skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that's built-to-flip.

It hope he has a liquidity event, validating the accelerating pace of business development and shortening of the product life-cycle of today. And when I say "today", I mean of one actual day.

Seriously, it would be awesome if he made out with some cash from this idea. What he's offering is: a cool name, a cool idea (a validated-to-some-extent idea), an implementation, a (nascent) network effect, and publicity in the relevant community.

Of course it seems ridiculous because it is only a day's worth. But that's no real argument against it; it may be an argument against the sale price being very high, but it's no argument against it being worth something.

There is however one very limiting argument against it - the ease of duplication:

If you believed this was a great opportunity, how much would it cost you to catch up? Almost nothing, and you might prefer to start fresh anyway. If it had been going for 3 months, and had 3 months worth of brand recognition, network effect and improvement of implementation, that would be worth something. I don't know how much, but it would take 3 months (approx) to duplicate. And if you didn't buy it, you might never catch up - so not just a few month's worth, but some proportion of a life-time's worth.
What is the deal…with Seinfeld as a pitchman for Microsoft?
memcached != memcache
More details on Research of Photosynth http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/findingpaths/
That's strange, I'm sure I submitted it without that since that's a pet peeve of mine. Any mods feel like fixing it please?
Photosynth is a website, not a desktop app.
What a weird response. I meant it as a disappointment that I couldn't see it in action being on OSX.
Wow wtf man, I spent 5 minutes on that page playing with that...and to think I wonder about how I possibly waste time on a site like YC News...
A Doorbell That Twitters
I did notice that as well. But I got a Windows only message when trying to give it a whirl.
The only effect I've seen on HN.

Works in all versions of FireFox/Safari I've tried, but unsurprising is broken in IE.
I find the "Blue Ocean"-strategy for Start-Ups quite dangerous - because this means convincing customers that they have a problem that only you are able to solve. And that could easily result in building something far from a market.
I would like to emphasize that the side project doesn't necessarily have to be technology related. You might learn more by learning outside your comfort zone. Computers are computers - they take our input - GIGO. I learn more when I have to interact with real people. Like with computers - If you work with cars all day, is working on vintage cars truly a hobby?
Sometimes it is the best choice of words. Most people who swear are not using the traditional bodily or religious connotations of the words, they are using them for emphasis or exclamation. Those uses are so much more common than the original meanings that outside of specific contexts, the new emphatic meanings are the default.

When referring to the original meanings, I think it is very vulgar to use those words, for instance saying "Take a s---" or "f------ your girlfriend". Those make me cringe. But those same words still work for me as exclamation, as in "S---! I lost my wallet!" or "His house is so f------ huge!".

I think that swear words are useful in this context because the social norms against using them keep them relatively scarce, which gives them value. When marketers have overhyped everything ("Extreme Toothpaste! The Ultimate Chili Dog! The Greatest Athlete Ever!"), the scarcely used swear words are valuable for conveying meaning because everything else is cheapened. If you could buy "Whitest F------ Teeth" toothpaste, swear words would not convey any additional meaning and would probably be used less.
Top 10 IP Mistakes
I remember that phrase 100x more than anything from Startup School. It's the clearest explanation I've heard of how you can succeed by creating a great experience, not just a great product.
I think he means that it's a (Windows) plugin for your browser. Both the picture uploader and the viewer are Windows-only for now.
I'd like to take this opportunity to pimp my own personal blog at http://www.gittr.com. I have written a ton of documentation about Sinatra, while learning it. It feels like PHP, but minus the nasty parts. Whereas Rails feels like Java minus the nasty parts.

That was my side project, and sure enough, I start an awesome new job in a week and a half. I basically have been doing exactly what this talks about, and it works!
Photosynth: From Snapshots, a 3-D View
I don't see how this is different from the risks associated with any other storage service. Just be sure to have a proper backup strategy/maintenance plan.
It can be quite hard actually... point(er) arithmetic is pretty complicated.
Seinfeld?!

