skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kickstarter bro, this is what it was made for. Post on hiking forums and nature online communities to get buzz and attention.

Sounds definitely like something I would be really interested in. If there was a way that anyone with moderate funds could build a device or method to do the Street View job while hiking, and it was propagated enough to have a community like the global GeoCaching community, that could be one vector to try out.

Maybe post on Reddit's http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis as well?
In the video we see a man saying 'baaa, baaa, baaa', but when he makes an 'f' shape with his mouth when he says 'baaa', we actually hear 'faaa'. It is an illusion.
"Deploying on anything other than 1, 6 or 11 will cause more problems than it will solve,"

This is a fundamental mistake. You are correct that the transmit mask of WiFi allows for 3 'non-overlapping' channels in the 2.4GHz band, but the receivers won't allow simultaneous operation on these three channels since the advent of 802.11g (and 802.11n made the situation worse.)

The receivers don't have enough adjacent channel rejection (ACR) to deal with a strong (i.e. closer or high-EIRP) signal on an ajacent channel.

At 6Mbps, the IEEE standard requires 16 dB of adjacent channel rejection. The amount of ACR required by the standard is lower as the modulation rate increases. At 18Mbps the IEEE standard requires 11dB of ACR. At 54Mbps, the ACR required by the standard is -1dB. While some chipsets perform above these requirements one has to assume that the clients perform at the minimum, since there is no way to control what client will wander into the room next.

Nobody wants to believe it, but the way to make 2.4GHz WiFi work for large conferences is to run all the APs on the same channel (in any given 'band')
You should still be able to link to the site. Censorship is censorship.

If the site is outside of the US but is designed for people in the US to use, it's going to need to accept payment from people in the US. The way you make this site go away is by stopping the flow of money, not by telling people not to tell other people about it. The first way works. The second way does not.

To bring this back to P2P, the reason they can't go after the money is there is no money. That's what annoys the governments so much; people are trading movies for free. This makes it not-very-illegal and very hard to stop.
I recently received a song file through gmail.

Strangely the mafia didn't ask for a cut, and I'm don't see how this is any different.
Some background:

Anyone remember the web 1.0 music lockers that sites did?

MP3.com? and there were some others. Labels threw such a fit that forced those startups to have one copy on server served to many once it was uploaded for a monthly fee
to satisfy labels. Same old oh you have to license from labels excuse was used..

Help, am I remembering this right?
Upcoming customer service innovation books
I heard President Cohon talk about it in today's commencement ceremony. That's great news!...to me :) (I'm a CMU alumni, CS School)
In effect you may be owning a very small sliver of the loan the person renting the apartment to you is paying off. By giving them a tax break, their ability to repay the loan improves and as one of the many people who has invested in their success, you get a return on your investment for taking a risk in that market. It's not like that interest saved vanishes. Someone benefits from it. In this case it happens to be the financial system backing the loan as well as the person who took the loan.

Money flows, tax breaks can decrease the viscosity of that flow.

There's more than one way to play the game. :)
The surprising accuracy of Minority Report 10 years later
Can America still pick winners in the energy innovation race?
A little harder: the answer is pi^2/(12 log 2). What's the question?
Necessity Breeds Talent
Google Music is effectively a file locker. File lockers are not illegal.
Related: one of my writer wrote an article that concluded the fundamental for bitcoin is strong, since the economy is growing. http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/causes-behind-the-bitcoin-...

(P.S, I hope I am not spammy)
Ok so first this is not exactly an empty Rails project. The Gemfile.lock has 221 lines, that amount of dependencies is not normal. To compare the application code for http://www.getharvest.com/ a +5 year old rails project with customers et all and it has 245 gem dependencies (including some that are our own). The +3 year old http://www.coopapp.com has 181 dependencies. Both of these start up within 3-4 seconds on my desktop and due to their age & size they have admitedly too many dependencies. Everytime one is removed I've rejoice.

Please don't call something with 221 dependencies a blank Rails project. More the amount of conflicting half baked gems you've added makes it an unfair complaint about Rails. I've assure you that there is no language / framework in the universe in which does not take a hit when adding too many dependencies. Either execution wise but more often it just breaks your spirit.

Anyway back to numbers, on 3 year old desktop under Linux, executing tests on the "blank" project yielded:

<pre>
real 0m8.698s
user 0m5.996s
sys 0m2.532s
</pre>

For some reason ruby is much slower on OSX than linux, that is an interesting project to investigate. I've think the platform difference shows the 10 second difference, spite the slower CPU. It would be quite interesting to understand why ruby is slow on OSX. Each to his own itch to scratch.
What Google offers is very different from LimeWire. It doesn’t even allow users to make their music public or share it. It’s just storage space with some special music features. It specifically doesn’t encourage or enable users to pirate music.
If its an MIT degree, it might very well be worth it. For better or worse, its easier to get a job if the company you're applying to has a lot of alumni from the same university. Given the high placement of MIT alumni in Silicon Valley, getting the MIT brand on your resume might very well be worth the debt you accrue.
Then again, the labels shut down mp3.com's music locker 10 years ago.
I was disappointed when I googled and saw the second did not actually exist.
If true, this is a pretty big deal. There are MANY companies using Likes or other Facebook features as contest entries.
Dream Water and Night Food are chock full of melatonin.
The internet used to be cool. It was full of smart people saying smart things.

