skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shazam has a five song limit? I'm never upgrading. When did they do that?
Your language is startup language but your target market is restaurateurs. You need to cater to a guy who hates computers and would rather be tableside talking about free range buffalo.
Well, practice shows threads work pretty darn well with real load, as there are a huge number of running examples of high-load threaded Python applications. There is the potential of failure due to race conditions, but IMHO it's not as bad as it's often made out to be.

For high concurrency, there is of course the question of what level in the stack you want to handle the concurrency at. There's not much use to doing 5000 things at the same time. But you might want to handle 5000 things at the same time (say, open sockets). The question is how much you want to twist your code around to do this -- with threads you might have worker pools, and you might have to be sure your chunks of work are of reasonable size (and often it's tricky to do some things incrementally). With cooperative concurrency... well, you do all the same things ;) But sometimes when threads are enough you don't have to contort your code, and in some error cases threads will help a lot (like you happen to not partition your work sufficiently).

I really just want to get rid of those tweaky code things for all cases, so that it's not a matter of these different choices with different tradeoffs, but just one really good choice that applies much more widely.
A/B testing oldness of Guy Kawasaki
What limitations would there be on Android, relative to to iOS? I can just think of in-app purchases.
Saving you a click, he doesn't believe so but wishes for startups that have done so to get in touch.
This was my experience as well actually. I looked at phonegap appcelarator and rhomobile for a while but it seemed that there was such a steep learning curve that you could just build things in the native platforms and have full access to the everything rather then having quasi access via webkit.

All three really were a letdown frankly. Right now im learning Jquery Mobile which oddly enough is kind of cool. Its got a decent community behind it. ANd its jquery so its somewhat more generic.
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Exactly. And keep in mind, you're competing against someone setting up their own web store. If I didn't use your service, I probably wouldn't go through all of the trouble of setting something up. In that scenario, I make $0. If you charge 30%, and I price my stuff at $10.00, I make $7 per transaction, which is $7 more than I would have made without your service.
It doesn't do TCP-over-TCP. From the README:

sshuttle assembles the TCP stream locally, multiplexes it statefully over an ssh session, and disassembles it back into packets at the other end. So it never ends up doing TCP-over-TCP. It's just data-over-TCP, which is safe.
Should you decide the site is defunct.... Can you reasonably easily modify it so it can run as a free Python web app hosted by Google? That would at least allow you to keep it running without paying for hosting. Releasing the code that does the summarizing as a Python library on GitHub would be another way of keeping something online as a portfolio piece.
Copy-on-write lets you efficiently share objects across boundaries -- not copying everything right away (and everything in Python means everything), while also safely avoiding the sharing of state. If you are cool with threads then it's not an issue. If you can spare the overhead of a few processes then the GIL isn't an issue. I'd rather it not be a matter of tradeoffs, and I don't think either OS processes or threads are it.
In an ideal world every tooth on the gear is exactly the same, but in the real world they have slight differences that wear each tooth differently. So by having a prime number of teeth, the teeth of two gears don't mesh with the same teeth on the opposite in a short repeating pattern. The gear teeth wear more evenly this way and imperfections are worn off over time instead of worn in.
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Love the idea! I'd also love a thumbnail/pic for each link, though. Something that might give them a little more evidence of what they're getting into.
Nope. Just trying to draw an analogy. Journalism is a very different ballgame. The concept of high profile open source journalism is non existant.

My question wasn't about whether they were paid or not, it was about whether a scrapped feature is still valuable resume experience.

The logic chain is this: If a scrapped feature is still valuable resume experience, then working on a project not deemed worthwhile by a corporation is still valuable experience. If it's still valuable experience, there may be situations in which it is beneficial to take such an unpaid internship.

The whole argument here isn't whether or not to pay interns for such a job. It's already established that they will not be paid for such a position. Either unpaid interns do it or nobody does it. End of story. The question is whether or not to allow people to pursue such an opportunity without pay. I think there are many people that would benefit from such an arrangement. Not just students, but with the high unemployment rates, anyone trying to gain a little more experience or get their foot in the door.
Interesting, nothing like that here. And no reason for it, the CSS is straightforward (width on left column, width on right). Reload FF and submit a bug report if it still happens - it might be related to the margin calculation reading the wrong value (the left columns margins are specified as "165px 0 0 0" while the right is "margin-top: 165px").
The downside to doing evhttp is that he'll have to write his own request parsing (I think he's relying on Apache/CGI to do that for him now).

