skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. Fundamentally, the question that must be answered is "what are you going to do about it?" They've got their answer: they've hired lobbyists to push for legislation, they've gotten a copyright czar who is working to broker voluntary agreements, and they're using the US Trade Reps to push for legislation abroad. I'm sure there are other things, too, that I forgot to list.

Thus far, there have been few counters to any of that. There's the EFF and folks who also lobby, support political allies and expose what's going on, but not much else except unfocused and therefore ineffective protest, though the Pirate Party has had some notable success abroad in terms of getting votes.

Admittedly, playing defense is much harder, but there are other possible avenues that haven't been tried. For example, forming a coalition of ISPs who do NOT subscribe to this agreement, pushing for copyright reform legislation, etc.
I'm guessing that one of the complaints you're getting has to do with the amount you're charging. Even on a small transaction, 5% feels like enough to be real money, creating a psychological barrier. Assuming you're in a position to change it, I would ratchet it down to 1-3%.

That said, if you manage to succeed, I guarantee that you'll experience a worse crisis (real and/or emotional) than what you're experiencing now. This is the roller coster that everyone warned you about (or if they didn't they should have).

If I were you, I'd stay with it at least through launch; if it's going to fail, it's going to fail. Either way, you'll be a better person for the experience. When it's resolved one way or the other, you'll be in a better spot to assess whether this is the life for you.
Brian Kernighan's New Book About Computers in our World
I'll give you just two sentences of advice:

Cut your burn-rate until you've figured out what it is that you are doing. You will need that money badly later on.
Demystifying Context in Android
What is your company's process like? I mean, if they get what you are referring to a "priority 1 bug", I'm assuming this could either be a data related bug or an actual code bug (as you wouldn't know yet at that point). Does your company expect you to just make a fix immediately, if its a code bug, and then they push it into production right away? If they are doing anything resembling this then run, don't walk away as this is terrible practice and will definitely make you go crazy after a while (I have worked for some companies that did similar things). At my current job I do have to deal with a lot of bugs but, for one, they realize their software is basically crap (10 year old legacy code base) and don't expect things fixed immediately and once I can find that its actually a code bug the pressure comes off a bit as they are very strict about release cycles and testing so they rarely push fixes into production sooner than 1 month. Data related bugs tend to have patterns to them that become apparent after seeing a few of them over time, at least in my experience, and usually become easier to deal with the longer you work with a system.

I don't mean to start any flame language wars but am a bit curious what sort of language / platform you are working with. In my experience, companies that build their products with dynamic languages (not strongly typed, etc) tend to play things a bit more "fast and loose" and the workload can really pile up. They usually don't know about best practices like test drive development, etc and don't care, even when this is pointed out. This led me to steer my career towards working with a strongly typed, compiled language (I do server-side web dev) and, at least with my current job, I have noticed a much more refreshing approach as far as professional development practices compared to other jobs where dynamic languages were used.
WolframAlpha: Possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field
Getting through to the other side is tough but the stuck situation is the best part - thats when you can stop coding and start developing.
> Roman chariots

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp
The only book I am studying right now is: http://www.amazon.com/Succeed-How-Can-Reach-Goals/dp/1594630...

It have citations and is written by a psychologist. However, I did not have a lot of time to compare notes between books written by other psychologists in the field.

The thing is, being a specialist means you don't spend much time scrutinizing what is wrong and not wrong in their studies or books in other fields. You sometime have to trust scientists for being scientific.
If you have a car wreck, your insurance usually punishes you only if it is your fault (which makes sense).

Your sickness, most of the time, isn't your fault.
Tired of Being Tired
Same submission from a few hours ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3115176

(Apparently multiple sign-on URI leaked on my earlier submission)
Sexual reproduction allows more than gene shuffling, it permits traits from multiple lineages to come together in a single individual. Adaptations only need to be developed in one individual of the gene pool for the descendants of that population to have a chance to pass it along.
You really didn't understand the GP I believe. The 'silent majority' are the people who would suffer from this, they won't benefit. A select few will profit (vastly) from being able to sell insurance to those who don't need it and withhold it from those that do.

You having control over your information is a pipe dream, try facebook for starters and now think 'all my medical information, past, present and future' instead of your friends graph.

Privacy advocates tend to be a bit more educated about these risks than the general public and maybe know a thing or two about what has already transpired.

And for the record, you can't anonymize a genome, it is you.
Duplicating Launchboard Wobble
Comforting words from pg...

If you start a startup, you'll probably fail. Most startups fail. It's the nature of the business. But it's not necessarily a mistake to try something that has a 90% chance of failing, if you can afford the risk. Failing at 40, when you have a family to support, could be serious. But if you fail at 22, so what? If you try to start a startup right out of college and it tanks, you'll end up at 23 broke and a lot smarter. Which, if you think about it, is roughly what you hope to get from a graduate program.
A few suggestions:

- Kill the power point like slides in the videos, they are not very useful. Such information is better represented as text, so it can be searched and easily referenced.

