skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may very well be right about the future.

You shouldn't try to get paid to do something that someone will do for free or cheap all day long. However, that doesn't mean you can't create value by being a musician, artist, programmer or designer. You just can't do it through the old way of scarcity. Maybe you give away the product, but the support or the t-shirt or whatever costs money.

What used to be the product and scarce is now free or almost free. New products and new forms of scarcity will pop up as people focus on creating value instead of being good at being professionals. The problem is that we've been framing our value creation in terms of "I do x" instead of "I do whatever it takes to create value. I do x, y, and z when it is needed"
What an incredible idea! This can become even more valuable if ifttt can open its platform to enable outside developers to create and distribute custom action blocks and triggers for end users (like an app store of ifttt triggers and action blocks).

Furthermore, I can see this transitioning into "phsyical" applications (think "The Internet of Things"). For example, OnStar can connect car sensors to send a text message when your car leaves your garage.
Hi,

I am going to continue working on it, the service still needs a lot of polish and tests (didn't have time to write those yet). It's most likely going to be paid service based on the amount recorded sessions. Or I'm going for a amazon based pricing module where you only pay for the sessions you record. I haven't decided on that yet, both models have it's pro's and cons.

If for some reason my attempt fails, I'll be open sourcing the complete service but I hope that never has to happen. But all the modules that I will be building during the development of the service will be open sourced, the glue that sticks it together won't ;)
I had just started tinkering with play, with the idea that I might introduce it for a project at work. But the fact that their going to rebuild 2.0 from scratch puts me off a bit TBH.
Yes, I'm mainly looking for someone with marketing skills.
Hey Roger,

Spoke to you lastnight n sent you an email. Would love to help you out. Get back at me: deepbedi@gmail.com

-deep
Offer HN: Let us critique your project?
tl;dr: We'll give you a lot of thorough design/copy editing advice for your project if you let us use the report as a sample.

We're starting a little service doing thorough, robust critiques of websites, focusing on startups. We'll go through all aspects of each site pre-login, all of the marketing pages, explanations, etc.

I'm hoping to find a few sites we can critique for free in order to get sample reports/testimonials before we start to charge. Our office is made up of an art critic and a writer who also design and build web projects, and I think we're pretty good at this sort of advice. We actually did a trial run on an unnamed YC company that liked the advice and is planning to implement most of it but wasn't comfortable with us using them as an example because they're in the midst of raising funds.

We only ask that if you find the critique useful you write a short note about it and let us use your report as a sample. Leave your email in a comment and I'll get in touch to get your website and a little info about what your goals are.

Thanks in advance for helping us out!

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About the reports:

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A critique in three parts

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The Big Picture

• What, in general, is your site really communicating?

• What’s working, what isn’t working? How professional is the experience of your site?

• Who are you trying to target, and how well is your site calibrated to talk to them?

• Most importantly, how well is your site meeting your UX goals?

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Visual Details

• Which specific elements need reworking?

• How can the layout, color palette, typography, spacing, etc. be improved?

• Every detail of your front end is reviewed in Google Chrome.

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Copy Editing

• Writing well is a key element of professional presentation and successful marketing.

• We’ll edit up to about 1500 words of copy on your site for clarity, tone, persuasiveness, spelling and grammar.
Scaling Flow in a Startup
Git Support in MonoDevelop 2.6
check out lojack for laptops, if you want something with a guarantee.

since it embeds itself in the BIOS it will survive hdd replacements and os wipes, too. I have it on my thinkpad, and it's survived numerous hdd replacements and os wipes. the only downside i can think of is that it doesn't support linux.
pretty sure twitter won't allow any more twitter clients

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/03/11/twitter-tells-devel...
how about "xs", as in "I don't want to have dinner with all of my exes."
Self organization is always cool. I imagine if you fed click paths into a Kohonen algorithm as different dimensions you'd get some interesting maps.
On the contrary, I feel that the large representation of a Recipe conveys a sense of accessibility and simplicity. It says, "this is something you can understand, it will not boggle your mind, stress you out, or confuse you."

