skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the fact that setting up a merchant account is not a good way to get a startup going...

We have just had an identical problem with Lloyds:

- It took ages to get the application sorted in the first place

- They demanded changes to the TOS

- Then we got "questions" about the business (selling our software online), which showed they had clearly not read one part of the description & business plan (the one they asked we write..)

- Then the underwriter apparently decided that they couldn't risk it as they "had a policy of not underwriting software retailers" :S So back to square one on the progress...

- Looking for a new underwriter took a month, and only happened because we spent a morning calling them constantly to ask if our business manager was out of his meeting yet or not...

- Then everything went silent for a week. So we phone Barclays, had the forms and everything arranged within 3 more weeks and away we went.

The day after we went live the merchant agreement from Lloyds arrived by mail...

head desk
Why we run our HBase on EC2?
Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance
If it's anything like the BeagleBoard, just place an order for a single unit (even though DigiKey likely lists 0 in stock), and you'll get one fairly quickly (probably faster than the 4+ weeks for a SheevaPlug).
Hadoop Summit 2011 Takeaways
But there's only so much hand-picking of your examples that you can get away with. Your argument would be stronger if it accounted for more data points.
Architecting HBase on EC2
Google+ Can Be A Social Network Or The Name Police – Not Both
ZeroCater is looking for people to talk to restaurants.
We're growing rapidly and expanding our service to cities across the US. Demand is huge, but we need to find and partner with the best restaurants in every city. We're looking for friendly, high energy people who aren't fazed by the idea of making 70 calls a day.
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Also, I think W3 Total Cache is an order of magnitude easier to install than WP Super Cache.
So I actually talked to them about the product, logged in and played around with it. I'm not a developer, so I can't get into the nitty gritty specifics to the extent this community would appreciate. But if the idea of centralized code management, push button deployment/rollbacks, integrated push button add-ons for backend services, authentication, social, & persistence all built on top of popular html5 frameworks isn't exciting or interesting to developers, what is?
#1 and #2 are still more of the same "social advertising" bullshit. The last bit is where it gets interesting.
Here's what happened the last time Akshell was on the HN front page: http://blog.akshell.com/hn-effect/
HBase on EC2 using EBS volumes : Lessons Learned
That's where we disagree. HTML and CSS are part of the designer skillset, not the developer skillset.
I see a core kernel of truth here, "You will be more effective if you understand the job of the people using your work products."

In design, this means creating something useful as well as art. It spans many industries:

- Colocating design and engineering cut years of development time for new models in the auto industry.

- Architects who know engineering are more likely to build grand structures.

- Tech recruiters who have been line managers know how to screen talent for their customers better.

In the end, it's about expanding beyond your specialty. It isn't abandoning your strength, it is moving the boundary.
The reason we did not go for Paypal first was handling the transition from Paypal subscriptions to a different payment gateway would be a pain. We didn't want two sets of funds. Knowing possibly we would probably not get our hands on the Paypal funds for a good 5 months.
I don't know about Flint, but many words already have the getname.com and nameapp.com domains taking. You can find more luck if you add hyphens though, but that makes for a pretty ugly domain.

Even .org and .net domains (which I don't mind, and prefer to ccTLDs) are getting sparse.
Carto (the CSS inspired syntax) kicks the crap out of SLD (the XML standard that makes absolutely no sense)
I used to do that, but booting between two OS's was always kind of a pain and really Windows 7 generally just kind of works. I haven't booted into my Linux partition for month. For the times I need Linux there's vmware, but there are relatively few things that I can't get done on windows.

