skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One other issue to consider is that just because your hosting provider's infrastructure is HIPPA compliant doesn't mean your application is. There are still a ton of privacy issues within the application, plain text HTTP, user authentication, etc.
Open Home Pro is looking for an iOS engineer
If you love working on the iOS and want to change the Open House/Real Estate game apply support@openhomepro.com
Clickable: http://ilubut.com
The Lexus driving simulator dome [video]
I just joined Chargify Oct. 7th after the AppSumo bundle offered a $200 credit. 4 days later, they've raised their prices. I'm going to scrap the work I've done and go out of my way to use other services. The money isn't an issue. $99/month is fine, but I wouldn't pay it to get started.
You're very wrong about XKCD. There's a whole slew of un-funny techy strips, "User Friendly" being the canonical example. XKCD by comparison is often hilarious. The fact that it requires inside knowledge and targets a specific audience does not automatically make it unfunny, nor does it make anyone who enjoys it "revel in their superiority".
It looks great. I am really hoping this goes well for you so you can add more of Amazon's competitors.
webpy, mako templates, sqlalchemy, nginx
Stupid question: Didn't you see this response coming?
> I wouldn't be able to get through an entire press conference without saying "Blow me."

This is why I'm not invited to sit in on meetings with clients.
Not for us outside the US...
Does not appear to be relevant to the OP.
strangely fitting for an artist who normally operates in the grey areas of legality
I'd rather have a "successful delivery response". It's enough to know that the email was delivered to a device you are responsible for. Tracking who's opening it and when seems a little creepy, also you'll have false positives if the email is blind forwarded.

Having worked with attorney's. "I didn't get the email" is common. I'd like just to have a list of the response codes from their server to prove that they accepted delivery.
Honestly, I haven't looked closely at the raw A.net API. I heard about Chargify, pricing looked good, and it fit my model. Basically, I wanted someone else to deal with dunning, expired cards, running the periodic charges, etc, etc.

I write about it more here: http://peachshake.com/2010/06/15/saas-subscription-billing-o...

Up to now, I've been nothing but pleased with Chargify. This change makes me question their sanity a bit, though.
I do iPhone dev, contact me madhancr at hotmail
I can't say that I've ever needed another website to explain this. If there's something I don't get, a quick visit to Google or Wikipedia usually fills in the rest and people in the comic thread even supply links to the relevant parts rather quickly.

I have to say, though, that I'm surprised by how many people know Banach-Tarski, but who never heard the story about King Solomon threatening to cut the baby in two in order to discern who cared about its life the most (in other words, to find the real mother).
What a career in marketing analytics looks like
Do think it is fun? Then do it. If not? Don't do it.
I don't know why they don't just charge a set monthly amount for each user (up to a threshold). Say $1. So if you have 20 users you pay $20/month. That would allow them to keep their existing customers, cover their costs and provide a path for people to work up to $99/month.

Also, they shouldn't have doubled their fees for existing paying customers.
Here is the PDF with the authorize.net recurring billing integration information:

http://developer.authorize.net/api/arb/
Custom v Standalone BPM - Why Force the Choice?
Upvoting this just so that it gets to the front page, so I'm not sitting in front of an idle "Waiting..." screen.
Let's not mention the bankster bailouts, clearly they did not happen according to the propaganda rag that is the NYT.
Django (with Jinja2 instead of built-in templates) and django_extensions

Werkzeug

Jinja2

PostgreSQL

Redis

fabric

celery

vim

git
For what I use python for on the web at this moment, I basically use Pylons and implement a RESTful API. I can then use jQuery on the front end.
> absent corresponding wage inflation - which lags, but I'll omit it to keep things simple

It doesn't just keep things simple, it changes things. You can't leave out wage inflation. Of course inflation is bad if your wages don't keep up, but what if they do? That's the actual question. Inflation also lags, printing money doesn't instantly create inflation, it takes time for the market to adjust to the new circulation.
LogicMonitor (http://www.LogicMonitor.com) - SaaS based, covers everything (servers, databases, storage, routers, apps, etc)
yeah, people are conditioned to overpay for many things, such as government, and to expect other things to be free.