Compare this with Yahoo Pipes, which provided a similar service with an interface intimidating to non-technical users.
Oh fuck all of you capitalist scum. I really hate how much of this community is based on this really fucked up reappropriation of the hacker ethos into some sort of pro-capitalist thing.

Capitalism is an inherently authoritarian economic system. (http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/The_Anarchist_FAQ_Editor...) And don't give me this bullshit about communism being authoritarian and then pointing to the USSR - the USSR had nothing to do with communism, and communism is not the only alternative to capitalism nor are they even the opposite of each other.
The app's available in both the Apple App Store and BlackBerry's App World - just search for "Breezy". (And yes, Android is under active development.)

Thanks for your interest!
> Lastly, I didn't want to be a huge bother to anyone. I'm really not trained in any of this so do take my words as someone who is just that. If I say anything sophomoric or otherwise annoying, I'm sorry. If you point it out I will try to explain why I said it and/or apologize again.

You're not a bother. I believe it's important and worthwhile to talk to people who believe differently than you -- they have different ideas, and can expose weaknesses in your own thinking that you wouldn't expect.

That's why I'm telling you what I actually think, and why I actually think it, even if it sounds dumb. A hostile reader such as yourself provides me a type of critique I can't get from friendly ones.

I've talked to atheists a lot over the years, and I've found the experience enriching. And while I still think you're wrong, I wish the church would listen to you a lot more. Because you're damn right about some of the stuff we do wrong.
Thanks, glad you liked it! I managed to pull it off thanks to a lot of planning.

Btw I won solo / overall (and also became first in utility) :)!
The fee for Sunrise B appears to be almost the same as the annual fee for actually registering. I assume you won't have to renew, though.
Bitcoin is not designed to be anonymous. From bitcoin.org: "While the Bitcoin technology can support strong anonymity, the current implementation is usually not very anonymous."
A guaranteed minimum income is not the same thing as a stipend. If the guaranteed minimum income is 25k, and your personal income is over 25k, the government doesn't owe you anything. You would owe the government something.
Google Docs down including Apps clients
As said by:

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/docs.google.com

Waiting for some status update? Check:

http://www.google.com/appsstatus
Thanks for the feedback. It was mostly a pet project just to play with certain technologies, but I wanted to show HN anyway. :)
I like this product but what are the odds of this story being a hoax just to promote it.
Why the downvotes? Because it is about BitCoin.
Android 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Coming in October or November?
Static vs. Dynamic language development time
I've been using urxvt for a few years now. It supports a full color range and I adopted Solarized for a while, but went back to Tango.

I haven't had any trouble binding <ctrl>-based combinations. All my window-manager commands are based on <super>, leaving <alt> and <ctrl> open for other things. I assume <ctrl-tab> is conflicting with tab swapping in gnome-terminal or something similar.
Ideal Hash Trees
> Does anyone here not remember the Industrial Revolution? The creation of the automobile? The switch to trains for long-distance travel? The usage of water or wind to turn mills to make bread? Pick something! This is the progress of civilization.

Civilisation is not axiomatically good. This is one of my favourite critiques of civilisation: http://ranprieur.com/essays/beyondciv.html
Howdy. I'm finishing up a community/portfolio site for small game developers. I think I'm probably too early for it to be useful to you (just about to put up a quiet v1 and it's not terribly startuppy in its current form), but would be more than happy to be reviewed if it's relevant for you.

(email in profile)
I'm following the instructions in the post on my Macbook Pro (2010); however I get 'Booting from DVD/CD... 180MB medium detected. Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 0005) No bootable device.' Does anyone have any ideas why this is not working? I am using the netinstall Arch Linux ISO. Many thanks!
The after effects would have happened anyway. If you look at countries that don't have a Wal-Mart , you see the same effects of imported Chinese goods, lack of unions, and "death" to main street. At least Wal-Mart passed a good chunk of the savings to people.
Facebook Adds Microformats To “Download Your Info” Feature
" URL of individual 'missions'"

Excellent idea.
Ugly name! But good idea trying to eat fiverr's lunch.
E-mailing now. No one's too early! We don't care about what the project is, we just want to demonstrate that we're helpful.
That jumped out at me too.

