skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I presume Google+ is going after this key demo: your mom.

Google+ has already caught on in the techy/engineery crowd (still not to the extent of Facebook, of course, but Google can probably afford to let this grow slowly), but while now Twitter and Facebook are household terms, "Google Plus" probably is still unknown to many regular folks. These kinds of publicity stunts are entirely aimed at changing that.

I think it's a smart move, and honestly, it's nice to see someone promote their service by holding chats with the POTUS rather than a Kardashian or something.
In your guys' experience, how relevant are these tips to someone speaking with relatively young startups (say, seed or Series A stage)? I know that good negotiation skills are good negotiation skills however you slice it, but I'm curious to hear from folks if they've needed to use a different set of tactics when not dealing with an "HR department" as much as a founder.
A 3rd party is needed consisting of tech,professors, scientist and philosophers
They need to infiltrate all levels of government to fully change the system from within. I think its the only way to fix the system.
Thanks for this link, I've a huge fan of Herzog Zwei, you're rocking my world with that link :)

It's mostly one of the best unknown game soundtrack I've heard.
Thank you for sharing! I should have mentioned 'midway' or 'undecided' to the list as well. Duhh.

Its kinda topical what you are trying to do. If you see the Summify exit and the News.me uptake afterwards, it seems you are in a hotish space.

I would think that your landing page needs a UX/IA review. The onboarding process should be super easy in this case and instead of giving me a form to start with, you would be better off pre-loading relevant/contextual content.

Hope that makes sense.

ps - I hope you didn't mind my $0.02
In Fascism they are private enterprises. That's what the link says. In Communism they aren't private.
How does postgresql's search compare to solr?

(With postgresql, I think replicating the search index to read-only nodes is a solved problem.)
Show HN: Open source automatic inbox organization tool 
About the project: http://www.anotherinbox.net/

Source: https://github.com/caffo/anotherinbox/

Anotherinbox is a ruby powered automatic inbox organization tool. I've created it to replace the defunct Otherinbox Defender (http://mashable.com/2008/09/08/otherinbox/), and I've been using it for more than one year. Any feedback is welcome.
What's different about Mozilla's Incubator?
Clickable links

About the project: http://www.anotherinbox.net/

Source: https://github.com/caffo/anotherinbox/
Rape has existed for a lot longer than the Internet.
I guess I just do not understand your point.

- When someone writes a poor program, we celebrate their attempt. The fact that they tried at all puts them well above the efforts most people are willing to put in.

- When someone writes a poor article, we blast them for not having everything just perfect. Only those with decades of industry experience are worthy of writing that perfect article.

This makes absolutely no sense. What is wrong with someone writing an article that is full of flaws, like someone who writes a program that is full of flaws? It is a personal blog, not a prestigious legal journal. Who cares if he made some errors?

I don't think this person is going to be gunning to pass the bar exam any time soon. Learning about the legal system is a valid hobby like any other. The learning process requires many mistakes in the beginning. You do not have to be perfect in your understanding from day one.

You are entitled to your opinion, but I, for one, hope we see more people learning about the legal system as a hobby. It can only yield positive results.
I think Hollywood's (and also the Music industry) problem is that the talent and artists are commoditized, instead of the financiers. Compared to the tech startup industry, there are only a few major studios that finance most of the films people watch. This concentrates too much power in too few entities and that's ultimately what has created this Hollywood problem. I don't think movies and tv shows are going away anytime as a form of entertainment.

Killing Hollywood is going to require some way to reverse balance of power and commoditize the financiers just like in the tech industry. Then tv shows, movie franchises will more resemble startup companies and hopefully become more forward thinking as well.
Great update… kind of missing the default window size option. :(
You aren't familiar with antitrust laws. Because a company has a free product does not mean it can't be anticompetitive. Free means nothing.

Example: If one company owned 90% of the media content in the world and gave it a way for free because they made money on ads does not mean they can't abuse their power. If you started your own website how would people find out about you? 90% of the search engines wouldn't show you. You couldn't advertise on 90% of magazines, websites or tv shows. And 90% of social networks wouldn't allow links going out of their site. And so on.

This is an extreme example, but free means nothing.

Who was trapped into using Windows? Why couldn't you buy another OS?

Threatening OEMs? The MS abuse I was talking about was having to do with IE only. But Google is not innocent of strong-arming companies either. If Yelp didn't allow Google to use its reviews in Google Places, Yelp would be removed from the index entirely. http://searchengineland.com/yelp-google-told-us-its-our-way-...
I think this is a great concept.

Minor copy note... you may want to consider bolding your FAQ questions to make them easier to skim, but other than that it seems straightforward.

I do have a question--will it still work if someone is completely under the covers? (i.e., how powerful is that sensor?)

