skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some quibbles with the listed criteria, but I like the basic idea. When I was a pirate, I was a pirate of convenience. I barely pirate anything now that I have access to Amazon MP3, iTunes, and Netflix instant. The piracy I do partake in is mostly focused on ebooks since the Kindle store is so limited. But I also buy a lot of Kindle books when they are available.

I wonder if most pirates are pirates of convenience who will convert into paying customers if there is a convenient way to do so. I do get a little angry at content companies who are a decade behind the times in technology.
I'm really surprised that there are only three.
This can start a copyright flame, but in order to be fair, "steal" should be replaced with "copy".
A downside of this is that, for some problems, there are so many libraries to choose from that are working, documented, performant, supported, complete, etc. to varying degrees that the act of picking the best one for one's objectives is sheer impossible.

What makes this worse is that your "rotting" should be written without quotes. Most code rots incredibly fast, even if it is written to high standards. Your makefile may break, your dependencies may see an interface change, popular architectures may change (an .ini file for preferences?), etc.
Stupid ideas is all I have. Looking forward to the millions I'll be making soon. Thanks for the encouragement, Billy!
Cool project but your 'works with' icons are all in a big bunch here on Chrome. :-)
We considered many different authentications and chose Facebook and Twitter because they make it really easy to show avatars of the people who sign.

What alternatives would you suggest?
For background: I'm 23, starting my PhD. Have had about a year of industry work (including a game company - actual interesting work). I have a few startup ideas (trying hard to execute), and I'm interviewing with Google (although I failed last year, and I might just wanna do my PhD). I wasn't passionate about programming until last year actually, after I started reading more.

People say that the smartest people are uncertain of their own abilities, because they see the bigger picture. They are the ones that can see just how deep this rabbit hole goes. Infinity can be a daunting thing. I guess it can either make you give up, or push harder.

I'd hazard a guess to say you are on track (although who am I to say) :) never become a senior developer, just move along the spectrum of a curious, 'young' programmer mind.

Happy birthday in a couple of months :)
Canada support?
That algorithm is really only rational if the $100k in question is strings-free cash, which this isn't.
"Hey RIAA lawyers, here's a list of people who download movies!"
I really don't like the "don't make me steal" attitude. It undermines a good society.

The creators of this campaign decided that "Purchase should not exceed the cinema price." Really? What if we did that for, say, organic bread. "I won't buy organic bread unless it's x3 or less than the cost of the generic white bread. If it is more expensive, I'm entitled to steal it."

Sorry folks, you're entitled to not buy it, not to steal it.
There is, but it's not easily to digest at the moment. You need the Browserscope key + Google's visualization library. You can reference https://github.com/mathiasbynens/benchmark.js/blob/master/pl...
A simple registration form with some default avatars would be ideal, in my opinion.
No it wouldn't, because the people companies make money from aren't willing to stop watching movies.

It would be like saying "I won't walk outside until the city cleans the streets!" It's a promise a majority of people simply won't, or can't, keep.
Ask HN: Recommend a delayed payment solution please
Hi,

I am building a site at the moment where I will be acting as the middleman in the transaction (a listing and a buyer scenario).

I want to be able to delay the charging of the buyer's card until a verification of the listing has been done, say upto 10 days later. However I don't really want to get into a whole Credit card compliance situation so wondered if anyone could recommend a service.

I have looked at Amazon Flexible Payment Service which would fit the bill perfectly but it's not available to non US citizens at present.

Any ideas would be welcome, thanks.
Daniel just posted this via Twitter: http://cl.ly/1D440f190n2n2g2K2K28.
These guys have been mapping the IPv4 space via ping over time (since 2003) and have an interactive browsable map that also shows blocks marked for localhost/private networks/multicast, etc and which registrars control which regions. It is pretty neat. Most recent data is Nov 2010. Since then the 11 /8 blocks that show as free have been allocated.

http://www.isi.edu/ant/address/
Never mind that demographic -- I'm a web developer, and I typed in the .com version when I tried to view the site on my iPhone. Doh!

(And then the page load took 20+ seconds -- iPhone 4 on wifi -- and I stopped looking entirely.)
In the context of downloading movies not buying is the same as "stealing".
Interesting story. He said/she said stories like this, though, are often difficult to parse. Regardless of what is fact, what is fiction and what is in between, the allegedly sheisty developer Daniel Pasco seems pretty flippant:

http://twitter.com/#!/dlpasco

>> My side of this story is actually pretty funny. May tell it sometime.

