skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Sridhar,

Okay, misinformation on that then. Glad to see that they're different.

That's great that VTiger was offered with a good license, but I don't think the intentions of forking sugar were the best. Their licensing may have caused some issues, but now GPL3 has cleared most of those. If Zoho's products are superior why continue to offer VTiger, which is primarily Sugar's code? Why not just open source ZohoCRM and unify things together? Granted, that is much easier said than done.

Sure, most people haven't woken up to the power of UI. Think of the poor souls still on SAP or Great Plains or whatever CRM you can think of. There's no doubt Zoho is proven. Microsoft is also proven, but the way they execute on products isn't exactly the best.

Zoho Creator is very nice. The app store launched this week via web 2.0 expo is pretty cool.

Adventnet(zoho,vtiger,etc.) is a hell of a business. I just challenge you guys to do something truly different to shake things up. You're right, 12 years has afforded you to do things like Zoho, so take that juice to kick it a few notches up. Best of luck.

-jlb
New official Apple program for teaching iPhone dev at uni
pretty sure zoho was before coghead. These apps are a lot different than MS Access at the end of the day. At the heart, sure there are lots of similarities.
CS course recommendations for a math major?
What would be good courses to recommend to a math major who's looking to get into the applied / computational side of things? She's already taken CS1 / CS2 / Data Structures, and will be taking Intro to Algorithms next semester. I've suggested game theory and and possibly AI, any other ideas?
Burn your CPU cycles
I disagree, the whole point of the statement is that ordinary claims don't require verifiable evidence because they're ordinary and we expect them to happen

Therefore, popular opinion belays fact?

I get what you are saying but your counter argument is not the best. The parent seems to have a good point about the nature of evidence, to suggest that ordinary claims though should be accepted at face value because they are ordinary is the reason heavier than air vehicles could never fly, for instance.
We just launched new Drupal based publishing platform
Reading that she dropped out of MIT and that the judge required her to do community service and make a public apology makes me so sad.
I was told by someone who should know, although I have been too lazy to check up (its probably publicly available).

It makes sense, webkit is getting so much work for mobile from google and apple and others, why not.
Social Media ABC's - H is for Hat Tip
Does your blog know what women want?  This one does
The Social Network Kirtsy compiled a book of blogs that women like and Tracksuit CEO was on the list...
Nicely done...I still prefer my RSS tracking to Google Alerts, but this is definitely going in the arsenal.
how is this different from google alerts?
Google alerts doesn't pick up comments. At least it never does for me.
SGI relicenses OpenGL: It's finally Open
The issue though is that because a notion of god as existed as long as we have, writing it off as pink unicorns or spaghetti monsters belittle's it to a meaningless degree; it's a weak counter.

There is clearly something very human in a god belief. To suggest that this type of belief is simply a meaningless may in fact be correct, but it leaves a big part of the equation blank.

It's like answering math questions without showing your work. I think that's what reasonable people have issues with.
I had some Google alerts set up to keep track of an industry I am entering but they cluttered up my RSS reader and became a chore. I'm thinking about using something like Rivalmap instead.

Backtype alerts would be good for comments which is almost as important as blog posts.
Because moneycomingin > moneygoingout or you die.

It doesn't matter how big either of those numbers are, as long as the equations stand. Most argue that the equation in facebook's case fails.
> Why Do We Believe Impossible Things?

I don't.
Google Chrome To Support Add-Ons
Google Chrome Uses the Scrollbar to Display Search Results
I don't buy that concision is power. This borders on a tautology, but expressiveness is power. Concision is part of that (a big part, even), but it's not everything.

