skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
b-b-but...THE CLOUD!!!
Solar is pretty much in the process of taking off.

The world market grew by 62% year over year last year.

http://www.solarbuzz.com/Marketbuzz2008-intro.htm
Nanosolar actually makes low-cost printed solar cells.
well yes, voters are holding the incumbent party responsible
I also upgraded it with this RAM from Newegg for $55:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231...

Not only is it 4 GB, but it's lower latency than the stock RAM so it's a little bit faster.
Have you ever tried to charge end-users ? We are doing this on gtalk2voip.com for past two years. I can tell you it's a bitch! We are trying to get rid of this model soon as possible. I don't advise to any other startup to step into this crap as we did.

Thanks anyway.
After a few months of writing to TechCrunch personally, as well as sending them my press release I finally managed to get www.HearWhere.com covered by them this week.

This happened after TechRadar (http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/20-websites-you-n...) covered HearWhere. I don't know if having another site cover my site first had an effect, and TechCrunch never contacted me directly, they just wrote, and I found out about it after i saw a traffic spike.

I don't know if it is the current economic climate, but TechCrunch did not drive near the amount of traffic I was expecting. Good reviews and comments, but as far as traffic, I saw an increase of course, but it wasn't a great spike in traffic I expected.

With respect to your comment about 'no good .com domain names left', I have to call that a load of b.s.
If I managed to get "HearWhere" as a domain name, as well as some of other good names for other businesses, you can find a good name.
It takes time, and can be a pain in the ass (it took me about a week to find HearWhere and maybe it was the 30th domain name I tried, but take the time and find a '.com' name. At the least a '.net', but '.biz' just doesn't cut it.
Plus, when freeringer takes off, you would be increasing the value of a .com or .net name, and making it a prime target for a competitor to get at your market.

Much safer to get a new name I think.

Your reasons for DOB and other data doesn't quite cut le moutard either in my opinion.
Particularly if you aren't getting users because you are asking for too much information, then you aren't going to get the add revenue either.
How do you not see paying for the next OS X coming? Each OS X release date is one of its year's most hyped computing events.
sounds like they started to watch Fight Club...

this is my favorite scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhnwU91QuQA
This is the sort of thing I worry about cloud services...it's not that I don't already do this at home on some level with an ISP but what kind of freedom (if you pardon the use of that term) in computing do we have if Google/Amazon/MS just decides to not care for me on that particular day? Or they get (easily) convinced that I may have committed some kind of a crime (they don't even have to know what now days in the US).

Sure they care if they do this to a lot of their customers all at once because of some kind of hardware failure or outage...but there's the uncertainty of their customer service. They already have my money do they really have to care or just kinda sorta care?

You can throw around words about free markets and choice all you want but once they got your money they cease to care. See cell phone companies.

I still don't like it.
Meh. I don't like Obama either, but take it somewhere else.
This caught my eye:

Kinesis keyboards unfortunately rocades [sic] the entire upper row one key. This may not matter much if the layout is numbers in ANSI order, but it causes the wrong finger assignment in the Programmer Dvorak layout.

This is either dated or simply inaccurate, because it ignores the fact that on a Kinesis Advantage Pro (like mine) you can remap any key to any other key at the keyboard level.

Of course, I haven't tested this with such a wacky Dvorak layout, or with any Dvorak for that matter. I'm a believer in good ergo keyboards, but I'm not a believer in Dvorak.
I thought everybody had a friend at Google. I've been in the valley too long.
Dynamic IDEs for Dynamic Languages
This has happened to me about once a week for the last several months!

All I have to do to unlock it is solve a few captchas, wait a few minutes, and try again. I'm guessing that after they put in the infrastructure to make it easy to unlock your account, they got a lot more trigger-happy about locking them in the first place.
They try. A friend of mine is on the GMail team...they do, in fact, very frequently go above and beyond the call of duty, given that it's a free service. And, people who pay for it do get more attention (probably more attention than $50/yr warrants in many cases).
A bit of a non-sequitur there? It's not exactly easy or cheap to figure out where to dig, then to get the rights to mine there, then to actually build a mine. Mining and entrepreneurship generally aren't competing for the same stock of people or money.
Be warned that in my Safari this page popped up an effing huge full-screen ad window behind my main window... and then the ad started talking to me.

