skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sucks... it seems if you are featured on their great site it funnels to larger tech sites.

HOpe they get everything straighten out.

A PR stunt ...anything is possible..maybe, but I doubt it!
Wirelessly, Home Security Becomes a D.I.Y. Project
>I didn't vote in 2000, because it was too much trouble. I spent the next four years regretting it

In 2000 a vote for a foreign policy of peace was a vote for Bush. That was his line. Gore was the one who had been threatening Indonesia and getting us dragged into messes in the Balkans. He as much as promised more military action abroad. This all goes to illustrate the ultimate meaninglessness of the campaigning.
When their cloud goes down, it will be called 'The Blue Sky Of Death'.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewA...

The end of this article contains a few more details on Richard Stallman's new choice of laptop.

It is slightly ironic that the world's first "free" (by Richard Stallman's definition) laptop is produced by China -- a country notorious for cracking down on human rights. I guess it's the difference between freedom of speech and freedom of "intellectual propety".
Amazingly prescient market prediction from June
Really? I couldn't.
Evite does the same thing. My friends and I frequently forward our invitations around to each other with the note "If you're interested bump up my RSVP count or add yourself with the 'invite more people' link on the right.

I think it's fine in this case for the added convenience of not having to register/login. It's an invitation system not banking.
Ah, I remember a whole day spent on the trading floor laughing my tits off to this one in those innocent early summer days(sigh) - should have paid more attention to that formation ;-)

Anyway, just thought I would share the astonishing foresight of some random forum humour - although I think the humour of it is now of a slightly different kind.
This is not blackmail. Blackmail is when the villain demands money to refrain from releasing injurious or compromising injurious information.

This is better described as stealing and ransoming the domain name. If it becomes popular, then perhaps we can coin the term "namenapping".

But it isn't blackmail. (Well… arguably the revelation that they use GoDaddy as their registrar is pretty embarassing, but that was public information already.)
I have to recommend not e-filing, if you decide to do this.
Call me when we get drastically more efficient silicon wafers

Not gonna happen: we're already at 30%, and don't have room for a "drastic" increase.

I'm far more interested in a drastic reduction in cost.
I'm being honest. While I'm hoping to meet anyone that resembles a co-founder for that idea, I'm already working to build a business in a different industry. I'm not waiting for "just the right time", I just have some ideas in my mental queue that necessitate competent industry partners, and some that don't.
This revenue could get into the nine figures next year, Justin Smith of the blog Inside Facebook calculates, based on various estimates he tells me he’s heard. Smith is the head product manager at social network application company Watercooler, and generally has his finger on the pulse of what’s happening around Facebook. Combined with what Facebook has told me, his number sounds quite plausible.

This kind of language used to show up when bloggers cited people in the mainstream media, or well-known consultants. It's interesting that, when they write about startups, the New York Times has to say "Trust me -- I heard this from a guy who is completely legit."
You get extra credit in your classes for voting? That doesn't really sound like an appropriate use of power by your professors.

It sounds far more like inappropriate use of academic power in order to rustle up more votes for you-know-who.
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The Nonexistence one is what often gets me. If and when I ever give it more than a passing moment's thought, I have to take care lest it put me into an unsettling trance-like state of bewildered and bemused incomprehension and planar disorientation.
Saves money on jazzy cigarettes let me tells you.
Nope. It's where it's always been: http://java.sun.com/
true enough about music overload. and also book overload.

if i could come up with a truly good idea offhand, though, i might be working on it instead of sharing ;)

i'm sure there are other relevant applications for this concept beyond the big ones.
At a different previous job, when AT&T and Cingular were merging and TMobile was the other big customer (company provided US GSM services), TMobile had the reputation of being the professional ones.

When the carrier I was talking about earlier was taken over, I saw a somewhat poorly organized IT merger, but nothing that detracted from that reputation. The original interactions were on the GSM network side, while the takeover occurred while I was in the application development/e-commerce side of the purchased company.

Consumer Reports agrees with my personal experience with each company, and as a customer of Verizon.
Goto the real estate parties and meets and what not?
Yes, a way to find a co-founder that doesn't involve university.
Actually, this was the article's point exactly. You would help her out to satisfy a social expectation. What would others think if you didn't?

You might ask how that changes if you and the old lady are alone. You would probably say that you'd still help her out, though I'd say that's just a response trained within a particular environment in which there is a help-old-ladies social expectation.
They can't afford parties anymore :-(
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"This is not blackmail. "

Nor are the people involved hackers, "Criminals" would be correct.
It's also sort of interesting to vote. What machine will they use this time? What's on the ballot? Will it work? How many people will be there? Will there be big problems?

