skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. We can't justify these prices by going "well, that is the perceived value by population X, so it's OK!". Sure, market forces are fine, but when market forces start to be influenced more by hype and popularity than actual business fundamentals, we should shake ourselves and snap out of it.

This has already happened so many times in different markets and the SAME market in the late 90s. I guess it's human nature to just fall in the same trap eventually? Money makes us foolish?
wha? Hit the tiny html refresh button ctrl-b select away.
Both sides cite multiple sources. If all it was one company, then it would be just "a bad company", except that I'm not just referencing one - I'm referencing several.

Let's suppose I've managed to find the absolute worst of companies - fine, I can accept that.

Then why are recruiters/HR/managers so apprehensive to disclose what the cost control measure are - what are the plans, policies, procedures, practices, and processes, what are the duties and scope, roles are responsibilities ........ ?

I honestly don't think that getting vending machine tokens from HR daily for can of free soda, or whatever "gourmet sandwich" is the vending machine is impressive.

Impressive would be 401K plan sponsored by the company that allows you to rollover the 401K's from previous employers, and allows you to roll it over into some other company when you leave. Or a 401K that stays with you as you move from project to project within the company.
Read Cory Doctrow's book Makers. It wraps the possibilities of this sort of thing up in a nice narrative.

The point of these is that nobody is really sure what we'll be able to do with them yet. But by lowering the barrier to entry to an affordable price, then people can tinker and come up with some great, innovative technologies.

An example that I can think of off the top of my head is imagine if every piece of food you bought could connect to your wireless network via an extremely small but durable network adaptor. You couple this with a few sensors and you've got instant shopping lists based on what is in your fridge/pantry, instant recipes, used by date tracking and who knows what else.
This is cool. At wattvision, we've essentially built our own version of this for the energy monitoring vertical -- would be interesting to see if they expose an API for devices generally. For example, if we can control imp devices through our UI, things get interesting! Or I guess we could consider the strengths/weaknesses of adopting their platform entirely. Looks like a stellar team with great backers, and they even used energy monitoring as one of their examples.
This will negatively affect tons of analytics tools.

Time to start blacklisting googlebot UA strings from my custom javascript tracking tools.
From the link:

"Photoshop is required to use CSS Hat."

From their main site:

"CSS Piffle. No more photo editing software for web design!"

Eating their own dog food?
Well, the Jacquard Loom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom) was a massive weaving loom capable of producing highly sought-after intricate patterns in silk at impressive even-by-todays-standards speeds.

It was one of the first programmable things of any kind, and its punch card approach inspired Babbage (who was a contemporary - yes this was programming, industrial style in 1815)
I'd like to see more on the main page about pricing. You mentioned "Both the core service and the monitoring agent will be Free Software" but is there a charge for the service?

On a side note... This is a great idea, I am the founder of http://ratemystartup.com - If you would like to submit your startup there I should be able to get you up on the site quickly.
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There are some interesting research efforts that explore the link between early-age bilingual learners and positive cognitive effects [1].

What is striking to me is that hackers have long made statements that learning different programming language paradigms makes us better hackers. While we can make anecdotal arguments that being a good functional and a good imperative programmer makes us better hackers in general, the above research is exploring the idea that multi-language proficiency has positive cognitive effects that cross domains.

[1] Carlson S. M. & Meltzoff A. N. (2008). Bilingual experience and executive functioning in young children. Developmental Science, 11, 282–298. Availabe at http://ilabs.washington.edu/meltzoff/pdf/08Carlson_Meltzoff_...
I gave an example of something that almost everyone agrees exists but is very hard to define or quantify. Anyone can play the game you are playing here. How do you know your measuring device really exists? Your point is without merit.
Agreed, but it performs a decent service.
Hmm, first General Motors and now Candy Japan pulls their ads from Facebook. How is Zuckerberg going to stanch the bleeding?
I'm always unsure about using code released under Creative Commons. What are requirements wrt. attribution? Does ‘Share Alike’ mean that the source code of a product using the library must be released under CC BY-SA as well?

