skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a similar note, I'd be interested to know if there's an online forum for wealthy people who are trying to figure out the most effective way to make charitable donations.
> They're also slowly cultivating a third party integrated apps ecosystem.

I think this is a big part of why Dropbox could warrant a high valuation. If Dropbox is simply "the platform" for file sync, then more integrated apps will come along with Dropbox support.

For example, the notes application I use on my Android phone (Epistle) uses Dropbox for sync. This is great because I always have those notes on my computer too. I think we'll see lots more of this in the mobile space.
Most of the Icon books are free online, and the one detailing its implementation (Little Icon?) is an excellent general purposes introduction to virtual-machine implementation.
We're in Hamburg, if that qualifies, and we use Git. But so does almost every other startup I know. It's certainly not a German vs Others thing...
Don't keep us Canadians out in the cold...although we are used to it... :P
What does "single founder" have to do with "keeping something at the hobby stage"? I don't see those two as having much to do with each other. I've known single founders who've pushed ahead, and 2-3 founder startups stay a hobby for a long time.
Can you also make one more batch of HP48's?
PG has addressed the issue of HN's markup several times. One of the major advantages of CSS, that sitewide changes can be made in one place doesn't really apply to HN. All the HTML is generated by Arc code which is written in a reasonably DRY style; major changes can be made in a central place.

I like modern markup and layout better than the way things used to be just like almost everyone else, but It's hard to come up with an argument for switching HN to more modern markup. It wouldn't make the site easier for PG to maintain, and it probably wouldn't result in a change to the visual design unless a designer was brought in.
Are current turbines already within a factor of 3 of Betz' law, or at least within a factor of 3 of a practical limit?
Please do. There seems to be valuable lessons learnt there.
I am Luke Walton…Who are You?
an audible bell strike when I pull the bell would be cool :)
The power of parity
You're getting into vinyl vs CD territory here. That argument never ends well.

Those that are truly into the music won't care about the medium.
10th Circuit Affirms - Novell, Not SCO, Owns the Copyrights, etc.
"but even if someone did slip past and checked in a change to a file you had forgotten to protect you can see that change and revert it trivially. Catastrophe avoided." - this must be a terminology issue? "locking" refers to a per-file mutex that must be acquired before the working copy can be edited or committed. It's usually enforced to some extent using the writability attribute on the working copy files. (Obviously, you can subvert this to some extent using `chmod +w' or whatever - it's not magic.)

Acquiring the lock may also force the latest version on you in some systems.

This is (these days, anyway) to help people correctly serialise their changes to unmergeable files.
Construction of function static variables in C++ is not thread safe
How about a http://kickstarter.com project?
> Do you have caselaw to cite?

Try Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999), summarized in the Wikipedia article [1].

The court's opinion [2] surveys the relevant case law beginning at paragraph 19.

The court states its conclusion and summarizes its reasoning in paragraph 25: "In this case, plaintiff by its own admission has labored to create 'slavish copies' of public domain works of art. While it may be assumed that this required both skill and effort, there was no spark of originality -- indeed, the point of the exercise was to reproduce the underlying works with absolute fidelity. Copyright is not available in these circumstances."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_....

[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/36_FSupp2d_191.ht....
My wife had her wallet stolen on the T (in Boston) once, which would have been manageable but for the fact that Massachusetts driver's license ID's were your Social Security number. The thief (or someone) then used her SSN to open a series of credit cards and rack up a bunch of charges—computers, car repairs, etc.—the aftermath of which took at least a few hundred hours of hassle spread over three or four years to clear up. (Getting our first mortgage somewhere in there made it even more painful.) Mercifully, it eventually cleared up.

MA driver's licenses no longer use SSN as far as we can tell.
Cytocentrifuge
>the person writing the article doesn't have a meaningful amount of single-founder experience

Yes, that... or his name is Paul Graham! :)

From investors point of view second founder is social proof of the idea and the first person, a much lower chance of entire team getting hit by a bus, and a demonstrable ability to work in teams. They have no downside in modest increase in the number of founders, unlike the first founder who is slashing his pie in half.

