skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think PG's opinion is based on Sam's personality. I don't know the guy, neither do I know PG, but I'm assuming he likes what he sees in Sam, not just what Sam has done so far.

Loopt isn't ever on my mind, neither anyone I know uses it - that sounds bad for a 6 or 7 year old, mass market YC company/product from one of YC's most prized and highest regarded/praised CEOs. So I think Sam might have picked the wrong battle. However, Sam's property that pg likes him for (relentless and tenacious) might be exactly what's preventing him from ditching the loop (no pun intended) and keeping him ditching the idea or jumping ship altogether. Even Sam’s tenacity can’t save a product people don’t care deeply for.

Or maybe I just give pg’s judgment of “people” too much credit by default, as an extension of his judgment of companies/products. Maybe pg sucks at picking winning people, but is great at strategy/tactics/products/ideas (just a hypothesis).

Either way, the takeaway for me here is be a bull dog - but don’t bark at walls, i.e. be tenacious, but find something worth being tenacious for.
You definitely aren't the only one that noticed it, however, for the most part we're all adults here. I think we can handle it.
Frankly, the best way to learn about the stock market is to buy and sell a few stocks. This is the fastest way to gain the greatest amount of knowledge. If you can't afford it, do it on a 'play' account.
Give yourself a budget of x dollars and y days. Try to make the most amount of money (or, if you are on a dummy account, try to lose as much money as possible).
99% of the time I'm searching, I don't need to use the cache feature.

Thus, I think it makes sense that it's hidden in the preview flyout than having "cached" repeated over and over again. Makes for a much cleaner search results page.
Thanks :-D
I'm assuming it will be available in retail outlets shortly after release. Hopefully the reading experience is decent, since I've been holding off on a Kindle purchase until this update. I didn't see any mention of ePub support ... any news on that?
Poll: Non-Founders, Why Are You Not Starting a Start-Up?
I am curious as to what are the primary reasons for people who talk about startups not taking the leap.
I have no interest in starting a start-up.
Financial reasons prevent me from starting a startup.
I do not have an idea for a business/product.
I am lacking a co-founder.
I enjoy the security and predictability of a full-time job.
Other (Please specify in a comment)
Their CDN and hosting resources may dwarf WordPress.com, but WordPress.com's main competency is keeping high-traffic blogs up and running nicely. There's no reason for Amazon to move into the blog hosting business, especially when you can get a custom domain and design on WP.com.
This sounds good.

However, what I have read is that to leverage chip prices and availability, manufacturers these days will change the underlying chip sets and configuration of "models" without changing the model # or appearance. The manufacturer has some incentive to keep their official compatibility with Microsoft but you may find that Linux compatibility changes. Those with more hardware knowledge can correct me if I'm wrong.

Off-topic, the problem I've had with laptops lately isn't lack of Linux compatibility but simply that the hardware is total crap on quality and ergonomic side.
Most startups fail. Why would I throw my money in a hole?
Sometimes I use shirt and tie to go to work for fun. In a building full of t-shirt and jeans guys, it's easy to stand out like that. And sometimes I want to (or need to) stand out. And doesn't matter what I wear, I'm still doing my job (making stuff). I think looks really don't matter, but it goes both ways.
Opera uses a similar approach for their Opera Mini mobile browser: the client is very thin and relies on Opera's own transcoding proxy to provide partially rendered content to the client. The problem of Opera Mini is it does not support true end-to-end encryption because the Opera proxy has to digest the content. I wonder if Silk has the same issue.
personally I don't like it...the current kindle feels too small and a bit uncomfortable to read because of that, I'd imagine with the new one flipping pages is going to be even more anoying
It's my decision based on the information I am given. Very little was given, but given that it was a YC event on the east coast, I was happy to travel from DC to attend without any other knowledge. That doesn't mean that there isn't room for improvement. It also could change the nature of the event and those who attend.

