skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it, and will probably end-up using it and wouldn't mind paying for it. I know you just got your MVP out the door, but a couple things that I would like to see before I start using it:

* Delete/Edit button for projects created;
* SSL option (on/off in account settings);
* Mac/Linux client;
* Option to turn off the screen capture per project or per user.
That may come back and haunt you. Planning should be an integral part of any process.
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I think you've done this backwards... problems that need solving tend to come with their own niche - the people who want the solution.

Don't get me wrong, this is an interesting app, but I don't see a demand for it (people are more than happy with Google mostly), and I'm curious exactly how you'd expect to turn a profit with it as well? Adverts and mass adoption?
Sure thing.

For in-app content delivered through our infrastructure, whether it's free or paid through Apple's in-app purchase, we charge $0.05/download.

An API call is made to our system when a person wants to download content. If it's a paid item, a receipt is included in that call and we then validate the receipt with Apple. After that, the application can download the content.
Thanks! That means a lot to us :D
It's the financial equivalent of eating your own poop.
Thank you for posting this. The whole MS/CCSVI controversy has really enraged me.

Whether or not there turns out to be some benefit for some percentage of MS sufferers, the hype, conspiracy theories, and two-bit clinics all over the place offering this procedure have done real harm. People have stopped taking medicine that has been proven clinically to help, in order to have unproven surgery.

It's easy to see why. None of the current medications cure the disease, or even stop its progression. They only slow down its progress. And they all have unpleasant side effects, and require injection (though an oral drug is becoming available soon). And even though five or ten thousand dollars (the surgery cost, when I looked it up awhile ago) may seem like a lot, the drugs seem to all cost (very) roughly twenty-five thousand dollars per year.

But that just means that there's a ready population of desperate people to exploit.

And that makes me angry.
seed with something hacked out of the Delicious API... see moreofit.com for an excellent example of what might be possible
For me it's usually both accurate enough to get the gist of the message, and inaccurate enough for a good laugh.
Q&A on P≠NP Paper for Non-Mathematicians
The author is advocating renting stuff instead of buying it. This suggestion doesn't help much in the long run, because you become addicted in the same way. A better suggestion would be using less stuff, period.
They're not correlating the use of a flash with photographs being "better" in some general way; they're correlating the use of a flash with specific ratings of the attractiveness of the people in the resulting photos.

If the data is accurate, then the correlation is real. It might be that most people don't know how to use a flash; it might also be that natural light makes people appear more attractive, or that the position of the light source (i.e. not in the same place as the camera) does the same.

Building a reliable causality model out of correlations can be extremely difficult, but that doesn't mean that anything short of a complete causality model is worthless. In this example, dispensing with the flash would still likely improve the ratings of most users' photos (other things equal, of course), even if they might squeeze a bit more out of the result by mastering the nuances of flash photography.
I have no background in technology or business

Not quite true. I bet avionics companies (and plenty of others) would be very interested to talk to you.

My dad used to be a pilot and now works in technology, though he made the switch a few years ago now.

As for the programming, after learning the very basics you really have to write something and learn as you go. Try writing a little Android app. I bet you could without even knowing Java.

It could be that working as a programmer isn't right for you (maybe a business role related to aerospace), but if you kept it up on the side and used it as your "secret weapon" ^ you could be a real success. Good luck.

^ See Zed Shaw's thoughts on http://sheddingbikes.com/LearnPythonTheHardWay.pdf
And that's exactly the way it should be.
unless you complete the list of dichotomies in two columns and then design two new languages, each satisfying one set of requirements. If you succeed in that task during your short time on earth then you'd probably be as qualified as any programming languages researcher.
Yes, but what about when the shareholders are also mostly Americans? Big corporations tend to operate in their stock's best interest, and this can still cause serious problems for their shareholders.
You're not going to win outright, but if he's going to sling anecdotes, here's some in favor of the Common Lisp side that might wear him down:

http://wiki.alu.org/RtL%20Highlight%20Film
I think the anti-google anger arrises because many people didn't expect Google to compromise on something that Google, previously, gave the impression of being so important.
Why should there be any compromise with the telecos?
This was originally posted on an undergrad mailing list at Tech. It helped me understand the the P≠NP paper better, so I asked the author to make a page for it.
I would love it if something that simple worked.

