skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual paper[1] from the author's blog post[2].

[1]: http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf

[2]: https://sviehb.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/wi-fi-protected-setu...
I'm just saying that it's one of many factors, and I'm skeptical about overstating its importance because topical political issues are almost always overstated in importance. If we didn't spend a good chunk of the last four years, as a country, angrily arguing about socialized medicine, then socialized medicine would likely not be the first thing to pop in your mind as the most important factor. It's probably just as important that Japanese people eat a healthier diet and are less alienated from their families than Americans, but I wouldn't even claim any certainty there.
Cloud is complex - deal with it
That's not really latchkey's problem.

It's different for big companies (Google, Microsoft etc.) that have to hire by truckloads, but small, startup companies (say, <40 people), only need to hire a couple of good people and therefore can be selective and therefore can use a filter that rejects "majority of people" (especially given that filter also strongly correlates with "people they wouldn't want to hire anyway").

Now, I'm not saying it's your problem, as you also need to be hired by only one of many companies so it's perfectly valid to ignore companies that have a strong preference for open-source contributions.

However, if you do want to be considered by such companies, it's a small investment to build a portfolio of open-source code on github.

I believe this is becoming more and more important because more and more startups are founded by people who grew up in a world where open-source projects and github are a norm, not some extraordinary event as it used to be just a few years ago.
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Why must these sorts of contributions always be BSD licensed, what is wrong with public domain?
Only according to another philosopher. So it's a conspiracy.
I wonder why don't they publish number of downloads for those apps? This would be in the spirit of open source.
I've always perceived the Great Firewall as a protectionist measure rather than censorship (I guess it's a bit of both). It's also been my experience that Chinese people don't care about censorship. Regarding VPNs, it seems they have been cracking down on non authorized VPN vendors lately (my VPN recently stopped working over 3G and some ISPs). (been living there for over a year)
Really? I had to download it for my Mac, and if Microsoft is somehow getting Apple to pay them off, they're getting a shitty deal because I still had to download it.
Great advice on targeting smaller markets first.
You can make a browser GET or POST to any arbitrary URL already via JavaScript.
But aren't you scared? As far as I know all P2P is easily detectable and the liklihood isn't all that small that you will be caught at some point. Aren't the sums of money involved then potentially life-destroying in the US?
Living in the United States of America, let me tell you what life is like with restricted internet
http://internetpulse.net/ is a little more reliable - provided by Keynote.

If you look at internettrafficreport, notice that many of their collectors haven't received responses in over a week, though, there is evidence of something happening.

Looking at our graphs, I do see some indication of a problem, but, mostly prefixes that disappeared - i.e. had no path to them as I am not seeing an increase in traffic on one provider where I'm seeing a loss on another.
Looks like propping it up is just an extra feature. From the video the main benefit is easier one-handed use.
+1 on that. "Create" is the first thing you see, and what the hell does the app have to do with creation? The copy seems too focused on the tech side of things: "No admins. No forms. No approvals" - who cares? I'm not comparing other apps to yours.
Throughout the video, I was just hoping he would stop dancing and show me exactly how the product works. While I appreciate being entertained, a demo/informational video would have been more conducive to the goal of getting me to pledge some funds.
Production code baes are never trivial enough for a quick test. They usually require a deep understanding of domain.

Have you ever tried to fix an open bug on a GitHub project? It is non-trivial.
> And some of it is just strange. Michelin ratings as a measure of the strength of an economy? Cultural factors matter as much as economic strength, there.

I was in a theater on the 4th to watch _Nausicaa_, and one of the previews was for a documentary about some sushi chef. Breathlessly it mentioned that he was the first Japanese restaurant to receive 3 Michelin stars.

I was a little astonished. 'Yes, I know 3 Michelin stars is very hard to get, but this must've been in the last 20 or 30 years - how could Michelin have deprived Japan of any 3-star rankings for so long after WWII? Their restaurants are not unusually better these days than they were over the last century or two.'

The obvious answer is that Michelin didn't have any real presence but began ramping up relatively recently (perhaps during the bubble). So it wouldn't be surprising if the coverage continued to increase despite whatever the true trend of Japanese restaurant quality is (up or down).
I'm ok with missing those people, they already have a nice stable big company job they are happy at. There is a lot of value in that and I'd never want to take that away from anyone.

In high school, we were all told that in order to get into college, you needed to have extracurricular activities. I consider spending some time at night or on the weekends on an open source project part of the deal of being a software engineer. Not everything needs to be taught or done on the job. The people I want to hire make their own time to learn and grow.
Note that it is GPL, not LGPL.
They're positioned via CSS, so probably 2 or 3 line changes.
Path is where the A list hangs out, don’t tell anyone.
Nice. So people are forced to set up their own mail services and all.

