skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The final paragraph is somewhat ominous:

"APNIC reiterates that IPv6 is the only means available for the sustained ongoing growth of the Internet, and urges all Members of the Internet industry to move quickly towards its deployment."

In other words, as wmf has already said, IPv6 isn't here. But it needs to be, and soon, otherwise the game is very rapidly going to be up.
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The post you linked went out of its way not to identify the person in question, but to limit itself to a description of the circumstances and ask for general advice. To equate this with 'name and shame' graffiti is neither accurate nor helpful.
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This Egyptian situation puts new perspective on Malcolm Gladwell's popular article, "The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted". I'm not sure how it applies (if at all) - but it's interesting that the revolution comes from the fact that people really can't tweet (or use the internet, more importantly). Would love to hear 2nd thoughts from people here RE: that article.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_...
This is the first time I've seen the optional conversion into Series AA at a $5 million valuation. If it's optional at the company's option, that eliminates the one and only risk I could think of: the lender calling back the principal + interest of the note. At 2% interest, that's just another 3.12% dilution to the founder(s) on top of YC's 2-6% (source: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...).

So, unless I'm missing something, worst case is you get into YC, you get $165K, and you still own ~90% of your company. That's a no-brainer deal.
Packets != Electricity -- in boston, I'm not getting electricity generated in california.

When we send a package the price consists of 3 things - size, distance, and speed. I think that's a much better way of thinking about bandwidth than electricity is.

Peering agreements can be seen as one UPS taking my package to memphis and then fedex taking it to an area that only they serve. If fedex and UPS have similiar amount of packages going between them then they may decide to not bother charging each other. However, if fedex decides to reduce their territory to only major factories (CDNs) then all of a sudden the amount of packages they're sending over UPS gets out of equilibrium and UPS may decide to charge them for their delivery service.
Yes, those are the common reasons that founders hesitate to sell. I'm sympathetic, especially with the developing part -- superficially it seems like optimal outcomes are generated by everyone focusing on their core skills.

But the first major sales are almost always going to come from a founder and/or CEO. So even if the optimal choice is not you, it's probably at least one of the founders; he/she may be very uncomfortable in the role but should be able to do it. (By the way, I'd speculate that the optimal person is you, not either of them.)

There are a few exception cases, where someone delegated to a sales person and it worked out. But I think this is a case where those are truly rare exceptions.

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/10/12/startup-sales-...

http://steveblank.com/2009/09/07/the-customer-development-ma...
The names are of South Asian origin, are they not? I don't know what I am meant to infer from them.
I'm actually serious in my curiosity: why do you care what language something is written in, as long as it work and is efficient enough for your use case? Why does it matter that these other programs were written in (I don't see why you said "for", so I'm going to use "in") Ruby?

(The wish to control the syntax is fair, I'm just curious why you threw in that other reason regarding languages.)
Or just number them. All I have to do to change "tags" (loosely analogous, but actually far more powerful...) in my window manager is whack meta-#. The user is free to visualize this however they choose...
It's of note that those comments were on a HN story that was posted by pinksoda, is hosted on sinkfloat.com, and has BrianHolt responding in the comments as the subject of the article. That alone seems to link them all together and make the whole thing fishy.
This is something I really like about Tweetdeck. You could add the Egypt twitter feed as a "column", which would be a list of tweets alongside your main feed, so you can more easily follow both.

If you're on the move a lot, you can sync your columns across computers / phones, but that does involve trusting them with some of your account details.
Here, yes, but not particularly wide-spread and slowly becoming more necessary.

A little tool I built last week .. is your site IPv6 ready? http://ready.chair6.net
Why is it okay to do bad things if others do it too?
This is one of the reasons I've never liked (and never used) Spaces. I think this would be a better solution, even if it meant making the max number of spaces be four.
I like the bounty idea and it could be a way to monezite the app if you can get traction. Didn't mean to be harsh in my earlier comments I just hadn't gotten a good idea of what you guys were thinking of providing. Good luck!
This is a good reminder for us tech-savvy people: there's a HUGE untapped market of people out there who either don't have a computer or barely know how to use one. More importantly, they're not stupid or unworthy of your time -- they often need the same tools and information that we do, only simplified and streamlined.
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They already are numbered; you can choose to use Control, Command or Alt + the number to switch.
Yeah really. It may take some thought but there's often a way to solve their problem!
You're right, that was an ageist thing to say, and I'm sorry I said it. My point is just as valid without it.
How is HN not a common-carrier if its users decide to police themselves to a certain extent? This wasn't posted by 'HN Staff.'
The forger's story
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Chrome didn't ask me anything, but I will say that the font is hideous (on my computer, at least) for headings and when highlighted.
S4 adds Hadoop Interop, Scala PEs
No, what yters is saying is that governments installed via revolutions tend to be worse than the ones that they replaced. Governments can and often do get better over time, but through gradual change rather than violent revolution.

