skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.haiku-os.org/documents/dev/painter_and_how_agg_wo...

http://bit.ly/131cxL (.doc file)

those help. if you can figure out the source code without the documentation at the agg site + those files, more power to you. but basically you are nuts.
I think you're being too harsh.

In two months, they may have already earned back most of the cost of developing the app. It's an evergreen utility -- you buy it when you need it, then find it handy for occasional use. If it maintains a reputation as "the" conversion app, it will keep selling well for years, with only light maintenance costs. (New units of measure are introduced infrequently!)

As the iPhone platform grows -- eventually including free-with-contract units that can run the full app back catalog -- the 1,000th top-selling app may have higher absolute monthly volume than today's #1 app.
Good idea.
Firefox already has a similar addon. Hope you are thinking of better features. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8658?src=api
About cold fusion, he says: Maybe fifty years of physics will be proved wrong by one experiment, but don't throw out your furnace until that experiment has been replicated.

Pons and Fleischman's announcement can hardly be described as telling people to throw out their furnaces. They announced that they had measurements which were not explainable by the prevailing theories, and the new theory it suggested would be hugely valuable. Some journalists made it seem even more exciting than that, but I don't think you can blame scientists for the way they are reported in the popular press any more than you can blame politicians for what's reported on Fox News. Of course, it turned out that their numbers were better explained by some subtle measurement errors, but it took hundreds of chemists years to convincingly refute the theory.

It was not an unreasonable decision to announce it publicly, in order to mobilize the resources necessary to get to the bottom of it.
How about Ned Batchelder's implementation of Frank Liang's hyphenation algorithm:

http://nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/hyphenate.html

or AI:

http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/python/readme.html
traditional methods of sanitation offer no benefits and only fools would choose not to allocate resources to a western toilet

You sketch a false dichotomy: the choice isn't either 'they are fools' or 'traditional means of sanitation are just fine'. The traditional means of sanitation are emphatically not fine. I don't just think that, I know that is true. Half of our increased life expectancy comes from better hygiene and sanitation. Have you ever been to India? Let me tell you, it literally stinks there. However, not investing in western sanitation doesn't make them fools, because proper sanitation is really costly and the perceived benefits are small. It's entirely understandable they'd rather spend the money another way.

How you can turn this into some cultural superiority issue is beyond me. You know, India really is behind the West in terms of things like prosperity and life expectancy. That has nothing to do with making you feel good: it's a plain fact.
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and / or is somehow incorrect

The chances are 100%.
A corollary:

My father worked in the non-profit sector for years before starting his own business. One of the best lessons he taught me was this: In any organization of sufficient size, there is the official power structure (the org chart) and the unofficial power structure (how things actually get done).

The trick is to find out what strings to pull and get things done. I've used that idea for years trying to get things done in my day job in health care.
If you you want to write HTMl code from the scratch.
Go to http://projectdeploy.org/ and download complete Skeleton structure based on your requirements.Then head over to http://speckyboy.com/ this has the best set of Tutorials and Showcases. Programming for web is fairly very simple.
Simple: You don't want a malicious developer snapping up old app names and replacing them with phishing sites.
> However Professor Kulkarni said it was too early to say the device was proven effective.
there's a video of it in action here http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/13/wikireader-packs-all-of... maybe it is real after all ;)

Also photos here http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-wit...
Really? You don't believe such an effect ever happens? It's one thing to say that particular results are not due to the effect, but the effect itself seems like a pretty likely source of error in any not-very-rigorous experiment.
The shame's for being old-fashioned. DVCS is all the rage nowadays, all the cool kids are blogging about how great git is, the nonconformists argue with them that mercurial is better, and you sit alone in the cafeteria corner and daren't mention you still use something as uncool as SVN...
It's nice. But just wikipedia doesn't sound GREAT. Maybe project Gutenberg stuff will be a good addition. I believe that the device has space to grow in.

And nice to see openmoko in action.
I was able to figure it out with this image: http://fogcreek.com/Kiln/i/en-US/LearnMore/StartReviewsEffor...

Although, I got confused when I saw this one: http://fogcreek.com/Kiln/i/en-US/LearnMore/ReviewEverything_...

