skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft’s Zune, Vista, and Windows Mobile 7 Strategy vs the iPhone
This post just copies examples from the actual Sparklines documentation.

http://www.willarson.com/code/sparklines/sparklines.html
Not sure what business sense Rick Rubin has, but as a music producer, he's beyond comparison.

Kinda wish I worked at MOG just for the possibility of access to him...
Thank you, ars technica, for paraphrasing a press release.
blah, even that link is just an obvious mashup. people were doing this three years ago
"You can't reduce the complexity of parenting or education to an easy 10 step program; you actually have to pay attention to how each individual child learns."

When the child is very young it makes sense to follow the practice that yields the best results on average, absent of additional information. Some children might not benefit as much or at all from breastfeeding, but it would be irrational not to breastfeed your child unless you suspected that your child was an exception.

There isn't a best practice for facet of child development, but I think it would be a huge mistake to come away from this article believing that no best practices exist.
I've been posting quite a few of them in the past (science, neuroscience, cogsci etc) but they never got more than few points. People just don't seem to care.

Another thing is that many business related links never propagate upward either. I've started my own mini news site that will be all about business/finance/management. I haven't give the link to anyone yet. Anyone interested?
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"viola!"?

I keep seeing that everywhere... Is it some kind of standard mispelling of "Voilà!"?
Tracking Firebug Performance
Personally I still find the breastfeeding-IQ link dubious. This blog is an interesting look at the study mentioned: http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/11/breastfeeding-d.html

If a study that controls for maternal and paternal IQ and uses modern formula still finds a link then it would be more convincing. Having said that, breastfeeding seems to have a clear positive effect on the immune system of babies.
Bad: Prestige payoffs in mining correlations regarding things I can relate to as a layperson.

Good: Making steps towards gaining a much more detailed understanding of how the brain actually works.
Don't forget that hacker news has collected lots of media attention all those numerous time that Y Combinator is mentioned. Paul Graham even pointed out to the community here that the demographic would be changing, and perhaps it has again a few times over.

The recent http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html is worth mentioning because if the VC types appear in droves here to observe us, they indirectly create a salting effect where we stop posting or otherwise behaving as ourselves. i.e, we go elsewhere, possibly back to a chat room, or just keep to ourselves until another collaborative opportunity presents itself.
I'll definitely look into it, I did consider a Palm in general in lieu of that Treo I mentioned. If it's price competitive and it has some of the features I'm looking for, I'll strongly consider it. Thanks for the heads up.

Personally not concerned with the radiation levels though. Power output of a cellphone is a couple orders of magnitude below anything I see causing cancer or non-trival DNA damage.
While I'm not a partisan, and value trying to be as even-handed as possible in evaluating situations, I hand Microsoft the torch in the case of mobile. They've been far more fair, open, and straight-forward with Windows Mobile and the APIs.

Bonus points that I use Windows dev platforms on a regular basis, so it would be fairly trivial for me to deploy on a windows mobile phone.

Still bouncing around the ideas I'm seeing.
I think the immune system effects alone make breastfeeding the clear best practice, even if no IQ boost exists.
I just looked up prices for the Centro, no can do. That puts it in shooting distance of every single windows mobile phone I'd been considering and the iPhone as well. And the Nokia N95 if you tack on $100.
I like the Kurzweil AI daily digest for science news, there are usually at least 2 articles worth reading every day.
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I like sparklines. I used the php sparklines library to put a lot of them on my site: http://www.babynameclusters.com/?search=paul&threshold=3...
There is also a school of though that says the extra cuddles and being held in mothers space is good for them alone. This can be done with a bottle but does not have to be.
And that website will eat your CPU like it did mine.
Why lawyers don't like Linux
Summer '08 YC companies
Ask YC: Best website to form a Delaware C-Corp Online?
My cofounder and I are looking to setup our DE C-Corp online and are wondering if anyone here has had experience with any of the websites that do it.

Here are some that we've looked at:
www.thedelawarecompany.com
www.incfile.com
www.incorporate.com
www.companiesinc.com
etc...

Any recommendations? Anything to make sure is included?
Haven't seen it. Tropic Thunder is great.
This is version 2 of a year old product. It's marginally different than version 1, but significantly more buggy.
I appreciate that.

