skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can actually learn a lot from a candidate's past projects if you know how to follow up with the right questions. Someone who had a negative net contribution on a project will not have anything interesting to say about the data structures or algorithms they used. They won't have interesting war stories to share either (e.g. nasty bug fix, conflict with management or team and how they overcame it, etc.).
Blasphemy & Revelation – with DHH
The video: http://clojure.blip.tv/file/4645227/
My gloss of this story is "I harassed the tech support guy until he told me what I wanted to hear so I would go away." Let's see confirmation from someone who doesn't think an MS in IT is something to put at the top of every article, and then we can break out the pitchforks. How to do this right:

1. Fresh out of the box Samsung model whatever.
2. Copy the supposed files in that location to a thumb drive, post it online for others to verify that it is in fact a keylogger.
I thought it was brilliant.
The Tweets are sent out to twitter for anyone to read. These are public timeline tweets. We are just a twitter client that shows those tweets like any other twitter client, but delayed and using search to figure out what the best tweets to show would be.

When someone Tweets within Tweeplayer during when they are watching it on their DVR at home we are still just sending those tweets out regardless of content, and linking the moment they tweet with the moment they are watching.

We only plan on incorporating public domain or licensed media directly on the site for any full conversation.
I always figured North Korea would be the obvious target for that kind of exploitation.
Hmm... I just tried it, and backslashes don't seem to work as a way to escape Hacker News markup. Were you kidding?

Update: Ah, it looks like you can get literal asterisks if you use your whitespace carefully:

* asterisk * another one emphasis
OP resident here too.

Given the recent Google Voice integration with Sprint, and investment in Clearwire, I'm sure the proximity of Sprint doesn't hurt.
Given the number of times people mentioned BBQ and smell in the announcement a few minutes ago, I think you had two strikes against you.

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I'm in Raleigh, hate this bill, and want to bring attention to it. I bet there's a lot of us. We should get organized.

email is george@ill-k.com, anyone who likes can drop me a line.
I haven't written code to sort an array in nearly two decades of professional experience:) I've been lucky enough to work on some pretty non-trivial problems as well. If you asked me to do it, I could probably crank out some sort of bubble-sort (maybe).

It's not to say I haven't sorted arrays, I certainly have, but whatever standard library I'm using almost always does it for me... and pretty damn well at the same time.
Stalking aid Creepy's creator discusses the future of privacy
LaLa CEO Bill Nguyen: Apple acquired us "for the people"
To those questioning Clojure's performance I will just leave this: http://meshy.org/2009/12/13/widefinder-2-with-clojure.html here.
TurnKey Hub v1.0 - officially out of beta
(inc (->> squares (map (comp count values))
(reduce max)))

Similar to the Python | operator that came up yesterday.
According to Wikipedia, Austin is 10x larger than Kansas City, KS. Google is planning on jumping into this with a test group of over 100,000 people, which is ambitious. It's likely that Google is taking a pragmatic engineering approach to this, like they are so famous for doing with all their products.
20 karma is, I think, an arbitrary amount, but the actual amount should be structured around 'how long it should take someone to get used to the rules around here'.

Frankly, my biggest complaint of late is that too many people are posting too much nonsense, and while I'm sure we've all been guilty of it at some point or another, my concern is that as the nonsense gets more acceptable, we go the way of the dogs.

Also, yes, there is an incentive to discourage growth. In years past, HN was self-selecting to the degree that only people who fit with the community would bother to stay. The old guard was ruthless with the downvotes, and exercised a mutual desire to keep the garden clean. Now, so many people join each day that it simply isn't possible for the 'core group' to exercise this control.

Many would consider this growth a positive, but in an environment where the ultimate goal is to preserve its values, its quality and its intellectualism, then 'for the masses' isn't something that should fall within its description, or in the actions of its members.
This is an important step in the battle against telcos trying to protect their broadband monopolies. If Google can launch this, then it would establish an important precedent. Go Kansas City!
Something to be aware of: The fact that a radioactive material "is around forever" also implies that it is not very radioactive. You can't make a material that is both intensely radioactive and stays around forever, because it's the radioactivity itself that makes it go away.
AFAIK, this naming trend started with GetFirefox.com, which seems to have been pretty successful.

Anyway, in my experience, most people will either Google for your name or come in through a link. People typing your domain name into their address field are outliers. So I wouldn't sweat it overly much, in comparison to other aspects of your marketing.
Parrot’s AR Drone Shows Off Its Skills in New York City (video)
"Flinch" as in physically flinch? I assume this is being done over email :)
Probably largely because the Kauffman Foundation is there.
I think Google Reader functionality is separate. It was at launch, anyway. I'm pretty sure I've disabled and re-enabled Buzz in the past without killing my shared Google Reader feed.

