skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're pre-alpha, so I don't really want to tell the world yet, although I'll tell you all about that in an interview.

Does not saying what we do reduce the chances that you'd apply?
Certificate Patrol looks amazing - amazing enough to switch back from Chrome to Firefox in fact (now that Firefox is a bit snappier). Pity it's not available for Firefox 4!
there is a big difference between having the capital available and actually spending it.
Wiretapping isn't done in the handset. As the name suggests, it happens on the wire. At the exchange, in actuality.
Beginner SPARQL tutorial: finding data for a postcode
Nortel is selling IPv4 addresses? It's bit difficult to sell something that is officially owned by the RIR (in this case: ARIN). Maybe Nortel (or the buyer) should review the current policy of allocation and assignment from ARIN : https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html
Can anybody explain what this means? There was a segment on This American Life a while back about how nobody's looking into the effects of cell phone radiation on the body anymore, and that the reason isn't scientific but political, and maybe we're in lots of danger from long-term use but we don't know, etc. I didn't know what to make of it.

What is non-ionizing radiation, and what grounds are there for thinking it's not dangerous?
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As someone else commented, Facebook could easily add a feature to show pictures from friends geotagged with your current location. (Not a perfect replacement but a lot of the magic.) Apple also appears to be getting aggressive in this space with the new version of mobile me. Color has an interesting vision, but I think traction as a photo sharing add-on is going to be tough once the social network and the mobile device maker get into the same exact business.
This is really... a publicity stunt. I mean if your teacher tells you not to do something, do you go to the schoolmaster and expect to get approval? Worth a try, but they shouldn't be surprised that Jobs was in "no interest"

And as others have pointed out, "We are hoping the required API's will be added to the iPhone SDK" - was more than just asking approval for an app, it requires changes in the SDK!

Jobs should've replied "give me a break!"
I'll use command lines like that when I just need to get something done (after verifying that there are no files named "foo.sym"), but to write a script that uses a hard-coded filename that could stomp on other files is pretty bad. If you have a symlink foo and a file foo.sym, you've just erased foo.sym. The script also leaves all the .sym symlinks behind; it's not clear that this is the desired behavior.

If you're going to make a site and call it bash-fu, shouldn't you make sure your bash is at least good?
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see also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2361683
What about the popularity of the lean startup approach? The focus on data and customers tends to keep those startups real. Shouldn't this mitigate some tendency toward a bubble?
B2C (and tools for programmers) is overrepresented amongst hackers because it is easier to gain domain knowledge in these territories especially for young hackers.
I also think that B2B is still underrepresented, and I am more interested in that. But we should also note that solving Customer n's problem is very different than solving Customer M's problems at once where M is s big set of customers. The first is 'consulting', the second is building a product and a scalable startup. The second is much harder than the first, that may be also a reason for not being there that much B2B startups (but lots of consulatants).
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A while back I wrote a AIML interface to Omegle which then shared the logs of the chat in real time via long polling on a website. Some people would talk upwards to an hour to the bot, and plenty of times there would be other bots talking to it. AIML does have certain learning mechanisms to (get/sets) which made it interesting when it would bring up topics of conversations that originated from a previous chat.
What I don't get, economically speaking, is how we can both be in a bubble and in a barely recovering economy. In other words, how do these angels and VCs still have that much money to invest in such companies?
One reason I know we're not in a bubble: because everyone is saying we're in a bubble.

For you young whippersnappers who were too young to remember the 90's, a bubble is a manifestation of irrational exuberance- with (almost) everyone saying it's a whole new market, it doesn't matter how much the thing costs it's worth it to buy it because it's price is just going to keep going up up up, so do whatever you need to do to buy in now, because the longer you wait, the less you make.

In other words- it's a bubble when everyone is saying it's not a bubble. But if everyone is saying it IS a bubble, then it's not a bubble.

There is a difference between a healthy (or at least "not on death's doorstop") economy and a bubble.
Here's one approach on AWS.

Put http and php on an ec2 instance. Crank up as needed. 1 really big server can take quite a bit of traffic. Plan to add load balancing too (or add it straight in). Add memcached layer to take it easy on the db.

Put mysql on an RDS server. Crank up to 68 GB of memory, 26 ECUs as needed. This will most likely be your bottleneck, but memcached should help a lot, and optimize your queries. Later on you can add slave drives and such, but one big server (and memcached) should last you a while.

Put images on a separate subdomain, on S3.

(Also, put all static files like js and css on another separate subdomain on S3.)

