skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When did he say he was running ICS?

The complaint was that a simple app was needlessly unusable on his phone.
That's not a question. :)
I used to respect Spolsky. Now I see an awesomeface on the web page of one of his products. He's dead to me.
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That wasn't really the crux of the argument. The author even offers to ignore the performance issues

>Let’s forget the performance problems. How’s the actual functionality of the application?
Ok, I agree if we include the house in the figure.
The real startup opportunities here are in enabling and informing the new markets that this act creates.

Three opportunities that matter:

1. Due diligence (verifying the existence of the team, and the software; fact checking the prospectus, filtering out the outright scams)

2. Team and talent aggregation, think of the old hollywood studio guys who could pick up the phone and pull together the right team for the project in ten minutes; automate that process and scale it up.

3. Startups wanted (hat tip to pg) find out what this large new pool of investors wants to put their money on. Form new companies designed to appeal to these investors. Since that will be changing rapidly the skill of quickly putting together an offering that has high potential to return investors money will be a valuable one.

There is a lot of detail in those three opportunities, and each one will probably be served by multiple organizations.

I'm interested in talking to people about these new opportunities; if you're interested in building the new new economy and don't want it to flame out in a bunch of scams that give startups in general a bad name; and you're interested in releasing the latent talent and ingenuity that's been sidelined by the economic crisis. Drop me a line.
I feel liked I missed something. Why has this become so popular in the past few days?
Besides the blog content license is CC BY-NC-SA. That's copyleft, isn't it? Interesting choice for a person with a strong opinion against the GPL.
It's what happens about 2 stages before a bubble collapse. It's not that it's bad in itself, it's what it heralds when 98% of those companies go bust.
Just forked you into the org and gave you full access.
Google's video reminded me of Microsoft Surface. I thought MS's video was crap, and Google's is no better.
Sounds like only the latter is being discussed: Facebook typically rolls out a minor update on every single business day. Major updates are issued once a week, generally on Tuesday afternoons.
Ferdinand Porsche dies at 76.
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Are you planning to raise funds through crowdfunding?
Ask HN: Ad network for AJAX sites
I have a site where everything happens via AJAX. Users will be on the same page for 30 minutes or so without a refresh.

Anyone know a good ad network that will rotate ads without needing a page reload?
I remember at a meeting with BSI and the head of the IS9000 project told us about when he was younger working as a salesman for ICL in Russia - people would pass out in restaurants and the bouncers would pic them up and throw them outside into a snowbank in the middle of a Moscow winter. Now thats binge drinking.
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shouldn't that be {123, 213, 312, 321}?

ie 231 is not possible since after 1 randomly decides to sit at 3, 2 has no reason to go sit in seat 1.

This doesn't change the answer to the problem though I think.
I am downvoting you because this adds nothing to the discussion. While DDG may be a worthy search engine and a good alternative to Google as a search destination, it does not offer an alternative or a solution to the problem that is AdSense related.
This is a long and deep subject.

I wouldn't say that we've "continued on the PHP path." I'd say that we've refused to throw out the precious PHP parts of our application, while not being afraid to use more appropriate languages across Thrift boundaries when needed. Our search engine, newsfeed, and ad serving infrastructure, for instance, are in C++.

A drop-everything-and-rewrite of the PHP code is entirely out of the question, for all the reasons covered in Spolsky's 12-year-old classic on the subject: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html. Those of us working on making PHP perform better are a tiny fraction of Facebook engineering as a whole; this small overhead cost is nothing compared to the risks inherent in a ground-up rewrite.

Most of PHP's language-level faults can be engineered around. For instance, we have a code-review-time script that parses (really parses) the code to warn engineers (and reviewers) about dangerous or deprecated idioms.

PHP also has some affirmative virtues. The programming model is more productive than that of compiled languages, and even many interpreted languages; save/reload the web page is just a better, tighter loop to get work done in than save/compile/restart my server/reload the web page. I'm actually a fan of PHP's concurrency model, which naifs often mistake as "no concurrency allowed"; PHP's concurrency primitive is curl[1], and if you wrap a tiny bit of library around it, you can make it behave like actors.

[1] Seriously. curl provides a shared-nothing way to asynchronously run code, and has the virtue of not caring what language the other side is written in to boot.
Posting from a throwaway handle, so that there is no way that Google would track me down.

