skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the general reaction on reddit I would imagine this was an extremely successful PR move. From an objective standpoint however it was exactly that: PR. No real answers or interesting points were raised anywhere within the thread.

In fact the most interesting questions (for me) were sidestepped like:

- stance on drug legislation

- SOPA and copyright laws

- Assange persecution (bradley manning)

The most disappointing thing for me personally though was to see how effective it was. I'm not American, but a lot of reddit was literally walking on air for days after the event singing his praises. Nothing new was said though, he was just ... present.

That being said I would probably vote for him myself, given the alternatives.
A site about ideas, where people share business ideas and discuss them. It would allow you to find other people interested in their development. It would also you to see if your idea has already been implemented (if it were like a database of existing business ideas), and it would show you the progress of the idea's implementation, who's building it, etc.

Didn't end up building this since it would be hard to make money off of it (as far as i can tell)...and i already have other projects on my spare time ><. I still think the concept is cool
I'd love to know what labour and Visa laws they violated if they were forced to work in a stand. It's very clear that they were going to report on the products, not work for Samsung for absolutely nothing!
It's rarely beneficial to compress to one single file, but I completely agree that the way they are doing it it very inefficient, especially spamming the @import notation.
I feel tricked by link-bait on this one. Fred Wilson makes no mention of the "collapse" of VC. He doesn't even come close to the concept.

Tl;dr of the article:

-many VCs are having trouble fundraising because of mediocre returns

-Fred thinks it's good that there is a lot of early stage funding (angels). It should create more entrepreneurs

-Some VC funding is too concentrated in megafunds. If that $ was spread across funds, then there would be more diversity of ideas and companies

-Will Kickstarter/crowdfunding replace VC? Too early to tell
thats enough mate
If it is, then it's a major fail because all it would take would be for the bloggers to state that Samsung paid for their travel and accomodation when they went to the event, but they are independent reviews. That should be sufficient for people to make up their mind.
What are the implications of this for RSA? How powerful must a quantum chip be in order to factorise (i.e. break) the current encryption schemes?
Brave move to open source the project - and handy, as it seems they could use some friendly advice on Drupal security and best practices, e.g. https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform/blob/mast... vs. http://ogpl.gov.in/superadmin.php ;)
No, or at least I believe it's more complicated than that. A logo's trademark may encompass the colors used, but that's not a legal maneuver which prevents those colors from being used anywhere else. The point of the trademark is to be able to stop competitors from making "confusingly similar" trademarks for their products or companies. I can make a cola, and I'm certainly not enjoined from using red and white in the colors on my can. If, however, I make a red can and put "Boba Cola" on it in white letters with roughly the same typography as Coca-Cola uses, I'm cruisin' for a bruisin', legally speaking.
Right, I've pondered a while if I should be posting this but here goes. Out of sheer boredom I created a adult orientated site, yes the whole nine-nsfw-yards stuff. It's free to use, no sign ups, no premium accounts, no ads, no pop-ups etc. Content is user generated and aggregated.

Aug 3rd - Sep 2nd 2012:

Visits: 81,045

Unique Visitors: 54,386

Pageviews: 3,189,136

Pages / Visit: 39.35

Avg. Visit Duration: 00:14:12

% New Visits: 63.69%

Are these numbers good enough to even start thinking about monetization?
My current advice for people going into Software Entrepreneurship is to create the simplest, easiest to build me-too company of all time - a Software Consultancy / Freelancing company. Nothing is as easy as having a product people want (programmer time) and just selling that directly. You'll learn a lot more about business than you would have learned by trying to start a failed product company, and you'll do it while getting actual money and real networking done.
thats it i have had enough these emails are stupid dum as
What drew me into your blog is that you started it when you weren't very successful. I don't remember the specifics but it seemed like you weren't all that confident and you were super conservative about how much you spent on your side project that has now become so much more.

That makes for a much more interesting (and useful) read than a blog in which the author is apparently cut of a different cloth than normal humans from the beginning.
I always wonder how HN works without cookies. Can you share some insights on that?
StackOverflow for Fashion: http://www.idthisitem.com

Basically Q&A to find out where to buy stuff. It's coasting along without much traction and I can't get enough people to answer without having to reward them with coupons and such.

Seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I'm not so convinced this is a big enough of a problem to solve.
You might not be close to your local Embassy, and in many countries you need your passport to fly domestically and even stay in hotels. So just getting to your embassy without a passport might be non-trivial.

