skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it have to scale? 37signals took 11 years to get to 26 people. It might take us another 11 to get to 50. We can optimize for that future when and if it arrives. But making your environment worse today because you worry about some possibly maybe future is the essence of premature optimization.
yes this is my question too... was a pisser for me when i wanted to try the ios mono stuff, but alas
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I host the "open hacker house" out of Sugarlump cafe on 24th st & Bryant, every Wednesday. Usually it's me plus a few folks from facebook, yahoo, and random startups.

Come by anytime, my email is in my profile.
I'm working on a literature community, I have an alpha copy deployed at http://beta.singleforest.com/ Not sure if I'm going to bother trying to make money off it. (It doesn't have ssl yet, so careful with your passwords)
Fred doesn't appear to have written the article, it's just cobbled together.

The fact that it's submitted by a user named after the site, who submits only their own content, correlates strongly with being low quality. (I realize people submit their own stuff. I do it to. But not EVERYTHING I emit.)

Low quality content is the new spam.
I'm sorry. That's a really hard position to be in.

On another note what does "sucking it up until the end" entail? Where is the end? What happens when you get there? Lastly, what's the worst thing that would happen if you were to walk away?

Just some questions that popped into my mind. Hopefully you find them useful. Best of luck.
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Thanks, I appreciate the support!
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(It's a series of quotes taken out of context)

He means literal marketing by buying users. Amazing things carry a lot of the marketing weight directly.
I should mine this thing for my Android mission statement generator.

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.thibault.android.b...
Might want to consider getting some app review people on board and feature their accounts as accounts to follow.
Doesn't work on iPhone 4.
Edit Room: http://editroom.splatcollision.com

Visual CSS Animation Design Web App, with pre-launch access to my development prototype. It's going to be the best way to build CSS animated websites! No more building keyframes by hand in a text editor, and no more web layout and design using desktop photo manipulation applications. Design and animate directly in the browser*

*requires CSS3 Animation support, for now...
Ask HN: Do you read papers / pdfs on your Kindle?
I'm thinking of getting a Kindle 2 for reading academic papers and books in pdf form. Most of the things I want to read are equation and/or diagram heavy, so I'm curious how well the Kindle works for this type of thing.

Is the 6" version good enough, or do you really need the 9" DX?

How about page refresh speed, navigation, and search?

How easy is it to get pdfs onto the Kindle?
I guess next in the pipeline is TweetDeck Web Desktop App :)
Microsoft scoring points in TTAB opposition to "App Store" TM
We're building a new music discovery/sharing service for iOS and web (eventually Android too :). Features new songs in an HN-style ranking for each genre, with recommendations based on your saved favorites, and the ability to browse/share favorites between friends.

Our basic website is up, but we're still a couple months from launch and working with artists and labels now to get some initial content in place.

http://www.band-o-rama.com/
Making tablet computers the ultimate device for a kid:

Kongoroo (http://www.kongoroo.com)

This is the mvp but we will have a much nicer beta version in the coming weeks.
Looks like there is no free version and the single developer license costs about 400$. That is going to be a big hurdle to get the casual indie developers interested.
Not really, it simply shows that in the EU, your bad education choices harm everyone. In the US, the only person they harm is you.
I think you were looking for tenets--quotes not necessary.
(I'm guessing) google used -webkit-transform css property, does the C7 support that?

PS - And I'm sure this is something they did for fun. They could've done it for chrome/safari as well, but they didn't.
does point 1.8 in their API TOS seem strange to anyone else?

"1.8 Monitoring. You agree to provide us with access to your Application and/or other materials related to your use...If, following the foregoing, LinkedIn is not satisfied that full compliance has been demonstrated... LinkedIn may perform an audit of materials at your premises to verify your compliance with these Terms."

Is LinkedIn suggesting that they get to look at your source code and other plans (biz plans) if they think you might be competing with them (another, standard, TOS bullet point)? Is this enforceable? Does it matter?

EDIT: here's the TOS link: http://developer.linkedin.com/docs/DOC-1013
After reading through all the answers, I've come to the conclusion that Quora is the most vapid, rockstar oriented community ever. To everyone who claims the HN community is dying, go read quora. It's all about me-too posts (which is evidenced by the fact that this post consists of 40 PG regurgitations and ~5 great answers), where the biggest rockstars get voted up the highest. At least HN still has deep, contextual discussion.
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I have a Kindle 3, and it's possible to read papers, but it's still pretty small. I'm looking at picking up something a bit bigger, probably in tablet form (or preferably with a PixelQi screen) in the next 6-8 months that would work a bit better. I haven't used the 9" DX, but I assume it would do the job better than the Kindle 3, just on basis of size.

