skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If your ideas are retarded, of course they're a dime a dozen."

There is actually a town in china where the entire village makes their money painting caricatures of monkeys. Not saying it's a good career move, but at least that's the context for where the idea came from.

Interesting enough, the majority of the world's oil paintings come from this one tiny village with 5,000 painters who spend all day slavishly copying the same templates over and over:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen

You can find all their stuff on ebay and alibaba.
Seems like a neat service, but I never got a request via notifo to approve the subscription. I'm guessing the service is overloaded at the moment?
The obviousness test is basically off the table after the patent has been granted. This is one of the things that is problematic with the system. Patent examiners tend to be too lenient, but the end result is you now hold a patent that is very difficult to overturn.
That's a really interesting consideration that's more technical than I could talk about intelligently. It seems like something for which there would be a market solution, though, like a service tier between current consumer grades and commercial grades. I guess there's something of a chicken and egg problem there, though.
Opening up Posterous to 3rd Party Developers
This is rather annoying, because I have two of them installed. They've never worked especially well, but it would be nice if they did.

Anyone know of a web app that's doing substantially the same thing?
OK, may I ask who that is that should make this call?

If I have a kill switch on my platform for apps that endanger people and I see that the app is endangering people, I'll feel a moral obligation to toggle that kill switch. Again, this is a rather straightforward call.
968. Make a Triple Snuggy.

What exactly is that? I'm scared.
Teach your team some Git Experiences of a team lead who cares.
When I say "enable," I mean "encourage more of," which implies preexistence of a problem that is being exacerbated.
Er... I didn't mean to make it sound like I was making fun of you. I wasn't, sorry.

I'm truly serious: emphasis on "do whatever it takes to succeed" results in people doing illegal and immoral things to succeed, such as what Airbnb did.
I think he was referring to this: http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-do... HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603844
Most technical mistakes that a non-technical founder can make will involve one of two things: Scalability, and maintainability

Lacking knowledge in these two things will not hinder an early startup website much, so it's easy to go ahead and build something without expertise in these domains.

The only thing that sucks about these situations is that once your company takes off, the engineers you hire will be left to maintain/fix the mess that the non-technical founder made - which can be quite miserable for the engineers.
On an old project of mine, my friend said to me "I don't know why you think that'll work, and I don't agree at all... but somehow you seem to always be right about these things"

I guess it's pretty silly to start a big project with people you don't trust though.
Sustainable engineering: the carbon issues
This is not the first police checkpoint app rejection, as I recall.

I think this is a fairly grey area, and I assume people are aware of the same thing. Instead of taking the gamble, I would looking into contacting someone related to the app review process and check if it would be acceptable.
or http://www.airbnb.com/ ?
Talk about attention to detail: if you have headphones you can tell that the audio shifts from left to right, based on where your mouse is. Try different spots on the long string in the middle for the best effect.
Have you looked at http://vegguide.org ?
Not another UDID activation site
So obviously sites that let you activate yr iPhone/iPad UDID in order to install the iOS 5 are nothing new.

But we thought we could build a better business - and one available to more people - by letting other developers take part as well. So if you've got an iOS dev account and spare activation slots, you can register on http://buyOS5.com in order to start filling orders - they each cost the client $10, of which you get $7 wired to yr PayPal account on the 1st of the month.

Would love to know what HN thinks!
Ruby - Raleigh.rb was one of the first and largest Ruby user groups, we have some of the best Ruby developers in the country. Relevance, Viget, and Terralien (gone now) are all based in the Triangle.

Clojure - Relevance employs most of the Clojure core team and the Clojure conference is held here each year.

Javascript - Good local developers and groups.

