skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Sorry, this is exactly why HN sucks.
Am I not even allowed to criticize you or ask questions?
We are running a "startup" which is not a success nor a failure. This is the worst because we are not dead, but neither are we quite alive either;

We have a (fairly well known) product, but with only 263 customers acquired over 2 years. It brings in about $6,500 per month. The income does not increase much from month to month, but seems relative stable. We are two people working on this and the small income reduces this to more or less a hobby project.

So to keep with the analogy, I guess you could call us a zombie startup.

I realize that there are to few data points, but I would love to learn if others have been in the same situation and what they have done.
The Connectivity Wave Needs Entrepreneur Leaders
Rogers users up here in Canada-land are having the same problem as Comcast users. I have no direct TPB access right now.
I thought it was just more regular TPB downtime except this time it's continued for several days.
Looks very promising, best of luck to Prof. Odersky in this new venture.
There is nothing to indicate definitively what you state.
I wonder if that affects Germany as well. For all I know EPlus, one of big three providers here (with T-Mobile/Vodafone) is part of the KPN group. It will be interesting to see if this is a trend that propagates..
Sorry, this was mis-leading... I was actually talking about the German GEMA rules and only used the BBC website as an example for "license fee" since I am not sure this is the correct translation for what the German GEMA and that "tax on radio and tv" is all about and I doubt anything like that exists in the USA.
I would think its fairly uncommon, though certainly not impossible, for someone with no knowledge of programming or web development to learn while building their product.

With that said its not necessarily a bad idea in theory. You'll probably find there's more movement the other way; developers building products and then trying to make a business out of them (I fit into this category myself). But I think it would actually be quite refreshing to see a few non-technical founders try to build their own stuff. It would certainly be useful to have more business oriented folks that understand more about the technologies used in their products.
Clearly we should lower the retirement age so poor people can benefit more equally with rich people.
Older article and discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2092081
Assuming this is really an attempt to block user's access to .torrent-files then it is a futile one. There are many other Torrent trackers serving the same files (or at least files that point to the same files), technical means to circumvent such blocks and, last but not least, many other ways to get the same material without using BitTorrent.

I feel like Captain Obvious writing this, but apparently it's not clear to those advocating and implementing such measures.

However, there's always a chance that some legislation exists that allows to block access to sites very quickly upon complaints from allegedly discriminated parties. Not being from the US I don't really know, but it seems to be that that would be a worrying sign of an upcoming culture of information censorship.

And if it is, then I wonder if there are representatives in the country that would defend the Internet user's rights. Perhaps I am totally misinformed, but from what I've read it would be hard to find a politician in the USA that is not endorsed by one big company or another. If that is so, can one expect their help on behalf of the people?
This is the most frustrating part of the whole debacle. Sure - whoever hacked PSN carries blame, but an equal amount of blame lies directly on Sony's shoulders for not putting adequate protections in place.
Simple CSS Layout Tip: Use a "debug" class
A good litmus test for knowing whether to post a comment on HN: is it useful?

If it is merely funny, trolling, or otherwise flippant, there are many other sites where such posts are at least tacitly encouraged.
> It's hard for them to touch: the existing currency laws certainly don't apply. The more-likely scenario of them becoming stores of value and/or securities (legally speaking) gives them little room for enforcement as there is no central issuing party to go after.

The lack of a central issuing party isn't a problem - they can go after any point that converts them to get "real money" or provides goods subject to control.

Physical goods are a subset of the latter.

If you can't buy food or pay rent with Bitcoin, how much can it catch on?
$45,000 algorithmic contest
I would like to point you to Patrick McKenzie's blog:http://www.kalzumeus.com/2008/03/02/my-experience-with-outso...

Main points:

1. Get ready to be flooded by a bunch of low-quality, copy/paste proposals on the freelancer. Ignore them, and focus on finding the diamonds in the dust.

