skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing it's really hard to enable this for UIWebView without giving a billion more attack vectors for the jailbreakers.
QR Codes: The new lingua franca for mobile devices?
same mark. he has hundreds of ideas for businesses to start and has pitched me on many of them over the years
Yes they really exist. Some niches pay more like 20k+/mo pretty easily. Consulting at 150/hour isn't that hard. If you want specific advice learn an eCommerce framework really really well or become a deployment specialist for large clusters of JBoss/Weblogic/Websphere.
His reasoning seems shaky to me. Assuming this new JS engine is a security risk (it's not really, but lets pretend) you're not protecting anyone by making it Safari-only. It'd be like leaving all your ground-floor windows wide open, whilst locking your front and back doors in hopes that it will discourage burglars.

If the new JS engine is a security problem either fix it or remove it. Compromise helps no one.
Going to Portland Startup Weekend Apr 1-3:

http://portland.startupweekend.org/

Well document how it goes. Probably in video :>
I don't have any idea where the truth lies, here, but it's worth pulling the whole paragraph:

But according to Matt Asay, who is vice president of business development for mobile Web framework maker Strobe, Apple supposedly has no plans to fix them. Instead, they are marked "not to be fixed by exec order," suggesting that a higher up at Apple is preventing engineers from fixing the problems.

"Supposedly" and "suggested" let Ars weasel out of determining the truth of these assertions. Unless Apple has suddenly turned absurdly transparent, I have a hard time believing that this guy actually has any inside knowledge. On the other hand, he certainly has an incentive to bring pressure on Apple to make his business work better.
If you're just starting out with Ruby I strongly recommend the book "Ruby for Rails" by David A. Black. It teaches you Ruby and shows you how Rubyisms work with Rails.
Digg was popular well before Reddit, and I was always given the impression that Reddit was established as an ultimately successful Digg competitor.

However, your statement prompted me to do a little research. Here is Alexis' (reddit) story:

"This is a good chance for me to dispel any rumors. We were living in a veil of ignorance for the first month or so at Reddit. We were working our asses off, my co-founder Steve Huffman and I, building a site that we got online, and then two weeks into the site being online we found out that there was this other site called Digg, that had venture funding and it had been out for quite some time."

Source: http://mixergy.com/no-reddit-didnt-copy-digg-heres-how-it-wa...
Attachment. So tricky.
It doesn't have to be every developer making that decision. The house of cards potentially starts to crumble once it's a big enough minority of developers -- and a chunk of the media starts to say "hey that's really a lot more interesting than the entreporn".
maybe i knew this email was going to get published someday and was careful about what i said. it's kind of amazing that pg only was asked to redact one small thing in the entire thread
Yes but couchsurfing wasn't a business... it was more of a "movement". that was the concern: could couchsurfing be commercialized.
But why is it a good idea to have a saver web view outside of Safari when Safari remains wide open?

Maybe they think that people are aware that the web is generally less safe and act accordingly? And they don‘t want someone to smuggle that unsafeness into apps? (The homescreen webapps are more or less just collateral damage if you take on this view.) That’s the only somewhat plausible explanation I can think of and it doesn’t make all that much sense.
I don't see how these two points are mutually exclusive.

It very well could be an executive order not fix it because of the security issue.
I'm not sure which I'd rather see - Gruber being proved wrong (again), or a whole class of new remote "visit this site to jailbreak your iPhone" exploits...
They really cheat with that number. They are using engine-to-wheels efficiency, but then talk about the wave-disk in a hybrid presumably with no drive-train losses. A gasoline engine running over a much smaller RPM range will run much more efficient than 15%.

An efficient car may run at about 18% on average (hence the 15% after external losses), but quite possibly have a peak efficiency of 30%

Also, they compare to a gasoline Otto cycle engine. The diesel cycle is more efficient than the Otto cycle. A cars turbocharged diesel may run nearly 30% average efficiency, and peak efficiency in the 40s. (The ratio of peak/average eefficiency in diesel engines tends to be closer to unity than in gasoline engines).

