skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be another nail in the coffin.

http://www.itproportal.com/2011/09/29/rim-changes-stance-pla...
Also if you haven't incorporated yet and you call yourself CEO, what exactly are you an officer of? A corporation has officers; a domain name and a github account don't.
I find the pomodoro technique really useful.

Just the simple thing of having a countdown timer going makes me focus on the task at hand and restricts my procrastination to the breaks, which I also limit in length using the timer.

I'm currently using 45min working periods with 15min breaks, I've found that's the best balance for me after experimenting with various combinations.
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For example, most of the other YC-like organizations copied the questions on our application form. We ask those questions to detect things we've found are either good or bad in startups. But since the people who copied us don't know what the questions are designed to detect, they can't learn as much from the answers as we could.
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Tried #2 several times. I kept getting a cryptic error that wouldn't let me remove them. Ended up disconnecting Spotify from Facebook (using #1).
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To develop any product (tangible or virtual) you need manpower. You could code all you want and never complete the product. In order to execute an idea you need help and in order to execute big ideas, you need help from people with diverse skill sets. Its unlikely that you are going to be able to run the whole show and/or control everything.

Something that we never seem to learn (me included) -- You will get burned by implicitly trusting people. To succeed, make sure you put the trust in the right people. Josh, you had it right --- go with your gut, listen to that voice in the back of your head that is giving you hints that this person might not be the right guy even though he presents as a "superstar".
I have to admit that I don't understand this whole "find a technical co-founder" thing. This isn't like just hiring an employee, you have to be full partners and both "all in" on the project. If you don't already have a relationship before you start, you need to build one before you take the leap. And I particularly don't get how "non-technical" co-founders think they can run the show, when they don't have the expertise to do it themselves.
Kudos of course for a launch of any sort, the product at least looks good in screenshot form :)

As for..

Now we have 4 options:

1. Open Source the Code. It's sorta amatuer but some people might be interested in using / developing it.

You could potentially do a combination of 1 & 2. Look at http://vanillaforums.org/ as an example -- both open source and offering the pay2play style platform for hosting. Wordpress does the same.

As for the direction to go, that all depends on how much interest you have in the project. Do you want to spend the next five years solving this problem? Do it. If not? Sell, or open source.

Either or could lead to bigger opportunities as a dev., as could working on it.
Thanks for the clarification/qualification. Although, if they are pursuing lead generation, I would question the success and quality of the leads they will generate with this approach. Know your market...

To qualify my own comment: I didn't enable the Flash content. (Not that I'm a security guru, but I think the current design would be off-putting to others including those who are.)
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Does anyone really doubt that Pinboard is the true heir of del.icio.us? I think payment is really a core part of the DNA of their service, because it allows Maciej to make it reliable-- exactly what is needed in a bookmarking/tagging utility on the web.
Or that they would produce a "business tablet" that can't actually do email or calendar/contacts PIM without tethering to a BlackBerry. Those features are what RIM was famous for!
The part that goes on in my head, yes. The part that involves typing, no.
How do you get funding without a product? I see this all the time with MBA students fresh out of school. It's pretty annoying. Also, If this doesn't have the makings of someone who saw "The Social Network" and moved to Palo Alto I don't know what does. You ran at the first sign of Failure with a capital F. That doesn't bode well.

Josh, shit is going to happen. Learn to roll with the punches. PA is a startup haven because it's boring, there's nothing to do there but focus on building things. That's to bad things went down the way they did, that's unfortunate. Startups are a dedication game, in my mind at least. You should read this as encouragement next time you encounter difficultly.
I remember a hypnotist at our college orientation taking an audience member and having them recall who they sat in homeroom with (their names, what they looked like).

Supposedly we retain almost all memory but lose recall to it over time.
You have to understand Samsung. Cloning products cheaply is how Samsung creates a market. Sure they may have to layout cash to settle lawsuits (and they have). But in the end, it's a successful business model for them. They've grown to be an enormous company.

Now they can afford to innovate. But Samsung didn't start in that position. Be it TV's, radios, business telephones, chips - whatever.

But the iPhone is different. When they copied Nortel (business telephones) years ago, Nortel wasn't a Samsung customer. Apple is. Big time.

I bet part of Samsung wants to choke the mobile division. Cause I gotta believe Apple is looking for other suppliers.
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Happy to have this feature rolled out today...I have been part of this feature development team...
The title of the article suggests that it was a mistake to leave NYC for Palo Alto, but there is nothing in the article which suggests Palo Alto was the problem. You may as well have titled this article "I got screwed by a guy named Ted".

