skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. There are also lots of scanning services that go through websites to commercially exploit them. That's why you get these blunt T&C, which basically point out that you are accessing private property and need to ask permission.

An example might be a service that scans Eurostar's website for cheap tickets (i.e. loss leaders) and then consistently send (deep link) visitors who purchase the loss making tickets. While existing customers who are looking for the deal, can't find the cheap tickets, so become disillusioned.
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Interesting. Reminds me of the Cat programming language, which has term rewriting as well: http://www.cat-language.com/
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So it's a key value store that supports mapping keys of up to 255 bytes to values of up to 255 bytes.

Isn't 255 bytes a bit short, especially for values? What usecases does this have in Tarsnap? Filename <-> Hash mapping?
I must say I was pleasantly surprised by how good your English have become.

Oh and keep the updates coming - it is very encouraging and good for the ecosystem itself.
I ended up building the prototype this morning (a bit of insomnia).
Now I've got this cool little demo (fully functional) running on my iphone--- now what?
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It depends on where you are from.
I think in America "lease" is more correct, but in many other English speaking countries, "lease" is the name of the legal contract, and "you rent apartments" is perfectly OK.
Thanks! Good to hear that!
Your attitude is an inspiration to us all.
Everybody has an opinion. it gets tiring when it's repeated hundreds of time

I would justify the 41MM in funding as;
a) a great long terms cash reserve
b) instant fame and media spotlight
c) zero need for marketing spend
d) an ambitious vision, with slightly more chance than before the 41MM,a to come to fruition.

Sorry to go against the grain, but that's my take. If all goes down the gutter, then I hope the founding team took some money off the table (but not likely they needed it).
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From a college student:

For UI, Sign up and registration could be a lot easier. I would look at different UI patterns out there.
http://ui-patterns.com/ Maybe look here for some inspiration and facebook has a really easy sign up process.

Date of birth: Should maybe place description on top saying day, month, year. For most American users, they would think in month, day, year.

Password: I think it may be better to allow users to generate their own password from the signup.

If you're target audience is college students. I would definitely re-configure some of these simple things because I'm pretty sure after confirmation they're too lazy to go back and check their email twice. (I may be slightly generalizing) However, after we register, we just want to be able to use the site immediately.

For "create new slide" button, I may consider adding a cancel or something to exit out of the pop-up screen.

These are just some quick things that stuck out from just the beginning.

Hope this helps,

CC
Isn't 255 bytes a bit short, especially for values?

No. Values, not blobs.

What usecases does this have in Tarsnap? Filename <-> Hash mapping?

(Machine, block name) -> (object on S3, offset within object, length of block)

And a few others to deal with in-progress transactions and suchlike. But I think the largest values I need are 20 bytes long.
"Clearly social graphs are fragile."

I come across this sentiment all the time and I'm thinking that maybe it's completely wrong. Maybe it's not the social graph that is fragile, but crappy companies. Every one of Facebook's predecessors did something wrong. Too much downtime, bad design, corporate interests, spam, etc.

I don't see Facebook making many (big) mistakes.
In a world where there is so much hyperbole in articles, thanks for an honest-to-goodness report on Android development.
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Here's the thing, the domains of most successful websites are somewhat informative about the service that the website provides. It doesn't matter how abstract or strange the name may seem. For example, look at sites/services like Reddit, Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Netflix, Mint, and Yelp. All of those sites have names can be derived from their purpose. How about Color? That name is totally ambiguous and thus loses effectiveness.

What if Facebook was named "friends.com"? Sure, it probably would have been cool to have such a simple domain name, but Facebook is more effective because the name signals purpose.

In short, it's not only about the "prestige" in a name, it's about what that name signals. Color signals nothing.
i needed to get to work one day, and i didn't like all the available cars, bikes, trains, motorcycles and the like, so i built myself a dandyhorse.
There are a bunch more, too:

5th
Enchilada
Factor
Forth
Joy
Onyx
PostScript
Raven
Staapl

See the left sidebar on this page:

http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Concatenative%20language
Sorry, bit of a typo there :-)
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I haven't paid much attention to Boxee - what's your complaint with the current model?
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Domains are an asset and very easy to justify paying for if you have the money. It's not like they just burned half a million dollars. If the company folds they can sell the name.

Also the name is vague enough to encompass any pivots. It's a great name, probably one of the best domains you could have for an app in the happiness business.

It was expensive, sure, but they have the money. And corporate accounting probably sees it as an appreciating asset anyway.

If you have $41 million I can think of few better purchases than a really great, memorable, meaningful, happiness-associated domain name.

