skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure one could call it a data structure but who remembers the so-called Sneaker Network or Tackie Network, which consisted of someone copying information onto a disk and physically walking to the other machine to copy the information. Networks were so slow/buggy that it was often quicker to transmit information using this "data structure"
NK gets its internet connections (which are available only to the uttermost top of the party, which means when the country collapses the population is in for something of a wakeup) through China.
> The ability of dollars to hyperinflate or hyperdeflate is bounded by the fact they can be used to pay debts to the United States Government that are denominated in dollars.

This is not really 'backing'. Backing is when your currency can be traded for a specific amount of a specific thing. Your currency actually 'stands for' something else. Saying the US Dollar is 'backed' by the fact that you can pay debts to the US govt is isomporphic to bitcoins being 'backed' by the fact they are anonymous and you can trade them for DNS hosting.

And fwiw.. the bitcoin economy is roughly ~4.5 million USD right now.
Yes, I meant crashes. Fixed. Thank you.

I seriously doubt that modern democratic-capitalist societies as a whole can avoid bubbles. Individual business owners OTOH can not only survive but also thrive in the aftermath given that some basic conditions are meet.
Yo momma jokes are still never appropriate, even for bots.
I'm sure I am missing something, but if this is the desired behavior, why not mandate it in the UI, why give users the option to not use the bookmarklet?
That's what it sounds like to me as well. Having spent a bunch of time with the WiFi and related networking APIs (WiFinder, back when private API usage was l33t3!), all of the functions I recall that let you get any information about the overall system functionality were private.
http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/UnixCommandLineKungFu.pdf

http://eriwen.com/bash/effective-shorthand/

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201102#28

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68372/what-is-your-single...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/211378/hidden-features-of...
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I like the site and idea. I remember seeing a site that was similar but for things like quitting smoking. The location based part of this definitely adds an interesting twist on the standard "Rob was here" location based services out there. The site is well done and I like the logo. I agree that an Android version would be nice, but that can definitely come later. Thanks for sharing.
This is a very Western-centric view of world history to say the least.
Like most one liners, that's not very fair. I don't even know my own phone number. Why would I? I consider it bad interface that I have to ever even hear this kind of technical detail at all. I know my number and every other number by the name of the person or place I want to call.

Likewise, are you sure the people are looking in their document because they don't know? Maybe they answered this question at some previous time in a really concise and elegant way and want to reuse it? Maybe they have a page in their that visually illustrates the answer?
Impressive visualization, but I'd love to see it overlaid on an actual world map for geographic context.
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Ambiguous about the app but I am always surprised that people are not allowed to run the software they want on their own hardware.

Apparently Apple owns your very device and will tell you what's good for you or not for the rest of it's life. And then more surprised so many people willingly accept that and keep giving Apple more money.
Can Biometrics ID an Identical Twin?
Distributed twittering, yay! Can even homestead this… and the statuses are syndicated to Twitter to tide over the transition. Switched.
They obviously have incredible inside information - you think they invested based on the Techcrunch post? Is it silly day on Hacker News or something?
Bain Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank, the ones who are funding this, see great potential in the team that is bringing color to market.

They've given a long runway to Color, and if the airplane takes off those investors reap far more rewards then they would have if Color is wildly successful and other investors were able to participate in subsequent rounds of investment.

I cannot emphasize enough that this is a strong team (investors and owners). There are almost certainly specific targets and objectives this team needs to meet before they collectively decide to spend the entire 41 million.

Which means this thing could crash and burn after spending 3 million, and they unwind from there.
According to the recent xkcd radiation graph there should be no radiation coming from the phone whatsoever, unless you are using a banana phone. What gives?
The IRS taxing bit coin will have about the same effect as piracy being illegal.

It's too easy to use it anonymously and too hard to crack down on it for there to be any real effect.
Dropbox had an already successful product operating on getdropbox.com. When you have some revenue numbers to play with, it makes sense to invest serious capital.
Is it actually important to have a short domain name? I either seldom visit a site, in which case I visit it through google, or I often visit the site, in which case it's in my url history completion list.
Maybe I should make an app that measures electrosmog. I could just wire some fancy UI to random() and then I don't even need to use private APIs!
We might be, but are bubbles always bad? Lots of money gets thrown around. More people get jobs. Ideas are everywhere. People get experience starting and running companies. Interpersonal and business networks are built. Lots of bad ideas are funded, sure, but a few great ones also emerge.

We shouldn't condemn bubbles as automatically bad. We should be aware of them, though.
Color just crashed on my iphone the first run.... let me launch Instagram
Swiping that first one - I have hundreds of commits which were just one or two character tweaks after I had hit the commit button. Often, they squash bugs. (Hah, test run completed and now I realize the error of my ways...)

