skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technical side - neat, very neat. I like it a lot.

Business side - the recurrent pricing model does not make any sense whatsoever. Unless someone is actively developing the site or manually changes the content on a daily basis, per-use charges is what is expected.

There is certainly a market for enterprise-ish application of your idea, when the site is routinely modified several times a week by marketing and product people and such. But then your Basic plan basically will easily cover the needs of a small/middle size corporation with extensive online presence. Additionally, beware of the existing services like Keynote that already target that segment and that will be copying your idea in a matter of weeks.
Feel free to send mail to jbeda+resume@google.com if you are in Seattle/Kirkland and I can get you into the system. Or you can go through the web site.
> What is going to happen if climate change comes? Sea levels will rise and some houses will be lost in most areas on the coast, and cities will have to have levies built.

I think you seriously underestimate the change and damage that will occur with climate change. There will be large effects on the natural world, on other species; species we may not be able to live without. To blow it off like oh it's just a few houses isn't very smart.
Reminds me a lot of http://www.kaninkul.com/games/773/copter.html , both great games.
Great concept, but who needs a service? This should just be an open source plugin. I dump all of my local fonts into a folder and then just <%= render_text "Hello World", :typeface => "Comic Sans", :height => "400" %> -- add a cache and this would be splendid.

PS. By "local fonts" I mean http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4475069/Font_Collection_(65_...
The OP states that the legal holiday entitlement in the US is 10. I have yet to find any mention of it in labor law, however, so I would put the number at 0.

That said, I have yet to have fewer than 8 holidays plus 10 vacation days officially allotted, though it's only ever been tracked at larger companies (or small/startup companies run by managers with a large-company mentality).
You're certainly entitled to be unconvinced and shouldn't be berated for your skepticism. That said...

Honest question: do you have a background in climate science or something similar? I'm a science nut too, but I don't know how I could begin to look at the _data_ involved here and come up with any sort of conclusion at all.

So what I do is advocate for public policy decisions that are in line with the very strong scientific consensus: that human-caused climate change is real and a serious threat to life on the planet.
Actually, I what you describe would be a useful requirement for all journal publications, not just in climate.

This is useful not just for the purposes of auditing, but also for the purpose of scientific progress. I would be able to build on other people's work much faster if I could download and modify their code rather than just rebuilding it myself.
The end doesn't justify the means.

Sir, you appear to have a highly developed moral sense. I respectfully submit that you haven't really analyzed that sentence carefully, however.

Many means are justified by their ends. It's left to history to decide if the means really were justified. Some things, like Hiroshima, we still agonize over, 50 years later, whether the end justified the means. As for hacking some scientist's emails, and possibly saving hundreds of thousands or even millions of human lives by stopping a gross misallocation of resources? Yeah, I could sleep with a smile on my face on that one. No qualms about justification in my mind.
Latex gloves will make the static problem worse, not better. Static builds up on insulating surfaces because the electrons don't have anywhere to go.
partial summary:

Euro is conservative, US is aggressive, fly by the seat of pants.

Euro startups do prove, build, scale. They are good at prove and build, but they are recalcitrant about providing the funding that will allow a proven idea to really scale well.

US skips directly to the scale stage, even with a donkey like cuil.

So, US is at a disadvantage in early stages because ramp up too fast, but euro is at a disadvantage once they have a horse worth backing. Both US and Euro have a lot to learn from the other.
The argument of putting Chrome OS on low-cost low-power devices seem to put Chrome only for a short future doesn't it? As hardware continues to evolve, we will have better hardware with cheaper cost, less electricity but more powerful.

Scoble re-iterates "developer developer developer". I think it's quite hard to have a scalable in-the-cloud web-app vs mobile phone app or one-off desktop-machines thus making the Chrome OS to have higher barrier of entry.
It's not "How will you spend those seconds," it's "What impulses become reasonable when you can satisfy them in ten seconds instead of forty?"