- Lower the price for the video's they are way too high. I imagine 99% of this information can be easily found on google with a simple search.

- The videos look unprofessional to me, seems like they need an editing pass.

You may get more traction if you release the basic package for free. This allows users to evaluate the videos and buy more when they want the intermediate and advanced courses. At the current price I wasn't even enticed to look at the sample video after seeing the $50 price point for a basic package. Good luck.
JavaScript Creator Thinks App Stores Exists to Cover Cost of Developing Phones
Does it come with a flux capacitor?
SPDY

http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper
I wouldn't call it a waste. Now we have someone with a scientific brain thinking and writing about more efficient ways of living, with less pollution and better use of resources.
I bet many physicists are doing things that are much less important for our future.
Use libuv instead of writing this stuff yourself.
This sort of floating-point optimization, while admittedly quite imprecise, actually does still see plenty of application in high performance, framerate-critical gaming. Especially games with require a robust physics package (my previous employment was at a now-defunct maker of hardware-accelerated physics products). For these gaming applications, or specifically for the graphics drivers they depend on, you're coding multi-threaded routines in proprietary instruction sets that run on a GPU, which is becoming more and more like a parallel vector processor.
it is mentioned briefly on the page, but the major victim of encryption is caching. That is one of the main reasons encrypted traffic is slower.
How is it better than ge.tt or a thousand other file sharing services?
work for free and get a "stake" in the business (such as stock, etc), I've had some retards on craigslist send me emails offering this, of course I just deleted it
Just read this on a Dutch newspapers' site. Not sure why the BBC site says her identity is secret, she is mentioned by name and it even has a picture of her:

(dutch article)
http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2672/Wetenschap-Gezondheid/ar...
If you're a good enough programmer to know how to build the site, it's likely you know about profiling. Im surprised there are enough people who find themselves in this middle spot (can build complicated site but are still unaware of this info) to push the article up to the top page.

Having said that, nothing I submitted ever made it close to the top of HN. Maybe my understanding of the community is off.
I think your landing page could use a reasonable facsimile of your product running across the top of the screen. I appreciate it might need to be in Flash or in HTML5, but it might bump your conversion rate if your main selling point, "stuff, in front of you, now," is clearly set out on the landing page.

But second thought, haven't we already seen PointCast crash and burn? Not sure if I have the name right, but I'm thinking of the push technology that was such a buzz word in the original internet bubble.
Thanks. It looks like I'll need to find a new "historical inertia" analogy to use. Suggestions welcomed.
Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived' ~ 1Q84 interview
Maybe start learning more about architecting software, if you haven't delved into that at all. Coding can get mundane but planning to build an app, such as a web app, (on a technical level but without actually writing code) can give a new perspective. You've probably already seen a lot of code, by this point, that is crap, poorly designed, etc and that can provide motivation to learn some of the latest design strategies, etc. I guess what I'm really getting at is that you can try to gain a new perspective and new skills apart from just being a "coder" to where you can potentially open up new career options to find a job thats better suited to your interests
My first instinct is you're worrying about nothing.

However, if you really want to know, who is the negative feedback from and what is it about? You have to be more specific here, otherwise we can't really say.
Yes, tons of credit due there. In my post (http://bits.shutterstock.com/?p=74) I linked to Jonathan Corbet's coverage (http://lwn.net/Articles/427104/) of the topic on LWN, which is also a good jumping-off point for reading on the topic.
There are a few abstractions that can take you a long way towards understanding ... basically the standard computer engineering curriculum: TCP, Posix, C, the von Neumann architecture, digital logic.
My tone was meant to imply there was some funny business going on but more in jest than reality. Clearly people are finding this article helpful.

Nice job.
In the article they said they tested them and if you went around 60 RPM on the bike the forced part was at 90 RPM. So they could measure swim pace then have them train at a higher pace.
thank you for saying this! I re-read the second theory a couple of times and I wasn't sure I quite got it. It seemed like the difference was a minor technicality, which made the article much less compelling. Flushing out bad genes (vulnerable genes) out of the genome so that the next generation is stronger isn't all that different from changing locks on the cells to protect against parasites attacking the offspring.
So Apple can never ever implement bookmark sync in their browser? Because that’s what they did and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that. It’s a minor obvious feature, not some big complicated thing.

You know what I also don’t understand? What this has to do with the big open vs. closed debate. Apple implemented a new feature in their own browser. Google can just as well implement the exactly same feature in their browser. Open vs. closed doesn’t figure into this. At all.