Tell them they'll be paying $20 a week for their roads and that their taxes will be going down $30 a week, they will scream about how terrible it is.
Absolutely agreed on most parts of second point - the mentioned companies are quite far from being start-ups for quite some time now. But not quite IPO-ready either, didn't FB delay it's own for at least couple of years?

I would even argue so far that when a start-up starts participating in those secondary markets it's not a start-up anymore. Your stock can be had by almost anyone (with at least $1000000 that is) without much due diligence etc.
I would also love to know how you do this. I like being a good irc citizen, and I'm always forgetting to set my status.

[edit: see here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781074]
having borrrowed probably more than one million USD from banks, and having read most of the paperwork, i call BS on anything which could even be jokingly described as "1 point gray-on-gray" text. everything i've encountered has been pleasantly type set, 10 to 12pt (maybe 6pt footnotes), very high contrast. it's all there. i've never been pressured to read things quickly, in fact i've usually had the documents in hand days or weeks before they had to be signed and returned. i've had bankers suggest i take longer reading, since i seemed to be signing too quickly for their tastes.

IME, there's a big difference between the folks that loan you money with lots of zeros at the end, and the folks that loan you money a credit card transaction at a time.
I might sound stupid, but how is it that a company can put restrictions on sales of it's stock after those slices of ownership are already allocated and granted to individuals?
PyTables, Django, Piston
> Update: they are responding quickly via Twitter

Saw this when skimming their tweets:

"@jamiequint We're making changes as we speak for existing merchants."

http://twitter.com/Chargify/status/27063975080
By assuming away wage inflation, you’re really stacking the deck in favor of your argument. You are also treating “ability to save or pay off debt” as a generic thing, rather than considering fixed-payment debts (e.g., fixed-rate mortgages), variable-rate debts (e.g., credit cards), fixed-rate investments (e.g. bonds), and stocks as separate things.

If, for example, I spend 30% of my income on a fixed-rate mortgage, and both wages and prices go up by 10% across the board, then I would end up spending only 27% of my inflated income on the mortgage, and the nominal value of my house would go up by 10%.
You'd be right. It does not appear to be relevant. Though, since the op is looking for someone to write an obj-c lib for detection cracked apps my link is relevant.
Is there a version of the video viewable from the other 95% of the world?
Cloudkick (YC W09) is looking for an Ops Intern (Paid)
I'm guessing these fees won't discourage Zuckerberg from selling the $100 million of stock he recently promised to give to the Newark public schools.
Reconsidering stock controls to create an optimized user experience
Its kind of crazy how big Banksy has gotten
stand-alone Django, GAE (and its built-in Django fragments). Database: MySQL. IDE: Emacs and Eclipse (for GAE work)
That said, I miss Plone and Zope. I really wish we could return our heavyweight Java-based CMS and get our money back...
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If you've only ever used Ubuntu and for only three years, then chances are you actually don't have a "pretty good idea" of how linux works. I don't mean that in any disrespectful way... but READ some books on unix.

You shouldn't need to ask - you should just go try it out and form your own opinions. Use any type of linux/unix you can get your hands on and learn and form your own opinions, and read.

If you've only ever used ubuntu, then using ANY other unix or other distribution is going to teach you something - just go for it.
Yes, I am aware of the difference but thanks for the clarification. My point was more to the fact that a specialized cloud provider could really fill a needed void here on both counts.
Smart uses for the iPad
Or VisualLisp?

Or would it be VisualLISP?

Oh... Taken. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&...
Have an idea? Three rules of thumb from a Startup Weekend advisor
You don't need to take a Mensa test to join Mensa. If you have already done very well on a past GRE, LSAT or other accepted test then you can also qualify. Perhaps your old IQ exam results are already sufficient to join. The Mensa site has details on accepted exams and necessary scores. I got in with my old GRE exam results.
One common way is to make a contract term stating that the company gets first refusal (at a minimal valuation) on all sales as a condition of exercising the option.