But if you're going to do a C web framework (and... really? you sure about that?), that's probably how you should do it.
I must read more carefully, I retract my comment.
I've been running this for months now and really like it. Really simple to setup and quite flexible.
Brilliant. Before this I used `ssh -d` and tunnelled everything through the port with proxifier.app but this is a much nicer (and free) solution!
Ask HN: Please review our HTML prototyping tool App Sketcher (appwork.com)
The market is pretty crowded by now. Do you think we have a chance with this tool?
Freakonomics » Big Content Farm Still Thriving After Google Algorithm Change
Do you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera_back
?
Glad to see that the pageviews didn't dip after launch.

Question: how did you initially get advertisers? I'm assuming that the $500 ($462 last month) is from your sponsors adhering to something like this:

monthly fee = pageviews * $X.

Did they pay anything up front, or do you charge at the end of the month? Feel free to not answer if these questions are too prying. [I'm launching a small (side project) content site soon, so I am curious]
Cython is supposed to be a naive compiler, it's primary use-case is for speeding up specific functions by having them compiled. That it uses a python-like language to do this is great.

I'm reasonably certain the C parts of numpy rely more on implementation optimisations than compiler optimisations for their increased efficiency.
You need to convert < into &lt;. That's the price of entry. You can't redefine the problem to "web framework that simply strips < out of inputs". Your framework would then be immediately inferior to every other framework which does output quoting.
sahillavingia, your personal site looks awesome too!
http://sahillavingia.com/
Absolutely. We are catering to the independent restaurant owner (non-chained, non-franchised) who doesn't want to learn HTML and doesn't want to pay thousands of dollars to a graphic designer.

We're also actively targeting the market of independent owners (pizza parlors, Italian restaurants, cafes, delis, small mom and pop restaurants, etc.) that do not actively have a website and more importantly do not have a menu online.

Thank you for your comment.
I totally disagree. Their intrinsic value is that they cannot be controlled by despotic governments, nanny state mothers and fathers, or by corrupt bankers or payment gateway vendors. They do not suffer from long term inflation. They have negligible to zero transmission fees.

The fact that the currency is as stable as it is is remarkable, and this is a perfect site to take advantage of bitcoins.
I've been using ejabberd a lot lately and it's a really nice piece of software, and works very well.

My biggest problem with XMPP as a whole is... well, it's XML. Not only is it heavier than it should be across the wire, it feels to me that the XML way of thinking leads to unnecessary verbosity when designing protocol messages. And there seems to be no proper consensus on how to use it among the different XMPP RFCs -- do we re-use a node name or come up with something different? Or just make it an attribute? Do we namespace it?

XMPP works great for what it was designed for though. There are many robust client and server implementations, being able to federate is awesome, and it's pretty easy to extend. But if I were to re-invent it, I would use a binary transport format.
How is it a pyramid scheme? Bitcoins are just a scarce resource..
The link below suggests that you're right---the price of gold was remarkably steady for at least the second half of the 1800s.

http://www.nma.org/pdf/gold/his_gold_prices.pdf

Why would the price have been so steady? Was the supply of gold increasing at just the right rate to keep it steady (unlikely) or was the economy so much less efficient at the time that prices didn't tend to fluctuate as they should (my guess). Perhaps the government played a role by owning a massive amount of gold? I don't think any of these explanations would apply to bitcoin (or gold, now).

Is there a better explanation? (and does it also apply to bitcoin?)
Brilliant. I could have a sub-domain for each industry, offer visual themes related to it as well.
Thanks
I set up an OpenVPN server for this purpose. This solution is so much easier and elegant, it's not even funny.
http://bodhizazen.net/Tutorials/VPN-Over-SSH/
in correct functional style shouldn't it rather be :

response_set_status(response, 200);

no issues with global state, threading (if correctly mutexed), etc...
Not really. For those rare trips you drive more than 100 miles, rent a liquid-fueled vehicle. They're much better suited for such trips.

An electric vehicle is more specialized as a every-day commuter vehicle. It is cheaper in that duty.

Like a gas car, your cell phone can do anything your desktop can do, but your desktop is better suited for some tasks (i.e. faster for writing letters) even if its mobility is less.
@g0atbutt - Speaking to bounce rate, the number 1 thing I see on TSF that discourages longer browsing is that, yes, you're absolutely meeting your ideal of 'more startup coverage', but I personally care less about the history of startups (day to day) than I do about NEW startups.

I'll typically hit TSF once per day, looking for something time-sensitive and, if I see it, reading that. If I don't, I'll bounce off. I usually visit the other articles on the weekend, which is where/when I read TSF the most.

What strikes me as odd though, is that 'coverage' is, I believe, a less time-intensive task than 'interviews', which is where you seem to be spending most of your time. While I value the in-depth articles, it would take less time to review new / launching / just-launched sites that I just happen to want to see more of.

