skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, I just signed up for the Monday 14th dinner @ 7:30 PM @ La Méditerranée! (Which, by the way, I never thought about until now means, if my French doesn't totally fail me, "borne from the middle of the earth"... right? Or perhaps the Latin, mediterranus, "in the middle of the earth?")

Anyway, can't wait to meet the rest of you!
Yeah, sort of... minus $795.01+.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/software/appl...
Paying is not the point.

If paying for the software were easy for everyone who has a Mac everywhere, I would feel a little bit uncomfortable, but that would be all. My point is that this move may effectively shut off parts of the world that have no access to the Mac App Store.

Don't get me wrong: I like Apple and used Apple computers since my early days as an Apple II developer. My main computers run Linux, but I like to keep a Mac around. What worries me is that this move actually hurts Apple a lot more than we may realize at first.
I'd say that generally, you don't hook it directly into rails. I think it may fill a role similar to node.js, with the added benefits of fibers and the ability to load your rails app's models and libraries.

For instance, I have a 20-line node.js app that does nothing but serve websockets for my rails app. I may replace that with Goliath in the interest of consistency.
If you have a Apple developer account then you can download it for free. If you have a free account (so you can submit bug reports, and downloaded the old Xcode 3.x) then you can not download Xcode 4.x.

Note, Xcode 3 is still available for download from connect.apple.com or by following the link on the Xcode 4 websites on developer.apple.com, http://imgur.com/8LHXW was updated on Monday!
Dell streak 7....the dual core beast for $199 with a new phone contract. Check it out...there is a middle-ground!
Than iOS yes, iOS's saf' isn't resynced with the webkit tree during every minor release (sadly): Safari on 4.2.1 is forked off of Webkit 533.17.9, the most recent release of Webkit (which can probably be find in or around "Safari 6" aka the webkit nightlies) is 534.23 from 5 days ago (I can't find a 533.17.9 tag, but 533.7.8 was tagged in July)
Here's a link to the Hacker Dojo website if anyone wants to explore further: http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/25437/FrontPage

I wish something like this existed in Pittsburgh. Sounds like a great place. If something like that does exist here and I just don't know about give me a heads up! :-D
Interesting timing -- it wasn't very long ago that some iOS developers were organizing together to build an iPhone app. Not sure if this is a product of their work or if it was developed independently of those efforts.

https://convore.com/iphone-development-sdk/convore-for-ios/
This attack really struck me the wrong way. I'll never, ever be a verifone customer.

Verifone really went about attacking it's competitor the wrong way.

In the video that demonstrates being able to read the card information with their own iOS app they mention a criminal glass blower buying a TV with your credit card after making a purchase with square.

A glass blower, really, ummmmm let me think when is the last time I made a purchase from a glass blower? Is that a common interaction? I would have thought they would have chosen a common transaction. Street vendor, food stand, but no a glass blower. Very strange.

If you follow startups you'll remember that Jim McKelvey developer of the square hardware in question is a . . . what does he do again . . . oh yeah a software engineer and glass blower.

This appears to be a personal attack on Jim as well as on Square.

I hope verifone enjoys a good laugh on putting a glass blower in their video. Hopefully verifone will be writing Mr. McKelvey a large check after the lawyers are through with this one.

Very poor business practice whether or not

I don't see the download for their skimming app have they taken the app down? Probably a good idea, I doubt the credit card companies will appreciate them providing a skimming app regardless of what reading hardware it's using.

It appears their video has been removed from youtube.com for violating terms of service.
So… Effectively the same thing?
I think you should really think more about it. $0.99 is great and all for an app but you could be earning commissions on domain name registrations at the same time.

I'm trying out your app right now for a vexing domain name brainstorm I've been having...
I think increasing its speed would be good
You can compile, but you can't link with the standard GNU toolchain to get a usable library (at least last I heard), because binutils simply doesn't support the Mach-O format (see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-09/msg00121.html).
I have no problem with the price of Visual Studio, if I'd use Windows. Just setting the record straight with respect to the grandparent post.

