skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't block the Robots, so you don't get delisted by Google for using the service. That'd be a big difference.
Good question! I have actually considered doing so! I haven't taken an in-depth look at to how their add-on platform works but it's on my short-term to-do list.

Would be nice to get an even more "plug-and-play" feel. Though, thankfully setting it up manually isn't hard at all, but it is indeed a nice touch to create an add-on for it.
I think the idea would be to have a global index of sites that sites use to mirror their data for searching.

This database would normally only accessible by search engines and the sites themselves could then disallow direct bot search in their robots.txt.

It occurs to me that this might have to be "invite only" - Google invites the sites they trust to put their data there but if they catch someone "cheating" in one way or another, they stop indexing. Plus they wouldn't have to invite really small sites.
If you're staring at it for 10 hours a day, I think it's fine to want to like it.
In regards to Flytivity (introduce people to each other at airports):

PG:You don’t know where people are going unless you expect them to tell you all the time. You have to find a subset of people who super-want to talk to one another. Enough to seek out and sign up for something they aren’t using. If I were you i’d stat over. You’ve spent 60 days on this. Plenty of companies start over after 60 days. The very best startups solve problems that founders themselves have. What is the worst problem in my life.

First idea that popped into my head: frequent fliers who like to sleep around and/or cheat on their spouses. If you're always on the go, away from home (for better or worse), an app connecting like-minded people easily might have a viable group of customers. Basically, a mobile/geo version of AdultFriendFinder.com. Want to share a hotel room to fool around in, and save some money by doubling up? Stranded out of town with nothing to do? Etc...

People will go out of their way for sex, including logging into an app and planning ahead. The question is, how big is the customer base, and what are they willing to pay? Do you end up with too many men and not enough women? Perhaps it's different between W4M, M4W, M4M, W4W.
You might start with putting a link here.

The advice will proably be a combination of online marketing strategies out there. CPC, SEO, viral loops, what not...Some will work better than others, some will work quicker, some slower.

It's relly hard to give further advice without knowing details.
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Ah, yes. You can also rotate the 8-fold solution by 22.5 degrees for another solution.
Well, looks like it just officially became a "real" trojan. On that note, turn off "automatically open safe files" in Safari, and use Chrome or Firefox instead anyway.
Create something that makes people so happy they will tell their friends about it.
Yeah, watching in Chrome, but it hangs a lot trying to resume from pause.
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It's all about karma here. People have set up scripts to automatically submit blog posts by more highly-regarded members.
Definitely. The open source solution is fine in some cases. Though because it does post-create api calls it tends to be slow. Something I had not thought about prior to developing it, ironically. :)
Hmm. Don't think so.
I only knew 2 my age that defended copyright. And they were 2 brothers.

The reason they gave was that it was against the Bible to steal, and it was stealing. They were your standard crazed Jesus-freaks that are found every so often.

After their hundredth time telling X person they were going to hell for not believing the same exact way they did, everybody ignored them.
> […]much more expensive than established services like Akamai (seriously, talk to them[…])

Therein lies the problem, most sites are in the long tail (blogs, personal websites, weekend web app projects) and it really doesn't make sense to go talking to a CDN; this is where CloudFront excels.
Is this meant to be for mobile devices only? You can start with getting your usability right. A narrow column of content on a blank screen is not ideal for consuming the said content.
> a version of Java that had local type inference and a lighter syntax for instantiating anonymous classes

Isn't this ... Scala?

Sure, it has a lot more too, but there's zero obligation to use every single feature.
If the demand is high enough I may incorporate such functionality in HireFire. There used to be another service but they have been down for I think a couple of months.

If you feel this is an important feature, please submit it to the forums. I'll definitely keep it in mind and see what the possibilities are for also handling Dyno's!
Right. As I said, I'm weak in math.
Clickable:
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Humans use lossy compression.
On that line, by far the most intriguing and fascinating structure or relic from ancient human history is the site at Göbekli Tepe[1], in modern day Turkey. Shakes up pretty much every theory and timeline we have constructed on how humans probably developed over time and is much too early to fit in anywhere.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
"a $200 cell phone can record higher quality video for a longer period of time than a $15,000 professional camera and $40,000 worth of film could 15 years ago"

Definitely untrue. Consider just the lens.
This first guy is brutally bad @ explaining what he does - jfc - learn how to explain wtf you do and stop saying pivot. Nervous much?
Can you elaborate on what he meant by 'imitation gene'?
Thanks a lot for the link. I've started to read Pro Puppet by the same guy.
"Index" is the wrong word. He's not calling for Google to open up their index, but rather open their webcache.
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First idea for me was Foursquare that people send out via twitter. You literally get a consistently named location. Do twitter searches on those names. Then @reply them telling them that they should check flytivity.