Regardless, TSF is a staple that I recommened to all. I'm a little amazed to see that your revenues didn't increase more, month to month, but that speaks to the necessity of dogged persistence required of startup founders, I suppose.
What about exercise?
Flight: an extensible micro-framework for PHP
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406681
The most valuable part of this article is in footnote #2:

"This could make sense if Mr. Business Guy had a MUCH better understanding of the market needs, the product capabilities, and the process required to build a product that evolved over time. Developing this skillset turns Mr. Business Guy into Mr. Product Guy, and makes him a much more attractive cofounder."
Let me be the first to totally disagree with this article.

The world is full of great outsourced design: websites, adverts, car designs, buildings, bridges, spacecraft. You name it.

UX is not something magical. It is just another application of design. A good designer will have no difficulty getting into the head of both client and user. That is their passion.
Ask HN: What are the most important problems in Information Security today?
On Linked in someone was asking what topic they should do for a PHD [1] which got me thinking in the PG essay [2] he asks:

What are the most important problems in your field?
Are you working on one of them?
Why not?

My thoughts:

+ Quantifying risk - especially gathering an authoritative database of security incident information from a representative set of organizations around the world going back 10 years, looking at their peers who did not suffer incidents, looking at the threats, vulnerabilities and controls environments in all of them and then building a quantitative risk model based on this data. Not easy data to gather, especially getting non survey based but real cost data but this would be a major advancement to the field especially if the model and data was re-usable by most organizations

+ Transparent security - what security controls could be implemented in most organizations that provide the maximum risk reduction for the minimum cost and usability and productivity impact

+ Information centric security - innovative approaches to moving security controls closer to the information and away from the infrastructure. DRM is a good concept but implementations are broken [3], DLP is ok but has its problems also [4]. Can these be solved?
Ya, you're right man. I'll work up a proper post for what I'm thinking. I was hoping to just get some quick responses to gauge my idea before I posted it too early, but I should prob work in an intro first. Thanks :)
It's not 99% of the project, it's one line of code (among over 2,000).
April Fools "Vaporware" or not, this makes me wonder if I could convert the CCD and related architecture from my second (and heavilly battered) digital camera into a drop-in film replacement. It would make for a great weekend project... if only I hadn't sold/traded off all my 35mm camera bodies!
I'd work on the name. Gumroad? What does it mean?

To me it brings up an image of a road, covered with gum. I'm trying to get where I want to go, but there's all this gum on the road slowing me down. It's a huge and annoying obstacle. And that is a bad mental image, given that what you're selling is a sort of obstacle.

It's not too late for a different name.
I've heared the claim that TCP over TCP doesn't work well countless times. I've been using OpenVPN in tcp mode for at least 5 years on a daily basis and never noticed a problem. I've even done SIP over a TCP OpenVPN configuration without a noticeable problem.

It makes sense to me that it should perform badly, and it probably does for uses cases with a lot of traffic, but for an average user on a laptop, a TCP based VPN is fine.
There's a downtown area? Damn I was missing out!
Links:

[1] http://linkd.in/eF6glj

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

[3] http://www.rakkhis.com/2010/08/making-drm-practical.html

[4] http://www.rakkhis.com/2010/07/practical-lessons-learned-fro...
Custom themes have been in cydia forever and they are indeed mostly terrible. I would however be shocked to find that Apple was allowing third parties to install apps that couldn't be removed like is happening with Android phones on Verizon. I helped a friend update and set up some apps on his brand new Droid X and the first thing he asked was "Why can't I remove the blockbuster and madden apps, I'm never going to use those?" There's something really screwed up about not being able to remove advertisements and useless bloatware from a device that you've just paid $600 for. While Apple has been very controlling, this type of abuse seems to be one thing their control will continue to be able to prevent.
"I've been working on the one for about 5 months now" -> choose that one, that's easy. Why would you throw away that work?
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There's also AbsoLUAtion for Lighttpd. Lua's a very nice, convenient language for embedding dynamic/user-configurable bits in otherwise static applications. PowerDNS and nmap use it, too. It seems to have displaced Tcl as the de facto language for embedding.
I'll second this comment, I'd love to see more startups covered. New ones that very many people have not heard of.
Why not have a list of people to walk my link? Wired.
The alternative that predates this is to this is to just tunnel ppp over ssh using pppd:

pppd updetach noauth pty "ssh root@example.com pppd nodetach notty noauth" ipparam 192.168.1.100:192.168.1.2

I used this for many years before switching to openvpn. This does require root access on the host to execute pppd however.
Wordpress is a huge universe by itself and it makes sense to start from there.

here is the link http://www.updatesitenow.com/

Its a way for website owners to talk to customers directly. most of them have to talk to a web designer/webmaster, probably outsourced, so the idea is to allow the website owners to share day-to-day news about their company in a casual manner (via SMS, Email), not just by issuing press releases.
Integrating OpenID in ASP.NET Web Forms using DotNetOpenAuth
http://please.bitcoin.me/now/
I take issue with one of his contentions that people don't root for the bad guys. There have been many times when I'm watching a film or playing a video game where I support the antagonist. Often the 'evil' character is the most dynamic one, the person responsible for actually moving the plot along. Villains act, heroes react after all.