My only problem with Lisp is that it's exactly the sum of its parts - no more, no less. Everything decomposes into self-similar pieces, which decompose into other pieces, and on and on, turtles almost all the way down. This is wonderfully elegant, but also feels like it precludes creating something which is more than the sum of its parts. This may not seem like a problem to a lot of people, or just sound like self-important nonsense, but the thing I enjoy most about programming is the tangible sense of gestalt you get when you've been working on a codebase for long enough. For me, Lisp doesn't provide that.
I bet most of the class is about the waiting period, and all the angles Apple can screw you.
I'm interested in seeing how journalism schools approach the unfolding Palin Yahoo! e-mail account hacking story.

This could be a big story, it's happening right now, and it likely won't be talked about. After all, it was just some hacker, not a serious journalist.
I was referring to the ability to traverse a tree structure (made of conses or objects) and generate a tree of closures from that.

Instead of interpreting the tree structure, you make a first pass where you do a lot of dispatching in advance (at runtime you'll just do what you must do instead of first figuring out what to do and then do it), generating a tree of closures. Then you call your "top-level" closure for a nice optimized run. You can optimize your source tree before compiling this way, for some crazy speed.

All this without having to read advanced books about low-level compilers, parsing, machine architecture and optimization!
"I'm just trying to propose ways in which it's possible to discuss politics in the abstract"

I believe this is called being mature.

Good luck with your effort. It's tough, and if you make the slightest mistake (such as using examples that tilt against the same party) you're sure to be punished.
Nokia 1650 Red Grey Unlocked
Nokia brings a compelling combination of form and function to the entry market with today's announcement of the Nokia 1650. This entry-level device is designed to give consumers more features and a higher level of design than would be expected from such an affordable device.
Dirac 1.0 released (an advanced royalty-free video compression format from BBC)
You could go the Japanese anime/game route too. Neo Squirrelfish. Squirrelfish X2. Squirrelfish Alpha. Melty Squirrelfish. Squirrelfish Z. Squirrelfish EX. Super Ultra Hyper Squirrelfish Turbo Edition A2.

It's got a certain ring to it.
Poetic Interpretation of the StumbleUpon Experience
That is both interesting and awesome. I just looked at your website. Good luck, and I hope you'll keep us all informed about your progress. (I'd buy one!)
Kiss of Death – Contract Provisions Entrepreneurs Should Avoid at All Costs
Clozure Common Lisp 1.2 released - Fast comp., native threads, convenient FFI, Unicode
Entrepreneurs hope to save world 1 baby at a time
Exactly! We will be publishing a blog post soon that shows the difference between BackType search results and other services.

I think businesses should be using every tool that is available to them to track their brand. That includes BackType Alerts, Google Alerts, Twitter/Summize search, Technorati search, FriendFeed search, etc.
Its success seemed foreordained to me from the beginning: a travel site that knows about international flights and whose UI isn't a complete disaster.
Extreme Tactics of a Headhunter
The ad progress was freakin' brilliant. Bizarre ads got EVERYONE talking about Microsoft again, whether you liked them or not. The followup ads ("I'm a PC") were less remarkable, but people paid attention a lot more because of the initial grabber-ads with Seinfeld.

And, as Arrington said in a post today-- the "I'm a PC" ads made the Mac ads seem less funny and more arrogant. It had a great, "Fuck you, I'm not lame just because I don't use a Mac" quality and I think will nudge people to be proud of using a PC.

FWIW, I use a PC and I generally feel pretty content about it. I paid $400 for a great box on Craigslist. I can play games from time to time. I don't get viruses. My computer doesn't crash/freeze. I've watched my Mac buddies recently have a LOT more frequent hardware issues than I do (tho Apple is admittedly great at dealing with it when it happens).

My computer has no white plastic, no rounded corners, aliased fonts and I love it. :-)
I don't use RSS...I just have Google Alerts email me a summary depending on the importance (i.e. as it happens for important stuff, daily/weekly for not so important stuff).
I don't follow your logic. What the hacker did wasn't journalism, it was breaking the law. Why compare the hacker to a journalist?
Next version - powered from a USB port.
Jason,

vtiger CRM is now a separate open source product with an active community that will determine it's future. vtiger CRM has evolved significantly over many years with a complete overhaul of the UI and the server framework, and is largely Sugar-Free.

