skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather have my car powered by a German engine (well, it's manufactured in "lazy" Spain by a German company, but it's European all the same). It consumes way less gasoline compared to US cars, and it's also a lot more reliable.

Some of you could say that reliable, low-consuming car engines do not count as "technological innovation", that we should give more praise to technological "innovators" like Facebook and Zynga. Then again, having FB or FarmVille down doesn't cause any wars, while being able to drive cars that consume less gasoline might avoid a war or two.
I think you're right. Having used ChromeOS at home, it's not intended for that market. But getting out from under Exchange and SMB and WinXP has gotta sound like the land of milk and honey for a lot of businesses. Is citrix up and running now? The one big sticker for the Feds will be FIPS compliance so we can use smart card authentication.

And, yeah, I can see my kids' school district having the same thoughts.
Giganews is up to 1000 days retention -- including binary groups. It's massive. They are the largest I know of.
Come on. This is a weak argument. Most people are going to get this app so that they can drink and drive, not to avoid getting busted for a broken taillight.
http://i.imgur.com/HrRuJ.png

That's a well known TemplateMonster template. Also, you're using Wordpress.
Nitro on the iPad 2 is orders of magnitude behind V8 on a netbook with most every test that I've run. Like I said, it's gotten a lot better in their latest iterations, but it's still slow as molasses with complex web apps in comparison.
I'm sure I saw this here first, but "Ideas are just a multiplier of execution." http://sivers.org/multiply
The Transition From Native and Hybrid App Development to Seamless Web Apps
There's a perception problem: "being hacked" means you are a victim, and the question of negligence rarely comes into play. There should be more stigma associated with it, so that someone who has a serious security problem is seen as the lax/irresponsible party to a breach that they really are.
Nothing was in the list at the end. I picked the middle category, voted on all the entries and clicked continue. And it didn't list any results... nor tell me there were no results to list.
I think the reason people crap on business ops co-founders, is because most of the time they don't want to be co-founders. Unlike the author of the articles, you see a lot of mba types who don't respect what coders do. So in the end, they don't want to give their 'technical co-founder' equity or sometimes even a fair wage. That's assuming we're even beyond the business dood's idea being making a 'facebook killer'
So get your fibre from vegetables and limit fruit intake to at most 1 piece per day or every 2 days.
It seems less important now.

I get good SEO results, as it's one of the top choices for "ipad ebook creator" and similar search phrases, and people can just start using it w/o getting the CD/DVD burn analogy.
@rwmj - the question is not whether it is obvious now but rather was their invention obvious then. Do you have any reason to believe it was obvious then? Remember that this very question has been litigated with MS doing everything in their power to demonstrate it was indeed obvious then, that there was prior art, and they failed! So it is easy to allege something like this now but I suspect that you are suffering from the hindsight effect and don't actually have any evidence supporting your claim of obviousness. I don't doubt your sincerity and I don't mean to be rude, I just don't think you are likely to have done the research (as MS and their attorneys did!) to prove it was obvious THEN.
No one will change his/her lifestyle unless some extreme conditions apply.

Therefore, almost nobody will change lifestyle. But it doesn't matter, as we all die, and we are replaced by people with a different mindset/lifestyle.

E.g. smokers die of cancer, new generations smoke less.
I don't mostly because it's not easy. If there were an easy way to see where police roadblocks are, I would definitely glance at it and avoid them, because I don't really like interacting with police. I've never had any particularly bad experiences, fortunately, but it still slightly creeps me out to have to go through a police checkpoint in my own country, especially absent exigent circumstances like a recent shooting, or prison break, or something. (I don't really like going through the permanent immigration-check roadblock on I-10 in West Texas, either, but no app can do much about that one.)

Although what I'd really prefer is not a separate app I have to consciously check, but integration with a GPS routing device, the way some of them can use real-time traffic info. Just let me program in a police-roadblock penalty (say, call it equal to 30 minutes of traffic), and then reroute based on the real-time roadblocks info; that way I routinely avoid police roadblocks in my daily life without having to think about it.
I do the same thing and I'm pretty sure I have the same mug.
RailsInstaller for Windows 2.0.0 Preview Release
Also from a security perspective, I'd like to see the code that I'm transferring to my machine (and likely executing).
I knew, before reading the first line of the article, that he was not suddenly going to change his mind. He managed to go lower than my lowered expectations by saying he had "hit a nerve", which doesn't mean anything about his degree of insight.