You, too, should worry about social proof. If no one wants to hang out with you, maybe your idea is on the wrong side of crazy, and you are the kind of person unable to tell good ideas from bad ideas. Who knows? The thing is, if you have bad judgement, you likely don't know about it, can't know about it.
> Yes, kids these days text more than they talk on the phone

OT: What age range is this?

I'm 24 and the only texts I get are from CloudKick (server warnings) and Google Voice (voicemail transcripts).
Publicidade ou Gest�o em Redes Sociais
not when standalone players were also $300+
Good Afrrtnoon America: Thom Hartman
> Simple information theory; in a world of 6 billion people, 33 bits serves to uniquely identify anyone. 33 bits is a really low bar. It works because it can't hardly help but to work, sort of like the birthday paradox. In the US with approx 312 million (wikipedia) that's approximately 28.2 bits.

It's a powerful idea. I wrote a whole essay analyzing the anime _Death Note_ using the 33 bits idea (http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity) and I'm sure that's not even the tip of the iceberg.
As a ColdFusion developer looking for a job in the valley, I also faced all the negativity associated with the language. In fact, I ended up barely mentioning the language on my resume. If the language was renamed to something else and totally re-branded, it would probably gain more respect. Most people still think of the older versions when it was built in C. But since the conversion to Java, it has been able to benefit from a lot of the Java enhancements while still functioning as a duck-typed language.

Another advantage is that, it has a very short learning curve. But like with any tool, it can be used by amateurs to produce amateur looking code. Using a framework (eg. FW/1) encourages better structured code and OOP approaches.

You can meet most of your web needs with ColdFusion and some highly specialized items may be more complicated. But that is the case with just about any language. The only part where I havent found sufficient documentation or user experiences related to scaling applications. That is not to say, it hasn't been done.

Given the relatively high price of Adobe CF (compared to Ruby/PHP etc), it is not really an option that startups (in the Bay area) will consider. There are open-source CFML engines like Railo as the author notes, but unfortunately, it lacks publicity.
Application Error. Check your logs for details.
I think the article is flawed in many ways, but if you define 'working' software as software that works for users in such a way that people actually want to use it, then working software isn't so easy. And getting from nothing to working software is harder than getting from working software to maintainable software. Or at least it's better understood.
Hey Lady, Wanna Buy an iPad?
Thanks Jack. Had to get creative, ya know?
It is now, but when the PS3 first came out it was one of the cheapest blu-ray players available.
McAfee: 65 Million Malware Samples - That’s Just the Tip
Might be easier to look after you arrive. Do you have any friends you can crash with? If not, try AirBnB for something short term. People renting out a room might consider a longer term rental if you're a good roomie. You'll also be able to start networking when you're here which can be a good way to find lodging.
Correct you would not be able to guess the date of birth - the date of visit is removed.
Looks like you might be interested in VDI(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure).

Disclaimer: I'm ex-VMware employee.
Identifiers are either immutable or they're not. They can't be sorta-kinda immutable.
Motorola Pro+ targets straggling BlackBerry users, ships October
As an example of how this could be done, the App Store business could be internally charged a large license fee for the use of the Apple brand.
It's just a bit pointless to write software for non-existent hardware. Until they announce a licensee who will manufacture something for the software to run on, no new WebOS device is being made and your market is the 1 million current users of tablets plus the couple million phone users.

Not very bad, but not very attractive from a financial point-of-view either.
Yep, the bay area is a special case! When I moved there way back in 2000, it was much the same. You are likely one of hundreds of respondents.

I finally wound up paying a guy 100 bucks a month to get access to rental listings before they showed up on craigslist and the usual places. I was skeptical, but it worked. Being the first or second caller instead of the hundredth did the trick.

