skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with the original company/product(lymbix.com). I just have been following them for some time now. I am thinking of building a open-source approach with a different approach though..
I've opted for the third option, use C ruby. I use JRuby at work and love the JVM in that context, I just wish I could use it for my fun side projects :(

PS - using ruby and having both options is pretty awesome.
So there was no discussion with the startups at GA about the funding?
Ditto. e.g. heavier twitter users (at least the ones I follow) have better content overall, or, stuff I want to see. Otherwise I wouldn't follow them :)

The 'light' accounts I follow are mostly personal ones whom I'm interested in. This isn't a bad concept but I would rather it 'highlight' the less-tweeters among us and leave the standard ones alone.

e.g. highlight but don't detract from the busier folks. Probably proves useful for a lot of people but not for me.
Why modern music sounds rubbish
I've done small sites with them and have no complaints.
The September issue of Pragmatic Programmer Magazine is out
Car Price Comparison Company TrueCar Raises $200M+, Gears Up For IPO
Beautiful.

It's great seeing advanced 3D effects (sub-surface scattering and normal mapping? I think thats what we're seeing here) escape the realm of typeA games and show up on a web browser, running at a very acceptable framerate.

Looks like web3D really is taking off, can't wait for more 3D engines written on top of webGL so non openGL-wizards can get in on the fun :)
> The biggest competitive advantage is to do the right thing at the worst time.

But, but, but...we have to just slap something--anything--together to beat the other guy to market! Or to meet our arbitrary deadline!

We can always make it correct later, right? :)
Thanks to the log in page, neither do I
Not if it was $60-$80 million in Facebook stock at a $100 billion valuation.
Nicer user interface doesn't always equate into more revenue. Sometimes it's even counterproductive (sales pages w. misspellings/mistakes can convert better!).
Interesting, but needs a visual design pass...
This article is extremely poorly written. If you look at the top graph, 0.05% of the 10,000 websites make use of the header. Of those, 61% had a value set to " * ". 0.05% of 10,000 is 5, so 3 websites had that header set to " * ". I guess 3 is just not quite as scary as saying 61%.
This was my thought.

In the past I have bought in-game money with real-world money. A character would turn up in the game to meet your character at a pre-determined locations, and complete the deal. (Usually ;-) )

I'm guessing something like this is happening. If that was the case, I'd like to think between Apple and Sega they could work out privately between themselves who may be involved in this.
Why the u/vs?

It's not very good, it's not funny and it's not on topic. It uses weird things like @me without even explaining that @x means a username, @me means the author and is incredibly over verbose.

It's at times like this I wish I had a d/v still...
His description of Bitcoin is technically incorrect. As described in the original Bitcoin paper, workers are not necessarily "miners" and may be funded by transaction fees.

Bitcoin isn't susceptible to hoarding because, unlike gold, it has no intrinsic value. An alternative explanation for the rise in value: the Bitcoin ecosystem is under heavy development. The value of Bitcoins is possibly soaring in anticipation of this infrastructure i.e. its utility as a currency.

I wouldn't rely on Krugman's blog for serious analysis.
"Electronics are not commodities -- you get value out their use. Electronic devices would have to fall in price enough to exceed the value of having and using the device."

So how much would computers have to fall in price every year before people stopped buying them?
Doubtful. Largely in part due to the average 'vps' user not managing things properly -- or knowing how much they need to scale, etc.

Entities that have been doing it for years have things optimized quite a bit to handle the spikes. I suspect the average shared hosting kicks the ass of the average VPS -- particularly in the IO department.
> When I hear development server, I think of box on which I can try out various things which may, or may not blow up.

I'm not always in the office. Sometimes I'm at home. Or on a trip. Or in another country. And I still need to have access to my code, try things, make sure they don't blow up.