Twitter is bigger than blogger because tweeting takes seconds and blogs take minutes.
I love the detail & variety of the backgrounds, & touches like the flying birds.
At least we can drink a pint of beer before we're 21. Keep your "freedom".

We also have the freedom of health care for all. You know, we look after each other so people don't die so much.
I wish I could downvote you for a sheer ignorance.

> who needs a service ?

Foundries do. You know, the people who actually make your "local fonts". Also those who recognize what a complex task the type design is and want to compensate them for their work.
This paints a pretty stark picture. Has any else noticed an increase in unsolicited calls from head hunters and job offers? I am wondering if it's me or a leading indicator?
And it inlines the variables as constants at 'compile time'.
Medibots: The world's smallest surgeons
On behalf of my fellow Michiganders, I'd like to say, "Welcome".
Yeah, okay, well if you still cling to the antiquated concept of IP then I won't downvote you for sheer ignorance.
Some Korean banks already do this - My girlfriend gets a call from her dad every time she uses his credit card number online, as he gets a text message notifying him it has been used for card-not-present transaction :)

He doesn't need to authorize it, but getting a notification that it has happened at all is better than nothing.
NB: ChromeOS is a Linux
well.. without jobs people can't pay for water/food/shelter, so yeah.. we need those jobs.

Unless you want to throw in on the heating bill?
"6. What are the accelerating effects?"
Roughly equivalent to "What makes you idea viral?" ?
I'm not advocating against cost benefit analysis. If the original poster said "anthropogenic warming has a cost $X with probability P, the fix costs $Y < $P X, therefore do the fix" I wouldn't have said anything.

I'm all in favor of the rational cost benefit analysis you hint at. Most environmentalists are not - witness the reaction to Bjorn Lomborg.
Go right ahead and smoke at your computer - just don't expect other people to fix it
Awesome, thanks for posting this! I applied as a web developer.
Linkbait. Why would this be anything concerning startups? Why would it discourage startups from starting up in Britain? How will it impact current startups? It won't.

No real news here, just some silly politicians trying to show muscle, which will ultimately fail and be irrelevant.
hey hackers, matthew pointed me here and I thought I'd share some stats (more about the Flash version than the iPhone version but yea)

Days spent making Canabalt: 5 (long ones)
Hits on my server: ~2 million
Hits on other major portals: ~2 million
Estimated hits on crappy portals: ~4 million+?
Hits on my server from twitter: 50k+
Best Referrer: Stumbleupon
Money from donations: ~$500
iPhone sales: can't say but good enough!
Top App Store Ranking: 37
Bandwidth Bills: $1000+
Top legit score I've ever seen: ~30km
My top score: ~8km
Resolution: 480px x 160px
Initial Piracy Rate: 12%
Current Piracy Rate: 25%

Inspirations: Half Life 2, District 9, Banlieue 13, Another World/Flashback/Prince of Persia, War of the Worlds (book, not movie)

Trivia: I never finished drawing the space ship that flies by since it is barely on-screen for more than a few minutes. Sadly, multiple screenshots have captured it in all its under-realized sloppiness.
The Oxford American dictionary awarded "unfriend" the 2009 word of the year.
Lets say I have a series of installs to do that require rebooting.

There are 10 boots total (New machine, lots of corporate software, probably poorly made!).

400s v 100s.

Or 1m v 5m.

Now spread that over say, 400 computers (New corporate office, new equipment).

(40 * 10) * 400 = 160,000s, or 2666m, or 44hr.

Vs

(10 * 10) * 400 = 40,000s, or 666m, or 11hrs

In short: Perspective, dude.
A) The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart
attacks than the British or Americans.
B) On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also
suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or
Americans.
C) The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer
heart attacks than the British or Americans.
D) The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine, and
also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or
Americans
E) Conclusion: Eat & drink what you like. It's speaking
English that kills you. - Author Unknown
> Has there ever been reliable evidence that Steve McIntyre or Anthony Watts are being paid by energy companies for the work they do?

