skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In our case our company is in an industry (biotech) that traditionally doesn't seem to attract a lot of developers. Most of the developers I know in my network are either game or web app developers.

When we have openings they're usually reluctant to apply because the positions normally benefit from a solid math or sciences background, or they'd rather be working on more general-purpose software than that used for drug R&D.

That's mostly why we use job posting sites and we've actually managed to find solid team members via StackOverflow and some local job posting sites.
Exactly. And there's obvious collusion, as when all the carriers raised text messaging prices nearly simultaneously a few years ago.
I'd really like to know which of my files were not "eligible". I selected a folder which had 9,192 MP3 / M4A files in it, and only 6,822 were "eligible". I'm fine with some not being able to be uploaded, but please tell me which ones.
I don't know about a dollar but it would be nice to be able to invest in say Apple, or Google without having to drop 300 to 500 dollars a share that they run. Heck if I could pick up some GOOG or AAPL for 20 bucks I would give it away as gag Christmas presents.
The situation with myspace then and facebook now is vastly different.

The concept of social networking was still being defined. Now, facebook is social networking in most people's minds. The concept has been solidified. Google's recent offering does nothing to reinvent the concept.

Also, social networking was still something mostly young people were into. The network-effects now are much greater in magnitude than they were then.

The biggest factor in myspace's downfall was that it was perceived as a "ghetto" (I had multiple people describe it to me as such). People didn't join facebook because it was more compelling, they left myspace because it had degenerated to a ghetto and facebook was the most viable option.

The social networking battle is facebook's to lose, not google's to win. As long as facebook doesn't stumble majorly, they're not going anywhere.

edit: There is a serious anti-facebook downvote brigade going around here.
Completely, 100% never mind. There's a small, not-so-obvious link for "Music that cannot be uploaded"
Yeah, we were told our funding amounts and then advised that around £1200 (which in my case was about 15%) of this had already been allocated to cover training, office space (which I never used) and mentor meetings.

Some of the other businesses only got a small amount of funding to start with which left them with very little after subtracting this expense.

However, just to have had a place or any funding at all in the UK in my opinion is a great thing.

I think YC have it spot on, their funding is the right amount to allow a team to concentrate on their idea yet not so much that they can be complacent about running costs.

I still had a full time job whilst part of my incubator. The funding couldn't be used for living expenses.

I wonder how much further along I would be now if that wasn't the case.

I think great things happen when afforded the time to focus on that one thing.
Y Combinator Partner Harj Taggar: "San Francisco is Becoming Silicon Valley"
The Cloud Player Web and Android apps don't support FLAC, and the unlimited storage only applies to MP3 and AAC files.

But you're able to store any kind of files in Cloud Drive if you just want access to them to copy to different computers.
A search user will not automatically translate into a google+ user. The question is how many unique gmail/picasa/blogger users does google have?
First Use Date: 2011-06-22

First Use in Commerce Date: 2011-06-22

A hurdle; bitcoin was started in 2009: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bitcoin
How could they really know if the music you uploaded was pirated? Even if your stuff is tagged with scene groups, that's not even close to proof that you pirated it.
Hi Justin,

Done. We've removed it. Thanks for the feedback.
>concatenation

Contraction.
This VC Will Send You A Feedback Form To Make Sure He Didn't Waste Your Time
If that sounds like the kind of experience you would enjoy, you should also consider joining us at Justin.tv :)

http://www.justin.tv/jobs/jobs

http://socialcam.com/jobs

(Sorry, Bill, I just couldn't help myself)
Antarctica is the obvious one.. I'd guess Africa is the other.
Evening project: QR code tells you what time it is (click to pause)
Actually, I'm almost certain that AngelusWebDesign (on Bitcoin.org) and Matthew (on Bitcoin-Board.com) are one-in-the-same. As I understand it, he runs Bitcoin-Board and simply cross-posts all his stuff.
Scientists say "code" because "machine code" is a bit of a mouthful. They say "machine" because their computers used to be people, and an interrupt meant running excitedly into Sir George Everest's tent. If entrepreneurs had invented the machines, we'd call them "electronic clerks".