It's slightly confusing because Buzz has always made it really easy to aggregate lots of different feeds.
From a user perspective, I'd like some signs that people are actually using the site and lending books before signing up. Maybe consider featuring user activity on the front page (seed it with some friends if need be) and seeing how that changes your conversion ratio.
MassChallenge does not require you moving to Boston - only for certain parts of the competition. They believe that if they can connect you to the right network (in Boston) you will want to stay.
Snooki,Obesity, Divorce, and other ways the media lies and increases stress
The design is interesting if you didn't have to read it. It is very hard to read. It also hung my browser (Opera 11.10 beta), which is Opera's bug, not theirs, but if it is repeatable (I didn't check) worth noting.
Yes, both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have the same restrictions on lending:

You can lend a book one time for 14 days. You can't access the book while it is out on loan. Also, the book's publisher gets to decide whether or not the book is lendable in the first place.

The restrictions are limiting, but I am hoping that by building a community where people can offer up their books for loan, somebody out there will be able to loan you a book that you want to read.
Google to be audited on privacy after Buzz complaints
Wow, the definition of flame war there I think :S

Am I missing something obvious? Is there an important reason why the FHS is considered so important and unchangeable? Or is it just political?
Nope, not kidding, just ignorant. I'll delete my comment.
I clicked on the link hoping that it was an announcement about decentralizing Buzz, Ostatus style.

It would have definitely gotten me on board. I'd have brought along as many Twitter and Facebook friends as possible, too.
I'm pretty sure he's making a joke about this other article that got submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2384499

in which someone mentions that they use people's opinions about whether or not they side with the Winklevoss twins in the movie as to whether or not they would be a good co-founder.

I actually thought this comment was pretty funny, but if you didn't read the earlier article, it probably doesn't make any sense.
Check out a book called THE PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
New York Public Library 1897: 71073
It is in Google Books. I notice the use of the appostrphys (sp) and certain letter groups appear throughout this book.
I can see from your post that you're very misinformed about how markets operate and the role of high frequency traders (a.k.a. liquidity providers). Read my response to a previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2164458
Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6
do you think skype will come to its senses and revert their ui changes? or is it motivated by something else, like increasing screen real-estate for eventual advertising?
Oh. Sorry for not getting that. I read the website and saw the video and it talked about job creation in Boston so I thought that there were those conditions. My bad.
Why Fukushima Isn’t Like Chernobyl
Print Version

http://www.smartmoney.com/spending/budgeting/is-that-ipad-2-...
Google Launches In-App Billing
Intellectual Ventures grants patent access to BlackBerry maker RIM
They're not suggesting that it is free, just that it doesn't have the "usual" strings attached.

To get cash, office space and a network without giving up any equity is a relatively remarkable thing.
I see there's a $199 entry fee. In the music industry there's some controversy over pay-for-opportunity style services (Sonicbids for example, although they say they're phasing that out). For a business this isn't a huge amount, but it's enough to make me stop and think. Maybe there's a better use of my money when I'm bootstrapping already. I guess it helps eliminate those who don't think they have a chance...

How do others here feel about it?
I have always thought the relational dynamic between Jobs and Woz was instructive for similar reasons.
(Not that these two founders aren't friends anymore, but I think it's pretty obvious that it isn't what it was)
Gmail automatically adds people to your contact list, too. It wasn't merely a contact list that was exposed; it was every Gmail user you'd ever talked to.
Google Shows Serious Love To Kansas
I've been asking a similar question that people often don't like to consider- Are we getting overly reliant on the Internet?
I agree, it is hard to beat a wireframe, functional specification document and a flow chart. UML tried to put the wrong part of the app into pretty pictures to make those who do not understand development feel comfortable. The problem is that it did nothing to help the actual project get done therefore it was rejected by developers who are generally under time constraints already.
Amazon Music – Cloud Drive And Cloud Player Review
After viewing the MassChallenge site and perusing the complex application process, I am reminded why I'm not excited about applying anywhere outside of Y Combinator.

I don't care about the money I care about the experience.

Will I learn anything from these people? From the other startups that are accepted? Outside some seed money, what is the upside?

*EDIT

My initial thoughts may have been harsh - and perhaps I'm being a hipster - but I don't get the feeling that this is something truly special/cool. I believe there are talented business people involved, but for me it doesn't appear to be a life-changing event as much as a cash prize.

That being said there is obviously a lot of support from those involved - they represent the bulk of the dialog here.
I wonder if you realize that because the Macs have a "tiny market share" (as you describe it) it's just easier (cheaper, too) to produce a re-chromed version of your software rather than writing a completely new interface just for those users.

