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Show HN: I want to find the best of everything (my weekend project)
Hey HN! I built this over the weekend. It is basically an extremely rudimentary crowd sourced recommendation system for anything in any city. I know that I could easily look this information up on Yelp but I thought it might be nicer to simply look up something like "the best steak in new york" and get that information.

The database is almost empty but if you look up the "best coffee in ann arbor" you'll get a result which I seeded. Go ahead and contribute what you can. Ill be adding CAPTCHAs soon to prevent spammers.

Here is the link: http://www.krowd.me
I think in some way he was all of those things and none of them at the same time.
You need some kind of focus to really learn things.

Like the above poster says, theres simply too much to really just take it all in (not that you couldn't, it's just... if you really wanna learn, you need to start small).

Think of a specific web app, then try to learn all the ways you can use various pieces of HTML5 to build it.

The DiveIntoHtml5 link that both of us provided is an excellent place to start, once you have an area of study in mind.
try making a canvas game from scratch. Or start with a html5 game engine, dissect and hack it.
It looks to me more like indinero does accounting. I'm looking for some service to do my taxes. AM I right in thinking this?
Yes, and the people who do not understand or like Apple prefer to see the company and its products as the mystical results of one man.

Horace has presented the elements of the process clearly, but they are not interested in grasping it.
One could jump start one's thinking on this subject by reading Edward Glaeser's "Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier" (Reading Jane Jacobs seminal works can only help, too.)

"Cities, the dense agglomerations that dot the globe, have been the engines of innovation since Plato and Socrates bickered in an Athenian marketplace."

He also has section in the book assessing the "Rise of Silicon Valley", and makes the point the "innovation clusters in places like Silicon Valley because ideas cross corridors and streets more easily than continent and seas." And he points out an amazing correlation of the geographic proximity of patent citations. "...even in our information age, ideas are often geographically localized."

As the NYT book reviewer of Glaeser's work put it...
"Greater density is the goal: more people means more possibility."

Ergo, a greater density of people working in similar modalities means a greater possibility of achieving within those modalities. It also means that those working in other modalities can encounter difficulty getting support, especially when directly competing for resources with the dominant modality. (I.e., startups v financial services industry for programmers.)

What's different about NYC is that there are so many people in great density, that it's still possible to have vibrant secondary modalities that may never supplant the (multiple) dominant ones. It also means that there may be cross fertilization between modalities not possible in other innovation clusters.

What's different about Silicon Valley is that it's a "city" with a single dominant modality - tech (currently Internet) innovation & startups. You can walk entire blocks in NYC without running into someone involved in a tech startup, or go days without talking tech at a social engagement. That is almost unpossible in SV. So SV's advantage over NYC's shear density of people is a density of people operating in the same modality.

Lastly, there are many geographically distributed innovation clusters/startup hubs that each operate in a different modalities. PG is understandably writing about the types that occur in Silicon Valley, because that's what he's most familiar with. And, they produce undeniable, and very public, results!
Interestingly enough, the database is definitely copyrighted work in Europe. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right.
Creativity is the wrong word, the better word is "expression". To qualify for copyright protection, one must actually be expressing something beyond mere facts, not merely choosing from equally factual options. It is difficult to expand "America/New_York" into anything that is actually an expression coming from the almanac or the maintainer that isn't simply an objectively true fact. The closest I can come is "New York is an important, representative city in this time zone." and as expressions of something other than raw fact go, that's weak sauce. Anyone who claims that's not simply a fact would be doing so for the sole purpose of trying to argue a wedge issue in this specific context, not in good faith.
Wow, really nice!
I think there should be a way to remove a file once it is uploaded. Also, some notification if there are new messages.

But overall, looks great!
I hadn't. Thanks!
Can someone explain how this will affect me? Will my code break because the server is down or is this more of an issue for populating the time zone data for OS and language libraries?
Yep, it currently limits you to a 10G database size. Makes sense, though - SQL techniques like LIKE filters or joins really do require all of your data to be in memory with a very high-bandwidth, low latency interconnect - ie, it all has to be in memory on a single box.

This is the reason the datastore forbids these operations - because they're extremely difficult to efficiently implement and still scale indefinitely (without making other, potentially very large sacrifices).
Not sure if any IP lawyers are reading and could comment. Would it be helpful to a case like this to crowd-source finding prior published art for the specific ACS references in the files? This would be ideal for something like Groklaw to pick up.
From the link I posted:

"In regard to collections of facts, O'Connor states that copyright can only apply to the creative aspects of collection: the creative choice of what data to include or exclude, the order and style in which the information is presented, etc., but not on the information itself. If Feist were to take the directory and rearrange them it would destroy the copyright owned in the data."