Also it has netted them tons of free advertising. Think all the "The iPad will fail!!!!!!!" blog posts hurt Apple's bottom line? No one _really_ listens to naysayers. Pessimists are just an alternative form of advertising.
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Only true if they planned to exit on the app alone. Maybe the plan is ambitious enough to warrant the expense.

In unrelated news: a friend of mine casually referred to her boss as a 'green' on Saturday... apparently it is the result of popular personality test that everyone in the company has to take. The result (one or more 'colors') is part of their email signature for internal correspondence.
Because, as nytimes showed, 40M is merely the rate a corporate accounts pay for a few afternoons worth of hacker time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2377299
And yet, IPV6 adoption is still an insignificant fraction of the IP universe. If not for the reasons given, then why?
It says it's takes "a lot of grinding":

"Developing these rare or unique perspectives usually takes a deliberate and devoted focus on something. Einstein said, 'It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.' Malcolm Gladwell talks about the 10,000-hour rule. He says, 'Studies suggest that the key to success in any field has nothing to do with talent. It's simply practice, 10,000 hours of it — 20 hours a week for 10 years.'"

Think of it this way, if you were omniscient -- meaning you perceive everything, you see everything from every angle -- you would have total perspective. But we're not omniscient -- our perspectives are relatively sparse, but the more associations/connections you make, the the more your perspective grows and you start to see a "bigger picture".

You don't develop understanding by learning raw facts -- understanding comes from relating to other things. It's the connections that matter.
I try to code CSS starting with generic, going down to specific

Eg. Files would be something like:

* reset
* global (eg header/footer)
* common (stuff used most places but not all, eg. forms)
* specific to section of the site
* specific to the page
I would use it for gaming only. So it would be nice to support gaming =)
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Is that just a random claim, or does he have data to back it up? I think domain names still matter a great deal. At least to Google. I have a web site that is not even among the top 10 pages of search results for it's main keyword, because the domain name sucks (I claim my site is a lot better than 99% of the search results before it).

Also I think diapers.com makes shitloads of money.
I'd start a Y Combinator East Coast, looking for great startups between D.C. and Boston.
Thank for your advice!
We will consider these points.
To the author, this is very simple. Yet we programmers and hackers continue to have a hell of a time with it.

The amount of code involved, the value of the solution, and the cost of change are completely different things. It's like saying "I paid too much for my haircut last week. They only cut a small amount of hair!" You're confusing things that are not related.

Let's say you had a magic wand and there was zero programming involved. It still could easily take 40 Mil to fix up a paywall -- and it might not be wasted money. There are lots of folks involved who need to sign off on the project, and changing parts of a business model isn't a trivial thing (nor should it be)

Yes, seems like way too much to me too, but that's because of my judgment on the business risks and evaluation of change involved, not because of how hard it might be to code up in a weekend. If anything, it tells the story of an organization that is not nimble and that is very unsure of how to proceed, not an organization that spends too much on software. You're reading the wrong lesson into this.
1.0 brought around some significant UI changes that I didn't really like at the time. Having said that, the thing that stopped me from using Boxee was that it was quicker to use VLC or Eye-TV to access my media. In the end, my workflow removed the need for it.

I'm not saying Boxee isn't great (it's pretty good) but it's no longer for me.
- $150k

- then $7.5 Million (name only)

- then $350M (name and website)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business.com
>The addresses aren't particularly human-memorable though.

IP addresses are? What is Facebook's IP? Googles? I have no idea because.... why on earth would I care?
I'm skeptical that the number is actually $40 million, but no one has pointed out the NY Times is not implementing a simple no-pay, no-content paywall. That's a known quantity. What they're implementing is a semi-porous wall that allows people to read 20 articles a month without paying, and I assume allows web-crawlers to index the content. They're trying to toe the line between something that lets the world get to their content, but still gets them revenue. I am unaware of a similar system, nor have I ever tried to design one.
...and many P2P UDP protocols don't use a well-known port anyway. Because even if they did, NAT would screw them by mapping it.

I agree with the article's rant about port number being obsolete. A service space of 16 bits sucks. IPV6 provides a Solution to this: advertise a different IPV6 address (multi-home) for each service, and use the DNS to resolve, not the TCP address. I think.
To be fair, it was only £25 million
Yeah, but false positives would cause non-hilarious problems.
I was just reading about Hecl (http://hecl.org/) yesterday and wondering whether it was an obsolete market due to the advent of the iPhone and Android (and regardless of the fact that I have a dumb phone, because when it comes to money outlay I'm a way late adopter) - and here comes Jacques to tell me it's not.

