skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your right, almost all of the consumer apps seem to revolve around ads and harvesting data. Is there not a market for pay-for consumer apps that let people do something interesting with their devices?
My thoughts to his post consolidated: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3243330
The player takes the bet and launches the ball a solid distance down the field. The aide waits for a maintenance cart to drive past. He tosses the ball into the back of the cart and watches as it rolls past the player's ball.

There's a similar sequence in the movie "Tin Cup" where two golfers make a bet about who can hit a ball the farthest. One hits his ball actually onto the golf course where lands in some grass, rolls a foot or two and stops. The other guy hits his ball onto the highway where it lands on the asphalt and rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls...

The player assumed that winning the game depended on his arm alone when the truth was many things had to align with that arm to win games. The vantage point from the turf isn't the only one.

Indeed. Having something like that to break one out of one's tunnel vision and preconceived notions can be a powerful thing.
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I don't think it's that important, really
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In what way? I ask bc I agree with parent (and disagree with you), as far as the iPhone version of Instapaper is concerned.
The school sends you the account number and you send money to that account number.
I'll second that. Instapaper 3.0 is incredible.

I use Readability and Instapaper for different things. With Readability, I use the Chrome extension to make articles readable in the same way Safari does on the fly.

With Instapaper, I save articles and read them later on my iPhone, and I get a collection of articles that I've saved sent automatically to my Kindle every Friday. Saturday mornings with my Kindle, saved articles through Instapaper and French Press coffee? Life is good.
I think "completely inaccurate" is overstating it. Here's a quote from that source:

In order not to risk jeopardising citizens' health and safety, only security scanners which do not use X-ray technology are added to the list of authorised methods for passenger screening at EU airports.
Yeah, stupid internet kiddy stuff!
yes it is.. :D
Even leaving aside whether the TSA is well-run or not, the lack (as far as seems to be publicly known) of a rigorous risk analysis is a bit troubling. Not just as far as the medical questions go (e.g. what's a safe exposure level), but just standard engineering stuff.

For example, since backscatter machines work by scanning a narrow beam very quickly over the body, a particularly problematic failure mode would be the beam remaining energized but failing to move, which would give a very high localized dose. Even if that "can't happen", you would typically have some sort of failsafe that should rapidly cut off the beam in that case. If this were a medical device, there are fairly well established ways of doing failure-mode analysis to quantify that risk and the reliability/speed of the failsafes. Have companies like Rapiscan done that?
I like readability and their idea that profit should go back to the publisher. But they never really tell you how this is suppose to work. As far as I can tell, each publisher has to register with readability to see any money. Clearly not "web scale" :)
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Play 2.0-beta is the correct title for this. They do not recommend it for new applications YET. Anyway coming from Rails, this looks quite interesting. I am trying to understand how they handle asynchronous requests and Ajax. For Rails we really have to use plugins (looking at apotomo).
"The first wave are the tech enthusiasts ... are interested in finding a good SSH tool, or an mail client that supports PGP. These were the main customers of the first iPhone."

Given that the first iPhone had no 3rd party apps apart from web apps, this seems highly unlikely.

It's more likely true of early Android phone buyers.
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Yes I am already a iOS developer. I have developed many iOS and Android apps for others.
I think we should address 2 questions first before we can answer this. Why do some programmers think they are 10x or 100x more productive than others? Is it a myth or is it for real? Give some concrete examples of 10x productivity for a start.
What is the safety of this battery? At 10x power we are looking at potential explosion for eletric cars instead of raging fire for gas cars... Does it work in 30 below zero?
I'm wondering the same thing. Their original business model of splitting revenue with the authors was interesting, but I'm guessing they didn't get many subsribers.

I was interested in supporting them, but because I already support Marco @ Instapaper with a monthly donation, the Readability subscription (was it $5 or $7 per month) wasn't worth it for myself.
Think the illustration is off. Think the sawtooth pattern is suppose to be perfect.
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There are a few sites that warehouse manuals (e.g. retrevo.com). What I do personally is every time I get a new gadget (be it a camera or a steamer), I find pdf manual and save it in a special folder in Dropbox - that way it is readily available, and I do not have to dig through boxes.

It would be great if every manual would come with URL and QR-code to the vendor's official pdf and ePub.
Yeah, but the problem was a bigger joke.

There are many serious threats to privacy in our increasingly networked world. Cataloging the location of public WiFi hotspots is not one of them.