When the manual is titled "Theoria combinationis observationum erroribus minimis obnoxiae", you know you're dealing with legacy code. In that case it's a pretty cool legacy, though.
He's exaggerating. Even in Africa most countries have a life expectancy over 30 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_Expectancy_2011_Estim...), at least according to the CIA World Factbook. Even then in most African countries life expectancy averages are cut short because the high number of HIV infections.

OP had a good point though, not everyone in the world uses Google, and not even all of the 2 billion internet users use Google.
Minimizing storage footprint was important, but the main selling point was data integrity, or at least data consistency. In large organizations, databases are still the most common point of integration between applications, and even those that are only accessed by a single application tend to outlive them as requirements and technologies change.
Protein Folding - http://fold.it/portal/
ZC has vastly improved their quality of customer support in the recent months. We've been with them since the beginning, and we've seen it happen.
In fact, Google hit 1 billion monthly uniques for the first time in May: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/06/21/google-notches-one-bi...
The author is one cocky guy. This article mostly annoyed me.

>I figured that I, the author of the game, with my degree in mathematics from MIT, and years of puzzle-solving experience, would be much better at solving my own puzzles than random users downloading my app would be.

>I thought there was a mistake because some users were solving puzzles faster than I was! Were they cheating?
What a fantastic picture! Props to the illustrator :-)
More people joining a pool doesn't increase your personal Bitcoin production (in theory), it simply lowers your variance. That is, your payments will become smaller but more steady.
"I checked out any links they put on their resume"

So... you did research on someone that made themselves researchable. Good job. That's what I expect, and I'd expect that you'd expect that too.
Women 2.0 x Startup Quote: Jessica Livingston, co-founder, Y Combinator
Really sorry to hear this.. I only new Len from the few times we hung out around Code Con in San Francisco and he was always amazingly nice, constructive, and curious about anything regarding computer science, tech, and generally a fun guy.

Sad to find out this news. :-(
Lots of people were skeptical, but that’s always true when you do something that hasn’t been done before.

- Jessica Livingston (@foundersatwork)

http://startupquote.com/post/7321125568
I don't know any first hand, but other's I've heard of:
Taverna: http://taverna.org.uk/
Trident: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/tc/trident.mspx
I'm puzzled by the downvote... There is plenty of granularity within every country, let alone every continent. But even allowing some rough generalizations, [1] shows that Africa is the only firm candidate for such an assertion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...
It's too fast for any of the smartphones at our office.
tl&dr ?
I imagine through fingerprinting, checksums of files, etc. Though that's not fool-proof as people can an do change the metadata, filenames, etc of the files they download. (That's not even touching people that download FLAC and then convert to mp3 for 'actual usage').
How can i setup my own SlinkSet site?
Posterous aquired Slinkset back in 2009, in may 2011 the Slinkset service was shut slinkset.com is no longer available. No infos, no alternatives for creating my own "reddit-feature-like" page?

Or does someone know?

On a sidenote:
I found out that post @ reddit are banned from indexing(without any notice or warning), especially regarding topics of clean energy and fossil fuels. Plus there seems to be alot of sockpuppeting going around too which organize to downvote certain submissions.

Anyway i would liek to setup now my own I-Like-Link(with small data) webpage to follow the industrial revolution 2.0.

Thanks.
They apparently fixed the link mentioned. I suggest you try http://www.google.com/bodusginamaaer instead.
I imagine the number for Android lying significantly lower, because a) it's a lot harder to pay in the Android market and thus b) more apps are ad-supported. But I don't think you can ignore the market share trends in favor of how much money devs get on each platform today. Google is already working to get carrier billing for apps to more countries, so buying apps on android will get easier. Given the huge android userbase, it might soon be very smart to put in the extra effort of programming for Android (especially as you'd be one of the first to do so).
What would be really cool is a generic way for businesses in cities anywhere in the world to opt in to such a scheme. I wish I lived over in Hackerville but my talents are currently required in Leeds, England and the food here sucks :-)
It's two words: Splat F
Presentation of Slinkset

http://www.slideshare.net/netcrit/slinkset-blank-social-news...
Maybe we can do an outreach program? Hackers adopting scientists?
Yeah, I realized that... now you can click to pause/resume. Thanks for playing, though :D
At over $986/m, it's a damn sight more expensive than a Hetzner box.

