skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nice idea. it doesn't say whether it can filter/flag duplicates, but that seems like it would be useful functionality to add if not present (it can indicate that you've made a mistake, or that your regexp is inefficient[* ]).

it's such a sweet idea, with an obvious implementation and use, that you'd think it would have been done before. but i've not heard of anything and am having a hard time finding a good search term that isn't swamped by regexp howtos.

[* ] having said that, if it's compiled to a dfa then it might not be. a lot depends on the implementation... [edit] oh, and since a dfa-related package is a dependency my guess is that he can't display this info, because duplication will be lost in the transformation. interesting.
Getting Started with Unix - School of Hacks Part 2
Using • you can recreate pointillism :)
Is Apple's growth in the tablet space eventually going to put a bullet in the traditional PC?

Call me naive, but I have a really hard time seeing the traditional PC going away. Tablets just aren't cheap or versatile enough to replace PCs.
Good point. The sad thing is of course that if you were able to show a clear correlation between (violent) video games and criminals, the most probable reaction would be to ban these games.
You first point is spot on. People spending time previously reserved for leisure and socialization at a computer screen -> fewer young males with enough spare time to organize into gangs. Unless you consider the Anonymous to be a gang.

Not sure about your point on civilization though. Yeah, water is wet, civilizations collapse, etc.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/23/groupon-u-s-revenues/
I think there's a disconnect in the headline, and what the software does. I can definitely see how that would be very useful to the right people, I don't see how it could be the 'cool new thing in VMs'
You can use linux "an" program.

It comes with most desktop Linuxes and is pretty fast.
Steve Jobs to deliver WWDC 2011 Keynote
The modern interpretation of "bread and circuses": Subsidized food and broadband ubiquity with 24/7 access to whatever stimulates and titillates (sex, violence, a captive audience) can lead to a more sedate populace. Of course, that was one factor that led to the decline of the Roman Empire, too. When you've got a pretty sweet deal going, why risk going to jail and messing it all up?

I'd also like to see if the rise in the access, use and broad social acceptance of pharmaceutical opiates, anti-psychotics, and anti-depressants is also contributing to the decline. You can't really go out and rape and murder if you're hopped up on goofballs.
Makes you wonder what harmful things we are being unknowingly exposed to now, that in 20 years will be correlated with serious negative effects on individuals or societies.
I run a small retail biz and do a lot of trade shows. Square is the best thing to happen to my business since finding funding to start it. It's THAT good.

I don't know if it's even on the table, but I agree with the article; there should be bids out for this company. I'm hoping that Dorsey et al do not sell it. I could see Visa buying them and doing something destructive - intentionally or not.
For collecting (which I later enter into my tasks software or Evernote) I end up using cheapo index cards from the office stockroom, and I have a mini-pen on my key ring.

The main ding against using paper for me is that I'm seriously out of practice when it comes to handwriting. My writing is often illegible even to me and my hand cramps up quickly after only a few lines of sustained writing.

I can "follow along" much more easily at a keyboard. The big problem with going all digital though is that even whipping out the iPad and jotting something down is "too much" time, in that I often say "screw it, I'll just try to remember it".
sweet - thanks for the link!
Too hard to make it a meaningful calculation. The average age of a YC startup is... what, two and a bit years? The average age of a startup from any other incubator is less, so the average value will be less.

You could break it down by year, but then you're into such small numbers of actual companies, with such a wide range of current valuations from zero to many millions, that it's an even less useful metric.
Unlike m_eiman and cemerick, I regard dumping debris into my Downloads folder as a feature. I basically never clean it out; it's just a convenience place to keep stuff that I have a low probability of ever wanting again, auto-sorted by how likely I am to want it (most recent first, in other words). Since I almost never bother with more than the first few items in the stack display of Downloads, it didn't occur to me that cleaning it out might be a chore, or even desirable.
The thing though is that microsoft actually pays dividend to its shareholder, and a good amount at that. If you have apple stock then yes you better hope they rise because that's the only way they will make you money, but it is not so for microsoft's.
When I hear EMI, I don't think of Entrepreneur magazine. I think of the EMI Group, the British music company. It seems this "EMI" has some other brand confusions to take care of.

A quick search on uspto.gov reveals that there are several "EMI" trademarks.
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Perhaps because these crimes do not include non-prosecuted white collar finance crimes?
The need for an Alternative to Facebook
Video: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14928956
Are you using node.js for the whole stack? Or is there a Rails app running alongside for doing user accounts, payments, the marketing site/landing page etc?
This is great news! I've been using Dotcloud at my job for about a month with an RoR app. We used to be on Heroku w/ Amazon RDS. And I needed a separate EC2 instance for stuff like phpMyAdmin and other misc scripts. We outgrew it quickly when we needed more control over Resque. Now with Dotcloud, I can run everything under one group with fine-grained control when I need it. Its awesome!

