skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and no.

I had a startup in this industry, and I still work in it. Here's your biggest problem. It isn't PayPal or Google or any online service.

It's the credit card companies and the banks that control this. The best part is, your entire business will be based on the premise that the bank lets you process. They can drop you for whatever reason. It's not hard. Trust me, they'll manufacture whatever evidence they need to. Sure, you could take them to court, but meanwhile, you are without processing.

No. You cannot disrupt an industry when you rely on that industry to help you disrupt it.

Of course, you could bypass the credit card companies all together. A lot of companies do this with prepaid cards. Not only does it allow those without a credit card purchase their service. You could create a generic pricing card. But then you have to convince merchants to use your system, a system that has no users. And users need to buy your cards with no merchants on board. It's a chicken and egg problem.

Honestly, I think social networks will play a part in this in some manner. Flattr, while using credit cards, shows a unique angle on micro-payments, and is probably the first really innovative payment scheme I've seen since... well, ever since credit cards. Being positioned in Europe probably helps matters.
Many places in LA will let software developers choose their own hours.

It is amazing how much easier the commute is for a 11:30-7:30 day than a 9-5 one. So much so that I don't want to even consider jobs where I don't have that flexibility.
Cornell's got a good showing in the valley. Nice! Congrats Euwyn! Now impress me with your reality distortion on the Disrupt stage.
Heh, its a matter of implementing a declarative model of each of the different regex engines you'd like to select. If would be fantastic if it existed, wanna try?
US busts Google, Apple, Intel over secret employee poaching pact
- Wire transfer the money out.

- ACH transfer the money out.

- Create checks using the account info, send it to a sucker on Craigslist who then deposits it and sends most of it back to you through Western Union, Money Gram, etc.

- Open credit cards or loans in your name. Not long ago they were getting peer-to-peer loans on Prosper.com but it's not as popular anymore.

- Buy stuff with your credit card or a "virtual check"(account # and routing #) and then sell it.

- Sell the information and let someone else worry about it.

If they get enough information about you, they can use that combined with some social engineering & fraud to accomplish nearly anything. They can even get replacement documents such as your birth certificate or license, depending how good they are.
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Don't forget the times when it just puts up some mysterious error that requires you to re-enter the store and try again.

The whole thing has become the poster child for feature-creep. Have you ever tried just browsing the App Store? It's nearly impossible to see anything other than the few condensed lists it gives you -- there's no true browsing that I've ever been able to find.
Right now, I've got:

The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, volumes 1 and 3 (1981)
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (by Christopher M. Bishop) (2006)
Artificial Intelligence - Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving (George F. Luger and William A. Stubblefield) (1998)
Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach (Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig) (1995)

I'm about 1/4 of the way through the last one, and would love to find more in its vein; it's very readable, and has less of a focus on the math than on the logic behind the math. I'm a bit behind most AI-level math, so I'd prefer to minimize it where possible.
It's all about where you choose to live relative to where you work - my new apartment and my old one are across town from each other, but neither commute took more than 15 minutes at peak rush hour. The same can be said of NY, it's all about positioning to minimize the commute.

Also, working from home is pretty big - we allow about 20% of days to be WFH - and that's zero commute.
I had to leave LA last year because I couldn't find work, and now I'm in the Bay Area. Maybe all the perl hackers moved away? I wasn't seeing many Linux jobs in general.
This is one of the rare TC headlines that isn't linkbait.

He raised a ton of money, with basically every great angel in on the deal. Any deal of that size with both Ron Conway and Paul Buchheit involved counts as "serious angel attention."
http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285063820.html
You assume every experience professional knows everything. :) There's no shame in taking an introductory course, even if you're a super genius in some other area.

One thing that surprised us about our first CodeLesson course is that it was populated by a few startup CEOs, some of whom had coded in college, others who were learning to code for the first time.
Google needs Bing to be moderately successful to avoid an anti-trust lawsuit.