Still, not even a mention of the OSS project that you're basing your product on? Way to spit in the face of the massive coding effort you're using for free...
And it's text only too. No images from WP.
The original link: http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/?p=757

OT: I understand facebook notes may bring you more readers when you link your blog to it, but I feel them as an internet black hole.
Not sure how this would compete with other mobile devices. disconnected state? battery life? unifunction?
So what's the use case for this type of service?

I don't have a direct answer. But like to see people actually doing things and looking at what happens.
Bah. I started using SVN for personal projects only about 2 months ago, and before that, my source control was "time-stamped ZIP archive created manually whenever I feel like it"
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Amazon.

http://www.whoishostingthis.com/http%3A%2F%2Fmongohq.com
Are you familiar with the product life cycle concept? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_life_cycle_management)

(Unfortunately the article doesn't include a diagram, so I'll point you to one: http://www.ccfplus.com/wp-content/uploads/plc.png)

The cycle can be applied to products, industries, and even individual companies. It seems like you're at just about the maturity stage of the cycle, meaning that growth has slowed and new customers won't be coming as quickly.

I'm not sure I can help specifically, but many product life cycle graphs also include an 'innovation' stage, which occurs either at maturity or decline, and essentially restarts the growth stage. (http://blog.cestudios.ca/images/innovation-product-life-cyc....)

If you think that this cycle applies in your situation, then it's time to innovate. I think moving to Europe is a good idea. It's basically the same product to a new branch of customers. Eventually the new geographic segment well will dry up, and you'll have to look at other ways to innovate. What new products does your existing market base want? Do you have a decent grasp of who your typical customers are? Would they be willing to use a subscription-based app (good source of recurring revenue)?

Another angle to investigate is sponsorship by certain parks and trails. Would the local parks and rec office be willing to promote community hikes through your website and iPhone app? A great thing you have going for you is location-awareness. You know that users who are searching for trails in a specific area either are or plan to be there sometime soon. As they are searching, future events could show up on the maps. Where is most of your web traffic coming from? You could even promote hiking safety or kids hiking events, depending on your audience.

I congratulate you on your success so far - In fact, I envy you. You've found a way to combine two things that you enjoy and turn it in to a business. Keep up the good work. Good luck!
The update mechanism seems to imply a 4GB+ download each time. Surely there's a way to apply patches?
I'm not sure what shyness has to do with the founders' product. If you're basing you opinion of the product on the level of extroversion of its creators, can I suggest that you're looking for the wrong thing?
Alternatively you could get a Zipit for 40$ and put Linux on it.
This is truly amazing. I'm almost speechless.
Could be a great device for schools–even more so if, as chanux suggested, they added Proj. Gutenbuerg stuff.

Heck, I'd even consider buying 10 of them for my daughters' private school (they have no computer lab).

On the other hand, linux netbooks are < $200 now.
Apart from being old news, you don't need to wait for an invitation and can use it with launchpad credentials.
Wolves are scared of people...
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-features-in-...

""The second new feature is that we've enabled 'wildcard' domains for App Engine apps serving off appspot.com. What this means is that you can now create multiple subdomains for your App Engine app, and have them all served by the same application. Thus, your users can access 'myapp.appspot.com', or 'developer.myapp.appspot.com', or 'news.myapp.appspot.com', with your app deciding how to handle each request. No setup is required to use the wildcard domains - simply configure your app to serve up requests to these subdomains however you wish. You can detect which domain a user requested by looking at the 'Host' header in the incoming request - for example, in Python's webapp framework you can access this with self.request.headers['Host'].""
Okay. I knew that you knew about the game as I had mentioned it before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764601) but wasn't sure if you knew about the start time as it was just announced.

Thought the game's start time would be useful info to know when scheduling the lunch break and such (eg - Trying to get a bite to eat when the fans are already in the stadium will be a lot faster than going when they're all having their pre-game chow).

Thanks for putting together another Startup School!
Interesting, though I would suspect another factor at work here: people who choose to continue working past retirement do so because they find their work fulfilling. That can work wonders for their emotional (and even physical) well-being.

Orchestra conductors, from what I've noticed, seem to live particularly long lives, and many of them continue conducting into their 80s and 90s. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a combination of physical and mental vigor in addition to simply loving what they do.
I guess I can see it being useful for testing if it is free, but if this is meant for easy setup for small sites, they don't need mongodb. And if it's for use by a large site, they probably wouldn't outsource it's database systems for long.