Mentioning user checkin counts and or active users in the airport would prompt interest. If people are comfortable with creating their own profiles that are publicly available you can then scan to see if someone's in your line of work or interests.

Bonus points if you could create groups so that people coagulate and increase the comfort of meeting people knowing that everyone is a stranger and it buffers you from weirdos as it's more likely some people are normal/interesting/cool.

Just my two cents.
Skip the first few minutes of choosing companies, and go straight to the office hours.
Aside I've had chance to read teh article and there was no mention of taking near-IR images at day and night. So presumably it's my language use that's getting me heavily downmodded?

Actually I think you were downmodded for not reading the article and then asking a question that could have been answered by reading the article.
Half a year ago I built Encode as a part of November Startup Sprint (that many of HNers participated in). Since then, based on a feedback I got, I tried to increase the "convenience value" (ie. why would you pay for it instead of using a free tool such as Handbrake).

Several people mentioned DropBox integration, so here it is. You just share a folder with Encode, and any video file copied to it will be converted.

So far feedback from friends has been very positive, but you know what friends are like - so I would welcome harsh, constructive criticism :-)
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I must agree.

The thing is that we don't want to put MS into a "give us features" release mode, so they will only ship new OS with new features, not with real under-the-hood improvements.

However that is the fundamental flaw in the MS model: User's don't give a shit. Why is it that my Windows 7 is already out-dated when Windows 8 is exactly the same??? Yet this is where MS makes it's money, and this is where it fails. OSX users are used to dropping a few dollars (30?) for their shiny macs to get a nice upgrade, which might not be so major.
Entrepreneurs tend to underestimate how many brilliant low-payed people work in universities, and how rewarding it is to work with such people. Plus the job of a lucky researcher is just as a appealing as an entrepreneur. As long as you don't get trapped in their respective bubbles, both worlds are exciting. Statistically though, i bet i could find more happy researchers than happy entrepreneurs.
Not sure if this is still the case, but at one point you had to pay $1 a month for that privilege of having an unlisted number. Crazy!
So instead of locking one mutex to access a resource, you're locking N, so you're N times more likely to have mutex contention. Better let N=1.
>creaky and painful to upgrade—or even to find someone else to work on

What do you mean by maintenance, if not that?
Until there's evidence of abuse, why do "regulations need to catch up to Uber, fast"? (Unless by 'catch up to' you mean 'legalize unconditionally'.)

Perhaps smartphone-dispatching, sticky reputations, and non-cash payments solve all the safety and 'consumer protection' issues better than the corrupt, captured, regulatory-commission system. That regulatory system, despite decades (or centuries!) of head-start, has resulted in a situation where "cabs are not well regulated now".
Imagine if online became offline relationships??
Your "more available" point is so important to me that I'm willing to pay Uber prices for regular cabs if they can make that happen. I've used Taxi Magic and called in the past and never had much success in terms of reliability, and well, I'm not one for standing around for 15 minutes on a street like Market or Van Ness trying to flag down a cab. Which I have done in the past, and I'm tired of doing it. I want to give cab drivers my money, but apparently they don't want it.

About the only time I've found myself in a cab in a timely manner is with the taxi zones at SFO. That happens to be pretty much the only time I ever get a non-Uber ride too.
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This article claims that self-control is related to glucose levels:

http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/dogs-offer-clues-to-self...
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I've got filters set up to organize in Outlook by Category, and manually flag items based on priority. I've found that cross-referencing For Follow Up flags by Category is the best way to keep emails from falling through the cracks. For everything else, there's Xobni.

I only use folders for stuff like serve emails.

For my personal mail, I'm generally happy with my options in Gmail.
That's quite possible, but in that case an open index would be even more useless since Google would just have to duplicate it internally anyway.
If its so awesome why didn't you mention it? You have to promote it, and you don't always need money.

The eat your own dogfood axiom is a good method for starting out. Post about your app on places where it is relevant, how it has helped bring about alignment of the planets and increased your bowling scores, etc. If it is highly interactive and fun to use or watch it being used, make a youtube video on "Get Ninja (insert category of app) Skillz With Easy App X"

If it is crowd sourced thing maybe run a contest to gather content/interest, don't have to blow ten grand on it, only a few hundred and some well placed shout-outs about the contest.

