skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know that idea is relevant because 1) WE find it relevant and 2) by the initial comments we are receiving from our users. Most are in love with the idea... but after that they feel let down. The problem is how the idea is executed, not the idea itself.
> Let me be testy back.

This is kinda fun.

> because of the things that you changed on your computer, it's a fault with Facebook's design

You're assuming my computer came out of a box all set for Facebook and your anally perfect site. It didn't. And then I had the gall to do something outrageous to it. I haven't.

You know, a person doesn't need to have major ooga-booga accessibility problems for sites to be "broken." Try fiddling with the width of your browser window. Monitor resolutions are all different, plus some people want the browser window to take up, say, half the width.

Facebook does have a design problem when its horizontal scroll bar is borked.

> We've all got buttons that get pressed. Mine are pressed when people suggest that it's not worth aiming for perfection.

Just don't lose sight of graceful "degradation." Plus it prepares the site for whatever new platforms come along, like the next iPhone.
Free doesn’t mean someone wouldn’t pay
The Semantic Web: A Treasure Trove for Marketers
Thank you <3, so well said:

If someone spent a day to work on an app times a dozen apps and makes enough money to quit his or her day job...good for them. That doesn't have much relevance to the problem overall though. Yes, people will always buy shit apps that give them little amusement for the money, but that shouldn't crowd out the wonderful and polished applications out there that aren't games or fart apps that someone would still want for their iPhone.
Researchers use brain scans to read memories
Drupal ecommerce module is the perfect example. It tries it's best to be everything to everyone. I doubt you'll see a better turnkey solution that's not a standalone application.
It'd be too easy to put rules into this board that would penalize or reward people based on their karmic performance.
How about making the user wave a chicken over their post before clicking submit?
Children of older fathers have lower IQs
Novel use of various YouTube clips to create original music
They say updated SDK - so maybe we'll finally see 3rd party being treated fairly - access to data, background processes, system event listeners etc.

Unlikely, but one can hope.
A day before the YC S09 deadline! ... I predict some 11th hour application updates.
Wow. Been there with misdiagnosed orthopedic problems. Been there with a string of MRIs and X-rays which don't reveal anything useful when the body's not in a certain position. Been there with the !@#$%^& anti-psychotics. Been there with the muscle atrophy. Been there trying to do a full-time job.

Medicine and the medical care system are traumatizing, all right. And the realization that they're traumatizing is additional trauma.
Hitwise: Twitter Drives Traffic to Blogs and Social Networks, But Not to Retail Sites
At least they've finally done something with their Grand Central acquisition.
Thanks for posting these. I'm currently using the lowest tier of Slicehost, but it sounds like I can easily halve my costs with this new service without a decrease in RAM or storage. I hope Rackspace will make it easy to move from Slicehost to this new cloud service (both of which they own).

The only thing that sounds rather odd is that they're charging more for outgoing traffic than incoming traffic - most websites send much more data than they receive, so I would think that Rackspace would configure their network and their prices accordingly. Granted, this cloud compute service doesn't have to be used for websites, but Rackspace has traditionally been a web hosting company.
>...called OzymanDNS ...

Ozymandias? Haha, is that a Watchmen reference? If so, how apropos. "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Not the folks running open hotspots.
As long as they fix the drop calls and bad receptions I will be extremely happy
I have a friend who works for a bank, and I needed some help with a complex SQL query. Instead of paying in stock, I just said "Here's so-and-so per hour" and it took 2 hours, and I paid him, then did the same a couple of weeks later.

Another guy did me an Installshield script on Elance.

I paid a lawyer for a non-disclosure agreement.

The lesson for me is, paying in stock is just like an urban legend, and actually, if you've got the lion's share of development done yourself, the edge cases can be got rid of cheaply for little more than the rent.

Also, if you haven't got friends who want to partner in a company, don't let it stop you developing a product.
Ada + OpenSolaris = AuroraUX
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Thank God, thanks Brad for letting us know.
> I'm not positive but I think that there have been studies that show that a programmer's output in LOC per day is fairly constant no matter what the language is.

That may be true, I have no idea. But the point would be that you can do so much more with some languages than you can with others.

To make an extreme example compare writing a factorial function with Haskell and assembler.
It'd be hard to verify that. It's a good one though -- one day.
Dont forget about Google latitude. That needs to get implemented directly with maps. So I wouldnt expect to see that as well.
Great news: Tony Morris is OK
Nice example of how releasing early and often can go bad... on many levels (dual submission)
You neglect option C: A charity and/or social program that provides a safe, albeit spartan environment in which the person can live for a temporary period, while receiving instruction on life skills, resume preparation, interview conduct, and if all goes well, job placement. These kind of programs already exist for parolees (a similar type of at-risk population) and they are, for the most part, effective.