Much more secure than assuming some corporation will value your data. Or that dropbox is secure in any way.

Irony apart. 100% of digital goods in China are pirated. That goes along a great way to show how effective internet censorship is for piracy.

On the other hand, most south American countries have free internet (as in speech) and 90% of video games there, even consoles, are pirated.

I'm going to put my money that income controls pirating better than anything else.
> About the bitbucket projects, maybe the crawler didn't get all the links, you can send us projects to add going to "Missing projects? Add a project"

https://api.bitbucket.org/1.0/users/{{ username }}/
The Dragon In My Garage (Carl Sagan)
The dancing was very ill-advised.
From what you write, I think you might be interested in watching the Zeitgeist movies [1] and read about basic income [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist_(series)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Income
I greatly prefer PLActorKit by Landon Fuller:
http://code.google.com/p/plactorkit/
People didnt live alone in the woods, so thats a straw man argument there.

Going about it to live together as a commune in the nature, that is success. Just cant be done today, as civilized people would be right there behind and kill them all/take their food/poison them and so on, just as is being done to hunters and gatherer communities who are left today.

People can live together and strive without working, when you consider hunting and foraging/gardening to be a game, and hunting is not considered work even by civilized people, it is something "recreational". Hunting or gathering food is usually done around 2 hours per day at most, depending on season and so on. Its just a fun life, the kind of life humans where made to live. Our bodies are not adapted to working at all. Our bodies and minds break down when working, even in nice office environments without much physical labor.
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also thinks AIDS is the sufferer's fault :( In the end his internet might not be much better.
Stenography vpn idea for startup?
has nothing to do with SOPA
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One of necessity. Only philosophers are qualified to make such decisions
... movie coming out this summer
Makes me think the numbers are manipulated, perhaps by Fluendo?
Upon seeing those 'sockets', I thought it'd be something along the lines of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvQzxcYZuss
How about C-q as an alternative? It is same as C-v (in the default readline mapping) and generally unused. It does not conflict even with Windows' use of C-v.
The success of this project is proof positive that pitching really matters. You could imagine someone pitching the same project without a dance-filled, much less entertaining video, and not creating the same excitement. Congrats to the prof and his team!
This stackoverflow page has some good comments on what it means to release into public domain: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/219742/open-source-why-no.... The answer, in some cases, is nothing.
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm saying you can't just compare costs straight across by looking at taxes vs. premiums because in the health care system here there are a number of hidden costs.

I had a friend who broke his arm. The emergency room doctor wouldn't touch him until the family provided some cash.

If you have to provide extra bedding, food and toiletries for a hospital stay on your own - those costs aren't reflected in the taxes that one pays for health care.

This has nothing to do with debating the merits about either system, I'm purely talking about trying to accurately compare the costs.
"Clever new iPhone case pitched on Kickstarter"? Maybe without the Kickstarter since the domain is always shown with the link.
Totally agree with the market comment.

You're selling a product that needs to leverage the network effect, otherwise it's useless. Marketing this product in a geographically sparse environment such as the USA means you need more users before you hit the "tipping point", at which it becomes useful.

Consider Facebook: it started as a Harvard project. That meant that it could become useful with a user-base measured in hundreds, as the population was densely packed.

In contrast, your product had a user-base of 3000, in a population of 300,000,000. That works out as 0.001%. I'm not a statistician, but the maths would show that the likelihood of a particular person knowing another user nearby is very low.

I'm not saying your business is a failure, and it can still be salvaged if you have the will, but you should definitely look at this as a learning exercise just as you did with your first startup.

I wish you luck in whatever it is you choose to do.
Probably just being anal about minimizing my installation surface area, but la. The less packages installed the better, especially when the alternative is installing a relatively large infrastructure like Mono for just one app.
It is a fair warning. I've had some bad bugs happening out of it, but most of them are some heavily custom shaders not loading.
And they both live in San Francisco - which shows that it is all about $$ and not about their political views or principles.

So this is one of the problems I can see with politics today: politicians have no views or principles you can count on. Everything is depended on how much money they get (of course they all stick and talk about wedge issues such as guns, gays, and god which are really stupid).

That is one of main reason people like Ron Paul: you know what you get.
Good read.

