skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideas and execution both matter. The real point of “It’s not the idea, it’s the execution.” is to emphasize that idea people (those who dream up an idea and expect others to do the hard work) cannot simply throw their idea out into the world without doing the work of promoting, building, and monetizing it. INTIITE is a useful phrase to apply to people, not products. You cannot really be an "idea person", but instead must be a person who GTD with an idea. People that GTD don't want to have to deal with people that think an idea entitles them to greater equity, hence the usefulness of INTIITE.
Right, I think we're in agreement then. Statistical learning is the domain-general tool. Or one of them.

It's the domain specific tools that are up in the air, though, and what I'm interested in.
>reductio ad absurdum

iPhone and Android developers are being sued by a patent troll for using in-app payments [1], based on technology developed by Apple and Google, using a patent that doesn't even apply to any of the code written by the developers. [2]

To make it worse, Apple and Google each own licenses to the patent, so it's like people who own washing machines being sued over a washing machine patent that the manufacturer has already licensed.

Oh, and iPhone developers are being sued over apps that include "forms that send data to a central server" by another troll. [3] Yeah.

How much more absurd can it get? I think someone already had your idea, and they decided to turn it into a business plan.

[1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/05/5-links-to-help-i...

[2] http://www.macworld.com/article/160031/2011/05/apple_legal_l...

[3] http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/05/macrosolve-joins-...
You get so much per month - based on your income and fixed expenses. In my state, income must be below $1500/mo period, and then there is a secret formula that says f(income, expenses) = food stamp amount. Every six months they ask if your situation has changed.
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If you want to import email addresses from Facebook to Gmail without using an app, try the following:

1. Create a new Yahoo email account (using a browser other than Chrome/Chromium - possible bug). Even if you have an old Yahoo email, create a new one so that the address book starts out fresh.

2. During the account creation process, click on the import contacts "Get Started" link and then choose Facebook as a source. Or visit http://address.yahoo.com/?VPC=contact_import_landing and do this.

3. When the Facebook login and authorize popup appears, authorize Yahoo to receive your data. Yahoo imports the addresses.

4. Now that your friends' addresses are in Yahoo Mail, click 'Tools' in Yahoo Mail and then 'Export'. CSV format is a good format for uploading to Gmail (or your local address book). Save the file to your computer.

5. Sign in to Gmail. Click Contacts. From the 'More actions' dropdown menu, select 'Import...'. Click the 'Choose File' button. Select the Yahoo CSV you just saved and click the 'Import' button.

Source: http://tcrn.ch/dgb7T3

It's silly that Facebook allows Yahoo to access addresses and blocks Google but this roundabout method works.
A excellent idea executed beautifully matters.

Perhaps startups should spend much time experimenting with, pivoting with, possible ideas before focusing on one single idea 100%.

Searching for the beautiful idea using a breadth-first rather than a depth-first approach.
Ask HN: Best way to learn the CS background I missed by not going to school?
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask if it's not I apologize. This is my first post to HN.<p>Background: Basically I've been a developer for almost four years now. I started as a front-end developer writing HTML/CSS/JS, but quickly moved to the back-end writing PHP. Before now I've considered myself a decent developer, but lately I've been feeling burnt out and have been looking to move to a position that would make me happier. I've been looking at Ruby/Rails positions on the various job boards and I really feel like I don't have enough CS knowledge to land any of these positions. I'm feeling more and more like a copy and paste PHP developer. I mean, how can I get a job that is asking for engineers to apply? I really got a punch in the face when I read through a post on Stack Overflow about lesser known data structures like Ropes, and Bloom Filters, and Skip Lists. I have ZERO understanding of this kind of stuff and I think it's going to hold me back in my career.<p>What's the best way to learn all the stuff I missed by not going to school? Are there CS books or technical papers that are pretty much required reading for CS students? Should I take some open courses on the web from places like MIT or Stanford?<p>I can't live my life as a jr. PHP programmer... I'm feeling burnt out as it is, working on the same enterprise app for an employer that won't embrace open source or even new technology!<p>Help me hacker news, you're my only hope.
I've only recently discovered mixpanel, it is awesome.

I wish you guys every success.
http://www.amazon.com/Ada-95-Problem-Solving-Program/dp/0201...

IS this the book you guys used?
I downvoted this comment. I work in the government transparency space, and I can tell you I think these tools are incredibly useful. Overall, if you do some deep diving into what data.gov actually costs the answer is -- as always that it depends.

