skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BlackBerry Storm review: No iPhone, but should sell well
JL & PG Speaking at Startup2Startup
Worked for me. You and your friend are probably flagged so your votes don't count on each other's posts. I can't remember if this is a manual flag or something IP based.
Good stuff. I'm going to audit my subscription page right now and see what I can improve. No way I'm gonna add a js countdown, though.

I never though about a discounted first month vs. 30 days free (that's what we do now). Why is this better? Less attrition?
Vocito
Analysis will definitely get easier and easier to automate. However, I am skeptical that it will every be truly commoditized.

Technology advances won't drive out human experts, it will just drive them higher up the chain. No longer do human experts have to do such mundane tasks as calculating averages. They are free to focus on more complicated aspects like building predictive models and programming the behavior of systems that analyze data. In the future, the list of "mundane" things they don't have to do will keep growing, and they can focus instead on controlling the behavior of the systems that do the analysis.
Yeah, having broken that story was certainly part of it. It was the first major story broken on the net.
Living and Learning with New Media
Ask HN: Any startup interested by a junior intern ?
I'm a junior looking for an internship in the US. Apparenlty, the big players only take grad students, so I was wondering if there's a startup there who'd like to hire a summer intern ?

I know well python, scheme, C and unix
Agreed. I have another bone to pick with this article as well.

"X is bad. You must do Y to succeed."

Absolute statements like this are almost always dangerous to make, and I don't trust the articles that make them. Success or failure at anything is all about making the right tradeoffs. Advice should focus on helping you weigh those tradeoffs intelligently rather than dictating absolutes.

But dictating absolutes is so much easier, and I guess that's why everyone does it.
Would be interesting to see if someone can learn from Googles experience and implement a similar service that will be more successful.
The 3 Advantages of a Start-up
As someone who gives out only my GrandCentral number... this is amazing. Even lets you create applications that call someone directly!

On second thought, GrandCentral better not go down, or at least let me buy my number from them...
New Xbox live: download netflix HD and more
I remember one of the first times taking my son to McDonald's, explicitly thinking that we were going to get some unhealthy food, but, hey kids love McDonald's, and it's just this once.

I got him a burger and fries. He tried them, but was not interested at all. (The milkshake on the other hand...)

I found myself going into dinner time Daddy mode: "You shouldn't waste that food, here, take a few more bites..."

When it hit me...what the Hell was I doing? I was trying to force my kid to like McDonald's. What kind of awful parent was I turning into?

So we got up, took the milkshake with us, and left.

(Since then, I think he has been socialized into liking McDonald's by peer and grandparent influence. But I dispute the contention that liking McDonald's food is a "natural" state.)
Why do people listen to this guy? He's got the English skills of a third-grader (though he does seem to be improving). He built a really bad site (even by online dating standards I'm told) and spammed it until the network effect took over. Yet a lot of people take his words as the gospel just because he gets a big AdSense check.
I thought they created MoCo specifically to fix this problem. I guess the IRS might complain about the years before MoCo was formed, though.
My Dell D830 is 1920x1200 @ 15.4", so it's not very far off. Best LCD I've ever had when portability is taken into account.
seems like a cheap way for weebly to get some more users... depending on what the final sale price goes to... And they could pick off any interesting features or code they liked.
I know someone who was using graph algorithims to study biological phonomena. Given a set of correlations, say, Protein A correlates significantly with Protein B, but inversely proportional to Protein C, what is the minimal graph that describes the relationships among Proteins A, B, and C? The bioinformatics folks apparently have been doing this for a while now.

What will be interesting is how the presence of tunnels affect these analysis, or better yet, whether mining the data would reveal the presence of the tunnelling nanotubes.
Thanks for understanding, luckystrike.

I was the one that asked Ezra to keep an eye on Evan and Rubinius after RubyConf 2006. We really felt that the community would benefit from an industrial strength Ruby runtime, and still feel that way today.