Python - no clue.
No, the touch to share functionality is based on some form of near field communications. I don't think the Pre2 has the hardware. The Veer (with a software update) and Pre3 are supposed to support it.
From the guidelines: If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
If you're looking for a "code monkey" that isn't a technical co-founder. In fact I'd say if you're even looking a CTO with shares that still isn't a technical co-founder. To me a technical co-founder is someone with vision as much as hands on; the first person that comes to my mind is The Woz — or Ub Iwerks for Disney. Someone like that teamed with an evil genius biz person or creative director can conquer the world.
I've dealt with state agencies and higher ed depts that get their dander up over this sort of stuff.
As a technical co-founder myself, I first read the title and thought "Oh, cute... look at them trying so hard!" but then I read the article and it has some good valuable information,.

Sidenote:
I should share this to everyone who tries to get me to join their "$1b idea" companies and the ones willing enough to follow that article might actually get somewhere.
The title is a bit misleading, but I constantly beg for non-technical colleagues to have any sort of application modelling skills. MS Paint Web Mockups, Excel, PDF Forms that save to an email 'database', anything that gives a clear picture of how things work. Huge bonus if the mockup actually functions. You don't need to invest in time learning Ruby or .net since the end result is communication.

Actual execution is where the technical cofounder comes into play.
Since when did a 30 day trial become a deal, or require a coupon code? What a joke.
Thanks so much! Recontemplations@gmail.com
Whats Got Google So Worried
Not to mention the fact that they violate the 4th amendment and even the founder of MADD is against them.
Misusing a website for server logic - the architecture of RADIOcracy
Great Stuff. Thanks!
My claim : There is no proper definition of 'geek'.

In order to refute such a claim, you mustn't limit yourself to saying there is one, you must say what it is and prove it is indeed the proper definition of 'geek'

Unfortunately, the definition you give is wrong. The word geek used to mean "someone who's passionate about something". It also used to mean something like "freak".

In any case, I have seen people whose primary life interests was RPGs or literature be classified as 'geeks'.

Also, "computer gadget" in itself is a vague phrase. Lumping together people because they're somehow connected to computers in some way is stupid.

What is there in common between a video games producer like Peter Molyneux, a millionaire entrepreneur like Bill Gates, an ideologist hacker like Richard Stallman, an amateur programmer like myself, and a technician that takes care of a university network of computers ?
Naw, the microwave is still pretty much a one-thing-at-a-time device. Do one thing after another, and the first is cold when the next is ready; do them together, and you either have to pop stuff in at different times or some stuff will be over/under-cooked when it ends.

Methinks the idea was something crockpot/rice-cookerish which you dump all the stuff into at once, say into different sections of the cooker, and it ensures everything finishes cooking at the same time even though everything cooks at different rates. Lower/higher temps for some things, delayed start for others...
If you are employee, work with Accenture consultants, and want to see them pull their hair out then work long hours. They'll try to maintain the work longer deal until they give up.

Other than that, they team that I worked with was great. It helped by having a great Associate Partner managing the project, but most of the team was very knowledgeable. I was able to watch several projects from a distance, and I know this wasn't the norm.
Gameduino: a game adapter for microcontrollers
For anybody "looking in from the outside" here's an article about the Startup Weekend that was held here, just last weekend. It might help you get a feel for what the startup scene here is like:

http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/news/blogpost/968...
Yes, that is what Apple was doing.
As a purchaser of Wi-Fi Sync, fuck him. He's an extremely unprofessional developer who provides terrible customer service. Don't buy his app, even at $2.99.

He dropped off the map after promising a Windows beta for WiFi Sync 2, he won't refund purchases for any reason, and he used misleading language that he refuses to own up to when promising sync over 3G.

Apple's implementation will be way better anyways. It's already much faster and it syncs in the background over USB.
They've been inching towards being flexible. Hopefully their statements about possibly licensing webOS with other manufacturers will bear fruit.
Getting a system monitor applet back in Gnome 3
Don't you guys have friends who died DUI? Here in southern europe it's a big probelm. I hate it that when i learn somebody i knew died or killed this way, i can't help thinking 'he brought it to himself'.
There is however the argument of prior art, so it still takes a little brain-racking to do.