The bottom line is that many vendors learnt that to make tools available at a low price point for at least some audiences to capture mindshare.
So IE can not follow the parts of the standards they don't like, and that's cool with you now? It's a pretty silly position to take.
I meant that it is tricky to automate QA without feeding it back into Mechanical Turk for manual evaluation, for example, by classifying the task results are good or bad. This is an active area of research (see for example [1]).

Even if in theory, feeding back the results into Mechanical Turk for manual evaluation will correct errors, there are still huge tradeoffs in practice.

Suppose you had three people look at a task and say if it was done correctly or not. We pick the most popular choice out of the three. This works fine for tasks like speech transcription where it is easy to tell if it was done correctly or not. But what about tasks like labeling features in biological images? Surprisingly, even if you show people examples of what is correct and not correct, they still have a hard time distinguishing between the two. This are the kinds of difficult tasks that are especially in need of QA.

If the people evaluating correctness are only right 60 percent of the time, you'd better have more than 3 people vote on whether it's correct, just to get a good estimate. (Also, we are assuming people are biased toward the correct answer, rather than toward the wrong answer, or toward a fixed response) If you need a lot of people to evaluate each task, then you're paying several times more money than you were for the original tasks, and you have to write some infrastructure for feeding things back into mechanical turk.

Like you said, it will work in principle, but there are some tradeoffs.

Personally, I prefer the gold-data method and being conservative about accepting results in the first place rather than feeding them back to get fixed or labeled incorrect.

[1] www.vision.caltech.edu/publications/WelinderPerona10.pdf
+1 - Notice he finishes with this:

"Sure, optimizing page titles and header tags within posts can help your chances of ranking highly. But the biggest boost that you’ll get comes from getting links."

This is something _everybody_ who's spent any time researching SEO knows, but way too many people ignore it - probably because it's time consuming and _hard_. All the on-page stuff is relatively straightforward. Inbound links are at least as important as anything you do on your own site.

Like Ted Dzubya says: "Non-brain-damaged web design and link building are 100% of SEO."[1]

It's much easier to tell your boss/client that you spent 25 hours doing keyword research and tweaking page titles, headings, the body copys keyword density, adding keyword targeted landing pages, and a/b testing the signup button colours, keyword optimising navigation and menu labels - instead of spending 3 days getting overwhelminghy rejected asking other people to put links to your "content" on their site.

That's mostly why it works. "Page rank" is successful precisely because it's harder to game than any of the on-page stuff you can do (anyone remember the keyword meta tag? What a quaint idea! It's quite a nice reminder of what the internet used to be, back before spam was invented...)

[1] http://teddziuba.com/2010/06/seo-is-mostly-quack-science.htm...
I didn't understand a word you wrote.
Isn't Red Bull the same thing as sleep?
Version control also seemed an issue - commercial Smalltalks had tools like Envy - but all the projects I observed in the telecoms world seemed to have a senior developer doing nothing but merging images for the duration of the project.
I once worked with two great interns. By themselves, they were better than the average intern. But sit them down side-by-side at one terminal, and give them a tiny amount of design advice, and they morphed into a good senior programmer. They could follow a tricky refactoring through 20-year-old C++ code with only a vague roadmap, and turn a vile mess into nicely organized code.

It only goes to show just how good Microsoft's recruiting used to be—we lost the pair of them to Microsoft the next summer, just as we did the rest of our very best interns.
Would you say these Craigslist Macs are a good deal? I just found a 500€ plastic MacBook. I don't think that is a good deal.

In any case, you need a Mac, and it's gonna cost you.
I was afraid of the internet, but here you go.
http://fzysqr.no.de:8000/
Don't use your real passwords.
The author is only going to make more money if they're actually competent at their job.

Basically, taking out editors and marketers is like taking the autotune out of the music scene. If we actually knew what pop-singers sounded like, people wouldn't be shilling out even $0.99 for a single.

The publishing industry has notably made authors question their actual ability to write. Stephen King IIRC thought that his books were basically being rubber-stamped solely because of his name (just like many Hollywood movies can get green-lit solely because they've got a bankable actor in lead) and submitted works for review under pseudonyms to see if agents and publishers actually saw merit in the work.