Employees with private company shares have very few actual rights; this is almost part of what defines "private companies".

It's not a stupid question. There are a lot of misconceptions about employee startup stock; it is, to an extent greater than commonly imagined, really just a glorified profit sharing plan.
I built a reasonably similar ranking system a few years ago, but also taking social media interaction (blog links, delicious bookmarks, etc) with the content items being ranked into account:
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/calculating_news_item_relevance/

You can see it in action on maemo.org:
http://maemo.org/news/

PHP sources:
http://trac.midgard-project.org/browser/branches/ragnaroek/m...
Django.

Disclaimer: We're about to launch Djangy.com, so my opinion is obviously biased.
Lean back in your chair.
Definitely improved, this is an addicting concept! Nice work.
I'd be more bought into Banksy's opposition to commerce if he wasn't regularly selling work for five and six figures, not to mention the five books he's published.

Fight the system yeah?
Sure, sorry about the delay.

http://gist.github.com/621130

I can't take credit for the solution I posted though.

I originally wrote a naive O(N^2) complexity solution (which was much shorter and was fine for the length of the input) I had this palindrome code in my 'toolbox' of code I've come across though, I'm afraid I don't know the orig author.

I just tweaked it as this is more in line with the type of example you're looking for.
No flames necessary.

I'm also a libertarian, so philosophically I agree with you.

I'm also a bit of an armchair economist, and here I was just noting what economic theory tells us.

To be sure, Milton Friedman would tell us that not only isn't inflation not fooling anyone, but it also represents a real transfer of funds into the hands of those who manage to first get their hands onto "new" dollars.
Bummer. I just integrated this into a client's app... Wouldn't have done so with this pricing.

Also, the price increase is possibly a sign of a problematical revenue model at Chargify. Probably not, but there's a chance that they really need to improve revenue and that gives me other doubts about whether to integrate with them.
This kind of stuff - not just Hulu, but occasionally even Youtube, and other random failures - prompted me to rent a cheap US-hosted VPS (36 USD/year) just so I could ssh -D into it.
Airbnb launches AirbnbTV
Check it out at tv.airbnb.com
I'm still wondering if this idea is good:
http://techneur.com/post/635311152/announcing-mindspread Call it 'Pay-It-Forward for Books'

It's essentially a webapp where you give someone a book with the promise that when they are done reading it, they will then give it someone else, and so on and so forth. You could then visualize your 'impact' upon the world by seeing how many books you've spread and where they've gone.

Any input?
Django on RHEL with nginx/apache, pip, virtualenv.
This looks too good to be true. Where's the catch?
There's a bit more to the subtext than that. The Axiom of Choice sounds quite innocuous: If you have a bunch of sets, you can construct a new set by picking one element out of each of them.

Turns out you can reason your way from that to "I can make any solid 3d object into any other solid 3d object just by cutting and rearranging the parts". (Banach-Tarski is often explained as the ability to turn one sphere into two, which is true, but the full implication is more along the lines of being able to rearrange a pea into the earth.) This is just one of many scary dragons that lurk in set theory.

Historically speaking, Banach-Tarski is why the Axiom of Choice is controversial. The other (I forget, nine?) axioms in ZFC, garner a tepid response--along the lines of, "Hooray, someone axiomatized set theory." But AC remained controversial for a long, long time. I cannot find the quote, but there was a mathematician who refused to accept the Axiom of Choice, and when asked about it, commented, "It is because I do not believe one and one make three." He was referencing Banach-Tarski.

