skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another cool thing I like about Bing Maps: "Whole Foods on the corner" and "If you reach E 13th St, you've gone too far" when viewing directions. Such things would be cheered on as "look how awesome Google is!" if implemented in GMaps.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3robnkg (tinyurl because URL is huge)
What you're talking about is a legal issue, so if you want to keep the game in its current form (or do some changes to avoid being sued) you need to speak with a lawyer. Said lawyer (or person who understands IP law) would need to look at the two products side-by-side and tell you what the exact issues are. Also keep in mind that the even if other party is wrong they can still throw lawyers at you in the hopes that you'll go away.
I hear it works with babies as well.
Yes; most sites' traffic looks like this.
At battery changing stations, empty batteries can be swapped for fully charged ones. That takes about the same time as it would to fill a fuel tank.

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

Israel is the first nation in the world that partnered with Better Place
to have an all-electric car infrastructure. Shai Agassi believes that
in Israel by 2016, plus or minus a year, more than 50% of cars sold will
be electric and that by 2020, Israel will achieve oil independence.
The Baran Group signed an agreement with Better Place to build
51 battery switch stations over the course of 2011 to cover all of Israel.
I would bet any amount of money that there are iPad prototypes in R&D that use 2 or 4 front-facing cameras.
Does it even make sense to talk about share growth coming at anyone's expense when the market is growing this quickly? Is the absolute number of RIM phones falling? At this point I doubt any appreciable percentage is accounted for by people switching from one platform to another.
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no issue with that part
First of all, Android is much harder to develop for than the iPhone.

As someone who's published apps on both platforms, I'll disagree with that. For me the occasional extra effort it takes to support multiple resolutions and OS versions is more than made up for by being able to use a semi-modern language. (Preemptive response: Yes, I know Objective-C well, and non-enterprisey Java beats it hands down).
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fake discipline might have been a poor choice of words. My intent was to indict a process of using quantitative skills in a manner that was supposed to "add rigor" to finance, to encapsulate and tame risk. It didn't work.
I think this is an over-reaction. It didn't look to me like a threat per se. Of course, I don't know the entire context.
http://soundcloud.com/itshooky
Breaking down memory usage by add-on is very difficult. Objects in Firefox's heap don't track the ownership of the module that created them.

This should be fixed to some extent by out-of-process Jetpacks.
Just like reading this article right now...
I think you are VASTLY overstating the importance of Top Gear, which is essentially an entertainment talk show which happens to talk about cars.
Verizon 4G (LTE) 10x faster than Sprint 4G (WiMax) - 1,000 tests prove it so
Yeah I do this all the time. Though I learned the behavior from another hacker.
I'm not sure this guy is fully grasping the idea that Gladwell was pushing across. I don't think the point was that 10,000 hours is a magic number to strive for in order to become an expert (although he does say that persistently), rather he was emphasizing the direct correlation between work and ability that we often don't recognize, and that realistically, 10,000 hours will put you far ahead of your friends. I think 10,000 hours is known as the statistical breaking point because leaders of industry are often there at their peak, but they would still be experts if they were at 8000 and everyone else was at 6000. The idea is purely comparative, and the number has no special counterintuitive quality to it. I spend about an hour a day pissing, but that doesn't mean that by 27 ill be THE EXPERT. Ill miss and exercise poor urinal decorum like I always do, and no breaking point will allow the gift of expertise to show up at my doorstep. The point of this idea is to understand that anybody can be the beatles if they've worked effectively harder than the norm, not that they have worked enough to be the beatles. This is still an important point though, and I think this author should attempted to work above and beyond the expected norms, but not so he can hit the magic number. He just needs enough that he's better than everybody else.
one of the many faces of scale-invariancy :)
You were downvoted because your response so completely misinterpreted the parent's comment that the most generous interpretation was that you didn't read it carefully. While rational argument is good, one-way arguments are bad.
How to write fast code
Why do VCs pull term sheets?
The uniques look nicely exponential. I wonder how big the petri dish is, before it gets saturated? I think it's pretty big. Potentially, everyone would like to start a company. And there's arguments that that's how society's going.

Some interesting spikes on the uniques - I'd expect they were caused by something not on HN (e.g. a story in digg or a major newspaper), rather than something on it.
Install the following:

https://github.com/protocool/AckMate - Searching within your project sucks by default. This makes it not suck.

Testing -

https://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber-tmbundle - Bundle for cucumber highlighting.
https://github.com/rspec/rspec-tmbundle - Lets you run specs individually from within textmate.

Frontend -

https://github.com/kuroir/SCSS.tmbundle & https://github.com/peterlih/handcrafted-haml-textmate-bundle &
https://github.com/seaofclouds/sass-textmate-bundle - Sass/Haml/Scss bundles. HAML and Sass will make you life significantly easier, embrace them.

