skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use to get a daily overview of ads on a bunch of publisher's sites, fortunately the older version with flash support will continue to work just fine for this case.
That probably means it was flagged a few times.
Are you aware that Google runs an entire ad network? It's said to dominate the field of online advertising.

Anyone know what proportion of their revenue comes from ad placement on their own product pages?
That link you posted is talking about a prototype, not a mass-production device.

And what smartphone prior to the iPhone 4 had even 300dpi? The closest I can find reference to is a 3.2" 480x800 (291dpi), and back then, Android didn't support higher resolutions.

Nobody's claiming that the 1024x768 iPad screen is significant, but the 2048x1536 version definitely is a big advance.
Pop porn mode and you can put 'em side by side.

http://imgur.com/xNhHW
Are there seriously people that used Megaupload as their sole and only place to store their data? What if there was a fire in the server room? Or some MU intern typed rm -rf /?
Yes and no. The thing is that Crowdfunding investors are not counted among your investor limits. The trick is structuring the terms in a way that you can restrict voting rights and enact forced buybacks, etc. on your crowdfunded investors to clean up that capital structure as you move forward with another series of investment.
Symfony2 meets Drupal 8
Another reason to be disappointed in carriers for dragging their feet on OS upgrades.
Not sure if the talent pool would fit the startup culture but the US Navy might be worth investigating. Or the Russian, British, or French navies.
JavaScript Trickshot: E4X
OpenTok iOS SDK behind the scenes
Who here is calling the iPad Retina display Apple's "invention"? Quit using that straw-man!
Here's an idea, instead of building anything that moves, how about building a cheap, disposable server you can install covertly anywhere you want that automatically dials home after installed and can use WiFi or Ethernet?

http://pwnieexpress.com/

You can make it look like an air freshener! No one will be the wiser. The ethernet cable is there so you can remotely check the levels of air freshener in its cartridge, of course:

http://www.ien.com/uploadedImages/ien/IENblog/PwnPlug.jpg

Stolen power + Stolen network = Practical Path to Piracy!
Yes, it seems like "crowd money" is another form of dumb money, which many people say entrepreneurs shouldn't bother taking. Crowdfunding really plays to the "misunderstood genius who the angel establishment refused to fund" story.

Of course, we're all probably thinking about silicon valley style startups. It's possible that crowdfunding will be used for lifestyle businesses as well (not that that's a good idea either).
There are legal obligations for the government to reimburse telco companies if they are asked to spy on their customers on the governments behalf. Also, obviously, if you want to use data as evidence in a trial, it needs to be stored safely by the police and sealed off, to ensure that its integrity is preserved.

So either the government needs to pay up, store the drives themselves or dismiss these thousands of harddrives from the witness bench.

Also, I cant see how the EFFs claim has any legal merit. Theres no obligation for a site to enable you to access data you sent them.
It seems that the winners of the Patent Troll wars are the older technology companies.
What do you think of "Ambitious Housewives"?
Hello hackers!
My best friend/business partner and I are applying for this session of Y combinator...
We have a truly phenomenal start up idea, not trying to sound obnoxious, but it's a goodie ;). The thing is, we are not technical really at all. Our parent company is called "Ambitious Housewives" because that's what we are. We're 30, married, and we have kids (she has a 7 year old, and I have a 6 year old and a 4 month old...) BUT we both have built home based businesses, and we are entrepreneurs! We have been hard at work trying to raise capital, but it is difficult in Calgary, everyone is SO oil and gas focused. We need something to happen, like Y combinator, where people will TRULY understand our vision...
Just wondering, what do you think our chances are of being selected, given that we are not in tech?
I clicked that arrow up and am commenting because I started feeling the same way once I turned 30, in fact I'm now 33. Sometimes I am concerned that my beliefs are a measure of my cultural experiences and not arbitrarily based on my success. In the latter case success would be defined by something like money and not by in personal achievements which is the domain of the former.

So, I too started a "sandwich shop", but instead of Real Estate and food, I build productivity tools in the Apple App Store and sell them through my own company (which I own). I figure helping people by making work-related tasks automated is a manner in which I bring joy to my community, (the community of people who own an iOS device). I don't feel a need to disrupt the world anymore. Or maybe I'm getting old and I've given up on big things and instead am working on improving/automating the small things.
The expression "A any more than B" doesn't imply B > 0, it just discusses A - B.
Infographic - How big is our own solar system?
Please write an article about your approach, I am really interested.
Which ThinkPads? Even back when 1600x1200 IPS was an option, not all ThinkPads were using IPS panels.
I could be wrong, but I believe the government's position is that they have already copied everything that they want, and that Carpathia was free to destroy the data. If they are continuing to store it of their own volition, then they are fully responsible to pay for it on their own. Even if their reason for preserving the data is for fear of a lawsuit by Megaupload or others, that is entirely their responsibility if there is no Government requested court order in place that requires them to preserve it as evidence.