I myself like to look at videos and screenshots of apps (ohhh... shiny stuff!) You have a site with screenshots??
There are many companies doing this for bulk email sending like sendgrid, mailjet, mailchimp etc. but no one is doing it for hosting emails with bulk pricing.
Try Floss Weekly #11 for a similar talk:

http://twit.tv/floss11
Yep - just looked in my account. Usually +/- 1 though. Have you seen bigger variations?
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it sounds like heaps of people are trying to do very similar things.. just this week I've been hacking on a rails engine/plugin that lets you define your models with mongo_mapper and then request them as json schema. It's not quite complete but json schema gives you interfaces for your restful apis..
Never noticed the Github 404 page until now. Clever.

https://github.com/eveonline/eveonline
With the erosion in Windows' market share and the increased use of Macs, it was a matter of time before Macs became a target for malware. Based on what happened with Windows and its base of "gullible" users, can't say that one couldn't see this coming. Apple will have to take a close look at securing the desktop against threats that play on their users's lack of sophistication when it comes to computers. It will be interesting to see whether they choose to go the Windows way with more warning boxes and lower ease of use, or find a different way.
How do you get indexed, then? because I can't see how this solves anything.

Isn't the proposal clear enough?

1. Optimize the indexing process so that we avoid each search engine crawling independently every site.

2. Devise a method to refresh the index when the content changes (hash, date...)

Seems resonable enough, to me.
IntoNow seems pretty successful.
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Yes, it would be fair to assume that index optimization is also part of the Secret Sauce, unless you store the raw data. Storing the raw data also requires Secret Sauce like Google FIle System, and you'll end up with the sarcastic comment above that the Internet is the raw data and we're back at square one.
Exactly, which is why thematt is more likely to hire the guy who's been hacking away for two years than the guy who's been traveling for two years ceteris paribus.
Why not just add another ~5% if paying by card? Solution seems easy enough.
You can't be that weak at what I call math, although your experiences with math education might be unhappy ones. You have found more solutions than I first found - that can't be bad.

Half my life is spent helping people discover that they're good at "proper math" even when they think they're bad at "school math."
This is why I'm happy that Android has some interesting password entry mechanisms that only exist for the iPhone in the jailbreak arena.

Apple really needs to embrace a non-PIN style password and make a way to login that's not a pain in the ass. A friend has an iPhone with a 9-character pass.. it's secure but impossible to use since it takes about 10 seconds to unlock each time... if the user can't be bothered to put a master password because it's not usable to do so, then it almost doesn't matter if there's hardware encryption anyway.

Compared with Google, Apple's views on security are weak. It's like comparing Google's "customer support" to Apple's... demonstrably weaker.
How does this technology work? I'd think it would have to have a huge cache of video to make this work.

Update: I checked IntoNow and this is what they say:

"IntoNow, which is based our patented platform SoundPrint, analyzes the ambient audio being generated from your television in three-second increments. The audio is then converted into a “fingerprint”—basically, the show’s unique signature for ID—that is matched on the back-end to our reference set (which covers 130 channels of live broadcasting and has more than five years history). Once we make a match, we return all the metadata associated with that show and episode—things like title, description, cast, and associate links. This all happens in seconds."

So it actually uses the audio, which is much better, although I watch a lot of TV with CC in bed.
Well, they own the crawler and the index, they will know, what to do...
My favourite font for coding, that which I use everywhere I can, is monofur.
Reading it is like visual candy.

It also looks really good on Linux - the AA seems to work out quite well.

Edit for hey, reading the article that mentions monofur is a good idea too. :)
Trying out Consolas with iTerm2. Wish it was a little more easily portable.
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If you're in Boston, Maine is pretty close. If you want a good winter hike, the top of the Appalachian Trail is Mt Katahdin, about 100 miles north of Bangor ME.
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>> And finally a caveat. There are an incredibly small number of people on this earth who do seem to be able to see around 2 corners repeatedly. You should go to them for concept advice as much as you possibly can. Paul Graham of Y Combinator is certainly one of them.

couldn't resist, could you?
thats like saying about a 2 time lottery winner (there are a few) that they are exceptions and somehow they might get it right the next time. your argument, that it is not predictable, falls flat by your very last statement (except if you are gifted)
thats like saying gravity works excepts when you are a Houdini or something.
Perhaps levering Copyright enforcement programs/databases?
Oh. Good call.
>But, language rant aside, even if Scala were the cat's meow, >you still have to include the Scala base libraries with every >app. Proguard may help, but it seems wasteful.

