skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Earlier in the history of the industry games were ligher weight, more iterative and more exploratory. Over time that changed. Sure thats changing back again with indie games, but that's still a small part of the market.

I'm just wondering out loud, could your corner of the world be moving in that direction?
We all live on some spectrum of consumer vs. producer. Some entrepreneurs (classic producers) never stop being primarily producers. Those are the people who remain frugal and are indifferent about their fortunes. Others fall toward the consumer end of the spectrum, and sometimes lose their way.

I think it's universally true that producing is always better than consuming, but perhaps someone will refute that point convincingly.
Correct. I admit to spending lots of time looking over the programming language shootout benchmarks, and memory use is almost as interesting as the execution time.
Ask HN (Ask Tptacek): Are RSA SecurIDs Fundamentally Flawed?
Since the attack on RSA earlier this year, I've been wondering if companies that use SecureIDs as a component of their corporate passwords aren't doing more harm to themselves than good.

In brief, it seems like they make a large portion of your password computationally predictable, and make the unique component of the password shorter than it otherwise would be. Fine if only RSA knows how to predict it -- but as soon as an exploit arises, it's literally impossible to patch the hardware.

If you were starting from scratch, would you hardware-based two-factor auth, choose a two-factor system that's in software and patchable, or forgo the notion entirely?
link: http://www.chatnearme.com/chatnearme/
I also noticed the answers here on HN are better quality and I didn't have to scroll past the usual parade of people arguing whether the thread should be closed...
I'm not saying their social media editor was lying about what their policy says.

I'm saying that since they're clearly not following that policy anyway, it doesn't really matter what the policy says.
Yea, I know, IE in particular is quite infamous, and people has been saying that IE8 is the new IE6 for a while now.
or at least have thumbnails or whatever those placeholders are supposed to be.

...and is my count wrong, or are there more judges than entrants?
How about a virtual layer on top of HN?

If you start a private forum, this has the disadvantage that it would put up a barrier to people could make use of the valuable information. A public forum would need to be carefully curated to avoid having it drowned out by the clueless majority. Both would need to attract an audience.

HN has the audience and is close to what you want, but the problem is that thoughtful discussion is drowned out by the sea of clueless groupthink. Someone who wants to contribute to the thoughtful discussion has to read, evaluate, and deliberately not respond to the "you're so wrong" comments.

But suppose I could highlight the thoughtful responses, and share that with anyone who wanted to see the thread through that filter. Now anyone can see just the posting and the thoughtful responses, if they want to. And it's a lot less work for them to join in a thoughtful discussion, because they don't have to plow through the clueless majority opinions.

Next, imagine you could create a group, such as "successful entrepreneurs" which would be able to share responsibility for maintaining your filter (instead of just one person having to do it). You would be in charge of membership of a group you created. Now anyone in your group could mark a post or comment as being thoughtful (or interesting or useful) from a "successful entrepreneur" perspective. And if I was interested in that perspective, I could choose to view HN through that lens.

This would also solve the problem of good content quickly falling off the front page. Everything that had been selected by your successful entrepreneur group would remain available in the lens archive.
Zach Weiner of SMBC-Comics.com did an AMA on reddit and said that he makes a living off of, "Mostly ads, though t-shirts sales are a decent percentage as well" [1]. He lists the ad networks he uses in the AMA.

You could try asking him for more specifics; he seems pretty friendly and open.

The percentage breakdown varies, by comic. Something Positive was apparently making 35% of its income from ads [2]. Dominic Deegan's artist "makes most of his income selling self-published compilations of his webcomic at anime and comic conventions" [2]. I've also read of other artists—can't remember which, sorry—saying they make little through ads, and that most of their income came from merchandise sales.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9zaf3/i_draw_saturday_...

[2] http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2011/08/02/the_new_...
Elephant in the room: Why?
Can you legally lie?
This.

It seems the writer here is wearing blinders; it's fine if you're not a proponent of Apple Inc. that's 100% your prerogative, but if you're going to cherrypick which points stick and which don't so that the only thing that's left are the ones that directly support whatever point, well sorry.
Don't fall in the "this makes money trap". Many niches can make you money, and you'll probably make more money with niches you have more experience with. You just need persistence.

One year (and a half) earlier, I was making almost nothing (per month) from the Internet. I was looking here and there for ways to make money, tried almost everything; and made nothing.

Then I decide to stick to one thing: Create and sell scripts (http://codecanyon.net). They give you 50% and script prices are between $5 and $15 (too low). But there were a few making money with it (cool money), so why can't I?

First months, it sucked. I was working hard to release my first and second products. I discovered that it was hard to build something. I made little money ($5-$30/month).

