skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the input.

I'm positioning iWagerr as an app just to track casual wagers. I'm emphasizing "casual" because I'd like it to be the de-facto place to place non-financial bets (such as those in the examples I gave above).

Think of it as a notepad-like web app where you just track challenges against friend and see who "wins" those wagers.

This is in no way a gambling site, since I'm not offering odds on any wagers or have credits/money transacting through iWagerr.
Here's how Alex Gaynor compared his program to your programs-

"It's not used to do any crazy hackery like the LuaJIT one, just to access the libc write() function."
I'm not saying that it doesn't exist in perhaps specialized applications but ... I have never ever seen an automotive fan belt that was a möbius strip. Older cars (and other belt driven machinery like drill presses and band saws) use v-belts and newer cars use serpentine belts. Having installed new belts in both my older and newer cars (as well as the drill press and band saw in my shop) I have seen exactly zero that could be called möbius. In fact, I don't recall seeing one at the parts store that was möbius. In fact, now that I think about it a serpentine belt comes in contact with rollers on both faces anyway and would not have to be möbius to wear more evenly.
I'd like to know where I can buy one, I don't have access to any 3D printers and I think this looks like something I'd like to have in my office.
I'm friends with one of the founders + I asked repeatedly.
I really like this language. The core libraries have sensibly named functions, getting it to generate or talk to C is trivial, and it's simple to get a GUI or a small script or something going. It has good bindings to SDL, which makes it easy to do some game programming. The REPL has a great online help facility, and interactive reflection is simple, so there's little head-scratching. I used it years back, when my main exposure to Lisp had been CL, and it was refreshingly convenient.

The only problems I have with it are the minor one of the OO syntax (minor as I never made much use of the OO features) and the somewhat more major issue of the dynamic scoping (no closures). It was a deal-breaker for me but was pretty educational, as I had not quite understood dynamic versus lexical scoping at the time.

Except those issues, it's a great Lisp, especially if you need one that plays nicely with the OS and is easy to learn. (And it is pretty speedy to boot, even respectably speedy interpreted.)

(Edited, removed a bit where I repeated myself.)
We used something like this for our content at Naughty America.

For each page request we'd generate a link to the file on BitGravity with a timestamp, expiration, and filename, and a hash generated from those concatenated with the requesting IP and a secret key. On BitGravity's end, they'd re-hash everything, and if it matched up they'd serve out the file.
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I find it amazing that letter.ly finds it amazing that a physical war might disrupt their normal service(s).
Tracking GST/HST isn't that big of a deal, and you are only required to do so once your annual revenues exceed $30K.

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/gp/rc4022/README.html
For something a little different, my choice for non-Hacker Newsesque podcast would have to be Comedy Death Ray Radio (http://www.earwolf.com/show/comedy-death-ray-radio-scott-auk...).

The single funniest thing I've ever heard.
> For these reasons, most every educated person in the world knows more about America than almost any other country (excluding their own and a handful of neighbors)

At least in brazil people seem to know more about america than the rest of the country, specially in the richer and more educated regions in the south and southwest. Everyone I talk to is far more likely to know who is the president of the US or the governor of california than who is the governor of Piauí or the vice-president of brazil.
Interesting, I didn't think about the implications of "donate."

Kind of tangentially, I wonder if there's value in letting a user select a charity to donate all of their sales to (no pressure on the user, just an option)?
Another interesting variant might be: payment unlocks the destination link for X minutes. (After that, the true destination URL is changed somehow. Yes, that adds complication on the true hosting site or the necessity for Gumroad to proxy.)

So in a sense you don't care if people share the link for that period... maybe you even want them to, like a time-limited offer, so that they post to all their friends, "get it while it's hot!"

(The price could also rise or fall after each purchased open-period... perhaps even, depending on the number of downloads during the last open period.)
Right, but in Lisp you can use the bottom-up approach to iteratively and interactively build your program, then save image or whatever to get a binary. If your Lush prototype relies on some feature that can't be compiled, you will need to reimplement that before going into production.
To reinforce your point, I stored about 70,000,000 rows in one table in a SQLite database and a few million rows in other tables on the same database, and it was fast, reliable and delightful to work with. Anyone who goes against SQLite will have a lot of work ahead of them.
I agree that you should play around with price, but I also believe Zed could be leveraging his free tutorial to market another service later on.

For example, while this isn't an intro to python book, Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial I think provides an excellent revenue model for authors.

Basically he provides a free online tutorial that he cross-subsidizes with charging on the premium screencasts and pdf/hardbook editions. I read the tutorial myself in a few days as a beginner and eventually was convinced to buy the screencasts to get a better visual understanding. If it wasn't for the free text I would never have known about Michael's skills and would definitely not have paid for it.