Utterly obnoxious. I guess that's what I get for leaving "Block Pop-Up Windows" switched off...
mbox and Maildir have both been around for years, and will be around for years to come. Both are easily converted into each other, and there are many common tools for reading and writing them. Most major languages have APIs for working with either spool type.

mbox has been around for at least 20 years. I don't know if it will be around for 30 years, but it's such a simple format, that I'm sure you could deal with it in 30 years even if no tools still commonly use it--you can open it in a text editor and make sense out of it without any parsing, at all, for example. (MIME encoded messages are much harder to parse, and can contain infinite other formats, but the actual email is always gonna be easy to get at.)
I have my eyes on the 13" 2.0GHz Macbook w/ 4GB Ram and SSD. The price adds up to be a little more than entry-level MBP. What do you guys think?
Won't all clicks beyond the first generally not count? Every respectable CPC network (and fwiw, some of those ads may be cpm) has click fraud prevention stuff to prevent that.
Peter Drucker had a telling piece of (anecdotal, but telling nonetheless) evidence on the subject. After World War II, a large proportion of students at Columbia were returned veterans, thanks to the GI Bill. Most of them would not have been considered, or considered themselves, candidates for college before the war. None of them were on academic probation.

Motivation and application are much more important than any hypothesized "native ability". "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" Practice.
Web system cleans up athletes' footprint
Anyone who would vote yes on Proposition 8 is a bigot.

I'm a bigot. All reasonable men are bigots.

LOL @ Downmods. Listen guys, honorable men can disagree. If you label the MAJORITY on an issue "bigots" you are setting yourself up for a strategic failure. Howso? Because labeling a majority as "Bigots" makes bigotry the status quo. Kay? Okay? Got it? Understand the mathematics behind it?

Got it?

Use your brains. "Gay Marriage" is an utter absurdity, and would have been reckoned so throughout the entire globe for 10,000 years. We are not exceptions. We are made of the same stuff as our ancestors. Don't believe the television just because it's full of neurotic headcase Harvard-graduated farce-composers.
Atlassian wiki deal with Microsoft
I think at this point its more like turn a corner, find the onramp (in an unfamiliar neighborhood), and get up to highway speeds.
Are you using a Lenovo now?
I've been meaning to say the same about my 17" (hires video, 7200 rpm drive).
I've been using Colemak for a bit over a month now.
http://colemak.com/

It's based on some research not available when Dvorak was designed, but with similar goals plus ease of switching from and compatibility with Qwerty (ex: most punctuation and bottom row are unchanged). It took under two weeks to get to about 25wpm, which was about where it stopped feeling painfully slow for me.
Consider replacing the HD in one of the aluminum Macbooks with one of the new Intel SSDs (about $600 now for 64GB) which will speed up IO drastically. Or wait half a year and do it substantially more cheaply.
I have a 17" MBP, refurbed, and a macmini, refurbed. Never had a problem. I used to have a 15" MBP, bought new through work, nothing but problems.
AirBed & Breakfast: Better Than a Cheap Hotel
Unfortunately, the people doing the real work say very little about how they figured it all out.
Flag it and move on, folks. Nothin' to see here.
That sounds absolutely miserable. These kinds of opportunities can not be forced.

The candidate who seeks this role is the wrong candidate to hire, in my experience.
"breaking news thru them" means that they wanna be the first one amomg the mass media to break the news.

Hint hint: make sure the PRs you released weren't being indexed by a search engine. A google search is the first thing they would do. :) make your emails short and not an essay about what you do. Let you service not be common. Atleast hav some different features. If these and 'more' conditions of theirs are satisfied. You should be lucky.