We hired Evan more than 6 months before we received venture funding.

When we received our series A funding, we hired the best team we could get our hands on and hoped to push Rubinius through to 1.0, which we define as no apologies MRI parity, as quickly as possible.

Things are good here at Engine Yard. We have a growing customer base, and very interesting new products in the pipeline. As with all other business in these times, sharpening the budget just makes very good sense.

We did what we felt we must do to make certain we could continue funding Rubinius through to completion.
Stem cell researches have found that in order to grow a healthy organ, the progenitor cells must be in a certain physical arrangement. For example, bladder stem cells won't produce a bladder unless it is in some sort of rough surface. The tunnelling nanotubes can certainly explain this.

There are also other engineering disciplines that analyzes biology as a source of inspiration. I think abstracting the concept of transit, hidden networks will go a long way towards constructing self-building nanotechs.
Are you saying that it is morally wrong to take money from relatively rich people to give to relatively poor, but not the other way around? I think any (Government) wealth redistribution is morally wrong, but that's just my 2 cents!
Congratulations, Barack - Now fix your websites
I expect, like Oracle, almost all users of Mathematica are on their institution or employer's site licence.

There's plenty of cheap maths software (e.g. MathCad) and free (e.g. Sage, Octave) around.
Google Mobile Uses iPhone Private APIs
The bottom line, if Detroit wants money it needs to justify why it's not just going to sink it into the same failed structure it currently has.

Mitt makes some excellent points, it's not that we shouldn't support this industry, we should just do it with consideration and some sensible caveats.

Personally this argument goes for Wall Street as well. Not that it's something Mr Paulson seems to understand.
The author was previously the CTO of Ask. As another search engine, the fixation is more understandable.
The Secret to Raising Money from VCs
It took us ages. I'd suggest you don't worry too much about it. Give yourself time and get your friends and family thinking about it. Eventually someone will come up with something that doesn't suck. Use placeholder graphics in the meantime and don't waste time on it until you really need to make the decision.

Try looking at keyword search patterns on Google AdSense. You'll get more passive traffic if your URL matches a search term. It can be a good way to identify keywords.
New Simple Social News UI Design
http://pickydomains.com/ for $50 you can crowd-source it.
Is there a nice looking git client for windows?
Poor Google. They've got all these neat ideas that just don't work.
i honestly think that this was mainly setup in anticipation for the yahoo-google ad deal. yahoo would've been able to bring all the yahoo games to lively with a fresh new interface. the whole idea behind lively was that you can use lively as a virtual room to do other stuff, such as listening to music, watching videos, playing games, etc.

maybe i'm thinking too much about this, but i would've loved to see the yahoo-google partnership happen. it would've meant that google gets to distribute and leverage it's huge ad selling platform over yahoo, in return for higher yield and revenues for yahoo - good for both parties. i think if microsoft buys yahoo, the whole web will continue towards a downwards path where users get less and less. i'm not against microsoft, but it's just that their business is vast and has a huge eco-system. microsoft will partner with many traditional media companies and service providers, who will want to run the web their own way.

thoughts?
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?mo...

You are claiming that they are making 10x as much as a Denny's worker, before their benefits? They make $28 an hour before benefits (about 3 or 4x a Denny's waitress after tips). Including benefits they are making $41 an hour. That is still no where near your crazy ass 10x number, especially considering that you can hardly claim their pensions are worth the full $7 as there is a significant chance these companies will go bankrupt and they won't ever see it. If the market could sell employees an annuity in exchange (assuming the bankrupcy risk for itself), it would probably only offer a few cents on the dollar.
You're talking like his job was an entitlement. Companies go bust and people lose jobs, it happens a lot.

The reason people are talking UAW workers that way, is not because they begrudge the individual worker like your father - they don't.

It's because the car companies were not allowed to fire or lay off people as they wished, which gives a very strong impression of entitlement and job guarantees amongst UAW workers that no one else in america has.