What is your opinion, or how do you perceive open source software which comes at a price? ie office suite or game where the source is open but the producer requires monetary fee for it or support services for it?
On mobile so i can't check myself: does The BROWSER makes the request by some clever way? Or simple server side script does it?
You could include Project Euler in that list as well. http://projecteuler.net/
Especially interesting since Bank of Japan doesn't seem to have dual mandate to guarantee both maximum employment and price stability, unlike Federal Reserve.
That's also completely controlled by where you live. There are a few places on Earth naturally abundant enough(and with climate friendly enough) to support a population with less than 40 hours per week per person, but I'd bet most of the planet doesn't fall into that category.
>Living in larger family units is actually very efficient.

Maybe so, but it's not a sign of excess wealth. Japanese young people live with their parents longer than was customary thirty years ago, so it's not a question of culture. They simply can't afford to move out.
Thanks for the information. I'm afraid you missed my point, though. AppleTV does all of these things I described out of the box. It's all very well integrated, anyone will know how to use it.

The scenario you described is far less straightforward, and from reading the reviews for some of these solutions you proposed, one's mileage may vary. Sure, this appeals to hackers and tinkerers, but to consumers not so much.

A while back I heard someone argue that when you buy a DELL computer, you can develop iOS apps just as well as on a Mac. You only need some drivers, cracks and a Mac OS X DVD. And you need to make sure you get the right model, with the right chipset, otherwise your sound or WiFi won't work. Somehow, I was reminded of that discussion just now.
Wouldn't this hit anyone who linked to wikileaks-like sites?
They are hand-picked. The project was to encourage people to adopt a new way of reading where you'd highlight useful passages while reading. In addition, to improving retention rates (as you are forced to re-read the highlighted passage), you submit them to the site for ranking, and get to revisit them at your leisure. This would essentially allow you to refresh your memory as to the contents of a certain book (instead of rereading it entirely). Moreover, you'd help others who don't have time to read the book (and only want to see its gist).

Your side project is pretty neat. I worked on something similar once that involved the Open Text Summarizer (OTS).
I second reddit.com

Additionally, stackoverflow.com has really informative ongoing posts that are language specific
he won me with the dance. i'm in
Study finds piracy withering against legal alternatives
One of problems with the resubmission is that it (intentionally or accidentally) ignores prior discussions until someone manually points out. The resubmission itself is not a problem, as you mentioned, however.

I guess a small link to the prior discussions or the HNSearch link to given URL will do a job. I personally prefer the latter, but it seems that HNSearch only indexes the domain name of the URL.
Exactly. Thank you, TechCrunch, for (amongst other things) making the talent crunch worse:

"TechCrunch says I need to hire rockstar programmers who can grasp the domain model stupidly quickly then make room-blowing strides with in 90 days, in addition to actively thinking about doing their own startup" - Some PHB after they read this.

Good luck with that...
dupe - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3439700
What a horrible video.
I feel like he showed how the product works plenty. He showed you can hold it with one hand sans thumb, it stands in multiple different ways and it's stylish. Also it doubles as a headphone wrap. Had he stopped dancing and just went on about "This is the revolutionary new product that will..." shpeil that every other product does I probably would have quit that video a while back. As far as pitches go his was rock solid.
Americans can now see it's PRIMARILY MAFIAS THAT RUN THIS COUNTRY.
Buddy Roemer opposes it :)
From what I've been able to find, it looks like Michelin didn't review Japan at all until around 2007-2008.
He probably means "proprietary". Also, I think Silverlight is particularly annoying if you're not on Windows.

And Flash, of course, is annoying when it does work :)
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Japan has the highest debt/GDP ratio in the world. It's true most of that money was lent by Japanese people, but as the population gets older people will start draw down their savings. The government will be forced to go to international markets to service the debt, and then the wheels are going to come off. If they had to roll over that massive debt at 3% interest service on the debt would consume the entire budget.

They'll have to impoverish the savers through inflation of the yen, assuming that's a political possibility. Is this the sign of a healthy economy?

The "lost decades" are not a myth. Japan has been able to preserve the appearance of wealth by borrowing it. Of course the country has great infrastructure. It was all built on borrowed yen in a futile attempt to stimulate growth. But the bill is coming due.
Somewhere between 2 weeks and 10 years you hit a point where you're good enough to entertain people/write useful code and perhaps even make some money doing so. The point being argued against I think is that you shouldn't tell people who are writing useful code that solves real problems that they shouldn't call themselves programmers because they haven't hit the 10 year/10000 hour mark.
It's also convention to license Apple-related projects as they do.

