skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly good points. A counterpoint might be patio11's bingo card thing. If there's anything where "I could build that in a weekend!", it's something like that. I'm not sure if the publicity here helped his bingo business at all, but it doesn't seem to have killed it either, and it certainly opened up other profitable avenues for him.
He hit the nail on the head with breaks, but don't under estimate the power of nicotine!

It's a great stimulant, like caffeine. Too bad the cheapest and most efficient means of consuming it is by burning it (and 4000 other chemicals) and sucking it into our lungs.
1. Take historical end-of-day market data for a stock market index fund and graph it on Google Correlate.

2. Find out what terms closely track said index.

3. Set up an auto-trader that responds to changes in the search frequency for said terms.

4. Sit back and watch the money roll in.
Then just start fresh because it's not worth the trouble in the future. If you build a great company today, then they could come back and stake a claim on your success.

A letter of intent is not as important as he business relationship you've built. They'll come with you when you move.

Just start over and tell them that the company was reorganized to increase efficiency.
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Do you have a reason for the bottom being the 'natural' position that isn't 'Apple puts it there by default'?
better than another?

Where did I say that? This post was about complexity curves observed during my experience. I can say I like Scala better than Java, but I wouldn't assert that is indicative of anything that you should believe. Decide for yourself. (although it sounds like you might have already)

Anything else is just anecdotal,
an assertion, fluff.

And what are the measurements that you describe? They're certain not science. But yes you're right that this is anecdotal. That was the entire point.
"Someone's been hijacking the Net, big-time." "Is this ... Internet-related?"
There is a book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (by two political scientists), that argues the Jewish/Israeli lobby is one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, in the US.

From Amazon:
"Mearsheimer and Walt, political scientists at the University of Chicago and Harvard, respectively, survey a wide coalition of pro-Israel groups and individuals, including American Jewish organizations and political donors, Christian fundamentalists, neo-con officials in the executive branch, media pundits who smear critics of Israel as anti-Semites and the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, which they characterize as having an almost unchallenged hold on Congress. This lobby, they contend, has pressured the U.S. government into Middle East policies that are strategically and morally unjustifiable: lavish financial subsidies for Israel despite its occupation of Palestinian territories; needless American confrontations with Israel's foes Syria and Iran; uncritical support of Israel's 2006 bombing of Lebanon, which violated the laws of war; and the Iraq war, which almost certainly would not have occurred had [the Israel lobby] been absent. The authors disavow conspiracy mongering, noting that the lobby's activities constitute legitimate, if misguided, interest-group politics, as American as apple pie. Considering the authors' academic credentials and the careful reasoning and meticulous documentation with which they support their claims, the book is bound to rekindle the controversy."
I'm surprised he didn't find it in a bar.
What if this was taken one step further and integrated with an alarm app for your phone? That would be a more useful implementation of this idea to me than a web page would be.

You could provide a time range of 60 to 90 minutes of when you need to get up, then press a button on the app to "set" it when you go to bed. The alarm could then figure out when the best time would be for you to get up in your provided time range.

Granted this assumes your audiences bed time varies from day to day, which probably isn't the best for someone trying to get the best sleep in the first place.

You could also do the reverse, set a wake-up time and have an alarm go off as a reminder for upcoming bedtimes...
Wait for robotic cars, and the subsequent explosion of time-shared rent-a-cars (imagine if ZipCars could be really truly computer-scheduled), robotic public transport and mixed transport (freely intermixing various transport types), even cheaper robotic delivery services, and the still-improving telepresence software and cheaper hardware. We're still at the beginning of that moreso than the end. Driving to the city half-an-hour away is annoying when it carves half-an-hour out of your day, but if you just click to order a car, get in and continue doing whatever it is you were doing before, and just arrive half-an-hour later it'll feel much less like it was An Event to go to the city. Or going from the city to something half-an-hour away.
Apparently buying your own tobacco and rolling your own cigarettes - or building your own into filters - is a lot healthier. Doesn't do much about the smell, though.
this is awesome. if you want to cross post any of those internships for free on the we are ny tech job board, just let me know. - http://wearenytech.com/jobs
Figured as much, thanks for clarifying.
I am currently playing with the idea of moving an application from all-GAE to part GAE, part EC2 with some spot instances running jobs when cheap enough. According to my sloppy math, this should reduce the load on the GAE side by at least 60%.