Kindle is allowing people to make it by themselves, and solely by themselves, which is awesome. However, I think book publishers are still going to be around in a similar role for a long, long time mainly because they don't have an authoritative hold on their market so they willingly adapt. I don't see my legal right to sell a DVD/Blu-ray or CD/MP3 enshrined in the case, but look in any book and the 2nd or 3rd page generally informs you of your legal right to resell, lend or trade the book in a decent condition (AKA no pages missing, front cover intact).

Book Publishers have survived the "piracy" of book trading for years, but you see Hollywood, the recording industry and even video game makers trying to block peoples right to resell or trade what they purchased, because the only media we actually own now are books.
I'm no longer surprised by the number of dumbass articles from HBR, New York Times, and the like. In fact, it's boring me and I think I'll take a nap :-)
It's a good point, and in retrospect I may not have used the username.example.com pattern, but this was a choice made may years ago. Users seem to like this, and unfortunately these recent changes in browsers make this pattern less desirable.
Some other sites that do this subdomain style are the likes of tumblr.
Twitter Sucks at Product Management
I think almost all startups do social welfare by providing employment and paying their taxs. Some startups go further and have a bigger impact, be it with innovation, streamlining some conventional processes (e.g. cutting out the middle-man, e-commerce etc.), or by discovering a new paradigm in environmental science, human communication, entertainment etc.
Fragmentation!
this thing is great for smack talk

"he's really into dicksploitation"
> Just because you fund your content through ads

Me and 99% of the sites I have read today...

> The most lucrative advertising deals I know about are between sites catering to particular interest groups and advertisers

In my experience, the most lucrative advertising campaigns are based on audience tracking and retargeting.
The best place to set up your startup
Could you link to some? I was thinking about this just the other day, how I'd like to have someone to work through exercises like CodeKata with. Either mentoring or even just peer accountability would be really interesting. Thanks!
Indeed. Having source files helps a lot. Smalltalk images suffer from Amish Bread Syndrome. Not being able to build your image from sources and sources alone is disturbing for me and I learned OOP with Smalltalk (later moved to Actor on Windows, but, still, without source code as text files).
Sony does less of it that used to be advertised. They control most of their own fabrication, so while the PS2 and PS3 weren't profitable from day 1, they got there very quickly.
If you're smart, you don't pay full price for a BMW. I bought my coupe for not much more than the KIA would have cost. In every respect it beats the KIA, except for the carcinogenic new car smell.

However, and this is where the metaphor perks up instead of breaking down, the BMW is not in fact enormously ahead in every category. In most it is only fractionally ahead, and there are even a few where you could argue the toss (I get good mileage, but that is because I don't usually drive like a maniac. :D

Likewise with the Apple products. Usually they are fractionally better in lots of small ways, with perhaps one or two glaring exceptions either way, e.g. awesome battery life, but you can't change the battery.

Currently the two main systems I'm using are Apple and Win 7. With both I have a mouse with a scroll wheel. Scrolling is just a little bit better on the Mac than on Windows. Is this a deal-breaker? Does this one thing mean that Windows is OMG teh-suxxors? Of course not.

But the little things do add up.

Similarly with the iPad vs competitors. I saw one youtube video where some fanboy was gushing over his iPad competitor, but even he noticed that it took awhile (~30 seconds) to boot up. The iPad boots significantly faster than that. Is that a deal-breaker? Of course not. But the little things do add up.
You can download download Xcode 3.x free if you log in at connect.apple.com, or on the xcode page on developer.apple.com you click on the "Looking for Xcode 3" link:

http://imgur.com/cWRp6
http://imgur.com/8LHXW

This isn't the end of the world, it is not like now you no longer have access to the development tools. I wonder like a lot of people if this has to do with tax laws.
I would have to think that if B&N is not selling the Nook for a loss, they're selling it for no profit. At $250 it's a lot more expensive than the $139 Kindle. (It's color, but how much of an advantage is that in a reader that will mostly be used for the equivalent of paperbacks?)