It would probably still have been easier to move forward and develop your app in the Valley. I've been to General Assembly and it's a nice venue and I hope it continues to grown. But you can't suggest that the interactions and people you will meet there will compare to they types of advisors, investors, developers and potential CTO's you would have met in the Valley, or even just in Palo Alto.
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So I have to make an account just to get some sense of what it actually does for me? Re think that.
Not much because both Amazon and RIM outsourced their tablet hardware design to ODM Quanta:

http://gdgt.com/discuss/the-amazon-tablet-will-look-like-a-p...
Everything in balance. You definitely should not delay the launch of a product because you can't think of a name. But getting to market and changing your name/brand later defeats the whole purpose of branding. In fact it's the opposite of branding. For the latest example just think about Netflix and what they did by naming their DVD mailing service qwixster. That name change is arguably a colossally bad move. I'm not saying your design has to be perfect, you can always update the image like Howard Johnson did for their motel chain. I tend to think that small businesses make a huge mistake when they gloss over the branding/marketing work. I am not advocating the necessity of bringing in a huge ad agency and market research just to get a logo. Just put in a little effort, use the same ingenuity you use when you started your company and come up with a brand identity that ties into what you do. At the very least you can go to logo tournament and get a custom built logo starting at 250. It's the same amount as this service plus you have are reasonably high degree of customization. Your name and your logo will be the most visible part of your company. You want it to instantly signify all the best traits and qualities you have, even if it is just subliminally. Some of the best brands out there who do this well, can just with their logo conjure up a long list of attributes/adjectives in a potential consumer's mind. A super simple one is Rolex… It's just their name with a crown over it. Even if you did not know that they were a watchmaker, by looking at their logo you would assume that whatever they do it's of high quality befitting of royalty or at least made the connection with royalty in your mind. I just think there are many more options that for the same amount of money and minimal effort you can put together something that is closely related and much more beneficial than an off the rack name and logo solution.
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Arg! Sites that don't have an explanation of what they are anywhere drive me nuts. It's especially infuriating that it seems to be a collection of things that should be useful to developers, suggesting that they have good advice even though they can't manage the very basics on their own site, like stating somewhere what the site is about.
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There is another disadvantage of this approach: many times, icons carry no semantic information at all, just being a design thing. Therefore they are most often (and most correctly) implemented as a background image on a certain HTML element which does carry semantic meaning, like a link or a button.

This approach introduces icons within the semantic markup and/or content, unless they're added by some script, which kinda beats the purpose.
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Thankfully no debt to speak of. Saving it is I guess.
One question I would have would be: What will the revenue be spent on?

Around 2006 or so (give or take a couple of years), per some stories I've read the SEC was taking in about $600 million in fees, annually. That went to Congress (effectively, when comparing influence to the Executive's, in this matter). Who in return doled out a budget to the SEC of $100 million.

I think transactions should be taxed, in good part (but not entirely) to pay for the obviously needed oversight and regulation. But if you fail to do that... you're just heaping distortion upon distortion. You're still failing to address the underlying problem.
Let's remake the Internet
One of the best things about writing software is that you constantly get to make things that didn't exist before. Internet was originally created so scientists could share information almost instantaneously. The Internet has evolved into something most people could not have conceived back then. Now that we know it's capabilities, if we could remake the Internet from the ground up, how would you do it, what would you include? Even with web 2.0 there's a lot of legacy involved if we were completely unshackled from the past to make it in HN's image, how would it look?

I know this is a radical idea, but just imagine making something completely new to compete with the entire Internet! Forget just targeting individual sites or services, what could be awesome enough to change the entire face of online computing?
please promote this topic, we are really smart people on the HN message boards and I would really like to get comments from as many people as possible. Not only is it a great thought exercise but who knows what could come out of it in real life. Thank you.
I have never left a Facebook comment on a third party site.

Partially this is due to inconvenience, (the web browser with my Facebook login credentials has always had its own VM, to prevent like button tracking) and partially because associating my real name and identity with a blog comment seems like using a cannon to kill a squirrel. If Samuel Bierwagen wants to say something about an issue, he'll write an essay about it; but rolling out my name and my face for a TechCrunch comment just ain't going to happen.
Relevant? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html ("Never rewrite.")
This is a symptom of a larger problem at many early-stage startups: that of merging your personal identity with your purported "company," "board of directors," etc. rather than running a market experiment as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Not necessarily on the topic of the article itself, but I found this to be a good concrete example of how to think in Haskell (and functional programming in general?).