Our company uses AdSense, and we have not been disabled so far. Our monthly revenues are much larger than Hatchling's. We have user-generated content. Despite our MOST extensive, multi-tier keyword-based content screening system, we are terrorized by Google weekly, from noreply address, that AdSense ads are disabled on this or that user's page, due to various violations found (often in the content in obscure languages, e.g. Hungarian , Finnish, Turkish), threatening to shut down the whole account. We are aware that the account can be shut down at any moment, and have been diversifying our ad revenue component for the last couple of years, using CasaleMedia, TribalFusion, Adbrite, taking conscious cuts in ad revenue compared to AdSense in exchange for security. Those companies actually care about your revenue.

DO NOT RELY on ADSENSE as a sole revenue provider for your startup! Do not!
AdSense is only a good idea either if your revenue is negligible, or if you are a highly public high profile client like MySpace, where they KNOW that they cannot get away without serious negative PR.
A discussion on the feature set of DB2 Express-C
It teaches about the structure of the registry, and gets your hands in some of the low-level hooks of the system. It mostly teaches you how to remove viruses. I didn't mean to say it was truly practical knowledge; I just enjoy discovery.
It was never a particularly high priority, especially once we decided to release it to the community.
Perhaps having a "right" is too strong of word. But I think anyone that has been told their account is banned because of some generic "risk" would want to know exactly what rule they violated... particularly if $40k is at stake. And while Google may be well within their right to just ban the account and never speak to the account holder again, then EVERYBODY needs to know that this can happen without warning and without recourse. I would imagine that the more people this happens to and the more people that know it, the fewer people would even start down that path.

The real shame is that it is more likely to scare off more legit accounts than fraudsters. People with fraud (or gaming the system) in mind are just going to keep creating accounts and collecting as fast as they can before it gets shut down... and then move on and do it again.
Well, often Mashable, GigaOm, and ReadWriteWeb make the same mistake, so, if the technically savvy guys do it, I cannot be too harsh to the mere journos. Mashable is even worse with their self-linking approach (you click on a site's name assuming you're going to visit the third-party site, but instead, you're going to a tag search page) - totally counter-intuitive and a total pageview bait - it's totally disgusting!
For data scientist, probably $100-150, and it can definitely go up.
I disagree. Prefixing names with "Web" is common but not pervasive. "Putty" is just an English word. BTW the SSH client is actually called PuTTY.
I agree and stories like http://blog.hatchlings.com/post/20171171127/dont-be-evil-how... get their accounts frozen. I guess the lesson is to get into shady business.
Every iPhone 3GS that's been sold for the last 6 months runs iOS 5 and I believe the majority of pre-iOS 5 3GS users have upgraded to it.
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The HHVM JIT isn't in (much of) production yet, because it isn't fast enough yet. Once we have high confidence it can provide some perf wins, we'll go ahead and move over to it. Even if it were perf neutral, there is some virtue to having developers use the same environment as production.
Did you ever get the sense that they did this because they are planning to release a competing product?
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Okay... the Ads-as-asteroids blaster game on this page is FANTASTIC.

EDIT
Okay... it's a DIV blaster or something. either way, love it. Score 2180
Amazon has an easy to find customer service that replies to your questions quickly and makes things right. Google makes it very hard to find or contact anyone. Unless they're selling your their site optimization services.

I'm sure Amazon spends way more money in keeping their customers happy. They seem to realize this is good for repeat business.
Same here. Would have just upvoted, but upvote counts aren't visible and people are replying to disagree.

I figured this was a web-based SSH terminal, which is pretty cool. Adding "Web" prefix to a popular product's name pretty clearly implies a web port.
I was banned from adsense about 6 years ago... using my main personal email account.

I tried to log back in a few times over the years, and after about 4 or 5 years I was told that they no longer had any record of my account.

I signed up again (using the same email and personal information) without a hitch. I have been receiving checks for many months now.
Murdoch owned Sky admits email hacking "in the public interest"
You may want to read "Why I sued Google and won" [1]. The guy has a similar story to yours, sued Google for the revenue already earned, and won all of it (it was only ~$700).

For $40k, I'd sure look into it.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-i-sued-goo...
Blocked by Google Adsense
I just play with Chrome's dev tools and then copy the changes I made to CSS.
And how does it perform? Does it have all the same features?
I submitted a kinda related link (counting 128M distinct objects) a few weeks ago, which might be of interest:

Realtime Metrics for 128 Million Users with Redis: 50ms + 16MB RAM

http://blog.getspool.com/2011/11/29/fast-easy-realtime-metri...

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748239 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3292542
Realy I thought company restaurants had wine in France certainly the Concert JV did and that's not that long ago.
Google's trying to build the future.

They don't care about your ancient phone that was designed last decade. Get over it.
Great timing on the article. Easter is here... good way to acquire new customers in the "festive" mood.

