skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you learn reading, spelling, and basic math at a public school? The foundations of a good education are far more valuable than most of the minor facts you can gather after that point. I think the public education system is fairly good up to around 3rd grade but after that it get's much more random. With some school systems providing a solid education and others that simply torture the student for little net gain.
I just spent a good fifteen minutes trying to find out how much Weebly charges for the pro accounts and I still don't know. What is it with websites hiding their pricing? Argh.
Interesting to note is that the author's experiences are with the UK branch of T-Mobile's customer service, which was likely not as well informed, integrated, or organized as the US division due to locality of Google.

However, as a semi-loyal T-Mobile customer myself, I have to agree that the 'buzz generation' and training of local store reps are sub-par for the G1. None of my local T-Mobile stores had Google reps even on launch day, and only sport a variety of Google-branded posters and a trio of non-functional demo units (one for each color choice). As of yesterday, one of the display models even had its touch screen broken off, although likely no fault of the unit with the idiots, college students, and unsupervised children that roam the malls here...

I'm personally waiting more for Android to start functioning on the Neo Freerunner, which is apparently very close to reality [1], although the developers will still need to solve the input problem, considering the Neo lacks a hardware keyboard, and Android lacks any on-screen input options (which will supposedly be fixed 'soon' by Google).

[1] http://benno.id.au/blog/
I didn't know about defaultdict. The setdefault method was clunky, but that looks really clean.
Ask YC: Best way to parse wikipedia summaries?
There are many approaches to getting wikipedia summaries that I've heard of. Many involve using the official Wikipedia API, and then parsing based on patterns (there is no "getSummary()" call).

What are your approaches? Any other API's out there?

If you use the official APIs, what are the rules that usually work to determine where the 'summary' is on the page?

Thanks a lot!
The beta message is back in there. Thanks!
Agreed. The only thing he actually said about the phone itself was that it gets about four hours active use. He could have had the same purchasing experience for any next-gen phone. A better title would have been "The customer experience failure of T-Mobile UK".
Not to be negative but they have existed for 3 years and that is all they have produced? Maybe I missed something when I tried it a couple of months ago but it seemed more like something that had been around for 3 weeks. I really wanted something like it but for sure there wasn't much to it.
Some simple drag and drop features but nothing that let a noob create a cool webpage by just dragging and dropping.

Did I manage to miss the point?
High Speed Photography using the Arduino
That's what happens when you buy into a proprietary technology. The proprietors can change it as they wish.

At least in open source you can fork the project.
I agree, it's not easy to find. I had to log into my account, and was then offered the choice to upgrade.

FYI, its 3.99 a month.
Brain Power video from 60 mins.
I thought the current rationale for not allowing cell phones and other wireless devices on planes was the potential for interfering with ground based communications. I didn't think they'd used the avionics argument in a while.
Revenge of the Left across the world
The original title is not "Don't take investment" but just "The Era of the Entrepreneur". What I tried to point out is that this era marks great opportunities for entrepreneurs but that bloggers and VCs make it seem as a terrible time. Hope that was clear...
Most people in the world are n00bs.
Only the last three (not counting Meatball Sundae) are short and pithy. Some of his earlier books are legitimately pretty good.
Why did you post this 3 times? Are you a HN noob? :)
The term "free fantasy football" mostly.

They were very expensive ($1-$2 per click during peak season) but it was worth it. A print ad costs a few thousand dollars and you're not guaranteed any visitors.

One thing I learned about print ads is the price is very very negotiable. Start with a price so far below their asking price that you feel embarrassed. The list price for magazine ads can be several times greater than the price they're willing to settle on, especially as deadlines approach.

