skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wanted to see those beer-giving sticks, and found that the magic google word for more pictures is 'Wanderschaft': http://www.google.com/images?q=Wanderschaft
I guess the same can be said for Seesmic Web.
1) The goal is to enable great apps that don't damage our ecosystem. This creates a healthy environment where everyone is happy and wants to continue investment.

If we didn't want people to build apps, we never would have launched a platform. If we're shutting people off for no good reason, it is a waste of our time and yours. But we would be foolish not let us protect ourselves from people actively causing harm.

2) There was a reason the platform was labeled as "Early Access" before today: there were key pieces missing, such as SSL support.

We always wanted to have SSL, but it was later on the roadmap than shipping code that worked over HTTP. SSL isn't trivial when using a CDN. It's not an unsolved problem, but we wanted to do it in a solid fashion, and that took time when balanced with other features we were building.
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Welcome to the brave new mobile/cloud world, where everyone has to ask permission from everybody before anything gets implemented.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Good Lord! That's over 5000 atmospheres of pressure!

Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, it was built for space travel, so anywhere between zero and one.
Asa Raskin: Facebook/FourSquare Coincidence?
This extensive library exists... as millions of separate JS pieces and snippets scattered around the web, and hundreds of (often fairly buggy) node-xyz modules on GitHub. Sure, it may be slightly less convenient than a standardized, readily packaged out-of-box library and it doesn't have 10 years of testing and refining under its belt yet. But it's there. Some like it raw and rough!
I realize that particular suggestion regarding degrees is a little Mickey Mouse. My point was simply that it is quite risky for them to have to rely on your good graces when they leave the organization. What if you're not around to bestow that promised title 10 years from now? What if after a string of successes, that employee makes a mistake and tanks a product, and gets fired on bad terms? This system works fine internally, especially for management. It adds a lot of risk for employees, and that risk escalates the longer they are with the company. I'm not telling you I have the right answer, but I think it's worth considering.
Also works on Windows and Mac: http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_hyper_super_keys.html
Do you use MonoMac? If so: I'm currently looking into that, but the mailing list (mono-osx) seems pretty dead, with lots of unanswered questions (including mine). Is there a better place to ask questions? I'm a little concerned about building on a platform with minimal community support.
People are educated in India. That doesn;t mean they have to speak English or be able to read English books. English is not the native language for many school and college going people and their education have been through vernacular medium schools. Its how sharp they are that matters. Teach them English properly and they will be able to grasp that too! This articles tries to judge students based on "So few of the high school and college graduates who come through the door can communicate effectively in English, and so many lack a grasp of educational basics such as reading comprehension, that the company can hire just three out of every 100 applicants." which is ridiculous!!
I'm currently working on my startup's first product, Interstate (www.interstateapp.com) :)
Everyone’s To Blame For The Xoom’s Low Sales Numbers
What actually technically happened to cause the Epsilon data breach?
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I suggested a change from comment arrows to comment action links to help clarify this in PG's "How do we fix this?" thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408048

In the final iteration of my suggestion, the upvote was replaced with the link word "interesting" for exactly your reason.
You have it backwards. You don't design your company structure in the hopes or anticipation of becoming Groupon or Zynga. You deal with that growth when it happens. You optimize for that scenario when it occurs.

You can't "want" your company into becoming a Groupon or a Zynga by design a certain organizational structure. Startups try that all the time by preemptively hiring tons of people to sit around and wait for the hockey stick growth that never comes.
It's worth noting that those 'dark times' were periods of perfectly ordinary economic growth compared to the rest of the world and all the millenniums previous.

Comparing those times to the Industrial Revolution that came shortly after is a little unfair - no tradition or souvenir compares well.
"Functional consciousness" is a fine goal if it helps the bot behave in a way that is useful. I don't know how we would even know if we ever achieved subjective consciousness in a computer, except as it says at the end of the article: 'We can't even prove that each of us isn't the only self-aware being in a world of zombies. "Philosophers have been dealing with that for more than 2000 years," says Franklin. Perhaps we will simply attribute subjectivity to computers once they become sufficiently intelligent and communicative, he says.'
just another example of how a big marketing budget doesnt help you. . . .#fail
In the attribute box, clicking the arrow will flip it from up to down. If the arrow is pointing up it will rank high values better, if the arrow is pointing down it will rank low values better.
I just emailed you about a way to do this without producing anything yourself.

All the ingredients to do this are easy to assembly and easy to buy. You should be able to get this done in 1 hour - a working prototype actually not even a prototype, a salable item. Let me know if you did not receive my email:info@bestwhich dot com
This article talks only about journeymen and women who are truly exotic and rare but it doesn't really emphasize that vocational training — the alternative to college — still is alive and well in Germany. You usually don't got to college if you want to become a hairdresser or a mechatronic engineer.

