skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's extremely saturated, and in my mind, completely pointless. I decided not to include any social features in the site and make it as straight-forward as possible.

I don't really agree with bloggers and writers being useless. That's how the word spreads about websites; except for viral means. The article on Lifehacker alone practically doubled my user registrations (about 20% of the total traffic from the article registered).
I am intrigued how do you hackers here network with people both online and offline. Care to share tips, tricks, dos and donts?
I wish I had read the last sentence first.
Researchers discover protein that triggers hair follicle regeneration in mice
Sorry the best I could work out was to copy and paste:
http://rafb.net/p/5zhzvQ16.html

Not great... will have to guess what is Q and what is A :(
Chris Anderson: The time/money formula of free
It’s the Software, Not You
Ask YC: What happened to Plaxo's Address Book Widget?
Hi Guys

I read about Plaxo's address book importing widget at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205923, and today I visited the site to try to find this, but apparently it has been removed from Plaxo's pages.

Does anyone know how else I can get access to this or if there are any other (free) solutions? I plan to use this as a temporary solution until our site is more stable.

Thx
I wonder if there's any connection between this and some types of RSI-like symptoms. I know it's a bit of a strange comparison, as with typing any focus would be on content and not aim, but the paragraph about others (e.g. musicians) getting "focal dystonia" from when neurons that guide a particular movement [...] become worn from overuse reminds me of people whose hands seem to cramp up at the mere thought of typing.

Just a thought.
Perhaps he wants Hacker Top:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/follow-hacker-news-from-the-con...
Eventually I think the carriers will be forced to replace the contract+ETF with a standard loan, which isn't that different from a prorated ETF anyway. It will still allow subsidized phones and plenty of revenue for carriers, but it's a more familiar concept.
You don't even have to do without a cell phone if you don't want to be locked in - you can pay full price for the phone (usually ~$200 more), buy a used phone, or get one of those pay-as-you-go plan. That's what I did. Dammit, should have signed a contract and waited for the government to get me out of it.
Ask HN: Your best marketing idea that has helped spread the word about your product?
Question: What has been your best marketing idea that has helped spread the word about your product?<p>Or if you don't have a web app yourself, how do you hear about new web apps?
I wonder how this story is doing on reddit...
awesome stuff though Kocera seems to be drinking a little too much of his own koolaid
Nobody's proposing using it for RPC. They're suggesting it as a replacement for polling.
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That unfortunately seems to not be true as evidenced by the other pdf linked from the front page which isn't marked as such.
If you're bored during your workouts, you're doing it wrong. It's that simple.

My sport of choice is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I tend to combine strength training and conditioning to complement BJJ practices. But sometimes I'll lift for power only, because it's fun to change it up.

Since you're on HN, I assume you're a programmer. Don't you like solving programming puzzles? Doesn't it make you feel good to figure something out, even if there's no obvious benefit? I have the same attitude with workouts - both BJJ and the strength training I do.

Last week, I wondered if I could do five reps of five set of Clean & Press at 185 pounds. I could seven months ago. I thought my strength wasn't up to where it had been. But I did it. It was hard; it took considerable effort to not let myself feel tired inbetween sets, and to maintain focus during the sets. I had set an ambitious but realistic goal, and I achieved it. I went home feeling good.

If you have the right attitude to exercising, there are considerable mental benefits. I think a big part of this is training for performance, not looks. Pushing yourself to achieve your performance goals, not your body-image goals. But someone else said it better, so I'll link to him: http://dynamicfitness.blogspot.com/2006/04/df-tip-13-enough-...

Find something you have fun doing. Maybe a sport or a martial art. Or maybe your concept of "working out" is too narrow; check out http://www.crossfit.com for people who stress performance during workouts that generally last less than 30 minutes, but will exhaust you.
Here is the NASA press release for those wishing for a bit more breadth than Twitter can provide:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_08_195_Phoenix_w...
The incompetence of this kind of character seems obvious in retrospect but I've found if you've only ever worked with competent people it's dangerously easy to miss these guys.

This reminds me of one of my all-time favorite PG lines:

I've found that people who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent.
I like it a lot, however some of the results seem to be 'old' links that don't exist anymore. e.g., I searched for a black leather sofa, and got amazing results that however didn't exist anymore on the target site. Maybe consider updating your index more often (not sure how difficult of a problem that is for you), but still - great site!
Frankly I found the narcissism a little off-putting. Lately It seems to be the main requirement for being a CEO. Among other things:

- She couldn't check the spelling of "Visacalc"(sic)?

- Titling every second paragraph with "How I moved on" - just asks to have the phrase ", leaving wreckage in my wake" after it.

