skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my company we've used Jaspersoft and Pentaho and at various times paid for commercial licenses in JasperSoft's case to get support and some consulting (which we only used once) and in Pentaho's case to get a bug fix patch faster.

Both tools are relatively cheap, you can expect to pay around $10K per year if you want the commercial version of the full suite and are very developer friendly. They both use Java extensively, so you have to be willing to have that in your environment.

I would add one more tool to mix - MSFT SQLServer 2008. The standard edition (about $2K, I think) comes with a the full suite minus the data mining tools. The reporting tools are on par with what Jasper and Pentaho offer and the Analysis tools are very simple to use and allow one to use Excel as a front end interface (which is what you end users want anyway).
I think people had similar fun when Facebook introduced user names. Didn't someone register the user name "index.html"?
KDE 4.7 Beta 1 Released - KWin gets OpenGL ES 2.0 support
Actually your theory about Thiel matches mine. In fact several months ago I noted on HN that we'll see a full attack on academia by the right through the 2012 election. Some of it overt, but much of it subtle, e.g., it's not our intellect that makes us a great country, but rather something no one can accurately measure, like our ability to empathize.

Regarding his politics, he's given multiple accomodating interviews to National Review, the founding conservative magazine in the US. And you can just look at his public donation record -- it's more than a quarter of a million dollars -- 100% Republican.

Of course he won't come out and say, "I'm trying to dismantle higher education as part of a larger political agenda", but at least to some (including myself), the evidence is striking.
Pincode.net helps you search for pin code details for Indian users.
All great tips, thanks for sharing. I didn't put a disclaimer in the post, but our experiences are indeed based on larger projects, typically at least in the $20,000+ range. Those are always tailor made apps, nothing off-the-shelf (apart from the framework and all the open source components we use, but nothing like Wordpress). What we do is often pretty specific.

I think your comment, as you said, has some great insights when it comes to smaller projects.
I have a one-year gap in my resumé—I took no new freelance assignments in that year, and had three vacations abroad, two in the summer and one in the winter, and studied semiconductors and new software technologies for fun—and I decided to write it down as a 'sabbatical year'.
Tell them you're dead. It's the only effective way I've seen of delaying them more than a few months.
Remote wipe wouldn't work if network access was disabled.
Marketing lessons learned from Judgment Day
"Months behind?" Why has it taken the US so long to catch up with Europe on transferring money via banks? Here in the UK I can pay any company and any person via my bank details. Super easy to do and makes paying my friends back painless and easy.

Very cool to see they've opened this to e-mail and txts now too.
Previous report, several comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2575065
A colleague of mine worked with Sarah Parcak (the researcher featured) and says:
"They use standard satellite images taken by NASA and then apply various photoshop filters to those images to find subtle differences in the terrain. Egypt works great because the starting palette is so clean. They've tried the same technology in South America and haven't had as much success."

Not sure if this is the exact technique they are using in this article, but it's what we featured in an exhibit on Egypt he worked on.
How high school fosters suicide
I clearly stated that copyright cover translation from English to Russian. I don't expect such miscomprehension from HN of all places.

Edit: to clarify, I see you are questioning whether I'm classing a translation as a derivative work or a independent work. However, this is irrelevant to my assertion that a machine-generated translation confers no copyright protections at all, which is the situation with the github code.
My experience has been to the contrary: I rarely find people willing to crush entrepreneurs' ideas; instead, most people seem to be quite reluctant to tell others that their ideas are, frankly, terrible. In the end, people waste money on ideas that are untenable.

I once had a old friend bring his bajillion-dollar social networking idea to me -- he liked snakes, and wanted to meet other people who liked snakes, so he wanted to make Facebook but only for people that own snakes. And he'd charge for it! And he'd make millions, because damn it, people love snakes!

I understand that almost every idea is derivative, and that I can't really understand the pet-snake market, but should I really say "Gee, buddy, I don't know..." when every brain cell is screaming "tell him to run far away from this!"?
and what is/was the response to the 'sabbatical year' on your résumé?
If you had the pleasure to live in Massachusetts to experience all this, we had three really large storms within about two weeks of one another in Jan/Feb (can't remember the exact dates). The result of this? 6 foot snow banks everywhere. Mall parking lots were much worse since they'd pile snow in ~30-foot tall mountains. That made it extremely hard to see around corners driving.

Highly anecdotical, but I noticed that many drivers became less aggressive. Roadways were clear, but not being able to easily see around corners resulted in less people cutting me off. This lasted for about a month before things melted a bit, and drivers quickly re-earned their title as Massholes. ;)
Or maybe they were confused. There's no such thing as "Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Fresh Microwave Popcorn", but you can go down to the store and buy some "Orville Redenbacher Gourmet Popping Corn", so do the researchers really expect me to remember the difference?
It competes with PayPal, but they really just borrowed the feature from ING Direct. ING has let you send money to anybody with an email address for a while.
I did something quite similiar last summer - we got it published (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~arb33/papers/BeresfordAREtAl-MockDr...) but we never looked at getting it into CM. I guess they're more receptive to the idea than I expected them to be!