Also you might actually want to stay and work in the country, and kicking up a fuss over a 'stolen' passport is a sure fire way to get your visa canceled.
Myself, fiancee and 1 year old son live on about £20k a year at the moment, we do fine and are saving for our wedding in July.
I reckon we'll need about £30k annually to not have to worry about money - until we have more babies!
http://www.cashbasehq.com
The maps are not useless. In fact, they are tremendously valuable. If that is not observable, the fault lies in the observer.

I believe LIVE versions of the maps are a tremendous idea .. would you consider building a site replete with such an effort? Live versions of many (if not all) of your maps would make a tremendous contribution to the way our mobs conceive themselves.

(Perhaps this is something for ifft&co..)
What's worse, naive bloggers accepting accomodation and travel for free after making it clear they are independent, and then are forced under duress to cowtow to someone who threatens to leave then stranded in a foreign country; or a a large multinational company that takes advantage of naive bloggers?
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What would be really cool is a language where I just write the tests and the compiler writes the actual code. That would be awesome.

Something like what Critticall attempted ten years ago: http://www.critticall.com/ The idea there was that an evolutionary algorithm wrote the core code, you just had to give it an environment and some way of knowing the results were still okay.
How, exactly, is it more honest?
Brilliant! Another workaround fixing something that was broken by design. The things that LESS brings you should really have been there in CSS to begin with.
what indicators did you have that there was a problem to be solved here? am just trying to understand your thought process -
Yeah, go is in compition, but Rust is in competion too.
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Nice approach, Fittext is nice, but this bring the game to another level.
TBH the one thing that Google Nexus devices have is that they offer a "pure" Android experience (and unlockability) which means that I'd avoid buying anything else.
Oh wonderful - have you seen the difference in cost of living between India and Germany? Sounds like a fantastic place to starve and sleep rough while seeing the sights. I'm sure the bloggers would have appreciated that enormously!
make a few hundred bucks from a dating site i created

www.likeapub.com
That sounds like PG's comment here!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141132

PG talks a bit more about how Reddit inspired HN here:
http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html
My preference is that Apple keep doing what they're doing but also take a less aggressive approach to jail breaking phones.

As someone who gets dragged in to sorting out the IT issues of friends, family, neighbours and who knows what else, there is a lot of benefit to the Apple approach at what is for most people, little real cost.

The problem is the absoluteness of their position. I don't mind if they make people jump through hoops to jailbreak phones, I don't mind if their default support position for phones is to restore them to factory settings before they'll even look at it, but I think allowing for the possibility of jail breaking as an accepted thing would be good for both choice, and making sure Apple stay honest.
How much information can there be in a real number?
Twitter. We were monitoring certain things like "I wish I could *" and we happened to type in something like "find this dress". You can see some results: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%22find%20this%20dress%22
my dating site
http://www.likeapub.com

didn't make much money as I would like it to be
You offer 30, they say no, 10, you settle on 15. That's called negotiation.
"Two years later however, D was still stuck in 2007. This was in part due to the infighting between the standard library camps who had failed to learn from the mistakes of the Java class library and were busily adding bloat and verbosity to Phobos and Mango."

This was never a case for Phobos. D still lacks a lot, but Phobos is a pretty lean library. It's built around the concepts that were introduced by Alexander Stepanov and STL and refined them to the great extent. Go on contrary has no support for generic programming, therefore I can only imagine how full of ad-hoc algorithms the typical Go code is. So yes, for me it's definitely not the NBL but just a niche language. D still has a lot of issues, but as a language it's better than Go.
Awesome! It would be really cool to see an overhaul of current research papers to be more suited in digital form. A static PDF with words just doesn't do justice when you can enrich research and content with animations and interactivity. Heres an excellent example: http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt...
Not to mention if you run it on the fly, the "flash" of unstyled content will last forever for people with JavaScript disabled!
http://www.likeapub.com
Slightly off topic, but I was under the impression that Ford didn't invent the automobile, Benz did.
Perhaps I simplified a bit too much. I agree with you entirely.

The browser provies an API and canvas on which you can build a user interface much as X provides it to Linux, GDI/WPF does for Windows and Quarts of OS-X. It's a medium, not the solution.

I also agree about a lot of sites on the internet being a bloody UX mess.
I thought it was a blank page at first... some sort of less is more statement.
When you say that Go currently isn't very fast, maybe you should try coding something in it. I found it to be suprisingly fast. I think if you are doing a lot of memory allocation, then the garbage collection may slow you down, but I wouldn't be suprised if it's still faster than a jitted language like LuaJIT.
Have a great care in how you attempt to cast Japanese priorities into your western morals. Devotion to work is devotion to family. Selflessness is expressed via success, not conspicuous gratification. Joy is found in greatness, not triviality or distraction. Speaking of oneself in terms of happiness is very different that speaking on fulfilment.

