skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely, I think it's the main thing I heard from speaking with investors; you have to be really authentic and the problem you're solving has to be personal.

It was what really helped Airbnb and Etsy make it through the struggles of building a true sustainable marketplace that impacts peoples lives. If not, it's just like another corporate job.

Feel free to check out RAVN, would love to hear your feedback. You can use my invite code JWU.
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I think you've highlighted one of the difficulties in this space. Nowadays, a lot of people expect any new ecommerce site to be some sort of deals site. It has become the default and you actually have to do work to show that you're not a deals site.
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Well, compare that to unboxing an Apple product. Like an iPad. Instantly, you have to enter your Apple ID, regardless if you bought it yourself. The device is a brick until this happens. Then, once the set up is complete, the device has zero sample content on there. No music in the music app. No videos. No eBooks. Arguably, the only sample content they provide is web access.

Sound familiar?
In that case, it sounds like a nice bonus for Prime members, but I'm not going to pay $80/year just to get one free book for a month that I have to return later.
I wonder how these points relate to the high satisfaction rate of iPhone users. Or maybe there's no relation at all?
How can you get sick of Costco food, it's so good!

In reality, good for you for realizing that it was a difficult sell in the first place. Innovative and sexy, yes, but I figured you would run into those problems before you mentioned it.

I love outdoor activities and nature getaways, and you were right: their websites are HORRIBLE.

However, creating a really easy way for them to have a website AND book through that website? Money.
I'm sure there's something to your explanation, but I don't think that you hit the target squarely.

It seems to me that in discussions about racism, what we're usually talking about is an "old white guys' club" that, through cronyism, manages to mostly keep out people other than white men. Even if it's true that geography tends to filter out low-quality immigrants from Asia, those high-quality ones would still be discriminated against by the white guys. The fact that this is not happening seems to show that the standard narrative of racism no longer holds water.
The fundamental misunderstanding in the article is that these redesigns are all for Google+. They aren't. Google is establishing a brand identity across all it's products- Google+ falls within that, but it isn't the cause of anything.

To be honest, I don't see anything in the article other than "I don't like change". They replaced the blues with reds? Yes, they did. It shouldn't have a dramatic effect on your productivity, should it? And the whitespace issue will go on forever, I suspect. Personally, I love the whitespace. Others do not.
The Future of Sentiment Analysis - an Interview
Hilarious. To bad more companies don't have a sense of humor. I think that's what is great about start-ups. The freedom to make jokes and actually enjoy your job.
Well, the webpage isn't moving, so...it's stationary.
Sorry, Mark. Facebook needed Silicon Valley
Trying to save time by using Dropbox instead of a real VCS is being penny wise and pound foolish.

VCS systems like hg and git are incredibly simple to use for any professional that already works with them. You only need to run one command to create a repository and one command to create a new branch. It isn't necessary to commit your changes after every save. Even a few commits per day can provide a lot of benefit.

If I'm working on a new feature I'd much rather use git to revert false starts rather than hunting through dropbox to revert my changes.

I don't know what sort of diff tools dropbox has, but it is super easy to run git's difftool and see a complete changset between different checkins.

That being said, Dropbox is nice to give you offsite backups for almost zero effort.
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Kicksend (YC S11) Grabs $1.8M From True Ventures For Dead Simple File Sharing
You should look into putting up a DMCA link sooner, rather than later. New file-sharing sites are often used by pirates.

EDIT: Now found such a link, under 'uploads'. It could be easier to find, under support for example.
VIM Macro example to open list of file and extract data
Nothing makes CC processors happier than many tiny transactions. Apple and Amazon defer and batch transactions in order to save a fortune on transaction fees, which traditionally involve a fixed cost on the order of tens of cents, plus a much smaller percentage of the total. It's a huge bite of a ~$1 purchase.
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Pepsi is running this crowdfunding experiment (refresheverything.com) in lieu of a Superbowl ad this year. My startup - with a mission to fund non-profit programs in aviation - is in the final voting phase for a $50K grant.

Lets demonstrate the power of HN and win: just send a text to 73774 with the message 109714 once per day through November. I don't have enough friends & family to win so if I do it will be purely through the power of HN. What should I do to thank HN after I win?
Developing the Applist User Interface
The easiest way to get into it is probably to use a creative coding framework (either Open Frameworks or Cinder.) They both have modules that wrap OpenNI and run on Windows and Mac OS X. Many of the more interesting Kinect hacks have been made with creative coding frameworks.
On Adding Personality - Buttons with a Surprise
Some basic skeleton elements would definitely be useful - even better if the chapter showing how to use basic tools within photoshop made use of these bundled elements e.g. it showed how to take the button and then apply different effects e.g. change its colour or give it a gradient
my co-founder were coding at the local library one day with vim full screen, and attracted the attention of the library security guards to come question him if he is "hacking" the library.
Does Apple really think it will have a monopoly in the years ahead?