Please don't make me copy and paste the whole article, or worse, the whole ruling in here.
Actually, there's a lot of work being done, as we speak to change the situation on various levels. In 2013 I believe there will be a public tender for a "National Public Transport Data Warehouse", 9292ov will be supervising it I think, not bidding though.

Then there's the openOV project, a new project bringing together data from lots of sources and talking to lots of transport companies and agencies. Most transport tenders include a clause requiring data to be supplied to "national journey planners", so there's hope. Just today they're working on GTFS feeds for most of the Netherlands.

The Dutch Railways (NS) now has an API but it's mainly consumer facing data, and nothing truely helpful.

tl;dr: Our transit APIs are stuck in 2005 but making headway.
Flagged for being a wildly inaccurate, inflammatory headline.
First Time seeing a Google search Error
You get MySQL instances, just like Amazon RDS. All the limitations of MySQL in the real world still apply.
Essentially, your OS provider, if it uses this database, will likely choose to cease distributing tzdata until the disputed data is removed / replaced.

Very short term, no big deal. Longer term, it could be a big deal if this leads to fragmentation and inconsistencies in tzdata.
I'll just put this here: http://www.shoeboxed.com

Does InDinero do their own receipt processing? Or are they leveraging a third-party service like Shoeboxed? Just curious.
wow... that's high praise. if only i could create like I write. :-)
Why? He can always claim it's meant to be a parody, and thus should be safe. Or not?
thanks BF
... and then create some more
Green Voice of Freedom site gets blocked in Iran following cyber attacks
Is that you Steve Ballmer?
Discipline and the Job Search Process
worked fine for me.
Keep up the good work Andrew.
Premium subscriber here. Totally worth it.

Video, certainly is the future of content. And you're leading the way, for us hackers.

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I've gotta say this. Your interviews have evolved since when you'd started -- true signs of progress.

Also, I've noticed a consistent enthusiasm and energy in your newer interviews. Passion is contagious.

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One more thing...
I'd love it if you'd do a little 'here's something thing I'd love to see built' segment. (like Fred Wilson often does)

Where you could elaborate on ideas you'd love to see improved/built. And the hacker community would respond, with swift ferocity.
(Poor) translation of article from Persian:
http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fa&...
No. The only way to be a bad guy is to exploit the vulnerability. He didn't do anything wrong, he did something very right that most people couldn't and wouldn't have done, and he was rebuffed for it.

It's not like they're owed this. If not for this good guy wasting his time trying to contact them and publishing this they'd have probably been vulnerable for years.

The person in the thread who made the call could only have done so with the help of the initial disclosure. He couldn't have helped make Amex more secure until the security researcher showed him how.

Now Amex is more secure than yesterday.
I tried sedulou and sedulous in both classic and SSL Google and it did not work
Mom, Give Me the Keys
Congrats to the Palantir team. Some of the smartest folks I've encountered and a very inspiring and important product. The technical challenges these guys have tackled are impressive.
Except every Django project I've done last several years is PostgreSQL not MySQL.

And I assume still all the other issues; e.g background tasks, processing time.
What? It sounds like you're making up a bunch of excuses as to why you can't start this or that.

You didn't miss any "good ol' days" because you create your own through sheer effort and persistence.

There are plenty of ways to dive in to whatever you want to accomplish, so stop making excuses and just do it.
mmm, I'd have to try pretty hard to laugh at that one.
Writing Javascript that minifies without making it unreadable
An old-school cryonicist watches 'Castle'
honestly, after what happened last time, this

Cloud SQL is available free of charge for now, and we will publish pricing at least 30 days before charging for it.

Seems a lot less nice.
Fixed

Please don't do that.
There's only one useful way to handle your detractors
Make a Change by Donating your Timeshare
Your operating system (and likely your programming language too) have local copies. You just won't get updates until this is all sorted out.
You definitely have a point though in many cases we aren't interested in the user's actual identify. MyID is mostly aimed at developers who have multiple applications but need to know the actual unique number of devices they're installed on. This is particularly important to advertisers who may have many different applications.
Request HN: A Steve t-shirt with proceeds donated to cancer research
This is what I would love to see:

A shirt with a great B&W Jobs silhouette on the front, maybe stylized a bit, and a quote, maybe 'stay hungry. stay foolish'.

Sell the shirts for $40 and give all proceeds after cost to cancer research. The whole internet would buy one. I think you can shirts done for about $10/pop en masse.

Does anyone in the community have relationships with printers & designers to make this happen? And/or a cancer non-profit that could spearhead & take the donations? I can be the logistics organizer and contact person: paul@paulitex.com

Would really love to see this happen.
I can very well imagine our culture stagnating if individuals were able to live indefinitely

That's shown me. I guess the death of myself, my loved ones, my friends, and all 7 billion humans alive today isn't so bad compared to the sheer horror of culture staying the same.

Where's your perspective?

In short, we don't know what would happen, and it would be presumptuous to think that we do.

