skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My team of 8 eminent scientists are going to caffeinate tomatoes. We calculate, that among the YC classes alone, there is a $1 million market for tomatoes and a $5 million market for caffeine. We're going to be crazy profitable.
How any one can write a note card
Looks interesting, would be great to see screenshots/video of the actual product.
Hey Gabe, sorry to talk smack man.

Since it looks like you want to keep it simple and easy; for max compatibility, try just sans-serif. Sans-serif is Helvetica on a Mac, and Arial on a PC. Optima looks really bad at that small a font size, not to mention it looks terrible on a Mac (all smudged). Optima is not designed to be a web/display font.
Which part do you like the most? Do you need to communicate with customers? Or do you like the way the software let's you draw freely while still giving you benefits of software like copy&past?
Clojure: Creating a Custom Map Type
I'm just now leaving an apt and put up stuff on CL. Some of it I'm willing to give for free (donated a bunch to charities, but they won't take everything)

As long as someone takes care of moving out of my place, I'm happy. If it goes to someone like this guy who flips to make a living and support his family, that's cool with me.
perhaps it's possible to start a fresh engineering department that's run on these principles?

The key word there is department. GitHub is an engineering company, with engineers from top to bottom. It's extremely unlikely that an engineering department could live in isolation of it's company as a whole. So there would indeed be a PM screaming at someone to finish the internal CRM system and move onto something that the (non-engineer) customers really want.
We've already build a prototype. Now we would like to know which part of pentotype is needed most. How would it be useful for you?
The van I drive, a Toyota Sienna, gets pretty good gas mileage . I factor distance/time and what I will be able to sell the item(s) for before pulling the trigger. I listen to music and relax while driving around. I avoid rush hour traffic if at all possible. I drove approx 15-20k miles this past year picking items up and delivering them. It's by far the biggest cost. However, that's pretty much my only overhead, as I sell the items out of our garage/house for now. (I've gotten pretty good at knowing what will sell and what won't, so I stay away from items that I will have to sit on for a while or are difficult to store.)
Just applied. We all happened to be working together when we saw pg's tweet about it being open for applications, which is why we were able to get it in so quickly. Good luck to everyone applying.
Great! I have been working on a contribution for a little while now. Some of the C implementations are amazingly well written.
Awesome, thank you. We will definitely take you up on that offer.
I have a mortgage, yet go on vacation and buy nice stuff. Debt is OK if used wisely, paid wisely, and does not impose economic jeopardy (i.e.: net assets vs. net debt).
Yes, I said enough money for good hardware but not for software.

Why nobody uses Iphone, Xbox, Playstation, Gamecube in Poland? Because it is hard to jailbreak and pirate.

I know someone who bought Mac from UK. Disk wasn't erased, there were hundreds of mp3s in Itunes and some apps. And we all thought it is a computer from an abosolutely crazy richman.
10 Keys to Selling (Negotiation vs. Sales)
European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits
It would also be interesting to know what fraction of submissions ever hit the front page. Mine rarely seem to, and die a swift death.
Thanks for your feedback guys. Currently I am working at getting feedback at possible early adopters for my product and at this point sometimes it's just easier to get feedback by just asking :) There's nothing wrong with this method either. Also hansy I completely agree with you
The thing about legislation like ACTA is that countries are often pressured by the US to put it into place. Then, with a wave of the hand, American politicians argue that, "we must get in step with the rest of the world."
They are heavily using ExternalFileField - I don't think there's anything similar in ElasticSearch.
>It's not unusual for Olympic marathon runners to have higher body fat percentages than their sprinter compatriots.

It's not only unusual, it's unheard of! Elite marathoners have far lower levels of body fat than other athletes, with men clocking in at around 3%! Even unusually lean sprinters have about double that.

See the chart in this journal for a variety of athletes including marathoners compared (should be free for a few page views), p.764
http://books.google.co.kr/books?id=XOyjZX0Wxw4C&pg=PA764
The meme of 'they're better because at least they admit they're an arsehole' needs to die.
Maybe they are making a lot of money to the point where they don't need it the extra cash. I don't know who these guys are, so maybe they're doing really well, and if so good for them.

But balking at spending effort to maintain a $75k/yr business doesn't seem "hungry" enough to me. They tried to killing off the business and dropped their price, and instead they doubled the number of users. What??? How much more of a clue do they need that they really have a viable product here?

Any businessperson worth their salt would take this and start figuring out a way to build on it. What about get an MBA intern from Wharton and give them the project of figuring out how to grow the business? Hire a real entrepreneur and tell them if they can grow the business, you'd split the profits 50/50 with them.

