skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is almost like we are professionals.

But be careful, Al3x. Being professional about these sorts of things generates almost no News Forum Karma, which as we all know is a critical resource for startup fund raising. I suggest you edit your post with a few tactical emoticons.
It's definitely fulfilling someone's Kafka-esque fantasy.
You might consider Amazon Web Services and their EBS snapshotting offerings. (I know.. I know...)

We run our Web infrastructure off an NFS cluster which has all storage on an EBS volume. We take snapshots from that.
4) you can backup your money and make it mathematically impossible to confiscate via encrypted wallets.
Ask HN: Can you profit from a browser extension?
I've got an idea for a product and people willing to pay for it, but the only way to implement it is as a browser extension inside Gmail. Is there any way I can I sell the extension? If not, what are some other avenues I could use to make money?`
that was an example that was closest to hand, it did include programming languages and operating systems though, which are not solely web related.
You are required to report every dollar earned. Tax will be typical self employment taxes- your income tax rate + (approx 15% * the first 106K you make)
I make about $900 on a social website that I wrote and admin by myself. The site helps local communities stay connected. A couple of years back revenue was around $1200 a month ive had the site for about 11 yrs and is currently on top 3 search results on google and yahoo.I'm adding several sister sites in the next few months just waiting for urls to become available.
sure, secretly track everyone's data and sell it.
As usual, this was foreseen by the Onion http://wwww.onion.com/articles/stephen-hawking-builds-roboti...
I'm not really sure what people wanted to avoid by getting rid of the voting numbers. Posts still appear to be ranked based partly on score, and posts near the top of a discussion are still going to get more upvotes and replies.

Meanwhile, if someone posts about the project they are setting up and 50 people reply to the discussion with an assortment of feedback, it is probably useful/interesting to know that 5 of those ideas were also supported by many other people. Personally, I would rather see that from a simple, discreet number than a million "me, too" posts. The latter is the most obvious negative change I have observed since the scores disappeared, though as it happens I do agree with many of the other points people have made in this discussion as well.

If you're worried about too much groupthink and people trying to score every last point they can for some reason, surely there are other approaches that could be implemented quite simply: you could use some sort of grouping with a logarithmic scale, for example, or cap the maximum points any post can receive and let it decay accordingly in the priorities relative to newer posts no matter how many upvotes it got at the start of the discussion.
Unfortunately, eval() complicates things. Consider:

function foo (x) {
return function(what) {
return eval(what);
};
}

var theClosure = foo(42);
var theX = theClosure("x");
document.write(theX); // displays 42

Even though "x" is never explicitly used, it's still accessible through the eval'd expression.
Not to knock your app... but really? Aren't there free apps that do the exact same thing? It's entirely possible that I am severely underestimating the mobile app market, but this just seems like something that nobody would pay for.

I think I need to get into mobile dev.
More details here on legal aspects of the UK courts chasing a us company. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8526865...
I'm Skeptical of the Amazon Ebook Ratio
Lessons Learned: This Weekend
"Skinny people who can eat anything they want without putting on weight tend to be very fidgety - they never keep totally still. Just wiggling a leg all day can use a large amount of energy."

Hm, this is interesting. I've never heard that before, but it seems intuitive. Do you have any sources for that idea? (Not that I'm challenging, just curious.)
I disagree strongly with this. Being Open-Source means more work most of the time: Taking care of the product for users, and making sure it's easy to install and well documented for people wanting to run their own instances.

If you do it simply because you think it's going to save you some work, it won't pay off. Do it because you want other people to benefit from it, but don't expect much from them and maybe it will just happen.
Genuine question here. How is the right to privacy circumvented to allow for the CCTV cameras and other policies that seem, to me at least, to be a pretty clear invasion of privacy. Seems to me this policy is more about allowing aristocrats, celebrities and the wealthy to squash stories they don't want published about them.
It looks like it
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/twitter-starts-hiring-sa...

But I wonder if they will start getting cold feet about having an office in London now.
If you define broken as "I don't like it".

The person you're trying to persuade is PG. His metric for "broken" is the quality of HN. Make an argument don't just say things.
If you read my comment a little more carefully, you'd know I'm not anti-starch. I avoid anti-nutritious and harmful grains like wheat, but I eat potatoes with zeal.
see also: expr
Working at a startup right out of high school
I find that calling Americans "Unitedstatesians" is like calling the French "Republicans".
unless it's 1998 and the product is a pop-up blocker, no.
For the most part I do. Large online communities have their challenges though with respects to the members. But I am an active participant on the platform with respect to it's content so I do enjoy the community.