Another good option is to advertise on small niche sites. There are a lot of "mom and pop" fantasy sites with cheaper advertising and the exact audience I was looking for.
Article on Wired -- "How Google Got It's Logo":
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/multimedia/2008/02/gal...
7370 Charging Problem
1100 charging problem, 1110 not charging, 7370, 7370 charging, 7370 charging problem, 7370 is not, 7370 not charging, Nokia
There is an emulator available as a commercial product to those few folks who have a symbolics application still running. My coworker who used to work for symbolics has a lisp machine sitting in his den. And yes, it works.
You inspire us all.
So weebly also uses a deceptive pricing scheme ... exactly how are 3.99 different than 4?

Does anybody have hard data on market consequences of pricing to round numbers?

And why should one price near $4? If it was in Europe, it would be 4 euro instead?

Why 3.99 and not 3.56, since credit card payments don't care anyway?

In any case, congrats to weebly whose profitability enables this discussion.
I find it annoying too. Websites should realise that users don't mind them making money -- in fact most users want their web hosts to be financially secure, as that means they'll continue to provide the service -- and that users know that websites need to make money, from advertising, or subscription fees or some other method.
Des Peres... a suburb of St. Louis. The few people I knew who got VC ended up moving west. I hope Slicehost stays.
Looked like an Obama ad to me.
It's breath-takingly beautiful (and even more so in person), but the stitiching isn't so great around the waterfall... :(

Since the water (obviously) moves, along with the mist and the spray, there are clear discrepencies between the panorama's input photos.
Don’t Hire The Smartest Guy
Aside from the fact that the original post is a huge troll, there are plenty of open source Linq extensions (which is what Linq to SQL is.) Take a look at the codeplex.

[edit: format]
This is great...
The Future of Enterprise 2.0 Technologies
Google hawking Chrome overseas, on YouTube
Salesforce.com CEO's heart stays in S.F.
MP3: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever
Microsoft wants open-source recruits for new model army
1 million users. Profitable.
Online ads 09: JP Morgan says slowing. Nick Denton says disappearing
55 — thats bad, isn't it?
7 ways to prepare for a layoff
The point made in the article, and which I certainly agree with, is that a product like the G1 is not just a piece of hardware, it's a package consisting of the hardware, the service, the user experience, the customer service, the purchasing experience, etc. If you fail miserably at several of those, even if you excel at the others you'll probably have a hard time becoming a commercial success.

One of the things Apple has traditionally been good at is precisely managing the "whole thing" - from the perception of the product when it is first announced, to the marketing buzz until the product is launched, the launch itself, the purchasing experience, the after-sale service, and even the after-use experience (when your iPod starts to get old - hey, you can have a brand new one that's even better!).

Google's not gonna be able to compete with the iPhone until it gets more of these right.
For the masochists in the audience, you can listen to it here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
congrats to the weebly crew, this is an awesome product, I recently used it to help my mom setup a simple website and within a few minutes we were adding content and photos, no dumb server to deal with and no constant barrage of new versions to worry about. It was way easier than wordpress and fit the need perfectly. its dope to hear about small startups, building incremental value and reaching key milestones, far more interesting than another huge VC funding round for a company with no business model.
12 simple ways to supercharge your brain
While interesting, I think it would be a stretch to call this hacker news.
Hmm, fun test. Only missed a couple:

- Misread the question on lines of C++ and thought "lines of C", which I did know the answer for.

- Thought IBM had contributed more to the Linux kernel than Intel

- The "GUI windowing system" question also was unclear on the wording
"It would be hard to detect a coherent ideology in his voting patterns."

Weird, wouldn't a coherent ideology be something good? Because if there is no coherent pattern, I have to ask how can you be sure what he will vote next, and what if not ideology/conviction has determined his votes?

(Note: I don't know anything about McCain or Obama, just curious about the content of your argument).
[video] Mandelbrot on the Economy: We're Screwed
Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security
He wrote a good post last year on "Three ways to build an online media business to $50m in revenue"
http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/three-ways-to-build-an-...

As to fame I am guided by Mark Twains' observation that "Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion."
Stating $3.99 and then charging $3.99 is anything but deceptive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing

Many of these issues are covered in basic marketing 101. As to how the pricing scheme is deceptive is beyond me.