Granted, Hetzner's €89 servers only have 24GB of RAM, not 96, but you can basically have 7 of them and some change left for the same price. This adds up to 168GB total RAM, with a total of 28 cores. ( http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... )

Which one is best will no doubt depend on what you want to do with it, and certainly there are some applications where only a single, 96GB machine will do, but those are rare.
Heh, this is an awesome time to be a smart hacker looking for a startup job ;)
No, it isn't -- trust me. An approach that seems to be the only way to do things at point A, an approach that was arrived at that was the product of somebody's best thinking, but later turns out to have only seemed so at the time it was implemented (everybody has blind spots), is still a good-faith effort. The word required means that good faith (in the legal sense) and the limits of technological knowledge at any given period in time are insufficient defense for for actions brought on the basis of knowledge that did not exist at the time of the alleged infringement. That is an unreasonable and onerous burden; the service (or any similar service) could not be provided under those terms.
If anything Africa is the closest to being obvious. Antartica doesn't qualify, as it has no permanent population [1]. Even if it did, its non-permanent population is so many orders of magnitude behind the rest [2] that its inclusion in the original term 'continents' would be clearly misleading.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continents_by_populatio...
Hmmm.... the pricing looks tempting.

Anyone know of any history of their uptime?
Airbnb takes on Europe
Typically a review paper describing the software is what is actually cited, but yes!

For instance, in my department there is a guy who maintains an astrophysical software package called Cloudy. The faq[1] describes how to cite it. (Unlike a lot of the software mentioned here, that project actually is open source, uses version control, and was migrated from the original Fortran to C++.)

[1]http://www.nublado.org/wiki/FaqPage
Q: What is the cloud?

A: The cloud is a term used to describe the Internet. [...]

Hm; that kind of straightforwardness is actually kind of refreshing.
You keep stating this (in this thread), but it's not that simple.

Apple has sold 200m+ iOS devices in total (June 2011[1]). This includes around 60M iPod Touch's and 20M iPads[2]. There have been over 100m Android devices sold (May 2011[3]).

In the phone market, the typical contract is around 2 years, and the iPhone has been around a lot longer than Android. A larger number of the iOS devices sold are no longer in user than is the case for Android (simply because it has been in the market longer).

This can be seen by things like iOS vs Android usage statistics, where Android is about to pass iOS (note that this includes all iOS devices): http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201006-20110.... I'd be surprised if iOS stayed ahead of Android this year in usage, even including the iPhone 5 bump.

[1] http://www.appleguider.com/article/wwdc-2011-200m-ios-device...

[2] http://www.razorianfly.com/2011/04/19/apple-outs-q2-sales-fi...

[3] http://yourmobilesite.net/100-million-active-android-devices...
Could they be planning on suing all the small time startups that use the word "bitcoin" in their products? Perhaps they think they can extract some money from small companies by threatening them with lawsuits if they don't pay up.
The network-effects now are much greater in magnitude than they were then.

True, and in fact, they are so much greater in magnitude that they're no longer always a good thing.

I don't benefit from any 'network effects' when my mother, my boss, my wife, my girlfriend, and the kid who used to beat me up for lunch money in 4th grade are all part of my one and only 'network.' If Facebook doesn't get a clue about that, Google can and will eat their lunch.
Easy enough to claim fair use. "I had this on CD, but it was more convenient to download it rather than rip it myself." seems pretty bulletproof to me.
True, but the I/O characteristics of one 96GB box is drastically different from running 7 in parallel. It's kind of a silly comparison.
I hate syncing my Fascinate with my computer. Almost more than anything. Data sync across two computers, a laptop, a chromebook and an Android phone is a nightmare.

