skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how this was posted by them to Twitter and drives more traffic to TechCrunch than digg. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/14/for-techcrunch-twitter-...
same here. just moved back to NYC from SF (after leaving NYC for SF about 3 years ago for a startup). SF was nice, but boring. just walking around the city, its not as alive.

as for burritos, you are right. i totally miss those. the best i've found in NYC so far is http://www.yelp.com/biz/uncle-moes-burritos-new-york .. if only they had the same tight foil roll that they do in SF.
Seems like there would be an opportunity to license their game engine, provide a bunch of support staff and programmers, and sub-license it to other companies.
Similarly: yes, indeed, if your company continues interacting with PG and other Y-Combinator-funded companies, then it will not die -- because if it dies, it will no longer be able to have those interactions.

But that's false. People don't lose the ability to email us once their company dies.
If you think language like the following is "extremely articulate" or "informative", well, please do not send me anything to read.

The decision has primarily dictated by market conditions and opportunity cost which in aggregate would mean we probably wouldn't have been able to show the kind of results we wanted to make this a big company in this market.
I used to work at conductor.com - if you can afford it, they can hook you up with a lot of publishers who want to sell outbound links, among other things.
"All" you noticed is $1.3 million in insurance fraud‽ Stealing $1.3 million dollars all by itself is up there beyond "slap on the wrist" territory. I mean, what are you proposing for stealing roughly 30 years' worth of the median American's wages (before taxes)? Six months community service?
Does anyone know if they tried to sell the company?
Having slowly switched to a (nearly) completely DIY diet over the past six years, I've lost about 25 or 30 pounds, though I have a small frame (5'10") and was never particularly heavy to begin with (170lb or so down to 145lb). Food you make yourself certainly tastes better---most prepared food I've tried has been full of rancid oils and musty, stale flavors.

Nevertheless, I'm hesitant to blame prepared foods as a genre. I think the real problem is a lack of consciousness, where people habitually overeat rich foods. Some of my coworkers have sizable portions of meat and cheese at nearly every meal---I don't know how they do it!
modwsgi: Python WSGI adapter module for Apache
Using someone's APIs may not be considered "filling an obvious hole", but it's not unreasonable to assume that a website that focuses on extremely short messages is going to be looking into ways to make that limitation less burdensome, and lengthy hyperlinks are an obvious target.

Indeed, anyone using Twitter for more than like 4 tweets is going to realize, "Gee, it's a pain in the ass that the URL in my tweet takes up half the room, I wish I could shorten it". In that light, a URL shortener is an obvious feature for Twitter to implement, since it's so simple (like what, 2 SQL tables and 30 lines of code?). Similarly, something like cut-and-paste was a likely future iPhone feature, so someone spending months designing an app where cut-and-paste was a major feature was all but begging to get steamrollered by Apple.

By contrast, someone who does something like a Twitter match-making service (matching Twitter accounts based on the hashtags or links they tweet) isn't fulfilling an obvious future Twitter feature, and thus is probably safe from being squished by Twitter.
Use this instead of 'mod_python', especially if you're going to use Django.
Typing in a password every time I pick up a phone is a non-starter for most users including me. Remote wipe is outstanding but I think you need a business account. I was thinking that at least I could change my passwords so mail.app couldn't retrieve more messages.
You thought it looked weird too? :) Does that mean it's just a copy & paste from somewhere else?

It's better now, of course, but it still feels like too much text.

Without prejudice to your rights under applicable data protection or privacy law, Stormweight Systems Inc may amend this Privacy Policy from time-to-time. We will notify you of such amendments or changes by updating the Last Updated date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You will notify me by updating a date on your website? Sounds a bit passive for a "notification" :)

The problem with legalese is that it never really tells a normal person anything. It's an impenetrable wall of text which no one wants to read, but possibly should, in case it contains some outrageous evil to which you'd end up agreeing.

That's why I want to avoid it when I get my own stuff out there. Since I'm not planning to do anything evil, I don't need to distract & confuse anyone with legalese.

And since I don't live in the US, I don't have to use legalese to cover my ass from ridiculous lawsuits either :p
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In the article they say:

"vendors have long been willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to push $2 dogs"
"a new way to get new high" = hacking your brain?
one way to hack your brain - sit in complete silence focusing on your breath only for as long as possible..

other ways include picking on drawing(over painting)

"hacking" brain has nothing to do with drugs in my opinion.

