skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
check your facts by reaching out to Twitter directly.

I'm Jud Valeski, CEO of Gnip (jud@gnip.com). So we're all running on factual data, apparently a problem these days,...

Twitter's value added resellers (e.g. Gnip and DataSift) must...
- sell filtered data at no less than $0.10/1k Tweets consumed. Gnip makes this price explicit, whereas DS, apparently (I can't fully tell so check w/ them directly) rolls that number into their costs, making it opaque.

- sell only to firms who will not display the Tweets in "public".

- sell only to firms who will not programmatically re-syndicate the raw Tweets further downstream.
Ephemeralization
"Acts of valor" the group commit are spread far and wide, drawing in more members, thereby creating a feedback cycle which encourages more and more dramatic acts.

Off topic, how is it that people can be against socialism, and yet also personally glory in the acts of soldiers and sports persons, etc.? Isn't that exactly taking something from the hard work of the capable few and spreading it over a whole nation in such fashion that the people who need it more can 'take' the most from it?
I believe this problem is another good argument in favor of life extension research. What's going to happen in another 100 or 200 years, when every field has so much knowledge accumulated that it takes an entire lifetime to learn enough to contribute something new?
Creating a Dropdown List in Visual Basic.NET
Node.js Package Manager 1.0 Link: A better way
Maybe not. If you're at that level, consider reading "The Standard C Library" by Plauger. I used it as a reference for updating a non-compliant library to be mostly compliant. I gained a better understanding of why the standard C library is the way it is, and learned how to implement all of it.
Using a Kinect and a 3-D printer to print... little people
As a YC company people can't comment on job postings, I believe.
It turned out my issue was being caused because I was running an older version of rvm. Updating fixed it.
How does DDG's relevance engine work?

e.g. Adele is on tour right now, but DDG won't return a SeatGeek listing for it
How ironic that you linked to such a non-scientific, inherently flawed poll (ie not a random sample of HN readers) to argue in favor of science and objectivity. Just sayin! ;-)
Ask HN: Best mobile platforms
Hi HN, I was wondering if anyone has good recommendations for platforms to build data driven business-oriented mobile apps on. Or, is native the best way to go? Or, is HTML5 the best way to go?

Thanks in advance, sorry for the naivety.
I request one thing, you send me something completely different. I don't see how making the "something" an ASCII script makes it easier than a random binary (and there's no requirement that the random binary has any relationship with what I requested).

Oddly, I'm more used to seeing arguments that distributing source code is better than distributing binaries because you can inspect source code.
Thanks for the comment.

There are two models a customer can use.

1. Stick with your existing tax professional:

Ask your tax professional to signup as an agent. Free for him/her and then you can work with them through the app. For their own customers, agents can start using the service immediately.

2. Let us assign a tax agent:

Tell us more about your requirements, we can assign agents who is suitable for you.

All agents are mandated to list their PTIN number and phone numbers so that you can call and talk to them.

So anytime, if you are not satisfied, we can drop you from the customer list of a particular tax professional.

Hope above answered your concerns.
Gah, why do i never seem to hear about these events... -1 for living in Palmerston North i guess. Is there some website or newsletter where these events get published and promoted?

Hopefully the childish behavior on both sides doesn't reflect poorly on Kiwis as a whole -_-
as a tax attorney and someone with 4 years experience as a volunteer at an IRS VITA site, i am not sure that i'm entirely comfortable with the idea - but maybe i am missing something.

first of all, there are preparer regulations that require - well, lots of things. this system could run afoul of those quickly and easily.

secondly, the interview process is crucial for me. it can be driven by a form, but it's extremely important to talk with folks about what happened during the taxable year to identify not only potential pitfalls and ensure that everything gets the right treatment, but also to talk about planning opportunities that can save them big $$$ down the road.

for people that are foolish enough to go to H & R Block anyway, maybe this would be a valuable thing - but it's not a cookie-cutter process and treating it as such can result in serious fines and/or jail time for taxpayers and preparers.