Next up, download and install : http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

For themes, I prefer 'Blackboard' with the font changed to Inconsolata, but play around with the various color schemes and choose whichever you prefer. You'll probably spend a lot of time looking at it.

Now, bookmark: http://api.rubyonrails.org/ and pretty much keep it open somewhere all the time. It's invaluable for rooting through why things aren't working.

Lastly, rails is full of magic. Magic that sometimes is quite far removed from the actual errors you run into. Your first few months will probably have more than a few very frustrating moments where things just don't work and you can't figure out why. Stackoverflow is your friend, and no question is stupid. If you can't google an answer, just ask.
Your point on network value is an excellent one, one definitely worth challenging us on. I suspect almost no accelerator in the next 5 years will touch YC's network, especially since they're right in the heart of M&A-land.

However every accelerator, except for dopey government-run ones, needs an ROI. The numbers we came up with were our attempt at a happy medium. "Price"-wise, we can be lower than others (TechWildcatters, Shotput Ventures, SproutBox, Momentum) but we also add value and perks that few others do. We also have massive pent up demand in our region.

Value prop is a tough starting point because it means different things to different people. And you know what? Maybe we'll find out our terms aren't right and we'll pivot. Just like almost every entrepreneur does on pricing.

But then again, until you can find another accelerator that is open to single founders, open to non-technical founders, provides a dev team in India to support, and that has a selection process that includes a educational mini-bootcamp...then it's a tough comparison.

No, our network isn't 1/3 as valuable as theirs (although we will have a few mentors from SV). But we've got plenty of tech entrepreneurs banging down our door so I think, for now, we're on the right path to helping them change the world.
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Go on holiday for 2 months with little or no connectivity. Don't take a laptop. Problem solved. You're basically just depressed.
For those who don't know, Wil Shipley is the author of Delicious Library. <http://delicious-monster.com/>; A perennially popular MacOS app. It is a great way to catalog most everything you own.

It started off being only for books, but since has acquired the ability to keep track of just about anything.
Makes sense to me. A thing with a half life of forever isn't radiating at all.
I think this says more about Slashdot than HN...
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Name another entertainment show which talks about cars and has Top Gears global reach.
What's more, I used to be hard on myself for doing this until I realized my best work came out of something I saw in a 'distraction' session.

e.g. I wouldn't have discovered Isotope if I wasn't surfing HN. Then, something I made with Isotope was far better than something I would have been working on at another time.

Sometimes, delaying work leads to better outcomes. That's why it's so hard to know when to work ;)
Was going to say the same thing. It seems that many open projects are realizing they're going to have to exert more control to provide a competitive user experience.
Have you seen Top Gear?

The Reliant Robin, while obviously a horrible design, does not roll over every time you drive one a half mile (and it is not the primary reason for the decline in population in the Sheffield region in the decades since its release). The Stig is not really "half man, half machine with petrol running through his veins". And a race against a jet or helicopter is not a realistic test of auto performance.

The Tesla episode was cheeky, but no more cheeky than many episodes. It's not a "straight" review show. It is a comedy that happens to have a lot of cars in it. If it is occasionally true, that's just a bonus.
In Netflix, today: "Xbox, pause." (handle phone call). "Xbox, play."

For simple commands, it's pretty neat.

"Xbox, order pizza and find a movie that doesn't suck" is probably a few years off :-)
I couldn't even get started in the morning without taking a shower.
Ok, now I am stopping reading TechCrunch, HN etc. Back to http://localhost:3000
Rihanna afirma que en la intimidad, el golpe es muy excitante
I might be wrong about the title, as it has been more than 20 years now, but I remember pretty well the answer in the book. Never tried, though.
You have only begun your journey of understanding why "owning" information is ludicrous. Give it time.
Someone posted a similar thing for the London Underground from Matthew Somerville about 2 years ago here (can't find the hn link):

http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/
Mozilla doesn't support Flash in its browser -- Adobe does. Anyone can write a plug-in for Firefox.
Ask HN: Useful for people but isn't profitable. Is this startup?
I'd be curious to know what Facebook's stats are, because they're WAY larger than any of the other photo sharing sites.
I can't really say if TechCrunch is 'over' (and here I thought 'over' was over (props to Portlandia)), but I can say that artificial viral marketing is a very strange thing indeed. Reading TechCrunch stories always gives me a feel for who is maneuvering and who isn't, and as with most blogs it seems there is a certain 'shadows on the wall of the cave' kind of aspect to it.

As an entrepreneur, do you think it helps or hinders your efforts to be "exposed" by a widely read blog? As a VC/Angel is this where you look for insights into the 'next big thing' ? And what of Peter Yared or other folks who write articles and give them away from free to various outlets like BusinessWeek, AdWeek, CNet, and others?

