skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of that is a deliberate strategy on the part of some universities, based on a guess that they'll get more in donations from corporations, spinoffs, and successful alumni voluntarily, than they would get by being tight-fisted with IP. Plus, it increases the university's prestige to have their stuff involved in more products, and their alumni involved in more successful ventures, so there's a cost to doing anything that would complicate stuff up-front. The goal is to get it on the back-end instead: don't hassle the not-yet-successful startup, but if they IPO, nag to see if they're willing to kick in a $50m building or write you into their will.

I'm not sure which version of the calculus is right, but it's at least plausible to me that universities stand to lose more in donations/prestige than they'd gain in royalties if they took stricter approaches to patent licensing.
I always thought failure was an important concept to learn, not failure in itself, but failure and the ability to pick yourself up afterwards. I cringe to think about today's kids who are growing up in an environment where failure is foreign, whether that is in sports where no scores are kept or the no fail policy at schools. I can just imagine a generation of kids who will grow up and are perfectly content in their mediocracy.
Training for your first 10K race?
I love Transmission on OS X and wish they had a real Windows port!
Watson to Work
I think we'll end up with some planned and edited screencasts, and some "live coding" streams that are great (with 95% of the live streams being dull.) So there would probably need to be some kind of reputation system or way to look for coders who happen to be interesting in this format.

There are some really good screencasts out there -- I watched some of Kent Beck's Test Driven Development videos and learned way more than I did from the book. (http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-kbtdd/test-driven-developm...)
I don't know about the book, but the posts it is based on (usefully linked to from the linked article, http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-one-liners-explained-part-o... if anyone wants a more direct link) are certainly worth a scan so it probably got a good few votes for that. I might have to consider purchasing the book myself.
If you don't eat breakfast, I don't want you.
The Math of Daily Deals: Can Businesses Profit From Groupons?
Online privacy never existed. If it is online it can be leaked, stolen, or shared.
The App Engine pricing issues are anything but a scandal.
I prefer "I didn'd know enough". I 'm not a slacker who doesn't try or a simpleton who can't learn, I just didn't have all the facts this time around. I will next time.
And reworking a whiteboard sketch for a feature takes a lot less time than rewriting the spec.

I think Joel's comment of "thinking in a disciplined way before typing code" hits the nail on the head. Different people can think in disciplined ways before typing code. Some people do that by writing specs, other people do that by writing tests, others do it at the whiteboard. There's no one right way to do it.
I know it's not logical but I was disappointed that the new "deep space exploration system" didn't look like something out of Star Trek. Instead they made another fucking rocket.
Interesting - there are already 3 used books for sale. All slightly more expensive than the one from Amazon.
I think this article is (doing a bad job of) attempting to explain that limitations behind the current byte-stream oriented interfaces and hierarchical organizations that have been around for 20 years. These two limitations show their heads when 1) people want extreme speed (parallel I/O), and 2) file systems begin to contain billions of files. People are storing more and more structured data, and building enormous middleware layers on top of the read/write to only present richer interfaces to higher levels.
Because of freezes and VM corruption. I've been using Fusion for years and never had any problems. It's worth the $40 (look around for a $10 off coupon code), if you're using the VMs for anything more than hobby/testing random OSes.
From my perspective, I find it interesting when a high profile website goes down for an extended period of time. The cost of downtime for a retailer like Target is high so I would assume that they put proportionately high resources in place to protect against it.

This is not a blogger's WordPress site that went down due to a viral post. So to me it's newsworthy.

