skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you click to the article? It says right there to the right of it: "I'm living from my car in Silicon Valley while I build my startup." And "startup" is linked to http://dailytoaster.com/
In case you are not familiar with dnssec-keygen:

-e If generating an RSAMD5/RSASHA1 key,
use a large exponent.
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It's even worse for the cows.
AFAIK thanks to the hashing used with git there is very little chance of corruption. The filenames are 32bit hashes so the probability of collision between the hashes of two given files is 1 / 2^32. The probability of collisions between any of N given files is (N - 1) / 2^32.
People don't fact check what they want to hear and which supports existing narratives.

The largest company in the world making their money on the backs of exploiting the very poorest is a common trope so it's one that doesn't get much fact checking.

People aren't wired that way, it takes a good 12 years of teaching them to regurgitate 'quasi-facts' to get them out of their more curious fact checking nature. Every kid wants to know why the sky is blue, but by the time they get to history class no one wants to know why Columbus discovered America.
Mapping the Satiety of Food [Infographic]
By 'naysayers', do you mean people spreading false statements?
This is what our brilliant minds work on, because they're chasing that damn dollar.
If you can't meaningfully export your data from the service (such that you can reuse it in a different context) then treat the service as disposable. This is true whether startup or not but is especially true for startups. For similar reasons be wary about subscriptions. All startup founders, all of them, are get rich quick fantasists, some are justified in this, most are not, don't entrust them with anything important.
So that means Silicon Valley has the 3 most fearful enemies: fresh air, sunshine and the unbearable roaring of birds? -- Thanks, I'll go with the 80% rain :)
Truth is I've found the same re planet money's quality waning. For the first time I actually stopped a podcast 2 thirds through because I found myself yawning.

Thanks, I hadn't heard of Behind the News, found it on iTunes and it sounds awesome. Link for those interested:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-news-doug-henwood/...
Indie Games not on TIGS / Indiegames: Mulder's Bogus Rabbit Journey [Kyle R]
So, the first thing that came to mind was Target's datawarehouse market research work that got a lot of press a month ago. Some vocal people were up in arms about privacy, instrusiveness, money, etc., but this here move by Walmart should really put those peoples' minds at ease.

Here is a company with more money than god, yet they have to buy a company in order to spy on their (potential) customers with any degree of ROI and/or effectiveness, and only WRT date-based information. If you don't agree that they're spying, I think you can at least allow that this is (what could be known as) a sledgehammer approach to market-research.
Why? I don't mean to be rude, I'm genuinely curious. Would you give someone else $100 to, say, go to Burning Man and learn to fire-dance or are you actually excited about the cloud-based alarm clock?
A roundtrip drive from SF to PA would cost about $35 in fuel. 15 trips is $525. Might be cheaper (and a lot better) to just rent an apartment in Oakland.

Good Luck!
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You're going to die; it'll get hot as hell in that car.

Good Luck though. It'll be interesting to hear how you get on.

I read a short snippet in the 1986 Whole Earth Catalogue about some guy doing digital nomadism on a three wheel bike.

I think it's here, but I can cope with the flash / pdf / UK wireless broadband dongle / "invisible" proxies to check.

(http://www.wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1...)
There's usually laundromats in every city.
> Go on, try asking your users if they'd pay for your product. It's the best validation you can get!

I'd be very careful with that. While I do partially agree with it, it's very easy to overvalue what your users tell you. Not only there's the danger that Steve Blank points out [1], that you might be making the mistake of listening to the wrong costumer segment (which is really hard to tell). But there's also the problem that, deep down, no one really knows what they want, much less how much you would pay for what you want. There's a huge discrepancy between "how much your costumer will tell you he'll pay", and "how much he'll pay". And telling the difference between those is also really hard to do.

So do ask your users. But take their opinion with a grain of salt and try other validation methods to complement it (A/B tests, analytics).

