skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the problem of outright extortion, even the savviest financiers can underestimate low-probability risks (as the recent mortgage debacle shows). You would have cycles of price wars among insurers trying to attract customers by lowering premiums, until one larger-than-expected crime wave (or even a hiccup in the bond market) leaving major issuers unable to pay out their claims.
Didip replied to you but his reply is "dead." I think his first word might have caused his post to get caught by a filter so I've reposted what he said but changed that word.

>Didip said:
[500 error solved]. I knew that 3am new feature addition is not a good idea =)
UPDATE: yeah, two clicks bug me as well. The technical reason is that often times i want to bookmark a few images on that page.
To do that (the most convenient way), is to save the image, onclick() event when the bookmarklet menu appears.
Sorry, I'd love to have 1 click bookmarklet as well. If the UI makes sense, I'll make the simpler bookmarklet.
Compare RD with http://www.nomachine.com/ (NX) on a 128kpbs link on another continent, and then you have your answer.
Thanks for the link - I hadn't taken the challenge yet, was fun!
I don't buy it. As far as I can tell the this thing Jeff calls Whittling is simply energy preservation behavior. Brains take up 30% of your overall energy consumption. Thinking has a relatively high energy cost to it and people are hardwired to prefer limiting their energy expenditure that does not generate a return (wage, food, etc).
Can anyone provide some background? How do you "purchase application installs"?
Self-signed certificates do not solve the problem and it's fairly straightforward to see why: anybody can create them. How does a browser know to pick your real self-signed certificate from the one generated by the man-in-the-middle proxy?

Every single free and commercial web security testing tool already does this on the fly. We are not talking about some complex, unlikely-to-occur threat. It's a pushbutton attack.

So... what's the point of a self-signed cert?
Totally brilliant idea. I know lots of people whose relationships will benefit. And I enjoyed the video.
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I've launched http://fonoso.com/ a couple of weeks ago, which takes your idea a step further and records full phone calls and could be used for podcast recordings over the phone, or any other use case where you want to archive and/or share a phone conversation.

I didn't put any time or efforts into polishing or marketing it, so if you (or anyone else) wants to team up, contact me at agranig@fonoso.com. Instead of twilio or something similar, I use my own SIP trunks to carriers, so for inbound calls, no fees are charged. It's easier to offer something for free with this approach :)
Virtually nobody "sniffs local traffic" anymore, unless it's stub resolver traffic to bounce people to a MITM server. The MITM attack is the gold standard. It's not 1995 anymore and nobody is installing SunSniff on Sprintnet's backbone.
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I remember seeing some posts on the iphonedevsdk(?) forums promising to get any free app to the top 100 for something on the order of $3000-$5000. I suspect most of those use a few thousand iTunes accounts and automated downloads.
> I want better default security for otherwise unprotected web traffic.

The problem is that encryption without key agreement isn't better default security. It's worse because people will expect it to be secure when it cannot be.

You're probably thinking that it's really hard to get between you and random web servers, but you are sadly mistaken.
I think there are a few factors that contribute to this apparent trend. There have been a string of products that users love- creating a vocal and emotional group of commenters. At the same time, there's a lot of well intended criticism by people who have a bias against Aaple for reasons other than quality of products- some of whom just want to support the underdogs which may be just as good but not as well known to the public. There will always be a non negligible sentiment against popular companies or products based solely on the fact that they're popular (I'm not saying this is a bad thing, as it sort of acts as a natural capitalistic force against monopolies).

However, it seems to me that objective criticism is just as well upvoted as objective praise. It's usually just the snarky comments (in either direction) that are downvoted.
Whittling sounds like an evolutionary advantage. Imagine if humans hated to whittle; they would hate spending time collecting little things for a big reward. This could be as simple as collecting root vegetables to feed a stoneage family or creating a arrowhead. To me it seems whittling was an important part of evolving to where we are today. Small progress/steps to lead up to something great.
"Rather, it's that people think they somehow have a right to use Twitter's services and accounts like they were their property."

Users think that the site is granting them this right when they sign up and select a name. I don't see it as "entitled" thinking at all. It seems to be a reasonable assumption, more so for paid services than for Twitter or Facebook.
I've looked at TC comments on a handful of recent articles and didn't find any profanity/trolling/etc. Maybe I just got lucky, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't like that before. That's definitely a plus.
My kids all have 8GB iPods, no music or videos, just games, and they are starting to have to delete games now because they are running out of space.

Some of these games are getting huge.
SXSWless - Chrome extension that hides SXSW tweets
The tendency to degenerate into arguments over libertarianism predates Hacker News. Ron(?) Newman proposed it as “Newman’s Corollary to Godwin’s Law” over ten years ago.
- Performance is not the only consideration - local-only would remove a lot of design & implementation complexity. (similar to local pipe vs network socket etc)

- As a dev/admin, I depend on SSH but not on X.

