skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Jordan Cooper, a venture partner at Lerer Ventures, recently offered funding and office space to anyone interested in working on an app he mostly wants for himself: a private social network where people can dish on their love lives. ”I want to be able to send a photo of a girl that I really like or one that I just went out with for the first time. I want to tell a story beneath the photo, or just a short note that says ‘so pretty, but soooo boring’ or whatever captures my impressions of this temporal but potentially permanent new entrant into my life,” he wrote last month in a blog post, titled “Whitespace for the taking.” He signed off, “Holler.”

Isn't this called Tumblr?
Nielsen: Smartphones finally overtake feature phones for new device purchases
Silly me, I tried to use HN search and I found 200 points. That's obviously not true... so thought I would ask.
Because non-technical people lack the skill of implementing ideas in code, their experience in following through with ideas and learning from that process is extremely limited.

Clearly, coming up with ideas and trying them out is not something you can only do in code, but when you do code you do that all the time. Every day, every hour, maybe even several times an hour.

Ironically, a self-described non-technical "idea guy" has relatively little experience in coming up with an idea, implementing it, testing it and iterating on it.

I'm speaking in general terms of course, some "idea guys" are simply brilliant and have an amazing vision. But they're the rare exception.
Where does this 'mean time between iPhone reboots' come from? Has someone done a study - and are you talking about stock or jailbroken?

I ask because I occasionally had to reboot my original iPhone, and 3GS, but I simply haven't thought about rebooting my iPhone 4 running IOS4.
I posted an article about the project a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674266
The unique thing about these crabs, is that they don't have hemoglobin in the traditional sense. Instead of iron, they use copper. This actually started as an academic experiment, before corporations got involved. Unfortunately, not all of the crabbies survive :(
For a more complete list including AM and college stations try:

http://www.radio-locator.com/
Ask HN: How to find a non-technical cofounder?
With all the posts on here about finding technical cofounders, I thought I'd flip the question since I'm currently looking for the reverse (and I've searched but only found pieces of an answer but not directly this question).

I'm the coder/designer, and while I do have business and sales experience, it's too much for one person (single founder syndrome). Whenever I spend time coding, the other half suffers, and vice versa.

So far, I've been looking at friends who might fit, but I'm not in a startup hub and most of my friends don't really share the entrepreneurial/risk-taking spirit. I've been networking as well, but haven't found the right person yet.

A description of what I'm looking for would be an evangelist/hustler-type willing to work for equity, but no salary at the start. The role would include marketing (on and offline), getting people excited, getting users, planning the launch/press strategy, etc.

Advice?
Just set up a "forward everything" rule from your apps account to your personal account. Then use labeling in your personal account if you need the separation.

For outgoing mail, add your apps account under "Accounts and Settings > Send Mail As" and check "Reply from the same address the message was sent to."

I have 3 apps accounts and 1 personal account. This has worked out pretty well.
> The U.S. cannot afford much inflation at the moment, since it would threaten the position of the dollar as the reserve currency in favour of the euro.

Not buying that, especially not at the moment - Greece is doing far more damage to the Euro as a reserve currency than anything the US could do to the dollar before August 2nd, and if Greece gets its house in order, there's still Portugal waiting in the wings. What's more, the US has an inflation rate right now that's practically nil, and I suspect China's interest is in the US spending again - their bond holdings exist for the sake of currency control, not as a legitimate investment.
It's a myth that malloc/free is constant-time in a reference-counting scheme. If you are doing real-time programming, malloc/free should be avoided as much as garbage collection.
New search engine combines search and browsing
I don't know for puppet but Eric Holscher has a nice tutorial/walkthrough[1] with Chef with a repo of examples.

[1]http://ericholscher.com/blog/2010/nov/8/building-django-app-...
I agree, reading books of different perspectives is great.

I would also like to bring up the importance of reading "good practices" books and articles. Learning not only how to write good code for yourself, but good code for your colleagues to work with is an important skill to have. Writing maintainable code is often not trivial. I recommend reading Effective Java by Joshua Bloch.
It's a CSS3 demo. It says CSS3 in the title. I don't think lack of support is much of a criticism.
I'd quite like one, jentulman@gmail.com if you'd be so kind
Internet Explorer 10 platform preview 2 now available to download
I've heard a suggestion to change PIGS to BIGPIGS (Belgium, Ireland, Great-Britain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain). Until we get some extra vowels, we can let France off the hook.
You seem to be tired to answer this question. $10 say you did not answer it more than 100 times, yet you have asked your professor hundreds of questions.