(Also, I can't think of any other practical way for them to work an opt-out system? Mailing in your WAN MAC address?)
I've seen this same scenario in play many times in different airports. In some larger airports (IAH) they only have 1 body scanner but way more volume than it can handle, so they will have two other lines going through standard metal detectors. I just stand in one of those lines and bypass the scanner. The last time I asked a TSA guy how to request a pat down and not go through the scanner he got visibly annoyed and started loudly proclaiming how safe the scanners were, its just an X-ray, yadda yadda.
I'm not sure I'd use BattleLog as the shining example of our framework. Battlelog is quite flaky and not as responsive as it should be.
Still waiting? It takes longer than four months to bring new technology from research to market. Put up some money for investing in manufacturing and maybe your complaint would be valid.
I edited my comment as you were replying, but still, this writeup totally buries this part of the story (from the opening paragraph of the original source):

This legislation allows airports and Member States that wish to use security scanners for the screening of passengers to do so under strict operational and technical conditions.

People who see the headline are going to think Europe isn't going to be deploying body scanners. But this story is about the opposite: The headline should be, "Europe approves passive-millimeter full-body airport scanners, prepares for rollout."
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Encryption has nothing to do with it.

If your SSID is broadcast, without opting out they are adding the hotspot to their database.

In my neighbourhood about 95% of the AP's that broadcast SSID are encrypted, so this is a much wider group than just the open hotspots.
John Ringo has a book set called the Troy Rising series where multiple characters get implants connected to the network. The description of bill collecting and advertising is hilarious, great for advertisers, and a strong reason not to get said implants.
Indeed... I am from Brazil and I wish i could help in someway, because this are terrible news.
Well, I'm basically agreeing with drusenko. Scoble's advice applies to people who want to pitch him, not necessarily to startups in general, and especially not early stage startups.
It's not low/high hanging apples. It's apples and oranges. 1X programmer does job that is immeadiately visible and has value. 10X programmer writes code that has potential value, which is to be seen in the future, probably when some other 1X programmer implements his code. I now remembered a quote Anthony Hopkins said on 'Inside the actor studio' which he learnt while having a role as a butler: When you're in the room it has to be more empty. Same goes to great programmer and software system as is mentioned in the article.
Bingo. And we occasionally upvote comments such as this one when we're reading aggregated articles during short breaks between long development sessions so we can learn how to better approach entrepreneurship. :)
If you're shooting for the mobile market, writing a web app that works in the 5 most popular mobile browsers is a lot easier than rewriting your native app for each platform you want to target.
I couldn't find the payout for publishers. What can we earn? Thanks.
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Freemium. See the home page, where they talk about "Premium" subscribers.
Social + Lean = Agile
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Great; so what is the alternative solution? I've been mulling it over and there simply doesn't seem to be a way.

Google did indeed make a massive cock up over collecting the Wifi data - and taking them to task on that is a good thing.

Demanding a magic opt-out of public data seems to be a case of privacy gone mad.

First we had PC. Now we have privacy. What is it about these things that always get taken to the extreme. sigh
In the olden days some macs used to have a hidden eject lever inside and to the side of the actual slot that you could push with a long thin screwdriver. Has that now gone?
If you have two programmers, and one is "10x more productive" than the other in that he knows when to reuse or adapt other code, but there is a problem that actually does require writing code, which one will put out a more correct, reliable solution faster? I would guess that it would be the 10x more productive programmer, because he/she doesn't just know when to reuse or adapt other code, but also when to reuse or adapt algorithms, architectures, etc. or "solutions" generally.

I'm annoyed that Cook is still undervaluing these programmers in this article by not explicitly mentioning solutions in general, but only "reusing code", which is just a special case of reusing solutions.
Ie you were not working for a start-up.

Only by what appears to be your unique and limited definition.

I have never heard of anyone that considers "taking money == no longer a startup".

Also, it is not uncommon to startup a company with immediate investment. In fact, some companies don't officially exist until the investment is secured (they are an "idea" during the pitch stage, and the formal legal incorporation paperwork is only filed after securing initial investment).

This is of course all based on common usage of the term in the US, but since you were also referencing US companies this seems appropriate. Much like a "boot" is a piece of footwear here and a part of an automobile there.
What should Google do? Yes, the solution they propose is horrible and hardly anyone will be able to understand it. The important question is whether people really should be able to not have their access points mapped.

SSIDs are public, just like house fronts. I think the European data protection hounds should calm down a little.