I mean, come on. There's a real solid base there of people who were willing to pay for their service. The BEST solution was to shut it down? I can't believe it.
What language+package would YOU use to access OpenStreetMap API?
Set up a recursion:
1000x - .001 (repeating) = x

The .001 repeating = 1/999, simplify, voila.
I don't agree.

A little background:

I am a hospital systems designer and consultant. I actually built one of the first EHR clients for iPhone, before the iPad came out (Rejected from YC in 2009), I was the technology implementation manager for the new El Camino Hospital build, I was the primary technology designer for San Francisco General's new 850MM facility. I am consulting on the UCSF Mission Bay project for technology and transition, and the same for UTSW in Dallas. I am also the transition planner for a small 100MM facility in Nome Alaska.

In all of these projects I design and or consult on all aspects of technology implementation, use, training etc..

I even sent an RFP for EHR implementation to Dr. Chrono to see if you guys could step up to a larger facility ($5MM budget for that piece), I heard nothing back for weeks until after the deadline when I was then told that you couldn't respond - and then had a sales guy call me trying to get me to sign up as a physician.

Anyway -- getting a private practice of ~10 physicians to use your product is in no way a gateway to hospitals. They are completely different markets.

The EMR implementations in large hospitals are multi-million dollar implementations and they take ~18 months to accomplish.

The sheer number of workflows needed and the integrations with various systems are daunting and non-trivial.

You are going after a massively entrenched market with many many millions of dollars committed by all the customers

I fully hope that there can be a serious shakeup in health IT, but having some success with 1-10 physicians and then expecting to parlay that to hospitals with thousands of employees, or even hundreds (like in Nome) is a tall tale.

I think there are TONS of opportunity to disrupt healthcare, and DrChrono is a great app - it is just not mature enough or on scale enough to compete against the larger EHR market YET.

EDIT:

I'd like to add - that if you want to continue to build a free product, and you want to get into the larger scale EHR space - I suggest you partner with/learn from/attempt to implement on-top-of MedSphere's OpenVista EHR.

DrChrono has some great features - and if you make the capabilities more robust then you can get into this market more easily.

OpenVista is used widely outside the US as well, and this would be an opportunity to capture the Asian/Indian market.

Also, if you take some of the features you have (Voice Notes, etc) and offer them as a stand-alone-ish product - then you can attempt to get physicians already in large hospitals to use that product - not selling it as an EHR, but a needed tool, and expand from there.

If you stay away from the EHR/EMR moniker when infiltrating physicians in larger hospitals you'll more easily get under ITs radar.

Every hospital has iPad users already, and most are rolling out official IT support for them - so you need to get an app that physicians can use in parallel to their epic/siemens/cerner/eclypsis solution without pissing IT off.
> On HN you'll find people who are still somehow shocked that you can't out-of-the-box sideload a bootloader onto an iPhone (or whatever).

Not "shocked", but pissed off and outraged.

I really hate this default "I can't believe you're surprised that ..." response whenever someone brings something to their attention that worries or angers them. It's even on Cracked.com's list of most stupid Internet reactions:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-stupidest-internet-reactio...
Dart _has_ first class functions:

http://blog.sethladd.com/2011/12/learning-functions-for-dart...

What Gilad describes is a way to make an instance of a class to behave like a function.
Are investors crazy to bet on Nokia now? Probably
Ask HN: Programming contest exclusive to companies, interested?
We're planning to conduct a programming contest for a 3-4 hour duration focused on a particular company. The contest will have algorithmic & real-world problems that's relevant to their domain. Once the contest is done, the companies can then talk to the participants and invite potential candidates for on-site interviews.

If any of you're interested, please e-mail us at team AT interviewstreet DOT com, happy to set it up
So, someone who doesn't understand how to speak about profit correctly describues what happened under an eye-catching, surprising headline that turns out to be completely inaccurate and unsurprising.

Great story, guys. Let's see more of these.
I'm not a fan of loudmouth hipster programmers either.

But it's easy to see how a programmer was hired and came to work on a project he didn't like. He was hired to work on a project he was interested in, and was moved over to a project he dreads. They won't stay long though.

Which is the difference GH has from many other places: The work is interesting (to many). Therefor they have an easy time hiring and retaining good employees.
I am part of the team at Periscopic that produced this visualization for Yahoo!.

First, thank you everyone for the complements. I will pass them on to our designers and developers.

We are still working out some data issues with Yahoo!. This is why some of the stories are showing very few articles in the last 24hrs (they are two week old stories). Please bear with us and Yahoo! as we work out these kinks.

This is one in a series of visualizations we are producing for Yahoo!. You can see the two we have released so far here: http://beta.visualize.yahoo.com/.

We are in the process of creating two more visualizations for Yahoo!. Both of these will also be packed with more UI and HTML/CSS/JS goodness.
And seriously, why not a responsive design instead of having 3 different versions of the same site (normal, mobile, mini)?