- "feed my soul"

- "I rented funny movies" So now you're basically competing with every stay at home mom for work at home plans.

- "And I lived in that space for too long" Space? If it was that difficult, couldn't you have learned to talk like a real person, rather than an executive drone.

- "I respond to visual goals, so I did a vision board: I took white poster board and I pasted pictures and phrases that represented my goals." - so now you're competing with elementary school students.

- "I mean, I wasn’t crying every day nor did I drive to the Golden Gate Bridge and contemplate jumping." - so she actually lives in the Bay Area - which has massive support systems for failed entrepreneurs and giant egos. Boo fucking hoo.

Now if she goes on and actually does something great with smartnow.com I'll eat my words. Till then I'll repeat "Boo fucking hoo."

And I'll pose a question - when pets.com was crashing down around her ears, how much money did she walk away with? Apparently enough to not work till several years later, for starters.
Decentralization of energy production will be revolutionary.

This particular article, on the other hand, makes no mention of the economic factors involved in the said processes. To top it off, there's been a sway of "amazing solar discoveries" recently and we'd be lucky to see a handful of them actually make it into the real world.
That said, I'll believe it when I see it.
One of the primary illegitimate means of preserving oligopoly and other states that economists characterize as "market failure" is regulation. For small-time examples, see the crooked politics and business licensing laws of Louisiana. For larger ones, look carefully at FDR's 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act, which, among other things, actually legalized cartels. Although the act was declared unconstitutional in 1935, both government and business were further corrupted thereafter.

But not all cases of monopoly or oligopoly should be considered harmful - businesses that win such positions by the strength of outstanding execution or innovation (Alcoa in the 20th century, for instance) should be left alone.

What I advocate is removing the government crutch that keeps some businesses in unnaturally advantageous situations. Think of things like the farm bill, or the FDA.
Hacker News. ;-)
One of my favorite quotes (can't remember from where, and I'm paraphrasing) is that great marketing people are the most important people you can hire, but it's nearly impossible to figure who are the great marketing people and who are the snake oil salesmen.
Aha! There's actually no difference (i think) between:

1, 2

and:

(1, 2)

That seems to make sense.
How do neurons become "worn from overuse"?!

Is such a thing possible or was that just an analogy?
Tethering Briefly Comes To The iPhone, Tempers Flare
I woke the baby up while reading this out loud to my wife.

It was worth it.
disclaimer: I was involved with this event a few years ago, but it's still a great opportunity to meet other people in security, get involved with interesting events and contribute.
You don't think your way out of crushing depression. It's not about logic.
Thats the problem with the corporate structure, when you grow to a certain size the people who end up on top aren't your best talent. They are just the people who are the best at playing the corporate game.
Although not a VC program, but Microsoft does have a 'Startup Accelerator Program': http://microsoftstartupzone.com/accelerator/country.aspx?c=e...

Startups like Xobni, Loopt, JaJah, Me.dium, PageFlakes, PlentyofFish etc. seem to have participated in this program.

Currently it reads:

At this time, we are no longer accepting new applications as we have reached full capacity. We apologize for the limited number of space and would encourage you check back in September for additional program that may meet your business needs.

Scarcity illusion?
That's nothing. Apparently there are some out there who still do things like ride horses, make their own bread, sing songs, and drink alcoholic beverages. Join the 21st century already, people!
I don't think it matters whether you've built a business or not. What makes a difference is how many photos you have and what kind.

If you have 3 photos, go ahead and use flickr. Three photos look better on flickr than on OurDoings.

If you have 200 photos that are individual works of art, Smugmug is the place for you.

If you have 200 photos that hang together to tell a story, whether it's of kids growing up, travels, or some other activity, then OurDoings is just plain better.

When a lot of people have uploaded 200 photos each and then abandoned OurDoings, I'll feel like I have some data. But right now I just think not enough people have tried it.

Plus, I need to learn more about early adopters. It's easier to attract them with a fleshed out site like OurDoings than with a new bare-bones idea. OurDoings will be where I put my own photos, both private and public, until something better comes along, so it's not going away any time soon.

