skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a company for a while that was trying to do that. People exploded with anger (number one, it was hard to identify what app was the cause, number two, it was as annoying as it much be for iOS users). Almost all apps removed it, the company changed strategy if I recall and Google threatened to ban their apps.

But other than one Zynga game, I never, ever get spam notifications and that Zynga game was installed for about an hour or two.
Why not just use a Raspberry Pi? This device doesn't actually run Python, it's just an interface between USB and I/O pins like the Bus Pirate (which is also controllable with Python).
I'm sorry that it sounds like it. It's really not. I commented about it on this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4775100.
Ask HN: How much equity should I take?
I am being invited to join an early stage startup. Actually, it's in pre-startup mode right now. They have an idea, they have a well connected angel/seed investor, they have the content and a designer. What they don't have is an engineer or a tech lead. That's where I would come in. How much equity should I ask for?
Slightly off topic - would you mind describing how you host and run the python/flask app?

Do you use uWSGI with apache / nginx in front of it? I dabble in python web apps and wanted to get some insight into how other people had them hosted
PIN are in danger of becoming a vapourware joke
You are right that the hardware isn't novel. But for me it is 100% of the reason to actually buy one. Nothing new in hardware but solid, practical and inexpensive quality.
It seems to me you can download and try without paying for anything: http://www.diffplug.com/versions/0.5.0

I'm not sure what paying actually gets you beyond the version you can just download and use.
I never checked. Even thought the network cover was a disappointment, I never even considered sending it back.
Movements take a while to get started, especially when they start with few resources and a lot of resistance. The movement is barely a year old and it's already one-upping FEMA. It helps to think of Occupy as an ever-growing potential for action.
The irony is that the user probably uninstalled the app and won't see the developer's response. :\
I guess the only way to validate the idea is to build it and see if people use it. I have asked potential users and all have said that they would use a service like this.

The research includes pages, site maps, design thoughts, basically everything I could do before building the product. This helps me also talk to potential technical co-founder to let him or her know that I am just not some crazy guy with some crazy idea pitching to them to come on board with me.

Sure, The idea is "amazon for services" where people can buy services just like products. Email me and we can definitely talk in more details.
My cofounder Gavin (@geekforbrains) is better suited to answer this - but I know we're not running apache - it's nginx and gunicorn on a rackspace cloud box.
I've been calling Facebook Notifications the Push Notification of the Web, they are great, maybe just as good as native Push Notifications. But they have also "solved" (it's new and yet to see) the spam problem recently by implementing harsh restrictions on how you as a developer can send them. It would be interesting if Apple and Google copied this behavior. Basically Apps that send > 50000 notifications a week have to maintain a 17% Click-To-Impression ratio. However I find the 50K an oddly picked number which should instead be based on installed user base.
That's typically the strategy for blogs. Links in a blog post are known good and don't have nofollow. Links in comments have nofollow to deter comment spam. That works for blogs where the site owner is creating the main content and the comments are secondary.

Sites like StackOverflow only have comments from users; there is no original content from the site owners (except inasmuch as they might participate as users). Using the blog model, it does seem reasonable to not use nofollow on content created by users who have already been vetted by your reputation system.
This left me wondering

http://www.samsung.com/us/aboutsamsung/ir/corporategovernanc...

Seems that 'only' 15.29% is owned by the "family". I'm not an expert on this things.
> to give them a transparent and easy way to communicate issues with each other.

Maybe they should fix their own bug tracking before trying something like this...
How Con Ed turned New York City's lights back on
Adafruit Learning System (v2.0)
Wild thinking: this uses infrared. Your body irradiaties infrared. So, Put it on or in your clothing (could be the inside of your t-shirt, or even your underwear), and you're all set :-)
There has been a lot of commotion around the Cedar Rapids, Iowa area for the past few years, with a legal motion to allow a modest number of suburban chickens on residential personal property being repeatedly brought up for discussion.

Thankfully, the motion has thus far been shot down in my immediate area, but I think it has passed somewhere.

And there are still a few properties that have been owned by the same family for longer than the modern livestock laws have been on the books, and thus they are permitted to keep sundry animals. I rather enjoy the llamas. :-)
An investor perspective on two deals
Do Americans working or visiting, say, New Zealand have legal immunity from murder prosecution? Were they imposed by an invading army?
HUGE congrats to Mike Pall. No amount of praise to him is enough.

Hopefully, sponsors will continue to donate to this project to keep Mike fully employed and ensure long-term commitment of this project.

I encourage sponsors to considered donating [1]

On a side note, I wish the Programming Language Shootout [2] would add back in LuaJIT to demonstrate just how fast LuaJIT is in comparison to other languages. It's just amazing.

