skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be called Kickexchange!
Instapaper Placebo
Like the concept, not so much the projects they have right now.

BTW is just me or these crowdfunding sites are all the same? are there any examples of someone modifying the "formula" and coming up with something new?
HNers who ship a lot: Apple sign on delivery policy - worth waiving?
I recently got a replacement iPod nano under warranty, and actually getting the item took weeks because we are simply rarely home, but FedEx wouldn't accept a signature. Pretty much our entire neighborhood empties out by 8 am.

I ordered the iPad yesterday for home delivery, not thinking about it at the time, and the cover is now on its way. I have seen pilferage in the supply chain in the military, so I'm not immediately comfortable with the complete release that Apple is offering.

The down side is that I then have to schlep to the FedEx distribution hub, probably at least three times in the next week, to tablet and sundries (camera kit, etc).

Has anyone tried waiving Apple's signature requirement? Has anyone who ships had problems with pilferage from FedEx, DHL, or USPS?
I've stuck it out to the very end a couple times. Once I was the last guy to lock the doors and walk away, after the CEO, after all the management senior to me. After the cleaning crew.

It really comes down to what you can afford. You've stated (obliquely) that your pay is being reduced. Can you afford to stick it out at the reduced pay? What is your opportunity cost for staying, do you think you can get a job at Square or some other too good to pass up opportunity?

Can you go a month without pay when shop closes up? Can you go three?

Some things to keep in mind:
Sometimes when companies are in trouble they get bought by other companies. This doesn't mean your options will be worth anything but you will have gone through an acquisition which can be a valuable experience.

Sometimes they get shut down or liquidated: Still valuable experience (just once though, please.)

Sometimes lightning strikes and your startup comes roaring back to life. This one really depends on the team and your leadership, not to mention whether there was anything to begin with. If the team is broken and has lost hope then it's less likely anyone will find that inspiration that can change everything. If people still have fighting spirit you might have a chance.

I'm sure your CEO is wracking his brain trying to figure it out. His job is the worst job you can have right now. While you see a company failing, he sees himself failing. The simple fact is that most startups fail. They are experiments to begin with. Learn what you can.

The thing is, everyone who sticks around will have gone through something very difficult together, regardless of the outcome. Doing so makes those relationships valuable and long-lasting. A lot of "success" comes from solid relationships with people you can trust.

Tech startups are hiring like crazy right now. Definitely find out how much time is left. Time is the only thing in life you can't get more of but that doesn't mean you shouldn't choose to do something really hard once in a while. If the remaining runway is pretty short then it's unlikely you'll miss out on the rest of the current tech boom.

So, figure out how much time is left before the company ends then weigh the opportunity cost of staying versus where you might land if you go.

Oh and if someone offers you a job at something like Square that has the potential to change the course of your life through the amazing people you'll get to work with, the network you'll build and/or massive potential financial opportunity: TAKE THE JOB.
This is correct. It would be a huge event if Apple started paying dividends and I'm fairly certain the market would not react kindly to that. The reason is, the market is pricing the Apple stock high due to what they think is coming in the future. They see lots of growth and expect the stock to increase in price. If Apple starts pay a dividend, that means they have decided that they aren't a high growth company anymore, and more of a stable giant (CocaCola, GE, etc). So all the analysts who thought they were going to have a certain amount of sales and growth have to readjust their predictions. Lower earnings predictions = lower stock price.
Government Pressuring Publishers to Adjust Pricing Policy on E-Books
If you can live with floating point results:

from math import gamma
def factorial(x):
return gamma(x+1)

This has the advantage of working correctly for non-integer arguments.
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Thank you and I've just changed the headline.

Here are also some great examples to look at:

http://www.shinobicontrols.com/shinobicharts/product-tour/
Seems like the DoJ is a year late on this one.
I'd love to know how many (if any) people saw the title and thought cracked screen and how many people voted the story knowing it was about cracked screens...
Of course I'm not arguing it's a complete solution.. but I would argue that a complete solution would include this. Also note that I didn't suggest that whoever wrote it be fired alone, I think anyone who had any oversight into this line of thinking should go.

It's indicative of a culture of arrogance, disrespect, poor decision-making, and anything but reverence for the value of the service that the organization is charged with.
There are already places fixing phones more cheaply than the iCracked prices listed in the article:

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mob/2854654904.html

Not sure about quality, though.
What aspects of bitly need improvements?
I am very interested in knowing what you do and/or don't like about bitly.
Are you planning to smash enough phones yourself to reach statistical significance?
I am outraged.
Yes, any sane person would start there :-) I was just responding to 'build from scratch' which can be interpreted quite literally. A friend of mine builds race cars which are basically some 'regular' car, except all the structural bits get replaced. I joked with him that it would be simpler if he just took the engine out and built a frame around the engine, but he claims the previous frame are his version of a story stick[1].