Please note that SugarCRM is open source only with it's limited community edition. Much of SugarCRM software is proprietary.

-Sreenivas Kanumuru (vtiger Team Member)
Summary: In this article, a Mashable writer newly arrived at NYU journalism school bemoans old-thinking in her professors and classmates.

Highlight: The comments are full of responses from established journalists, who point out that her "work" for Mashable is largely just copy-pasting press releases and lifting images from other sites.

The writer is really confused as to why she's the only student in her class actively blogging somewhere.

The answers pretty simple, why write for free when you aim to get paid to do it? That's the prevailing opinion among journalists. There's really no equivalent to open source among journalists.
Another essential tool in the arsenal of a startup founder... monitoring and responding directly to feedback is critical.
A more accurate headline would be dirac-research codebase (which should only be used by codec researchers, not users) 1.0 released.

The version that users should use (Schroedinger) hit 1.0 a while ago.
I think a lot of people forget the responding part. Sometimes it's hard to know when to respond and when to let things go -- but it's amazing how quickly a pissed off user turns into a loyal one if you take the time to communicate with them.
It's a problem for every carrier.. I've been trying to call my friends on t-mobile and sprint, and have received the same issues. (I live in Austin, family in houston)
Lol. Bill O'Reilly often points out some minor gripe he has with a conservative and uses that to tout how unbiased and moderate his views are. And his viewers lap it up. What you said about Gruber is the same thing.

Which is not to say that I do (or anyone should) simply dismiss his arguments because of that. He is a fanboy, in fact, he's the closest thing to a leader they have. If he told his readers to march on Washington, there'd be a million Priuses (or is it Prii?) with Apple bumper stickers clogging the expressways in every state. I'm truly impressed that he's made such a career out of it, but if you don't think that the fact that most of his income is derived from blogging about how great Apple is taints his views, you're simply and obviously wrong.

Here's a thought experiment. Suppose you were Microsoft, and you made a series of ads, planning the first two and possibly a third to be with Jerry Seinfeld (pending reception of the first two) and the rest with lesser celebrities or none at all. Would you not still hype them up for a couple months beforehand? I mean, you just hired possibly the biggest celebrity in TV history to do your TV ads. You wouldn't be issuing press releases, even if it were just for the first two weeks of a year-long campaign? I would.

So then, suppose they get a highly mixed reception and you continue on with your original plan of switching to the other ones. People start asking you why. What do you tell them?

They answered through their PR department because that's who questions to Microsoft (or any large corporation) go to. The PR department. That's the point of a PR department, to be the liaison between the company and the press.

CPB group's job is not to talk to reporters on Microsoft's behalf, and it would be unusual if they were the ones issuing press releases and statements on Microsoft's behalf.
Me too. Sad for the country, the world and for human beings. Sometimes (okay, most of the time) it's really embarrassing to be one of us.
While there is a lot of clutter on the app store with Tip calculators and so forth, there is a sharp difference between fB and iPhone platforms.

to develop for Facebook, you can use anything. to develop for the iPhone, you need a Mac.

That said, let's compare PC vs. Mac market share. :)
I'd recommend taking courses in CS that will cover material she won't come across in math classes. So I'd say compilers and operating systems.

Game theory and AI? Sure, but I don't think a math major would have much trouble reading in those areas on her own. Whereas something grounded in compilers or OS would elude her unless she had a background in these areas.
12-Year-Old May Hold Key to Solar Energy
OK you have deliverables due in 3 months, go!
Flex :: " # No real testing support " .... Flexunit.
This article is a bunch of MS dev's loving on silverlight. Biased.
What is your position on the copyright of comments? I've tried to contact your company to get you to stop re-publishing my comments on your website and you didn't even respond to my message. What can copyright holders do to ensure that you do not re-publish their content?
It goes a lot deeper than that. Short selling is actually ruining the ability of financial institutions that aren't even exposed to the mortgage problems (or are minimally so) to get the inflow of credit they need. Or so the argument goes.