I suppose I could just use Wake-On-LAN or IPMI, which I do sometimes ... but my development server also doubles as a file server and collects error logs from deployments. Not kosher, I know, but no $$$ for anything else.
I have never heard of ThemeForest before, but this site looks absolutely AMAZING! I feel i'm fairly capable of creating a design myself, but most of the time It probably is not the best place to put my efforts. This looks like a great way to get 70% of the effort done (only spending my time doing some slight tweaks).
I could have predicted this thread would turn into a PTSD support group for GoDaddy survivors.

I have my horrible stories too (all from freelancing days); suffice to say I learned a couple of things:

* Cheap hosting almost never is.
* GoDaddys support is designed to minimize their costs, not yours.
* if their support cannot help you with a problem they will try to upsell you on a plan they claim *will* fix the problem.

Dealing with them on a handful of occasions ranks among the most painful experiences I've had in 15 years of building stuff on the web.
A mellower Apple: one man’s story about publishing for the Pippin
The monetary value of gold is in excess of its intrinsic value — exactly like Bitcoin. It's only a question of degree. And "shiny things" as a motivation for mining explains gold and Bitcoins.
Both Mac & Windows, although at that time it would be primarily Mac.

Three devices (2 iPhones & an iPad).

For what it is worth, I was using the same password as my "normal" internet pass. Promptly changed to unique one and that saved it, so not sure if it could have been a phising thing or a stolen pw (although I'm typically very diligent about it)
I've used them for years. no problems.
> Not true for Rackspace.

You're right. From what I hear, it may become a feature once they convert everything to openstack.
Is this HP lore or is there evidence that they said these things?
I was on a deluxe account at Godaddy, tried upgrading to a VPS, had a horrible experience and now I am a happy customer of PHPFog.
I don't think it's just an assumption - I think it is fair to state that a currency whose primary mission is not to facilitate transactions will fail to catch on. So far BitCoin has failed to catch on.
What surprised me even more was that it was only the 14th largest donation in history made to higher education. Here's the list if anyone else was wondering: http://chronicle.com/stats/big_gifts.htm
It seems that GoDaddy created a certificate for the wrong domain in the first place. Still, the author should have pointed out the problem and ask GoDaddy to fix it instead of revoking the certificate himself.
You know, it used to be called startup news?
going like mercenaries into code i wrote and without respect for architecture or future extensions making changes because they didn't understand the code and we're not interested in the concepts behind it

This is a problem even when the maintenance programmer is not a mercenary. Check out the essay by Peter Naur (the N in BNF) called "Programming as Theory Building". It's one of the best things ever written about software (albeit in disappointingly bloodless language) and explains this masterfully.
http://alistair.cockburn.us/ASD+book+extract%3A+%22Naur,+Ehn...

The essential point is that source code and documentation, no matter how well-written and extensive, are insufficient for understanding a large system. You have to have the "theory" (the article explains what this means) and for this you have to have someone who knows the theory.
InternMatch Raises $500K To Connect Students With Internships
People definitely do that with electronics too. As prices have dropped, people are upgrading their computers or buying their first more often. I'd wager the rate of consumption has been directly proportional to the rate of price drop for electronics. Of course, we are unlikely to see computer prices rise anytime soon.
The Evolution of Cybercrime
Ask HN: Whats the best way to keep track of your "to-do's" w/ your co-founder?
Using Social Networking Sites to Generate Leads
Ten Most Competitive Countries In The World
Git Is Simpler Than You Think
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Like ziyadb, I was also last enrolled fall 2010 as a CS major. I have a rather odd record of my collegiate career as I have been skipping semesters, sometimes a whole year in order to pursue freelance web/software development, and start-ups. It started in 2006 when I started a web development firm with my room mate. (Disclosure: Partnerships are hard.) We had a couple of clients then things were shaky. This lasted until 2007 in which he enrolled back in school and I followed suite. Personally, it took me a while to get into school as the intro classes held such little interest to me, could have been the teachers, to me they moved at a slow pace.

