skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are thousands of people working furiously on all of those problems, though. I was working at Janelia Farm until last year. You should see what those guys are planning for neuroscience. It's going to be huge. It's a mistake to assume that our capacity to query neural circuitry is going to remain stuck at such a low rate.
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The experience of plugging in a diode backwards vs a popup that says "pop". When getting it wrong means you can't get it right (without replacing components) you pay more attention to what you're doing.
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I think you can try ForeUI (http://www.foreui.com), it can create runnable UIs like Axure, and it can run under Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris.
"If you have to ask permission, or answer to anyone, to make decisions about what you do then you don't have freedom."

Completely disagree. Freedom isn't binary. Everyone has to answer to someone.

- If you own your own company you are responsible for your employees and thus limits what you can do. Probably why he was glad to sell it and get rid of the company.

- Create your own open source project, as soon as it is used by other they will want additional feature and fixes.

- Working with others to create something means that there will be trade-offs on what everyone does.

"If you have to ask permission or answer to anyone then you don't have the kind of freedom I want."

Not sure what kind of freedom you want, but unless you are living on an island by yourself creating software that no one uses it seems your lying to yourself if you think you have achieved.
You need some type of energy awakening in the body to undergo positive brain changes. The same energy that was dominant in the fetus.
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That's what Prosper was doing but the SEC forced them to temporarily stop lending and jump through more hoops.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/26/sec-outlines-its-reason...

I'm not sure where they sit now, but when you browsed Prosper you could find people requesting loans for business (not just personal items like cars).
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Always has been. Quick, witty quips that add nothing to the conversation are the domain and downfail of Slashdot.

If you have any sort of filtering at all, all you get are useless, trashy jokes and no real conversation.
A teacher recently told us during a lecture:

How many of you know the definition of the word "engineer"? An engineer is a person who has found something more interesting than sex!
I love it. I hate it. I love it because its a very powerful way to run SQL on petabytes of data. I hate it because SQL needs to die.

Personally, I'm really looking forward to Apache Pig having both a SQL and dataflow abstraction available.
I thought so. But didn't think it as low as 1%. I was more towards 20%. do we have any stats?

I started using clickpass after multitude times of forgetting password. I have been a HN user since early days, but never participated. So I used to upvote to save links my bookmarks.
..and then one day, i thought fk it(we'll do it clickpass!) and used my google account to login.
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I agree. First ones I actually recognized: PlentyofFish Media, RedFlagDeals.com, FreshBooks, Shopify, Skyscraper Source Media.
It's even faster on recent WebKit builds (the "official" editions with SquirrelFish).

Not too surprising, considering Oliver works on SquirrelFish ;)
Thanks, that's incredibly valuable input.

I'm actually a little fuzzy on how much a pound of clothing is. Would that be, say, 2-3 lbs per load? I mean, obviously it varies, but roughly....

The catchy name is a particularly insightful tip.

I was actually thinking that pickup/delivery would be part of the included price. I was trying to keep it incredibly simple and cheap, so that college students might pay for it.

I've run a few numbers and you're right about the balance point being precise. I think $5 for pickup and delivery of ~1 load plus $3 for each extra load was a decent price (which is pretty close to what you suggested).

I'm going to sleep on this idea. If I wake up tomorrow and it still sounds feasible, I may pursue it.
"I'd google it" is a terrible answer to some questions, e.g. stuff people ought to know like what recursion is. It's a great answer to other questions, e.g. stuff not worth remembering (like API details you use infrequently).

Some things are simple enough you can (re)learn in 5 minutes with google. Others aren't. Knowing which is which is a good skill. Trashing Google in all cases equally is wrong.
Here's the summary of the article:

All else being equal it's better to know the answer than to have to look it up. Also, the author of the article is going to assume all kinds of things about you
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It looks as though it just gives you data about sleep phases. How they're going to turn that into helpful advice for improving sleep is a bit of a mystery.
And you thought the NIMBYness of cell towers was bad.
By the by, if any Googlers pass by, the linked page has a grammatical error:

communicating the switch Google Apps to your organization

should have another "to", i.e.

communicating the switch to Google Apps to your organization

Since this is a front page, maybe someone will want it fixed. I provided feedback via the site's feedback mechanism, as well, but that's geared for general site experience and may not be looked at beyond statistically.
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I don't understand the logic flow of this article. First it seems to place to place freemium & micro billing in opposition. I don't see why.