Checkout Twitter Bootstrap 2 (uut next week) or Foundation. It will make your live so much easier, and the site will be a lot more readable.

http://www.markdotto.com/2012/01/24/bootstrap-2-ready-for-te...

and

http://foundation.zurb.com/
trello: https://trello.com
Yes this is what twisted's "interactions" are and how I talk about throwing rollbacking-exceptions and such in the article.

Yes, you do have to be careful about saturating links generally. The thundering herd thing is a rich man's problem :)
The most charitable explanation for this seems to be that they don't want to damage their brand by having a less-than-perfect product. Fine. So "spin it off", give it a new name, and then ignore it while it continues to generate revenue for years and years.

They're dramatically underestimating how much the average user dislikes change. It doesn't matter if Campaign Monitor is better -- some of your users would have gladly stuck with the old way simply because it's the old way, and they were probably pissed they had to learn something new.

Letting the product coast isn't cheating your users. It's simply offering them one more option.
I don't see why some consider this unethical and abusive to the CL community. It's just arbitrage; same as in Foreign Exchange markets. It tends to pop up because values are just opinions and to forget that leads to misdirection.
You are correct. Thanks for clarifying that. We are still working out some data issues.
I work on IBM's Infosphere Streams, and we can handle those latencies: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/streams/

You can also email me if you want to know more.
Your spot on with what I've been wrestling with over the past months. It's difficult, but possible. I did a trial with a friend in Houston and it worked out well. We made a little over $200 in a day on one laptop. Communication wise, it's definitely labor intensive at first as I'm trying to make wise decisions over the phone and looking at pictures.

It is possible to pull it off, it's just going to take a lot of work finding the right detail oriented/trustworthy person in another city that's in the right situation to pull it off. Hopefully in a year I'm writing about how I was able to scale it to multiple cities.

Thanks for the note!
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Ask HN: How do you scale your web app?
What methods and Techniques do you guys use to scale your web applications? What languages do you find are most scalable?
" but we wouldn't have nearly the extent of suburbs ... it shouldn't be the governments job to make car travel so cheap"

I think we're touching here some fundamental problems of governance and city-planning.

a) what should the role of goverment be?

b) cities dont have those clear-cut borders as administrations have (ultra-dense areas somewhat evolve into rural areas as you drive outside of a city)

c) thus multiple layers of government and morality are involved in shaping our cities

I think providing people with more choices is usually the better policy, thus suburbia has its right to stay. My experience though is, that in suburbia you often end up with the worst of both worlds: the crime, dirt, traffic and anonymity of cities as well as the unacessability of culture, services and long commute times of rural areas. So I'd rather go all-in citywise or stay out of the whole thing at all. but then this is the personal preference of a 20-somewhat and not your typical young family founder who may strive for suburbia.
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice
I actually mentioned it in OP :)
Thanks for the great complement! If you enjoy this, wait until you see the next Yahoo! visualization we are releasing later this year.
Andreessen Is Said to Seek $1.5 Billion in Fund-Raising
Depends on whether the Portland in question is in Maine or Oregon, and whether the trip was an extravagant package or little more than a cheap-deal flight and minimal accommodations. At a glance http://www.cheapflights.com/flights-to-hawaii/portland-OR/ shows a flight package of $1548 for 4. Camping, hostels, or - here's a thought - Craigslist might open some cheap options.
Thanks, this is great real-life feedback. I'll let you know once we have a beta ready for testing.
I use PHP, 350KB total of PHP+HTML code, you can have a look, I dont know how to post urls http://www.whatsthesequency.com/cookie.php
Ask HN: Does Google profile information you submit to Google Contacts?
I've been digging through the new Google Privacy Policy and their Terms of Service. I've noticed that there is absolutely no mention, anywhere, of how data you submit about your personal contacts is used within Google itself. I became particularly interested once Google Contacts started suggesting that I merge my contact entries with links to their respective G+ profiles, when available. Most all of the discussion I've seen so far regarding Google's proposed merging of privacy policies revolves around how to protect your own personal data. It is unclear to me whether or not they consider information you provide about your personal or professional contacts as "personal information" or "submitted content". Big difference.

Is this stated clearly anywhere in their policy or TOS or am I missing something? Am I inadvertently helping to build profiles for people without their consent, even if it's as innocuous as storing a phone number within my android phone? Does, or will, Google correlate this information with their new merged identities or does it stay in its own private silo?
You really negate yourself when you say "I don't know who these guys are."

The truth is from what I can gather and what this posts says, they're very passionate people. They don't want their name attached to a half-baked product. Nor do they want to deal with it anymore. It makes a lot of businesses sense to deal with things they ARE passionate about. $75k is small change. They don't need the hassle.
On a related note, I read this news article about "Craigslist robberies by appointment..."