CSS column support is fairly primitive: You can't do columns with different heights, or have images that span columns. Also, there's no native way of doing pagination, so which cripples columns in most cases (you'd have to scroll down to the end of one column, then scroll back up to the start of the other).
Why shouldn't there be?
Just to provide an anecdotal counterpoint... Ceci Ervin gave a presentation at Ignite Boulder about her experience with the treatment, and her subsequent improvements:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaTL_z2IakQ

It's hard to imagine that her progress could be purely psychosomatic, but the procedure is also obviously not a cure-all. We understand so very little about the human body.
A fifteen year career as pilot is hardly "square one." At the very least it would make you the best candidate if you ever try to land a job or make a business around this niche.

The great programs are made by the people who used to need them.
I don't see why they can't go to all today. They probably ship products to more countries.
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Look: that's an attempt to change discussion. People are not angry at Google because they made a negotiation, and are fully aware of what compromising entails. So in this area Google gets as much flak as anyone else.

But on top of that there's the fact that Google has always described himself as being more ethical than your average company. Hence when they break that trust people get more angry than your average company.

Apple or Microsoft don't claim to be doing things out of the goodness of their heart: they are companies and they want to make money. Google pretended they were playing a different game and now that it looks like they aren't, people feel betrayed.
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This would be a non-issue if he owned a badass diesel truck.
Actually, pure functional style is older than computers.

The real breakthrough is being able to compile pure programs to fast native code of commodity hardware.
>> What is the absolutely most simple thing that most folks would need to do their jobs.

I'd say pencil and paper, but who thinks that's a good idea these days? As far as forms go, the Microsoft stack is pretty much laser-focused on data entry/display apps, which I guess is what you're focusing on.

So technically, you can use IIS and deploy custom built desktop clients today if you wanted to. Of course, there are pros and cons and I'm sure you already know what the arguments are.

(btw, since you asked, I'm a web developer)
Which is why you need government regulations: it would be about time people wake up from their faith for the free market. Even Adam Smith talked of regulation in his work!
Lots of countries have regulations about competitions -- they generally come down to "unregulated lotteries are bad" but exactly what paperwork you need to prove that what you're doing is a legitimate competition and not just a lottery varies.
This is much ado about nothing. What's more evil: using compromise and negotiation as a means to move the situation incrementally in your desired direction, or sacrificing practical success just to maintain an unyielding commitment to ideology?
I've experienced some hilarious misses when receiving a non-english voicemail and having Google try to make sense of it. It's not so good with fast talkers either.
Yes! Glad someone echoed my sentiment.

A parallel from my own world. I bought a new truck - only if I buy something that I truly invest in will I care enough about it to care FOR it for the 20 years I expect it to last. I do all the maintenance myself more out of a love-hate relationship with that type of work. But damn it is nice to drop in a new set of speakers or a beefier tow hitch when I get a wild hair up my ass.
Async TLS
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Just to pick one aspect:

> One object oriented, one functional.

There's more to it. Imperative (but not oop) like C, logical (like Prolog), or whatever Fourth [1] does.

[1] Fourth is imperative, in a way, but it can make heavy use of meta-programming.
clickable link http://www.geteval.com/users/register/hackernews
Because their goal is to disadvantage internet properties they don't own or tax and turn the internet into something more like cable TV?
Advertising? No, it was just a bad idea.

The full-price Nexus One was hundreds of dollars more than a subsidized phone from your carrier. And since you usually pay the same per month whether you take their subsidy or not, it was not a smart financial decision to buy a Nexus One for the overwhelming majority of customers.
ah, so this is what you meant when you posted about it in the "what are you hacking on" thread :) ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570761 )

nice product! Does the content producer have to determine in advance what counts as important content, i.e. what content stays on screen when space is limited?
Looking forward to trying it. in one of our upcoming release at CG then. :)
I love the fiverr.com idea...but $5 for video graphics/ editing? Yikes. Yet another reason to exit the industry.
How has Wal-Mart despoiled American companies? Shipping billions of dollars to China certainly wasn't a free gift.
Your thesis is contradicted by a massive amount of real world data.
Excellent point; once you're good at "ruining" or getting rid of stuff, the stuff you have doesn't bother you. The more you get rid of, the easier it gets, because you realize you don't regret any of it. Once you've got over the horror of throwing away valuable things yourself, you can exploit it in other people. "Hey, do you want...? If you don't, I'm just going to throw it away." Your stuff ends up in their closet instead of yours. You can also donate stuff to friends who enjoy having garage sales or selling at flea markets.