Server side on the other hand I'm all *nix all the time.
I've yet to meet a good designer who LIKES to code.
I originally read the headline (and the first few paragraphs) as "[keep your startup] live longer, don't burnout [and shut it down prematurely]"

Which is an article I'd like to read.
Kernel.org Attackers May Have Slipped Up, Could Have Done More Damage
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Would you believe me if I told you we're just nice guys, who used to be kids who couldn't afford computers?
It was a possibility but I have not heard of enough people using it to have been sure if it was wrong or right for us. :)
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I actually did once. Worst C++ coder I ever worked with got a 5 on the AP exam in high school.
Apple promotes Eddie Cue again to guide iAd, iCloud to success
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The price seems very cheap for a software firm: just over double revenue. With risk management being so important for banks now, I am surprised. Are they more of a consulting firm with software attached?
>work only 40 hours a week at this mythical 100k / year job?

Mythical? I'm one of two engineers at my startup and I get $120k, bennies, and equity.

Edit: And I'm 23 years old and have been a professional for ~4-5 years.
WikiLeaks: unredacted cable release is Guardian’s fault
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be so terse. I just wanted to make it clear that I was not in that instance sniping at Paul Vixie.
Google Plus growing but at a slower pace
After the phenomenal success at the initial launch and reaching 25 million visitors in just a few weeks of its birth, things are looking a bit changed for Google plus ...
I started programming with Arduino and Processing in my last year of college, then found out I could get paid to write awful PHP, decided I didn't like doing that, learned Ruby, and now write MVC JavaScript for a living. I've been out of college for 2 years.

That being said I do have vague recollections of MicroWorlds in fourth grade.
Make "HTML5" game, only present the video with flash

I get a 'plugin missing' message when I try to watch the trailer
Lenovo IdeaPad A1: a 7-inch, Android Gingerbread tablet for $200
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In contrast, they estimate that only 1% of the overall US population are psychopaths.

Alas the article doesn't go into detail about what they mean by "psychopath" other than that they "use words to manipulate and con and to interact with you without the baggage of feeling your pain." Which is certainly a good recipe for climbing the corporate ladder in a lot of companies!
Using an "abstraction layer" like Recurly or Spreedly would solve this problem for you (although you would have to convince PayPal to accept payments without CVV numbers, which is an extra couple of hoops)
Show HN: A year of test-driven development screencast episodes
True, movies like Andy Warhols "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" or games like "UT" and "Q3", as well as, until now, "Doom" fall into the first, more common category, that you describe.
But titles like "Mortal Combat 1-3" and "Castle Wolfenstein" fall into the more restrictive, where sales are completely forbidden.
You're right that unlike IPv6, DNSSEC does not require a unanimous "flag day" upgrade. And you're right that that's relevant. Partly, this is because by design, DNSSEC only protects DNSSEC servers; the path between a modern browser and the DNS server configured by DHCP is not protected by DNSSEC.
Scala+GWT - First Milestone released
Well, the analogy "I started talking at 2" is silly, because everyone starts talking around that time (assuming normal circumstances), it's built in, while starting to learn other skills at a very young age would sound impressive. Consider someone who says "I started to play the piano when I was 4", wouldn't you be impressed?

I think we all agree that the earlier you start somethings the better you get at them, e.g. by age eight they say you are too late to start learning the violin, if you want to become extremely good with it. Learning a language is like this, too. Is programming, or for that matter math one of these skills? I think early exposure definitely helps, but is by no means a determining factor for later success.
Why do we need trainers
Vanity Fair's 2011 New Establishment List
To be honest, I do network. I have access to plenty of business contacts in and outside of my family. (Thus the reason I asked my father to help. As his businesses are run through Lloyds.)

However, Cardnet is a separate entity to Lloyds technically and that's how they saw it.

I've recently come back to the UK from living abroad so I have been rebuilding contacts.

