skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I can answer the why a little better:

The short answer is: This opportunity is everything that matters most to me - a great startup with a real vision and a team that believes in execution, the ability to have a real impact in the company as well as in the community, the ability to follow some of my passions and share some knowledge, and to work on a problem that makes a real difference in people's lives.

We're not just going to be a ho-hum tutor marketplace, we're going to pull out all the best pieces of information and knowledge to make a real difference for education.

To me, that's worth moving back across the country for.
Not everyone with an Apple ID can log in, only paying developers.

I have a free developer account and was able to log in. I don't have a @me.com address so I couldn't check Mail, but the rest worked.
It's funny that he wrote off all the other IDEs in favour of Eclipse which requires more setup than to do Android development than IDEA does. Even if I didn't hate Eclipse it'd be hard to argue with "1. Install IntelliJ, 2. write your code".
Awesome. I had no idea I how I felt about poverty (when did I comment on that?)
Curious. I edited my comment.
Still, you will have to wait for around 30s for each refresh; While the new binary gets uploaded
Agreed. It seems for all the vitriol against AirBnb, there seems to be a vitriol against the criticism of AirBnb as well.

Either way, all the articles, from TechCrunch and on Hacker News, have been useful to me in understanding both the issue, the reaction in the press, the sentiment on hacker news and among tech circles, and beyond. This one in particular does add some new information which I found useful.

I will keep upvoting stories I find interesting about the whole ordeal and I encourage others not to be deterred by the extreme comments in either way.
Chrome Web Store: Now with more international support and with In-App Payments
Oh, that's right. It was the Dakotas. Whoops!
American Mom Bloggers Connecting with Africans
The mom bloggers’ met female farmers and visited one of Africa’s largest slums in Nairobi.
It's unsustainable only if they pay out to everyone who cries wolf.
A few months ago, I was at a talk at Google Chicago with two of the original creators of Subversion (Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick). After profuse apologies, they said everyone in the room should switch from git to hg, and that people who still used git just didn't realize how much it sucks. Then I realized why Google released hg support before git support :P
It sounds like you really want a free system. Redmine is a bit ugly, but it's the best free system I've used to track agile dev & it's stable.
Ask HN: Recommendations for secure browsing?
Given recent news like this, http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/undeletable-cookie, I have been thinking about ways to secure my browsing.

what do other HNers do? Any suggestions on how I can improve my browsing habits?
This is apparently "compromise." According to ThinkProgress.org, this amounts to a savings equal to the US military occupying Afghanistan for three months.
I suspect they're frightened of the butterfly.
Comparison Of Ways Programmers Can Make Money Online
API Stack – Full-Text Search with IndexTank API
For me:

Access to technical resources such as pre-release software and associated documentation, and information related to distributing iOS or Mac apps on the App Store are benefits offered to Apple Developer Program members.

Either the Apple ID and password you entered is not associated with an Apple Developer Program, or the Program that you are enrolled in does not have access to this resource.
We didn't change anything. Is anyone else seeing a problem?
Then he should just say "I am unwilling to work for a company that sells ads", rather than trying to say that none of Google's work is meaningful simply because they sell ads.

I don't believe substituting "serving ads" with "making money" distorts the message at all. I think it merely highlights how immature his stance is. He stated quite plainly that Twitter isn't about connecting people, that Facebook isn't about sharing links, because they are about "serving ads". The implication here is that a company which sells ads cannot do anything, which is ridiculous. He set up a strawman.
Not that it will necessarily matter in the end, but for your client's sake I hope the people who are going to care that you are the best provider are the same people who might actually pay for it :P
What? I'm gonna assume your not a native English speaker, and make some assumptions here.

Just because it doesn't work for you on Google or Facebook doesn't mean "advertising" doesn't work. Advertising is more than just Google and Facebook.

Furthermore, your "proof" isn't proof. It's nothing, really.

Finally: "we don't have to call it advertising"

A rose by any other name is still a rose.
Personally, I've found knowing perl useful in some of the same ways that I've found C useful. Perl is still one of the most popular systems scripting languages and perl code always seems to show up somewhere important.

If I were into serious application development I would probably try a project with Clojure before perl, but there are a lot of situations where that might not be desireable (eg you don't want to use the JVM).
I agree completely -- are there any other platforms out there similar in function to instructables?
Mybitcoin.com runs off with everyone's bitcoin.
You sort of gloss over things like your Kickstarter project receiving full funding, and writing an article for a magazine. It seems like these were a major portion of your early momentum and I wondered if you think you'd have the same results if no one knew who you were and/or this was your first gig?