[1] http://www.woodcraft.com/Articles/Articles.aspx?ArticleId=28...
Yes, it is a massive problem that is not getting the attention it should. This is what happened to me. A couple of months ago my apple id / password was compromised. I found this out because I received a bunch of paypal charges coming from a a couple $20 iOS game purchase. Even after removing paypal from my iTunes account, the charges still occurred. I couldn't change my password or do much of anything with my iTunes account. I must have reset my password 50 times and it didn't work. I contacted iTunes support and they confirmed my account was compromised. Because my account was compromised they said I could no longer use my current email address/password for iTunes. So upon iTunes request I provided them with a new email and they set me up with a new iTunes account. Lots of back and forth for a good week.

For what I can tell, those who have had password issues were those who had used simple passwords... (no numbers or capital letters). Apple now requires passwords to be more unique with numbers and capital letters. I believe this is causing a lot of problems for those who used simple passwords before this new requirement. I know of 3 other people who used simple passwords and they are all having password issues. My sister and brother in-law both have more complicated passwords and they haven't noticed any password related issues.

You might want to set up a new iTunes account.
As a fraction of my income, my baby cost us less than 3%. Figure out how much your income went to universal health care. I'm guessing it's higher than 3%.
That's part of bcrypt's reason for existing. In order to protect against brute-forcing stolen hashes, bcrypt has to be slow enough to make brute force impractical. This isn't a bug; it's a necessary feature. If the server they're running npm on is so old or so overloaded that the slowdown from using bcrypt would even be particularly noticeable, then they have other problems.
Argh, this would've been so useful just 48 hours ago at a big client meeting where I presented a dozen wireframe layouts with a responsive design. As a designer, I tried something new by skipping Fireworks and going straight from sketches to laying it out in Bootstrap.

Pros: saved an insane amount of time - a dozen templates instantly became 48 templates because each page had 4 resolutions.

Cons:

* it was awkward to resize the browser window 4 times per page, so this Responsive.is tool would've helped immensely, especially with how it highlights the active window port and allows the rest of the content to be masked but still faintly visible, so the layout doesn't feel cramped because you can see a quick preview of the rest of the content "below the fold".

* the default Bootstrap styling is so plain that it felt like half of the critiques were about the boxiness of the visual design, not the visual hierarchy of the information itself. Themes wouldn't help for this particular client because they're a big giant company that have their own branding anyway.

So prototyping with Bootstrap gave me way more templates in a short of amount of time but it's ugly enough that stakeholder critiques were distracted by it (which is why I usually stick to high fidelity mockups and use wireframes only for internal team collaboration, if at all). More production-ready in some ways (the frontend dev on the team finally got engaged with feedback and is ready for handoff) and less in others (stakeholders won't give real feedback until they see it styled with polish).
In the US, it means significantly more including First and Fourteenth Amendment rights allowing corporations to legally take a more active role in politics than is common in other countries using the popular vote.
I agree about the civilization part, but this was about the huge gray area between "surely to not make homo sapiens extinct" and "surely to make homo sapiens extinct".

I am an optimist, so I keep thinking that 'we' would survive. I also think we will not be that stupid to do that 'experiment'.
No, actually ZDI was right, because VUPEN broke out of Chrome's sandbox in the Pwn2Own contest (not Google's contest) and refused to explain the vulnerability, because it's far more valuable to sell to their customers:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/pwnium-and-pwn2own/

"A Google engineer offered Bekrar $60,000 on top of the $60,000 he stands to earn in the Pwn2Own contest if he handed over the sandbox exploit and details. But Bekrar declined and joked that he might consider the offer if Google bumped it up to $1 million. After the Google engineer left the conversation, Bekrar told Wired that money wasn’t the main enticement for him and he had no plans to hand over the exploit to Google.

"The Google security team member expressed frustration at Bekrar’s reluctance to provide information about the vulnerability so that it could be fixed."
Not to denigrate your efforts, but I think you're treating the symptom and not the root cause of your problem.
How? There's no pressure in the sense being discussed here. He has plenty of time to figure out what to write and how to write it.
I can see a big migration away from Google Maps with Google's new pricing. Google's pricing can potentially get prohibitively expensive quickly. 25000 map views per day and $4/1000 map views that exceed the free 25000 map views. I am starting a new project that is focused around mapping. There is no way Google Maps will work for me with their pricing model. Open Street Maps is great.
Why rolling out your product slowly is so important
That would be Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
its interesting that major problem with going deep is pressure. wonder if there is, or ever will be some sort of technology, like antigravity that would reduce or push pressure away at a reasonable price. like some sort of electrical device that stabilize or neutralize pressure to reasonable numbers. is the only way of "fighting" with pressure a thicker material? air, for example is much lighter than water (duh!). what if I would surround myself with extreme hot membranes that would boil water before it reaches surface of my submarine? :)
Yeah, but I feel like I've heard the same story every university that has the requirement - their spouse/child/dog died in the river, so they donated money with that condition.