Anyway, this is all theoretical (in the worst sense of the word) - the app is not even public.
I think the point is that lots of countries have received aid from other much richer countries. But only Israel has viewed this cash as national seed capital. Instead of any number of other possibilities, they directed a lot of it - along with their legislative priorities - in a direction that allows its citizens to respond the same way with their own lives, ambitions, and resources.
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Big open-source projects always face both the obstacles you mention. What overcomes the barriers is someone who, regardless, wants to "scratch their own itch." Someone will do it but on their own timetable and terms.

I wish there were a centralized way to crowdsource-fund open source projects...
Next question: How do we take care of space junk? It seems like it would be a very expensive problem to fix?
No sign of fixes for the various bugs that cause Sandy Bridge systems to crash on suspend/hibernate and at random times, and adds an extra power regression: the self-destruct button has been expanded to more systems: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/837266
Hope it's OK to post this here, but the "Sleep as a Droid" App, which does what you describe and so much more, really changed my life for the better.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep
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Speaking as an iOS developer—yep, right on.
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That would be great. Let me know what you need from me.
How did you get those downloads?
It is true they haven't really started from nothing. But there's been lots of other groups of people who have tried to do this sort of thing with a lot of resources of their own and failed miserably, and even the US success wasn't really something created by government. It's still worth studying how they may have actually created this success... though I daresay the lessons are lessons that most modern government simply do not want to hear, and are almost incapable of conceptualizing... which also goes a long ways towards explaining why they haven't been successful.
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This. A friend of mine used Chargify and Paypal to launch a subscription-based product. At ~£1000 a month revenue he started shopping around for a merchant account and banks were actively bidding against each other for his business.

Banks aren't daft. When they provide you with a merchant account, they're taking a significant risk. If you can't show any evidence that you're a real business, they'll want a fat deposit. It's not hard to prove to them that you're a proper business - the fact that you haven't bothered is cause for concern.
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This is how would try to solve the dilemma:

- Can he really make a (qualitative) difference, or ships he just faster and a little more elegant?

- If yes, hire him and let him work wherever he wants but in your office (at home, an external office, ...). Communicate via email.

- if no I would'nt hire him simply because it takes energy to digest annoying behavior. So it will have a slight negative effect on my personal performance. It will be a zero sum game.
I'm unaware of any previously published data on this subject. Note that this doesn't mean that there isn't any.

It seems like you're asking the wrong question here. Are you trying to do market research for a potential calendar application? If so, I suggest you do market research. Hire someone to check your surveying methods, and ask a random subset of your audience the questions you wish to know. Then, multiply by (audience population / sample size) to get an estimate of the number of users.

Also, it's customary to add "Ask HN:" to the title of posts like this.
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no rebuttals though.
Google did this when they first launched Chrome too -
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
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Same here. Never did any python but 1 week sounds enough to learn while doing something fun.

I have to manage to install pygame first though... Seems to be the lib of choice to make SDL games.
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>missing some features

FCP X is nothing but iMovie Pro. It's completely, utterly unusable by professional editors. Even the key commands are not the same, and film/music editors live by key commands (see all the FCP/Media Composer keyboards on the market).
Just an FYI: SeatGeek's internships are unpaid.
Interesting CieLAB (Never heard of it before,but just looking through it). Function of two variables, yeah that makes sense as neurologically we have found only two types of neural cells in the retina (rods and cones).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoreceptor_cell
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Am i missing something here? From what I know of Alfa Romeo's they're gorgeous but about as reliable as driving around a faberge egg.
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Good article. I was just thinking about this myself. I do find it disappointing that neither Android nor WP7 has taken a resolution agnostic, but aspect ratio deliberate approach. They both employ flexible layout systems, and can require using vector graphics, rather than bitmapped for all images (except those that are intended to actually be images, like for photo apps).
It seems to me these journalists just wanted a bit of reality TV. Now the tribe's culture and language will (presumably) be wiped out, and they'll be absorbed into the mainstream. What a careless, thoughtless thing to do.
A decent, introductory write-up about white space. It's a bit difficult to take seriously since the design of the blog doesn't use whitespace effectively. Of course, "The shoemaker's children are often shoeless", and all that.

