skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU#Mark_Zuckerberg

In November 2003, upon the referral of Victor Gao, the Winklevosses and Narendra approached Mark Zuckerberg about joining the HarvardConnection team.[9] On the evening of November 30th, they all met in the dining hall of Harvard's Kirkland House, where the Winklevosses and Narendra explained to an enthusiastic Zuckerberg the HarvardConnection website; a social network for Harvard students that was to expand to other schools around the country.[6] During the meeting, Zuckerberg allegedly entered into an oral contract with Narendra and the Winklevosses and become a partner in HarvardConnection.[1] Zuckerberg allegedly chose to be compensated in the form of sweat equity.[10][11]

Later that evening, Zuckerberg told Cameron Winklevoss in an email that he didn't expect completion of the project to be difficult. Zuckerberg writes: "I read over all the stuff you sent and it seems like it shouldn't take too long to implement, so we can talk about that after I get all the basic functionality up tomorrow night."[9] The next day, on December 1st, 2003, Zuckerberg sent another email to the HarvardConnection team. "I put together one of the two registration pages so I have everything working on my system now. I'll keep you posted as I patch stuff up and it starts to become completely functional."[6] On December 4th, 2003, Zuckerberg writes: "Sorry I was unreachable tonight. I just got about three of your missed calls. I was working on a problem set."[6] On December 10, 2003: "The week has been pretty busy thus far, so I haven't gotten a chance to do much work on the site or even think about it really, so I think it's probably best to postpone meeting until we have more to discuss. I'm also really busy tomorrow so I don't think I'd be able to meet then anyway."[6] On December 17th, 2003, a week later: "Sorry I have not been reachable for the past few days. I've basically been in the lab the whole time working on a cs problem set which I"m still not finished with."[6] On January 8, 2004, Zuckerberg emailed to say he was "completely swamped with work [that] week" but had "made some of the changes ... and they seem[ed] to e working great" on his computer. He said he could discuss the site starting the following Tuesday, on Jan. 13.[9] On January 11th, 2004, Zuckerberg registered the domain name thefacebook.com.[12] Three days later, on January 14th, 2004, Zuckerberg met again with Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra about HarvardConnection, however, he never mentioned registering the domain name thefacebook.com or a competing website, rather he reported progress on HarvardConnection, told them he would continue to work on it, and would email the group later in the week.[9] On February 4th, 2004, Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com.

The Winklevosses and Narendra attempted to force the Harvard administration to act on what they viewed as a violation of the university’s honor code. They took the case to the Harvard Administrative Board and the university president Larry Summers, but it was ruled to be outside of university jurisdiction.[13]
They say time flies. Well, it didn’t when you were a kid.

The big difference to start with, it that you have almost no personal history and so-called experience when you're kid. You're action person, not thinking one. Actions stimulates mind, non-action bores it. So, you remember not how long Sundays could be, but how boring it is to sit and do nothing.

Buddhist masters says that time almost stops at meditation. Leaving mythical part aside, if there is no action, there is no rush of time. The illusion of flying time is the result of the useless overload in your mind, so it skips big chunks of sensory input. Just think how overloaded system drops packets it can't serve.

If changing habits is about to stop being busy and overloaded, that definitely works. It was proved thousand years ago.
Installing Ubuntu on a MacBook feels wrong. It was designed to run MacOS X. Even the chassis finish matches the window chrome...

In my interesting computer collection, I have a couple IBM PPC/POWER machines. When I acquired the first one, it took me some work to procure a set of AIX disks (DDS tapes would do) that would install on the machine. Several friends of mine suggested I should install Debian and be done with it, but I felt that would make them less interesting and opposed it. When I finally installed AIX, I felt they were complete, with the system they were designed to run, it all its CDE glory.

Last time I plugged a Mac keyboard on my Linux netbook, not even the function keys worked. It muted the speaker when I tried a search...
recurly.com and spreedly.com have support for EUR/GBP and .EU based merchant accounts
Boston, MA - Zazu (http://getzazu.com)

We're building Jarvis from Iron Man (mobile -- and everything else -- client, web server, augmented reality, etc).

Interesting data problems, interesting user experience problems, and we're all foodies :-)

Shoot me an email if you'd like to help out (marc@getzazu.com)
> 1. Firefox and Chrome are very slow and freezing, when opening many tabs.

> 2. Flash plugin is crashing constantly

Try that without the flash plugin.

> 3. OpenOffice is very slow and freezing. Can't render properly MS Office documents.