(a tangential thought into the misuse of "hacking" - you are not hacking your appetite by eating a macburger instead of a home made meal that probably takes more time with the right nutrition value. )

May I suggest you to reword your question to "want to smoke e-cigarretes" instead of the "hacking". My concern is that some 16year old enthusiastic kid will read your question and consider this as "hacking the brain".
Why should I use it (I'm especially interested in the Django case)?
How could Bayview trump the Tenderloin? Or for that matter, Emeryville (if we're counting the East Bay?)

Here's a map of SF crime by district.

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/sfcrime/
That's http://streem.us actually -- you might be mixing it up with Soup.io (which is my startup) there, since the products have similarities :)

But I agree: His work is top notch.
It's a shame your first experience was with over-priced inefficient garbage. Try one of big battery models (with a manual switch) from one of the American or European e-cig start-ups and drip bottled liquid directly onto cheap atomizers which should be considered disposable items. I got through about 2 a month and buy them in bulk for around $6 each.

Here's my list of all the big boys: http://www.e-cignews.com/items/A_run_down_of_all_the_big_bat...
Given that Android is open source, why does it need to make money exactly?
Agree about hardware, but when it comes to the app store, I think the market is a better decider than Apple is re: what works well and what's broken. The one Hard Problem there is to make sure users can make informed decisions about their apps - for example, which app is using extraneous processing/battery.
On the predictability of Search Trends (Google Labs)
I like it - but ABSOLUTELY turn off autoplay. Autoplay is the devil.

Don't force choices on users by playing audio for them - and if someone doesn't know how to push "play" then they don't deserve to hear music.
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Fun thing we don't often think about: not long ago, you would have either to provide your own music or listen to whatever your local radio stations were broadcasting.

Soma.fm has one of the best music mixes around the net. This one is a little "new age-ish", but they also provide Secret Agent, Covers and a whole lot of other very interesting ones.

It's been three years since I dumped my last radio tuner. I don't miss it a bit.
We've succesfully used John Hyde at http://www.sitedoublers.com/

See my comments about him here: http://blog.brush.co.nz/2009/08/site-doublers/
We're using this with apache on schoolrack.com. A couple of application servers running mod_wsgi behind HAProxy and Nginx. Works like a dream. Our site is pretty snappy =)

This is fairly common knowledge but if you use Apache with Keep-alive off and serve all your static content with something else (such as Nginx in our case), and only use Apache for dynamic requests it isn't such a dog. I'm not a computer scientist and haven't really bothered to get real solid statistics and reasons behind why mod_wsgi outperforms mod_python, but right off the bat you'll notice it uses significantly less memory.

I'm also experimenting with straight up nginx -> fastcgi for a few other projects but am not using it in production for no reason other than Apache + mod_wsgi has proven itself to be reliable and fast as hell.
Yup. South Hills area.
How does someone from NYC manage to get intimidated by SF?

Have you been to NYC over the past 10 years? Minneapolis has had a higher violent crime rate. NYC is like romper room for adults these days. In addition to having actual worse crime stats, SF also feels sketchier due to the huge weirdo lurker population. That said, I do wonder which scary bus Zed was taking.

I used to work in the Bayshore. Aside from the night I had to find some clothes for the naked hooker that got dumped in my work's parking lot by a Suge Night looking dude in an SUV, nothing bad ever happened.

http://www.burbed.com/2006/05/23/crime-rate-comparison-san-f...
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5% on what scale? I run a breakeven message board that could benefit significantly from SEO, but it's current revenue model is ad driven, and only breaks even most of the time ($75 a month is break even.)
im sure if you clear out your cookies you will loose your preferences. If you dont loose them then yes id be curious as to .. "how !"
I think one of those guys is from Watsonville, so they don't pack it as tight and put on too much sour cream.
I have sometimes bought things I heard of through advertising, and been subsequently pleased with my purchase.

Therefore, no.
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Because it is now the preferred way of hooking up python to apache according to the Django docs, let me look it up for you....

edit:

from: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpyt...

"The mod_python module for Apache can be used to deploy Django to a production server, although it has been mostly superseded by the simpler mod_wsgi deployment option."

which points you to:

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/django_apache_and_mod_wsg...
Mostly people upvote things they agree with and ignore the quality and insight of the comment entirely. The exact opposite of how it's supposed to be, but even HN is subject to herd mentality and so on.
1. the primary maintainer of mod_wsgi is the primary maintainer of mod_python and his focus is on wsgi

