skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fractional reserve banking works, up to a certain multiplier (you can loan out every bitcoin you take in; if you can find people willing to accept "certificates valid for 1 bitcoin", you can loan out as many as you want).
Also, why does every app request permission to write to my Twitter stream, even if it has no business doing that? You're supposed to only read my stream, no?
As it should, if that was the year he put it up. A copyright notice, if you're going to place one, is supposed to have 3 elements (via copyright.gov):

1. The (c) symbol, the word copyright, or the abbreviation "copr."
2. The year of first publication
3. The name of the copyright owner
Update: Bob Cavezza (rcavezza) suggested Face.com on StartupGuild, so I am testing that now. If Face.com doesn't work, I hope to hack Google/Bing related images, or locate images with unique filenames.
Very cool! Unfortunately, most browsers are disabling websockets due to security issues in the websocket protocol itself.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebSockets

Can't wait until they fix this!
It's a good reason to buy the name for a few years at a time. One less thing to screw up.
MLB.tv is the only subscription service (that I'm aware of) that charges for the app as well. And they do it inconsistently.

I paid I think $120-$130, somewhere in that range, for MLB.tv, however I need to pay an additional $15 to get it on my Android phone and an additional $15 to get it on my iPad. However on Roku I pay no additional cost for the app, and on the web I pay no additional cost.

I bought the iPad app because I felt I would be more likely to use it, when laying in bed and such. On the phone I would probably only use it in rare situations and so it's just not worth it for me.

Is any one aware of another subscription that has this type of price model?
Happy Birthday Microsoft
... requiring about 4 trillion sheets:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+to+moon%2Fthic...

... or 2.586 trillion square feet of paper:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+to+moon%2Fthic...

... with a minimum price of $16 billion dollars, not including shipping and handling into space:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+dollars+per+ream+*+1+...,
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/382045718/bulk_paper.html
Vinyl stickers can be used for some serious business purposes
Idsketch.com gives you trendy vinyl stickers for multipurpose uses. We offer you every vinyl sticker in a stylish yet totally functional manner. We offer custom vinyl sticker that is aimed at business marketing and fundraising campaigns
I don't follow. Nothing in there is even remotely grounds for legal action - it can all be verified by pointing to a single example, and even at worst it's opinion and using the most well-known site as an example. And there's no mention of "DMCA" anywhere by Bruce, just by commenters.

Did the content change between your post and my reading? Or are you connecting commenters (ie, Carl Bussjaeger) with Bruce?
Brings back memories of my elementary school days!
Drop-in 12-megapixel sensor for any 35 mm camera
Well, the whole point is that C contains so few abstraction in the first place that most dedicated developers can have a mental model of the mapping between language and machine. There are very few abstractions that don't correlate exactly to machine language in some known way.

C is all about subroutines (functions), jumps (function calls), pointers and quantities that map directly to registers (int, long) — for the most part a fairly thin veneer on top of modern CISC/RISC machine code.

For those abstractions (such as the call stack) that are essentially black boxes, there is the C ABI, which explicitly defines much of the underlying structure.
"SLIDE proved to be diﬃcult because adding additional sweeps to the existing ﬁle began to cause SLIDE to crash."

"In an ideal world an open standard interchange format that allows users to move between diﬀerent modeling packages, leveraging the strengths of each to solve complex design problems, would be available and implemented by all major modeling packages."
That was interesting to read in the article. Having never worked with solid works or Slide, it was nice to be made aware of the issues faced in that field of work.
And the beauty of Google adwords is that you can also tailor landing pages, even the website domains, and the sales funnel to maintain that niche focus. Good luck!
It's always good when there's only 2 steps to get it working and they work perfectly.

