skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tutorials/how-tos about building a business plan should heed their own advice and make sure they understand THEIR market.

There are business plans for internal use, for startups talking to angels, for startups targeting growth, for one-man efforts to start a florist shop, for PE firms, for showing to various different types of people, etc, etc, etc.

You should always customize your document for the target to whom you are sending it.
> Glad to see they're acting more mature these days.

They still intend to port Hadoop to Windows. There is little to prevent extending it.
Over the last few decades, NYC has seen significant gentrification and urban revival, particularly in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn. This, with other factors, made it a very attractive place to live. This brought people. Talented people.

The more talented people you have in a concentrated area, the more things 'happen' on a regular basis. It is a culmination of a multitude of factors that is only now bearing fruit.

It isn't so much that new venture capital sources are fueling new business creation in NYC. More along the lines of new business creation attracting existing venture capital sources to NYC.
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What are you proud of?
There are DVD ISOs made with exactly that, plus some extra goodies like Inkscape, GIMP, etc.
Links in the submission:

http://www.featurepop.com/feature_pop

http://www.featurepop.com/hacker_news

http://www.featurepop.com
You can't empathize? You can't give them a little slack? They didn't spend enough time testing the demo of the OS on a browser for your liking? They were probably busy building an operating system. If their core competency was website building, you would have a point. But in this case you're just being pedant.
I'm very pleased for Duck Duck Go. Lots of things about Google are frustrating, and it's great to have an alternative.

They're not quite there, but I hope they manage it soon.
... a year and a half ago.
The funny thing is that DuckDuckGo will at some point have to ditch their "Carbon Ads" in favor of Google's Paid Ad Feed. Basically, DDG will become a super affiliate of Google.
I normally don't comment on things.

I think a lot of people are missing the point. The nature of Company x and y is irrelevant, the issue is interchangeable.

Hacker News used to be a community devoid of emotional outbursts and when they occurred they were thought out, thought provoking and well articulated. Smart comments. Only smart comments were up-voted.

This wasn't and it was at the top. It's indicative of the direction HN is going.

(For intensive purposes x in this case is Monsanto and y is Cloudant.)
That's a bad summary. They ban you in a way that you don't realise you've been bannedd till you look for signs that you have.

My blog got banned from there too. I only posted links from my personal blog there and never participated in any other discussions, so that might be why.

But why the sneakiness? They could just be up-front about it.
Yes... it'll go from 0.5% to 0.5%, just like every other year!

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/269/90181549.png
Seems to be this acc. http://www.reddit.com/user/MarkDennehy/submitted/
Sorry, I got the headline wrong and I've now edited it. I went from the article to read a couple of other pages from the links and picked the wrong figure when I came back to submit.

Thanks for picking that up.
I wonder if unity can work on my recent laptop. It has a recent nvidia and like most of these, it has the optimus "feature" which for now requires the hackish bumblebee.

It has been years since I had to go in the xorg.conf file, that was the main reason I switched from debian to ubuntu. That is the only feature I wish of any Ubuntu release. Can someone tell me if it has now been implemented ? From the release notes, they don't seem to mention it.
Apple's Siri has criminal tendencies
The developer's guide to browser adoption rates
Reddit does secret hellbans? That's awful! I'm glad I hang out on HN instead.

EDIT: Arc seems to have eaten my <sarcasm> tags. Truly an inferior-lisp.
This is a one-year old story. What's the "news" angle?
This is pretty old. Here's the discussion about this on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/bbc58/silently_b...
I used this for 5 minutes a while ago, realized you couldn't get rid of that odious sidebar and wrote it off permanently. Why on earth designers would prevent users from reconfiguring their screen is beyond me. Even if they fixed it, you still have to wonder about their overall judgement.
It's so they can silently stop the spammers from creating many accounts if the bot/spammer thinks that their account is working fine. HN does/did the same thing iirc.
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Looks really cool. Needs some tweaking in areas with a lot of high rises (like Manhattan). The perspective + fading + faux shadows of all the high buildings can make making out the streets difficult in some places. But shiny.
Glad to see that I am not the only one who liked the hockey puck mouse.
Sort of. It is a spam fighting measure, I believe. Pretty sure similar techniques are used here.
Imagine you have a troll providing lots of noise but little signal.

You just ban them, and give them a notice saying "You're banned". What do you think they're going to do? They just change IP, register again, and carry on.

Now imagine that you hellban them. Or just start introducing errors and delays into their posting. What do you think they do? They carry on trolling, but no-one else is disturbed by it.
In general, I stay away (and recommend others do the same) from graphic subsystems that require extensive hacking to properly work under Linux. Buying computers with them rewards manufacturers who do half-assed work - they pocketed your money after all.

