skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. This is why outsourcing manufacturing to other parts of the world is a bad idea. Innovation occurs where the manufacturing takes place. Take batteries for example. Companies in the US thought the process was simple and there was nothing to gain from keeping the manufacturing in the US. Well, they outsourced it to other countries in order to cut costs and look what happened. Lithium Ion batteries came about.

On the same note, I have found that starting sentences out loud before I finish the complete sentence in my head yields much more content, wit, and many times even better points. (seriously, but I'm mainly forced to try this while talking to girls at the bar)

I have heard some musicians (mainly rappers) don't write down lyrics because the process of writing completely destroys the flow. Instead, they record themselves improvising, quickly realizing a better phrase should have been used, stopping, and improvising again. If they can't come up with a word or phrase to fit into the sentence, they make a sound that fits the flow and come back to it later.

In short, be involved with current material as closely as possible in order to create new material. I hope this makes sense
Without a server to tunnel ssh, it's not possible but with somr Apache/root server access, your
best bet is tsocks which is not intuitive to get working.

http://gigo.com/archives/tsocks-on-the-mac.html

http://www.verot.net/socks.htm
They will not; OS X is not fully resolution independent yet.
Random rules for ideas worth spreading
Similar to snail mail
Unlike bank tellers, customer service reps, and cops, talk show hosts and members of Congress often seek those careers largely because of the public attention involved, not in spite of it.
Disgruntled redditors will be coming here.

As one of them, I genuinely hope we don't make you feel as though Eternal September has come at last for this place, but you can't say you weren't warned or that you couldn't see it coming.
Did you return yours?
My suggestion: make a simple app in both. Try out framework features you want, such as routing, source reloading, view support, testability, modularity (can I use MongoDB instead of a SQL for my models?), low level features, anything else it is important to you. Trying pushing it a little over the edge: extending and metaprogram the core classes as bit and checking error reporting (what happens if I pass out a 10000 character url?).

There you go. Two simple apps, that really stress what matters to you. Also, beware of frameworks that impose too much on you (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1534153).

And most of all: enjoy playing around.
I'm not a trader, but it seems to me that the whole "antennagate" thing had a disproportionate effect on the share price. They compare it to MS Vista, or Toyota's brake problems.

It's a one-off engineering flaw. Vista flopped because XP is good enough for looking at LolCatz, and it lacked tangible innovations - a sign that Microsoft's ability to bring innovative products to market has gotten congested. Toyota's brake problems puts people in fear of their lives.

When Apple lost 5% market cap, it was obvious that people were panicking. They could easily afford free bumpers, and a free upgrade to affected customers when the next iPhone comes out, for the price of the downgrades they were getting. If they don't hand out free stuff, it's because they have an even better option - to point out that all phones have reception issues, and maybe then blame AT&T.
I think that should be "the things that people make a huge fuss about are pretty petty." I think that the review process adds a certain value to the App Store. I know that if I download an app, (1) it will run and (2) it will do more or less what the description says. That is not to say that this is the one true way, but it adds value.

I think a model that the web has followed is better: apps should be ranked based on some organic factors (e.g.: content of description + reviews) and the best apps can just float to the top. Security can be ensured via reviews/ratings + sandboxes access to phone's core functions.
OK, I was just spending far too much time looking to figure out who it was, and just had to ask.
Just a warning about the GuruPlug Server Plus, I ordered mine on 5/28/2010 and still have not received it. They identified an issue with overheating and have not shipped out any models in a couple of months. After finally getting in touch with them I was told it would ship in mid july and I'm still waiting for it.
When you get a chance, please read the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually looks like they just made a statement a couple of days ago about the issue https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/news.aspx
Pity the poor investment banker - fewer stops for the IPO gravy train.
Are Designer Sunglasses Worth the Price?
Youtube videos...not sure how well they work with SaaS apps though.
If this contract is real, this is bad news for Zuckerberg.

Considering that his lawyers are "unsure" he signed the contract, this is basically an admission that the contract looks valid at first glance, and that the lawyers are probably spending day and night trying to get it dismissed on a technicality, or hoping it is a forgery.

It will also be interesting to know if people here think Ceglia deserves those Facebook shares. Many people here are investors and would probably side with him, but others have expressed the sentiment that he provided a negligible amount of money and therefore contributed very little to the success of Facebook.
Students disclose illegal status as part of push for immigration law reform
Looks like iSSH is using beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler. So, yes, it's possible it would run for up to 10 min. in the background but my guess is the watchdog would kill the SOCKS app for taking up too much CPU time for a bg process and/or network access would be killed intermittently.

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/uiki...