I haven't lived there in more than ten years, so my info might be out of date.
Does it strike anyone else as a bit funny that a promoter of vim would send HTML e-mail?
Moncler Håndtasker
NFC provider Tapit and game developer Bubblegum get $600k Sydney Angels funding
Sure. I would like to know more about such resources
Going Solo - My reasonings as a single founder
as a semi-tangent;
your scenario exactly describes why I'm buying kindle books, and I don't even own an actual kindle.

I am remote programmer which needless to say puts me in different coffee shops throughout the city. I ride the bus multiple times a day.

I'm able to switch devices seamlessly as I trek around, and kindle updates my "last known reading location" - go Amazon.

Your scenario is harder but quite exponentially more valuable as we start to see more and more smart devices.
Here is a interesting post on HN with links to past posts on finding co-founder

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2272866
I had the same problem except compounded by the fact that I have a dog! Basically, hammer the emails and phone calls and eventually you will find something (craigslist).

I moved here from LA so I was looking for a place without actually being here. I found a handfull of places that accepted dogs and were within my price range, flew up here for a weekend and ran all over the city like a madman. I finally found a place that worked.

You may have more luck looking for an apartment without a roomie, if you can afford that. Feel free to shoot me an email (address located in my profile) and I will help in any way I can.

Also, yes, SF is especially hard to find apartments.
Whatever it is, it's miniscule next to the waste in the military budget.
Lol, Tarsemity is something on another level..

No talking until the food is walking!
Great post, and an awesome perspective on working for Valve
Secret New SQL Server Denali Feature: Data Director
The rolling desk idea is brilliant, I do wonder how often the configurations are shifted around though.
Ask.com’s CTO sounds off (video)
I think he compared before (plain php) and after (invested time in learning some new technology).
Maybe the Mother Nature is urging you to look closer to Palo Alto.
Not exactly RESTful but you might find some utility in this, developed at and open-sourced by the NYT: http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer

(edit to add: this is mysql-only, unfortunately :) I forgot about that part when I remembered it off-hand.)
you must have never had a hard-drive that crashed, or a laptop that got stolen, or had to share a 2gig project with a friend.

2 things people pay for:

- Convenience
- Peace of Mind

I don't pay for dropbox but I'd just like to say that "peace of mind" is pretty valuable.

My friends use it to share pictures and music/movies. We don't have to think about it anymore. That's something.

Lastly, I'm a professional freaking software engineer and I don't know how to get files onto my droid x. Then I remembered dropbox has an app. Well what do you know; put file in folder; file appears on phone..! =)
This is fake. Look at the question the same user asked just before this: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsyKgEAQvmNh3OQ...
If they really want the OS to keep going, then they were idiots not to partner with a hardware vendor and get new devices out the day they killed their own. Horrible move.
While there isn't a lot to be seen yet (nothing but a fancy splash page we had a lot of fun building), we'd love to have a few of HN'ers chime in on our beta once we're ready (couple of weeks). If you feel like sharing what you're buying (like, say, what people do with checkins), type in your email in the box or email us at mail@bling.io. We'll respect your privacy and honor your feedback.