Apple mostly produces software/services for their own hardware but they do have iCloud syncing for Windows as well.
I think the main reason accusations of "privilege" are easily ignored is that
it's impossible to quantify exactly how much privilege any one person possesses.

For instance, I (white, male, college-educated, Sagittarius) am offered a job
at a hot SV startup. According to the theory of privilege, I should credit my race and
background in having at least some part in that accomplishment. But how am I to know how much of the job offer was because of my "privilege" and how much was because I was actually the best candidate? Where does my privilege end and my actual talent and skill begin?

Now suppose I accept this theory. What is the expected behavior? I should turn
down the offer in hopes that they will hire someone else from a less-privileged
background? That strikes me as somewhat unrealistic.
There is much time spent creating detailed specs, clarifying the specs, reviewing delivered code then immediately demanding key improvements made to that code, replacing subpar developers

One could argue that this time would be well-spent even if your development team is in-house. The convenience of having all of your developers sitting in one room with you often leads to laziness and sloppy project management. When the customer service guys can approach an in-house developer immediately with a bug a customer reported, sometimes the bug gets fixed, committed, and deployed right away with no documentation. This makes for a great experience for that customer, and management can pat themselves on the back and call their team "agile" but imagine the alternative scenario.

Say that customer service rep has to create a detailed bug report with screenshots and steps to reproduce the error, and in the middle of the night (because of timezones) your outsourced dev fixes the bug and completes a post-mortem to close the ticket before committing and deploying. This leads to more organized processes, better documentation, etc.
Also, Storm is freely available as open-source software with a permissive license.
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Steve Jobs and the Founder’s Pain
Curious on the Delaware part, that's the first I've heard that "all investors" are going to "require" a Delaware formation.
You have to then mix in demographics. Apple has always targeted the 50+ market, most companies do infact target that bracket as its where the money is.

Off the top of my head the reasoning is because that demographic have paid the majority of there debts, kids have left home etc... The other main demographic is 20-30 people before they have locked in mortgages and are busy spending money on looking good trying to find a partner.

With that on board your statement is incorrect because you probably have another 10+ years before the metaphor starts to break down.

The next issue is the rebirth of kitsch. The hipster movement. People who are openly rejecting technology for a sense of realism. They are reinjecting the metaphor to a generation where it should be dying.

What you might find is your design is targeting the central demographic where there is no money to spend, and Apple is targeting the older and younger where the money is, and as I noted above where the metaphors do make sense.
If the App store becomes the only way to install applications, then its back to linux for me. I don't really see that as a horrible dystopian future. Even if Windows 8 hardware gets locked down, there will always be a market for linux boxes. Unless the government mandates otherwise, in which case we've got bigger problems.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3193544
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I originally signed up for Prime because it saved me money. Not because I was paying for a lot of fast shipping, but because I would frequently have a $10 item I wanted to purchase, and i would add $15-25 worth of stuff to get super saver shipping. With Prime I just buy what I want, when I want, and never worry about shipping costs or meeting a threshold for free shipping.
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Infografia seo
HBO Go now on Roku
Flash needed.
Yeah i was just about to say that, Lateral (Tech with Passion) had that really cool about us page for a very long time.
Human Psychology - Parts of the Brain
Studyhumanpsychology.com is such a great website. It will tell you everything you would ever want to know about human psychology.
The most awe inducing results during undergrad was Galois theory, but you need quite a bit of mechanics to be able to understand the proof.

But what was the essence of that awe?

For me, when I had that special feeling, it came from the flash of insight of seeing that this thing is like that thing. It was seeing mappings and patterns, and I think this can be conveyed to the novice without having to show something as complex as Galois theory.
Break a leg! What are your speaking on?
From a legal perspective this would actually be worse then doing nothing. You've now recognized a mark which "might" infringe and tacitly given your approval of such a mark. In a later trademark case (with a new third party) the third party would go "look OverbearingCo you were okay with these guys!".

OverbearingCo is better off doing nothing at all, and claiming they never knew about the infringing work.
What I got from this is to solve real problems. Do your customer development and validation, or you'll find out you have a product without customers.
It seems to me that the 43% rate is excessive on something that, as others have pointed out, is not a large income ($96,000 over 4 years -> $24k/year) - I don't know of any country where you'd pay that tax rate so soon. I assume this would happen if he gets all the money in one hit - so to me, it's not really "tax evasion" in the nasty sense to set up a company etc such that he pays tax on 4 years of $24k rather than one year of $96k. And personally, I'd find it more attractive if slightly less of the money wasn't going to go to the Italian government.