I find it more likely that Office can't save its files according to whatever is the current Office file spec.
My father works for the largest thread company in the world, Coats plc. I ran down everything avinash told you in the above post with him and he says its good advice. E-mail me and I can put you in touch with him -- He can put you in touch with the right peope in places like Egypt, Kenya. According to him, its all about volume in the textile business and quality control (i.e. silk printing etc) can be very hard when you outsource your production to a third world country.
Not that I get too much into these discussions because they seem to be the type that people never see eye to eye. But you did touch on a point that I think is overlooked here, customer satisfaction. One of the things with Apple is that they are pretty good at repairing product quality defects on their dime.

To me that is part of the package of reliability. If I can buy the most reliable but 30 days after walking out the door I am on the hook for the repairs or I can but the second most reliable and be covered for any defects for a year, I am going with #2. From my experience Apple makes up for any defect in craftsmanship with their focus on customer satisfaction.
From "You Got Mail" to "The Social Network"
"You Got Mail" was the movie about AOL released in 1998. The film was starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, it signaled the top of the popularly and the subsequent decline for the AOL. The beginning of the steady downslope slide for the AOL hype and relevance as a platform. The pattern might hold for the Facebook's breakout into the popular culture with the new film. The AOL was the original anonymous "social network". Perhaps when a form of expression penetrates a culture so thoroughly it becomes uncool by definition.
I once started a t-shirt business in Italy with some friends. It was hard and by the time we were done we made only a little profit. We were doing t-shirts and sweaters, based on some 70' italian b-movie. You could go to some local distributor for t-shirts, starting from brands like Hanes, and then take it to a company who can do the printing and tagging. Basically print or stitch your graphics on the clothes and then replace the original tag with your own ones (that of course you need to get printed somewhere else).
my #1 for Recurring Credit Card Payment in Europe is currently:
http://recurly.com + http://WireCard.com

As http://spreedly.com wants to support WireCard in the future, too this might be a very interesting alternative. too
If you haven't read this, you would enjoy it:

http://www.amazon.com/Common-Air-Revolution-Art-Ownership/dp...
Paying many people in many countries. Paypal? Cheque?
Hello. Im starting a web business where I will have to pay small amounts ($50-$100) to many people (100s) in many countries around the world. The company is based in UK.

I have thought of three ways:

- Paypal
Pros: automatic payment.
Cons: users will have to withdraw the money somehow

- Electronic money transfer
Pros: money directly to users bank
Cons: high transfer fees

- Post a cheque from HSBC (present in many countries)
Pros: they can cash the cheque
Cons: snail mail, can get lost

For now Paypal is a winner.

Do you know any other payment option?

Thanks
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I was quite conscious of what I said and what I meant: based on my 30 years experience doing software and online apps and startups of my own, and based on what the Qwiki guys actually claimed and showed on stage, I think the service will fail, and I hope the service fails, and I worry if it succeeds.

Sure there are compelling ideas there, absolutely. Sure, used in moderation, some of the capabilities demoed would be beneficial.

But I maintain that their "information experience" hype is a hustle that has not been well thought out.
My take as some random guy without any particular experience in these things:

Client-side hashing shouldn't make much of a difference to security. Passwords are generally hashed server-side before being stored anyway, and it wouldn't prevent any sort of man-in-the-middle attacks. The only benefit I see is that anyone sniffing the data before it gets hashed server-side would only see a hash with the power of a password rather than the password itself, making it less useful to use against other sites where the user might share the password. If you really need the security, though, go HTTPS.

I don't see any harm other than the inconvenience of needing JavaScript. Note that there could be weird failure cases though. As an example, if I initially sign up with NoScript active and send the raw password, then later enable JavaScript on your site and send it MD5'd, I wouldn't be allowed in. So be sure that if you do this that there is no normal way to signup / login without JavaScript enabled.
You probably meant 6.06. That was my first Ubuntu as well, though it was also my first Linux distribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases
So...if I had somebody else's UDID, what could I do their phone? Scaremongering indeed. yawns

P.S. Being an owner of an app review blog, I give my UDID out frequently.
3. People with Alzheimer’s Disease: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/se...
I do agree that unless you're particularly unlucky hardware-wise, an Ubuntu installation is more likely to succeed nowadays than fail. But they may be able to survive the installation, yet end up with minor to moderate problems that degrade the entire experience, which wouldn't be there, had their operating system been preinstalled, tested and supported with their hardware.

The question of hardware compatibility and other technicalities aside, the entire notion of the "operating system" being decoupled from the computer and installable separately is alien to most non-technical computer users, and the idea of installing a "third party" operating system is simply uninteresting; which is why I said "don't", not "can't". Why should they, when they already bought a computer with an "operating system", and it largely works?