On the other hand sometimes revolutions do produce better governments. I think Indonesia kicking out the Soehartos and installing a fairly reasonable democracy is a good recent example.

I'm not sure the American Revolution counts as a revolution at all -- it was more of an independence movement, and I think these tend to have a better record than true revolutions.
Huh. I guess I'm not really getting why the author thinks this "No matter which space I am in, the keyboard shortcut to move to any other space is always the same." is a big gain then. If he really likes arrow keys so much I'm sure he can just remap the shortcuts to get the effect he's describing.
I think Spaces is dead. I doesn’t really fit anywhere in the vision of the desktop Apple showed off in the Lion sneak peak, Apple might have decided to quietly drop it. The new fullscreen mode might take its place.

Spaces wasn’t mentioned in the demo at all and it would be very inelegant to just tack it on top of the concept Apple has for the desktop. I will be surprised if it is still there when Lion arrives.

Multitouch gestures to switch between spaces (instead of fullscreen apps as was demoed in the sneak peak) would be pretty cool but I’m not holding my breath.

Apple does like to drop nerdy features few people use from time to time. The only thing that gives me pause is that they also seem quite happy to keep at least some of them around. The screen corners would be one example. (Then again, screen corners don’t change the whole desktop around.)
"Circle of Trust" ... tee hee, now that was a great movie
Funny and emotional 1 hour lecture about how startups are already a form of socialism and a magic cure for our economic ills http://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/f35gs/capital...

Not sure how widespread this view is among economists and government officials. When campaigning at Google's HQ, Obama said something like tech is the only sector of our economy that's growing, he'd like to replicate that success. Some people focus on the organization style of startups, but it might have more to do with the fundamental properties of "information technology," where it's easy to make and distribute incremental improvements.
Great read. Thanks
Divisions and collaborative ventures that start in a large companies' research lab and eventually split off or are sold to another party are not startups.
I think the events in Tunisia and Egypt show just how wrong that perspective is. Twitter and social media in general are in their infancy and yet already are having such a massive impact on social change around the world.

The ability to communicate thoughts, events, instantaneously, as they happen, and from the people actively involved in those events around the world, is unprecedented in human history.

The revolution has been tweeted. It does not depend solely on twitter and the like, but these are not tools to be underestimated.

Just compare the quality of the content you're getting by following people actively engaged in the revolution on twitter, with what you see on CNN. This is revolutionary.
IPv6 is in no sense here. The fiat allocators can exhaust their address space completely and the Internet will continue to function indefinitely; it will simply become more expensive (first marginally, and then significantly) to hold a static address.

There are deep problems with universal deployment of IPv6 far beyond simply getting people to throw a switch; the number of popular software packages that will malfunction when addresses cease being representable in scalar integers is large.
The standard answer to "I have a high traffic site in a vertical which is awash in cash and AdSense is not an option" is affiliate ads. In particular, if your site is trusted, you can bolt on a section with more commercially oriented content (such as, e.g., reviews of exercise- or diet-related info products) and rank on the strength of trust built through your non-commercial content.

You can do more or less of this depending on how comfortable you are with slinging snake oil. For example, I note you have content like http://healthlifeandstuff.com/2010/07/acai-berry-and-weight-... Presumably if you've looked into that you understand, yep, snake oil. Now previously, what was happening with your AdWords ads was you were a) ranking for snake oil and b) referring people to advertisers of snake oil who then c) did rebill fraud on them.

Another option is to use one of the numerous Wordpress plugins to do your own self-hosted ad system, and either a) let people buy ads on your site (they'll mostly be affiliates) at whatever rates you specify or b) either use provided creatives or make your own for affiliate products which you are comfortable selling.
it's interesting that the revolution comes from the fact that people really can't tweet (or use the internet, more importantly)

I think people are overestimating the importance of the internet here. The fact that the internet has been turned off seems to be pretty low on the list of greivances. The skyrocketing price of food would (for instance) seem to be a much more important driving factor.
I have 6 spaces. How would this solution work for that?
Interesting. Even though my personal opinion on HF trading is that it is a disease that is at the core of rotting out our financial system.
Look at ohm and ohm-contrib on GitHub. That's an awesome layer for redis. Essentially they do what your describe which is use an additional keyspace for storing indices you want. It takes full advantage of the native redistribution datatypes to do it. I pretty much love ohm because of how close to bare redis they keep it.
What if the revolution is successful but the current government is replaced with something far worse? Would you want to be part of a company that encouraged that?
As someone who uses multiple tagged desktops in Awesome on Arch Linux, but doesn't even use spaces on Mac, can anyone tell me why I should, and is it better or worse than Awesome's multiple desktops?
It would be interesting if the results from the clients are cached, as it would speed up rendering for _everyone_. Something like MapRejuice.