Seems like being able to call on friends from Behance can't hurt?
Tried, got this: http://postimage.org/image/176470lk4/
What is the difference between need and want? Economically, there is no difference - there are simply goods that have less elastic demand curves and goods that have more elastic demand curves. The elasticity value that distinguishes "need" from "want" is totally arbitrary.
We launched well before Giftly. Regarding the how it works page, that's sheer coincidence. Our designer had finished his mocks before Giftly launched.
>Does anyone really believe that this model has a future? Are we in that much of a bubble?

Sure it has a future. There are always problems to be solved with an original business model, but they will be (or at least continuously mitigated as a proportion of the overall business). Some examples:

1. AirBnB already ties into your FB network so you can see and rent to and from friends and friends of friends. I've found this very useful, though ABB should make it a more prominent feature of the site.

2. Now they've got insurance. If I were them I'd find some intrepid banker or actuary to figure out additional optional insurance they can sell to both hosts and renters. $50k is a good start, but I bet many places will want more. If a bunch of meth addicts trashed the country of Lichenstein, $50k sure wouldn't cover it. I also bet the risk model is relatively stable and they could turn that into a secondary cash flow.

3. I was actually surprised people rent their apartment/house to strangers without being there. That was definitely a little nuts, no idea what EJ was thinking there. But who knows, maybe it's another opportunity. For example, someone with strong online rep and thousands of FB friends, or real-life security or military professional, might start up a gig where they rent themselves out to any AirBnB host in their city to stay in their apartment while the host is gone. For, say 30% of the rental, they'll be a trusted caretaker. AirBnBouncers.com.

On a side note, why are we hearing about these problems with AirBnB when Couchsurfing has been doing basically the same but free for longer? What's the difference? Has CS created a stronger, more connected/verified community, or do CS hosts never offer their couches without being there themselves?
Yes definitely. If he can use TechCrunch to overtly promote adoption/use of his investments, that's a pretty killer "value add". Of course, talk of conflicts will surely surface again, but that doesn't diminish how potentially useful a channel this is for Zaarly or his other investments.
Doesn't work for me. I get "User name not found. Might be a temporary outage. Sorry."
http://i.imgur.com/d4jjL.png
What a graphic designer thinks about startups
Exactly. Someone might have their leg amputated and complain for a while, then eventually accept it and adapt. This does not mean that having a leg amputated is a good thing.
Same here. And I'm a paying developer on Lion.
Bravo. This looks like an excellent next step. Not necessarily the ultimate scalar, but it's nice to see the vector pointing in the right direction.

As was one of the many outspoken people in one of the earlier threads, I hope I speak for a lot of my fellow hn'ers when I say that we call 'em as we see 'em, for better or worse. Not necessarily in judgement, but as part of a community living through monumental changes of all kinds. Believe it or not, Brian, many of us really are on your side.

Like many other "new age" business models, I'm afraid I still don't really understand this one and it's prospects for the future. But it's safe to say you've just taken one giant step on that bumpy road to sustainability.

Two of the most important things I expect from any business is to always tell the truth and to always do the right thing. It matters less how long you take to get there than the fact that you actually do.

Looking forward to seeing how this plays out. Often being down, then up again makes you stronger than if you never went through the tough times in the first place.
And it's not like Microsoft haven't done the same - the ribbon and that bulbous Office button for saving and opening confuse me every time.
People in your team may not ask this question, but people who are in charge of them do. All the time.

Let me ask you a specific question. Google navigation. It's web-based only, right? It requires Internet. It does not work in a rural area where your phone has no Internet. Why not make this application a standalone, to enhance user experience? To make user "happier"? So that it works even without Internet? Don't tell me it's not possible: many companies have done this, well before Google, so Google can do this too. The answer: Google intends to serve ads, and for this Internet is the key. You don't have an Internet connected phone? Google does not care about you: you will not see ads.
What hasn't changed is that the model is still fatally flawed

A business model is not flawed simply because it offers a service that entails inevitable risks of injury or harm to those who use the service (airlines have crashes; banks have embezzlers and thieves; anesthesia has an inevitable x% fatalities when used with operations; eBay has frauds and swindlers, and so on).

HomeAway just went public with a different but related business model as that of Airbnb. Its S-1 registration statement identified all sorts of contingencies by which the company might face liabilities from the wrongdoings of third parties in connection with its vacation rentals - everything from bogus listings by which prospective renters are swindled to robberies and bodily injury suffered by renters to physical injuries from conditions on the premises. In spite of all this, its business model has not proved to be flawed.

This world is not perfect and much evil can lurk in and about the nooks and crevices of human relationships. The fact that a service provider can't act as guarantor against all such risks does not mean that it can't offer a reasonable or even valuable service.

Airbnb probably did downplay the risks to its users up to this point (and it certainly messed up this particular incident) but it has now gone a long way to correcting that problem. If it can offer a desired service that will bring benefits to 99.99999% of its users year in and year out, and if it guarantees against a significant range of risks as it has now done, that is a lot better than most businesses do. It may or may not succeed in its venture (I for one wish them well) but that will be an issue of execution, not of a flaw in the business model tied to the inevitable risk that people sometimes do bad things.
Sorry, didn't even search for a duplicate. What an inauspicious first post.

Discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828122
I won't use phpbb or vbulletin or any of them because they feel cludgy. I don't want signatures. Two lines of text shouldn't occupy 500 pixels on my screen. And conversations among tons of people don't make sense when displayed at one hierarchy. Reddit and HN have spoiled me, any sort of unmoderated single-hierarchy forum is a chore anymore.
Text processing (data munging, web programming, networking, system adminstration), of course!
"I’m jealous of astronomers, for example, because people respect astronomers for doing astronomy because it’s interesting just for its own sake. I studied computer science because it’s interesting to study computer science."

Probably my favorite part of the interview.
How Apple conquered China and learned to think like the Communist Party.
They did what they had to do to turn this around. I think it came out a lot more expensive had they been more prepared and $50,000 is one whopper of a liability. Hopefully, they did some simulations for worst case scenarios.

One thing is, you have to require due diligence on the part of renters and vary coverage accordingly. Otherwise you just encourage carelessness now that the illusion of trust and safety is tarnished.

This fiasco might have dented their velocity but I'd say overall, better now than later. They now have a major asset, getting through a crisis. Now they need to bullet-proof it like PayPal's epiphany that their main business is not digital money transaction but fraud detection (because it can rock their bottom line and tank the business). For this you need hardcore engineers who can apply rigorous analysis to the problem of shady renters not more community guidelines.
I was talking about the majority of jailbreaks, not JailbreakMe. Most jailbreaks are done at the low-level bootloader level, which does require physical access to the device (as well as pressing a bunch of buttons in a certain way); and even that doesn't get you access to the keychain or anything it protects.

Also, even if JailbreakMe was malicious (or somebody used the same code or exploits in a malicious way), it could not "spread itself": it was a browser exploit (although it would be possible to run without the user knowing).
User name not found. Might be a temporary outage. Sorry.
This would be one heck of a phishing scam to get everyone's Apple ids. Has anyone verified that the site is legit?
I'm glad someone brought this up. I think it's NJ that has a lot of jug handles and they do a pretty good job at eliminating all left hand turns and once I understood the term they were easy to use. I also think they would be easier to implement on existing roads.
If you are a developer you don't even need $5k - you just need the price of a domain, and personal funding to be able to take as much time off paid work as possible.

You can host for free on appengine, PR and marketing is just putting the work in, and you might need a little to spend on design but even then $100 gets you a long way on sites like 99designs.

The most expensive part is supporting yourself and/or a co-founder, and that varies a lot depending on where you are based. You could get away with $1k a month in some places (SF and the valley are probably the most expensive place to be - and you don't need to be).

Thinking that funding, or entry into YC or a similar program, is a blocker is a mistake. All that stands between you and a successful product is a lot of hard work.
PC on a USB Stick for $25
Off topic: What are the other sites doing "your browser is not supported" with chrome?
Can't say I've ever been to Bing on this computer, but clicking on the links gives me the error.

However, after visiting Bing.com and then clicking on the links, they work.
Sync will not move all your data. I switched to a new profile after installing an add-on that introduced problems and uninstalling didn't correct those problems. I fell back to Sync for the new profile so I could salvage my history and bookmarks from my 2-ish year old profile, but it left out something like 9 months of history, all but two of my tags, and a good chunk of my bookmarks and search keywords (including the ones I'd set up for MXR).

I'm not sure if it was buggy, or if Sync was intentionally not tracking the stuff that didn't get copied over. (cf mconnor's blog post a month or so ago about implementing Sync quota caps).
Was talking about the US. There are exceptions in the US too (i.e. Bar and Bat Mitzvahs).
this guy must be young, as he doesn't seem to remember how fucking awful the internet was before google (google search that is. he seems to take it for granted, as anything invented before i was born.. like running water... or electricity).

I’m not saying that my code needs to save the world or support
humanitarian causes, but it should at least be something that I like,
or I would use, or that I care about.

and i am not just talking about how awful search was. remember punch-the-monkey ads? i feel like google adwords is the second greatest internet invention.

so i have to look at a couple of (non-intrusive, often related to my interest) ads, in order to pay for my access to any bit on information from anywhere in the world, in single-digit milliseconds?

and btw, google's self-driving cars? toootally about freeing-up more of your time to be able to watch even more ads -- because today, i don't look at ads (billboards) while i am driving..

(ask me why advertising is the only way to pay for a service like search at a scale like the internet -- with transaction costs and all that)
“God’s Blog”
> Also, even if JailbreakMe was malicious (or somebody used the same code or exploits in a malicious way), it could not "spread itself": it was a browser exploit (although it would be possible to run without the user knowing).