And you don't need to exploit someone that already has a hard enough time adjusting to society.
Time tracking over IM bots. I really like the idea (and the nonexistant signup process!), gonna see how well the implementation works over the next days. http://www.timmyontime.com
Now for those of you that know him make sure he stays OK.

Seriously.
Indeed,

Consciousness might not have anything to do with intelligence as such or the human brain. It might just be a muddled cultural remnant of Western philosophy or a glitch in the endocrine system or an artifact of our language or something else.
Man, that's a terribly nasty thing to say.

Try to have some compassion: the man just discovered that he has a substantially higher than average risk of developing Parkinson's. He's dealing with that knowledge by blogging about it, just as millions of others have blogged about their personal lives as a sort of public diary.
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Yahoo still needs to win the integration componant. Flickr, Delicious, my email address book.. they have everything they need, they just have to mash it into one ui. And they are getting there.
Perhaps both schemes could be supported, using a system of symbolic links, or in its most elite case maybe even a specialized user-space filesystem. Now you have me thinking...
What would be even more interesting is having some kind of Maps widget available in the toolkit.

Right now you can use a webview that points to a maps.google.com url (you do see this in some apps), but the experience isn't nearly as smooth as the native maps app.

The other option you have is generating a URL that opens the maps app. This works, but you can only specify one or two points of interest, and your app quits after you do this.

Having the maps thing as a widget would allow a lot of apps currently in the store to present a beter interface, and could also allow google to implement their Lattitude stuff without it being intrusive if you just want to do a quick maps search.
While I'm not a psychiatric professional, I do associate with several people in that field, and I'm calling shenanigans on your numbers. I'd say:

"These days we have advanced medications, which can help with some of the symptoms of perhaps 25% of mental illnesses. Effectiveness will dramatically vary by person, and only works if the person continues to take the medication as directed (something that is very often outside the ability of a mentally ill person on their own). Also, many of these medications can cause health issues, addiction, toxicity, interactions with other medications and drugs, and need to be monitored on a frequent basis by a medical professional in order to fine tune the dosage, and look out for early warning signs of serious side effects."

Which isn't nearly as helpful. Unfortunately.
This would presumably give some problems with votes. For instance, a comment in a long thread that starts on page 2 would have a very small chance of making it to page 1 since only a subset of users would look at the second page thus having a chance to vote it up.
Hello,
Your type of thinking/analyzing is deeply needed when developing the AI - at least this is what I think.

I am very interested in reading more of your analyzes... Do you have a blog? AI is one of the main topics that I love to read about.
This is pretty old news....
Not sure I buy the premise "Polling for updates is bad." Certainly reverse http and/or web hooks do not cover, for example, all the same cases as http/atom/atompub. I'd like to see people's guidance on when to consider one or the other.
I think it would be much more comfortable, and useful, if the user were using a touch screen, and could use gestures on the screen. If someone were viewing ipaper on the iPhone, that would be the way to go for navigation.
RescueTime: Daylight Savings Time costs the United States $480,000,000
Google Reader starts (yet another) conversation
Great, now I get to split up discussion about things I find interesting to facebook, friendfeed, news.yc, and Google reader...
I always had critical doubts that Google is going to track users in such a way, as Google is always looking for a way to collect users' info - Look at Youtube and all of other Google's acquisitions!

Specially after their acquisition of Urchin - currently known as Google Analytics.
Great, now I get to split up discussion about things I find interesting to facebook, friendfeed, news.yc, and Google reader...
Ask HN: What state [or region] is hiring the most of us?
I'm sorry for sounding so general and naive, but if you were sitting on $60K and you were unsatisfied with your local job prospects and culture, where would you move?

Even if you answer is as general as east or west, I'm more or less, just looking for some positive insights that reflect the character of place you lived in or are living in now and how the current job-market is fairing there for hackers.
I suspect Amazon is trying to do two things simultaneously: (1) become more price competitive with traditional dedicated server offerings while still charging a premium for "on demand" compute power and (2) improving their ability to predict demand patterns over time.
Microsoft publishes own browser speed test. And not unreasonably so.
Might be worth noting that I think they mean Cambridge in the UK... not Cambridge, MA.
Evan Williams on what's behind Twitter's explosive growth
No, on all counts. Phone numbers used to be a problem because phone numbers were tied to phone lines which in turn were tied to copper. If you wanted to be reached at home or at work you had to take different copper and thus different phone numbers. Phone lines are no longer tied to copper, and phone numbers are (sort of) no longer tied to phone lines. My cellphone takes my phone line with me anywhere I go, and if I switch cellphone providers I can take my phone number with me.