If they have been ordered to hold the data/servers as evidence, then the Government, as the requesting party, is solely responsible for the costs. If and when any party is found guilty at trial, the government can ask that the guilty defendant(s) be held financially responsible for all costs of prosecution, which would include reimbursement of these expenses.
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I am almost sold, until I read that it only does WEP cracking... For $500+, WPA2 crack at minimum...
Yes, but these actions need not the same response as others that were meant to be harmful. There's a difference between murder and homicide, for example.
What I don't like about this is that they were allowed to turn the devices on again that were illegally placed in the first place. They should have had to turn them off forever because they were illegally placed. I would compare this to collecting evidence without a warrant, getting the warrant and then using that evidence. (which as far as I know is grounds to have the evidence thrown out)
> There's a ton of money out there that pays for full-time open source developers.

I don't know... I'm not sure it's really a ton. And a great deal of it comes from companies that derive their revenue from something else - in many cases, proprietary software. Ubuntu, for instance, is all about Mark's millions made from the sale of Thawte.

> So basically the solution, if you want one of these jobs, is to get off your butt and make something people want. Then give it away. :)

And then hope it's useful to someone who makes a bunch of money via proprietary software or something else that's scarce, and that they hire you. Why not just make something proprietary of your own to be more in control?
You're making a lot of assumptions that are unfounded.

What you're suggesting is usually called progressive enhancement. Yeah it's great, but sadly when you are using a system like Spine, Backbone or Ember, it's not just a matter of "endless Firebug sessions" to resolve the initial bootstrap problem.

No one claims that this is not possible, nor is anyone "crying foul". On the contrary I know first hand how much of this work was done at Twitter and how difficult it is. But as you stand by your petulant claim that "twitter.com is slow because twitter is incompetent or doesn't care about their product." I stand by mine, that there are tradeoffs when embracing one style of development over another.

Feel free to disagree with me but back it up with experience, not false assumptions, blanket statements and the denigration of many good people.
Is the code available somewhere? I'm working on a somewhat similar game concept on an identical stack.
AMD 7970 = $550
GTX 680 = $499

I can tag a brick 6TFlops and sell it for $551
I think the "dumb money" meme deserves some suppression too. Also, after a few seconds more thought: one reason current low-net-worth investors are a problem with VCs is that they're unaccredited, and unaccredited investors incur liability for companies (as I understand it they can more or less claim at any moment to have been ripped off by the company).

That's not a problem you have if the investments are explicitly aboveboard.
"and argues that if that data needs to be preserved, someone else—the government, Megaupload, or an interested party such as the MPAA or EFF—should bear the costs of preserving the data"

Fucking exactly!! Have fucking MPAA pick up the tab.

EDIT: its going to be amazing (and will take years for sure) to see if this won't bite MPAA in the ass if the judge will rule that yes they do have to pay. Would looove to see that. This should be actually a rule of thumb -- if MPAA believes someone is infringing, court suit is entirely fine, but you guys (MPAA) will pay to keep the light on in the meanwhile.
Facebook acquires legal ammunition in form of 750 IBM patents
Another life saved by modern technology - this time it was thanks to Twitter
It's certainly not users. Imagine the resources being devoted to battling lawsuits that could be spent creating a better customer experience.
Kickstarter isn't an investment vehicle.
8 Bizarre Tricks for Start-Up Success
How is your first comment relevant? Answer that, and you'll figure out why you were down voted.
"If you require probable cause for every technique, then you are making it very, very hard for law enforcement," an FBI lawyer told NPR.

He should be disbarred. No doubt it's easier for "law enforcement" in China and North Korea
The problem with consulting is that you first have to have a product. That can take a lot of time and money to produce. Then, if you start consulting, it's all about billable hours. Hours spent fooling around making the product better may not translate, at all, into more money for the company.
So Facebook is going to fight fire with fire? This is not the way to handle it.
To be fair people said the same thing about ebay. Any sort of quality crowdfunding site will be able to prevent fraud through a mix of identity verification and leveraging their users expertise to weigh in on a businesses viability. (At least that's the model we're using)
One thing that wasn't mentioned was that high scoring submissions are artificially deflated in their viewed score so that the highest scores can get are ~3000 votes. This keeps the massive site seeming less gargantuan and makes your vote feel like it counts.
I use a couple of DisplayLink based USB-to-DVI devices to connect some large monitors to my laptop at work. DisplayLink is partnered with the company that makes the "Actual Multiple Monitors" software. I've not had a chance to try it yet, but you can get a trial on their site: http://www.displaylink.com/support/tools.php
The only reason that we haven't seen high-resolution display on the consumer market before the iPad 3 and iPhone 4 has to do with software support and nothing else. This was a direct result of the LCD since the resolution on an LCD is fixed the only way a consumer could increase the number of pixels on a device was to get a larger device (display).