Patents are more about digging some holes in the forest and covering them up, after which you go home and cross your fingers that someone steps into one of them in the future.
Amazon doesn't pay Apple nor Apple pays Amazon. That was set to change on June 30th.
I didnt get the memo which stipulated that you need to use fingers for it to be classified as touch based.
Yay wayne!
your colors (grays and reds) don't work for me and they are distracting. lighten up!
The referenced post brings up a good point, but for many purposes (including your event) it's irrelevant. If your guests are likely to be on facebook, then facebook is a perfectly valid choice.
I think that's called the human centipede
If webOS fails, I think its legacy will be being too ahead of its time twice- one for being a neat smartphone OS back in 2009 with several features that both the iPhone and Android lacked (card system for multitasking, development platform based on web programming languages), and second for getting into the multi-device platform game prior to OS X Lion and Windows 8 (the webOS will run on everything from desktops to printers initiative that HP is currently pushing).
Blow and hookers.

Seriously though, I'd just cash out and keep your job. I'd also freeze around 80% of the money, so that you're not tempted to spend it all at once but still have play money. Have you attempted to get American citizenry? That would straighten out the main tangle there.
Like you I also check the quality of the reviews. However, I do cull my list initially based on summarized data.

What this ultimately means is that when looking at a map or listing with sites and summarized data you can't trust the summarized results which may have been gamed/poisoned.

Also poisoning the summary is very powerful in controlling which users even notice the property (e.g. 25 reviews 3.2 stars - might be worth looking at, 15 reviews 2 star = probably avoid... the difference is 10 bogus 5 star reviews, not hard)

black-hat SEO works
http://flippa.com, where you get a stream of business ideas that are mostly proven to work. Due diligence required as usual to identify scams, future market demand, revenue/effort, competition, profit margin, etc.
Great feedback. It is always a pleasure to have the Language creator's opinion here on Hacker News.
Good post, I hope all the non-technical / idea guys read this and learn coding, much better than pissing-off technical guys by saying the usual "I have a great idea, it only needs coding, if u sign NDA, we can get this started"
Google Acquires AdMeld For $400 Million
Apple’s Magnum Opus
the proper spelling is 'résumé', not 'Resumé'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9
Exactly! Idea generation shouldn't be mental diarrhea, which this reads like, ranging from ho-hum, it's already obviously been done ("Brainstorm Consulting - Teach companies how to brainstorm", "Replicate reality TV shows for foreign countries.") to frivolous ("Herbal Flavored Gum").
Every one of my colleagues and me find the couple of people who eat in the cubicles next to us incredibly rude.

Both are either managers or team leads so there's not a lot of volunteers to inform them of this. Although there have been subtle hints, but no one has picked up on the clues yet.

And both are very proud of giving it 110%, hence the eat and work at the same time show. Which is a joke, because one of them often eats with a knife and fork. How much coding is he really getting done while doing that?

But we do have the noise of the utensils and the glass dishes to enjoy, along with the smell of the food and the other noises which tend to accompany eating.

So for all of you out there, eating at your desks at work. Please stop!

I guarantee you, your neighbors don't like it. It's a mess. You're not fooling anyone into thinking you're working extra hard because you're eating at your desk. An office is not a lunch room. Do yourself and everyone else a favor and take a short lunch break.
I could care less about talk in any case. I've been following Windows Phone 7 as of late and it seems that they've made it easy to program for the platform by offering development tools, samples, and instruction. There is scant documentation or examples for Enyo.