PDFs are easy to get onto the Kindle (3, anyway): just move them onto the onboard memory, and they show up like a .azw or .mobi file would.
A review's a review. Including the product price as compared to perceived value.

It seems the sellers want to have their cake and eat it, too. You sell an e-Book for more than the hardcover -- be prepared for people to lower the value they assign to the product that you are selling at your price.

Otherwise, just relabel your review section to "Whore for us".

(A bit strong, admittedly, but this is starting to stink of hypocrisy. Pooor Amazon! /sarcasm)

EDIT:

At the same time, people should learn that the physical costs of a physical book are actually a fairly small component of it's overall cost. IIRC, often a dollar or two (US). Amazon et al. discounts on physical books often represent in good part the lack of retail overhead.

If you want bookstores, you need to patronize them. And decide that you find enough value to pay the additional expense that keeps them in business.

When a staff member helps you, directly or by stocking/shelving an item you otherwise would not have found, realize this and make a decision to "pay the freight".
"Hopefully your funding doesn't depend on your fashion sense" -- If that were the case, a whole lot of us would be screwed!
How can you tell if the market clears, with ebooks?
This is something you can't really do on Android; the Market doesn't let you change an app from free to paid.
It's all politics and people desperate to keep their cushy desk jobs. If you're already coding, I'd recommend getting out there now to find your hurdles, because there will be A LOT of them.
Or rebuild the Super Conducting Super Collider. AKA The Hole in Texas.
It looks like they're comparing their new "Blender" search server with a specific case when search volume was higher than average on their old server... while this is definitely faster, I don't think it's 3x faster on average.

>> "Following the launch of Blender, our 95th percentile latencies were reduced by 3x from 800ms to 250ms and CPU load on our front-end servers was cut in half."

It doesn't look like that 250ms latency is at their 95th percentile search volume. It looks more like the average dropped from 600ms to 250ms, which is still very impressive.
Looks neat.
Ten Reasons You Need to Quit Your Job
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(I'm the author of it)

If you mean the point of writing it, I saw a couple of people tweeting about how to find it out by searching the source of https://github.com/account whilst logged in and wondered if I could automate it. A chance to flex my HTML/JS muscles for fun if you will.

Tweeted it as a laugh and went to bed. It's had quite a nice trip through the internets since. As someone mentions elsewhere in the comments, it's interesting to compare when people signed up and their id to see how the GitHub user base has grown.

So yeah, no real point except idle curiosity and a small challenge for myself to implement it.
Agreed. I'm 29 and have been doing real estate sales and mortgage origination for the past five years. I've always been a hacker, though admittedly much less so over the past few years. I'm scratching my own itch. Turns out it's a common itch in the real estate industry.
It does for me!
PG has said that the dupe filter only works for articles that are loaded in memory
It's pretty interesting that what we think of as consciousness seems to arise from a combination of processing delays and ignoring external stimuli.
I think it's kind of like with resumes and business cards. If you use a template, it's less you. If you design it yourself, it might not look as clean. Personally, I always go for the personal touch, see addumb.com lulz.
It's worth keeping in mind that the travelling carpenters are a souvenir from dark times in Europe, when economic progress remained extremely slow because craftsmen were evaluated by their belonging to a guild and would not compete.
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Why don't you work on it now and work on something else at startup weekend?

I ask because I think you should take advantage of your eagerness.
A collection of core machine learning and natural language processing modules. I still have a gig for nearly two years, and am using spare time to gear up for my first startup ;).
How are they supposed to log in your sub-accounts without the password? They have no choice except to store the plain text password.

And they don't just show you the password - they make you enter your login password first.

What exactly do you want them to do? You aren't thinking this issue through. Do you just want them to hide the password from you? What would be the point? They still have it.

They also have a one-click login to your subaccounts, so even if they don't show you your own password it wouldn't be enough. I suppose you want this feature disabled too?

The point of not storing plain text password is not to avoid displaying them, it's to make sure no one else can steal them.

But yodlee has no choice, they must store it plain text. And once they do, displaying it - only upon your explicit request (so it's not accidentally displayed), and after you enter your password, seems reasonable to me.
well, one can certainly wander the internet, working with various people on open source projects; dunno about the not paying for food or housing part though :P
Recently I've found twitter to be a drag because I'm following way too many people.

I want to start following less people so I'm writing a web app that will tell you who tweets the most out of the people you follow.

I'd have it finished but I was going around in circles trying to solve a problem that I just realized I don't really need to solve yet.