The whole faking data thing works quite well - every app we tried with our implementation basically worked as intended (i.e. if you prevent the app from accessing the internet, everything still works apart from functionality which explicitly depends on accessing the internet), which is a nice consequence of apps being written for mobile devices where access can't be taken for granted.
Just to annoy you... that's the reason. It worked! I can't be1ieve it!
Apache Tomcat/6.0.32 - Error report
OT: With this, and the story about phones being the best universal remotes[1], the straw has finally broken my camel's back. There are few ways to get me to hit the back button faster nowadays than to intersperse "See why [related-ish topic]" links between every other paragraph. I'm pretty sure the people who come up with those UX ideas will be the first ones axed when the bubble pops.

[1] http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2072502,00....
There aren't enough good uses of this fact, the apps that I could find include - HippoLite, Teamviewer, Vlcremfree, MochaVNC and Awake. And eventually mine which will be web based.
Excellent point; I hadn't thought of that, and don't recall hearing it discussed in any of the "educational quality" debates.
I've wanted something like this to be part of the OS, although it causes a bunch of hassles in BlackBerry (from a developer's perspective).

There was a discussion on Android-Developers about this (as a core OS feature), in which (I think) Dianne Hackborn (one of the Android developers) came out strongly against the idea of allowing users to choose which permissions to allow/disallow for an individual application. (Edit: I think this is what I was remembering: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thr...)

I think it's a good feature to have in some cases. Some applications, for example, the Yelp application, request features I'd rather not give, but I'd still like to use the application in general. It's not that I feel the applications are openly hostile - I would never trust the permissions library in that case, but I have no desire to give my contacts list to the Yelp app. This is just one example - I'm sure a lot of people would try to disable Internet on apps that use Internet solely to show ads, for example.
Your "concern" is a red herring. Revenues are steadily and broadly marching upward for the content industries, especially in areas where they have (been forced to) adapt to the changing times, e.g. mp3 sales, ebooks, on-demand movies, etc. It happened decades ago with audio tapes and VHS, and it'll happen again.

You are sort-of right about one thing: people won't pay for the overpriced legacy products to which Big Content clings, and those products will eventually die. Good riddance.
That's good, because nobody made that claim.
No. He's saying if you design a program that takes an input A of witch it creates the output B, you do not own the copyright to all programs that can create B out of A.
Is there a "watermark" application that you can place the copyright on a picture taken from your phone? Sure, it could be edited out, but I assume that would provide a little better protection.
Is it me or does news like this throw anyone else into a frenzy of daydreaming for a short while: using my computer expertise to enhance infrared images to reveal hitherto unknown pyramids (combining images from multiple spectral bands, SIFT object detection), battling with corrupt local authorities and looters, digging for the pyramid (and unfortunately losing a few of the team when the tunnel gives in), deciphering the Old Egyptian hieroglyphs on the door (with some help from my hardy MBP and my custom linguistic text analysis tools, written in a mixture of C++, Perl, and Scheme), going in and getting stumped by an empty chamber, but wait, there's a small tunnel leading away, investigating it with a remote controlled Arduiono-based robot I control with my Android tablet (e.g. http://www.gizapyramid.com/hidden.htm) and awakening a long-sleeping evil force within. Then, the final battle to save Earth.

OK, back to a rainy day in Chicago and trying to understand Puppet.
I think this statement is extremely poignant, "Because you're looking for a sense of security when you're spending your budget on a web app". I think a big problem is lack of knowledge on the part of the client. Most people just have no idea what it takes to build web apps. $1000 (or even $5000) just doesn't go very far. But without learning and experience on the customer's side, how are they able to bound the project to understand the potential costs?
I like cats who look cute. I wonder...

On-topic: I completely agree. The worst thing is that even if you tell people to be brutally honest, they rarely are (there's a good Seinfeld episode on this with George being told by Elaine that he's cheap). People are socially trained not to be negative to other people unless they absolutely have to.
i would do it in a second.
and i still can. im only 16
MacroSolve sues little app developers without advance warning
CNBC Anchor Mark Haines Dies Unexpectedly at Age 65
D-Wave sells its first Quantum Computing System to Lockheed Martin
He's the CNBC guy who called the last internet bubble [and called this social networking bubble]
Just nit picking, but your misspelling of Envy Code R (I read it as "envy coder") to Code Envy R gave me a deja-vu. And I found your comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287909. You are not alone there, though :)
Help him clarify his hypothesis--that people do indeed love snakes--and test it really quickly. A good lean development process would prove it wrong quickly.
Software IRL
Joe Stump on why Startup Revenue Isn’t a Light Switch
college debt forces people to go to hedge funds or other lucrative jobs that don't utilize the full potential of some of the brightest college students

Well if that's the only concern, then Thiel could do what rich people have been doing for years -- donating scholarships to give smart kids a free ride to college.
Another senior official fathered child outside marriage
Trust me, that's his "how the hell do I kill this fucking thing?" face, not his unenthusiastic face!
I came from the same world, Ed, but as an attendee, and it was a culture shock for me as well.

