skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy to see I'm not alone. I wondered if the fact I saw the film dubbed to Spanish made me lost some nuances.

To those who think that the character is an asshole, maybe you could answer if it's because the interpretation (demeanor or tone of voice) or the behavior.
Those of us who weren't using twitter at the time shouldn't have to deal with the #dickbar either, add a paid option in general, sure make it free for Tweetie1/2 customers, but provide the option to everyone!
i see what you mean...yea i stated my app exactly when getting it approved..but i guess facebook's king here...they can end it swiftly if its working against them later on
I'm going to (respectfully) take issue with your claim here, though I would happy to be proven wrong. I am clearly an early adopter (as pretty much 95% of people on HN likely are) when it comes to technology, particularly online technology. I routinely use paypal (+bump), buy almost everything online, haven't touched a paper book or newspaper in over two years. I even have a SquareUp dongle and use it from time to time. I have over 200 transactions in Paypal and over 500 purchases from Amazon.com. I won't even try to calculate the number of iTunes purchases (content+Apps) I've made.

I've heard of E-Gold, and may have created an account- but I've never used them. I just IM'd three of my friends - one had heard of it, two hadn't. None had ever used it. They all frequently use both Paypal and Amazon (one is a prime member).

I realize that anecdote is not the singular of data, but, a quick glance at Wikipedia, shows that at their peak, E-gold only had 5 million accounts - 2.5% of what Apple has today. (And, in Apple's case, these accounts are connected to an actual Credit Card customer)

So - two things to be aware of:

o E-Gold was relatively small. When you are small, you can't afford to hire the high-level risk management talent. These people are rare, and very expensive. Therefore, one of the critical tasks of _small_ payment processors (not the large ones, Apple/Google/Amazon can afford their salaries and departmental budgets) is to survive long enough and not get shut down by making these mistakes. I'm certain Paypal, when it was smaller, also came close to the abyss several times before they got to scale.

o Of course, the way you get to scale is you make yourself attractive, _or_ you subsidized your payment processing with the rest of your business. (Think about Microsoft buying their way into Console Entertainment)

I'll agree that fraud and risk management are important, but I do not believe that they are barriers to success for the companies the author had identified, they are more important to the smaller players (E-Gold).

For the larger players the question they have to answer for sellers is "Why should we use you? Which consumers are using your system that would make it worthwhile to going to the hassle to adding you as a payment option?" For the consumers it is "What do you do better than my existing Credit Card/Paypal Account which has served me well as a consumer?"
Steam sells software for PCs. Apple/Google sell software for console-like devices. Console manufacturers sell software for console-like devices. Both involve markedly different business models - a comparison is ridiculous.
> The UK is probably the freest in this sense but is expensive with huge infrastructure problems. Internet is probably cheapest in the UK (for Europe) and fastest to the US.

Setting up Mandalorian as a Limited company took me half an hour back in 2005. The VAT registration was a form or two and a postage stamp.

I'm not sure what infrastructure problems you're referring to, London's one of the most connected cities in the world as far as public transport goes and you can get pretty much from anywhere to almost anywhere on public transport. The roads are fine, the power grid is fine, Internet access is fine too.
It seems telling to me that NASA had a major build up and press conference to discuss findings of exobiotic-like life, yet quietly does nothing for evidence of actual exobiotic life.
>In addition, you only get the bank’s confirmation of the payment 3-5 days (in the US) to 3 weeks (in some EU countries) after the payment attempt.

I find it surprising that it's been 15 years since the commercialization of the Internet and (near) instant global data communication and it still takes banks 3-5 days to confirm payment (e.g., the time it takes to send a physical letter, coast-to-coast, via the USPS). This is the timeframe of a standard Electronics Fund Transfer (ETF) for bill pay, bank-to-bank transfers, etc. The only alternative, as far as I know, is a wire transfer, which is a tedious and expensive option.

Does anyone know what's preventing the U.S. banking system from improving its electronic transfer capabilities? Given the importance of the free flow of money and goods (and liquidity) to our economy, it seems like the quick movement of funds would be a significant priority for our overall banking system.

(Note that if banks could confirm electronic transfers within a few seconds (and if we added an extra layer of security beyond simple passwords, such as a challenge/response system), we could significantly reduce the occurrence of fraud. Near instant confirmation would also alleviate, or eliminate, the issue of short-term credit mentioned in this article.)
Inspired by the buzz around Breakup Notifier, last week's "Defriend Day" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/04/defriend-day-etique...), and a good excuse to give Node.js a spin, I just launched a new Facebook app: Defriend Alert. The app sends you an email whenever someone defriends you on Facebook.

http://www.defriendalert.com

I built it over a two day span with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. It's hosted by Duostack (which is an awesome service, btw). I'm typically a Rails guy, and this was my first Node.js app. Very impressed. Looking forward to cranking out a few more apps over the next few weeks.

