skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks a lot like Glympse [ http://glympse.com/ ] to me.
The only "help" I'm proposing is that we allow people to live and work in the US for willing employers.

I don't favor prioritizing the millions of people in the US who already suffer the problem of not being allowed to live and work here - illegal immigrants have already demonstrated a willingness to break our laws.
Its better than the "New iPad", still have no idea what Apple was thinking on that one.
"In searching for the next generation of successful social companies, VCs will look for not only growth, but engagement, mobile success and strong intent."

It will be interesting to see if/how more companies focus on mobile first, while at the same time not undermining the desktop experience.

-AC
And the power of all the PCs idling to be available to serve up chunks of torrents? Seems like making a comparison to eg Megaupload and leaving that part of the equation out is disingenuous at best.
Great suggestion! This is why the HN community is so valuable for young developers like these guys.
Australia. Maybe Tasmania for something different ?

Otherwise Thailand would be nice. Cheap. Great food. Decent internet in parts. Good beach. Bali will suck a bit because of all the tourists (Bali is Australia's Cancun). But inland it is much better.
The original title was:
"Moby: Location Sharing App coded by teens (their first app)"
I run periodic purges of my possessions. Often, in 3-4 months, my situation may have changed and things that were once useful are no longer needed. Fortunately there is a charity just down the block.

You don't notice how excess stuff gets in your way, until it's gone. You can start with one area at a time. Zenhabits was surprisingly motivational for me in this respect.

Books are the only possession I have many of, and that's by choice.

One quibble: If a gym membership can be replaced by jogging, then you aren't using the gym correctly. Strength training is a very different beast. You can get a pretty good strength workout with bodyweight and home dumbbells, but it's tough to match barbells.
You mean the copyright notice? It was there before Oracle acquired Sun.
TechCrunch has nothing to do with journalism. It's a startup tabloid. There's nothing wrong in this and clearly there is a strong demand for that among readers. If you want in-depth, read Ars or Wired or Inc. For tech trash? TC.
It's a great hobby project, but as a product it is late to the market.

http://www.glympse.com/what_is_glympse has had a product out for several years now.
The android app is currently being developed. Stay tuned!
The second example (send url) didn't work for me on Chrome 22.0.1229.94 OSX 10.8. The first worked fine. Just an FYI.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Heroku or eventually will; Postgres is very much one of Heroku's core offerings.
Case in point, from five years ago:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/interpol-untwirl...

This isn't a convolution, but the story's the same — the guy clearly thought that the 'swirl' was irreversible / lossy, but it isn't.
I must of missed that one, though good too know I'm just as sane as others out there. Many forms of storage that most forget is out there as not directly obvious. Even the display ram is usable - blame my ZX81 days for that perversion.
My only confusion is what they'll call the next one, and what they'll call the old New iPad. I'm assuming they'll use it to classify issues in documentation amongst other things.
Oh wow, this brought back some painful memories. My mom died of lung cancer 3 years ago (in a third world country)

I can't begin to tell you the things my family and me had to put up with.
I never understand arguments like this. There as Orkut before Facebook, Loopt before Latitude, Yahoo before Google, and Digg before Reddit.

You can copy stuff and make them better, and this better can be even just simpler, or with better community, or other odd declinations of "better" that are enough to win in the market.

EDIT: and in case there is already something in the marke that is yet not famous, you can almost ignore it at all unless this is an hint about the fact that the app may be not useful (more likely it is bad execution, bad marketing, ...)
Are those AUD or USD dollars?

Here's one about women with ovarian cancer (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20973265)

Here's one about the cost effectiveness of skin cancer prevention (http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/1/73.full)

Here's one about skin cancer prevention using sun screen for white populations in sunny locations (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22433757)

Here's one about the skin care costs of skin cancer caused by UV (http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2538.html)

Some of these look interesting, but obviously I haven't had a thorough read yet.
This feels like why doing the whole Agile thing is really useful especially for startups: the only thing you know for sure is you're not going to do it right at first so you have to be good about being able to pivot.
An somewhat interesting article on the this, citing some works that found evidence in either direction:

http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue22/features/golden/ind...
Away with this link-spam. It actually has no content, feature list directly copied from the github page.

https://github.com/jsantell/dancer.js ( posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4214087 )

Similar post below that just copies stuff off a github page. There's no way people are voting this stuff up.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679373

Suspect poster of operating a voting ring.
How is that different than glympse?
Jornadas de Engenharia Civil da Universidade de Aveiro
Thanks for the information; I seem to have missed the earlier post. Flagging this one. :)
stat: https://www.dropbox.com/spacerace/top
Agreed, but way easier and done without >$10M of funding like Glympse. Try it. Just like how Instagram stripped down other apps and made a better experience, I think the short mo.by links make sharing location easier.
Thank you. I honestly don't know quite what to make of the whole situation. I understand the issues of making the project function well enough, I think, but the implementation saddens me.