[1] http://steveblank.com/2012/02/27/killing-your-startup-by-lis...
A lot of people use "GNU/Linux" and "Linux" interchangeably to refer to the origins of the OS and not just the software that is being used. Pretty sure if you ask RMS he thinks that all distributions of Linux should be called "GNU/Linux".

Also, not sure what that has to do with them having a version of their software that runs on OS X. They could easily use libraries that aren't glibc for the Mac version.
This article questions the move but Samsung is one hell of a conglomerate that already sell over 50 different phones over 4-5 OS's. The Blackberry brand is still very valuable, the BBM and QNX/BBX tech both seem like non-terrible investments and yeah it does diversify their options should Googarola start to get favored.

I've always said RIM should have switched to Android keeping the Blackberry brand with a strong BBM based UI layer. I still think they should but maybe they need to totally hit rock bottom and have someone like Samsung step in and make the burning platform decision.
No probs. This library is pretty good if you're using jQuery: http://www.xarg.org/project/jquery-webcam-plugin/
It's not just the amount of pay that people are having difficulty with - it's the relative difficulty of finding work. Coders are in demand at the moment, so we don't have that problem.
I am a dual citizen (this includes US citizenship) and I was always amazed at how I'm treated when entering the US. It is as if the border guards were deciding whether to let me in or not! (Actually, I think this is exactly what they're doing) I mean, what does it matter where I'm heading in the US, where I work, or where my family lives? How is that anybody's business? I'm entering my own country, after all!

As a comparison, in most European countries the passport control does two things, and two things only: a) determine whether you are a citizen (e.g. passport control), b) determine whether you are a criminal that needs to be arrested immediately. There is no other option. If you are a citizen of the country you are entering and they don't arrest you right away, they can't detain you, question you, harass you, or do anything else. There are no questions about where you're heading, where you work, what you do for a living. There would be no point in asking: as a citizen, you have the right to be heading anywhere, working anywhere, or actually not making a living at all.

Land of the free, indeed.
And if there's some special 'platform native' special sauce you want to add to the rapidly iterating HTML UI :

http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/36752779/PhoneGap%20Plugins#...
Does anyone know what the "Bleichenbacher bug" was that scared people away from using 3 for the exponent?
I'm split on being impressed with the intensity and turned off by the crazy-rays.

The bay area has many advantages, but it also depends on your specific vision and skills – not every business will get a net benefit from the bay's mix of benefits and stresses/costs.

In particular, the benefits of proximity to capital and deep (but pricey!) technical talent might not outweigh the logistical challenges of not knowing where you'll shower, make breakfast, and do laundry from day-to-day. Especially when your startup is a wake-up app.
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OS X: Audio Hijack (USD 32) http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/buy.php
How stupid is this idea ? You would live in your car just to be in the Silicon Valley ?
A good idea and a good execution are what matters. Doesn't matter if you are hype and live in Palo Alto, go back to your apartment in LA and do some coding.
I hope this works out for him, but it seems kind of dumb.

It'd make more sense if he were single and living in the middle of Kansas or something. Even then it'd seem like a last ditch effort.

But it just seems silly when he has a wife and a house and is only going 250 miles away. And all of it for an alarm clock app?
> This is an excellent business model for founders, but it’s a raw deal for users.

How many free app companies get to a point where this business model is actually aplicable for founders? Very few I doubt. Calling it an excellent business model is a little short sited.
Audacity plus Soundflower will do the trick.

http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/
I must be missing something. What is it about these online education programs that has so many superstar academics so fired up?
"The page you were looking for is not here." Is that supposed to be the joke?
http://archiv.infsec.ethz.ch/education/fs08/secsem/Bleichenb...
I couldn't get audio hijack pro to actually do that.

no, wait. I could, but...

it's a pain to have to boot it up before a skype call - some earlier version would not record unless skype was loaded after AHP, for example.