There are actual operating now diesel engines operating at over 50% efficiency, but they are not the sort of thing you would put in your car (more the sort of thing where your car would fit inside the engine).

[edit]I wanted to find info on the prius before posting this, but was unable to. I finally did, and the complexity of the drivetrain is to (among other things) maximize the amount of the time that the engine is in it's peak efficiency area of 230g/kWh which is roughly an efficiency of 33%. Since the article specifically talks about running the engine in a hybrid comparison, this is apples-to-apples, and it is less than a 2x improvement, not 3.5x

[edit2]The Prius is not a vanilla Otto cycle, but it's pretty close. I really think of it as more of a Miller cycle than an Atkinson, but in any event it's a 4-stroke spark-ignited reciprocating piston engine.
It strikes me as you're forgetting that percentages must total to 100.

When you reduce the other causes of death, as we have very successfully done with almost every single one of the causes of death in e.g., 1900 (see http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/lead1900_98.pdf), then it follows from the fact that 100% of people die, that the few we haven't done as well against must be higher.

What happens if we manage to half the deaths from heart disease, for example? Well, the % of deaths from cancer will increase substantially.
NY Times Going to Paid Only Business Model
I'd say it's the same logic but usually a bottle of water in Europe is much cheaper than any coffee from Starbucks. :)
I'm the opposite, I have an iPad, but no iPhone - am actually considering an iPhone now (might as well wait for the next tech refresh). But to quote my mate Dave, since I got my iPad, I just use my iPhone as a phone!

Everyone should have a mate called Dave, think I'll just stick to my nokia classic for telecoms.
Twitter is like a cup of tea
SAS is over $2B in revenue -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute
IE6 Needs Your Help
Yeah I hear you but the steps you take in building a small business, while perhaps less risky, are the same. Yet you even get cache in trying a big business. I've done 5 startups (2 successful and 3 not) but I can point to that in my next you can't use your small business as an example you can do a big one.

So at a certain point in your life it makes sense to swing for the fences if you are the only bread winner for your family I definitely understand reducing risk.
yup. right up our alley. in our wheelhouse. which is why i'm kicking myself for missing this one. this is our kind of deal.
microsoft?
Yep, our API isn't really technically REST in the classical use of the term. We changed some of our wording and made a blog post: http://developer.rdio.com/blog/read/No_REST_for_the_wicked
I was the 4th guy there, only stayed a while because I wanted to do my own thing.

The thing that struct me the first time I went into the house in menlo park where they got started was that instead of techy books on their desks, there were stacks of books on hiring. That was new to me, usually the geeks are thinking about engineering and if not that, marketing.
Ask HN: Feedback on my site, a Yelp for video games
Hey guys, I'd love to hear any feedback you might have on my site PopuGamer (http://popugamer.com). It's new and I know there isn't a lot of activity on it, but I'm working hard to try and get it off the ground. Here's a rundown of the site...

What it is: PopuGamer is a gaming review website focused 100% on user-submitted reviews, kind of like a Yelp for gaming.

Why I started it: As an avid gamer myself, I've read my share of total BS game reviews by professional reviewers, and I wanted to create a place where regular, everyday gamers -- those without relationships with game publishers and developers or access to pre-release games -- could discuss, debate, and discover great games. Just like Yelp democratized the restaurant review process, my hope is that PopuGamer will do the same thing for game reviews.

I'd love to hear what you guys think and if you have any advice on building a community from scratch.

URL: http://popugamer.com

Thanks for your time, guys. I really appreciate it!
Current 93, Coil, Ulver, Gridlock, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Architect, Shpongle - in fact amount of good music is always near the same.