Irrelevant aside: 'dogsfurry' can work. As someone who spends a lot of time with marketing firms and branding agencies, dogsfurry is not an inconceivable label for a high-end pet supplies company.
While Vista sold 20 million copies within its first month (double that of XP), Lion sold one million copies on its first day. Judging from those numbers, and taking into account that Macs have a global market share of about 5% overall, I'd say Lion's doing pretty well.
Fotki.com never got funded, always were profitable and we are online for 13 years now. And I agree that bootstrapped companies mostly do not get covered by the press. When we did talk to the press in the last 13 years, one of question they ask is who are our investors, and when we tell them that we had no investors, their tone would change, and then they would loose interest, or just mention once about us somewhere at the end of the article :)
In other words: come back to reality and give up liberalism/socialism ideas.
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That's the problem...there is no viable solution at the moment. I can't even think of where to start, aside from something ridiculous like 'Big Magnets in space!'
The 30% profit margin sometimes also signals that there are high barriers to entry. (You already mention what I think is the big one: accreditation.)
And why is it so "powerful"? Is it perhaps because lots of people think that Israel is right?

Being morally correct and helping people is a very strong American ideal - even when it's to the detriment of the country. And supporting Israel fits right in, even when it causes America trouble.
So a self-confessed car hater is going to make his case for Scala using a tortured car metaphor. It doesn't come across well.

A good driver can take a slow car around a track quicker than a bad driver can take a fast car around a track.
there might be no patent remedy for this, but there are already several projects in the space pipeline to target at least some aspects of it [0]:

The ConeXpress - Orbital Life Extension Vehicle (CX-OLEV)
presents the operators of geostationary communications
satellites ("comsats") with a pioneering opportunity to
extend the revenue-earning life of their space assets
by up to 10 years.

the most interesting feature to avoid extra space debris with the OLEV would be:

removal from the geostationary orbit to a disposal orbit.

of course this would not clean up the space junk, but at least some more might be prevented.

[0] http://telecom.esa.int/telecom/www/object/index.cfm?fobjecti...
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For a steady decline, I got Christian music, flash, and Japanese dictionary stuff.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:NUbDKLt6K...
Agreed, flagged. Write some catchy headline and inserting a denial by the company gets link. I just heard....

Microsoft reportedly plans to temporarily discontinue development of its Windows OS due to a lack of enthusiasm for the platform from handset and tablet PC vendors. Instead, Microsoft will focus on hardware products, with its handset platforms to be paired with either MeeGo or Android Phone in 2012, according to industry sources.

In response, Microsoft said it does not comment on industry speculation or rumor. The company did say it remains committed to Windows and will continue to work with the community to develop and help meet the needs of customers and end users.
That was the deal breaker, Ubuntu is just a library that Emacs use to communicate with the hardware.
His "opinions" page, http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/OPINIONS.html , is full of interesting reading.
Corona is five different flavors of awesome. If you want to write 2d iphone apps with 2d physics.

If you don't want to, you will have to look elsewhere though.
The right context is the cold war. For a long time, Israel was the ONLY dependably-US friendly country in the middle east. Almost all the others (Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, ...) were, in the context of the cold war, soviet outposts. Their army was trained by the soviet union, all their arms supplied by soviet union, and high ranking soviets were roaming all around. The other US-friendly middle east countries like Saudi Arabia did not have a meaningful army or fighting ability, and were unable to make any difference if the cold war ever heated in the middle east (which was not improbable).

In that context, US support for Israel was a cheap hedge against soviet domination of middle east - everything else is secondary. Furthermore, that support came (and still does) with strings attached - almost all of it must be spent in the US (and I am sure some of it is/was specifically earmarked, even if it isn't official). So you also get to divert money to your military-industrial pals, get a bunch of right wing and jewish americans feeling good -- and get some investment in an anti-soviet force. Isn't that a good deal?

Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with what the US is doing in Iraq, both wars were much helped by Israel's experience fighting the soviet war doctrine (which is what iraqi defense/offense was based on; Israel had experience with it fighting Syria and at an earlier stage, Egypt).
None of this is as fast or efficient as implementing most of the stuff in python/scipy and reimplementing the occasional hot spot in C++ :)
Many teachers are required to have degrees or a specific numbers of Graduate-level credits from an accredited university. It will likely be a long time before they accept KA certificates. KA would need to partner with some of the accredited universities in the interim that could then accept some number of KA certificates as transfer credits.
Yes, but my interns get significant formal training, learn a ton, get college credit and have a great time: http://www.comm.lsa.umich.edu/blog/?p=2538 http://www.macalester.edu/news/features/maxschwartz.html
I've been reading TC for 5 years. My startups have been covered there.