I've just started learning by reading Learn You a Haskell. Even though there are plenty of examples in the book, so far, none of them are concrete. I found this article helps with the thought process of how to approach a problem in Haskell. The code snippets are accompanied with some clear explanations, and with some effort, I could figure out what the code does.

If you're a new Haskeller, I would encourage you to take the time to understand what's going on.
Is there a way to spam their records without running a huge bill in order to have them store a large number of random bits?
One is shipping. The other isn't.
Evernote has replaced the need for Delicious for me
I could have lived with the changes (by ignoring them), but now tags are basically useless. All my tags since the change have been a mess between tutorial/tutorials, book/books, etc.

Any recommendations for alternatives? (I've already checked Pinboard but it has a sign-up fee)
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I'm a CS professor and for the last several years have refused almost every review request from a non-ACM/IEEE journal.

I'm also an associate editor of an ACM journal and often have a very hard time getting people to review submissions. My sense is that a lot of my peers have simply stopped doing (most) journal reviews at all.

A person can be totally overloaded just doing conference reviews, which are a lot more fun anyway. The papers are shorter and (at a good conference) the papers are a lot better than journal submissions.
Been using this in a new Win8 app I'm working on - I have to say, the await keyword and the Task<T> object make the code much cleaner
I worked with Herf on this: I spent a few hours at Foo Camp reversing those functions, and then he told me enough about how gamma works (he seriously seems to think in terms of exponential hex color shifts... it's sick) to get the stuff working.

The code for iomfsetgamma is available in the uikittools package: git://git.saurik.com/uikittools.git; if that version of uikittools isn't released yet, then it will be about when iOS 5 hits.

(Note: any developers using these functions /need/ to coordinate using the /tmp gamma cache so we don't lose the pristine gamma information. F.lux was based on the code for iomfsetgamma, and thereby does this.)

The idea, btw, is that f.lux will be in a Cydia default repository, but as of yesterday the depiction was still being finalized (it needed to get a mention that it doesn't work on 2G/3G devices). I will check on the status of that again today. ;P

(edit: oh yeah, I forgot that Herf found a simpler way to get the framebuffer, which I haven't added to iomfsetgamma yet.)
Let's not forget that this decryption and re-encryption[1] is going on in the AWS cloud, which is ostensibly shared infrastructure. Its not just what Amazon can see, but what other people who happen to be running on the boxes doing this re-encryption can see (through security vulnerabilities).

[1] I'm making the assumption here that re-encryption is actually occurring. It could be the case that its not and the phrasing was simply poor.
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NLTK is great for _learning_ NLP, but Python is much too slow for scalable deep NLP (by which I mean tagging and parsing, as opposed to TF-IDF etc). Also parallelization can become a problem because of the GIL. It's a real shame they chose Python actually, because otherwise it's a superbly structured, documented, and maintained project.
Shorter josh_miller: Thumbs up if you like HN comments!
I don't know why they are afraid of AOL or the HuffPo meddling with them, the quality at TC is and was already abysmal without any interference, worst case scenario is what exactly ... TC has to continue spewing out fluff pieces on anything that converts to pageviews?
Great job doing contract work during your commute and I find taking the ferry to work pretty cool!

It must be relaxing. :-)
>enjoyable watching them crash and burn.

As a Canadian, technology enthusiast and former RIM employee, it actually saddens me. A company with so much potential, so much talent quickly fading into the mist.

I wouldn't mind seeing Jim B removed and Mike L as Chairman of the Board. The shake-up they desparately need must occur at the top level. In the most recent layoffs, I've had friends and former colleagues in mid-management and lower positions let go. I'm not sure who thought that was an effective strategy to turn the company around. FAIL!
and here is the second repost bynextparadigms...

Make it even more decentralized and more P2P based. Eliminate as many points of failure as possible. Use something like the Phantom Protocol for increased freedom and security as well:

http://code.google.com/p/phantom/
Tell HN:Sold my first android app
Only 5 bucks and after Google's commission I am left with $3.50...but hey it is a start:)

Bringing Rhythmbox to Windows and Mac users: http://code.google.com/p/rhythmote/
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These comments make me want to try ep.io to see if it would work for some of our projects. Would you be able to send an invite to my username at gee mail? Thanks.
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> I'm surprised "TransVerify", for instance, is even available.

