skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NY is definitely amazing. I lived there for a few years and just recently moved to SF. I miss the food, the people, the nightlife, the transit system (MTA > BART/MUNI), the women, the competition, and culture. DUMBO has emerged as one of the coolest hotbeds of digital talent and was awesome to work around.

But I do not miss the incredibly humid and uncomfortable summers. The (at times) ridiculous line-ups/congestion. The pedestrian/bike/vehicle wars (thankfully covered by the Gothamist every week). Tiny apartment spaces with narrow staircases and no central air. Having to store portable A/Cs... somewhere...anywhere! And feeling completely removed from nature (Prospect/Central Park are great... but most people don't pass by it everyday). And having to deal with people who think they are the shit just because they live in NY.

Hey, I ain't trying to slag NY. I love it. But... I finally understood how people could become exhausted by it.
Innovation does have a formula though: create very small passionate teams with autonomy and proper incentives.

And then the trick is to resist the temptation to tamper with the team once it's successful (e.g. don't do what they did here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870408)
... and so many spoiled white kids.
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Oh I get it. I just mean that, if it didn't have that stuff, I wouldn't be too concerned with running a custom rom, and the bootloader wouldn't be as big an issue.
Why is it only about the team and the shareholders? What about the general public that you were trying to help out with your product? I think they're actually more important than the other two - it's millions vs. a handful. They lose out more often than not when products are killed in acquisitions like this.
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Yeah, probably a bad idea. At least with the mail, they had to open the envelopes. Now they can search massive amounts of information with no evidence left behind.

This will probably keep evolving in the private sector, unless some dope gives the government the idea to get into it. Oops. My bad.
I agree with Darz, Ruby on Rails is good for getting thing upto speed. If you know you can work your way, by simple tutorials. I don't know if you are using MAC/PC but http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html this is a good way to learn how to make website. Also my suggestion would be to learn git, this would help you in long run.
Java mobile apps,
iMobsters an enthusiastic and fun-filled Android gaming application for your mobile phones. This is a game for working your way up the mafia ladder to get close to The Godfather by performing many criminal activities.
You know it's a computer, and I know it's a computer, but to the "average person," it's an appliance. It's kind of like the electric motor. Someone (sorry, I don't recall who) recently posted an analogy here on HN between electric motors and any other technology.

At first, factories would install a single giant motor with belts running everywhere, and Sears sold a general-purpose home motor. Eventually, motors were miniaturized and specialized into all kinds of devices. Now nobody thinks about using a motor; they think about using a lathe, blender, or sewing machine.

The same trend is happening with computers. Initially, people had generic computers (ignoring the anomaly of the standalone word processor). Increasingly powerful computers are gradually getting built into everything. You and I see computers everywhere, but everyone else just sees smarter devices.
the art of scaling SEO for a company is to make SEOs superfluous. there are a sh*tload of activities a company does anyway (marketing, biz dev, product development, q&a, ...) - all these parts of a company, all activities of a company can be SEO optimized. if the companies scales its activities, so their SEO efforts scale.

in theory very easy, the hard part is to make it happen. so you basically need someone who is half psychopath/sociopath, the other half consultant.

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wow! that was a really quick sale right after the launch.
Mixergy had an excellent interview with founder Dan Shapiro in April. http://mixergy.com/dan-shapiro-ontela-interview/
Thanks for the short explanation. I totally forget about python being MI.
The lucky thing for the general public is that if there is an addressable market some other company will step in to service it.

I'm hoping that in time our startup http://www.happybuy.com/ will be able to fill some of the gap that the closure of Sparkbuy has created.

The history of Google acquisitions also shows that in many cases the acquired product is shelved and their ideas don't end up being used in any Google services. In such cases small startups like ours can help to service abandoned users.
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The mention of Achilles and the Tortoise is a bit of a red flag, too.
Yes, sure. PDFScanner imports pictures or PDFs and does OCR them.
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And there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

(I challenge anyone to prove otherwise. I hope I lose.)
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How to intercept Skype calls
"Researchers have discovered trick that allows encrypted VoIP calls like Skype to be deciphered without the need to crack encryption.

The method, dubbed "Phonotactic Reconstruction", exploited the Linear Predictive Filter, a system used by Voice over Internet Protocol platforms to transmit conversations by creating data sets from spoken English.