[1] http://luajit.org/sponsors.html

[2] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
Court orders Silicon Knights to recall, destroy its Unreal Engine games
A few months ago Samsung lost $10B in market value when it was rumored Apple was sourcing parts to a competitor:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/us-samsung-chips-i...
If the link to stackexchange was user-generated content I seriously doubt they would actually expect it to have nofollow.

The outgoing links to any site from the stackexchange blog do not have nofollow. Any content that they are explicitly curating does not have nofollow, any user content does. I think that is a reasonably consistent policy.
HTC mostly uses Qualcomm silicon, which I believe is often produced by TSMC.
Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't have any experience with a Raspberry Pi, but wouldn't the end result from this be able to be embedded in a much smaller form factor than a Raspberry Pi?

This looks like mainly a test board. Would one be able to take the end result of this and program a production PIC board with it?

Seems like that might be useful for smaller form factors than what a Raspberry Pi is capable of.
Self-promotion time:
http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/10/EL6_power_usage_optimisati...
Tasker can do most of what you want, and it's fairly straightforward to set up, since it's a very common use of the application.
He meant the inflation of the _money supply_, not the inflation of the price of goods.

He is actually suggesting the opposite about the price of goods -- that they will deflate.

You absolutely can make the statement that the money supply of Bitcoin will not inflate in the long run, by the nature of their design.
Not true. I have a commodities trading account I use to trade corn, soybeans, and hogs. Minimum opening balance was $5K (Tradestation). Scottrade and others have a minimum of $500. Now if you're talking margin accounts, sure, you're going to need more.
I know they do pay Xerox a ton for Icons. The scrollbar settlement was huge as well.
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Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO)
This Plastic Can Heal Itself in 30 Minutes
I suppose a single regex can be both "favorite" and "worst" at the same time... it's only slightly interesting to know where ~ appears in the ASCII character set, and while someone might recall that space is kinda near the beginning but after the control characters, is it the first helpful printable character? Who knows?
Iowa City passed it.
I'm saying that usually comments are either wrong or out of date, developers code one regex, comment it, then fix a bug later and don't, then there's a discrepancy between the comment and the code. It's nearly always easier to just google the code and see what it does, if (as in this case) it's not obvious.
Both, I guess.

Any reason why? Or is this a spam account?
Yep. When I hear people complain about spam I usually think "wow, people still get that?"

I've been on gmail since 2004 and even direct my @domain mail there.
CloudMine + Singly = Rapid Mobile App Development With Social Baked In
Thanks for notifying us, but I'm not sure I can take three more days of suspense waiting to find out! Best of luck to all those who applied!
"Programming Isn’t Hard, It’s Just Frustrating – This is Why There is a Shortage of Programmers"

I'm not sure your cargo-cult experiences with PHP qualify this blanket statement about the entire industry :|.
Show HN: small library to draw knobs with SVG and JavaScript
Perhaps it is just the front-end issues I use SO for, but generally the top Google results aren't the most helpful for me; they're just the oldest and had, at one time, the most traction. Given the rate at which things change or other methods fare better, I've started sorting my results by date instead of relevancy and hoping Random Dude's Blog has the right answer. Sometimes you'll get lucky and someone will have posted an updated response, but it's still sitting at the bottom of the page with 0 votes, and my account doesn't have the reputation (due in part to not wanting my posts removed) to upvote them. Quite a cycle.
At $110 for Brent, all sorts of odd and difficult oil supplies will get developed. What's the net energy extracted for the economy to do useful work with, though? The energy (and dollar) cost of extracting oil shales and deepwater is enormous compared to the Kingdom's costs for their supergiant fields.

This is good news, if true, for the US' balance of trade, but sustained $100+/barrel oil will induce major structural shifts in our economy whether we're exporting or importing.

The EROEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested) implications of these prices are even worse. At a certain point, the only reason to continue to drill is because it's marginally cheaper than the energy intensive task of creating liquid fuels from organic feedstocks (i.e. - ethanol). We'll have to have switch at that point to something else as the primary source of energy for our economy, but nothing else is even close to being ready.

I hope you're all ready to work like Joey Hess, netbook battery by candle light: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4721645
(3)more days? :( I need a cigarette! (I don't even smoke)
How much would you pay to never see an online ad again?
Mark Twain on Nicotine Nannies; The Moral Statistician
I'm in the same situation. Would love to hear some feedback on this as well.
Spare mental capacity is hugely important. That is why off sites work well for clearing ones thoughts, get out of the 'noise' of all the issues and what not to see the new stuff you need to do.

Sometimes you can win by adding more people (mental capacity) and sometimes you can win by trimming back (pruning projects). Balancing them is what makes or breaks leaders.
13 year old builds and sends balloon to 85k with Raspberry Pi
This looks cool. I like the concept of plugins for different filetypes.

