skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sure, double whatever salary you're offering and I might consider it. Otherwise it would be a big drop in my standard of living - nice big apartment up here for cardboard box down there."

I think this gets to the heart of the cultural difference between the UK and California in terms of startups. I get the feeling that people working for / running Silicon Valley startups are living extremely cheaply (hence references to Ramen profitability), sharing places with groups of people, working long hours with very little time off, sometimes sleeping over in the office instead of going home.

I don't get the feeling that attitude happens within London, so working for a startup isn't much more different to a desk job in a big company - salary, set working hours, regular vacation time. Maybe a slightly better options/share stake in the company.

Also the business infrastructure of London doesn't facilitate a lean startup environment. Registering a company with Companies House is cheap enough, but running it is quite costly for a group of people who are trying to build something that might pan out later. It's like London only wants organisations with existing revenue streams, not startups with potential.

And there's the expectation of potential employees for London startups, they want the benefits of working for an established business. Silicon Valleyers seem more inclined to be involved with something interesting, and live a minimalist life outside of that role.

Am I completely wrong here? (Would be interested in hearing back from people working in startups in Silicon Valley and London, but also elsewhere in the world - how is your organisation legally registered, do you pay salaries or offer compensation in stock ownership, are you living comfortably, or living off ramen noodles until you've created a decent income stream?)
Alright here's an idea, why don't you protect your content server side?

If user is logged in and user payed for music: stream, otherwise don't.

Simple isn't it? Few lines of code.

If you however want to cripple access to the music even after purchased, then simply pick your favorite already existing DRM technology, that is probably already cracked anyway, or invent your own that will be probably cracked anyway. I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

And here is even more material on this matter: http://xkcd.com/488/
The same problem exists for any monotonically increasing key, and the same solution can be used. Sequential ids for events, whatever. The timestamp was just an admittedly not very wise reuse of a not very good example.
I think one of his brainstorming result ideas is the "Hello HN user ..." banner. Pretty cool if that is the case. My first time on his blog so i dont really know.
There was an Android update in September 2010.[1]

Edit + N.B.: The vertical axis on the graph is a "how to lie with statistics" one and makes it look like a bigger climb than it is. It does indeed overtake the iPhone but it's only a move from ~7.9 to ~8.5.

[1]http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubun...
I do not understand why it is popular to characterize somalia in this way. Have you got a reference to militias demanding money and offering nothing in return? It seems this would be a very dangerous thing to attempt in somalia, as the members of most tribes are pretty well armed and would not put up with this.

Somalia is a tribal country with institutions that provide legal and judicial support for resolving disputes peacefully going back centuries. I'm sure they do have private roads, for which you have to pay a toll, but you have toll roads in many countries.

I read one report that the pirates who were operating off of the somali coast operated like startups. One guy would put up some guns, others would put up labor, another the boat, some would stay ashore and provide financing or support. The profits would be divided among them according to their shares. The system works because the desire to go out again keeps them honest.

The "pirates" effectively operate as the somali coast guard, going after ships that are in their states waters. These pirates were previously fisherman until china decided that they could start overfishing the area. So they go and collect tolls.

I guess it is romantic to call them pirates, and it certainly serves the interests of the west to characterize somalia as a hellhole.

But the primary problem facing somalia is not that they don't have a functioning society-- they do-- but that the western interests, specifically the US and the UK, keep making war on them.

The UN created schools but the teachers are unmotivated, and so the somalis, who are generally relatively wealthy, set up private schools of their own.

I have a friend who has been there and who worked on a proposal to put in a port and a road across some of the territory into ethiopia. However, the investors were scared off when an american general promised to "bomb the hell out of it" if they built the road and the port. So, my knowledge of the situation on the ground is dated a few years and mostly relevant to the north.

But Somalia is actually a relatively safe, stable society, it exhibits a fair bit of success in free market principles and in operating without a state. They are able to provide security, and repel invasions for the most part, without a central government.
Amanda Hocking is probably the best example right now of an author who made it big through ebooks without having been published traditionally first.

She does have a blog [1] and promotes herself quite heavily through social networks, but she's never had the support of a big publishing house that Konrath had.

She's far from being an overnight success though - in an interview with the Huffington Post [2], she explains how she's been writing fiction constantly from the earliest age, attending every possible writing courses along the way.

1: http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/
2: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tonya-plank/meet-mega-bestsell...
How much do they want to be paid? About £40k starting, please.

Best of luck to them. I know few (non-contractors) who pull in even 90% of that with substantial experience.

