skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy to see someone else not willing or not able to let files disappear in the cloud. For photo and media I keep them on two 500Gb usb drives, one at home and one at office, and keep them in sync with the wonderful tool unison.
The article started with:

"Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas."

It's easy to believe all of this except the last part:

"Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas."

That part I don't believe.

Why don't I believe? My view of venture capitalists (VCs) is that they don't look at ideas, or big ideas, or the anything at all detailed about a proposal from an entrepreneur. So, if VCs don't bother even to look at ideas, then it's tough to believe that they are

"up in the arms"

about what they don't see!

Of course, the author gave no list of his "many" VCs! I, however, have a long list of VCs who, receiving a proposal for a "big idea", e.g., along the lines of a company worth $200 billion, just quit reading and, maybe, start laughing. My list is long enough that the author's "Many" becomes improbable!

Instead, I've long since concluded that VCs look at a few simple criteria and then, for their first serious effort, in one word, look at 'traction'. Given some significant traction, all the rest is nearly irrelevant.

In one step more detail, the VCs have no serious methodology for evaluating anything about a proposal except just traction. I gave a longer explanation in:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4289566
De nieuwe iphone van Apple heeft groter scherm en is sneller dan ooit
More > http://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner
The University idiot that sanctioned him should have to write a 12 page research paper on why it would have been better to buy this guy out and fold his product into the University website, so it could serve it's STUDENTS better!
Excuse me, but much more typical example is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MiKTeX.org\MiKTeX\2.9\Core.
The registry has rather respected conventions.
A library should not create so much global variables. It seems a lot of them are undeclared.
Even if iCloud allowed 10 failed logins before locking out for an hour, every hour, every day for seven years, that would still only let you crack a 4 digit lowercase-alphanumeric password. I'd be willing to bet that either the attacker took the password from something or that 'alphanumeric' is a misleadingly good description for the password.
Irrespective of whether your story about China is true or not, this is not an indicative of healthy democracy. If anything, its an indicative of unhealthy governance.
That expiring triggers could be somehow useful.
But in most cases it's not worth to query memcached from database (selects). The reason is it's much faster to query memcached directly without even opening database connection.

All these caching things make applications complex, because cache invalidation it's a complex task.

MySQL is doing right steps - it's doing caching itself via InnoDB buffer pool. And makes the interface faster by replacing SQL queries with fast memcached API.
Good point about the importance of domain experts who can be complementary to lots of test users for a MVP.
[ In cross-examination, Mr. Forstall said Eddy Cue, now head of Apple's Internet services efforts, had used a 7-inch Samsung tablet for a time, and sent an email to Chief Executive Tim Cook that he believed "there will be a 7-inch market and we should do one." ]

Sounds like everybody came up with similar, unprotectable stuff, with great inspiration from each other. Not guilty. Next case!
ColanderAlchemy: autogenerate Colander schemas based on SQLAlchemy models.
Email + vCard - plugin (to keep it dirt simple, streamlined and to reduce friction and increase adoption) is what I was thinking.
It sounds like you want to create another social Ad platform and your marketing plan is based on social media and word of mouth (because it will go viral, right?). Sorry, I'm out.
Right. Because my own laptop is not 'at home'.
No real interest in sports unless it is cricket. There are pockets where there is a significant secondary interest in soccer (WB, Kerala come to mind) and hockey but other than that it is cricket, cricket, cricket.

Where money is allocated to sports the bureaucrats insert themselves into the pipeline. There was a story[1] where an olympic bound athlete [flag bearer] wanted to pay for his physio guy to come along. Of the 142 member team there are 61 non athletes. You would hope that 50 or so of them would be for the needs of the athletes (like physio, etc). Somehow I doubt that...

So the article has the right tone... very little infrastructure and no strategic effort in improving it.

[1]http://dawn.com/2012/07/20/indias-top-wrestler-upset-over-la...
I read this story today which makes it sound like, at least in this one case, the truth may be closer to alpine's take.

http://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/Missy-Franklin-s...