The fact that you say 'these things are usually what you make of them' leads me to think there is tons of room for improvement with the way these events are run. I've been to quite a few tech meetups and some are definitely more well run than others and are easier to access (people wise). A lot of that has to do with how the organizers set up the event and the information they pass along.
What good is a methodology that gets so often misimplemented?

Scrum is simple. Its not misimplemented because its complicated. Its misimplemented because organizations are fundamentally not good at developing software. Scrum just puts it in your face. You don't even need to actually write any software to know how and why you are failing. Just attempt to do Scrum, and see what excuses you make to do not do any given part of it.
I work in front of a computer and read 1-2 books a week on my ipad.. if I have eyestrain I'm not noticing it.
I was talking about getting into shape, not competing in the Olympics. If you could get into good shape doing one hard set per lift, wouldn't that make more sense than spending 2 to 3 times the effort in the gym? It's all about goals. I don't lift weights to get huge or compete in anything. I lift for functional strength and weight loss. Others may benefit from knowing that they don't have to spend an hour or more in the gym to get impressive results.
How much "Silk" load can Amazon handle without charging?
welcome to Canada. The HMV down the street shut down last week.
Nice idea, but no queries I could think of yielded any surprises, and almost every topic was dominated by the media capitals of NY, LA, and London.

Apparently, also, there is no expertise worth plotting anywhere in Asia or even Australia.

It was more fun to type in diseases and pretend the overlay was a map of contagion. EG: [swine flu]... There's a massive outbreak 1500 miles west of the Galapagos!
Still another £20 less than it was at retail last week.

Though my other half (who I bought a K3 for then) thinks losing the keyboard basically breaks its search function and is happy she got the one she has.
Chris Espinosa: Fire
South Korean Army of Government Informers: Busybodies with Cameras
I loved Crash Bandicoot when I was younger. Thank you for making something that I will remember and relate to my youth.
Tell HN: My confidence in my new startup seems extremely fragile
I'm exactly where I want to be. Back to square one of starting up. With the emotional ups and downs, including the exhilarating ups and the heart-crushing downs.

As a protectional armor of resilience against fear of failure I have redefined my success metric from "making a billion bucks" to the oh-so-modest "learning a lot every day".

And it seems I really do enjoy the success of learning a lot every day. I very rarely achieve the same feeling of reward as when I actually am in the process of doing something I never did before.

But. It doesn't take much at all in some situations, to just ruin my confidence. A mundane comment from someone I meet along the lines of "so... is this something you are really going to do?" or "are you still working on the same idea? what was it, something about a camera?" and my heart is very prone to sinking right through my chest. Plops down into the pit of my stomach and decides to hide out there for probably the rest of the day. And I really have to work on getting my mood and confidence back up.

It's still worth it though, a thousand times over. It was a very conscious decision to get back on the roller coaster and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world.

Anyone else experiencing the same thing?
To be more specific, it is against the posting guidelines here. Nothing personal. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
touche, sir. Thank you very much for pointing that out.
I think this will be generally great for the PhoneGap community, but I can't say I like the name Apache Device Bridge. There has got to be something better than that. Off the top of my head, how about "Apache Web Bridge"?
Or supporting a worthy cause.
By today, 2011, it is likely that malaria would still be largely eradicated. But had DDT been prematurely banned there undoubtedly would have been an uptick in malaria outbreaks. I suggest you spend some time researching the extent of a roll DDT actually played.

All of this is silly anyway. Eagles have made a comeback, so who cares what happened in the past? Seems to me everything worked out pretty well.
Oh, it will work, no doubt, just at less than the ideal speed. Such a minimalist program was espoused by Mike Mentzer, one of the great bodybuilders of past decades. But his views are not considered mainstream.

I agree that a full 24 ... 25 reps (3x8, 8x3, 5x5, etc.) program is not required for maintenance only.