You also have extremely experienced industry leaders providing free screencasts and podcasts educating others for free but in turn increasing their own exposure and overall deal-flow. In the case of coders, you could expect guys like Ryan Bates and Charles Wood to increase their consulting/speaking engagements, where in the case of vc's and angels like Mark Suster and Jason Calacanis I would expect better deal-flow of up and coming startups.

As such, before resorting to price elasticity, I like the general idea of working through cross-subsidization to figure out alternative revenue streams.
Yes and no. HP, for example, invests a lot of R&D money in the core businesses and not everyone can just copy what we do and even though quarterly reports rule there are 5 year plans for things other than off-the-shelf consumer products. On the other hand, the D of R&D is heavily emphasized and HP Labs has been struggling to be relevant to the business units as long as I can remember. The question for blue chips is whether it's cheaper to fund your own research or wait until something is mature to the point where you can buy or license it. Much as it dismays me sometimes, it really isn't such an unreasonable strategy for the average stockholder who owns us.
Useful tool. Some advice: It seems the order of user is random, I hope there're some better algorithms to present the potential users I may want to kill. The activities of user, times of one user have been killed may count.
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This may be unorthodox but maybe try learning without Photoshop? I built http://gumroad.com/ without it and it has the added benefits of: 1) forced simplicity, 2) speed building it and, 3) speed for users.
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> It cracks me up when I hear Germans talking about American arrogance.

Oh, most Americans are definitely arrogant on their country's behalf. You're not off the hook. :)
For color correction you cannot do better than this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Photoshop-Classic-Guide-C...

It's a great book for engineers working with color, as its principles are explained through color theory and the mathematical relationships between colors.

Most photoshop 'experts' are people who have dicked around with it forever and just haphazardly learned the tools, Margulis comes from a much more empirical place and shows how to manipulate color in ways that are more natural and less damaging to images by using as few tools as possible.

Additionally, you'll learn a ton about color theory, which is worthwhile by itself.

If you finish that book, this one is awesome as well: http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-LAB-Color-Adventures-Colorsp...
"The permitted use of Mag+ Create is for the creation of digital content (but this license excludes any right to deploy produced content on any tablet or other mobile media device"

Am I missing something?
Nothing that I can disagree with.

And that's one reason why I have become a little bit of an American myself by not giving a hoot about what Americans think about India.
It must be shown what to track. That is, you (or some other external system) define the "object" to be tracked by clicking on a bounding box.

A good addition would be an algorithm that automatically delineated "objects" in the visual field, then passed them to Predator.

Which raises another question: how many "objects" can Predator simultaneously track (with given horsepower)?
> Maybe Microsoft's got a valid point about abuses of dominant positions by Google.

I agree with you that they've made some clever moves, but Google owns no spectrum (and this was before Android, right?) and almost no patents. It's hard to argue that they are abusing their dominant position in those fields - people are scared of what they could do, but "potential monopolist" is not a strong basis for an antitrust case.
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If you potentially host the files/keep track of static/unique URLs on your site, you could keep track of who is the first owner to ensure that no future users also claim to be the owner and resend the file/link as their own.

This doesn't take into account all cases but a good chunk to start with.
agreed. I need something that tells me how often I interact with fellow tweeters...and based off that, keep/remove.

my 0.02
That would hurt the UX. For example if someone gets the link to a blog-post-in-the-making they shouldn't have to go through Gumroad to access it every time.
Thanks for the advice! Right now we're just grabbing the data from Twitter and presenting it without sorting it by any kind of algorithm, but we'll definitely think about how to present the people you're most likely to "kill" first, that's a good suggestion.
Twitter and Foursquare haven't made any profit yet. Square is not a new idea, but improvising on an existing established industry.

Square is probably a great example of what Paras' prespective in this article.
> I agree with this, but I haven't actually been to a country that wasn't like that. Certainly here in Denmark, many Danes are quite certain that Denmark is run better than any other place. ;-)

You should visit the third world more often. At least here in Brazil many people believe everything is run by incompetent crooks and if they could just get out to foreign countries they would see what actual management and order are. (this is only partially true, specially as the country seems to be quickly decrooking in many levels)
>AT&T really was a monopoly, it had the government enforcing that on its behalf.

And weren't its tariffs generally set to allow it a certain profit margin? In that sort of setup, the decision to fund a big, expensive research lab is a no-brainer: you're guaranteed not to lose money in the short run, and the lab will probably make you money in the long run.
"If you plan on signing up for an incubator try to get an idea of how much time there is allocated by the various partners in the incubator for this mentoring and maybe talk to some alumni to see how well that worked out in practice."