I would actually urge any westerner to go study a semester or two of Japanese language (not culture), purely for the calm insight it can provide into the alternatives to our way of seeing, understanding, and acting upon the world.
How are you gauging it as "successful"?

There's plenty of backlash in tons of the subreddits for exactly what you point out. There was a recent bestof post that attempted to paint the picture that at least one of the answered questions was planted there deliberately.

Then there were multiple negative articles about the whole thing in Forbes, Business Insider, and other publications.

It definitely generated a lot of PR (good and bad), but I don't see a clear notion that this was "effective".
You must have never seen Corel Linux, Caldera OpenLinux, Lindows/Linspire, etc.

Many attempts were made to make Linux more user-friendly at the start of the century (and ever since).
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Is there a reason that this Low-Cost software defined radio wouldn't work ($30)?

http://www.amazon.com/Newsky-Receiver-Low-Cost-Software-Defi...
It was actually about 28 py, but that number would come down to 10 if they were to do it again.

source: http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/numbers.pml
What is the app store average? I imagine the median might be a more useful metric, given that there are a few ubiquitous apps that take the lions share of the income.
It sounds like the blogger is question had balked those requirements, asked for an exemption and (thought that they'd) gotten one.
What about to like using hidden iframe Likejaking?

There are many pages having huge Likes using this technique, I can't see any correction in Likes there.

Why can't they make Like count to zero once a site caught using such technique.
Http://www.isjavaexploitable.com/
compare this to $0 fiddler2.com (only windows though)
As a tyre mechanic for 4 years, I can tell you that patches are far more reliable than plugs. So much, in fact, that we stopped using plugs.
To clarify: this is not the first release.
Indeed. Reminds me of when people say that IT work should be cheap because "you're just pushing some buttons." Gee, I sure am glad President Obama took some time to join us kiddies in playing with our computers!
well, it's HTML5 as it uses the <video> element - which is a core of HTML5, and the awesome new getUserMedia-function and get UserMedia produces MediaStreams, which is part of HTML5.

so yeah, this is HTML5 and JS and fancy.

as yeah, now reading QR codes is trivial.
"I will continue to foster both
HEMISPHERES OF MY BRAIN"

I thought this was debunked?
All the best with next launch of like.fm and glad that your loss of confidence and motivation is temporary.
http://neobudget.com since my wife and I do envelope budgeting. Works GREAT. Highly recommended.
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I think this allows one to do a full-text search, essentially. I.e. search for content on the page, rather than just URL/title.
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This begs the question though, how easy is it to correct what the car is doing?

If it's still the same as a regular car, I'm sure you'll have people bumping the controls, causing accidents and then trying to blame the car.

In which case, I hope these cars are logging what the users are doing to prevent the inevitable waterfall of lawsuits.
A Raspberry Pi tutorial for those who don't know what to do with it
Thanks. Am thinking, this is one way Twitter could identify intents and make money.
Drupal 7 does this out of the box, with an option to aggregate and compress JS and CSS. I have not developed on Drupal 6 but would be incredibly surprised if there wasn't at least a community developed module to do this.
Follow That Cab The age of the iChase.
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Thanks. I was relying on book lovers' desire to "show-off" about how well read they (we) are.

I started using Amazon, but when I started thinking about adding badges and it would need the book database to be very specific about authors/genres/titles, (which Amazon's wasn't) I realized it was way out of my league.
Nokia is awesome ++
http://instasync.me - downloads all your instagram photos
- about $200 every month.
- expecting it to rise (pricing changes)

Looking at a few longer lists below, I think I've just started!
The NBL requires a Next Generation Editor. We can't escape from this local maxima of code expressiveness, readability, amenability to change, richness of types, etc. without a truly better programming environment.

Working on it...
Go was created in part by Ken Thomson, and supported by Google Inc. In other words, completely the opposite of what you are talking about.

Further, anyone who uses the "ivory tower" identifies themselves immediately as someone incredibly biased and political. There are politics in science to be sure, but overall it's frowned on.

Understand first principles. Understand your needs and the needs of others. Build something based on that. If you continually follow what is popular you will continue to be below average. By definition, popular is average.
Pushing buttons does nothing, it's the order in which those buttons are pushed that requires intelligence, skill and experience.
I should stress that this is designed to be a way of getting people interested in using it, rather than a definitive guide that is accurate in any way.
It doesn't matter what website you use. There are competent and incompetent people on all of them.

It really comes down to "you get what you pay for"

You're either going to pay a decent amount for someone with a lot of experience, references, and past work to show, or you're going to take a gamble on someone with less work, and less references, but seems trustworthy and competent.