Some HN readers may be trying to manage hosting resources for their online businesses, so I was hoping it would offer a little perspective to them.
While I totally agree with sid0 that it would be nice for 'academic' reasons if the compiler translated js->cs perfectly, I guess I'm having trouble understanding where this would actually come up as a problem. In my opinion, js functions should always return a value (even if it's just 'this'). Maybe a real code example of where your program would fail because of this?
Elon Musk has said in public, that they hope to build an ultra heavy lift vehicle which would be more powerful than the Saturn V.
Or even: if you're on my lawn which happens to be a very popular lawn and you are selling lemonade to people in a fancy mug rather then them coming inside and getting free lemonade out of a plastic cup.
Why are space ships always white? If the designers are not going to use cool colors, they could at least give the rocket racing stripes or "go Nascar" with tons of advertisements. :)
I think it looks bad when separating only two clauses.
Microblogging site Twitter launched a Hindi language version
The slump before the slump
"The US government's approach to measuring poverty" is, well, just that. It is not the one true objective definition of poverty. If you are going to accept that as a definition of "poverty", it actually removes all incentives to "fight" poverty, because it's impossible to move the needle. If you somehow beat poverty back 5%, the government's going to move the line up to make up for it. As a government measure, it's fine. As the One And True Philosophical and Cultural Definition of Poverty, it's worthless, because the government won't let us "beat" poverty back to the point that it doesn't exist anymore.

Because if it would let us do that, we'd already have done it.

Your "absolute" terms are still relative, because you can't get around the fundamental and massive changes in technology in all forms across all of society.

Government definitions are suitable for government work, no sarcasm or reference to popular sayings intended. They are not suitable for philosophical debating; all the fact that legal poverty going up really means in the end is that we are in an economic downturn, not that anything (else!) fundamental has changed at the societal level. This isn't a special "poverty" problem, it's just another phrasing of the recession(/depression).
The primary design objective for this system, as well as the cancelled programs NASA wasted billions on over the last four years, is to:

Spend the same money in all the congressional districts that the Shuttle program spent money in.

$18B is 50 times what NASA has paid out to SpaceX so far, and SpaceX already has already developed a working rocket. Congress could fund 50 SpaceX-like firms for that same amount.

Instead, Congress is attempting to cut the money NASA has requested for commercial crew transport.
As someone who can't draw a thing

Practical suggestion that has worked for me is to use graph paper. Having the grid to align and separate things makes a huge difference. My non-graph-paper sketches look like something from a lunatic's diary in comparison.

I would be eager to try a whiteboard with a consistent faint grid to it.
"It seems that the G+ team is currently overwhelmed with technical issues of the current system -- that, combined with Vic's attitude, means that nymwars is not going to be addressed anytime soon. If engineers can scrape together 20% time to implement possible solutions and manage to convince decision-makers to let them roll out changes, we might see something."

It sounds less like it was ignored and more like it isn't a priority for a resource stretched team.
Maybe we just work in different problem domains. For me, the _easy_ part is writing the code. Figuring out what to write and how the system should be designed (or what is slow about this piece of code) is the hard part.

I could see how some problem domains wouldn't be amenable to this.
Ask HN: Ideas/problems that are hi-tech in nature and hard to implement.
From last few years I have been doing many interesting projects that aimed to solve some real world problems but they were mostly not too technical in nature(mostly web application involving db or simple mobile apps).

Now, I am craving to write some code that solves some technologically difficult problem(but still worth solving).

Do you have any such ideas? Do you have any such technological problems with no solution available at this moment?
Full price of $49? Or just plug in the fusion20 code and pay $39. It seems it's really the other way around and that they are giving everyone the upgrade price until the end of the year.
Did you edit your post? I seem to remember reading that you were planning to lower prices with scale.

If that is true and you're finding that people are price sensitive, you should list your lowest price on the front page ("as low as 4 percent!"), and make it clear in the signup process that rates are higher at lower volumes. Ten percent is not a lot to pay at lower volumes considering you take care of payment processing and tech hosting, and merchant accounts at Paypal start around $30-40 USD per month, so someone will need to be collecting at least $500 a month before they come close to breaking even.
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Just to add to the list, a few other good examples, all meeting the three criterion in the article:

Carrefour is translated as 家乐福(jia le fu), which means family, happiness and fortune. The supermarket chain's success was largely due to the name, 'cause many Chinese people actually think it is a Chinese company.