That whole cleaning behavior of iOS debate is just stupid. Apple screwed up. So what.
Interac email transfers. They're great (and free).
As a counter-point, I would mention that Western Union fees seem to be about 10% of whatever you transfer.
None of the Google engineers I've met had 20% Time projects. They said 20% Time was not common for application teams because they had more visible release deadlines than the web teams.
The telling thing is: it's existed for years with Mobile Me. Reading List isn't new.
If you're in the US, try Venmo.
Detailed analysis of the GIL in Python and Ruby
For what it's worth, we were both wrong and about the same thing. GitLab is powered by Gitosis, rather than Gitolite, though it appears that may be changing. Gitorious is powered by it's own solution I think and is comparable to GitLab/GitHub.
And Chirpscreen already did Pointcast for social: http://m.techcrunch.com/2007/10/18/remember-pointcast-meet-c...
> Do they provide a simple app that you can use easily with a phone?

A lot do. I have two iPhone apps from my bank (one for bill payments and one for general banking --transfers, balance, etc).
A non-homogenous community is a very, very good thing.
There's a blog post about it here: http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...
Sounds like a fantastic idea. If you present it right, 5% is not that big a deal. Banks charge sometime $25 just to do a wire transfer, and for your 5%, you would still be winning at anything up to $500. $5 per $100 would be ok by me if it solved an immediate problem. Quicker and cheaper than FedEx.

My main concern for you would be, doesn't it cost thousands to register as a bank? Which surely you will be?
Back in the 90's they also included a TCP/IP stack into Win95, which used to be a (horrible) 3rd party app on Win3.1.
"Take comfort in the fact that the poor start-up founder and the rich corporate CEO both go home at the end of the day, eat dinner, watch TV, and go to bed."

Dinner, maybe.

The other two are not guaranteed.
The Occupy Economy
Yep, who would have wanted a keyboard less net book that doesn't even run pc software?

What an incredibly stupid and niche product idea!

The spectators were terribly, terribly wrong.
I wonder if all of these are still relevant.
Thanks. This post is much more encouraging than others.

I guess there's too much text in some slides. But then again, the text is required to supplement the tutorials. Guess I've got to figure a way to make it less heavy.

P.S. I did start with what a UIViewController is, it's just that I cut to the part with the methods and all. My bad.
I cannot stress how much I agree about exercise. About 6 years ago I started going to the gym regularly* and lifting. That was really one of the best single changes I've made in my life. I feel more energized during the day (no more coffee!) and I feel like my mental acuity is higher. My memory seems better and I'm generally in a much better mood (partly because I look so much more fit!)

* When I say regularly, I mean I went every other day for 6 months without missing a workout. I made it a high priority. After 6 months of that, I felt so guilty if I missed a workout that I've more or less continued that schedule for the last 5.5 years.
It's also independent of Xerox, though a wholly-own subsidiary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)
yes, trial and error is a lengthy process
but that's how it started! http://xkcd.com/505/
Why is she unhappy?

At a basic level, it's because her mental model of How Things Work broke. She thinks that it's reasonable that using the Amazon Kindle application on any platform she ought to be able to buy books from Amazon as part of that app. After all, she's signed in, Amazon knows who she is, at most they ought to ask for a password confirmation to let her spend her money.

And that doesn't work.

So she was unhappy with Amazon. Reasonable. She was so unhappy, she posted on Facebook about it, where a dozen of her friends pointed out that Apple wanted a 30% cut of content sold on their device.

Their device. Not her device. She paid for it, but now she sees that it isn't hers.

She thought that an iPod was like a computer: you use it, you select software to put on it, you use the software.

Her mental model breaks AGAIN, because she thought she owned the iPod. Now she finds out that it's actually an Apple-owned store that doesn't like competition.

Apple got their benefit when they sold her a device. They got more benefit when they sell her software to go on the device. Why should they get more benefit for interfering in a transaction between her and Amazon?

She knows what rent-seeking means, and she doesn't appreciate it.
Cute and incredibly memorable! It definitely made me 10x more interested in who you are and what you do :)
Thanks for your feedback. I value these comments over those who slam the product/website without any suggestions.

1) I'm from Singapore and English is my first language.
2) Good point.
3) I've actually been experimenting with mics, but I'll definitely re-record once I find the right one.
4) I hired a designer from dribbble to help me out. MS Paint Art, seriously?

Again, thanks for your suggestions.
It's even better when it becomes a habit and you don't feel guilty for missing a workout. You feel like you haven't brushed your teeth in the morning.