Yeah, maybe in 1992. For all practical purposes, the quality of Internet discussions been at its current state for the past two decades. Complaining about it won't make it any better.
My personal opinion is that the authors concerns are well thought out from the API developer perspective, but that the scenario on the seller side needs a bit of critical reality checking. After all, we can assume that Mashape and Mashery and the rest did not set out to create crappy API services. At the same time, we shouldn't assume that just because Factual and InfoChimps exist that they have a well defined business model that stands a chance of making significant amounts of money in the long term. It's important not to confuse motion with action.

Anyhow, my biggest problem with the idea of an iTunes for APIs or an iTunes for data is that there's little evidence to suggest that this is the correct metaphor for anything except small impulse consumables like music, books and apps.

After all, nobody impulse purchases a complex API license. There's rather profound difference between:

buying the right to query an API 10 million times for non-pornographic uses in the USA (but not Hawaii or Alaska) that expire in March 2012 and count as credit towards a more expensive volume license as long as the upgrade happens by July 2011 and then building an application and launching it as a startup to recoup your investment....

vs.

buying the new Strokes album on your iPod and going for a run.

Otherwise, we'd already see people buying cars and houses and vacations through iTunes or something like it. I mean, hey — if you can make it work, I'll be a customer. I just suspect that it's a thankless, low-margin sales-centric middle man company with highly opinionated and price conscious developers as your primary customer. No thanks!
The NGINX contribution has been noted now; https://github.com/ry/http-parser/commit/8dabce6ec7142319bc5...
...and he also appreciates the ease of use.
I like the tag idea. You could more easily group people under tags compared to lists, and when you'd post something you would just click on a few tags. It would at least be better than what they have now.
Warning: Once you start reading, your productivity will go out the window. Awesome article.
Quantity, not quality, the factor in creative success
Has an article in bitcoinweekly ever concluded that the fundamentals for bitcoin are weak?
In my experience, for #1, Google claims to penalize paid links, yet when I look at (my) major competitors, they all utilize paid link networks. Didn't take very much investigation on my part to find it, either -- just ran a backlink checker and checked out some of the pages. The ad networks all advertise themselves in their link networks.

Although I don't do a lot of SEO work, it's disappointing when it feels like I can't do techniques that other places are doing. It's not a time issue, either -- many of these paid link networks have been on my competitors systems for a decade.

What google says they do is often very different than what they actually do.
I'm a minor investor. I sent a note to the founders to discuss.
How many people are there who have a PhD in biology _and_ a PhD in computer science?

2 of the 3 colleges I attended have exactly this program:

http://cob.as.nyu.edu/page/home

http://www.biomaps.rutgers.edu/index.php
Ask HN:  How to escape the momentum trap?
Just this last Friday I launched a Kickstarter project (http://bitly.com/kxz0E2) that I thought would be really interesting for the community I live and work in - namely - the startup community. You can see from my prior posts that I was working on getting the project right for awhile in the runup to the launch, and I have to confess that when I flipped the switch I expected something to happen...except that nothing really did! Of course, I don't mean this literally - I spent a great deal of time publicizing the project on Facebook and Twitter and Linkedin and every mailing list to which I belong, but the project didn't seem to immediately catch.

This is probably fine, since building buzz about something like a web series takes some time, and there are so many competing messages out there. But I have already figured out a couple things, which I thought I would share.

Momentum - the trendy word for it is traction - is a funny thing. No one is interested in joining your cause unless you have it, and you can't have it unless you have people joining your cause. To be honest I haven't discovered a way to get out of this after just a few days of running the Kickstarter project. Bloggers respond with "come back when you have some pledge traction." So here's what I plan to do - I'd be curious to get some suggestions on these items:

1) Make personal pledge requests to interesting people: even if they only pledge $1, if they are OK with me sharing their participation then hopefully this helps with momentum.

2) Cameos: this one is tough - I only have 6 slots. Robert Scoble agreed to take one of them, which is a great start, but I need to build on that this week.

3) Personal presentations at meetups: I have contacted a bunch of meetups and asked if I can make announcements at their next session. I'll be doing several of these a day for the next few weeks. I'm hoping that a personal request gets retweets, if not pledges

4) Mailing lists: I've reached out to every list for which I am eligible that has a readership that might be interested: startups, school, Yahoo alumni, Disney alumni. Where else to go?