"Chinese 16-year-old Ye Shiwen astounded everyone with her finishing kick in the 400 IM. London's Daily Mail newspaper sent a reporter to Ye's hometown to interview her parents.

They told of their only child being selected at age 6 to be schooled in an elite full-time swim program. At 11 she turned "pro" and entered what was basically a work camp for kiddie phenoms, one of 20 selected from a pool of 20,000 candidates.
Between ages 11 to 14, Ye was allowed one brief visit with her parents each week and one brief phone call home, many of them very tearful.

The parents talked of missing their daughter terribly, but Ye's mom said, "In the West, you pay a coach to turn you into an athlete. But in China, the state pays, so you have to sacrifice something in return.""
Advertising budgets growing much slower than number of Internet/Mobile users, therefore having more users don't automatically grow the revenue you can make from advertisement, i.e. it's just divided to more users and you earn less per user.

if your startup provides 80% better targeting, the ad account manager will not pay you 80% more, she probably will pay the same or maybe 15-20% more in the best case.
Without the plugin people won't be findable in Google (which is/was one of the major drivers of adoption for Facebook). Also there'd be no way to look people up that you haven't been in contact with (a la finger).
When I lived in India, I certainly observed that no one there seemed to care about athletics. It's just not in the culture.

I'd regularly go jogging. People would stop and stare - doubly so if I stopped running and did pushups. In my entire time there, I saw perhaps 3-4 Indians running, and considerably more foreigners. The Pune running club was comprised primarily of people who spent time overseas and expats.

During a conversation with an auto driver, he told me that Indian's don't do "poses" (i.e., yoga) - "that stuff is just for tourists". (I gather there is some regional variation.)

So my guess that the reason India doesn't have a lot of medals is that people just don't care to compete for them.
My guess is you're being downvoted based on style ("lolwut", seriously?) and not because of content.
There have been several very successful vegetarian athletes. One name that comes to mind is Dave Scott (The famous triathlete): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Scott_(triathlete) ).

Quoting wikipedia:

"During the period in which he won all six of his Hawaiian triathlons Dave Scott followed a strict vegetarian (vegan) diet."
Being neither Indian, nor Chinese, jealously doesn't come into it.

Children are being kidnapped. Believe me, if the local Party official came to a house in the West and said 'we're taking your child to athletic school, aren't you happy!' it would be considered kidnap.
Just like with Australia and the swimming (the interminable, endless bloody swimming), or China and weightlifting.
Someone who has worked with SMPP here.

SMPP is pain in the ass (I mean - it's not something you want to tackle with if you do not have about 2-3 spare months of your time..) and normally you would pay for SMS far less when sending them through intermediaries over some basic HTTP(S) interface. Using SMPP or any other "enterprise-grade" protocol possibly means connecting to telcos directly - and believe me, it's an expensive path to go..

Anyway, if you still want to go with SMPP, feel free to contact me, if you require paid assistance (I'm a freelancer). spiritus [dot] emortus [at] gmail [dot] com
Is there some alternate Wikipedia out there that's not a bureaucratic, inefficient, often self-destructive mess?

If I drew anything from Wikipedia, I'd draw the conclusion that this sort of 'non-political' technological organization becomes intensely political, with most decisions made through behind-the-scenes rules-related politicking by the people with the most time to burn.

Horrifying, because the people with the most time to burn on any particular issue are usually the extremists. I can't imagine the distopia that'd result if things like zoning laws or environmental regulations were decided by the same process.
My phone is a pay-as-you-go Motorola Razr from 2006. How could they hack that to gain access to my two-factor auth SMS code?

