skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly never really saw the appeal in those... There's a link to the source there though, so that's roughly equivalent :)
Yeah, made me think of two things:

- The old project management joke about not being able to speed up a pregnancy by having 9 women be pregnant for a month. It seems like all great startups have some gestation period that defines the product and culture. It may vary in length, but you're not likely to launch fully formed.

- You need to focus on concrete acts. Bryce pokes a little fun at Color's MBA speak mission, but he is right. You need to focus on concrete acts. For a baby it is avoid burning your knees crawling, for startup delivering value in some concrete way. The Color mission has classes of communication and markets, but no action.

Great post.

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They had a chatroom on his irc server. They also had chatrooms on efnet, 2600, anonops, and rizon. So to claim he's a big part of the organization is pretty disingenuous. Of course, the question remains whether the authorities are being deliberately dishonest, or if they actually think he's a "leading figure" in LulzSec. I'm not sure which outcome would be more depressing, although I suppose I'd take an incompetent government over an evil one any day.
Depends on the business plan ;).

If the plan is excellent, and actually describes the problem, solution, and route to profit, then it's probably worth a lot.

However, if it's like most business plans that I've written or read, then it's probably not accurately describing the problem. A ton can change in a market in 2 years, so I would guess that parts of that plan are pretty out of date.

I probably wouldn't ever assign more than 5-10% of a business' value (equity, here) to the b-plan. That would be for a world class, how-could-we-not-have-seen-this, b-plan.
not sure about mac, but other laptops are costlier in India. But Dell is definitely cheaper in the US. :( Conversion rate is about 1USD=50Rs. About 5-10% cheaper in the US.
US: http://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops#facets=51795~0~11401827,135...
India: http://www.dell.com/in/p/laptops.aspx?c=in&l=en&s=dh...
We do have our fair share of Chinese duplicate electronics. :)
The rates are higher because most of the original stuff is also made in china. Import duty is pretty bad here.
[50% import taxes on alcohol.]
Too much time between the request and delivery. There needs to be some sort of instant gratification for this to fly, otherwise it's essentially asking users to do free market research. Profit sharing with the users should the deal come into fruition would certainly inspire them to continue populating the merchant database.
What's wrong with jQuery callbacks? ;)
I checked out your app, very interesting how native it feels. Would you recommend Titanium, in general?
I haven't ever played with a Google TV device, but my first thought upon reading that is that I could and would rather do all those things today on my phone (or tablet), not on my TV.

E.g. I can separately look up supplemental information on my handheld device and then, if there's something I want to share with the rest of the people in the room, I can: verbally share it, pass the device around, or (with Apple TV, which I'm fairly pleased with, but certainly isn't perfect) beam that info up to the big screen via AirPlay. I'd hate to subject my viewing-mates to watching me fiddle with a UI that overlays and takes screen space/otherwise distracts from the thing they're trying to watch.

tl;dr: Why would I want wikipedia on my TV when I've got it on my phone?
This sounds like a good explanation. I think there's a lot of complexity bolted on in order to make the syntactic sugar work.
Mozilla starts using UseTheSource (or the beginning of a curated job board)
Would Python 'locals' be something like that?

def f():
x = 1
if 'x' in locals():
print 'x in scope'

f()
x in scope
> "until you think of them as a multi-million dollar entertainment machine their managers no doubt poured tons of money into"

I would bet the ad spends and branding costs would dwarf the money spent directly on grooming the performer.
I use Coffeescript almost exclusively now.

However, if someone told me that Coffeescript was going to vanish forever from tomorrow on, I don't think I would be heartbroken.
That's because it's not an Express -- i.e. stripped down -- version. It's the full package. You can easily use F# from the command line, as you can with Ruby and Python. F# is also open sourced [1], so you can also build and run it on *nix with Mono [2]. Why would I want an Express edition?

[1] https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp
[2] http://chrismarinos.com/f-on-ubuntu-linux-with-mono-and-mono...
You are suggesting that the superintelligence created by "Accelerating Change" does not operate with the same parameters as the superintelligence of the "Intelligence Explosion?"

