skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Netflix cannot be the first word in the application name. It can be used in the naming of an app as “x for Netflix” or “x with Netflix”, “x’s Netflix Manager”, etc. This makes it clear that the offering is not from Netflix.'

http://developer.netflix.com/docs/Branding
this is great, thanks for sharing. What was the secret to detecting a shake?
Google Blog: Browse what the world is saying on Blog Search
Startup your Social: Enhance Your Social Utility
Google Blog Search Deals Technorati a Knockout Punch With New Homepage
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Outlines of Ambient Information
Apologies but: hahaha.

You are asking me for money and you'll owe me a favor and membership to a service which you admit isn't quite well defined yet? Under the current economic circumstances? And you cannot raise 25K on your own?! So when the 25K runs out, what?

OK, I'd rather provide some constructive feedback. Please tell me why you are a skilled entrepreneur. Here is an idea: you mention running a social media company for 3 years. How did it grow under your leadership and how did the initial investors do?

Alternatively you can just be funny:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/09/29/080929sh_shouts_bo...

Sorry to be negative, nothing personal - best of luck to you.
Please cite. Everything I know about the history of public health and epidemiology tells me you're wrong. I know you want to argue from a position that science is a pox on humanity and religion alone improves life, but you should probably back that up with something.
Google Launches Its Own Memetracker
New DoS Attack Is a Killer
Honest truth, a LOT of what ive learned technology wise is through tinkering around with open source software. It's a great place for people to start understanding web dev, server configuration, moderating, community,etc.
While I can appreciate this approach from a one-off perspective, it seems like it would make more sense to package this process up, like some of the micro-lending services. The key difference is that there's no fixed interest (compound or simple) on the investment, but the sky is the limit. Call it anyVC.com.

You'd allow people to submit their startup idea, business name, contact info, anticipated operating expenses, fund-raising goal, and so on. Once anyVC.com had accepted the venture for presentation to it's users, anyVC posts these ventures with an "Invest Now" button. Or have an auction-type interface: X-many dollars at y% stake in company per dollar. You could just queue those up from smallest stake per dollar to highest. (Funds would probably have to be escrowed, so there'd have to be some serious legalese and possible snail-mail notary-public stuff going on to sign up to become a microVC. Maybe that's a show-stopper.)

Then, the entrepeneur looks at his queue and begins accepting funds from the smallest-stake per dollar to the highest.

This might limit certain exit strategies, like incorporation, unless anyVC.com aggregates the various micro-investments, paying out to the micro-investors when they want to cash out, minus a small handling fee.

The firms would then be subject to some oversight from anyVC.com, and joint reports would be filed to the micro-investors via the web site, or via a private channel if security is an issue. (Maybe the micro-investors have to be under NDA or non-compete?)

Has something like this been done? If not, have I overlooked something glaringly obvious that makes this impossible?

Edit: This may make even more sense in a tight credit market.
But will they txt hotrimz to 28845 now for a FREE* wallpaper?
LG HBM 550 Chocolate Bluetooth Headset
The LG HBM-550 is a Bluetooth headset that features a ultra compact design and stylish good looks. One of the smallest Bluetooth headsets on the market.
Okay, what the heck is Windows Cloud?
i keep myself abreast of the latest trends and technologies while the other people don't [have time to do so because they're all older people raising families]. so, when it comes to updating the technology of the product, i'm in first chair.

and it worked wonderfully. i get to hack around with cutting edge stuff, building prototypes to see if it works for us.
Software Lets Users Manipulate Passport Data
Brainstorming Ideas with Sharpies and Sticky Notes
It's a simple argument, but it's interesting if you extend it to securing personal information in the cloud. The amount you pay a company to store your data (incl per-capita ad revenue they make from you) is effectively a cap on the amount they'll spend to secure it.
I wrote an MP3 renamer in Common Lisp that gets MP3s, figures out the length (in seconds) and looks it up on CDDB/FreeDB.