I keep thinking of other features I could add, such as who retweets the most and who talks to other people I follow the most which doesn't help.
"The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size" is a great read if you're interested in exploring consciousness. A significant portion is devoted to discussing just how much information our bodies are taking in, versus how much reaches our consciousness.

http://www.amazon.com/User-Illusion-Cutting-Consciousness-Pe...
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I'm making a program that can take any common kind of file and convert it into any other kind. I find this is a fairly common need for people I know, but there isn't any good simple answer right now.
If anyone has any edge-case stock tools they'd like to see, let me know. I'd definitely like to create a "portfolio" of tools, hence the domain name.
It's what we (myself and a few friends) decided we'd do for SW, basically.

That isn't necessarily the best reason, but we're all on the same page with it, and think that it's the best app to pitch / demo for that particular occasion.
Work on it. It's not cheating. There's a good chance that you'll walk in with the idea of working on it and end up working on something completely different. When I did the DC Startup Weekend I walked in with a product and then ended up getting an idea from a comment someone made, went up, pitched it and ended up with a team to work on that.

In the end we didn't win, primarily because we were told to keep the pitch down and then the didn't do questions and only comments. Most of the comments were about things that we did have answers for but didn't have time to mention in our pitch so... There's a lesson in there too :)

But if you have idea, work on it. In the end I'm back to working on the product I was working on before the event anyway.
Scottish banks were bailed out? I'm not sure if you think this is an American bank, or I just don't know enough about Scotland's economics.
The software craftsmanship movement is starting to get this sort of thing going. At least the idea of apprentice, journeyman and master are taking shape, and a number of software development companies have done craftsman swaps.

Corey Haines http://www.coreyhaines.com/ in particular has done a lot to actually live like the software equivalent of these carpenter journeymen.
This is extremely true. It is all politics and there will be a lot of hurdles. It is what it is.
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I would totally use this app.

I would especially like to be able to check potential new people to follow against my current list of followers to see what I'm getting into. Sorry, not helping :-)
Maybe because it's a misquote. It's "lovely filth."

(Also, the committee only has to ratify the officer's decision with a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs.)

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mphg/mphg.htm
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I'm actually doing something quite similar at the moment, though for a different MLS system in a different country...
StartupBritain is not a government initiative.
I think it depends on if you're investing a lot of time and money into something that your competitors might be able to beat you to if they see you coming.

Everyone likes to have very black-and-white yes/no answers for this but it really depends on the idea, the competition, a million factors that are different in each situation.
His book "The 7-day Weekend" is good too.
Fascinating study with some fairly straight-forward follow on experiments. I worry about these things getting the same bad rap that plagued 'fuzzy' logic because the investigators try too hard to describe them in human terms. So rather than saying "A new selection mechanism for data assimilation based on similar mechanisms that have been proposed in neural processes." they say "Its almost conscious!" which sets off a whole bunch of distractions which don't help in the underlying algorithm development or understanding its applicability to things like machine learning or process control.
Isn't this exactly what Twitter said they DON'T want to see (replacement clients using the Twitter API). Is TweetDeck just "grandfathered in"?
Not sure if I will stick to this IDE in the long run, but it is for sure great that Apple now has some competitor for Xcode...
mojombo is #1 :-) Then defunkt, then pjhyett.
We are working on Ad Serving and advanced metrics tracking.
I'm learning Ruby and I'm working on an app that gives you email alerts on CrunchBase updates, my first taste of Rails. And I'm also working through SICP, albeit slowly.

I'm also waiting to get my Firefox add-on fully reviewed by Mozilla, which I built a while ago. Check it out, the Web Startup Toolbar - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-startup-t...
I posted it up here a few weeks back, but my current project is http://resumatic.net/

It's a(nother) online resume-hosting app influenced by about.me and such, with an emphasis on presentation and individuality. I hope. Basically, it's a pretty frontend for LinkedIn.
Great blog, thanks for sharing!
It isn't really clear if the query volume went down after they implemented blender or if it stayed equivalent to the #tsunami level. If the query volume stayed the same then they are correct in their analysis.
The Wheel - An interesting take on CSS3 transforms
People branch out all the time. Part of being flat is that there's very little division. If you are a programmer who has a good idea for a new workflow process (i.e. management design), you propose it, and we usually try it. If you're a designer who want to learn more programming, we encourage it.

You can easily have a big impact on all the other domains of the business even if you're just a programmer.

Hell, we just had Craig Davey switch from being a programmer to being a designer recently!
You may be right, but 1) if feels like cheating and 2) I specifically asked the event organizer, and he said:

"you should really just be bringing your ideas and not a product-in-development."