Idle wandering of mind a while back, I came to the conclusion that if I wanted to do a startup I'd base it in Northampton. Relatively cheap area by UK standards but livable, hour by train to both central London and Birmingham/West Midlands (about half the size of London so a substantial catchment area in its own right), good N/S and E/W road transport links and if I advertised for experienced devs at USD50k (equivalent) I'd be beating them away with a stick. I don't have any plans in that direction mind you, but it's that sort of thing that makes me wonder why anyone bothers setting up in London.
You're right - sorry. Been up for two days taking care of a sick puppy...
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I don't think that not wanting to invest in someone who has recently shown a complete failure in judgment is much of a limiting belief. If you can't take other people's lives seriously, how can you be expected to take other people's money seriously? If the DUI were a little further in the past then it would be a different story, and I'm sure there are VCs out there wouldn't care about a recent one, but if I were a VC I'd move on pretty quickly.
In the last 8 years I've been buying primarily Apple products: an iBook 8 years ago, an iPod mini 6 years ago, a MacBook 3 years ago, and an iPhone 2 years ago. I used to fiddle with Linux and know about the latest CPUs, but then I found that I was spending a lot of time on something of little benefit to me.

My MacBook does everything I need, and it has the Unix underpinnings I prefer. My iPhone is very useful, although it is getting a little slow as apps get bigger. I will probably upgrade to the iPhone 5 when it comes out, if it turns out to be good enough.

I'm the same way with cars. I bought a Honda Civic recently without a lot of comparison shopping because I have had good luck with them before, and I know it's a quality car. A friend of mine bought another kind of car that had some cool features that mine doesn't have, and I was a little envious for a moment, but it soon passed. I'm very happy with my solid little car.
Just wait for the network connection to go down.
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Talk about potential moral hazard...
The Pocketable PC - Is Your Phone Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Not answering for everyone, of course, but I find the mac model breaks down when I only want to pull a single window of an app to the foreground.

Envisage, if you will, this scenario. I have multiple terminal windows open in the background connected to various services and my current focus is on my fullscreen IDE of choice. Now my IDE has various pieces of information on it and, given that my short term memory isn't what it once was, I would like to always be able refer to it. So I switch to Terminal and ALL the Terminal windows are pulled above the IDE window, often obscuring the piece of information I wanted to reference.

It's not that the 98-esque model is necessarily superior, it's rather that it's surprising when windows you haven't requested to see are pulled into the foreground. Now this may be due to me having used `window-centric` switching for many years but after 3 years of owning a mac I still find this behaviour frustrating.
Launchbar over Alfred as a replacement for Spotlight. I just prefer the 30 day trial model over limited free usage and then pay for 'power user' features.
The amazing free market, the duct tape of neo-liberalism.

It's kind of a cool idea but seriously?
Let's add current total debt load in there as well for fun..
I've had that for awhile and it's actually pretty controversial with the HN crowd...every time one of my posts hits the homepage there's a thread of comments about whether it's appropriate :)

If you're interested, it's the WP Greet Box plugin for Wordpress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-greet-box/

I'll be blogging more in Feb and March about what I'm doing to grow the blog aggressively, but it has less to do with communities like HN and Reddit (which have been amazing to get me going) and more with building subscriptions. So if you're interested in that kind of thing, you should...subscribe :) http://ryanwaggoner.com/feed/rss/
If you are scared about smb. stealing your content, you probably shouldn't put it on the Internet ;)

Tell that to the big broadcasting sites like NBC or The Daily Show.

Even though its technically possible to save their videos right now, they would be extremely reluctant to switch to a mechanism that would make it downright trivial.

Finally, it could end up being the iOS and Android mobile devices that push content providers towards HTML 5, figuring the benefits of streaming to mobiles offsets the perceived downside of making video easy to save to disk.
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I have seen that that's what I am talking about, it will be fun to play games on that phone because it has a nice controller, however not all Android 2.1+ Phones come with that, that is why I don't think this will be a hit until they manage to solve this problem on all phones.
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Steve Blank: The International Business Model Competition
what about TotalFinder? (warning: I'm the author, but I would still vote for it :-)
http://totalfinder.binaryage.com
You can.

So what if CSS doesn't have variables? We can add them. CSS is the format it has to reach the browser in, it's not the format we have to write in though. There are multiple projects out there for writing CSS at a higher level, which "compile" to CSS but let you use variables and things like that.
I thought the same thing, and was very skeptical about all this 'published for the first time!' as I could swear there was a fictional-historical movie made around the 60's based on the premise of Operation Mincemeat!
Living in a shared house (assuming no relationship with co-sharers) is a massive PITA, especially if you're as misanthropic as me. Sharing bathrooms, kitchen cleaning protocols, awkwardness / potential conflicts having guests stay over, ugh; it sucks. It's like living at home with your parents; better in some ways, worse in others, but a huge step below having one's own place.