I currently serve my media off of SubSonic but the interface is tired, the API is restricted and pay-walled, and the Android app sucks. Amazon solves all of this.

I definitely will be using it. Plus I can buy cheap-o Class 6 SDcards.
Dan's edited my occasional contributions to TBI for years. He's easily the best responder to breaking news in the tech world; he writes well, he writes fast, and he remembers the past. There's a reason he has site-wide sponsorship from the get go.
Why do people keep texting? Everyone I know uses a smartphone that could be utilizing free data via Google Voice, not to mention there is iMessage, Huddles and other cross platform alternatives that are cheaper and technologically superior to SMS.
MIT hacks are very similar to what we call "canular" at the ENS (École normale supérieure) in France. The french word "canular" has actually been invented there using a false ethymology and has since become a regular french word everybody use without knowing it's origin.
That refers to the trademark claim, not the name itself.
A Cougar Wearing Nylons
You left out the part about pointing a real domain at it
How about trying to fix the current system by making somebody else using your software count as a "super citation"? (It could even arguably count as much as co-authorship.)
Might be worth even buying an ad on reddit (the ones up the top) and targeting it at that subreddit. Being open and immersive with your customers (especially the denizens of reddit) pays off from what I've seen.
Car Hacking: Benefits of Individual Cylinder Tuning
I'm not the parent, but if you were grandfathred in (or I've heard there are tricks to get it from scratch) T-Mobile has a $5 unlimited data plan (in the US). It doesn't include texting, but you can just use Google Voice.
They first started charging for sending, receiving remained free for several years (I used my phone as a pager from 2001-2003). Then they started charging both sides of the transaction.

It would be nice if they at least only charged different accounts. Texting anyone on my family plan means I pay for both sides.
I totally agree.

I'm wondering what made the group leaders adopt? Was it features? Trendy name and logo? Did it seem like the hip thing to do? Exclusivity / scarcity?
Fast Fourier Transform (Purely Functional Data Structures with Qi)
What someone should do is create a site where you can email your resume/letter in and have it attractively handwritten on nice letterhead.

Who's with me?
As in, when the company first started using it?
Gerrit is open source and is what's used on the Android team: http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
Pligg is an open source version of digg: http://pligg.com/

HackerNews runs on ARC Forum: http://arclanguage.org/forum

Reddit is open source: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki
This isn't the case.

The high-end Android phones start out roughly the same price as the iPhone, but drop quicker (because new high end models replace them quicker).

Here are the Australian unlocked prices (Android reseller chosen because it was the top result in Google):

iPhone4, prices $719-$999: http://store.apple.com/au/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...

Samsung Galaxy S2, price $749: http://www.mobicity.com.au/samsung-galaxy-s2.html

Samsung Galaxy S (ie, old model similar age to iPhone4, which started out priced similar to iPhone 4), price $549: http://www.mobicity.com.au/samsung-i9000-galaxy-s-8gb-nextg....
Good thing he didn't make a sudoku app or he wouldn't have learned the same lesson... good luck taking an iterative approach to that.

Seriously though, sometimes it's good to approach a problem using that advice from the chess teacher in Searching for Bobby Fisher: "Don't move until you see it"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V36gt6_uJy4&t=7m34s
I think the main appeal is that it's basically a new take on classic Lego bricks. I turn off the monsters and just explore, and build... and I've easily gotten my money's worth from that alone.

But then again... I really liked Lego bricks as a child. If you weren't into that then it might not be the game for you.
Well some rice is golden too lol. Not everything is black and white. ;)
But they didn't put the infrastructure up to support SMS. They put it up to support voice calls, primarily.
I'd love to video chat with my baby daughter in the mornings because i go to work before she wakes up. But cannot because due to bandwidth issues, its an awful experience. So count me as an adopter if and when video chat ever becomes good!
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I do not have the time to manage and create a personal portfolio, but here are some of my work I gathered together:

http://imgur.com/a2Bafl&C59SI&fnv4s&Ktj8w&Jg...