Maybe I'm just not spending enough time outdoors.
It's not at all equivalent to supporting different hardware. Providing an SDK for the iPhone is like providing an SDK for Mac OS X. In fact, it's exactly the same -- and the SDK for the iPhone (Cocoa Touch) is a direct derivative of Cocoa for Mac OS X.
"Many winners conducted field studies or other forms of contextual research in the workplace. After all, when you're designing mission-critical software for print shops, you need to move your precious behind out of the office and into some real print shops."

And that's exactly what I did with my startup :-P
This is an utterly predictable problem.

News.YC has been mentioned in enough places -- like Reddit, where I migrated from -- that it's been gathering some influence from those places. PG has been curiously adamant about not doing anything algorithmically to address this, instead insisting that somehow this forum will just never accumulate the kind of cruft that every other web-based forum accumulates.

I think that web-based forums have to follow one of the basic rules of capitalism, in that it has one of three states: either it's dying, or it's growing slowly, or it's growing quickly.

Interesting conversations and submissions happen as a way for people to signal information to other people that they think might not be aware of it, and might find it interesting. Assuming it were possible for a forum to never either lose nor gain participants, eventually the participants would share most of the information that they weren't mutually familiar with, and those that were interested in external sources of information that they weren't initially aware of would begin to follow them, and there'd be nothing left to share. The forum gradually gets quieter, and dies.

Or, the forum can grow. It may grow quickly, as with Reddit or Digg or Fark or what-have-you, in which case it has a natural tendency towards more mainstream topics. Or, it can grow slowly, like News.YC, but it still gathers a little bit of new blood, and inevitably, that new blood brings a certain fraction of mainstream interest along with it.

The funny thing is, a forum in a slow state of growth will tend to accelerate into a faster state of growth, as the gradual increase in mainstream topics draws the interest of a larger cross-section of people.

So, the trick is to enforce a slower state of growth without killing it altogether, and I haven't seen any willingness here to do that.
I don't know much about VC structures. How much they need to invest per year. How many partners, etc.

But I assume that even if the numbers are off, the principle stands: They invest in few companies per year, so they need to invest large amounts.

Maybe VCs (or the ones currently around) don't need to be investing in software startups any more. The classic model is that VCs fund risky industries that need a lot of startup cash (like sailing to India to buy spices). If that's not software anymore, maybe they need to get out. At least out of some software areas.

Actually, I was surprised at the numbers he was talking about: 50k, 200k..
Google Minus Google: Google Search without Google content
This is seriously cool. It's a fantastic idea and the implementation is great.
Way to go, Wufoo! We've all known that those guys are awesome at usability, but it's cool to see the usability guru himself explain what makes it great.
Photos from YC Cambridge event with Paul Graham, Kevin Merritt and Nabeel Hyatt
I don't think this page is intended for public consumption. If you weren't invited or referred by someone you'll most likely be rejected...
I think there are two questions here we need tease out:

1. Are enough science stories being submitted? If not, why not?

2. What happens to the science stories when they are submitted?

I can't answer the first question (anyone got data?) but from experience submitting a few science stories is that they get a couple of votes and die. This, I think, is an interesting observation.

The hint of an answer also comes from my experience: I get my science news fix elswhere. HN, to me, is about things that make me think harder/better or see the world in a new way. Granted that's not always the case, but the gems here outclass any gem elsewhere I've seen.

So what think is happening is that we don't care for mainstream science news. I think for a science story to survive here, it needs to be a slightly off the beaten path subject with a very clever title - hackers are humans after all and headlines can affect them emotionally to get them to up vote.
Wufoo is basically the best UI for form building ever created.
"By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model."

I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to write a program that automatically generates modern "art" exhibit descriptions like this one.

Like SCIgen: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
It's amazing how much content is in Google properties.

Number of results WITH:
iphone (241,000,000)
john mccain (40,000,000)
barack obama (58,000,000)
isaac hayes (4,000,000)

Number of results WITHOUT:
iphone (50,000,000)
john mccain (12,000,000)
barack obama (11,000,000)
isaac hayes (2,000,000)
I have a BlackBerry Curve on T-Mobile, and generally think it's the best mobile email client I've ever used. There are a decent number of downloadable apps, and OTA J2ME provisioning is actually pretty awesome. In terms of "hackability", it's tough to find anything better than a full-featured, reasonably-fast Java stack, since you can do development and deployment from your choice of platforms and hosting providers.

However, the Curve firmware (at least at OS version 4.3) has two major flaws. First, it's intermittently crash-prone and slow when using 3rd-party applications. Second, it locks up after a few minutes and has to be hard-rebooted when I try to use it as a Bluetooth modem for my Mac, which is especially annoying since a full restart takes more than five minutes.

