skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the main difference between this and the Evernote app is the speed search that updates results realtime? I realize this is an MVP and please pardon my ignorance but why would I use this instead of Evernote (This is not a troll attempt, I'm not an avid user of evernote yet but have been using it more and more recently)?
Its a tried and true strategy if there wasnt a better strategy. Amazon doesnt need to create their own hardware. They are doing just fine selling Ebooks via their iPad and android apps. Low overhead, more profit. Selling their own hardware does not provide any value add to the customers, all it does it reduce their margins and profit. People already buy ebooks via their apps.

People are talking like this is a good move by bezos. It's not.
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True, though I'd still rather work for someone who's been in the trenches than a "career-long manager" who has never seen the front-lines, in any form.

And this isn't a straw man either - I've met way too many people who hopped straight into management and never did their time in the trenches. Invariably they are disconnected from reality.
It was already adapted for deployment on dotcloud! https://github.com/miyagawa/hubot-dotcloud
> .. creating pirates of them.

People choose to become 'pirates' because no one is forcing them to play video games. They have choices—pay for a game, don't play a game (A horrible thing to suggest, I know) or get a game without paying for it (Often called pirating). It's always amused me that people seem to speak of playing videogames as some right that they have and how dare anyone take that away from them.
I found out the hard way that Citibank when they put a hold on funds processed by credit/debit until they clear (say I bought a candy bar for $1.50) they do not pay out of those funds. They release the funds back into the account, where if I was 1 cent short they would charge an overdraft even though the day before they were holding those funds which I thought innocently would go to pay for the candy bar. The good news now even though they send me overdraft notices they stopped charging the overdraft fees for at least this type of transaction.
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I don't have a 4S because I'm on the other upgrade cycle. i.e. I got the 4 at launch. After the initial "cool" factor I think Siri makes sense in certain situations, like when driving. I would love to have access to my iPhone by speaking to it while driving.
Grad students are probably somewhat cheaper than developers too

Actually, the cost of funding a grad student is surprisingly large. If you're a professor with an external grant, then the first thing that happens is that the university takes some off the top (around 40%) which is supposed to pay for all the office space, admin staff, and so forth that you and your group get. Then you've gotta pay the tuition for the grad student on top of what you're paying them... meaning (so I hear) that it's no more expensive to hire a postdoc making $50K than a grad student making $25K. And of course the cost of a $50K postdoc is isn't $50K, it's close to $100K once all the random other costs are taken into account. So in the end, you need at least $100K in research funding for each grad student-year.
To add to this, the article mentions that "All types of scientific projects will be considered for support". There are some interesting things coming out of life sciences for example which at the moment may be too far out for VC investment. I wonder how many projects they intend to support at any one time.
you already know the answer. you just want us to give it to you in better sounding words.

we don't have crystal balls. fact of the matter is. if you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. go for it. calculate whats the most viable way and don't wast time .
Sound like you are on the right track, and increasing your technical chops is definitely a good way to get to where you want to be or to at least give a better impression to potential future partners.

That said, sounds like from this line:

>I want to make sure if I do leave my job it's the right thing to do and that I don't spend months without an income and end up with nothing to show for it.

..that you are not ready to quit your job yet. It's a fairly high probability that this is exactly what will happen. If you aren't comfortable with that fact, then you don't have the risk tolerance necessary to go for this. At the least though, I can say that if you do go through with it, no matter the outcome, I highly doubt you will think you 'wasted your time'. If you look at the report-backs on HN of those who have failed, almost everyone has learned some skills and life lessons that made up for the experience.
by calculate i mean money wise. financials are scary but they have to be dealt with.
Bird game seems to be a little broken....
It's hard to fault them. They've got to pay off those huge student loans somehow...
You're correct. I tried this with my girlfriend's 4S this evening—if the screen is on and you hold the phone to your ear, you will hear the ding prompting you to start speaking.
Are you speaking from experience, or from what you've heard?

I don't know much about NIH funding, but if you're looking for funding from (say) NSF, DOE or DARPA it doesn't have to be that "safe" except in the sense that they really want you to produce something publishable... not necessarily particularly useful. I figure that any worthwhile research project ought to be able to be massaged into a form where you're producing something worth publishing regardless of what happens.