Thanks guys! Can't wait to show the whole thing.
Could be any number of good explanations. She could have heard her friend had a banned book list, and was curious what sort of books get banned, and then later her friend runs the book service and wants to ask about it through a proxy to be safe.
Soap bubbles, ferrofluid, and a magnet
Quality 'Customer Service' - A banks exceptional step to help Irene Victims
I am in Charlotte, NC and got this email from Chase just now. I find these proactive steps from Chase very thoughtful.<p>---------------
To our impacted customers:<p>We hope you, your families and your customers are safe following Hurricane Irene. Natural disasters are very stressful and we want to help where we can.<p>This week, we are expanding our efforts through Sunday, September 4, 2011, to help you and our millions of customers as you recover from the storm.<p>We are increasing staff and extending hours at key branches in severely affected areas.
When we know we can get employees to work safely, we will increase staff and extend hours. Please visit chase.com frequently and check our Branch Locator for details on the branches near you.<p>Through September 4, 2011, if you can’t get to one of our ATMs, we won’t charge you for using someone else’s ATM*.
However, the bank that owns the ATM may charge you.<p>We are waiving the following Chase fees charged between now and through September 4, 2011 for our customers:
Overdraft, Overdraft Protection Transfer, and Insufficient Funds Fees for deposit accounts.
Late fees on credit cards, business and consumer loans.
Please call your personal banker if you are unable to access your funds. For example, we will waive the early withdrawal fees on CDs to help customers with their cash flow.<p>If you have more specific problems, please call your Financial Advisor, Business Banker, Loan Officer or simply come into your nearest Chase branch. Our branch and telephone bankers are empowered to go the extra mile for customers with storm-related problems or concerns. We also plan to call many of our customers in the hardest hit areas to see if there are other ways we can help.<p>We hope these efforts can play a small part in easing some of your worries following the storm. We are committed to doing what we can for our customers who have been impacted. If you need assistance, please call us at one of the phone numbers below.<p>Sincerely,
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We've thought about that. Didn't know if it'd be annoying.
IPhone 5 to feature HD high res 8 MP Camera
Im not terribly sure phone manufacturers including Apple get it. We get more and more megapixels on these phone cameras, but the images are low quality and grainy. I understand that perhaps a phone shouldn't replace a dedicated photography device, but it would be nice if the gap was a little smaller between the two.
Your loss.

Using FB for SSO increases conversion rates, and takes a whole bunch of burden off app developers. It's a big win for everyone, including you, who may wish to get more cool apps per total programmer-hour in the world.
Go Jay go!
Any school which would ban Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Roald Dahl is clearly in a state of sin.
"Fake", in the sense that it was probably written originally as a piece of fiction (edited since I noticed the "3 years ago"). See, for example, this Metafilter post about it from May 2009: http://www.metafilter.com/81905/Think-Different

And here's another round up that mentions/summarizes the MeFi thread along with other pieces: http://brownpau.tumblr.com/post/9588117855/it-has-come-to-my...
Physicist cuts plane boarding time in half
If you're taking a CS degree in Stanford, earning the 50 grand back is trivial after you graduated.
It's always "good enough", except when it isn't. :)

Seriously, though, startups -- and websites in general -- are continually moving targets. Your requirements are always changing, your user base and their needs are always changing.

You ever see the inside of a FedEx truck? Eeek. Focus on what your customers need, over-deliver on that, and keep the rest together as best you can.

You will learn how to manage your business properly with time, and you'll have time as long as your customers are happy.
How come we do not hear much about Box.net?
I imagine their digital distribution system (Steam) is very much like what you described (complex, interconnected, scalable systems). Valve is quite diverse.
Printers? HP has printers that can access and print directly from popular Internet sites. Also, some aspects of WebOS could form the foundation of their new direction as a software company.
Surprised you haven't added any visitor tracking such as Google Analytics or anything...makes it easier to keep track of user engagement metrics

Looks like a cool product though, good luck with it
"The poster said a strict log is kept of what books are checked out, with firm due dates."

Hopefully he does not keep that ledger in the locker itself or stored in plaintext. That could quickly lead to his classmates being expelled or worse.
now im glad i randomize my birthdate on just about every form on the internet.
I tried but...

"a terminology"?
"a person who will make harm"?

English? Can you speak it?
Shanzhai Factory (山寨工厂): Is Your Product Cloned in China Yet?
It may not be relevant, but I'd like to observe right now that both Xilinx and Microchip's ticker prices are nearly 4x Atmel's.
If it's heavily down-voted, then it's probably not conspicuously valuable. Indeed, that's exactly the point.
omnicompletion, by default, completes against words in any file currently open in any buffer. But it's also now pretty programmable, though I don't I currently use any of the languages that have good support built out for them.
Page Van der Linden has posted the first two parts of a multipart series on the domestic arguments around US ratification of the CTBT, if you're interested:

http://vanderlinden.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/205/secrets-...
http://vanderlinden.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/225/we-shoul...
Five hours and no comments about Snapjoy and Posterous enabling this story to be told. This illustrates how effective technology is often invisible.
WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables
The big problem with TIPS is that the government gooses the CPI formula to understate inflation, so they're really providing an (inflation - n%) return, not an (inflation + n%) return. That being said, I also own a small amount of them.
Womens THRILLER Shoes : Radii footwear
I remember seeing this before.