This type of attitude seems like a poor response when your business is dependent on clients. I certainly wouldn't want to work with someone who, when our working relationship gets difficult, treats the issue as a joke.
There, made it up for you ;)
One point that I hasn't thought of until it happened to me: I took my car in to be serviced. My primary email address is on a .org domain. I read out the email address, and the .org bit completely flummoxed the person booking my car in, and she must see 20+ people a day with email addresses. She wrote "<myname>@<mydomain>." and paused. I repeated, "dot org", and she continued to type ".org.com".

I think with a purely technical audience, you have much more freedom with the TLD. However with anything less, you may struggle. Remember even popular non-.com's like Wikipedia are probably accessed much more via Google than by typing wikipedia.org.
I think your point about the 'generational' vs. 'pan-generational' is slightly off, but at the same time may point to one of the big differences in culture of the two companies.

MySpace was/is a marketing tool for bands and eventually celebrity (very LA, very limited lifespan).

Facebook was about YOU and YOUR friends. Only once Facebook had fostered a deep connection between you and your friends did they expand into a platform for other types of services.

I don't think facebook was built as a 'data-play' from the ground up, but Zuckerberg worked with what he is comfortable with and was surrounded by, data.
MySpace founders Chris and Tom likely worked with what they were comfortable with and surrounded by, celebrity.
Really wish it worked with TD Business Direct.
Sorry, but it just sounds like entitled whining. No one has an inherent right to watch any movie, no matter how much they love them, and it's not a necessity.
When a field like apps is so new, the effort required to innovate is low. People bring their expectations about the level of effort from areas where expertise is well developed. Think of databases and algorithms. Eventually novelty apps will have to become pretty sophisticated (if they haven't already).
A good example would require an entire source tree, as the full technique requires a different structure and flow of code for the entire application. That's why I found it a bit hard to fit into an article. Anyway, I'll give a shot at giving a more concrete example here.

Very naïve code might do something like this:

function render_some_info($imageid) {
$image = ImageFactory::get($imageid);
echo '<div class="container">';
echo '<img src="',$image->get_src(),'">';
echo '</div>';
}

You get the data about the image in the ImageFactory call and output it on the spot. In a better MVC architecture, that factory call would be in a controller. But for the sake of the argument, lets imagine that you couldn't predict that $imageid early enough, it came from another data fetching/logic.

What we would do with datex would look like that:

function render_some_info($imageid) {
$datex = new_datex();
echo '<div class="container">';
$datex->merge(new ImageDatum($imageid));
echo '</div>';
return $datex->end();
}

The datex object captures the DOM output, and the datum object, keeping the order. The datum object is just a shell, it contains only the $imageid at this point, nothing else.

The $datex object returned by this method, is then merged into the general output tree that represents your page.

Processing continues until you've built your entire page. You still haven't touched the DB or cache for anything about that $imageid.

Then the resolving phase happens, you traverse your $datex tree object, that contains your entire page, and you look for all objects of type ImageDatum. Say you have 10 of them, you get the $imageid they contain, remove the dupes, then you do your efficient one-time DB query that gets the URL data for all these images at once. You iterate through all the ImageDatum objects and give them the data they need.

Once you've ran out of datum objects that needed data, you know that they're all resolvable (populated). You run through the $datex tree once more, you echo all the DOM you find, and you call ->render() on all the objects you find. In the case of ImageDatum your render() method will look like:

function render() {
echo '<img src="',$this->src,'">';
}

Where the $src member was populated by the resolving phase of datex (right after hitting the DB once).

Does that give you a better idea, or do I need to go into more details about this specific example?
Entrepreneurs Who Create Value vs. Entrepreneurs Who Lock Up Value
Why is the most important point made last?
>People with the mathematical maturity to understand it don't really need the "review".

I don't really think that holds water. I read through the document and understood perfectly everything it said, but I couldn't have told you right before reading it how the variance of a distribution is defined.

Plus, even if everyone's up to date on probability, the doc defines the notation the course will use. It's unlikely that people with different backgrounds all share common notation and (to some extent) terminology. 229 is a class for grad students as well as "advanced undergrads", so much of the class won't have learned probability in the same place. Hell, I took probability at Stanford, and if we ever used omega to denote an outcome space, I don't remember it.
Sounds like Casasanta gave them fair warning. Public fistfights like this, though, are pretty obnoxious.
Email address + gravatar.
Interesting to note that he says "best products" and not "best companies."
Replace "stealing" with "watch it without paying".
Also see http://blognewcomb.squarespace.com/essays/2010/10/14/cult-cr... about how to bootstrap a culture and/or cult.
MagicRuby, Fri-Sat. http://magic-ruby.com/

It's not about "social coding" per-se, but it's in Orlando and it's FREE.
RIAA = Record Industry Association of America
MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
I'm not defending Jim Cramer. But Jim Cramer made his fortunes as a young guy day trading, read his biography, he comes across as a buffoon, but he only does that to categorize his show as "entertainment". This way he can get around the SEC law which prohibits people from rallying the people over a public medium to manipulate a stock up or down.