My visual diff tool of choice is Meld, and most of us at work use it often with git. However, it would be cool if it supported plugins for filetypes. For example, recently I was interested in an SVG visual diff, which colours differences between SVG files, but could not find one.
Methamphetamine was given out in bucket loads to troops in the past.
FYI: When I click play on the video, I see the first two seconds and then get redirected to http://www.diffplug.com/Teaser_0.5.0

Firefox 18 (Aurora) on Mac.
FDIC Regulation-E.

Consumer liability for unauthorized transfers. The consumer has limited liability if reported expediently.

You should read up more closely on the FDIC regulation -- they don't just provide insurance.

http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/6500-3100.html#fd...

Also, a clever little loophole: if the bank goes insolvent paying their accounts back, you are then covered under FDIC insurance.
Physical peak oil is uninteresting. Economic peak oil is much more relevant.

Look in to EROEI for a rigorous treatment of the idea.
AirPush was one company that did (does?) sell ads as Android push notifications. On the whole, they're really not that widely used anymore, though - partly because Android users pushed back hard against them about a year ago, IIRC, but also because the newest version or two of Android makes it really easy to identify the offending app and disable the notifications.

If I remember correctly, the pushback was before the new notification tray, so it may have been Android's own response to the problem.
Genius he is
This list is just a starting point. I would love to hear what all of you have found works for increasing revenue. Stories are good, specific numbers are even better!
Will Apple sue Orange?
Thanks for the update. Good luck everyone.

While we wait I thought i'd create a friendly competition for all the y Combinator January hopefuls. Enter your product or team video here: http://www.topthat.com/brandon/yCombinatorProductVideo
Regarding your second sentence:

Are you suggesting that bitcoins are struggling because people will not want to spend something that increases in value?

So bitcoins aren't purchased because they will increase in value too much?

That is the same circular logic that is used to explain "deflationary spiral", and it doesn't make sense.

Consider high tech equipment like a computer. You know that the price of a computer (or TV, or hard drive, or graphics card) will fall rapidly but you buy it anyway because you want to purchase it. It doesn't actually matter much that the price of the item is deflating. And these are for luxury items. Price deflation of goods matters even less when it is for something essential, like basic food items.

In other words, what you are saying is that the price of items priced in bitcoins will fall (because your bitcoins will become worth more and more), and therefore people will not spend their coins. However, we already see real world examples of deflating prices, where people still buy these items.
Search for any post about CERN, and you'll find his posts like the above.

From what I can tell, he's claiming that CERN discriminates against non-Western people. His evidence is a budget report, where they estimate how much something will cost based on the amount of people involved. The calculation adjusts for where the people are located, and the cost is higher if they're in a Western country.
OK, I read it through. It was long. And interesting once you got past the fluff.

But the theorem proven has a dubious connection to reality. If you want to maximize voter's voting power, the absolute best way to do it is to randomly select a single vote to be the deciding one. This is much better than the electoral college. And yet, would anyone seriously prefer that system?

And let's make it worse. According to demographic projections, starting in 2024 we should expect Texas to flip to the Democratic side of the ledger. Until something fundamental changes, after that point it will be virtually impossible to elect a Republican President despite the closeness in popular support.

That means that the electoral system will serve to deny everyone the possibility of having a meaningful role in selecting the President, rather than just denying it to most of us as happens now.
You can run Native Client code on it, just as you can in Chrome the Browser.

https://developers.google.com/native-client/
I don't see the word 'gravity' in the article.
Y Combinator hopefuls friendly competition
"Am I the kind of white American Divine Racial Karma hates?"... "Yes,"
“The white man has broken each of the Universe’s Divine Laws, grossly violated the human rights of all the non-white citizens of the earth and without regard plundered the earth herself in selfish exploitation of her resources.As such, we must welcome this: the emergence of the universal age of the white man’s karmic retribution,”
I think many start ups are de-facto anarchist in the sense that tasks and decisions are made laterally and without regard for status. In fact most human organisations reflect anarchist principals at the small scale, the anarchist program is merely an attempt at scaling these tendencies.

>If you want to get something done you have to start off by putting in the work, then as other people see you being effective they join in and contribute their own energy and ideas.

This sounds exactly like a start-up and the way occupy is/was organized.

The spirit of iterate like mad, fail quickly and replicate successful ideas, much of which comes from modern military thinkers (for instance John Boyd's OODA loop -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop ). Such theories actually have deep utility in adversarial settings.

>Unfortunately this kind of organization, while good at empowering individuals is bad at quick tactical responses such as when facing a well organized adversary, such as local politicians and police.

I would argue this form of organisation is excellent at quick tactical responses, but generally bad at longer range strategic plans (which is generally ok, since long term strategic planning is near impossible at the tempo of modern business/conflicts). Look at the shift in military affairs toward pushing decision making down the change of command (what is often called network centric warfare).
The Economics Of Voting
How is this news?

