skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article, but I think the conclusion he makes is way off mark:

The good news is that the things users want to keep secret are almost always the least important things to online advertisers. It turns out that knowing people are trying to buy new washing machines or plane tickets to Hawaii is vastly more monetizeable than their names, who they were dating, or the dumb things they did in college.

Your preferences + your email address is extremely valuable to online advertisers. And an email address is generally a personal identifier. Well, all of mine are, even my gmail one is an identifier if you know what I do or what country I'm from as I have a fairly rare surname.
Gaia Online, an internet forum and game community, has been using a virtual currency for most, if not all, of those things since 2002 or 2003. The one exception is purchasing virtual currency with real currency, but Second Life has been doing that practically since they launched.
The fact that 57% of burglaries happen whilst someone is at home is disturbing. I always felt that home security was a market that had a lot of potential for a new start-up and these stats re-affirm that view to be honest.

Time to get my thinking cap back on!
Even if Oracle would provide java, would anybody put so much trust into Oracle, to base the future of his/her software company onto this? Apple again has proven to be unreliable.

Yes, because as we all know, SUN has been a bright example of RELIABILITY in regards to Java et al...

The collapse of SUN, the Swing for the Desktop/JSF/Java FX fiascoes, the Oracle takeover and the recent JCP fights, totally inspire confidence in Java...
Technically, this is really interesting, but what's the business justification for the engineering work?

I'm skeptical that these efforts will protect Rapleaf or any other company from public relations disasters or class-action lawsuits or harmful regulation, because the solution is too complex for reporters, lawyers, and politicians to understand. (The cynic in me thinks that even if they did understand it, that's not going to get in the way of a good story / lawsuit / feel-good cause for the public.)

While I'm sympathetic, declaring that your dataset is 16-anonymous due to cluster-based suppression isn't going to persuade anyone that's already decided that behavioral targeting is the devil.
I use DB Viz at work all the time. That said, most of our JRuby stuff refuses to run on OSX. Some of the libraries we use are linux only.
For 1-off projects, this is exactly how I approach things.

For projects that need to be stable, used by non-techies, or upgraded over time, I generally go for something a little more robust. You know, like Google does, etc etc.
I don't know much about patents, but let's say Farmville (although Zynga own it, assume they don't) decided to add some sort of betting element to their game, would that not make it a "gambling game" and therefore infringe on any patents against it?

While it might not affect all pre-existing social games, if the above is true then it limits what they can do with their game.
The word "cash" is the most descriptive word ("box" is a rather generic term) in those names. Apart from that, the names sound completely generic. They remind me of get-rich-quick schemes and of shady online casinos, which are all purely about putting money somewhere.

Your business idea, as I understand it, is mostly about people getting rid of unused stuff, and paid for it, but without freezing their feet off in a fleamarket. I'd rather focus on that positive experience, because that is something online casinos don't have.
I don't love this to be honest. I don't want to be seen as an alternative to the bin - if it's ready for the bin I'm not going to be able to sell it. I want people to feel comfortable putting an old laptop in there, perhaps a 19" TFT screen etc. For me clutter and bin are two negative words.
Uh, does Google use PHP? I think that's what he's referring to.
I think the first one was detachable.
Heh, I meant the field of medicine. But I can understand your perspective :)
Not sure what's going on there, the 4th and 5th to last frames seem to be lighter on the whole, including the navigation bar.

If you click the image to zoom in you'll notice it's quite blurry, so I suspect it might not have been created as a screencap of the simulator but filmed off the device with a camera. That would explain the variation.
You could probably just pay them a standard amount for their "junk". Most people have no idea of the value of things that they are trying to get rid of.
Joe Ades -- passed away last year after many years selling on the streets of NYC. He was profiled a few times, but this article sheds more light on his life and business:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/magazine/27ades-t.html

One heckuva salesman.
The 8$/month machine sounds very interesting.

I'm quite new to VPS. I recently deployed a couple of project for customer in Linode. I am very happy with them, but at the same time, I have some hobby projects of my own that I dont want to host in a 20USD/month machine.