EDIT: referring to McIntyre:

The guy is a semi-retired mineral consultant. He's been paid his whole life by energy companies. He is not a scientist and the so-called "valuable contributions" he made were determined to be of "little significance":

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stephen_McIntyre
How? It makes it really really easy to be knocked offline which I suspect would make it hard to continue work on a startup. For instance
Linus didn't write it. He's certainly modified it but it was written by others. For example the eval.c header sez:

* written 1986 by Daniel Lawrence
* modified by Petri Kutvonen

I'm sure someone else knows more about it's history.
There doesn't appear to be any sort of "usage" notes yet, however http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/how-tos-and-troubleshoot... has a list of keyboard shortcuts. CTRL-ALT-T should give you a shell.
The levels are randomly generated, so don't bother memorizing them.
I turn off my work laptop every day before undocking it to bring it home. I believe HP does not claim that this model supports hot docking. Also, if I forget to turn it off, it gets really hot in my sealed laptop bag...
That's political skullduggery, not falsifying data.
You're not going to be installing any corporate software on a Chrome OS computer though.
Also, why aren't you booting computers concurrently in your hypothetical?
not as detailed, but another timelapse flash visualization over a longer period of time - http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/
What a mess!
I have - e-mails more than calls, but still.
Spacebar, or J for jump would be better.

When I do Ctrl + Left, Mac OS X Spaces kick in. ;-)
Got it! sorry didn't see it before.
Python thread deadlock avoidance using a context manager
I've never once heard a creationist demand that the human genome project release their data onto the internet, or that they release species taxonomic data. (I can't comment on holocaust deniers since I've never encountered any.)

If you read some of the hacked emails, you realize that's exactly what McIntyre (of climate audit) was doing, and that's what the people at the research center were fighting against.
The point is power consumption. If a machine is instant on/off, then there's no reason to ever revert to sleep, which still drains battery.

The only reason we have stepped power consumption modes is because moving from full off to full on is such a pain in the ass.
Sounds very much like a "everyone for themselves" attitude to me. Which seems to be one of the bad things about the US.
Oi.. One day, I'll get around to fix that. :-)
Do the DropBox guys define what "excessive" is?
People working on startups are resourceful. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find free wifi/3g/get cable/adsl from another provider etc etc etc

I agree the law is stupid and ill thought out and puts the whole idea of innocent until proven guilty out the window, but technology is hard for some people like unelected politicians to grasp. So they mess up, and make stupid laws.

Meanwhile, people just sidestep and make the laws useless and irrelevant.
Are you one of those rare people who has a deep passion for both technology and art? Are you excited by the thought of revolutionizing the highly inefficient art world and helping artists sell their works?

We are a NYC, pre-product, but seed-funded startup that has placed at least as high as finalist in 3 business plan competitions. We are looking for extremely passionate and intelligent (yet humble) people interested in being part of our founding team.

Positions: Interaction/visual designers and front-end people with experience in FB app development, LAMP, Zend Framework, JQuery. Contact me directly at carter.cleveland@gmail.com and include links to something you've created. Thanks!
Presumably the goal isn't reducing carbon dioxide emissions, but maintaining global temperatures, in which case possible solutions do pull in many different directions...

But anyway, that misses the point. The wager isn't cost-benefit analysis where probabilities and expected values are certain; it's decision making in the absence of compelling evidence. What you have essentially done is respond to the multiple claimants problem by saying, "But any form of belief in the Christian God pulls in more or less the same direction." In the uncertainty that the wager confronts, however, "reducing CO2 emissions" and "increasing CO2 emissions" have the same expected value - that is, they are equal claimants. Hence my point that the multiple claimants problem is equally devastating when the wager is applied to global warming.
Hehe. Find me a corporate company that wants to put all their stuff on Google. Google Enterprise is one thing. ChromeOS is another.
Judging all of European politics by what's happening in the UK right now is like judging American cuisine by one meal served at McDonalds (which admittedly, a lot of Europeans tend to do).