But you are correct; networking is incredibly important.
I don't see where the post you replied to implied causation.
Hackers steal 21,000 passwords from Star Wars game fan site
Can you elaborate on what Fukime is and how you used the Parse launch in your favour?
Ask HN: What happened to Hipster (UseHipster.com)
Is this alive? I get 500 error pages
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I started when I was ~6 and I'm probably worse!
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- add a new controller action + *decent* view code
- write AR model code with unit tests (we use rspec)
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- code against a documented 3rd party api
- add an AJAX option to a controller action (jQuery)
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(kidding, but prob/stats are important)
- research new tools/technologies
- edit server config files (nginx)
- administer ubuntu servers
The main MapBox site (http://mapbox.com/) is definitely worth checking out as well. They have a pretty cool iPad app and a nice ~6 minute video demoing everything (http://vimeo.com/20006926)
BTW, geoserver (which uses SLD) has a CSS-styling extension which is much easier to use.
The Hole Argument
Built using Cappuccino :)
Especially if there is an iPhone 4S for $299 in a month.
great! If you know of any regular meetups, I'd be interested to hear.
As HN: Open source mobile apps, charge for Saas backend?
We provide a SaaS service for expense, receipt, time, and mileage tracking for businesses ( http://xpenser.com/ ).

The revenue model is simple - we charge per user, per month, for the backend service. We also offer mobile access from just about anything (SMS, email, IM, twitter, voice, etc).

We've been discussing making our mobile apps open source. We have a lovely userbase that includes some very talented technical folks that are already using our APIs to build some great stuff (including mobile apps), so we figure by opening up the code base we'll give them even more to play with.

The downside is that people could copy our code and build competing apps. We're not too worried about this since we make money on the backend system (not the apps), but then again we don't necessarily want to spawn lots of similar looking apps to crowd the marketplace.

Thoughts or advice on this? Do you know of others successfully doing something like this? Is there a reasonable license that allows us to make the source open but prevent people from using it for competing services?
Stamping out the DigiNotar Certificate Threat
Am I the only one to think that # is low?

:-)
Is YC open to tank startups? :)
Symantec State of Security Survey 2011
I want to use a bank's services and build a business relationship with the bank, not make deep personal relationship with the employees (though those aren't mutually exclusive). The courtesies you mention should go both ways. Why don't UK banks try to attract more first-time businesspeople or at least not be a hindrance to them?

The banks need healthy relationships with entrepreneurs and their businesses as much as the entrepreneurs need their services. Their PR material tries to convince you of this but the reality seems to differ.
Yes, but they should probably start with something smaller.
I can't speak for him, but there's no single point for me. I can tell when I've spent a week being 'too productive'. Mainly because the next week will be killer on me. Energy levels will be down, I'll be on edge about everything, etc.
I didn't do any programming until my senior year of high school, in a terrible intro to C++ class. I learned very little; I produced some small programs that solved brain teasers, but I had very little understanding of what I was doing. I had almost no understanding of how the program worked, no concept of the abstractions I was using, and no understanding of how a computer system worked. I didn't truly start programming until my freshmen year of college. (And 11 years later, I actually taught a section of that college course.)

I consider myself a good programmer. I have an understanding of the whole system stack (processor, kernel, the kind of code the compiler produces to support the abstractions I use, and understanding of the semantics of the languages I use), and I can reason about and implement non-trivial systems with understandable solutions.

My papers and some code are available here: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/
Worldpay is used quite extensively. Frankly I think the interface is a little clunky compared with others but it works. Also SagePay do the merchant account side for you also these days and I know a few people who have received one with NO trading history. Frankly I believe the UK market is quite positive toward startups and I think its down to the individual to look at what the options are and do something for themselves instead of (just being honest) whining about the problems they've had
I have the Virgin Mobile LG Optima V, which is $150 now and goes on sale for less periodically. That's $150 unsubsidized and with a month-to-month, no contract plan. It's not the greatest phone in the world but I'm largely satisfied with cost/performance tradeoff.

Covered here previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2171107
My write up on how to activate the Optimus for WiFi use only: http://blog.gerundinganimal.com/2011/01/cheap-wifi-only-andr...
Exactly. Most of the time is people dealing with luggage. I wish airlines other than Southwest were less myopic.