As the cliché goes: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
Ask HN: Bootstrapped and trying to rent and apartment
I was wondering what many people in bootstrapped startups do when asked for paystubs while looking for renting an apartment in Silicon Valley (Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto).

I was recently denied from renting an apartment because I didn't have paystubs for the last two months. I am working on my own bootstrapped startup. I quit my high paying job last summer to pursue this venture. I have excellent credit.

Has anyone had this issue? If you have, what did you do about it? What's the best way to convince a landlord that you're a good for it?
I'm running Offers on my Motorola Droid just fine, and haven't encountered any of the problems he reports.
Wow. SEO hacking. Very scary stuff, and if he hadn't been greedy, sounds like he would have gotten away with it.

SEO continues to both amaze and frustrate me. The more money that gets traded hands based on search, the more brutal and intricate the cheaters are going to become. A lot of the black hat stuff we see now is heavy-handed bullshit, but something like this, if done very carefully, would both be extremely difficult to detect and very lucrative. The canonical thing is smart as hell. You could make that change and, unless site owners specifically went looking for it, nobody would ever see. I could imagine hackers breaking into dozens or hundreds of domains and then auctioning off as very small number of SEO links. This would provide the maximum value for the minimal footprint on the site. Heck, take it up another notch and rent out the space.
Thanks for bringing up some Adsense alternatives.
Good idea. Yes, can we have it both ways? Easy for startup companies to not deal w/ this nasty reporting yet make shysters illegal. Haha. P.S. great name you got there ;)
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He is ranting that the Google offer app ask him to use the browser to redeem. For most Google offers, you can redeem directly from the app (it gives you a bar code), some of them maybe due to the settings of the vendor requires other means such as this one.
People are currently not allowed to solicit investment unless they are public.

On top of that, if you get so many non-accredited investors, you have to go public. A very, very expensive process so most entrepreneurs avoid small investors like the plague.

You don't hear about people wanting to invest in an entrepreneur and not being able to because of the vacuum of information created by these two factors.
I believe it runs fine: the 2009 iPhone 3GS processor is slower than the 2010 iPhone 4, but parses/pushes 1/4 the amount of pixels. From experience, while neither of them are particularly fast at CPU-bound operations, the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 are plenty fast enough for daily use on iOS 5 and are still quite smooth for things like scrolling and animations.
This is not about being super-competitive at bughouse, it's about getting the mind in a working state to quickly go into the zone. Bughouse to the non-serious chess player is random enough to be zany and enjoyable whether you win or lose. It doesn't need to have a super-competitive streak to be useful as a tool for getting the mind up to speed. Spending a few minutes thinking about a concrete problem is sufficient.

It's not all about winning at all costs. Its just a warm up exercise that gets the blood pumping.
I've got a C# version: https://github.com/AustinWise/DcpuSharp
My iPod touch from 2008 runs ios5 just fine. My HTC thunderbolt from last april runs some already massivly outdated whatever version. And he is complaining about more than just his outdated phone, he gets an app, and all it tells him to do is visit the website?

Plus, he has a very good point, yeah his phone is old and slow, but he's not trying to play a new game, he is DOWNLOADING A COUPON. Wal-mart phones can do that these days. Also, needing to buy a phone every 3 months just for it to be useable, is not what they call a good "user experience"
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> But always wearing glasses is certainly not more convenient than just using a device when you need it.

I take it you don't wear glasses. Many millions of us do. All day, every day, our entire lives. It's in no way inconvenient.
Well, if a non-technical co-founder is adding value to the business it's worth it. Every business either technical or non-technical requires certain non-technical founders who can thrive sales and manage business aspects.

Each founder should divide work and focus on their own part in the business.
I think the benefit to mindless breaks is your subconscious works on problems for you in the background.

Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is walk away from it.

So I don't think this is good in instances where you need to give your brain time to reorganize.
Mobile devices are facing new threats
Thanks for open-sourcing it.

I wanted to use it but couldn't find a way to use a tool that didn't play with source control. It didn't work for sites too simple to need Git because it only hosted CSS and thus made the project too complex.
Ask HN: lightweight way to split profits from online sales?
For instance, if you collaborated with someone else on a piece of music, is there an easy way to agree to say, a 65/35 (or anything) split of profits, and then have all sales be split like that, going into paypal or whatever account? I think that would be handy for collaborative artists.
Nexus One was release approximately a year ago. Is it really an unfair expectation that it should be able to download coupons in a non-painful way?
Would be nice to see my project on this site.
https://github.com/erdbeermiah/Java-Dcpu

The idea to build a game like this flew though our local universe several weeks ago. May im not the only one noticed this event. :P (Or... it was horrible to see notch's announcement)
Why would they transfer the entire 1.5g binary each time, and not a delta? Surely it doesn't change that much between releases.
Agreed. These predictions assume that behavior never changes. Just like when gas prices skyrocketed a few years back and you could buy a SUV for a fraction of the value a year ago.