Let me know what you think!
The dickbar can be removed from iPhone Twitter with the jailbreak application Twizzler:
http://www.tipb.com/2011/03/03/twizzler-removes-trending-bar...
I would like to point out that there is an app called Twizzler, or more "patch" on Cydia that takes care of the problem:

http://isource.com/2011/03/05/twizzler-the-jailbreak-answer-...

Courtesy of @chpwn.
What educational woes? Our education system is top notch.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...

The issue is cost, not effectiveness. Do you disagree that unions are increasing costs?

http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edlite-chart.h...

As for Finland, their system only seems to work well for Finnish people. The gap in PISA scores between natives and immigrants (Gen 1 and 2, I believe) is almost 50 pts, vs about 20 in the US. This might work for Finland, with relatively few immigrants, but it wouldn't fly in a country like the US.

(For comparison, the demographically corrected PISA gap between the US and Sweden is 19 pts in favor of the US.)
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Everyone handles death and the idea of it differently .. maybe his ideas are short sighted. But down voting is a pretty evil thing to do in this situation, it doesn't make his opinion any; more or less valid than the next mans.
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As someone who works in the industry, my thoughts during the first half of this essay were 'this is normal, Players ALWAYS find ways around the rules'. I was shocked that the designers didn't instinctively get this and pronounce him the winner.
can you point me to the article?
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I am actually keenly aware aware of the entrepreneurship focus at Babson. My father, who was an entrepreneur, actually received his MBA there.

Are you aware of any events at Babson where the general public is allowed to participate? Do any other of the business schools in the area (Harvard, MIT, et cetera) have forums for public participation?
http://journalofcosmology.com/

Not to judge a book by its cover, but... seriously?
Thanks! - testing notifo with this post.
My app is also aimed at regular people..and it allows posting to friends' walls as well instead of just status updates
shrug

Michael Behe did good work as a microbiologist and publishes in the Journal of Creation. I'm sure this guy really believes it.
He has made similar claims before that didn't pan out. Why is it risking his career if he truly believes it? It may just be a case of seeing what he wants to see.

We'll see!
I'm not interested in "correcting" for demographics. You can't simply remove 25% of the population because you find statistics inconvenient.
HN, just wondering: How much does sleep affect your productivity?
I've recently started noticing a significant drop in my productivity, and I think it's somewhat correlated to problems I'm having keeping my sleep times stable.

However, I know a lot of coders and/or designers that have completely irregular sleep schedules and have no problems with productivity... What are your personal experiences with this? Are some of you facing similar productivity problems? Any advice for me?

There's also the common concept of hacking/coding all night in. I would like to know: How common/productive that really is?
The Spectrum came out before the BBC Micro and was a success because it was cheap, colour and could make beepy noises. The BBC Micro was much more an educational tool. The British Government put out a list of computers that were appropriate for schools and Sinclair was furious his computers weren't on the list, so he offered schools a ridiculous deal that some took, but the majority of schools used BBC Micros because of the BBC programmes. Really it was a very bad move and many schools continued by using Acorn Archimedes computers instead of PCs even as the Internet was taking off and it was quite clear that we were facing a Windows world.
Mahalo cuts workforce by 10% after Google algorithm change drops traffic
Sounds like they'll be either changing or removing it: http://twitter.com/twittermobile/status/43730986864885760
Awesome, do you have a website or just the facebook app page? Honestly, I don't want to connect to your app to see the ins and outs, the benefits, about your company, etc.
"Netflix threatens the telecom industry" is true in more ways than one. It's true in the traditional sense of threatening profits and business models. It's also, unfortunately, true in the sense of indirectly threatening the quality of service telecom customers can expect to receive in the future.

As long as internet providers and content providers are one and the same, they will do everything in their power to control the way content is distributed online. If they can't control it, they would rather cripple their internet service to the point of uselessness instead of allowing it to hurt their content business. It's pretty likely this will end up badly for consumers.

The recent scandal in Canada over usage-based billing [1] is the latest shot in this battle. Luckily telecoms got greedy with talks of 25GB caps, $1/GB, etc., and pissed off enough people to make a lot of noise about it, but I'm not optimistic about where the industry is heading. The article hints that we'll start seeing the same thing in the US. And although it's usually not spelled out in the press coverage, Netflix is very much a central reason for this battle.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/03/01/clement-tal...
Obviously, I was responding to the fact that he had stated that he was helped in immeasurable ways - which I took to mean more than monetarily, so was looking for anecdotes beyond financial value.
Have you tried out My Social Broadcast? One thing that I have aimed here is reliability...I see some websites offering a similar thing...but see people complain that it didnt do anything etc. This app has a lot better backend..so unless my server crashes...everything should be good...but maybe thats what everyone thinks about their app :P
The same service is offer by www.getrss.in and i am happy client of them for more then 8 months
Congrats guys!! Def a much needed solution in an inefficient market
Sorry, I guess it's more specific : when you try to execute an unsigned .exe that needs Admin permission, UAC will tell you "An unidentified program wants to access your computer". If it's signed, it displays the identity of the signer.