(I am not actually an expert in matters of the Italian tax system, so I guess it's possible that they all pay 43% tax on all income, although goodness knows how the country could be in such dire straits if that's the case)
See where I said "kinda sorta"?

If all the objects in the solar system were in exactly the same plane we'd have a solar eclipse every month. The moon's orbit, for instance, is inclined at five degrees to the ecliptic.
It's sad, really. I wish people wouldn't freak out to much about the weak laser pointers, but most people have no idea what the wattage is or why it matters, so the weak ones get lumped together in their minds with the dangerous ones.

And I fully agree with you: the general public has no business owning some of those lasers. I wish they would require that you have to prove that you have appropriate safety gear and know how to use it properly or something, because I feel like we're one stupid kid away from overburdensome restrictions that prevent even responsible folks from being able to use lasers without tons of red tape.
Interesting note about APPlist is that it's a feature that has been requested by some of Famigo's users. Parents said that they need an easier way to share apps.

Can anyone recommend an easier way?

(of note, this is a problem that was mentioned and discussed by Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/10/occupyappstore.html)
Hutchison calls for Senate to repeal net neutrality
Stephen Wolfram on the Power and Challenge of Big Data
news.ycombinator.com: http://jsfiddle.net/wesbos/xhTQC/
It’s Time to Declare John McCarthy Day – How About Sunday, November 13th?
The fun bit about Kindles being registered at the factory is that if you've ever bought a Kindle book before (on an old Kindle or an app) your books get pre-loaded as well. I wish they hadn't released a 3G-less model though; it's a major convenience boost (no need to even think about a network unless you're in a very remote bit of the country)
Well, you can also just watch the derivative? When's the last time the OS had a major feature that was aimed at developers? I remember the early OS X releases coming out with advance after advance. The rumored ZFS integration was the peak of this awesomeness... At least dtrace was integrated.

The last thing I've seen is transparently compressed files; not exactly exciting. I think we hit the peak around the leopard-snow leopard range.
wow,that is downright scary! That is why I use incognito mode.
Except that those people may not realize what's going on. When I checked the page in my default browser, Opera, I saw nothing (Doesn't work in IE 9 either). It wasn't until I read through the comments that I figured I should try it in Chrome.

I suppose, however, that people that hear about it will probably have people telling them that it only works in Chrome.

Once they do see it though, they may see what they are missing. I'm using WebGL on Google Maps and it's awesome. Now if they can just settle on a nice standard that works in every browser.
Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2011
I love my Kindle. One of the best tech buys in recent memory. The thing I want to be able to do is share books with my wife as if they were 'real books'. In other words, one of us at a time gets a lock on it, but there's no time limit.
IPhone 4S: OtterBox Impact Case is Minimalist
It doesn't work in Opera as well, and since I know Opera is an awesome browser, and such things do work on it if I "mask" it as Firefox, it only makes me avoid their services. One reason why I don't use Google+ at all is that the notifications don't work on Opera. But again, if I mask as Firefox, it work perfectly.
Very interesting, the chart show significant performance gain in IE 7, 8 etc compared to the previous jQuery version. Congratulations.
I wish they had the same "attention to detail" on their website. One reason I stopped buying from them was every time I went to the website I was bombarded for offers for Amazon Prime, Credits Cards, Free Shipping and other products.

The problem was that if I clicked on any of those offers the website would eventually work out I was a non-US user and tell me I wasn't eligible. But Amazon already knew that when they showed me the offers in the first place.

Any site that has 30% of their frontpage taunting me with cool stuff I can't buy obvious doesn't want me as a customer.
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> I hate vim because it has stopped advancing. It has not had a good update for 5 years.

Vim itself has stopped advancing, but there is an active community developing very useful and novel plugins. This has happened thanks to several plugin management systems that have arisen independently during the last couple of years.
Of course you don't pay $80/year just to access ~$120 worth of book content. You pay to also get free 2-day shipping, a large library of free streaming videos, and what we can assume will be a growing pile of other benefits as time passes.
This is the one I am referring to:

2.16 Apps that download or install additional code or resources to add functionality or change their primary purpose will be rejected

So I guess that you can have a plugin system as long as you don't provide an in-app way to download and install them, like Adium does?
abort();
What I meant to say. Way too long of a debugging session earlier...
Sexy captures the imagination, but good execution is decidedly unsexy. The hyperbole of the valley and it's entourage is a siren's song; don't let it suck you in.
You think the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wouldn't do its best to make this available to as many kids as they can?
This not strictly true: they are not going to require it. But many of them will be so much more more happy with you.
Actually, I'd say many successful entrepreneurs start not-so-confident. Me, for example. While I'm alright at appearing confident when needed, I would self-describe as shy, and I'm definitely not the classic outgoing, charming extrovert that fits the "cocky jerk entrepreneur" stereotype. Instead, I'm introverted, focused, generally try to avoid confrontation, and find many small talk networking situations quite stressful. And yet, now on my third company, I'm doing quite well.