I'd like to think that even if I were 100% sympathetic with wikipedia policy, I'd still be able to see how petty, stupid and embarrassing quominus's rant was. It strikes me as pure, but of course unintentional, self-parody on so many levels. And of course I'm saddened because I can see that there's a personality type that would think quominus's spite and the fixation on fiddly minutia instead of the big picture is brilliant and great... and they're probably the sort of people who edit Wikipedia articles.
Here's an opinion:

People argue about what is and is not "on topic" for HN. Regularly items are submitted, only for people to say that since it's nothing to do with programming, technology, startups, or entrepreneurship, then it's not suitable for HN.

Quoting the guidlelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to
reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that
gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Those are the guidelines as laid down by our host, and that's fair enough. But I'd like to see a cultural shift. I'd like to add:

If it's not in some way specific to the interests of hackers,
then it's probably off-topic.

I submit a lot of stuff about education and mathematics, because I think these are subjects that interest hackers, but not the wider public. Topics that of more general interest I'd like to say don't really belong here.

This submission, in particular, should be of wide-spread, ubiquitous interest. It shouldn't be in any way specific to hackers, technologists, programmers, or entrepreneurs. In that way I believe that although it is and should be of interest to pretty much everyone here (including non-Americans) it is in no way specific to the interests of the community, and hence it is not really on topic.

So yes, I'm pleased to have seen it. But I personally think it's off-topic for HN. It should be of interest to HNers, but only because it should be of interest to everyone.
I was initially confused by this - it would have been a pretty big pivot for a picture-sharing startup.
I can't comment of the UK system, I haven't had any experience with it (theoretical experience is not the same as the actual experience)

QALYs and DALYs have a potential - they are interesting tools to separate covered cancer from uncovered cancers, but I would fear political abuse and biased measurements - just like your [1] example.
Yeah but this time, there's literally no difference in the products lol. Plus, Glympse has deep integration into many cars, the UPS uses them, etc. AND its super popular amongst consumers. Sure you may be able to get some consumers to switch to Moby for whatever reason, but money only really comes in this case from businesses
I think I'm definitely owning "stuff" other than:

- phone

- tablet

- laptop

- desktop... maybe

- desk

- desk lamp

- desk chair

- bed

- clothes

When I moved to New York I got rid of almost all my stuff. I went and bought some furniture though, which I now regret. Still, at least its Ikea, which I view as single use (meaning you get rid of it when you move).

New York is a particularly interesting one for this. So many times I see posts of people moving to here that say something like "Looking for a quiet 2 bedroom apartment in UWS/Chelsea/West Village for $2000/month", which apart from being completely unrealistic leads to the inevitable exchange:

Me: do you need a 2 bedroom?

Them: yes

Me: why?

Them: err... (I've always had one|for my stuff)

Me: that'll cost you $4000/month in your listed areas. A 1 bedroom will cost you $3000 or under.

At this point people have to choose between location, money and stuff. Some choose stuff and move out to Brooklyn, NJ or Queens. Others choose money and pay it anyway. Many choose location and downsize. NYC forces this choice where many places don't or at least not to the same degree.

Fight Club said it best: the stuff you own ends up owning you.

Seriously, I hate it.
Also, Glympse has some important relevant patents they should be careful not to tip-toe about
Who do you use for payment processing?
Shapeless: An exploration of generic/polytypic programming in Scala
I think Drew, as an MIT alum, expected MIT to script the process anyway. In fact, I'll bet he's proud that his alma-mater by-passed dropbox's flagging filters. Also, now Dropbox can look to hire new potential MIT interns and employees.

I see no problem with that ^^
iOS: Drop a pin in apple maps then click share location within the pin.
The first thing they should do is make sure their website stops crashing tablets and smartphones. Rendering text articles should not be that difficult.
>How is this racist or sexist?

It's discriminating based on the color of skin and sex.

>If you have a way of addressing the fact that there are few women of color in the tech space, please post your link.

Here's one - provide equal opportunity to all races, colors and creeds and disallow discrimination in any way, shape or form. Share with people who have less. Exclude nobody.

If you'd like to cut out the personal insults, I'd appreciate it.
Ditto: Designer glasses with video try-on
Windows 8 is the new XP
> These are all the things I need to build a simple service that does what's described here. Why is this an app?

I don't understand how listing technologies that might go into making this app obviates the app. How do your two sentences here flow together?
I don't want to broadcast my location constantly. But I would like the ability to grant permission to some of my friends and family to be able to look up my location when they need it. I'd also like a log and a notification when they look it up, so I know I'm not being stalked, and so they actually put thought into deciding whether or not it's appropriate to look up my location before doing so.