If you look at just the technology and infrastructure costs, Data.gov itself costs about a half million dollars a year to run. Layer on staff time and you're looking at roughly double that.

A week ago, I spoke with the Data.gov team, which now consists of 4 FTEs: an evangelist, a person whose job it is to get agencies to put their data on data.gov, a program manager (who basically manages the contractors, REISystems and Socrata), and 1/5th of Sonny Bhagowalia's time. Based on the work of this team, Data.gov has generated a significant ROI.

For example: when I was at the Sunlight Foundation, we held a contest called Apps for America to promote Data.gov which offered 25,000 to the developer who built the best app on top of data.gov data. One of the winners was an app called GovPulse.us which took the Federal Register and built a website around the data.

The Federal Register is the official journal of the united states. It's where all the public notices and stuff go -- so making that data more accessible is important, and making it so people can sort through it and link to it is also important. But ideological issues around transparency aside -- a few weeks after the contest concluded, the Government Printing Office issued an RFP looking for someone to build a new website for the Federal Register.

With some work, the fellows that built GovPulse.us (which is open source) were called in to help build FederalRegister.gov, at a fraction of the cost of what the government intended. Based on what the federal government usually spends on websites -- That single event of adopting open source software and repurposing it -- probably saved the government upwards of ten million dollars -- far more than what's spent on Data.gov.

Another company, BrightScope.com, is able to use data.gov data to build a platform for pension analysis. While their tax revenues are probably not paying for data.gov, they are a strong, growing business generating wealth for its shareholders and employees. When government open data has the opportunity to mature, it does this. Your weather reports, GPS data, and flight data usually come from government data sources which are beginning to become accessible via data.gov.

Startups ought to be outraged by this for this reason alone. The fact is, there are THOUSANDS of opportunities to build businesses off of government data. SEC Filings, TIGER maps, Census data, BLR Statistics -- there's a tremendous opportunity here for a program that's operating inside the margins of government expense and has likely paid for itself many times over already.

Cutting the program, or saying it doesn't work means you aren't paying attention to either current performance, or future potential. Both of which are just fine.
PowerDNS. Beats the hell out of Bind. Supports almost zero-config DNSSEC too now.
The X-Y problem

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gmdkb/the_xy_pr...
unless you use steganography to hide the existence of communication itself (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography ).
Unfortunately, every time you write a reply, I keep hearing "Hello ladies..." in my head.
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I think you give people too much credit. People don't see the Internet as the new printing press. They see it as an improved entertainment device.
There's something else going on here. The one-line explanation is that true QC requires quantum entanglement to be preserved, for reasonably long time scales, across all qubits. It's not believed that the D-Wave 128-bit machine does this, although the 8-bit one seems to.

Here's the opinion of an independent critic:

http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/05/24/q-and-a-with-pr...
Beautiful comment with lots of juicy insights grellas. Glad I read your comment first instead of the Techcrunch article. I saved time and feel I got the goods.

I'll be looking out for more of your comments in the future.
When I was learning to program in high school, I was thinking on how to do something ...to make the computer do subroutines, and and my brother told me about GOSUB (that hadn't been taught yet in the class), something clicked at that point.

After that moment I started looking for ways to do what 'I' wanted the computer to do instead of just what I was told the computer could do... and was then happily exploring stuff beyond what the teachers knew (which was not too much either, back then).
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Live for centuries as an old person?
Most talk about life extension centers around some kind of bio-hacking that restores a youthful or "robust" adult state to the human body. But suppose that turns out to be a very tough problem to solve, and it happens that aging is unstoppable and irreversible (at least in the near term). Would it still be worth living on for a very long time in a very old and frail body?
I realize the need to prevent fraud but there has to be some kind of balance to allowing someone in a bad situation to keep a little dignity.

On the contrary, that would be counterproductive.

At low levels of income, there is virtually no relationship between earnings and consumption. So if a person's utility function is proportional to consumption, with a slight disutility for working, they will choose not to work.

