skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were going to setup a 'minor league' (Michael kept referring to it as that internally, and it started long before this talk) blog that simply listed every new startup launch. That ended up becoming Crunchbase.

A whole team were hired to enter the data and keep it up to date, and new startups are still go into Crunchbase, just the output is not very good. There was going to be a feed of all new added companies in Crunchbase that would feature on TC.com.

The prob is that as a tech blog you can't ignore Apple, Google etc. The audience for news around those companies is 10x what the audience for startup news is (it is also 10x larger than the audience for more technical writing is)

The large audience traffic spikes that Techcrunch had through its history were all from stories that broke news about Apple, Google, YouTube, Twitter etc.

I think the new blogs can do both, just turn the dial more towards startups and more dev/tech.
I assume that this is from the same people that bring us Spreedly? http://spreedly.com

Or am I wrong?
Your copy needs work. Most importantly, you need to state what Spreedly Core is before the vague marketing gobbet. Even,

"Spreedly Core is <5-10 word description>. // With Spreedly Core you can focus on who you want to charge when, and we'll take care of the rest. [...]"
Nice try, Linode.
You can feed the accelerometer data into the Kalman filter as well. However, since it's much more noisy than the GPS data, it won't give you any real benefit.

Where people would like this is to do dead reckoning when a GPS position isn't available (e.g. in tunnels). However, it turns out that it is completely useless for that, for the exact reasons the GP describes.
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What Spreedly is offering (transparent post to payment processor, redirect back to retailer) is the same as what Braintree is already offering with PCI compliance built in.

That said, we're not happy with Braintree since they messed up an account transfer of ours.

The biggest point I'd like to make is that it sucks once you've got your customers in a recurring plan (Spreedly, Braintree, PayPal, etc). If you're not storing their card numbers, the attrition rate should you choose to change processors is unknown and possibly greatly damaging.
When HN first started it was kind of like r/truereddit but with an emphasis on startups. HN today has almost nothing in common with this. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I don't think it's correct to say that the quality level is just an oscillation.
How long does it take to generate the report? I just submitted one url and after several minutes it was still loading.
That's hair splitting terminology. If you say or do something which you know the majority of people will find offensive, then that's effectively giving offense.

You didn't answer the original question, either: would you drop the phrase "Sorry, nigger." into casual conversation? If not, why not?
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Can I submit a bug report? The code says:

> the ending is still a state of limbo

Limbo is a world which allegorically represents the mortal world (Matthew 7.24). The ending is a heaven sequence. Cobb demonstrates faith by rejecting Mal and then sacrifices his life to rescue Saito. This triggers a symbolic death ("you have to die to wake up") followed by the forgiveness of sins (at immigration) and the reunion of the family in the heavenly garden. This is classic Christian allegory and it's amazing more people aren't commenting on it.

The ending is no more a dream than heaven is hell. And the only significance of the spinning top is that Cobb ignores it (another demonstration of faith). That said, since it's an interesting question how one models death and redemption in code, my suggestion would be a segfault and then return to root?
Which is a maze, inconvenient and yes I guess trustworthy - at least for the consumer.
For the lazy, this is how the output of running the program looks: https://gist.github.com/840077
I tried Mac for some time and LOVED LOVED the lack of crapware, but I found it overrated:

1. Blurry text :)

2. iLife apps are nicely approximated by Windows Live. Before I checked out Windows Live Movie Maker, I was very impressed with iMovie.

3. Lack of apps (e.g., wasn't able to find a decent fullscreen, borderless terminal emulator like the alt-enter mode of putty).

4. Didn't seem especially fast or anything compared to Windows (on a 4G machine).

5. Loved the unixyness of the OS. But it's subtly not Unix, which breaks some things. E.g., macports' GCC 4.5.1 + gdb wasn't stable compared to Apple's older versions of gcc. I now ssh into an Ubuntu box from Windows (putty + tmux + consolas FTW) for development.
I have been using VirtualBox on Mac and Linux for a couple years now with fantastic results. Easy upgrades and free as in beer and (most of it) as in speech too.

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I think google has done a much better job of targeting services they know they can integrate into their core. Yahoo has really just had a bunch of different silos operating (for the most part) on their own.