How are your VPSs compare to Linode?
I spent a few years immersed in both PHP the language and PHP the implementation. Each is as shitty as the other.
Neopets was bashed for some time with claims that the games they produced were similar to gambling games. I think it proves prior art in and of itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopets
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Writing down your thoughts is a kind of hill climbing process. As you dump your thoughts out onto paper you free up your mind to think about a different part of the problem / the bigger picture / the finer details. But your entire thought process up to that point (including the dead ends you crossed out) is still there in front of you as an external structure of concepts that can be built on. The more open and "invisible" the tools are the better, and there are few that can match a simple pencil and paper.
so true and in some completely different areas too - the vhs-betamax wars, the HD/Bluray.

Probably one is going to be brewed up between bluetooth/wifi direct or mebbe its already won, before it even started.
This sounds partly similar to businesses who clear out deceased people's houses. Perhaps you can learn from them?
It's a trust issue. This way, our interests are aligned, and people aren't going to think 'Hey, this might be worth something - I'll hang onto it'. I'm going to get the best price for their stuff, and they can see it. Cash4gold pay as little as they can get away with - I don't want to be 'exposed' in the scams section of the paper.
He didn't dismiss it, or speculate at all on how other people would be happy with it.

He said it lacked a feature important to him.
According to nxdom these .coms are available:
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I really like this idea. I'm curious on how you avoid the scenario of people thinking you're underselling how much you made on eBay? Or do you not see that as an issue because it's really unwanted stuff anyway, so any money made is a profit? That and you could potentially link them to the auction listing(s) for their items to see the progress.

Maybe have policies that all auctions are $1 starts with no reserve and they get what they get?
A similar service - http://www.gazelle.com/
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Hey, it seems awesome. Here's a suggestion: On the main page, even thought you specify where to find examples, it would still be nice to have a small example of what this library does.
it does sound more likely that a java dev on a mac gets a windows install as a second boot option than he changes the bank's infrastructure though :)
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J. Gosling's point isn't entirely clear to me, either. I came away with the impression that Oracle is a difficult company to deal with. Perhaps he's trying to draw a line between Oracle being difficult and Apple deciding they no longer want to do their own port. I supposes that's possible.

Still, it seems more likely that Apple decided that the cost of maintaining the Java port on OS X simply wasn't worth it. In the same manner that they decided that nobody wanted to use Flash on their smart-phones, they've decided that nobody wants to use Java on their laptops or workstations.
It's "Gosling". Seems to have some sour grapes, but that doesn't make him wrong.
It's UK based. Both 'junk' and 'trunk' are rarely used words in the UK.
We already have those, they are vocational technical high schools. In my small New England town I had the option of two different ones, one with a focus on agriculture and animal husbandry and one more focused on the trades.
I'm not sure about 3) and 5), but Netherlands is not a bad choice — almost everyone speaks good English, climate is moderate and wages are quite decent, if you land a good job. At least in comparison with Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia that some have suggested in this thread (I am Latvian myself). Problem with Baltic States would be a lack of serious hacker/startup communities, lack of English speaking population and, of course, quite cold winters :) Then again, living in NL is much more expensive too.
Those boys are all about the old furniture. They want real wood and the odd china figurine - they're also very old school. But it's an interesting business - I'd be up for house clearances too.
Of the mainstream languages there probably aren't too many. But probably COBOL? C++ is pretty hateful too. Oh, bash is a nasty language too.

Your "worst" is probably ill-defined: C is bad for web programming, but is certainly an elegant language and pretty good in its niche.
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How about ffmpeg / libdv / mplayer
Last time I looked they had hand coded asm.
Very good advice, probably the best one so far (not saying the other ones are bad).
This is good advice, but Joe didn't get his three-bedroom apartment from selling potato peelers. He got it from his fourth wife (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/nyregion/03ades.html).

Hard work is important, knowing the right people helps.
Johannesburg or Cape Town, South Africa.

English speaking, high demand for skilled programmers, brilliant climate (Johannesburg, especially). Jobs are mostly in the financial sector.