2. The more specific your proposal is, the better informed your designer will be and the more likely you’ll attract a quality designer (who, naturally, want quality clients). Gursimran commented that I was one of the best clients she ever worked with, and she is certainly the best designer I’ve ever worked with, which is sincere praise even with a sample size of 1.

3. English is funny sometimes. Examples you can point to sometimes help a lot more than our limited design vocabulary, especially when you’re an engineer and your design vocabulary contains only the words "pretty" and "not pretty".

4. For God’s sake, look at the portfolio before accepting a bid. You might not get designs as stunning as the portfolio, but you certainly aren’t going to get better, and about 50% of portfolios disqualify designers straightaway.
Accoustic weapon in JavaScript
Because it can. This is undefined behavior we are talking about.
I don't see the lesson - nothing is offered to help distinguish the walking dead from the wounded warriors. Sure, if we all had a crystal ball we'd stop fruitless pursuits lots quicker. So what?
The springsource of scala?
You can also use Facebook Comments with a Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail account. But not - notice - a Google account.
PuTTY seems to be the most common.

[edit] Oh, wait, I guess you mean for a local terminal? I'm far too ignorant about Windows to know why a Windows user would even want a local terminal. All the Windows users I polled just log into Linux machines and do their work there.
What the Sony PlayStation Network Attack Can Teach Us About Database Security?
In every great product, there’s a little bit of magic
> Then everyone has an interest in generally reducing smoking and bettering diets.

In what country do folks say "I better not do {whatever} because it will result in higher health care costs for me paid by others?"

Even if there are such countries, do you expect to find many such people in the US?

Reminder - it doesn't matter what works/doesn't work in other countries. What matters as far as the US is concerned is what works here.
A missed revenue opportunity?

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/118348/
> I now have an excellent example to share in the future

Your comment intuitively seems correct, and I'm inclined to agree with you. But I can't help but wonder if you just end up picking examples that support this claim. Most examples of corporate wrong-doing probably can't be correlated with traits of their CEO (they're just mistakes made by inept, or possibly malicious, individuals or groups).

Statistically, some percentage of corporate wrong-doing will correlate to some event in the CEO's past. I'm not sure that necessarily means that we can point to those cases as proof that a fish rots from the head.
Tim Berners-Lee and the Toilet Paper Protocol
Vente-Privee And AmEx Team Up To Bring The European Flash Sales Site To The U.S.
Dilbert : Paywalls
Who are considering becoming certified?
Web Chat Client written in RPG and JavaScript
The article behind the site can be found here: http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/rpg/Gabby,-Come-Chat-With-Me/
I'm on Cox and it's working for me...
Wikileaks cables show race to carve up Arctic
Which loses somewhere between $60-100B to fraud each year AND is more likely to deny coverage than private. (Since the "top execs salaries and profits" of private are <$10B/year ....) Oh, and MDs tend to abandon Medicare when given the choice.

But, Medicare can physically cut a check for almost nothing.
Ask HN: riak/luwak vs openstack swift for private S3 clone?
Hello,
what is the best choice for a private cloud storage between openstack's swift and a riak/luwak solution?
The purpose of the storage is long term archiving of files (1MB - 500MB), what would you choose and why?
Chromebooks are ideal for Startups
Lovely!

I think it would be improved by having a cleverer colour-based sorting algorithm. At the moment, you choose one parameter (H, S or V) to sort by, and the others have no effect at all, and it looks a bit too random.

Here's one toy example of what I think is a more natural-looking order of colours: http://i.imgur.com/xjh97.png (I took red<<1, green<<2 and blue, and interleaved their bits). Better still might be to sort by position along a Hilbert-curve traversal of the RGB cube or HSL space or something, but I couldn't work out how to do that in 5 minutes so didn't bother :-).
From what I've heard from the company, the merchandizing for the fashion business has been under pressure for quite some time. Their early growth was mostly limited by having goods on hand. Now the lack of product distinction and lower margins are making it a tricky business to run.