This is a razor/razorblade situation in a rapidly emerging market. If B&N is letting AMZN undercut them by even $1 more than necessary on the purchase decision that _defines_ which company a customer will buy their books from (and probably their next reader as well), they're idiots.
TicketNews (the leading ticket industry publication) Exposes Rails
Skip to the second-to-last paragraph.
Our startup, www.getaround.com , is trying to tackle the challenge of the spread (and inefficiency) of the automobile.

The concept is called peer-to-peer car sharing, and is kind of a mix of Zipcar and eBay. We let car owners put their cars up for rent when the cars are normally sitting idle.

We've created our own in-house hardware that allows for unlocking/tracking/monitoring of cars via smartphone or the web, and negotiated a custom insurance policy that lets us insure each vehicle in our system with a $1 million policy.

The entire platform is designed to allow complete control of your car. Owners set the price they want to charge/hour. They can choose to offer special daily pricing or weekly.

It's been pretty interesting so far.
NK would still be vulnerable to something similar to Stuxnet. A highly-targeted sneakernet-based attack could be used to very, very slowly migrate information from flash drive to flash drive into and out of NK, or for sabotage.
Not sure why merijnv was downvoted - seems like a pretty reasonable point of view to me.

May I ask how you fund your activities?
I think this is fast becoming a stack of sorts - I just used it on an app and it scaled to 400 concurrent users beautifully.
Dell shipped this (Latitude ON or something) and then never spoke of it again. Yo dawg, I put a computer in your computer so now you have to learn two different UIs, configure all your settings twice, try to sync data, etc. just to save some battery.
Now where's the music video where this is synced to the same data interpreted as 100x100px frames of RGB image data?
fascinating. it's better to be a part of the cure than the cancer. :)
Since software entrepreneurial types are often drawn to Hacker News, I thought some of you might find this interesting. The Likes of Carmack, Paul Bucheit (gmail guy), and Spolsky all have some interesting takes on the stuff espoused by many thought leaders.
Woho, this is great!

Do you got any more of this stuff lying around? Dont have the time to go trough all the stuff in scrap.
I am currently paying 18 cents per GB outgoing from Rackspace Cloud. I bet Apple is paying less. Assuming they pay the same, that's 76 cents.

$5 is not offsetting costs.
It doesn't run on used Apple hardware?
URL Hunter Play game on the URL bar
"MARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME" was written on our top pics page in pictures of letters briefly on Saturday. :D
Would love to have people drop by the Dojo anytime, or just ask me questions here. (I'm the David Weekly who co-founded the Dojo, quoted in the article.)
>"I remember saving money from my paper route to buy tools/lib licenses to some specialized things I really wanted."

Today, a teenager would say, "What's a paper route?"
Skip to the second to last paragraph.
Regardless of the risks - this is a very very important product sector that is still very new.

We should see this boil down into every level of computing in the next 5 years.

I expect that FusionIO type SSD HW based caching services become a standard option on every server sold in the next few years.

With an SSD boot drive option - and backing to Violin style large scale storage - very high throughput DC designs are just around the corner.
Ask HN: Interview Prep
Okay folks I have an interview with a Chicago Startup Incubator..I am not stating the name but its the name everyone here recognizes..

How do I prepare for the interview? Okay, I do the normal stuff such as prepare a sample code(app and tools) and normal research about firm, etc.

Am I missing anything?

Yes, I am really excited..Gary V excited!
I'm not trolling, I have a honest question-
What do I get with Zencoder, versus the free Transcoding I get through Softlayer (http://bit.ly/hmDGtu)

Even if I didn't already have a Softlayer server, it seems like it'd be cheaper to get one of those then hire Zencoder for many cases.
Before They Were Tech Stars
Not to mention that a compiler won't do you much good without a linker. MingW and GNU platform systems like most Linux distributions use ld from binutils, but that doesn't support Mach-O so is useless on OS X.
I remember being able to distinguish bitmaps in Apple II games saved to tape (floppy disk drives were too expensive for me at that time). This brings me back memories.

There was also a radio program that transmitted audio on one channel and computer programs on the other one, broadcast from the local university radio on, IIRC, Saturday afternoons. Those programs were for MSXs, so I never loaded them.
The crux of the problem is the following:
1) You don't say what your giving anywhere.
a) You don't say anything about what organizers pain points are, or how your going to solve them.
2) The goal of all sponsors is develop their brand. Engage with customers etc. However the problem is that sponsors are antithetical to the origins of barcamp(s) which sprung out of the communities disgust with a large sponsored event. (Foocamp).