I was used to the "OK, I paid my shekels, now feed my belly and my brain and I'll go home" approach to attending Microsoft conferences. Instead, it's more like "Hi, welcome to PyCon. What cool thing are you going to talk about?" "But... I'm just an ATTENDEE..."

Compared to "industry" conferences, PyCon blurs the lines between attending, speaking, and volunteering. It's just a different way of thinking about a conference, and so it makes sense that the financial model be different as well.
Mining patterns in search data with Google Correlate
If you don't register your copyright within three months of first publishing a work, you can't claim (ludicrously excessive) statutory damages from more than 30 days before registration.

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html#412
Happy Guys Finish Last Says New Study on Sexual Attractiveness
Does anyone know what the blue/red/yellow lines represent?
This is just a right-wing attack on education, disguised as genuine critique. Heather Wilson is a right-wing politician who is making false complaints. She's running for the Senate in 2012.

Lets take this line, "An outstanding biochemistry major wants to be a doctor and supports the president's health-care bill but doesn't really know why."

Really? I find that amazingly hard to believe. What I suspect is far closer to the truth is that this person supports the health-care bill for a reason that isn't consistent with why Heather wants to repeal it. Here's a quote from one of her letters requesting donations for her Senate run:

"Repeal and replace Obamacare with market-based reforms that are much more effective at controlling the skyrocketing cost of healthcare without compromising choice and quality;"

While its important to judge writing on its merits, outside of appeals to authority. It is important to know the history and motivation of the author. Especially when the piece really has no data, and is just subjective anecdotal conjecture.
Only 3 shared hosts ready for Rails 3.1? How lazy can we get?
Blaster wasn't a trojan; it was a worm that actively compromised Windows machines, took out entire huge enterprises (including major military networks), hit the front page of CNN, and (IIRC) prompted a Congressional inquiry about regulating software security.

Not exactly apples/apples.
Microsoft Mango: Windows Phone 7 look for Nokia mobiles
Microsoft Mango: Windows Phone 7 mobiles with 500 new features and supports future nokia mobile....seriously!!! lets see what iphone got next..
It is in the post, but blue = locals, red = tourists and yellow = unknown.

Data is gathered from flickr profiles of photographs taken in those spots.
Full PDF text of UBC study ("Happy Guys Finish Last: The Impact of Emotion Expressions on Sexual Attraction") here: http://ubc-emotionlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/Happy-Gu...
Millennial Media Acquires Mobile Data Startup Condaptive
Germany is blacked out.
I emailed his office directly to ask about the policy yesterday. I'm making my own experience. yay!
Interesting tangent to this, after doing PHP from 2000 to 2005, I hopped on the Rails bandwagon full-bore and was using it even for small clients. 6 years later I feel that it was a bit self-serving because those old Rails sites are creaky and painful to upgrade—or even to find someone else to work on—compared to my PHP sites from the same era.

Now that I have ample outlet for my creativity I can be a bit more objective and admit that as much as I love Rails, it's a terrible platform for build-it-and-forget-it. Rails shines for core business apps under continuous evolution.
Yes, including the minor country Germany.
Apparently PyPy still has work to do, we must insert ourselves into this list!
You can actually add more fonts, though it requires editing the registry and doesn't work for all fonts, I think. It does let you at least get Consolas, which is good enough for the time I spend in cmd.

http://keznews.com/3308_Adding_fonts_to_cmd_exe
Pretty soon, we'll hear about companies who won't interview employed workers, because obviously if you're looking around while you've already got a job, it means you're not a loyal employee.
$300 A day business but no idea how to market it
Hi Folks. I am new here and I've spent the past couple of weeks just reading through all the insightful posts. The reason I am posting here is because I need help and I think you all are the right folks who can help me.

Two years ago, I created a balloon distribution business that was earning me upwards of $300 per day every day, but last November, I got into a terrible accident that has disabled me temporarily and I have not been able to do the work.

So I decided to write an 18 page report about my business and sell it on the Internet for a nominal price and also offered money back guarantee. I had someone setup a nice website that was linked to my paypal account and I placed ads on Google, Yahoo, and Facebook to attract customers. I spent $100 to advertise on each site and after my $300 was used up, I had received only 11 orders. Not only that but Google suspended my account for violating their terms of service.