The root problem of this debate is that the word « geek » has lost any kind of meaning a few years ago. There is no clear definition of it, and it's become an empty buzzword.

Every time I see the word « geek », it reminds me of Orwell's essay about « Politics and the English Language »
(http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/politics-and-the-eng...)

« The word FASCISM has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable." »

Well, the word 'geek' has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies « A bunch of people who do not necessarily share any goal, ideology, cultural references or lifestyle, but that we lump together because it fits our simplistic worldview »
#8: A gadget to cook beans/lentils/vegetables/rice for the same amount of time (quicker than what can be done in a slow cooker.)

Ah dang, I was just about to re-invent the microwave too!
I got mine a few days ago from Gilt.com

Things I like:
Fast.
Amazing battery life.
Good trackpad.
Chrome!
Nice keyboard.
Light weight.

Things I don't like:
It stutters sometimes with flash objects.
Display only opens at about 130 deg angle. I wish it went further back.
The display hinge closes when it is open at 45 degs and chrombook is out held with screen facing down.
No shortcut to jump to end or beginning of line when typing.
Microphone is not very good - you sound like you are in a tunnel when talking.
No way to change the keyboard repeat rate.
No delete key.

Things I wish it had:
Magnetic power connector.

I love this little thing. It's extremely fast and the battery lasts longer than my MacBook (which is going to my parents). It's a pleasure to surf the web on.
I think this was ample, feature-wise, for a 1-day Google homepage logo :)
That may be the case, but my point (which I tried to infer, if unsuccessfully) was that these are much more than "DUI" checkpoints. Apple shouldn't be swallowing the government's line about this.
While the US has brought the world many great technological innovations, "Europe" on the whole doesn't suck at it. And Europe is not France, it's a continent with many different countries.

If we are talking about the internet, these things were made by Europeans: The World Wide Web, Skype, C++, PHP, MySQL, Rails. Just to name a few things.

The car industry is also pretty high tech and the European car companies are doing well while the government run car companies of the US suck. A few of the many car related innovations from Europe: the car itself, ABS, Electronic Stability Control.
Please kick the tires folks, everything ran well from an initial go.
That's still a relatively short-term archive compared to Google Groups, which has archives back to 1981.
Worth clarifying that the last one (loren's i think, right?) was unusually sharp visually - and from an active, contributing member of the HN community whose earlier design work had hit the front page of HN in prior months.
It's not ant-intellectualism, it's anti-pendantry.
Hey espadagroup, I'm applying around for jobs in the Raleigh/Durham area. I just got done with my first startup and moved to the area recently. I applied to the PM position at Reverb but never heard back. If you guys are still looking for someone to fill that role, drop me a line.
The problem is that DUI is actually dangerous and the threat of being punished when you do kill someone does not deter people enough. Plus they obviously have low regard for their own life already. You need to threaten them with something that happens more frequently. Tada DUI checkpoints and losing your license or money.
"Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S."

Not available to all.
Possibly much less common, but another type of reviewer which I fit into is "Doesn't bother to review unless a place has been consistently awesome over multiple visits, so much so that I feel they deserve my thanks".
Apple confirms Shift in In-App-Purchase/subscription Guidelines
The sentiment of the post really reminded me of this Bukowski poem:

with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.

(http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/16-bit-intel-8088-chip/)
Security became a hot topic about 10 years ago and thought it will be become a mandatory/important class in degree courses just like programming or OS is there by increasing the knowledge/awareness among every techie. I realized a few years later how naive that was.
Agreed and regarding not having info about FeeFighters:

Marketing 101 : It's all about ME (audience), not you (author). What can you do for me, why should I care, what do I get, why am I reading this? This resume is an outline of this guy's features. But nothing of how and why these features will benefit feefighters.
>People are usually more honest when speaking anonymously [...] It [real ID] may help with astroturfing [...]

In the EU astroturfing is unlawful/illegal (not sure which) under the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD).
I think the article is best summarized as "Don't let the lack of a co-founder hold you back". No matter what your expertise, the farther you get with your idea on your own the more likely someone will join you.