Boys... Those folks at Redmond are really out of touch. Do they think Jerry Seinfeld can "inject coolness" into their brand?
Great news. A little concerned with:
"Amazon EBS also charges $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests you make to your volume." How many I/O requests does your system make a day?
The restaurant is a loss leader. He benefits greatly by having demand exceed supply. If anyone with $3K can get a table, then he's just another expensive restaurant. But if it's impossible to even get there, it's worth talking about. He makes his money elsewhere:

"El Bulli itself may not make money, but the brand has spawned plenty of other things that do. Those 100,000 big books that he has sold containing the Bulli secrets, going back to when Adrià first joined the restaurant in 1983 cost £100 each and are printed by El Bulli's very own publishing house. Then there's his range of supermarket books (50 new tapas you can make at home, 10-minute recipes, that sort of thing); a hotel in Andalucía; three fast-food outlets called Fast Good (two in Madrid, one in Santiago, Chile), with four more on the way; and his endorsement of a top-selling brand of olive oil. He charges many thousands for each lecture he gives. He has a collection of kitchenwear, a joint venture with Armand Basi. He has his own brand of plates and cutlery (including a spoon with small holes in it so you can eat your cereal without drinking the milk).He has deals with Lavazza coffee, Pepsi, United Biscuits and Spain's biggest hotel chain. One could go on but he is, in short, the David Beckham of the food business."
A lot of people don't like C++. I get that. What I don't get is why people feel personally affronted by the changes. All of the language extensions address real problems that have been faced by real programmers.

C++0x is the solution a large group of people came up with to answer a lot of problems. Articles like this one are written by people who appear to be largely ignorant of these problems. The implicit assumption here is "I'm smarter than the C++ committee." If you think that, then you should wade through the documents produced by the committee and see how you would solve these problems: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/
As people generating entertainment for their readers, you're right. It was a good story. But, as "journalist" they, in my opinion, are lazy. They failed to fully research the issue and present it as clearly as possible.
I'd really like to use AWS for future Rails deployments.. Has anyone gotten a Rails app deployed using EC2/EBS/S3?
Photo Birth Announcements Article
The most precious moment in a woman’s life after her wedding day is the time when she is going to give birth to her baby. When you go through this special moment and give birth to your baby, you would certainly not like to keep it to yourself because this is also one of the proud moments of your life that you have now become a new mother and you have got your promotion to the next stage of your life.
http://justhackitnow.slinkset.com/
He certainly won't hurt. I'm curious to see what the campaign is like.
The supposed EE's design is too complex by half. Indexing into an array of precomputed timer values? No. That's digital "CS thinking" :)

All you need is a photodetector. The heating coils illuminate the toast, and the photodetector shuts the toaster off once it's dark enough. The darkness knob adjusts the photodetector's cutoff threshold.

This system is even adaptive -- if it's cold that day, or your bread is frozen, it'll still get toasted to the same color.
Wow, that actually sounds like a great deal!
A competitor has already entered this space, validating it!

Though the similarity of likely gives rise to a case of passing off, or statutory misleading and deceptive conduct (not an infringement of a registered trademark as I doubt one has been registered - he should have protected his IP...)
Which way does the wind blow - [Infographics Porn]
Only two remote holes in the default install, in more than 10 years
Why I don't use Vista
This is built on an open platform.
You can now target the TV instead of just the browser.

http://www.intelconsumerelectronics.com/Consumer-Electronics...
Is there any good articles on using EC2? I've read about it, but haven't had the chance to get a firm grasp on it.
This works when someone inserts some javascript into a text field.

http://nexodyne.com/showthread.php?t=14736
Target the TV instead of the Browser
Is that a hole? Is that a default install?
There is nothing in the Securities Act which prevents someone from mailing every single person on the planet with the message:

"I am looking for up to 500k of investments from high net worth individuals seem me for details."

The act does cover what happens after that.

Edit: Just because techcrunch.com was wrong does not mean it's his job to correct them.
Thanks 13ren. I just closed the auction because it seemed like everyone was getting the wrong impression from it. Too bad I didn't read your comment first.