Interesting.
A closer analogy would be "I needed to cross the English channel, and planes, helicopters, boats, and trains weren't suitable to my needs, so I built myself a jet pack instead".
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You may think this is a triviality, but it created a minor headache for me in my PhD research. I was working on video summarization and had searched for papers using variants of that term. Then, I found some important articles were missed in my paper collection. Turns out Google is not clever enough to standardize the two spellings into one.
The guy who wrote this article is going to work for Google? I guess they've drastically changed their hiring practices?
What are the greater challenges of the project, that account for the majority of the $50 million?
I wrote my thesis about IPv6 and it's great! (IPv6, not my thesis).
Interestingly WoW uses bit torrent to distribute patches to users, so its not uncommon to have P2P traffic occurring while playing WoW.
The thing is though, he did put a minimal amount of effort into patching it, but rather than use the patch provided to him which completely solves the issue he did his own broken one. If you're going to complain that it's a joke and doesn't need fixing, don't fix it. If you are going to put a small amount of effort in, just use the free patch.
Ask HN: Rss vs. Direct Hit
I have been using RSS and twitter for a while to keep up to date and informed. Since RSS became popular we've seen points about rss dying, twitter replacing rss, etc.

I'm wondering, with the recent "UI/UX explosion" in web and mobile, does this provide more of a reason for people to hit websites directly and read them for favorite blogs/news sites? What do you think?

Would you rather hit a page directly if the blog has great content and an enjoyable UI or would you still prefer reading it through Google Reader?
"PageKite, a system for putting "servers" on mobile and personal devices"

Cool idea! I'm checking it out now.
Thank you too for your kind words ;)
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We also still use the English system of weights and measures. America thinks anything new in the area of standards is communism or something.
And college is not? I believe that 'experience' is probably more valuable, even a few weeks', than 4 years of theory.
So. Tired. Of hearing people complain about color. However it is manifested.
I play brass (trumpet) and was always warned on assuming the tuning was accurate; even with the perfect player using the perfect compensation on the relevant valves the lower notes are definitely iffy (they tend towards flat and the compensation slides can't push them sharp).

That perfect player is improbable though. On the lower notes I can bend them by in the order of a quarter tone without touching the valves. If I pick up the instrument on a cold day without first warming it, not just me, up then it will be probably a quarter tone or so flat for the first few minutes. If you leave it on your chair and come back to find someone's turned the heater on while you were away (happened to me before), it can easily be a semitone sharp, IF it's cool enough to hold in the first place!

I love my trumpet but it's one of the last instruments I'd use to illustrate really precise tuning.
When designers grouse about losing business to 99designs, they should try to keep in mind that they're grousing about losing customers who only have $300 to spend on a logo design, or $500 to spend on a web design.

You're really just losing cheap customers. Cheap customers are not fun to work with.
eh, me too. I'm in Jakarta for 2 months (ok, not very glamorous), planning to go to Maluku for some time after that, building an online business. Maybe there should be a directory of expat entrepreneurs in indonesia :-)
They link 'find an accountant' to http://www.find-uk-accountant.co.uk/

Where you can search for an accountant as an 'Individual' or 'Buisness' [sic]

The whole thing is largely just a bunch of links. I'd love to know how much it cost
"In any case that value was unrealized assets, so it's not like they actually had $36B in cash"

I could equally say that if they liquidated that $26B quickly they would get less than that. I would hope the $36B and $26B were fair estimations of the asset value at the time.
Considering how important this is to the future of the NYT 10 million would have been completely reasonable. Don't forget sometimes a 1% better solution can really be worth 100 million.
The question should be "what should I write next?".
Thanks. Although from what I remember, Tata Motors has 34 patents for the Nano car.

Nano is designed in a way that it uses less steel than other cars - making it lighter and cheaper.

Also, the wheel placement is done in a way that allows the car to be very small - yet the seating space be a lot more than other compact cars like Hyundai's Santro etc.

And also - Tata Nano innovated on the assembly line model. The car is designed in a way that the car parts can be built separately and assembled in various locations. Thus, smaller plants are needed. (Sure, computers are built the same way too. But cars are not built that way by other companies. Tata replicated the computer manufacturing model and made cars available in "assembly kits.")

I agree with you that the cheap labour helped in keeping costs down. But that was not the only thing. There is some really good innovation behind the car too.
Agreed. Putting Cameron's rubbery, mock-serious face right there up front was not the best decision. Putting it in front of searing beams of light penetrating dark clouds is just taking the piss.
As owner of a web design company in the UK, I am so thrilled that one of their top tips is to suggest start-ups outsource that kind of thing, thanks UK Gov!
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Serious question: can you play a blu-ray with Ubuntu? Also how do you do netflix streaming (if you do)?