People like novelty.
"... and doesn't support HAML."

I'm pretty sure that's a feature.

:)
Tried apt-get?
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Yeah, we tried it, it is. Here are a few reasons:

- If you're a hacker, you probably didn't start with market research, you probably started with code, and you already have competition that you just weren't diligent enough to find. Or the other standard view -- you don't think you're actually competing with the market leaders, because your head is stuck too far in the concept. But you are and everyone else will see that.

- Unless you're funded prior to launching, or have a team with an impressive (startup) track record, nobody in the press cares about your launch. We got picked up in a couple of German (where we're based) news sites which didn't bring in nearly as many hits as posts here or in my personal (fairly widely syndicated) blog.

- Most people when they hear your idea will think that it's dumb. This is universal. Practicing making it sound not dumb is much more important than worrying about people copying your (dumb-sounding) idea. Learning to pitch your idea takes a while.

If you've already been funded and developing for a couple years before launch, yeah, then you can make a bit of a splash when you launch. Incidentally -- great parent article. Spot-on with my thoughts on finding co-founders.
Fusion power yield has grown even faster than Moore's law. It just started really, really low.
While you are 100% right, this is irrelevant to the argument. As a voter you only have 1 single vote. You are using the word "you" in the plural sense. voter != demographic, voter < demographic
A couple of people have asked what its all about and its basically going to be a time for people get together to chat, learn about startups, find jobs, talk deals and generally cavort.
I have to agree, I love Github but that feed icon is extremely annoying.
One thing is for sure, you won't go wrong by picking Vim or Emacs for pretty much any language (can't say all because for example, the Squeak flavor of Smalltalk has it's own editor.)
I have a profile?
You'll do that anyway, over and over. Especially if this is your first startup. In my experience (definitely including myself) most first time founders couldn't recognize a market if it hit them over the head in the early phase. The process of pitching your idea helps target what you're doing.

This doesn't change just because you've launched and everyone who's seen a little of the startup world knows to expect this.
teej: Could you please send me an email?

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And durability. Deserts would be perfect for solar power, were it not for sandstorms...
Watch out iPhone, here come the netbooks
Smalltalk can refactor, but not always just fine.

Strong type systems give you considerably more information by which to perform a refactoring. A great deal of refactoring can be in dynamic languages, but once you start doing dynamic things, all bets are off.

I see that there is refactoring in JetBrain's Ruby offering. I'm sure it pushes the state of the art in dynamic refactoring. However, I'm also sure it was much harder for them to implement and test :-)
Ask HN: When should we bother incorporating?
despite being turned down for winter session, our group is forging ahead to bring our service to market. at what point does it become necessary/prudent to register your business entity and legalize it with actual documents? we believe we can bootstrap the initial implementation of the service and maybe even start generating revenue fairly soon, so we aren't going to bother with securing seed funding.

how much does registering your business cost, and when is a good time to do so?
I personally think almost every one of these advances should be covered by the media. I dislike the characteristic journalist euphoria that always accompanies the article, but it's always clear enough where fiction enters. I can always filter it out. And if they didn't hit the mainstream news channels, I probably would hear about it much later.

Incidentally, any technology that can obviate the need for solar panels to tilt towards the sun will vast improve maintenance, installation, and probably manufacturing costs. The tilting super structure accounts for a large percentage of the cost in a solar power station (often in excess of 30%, according to DOE studies).
I don't think so. I think there are good survival reasons to behave socially for each others' benefit. That is, I believe some of the "helping is the right thing to do" may come from natural selection: social cooperation increases our chances for survival and reproduction.
to me the only reasons to vote is if you are in a swing state. Anywhere else its a huge waste of time because your state is predetermined to go one way or the other.
I can relate to that. I used to feel a bit of a high when I was a young kid just trying to contemplate what would exist if nothing existed. Not nothing as in no matter, but no dimensions or time either. Thinking about that still puts my mind into a weird state.
I would be more cautious. Sometimes hard access is the value. After all the marginal cost of those 'worthless items' is zero anyway.
There are so many ways of doing development for Windows Mobile. My own experience was developing it in Compact Framework. It's basically is a .NET Framework in slim version. It would be helpful if you know at least C# or VB.NET and some ideas on how the framework works.
Have a look on this site below for some examples of apps develop using the framework.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa145791.aspx

Another route, I have met some people who do mobile development in C++ or wxWidgets. I think it's much steeper learning curve to jump from scripting language to there. Besides, I can't see any real benefit of going through that route UNLESS the apps that you want to develop requires an absolute level of performance. Otherwise, IMHO, the development time is not worth it.