Again, I'm not an economist, so I don't have a strong opinion here. What I do know is that people who know a hell of a lot more than me (or probably anyone who posts here) are making these decisions, so dismissing them based on some generalized knowledge (i.e. short selling is bad because my econ 101 textbook said so) seems childish.

That's why I was asking the original commenter if, perhaps, he knew enough about economics to have an informed opinion. For all I know, he has a PhD in it.
Do you have any idea to make this commercial and suceesful? Or it just sucks?
Poor girl, really sad to see this.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of: http://ecoble.com/2007/11/18/250000-bottles-amazing-recycled...
I like them! (and I'm a Mac/Linux head)
I so agree to that - we respond to the smallest of small bloggers for a good or bad post. No discrimination!
Experiencing Backtype with this too.....
Yup.... C# vs Emerald yields the exact same graph. Is Emerald a new language we haven't heard about it?

http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+emerald&ctab=0...
Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' Ads Created On Macs
It's Time To Open Up The Feeds To Marketers
Twittermoms Shows Why Twitter Needs Groups
Macbook OS X 10.5.4 results

FireFox 3.0
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Hi Brian,

We try to respond to every single e-mail we get; not sure how yours was missed. I apologize.

We've talked about our policy on re-publishing comments in a few places:

- http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/08/30/five-questions-withb...

- http://blog.backtype.com/2008/08/on-republishing-comments/

- etc

In summary: what BackType is doing is very similar to other search engines. We make every effort to provide content publishers with familiar methods to restrict BackType from indexing their site's content: http://www.backtype.com/faq#q14

We're trying to be as transparent as possible. We attribute comments to their authors so they can be rewarded for the thoughts and insights they share in comments across the web. Additionally, BackType is already becoming a recognized source of traffic for publishers and we want that to continue.
How does this compression format compare against H.264 (ignoring licensing and patent issues)?
You should probably put this in your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Wouldn't want other pesky search engines like Google or Yahoo stealing your genius comments for their sole gain, too. Wait, Backtype, are you going to steal this comment?! Quickly! I must change HN's robots.txt file!

Asinine
"Kayak.com secures $196 million funding"

A startup?

"Kayak.com's founders include Steve Hafner, co-founder and chief executive officer of Kayak.com and a co-founder of Orbitz Inc. in 1999"
Ask HN: What has been your biggest risk?
And did it pay off?
Unigo: "why didn't I think of that" startup
"to flywheel designs is the gyroscopic effect, which causes spinning objects to resist changes to their orientation."

Is this why you do not fall from a bike when it is moving forward?
There is an alternative to reddit and digg, see how you like it:

http://pyrabang.com/?ref=mentormatt8

Activation Code mentormatt8
will possibly get you a whole month membership!
Web 2.0 Expo (held in NewYork sep16-19, video)
Backtype actually compensates you 10x the amount Google does when they index your comments/sites/blog posts.

10 * $0 = $0.
3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Innovate
Milf Hunting just got a whole lot easier.
"I'm a PC" and I'm made on a Mac?
Perhaps off topic, but did anybody else have an impossible time trying to figure out exactly if/when that article ended? Was it at the video screenshots? The Gypsy cab thing? When the header text starts getting indented?

I haven't been this confused in... well, at least 10 minutes.
Getting content right
What Happens When We Die: 3-year exploration of "out-of-body" experiences
Wait... If a user doesn't notice a feature (when it's clearly supposed to be noticed), doesn't that mean it's placement is slightly sub-optimal?