That is the dilemma that has faced mathematicians historically: either reject something so innocuous as the Axiom of Choice or embrace something so nonsensical as the Banach-Tarski paradox. "Controversial" is putting it lightly; that's a hard decision. One still sees textbooks that flag all theorems depending on the axiom of choice, so you can reject them if you want to. I would say the field as a whole has come to embrace AC and accept Banach-Tarski; one of my professors one commented, "If we need the axiom of choice in this proof, we'll use it; why do mathematics with one arm tied behind your back?" I think this reflects the common attitude. But it wasn't an easy choice.

And that's the joke. If the guy didn't want one pumpkin to equal two, he should have gone the other way and rejected AC. It is not unfair to characterize Banach-Tarski as the sorry consequence of something mathematicians really wanted to do -- collateral damage, the lesser evil. One could regret it.
Until I started dating an American girl, I can't say I was ever in a situation where I needed to know how big America was. The US just isn't very significant to the average European.
Gatling Analytics: make any JavaScript tracker asynchronous
Gatling is a jQuery plugin that provides a framework for firing non-asynchronous tracking pixels in an asynchronous manner.
I have .screenrc_im

source ~/.screenrc
sessionname im
bind ^D eval 'at naim stuff "/away Detached!\012"' 'at irssi stuff "/away Detached!\012"' 'detach'
bind d eval 'at naim stuff "/away Detached!\012"' 'at irssi stuff "/away Detached!\012"' 'detach'
screen -t naim naim
screen -t irssi irssi

and a bash alias

alias im='if detached im; then screen -S im -pirssi -X eval "stuff /away\012"; screen -S im -pnaim -X eval "stuff /away\012"; screen -r im; else screen -x im; fi;'
Oh, I do like public domain.

I'm going to wrap it in a Perl module so the whole thing comes right down from CPAN, just like SQLite. This is exactly what I've been waiting for, for years.
It kills that after immediately showing this they go right back to the blaring trumpet, thus making the viewing even more awkward.
It's very simple: People are still willing to lend money to the US government at very low rates because the other areas for investment (i.e. the stock market) are viewed as too risky.

Additional government stimulus has little to do with it at this point, that will only come into play when inflation actually hits. When things change and people become more tolerant of risk and less tolerant of low returns, all the government deficits that have been accumulated will become a huge issue. When lenders to the US government start demanding 5%+ on their money, the interest payments on our debt will skyrocket.
Similar idea: http://www.bookmooch.com/

You're supposed to trade books, you use points to order books, get points by sending them, etc.
Ask HN: Worst client requests?
A friend just sent me this link for an EXACT copy of twitter.com for less than $500 USD. http://elance.com/j/twittercom-clone/21376503.

This week, I had an acquaintance ask me to build a web front end to a ruby gem he had someone else build and he complained when I told him it would take more than one day.

I'm curious what other worst client requests have been and what your responses are...
And the way to get rid of the free tier is to switch it off for new customers, not to scare the crap out of all your existing customers.

Damage like this is hard to repair, it violates the trust between service provider and customer, in a b2b setting that is most unwise. B2c you might get away with it.
FWIW, I think I recall the OpenBSD devs coming out pretty hard against considering a VPS to be "secure" in most senses of the word; they seem to have thought that there were theoretical ways for VPSs to on the same machine to break through their respective barriers.

I can't find any links about this though and it's been months since I've kept up on OpenBSD-misc, so I might be full of shit.

Personally, I would tend to choose a theoretically-insecure VPS over a vhost environment any day.
I'm reading this just at the right moment. I've been staring at a long mental list of skills I don't have. Normally this wouldn't be so gloomy, but when the things you don't know how to do seem like important solutions to problems that exist right now, it can be a bit discouraging.

The post reads a little flip but it feels like a genuine look into how Adams works. I'm going to try it out.

Reminds me of a little mental hack I picked up after watching Thank You for Smoking. Never say "I don't know," which sounds defeatist and permanent. Always say "I don't have that information," which sounds transient and correctable. It's a better position from the outside, sure, but most importantly it keeps you hungry to continue learning.
Here's the feedback I just submitted to Chargify:

While I entirely understand the need to charge and make money, I find the sudden and significant change in pricing jarring. Many people just went from 0 to $1200 per year.