Love him or hate him, the guy is a genius. Personally I think he's using the TV to make profit off the viewers trading, but if you are savvy you can trade with Cramer (what he really does, rather than what he says to do).
Curious to see if hipmunk expands to other travel products. Tapping GDS systems for inventory should be relatively easy (ex any subscription fees). The challenge will be creating a UI that can correctly convey the value of those additional products.

Airfare really only has a few value variables (price, duration, departure/arrival date, and stops) that are clearly objective. Expanding into other travel products (hotels, packages) and you start adding many more variables and subjective value.
whats up jefe!
According to the Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick, for most of the first 6 months of Facebook, while the site was been growing at Harvard and during the first summer in California, the Facebook crew still did think of Facebook as just a project or maybe a fad, which is one of the reasons they spent so much time on Wirehog, a short lived peer-to-peer file sharing program. However, supposedly shortly after the first investment from Thiel that fall and with a lot of pushing from Sean Parker, Zuckerberg and his crew did lay out the entire multi-year plan for Facebook including photo albums, the news feed, the platform, and Connect.
What is "TIL"?
Most likely. My understanding is that some ISP's are already giving customers RFC 1918 private addresses and NAT'ing them out to the Internet.
direct link to the post, instead of the page of the blog: http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=242
Email address with gravatar
My first result was tweetrage.com. Which if anybody has an idea for, I think is an awesome domain!
The last one with an exact URL match was ~1 year ago. On the other hand, I just tried submitting a URL that someone else submitted 5 minutes, previous and HN translated that into an up-vote for the pre-existing submission.
Age is a strawman. When I started reading HN I thought, yeah, I've missed the boat by 10 years (I'm 28). But this isn't dealing with reality.

If you can change your situation or tolerate the changes creating a startup will introduce (working after hours, quitting your job, making contacts, whatever you choose), you can do it.

My story: I initially went, fine, I'm too old and I can't program so I'm out. This was a waste. When I sat down and genuinely looked at it I have basically the same profile as a graduate (single, educated, no major bad debt), but with the bonus of what the last 8 years in a corp setting has brought to me (insight, GFC, some usable assets, project management skills, etc).

Pathway after throwing out the age idea was simple - what are my skill sets? What resources do I have? What am I willing and realistically able to do? What will I enjoy? How much profit do I want from this? Will it be a fulltime job?

Now I'm into doing a volume of freelance art, and moving the completed work into merchandising and passive revenue ideas (prints, licensed work, etc). It's not the traditional "startup" type thing, but the plan is to expand it into a standalone business of some form once it builds a head of capital up.

Basically, do whatever you can stomach, and don't use age as an excuse. Building your venture / new life will probably take a few years anyhow, so will it bother you if you're 32 and still building something? 38? 45? Or would it bother you more to _wait_ until you're 45 to start?
If I could watch content on Hulu, Netflix or other in Linux and I didn't want to throw myself in front of the lunatic-driven University bus, I'd be happy.

TPB -> "The Italian Job" + 3 hours = me happy. There is NO legal alternative for me. No, I'm not walking 30 miles to Best Buy to waste $30 on a DVD that won't play in my computer that doesn't have a DVD drive. And I don't consider running Win7 in a VM to be reasonable at all.
hi! to you too

that way i know a bunch of VC :) Even my VC-handshaking friends after founding/CTOing several startups, still so far ended up like me - architectors or principal level engineers in established companies.
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Is it really a startup? Really?
Dyslexia? Just wanted to make sure you know it should be "ads free," not "adds free."
Privatevoid.com came in second place... that one just sounds dirty to me.
My partner Dave asks when we can expect the MPAA/RIAA to put up "DON'T MAKE US SUE".
You're entitled to watch organic bread without paying.

The problem with comparing content piracy with theft of physical objects is that the latter are scare and the former is not. I'm not trying to justify content piracy, I'm just saying that you-wouldn't-download-a-car analogies are invalid.
In the context of going out to dinner not buying is the same as "stealing".