Otherwise, Presenteer looks nice. Text becomes a bit blurry during animation (Chrome 18.0), but apart from that—no problems, and API seems clean.
The tone of the article implies that TED is somehow suppressing the dissemination of this speech because it's content is somehow too controversial to handle.

I declare it inane because the speech described by the article isn't very controversial at all.
Beautiful website. Good job explaining what it is.

I'd put a screenshot (or an approximate mockup) of the app inside the tablet, rather than the mist.io logo. Seems like a wasted opportunity of "a picture's worth a thousand words."
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Thanks for the feedback. Please check out another project of mine, Envision.js: http://humblesoftware.com/envision/

Envision is a visualization toolkit for fast composite, interactive and animated visualizations. It's adapted to work with Flotr2.

Flotr2 & envision support Android, iOS and new Blackberries, any modern browser with Canvas, and IE7+ with FlashCanvas / excanvas. I've seen it in IE6 too, but I do not test that browser.
I see it as a stepping stone. The tech will eventually trickle into mainstream and become so cheap that it's throwaway. Long term ideas off the top of my head: A tyre lets you know when it needs air or replacement. A plant contains explicit information about what nutrients it needs. A coffee maker prepare coffee for you when you get home.

Longer term, when augmented reality glasses become useful it could open up some really cool opportunities. Instead of having to remember all the little mundane things, we'll be able to see them. Instead of having the world cluttered with LCDs and input devices, we'll be able to separate the object APIs from the interfaces. Not so we can fiddle with our phones to find the home automation app. It's so we'll be able to say "lights", "heat up some water for a shower", " show me who's at the door". Maybe my perspective is skewed, I grew up watching star trek. Isn't this sorta stuff a hackers dream?
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Wow, so many commercial things being recommended! All of that can probably be done for free. All you need is just the desire to keep up to date and a web browser.
> Can he sit and watch a TV show for 20 minutes without leaving to do something else?

ADHD causes __attention_regulation__ difficulties. Many mistakenly see it as a simple lack-of-attention, but fail to realize that hyper-focus is also a common symptom.

I suggest reading the first few chapters of ``More Attention, Less Deficit'' to gain a basic understanding of ADHD.
Ask HN: Why are csv files so much larger than xml files?
I have an XML file that I regularly convert to CSV as additional data gets added. Something that I find curious is that the XML file is roughly one half the size of the CSV, even though the XML has many, many more characters due to the tags. What gives? Could it have to do with the type of encoding?
Thank you. We will definitely submit it.

There will be a small monthly charge per VM after enabling monitoring & alerting. We're still working on the pricing policy.
Several are claiming that HTTPS still works, which means it's not DNS-level or IP-level. It may be IP+port level, or the only thing that I can really think which is left is deep-packet inspection: a Linux user in India could easily test this with something like:

curl -v -H "Host: thepiratebay.se" http://www.google.com/
Keep it concise, and remove unnecessary words ruthlessly.
The only time I don't use Photoshop is when I'm doing a super simple design (very flat, no graphics) but other than that I'm pushing pixels in Photoshop first before I jump into HTML & CSS.
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This is great:

Use j/k keys to navigate
Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Japan.

Numerous other small countries, often financial havens too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_by_country
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I think getting better at CSS would be my only advice. I got better at it by doing tutorials on https://css-tricks.com/.

One other thing I do is try to make sure I complete my web design without having to use any image or Javascript. When you limit yourself in this way, you find ways to accomplish in CSS/CSS3 and get better at it eventually.
Yes and no.

While I agree that it's introduced some problems in states where I've lived (Utah, for example), it's also allowed parents to move their children around a bit more easily, and there are some benefits to that.