But if you have a significant other, then I agree, sharing is a whole heap better.

We live in a 3-bedroom, two-story house with a back garden that runs down to the canal, and a view directly onto Victoria Park past the canal. It's about 25 minutes from almost anywhere in central London by scooter (to my mind, the best way to get around London). The house runs to only slightly more than 1000/month.
I'm not old till I hit 30 man...ages away
When it was published, EPR showed that action by contact (the separation principle) and the _completeness_ of QM can't both be valid.

Yes, that's the scientific conclusion. Actually, the history is a bit more muddled - EPR alone doesn't show this, strictly speaking. The EPR paper (1935) concludes with a statement that the authors believe a local and complete theory of QM is possible. We were not 100% certain it was impossible until the discovery of Bell's Inequality (1964, 9 years after Einstein's death). Einstein actually spent a lot of time searching for such a theory.

In addition to the scientific conclusions in the EPR paper, EPR also expressed some non-scientific beliefs. They believed that reality would eventually prove itself to be local and therefore that QM would be shown to be incomplete. From the original paper:

We are thus forced to conclude that the quantum mechanical description of physical reality given by wavefunctions is not complete [...] No reasonable definition of reality could be expected to permit this.

http://prola.aps.org/pdf/PR/v47/i10/p777_1
Exactly. People, especially here, try hard to justify their hatred for facebook. If this were foursquare finding a way to monetize their check-ins it would be praised.
What are your reasons for developing RoR on Netbeans?
I didn't imply they are not making money, I didn't even touch the financial side of this, I just said that the lack of "proper" game controllers is a limiting factor, which should be addressed.

> Given the rate smartphone sales and smartphone app sales grow, I don't think it will take a long time until mobile game sales with overtake console game sales.

I don't think we will see that anytime soon, you won't get big screen experience from mobile phones that you can get from playing on your favorite console on a Full HD screen.
Add Tutor Matching Service (http://tutormatchingservicellc.com/) to the list--they recently won the Cade Prize for Innovation in Gainesville FL.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100612/articles/6121010
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Oh cool, I didn't know that - thanks for clarifying. I'll update the post.
The government is now running prediction markets in several different branches (I know this because they're using our software - Inkling) and the TIA project comes up all the time in initial discussions. The comments however are usually that the idea was a good one and it was producing valuable information, they were just very tone deaf to perception issues.
Their subtle redesign is not so subtly broken on my android browser.
that looks really cool; half the reason I wrote this was to find out what gems I am missing.
My approach: http://jonasgalvez.com.br/Software/HCSS.html
Many sites do this, which is why when I'm on a public wireless setup (or other relatively untrusted network) nothing leaves my machine except through my OpenVPN setup.

Even if the login procedure were protected by HTTPS though, damage can still be done if the rest of the session reverts to plain HTTP, Someone sniffing the wireless (or the wire, for that matter) for usernames and passwords could equality sniff for session IDs and use them to mimic you in the web server's eye (so they can read your otherwise private data, posting as you, and so forth).

So if you are concerned that your login credentials are sent plain, you should be concerned that other data (session information specifically) is too.
Just realized I'm not a power user if I use Safari. Damn Apple.
Now you'll become powerer.

Btw, how would you assume that using threads instead of processes leads to less crashing?
Email away, but given that I work for Embarcadero from home, and my coworkers are located in California, I don't have much advice specific to the software industry locally; just generalities about London from the perspective of an Irishman, and thus the culture, frankly, is not terribly foreign.
Worthless flamebait.

You can embed other people's images, css and other files, the world still turns.
Worth pointing out that per his byline, this guy is a "Adobe platform evangelist".
A Boston VC hosts a Sales Execution Forum for Portfolio Senior Managers
This is an unhelpful comment.

The Policy Analysis Market was designed to allow registered traders (it was going to start as a market open only to select analysts, experts) to make money-backed predictions. That is, putting your money where you mouth is. It's a tool to filter noise and focus analysis, not fuel hedge funds.
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Is anybody still running a telnet daemon then?

Man, I can't even remember when I last used telnet to actually access a host rather than to use it to test if some text protocol worked as expected.

What's next? rsh?
Wow, thanks for this. I've been using a Mac since 2000, and never came across this gem.
Me too for: Safari, Dashboard Widgets, Spaces, iTunes, Terminal, Preview, iChat and Keychain.