Then it goes on to describe all sorts of problems that might affect a freemium model. They can be annoying. There's a race to the bottom. There's the penny gap. paid subsidises free. All true. None universally applicable. Certainly none universally deal breakers.

To pick on the last one I could give this analogy that applies to many kinds of freemium businesses. Whenever you buy your brand of toothpaste (that you have been buying for 20 years) you are subsidising advertising to new markets in countries you don't care abut. In other cases even that analogy doesn't hold because free customers do not raise costs.

When finally getting back to microbilling, the solution appears to be some sort of universal easy micro billing service & a cultural shift away from subscriptions towards pay-as-you-go. Fine. Good. Works for iphone apps & mobile phone trivia, why not web apps?

What relevance does this have for business models that rely on freemium? None. No such service exists at this point. The fact that the proposed solution is a universal one, points to the fact that WebApp companies shouldn't roll their own.

I agree that micro billing is a good idea. I don't see what it has to do with freemium.
Agreed. Plus, given that Facebook is a pretty standard platform at this point, it's not unreasonable to think of facebook.com as a sort of prefix-TLD. Sure, I can go buy a domain, but if all I'd put there is a personal website then a FU seems simpler. And if I want to protect my name/brand, then I am probably interested in every such domain-like address I can own, rather than just one.
github fi looks great...

if you think it's too expensive, retrospectiva now supports git and has some of the cool features of github and is free as in git.
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"yc4ever", someday you are going to look back and feel embarrassed about this.
No way. I've also been thinking about that project for a while now.
Isn't the logical conclusion that every one's PC inside their own home forms part of the cloud?

It reminds me of a joke business plan developed over some beers: Provide free electric heaters for old people to run in winter, which were actually PCs connected to a phoneline doing data-intensive grid computing :-)
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Yes, when it's experimentation on your core idea. But when experimentation is "playing w/ crowdsourcing", "a fully multilingual site" or "an experiment in transparency" then -- until one of them gains traction -- they're more projects than businesses.
Full version is pretty interesting.

Dancing Guy was dancing non-stop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU7dxkIz1Vs
i don't think the dancing guy was trying to be unstoppable or successful. he was probably doing something that made him feel good.
I'm implementing this right now in processing.org. You can get terrific speedups if you keep your drawing/fitness-scoring canvas very small, and only render the larger image when you want to save a copy of it.
http://www.caustic.com/ ?
If you think anyone here has a 4 year old Apple laptop you're out of your mind.
The world would look very different now if Lise Meitner had thought the same thing in 1917.
Did it get added in the background for you, i.e. if you go to options is it in the search engine drop down?
Really it just popped in my head one day and I just liked it. It is certainly influenced/derived from Duck Duck Goose, but other than that there is no relation, e.g. a metaphor.
I have mixed feelings about this:

#1, I hope Kiva dots all the is and crosses all the ts more than Prosper did, or they might also feel the wrath of financial regulators.

#2, While I love the idea of loaning to entrepreneurs to improve their standings (and did it on Prosper), it is hella-risky and I don't see that 2% delinquency rate being maintained. One thing I learned through hard experience with Prosper: there is a reason banks are banks.

#3, That 2% delinquency rate is, how do I put this gently, creative accounting. Kiva's lending partners routinely do things like rolling over loans to avoid having to tarnish their near-perfect records -- the original $100 loan isn't four years past due, it is a $500 loan now which is paying as agreed (to the new, updated terms). They also use collection tactics that in the US would be illegal (you know all those social pressure things, you'd better repay the loan for your chicken or we'll tell your cousin you cost him the loan for his cow? That has been done here before. Legislatures were not neutral about the practice, which is why we have laws like the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which prohibits 3rd party disclosure of the fact of indebtedness, to say nothing of asking someone's cousin to be your enforcer. The FDCPA might not apply directly to Kiva's partners, but similar laws exist in all 50 states.)