Regardless, thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to watching this once it goes live!
HP Sets Up "Big Data" Center in Boston via Vertica
That was actually a reason why it took me a long time to adopt Reddit. I used to stumble upon it for years, browse around for several minutes, get overwhelmed by sheer number of comments, and leave.

This happened again recently, only this time, I discovered hundreds of smaller subreddits and started participating in a few of them because they offered that smaller community atmosphere. It feels a little like a cozy lounge with glass doors at a super busy airport.
Right. I've tried other distros and I'm just not comfortable enough with them. There's no shame in being inexperienced at something. Ubuntu makes my life easier so I use it. If I grow out of it one day (which I really doubt) then I'll switch but it makes no sense forcing yourself to use something you don't understand because someone thinks they know what's best for you.
Ranking For An Arbitrary Organic Search Query
I was a serious coffee drinker that switched to black tea and finally down to green tea. I've found (and read) that small doses of caffeine are much better for concentration and productivity. I generally have 2-3 cups of green tea a day, get a slight boost in mental alertness, but never get the 'crater' effect of over-consumption. Bonus: I never wake up craving caffeine or needing that first of the morning jolt to become coherent.
Ghosts Of The Past In Vayots Dzor
About two hours south of Yerevan, in Vayots Dzor Marz, is the town of Yeghegnadzor where I serve as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English at a local university.
Most visitors to Vayots Dzor come to see Noravank, a magnificent complex of churches and outbuildings where monks lived and studied in the middle ages, and then they move on.
Anyone who makes that mistake should read The Godfather. Very polite. No explicit threats at all. But pretty much the opposite of a pushover.
Hangouts are embedded in G+ posts. People can comment as long as they don't turn comments off.
He gave you one in his post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._Chicago

which points to related cases. Hope this helps!
Personally I find working in the morning way better than working in the night. I used to work till about midnight and then get up at 7 AM to go to work. However in case I got stuck on some issue that I could not resolve, it would ruin my sleep. I would keep thinking about the fix. But now that I have started working in the mornings, I don't have that problem anymore. I can take some time out during the day and figure out the problem.
A Wonderful
That's not really the point though; Mark has made _zero_ posts on his Google+ account and updates his real Facebook account fairly frequently. One is a freshly-updated, lively social search result and the other is almost worthless.
Same thing in Ireland, except that we paid for the calls. So we paid 2c per minute, of which the ISP maybe 1c got from the telco in termination fees, so there was a lot of "free" internet access at the time.
Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed
I didn't care for the Angry Birds avatars either, luckily I did find just how easy it is to change because it motivated me to click around :)
Property-based testing with QuickCheck for Riak's worker pool
The suburbs are pretty quiet at this time too.
Faceted Overload: Simplifying the Sidebar Navigation
I created this page this weekend as one small thing I could do to help the math world and academia in general with this problem.

Would anyone be willing to help me add improvements to the page? It's become popular more quickly than I expected, and I would appreciate the help. I've temporarily added my email address to my hacker news profile, so anyone can contact me. Thank you!
RIM's new CEO could license BlackBerry software to rival vendors
The advice to "never be first to state a number" should really be "never divulge your current/previous salary".
"They have made a conscious decision to compromise search quality to push users to Google+"

It's my understanding that search results are unchanged - is this wrong? I thought the social box on the side was just something that came up in addition to the natural search results.
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/determining-valuation-multip...
I'm really not sure what to think here. The cynic in me thinks that HN is being trolled. It's not as if this is a link to a blog post about your sing up process -- it's a link to a page with eleven words, two of which are dedicated to explaining what this actually is. If I were someone who wasn't really interested in any feedback, but rather wanted to game HN in to signing up for my product, this is one way I could accomplish my goal.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt in saying that I do not intend this to be an accusation. I had a look at your HN profile and it definitely looks like you've been participating in a positive way.

My only feedback would be this: I can't be the only one who is completely unwilling to provide even my email address on a web page with such little detail. So at step one, the process is broken. Put something up. Anything. Some small amount of detail with a screenshot, diagram, or graphic relevant to the product. Otherwise many users won't make it past the first step.
"Applicant: Great, I can’t wait to get started. Getting me that extra $4,000 would make this a much easier decision. Considering that this is conceivably worth millions to you, we’d be silly not to do business with each other."

I think the problem is that you don't have a verifiable skill that will increase sales by X%... Because if you did, then you'd be silly for only asking for an extra $4000 based off of increasing sales by millions.
> The fact that there are lots of people who think I'm very wrong in both directions suggests to me that Tarsnap's pricing is about right.

I have no opinion on Tarsnap's pricing but I will say this: there will always be people who think your server/app/whatever should be cheaper, even when it's free (then they'll complain about the support, uptime or whatever).