Click next to see my other examples.
I just don't think this is as big of a problem as those in tech circles seem to think it is. Facebook already has mechanisms to mitigate this; from wall updates filtered based on activity to friends lists and groups. Anyone who this was really a problem for has many options: delete unwanted "friends", ignore them, create lists for people they want to share with, create exclusion lists, create groups. People just don't seem to care that much.

Facebook has always had a "public by default" feel to it. Most people have adjusted their behavior, and their expectations, accordingly. The circles feature will take some serious marketing by Google before it becomes a killer feature for anyone but highly technical people. At that point, all facebook would have to do is make lists for visible to mitigate any mass defection. The ball will always be in facebook's court, until some major redefining feature is invented by an upstart.
How much something costs is not the same as how much it is worth.
As a group of software developers, I suspect there won't be much sympathy found here. You shouldn't price at cost+, but rather at value+. Many of us work on SaaS solutions, which have little to no marginal cost, yet we charge for the service.
I'm not sure that's right. I think it's better to characterize it as high margin low market share premium offering vs everything (high, low, middle). Android's strength is exactly that it doesn't target anything and caters to every single demographic.
Google Pushing All 'Profiles' Pages Public July 31 in Google+ Transition
Well, yes, it is about extending the knowledge of humanity- but it doesn't happen in a vacuum, and is subject to a lot of the same constraints as any other human activity. And, as you say, there are incentives at work- if the john_b's advisor had written "release usable MATLAB toolkit for $doing_whatever_john_b's_thesis_does" into his grant as a deliverable, you can bet that both john_b and the advisor would have made sure that it was in a releasable state, and also that the advisor would have had funds available to pay john_b to clean it up and get it ready to go- they would have been specifically allocated for that purpose in the grant's budget.
The ethical considerations with regard to "jumping" collaborators indeed make sense.

As to the last point, perhaps it's time the scientific community took software into consideration along with the data and it's resulting papers. At the least, acknowledge the problem. At best, decide where (alongside the data? with the paper in progress?) the software should be stored.
Ask HN: Markdown-capable wiki software?
I'm trying to find a good wiki tool that is Markdown-capable and has access control options to hold design documents and general information. Google Sites doesn't work for this. Any suggestions?
Mentioning MIT makes this a nice, low-brow analog of "Worse is Better" by Richard Gabriel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Cost != value.

To the consumer cost to the company providing the product/service is irrelevant. What really matters is the value you extract for the price you pay.

Some products need to be sold at a loss for anyone to consider purchasing them, some are sold at a loss to get you to buy other products from the same company, and some are sold with significant margins. None of these situations really matter to the consumer, do they? All that matters is that I'm getting X and am willing to pay Y. If I can pay .5Y, then that's great I just earned myself a deal. I may not want to pay 1.5Y though.

So from a consumer perspective... I don't understand "how badly you're being ripped off". As an entrepreneur though I read that and think, potential opportunity. Any product/service that has extremely large margins has potential for competition and profits. For a short time at least, until the race to zero makes it less compelling to compete any longer.
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"The biggest factor in myspace's downfall was that it was perceived as a "ghetto" (I had multiple people describe it to me as such). "

and FB isn't?

"People didn't join facebook because it was more compelling,"

exactly!

"they left myspace because it had degenerated to a ghetto and facebook was the most viable option."

And now there is even more viable option on the horizon...
No matter how many users twitter has, I have found myself struggling to [use it] find a twitter client that works on all my devices. I have to install/configure multiple clients, log in just for twitter functionality, and I have to train myself. I am sure there are millions of people in the same position. If it is integrated with G+ though, you get it for granted once you log in along with many other features.
Interesting. That one does not show up in the HN RSS feed. I wonder why not?