But it would be ridiculous to reject the idea of it based on speculation that it might not be possible.

Our plunder of the world's resources and our destruction of the environment

Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish. This self-flagellating viewpoint isn't winning points from a kindly jury. We can't "destroy" the environment or "plunder" the world's resource. All the stuff we've dug up is still in the universe, there is still an environment, and largely it's still the same as it ever was.

There was vastly more severe environmental change happening outside the time of humans than there has been during it, and we don't talk about the time the crust cooled and set as "the great environmental destruction", do we? Or when oxygen levels dropped, or when the earth warmed and ice ages finished? Or when plants appeared and took over the earth?

They were all enormous changes, yet today it's "greenhouse gases and global warming, oh we're so sorry, we're really horrible, we deserve a punishment".

may very well leave the planet unsuitable for human life.

Then we should probably fix that, not prostrate ourselves and play who's the most cynical and holier-than-thou games.

This is the idea that I was addressing in my first post, that of course the species does and should take precedent over the individual.

Of course it does? I refute that. We, the living humans on this planet, take precedence over all future, potential, hypothetical humans by virtue of our existence and their non-existance. Of course we do, any other view is ridiculous. Can you imagine "women and children first" changing to "imaginary hypothetical people first, women and children second"? No.
Uh oh. Hopefully someone made a copy! :)
This would only affect people right now if a timezone change was made by some government somewhere in the world and a change needed to be made to the database files and published so all the software which embeds it could update.

If the site remains down, mailing list members would simply discuss and post the change that needed to be made and software embedding the files and OS vendors would need to update manually.

tl;dr Nothing is going to change anytime soon.
Unfortunately, this scenario is being played out all over the world. We had similar revelations in New Zealand a while ago. http://www.nzcs.org.nz/newsletter/article/119

It's disgusting, but not surprising. US has been desperately attempting to export it's draconian grip on copyright to the rest of the world at all costs for quite a while now.
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but a reserved instance for a year is $227, which is not far from $15 a month.
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Any computer, anywhere, in any programming language, on any platform uses it because it's the only one there is.
Steve Jobs Biography Pushed Up to Oct. 24, Pre-Orders Skyrocket
I don't see how it's a loan at all. The grant will never be repaid. The US just gifted them a bunch of tanks (or money, however you look at it). If it's a loan, who has to pay back?
Are you the Man of a Million Excuses?
Ways your social networking profile can help get you a job
No no, see my comment. They don't project directly onto the object, and they use a number of projectors, each of which will correspond to an "angle" that you see. Sure they might not have enough pixels to mimic exactly what you see in the real world, but they can probably get decently close.

Also, with regard to your comment about making pixels look different depending on the angle, there's an alternate approach to this using stacked LCDs that's getting interesting results.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~mhirsch/hr3d/
People's opinions about Apple in 1985 (Video)
PBS NewsHour report in 1985 wondering if Apple could continue to stay in business.
> ...meant something different to each of us, and for the vast majority it's just fantasy.

This is true of just about everything.
Although it's more substantiated than, say, Groupon's, this valuation still seems crazy to me.
Ron Gilbert remembers Steve Jobs
Agree completely. Yerba Buena Gardens anyone? http://g.co/maps/wy2se

The whole thing is contrived and smacks of just the sort of prying, cultish obsession with the private lives of celebrities that Steve Jobs treated with scorn. If it wasn't appropriate to write crap like this when he was alive, I don't see why it is now that he's dead.
Nope, you're not the only one. Funny thing is that every time I saw their name, I felt this vague sense of distaste in the back of my brain somewhere, but I couldn't remember why. You just reminded me of the reason.
There are many other naming conventions that could have been used such as "Pacific Standard Time" or "PST" but the author chose to name the time zones based on popular/well-known geographical locations as their timezone names, not merely their descriptions. That is why its arguably creative.

In hindsight this seems like commonsense. But maybe not when it was designed. I'm personally against these kind of litigations. But if its purely based on interpreting the law, then this could be argued to be creative/expressive.

Again, I'm not even sure that the premise is even true. That is the litigation might not even be about the naming convention.
I'll register the domain stevejobstshirt.org and get a splash page up asap if this gets any traction
I'm really curious how they implemented this. They say "data is replicated synchronously to multiple data centers." Synchronously MySQL replication over a WAN is pretty impressive. As others have said, this post doesn't mention scalability.
The data itself could be based on creative choices. For example: deciding the timezones for disputed territories, handling ambiguous historical date changes, the divisions of territories into timezones etc.

These are creative decisions, I worked at a largish tech company which developed it's own timezone database and it's a non-trivial process to decide how to divide geographic locations into timezones. A lot of locations you have to pre-emptively allocate a timezone, not because they have a different timezone from their surrounding area, but because they might at some point in the future have one.