As someone who is using scala for 2 android apps one small and another smaller, Proguard does more than maybe help, it shrinks it to a small size. From the Scala for Android page:

AndroidForScala includes a treeshaker (proguard) that removes all the parts of the android-scala library that you don't use. For a simple "hello world" the scala library takes up about 10kb, and for a larger real world app (500kb), the library takes up more like 25kb.
They could explain themselves as sort of a Shazam for TV.
http://www.shazam.com/music/web/iphone.html
Correct, although Apple does provide an API to use the hardware encryption. Most apps do NOT use it.

If you're paranoid, you can make most data reasonably secure by using the built-in apps and apps like StashPro (which does use the hardware crypto API). This includes putting a decent length password, which is also hard to use.

Full-device encryption backed by hardware would be really great. IIRC, that's not possible on either iOS or Android right now (not sure about other platforms).
Yea, many of this I am well aware of already. In fact, I have a series on artificial scarcity and it's problems. The problem is how to get the media companies to finally change and fix the problem completely. Doing the debugging to find out exactly what is happening internally would be a good idea.
It seems clear to people who know the jargon :)
The original author responded to my comment above with the link http://blog.zx2c4.com/605#comment-5889, which is to a comment that claims that PKZIPFIX does the same thing. Unfortunately it's been [dead]ed.
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In regards to Vidappy (and I hope they're listening): These founders seriously need to examine and address the legal issues associated with this idea. If your target clients are big-name companies, particularly if actual candidate skills are less relevant, there are serious Equal Employment Opportunity issues to resolve. This whole idea is a giant class-action lawsuit waiting to happen.

I take this issue very seriously because I just took some MBA classes regarding human resources. At a very basic level, this idea is designed to let potential employers prejudice potential hires. Job candidates are legally protected from this specific idea in the same way they're protected from job application questions like race, age, nationality, and other questions that are not directly job-related. In so many words, if the candidate is qualified for the job, the hiring manager doesn't legally get a choice as to whether he likes the way the candidate looks.
Has anyone ever tried to hack this by claiming the unemployed time was "spending the last N months working on various startups or co-founder searches" which unfortunately failed for reasons X,Y,Z?
It's worth noting that www.typesafe.com is now supporting the Eclipse plugin commercially as well. Both the IntelliJ and Eclipse plugins have made huge advances in the last year.
Talk with people about it.
So you would be OK with crediting our coin flipper if the coin had a 60/40 bias? It was his consistent skill in picking the 60% side that made him 1000x richer?
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i don't know what rates you consider reasonable, but there are plenty of services that do it. rackspace and fastmail are two off the top of my head. I consider them far too expensive for myself though.
You absolutely need proguard since the Scala library is several megs in size, and will likely grow bigger when specialization goes everywhere.
Looks like we're not detecting t-mobile users in the USA properly, gonna fix that up...
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Should point to: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/traitorous-eight-feted-as-c... instead.
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Since any user can install software in the Applications folder, a password is not needed," Intego wrote on its blog.

Any admin user. Yet another reason to setup a separate admin user and make your daily account non-admin.

edit - the original blog post has it correct:

Since any user with an administrator’s account – the default if there is just one user on a Mac – can install software in the Applications folder, a password is not needed

Either way though, you still have to click your way through the installer. It doesn't get installed invisibly.
I think you would boolean-OR the locks, so if any of the corresponding mutexes are unlocked, the resource is unlocked.
We've been over this a hundred times. Adding this sort of functionality would break potentially all existing apps. Has anyone bothered trying a nightly? I actually run them and this feature is near useless. Take away most of these permissions and apps crash and burn. It was in the API to begin with that the permissions would not be there, that's not how the manifest-declared permission system in Android was meant to work.

There's no easy way to add this to AOSP core in one swoop without making exceptions for legacy applications, to the point that no one would use it anyway.

I'd love to see this system evolve somehow to make permissions more granular, but it's going to be a breaking change and it's certainly not going to be implemented this way where fake data was returned. Not sure why people are shocked it works this way. I've tried to explain the breaking and problems that would occur from trying to implement this. Of course, a couple months ago when I tried to explain this, everyone here told me it was "simple" and that I just didn't understand. Oh well.
But users might actually read the developers' explanations, in which case they would need to be true. If no 3rd-party verifies the permissions explanations before the app is released, then the only value is as a legal agreement between the developer and end-users. I would expect that to devolve into a 30-page EULA per app ... which has already happened, for many apps.

@ck2 is performing as thorough of a verification as possible without source code access. If I were a malicious app developer, however, I might program my app to wait a week before transmitting any user data.