I'm really not sure how to answer the question about running it indefinitely. I'm someone that doesn't like to sit still for long so I'd bet that I'll engineer a sale of this business someday in the next few years and move on to scratch another itch.
What's the name of the app, and what's the source of revenue?
Firefox Updates Mobile Browser For Android With ‘Do Not Track’ Privacy Feature
can we say that he was harmonized? Yes we can!
I would slightly disagree. I'm a new contributor, here, but I simply look at the comments on my profile and see the scores which helps me determine when I have, perhaps, strayed. It helps me refine what I contribute and how, based on the community response. Of course, I then have to interpret what scores are the result of my contributing something of value versus people simply agreeing with the sentiment of my comment, but that isn't too hard. I don't know that enough people would see public scores and derive what is good or bad before contributing to be a reason for tagging every post with them.

I think the way the system is, now, isn't ideal but it is decent. It eliminates the temptation of a lot of people to post with the intention of getting lots of points so everyone sees how awesome they or their comment are, but still provides the input on those comments for the individual to see. So it helps shape your quality, without making the "ranking" a public competition.

As for curating the live contents of an actual discussion . . . I don't think exact point numbers is necessary for that. If I only want to read the best top half of the comments in a discussion, I don't need to know that a set of comments got 12, 32, 48, and 119 points. I just need them to be displayed in such a way that I can discern the top-most content. Physically weight the comments (in color, boldness, placement, or other possible options) so that the top 20% of comments appear in one way, the next 40% appear another, and the bottom 20-40% appear in yet another way. Easy to visually discern and pick through, but the top comments are then tied to the top comments in relation to that exact discussion and not a hardset number of "anything over 50 points is really great - period". (For all I know, this may be how HN does it - I tend to read most comments already, so I'm not sure).
Entitlement is indeed a pretty useless concept in this context.

Are you "entitled" to lend a paper book to someone. Publisher say no, and they are backed up with the force of law in some countries.

Are you "entitled" to read a book out loud? The Authors Guild says no.

Are you "entitled" to sing a song out loud? ASCAP says no.

Are you "entitled" to sell a CD that you own? Music publishers say no.

Eventually I'll might get to something to which you do think you are "entitled", and smart money bets there is someone in the content industry who wants to deprive you of it, and someone in the legislature willing to make you a criminal if you if you try. The slippery slpe has been well documented for a long time.

BTW, if you haven't already recognized it, this discussion is about much more than just Amazon's TOS.
If it comes to be that a significant majority of the book market is locked by DRM schemes, then no, Amazon ought not have the right to do as they please, and a regulatory agency should be established to ensure fair and equitable access to the materials.

Education, water, electricity, communication, and healthcare are all fine and proper examples of what happens when incumbents reach "escape velocity" and their past innovations turn into today's rent seeking.
Review of Timesheets.com a Robust Product for Managing Projects
That's a pretty slick interface actually. I like it even more than Hipmunk's.

I just wanted to say thanks for the tip.
I think the argument is that what you do in public places is public knowledge. If random people legally positioned can see you, then there is no assumption of privacy.

I speak from a position of no formal knowledge, merely having derived a working model that seems mostly to predict accurately various things. It's a working theory, not based on actual law. It's also probably got flaws, but I don't really care - I provide this working model merely as a starting point.

And regarding the rich being able to circumvent the law, it was ever thus. These days you need vast amounts of money to get into power, and once there, it's unlikely the laws will make life difficult for the rich and powerful.
Most iterations of the "market share argument" I've seen imply that at some time in the future, Mac market share will reach a tipping point and writing viruses for OS X will be lucrative enough that there will be a dramatic increase in the amount of malware being flung at Macs.

It has the same problem that plagues every other apocalyptic argument: the world keeps not ending.

Nobody ever says how much market share OS X needs to reach this tipping point, which makes it pretty hard to falsify. Meanwhile, the Mac market share keeps growing, year after year, with only minor increases in the prevalence of malware, and no major botnets or worms of the sort that were rampant on Win9x and early XP.

Claiming that OS X is (or will be) a soft target also serves to further undermine the market share argument: Windows has been getting more secure over time, which should help make OS X a more attractive target if it really is a softer target than Windows.
As much as I love CSS, I could never see myself using any of this technology because jQuery (and many other JS frameworks) can do this with less code, simpler syntax and more browser coverage.
> For that matter, I don't even know if Steam would let me access my US-bought materials from another country.

Yes.
One Touch - Ipod touch 4G
Also see: http://www.amazon.co.uk/ML-Working-Programmer-Larry-Paulson/...
There was a great session at Google IO about developer success stories within the Google apps marketplace. It is well worth a watch if you are looking for ways to make money within Gmail (particularly if your product targets businesses/business users).