2. WSGI is a standard interface defined for python programs in PEP 333 so you should in theory be able to run your program against the builtin wsgi server that ships in the standard library and get the same results as you would running it on any of the webservers that support the WSGI protocol
Former Pittsburgher & Proud
I'm also a recent pittsburgher (moved here 3 years ago). I just saw some tweets about this starting up as well (Build Guild): http://pittsburgh.buildguild.org/
This is great. A couple of things that come to mind. 1) It would be nice to maybe have a replay option in case I really like the song. 2) It would be nice to be able to go back also in case I accidentally hit next. 3) It would also be cool to see where your crawler found the song, credit in the right places never hurts.
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How is it a publicity stunt, especially since bit.ly did not make this offer in public?
tr.im got into a business that they were unable to monetize, made a tremendous fuss about it. How exactly is this bit of shamelessness somebody else's publicity stunt?
Googling "journal of negative results" gives a few hits. I think it's probably possible to get negative results published, but I doubt that they look good on the resume.
I've been using it for the past couple of months and absolutely love it. It's fast, a lot less memory usage, and a lot stable.
The author's notion of "experimenting" is "debugging". I'd rather have someone write it correctly the first time than have to debug it; however, knowing how to debug well is also essential.
You don't have a problem with a guy rambling about why he doesn't use twitter in 100s of words. But you have a problem with another guy rambling about why he doesn't use techcrunch in 140 characters or less?

There is very little to nothing insightful to add to a discussion about why some guy doesn't like twitter.

twitter is not for everyone the same way facebook is not for everyone, IM is not for everyone, IRC is not for everyone.

If it's not for you, its not for you. What insightful discussion you could possibly have about this? I added a not very insightful comment on a not very insightful topic. Which is what it deserves.

I haven't been following TC for sometime, but until few months ago, when I was actually following them a majority of their story was about twitter.
The Onion did it 9 years ago:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
As an avid e-cig user, I would advise against it. If you are not already addicted to nicotine, then there is no need to start. Although there are some studies that suppose nicotine might help people stave off alzheimers and help with other mental disorders unless you think you stand a good chance of suffering from one of these in the foreseeable future and you think nicotine might be beneficial, there is no need to start a habit that will quickly control you.

If you really want to try e-cigs, there is nicotine free liquid available and one company (the original inventor) announced today that they will be bringing out an e-cig device that will have the active ingredient lobelia, also known as "Indian Tobacco" instead of nicotine. This is because they will be able to market it as a dietary supplement, something which the FDA will not be able to ban (they're guessing anyway).

The FDA are currently in court with 2 e-cig distributors because they decided suddenly to the joy of various associates of the pharmaceutical industry to classify all e-cigs as drug delivery devices (even though no medical claims were made by the two in question - the largest distributors of e-cigs in America) and confiscated their shipments. In a strange turn of events the two e-cig companies are arguing their products should be classified as tobacco products.
http://www.mygazines.net/publications/index/computers_intern...

Sorry, no results matched your query.

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Reminds me of a quote often attributed to Cicero, Pascal, Twain etc.

In this case, for once, we have a definitive source: Letter XVI of Pascal's Provincial Letters:

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/pascal/letters-...

I haven't found any evidence that Mark Twain or Cicero said it. Especially in Twain's case, I suspect people just decided he said it because he's known to have been witty.
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Dead weight added to video transfer gadget to make it feel more solid
If he had just destroyed the phone (broken in the water?), then his death would have been much more plausible. Why would he leave it somewhere if he had drowned?
The weight also serves the purpose of keeping the unit in place against the forces of the cables. I wish I could find a USB hub that weighs a pound or more.

Edit: Ok, after googling I must amend. I wish I could find a USB hub that weighs a pound or more, actually supplies power, and isn't abusively priced.
And remember kids: WSGI rhymes with Whiskey.
Well, that depends on how you look at it. There are more parties whose well being here is at stake then just this guy, and besides that he is now a drain on your society, whereas if you'd put him to work you could garner his wages.

Locking him up for 10 years is just going to ruin the life of one child and cost a fortune in maintaining him.

Six months community service would be a net gain for the community, 10 years of prison is a net loss.

The function of a jail is not to take revenge, it is to keep harmful people out of society. This guy did a great job up to the point where he cracked. I'm sure he could be made to do a great job again given half a chance, and keep him under the breaking strain this time.
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Look we're all hackers here. We know SQL Injection isn't complicated for us, but it is complicated for the majority of the world. In fact, it's probably an impossible task for 95% of the world, and very very difficult for another 4% on top of that, and even the last 1% would have to experiment a bit to figure out which string to submit to get the information.
Great! Works like a charm.

Obvious way to monetize; link to Amazon or any other affiliate music store for every track (and show a cover ;))
At least the article made some interesting arguments about the value of twitter, the feature-completeness of twitter, and so on. What did the comment add?
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And ASN.1. Yet another Google re-invention of the wheel.
> Federal investigators say Mr. Gonzalez is a high-school graduate and self-taught programmer

Taught himself everything but ethics eh?
You cannot extrapolate from running a small business 'by the seat of your pants' to the level of analysis that's applied by large corporations.

