skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misread my statement. I should have been more clear, but if you read it again, you'll see I agree with you. It is interesting and belongs here.
Jonathan,

You raise some very valid points. I am struggling with the same issues that you mentioned as well. As you mentioned, I am currently working on creating some free credits to hand out to some companies (and asking for testimonial in return if they liked the service).

Just to share with you, I am the founder of StartUpLift.com which has slowly been gaining grounds since we launched a few months ago. However, StartUpLift has an almost similar model, but does everything in public. BetaUsersNow.com was developed after listening to feedback from many StartUpLift users and startups (as they requested if they could privately secure feedback in a fast, easy and inexpensive way).

Most of the feedback providers that have signed up on BetaUsersNow.com are the same users from StartUpLift, who know the process and know that they will be paid for a good job done. Hope that helps. I really appreciate your thoughts.
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Engadget always has a source link at the bottom of the article. They don’t link to anything but themselves in the article text for SEO reasons. Also note that the word “Source” at the bottom of the article is not text but an image – also for SEO reasons. (I don’t, however, know what that’s supposed to help.)

This is a truly disgusting practice. The good thing about it is that once you know what’s going on, it’s relatively unproblematic. Whenever someone directs me to Engadget I know where I have to click. (In a funny twist, once you know where it is, finding the source is actually easier than when it is hiding in the article text.)
How to Add the Google +1 Button to Your WordPress Site
H&S is what I thought K&R would be, but wasn't. It's an obsessively detailed description of the C language and standard libraries, in readable english, that describes everything from "traditional C" through ISO, to C++ compatible. When I'm working in C I use it as much as I use man pages, to help me keep the code as standard and cross-platform as possible.

"Steele" is Guy Steele, btw - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._Steele,_Jr. (author of "Common Lisp, The Language", developer of Fortress, etc etc).
No, money is created when the Fed purchases an asset.

Generally, they do so through a repo, whereby they sell an asset with the intention of buying it back with interest on a very short term.
The problem of deflation is worse. There is a finite supply of btc. Read that again. Finite. in fifty years, our whenever the mills run dry, are we just going to stop increasing population? Are we going to stop creating more things of value? Of course not. So what happens then? We have to start dealing in ever-decreasing payments. They will decrease as fast as the sum of things which can be paid for in btc grows, which is damn fast. Nobody will be able to afford to spend money.
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one of the highest priorities, especially for bootstrapped startups, is to ship while lean on resources.

In other words, exploit the human resource as much as possible while paying them as little as possible? Makes sound business sense to me.
1) Bitcoin has a bootstrap advantage, not disadvantage; like all Ponzi schemes, it has the potential to return real profit to early adopters.

2) Deflation for a primary store of value in an economy is definitely a bad thing; not least, because it does weird things like causing the value of debts to increase over time, potentially to the point of requiring negative interest; and think about what that would mean - the bank pays you to borrow money from it. Bitcoin probably isn't going to become that, though, so I think it is less of a cause for concern.

3) Convertibility is a systemic problem because it's a confidence game. If the value of bitcoin is on a downward spiral rather than an upward spiral, then you would expect fewer buyers, and those buyers would pay less for declining assets. Paying less in turn sets the market value lower; it becomes cyclical.

And that's where (4) comes in. The reason "when something goes wrong, it will die" is a valid point is because of contagion and panic selling, and the reduction in the number of buyers in the market. It makes perfect sense to me, because it's the exact reverse analogue of why bitcoin has a built-in bootstrap advantage.

I'm getting the impression that people who like Bitcoins are the same kind of people who think gold has an intrinsic worth as a currency, rather than a commodity; in other words, they don't understand that the value of money is a product of supply and demand, no matter whether fiat or specie. Don't forget that 80% of gold production is used in jewellery and industry, rather than bullion etc. What fiat money has going for it is a degree of control to get out of systemic problems.
Sometimes you get apps where they expect you to buy:

iPhone app = $2
iPad app = $10 (5x)
OS X app = $25

It gets out of hand.
It is an idiom. (I stole the joke from an old Ernie cartoon, which added "or have too many toasters").
Which is better, Google +1 or Facebook Like?
I have used +1 in my site http://www.lolzwow.com. I believe Google social plugin will help in Search Engine Optimization too. Who ever wins the battle making the web content more social we Internet user will be the winner for sure.
Please if you like my site Give +1 for it.
Show HN: Instagram photos in real-time
Yea it could more clear. Thanks for the feedback!
Some of the examples need the require statement to work correctly. E.g. example 4 should be

(require 'clojure.contrib.io)
(def file-text (slurp "data.txt")) ; Reads the whole file
(def file-lines (clojure.contrib.io/read-lines "data.txt")) ; Reads as a sequence of lines
>" this is only acceptable for application start-up routines"

You gonna come spank me if I do it synchronously and it works for me? I hate when people are so forceful with their opinions.
Just out of curiosity, why do you browse with js turned off?
Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 (by Steve Blank)
Exactly. MS's bread and butter is selling $400 laptops which may or may not even have touchscreens and it remains to be seen if a touchscreen UI makes sense on traditional laptop or desktop formfactor (Jobs convincingly argued "no" before unveiling OSX 10.7). So I disagree that this gives Microsoft any advantage in the tablet space.