You could have skipped the rant (which is not going to have any sort of effect) and went straight to how to earn a technical cofounder.
Escalamiento de prospectos en multinivel | Blog Oficial de Nestor Riba
I don't think AWS needs a fair use clause, because their cost for incoming bandwidth is virtually zero (since they have to buy symmetric connections) and if you're sucking in a lot of data you're probably paying them a reasonable amount to store it, process it, or both.
So the idea is to 'open source' what they are doing in the sense of reporting day-to-day findings in the lab online? Pretty neat, though I wonder if there is a fear of snooping lab results / projects.
You just pitched the BlackBerry line of phones by saying that the web experience sucks but it has good uptime.

Consumers generally give a damn about one of those two things, and it's not the uptime. If anything, your comment is some excellent commentary on why RIM is failing.

I appreciate that uptime is important to you, but RIM will certainly fail if they are still targeting users with your requirements. It is the reason why you don't see a focus on uptime from other vendors; it is effectively meaningless in 2011.
What is FX?

From http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/help?topic=fx

Translators are auxiliary transmitters for FM stations that help carry the radio signal to a location that cannot be reached by the primary transmitter. Translators carry the exact same audio signal as their parent station.

The call sign for a translator starts with the same letter as the call sign of the primary station. This letter is followed by a three-digit number indicating the FM channel of the station. This number is followed by two letters which indicate the order in which the translators are licensed. For example, the first translator on the east coast that operates at 88.1 MHz is given the call, "W201AA", the second is given the call, "W201AB", the third is "W201AC", and so on.
Show HN: hnapp – RSS feeds of HN posts filtered by points, title, etc.
It almost sounds like it could kill something like tinychat.
This whole conversation is a demonstration of why FB's group support is insufficient.
"It’s a testament to our mental potential that today’s children are expected to understand ideas that once confounded ancient mathematicians."

Ex-fucking-actly. Math is hard. Compsci is hard. But if it remains hard, then we adults have failed to do our job.
Use whatever is appropriate and suited for your needs. GUI. Text. Front-panel register toggle switches. Wire wrap. Jumper boards. Whatever. Each of these has its adherents, of course.

A single problematic XML configuration editor is not a sufficient justification to cling to the morass that a manually-edited configuration file can provide; to paint a whole class of tools. It's probably a better justification for making improvement in the tools you're using; annoyance is a powerful motivator.

If the current configuration editor is insufficient for your needs, consider fixing it.

There are good configuration editors, and there are bad ones, and configuration file errors can run from subtle to blatant, and have definitely introduced legions of errors.

And as with most everything UI in this industry, there are trade-offs between what an experienced user needs or wants here (or the pain such a user is willing to endure, depending on your perspective) and a UI that will utterly drown a new user.

(And these days, and beyond a classic GUI configuration file editor, tossing the underlying configuration file settings into a DVCS certainly has its appeal. Consider the ability to do a git bisect on a buggy startup file, for instance. Possibly through the GUI, or at the command line. )
If business guys want to earn their chops, there are a bajillion open source products out there that a solid consulting or VAR business could be built of off. Learning how to, for example, configure file servers with samba for small businesses, or set up blogging platforms, are a good way to get some technical chops too, and is most likely going to take less time to get good at than becoming a kickass programmer. And it's more practical experience than telling people about your awesome idea that just needs to be implemented.

In other words, there are a lot of business opportunities for which a majority of "the technical part" is already done.
They have "Circles" on Facebook that let you restrict status updates? If so, most users are ignorant of them. The most common Facebook complaint that Google+ has provoked among my friends is the need to keep their status stream safe for work, grandma, etc.

I know that Facebook Messages can be targeted to groups, but they aren't really the same thing. Messages aren't designed for sharing; they're designed for, well, messages.
I completely agree with this article, I would also add the following. I'm so tired of seeing these posts on HN--I do appreciate the genuine feelings, but my gosh, I am so frustrated when I see posts on Ask HN:
1) What should I build?
2) What programming language should I learn?
Both question tells me the poster hasn't done enough thinking and research on their own and is asking a VERY BUSY community to do the legwork for them. The questions should be from this stage:

1) You are trying to build this idea, you've researched and tried a few strategies in thinking about this [then explain what you're thinking], any other suggestions before you go build this thing? Fine, this is a meaningful conversation we can have and will afford opportunities for everyone to learn from it. Most of us are building something because we mostly CAN'T sit by/live without it NOT being built.

2) If you're a young and a starting out hacker, all you have to do is Google your questions. Most questions, believe it or not, have been answered. All the programming language X vs Y, framework A vs B questions are usually answered extensively by many other wise hackers that went before you. If you don't spend the time to read, understand and appreciate those reading/researches which many hackers in the community had spent the time writing them out specifically for YOU, all ou're doing is asking a VERY BUSY community to do your basic legwork for you. No, that's now how it works. Most of us learned stuff/languages because we are hungry for it. We ask questions on freenode etct, read articles, books AND discuss in depth about what we're trying to learn.

