skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, I don't know or claim that Bank of America is doing any of this, just that they could. And even if they did, that wouldn't make SiteKeys foolproof, but nothing really is completely foolproof, all you can do is is be more or less foolproof.
I've been using mosso for about 6 months, and I am surprised that I haven't found something to bitch about yet. I've never experienced that database problem, but the few problems I have come across have been dealt with quickly through their 24/7 chat support.
Will Gmail Leave Anything For Me To Do on My Own?
Wow, was that boring and uninformative.
iPod users are fiercely loyal. Let's pretend for a moment that the open-source community produces something better than the iPod using whatever metric. Would it really matter? There are mp3 players out there that technically give you more value for your dollar that aren't selling well. Non-Apple mp3 players just aren't "sexy". I think the HN audience may find such an mp3 player more appealing (the cool factor) but the average consumer?...not a chance.
I felt like it was three related but different stories put together. Each 3rd of the book, seemed to have a very unique feel from the others.
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If they're never told their performance is inadequate, how will they ever know to improve? This reminds of the old political correctness slide into oblivion...
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Android and iPhone philosophies worlds apart
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i think a seeding arm like Y-Comb is something you definately should look into. grab a technical minded programmer co-founder and enroll to it or one of its copycat sister-programmes. a sort of startup-camp like Y-comb will be able to fill in your gaps and give you the support you need to bring a product of yours to reality.

i am kind of in the same situation as you, and i have found other like minded individual here on HN. so we're not so rare a breed. once you get the gumption to set your ideas in motion, the pieces of the machine will start to come together. you need to take that first step in order for motion to happen.

i have applied for this round of Y-Comb with big dreams, but it took actually deciding to do it to realize that it felt right. even if not accepted, it was time for me to do something about my ideas, and turn them into my ambitions instead. i hope this motivates you to start your battle for success as well
Open-source software works because any of us can download, revise, build, and test the product in our own homes. You can execute your own design revisions.

Hardware doesn't work like that, unless it's made of a handful of hand-soldered parts, and even then the results tend to be more functional than beautiful, and they suffer from lots of quality-control variation.

So, no. The best you can realistically hope for is for something like the Chumby: Designed by a core team, who sells it to defray the manufacturing and development costs but gives you all the schematics and software and encourages you to hack it.

Meanwhile, large companies have spent millions of dollars to compete with iPod and failed, so you're not exactly setting your sights low.
4HWW has a few good bits, but every time he mentioned TNR (The New Rich) I wanted to vomit. Did he really need a term for that?
Well, it was a complicated data format for many 10s of GB of seismic data on machines that probably had 32MB or 64MB of memory. The partial sort and merge did the trick for me.
This article seems relevant to some of the comments here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16040492/
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Here's the real reason Americans don't get more vacation: although large companies allowed to be notoriously uneven in terms of compensation, they still attempt to maintain a veneer of bureaucratic fairness. For example, each employee gets the same health package (although the CEO is paid well enough to self-insure, but never mind that) and all are treated as "equal" (sort of) in internal mediation/discipline matters. This also applies to vacation allotments, which are generally a single-variable function of seniority, with a few special cases that can be negotiated.

The problem is that every corporation has some component that is perennially understaffed, wearing its people down to the felt, and the VP representing it realizes that his division cannot tolerate the prospect of employees having a week or two more off. So any time an officer suggests increasing vacation instead of salaries, the VP vetoes it. At and above this VP's level, vacation allotments are irrelevant (they're either high enough that they can take time off whenever they want... or in pressure-cooker companies, high enough that they never get time off), so there's no personal push from above on this issue. Occasionally the VP of R&D will point out that the company's meager vacation allowance is preventing him from getting top talent, especially from overseas; the CEO will quietly pull him aside and tell him that he can make some exceptions to "the policy" and no one will know.
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By 1956 an economic boom had been going on for the best part of a decade. Sound familiar? It's only natural that graduates of an era where jobs are easy to come by will be more frivolous about where they work and the conditions they expect.

When I left school in 1988 it was very hard to get work - there were waiting lists for jobs at McDonalds for example. The "Gen Xers" I know have similar memories and are generally more cautious about quitting a job without something else to go to. Now that the economy's tanking I think attitudes will change. The article's assertion that "their sense of entitlement is an ingrained trait that will likely resurface in a stronger job market" looks pretty bogus to me.
It's not really an "us vs. them" thing, it's looking around the room and noticing that in a meeting of 30 people, I am the only woman. It's comforting to be reminded there are other women in the field during those times.
Hey, I'm in Dallas... currently a senior at SMU. Dallas has plenty of resources depending on what you want to do. Of course it's nothing compared to the valley, but just off the top of my head, http://viewzi.com, http://www.texasstartupblog.com/, http://www.biggu.com/, http://woot.com, http://match.com, http://theplanet.com, http://Godtube.com, and other randoms are all based here. I would argue that there are definitely worse places to be.