When the founders lose their ability to control the product and their economic incentives, then they're really fked.

Facebook has integrated their acquisitions' technology in some cases, but it seems they're mostly in it for talent acquisitions. They've done a good job so far in retaining (they're still pre-IPO) but we'll see what happens when they get old and some new hotness appears at school (might take 10 yrs)

Scorecards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google
similar here, for last 3 years. commutes are a thing of the past. highway rush hour. cubicles. enterprise meetings and Watercooler Bob the Chitchat Parasite (TM), the whole nine yards. all gone. now, just work (mostly) and money (mostly). heaven.
Your question is irrelevant. The word being discussed is "bitch" or "bitches", which I most certainly do use often and causally.

You are in charge of if you get offended. It is a decision you and only you can make.
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I'm running a (small) image hosting site which has been getting a little bit of traction lately (2,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, spikes up to 10,000). It's hosted on Linode and I've already run out of the bandwidth for this month (300 GB). I've experimented with Amazon S3 but that was costing me $5 a day, Linode currently costs me $30 a month. I get a tiny bit of revenue from ads (Adsense and Black Label Ads) but it's not enough to break even.

What should I do? Obviously I'd like to keep running the site but not if it starts costing me a lot of money.
That's probably because of R5 releases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R5_(bootleg)
I won't be trying your service because you don't have regular registration
The people who most want to pay to ensure you receive their email are the people from whom you least want email. That's the problem.
I think the $75 per mo is actually a smart idea. It gives the founders lot more leeway in finding and sustaining quality traffic for the postings.
No, I'm sorry, this is my brain-fart. We recently switched our static pages to a Heroku instance in anticipation of a web app launch in a few days, but keep our server stuff on the Rackspace cloud. Proceed with down-voting.
Does XBox Live support Java? Seems like Notch could just upload the Jar and sell it there if they do. Otherwise this serves an extra market, hopefully some new and distinguishing features rather than just a graphics overhaul that could probably be ported into regular Minecraft as a texture pack... (For those crying idea-stealing, remember Notch got many of his ideas from the modders of InfDev, besides the more obvious points about block engines and sandbox worlds and so on.)

Minecraft has 1.3m sales, if this achieves anything close to that volume I'll be amazed and scratch my head wondering where the point of market saturation is for big-block-engine adventure games.
I agree completely. As soon as I have to do bullshit like timesheets, that mental switch flips and my creativity is gone. I assume my employer has decided, ``it's worth making each employee do 20 minutes of busywork a week and killing their happiness rather than doing without a sheet of numbers that says "8 8 8 8 8"''.
> Since the data never touches your servers, you never need to go through PCI compliance work.

Is that actually true? My understanding is that since the HTML form is still served up by your site, you'll still need to go through PCI compliance (although it will be easier with no data stored), since a compromise of your server would compromise card data.
Thanks for your views.

As of now the 'details' are geolocation details. By clicking on a point on the map, the address and place info, if available would be added to the status update, that would be shared with the user's FB friends on his or her feed.
I knew Kutcher has been invited to some of the recent YCombinator Demo Days and this article shows a couple YCombinator companies he has invested in. Does anyone know if he has invested in any others than the ones mentioned?
OS X has the terminal, that's about the only major thing I'd give it over Windows 7, and is the reason I use it at work. I particularly like Win7's great hardware support; I recently built a $2000+ gaming desktop, and it handled all the newfangled hardware like it was born to do it. Another major advantage is multitasking even in the most arduous circumstances--Windows 7 made my older PC* run much faster than my shiny new Macbook Pro. My Macbook Pro is constantly giving me the middle finger in the form of that little bouncing beach ball. I could go on but I don't own Microsoft stock.

*That PC was a low end 4-year-old Athlon dual core that could barely play 720p YouTube videos, as a point of comparison. For it to beat my new Macbook Pro in everyday usage was just damning.
All this talk of freakin timesheets - they may be the biggest waste of time in the post-industrial era. Outside of a "billable hour" type firm, how many managers go back and look through timesheet data to make tactical or strategic decisions? I am now convinced that timesheets will be the downfall of civilization as we know it!
In the case of a free product like VirtualBox where you're not paying for tech support, there isn't a difference.