You can set Windows to only allow signed applications to run, too: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd723683(WS.10).a...
I'm hesitant because movies based on Ballard books make Duke Nukem Forever look like a sure thing.. ;-)
http://www.getrss.in
What does this have to do with Android? The issue is the application.
Copying a comment of jneal: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2292467

This guy has some interesting information:

http://m.gawker.com//5777460/fox-news-publishes-fake-exclusi....

Something seems odd here - the guy has made this same announcement in the past.

---------------

Some additional research from myself:

The link says that this is not the first time that Hoover made an announcement like this. So I tried to find some of them and got these:

1997: http://www.panspermia.org/hoover.htm

2004: http://www.panspermia.org/hoover2.htm

and: http://www.panspermia.org/hoover3.htm

2010: http://www.panspermia.org/hoover4.htm

(And just to be sure, the older of the articles is in Internet at least from 1998:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202091131/http://www.pansper... )
Is there any way to mess around with the UI without setting up the whole environment? I see a few bits I'd like to clean up but man that's a lot of bootstrapping :)
Yes, however at the implementation level, message based concurrency is shared memory concurrency (as I understand anyway.) Callbacks seem to me an entirely a different abstraction.
sorry i am not using a website to promote it...
lol dont worry, the app doesnt spam ur account in any way..
i havent even put any ads on it lol...just made it for fun
Honestly, nope. But the first thing I always do when someone posts an idea is google for alternatives and ask the founder why their solution is better.

If you haven't used MSB, you may want to ;) The loudest critics are the unhappy ones, so you may find that MSB offers some features that you like.
Actually, I'd expect him to stubbornly stick to something nearly obsolete that doesn't quite work.
The application looks great !
I found my current apartment on Craigslist through an ad my landlord put up. I had to spend hours churning through what is essentially spam: brokers listing apartment or listing that they have listings but not actually giving out much information on individual places.

Services like this one and Rentjuice are services for brokers to find landlords and property managers who want to rent their apartments. (unless I misunderstand what's going on here.) Why are these services uniting landlords with managers and not with renters? I am tired of dealing with aggressive, bullshit-talking real estate agents who make money by having what amounts to a monopoly on rental information. In my experience they've got the incentive to get me into some apartment, any apartment as quickly as possible, they need me off their list ASAP, I need to find a place I'm going to spend most of my time in for at least a year. The general inability to listen to basic requests further annoys me, an agent has 4 apartments that fit my requirements, but I get dragged into places that don't meet my price requirements before getting around to the places I might actually rent.

The situation strikes me as ludicrous and it seems startups should be actively trying to dismantle this old-school ossified way of doing things. (see: AirBnB for hotels/temporary lodging as well as that car service one whose name I don't recall.) Craigslist listings moved us a big step in the correct direction, but they're still full of spam. It seems to me that real estate agents receive a lot more money than the value they're delivering. This may not be true with house purchases which is certainly more complicated and outside my experience.

"The SaaS allows landlords to post new listings, which get distributed in real-time to the brokers they’ve selected."
Why aren't these being distributed to the people who need apartments?

Edited to add:
"The software also includes tools for syndicate rental listings to general listing sites like Trulia, Hotpads, Craigslist and others. "

I can't believe I missed this the first time around. Worst case scenario (which I lean toward) means the above "feature" may as well read "We're going to ruin other services by helping you to spam them more easily."
Sounds like a step in the wrong direction for renters, who should be the customers at the center of all of these transactions.
I love simple and clean apps. It looks good! I've launced my app with the same trio: node.js, express, mongodb. You can see from this url: http://tagsono.me
Doesn't look like it works with HTTPS...

"Switch to regular connection (http)?
Sorry! We can't display this content while you're viewing Facebook over a secure connection (https).
To use this app, you'll need to switch to a regular connection (http)."
I think your traffic is too low to bother working on a paid plan. Unless those 100 daily users are extremely devoted, I can't image you'd convert more than one a day. Seems like your time would be better spent lowering your costs. You should be able to host the site on < $20 a month. If you're hosting the videos yourself, move them to a CDN, such as MaxCDN.
`histedit` does what `rebase -i` does, `hg rebase` does what `rebase` does.