So that's why I'm holding off. I mean, on the one hand, I'd happily commit to the idea, whether StartupWeekend was on or not, but since I'm going, and my team agrees that it's a great idea, I really want to see how far we can get in the time allotted.
There are few differences between Java and C#. There are even fewer differences between this and Android (java) development.

This Hello World is virtually identical to an Android hello world.

http://mono-android.net/Tutorials/Hello_World
I'm interested in what you've done to make money off of this? Is it via affiliate links?
So your tool correlates historical trends in search results with historical equity price trends?
Maybe we can connect and share ideas.

marco[at]marcomonteiro[dot]com
Pretty cool 3D visualization library in R
kickstarter! there's probably enough nostalgia and curiosity to make it happen.
If anyone's looking for a registrar, NameCheap sucked enough less than GoDaddy to make me go out of my way to mention here. Which is to say, substantially less.
I think the estimate may be optimistic. At least for a game that would make its ROI interesting to an investor. Either way, if I happened to have that capital laying around in my pockets... and if you happen to have a game idea and a small team ready to go... get in touch!
I think he's referring to the product recommendation button, not the "person recommendation" feature that's been around for a long time
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As someone with a Bachelors in Biochemistry and Computer Science, my sense is that the frustration comes not from the lack of transferable skills per se, but that there is not a lot of self determination and opportunity.

The challenge with big bio science is that you need access to tremendous resources to do anything interesting. Labs are expensive, equipment is expensive so you need to get access through the gates before you can do anything. Once you are in a lab, you have to manage aligned agendas between your PI and yourself to move forward. Large bioscience is about resource acquisition. The same is probably true of high energy particle physicists. The lack of jobs and positions is a side effect that a lab just needs a lot of resources. Ecologist and other field biologists seem less miserable. You can do low cost field work as a field biologist.

Computing as another commented, in biostatistics allows a degree of able to do the work directly. And in that area costs are getting cheaper. As a computer person, I can do things without needing to get permission. Bio is still the most interesting thing, hey we've never engineered life, open question. But the age of gentleman biology is long gone.

There is a lot of good molecular bio to be done, but there are few opportunities due to exogenous factors. Half the effort is getting the opportunity and that is definitely miserable.
That might be where it goes. I started out by looking at news alerts on stock charts and thinking that I'd like to be able to define my own search terms for certain equities instead of just looking for news stories that mention the company or the ticker symbol directly. If I actually manage to get something serious up and running it will eventually turn into more of a data-mining service.
You should never say never, but I don't think we'll ever be 150 people. I think there's a good chance we'll never even be 50 people.

Although, as many others have pointed out, there are some great examples of huge companies running similar strategies to good effect (Semco etc).
For a free and open source effort, check out https://github.com/koush/androidmono. I just came across this and have not used it, but it looks promising.
I think "Stealth Mode" covers a pretty large range of behaviors. We're far from stealth mode; we tell pretty much everyone everything that we're up to. We have no secrets and we handle all chats/negotiations/everything with all of our cards face up.

However, we only reveal all in face to face conversations, never in a broadcast. This gives us more opportunities to refine our message, collect feedback, forge real connections, and affords us the ability to do those things without burning opportunities for first impressions and without risking one skeptic from taring the collective perception by a group.

Using this strategy, we've been called "Stealthy" by people on the fringe of our current network. For some, that adds a little bit to the mystique and excitement, so they become willing to take a meeting with us. This strategy has been pretty successful so far.

EDIT: And if you're a super smart developer in the Seattle area looking to join a funded, early stage startup, we'll buy you a coffee/beer and reveal all! Email me: brandon@thinkfuse.com
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I'm already developing natively for iPhone and Windows Phone 7. I hate Java with a passion, so this is probably the only way I'd ever get around to working on Android apps.
And even when things are noticed and voted up, flagging seems to have a significant effect. There are plenty of examples of items with 10-20 votes that are mysteriously several pages deep just an hour after submission despite those with fewer votes and longer times coming sooner.
Not to say I wouldn't take one or two on later if they can be a valuable asset to the company, just that this work must be done now and I'm the only one who showed up for work today.

Same here, basically. I'm not opposed to joining up with a co-founder or two (in fact, I'm actively seeking them) but I'm not going to stop working just because it's only me at-the-moment. F%!# that.
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Back when I was in undergrad, I met a German exchange student who mentioned something about this. He may have been part of it at some point. They have a special belt buckle or something which identifies them and he said it was almost a status symbol (the belt buckle). I believe he was a roof-shingler and not a general carpenter though.
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