It's not like notebooks equipped with Intel graphics are more expensive or hard to find. Or that it would be an insane amount of work to provide functional (even if not fully-functional) Linux drivers for their product lines.
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I think what you are claiming is disingenuous, if this was actually the issue then they could easily set some lower income bound on having to collect the tax (eg $10mil/year or something). It's not the mom & pop stores selling stuff online that the government is worried about; it's Amazon and other huge online retailers.

Amazon is able to handle the import duties for dozens and dozens of countries, each of which have complex rules that depend heavily on the actual product. Sales tax is strictly easier than what they are already doing, and saying that it is too complex for them to handle is simply absurd.
Camtasia will record a screencap video.. It can't do a full interactive demo like this.

Also it will export the videos to more than Flash.
Because they use questionable tactics.

While you can't be seen to buy your competitors internal phone book from a disgruntled ex-employee and cold-call of their developers, you can use a recruiter who does that and thus get the same benefit without the reputational and legal risk the first approach would involve.
Looks a lot like Windows 7
Looks spammy to me.
I was with Amazon in the past. I am no authority but I would come to a similar conclusion. Till end of 07, Amazon.com barely used AWS
Check if Optimus can be disabled in the BIOS. It often can.
A great lightweight solution to a universal problem -- there's simply no way to fully test an app for all the possible environmental conditions that might cause errors (prior to a release). I like that the SDK is microscopic and doesn't require apps to ship with debug symbols. Debug symbols can increase the size of an app exponentially, so this is a huge space saver. Wayne and Jeff know software, and I wouldn't expect anything less than an elegant utility that does what is needed, and doesn't bloat up the app and cause errors of its own. I expect great things from these guys.
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I've barely touched reddit and cannot speak for them, but I do run large forums and can speak for why I silently ban.

Most forum software has the notion of "Send to Coventry".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_to_Coventry

I send people to coventry when I feel that they are unlikely to change their behaviour were I to inform them that their behaviour is going to lead to a permaban.

Specifically, if people are spamming and trolling, they get sent there without notification. In my experience, any spammer or troll is simply going to redouble their efforts if they become aware that they're going to be banned... but if they think they are successfully spamming and trolling then they quietly move along.

The harder bit is determining whether a spammer or troll is a spammer or troll.

There are the obvious spammers (penis enlargement, viagra, etc) and obvious trolls (Slashdot has had some famous ones). But what of someone who wants to sell something and is just over-enthusiastic, and lacking in netiquette?

That's where it's harder, but once you get to a certain size and you're dealing with perhaps hundreds of reported posts per day, then you're quite likely to be more heavy-handed, and less polite when you're working your way through the backlog.

That's when you offend someone who actually would've reacted well to just being spoken to.

So that's the why... and the problem is probably more indicative of a stretched set of moderators.
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Going meta ...

There's a penalty on HN for items that don't have a link. You would be better served to write up your text on a web page and submit a link to it. Work hard on getting the submission title text right, and submit when the site is busy, but not swamped.

Your "landing page" can then have the links in it, and you can include screenshots as to why it's useful and/or interesting. In short, sell it, otherwise most likely no one here will notice.
What about HTML Indentation that Doesn’t Suck, as you wrote in "Coming home to VIM?"
Ubuntu 11.10
This was addressed a year ago:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/bbc58/silently_b...
It's an interesting idea, but when I attempt to add a feature I get an error message - "Validation failed: Time estimate is invalid".
By the way, this is actually less then Shopify theme designers make. http://themes.shopify.com
This isn't really news.

Reddit does do 'shadow-bans' in the case of egregious spammers. Moderators are soon going to be able to do temporary, sub-reddit specific shadowbans as well.

Looking at his account (http://www.reddit.com/user/MarkDennehy/submitted/), he looks like a spammer. He only submits links to his own sites, and rarely comments.

Scrolling down through his submission history, I can see (for the subreddits I moderate, such as /r/business), that his submissions have an incredibly high rate of spam-filter failure (meaning that they get caught by the automated spam filter and never shown.) This is because they look like spam.

The point of Reddit is to submit interesting and informative links, as well as participate in discourse; not repeatedly submit your own articles to as many subreddits as possible.

If you look like a spammer, and talk like a spammer... well....
As well as how much material, you have to wonder how much marketing he puts in to getting the sales.

To be honest, I wouldn't be interested in the median author/designer. They're most likely putting little to no effort in to promoting their work. Discovering the level of interest you need to create to get near the top earners would be interesting.

Orman doesn't have very many themes on the site, but he does do a lot of off-site promotion on his blog (and perhaps elsewhere) and give away a lot of material as part of that. That could be a huge time-cost, but may be well worth it from his point of view given the earnings.

