skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simple solution is for digital assets themselves to become more "real." For example in Loom a merchant can issue a digital asset redeemable for his own products and services, and that digital asset can trade freely like cash. It's "real" because you can reliably obtain real things with it. These asset types are not as liquid as the US dollar yet, but within certain trading networks they can be quite useful.

Regarding money "laundering," that used to be defined as concealing the proceeds of crime. Now privacy itself has been defined as laundering, even when no fundamental crime is involved. That is to say, privacy itself is criminalized by statute. It's sick, and decent people need to reject that way of thinking. Stick to the principles of common law and voluntary exchange.
Hacking a TV game show
"Ceglia may be planning to argue that the statute of limitations didn't start until the contract was breached, which would have set the clock ticking in 2004, said Scott & Scott partner Julie Machal-Fulks."

Check my response http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533668
Legacy flies high for inventor of black box recorder
I'm pretty sure Facebook has been cash flow positive for a while. Here's the Techcrunch article about it from nearly a year ago: http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/facebook-crosses-300-millio...

Also here's a report from Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65H01W20100618

Well, at least you got to quote Monsieur Balzac. Hell of a name.
"Work for Hire" Contract Submitted as Evidence in Ceglia v. Facebook
Probably yes.

I've heard that some people have had success at negotiating down the scope of their IP assignments to "Anything directly related to the company is yours, anything not directly related is mine", but it comes down to negotiating leverage. Basically, you need to be a bigshot in your industry and they need to be a relatively small, desperate company for this to work. They have to want you more than you want them, because otherwise they know that everyone else will require equally restrictive IP agreements.

As for how people manage to work on side projects - usually, if they become companies, the employee has to negotiate an explicit agreement with their employer to retain ownership. For the Apple I, Woz initially believed that HP owned the rights to it, and then some middle-manager at HP signed it away. For Viaweb, I believe there was a panic at some point where some Yahoo pointed out that it was quite possible that Altavista owned the rights to their code (since RTM worked there one summer) and they needed to get some manager there to sign off on it. PG may be able to tell you more if he's reading this.

Another common strategy founders do is write the prototypes and perform market research while still employed, and then throw everything away and start fresh when they form the company. Usually the scope of IP only extends to code (& design docs & other written descriptions), because if it's not written down, you can't prove when they dreamed it up. This was the Netscape strategy: write Mosaic, quit and rewrite it as Netscape. They got sued for it anyway, but I think it was for trademark infringement and not copyright infringement.
+1 to both of these suggestions. Essentially, find designs you like, then find who did it and send them an email/Twitter intro.

If you're going after well known designers though, don't be surprised if their quote is higher than you think it should be. If someone is well known and in high demand, then their price goes up accordingly.
I stand corrected. I've always been an Ive fan, I just never really imagined him as a replacement for Jobs. I always thought Cook would.
I’d be happy if the new data center just made Mobile Me work like it should.
When paper money was redeemable for gold, yes there was mild deflation each year, and that condition lasted for decades on end. But people still bought things. The nice thing was, savings had its own reward: you could count on your money buying slightly more next year than the year before. But people still invested money when they could achieve better returns than deflation. Interest rates could be lower too.

A nice steady mild deflation is nothing to worry about. That kind of deflation was mostly caused by productivity gains, which benefited everyone. With inflation, the beneficial effects of productivity gains are stolen, and given to the privileged early recipients of the inferior irredeemable money coming out of the spigot.
There doesn't seem to be an obvious way of deleting or editing tables after inserting one.
They're basically dealing with a bunch of 17-and-under kids who think like this (quoted from the link): "4 chan it's not about hacking it's about the fact that Gawker begged for this fight for 3 or 4 days. They know who we are. They know our numbers. Or rather, evidently they didn't. They called us out and we took them up on it after being the bigger man. How is that pussy? They begged for it. We took the high road. Then they just pushed a bit too far. You fuck with the bull you get the horns."

Somehow they can't see how lame this makes them look? They think they're some kind of force to be reckoned with and not just a bunch of lame script kiddies, but they never come off as the former and always as the latter.

http://a33.idata.over-blog.com/3/20/76/31/Epic_fail_guy1.gif
Also check out Roger Wells' Happy to Burn: free at https://www.fifobooks.com/Catalog?bkid=6b430c42-5bf7-4e0d-a5...

Roger also has a second book, Love and Imagination, which is a meditation handbook, and a follow up of "Happy to Burn": https://www.fifobooks.com/Catalog?bkid=f80d82f9-2692-4ed0-8a...