They changed app dev frameworks on all of their existing developers from Mojo to Enyo. That can't help either. I think they have a near Herculean task in trying to claw back market share. There seem to be a few evangelists who love the webOS platform and its devices but when it comes to consumers paying at the door that is in jeopardy.
Given the choice between a world without AirBnB and a few emails to Craigslist users about a better service, most rational people would vote for AirBnB to exist. The ends do justify the means. Just be sure your ends are defensible, and be prepared for blowback if you get too many people clutching their pearls in feigned outrage.
Ideas that are based on making money for the sake of being rich are the worst.
I'll check into it - it could be overloaded right now. Best bet is to just try again in a bit.
Take a look at www.efaqt.com.
I didn't call the results "crap". I am simply pointing out that they are meaningless without knowing the methodology behind them. (And we aren't just missing the "perfect details of everything" here. As far as I can see, we have no rigorous details whatsoever.)

I would remind you that you were the person who was attacking another poster's position based on your interpretation of those currently meaningless numbers. It's up to you to back up your claim, not up to the rest of us to figure out whether your argument has any merit.
As someone who had dabbled in this "social recommendations" space, finding reviews from friends when you do not have a big enough social graph is probably the biggest difficulty. Also, it may work in a place like SF, but outside of those deeply networked places, it becomes difficult to find restaurants with reviews on Yelp, forget finding places where your friends have been to.

And remember that people are far more inclined to write reviews when they have had a negative experience, and not a positive one.

A tough task. I wish you all the best.
The size method from the post compiles to exactly the same bytecode as the unsafe

def sizeAny(t: Any) = t match {
case i : Int => i
case s : String => s.length
}

The only difference is that the method has an additional unused parameter for the <:< witness [edit: which must be provided at the call site, so there is some overhead (a method call and an object allocation) there] and that the compiler guarantees that it will never throw a MatchError exception.

As proof the disassembly:

public int size(java.lang.Object, scala.Predef$$less$colon$less);
Code:
0:	aload_1
1:	astore_3
2:	aload_3
3:	instanceof	#8; //class java/lang/Integer
6:	ifeq	16
9:	aload_3
10:	invokestatic	#14; //Method scala/runtime/BoxesRunTime.unboxToInt:(Ljava/lang/Object;)I
13:	goto	30
16:	aload_3
17:	instanceof	#16; //class java/lang/String
20:	ifeq	31
23:	aload_3
24:	checkcast	#16; //class java/lang/String
27:	invokevirtual	#20; //Method java/lang/String.length:()I
30:	ireturn
31:	new	#22; //class scala/MatchError
34:	dup
35:	aload_3
36:	invokespecial	#26; //Method scala/MatchError."<init>":(Ljava/lang/Object;)V
39:	athrow

public int sizeAny(java.lang.Object);
Code:
0:	aload_1
1:	astore_2
2:	aload_2
3:	instanceof	#8; //class java/lang/Integer
6:	ifeq	16
9:	aload_2
10:	invokestatic	#14; //Method scala/runtime/BoxesRunTime.unboxToInt:(Ljava/lang/Object;)I
13:	goto	30
16:	aload_2
17:	instanceof	#16; //class java/lang/String
20:	ifeq	31
23:	aload_2
24:	checkcast	#16; //class java/lang/String
27:	invokevirtual	#20; //Method java/lang/String.length:()I
30:	ireturn
31:	new	#22; //class scala/MatchError
34:	dup
35:	aload_2
36:	invokespecial	#26; //Method scala/MatchError."<init>":(Ljava/lang/Object;)V
39:	athrow
Completely agree. My story is almost exactly the same. Learning enough to speak the language is hugely important and it's one of the reasons, I believe anyway, that my cofounder and I have such a great relationship. I'm mostly hustle--worrying about marketing and having the right relationships, but I can code a mockup in fairly short order when it's needed. I might consider re-naming it "if you're not a technical cofounder then learn to speak the language."
Right, but this bumps into a spatial-locality analogue of Amdahl's law. If you optimise case that shows up 1% of the time, then you can only get a total gain of 1%.
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I find this deliciously ironic. I can hear myself arguing as a sophomore CS student, "but whatever is going on that constitutes the mind is observably a process on information that happens entirely inside your skull, of course we can model it with software," to which I would today answer "you can model any phenomena with software, stating as such doesn't constitute a model."
No, of course, the point of the blog is to pester a certain Martin to put it into the compiler :-).
3 Billion Passwords Per Second. Are Complex Passwords Enough Anymore?
In large numbers, yes, it's hard to spoof a good/bad rating. But the mode/median of review numbers is likely to be easily game-able (like 20 reviews, for example).

