skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are often copying the wrong ideas. Why copy a reading list site or make yet-another-alternative-HN-view site, when you could start a real business?

I find Patrick's posts and comments invaluable. He's made a real business selling bingo cards to teachers. He pays contractors and venders thousands of dollars per year.

He has this way of writing that makes what he does sound easy: "a SQL query here, A/B test there, and whoopsie, I just made $35K."

I set out to copy BCC. I asked my wife, "Is there a software product you wish existed, but doesn't?" She wanted a site where she can make custom cupcake wrappers. So I set about making it. It's been nearly a year, and we're only now over $200/month in revenue and +150 unique users per day. It's been a lot of hard work, but along the way, interacting with customers, I realized there's an opportunity to build a real business. We're about to buy a cutting machine and custom dies so we can move from just selling PDFs to fulfilling physical orders. Who knows, with all the emails I've collected, we may start a selling custom web hosting for bakers and party planners.

So, I just want to say: by all means copy something. Clone someone's successful website if you must, but copy their hard work. Copy their market validation. Build a real business.
This is disingenuous, Accuweather is headquartered in College Station, PA... The state that Santorum represented as senator. The owners, employees at Accuweather are his constituents.
Observing Lent When the Ashes Fade
Much like New Year’s resolutions, one of the greatest challenges of Lent is follow-through. The first week (actually half a week) is pretty easy. Your resolve is fresh; a little ash still lingers on your forehead...
The best part about this in my opinion is that the controller system works on both the client and server. I've been waiting for this, was planning on building it myself if no one figured that out.

I hope this grows. I'd love to contribute too.
I imagine there's several ways to do it, it's a matter of figuring out which one is the most efficient for the situation at hand.

For instance, you could log what key was pressed with its own mouse event, then detect a generic mouse release event not tied to the key, look up the log that recorded what key was pressed, and then react accordingly to that. I wouldn't think it would be the best method for a multi-touch device though.
At least, by making it a for-pay service, the likelihood of Google just shutting it down in the middle of the night is lessened (although still present). However, anyone competent enough to be passing data to an API can pass data to one of the many open source ML libraries that are available for many languages. I don't see the point.
Low Emission Cars of 2012
In the race of auto production many companies presented their cars with the modern out look and environmentally friendly cars having the features of fuel economy and hybrid system that can overcome the high budget into the safe and profitable so the engineers took pain and invented the low emission cars having the more and up to date features with more power which is the need of the World in the destructive economy level.
Oh my, my poor server is not handling this very well.

The text is at https://gist.github.com/1926119
What the iPad 3's rumors means for iPad 2 prices
Glad it worked well for you. It had its day and now, happily, the sort of machine learning that was in POPFile is everywhere.
If things keep getting as good as this my gut feeling is that some states will start suing Amazon to get a list of the customers from their state along with all their purchase history. Then they will send a bill to those people for taxes owed along with late charges and interest.

I'd be surprised if some states have not even considered this. Does anybody know if it would even be allowed by law?
How We Designed ShopLocket: A Step by Step Guide
We are complex machines, aren't we?
It's great to see these tools available on a cloud computing basis. Just make sure you read the ToS:

1.2. From Customer to Google. By submitting, posting or displaying any Customer Data on or through the Service, Customer gives Google a worldwide, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, non-exclusive, terminable, limited license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Customer Data for the sole purpose of enabling Google to provide Customer with the Service in accordance with the Agreement.
Unfortunate naming conflict... http://towerjs.com/
Serving Large-scale Batch Computed Data with Project Voldemort
I hope it makes more sense if you replace this snippet in the context of the post.

Visual Studio is a great IDE for the .net programmer.

It's terrible as a platform for which you build managed addins/plugins.
> but most historians don't consider dawn-to-dusk to have been typical agrarian working hours

Probably because they've never worked on a farm.
Nope, but I did post some of this in some hn comments before...
It is funny how it is fine to be manipulated. Perhaps it's something in our desire/bias to follow, and we do cause we feel respected by those two.
Thank you for constantly bringing reason to this type of comment on HN.

I don't read names first for some reason, but reading this, I thought to myself, "heh, sounds like Patrick". You're consistently great.
This is a prime example that shows how making assumptions about a problem can lead to clever but invalid solutions. (The assumption in this case would be that they cloned another part of the image in order to hide the ball)
SMBC: It cuts both ways[1]

[1]http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2434
The best way to stand out is to go and have lunch,dinner,breakfast with people who might need your services. I think it's called networking.