I'm pretty good at front-end design with CSS, XHTML, JavaScript (mootools/jQuery). Our skills might compliment each other?

I'd be down to grab a beer with you sometime to plot the dethroning of Google for YC summer '09 or something. jfornear[at]smu[dot]edu or jessefornear[at]gmail[dot]com
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No, not me I'm afraid, but a good question that I couldn't get google to answer (in 30 seconds). I did however find this one credited to Mark Twain - 'Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the diference'
I'm not sure how far this analogy extends, but it strikes me that many of the things large companies demand of their employees would be considered onerous in similar contexts.

It's the officer/laborer distinction. Theory: An auto mechanic performs work and is paid per hour of labor, at a rate proportionate to his competence and efficiency. By contrast, white-collar a professional is an officer. He's not paid for 40 hours per week of work. He's paid to fill a role, which requires attention to image, loyalty, professionalism and commitment that may extend outside of working hours and impinge on his lifestyle. A doctor makes housecalls at 10 pm, a CIA agent refrains from illegal drug use, a CEO refrains from posting offensive material on his non-work-related blog.

That's theory. In practice, most white-collar corporate workers are closer in role and status to laborers than professionals, and the only reason companies expect them to fulfill the extra requirements is because they can. They're exploiting tradition. Of course, corporate employees rarely get the autonomy and independence that are the upside of professional status, but American corporations are geniuses at serving up the worst of two worlds (such as, say, laissez-faire capitalism and bureaucratic socialism).
phpBB sucks because it's free. There's much better forum software out there: most sites that don't want to be sucky use something like vBulletin, and they do a pretty good business off it.

If you're getting into the forum business, you shouldn't compare yourself to free software like Phorum or phpBB, because they don't make any money. Instead, compare yourself to for-profit forums like vBulletin, Invision Power Board, or UBB. That space is pretty crowded, and the bar is pretty high.
Could you estimate the degree?

Even solid socks like Google & MS have taken something like a 40% hit. I assume many smaller public tech companies have taken 50%+ hits.

You think that $X could by you a bigger slice of a startup today then 2 months ago to the degree public companies have?

It's actually an interesting situation for cashed up companies that could use startups if they can get them at the right price. The value of a small company to investors is usually linked to their chances of getting acquired or going public. These are often linked to their chances of getting additional funding along the way. All these are now not decreased (although if you're planning on IPO in 5 yrs, the current state doesn't count for much).

This doesn't apply to acquirors to whom (assumingly) the acquisition has some sort of real value. That real value doesn't have too much with the state of investment markets.
Keep in mind how much of the cost is people-hours, which would be on the order of 10-20 times more in the United States.
Followup to that, what does everyone recommend as a registrar that isn't... terrible?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Benoit Mandelbrot on the Credit Crisis (Video)
No sorry, I think I as unclear. I meant the opposite. 'View Source' will be removed because no one should want to view source.

What I was saying is that the ability of non technical users to make sites, no matter how bad that code, is much more important then anything else in this debate. Standards should (i think) almost be written specifically for machines.

Sure, you can think of creating the best possible environment that makes sense & so that the pages can be used on future browsers & browser like things, but that is dwarfed by the prospect of letting grandma have a website.

Standards should not be built for hand coders.
A sensationalist overreaction. It seems like she ran out of things to write about.

To actually address her point, GMail isn't assuming its users are brainless cabbages, they're merely allowing you to reallocate your time & brainpower to more important things.
Gates will try to apply his new start-up on the next YC event...
Well, I can say it won't be easy!
No idea on the degree as I was just talking about the general trend not specific numbers.

"You think that $X could by you a bigger slice of a startup today then 2 months ago"

Yes, but I have no idea to what degree (see 1st comment). And with publicly traded companies, just because their stock price is down doesn't mean they aren't sitting on massive cash reserves (e.g. Microsoft) so I wouldn't be surprised to see more acquisitions happen in the near future as companies try to boost sales.
I really like the first part of this. Don't look for ideas, look for problems that need to be solved.
They're typically so far removed from the illegal activity it's hard to track, regulate, detect, or enforce. The drugs pass so many hands from maker to consumer.
Alternate answer: it might be nice to hear someone's pitch who isn't full of shit.
I didn't think sensationalism could be this... sensational.