Using it over hotel wifi as I'm typing!
Coming from direct QSA experience, you can be liable for CC data if you are collecting, transmitting, or storing the data. Basically any touchpoint in the flow of CC data you're involved in holds you legally liable for PCI-DSS. Kind of like speeding on the freeway... doesn't really matter until you get nailed doing it, and PCI council fines are devastating. I'm glad to discount our product extensively for any bloggers here... https://www.secure128.com/trustwave-trustkeeper-pci-complian...
Just drop me a line to say hello and I'll give you whatever price you feel reasonable.
Anyone else bothered by the fact that TechCrunch just did a post essentially on one tweet?

http://twitter.com/AndyBarton23/status/54973797148803072

edit: don't mean to openly bash TC. I'm just surprised by the lack of content here, a bit.
First off, I like the idea, but there are some noticeable flaws, many which have been brought up.

One interesting one for me, which is more an oversight, is that anyone can make money off of the sale of a link. There is no way to validate that the person posting the link, is the owner of the content. So someone could sell links to a page on HN, Reddit, Techcrunch, etc. at no expense to them.

If this did occur, I think it would cause a quite negative view of Gumroad links, as being scammy. In which case, people would begin to avoid them, reducing their effectiveness as a possible sales medium. Without oversight, as to who is selling a link, this might end up smothering itself out.
Great point, I'd second that. Could even be due to the fact that Google is used to taking money from businesses, not consumers. Amazon and Apple, consumer-focused companies, probably know how to do a better job at getting us to spend our cash from all their other experience.
I guess that depends on whether you define "high concurrency" as ~50 or more like ~5000.

I'm guessing your "half-assed" comment is in reference to some of the sames things David Beazley mentioned in his PyCon talk, but it's worth linking to anyway: http://www.dabeaz.com/GIL/

Basically threads work pretty darn well until you throw some real load at them.
Not saying Libya is a good choice, but "unstable" hardly applies: Wikipedia says Gaddafi was in power for 42 years, "one of the longest-serving rulers in history".
security@megacorp : Hey, we just had a bug report, could I get a copy of the private key for our root domain so I can decrypt it?

webit@megacorp : lawl
3taps Wants to Democratize the Exchange of Data
Along the same vein, Kevin Rose wrote a blog post (http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2011/1/11/cityvilles-viral-growth...) about Facebook games and why they're so popular. He came to the same conclusion that Ian Lurie did: people want to do stuff and then tell everybody about it. And I have to agree with both of them.

I bought Crysis 2 the other day and started playing through the story. For those that don't know, it's your standard FPS with the addition of two superpowers, invisibility and invulnerability. In a nutshell, my classmates and I end up spending quite a bit of time talking about how awesome our last session was, and essentially sharing war stories. And the fact is, we keep going back and playing, as much to finish the game as to have more stories tomorrow and the day after.
Oftentimes "technical co-founder" is a euphemism for an employee willing to work for deferred compensation. In my experience, it says that a "business guy" has an idea but no money, which causes me to doubt the "business" part, or at least infer that the "business" part is in selling the idea to people who will work for free.

Then again, I don't trust founders who won't invest their own money in their idea(s).
I've keep thinking about the design for a solar messager bag for my laptop - I was looking for one online, but they're all naff. So I've been thinking about how I could just make one myself that I would actually take out in public.
Likewise for tugboats. Reversing the direction of a propeller is quicker and causes much less wear than with a transmission.
That's a great idea. You can share interesting results with @WolframFunFacts.
Ask HN: Bootstrapping and accepting payments
All,

I am working on a SAAS project that will be serving small businesses (5-50 employee). I do not want to go the funding route until I have some paying customers and a few product iterations.

I am pretty sure that I will eventually go with braintree for payment processing but I would like to avoid a monthly fee during the first 4 months while I focus on customer acquisition. since this is bootstrapped from my own wallet I would rather spend that money on marketing and customer acquisition.

What would you suggest as an alternative to braintree for the short term?

I know paypal is out there but posts on this board have scared me away from that option. But maybe I should consider them.