- The "dangers of cloud" argument is not exactly helping the pitch for network transparency. :)
How do you force yourself to sleep?

"How to store and recall so much data on demand" sounds interesting too.
In case it's not clear: I wasn't passing judgement, merely explaining the situation and weighing up the advantages of the various approaches. For iOS, Android and Mac, OpenGL is pretty much the only choice, and sticking to the subset that is OpenGL ES even on the Mac is sensible if there's a chance you might want to port. That said, if your needs aren't such that you need close-to-the-metal access to the hardware, you may well be best off using one of the many inexpensive third-party engines altogether.
Well, I was writing it for Mashable. ;)

In other words, I tried to make it interesting to a technical audience but still comprehensible to the average reader. I'm working on a more technical "how to get started with Node" post with code samples; that should be up in a couple weeks.
Will you give us an example?
SecretSocial: a real-time conversation service that automatically cleans up after you are done.
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A spot in the top 10 free overall costs around $2-4000 per app (I've never done this before, but I know people who have).
I'm wondering if it's ever been shown that doing something mentally difficult consumes more energy than doing something where the brain is active but that isn't perceived as difficult?

Another explanation could be that the precursor to grinding in EQ is the urge to do things like searching for edible plants or animal tracks, carving tools, cleaning the home, and other things which have obvious evolutionary benefit.
To be clear, that wasn't my example, and I took your rejection of his example as a rejection of his assertion.

And I'm still not clear on your stance. So, you don't deny that there are a whole class of applications that are possible on Android that aren't on iOS. Does that mean you agree?

But. You don't believe this makes the Android ecosystem awesome.

You also, marginally relatedly, believe that the prevalence of "IP theft" on the Android ecosystem detracts from its awesomeness?

Do I have that right?

Personally, I don't think "IP theft" is a very good characterization of copyright (or trademark, in this case) infringement. But I suppose that's a whole nother debate.

Also, though, from what I can tell, this app doesn't directly take any images from Instapaper. It's an uppercase "I" in a generic block serif on a gray background. I think it's debatable whether this is a trademark infringement?
There's a company called Briel Computers that sells replicas of the Apple I, Altair 8800 and more.

The Maker Shed sells a 4-bit microcomputer trainer from Japan. It has a hexadecimal keypad, 1 7-segment LED display, some other lights and a speaker.

You could also go to eBay or a swap meet and buy an old microcomputer.

http://www.brielcomputers.com/

http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKGK...
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Could you please be less specific?
The argument that "the brain knows better" seems very weak. The brain also wants people to over consume fast food, reward itself with alcohol and drugs, and several other things which obviously aren't rewarding in the context of modern society.
The OP's link is to the comment thread - here's the article link: http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/11/angry-birds-overnigh...
That's total BS and you're just paraphrasing Malcolm Gladwell, who's also full of BS.

Are you suggesting that anyone without an innate musical gift can spend 10+ years practicing hard/smart on the piano and become as proficient as Van Cliburn? Riiiight.
I should probably write a blog post on this too.

Essentially you buy inventory from a specialized ad network, and they charge you by the install, using UDIDs to match the users who click on the ads with the users who installed the app. That way you get charged only for the users they actually sent you.

Most application ads convert poorly, so the companies doing the most volume in this space run 'incentivized' ads, where the user gets some virtual currency for installing the app.

For example, if they're playing 'Tap Widget', which normally charges for widgets, the user can get a widget for free by installing an application.

The user wants the widget, so they install the advertiser's application. The ad network sees the install and tells Tap Widget to give the user his widget. The advertiser gets a new user, so the ad network gets paid. The ad network takes their cut and passes the rest of the money on to Tap Widget. This works out pretty well for all parties.

I own a chunk of Flurry, one of the companies that specializes in this. There are others.
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Why is this upvoted so highly? Am I missing some insight here?
The easier way to explain it is that Rails is not true MVC (true being defined by the original intention as described by Trygve Reenskaug for Smalltalk). True MVC is an architectural pattern based on the composite and observer patterns and is designed for synchronous apps. This is why Cocoa or Sproutcore are more like true MVC.

