skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did the microwave only cook food that was specially labeled microwaveable

Yes. It's mostly mediocre at cooking traditional recipes, but great with foods that are specially designed for it, some of which wouldn't otherwise be feasible.

and food grocers had to pay 30% of the price of food to the microwave manufacturer to get that special label

If there were legal and technical means to license microwaveable food, I'm sure someone would do it.
You're looking to the past. It's recently become much easier to build a lifestyle business.

Also, I wasn't suggesting that bootstrapping Amazons and Googles would become the norm. Just that you're in a much better starting position when you already have a successful business paying the bills. Especially when it comes time to negotiate terms.
He had an explanation quite a while back (he kinda shifted gears) which I parsed as him saying he wasn't going to spend as much time being a link roll with snippets of commentary, into spending more time on his long-form pieces. (No idea what my search terms would be to find it)

Perhaps his best work was when he distilled the ecosystem down into a fantastic stream of links, a brilliant and hard-working focused aggregator/editor.

Bit more of a bloviating opinion columnist now-a-days. And I guess his biases are brought to the front more.

Understandable though. Everyone is converging on his range of primary sources and editorially crowd-sourcing it in realtime.

I'll still be frequenting his site. It's still quality. You just read with a bias-aware filter like you do any other news source.
There could also be something like a time-to-live for a review; say after half a year the mark disappears and you can/should rate the project anew at based on current state.
$10k/month is nowhere close to being "fuck you money".
Didn't they already sell to AOL?
To say that Apple does not allow writable executable pages for security reasons is to ignore the bigger reason Apple does not allow modifiable code: Apple does not want apps to have writable executable pages because then an app could implement an app store.
in all seriousness, where is the marketplace for zero-day attacks? and how does one bring goods to market there?
great to bump into you at yc office hours today. let's chat more at some point, send me an email: art at fanvibe.com
"could potentially be used to reduce the effectiveness of a current two-factor authentication implementation"

What could this be? Initialization settings?
It was a subtle joke alluding to his friend reluctantly lending him a Windows 7 machine (and him now screwing with his friend.)
While you're most certainly right, Jailbreaks aren't hard as long as you don't accidentally update too soon, they're not plentiful enough that @comex et al can waste exploits yet with 0 day releases timed with Apple's releases.

If they opened nitro access to non-mobile safari people, I'm guessing they would have tons.

I honestly expect nitro access to open plenty of new avenues.
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That's why they call it a "casual computing device". Perhaps your use of the kitchen should be called "casual cooking" although even that might be over-stating it ;)
I heard it as wry dead-pan sarcasm.
Would you be at all worried that smart and dishonest customers could manipulate the system? i.e., make up a story and automatically receive money back.
As far as FGOTD: OpenFeint contacted us to use our game for FGOTD - we didn't really apply or anything like that. However, word of caution - any time your game is free, you will get bottom-feeders expecting everything (this is a different discussion altogether)

Back to the point, we only use our game in landscape mode, and we went from 70+ source files to 900+ source files after we added OF. So yeah, good point about OTA limit. :)
Rethinking the NPR API Ecosystem
Yep. Everything you said makes loads of sense. Seems provably true. But I'd be honestly curious how many people have noticed a correlation between a large unit-test suite and the quality of the software they use? I haven't. Of the projects whose source I've been exposed to it feels like I've dealt with as many bug-riddled projects that had lots of tests as I have solid projects that lacked them.

I think projects get off course... teams can develop a culture of 'having unit tests' instead of a culture of 'writing high quality software'. The way the TDD/XP camp talk about software bums me out. As if the test they decided (key word) to write set the software on some Manifest Destiny vector to perfection.

Again, I agree with you. Unit tests are awesome, and the benefit as scale is huge.. but I took antirez's comments as a shot across a different bow.
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The article makes the claim that inline functions and macros in header files are copyrightable. This is plausible (based on what I've heard from lawyers). It then goes on to suggest that applications which use Android's NDK could be declared GPLed if there is a successful challenge to Android's cleaning of header files. This seems far-fetched. Let's work it through. First, Google would have to acknowledge that its headers were GPLed. Presumably this would involve a court case. Brought by who? And on what grounds? Then, somebody, perhaps the winner of the court case, would have to get the application developer to acknowledge that their application was GPLed. This would presumably be another court case. Again, brought by who, and on what grounds? Assuming you did go through these heroic and precedent-setting court cases, you would end up with the source code to a shared library, and you would have to go through it all again to get access to the Java code or other application components which are executed by interpreters. The whole piece reads like Slashdot-esque fear-mongering.