Also, do you think customers would be turned off by a manual monthly invoicing via email in the short term? If I where to go this route I would probably allow the first 30 days for free then invoice them for the following month. I would expect that the volume would be pretty low in the first few months so the labor involved may not be a deal breaker.

The manual process would spare me from developing an integrated payment system that would ultimately be replaced.

What are your thought?

Thanks,
Ian
Its a wonderful hack, using image results to compute the orbit of the comet.
Why is "Storage" in there? It does come for free via HTML5 APIs. It has for quite a while. Each extension has its own local storage, cookies (I think), and WebSQL database at its fingertips, even up to a few hundred megs if you request as much. Same with "Read-write user scripts" - those are content scripts, and I've used them in a couple extensions I've hacked out.

The Chrome developers-wiki-thing is at times extremely out-dated (there were incorrect install instructions on one of the main dev-build pages for over a year), and I fear is mostly ignored. Don't trust everything on it.
Think of the BitCoins as something like gold - gold is also a finite resource and gets incrementally more difficult to mine, yet no deflationary spiral has set in (afaik). You can also trade gold and cash in dark channels and evade taxes, but you don't have to.
(a) follows from (c), and (c) is trivial to fix by anonymizing the comments before they are voted on. Way, way, waaay too much fanboyism is going on HN and selected few users get all their comments voted up regardless of the merit. Fix this and the rest will follow.

PS. I'm 3000+ karma, 3+ year HN user posting from public terminal in a hotel, hence the anon account. My apologies.
But plain OpenVPN uses the normal IP routing machinery to send stuff over the VPN, which is even easier.
Apple's selecting people who are willing to pay extra for a better phone experience. You can get Androids (and I'm an android fan here) in 2-for-1 specials and other discounted means.

In some ways, the fact that android has a solid browser makes the iPhone about apps (and the iPod/iTunes platform). People are paying money to buy a phone to use its applications --- you're gonna find a higher percentage of them willing to pay for it.
The grandparent almost certainly means "can I ask why this article is considered interesting without seeing my comment buried at -4".
Our 2011 SXSW experience... by 3 SXSW virgins (figuratively, of course)
Then you would need to do that for every customer individually as I understand the system.
Let me put it to you this way - I haven't even done an incubator yet and I've already received tons of (very generous) help from YC alum. This network is tops and it already motivates me to give back.
Cool, I missed that
April Fools’?
Do you believe papering over the poorly received GUI change by suggesting "anyone have any better ideas?" as a PR exercise is a bold new future in sourcing design work?

To me it looks like fail piled on top of fail.

If Skype manages to get a successful new GUI out of crowdsourcing then your argument might demonstrate some validity.

Your comparison is pretty shite. The RIAA is trying to maintain a cartel of middle-man promotional leverage. A call by designers to designers to not debase your professional leverage by giving your skills away for free is an entirely different kettle of fish.
Oh come on ... the right question is http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ceil%28log2+%28+%28dist... , to which the answer is of course: 42
Can you say more about what you mean when you said they're "share-everything?" I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that, since, for example, we do diesel in what we consider to be a "shared nothing" approach at Bump. Redis is the transport (queuing, pubsub) and the network-bound state, while diesel loops are stateless.

In fact, the higher-level erlang-style stuff that's not released yet really abstracts the idea of queues and consumers to the point where it's not entirely clear or important if particular jobs are within the same process of even the same machine (in practice, they usually aren't).
For any baseball people, from more of a stats angle, both Up and In: The Baseball Prospectus Podcast and FanGraphs Audio are pretty good.
a note from poor european:
there is this desk that i've been salivating at for quite some time, trully love it for the design, saw it in some danish office - they are very popular over there: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Works...
but not quite ready to take the plundge and spend a fortune. on the other hand - im really surprised how expensive these sit/stand desks are - they are no more than couple motors, 2 legs and a table top - why the hefty pricetags...
Where will Larry Page lead Google?
The obvious hole in your chain of reasoning is that "$0.70/bitcoin" would obviously change when every American attempted to fill his wallet with bitcoins.
If you have a discount club membership with Godaddy, and I imagine with 800+ your friend has one, a .com is less than $8, so that's not $9k in fees, but more like $6.2-6.3k.