I imagine an app which doesn't send my location to a third party service on an interval. When somebody wants to look up my location, the app on their phone sends a request to some third party service over the Internet, which then pushes a request for my location to my phone. The first time the request comes in from a particular user, it asks me if I'd like to grant them this privilege permanently, temporarily, or to block it. If I grant it, then I don't need to approve future lookups but I am alerted to them happening.

[edit] The requests could also be of the style: "Let me know when you arrive at location x", instead of just "Let me know where you are now". Would be handy for meeting up at places on nights out.
Isn't Scala 2.10 introducing value types that are beneficial for situations like this? I don't know about any potential limitations though.
How about Grails Grannies?
Check in comments how they celebrate not having kids... If you can't live simply with kids, then simple is not good way to live :).
Everything I own right now fits in a backpack.

I don't feel any different than when I had an apartment full of stuff, save for a greater sense of freedom.
Joel Spolsky said "get big fast" is a good strategy if you win by taking the market and "grow slow" is better if there is a hugely crowded market with lots of entrenched competitors but either way picking a strategy early on is really important.

The talks that really hit home for me had a theme of pushing through and not giving up. Those were Jessica Livingson about the common problems she sees startups face over and over and those from the founders of Pinterest and Weebly about all the time and commitment it took to become successful.
I'd say no; the mean poverty fraction is 30.91%, with median 28.25% and standard deviation 19.05%. [0] Afghanistan has a poverty rate of 36% (as of 2008). [1] So it's definitely above the average.

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=poverty+fraction

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Afghanistan+poverty+rat...
Why Surface is Not a Microsoft Business
Yeah, I like the single-purpose paradigm.
The answer I was after, thanks! I should do some digging into the internals of these things.
(Am original author)

YES, I totally agree! :) —

At Vittana (the org I founded), we joke there are only three ways to _really_ change the world.

* religions: whether you believe in God or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, you gotta agree that religion has affected world history

* governments: law & order, basic needs, wars -- name it, it's probably there

* markets: biotech, microchip, Internet, space -- need I say more?

In fact, I'd argue that if you look at the past 50 years, even in the United States but certainly elsewhere (e.g. the Asian Tigers), and all of the incredible things we've seen -- the biotech, microchip, Internet, space revolutions -- you could trace it all back to education.

And in particular (at least in the United States), I'd wager you could probably trace it all back to the GI Bill: that, for the first time, an entire generation could finish college if they wanted. You see similar investments in education elsewhere.

When that happens (assuming non-dysfunctional governments like in Egypt, etc.), you see a generation of people both creating and filling in opportunity for themselves through industry. That's what excites us.

At Vittana, we focus on providing education micro-loans to fight youth poverty. It's very much about a hand up, not a hand out: not a donation and not aid, but a business partnership among equals.

Take Ana Lizbeth, for instance, one of my favorite students: she wanted to be a programmer but needed $713 to graduate -- because of a Vittana Loan, that became possible.

http://blog.vittana.org/ana-lizbeth-a-mothers-dream-and-dete...

We're not starting the cult or island nation of Vittana anytime soon -- I'm certainly not ;) -- so that leaves us with free markets. Our hope is that by going first, we can show others that education micro-loans are _possible_ to do and spark others to do it too.

Big fixes don't really work, but sometimes crazy, risky small ideas turn into big movements. That's our hope at least. :)

And thank you for the welcome! I've actually been with HN almost since the beginning (2,046 days — just happened to see earlier) but haven't been active/been busy building Vittana. I just logged in today when I saw a whole bunch of referrers coming in from HN.
I really like the idea, and it came at the right time when I just moved and it's time to throw away stuff, but I keep wondering about things like:

Books - Chances of me reading the same book again are slim. But it's really hard to let go of them. I now own an e-reader, but even if I could get all of those books on it (which seems impossible, if not very expensive and for no good reason), I would feel something missing. Then again, they do take much space, gather dust and are likely to be left untouched.

Gifts from people - whilst I can relatively easily throw away stuff I bought, it's so much harder with gifts people gave me. It almost feels like betraying them.

Any practical or (pop)-psychology suggestions on how to get over these hurdles?
New York Tech Catching Up
In Sydney Australia, check out Robots & Dinosaurs - http://www.robodino.org - a couple of cnc mills, a choice of several 3d printers, a laser cutter, and a whole bunch of other useful gear, and people happy to show you how to use them.

(And in Canberra Australia, look for http://www.makehackvoid.com/ )
Nathan Myrhvold is a grossly obese man who owns a large patent portfolio, managed through thousands of shell companies under the umbrella of "Intellectual Ventures." He first made his bones as was CTO of Microsoft. However, unlike a lot of the original founders, he wasn't satisfied with what he got, so he moved into the patent trolling business. These days, he makes his money by extorting technology companies, usually behind closed doors.