Everything is very standard here in my world.
As a side note, the airport had at least one nude scanner when I flew out of it several years ago.
He removed the enamel from his artificial cap?
Indeed. People today expect to get paid for their creativity and the value they provide to customers or businesses, but they still expect to pay based on raw material cost. You can't have it both ways. It's silly to think you should get paid based on value but pay others based on cost.
I'll have to read it again a couple of times, but it seems to be a sort of incorrect mashing together and misunderstanding about the holographic principle related to black holes, and some other stuff.
That's why the "hacker" in Hacker News disturbed me at first. I believed this was more of a technical community and not a forum for future millionaires :)

But with some cognitive filtering it's not that bad ...
Rethinking 99 weeks of unemployment
I'm curious, how do you handle this? Do you have multiple machines? Do you use something like rsync?
A Case Study Examining Online Product Itteration
That looks like a great utility. I'm already planning a follow-up post based on what I've learned here!
Echoism - iphone app to make your face symmetrical
That's funny, I consider DDG's lack of "Instant" a feature.
Bad business, though: they lost a customer.
I find the "application > window" hierarchy breaks horribly Spaces: if you have two windows of the same application in two different spaces (for example, two terminals or two finders) and you focus one window in one space, you go to the other space where the other window was in background and you find it in foreground.

Because of this nuisance I never managed to get used to Spaces.

There are at least three applications where different windows are "morally" different applications: Terminal, Finder and web browser. I should be able to focus individual windows without bringing to foreground the whole application.
I think you only underscore his point further.
iTunes overall is the worst experience on a MAC. For any user who used Windows for a few years and jumps onto a MAC I would bet most find it frustrating! It takes so long to load up and then to transfer music to then listen ... uggh! Thus like the author of this article I use YouTube, Vevo and Pandora to listen to my music collection; either on my desktop or thru my iPhone.
Just lazy thinking when I drafted the post.
I bought TotalFinder last week, nice app, I usually uninstall these types of replacement apps after about 5 minutes but i'm very happy - keep up the good work!
There's plenty of affordable housing a stones throw away from London on the train if you're prepared to commute.

I did it for a couple of years (1 hour each way).
OK I guess it depends on how you define 'live in London', I guess. I used to live in Staines, but I hardly believe that moving to Staines represents the ambition of people saying the want to move to London because that's where the action happens. I admit I don't know that much about actual rental prices right now, but a cursory web search shows to me that my 1600 pounds is closer to the average for a 1-bedroom apartment than 800 pounds. 700 pounds is what an average apartment (nothing fancy) costs in my rural hometown in Belgium.
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And to remove the fact that you are committing suicide from your cosmic slate which may very well be against your religion.
If they really want to turn back the clock, they'll bring back Telenet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet
I was living in Stoke Newington 3 years ago with a couple, paying £585/mo for a first-story rowhouse flat with a backyard garden and a piano and an open invite to the older gentleman's main home in Seville, and was 2 blocks off of the A10, right on multiple rail lines to Central London. It's all in where you look.
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Hi Everyone - I am approaching the last year of my studies at university, I want to specialize in A.I. and spend my time building something very cool.

My question to you is : What A.I. project would you want to see built if you were given unlimited time and budget? Let your imagination run wild, and don't let your current preconceptions of what computers can and can't do stop your innovative ideas! Let me know!
CMD-` switches between application windows. That might help a bit, I use it constantly; so constantly in fact, that I remapped buffer switching in emacs to that command.
Startups are Media Companies Building a New Brand
Just like this one and that guy who wanted to block Firefox because of Adblock hurting ads revenue, people don't realize that as soon as you download a web page, you can do whatever you want with it.
You might want to check out Visor - http://visor.binaryage.com/ makes your terminal a roll-down fps-like console, and can handle all the tabs as well. I've found it very useful to solve the exact problem you're having.
There's a documentary (2009, imdb link: http://www.imdb.es/title/tt1344315/) called "Garbo, the Spy" (Garbo was one of his nicknames). It's in spanish but i'm pretty sure there are english subtitles on the DVD.

This work won the Goya (Spanish National Cinema Award) last year for better documentary.

I read the article and thought: "At least, some british recognition to Pujol" :-)
It seems that this is licenses sold rather than activations.

I'd be interested in knowing their total activations for the quarter though it's certainly lower.

Doesn't compare well with the 300,000 activations/day Google claim to be doing.
So, how about sending a text message to every phone every 5 minutes. Vendors could agree on a message they will ignore that will just set off the vibration motor in the phone. You'd have to hack the firmware to get around that, which I would consider beyond the skills of most bomb makers, if not all of them.

Of course it would take a few years to phase out all the old phones but you could then pretty much spot a potential bomber by checking the age of the IMEI.