Which are generally MIT/BSD variants.
It sounds to me like you've done everything that is in your control. Stop beating yourself up about the aspect that you have very little influence over (the app becoming popular)

You designed, built & shipped the shell of a social network. Now you have an empty db that once filled will be useful, interesting and used by a lot of people.

Now you've got to find the events and go some way towards populating your database to show to your early adopters that your concept works.

You've got several options.

a) Seek out other event agregators where open invitations are ok. See if you can get a stream of data into your app from events that are already taking part in these places.
Speak to a few University groups, get them to try it out in a larger focus group. Get them to post their social gatherings up on the app, to gauge their longer term feedback. If they keep using it, great!

b) Contact other founders that have had similar chicken & egg issues. Ask for their advice. Implement & test any insights they give you.

c) Turn the tables round slightly. It seems your app users are looking for a hangout they can join. Why not prompt your users to create their own first and be the 'host' instead of expecting there to be ones they can join. Maybe you make it so they HAVE to host one before they get to join others in the future?

d)Try to team up with some open invitation events, perhaps event ticketed events may fit in. Fundraisers, sports events etc even if it doesn't fit your 'personal hangout' criteria. It shows you've done your best to populate the database.
Who knows, if you joined up with Startup Weekends or a wide spread event, you may even get a sponsor!

e) Find ways to integrate posting to Grooovy as part of other social networks. This could involve all tweets @grooovy with the #hangout and city being auto added to the app. You could try this manually first. The hosts don't actually need to have the app, they just need to share their event information with you so your searchers can join in.

I think you've come 90% of the way and are reeling from the shock that you 'built it' but they didn't come (yet).

You haven't fallen at the last hurdle. You just need to find new & inventive ways to jump it!

Be sure to update us on your progress!
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except salsa and guacamole are interchangeable.

it doesn't seem to me you can easily exchange one component of CPI with another?
There doesn't seem to be a mention of side effects in this article, and I'd be very hesitant to seek this treatment route if it had the same side-effects as electroconvulsive therapy: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Electroconvul...
I think it would be better if, instead of circles, the pop-sockets were octagons for little flat edges depending on the angle you were using to rest the device.

And the video? The "joke" never ended and got down to details about the product.
this guy was my TA at a philosophy class at nyu 11 years ago. cool!
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If I were being interviewed by you I'd have a question: "If you hire me, can you guarantee that either (1) I'll be contributing to open source as part of the job, or (2) the job will leave me with enough free time and energy that I will have both the time and desire to do programming outside of work on open source?".

If your answer was "no", then my follow up question would be "so basically you wouldn't hire someone whose prior career had been spent at companies like yours?".

If your answer to the first question was "yes, option (2)", I'd have some follow up questions probing why the job is not able to provide enough interesting and challenging work to fully engage me.
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That seems like the entire point: China's firewall tries to create a Chinese internet consisting of people in China browsing sites in China. The internet doesn't work that way. While sites with country-specific audiences do exist, for the most part everyone browses the same Internet. Sites like Baidu, Youku (a YouTube clone), Weibo (a Twitter clone), and other sites hosted in China benefit greatly from the firewall. Without the firewall, those sites would still have an audience, but they'd compete heavily with the much larger audiences on the sites they cloned.
True, it's not a great example-- I honestly think the author has missed the point of the exercise. "We might be down for thirty minutes" is not actually that bad of a thing, as you point out; he's just practicing avoidance, which is not the path to happiness.

However, Buddhist mindfulness really does predict that the only way to be happy is to contemplate, and accept, your most secret and horrific fears. Try, "No matter how hard I work, what I make will eventually fail and be replaced." Or maybe "Everyone and everything I love will die and be utterly forgotten in a few hundred years."

This is, in fact, practicing happiness. It seems absurd, but if you can't be happy and productive while accepting these thoughts, you weren't ever really happy; just in denial.
>I go back to China quite often, and I've never had Google blocked for me. Facebook has been blocked on occasion, and most blog sites are, but it's honestly never been that problematic.

China has changed since you (apparently) grew up or lived here. There hasn't been a single day in years that I've found YouTube, facebook, Twitter or any of the major blogging sites have been open. Google is generally blocked only for sensitive terms, cache or queries with too many ? query terms in the URL. Gmail, on the other hand is becoming less and less reliable. The internet is barely usable for international sites, especially now that everyone is putting facebook and twitter buttons all over the place.

It's worth pointing out that the pain described above is caused through centralized control of DNS servers... which is exactly what SOPA would create in the US.

Also, in my experience internet cafes don't claim to have 正版 (as you put it "real") software when they don't. They would think you were a bit odd for caring though.
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