After they finish school, the apprentices work three or four days per week at some company and go to a vocational school the rest of the time.
What Causes the Poles To Warm Faster Than the Rest of Earth?
Strange; the "button test" says humans take 200ms to press a button once a green light flashes.

I set that experiment up on Engineering Days at my college. Kids who put their faces right up to the light could press the button in under 30ms. The human detector response seemed to depend upon the amplitude of the neurological signal!
Ask HN: How to make tech friends?
Hi,

I'm 24 and I don't have any tech friends.
I moved from Europe to US about 4 years ago and basically started my life from zero. I remember when I first came to the US I had only $200, a bag full of clothes and no family or friends.

Well, things have gotten better now. I've managed to evolve a bit. I've been to a community college for 2 years, I've discovered I have some family so I moved to Arizona and I've also made some good friends.

But I do have an issue that really bothers me. I don't have tech friends. And boy, I'm reading HN every day now and the energy and inspiration I get from it is amazing, but I have no one to share it with. I truly want to start my own company, but reading all these articles about how having 2 founders is better than 1 makes me question my chances of success. The idea of starting a company got me thinking that I could never find a co-founder since I really have no tech friends. No one to share my ideas with, get feedback or challenge them.

So my question is how do I find people that are great individuals, smart/talented and passionate about software development to befriend with?

P.S.
* I know school is probably the best place to find tech friends, but I just couldn't seem to find anyone smart enough and really passionate about technology at my college.
Ask HN: How to find a co-founder?
I find people everyday that are interested in working with me, but most of them just lack enthusiasm to like, run a company(which is a difficult task). How did you find your co-founder?

I find that sometimes I get people amazed by what I'm developing, I get asked by them to participate. I let them in and after some weeks I stop seeing results from that person(that sucks). How to deal with that?

Is there a website to find motivated and skilled people to find it? :)
Does anyone think HN is similar to MeFi?
As a member of both communities, I see a few slight similarities between HN and MetaFilter:

* Minimalistic, elegant, user-friendly design
* Lack of memes
* Lack of embedded images
* General lack of trolls
* Separation between a main news section with an Ask section

Obviously there may be other communities more similar to HN, but MeFi seems most similar to me.
I was hoping that this would automatically retilt the screen using the accelerometer. Alas, it always simply just rotates it a few degrees.
Wow, thanks for your reply, really appreciated. And I'm glad that you liked the post.

You make some really good points. I agree on the problems with only focusing on technology. I kinda did it myself on this project. As a programmer and designer (more designer than programmer actually) I dug my head in the sand and hacked away whiteout testing the idea and market early and often.

I also learned that the B2C market is difficult, especially if you want to make money. B2C almost always require a critical mass of users, and that's expensive. Unless you're passionate enough to spend hours on Twitter/Facebook/Community sites to build that mass. Which I wasn't (in this domain).

Having a partner would probably made things easier. And I will try to find one for my next project. Which definitely will be in a domain that I'm more passionate and knowledgeable about.
There is only one point in the app where we ask (politely) if you are willing to tweet about Zwapp.

That is in the autoshare section of Settings. You remain in control at all times about posts. You can turn sharing to social networks on/off but everything defaults to off.
The next Napster? Copyright questions as 3D printing comes of age
BTW- We're in San Francisco
Bots show no such thing...
How are you actively seeking them? I'm just curious because I'm sure I could be doing more.

Posting here on HN; tweeting; emailing old friends, former co-workers and asking them; standing up at meetings like TriJUG, TriLUG, etc. and announcing that I'm looking for a co-founder; hitting up the recruiters who call trying to recruit me; asking other local entrepreneurs; running a "Hackers & Founders" meetup, etc., etc.

And I do have a couple of irons in the fire, including one acquaintance I've known for a while, who is in graduate school and is interested in possibly joining me once he graduates in a month or so. Also one former co-worker who may be interested. It's been a slow process, but I'm not eager to jump in bed (so to speak) with just anybody either. I'm looking for somebody who's passionate about startup-life, willing to go "balls-out" to succeed, and - ideally - has a complementary skill-set to my own.
I'm participating in my first StartupWeekend at this event, and am looking forward to it.

I know that Mike Brenner and company have been doing a TON to make sure that we have a great space, good accommodations, and zero friction (that can be prevented).
My portfolio is at http://www.irvbriscoe.com
You've not used APL then ;-)

Nesting comments is always a pain in the arse, and \\ would make it unnecessary.
Does Rapportive support reformatting of phone numbers? I just realized that quite a few of my numbers are in different formats and would love an app that puts things in standard +(country) (rest of number) format.