This happens in the US up to the $30k/year level - i.e., a person earning $0k/year and a person earning $30k/year will consume roughly the same amount of goods and services.

http://crazybear.posterous.com/why-the-poor-dont-work

However, if you make receiving food stamps/welfare/etc unpleasant (i.e., more unpleasant than actually having a job), you would encourage some people to work for a living instead.
Newegg should not be able to determine what his password is. 2-way encryption is less bad than truly storing it in cleartext, but 1-way encryption is the only acceptable way to store a password unless there's some very compelling reason that you need to be able to decrypt it. (eg. I used 2-way encryption to store people's Twitter passwords before OAuth because I needed to be able to tell Twitter their passwords, so 1-way wouldn't work.)
"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

That's like hearing about a faster-than-light spaceship and asking about what kind of seats it has.
I may be pointing out the obvious here, but a man from a newspaper hates the internet. The internet is killing newspapers. This probably isn't a coincidence. I am especially convinced of this because of the irrational arguments presented, as the argument correctly pointed out, the comment from The Guardian was hardly sensible. A dying industry clutching out to kill its replacement.
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I should note though that none of that is why I downvoted you. I downvoted you because I thought the comment was not substantive,was inflammatory, and didn't bring any value to the conversation other than what came across as confrontational name-calling.

To me, it seems like it was likely an ideological complaint about the administration rather than demonstrative of the facts. Political ideology doesn't belong on HN.

Happy to upvote a comment that challenges those assumptions.
Good luck guys, sounds like a great model. Always great to see more innovation in this space.
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I worked with someone who worked there. It's not all bullshit but one of the founders has got big dreams/plans and so comes off as a bullshit artist. Even my former colleague says he thought a lot of it was a little iffy but he never doubted they'd eventually get there. The stories were awesome.
Well, if you're considering Apache+plugin to be an application server, then I guess I need to say: no additional application server other than the web server. Most modern systems have a web server and a separate process for the application server (proxied to over HTTP or fed by FastCGI or WSGI or a neat otherwise unused protocol). The standalone application server (back when I was mostly using those languages) always seemed to have a bunch of quirks and to fail at every insult. Compared to the Rube Goldberg nature of some of these stacks of servers and protocols, PHP is delightfully simple, conceptually.
He doesn't even do a consistent job of building the strawman. For example, his example of the iPad doesn't support his premise: People HAD been doing tablet computers (the "idea") for years (including Apple with the Newton), and it took the slick design of the iPad (plus the associated technological advances) to get it right. If that isn't execution, then I don't know what is.
This exactly. I've found that I read less comments and skim over them because it's hard to differentiate the good view points from the rest. I know the most voted comments should float to the top but not having points just makes the discussions less interesting to me.
Why should the Internet not reflect the values of society, as reflected in existing regulations on cars, media, etc.? If people want the Internet to remain free they should work to change the template: free up control over other aspects of our civilization a If that fails, then society doesn't really value what you value.
> Also important is that CoffeeScript's main selling point is that it's practical and more sane then JavaScript, not that it's functional or lisp-like. At the same time CoffeeScript is probably the closest thing I've seen to a (potentially) successful lisp-without-parens

Have you tried Lua? It has full lexical scoping like Scheme (so you don't have to (function(){})() all over your code to create closures) and has saner built in types than vanilla JS, while also being much faster (around SBCL\Java speed with LuaJIT).

I'm writing a basic functional library for it here if you need some stuff like map, foldl, foldr, partial, filter to get started: https://github.com/davidhollander/fn
I have about 5,000 page views per month and make about $50 from adsense.

In April, I had a 1.78% CTR.

The shitty thing is, it is an AJAX app, so there is only the frontpage, and each lookup does not refresh the Adsense ad. The average time on the site is about 12 minutes.

This is also not a very high volume search term. So the upside for me is pretty limited. Even if I ranked #1, ahead of the .gov site, I do not think I would come close to $2,000.
I do a lot of Computer History- Soul of a New Machine, Hackers, Fire in the Valley, Commodore - A Company on the Edge. I go to used book stores and check out the pre-PC computer books... here's a great one: The Psychology of Computer Programming from 1972 that really is interesting (most of it still applies today).
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YC reject. Was swallowed up into another startup, got funded, and looking to grow my team.
I'm a big MixPanel fan. We use it at my company.

The big differences:
a) More real-time. Nothing is 100% realtime quite yet but MixPanel is by far the best.
b) Event driven - GA is pageviews driven, KissMetrics (also a fantastic product) is funnel driven. If you care about tracking key events and tagging those events with metadata that you can slice-and-dice later, MixPanel is the best solution.
c) API - really great and simple API to get data in and get data out. This makes it easy to integrate MixPanel across multiple touchpoints (mobile app + web) for example, and have control over how you make those big piles of data interact/merge/display.

Congrats on the funding guys!
If only it was a myth.
Frail body? Works for Stephen Hawking. I guess as long as you can entertain yourself/be useful in such a vehicle.
For some grayhat stuff, take a look over at wickedfire.com to know what other people are up to.