I do have other ideas. But I still think this is the one to focus on for now.
Regarding economics factors:

Requiring nothing but abundant, non-toxic natural materials, this discovery could unlock the most potent, carbon-free energy source of all: the sun. </quote>

Now we can split the water (H2 + O2) in a cheap efficient and highly manufacturing way </quote> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;1162018/DC2

Though It requires Platinum at the moment (Pt is not a cheap earth-abundant material).
I guess you've never heard of the "Olympics" either, eh?
How good is your title?
:)

Is hacker news sufficient to fulfill all the networking potential a hacker has?
Seriously though. What's with Obie's pictures?
Thank you for explaining what your name means on the About page. That, if anything has impressed me the most so far.
My team goes to events, frequently. In the past month there were two technology mini-seminars, upcoming a conference and a BarCamp. All locally, and we've met some great people, including some of our investors.
A symptom of the web being the lawless frontier. Eventually, the law will begin to close in on this frontier as it has on every other.
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Peridot rings and Peridot jewelry. Peridot is the birthstone of August
Reminds me of Octopart except it's for Home and Garden utilities. Hmmm I wondering what a nice a idea :-)
ED was having serious bandwidth/funding issues already. Looks like it's down again now; getting this kind of publicity was probably the surest way to kill it dead.
In the real world we call them "douche bags"...
Probably not. It is, however, sufficient to fulfill the networking potential a hacker has when he is not hacking.

You need to have solid skills to back up all your connections. People don't get hired just because they know people; they get hired because they know people and can get the job done.

(An occasional conference or face-to-face event probably wouldn't hurt, though. ;-))
No worries, mate!
Great. I do it too. BarCamps are a great way to meet interesting people. But the challenge is how do you sustain the relationship. After couple of email exchanges, people just get bored of conversation.
What's not clear to me from the article is, if the cheap easy catalyst makes oxygen gas from water, what's left over before we get the platinum involved, perhaps a bunch of hydrogen ions in solution? Something like 6xH20 -> O2 + 2xH30 or 2xH20 -> O2 + 2H+
Simple. Buy the iphone for $200, set aside $200 for the ETF. Your iphone is now $400. If you stay put for the two years, throw yourself a party or something.
"Hey, nice meeting you at BarCamp, want to grab some coffee this week?"

simple things like that. The whole point of BarCamp is for AdHoc social networking, restricting your relationships to email after the fact is defeating the purpose.
You are talking illogical now. With your analogy, even Youtube is paying tribute to thousands of musicians by storing copyrighted content on their servers where they are letting fans to listen or watch copyrighted content for free.

We all know brothers made close to $25,000 from Scrabulous every month and they were actually ready to sell but $10 Million was not enough for them.
I can't believe Apple approved it in the first place. Has to be a mistake :(
Having a bad day? There are many lessons to be learned in life. You may not resonate with her but the lessons she has learned are universal.
Yahoo Turns Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey Apps On In Search
4 Things That Hold Us Back
Maybe they meant for it to be available in certain countries but erroneously included the US (for 20 minutes).
So basically like email?
I dunno - I also found the article to be really heavy on platitudes and light on real advice. It basically boiled down to one mistake - "I took it personally and started wallowing in self-pity" - and one piece of advice - "Get over it." And ironically, her advice almost makes it seem like she hasn't taken her own advice, because the article is all about her. I was kinda hoping for some mistakes she made running the business and what she's learned from them.
All I know is that if there's a zombie outbreak I want an olympic archer with me for when we run out of ammo.
AOL Tells Angry Blogger Staff: Everything is Fantastic
Microsoft discloses Google, Apple threat, plus Danger sale price
It's pretty easy to make $46M by spending $110M, which is what Pets.com did.

The rest of Julie's career is pretty impressive - I remember playing with You Don't Know Jack in high school and finding it pretty entertaining. But Pets.com was basically an ill-conceived disaster.
U.S. Intends to Remain in Full Control of Internet Root Zone
The terminology sounds quackish but I think they might be on to something -- if you do the same exact thing every day for your whole life, maybe one day you snap and can't do it anymore.

If this is true, I would expect it to affect baseball pitchers (not hitters as much, since they are reacting to something), bowlers, archers, rifle competitors, people who do the same job on an assembly line for 20 years, etc. etc.
Or customs, at least. The reason trolling doesn't work in the real world is that there are long evolved customs for neutralizing such people, like the idea of private buildings. The first generation of online communities had no protection against them. But these tend to evolve quickly in response to abuses.
"A prize poem is like a prize sheep. The object of the competitor for the agricultural premium is to produce an animal fit, not to be eaten, but to be weighed. Accordingly he pampers his victim into morbid and unnatural fatness; and, when it is in such a state that it would be sent away in disgust from any table, he offers it to the judges. The object of the poetical candidate, in like manner, is to produce, not a good poem, but a poem of that exact degree of frigidity or bombast which may appear to his censors to be correct or sublime. Compositions thus constructed will always be worthless."

- Macaulay, "On the Royal Society of Literature"
The efficient web: it's up to you now how much time you waste.
There's no reason you can't do this 'classless' in Python.