I definitely can't manage the site by myself (mainly because it's just a bad week--driving to FL in a few hours), and wanted to turn it over to someone who could before all the PR died down. But after the heckling I've gotten(totally deserved), I decided to seek co-founders instead.

So if anyone is interested, shoot me an email. breck7@gmail.com
I like your colors better. The competition has already surpassed me, damn!
I understand promiscuously spreading the disks around but crashing it onto a comet?

How are we ever going to get that one back when we need it?
Any details available on how they're speeding up each of these steps? The only research publications I see are the original work and the new 'finding paths' paper presented last week at Siggraph.
Browse through digg/reddit/HN like a dust devil
Who's telling you the truth about your online personal marketing?
The article takes things to an extreme, most likely to make a more 'compelling' story to read.
How To: Live the Cloud Life
How to compensate for your deficiencies as a startup outside of the Bay
Almost. Except I wouldn't call the $500 max bid I set "profit".
How important is code review?
For a project in a large organization, how important is it to get code reviewed?

Should it be a mandatory part of the QA or should it be optional with more emphasis on testing (unit and component)?
BTW it's cool, but how do you make money from slinkset?
Of the churches you've heard of doing that, which denominations were they, may I ask? I wonder if any churches would go so far as to post this on the web.
The Big Picture: Bigfoot Hoax Could Have Netted $2 Million 
Did they get enough web traffic to retire?
some bread (such as dark rye) has the same colour as toast.
Yeah, the papers only discuss how they combine known algorithms[1]. They could be speeding up the process using any combination of these:

1. Using the order of the images to reduce matching from O(N^2) to something closer to O(N) since people are more likely to take pictures sequentially instead of randomly. I'm going to run some tests next time I boot into Windows.

2. Running keypoint detection as the images are uploaded and potentially slowing down the upload speed to make it appear more seamless.

3. New keypoint detection algorithm for constant-time speedup. SURF, for instance, is about 5x faster than SIFT.

4. Using GPUs. The keypoint detection and matching steps are perfect for running on parallel GPUs. A couple recent papers showed 10-15x speedup for keypoint detection and KD-tree construction and search on GPUs, compared to similarly priced CPUs.

Any other ideas?

[1] There's also a new paper called Skeletal graphs for efficient structure from motion that discusses a neat graph algorithm for the SfM step.
He makes very few good points. There is much to mock about C++, but he hasn't hit on any of them. Actually, it's pretty clear by some of his comments that if he's used C++, his knowledge has long rusted ([] to initialize arrays? sorry. no. that's {}. If you're critiquing a language, please learn it's syntax first.) Anyways, let's take a few points where he totally misses the ball:

Please, please don’t add language features just to make
the lives of library designers easier. Add features to
make the average programmer’s life easier.

Seriously? You don't think that being able to write
libraries that integrate with the language seamlessly
will make the programmer's life easier? You think that
std::vector<int> blah;
blah.push(0);
blah.push(1);
blah.push(2);
beats
std::vector<int> blah = {0,1,2};

...The fact that in contravention of who-knows-
how-many-years of tradition, return type is going
after the function and parameter names?

Hey, just like every functional language that you
spent the last few paragraphs praising. If you'd
complained about it being inconsistent, you may have
even had a point! something like
int anon(...){...}
would probably have been a cleaner syntax, despite
being hell to parse (what in C++ isn't hell to
parse, though?)

I could go on, but I've got stuff to do. Still, if you're going to rant, please make it a well-informed rant! For the most part,the C++ FQA still applies to C++0x, among many others; plenty specific to C++0x

This really reads like a "WAHH! C++ isn't Python or Java!" post. only by someone that barely passed his C++ class in college.

Edit: Fix up formatting.
That tends to be a safe assumption in most places.
You forgot the biggest problem; You don't want to force several hundred millions of lines of code to be rewritten, of you want the porting to be trivial and the changes to cause compile failures ("oh. sorry. we've turned that into a keyword now; change the name" sort of porting)
I think you're absolutely right about needing a large amount of visitors (and the Amazon suggestion, obviously) but that's why I put so many ifs -- I'm talking more about the idea itself -- I think it's really neat, and if Amazon were to do this on college textbooks for instance, I think it'd be great.
no problem. :-) BTW You could get a valuation at http://younoodle.com/

also, I think your site dovetails with theirs somehow (pre/post formation?), and their background strategy (of building a community - the founders commented on it here) might be relevant to yours.