Considering that I wrote that companies might think it's cheaper, I'm going to go with yes, I realize that companies might think it's cheaper.

Likewise, it's also cheaper for PC Manufacturers to sell me junk PCs loaded up with BloatWare, yet I buy Macs. Just as it's perfectly reasonable for company A to make a product that user B finds repellant, it's also perfectly reasonable for a company to make a Mac product that sucks, and it's equally reasonable for a Mac user to avoid it at all costs. Neither party is wrong in any sense, any more than WalMart is wrong for not selling full carbon mountain bikes or Ibis Cycles (a specialty manufacturer who lays their frames up by hand in the USA) is wrong for not rebranding a Chinese steel MTB at a $500 price point.

It's a plus for the users coming from the PC market because they don't have to relearn the interface.

This is not as sound an argument as the one we agree on. Replicating the PC experience with your Mac product works if you have all these PC users at the office and one day IT removes their PCs and replaces them with Macs. Or if you have a company with Macs and PCs and IT support costs show up in a report somewhere, but Mac user frustration with a poor interface is "off balance-sheet."

But if someone owns a PC and decides to switch to a Mac, it's because he explicitly doesn't like the PC experience. Replicate the PC experience on his Mac, and you may find that he switches products as well as computers.
He was fighting cancer.
Sara Ford's Visual Studio Tips
Founder of the Golden Baobab Prize
I don't believe it is possible. I've considered alternate ways of leveraging this. Right now the Australian dollar is supposedly propped up high by selling commodities to China: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/128654/20110330/australian-d... That seems one way for a non-Chinese investor to put chips on that number.

Geez investing is so cynical. :/
Summify: Less Stories, More Funding
My second point was more that Skype should improve the application for both platforms.

Certainly interoperability isn't an issue - the point is that it's in their best interest to maintain a common application interface. For example, I work at a company of 50 people and we have all variations of Mac, Windows and Linux machines running. By being able to support one interface internally it makes it a lot easier - as well as when certain users switch from their Windows machines in the office to their Mac's when working from home.
How Differential Gear works
Plutonium is indeed not "intensely radioactive." The problem with Pu is that if you ingest it, it stays in your body so you can get enough radiation over time to cause cancer. So you're not going to get radiation sickness from Pu, it's just a very potent carcinogen.
Most people don't think domains are very important. I strongly disagree. You can definitely succeed in spite of a good domain but with a little extra effort you can turn a liability into an asset.

My advice is always to spend the time to find a good .com. Domains like MixPanel.com or HelloFax.com are almost always unregistered (or cheap to buy). They're far more memorable and brandable than the alternative you're considering.
I too don't think you can use JFDI, taken literally, for any business. Just as you can't use 1,2,3,4 on StartupBritain for any business.

Therefore I don't view JFDIBritain as a negative reaction. Indeed it's a very constructive contribution, being simple and practical. It is extremely useful for some types of start-up businesses: Certainly for many, but not all, of the businesses that I have done, or do, work with.
In fact, an article about this was on HN in the not-too-distant past. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359081
It's possible --- and the customer service manager he was talking to just said anything to get off the phone, even if it meant lying about something he didn't understand. Maybe he didn't even realize it would paint his company in a bad light.
This sounds like a well-thought out reply; that's bad, because it is wrong.

> Indeed, the money supply in the bitcoin market increases steadily over time,

This is partially correct - the money supply increases asymptotically; the deflation eventually resulting from this may become a problem in the future.

> this should be inflationary, causing the value of BTC to fall.

I have a couple of issues with this statement:

1. the value of a currency is usually most meaningful relative to another currency; BTC is not unique in having a money supply that increases over time.

The current annual rate of increase of the BTC money supply is about 7.57%. The rate of increase of the USD M0 money supply is around 4.50% (I am having trouble finding the exact value).

2. money supply alone does not determine the true value of a currency - the size of the economy (amount of goods and services purchasable with that currency) is also a factor, among other things.

It seems to me a reasonable assumption that, given how green BTC is (created in 2009), the size of the BTC economy is increasing substantially faster than the size of the USD. If this is the case, BTC's increasing market size is probably greater than its increasing money supply, relative to the USD - quite possibly enough to justify its increase in value, by my estimates.

EDIT: the Bitcoin M0 increase rate is currently 50%, not 7.57% - this is an important difference, and it supports your statement that the value of Bitcoins is quite speculative. However, I stand by my reasoning that it is less speculative than you claim.
This isn't the first time Samsung did this kind of thing. On their android phones, they have a system called CarrierIQ that is deeply embedded into the system and can monitor practically all aspects of phone usage.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11763089
With +1, Google Search Goes Truly Social — As Do Google Ads
I believe you are essentially right about this. Leaving aside the fact that the quality of comments left by the "old guard" is not always in proportion to the upvotes they get, I agree that as HN grows the problem of quality control is essentially a problem of karma inflation. With this inflation, the weight of an individual vote lessens dramatically and it becomes especially evident in the article submission mechanism where there are no downvotes at all.