(disclaimer: Fifobooks is my startup)
A regex that checks for primes
Facebook Credits: The world's first global currency?
Is there some specific reason they worked so hard to make it sync with the iPhone over bluetooth? as opposed to, say, syncing with your laptop over bluetooth, or just make the thing log data and then sync to a computer via USB. Is it purely the sex-appeal of having an iPhone related product?
They do cost a whole lot less, but I wonder how much the cost to make. In other words, what is the profit margin on each one?
Let's say you had a startup in an emerging market like mobile apps. Maybe the health of Apple would be relevant to that.
The mini's recent refresh made its base cost $699, actually.
The statistics might be rather different if the Kindle edition wasn't 1/3 the price of a hardcover.
How To: Develop iPhone Apps With Staying Power
This is my own company. I feel like i should be able to have my own side projects later, but will investors get squeamish if they see I have a non-standard agreement?
They do now advertise a US address next to some Air Force base in Nevada.

The address listed on their website appears to be an office in a pretty mundane Vegas suburb, surrounded by restaurants and small businesses. Am I missing something?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=375+n.+stephanie+st.+suite+141...
I wasn't trying to say science is useless when it comes to sports, just sports science tends to be very very bad scientifically as a whole.

Modern recreational running shoes are the PERFECT example of how wrong sports science can be. All the scientific evidence from the past few decades supported the use of heavily cushioned, motion controlling running shoes to prevent injuries. This is why doctors recommend it. It was coaches and athletes that stuck to what worked - flats (take a look at any track and field/racing shoe) and barefoot training. No track coach in her right mind that would have advocated for the use of a heavy cushioned running shoe for a competitive athlete.
Yes, and it is also a new type of product. Macs (and PCs) have been around for decades.
Yes and that's why many Java applications esp. in the corporate world are slow, contrary to the common belief.

When I say many/most software written in Java is slow, people tend to laugh and direct me to the shootout benchmarks. This is actually sign of ignorance of what's really going on in the wild, which you can learn at operations btw. You don't put your stack of dependency injection, loggers and ORMs into a microbenchmark like shootout, while you do it for the typical Java web application. The insane amount of calls on stack - tens of thousands and above, and the insane amount of small classes which all have to be managed by classloader, takes your app out of cpu cache, takes your files out of os file cache, pumps the enormous memory usage, stresses the gc and causes your JVM to have its crawling moments - or crawling standards.

So it's not that JVM itself sucks, but the stuff you typically want to run on it makes it a horror.
No it's entirely a different problem.

For example, auto-tagging your pictures from 1000 photos is easy. auto-tagging from 10,000 photos is easy. Hell, auto-tagging yourself from billion photos is easy, and the difficulty doesn't increase with the size of the verification set.

But when it comes to "auto-checking in", accuracy is really important. Out of the entire world population--6,697,254,041--how many people do you think would look similar to you? And it only gets more difficult with all those little details such as hairstyle, makeup, etc.

The Minority report model of using retinal scanner works because the accuracy is really high, and is statistically and scientifically proven. Same goes for your fingerprint. But no matter how good the algorithm gets, it is impossible to create an auto-check in system by automatically figuring out who you are based on just image recognition.
> Mobile is still growing like crazy

So if you didn't get a top-story post on Apple's revenue from HN every quarter, you would have no idea how fast mobile is growing?

> People are willing to pay a premium for quality even in tougher economic times

So? Unless you're in the business of selling expensive hardware - and my guess is that you are not - this is irrelevant.

> Digital distribution of Music and Software is the future

We're already living in this future. The last time I bought a hard-copy retail version of software was in the 90's, and for music, at least 5 years.
Hey thank for the encouragement! IMO the authentication chip has some details that are very poorly documented (and as a result gave me months of headaches). if you want to talk shop anytime please feel free to drop me a line at: craig <at> wakemate <dot> com. would love to have another hardware developer working on apple auth to chat with...
I agree with you on that point, but I mean for a comment that had nothing to do with either a pun or a meme it's kinda ridiculous. This site will be like straight html without any css... and I think a bit of the later helps the former create a good atmosphere.
One hopes so, but as you stated it ("Wiretapping laws only apply...") this is demonstrably not true. Case law in Massachusetts is also unambiguous in twisting the "on it's face" potentially reasonable law into a law like that in Illinois (the MA courts are fond of this sort of thing). It remains to be seen what the Maryland courts do, especially since this case happened about the same time as a notable police brutality incident where it was only a citizen's video that allowed the truth to prevail.

And I've seen enough authority friendly atrocities, ones that don't break down neatly along 4-1-4 "conservative"-"Kennedy"-"liberal" lines, that I'm not even close to 100% sure the Supremes will do the right thing, assuming they even deign to hear such a case.