I broke down and spent the whole $20 on ecamm's call recorded for skype plugin. http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/

It works. Exceedingly well. Each side of the conversation gets recorded in to a separate channel. You can set the quality. It does video, and you can get each side of the video out as a separate vid file too.

And it's always on. I have it set to record automatically, but it'll throw it away if it's < 5 seconds. A little popup comes up with a red off button so I can stop recording on the boring calls, but by default, I'm recording.

I record most of my calls to customer service departments this way. "This call may be recorded for quality purposes" I take as them giving me permission to record the conversation, so I do.
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I've met many Microsoft employees who use iPhones. Can you blame them?

I believe that as an employee, I am free to purchase any product or service without any obligation to my employer.
It's occurred to me that the ultimate answer is embodied by the classic Feynman chapter title "You just ask them".

You've got Facebook raising money at over $50 per user based on the promise of futureperfect GMO (ie trying to imitate organic) targeted advertising. Google is so worried, they're gutting their core strength and namesake to become more 'social' by facilitating pop culture, as if it were hard to find. Clearly everyone on the web wishes they were buying things all the time, but just doesn't know it yet.

Meanwhile, Pinterest comes along and stumbles into creating a community where people curate pictures, many of stuff they desire to buy either now or in the future - inherently social status symbols. They skip ads, double-down on their ability to drive sales, and directly monetize affiliate links.

It seems like "Fail fast" has a corollary of "Context is king" - If you end up with all of the cat-picture-posting users in the world, and that's what users view your site as being for, you're never going to have better monetization than generic ads.
Chicago Public Radio, who is purported to have sent the email, does have an ongoing relationship with NPR. So does their parent company, Chicago Public Media which produces This American Life. NPR coproduces Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me with CPM.

PRI, as you note, is in competition with NPR (and CPM). They are producers of the journalistic expose' about a one man show not meeting the standards of investigative journalism. A strawman argument indeed.
You're right, I'm able to make out the effect on my desktop screen when dragging windows from side to side. I guess we only scroll vertically most of the time, not horizontally, so it doesn't come up. That suddenly is no longer true when you rotate to portrait orientation.
I have to concur. Their primary claim to fame is Joel himself. I don't mean to denigrate their products either - and a new grad could certainly do worse - but there are more "meaningful" and challenging opportunities elsewhere (that also happen to pay more).
Does Bret Victor write all those things himself? They are staggeringly awesome. I am now suffering from a major inferiority complex! This totally lit a fire under my ass.
Your Laptop is Not Private at US Customs
> (j/k nobody uses python 3)

Only about 450K downloads per month of Python 3 throughout 2011...on Windows, that platform no one uses.

[source: the first several slides of my PyCon talk - http://briancurtin.com/PyCon2012Presentation.pdf]
March Madness in an X/Y Graph
True, but then again I can not see it running on a kernel alone.

So maybe on a Linux Platform they are dependent on the GNU toolchain.
I don't think this is a silly idea. It's obviously a nice "PR" stunt and interesting enough to have made it to the HN front page, which should make sure that OP gets enough showering offers. I certainly would offer mine if I lived in the valley.
Windows 7 Ultimate PC.
Nice work, it's an interesting mechanic.

You might want to look at some kind of scoring system + sharing of that score to increase sharing of the application.

ie "I guessed 10/20 of my friends profile pictures".

This would allow you to use it as a competition entry mechanic for brand promotions. We do this kind of thing all the time: http://nativedigital.com.au/social
NIST announces approval of Secure Hash Standard
Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Making your Employees’ Lives Awesome
Qbo Robot Gets 3D Vision
it works great but some visual polish wouldn't hurt...
No, one is naïveté and the other is ignorance. Big difference.
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$75k out of college is certainly in line with a new grad's fair market value.

If they're exceptional, they can do better - but they'd have to be exceptionally clueless not to be aware of that. I highly doubt any CS student in 2012 is somehow unaware that the market for their skills is sizzling hot at the moment.
RMS would say its weird that you think there is anything other than GNU/Linux...