There are multiple different psychological price theories in use. As mentioned in the article, the .99 pricing scheme is fairly prevalent, although some retailers use a .00 pricing scheme to reinforce quality. Walmart has used a somewhat random pricing scheme (.32, .67, .18, etc) to try to have consumers come to the conclusion that the only rationale behind the price is that Walmart shaved every possible penny it could.
Only a handful of these questions would be useful in determining whether someone is a good Linux admin.
We've shied away from displaying $$ signs on our front page, as the Weebly service is very much free -- we don't want to create a perception on the user's part that they have to pay to use the service.

On the other hand, most users run into our "upgrade" form organically, when they try to use a Pro feature, and are offered the ability to upgrade -- this is a very logical point for the user, when there is already some form of demand.
"Short and pithy" and "legitimately pretty good" aren't mutually exclusive. I actually like a lot of his later books. His blog posts are pretty inconsistent, though.
The IntelliJ guys have created a dedicated Ruby IDE.
And that's the downside of having to plop down $50 for a game.

I don't understand how the 'game industry' expects to beat piracy when it costs so much for so little assurance that you'll get what you want.

If this had been (nearly) any other product, I could have returned it, gotten my refund, and gone on my way.
O-Spama.
Flickr reverse engineers the shapes of continents, countries, cities, and neighborhoods.
SAMSUNG SGH E576 BLUE (UNLOCKED)
Samsung SGH E576 a boldly fashion-forward dual folder in Sweet Pink and other delectable colors. This irresistible GSM camera phone combines pert clamshell design with superlative features. Beauty and brains, all in one.
Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging
wow, I remember Weebly when they were presenting at LeWeb3 2 years ago when they had 6000 users.
I'm from Germany. I had no idea what we've been missing.
Good point, I'd never thought of it that way.

I still don't think the benefits are worth the costs, but that's certainly a benefit.
Lol, for some reason, I totally understand what you mean, even though what you said was pretty much gibberish.
The actual song is linked to from the article and can be found here:

http://blog.wired.com/music/files/KomarMelamid_The-Most-Unwa...

I would describe it as bizarre. Mostly it's just a total clash of styles and instruments. And yes, it would be incredibly annoying to listen to it as music. (as opposed to a scientific work) The song exists of multiple parts, so calling it one song is a bit of a stretch.
@* Anonymous anger rampant on Internet
Buy Apple's first-ever trade show sign, Steve Wozniak's toolbox
Scala as a Scripting Language?
I guess you can say....

Little weeblys wobble but they don't fall down!
"There were a lot of different color iterations," Kedar says. "We ended up with the primary colors, but instead of having the pattern go in order, we put a secondary color on the L, which brought back the idea that Google doesn't follow the rules."

Nice commenting system on Wired: threaded, voting and cut short for quick expansion - needed at TechCrunch.

-- Anyhow, I ad-block all logos that I would otherwise regularly see.
"Let's say you're a business decision maker, and you got yourself on this cloud computing kick. Who would you rather buy your cloud resources from?

1. A company whose main business is books
2. A company whose main business is text advertisements
3. A company whose main business is business software"

This is a really, really important observation. First time I've seen it spelled out so clearly.
Indeed. If they'd kept it down to five minutes and increased the amount of flow between the sections, it probably would have been pretty amusing. I especially liked the operatic rapping section with tubas "It's cowboy livin' the American way!"

