skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't understand what everyone is moaning about. You all entrusted companies like Facebook (and remember, companies are there to make money for their shareholders) with a massive portion of your social lives and now you're complaining about the fact that those same companies could shut your social life down in an instant. Well guess what, they do indeed own all "your" data. The moment you agreed to their TOS and started uploading pieces of your private lives online, you confirmed that you were ok with them owning it.

I've personally never felt comfortable with having my social life online and that's why I've opted out of using Facebook, Google+ or any other social networking services for that matter. My social life doesn't suffer because of that at all, in fact, my bond with the people who are close to me has become even stronger due to a lack of social noise in my life. I see my best buddies a few times a week anyway and when I really need to talk to someone else, I can just email them or give them a call. The whole Facebook/Google+/[throw in random SNS here] thing is a joke.
Very interesting. Statistically speaking, women are better than men in reading non-verbal information. I wonder if this is a part of YC success.
Is this the same company that was on the Shark tank a few months ago?
From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4699862 (also at the front page right now):

> We funded the Lockitron guys back in the summer of '09—that's them at their YC interview. A year after YC, they were still figuring out their idea. They lived with the Wepay guys and one day the Wepays had a party for their investors. By that point the Lockitrons were working on a product to lock your door with an iPhone. They were able to impress one of the investors with their prototype, and he asked to have 40 installed in some startup offices he owned. The founders were psyched, but the commercial locks they needed to use cost $500 a pop. They didn't have $20,000 to fulfill an order that big. So they went around to the local locksmiths and scrapyards, buying broken locks for about $10 each. They fixed them themselves and were able to deliver on that order.
Fat fingered. That was a reply to btilly's comment
Was not aware of this connotation - in the event we expand to Russia, should we go with something like 'Lockomatt'?

edit: Just looked up 'mat' in Russian. Seems like I'm really, really not having any luck here.
Say what you want about some of their other business practices, but they appear to have successfully destroyed rents in the retail industry, which is great for consumers of retail. Regardless of how they do for their shareholders, that is a real benefit to society.

Right?
Looting?? Germany divides a substantial amount of its money to these nations so they don't collapse and take the currency with them!
You might want to consider buying 2000$ every 4 weeks depending on your transaction fees.
Thank you. So during that long pause Aldrin was soaking up the scenery and thereby gaining "aesthetic bliss"? If that is the case, "smuggled" just seems a strange word choice. If that's not it, I guess I'm just being dense because I don't get it.
Windows RT still haunted by the ghost of Microsoft's 2001 tablet fiasco
No, I think you would need to wrap the TCPConn in a goroutine that does the Read, handles any errors, then passes the bytes back to the consumer via a channel. At least it would be a very generic and small goroutine to do this.

I agree that would be a nice feature though.
I'm just curious, is there any reason Google wouldn't have had MSDN access? I could see a "no arch-nemeses" clause or such.

(Or I could be showing my [lack of] age and MSDN didn't have easy download access in the XP era)
It is good practice e.g. if you are a contractor and work with multiple organizations.

When your project is done you simply wipe the related SSH key. This way you can be sure that they cannot ask you to do some more work without proper legal framework (no more access, sorry) and you can prove that if there are compromises they were not done using your credentials.
Romney would support having marginally more money in angel investors' pockets and making marginally less government-directed investments, e.g. Solyndra. So there's a minor Hayek vs. Keynes theme in the election.
Hi, I can't speak for Lloyd. But, as someone else who's building a funded startup here in Austin--and who sits about 10 feet away from Lloyd and OwnLocal every day!--I can answer it for me/my startup.

I ran my last company in the Valley and did really well--I exited for 7 figures. I am building my current company in Austin because I see here what the Valley was in 2002-2004. Growing fast, retooling itself as a startup hub, and building real businesses with real revenue.

Developers are (somewhat) easier to hire here. Salaries and cost of living are lower. No state income tax saves you some good money, too (matters more once you get acquired and/or start pulling down a larger salary.)

Weather is less great, but you do have seasons here, which I can appreciate, having lived in California most of my adult life.

Funding is available, though not quite as easy to get as in the Bay Area. However, I will say, once you figure out who the investors are in Austin, they love to invest in local companies with traction and revenue. And there are venture funds here, as well. In addition to local funds, 500 Startups makes several trips through Austin a year and funds the most promising startups here.