More articles like this, please?
Ask HN: posted startup jobs at github, 37sigs, and only 6 resumes?
We posted our startup jobs (pretty great jobs I'd say, exciting startup, well paid) in the best places we could think of:

* 37sigs: http://bit.ly/g24KTD

* Stackoverflow: http://bit.ly/gchGuU

* Github: http://bit.ly/dSzOvu

* and our blog of course http://blog.getgush.com/

Only 6 resumes in a week. Half of them worthless. Is this typical? I would have expected quite a few more applications, these job postings are fairly expensive. How have others faired with these job boards? Is there something wrong with/missing in our job posting?
I'm a landmark person. I don't know the address of where I work, I just know what the places I need to turn at look like.
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Would love some reviews from the Hacker News community on this startup.
I cannot point to an article about why this is a sound investment, I guess my entire point was that I do not understand why everyone has to jump all over this as to why it is a bad investment, since you have such a hilariously small data point to base any opinion on.
I think that is a transport layer, not a data structure.
Which is why you never engage in business ventures based on what customers claim they need/want. How many companies expressed a need that would make Twitter or Facebook happen? Yet these services are nowadays a crucial part of many companies marketing efforts simply because a bunch of business people had a vision or scratched their own itches.
> No more 'x' buys 'y', where 'x' is some established player and 'y' is some new kid on the block that has a fancy office with pinball machines a hip domain name and an in-house chef.

Or as was often the case, 'y' buys 'x'.
BTW, in case my "many companies are raising at lower valuations" statement isn't clear enough, the supposed $10M median valuation is not accurate.
I wish SSL and HTTPS authentication had been separated at birth.

I'd like HTTP SSL encryption and I'll worry abut certification as another problem.
For some reason that makes me feel uncomfortable, heres the thing: you can share picture with the friends you have around, let's say the people that's in the same room to get "different angles of the same event", if they're already with you, what's the point of disclosing my location with the app?
Fair point, just $40m is a lot of money for a start up software business.

If they're looking at something with a bricks and mortar component that would be different but I'm generally with DHH on this one - businesses of this sort can grow quickly without the need for this sort of capital.
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I guess that's 'cause the West has the most geotagged Wikipedia articles with time attached...
An Android User Comes to iOS - It's kind of nice over here.
That's exactly what I was thinking. This is more of an interesting commentary on Wikipedia articles than any kind of accurate view of world history.
Duplicates normally have slightly different URLs: maybe an extra /, or HTTPS instead of HTTP, or added query string parameters.
Exactly: provided that $350,000 was a decent price (which doesn't seem too unreasonable) and the fair value does not decline they now have a $350,000 intangible asset on their balance sheet that will not likely decline in value.

You can't say the same for a similar amount of put into high end office furniture, for example.
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When Tom and Gareth built the original version of this at History Hackday in London they mentioned it in their presentation (it was being filmed so I presume it's online somewhere?) - it's based on the English Wikipedia data so it's skewed to a English speaking world view.

Although even more generally European and Asian history (as academic fields) have been much more deeply studied than African history.
http://www.opsb.co.uk/?p=56

http://paulbarry.com/articles/2009/01/20/my-git-workflow

http://www.viget.com/inspire/terminal-aliases-for-git/

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Aliases
Serlet Transition Out Appears As Natural As OS X Transition Towards iOS
I don't know if it's a bubble or not, nor do I have any idea if it's just because of where I browse (self selection), but I've noticed a trend lately. The trend is that people are excited about a startup BECAUSE IT'S A STARTUP, and not because of what the underlying value of the business' model/idea/value. As if the fact something is a startup is, in and of itself, somehow magical and has intrinsic worth.

It reminds me of a few years ago when people were all googaw over social networks, because they were social networks. That seems to have passed now and they're focusing a bit more on how social can help this cause or that business model.
Clickables: http://blog.getgush.com/ http://bit.ly/g24KTD http://bit.ly/gchGuU http://bit.ly/dSzOvu
Sorry, you are correct. I Googled "anti discrimination laws US" and didn't check that the page it gave me was actually about the US.
Moscow hacker who put porn on billboard gets jail term
From what I understand, your issue is with the amount they plan to charge, not the fact that they will be charging?

That seems like a reasonable place to have a discussion, rather that people who just think everything which once cost money should now be free.
I would imagine that a block is much more valuable than the sum of its parts, so it's not quite right that a single IP is now worth $11.
Maybe the app developer would be better off using the phone's camera to detect nearby bananas.
We wouldn't be having this conversation if history wasn't dominated by the West.
It's like Facebook for the people you spend time with without adding as friends; Foursquare for people that aren't motivated to deliberately broadcast their whereabouts; Grindr for people in your area not looking to hook up.