I could care less about being known as the best programmer in the world, I want to be guy people turn to when they have a problem. By the time people realize they need a developer it's so far down the food chain that most of the value has been extracted by people who go to breakfast lunch and dinner with people. People who network create value, people who code create software.
Ah, I didn't realize we were having an intellectual discussion at that level here. Your counter-argument to historical research is essentially, "fuck them ivory tower mothafuckas, I've got anecdotes"?
the point of calling it slavery arises from having to take orders from some boss, not just from any particular boss.

if startup owners had few choices in life but to service some group of customers, i'd expect it would also be labeled slavery.
Are stale data evil?
When good people sign a NDA it counts for something.

When you're dealing with lying buggers though, it represents an option to sue. Insurance is similar.
so... what part is disingenuous?
I got as far as having some really intensely focused world of warcraft sessions on modafinil... What a waste...
I've returned plenty of things and I have never had this happen. I have however had them tell me to keep the item when the return shipping was going to cost them more than the item itself is worth. Which to me is good customer service and smart business thinking.
C++ and .NET are not "orthogonal" at all on the Windows desktop.

Well, I believe they are, except if by Desktop you mean "corporate desktop".

But I mean all the hundreds of millions user desktops, which I don't consider a "tiny niche".
IMO, calibre is two-way. From any file format to any other.

That is _hard_ to do really good. Text is the easy part. What about tables? What about image captions and footnotes?

What such a project would need is one master file format from which other formats are derived. But not the other way around.

Having disjoint repositories for books/software is a good idea though.
Completely true. I bought shoes on Amazon, after 3 months they started to fall apart. I went on service chat and they refunded my full cost immediately and didn't even ask for me to return the old shoes.
I don't want another website/web-app (GitHub, StackOverflow, place-with-karma-where-cool-kids-hangout) where I have to prove myself again and again.

Especially not when the website has more controls than I am.

Especially knowing that it is better to use my free time to make a business than showcase my skill (unless you're a contractor/consultant).
This happens all the time, even for acquisitions which eventually succeed. Eric Sink sold his company to Microsoft and mentioned at the BoS 2010 conference that the deal status was "Totally dead: neither party will take any more action regarding this opportunity" two separate times prior to them finally doing it.
A very good answer why dropbox got so popular
Amazon Prime has definitely lowered my "impulse shopping" threshold.

One Friday morning last summer, I decided to do some work around the house that weekend, but I didn't have a big enough ladder. A couple clicks later, I have a 22 foot extension ladder being delivered to me on a Saturday.

Even with Saturday overnight delivery it was $2 cheaper than Home Depot, and I didn't have to try to figure out how to cram the ladder into my econobox car to bring it home.
Couldn't they use the same legal mechanisms (wholly-owned subsidiaries, etc.) employed today to avoid charging sales tax to customers in located in states with Amazon distribution centers?
Startup Weekend & Tech Cocktail Compete To Recruit Startups For Startup America
When Bill Gates urged Apple to license Mac technology
This is the part I don't follow - who benefits from this? Yellow Cab? How? It seems like "easier communication between service seekers and service providers" would be a win for everybody.
I have a basic app that does this using GeoServer, it's pretty simple and all open source. See http://beta.democracymap.org
Centralized? Not any that I know of.

Secretaries of State seems to keep shapefiles of their districts, but its never all of them. Check those websites first.

Local boards of elections are required to keep some record of the precinct maps on hand, but in many places aren't required to keep past ones - so it is in fact impossible to keep historical GIS data for some counties. There's also a lot of cases where records are simply kept as pencil or pen sketches, and no shapefiles exist.

You want to build a majorly disruptive business? Provide brain-dead-simple GIS tools to boards of elections so they can re-draw their own district maps every year. Offer them to software for free, and then resell the data they create to people building campaign tools - or build your own campaign tools and sell those.
Personally I've been waiting for it to be possible to set all solution settings from anything outside the environment. We use CMake to generate solutions, and I've had to write a few scripts to do things like replace the default "Source Files/Header Files" with an actual source tree. But a ton of settings still live in binary files, making it impossible to change things like the startup project or debugging path from outside of the environment.
Steganography for Internet Anonymity [pdf]
Speaking as a scientist who deals with genomic data, I wholeheartedly agree with many of the comments here. Code and raw data should be available at publication. I shouldn't have to try and figure out what you did from the three lines of text and poorly documented software you mention (that has been updated several times since you used it (no mention of version). Personally, I think pseudo-code would be most useful for reproducibility and for illustrating exactly what your program does.

Let me add to a few points here about the practical obstacles to this.

1) Journals don't support this data (raw data or software).

* You can barely include the directly relevant data in your paper let alone anything additional you might have done. Methods are fairly restricted and there is no format for supplemental data/methods. Unless your paper is about a tool, then they don't want the details, they just want benchmarks. Yes, you can put it on your website, but websites change; there are so many broken links to data/software in even relatively new articles.