I'm guessing the cost of supporting the formerly free (0-50 customers) tier is close to zero from a technical/infrastructure perspective, but relatively high from a support/feedback perpective.

People in the free tier will either grow or go out of business. For those that grow, your cost is the same - you'll have the same questions whether you charge them day 1 or day 100.

So the real issue is the cost of support for those who signup for the free tier and either flake out or go out of business.

In my opinion, the rate of customer growth you'll get from having a free tier is worth the extra support cost. With no barrier in place, people will try Chargify, see that it's a high quality product, and if they have a viable business, will use it. That was our experience.

With a barrier in place ($100/month from day 1), they'll do a lot of research and probably try the cheaper options before trying Chargify.

For our particular case, I'm quite happy with Chargify as a product, but quite unhappy about the way the pricing was handled. With the former pricing tier we had the luxury of growing in cost as we grew in revenue. With the new pricing structure we have an immediate unexpected cost.

Now we have to go and investigate the other recurring payment options, which bums me out entirely, since I was hoping we were well past that.

You should, at the very least, grandfather the old users into the old plan. In my opinion you should keep the free tier around, but find ways to reduce your support costs. For my business, we treat support questions as the leading indicator for where we need to make the product more intuitive. We invest in improving the product, thereby also reducing costs.

Of course that's just my opinion.
You are kidding right? The average Banksy piece can be sold for way more than the clean up costs (and have been sold in the past on the stipulation that the buyer "removes" it).

Moaning about a Banksy piece on the side of your building would be like moaning about someone coming up and sticking gold to it.
Framework: web2py
With web2py the underlying tools don't matter much.
For the sake of completion: MySql, Apache, Ubuntu, jQuery, ez-css.

But you can use whatever you want.
I wanted someone local so I used Craiglist and found a great programmer within 10min of my house.
> "But then you might as well just use Postrgresql and Postmodern."

Yeah, that's what I figured. I doubt for anything I'll work on soon that the lock will be an issue. Just curious. :)

I didn't realize the hold used to be backed by bknr. That's cool. Thanks for the heads up.
Going Deap : Algols in Python
Facts strongly disagree with you.

Research has shown time and time again that almost everything beats the old teacher lecturing the class full of pupils at their desks. The problem is that none of these are ever implemented because

1. Lobbies of unionized unfireable teachers refuse to be told how to do their jobs.

2. School boards on ever shortening budgets rely on cramming even more students in the same old class as de-facto cost control tactic.

3. There's actually very good money to be made in substandard educational supplies.

p.s. And you are wrong about exercise too. While it is truth that it is not possible to get any results without breaking a sweat, exercises themselves have changed over time. It is now possible to achieve your goals in less time with less risk to injure yourself by hiring an instructor than trying to blindly emulate what you were taught a couple decades ago in high school.
StuffBox launches instant feedback engine
> putting your monitor above the parallel plane of vision is probably a big deal. Parallel plane = straight ahead. Ergo(nomically): you should look upward to your monitor. This will encourage your posture

All the ergonomics guidelines I've seen recommend looking slightly downward at your monitor. See the main image here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomics

> Breathe deep for a deeper life.

What the hell does that mean?
"How I Got Funded" Panel Discussion by Startup Leadership Program
Do you think this idea will work? If so would it be useful?
He doesn't stoop down to such slogans.

I'd venture it's not commerce but commercialisation he's opposed to.
It doesn't follow from what's written that either of us, the parent and me, advocated for Italy's presence in the G8. So ..
I thought the this was an awesome opening (couch gag) I am surprised that it made it past Fox though.

I recommend seeing 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' to anyone who is even slightly interested in Banksy, street art, art in general, or documentaries.
I always defined success at the game as growing your city while all power sources were renewable and you had ample schools, colleges and trees.

It's a sandbox game, the cost function you try to optimize says more about you than it does about the game.