But you must search it.
One or two long ones too :)
Other than using an operator for a function name, there's no real rocket surgery in this post:

>>> def index(x, y):
'Dyadic function indexes y by x'
return [y[i] for i in x]

>>> p = list(range(22))
>>> shuffle(p)
>>> p
[1, 20, 19, 15, 9, 14, 6, 8, 2, 4, 16, 18, 10, 3, 0, 13, 12, 11, 7, 17, 5, 21]
>>> index(p, p)
[20, 5, 17, 13, 4, 0, 6, 2, 19, 9, 12, 7, 16, 15, 1, 3, 10, 18, 8, 11, 14, 21]
>>> index([1]*22, p)
[20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20]
>>> index(p, [1]*22)
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
Because if I write an app for iOS, I can't mess with Safari's address space. But if I have a UIWebView in my address space and I can use it to get a hold of memory pages with their executable bits marked, I could use that to do all manner of things that are normally forbidden.
Slam Bolt Scrappers
Hm. Interesting. I can certainly identify with not wanting to deal with the hassle. But I don't understand reducing and simplifying by using two separate services owned by two separate companies that aren't you to do the same thing that you were doing.

What happens when/if posterous/flavors.me dies (as a company)? At least with Squarespace in that instance you could transparently migrate everything somewhere else, right?

Identity just seems like a weird thing to outsource, especially when it's really not that hard. I'm a proficient, but basically technically lay person, and my setup is to have a static html file on a web host and a blog page that points at a tumblr blog, which I'm thinking about switching to wordpress.

But I'm not and never have been on Facebook, so I'm probably an outlier.
Turning crowd's [smart]phones into pixels
I was wondering today about a video i saw recently about an interactivity company (YDreams), in which an outdoor crowd would control "the spaceship" on an Arkanoid style game projected on a very large outdoor display, by waving a rod left and right.

I was probably looking at my phone, when i thought about a similar project except that an application that people would install on their phones, would allow them to be controlled by a central server, basically turning them into pixels, allowing for video/visualizations to be "projected over the crowd".

Given a large enough crowd, as "aligned" as possible, it could be really an awesome experience.

What do you think?
Yes, you're absolutely right. That's indeed what I'm doing in most cases.
I hope this works; if it does, it will be the best thing which has happened to news in a long time. Companies produce product which is beneficial to their customers; if those customers are large corporations buying advertisement, their product will be beneficial to large corporations. If their customers are you and me, spending $8 a week for news, they will produce product beneficial to us.
I submitted this because this story is very much about entrepreneurs who went through the sort of process that PG often describes: iterating on ideas until something finally clicks, and refusing to fail.
Yeah I was surprised by the results. After the earthquake, you see that the number of peers stays pretty constant for about 6 hours after the quake. I'm guessing that people had better things to do than turn BitTorrent on or off. However, the network is still there. The day after the earthquake I was able to email my former host family in southern Hokkaido.

I was expecting to see something more similar to what we saw in Egypt and Libya when their Internet got shut off:

http://aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/blog/egypt-libya-peers.ht...
Eh, I dunno how much my experience confirms this. I worked for a pretty spastic, rudderless company for awhile. I'd make my case for the right direction. I'd be shouted down.

Months later, exactly what I described would be pitched as a new direction, as though it was someone else's idea (and it definitely was their idea, for all practical purposes – I wasn't listened to, so they got there independently). This repeated itself a few times.

Now I work somewhere else and it's much better. I'm still not a dick. But maybe the lesson is that if you're continually in disagreement and no one is listening, you're in the wrong place.
A few latency issues... or is it just tutorial related sluggishness or is it representative of Mongos' CAP tradeoffs? I guess 'eventually consistent' kicked in by the second find query. If that is what really happened, it is really cool to visualize 'eventually consistent'!

Output from back to back db.users.find() command. It took a while for Johnny to be updated to Cash.