Bing is a win for Microsoft either way. If it gets about 30% market share, then Bing makes Microsoft money and forces Google to invest more in search. If even the largest software company after investing billions can't stop Google's growth in search, then Microsoft and others will claim that that Google is a monopoly. So it should be subject to anti-trust laws.

In the old days, when General Motors completely dominated the car industry, they made sure to keep their market share under 25%. They believed, probably correctly, that a higher share would bring anti-trust sanctions.
Yeah, I'm not sure how long I could keep a secret like that to myself. Easter Eggs are no fun when you're the only one laughing. :)
Hi necrecious,

Recurly only charges for successful purchases and refunds - we don't charge you for bad credit card data. I hope this helps :)

Rachel - Recurly Support
What happens if you need to retransmit a packet?
I think one of the best things my dad ever did for me was read to my brother and me as children. And I'm not talking about stupid kid books. These were classics. Books that you might be assigned to read for a literature class.

Hell, he read The Road Ahead to us at one point. Don't ask me why.

But as a result of him reading to me, I took an interest in reading for myself, and learning in general. I think I can say, without trying to be immodest, that it improved my life enormously and allowed me to get through school with ease. I have never had trouble writing either, though this was probably because my dad was an English major. Up until high school, he would personally proofread and comment on anything we had to write.

Even today, my first draft is always my final draft.

So read to your kids dads. It will prove to be an invaluable experience.
Here is the source to the python meat of this project: http://pastie.org/1180230

The general idea is that it is a command line tool that reads a regex as input (along with a number of examples to generate). It parses the regex into an abstract syntax tree, then hands it over to an interpreter to "execute" the expression/program several times.

The 'simpleparse' python library does a nice job of easing the regex-to-tree mapping.
Hi Dan,

We're sorry to hear you had a bad experience with Recurly - in that same post we had replied to you (which you can see at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679599). If there's anything we can do to change your opinion of Recurly, I'd love to hear it!

Rachel - Recurly Support
Update on ASP.NET Vulnerability
Obviously, a good payment service like this is not a simple problem, but the market is there. PayPal gets a lot of really well deserved hatred, and I can tell you from experience that they treat their merchants just as much like garbage as they treat consumers. How they manage to remain in business with everybody hating them boggles my mind, but it also screams opportunity.
Maven is the solution.

Anyone with more than a handful of developers should really be running their own maven repository mirror to shield deployments from external outages. http://nexus.sonatype.org/ is stable and simple to get running.

The fact that the libraries get downloaded to ~/.m2 should be irrelevant in production, because your deployments should happen against a deployment-specific role user, and downloads should be super-fast, because they're all from within your colo.

(all this being said, I haven't touched java and don't miss it at all since switching to Ruby on Rails to write AdGrok, and that's coming from more than 10 years soaking in java).
Train Kills Elephants Trying to Protect Babies
You're query is irrelevant.
Well, this article made me laugh and it's the weekend ! Just relax, I guess many of us are enjoying this kind of articles from time to time.

I do agree with you that sometime, too many links like that are not what we are supposed to share, but hey, this one was good !
An avenue that I'm currently taking for a game we're going to release under GPL is to use pre-existing GPL'd graphics. Battle for Wesnoth for instance has an amazing selection of sprites available.
COBOL is used quite heavily for all kinds of online apps using messaging (MQSeries and others), any big database you care to name, TCP/IP, and interfacing nicely with Java (among other languages). The apps are only as poor as the programmers who write them--COBOL is not inherently limiting, and is in no way stuck in a batch record niche.
You're cute. It's also commonly shortened to "Mac OS" and "MacOS".