Good broadband is expensive, but prices are expected to drop quickly. World class healthcare, if you can afford it (as a programmer, you WILL be able to afford it). Reasonable cost of living.

There is a lot of crime, but if you live in an area like Sandton, it shouldn't bother you much if you take basic precautions.

The country does run the political risk of being hijacked by populists, but as a foreigner, with little invested in the country, you will be able to leave before things get bad.

Starting a business is doable, and, barring political problems discussed above, there is good upside potential.
Or hire someone who does. Hiring salespeople or advertisement writers may be very necessary.
So there's now a haskell to javascript compiler, and an implementation of haskell in javascript. I want to see a benchmark comparing the two.
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Yeah, put your junk in my trunk would be a very sensible name here, and wouldn't raise any eyebrows at all! I guess junk is tits?
Speaking specifically of mailchimp, I interviewed with the a few years ago. They are a seriously cool company. If you ever get a chance to talk to Chad, ask him to tell you the story of DDoSing Mechanical Turk. Ignore the language they use, mailchimp is an amazing analytics company.
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> "With print newspapers set to disappear in the next few years,"

I stopped reading after that. I'm sorry, but if you're going to start basing the rest of the article on crazy false projections, there's not going to be a lot of point.
The other day I was scrolling through my contacts in my iPhone when I noticed the animation for transitioning between one letter and the next. The letter separator docks at the top of the screen, becomes translucent and then the first contact starts scrolling underneath it. It fascinated and amazed me.

I think it's part of what made the iPhone so amazing and revolutionary, everything was looked at, everything thought about. And every now and then you notice something like the phonebook scroll which is delightful.
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"Good names"

humour

Truth is your product probably didn't have a great "good name".

See starting at 5:18 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9g -- that's about the subprime market. hilarious.

So, as the video demonstrates: no fucking great idea can challenge a really great "good name"

To make my point, let's put an example (me). Take a commodity idea. Say "a wiki". And then name it "SimplyWiki", or, adding some trickery, "SimpliWiki".

Now your get a great "good name" and it is the only thing that really matters.

/humour

Well... some persistence is good too, as mentioned before, so... keep trying and remember to have fun, it's easier to persist in doing fun things.
Are you sure a portable 15" screen with today's technology would be lighter than the iPad?
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Nitpick: "Ruby was in its infancy" - Ruby was created in 1995, and was certainly quite usable in 2004. I think maybe you mean Rails, which was released in July of that year according to wikipedia.
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That's the plan - we'll link their boxes with ebay listings so they can follow it themselves if they want. It's totally transparent.
Three things quickly pop to mind: ease of deployment, very detailed documentation and large base of programming talent to pull from.
First and foremost, the opposite of simple is not hard, it's complicated. There is not a correlation between the simple-complicated spectrum and easy-hard spectrum.

If you don't regularly press the button swapping your hot failovers and live systems, you don't have hot failovers, you have cargo-cult redundancy. It's like taking backups and not testing them. If you don't test them, you have cargo cult sysadmining.

Distributed is complicated, but not that hard, there are well understood patterns in most cases. Sure, the details are a bit of a pain to get right, but the same is true of alot of programming. I have done distributed systems. Maybe not google scale, but bigger than a lot, hundreds of nodes geographically distributed all over the place, and each of these nodes was itself a distributed system. I've dealt with thundering herds (and other statistical clustering issues), can't-happen bottlenecks, and plenty more. But each and every one of these problems had a solution waiting for me on google. Further, each and every one of these problems was instantly graspable.

A lot of distributed stuff just isn't that hard. Sure, things like MPI and distributed agents/algorithms can get pretty hard, but this isn't the same as multi-node programs, which isn't the same as redundancy.

Keep the smug attitude, I'm sure it helps you convince your clients that you are "really good" or some crap.
Lenovo's Thinkpad X tablets are generally thought to be pretty kickass. It maxes out at 12" though, so it's a bit smaller than notebook paper sized. But it's using an active digitizer, so it gives results every bit as good as using a Wacom tablet. And having used a Wacom tablet, its almost every bit as good as using paper, except plastic on plastic will always feel different than metal on paper.