my thoughts: make sure you find yourself a tax law badass to make sure you're doing things right. it will be complicated, and costly - but if you don't get it right out of the gate it's not even worth doing.
What's the logo?
It is also true if you prefer a reasoned argument to a gratuitous swipe.
New Dropbox competitor AVG LiveKive actually SpiderOak
Google offers researchers 1 billion computing core-hours
If anyone else sees this, the script assumes it can write to ~/Library/LaunchAgents as you. Make sure you can!
A proliferation of scalable data centers could also enable the next generation of social networking sites ... I don't see why it's limited to helping Google's competitors and not Facebook's.
There should never be an expectation that your data is secure on Dropbox unless you use local encryption/decryption. Your data is sent to the dropbox server where it is encrypted by their server (according to their web site) and stored. They secure the data in transit, and then again for storage, but they have access to the keys.
There seems to be strong evidence that some checking is done before file transfer to see if the file you are syncing is already available somewhere on the server, and if so the file is not transferred, but does appear sync'd in your account. I noticed this personally when I placed the Access2007 Runtime installer into a folder and the 52MB file was nearly instantaneously flagged as synced.
Insecure authentication of an insecure system is not really a big deal. The lack of convenience for users if stronger authentication was used is probably a bigger concern.
If I have access to your local machine such that I can extract your local credential, I would easily copy all of the existing data from that machine, and could install a key logger to catch your password.
Over-reliance on tech leads to significant increase in SAR callouts
There are other MIPS licensees too.
That x86_64 node executable doesn't play nice with Core Duo Mac's.
I know C thoroughly. It is either my main or best-known language. I hardly ever use it anymore.
Could you expand on or quickly summarize why going to H&R Block is foolish?

(I don't use them. Just curious).
They are. http://goo.gl/RPgs2. It's not new.
> The only thing you can do [...]

Or you could build a trusted end point. Otherwise even two factor auth is only palliative. (But yes: cost-benefit, I hear you).

http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/two-factor-authentic...
Here's the abstract for the article itself[1], translated by Google:

It is now common belief that hackers are saboteurs, if not real criminals. Talking about ethical hacker can then play even ironic. This article attempts to shed light on their history, their true identity and their "philosophy", clearly distinguishing them from the cracker, illegal operators. Investigating the patterns of life and intellectual pursuits hacker, based on creativity and sharing, it is discussed to be compatible with a Christian vision of life. Without unduly compare the hacker community and Christian community, it is concluded as Christians and hackers today, in a world devoted to the logic of profit, they still have much to be, as is clear from the experience of hackers who make their faith a pulse of their creative work.

[1] http://www.laciviltacattolica.it/it/quaderni/articolo/2546/e...
Searching for “Mr. Right” to Run Your Startup
Becuase Search is ultimately about technology, but Social is about the users.

If I was the only user of Google (and they had the same technology stack) then +1 aside - my experience would be the same as it is now. If I was the only user of facebook - what would be the point.
It involves flying-chipmunk-delivered telegrams, from what I understand.
My co-founder (@peterkchen) and I ended up building a private prototype over the last two weeks, in case we get an interview, but after working on it all last night and crafting a bunch of cool new ideas, I am pretty confident that we are going full speed forward either way. Being with YC would just help to be make the product even better. Alright, we'll know soon enough where the road goes. Good luck folks!
pow isn't written in ruby, but javascript. So it might be installable from npm soon.

If you `git clone git://github.com/37signals/pow.git`, you can install it from source with `npm install -g` (requires npm 1.0)
Notch (the guy who made Minecraft) recently did an AMA on reddit. To quote something simple yet valuable from one of his comments, which is relevant here:

"Developing in the dark is scary and probably wrong."
Pandora app found to be sending DOB, gender and location info to ad servers
Still 502ing.
Mike --
Your statement is factually false. Both DataSift and Gnip have two components of the cost they charge consumers for their search-based products. The first is a data license cost (10 cents per thousand tweets sent to the consumer) and a processing cost. In the case of Gnip, the processing cost is essentially the cost of the machine you license, while for DataSift it is the AWS-style compute cost. How they show these costs to the consumer may vary, but they are each compensate Twitter for the cost of the data license.