Extant examples of "OSX" (sometimes mixed with OS X)

http://osx.hyperjeff.net/
http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/
http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:OSX
http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/
http://mac.rhino3d.com/
http://web.mac.com/npirzkal/Scisoft/Scisoft.html
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/mackey.html
http://rubyosx.rubyforge.org/
http://help.github.com/mac-git-installation/
http://maketecheasier.com/turn-your-ubuntu-hardy-to-mac-osx-leopard/2008/07/23
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX
http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html

Would you like more?

Hmm...I wonder if there's any examples like this from Apple?

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/osximageresizer.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/blogs_forums/osxtutorials.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/mdemailhostingosx.html
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/wifi-touchpad-for-windows/id291212802?mt=8

(actually Google reports over a million and a half pages with instances of "OSX" used on pages hosted from *.apple.com)

Please know what you are talking about before you bring proscriptive snark to HN in the future please.
You will have to offer evidence that a patentless system works better than the current one. The US seems to be producing a large amount of software innovations while China (which doesn't have software patents) produces more cheap copycats than true innovations.
How do you really "Meet people at networking events"?
Hi HN!

For the last few years, I've been venturing into the consulting business, I mainly do UX focused web development and have built some mobile apps for my clients. It started as part-time freelance work and has slowly built up where I have a business partner and a few good people working with me on a part-time basis. I really want this to grow so I can stop moonlighting and treat this as a full-time gig (hard to do with the high cost of living in the bay area).

I've been trying to "network" and "meet people" but even at the last event (Vmworld), but everybody seemed chummy chummy with each other, the bloggers had their circle, the sales folks had their own circle and as an introverted "tech" guy, I couldn't create an opportunity for myself to jump into a conversation. I ended up talking to a few people but it all ended in small talk.

So HNers, I look to you guys for some advice. How do you approach people to initiate the conversations? I know having a hook helps, any other tactics worth noting?
You should avoid everything that requires an expert "explaining" things in an "easy to understand way".

Avoid religion and stocks markets. No one understands either. Both require a great deal of faith. And only a few people (ministers and stock brokers) proclaim to speak expertly on them... the rest of us just have to give them our cash and believe.
I don't trust the psd2html services to give me high-quality, semantic, robust markup and CSS.

Umm...why not? You just said you'd never hand your stuff over to them, so what basis do you have for not trusting them?

I've personally had great results with several of them, much better than I've had with many designers.
I guess, the more time they spend on Facebook, the less time they spend googling?
One thing I also forgot was the way software on Macs handles choice buttons. On a Windows box it's usually, "OK" and "Cancel" or some such preceded by a question. "Do you want to do actions XYZ?" This can sometimes be confusing.

In OSX land, there is a nice tendency to put a verb on the buttons like "Yes, Do XYZ" or "Not right now" or something descriptive and unambiguous and creates a nice cognitive binding between buttons and actions. It's a simple thing but is noticeable and I wish it would start to bleed over in Windowsland more.
It's 127 words saying someone, somewhere, is popular. No explanation for what Opzi does, just a plug for the TC event next week. I'm all for YC loving and Euwyn is definitely impressive but really? Let's raise the bar just a skosh.
That strikes me as a difficult theory to credit, based on my interactions with Conway, to say nothing of his reputation. He's the straightest of the straight shooters.
> There's a lot of evidence that the costs of software patents to society are higher than their benefits

Where is that evidence? The US seems to be innovating quite a bit in the software area compared to other countries.
Twitter Removes “via {client}” Attribution in #newTwitter. Buh-Bye Developers
I was going to say something precisely to this effect, but you already hit the nail on the head. Given enough time, the odds of something like that happen will approach 1; and, suspecting how people that create frauds work, this won't take long to happen, either.

Looks like it's going to become more important than ever to not only check for the " https:// " but also click on it to be sure it's from the source you trust. --- until Verisign is replaced with the unicode look-alike to itself.
Terrible customer support and a buggy sandbox.
Zynga Bets on HTML5 With Dextrose Acquisition
Nice try, no cigar. Please provide specific examples where Apple has spelled it OSX -- not some random shmoes who have also gotten it wrong.
I'm going to plug Anil Dash and Gina Trapani's open source PHP project ThinkUp (http://thinkupapp.com/). It started off as a pet project by Gina Trapani, but now it's used by the White House to try to engage the American public more.