But yes, figuring out whether the client output can be trusted is an interesting problem in itself. :-)
This idea breaks down pretty quickly when you add more spaces. I use 9 spaces on my macbook pro and have created multi-touch swipe motions to move me in any virtual direction I want. The simpler solution is to just make the spaces an infinitely wrapping plane like playing asteroids.

For any one who thinks that 9 is too many spaces, back when I used lower resolution PC's I actually had a tool called JSpager that gave me 12-16 different 'spaces' and a miniview in the corner with views of the layouts in each space, and I could easily keep track of everything.
Somebody said it days ago, we should use our email address as openID and every big email provider should comply with openid standards. Problem solved.
So the real reason it failed is because it was a purely technical solution and didn't have a canonical usability example?

Or maybe that big sites like Facebook decided it would remove the monetization opportunities by creating their own universal login?
Can we really trust the cloud?
I have to disagree,the emphasis on entering these incubators is overhyped at best.I know plenty of ambitious and driven entrepreneurs with resourceful ideas and business plan that bother never to enter into these programs.Simply because the process they utilize to choose a certain party to enter into the program is flawed in many degrees.
Can I add that, if you go after these markets, rather than competing against web-savvy startups and Microogle you'll instead be ROFLstomping grossly inferior solutions which are offered by companies with no interest or expertise in web marketing?
The not-for-profit I do work for has a lot of similar-sounding exercises. They're all written in Java (right now), but I'm working with our devs to get lots of them converted to JS/HTML5.

http://shodor.org/interactivate

Drop me a line; I'd be interested in what you all are working on.
Can you contact us at support@letslunch.com? We have a handful of sporadic bug reports like these. And of course, everytime I test it on my end, it works fine :-) There's a reason Murphy is famous...
The language Egyptians speak is Arabic. Voice recognition software for that language does exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAKHR_Software_Company#Speech_R...
Paypal, Visa, Amazon took political positions in the WikiLeaks case. But you didn't like it because it went against your politics.

Amiright?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party
Thinking out loud for #4. If YC becomes the major choke point. I can then see the emergence of another "Pre YC" stage forming. In this stage you are mentored (by perhaps YC alumnus) to maximize your chances of becoming funded by YC. Eventually certain organization will then again stand out as producing the highest rate/number of YC funded talents and becomes the new choke point... and then the process repeats for the YC of YCs?
I actually feel bad for the Excel devs. In my friend's experience, the relatively modern features that MS introduced into Excel like named cell references were deliberately avoided because they smacked of "programming" and "made things too complicated"...so it seems like the Excel guys lose no matter what.

But with something like making the formula editor reasonable, I think they do have some blame. Excel costs a heck of a lot more than notepad and it is billed as being a serious tool for professionals to use.
I don't understand why the victim of a crime is being given a hard time.

Scenario: I own a safe with all my personal information locked inside of it; a Safe Cracker (let's call him...Chris) comes along a cracks me safe. Chris call me as says to me 'yeah, I cracked your safe if you don't hire my company to fix you safe's vulnerability maybe your personal information might get out.'

Who is the bad guy in that situation the dope with the safe, with a 1-2-3-4 combination or the guy who takes the dopes information and attempts to use it for his own personal gain.

NOTE: To anyone who still thinks the dope is more to blame; please send me your address i'll rob your apartment/house then sell your things back to you (don't worry I'll also sell you new locks).
Do you think that Facebook starting to add more and more features that people might find creepy (it could take a while) can negatively impact its progress?
Let's just remember that taking sides = enabling free speech in this case.
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Singh certainly is. Abdelkarim Mardini appears to be an Arabic name and may very well be Egyptian.

Wait, yes, he's Egyptian: http://www.google.com/profiles/ak.mardini?hl=en
I would love to hear feedback on this blog from entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs alike.
A useful tool for saving a bit of time during research. Can't wait to see what might happen with added group functions!
Having read the entire original post, I'm somewhat inclined to agree with you.

HN doesn't purport to be a programmer/money matching service, in this case it's pretty unclear what the original payments were for, and what either party expected from it.

In all reality, you're better off with dedicated outsourcing sites rather than informal relationships created between usernames found on this site.

So the warning stands, but it's pretty irrelevant as someone who has seen fit to create multiple identities would have no problem creating another clean identity to work with. However, I think this post (and the others) are a bad precedent. I'd hate to see an avalanche of 'so and so did me wrong' type posts.