(On the other hand, the two cases I was most thinking of, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_v._Michigan and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London do break down that neatly ... except the sides flip. I would cite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McConnell_v._Federal_Election_C... but I don't even want to start to break down who voted how.)
80% is a typo for 60%, right? It says 60% on tech crunch.
when iphone users make up the majority of your preorders (and supposedly market), then yes it does matter. if we had just launched for Blackberry and Android, we would not be having these delays...
this is too funny. I'm not sure whether intentional: "sine", "tangent"...
I dunno; I'd imagine that it depends on the investor. One of my previous employers had the California clause ("except for inventions developed entirely on their own time on their own machines" blah blah) even though they weren't a California company, perhaps because their law firm was more familiar with that.

One thing they probably will get squeamish with is if the founders have different IP agreements than the employees. They'll probably also wonder how committed you are to the company if you're already thinking about side projects...
How Apple collects GPS information from iPhones
The 'different comm styles' ... I did not cite the reference, but there is a documentary about how Arab-Israeli conversations tend to break down badly even when both sides go in with win-win positive intentions. It showed some deep cultural diffs (specifically, Arabs don't like to be interrupted, while Israelis thrive on it...it's deeper, but that's the highlight point). Seems like anyone who could figure out how to resolve that diff could organize better peace talks.

BTW, if it isn't clear, I am the author of the post.

I've lost my password for HN and can't see a way to recover, so I haven't been responding to HN comments on my posts. Anyhoo, caved and logged in using my Google id now...I am the same as lost-password vgr on some older threads. If someone can tell me how to recover my password, I'd appreciate it. Kinda like my vgr handle.
They sure as hell made it a lot easier. I was involved in a location based start up in about 2000. I was laid off in 2003, and they kept going until this year when they merged with Xora.

The most striking difference between modern location based startups and ours is how easy it is to get your application on a phone these days. I don't care how draconian Apple seems to be with getting your app on the phone, it just doesn't compare.

The company worked for months (if not years) to get the app distributed with a phone automatically (or nearly automatically), and the best we could get was that the enterprise sales group at the carrier could sell the solution to a company. You could still get our app on a phone w/o that, but it required a whole bunch of proprietary tools (that nobody would know how to get) and a serious amount of technical know-how at that. In other words, there was zero chance of someone saying, "hey, why don't we try this out for free to see if it can be of any use to us"

Perhaps this is why I don't get all in a tizzy about Apple's draconian app store practices (though, the last bits finally did get to me). I'm like a transplant from Czarist Russia who has come to post Patriot Act America.
not exactly similar. Our product uses Actigraphy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actigraphy), which is a different method (and in our opinion much less obtrusive) for measuring sleep phases than the Zeo which uses a headband. Also, our unit is wireless and automatically uploads your data to our web server with very little user input (besides setting the alarm before going to bed).
I'm also really interested in the product and I can't wait to hear what the early adopters have to report.

I'm also really interested to know what was learned about working with Apple on a hardware interface.
Yes, but everyone knows that Apple is crushing it. What would be actual news is if they suddenly lost this crazy momentum. Hence, there is no need to have a story every quarter about Apple's insane revenue. It's a given.
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Google Ups the Reward For Chromium Security Fixes
aargh, sorry... looks like I DID use my google account last time and selected the vgr handle. Sorry.
With friends like these, right?

It seems the HN community is all too eager to shoot their wounded.
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I believe it is not a big picture/details distinction but an information-free vs. informational distinction. There can be insight questions that are very large scale. Pascal's "probability that God/heaven/hell exist" is a very insightful but big-picture question.
Insurance rates, while higher because of type of car and age, shouldn't be too absurd. Even if he wrecks the thing, the company is only out ~9,000 or so.
I recommend seeking out translated Soviet math textbooks. They're dense and unforgiving, but are conceptually correct. You could do far worse.
Wanna know the most annoying PayPal question?
I tried quiQR and it works really well!! It is a fast way to check-in to Foursquare.
I use 'what's your goal' as a conversation starter as well, but if it gets bogged down there, I start to tune out.

I think you and I may differ in what we consider 'useful.' I don't classify procedural starting points as 'useful' except in a ritualistic sense. So in that sense I think I stand by my rather extreme-sounding view :)
The DCFS/CPS employees are your wives, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, uncles, ..., basically they are _you_. So stop whining and just think for a second whose life you're going to make miserable today.
http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com/ ?
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Get "The Princeton Companion to Mathematics" - http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html
How to be a successful iPhone developer
You plan to ask for a refund? Nobody asked or paid 500 million users to put their entire lives online.
If you're going to steal a site, remove Google Analytics
This happens all the time. And it really annoys me. This time it happened to us. The amusing part of this, is that we found out because the moron left our Google Analytics code in the pages. Meaning we were getting all sorts of bizarre traffic data to pages that don't exist.