"This method lets your application continue to
run for a period of time after it transitions to the
background."
> They have to put at least 1 satellite into service. That's a huge cost for something that you have no intention of making an important part of your service.

apparently the cost of putting a satellite is only 8k ;)
The audience sounds like a fake laugh track. Nice presentation about the value of persistence and giving customers what they want, though.
Contacts (and in iOS 4, calendar data) are completely unprotected. Just create an instance of an AddressBook and go to town. Your pictures are only accessible through the camera roll UI... IF the developer is only using public APIs.

Since we can assume that there are no public APIs that support tethering setup, we can also assume that it's still possible for them to be used in rogue apps and for developers to have access to private data.
Using Social Games to Teach Kids Entrepreneurship
I don't believe any idea is wholly worthless. Great ideas are on time, good ideas only feel late, and bad ideas are simply too early. For years I've kept two folders.

One I fill with concepts (if they can be called that) I plan to test, and the other is for those I think are too early. The good ideas have kept me afloat; the bad ideas however, have led to great things.

Always write it down. Circling ideas are an omen you're mastering the science but not the art.
Page 11? I only see two pages. What am I missing?
> And.. LTE (or LTE-A) is all-ip anyway, so who needs carriers?

you do realize that, cell-phones or any other access side equipment that you use, passes all data via the epc-core which is provided by the operator right ?
Definitely don't buy now. Buy when no one is thinking about apple - i.e. when it's not in the news (or at least when the news is bad).
Not all frameworks are created equal.
Why? Does he have something else to sell? Assuming he doesn't, he's just put his effort into learning what could be a valuable skill, but now can't work on the platform (ever again?).
You know, I can't remember the last time I bought a DRM track from iTunes, and trust me, I buy a lot of tracks on iTunes.
Someone add a open source option maybe?
Ask HN: Which windows web hosting do you use?
Which windows web hosting do you prefer ? I'm looking for something easy to setup and less expensive.
Sorry, its the 1st page under "2. Entire Agreement" (I was looking at the whole lawsuit - http://www.scribd.com/doc/34239119/Ceglia-v-Zuckerberg-compl... ).
Ask HN: Which startups accept visitors (and I should visit)?
I'm planning to do a week long US "tour" (I'm from the UK) to promote and do research for my startup as well as generally meet and talk to lots of interesting people. While I have several leads, it would be nice to visit startups I have no contacts at that encourage/accept visitors (for example, Twilio - http://www.twilio.com/company/).

What startups are good to visit and like visitors? (Bay, NYC, Seattle and LA are where I'm focusing.) I want to ensure I'll never be bored and, who knows, I might be able to provide some entertainment/ideas/advice, publicity or even some beers to those I meet! (If, for some reason, you'd rather personally invite me and not the whole world, you can find contact details in my profile.)
Would that change the validity of either (a) my initial argument that Apple made an error, or (b) my correct observation that somebody was commenting on an issue with which he or she may not have any first-hand experience?

Notice I never argued that Apple's error was severe enough that the only rational recourse was to return the phone itself. So, perhaps I did; perhaps I didn't. It's just not relevant.
I wonder if they are doing some last-minute editing on the ending of the Facebook movie.
There are a lot of open source boards already out there (sourceforge el al); this is more for startup dating with extreme pre-selection.
Both the Wii and DSi can play the format iTunes currently uses. I think the PSP and PS3 can as well. I’m also pretty sure Archos and a couple other of the high end media players also work with AAC. AFAIK, only the low end stuff, like SanDisk’s fare, are still using silicon tied to MP3/WMA.
> Does he have something else to sell?

himself.

If he wants to get a regular job later /or/ if he wants to launch a product later, having his name in the headlines helps quite a lot.

i don't want to say "there is no such thing as bad publicity" because there is, but in this case, enough people, I think, will feel that a tethering application is 'not evil' and that this was overall a good thing to make it a net win for the programmer.

Even if apple blocks him forever (I don't know their history... would they really say "no, f-ck you" five years from now?) and even if the apple platform remains dominant (I will be very surprised if apple continues its dominance after Jobs runs out of spare parts.) there are plenty of companies that make iphone apps that I'm sure would be happy to hire the kid.

And there are plenty of other platforms out there to work on, too.
Snakes in the MRI Machine
GIVE HN: I will convert your designs into Facebook landing pages. (free)
The Offer:

I would like to convert your HTML+CSS designs into Facebook-compatible code free of charge.
Your designs can include javascript interactions like slideshows, image galleries, tabs, show/hide effects, etc but you don't need to actually code it since I'll have to do that in FBJS.

Some possible uses are: 1) Your startup's Facebook page. 2) Your branding page or personal profile as a freelancer. 3) A page for one of your client's companies.