Personally, it was a great concept that's been successful many times, but I do find this valuation a bit too close to something like "round up to the nearest billion" to make sense. Further, they've wasted a lot of time lining up their technology to make the new product sites work well and internationally (i.e. serving up in Japan was a mess organizationally). It's quite silly to see them posture like this but I guess it comes with their ridiculous attitude over there.
No explanation for 'outbreak of insanity' on planes
All of our core services are being built in scala at bookish http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Bookish-Wants-to-...
Interesting. Have you done a comparison test against Coopr?

https://software.sandia.gov/trac/coopr

Also were you using the glpk solver with CVXOPT on cpython? I find it hard to believe setting up the problem alone added nearly 20 minutes.
Are you the Oatmeal Guy by any chance:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website
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Agreed. I don't think there are any meaningful conclusions that can be drawn from that graph as it is.
It looks like you've used latex for this, would you mind sharing the template? It looks fantastic!
New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple supplied...
Heck - I'd pay that for BBC Formula 1 coverage alone!
Very cool. The art style reminded me very much of the original Final Fantasy Tactics for PSX, so I was inclined to watch the whole video.

Question: does it animate the current frame you are on and then shows a zoomed out version of it? It showed it as such on the video and thought it was kind of interesting.

I'm not sure I quite enjoy that style (would rather it animate and just let me move around the frame after) but I can see why you'd do it.

Looking forward to more updates!
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Intrinsic value is alot more complex than it seems.

Many people attributed the skyrocketing price of silver as testimony to the declining value of the currency, etc. That's partially true, but the events of the last few weeks have established that about 25% of silver's valuation was linked to the ability to buy it on margin. Tighten the margin, and speculative demand vaporizes.

The difference between, say BitCoin and the Euro is that there isn't a mature market to establish the value of BitCoin. What there is a small amount of demand and a small number of people who control lots of BitCoin.
I'm on Time Warner in California, and I'm not able to access the site either. Likely some other issue.
While it looks like Ubuntu is throwing caution in the wind in many respects, I like that this is bringing attention to overlooked projects and attempting to clean up some old messes.
Have the scientists published how much antimatter is being produced?

With anti-matter being so exorbitantly expensive to produce, it might even be worthwhile to design a special purpose high-altitude plane with a magnetic scoop to harvest the antimatter!
The volatility that makes bitcoins so attractive to speculators makes them a nightmare for merchants.

Well, not necessarily. You set the cost of your products to a price in dollars multiplied by the current Mt. Gox exchange rate. You could then immediately exchange your Bitcoins for dollars upon receipt of payment. Mt. Gox has an API for getting the current buy rate, and for placing a sell order, so this wouldn't be hard to automate.

The only problem with this is that getting dollars out of Mt. Gox involves messing about with Liberty Reserve.
con·cept/ˈkänsept/Noun (Wikipedia)

1. An abstract idea; a general notion.

2. A plan or intention; a conception

Brockman clearly means the first definition.

The question is surprisingly deep. I believe "evolution" qualifies. So does do concepts such as "simulation", "iteration", "recursion", "self-similarity", "causality", "continuity", "entanglement", "null hypothesis", and so forth. Is there any concept in the scientific community which has not yet moved into the world of everyman? Sadly, I suspect that most people don't worry much about concepts and the impact they may have on their world view. Still, conceptual nomenclature leaks into everyday language. Computer terms of art ("interate", for example) are now in common use.
Raise Your Sales Team's Competitive IQ
Good Introduction of OpenStreetMap for Web Developers
That was exactly my first thought when they announced Chrome OS over a year ago. The costs should be a lot smaller for a startup with a bunch of employees.
"things like "I am real", actually put me and probably other professionals off from your post."