Also mashable has a separate category which features a startup every week. That category is sponsored by Sun.
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Have, not of.
"breaking news thru them" means that they wanna be the first one amomg the mass media to break the news.

Hint hint: make sure the PRs you released weren't being indexed by a search engine. A google search is the first thing they would do. :) make your emails short and not an essay about what you do. Let you service not be common. Atleast hav some different features. If these and 'more' conditions of theirs are satisfied. You should be lucky.

Also mashable has a separate category which features a startup every week. That category is sponsored by Sun.

Also, can the method u use to make free calls be used to send free sms? I have a requirement in my startup to send sms. But there's only one carrier in my country which has a free email to sms gateway. The rest charge millions. If yes, then is the a way i can contact you?
AOL Mail gets snarky towards Gmail (read the comments)
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Amnesty criticises Global Network Initiative for online freedom of speech
I picked colemak for this reason. (Which is made ironic because I use emacs and so it doesn't really matter because the keybinds are different anyway.)
Its worth checking it out. Hard to tell if a new layout is any better or worse.
If you are buying a new macbook today, you are right, it does not matter, they will all be fine.

I was thinking about a 13" white macbook my colleague used to use which I thought had a processor that did not have VT support (as not all Intels do http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/coreduo...) as there was an issue about it. But, frankly, it sounds like you are probably right and I have made a mistake or am confused (I won't be 100% sure until I can ask him on Monday, and Google is not doing much to help me other than to show how fast HN is being cached - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&#... returns this page as the top result minutes after these comments!).

So, good call :)
Look at it this way, I've read every page on the internet (how do you think the crawler works?)

If you complain about it online, I'll be there ;)

In seriousness: I don't know. I try to be helpful about these sorts of things as a sort of pay it forward kind, where if I ever have problems with a large faceless corporation I hope someone will step in and help me out. I tried to do the same when I worked at startups (and especially there, few people know someone who works there).

This is obviously inherently unscalable, but in many respects, tech support is as well. I don't know what the plans are (this seems a pretty big pain point for everyone), and I'm sure people who do know can't talk about it...

I'm not sure what you want me to say. I care deeply about some of the products I work with/use (not just Google's mind you), and as much as possible I try to help out people when they're stuck. Broad policy changes are outside of my control, and I apologize for that.
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What, no Slashdot? ;)
Compare the default rate for Freddie/Fannie loans with those for non-Freddie/Fannie loans. No contest.
Another study: teacher motivation is the key differentiator in a school's results.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_ki...
Sorry, I didn't notice your reply until just now..
I'd say something along the lines of "Someone who pursues payment for something."
Drought land 'will be abandoned'
I'll tell you one thing: a white macbook is not a good laptop for travelling a lot. Mine is busted along the seams, the hard drive failed after 5 months, and the plastic above the hard drive has now turned yellow, I assume because of the heat. Also, the keyboard is missing a lot of standard keys for my language.

I wish I had gone for the IBM x series instead. They look like they can handle the travel much better.
Here is a policy change for you to consider/champion.

How about not blocking an entire account for an infraction in a single field. If someone did something wrong with their adwords account block their adwords not their email. And if someone sent emails you suspect are SPAM don't shutdown their blog, just disable sending emails from the account...
"... A bit of a non-sequitur there ..."

Do you mean it's illogical? If so use the simpler English equivalent.

"... It's not exactly easy or cheap to figure out where to dig, then to get the rights to mine there, then to actually build a mine. ..."

Well lets be specific here. Most mining is occurring in Australia is within known areas. So finding where is not as expensive as you might think. New fields maybe. The most profitable are the big existing fields. For most reserves, the key part is a case of following the geology. The country is extensively mapped and contract Geologists do the sampling. Rights for mining in the past have been as simple as staking a claim & registering it, laying down the cash. Aboriginal rights to land and it's use have only just become an issue for most mining companies. Money here is percentages of profits.