To simplify:

<total cost> = <data cost> + <processing cost>

<total cost> = <$0.10 * #tweets % 1000> + <processing cost levied by Gnip or DataSift>

Thanks,
Doug
Remote accountants do exist but with http://sanetax.com what we want to achieve is simplifying the whole process.

From above mentioned steps, you can do all 1 to 3 right from your iphone/android phone. What we have seen as trend on http://sanetax.com/ is that more more people are logging and using the service solely from their mobile phones.

Rapport and support is the same thing that you have with your accountant. We only connect customers and tax professionals. It is the work tax professional and his/her service to make sure they treat you well to receive repeated business(next year).
Ah, economies of scale, is there anything you can't improve?
Mertado: Software Architect (LAMP)
Hey - ex-mobile guy here.

I used to work at Blyk, ad funded mobile network that started in the UK and has grown out into some other territories.

I guess the short answer is: you can make a ton of money in mobile.

Anyway, I've got friends now who are on the visual side of things (ranging from all levels of experience) and they charge anywhere from £200-£500 a day.

You have to get into the right circles, i.e. with the ad agencies (not mobile agencies) - then you can make an absolute fortune. For these guys mobile is a dark art, they don't get native apps (still) and HTML 5 is still a long way away for them.

If your going to go down this route, don't package yourself up as a developer or designer - if you are able to plan a campaign for someone like Mastercard, with a gimmicky app or similar (and make the prototype) then your absolute gold dust.

Anyway, long story short - lots of money in mobile, knowledge is sparse, work with ad agencies and definitely (if you can) freelance.
A different experience - I recently tried out Grooveshark on my jailbroken iPhone, and I liked it. The interface is nice and clever, the music quality was fine (I was listening over WiFi though), the radio-style recommendations were decent. I'm just not a big enough music consumer to sign up for the $9/month service; I'm usually happy with my existing music library and if I want to listen to a couple new things I often just use YouTube on my computer. I'd recommend it to friends who wanted a subscription service though.
And the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake was 6.3 - killing 181.

It's not just about the size - it's about where it actually hits. (Note that Christchurch had a 7.1 quake six months earlier with 0 deaths)
Lead Web Developer at Mertado - Bounty: iPad for each hire
If the evangelists from the article say html5 will overtake native in 2 years, then is the likelihood more along 5 years? And who's to say it'll use the web for distribution? Consumers aren't using Google to find apps, they're using the App Store.
It's exactly the same in NZ - if you have money, you can make somebody's life hell even without a trace of wrongdoing on their part.
"Native apps are faster for some operations"

s/some/all/
Incidentally, RVM is another software package with a curl-based install :)

$ bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )
I agree that Minecraft isn't a wholly original concept, but the other examples you cited aren't from "lean" game studios. Your advice to incrementally improve upon previous successes (your own or others') is a good strategy across the game industry, but probably less so in indie / agile studios, where having less to lose allows designers to take more risks with their work.
Sysadmins are Gods

Hackers do Gods' work

Makes sense to me.
Hi --
The license the consumer receives is strictly for non-display use cases, meaning you are not able to go to Gnip or DataSift to license Twitter content to display to end users. We (Twitter) still maintain a robust set of APIs for display use cases which we will license directly to partners for display products.

Thanks,
Doug
Bloom distributed programming language released
There's Coraid out in Athens, GA, a very successful startup in a very nice town.
AFAIK Twitter has set up "dm" as a prefix doing the same thing as "d" - send a direct message. Since ">" is not a valid username, that command shouldn't do anything. For the rest, that might just be JavaScript weirdness in "#newtwitter" – if you can give us more information about your environment, maybe we could check the bug.
s/all/some/

If you need significant CPU cycles or access to non-local resources, the web apps will probably be faster.
Is the potential to win 300 dollars and make 10 cents per sale competitive with other relatively easy ways designers can make money with their art? That's a 2.5% commission on a $4 greeting card!