Another great example is oil. When oil was cheap and plentiful, people screamed "we're running out!!". Prices went up and suddenly it was economically viable to frack and extract from tar sands. Boom, we have a bunch of "new" oil.
That's a good idea.

You should post it over at http://www.reddit.com/r/dcpu16
My T-Mobile contract ended this month and I am very much looking forward to switching to an iPhone
Well at least hes not yet in the same boat as poor Samantha Brick and getting crucified on twitter.
This is a story from 2007. Why is this re-surfacing now?
That's the fun part of it all, being surprised by the end result and back tracking to speculate as to why it happened. I'm targeting US, Men, 18-23, loves/likes games and puzzles and excluding mobile traffic (as this is a computer game).
Android Instagram users snubbed by iPhoners
I hear a lot of people saying that America needs more manufacturing jobs, but I can't recall ever hearing anyone say that they want to spend the rest of their life doing repetitive assembly operations on a production line.

We use Chinese workers because they're cheaper than robots. These are awful, tedious, soul-destroying jobs, but they're just marginally better than backbreaking agricultural labour. Nobody deserves to do those jobs and soon nobody will have to, because we will have automated them out of existence. That's unequivocally a good thing.
"You can't, because that work can't be done here economically, we've moved further up the value chain."

Fundamentally I don't believe that. I could just be stupid.

I see the automation that is possible in the US, the infrastructure, and you tell me that its not possible for someone to make a business out of assembling things? Sure its cheap to pull 10 dextrous laborers out of the Chinese working class and make an assembly work cell out of them, what prevents a technologically sophisticated engineer from doing the same with one robot workstation and some programming? I've had boards made and assembled in the US, that is pretty straight forward, getting a tool and die shop to make cases isn't that hard either. What I haven't seen is an infrastructure that ties together all of these small shops like the ones in China, Korea, and Malaysia do.

Disruption is our middle name, why not disrupt the world of real goods?

Here is my thesis, creating a 'small' factory in the US is hindered by the inability of that factory to find work to fill its capacity. That limits its ability to make a profit, so the bids are priced to make sense when the factory is running far below its ability to produce. That makes the costs of goods it produces 'expensive' relative to a factory which is running at or near its theoretical capacity. If we had a way of keeping those small factories pipelines of work 'full', they could charge less because they would be getting more work out of their sunk costs (equipment, facilities, power, etc). In terms of comparative advantage we gain, transportation and communication benefits to the local markets.

So tell me why that isn't possible?
At Mixpanel, we use http://www.exceptionhub.com/. Much better tracebacks and filtering of useless errors. Tracking of related errors and of browser, referrer, etc. window.onerror is unfortunately lacking in the information it provides. On the other hand, EH is not a free service and it's cool to see creative uses for Mixpanel :D.
The estimate was moving manufacturing in the US would cost up to 65$ per iPhone and Apple is selling around 80 million iPhones a year. That approximation 5 billion dollars in lost profit each and every year just to build iPhones in the US. That's simply untenable for a publicly traded company even ignoring the added cost for iPod's and iPad's. Now they could probably give up say 100 million in profit per year and have dramatically better working conditions in China, but even that's a hard sell to stockholders.

Having said that, Apple could redesign the iPhone to be easier for robot's to assemble and move manufacturing back to the US, but it's simply untenable to have Americans assemble such things at this scale in the US. But, this is where the supply chain issues show up and if they designed the iPhone to be built by robots they would as you suggest probably locate those robots in China.
Eventually you'll have users in the same state, either because the push is not atomic or because the change is rolled out slowly. This means you have to build the change with this in mind regardless of the employee testing.
It's not that dated. As he says it fits nicely in the midrange of phones still being offered.

Here is a brand new 2012 Samsung Pocket. The Nexus One is still way ahead of this thing: http://www.mobileburn.com/18826/news/samsung-galaxy-pocket-i...

The Pocket features a 2.8-inch, 240 x 320 pixel touchscreen and is powered by a single-core 832MHz processor.

That said, running Google Offers on my Nexus One (CM 7) was just fine over wifi (I am no longer on its original carrier and I use it as a wifi iTouch-like device). I couldn't find the Starbucks offer but all the other offers seemed to let me purchase then and there in app.
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