I am not condoning such methods.
What about arbitrage between Facebook ads and Adsense?

Has anyone successfully sent Facebook traffic via paid ads to their adsense site profitably?
I was a recent YC reject. I got swallowed up into another startup, got funded, and looking to grow my team.
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What you are saying (and that link) sounds exactly like a person that has never been poor without a support network of family and friends. It's just a mental exercise with no basis in reality and no "hands-on" experience.

The modern welfare system does not allow non-disabled people to draw an infinite amount of assistance - it's very restricted and for a finite amount of time. They must constantly show real proof they are looking for work and even with part-time jobs their assistance is immediately scaled back.

Assistance shouldn't be a punishment, it should be care and kindness while someone gets back on their feet. You aren't going to make assistance less attractive than a minimum wage job, it's impossible.
Maybe I'm missing something. But I don't see what's so different other than the deals are generally more restrictive. Isn't that just part of the wording of the deal? Couldn't $10 for $20 worth of food just as easily be $1 for a $2 cup of coffee instead?

I even see a deal on Groupon Now which is $5 for a $9 sandwich. http://www.groupon.com/now/deals/5-for-9-at-nyc-bagel-deli-2...

That said, I fully agree it doesn't necessarily mean anything that Groupon can do it, too. There's plenty of room for competition.
Hey guys, I want some honest feedback on a project I abandoned about the same concept of local deals. Here is the url with some sample deals:

http://www.deel.co/deals/city/nassau

You know, I had the idea of posting all deals from big chains like cheesecake factory, longhorns, roadhouse, mortons, houstons, etc. in the sense that they post their weekly offers (like in print) and people get to know what to eat when they go there. Nothing for free, just a billboard.

People would use the service as a help when deciding where to eat everyday, and chains would benefit from their traffic (again, like in print). No stupid games like being a major of nowhere or silly prizes like one free beer on the 31st of february at 8am only.

I was going be the most happy user since I would be using it every day going for lunch with my coworkers, everytime the same question arises, where to go today? tgi fridays? ruby tuesdays?

To make the story short (too late, I guess) we ran out of runway (a very short runway indeed) and my cofounder and I decided to abandon the project for now, with the hope of someday pick it up again when better times came.

As I said, I love the idea. Groupon et all don't tell me what's new at panera bread or even mcdonalds and I really want to know (there is a real need)

Am I crazy? out of touch with reality? pipe dreaming? Or is that a project worth pursuing to its fullest? I learned a lot about geolocation and lots of stuff, can't deny that, but I dream on having my own business some day.

Advice?
No need to write a separate back end for each target platform.
You say that "implementation is a matter of hiring the right tradesmen/tradeswomen", then you go on to list a whole bunch of people who implemented their own ideas. Thomas Edison didn't just have the idea for a lightbulb, he invented it. Henry Ford personally built his first car as a personal project. Sir Richard Branson got started selling records from the "boot" of his car. Larry Page personally co-developed Page Rank.

I'm not sure how the military commanders (or Frank Lloyd Wright) fit into this, but every entrepreneur you listed was very much a "technical founder".
Where do you find clients willing to pay $100/hr for sidework?
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Ask HN: What is the best computer for programmers?
The D-wave machine is different from a general purpose quantum computer which is why it can have many more qubits than the more traditional approach that you are most like to have heard of in the press. That said no one knows what the power of this type of machine is and calling in a quantum computer is probably stretching it a bit. Here are some details for those interested: http://www.quora.com/Is-the-D-Wave-One-a-true-quantum-comput...
Inb4 this throws even more fuel on the whole internet-needs-to-be-regulated path our governments been on.

Useless comments aside, curious as to the motive and who they think did this.
Fundamentals be damned?

Trade like a technician.
Go take a look at webmasterworld if you believe that to be the case. Panda has severe issues with determining original source.
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The worldwide community of quantum computing researchers is probably around a couple thousand.

p.s. your namesake is one of them http://arxiv.org/find/quant-ph/1/au:+Cross_A/0/1/0/all/0/1
Maybe they fear a hostile takeover by AMZN?
I think that you'll need to be more specific to get the answer that's right for you. Are you talking about the hardware, OS, or both? What languages do you program in? Are you planning on developing for mobile devices and if so what sorts? Are you going to use it in an office setting or on the go? This information is all very relevant.
I had a response written up, but then I realized that your garbage about political correctness and self-righteousness probably means that you are not curious enough to consider the case.

> An overly sensitive, dare I say politically correct and self righteous person, can read offense into anything.

No projection there, right?