There's another thing too, which is that I haven't gotten any direct feedback on the project itself - I don't know if I come across in the video as committed and passionate, which I am, or something else. I don't know if the description is long enough or detailed enough...any thoughts?
Dollars or street cred - I wonder which the blogger will choose? :)
Are you sure you're not overinterpreting things here?

I was only pointing out that it's a bit of a silly headline, "Why MIT Matters", since nobody is out there trying to argue that it doesn't.

Now, the same article with the headline "Bill Gates says nice things about MIT for its 150th anniversary" might be much better.
Why are you equating lines in Gemfile.lock with the number of dependencies?

There are 28 gems specified in the Gemfile. That's not an unreasonable amount of gems. With dependencies, the total amount of gems being required is 76.

Hell, only using Rails and sqlite-ruby will require 26 gems to be installed.
In Search Of Structure
Free storage, infinite bandwidth, awesome software?
I think you would realize that there are only...25 articles in the archive, and that this was the only article that actually analyze the Bitcoin currency market.
I will add that I misread it as "strips" (probably subconsciously assuming it had a vowel) and wondered whether it had to do with porn or comics.
Printing the QR code for the URL?
E-Cig Maker Develops Foursquare-Style Check-In
Check out that tiny little green island in the middle east.
The Devious Message
You'll make more money if you tough it out and your skills are rarefied.
I think that Mt. Gox needs to place limits on how quickly the 'official' bitcoin exchange rate can rise or drop. This would help to limit the intra-day volatility that is the defining feature of bitcoin speculation. Since the trading volume is so low right now, savvy professional traders can manipulate the market up or down with only a few thousand USD. This makes the current bitcoin economy impractical for most ordinary merchants and consumers.

If people want to trade in dark pools or OTC exchanges at rates different from the 'official' rate, that's fine. And in situations where there is an actual reason for the price to shoot up (like PokerStars announcing they will start accepting bitcoins), those side markets are where we would see the 'real' price. The official rate on Mt. Gox would lag behind because of the restrictions in place, but I think that would be a small price to pay for an end to the bot- and speculator-driven volatility in the exchange.
Interesting observation: for everybody who wishes that people could come together from all political sides to pass laws, your wish has been answered. This list includes characters from every part of the political spectrum.
Is it really wise to suggest "Don't use encryption." ?

Even your grandmother can steal sessions with Firecookie these days.
My.mp3.com did not at all work like what Google is doing.

Looking only at experience the end user is having, the difference is minimal to non-existent but that’s not what the law cares about.

(My personal opinion is that what my.mp3.com was doing should be legal just as what Google is doing is clearly legal. The distinction the law is making in that respect doesn’t make any practical sense.)
Well you are right that CMU as an organization hasnt done a good enough job in helping to spur on entrepreneurship in their students. There was a Entrepreneurship for Computer Science course during my time there that certainly helped introduce me to entrepreneurship in the context of tech startups, but things have changed so much since that time. Much is being done to improve the spread of entrepreneurship through various programs, so I am excited for the future of CMU startups.

That said, lots of startups have been coming out of CMU recently. Just off the top of my head with people I know, there is Homerun, Everlane, CardMunch (acquired by LinkedIn), LeanBop (currently in DreamIt/Startl), ShoeFitr, NumberFire, Artsicle, and others.

I'm helping organize a Startup Weekend in September there. Hopefully this will help a bit, but we also need to get startups to get visibility on campus through talks and job fairs.
Show HN: my first app turns Twitter into a news aggregator
Hey everyone,

Common advice for inexperienced hackers suggests "scratching an itch." Like many others here, I spent too much time on HN, Google Reader and Twitter searching for interesting stuff, so I decided to write an app that brings interesting links to you with no other distractions.

HighFive uses Twitter and bit.ly's APIs to find interesting links in your timeline. When you log in, you'll see a group of five links with voting arrows. No HN comments or RSS feeds with hundreds of links--just a few interesting articles that you can read, then get back to work.

HighFive was built using Python and Django, and it lives at http://acompa.net/highfive. This is my first app (and I only started using Python last year), so any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks, everyone!

-Alejandro

tl;dr -- Check out my first web app at http://acompa.net/highfive
I was chatting to my friend who worked for MS NZ in their sales team and we were talking about the usual "who's bigger, who are the main competitors" type stuff. He asked who we all thought MS' biggest NZ competitors were. Naturally I answered Oracle/Sun as one of the main ones. He just laughed though, then told me that it was VMWare. If he knew, then MS are surely pretty keenly aware of this.
The correct spelling is "Icera", although the article might have you believe it's spelt "Icrea" at some points.
One trick is to base64 encode and decode the data
This sounds awful. One of the main considerations when picking any kind of framework is: What kind of community is there? If I run into a problem, how likely is it that someone else has solved it first? Will it still be popular in a few years? If you use say Rails or Django you can be pretty confident about these things.