I may not have read it closely enough, but I couldn't work out how much of his earnings came from selling his own themes on the site, and how much came from the affiliate income he earned from selling other people's themes when the entry point to the site has included his affiliate code. That affiliate income could really add up if he's sending plenty of traffic their way.
what are these activities? producing GMOs? high yield crops have enabled the feeding of hundreds of millions if not billions of people who would otherwise died of starvation.
That surprises me a little; I would think that plain Debian would be better for server use.
My question is if he didn't create a language like C, would someone else have? Was it such a leap from existing languages?
Ask HN: Can an Iphone app just link to a website?
I've created an HTML5 website which when viewed on the Iphone, is able to mimic the look and feel of a native app. Is there anyway to create an Iphone app that can be submitted to the app store, where the only functionality is that it launches the site?

Basically, I need the end user to not be able to tell that they are working with a website instead of a native app.
Original post was a PDF file. This was posted to showcase Pllop, a solution for creating responsive websites.
Sales and lead generation is huge, I buy quite a few themes from ThemeForest, you seriously going to hunt around the net to 100 different sites where each author has 10 themes. Marketing has a cost and keeping an audience is very valuable
This must be a joke, HN auto [dead]s all my submissions now. Even deaded an article from my blog that got 11 upvotes before it was deaded
I can't go back to Unity until it supports three monitors (with Xinerama). I know compiz won't support this, but even Unity2d doesn't work well at the moment, and 11.10 broke basic functionality in Gnome Classic. I switched to KDE a few weeks ago and it worked across the three monitors with zero extra configuration. I've also been very impressed with the polish the environment seems to have gotten since I first tried 4 years ago. What was once riddled with bugs is now slick and very pragmatic.

When three monitor support comes along, I'll give Unity another shot, but for now, I'm on KDE.
Amazon doesn't just pay salary. I got salary, "signing bonuses", and stock. The overall compensation seems to be pretty good from what I can tell online. Then again, I could be lucky since my stock grant was near the bottom of the recession.
You might just be zoomed in. That's a sticky setting on Firefox -- I keep it zoomed one or two steps up on Firefox for comfortable reading, and the demo didn't quite fit on my screen.

Return to default zoom (Ctrl/Cmd+0) and it works fine.
I've found that my interactive resume has been really praised upon, so it seems it does work. You will need a doc version of it as some people do require it. I would give it a try, have a designer make it look pretty and you are all set! (If you aren't a designer yourself)
Ah, I finally figured that out actually. There were 2 problems:

* Some of the elements aren't considered for indentation, but they should be. You just have the edit the HTML syntax that comes with Vim to add them to the list.

* I was actually using Django templates, and the tags weren't being considered for indentation. I wrote a little syntax file for those based on the ERB one: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src/1b6ffba66e9f/vim/bund...
Duck Duck Go raises round with Union Square Ventures and Joshua Schachter
How advances in neuroscience are demystifying the markets
I'm just trying to understand this move.. DDG has been running with ~1 dev for 3 years.. I know that they were adding a second dev, but why raise capital? I don't see what this gets them, over continuing as a lifestyle bus.
I quickly used DDG for the first time for some searches and you guys place WAY too much emphasis on exact query match domains. Also, including .com.au addresses in a local search when I'm in the US is probably not a lot of help.

Best of luck.
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Thanks! We really wanted to make sure our users get the best of both worlds - we symbolicate crash reports, provide device insights, and much more, without forcing devs to ship with debug symbols (which ends up bloating their app).
Yes, a university city can be a plus... but I still have time to think this through ;)
I'm using FF7 on a XP machine at 1280x1024 and it works fine.
Hear me out.

(1) I don't think you would be interested in the answers to those questions if the article was about an ordinary man. The only redeeming feature of the story is that it's about a famous genius that died recently. Remove that and tell me that story isn't inane.

(2) You're attempting to study the character of a man whose work interests you. It has turned out that his character is that of an ordinary man who acts with humanity. This is completely unsurprising but you assert that this is 'interesting'. The belief that this story is significant and unusual is utterly unbelievable to me. It suggests that many people believe that those that are considered geniuses or visionaries are somehow completely different from normal men and may not socialize or empathize with others in the same way as a normal human being.

(3) The really interesting thing about this thread is that there are so many people that (a) are trying to judge his character -- I believe that this might be because we seek our highest values in celebrities, (b) believe that they can analyze his character from just a few recounted events, (c) elevate leaders to the level that they need to be deliberately humanized with stories for others to realize that they're "just like you and me".

Please help me understand how you and others think.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3105526
For me, the killer Google lockin is autocomplete-with-suggest in Chrome.