Bottom line, as with alcohol, there's no need to avoid it unless you know you can't handle it.
Long-term best interest and short-term best interest aren't always the same. If they go back on "don't be evil" they're going to lose a lot of the good will they've built up and that will hurt them a lot in the long term.
No, I believe it has almost nothing to do with foreign investment. (Incidentally, foreigners have awesome faith in the US government, as evidenced by the fact that interest rates are as low as they have ever been, and -- frighteningly -- perhaps as low as they can be.)

No, the government buying its own debt is a very famous accounting trick designed to create more money in the economy. This act is the basis of the fractional reserve system, which in turn is the basis of all modern money.

The Federal Reserve bank buys bonds from bondholders (either newly issued bonds from the government or bonds from my safe deposit box). And in return it puts money in a bank account. Where does the money come from? It is just numbers in a database. The Fed just edits the database. Only the central government, which controls the currency, has the power to create money out of thin air in this way, but that power is very important.

(In other times, when the economy is really hot and inflation is soaring and we need to cool down, the Fed does the opposite: It raises interest rates, which causes people to want to buy bonds to get more interest, which causes people to spend their cash for those bonds. And, as each bond is bought, the Fed just erases the cash from bank accounts. The money vanishes! Remember, money is just a score in a game, the game of "keeping the economy working so that people can eat". It's not made of metal or anything. That was the old way, the way that didn't work.)

You can't get the same effect by selling bonds to England, because then England will pay for the bonds in dollars, and England can't create dollars. They have to buy dollars with pounds. So the total supply of dollars in the world would remain constant, which is not the point of this exercise.

(Now if I really understood econ we could go on to talk about why this little exercise might not work this time, about the "liquidity trap" and the "zero lower bound". But my time is up.)
I think the HN UI is already simple enough as it is :)

My point is that clients who pay money often want complex UI elements.
Ask HN: I'm an 18 year old programmer; How do I get a job?
When I was 14, I started working at my Dad's workplace (he a mechanical engineer) doing embedded electronics design & programming. I did that until early 2009. I had to quit that job since Dad retired and we moved away, but since then I've been doing freelance web dev & programming (Python). Unfortunately, because of my lack of connections, I can't really find enough work.

I realize that I'm no where near as good a programmer as most of you guys, but I think I'm a reasonably good Python dev w/ a lot more experience than someone fresh out of school. So, how do I get a job? How can I convince HR to look past my lack of college and to my actual programming skills? Right now it seems that any job I apply to doesn't even reply to my email. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The problem for me with wearing a hair shirt all the time is not that it itches, but that it's boring. Asceticism advocacy is a nice applause light, but not very good as practical advice.
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You forgot to mention that for most people it cost $529 to buy versus $149 for a competing smartphone.
can't believe there's no metric for people that have (as a bare minimum) played with contrasts in Photoshop...
Big fucking whoop. I think even IE progresses faster than FF these days.
> I was referring just to the street address part

So was I. Every system my software communicates with has an "Address1" and "Address2" field. Ok, some only have an "Address" field. They don't except newlines and most of the time those fields are limited to 50, 100, or 256 characters.
Can you tell us more about your plans? I've always wanted to buy a site for a passive income source but I'm always worried I'll get scammed.

Btw if you have a business that makes money from adsense can you deduct buying a new site as a business expense?
So your problem with Google is that hey have tried something and failed but you are ok with companies that haven't even attempted anything?
> Deflation also pushes people with large home mortgages closer to the brink
...
> thas the potential of making the housing crisis much worse for everyone.

The housing "crisis" happened because people were getting large home mortgages. There shouldn't be people with large home mortgages. I interpret "large" here as bigger than they can chew. If they can't afford their home, they can't afford their home -- time to scale down to a small condo or start renting. Why are we proping up people with large home mortgages and rewarding their stupid buying decisions?
I don't think this is true, but it does sound that way from the way they explained it. Your app may be targetting a certain demographic, but you can start marketing heavily in a certain niche. Facebook and Harvard students was the example he used. But a lot of the location based services start in one city and then expand. Groupon and Foursquare are examples of this.
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Not to mention, if you have those fields you'll pay less for the credit card transactions. I just recently added a bunch more address fields to a CC form to reduce the fees on transactions.
It's easy to dismiss any good deed as "Everybody acts in their own interest"

"Organizing the world's information for _everybody_ to access" seems as benevolent as it can get. Taking care of your employees by providing facilities only confirms the point of view.