Now there is real skill in mine construction and engineering; Building the infrastructure and processes and maintaining these systems. It should be no surprise that best mining software company, http://www.mincom.com/Company/About/ is in Australia. While not easy it's easy to visualise, cost and imagine.

What do I mean by being lazy? It's easier for financiers and investors to see this type of investment rather than watching dollars being invested in human capital and ideas. Yet they think nothing of writing off investments that failed when the commodity market tanks and ore yields are not economic.

Coal, Iron-ore, gas, zinc, gold... in terms of commodities Australia has the lot. But this leaves the country vulnerable to economic changes. Chinese demand for Iron-ore drops, coal usage around the world becomes more expensive due to trading and the economy tanks. Is there a better way to create wealth?

"... Mining and entrepreneurship generally aren't competing for the same stock of people or money. ..."

Entrepreneurship follows Money and while the money is being made off commodities, less effort will be put into the type of Entrepreneur that creates wealth from intangible ideas. So would the student who is interested in physical sciences say the mechanical engineer, the geologist or geophysicist be capable of Startups if they knew there was opportunity to do so? Would more money then flow to successful companies they create?

Here's a compelling idea: "Is there more wealth generation potential in mining for minerals or building businesses based on intangible ideas like software?" Minerals are finite. Ideas are not.
House
The Plot: A freak accident strands a couple on a deserted back road in Alabama. Happening upon the Wayside Inn, they meet another couple — victims of a similar accident — and thus begins a game enacted by a killer known as the Tin Man. Can the couples survive the night, knowing the only “safe” way out of the inn is to kill one of the four of them?
Keep in mind that IQ can be measured in a 15 minute test. Almost every metric takes much, much longer. "Long term goal focus" requires...well, it requires the "long term", which makes it much less useful regarding particular policy positions.

Here's a 9 year old child...what's his IQ? 115. What's his long-term-goal-focus? Only god knows.
Ugh, just happened to me too. IMAP still works for what it's worth..
Like this:

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If you're not seeing intelligent discussion on other sites, that may have more to do with the discussers than the sites.

Seeing as how nonhackernews.com has pretty much the exact same format and interface as news.yc, what makes you think that having a walled off area on this site for non-hacker news would either 1) provide discussion that is more intelligent than on other sites, or 2) encourage intelligent discussers to contribute to it? In the latter case, it will just make it easier for smart people to better avoid those topics anyway. In both cases, those topics don't get intelligent discussion because the topics are hot-button topics that can't be discussed intelligently anyway, and smart people realize that (ie, we all know that discussion of X here is not going to sway anyone's opinion on it). Additionally, they distract from the REAL topics that are considered more meaningful to discuss.
Article makes a good point. Microsoft is a colossal monster that, while not as fierce as it once was back in the age of the browser wars, still no beast to be taken lightly.

I'm reminded of pg's article about "Microsoft is Dead" (http://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html). While pg makes many good points and it is undoubtedly true that Microsoft isn't something that companies cower in fear of anymore, they are still alive and still moving forward at impressive speed. The beast may be dead, but the animal still lives. I don't believe Microsoft will be going away anytime soon. Maybe in my lifetime they'll eventually truly become a dwarf company and eventually burn out (I'm 18), but that happening soon I just can't believe is likely.
Comeon. As of Sat Nov 1 23:56:56 PDT 2008, no match for domain "FREERINGR.COM".
These are the things dreams are made of.
Although, admittedly, that would mildly conflict with the version that has an E in the name, which appears to be an ad spam site, which would only encourage the domain owner to hold on to it (since it would start making more money thanks to you).