> db.users.find();

[
{ "_id" : { "$oid" : "4d82805ecc9374271b03dd8a" }, "name" : "Johnny", "languages" : [ "ruby", "c" ] },
{ "_id" : { "$oid" : "4d828066cc9374271b03dd8b" }, "name" : "Sue", "languages" : [ "scala", "lisp" ] }
]

> db.users.find();

[
{ "_id" : { "$oid" : "4d82805ecc9374271b03dd8a" }, "name" : "Cash", "languages" : [ "english" ] },
{ "_id" : { "$oid" : "4d828066cc9374271b03dd8b" }, "name" : "Sue", "languages" : [ "scala", "lisp" ] }
]
>

Ed: Oops. I was on the try.mongodb.org page. Not the linked article. I am trying that now.
Gameloft is cloning World of Warcraft next
Maybe the problem is that Nitro requires that an app have special permission to mark pages as executable. Apple may be comfortable giving this permission to Safari (or any if their apps, for that matter) but not comfortable giving it to third party apps. Along the same lines, it could be that apps saved to the home screen don't get Nitro because there is a special exemption low in the system for Safari, and they haven't yet worked out how to roll it out to the thin apps that are created when you save something to the home screen.
This seems to be exactly the case: http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/nitro_ios_43
I'm not believing that. It goes against all Apple said ("We've got 2 platforms, the App store and the web. The web is open and we support that").

This is all just hearsay. Where's the smoking gun? Where's the Exec email?
That would make them Pingtarts
Thanks, Peter. This is exactly the kind of program that I was talking about. I hope their connections to schools are able to turn startups in this market into businesses with real impact quickly.
would it be possible to relicense the output of google's tools (the rewritten kernel header files) to LGPL with the permission of the kernel developers (just like glibc or uclibc do) and build a separate library out of this? This library would consist mainly of header files. And this library can then be linked against the rest of bionic whereat bionic could keep its current license.
Would this be ok?
The only way to stop the jailbreakers is to not release the physical device. I suppose the jailbreakme.com website from iOS<=4.0.1 made jailbreaking extremely easy even for the non tech savvy, but even the "harder" jailbreaks are just programs that can easily be installed on Windows and they do everything for you.
I've been working on Pluggo for 1.5 years and I'm just coming up to 1.5k month. Now something to keep in mind is, due to me not understanding how to choose a market when I started, it has taken way longer than it needed.

I was silly to choose the twitter market because (a) everyone wants the tools for free (b) It's the most competitive single tools software market EVERYONE and his uncle made a twitter client (just like me) (c) It is impossible to SEO because EVERYONE and his uncle made a twitter site.

Even so, with all of that going against me, I've still been able to reach 1.5k month and it's now starting to really pick up due to valuable lessons I've learned from other bootstrappers along the way. Like Amy Hoy (above with the $10k/month) who's obviously a little bit cleverer than me!

I should also mention that for 6 of those months I did "absolutely nothing" with Pluggio. Because I didn't believe in it. Because it wasn't doing well enough according to my Entreporn expectations.

Yes, I let it slide for 6 entire months. If I had spent that time working on it, it would be at least 5k now.
HTML5 applications run from the browser, where they are most likely to be executed, are going to be fine. The fact that locally installed offline webclips don't have Nitro is frankly, honestly, an oversight. This really has nothing to do with native vs. HTML, it has to do with the browser vs. third party apps.
He should do this for each of the MS Office Apps too.
Then why not allow at the home screen web apps to use Nitro? The entire app is within the UIWebView and controls nothing outside of it. I fail to see how a home screen web app is any different than one within MobileSafari.
Show HN:  Leanthingy.com - Rate Startup Ideas
Lean Thingy - Helps you get fast feedback about your startup idea.

I hope this tool can help you determine whether to pursue or kill a startup idea quickly.

I started building it after a few startup idea posts on HN with 0 replies. I think of it as a hot or not for startup ideas.

I started on this two days ago - it's not 100% complete, but I wanted to start getting feedback as soon as possible.
How much do you spend on apps for your new iPad?
Just curious what amount you would expect/budget for adding apps to your new device.
Bear two things in mind:

1. Sometimes the truth hurts.

2. People love to shoot the messenger.

We have this idea that teamwork is this beautiful thing where people always get along and nobody is ever mad at each other. That's bullshit. To do the right thing, you have to piss people off sometimes.

I really suggest you read the "No Asshole Rule". It goes into details about who's an asshole and how not to be one. And it's very clear about the idea that just because you disagree with people doesn't make you an asshole. A few relevant points:

1. Focus on the argument and not the person.

2. Argue like you're right, listen like you're wrong. In other words, really try to make sure that you really understand their point and that they understand your point.