The time when "Accelerating Change" no longer applies is the same time that the "Intelligence Explosion" and the "Event Horizon" occur or at least that's how it seems to me.
You may want to add "What is CoffeeScript?" option.
While it's a theoretically cool concept, the actual implementation doesn't appeal that much to me as a consumer and I'm not sure it'll really appeal to businesses. Would I want to get $20 at a nearby pizza place for $10? Sure. But how useful is it if I have to wait an indeterminate amount of time (if ever) to get the deal? I'm likely to only suggest local businesses that I frequent a lot anyway, and how useful is it to them to offer discounts to mostly regularly paying customers?

That being said, I do think this is moving the industry in a direction for variable prices for local businesses. Imagine a real-time feedback loop where it's 4pm and you could ask your local pizza place for a discount and they could instantly reply whether they granted it or not. It's a lull before dinner and they have some pizzas from lunch they've just kept warming up, so they grant you the discount. Or actually a kids' soccer team shows up and takes over the place so they decline the discount.

This doesn't work so well with resellers (which is pretty much any restaurant), but it could definitely work with service businesses that have to pay their staff whether clients show up or not. We'll see if companies like Loopt have this vision in mind and whether they can make it possible.
W3C is not the programming standard body (is there a such a thing?)

But yes, Array in lower(?) level language is suppose to be defined as a contiguous block of memory (C). In more higher level languages what people think are arrays '[ ]' are usually lists (e.g. python)
In my mind, there isn't much difference technically the big question is whether users want a different experience. A certain percentage want a more fluid user flow similar to a native / desktop app. This web app seems to accomplish that using Google web toolkit and decent page load times.
no problem, they're great and deserve the publicity. I'm a possee fan too. A couple other podcasts I rate highly are:

drunk and retired (sadly too infrequent nowadays http://drunkandretired.com/thepodcast/)

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (originally heard of this via Joe from the posse I think http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html)
The salt is usually in the db as you should have a different salt per password. The purpose of the salt is to add some complexity so that each password is in fact hashed by a slightly different algorithm (in order to defeat pre-computation based attacks.) If the attacker does not know that salt, then he does not know the full hash algorithm and cannot brute-force the password. So technically no, I don't think so. However, if the attacker can get your password db he can also get your salt db so I wouldn't rely on this by any means.

Disclaimer: I'm absolutely not a security professional.
In this case circuit breakers were not needed...it crashed down to .01 and was on its way to recovering (back up to $14) within minutes before the exchange was shut down...all this situation did for me was steel my resolve that it can handle a 2% market selloff at virtually zero.

I was in the forums and watching the Mt.Gox ticker while the "crash" happened.
It wouldn't, but it's a Bad Plan not to have per-user salt, so the circumstances where you'd have the passwords but not the salts that go with them would be... odd.
Yeah they need to with the Apple TV vs Google TV situation to remain competitive.
(Not sure why this is downvoted; I know it's a different article but it's about the same company's technology and the other article has 70+ comments, so it's useful to refer to its comments.)
http://bouncely.com uses Node.js for processing Amazon SES bounce emails.
The F# async implementation isn't just lighter syntax, it's a fully baked-in approach for building complicated computations. You can find more examples around the web, many of which I have rolled into the FSharp.Monad library [1].

[1] http://github.com/panesofglass/FSharp.Monad
Really interesting that it's not that the future looks too daunting, it's that past progress is so satisfying? Not what I would have thought intuitively.
Bloomberg: iPhone 5 closely resembles iPhone 4, Sept. release
Working on it... ;)

http://github.com/fractureio/fracture
I've never done front end before (I just hate the JS syntax, so I've avoided it, besides a few jsonp requests) but with CoffeeScript I was persuaded to give it a try.