That feedback loop exists in every type of journalism. The Times has a great deal of influence so they get scoops, those scoops grow their influence.
Maybe I'm just grouchy today, but what's inconceivable to me is why you'd write an Oh No The Hivemind comment on this topic of all things. Some workflows actually are suboptimal.
Lock Down Your .XXX Domain Before The Land Rush Begins
Hoping for something easier to type and say in a sentence, think gift without the g.
I was looking at microcontracting for a while and came to much the same conclusion. Limited roll-out helps solve the criticality problem and increases relevance.

Also, C&P looks too convoluted; it's trying to fuse too many different things simultaneously which have been very problematic even when given greater focus.

The game elements are possibly a good idea depending on what sort of community you want, but they need to be refined significantly.
If Netflix decides it needs to source content, instead of only distributing it, then Yahoo has enviable assets: millions of users, deep advertiser relationships, and some homegrown content like Yahoo Autos (though no premium content).

Yahoo is most definitely a viable company. In the worst case, it needs to recast itself as a media company -- not a tech company. When compared to AOL, Viacom, the NY Times, and other "old" media companies, Yahoo is a very viable company.
We celebrate our birthdays every year, but why not our 1,000,000,000 seconds?
This is very innovative. It really inspires me and pushes me to imagine what other automation/computing one can bring to the masses. I wish you good luck and success.
What are the odds of recovering your laptop, without and with a tool like this installed? The statistics could very well be something on the order of 2% and 2.003% (I made that up). Without a much larger sample size than these anecdotes can provide it is impossible to make an informed decision.
Amazon deploys every 11.6 seconds
Working at a high-touch hosting services vendor I understand all customer requests to be something that must be individually considered and addressed - but that's within the context of a much larger hosting partnership that funds such consideration on a regular basis.

Is there risk to the "positive" reputation you may get from doing this on in a B2C or low-touch B2B environment? Will this re-anchor customer expectations and lead to disappointment when receiving standard support?

I'm trying to think of a B2C company that's known for freebie's and a "customer is always right" attitude (names are escaping me at the moment). I'd feel slighted if I didn't receive that exceptionally high service level associated with the brand.
Disruption acknowledged, just 5 minutes later, http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm=1&di=4&hl=en
I think we almost have to. If you don't grab your trademark now then someone else might, and you don't want someone squatting on it with dodgy content :/

They are super expensive though, 10x the price of a .com.
He didn't say the repo would be too huge for the server where the svn repo lives today. He said it would be too huge for the laptops.

The binaries are already deduped, that's why they live in svn.
Surowiecki on Bitcoin
Cops watch movies ALL THE TIME...

Military is worst...

They stream them usually but, this dumb-ass obviously over cooked his bacon.

"you have to install an external codec for this media content"

Hahahahaha!
Is Google Docs broken for anyone else?
Given that Clojure is impure and has IO effects hidden behind seemingly innocuous evalation, how does STM work well in Clojure?
New Github Repo for Sample Fax-over-IP CCXML Apps for Prophecy 11
Try synonyms.
Ask HN: What companies make explanation videos with actors?
For our startup we really want to have a video done with actual people, rather than do a video with cartoons/characters.