Even if you do those things, you're still going to make people angry. Remember, being stubborn and argumentative is only a vice if you're wrong or you're doing it for your own personal enrichment rather than the good of the team. If it really is a simple case of you being right and them being wrong, and yet they're still arguing with you, is it really you that has a problem?
I don't think the point is that it is 'easy' to create a $10K/mo - but that it is easier to build that, than to build a Google/Facebook.

I think he went overboard by imploring EVERYBODY to stop trying to build those types, and build a lifestyle business - but the criticism is valid.

We, the industry, is caught up with the $10M Series A round, and the major IPOs and acquisitions. When it's just as much of a major victory for a small company - one or two employees doing $10K - $100K/mo.

That's pretty major.

I think it is doable. Not for ALL types of technology - e.g. not Twitter, Google, or FB.

But certainly for many webapps.

Think of it like being the new 'professional', where professional is an accountant/lawyer/doctor. You no longer have to go to med. school for 7 years, but you have to invest time in learning about everything it takes to build and launch a successful webapp (which I would argue is just as grueling as med/law school).

The major difference is that it scales beautifully. If you can put the systems in place to earn $10K, you can relatively easily go to $100K/mo.
It's not the JS engine that's the security problem. It's that the JS engine requires allowing apps to mark pages as executable. Executable pages opens up a whole another vector of attacks that have nothing to do with dangerous JS apps.
I think it's Chrome. It looks like it applied both ICC and gamma, but PNG spec requires to pick only one of them.
Apple can't turn on the ability to do executable, dynamically written to memory pages just for their library: they'd have to turn it on for the entire process, at which point you could also do crazy things like download native code and execute it, bypassing the entire concept of their "codesign" mechanism.
Hang on, so you're saying suspend publicly provided attorneys for people who can't afford them?

Is this one of those cases where they're more "free" because more of them are in jail?
As someone who pulls this system apart constantly: this comment is dead on accurate.
I was a little hesitant at first, so I don't know if long-term I'll regret doing it.

If flavors.me dies (which is absolutely a possibility, as I have no idea what their long-term plans are), then I lose the static about page that I've set up.

If I was already going to be hosting my email and/or blog myself then I agree, setting up one additional static landing page wouldn't be a lot of overhead.

But once I decided to get rid of my email, it started to get harder to justify paying for a VPS just to run a blog and a main page. It's sort of a cascading effect of outsourcing.
That's a reasonable question, and for all we know, the failure of Nitro in that use case may well be a bug.
For a minute there I read "super perogie moon" and was really curious as to what that would entail.
$5 for garageband. I already had all other apps I wanted.
Rdio: No REST for the wicked
Seeing these over and over will reduce their efficacy unless the offer really is targeted. Almost everyone buys from Amazon, it's got universal appeal. I can think of very few other companies that have that sort of reach/appeal.
In Photoshop: Convert to Profile → Custom RGB… → move primaries' numbers around. I also used ImageMagick to add gAMA chunk.
nothing surprising that a two plus thousand year old form of societal organization (which emerged to organize small cardinality set of equal peers who themselves were the top of the hierarchical society (oligarchy)) - democracy - and the form that has emerged during recent decades are incompatible.

How many 2000 year old things are still actual or fitting well with the modern technologies? Horse races? Sailing? Basics of writing and calculation?
Parent's credentials include Cydia, so this is probably the most valuable comment we're going to see in this whole thread.

Thanks for weighing in, sir – this was just the expert opinion I was hoping to see.
Github reviews as a way to improve code quality?
But that's the point of what I was saying - when you are browsing your music, your filesystem browser becomes a music program. If you want to see files, switch back to files view and you are done.

I am not saying this is how every file browsing should happen and how every program should behave, but, for some data types - like mail, videos, music - it makes a lot of sense
One of the golden rules of iOS development is "work with what you've got". I'd get started on a workaround.