Here are some URLs that might be helpful.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb158619.aspx
http://www.wxwidgets.org/

Hope that helps. :)
"it isn't going to go away"

With people like you who give in swiftly, no, it isn't going to go away.
This is pretty much my reason for voting:

"2. Perhaps we vote in the same spirit in which we buy lottery tickets. After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy."

I fantasize that my vote for Bob Barr will throw the election into a tie, creating a giant entertaining mess even bigger than the aftermath of the 2000 election. Also, I will get some warm fuzzies over the next 4 years knowing that I didn't vote for the winner when they inevitably screw up. Lastly, I am a contrarian by nature. I will enjoy being the only one of my friends that did not vote for Barack Obama, much as I enjoy being the only one who does not pray in a church.
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Actually he very well might prefer a check...

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
And of course you have to be undecided. Because it does not pay to preach to the choir. (Expect to increase turnout.)
A history of obsession: The double face of single-mindedness
It also mean "I" will be victimised (whether or not I give in).
Agreed, there seem to be a lot of interesting HN readers in KW.

If anyone is interested in setting something up, my email is paulgb at gmail.
I always appreciate a contrarian mind.

By the way: Are there any Republicans on the internet left? If you follow the media (especially here in Europe) the Democrats should have taken landslide victories for the last eight years.
Well, if you believe this is really about frustration you've been duped. This will significantly reduce Amazon's costs since things won't have to be boxed separately for warehousing, then again for shipment, not to mention, they won't have to pay for the packing materials.

Still, I'm all for it, mostly because it means less waste. I'd love to see this spread even to stores and such, where you had a display item and then a boring, recyclable package.
You should really get advice from a local lawyer or someone familiar with your own jurisdiction but I would almost guarantee that regardless of what you do (Incorporate, Partner, etc) you should do it prior to selling a single item. The reason for this, at best, is to stay on the good side of the tax law.

The second question varies based on type of business registered and your location. Google would probably be of good use here.
Official Google Blog: Letters to the Next President project
i still want to find a way to do this with ffmpeg (for the video) and sox (for the audio) plus maybe slide changeover detection, slide text recognition, face detection (to remove motion from speaker) etc etc etc. Feels like fixed camera video is not too hard to process...
Reminds me of "Microserfs", when the protagonists took to watching foreign movies on fast-forward, because they could still follow the subtitles.
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Voting increases the strength of your demographic, and then shifts the political allegiance of that demographic very slightly towards your views.

Do you seriously believe that young people would, as a demographic group, generally vote together to disband social security?

I don't think there's an old person vs young person divide at all. There's plenty of divide between conservatives, liberals, communists, libertarians, etc, of all age groups.
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Your vote DOES matter, statistically speaking. Disregarding the oddness of the electoral college, in most elections where the number of votes is directly relational to the outcome of the contest, the individual statistical importance of each vote decreases as the overall volume of votes increases. In elections where fewer votes are registered, the significance of each vote on the outcome increases.

In an election involving hundreds of millions of people, you can claim correctly that overall influence of your vote is tiny. That does NOT mean it doesn't matter. However, to properly represent the desire of the voter pool in aggregate, all people must participate. The outcome of an election is not to decide what you individually want, its to decide what the populace in general wants.

As to your other political statements, some I agree with, some not. I used to be very politically active(anti-war rallies, protests, supporting local candidates, volunteering, sign waving, etc).

If you're from a country where you can't vote, then your opinions aren't helping your fellow man. You need to get off the computer and go stand up to your corrupt leaders. You might get shot, but when enough people stand up things change. Hey, its kind of like voting!
I like that idea too.
Regardless of the validity of his revenue claim, Justin is a pretty nice guy.
Ask HN: What's the status of Heroku? (and other Rails hosting questions)
This is a followup to a previous thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=272031) where I asked about Rails hosting options. I'll be at a point soon with my app where I want to deploy it and am taking another look at my choices. Unfortunately, my sysadmin skills are very much lacking and while I want to learn, that's not a priority right now. That pretty much eliminates sites like Slicehost unless I want to pay someone to configure it. (I plan to learn, but taking the time to do that now will add several months onto my timeline, which I want to avoid).

I'm looking for a managed host and my research has led me to HostingRails and Heroku.