I'm there right now. Until I get my 30 minutes of workout in the morning, I just feel wrong. I can't really explain it, but it's enough to get me working out even when I had been partying until 5am, slept for 3 hours, have a hangover and feel like I'll die if I even try getting out of bed.
Xbox 360 games and series that stick out in my memory:

Batman, Halo, Call of Duty, Gears of War, Splinter Cell, LA Noire, Assassin's Creed, GTA, Dead Space, Bastion, Red Dead Redemption, Shadow Complex, Splosion Man, Braid
Yeah... I've really been wanting to play those, but I really don't want to buy a PS3 for just 3 games :-P
It's essential to understand how an event loop works before you use one from a library. If you don't "get it", you won't write an application that uses it effectively.

Don't write your own event loop for production code; write it to learn how they work.

(Also: uv? Really? That's a pretty bloated library that does everything from handling timers to figuring out the 15-minute load average on OpenBSD. If you just want timers and fds, use something simpler. select is actually fine for a large majority of applications.)
You need to hire a good designer.
I was referring mainly to side quests like those of Red Dead Redemption. It's those "Collect 20 Bear Pelts" side quests that can really sap your time for a lower endorphins dosage. Side-stories are A-OK in my book.
How do you have a burn rate of only $18,500/mo with seven (apparently) full-time employees? Is that burn rate net of some kind of revenue, or are your seven employees making an average annual salary of about $31K each? Even for TN that seems awfully low.

As a point of reference, in SV a ballpark OPEX for 7 employees in a startup would be $80-90K.
I see your point rereading (thanks for clarification) but it's always felt to me like MS has left things hanging around as well, but I can't think of one (beyond IE6!) right now :)
stick with Jack Crenshaw's "Let's build a compiler" http://www.penguin.cz/~radek/book/lets_build_a_compiler.pdf
It is free and doesn't make bogus promises (also written well like his Embedded Systems Programming columns).
Big button for Mac download. No button for Windows download. Perhaps that's why you have so few users.
1) They don't have enough smart programmers. Nobody does, since "enough" means every single one. It only takes one CRUD screen with an SQL injection or buffer overrun exploit to get owned. By definition, a large amount of code must tend towards average quality.

2) Selective perception. We only notice when they fail. On the whole maybe they do do a pretty good job and nobody notices when things aren't wrong.

3) Sometimes it's an insider job.

4) Dumb users; no amount of company security can stop a successful phish or keylogger or whatever.

5) Cost-benefit. Sometimes it really isn't worthwhile to pour as much security as you possibly can at a problem. What if a bank guarded every transaction by having a live operator call the customer at a pre-known number? Sure that's pretty stiff security, and completely impractical in a competitive capitalist marketplace. That's an extreme example but it goes to prove the point. Sometimes it's cheaper just to clean up aftewards.

Security is a thorny problem; you can't always just magically have more security by throwing more money at it.
US companies pushed to disclose cyberattacks
1997: "Google; or why Alta Vista has already won"
Where would one start learning to script C with Lua?
Show HN - Occupy Everything, my weekend project
I agree that working out is essential, but I believe that putting the right type of food in your body is equally important. For many people, decreasing the amount of carbohydrates after breakfast can provide enormous energy gains. I recommend reading Tim Ferris' 4 Hour Body for some interesting advice on diet, exercise and a very detailed chapter on sleep.
Try this book: "59 seconds" - http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/59-seconds-think-a-littl...
It presents practical advice based on research papers in the field.

A good book on brain hacks like the aforementioned spaced repetition is "Mind Performance Hacks": http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclock...

And another good read is "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning": http://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learni...

You can also try this site: http://lesswrong.com
This is a good section to start from: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Science_of_Winning_at_Lif...
Be warned, though. The writing on this site is heavily influenced by AI research so it tends to be somewhat... Vulcan, which can can be good or bad depending on your preferences.
Yes! So can we stop pretending (through monetary and social credit) that for everything worth developing, it was just one guy acting alone?
Fortunately, I haven't played a single game you mentioned. So I can be serious and totally off base at the same time. However, I have played games by JC and they are more of the same. Hoping his next gig isn't Rage++, but something new
Ask HN: how to change my apple id for icloud use?
I recently updated my iPad2 to iOS, I have one problem not able to use icloud, as it expects my apple id to be like email, but mine is not.

seems my image imports have vanished thank god had backup of most on facebook.

is it me alone or others who face the problem?
how do i change my apple id for using icloud?
You are absolutely right that the government had an overt, irrational, and hostile reaction to encryption in the '90s. I dealt with it firsthand writing security code for a Canadian company.

But that was the 1990s. The government does not in 2011 believe you are shipping "munitions" when you allow open downoads of software that incidentally encrypts traffic. People do it all the time now. And, to be fair to the government: nobody saw the mainstream Internet coming, and prior to that, crypto basically was a munition.

I agree with your (1) (2) and (3) reasons. I just don't see anything the government is doing today, or in the last 10 years or so, to hold back an encrypted Internet. The people I know in government who think about this stuff would dearly like to see a more secure Internet.