Either it is all urban legend, or rich people need to learn to swim/stay away from water.
And as I've said before, if you're going to say something nasty, you'd better be right.

Practically all the most successful tech companies have raised outside funding. If raising money is a sign of lameness, then for some strange reason the most successful startups all seem to be the lame ones.

Honestly, you should be ashamed of yourself. The Songkicks have worked hard. This is a big milestone for them. And you are pissing all over it without knowing anything about them, just because this news happened to trip some idee fixe you're in the grip of.
How do you help debug a cracked screen?

If they have admin access who cares if they do not have to login as your account? Does filevault use a separate password?
Privacy will be one challenge, but I think seamlessness (as you mentioned) is currently the bigger challenge.

I'm a runner, so diet is important. For 9 months I tracked everything I ate. Weighed portions, counted calories, logged everything. The data was insightful. I learned that I need to eat 3,300 calories a day to maintain my weight, with a range of +/- 300 calories.

After 9 months I stopped tracking things because it became time-consuming. Partly was because I learned what it "felt" like to be full, but mostly because tracking it all was really annoying. If all of that could be automated somehow, I'd love to have a spreadsheet of data which I could graph and chart. "At 8:16am, you drank 7.8oz of Orange Juice, totalling 108 calories." Cool, my O.J. container and glass measured that automatically, and uploaded it to my database!

But right now doing it is extremely manual. All of Wolfram's amazing data comes from some sort of automated system he setup once and never worried about. A pedometer. A script chewing through 20 years of archived emails. That form of automation doesn't exist for many types of data people would like to collect, such as food intake, or blood sugar testing for diabetics.

Inventing these non-invasive automated sensors is key for society-wide personal data collecting. Otherwise most data gathering will be sentenced to the dedicated few, rather than the busy many.
Not the book, the output of the program. You'd need another tool anyhow because of the extensions.
Robert Scoble: Glue For Your Cloud Services
Apple’s press conference showed a brand unraveling
The term "security theater" has been tossed around a lot, but I think it's pretty clearly coming to that. Asking the mainstream media not to cover something like this is completely indefensible from a security standpoint - what, terrorists only learn about security flaws from TV?. It's pretty patently only about keeping their budget.

Also, just going to throw this out there, but it is fairly possible that the email is totally fake.
Compromising the integrity of the npm registry
My standard approach to the "determining their depth" problem is to give them a problem where detailed knowledge provides an obvious (or perhaps more elegant) answer, but there are other possible answers.

For example, "how would you implement a least recently used cache in Java" can provide a wide array of answers and tells me a lot about the person's knowledge of the SDK and overall algorithm design. The details of their solution and the ensuing discussion tells me a lot more, no matter what their level, than whether they simply know that LinkedHashMap.removeEldestEntry exists.
Not surprising - many Python built-ins are implemented in C. And for any numerical or computational libraries, doing it in C is all but essential.

Tangential, but this is why NumPy totally changed my workflow. I can use all of the benefits of Python, including its libraries and syntax, and still have a program that executes at the speed of C, rather than Python[1].

[1] Not literally the speed of C, but you get the idea.
In Search of Cyber Peace: Anonymous and the Cybersecurity Act of 2012
It's called mercurial. Seriously.
It may not have the "raw power" of git, but at least the developers make an attempt at decent user interfaces.
This was in Provo, UT, a student town where 50% of students and many of those couples have at least one child while attending school (my wife and I are one of those). The city therefore has a significantly higher than average birthrate but since the student population is transitory the population doesn't really grow that much. The effect of all this is that the hospital has an abnormally large amount of childbirths, and has become pretty darn efficient at it.

That probably contributes to a lower cost.
RED ROCKET!
I had the same reaction as a kid to the Grand Canyon, that it looked like all of the postcards. I think as I get older there's something else about that, that reality's greatness can't be comprehended in the same way as other things that are more human specifically, like other people, maybe? So I mean while it was a let down, the fact that on the surface it seemed like a let down has not been a let down in its own right.
We know that Apple is working on using their own map technology based on some of their acquisitions. Is it possible that OSM is just a stop-gap until their own maps are ready to go? Perhaps they didn't want to enter into another licensing agreement with Google if they're going to be ready to switch to their own solution later this year with iOS 6?
It's incredibly suspicious to allude to an e-mail from the TSA, but not actually include a copy of said e-mail.
Security by obscurity.
You're wrong about that too. A lot of VCs don't make money but the top VCs (including Sequoia) certainly do.
Heh, I thought you were joking:

http://edweissman.com/53640595

that's kind of fun
True, but it requires 3.2+ and does not work correctly for large integers (floating-point runs out of precision long before Python's arbitrary-size integers become unusably large.)