The article then goes on to suggest that Google has "unlocked the kernel from the restrictions of GPL2" and could "create a non-GPL'd fork of the Linux kernel". I can't imagine how they imagine this could possibly be the case, even if some legal challenge determines that they do have non-GPLed headers, and the paper doesn't clarify.
Sometimes it feels like Hollywood. So many entrepreneurs because it s kool not because they like real hacking and innovation (not just in marketing and social tools).
I wouldn't mind if there was a way for people to review my code. I might not need star ratings, but maybe a way for someone to make a case why doing something different or the same way would be a good idea. In terms of value I would see something more along the lines of something of more of a 'discussion'.

It's also interesting for people to be talking about testing on this thread. There might be some good points made but you might miss the point/concept that was posed in by the OP.
Reddit has always had way more downtime than digg for as long as I can remember. People left digg for reddit because of power users and the last straw of serving as an RSS feed for big name websites.

If they have the brains to go back on these 2 changes and maintain the same uptime, there's absolutely no reason why they would not be able to surpass reddit again. Reddit is not without its share of problems:

- frequent downtime
- censorship and squatting of subreddits
- censorship of random subreddits like atheism
- shadow banning of random articles
Oh most certainly. However, I'm going to say there is at least one serious security flaw out and published every release (the currently used one by jail breakers) that can be used access usually. Generally speaking, you can just use that one for worms, rootkits, etc if the web is your attack vector (not all of them are that easy to exploit unaware, but many of them are).
Plus you can just have them activate your iPad at the Apple store and then never go near a computer again.
If they're indeed marked "don't fix", that's probably because they are intentional. They aren't bugs.
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I'm comparing to Firefox 3.6; Firefox 4.0 isn't released yet. But everything I've read indicates that Firefox 4.0 will still have a single-process, non-low-integrity process model, with all the security and reliability implications that go with it.

Hopefully Firefox 4 will catch up to the likes of Chrome and Safari (and IE 9) in terms of JavaScript performance, judging by benchmarks on the release candidate, but I haven't seen any indication that it addresses Firefox 3's fundamental design weaknesses. Of course, feel free to correct me if I've missed something in the release notes somewhere...
I agree. You have no idea how much I agree.
My small online business never made it to 10000 us a month, but I don't care.
I am writing from a nice Balinese house with a great tropical garden where I'm spending 2 months.
And then I'll spend a month in Sri Lanka.
Then, maybe it will be China.
I have been living like this for the past 10 years, working online and enjoying life as I never thought it was possible.
So, go for your small business and be free, it's really much easier than it seems.
And it's so beautiful.
Find vulnerability, develop exploit, sell to http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/ or http://labs.idefense.com/vcp/ if you are a "White Hat" or the Russian mafia if you want to make more money and don't care what your exploit is used for.

Once upon a time http://www.wslabi.com/ tried to create some kind of eBay for vulnerabilities too but it did not seem to go well.
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I'm not sure, but either way it seems to me an illustration of John Siracusa's "Apple Strategy Tax." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282066
happy st. patty's day! with a little Irish pessimism!
makes me wonder what they've been holding back from customers and pen testers? Obscurity shouldn't be part of the strength of the solution.
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The UK Beats The US To A Startup Visa - But Will It Make A Real Difference?
The Charlie Sheen Guide to Winning at Start-up Marketing
I'm probably bias as I really dislike the whole "social media" thing going on with the internet right now (the sort of crap mashable covers) but I see this as proof that "social media" is a fad and that real communities which have been around since the dawn of the internet are where the real growth and stability is.

Reddit is a community, always has been, it took time to grow but it has grown and is now flourishing, Digg is a social media site, where the focus is not on discussion or sharing cool things, it's about driving page views to other sites, the discussion and sharing links became a side part of it.
Upload your own CSS design for the resume
I Love the idea (it does sound familiar..), just a couple nitpicks:

1. Please don't make me sign in with Twitter. Not everyone has a twitter account and not everyone wants to give you access to theirs.

2. I'd like to be able to rate ideas right from the leaderboard. If i'm just browsing and i see an idea i think is excellent i'd want to be able to tell them that.

3. The design struck me as a generic blog design. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but it looked like a generic wordpress blog at first glance.

Other than that, i like it. Good luck!
That's true enough, but there's a bigger distinction, isn't there? Maybe the better golden rule for developing for iOS is "work with what Apple will let you"?

My point being Windows developers do not have exactly the same problems.
ouch, hard to read over that background!
6% is a large stake for an angel, and even bigger for a seed investor.
A thief broke in to our house and stole some special blueprints from a safe in the drawing room. We don't think they took any cash or gadgets from other parts of the house, but we have so much lying around who can tell?
I think one also needs to consider the success and failure profiles in each. What do success and failure entail, and what are their implications for your career? The attraction of the get-rich-or-die-quickly company is that, if it doesn't make you rich enough never to have to work again, at least you can walk away from it and hopefully spin your story positively enough to get career credit, for your next job, for the time you spent there.