NIH might be different, due to the larger and more expensive scale of these sorts of projects.
They do and it is a pain. There is a way around it though. You can use Steams website to buy games. Use http://store.steampowered.com/?cc=XX where XX is the two letter country code you have access to. They still check address and payment details match but this does allow you to use paypal.

The sooner the content world gets rid of silly region restrictions the better we will all be. It is ridiculous that even with trade agreements North American companies insist on charging non-US customers more for a usually sub-par service.
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Yeah, how about losing money on every book sold back when they started? It seemed to work for them.
My terminology may not be the best. But to put it simply, if you do an experiment and that experiment says that there is no correlation, then to within the limits of your knowledge that there is no correlation, you can also say that there is no causation. Whether those limits are based on your experimental design, external factors, or what have you, is a separate (but completely interesting) question.
This is precisely why I have USAA as my bank.

I was originally going to get a Wells Fargo account, but that changed when I decided to go to uni in Florida - before the wachovia merger happened. My father decided that not being able to keep tabs on my account was a dealbreaker, so I ended up getting a USAA account.

Worked out for the best, because USAA has some of the best customer service in the industry.
If you are using HipChat, I already ported part of the code. It should be usable. But, this can be made better.

https://github.com/siong1987/hubot/tree/hipchat
This is what I was thinking. It's difficult to imagine the sort of scientific project which would simultaneously be:

a) Too early-stage for traditional funding agencies, and yet

b) Sufficiently small that you can make significant progress for $350K (let alone $50K!)
I'd be interested to know the stats on how many people have had overdraft fees and never let it happen again (or seldom) vs. those who get them routinely.

It's happened to me. Once. Never again.
I think most people get that as a line item on their $450,000 house.
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Was Dennis Ritchie more important than Steve Jobs?
Siri is a nice technology (though, after having seen 3 attempted uses, I have yet to see it work), but the sell-hardware-backed-by-nice-software/services is not some revolutionary business model; further, often, it's not one that is sustainable for long. The problem is that as the non-hardware costs start to become material, the pressure mounts to show that they are actually related to hardware sales; now they are distributed across hardware sales as a per-unit transfer cost and become a cost-center; now investors and organizational politics begin to pay attention and the model of buy-random-shit-and-claim-it-is-accretive begins to sour.

This is why it is so hard to do hardware and software together. There are few examples of long term success in hardware/software and Apple is certainly not one of them (except in the '00s). IBM is one. But, if one area of the business takes off, the pressure to drop the other is immense (see Thinkpad and HP's current flail-ures). As XCode users will recall, there are also issues with adding significant value to past purchasers: if you paid $100 for a product that had $20 of awesome value added later by an upgrade, the company who took your $100 of cash should only be able to recognize $80 of revenue now.
Well, let's face it -- it's not like banks actually make money any other way out of checking accounts. Any bank account with less than... I dunno, $50K in it... is probably costing the bank far more than it's worth. The bank ain't a charity.
Computer, tell me a joke.

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Orange?

Orange who?

Orange you glad you bought a Power Macintosh?

Oh sorry, I was amused at how Apple is marketing early 90s technology as amazing in 2011.
Some apps like Google Docs require you to install the app for offline usage.

I use apps to integrate them into Gnome Shell. I can press super+"gm"+enter to open up Gmail, or "cal" for the calendar, etc.

There's no reason that you couldn't use this for bookmarks, but I guess Chrome apps allow for larger icons...

Despite my usage, I'd agree that it's essentially just an ideological push by Google to convince consumers that the internet is a viable computing platform in its own right. This computing platform - would you believe it - consists largely of Google's own apps (but it doesn't have to).
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"Cases of rape and murder could be quelled substantially through better economic opportunities and greater access to healthcare, including abortions. Bad men usually had bad upbringings."

This isn't necessarily the case. There are plenty of rapists and murderers that came from a good home. It's hard to say why some people do bad things.

Bad upbringing is usually caused by bad parenting. You can't force a parent to spend time with their child or be there for them.

Some people also just shouldn't be parents. They pass on terrible traits that result in criminals.

"We probably can do better as a species, but we need to address all of the issues of the human condition with compassion, research, and empathy, not with guns and cages."

You make it sound so simple. We will always need guns and cages because no matter how much health care and good upbringing a person has, there will still be criminals.