Pizza Hut as 必胜客(bi sheng ke), which means the winning one; although the name has not link to pizza or food, it helped to shape Pizza Hut as a premium brand.

BMW's brand identity(宝马, bao ma) is known as a prestigious horse; Mercedes-Benz's Chinese name 奔驰(ben chi) means gallop, running with speed, etc. So car manufacturers do have good tasted for their brand names.

Groupon' s newly picked name is 高朋(gao peng), which means classy friends. Also a clever choice.

----

One key trend in the name-picking game in the recent years is that more and more companies are trying to make their brands actually MEAN something. Earlier entrants like McDonald's, KFC, Disney, Nike, Adidas, they simply chose a few characters whose combination replicates the sound but is nevertheless meaningless. Why? Because more than a decade ago, having such a name automatically indicates you are a foreign brand, and this is a good thing. People were naturally drawn to such names, they believed foreign products stand for quality and premium experience. Also, early entrants are usually the first in its category to attack the Chinese market, giving them a monopoly position (sort of). For instance, KFC is known as 肯德基, whose brand image is not KFC itself but American Fast Food as a concept.

Yet companies who entered the market after 2000, all tried to attach some implied meaning to a name, or in some other words they all seek localization. The reasons things have changed are: firstly, more and more foreign brands entered the market, the monopoly benefits are no longer; in addition, a lot, I mean really a lot, of local Chinese brands try to mimic the strategy by crowning themselves a foreign title, which dilutes the whole foreign branding concept; finally, a growing number of English speaking population (especially the ones with considerable pocket size) demands difference, they are aware of Starbucks, but mostly remembers the brand as 星巴克, a clever enough translation.
Lots of people want to join Joel's fabulous team. Let us know if this approach works out for you.
You worked on the Apollo Project!!! What was your role in the Apollo Project?
Imagine K12 Graduates Its First Class of Ed-Tech Startups
I hate video tutorials. They're far too slow compared to just reading something.

Watching someone code is different, though. It's not prepared in advance, it doesn't have them trying to be a braggart and show you some clever thing they know, and you actually get to see their process as they go from idea to software.
I beta-tested the different bundles Eric was planning for the launch of the books - buy X number of books and get Y, etc. I'm surprised that there wasn't a massive Twitter assault, though. These tweets would have generated even more buzz than the book already has. I'm enjoying the read!
Is this rotating cube interface user-friendy?
Philadelphia Health Insurance Quotes
Big Question: will the Kindle version render decently? The preview, with no pictures, doesn't give me any hope.
9 pages of crap to mention The Marshmallow Test, The Never Give Up principle, fruits of Delayed Gratification and importance of Self Control, things that every amateur sportsman or musician have learnt after trying to achieve a mere average level? ^_^
How old are you? 30s plus?

What sort of strength training are you doing?

Squats, deads, lunges, back hypers, good mornings, and GHRs will do a lot more for your lower back strength than any amount of fiddling with your chair.

Not all at once, of course, but start light and work up.

Muscle is gained when it's subjected to progressive overload. It's lost when no demands are made on it. For most people, sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss) starts becoming pronounced in the 30s. Strength training turns this around.

You'll also find that proper lift posture does a lot for back health -- musculature and spine.

Getting up and walking around through the day helps, of course. But it's not the total solution either.
The transparent blue overlays you get on hover break scrolling.
Failure is also a pretty good indicator that you're trying to do things. That's not to say there aren't success stories where someone tried something, got lucky, and it went off from the very start. I just mean that, in my own personal experience, I wasted a lot of time waiting for something to happen.

Once you actually start trying out ideas and trying to do something, you often also start encountering failures - big and small- and I try not to take it as a bad thing, but rather as a lesson in whatever it was I was doing and also as a personal reminder that "hey, I had an idea and I ran with it and worked at it. I tried to do something, let's try again or work harder at a different idea."