Plus, Austin is a fun city that has a lot of fresh, young energy. Thriving culture, bike- and scooter-friendly, and did I mention you can actually afford to buy a house here? I suppose that's more important for us "old fogies" who are already in our 30's. ;) Oh, yeah, and you can drink beer at the movies thanks to Alamo Drafthouse. Also, if you're a foodie, Austin is epic. I still can't believe the Bay Area doesn't have an equivalent to Central Market.

I wrote a more in-depth blog post before I left for Austin: http://www.erica.biz/2011/california-im-leaving-you/ And I can safely say that moving here to run a high-growth, B2B tech startup was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Isn't it stupid to just to have one job, one car, be a citizen of one country, have one house and one family. I mean really - one must diversify. What would you do if you lost any one of those?

No, it's not stupid to concentrate wealth. Problems only arise when you do it stupidly, like buying too big a house, being part of the wrong family, living in the wrong country or buying an unsafe car.

Diversification does not reduce risk but it cuts your returns in half. All correlations go to one in a crisis and you can't hedge the end of the world.

Note: To all downvoters - putting all your eggs in multiple baskets does not protect you from an asteroid impact any more than a person with all eggs in one basket.

People who think diversification makes them safe are frankly wrong.
Interesting, but this seems similar to the Z-Wave[1]/Schlage Internet-controlled remote entry systems. I'm not sure what the additional value add is beyond an iPhone app.

Am I missing something?

[1] http://www.z-wave.com/modules/ZwaveStart/
But it's the same as an iPad2, not an iPad (Retina).

I think you are right that people will buy this because it's cheaper and smaller, but those are the people that would have purchased an iPad2 because they "don't want a tablet, they want an iPad, and they don't care which one it is."

In my mind the Mini is a replacement/upgrade on the current iPad2 (at a similar price point) and the full-blown Retina iPad will continue as the flagship of sorts.

The smaller size just means the Mini fits a niche that the previous offerings didn't.
Provide some evidence we can examine.
From memory I think WGA was cracked..?

That said my current machine is Win7 enterprise that I somehow, if only through brute force rather than actual know-how, managed to convince that its install had been validated.
Dear CEOs: get on Twitter and connect with customers
Useful piece. I started breaking down our YC application and rewriting answers and I realised that I could write much of what I've put in a much shorter manor that is to the point.
Google already provides for this to some extent:

http://www.dataliberation.org/
Yahoo! and AOL did not look good 10 years ago. They were selling at insane P/E ratios and had absolutely no way of making good on those numbers. If you invested in them - you'd be a moron.

Unexpected things really don't happen very often and black swan risk is way overblown. When things blow up - they're a long time coming - you just didn't see the data.
Cronyism is when one hires useless people just because they are beneficial for your own sake, not for the collective good. Wikipedia agrees "" The practice of favoritism based on relationships and connections - rather than someone who demonstrates top credentials and well-suited experience "".

The main question then becomes, were they hired more for relationship and connection or because of their credentials and experience?
I think so. Within YC Jessica's nickname is The Social Radar. One nickname at least; the other is Panic.
Can anyone comment on how this affects consistency from a writing client?

For instance, let's say I update a user record with a new email address, then display then redirect to an action to display the user record. The write may not have reached the replica, so I may get the old email address, correct? It seems this might require quite a bit more thought than simply enabling a replica.
Selling Razor Blades To Men Who Love Beards
Isn't the statement

"For years, the Chinese government has been criticized around the world for hacking into foreign computers."

a little bit bold?

The Chinese government certainly isn't the most innocent one, but making something like that just appear as fact?
Also this indicates that every hacker attack coming from China is directly from the Chinese government.

Not to forget that the Washington Post is one of the major news sources of the country.
Thanks for the feedback. We're working on improving each one of those areas.
Important tidbit buried in there: "Amazon said it lost 60 cents a share in the third quarter, but more than half of that was from its investment in the daily deals site Living Social"
6-1 One in the Chamber
Epic stuff
It is very interesting (and scary) how many things that we kludged together on the net that the new generation are finding as "must haves"
What I don't understand is: how does the DMCA apply here at all? The DMCA's anti-circumvention clauses apply only to mechanisms which control access to a copyrighted work. I fail to see how jailbreaking a phone, tablet, game console, etc passes that test -- it's not controlling access to anything.
Cronyism says nothing about the skills of the people. They may well be the best people for the role. It merely means they were chosen on the basis of relationship.
btrfs works, and gets better in every kernel release. 3.2 was a major stability point. It is absolutely certain they haven't found the last bug (as is true of almost any code). https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Is_btrfs_stable....