The researchers from the University of North Carolina said while you shouldn't ditch Skype, cryptographic system that leaked as much information as they managed to get are immediately deemed insecure.
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I never noticed that "corporation" is so close to "corporeal".
Off-topic, but the phrase "evidence-based medicine" sounds very loaded. If not evidence, what was it based on before?? Serious question.
Getting laid off/being unemployed or being depressed by the status quo (your existing job) are all the same. Once you are so desperate, you can take any risk because any risk is better than the bottom line.
A publicly and privately run dairy both produce milk. That is their only similarity. The private dairy enriches only the owner, the public dairy enriches everyone.

If your only concern is buying a widget then selling your share in the widget factory doesn't seem like a bad idea - they'll keep making them. But if you're concerned about affording the widget it's a horrible idea. As soon as your cash runs out you're widget-less.

As such, and seeing as how this is pretty obvious to most everyone, privatization is theft in most people's eyes. There is no fair price when the government is selling our means of productions/resources for short-term gain. No sane person would do it, and no honest representative would do it for them.
Your vision of Asia seems to exclude Japan.
>> What are you going to do inside Google? "I am still figuring that out."

This clearly states that I sold for money and reputation. But the bad thing is selling to Google is not like selling to Google in 2005.
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This article has me reminiscing about the recent Linked-In IPO; I remember reading that the IPO was offered to favorable clients of the brokerage underwriting the IPO.

I don't know how many "favorable" offerings are presented each year or what their performances are, but if the IPO is purposelessly undervalued to make their clients richer, how does one compete with that? I doubt a $100 or 10k account would draw enough interest to gain access to these "Favorable" offerings.
Poor people need to work for tomorrow. No failure accepted.
Rich people invest in their future. Failure is ok.
The Gladwell piece actually does a better job illustrating the point, I think.

Gladwell effectively claims that success in life is due in part to finding the right opportunities at the right time, and the networks you get at Harvard and Yale (and many other potential places, Gladwell doesn't focus on universities the way this post does) provide you with a mechanism for finding those opportunities. And this is "opportunities" in the broadest sense.

I'd believe that if you and everyone you know works low-paying service jobs, that it's then going to be harder to discover opportunities for pursuing passions and career advancement.
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I decided to go paper-free a while ago too and I went for the cheap solution:

I went for the the canon pixma mx340 (ref link: http://amzn.to/j2hNRZ , non ref link: http://amzn.to/k27SoI) and couldn't be happier.

I can scan over wifi on OSX without installing additional drivers by just opening up the "image capture" app that OSX ships with. I can also just plug in a USB stick and scan straight from the device to PDF without having to deal with the computer for that.

It also features an automated document feeder so I can just place multi page documents on there and hit start and it does it's thing.

Works pretty decent and gives me a color printer and fax for free.

If I want OCR, I just drop the resulting PDF files on Velocraptor (clever pun, http://www.velocraptor.com/ ) and that does a nice job too. For me it's mostly about simplicity. I start to get annoyed when they bundle software with a device although there is perfectly fine OS functionality that was made to do the task
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That is a bummer. I guess the question is; what are the alternatives for the translate API?
Under every boom, real change grinds away. Markets reach maturity when there's no more room for development and instead there is only room for replacement. Until that point where new business only replaces exiting business, people either unable or unwilling to critically evaluate the quality and magnitude of change keep running in and out of the markets leading to the recurring booms and busts. Instead think of the public introductions of electricity at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893, which is comparable to the release of Mosaic 100 years later. Compared to electricity, we are in 1911, and realize all the things that still haven't been invented yet. Neither television, nor the internet itself had been invented. So while the booms and busts might swirl around any developing technology, it's vital to remember the key question is not "is it a bubble?" instead it is "where am I going?" & "where are we going?" In short Vision > Bubble. Now, since the real estate market is still slumbering, domestic manufacturing continues it's long decline, the financial markets have lost their public trustworthiness, the media will naturally follow what they think the hottest emerging segments are --> Bio Tech, Green Tech, Online Tech -- because that is their mission. So let's just promise to keep in mind that any report with the words boom, bust, bubble in them are not about the vision, or about the real changes that the technology actually brings. Those stories will be about the boom, bust and bubble itself. By ignoring those stories, and ignoring the related bubbles we can actually create the technological changes that we all promise in our work.
I think you summed it up pretty well. The post started with the idea of "how to find cofounders" as one of the most difficult things founders deal with. I'm challenging the notion that you have to be out there and aggressive about it; instead, take your time with it and allow serendipity to work in your favor. It's a different way of thinking and hopefully something biz students will try out (keep in mind, the main audience for my book is high school and college students).