Nice counter-example: Finland just made broadband internet access into a legal right: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/15/finland.internet.righ...
Fast boot + no client-side state => you can turn the damn thing completely off without worrying about losing your setup => longer wall-clock battery life.
beyond just boot-up time, which is basically irrelevant

Really? You don't think the idea of a 3 second startup is a game changer in the netbook space? Like all silicon valley geeks my laptop is never turned off, but I also happen to know plenty of people who do turn off their laptop after every single time they use it.

Chrome OS needs to prove that it can be better than a full-blown OS in some way

Of course as developers we're in love with the idea of powerful do-all machines. But most people seriously just need a way to check email and login to Facebook. The brilliance of Chrome OS is that Google can patch on the few little things that the masses really need to completely ditch the desktop paradigm. If they get it right users will eat it up because it completely sidesteps all the complexity of modern OSes, which no one likes, and only geeks put up with because we understand and can utilize the power it gives us.
iPhone has piracy? Is this from Jailbroken phones? Why would someone pirate something worth $3?
personally, i'll stay w/ typekit. the commenter (on typophile) who raised issue with images not being 100% accessible has a real point: now that i can use non-standard fonts in a standard way, ill take scalable text over an image.
Stupid idea. That's what's already done today and it's not good enough: doesn't reflow, doesn't zoom properly, does not work for dynamic texts (eh buddy, ever heard of FUCKING BLOGS?), isn't that great for accessibility, SUCKS a lot for the mobile web, and so on and so forth.
Why, oh why do I have to state the fucking obvious here?
Great idea! I hear similarities in songs all the time. Now I have a place to document them :)
It's a question of taste

Then how can it be right or wrong? Does it not then depend on the subject and not the object?
Is your code hosted someplace that we could watch the project unfold?
Yes. Yes. Because they are cheap bastards who won't pay for anything unless they absolutely cannot get away with stealing it.
Google Maps on the iPhone of course.
[03:47] Грани реальности [Розенкрейцер]
Am I supposed to be outraged? I think this is an excellent policy by Apple. If you want to smoke and screw up your computer, don't expect Apple pay to fix it. Keeps the rest of our costs down.
Also, people seem to be forgetting the cache. HTML 5 apps and Google Gears apps cache data locally and Google made a point of saying the data "will sync" constantly. Network PCs (at least the one I saw from Oracle) didn't have local storage at all.
Hiring? Does that imply a salary? Cause yeah, we don't have that quite yet, but we're working on it.

What do we have? Small, fast, potential insane team going after the temporary staffing / contracting match-making market. It was $86B in revenue last year, a down year, and it's almost entirely offline. It's time to shake things up!

We're in Boston and you need to be to. We code primarily in Rails. The right person will be co-founder with significant equity. We're changing peoples lives. Come build a great company with us.

We're a TechStars 09 company. Have GREAT advisers with deep industry knowledge and major entrepreneurial success under their belts (seriously, rock stars).

Oh, and as this says (http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Technical_Co_Founder_Rails_153...) I'm not another biz guy looking for someone to do the work. Career developer, 4 startups under my belt, looking to turn my focus more towards the fund raising and growing the biz. That's where you come in. Ping me. My email is in my profile.
You're right. What was I thinking? Sorry.
Keeps the rest of our costs down

I was wondering why they were so affordable.
A great way to get a condensed amount of information that is meaningful to you while you browse. Nice work.
* That the current state of the industry in crypto development is so weak and poorly understood that many of the statements people make about DRM are rooted not in theory but in observations about incompetant cryptosystems, and that when implemented well, DRM crypto actually has a good track record (cryptocard satellite TV, Blu-Ray). I was hoping to use this thesis as a coat rack for a bunch of practical advice about crypto in general.

* That the security goal of DRM is not about absolute platform integrity, but about meeting the commercial objectives of content providers, and that when you relax constraints from "absolutely protecting media" to "making sure titles are difficult to pirate during their new-release window to maximize profit", you get opportunities for interesting approaches to security, like renewability.