I think we can do this all day.
I don't think these are really fair to include in the criteria:

"I have access to the audio in every language that has been produced." and "Once I bought a movie, I can watch it in every available language."
I'll better sign a petition that is like: letmebuy.com, and the only clause will be

"Outside US we are people too. Here, take our hard-earned money"
This post is specifically about the media industry and being a freelancer, but I think the mindset illustrated (creative ideas about what works is and the path to success) is incredibly important to finding fulfilling, well-compensated work anywhere these days, whether you're an entrepreneurial type or not.
Related info for those unaware... you can now buy the Zork Anthology at gog.com
great, maybe now I won't get email or InMail from Google recruiters who employ "passive recruiting" techniques anymore...
Devil’s Bargain
APNIC is expected to run out sooner than October. October is on the high end of predictions, with some predicting as early as May based on burn rate. Two different sources:

http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/rir.jpg (probability distribution per-month)

http://www.tndh.net/~tony/ietf/IPv4-rir-pools.jpg

The entire point of this exercise is to raise awareness. The IPv4 reserves are depleted, and the five regions are now chewing on the crumbs. Granted, this isn't shit hitting the fan -- however, preparations for shit hitting the fan must be on everybody's radar right now.

Huge changes to infrastructure, which honestly should have been completed years ago, do not happen overnight. That's why this is news.
How did you learn design?
Test it out: Twitter and Facebook Media/Content Search(ish)
A narrative discourse on the widespread belief that your idea will be stolen
Thanks for the advise. I too think that partnership with a designer is a great thing. Things keep changing and you need more design help when you are iterating through ideas.
The implication is that by signing the petition, my intent is to "steal" a movie unless certain terms are met. No, thanks.
Alta Vista had a great search engine in the 90's. Google could have easily said "search is obvious, it's been done." Obviously this is a very extreme example, but almost every business will have some aspect that's "been done."

In fact, as an entrepreneur, you almost always want it to have been done before. It is much easier to say "Amazon wish lists specifically for expectant parents" than it is to try to define a totally new market.

Start-ups are created and thrive in those pockets of inefficiency that large corporations leave in their wake. The best entrepreneurs use that as leverage rather than shying away from it.
Another factor was the really short time we had for development, so implementing those two allow us to cover the largest part of our target audience with a simple UI.
AVC: Falling In Love With Twitter All Over Again
I think family or a startup would be the most likely factors to keep me out of retirement.

In reality, retirement would just mean being much choosier about my projects and spending more time on open source.

I grok ya.
So, you're saying, if a company is successful at creating and marketing its product and I don't like the price I can steal it?
Unraveling Speedups:  Two Important Questions
Because importance is subjective :)
Magnetic levitation and ferrofluid
PG was 30 when he started with Viaweb. I wouldn't worry about being 26.
Exactly. The "best companies" start out with "passionate people" behind the "product" and the "best products" typically start out as a "feature" that solves a problem or improves another solution.
I think the proper response would be to point them to this
I find it amusing that second-rate grammar (loose/lose) and spelling is the norm for some communities, but the second this topic comes up, everyone turns into a armchair semantic guru.
You're pretending that this argument is about people who want to "stream Netflix 24 hours a day" and that everyone in the country will be doing so.

And even if people tried to stream Netflix 24 hours a day, it makes more sense to throttle the connection then to just toss around ridiculous overage charges as if the problem is the amount of data being downloaded in a month is the problem rather than the amount of bandwidth being consumed at peak times.

Sure, people can increase their cap by buying the "insurance", but with the low level caps, that basically becomes the true price of the connection for anyone who isn't using their internet for trivial uses (from a bandwidth) perspective. It's there in the hopes that you worry about going over your cap and being screwed in charges rather than as some benevolent gesture on the part of the ISPs. If they had any decency, they would just automatically upgrade your connection to the higher level if you go over the initial cap. Why is that such an unreasonable action to take?
The whole "languages" section sounds like it was written by somebody with no understanding of how dubbing is produced, who pays for it, and the issues that arise with the rights to these different versions of a film. Often it gets even more complicated with TV Shows.

Convenience? Now you're getting completely unreasonable. If you can't filter by all metadata you're going to "steal"? Come on...
This is kind of a hack with an older side project (FriendShuffle).

Try searching for keywords and playing around with those results (it is searching through status updates so keep that in mind when choosing your search terms).

Try out the example links below the search bar (Japanese Game Shows, etc.).
Great site. What are some of the libraries you're using for this site besides using Ruby on Rails? It would be great if you can share on a broad level. I'm always intrigued by the speed of development with other solutions than using .net.
Here's what I really don't understand. What exactly do they believe gives them the "right" to watch a given movie / tv show?
How about just asking for a name and email like everything else?