What's more, the people who aren't willing to pay anything typically make the worst customers. Instead of being grateful for what they're getting, in my experience they tend to consume far more support "bandwidth".

You might be doing yourself a favour by cutting such people off (effectively).
See also Ben Goldacre's Bad Science blog post from 2009 about Merck paying Elsevier to have a "fake" journal produced.

(http://www.badscience.net/2009/05/elsevier-get-into-fanzines...)
In my own opinion (IANAL), the "tracking is a "search"" view does not imply that there needs to be a physical device. So tracking a vehicle (using technology) in any other way is also a "search".
Talent Acquire Silicon Valley startups on their pessimistic side of startup roller-coaster, just make sure they've build scalable stuff but were unable to scale the business.
Laying in bed awake is counter-productive to falling asleep. Get up, have a drink of water, read a few chapters of a book. Let your mind settle down, then try it again. Laying awake just lets your mind wander.
That's a reasonable first approximation. But let's say two studio's both like the script and only one wins the bidding war. What stops the other studio from farming out the 'high concept' to someone else to write an also ran. As far as I can see nothing, so the value of a script is basically limited by what it costs someone else to create the same basic concept. Toss in the fact that scripts tend to mutate after production anyway and the 'we can always steal it' must be at the back of all negotiations.

Which is oddly similar to the buy vs. pirate internal debate I have seen several people go though on hard to find content.

EX: Underworld did not use any of white wolf's IP. There was a negotiation, but in the end the studio 'went in another direction' that just happened to look the same as if they had used their IP.
Password length seems to be limited to < 20, which is way too short [1].

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000360.html
I understand that and that's kind of my point. As an engineer, you can definitely talk about what you've done to convince the other party that you're capable, but it's (IMO) more difficult to tie it to a specific increase in the offer when negotiation starts, which is what Patrick discusses.

Specifically, he puts the asked salary increase head-to-head with the potential revenue increase: "Getting me that extra $4,000 would make this a much easier decision. Considering that this is conceivably worth millions to you, we’d be silly not to do business with each other." Which indeed makes it sound like a bargain. :)

And I know it's exactly the goal of what Patrick preaches: speak in terms of value created, not technical competence. It's just, y'know, hard :)
Optogenetics: A wireless, optical router for your brain
Excerpts from new O'Reilly book on Complexity Science.
I paid 99 cents for news:yc for the iPhone.
- The front page needs to offer me at least a one paragraph overview of what the service is.

- Center-aligned text inputs don't work for me

- the first few steps felt fine, being 'forced' to give details of team members etc started to annoy me: I started thinking "just either tell me what it is now, if it doesn't exist, or let me get on to playing with it". I gave up at that point so don't know if there was a working service at the end :-)
Authentication by "Cognitive Footprint".
How a paywalled, social-media-ignoring, news site became a dominant force
I'm on the very low end of the intelligence scale here in the United States. I'm afraid that teaching more people to code will endanger my coding job. I'm against this idea, and will vote accordingly in elections.
Can anyone say how applicable these suggestions are to getting internships while still in college?
> Google has access to the same information about other social profiles that it does about its own profiles, as the tool on the site demonstrates.

Does it demonstrate that? It's more likely that those profiles just show up because of the normal page rank algorithm (eg Jamie Oliver's twitter account ranks highly because so many people link to it). It is a reasonable proxy for popularity for popular people, at least, though there's probably too much noise before you get too far down the long tail. But it isn't the same thing that the OP was talking about.

I actually think it would be cool if google took the more Open Social approach by taking the sites I list in my profile as mine, looked at my friends and frequency of posting where available (more twitter than facebook), and then biased my results to favor my preferred networks. I don't know if it would end up with great results, but it could be an interesting separate tool, perhaps.
Rajinikant's website now runs without Internet
Why The Apple Trackpad Might Be The Best Video Game Controller Ever Made
currently working on something in this space ;-)
I had to leave a few words out of the title to fit this in, the real title is:
"How a tightly paywalled, social-media-ignoring, anti-copy-paste, gossipy news site became a dominant force in Nova Scotia"
Prof. Thrun is an amazing teacher, but I think the 160,000 student sign-ups were due to the Stanford affiliation. Giving up that affiliation will cut enrollement sharply. Any likely business model will cause another sharp decline in enrollment. Thrun has all the right ideas, but on his own it will be tough to execute.

Education is ripe for disruption. Thrun+Ng+Norvig+Stanford as a cohesive team could have made a history altering change in education. It's unfortunate that they aren't a team.
emacs bindings in copy mode is nice (and there are vi bindings if you're a heretic)

split screen functionality in tmux is annoying but I hardly use it
The latest version does that.
I think its needlessly complex. Why do you need three screens to get email address, password and some data ? Also, since each screen simply asks for more fields, users will be frustrated. Of course, all this assuming users are going to signup by looking at two words : teamwork, reinvented.
Neil Young Coming to Dive Into Media Conference Next Week
K Street's boom goes bust
I find some early risers to be holier-than-thou about their sleeping habits. They can easily be thwarted using the technique introduced on an episode of Seinfeld - just call very late meetings and watch how grumpy and tired they get.