And Apple have taken the easy way by scaling the solution by four so that scaling the graphics is trivial. Not saying that it's a bad way, it has advantages and disadvantages but doing it the simple way is the quickest way to make way for high resolution devices.
So no matter what how targeted my page is, if the competing page that is targeting a lsi keyword is a strong page, then I have no chance?
Not yet, but I plan on doing a little blog post about it and posting the code.
I'm not sure that closing over only global really counts...
What does Ruby have that Python doesn't, and vice versa?
What's the big deal? Just delete the data. Customer pays for storage. Company stores. Customer stops paying for storage. Company deletes.

Sure, a bunch of pissed off people will certainly be upset - but it's not the company's fault - they shouldn't have to bear this burden. I can't see how they could be sued by users for this, they didn't enter into any kind of agreement with the users, only with the customer.
Solving Problems The Internet Way
Believe it or not, there are even people who don't have backups at all. I know, right?
Reading the E4X spec, it says the XML stuff will be folded into future standards. That obviously has not come to pass. I'm guessing JSON is the reason.
Do you seriously believe that's why developers went that route? I always thought web-apps arose because people thought the web was the best way to connect with their users, and SaaS because they felt that was the best way to keep costs down. In neither case does the protection of intellectual property enter the picture at all . . . but let's say, for the sake of argument, that that was a significant motivation. Would that be right? Would it refute the GP's point? I don't think so. It's still awfully easy to say that other people's code should be free. If anybody really is adopting these approaches to avoid having others "pirate" their code, I certainly hope they're not "pirating" or freeloading themselves.
Tim Gowers on Endre Szemerédi's work [pdf]
So You're A Startup: How To Deal With Financial Statements
Does anyone else find the whole process of engaging the tech "media" a giant distraction from developing their core product and trying to engage real customers? Chances are if you have product that sounds "cool" to these companies you are going for a market that you are unlikely to win.

You are are far more likely to be successful targeting a business that is outside the consumer "cool zone". The consumer markets are so heavily saturated there's little chance for new products to really be noticed, and individual consumers aren't as profitable as targeting businesses unless you are lucky enough to be the next Facebook (you aren't.)

Unless your product customer is likely to be a hacker/geek/tech biz type that would read Mashable/Techcrunch/RWW/etc.. Don't waste your time trying to get coverage there, instead find reliable channels to talk directly to your customer and route them to your service.

Find heavy's in that vertical and appeal to them, especially ones that have a lot of influence (online or IRL.) Find blogs that match your vertical and get them to cover you, they will probably be happy to do it, and they probably will send you more link juice because they don't post 100+ articles a day.

Unless your PR is sending you real SEO heavy links, and/or putting a giant dent in the collective consciousness of your potential customer base, its worthless.
Do piano players ever discuss rearranging the keys + pedals on a piano?

(Not troll bait. Honest question.)
Well, I'm sure it's something that could be worked out, but there will likely be naming issues between French and Non-French nuclear engineers working together. It seems relevant to me, given that the topic was to bring French engineers into a U.S. startup.
It's amazing that you can recognize all of these characters just by their colors
This sounds like an excellent - and legal! - way to fleece the public with fake startup companies.

If you have a legit company, you better get in now, because it won't be long before a wave of scammers is busy promoting their new "give us $2,000 and MAKE MONEY FAST! Approved by Congress!" schemes.

Those of you who have flexible ethics should consider it yourselves. For a couple thousand dollars you can easily work up a website and suitable promotional materials, form a corporation and so on, and then you just wait for the money to roll in. Cure for cancer! Spaceship to Mars! Cold Fusion! Doesn't really matter, just make sure you emphasize that the investment may not pay off. If you can keep it going for a while it should provide an excellent source of income for a couple of years, before you regretfully announce bankruptcy.
Your explanation has just made the movie more interesting to me. Until now I thought it was quite idiotic, but your revelations do make sense.

Though I still think that the ending scene is badly handled. If the point is that Cobb doesn't care any more about the outcome of the spinning top, then Nolan should have just slided from the image of the top to Cobb and his children.

By zooming in on the top and cutting the shot right before it should falls, it just adds this unneeded baggage of questioning whether all that happened is real or not. Like some sort of magic trick. "Do you doubt what you've just seen?" And I just didn't find that that was the point of the movie.
To me a "hacker" is someone too busy building things to get caught up in the semantics of why and how. Richard Stallman , for example, is no longer a hacker. He's too caught up in the "why" of open source software.

"The money problem" as pg calls it, is a significant barrier to being a hacker. Solve the money problem and you can work on whatever problems you want without worrying about why and how.