Only this month (1 year and a half later) that things started to move. I'm about to cash $500 even I'm not optimizing my landing pages, improving my rankings, doing some promotion... [It's good to mention that I made around $1500 doing custom development related to my scripts]

And now I'm a whole lot more optimistic: I believe I can make $2k-$3k from CodeCanyon alone, and I'll be doing it in the next couple of months (and not next year). I'll write about my experience, and how I made it once I setup my blog.

But back to the original point: Persistence. Stick to your plan.
Neat idea. I tried moving the location to Los Angeles, CA but my posts didn't appear. Is registration mandatory?
...perhaps but Sony service is for the dogs (by reputation). Both Lenovo/Thinkpad and Apple service is outstanding - both in American English. If you depend on your machine and you travel consider service.
No, you can post as unregistered and I just saw a post 2 minutes ago. There is still a bit of a delay i.e. it is not yet real-time
Do URL shortener services generate safe URLs?
You are giving the wrong summary. A better summary would be: Napster gave us wine, Apple created a nice looking bottle for it. But without bottle there would still be wine.
Verizon Wireless can do no wrong
I was trying to login to Verizon when I encountered this error message. Apparently the only reason Verizon's site can get backed up is because they "are experiencing very high traffic levels due to
unprecedented demand for [their] products and services."
On a related note, I'm really enjoying what the Buffer guys are doing. They have a novel idea, but to me following their stories and successes have been fascinating. I keep learning from them. Hope they succeed!
But all those innovations were inevitable! So, you know, the Romans surely don't deserve any credit.
Are you claiming that I or the parent to my post are advocating a lack of progress? Quite the opposite. We're giving example of things that people take for granted today that never would have come about had we blocked progress in the name of protecting existing industry (or industry players).
I agree though that Google has more impact than Apple. Every student, every high schooler or college student, professor, scientist etc around the world use Google to get access to knowledge, learn and get their job done. I live in Peru where every student use google to get knowledge, I haven't seen anyone with an idevice anywhere here.

I think the service Google has done to humanity by making information accessible to all and that easily is hard to match by any company today on earth. Apple makes pretty devices, and accelerated the smartphone revolution (which was already en marche with blackberry as the article say), but on the whole, Google reached and helped (and keep doing so today) much more people than Apple ever has. Not to mention the billions of dollars Google give to publishers from India to Peru helping them make a living, not to mention Android, youtube, blogger etc.

So yes, Google has changed the world much more than Apple in my opinion and experience here and everywhere I've been.
I am sorry to hear that, but perhaps you could set an example and explain what was so wrong, instead of merely flagging/down-modding.

From my point of view, my comment was of the same tone and direction as the immediate parent. Snarky, insulting and full of (in my opinion - well deserved) ridicule.

(EDIT: I appreciate the fact that any forum (HN) would benefit from keeping snark, insults and stupid fights to a minimum and in that spirit my reply was in the wrong direction. In future, I'll try to cultivate a less confrontational and/or snarky tone and be more patient than I was here.)

Having said that, I am a firm believer in the dictum of "you cannot please everyone, all of the time", but I would love to hear the basis for you taking such strong offense to my comment alone.
I really don't understand the need to denigrate Apple. It almost seems as this spawns from an instinctive respect for the significance that Apple, and Steve Jobs specifically, have actually had.

Apple invented the GUI (using some ideas they licensed from Xerox), as part of a project that Steve Jobs led. The NeXT cube inspired the web to some extent and made the first browser much easier to write. Apple invented the touch UI. Hell, just listing the significant inventions of Apple is almost embarrassing because any list is going to leave so many of them off.

I credit Google for inventing page rank and for nailing web advertising. I won't even debate whether that is more significant than what Apple has done in just the last decade because doing so implies that some sort of one-upmanship has any point at all.

But, what significant inventions can we credit to Microsoft? HP? Dell? Lenovo? Samsung? Sony? The cell networks?

Lets step out of the world of computers, where Apple is somehow a controversial figure, and look at the world of movies. Steve Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas for $6M of his own money (got from selling Apple stock) in 1986. At the time Pixar was just an effects shop for Lucas, but Ed Catmull et. al. wanted to make a feature. Jobs nurtured that company, tried to get it to at least break even (so it wouldn't break him) doing cutting edge commercials in the 1990s, until they finally got a break and got a deal with Disney. Pixar changed movies forever.

And they were able to do it because Steve Jobs had a perspective that even George Lucas didn't have. Lucas knew Catmull et al wanted to do features, but he didn't think it was viable. Jobs did, and put up what, at the time, was a significant portion of his net worth. And he stuck thru it during a number of thin years. All credit to the people at Pixar who actually made the technology and the movies-- but also credit to Jobs for letting them do it, with minimal interference.

It's not that Apple changed everything, its that Steve Jobs did.