The only thing I am missing is Memcache and MongoDB support (but it looks like thats coming soon ;D ). Also, an invite for personal use would be awesome!
An Interview with Designer Kenneth Cobonpue
Information Design: Card stacks create random breaks in the reading flow. The more breaks the more you need to reorient—in other words: Think.

One thing I've found is that in a scrolling interface, I tend to neurotically scroll constantly, keeping my actual reading visual field at the top few lines of the scrolling area. I.e., when I can scroll, I will, constantly.

Card-based, or paginated reading interfaces, on the other hand, allow me to relax because I know I don't have to page over until I hit the bottom of the current page. The constant (very) low-grade anxiety is gone.

Not that that's an overwhelming argument for pagination, but it's not a point I see addressed ever. I agree with most of the other points, e.g. lack of indication of length or place. But they seem pretty easily addressable.

There are compromises, too, like a scrolling interface with a page down mechanism, but I've found that they're not as satisfying as a horizontal pagination.

Part of this might be having grown up with physical media.
>As someone who only ever encounters math as a tool rather than a a great passion or source of intellectual stimulation, it makes me really happy to see this said out loud.

From the perspective of a mathematician, I'd like to see textbooks strike a happy medium between page after page of explanation and absolute terseness.

When I'm taking an intermediate level course, I know that the math I encounter may rarely be useful on its own. It should be sufficient to say "you won't even think about this until you take analysis!"

I think the biggest mistake universities make is to offer one type of math instruction. I still remember taking a linear algebra class that had mathematics majors, engineers, and secondary education majors(!) all in the same class! The professor taught it in a way that I very much appreciated -- a large focus on theory and concepts, and much less focus on application & concrete problems. Of course, I and the math majors loved this, while the education majors & engineers detested it.

It might've been more difficult, but I believe that everyone would've benefited from instruction that was tailored to what people would need & could appreciate -- the engineers could learn applications of linear algebra, the secondary education majors could learn how to teach linear algebra, and the mathematicians could learn the theory behind linear algebra. Instead, we had one class that a subset was guaranteed to hate.
That's definitely true, but what that doesn't accurately capture is the time / mentorships and introductions that the YC team invests in all of their startups.
Firefox 4 took forever to launch, and in the meantime WebKit room over the world. A shorter tease cycle is the right thing the to do, and we can only hope that it didn't happen too late.
Also, FF needs to fix extension versioning and API compatibility stat, or else the new release cycle will manslaughter 80% of Firefox's appeal: extensions.

I guess Google is lucky/smart because Chrome extensions are juiced up user scripts with no native code (I think?), but FF needs to do something to save old extensions.
Introducing the Windows Phone "Mango" Update [video] [Hands On]
It doesn't sound like either of those movies. They just shaved off dollar amounts less than 1 cent from millions of transactions. This guy just had the machines spit out extra money when he entered his ATM card.
Making POST Requests in Node
I agree with the second part (making machines play like humans). Playing a piece from memory isn't necessarily a machine like quality.
The naming of this project should put you at ease then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)
I do have a weird 'lag' when I get to my e-mail in the morning after being away all night. My system does not sleep, but Sparrow is unresponsive for about 60 seconds. But just then everyday. After that I am fine until the next morning. I am not sure if that relates at all.

I have a lot of e-mail and 'labels' and I seem to do just fine.

TRIM support is coming in Lion (OS X 10.7) but I am sure you know that since you know 10.6 doesn't have it. I still felt compelled to type it though...
Well, I'm just going by what I see, and that sounds about right for Japan.
Would love to see the duostack environment vars management added across the board on dotcloud.
MongoDB is not just coming soon. It's there! Have fun with it.
10 uncommon lessons I learned in college (Part 2)
Hey, there's a nice photo of the interviewer and interviewee shoes in there !
We actually rolled out MongoDB this morning :)

Memcache is coming soon, along with lots of other cool stuff.

Thanks for the feedback!
No. He's saying he won't play it. Nowhere did he mention anything about other people or that the game as a whole is a waste.
"...some cash machine in Bumsville, Idaho spits out $700 into the middle of the street. I did that! That was me!"

"You did this from your house?"

"What are you, stoned or stupid? You hack a bank across state lines, you get nailed by the FBI!"
It's interesting to see pg's opinion about what is important in founders evolve over the years. When I applied to YC in late 2008, I was told by alumni that YC was "looking for smart people." Although he's talked about discipline and determination as early as May 2004 in his essays those words were most commonly found next to the words "talent," "skill," or "smart," as if the two qualities were equally important.

Now it seems that YC has learned empirically that determination is the more important predictor of success (see intro to The Anatomy of Determination).