* As many people have said, lots of scientific processing is one-off type scripting. I need this value or format or transform, so I write a script to get that.

2) Science turns over fast or faster than the lifetimes of most development projects.

* A postdoc or grad student wrote something to deal with their dataset at the time. Both the person and the data have since moved on. The sequencing data has become higher resolution or changed chemistry and output, so its all obsolete. The publication timeline of the linked article illustrates this. For an just an editorial article it took 8 1/2 months from submission to publication. Now add the time it took to handle the data and write the paper prior to that and you're several years back. The languages and libraries that were used have all been through multiple updates and your program only works with Python 2.6 with some library that is no longer maintained. Even data repositories such as GEO (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) are constantly playing catch-up for the newest datatypes. Even their required descriptions for methodology for data-processing are lacking.

3) Many scientists (and their journals and funding institutions, which drive most changes) don't respect the time or resources it takes to be better coders and release that data/code in a digestible format.

* Why should I make my little program accept dynamic input or properly version with commentary if that work is just seen as a means to an end rather than as an integral part of the conclusions drawn. The current model of science encourages these problems. This last point might be specific to the biology-CS gap.
I started buying things like crazy on Prime while living in a dorm without a car. Getting things like shampoo and snacks delivered to my door was incredibly efficient.

I still buy most things on Amazon - it's a better deal than driving to Target or even the grocery store sometimes.
I 100% agree with this. I think the first thing to do to see is if there is a compatible work style, as well as follow through, ethics, etc.

To your point that is why I think it is optimal to work with someone on something before deciding they are co-founder material.
It sounds like Amazon is losing $11 per year on Prime customers, so why do they continue this promotion?
Pretty disappointing. The image analysis was the only reason I clicked.
Are zipcode shapes available anywhere?

(I noticed google maps now knows zip code shapes)
I use monoprice as well for cables, etc. Well under half the cost of Amazon makes it worthwhile.
Git repo for predicting March Madness using machine learning
Thanks for the efforts and the framework. Unfortunately, I cannot properly appreciate it for the following reason:

Please don't call something JavaScript if it's actually all in CoffeeScript (even if it's just the documentation). A lot of us have not bothered to learn CoffeeScript and a good many of them have no intention of doing so. My time was wasted following a link that says "JavaScript", a language I know well, only to discover it was in CofeeScript, a language I have not bothered to learn, nor do I plan to anytime soon. I would down vote this if I could merely for the mislabeling. If you love CoffeeScript enough to use it as you obviously have, own it, advertise it openly and stop being in denial that CoffeeScript as a written language is different from JavaScript as so many CoffeeScripters seem wont to do.
Ask HN: Thoughts On New DC "startup accelerator" Endeavor DC
I noticed a new startup accelerator, Endeavor DC, run by Michael Goldstein, Allen Morgan, & David Steinberg. Anyone have knowledge about the group that would give me an idea where they might lie between Ycombinator and lower quality programs.
http://endeavordc.com/team/
Of particular note is the use of Theano for the machine learning heavy-lifting. If you do machine learning and haven't looked into Theano, you're probably making things harder on yourself than it needs to be.
not if you are GoDaddy.. SOPA sticks like a mother f'er
this is a nightmare for merchants though, speaking from experience.
I can't really think of any recent companies that have killer IP. The difference might be an elegant solution vs someone from high school copying samples from codeproject/stackoverflow.
I think Amazon goal is to control the customer.You can see that in prime, the kindle fire and the zappos purchase.

From the shipping side , with it's prime program they're so much better then other e-commerce competitors, that they won't gain much customer lockup by buying DHL(altought it might make them money), and they'll pay a big price.

On the other hand , if they'll control the customer, they'll have enough market power to force DHL or some other shipper to their terms. And with today's IT system two companies can have deep integrations if they want.
How a Scala program is translated into JVM bytecode
Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty Over Obama ‘Hope’ Image
Managing Node.js dependencies with npm shrinkwrap
No, it was also a euphemism: "It’s a tad long"
POST vs. PUT
Wow.

@ComputerGuru, SoftwareMaven, dankin
I will contact you via mail in a bit.

Do you have experience in managing the level of discussion needed to get this right?
What would be best? A public mailing list?

https://github.com/felix-faber/project-alexandria

Feedback very welcome.
Awesome! Really neat, love the simplicity of it.

We're using this for our site, http://www.mygovhub.org, which grabs down to the county & local level. (Although we don't have districts at that level, as they'll have to be inputted manually...)
Given metered pricing, it's not really double-charging. Today the server pays for the packets to travel half way and the customer pays for them to travel the rest of the way. If the app pays for both halves then (in theory) the total charge is the same; it's just being paid by a different party. I doubt that AT&T would charge an app the same ridiculous overage fees they charge customers, though.