ThinkUp can archive your tweets to your server for any reason you want to. Not only does it archive tweets, but it also allows you to view some nice analytics such as a map of where replies to a tweet came from, a chart of your followers over time, who your most active friends, etc.

But wait, there's more! If you check it out right now, we'll throw Facebook integration, for absolutely free! That's right. For absolutely nothing, you can archive your Facebook statuses, and preserve all those precious memories.

You can get all this for $0.00. That's right, $0.00. Just go to http://github.com/ginatrapani/thinkup/ and download the code today. You can create plugins for it, modify it, and do anything to it the GPL allows you to do.
Opzi
Charge for mapreduce jobs that can run over the whole corpus.
Techcrunch Disrupt hackathon this weekend
First, smaller is easier for meeting people and actually have worthwhile conversations (jumping into a large group of well-known people at a conference afterparty isn't going to create any new friends, normally).

Find any local meetups first and go there. I went to my first networking conference, SXSW a few years ago, and met one person, who intro-ed me to three others. Contact continued when we were all on the same flight home, and I offered to drive them from the airport. These three then intro-ed me to new people, who then intro-ed me to more... this is the best way, imho, to create honest connections that don't disappear once you leave a party.

Also, Twitter is a pretty easy way to continue connections after you've met someone briefly.

As for approaching people to initiate conversations, just do it. Jump in, say hi, start listening, and speak up when you have the chance. But if you want to actually add someone to your "network", find a way to follow up after so they remember who you are.
I doubt it considering that it is now owned by IBM and that it is still ridiculously faster than the competition.
At this point in Perl's history, there is no such thing as a mid-level Perl developer.

I'm actually a Los Angeles Perl developer and I keep telling my HR department to either look for college kids with basically no professional programming experience at all, or senior candidates that they're willing to pay at least $90,000. Looking for "some Perl programmer guy" with some experience that you're looking to pay $70,000 is pointless, because they don't exist.

Perl's lack of a "sexy web startup framework" (e.g. Rails) essentially wiped out a whole "generation" of developers. I'll be the first to admit it's a lot harder to bang out your brilliant "It's like Facebook... but for cats!" startup idea in Perl and its respective frameworks. If you want a decent foundation, you'll use something like Rails or Django. If you just want to bang it out, you'll just inline some crappy PHP code in your HTML. Eventually your company will grow, you'll have different kinds of problems to worry about, like, "this third-party partner doesn't have an API so I need to write a spider that logs into their UI and scrapes the data we need" or "I need to parse this DB log to figure out the frequency of SELECT queries," but since 97% of startups[1] don't ever get to that point, Perl didn't get a lot of love in 2005-2007. After all, we're on Hacker News, not Mid-Sized Company News.

So if you were a Perl hacker in 2004, 2005, you either loved the flexibility and "whipitupitude" Perl gave you for your back-end operations, and now it's 5 years later and you're a senior engineer looking for a commensurate salary. Or you decided to crank out CatBook in RoR until Zuckerberg sued you into oblivion and then you just got another Ruby job afterwards.

For what it's worth, I would encourage the HR departments that Randall mentions to look at new college grads. More than any other language, I feel it's one of the easiest languages to learn regardless of your previous experience, mainly because of TMTOWTDI[2] you can write it in whatever syntax format you're already experienced in. I see a lot of college kids who came from Java and at first their code is full of HammerFactorySchematicFactorySchematicFactories, and while it's pretty silly, it'll work until they learn better, and in three months they're essentially as productive as the theoretical mid-level Perl programmer anyway.

[1] This statistic is POOMA[3].