An example of what I'm looking for can be found at sandwichvideo.com (although they do videos for larger companies like groupon, square, etc. and are booked solid)
clickable: http://sandwichvideo.com
My "desk" is a fire-door atop two heavy-duty sawhorses.
Glad to hear some folks like it. Was going for an interface that had a feeling physicality, something that might not look out of place on a kitchen appliance. Size was an easy way to accomplish that, but at the expense of getting lots of info on the screen.
Finally. My printing problems solved!
Zombies of Silicon Valley
We spend far more on schools and prisons than we ever have.
Maybe I'm just an idiot, but it took me much longer than it should have to get SSH support setup for Github on my Windows box. I had no such issues with Hg.
As an existing Prey user (for my Android phone) I'm left wondering what time remains before the tides turn on this kind of service, living in an age where a burglar can successfully sue for hurting themselves on your furniture while rummaging through your belongings, it couldn't be long. Here's a related article from last week: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/absolute-sued-for-s... wherein an unwitting supply teacher bought a stolen laptop, only according to the judge to have had her privacy violated by the company attempting to recover it.

That example aside, it doesn't require contrived thinking to fathom scenarios where an "anti theft" feature of a conveniently placed (extremely cheap, mass produced[, say 5 years from now]) phone might be intentionally used to spy on someone. Compare and contrast with existing wiretapping laws and consider how similar these services already are (at least in my mind).

It's also vaguely interesting that this user installed Prey and almost forgot about it, i.e. here Prey is basically your typical "crapware" that a tech friend might clean off the laptop along with accumulated toolbars and suchlike.

(Sorry for the fragmented English, somewhat inebriated)
As the article points out, Yahoo's problems began long before her tenure and Bartz's primary experience was running a company which was a market leader and was committed to making hard choices in a timely manner [Autodesk]. Nothing could be further from Yahoo's status at the time she took over - Yahoo has not been the leader in their segment for at least the better part of a decade. They are essentially the AOL of the internet - a service targeted at the less sophisticated intern users or those willing to go with their ISP's default in the case of ATT.

There's no fixing it because there is no love for the brand. People have Yahoo email addresses for the same reason they have Hotmail - they got their free email account before Gmail was available and it is too much trouble to change it.

Bartz's hiring was a classic case of drafting a CEO based on who is available rather than fit - there was virtually no overlap between Autodesk's business model and operations and Yahoo's. Hopefully, she will find a much better circumstance in her next role.
I think that the title was just to grab your attention. I don't agree with everything in the article, especially the idealization of the Middle (or 'Dark') Ages, but the idea that what kind of work people will do 30-50 years from now, I think will be as great of a shift as from the farm to the factory, or the factory to the office (though probably not as big of a shift as the agricultural revolution!)

I think that the author is making a case that more people will work for themselves since the Renaissance, and perhaps from home since the Industrial Revolution began.

In Rushkoff's defense, he's distinguishing between work and jobs.
That could certainly be done, though I didn't convince myself it would work for PyCon. I suspect catering is definitely optional for small events or unstructured things like BarCamps, but for large events it becomes a necessity.

If the conference has 500 or 1000 attendees, the hotel restaurant probably can't handle that many people, so there have to be several restaurants or a mall food court nearby, enough of them so that they don't get overwhelmed by the attendees. That rules out venues that aren't downtown, because suburbs may not have that density of restaurants within walking distance, but such central venues have more expensive room costs.

Another tradeoff: The lunch break would probably have to be 2 hours, because 1 hour is a bit tight for walking time + waiting for service + eating, which means less time for conference programming. Attendees like lots of programming, the more the better; in fact, PyCon attendees asked for breakfast as well as lunch, so it's easier to attend an early-morning event.

And the monetary risk of running an event is large, so like Hollywood film producers, you quickly stop wanting to tinker and try something new; it's safer to stick with a format that's worked in the past.
[Sorry for entering this far-too-long thread; your message popped up in "comments" and looked interesting; I'm just making a side comment.]

Your criticism that many atheists don't really "get" Christianity is, I think, correct. Certainly, something like Dawkin's "The God Delusion" is a wonderful rallying cry, but hardly an earnest and respectful attempt to convince the other side.