CafePress Shops offers 10% commission and RedBubble lets the artist set their own markup over the base cost of the item. I'm sure there other similar stores out there, right? How does Chirply intend to compete?
How The Public Sees The Tablet Market
Show HN: Sprout (formerly GitMac) the Fast Simple Git Mac App
fourply, let me invite you to the site as tax professional and then see if our background check is good enough.

Value proposition for tax professional is:
We are connecting you to your customer. That's it. You can choose to have a call or interview or messaging to get to the final return.

Value proposition to customers is:
Whole process of sending tax documents, messaging and paying fee is simplified.
Thanks for the feedback and I really appreciate you trying CarWoo! We only improve by listening closely to feedback like this.

A couple things as a follow-up to this. Our model is new for dealers. Honesty and transparency is a relatively new thing to this industry and no matter what we do, there will always be a few bad apples. This is why a very solid reputation system is important and over time will help address a lot of the bad dealer issues. Not saying it will completely remove it, but it will go a long way to help.

CarWoo! is a marketplace, much like any other marketplace, there are always some sellers that have bad behavior and a few buyers end up running into those sellers. I'm really sorry it was you, but hopefully you will leave some reviews on the dealers you worked with so others are aware of the tactics that were used.

About the $200k problem you saw... this was a first for us. But I guess we should have expected it, dealers have used this tactic before CarWoo! came around. They would throw out some bogus numbers to get buyers into their store... classic tactic, we just didn't anticipate it and thousands of people have used CarWoo! and this is the first time I've seen this one personally. It is now fixed, we put some offer limits in on the dealer side as a direct result of this case. Thank you for telling us about this.

Also another reason why the anonymity feature on CarWoo! is a great feature... this dealer doesn't have a way to contact you now.

Hopefully we've fixed the issues you saw and I hope we did everything we could via our customer happiness team to help. I'd be more than happy to let you try CarWoo! again anytime for free. Just drop me a line.

Thanks again.

tommy at carwoo dot com
We shared this with HN when we were first starting out[1] (in pre-beta stage) and we just wanted to share the progress we have made and say "thanks" - as our awesome beta tester userbase was mostly HN readers.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660200
It's an interesting question. One piece I recently read comes down clearly on the other side from the author of this post. The fact that it was written by a successful insider makes it more compelling: http://whatgamesare.com/2011/02/you-need-four-coders-product...

I think the key element that makes it tough for games to be lean is that in many cases, the only real fanfare a game will get is on its release day. If your game sucks on day 1, odds aren't very good that you'll be getting people to try it out after you've ironed out the bugs. Obviously this is more true of console games and PC games than it is of mini-games on FB or flash sites.
I have the exact same issue with noah.clark@gmail.com and noahclark@gmail.com

I've probably gotten HUNDREDS of e-mails for noahclark@gmail.com (I can tell by checking the to field) in my noah.clark@gmail.com. I know where he lives, what type of art he collects, major purchases, and some pretty significant family issues as well as the homework he has been assigned.

I just do my best to notify who ever sent the e-mail that they have the wrong address.
No, I didn't link to a non-scientific, inherently flawed poll to argue in favor of science and objectivity.

I suggested two things: first, that the opinionated people at the Vatican would probably do well to take note of the results of that particular poll -- for whatever it's worth; second, that the poll appeared to support my observation. I never said it was scientific. I would very much welcome the conducting of an actual scientific poll on the subject.

I have other reasons to argue in favor of science and objectivity, which certainly don't stem from a Web poll.
PyPad - Python 2.7.1 for teaching on iOS
Thanks for sharing. We're anxious to hear the result. Invited or not, I think it's a good experience to force oneself to tell the story of your business and be really honest about it.