Here is my problem. Nothing is Google-able. Even basic things that I get caught up on the answer on IRC is usually "look up how to do it in JS, and then reform it to CS". Maybe I'm starting on the wrong stuff, but even though the syntax is wonderful, actually using libraries is a pain. I'm only on my 2nd day though, so maybe this is just the normal language growing pains.
I started using it last month, on production code. I work as a Javascript programmer in an otherwise all-Java software shop. I come from a Python background. I really love it.

I have Vim all set up to auto-complete it, to syntax highlight, and to auto-compile whenever I save. The bad news is: No Eclipse plugins, no notepad++ plugins. etc. So the only other devs who can work on it are on Mac and Linux (which to be fair, half of my company are on Ubuntu, but there's that 1/3 of the company on Windows that just can't practically work on coffeescript code).
I don't like the Windows experience of CoffeScript. That's what's holding me back. I think I would use it if it had better Windows support.

As far as I know CoffeScript requires node.js, npm and cygwin. Am I wrong?
I hate to burst his bubble, but management feels the same about paying for marketing as they do for paying for sales. It's practically the same thing, when it comes down to it.

I'm all about good customer service, but relabeling it on the expense sheets is not going to change anything.
Enlive does exactly what Hiccup does with the additional bonus that it allows designers who are comfortable with HTML to be a part of the process. Enlive is not page centric - that's the whole point of snippets.
What Features Android Tablets Need to Overtake the iPad
The last paragraph is a Chuck Palahnuik quote! Seems like you got the mindset the author was coming from. :->
You know, we have every indication a lot of companies and individuals are vulnerable, but the NSA seems to be pretty on top of things, and the closest thing to a sensitive gov't organization being compromised that I remember recently is the defacing of the CIA website- and heavens, that's just a plain old website.
Don't forget the drones - that's 4-5x the number of player ships.
jQuery generally abuses (or takes advantage of, depending on your perspective) the value of "this" in its callback functions, in places where it would really be better to have an explicit argument. For example:

AccountView.prototype.render = function() {
$(".account").click(function(e) {
// `this` is now the same as `e.currentTarget`
// But `e.target` is also useful.
// And you what you really want is for `this`
// to still point at the AccountView instance.
});
};
Features. All Logic's gained under Apple is a half-baked take comping feature and a cleaned up interface. And a cut-rate bundle price, of course. In the meantime the other big DAWs have really matured.
Lion being 64-bit only is a distinct possibility. Apple has shown a willingness to cut off legacy hardware without batting an eyelash. Snow Leopard was Intel-only, signaling the end of support for PPC hardware.
Better Recommendations (or: set your Noise Dial to 11)
> He's also inconsistent. He capitalizes 'I' and Emacs and Lisp (among other things).

No, you're missing the point.

Naggum didn't eschew all capital letters, only where they led to loss of information (ie. failure to separate common and proper nouns).

Emacs and Lisp are proper nouns and therefore capitalized. Common nouns that happen to start a sentence are not.
It's called customization, for many people, one size does not fit all...
This reminds me of a less developed version of the advice Leo Babauta gives in his short book, "Focus":

http://focusmanifesto.com/

I highly recommend it. It takes maybe a couple of hours to read, and it's very dense with good ideas, suggestions and observations about how we interact with distractions. He doesn't go the extreme route of destroying them like this article's author; instead, he acknowledges that distraction can be fun and even a necessity to inspiration, but that we need the tools to quash it when we need to focus.
Ask HN: How to find a Name for your start-up?
I really wonder how you guys are choosing a "name" for your start-up (i.e. domain name). It is like impossible to find a generic domain name that fits to your project. Only possibility, is to combine two words.

However, since I am not a native English speaker, I need feedbacks and would like to know if there are some ways to get feedback for domain names from other people. (If I share my top-ten list, then I am sure other people would benefit from it, so I need to find more clever name instead of asking at dnforum.com)

I have used some tools (bustaname.com) to find a combination of related names, and used (pickydomains.com) for finding a domain name, however I wasn't very lucky.

I would like to buy a great 4-char domain name like meto.com, but I dont want to spend all my seed funding to a domain name.