Taking VC and making $120k/year, which is low-average for a VC-funded firm's CEO, and then failing after three years, doesn't entail much financial loss. And unless the failure is catastrophic and obviously reflects badly on a single founder, it's not a huge career hit. Sure, it's 3 years working very hard for middling pay, but there are worse things in the world. Depending on how one is able to bounce back from the failure, it may have been 3 years very well spent.

As for lifestyle businesses, no VC is going to fund a lifestyle business; it's just not what they do. And bank loans are out because they make onerous personal-liability requirements, so scratch that. This leaves two options. (1) Don't quit your day job. Risk is minimal, but I'd be shocked if more than 2% of these also-employed "entrepreneurs" take off. (2) Quit your day job, and put personal savings at risk. This is a lot riskier, financially, than founding a VC startup if you have sufficient social connections to know (before you start) that you'll be funded. That doesn't mean it's not worth doing, and if you don't have those social connections you'll be eating savings either way while you hunt for funding, but it does mean that it's costly.
Anyone got a link to the audio of his talk? I've always loved his SXSW talks, and they've been available on the web pretty quickly in the past.
Don’t Know Squared: “It’s What You Don’t Know You Don’t Know”
A lot of people want to skip the buildup to success. They don't want to develop a small business over a few years for a stable launching point to more ambitious projects.
Confession: For 840 Days, I Had No Business Plan
tl;dr: My business is a little over 3 years old and I didn't have a solid business plan until a few months ago. The take aways? "Don't develop a product you think other people need, develop a product you need" and "grow organically and throw away your business plan frequently."
God has an interesting take on reverse engineering, presumably with some "borrowing". He said it's good for young engineers.

God said of remarriage... "more babies".
Someone else submitted it. The post author is andrewparker on HN.
If you read my later reply, you'll see that I actually prefer the way things are, I just don't like misinformation. I am perfectly capable of accepting that its a matter of engineering time to get this to work. What I am not OK with is the notion that Safari is somehow a "trusted" app where this is not a security concern, whereas a home-screen web app is a security concern. There is no such thing as a trusted browser, any random malicious ad loaded in an iframe can have access to Nitro. Home screen web apps are necessarily just as safe or more safe than web pages.
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There are dozens of forums hosted on Katz Global anonymous servers. Payment happens via anonymous gold-based payment systems like Pecunix. A top-of-the-range zero day exploit can set you back at least 5 figures. Also available: botnets for hire, stolen credit cards, WoW accounts, fake 'high yeild investment' scams and anything else you could think of.
One of my favorite videos on youtube is the one where Neil deGrasse Tyson expresses disagreement at Richard Dawkin's methods [1].

He says: "... persuasion isn't 'here are the facts and you're either an idiot or you're not.' It's 'here are the facts and here's a sensitivity to your state of mind.' And it's the facts and the sensitivity that when convolved together, creates impact. I worry that your methods and how articulately barbed you can be, simply being ineffective..."

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2xGIwQfik
Great idea, few things as well.

1. Ability to vote from leader board

2. Only allow people to vote once (cookies/username)

3. Browse though a full list of ideas

4. Show comments for ideas.
Happily, subreddits help alleviate this 'content inflation'.
Memory may be built with standard building blocks
I've never set one up. There's an RSA encryption cabinet in our datacenter at work, it has red rope around it like a nightclub line and a sign that says no non RSA certified personnel. I imagine anyone who knows what it might be can't confirm what would be useful.
It depends on what was compromised if anything. There could be a possibility of source code leakage which may have an overlooked implementation flaw. Or there could have been some malicious injection in source, or even tools.

If I recall correctly, the "seed" of the tokens are generated at manufacture time and are uploaded to the Token Manager. So it's possible the source was read which could potentially show the method of seed generation, if it's strong that might not be troublesome. I doubt there were any seeds stored along with the source which are then used in production. It's hard to speculate from the lack of information going around.
Pixelate 2.0 For iPhone Shows You How Colors Will Look On Your Clothes, Walls
Your microwave doesn't need to be backed up or software updated on a regular basis. Syncing data between the iPad and a computer (photos, books, music, etc) is optional at this point. In the future I assume backups/software updates will not require a computer either but it is a challenge to backup 16/32/64GB to the cloud on a regular basis for most people with mediocre broadband connections and basically impossible over 3G due to data caps/throttling. I guess if we want to stick with the microwave analogy we could say the microwave cannot be activated before being plugged into an electrical socket. It's a practical consideration. We could have microwaves that ran on batteries but what's the point? If you own a microwave you probably have a spot to plug it in. If you own an iPad you probably have a computer of some kind. Worse case Apple will activate it for you.