I suspect the poster's goal was to easily identify those responders who didn't even bother to read the posting (or those posters who were machines!). Is there a less offensive way he could have obtained this information?
I'm going to lean towards swift, but then again, I'm a core dev for swift and I haven't played with riak/luwak.

Swift is ideal for storing static content (backups, web resources, documents). It's designed to be very scalable (both with concurrency and with total storage space). And it's designed to work with commodity hardware (read: cheap), so it handles failures well (ensuring that data is replicated and safe from bit rot). Also, swift has basic S3 compatibility support.

Please let me know if you have other, more specific questions, and I'll try to answer to the best I can.
An IP maximalist explains and defends the U.S. patent system
Cisco warns of weak Q4, shares reverse course 
CEO John Chambers -- who admitted the Silicon Valley bellwether had lost its way -- told analysts on a conference call the current quarter will continue to show weakness as his restructuring effort chugs on.
Shares of the world's biggest networking equipment maker jumped more than 4 percent before they reversed and headed into negative territory in after-hours trade.
"You don't know. The computer may levitate." is what they used to say in my C course at the uni.
The evolution of VC disclosure
Maybe the broadband have-nots are lucky, according to this drug abuse study
The week would not be complete w/o a Linus rant.
To tell you the truth, I don't know of any other good sites that have stuck it out. Is there some resource for this? At one time Mininova et. al. were viable, if not superior, alternatives, but if I recall, several of these sites went offline or legit late 2008.
There's this patch from the linux-kernel:

- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/17/187

- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...

I've put a gist file demonstrating the problem: https://gist.github.com/968723

#include <stdio.h>

struct agnx_priv {
char demo;
};

struct ieee80211_hw {
struct agnx_priv *priv;
};

struct pci_dev {
struct ieee80211_hw* dev;
};

struct ieee80211_hw* pci_get_drvdata(struct pci_dev *pdev) {

if(!pdev)
return NULL;

return pdev->dev;
}

static void agnx_pci_remove (struct pci_dev *pdev)
{
struct ieee80211_hw *dev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct agnx_priv *priv = dev->priv;

if (!dev) return;

// This will segfault if the previous if is optimized
printf("%c\n", priv->demo);
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
// (struct pci_dev *)argv[1] is just to avoid compiler optimisations
// =~ NULL if no args are passed.
struct pci_dev * pdev = (struct pci_dev *)argv[1];

agnx_pci_remove(pdev);
return 0;
}

Compile with:

gcc -O2 -ggdb -Wall -Wundef -fno-strict-aliasing \
-fno-common -fdelete-null-pointer-checks test-deref.c \
-o test-deref

and

gcc -O2 -ggdb -Wall -Wundef -fno-strict-aliasing \
-fno-common -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks test-deref.c \
-o test-deref
Confirmed. I'm on Comcast in MA and it's not loading for me.
Us too! http://www.connexity.com/jobs-software-engineer.php Really excited about seeing this stack thrive.
Well yeah sure, by asking pertinent questions about the project or how i "might" solve X. What technology might be good for X etc? In my opinion it gets a conversation going, which might be a better way of judging someones worth(goes both ways).

Posting "I am real" looks more like a test for "i'm smarter than a 5th grader"? But other freelancers might differ on this.
What you have there may not actually be a "zombie startup"; projects like yours were once known as "businesses", although that's a term that's fallen out of favor in the last internet-decade ("calendar year") on post-modern journalist hubs like TechCrunch and community forums like HackerNews.

I quickly went over to my "bookshelves" and dusted off some ancient collections of business knowledge, and it seems that, prior to the current internet-decade, the classical advice was to simply continue operating, looking for slow, steady growth, and enjoy having your own "business" rather than working for someone else. Clearly, this sort of advice isn't valid anymore; if a startup doesn't lead to a $100 million dollar exit in 3 years, then it has failed and just doesn't know it yet. I think most startups would advise you to abandon your customers and build a social network, as those seem to have good odds these days of leading to success ($100m in 3 years).