A concern for YC might be: with this new emphasis on determination, it might become the next thing applicants try to "fake" to get accepted?
I don't want to debate about whether some random Internet person I first heard about today is racist, but I was curious enough to Google it and found this wikipedia article describing the author of iSteve.com. It may help provide some context to claims made by the parent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sailer
Yandex IPO takes tech-sector spotlight
Just bought it, can't wait. I've been waiting for something like this for a long time.

I love the IAP option to cache videos for offline viewing. You get X minutes to start, then you can buy more. It will transcode video so you can watch stuff that your iPad wouldn't normally play, and it downloads them for offline viewing. Plus, you're making money off of it so I know you'll be around.

My hat is off to you and I look forward to being your customer.
He has his very own wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sailer
What you're describing is actually bad practice. Not saying it's not a problem, but that's not an intentional emulation.
Groupon VP Suneel Gupta: 5 Questions You Should Think About in Your Startup
How is this not politics?
True, but only 2.65%, which isn't enough to justify zero growth.

Actually I'm looking at the historical MSFT price right now, and it's interesting. Of course they had huge growth in the 90s, hitting twice its present value at the end of '99, before rapidly crashing back down to its present value by 2001. It's been flat ever since. In 2003 the company said "Screw it, we might as well pay dividends" and they've been putting out a slowly-increasing dividend ever since. Other than that, the lack of change over the last decade has been remarkable.

Interestingly, 2000 was also the year that Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO. Maybe what Microsoft really needs is a CEO with some vision.
Not your fault, but that is a risk of using a Beta (before Google hijacked the term to mean "Upgrades are Planned").

Bugs like what you saw are flagged as high-importance "data loss" bugs, and FF has gotten better about avoiding those, even in pre-release builds, since the bad old days of accidentally deleting non-FF data from your home folder.
Maybe the idea is too big for the incentives you are offering?

What is the right developer?

A lot of start-ups are still looking for that all singing braniac super rock ninja star developer who can program 10 times as fast as everyone else.

But often they aren't willing to pay 10 times as much, or even a reasonable amount.

Keep in mind if you can't afford to pay a developer to work full time, then you need to pay them enough to make sacrificing a large portion of their social and family life in pursuit of seeing your idea succeed.

Also think about how you are pitching the idea. These guys are investors too, they are investing their time, years of experience, wisdom and hard graft into your idea. They need to believe that this will succeed if they push it hard enough.

Worst cases:

Your idea sucks - don't listen to nay-sayers so keep going even if everyone else says it won't work. Dont stop till you are ready too

Your idea is too big - break it into something smaller and more achievable
Ask HN: How much equity for £45K
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has advice and previous experience on how much equity to give away for £45K, which is around $70K in USD?

It's for early stage angel investment.
Why should it be any different? Applying patches is likely the same effort for Oracle as for MySQL. If they hadn't done this, some startup would have tried to feed off the arbitrage.
Gosu's Open Type System vs. Code Generation
The main lesson I took from watching The Wire is not to trust any statistics that come from police departments. When performance is evaluated on crime statistics and case closure rates, there are an awful lot of tricks one can pull to make one's performance look better no matter what the underlying trends are.

The second lesson I took from The Wire is that while robbing drug dealers for a living can be lucrative, the risk/reward calculus is slightly problematic.
This is the way (download, open in preview, keep/delete) I prefer. It's just a matter of taste.
I wonder if the AWS-Oracle license prohibits this.
Right, in other words, no matter what, they tell a story that is favorable to themselves.

It's like asking a real estate agent about the right time to buy. If prices are rising, it is a great time to buy and make a profit. If prices are falling, it is a great time to buy at a discount and make a profit.
Firefox 5 is not coming out. It's a beta. You shouldn't bother friends and family with it.
I don't think the business idea behind Groupon is growing less popular - more likely, they're suffering from the effects of so many people copying them. Every local newspaper site I read now has a '50% off deal coupons' feature.
This is cool! If you could use characters with different font sizes it may look better. Also kinda slow. You wanna explain a bit what you do? Is it just image -> choose a random point set -> draw? Is this based on Canvas or CSS?
Generating Files with JavaScript
At first, I thought, "Why would I want this? My blog (shameless plug: http://scottporad.com) never gets that much traffic.

Then it occurred to me why: we all hope to get slashdotted at some point. That's how our blog readership grows, right? But, when that happens, if my server goes down, then what's the point? So, basically, this is an insurance policy, and most likely well worth it.
The desktop setup was just an example, and you're right that we could rotate any screen, as long as the horizontal resolution (vertical resolution at 0 degrees) is at least 1024.

In the laptop world (per the article), it's difficult to do portrait orientation and still type. :)
The deep links to the home tiles is pretty awesome... no need to fiddle with an app to get the QR code out at the airport, for example.