If you got rid of that, and allowed car companies to hire and fire and set wages as they desired, people wouldn't be so opposed to the bailout. Personally I would support the bailout only if the company became non-union. So long as they stay unionized they will never survive, and the bailout will be wasted money.

As a whole UAW was very destructive to the auto business - not allowing a company to fire people, or change wages, is a great way to destroy a company - and they succeeded.

100 miles each way? That's about 4 hours of driving each day, add in overtime, and there's nothing left to your day. Why not find a closer job?
what? if you are completely devoid of good ideas then use this: http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm
Better yet, Create a witty "startup name" generator, monetize it, and live the good life...
i'll take that as a compliment. thanks.
The education person A's kids get along with the disproportionate share of SS/medicare benefits they get already mean they net gain from the tax system. So it is hardly fair to say:

>The bailout: tax person A in order to help person B

At least pick a person A who is net-net being taxed.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?mo...
On a large screen, PPI is not as important as on a smaller screen. On a 15" notebook, a ~100 ppi screen is perfectly fine and a larger ppi actually causes a fair bit of eyestrain due to the size of fonts, UI controls etc. Until we get a truly resolution independent OS (Snow Leopard maybe?), highly dense large size screens are not going to be the holy grail.
I think it is really good time for Yahoo to reinvent themselves... but of course they might need someone like S. Jobs
I've been researching netbooks lately. Most netbooks have a native resolution of 1024x600. Not only are 10.2" screens less "obsolete," (yet have a lower PPI) they are generally preferred by consumers over the 8.9" screens (both at 1024x600). Hence, I feel that the conclusion of this article is on shaky ground ...
Maybe I'm crazy, but that job sounds like fun. I love messing with incompetent people.
Since workers don't have the right to perform secondary strikes, why should automakers?
You mean envy, not jealousy:

Ordinary language tends to conflate envy and jealousy. The philosophical consensus is that these are distinct emotions.[2] While it is linguistically acceptable to say that one is jealous upon hearing about another's vacation, say, it has been plausibly argued that one is feeling envy, if either, in such a case. Both envy and jealousy are three-place relations; but this superficial similarity conceals an important difference. Jealousy involves three parties, the subject, the rival, and the beloved; and the jealous person's real locus of concern is the beloved—the person whose affection he is losing or fears losing—not his rival. Whereas envy is a two party relation, with a third relatum that is a good (albeit a good that could be a particular person's affections); and the envious person's locus of concern is the rival.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/envy/
Artificial AI-Our experiance with AWS Mechanical Turk
A quick write up of our experience using Amazon's mechanical Turk service.
5 Ways To Break Your Design Habits - Just for Fun
In order for this to measure to be meaningfull, typical viewing distances need to be taken into account. A better measure would be pixels per degree (PPD).
Ask YC: Info. on Tech Coast Angels?
Hey all,

I just attended the business plan competition kick-off we have here at UCI, and one of the sponsors is Tech Coast Angels. They claim to be the biggest seed investor firm in the nation, and they talked a pretty big talk. I was wondering if any of you have had any experience with them or have heard anything about them. I have not heard anything about them before, and perhaps some of you have.

Thanks.
I'd be willing to bet that that's not going to happen due to how involved it was and that it wasn't built off of any open source ideals.

Is this the first Google product to be explicitly killed (not counting ones that go stale after being acquired)?
Three presentation tips for your elevator pitch
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Seems to be the me-too ideas that fizzle like this.
Can we just buy Honda out and give them GM?
Have you seen Objective-J and Cappuccino? http://cappuccino.org
"entitlement and job guarantees amongst UAW workers that no one else in america has"

Well about 10% of Americans work for the government in some respect. How often do they get fired, in spite of doing nothing?