This is actually something I have been wondering about. Can anyone give feedback in regard to this? pre-emptive thanks
My personal opinion is that this is a bad idea - unless I have to use a specific software package, asking for my contact info before I try your software is enough to make me close your website and go on to the next one.

Beginning the download is the first thing a user does after deciding "this looks cool, I'm going to try it out" - do you really want that first impression to be a negative one? dreamux seems to have nailed it - make it easy for them to download, and even easier to contact you to purchase when they are ready.
…to the Cloud!!
Startup ideas don't make money.

Startups make money.
I haven't planned on anything yet. I'll take it as it comes, I guess.
great idea, but if your site is getting traction, you'll have to face tons of imitators -- after all, you already said that this is a weekend project. They are going to undercut you like crazy if you are doing 30%. So might as well make it as enticing as possible, maybe just 3% overhead (or even 1%).
It's like a freemium model but there's a single price point that starts off as a premium and slowly shifts toward free over time. :D
It is surprisingly easy to forget about poverty if you live shielded from it. You see a lot of this in brazillian urban upper-middle class, specially in the south.
Despite the slip up on the country-leader pairings, you make several valid points. You have to be comfortable with the (small) risk of registering with a country's top level domain.
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I was about to lament that English lacks a short, euphonic, idiomatic word for "US-icans" / US citizens & residents / culturally US people / estadounidenses.

But then I remembered we do have such a word.

Yanks.
And who's there to stop Google from abusing the patent pool in 4 years from now?

Yes, they have been pretty considerate business up to now. But future is not merely a direct projection of past.

A portfolio of patents is as much an obligation as an asset. You cannot arbitrarily enforce patents only against certain competitors, lest you risk the patent in question being shot down in arbitration or court case.
From the operator (at the time) of Mt. Gox, Bitcoin's leading exchange: "I covered almost $5000 in paypal fraud".
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Making sure android can offer all the expected features of a modern phone os without being sued to death isn't improving the consumer experience ? And the whole monopoly thing you said is ludicrous, having a business that is making a whole lot of cash is in no way the same thing as abusing a dominant position. I honestly can't even understand how you could confuse the two.

That's like saying the red cross is abusing its dominant position since it earns so much donations that it can afford to send people pretty much everywhere while other orgs can't.

(I am in no way implying a relation between google and the red cross, just the first exemple to pop in my mind)
To address the first problem, you should offer a passive solution and not require the user to set up anything special in the way of single-use URLs. In fact, I assumed the issue of payers sharing the end-link was such an obvious problem that the service would have already addressed this and had it built-in by default (but of course, MVP/first-release, I understand).

The way I'd see it working is, I give Gumroad a link I want users to pay for, and Gumroad charges each user, serving up the content, but never sharing with them the link that I gave Gumroad. You could do this by fetching the content on the back end, and serving it up through Gumroad's own single-use URL.
That's a good thought. Maybe the plan should be to launch one quickly, get traction, then hire people to help you with the nitty-gritty while you slowly start working on the second idea.
I really get what you are saying.

Most of the recent immigrants to US from India are "economic" immigrants who have no bones with their motherland. They just came to a place with more headroom.

So, a lot of Indians are not eager to get rid of their cultural identities as fast as many European immigrants.
Show HN: Android virtualization on ARM processors
This is our MVP (took ~2 years to build): http://vimeo.com/21889466

We run virtualized instances of Android/Linux on multicore ARM processors.

I am the founder, 29, we are a small team. I would welcome any feedback, suggestions, improvements... A great help would be improving our plans on who to approach with this. There may be people/companies which we didn't think of.

I will be in Mountain View from 10th April onwards and happy to meet in person anyone interested in the technology. (also looking for housing in the MV area).
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> Re-posts are OK.

No one was saying they aren't. Some helpful members of the community often post links to old discussions of the same article.

It's not a judgement that the link shouldn't have been posted, but rather, a way to show people who missed it what was already posted.

it's invaluable when a popular link doesn't get a lot of traction on a subsequent post.
Thinking about it, Gumroad is the perfect application for Bitcoins:

http://www.bitcoin.org/
More, to have something self-contained without a lot of dependencies, is why I compile.
I realise that Gruber gets a load of bashing on HN of late. But I love The Talk Show. It hits just the right not of apple, tech, film and schoolboy sniggering.