For the larger issue of DRM I must say I've never used a microwave that was more open than an iPad. I can't load any third party software into my microwave. I can't even find any schematics for the internal designs to allow for my own modifications. I'm pretty sure companies like GE own patents for many of the components inside so I couldn't reproduce them and sell my own open source microwave.
> are there any big tech companies (in the top tier of "big") that didn't take venture capital?

That's an interesting question. I'd be curious if anyone knows if,when, and how much venture capital companies like Intel, HP, Microsoft, IBM, AT&T, Motorola, and Tektronix took.
Thanks for the comments.

Reason for Twitter: Wanted to get this up fast - Faster/Easier to confirm twitter account than build confirmation emails.

Leaderboard - Great idea - I'll add that in tonight.

Design - yes - in an effort to get this up quickly - I used a free html/css template I found online. It looks like crap.

This is a test to see if the idea is viable. If it is, I'll put more effort into making it look nice.
Elsewhere in the comments I'm reading HN folks who agree that there are security implications with having writeable code pages available to native apps, and that it's reasonable for some of the JIT stuff to appear in Mobile Safari and not in native apps (although there are other approaches Apple may pursue in the future).

Have you read these arguments? Do you disagree with them? Or are you saying something else?

Just trying to understand...
Perhaps the (normal) robots are not that much less vulnerable - after all electronics have to be hardened to be usable in space precisely because of high-energy radiation and particle radiation. ECC RAM probably wouldn't be enough.
Ask HN: Too many concepts/ideas. What to do?
I have prototyped many projects in the past, but right now I have found myself with too many ideas I'd like to pursue. What's my next step? Figuring out which one I want to do most? That's really difficult...should I just pick one?
How can your startup get more costumers? 
A couples of nights ago I was thinking at how some startups get loads of users / costumers, and how others strugle each day to exist. What does one have and the other hasn't?
Are there any five nines hosted database services?
There are a few hosted database services around but the ones I've looked at cater for web apps. My app is a VoIP/telecoms one and I need a five nines SLA, are there any that meet that?
No paypal isn't a bank under American law meaning they aren't regulated or have to deal with the same rules as banks - this is the reason they can do those things not because of visa.
I don't see the problem - nobody is forcing people to upvote the story.
Creeper, The First Computer Virus, Is 40 Years Young Today
No IE5 Mac, no credibility
Hey Elad, thanks for all the advice. Can you write the same post, but geared for someone at the stage just before that? i.e. going from $0 to seed round.
Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games
You should pick the one that you think can (and hopefully will) be the best fit with what are your plans forr the future. Where do you see in 2-5-10 years from now?
Choose the best ideea you have right know, and start working on it, don't stop, be restless and fight for what you want in life!
'still dangerous, but only to the people nearby'

Depending on what happens in the next week or two and depending on which way the wind blows, that could be 35m people nearby in the Tokyo metro area.
Faced With Evidence, We Still Get It Wrong
Are home screen-pinned web apps separate processes? This makes sense for UIWebViews, but not for web apps pinned to the home screen.
The article and above comments are basically saying that you don't need an expensive gym membership and a highly qualified personal trainer to get six-pack abs. You can do it yourself by, as you note, by building muscle, burning fat, and eating healthy.

The above advice is meant to help those who are inclined to focus and work hard, but it's worth noting that it takes nothing away from the gourmands and loafers of the world: they (and I) will not have six-pack abs. Period. Those unwilling or unable to change their lifestyle would be best served by finding something else to do with their time.
Sigh. You do know that almost all of us are on your side, right? Do you have any idea how often the topic of the difficulty of hiring women comes up when I talk to fellow entrepreneurs (male and female)? Personally, I've tried recruiting six talented female programmers to apply to Y Combinator. None have. Two of them took jobs at Goldman Sachs. One of them was one of the most talented programmers I've ever met.

If you want to change the game, you've got to get in it. The fact of the matter is that VC is an institution that's incredibly biased against anyone who doesn't have connections. The year before I went through Y Combinator, I emailed 30 VCs our pitch deck. Two responded. The day after demo day, we had offers for meetings with half. Today, I have no trouble setting up meetings. VCs simply don't have time to review every company that might come their way. So they use intros and recommendations as short cuts. This isn't actually a male or female issue. Very few people have the requisite connections to break into this group. Isolating it to a female issue alone probably minimizes the seriousness of the problem. That's why I love when a VC like Bryce reaches out and gives people a way to even get in the door without having said connections. This is a huge improvement for those willing to take advantage of it.

Seriously, I'm open to suggestions. What solutions do you have that would get more women into the game? We both agree that it would be a good thing.