I think it's really cool, though in the article I read before one major block to implementing this is that you'd be splitting up group boarding (of even 2 people travelling together).

I feel like that might be a tough message to try to explain to everyone at the airport, since in general people are worried about everyone in their party making it on the plane safely and with all their stuff. Gate agents have enough worried customers as it is.
[i]Please[/i] tell me that these animated GIFs and background MIDI on pud.com are parts of the joke.
I'd second ViEmu. The price is a little steep (or was three or four years ago), but I used it through the trial and it was pretty comfortable.

These days I do a lot of my C# coding in Visual Studio, but have a shortcut key to open the current file in GVim to do heavy lifting. For what it's worth, to do that, I added gvim as an external tool with the arguments:

--servername "$(SolutionFileName)" --remote-silent +$(CurLine) "$(ItemPath)"

Which keeps all the files you open from a given solution in the same GVim instance (nice if you edit multiple solutions at once).
I have internal metrics. Nothing too complicated just few measurements I care about.

Thanks
Boarding by blocks starting at the front is ridiculous.

In fact, I'd be hard pressed to think of a worse way to board a plane. And yet somehow every time I fly that's how it happens. Maybe it's just that my company chooses horrible airlines.

The article mentions that assorted methods of boarding were tried, though it only goes into detail about "the Steffen method". I wonder what the difference between blocks-from-the-front and the obvious improvement of blocks-from-the-back is.
The Next Steve Jobs will be in Energy, not Computers
If we had to pick one country for "one country", we would pick India, which seems to now have more births than China each year.
The root is from the Latin word divinare - to forsee / predict / prophesy.
Design is About Solving Problems
Favorite quote: "When you look at an inspiring gallery or attractive website, remember that what you’re seeing is merely the result, not the process."
Investment requirement for each project is huge.
Check.
ROI is 10 years out.
Check.
When (if?) ROI comes in it is huge.
Check.
Hmm...sounds a lot like the oil business.
Hey kpeiris, congrats on starting a new job and life in the Bay Area! I think pbreit is right about needing to meet some of these potential room mates in person when you arrive. Until then though, you might need to shell out a few bucks for an AirBnB room (maybe a week) while you hunt for more permanent digs. My friend Joe has a room about 5 minutes from me here: http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/show/154143 He's super chill and relaxed and it's right on the N-Judah line so it's easy to get around to the other parts of the city.
The difference is generally that higher-paying (i.e. first and business class) passengers get seated first (because having your higher-paying passengers wait for the lower-paying passengers is undesirable), and they're also generally seated at the front of the plane so they don't have to wait when getting off either.
A "close friend"... cummon, its anonymous enough here, just say "me" next time.

DD-WRT is good, set some filters on it and then enter a pass of random text. You'll think twice about all the effort of having to reflash it to get on those sites.

Doesn't work though since the real problem is stimulation addiction. As soon as I avoided porn for a few weeks I was seeking fresh web sites on my hobby (language learning) click click click filling up the same hours and accomplishing nothing productive by never studying anything in depth but just continuing the "hunt".
There is a such a thing as a demand curve. I bought the $100 one.

Here's how I'd think about

$100 -- I'd Bite
$110 -- I'd Bite
$120 -- Okay
$130 -- Uh, maybe. I'll flip a coin.
$140 -- It's an okay deal. I might pass.
$150 -- I'd probably pass.

That's my curve. Others have their own curve. If everyone is like me, which they're not, $125 is probably the right price point. I can't imagine spending $200 or even $150 for webOS.

Here's to there being an Android release in the next month or so!