Any device using an active digitizer should be great. And in fact, if you had a ridiculous amount of money to blow, you could get a Wacom Cintiq, which is basically a 20 something inch LCD monitor which has an active digitizer built into the entire thing.

Unfortunately, as far as I know, each of these solutions can only handle one stylus at a time.
Whether you fall in line or not, the culture around Java is around writing code to a certain style. Agree or disagree, there's an argument that by writing in a style that is familiar to Java programmers, your code is easier to read and maintain.

If you're one guy off in a corner, write however you want. But if you're not, you have to take the culture into consideration. And if you are one guy in a corner, why are you using Java?
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Sun to OS vendors: "Hey, we just promised developers they can run Java on your platforms. Now you go make it happen!"

Apple to Sun: "... you!"
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Nice, can you share a link to an instance of appleseed?
Yes but good coders figure a way around it.

Forced to use PHP? And it's crappy and slow to build stuff in? So write some tools that compile to PHP.

What I'm saying is that great programmers work with the limitations and build the tools they need to make the limitations moot.
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Cash4gold is not a scam and they make a shit load of money.

The trust issue in my opinion will lie in you walking away with people's stuff with no real incentive in getting the best price out of it since every sale is profit for you. Also, what will you do when an item doesn't sell after some time? Do you ship it back to its owner?

Just think carefully about your business model because profit-sharing might not be the best way to go.
Some of the most clever ones seem to hide in the .bash_history files of enlightened sysadmins. That said, there are some good ones at commandlinefu.com as well.
It amazes me, that even the device's web browser supports similar hardware-accelerated animations through CSS. What a beautiful implementation.
Tilera is a very expensive option, though, and only makes sense for a small subset of the x86 market.

I had a phone conversation with one of their managers about a year ago (I was trying to see could I get a sample PCIe board) and they are damned expensive, so it would only make sense if you have something that 1) parallelizes very well, 2) actually needs the performance, 3) runs on Linux* or can be easily ported to their architecture and 4) you have high enough volume to make their overheads worthwhile. On the plus side, they seemed were very willing to lend their engineering team to help port to their architecture (as part of the devkit cost). Sadly, they don't have evaluation boards - you pretty much have to buy a devkit to evaluate it and the devkits costs approx. 5 times the price of the lowest end PCIe board (I'm not sure what hardware this included and afaik its a once off up-front cost).

(* Running on Linux doesn't mean it magically works, but the Tilera PCIe boards can run Linux, so it at least makes porting a bit easier)

But that doesn't change the facts: Intel DOES have competition to their high-end market from GPUs and the likes of Tilera. I can see the newer ARM processors starting to challenge their midrange line and obviously with Atom too.

Just today, I was thinking about getting an ARM Cortex A8 powered BeagleBoard xM as adesktop linux box replacement.
Start with a benefit you provide for your users. That would be 'cash' or 'hassle free' or 'clutter ridance' or so. Then combine a benefit with a quality that sets your business apart from alternatives. That would something like 'easy' because it's easier than ebay and so on.

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Thanks for the thorough responses.

With regard to advantages on the dropshop model:

1. I agree that it's more appealing for householders. Especially if you can get some traction with stay-at-home moms or dads. I suggest some advertising with the popular 'mommy blogs'.

2. I think scalability is going to be the largest hurdle. You will have to be selective on what you will take or people will just give you trash. Often times people would rather donate it than deal with selling it on eBay. I volunteer at a local thrift store and have seen this first hand. Try to figure out what's the very least that a box needs to sell for to make it worth your while. The rep idea is a good one: college or high school students would be perfect for this and would work for minimum wage, where as 'Avon ladies' would actually be looking to meet a higher standard of living.

3. Your overhead isn't going to be renting a warehouse (that would be a great problem to have) but the shipping and handling costs. I think streamlining the sorting and research part of your operation will be crucial.

Best of luck! You should start a blog for this project. I'm always very curious to read about people's ideas and the actual execution steps. Even if it doesn't work out as expected, it will be a great learning process and could help someone else in your shoes.
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