My point is that the "download an .iso file from the internet, burn a CD / flash disk and install something called an operating system" model, while it's largely successful for the audience it's intended for today, is not way to advance the use of free operating systems in the broader computing ecosystem; striving towards more viable and widespread Linux-preinstalled devices is. But surely the success of the former will reinforce the latter, since a critical mass is needed.
Or, perhaps more affluent students are smarter, more conscientious and better prepared for academic work on average, and thus have higher average test scores?

I don't know why everyone assumes that children of the affluent get high SAT scores due solely to test prep. If that were the case, you would expect them to underperform once they reach college, which doesn't occur as far as I know.

Incidentally, at least according to one independent study (as opposed to a study by Kaplan), test prep doesn't help much (30 points on the old 1600 point SAT).

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124278685697537839.html
It seems a better idea would have been to embed them into some form of eyewear, a form factor that currently exists rather than create a new one.
Most ppl haven't touched Linux on their PC either ;-)

There is a 6 month trial of Windows Server http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/trial-softw...

Students can get a Windows Server licence for $19 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gautam/archive/2010/02/18/msdnaa-sof...
yes but some aspects change under mobile radio to IP gateways..

Your mobile SIM card encrypts the unique part of the ID..

The bother some part comes in when a #RD party has access sot that ID ..on most mobile OS platforms the 3rd party developer has very restricted access to that ID..not on iphone
For Win and Mac... Thanks.
Your model has two different kinds of players, not one. There are players with a target activity rate of 0.1 and a players with a target activity rate of 0.01. Randomizing the activity rate over that will not produce a uniform distribution of activity.

If you really want to take the economist up to task, you should find his paper, code his model and parameters exactly, see if you reproduce his hypothesis over a number of trial runs (for all we know, he may not have run a sim at all, given the NYTimes' shoddy reporting).
That's kind of like saying Zuck should have trained hard and gotten on the Crew team so he could have "relations" with the female at the beginning of the movie.

Aslo The Winklevoss brother's insistence on acting as "men of Harvard", could have entirely changed the outcome. Had they immediately sued, the CFO would not let development continue and we would not have Facebook in its current form.

Also, they could have kicked the crap out of the guy, which, although illegal, can be pretty demotivating.

If the Winklevoss's claim had no merit, they would not have received $65 million in Facebook stock, nor would Zuck's attorney advise him against a jury trial.
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If you can match the UUID to a real name and make the user use your app/website frequently, you've pretty much everything to track her/him (add geo if you wish).

He/She cannot escape/opt out.
http://www.startupshiring.com. Over 1500 jobs from 200+ startups. Going to try and add all the companies listed on this post throughout the day.
A startup I know has engaged audiences early on through Mechanical Turk. Basically, they brainstormed and came up with around 10-20 domains. They then registered them all to prevent their loss to others. They spent some time speaking with friends and niche players about which of them made sense (narrowed the playing field further).

After that, they simply used mturk to query an arbitrary (yet large) sampling of people out in the world which one was more memorable, less confusing, and more meaningful to their startup values and goals. All this was done before a single line of code was written.
Apple Approves BitTorrent App For App Store
I was accepted and I dropped out of the University of Maryland. Must be other stuff.
A voyeur's dream come true.
A few iterations on this and it would be excellent for law enforcement. (See "Halting State" for a future Britain in which cops are required to wear them.) It is also one of the easiest protections against police abuse of authority which you can actually sell to good cops.
This is true, but the idea is to manage your habits. It's a gardening exercise. At any given moment you're trying to make certain things into habits so that they will run in the background, while breaking other habits so that you'll feel alive.

(But maybe not too alive: I can attest that it is certainly possible to exhaust yourself with an excessive rate of new experiences.)
If we are on the same flight, happy to share a cab. Once you figure out your flight schedule, email me.
This is as close as is gets in real life to the movie 'Alien'. Was Ridley Scott inspired by this in some way?
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"If you’re obsessed with sharing your life in video..."

Are the people wearing this - sharing their live or the lives of those around them?

After watching the video it seemed that the only thing shared was the brief glimpse of the people which passed by.
I love ubuntu! Although Lucid has done something that drives me nuts. The devs decided it would be nice to add a Gnome login to Netbook-Remix Sounds nice, but they decided limit a bunch of features in the old interface so it would not conflict. I love you ubuntu but you need to stop taking away my power!
FYI, Intel MacBooks (and the last G4 models) support hibernate (suspend to disk) and use it by default instead of sleep (suspend to RAM), and thus take longer to sleep/resume.

You can change this behavior at the command line, or with a utility like SmartSleep: http://www.jinx.de/SmartSleep.html
Another vote for paypal.