1. This post is from 2011
2. Google ended the ability to link sculpt a long time ago.

I would be interested in studies showing cases where link sculpting still worked.
I'm dealing with this right now in the worst way. My product actually depends on a subscription to another service, which is massive and priced ridiculously (JIRA). It's a hard sell to say that my service is worth as much as the platform its built on, but it works out that way for some customers.

I was considering dropping the price and making it a long-tail type of service, but I'm still excited about plowing lots of development effort in. This just reminds me that for businesses, the difference between 5 and 10 dollars is minimal, but for me, it's enough to keep the lights on (metaphorically, my office/apartment is very dim). I'd rather try to grow the customer base the hard way and then keep giving them more value for money.

Edit: my app is FocusTi.me, at http://start.focusti.me. I welcome any feedback, I haven't really started promoting it yet.
Let's give credit where credit is due: Gizmodo exclusively broke this story, not just of McAfee's post-software adventures, but of his current status as a murder suspect:

http://gizmodo.com/5959812/john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder
Tech companies do this all the time, its called sunsetting and there is really nothing blogworthy of some anecdotes about the process
Pretty nice. The madness of interpreters on top of interpreters is not lost on my but still fun.
> What part about "occupy" - an occupation - don't you understand?

I'm the sort of person, probably just like untog, whose knowledge of occupy mostly comes from the mainstream media. I've tried to read some of your guys' materials online or watch videos for an alternate viewpoint, but nothing's been particularly helpful or clear. As far as I've been led to understand from the media, OWS is a "political movement" that basically failed to accomplish any meaningful political change because of a lack of coherent agenda. There's clearly more to you guys than that, and I'm sure that portrayal is inaccurate to the point of severe insult.

So my challenge to you is to explain it better. Or point me to someone who can. Assume I don't "get" occupy, because I don't. But I want to. Telling me that it's "an admission of our insignificance in the grand design of the cosmos" is a fantastically beautiful sentiment, but that gets me no closer to actually understanding what you're doing, why you're doing it, or why I should care.
this is just for fun while we wait to find out. good luck to everyone who applied to the y Combinator January program.
what about nvidia competitors that actually care about linux?

AMD seems to have made a lot of promises and falling short on all of them... any other? i don't really follow the graphic card market.

maybe integrated intel stuff?
This is pretty exciting. Flash player has never been my favourite piece of software, so having a reasonable alternative would be fantastic.

I know there's also Gnash, but I haven't tried it in a long time, and I'm led to believe it is far from feature complete. Hopefully this project can push further.
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Oh please, and then they charge you 3.0% when you do a trade on your first 100 bitcoins.

So if you buy $5 worth of bitcoins, it costs you 61.2% in fees.

If you buy $50 worth of bitcoins, it costs you 9% in fees.

If you buy $100 worth of bitcoins, it costs you 6% in fees.
How does your "About Us" page return a 404 page? Smells kind of shady. http://www.orange-electronics.com/about-magento-demo-store
Anti-launch inertia
I'm looking to write an open source app with basically similar video chat functionality. Could I ask what's the best way of implementing this?

I'm guessing WebRTC would be the way to go... once it is released at least
I had the same experience on fact checking
There’s always this tendency of disruption | Jorge Cuadra Fueyo
My memory might be betraying me, but I do remember a lot of hype about how people would be able to visit 'virtual galleries'. That's how stuff like VRML was usually pitched, but people didn't actually know how the technology could be used. Which reminds me of the whole "housewives will be able to store recipes in their personal computer" thing.

That could have been pg's motivation. I could also be reading to much into it.
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Well, that's certainly disturbing. Arrested for burning a paper poppy. I always thought Great Britain was rather more progressive than us colonials.
You know, I'd noticed that you can easily find out what apps generate notifications but it literally had never even occurred to me that that was the reason for that addition.
High-Voltage DC Breakers Could Enable a Renewable Energy Supergrid
great job! great attitude! who did you raise from and how did failing at YC application help you? I've applied for this cycle. Waiting eagerly.
That is why in the Ars article it was linked to its wikipedia page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylenedioxypyrovalerone
I was shocked to get my first spam text in 3 years over the weekend. I was pretty surprised as my number is in plaintext on my blog, Facebook and is found with my name in Google searches. On the other hand, not a single human being other than my mother know my real mobile number and I get a spam text once a month.

That and a quick look at my Gmail Inbox/Spam-folder indicates that they're still winning the fight.
He's not that great. Just very bitter and angry, so we love him.
Ah, this is my favorite also. If seeing this doesn't make you second guess using a RegExp when a parser is more appropriate, well...you might be a Perl programmer?
The original (more detailed) article: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/november/healing-plastic-...