Also, is the Rapportive support bidirectional? I.e. data discovered is written back to Google Contacts. This way, any changes would be auto propogated down to my mobile device.
I would like to commend Jason Fried on establishing a source of free and recurring advertising in a massively distributed publication that has had his target audience cornered for years. Not only is this free advertising, but it is the highest quality of advertising congratulating small and medium size business on being flat (which they usually are because in a small army, even the Generals are on the front lines) and reassuring them about the benefits of being so (imagine you’re a 6-person company where everyone does everything and you have just read this article: now decide between buying MS Project and 37 Signals’ Basecamp for your PM needs - cloud over your head says "Jason gets me, man!"). Jason, if you’re reading this I know you’re smiling - you have my vote for strategy!

There is a PR lesson in this for all of us!
Scarcity is a key component of prices in that it affects the supply of a given good at a given price. Paper, ink, production time, human labor, etc. are all goods that have limited supply so they must be allocated accordingly.

If you're a parent you know that the Very Hungry Caterpiller uses different paper and different production techniques (holes in the pages, thicker paper) which while raising the cost is offset by the demand for it being much greater than TAOCP. TAOCP costs more due to a smaller demand and the fact that substitutes don't really exist. VHC has tons of substitutes.

I mean to say that ebooks' lack of scarcity seems to trigger consumer expectations about pricing and what they are willing to pay. This has implications for the demand curve. I wouldn't suggest that the ebooks should all cost the same but that their cost to produce additional units is zero. If a paperback book experiences a massive spike in demand that's protracted and extreme the costs of books to consumers would rise or a shortage would develop. There is no chance of an ebook shortage apart from amazon.com going down.
ps aux | grep elephant
kill -9 28540

Oh, too soon? :P
The Montessori Mafia
And when I make jokes with Exchange operators I am modded down... sigh... Telling, I say.
You mean zero :)
This is a tumblr issue. I think it has something to do with Chrome. Did you use that?
We are building web iPhone & Android apps that consume and filter the social media content bars/restaurants are pushing. Ultimately we'll be combining this with a bunch of location based services, recommendations and group communications. --> http://www.barbird.com (also free on iPhone/Android)
That's a perfectly reasonable position to hold, but it might be inconsistent with the idea that a university education should be for everyone. (I don't think it can ever be for everyone.)

Many people (if not most) just want a job.
I just heard about the event and wouldn't miss it for anything! I have a great idea that has a lot of potential for world wide mass attention. I am looking forward to pitching my idea and meeting a lot of great, like-minded people.
Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it. I was really hoping to get more feedback, oh well.

The big difference between inDinero is the philosophy behind how bookkeeping should be done. I think there are 2 big segments right now: Mint.com for small business (includes inDinero) and QuickBooks replacements (Xero, sassu). The latter is what we are going after, and the big difference is that all transactions originate from the user, and not the bank (you can't trust the bank, in theory). So accounting is a manual entry process, with those transactions reconciled against a bank account.

One thing we are working on is a mobile app for users to take a photo of a receipt and a corresponding transaction will be created based off of the information. This also digitizes all your receipts, and makes them searchable.

We're still validating this idea, and are getting mixed feedback. Some people love this idea, some don't see any value because they just use inDinero and trust the bank transactions. Some people save all their receipts and its a huge pain, some people don't care at all.

I hope this makes more sense, I'd love to know more of your thoughts. Feel free to email me at sean [at] orangeslyce.com too.
I think really what consumers are angry about is that the kindle/nook used to advertise the fact that ebooks were cheaper than buying the physical book and initially they were. Wouldn't you be a little angry now if you had invested a lot of money into the kindle/nook and justified it by the cheaper price in books? You can't blame them for ranting a little.
I agree with you - critical mass is required in B2C market.

There is an excellent book called Viral Loop that dissects past companies that were able to do this correctly in the B2C market. Also Mark Bao talks about this threewords.me has a double viral loop - which is fantastic that he thought of this - I wish I had thought and executed this idea ;)
A Simple JPG Buys The Beer
I'd also love an app to go through my phone numbers and internationalise them. It would have to be a semi-automated process, as I've got contacts with local numbers in a number of different countries.

The Google Contacts support is currently one way, but it's a great idea to write the data back. Could you please vote on it here: http://rapportive.com/feedback/527051 — that way you'll be kept in the loop as we make progress :)

What mobile device do you use?
There are few differences between Java and C#.