A week's delay is suboptimal, but won't kill it. It can grow on its own in the meantime.
I haven't read the book, although I plan on. But that also sounds dangerous if you ever plan to rely on internet marketing to spread your product.

Internet marketing relies on the fact that the customer is aware of a need. Creating demand in a new market is something most start-ups can not afford to invest in.
I cant decide if that's classy or cheeky.

But regardless, I dont know if a bug in cvsweb counts as openbsd - does it?
Profanity is the language of dysphemism, or the use of offensive metaphors to express disgust and negativity, e.g. "I got fucked [raped] on that exam" or "I had a shitty day". These turns of phrase are banal to those who've heard them hundreds of times, but are utterly offensive and shocking to most people on the first introduction.

The social danger of dysphemism, of course, is that some people will react not with disgust toward the target (the exam) but rather toward the person using such language. This leads to an inherent riskiness and edginess to so-called "profanity". However, a lot of people like risky behaviors, so this results in a proliferation of ironic or even positive uses, e.g. "my car is the shit" or "life is so fucking beautiful", that are often used to build camaraderie.
I Hate the Agile Manifesto
http://pastebin.com/f1c2d17cf

That's a pretty-printed and syntax highlighted view of the JavaScript in question.

Edit: slightly cleaned up the formatting.

Also! Line 75 confuses me (and jsLint) a bit. What's that up to?
Aliens, my dear Watson. Aliens.
-- "400 Euros! What a rip off!"

-- "No, that piece of paper is desert!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtJFZu9AIrU
ZSFA -- The Freehacker's Union
If you could buy "Whitest F------ Teeth" toothpaste, swear words would not convey any additional meaning and would probably be used less.

This reminds me of a beautiful movie, Idiocracy, and the "Carl's Jr. Extra Big-ass Fries". The motto of Carl's Jr. in this hilarious 26th-century dystopia is "Fuck you, I'm eating".
haha wait, the javascript injection is "broken" in IE? so does the injection just not work or does it work but the effect looks crappy? because if the injection doesn't work i sure wouldn't call that broken.
World's most efficient and longest-lasting OLED screen (0.1 watt, 60,000 hours)
It was extremely unfortunate how that (kind of) effect became a trend in soulless mainstream music for many years to come.

A similar effect was used extensively on Blackstreet's album "Another Level", where it caused much less harm (being more restrained).
I actually didn't list any problems, but I know the committee thinks of backwards compatibility when considering new features. Pick one of the documents and you'll probably find it mentioned.

As an aside, I think that C++ has gone too much out of its way to not introduce new keywords. That's why, for example, the syntax for lambdas looks odd and reuses previous tokens, and the new nullptr keyword is not just "null." If you're unwilling to break old programs, then you can never clean up; think OSX vs. Windows, or even Python's willingness to break compatibility with version 3.
yeah I was thinking you can stack these things and almost get 99.99999% (with around 3-4 of them) of course that makes the cost more, but not 4x.
Using JSON for Language-independent Configuration Files
A security hole? Indeed.
In the default install? No, but anyways, those are the security guys and I feel this was funny:-)
Lots of objection to philosophy in general seem to be of the form:

Philosophy is bunk/useless/mumbojumbo because its obvious that <insert some random philosophical position>.
In before OpenBSD fanboys fall over themselves to point out AH BUT THAT'S NOT THE OPENBSD DEFAULT INSTALL.

