skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bringing it closer to home, and admirably demonstrating my pedantry, every other thread on HN contains, to me, nonsensical extensions to words, such as: "build out" for build, "abstract away" for abstract, and so on, there are hundreds of these "why use one good word when two will mess it up real good".
Dislike. Advertising is what gives cities their unique visual culture. We associate different typographic 'looks' with different cities. Where would Miami be without its bold, ostentatious signage? Where would New York City be without its iconic frankin gothic and gotham centered visual culture?
I've been a paying subscriber for a few months. It's hit and miss. The value you get really depends on how well the information lines up with your particular business model.

A lot of the courses feel more like product demos ("here's the hard way to do it, or you could just sign up for my service, look how easy it is"). Not that they're worthless, but it's hard to give impartial advice and pitch your product at the same time.

(And you can't really expect people to just give away their best secrets. The best tricks are the ones that would stop working if everyone was doing it...)

That said, a few of the courses have inspired me to explore ideas I would have otherwise dismissed, and some of those ideas have worked out pretty well. Ultimately, $25/month is not a lot, if I bring in one extra sale, I've made a profit.

Just don't expect pre-packaged miracles.
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Administrative penalty of a fine (ranging from 5 to 15 basic units) may be imposed on officials of the centers for collective use of the web services (computer clubs, Internet cafes, home networking,
Another thing usually missing in comparisons with European countries is that all of Europe benefits from America inventing/pioneering so much stuff that they can adopt.
That is true, and I agree with it. If that's what you meant, I apologize. My post came more out of annoyance that you kept adding more info with the "And OK"-label, which partially changed your initial stance.
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The Jekyll wiki at github and the example pages there provide quite a lot of useful examples including plugins such as SASS and HAML compilers, category archives or comments (using Disqus)

If you want to tinker with Jekyll more, I would recommend looking into Octopress, which is a blogging framework based on Jekyll, that offers a lot of advanced features and plugins not available in plain Jekyll...

[octopress]: http://octopress.org/
I didn't say I accept that the stats are fabricated - I don't know. I'm quite sure that the SGAE are totally corrupt, but equally I'm sure that piracy is rampant here to a degree I have never seen anywhere else (I've lived in Spain for 6 years BTW). My friends never buy any music and generally joke about how much they pirate. I know a lot of people from different walks of life and this is totally widespread in my experience. You can write it off as anecdotal if you like (or you could provide some stats to the contrary) but I'm sure it's true.
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Man, thats setting the bar pretty high
Thanks, I stopped reading after your comment.
Ask PG: What metrics are you looking at to improve HN? 
For example, are you personally keeping track of comments that get down-voted to zero? Have you loaded any honeypots as previously discussed? In addition, what seems to work and what doesn't?
I fail to see how that Stalman quote applies there. I may be missing something, but how the question what openness or closedness of software has really (I mean really not some hypthetical "possibly maybe somewhere in the future") to do with SOPA. I thought Internet runs pretty much on open source…
Or is this now fashionable to bring Stallman into anything even remotely related, because he is like bible "open to interpretation"?
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That's nice and everything, but I'm really not interested in Tom Sepper's opinion on proper etiquette. I'm just curious about what happened, thanks.
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I don't think anyone has suggested copying Scandinavian solutions to the US.

Pasi Sahlberg goes out of his way to emphasize that his book Finnish Lessons is not meant as a how-to guide for fixing the education systems of other countries.

What the article says is you can't use the differences in immigration to blanket-deny all other findings. The US and Finland have their socio-economic issues but the Finnish school system has been able to diminish their effect on education outcomes.
Politifact isn't exactly the beacon of truth it purports to be either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politifact - the SNL business was particularly odd
This is a great interview. But, the guy that started Zaarly worked at an organization for a few years that allowed him to get in contact with huge stars with lots of followers. He even mentioned emailing Ashton Kutcher well before starting Zaarly.

This is similar to how Kevin Rose was able to get Digg insanely popular within a short amount of time (through Cnet).

The morale of the story? Know how to utilize your connections.

The idea is genius and I can see why it's successful. It fills a very real need that otherwise hasn't been filled with services like Craigslist and Ebay.
Totalitarian governments were doing this kind of photo editing long before the days of PhotoShop. There's a wonderful story on the first page of Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", which reads as follows:

In February 1948, Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to address the hundreds of thousands of citizens packed into Old Town Square. It was a crucial moment in Czech history - a fateful moment of the kind that occurs once or twice in a millennium.