Look at Microsoft's MediaCenter. It's great software and it's on every PC, but it's nothing like an industry standard because it's just not a normal PC use case.
The "more" link at the bottom of each page expires.

I love this site, and I like to read more than the 1st 100 posts. But by the time I get to the 4th page, the "more" link at the bottom has expired. To continue, I have to start from the beginning and quickly click the more link fast enough so that it doesn't expire.

That's just silly.
Xen has been fully integrated into Linux kernel 3.0
This is a really great idea! I could definitely see myself using this when traveling as hotels are not always the best place to work from. Great for startups too that only need office space occasionally.
Note that LWN is an excellent weekly Linux publication that uses the subscription model. Articles are first only visible to subscribers, and then after a week to the the general public.

As a sort of gesture to the community, they added a "Send a free link" option that allows readers to send an article to a friend or colleague before this one-week period ends. This feature was really a nice gesture towards the LWN community.

Clearly this feature now abused to send an article to a website with a large readership (since it is still in the one week subscriber-only period), which is really sad, given that LWN always had to put a lot of effort into generating enough income to compensate their authors.

So, if you like the depth and quality of the article, please consider becoming a subscriber. It's really affordable, and provides genuinely good Linux/Unix-related content.

Note: I am not affiliated with LWN, just a happy subscriber, sad to see a nice feature misused.
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Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures which reflect those cultures and in turn affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating
Most of the time Gruber's right about stuff like this, in a round-about way. But this feels stressed. Gruber can find simple brilliances in Apple products (rightfully so), but cannot see the brilliance of bringing the concept of a unified OS back from the grave and totally reconceptualizing that idea? Come on.
Mac OS X comes with TextEdit and Vim, I would say they are far better than Wordpad and Notepad.
Of course that was not the way the "IBM PC Compatible" market arose. IBM published a rather complete set of documentation of the system, including all interface signals and the BIOS source code. I still have several of those documents on my shelf. It is completely different from the complete lack of Skype technical documents.
Google Places on your phone
The basic idea here is to build an Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) that is accessible through the phone. Something like JustDial, but without the hassle of talking to another human on the other end. You tell the phone the area you’re interested in, what type of establishments you’re looking for (hotels, restaurants or in an emergency, hospitals) and you will get a list of establishments that match the criteria you specified. Simple and fast.
From 'Send a free link' page:

"This feature is made available as a service to LWN subscribers, and in the hope that they will use it to spread the word about their favorite LWN articles."

I spread the word about my favorite article in the hope this will attract new subscribers to LWN.net .
How the Thumbs Up/Like Button is Dumbing Users Down
Ideally (from a consumer's standpoint), a currency should be relatively stable. I should be able to either buy things with it, or just keep it for the time when I need to buy something.

I don't think deflation in itself is a problem, but the current rate of deflation of BC does worry me. I wonder whether this might be caused by a relative lack of way to spend it.
Security and usability are 2 orthogonal design choices.
Shades of SGI getting killed off due to the actions of Rick Belluzzo; this was after he scotched the development of PA-RISC because of his view that Microsoft was going to take over the world... the difference being that Belluzzo joined MSFT after proving his ability to destroy MSFT's competition.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/13/sgi_belluzzo/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Belluzzo

A cynical view would be that MSFT is happy to see their management jump to their competitors...
Tech founder here looking for designer in London.

Startup: gonepon - Innovative local deals.
>I doubt that by "running an online service" he's disclosed sufficient details to allow somebody to reproduce his invention.

If someone looking at the service can tell that it is nearly coincident with their own service then I think there is unlikely to be sufficient inventive step that is undisclosed.

AFAICT that is not how things are measured though, use in public except at specific trade fairs is prior use that voids a patent.

There is a lot of room for spending money on patent lawyers within the argument as to what is and is not public use though - http://www.ladas.com/Patents/Biotechnology/USPharmPatentLaw/... is a good summary IMO.

IANAPL
> Your post seems to be making the usual mistake of comparing something that doesn't exist to products that Apple are selling right now.