There is nothing about being an early riser that is any better than being a night owl except possibly the sunrise (depending on how extreme of a night owl you are).
Toyota's Sudden Acceleration Problem May Have Been Triggered By Tin Whiskers
This is an awesome idea. Do this.
Founder Stories on Tech Hustlers
HTML5 Animations in iBooks using Tumult Hype and iBooks Author
Sourcefire are selling services based around a GPL product.

Not so familiar with Covalent but it appears they have some things available as GPL but if you want all the enterprise features then it isn't GPL.

Redhat is the same really, they also make their money from support. I believe you need to buy RHEL if you want the support from them, although this might have changed now.

I never suggested that GPL cannot be part of a business plan , I was just disagreeing with the statement that there are companies that sell GPL software, in all cases I can find what you are really paying for is something else not the software itself.

My point is more that there are many areas of software that this does not work in , games or most consumer software being an example.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

"Using the ordinary GPL for a library gives free software developers an advantage over proprietary developers: a library that they can use, while proprietary developers cannot use it."
As both a developer and a bar owner, yes.

I had stayed away from buzztime due to the hardware requirements, however, the iphone app intrigues me. Not enough to put up the cash for buzztime, but intriguing nonetheless.

Trivia is a great way to bring patrons to a venue, but works best when prizes and some sort of mc are involved. The quiz alone is fun for patrons that are there, but doesn't necessarily draw significantly more patrons. The app would need two modes, a constant running game for leaderboard, and an event mode, which could allow managers to set start/stop times with prizes, localized to the venue. It'd be great if it could integrate with an mc, who can tailor questions based on venue crowd.

It's very feasible from a technology perspective. I've been working on another web based geo location app using Scala/Lift, and this isn't much of a stretch.

If you decide to go down this road, shoot me a message. Be more than glad to help from either a developer or restaurant owner perspective.
No, I have very small items. The cost issues come from the large number of items.
Facebook Intern creates 3D WebGL social network plotter
I'm using your app on the iPad. A few suggestions:

- Let me see my comment history & other people's replies.

- Get a new color scheme for the story list. It's very hard to read, maybe that's just my colorblindness. The colors don't go together well. They're too dark for my tastes. Use an app such as Instapaper or news:yc for examples of good color flow.

- List the number of comments for each story.

- Option for bigger text -- at least in the main story list view.

- Adjust the username/logout thingy in the upper right corner to something more elegant. How it currently works is wonky and reminds me of the worst examples of Android UX.

- Most importantly, charge for your app. 99 cents or 1.99 or whatever. You should gain from your work, however small. I'll be your first customer.
I am missing the right words but one gets more creative in the evening. Many people can relate. A friend of mine worked from 1800 - 0300 for his master thesis, because the words "flowed" better.
This is incorrect, as the second section on this page demonstrates: http://www.focusontheuser.org/examples.php
That makes sense. Thanks for the feedback!
Impressive how successful that campaign was.
Open Source: Replicating TweetBot’s Alerts and Action Sheets
Free lecture videos by a Harvard professor on abstract algebra
So here's an issue I've faced. Instead of being asked ... what's my number? I've gotten asked .. "what's your salary?" How do you deal with this one?
You should include a link or more description about Elsevier's awful publishing practices for those who aren't already in the know.
Interesting observation. There are always people want lower price, especially the large users who are more cost-driven. However, the only real measurement is if they vote with their feet. Try raise price a bit and see how many people drop off and the impact of the signup rate.
He missed another great thing about being an early riser - you can finish up work in time to get the early senior citizens discount at many diners.
Most of the time you already have an offer i.e. your current employment.
Yet that sort of evidence was allowed to go before a jury and the jury bought it.

It might be good to have a term for that, if there isn't one already. Say, damages theatre - pushing inflated "estimates" of damages to journalists and juries.
OKAD (Oh CAD)
I'll just say be careful when taking free negotiation advice from professional writers rather than professional negotiators..That's not to take anything away from patio11 here, just be careful and keep the salt handy.
Discussion: The Developer Crunch in South Africa
This isn't as easy to dodge though, right? Or do people do this routinely?
Details of strategy sure are important, but, above all, do negotiate.

A comment† by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jfoster that really opened my eyes:

> You might also look at it another way, and Google probably will, too.
If you're being considered by Google and you don't negotiate, perhaps they are the ones making the mistake [by attempting to hire you].

† http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3496512
Everyday Grep: A less intimidating introduction