Instead of pre-optimizing everything to the max, just use sensible settings and install really good monitoring tools. Then, fix bottlenecks as they happen. The main thing to optimize before launching are your queries, I wouldn't worry too much about the rest, they'd just give you 10, 20% improvements etc., whereas queries can give you 1000% improvements.
You assume that we have a small set of data points, which is a really bad assumption, even if you were just making it about me, personally. Assuming that the HN community commenting on this bubble/not bubble doesn't have a lot of experience is a bad idea. Even more so if you cannot point to a single article covering why this investment is sound.
That's not an insurmountable advantage. In the freshman CS class I took they started us out with a GUI that had an interactive prompt.

(DrJava)
Might be a good time to watch Riot on once again...
Is this really the case the IP blocks can be sold onwards?

I always thought that IP address allocations were assigned by IANA (through the local regional registries like ARIN and RIPE), and as such were not any property of the assignee to be sold. If an address range was not needed anymore and the assignee surrendered control of them, they would return to the free IP address pool at the regional registry.
Your posting is too generic. You don't mention what you're working on or why I should be excited to work with you guys. You also make it sound like you use every major programing language/framework out there. Java, javascript, groovy, ruby, python, scala, ios, android, windows mobile its all there plus a bunch of frameworks and other tools. It all makes me have no idea what I would be applying for or to expect, so I personally wouldn't waste my time writing you a story about myself, which you are requesting.
I don't have an iPhone, so I won't be buying it.
"We need to turing-test people like that!"

Exactly. Someone once said during the AI research heyday (Minsky?) that research in artificial intelligence should be more correctly renamed to research in natural stupidity. While an exaggeration, I think he had a point.
This is utter bull, even if PG said it. I've learned a huge amount about Java by using an editor (Intellij) that has real time static analysis of my code and points out when I'm making common mistakes with corners of the language (calling overrideable methods during object construction, for example). It's incredibly useful and informative.
The best GTD app is your .txt, period
It says in the article that their IP space is from a legacy block, which means it's has never been given by IANA to any RIR, so ARIN can't make a claim on it. Not sure how they'd get 666k addresses out of legacy space though :).
For about a year or two, I've had set -o vi in my .bashrc. It is just so much easier when you work in Vim more than half the time!

The modes still trip me up sometimes, but a quick <Esc> or <Ctrl+c> fixes that!
From the article, I can't tell whether the word "protest" is filtered, or Shakespeare is filtered - two anecdotes don't make a conclusive evidence.
This isn't really an argument for using ifconfig.

On RHEL and related systems, ifup, ifdown, and everything in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ are all implemented with the `ip` command.
As long as enough people around them use smart phones, it doesn't matter.
in 1989, MGonz( a chat bot, but rather vulgar ) easily confused a person into disclosing personal details(passed the turing test?). Lisp source code available: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~humphrys/eliza.html . Doing AI under this professor was pretty interesting...
The eInk is a critical factor here. I've talked to a few people who have read books on the iPad and Kindle, and they've all said it was much nicer to be reading for long periods of time on the Kindle.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ionizing+radiation+vs+non-ionizing+radi...

The first link from the EPA has a really great opening that summarizes it nicely:

> Radiation that has enough energy to move atoms in a molecule around or cause them to vibrate, but not enough to remove electrons, is referred to as "non-ionizing radiation." Examples of this kind of radiation are sound waves, visible light, and microwaves.

> Radiation that falls within the ionizing radiation" range has enough energy to remove tightly bound electrons from atoms, thus creating ions. This is the type of radiation that people usually think of as 'radiation.' We take advantage of its properties to generate electric power, to kill cancer cells, and in many manufacturing processes.

This doesn't explain exactly why scientists don't think it's dangerous, but because non-ionizing radiation doesn't cause changes in molecular structure, the effects would be far more subtle.
The color nook is basically an Android tablet already. You just need to root it and you're all set.
Best quote ever ;-) I'll start using it immediately.
Does anyone maintain a list or root certs that are or might be compromised, so we can manually remove them?
Thanks, that's good feedback.
Why does someone who wants to access the site via their iPad have to pay more than someone accessing the same content from a smart phone?

I haven't looked, but I imagine it's a different, more complex app with a better workflow that takes better advantage of the ipad's capabilities. If you didn't want the app, you could just pay for the basic website and browse to it on the ipad.
Test of principles: does your approach to the 1st Amendment apply equally to the 2nd?
The Implicit Social Graph
Frisbee-net is more efficient then sneaker-net in open-plan environments. A trained professional can deliver a 3.5" floppy to its destination, and catch a return packet, with remarkable precision.