My initial impression of those two sites are:

Heroku - Very easy to set up and use, though I've read that they add a banner to your page unless you sign up for a premium account. I'd happily sign up and pay for one, but I don't see an option for that anywhere. Also, the fact that their site hasn't been updated in months worries me a little (correct me if I'm wrong). I'd love to support a YC company and their service looks great, but I'm hesitant.

HostingRails, compared to Heroku, takes a little bit more work to configure, but seems like a pretty good choice. A lot of the negative reviews are years old so its hard to tell whether the downtime issues that some complained about have been resolved. Their homepage guarantees 99.9% up time, which makes me believe that the issues are not longer major concerns. That being said, I worry that some of the positive reviews are actually staff, some parts of their website are a little sloppy, and they make you pay for a year in advance.

What do you guys (and gals!) think? Are there any other options I should consider?

Appreciate the help. (PS: I bought a Macbook yesterday per HN's advice and love it already -- thanks for the pointers!)
I am of the same opinion. You may want to check out my new book, Entrepreneur Journeys (Volume One):
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2008/09/09/entrepreneur-journeys...

Sramana
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"Cell phone sales are crashing. Notebook sales are rising. The netbook market is overcrowded."

Reference: http://www.pcworld.com/article/153150/

So why should Apple be worried about an overcrowded market with cut throat pricing? If Apple ever does make a netbook they will wait until it is an established market that they can make money at.
Thank you. This is also the reason why faster than light 'travel' can occur, if it doesn't transmit information.

Entanglement is slightly mysterious though as what is the physical mechanism behind it?
I can't speak for MaysonL, but I learned reading and math almost entirely at home. ( I wasn't home schooled though, I learned to read from my mom reading me bed time stories). I learned long division at school, but the mental math that I use every day on the job I taught myself.
Solyndra is producing a cylindrical shaped solar panel which is capable of capturing light from more directions:

http://www.solyndra.com/Products/Optimized-PV
It's already installed. Rubymine won't start, it keeps complaining "No JDK found to run RubyMine. Please validate either IDEA_JDK or JDK_HOME points to valid JDK installation"

I've tried messing with those variables in the script to point to the install path, but I must be missing something. Most often the error changes to "Error occurred during initialization of VM. Could not find agent library on the library path or in the local directory: yjpagent"
Not just social expectation (many would do it if there were no observers), but also increasing self satisfaction. Most people, myself included, derive utility from the belief that they are a good person.
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once your app/group/whatever is incurring potential liabilities, at least form an LLC. it might not be the best corporate entity for funding, but its cheap and easy, and will prevent you from getting your pants sued off.

if you pursue funding further, you can convert. it isn't the ideal situation, but things rarely are.
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Bibles or computers - it's the same thing.
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There are. There was a lot of Republican activity on the internet during the primaries. However, young Republicans and proprietors of prominent Republican websites were never big McCain fans. And of course, Obama is a pop star. So, Republicans have been silent on the internet of late.

Over the last eight years, many people have soured on the Republican Party because of Bush. Most young Republicans I know despise him. There won't be a lot of energy behind Republican Party candidates again until its leaders support the small-government principles that excite young activists.
You should really consider EngineYard (http://www.engineyard.com/). They are run by a group of really bright and genuinely nice people.

The founder, Ezra, is around HN as ezmobius.
A few of the professors I've spoken to aren't even sure the math works.
The campaign managers definitely see the old demographic as worth courting. They even have a "lobby:" the AARP. No sane politician torques off the seniors. That's one of the reasons why it's so hard to take their driver's licenses away, even when they are feeble.

If the young people had something like this, the drinking age may still be 18 instead of 21.
it's hilarious. don't ruin it.
Bob Barr??!!?? (barf.....)
Your concerns with heroku are non-issues. The banner is a semitransparent one that adds an edit button to take you to the online editor for your app. You can configure it to not show (http://groups.google.com/group/heroku/web/heroku-toolbar-set...). Also, they are very much active in their development: check the google group postings to see what I mean.
It's not exactly covered convincingly though. The reason it supposedly can't transfer information is because you'd have to measure it, and we assume that measurement strictly follows Born's rules, which is a whole other can of worms. Sometimes people talk about density matrices instead, but we only use those since they are consistent with Born's rules. Additionally, many physicists point out that what you seem to be doing when you perform a measurement is entangling the system with the many bazillion degrees of freedom in the measurement apparatus and the world at large. We don't know, exactly, where the separation between a 'measurement-like' physical process occurs, or even if there really is one.

There isn't even a standard measure of entanglement for three or more particles. It's a pretty big mystery, still.
99.9% uptime is not that great, actually, if you do the math. That's a 44 minute outage every month.