To make himself feel better about what he does, he tries to minimize the importance of what those technology companies are doing-- they're just building "stupid stuff," after all. He also sponsors research into vaccines and technologies to help the third world. Like Bill G himself, he views this as his way of doing penance for the bad things he's done to get where he is.

The truth is, though, it doesn't work like that. Most of the problems in the third world are the result of bad government. Unless we want to bring back colonialism, trying to "fix" the third world with aid is just putting a band-aid on a broken leg. In the long term, there are only two final destinies for humanity-- extinction, and the singularity. People like Mr. Myrhvold make the first outcome more likely.
Not if they plug into a traditional wall outlet. There are rules and laws about these things.

If the outlet has a T-slot on one side, it can take 125V 20A plugs (125*20 = 2.5kW) as well as the traditional 125V 15A plugs. They're different plugs. You can't pull 20A across 15A wires. That's how you get electrical fires (or, ideally, blow fuses/trip circuit breakers).

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector
I don't understand why British news outlets have started to try and "shame" certain corporations over their tax returns. The practice has been known and used for many years, yet it's suddenly deemed newsworthy. I'm really surprised the BBC felt the need to report on this.
LoL idk why the title to this made me laugh. It is exactly the sort of tech jargon that makes people who aren't techies think i'm speaking a foreign language in public.
I said pretend you were driving.
My favorite trick is asking myself before buying something whether I would buy it again if I lost it.
Because the tech industry, like all others, has a large element of fashion - and a lot of people (like it or no) are followers of fashion. The New New thing, etc.
If you go that way: mail all numbers as message subjects to your GMail account, then list your messages alphabetically.

You can 'store' data in DNS, too by, measuring response time to non-existent domains. The first lookup stores a one; skip it if you want to store a zero, the second one destructively reads it with some probability of data loss.
Curses, I wish I knew about this when writing up the inventory to our budget. Here's their inventory: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AtIlZyLn99e6dGR...

Leave it up to MIT to push Maker culture. If you're a student there, check out their Hobby Shop: http://studentlife.mit.edu/hobbyshop
Sadly, Jonathan is letting his very strong political views once again get the upper hand and he flagged something he feels is somehow against the "best interest" of his country. For us participating in HN from outside the USA, it is baffling to see guys that can be so involved and intelligent on some issues (he is Creative Director at row27) and at the same time so openly aggressive and irrational on others. And yes, sorry, but it is irrational to say that this is not HN material, but actively participate in other political threads when they are about some political victories of your own political party (as he did for example in "Senate votes to repeal 1099 reporting requirement in health care law"). And BTW, as we always have to sadly explain, this would be the same if he is not republican but democrat or whatever. Some of us just really dislike double standards. And flagging this story because it makes your Military and government look bad, and excusing yourself in "not HN", well...
Perhaps a better way to put it is "be consistent in what you do, be inconsistent in where you go."

Being consistent in your actions is of paramount importance if you want to master anything. You have to practice day in and day out.

Being inconsistent in your movements matters because what is around us is in a constant state of motion, and we must learn to dance with it.
Though the plan might be to negotiate cheaper Oracle licenses..
Ask HN: Anyone living/working in Thailand?
If so, any tips? Any issues with visas? I'm just beginning my research, but would love to hear from some folks who have lived/worked there.
Any Ruby Devs Under 25 On HN?
My guess is that the iPad's form factor is pretty much done. I don't see a massive change in screen size, resolution, shape, or packaging form factor. Any large departure from the current iPad will likely be a different product. If thats the case they may simply be transitioning to the way they name their computers. e.g. 'Late 2012 iPad' for the rumored update coming up.
News has fashion, and tax avoidance is fashionable at the moment. Partly that's because government has made announcements about it, and partly because we're in austerity measures.
Works great now, thank you:)
Do you live in a vacuum?

Is it your contention that this one micro-mini program is preventing anyone who may not be black, native american or latino (or a woman) from getting a job????

Seriously, I need to better understand the nature of your thinking process.
Photographs can help. They capture a lot of the mnemonic value of an old belonging, but prove easier to transport, to find later, to back up against loss, and to accommodate in terms of space.
Xda-university - Android Development Education
I plan to hold a "get gifts from me" birthday event this year.
You should really use "new Notification" rather than "createNotification" because "new Notification" will be supported by browsers other than Chrome:

http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/#api
Build your own online stores with SPR Market
Excellent post, saved me the trouble of pointing all of those out!
Offer the books to your local library. You can always visit them ;)

That's what I did, anyway. I don't own an ebook reader (yet), but I'm pretty sure I won't be reading them again any time soon (if ever, for many), so I just kept a dozen of my favorites and gave away the rest.
What's the significance of this? Will Oracle shut down MySQL developement?