There's also the idea of negative circumstances happening to you which may end up being positive (back to the serendipity theme). The point of this is to try and show people who are in seemingly negative situations that it could turn out very well for them (Steve Jobs reference to connecting the dots). Bad things happen to good people, but luck still has a big role to play, and sometimes it might be beneficial to experiment here: pause your agenda and just go make some friends and be normal instead of trying to control everything. See if it works out better.
Yeah, OO is too hard.
I thought that was the rationale for selling to Google... it's $millions vs. a handful.
Newer phones are almost all battery with just a sliver for a motherboard. The iPhone4 in particular uses a microsim because they, physically, do not have the space for a larger sim.[1]
I'm also getting great use out of it, the battery lasts 2.5 days with moderate usage. Which is something I haven't been able to do with a Verizon Droid Incredible.

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Why not? It's a fact that there are almost no women in cs, so the op's initial assumption was reasonable.
That's an anecdotal toy... Do you have other examples?
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It's an interesting choice of comparisons, why not use Vera Wang evening gowns? I mean its just fabric right? Except both Vera (who designs lovely evening wear) and Apple aren't actually playing the same game.

A more apt comparison would be Windows based laptops. This is because a pre-requisite for this effect to occur is the ability to compete on price. Since everyone who has attempted to make compatible hardware that was cheaper than Apple but ran MacOS has been sued mercilessly into bankruptcy, using Apple in this case fails.

Theaters, like MS Windows laptop makers, have a cost they have to bear and they pay a tax for a key ingredient in their product to a third party (the studios, or Microsoft depending on which we're talking about.) The product the consumer buys is a combination of the part the supplier got from someone else, and the part they made themselves. Their margin of course being their revenue above their costs.

When, unlike in designer gowns or Apple equipment, there isn't a legal barrier to enter, multiple entities pop up to supply the demand. They compete on quality, feature sets, and price.

The less maneuvering room they have around feature sets, the more they compete on quality and price. And the less sensitive the bulk of the market is to quality, they are left competing on price. I'm sure this is really obvious so I won't belabor the point.

For me, that leaves the interesting challenge of finding ways to make quality a differentiator in a market with low barriers to entry. If you have any ideas on that I'd love to hear them, they would be the kind of things that let entrepreneurs break into and disrupt existing markets.
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"Why I sold...?" As if nobody would know that people sell something to get money.
But here's the thing: where are the trade secrets? Displaying a picture of a credit card on a phone's screen while you send that card's info to the NFC card reader is not exactly hard to come up with on your own.
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Hey Joel, try out mine too ;) https://market.android.com/details?id=phuc.entertainment.dua...
I don't think Sparkbuy was that great an app, although their concept of "technical searching" was interesting. Neither I think online shopping is a path Google may follow in the future. I think this is just how the higher level hiring process at Google works: build startup, get their attention, get bought out, app switched off, welcome to Googleplex.

it looks like the startup's founder are joining Google as employees. According to
Seattle Times, they will be working on Google's new mortgage, credit card, and bank account comparison site Advisor, which was launched last week.

http://news.ebrandz.com/google/2011/4061-google-acquires-spa...

I always wondered how these acquisition contracts are structured as far as the team goes, ie, if Dan Shapiro leaves before 2 years doesn't get to keep part of the money?

Anyone here with real experience on this kind of deals?
Yeah you're right, I was mistaken. super uses the MRO of the first argument, or inspects the stack if none is given.

BTW your sighing is not necessary.
Care to provide quotes? No, you don't.

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Tim, what do you think is cool about BQL that might be needed in the future?
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It's true that Bill Gates saw the future very early on, although he never managed to make anything good in either tablets or the online collaboration/synchronization space (especially the latter which Microsoft has attacked time and time again without success, see Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html).

Bill Gates, clearly, is a phenomenal technologist, but while he has the vision and "cluefulness" that Ballmer lacks, I'm not sure he is up to the task of competing with Google and Apple today.
"Evidence-based" means that you tie statistical outcomes to procedures as apposed to doing what you think might be right based on your limited life experience (which is biased).

