as long as this metaphor does not diminish our sense of what the universe is but expands our sense of what a computer is.

Kelly: But as you note, some scientists say that this is not a metaphor: The universe we know is only information.

Gleick: I’m not a physicist, but that concept resonates with something that we all recognize: Information is the thing that we care most about. The more we understand the role that information plays in our world, the more skillful citizens we will be.
It is not necessarily a bad idea, and it would not have to be restrained to people with disabilities. The way Google presented the idea was fun but it did make some good sense: it would make us, couch potatoes "have to" move.
Many different business models can be monetized - the difficult part is just changing your perspective enough to find the right way.

We need some more information to say though. I understand if you don't want to give away what you're doing in detail but a few points about the business would be good (industry, market, etc.)

As for it being a startup without being profitable - Yes. Just because you haven't found profit yet doesn't mean you won't.
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Stumbleupon's 11th, wtf is that doing at startup?
We have a better way of signing up on qbix.com

Try it :)
The email is used to set up your password, but you are able to use the app the first time without it! That way you will likely visit the app again when you check your email.
On a slight tangent, modern farming techniques are more akin to the mining he describes than they are to farming. It's not just the software industry that is affected by this short-term thinking; it's the majority of human endeavour.

It's hard to tell whether the stock market is a cause or a symptom - our primary mode of 'investing in the future' is so prone to being short-circuited for short term gain.
A being in the 7th dimension wouldn't think nothing of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySBaYMESb8o&NR=1&feat...

Are you discriminating against me cause I'm a 3 dimensional being?[Being facetious, I actually was trying to come up with a good argument to defend against a argument like the one given before posting.]
Should I keep updating this iPhone app? Or is it complete crap?
This was my first attempt at writing an iPhone app last September. It is now free and gets on average 150 downloads per week since 1 January 2011.

I have not updated the app since last October as I am not making any money from it. So now I am trying to figure out if I should update it - i.e. rewamp the interface and recompile to the most recent iOS.

Links:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/words-puzzle-1000/id395147842?mt=8

http://www.visiblestorm.com/

I seem to be leaning towards dumping it as I do not have any monetary incentive to continue working on it (i.e. I have to eat and do something more rewarding right now.)

This is my first post here. I am also finishing school next week (OOSD in Calgary) and I am looking for an internship/job right now. Some things I know: HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C++, Objective C, MySQL, Oracle, Java, JSP, Pearl. Linux, Windows, Mac OS. Apache.
adidas Basketball are coming with the NBA season started for any hoops addict, adidas Basketball Shoes this time were released for the coming season for many famous stars, maybe there is the one who you fond of. adidas Basketball Shoes 2011 has came out two well known series which are the Beast for Dwight Howard while the adiZero Rose for Derrick Rose.
Taking a cue from the blog post, what if you worked your ass off and built one?
Like oil stores energy from the sun.
Although I hope Project Skyway succeeds, I think your perspective is interesting.

The Midwest can kick the coasts' ass any day of the week but not with the type of companies project skyway wants. It's with the type of companies it specifically doesn't want.

By this you mean companies that actually charge for their product, right?
Ah. That was unclear from your post. I know a few people who have gotten the Samsung Intercept on Virgin Mobile and are fairly unhappy with it. It feels really slow and the built-in apps aren't that great, according to my friends (especially, calendar and contacts). It's still a $200 phone. Perhaps the LG Optimus is better? I also have an original DROID running 2.2 and am not very impressed with it.
Honestly it sounds like you have a sweet idea. You should watch http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi...
"In the edge case, where some unauthorized person has signed up using my email, then include some directions at the bottom of the email that instruct me how to deal with the abuse. And an extra benefit: If I have a good experience with your site reporting the abuse, I’ll be more interested to legitimately check out the site."

I'm not sure if I just don't understand what both of you are saying, but it seems he addressed this point towards the end of the post. I can't see how his solution ('click here if this isn't you') is any different than 'click here to confirm this is you' as far as potential abuse is concerned.
Startups: not for the faint of heart
See the update at the bottom of the post now.