It could certainly spread. Maybe it could SMS a link to a malicious download to your most frequently contacted contacts? Being able to run arbitrary code on a device that knows how to contact all your friends certainly introduces some vectors for attack.
They already integrate with Facebook, just not prominently enough imho. And I don't know why Couchsurfing would cooperate since they're pretty much a competitor.
> Airbnb had a plan, and that plan was to boldly deny all responsibility, to flat out ignore the human consequences of their flawed model...

Even if they did, how is the model flawed? I don't understand all the heat Airbnb is getting - after all, they were upfront with that disclaimer and hadn't tried to persuade their users that there's absolutely no risk... Or have they?

How is AirBnB different, as far as responsibility is concerned, from a classifieds paper that publishes adds for apartment rentals? Or from Craigslist, for that matter.

I mean, vilifying them for asking the victim to take down her blog (_if_ it's true) is one thing, but blaming the vandalism on Airbnb is completely different and something that I don't understand.
This one is awesome: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/absolute-must-watch-office-...

If you could just absorb some of Paul Graham's thinking... I've seen this one like 3 times.
1. You can say the same about database schema changes. A lot of the bumping into one another would come from your sproc/udf trying to handle too many things at once. Which is typically a bad design decision.
Spot on. At least half of these predictions are from marginally passable to blatantly wrong, with #1 and #5 taking the cake. Clojure's "emergence" as the language du jour in HN's echo chamber doesn't put Lisp "in the top 10 most popular programming languages", not even close.
Works for Firefox 5 (not terribly surprising).
The SadMac Cloud is goddamned adorable (surprising).
I find that I build products for myself first - just as sysadmins write scripts to automate parts of their job, I write small apps to make my own life easier.

I then use them myself, share them with friends, and do not place any real expectation of success on them. The product I am about to launch I have been using myself for almost a year now - and I feel that it is almost ready to share with the world.

If it takes off, it takes off, if not - I will still be using it myself and I have a handful or friends who still use it.

This means you can refine a product and know that it works for at least somebody - rather than hoping you will match an idea in your head to somebody out there who needs it. And everybody belongs to a community - some friends who share interests (ie. developers who use git, tech people who read blogs) and there is no better initial trial audience than your own.

It also means that there is no expectation on a single product - more of a portfolio approach which spreads out your chances.

I will likely make five or so products available to the public in the next 6 months, if I am lucky only four of them will suck.
I have a free account as well but it says I do not have access.
"User name not found. Might be a temporary outage. Sorry."
Yes. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20068165-37.html
Shocker: A Real Senate Debate For Once
That might be the funny part.
Also, the "new" is in the headline.
I cannot help but think this thing will be a nightmare in the snow. It just has a slide into the wrong place vibe.
Working in defence =/= making weapons. And honestly, I'd rather not make things that invade people's privacy.
agreed, right there with you. my main apple id is gmail, but i do already have a me.com account also. would like to merge but it seems the only option on the iPhone is to create a new one, not sign-in with an existing one.
Drop both, and find something that you enjoy AND has a good market.
Oh my why would anyone want to lean Perl anymore?

Because it's powerful, it's easy to start, it's flexible, it's productive, it's ubiquitous, and it has an unparalleled extension ecosystem devoted to quality and ease of use.
Anyone got a screenshot of this thing working or something, its obviously having problems at the moment.
Google Ventures invests in Whaleshark Media
No-one is blaming Airbnb for the actual act of vandalism.

They are different from Craigslist because they take a percentage of the transaction. This makes them a participant in the transaction and this is important in legal terms.

The heat is mostly because young, inexperienced and overconfident executives overplayed their hand and then tried to salvage the situation by blatantly and very obviously lying about what their position had been 24hrs earlier. It was astonishing to watch and caused quite a feeding frenzy.
I'm really not seeing any answers here. I see that the project has decided it doesn't need (or hasn't yet implemented) some things that I think are fairly important.

I'm missing the simple list of "this is very important and missing from all the tools you know." Somewhere between git, mercurial, bzr and fossil, there's a hole so large and so fundamental that an entire new tool must be developed to fill it.
The Planetarium
Looks like twitter back in the ol day
a) There is a long tradition of advertising supporting other enterprises without corrupting it. Did the Watergate investigation only occur to sell advertising? Few would argue that was the case, but many would argue that revenue from advertising made it possible.

b) Advertising can (and should) get much better than it is. In the ideal form you would never see an ad until the moment you needed what it was selling and at that point the advertised product would be exactly what you needed. Working towards that goal is interesting, and teaches us at least as much about human intelligence as all the research in AI labs over the last 25 years.
The DIY Terminator: Private Robot Armies And The Algorithm-Run Future Of War