Although I'm not dealing with hundreds, I pay writers for groovymag and jsmag (think 10-15 per month) and almost always use paypal. Many writers are overseas (outside the US). Paypal is the defacto - most people have one and are OK. If there's some extra weird fee they have to pay, I'll sometimes split it with them if that's an issue - pay a few bucks more in the payment, basically.

A few want paper checks, but I try to only do that for US-based people - fees are prohibitive, mail is slow and can get lost (all points you made).

For some people, it's been easier (and their request) to send gift certificates to a store of their choice (amazon, etc) rather than dealing with bank/paypal.
Ask HN: How do you take notes?
Going off the discussion on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743513 about "Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?"; I wanted to ask, how do you take notes to maximize the amount of information you remember?

I spend a lot of time consuming information (HN, books, blogs, Mixergy interviews and Twitter) but have nothing to show for it. I think we really need to note three kinds of information: notes, questions and action items. But I have a hard time keeping track of all of it for all the different sources.

I've tried using a notebook, but then its harder to go back and look through it. Ideally, I would use an iPad application that has a system to handwrite notes and then easily categorize that information.

Anyone have any strategies to easily search through and maximize the amount of information they remember? Thanks!

EDIT: I use a mac.
Might want to provide more details than "China."

On the phone:

Hello China?

在中国的东西

I'd like to use you're limetless labor pool to build a business

在中国的东西

Can you help with that?

在中国的东西

Um, no?

在中国的东西

Ok, um, bye.

在中国的东西
This thread (and especially this post) are interesting to me because I have considered -- on and off since I was a teen -- designing/making my own clothes (to meet my special needs) and, recently, toyed with the idea of doing something like that as a business (and all but dismissed the idea out of hand as just too much trouble).

Any thoughts on finding/making cotton-silk blend knits (for women)? I rarely can find this but it is awesome when I can. Silks are too expensive and too fragile for my lifestyle and rarely come in knits. They shrink horribly when washed and just don't stand up to my lifestyle (which is rooted in keeping everything clean enough to stay well in spite of my medical condition, and dry-cleaning is not acceptable as I react badly to the chemicals). Most knits are cotton-polyester, not acceptable in my book. I don't wear polyester....etc...etc.

I have gone so far as to look over a few websites that I felt had good online shopping interfaces for clothing. Most of them suck big time. I tend to prefer to shop in person for clothes, in part because most online clothes shopping is so bad.

So I have played with the idea a bit. I looked up a site called "French Rags" because I know they do mass customization and they sell knits. But it turns out they use a yarn blend I don't want (IIRC: cotton-acrylic). Good quality affordable clothes is really tough to find. Nylon and some spandex is also acceptable for me. But polyester is absolutely unacceptable, most other synthetics are not really very acceptable, and 100% cotton wrinkles so bad and therefore is too high maintenance. Most of the clothes I buy is 95% cotton, 5% spandex or 90% nylon and 10% spandex. I don't own an iron but can't afford to show up at work all wrinkled -- it's a violation of the dress code. Knits with a little spandex generally avoids that issue altogether.

So, I have thought about a DIY approach to solve my problem and also thought that the amount of work involved, well, it might make sense to do it as a business rather than jump through all these hoops to dress one person.
This seems like it also concerns employees who might have part of their compensation in stock options. It's unclear to me how things like early exercise and AMT might be affected, though.
Python is used extensively outside of web development, PHP is not. Django is far more prevalant than other Python web frameworks, eg, Django 1168 vs Pylons 143 on SimplyHired.

Also, if you follow my links you'll see that the subjects of the comparison originally came from a poll.
www.fastspring.com

Easy to configure, neat interface, great support.
And accepts paypal payments.
Small helmet or hat mounted cameras have been available to the police in the UK for the last few years. I don't think they're ubiquitous yet, but it seems like only a matter of time before they are. A ubiquitous sousveillance situation seems like the best possible outcome for all concerned, and we seem to be already some way along that trajectory.
I think this reveals something about the commenter's mindset: he probably would never enjoy that job, and he deducts no one else could. Similar to the qualia debate in philosophy, he is generalizing way too much. He's not really guilty of that, it's the way he is. He is incredibly rude and callous though.
>I always found blinking lights extremely distracting. They make it hard for me to concentrate

In the UK I don't think flashing lights are allowed on moving vehicles/cycles unless they're emergency vehicles or otherwise hazardous. Lots of cyclists still use them though.
World Maker Faire - From Bamboo Bikes to Urban Rooftop Cosmic-Ray Detectors
So why don't overlay networks, if they're scaled to the size of the global Internet, have exactly the same routing problems internally that BGP has?
Apple loses patent-infringement trial over Cover Flow