Since then, I have tried various online marketing methods and sold over a 100 copies of my report but I feel like the amount of time I spend marketing the business simply does not justify the returns.

That's why I turn to you. For many people on this forum, marketing their skills and products online is a major part of how they earn their money so I am really hoping you all can shed some light.

Thanks
-Samir
I should maybe have indicated that the clients we're talking to usually have between $20,000 and $70,000 to spend. They employ people who're expected to be experienced.
Really? The word "translation" describes the output of a translator, not the translator itself. I don't think either of us are talking about copyrighting decompilers.
Organic baby products
I'm not a heavy commenter, mostly because I'm yet to work in a team, but there are many reasons to comment a lot. Sometimes the whole readme for something like a javascript library api is the file header. Maybe you want to make clear what you've started/done incase others are allowed to edit it (though if you have to point some things out you shortened too much).
I thank you for your post, and I definitely appreciate what you're saying, but it's only been two months. If Eric is your girlfriend, you are still quite in the "honeymoon phase", if you will, and you're already talking like you are in a long term relationship (I know you say you've known him for years, but working in a business really brings out a different side of people).

When I finally found a co-founder through my friends group, I was really excited. I thought everything would be peaches and gold, and for awhile, it was. But as time went on, I realized I was the only one working on the project, and that he wasn't doing anything. After 8 months of waiting for him to do actual work, I decided to move on without him. Now I'm not sure what do and I've probably delayed my start-up because of it. I'm not trying to dissuade you, and I really hope you've found you're match, but don't say "Mission Accomplished" just yet :)
Why does the iPhone talk to anything on the data port without entering the passcode first?

It seems like this is reading the encrypted data and then brute forcing it, but there's no need to give access to even the 'secure' data without asking the user to enter the passcode. Then you can check for 10 incorrect codes and wipe the device if necessary.
(I believe this is how the Blackberry handles things)
More correctly, it will smash it in the future. The system isn't shipping yet.
A puzzle: dissect a square into congruent pieces, all touching the center
There's a math problem I've been working on for some time that looks like it's finally been solved. To explain it to people I usually start with a warm-up:

Cut a square into indentical pieces so
that they all touch the center point.

As I say, this is a warm up. It's fairly easy to do, and serves to introduce the ideas involved. So we do that, and we move on.

Over the weekend, though, I wondered how many solutions there are to the above problem. I rapidly came up with a small number, and was reasonably content.

Then a friend showed me another. Then another friend found another. Now I have rather more than I thought or expected. Today, a work colleague came up with yet another.

How could I miss so many? What are they all?

I invite the HN community to explore this puzzle/problem. Maybe I still haven't got all the answers.

Who will start me off?
It's quite easy if it's one specific company. Call them and ask to speak to their regional manager. Once through, inform them that you don't want anymore unsolicited calls and they will take you off their system.

As for stopping calls from recruiters completely, well it's near impossible. That's part of the reason why the vast majority of people can't stand tech recruiters. I don't necessarily enjoy calling people I haven't previously spoken to before but I do try my best to ensure I have a valid reason for calling.
Game framework for HTML RPG's
I am extremely doubtful of this result. I can't find the full paper available online, but I would like to see it.
It's not high school, it's anything that brings people of that age together for long enough for them to feel the need to compete, and for someone to lose.
put nothing on the internet that you don't want exposed

IMHO, it's not the exposure I'm worried about, but the discrimination that follows. Getting drunk at a party and posting pictures on Facebook should not be grounds for you getting rejected at an interview.

Also, talking about exposure, companies that found/asked for my social security number or home address, then exposed it on the Internet, should not be surprised when I sue them for huge amounts of money (I'm doing it right now and the only question is how much money I can win).
Along with the "everybody pays" policy, I think this post does a good job of highlighting how hard it really is to put together a conference like this. Not only are the organizers thinking about this year's conference, they're already working on the next one, on top of everything else these people do (which is a lot).

$50k in financial aid divided by the average revenue per person ($300), puts you at around 166 people receiving some form of aid (likely less as some receive airfare/hotel as well). Just dealing with 166 different people, as a volunteer financial aid team, is hard. From what I hear, the financial aid people (person?) are very good to deal with, and they are very fair.

Last fall, the program committee was meeting via IRC for ~1.5 hours a night, several nights a week, for what seemed like forever. There were something like 275 talks submitted, and not only did everyone read nearly all of the talks before the meeting, we then spent time debating and voting on them as a group. Then we cut the list down, re-organized, and did it all again, and kept meeting until the final group was selected. While the big time organizers, the PC chair and conference chair, were busy with all of the other crazy stuff, they were still there in these selection meetings. They could have been dealing with tasks with $50,000 price tags on them, but probably the most important part of the whole thing is the talks, so they sacrificed more of their personal time to join the talk selection group to make sure we were putting together the best conference we could.