But it's not: Stylate owns it. ;)
If the quality of TechCrunch comments were higher would you think about it? I'd actually love to participate in an engaging discussion on AVC.com, for example. But when 200 people have commented, and 75% of them are tooting Fred's horn, it's no fun.
Using these services to build a login infrastructure is tons easier and comes with tons of things that are great for the company building it.

The percentage of people who are worried about privacy is smaller than you think, and those people are happy to use a smaller, worse login/checkout/whatever system if they get to keep their privacy.
I might jailbreak my iPhone just for this.
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This!

The moment I wake up, I very often have some idea in my head that I want to jump on immediately. Knowing that I have limited time before I need to commute stymies my ability to harness that energy.
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Is the implication here that the huge outlier salaries listed in the raw data are due to typos? I assume that's the case but didn't see it mentioned...
suggestion, go check out kindleboards.com's writer's cafe, tons of indy ebook writers who might be interested in your tool, whether now or after you have more of the kinks worked out.
True, with the traffic they have it could have been easy. I don't think that is what they have in mind though. But at this point I have no idea what they are trying to accomplish.
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Pattern to my making these things: every time I hit a feature that I miss from TextMate I write a plugin.

This one was actually interesting, in that it involves "hooking" an existing keybind, which there's no clear functionality for. So I'm abusing keybind contexts and event listeners to fake it.
Read the comments on the Facebook blog, people are just as stupid under their real name. I frankly don't think it'll change anything.
I took the submitted post to be intentionally funny.
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"Can buy right now for $250" means available as far as I'm concerned, but as I nerd, I understand that the semantics may matter a lot to other nerds.
Great start! You had an idea and was motivated enough to follow through. I wish you the best and hope your app is a big success. I'm going to go take a look at it now in support a fellow HN message board member.
>nor did it get Multi-tasking first.

Actually, multi-tasking of some sort always was an OS feature (not just enabled by default). The first program I wrote on my iPhone was a python server uptime notifier which ran in the background. Multitasking as we know it now was enabled for anyone who wished to jailbreak before android was released at all, as announced on tech crunch.

That's not the same as a baked in feature, then again, 90% of the stuff HN people talk about android doing are people who run rooted android for one reason or another.
Josh - the part that resonated with me the most is your developer keeping you waiting and pushing back deadlines with poor excuses. Like you said, these are big red flags.

You mentioned getting sidetracked by learning rails instead of meeting more people, but I disagree with you on that. You should have kept at it learning rails! Developers want to work with other developers, so just by showing you have the drive to learn coding AND have the business skills needed for a startup proves a lot about your personality to potential tech cofounders.

Edit: you should have stayed in the valley. You'd be surprised how quickly you would be right back in the saddle of pushing your startup. I moved here 3 months ago and it was the best decision of my life, I just wish I made the decision sooner. Come on back when you're ready.
Ask HN: Cloud hosts with web socket support?
I started working on an app that requires web sockets. I'm wondering if HN knows of any cloud platforms that support web sockets. Language doesn't really matter to me. I've heard that no.de will support web sockets but that service is currently in private beta.
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"The progress in treating HIV since it first entered the popular psyche has been significant. It is no longer a death sentence in the developed world, and those infected with HIV - who get treatment and adhere to that treatment - can live long and relatively normal lives."

Except the side effects (as with any drug therapy) can be severe. And the effects of long term use is anybody guess. Many patients who lived, just now reaching their 50's; are experiencing everything from diabetes to chronic kidney and liver disease to macula edema.

Course the trade off is death. So maybe it is a good deal.
"webcopy that sells" speaks about a lot of this, and other ideas on how to communicate to users.

http://www.amazon.com/Web-Copy-That-Sells-Revolutionary/dp/0...

woot.com is a great example of how to sell through persionality, and not by being a sales person, which doesn't seem to work as well on the net.
Show HN: Mobile Flag Football Playbook (Weekend Project)
http://scorebookz.com/flag_football_plays

I am a UX Developer based in Chicago and did this as a weekend project to try out HTML5 Canvas (put it on Scorebookz.com, which is my fun/side project away from work).

Stuff used:
- HTML5 Mobile Boilerplate (http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile)
- HTML5 Canvas
- CSS3
- Javascript/JQuery
- JQuery mobile vmouse plugin

Just quick and dirty, but would enjoy any feedback people have.

Also, if you play flag football. Try out the plays, they work pretty well.