PS: I am not commenting about, how Google is now. I liked what someone else said it yesterday, "Creating a new successful social network is like starting a new night club"
Has anyone received an invite to the service yet? How do you like it?
what a well written and thought provoking article; i love articles on technical topics that feel like art.
Because they are gov't subsidized monopolies that own all the pipes and spectrum.
http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/
Yes, reimplementing the protocol logic for TLS and "just using OpenSSL for the crypto" is insane. Most of the last 5 year's worth of SSL flaws, with (I think) the sole exception of the RSA signature verification hole, were protocol logic screwups. See the recent session resumption debacle for an illustration of a flaw that has virtually nothing to do with crypto.

Put differently: game-over flaws are routinely found in reimplementations of SSL/TLS, none of which built their own crypto primitives.

It's kind of unclear from this post what's being considered. Implementing the SSL record protocol is trivial, not dangerous, but also (so far as I can see) not at all useful to the problem at hand. I don't think you're considering a "parser"; you're thinking of implementing the protocol.

You'll fail at that.
Some minor points that I hope are helpful:

- Blog on your work, what you do, problems solved, lessons learned.

- Build a online resume or portfolio. Languages uses, screenshots, code samples

- Get a LinkedIn profile, and get people that you've worked for (or with) to write up a Recommendation.

When job hunting, ignore HR. Research the hell out of the company and find out who the manager/director is who'd have the main say in hiring you or not. Reach out to them directly and introduce yourself. Provide direct links to blog/online resume/portfolio and why you'd be a great fit.

In addition, if you are in a position to do so, offer to intern for free at a known company/design-shop/etc for a few months for experience. Insist on real work and not just making coffee.

Best of luck.
Felix Salmon's thoughts on the difficulties with SoBi's business model:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/08/11/why-small-s...

An interesting take since Felix is very pro-bike.
Do you have any beta sign ups? If there is a recurring theme that might make it easy to select a niche. Another thing you can do is select a niche, any niche, that you are already active in, like gaming or cooking or something like that.

Hacker bloggers is not a bad place to start if you are already active on HN and other places. The only thing I would caution is that hackers tend to be much more critical than the average person. Like some are willing to be early adopters but others expect everything to be perfect. Expect to hear a lot of "You should fix this bug/implement that feature - it should be EASY!" I think that tech-savvy but non-hacker people might be more open to "Is this useful?" discussions.

As a side note I find your logo to be really unclear. Honestly I think you should change it if you want it to really catch on, but if you're not willing to do that, then you might put "jellli.com" text underneath it.
The forums at digitalpoint are also known to have some decent volume - Not necessarily high-end sites but sufficient for some small-scale website flipping. If you know what you are looking for, contacting website owners directly is a method I recommend as an alternative to online marketplaces.

Browsing through flippa and the likes is like searching for a needle in a haystack for me and only once in a while a few golden needles emerge.
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1594925
I made a website whose sole purpose is to show you similar and alternative sites. This should act as a nice starting off point.

http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/flippa.com/

Top results are: WebsiteBroker, SitePoint MarketPlace, AfterNIC, and DealASite.
I don't see why this is a big deal. Philadelphia has some recently added cycling lanes that I use all the time. If a car is parked you just look and cautiously veer around it. Sometimes you have to wait for a few seconds if there's heavy traffic and the space is narrow. But usually there's even enough room to get around a car without actually going back into the normal lane, since our bike lanes are converted from fully sized car lanes, which are bigger than cars.

And of course people park in them short-term with their hazards on. I'm not sure whether it's illegal or not (in Philly people park with impunity long-term in the turn lanes sometimes). But if it is it shouldn't be, there's no better alternative. Park in the non-bike lane, and make other cars go around them into the bike lane? No idling at all?
I tried inviting someone to a circle and the links were invalid that it sent. said "Error:Invalid url"

http://www.lunacom.ba/www/projekti/eval/183
"After a month of clearing your head, you'll probably realize that the jobs you thought were interesting earlier really aren't right for you."

This had definitely crossed my mind.

The best thing to do might be to make some contact with a few places before I leave, saying I will be looking for work in December/January after a short career break, and have a pretty LaTeX CV ready for when I get back.
I'm more on the buying side for the moment. The thing is our consultancy (we're 2) is quite beneficial this year and I expect (but might be wrong) we will earn less next year.

So I'm looking for sites I could maintain, promote and develop.

I understand your worries about getting scammed: I think it's a whole new job, with very specific points to check etc :)

I just asked my accountant to see if the buy could be deducted (at least here in France). I assume it will be doable.