I haven't had a home landline for almost 6 years now (granted, four of those were spent in college) and most people I know that are my age (I'm 24) also do not have landlines. The first thing I do to any work phone is to put it on permanent call forward to my cellphone. There really is no longer a need for multiple phones.

Thinking multiple phones is still a problem in the age of cellphones is like saying, "How do I solve the problem of needing to carry around hundreds of CDs and a CD player to listen to the music I want?" in the age of the iPod.

The sibling comments that argue for multiple phone numbers, on the other hand, have a point. But they should all still go to my cellphone. To be fair to Grand Central, they partially support this feature. It's just layered on with a bunch of other crap I don't care for.
How Much Is A Suggested Slot On Twitter Worth? Jason Calacanis Offers $250,000.
I really wish to move to the Silicon Valley... it's my biggest dream in my life.
Starting my startup at the heart of the Silicon Valley - Palo Alto, or maybe at Mountain view... ouch, this dream is always in my head!

It's not about money or any thing... it's just emotional.
It's enough to tell you that the Silicon Valley is in my heart, and that I visit Google maps every day to take a look at the area with the street view feature.
In Canada, Vancouver is a fair place to move for tech jobs. Your best bet though is east, in Waterloo or Toronto. Heading further east, there are good number of software companies (including game shops) in Montreal.

Calgary is always an option, depending on the oil sector.
> charging more for outgoing traffic than incoming traffic

That's probably why they can afford to offer the cpu time at or below cost.
if you are willing to pay per month, there is a lot of competition in that arena. I'm one of the cheaper offerings... see http://prgmr.com/xen/ but then, I don't have the cool provisioning system ec2 has. In fact, I need to finish up my next server before putting people on it. But yes, competition will force ec2 prices down. 4gb dual-rank registered ecc ddr2 is almost cheap enough for me to move to 64GB servers (meaning I'll be able to lower prices again.) - how much cheaper would I need to be before a service like mine became compelling vs. ec2?
Hello,

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regards
Kris
west. more specifically, SV, seattle or portland. they all have good tech industries as well as awesome local culture.

but those are my choices, ymmv.
I have always wondered - when reading articles like this - whether it would just be better to freeze one's sperm at age 20 and then save it for when you want to have a child. In fact, it might even be better to save sperm from age 14 or so to reduce even further the chance of generic mutation.

I don't know if this is easy or even possible to do (or whether using frozen sperm brings its own complications), but it's worth researching further.
I've long contended that DST is dangerous and a money hole, although not in the way that this article addresses. Anyone who lives to the west of a major metro area will understand my point.

Twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, commuters experience a period during which the sun is right in their eyes. For those of us driving east in the morning, and west in the evening, the sun is right in front of us all the time, and when it's at the right (wrong) elevation, vision is painfully obscured.

Earlier in the year the sun is too low to bother; later, the sun has risen high enough that your visor can block it. But for that time period, traffic is terrible because drivers can't see where they're going.

The thing about DST is that it resets this period. After having made it through once, DST drags the clock around so that we must endure the same sun glare again.

Once you start to think about this effect, it's clear that it must be costing fuel and lost productivity from the traffic, and likely even injuries and lives from accidents.
any word on how to port existing grandcentral account to google voice ? - i wish i could delete this now.. but i see a big upgrade me link now.. last night was not there sorry
I think nickblack's original point was lost because you had related points you wanted to make. I think what he was getting at is that Facebook is a good social networking site that's trying to integrate applications. Google has a good set of applications, and they may try to integrate social networking.

They're approaching it from different angles. I don't think Google has to replace Facebook to succeed. If you use a lot of Google applications, you may benefit from those being plugged into a social network. But that social network doesn't have to replace ones you're already a part of (specifically, Facebook).

I also don't understand why, exactly, you think Google has bad design. It has been a pleasure to use every Google application I've tried.
Volatile: C Keyword Myths Dispelled
Volatile is one of the most misunderstood component in C history. Let’s separate out the myths and the facts first and then we will discuss the how’s and why’s of it.
I use <a href=code.kryo.se/iodine>iodine</a> as a wrapper for this, and I use it very frequently (as I fly internationally at least once every few weeks). It usually sits as a service on my home server. So far the only airport where I didn't make it to work was in Miami (where I connected though a socks tunnel though my iphone 3g anyways).

dns tunelling is slow, but handy for console/screen situations. I usually use it to download the newspaper before getting into the plane (a bunch of wgets) and refresh the rss feeds on newsbeuter.
Paint, Heal Thyself
Word of warning: I used their $100/mo server cloud as my host for a while, but repeated downtime issues forced me to leave.
Sounds a good validated business concept. Start it overseas.
LG Voyager Verizon CDMA FULL TOUCH SCREEN
The LG Voyager is Verizon’s flagship release and has been receiving high praise from cell phone review magazines. All this attention is certainly deserved, because the Voyager gives the user many ways to input information. The front of the phone features clean lines with a bold styling making for an impressive device.
Ask YC:  What was that Y Combinator company that makes purchasing plane tickets easier?
I would love to get an update...
My first thought was that the original location of the blog post would be the best place to have that conversation, rather than split it up among however many social circles.