Look at Norway as an example. Everyone has free health care, easy access to abortions, and the unemployment rate is ~3%. Prisoners are treated very well there and the prison systems are some of the best in the world (if I was a criminal, I would probably move to Norway). Here is an article about it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1384308/Norw...

By taking away "guns and cages" you will only hurt the honest people in this world. They are there for our protection and no amount of compassion or empathy will prevent our need for them.
It's true that this is predatory. It's also notable that if banks don't reach out to poor people with free checking and the like, the federal government gets on their case for being "discriminatory".

This isn't to absolve any banks, but rather to mock the federal government and their chronic flailing about while trying to control the financial sector(+). It's shades of the same mindset which led to subprime mortgages being subsidized, purchased by the million by Fannie Mae and the FHA. "Banks are a bunch of meanies. They ought to do charity instead."

(+) and this isn't to say that the sector couldn't use a little control, just that the Feds aren't proving themselves very competent at it.
I just bought this and really like the Notational Velocity concept. I need an iPhone note taking app with offline support so this falls down in that area at the moment. If you added offline support and TextExpander support this could easily be my most used notes app.
Totally agreed.

"Well, since Moore's law makes computation really cheap, let's just give away the computation, but keep the data."[1]

[1] - http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip
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I don't think it's how much the account has in it, these days, half so much as the amount of payments they put on their check card. Cash flow and merchant fees are where it's at.
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There are more honorable ways to make money than to label something as 'free' and then attempt to incorporate as many hidden fees as possible.
I never said it was a guarantee to make millions, just that I think over a programmer's career it is comparatively likely to make $5-50M working at a startup than starting your own, and you will be net happier on average by working at a startup than starting your own.

Also, many startups these days do pay market rates. Weebly certainly does. The startups that don't pay market are generally sub-10 people and you get an even higher equity grant for that.

Regardless, joining a startup is obviously a gamble and very far from a sure thing, but at the end of the day, so is starting your own startup.
More profit selling for iPad and android apps is not a given. People that buy Kindles probably end up buying more books -- and there's also more lock-in.
There are many advantages of plain text over a proprietary format like Evernotes. http://www.macworld.com/article/161549/2011/08/forget_fancy_... is a good start.

Using plain text is supremely portable, lightweight and robust.
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The statement you're quibbling with — "free-of-charge online services ad-free" — is unassailable. Anyone signing up for iCloud with the intention of using it for data sync (contacts, calendars, browser bookmarks), and/or application data, and/or the ability to track, lock, and wipe lost devices, will be hard-pressed to exceed the free 5GB.

Sure, iTunes Match or syncing several devices directly to iCloud might induce a heavy user to pay for more, but iCloud remains a bona-fide free service for the vast majority of its customers.
Come to Heyzap to meet us and other great mobile hackers.

We are going to have burritos being made on demand and potentially a web luminary or two (or just me)
Hmm... I guess I have to just think about what I meant by "nothing to show for it" to really think as to if I'll be okay leaving my job now and then looking back at what I accomplished. I think the way I worded it was too vague.

I realize I won't be raking in money or something. Hell, perhaps I won't even have my MVP close to implemented after those months. However, I'm completely content if I feel that I've made good progress in terms of my learning to code and being close to my goal of creating an MVP (which is really my main goal right now, learning to code being the path to that).

I guess I just want advice from you guys, as hackers, to someone who can just do HTML and CSS. Is it worthwhile to leave my job to learn code. Can I ever be proficient enough for a future tech co-founder or investor to care?

I guess if I learn enough to create MVP and gain traction, then that answers my question. Thanks for that reply, it helped me think that phrase through a little clearer. If I decide to leave, I'll have to keep my expectations on my accomplishments reasonable.
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You thought someone invented a perpetual motion machine?
I'm looking for an iPhone extension to Notational Velocity.

Does this create .txt files? Can I set which folder it saves to so it shares with notational?
"Apple doesn't do search!"

They really didn't do AI until a few weeks ago either. And they didn't do music until they did music. Would you really be shocked if one of the headlines tomorrow morning was that Duck Duck Go was acquired by Apple?
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Battery life reportedly improves when this feature is turned off, due to Siri's constant monitoring of the accelerometer.
Same here... I was with KeyBank for a while too and had this happen. Fifth Third is even worse about it.
Ha. When I think about it... that is exactly what I want. It's just a tough decision. Even if I know I ultimately want to leave and pursue this full time, being that I've never done something like this before, it's nice to get some on it thoughts, whether reassuring or against what I'm thinking, just to help me.