The American Atlas (the work under debate) divides Indiana into 345 different areas and gives a timezone history for each one, but there are literally millions of ways you could have subdivided Indiana and ended up with different areas, it comes down to arbitrary decisions on how you group together different timezone changes. The 345 different areas were presumably chosen based upon a creative process.
If synchronized clocks are a problem, I wonder why they don't race the neutrino against a photon. Obviously the photon would have to take a different path - maybe bouncing off a satellite.

I wonder how accurate the GPS synchronization is too. I'm wondering if it takes into account different atmospheric conditions and the index of refraction of radio waves in air.
The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight [Psychology]
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Steve Jobs interview: One-on-one in 1995
A New Incubator Model Pairs Startups With Established Companies
I was anticipating this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080812
Let me rephrase: you'd hope they would know...
Thought I'd share another startup tools list, primarily focused on dev/web/mobile: http://www.tapdom.com/resources/startup-tools
same issue. most of the time its google tho. their business is based on it and theyre good at it.
The Next Steve Jobs (And the Last One)
I didn't see any references to ways by which one might use the special JDBC driver to access one's hosted MySQL data. It would be cute to create an app which proxies JDBC calls so that developers can use TOAD/DBViz/whatever to manipulate remote data. Such a driver might also be useful for one-off schema migration tasks. Did I miss something?
I missed it too and so I downvoted your post.

HN being a site full of entrepeneurs I often see concepts about society and rights where I feel sick in my stomach, so your post did not seem very unusual to me.
Clever logo but butt ugly.
Ask HN: Review our Project, NodeFly
Link: https://nodefly.com

Basically we are building a hosted monitoring solution that looks at the machine, OS and application services levels.

We have a great group of beta testers but would relish some more feedback.
Each time something like this comes down the pipe, I click over one notch more GNU/FSF.
In Praise of Bad Steve
This is a link to the full book, apparently, presented as images (ick); the review on the first screen is just a review/summary, don't be fooled. Looks worth reading so far.
An API would be great for us since it would let us to run our tests against all web browsers by making some http requests. Wouldn't it be revolutionary?
Do the videos have to be uploaded by a conference organizer, or could I add a bunch of talks from CCC in Berlin? They're Creative Commons licensed, but I'm not associated with the conference myself.
As long as you don't lose accuracy, sure. I think many of these crossed that line. They remind me of the tendency for bloggers to make a link-bait headline that obviously sounds bad, then they spend their whole post redefining what those words mean so at the end, their title is a good thing.
Copyright issues aside, I'd pay $40 for this with that slogan as a poster: http://mlkshk.com/p/80ZI
ways with an s. its called english :-)
unfortunately many just misread it because the comment emits criticism.
user seems like the usual "life improvement" spammer
Google Cloud SQL
Many, many LCDs still use fluorescent backlights. Turning that backlight on and off prematurely ages the lamp. Just like a CRT, you want to turn it off (put it into sleep) when the cost of the electricity outweighs the cost to lamp life -- e.g. overnight.

You should always have a screensaver, even if it's just "blank screen," for when you lock your workstation for short periods.
HP on track to introduce flash replacement in 2013
Reading this, makes his legacy make all the more sense, and one might imagine taking such massive chances and bets. Inspiring and sobering.
This. No mention or link in any of the public facing pages (I think I've done everything but sign up) is something that I as a consumer will see as: "They're trying to hide it, they must be super expensive".

I know my company would be willing to pay up to $50 monthly for something like this, but without having to give you my email address I don't see why I would want to deal with you.

If your plan/plans are 50+ then I guess you did make a good choice after all :)
Get angry?

its really easy to sit about and get angry, perhaps post some stuff on the internet, real change only happens with action.
OldNewThing: Why can't I move the Program Files directory via the unattend file?
Thanks! It's so good to see that it shows.

The other thing I'm noticing is that guests trust me more. Founders who aren't as experienced as Eric will let me spend up to an hour pre-interviewing them so we can hunt for the right ideas to include.

And thanks for the AVC idea.
I found 2 mistakes in Basecamp. There is a free plan and the cheapest one is $24/mo.
Sony nearing deal to move cellphone operations in house, buy out Ericsson's half
Here's a suggestion for the publishing category:

eBookBurn (https://ebookburn.com/)

which is run by my startup.
Hi, why don't you drop an email at support@browserstack.com with your idea as we have some similar ideas cooking up.
Your entire argument rests on the premises that (a) it is better to have people misbehave and then sue them than to have them behave in the first place, and (b) this isn't dissuading anyone, it's just moving them to a different medium. I don't buy your theory in either case, and even if the latter is true, you're just arguing that HADOPI works when it has a target in its sights so they should be empowered to go after "shady services for streaming" as well as the P2P networks they are currently mandated to investigate.
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