Good luck to everybody. You all feel like a classmate to me ;-)
Try this for the moment: http://hackerstream.com:5001/
I agree. How can I make selling easier? I can think of many ways to make listings, payment, categorizing easier.

But how to make shipping easier?
Any XHR that a Web app can do, a native app can do as fast or faster.
Engineering Superheroes - greatest of all time?
Your accountant sounds great. Now how would I have known about him?

SaneTax aims to be this marketplace between tax preparers and accountants. It's a good model.

Now, the question that I have is, how are the accountants verified and how do I know I (as a preparer) am dealing with someone I can trust?
I get asked regularly to do web dev work for equity, and that will never happen. It's essentially asking me to do work for free and share risk (yes, payment in the form of equity is like being paid in lotto scratch tickets).

Hired guns may be your only option.

That said, I truly wish you success (and that DC has a supportive community for you).
I've used Arq for about 4 months now and it has been fantastic. Two features in particular are worth noting: 1. The ability to backup a network drive from my local machine. 2. Rapid timecapsule like backups of the most recently used files.
You might want to pitch some distilled form of this summary on your page.

It's also the first question that popped into my head when I looked at your site (which otherwise, is pretty good).
Tanker: integrate IndexTank with your favorite Ruby ORM
pg: Can you add a note to the profile settings page that the email field isn't publicly visible? This still confuses people all the time.
Ask HN: Google crawled our site, and the changes shocked it. We broke up
Fellow HN'ers. I feel like I'm dating Google. Every now and then we go out for dates (crawls), and if I order the wrong meal, wear the wrong shirt - she gets pissed.

My problem is we set up a wiki to sit alongside our site, we thought "great! content! Google's gonna love us". So we set up a Mediawiki installation.

Now I guess Google had us down for a certain set of terms (pre-wiki) - it had learned what we do and was sending us a reasonable amount of traffic.

Now, post-wiki Google thinks our most significant word is "Media wiki" - our traffic has dropped right down to 10% of what it was. Essentially, we confused Google as to what we did.

My question is: now we've removed the wiki link from our site, and added the /wiki directory to the robots.txt - when the crawler comes back, will it effectively reverse the changes? Will Google "forget" the old content?

Anyway, I'm glad we learned this now - and not in 6 months time.

Very much appreciated for any insight/wisdom you guys might be able to offer!
Let's start a "superhero" meme for Engineering hiring. We all know superheroes would crush ninjas and rockstars without lifting a finger :)

But more seriously, I did always find the part of the Superhero origin story where they're also a brilliant engineer to be the most unbelievable - I mean, it's tough to be a good engineer much less having to worry about jumping roof to roof at night, building a superhuman physique and dealing with Lois Lane groupies :)
Their claims were that the efficiency was that great, and that it's acceptable to pay the extra few dollars in motherboard manufacture to build it in.
Interesting! I have a few ideas on some awesome things I could do with a billion CPU hours, though I'm not one hundred percent sure whether I can get a proposal together by the end of May.

The eligibility is a little unclear though... at one point it says "up to 10 distinguished researchers and postdoctoral scholars worldwide", while elsewhere it says "Awardees will participate through Google’s Visiting Faculty Program; faculty members need to have full-time status at an academic institution". So are postdocs invited to apply or not?

edit: Oh, the page could also use some information about memory per node.
Make it so Shift + Click deletes. Problem solved.
I, for one, am glad that Pandora sends at least the gender to the ad servers... it's a little disconcerting to get on Pandora with my wife signed in and see tampon ads.
That's effectively 114200 cores devoted continuously for a year. Not bad. An experiment I work with uses ~600 cores over 85 hosts, although the average load is probably only around 20%, but there's times where it's pegged for a few months.
I'm bootstrapping and using hired guns. They're getting paid by revenue I'm bringing in doing, essentially, product research - ie, consulting in the field we're selling into.

Also may end up in DC due to potential client base - lawyers.
which is unimportant to a large class of apps.