I've come to completely rely on Google suggest as I type search queries into my Chrome address bar.

I find that particularly when looking up API calls, I don't even need to execute a search, I just need to rely on the wisdom of what everyone else on the Internet is searching for.

Also, if just looking for the domain name for a company, you don't have to execute a search, just start typing the company name. That skips the whole results page, saving precious seconds hundreds of times per day.

I just tried switching to DDG and lasted all of 5 minutes because the lack of autocomplete.
I find it incredible that it is possible to raise $1 million for something with no revenues, little barrier to entry, and that can be written by a very good hacker or two in a few months... Maybe I'm missing something. Anyway, congrats to them!

I'm just wondering how much one could raise revenues doubling twice in the last 2 years and more than half a million expected in the next 12 months.
seems to be a lot more fun, than traditional voting...

i see this evolve into a great tool, but i'd consider re-branding it to fit the non-geek audience. :)

congrats!
No URLs, so you cant link to a part of it. Would rather have it on separate pages than this I am afraid...
Can't wait for the first standing-desks-chained-to-a-treadmill to pop up.
install CCSM : sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Open and search for Unity. Find options to mess with.
Can you fill me in on where this happened and what your input was? I'm not able to replicate your problem. The input for the number of days/months/years should be numeric, which I should probably not there somehow. Is that your problem?
In the past, people have cited the presence of Wall Street being the thing that prevented the 'pure tech' startup scene from developing - since Wall St paid developers too well.

The real eye-opener for me was how crowded and positive the Startup Weekend events have been in NYC : And the number of Meetups is staggering. It seems to me that some kind of critical mass has been achieved, and New York no longer feels like a staging area before moving to the Valley.
Platform does matter. There are softwares where 0-days are more frequent. Stuxnet targeted windows platforms and used 4 different 0-days. It took two years for it to reach its target. Therefore, if the platform that ran the target was fixing its security flaws in, say, 6 months, stuxnet would have failed.

Even on targeted attacks, you need the target to have a flaw to infect it, and this is not ideology to say that some software companies are longer to correct flaws than others.

A machine where Acrobat Reader, Internet Explorer 6/7 or Adobe Flash Player are installed is more likely to be infected. These packages should be banned. In fact, on a part of a military infrastucture, I would expect to find only software that have been flagged as decently secured.

Forbidding Windows may be a bit extreme, but I would expect the army to have strict security policies, especially regarding installable software. Any executable file not certified by the US army should not be executed on a sensitive computer. It should be enforced by a piece of software or hardware. The idea that any operator can bring a usb drive and execute a file on it seems like an incredible laxism.
Most likely the first trillionaire will be the person who sells the last few million barrels of oil.
This has always been my favorite part of the whole book:

"Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy."

It's quite a good book--the modern world of computing has been so strongly shaped by Unix that it's easy to forget that there are other ways. Of course, it makes me giggle when I read Lisp Machine programmers complaining about the size of Emacs (come on, guys, your machines took an hour to boot--I don't think your environments were especially small either), but it's nice to get some perspectives from outside the Gulag :) Reading the UHH led me to go poking around with old systems like ITS and TOPS-10 and VMS--mostly they just annoyed me, but I also learned some interesting things.
Hmmm, for me it's sufficient to note that California's policy and Silicon Valley's success are both unique (I think you vastly understate its success when you say "perhaps the biggest and highest-profile"). I think it's hard to argue that having the nation's most liquid market for talent was not significant.

There are probably a few other things that in combination were or are unique, I'm thinking good weather in the vicinity of 2 of the world's best EE and CS departments (Stanford and UC Berkeley). Other things like a culture more accepting of failure may have followed, though.
ok. wtf is going on. why does this story have 314 points? it's about a man taking a photo of a couple. Is this supposed to be a top quality post or what? Why does it matter that the man was Steve Jobs and not some random dude? Did you get more out of this story one way or the other? HN FAIL.
It says that the power output was higher.
Thanks for the tips! I probably could have picked a better day to release this - RIP Dennis Ritchie! I'll probably follow your suggestions at some point next week.
Judging from his submitted stories, it looks like he pretty much exclusively linked and x-posted to his own blog(s). (http://www.reddit.com/user/MarkDennehy/submitted/)

The FAQs DO have a section on that:

"It's not strictly forbidden to submit a link to a site that you own or otherwise benefit from in some way, but you should sort of consider yourself on thin ice. So please pay careful attention to the rest of these bullet points" http://www.reddit.com/help/faq#Whatconstitutesspam

Plus lots of the posts had 0 points, so it seems pretty conclusive to me.

And arguing the "more or less karma points"... come on. Really??? So not only did OP not read the FAQs, he doesn't know how reddit works and how many accounts the average redditor has.