Then in 2008 after completing two years of my undergrad, I landed upon an interactive agency (start-up) through my connections I made with my own company earlier (Never underestimate the power of networking.) I invested in the company and we had a very nice office and great client database. That was certainly a peak time for me and were fruits of my freelance labor.

I cut out some of the rough times I have had, as they were certainly there, being a freelancer or being involved with a start-up is a lot of grunt work. Sometimes it was bill collecting or having to deal with unrealistic demands from clients, etc.

It all really depends what you want out of life. Do you want a structured and not so shaky career path? Are you will to take risks? Is anyone financially dependent on you? If you have a good deal of freedom then I say go for it, because those times will change and you can always go back to school.

I also agree with ziyadb, if anything drop the music. You can program a computer to play music anyway. :)
A hothouse for startups
Counter anecdote: I've quite a few domains on GoDaddy. I've transfered a few over the years, both to and from GoDaddy, and while the steps where not explained clearly I never had an issue where I was prevented from controlling my domains.

I also used their DNS service for the first time last month and found it pretty straightforward. Maybe I wasn't trying to do something that would have been complex (I didn't set up mail, for example, or any wild-card entries), but it wasn't to "impossible to easily use."

YMMV and all that.

I could easily live without the day-glo rampage of add-ons whenever I try to register a new domain, but I've gotten used to it.

I've tried some other registrars (names eluded) me that were purportedly better/cheaper but found their UIs annoying and troublesome in other ways. Maybe it's a case of "the devil you know ...", but I don't find GoDaddy to be the Great Satan some make it out to be.
Ideas are not worthless.
But money isn't static. It circulates. Liquidity etc. It's more like electric current - if your system allows it to circulate fast, it will enable more buying...
Curious, is this built on jobberbase? (The open source job posting site)
Teagueduino source code released: includes Arduino realtime interpreter
Fair enough... I wasn't really trying to compare the two, just using a pointedly over-the-top example to illustrate a point. And the Nostradamus stuff is something that everyone is familiar with. And it's the first thing that came to mind. :-)
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I like Namecheap personally
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I went to DevDays in LA in '09 (or '10?). Bummer it's not happening this year.
JPMorgan Uses Lego Minifigs to Explain the Euro Debt Crisis
Sure, HP dropping their tablet was like Microsoft dropping the Kin. That's not the part of the story that scared corporate America. It's the simultaneous news of HP telegraphing their exit from the PC market without any clear exit strategy.

Clueless consumers may still shell out for HP PCs at Best Buy, but corporate buyers will not touch them when their future is in doubt. That means the HP sales person is not hanging around the office quite as often, and can't offer killer bundles and deals that include hardware. Yes, IBM managed that transition, but I don't see any indication HP can successfully implement the same vision -- especially when competing against an established and organized IBM.
See also a previous post, "Alternatives to GoDaddy" at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2753471
Zend Server 5.5 - New
Stephen Hawking: Comedian
I'd love to use riak for all the reasons mentioned in this article, and more.

The single missing 'feature' (design decision) that I can't live without, is that you can't efficiently do range queries/order-by on the key in riak today.

Hopefully this will get easier with secondary indexes / riak-search integration. Not clear yet.
Most shell scripts are a collection of undeclared external dependencies. You can't really rely on sed, awk, and grep to behave the same way on Linux as they do on Solaris or AIX.

It seems like if you're concerned with portability, you shouldn't be writing a shell script in the first place.
> Debt-financed spending means that future money is not going towards goods and services.

This is a major hole in my current understanding of economic theory. My gut reaction tells me that being in debt should be bad but if you think about it, it's really a good place to be. If the general monetary supply is inflationary, then money you owe is gradually losing value. Which is an excellent proposal for those in debt: do nothing and wait, and you will owe less material value. So when you say that "future money is not going towards goods and services" I am at least a little OK with that, because future money isn't worth as much as money today, in actual fact.
> I use it as an occasional machine, to compile and test stuff that's not working or unavailable under OSX.