Quite a pleasure and a nice little program.
@mkn That's a great idea, but the point is that I don't have the money to build it. How do you raise money for a site to raise money? And I am extremely dedicated to this idea right now.

@gz The idea is fully developed, I just don't want every aspect of my business to be public before I have a concrete product built.

And to "so when the $25k runs out, what?" Isn't that question the cornerstone to every investment ever made? It's to bring you to a next round, just because the source is different, it doesn't mean the same rules don't apply.

And it's not that I can't get angel money or VC, it's that I'd rather do it after I have a prototype.

I didn't have any investors to my first company, it was a marketing company. It was a service, not a product.

I would love to answer your question about why I think I am a skilled entrepreneur. I will do so shortly on calleynye.com.

Thanks for the feedback :)
And those are the things that (to me) make Amazon Amazon. The things they have going for them are really: Brand/reliability (1.0), reviews/comments(2.0 - explicit user contributions) & the recommendation engine (2.0 - implicit user contributions).

As just an online superstore where you can find anything, they'd've had a lot less of an edge. The search engine + thousands of web-shops complex create a good enough alternative.
We gotta get you using the reply link. Also, g'luck!
Interview With Last.fm Founder Richard Jones: Part 1, The Competition
done and done.

hehe.
You should try doing what we did when Publictivity first started. Find a potential customer or two, in this case it would also be a PR and/or marketing firm. Proposition them to pitch in $5000-$10000 each. Give them:

a) the software free for life
b) a small stake in the company
c) direct line access to new features + beta testing

Also:

a) Put a pitchdeck online that you're comfortable with
b) Put some sort of small FAQ so douchebags like @gz can't really say anything.

Lastly, you should apply to YC for the upcoming session :-).
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Watch the big game live on your PC. Live football and soccer on the internet streamed to your broadband connected PC or laptop. No more satellite or cable TV fees anymore. All the big teams like Liverpool, Manchester United, Barcelona and Chelsea.
Read Hacker News

Really though, it's how I learn about what's going on. I don't necessarily learn every new framework that's released here or become an expert on every new web tool - but at least I'm exposed to it.

And I also do the exact opposite: take breaks away from all stimulation and just code on a project until it's done, preferably in something new (framework, language, paradigm) or at least in a new domain.
it may be a walled garden of sorts, but unlike apple, facebook does not prevent the developers from introducing apps that compete with the garden's in-house functionality. They let the users decide instead what's best for the users.
Gnip sounds like it could enable some cool things for the near future, but it's single-point-of-failure nature makes me nervous.
There was demand and a chance to profit so they made a partnership. I wouldn't go as far as saying theres an underlying strategy behind it.

Does Microsoft really need a 3rd party data center to enter "the cloud"?
Those are all great ideas, Jason. Thanks!

And I am applying to YC :D
I set aside a few hours a week to work on a specific project that may lead to great work or not. This is outside of my regular gigs. Other than that I, as my mother-in-law say, "putz" (spell?). You know, I'll paint a little, work out in the shop, definitely hang with family and friends, try a new exercise. You get the picture.
Swearing is nothing. And drugs they will do (and we pray they only dabble). Sex is different in that (IMO) you ante up something sacred (yourself).
That's the price of oil, not the price of gasoline. While increasing oil prices will cause gasoline prices to rise, the effect in question - that gasoline prices in the US historically go up in the spring and summer - is related to the gasoline supply tightening up because of the switch from winter to summer gasoline specifications and increasing demand because of summer vacations, not because of a reduction in the crude oil supply. OPEC production increased about 3% from January to August this year.

I'm getting too far off topic, I guess.
I love the jokes on here!
Whence "Windows Silver Lining"?
i don't get why this is on hn.

and to take the article example, if there is a chemical plant producing critical / dangerous products, it should be taxed by the government accordingly; with the taxes spent on security
Chromium Blog: Google Chrome, Chromium, and Google
Why a War on Virtual Gold Sellers Makes No Sense
YUI 2.6.0 Released
This is how it is done, invest when there is blood everywhere and the bandwagon investors or running for the hills. They will be back, specifically to pay you.
Also, the FAQ sliding is slightly out of alignment in Safari (the text is too far left and out of sight, and more text is visible to the right)
Low res can be a problem. I wonder if they've considered seeding a torrent with higher resolution videos.