Here is a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnW_Y9nRiEY
You don't permanently own it.
9 months since posting my first android app I'm making 200-300/m from two apps. It took me a good 6 months before I was able to get above 100 though. Not too bad considering I'm competing against free alternatives but a long way to go.
Ask HN: What's your salary?
How much do you make annually from salary + consulting + recurring revenue?
I don't think any humans should be allowed on facebook. Zuckerberg is a nasty piece of work. Childish, careless and with obviously no respect for people. Throws a few million dollars at the education system in the US to buy some credit.

There are a lot of engineers and scientists who contribute more to this world and they are utterly ignored in favour of that asshat.
At $30 I'd buy it just for an afternoon of fun. But I'm a Windows user -- any plans for a Windows version?
Oh yes, short term it's a little more work. You probably have to write a few tutorials, tidy the codebase up a little more than usual...but in the end, you open source because you want people to do work for you for free.

> If you do it simply because you think it's going to save you some work, it won't pay off.

A very immature blanket statement. Sometimes it will pay off, sometimes not. Depends on everything success usually depends on - open source is not some kind of magical exception. If you have a good product, but you feel like you won't be able to support it forever on your own or you don't expect or want to earn money from it anyway, you will open source it. In the end, it always boils down to wanting help with the workload though. If you had infinite time, you would just write everything yourself. I know I would, it's a lot more satisfying and interesting. But since we are all mere mortals with generally empty bellies, we open source secondary pillars of our livelihood. Nothing wrong with it, that's how it is.
Exactly the kind of person I'm trying to reach! How did you manage while you were recovering? Did you search for any alternative layouts or guides?
Well, a Bitcoin-mining MMO game probably should be free. It would have a larger install-base, and people would be more tolerant of a miner running in the background.

Also, MMO games generally have pretty low graphics requirements (to appeal to the widest possible install-base), so a lot of gamers have excess GPU that could be used for mining.
To be fair, these links all came from twitter - you broadcasted into a very public channel. To an entirely outside observer (eg me) it's worth noting... Personnel is a very big deal in startups, BankSimple is relatively high profile, and you were their 'Lead Developer'. The scrutiny comes with the territory.
Putting aside all discussion on the validity of software patents, Apple really has an obligation to step in and muscle Lodsys to the ground. And I expect that is exactly what they will do.

I doubt anyone at Apple thought it would be a good idea to push tools onto people that would then get those people sued. So most likely, Steve is in the process of releasing the Kraken, telling it to head straight for Lodsys HQ.

By Monday, Lodsys should be a smoldering heap, sunk to the bottom of the ocean by the all-powerful leviathan.

And there shall be much rejoicing.

As an aside, I started to write a thoughtful comment but this stuff is so inane that it really just requires Apple to apply some ass-kicking-fu and make this crap go away.
Ask HN: Why does everybody care about what Gruber has to say?
You should submit this as a poll:

Salary ==

<50K/year

<100K/year

<150K/year

<200K/year

>200K/year
In the literature its referred to as N.E.A.T. Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis

Many people's body's response to overfeeding is to up NEAT, up fidgetyness. But not always. Your body thinks getting fat is a good thing. Famine used to be common.
When dieting almost everyone down-regulates NEAT. On a severe diet you feel like being very still.
You're contributing to the misinformation with a blatantly false statement like this. I'm not going to argue with you (again) on your misstatements about the GPL, but I did want to call it out as being obviously wrong, lest anyone read your comment and take it as somehow sensible.

The GPL provides more freedom to the end user than any commercial license, and it is deeply disingenuous to keep spreading FUD that indicates otherwise.
In Brazil it is standard practice for banks to attach a credit line to every checkings account, and if you overdraw it counts as a loan against that credit. Some even include a grace period (10 days or so) where you don't pay anything if you bring your balance back to black.

However, you definitely don't want to keep using that credit line. Interest rates are on the order of 120%/year.
Hopefully this doesn't come off as too harsh, but would anyone mind telling me why Hype is better than Flash? Judging from their gallery, it's just as bad. It only "fixes" the CPU hogging part of Flash (and, presumably, Flash's lack of mobile support).

It still takes a long time for the initial page to load. We don't even get a loading bar, just a blank page and "Built with Hype" for seven seconds. When it does load, we still have to sit through all the pieces of the page sliding into place. The demos look like Flash pages straight from the 90s. And I dare suggest that Flash sites could be more SEO friendly.

Hype seems like all the annoyances of Flash under a different name. It seems to encourage bad, flashy design just as Flash did, which makes me wonder about your "[t]his is a very designer-friendly process" quote.
Agreed. I noticed that the sidebar with css was animated with jQuery anyways. I still thought it was an interesting proof of concept though.
If you keep everything to yourself, you help one person, yourself. If you share code, you benefit, what, 10 people? 100?, 1000?, 1000000? And if they share too . . . well you can see how the maths of that goes.

The share-ability of information is like a free natural resource. If we want to really make progress, we use it.