I really identify with your top student comment, thanks for sharing.
"Put your best foot forward."

If they've been working on that nonstop since the iPad launched, and that's the best thing they have to show to the press in September 2011, my point stands.
I WAY prefer this post to the previous post about watching Notch code.
Smart Samsung Galaxy
Is this NME the same/similar to the ML lookalike from nekovm/haxe?
I don't believe that a living creator should have to suffer their creations going into the public domain. Once dead, however, their works should transition to the public domain.
Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’
This warning is much clearer (and useful). I completely agree -- disk-heavy moves can be painful.

On that note, if you're using TextMate with MacFusion/SSHFS, you'll want to get the ReMate plugin. It disables refresh on regaining focus for TextMate: http://ciaranwal.sh/remate/. No more beachball when you bounce over to the browser for a second :)
My experience was otherwise.
Typo 2nd bullet, "freamwork", 3rd bullet "intented".

Actually, I'll stop there. Lots of typos, you should get them fixed, it makes you look sloppy.
Good idea. As part of the recording stream, it would be nice if the mouse clicks and keypresses were somehow documented (and maybe presented in sync with the video as an overlay or beneath the video?) which would allow the viewer to figure out exactly what the person did and how they did it.
Pretty vapid. Basically, a call to allow comments on your site. Um, OK.

However, no good reasons are given to use Disqus over CoComment or Intense Debate or Facebook or whatever.

And zero discussion about how there's more to developing a community than simply having a commenting tool.
Going Playcez -Indian location based startup doing the rounds
Ask HN: Review my Startup
We just launched our startup, and it's currently in beta. The point of the site is to find friends based on what interests you have in common with them. Users will post about specific interests they have already selected. Your homepage consists of a mix of all your favorite interests. We also have a user directory where you can see who has the most interests in common with you, and what they've posted in which categories. We are using Facebook Connect for user authentication to avoid unnecessary account creation and inappropriate content.
We are looking for people to help test the site out, and would like honest opinions on how everything works. We are very open to suggestions and ideas for the site.

Our site address is bunchify[dot]com. After clicking on "Login with Facebook" and accepting the permissions, use the invite code "bunchify-HackerNews".
How SMEs in the UK can Beat the Recession with Cloud Apps
Guilt Through Algorithmic Association
It is Microsoft's problem if Noober McGreenerson searches for that error code and downloads the "fix" that ends up infesting their computer.
Most people are more than happy to blame Michaelsoft for their computer shitting the bed after they've installed crapware on it.
Upverter- GIthub for electronics
Nevada Pre-settlement Funding
> would be nice for 'academic' reasons if the compiler translated js->cs perfectly

You should expect this from a compiler, actually

> In my opinion, js functions should always return a value

Sounds wrong

> real code example of where your program would fail because of this?

Simple:

// That's perfectly fine; why would I return anything from this ?
link.onclick = function() {
doSomething();
};

// Now, translated in coffeescript:
link.onclick = ->
return doSomething(); // if this returns false, the "click" event is canceled
Capture a Screenshot of a Full Website With Ruby
Facebook unveils new Subscribe button
It looks great using the Kindle Cloud reader on my PC.
Star Trek:The Next Generation HD Remaster Coming Soon to Netflix?
Good job, I love this. I find that FastCells are less useful these days as iphone 3G are less common. I prefer to design my complex cells in interface builder for ease of maintenance. But it's just personal taste. Otherwise, everything in there should be very useful for almost any app. I suggest you add support for external services, like Facebook for instance (which a lot of projects use).

BTW, I love DictionaryHelper, it definitely saves you a lot of headaches if you work with a JSON api!
Thinking Inside a Smaller Box: One strategy for becoming a better designer
This only applies to performers. As it says in the linked article, composers and lyricists already get life + 70 years.
"A good indicator" - And that's all it should be. This guy uses it as absolute criteria.
Despite the typos, it does look interesting.