Still wouldn't be in any way "scientific" though.
The C++ question is kind of a trick question as a lot of C code is also valid C++ code, and it wasn't clear from the question which they meant.
Thanks for sharing. The random pricing scheme reads most evil of all. Perhaps a conclusion is that there is no such thing as a naked price--all pricing schemes have psychological load, whether intended or not, because the consumer will add it.
thanks guys, appreciate the support! most of our new users come from word of mouth referals, and every little bit helps.
I find it mostly unbearable in its length, and didn't listen to it all the way through. I think some of the ultra-compressed "popular music" they sell these days would rival it in annoyingness though if it was the same length.
I agree completely. Especially if you're at Big Corp X that already has some sort of service agreement with Microsoft. Working with an existing vendor and getting a new service is more cost efficient than signing on with a new vendor for a similar service (in terms of writing up request for proposal, man hours, etc).
Thanks to everyone. I've just fixed all misspellings.
Censorship, or What Really Weirds Out Weird Al
If OS X aesthetes can get used to that Swing-based editor type engine, this could be, like, kind of a big deal.
About 4 years ago a friend went to a "rapid protyping" conference, and there was a guy there who was making resin models of people's online game characters from his garage. He would paint them or you could paint them. I think the game companies themselves got into that business later.

In niche areas such as car restoration, antique radios, and etc you could offer a service of building replica parts. I think that being successful in this area depends more on knowing the market involved and how to get to it, not so much on pushing the limits of 3D printing.

I think you could make a business of taking in Google Sketchup models of houses, sheds, and other buildings and mailing back a model, in which the roof could come off to see inside. I'm not sure that the current 3D printing technologies are the best way to make those models, however.

Much of the current market for 3D printed products is decorative pieces, either novelty figures or decorative plastic bits of molding for cars and other things. My personal instinct would be to find something that was more functional to produce, such as the little breakable plastic bits of laptops and cell phones.
Bought a company out of Purdue. Worked one year with it in West Lafayette. Moved to Palo Alto for 2.5 years. Moved back to Lafayette, IN. Opened office in Buenos Aires. Commuted there quarterly. Consulted for a venture firm in Ann Arbor. And in August I moved to Indianapolis. Why?

Because it is not about starting it or where you start it. Its about finishing. What do you need to finish? Does Indy have the resources available and accessible for budding entrepreneurs to close the loop on an idea and create a business?

I'm looking for help. Yes, I miss the hustle and bustle and wondering if every person at Starbucks in Palo Alto or Mt View just bagged $1 million from VC. But at the same time I know where I want to raise my family, where I want to vacation and where my access to top notch stable talen is - and that is Indianapolis.

I've built one company. Sold it. Working on another. Have a 9 to 5 that pays bills and pays health insurance, but my "idle" mind perpetuates. I need help - did I mention that?

Not sure where the next finish line is, but I'm willing to run the race with you.

ideas: manufacturing kanban software, logistically distribution AI, virtual pharmaceutical testing, quick hit web apps, SEO consulting, beer brewing (just seeing if you are still reading).
Breaking news: Don't hire people based on only one criterion, e.g. intelligence! Details as they emerge.
Yet linux and OS X don't seem to have this "3rd party apps security issue".

I have personally never bought the "installed base" argument, where Windows gets the majority of the attention because it has more users. Most computer virii seem to be clustered around gaining remote control or access to a machine to either steal data (files, keystrokes, etc) or turn the machine into a zombie. Thus, the "hackers" (yes, I know) don't really care what OS you're running, they will exploit whatever is exploitable. Sure, Windows has the largest installed base, so they would make a logical first choice, but we would also expect these exploits to be ported to other platforms IF those other platforms were similarly exploitable.
How to reduce your Amazon S3 bill
The qualities of the ideal candidate differ for different situations.

If someone is a very early employee, they need to have more involvement in shaping product development and corporate culture. They need some kind of vision or something and that's possibly more important than knowing how to move Mount Fuji with a toothpick or something.

Nothing earthshaking, no.
I'd actually prefer the frustration-full packaging. + If you are gifting in this box, it just screams re-gifting to me.
Yeah, but... I don't think it's good to say "It's a good thing it sucked, look at how much time we saved." That leads to people thinking it's good to suck.

Or perhaps not. Perhaps I'm just paranoid.
Yes, this breaks a deal for me. If I ever consider to subscribe to a service like this, I need to know beforehand which features I get for free, and which I need to pay for and how much.

The model is good, but I really like to know beforehand what each option includes, similarly to choosing webhosting package.
Yeah. I'm feeling the exact same way about my copy of Spore.