Basically, Google thinks everyone is dumb by adding extra, helpful features to GMail, many of which are opt-in. Google thinks we're lazy, not stupid... and it's right. GMail that can write my e-mail for me? Where do I sign up?!
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The most important thing to realize in a situation like we’re facing is that, chances are, you cannot act too quickly, but you can easily act too slowly. For this reason, I decided that we had to come up with, and execute on, a cost-savings plan within two weeks. There is little upside in pushing out hard decisions like this slowly because of the simple fact that you’re burning gas while you’re deciding.

What? He's got three years of runway, but he can't afford to think about a 10% layoff for more than two weeks?
"They want to be treated like colleagues rather than subordinates"

"They would renege on a job-acceptance commitment if a better offer came along."

"Millennials also expect ... time for their family and personal interests."

Through my mind as I read those quotes:

"[Baby Boomers] want to be treated as superiors rather than colleagues."

"They would rescind an offer if they found something embarrassing on Facebook." (This has happened to people I know.)

"Baby boomers also expect ... others' lifestyles to be arranged for their purposes."

In any case, I'm surprised but not amazed that people are willing to say things like this. The problem is as follows: consider that a money economy is essentially a computer, designed to allocate resources to the most productive individuals and institutions; e.g. those who make the best decisions with them in the past. Of course, this process is filtered through large corporations...

Most people would agree that, unless there was a specific, well-defined goal of high potential value, working at immense sacrifice is unwise. Most higher-level corporate work is not toward a well-defined goal of value; in fact, most of it's so generic and abstract as to be pointless. But large corporations often value sacrifice over productivity, shifting the money and (much more importantly) power over to those who were most willing to sacrifice themselves. What does this mean? Well, becoming a "company man" in a large company, with all the personal sacrifices that entails, is actually often a bad decision. Thus, decision-making power is allocated to those who made bad decisions (about the relative value of their personal existence vs. corporate goals) in the past. In large big-box companies, power shifts to the defective rather than the productive. Hmm. That definitely wasn't supposed to happen.

This article is the voice of Baby Boomers who made bad decisions with their lives and, out of regret and reflective bitterness, have chosen to chide those who wish to explore other options, falling back on a "because I said so" attitude. People veer toward authoritarianism when under psychological stress, and that's exactly what we see in this article.
Ask YC: Any startup outside US using Amazon FPS?
We are a small startup from Sri Lanka. We need to accept credit cards online for subscription. We thought of using Amazon FPS for this...but need to know are there any limitations for using it outside US? Do our users need to have an Amazon account to pay via FPS?

Also what are the other options available for non-US startup to accept online credit cards?
Gmail and other email providers are just beginning to add features that will effectively move a lot of the intelligence that is required from the user today to the software. It is not exactly easy to use email today, people come up with a lot a solutions on their own to be more effective. Email programs will be doing most of the work that was traditionally done by humans which not only is waste of our time but also requires quite a lot of discipline.
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Still gets mentioned whenever someone posts a 'how to start an online shop' post.
HN Recommendation: Pressflip-esque "Flip This" for stories I don't want to see
I was thinking that it would be pretty cool to have a "Flip" or "Hide" type of button, which could even be represented as a down arrow like Reddit, that would hide a story that you want to remove from the page.

Yes, this is yet another feature that will help contribute to not working and browsing HN stories, but that's where self-discipline comes in handy :)

I am sure I could concoct a greasemonkey script to simply hide blocks that contain a visited link, but certain things I'd like to hide regardless of if I have viewed them or not.

So simply: a little flip button (or similar) to hide a block from the homepage (any page I spose for the matter) for my own user account.

What do you guys think?
i'm for it. whip one up for me and have it on my desk by tomorrow morning sir

:D

but really it's a good idea
he did evangelist work for Apple/Mac i am not sure if he had a startup or not, I think he got right into the venture capital game after his... oh wait that's his startup, Garage Tech Ventures a venture capital association thing that seeks out young fresh startups :D

http://www.garage.com/about/team.shtml
Just wondering, How much would an equivalent have cost 2-3 yrs ago?
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I would believe the opposite. It is India, labor and infra costs would be much lower.

In fact the actual spend would be lesser than $78M considering departments always over bill on construction/development costs.
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The feature they added today - "canned responses" is priceless if you are using Gmail for your business. It's even more useful when you are running your customer support via Gmail.
I personally _love_ having computers do shit for me.
Great, more crap in the blogosphere. What's next amoeba writing blogs?
I think this is spot on - with a macro system generating pages is orders or magnitude easier/more consistent/better/etc.
Yea like arc . Oh wait.
It would be more interesting if the results converged even a little bit to the results of credible polls. I know Obama's leading by a margin... but 95/2/3 (Dem,Rep,Ind)?