Better than stealing movies for sure.
Why I hate proprietary software
He also gets a 10% dividend on his (preferred) stock. I'm pretty sure that you only get that dividend if the company turns a profit, but thats pretty fucking good. Not only that, but after 3 years they can buy it back for a 10% premium. So, if they do well profit wise and buy back their stock, he will have $3B*(1.40)= $4.2 Billion. Not bad.
Benzene would certainly be the least of your worries in that case.
It's especially interesting in that when muscles work really hard they make lactic acid - which is then used by the brain when it is working hard.
yep, aware of that. A couple of alignment issues on Opera as well. One surprising thing we learned was that Safari behaves very differently on a Mac and a PC. Oh well :P
Would be fun to have a Markov-generated Palin-text next to a real Palin-text and then try to guess which one is the real one.
Did you have watch in high quality selected?
If you smell gas strongly while filling up you are doing it wrong.

First some states require vapor recovery, and second you are outside and your nose is not inches from the nozzle - you should not be getting exposed to much of anything.
Why MooTools (or Why not JQuery)
no mechanism that allows or even requires content authors to create their own metadata will ever take off.

That's (mostly) true if there's no trust model. Once you insert some sort of trust or authorization model, this problem gets mitigated pretty quickly. The most obvious counterexample to your point is the rich ecosystem of API-based mashups. Mashups exist as integration points for multiple content sources where content authors provide their own metadata.

While there's a lot of talk these days about the idea of "semantic search engines," most practical uses of the semantic web are actually just souped up mashups -- solutions to integration problems combined with some lightweight AI.
Amazing - nearly all the comments there are from Turkers, former Turkers, or people who are proud to say they will never be a Turk. Of course, all the commenters over here are talking about using the service as employers, or are simply interested observers.

I guess I hadn't realized reddit had gotten so bad.
thats a great idea! Thanks man. Didn't actually think of that.
Finding Your “First Business Hire”
And if you don't have a TechCrunch T-shirt <plug> http://startupschwag.com/shop/ </plug> ;)
I generated a 100 word Markov-chain-text with my own program based on this text:
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/09/text-of...

" you to the public education better. And in which crowds are too big ... raise payroll taxes go to be specific. The right here tonight, and power of our European allies by the status quo, to bring about how evil is not looking through a message: For a great state senate. This world of one step farther away ... when he promises more. Taxes are seeking new-clear plants ... he refused to the story all by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly forty billion dollar natural gas prices went up to reduce the crowd fades away from tomorrow - not long ago"

another:
" you to the matter squarely. There is the same ups and defend America. I accept the maverick of adversity than see us through a tough fight our state back to the ones who knows the planet? The answer is a crucial hour for you to prefer candidates who said that drilling won't solve every woman can assure you it belonged - the journey of that all the government of this week is better than we share, then talks about how bitterly they realize there is to John McCain. The voters knew their usual certitude, they realize there are stirringly summoned"
Boxee: Watch flash video on Apple tv ie: hulu etc...
Transcript available? No Flash here.

I suspect this is a resurgence of the decades-old idea of using evolutionary algorithms to find weights for neural network nodes.
Kiva lets anyone micro-loan to third world entrepreneurs
This would seem to be a point against those who say Apple is evil.
US superpower status is shaken
Rails Hosting in a Jiffy
The chemical company's situation is different - the people who care about an attack (nearby people) and the people acting on the reputation (customers) are different, so there is incentive for the nearby people to pay towards their own protection. The attack is rare and unlikely so sympathy is high as long as the company is putting "reasonable" measures in place.