The only thing that people should get from this is that you can't trust anyone you 'meet' over the internet until you have gotten to know them better. Trust no-one, verify everything. Don't do business on the basis of IM conversations. Make it clear and understand what you're delivering. A contract doesn't have to be written by a lawyer (although lawyers make better contracts) but any contract should at least state the terms of the agreement. You make x for y$ and ownership belongs to me. Anything else is just he-said she-said complaining.
Yeah, that one got me too.
Ask HN: What do you wish you could measure/track...
.. better, or differently?

Thank you.
It's not necessarily an improvement. Sure, for navigation it makes things easier in the 4 workspace situation. However if you're using expose function in spaces, you'll have to have a 3x3 grid of tiles displayed like so:

oxo
xox
oxo

(where x is a "space", and o is just blank). The reduction in screen use might not be worth the boost in key-based navigation (especially since in the best case, this redesign only saves you a single keystroke [moving diagonally in the current scheme]). With this 'fix' in place, you'll have screen previews that are 33% smaller than they were originally, which may very well make things difficult to find in the expose overview.
IA Ventures is looking for an unpaid VC intern in NYC. I'm not affiliated with them, but I thought it was a cool opportunity.

https://spreadsheets1.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHVKUzBYYk...
I'm a little puzzled by peoples' fears about "the cloud." Frankly, I'd far rather store my data in a distributed system, accessible by all my devices, rather than storing everything in a single losable/stealable/breakable device like a laptop. It's the whole "don't put all your eggs in one basket" maxim, really.

Also, I do believe this article makes a critical error citing the failure of cloud services when events like Egypt's internet shut-down rendered Dropbox and like services useless: as far as I can tell, Dropbox stores a unique instance of every file both in the cloud and off-cloud alike. I.e., I can still access my Dropbox files even when without an internet connection.

Similarly, should my laptop be stolen or lost, I can easily wipe the instanced data on the laptop by accessing my Dropxbox account via dropbox.com from any other device.

Besides, if the fear of cloud storage is that data may be compromised, wasn't it even more of a risk back in the day to carry papers and documents in briefcases? Or to transmit important documents by train? Frankly, I think cloud solutions are far less risky than their offline counterparts.

So... am I missing something?
Even better - 4th graders in my school ran the cookie business as part of the curriculum. Each week, one student was the "manager" who would supervise the baking of cookies in one corner of the classroom.

Initially, shares were offered to the class for $5 each, 2 per student maximum. I thought it was a dumb idea so I didn't ask my parents for the $10. That capital was used to purchase the ingredients (by that manager's mom, reimbursed), and the manager and his/her deputy would supervise the baking of the cookies each morning and would sell them at lunchtime for 15 cents each.

The assets of the company were liquidated at the end of the year and each $5 share was worth $70. I've been overoptimistic about entrepreneurship ever since, probably to compensate for missing out on having $140 of fuck-you-money in 4th grade.
To call these people Duct tape programmers because of one SQL injection weakness is somewhat unfair. Writing code isn't hard. Writing code that works is harder. Writing code that's bug free is very hard. Writing code that is not only functionally bug free but non-functionally bug free (including security as a non-functional requirement) is ridiculously and ludicrously hard.

It's only because some frameworks do 90% of the heavy lifting (and parameterised queries for the 5 extra percent that's not covered) that we don't see SQL injection as much as we used to.

This week it was PoF. Previously it's been Twitter, Facebook, even HN. Are the people behind these Duct tape programmers?

I'm going to touch on how hard security can be in my talk at http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/ - if there are any London-based HN readers that are going, I look forward to seeing you all there.
I agree because TC seems to only focus on big business and well known startups.So I'm definitely for this idea.
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All Arabic is not the same, it's not always even interunderstandable so it's important to distinguish which dialect you are referring to.

But I did not not know about them, and I did search. Perhaps Google doesn't either.
Ok, ipv6 is here. Or not. Anyway, when is Amazon going to support ipv6 on ec2?
This sounds reasonable to me.
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/images/news/blackberry7200.jpg
Here is a link to the relevant feature request (although it is a sin to call this a feature) in the feature requests thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499851
I take that back. I had no idea that {"a" 1 "b" 2} works when I made that comment.
The purpose of the system is to circumvent the government's control over communication, so it is inherently anti-government.
Tell PG: apps.ycombinator.com duplicate content showing up in Google first
For some of my recent Google searches that have resulted in HN comments pages, I'm being sent to apps.ycombinator.com instead of news.ycombinator.com (and I'm also not logged in, as a result). Just thought you should know...
I think the Egyptian government wants to prevent "the people" from using the Internet as a tool organise themselves. A hand full of people with satellite Internet access is not going to make a massive impact.

But I see your point. I think there will be more hackers getting into this satellite technology just in case it happens to us. Because of this happening in Egypt, other countries will be better prepared (hopefully).