There are a few limitations to `histedit` compared to `git rebase -i` I think: I believe it's possible to split revisions using `rebase -i`, I don't think that can be done using histedit (it has pick, edit, drop and fold). Histedit also misses the (pretty recent I believe) `exec` action of git's rebase -i.
When I was younger (like highschool, I am 22) I would get most of my coding done in the middle of the night. Now I have a 9-5 development job but now I notice huge drop in my coding when I come home. I am always working on ideas but I feel like after coding at work all day, its hard to come home and code. Specially since I can't stay up till 2 AM any more.

I am interested in seeing how other people deal with this.
Email me. I'm at amazon.
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I think it's the most gorgeous eight-track player ever made. They have enough money to shift, so for their sake, I hope they shift soon. For my sake I hope they don't.
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Should be, JOC has 5000 scientist reviewing, and 500 vetting.
> histedit does a variety of things; I'm not sure if it covers all of rebase's branches. Mercurial does also have a rebase facility now as well.

That is correct. In Mercurial, git's `rebase` is (sensibly, as far as I am concerned) split into two different commands: `histedit` handles the history edition within a branch and `rebase` handles the rebasing of a branch on a revision of an other branch.
That's what I like about Canadian banks. They have a system in place they promote as sending money via email. You don't really send it through email. It's simple a system all the major banks in Canada have adopted. I can transfer money from one account to another, quickly and easily, with minimal fuss. It takes 30 minutes, and I believe this is more for security reasons then purely technical reasons. It makes sending money in Canada so incredibly easy.
My best friend lives in NYC and I live in Philadelphia.

We are both bike riders and huge fans of mass transit. If you are as well, streetsblog is a great site.

On to the topic of the post, though. Pretty interesting to read about how the NYPD is cracking down on bicyclists rolling through red lights, but don't mind cars speeding down the road. This attitude seems pretty prevalent in our two cities.

Do any of the startup hubs have friendlier attitudes towards cyclists and pedestrians?
> I get pitched regularly by startups doing “generic machine learning” which is, in all honesty, a pretty ridiculous idea.

Learned this the hard way. As an academic who used to think you could solve a problem (e.g., spam filtering) using a single model --- something we routinely do in academic papers --- I had to wait until I went to an industry internship to realize how "ugly" a real spam filtering algorithm has to be. Large mail providers see so many diverse patterns of spam that they need a complicated mix of ML models, datasets, labels, and sometimes even plain old blacklists to keep their spam under control.
Hypothetical: if teacher A has a class of poor black students, and teacher B has a class of rich asian students, shall we directly compare test scores? If teacher A's students perform 1 stddev worse than teacher B's, shall we fire teacher A for poor performance?

If you don't want to do it for teachers, why do it for educational systems?
Looks nice but this is probably a violation of their TOS.
>On the one hand, you're saying that America's future will suffer dire consequences if the immigration system is not fixed.

Not exactly, but it will definitely help if it is fixed.

>On the other hand, you're saying it is such a hardship that people have to go back when their visas expire, things are tough for immigrants, etc.

>Just step back a little and think rationally a little. If things are so bad, then why _are_ people trying so hard to get in? Do you see long lines outside the Chinese embassy? The Indian embassy?

>Once again: in the 20 years I've observed the system, it is as broken as ever. And during these 20 years, we've been through the Biotech boom, Internet boom, and are on the verge of another boom.

All those immigrants can be easily turned into potential startup founders by increasing the permanent visa numbers. Many of them are highly educated and experienced. More startups = More potential good for the economy. What is your argument against this?
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Yeah it is for the people who are not bent on bashing anything and everything that doesn't come from 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CA. ;)
France labour laws are pretty bad. It basically shuts out the young because once you hire a french worker, it's hell and high water to fire them. Unemployment is at %9.6 right now and %25 for youth.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03...
http://www.icsb.org/documents/FranceYouthUnemployment.pdf
I'm an engineering director at Zynga's new Seattle office. Your skill set matches our open job reqs. Email me if you're interested.
PayPal spent $300M learning how to deal with fraud[0]. This money is in terms of investment in development and outright monetary losses. The problem is you can't get a large number of users while you are also being taken apart by fraud. When dealing with payments, finding users is not your hardest problem.

[0] Source: One of the investors in my company was involved fairly early in PayPal. We've had many conversations about this matter, especially regarding another company I was working with at the time that was building an "anonymous" wallet.
Isn't it a bit odd that everyone takes this at face value? Doesn't it seem like a bit of a fantastic story to appear on Reddit on Saturday? I'm suspicious that people are having their emotions toyed with for someone's entertainment.
Understood. I just had no idea that people were taking their lives because of an inability to repay microfinance loans in general. I'm an active Kiva participant with a few thousand USD in the system at present.