It's a neat idea with a nice implementation, but the selection bias that's going on make the polling outcome very nearly meaningless.
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I thought I shall mail you instead but couldn't find a contact or any useful information on your profile page.

Please walk into IISc and you shall know. It is not merely about the number it is about the people who would control the system. I agree the divide based on caste is gradually lowering however we are still not there yet.

It is a fact that all of these research institutes are concentrated in the south - IISc, ISRO, DRDO (and the rest in CV RamanNagar, Bangalore) and casteism has always been the problem here.

NASA has a large number of Indians. I am sure Indian Research would be in a lot better state if they evangelize and hire more youngsters.

We definitely have a smart bunch of people in pure sciences than in business. Why do you think we cannot retain them here in India ?
I've just started reading it. The first little bit has been rather slow; I'm hoping it picks up considerably.
User-generated content and meta programming
I was metaphorically throwing a ball against a wall today, thinking about how tedious it is to come up with all the items and characters in an RPG. So, I want to make system where people can create items to appear in games. As far as I'm concerned, an item is primarily a list of stats, although it should probably have a graphical representation and a description.

The items have to conform to specifications on which stats they have and what range of values a stat can have. For example, a sword must have an attack value between 0 and 99. The items may combine in ceratain ways to create more powerful items. The more I thought about it, the more parallels I could draw to object-oriented programming. People are essentially writing classes for game items.

I am interested in implementing at least a demo of this system. Sure, I could slog through it step by step, but it seems that I'd be rewriting major parts of the language. Could there be a way to avoid this?
If you want you can also do what I did and combine the too by going to live in cheap south east country (currently malaysia) and work there/study there... It's cheaper living expenses compared to us and when you live in a foreign country for some time (as opposed to just travelling) you get a better feel for the country and its people (which might give you ideas too!)
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From my experience writing every single new ideas down really helped have more ideas and better ones too...
I feel that just the act of writing them down forces you to think more about finding great ideas...
Agreed. The ideal computer should magically figure out my intent and do it without any input whatsoever. Until we reach that ideal, it makes sense to make tireless computers do as much of the work as possible.
how is that different?
[edit] Just to clarify, how is the different in terms of the psychological perception? I mean disliking a monoculture social environment is a perfectly valid reason, but that doesn't seem like an adequate explanation.
That's funny. The words "web" and "cloud" do not yet appear anywhere in these comments!

Even novice users have proven that they can remember to visit URLs for their applications and bookmark their favorites. With that in mind, we can easily overcome the "desktop loaded with .application files" problem.
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Plan your Stag Weekend in Advance
Stag weekends are always supposed to be a fun event. The whole idea is for all the lads to get together and have a good time, without the presence of your partner tagging along. Guys get a chance to go out, have some good clean fun, and not have any responsibility to answer to. Most guys would agree that planning a weekend away with no responsibility, is of the utmost importance. If you are going to take the opportunity to do this, you may as well do it in style.
Altruistic? He's got the Foundation for that.

Personally, I like the "Sandbox" notion (but maybe that's because I recently set up a company like that for myself, and hadn't thought of that term to describe it....)
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Envy. I've always wanted to build my own as well. Have you gone in the submarine?
it isn't about stupidity. if we can all use the latest technologies when we're 60 years old w/o getting a little confused then i'll be impressed, and we're not stupid.
Opportunity knocks. Your choice whether to answer the door.
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which is here:
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-enterprise-class-...
Stephenson came to do a reading in Cambridge, MA a few weeks ago, of a couple amusing conversations. I haven't read the rest of it yet, but he writes fantastic dialog.
The point here is to show off (among other things) the buffered I/O in Py3k. It's much easier (i.e. shorter, more readable) in Py3k to implement an efficient solution than in earlier Python versions. If it were a really hard problem, it would be harder to see the benefits of the new language features.
The RSS feed must supply at least one day length of Hacker News. I live in middle east and maybe because of the time difference, I can not get the RSS feed of the night before, into my FeedReader and to see those missed news I have to visit http://news.ycombinator.com just to browse those news that I have missed in my FeedReader.

So the coverage of RSS Feed must be longer than currently it is. Preferably it must be at least one day (24 hours) long.

Thanks a lot.
Wow, what a troll. And I am feeding it, but had to say it.
I can see a bunch of arab immigrants getting arrested for mass buying scotch tape.