I think talking about data protection as a failed ideology is much more interesting than talking about the last convulsions of the same.
There are many serious threats to privacy in our increasingly networked world. Cataloging the location of public WiFi hotspots is not one of them.

That wasn't the problem. Google sniffed and stored data packets, not just the location of the APs. And of course, a decent proportion of them were completely unencrypted.

See their own blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-...

Of course, whether should people have to encrypt their Wifi networks is debatable, but the EU authorities weren't pleased, so now Google is trying to play "extra nice" to calm them down.
Usual Li-Ion batteries get a bit over 1000 cycles, so if this is 10 times more power, it provides more power for 150 cycles than a normal Li-Ion for its lifetime.
Definitely, NTM Marco's childish anti-Android bias is just stupid. Like it or not, Android has the largest chunk of the smartphone market, and not supporting it out of an ideological bias is absurd.

For related reasons, it appears that the Readability app has only been released on iOS at the moment. I have no idea why on earth you would do this, but whatever. As long as they eventually release an Android app, the problem will be solved.
>"This is like being a Rock and roll musician in the late sixties."

In the mid 80's I used to see into Bobby Peterson of The McCoys at various parties around Gainesville.

Hopefully, it is a poor simile.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_McCoys]
Counting over encrypted data
The people that he refers to are the ones who had their data inadvertently collected by Google due to a lack of Wifi encryption.

This is what got the whole process of adding _nomap started.
Ah yes... fond memories.

I think I got part way through pulling apart and gave up in disgust. :)
yeah the slot loading iMacs from 1999 ish had it on the right hand side. You could press it in with a paperclip. Not sure about now...
"If you need custom software development, and your business is going to depend on the result, outsourcing that effort to another country, especially across cultural and maybe language barriers, can be a disaster."

For now. Yes, today it often is a disaster. It won't always be so. We didn't used to have an Indian software industry at all, for example. Now there is one. And one day it will be a no brainer to send most CRUD work there. In fact it won't be "sent" there, that function will exist there. And not only because India and other countries catch up on an industrial scale, but because businesses will demand it. Supply and demand has two sides, and demand will be filled, however slowly.

"yet companies don't outsource most of them. Are they crazy, or are there good reasons for that?"

They haven't got good at it yet, but they're trying and learning, and suppliers are getting better.

Large corporations only make one thing, money. Each one happens to do it by selling something different, but what they sell is incidental, what they're good at is making money. Part of making money is not spending money. If you're a bank, your software systems may be crucial to your business, but they're two steps away from the primary business of making money: 1) Make money, by 2) selling bank services, enabled by 3) software and other systems.

If you can get the same or better quality outside your building you'll do it if it's cheaper and good enough. If you have a communication problem between the software department and the investment department, one solution is to send both departments outside the building, and let them communicate with each other in a cheaper venue. If it's possible, it will be done.

I'm not saying don't go into software development. I'm saying that the world changes, and my 13 year old son's career is going to be much different than yours, inevitably. And your career is going to be much different in twenty years than it is today, not only because you'll have changed and grown, but because the world will have changed out from under you. And it gets faster every day.

Here's hoping that we're all rolling in dollars in twenty years. Or rupees.
visit geek.com with your ipad, its such a classic example of a redicret loop. (swipeware sucks)
This is a good question, I could do a shorter time scale by pulling specific chapters of every book and then combining them into a slimmed down reading list. Say, from book one read chapter 1-3, book 2 chapter 5 and 6, book 3, chapter 9-10 and that will give you x knowledge.
There are AMD video cards with 4GB of memory these days and special cards have up to 16GB I understand.
Your points are true in general, but memory allocation is a special case.

The main data structures in memory allocators tend to be pretty simple. We got away with using singly-linked lists (FIFO queues) as the only shared data structure that needed to be lock-free. In that case, you trade one lock for one compare-and-swap, so there it's an even trade. The main path of the allocation was free of synchronization.

I also implemented a lock-free radix tree (the original was borrowed from TCMalloc), and you can see multiple compare-and-swap operations in the main routine (https://github.com/scotts/streamflow/blob/master/streamflow....), but they will be hit only rarely.

I applied your reasoning, though. The fast path for allocation and freeing small objects was usually synchronization free, and always lock-free. But I protected my page manager with spin locks. The page manager was responsible for grabbing pages from the OS, giving them back to the OS, and carving out pages for individual threads to use as their backing store for their small object allocations. My rationale was that we would only hit the page manager rarely, and in that case, it would probably be faster to use a spin lock, since I anticipated getting pages from the page manager would usually be uncontended.