Nonetheless, your own characterization of the atheist side is not entirely fair either. People like Dawkins and the late James Randi are passionate, but passionate scientists - Randi really would have paid his prize for a repeat of many of the miracles described in the gospels, and Dawkins does (did?) try to fairly weigh the evidence, as a scientist should. In fact, an unambiguous miracle in Randi's labs, replicated a few times, would convert a significant fraction of today's atheists: they aren't committed to hating God, they've just drawn a negative conclusion after earnestly considering the evidence.

The level of debate from either side tends to be low, but remember that a prepared and intelligent person winning a debate with an idiot doesn't really prove the truth of the debated position either way. No matter what you believe, there are (some) intelligent, truth-loving and earnestly convinced people on the other side of the divide[1]; it's good to have some idea about how these people can be so wrong.

[I'm a first-generation atheist and consider studying religion(s) to be a bit of a hobby.]

[1] (Actually, don't forget about the Muslims, Jews, Hindus, etc; there are more than two parties in this debate.)
But Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. So what's the threshold there?
If you've got anything that needs work, maybe we can help demonstrate by critiquing it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971477
Great book. It really helped me overcome git's learning curve.
I think it will work regardless, most of the gigs will just be done remotely.
Apple has about 50,000 employees worldwide. Creating 10,000 Apples in China would in theory create 500,000,000 jobs -- or about 30% of the total population.

Jack Welch's comment might not be too far off the mark.
The title of the post is very misleading, it doesn't mean the same thing! ("Why Motivational Speakers Don't Work" vs "Why Inspirational Talks Don't Work")
If you click the "Share This" on an individual mission, it'll bring up the specific mission URL (and allow you to push it to a bunch of social networks if you want).
Much appreciated. As programmers ourselves it's the exact feeling we were looking to introduce to a wider audience.
There are other countries...
Couldn't agree more! I have lead quite a successful 'git life' without using any complex commands and therefore have never found git hard!
network AT diphur.com ... thanks!
I don't understand the point of this article. "Looking deep within yourself" is one way to find inspiration/motivation. To write off an entire library of books/tapes/speeches/programs as manufactured and ineffective is absurd. Personal change is extremely hard - ask a smoker/obese person who's tried to turn things around - and everyone finds strength in different things. If that means listening to a compelling personal story expertly delivered on stage - who are we to judge?
HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week
You can get the same notification options via email. Click on Profile & Settings in the top right corner.
Really nice! Reminds me of Apache Camel components + Content Based Router EIP as a service.
Just to be clear, it's an argument against fiat currency as deflationary and inflationary shocks occur in those systems. The effects of deflation and inflation over time are countered with market-set interest rates -- higher savings and loan rates in an inflationary period and low-to-negative rates in a deflationary period. Yes, in a deflationary economy a (for example) -5.00% interest rate might be fair and would happen were it allowed.
The dollar is so good because people are forced to use it. It's the currency of the land, which is enforced by the government. Hence, people use it.

That bitcoin adoption has grown significantly does not necessarily mean it will remain as a viable currency in the future.
Nice try, ICM Registry! (Domains are $200 p.a.)
Martin -- I applaud you for having the guts to go where others have (so far) feared to tread -- this is a really big issue and I don't understand why it hasn't been dealt with by now, but bully for you, you can lead the way.
Good luck.
Seth
Agreed - although I will say I've lost count how many times I've had to explain to a junior that "push would create remote heads" just means you need to fetch and then push...
You don't need to operate in the first tier of customer support to help them either. We have a forum that developers monitor & post to (http://forum.brightcove.com/brgh/?category.id=developers). It's easy and not disruptive to interact with customers this way and it has the advantage of serving as a record so future users with the same problem. Users help users too, it's not only developers posting.
Suggestions for talks at a hacker convention
Looking for suggestions...
This is Philip Rosedale's (founder of Second Life) new project. Still very beta but coming along quickly.

Checkout the two foundation interviews that he did with Kevin Rose for a little bit more insight. (http://revision3.com/foundation)