Makes perfect sense in that context.
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Design is not just the way your product looks, it's how it works and how people interact with it. Unless you're building something without a user interface, design is a critical part of your product, and if you ignore it, you're setting yourself up for failure.

You don't need to have a degree from art school to be a designer, just like you dont need a CS degree to write code. You can learn the basic tenants of typography, grid systems, and usability on your own. Whether or not you hire a "designer," design thinking should be part of the process of product development from day one.
"speeds up pathfinding on uniform-cost grid maps"

How useful are uniform-cost grids? Every implementation of A* I've ever used has been applied to varying-cost grids.
Measuring the Lifespan of Shared Links via Bitly
Won't get taxed by Estate Tax either I believe.
Krugman is focusing on the least important aspect of bitcoins, supply.
For the tl;dr here are the countries:
1. Switzerland
2. Singapore
3. Sweden
4. Finland
5. The United States
6. Germany
7. The Netherlands
8. Denmark
9. Japan
10. The United Kingdom
In light of everything that has been in the press recently about GoDaddy I did some research on good, yet reasonably priced, services - here's what I came up with:

* Registration: Gandi.net (at time of posting $15.00/yr for .com with 1yr SSL cert + some other junk I won't use)
* VPS / DNS: Zerigo.com (for a 512MB RAM slice it's $20/month with significantly more storage and transfer than, say, Linode. Performance states no oversubscription (we'll see) - their DNS service looks good for the money comparatively, you get 20domains @ 20/yr with, what looks to be a nice API)
* DNS runner up: Dyn.com (more expensive than what I'd like to pay with limits that seem like they could be a problem until you scale to the more expensive stuff. That being said, they look to be very reliable.)
* SSL: RapidSSL.com (who knows anymore with CA's based on the DigiNotar fiasco and Comodogate, but the price is right)
I think you are being totally unfair.

If they auto renewed, then YOU set them up to auto renew.

If they auto renewed, this means you let them keep your billing information on file.

They spam me once every week to remind me that my auto renew domains are going to auto renew.

And my own personal anecdote, right before one of my domains auto-renewed I got a polite call from a CSR making sure that I was aware the domain was going to auto renew.
We like to believe that the appropriate response is to train humans for higher level work. Instead of collecting tolls, the trained worker will fix and program toll-collecting robots. But it never really works out that way, since not as many people are needed to make the robots as the robots replace.

And, more to the point, a toll collector isn't necessarily bright enough to be a toll robot technician. Sometimes progress flows the other way; now the supermarket checker doesn't have to calculate your bill anymore or even know how to make change, so he can be completely innumerate. But for the most part, we're replacing less skilled jobs with more skilled jobs. We have not enough engineers and too many workers without useful skills, or in many cases the ability to gain them.
Prices decrease under a stable money supply because the economy grows. Goods and services are being produced more efficiently and are therefore more plentiful relative to the same quantity of money and therefore cheaper. Growth in the value of money will simply reflect baseline growth in the value of the economy as a whole. There are still much higher returns available to investors who are willing to take greater risks--no external motivation is necessary. Monetary expansion doesn't alter this basic relationship, it just ruins the currency as a reliable store of value.
>5. A company the focuses solely on profits ultimately betrays both itself and society.

I think if you focus on long term profits, you don't fall into this trap. The problem is short term thinking, not profits per se, or else what is a business even for? I can buy a house if I want a money pit.
Yeah, I like the premise of the article and feel that technological innovation does kill jobs (and it's not a bad thing).

That being said, I feel like I got a big build up to a solution and it's like "share and make things and distribute online" uhhhh ok? Etsy is the solution?

Provocative thinking though...
Why I left the corporate world and co-founded a startup
well, a really nice niche concept!

Scaling up/down might be a bit of problem though. I'm not sure if this logic fits here:

You're shrinking down the tweets of the people who are more frequent,and vice-versa.The first time I used Shuu.sh I didn't notice much(my bad), but after a couple of time turning it on and off, I noticed what is happening.