I'd say that was true in the .NET 1.1 days, but really doesn't apply anymore nowadays. The C# language's feature set has expanded much faster than Java's, which alone drives up the number of differences. There is a kind of "why would you want this" undertone to your comment - to address that: I feel there are fewer mistakes in C#'s design (generics...) than in Java's. I'd als say C# is significantly more expressive than Java at this stage. (of course, there are other languages for both runtimes)
I wouldn't go that far but I would definitely say that if you're on XP you're being quite short-sighted.
I can empathize with the frustration, but it definitely makes sense for LinkedIn. Unlike Facebook (which also has difficulties for development), LinkedIn has many monetization strategies besides advertising. They must be strategically very careful not to let anyone else monetize their professional network graph.

They are only opening up in response to Facebook and to attract more people to the site.
Ah, thanks. That was not clear to me. That helps a lot.
Rapportive is a great plug-in, but I'm still curious about the upcoming premium version alluded to by one of the founders on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/What-is-Rapportives-business-model
I disagree. Many large corps. still use XP. There thousands of 'real devs' using XP.
Yes. But don't confuse with mongoid_fulltext. It doesn't do any regexes, it uses map/reduce where each n-gram is indexed separately.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anews.ycombin...

http://www.startupwithme.com

are two thoughts that come to mind...

And my response to somebody asking specifically about how I've been going about my search for (a) co-founder(s):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2416405
I think so. Most startups are not that impressive in their earliest days, and almost nobody is going to care if they even know you exist. Sooner or later you're going to reveal what you're doing and it's never going to be too late for your competitors to react if you actually get their attention at all.

On the other hand on a community like HN you can get lots of feedback, help and support by being open about what you're doing and what problems you're facing.
Yep, WebKit is the engine most commonly used in current smartphone browsers.
True, it would be nice if there was a non-commercial license. On the other hand, if you want to make a serious income with applications, spending $400 on a good development tool is not a huge investment (in the West).
Try to get that running on something like Heroku. Lucene is like renting a private jet to bring your kid to school every day.
Reading Bruner's "Toward a Theory of Instruction" and Piaget's "The Child's Conception of Number." Sawyer's "Vision in Elementary Mathematics" is next.

Trying to get over my distaste for Objective-C so I can translate some of these ideas to the iPad.

Teaching Scratch in Oakland.
Epsilon data breach is the Exxon Valdez of privacy
I know, I'm not saying you should design your organization or hire around the idea that you'll be at Groupon's level in a year. That would be a waste.

Well let me ask you this. When is it the right time to reorganize and evolve from the flat structure because you are growing like gang-busters and can't keep up with the pressure on all areas of the company (support, development, sales, etc.)
Competition Doesn't Matter. Look at Dropbox.
I'm trying to learn more about RoR and it's ecosystem by modifying the twitter example to be a neighborhood social network using GMaps, etc. It's a WIP with no effort put into the front-end yet ( http://neckowoods.heroku.com )

It seems that a lot of folks have attempted to capture this space without anyone being dominant. If you'd like to help out with whatever, let me know :)
GoDaddy's business model was always to sell domain names at a loss and make money from up-sells and cross-sells with hosting, certificates, etc.

GoDaddy will never put out a clean and fast buy process or user interface... Every domain name (after coupon discount) is a $1+ loss for them (plus consider additional costs of support, infrastructure, etc). Adds up to at least $45 million every year and chances are their domain business costs them $100 million every year.

Unless they switch models and domains no longer become the marketing focus (even at $11/year w/o a discout they still only net at most $1 ... compared to all the other products + services).
I've got yet another .NET shop, and have been meaning to break into mobile market(beside WP7, I know). Trying to weigh the benefits of going native (i.e. learning/hiring iOS/Java) vs using something like mono & present talent. Feedback would be greatly appreciated :)
Here are a few ways that come to mind:

1) Attend local tech meetups, hackathons, conferences.

2) Contribute to open source projects.

3) Be active in an online tech community, like HN.

4) Start a blog and write about technically intriguing stuff.

5) Build something cool and share it with everyone.
I agree. You should definitely do an Android version. The Android Market could use a social interface too.
Negative one perhaps?

It doesn't have to withstand a pressure, but it does have to contain a pressure. Kind of opposite-ish.
I would probably have no problem putting "My salary kept getting raised because I kicked butt" on my resume. If they can get past the fact that I worked at a porn company, a little grandstanding probably won't hurt.
Did you read this post yet? Very interesting on the real amount of active users they really have.

http://socialmediatoday.com/imckeevocaniccom/282916/how-many...
Yep, Etsy used to do that back in their more incompetent days. The only site I've seen that had a 'md5.js' script, seemed kind of unusual...