The underlying technology sounds like it could be useful for everyone from Facebook to the FBI, but the service itself has more buzzwords than users in my area, and I don't see too many reasons why that state of affairs should change dramatically...
Dissecting Google thumbnails
>I'm not sure I understand you. You can't just start typing and getting instant feedback in Java simply because Java is not interpreted (well, actually, it is, but you have to compile to bytecode first). So, what you're saying about Java goes for just about any compiled language.<

This is not true. There are statitically typed languages, usally functional, with a read-eval-print-loop. Haskell, Ocaml, SML, F#, Scala are the main ones I can tink of. There are many more. I will also note that your parenthetical is slightly inaccurate in that jvms usually JIT bytecode and don't just inteprete it straight.
Just out of curiosity, why did you hide the other URLs behind bit.ly but not your own?
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Apowell,
Awesome thought, thank you soo much. We tried to minimize quantity of team members and other items in plans so that we have capacity to add them up after application release. Right now all plans are free and there is no limitation on features.
I've already added a task to create one more banner that says "Beautiful proposals in minutes. Check what your clients will get" linking to a live example of web based proposal.
Again, really appreciate your feedback.
Really great work by @steveklabnik to create a simple, clean microblogging solution.
This one is pretty neat: "git commit -a --amend -C HEAD"
Happens to me all the time I forgot to stage a certain file or made a small typo.
Same here. Well, the phone didn't actually crash, but the app definitely did. I got a "Activity Color (in application Color) is not responding"

Besides that, the interface is weird to say the least. It's got icons with no text so you have to guess what the buttons do - and I couldn't figure it out (but then again, my IQ is pretty low) - there's a man-with-glasses icon and a planet icon and then there's a clock icon.

Maybe it's very different when there are lots of people around using the app.

But then again, they just received their funding, so it will probably get much better soon.
Phones don't emit ionizing radiation. They do however emit non-ionizing radiation.
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I think Iran's intelligence services also wish SSL and HTTPS authentication had been separated at birth. Sure would make things easier for them if all they they needed was the MITM proxy, and not the certificate.
For a long time the instagram jobs page for the designer role asked for the candidate to attach a rendering of that lens.
Agreed. It's not to say these products aren't successful, but you and I seem to be very traditional business people. I always find at least a few customers willing to pay for what I'm going to build and some sort of a competitive advantage I have over the potential competition.
Lest there be any doubt, his exact words: "And I'm waiting on the phone and I can't do the technical magic tricks, jumping through the hoops that Google wanted me to jump through, to get them to listen to me."
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I don't agree with your argumentation but I upvoted you because there is something very disgusting when people downvote simply because they disagree with an opinion. Why people cannot reserve their downvotes for factually incorrect, FUD-y, abusive or trollish posts is beyond me.
This is the same premise style argument in reverse. Save one child and such. Disagree with one part and your completely against.
My statement is that freedom of any kind including speech is not black and white.
By what mechanism does it measure radiation? Or does it just say, in fine print, "In our lab tests, using the phone in the way you're using it now produced between 10 and 15 microjibbits of RADIATION"?
I wonder what Microsoft is going to do with the block. If you have a valid use for addresses, you can still get them pretty much for free right now, though that'll change in a few months.

Perhaps they're just hoarding them for the future already?
Using HTML5 semantic elements today
Ok agree the Lehman Brother example was a bit corny, but the point I'm trying to make is that we all make mistakes, including top investors like Sequoia - in fact the business model of a VC fund is to invest in 10 equally promising startups and hope 1 of them will make 100x profit and cover the loss of the other 9, and Color could be one of the 9.

Also, being a contrarian investor means you sell in a bubble (when everyone is buying) and buy in a crash (when everyone is selling).
The team behind it makes the work I've seen so far all the more surprising. Have you played with the app? It's horrible. It's really bad. It's not fun to use--it's confusing and frustrating. The UI is a nightmare. It's buggy. I know some of those things can be smoothed out over time, but it doesn't feel like those early apps you see that have tons of promise but a few rough edges. As an investor, I'd be worried.
You can run anything you want to on your hardware - you just have to jailbreak it first. It's more of a matter of not running the software you want on Apple's software.

I hear I can't run .exe files on OS X, either - the tragedy!