Will it not make more sense to limit the 'number' of tweets shown based upon the frequency of the tweeter? And the number being decided based upon number or retweets of that tweet or something? Giving user an option of how many tweets from a person of specific frequency would he like to see or determining it on the basis of how many he is following and how many are following those who are being followed by this user.

Uggh.. I just realized, I made it sound more complex that it really is. Umm.. sorry for that ! :D
Tiga Artis Yang Terkenal Karena Video Hotnya
Tiga Artis Yang Terkenal Karena Video Hotnya. Banyak orang pengen ngetop. Berjuang untuk menjadi terkenal, menjadi artis. Soalnya katanya ( sy juga kaga tau ) kalo udah jadi artis tuh enak hidupnya. Terkenal, kaya, dan dipuja banyak orang. Makanya ga heran banyak orang bahkan menghalalkan segala cara untuk menjadi terkenal.
Ask HN: Did you get into YC even though you had already raised a round?
I'm debating whether to try and raise a 250k seed round, but I'd also like to apply to the YC Winter Batch, but winter batch doesn't start till January, 4 months away, and a lot can happen in 4 months.

I write to just ask those who have interviewed with YC and were accepted or rejected based on having raised money already.

How was the experience for you? How much did you raise prior to getting accepted/rejected from YC? Do you think the fact you raised made a difference in your success? Is it generally interviewing with YC having already raised money?

Thanks for any advice in this area.
It limits who sees it in their default stream. Anyone could still go to your page (assuming it's public) to see your tweets that start with a username, however.
impressive. the lighting is a bit clipped - not smooth.

why didn't they do a beautiful girl's face instead?
The only player who has survived now has passed away.
I would love to see some kind of live demo.
It's very interesting to think about cases where digital darlings have "killed jobs."

Before: Thousands of jobs all over the country working for the classified section of a newspaper. Marginally profitable business.

After: Craigslist destroys that whole market. Tons of jobs lost and the revenues shift to one company. Hugely profitable business, but probably a smaller total market than used to exist with just newspapers.

Should we feel bad about it? Hell no. Are we marginally worse off? Maybe?
Regarding point 3, I don't suggest that they make it HN specific. Rather, via browser extension, append that functionality to any textbox the user is writing in.
This reminds me of the 'Digital Needle' project, which was a hacking project done by Ofer Springer back in 2002. The idea was to use a flatbed scanner to play a vinyl record.

http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/

It came surprisingly close. Perhaps with today's technology we could do better?
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Anyone got a screenie for those of us who don't have a computer than can handle WebGL right this second?
I don't want to take away people's purchasing power now, I want to sap away their purchasing power over time. If I do that I encourage them to take their money and invest it into a factory producing widgets instead of squirreling it away into a bank. Inflating the value of money gives an unfair advantage to people who use their money to improve the world by producing things. Being in debt sounds like an OK trade to me so long as it's not pathological.
I can't recommend 1password enough. There is no substitute for having a unique, long, alphanumeric+symbols password for every web site you use. If you use the same password for multiple sites, then your entire online identity is only as secure as the weakest site.

Disclaimer: I am a satisfied 1password customer (iPhone and OS X) who is not affiliated with the agile.ws team in any way.
Yahoo's Next CEO
Physical Bitcoins
huh. I'm going to have to try it out tonight.
OK, that's just creepy if you have a large screen.

Very good. But creepy.
Ask HN looking for a co-founder
I'm working on a startup (That I've talked about here a couple of times.), and I'm trying to find a co-founder. I have two questions.

1. I live in a small town in northeast Colorado, is there anything I can do until I can get moved to Denver to start looking?

2. I'm blind, (Not totally, but for all intents and purposes I'm considered blind.) How important should this be when talking to a potential co-founder?

As always, any advice would be appreciated, Thank you.
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