Cloud data theft - the people who care about the attack (customers) are the same people acting on the reputation, so the reputation hit matters more. Such attacks are common and predictable, so sympathy will be lower. People nearby aren't involved so there is no incentive for anyone else to pay to protect your data. Knock on economic effect is spread much more widely over more systems and so is less intense and more difficult to gague, and you'd be taking time off work and using your weekends to sort it out so it would have less impact.

So the cloud company has incentive to spend more on security than you might think, if they judge the reputation boost will help future earnings enough. It may do so where it may not for the chemical company.
Innovation is still strongest in the US, but it does seem that unfettered markets lead to some unstable economic situations. I don't like unstable economic situations.
Maybe its just me, but asking this question to HN readers is your answer in itself. I personally can't thin of too many colleagues of mine who read HN, let alone other programming blogs/aggregators (programming.reddit etc).

Personally, I read a lot, and write some code. I need to write more code than I read, but its a good start. And a lot of what I read does not have to be necessarily technoloy specific, rather books like "Clean Code" and "Code Complete", Intro To Algorithms etc, patterns, architectures etc.

I also tend to read a lot of self-help (GTD), business (Good to Great) and career specific books (Career Intensity) and similar blogs and sites.

In my experience, it helps to try and really really practice something. As Bruce Lee once said, "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

To give you an example, I am currently reading Clean Code, and one of the pieces of advice is "A method should do one thing, and one thing only". Nothing new there, but normally I do take the time and effort to keep my code short and clean, but this book says that exception handling (in Java) IS ONE thing. So your method should not attempt to do exception handling as well as some other piece of functionality. For the past 3 days at work, I have tried to do that, not because the book says it, but because I did not think of it that way, and I want to give it a whirl before I make my mind up.

A lot of people I know don't read, and even those who do, don't practice it. If you want to grow - learn, practice, measure, then either accept it, or throw it away.

Update - Other HN readers have other pieces of advice that I did not add here. But working sample projects, reading documentation, tutorials online (I refer to them as the magazine version of tech books :D) all help
I know you're joking but I've actually seen "Cloud 3.0" in print somewhere.
Sure, Apple can be seen as standing up against an association that isn't necessarily for the best interests of the artists. However, their choice to shut down iTunes would also render the billions of DRMed songs, that people payed for, useless.
Yay! Ballmer learned a new buzzword!

I wonder if the "OS in the cloud" gets it as much as GMail did, you know, four and a half years ago...
I suggest: http://www.crossbrowsertesting.com/

Gives full access to virtual machines with different versions of Windows and different browsers. I tried it, bought some credits and loved it.
Powerful video about war photography
The Lake Wobegon Distribution
i keep natural 'no-tech' aquarium as a hobby

after reading 'ecology of planted aquarium by Diana Walstad', i basically say bye bye to weekly water change, lighting, aerator, pump, fertilizers and other fancy stuffs

now i only have soil (any, cheap will do), gravel, water, plants and fish - the fish food and mulm become fert ... along with semiannual water change

the algae problem is combatted with fast growing emergent (root+in-water+out-water stem) plant ... the plants will take nutrient faster (from soil+water+air) than the algae (from water alone) ever will

relevance to my work? now i use fewer, simpler (but powerful) tools with rapid iterations (hopefully at faster rate than bug creation)
Yes, have you ever seen the film that accumulates on the inside windshield of some cars on a very sunny day? It's vaporized and then condensed dashboard material :\
Finally Contxts Launches SMS Business Cards
Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuit
This post violates all sorts of securities laws regarding fundraising.
New California law narrows overtime regulations for skilled tech workers
Anyone know of a coding equivalent to crowdspring.com?
I'm looking for some small coding gigs to supplement my (lack of) income. Does something like crowdspring.com actually exist for coding projects?