The triple digit interest rates that some international Kiva parters charge, to compensate for the we-can't-call-it-default-risk, also probably won't fly that well here. Bad news: it isn't automatically profitable to give loans to poor people at normal US credit card interest rates. As mentioned previously, there is a reason banks are banks. Look at Prosper defaults on business loans -- off the top of my head, in the lower credit grades they exceeded forty percent.
When I have received the "I'd Google it" response to a question in an interview I would the ask for the search terms, enter the query and discussed the result.
Agree, a friend of mine does a million hardware projects, many of which could probably end up as profitable companies. He doesn't care about money though, he just wants to do fun stuff with hardware and avoid people wearing ties and entanglement with authorities.

If you're in a nerdy mood here's his project page: http://dzl.dk/projects/index.html
I'm sorry you didn't have a good experience with our toolbar. The false positive rate is actually very low, but there is a subset of sites (new launches) where we still have some problems. Basically there is a time lag in our crawling. Unfortunately, this effects the HN (startup) crowd more than others.

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Solution: Fire people. Bankruptcy's reality's way of telling a government it has to get smaller.
More accurately, what you need is F You money so you can tinker with projects. He started out describing his company as a nightmare, but now that he's loaded he doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to.
And they have been working furiously for a good while now. The romantic in me hopes that they can make it happen, but I'm not holding my breath. Mainly because a lot of people confuse speed of processing with intelligence, but that's not really the spark of life we need. There's nothing out there so far that can mimic human thought even at hundreds of times slower than human responses. We still don't have something quite right with the basic principles yet.
Coming up with an answer on Google is not the same as knowing the answer. Sure I can look up what a class is and give you a reasonable answer, but if I knew anything about code (I don't) I would be able to give you an instant and satisfactory response.

Interview questions aren't always about what the answer is, but how you answer it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646861
It's absurd that this list is missing backtype.com, run by two of our favorite Canadians from our YC Summer 08 batch.
I have no idea how much an average load of laundry weighs. Mine probably comes in around 8lbs or so for a load, but is probably also not at all indicative of a college students laundry...

Simple/Cheap is good, but where does it scale? How do you ever make enough money to cover your gas/transportation costs AND have enough left over to make this more worthwhile than just getting a $5.00/hr job?

You're going to gross about $3.00/load after paying the laundromat, and will probably net out about $1.50-$2.00/load if you outsource the actual laundry (the other costs going to vehicle overhead, small marketing dollars, etc.).

If you DIY, it's probably pretty close to the same numbers (you might fit 2 students worth of laundry in 1 washing/drying cycle, but you'll have to buy some of those netted laundry bags to keep the clothes separated.) But then with DIY it seems like a HUGE time suck to make $2.00.

What else can you deliver WITH the laundry to offset your costs? Adverts for local businesses? Tie-ins to online clothing retail (I see you wear brand X, and your stuff is looking worn-out, here is a coupon (with your referral code) for 5% off at foo.com).

Somehow the actual clean clothes seem like the loss-leader in this idea.
I can see the potential for micro-billing in B2B services, but I'm quite certain micro-billing will never be successful in the consumer market. The problem as I see it is that most potential customers will see micro-billing as the very embodiment of "nickle and dimed to death". Which is not very surprising. Usage based billing is seldom ever popular with consumers, who have historically chosen flat-fee options in overwhelming numbers whenever given the choice.
i write this at the risk of being downmodded (and i don't have enough karma!)

Why is this such a big issue? The only tangent I can draw to this is the story about the cop tazing the grandma("you didn't need to" , "oh i was following procedures")

It's not like another distribution stole this logo and used it to get traction based on Arch Linux? It's a small business owner who used it as a 'casual' download-and-use-it manner..and He used the logo for his Ace Driving school - which was clearly displayed on the car. It was not the case that He was a pirated software distributor taking advantage of the Arch Linux logo.
He was a layman - oblivious to online copyrights. He saw it on the web,liked it and used it. simple from his point of view. I am sure he knew about copyrights and other issues - but related to 'paper' business.

There are bigger stories of people deliberately stealing photos/digital art. There was this one story about this big designer who downloaded a creative-design from an artist's flickr account for a new designer shirt. This artist only came to know of it when he visited this showroom to buy one. Then there are always stories of magazines/newspapers flicking photos from flickr without proper attribution. (i don't recall the links, nor am i going to spend time searching for them - atleast now)

I am not contending the fact that he didn't steal the logo or he didn't lie. He did both.