If you have reasonable resiliency and redundancy in your backups then it largely doesn't matter what filesystem is used. I do and consequently use btrfs everywhere across several different machines in several different configurations. The crucial functionality which pushed me over was:

* snapshots (I already did this using rsync and hard links)

* compression (Save some space)

* checksums and online scrubbing (I had a disk very slowly go bad with ext4. The only scrubbing available required the system being offline for 19 hours.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but after reading the article apparently it's all fine and dandy if you have a cracked PS3, but if you have a useless PS3 with the latest official firmware and want to put it to a better use (XMBC, linux, whatever) there's nothing for you.

So :

- this is good for those who cracked their ps3

- this is a non event for those who did stick to the rules and would like to do with their ps3 what sony said they were no longer allowed to do (running linux)
I've been minimizing the stuff I carry in my pocket for a while now (for every day work).

The wallet was the first to go. Then I stopped carrying IDs (I use public transport). Now I'm down to my keys, my phone, a credit card, and a metro pass. The day when all I need is my phone is getting closer!
I think you're looking for vivint.com
Udacity will win by disintermediating HR, which I think is a great development. I really hate HR, because frankly - they suck - hard.

An example?

I can't remember which company this story was from (I think it was Lotus Software).

Basically the HR team of a multi-billion dollar startup were given the anonymised resumes of the first 10-20 founding team members.

HR rejected them all. Not one founding team member was accepted even for a short interview.

Tells you something about HR doesn't it?

First class universities are really great at bringing together smart people, money and difficult problems all into one area.

For the vast majority of non-smart people however it frankly just isn't worth it. The vast majority of jobs held by people from third and second tier universities do not need a degree - they just need to be qualified to do a specific job.

Udacity will stand in between second/third tier students and second/third tier business and match them like eBay does with buyers and sellers. This is worth a lot of money.
U.S. Copyright Office Publishes Final Rule With DMCA Exemptions
Jailbreaking/rooting generally makes piracy a lot easier.
Maybe you could argue it's controlling access to media you purchase and download onto your device?
Quote from Wired article (linked below):

"The regulators said that the controls were necessary to prevent software piracy and differentiated gaming consoles from smart phones, which legally can be jailbroken:

[T]he record demonstrated that access controls on gaming consoles protect not only the console firmware, but the video games and applications that run on the console as well. The evidence showed that video games are far more difficult and complex to produce than smartphone applications, requiring teams of developers and potential investments in the millions of dollars. While the access controls at issue might serve to further manufacturers’ business interests, they also protect highly valuable expressive works – many of which are created and owned by the manufacturers – in addition to console firmware itself.

On the plus side, the regulators re-authorized jailbreaking of mobile phones."

Source:

-) http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/dmca-exemptions-rej...

-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4699962

I am aware that this does not fully answer your question, but this is at least their justification.
They didn't... they made a 7.9 inch tablet :)

They also said they would not do a phone at one point and yet here I am making a living building software for that phone Apple would not make!
Windows 8 is better than Windows 7 in every way. I have been running Windows 8 for two months and loved Windows 7 but would never go back.
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> This is symptomatic with one of my two big problems with journalling oriented file-systems.

Personally, I think it's more symptomatic of the problems of filesystem-oriented journalists. See the comment quoted by sciurus.

(Irrelevant note: I really don't recommend reversing all the arrows in a Unix kernel. But I like your username anyway.)
I'm tired of just seeing links when i "Google" people online, so i made this.
Dl.Google.com now served by Go
It sounds like this news would be more accurately titled "Jailbreaking continues to be exempt for smartphones and non-exempt for tablets".
The Future of Markdown
For Z-wave, you still need a Z-wave gateway/controller, which can cost several hundred dollars. The Schlage gateway requires a monthly subscription.
prospective* (just trying to help since it's a submission title)
does your credit card have your picture on it?
I remember buying games in 1980's. Over $130 in today's dollars. I do seem to remember them having a pretty good amount of play time in them. Of course, in the Apple II/Commodore world, we really didn't have to worry about keeping up with hardware upgrades. ;)
Anything's possible. Doesn't mean it's worth talking about until it happens.
Let's start calling these "smartphones" and "tablets" what they are: computers.