But that was back in 2005 and 2006. We only had access to 8 thread machines. The SFMalloc paper makes it lock-free all the way up the stack, and their experiments of up to 48 cores shows significant improvement.
Any ideas on monetization?
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Maybe, but if you paid the juniors appropriately on that scale they'd never get into the industry and if you paid the seniors on that scale the business couldn't afford them.
This will make visitors stick around for a while and use that magic scroll button.

But please also bear in mind those of us who use trackballs :)
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Whats the major problem with logging the location of a Wifi access point?

I understand Google screwed up in this area before, when they captured network traffic. (Even then, it seems they captured that data due to oversight, not some nefarious scheme.)

There are lots of huge privacy issues in the world; I don't think a database of approximate wifi locations ranks particularly highly. I don't care if Google map my hotspot, and I'm happy to have my phone locate quickly, when I'm out and about.

And they are now providing a way to opt-out, for the people that feel strongly about it; its not trivial to implement, but I can't think of a way of making it easier.

It seems a lot less complicated for an end-user than robots.txt is in the related scenario of web scraping.

That blog post is full of vitriol; I don't think its adding much constructive discussion, or insight; I think its just blowing things out of proportion.
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Where is the outrage over the multiple wifi access point databases which already exist and _don't_ give anyone the ability to opt out? (skyhook, navizon, etc)
> LiveDrive should have initiated a plan to get the data from the users of Backifys back to them even if Backify was being discontinued.

The problem is that all those users' backups are (probably) stored away as insurance against a possible future data-loss event. So for LiveDrive to offer a useful service to these customers they'd have to undertake to continue to provide access to the backups for some extended period of time. Without that kind of undertaking the backup data is not worth very much - the user would be running the risk that their hard drive goes pop the day after LiveDrive finally decide to end supporting the old Backify users.

Another way of looking at it: if I've just done a routine backup of my machine through Backify, downloading all that data again is probably the last thing I want to do (unless my machine just blew up). What I want is for someone to look after it until I do need it.
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Why haven't I seen the following comment here?

patio11 10 minutes ago | link

Programmers are paid in proportion to the value they create.
If you want to make more money, work on stuff that makes money,
then ask for that raise.

Is there really any other explanation? Think about this like patio11 or Greenspun: work on stuff that makes money/value for the business, go talk to your managers, point to the thing you created and say "this generated $X in revenue for us. I'd like to partake in some of that revenue."

Then head out to dinner or happy hour and enjoy your raise, or jump ship if the company laughs at you.

Isn't this how the labor market for programmers works? If not, why aren't we making this happen?
But you knew LISP before. Isn't that much more beneficial than knowing Java when doing Clojure?
For all those who are interested, http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html is the link to the hearing's webcast, which began at 10 a.m. EST.
Boxee Live TV is coming. Time to cut the cord.
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Have a read of this http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsPayrollHard and see why it is not as simple as "Three lines of ActiveRecord".
Filled out one for each of my representatives and senators, and also made a small donation. I may not be able to do much, but I'll be damned if I don't do anything.
I buy plenty of paid apps from the App Store that have no ads. I don't think that market has ever been better.
The outrage was over the data packets Google collected. Now they're being forced to implement this as a punishment, it seems, more than because of any actual problem with SSID location recording.
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To explain this to friends & family, tell them to watch this video: http://vimeo.com/31100268 - or just the part from 1:08-2:31
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24331/

Having a tendency to shred DNA is not what I would consider safe at all.
I think lotu's probably right. I'd suspect users causing these collissions before I'd suspect that network hardware manufacturers don't know to allocate unique MAC addresses to each card.

You can generally trust than a hardware-embedded MAC is unique.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/11/71307...
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Serious question: why is MG Siegler taken seriously at all? So far as I know he has no credentials, is incapable of actual analysis, and takes forever to get to the point. Am I missing something?
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maybe accidental bookmarklet click
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if google, yahoo, ebay, reddit, mozilla, zynga, AOL, twitter, facebook, linkedIn, etc can do it then i can't see why HN (being all about dev and startup community) can't do it.
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It'll surely be patented and sat on for a while at a very high price. My bet is we'll need to wait $time_of_release + 10 years until we see things working out over traditional cars.
Better yet, just Mechanical_Turk it. 2 cents per comment.
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You should try being a male in neuroscience. Ugh. Women are petty gossips.