I also think, acts like 'threatening' is not what the hacker/foss community should resort to. It only alienates community from the layman.
thesis: the only measure that matters in auto transport is energy density, and you can't do better than gasoline so there can't be any big disruptive technology as far as Exxon is concerned.

He's right about the energy density but makes a lot of crappy assumptions. He assumes auto transport is preferable to begin with (as do the politicians that choose highway funds over mass transit). He also doesn't consider that at a certain price (at the pump or environmental externalities), energy density becomes a less critical variable in the transportation equation.

There's also some general weirdness in the article.
"The essence of digital-silicon technology is that more and more information can be stored and transported in ever smaller, profoundly less energy-intensive ways. Millions, soon billions, of ever tinier information engines (a.k.a. transistors) are etched onto a sliver of silicon."
ok

"On top of this, software engineers use clever mathematical codes made ever more powerful by microprocessors, to parse, slice, and shrink information itself, compressing it without loss of essence. The combination is powerful. Compared to the dawn of computing, today’s information-moving hardware consumes one million times less energy for a logic operation and can store data in a physical space 100 million times smaller. And progress continues."
uh, what? has compression really improved in the past 20 years? If anything, software engineers are doing there best to waste the efficiency gains in hardware.

"OIL IS A REMARKABLE ENERGY SOURCE that is also uniquely easy to transport and store."[emphasis his]
Oil is not an energy source, it's a transport and storage mechanism; storing millions of years of solar power.

Oh, the guy wrote "The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy" (he means that literally). He spent most of the article going on about the physical limitations of renewable resources. He's a maroon.
I don't think we know enough about photosynthesis to know whether that is the sense or not.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/lightharvest.gif

Shown above is a light-harvesting molecule (image
snagged from Alán’s slides), which apparently is
efficient at concentrating light at its center for
essentially the same reason the Childs et al. quantum
walk reaches the target vertex exponentially faster
than a classical walk: namely, because of destructive
interference between the paths that point backward,
toward the leaves. According to Alán, what plants do
to harvest sunlight is not entirely unrelated either
(it also involves quantum coherence), and fully
understanding these mechanisms in quantum information
terms might conceivably be useful in designing better
solar cells.
Not really. Winsock and IE come to mind. In recent years MS hasn't been themselves due to antitrust scrutiny.
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We debated for a very long time whether we actually wanted to build this product, we like GitHub's SaaS model and the revenue is solid.

In the end we decided the only way we were going to do it is by pricing it high enough that the enterprise world took us seriously, but keeping in mind that smaller teams want to use it as well.

I think the only way to do that is by charging less than Perforce, but far more than other solutions like CollabNet EE.
There's a lot to like about testing, but far too often it feels like the sort of drudge work that good programmers avoid.

I'd rather write a tool to do my drudge work for me. It seems as though testing still lacks a good tool to streamline it.
i write this at the risk of being downmodded (and i don't have enough karma!)

I actually think one of the drawbacks of the voting system used here is that it discourages the posting of controversial or unpopular opinions. (See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=613071)
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"(iii) deep-link to any portion of Our Website (including, without limitation, the purchase path for any search services) for any purpose;"

No deep-linking? wow. (Not quite sure how they enforce that rule)
It really depends on the question.

From the article: "what is a class?" can easily be answered as a definition from a Google search, but that definition doesn't help you write a class, use a class, etc. Similarly, you can search for a definition of a join, but if you can't come up with an answer off the top of your head, you don't have the skill to use a join.

This is different from, say, being asked what the "succ" method of the Ruby Integer class does. Or, the preg_replace in PHP takes 5 parameters, which position do you place the subject string in?

Those are two different types of questions. The first paragraph has questions about key computer science/database topics that, if you don't know, it will take learning and mastery to use them in a practical application. The second paragraph has questions of an arbitrary nature - knowing argument order in one language doesn't prove you understand regular expressions nor does knowing what a somewhat ambiguously named method does - especially a method that is also called "next" and can be accomplished as "var += 1" both of which seem clearer.

But there definitely are some things that can be answered by searching that don't necessarily mean that the person has a mastery of the topic that would be required to actually use the definition. Now, the second set of questions might be a clue that this isn't a good place to work since they emphasize random knowledge that doesn't actually prove any competency, but that's another story.
If we could reach the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability we might get some very interesting materials.