To get into shape... well, I guess it depends on the temperament. I'm inclined to achieve the goal as quickly as possible, then focus on something else. Hence my previous reply.
Must be my age talking, but if someone is paying me to work, I dress up.

My policy is to dress at the same level of my clients, but I never dress below a dress shirt and dress pants.

If you have two people in front of you with equally good talent and good attitude, but with one dressed down and the other dressed up, who are you going to give your money to?

Personally, I'm going to hire the guy who took the extra effort to dress up.
I think you overestimate CS students.
ditto - blank grey page in Firefox 3.6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_appliance
Radio was never a profit center for artists, it was a promotional vehicle for CD sales. The new Spotify world yields far lower earnings for musicians.
I've read relatively widely in the exercise, weightlifting, and strength training literature. It didn't take long for me to notice that these fields are plagued by fads and contradictory opinions and advice. It's almost as bad as nutritional advice or programming.

For any given action which is physically possible, you're likely to find someone shouting from the rooftops that it's the greatest or only way to train, and someone else reviling it as either worthless or even detrimental. Quite often both contradictory positions have huge numbers of fans.
To me, accessibility is all about providing proper access to information.

It doesn't matter to me if it is because a screenreader, a Lynx browser, a preference, or a no-script plug-in. All that matters to me is my users can access my content on a broad range of devices.

CSS on/Images off is an unlikely scenario, but it is a possible scenario (also consider the possibility of images not loading for whatever reason). If I were a user stuck in that scenario, I'd say: "I can't access core parts of this website". For a website developer, you could call that an accessibility problem, no?

Relevant thread on WebAIM: http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=3785
A little more cheeky: http://www.arespritesaccessible.net/explain.php
Wikipedia: Web accessibility refers to the inclusive practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities.
Stop thinking iPad killer
Some fun things to think about:

- About 23 percent continue to pirate music, but this number is dwindling.

23% is hardly dwindling. With margin of error it could easily be over a quarter of all consumers.

This doesn't take into account, non-legal ways of acquiring music that are not classically "sharing" like you tube and sound cloud

Methods of collecting this information are often as reliable as alexa is for page rankings.

And MOST IMPORTANTLY none of this directly means anything for the bottom line of the artists.
Piracy goes down, but middle men go up, middle men win.
Sports are great because they have built in metrics. Pay attention to the people who do well.
There are plenty of companies like: http://www.indochino.com/ who will do "made to measure" for reasonable prices (these guys do sales for $50/shirt from time to time).
Am I the only android developer torn over whether the fire makes signing the one sided Amazon app store developer agreement worth it? Tough choice.
Then the points the others brought up become relevant. If you're not in shape and have done no prior strength training, any strength training you do will have results.
I think the line for me would probably be between reality and fictional circumstances. In this circumstance, a real person actually took their life, which (at least to me) is not really a joking matter. On the other hand, if there were some joke about a fictional character involving suicide, I probably would not be (greatly) disturbed. I understand that not everybody would have this reaction, but I have known people who tried to commit suicide so it is a bit different for me I guess.
I just sold my first one and the 9-5 is kind of a relief. Going to get antsy soon though.
In Google Chrome you can just enter that in your url bar and it works: cache:http://www.example.com/
i can't explain the appeal, but i worked out of a coffee shop for 3 months a couple of years ago and it was definitely there for me.

your self control theory might be a part of it although i don't recall doing any less random surfing. and believe me i would notice if some environment helped me tone down my random surfing.

i think just being around people, even (maybe especially) if they have no bearing on my activity, is comforting and helps me focus. at the risk of concocting one of those questionable evolutionary psychology theories, most of our ancestors probably didn't do a lot of productive work in complete isolation?
Rbenv 0.2.0 released (changelog)
Sorry about that, Expressen is one of Sweden's two main tabloids. Here's a rough translation:

Lady Gaga had the most popular song on Spotify, with one million listens. Now she gets her money from STIM [Sweden's collecting agency for artists etc]: 1,150 SEK ($170 USD).