(though ohyes is right: these are transport layer methods/algorithms, not data structures)
You can now perform a "specified transfer" to another entity, and if some money flows in the reverse direction, ARIN says they don't care. There's even "Craigslist for IP addresses": https://www.arin.net/resources/request/stls.html
I live in China, so I did a quick test with my coworkers. 4 people. Two phone calls each. Each conversation we dropped the word 'protest' in both English and Chinese. No magical dropped calls for us.
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Ionizing radiation is radiation that has enough energy to knock electrons off atoms to create ions. This can cause all sorts of damage to DNA etc. Radiation with less energy is unable to affect the structure of matter in this way, and is therefore considered not as harmful/carcinogenic. If you look at chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, http://xkcd.com/273/ , everything from Ultraviolet upwards is generally considered 'ionizing'
I find it ironic this article (which takes time from your work) is about beating procrastination, and his own personal advice is "sometimes you shouldn’t do what others tell you." I'm sensing an incredibly subtle message here...

Priceless.
RFC 3021 eliminates the subnet and broadcast addresses so /31 is usable. That doubles your available space if you are primarily addressing links between routers.
The would appear to have a coherent story as to why they need $40m, and they found some VCs who agree with them and think they'll make some money (normally 10x, right?) at the end of it all.

More power to 'em.
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Cheap mobile electronic all Christmas gifts. Compared to previous models, this device does not exist.You do not need an expensive converter.
I think may one of those situations where they invested completely in the team?

The founder sounds like a badass but I'm still concerned about viability and revenue strategy of the company....
Someone should track the Color Fund vs. the 43 participants in YCombinator W2011 class:

Round Color's (err) round up to $43m. Then say that Milner's 150K was actually $1m with the same terms (convertible debt). You'd have 2 investments of $43m. Track follow up rounds for the 43 YC alumni and Color and see which pot grew the most.
GSM is actually already doing half the processing for you by reducing the dimensionality of the data. Pattern-matching a few dozen words using a custom neural network ASIC could probably be done in real time with very little hardware.

The calls are cut off because it's simple and effective. If people can communicate and organize, the damage is already done and you have to respond with force to stop protests. But if you can prevent protests from ever being organized in the first place...
its real bad development..you know the type when an Incubator posts a gig than asks the developer you can do this in 2 weeks right..
Thanks for all the input - peter, gspyrou, codingstaff.

Please keep more of it coming - I'm sure it'll help us (for now) and it'll also help many others.
The problem with a bubble, is not that 'money is thrown around' by investors - but that the source of the money ends up being in public hands.

The founders get their investment from the investors.
The investors get their money back when the company is acquired (or makes money).

In the early stages of a bubble, this process generally consists of 'money being thrown around' as you say.

However, due to the hype of the returns from these 'investments' (e.g. Facebook growth) - it attracts the public investors into wanting to get in on the 'action'.

Typically this is done through an IPO, which allows the public to come on board and potentially pay all previous investors / founders down the chain their money back (plus more).

However, even without the IPO's of the last bubble (and they may still come!) - the public money is finding a way in (e.g. Banks setting up Social Media Investment Funds). Not to mention any other general investment companies having some of their portfolio riding on 'internet based stocks'.

Then when the bubble eventually bursts (The trend reverses and everyone tries to get out while they can) - it is often the public investors which are left out of pocket / losing their homes / etc.

The point made at the end of the article is, if you are in a start up right now (or even a VC) - it is better to get out early, than to get greedy and end up getting burnt when it bursts (e.g. GroupOn).
Glad you liked it.

I've filtered dups and cleaned up the submit process so it makes it a little harder to spam, but I guess it just seems silly to me to try and actually stop spam on the internet.
What is far more likely is for Color to try to get themselves acquired by Facebook.

If this is their real company strategy, the $41M investment actually makes sense.
One thing I have noticed about ereaders (and owners of ereaders) is their willingness to purchase books. I have friends who before buying a nook or a kindle would read one or two medium sized books a year. Revenue for Amazon/B&N ~ $20 ($60 if they are both new release hardbacks). With the ereader the same person will have a "stack" of 13 to 14 books to read in their ereader. Revenue for Amazon ~ $130. This is not including the cost of ereader, but we can just skip that. Now, ereaders certainly make reader more accessible (you don't have to carry around a book with you), but changing mediums is not going to increase the amount you read by 700%.