I bought Spore, even after seeing all the warnings about piracy, because I had such faith in Will Wright and Maxis. I thought that they would make my money worth it. Now? My list is down to Valve and Maxis. If The Sims 3 or Spore 2 comes out, I'm going to pirate it first to make sure it's worth my money. I'll buy it afterwards, but my trust is gone.
Ask HN: What Rails IDE do you use?
TextMate? RadRails? Aptana? CodeGear? Elseware?
Yep! I did that immediately and felt rather silly.
A Classic Post on Public Hedge Funds
Defaultdict and friends were one of the benefits of completing the object model of python. It is made by subclassing userdict and effective.
In case you're on ZFS, a status update for ZFS Crypto: http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/zfs_crypto_update
1) oHg5SJYRHA0 is just as well-known as uiuU, or whichever that old one was. Find a new URL. TinyURL works well.

2) This is Hacker News. I'd like to think we're a little bit above 4chan for at least the next year or so.
This reminds me of the furor that came up when some bozo claimed that MS was dropping OpenGL support in Vista, when in fact all they were doing was retooling their driver architecture... there was a tremendous amount of misinformation about that floating around, and naturally most people just gravitated toward the anti-MS version without bothering to find out whether or not there was any truth behind it.
The same Dan Soldier-led group tried to make a "most listenable" song ever. I think it's actually a lot worse than this one.

The opera rapping and the kid holiday sections both crack me up.
Air Force Aims to 'Rewrite Laws of Cyberspace'
Visualizing data in the cloud
ChaCha And Aardvark: Putting Humans To Work To Get You The Answers You Need
Right, this is a better test for determining whether someone is a good Linux geek.
31 iPhone Applications With Source Code
Cool, I speculated on this a couple of months ago in my blog (although even then it was already fairly predictable). http://blog.blinker.net/2008/04/15/exploring-geotags/

Another application could be to monitor the spreading of plants and animals, or other memes (fashion sense, cars, etc.).

When I wrote the blog article, it was difficult to get GeoTag information out of flickr (no search option for "images with GeoTags"). Anyway, I wish more data was freely accessible...
Things I know are true, but I don't really believe
And following that strategy it makes perfect sense that Apple would screen the app store. It bothers me when people complain that it should be open to everything with out considering that there is a bigger picture.
No Labs Love for Google Apps
I guess my take would be that it isn't earthshaking but it's "useful" there are tons of companies that are too resume-bound and end up with smart, completely useless people. Two cents.
Just playing with it now - the code completion feature rules. It's the one thing I missed from the old IntelliJ.

Some suckiness:

- No REPL that I can see. Surely an irb prompt is lurking there somewhere?
- Ugly typography. TextMate spoiled me on getting my code to look good even when it didn't do the right thing
yep congratultions guys. have to say that i love weebly so much i had to pay up for 2 years. im also looking forward for their implementation of new features which are said to include, complete control over the html and css.
It takes a long time to load your project for the first time and doesn't support HAML.
The exact opposite of that statement is true. It's easier to pitch investors with an innovative service with a solid business plan that looks like 100x growth in 5 years. It's much easier to raise your valuation with real user/subscriber/customer growth and a well defined sales cycle. The A tier investors see the good deals long before they ever break on TC/Om/Cnet/etc.

Getting a meeting on Sand Hill Road isn't hard. If you're relying on a blog to get your investment, you're doing it wrong.
Cherrypeel.com is a reddit like music service
products are only as good as the people who sell them.
Hacker Steals MakeUseOf.com Domain, Blackmails Owner
http://woss.name/2008/03/04/ruby-on-rails-ides/
The article reads, to me, like a bunch of Air Force managers decided to think outside the box, and a bunch of tech people are telling them why none of it makes sense, and they aren't listening.

Anyone involved in this project has my pity.
I think this is brilliant on Amazon's part. The frustration factor in opening some items (children's toys, for instance) shouldn't be underestimated.