/rant
If you are using Windows, an alternative cheaper option is Microsoft's Expression Design which is great for web and UI design and can often be picked up cheaply online (plus it has a rather generous 60-day trial).

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Design_Overview...
Only 4 hours for that kind of quality work. Very nice! I'd imagine that he can charge more.
A side project of mine that I felt like was ready for publishing (far from perfect yet, but it works). I will add more advanced filters soon, as well as make a couple live visualizations of HN activity.
thanks for this. My condolences to his family.
Switching Back to Gnome 2 in Fedora
I've now installed rhino which gives me the js command. Now I'm running in a minimal setup, so I've started. Thx.
How about you start with this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714304

I think it's the same concept. But you are definitely in a much better position because you can produce the product? Find a good adviser and deal with the non-technical co-founder once you have the MVP. I think it serves you better if you do your own marketing (blog, socialnetwork and other unobtrusive marketing). I'm doing that right now and I think I feel very good about it. I guess the question is: do you need one right NOW?
He calls it a rough estimate right in his post, but even if it's much longer than one month, the point still stands that it's "pretty much never". That metric means nothing at this point.

But yeah, I'm with you that I rarely think about rebooting my iPhone 4.
It’s OK to return nil from to_ary
seems somewhat false..went form 450,000 daily activations in May to 500,000 daily activations in June daily..
Platforms that tightly coordinate with carriers were highly successful in the previous mobile cycle (prior to wm 6.1- so anything before 2008 really).

The model has changed, however. Today, it's android & iphone that are driving the industry forward. These are platforms that don't coordinate as tightly with carriers.

Frankly, RIM's problem is that their leadership is stuck in the old model. There was a generation of senior executives in the mobile industry who truly knew better than the nerds: Regardless of your passion for development & openness, it was the carriers who make or break you. RIM's risk now is to replace one extreme attitude with another extreme (too open, too independent) and then completely self-destruct.

IMO, the key to success is not anything listed in this letter. They need to reboot their leadership structure with folks who understand that a good relationship with carriers is critical, but you don't cling to them for survival. Android & iPhone are vulnerable in this space. They're spending too much time giving carriers the finger.

IMO, the only company that really has a shot at relevance is Microsoft: They're still playing nice with carriers & they have an incredibly easy development environment, but they're also exploring territory that hasn't been authorized by the carriers.

In the sense that they're 'failing', they're failing because they're not nurturing the development ecosystem with funding. If Microsoft set aside 50 million dollars or so for investing in INTERESTING mobile application developers, they could solve their appstore app quality problem and really make a move on the industry. Microsoft should take advantage of the fact that the carriers aren't thrilled with Apple or Google. They're really well positioned to strike, if they can just get the app quality problem solved.
What problem does this solve?

As far as radio stations I can receive at my home, I consider my physical radio to be the single point of truth, not a database.
What troubles me about this post is that I've never heard of domain.me before and it's not at all clear what the site is claiming to be. So until shown otherwise I'm assuming it's a hatchet job financed by one of Google's competitors.
Square in San Francisco's Chronicle Building
IndexTank/80legs contest deadline extended. Now 7/5
China Wants To Buy A Big Piece Of Facebook
It sounds there was a miscommunication, PayPal is pretty explicit on their website that you need approval for Website Payments Pro (it's on their "Getting Started" page when you apply for an account).

When you were speaking to the rep they perhaps should have gone into more detail about the process involved, but it doesn't seem that they purposefully misled you.

Miscommunications happen in business, it's one of those things. Chalk it up to experience and next time your in the same situation you'll know to ask more question.

PayPal have their faults, but I don't think this one of them.
What does that question have to do with his point? I'll answer: nothing.
Bigger problem is cost of registering a legal Chinese company and then collecting payments, along with restrictions on foreign ownership.
How We Built the Software that Processes Billions in Payments
I suspect that using this product will be a punishment for not knowing Emacs or Vim.
Thank you everyone - I've now installed rhino which gives me the js command. Now I'm running in a minimal setup, so I've started.

Thx.

Now I just need to work out the DOM details ...
Easily export your Facebook friends to Google+ with Chrome Extension
So, you need a sales guy.

I don't think I've ever met a self-described "business guy" who wasn't a student.

If someone is a great salesman, they are a "sales guy". If they write ads, they are a "marketing guy". If they allocate capital, hire and fire, and lobby the CEO for more funds they are "managers".

When people say "business", it means they don't know what they are able to do, but want to make money. Or that they want to be the manager, but don't want to say it.
So maintain a blacklist of elastic IPs. If it's too big for you, make it a community effort.

Those are bad reasons to close your site to all of AWS.