It's not okay to tell someone what they can or cannot do with the 1's and 0's on their machines. DRM sucks and so do companies that would seek to restrict rights on how you can use your computer.
Why is the voting open to everybody?

One nice looking girl's profile posted on 4chan and well, you can guess the result...

Also being able to just browse through people's pictures and ratings for fun?

Not my cup of tea!
If it does I'll be sure to buy it for my Nexus 7. Very nice way to get an idea of how well Windows 8 works on tablets!

However it seems the android app is still at version 4.0, so I guess we have to wait for an update.
You don't seem to be disagreeing with me.
Well we figured, people wont go searching for non existent people on a regular basis. Then again if people do,its not like it is going to take away from others that wont.
Also the view all is just temporary. Because it makes it easy for us to see with a quick glance whats going on. And thanks for the feedback, partly why i wanted to post it here for the very opinionated community!
Hmmm I wouldn't normally say a P/E of 272.63 is a bet on slow steady growth.
> Fresh competition is never more than a click away.

Two clicks, actually. They have a patent on one click.
The idea is that the phone or tablet's copy protection scheme controls access to the low-level firmware/ROM that makes the device operate.
I always wonder about drive-by trolling. Suggestion to pg, make it so that accounts cannot post their first comment for 24hrs.

That said, this sort of complaint is not uncommon, I saw a lot of "Gee why not use a hidey hole? or a camo-rock?" and the answer is, of course, that for the use case these folks are targeting divulging the secret hiding space to a temporary renter means you need a new hiding space for the next one. So much easier to just delete their access code.

I didn't realize quite how much this industry needed to be disrupted until I went out and added fob based locks to our offices here at Blekko. What I want is a self contained solution, I know I can hack one together with a few arduinos and RFID readers and a closet web server type app on a Raspberry pi, but nobody sells that. And some of the components are poorly documented (as it the general rule for "security" stuff it seems) for this reason alone I cheer on the Lockitron guys and look forward to their Enterprise product.
Besides, it kind of makes sense now that everything is widescreen.
Romney would also be pushing more stimulus via deficit-funded tax cuts, thereby increasing aggregate demand. So you could just as well say that Romney is the Keynes-side in this election, especially since the politics would be much more favorable toward Romney pushing stimulus than Obama.

In practice, you've got to look at what model of the world is motivating candidates and their economic advisers. In both cases, Keynes is whom they turn to.
It was http://www.unikeytech.com/
Well you don't have an email in your profile to contact you, but I have changed my mind on the font. Try this:
http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans
If that is your standard of valuing entertainment you should try reading a book sometime.
Yessirree Bob, I remember what my rich uncle used to say. He said, "Son," (even though he was my uncle and not my father), "Son, if you really want to make money, forget all that stuff about finding a need and filling it. That's the old way. Everybody's doing that, and everything's been done. No, son, what you want to do is this. You want to find something that isn't broken, and fix it. That's where the big money is."
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There has been a lot of comments on the piracy aspect, but I think the cheats are just as important, if not more so.

With the assumption that the vast majority of players don't want to jump through the hoops to deal with keeping updated on "liberated" firmware versions, the piracy threat is contained to a small population, not likely to damage the bottom line.

However, the risk to online play is greater with cheat enabled clients. A single cheat client can cause great havoc within a game instance. Even if the individual device can be banned, another actor can take it's place. Legitimate clients will get frustrated quickly on a prolonged attack. And that is where the real damage is.
This should have been a comment in one of the many iPad Mini submissions. No part of your post is particularly notable or useful.

Apple will sells tons of these and they will be hugely popular. They may lose people to the Kindle Fire or the Nexus but it will be a minute percentage compared to how many they do sell.

I'd wager the iPad Mini will outsell in one quarter what both the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 have sold to date. We'll have to revisit this comment soon.
Metro is no iPhone.
Dude, don't lower the standards.
It seems that the RT is pretty much a consumer device, primarily --no Ad integration, no legacy apps. The Pro version will be the Enterprise version, and one would hope by then they will have grown the App market inventory.
> You have the entire month of November...

So... it's not November yet. Can you start?

EDIT: They answered this here: https://github.com/github/game-off-2012/issues/15

> I should clarify that. Yeah, you can start now :)
There's an "author" link: http://www.foundersatwork.com/author.html