On the flip side, I'm now in Georgia. We live on the boundary between a poor school district (98% "minority" district-wide) and a rich one (10-50% "minority" depending on the school). I can only "shop" for schools in my poorer district, which are typically around the bottom quintile of schools in the state. The kicker is, because of the geographic boundaries, the bus stop for the "richer" district stops on either side of our subdivision, and our kids pass withing 1 mile of five different elementary schools in the "rich" district on their way to their assigned "poor" one. Shop for schools? I'd love to. I'd even like for my kids to go to a school close to their home. But a long history of bussing (which in our area has reinforced segregation rather than combat it) and civil rights policies perversely means it's more difficult to move to the better schools.
I prefer Illustrator, it's more "element-oriented" if you will. Easier to move things around. Even if it's lacking a good UI for styling.
My other project envision.js handles this nicely. You can check out one example here: http://humblesoftware.com/envision/demos/ajax

The library is still young, and that functionality you see there will mature a bit yet.
My very first sentence explains why I think his argument is weak.

I agree, I have stated no position on the absurdly rich and increasing inequality. I think it is unnecessary to stray into this area in order to prove or disprove whether businesses or the wealthy create jobs. Either a business or a wealthy person can or cannot create a job regardless of the taxation laws du jour. He has categorically stated that they cannot. I think this is totally incorrect.
2/3 of the sites were up when I checked them. Although, it looks these sites haven't been updated since 2003
"A few years later, Zuckerberg began setting annual tests of discipline for himself, vowing to wear a tie to work every day in 2009, learn Mandarin in 2010"

Wearing a tie every day isn't really that difficult. I would also be interested to see if he's still learning Mandarin and how much he can actually speak. My guess is none.
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Then the output isn't the same if not all students had the same outcome. Furthermore you used day as the time period when talking about programming. I assumed as a matter of consistency you meant to use roughly the same time period for teaching. Every semester I teach calculus is different. Two different people don't teach the same way even if the curriclumn is the same.

Your statements here strengthen the parody. Merge sort is the same for everyone, right? So let's just go by lines of code. The outcome is the same.
At the start of 11th grade, my parents got the idea that I might be happier at a local college than in high school. They asked the principal if he would write a recommendation letter for me. He wrote that he did not believe I could adequately perform at the college level.

My parents disregarded this, and I got enrolled in classes. Once I was there, I was enjoying school much more than I was at the high school, and I often did better than the regular college students...

I would like to think that this sort of promotion out of drudgery would be common-place by now, but I have no idea.
I've given up on 'I don't know'. I only say that when I'm at the end of the line and there's nowhere to go.

Instead, I usually use anything else that indicates that I'm going to make inquiries. "That's a good question. I'll have to look into that." comes out of my mouth a lot now. Sometimes without "That's a good queston." at the start.
"If your valuations are based on what someone else might pay in future, you are speculating"

Isn't that what angels and VCs always do then?
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Why is everyone in such a rush to compare this to facebook? I believe emmett was just trying to point out that OP's argument was essentially "they're not going to make $1.5b ever, trust me". Which frankly sounds a lot like "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

To give such a definitive "never" answer and say their only hope is if the "bubble keeps inflating" without offering a shred of evidence makes you sound like any critic of anything that has ever gone big.

If you're going to educate me re: the valuation, then by all means educate me. Don't give me some confidently worded finite opinion and expect to pass it off as fact.
Don't really do much sys admin stuff anymore.

Re the copywriting: "Mobile friendly web app" sounds awkward.

Just say "straight from your mobile phone" or something similar.
Remember the kerfuffle about the bad performance of Germany in the Pisa study? We also sometimes standardized testing, but not to compare individual teachers, but to argue endlessly the slightly different curricula/school policies of the different German states.

Addendum:

My understanding is, that in the United States anyone can relatively easy train to be a school teacher. In Germany they are tenured civil servants with at least 3-4 years of study.
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IE9 can easily handle your quick example. Check out http://jsfiddle.net/c8rN3/ then hit f12 bring up the developer tools. In the HTML tab click the tiny refresh button then hit the select element by click and select an element within the iframe.
Good to see that this project is still going strong.
Of the premier companies you listed I've only have brief exposure to one - their recruiter was apprehensive/defensive/rude when pushed about equipment. It seemed like the tip of the iceberg so I stopped returning emails/phonecalls.