(Disclaimer: I once worked for State Government. I'm not sure how much work UAW members did, but I can't see how anyone can get less done than Government Employees did. For every one that worked really hard, there were three that were simply showing up and waiting for retirement.)
or Gil Amelio.
huh?? in the last 15 years gm has closed dozens of plants. yes, certainly the union fought to get the best deal collectively for their workers, but you have to have rocks in your head if you think people like my father felt entitled. they felt lucky to have a job.

as for finding another job... you highlight my point! it's pretty fucking difficult to find another job when after 20 years the only thing you're qualified to do is work in a general motors factory, particularly when your supporting a family. if my dad had the luxury of "finding another job", don't you think he would?

again, im not defending gm, the uaw, or any of the system as whole, i'm simply highlighting the fact that maybe the situation is a bit more nuanced than you understand.
Laid Off? Top Ways to Find Opportunities in Open Source
I'm trying to make a better voting site: I call it Mushpot. I'd love to hear your comments
I'm wondering where these GM employees with zero deductible healthcare are. My dad is a retiree, and the last time he had zero deductible healthcare was in 1998, when it was much cheaper for the company.

Nowdays he pays 100% of his office visits and has some yearly deductible for other things. It's still a good health plan, but it's not exactly gold-plated.

GM has done some incredibly stupid things, even my dad thinks the job bank was ridiculous, but they have made a lot of changes in the last 5-8 years, and were probably going to glide into something new and better had the market for cars not fallen apart.

Now I'm not saying I support a bailout, I still think Chapter 11 probably makes the most sense, even if it means my dad's pension might get cut. I'm just trying to point out that a lot of these things that people bring up when they talk about GM (job banks, super health insurance, high wages) are issues that are no longer the case. When my dad retired, they already had his plant converted to $14/hr non-union workers.
If Rails is a Ghetto, Merb is a Whorehouse
Google should open-source the project and let the community take over and continue development.
'Google Answers' was shut down (but leaving the archives up) in November 2006, after over 4 years of operation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers
Slight correction: hostile to proprietary usage. Lots of people are making money using GPL
5 Excellent Ways to Screw Up your Web Marketing Campaign
After years of optimizing and promoting websites our team has seen about every web promotion fumble, roadblocks, hindrances possible that can limit a webmaster from reaching their online saturation goals. The fact of the matter is that many of these problems could have been easily avoided.
I'm going to disagree and say Google hasn't had many neat ideas in years. I can't think of anything they've done recently that's had anywhere near as much impact as PageRank, AdSense/AdWords, Google Maps, or Gmail. All of those were released in 2005 or earlier.

Knol is a tweaked Wikipedia. Lively is a Second Life clone. Open Social was the response to Facebook Apps.

Chrome, Android, and maybe App Engine are the only recent things I can think of that have any potential.
World's smallest website
I know for a fact that my near blind mother would not want a high PPI screen. It took me forever to upgrade her to an LCD because should just couldn't read the screen. Higher PPI is great, but we need resolution independence to make it work.
Ah yeah Google Answers...
>>Success or failure at anything is all about making the right tradeoffs. Advice should focus on helping you weigh those tradeoffs intelligently rather than dictating absolutes.

Very well said indeed!
Interesting. I would up the font size and review the "no likey" system. It might encourage flame wars.
I was at Mashup Camp this week and one of the guys from IBM pointed me at a library called Flare (http://flare.prefuse.org/) which has a number of prefabricated visualizations you can run on data.

The discuss we had was along the lines of using tools like Yahoo! Pipes or IBM's Mashup Hub to combine data in new and interesting ways and then throw it at a the visualization library to see what representation fit the output.

I think this would be absolutely applicable to processing data with Hadoop/Pig. By trying a number of standard displays to represent data it would be easy for non-technical folks to find new and interesting trends.
Seems to operate on a chapter-basis with different operating team behind each group. Not rated very highly, called a social club for part time investors.
Hm, I have a 12" with 1400x1050, and its pretty eyestraining, and I'm only getting 145ppi?!