It would be close to $9k at any other registrar though, so I suspect your friend will end up like many before, including me, learning his lesson but leaving the domains there.
It's up to you!

Take the measurement scripts (download from the Help page), measure programs and publish your measurements.
FTA: "Have you noticed that Apple has started to aggressively advertise iPhone 4 on television again?"

I must have not noticed they weren't?
This is awesome! I personally can't think of a need for the service, but I'm glad to see Bitcoins being used. I don't care how it materializes, but an open source virtual currency needs to flourish.
can I quote you?
I'm aware that people hold your views. I was more curious whether I am right that bitcoin is mostly incompatible with mine.
Worst.Effect.Ever /comicbook guy
Wow - that's fast feedback! On a separate side-note would you be interested in early access to apps for similar sort of reviews / blog postings, or is that inappropriate to ask?
Totally an April fools! These guys to produced it...

http://www.roggeundpott.de/projekte_de/alle-projekte_de/re-3...

http://www.roggeundpott.de/input-output_de/#1652
Is this MLB.com's fault, limitations of Android, or both?
I couldn't agree more, it's not like that all the time, but far too often, the business co-founder isn't really bringing much to the table. Love the summary of your experience and conclusion :)

That said, I think we should be quick to realize that there are perfectly legitimate non-technical founders who add a ton of value. They just aren't guilty of the "looking for free labor" problem.
Because....? Do you have #B33 text on #000 in your nightmares? Has anti-nuclear propaganda has caused you to irrationally fear the "Atom Feed"?
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Something like evhttp also has the benefit that you can have more than one request "in flight". FastCGI can theoretically do this, but almost no implementation supports it - and it makes e.g. writing a simple chat server much easier (one process, one thread, tons of connections, data in memory.)
I'm a little confused. I'm outside USA and I want to browse some restricted content for users located outside of the U.S. Can I do this using Sshttle and a VPS?
Tell HN: My only complaint thus far...
I've loved having found HN. For the most part it's been an invigorating and informative venue to peruse relative to most other places I've visited on the internet. HN is now part of my daily regimen (or read "addiction")<p>I've seen some comment about a waning or stagnation. I lack the historical perspective to do much commenting being, myself, new to the 'hacker' scene.<p>But I can say something generally as to one, at times repelling at others suspect and sometimes both, is an air in some articles of a kind of either forced or false (or both) pretense of authority.<p>Not all have this, and even some that do have something I can take away of value.<p>It seems this kind of element comes from either a need for reputation seeking for outward reputations sake, or it seems tied to plugging, in a round about way, some app or product or start up.<p>I think that if you could somehow get rid of that aspect then all other evolutions to the site would be benign or beneficial.<p>Any decline I see seems born out of either a superficial spirit or an almost exploitative opportunism.
Beads: Realtime Audio for Java
Pure vaporware.
I'd this is for real it would be so awesome. The optics on lot of the old cameras are really great.
Yup.

http://www.zdnet.com/photos/top-5-april-fools-day-photo-pran...
The problem is that each patent can only do a limited amount of damage to each company its used against, so members with larger portfolios would be stretching their defenses thin to cover the weaker companies.

Still, I might like to see a strictly defensive patent pool between equally powerful players.
Just a little nitpicking, when he talks about TunnelVision, he should have said:

And nobody never notified me of any security flaws in my key exchange,

Instead of:

And nobody ever found any security flaws in my key exchange,

Yeah, hell is in the details...