Regardless, the market distortion caused by the cost-shifting is real and problematic.
This is independent of nginx/Varnish. Actually, vCider gives you a virtual network and you can run any traffic you want over it, even non-IP protocols, since it's a virtual network switch.
You can request nearby drivers with taxi-like services, such as Uber: https://www.uber.com/

Edit: Hurp durp, you mentioned Uber in your post. Ignore me :)
I have to say that I'm not taken with the whole "share your startup idea, tell everyone who will listen" for the reasons outlined in this article. My main project, if it succeeds, will be a lifestyle business. As I have a job I can't execute as quickly, if I went around detailing the idea then I am certain someone could beat me to realizing it. Now while I have cross domain skills which mean mine will be better, that's not 100% certain: so why would I share?

Sharing your ideas in many cases I think is a bad idea. With all due respect to Patrick, who has commented elsewhere on this thread, one data point from the niche of Bingo Card Creators (old people referring by word of mouth?) doesn't match up with the high level of clones I see on HN every month.
Not sure how it works in the UK, but you can always sue over a law in the US if you really disagree with it and have a good reason for why it doesn't make sense. That's what we're doing.
Looks like it: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2010/ZCTA5/2010/
I'm on the hunt for a co-founder so this is very timely. I think that the last 5% is that intangible connection. Finding that connection requires getting out of the interview process.

edit: typo
I can definitely attest to buying more for sure. I think price is still important though. But if it comes down to price vs. timely free shipping I may pay more just to get it in 2 days. So I guess it might be right.
IMO the "slave" aspect comes from the cycle you get stuck in, rather than the fact that somebody gets to tell you what to do.

As Felix Dennis (*megarich entrepreneur) says, "A regular paycheck is like crack."

It's easy to become a slave to something that is, overall, so easy and comfortable and the default that everyone falls into & recommends & supports & views as normal.
DNA & Iterated Function Systems
The insinuation that as a Senator, your priority should be supporting open data standards vs representing the constituents you're elected to represent.
Newly discovered space rock is headed toward Earth, ETA: 2040
It's interesting that you bring this up. I first had vision problems diagnosed a little later, around age 14-15, and my symptoms of ADHD ballooned within 2-3 years following that.
Locomotive is another option writing MVC web applications in Node, using the familiar structure from Rails: http://locomotivejs.org/

It's strictly focused on the backend, and remains strongly view and database agnostic.
NDA is not the same as non-compete, or am I wrong on this?
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I like your app, BUT :
1. You have not done your homework on the market before creating it, if you want to monetize it you should have and you probably should have targeted Europe where it's legal to book a cab.
2. How do you convince your app users that it's better to use the app than to call? App is free, calling costs - may work, may not. App needs internet, calling does not. That's where marketing comes in.
Don't try to find guilty, try to find how to fix it.
Good Luck.
What about support for Nokia's Linux phones?

There are probably millions of soon to be unsupported devices, N900 (already left behind), N9 and N950 that could conceivably run this. After all, N900 can run open office and it is the oldest of these devices.

It would be much easier to test and contribute if one had a device already to properly experiment with. My N900 is gathering dust and there is no good replacements for its OS.
Would some node.js experts mind weighing in here with pros and cons of this framework as they see it? I'm too new to node to really understand the tradeoffs here. Thanks!
For those outside the United Kingdom, the Mirror is a tabloid...
That doesn't sound right.. You can book a yellow cab through a dispatcher. This happens at bars all the time.

There is even an online service and app which claims to do it: http://itaxinyc.com/ (competitor to you?)
Do you have evidence for that origin? As far as I'm able to find, the term originated among socialists in either the UK or the Northeastern United States, who were against both wage-slavery and the regular kind of slavery. I can't find any evidence that it was coined in the Southern U.S. by supporters of slavery, but sources admittedly seem a bit spotty (and I can believe that they would've used it for their ends if convenient).
If short-term copycats are threats to your business, you're business must have no plan and a death wish.
Linux/LDXE is almost weightless on this six year-old Dell laptop.
I think more generally ideas are worthless incite is not. If you think of Twitter in terms of message length you completely miss many reasons it was such a good idea. Twitter is a useful self-promotion tool for people who will promote it for free. Creating a public message stream large enough and companies will pay to listen in. Let third party's create interfaces and you don't need to pay to send SMS messages.

They could have build a vary different company using similar incites with a completely diffident idea and been just as successful, but realizing the cost of really large scale SMS messaging was not prohibitive was brilliant.
Nokia Smartphone with 41MP Camera
Actually, I remember reading an article (on HN no less) that said that some studies had found that actually Modafinil worked similarly to amphetamines. Unfortunately I can't find the link for it anymore...