Gottwald was flanked by his comrades, with Clementis standing next to him. There were snow flurries, it was cold, and Gottwald was bareheaded. The solicitous Clementis took off his fur hat and set it on Gottwald's head.

The Party propaganda section put out hundreds of thousands of copies of the photograph taken on that balcony with Gottwald, a fur cap on his head and comrades at his side, speaking to the nation. On that balcony the history of Communist Czechoslovakia was born. Every child knew the photograph from posters, schoolbooks, and museums.

Four years later, Clementis was charged with treason and hanged. The propaganda section immediately airbrushed him from history and, obviously, from all photographs. Ever since, Gottwald has stood on that balcony alone. Where Clementis once stood, there is only bare palace wall. All that remains of Clementis is the cap on Gottwald's head.'

[What are apparently the two versions of this photo can be seen at the bottom of this page: http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/central_eastern_eu...]
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If there are other apps such as this one people should talk about them more. Plus, give them a poor review on the AppStore and delete the application. There's no reason to have a poorly written application on your device.
Interview with California mom about her "DIY home"
Ask HN:Is it useful to have DnB number for a early stage tech startup?
Do you have one? Did you find it useful? If yes, what scenarios?
домашние сети is really not home networking. It's like an LAN used in several apartments of one or several houses.

So if you're using ADSL (yeah we mostly use it here in Belarus), that shouldn't apply to you.

Just saying.
"His only computer is a Lemote Yeelong netbook, because it's the only computer which uses only Free software - no firmware blobs, no proprietary BIOS; it's all Free." Interesting that it's made in China. I'm trying to reconcile the implications of that... http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.htm...
Doomsday 2012?
This webpage causes my chrome to lock up and my laptop fan to go on full strength. Heavy HEAVY social media and user tracking javascript.
You don't get a signal handler; there's no opportunity to execute code.
I love this video and how in-depth it details her hacking, her can-do and positive nature, and her plans for the future. I'm curious how she schools her kids.
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Interesting take. I read the parent comment to mean, 'note who signed the OSnews article', which is Thom Holwerda, whose name I'm sorry to admit I'm unfamiliar with.
Not surprising. Everything is made in China these days. ;-)
As per the small handful of photos included in the blog. Recent Sao Paulo photos on Flickr would suggest otherwise.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=S%C3%A3o+Paulo&s=rec
The apparent mindset that the grandparent manifests is antithetical to the very principles that USA is founded upon. This is not a nation of personality cults; our system is based on checks and balances. (That was the whole point!)

The fact that he signed it and issued that anti-American --- see above -- statement makes the act even more repugnant.
Can't fully test the free vs. paid as "we are closed for the 2011....", but I am not sure how uncomfortable was it to go free option versus paid (eg. big site logo on the free printout). Maybe the free option should be slightly more painful to make users consider paying?
I've wrestled with this, personally. Honestly, I think it's hard to tell what's viable and what's not when it's your baby, and you've been living and breathing it for months.

The standard that I hold myself to is whether or not the product provides value to the user or customer. Does it do something new or interesting that someone (besides your team) cares about, or is it just the first part of something that you hope will provide value? It's tempting to jump the gun, and I think honesty on the part of those around you can help keep you from releasing a minimum, non-viable, product.
The Internet has destroyed many Brick and mortar businesses because you don't have to pay for the infrastructure.

Amazon also has some of the lowest prices I've seen anywhere. Some of the prices are barely above the cost directly from China (I've done some research on this). This might be because of the volume.

Technology leaves many businesses in the dust. If you don't adapt, prepare to slowly die.
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A product is "viable" if it generates enough value for a group of customers that they find it worth paying for.

The "minimum viable" product is the product that does the minimum set of things to be viable.

Viability and quality are usually orthogonal concerns. Viability and polish are especially likely to be orthogonal.

There are markets you can serve in which polish matters a great deal. Not coincidentally, these are markets covered carefully by people like Robert Scoble. Whether you're going to need to genuflect to Scoble's notion of your "viability" is an important question to address when choosing the market you want to serve.
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Take a look at Jason Shen (and others)' startup, Ridejoy. Its geared towards ride sharing, not carpooling, but uses the business model you're talking about

http://ridejoy.com/
It's Ruby only (including Rails, of course) but I've been running http://jobs.rubyinside.com/ for the last few years.