I went i3 and Windows 7 so i can get blu-ray + netflix.
2 problems I see with this market:

1. It's getting smaller. Maybe not right now - I don't know the numbers, but I could imagine that as more of the developing world gets 'dumb' phones, the proportion of dumb to smart phones will actually increase. However, long term, it's a shrinking market. To be fair, you could say that about nearly anything. Eventually there will be a disruption or a move to a newer technology. In this case, that movement is already happening, however.

2. Will 'dumb' phone users spend money like 'smartphone' users? If the point is just to make your app/site accessible to those users and gain market share, then it may not matter. But if you want to sell them anything, it very well may.

Regardless, the recommendation to "ensure that your web-based applications are compatible with Myriads [sic] browser" is sound and one we'd all do well to heed, if the market-share numbers make sense for you.
Interesting that you mention this. I'm almost done re-reading "The Logic of Failure" by Dietrich Dörner and have come across this gem (p170) (s/war/software engineering/, s/commander/developer/):

"The effects of "methodism" - the unthinking application of a sequence of actions we have once learned - can have a significant impact in areas other than measuring quantities of water. The motivation is the same, however: we are most inclined to deconditionalize a form of action and use it over and over again if it has proved successful for us or for others. [Karl von] Clausewitz, from whom I have borrowed the term methodism, observed:

"So long as no acceptable theory, no intelligent anaylsis of the conduct of war exists, routine methods will tend to take over even at the highlest levels...Their only insights are those that they have gained by experience. For this reason, they prefer to use the means with which their experience has equipped them, even in cases that could and shuold be handled freely and individually. They will copy their supreme comanders' favorite device - thus automatically creating a new routine...War, in its highest forms, is not an infinite mass of minor events, analogous despite their diversities, which can be controlled with greater to lesser effectiveness depending on the methods applied. War consists rather of single, great, decisive actions, each of which needs to be handled individually. War is not like a field of wheat, which, without regard to the individual stalk, may be mown more of less efficiently depending on the quality of the scythe; it is like a stand of mature trees in which the ax has to be used judiciously according to the characteristics and development of each individual trunk."

...The methodist is not able to cope with specific, individual configurations on their own terms, for he has two or three ways of proceeding, and he uses one or the other depending on the general features of the situation as a whole. He does not take into account the individuality of the situation as it is evidenced in the specific configuration of its features."
Take a look at the passage I quoted.

He equates "thoughts" and "neural activity." That's either a vacuous statement (because, assuming materialism, all mental activity is neural activity) or embarrassingly oversimplified. Similar situation for the following two sentences. I'm not disputing synaptic theories of memory/learning; they're common sense these days. Moreover, I'm sure he's derived his presentation from (hopefully sound) science.

But nothing is gained from faux-scientific, superficial neuro-bla. Nothing at all. Reality is much more complicated: usage is but one mechanism by which synaptic strength is modulated. There are several others. Nobody really understands how learning works, or how "thoughts are stored" (whatever that is supposed to mean). Sure, synaptic connections change after learning episodes. But that tells us shit about how to become a genius, or why a (HIGH-LEVEL -- neuroscience has no clue how stuff like this works!) phenomenon like sudden perspective shifts leads to breakthroughs.

So why cheapen solid pop-psychology with insufficient grasp of modern neurobiology?
Does it support the NT drivers? Without native GPU drivers, I don't think there's much chance of using it for gaming :)
I don't really understand - they've got an application that will run android apps on feature phones and possibly dumb phones? It is really hard to understand how that could work very well at all - wouldn't those phones generally lack the ram and cpu needed? Would they be replacing all the UI widgets etc with simpler ones and adjusting how much is shown on the screen at once? Maybe it's actually a porting tool - that would seem to make a bunch more sense to me.

Can anyone find a link explaining the technology more? Going over their website I can't seem to find evidence of the product at all. Maybe I'm not awake enough.
In my perfect world, they'd spend that money producing high-quality investigative journalism that makes people WANT to pay for it and lower the paywall.
This. I don't understand why everyone thinks the price for color.com was too high. We paid quite a bit more than that for our domain names, so I do have a point of reference here.

I personally believe this was a horrible investment in a horrible product with a horrible idea, but to rip on the domain name purchase really seems like the least of all possible concerns.
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Indeed. I can't tell you how much business I've lost over the years as a result of potential clients going to RentACoder.com. It must be literally hundreds of dollars by now.

Never ever compete on price. That's rule number one in the consulting industry. If there's a group of people racing to the bottom on price, then by definition they're not your competition.
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