Furthermore, if your property gets too many bad reviews you can either rebrand (expensive) or just create a new property description (this is what happened when my sister found a screw in her food - the restaurant retaliated to her Yelp negative review by just creating a cloned restaurant listing then spamming that listing with positive reviews).
Moving to OpenJDK as the official Java SE 7 Reference Implementation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

Where society's need is great and no other effective means of meeting the need is available, and intrusion on people's privacy is minimal, checkpoints toward that end may briefly detain motorists. In Michigan v. Sitz 496 U.S. 444 (1990), the Supreme Court allowed discretionless sobriety checkpoints.
Ideas matter. So does luck, timing and many other things.

Not ideas like "I want to create a backup tool" but rather ideas like "I want to create a backup tool that allow the user to simply drag and drop the files they want backed up into a folder on their machine". In other words ideas that are followed by an insight.

When people walk around saying ideas are a dime a dosen and execution is everything they forget that execution in itself is empty. You need to execute on something and that something is ideas.
by travel agency he probably meant someone who takes the home-finding job off your hands.
AOL is a joke of a company. Watching them pivot and pivot with no real sense of vision is like watching a headless chicken running around. It's great fun, but the fact is that death is coming very soon and nothing will change that. AOL might last another few years off old people using dialup, but they're done as a viable internet company.
I have a gripe with this whole "resume 2.0" thing.

It's not about a flashy design. It's not about specifically targeting the company you want to work for.

It's about standing out from the crowd. Being special. Once everyone and their mother start creating a "resume 2.0", it will become a commodity, and designers and developers will need to devise new ways of attracting employer attention.
She gave money to somebody to film her doing stupid stuff.
> The fact that it needed a mathematical proof to arrive at that conclusion was a hint that the path was too convoluted to follow.

There are some (e.g., Dijkstra) who would argue that the code itself ought to be a mathematical proof of correctness. I'm inclined to agree.
Code Quarterly's Interview with Rich Hickey
The power of being friends with your boss
I apply a simple test—Who is Edgar Lee Masters?, Rupert Brooke? Tintoretto? Hardy? George Mallory? William Morris? I’ll even throw in one most geeks get even if they haven’t read—Edward Tufte. Not a long list, but good enough to give me a clue as to where someone stands… Note that this is not liberal or conservative, neither one side of the campus or the other, these are in fact people that you could easily become familiar with at any reasonable library or bookstore. It would require you to wander ‘beyond the fields we know’ (quick, who said that?), i.e. set aside the books on Scala and Lisp etc. and go look around, it is never too late to expand horizons.
Splunk's Machine Data Web of Events and Activities
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The US imports approaching twice as much from Germany as it exports.

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4280.html
I think that's an over-simplification. Call me naive, but I think that to most people, "do whatever it takes to succeed" assumes a certain baseline of ethics in the intended audience.

This phrase here is meant to spur the reader to do the right sorts of "anything": being disciplined, getting out of their comfort zone, learning, taking risks, getting their "hands dirty" in good honest work, hacking and building.

The author cannot be blamed for those who act immorally because they lack ethical training or discipline.
Too ahead of it's time? I'm pretty sure it's just that they were too late to market.

(1) they launched on Sprint. Sprint is a distant 3rd now.

(2) they didn't reach Verizon in time.

They had this lovely window of time before Verizon launched the first Droid phone. Verizon users were hungry for a smartphone. Droid got their first and filled the niche.

It's easy to armchair quarterback but, after trying the Pre on Sprint, I kept wishing for them to get a faster Pre on Verizon before Android arrived.

Too little, too late.