Plus don't forget all that time spent getting through airport security, especially with liquids and toiletries. Airlines should charge for carry-ons, not checked bags.
Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NSA Spying
Thanks for releasing a "native" app for OSX! This makes it much easier to use TileMill. The previous installation method was not the most user friendly--this coming from a Node.js developer.
I have two responses: (both in agreement)

1) We don't see such comparisons in some fields, which I find curious - tennis, for instance, is one where all its stars started playing at a young age. Nobody really comments on the age these players started playing anymore, since it's taken for granted that to be good you have to start really young.

2) G. H. Hardy makes a somewhat related observation in A Mathematician's Apology:

To take a simple illustration at a comparatively humble level, the average age of election to the Royal Society is lowest in mathematics. We can naturally find much more striking illustrations. We may consider, for example, the career of a man who was certainly one of the world's three greatest mathematicians. Newton gave up mathematics at fifty, and had lost his enthusiasm long before; he had recognized no doubt by the time he was forty that his greatest creative days were over.

http://amathematiciansapology.pandamian.com/4/#p[IhbHmb],h[I...

In fact, I would think that chess and math and perhaps programming(?) are more similar, and starting young seems almost to be a constant amongst its greats. So I'm really curious if anyone here on HN can point to a counter-example.
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How Context Changes Everything
Yes, so this 100k / year job with no benefits and no equity for exactly 40 hours / week is mythical.
Sorry, but I couldn't find an more accessible list.

Is this accurate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games#Germ...
No. Sale and possession of confiscated items is illegal. This happens when a court (!) deems that the item is illegal. This list is often called "list B".

If something is on list A (the infamous "index"), its "only" a restriction on sales, advertisement and whether you are allowed to give minors access to it.
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Indeed. "I've been doing X for Y years" doesn't tell me anything about how good someone is at X, but it does set expectations about how much their level may change in the near future.

If you've been writing C++ for a year, there's a good chance you'll get much better at it within the next year. If you've been doing it for 20 years, chances are your improvement over the next year will be marginal.
How do you know the hurricane was bad? Waffle House isn't open.
I can see why you would argue that you need early exposure to become a programming prodigy, but I honestly don't see why you would say that all hope of becoming a "good" programmer is lot by the time you're in your early/mid/late teens (or at any other age for that matter). I always saw programming as a meritocratic field where motivation and determination got you a long way as long as your code stood the distance. As a CS college student, I see a fair amount of people who have been coding for years being blown out of the water by people who hardly programmed before college. They might not be prodigies, sure, but saying that they'll never become serious programmers is a pretty narrow-minded statement.
I've got the opposite feeling. Only three years and so much has happened.
Which is something DHCPv6 (and the ridiculous amount of new autodiscovery added to IPv6 in general) missed an opportunity to provide.
Given how relatively little attention Akshell received prior to the new IDE, I'd say Cappuccino is the main reason for all the attention it's getting. So thank you!

Anton has written a post in Russian on his experiences with Cappuccino: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js...

I've actually translated the first part to English and am hoping to publish it on DailyJS in the near future.
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One strong indicator of the difference (note: I'm not a psychologist, and this is a bit oversimplifying) is how localized the 'depression' is. Burnout tends to be very work-localized, whereas clinical depression tends to be more pervasive: if you still find lots of joy in your hobbies and personal relationships, then it's probably not depression.
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I don't think most people are bragging about when they started programming.

For me, it's just a fact I throw out to emphasize that it's my life, not just a hobby or a job. It's seriously part of who I am, right to the core.

For the record, it was 4th grade for me... About 10 years old. Had it been younger, I'm sure I'd still have glommed onto it just the same... That was just the first exposure I got. Hint: Expose your kids to things young. It could make a big difference in their lives.
Random Acts Of Kindness: Week #3
I also hope the patent pledge site will progress towards discouraging companies like that of Like.com by including instances of how they shamelessly killed Modista. Like PG, I am still ambivalent about patents (though mostly believing they are bad), but clear cases of misuse like these need to be emphasized and publicized.