Unless you mean that there is a difference between what merely happens to work and what the developers strive to ensure works. In this case, VirtualBox definitely "supports" using physical disks and partitions (though they describe it as an "advanced" feature).
Yup, it's using the physical partition, so all changes are preserved. Whether you want that or not.

I suppose you could use a snapshot VMDK to put the FS changes into a file, which you could then keep or discard. No idea if VBox or even VMWare actually supports this behaviour. Nor can I think of any particularly good use for it!
The title is deliberately misleading. The linked article clearly refers to this being a different project.
Why would you do this instead of starting the company yourself? Lack of ideas?

I have enough ideas and always do side-projects. But I still have to earn the living. Just looking for a more interesting way to do that.
No Roger Penrose?
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Gotta spend some to make some. The worst thing to do right now would be to kill off all the traction you have because you're not willing to pay $30/mo (which is nothing). Give yourself time to come up with revenue models and stuff. Three months is only $90, but its also a lot of time to find out how to make some money off of your site.

Just my thoughts.
I think the new blogs can do both, just turn the dial more towards startups and more dev/tech.

Not unless the founders of the blog make a very explicit decision to pass on financial benefits to continue covering start-ups. Like you said, startup coverage doesn't have much audience relative to Apple etc. and that means money lost.

That is why I am not convinced we can have a popular startup blog like TC ... those that mostly cover start-ups rarely get popular; those get popular tend to have a good mix of startup + big co news which over time becomes big co news.
There is a story making rounds about hiring policies of Saint-Petersburg Mint (back in Royal Russia times). Every new hire not only needed three recommendations from current employees, but that should the new person ever get fired, those who recommended him would be let go as well.

Brutal, but brilliant... even if it is not necessary true :)
Hardly irrelevant - it's called reductio ad absurdum. If you limit yourself by not using certain words in conversation, then you're confirming that those words are generally offensive, and that using them would give offense.

It's why the legal system has the concept of the "reasonable person", but I prefer "Do you talk to your mother with that mouth?"
After seeing a couple of live streams of NHL games on justin.tv and other streaming sites its good that youtube is stepping up to make this legitimate. I am sure that you could make a buck putting advertisements on a live stream of sports. I wonder if this will put a dent into the other live stream video sites.
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Neat. Another great tool for measuring performance is webpagetest.org. It gives you the ability to choose a browser and a location to test from -- both of which are really important factors to consider when timing a site. It's open-source too!
How so? It's as trivial as creating a new email account to create a new Paypal account, and even if they require credit card only Paypal accounts that can be easily fraudulent too. Fraud via paypal is just as rife as fraud without.
Virtualbox (I tried with the latest as of late January) would not run Skype for me.

VMware worked immediately.
I love it, and I didn't even need to tell it the session I was speaking at, it just knew and told me I was speaking at that session once I logged in. The 'official' SXSW event calendar has always been clunky even as they upgrade every year.

P.S self plug: http://lanyrd.com/2011/sxsw/sctmq/ In one of the new venues at the Hyatt across the river.
I would gladly pay YouTube if their services are even 50% as reliable as cable.

Please give me a reason not to send money to Comcast or TimeWarner. Pleaassssseeee.
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Does anyone have contact information for Jason? I'd love to get a hold of him.
The URL loads a lot of quite clearly non-plain text data served as text/plain. Am I missing something?
What about the "given prior authority by all parties" part?
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as it's an extraction of http://spreedly.com, I imagine they would support the same gateways listed here: http://spreedly.com/info/payment-gateways
From the email they sent out to current spreedly customers: "while you can already do this with our Subscriptions Payments API, doing so places the burden of PCI compliance on your shoulders. Core keeps the PCI burden on our side and allows you to focus on growing your business."

not sure exactly how the specifics of this will work...
Lots of landlords are stupid and will raise rent beyond the market clearing rate just to make a quick buck, resulting in empty units and shitty communities.
Yea I know, the myth that a MBA can manage everything.
Whatever you do don't take on another business cofounder. I have two of them right now (I'm not even a full-on developer, really just a web designer and front-end developer) and they can't ever seem to accomplish anything while I spend hours on design and dev.