How it Works:

Just email me a link to a page that you've mocked up as your Facebook page. You can include jquery effects such as slideshows etc, and I'll try my best to recreate everything in Facebook-compatible code.
I'll let you know if I can't recreate a certain effect. When I'm done, I'll send you the fully rendered code ready to drop into Facebook. It's 100% yours to keep and publish as you wish. Easiest way would be to embed it via the FBML application. (I can instruct you on how to do this)

Why?

As per your permission I'd like to include your pages as sample pages that were produced with the web service I am currently working on. You can find more information about that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1524019

No strings attached, I just want to use my service to improve upon it, find out what interactions users want in their pages, and above all: get some nice looking samples! So if you are a designer, please take me up on my offer. Your beautiful designs + my development time = win/win

Post here and/or email plusjade@gmail.com to take me up on the offer.
All the iTunes tracks I've bought this year are unprotected.
This (old) HN post is for you: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=341138
How are they going to get much money? There are very few 4G devices in existence, are they betting everything on 4G becoming big in the next few years?
It's funny, when I saw the reddit blog post about the new features, I immediately thought they're shooting themselves in the foot. When you use a donation model, people donate what they feel they can afford, and some will be quite generous. As soon as you give specific rewards, it switches to a value decision in the user's head. Are the new features worth the price? The result of adding these features might be fewer people making the switch to "gold".
I would imagine the friction level is too high. Getting people out of watching a video and into your app is a big hurdle.

It could have some nice viral potential for awareness, but then again "making a kick ass viral video" is probably easier said than done!
Would you talk about what makes you good at sales?
Mobile Video services to make $2 billion
Can you please explain what it means?
I heard about this before. I think it's cool that Peter Norvig puts it in his CV: "1998	Television writer:	Code written by me for my first textbook was shown on the TV show The Net on 10 Oct. 1998. I was uncredited for this work" (http://www.norvig.com/resume.html)
I beg to differ. Collision/comprehensive on a sports car isn't the expensive part, liability is. Totalling the car may only cost the insurer $9k, but an accident can cost $100k+

Male, under 25, driving a used old sports car? Been there, done that, paid the insurance...and it wasn't fun!!
Has YCombinator funded any legitimately profitable companies?
Parents, Your Kids Aren't Getting High i-Dosing MP3s
nice. almost 2 years old! I hope there are some new ideas we can think of :) This point was really good from the top-voted answer:

"Build ancillary "fun" services that tie into your main web app. Something fun, free, perhaps something that you can relate to sites people find interesting, such as Twitter. Let's say your main service is an online graphics editor. Perhaps you could create a separate site where people can create avatars for Twitter / Facebook from a small set of templates.. separate project but promoting the first."

I love that idea - and I see it all the time. In fact I just saw one yesterday:
http://everytimezone.com
Consequences...will never be the same.
http://www.ASPNix.com - I've been using them for almost 3 years. They really good about putting the latest .Net frameworks and betas when they are available.
Cool! I just passed this on to a client. I'll ping you if they're interested.
Read what I wrote more closely. I didn’t say “no contacts,” I said “few.” Being social doesn’t imply packing our “monkeyspheres” to the 100 person maximum that the social butterflies seem to want to subject everybody to.
Freemium business model pricing
When you are making up a freemium business model pricing plan, what is a good way to come up with the difference in prices between each tier? It obviously has to include features that entice a buyer to pay more for the product, but what level of price increase is too much?
A Quotable Conversation with Vivek Wadhwa: Video Interview, Part I
>If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

I am genuinely not trying to start a flamewar (as stated in line 3 of the comments section of the 'guidelines'), but I don't think it's going to be an illusion for much longer.

This site seems to be mentioned very often recently (along with metafilter and buzzfeed) as becoming the reddit refugee camp for those who don't like what they're doing over there for a variety of reasons. Anyone who frequents both can attest to this.

P.S. my account here is more than a year old, having said that though, i never did read the rules until now. A good read. Thanks for listening.
How Amazon Kills Books and Makes Us Stupid
SSH through a SOCKS 4/5 proxy:

1. Download and compile connect.c (http://www.taiyo.co.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.c or http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/ssh/connect.c).

gcc connect.c -o connect -lresolv

2. sudo cp connect /usr/local/bin/connect-proxy

3. cd ~/.ssh
Add new config file as shown below (if existing, then be careful - backup/modify)

File: ~/.ssh/config

Host *

ProxyCommand connect-proxy -R both -4 -S proxy:<proxy-port> %h %p

4. Test ssh to one of your hosts

Note: If you're not using the proxy, you need to disable the global config with a script or something to nuke it on demand.
nice. almost 2 years old! I hope there are some new ideas we can think of :)

I'm sure! I wrote that top comment, btw ;-) I was tempted to copy and paste it here for the karma but thought I'd be good. As you highlight, some of the things I mentioned have become mainstream rather than the edgy ideas they were at the time.