Other than stealing the phone, that is.
I absolutely love CrashPlan, but it is only friendly if you never need to change the backup selection. It gets tough when you want to deselect just the right folders to avoid spamming your backup destinations with useless crap like Xcode docsets and Safari caches.
Ask HN: Any space for a micro-website for portable discussions.
To start off, this idea competes a bit with Gmail, Facebook, quora, etc. The idea is trying to improve on online communication at a very fundamental and disruptive way.

The problem.
Current technologies are not made for discussions. Mail is too slow, and not dynamic. Built keeping in regard the 1970s architecture. Chat(Gchat) is too temporary. It is more for casual chit-chat rather than proper discussions that would happen in say, office boardrooms. Facebook is for social, and is not a good medium to do intellectual discussions. Also, it is limited to facebook friends. Even Gchat is limited to people who share a certain level of comfort. I also don't have the email ID of everyone I want to discuss with. Twitter is too short. Its more like advertising than proper discussions.

The solution.
Thus, I have an idea of making a website which would allow you to discuss with anyone, people in or out of your friend list, google contacts. The discussion would be private. A small flick of switch could make this public, which then would make this website to discussions what quora is for questions/answers.

Quora has been an inspiration for this idea. It is the first time in the internet that I have had access to knowledge: solid knowledge based on experience. The thrill of being able to talk to celebrities and experts inside a well-defined context is amazing.

The discussion thread would be searchable, reference-able, permanent, and yet dynamic. There would be no page reloads. Discussions online should be as fluid as if face-to-face. This could be done by using frameworks like meteor.

Any discussion on this? ;) :)
are your customers US only? if not read on..

There are several aggregators you can use that can do the job for you via smpp (some even have HTTP APIs). The company I work for is running a web based sms service and we send our sms through InfoBip, TynTec and AMD Telecom (this one is a bit dodgy I don't recommend it). The prices vary from aggregator to aggregator so its best to try use more than one to optimize your cost per message.
Is manned flight necessary anymore?

I feel that a lot of design overhead is put into making a shuttle or space station safe and livable for humans. Why not focus on the main mission: to conduct research experiments.

I know there is the romantic idea of human space travel, but if it's not ready yet, why not invest more in autonomous systems and more advanced robotics for the sake of conducting the actual mission and sparing the lives of some truly brilliant and extraordinary people (potential astronauts).
Yep, that's exactly it. It's just populating the user's own contact information for the autofill profile. I don't think there's any other automated way to retrieve this data when a user enables autofill.

Anyway, I can appreciate that a user would want to know why this is occurring, but I do take issue with the Fox News style the post used in framing the question. I mean, the answer is pretty trivially discoverable, so I think a worthwhile post would actually provide that answer. Failing that, just ask the question in an objective way. Don't use a loaded question with a thinly veiled (and false) accusation.
I disagree with the framing of the post as well, but your comment is certainly no better.
I would have thought India aping China in the appropriation of youngsters to boost their medal count at the Olympics would be indicative of an unhealthy democracy, but whatever.
What India can do is persuade IOC to include cricket as an event (but still with counterparts such as Australia, South Africa & Sri Lanka their chances could be thin).
We use TextMagic for our app in the UK. Our app sends an SMS notification to a customer when they have time critical thing to look at. We really like TextMagic because there's no cost for us receiving & processing an inbound SMS (i.e. a reply from the customer).

There are a bunch of ways to help limit outbound SMS:

• Limit your hours. We only send SMS from 09:30 to 20:30.
• Anything that happens out of those hours, put into a "digest" format. "You had four macguffins overnight."
• If there are "busy periods", queue messages up so they get one per hour saying "You had 3 macguffins in the last hour".