As a result of two I have developed a LOT of rules and regulations depending on the event of what we have to sell. And honestly if I could get away without sponsorships I would.

There is the old Winston Churchill story.
Winston to women at party ” Would you sleep with me for $1,000,000 ?”
Women “Why Winston I would indeed.”
Winston ” Would you sleep with me for $10?”
Women ” What kind of women do you take me for?”
Winston ” We have already ascertained what kind of women you are now we are mearly deciding on a price.”

As a result, I demand a high price for my virtue.
Yeah, but his purpose behind wanting to make $50 a day can dictate how you want to get there. Do you want it to be a sustainable $50 or are you trying to reach that goal to then expand beyond that $50? Whitehat / blackhat $50 a day?

So, the why is important for me to suggest to you how :)
torrent for it:

http://btjunkie.org/search?q=Vice+Guide+to+North+Korea
As Apple ponders their subscribtion ruling, Readability goes full HTML5
Very fun, but also a prime candidate for a little casual Perl golf for the bored. I've got 463 bytes not counting the hashbang and when piped the linux shared dictionary (admittedly not the best choice of input) and a command line argument for prefix/suffix matching length.

#!/usr/bin/perl
$PRESUF=@ARGV?$ARGV[0]:5;while(<STDIN>){chomp;($_=lc($_)) =~ s/'.*//;next if(length($_)<$PRESUF);$BYSUF{substr($_,length($_)-$PRESUF,$PRESUF)}{$_}=1;$BYPRE{substr($_,0,$PRESUF)}{$_}=1;$D{$_}=0;}foreach $pre (keys %BYPRE) {if(exists $BYSUF{$pre}) {foreach $w1 (keys %{$BYPRE{$pre}}) {foreach $w2 (keys %{$BYSUF{$pre}}) {next if($w1 eq $w2 or $w1 =~ m/$w2/ or $w2 =~ m/$w1/);my $o = $w2.substr($w1,$PRESUF);print "$o (from '$w1' and '$w2')\n" if(++$D{$o} == 1);}}}}

So something like this would do it:
cat /usr/share/dict/words | ./FILENAME.pl

Some nuggets:

chiropracticalities (from 'practicalities' and 'chiropractic')

welcomedians (from 'comedians' and 'welcomed')

foregonians (from 'oregonians' and 'forego')

peppercornstalk (from 'cornstalk' and 'peppercorn')

popcornerstone (from 'cornerstone' and 'popcorn')

microchipmunks (from 'chipmunks' and 'microchip')

confidentists (from 'dentists' and 'confident')

rodentine (from 'dentine' and 'rodent')

decadentistry (from 'dentistry' and 'decadent')
In this video the way he talks(volume, stress, etc.) is really similar to Mark Zuckerberg.
I had to pay zero for Python and Java and Perl development (a fee I've been happy to pay, for what it's worth).

I actually had to get a computer before writing my first apps, but I could get whatever computer I liked. I never had one that was incompatible with these tools. Then came the $0 for a Python/Java/Perl developer license, so I could build on any server I liked.

After all that, $5 plus hooking myself up to Apple's death by a thousand cuts slow drip sounds pretty bad.
VMware View brings virtual desktops to iPad with touchscreen-friendly controls
Ok, so the oldest/cheapest hardware that Xcode 4 will run on is the 2006 Intel Core Solo Mac Mini, which is going for around $300 on eBay.
"Let's Use Video To Reinvent Education "

That is exactly what I said should happen with Qwiki, in a comment I made on Quora recently - and people thought I was nuts.
Of course that you can, but your users must be aware of this practice, even if they enabled it on a browser level (Something that the comments to the directive, used for the enforcement, clearly write).
Poll: Are you a Steve or a Chris?
A follow up to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305811
['i','m','d','g'].each |letter| do
print letter * fib(i+1) # Fibonacci
end
# yields imddggg