Lady Gaga's "Poker face" was the most popular song on Spotify during the music service's first five months, according to the first payment of STIM money made on behalf of Spotify, according to STIM's own paper "Stim-nytt". The song was played one million times - which yields 2,300 SEK ($340 USD) that Lady Gaga and songwriter partner Redone share.

Dogge [Swedish artist] upset

Rapper and songwriter Dogge Doggelito is upset when he hears the sum. - It's sick. We musicians have no rights, you don't get paid any more. Lady Gaga would have made more money driving an unlicensed cab one night at [known place in Stockholm].

"Better than file sharing"

Artist and songwriter Alexander Bard [another Swedish artist] doesn't want to comment on the sum without knowning how Lady Gaga's contract with her label looks, but says: - 2,300 is more than zero which she would have gotten from Pirate Bay. It's better than file sharing, says Alexander Bard.

The future

Both Alexander Bard and Dogge Doggelito believe that Spotify and similar services are the future.
- These are teething troubles. I hope that we creators one day in the future will be paid reasonably and fairly, says Dogge Doggelito. "Stim-nytt" compares the sum to if "Poker face" had been played in the radio show "Sommar" that averages a million listeners. Then the STIM payment would have been only 100 SEK ($15 USD).
They're providing their own browser, so there's nothing that says this technique would have to trigger browser warnings.

It could easily work by having the connection between EC2 and the remote site be managed over SSL normally. EC2 then rejiggers the traffic, encrypts it over SSL with Amazon's certificate to send it to the device, and includes a little blob of data saying, "we got this from site X, whose certificate is Y". Amazon's browser could verify that but trust EC2 not to screw with the data. End result: no warnings, and your data is safe from everyone except Amazon. Which is not great, but neither is it hugely insecure.
That, and reliability. You're assured that some kind of peer-review happened, at some point, and that some standards were met. What standards, and what kind of peer review, will differ per journal.
The hard part might be plugging in their existing systems.
I went through the same experience when I was doing my startup. The biggest problem I found was going to the washroom. I was always afraid someone would highjack my stuff so every time I went to the washroom, I had to pack everything up and bring it with me. This was pretty annoying. Also, if the coffeeshop is busy, good luck finding a clean toilet to sit on.
This is true with assumption that both products are offered in same segment of the market where cost per click is same. Often, products with $2 pricing are offered to much wider demographics than products with $64 pricing. For lower priced product there can be bulk targeting strategy as well where word of mouth and viral sign ups can also be seen. Also as pricing increases you go into B2B sales where complete different marketing/sales strategy needs to be adopted.
I would easily pay for spotify – it's not that expensive and it's quite good.

The only problem is that they can't accept my money because I don't live on USA/UK/Sweden.
You break a license? Yeah, I'm probably not going to go to court with you.

"break your contract"? Arbitrary contract? Unless we're talking trivial sized businesses here, there is a non-trivial chance that I will take you to court over that.

Oh yeah, and it is my impression that going to the BBB is free, so you can be sure I'll be doing that regardless.
I don't think I do. I've TAed many CS majors. That level of simplicity is borderline condescension.
Riak users have had quite the opposite results based on talks given at conferences and videos put online. Yammer, Voxer, Formspring, Bump are all riak customers and all have a video out there somewhere talking about how much the like riak. Yes riak and cassandra share a little bit of technology (being dynamo inspired), but most of cassandra woes seem to come from operational difficulties and not the technology theory. Riak has more of a focus on operational friendliness out of the box.