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
The best part is that since it's still just a git repository, once it's local you don't have to bother with jgit at all. I'm going to replace a custom git bundle + tarsnap backup thing I have going with this tonight. Gonna be great.
This seems like it has a lot of potential to disrupt the current Angel investing landscape, much as Angels disrupted the VC investing landscape over the past 5-10 years.

Unaccredited investors, friends, and family could invest into a pre-angel rounds in the sub-$500k region, with 'more sophisticated' angels investing around $500k to $1m range, and the 'most sophisticated' VCs investing in $1m+ rounds.
I can't take any credit for the site, I'm just a fan.
i tried offering my help, mostly for web and icon work, but the developers never responded. i'm sure i'm not the first.
When I was just out of college, I met a couple of people in the Bay Area while on a trip. Being from a rather non-tech place in the south, I fell in love with the weather and the access to all the High Tech companies immediately.

I speculated to the guys I met on my trip, "I'd love to live here." They said I could crash on their floor for a bit while I found a job and my own place to stay. When I got home, I quit my job, ended my lease, packed up my small car with my stuff, and drove the 2k miles back to the Valley.

Within a few weeks, I had a contract programming job at a large company, a room to rent, and had begun one of the most exciting periods of my life as I worked in startups, started my own companies, and became steeped in the environment that makes entrepreneurship so very likely.

I guess what I'm saying is, don't hesitate to do this while you can. The Silicon Valley is THE PLACE for people in our industry.
bring a rain jacket :) its been raining non-stop all week, having lived off and on in northern California for much of my life honestly I would recommend waiting another 2-3 weeks as thats usually when the "dry season" starts for sure so you don't have to worry about rain, etc when doing something like this
Those are values. 2^16+1 bits would be a very big number.
Guestmob Replacing Priceline??
Online travel upstart Guestmob, which gives travelers deals on 3- to 5-star rated hotel rooms at prices that are 20% to 50% lower than what’s available from other major travel sites, is rolling out its service to twenty U.S. cities.
To everyone who cries about this and cares so much about users, why don't you simply create clones of these services and rescue users. Both Posterous, and Oink aren't technically challenging. Stop crying and do it.

But note mainstream users don't care. Did mot users even use the application once a week? This is simply the voice of a small group of startup techies who know who K.R. is, mainstream users do not know. Furthermore this is not as if someone shut down 911. This not a life-threatening issue. And for the love of everything, please stop insulting the guy, he does not owe you anything.
To set the record straight: Noisebridge is NOT free. There's membership fees just like all the other hacker spaces, and there's rent and bills to pay to keep the space open and the lights on. Even if you're not a full dues paying member, you should be chipping in $5-10 into the donation bin every visit.

There's also been a lot of problems recently with homeless (mostly nonhackers) trying to live out of and take advantage of the space, without contributing anything back to the community.

That being said, please, please come to Noisebridge and work on your startup, or hack on something else exciting. There's lots of great tools and cool, knowledgable people there. Noisebridge has an ethic of radical inclusivity, so you're most definitely welcome to just show up and ask someone to show you around.

Just plan on being a contributing member of the community by hacking on something cool, chipping in for rent and bills, and by not sleeping/bathing/etc there.
Save $32:

apt-get install jackd2
lets stop running web sites for free and charge users $1/month. Like on all web sites. Curious what the uproar will be
And make sure not to tell them why you're getting the gym membership. They tend to frown upon people using their facilities as their only shower.
I meant a state that the repo does not like and not really corrupted. say you push your changes and someone else pushes their changes and you both try to move the head and you get a dropbox conflict. You would have to go and fuss with the refs and the refs log to find out where the other head should have gone and manually change things that you shouldn't have to. Not the end of the world but for a guide that is seemingly for beginners why hassle with it when there is a free way that is easier to do what they are trying to accomplish?
Because I like startups, and he seems interesting and determined.
It's nice to know that real journalism is not dead. I love NPR.
It's always unfortunate that I realize this after there's already a pile of stuff on the machine. It usually goes something like this:

- get burned by case insensitive filesystem

- swear that next time I'll reformat it to be case sensitive

[much time passes]

- get new machine

[much more time passes]

- get burned by case insensitive filesystem

- repeat
Ouch, Charter only charges $82.99 a month (with modem rental) for 100Mbps. Around the same time they introduced 100Mbps service, they introduced bandwidth caps. (500 gb/month for 100mbit service). Bandwidth caps @charter are a 3 strike policy.

I can get charter business @~$200 a month which is 100mbit service (no download cap, guaranteed uptime). Are you on some sort of comcast business plan?
The potential they have to massively disrupt the way higher education has been done for hundreds of years..?

You might rightly ask for evidence to back that sentiment up; I guess its hard to validate that something has disruptive potential, ahead of time. But isn't hundreds of thousands of students signing up, evidence of something?
I had the same reaction, the talk was amazing. And for me, it finally made it clear how someone can do something as hard as a startup and not give up: it takes belief in a (time invariant) principle.
TI LaunchPad development on Ubuntu 11.10 running in VirtualBox
Hackers hit 112 Indian gov sites in the last three months
Palo Alto stays pretty cool most of the year, certainly it is cool enough now to not cook in the car
Here's the text of the standard: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-4/fips-180-4....
"There's always someone who speaks at great length about finance while being clueless about the subject. [...] And no, Glass-Steagall doesn't have anything to do with offering interest on checking accounts."

snicker Try section 11(b), which was implemented as the infamous "Regulation Q". Normally I'd refrain from mocking someone for an innocent error on a side point, but the irony here is just too delicious. Even if you are completely clueless about Glass-Steagall, this is discussed in detail in the Wikipedia page about it. It takes a special person to know nothing about a subject, not even do the 20 seconds of research needed to confirm a claim, and still feel like insulting other people for their factual claims is a good idea.

(As for your substantive point... No. Countrywide, for example, was not taking risks on the "investment side" under the meaning of Glass-Steagall; they didn't even have an investment side. The core damage there was a pure-play retail bank making crap loans, and Glass-Steagall says that's awesome. You're arguing against the repeal of a regulation which never existed. Might have been a good one though.)
It is not like that: you should not relay on a service for which you don't pay.

Yes certain services needs to be "free" (since they are social network kind of things), but for services which hold and manage your data, email or anything like that (something like cloud storage, email, project management, source control, etc.): it is stupid to have a free service handling that.

But I still meet people who pay $5 for starbuck coffee every single day, but they use some free system for their cloud storage. And Dropbox is just $10/month.

Somebody will say that paying for some service still does not guarantee the service will be around. Yes it is true: but chances are lower.
The UI is very cool! The Google Maps window loads very quickly when hovering over various show times. I immediately understood how this app could be useful. I also like the big high-res trailers.

Using Firefox 10 on my Windows 7 desktop machine, I clicked allow on the location sharing prompt, but the location it pulled was way off from my actual location. I assume it's going off my ISP location. I couldn't find any way to manually edit my location? I totally get the motivation to make it "just work" without a bunch of input from the user, but it seems you need a way to allow for fixing the location by the user.

Some of the locations it showed me movie times were quite far from me, which is OK -- the additional options were fine. But the next question that popped into my head when I saw the combination of a showtime and a location is "When do I have to leave?" A read-out of "You need to leave at X:XX to be on time for this movie" would be useful.

The placement of the "Get Tickets" link under each movie made it tricky to move the mouse there from the showtime link I had settled on without tripping over another showtime link -- kind of like that game where you move the ball through the maze! Clicking the showtime link just took me to a blank white page -- I assume this is not intentional.