But a proprietary framework that's been created by a group of students? In PHP? http://i.imgur.com/AHqEn.jpg ? Unless there's something big you're not telling us I wouldn't touch this with a bargepole.

Edit: Ah, so not created by students. But everything else stands - the whole arrangement sounds like huge risk unless their framework does something amazing.
Does anyone know if the jQuery JSON parser has this fix by any chase?
Oops, I said DMC instead of DCA.
"Until then, there's life"
My reasons for being a vim user a lot more practical than those I see on these "top 10 reasons for trying X":

- In the long run, it's faster to learn and use an "efficiency" editor, so I need to learn one of vim, emacs, notepad++, etc. The differences between these are probably negligible for a proficient user.

- Of these, only vim will be installed (or vi, which has a big enough overlap that it won't matter to me) on every system I'm going to need to use.

These are, incidentally, the same reasons I use QWERTY instead of Dvorak.
The Nothing Nothings: Martin Heidegger and the Question of Being
I get the same, I hadn't noticed it because I'm still using 1.8.7

Have you tried spork? https://github.com/timcharper/spork

Also, have you opened a ticket or looked to see if there is one already?
As the saying goes, we have an evil party and a stupid party. Every once in awhile, they work together and produce public policy that is both evil and stupid.
How acks and flow control emerge from Meijer's iterator/observer duality
Hmm, appendix 'C' makes many references to EIRP, but 802.11's OFDM modes are EVM-limited above 36Mbps for most receivers.
Being at the whim of another company potentially places you in a very compromising position. I wouldn't do it.

It doesn't sound like there are any technological or product dev advantages to using their framework. Even if that's not what you meant to say, I suspect that it's true (unless they have build something as-yet-unheard-of in PHP, which seems unlikely).

I would look for a polite way to decline the licensing deal. Tell him that you want to develop it in a different language. It shouldn't be hard defending the decision to move away from PHP.

At the same time as you say that, I would extend some sort of other offer to your boss. If they are as important and influential as you believe, then it's worth having them on board. However, I would want their compensation based on their contributions, not something ancillary (like running the company that owns the underlying framework). Chances are that he just wants to be involved -- so offer him some compensation in exchange for networking on your behalf, or serving on the board.

Again, if he's influential enough to warrant giving up 5% of the company, you should compensate him directly for that. Especially considering the alternative is super weird sounding -- licensing a proprietary framework (in PHP, no less) from a company just to not offend this man. That could put you under their thumb (even unintentionally -- what if they go out of business?) without offering any value in return.
There are dozens of Democrats who voted for the unconstitutional individual mandate in ObamaCare who lost their seats last cycle.
Interesting aside: The UI shown in Minority Report was actually developed by a team at MIT: http://goo.gl/tRLXO
Is Bitcoin the most dangerous open source project ever?
I'd be interested to see a map that shows the countries by their current trends to or from democracy (would better replace that with "personal liberty") rather than the current state.
Momentum - the trendy word for it is traction - is a funny thing. No one is interested in joining your cause unless you have it, and you can't have it unless you have people joining your cause. To be honest I haven't discovered a way to get out of this after just a few days of running the Kickstarter project.

Well shoot, if I knew a way to solve that problem I'd be a very, very rich man right now.
For Facebook "active users" always means "users active within the last 30 days."
Really wasn't meant to be a troll honestly, just an observation of the sometimes undue attention MIT gets. This happens on slashdot and every other forum. There are plenty of great schools doing great things, yet media has cast MIT as `the` place for all things tech. When there's a character in a movie who's a cool techie, they went to MIT. If you're a fictional character joining the CIA, you went to MIT. I can see how my comment unduly denigrates the judgement of the community in general, I'm sorry for that. Invariably however, maybe due to the name recognition at the aggregate, MIT stories always rise the top. It was a pretty stupid way of putting it originally, sorry.
Ant build script: automatic version numbers (major, minor, revision)
Not sure I would agree complete with this assessment. Reason Microsoft was able to get that kind of stronghold was due to applications(Word, Excel - though they copied these - and others vendor apps/drivers written exclusively for windows). It is pretty much the same reason why desktop Linux is not able to make much inroads into the windows desktop OS market(it's the apps). Of course Apple and Google are trying to just bypass this market altogther(handheld, web). But it is the apps those matter and not sure where does VMWare has the apps to lock folks into the VMWare?
I remember the entrepreneurship course, though I never took it when I was there. I know Barbara has been working hard to spread the mentality, as has Olympus (though I find Olympus to be a less than ideal method).

Also, you left GazeHawk off your list ;-)

Let me know if there's any way I can help with the Startup weekend...I've been pushing for something similar for a while to YC, 500startups, and CMU.