One of the things this article illustrates is that the Bay Area, and technology in general, is taking its lead from "Hollywood" rather than from say "Detroit" or "Pittsburgh". Why the star culture? Why the hype? Does Lindsay Lohan look like someone having fun? (I don't know but it doesn't look like it to me).

Arrington appears to enjoy lightning rod status, and while he sometimes whines loudly about getting wet he must be getting something out of going into the storm. I'm curious about the larger question about what it means.

It used to be that presenting at Usenix was "cool" and presenting as Uniforum was a "cop out." Why don't we have more of the 'serious' conferences any more? More questions than answers that is for sure.
It definitely has some cool potential applications - what about tracking where the user moves their mouse and how long it stays there on a regular web page, to judge what grabs their attention more (or less)?
Is McAfee's siteadvisor.com a scam?
I agree, I think there are a ton of quiet success out there now.

I'm currently working for a Minneapolis startup (based in the skyway downtown coincidentally) that has raised 10M+ in VC funding in the health insurance area. None of the original 3 founders are technical.

You won't see us on techcrunch because health insurance isn't sexy, but we're having more of an impact on big businesses than 99% of what you will see on there.
Is is very important to change your whole context regularly. This means: go out (this is where we come from), take a walk. This will give you back the necessary energy you need in your modern workplace.
Steve Lambert, author of SelfControl, was our resident artist at our Highschool. Awesome guy :)
One problem with this approach is that if you get lost, there is no way to get back on track... you are off-the-grid and into unmapped territory (literally!) quite quickly. Your map becomes useless and you really can't go back to your computer to print a new map with the missing details. In this case, ink savings gained pale in comparison to convenience lost.
Where is it located? AFAIK, the only way to get a "refund" is to contact Apple and claim the app didn't work for technical reasons (didn't install properly, wouldn't start, etc.).
Good points.

Another aspect to consider is that some Android users don't even know that they are Android users. I don't know how many, but speaking from personal experience, it seems a non-negligible percentage of "normal" Android users simply bought a touch screen smartphone in the lower end of the market, because that's what carriers are pushing now. It's running Android, but the owner doesn't know it, and isn't familiar with any marketplace to download apps.

iPhone users though, they know that they have an iPhone and what that entails. Meaning, they know what the AppStore is, and Apple has their credit card information. Some even had an Apple account before they got an iPhone — if they had an iPod previously they can just start buying apps right away.

Counting users is one thing, but what you should be counting are active users of respective marketplaces/app stores.
This sounds like a fantastic idea.
Delicious Library: one of the apps that makes me wish I could afford a Mac. Genius stuff; shame there doesn't seem to be a Windows equivalent.
I agree with top gear. UK top gear rules, hopefully the US crew can get their show together.
1) Maintain a long list of large issues you need to resolve.

2) Regularly take a few of those items off the list and resolve to do them in a given g session.

3) When not working, take a real break. Do something else.

4) Exercise regularly. This is so massively critical for me that I can't overstate it. Regular exercise aids in focus, sleep and maintaining a positive mental attitude.
He also founded the OMNI group.
I got an app for time tracking and I track everything. Eating, watching videos, browsing, sleeping, and the occasional working. It's awesome because when I looked back at the pie chart for the day and see three quarters of it is sleeping and browsing, I felt like a complete doofus.

(I use aTimeLogger, it's free and does everything I need)
I wish ThinkGeek would make the Apple Store Playmobil set :(
I've spent a lot of years helping other folks and have not figured out how to monetize it. I would say if it has the potential to be a startup, you need to resolve the monetization issue to get it there. You haven't really given enough info to determine if it has the potential, only enough to indicate to me that you have a defined problem that needs to be resolved if it is ever going to become a 'business' at all, much less a 'startup'.
I saw the piece quite a while ago, but I found a bunch of things misleading:

1) The way they quoted the 55 mile range made it sound like the 55 mile range was more representative of normal use than the 200 mile figure. I don't recall them ever saying something like "Toyota claims it gets 20mpg, but we've worked out it only gets 3mpg on our test track". Maybe they have (perhaps they mentioned the Veyron's fuel consumption at full throttle), but it's certainly not a normal part of a review.

2) They quoted the charge time from a standard power socket, when nearly all charges would be done at a higher-power charging station at much shorter time. They didn't quote the faster charge time.

3) While watching, I seriously thought the one Tesla's engine had completely quit.

4) While watching, I seriously thought that the other Tesla's battery had gone completely dead without enough warning for them to drive it into the garage.

5) They implied that the environmental impact from the power plants is roughly the same as the environmental impact of gas anyway. (oddly showing nuclear cooling towers while talking about power plants causing global warming.) Power generation obviously has an environmental impact no matter where it's done, but the nuclear scare plus polar bear mention just felt bizarre.