For example, let's say there is a test that checks for a birth defect that must be treated or it will result in infant mortality. Let's also say that the test causes infant mortality one time in 10,000. Whether you perform the test has to do with the statistical likelihood that the fetus will have the birth defect - if the likelihood is less than the probability of the test killing the baby then you shouldn't do it.
The long term trend is quite extraordinary with regard to the total number going into higher ed (which form networks too, although not the same as the elite institutions).

"Two percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 were enrolled in a university at the beginning of the 20th century. At nearly the end of the 20th century, beyond 60 percent, or 14 million students, were enrolled in 3500 four year or two year colleges."

http://ajha.org/early-history-of-universities-in-america.htm
They didn't mention my https://github.com/lmatteis/apejs
So, nobody's got a valid claim. How come one guy who didn't build the farm can pay another guy who didn't build the farm and suddenly own it. Neither of them have any more claim to it than anyone else.

If you think about it you can see why private ownership of resources is ridiculous. Unless you bought my share from me, fairly, why should I recognize your ownership claim?

The only answer, of course, is the non-libertarian one: force. If you pay the biggest guy around for something he'll beat up anyone who wants a share of the payment and legitimize your claim because to prevent a run on his now-valuable right to sell everything, he has to crack down on theft.

It's a scam no matter how you slice it.
It isn't really as compelling in the past tense - e.g. 'Sony: Trusted by 70,000,000 users'.
He kept comparing to other countries, but he never intended to shift the discussion focus off Russia entirely. Therefore he didn't just deflect.
We have always accepted server patches via the mailing list: https://lists.rabbitmq.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rabbitmq...

But it's true that the community has been much more involved in clients like Pika, for example.

And yes we are planning to open up the bug tracker.

A piece of advice for anyone doing an open source project - start with an open tracker, because opening up a previously closed tracker is a royal pain in the butt.
A bliki?

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/WhatIsaBliki.html
The latest attempt in the UK to deal with the problem

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/8540055/Schools-win-rig...
> Deterrence, I'm more skeptical of. I don't think prison time has a lot of net impact on crime.

This is usually measured by looking at the rates of recidivism. I don't have the data but I think it is pretty high. Or in other words, if prisons were such a good deterrent, they would have the strongest effect on those who have actually been there before, so if that doesn't work, then the deterrence in general is not a strong factor.
InspiredBeta: interviewing Zootool, Alfred App & Designmoo
Hello

At inspiredBeta.com we'll be interviewing Zootool.com, AlfredApp.com & Designmoo.com next week. I'm in the process of putting together questions but thought I'd open it up to you guys to pose any questions to these budding startups.

I personally use Zootool and Alfred daily and throughly recommend them. I don't want to waste too much time giving praise in the interviews but rather I want to dig into the problem solving involved with these applications with regard to design/development/funding etc.

I don't use Designmoo's graphic resources but I do browse the website for inspiration (of which there is a lot). I know Rich Hemsley, co-founder, from Twitter and I made him aware that I don't fully support the idea of supplying designers with pre-made graphics.

As Community Director of DesignersCouch.org my role is to help nurture emerging designers as well as support seasoned professionals. The idea of a designer using a pre-made menu, for example, is somewhat contentious in my opinion. On the flip side I can see good reasons for using pre-made graphics such as a resource for developers who aren't strong designers. Also where do you draw the line for pre-made graphics? I myself have paid for icons or have used Photoshop/Fireworks patterns/brushes.

Regardless, I respect anyone that turns an idea into a working business model and I'm genuinely intrigued in the Designmoo/365psd journey.

I'm also intrigued on the impact of hitting the Apple Appstore main page. Zootool released an iPhone app recently and Apple staff picked it as a 'New and Noteworthy' app. Alfred App is in the top 100 free apps for Mac. So definitely want to ask about scaling/demand.

If you have any insightful questions that you'd like answered then please post below or email me (hello inspiredbeta.com). This is a great opportunity to delve into the creative minds of those behind successful apps.

Best,
Mark
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If anyone has any doubts or questions about this, please email us. info@rabbitmq.com
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I think the lesson is that you can never take consumer freedom for granted.
Even if it's possible to weaken encryption in Skype, it could be still strong enough and require a billion-dollar effort to decrypt a single conversation.
Thank-you.

The docs for HA are here: http://www.rabbitmq.com/pacemaker.html

This also works with Veritas if you use that instead of DRDB.

Please note that we are currently QAing a new HA model which is active/active. Watch this space!