[2] There's More Than One Way To Do It

[3] Pulled Out Of My Ass
My co-founder owns a majority of the company
but he's traveling so he's a bit unavailable.

Well, he/she better get on the next plane back and help sort this out. Seriously. If things are this bad they need to do their part.

They need to be making phone calls regardless of where they are.

No offense, but it sounds like if the company was on a downward spiral it was a bad time to take a vacation.
Yes please!

(actually I'm surprised in their pseudo desktop mode while docked they didn't try and use the display as a touchpad like interface.
Almost always, the simple answer is No, and i've been there.

95% of good design for any initial project must come from the full time team who cares enough to solve the problem. designers outsourced and who swoop in and redesign everything in wireframes (UX) or PSD's for full design just won't deliver because they can't. they don't own the problem. they can fix the obvious, they can make colors and layout harmonious, but that's not what real design's about.
Here's what Breadcrumb is described as:

Breadcrumb enables you to create a variety of mobile learning applications
and allows you to make your application work with only three additions to plain text.

Infinitely scalable, easy to create, and readable on Internet-enabled smart-phones
or computers, Breadcrumb gives you maximum output for the development time.

Edit: Formatting
Early in the year I was job hunting. I live half-way between SF and LA (no jobs near home), so I was looking for jobs in both places and have worked in both. First there were way fewer jobs in LA than in The Bay Area, maybe a factor five. The jobs in LA in general were far less interesting, a lot using the MS stack. The pay was considerably lower by 10 to 30%, often in the 50K range which doesnt come close to paying the mortgage, let alone food and gas.
Why was this downvoted? It's perfectly obvious Ellison wants to be an Apple of enterprise computing. You don't guy and buy megabytes and gigabytes from apple, you buy something that just works.

Ellison wants that too. You pay $bucks, plug in a power cord and an ethernet cord and your erp/accounting/db setup is done. If I were a decent sized company I'd pay beaucoup bucks for that.

Personally, I commend him. IT is a cost centre for most companies.
Perhaps the government can bail you out. Just call your friends inside the Treasury Department, etc. Cake. ;)
Not sure Strom's a good example. He was over 100 years old when he died. I saw him in person a couple of times from the Senate gallery and I don't think he was actually there for his last term or so.
(Warning: somewhat spam)

I'm trying to make a website to solve this: http://somebodybuildthis.com
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I did something similar for my capstone, and my recommendation is that you start a project. I also started by reading lots of papers from the ACM DL, reading books from my school library, etc. If I could do it over again, I'd start programming earlier.

It sounds like you're trying to learn about AI before you work on applying anytime classifiers in an application. My suggestion is that you interleave the studying with working, so that you can do directed study rather than breadth-first traversal through a huge subfield in CS.

Start with a very modest goal for classification and work on building a neural network for that. Guess about which particular algorithm and feature vector structure to use. Work to improve your results for a while, then go back to reading in order to pick up a new technique to plug in. Consider setting a more challenging goal. Iterate on that.
so true... i literally woke up with and thought of different approaches immediately. thanks for feedback.
Um. Hand on a sec... on the bottom of the same page you link to:

Twitter still maintains a database of all
the tweets sent by a user. However, to
ensure performance of the site, this
artificial limit is temporarily in place

So maybe you can't do it now - but its not lost (yet).
I have thousands of emails between close friends in Gmail that I would like to preserve, but no convenient system exists for archiving them away from Google.

How about IMAP?
since I use gmail I really don't care and don't hide or obfuscate my email. I often type it 'at' but it's just a habit.
Entirely anecdotal as well, but how many of us got into computer science/engineering/programming because we played lots of computer games?
Hah, this is fantastic. I love how Microsoft routinely make fun of themselves.

You can see this same mugshot picture in this commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11NOblvuEpU

And has anyone visited the MSDN portal recently?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
> ...a study... low carb vs balanced...

Might this be it? (link is a debunking): http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/09/08/brand-spankin-new-study-are...