If I had to extend the list based on my gut feelings now, I'd add video, in-person "touring", tumblelogging, and guest posting on third party blogs.
I imagine steve19 is saying it should be easier to move iPads than Mac computers. People already have computers in the traditional sense and are generally happy with them; there isn't a pressing need to upgrade more than every few years. In contrast with this is the iPad, a brand new product that people can purchase on an impulse (due to its lower-than-a-computer price) and show off to friends.
What method(s) do you think Pandora is using to stay alive more than 10 minutes, intermittently fetching additional megabytes of music?
Just don't ever try to call them for support. It is awful. Simply awful.
Oh yes. What I did is put a 128gb in my 13" MBP (current generation) and then get a kit to replace the DVD drive with a 2.5" laptop drive. Everything runs very fast, time machine backs up my boot drive every 20 minutes transparently, and I have plenty of spinning disk storage too.
Pricing is something that you're never going to get perfect right off the bat. Start high, then figure things out with your customers. Remember that it's easier to lower prices than it is to raise them.

I will say that it's quite common to have a super-high price tier that hardly anyone buys, that is there to make the other tiers look cheaper by comparison. Not saying that it's a tactic that works 100% of the time, but anecdotally speaking, I see it around on SaaS websites.

e.g.

Basic - $30

Premium - $50 most popular!

Corporate - $200 (comes with super-duper feature that 99% of people don't need)
How technical are you?
I can see it above mine.
Redbox still mulling streaming video options
It says "The Face Book" and describes the website. What more specificity do you want?
Now the question is, where is the limit beetween an idea and his execution. If the idea is a vague thing like "a computer that fits in my pocket", then it's just a dream. The most details you have about your idea, the most you're move close its execution.
I've seen people get exasperated trying to implement "if" in Prolog, too. The whole language is already an 'if' / pattern matching engine!

("How do you implement lazy evaluation in Haskell? No, like, in an application...")
I remember when 802.11b was just taking off. Everyone thought because of 802.11a devices in the wild, both standards would cancel each other out and no one would buy it (like the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD war). If the price is right (in both device and service plan), people will come.
Might just take some creative thinking. Ie. promoting videos to sell blenders = Blendtech!
Is this honestly what you believe? That a poor student learning on pirated software can condemn themselves - by sheer act of moral fate - to a negative path in life?

Who determines "bad behavior" exactly? You know, in my world view, publicly casting your own subjective moral judgment on someone else is considered "bad behavior".
Many people here are investors and would probably side with him...

Interesting, I always thought most HN were starving poor hackers :)
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For a laugh, his facebook page - http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jthompsons

He works for Microsoft. Oh, as a beta tester, you know, the one you just sign up for and get in.

Although, the thing that irks me is "The Dreams Foundation". It is all one big page to try to get you to "donate", but none of them give info about their certification. The videos are from someone not even related to the project and the MIS Orphanage fund is a GlobalGiving project, not a potofdreams or anything related to the guy that I can find. Even the Google Accredited donation uses the standard buy-it-now cart instead of the IRS Certified 501(c)3 Donate cart.

The whole thing just screams "scam". I guess many would consider ripping people off "entreprenurial", but not me.
Is there a link to an actual PDF instead of a Flash viewer?
the comments are great, especially the 'full of shit' and jessica's.
Many and most are not the same thing. Many people here could be investors, while most could be poor hackers.
The Best Thing EVAR
Rational arguments against the purchasing of veblen goods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good - don't hold much weight. Being "worth the price" doesn't entirely mean how good they are glasses but how good they are as fashion items too, a point this article totally misses.

Disclaimer: Wearer of Benetton glasses that I know are mass produced and overpriced when classified merely as glasses.
The contract talks about a "Fax Street Database" and something called "Face Book".

If you look at any Face Book page it clearly identifies the service as "facebook". I know this is kind of nitpicky but the string "Face Book" is different than the string "facebook".

Also, statute of limitation is 7 years. I think this contract just turned into a pumpkin.
I hate money, but it'd be nice to have more of it.
Garbage collection offers a nice explanation for why limbo is only a problem under the influence of the "strong sedative". If garbage collection is a feature of normal dreaming, the "strong sedative" disables it. If you can stretch the metaphor further be my guest.
Which means that the smart people already figured it out and it was mostly priced into the stock already.

Remember, the stock price is at least as smart as the smartest investors trading it.

In all seriousness, and meaning this not at all as an insult, I recommend never investing in anything stock-market-related except index funds until it stops seeming intuitive to you that the stock ought to jump on the same day that news like this is publicly summarized and announced.
True, but if that's what he meant, then his sentence doesn't really have a point.
Really? You think you know when the market is being irrational? Can I ask how much money you've made trading your knowledge so far? I assume you're invested in Apple, since you know that the market consistently underestimates them.