Large businesses do an enormous amount of simulation of their "quote to cash" process. There are complex demand forecasting, supply chain management, and inventory management software platforms offered by the likes of SAP and Oracle that are used for this. There are a number of decision tree tools used to simulate and analyze billion dollar investment decisions used by pharmaceutical companies, oil and gas firms, and other corporations that need to make large investments. Airline companies run "yield management" software to adjust pricing frequently based on estimates of demand for a particular seat on a particular flight. Wal-Mart adjusts pricing and offers specials based on complex models of how stimulate demand. There are many other examples of business using sophisticated simulation and analysis tools.
I'll be that guy: this seems illegal. What's the plan there?

(I like the site a lot, and hope it lasts.)
Argue what? I'm not denying that I use social media as part of my inbound marketing strategy. But I engage with the people that comment. Besides, I spend my time writing what I feel are important blog entries. I'd say I do my part for the community I'm a part of.
so is it also the job of the third party developer to be able to read the mind of the application developer?

i'm not saying that a url shortener isn't trivial/obvious, but where exactly is the line that defines trivial and elegant? obvious and innovative?
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It doesn't take much to disappear if you're willing to live like a pauper in the cash only economy, and you don't defraud anyone in the process of disappearing.
What if we look at advertising as a continuum from spam to individual salesmanship? Well, that's one axis, independent of the one he pointed out. So now we have two axes: specificity of audience and deception. I don't think we've seen a lot of automation at the most personal, least deceptive side of the spectra. Sure, there's keyword-targeted ads, but what else can we do in the nearby region?
That's pretty common actually. Think of it, all the stuff that you have is packaged, the weight of something is a big factor in its day to day use. The right weight is just a decision in packaging something. It will also help to dampen vibrations in some cases, usually a slab of some dense metal taped to the inside of an otherwise thin and relatively flimsy panel.

Most electronics if packaged 'minimally' would weigh next to nothing, they would literally feel cheap and flimsy.

We're conditioned to think of something that is 'dense' as 'solid'.

Boris the sneaky Russian said it best: "The weight is a sign of reliability".

Imagine a skill saw that worked just fine but weighed only half a pound... Or a 10 gram keyboard, it would skitter all over your desk if you typed on it.
Uh, no. Is Capitalism inherently deceptive?
The semiconductor industry, both in the design and manufacturing processes, has invested substantially in revolutionary technologies for several decades to deliver what is know as Moore's Law.Processes and methodologies in use today are drastically different than what was used even 8-10 years ago.

But profitability is a function of competitive alternatives. Many technologies act like electricity, they dramatically improve productivity without necessarily leading to higher levels of profitability because of adoption by competitors.
Mayo Clinic warns that lobelia "can be toxic" and is not recommended "as a treatment for any condition, including nicotine withdrawal": http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lobelia/AN01877
Doesn't it make you less certain of the reasons anyone gives for any success?
Emeryville is a significantly different Micro Climate than San Francisco. There are even parts of the actual _city_ of San Francisco that have different weather patterns - and just go a little South down the peninsula, and it's like you are in a different State when it comes to the weather.
What does "community-owned" mean, exactly?
Can you name a couple? I use pretty much the whole suite for our product work, and I haven't run into any of these yet.
It seems to me that a great interface for presenting products would almost necessarily have to be individually designed for each store. I don't see how you could use the same kind of interface to present, say, books and perfume.

Also, I have a hard time imagining how big stores could choose to use a presentation system similar to that of other stores. Unless I misunderstood the original idea, it seems that selling presentation software is not the right way to address that problem.
I don't know this for sure, but I'd bet that vice and drug crimes jack the stats up for the Tenderloin. Also, this is 1998; 10 years could change a whole lot in SF. But I'm even more certain that 10 years has made SF more hospitable, not less.
What if the hottest songs linked to Google searches so I can hit the artists' sites and listen there or buy? Not sure if this is OK to do or not though.
Bill Gates and Buffet are both bad examples because both of them are essentially managers rather than traders.
Ask HN: How do you memorize?
I am not asking about learning stories with context or systems or routines. It came up in discussion today and I am wondering how the doers and thinkers of HN memorize facts? Do you use tricks to remember names?
I made a small bench when I was going through my woodworking phase. I didn't like how it sounded when I moved it around on the floor, so I routed out a couple of channels on the underside and implanted a couple of rods of rebar in it.

Suddenly, everyone asked where I bought that "wonderful bench" - after it had been in my house for 6 months.