Regarding SSHuttle itself, I really liked it! (coming from someone who does all his browsing with ssh -D)
One other option I have been considering is a manual process using FreshBooks.com. Using the subscription services, I would just have to add the new customers when they joined and remove them when they canceled. It appears from the documentation that it will send an invoice and automatically charge the customers credit card.

From the freshbooks website...

Overview

Managing subscriptions to FreshBooks centers around creating recurring profiles. The same functionality available in the web application found on the Invoice tab under the Recurring subtab is available through the FreshBooks API.

FreshBooks recurring profiles create and send invoices automatically for you so you don’t have to manage them yourself. FreshBooks recurring profiles do some interesting tricks:

* Automatically send recurring invoices monthly, yearly, or as little or often as you would like.
* Automatically charge your client’s credit card whenever you generate an invoice.
* Rack up charges. Add or remove line items from a subscription at any time.
* Send invoices by email or through the post.
Strongly agree that using photoshop for web design is going the way of the dinosaurs. Don't bother learning the wrong skills. Designers who can't code will need to adapt to new tools or (figuratively) die off. Browser-based web design applications are going to be the wave of the future.

My take on the browser-based web design web app (+ css animation)
First prototype: http://editroom.splatcollision.com
HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408173
Stuxnet’s Potential for A Chernobyl-Style Incident at Bushehr
I understand - and I hope that the takeaway of my post wasn't "This is a dumb idea" or anything like that :) I think this idea is fun, and I hope it grows to become a gateway drug to learning proper instruments, a la Rock Band. I just thought that was kind of a silly pitch for that particular page.

Mind you, I'm just a guy on Hacker News, and this is just your Kickstarter video. With any luck, this is merely the beginning of the process, and no one's going to not-buy it because a single tag line on one of the clips might have been better written. Thanks for stopping by to comment though!
The Truth, Still Inconvenient
At the time, I didn't have the ability to create a fan page... and now I don't work at CNET, so now I have random left over fans.

Def not the end of the world.
I'm not seeing this a problem with C, but perhaps I misunderstand. Your goal is avoid including anything executable in the page. The filtered result is only larger than the input if you need the ability to faithfully quote the potentially malicious code. In this particular contrived example, you could "just" strip it out and make it shorter, or even error out if you see anything suspicious.

Which is to say it's only a problem if you are doing it by hand on a per field basis. Which leads to your next point:

> Maybe you can do an arena for each connection, so it's:
> char *hsafe(request_t *r, char *str)
> But that's still sort of painful.

This is only painful if you are doing it by hand every time you use the parameter. If the framework handles it for you, so that you always get the sanitized result, it strikes me as no different than any other language.

r->param("input"); // presanitized, lazily created, pooled in r

r->param_raw("input"); // if you want to live dangerously

Why is this worse in straight C than in something like Python that is doing the same thing but with an interpreted layer between you and the C?
How To Run Effective Company Meetings At Your Startup
Suggestion: you should now build a second app which generates a stream of single-use urls that are invalidated as soon as they are accessed, and which proxy through to an original base url. Then hook the two apps together and profit.
Understanding Patent Lawsuits: Why Google Bid $900m on Nortel's Carrion
All traffic will come from the machine that you are SSH'd into.
I might be interested, depending on the editorial quality of the summary. Though honestly, I might still come directly to Hacker News specifically for those stories that fly under the radar.

I've noticed that the goals of a startup-oriented aggregator do not always intersect my interests. I think cherry-picking out of the broader feed would only decrease the total number of items to read, but not necessarily improve the signal. The target audience (entrepreneurs, investors, startups) may benefit greatly; I don't know.

It's difficult to get a feel for how this works without some visible examples, though.
Why does this have to be an April Fools joke?! I'd buy one of these in a heartbeat.
A little off-topic, but you sound familiar with libevent.

I've never used either but I'm looking at gevent for a project, and I noticed that they switched to libev: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html ... do you know what "limitations and bugs" in libevent they speak of? I poked through the mailing list for libev and couldn't find anything specific.