I think attempting to deny this man-- one of the few genuine capitalist heroes-- the credit he is due is doomed to failure. You can't deny it, and trying to only reflects on yourself.
The point is that none of what Apple brought about in the last decade was "significant" in the same way that sanitation, ..., public health are. They primarily brought combinations of things we were already doing in slick and usable packages. They produced a bunch of great products, no doubt, but I cringe whenever someone calls an iThing "revolutionary".
There is a need for browser based crypto

I would love to see reasonably secure browser based crypto. You could submit things to a website without the website being able to see what they are.

Imagine a social network that was opaque to the people hosting the social network.
Somewhat related: You know how we in the startup world are constantly chanting, "It's the execution that matters, not the idea?" Well, many of the discussions around Apple seem to boil down to one person saying that Apple copied/stole the idea, or the idea was inevitable, and the other person saying "Yeah, but Apple pulled off he execution."

To the extent that all of Apple's ideas in GUIs, mobile devices, music retailing, physical stores, and so on are all "obvious" or "inevitable," Apple's success has been in executing on those ideas with overwhelming competence.

It may sound banal to say that all Apple does is execute competently. But experience with startups shows that executing competently with new products and creating new markets is heinously difficult. And without that execution, progress happens glacially if at all.
If there were a "Panic button", would pilots actually use it? In the case they mentioned, it sounds like the pilot was quite confident that pitching the nose up further would get him out of the stall. Who knows what his reasons were for doing that, but he had to "outmuscle" the existing automated systems to do it. Does that sound like a person who would push a button and let the plane save itself?
Comments with critical, dogmatic hyperboles in them like this drive me nuts in general. Here are the hyperboles in this comment with the translations to normal English.

- "saddled with any dependency baggage" == "has no dependencies"

- "beating on Flask" == "using Flask"

- "shrug" == "i didn't spend a lot of time on this"

- "Flask was completely unsuitable for that" == "I was unwilling to ask for help from the people who use Flask"

Additionally, Flask is also "easy to understand" and has "sane defaults", and it doesn't "require any boilerplate code" either. The context of the comment makes it seem like it's subpar on these things.

I'm all for people pointing out fitness of purpose for various frameworks, but this comment might have been better phrased as "I use Windows. I happened to find a recipe that let me run Bottle as a Windows service. That made it easier for me to use Bottle. Also, I like being able to deploy without the use of packaging tools."
There is a good argument to be made that Google is a more influential company than Apple, but this article doesn't present it. Once you take away the unsubstantiated (at least in the article) fluff, such as "Google preaches openness because it benefits the company", here are Google's concrete accomplishments, according to the article:

1) Their core technology, Google search.

2) The fact that they bought YouTube.

This isn't a very compelling summary of Google's concrete accomplishments, and I'm sure a much better one could be made. Even Google Docs is a better example of Google changing the way people communicate than "they bought YouTube". (YouTube itself is, of course, amazing, but they were established and very popular before Google, a fact that doesn't really fit the narrative as presented.)

The worst part of this article, however, is that it presents Apple's accomplishments as inevitable and Google's as miraculous, when you could just as easily argue the reverse. "Someone would inevitably have bought YouTube -- surely the fact that anybody can now share videos on the Internet is inevitable?" And the answer is, yes, someone would have, but the point is that Google did. In the same way, everybody can see, in hindsight, that the iTunes music store was inevitable, but Apple was the company to make it happen. Being first is only easy in retrospect.
I think this article gets the nexus of failure wrong. Apple didn't change everything because, ultimately, the Apple idea didn't spread. I'm a big fan of Steve Jobs and how Apple has approached products but the fact is that it's pretty much just Apple. Beyond Cupertino there's the same players and the same issues you had before.

You can't change everything if everything refuses to change.
Google certainly changed the way we use the web/Internet. Apple brought more innovation to the the way we interact with computing devices. Both leveraged technology that existed prior to their existence, much as the Romans created from and improved on Greek and Egyptian technologies. We benefit from both, I really don't care to argue which was "best".
It can be tricky. Sometimes customers get the feeling you rip them off when you show off with expensive gadgets or expensive cars.
You write as if Google invented web search. They made it dramatically better. But was it so much better that it changed the world? I am certain it was so much better that they killed off their competition, but somehow I don't think they were so much better that students in Peru wouldn't be using Web Search if Google hadn't come along.
I don't get your point Delphi is used by less smart people?
That's exactly why bringing up the "statement" in the article was a pointless distraction.
ClojureScript vs Coffeescript
I would explain why "so just don't use it" isn't the whole story, but Moxie already did a much better job:
http://www.securitytube.net/video/1084
Every one of those people using Google are doing so on a system running a graphical user interface that Apple invented. In fact, it was Apple that invented the personal computer. Full stop.
So how will this work when none of the instrumentation is giving the computer the correct airspeed? IN the Air France crash, all three of the Pitot tubes had failed.
Thanks bro, u guys are tight.
Let's see, I am a coldfusion developer and use dreamweaver at work but on PC. I've also done some flex apps using flashbuilder which is eclipse. I guess I could use dreamweaver or eclipse for mac.... I googled mac ide reviews, but i'm still on the fence. I'm sure i could find an unused copy of zend studio. I was just wondering what does industry use, if I wanted to switch over to be a php developer. I was hoping to get a majority vote on an IDE but ur right, it is opening a can of worms.
I live in Peru where every student use google to get knowledge,