(Although I personally do like the placement, and the author clearly does too; just from Google's perspective, isn't it bad that the user doesn't immediately notice it?)
If you're short a stock, and it goes up in the short term, you must put more money in the account (to build equity to a reasonable level) or close the position

No. One might simply add to his position (e.g. short more). It is called "shorting into the rise".
This includes the Tim O'Reilly Keynote that we all discussed about earlier:

"Tim O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy " http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=308555

the video is named:
"Web 2.0 Expo NY: Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Enterprise Radar"

Enjoy.
Here's a link to a movie showing the clock:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/18/corpus.cl...
500 times the light of a traditional cell? And if traditional cells run at what, somewhere from 7 to 12% efficiency for standard ones?

So he's getting what, upwards of 3500% efficiency? Even accounting for the extra energy of using ultraviolet wavelengths, this sounds a lot like bad math.

Now if he boosted the efficiency to say, three times what we get now? That'd be amazing all on its own.
What a bunch of crap. Publish this stuff on Digg.
Please see the post on Plagiarism Today that was linked to from one of the pages you mentioned above: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/09/11/backtype-republish...

When I comment on TechCrunch or 37signals, I don't give them the copyright to my comment. I (implicitly) give them a license to republish the comment on their own website. However, I've never given Backtype a license to republish my comments on its website. Even if TechCrunch or 37signals chooses not to opt out of your system, you still don't have any legal rights to republish the comments.

From the commenter's standpoint, does it make sense to let you republish my content? I think the answer is emphatically "no." If I republish my own comments myself then I can also monetize them myself. If I build a WordPress plug-in to assist others in doing this, and/or if I build an OpenID extension or robots.txt extension for making comment streams more discoverable, then I can help form a user expectation of "If I want to see all the comments by John Doe, I can find them on John Doe's website." Then all the John Does can decide on their own how they monetize their own content on their own website (e.g. AdSense).

Consequently, really you are in direct competition with the people whose content you are re-publishing. AFAICT, you are saying "we're going to profit from your content without compensating you, regardless of the copyright, and there's no way that you can opt out except by refusing to publish new content." That sucks.

In the posts you linked to, you are comparing yourself to search engines like Google. The difference between your company and Google is that your company republishes the content in full, but Google provides just a small clip of the content. Google has a fair claim that what they are doing is fair use. Their limited excerpting of content is also what allows them to use an opt-out model instead of an opt-in model. That is also what makes it is easy for content creators to profit from Google's indexing of their content--Google users have to click through to the original site to see the content. You are just re-publishing the content in aggregate form.

I'm also curious about whether you think the DCMA safe harbor provisions apply to you when you are republishing others' content. As far as I can tell, they cannot, since you've really just built an automated plagiarism system. That is, there is no user-submitted content on your site; all the content published on your site is published by you yourself.

Anyway, if you really didn't get the message I sent your company, it boils down to this: Please remove everything I've written from your website, or come up with a means of fairly compensating me. Thank you.
How do you feel about Google?
Google Chrome on Windows 2000
Ask YC: A measurable way to decide between names for a startup?
I have narrowed it down to 4 names that are all available and all are a play on loosely the same two words... I've vetted the names amongst friends and no one has pointed out negative connotations or potential pitfalls to any of them. In my eyes i like all the names and don't really favor any one of the names ahead of the others (since they're all basically different forms and synonyms of the same play on words)

How then do I get a bigger data set to make my decision? Google adwords testing? Asking a question on mechanical turk?

What method will yield better results, are there others?...

Essentially I'd like to use the internet to mimic a market test, what's the best way? what's been successful for you guys?
The kid didn't invent it, but he did make an implementation of a relatively new idea.

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/09/12-year-old-rev.html?n...
Numerical analysis

Computer architecture and organization.

Intro to computer networks.

And one that is underrated: Human-Computer Interaction
I edited my comment a little to add some thoughts about Google.

But, it doesn't matter how I feel about Google because Google isn't republishing content beyond what is allowed by fair use. So, even if I hated what they were doing, I don't have any legal justification for asking them to stop.