The app integration from search is good too. It feels more like a Windows Phone 8 or atleast 7.5 but they're still calling it 7.1
That website makes me not want their software.
Results from the Foursquare/Facebook etc API test
The quick & dirty results from an API comparison test we ran last week.
There are better sources for a counter-argument than Steve Sailer I think, although even Sailer attributes the decline to a stronger effect of the Crack crack-down, if Wikipedia is to be believed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_Legalized_Abortio...
True, but unless FF adds a "re-version-tag my addons based on feedback from testers" feature, we will get bitten when FF5 final comes out and disables all existing deployed extensions.
Far less if you use Google Reader... http://twitpic.com/51ylyy
DotCloud Acquires Duostack
37signals are looking for another designer
I thought it has to do with police departments setting up bonus incentive programs tied to a reduction in certain crimes.

This then encourages the police department heads to not fully report serious crimes, this way they receive their year end bonus.

Example, rape? No that was just simple assault.
...and php.
Duostack & MongoDB
Well said. We did break it down to MVP. One reason it was turned down because the developer did not want to sign an NDA. We are not looking for a ninja braniac haha although that would be nice. We just want someone that is ready to join the team ;) They will paid for the job with equity incentives.
Awesome, this is extremely relevant. I've been working with my other co-founder since mid-2009. I've since graduated, lived in China for 4 months, turned down multiple Master's programs, gotten married, and turned down job offers both in the US and abroad. All because of the reasons he mentioned...it may be difficult, but the alternatives are surely not for me.

And there's no stressing how difficult it is...emotionally, physically. 100 hour weeks, not sleeping for days before a launch, being away from family, etc. My wife lives 8000 miles away and if I wasn't working on a start-up we could be in the same place. But at the end of the day, I wouldn't change a single thing. I love what I do.
Lively Linear Lisp -- 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1991)
Its a new travel site. We need help bringing the idea to beta so we can test the market. The site will include the right travel API that we can use to customize the data anyway we want. We have a developer from Orbitz on board, he just does not have the time to develop this. We are looking for a sign up page, a results page and an email page. The beta is very simple and less dynamic than the big vision.
Case Study: Dropbox CEO Speaks at Startup Lessons Learned
90 Days Later, J.C. Penney Regains Its Google Rankings
The summary is the key to this post. It's an excellent tl;dr.
Open source digital DJ: Integrating Airtime and Mixxx
yeah, just what we need... another app platform.
Sigh. I didn't say the game was a waste of time, or that FPS games or dead, or anything like that.

If you're going to be pedantic, at least try to interpret an opinion literally.
Really? He needs to give it up
Show HN: A full time Telecommuter's typical day
Actually, my Firefox it's advicing me to update. And I'm not on the nightly, developer or beta channel.
They're all under the Sony umbrella, but Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Computer (PlayStation), Sony Online (Everquest, etc.), and Sony Electronics (TVs, etc.) are all indeed separate companies. And, there are separate companies based on region; Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, etc.
Maybe you should add your email to your profile or here in the post. The email field on your HN profile isn't public. You need to add it to the about field :)
Historically, the liberal arts were practiced by the rich.

Engineering, and to a lesser extent the professional fields like Law and Medicine were intended to let smart bourgeoisie bootstrap themselves.

I doubt there is anyone anywhere who has taken on an english major and said "this will make me my first $1,000,000". So why is this common sense knowledge constantly peddled around as something "new" in newspapers?
I'm glad someone else thinks this too. In Nottingham a 2-bedroom terraced house in a good area can be rented for £500 a month and in a bad area £300, a whole year's bus travel is £350, or £199 for 100 days of your choosing, and there are extensive cycle lanes. There' s lots of fun stuff going on , varied nightlife. Its under 2 hours on the train to London when you need to go. To me this is the sort of place people should be doing startups, not London. £18k salary here would get you a reasonable existence for a few years while in a startup company.
It seems to me to start a startup one has to have some basic business sense which means one understands balancing ingoings and outgoings. Therefore it seems a bit flawed to try to start a company somewhere so insanely expensive that, like you say, its employees spend 70%-80% on accommodation. Its rather important to retain key early technical staff. Not very easy for that to happen in London.
Can I pay someone to re-create Hackernews for a niche? Maybe we can partner
Looking to build a niche news site that is run like Hackernews. I'd like you to build it as close to possible, with the algorithmic ranking, karma, assign users to edit/delete stories...basically the works of this little big gem of a site.
Maybe for comparison there would be a way to time normalize the valuations.

I'd be shocked if any other incubator even came close with any comparative measure though.
This is pretty contextual. The market price for power in a 1st world industrialized nation does not apply everywhere in the world.
Ok, double that 5 million then to 10 million (a very generous assessment of their time). It's still an incredible return.
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