160 seems scary :(
You need to find a person who does math with synesthesia and ask them what numbers look good next to your website.
Why Make a Book Database
Invest in the domain name, most domains that are taken are by domain scrapers and are used as ad landing pages. Most of these domains are for sale at the right price.

Do not buy the typical web 2.0 sounding domain name.

The time of $9.95 domains is over.
"It's also great to have quick access to files sent by that person, separate from emails. Digging through emails to find the right one that a file attachment was attached to is no fun in Gmail or pretty much any other mail program"

Seems like you haven't worked out the 'search' functionality on gmail. Why are you grouping/labeling/etc? Just search for someones name and find all their email.
Hate the name, but like the idea. Ties in with some stuff I'm working on myself. Get in touch if you want (oh and update your profile.. maybe an idea for your site - verified logins count more?)
"Advice should focus on helping you weigh those tradeoffs intelligently rather than dictating absolutes."

is the best thing I remember reading on YC. I've read books that were less profound then that sentence. I always thought that, but as a newbie inventor/entrepreneur, it's good to have put so succinctly and up front.
Right, but originally you were talking about how the information in an MP3 file restricts your ability to sell it.

You can probably imagine how silly it would feel to make sure you lose your MP3 after selling it, and what would you even ask for the MP3? Fiddy cent ?
we'll he's onto something, but that doesn't mean you don't have to listen. The most active users are often several hundred percent more active than the average joe. In fact, there's no relevance of the "average" user because the the user pattern doesn't follow a bell curve, it's a power law. Check out http://www.extremedemocracy.com/chapters/Chapter%20Three-Shi... for some interesting math on many-to-many people networks.
Person A: 200, 417, 502.
Person B: 204, 503
Person A: 400?!
Person B: 402...
Person A: 405, 200
Person B: 206, 205, 200?
Person A: 100.

Your really quite limited on what situations you can play out with HTTP codes... :P
So google, a company that prizes automation and data-driven decision-making over subjective filters and editorial oversight....doesn't do so hot with community-driven projects?

Not so surprised.

I dunno, I get a warm feeling when stuff like this flops for them. Shows they're human. They probably learned a great deal that will be applied elsewhere.
Sure would be awesome if it was recorded and made available on the internets.
I have to affect a terrible American accent on a fairly regular basis to get through IVRs here.

Sadly I wrote about the need of voice recognition users to adopt a mild accent to get the best use out of their systems in my thesis, 4 years ago. It's unlikely to change in the short term...
You're right, it is difficult. But where your Dad is at (the same place my Dad was at) is nothing more than the product of their own decisions. Is it anyone's fault but your Dad's that he's only qualified to work in a factory? Is it anyone's fault but my Dad's that he didn't learn about computers even though he saw them appearing everywhere?

My Dad was able to learn some new skills and eventually land on his feet after being unemployed for quite some time. Hopefully your Dad is able to do the same.
All that talk about unions misses one much more systemic point. It's that linking social benefits to individual employment relationships is a bad idea. It creates dependencies that make the system inflexible. It reduces worker mobility. It creates long term obligations that individual companies, not matter how large, can never garantee.

It's a paternalistic model that puts companies in the position of families or states that care for people based not on merit but on human needs and dignity. Both are important but mixing them creates a conflict of interest.

Money is flexible. Use money to pay people for work. Not health plans and pensions, not stock options, just money and people can go and buy all of the former. Keep things simple.
There are some good suggestions here. When I designed my new blog at tom.preston-werner.com I wanted to do it without any images as design elements. When you do this, you really have to pay attention to your text colors and typeface choices. I guess it's a little like losing your sense of sight and your hearing becomes more acute. Designing outside your comfort zone can be a great learning experience.
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Next time you're in a meeting and need to draw a quick diagram, I suggest you race the guy below with the TX2. Tablets are seriously useful.