6) They implied that somehow hydrogen was magical and had no environmental power generation issues.

I don't disagree with their defense, but the piece felt very political in that it seemed designed to say things that are technically true, whilst leading viewers to conclusions that are false. All-in-all, I felt like I was watching Clarkson on an anti-environmental soapbox more than I was watching either a piece of entertainment or an automotive review.

I love Top Gear, but I was annoyed by the piece, and it won't bother me a bit if Clarkson has a few obnoxious days because of it.

The review would've been 1000x better if Hamster or Slow had done it.
Ask sales & marketing oriented types within your interested prospects how they'd explain the concept to a stranger.

Record and transcribe their comments.

Make a greatest hits compilation from those comments.

Try that with Angels.

Repeat.
I found it funny that after he read that quote, suddenly his wife and friends became 10,000 hour superstars.

I think the point is that 10,000 is necessary to mastering a skill; and some people who master skills will be superstars. Not 'everyone you admire is a 10,000 hour superstar, and nobody but you realizes it'.
I believe the same is true of Canada - a court can find you guilty of libel if you tell the truth with malicious intent.
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I wasn't thinking in terms of labor force. I was assuming current research could lead to tech that has a very large impact on our daily lives, and that this impact would increase positive perception the public has of scientists and engineers. I think this happened in the early 1900s and could happen again.
Also the author of "Chaos: Making a New Science"
So what is the issue? Pure electric is cool in 55 minute segents. ;)
That Maxivision sample there is for prints, not for capture. If you were to take a look at a super 35 original negative shot at 24 fps, it would look pretty much like the Maxivision print there (no waste, but half as many frames). So it would almost certainly take twice as much film to shoot in Maxivision. Also, a stop more light is not a non-trivial issue. It could mean having to rent 20K HMIs instead of 10K, a bigger generator, etc. Or using a higher ISO film, thus negating the benefits of the format in the first place.

No one shoots with 70 mm film. 65 mm film is the capture size, 70 mm is the print size (added 5 mm for audio tracks).
I don't see many people failing to realise this.

Also I think most people close their browsers from time to time, even if most people on HN don't. (I've heard rumours that some people even turn their computers off at night.) These people care about start-up time.
Angry Birds on Android was launched off of the success on the iPhone though. Not that invalidates their success on the Android platform or anything, just that it doesn't speak to the power of the Android platform, since it probably would never have happened if not for their previous success on the iPhone. I.e. the Angry Birds story is not a good example of when focusing on Android rather than iOS would have been a good idea.

Can you think of any Android exclusive app or game that is achieving a similar success? Then that app is probably a better example.
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If you're giving a reasonably clear + coherent pitch but the potential investor doesn't understand the problem or the business space you are in then it is probably not a good match for either party.

I disagree with some of the advice on this thread that you should be explaining it as clearly as it takes - it assumes that the universe of all investors and the potential investor audience for your idea is a 1:1 map, which it isn't.

I would never invest in a space I don't understand, even within the broad 'internet/technology space'. I know nothing about the finance space you are in, so even if trusted peers vouched for you I wouldn't get involved because I just don't know the space.

Smart money is always better than dumb money, and if the investor doesn't know your space then its theirs would only be dumb money.

You say you don't even need investment - if that is the case then don't waste a second of your time seeking validation from potential investors (which is what I feel you are doing)... seek customer validation instead by getting deposits, contracts for future business when the tool is available or at the very least, letters of intent. Good luck!

EDIT: another thought - a space like yours probably relies heavily on 'who you know' because I'm guessing the size of potential customers is relatively small and insular. You're either already tapped into those circles or you're not - and that might also might be having an affect on the quality/suitability of people you are liaising with. If you are not well tapped into those circles then also consider what impact that will have if you can't setup the deals/get your foot in the door with potential customers even if your technology/product works and solves the problem.
I'm still using txtmt after 3 years
Seconded. Link to pdf for the lazy: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf.

And to other incarnations: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html.
I'm curious. Do you think giving someone a large block of marble is equivalent to giving them Michelangelo's David?
Gleick is also the author of a very interesting biography of Richard Feynman, the book Genius.

http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Life-Science-Richard-Feynman/dp...
I did some napkin math on the 10,000 hour thing.

10,000 hours is N hours daily for M years

3 hours for 10 years.

4 hours 15 min for 7 years

5 hours for 6 years

6 hours for 5 years

7 hours 30 min for 4 years

10 hours a day for 3 years

15 hours a day for 2 years

Just incase somebody wants to pick up a new skill =).
*How TechCrunch Is Not Over Is Over Launched After 24 Hours With 24K Users :)
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