There are videos and talks out there from several customers listed on Basho's site, just take a look.
I use it from time to time. It's ok when you need to read something on the go, but it's not pleasant to use, and it renders like crap, often incorrectly. It's ok for reading HN.
Because the design requirements and capabilities that result are entirely different.
Perhaps you should read the guidelines here:

Specifically

> Please don't sign comments, especially with your url. They're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile.
That electronic voting has problems doesn't in any way mean that paper voting didn't have problems. The statement "nobody would even consider electronic voting" is false. Plenty of people consider electronic voting because of the hanging chads, photos of people with magnifying glasses peering at ballots, etc.
I have no ideas that I'm comfortable and interested in investing time and energy into. It's that simple.
I see on your site that you say, "recently, I also got rid of all of my possessions through a project called Cult of Less."

That must not have included all of your nice clothes.
There are number of classic failure modes for Scrum. One of them is to not have a Product Backlog at all, or to only plan it out a few weeks.

Since you claim that in your experience, Scrum de-emphasizes forward thought and big-picture thinking, I can only conclude that you don't do this, and have decided to blame Scrum for this fact.

I suggest that you identify whatever it is that is preventing your team from creating a full product backlog.

Also, my YAGNI detector is going off big time.
Blog: Mobilizing the Workplace
Because I'm happy where I am working and that goes beyond 'security and predictability'.

Also remember a lot of folks are more interested in the Hacker side of things, not just startup stuff.
Just because this article hyperbolises the effect of ads on "book culture", doesn't mean it is in any way insightful or correct.
I've also got a 16.5" and a pretty thin frame. Tailors are your friend and can make miracles.
The robot assassins are coming. But in seriousness, I found this unsettling too.
If you look closely, you'll notice that for each character, I square the difference. This is to to put extra emphasis on larger differences. If we don't do this, the string "Hannp" would have a fitness of 0. You see, the difference between 'e' and 'a' is -5, between 'l' and 'n' is +2 (which we have twice) and between 'o' and 'p' is +1. Adding these up yields a fitness of 0, but it's not the string we want at all.

Squaring is a dumb way to avoid that problem. You can still have false positives: for example if a string differs from the target by two letters, who distances are +1 and -1, then squaring will not mitigate the issue.

EDIT: I realize now that -1^2 is a positive number...

I'm very surprised that the author doesn't know about the Levenshtein distance metric http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

That seems like it would be the perfect utility function for this case.
Part of actually owning up to your mistakes is accepting the consequences gracefully.

He shouldn't have made the promise in the first place, but now that he has the only responsible thing to do is to fulfill that. He can say it was a bad idea, and ask for donations if he wants, but he shouldn't go back on his word. His fuckup, he's the one that has to deal with the consequences.
I work out of a nearby coffee shop in Ottawa in a very small community/neighbourhood.

it's low traffic, and I'm on first name basis with everybody that works there. it's fantastic, and beats working in a real office.

the wifi is unlimited, there's plenty of power outlets, and occasionally on really long days, I'll have two meals there (which makes up for those crunchtime days where I'm doing nothing but drinking coffee).

and they're open till midnight, and serve beer for ballmer peak days.

the real key is to just work out of a coffee shop 2ish times a week and a homeoffice the rest of the time. you split your costs and you're not always there.
Other: I still have a hell of a lot to learn and would be better off learning from a great team than slogging away at it inefficiently on my own
Yeah, I agree. It would be great to be able to go through a federated wiki, combine data from multiple stories into a single calculated story, and then see how they relate.
It's moments like this where I wish I could somehow delete myself from the internet and come back fresh armed with what I know now.

Personal electronic reset button.
This resonates with me. Like you, I'm risk-averse but I still have hopes to create my own company one day. It'll start as a side project and then if I get enough traction, perhaps it'll be enough to convince me to take the leap.
isn't there a missing case of working for a startup you did not start? Not secure and predictable job but still not the full leap.
Is anyone watching TechStars on Bloomberg? When I saw the Wiji guys and their adaptive advertising, I was immediately thinking of the implications if you can do this good of a job of facial recognition. Imagine if every ad screen you came near knew as much about you as Google or Facebook do. In some ways I'm kind of excited about it - it's like living in the future - but it's scary as heck for privacy concerns.

http://immersivelabs.com/