Sure, but if Google wasn't around they would probably be using Yahoo or AltaVista to get knowledge.
If Google+ is optional, the working for Google is optional too
Files are converted to MS Office format.
People are but not to mine :)

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web 2.0 is to make things affordable...but it's almost always subpar to getting 1 on 1 consultation from an expert

+ it goes down to opportunity cost...sure you could become an expert after spending hundreds of hours...or you can pay the fee and go back to enjoying your retirement.
I'm a fan of this subject and I think that it's a relatively easy to associate the video game industry as something meaningless. (that doesn't mean that it's correct)

Anyone else a Jane McGonigal fan?
http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_be...
>I’ve been running TechStars for six years now. . . . we’ve seen those companies go on to raise about $100M in funding (averaging about $1M each post TechStars)

I would have been more interested to read about valuations than about amounts raised.
There is a general problem with browser UIs: it's never clear whether a link will open in the same tab, open in a new tab, or do neither and actually do something ajaxy instead.

This problem is made worse on pages with embedded flash video, because guessing wrong and attempting to recover by clicking the back button will usually result in losing your place in the video and/or throwing away the content you had buffered.

(I don't happen to agree with the OP about the correct solution, but putting a bit more meat on the bones as to what the problem is.)
One might argue that, if an unnamed company's e-commerce solution would put a lot of people at risk, and an unnamed engineer can prove it, that unnamed engineer has an ethical obligation to discreetly report the vulnerability first to the unnamed company, then to successively more influential and more public venues (e.g. consumer protection groups, security research groups, etc.), until the company responds.
the time it annoys me the most is on YouTube, and you click to rate the video or comment and it takes you away from the video to login.
"kragen has worked for a variety of companies doing mostly cool things. In early 2006, he pulled up stakes and headed to South America, to begin exploring how he can empower people through technology. And to work on his Spanish."
You never heard about Xerox did you?
Please don't. If I want to open a link in a new tab or window, I'll use the appropriate key and/or mouse magic to do so. If I click on a link without modifiers, I want to leave the current page, thank you very much.

I usually stop visiting sites that try to second guess me and fail at it.
New Worm Morto Using RDP to Infect Windows PCs
INSECT Pro 2.7 - Penetration testing tool download ~ THN
Cool I haven't heard of Espresso. I'll research more on that
Awesome. Will check out the links.
I would suggest not doing it, although it seems like a nice idea.

I honestly do think that content will suffer on HN as a result.
The GUI is a revolution from the command line. The personal computer is a revolution from the mini-computer and the mainframe. Apple invented both of those. The touch interface is revolutionary, compared to plastic buttons, and Apple invented that. I find it amazing that people can claim, with a straight face that Apple "combined things were were already doing in slick and usable packages" about things that did not exist before Apple invented them. Its like you hate Apple so much you have to rewrite history to make them less significant. There was no personal computer before the Apple I and Apple II. There were no GUIs before the Lisa. There was not touch UI before the iPhone. AT worst you could point to the crappy windows tablets of 2003 and say that the "iPad didn't invent the tablet market", but that's the same as saying google didn't invent the search engine... which, while true, completely ignores that page rank is a genuine innovation.
I wish people would stop glorifying how many hours they work and how little sleep they get, "You need to live without sleep (4 hours a night every day for years baby!)." Sounds juvenile to me.
I was working on Storybook iOS framework project and the framework is completed but I did not had the time or capacity to produce any books.
I'll be happy to explore anyway that I can license the framework or partnership with anyone who is interested in working on an Interactive Storybook publishing platform for Mobile Devices.

The framework uses a structured document and generates the pages, contents and animation and the structured document is designed such that a non-tech person can create/edit to customize each content on each page/etc.

Let me know if anyone is interested! Email is startupcto@hotmail.com
Not sure but thinking back to those Chinese hackers they might be interested in knowing who's talking to who.

It's also useful for anyone who wants to smear someone else. "Oh politician so-and-so is talking to such a person in secret, I wonder what they're saying".
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