YCombinator seems to be aptly named. It is an attempt to solve the problem of solving problems. That is why it is the ultimate hack.
The new iPad is out. Now what, everybody else?
Congressmen press 34 App Store developers for answers on user privacy
I hope I'm not being pedantic by pointing out that the person to whom you are replying has, in fact, floated a capsule to the upper atmosphere: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/04/gaga-1-flight.html
DoD Networks Completely Compromised, Experts Say
but sadly when you are using a system like Spine, Backbone or Ember, it's not just a matter of "endless Firebug sessions" to resolve the initial bootstrap problem.

Oh, what else is the matter then?

back it up

You mean like you just backed up your claim of Spine/Backbone/Ember having some mythical, unspecified problem that prevents bootstrap optimization?
For some definition of "ton" anyway. Developers are cheap, comparatively. But the point remains: all the major kernel developers are paid for. All the big X.org people too; the Gnome people (though I'm told that investment is lacking on KDE); virtualization folks behind Xen and kvm; Android obviously comes right out of Google's payroll, likewise Chrome and Mozilla products.

Really, if you were handed a big check and told to build a team of open source people, you'd have a hard time doing it without poaching from Red Hat, Google, Novell or Intel.

And the final point was exactly what I was getting at. Getting yourself a free software gig requires pretty much exactly the same things as getting yourself a funded startup. In some sense it's a subset. Whether you want to make proprietary things or not is, I think, a personal decision.
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Still less than the cost of keeping all those servers up and running. I would think that from a legal point of view, like other people have pointed out, MegaUpload needs to cover the costs. They are essentially insolvent, so that is what you'd need to insure against. That it is related to a legal investigation, should not matter for the insurance coverage, imo.
Ninja rockstar wanted for lean startup in nuclear sector. Must know MVC framework (Matter/Valence/Controller), ATOM feeds, and the Ruby "split" method. Perks include free energy drinks.
I think you and I both know that there is no shortcut way to evaluating the viability of a startup company.

EITHER you will put them through a Y-combinator-like interview and evaluation process, with sophisticated evaluators and a lot of man-hours spent per company, OR you aren't doing shit to evaluate them and you're going to be hosting scammers left and right. There is no shortcut.
They seem to miss the point that they shouldn't be tracking people "the old fashioned way" without a warrant either. You track people because you think they are guilty of a crime and you want to find the details. Not because someone might do something someday.
>Why do women wear low-cut dresses if not to attract male attention (in the majority of cases)?

I would say for the most part it's not all that conscious. We buy the dress if we like it. In some cases we might not buy it if it looks too revealing, or buy it because it's especially sexy, but for the most part dresses are cut to the style of the day and it has little to do with the intentions of the woman wearing them.

Personally I've started consciously looking for low-cut tops and dresses for the first time in my life, because they're easier to breastfeed in. Most of my dresses and tops are cut too high to do that easily so I need to expand my wardrobe. So sorry, all that cleavage is not for you, it's for my baby :).
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A shorter dance of celebration doesn't debunk the theory as a whole.
Inside story of how UMG sued Veoh.com out of existence
I'd say that depends on whether you want to become another oDesk. Their clients are certainly afraid of hackers.

If pg were looking to contract out work, he'd say something like http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html

I do agree that at some point entrepreneurial "hackers" and established software companies look at things differently, and should engage each other productively in finding the right balance.

tl;dr Hackers could do better at being socially adept.
Oddly, in the age of the internet, it is easier for someone to do open source at least part of the time for their employer. With the internet, a lot of the money for web based companies is not from the software itself, but the services the software provides. This allows for the company to open source a large chunk of the code base and still make money to pay the developers. (see things like 37signals/RoR)
I'm not sure what you mean by lack of domain specific information and hints. A SPDY proxy shifts the expensive aspects of HTTP from high latency client-server connections to proxy-server connections where they are comparatively cheaper due to lower latency.
Great to see it completed. The previous draft was salvation for my graph theory course.
I think Mathematics for Computer Science offers very good understanding without unnecessary jargon or formalisms that obscure more than they clarify. Truly excellent introduction.
In the same spirit I'd like to recommend the books of Walter Warwick Sawyer, and the "How to Ace..." books of Adams/Hass/Thompson.
Poe's Law makes satire difficult these days. With the huge amount of tech sites that post stories like this with a straight face, I actually wasn't sure it was satire, and I follow your blog pretty regularly. I thought it was out of character based on earlier posts (your analysis on space travel), but I've seen worse serious posts pop up on reddit and even here.
Assuming 2TB internal HDD's at $120.00 per piece, you would need $1.5MM worth of drives to transfer this to. Not including the man-hours associated with doing so.

The $3.2MM per year is actually sounding a lot more reasonable to keep it up and running.
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Why are the servers still running? Surely it's easier and cheaper to just turn off the servers, power down the racks and lock the cages?
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