So I am in the middle of buying a great domain name and starting the project, or starting the project with a s*cking name. (By meaning starting= I am not referring starting from scratch, I ahve already worked on it but it is a nameless project!)

I am sure many of comments would be similar to:
1) Just start your company with a thisismycompamyandoingthisandthis.com and don't care the domain name
2) Your name is after what your project does.

But when we look back to the great projects, they somehow used great domain names, and didn't start with a bad name and soon after changed their domain name to a better one.
is there anything only one language can do? I believe both answers is a no. I think we should be asking 'is there something that is best done with node'
Ask HN: who won the HNSearch API Contest?
The current poll status (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2672793) is probably not frozen at June 21 12:00am EST (you can upvote items yet).

No updates on http://www.hnsearch.com/contest, http://blog.hnsearch.com/ and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hnsearch

Just curious :)

BTW a comment says "14 hours later and this is now item #152 on HN". HN Polls seems not to be the right choice for a 24-hour contest poll then.
That's the thing, the only time I feel like founders should get a different distribution of equity is if one of the founders is paying salaries, paying for hosting, paying for business cards &c...

That's how we are doing it at my company - my cofounder had the money and wanted to bootstrap, I was okay with that (I figure my cut will be worth more if we bootstrap instead of go 50/50 and find VC) so my cofounder is paying for everything including a "median" salary for me; we've done our split 20/80.

As far as the other vectors go, I feel like they shouldn't matter - all the cofounders have a role and everyone should be working equally hard!! My test of the app assuming none of the cofounders were paying for everything put the split (for two of us) at 58/42. Which is silly because my cofounder may be the reason why we have customers and is also a key player in the industry - but there would be no app, no features, and it wouldn't be working as well as it would if an outsourced rent a coder had done the work.
And he came up with 51 million.

500KBTC is a pretty solid number, or at least, it's as solid as anything else that the public's been told.
I've recently begun porting a small canvas game that I'd been working on into Coffeescript. It definitely helped me create cleaner code. Also using it on a real project and I was able to prototype the basic functionality a lot more quickly than when I was using pure JS.
Totally agree
"Koo and Fishbach's studies consistently show that when we are pursuing a goal and consider how far we've already come, we feel a premature sense of accomplishment and begin to slack off."
So Advise is to look at what is left to be done.
This advise will surely turn procrastinator into an expert procrastinator :)
Congrats!

A bit of aesthetic feedback: I'm using ie8 with a 1382 X 864 screen res and your header on your pricing page appears as follows: http://i.imgur.com/yeUCZ.png
It changes how you look at the expenses. An extra dollar to more marketing isn't always necessarily frowned upon. But an extra dollar to a cost is always considered avoidable.
Maybe this sounds nitpicky but I'm just not a fan of languages that use indentation to denote block structure. It turns trivial code manipulations into tedious line-by-line exercises. I don't like it in Python or Haskell either.

Other than that I see a lot to like in CS though.
Groovy is pretty fast with Groovy++
Sorry, we have our wires crossed. You can still transfer bitcoins from one person to the other. An exchange is a website that allows you convert bitcoins in USD. MtGox controlled about 90% of the BTC↔USD conversions.
This is probably the first "built over the weekend" project that I've seen here that I actually believe the person built it over the weekend. :) Looks nice.
I questioned my math skills for a minute, but I cannot figure it out either.
Good idea, but u-Deals is a dumb name.
Like pointed out earlier, bad economic policies are making the rich richer and poor poorer. Most of us IT folks are pretty much at the top in terms of income. So yeah, while bad on a national level, I meant it's a pretty good place for IT professionals.

Why do you think 'Bangalore' became a verb?

In most non-managerial posts, even if you paid me half the equivalent of what you get in the US, i'd still be living a comparable life here. That's what I meant by cheap economy.