Anyways as long as it's free, it's an interesting service and honestly I'm going to try it (been pretty lazy about upgrading my mongodb install).
How a plagiarized portrait of Obama ended up hanging in the white house
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Thats all really helpful actually. Its clear though that there is still one outstanding question, i.e. does CA have a specific requirement that even if youre incorporated out of state you are still responsible for the $800/yr ftb tax.

I think Im going to register in Oregon b/c I would have access to individuals who could act as registered agents but I still need to find the answer to the above question.
Cute, but an iPod Touch is cuter.
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Haha good one-up. I recall doing that quite a few years ago, though I doubt I ever wrote a project longer than 500 LoC back in those days.

One thing I found was the first few weeks of using a VCS I felt I was less productive and that the extra work wasn't worth it. I now see the benefits and am OK with the time sink of managing a repository, but do you find that for personal projects it's not worth the hassle for you at this point?
Actually, thats not a bad idea.

I once wrote a python program to trigger callback functions when specific keys on my MIDI keyboard are pressed. The MIDI protocol was surprisingly simple to figure out (for simple things like "button-x was pressed at 25% pressure" anyway). It had a learning mode where you assign a key by pressing it and an action mode where pressing the assigned keys would trigger functions to be called.

I had intended to use it as a shortcut panel to run a shell scripts, but never actually finished it.. might do so sometime soon :-)
I'd say its a prototype based imperative OO language with some functional features.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
On the site there is info that batterylife is 1 year on "normal usage", whatever it means.

If i was to buy it, it would be as a cheap ebook reader. But only if it will allow reading pdfs with images.
This page http://www.dawdle.com/error_page.php was created with this:

http://wigflip.com/thankyoumario/

:-)
Twitter has guaranteed delivery? Are you sure?

The killer app of Facebook - poking - does need to be reliable ;-)
Since organizing a get-together is off-topic on this post, I made a google group to organize it:
http://groups.google.com/group/hn-chicago/browse_thread/thre...
Skype In Negotiations To Acquire Gizmo5
SoftLayer have Intel SSDs.
But they didn't. They rolled out the messaging code to the users with no interface on it at first (e.g. presence only, visible only internally). That gave them excellent information on how many people might be connected, how many of their friends were likely to be connected, and so on. By the time they were ready to deploy the interface to it, they had a good idea of how much power the needed under it.
That brings back memories of my days in Boy Scouts. Getting out in the outdoors is a wonderful character building exercise and presents opportunities that you won't get so much in city living. And yes, it can be breathtaking beautiful and serene.

That being said, I'm keenly aware that it is a fun diversion for rich people. (The Congressman is probably a good deal wealthier than my family growing up, but either of us are quite rich in comparison to the typical inhabitant of the Marshall Islands.)

Nature can be breathtakingly beautiful and awe inspiring. It can also be terrible and merciless, every inch the avatar of the old pagan gods, and it has a virtually infinite number of ways to kill you. The foundation of human civilization that people enjoy temporarily escaping from so much is minimizing the chance of terrible, brutal death dealt out stochatically by an uncaring world.

This is why while I enjoy the occasional escape to nature (with sensible precautions taken) I feel no particular urge to venerate it per se. The folks who live in uncontrolled nature 365 days out of the year -- the global poor -- live in misery, squalor, and constant fear of death from things the rest of us can scarcely comprehend you can die from. (One well-fed American can survive on plentiful crabs for a week but, then again, he could survive on rainwater for a week. A child in a village full of barely-making-it folks can succumb to diseases exacerbated by famine if the local subsistence food production is just a bit worse than it typically is -- and they don't have a panic button to summon the Coast Guard.)
In which I stomp on some of our glorious “green shoots”
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The page with the google header is what I saw 2 days ago.
> Depending on how permanent Sharpie markers really are, I may have managed to confuse anthropologists years from now, who will surely wonder how it is that hermit crabs on Jabonwod are numbered.

That is awesome.
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True but anxiety tends to narrow focus and depending on what you are trying to accomplish it can either help or hurt.
They'll also snailmail you a new memory card twice a year for $29/year plus postage and taxes.
Your idea to save journalism will not work because…
http://searchyc.com/dyson?page=3&sort=by_date

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878046

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878374

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878605

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878650

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879800

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879806

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879820
Skynet will work out the details
I think it will help to bootstrap.
I disagree with the implications of the article. I often laugh because the comedian makes me aware of my own self-contradictions.
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I wonder who took the photo her stipple portrait is a copy of?
Nokia leaving Maemo's tablet roots behind with N900 phone
I'm a big fan of ThoughtBot's stuff (http://www.thoughtbot.com/projects). Mostly I use Shoulda and FactoryGirl, but I've been consistently impressed with their ideas and code quality.