(...with tongue firmly in cheek. :-) )
ITRC: Hackers are Winning the Battle of the Breach
I used to do this before I discovered web-developer tools for FF (FF version 1, possibly about v0.8, can't recall), then I found firebug, don't think I'll go back.

Once I made a topology presenter bookmarklet that would break a site down into grey blocks with body text removed, that was handy back in the day too.
Entrepreneur Twitter Drama Highlights Price of Speaking Freely
Carbonite (online backup) proposes IPO
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The knowledge that he's as smart as my ten year-old who figured out the same thing?
Why Akka?
"We’ve built a very simple application on our labs website where you can listen to music and help us improve the state of the art in tempo estimation."

No. We are giving you data that you use to improve your tempo estimation algorithm. If you wanted to improve the state of the art, you would share the data you collect.

In particular, you note the MIREX competition (http://www.music-ir.org/mirex) earlier in your post. Share your data with the MIREX competition, and make it open for use by others, if you want to improve the state of the art.
I find it incredibly ironic that they have called the company Typesafe when type-safety is something Scala definitely does not have.
most likely they will lover the quality of product while keeping same low price. in other words, cheap garbage for little money.
Yeah, this thing was miserably devoid of any content -- just some new names for the same ol' thing, driving traffic to some dude's blog to collect some internet fame (and a little money for the ads that my browser doesn't display).

And I fell for it. Phooey. Guess this means I should get to work this morning.
Government wasting nearly $1 billion a year on tutoring
Pay the man.
Did Google promise to send you one? Or did you fill out a questionnaire in the hopes of them sending you one?
Did you try setting load-users=false under [UserManager] in /etc/lightdm.conf?
So, Why Does Chrome Have A Touch Interface?
Assessing the Emotional Impact of an Important Political Speech
Actually I've used and modified a friend's template (
mickeyben ), so I think he should take all the credits for it.

He will publish it on Github this weekend, I will share you the link as soon as he publish it.
Awesome news... well done! Also, there's a related story on Forbes: http://onforb.es/leOr7s from this morning.
Yes, it's "stealing" something that has zero marginal cost and is not for sale. I think the world has more important problems than this, for instance, teaching ants to respect traffic rules ;-)
agree. lookup any "deals" sites stats - cheapstingy, slickdeals, even groupon is getting less and less uniques... whether the economy is really recovering, or even worse its sucking people up so hard that they simply stop buying even cheap stuff they can't afford anymore!
I'm from germany too and I don't mind spending money on movies, TV shows and music at all. However my requirements are that the film is in english and music is lossless. Turns out you need a lot of patience if you don't want to use bittorrent.
I'm sorry but waiting for the international bluray release is not an option - i probably forgot about the movie by the time. Lossless audio stores with a good selection are even harder to find - I ran across several albums that "weren't available in your country". Really? Do you really want me to turn to my what.cd account? This is by far the most convenient "music store" and that fact should be a shame to the music industry. Recently i noticed a french store named Qobuz, with a great selection of formats (flac, alac, aiff, 24 or 16 bit) and music (indie and popular) - Unfortunately they are not allowed to sell any album in any country either, but you might get lucky there. And those are just stores that sell music - Don't get me started on streaming and locker solutions.
So please, dear content industry, as long as a private torrent tracker run by a handful of enthusiasts is, in terms of selection, audio quality, compatibility, availability and even catalog management or recommandations, a better experience than official and legit stores, don't complain to me about piracy.
Say what? Scala is statically typed, and does some awesome type inference so that you don't have to declare your type every place you declare a variable. It may look dynamically typed, but its not (http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ch12.html).
Kinda interesting looking, but why? What's the point? I hate to be the guy who says "I don't get it," but...I don't get it.
Test in IE 7+. Tack on http://ie6update.com/ Call it a day. We've done this with clients in healthcare, construction, accounting, etc. and all have been pleased.
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