If you're looking for long term staff, give them a small test project, see what they're capable of and make decisions from there.

A "what website should I use" mentality is the worst approach you could possibly have when hiring.
He may "put the user first," but he clearly doesn't put the reader first ... ouch. oO;
Firefox + XP = the GDI flavor of ClearType, which only does horizontal anti-aliasing. This only looks good with text at small to normal font sizes.

Firefox + Vista/Win7 = the new Direct Draw flavor of Cleartype, which anti-aliases on both axis.
About $26.4 billion, that is 28% of the total biomedical research funding in US are money from the government. Its the single largest player in medical research. In areas of core principles, cancer research, and motility effecting illness, they are 80-95% in total funding.

Government is not and has never been an referee in medical research. The drug companies would never allow it. Try removing a $26.4 billion of free R&D and see lobbyist doing everything they can to stop you. Additionally, anyone caring about sick people would join in in stopping that bill. One do not simply remove $26.4 billion of medical research in the name of free market.
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Well, you get more pixels if your display has 1.5x or 2x DPI.
Actually that's not anecdotal evidence. Anecdotal evidence looks like this:
"It has been my experience that XXX"

The parent has made a different formulation, specifically:
"Every person belonging to group Y has had experience XXX"

This difference is significant, because the argument is basically stating that it is not only the experience of the person making the argument, but that the person making the argument is expecting that the readers of the argument are going to be able to confirm the experience for themselves. This is a much stronger argument than mere anecdote.

And for those that are already starting to lean on their keyboards to type "the plural of anecdote is not data", that platitude is a recognition that data is supposed to repose on a generalisable sample of reality, and if you are just going on anecdote, even multiple anecdotes, you are leaving yourself wide open to claims of cherry-picking. But this claim does not cherry pick, it says that a vast majority of "techy" peoply should be able to confirm the claim from their own experience.
So what? Unless you're sitting on a secret-until-now extension to CSS that fixes the issues with CSS and is available in all major browsers, then we need these "workarounds" (like SASS and LESS). Or are you proposing that since it is "broken by design" we all stop using CSS full stop and go back to un-styled raw HTML?
receiver only?
Nitpick:

EitherT err Logic a
LogicT (Either err) a

(The monad transformer takes the monad and the value type, not the monad applied to the value type)
>RDBMS

>MongoDB

wat
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Going by popularity, C syntax is indeed king. In the 16th century, going by popularity, it was best not to shower or otherwise clean yourself.

Popularity is not a useful metric. It would be nice to see studies of languages and productivity, I agree. However, it's made incredibly difficult by those who adhere to popularity. The result, languages like php, frameworks like node.js, and misunderstood movements like 'nosql.'
Check this too - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4469575
Pythonect (dataflow programming lang based on Python) 0.4.1 released
Learn a language you won't use in work.
Backbone/RequireJS/Mediator results Views short-circuiting / infinite looping
China's Baidu to invest $1.6bil to set up cloud computing centre
http://geosay.com

Just a side project, that I thought some people would find useful.

Judging by the stats, no one finds it useful (or not enough to come back)

Still, it's served as a decent tech demo to demonstrate what I can do.
Not sure what you mean by "rarely beneficial to compress to one single file".

But in multiple situations I have seen significant web load performance improvements when the number of discrete files being loaded is reduced - merge all JS into one file, all CSS into another and sprite images. This is due to HTTP 2-connection rule.
For those who are interested, there are a bunch of us discussing open Govt. datasets (for India) at the DataMeet Google Group - https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/datameet
Weird title for a blog post showing an advertising flyer and... uh, that's it.
It is a very encouraging step from GoI, looking at the recent slur about rampant corruption in India [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4447605]. That said, I do feel that the task of opening the Government doesn't end at launching a portal (yet another CMS) or giving out yet another data-set.

Looking at how much impact these platforms have induced even in developed nations there seems little incentive [some advantage definitely] to pursue such an initiative in a country like India. Millions die of basic malnutrition there, and perhaps their focus should be to make food available to consume, rather than data.

Of course the data will help but aren't we missing the big picture?

It is relevant to note that incentive for active development on Gov data-sets like these (believed to improve the existing establishment) is probably not as attractive an idea as it is to disrupt the legacy itself. That's how the relationship has been between the establishment and disruptive thinkers for centuries.

I mean all this seems like a complicated play of a ton of variables - democracy, education, impact, profit, consumption, need etc. Yet no doubt the launch is certainly a positive one from the largest democracy in the world.
So is it somewhat equivalent to saying someone is protestant when they are catholic, and being outraged at such a mix-up? I still don't quite understand why it has emoted such apparent disgust as to stop reading, but then I am not a religious person.