Hope this helps.
The article presented very little factual info other than FB stock price and the latest Wall street social media drama (anecdotal). FB is the envy of any large media company so it's multi billion valuation is spot on.
Right. This is all true. I'm not supporting their system. But the parents are not forced. They have a choice. They choose to sacrifice something in return for a good economic life and future for themselves and their children. There are tens of millions of chinese workers who left their village or town to work at big cities. Many of them only see their children once or less per year. In comparison, the chosen athletes life is so much better. Sure, china should definitely improve their system but I don't think it's fair to demonize them when it's simply not true.
Four Men, Sharing Rent, and Friendship, for 18 Years
London 2012 synchronized swimming
London 2012 synchronized swimming http://www.psdmate.com/2012/08/04/london-2012-synchronized-swimming/
London 2012 synchronized swimming http://www.psdmate.com/2012/08/04/london-2012-synchronized-swimming/
London 2012 synchronized swimming http://www.psdmate.com/2012/08/04/london-2012-synchronized-swimming/
Well, the very first of these social networks is, I would say, the Internet itself. Facebook, MySpace and co., are/were basically trying to bring all that traffic to a single place where they could take advantage of the sharing.

I agree, there should be something created completely different. However, I don't think that can really be achieved. I think it can be made to look different but in the end it will just be a different implementation of the same thing.

I think the next big thing won't be necessarily social networking. Social is basically an expected feature of all new software. There is nothing new to be had there. People like to share things and talk with friends, meet new people, etc. That won't change.

The appearance will change and the technology that becomes big will have all of that stuff in it. I just hope it's free software and disconnected from a centralized source.

Personally, I think the next big thing will be accidentally created by the "the people" and not some corporation.
However, I think they eat a lot more meat in Pakistan?
We use https://github.com/raykrueger/ruby-smpp in our Ruby Apps to connect to the SMSC gateways.

It is not a 2-3 month integration but does require you to have a clue about telco's and depends on how you integrate.

If its less than a few thousand messages a day I would go for HTTP too.
Sorry, but there is FUD and FUD.

When Microsoft claims Linux violates their patents, that it lacks the level of service companies require or that it destroys value, it is FUD. Microsoft does it very well.

But when we raise the possibility Microsoft will act in its best interest in the future (which is to block competition) I'd argue it would be a fair extrapolation from previous behavior. Microsoft consistently engages in anti-competitive behavior and it would be naïve to expect a sudden surge of morality from its top executives.
Usually the FBI is the agency that you go to with this stuff, and they usually don't help unless you can claim X hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. Basically, they only care about rich people and corporations. Hackers are given a blank cheque so long as they only do small amounts of financially quantifiable damage.
> Personally, I think the future of "social networks" will, in a sense, go back in time once again where it will be peer to peer, encrypted end to end.

Except, people like to use Facebook as a broadcast medium, and the message size is likely to get prohibitively large if you're encrypting to a lot of people.
The U-2 spy plane is in service after the retirement of its original replacement.
Agree with the safe hours piece. People really hate it when you text them at 2am ;)
Why only VeriSign? Shouldn't there be more than one trusted root?
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Well that sucks. Big time.
Dave Scott was awesome for sure, but what matters here are the Olympic sports and each one requires certain characteristics. You won't see a weightlifter competing in canoe, 5000+ running/walking or shooting for example.
I don't think that can really be achieved

I'm sorry, I didn't understand that part. Is that another language?
How to be Socially-Conscious and an Entrepreneur
So... IRC?
No. A place to sit down and discuss what's possible.
Sorry, but I did it (the tablet I'm writing this on runs a custom OS). The only reason for Microsoft to forbid changing the OS is to limit competition and thus harm the consumer who will have less, inferior (because if you have no competition, it's no longer worth investing in improvements) choices.
maxwin, it's a bit of a stretch to say the parents have a choice. Consider this:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/20/145360447/the-secr...

So it was 1978 and a lot of 'capitalism' has happened since, but the Party is still in charge.
The 3D sliders were terribly slow on my computer (Chrome, latest.) Is it just a setting that can be tweeked or is the delay due to the library? Otherwise, very cool fade and choices like that.
Nowhere in the article does it say that the child was kidnapped or otherwise taken from her parents without consent. At best you can infer that the parents are being shut up by the government, but then that means you've already decided what the truth is.