I especially like the schoolboy sniggering.
Perhaps you're right. I guess I'm being a little selfish in so far as what I've described is what I'd want, as a potential paying customer. I still want the structure and editing though, so I'm not sure how payment could be distributed to contributors, such as editors. Perhaps my model would be most applicable to those who self-publish without external contributors.

I've looked at the O'Reilly and others deals-of-the-day and ebook promotions and they almost always are to expensive, or are stale.
It also actively disincentivises posting constructive comments on threads few people are likely to read, as commenting has a negative expected value. A constructive suggestion in a page dropping towards the bottom of the Ask/Show HN might get an upvote from the author if they vote, has a negligible chance of garnering upvotes from anyone else, and yet is more potentially useful to at least one member of the community than any number of eloquently-stated opinions on the 'openness' of a particular platform, whether we're in a bubble yet or the idiocy of the USPTO.
I agree. I think there needs to be an effort to push towards concurrency in Pypy. They were optimistic that the GIL would be easier to factor out in their runtime, and I think that could be a great start. I'm all for new methods for concurrency, but I feel being able to make efficient use of native threads would bring a lot of momentum to the project. Even though it's not as big a deal as most people make it out to be, Python gets a bad rap for the well publicized GIL problems.
free download...

$500/month if you actually want to distribute it
Is this what you've been working on in SF, Sahil :) ?
the NHS has got to have some level of sovereign immunity.

Does it? (I don't know of anyone suing NICE, but they've certainly brought lawsuits against GP practices and hospital trusts, and won substantial damages for malpractice and/or judgements requiring the provision of treatment that was at first denied on various grounds.)

Meanwhile, the NHS bodies that deliver healthcare -- be they PCTs or fundholding GP practices -- don't have a profit incentive for excluding people with pre-existing medical conditions from receiving treatment. (They may have a cost control incentive to for denying anomalously expensive treatments, but that kicks in at the opposite end of the supply-and-demand chain: and it's defended by reference to metrics like quality-adjusted life-years per unit expenditure rather than the requirement to show a profit.)

Finally, the "loser pays" rule has been greatly undermined by the widespread adoption of conditional-fee lawsuits for civil damages in the UK over the past decade.
Perhaps he's merely trying to depolarize investors' opinions; if everyone second-guesses him in a different direction, it might temporarily stabilize the average valuation.
My advice: don't get a degree in web design. DO go to college and learn about something you're interested in (or just go to figure out what you're interested in!). College should not be vocational training, no matter what your parents or counselors imply. Take the time to think really hard about things that have no bearing on the 'real world'. Keep designing websites (there will be plenty of opportunities) and build a portfolio. The best people practicing what you're interested are working and sharing what they learn online - not through academic institutions.

Some of the interactive design programs out there do look pretty good (SVA, for one - though that's postgrad).

(PS - I struggled with this 10 years ago and ended up getting degrees in computer science and graphic design. Anything I learned about 'web design' was totally useless by the time I was working, and I had taught myself basically everything I used day to day. However, the fundamentals of graphic design and CS do not change.)
http://packetpushers.net/

It's a networking podcast mainly focused on high end datacenter stuff, but also they have a wireless specific podcast periodically. If you're into hardware and systems engineering, it's quite interesting. They also get a lot of vendors on and really grill them.
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I've noticed people from the Indian subcontinent tend to be a lot more sarcastic than Americans. I wonder if it is a relic of the British colonization.
Chavez is funding/protecting the Colombian rebels trying to bring down the country... So really edw is right.
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Google provides an API to create charts. But it's hosted by Google. What alternative options are available to display charts on a web based application?
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That is, indeed, good material, but I suspect that OP is probably better served by content that addresses how to draw with vectors, use layer styles, etc. That stuff is the juice for making UI elements and mockups.
I don't think any of us predicted that Obama would go to war with Libya. This is Obama's war taking down .ly domains, and nothing at all to do with unstable regimes.
I think I can see both sides of this argument - on one side there is the fact that SQLite is available, is a great bit of software and is already built into a number of browsers, on the the other hand it does seem slightly odd to have specification that references an implementation ("do whatever version X.Y.Z of SQLite did).

If they supported both then everyone would probably use SQLite and the standard Web stack becomes directly dependent on a particular implementation of something - which I don't think has ever been the case before.

Personally, I'd go with SQLite, preferably with a synchronous interface as well. But I can understand the reservations of those who don't.
No, it isn't. Bitcoins are clever and all, but how many people would be willing to set it up just to see a link?
The guardian are also moving towards using mongo instead of oracle, there was an interesting talk by Graham Tackley from the guardian about their stack at the recent mongoUK conference in London: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/nosql/mongodb-at-the-guardia...
He's not doing the payment processing, Stripe is.