No, that was Gruber's mistake.
I always say "First or best. Pick at least one."
AirBnB was recently valued at $1BN, so even if you assume AirBnB is worth zero, you only take a 25% haircut on this back of the napkin math (because AirBnB only represents $1BN of the $4.2BN in pg's portfolio). So, then you're talking about a lifetime 10X investor instead of a 13.4X investor. Still completely amazing performance, and he has a diverse portfolio of startups to protect him from individual blow-ups (such as assuming one of his most valuable companies is worth zero).
Show HN: SaaS product showcase
Do you have a web service that you run (CRM, Dashboards, Gamification etc.) and possibly have an API for? Showcase it in this thread by adding a link and a one sentence description.
My point was more of an observation about the aristocracy point. Often the rich do still take significant risks with their wealth even though the effects of inflation are negligible on them.

I'm unsure about the deflationary aspect of bitcoin - in my opinion the degree to which it is problematic depends on the rate of depreciation compared to other assets. It seems more of a problem if you wanted to use bitcoin to replace a sovereign currency, rather than use it as a currency on a smaller scale intended for grey market/black market transactions. I think the appreciation of the currency over time was probably intended to ensure it originally took off by providing an incentive for early adopters; its dubious legal status probably means it's a poor long term investment choice anyway.

To some extent this discussion is entirely academic anyway - bitcoin is being used as a currency right now (see the Silk Road Market), so in that sense it's already succeeded..
Made with node.js. Source code available here: https://github.com/christopherhan/kaleidoscope

Uses WebSockets so should be used with Chrome, Safari, or FF with WebSockets enabled.

Would appreciate feedback.
I will tell you how that practice might help for SEO purpose. A page has a limited link juice which gets distributed more or less equally to all links on the page. So if the article links to external page, some of that link juice flows to it. Why not rather limit it to your own internal pages?
Especially love how it is a contracted sales team.
"Red gold" would be exactly as valuable as gold is in the same way that gold is; that is, if everybody agreed that red gold was valuable, then it would be valuable. If they didn't, then it wouldn't. Scarcity doesn't give rise to value. You also need demand.

In so far as red gold acted in the same way as gold for jewellery and industrial uses, it would probably decrease the value of gold to some proportion, and set a base level on this red gold production. But this is like asking why diamonds are valuable, or designer clothes, or expensive watches. In many cases, it's a combination of marketing, status display effects (ostentatious useless consumption), artificial restriction on supply, and market fixing (e.g. arranging to buy watches on secondary markets at headline prices for PR purposes). They too are confidence games, and if the confidence goes due to a bad association with the brand, the price will fall through the floor. All that is left is productive uses like industry.
I want to subscribe to HN posts filtered by points, submitters, keywords, openCalais data, etc. I'm building a web app for this, v0.1 due in several days.

As a side effect of scraping HN it would also have a lot of data that I'd want to aggregate/analyze/visualize.
Isn't replacing some restrictive platform with HTML5/JS good? do they even know what HTML5 is? -_-
You know how people say you should never use bare "this" or "these" or "those" in your writing? This question shows why, because it leaves ambiguity.
Why is it inherently a bad idea? Why is it a pyramid scheme?
I had the same experience (Droid 2), except it crashed before I could even accept the Root Permissions dialog, so I doubt I suffered any major damage. (The default permissions are more innocuous)
I do like the Metro UI, and I find it awesome in a lot of ways, but it mostly seems forced and not that effective if you are using keyboard/mouse.

As a developer I doubt I would use the Metro UI a lot, so it would mostly be a shiny thing to randomly switch to.

It also worries me a bit that so many OS:es are moving away from keyboard-based navigation. One can always hope for good keyboard shortcuts, Win 7 has some good quite hidden keyboard shortcuts after all.

Also, how does it scale to my 3-display development machine? Multi-monitor may not be the standard, but it is quite common with monitor-prices going down. Mac OS X is quite random when it comes to scaling to multi-monitor.

I guess we'll eventually figure these things out, but a lot of uncertainties so far.
(Follow up: JCR's comment seems to make it clear that's what is being distributed here doesn't constitute reverse engineering in the legal sense. I hadn't actually looked at the files. Ah well.)
> Under those conditions, is my computer use essentially free?

It's 'free' when compared to an electric heater, but not when compared to a heat pump (e.g. a food refrigerator). Heat pumps can use their energy input to divert heat from a cool reservoir, in addition to simply creating additional heat.

So if you want to generate heat even more efficiently, keep a fridge in your room and fill it with water or soft drinks (water has a high thermal capacity).
No, I work in VC and OP is right. If you have a $100M fund, you invest it all, and you don't lose any money, but you also don't make any money, then you will return $100M to your LPs. Your fund will be a 1x fund and you will return 100% of capital invested. So, I'd stick with the 1340% number.