EDIT: Basically what you see theorique implying below.
That's how we lose freedoms. Little by painless little. This way, most people don't realize until it's too late.

If ever.
Avea does that really? I believe this is the worst thing that Avea could do to it's users. Switch to Turkcell or Vodafone immediately.

One question, does it only block out of country automessages or do they also block 2FA messages of Turkish banks?
That ideas are not recent is not an argument that they are wrong, it's just an excuse to be historically illiterate yet still claim credibility.

>To take one example, he seems to find the whole notion of a hybrid age, or the singularity, as dangerous technocratic political thinking, something to be stamped out.

No, he finds the idea of a immanent techno-millennium ancient, familiar to most culturally literate people, and articulated more convincingly (or rather more coherently) by people a century ago who were also wrong. He argues that the "hybrid age" is a vacuous restating of a basic condition of man that is not only older than Twitter, but older than books. He argues that the rewarming of these old ideas masks personal agendas of the traditional sort, namely the accumulation of wealth and status by serving the traditional players in their traditional totalitarian political agendas.

You may not agree, but you also are not disagreeing coherently. At least until you can define to your audience what "semantic-social" and "post-political" mean before you use them in an argument.
Open source only makes sense for a social network if it's federated, in which case you're talking about Diaspora.
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The author almost but not quite describes "the singularity" as a kind of secular pseudo-intellectual rapture. Nailed it.
IMHO, with a billion people, I believe that BOTH a) your generalization is true, i.e., the majority is disinterested AND b) not relevant w.r.t. Olympic medal-winning potential : it is enough for a small minority to be interested in sport / fitness & glory to make the cut for the olympics. I believe that the 80/20 rule applies, and is actually more of a 95/5 rule in most societies and most achievements : 5% of the population account for the glory (, the rest just wake the flag and feel proud, conveniently forgetting that one cannot be proud of what one did not achieve personally).

I suspect you might find a similar proportion of everday Chinese equally disinterested in "poses" (not sure, just speculation).

I believe that the core reason is our usual friend, corruption and red tape. It's not just sports; in general, the meritocratic lose out because wherever there is an opportunity in India, whatever be the form of opportunity. That includes what is rightfully yours, such as welfare handouts, your passport, etc; An Indian's everyday life consists of jumping through hoops to get basic things done.

Disclaimer : am Indian.
Ask PG: An incubator to teach programming to street kids in Turkey
I have in mind an incubator similar to Y Combinator but instead of taking applications from entrepreneurs we will teach programming and internet technology to street kids and give them money and advice to start their own company.

These kids live in the street and survive by selling paper napkins, bottle water etc. There are many non-profits that help these kids, but they teach them music, sports, art or send them to school. No one is teaching them how to start a business by teaching them a skill.

I am planning to teach Google App Engine with Python and separately also Arduino.

I am inspired by Paul Graham's essays advocating less schooling and more doing.

I strongly believe that school is evil. I believe that professional classes and schools inhibit general human progress by hiding knowledge and glamorizing book learning. In Turkey there is a general belief that without a university education a child cannot be successful in life. But some of world's most successful companies are founded by people with no formal education. I want to prove that a system based on learning by doing starting from earliest possible age is the right way to prepare a child to a happy and productive life.

I am asking for your advice in any aspect of this project. Thank you.
They are certainly kicking a lot of countries ass in terms of winning gold metals. When chinese didn't have the will or money to train their athletes, the West called them "sick man of Asia". Now they are kicking ass, then they are being accused of kidnapping children. I agree that their system needs to be improved. But I think it's pretty ignorant and inaccurate to accuse them of kidnapping. The children only need to underperform for a short while if they are unwilling and they will soon be sent back to their families. (Which is a real probelm: the athletes at the top earn all the fame and money, and thousands of others just wasted their lives training and getting nothing). But saying that they kidnap is ridiculous.