I do think the idea of "learning to code" to start something is pretty silly, just like the idea of "learning to sell" is pretty silly. Yes, you can learn them while starting a company but the process will be painful. Get advisors, mentors and possibly job experience in areas where you are weak instead of burning your precious start-up time on learning something new.
@romp please see my post above about 'the obviousness test' IMHO this relationship between patents and what is obvious is the source of a huge amount of misunderstanding about and opposition to patents. I have no problem with serious discussions about patent reform, but surely such a serious discussion should be based on a substantive understanding of reality not popular misconceptions? Let's all get clear on what is meant by 'obvious' in the context of patents and that will help us move things along.
Since DUIs have not stopped, even with checkpoints, what are you suggesting should be done beyond this?
With a Recovery Like this Who Needs a Recession?
You are right and it would have to be more than a business model. This would have to be more like a marketplace like Salesforce w/o the limitations Saleforce puts on developers. The marketplace would offer enterprise clients brand recognition and invoicing on their terms. This would make it easier for enterprise clients to buy the software.

I would have to be able to offer developers something as well. Why would a developer pay me x% of sales just to handle invoicing with the client? If I could offer the developer access to client org charts for example, then the developer has something to build software around that would be difficult to obtain otherwise.
I love the description "LinkedIn 2.0"
I don't think it was really SQL Server. They could have made that work. I think it was more like they heard the XML buzz (this was some time ago), and tried to make a proprietary binary version of whatever it was XML was promising.
Postmodernism as a trope will linger on for quite a while, but it had very little real insight to offer in the first place and any claim of deep influence is a far larger act of wishful thinking than my claim that what vestiges we still see are anything more than a dead-cat bounce into self-parody.
Finance professor's analysis of fundamentals puts LinkedIn at $21/share
Facebook could do a facial recognition match to see if you match your profile picture ...
Ask HN: Good Example of an Executive Summary?
I was asked by an investor for an executive summary and I am checking to see if someone could point me in the direction of a good modern age example of an executive summary. Thanks!
You would get a false positive just after logging in from an unknown IP, but you would also know that it was due to your own actions (and could therefore ignore it).
Yeah, the arctic white from Gilt. I haven't got the Rickshaw case yet though, but I like it for the most part.

I'm playing with it to decided what I want to do with it. I'm probably going to end up mostly giving it to my parents for my little sister since I feel its a bit better than Ubuntu in some respects and I don't have to worry about malware or supporting it.

I've already enabled dev mode on it, which is kind of interesting. Also, there really needs to be support for archives and zip files and stuff. I downloaded a zip file of photos expecting to be able to unzip it at least and maybe upload to Picasa, but couldn't unzip it.

I do want to develop some chrome apps now though, it's nice to have a blank slate platform and play with something to see what it needs.
Newton was stylus-driven.
How does selling ringtones of a frog singing to club music sound as an idea to you? Let me introduce you to Crazy Frog:

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

Retarded ideas make money too.
How to Demo Your Software Product - Lessons from 2.5 Years of NY Tech Meetup
Facebook Friend Tattoo Is a Hoax
The lady who is shown in a video getting a tattoo of all her Facebook friends..well, it's fake. It's a hoax.
How are the Ruby, Python, Javascript and Clojure communities in the area?

What startups in the area are in the consumer tech space?

I was given the names of a bunch of people in the startup community there by Fred Hutchison, but I was very disappointed to find out that none of them were on Quora. This left me with the impression that there isn't much of a community or that the community lives in a bubble that is separate from instead of networked with the tech communities in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boulder, Austin and Boston.
The biggest benefit I think is the lower barrier to entry for these clients. That creates more competition and better products. How do I communicate that to enterprise clients? I suspect that they think a higher barrier to entry is a good thing b/c it weeds out bad companies.

It is just a brain storming exercise at the moment, but if I can come up with something clever I will try to make some noise.
Yup, he could very well address this with more in depth videos, this being the super-quick overview so people can form a loose structure in their head.
Hi, I'm not a designer, but here it goes.

1/ The vertical coloured stripes look good on the "content" part, but not on the top, as a background to the "I love ..." text.

2/ You "cut" the page horizontally below the "I love ..." text, but this seems to be dissonant with the vertical stripes. Maybe the top part should have a different background color?

3/ The vertical stripes don't go all the way down, it doesn't look right to me.

4/ The screenshots move up on mouseover, but it doesn't feel right.