I think another technical co-founder could be really good. If you start being validated, you're going to end up bringing on more devs anyways, right? Might as well start now and give yourself a better chance of getting things moving.
Was not deliberate. Should I change it? What do you recommend? Seriously.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252152

Here's an entire thread for you.
Advance memory allocation uses linear algebra. Also graphics and shadows in game use transpose matrices. A lot of algorithms use linear combination and other linear algebra.
Go into the bathroom, turn off all the lights, light a candle, repeat the phrase "bloody mary" thirteen times, and he'll appear for you.

Or, you can just email him at the address listed on his website, http://calacanis.com/, which is jason@calacanis.com ;-)
Does that mean you'll never write your apps, since the old ones will always exist? The new ones will outnumber the old ones within 6 months.
I use VMWare Fusion all the time. I spent 30 minutes trying to buy it and 30 seconds getting a pirated serial. I think the software is well worth the price and I'd happily give them the money if they could provide a reasonable way for me to do so.
Dude, I'm just saying it is pretty dubious that you show up at the community, poke around the tickets, ask lots of questions, probably notice the roadmap on Redmine where lots of the existing solutions are tagged for inclusion, and after all that interaction claim you singlehandedly fixed everything wrong with the project. I'm sorry if you are somehow upset by my doubt, but you have to admit the whole thing seems just a bit "too good to be true".

As for the difference between independent implementation and code-stealing: I have not and will not accuse you of stealing code. If it came off that way, I apologize.

I will however continue to assume your rooting around other people's work gave you ideas, gave you paths for completion of tasks, and gave you enough working information on reasonable solutions that you can not accurately say you did it by yourself.
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My plan is to work on some other apps instead and revisit the camera-dependent ones 6-12 months from now.
When I bought November last year, I did get the keys in the confirmation email.
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I presume your website is http://reversegif.com/ ? Cute =]

The issue you're going to find is that bandwidth doesn't get much cheaper than Amazon S3 unless you start going with hosting providers who are questionable. At $5/day with Amazon can we assume you're transferring around 30GB/day?

At this point a decidated hosting provider may be a better fit. For $40 a month you can get a dedicated box with Hetzner[1] that will allow you 2TB/month @ 100Mbit which then gets shaped to unlimited @ 10Mbit. 2000GB/31 days is basically 65 GB per day - more bandwidth than you need for the moment and at a cheaper rate than S3 can provide (2TB at Amazon S3 rates ($0.15/GB) is $300). If you can survive with lag from Germany this would be optimal.

The other (far nicer) option is to try and find a strategic partner. Someone like ICanHasCheezburger / FailBlog makes enough money from eyeballs that it may be worth their time to either provide you with money or bandwidth in exchange for a major link back to their page. Reach out to them, show them your page stats and see what sort of response you can get. They're already in a far more lucrative position as far as ad partners are concerned and can likely use your traffic to move into an even better bargaining position. They likely also have huge amounts of bandwidth spare as well which they may be more than happy to offer to you.

As another commenter said, $5/day won't kill you and I think you have quite a reasonable chance of making this back. Congrats on your success so far - if you ever come down to Sydney come along to SiliconBeach - I'd be interested to chat =]

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Why? So terribly convoluted
Yep, my bad, I did not carefully read the article. :-(
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I'm very excited that someone's finally doing this. They have the two key parts down that nobody else seems to offer for small/medium businesses:

- A PCIDSS compliant payment information store that's above the level of the payment gateway. The big win is that if you decide to switch gateways (or are forced to switch gateways, because you switched merchant account providers and can't always just relink your gateway to a different bank), you can still keep charging recurring payments to your customers without asking them for their payment info again.

- You can take the info with you if you decide, for some reason, to stop using Spreedly Core. And I trust they actually have the process in place for doing so, because it's coming from the Spreedly guys that have been doing this for a while already, not someone new.
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Really? It downloads a .dmg for me...
You could argue that Minecraft created a new game genre, and that this game is simply part of that genre. Obviously I think they should've tried a little harder to create something unique (or at least more visually unique), but whatever. I think we will see a lot more of these survival/world building games.