And I know many other successful entrepreneurs - and I meet more every week through my work at GrantTree - and the best ones are not at all jerks. Some of them are outgoing extroverts, others are more withdrawn, but a quality they all tend to have is that they're friendly, approachable, polite, etc.

Now, Steve Jobs and Zuckerberg are really exceptions, I don't think you can base a general rule on them, but even Steve Jobs, if you want to take him as an example, made a very clear commitment to focus on his family. He had only 2 things to focus on: his family and Apple. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have reviewed contracts while having dinner with his wife. His entire attention and razor-sharp focus would be on her.

I'm reminded of something an Accenture partner I once worked with said. He liked working in financial services consulting because many people in the workplace are either competent and assholes, or nice people but incompetent, and he felt that either one without the other is unacceptable.

Whether or not that's true of FS consulting, I think it's true in general: just because you're really busy changing the world doesn't justify turning into an asshole. If you act like a jerk, you're a jerk, and that's that.
Here's a preview of the HTML5 game I've been slowly working on for a year: http://ektomarch.com/games/

I already have 50 levels made, most of which are the size of large Super Metroid rooms, and ~60 enemy types. I'm just overwhelmed with work lately and haven't been able to make much progress.
Works on my iPhone.... niccceee
I'm not surprised that Amazon is pushing Prime heavily- once you've got people paying a regular subscription (especially one as low as $80 a year) they'll rarely stop paying it.

I'm close to signing up. I tried the month free trial and enjoyed the shipping, but barely used the on demand video because there wasn't that much recent stuff on there that I could actually rent for free. I imagine that Amazon is quite committed to changing that.
Definitely a bug since "ascii art" one doesn't work in instant search.
Innovation is Dead.  It Was Killed By Innovation.
Should be clarified. This is for Kindle owners. Won't work with iOS Kindle App etc.
Nevermind diminishing returns, how about full circle? Eventually all of this abstraction will become so hard (and buggy) to maintain that we'll go back to using punch cards.
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So: I'm trading the need to cluefully and actively manage and audit my security group policies for... the need to cluefully and actively manage and audit an entire network topology? Which requires a lot more knowledge and moving parts, does it not? Can't you mess up your VPC configuration just as easily as you mess up security groups?

Just because various famous companies failed to properly audit their security group settings doesn't mean it's rocket science. It just means that they didn't notice the problem in advance.

Write a script that captures your SG policies and writes them to a file in some nice parseable format. The dumbest possible version of that might be:

ec2-describe-group | sort > /home/MY_SG_SETTINGS

where I threw in a `sort` because I don't know that ec2-describe-group returns rows in a consistent order.

Write another script that runs the above command every hour and yells loudly if the output ever changes. Wire that script to (e.g.) Nagios.

Now, use the time you've saved not implementing VPC to write some tests that attempt to connect to various important ports from outside your security group. Log lots of scary warnings if they ever succeed. Wire those to Nagios, too.

Unless your security groups are numerous and complicated, or your developers demand the power to open and close arbitrary ports on arbitrary machines seven times per working day, this would seem adequate for most use cases.

I know there are use cases for VPC, but it doesn't feel like this is one.
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> small details that delight get buried under small details that annoy

Must point that even Apple software/hardware have their own trivial features that prove to be annoying for some users (remember no right-click anyone?).

Amazon has achieved a very usable device with the Kindle in such a short foray into consumer electronics, for which Apple has had around 3 decades of experience to build on. Here's to hoping attention to detail and UX takes giant strides at Amazon improving upon what is already a very good product.
I've never understood why people install these types of extensions. It reminds me of the toolbar overload joke image:

http://jimcofer.com/personal/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/tool...

Aren't these kind of extensions all about tracking you anyway?
If there's a page or website you think is valuable then bookmark it. If you want to share it among multiple computer systems email the link to yourself.
I like the premise of "dead simple" file sharing, but it seems to me that the minute you start charging for the service, the "dead simple" moniker goes away (my wife, for example, would rather grab the nearest nerd than pull out a credit card to sign up for a file sharing service).

I ask because I don't see any way forward other than charging for space after a certain point, since you actively advertise no size limits. What am I missing?