Regardless, I still think I made the right choice in selecting the Curve over an iPhone, for one simple reason: UMA. Being able to pay $20/mo. for unlimited calling over any WiFi network has already paid for itself many times over when I've been outside the US (or even in rural parts of the US) and avoided having to pay roaming fees.
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It's not only because it's different than Google, it's because it's not explained, i.e. they make a poor assumption: namely, that the interface they're presenting contains enough information for me to make a good decision. I don't find that's the case. I find it hard to choose between "Web Screenshot View (Searches Yahoo)" or "4 Sources View (Searches Ask, Google, MSN, Yahoo)". I really have never thought about it. Just give me the results in your best guess format, and I'll take it from there if I'm unsatisfied.

Also, the need to move really far through horizontal space to explore all the different views is ungood. Small multiples, if you want to call these that, should be placed in a grid, not a long single-file line.
That thread was full of idiots on both sides, man. I wouldn't read too much into it. People, especially hackers, get stupid when it comes to religious things like editor wars, OS choices, and anything else.

Cry as we might, this HN is still better than Reddit or Digg.
Yes you do need a mac. The only mac in my room out of the many, many computers I own is a PowerMac G4 I got with 768mb of ram (500 mhz proccy! :( ) for $30 a month or so ago.

Got a fresh install of Tiger on it, then stopped using it. I like OS X, but the lag kills me compared to my primary server/desktop machine with quad xeons and 4 gb of ram :\

Sigh. I'm not paying what apple or second-hand sellers want for a mac. Period. Unless I get a steal or Apple invents the second-coming of performance.
I looked at the bold, and as long as I can subvert the tethering fees that T-Mobile has, I'll be okay. It seems to have all the features I want, and the processor looks beastly. This is important (TM) to me, because laggy interfaces make me want to fling devices across rooms. namely, my room.

What was your experience, in detail, you'd say, with the bold?
Also, if your scripts have any dev mode features for testing (such as cleaning up some database values and regenerating, removing some files etc), make sure that you are unable to execute them on production or some sort of confirmation is required.

I had a script on my server that did clustering of stories from different news sources. The script also had some test methods which deleted all the clustered data and rebuilt it. I once accidentally ran the "cleanup method" on prod server and that created disaster because somehow cascaded deletion took place. I had to refer to replay log to get everything back and took hours of efforts plus a lot of pressure. From then onwards I placed a check on each of my script to get a confirmation twice before executing any such test method on prod server.
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Why Computer Science Doesn’t Matter
This is intreguing. I look forward to REALLY getting into the report. I wish that they also listed ALL the web applications they reviewed. It'd probably be a tedius read, but it would be interesting to know where things like Tumblr and Wordpress fit in... amongst many others obviously.
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Launchpad Chicken: MobileMe and Sync Trouble
If your startup is based around a single application, then you could work with a great agency. Your application could be knocked out and then your time would be mostly focused on building the community around the application and making notes about what things to add, update & improve in your application update releases.

My main caution about agencies, was to the entrepreneurs who think they don’t have to know anything about the tech because they can hire an agency to build them a complete site… most good startups are never complete.
There are extreme strawmen at both ends of the scale: the 10-step program is one, Luddism is the other. Progress is in the middle.
Once upon a time I was VP of Engineering at a start up in Mountain View and I'd get called by recruiters all the time. One time a woman called me and asked about the company and I was particularly looking for people who had written debuggers. So I told her that.

She repeated back to me: "Knowledge of debugglers".
I would recommend getting Nokia E71 if you can get it in the US.
It's simple, trolls prey on people's inner asshole. It's like a form of bullying, if you rise to the bait, then you're done. There's no technical fix, there's a mentality fix. The act is as old as the hills, and they provide balance to the debate. Trolls are a form of court jester.

I am therefore pro-troll and anti troll-victim.
I'm curious: what's the rationale for not being able to play with Wufoo without signing up (for a free account)? Was it found to be more effective to require some (minor) commitment from the user?
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No, watergate was not trolling, because it was not a forum game. Watergate was a scam, it was also an accident (getting rather busted).

Trolling is a scam performed for the purposes of a humorous prank on a discussion board.