If I got $1000 from RA/TA(etc) a month in a US grad school, I'd be making more (face value) money than professionals with 4-5 years of experience here. But I can do way more with that money here. I'm spewing out gibberish, but I hope you get my idea. :\
CONS.
HI
DotCloud Launches Next Generation "One Platform, Any Stack" PaaS
I like fixing bugs too. The more difficult and obscure the better. I am often called in to fix a bug that nobody else can find, partly because I'm good at it, and partly because I enjoy it.

My dream job is freelance bug hunter .. I'll track em down and squish em, when you cant, or dont want to :)
Don't confuse Miss America 2011 with Miss U.S.A. 2011?
The fact that everything you said is true makes JavaScript an even more amazing language. How many languages could survive 15 years without change and still remain relevant? And not only relevant, but expand their influence?

Certainly this is mostly due to its unique position on the browser, but the language had to be flexible enough to fill that role and more. That's amazing.
In fact Clocks are one of the oldest inventions of the human mind. 4000 years ago in Babylon water clocks (clepsydra) were used. Also in old China. http://www.nist.gov/pml/general/time/images/water_1.gif
There is a 2050 year old Horologia tower in Athen ("Tower of the Winds"):

"This structure tracked a 24-hour day using both sundials and mechanical hour indicators"
Multi-platform PaaS Provider DotCloud Comes Out of Beta
I've done about 4 startups now - and always chosen to split the equity evenly between the founders, despite the fact a tool like this one would have suggested I would have been 'worth' more than parity.

What this tool forgets is that a startup is a tough emotional journey and an emotional roller-coaster. In every startup's life there are moments of dispair, moments when it will all seem like too much effort. The ability to come through these as a team is as, or arguably more, important as being a brilliant coder, or someone having great contacts. In order to get that team spirit and togetherness that is key to the company being successful, I think it is better to split the equity more evenly.

Or - to put it another way - in most cases, founders shares end up being worth almost nothing (statistically most startups never get a proper exit). It's far more important to look at what will increase the chance of that exit, rather than how much you will own at exit.
I think you guys obsess too much about programming languages. I doubt that anybody doing something useful cares about THAT "wohooo expressiveness".

JS is alright, dammit. You don't need CS, you need to get your shit done.
Final Cut Pro X - Apple's Vista?
Ask HN: Review my startup, clickdesk.com
We provide live chat support service and offer a great Web 2.0, cloud-based service integrating with your present setup without requiring any new installations. Our USPs are built in phone, fully cloud based and instant integration with with social platforms.
That's interesting. I'm an electrical engineer by training and I'm surprised that when they replaced the 'main' board and the display the first time that didn't manage to replace all of the active components in the phone. Since passive components are rarely affected (like this) by heat (they change value slightly but that is part of the spec) getting a 'refurb' back with new active components was the most probable fix.

Too bad we don't have the HTC diagnostics on this problem as well. While I feel for you and your poor customer service, no doubt somewhere buried in the bowels of the company there is some guy or gal who has to figure out the root cause and get them to change the phone.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/05/nodejs-at-facebook...

I remember there was HN item about this when it came out, but tl;dr of the article that I got was, some people want to use Node.js but performance + stability is what FaceBook wants, and something that isn't prevalent in Node (yet?)

I wait for the day when NodeJS breaks backward compatability
Unfortunately I think you're right that Scala is too complex to displace Java. If you're looking for a functional language you can use to to real work though, Scala is just the ticket and it's really not that complex once you start using it. None of the above-average programmers I've worked with would have any trouble picking it up with a little motivation.

Personally I find myself much more productive in Scala for anything non-trivial than in any other language.
You nailed it with your first sentence there. The superintelligences created in an "Accelerating Change" scenario are subjectively a lot like gods. The first superintelligence created in the "Intelligence Explosion" scenario will be subjectively a lot like God.

Also, the point of the "Accelerating Change" scenario is that there isn't an intelligence exposion. The "Intelligence Explosion" scenario might or might not have a period of accelerating change before the intelligence explosion, but that doesn't make it the "Accelerating Change" scenario.