Sure. At that point in my comment, I was no longer comparing languages, and merely commenting on the implementation of the linked article.
They have a relationship, but what is it working toward and what is it good for?

How many of the lawyers in New Haven are or personally know partners at Wilson Sonsini? (If you don't recognize the name ....) I know paralegals with shelves full of "tombstones". How many can I find in New Haven? (Again, if you don't know what a tombstone is ....)

The important thing about Silicon Valley is that almost everyone involved has done it before. (Yes, it may be the first time for some/all of the founding team, but everyone else is a veteran.) How many people in New Haven can say the same?
All I can say is: A Clockwork Orange was prescient, it just didn't predict the roving bands of violent hooligans would be on the Internet.
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But cheap cell phones that just let you talk to people cost almost nothing now. They are literally $10 unsubsidized.

The $400 phones are for people that can afford to spend $400 on a phone.
Watches for Women and Men.
Do FCC rules override state law? I've read a few cases involving FCC rules, and the FCC nearly always loses.

If the federal government wants to restrict states' rights, they need to amend the constitution, not pass "FCC rules".
Paul Buchheit at Startup School '08:

Focus on making 100 people happy, and then you'll be validated for opening up your app to more people.

I don't think it's that difficult getting 100 people (especially if you offer private beta invites to smaller niche sites that you're targeting). Plus it gives you a chance to understand what your customers want, which is crucial to early development in an application. You'll need to constantly get customer feedback and validation.
> Investment Banking, Consulting and Law School was the end-all-be-all; wouldn't this be a great resource for interested students to mix/match with successful alumni, interested board members and a rich network?

You tell us - what, exactly, do such folks have to contribute? (I'm sure that they're great lawyers, but does John Doerr invite any of them to dinner?) If they're such a great startup resource, where are the startups?
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Yes, a very few will beat the odds. What benefit did they get for their extra risk?
That is a possibility (yes, I did RTFA), but there's also this:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=5951096&postc...
Apparently there is also this:

http://code.google.com/p/jspickle/

Also, I wonder why both of these projects want to invent their own proprietary format instead of using JSPON or something similar.
Such articles prepare a ground for laws which will hurt everyone.
Exaggerating trolls influence leads to a cure that is worse then the disease.
"Those that don't like the terms don't have to get cell phones" -- Well, cellphones operate in public space. There is limited amount of spectrum available, and the companies that decide to use it, must obey to certain rules. If these companies don't like the terms, they don't have to use the spectrum.

I'd like the goverment to get involved more into allowing fair access to devices, and allowing third party aplications to be installed in devices, without the need of the "blessing" of the carriers.

Imagine, if every piece of software you installed in your computer, have to be "aproved" by your ISP.
Well, that's how it is the current state in the mobile world, and that's why there is a lack of real inovation there.

There is no limit to the amount of greed. In this case, there is clear tacit collusion between carriers, as all of them seem to have early termination fees.

When you have few players in a market (restricted by the limited amount of spectrum), there is a great chance that free market rules wont apply anymore, and just saying the goverment should not get involved, is a way to say let the companies rape the customer as much as possible.

ETF do actually hamper inovation on the device space. All cellphones have to be bought and aproved by the carrier (who resell them at discounted rates), while hampering the adoption of inovative devices. Everytime you pick a verizon phone, and look at the ugly UI the carrier forced the device makers to use, you know the market is not working right.

THe problem, is that the customer is still getting raped. You end up paying higher monthly fees for voice/data/sms messaging, to make up for that device subsidy, yet the customer has less choices on the devices they use.

Look at Europe. They have much more rules in the wireless space to protect the customer, yet usage and the industry is booming there. A lot of inovation going on there (even the SMS was invented in Europe, not here).
This seems like a very good idea. If you stick with a vertical search for long enough, it will make you money. Keep improving it and don't give up!
I think the rant about the check-in kiosk is somewhat off base. They ask you for your destination as a "security measure", because anyone can make a magnetic card that has anyone's name on it, and then say they forgot their ID at security. This makes stealing someone else's ticket slightly more difficult, although not all that hard, I guess.

It also would have helped if he input the correct airport code for San Fransisco instead of just making something up. It's SFO, not SAN.

The rest of the article has the right idea. Installers shouldn't ask questions. Let the user change preferences later, just pick some defaults and get the thing going. The problem is that there are too many meetings inside software development companies, and every idea is a good idea if it comes up in a meeting.
Exactly. It takes 1 minute to write an email and 1 minute to read one, but when it's sent to 5,000 people in your address book. That's over 10 work days wasted just reading it.