Please don't misunderstand me on this, I actually really like ereaders. I think if you are a person that used to go on vacation with four heavy books in your luggage then they are great. I also really like a lot of the tech involved. The kindle's battery life is simply amazing.

The point is that I feel like the barrier to buying a book has been dramatically reduced. IMHO, this is why the bookstores are supporting and promoting them. With a physical book, you have to order it from the site or go to the store. You also have a physical book which can feel like 700 pages of procrastination staring you back in the face everyday that you don't read. Sure the bookworms out there really want you to like books and to actually read more, but bookstores are a business, and their business is _selling_ books.
I hope for their sake that they don't pull a cuil.
.com's are no longer important, blekko, duckduckgo, drop.io and similar companies are proving this. It's not a big deal anymore. Every time I pitch Reward.io I get asked "how will It make money" so saying that profits don't matter anymore is a big understatement in my opinion. New business models are being developed and used to make money like Freemium and more subscription models.

There will always be some startups with over valued valuations but the big thing is startups don't think they are invincible, with Digg and Myspace startups know they could die if they don't work hard and try and find a way to make money, even twitter which has gone almost too far recently with DickBar.
It's more fun to build consumer apps.
EDIT: Yay, title's been fixed. I'll leave my post here for context.

The title isn't very accurate, or at least it assumes a lot about the reader. I expected to begin about 4 billion years ago, for the entire history of our world. Or perhaps the beginning of humans, a few million years ago. Or perhaps human civilization, a few tens of thousands of years ago. Not a measily 2500 years ago dealing with the West.
I don't even know what this means. Do I have to launch Wordfeud first?
Thank you. Actual data... it's a powerful thing.
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Doesn't it make you a bit relaxed? I've seen the effect of "too much money" first hand, regardless of spending
I'm not sure that legacy blocks can be really transferable with an exchange of money.

http://www.merit.edu/events/mmc/pdf/2008_Stovall_ARIN.pdf

It seems as long as right holder is changed in the whoisdb... it seems fine.
>GSM is actually already doing half the processing for you by reducing the dimensionality of the data

Could you expand on this? Or just give me some key terms that I can look up to get more info. Sounds very interesting.

EDIT: Also, I don't buy the argument that dropping the calls is simple and effective. The antigovernment types are simply going to start using trivial codewords, like every criminalised person throughout history has done. Therefore it will barely touch them.

However it will drive businesses, both chinese and foreign, crazy. They are not interested in codewords. If you criminalise free speech, only criminals will speak freely.
Picking up on your third point, if your investment thesis is that mobile social networks are a huge untapped winner-takes-all market, spreading your cash index-fund-style over the most promising 80 mobile social startups (kids in college dorms without the resume maybe...) and saving the rest of your war chest and partner attention for the ones showing signs of traction would also probably be a safer bet.
Non-ionizing radiation is radiation that isn't energetic enough to separate electrons from atoms (thereby creating ions).

The radiation from a cell phone is microwave radiation, which (as you probably know) is capable of heating matter. As far as I am aware, the conjectured nature of the possible danger from cell phones is that localized heating in the brain could result in increased likelihood of cancer. So the natural questions are (a) are cell phones capable of causing a non-negligible amount of brain heating and (b) is any such heating actually carcinogenic. This is not an issue I follow particularly closely so I don't know what the current state of knowledge is with regard to either of those two questions.
Actually it puts their valuation around the same that Lala was purchased for!
The situation has changed since 2008; maybe look at more recent ARIN policy.
I can assure you I had no shortage of interviews when I was looking for work despite having over 1000 hits on Youtube for my terrible, terrible dancing. My current employer even found some of my more embarassing videos and brought it up in the interview!
Wait, it's insulting to other entrepreneurs who have created apps similar to color? Since when was capitalism fair? The large funding just might mean color will have the resources necessary for years to completely dominate the mobile photo market.
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that's exactly what I was thinking. I see this as being a very novel concept that if reaches a certain threshold of brand-awareness and good design could be a perfect acquisition target because merely replicating the feature-set would be like Google Video before Google acquired YouTube (it wouldn't be about the technical capability as much as the culture and community around the novel concept).
This would be pretty useless, even if true.

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Thank you for the summary. With all due respect for Robert Scoble, he's got a voice for blogging. Is Cinch a project in his portfolio? I'm trying to figure out why such a prolific writer and investor would choose audio as the medium to publish this message.