Oops, too late.
Maths on a plane
The black hole at the center of our galaxy
Keith Rarick: Building causes.com (3M dynamic views/day)
Right, any program that leaves its students thinking any one language solves all problems has failed to do its job.
Although I don't see much use for the word in comedy, "m-----f-----" is way more transgressive and ugly than "fuck", because of the connection with rape and incest. To call an enemy a "m~" is to accuse him of incest, hitting on one of humanity's oldest taboos. To describe oneself as a "badass m~" is, often, to threaten seduction or rape against others' mothers-- in other words, to dress oneself as a dangerous and indiscriminate sociopath.

It's probably one of the most intrinsically ugly words in the language. Racial slurs are ugly because of what they represent-- hideous and unacceptable attitudes held against innocent people, based in prejudice and ignorance-- but not on account of composition, because they're usually atomic words. These words become extremely offensive once one knows their meanings, but beforehand hold no special currency. By contrast, "M~" is a compound of two well-known and fairly innocuous words-- one completely acceptable, one edgy but mostly inoffensive-- that instantly makes the skin of even most liberal people crawl, even before its semantic subtleties are explored.
The browser cannot know if script is injected or part of the ordinary site, so a browser cannot possibly protect against injection.

Anyway, the injected script is indeed executed in IE, it just seem to fail because of an IE-specific bug.
A good question to be sure but, I don't think that we should consider that disk as a backup intended for us. FSM forbid that something terrible should happen to us, perhaps another intelligent species may find it long after we're gone.
Analysis: Yahoo-Intel TV widgets could leave us wanting more
I motion that this bit of art be kept, in admiration for its sheer brilliance and hacker-appeal.

If you guys really need to disable JS-injection for security purposes, at least leave "arglebargle's" in place.
Because bad parodies are, well, bad, and Atlas Shrugged reads like nothing so much as a parody of classical liberalism written by a recent convert to communism without a shred of literary talent.
I agree that email should be made simpler but I don't think Xobni has done anything interesting yet. I am excited for what they'll come up with because the interface looked really neat and email definitely could be improved.

If they took all that information and made it more seamless into the email they would really have something. This almost certainly requires changing the whole interface. Being only a sidebar in outlook is limited right from the get-go. Outlook still sucked even with xobni installed.
I had an African Grey too - it wasn't at all interested in its reflection.

But it was intelligent. If the phone rang, it would say "Hello?" in the voice of the person next to the phone, then proceed to "converse" with itself.
Which one is that? pgpool?
How the Apple iPhone ecosystem works
Four (or Five) Reasons Why "Beta” Is Bulls@#t
And when he has an Apple Mac (original) on his desk!
Looks like it's time for chef Ramsay to kick somebody's ass.
Regular code reviews are important in a large organization I think as it helps enforce code guidelines and share knowledge in how to code well. A huge plus is you can see any new good techniques that a developer has used and can then add it to any style guidelines you have.
Anyone try playing with the bouncing Y after mousing over it?
Think you can’t get a virus by visiting a web page? Think again.
A server issue that causes the server to respond "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA"? Man, I hate those.
I know breck is active here... But if this doesn't signify a bubble^H^H^H^H^H^H irrational exuberance, I don't know what does.
Heh, now that's an innovative way to drive even more traffic to the site. 13ren, I know you are feeling overwhelmed right now, but the right thing to do is to see this as an even greater traffic source, and revel in the traffic. Don't be afraid or feel like you are unpopular, instead, RIDE THE WAVE. The internet has a very short memory, it's like an ADD kid on crack.

These are your 15 minutes, and this is the second wave. Now figure out how to make a 3rd wave, and you will get the number of users your site needs to break through and enter the upwards curve.
Can you buy these things?

Patek Philippe may prattle on about how their watches are meant to be passed on to descendents, but this is something whose use is explicitly dependent upon outliving you. Heck, losing it adds to its value!

I'm not one for knick-knacks but I'd love to own one of these. Even as a fad, profitable sales could considerably increase their number and geographic distribution while reducing their cost (hand made at $25k? There must be a way to automate that!).
What's the reserve?
Silver, Bronze & Regret
What, pray tell, is this supposed to be?
...truant spews and new startups. Hacker News: knew cash ER, screen hawk, and "HN: We Rake CS."
DNA Forensics Used to Prevent Elephant Poaching