Ultimately, what I have to lose is just potential income. My job is one that (especially in NYC) is in demand and I have the qualifications to get another job if things went south, so I'm not really afraid of being out of a job if I needed money.

To be honest, I really never want to go back to what I'm doing anyway. I don't know if anyone else feels like this at times, but every moment I slave away I think about how much I could be accomplishing if I could use my time how I wanted to use it. The job sucked before I had that nagging thought... now it becomes unbearable at times.
I'm just bummed that he stopped the experiment before Mr Jose Fuentes got involved.
From hosting/attending open houses for the past 2 years, we've seen:

networking, hiring, advice, socializing/drinking, partying

If you like hanging out with smart people, the open house is the place to be.
I was able to get fees like this reversed once, but not before I got a very demeaning, public, and personal lecture about personal responsibility from the banker. To quote from the BankSimple article, "After that, I said some bad words."
The article isn't making an argument that he is evil. The argument is that he shouldn't necessarily be put on a pedestal as a person to model your behavour on.

Half way through the biography and there are plenty of more sinister examples of behaviour (e.g. denying paternity).

However, I believe the term is "flawed genius". The world is a better place when a few of them succeed! Of course, an unsuccessful flawed genius is better known as an "unbearable asshole".
Yeah, tell me, how much are those electrons costing the bank, again?

Unless they're also giving you free checks, that's pretty much the cost. A human being will rarely look at anything. Everything is handled by automated computer systems.
10 i = i + 1

20 IF i > 99999 THEN i = 0: PRINT ".";: GOTO 10

30 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10

40 PRINT "Line:", i

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...

God says...

Line 1989

any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind
him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took
the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his
son.

22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is
said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

http://www.losethos.com/doc/AENotes.html

http://www.losethos.com/files/G.zip

http://www.losethos.com/files/Text/

http://www.losethos.com/files/Text/BIBLE.TXT

http://www.losethos.com/comics/

God says...
C:\TEXT\BIBLE.TXT

gone down from his
shadow, and have left him.

31:13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all
the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: 31:14 To the end
that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their
height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither
their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they
are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the
midst of the children of men, with them t

-------

"I own all the beasts of the fields; I know all the birds of the Heavens; Offer praise as your sacrifice."

"It is love that I desire, not sacrifice; knowledge of God not holocausts."

The point of Cain and Abel is... they loved God and He talked. Have you figured-out anything God likes and does not like? I do Moses comics. He likes those. I do hymns. He likes those.

http://www.losethos.com/hymns.html

He doesn't like my drumming.

Do you know what God likes and does not like?

God says...
C:\TEXT\BIBLE.TXT

12:13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my
snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans;
yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to
help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

12:15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter
them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

12:16 But I will leave a few men of the
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Crazy good list of usernames and passwords. MD5 is so weak it should take only a few weeks to brute force everything on that list.
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- How many months of savings do you have?

- How much selling do you have to do to break even?

- How long do you have until you get that much selling?

That gives you the numbers.

Coding is not as easy as some make it sound (nor as hard as other make it sound). If you get the functionality working to a degree where customers are paying for it and sticking around, you probably can find a techie to revamp it.

Personally, I am sufficiently risk averse that for most products I've thought of, I'd have to see cash incoming before I quit my job.
Hm, and just a few weeks ago Thiel was predicting the "end of the future": http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278758/end-future-pet...

Bipolar much?
This doesn't change the fact that she has to talk out loud. I don't like to take personal calls at work, either. I usually go out into the hall or somewhere more private. I don't think this is rare behavior.
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Good insight. As to your point -- keeping up many indexes with MyISAM or InnoDB is definitely a problem, especially if the indexes grow too big for RAM. In these cases, TokuDB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TokuDB), a drop in storage engine replacement for MySQL, can help by replacing dated B-tree technology with more modern Fractal Tree indexes, since B-trees suffer in performance with high insertion rates (especially random insertions) into disk. By allowing for faster write performance, Fractal Tree engines allow for more indexes to be maintained, and hence better query performance can be obtained.