Rails is Model2, which is the web adapted version of MVC that is popular in server-side web dev.
Wow. I was not aware of those policies. I'm suddenly very glad I let my membership lapse.
The original fire departments operated in this manner.
it appears Twitter is moving towards Bieberfest as opposed to meaningful conversation

Honestly though, the medium suits Bieberfest a lot better than it suits meaningful conversation. It's tough to have a good conversation in less than 140 characters. I'm not surprised they went with the angle that's better marketing/money, either.
Hat tip to Billy Rios
https://twitter.com/#!/XSSniper/status/46292790933590017
The Chrome extension page has some neat screenshots:

http://bit.ly/gFYAmq

Enjoy it. We really don't want to project any use-cases for this service because it is so flexible and natural to experience with.
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These problems might take forever to solve [as the organisations are large]... In the meantime, I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with a better technology model as a replacement.

Id like to see a desktop development model more like modern web development - UI in HTML5/javascript/SVG, json data messaging, UI & system events coming from a port [eg. shinetech/eventserver], able to write small server-like plugins in Node.js / C / Ruby / lisp that can provide services and be remoted away from the UI.

Would be nice if some of this was reusable across OSX/Win/Linux. Perhaps my desktop work should be done in the browser?

The old unix guys might have approached it this way if they had the current web at hand to reuse/augment/embellish upon. Maybe this is more in the true spirit of unix than QT/GTK/Xwindows?
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Warn and suggest to strip in page anchors from URLs.

Every so often, people post good links with an anchor in the URL, just because they didn't notice it. It is almost never the case that it's done intentionally, so it would be nice if HN spotted the anchor and warned the user, suggesting to strip it from the URL.
Good catch, sorry about that. I'd appreciate if a mod could change it.
An individual neuro typical person might show a slightly higher curiosity about what I cynically call the "disaster/tragedy porn" of the coverage.

On average however disaster porn is the lowest common denominator.

Do not paint all individuals with the brush created by looking at the average. Just because the big networks seek the maximum number of viewers does not mean every viewer particularly strongly prefers that kind of coverage.
This is happening quite a lot lately. Posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314717 as a suggestion for improvement.
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Its 20-30k for paid apps. But often, if the app sucks - it won't stay on top very long.
Zubin -- this looks very interesting and I wish you lots of success. A friend of mine recently suggested we should build such a service and I am glad to report back to him, someone has ("glad" because I was already working on my own start-up). I would suggest allowing for instantaneous deletes as well -- so as soon as the consumer opens the message, poof, it is gone -- one-time only. That was his use case scenario and we riffed on that for quite some time.

Cheers,
Seth Cohen
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I know multiple people who contributed to the book personally. I think you're missing part of the joke. But I concede, I don't know all or even most of them, so perhaps many of the Unix-haters secretly do pine for Mac OS 9.
How would you define an order of mangitude in this case?
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Interesting use-case Seth, we'll call it "message in a bottle" mode.

Thanks for the good wishes! have a great weekend!
Eclipse.

That's enough to turn any iMac (well, any computers) into a programmer's powerhouse.

Last year, I led a small team of 3 devs to build a homebrew app for the NDS portable game console. We all used different OSes/IDE for development out of necessity (WinXp, Linux/Eclipse, MacOS X/xCode). Although I had no problem installing arm-gcc on the Mac and configure xCode to use the NDS-specific toolchain, I still prefer Eclipse.

Maybe xCode 4 will change that perception... Looking forward to give it a spin...

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Some things completely depend on the type of project you run. We decided that only the bare-minimum/must-be-relational data will go into SQL Azure so that the database doesn't grow too fast. Instead, we use Table Storage for the really big data. It does require a big change in the way you think about storing and querying your data though since you lose functions such as Count,GroupBy,Joins,etc.

But, there is now something called 'Federations' coming out for SQL Server which will let you automatically and sometimes magically shard your data across multiple database with little maintenance. I'm not sure what the roadmap of that feature is but it eliminates any of the GB cap worries that existed before.

The biggest surprise we ran into was the cost of Transactions. Even though you get 10k storage transactions for pennies, it does add up. Especially since every request for items from a queue is a transaction. So a lot of thought has to go into things to make sure parts of the system aren't too 'chatty' when it comes to Azure Storage. You don't have this problem with SQL Azure. There is no transaction cost, only the GB used.
> Japan's poor economic growth during over the last 10-20 years.

Per capita GDP growth in Japan over the last 20 years has been about the same as in the USA. They just don't import two million people a year -- rather wisely in my opinion.
"I have found that, in general, our brains our smarter than we are. They want what they want, and if my brain wants to spend a while in front of a computer screen stabbing orcs, who am I to tell it it shouldn’t?"

I have several problems with this statement, starting with the fact that it was derived from a rationalization of the author's own habits, not a meaningful empirical observation.

Further, this is a formula for addiction. Games, porn, gambling, food cravings and drugs are all similar in that they self-enforce a habit through perceived short-term rewards.