As nupark2 mentioned, there are legitimate users routing traffic through EC2, even some bots that you'd want to visit your site. Archive.org comes to mind (many of there scrapers are or were behind AWS). Closing your site or app to a large swath of the web is the wrong solution. It's like killing a spider with a bazooka.
Why not just use the Android emulator to take a screenshot?
That sucks! We have TONS of daily deals site customers, it's not that hard... Here's a little primer:

http://feefighters.com/blog/payments-for-group-buying-sites/
Drop me a line if you need more help getting set up.
The numbers are the only thing that's quoted. The conclusion is that if they paid lower wages, the amount of government support to employed people would rise unless those policies were changed also. Government support paid by taxes, including the taxes of those who work at UCBerkeley.
In my school, we call them "co-op jobs". If you sign up for co-op, you get college credit for them, but either way you get paid. And of course if you're any good, your co-op employers will want to hang onto you after you graduate. I didn't bother signing up for co-op because co-op or no, it's impossible to complete all the other graduation requirements and not have enough credits. So the credits you get from a co-op job are useless. Students pay money to the school to be part of the co-op program, and that's not unusual. Here, it's $400 for a once a week class that teaches you how to make a resume plus an additional ~$100 fee if you find a job, even if you didn't use the school's connections to find it. If your internship results in college credit, its likely that students are actually losing money by working for you. I think that's absurd.
An invite would be much appreciated, thank you. balbaugh@gmail.com
People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it (it's cliche but it's true).
Think of it like a repeater (if you know about networking) for broadcast signals.
An iPad-friendly layout would be interesting.
actually incorrect as far as Android..as carriers are in fact members of OHA..
Lucid: the dataflow language
Google+ and the Avatar movie
Sorry to hear this sad news.
Just curious, what company are you and where in Northern NJ?
You can define any dimensional number that you like, including infinite. What you can't do is get certain properties out of them. But infinite dimensional numbers are actually frequently used, under the term "n-dimensional vector".

(Infinite is often confused for "really big", but a better way of understanding it is often to use the term "unbounded". When we deal with n-dimensional vectors, we're not saying that we are always literally dealing with vectors with a millionybillionytertrillion dimensions, such that we can't even represent one in a real computer, we're saying that there isn't a firm upper limit on the number of dimensions we may encounter. It is often more the "unbounded" aspect of infinity that we are concerned with, rather than the "larger than anything else" aspect.)
Agreed except for the recommendation of 99designs. That's zero respect for design.
The Haskell Programmer’s Guide to the IO Monad:

"This guide explored the theoretical backgrounds of Haskell’s IO monad. On the way we have seen functors, natural transformations, and ﬁnally monads. All these purely theoretic concepts appeared to have a quite practical correspondence in the Haskell programming language, as emphasized by the according examples. It should be clear now, how the IO monad is used to pass around the state of the world, without allowing the programmer to access it “too much”.

http://stefan-klinger.de/files/monadGuide.pdf
Loosely related: a lot of the directories on my hard drive contain comments about the directory in a file named .header, and I redefined ls to cat .header if it exists. A graphical file browser could do the same thing.
<div>s are semantically neutral so while it is extra markup, it's not like they had any semantic meaning in the first place. The relevancy of semantics is a can of worms in of itself...

If you're not interested in separating layout markup from content markup, the box-sizing property might be for you.

But I'd certainly avoid using calc()...
I had a paid internship but would have gladly done it unpaid if I had to. I interned at a big name place, so YMMV, but I can say that senior year when I was looking for jobs _no one_ cared about what I did in school and _everyone_ cared what I did at that internship.

You are not going to work there to do slave labor, you're getting bullet points on your resume, mentorship from senior engineers, as well as taking in the business environment which you've probably never seen before.

I hope no college student who can't find another option has decided to stick his nose up at an unpaid internship because of this post.
We should sell all of Facebook to China. Now that Google+ and the social network scene is getting hot, let China buy a bunch of hyped up virtual assets (which I think is already plateauing). Then we play the waiting game with China... again.
This is severely biased toward things that require no in-person interaction.

So I'll add two:

0. talk to other programmers
11. attend a Coding Dojo
I guess I see the loss of the added color as unfortunate because it removes some of the meaning which the artist and the portrait sitter felt was important to express - the vitality of the person depicted. Keeping in mind that the Civil War was so recently passed and the degree to which disease and violence could cut life short - that someone would pay more for such an upgrade is unsurprising.

Without the color, it tends more toward being just another black and white photo and more easily ignored - and that was clearly not what the artist and patron had in mind.
Pitch preferences
If you think of them as big bugs (which is more or less true) it's easier to rationalize
Same here in Shanghai
What I learned today: Even the most mundane common sense ideas can reach the front page of HN.
Avoiding Nested Callbacks in JavaScript
This isn't a case of random, baseless name-calling. If it makes me an asshole to defend my work (which I disagree with you on because I don't think it does), so be it.