The stolen site is http://organic-views.com/ and was stolen from our site http://sowhappy.com.au

The supposed copyright owner is one Jake Thompson http://jake-thompson.co.uk/ or at his twitter address @Jakexf

I'm curious to know what is the best course of action in this case? The site and developer are UK based. We're AU based. The client has been notified, but I do wonder whether they paid this creep to design their site for them, and how many other clients he has done the same thing to.

For a guy who claims to be "A young Entreprenuer", I can't help but feel that he's getting off on the wrong foot.
AT&T doesn't offer an unlimited plan anymore, but all the existing users are grandfathered in. They get to keep their unlimited plan as long as they continue to renew it. Most of the people who want an iPhone on AT&T have already got one, so it's not like there are many people left to join and start using a ton of bandwidth.

If Verizon were to offer the iPhone, a lot of the AT&T users with unlimited plans who are using a ton of bandwidth would jump to Verizon, and, if they were to try to return to AT&T, wouldn't be able to obtain an unlimited plan.
I wonder about Riak's storage efficiency. It seems like it would be ideal private S3 replacement for user upload storage. Just put a varnish in front that only allows GET requests and perhaps add/remove some headers and it should be fine exposed to the web.
Just because you can't steal what really matters doesn't mean you don't already have it. You could possibly take someone else's idea and execute it better than they would have. What are the odds that the person who came up with the great idea doesn't have the best motivation or resources to make it successful?
There's a book on this very subject called 'The Ominous Parallels.' I've been meaning to read it.
Previous unlimited plans have been grandfathered in, so it's probably safe to say that most iPhone users have unlimited data plans.
For number 7 there are more alternatives than just Seaside/Parentscript, such as NOLOH, Echo, among others.
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Only if he obtained their services by trading something to them that started from the paperclip.
I like to think about frameworks in terms of those long tail distributions. They do well for many common cases but as you go further and further out in the distribution it becomes more and more convoluted to get your solution written in terms of the framework. In most cases the users end up asking for very unique features that never occurred to the framework designers.
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Inspired by the success of previous spreadsheets, here's a pet peve of mine.

Startup dating is broken. The skills that are really valuable in getting a business up&running are not malleable to easy proxy measurement (such as CV, or forms, or cover letters). So let's try it from a demand point of view.

Post your most pressing need in your startup business, that you want to get help with strictly on a voluntary basis, along with the larger scope of the project.

The most important column is the "First steps to start with". Put here a _minimum viable_ qualification task, something that would test for the ability to "get things done" for the value of "task" you're looking help with; eg. a git repos, and a bug id; "get 20 customers" for sales, "beat my 0.78% CTR on adwords" for marketing, I'm sure you can think of something.
how the hell do you get to the blog's top? I can only browse forward/backward through articles and the top right images link elsewhere.

one would think the top left heading would be a hyperlink most current article or something.
On-going investigations, like on-going military operations and the like, should be kept secret until they're finished. But they should be recorded and documented all the same. (And there should be limits so you can't say that a 50-year-old operation is 'on-going' or some such nonsense.)
Finally someone who wasn't blinded by the creativity/stupidity of the last part of the email; ten points for Gryffindor!

The goal of this post wasn't to convince you to switch to Camping, but to inform people that Camping is still alive and there are places where it's actually better than Sinatra. The problem is that people have misconceptions about Camping: old, ugly, not maintained (because why left), small community. While I don't care what framework you use, you should at least be aware of the current status of Camping before making a decision. It's more like: "But you know, there are some pretty cool things about Coca-Cola since you last tasted it four years ago".

As for the writing style: I blame my Norwegian heritage and that English isn't my mother tongue. One time in the future though…
An employer is allowed to monitor and record employees at the place of work. Applying to police - public is allowed to monitor and record police on public property.
For me, a big part of it isn't so much learning the rules, but unlearning the non-rules. In hindsight, a lot of the rules really aren't that complex, and can be easily picked up through observation.

The problem is that some people have overly sensitive radars, so we tend to pick up the noise along with the signal. On top of that we have a questioning nature, and we don't like to follow a rule based on its face value, we end up lingering in doubts on the universality of the rule, or its moral justifications. Other times we hold a rule in contempt, seeing it as cliche. All these get in the way when a social exchange demands you to apply the rules swiftly without thinking.
You're still not getting it (or more likely being intentionally obtuse). Corporate results matter: remember the hype around the Palm Pre? If you dropped your iPhone development or even moved resources to build a Pre version of your software you made a mistake. The fact the this is on the front page is relevant to people that making strategic decisions based on market leaders.

Interestingly this site has a great feature that allows you to ignore things you believe are irrelevant: if you don't click the link you don't need to read it.
Did they break out the iPod numbers? That had a decline. I'd like to know if that was due specifically to the non-Touch iPod. And if Touch sales actually went up when broken out.
also check out the venture cafe every thursday from 3-8pm at the CIC.

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