> why pay someone to write something when you can go get it for free and piece together yourself

To pay people to produce things that are already available for free would be economic nonsense. It would be just throwing away effort that could be spent on producing things that are not available and are needed.
Signs point to yes: http://statemachines.tumblr.com/post/5485532083/the-capitali...
I heard Wells Fargo kidnapped his family...
Wow, you earn an order of magnitude more than I with only double the visits, and still see room for improvement.
A friend of mine joked that we should get a tiger to play our ipad game. I immediately became obsessed with this idea. We worked for a couple weeks calling animal shelters etc with no luck. But we told everyone we knew that we wanted to do this.

My sister ended meeting someone at starbucks who's daughter worked for a shelter and the rest is history: http://conservatorscenter.org

They love us because it brought a good amount of exposure to their center. They've already asked us to make more apps specifically for them. They use it as a way for kids to interact with the animals.
If the quality of HN is a metric, HN is horribly, horribly broken. The quality has been steadily declining until a few months ago when it bottomed out somewhere around the quality of r/atheism.

Take the top voted item from any time maybe 6-8 months ago, and another from 1 month ago to today, and compare the quality. HN used to be full of good stuff, now it's "How i made 200M in 15 minutes by writing Github for Mint in the Cloud (YC S12)" and "How Ruby is better than Python because i wear a fedora and skinny jeans". I'm just here for the 1 or 2 good submissions per day, and hoping it will get better.

Sir His Grand Amazing Great Majestic Greatitude of Fancy Amazingness doesn't seem to want to fix anything, though.
New method 'confirms dark energy'
I read through the terms, privacy policy, and dmca information because this site will obviously be used for piracy and where there's piracy there's lawsuits. It was kind of long so here's a tl;dr for anyone wondering about them.

The terms prohibit using the service for any illegal purposes including copyright infringement. They then waive any liability for damages but also state that doing this is prohibited in some jurisdictions so this might not apply. Then finally under Indemnification they state that a user agrees to be monetarily responsible for any liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorneys fees, that arise from misuse of the service.

The privacy policy states that personal information will only be shared with the consent of the user or if required by law.

The dmca page states that they will comply with requests but asks for them to be snail mailed to Hong Kong.

I wonder if there are any jurisdiction issues with them being located in Hong Kong. Maybe this was a carefully chosen location for legal reasons; does anybody know anything about this? My other initial thought after reading this is that they're going to have a hard time tracking down the users responsible for submitting torrents in some cases. I can submit a torrent for a movie while at a coffee shop using a fake email address, post the link online somewhere, and then go home and watch it. Then the only crime that I've provably committed is downloading copyrighted material which is less of an offense then uploading. If the site were to get sued for uploading while downloading the torrent then they have nobody to pass that blame on to.
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Hook em young!
Tell me a single lie stated in that post.
They need to change their background, that scrolling effect really is not nice.
I think a middle ground is probably best. Choose a tech stack that can scale but doesn't slow down programming productivity much. Something like node, python twisted/tornado or Go-lang. Same idea for databases.

Using the right stack will usually get you up to a few thousand users without major headaches, after that you'll have to know what you're doing.

There are startups that fail to scale to a few thousand users, who are easy enough to find for a free service. It's not a nice problem to have when you're not making money solving it. A little scalability planning ahead helps, gives you more time to work on the product.

The general advice on HN is to ignore scalability at first. It's vague advice to a vague question.
Same story, many comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2516510
If you're Open Sourcing your product to get help, you will be deeply disappointed. Very few projects, even very large ones, ever see significant contribution from outside developers.

Our project is over 13 years old, used on millions of servers, and is about 95% written by one guy. There are some measurable benefits, like translations and more participatory users who help find bugs faster and occasionally even send patches. But, the odds of outside developers joining a non-developer-centric project, without some sort of incentive, are slim. So, developer tools tend to attract a lot of help. End user applications rarely do (look at GNOME for an example; it's the most important piece of desktop Linux, and yet 90% of the code is being written and maintained by people who are employed full-time to work on said code; volunteers make up a tiny portion of the project).

There are other good reasons to develop software under an Open Source model. But developers working for free is not one of them in the majority of cases, and you'll probably spend more time herding cats than actually getting work done, if that were your primary goal.
Keep Zuckerberg as far away from kids as possible. He will treat them like "dumb fucks".
While I share your viewpoint, your wording is rude and insulting. Also the comment is not exactly on topic, so it is perceived as a typical internet rant from somebody who doesn't read the article.

Nothing wrong with smoking pot though.
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You're talking about it because it's fun to talk about. You don't care that it has practically nothing to do with the topic at hand. And despite the fact that you're talking about a person who's in the room, you're fine with speculating about his career.

And, whatever, but don't try to pass it off as high-minded.