5/ The actual content of your "Resume 2.0" is still too resumey. "ColourLovers.com has been a part of my creative process blah blah... I've been designing, building and writing blah blah". I'm not saying it's bad, in fact it's probably very good, it's just not that different from a regular old resume.

6/ I think that a website-as-a-resume is an all or nothing deal. I mean, the person either sees it and says "yeah I want this guy", but if not, I don't think they'll go to the trouble of actually finding your resume PDF link on the site, printing it and adding it to their stack of regular submissions in whatever system they're using.

7/ Shouldn't the "one-page resume" link to a PDF? I think it's broken, I can't get to your actual PDF resume to print it!

8/ As another commenter mentioned, you're using Wordpress to generate one page? It's even got an empty RSS feed =)

Hope it helps, good luck with your job hunting!
The moral argument in favor of rejecting this app pivots around whether it does in fact enable more drunk driving. If it does, there doesn't seem to be good justification for allowing the app to exist. I don't think the calculus should be any more complicated than this.

Edit: I'll disclaim that I have a bias, having had a friend die drinking and driving.
Problem: these DUI checkpoints are un-Constitutional and violate the 4th amendment. Lawrence Taylor has written an excellent article about the dangers of such "DUI exceptions" to the Constitution - http://www.drunkdrivingdefense.com/general/lawrence-taylor.h...
That's why I play bridge: http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2000/06/12/story6...
Seems like there should already be bots that automate this type of attack on any ?id= endpoint.
> The fundamental point underlying science and basic research is that it's generally not possible to know the value of knowledge before you, well, know it

Oh no, I wasn't arguing against science -- to the opposite, I wish that scientific achievement was better recognized by our society. I was making a claim that when science does achieve something, the value of those achievements is not "tracked." I fully understand that our whole technological economy depends on the achievements of science. The problem I was trying to solve is, basically, why is it then that scientists don't make a lot of money (a small fact, which, I believe, causes a "brain drain" to the financial industry, etc). I believe that if science correctly "tracked" its achievements (either by replacing the current journal citation rank by something more closely resembling a currency, or by implementing a better patent system, or both), more good science would have been made.

I think that the high-brow idealism you often find in science is a product -- not the origin -- of the current academic system. The reason there are many idealists in science is not because science requires idealism, but because the pragmatists end up somewhere else. As a result, the high-strung idealism devalues science in the eyes of the public.
Having a DR site and not testing that failover works is the big issue I see here. You could check your theory all day long, but if you never actually do it to make sure it works then you might as well not have a DR site. Similar case to taking backups without ever actually verifying you could restore what you need in the event of a loss. While I'm surprised that actually testing DR capability wasn't listed as something to work on, this sort of open write up is very valuable to both customers and the rest of us as engineers.
I would guess this is what a lot of people do and it's certainly what keeps me from giving up entirely on Yelp/Urbanspoon. But the downside is that ranking results by average review becomes useless; you have to dig pretty deep to find the place with an average of 1.5 stars that has a couple of thoughtful reviews indicating it's somewhere you might like. (i.e. you have to get your reviews in linear rather than constant time :)

Companies like Hunch are addressing the problem from the social-networking standpoint that the author suggests (their Local app adds a Facebook friend layer on top of scraped Yelp reviews), but it seems most people are not yet dissatisfied enough with Yelp to consider getting themselves invested in yet another social networking service.
Samsung Releases 1 TB Laptop Hard Drive
mail.ru?!?!? Frankfurt computing power!?!?!?

Guys were talking tech in country that built stealth planes in 40's. And that boosted US and SSSR into space.

Have you really not seen what krauts are up to for the last 50 years? Have you not seen those fine wagens they build. Or impressive industrial technology they poses and continue to evolve? Have you seen the tank they built?

SAP, Siemens, BASF, BOSCH, etc... Theres hardly a piece of modern technology built that doesn't rely on German tech.

The Germans may not be building the blingest widgets and the hipest social media experts. But in this gold rush they are selling a metric fuckton of shovels.
I agree with this. You dont need to be a software developer, but enough knowledge of a programming language(s) will make raising funding and finding partners easier.

I think the biggest roadblocks occur because a non-technical founder doest have the knowledge to properly hypothesize and test his business to practice theories.
They are what got me thinking about this. You could never sell Yammer to a CTO before anyone has used it. The product is very different than anything enterprise is used to paying for.