And like you pointed out, it's a choice that people make for a variety of reasons. I made it because at the time, the iPhone was the best mobile platform available, and not being able to measure the radiation that came out of it wasn't a critical need.
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The other were horrendous insults to good url design (even Stackoverflow's). The only one that was reasonable was 37sigs. I didn't really give it any thought, ours would only have been like 2 chars shorter. Or perhaps it was self-promotional instinct :)
Business maths is not algebra. Algebra, for example, doesn't give you discounts for buying in bulk.
One thing to say: http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml
It has everything I ever needed. When something is missing send patch.
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Half of Americans Now Oppose to Nuclear
There was tons of hate, "That's so stupid," and what's the point commentary in Twitter's 1st and 2nd year of existence.

I would think it wouldn't have gotten funding like this if the backers didnt see a similar opportunity.
Buy Windows 8 Professional, get one IP free? ;-)
precipice
Start-ups: Don't do this
The customers in your first list are individual consumers, and the customers in your second list are businesses.

You're right about the triteness of those Ask HN examples, but let's not go so far as to suggest that we should all be building for businesses, and only businesses.
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There's a difference between professionally programming and learning to program.

You shouldn't ever find yourself in the situation where you think an IDE is magical and "javac" is a typo of the word "java".
Tawheed: It doesn't take away from the coolness of the product or your blog post, but I wanted to point out that you used the word "Still" twice in a row when you wrote "Still still kept costs less than..."

Just wanted to bring that to your attention :)
What is an “Arab” country good for these days?
Both for the ease of managing it (including setting up the routing) and because you realistically need at least 4 addresses for every subnet (/30 bitmask) -- two used up for broadcast and gateway address.
You're allowed to jailbreak it and put it on there, no sweat.

You're not allowed to put applications that abuse API's that weren't meant to be used by them, in the app store, which is part of the Apple brand and, righteously so, Apple has some level of quality control for.

One of the rules they make apps abide by is, don't abuse private API's. These are API's that are not (yet) ready for use by outside developers. Abusing them could leak important private data, may crash the application or the iphone when used improperly or aren't meant to be forwards compatible (meaning they'll change in the future and everything built on it is broken).

It's arrogant and foolish of Tawkon to build an application on API's that are known to be private and off-limits, and then expect Apple to change the rules just for them.
Nonsense. It was dressed up as a tutorial to "style the content of a page to your liking", but you know something, I learned very little about styling a page to my liking in that tutorial. The game is also given away by the name of the supplied function: "Paywall smasher".

The "tutorial" is the thinnest veneer of an excuse I've seen in a long time, and sits right alongside all those people who torrent scores of gigabytes of "linux isos" every month.
Without any real knowledge of the VC industry, to me this "bubble" looks like VCs are just suffering from a lack of things to invest in due to the proliferation of angel investors.

They need to show their investors that they're doing something, so they throw a grip of money at a company with a solid group of founders and a roadmap full of the hot buzzwords of the day.
Those needs are dismissed as lifestyle businesses that can be bootstrapped and/or cater to enterprises and SMB. It's more glamorous and HN-friendly to be working with the latest technologies and recreational uses of them for consumers.
Have you checked Rackspace cloud? They are extremely cheap comparing to other cloud-based solutions.
Yeah that's what it looks like on their website (http://tawkon.com/technology). I also like how in the screenshot on TC, there's a little warning at the bottom telling you hold your phone further away from your body. Give me a break. Of course Apple isn't going to allow this app.
What do you do? I care significantly more about that than I do about what technology you use.
it is the third time I get this link from here. How comes? I thought HN checks if a link was already posted.
Who writes the software that enables phones to be tapped into? Even the U.S taps into phones, how is this feature protected? I imagine code has to be written to allow someone to listen in your convo, is that IN the droid OS or iOS?
How many times has anyone sat and looked at photos on Flickr, and used geocodes to restrict results to the local area?

Answer: probably not enough to warrant a $41m investment.
If this actually is true: silly bureaucrats, don't they know that this month's word for protest is obedience?
Back to the days of which venture has the highest burn-through rate!
I was under the impression that running realtime voice-recognition on all the open phone lines at any one moment would require so much computing power that there would be no way you could hide it?

You'd need datacentre after datacentre after datacentre, surely?

Also, state of the art voice recognition is still flakey in a silent, echo free room using a condenser mic. Imagine how flakey its going to be going over chinese copper and GSM codecs. False positives ahoy! Even the chinese govt. has a maximum acceptable false positive rate for this kind of thing.

I haven't believed in this rumour all my life so far when it's been the US govt. claimed to have been doing it, and I don't believe it now that its switched to being the chinese govt. Not without some evidence.

It doesn't even make logical sense. Assuming you could actually do this, why cut the calls off? Why not record them as part of wider evidence gathering?
Interesting. So personal appeals to Steve Jobs don't result in apps getting approved? That's news.

Flagged.
Respectfully, Josh. Comments like this really don't help the conversation much here at HN.
It is not downloadable?