My point is that there are a lot of people who "get it" in the Valley, any many of those don't have reputations as jerks.

Whatever. We'll soon find out how many hangers-on stick around now that he's resigned from TechCrunch.
Do wish the first page was the title page (instead of "intentionally left blank") as iBooks and other e-readers render the first page as the file's icon.
The most common cause of this is doing a data import, etc. and not setting the starting sequence number to be one higher than that table's current max(id) - something I found out after getting the same error with a MySQL to Postgres migration I'm working on.

The terminology is a little different with Postgres, but nearly every database has a way of setting what you'd like the initial value of the autoincrementing id field to be.
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If you compared Scala to C# you'd find that Scala has many features absent in C#, like a more powerful type inference engine, implicits, pattern matching, a better module system, and traits. C#, however, has many language features Scala doesn't, like dynamic blocks, unsafe code, unsigned arithmetic, a built-in events system, built-in LINQ syntax, real reified generics, and so on. Yet no one complains about C# being a kitchen sink language!,

It turns out, Scala isn't hard because of all its language features. There are other languages that easily comparable in size to it and also support multiple paradigms. It has some syntactic flexibility that some people find offensive, but it's certainly not the difficult part of learning Scala. Scala is difficult mainly because it is so well designed that it easily enables the use of functional patterns that most people aren't familiar with. This means that to use it you have to learn a new paradigm, and most people aren't willing to put in the effort to do so.
Mad Men costs about $3m per episode (http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/mad-men-advertising/1451...), the same as Breaking Bad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad).
What would that be, though? Either you're talking about your company and making some information public, or you aren't. If you're going to go down that route, granted you may not want to reveal everything, but you should probably do enough to get some attention, if that's the point. Otherwise you're just revealing information for no benefit.
That works out to be about 36 instances each pushing 40 megabytes for the day. That's crazy.
I've found Matlab to consistently outperform numpy (the gap growing in recently releases adding multithreading supprt to Matlab), and the C++ interface is pretty much equally convenient. (Weave is awesome for python, but only really usable in small toy problems.)
Well, be careful with that. A lot of properties in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch are not retained automatically (delegates, data sources and so on). If you just autorelease them you will have problems.

The other reason people are careful about autoreleases is because, obviously, objects in the autorelease pool won't get deallocated until the pool is drained, which normally happens in the main application loop. Normally, this is not a problem, but if you do memory-intensive things (like dealing with images or other media) in a loop that means that you will consume a lot of memory before the autorelease pool gets drained. This might get other apps killed (on iOS 4+), and ultimately, yours too.
Which is PR speak for "we're killing it but not yet confirming".

MeeGo is way behind Android with much less to offer, and much less investment. If it's not dead yet, it will be because of this "temporary" hold, which Android (which is just as cheap for manufacturers) continues to make huge leaps.

Sadly, Intel would be better off scrapping MeeGo and the Itanium - but for now, they don't officially do either.
It hasn't occurred to how superficial that sounds, eh?

You should read up on what Woz did to improve/perfect the design and efficiency of the Apple II.
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Warning for iPad users, since it isn't apparent from the URL: the site is at Wordpress.com and has the OnSwipe malware.
The actual report and reply is here:

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/RefTipesh.html
There's not enough emphasis put the fact that designing for one aspect ratio/resolution is much easier on the designer. Not having to debug scaling issues or 1-2px vertical borders saves metric boatloads of development time.

There are two main reasons fixed-width layouts are still so popular on the web, even though responsive layouts are well-supported. One, fixed width maps 1:1 to Photoshop. Two, it's simple.

And three, it feels icky to have to add "margin-left: 3.448374%" to responsive stylesheets because CSS really wasn't built to support complex, percentage-based layouts.
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No he doesn't.

The problem is that google count each process of the python runtime as a separate instance and count them when they run only partial hours (amazon counts this way too, but you can run many, many python programs at the same time even on a micro instance).
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> You should also consider teaching.

This is another excellent idea! You can never know enough about a topic, there is always going to be an interesting or surprising question from one of your students and then you can learn something new along with them!
while I agree with your points I fail to see where the author called many people idiots. can you please elaborate?
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Web design is always going to be subjective but one thing remains true, and that is bad web design will reflect badly on your business. Good web design will reflect well. It is not necessary for the design to be complex because quite often the simple things work much better.