It looks formulaic on the surface (due to being run by Simply Hired) but we've run a few hundred ads from folks like Scribd, TechCrunch, Expedia and New Relic, and all listings get sent out in an issue of Ruby Weekly (10k subscribers) too.

To balance it out, the folks at http://toprubyjobs.com/ are running a Ruby and Rails job board too. It's cheaper than mine but gets you into the Ruby5 podcast I believe.
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One problem with software you don't have control over is that anything is subpoenable. We don't have to wait for the government to impose their own tracking mechanisms, because as soon as they get probable cause, that's it (which includes missing a finger, having >7 days food supply at home, if you believe Rand Paul anyway). Or just look up Google's government transparency report[1]. When you don't have control over your data, it's just a warrant/polite request away from the government.

Not all government access to private data is bad. After all, it's needed to stop things like child prostitution/pornography rings, and yeah, terrorism. But what I liked so much about this article was putting the slippery slope into perspective. It's easy enough to quote the transparency report, "The number of user data requests we received increased by 29% compared to the previous reporting period." and go "well - just 29%" but that's one year. I'll make the surprising bet it doesn't go down. Compare to three decades ago, and a lot of what's happening now seemed draconian then.

[1] http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/
This is exactly who I mean. People seem to have short memories.

"A Nobel Peace Prize winner?"

For doing what exactly? This actually makes me question the entire Nobel Peace Prize program.
You may trust him, but, being signed into law, such provisions requires you to trust each and every successor of his until a contrary provision becomes law.
The author ignores the power and idiocy of public unions in public education. Anyone interested in this topic should really watch the movie "Waiting for Superman".
Yeah. It's super ironic to read all the "these socialist solutions of small nations can't scale for big US". And then from the other side "this silly anarchistic free-trade capitalistic solution can't scale for mighty China."

I thought Europeans had the "not-invented-here" syndrome.
I have exactly this problem with our product, and have known for over a year what the solution is. If you can't tell whether your product is viable, talk to its prospective customers until you can.

Unfortunately, this is awfully hard for nerds like us to do. One way I know this to be true is by watching people who have an easy time of it hustle through customer meetings, taking a product idea from zero to "purchase order" with nothing but some static web pages.
Ask HN: Does anyone have statistics on incubators?
I have looked at the numbers for YC and Techstars, but after that I can find very little public info.

http://yclist.com/
http://www.techstars.com/companies/results/

I'm interested if there is anything similar for the founders institute or 500 Startups that I'm missing.

I'd also love to see numbers for any other incubator/accelerator programs that are available.

Or if you went through a program or are associated with one, I'd appreciate information on the number of companies that went through the program and the number that got follow on funding, and the average investment.
Anybody knows if there will be a chance to make apps for the nano in the next half-year?
For more background and some interviews of business owners there, see Morgan Spurlock's movie, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. He's the guy who did Supersize Me and some tv shows.

He traveled to São Paulo and this movie shows footage of the city. I learned of the city's ban from that movie.

(Edit: thanks Icebrain for correcting my spelling)
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Why am I down voted?

My laptop HD was encrypted, it got corrupted, and I lost the entire drive. If even a few bytes are corrupted, you are SOL.

Luckily, I had an offsite backup (unencrypted) I'm just warning people about the dangers of not keeping an unecrypted backup.
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I've found myself in the same situation on more than one occasion. This will come in handy.

FYI: You forgot the ".com" in the URL you linked to in your comment.
The problem with Flrghx.ly is not that it isn't fleshed out and it's not that it isn't polished. It's that it's not likely to be a viable business.

Plenty of businesses have bootstrapped to customers with nothing but vapor. I've been on (extremely good) teams that got their ass handed to them in version 3.0 by vapor pitches.

These are really orthogonal issues. How complete your product is, how polished it is, how few bugs it have, these things usually have less of an impact on your "viability" than nerds think it does (unless you're serving nerds, graphic designers, or competing with Twitter).
> It's worth noting that Obama, upon signing, issued a signing statement...

He originally promised not to sign it at all.