* That taken together, these two ideas suggest that DRM is actually a really interesting CS problem, and --- leaving politics out of it --- even if you believe it's destined to fail, it's worthy of study.
No...just an FYI. It struck me that it might lead to cheaper prices for used Macs, also indicative of changing relationships between suppliers and custoemrs...though I'd hazard a guess that mac users as a group are less likely to smoke.
I like it!
It would be great if you could add a big play button, that plays 10 seconds of song A and then 10 seconds of song B (or whatever timespan the submitter defines).
There are many questions to be asked here. What is the impact of smoke to the machine? Is working on a contaminated machine actually dangerous? How many of the machines are taged as contaminated? Is that number high enough to be really dangerous if this rule didn't exist? Should there be a disclaimer explicitly stating that smoking voids the warranty?

With so many unknowns, i can't take this seriously, so i wrote my half-joking comment.

p.s. I am genuinely interested to know the effects of smoking on computers. I know it will kill me eventually, but what about my computer?
I have noticed more iphone developers making a flash based version of their games for web promotion. I think it is a great idea, play before you pay. Does anyone have stats on how well this works as a promotional technique?

Also here is a link to the game in itunes http://appsto.re/canabalt
Nate Silver on the Leaked Global Warming Emails
Bureau of labor statistics, at the bottom - which is what I think you're asking for. If you meant the actual county maps, they're from the USGS and you can get digital versions here: http://www.nationalatlas.gov/mld/countyp.html
MacBook, never power off. Just close the lid while travelling.
The prize committee did declare that there was "no suitable living candidate" the year after Gandhi died.
Thanks for that - I don't really know much about the criteria for awarding the economics prize.
> But most people seriously just need a way to check email and login to Facebook

But why not just use a cell phone? Apart from the large screen, it seems to me that a chrome-os system will be similar to a smartphone.
Ask HN: Does your co-founder have to be the same age as you?
I am currently looking for and seeking a technical co-founder for a new music start-up I am working on. It is basically a web app that integrates with social networks (ie: Facebook); Provide 'the' platform & tools for artists to reach a wider audience/fans; allow fans/users to 'directly' purchase DRM-free songs from artist(s) at a market-variable price; and finally, provide an economic incentive for users to share their music discovery with peers. There are so many other possibilities...

This year makes me 18 years old...An ideal cofounder for me would have to be no more than 2-3 years older than me, because most older people may not be very comfortable working side-to-side with someone of my age.

So, I ask...

What would be the ideal age difference between you and your co-founder(s)?
I do love that joke. But it's not un-worthwhile to note that the Japanese drink like they're training for the Drunken Olympics.
> Or, what about my son who is in high school. By the time Chrome OS comes along in big numbers he’ll be in college. Why take a $1,000 computer to class? Couldn’t he do everything he needs to do on a low-cost computer that’s lightweight, replaceable, uses low power, and just uses the web? Absolutely!

I see very few netbooks on campus. You might expect them to be overrepresented given that students aren't known for having a lot of money, but I suspect that most undergrads are reluctant to have what's usually their only computer be something that isn't fully-featured.

The computer industry has a long history of claiming that certain users don't 'need' much power, so they should be willing to settle for minimal systems. It misses the point - people who don't need much computer are the least willing to buy low-end systems, because they don't want their one computer to be a dog. Netbooks are in a sense a luxury for richer consumers who are able to afford more than one system.

Chrome OS strikes me as riding the far edge of the gadget nerd/web 2.0 bell curve. You won't find an audience for this thing at Walmart.
"They also don't address the allegation of whether some of these scientists have started with the conclusions and searched for data to show that it exists"

Isn't this sort of normal? Present a hypothesis and then set out to see if it is true.
Are these people telling me i can't smoke in front of my computer?

No, they're telling you that they won't fix damage caused by smoking, and they won't force their computer technicians to clean up a disgusting and harmful mess of sticky tar and dust.