But I suspect that freeringer.biz would have this same effect on the .com.
Sorry I must have explained things poorly. There are lots of little blurbs "X happened, would you like to go look?". Sometimes that go look is a backwards motion and sometimes its forward. "X happened, « would you like to go back" looks really strange.
Would be nice to have a warning also. "Hey, you're doing X and if you don't stop, we'll disable your account!"
Look at the Xbox. They pretty much said "hey, we'd like to make video games", and a few years later are a major major player in the market (before the Wii, it looked as if the game was just Microsoft and Sony, and Sega and Nintendo were looking like also-rans.) Similarly, think of IE, and the amazing market share it has (its fading a bit, but there was a while when it looked as if Microsoft didn't care about IE at all...)

Its one thing to say "gosh, Microsoft has sucked at this internet thing", but another to say that they're not in the game. Microsoft has proven again and again that they can say "hey, we want to win" and they take the market by storm.
I think they switched jobs, ev become CEO and the other guy became chairman. I guess neither of them is good at fetching coffee.
It really depends on your price point. I do ruby dev work (merb, postgres, nginx) on Mac Air and absolutely _love_ it. Its by far the best laptop experience I've ever had.

I have not run into any problem with performance for my dev work or for testing using VMWare Fusion running Windows XP and Ubuntu server.
Agreed. White does not travel well. I've learned there's a reason most travel gear is sold in black -- it hides the dirt and scratches!

To keep my white MacBook looking clean, I bought a ProTouch keyboard cover from iSkin, and a "PalmGuard" wristpad covers from Moshi -- and even then, I try to use an external keyboard and mouse as much as possible to reduce wear and tear on the laptop.

I'm glad Apple's brief flirtation with white laptop design is over.
DisasterTech: "Decisions for Heroes"
MacBook trackpads not registering clicks
I read that on neuroscience blogs and peer-reviewed papers, they were doing fMRI based tests on subjects and their life achievements (but, as usual, telling them they were testing something else.) I can't find it right now as "long-term goal" is just too broad for a search (on Google Scholar.) It is very likely in one of the Encephalon entries, but there are about 52 of those with 10 to 20 references each, and spread out over dozens of blogs (they each turn in a different neuroscience blog.) Even if you don't find it, you'll sure find very interesting research in an easy to read form (well, [interesting] at least for me.)

Related but not what I had in mind at that moment:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/09/18/060918fa_fact?cu...

I don't know much about anything. My back-in-time kind of dream is to make my (younger) self pick neuroscience (well, that or protein biochemistry.)
It's easy for those who live in ivory towers to write books justifying how they deserve to live in ivory tower. I would be much more intruiged in somebody writing a book explaining how he should actually be a plumber.

One of my college professors always starts a new session by telling the story of how he bacame a professor. He started off by learning how to be an electrician, because that's all everyone around him was doing. This is in a 3-tier schooling system. After doing that for a while, an instructor encouraged him to go for a somewhat higher learning to become a technician. He did, and there again, he decided on a whim to try out for the university. He got in, and was encouraged to get a PHD. He got it, and some years later, was made a professor.

It would have been real easy for him to have stayed an electrician. Maybe he could have met a girl and needed to pay bills. Maybe he would have felt he was too old. He had the intellectual ability, but the tiered system could have forced him into a path where he would never have been able to contribute what he has to everyone who passed through him.
I believe that beyond 'creating a startup', it is rather INNOVATION that is something that is more than ever needed in times of crisis and recession. That is both true for startup companies and may be even more so for major corporations and brands.
And even more during deep crisis when internal resources are lacking and budget shrinking, major corporations will have no other choice than managing innovation in an 'Open and collaborative' new way, and especially collaborating with innovative startups... These major corporations will therefore have to transform themselves into 'Open innovation' champions faster than what they would have done in a more 'comfortable' economy.
From a crisis to an opportunity ?
PS: this change management mission is the 'raison d'etre' of bluenove (www.bluenove.com), and as its CEO and founder i still consider we are in a startup phase so this article is for the least quite supportive ;-)
I can't afford a Ferrari, but I can get the best laptop on the market. And that's the Macbook Pro. You may be able to find a better value, but you won't be able to find a better machine. If you have the money, get one.