Is there anything similar for Android?
Update: they have some network documentation here: http://ae.ro/m3bHKs

And have responded to a feature request for documentation here, so hopefully we see it soonish: http://vote.aerofs.com/forums/67721-feature-requests/suggest...
Ask HN: Why does Mixpanel's Job Listing Stay on the Frontpage?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2996802
Forked, fixed, and pull request sent: https://github.com/gimenete/iOS-boilerplate/pull/1
Twitter, blocked in China, to release Chinese-language interface anyway
Facebook Subscribe Button
Very similar to twitter following...discuss
The McDonalds v. Subway battle is exactly the reason why Subway needs a clever name. With McDonalds and KFC dominating the Chinese fast food market, Subway needs a point of differentiation. Fortunately, both of the leaders had chosen mediocre names, which gives Subway a slight advantage.
Let me know if you pick it up and I'll send you an additional gift. :)
I definitely see you're point. With my start up, however, we use FB connect for user authentication, and to help stop unnecessary posts. I'll have to look into our own login though if it's something people want.
This looks pretty cool, but why can't we just get a channel for it on justintv or twitchtv?
I read and totally agree & believe on this:
"Fab’s founders sound undeterred, anyway. “Our margins are much higher than a fashion site and we don’t deal with seasonality or liquidation,” says Goldberg. “A lot of people are going to turn around six months from now and see we are the fastest growing business in the space, period.”
I'll send you a present if you buy a copy. :)
> As nano-tech advances and replicators become more commonplace,

I think we should leave science fiction out of the legal system. It is already overburdened dealing with problems we have and doesn't need to deal with the problems we may someday have.
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. The compiler's behavior is
definitely wrong here, as you showed with your example. This issue could
even come up in practice. Suppose you have a checkbox with the id 'cb' in
your DOM. Consider the following script:

var list = [true, false, true, true, false];
document.getElementById('cb').onclick = function() {list.pop();};

When the checkbox is clicked, it should remove the last item in the list,
then put a checkmark into the box. Run this through the Js2coffee compiler
and you will get

list = [ true, false, true, true, false ]
document.getElementById("cb").onclick = -> list.pop()

Run this back through the CoffeeScript compiler to get: (modified slightly
for brevity)

var list = [true, false, true, true, false];
document.getElementById("cb").onclick = function() {return list.pop();};

Notice that it now returns the result of list.pop(). Since the last item in
the list is false, this will prevent the default browser behavior, so the
checkbox will not be checked when it is clicked the first time.
Tutorial for Custom grouped cell
Foursquare Push API to Launch Today
A guess: it's because it's easier to spot damage, dust, debris, etc.
Thanks for getting a copy. Can I use your comment on my site (in the "what people say about my book" section)?
I think you definitely need to play around (AB test) with your pricing model. People have thrown out options already, another one to consider is one which gives the product away for free for donations under $100 (users still pay the 3.5%) in order really strip away barriers to sign ups. Once they go over $100 a month and your site has proven its value perhaps they won't mind the fees as much since your product has already demonstrated its value.
Upload to your server and what...?
Dropbox will let you take and upload pictures, and you can install Dropbox's linux client on your server.

There are also probably dozens of ftp apps that let you take photos, or pull from your photo library.
Epic quote -
"I’ve never even been to Silicon Valley. I think of Silicon Valley as people in far flung areas of the Roman Empire must have thought of Rome. Surely it’s a mythical land of people who hack apps together in a weekend and sell them for $20 million on Monday."
Gotta edit out when you check HN =P
The code writing isn't the hard part per se, it's simply that I work for a startup and have a lot of work to do. My best design decisions and code and productivity come out of flow.

I'm into functional languages like you are, but my background is in Lisp and Scheme where the cultural norm is to do bottom-up design and refactor/redesign as you go.

If I feel trapped into my decisions, I've written poor code or made an uncommonly bad design.