My second thought was that it might make sense if the source blog tends to get hundreds of comments.

How many people read other people's shared Google Reader items?
given my name is Shamiq, i've contemplated using shamwow as a username.

already have shamazing used by my now-defunct blog.
I wonder if the study controlled for the selection bias inherent in the decisions of males of various ages to reproduce and in their preferences for mates. Presumably, 50 year-old men are not procreating with women their age. Do older men choose younger, but dumber women to mate with? Do dumber men end up having children later in life? Are 50 year-old men worse parents?
hey, so I'd be happy to donate 16GB worth of Xen instances to the project,just to say I did, if you need mirrors. my boxes are 32GB ram/8 core, and the CPU is proportional, so if you want 4x4GB instances over separate servers, I can do that. (well, you will have to wait a bit for me to put up the 4th server.)
Ask HN: Review My App | "LifesBook"  =  Twitter  +  A Diary
Please review my app AND business model:

http://www.lifesbook.com

WHAT THE SITE DOES

LifesBook is a private online diary (or journal) that works much the same way twitter works (in terms of SMS and hopefully user frequency of posts).

To make an entry all you need to do is send in an SMS, make as many entries as you like whenever you like! If you start to get lazy with your entries (like you would with a normal diary) don't worry we can kindly remind you.

THE BUSINESS

So I think this is the kind of app that a few months ago you would see with no business model apart from ads, basically fuck that.
I have gone for the typical subscription based approach set at $9.99 per month for now, I hope to get this cost down and I will be able to when I get a bit of the economies of scale loving.

I aim to and hope that I have created such a good product that $9.99 seems like great value. As you would expect after a user has been using the site for a few months the data (their entires) we store for them becomes really quiet valuable to the user. This makes me want to extend the trial period from the current week to as long as possible (eg 3 months) but SMS costs are just to crazy to be able to do that right now.

What do you think about this business model and approach?? Its an app that I think allot of people would use if free but how can i make that financially viable? I don't think I can so thats why iv done what iv done.

FEW MORE THINGS

Due to the SMS cost I currently only have a UK number available, this may mean it will cost a user outside of the UK more to send a text in. I am not to sure. But either way I plan to add a US number as soon as its financially viable, I am guessing thats within the month.

Search has just died on us in production, its a hosting issue and we are on to it.. Decided to release anyways. Meh

FEEDBACK

I want as much feedback as possible and not just on the app I also want feedback on the business behind it.
Plotting thread activity in Haskell
Real World Haskell wins a Jolt Award
The borders. :)
The visas laws... if you are an American, then almost you don't know about it, but Arabs are restricted from entering America... only fraction of Arabian visa applicants are granted the visa.

Anyway, I hope that maybe after 30 yrs from now, the globalization will be more practiced, and the borders will be removed.... so I would be able to acheive my dream.
Simulation of the outbreak of cooperation of success-driven individuals
A large hosting company cannot configure their network asymmetrically because AFAIK the backbones only sell symmetric connections. So Rackspace has symmetric pipes that are mostly empty on the inbound side and they charge less to encourage usage.
Just to let you guys know, #slicehost staffer are reporting those storage prices as incorrect.
in the numbers pulled out of our ass department.....

I'm not effective my first hour at work anyway. Its coffee and email time. Second the lighter day has a tendency to make me more apt to work longer - there's no accounting for that.
There is ycombinator startup that would allow you to search multiple air companies at the same time.

I am searching for it for you...

EDIT: I reached to this list: http://rankedindex.com/yc
But I am searching in it. Will follow you with update once I find it.
Do we need a GetSatisfaction for Congress?
I noticed that, and the blame appears to rest with them. Appreciate the update all the same.
Good point.

They good control it by looking at IQ relationships of brothers potentially.
These guys write software that tracks how long you spend in each program. You are describing exactly the kind of thing that they can account for.
Does anyone know where and when is the get together mentioned in the article?
Slicehost prices are dropping (looks like 2x) on Monday.
It's not an OS problem, its a network problem, as in, linux doesn't have a network of ISVs who distribute software with 1-click installers. Its certainly possible, making an .rpm or .deb is no harder than making a Windows installer or an OS X app bundle. Look at skype, for instance. Download, double-click, bang.

I think the bigger problem is the availability of 3rd party software for linux to begin with. Installing it is a minor detail. (Here "3rd party" means something outside of your distributions package management system, ie proprietary.)