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/01/craigslist-robb...
Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to
reactively withhold content from users in a specific
country — while keeping it available in the rest of the
world.
for the items people are donating, the intent is usually that they be claimed by someone who plans to use them, not someone who plans to flip them.

If he wasn't flipping the stuff, he'd be looking for donations. That's why he started doing this in the first place.
Yea, and Casandra was built for a company serving 500 times that.
Well ... sort of. The Clojure debugging story is still only OK and under development. Any ClojureScript debugging story really should integrate with existing tools - I have some ideas about that brewing here: http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/ClojureScript+Debugger
Engineer debunks theory of flight
Please clarify on your "selfish" remark. Thanks!
I agree with his sentiment for the most part. The reason I imagine hiring managers prefer those with university degrees is that without knowing other information they have some idea that such a person has those coping mechanisms to deal with the rigors of university. This is of course not perfect but when you're looking at a stack of resumes I imagine this has to be a differentiator.

FTA: "Why not make the problems harder and let students use every possible tool or resource to solve them? Even students singularly focused on learning for its own value would get so much more out of the experience."

From my own experience my open book exams in Physics were ridiculously difficult. We would use all sorts of tricks to cram as many equations onto the double-sided piece of paper we were allotted. I feel if you agree to an open book exam the difficulty of the exam can (and should) increase dramatically. Be careful what you wish for ;-)
Valve extends Steam service to to mobile iOS, Android apps
even with electronics built with planned obsolescence in mind, it's doable somehow to fix them. My uncle will fix things like mini-stereos by ordering the parts, something that most people don't think about doing. It's easier to buy a new one.
Please ignore drug related thread de-railings. Thank you.
I still wish you exposed a DOM fragment as an option instead of HTML strings.
One of the things I have heard a lot of founders say when asked if they are considering doing YC is that they are already "down the road" with their company - as in, they have already launched, or have customers, or investor attention.

I know dozens of startups that went through YC at this stage, and they will all reiterate how beneficial YC was for them.

If you're running a startup I really cannot think of a singular reason as to why you wouldn't apply. (the biggest testament to this is probably the YC alumni doing YC again with their new company.)
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Yay freedom?
That looks awesome. For most of the video I couldn't help but think about how I could do the same thing on Google Docs, but your "Export" and "Simulate" features are obviously your money makers. And I would definitely pay for this product and use it a ton. Great work!

From a technical perspective, great choice sticking to browser technologies instead of native apps. I think it fits your product extremely well and I love seeing HTML5 technologies being pushed.

One piece of advice - remove the bit about not having your computer so you have to resort to paper and then transfer to software when traveling part. There is the same issue with your product as you've described it. So unless you're planning to add some easy transfer option, remove that bit.
Real life is pretty hard too. We let so many people into university that difficulty almost necessarily has to drop in order to keep enrollment numbers up.

Did your school push you nearly hard enough?
Some ideas:

- As others have said, the font.

- I get the whole "look like the front page of a real newspaper" vibe, but I think the contrast needs to be adjusted.

- I feel like my eyes don't know where to look first. That's most likely foremost a contrast problem, but there's probably some other tweaks that need to be done.

- The shape of your logo clashes with the implicit and explicit horizontal lines on the site. I don't know how to fix this short of getting rid of the jump in the logo.

- The font on the nav bar is too thin for the very heavy background color. The result is that every link on the nav bar looks blurry... as if the background color is bleeding into the font glyphs.

- The article meta-data takes up WAY too much vertical space. The chief offender seems to be the tweets list. I'd change this to one line. You already have an expander widget, so this wouldn't be too terrible on usability. To emphasize how many tweets there are, why not do a sparkline or "...and 47 others" at the end of the tweet line?

- Get rid of the "newest" column. Put it below the fold under "Who's hiring in tech". You might also steal Reddit's idea of having a box up top where you have the newest stories on rotation.
I've been hearing a lot about design focused startups lately. It seems to be the trendy thing to talk and debate about. I'm not going to side with design over engineering, but I just want to point how well Airbnb has focused on design. From every detail of their UI to their offline user experience, it all has been designed beautifully. I don't think anyone can argue against the fact that great design helped Airbnb become the success they are today.
It definitely will take a lot of work to scale it, but I think it can be done. I could probably be watching 3-4 cities at a time fairly easily. Portland has a very active Craigslist community and I have a lot of down time waiting for new ads to come up. On the other hand, if I'm always at the computer, I lose a good chunk of profit on items I have someone else pickup, so I have to increase volume to make up for it, which is not always easy. I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions, as this is my main hurdle I'm facing right now.
pg: Is this the trailer for the HackerNews movie?
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