Now I say this not to just engage in trivial nitpicking, but because I think his thesis needs to be refined. The author attributes his idea to a moral compulsion for people to support the 'good' company, or the one thats trying to slay a monster. What he's actually identified is the natural tendency for people to define themselves in opposition to the other. You can't be insanely loyal to a product unless there is a challenge to it. Its less good versus evil, its group loyalty vs. the outsider.
The current mobile dev scene is this:

- Android is Java, iOS is Objc + (cocoa nightmare), Windows Mobile is silverlight (If i'm not wrong)

- iOS (cocoa) is a pain to learn and develop something useful out of it, plus you have to pay dev licenses to apple anually,etc..

- Android store doesn't have the projection Apple store has.

- Native wrappers (titanium, phonegap,etc..) are buggy, lack user support, poor documentation, limited.

So, choose your poison.

What's the solution ?
It's freaking insane if you want to have an app for every mobile OS out there at the moment, you need to have at least 2 different teams maintaing code. It's just stupid.

Wrappers are not the way to go fore sure, I think vendors should start considering using standard tools like Javascript, or more easy languages like ruby,python, at least for creating more simple tools, that don't require heavy graphic engine and stuff.

At least this would help companies reduce their efforts on having teams different for each OS.
"Android phones are available for free from carriers."

I can't find a way to interpret this statement and have it be true.

There is no fee to use the o.s. The devices cost the carriers a great deal. They purchase them in bulk from the oems and then sell them to customers. The cost is then recovered over the life of the contract.

This is why it's hard to know exactly how many windows phones are active in the ecosystem. The only public data is the bulk sales to carriers by oems.

Wrt your other points, I don't have any nits to pick. :)
Last month I used InfluAds (think along the lines of "The Deck") which paid on a CPM model.

This month I've switched to a flat rate for a 30 day run. I'm selling ads directly (AppSumo and MediaTemple), and through BuySellAds (no one has bought through this, but I think it's because I'm charging more).

If I know the sponsor well, I have no problem charging at the end of the month. If you have any more questions feel free to shout!
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TLDR: Ian’s Three Principles of D&D Marketing. Help your audience:

- Slay monsters

- Take their treasure

- Tell the tale
HPR, Peter Day's World of Business, New Yorker Comment, Changelog, Onion Radio News, Front Page, Read'n'Code (had to plug this)
> If you want to see the icon/graphic/design/whatever before you pay for it obviously...

But that's the whole point. There's nothing that allows a seller to do this at the mo.

> The second question has been answered.

Sure, after my post. The answer to which seems to be "there isn't". So a valid question.

> This is a completely different model to ebay.

Perhaps from the platform's perspective, not from the sellers. The motivation is to enable someone to quickly put up an item for sale. I can pretty damn quickly put up a single item for sale on ebay too.
While providing an authority model is often a great business, it's a fallacy to say that provenance is mandatory to be taken seriously. See: Twitter, eBay, 4chan, TechCrunch
I think that a 350 mile range and 10 minute charge is ultimately the holy grail for electric cars. Most cars built try to shoot for 400 on highway gas mileage.
Thanks, good to know it was of use. The concern you outline was very much the one I had in mind when developing Firmin—writing large, UI-intensive web applications where CSS transforms and transitions would be useful but too inflexible to use without some mediation through a JavaScript API layer.
Your short answer is just that; You do not mention any of the positives.

Some of the positives:

* anonymous

* decentralized

* finite supply

* no transaction fees

* open source

* growing in usage

* is traded on online currency markets

I'm sure there are more, but that is just off the top of my head. BTW, I'm speaking as someone who has ZERO BTC.
The History of Rome. http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

"A weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending (someday) with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire."
Last time I checked phonegap didn't work with Xcode4, at least not out of the box. You had to hack some scripts to create a project file and stuff.
Sorry, I think the way I backed into my point has confused you. I'm not saying, "Amazon's store is new and different. Why would people use it?" What I mean to say is: "I don't have any reason to believe many people are currently using Amazon's store. It seems unlikely. Since (as far as we can tell) this store is currently not successful, and its lack of success is quite possibly due to factors other than price, its pricing doesn't reveal much about what people are willing to pay." And that is not true of everything.