Watergate was a scam to pervert the course of democratic government.
a court with no jester is destined to become pompous and corrupt.
HAHAHA! I know the adequacy.org one. That had me in stitches for weeks.
It's really interesting the idea of being able to tag posts with a rating which describes their quality, such as "annoying" "boring" "funny" or "relevant" rather than just plus minus some points.
There is no automatic 100% defense against any tactic.
any publicity is good publicity
incorporate.com, a bit expensive but reputable company
So long as the 10-step program comes with a bottle of pills for when the child deviates.
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Forums used to be the province of the technorati. Not no more they ain't.
Now that gives me a business idea...

The university of troll. A website where should you supply enough bogus posts, you get posted a certificate... of course you have to pay a course fee. $100 should do it.
This kind of puzzles me. How can you even begin to cope with society if you don't learn from your mistakes?

Learning from your mistakes seems, to me, like having pain receptors. People without pain receptors exist, and they hurt themselves all the time in terrible ways, so that they need specialised, permanent care just to exist and not kill themselves all the time. The pain allows you to learn from your physical mistakes and not do them again.

If you can't learn from your other mistakes, how can you do anything but hurt yourself all the time? If 30% of children were truly like that, they would be extremely dysfunctional. I'm not saying that this is not the case - after all, if you think about it, there are a fair number of children at school who seem dysfunctional in some ways (though usually not the ones you'd think at first glance), like repeat-offender bullies - but if that is the case, shouldn't the solution be to discover a fix to this dysfunction rather than just telling parents "Oh well, your child doesn't learn from its mistakes, your parenting won't matter very much".
The quality which we are looking at is that of unassailable power. That's what makes people behave in an assertive an non-compliant way.

Cars give people that, guns give people that, web skills give people that.
What constitutes trivial DNA damage?
Learning how to cook food stimulated a big leap in human cognition 150,000 years ago
The excavators also found what they took to be chunks of coal deep inside the villa, and set them alight to illuminate their passage underground. Only when they noticed how many torches had solidified around an umbilicus -- a core of wood or bone to which the roll was attached -- did the true nature of the find become apparent. Here was a trove of ancient texts, carbonised by the heat surge of the eruption.

Am I the only one whose blood curdled when I read that?

Typical... ancient texts, the only copy to survive from antiquity, perhaps... what better thing could you do than set it alight!
morality is not a boolean thing. Now that is absolutely bang on.

You see, a moral is extracted from a story, it is interpretation. Good stories don't have to spell it out. Some stories have many morals. Some stories the moral of the story is it's hard to find the morals, or the boundaries.
Yeah, I have had this problem on two different Windows Mobile phones... one with WM5 and one with WM6. Why do cell phone applications all suck so badly?
That would indicate that people would have to become widely trustworthy and rigorous.
Why I recommend Scheme
I have heard that many times, so I finally decided to check it out. There is a lot of movement/animation on every page, and most of it is pretty unnecessary.

Other than that, it wasn't that bad. I'm curious what my thoughts would be if I actually visited the site with the intention of creating a form, which obviously is the only real test that matters.
Very nice piece on the pedagogic advantages of Scheme over Haskell.
seems like it went well.
I have written a 3rd party billing application like this, for the domestic service industry, and the major hurdle you will have to get over is that merchant account issuers won't give you an account.

They get one whiff of "3rd party processing" or "payment service provider" and their fraud alarms go off. Certainly in the UK they (Major banks & Paypal) will not issue me with a merchant account, and the reason they cite is that it's too big a fraud risk. I can see how it would be an easy way to launder money.

If you manage to overcome this problem, I'd love to hear about it :-)
and yeah, don't pay them for EIN. you can do that for free.
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I've been using HTC P3300 (http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_p3300-1693.php) and I've found it almost a replacement for my laptop to use it on the go. I use it to check my mails, browsing (OperaMini rox), connect to my servers using Putty, car navigation using Pocket Google Maps, WarDriving, storage device and a lot of other stuff including using it as speedometer :)

I am thinking about upgarding to HTC TyTn II or HTC Touch Pro. Both are great phones. Infact Windows Mobile is a cool platform with so many useful applications. Windows Mobile doesn't is great out of the box but with little tweaking no other phones can beat it.

I recommend that you go for any Windows Mobile 6.1 based device. However HTC TyTn II and Touch Pro are highly recommended :)
Obvious solution: Buy iPhone. Get approved by Apple as a developer. Write awesome application. Make 1000+ bucks a day. Buy every other cell phone on your list and compare them yourself. :-)
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SCIENCE has failed the world!!!!
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