Obama has no cred.
The guy who also oversaw an economy that returned 401Ks to at least sane levels from -40% in 2007-8; the guy who actually said and then did get bin Laden; the guy who pushed for and signed a law that is as close to healthcare reform as anyone has gotten since Medicare was enacted almost 50 years ago; the guy who pulled us out of Iraq when the Republican candidate in 2008 said we should be there for 100 more years; the guy who has kept or compromised on over 200 campaign and administration promises?

You can talk of "change" like it's some concrete label you can bend to whatever cares you want, but remember you voted for a President, not a King.
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I agree that they've made errors, but they seem deserving of their fairly good reputation (not as high as, say, NYT).
The effect of immigrants on average scores is (% of immigrants) x (size of individual effect). Finland has minimized (% of immigrants), not (size of individual effect).

The only lesson the US can really draw from this is that if we reduced the number of immigrants we have, our average scores would go up. So what? Raising averages due to composition changes is pointless.
Excess of young talent? What the hell?

I live in Indy too, but it seems to me like we have a
serious crisis of talent here. At least people are lured to the bay area and boston by images of a metropolitan, modern lifestyle, outstanding culture, etc. We can't even get a modern bus system.

The "excess of young talent" claim is dubious at best, ditto for "more VC than anywhere in the US other than SF or Seattle". I'd really need to see some data supporting both of those claims.
Number types are meant to store numbers, not text. Even if you know the text will be just a subset of the alphabet (just 0-9) it is not a number.

Just a couple of problems: some day in the future the field could need another character beyond 0-9. In Spain National Identity Numbers were once just numbers, but they changed and added a letter for validation. If you had stored this as a number you would need to change data types, and suffer a massive application update.

Another problem: if you order a number field you get something like 1, 5, 100, 2000. But if you order a text field you would get 1, 100, 2000, 5. It's not nice to get the "number" order when you are expecting a "text" order.
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They appear to have changed it, at least online. Now I'm seeing "In Flop of H.P. TouchPad, an Object Lesson for the Tech Sector"
I guess the logic behind that decision is that unsuspending an app and allowing it to run arbitrary code while the system is in a low memory condition will take memory.

Because of that, the likely effect of informing swapped-out processes that they will be killed is an avalanche of suspend/unsuspend events, resulting in an unresponsive sytem, similar to the effect of VM trashing.
That benchmark is with a stock Apple SSD, which IIRC are not Sandforce-based. To be clear, I'm actually in agreement with Anand and OP - the benefits of FDE far outweigh the consequential I/O hit.
I think that the idea of a MVP makes sense outside of commercial development, so I disagree that viable := people find it worth paying for. It's easy to extend it to something like viable := people find it worth using or contributing or participating.
I think the main flaw is that, no matter how popular GPL software becomes, it doesn't stop the government from saying "your machines need to run this closed-source software in order to be used or sold in this country".
It kind of says everything is fine, for now. It's disappointing and scary he signed it - like I said a couple days ago, very bad legislation is contagious and some idiot will propose a similar provision elsewhere.

And, since this stupid idea is the law now, consider very carefully who you vote for. Whoever sits in the oval office after your next presidential election will have much more power than usual.
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"There are plenty of organisations that would derive value from setting up nodes."

I don't think it would ever get to the current levels without some sort of centralization, which costs money.

"Universities would. I'd imagine it coming as a free addon to email services and other subscription services."

Possibly, but what if you aren't part of a University?
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In the beginning, companies like Nintendo sat on the throne of video games. Then another Japanese giant called Sony appeared. The giant produced its own console called the PlayStation in 1995. Sony and PlayStation are household names today, thanks to the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. Gamers loved them both, but it wasn’t mainly due to the ability to play music or DVDs. They loved both because of the numerous AAA titles. Games such as Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy X were enough alone for some consumers to purchase the consoles, other less noted video games like Crash Bandicoot and Rogue Galaxy were a bonus; icing on the cake. Because of this, Sony dominated the system wars for two generations. They look to do the same in the coming years, to go back to the roots of what made the PS1 and PS2 great, which is games. However, the light dimmed with the release of the PS3.
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And how does he know there are no "firmware blobs"?
3rd Paragraph
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/...

Skip to about 0:25 where the fun stuff starts.
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It will probably be a while until they give it to a president of a nation in war again.