Self-discipline is what allows one to accomplish goals. And, it means adapting your brain so that it can supress these hormone driven urges and take action that measurably moves your progress towards a rationally derived goal.

I'm all about some R&R, and fun / entertainment / addictions all have their place. Personally, I become a gamer for about 1 month every 2 years. I even think this author probably has more self-disciplne than he lets on judging by his writing and the history of games he has created. However, the message this article conveys is destructive.

Rationality and self-discipline use a different part of your brain than cravings for short-term rewards. Before you rationalize a time wasting habit, make sure you have adapted your mind to have the self-discipline to switch back and forth. Some people with particularly addition-oriented genetics really should fully abstain from mind-whittling activities if they want to accomplish anything in their life.

My point of view also assumes you are someone who wants to accomplish some substantial goal(s) in your lifetime. If you choose to live a lifestyle of fun / bliss, by all means, whittle away..
That is actually great feedback, thank you. I am self taught in many areas. Still, what seems better? Hiring someone to bang it out in 4 weeks? Get a "founder" who's going to bang it out in 4 weeks for X% of the company? Or spend 4 months learning how to code on my own, plus months learning how to code “right, and then another 4 months to figure it out?

You ask a MCS and a MBA that question, and always get different answers. The more I think about it and the more feedback I get, YC may not be what I’m looking for.

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Isn't that usually the case when people make comparisons like this?

See also "omfg, US life expectancy slightly lower than EU, socialized medicine now!" Or similarly "omfg, EU cancer survival rate slightly lower than US, no death panels!"
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Looks similar to uProtect.it (Facebook tool that allows secret messages): http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/24/blocking-your-faceboo...
Great post. Excellent TL;DR summary, and well-articulated details on each point.

Hard feelings and lack of communication between competing UNIX desktop environments ... where have I heard this before?
Even that article is basically just a recap of http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/04/features/how...
I'm more interested in finding out how they went from "pretty slow for the first 3 months" to massive sales and attention.
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When it comes to making money or writing about making money, having actually made money in the past seems like a perfectly reasonable requirement.

Maybe he has, but I didn't see it. That was my point.

Are you intimately familiar with lionheated's income/revenue? Are you with mine?
Well, he was repudiating a politically motivated point that was fairly ridiculous, "medicaid recipients get sick a lot therefore medicaid is making them sick".
Wait. Does that mean I could send messages to all users using the app which is paired to this key? Hopefully no-one finds this out :/
Right - loved the video, the url shortner (http://ssh.sh) and the name itself (SecretSocial) - your name gives somewhat idea about yourself, as opposed to most startups these days with dropped vowels, alternate spelling, or forced '-fy' extension.
>I'm planning to promote the site by posting on forums.

You should have started there. You still could of course

Find someone that wants something like a hosted sc2 clan website, perhaps, then make it into just what they want. And dont take 4 months to finish....
I'm glad that doing it this way has never, ever occurred to me. Would you publish your private ssh key?
What's interesting is that, fifty years ago, Japan started in largely the same economic place as SE Asia and China, but somehow managed to do things like enforce strict building codes before becoming the world's most developed nation.

Seems like a good illustration of just how insidious systemic corruption can be to the development of a nation.
True, though even IGPUs have decent-sized texture caches which absorb some of the load, and embedded GPUs additionally usually have embedded frame buffer memory. In any case, blitting isn't anywhere near the crippling operation it once was.
The two situations are hard to reconcile because your moral axioms are an attempt to make a simple, coherent system starting from your moral intuitions; but your moral intuitions do not actually arise from a simple, coherent system.

In the case presented, the only differences from the toddler's are the time required to save the lives, and the psychological availability of the lives saved.

Unless your moral intuitions and/or moral axioms allow lower levels of responsibility for suffering which is easier to ignore, the "time required" is the only escape.

If you lived in a world where toddlers were perpetually falling under busses in front of you, would you be morally obligated to stay in good physical condition and pay attention to nearby toddlers so you could save more of them? If not, you should be safe from the responsibility to maximize your income and use the surplus to save lives.
Well, once an app manages to get on the top 25, the extra exposure pretty much guarantee it solid sales for a while. Still doesn't explain the bump to get it there though.
How does energy scale with distance from epicenter?
I'm pretty interested in this as well. I'm working on trying to get in touch with Rovio to do a Skype interview. I'll post it on HN if I can get them. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Huh? Please. No one is asking you to give up SSH. Honestly I never use remote X. It's just too clunky and dependent on a perhaps-flaky network (oops, lost the network connection for a minute? crap, there goes the entire app). I just use command-line stuff over ssh for all my remote admin, inside a screen session if necessary. Never had a problem with this.