(Of course, this is a silly problem.)
There's a difference between being suitable and being the only alternative currently available given the other constraints. There's lots of big software written in C not because C is convenient or well-suited for writing that kind of software, but because performance trumped the other concerns. Particularly in 1995, when computers were slower and other language implementations were slower than they are today.
off-topic, but couldn't find a contact form on the website.

Priceonomics need to improve their search results. If you navigate through categories the results are well organized... but if you try to use search it does not organize the data properly.

I can drill down through your results to find the Honda Civic prices per year: http://priceonomics.com/cars/honda/civic/

But I can't search for those results.
http://priceonomics.com/search?s=honda+civic+2006

There's the same problem with phones. Navigating the listing to phones I can find the iPhone 2G:
http://priceonomics.com/phones/apple/

But if I search for the iPhone 2G:
http://priceonomics.com/search?s=iphone+2g
AppHarbor launches background workers
Exactly. OSM wants more people using OSM. Getting the pitchforks out now would be contrary to that goal.
It has come to prominence due to software released in the last few days, yes. But it was also used in other software.
Here: http://vimeo.com/6152948
It appears from the chart your chances of dropping your phone and having the screen crack are higher in the South than the North.

Could it be that Houston summer heat makes your hands sweaty and that means you're more likely to drop your phone? Yet another advantage of living in a frigid climate.
I follow the creators of my favorite FOSS free software and plugins, a couple other popular tech people in the subcultures. Local popular twitter tech people, friends, a few peole in hobbies I like and some randoms here and there from books and articles I've read. I'm most happy with following services that I partake in as that makes me feel like I can re-broadcast their stuff and also find out early what's upcoming news.
"It just seems to me like we programmers as a whole like trivial things and can spend most of our time on them as long as they tickle our analytic bone."

This explains why some of us (Me) can spend so much time playing computer RPG's, when we could get the same progression and more real-world benefit by planting a garden. I guess I'm also too impatient for that :)
> you'd better be right

Did I get wrong 1. hit rate, 2. negative IRRs or 3. the take?

> Practically all

But not all.
Introverts in a social media world
I'm going to talk about geography because other people are giving good advice in other regards:

Can you move to a startup friendlier environment? Even by taking another job and working nights/weekends/lunch hours on your startup?

Tony Hsieh is doing awesome things in Vegas and it's not nearly as expensive to live there as Silicon Valley, San Francisco, LA, NYC, etc.

Create a really good plan, come up with a simple proof of concept and reach out to the incubators? Hell, Reach out to Tony to see if it's worth the move.

You'll want to have something concrete to reach out with before you do so. Execution is everything, ideas are just vaporware. Once you've shown commitment by building/executing, your inquiries will get a lot more respect and attention.

Being in a place where people value and are enthusiastic about startups will make a huge difference to you.

If you can't move DO NOT GIVE UP. I totally understand having a family or a mortgage or a spouse who isn't into moving, etc.

Building your product is more instructive and can be more entertaining than watching TV or going to a movie or whatever else you do to pass free time. You're making yourself better at what you do by expanding your horizons in this way.

I have been very successful working with distributed teams. Take a look at Automattic (wordpress.com) a company that has zero requirement on where you are geographically, provided you can do your job well.

Start building, launch a minimum viable product. If you feel the need for more help use what you've built to inspire collaborators. Don't be afraid to bootstrap if that is your only recourse:

http://37signals.com/bootstrapped

Email me (check my profile) if there's anything I can do to help. ;)
> You've been viciously downvoted here, but you should have expected it.

Oh, I did. I don't say things because I think they will be popular.

In fact, it isn't even Hacker News. If you drew a random group of people from any Western society and I came into the room and made that statement verbatim ... well, I would be shocked if they didn't start throwing chairs at me.

Our culture is so fundamentally sick that it not only pretends there is no significant difference between genders, it pretends there are no fundamental differences between people in general.

The differences are there and they are stark.

The absolute worst part is that after making the assumption that we are all identical, any behavior outside of the defined norm is defined as aberrant and is treated, usually with drugs. That is absolutely sick.

What's that? You can't do calculus? Well, you must be a moron. A girl that doesn't like math? We're not trying hard enough. A girl that prefers to watch The Bachelor instead of learning how to write in C? Unspeakable.

Now that is misogyny. Hatred of the feminine and its masculinization.

Those who read my comment and saw something negative in it, you're projecting. The feminine is beautiful and just because a certain behavior is disgusting in a man, doesn't make it so in a woman.