For idiomatic Ruby and Rails stuff I have probably learned more from Rick Olson's stuff (http://github.com/technoweenie/) than any other single source. Sometimes I think he tends to be too clever for his own good, but the code is good to read for that reason even if simpler things are better in production.
Jesus what a nay-sayer. I wonder if in early 1999 he would have dismissed Google saying, "A website to search the Internet? Why? I can just go directly to what I want!". Sheesh.
Flickr community manager nukes popular group: "I hate your freedom."
Not to mention that he registered it in the 90's! How does that possibly count as squatting?
OMG it's the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy!
Internal Server Error when checking out the app....not what I expected...bad first impression.
Do the last, and keep doing it in parallel once you launch. That way you right away have two sources of income. Best to have at least three!
I have no suggestions on directions or big changes. However, here are a couple of (smaller ideas) thoughts

You mention that you're selling individual features of
Gaia GPS as standalone less-expensive apps.
Have you considered selling just one Gaia GPS app (with in-app-purchases to support different feature/price configurations).
This will make the app more discoverable to current users as well as new users (current users who want an upgrade can do an in-app purchase easily from within the app, new users will find it easier to discover your app because the combined sales will improve the app's ranking). This will also be convenient to users (who might need to buy two different Gaia GPS apps today)

Btw you may want to consider enabling blog comments on your website. You may get more comments from more people that way.
Seriously, he needs to get rid of that "snapshots" tooltip. Why do people put those things on their sites?
There is a false assumption in this article: that the whole world will see and remember your initial release. The reality is - unless you are a big company like Apple - your initial release will attract almost no attention. But you may get some helpful feedback.

"You don't get a second chance to make a first impression", goes the conventional wisdom. Actually you do. You get second and third and fourth and more chances because there are a lot of people on this planet of ours.
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dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880140
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Start your car with your iPhone
J2EE can't possibly run well on the amount of RAM slicehost demands.
Not really - setting up the repository and getting the old projects into it was a bit of a hassle (actually much more the latter than the former, and mainly due to SVN behaving strangely with ignored files), but using it is hardly any additional work. I haven't really done much to use the capabilities either, but it just feels good to know that due to checking in frequently, I never have to worry about breaking something that was already working.
Stanford's BASES (http://bases.stanford.edu) is getting interest from people riding up from South Bay to see if we can get a bus. Sit tight you'll get a notice soon. =)
One does not exclude the other though, does it? Can't you laugh for both reasons?
I think you have to distinguish between nay-saying as a stylistic means and arguing with his point.
I think there is a valid philosophical point to be made that young entrepreneurs are not daring enough. Aside from the fact that it's really, really hard not to settle for "easy" execution, society would probably indeed be better off if people dared to go for more daunting tasks.
I guess you can say: If you want to glorify some people - like BW does -, select mostly those who try (and most certainly will fail in doing so) the truly groundbreaking stuff. Those are the ones that society needs to succeed. But it's all philosophical.
Creating something competitive would take a lot of the wind out of your current argument, these jerks could use that to show in court that your only reason to do what you did (namecalling etc) was to launch your venture over the back of theirs.
My experience is that I can't post a duplicate link on HN. :-S
i think the point is you don't get a second chance with the people who have already written you off - add a couple of negative blog posts here and there and you may end up with a lot of negative publicity to overcome.
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It looks like the dupe checker isn't smart enough to check http://[www.]something[/][index.html][#somethingelse]

(cue 100's of duplicate submissions of highly valued posts from the past ;) )

That shouldn't be too hard to implement
entrepreneur == someone who makes money by running their own business

entrepreneur != someone who invents something revolutionary

The vast vast majority of the people in the world will never invent anything new.

This is a list of people who found a less-than-common way of making money.

This is NOT a list of people with revolutionary ideas.
Evenflow owns dropbox.com now. Check http://whois.sc/dropbox.com .
if it aint broke don't fix it

With VSS, that's a bit like saying "if my unsafe vehicle hasn't failed while driving yet, let's just keep going".
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