So far I've just perused the gig board at 37signals and the stuff on Joel, but thought that maybe someone here would have some pointers for finding small projects to fill a weekend with.
I wonder what would happen if Microsoft made Windows like Seti@Home, by linking up unused CPU cycles across the Internet. With say 10 million machines chugging and exchanging data, they'd wipe the floor with Google in terms of CPU power.
Senate passes financial bailout bill full of sweeteners
Upcoming Social Semantic Web events
This a really cool design. Is there anything approaching it today?
i can't remember a single year in which he was the best performing manager

That would be precisely the wrong metric to look at to see how a good long-term investor is: the absolute best performer in a given year is very likely to be the guy who threw darts at just the right stocks on the wall.
He may have meant this - http://www.linux.com/feature/131752
Android is no more open for handset manufacturers than Symbian, which has been around for years and is also open-source now. Even Windows Mobile phones have been seeing extensive customization lately - take the HTC TouchFLO phones, for example.

Honestly, it could be argued that Android is less 'open' than its predecessors, since there's an assumption that handset manufacturers will take advantage of the UI Android provides instead of rolling their own from scratch. I suspect we'll see much more UI consistency with Android than has been the case with the older operating systems.

As for users customizing their phones, there's nothing novel about that either. Palm and Windows Mobile phones have always let users install applications. In fact, you can easily run tethering applications on many Windows Mobile and Palm-based phones - just don't try it on the G1.
I'm waiting for the next resurgence :)
no, taking donations is different than having investors who will receive equity.
Differences between Senate bill and House bill, the cliffsnotes:

- FDIC covered deposit insurance from $100,000 to $250,000 temporarily

- To cover the loss resulting, FDIC will borrow from treasury

- Renewable energy tax breaks to individuals among other breaks, like R&D credit for business,
deducting state and local taxes on federal tax returns

- Alternative Minimum Tax suspension increased for 1 more year, AMT prevented
the wealthy from not paying taxes, the one where form 6251 should
be filled out if income is >$75,000
Analysis on the nature of the credit crisis: "Financial Armageddon for Dummies"
The funny thing about buffet is this aw-shucks wise old stock picker grandpa image he has cultivated. He's a ruthless insider with somewhat unsavory friends in the insurance business, with questionable accounting histories. The dirty secret about berkshire is that it's predominantly an insurance company.
Agile Development for Designers
You left out the wooden arrows for children! ;-)
Can you give an example of startup that would benefit by solving problems that are trivial to the really smart people? I can't think of one. All good technology that's designed to be suitable to "dumb" people is equally suitable to smart people (e.g. Google, Ebay, Amazon), it seems to me. Smart people like things that are intuitive and no more complicated than necessary, just like everyone else. (Or so I've heard).
"... i don't get why this is on hn. ..."

Situation awareness.

Vigilance is required in an era of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare Schneier is simply highlighting that what appear to be safe, reliable everyday industrial chemicals can in fact be used against civilians. For example check the disruptions of unintentional chemical spills in my own home town, Melbourne ~ http://www.google.com.au/search?q=melbourne+toxic+chemicals then consider the effects of intentional use in a large city. With a bit of forethought this can be minimised. While the obvious chemicals like fertilisers (Ammonium Nitrate) are now controlled (you need to apply to purchase large quantities) chemicals manufactured or stored in large concentration are a potential weak spot and should be systematically plugged with minimum security guidelines.
> How to buy GE at a 42% discount

GE is a consumer finance company. All this popular perception about windmills, toasters, and jet engines is ignorant of the financial reality. I will go on the record and say Buffet is WRONG. GE will perform badly in coming years.

A great indicator that the market is nowhere near bottom is how the peanut gallery continues to pipe up around here that now is the time to buy. The time to buy will be when no webtard would even consider recommending a buy.
Until it reaches a certain level of familiarity, it seems awkward to remember and to give a username and an SMS short code to transmit info. On the other hand, the ability to send your contact info to a phone might play well with the typical 'give me your number and I'll call you so you have mine' number exchange dance. That dance is a lot more intimate than a business card transfer, however.
I'm curious, whare your sources for this statement? Any books or articles in particular?