Encountering a user with less than a thousand karma points today is exceptionally rare. That's why 20 points feel so arbitrary. The more I think about this, the more I believe the karma system itself is vulnerable to issues scale. There are a number of ways to "fix" this, but I don't think any of them will actually be implemented here because they would change the nature of the community too much.
I have a Samsung Q210 Aura Seven, I could not find any folders called "SL" or any other suspicious things so far on the preinstalled Windows Vista.
Lispy in Scheme | An incremental approach to interpreter construction
Plagarism isn't just taking things word for word, if you take anyone's ideas without permission, YOU ARE STEALING. Furthermore, this author didn't even bother cross checking the blog post with any source. If something is common knowledge then you would have a case, at it is obviously not the case here, this is pure and simple plagarism. Re-using the exact same image is just insult to injury.

The main issue here is they had the opportunity to cite the source before and afterword with a simple and free link. Instead they thought they would be Gob and just rewrite history, too bad for them they are not exactly bright with journalism or technology. Negative publicity is a given, but they deserve worse for all covering up this dipsh*t did after the fact.
As a lifelong St. Louisan, there are lots of drug problems north of St. Louis, which is where his body was found. And, basically any place across the river into IL is pretty nasty and full of hookers and crack. You have to drive a long way to get to civilization like the suburbs of Chicago. So, if I had to throw a guess out there about some random numbers that a dead guy was writing, I'm going to go with drug related in some way. Addresses, measurements, dollar amounts, something like that And, none of the numbers have any relationship to highways or streets in the area. But, there's a house with the address of 194 Orchard Drive and it happens to be located near highway 367 in between Alton and St. Louis, which is the only description of the location of the body that I've been able to find. Also, the house was sold in early 2000, six months after the body was found. It's all grasping at straws because, let's face it, random ciphers don't get you anything. You have to know more about the person than the FBI has said. It would help if they told us whether he was a known drug user, pimp, gang banger, or even an avid churchgoer, anything would be better than what they've done which is, "Here's this random string of letters and numbers with no context. Tell me what they mean."
Javascript fail. Crashes Firefox 3.6.16. Screenshot:

http://tinyurl.com/627mftb
What's missing is all the people and business partners who are already using skype right now and who have not switched to an alternative and probably don't plan to. Users seem to be very accepting of all sorts of nonsense in software if "everybody else" is still using it and they can contact their loved ones through it. (Just like why is "everyone" using facebook and twitter instead of competitor x and y?)

And I am not sure you are in a position to tell a client "sorry, we would rather use GTalk or Jabber!".
Ask HN: How could I sell stock online
I realize the selling of stock is highly regulated. However, is it possible to use an existing broker's api? I am thinking something like paypal but for stocks? If thats not possible, is there some other way to do this without incurring more costs than a startup could handle?
What impressed me was that this $50k/day was from a court document, so I assume it to be true. With affiliates it's often difficult to know, since they have an incentive to project success to boost e-book sales.
I agree that the application shouldn't be a verbatim copy on each system. There are obviously platform specific UI and methods that need to be adhered to. My point is that the general interface should be similar enough to be able to move a user from one platform to another and they would be comfortable enough to use the application with just the minimal knowledge of that host platform.
If it is just a user testing program they would only put it on a random small percentage of machines - otherwise you would be swamped by the amount of data. You might also have biased data if you only put it on a particular model and a large number of them were bought be a single corporation or school district
IB:

http://interactivebrokers.com/

they have matlab, java, etc. connectors

You can also work with some of the larger banks and boutique firms, either in a DMA setting or routing through the exchange. Generally you need 100-250 to get that solution going, and you need to use FIX or the exchange proprietary protocols (e.g ITCH/OUCH for nasdaq)
> it's just easier (cheaper, too) to produce a re-chromed version of your software rather than writing a completely new interface

Is it? Can you cite some sources?

I'd less native UIs to take longer, as more custom widgets and chrome is requires. Not to mention, the result is more likely to "feel wrong" since it's less likely to conform to that platform's conventions.
Ask HN: Anyone with a B1/B2 visa to startup accelerator?
We are startup currently based in Honduras and we will be participating in an startup accelerator in the US. All team members have B1/B2 visa.<p>Has someone been in that situation?
What should we say at the immigration entrance to the US?
Any advice would be helpful.