As was written elsewhere, if it was just one company, then it would be just that - one company. But I've been through 4.
yeah, but a news on riaa website won't get to the frontpage of hackernews.
Fireworks CS6 has something related to this. If you select an object in Fireworks, you can get the CSS which will build the shape, gradients, curved borders, etc.

http://layersmagazine.com/new-css3-support-in-dreamweaver-cs...
TortoiseSVN will diff OO and MS Office files out of the box.
Clearly your great mind hasn't yet come to realise why some of us are aghast at stupid racist statements like yours.
This is pretty lame, blocking sites is not the way to go. If you find something that is pirated, flag/report it to get the video removed.
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Did you actually read my post before replying? I much prefer to be able to, if necessary, work with the tools in my build process at a code level. I don't enjoy working with tools I don't have mastery over wherever possible (pgsql is a stretch, but I can hack on nginx, Play, LESS, and Redis without much difficulty).

I have on occasion had reasons to be mucking around in the LESS codebase. I cannot do that with SASS (well, I could, but I'd have to use Ruby and that's a non-starter for me).
"Friday, May 4 2007"? It might be interesting to see how they're faring now, five years later.
I use SASS on Windows with no issues and it was rather easy to get up and running. Granted it did require the installation of Ruby of which I only use it for this, but that's a small price to pay.
I am from India (currently living in NY) and I find it really surprising that it was only 50 years ago that there was race discrimination in US. My college friends are all over the world (UK, rest of the Europe, Germany, Australia etc.) and based on my conversation with them, USA is the place with least amount of 'racism' against Asians (I put racism in quotes because there is no blatant, in the face racism in USA. It's more about subtle racism against Asians). In a place like NY, it's practically non-existent.
PayPal could explore Node.js (and TechCrunch needs to change its name)
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A more accurate description would have been 3 years of government spending in 1 graph. We have the US budget for each of those 50 years, then why throw out 47 data points and keep arbitrary 3?

This graph with it's hand picked years and tweens between the dates seems to show a monotonically decreasing defense spending which is a very wrong way to think about it. We have had a lull in defense spending after the end of the Cold War, but the last 10 years have seen an increase of more than 50% in dollar values of the defense budget.

I don't want to attribute malice to the creator of the graph for their selection (and exclusion) of the data points, but I feel being manipulated.
sharing pictures always works (imageshack,flicker,imgur,instagram,pinterest...)
Here's their pitch: http://pitch.csspiffle.com/ Looks quite impressive. The idea is really not new, I've been waiting for more than 4 years now for a good HTML5 tool to go beyond Photoshop/Illustrator/Fireworks/Whatnot. I hope their app lives up to the pitch.
Mine said "hate IE6?". In any case I think it would have been both funny and effective if it led to their products page, something like here is how we will can take your pain away..Redirecting to twitter? I didn't like it.
No, it is not :) Although the initial release will be for Mac
You also can't discount the fact that when Napster came out, music sales as a whole dropped like a rock.

By "dropping like a rock", you mean the 5% and 6.9% in 2000 and 2001, respectively?

If they really want to make a difference, compete with the record labels. Create a record label with signed artists that gives their music out for free on the torrent networks.

I know this will never happen because it takes too much discipline and hard work.

Yes, record labels that give music out for free "will never happen": http://creativecommons.org/record-labels

The community also doesn't really care about the artist. If they did, they would have come up with some sort of solution for artists to make a living in the past 12 years (Napster launched in '99).

It already exists. In the UK, for example, artists revenue has been rising steadily: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1PEuVy75dqs/Txt6vy4ZlmI/AAAAAAAAAD...

Album sales are not the only way they make money.
Looks pretty cool, are you using some cloud management platform's APIs underneath (like scalr, rightscale, enstratus etc)? Does it only support VMs? or can I attach my EBS volumes when I launch a new VM as well?
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Not much to review. Where is the demo or at least some screenshots?
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My opinion: you've asked for feedback on this a bit too early. It's really hard to review your startup before the product, pricing, or even a demo is available. I do think CloudKick and more recently Cloudability have proved there's some merit to this idea. How is Mist.io different? How is it better?