I understand we are really just disagreeing about the semantics of the word "return", but I'm just including how I see it most commonly used in my line of work.
@paraschopra: The practice in question was using image for the word "SOURCE".
OO in C can be uglier than in C++ but there's one big advantage: an object can use a mix of functions from different "classes" instead of pointing to a fixed vtable. An object can decide to build its own vtable and patch in optimized member functions.
Doing a startup taught me the value of staying in school
And now you have to stare at it every day and remember the rigmarole.

Ironically, in the UK, you'd probably get sued by the person who nicked it.
Bitcoin looks nothing like a pyramid scheme. There is a relationship between the value of a bitcoin and the demand, but that's true for any product.
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... which is surely a very good thing? If cash paid a better return than most investments then we wouldn't have anyone to invest in things.
An Older Version of Skype Reverse-Engineered? (And Made Open Source?)
YC companies address customers in diverse sectors, but if you were to classify YC companies with a GICS code, 99% of them would fall under Internet Software & Services (code 4510) [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Industry_Classification_... ].

So, it's not really a diverse portfolio, but it's definitely a portfolio play, which is substantially less risky than having all your assets tied up in the stock of a single startup.

Think about it this way, if 2001 hit again and all tech stocks plummeted, all the companies in the YC portfolio would be substantially negatively impacted, so there isn't a portfolio effect to protect against this correlation in YC's assets.
Why not just get it over with and send everyone to RIAA-run prison camps?
Thanks. I think I'm hung up on the term "creating." What I described is typical fed borrowing through selling bonds.
Was the Internet ever known for being a haven of critical thinking?
I'm also an LWN subscriber (via my company), but I really don't think this is an abuse. It's great to see LWN and LWN articles getting occasional attention here.
Exactly. If I asked the first thousand people I passed on the street what a bitcoin was, I doubt any of 'em would be able to tell me.
Treating bitcoin as a currency is kind of wrong. It's a commodity with limited and predictable supply, like gold for example. You wouldn't call it a pyramid scheme, just like you wouldn't the gold market a pyramid scheme. His points against its use as currency are sound.
This, is a classic management lesson. Take stock. Confer with key stakeholders and the engineers. Draw a composite picture of the state of the system. And take a painful decision to abandon your approach, hopefully in time.
Much as I liked 'Meego' as an idea, and much as I like Nokia as a phone company( Symbian phones were incredibly useful. And the hardware and design is always top class.), this was a correct decision. I hope Nokia can find its feet again and dazzle us with some amazing phones again.
Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/hpg3g/a_javascri...
You are mentioning Compaq BIOS. Think Samba though.

Even OOo/LO .doc support is based on 1-2 FTE revEngs (which btw is dumped mfc/w32 memory on a FAT, but read Sun/IBM anyway).

The team will write a public spec, print it out on paper, and another team Down and Under will scan it and create new code (think RSA patent export). The skype protocol has long been reverse engineered and is available to several parties.
I was curious about the technique used under the hood, so I decided to have a closer look.

-- What it does to intercept network trafic:

1/ The app spawns an android (java) service that, that performs the following as root when it starts:

# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

# iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -s 0/0 -j MASQUERADE

# iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -j DNAT -p tcp --dport 1337 --to 127.0.0.1

# iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -j DNAT -p tcp --dport 1337 --to xxxunclearherexxx

My understanding is that it redirects outgoing packets (targetted at port 1337) to loopback, where the native daemon listens (2/)

This is not visible in the video, but when the user clicks to use a caught Facebook profile, it seems to trigger an android Intent to actually go to Facebook on port 1337 instead of 80, so it gets caught by the iptables hook.

2/ It then execs the faceniff binary to go native (unpacked from resources) with some params (stealth/passive mode, license check), and polls its status every 1s.

-- Native part:
I believe it handles most of the logic. Looking at the strings contained, it seems to deal with libpcap to intercept and forge headers on the fly.

Some interesting strings:
libpcap version 0.9.8

new user found but the app is locked!

Unable to find ssid in cookies [%s]

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Connection: close

Set-Cookie: %s=%s; expires=Fri, 14-Jul-2017 04:40:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.%s

<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;http://%s/>;

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Connection: close

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:51:18 GMT

<li><a href='http://%s:1337/%s>%s</a></li>;

client asking for: [%s]

Technically speaking, this is interesting. Please feel free to add info if you are familiar with the technique.
Yes, by default in Windows it installs to the user's "Application Data" folder instead of the system-wide "Program Files".
Discussion of Vim and Its Implementation