skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because carriers have figured out how to sell consumers a Femtocell device at the customer's expense, while offloading traffic to wireline transports, thus negating the need for network upgrades.

AT&T version: http://www.att.com/standalone/3gmicrocell/?fbid=FQSS3QyGy51

Verizon version: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/device/network-extender

This, and what rayiner said. Cell networks are really difficult.
I agree with your sentiment but I'm here to say that I think its going to be ok!

First I seriously doubt these are going to be 'cool' especially at $1500 a pop, its basically going to be the new 'blue tooth ear piece', yes it technologically is a useful advancement but anyone that really wears it around all the time is going to look like a total dork.

Second, people do not like being filmed! Nobody is going to want to talk to someone wearing a Go Pro. Try picking up a girl while pointing a camera in her face, you'll be the biggest creep ever.

Third, your girlfriend is still a kid, this is what kids do, im a few years older then you and let me tell you this is not something thats socially acceptable amongst adults, might as well not know how to brush your teeth. People that do this get tripped and then people laugh at them. Same with restaurants, a real women wont do this for more then a minute or two, this is kid stuff.

Fourth, Smartphones on the bus/couch is simply replacing TV and Newspapers/Magazines, which really is fine in my opinion. TV rots your brain, and being able to google something you just read and don't understand is a great benefit to society.

TLDR: Your girlfriend needs to grow up, Google glass is most likely going to be creepy and dorky if worn in public, Smartphones aren't inherently evil.
Everyone Hacks Everyone: Stop Assuming All Hackers Come From China
Thanks for such a quality war dialing app :) Seriously.
I expect HN to be all over it when this is made to run its first unsigned code, and again when someone has a full Linux distro running on it. Don't let me down, friends.
You're both correct, but Josh2600 was obviously referring to phone cables, not telegraph cables.

"TAT-1 (Transatlantic No. 1) was the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. It was laid between Gallanach Bay, near Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland between 1955 and 1956."

"The first transatlantic telegraph cable had been laid in 1858. It only operated for a month, but was replaced with a successful connection in 1866. A radio-based transatlantic telephone service was started in 1927. Although a telephone cable was discussed at that time, it was not practical until a number of technological advances arrived in the 1940s."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-1
Can someone speak to the reliability of this site? Or provide a corroborating source?
They want something they refer to as "open source" DRM, but they seem to have some unique meaning for that phrase.
I know some of Living Social's original investors, and I approached them for an investment in my startup about 8 months ago. Part of our pitch was that daily deals solve and amazingly valuable problem in an inherently not-valuable way, and although our system would take less of a straight line, it would and already WAS solving the problem for a small subset of businesses in a more valuable and vastly more sustainable way.

They ultimately passed on the investment, our last gasp to survive, because "Living Social was obviously their flagship, and they didn't want something who's core value proposition was that Living Social was doomed, which is obviously isn't." That's very close to a direct quote.

This doesn't make me happy. I hope Living Social figures it out. They realized Daily Deals were doomed even before Groupon did and tried to work out other revenue streams. I hope this report isn't even true. But God damned if I didn't tell'm so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test#Animal_species_capa...
Soil depletion has little to do with Florida tomato quality:

"""the majority of the state's tomatoes are raised in sand. Not sandy loam, not sandy soil, but pure sand, no more nutrient rich than the stuff vacationers like to wiggle their toes into on the beaches of Daytona and St. Pete. "A little piece of loam or clay would go a long way," said Ozores-Hampton. "But, hello? — this is just pure sand." In that nearly sterile medium, Florida tomato growers have to practice the equivalent of hydroponic production, only without the greenhouses."""

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137371975/how-industrial-farmi...

The page ends with an interesting description of the irrigation-from-below system ("seepage irrigation") enabled by the sand-on-hardpan conditions.
I'm in a same situation here.

Trust me going to a big school is as much about having rich parents, exposure and massive social/financial push from people around you as much it is about personal genius and hard work.

I would say big schools only act as a hub for smart people to gather learn from each other and become more smart.

Despite many people who go to big schools never make it big, and many people who go to small school make it big.
slightly off topic but i don't understand how this betting works - what does shorting a stock mean, and who is "losing" the money in order for you to gain?
> Not trying to be a defender of animal intelligence, just playing devil advocate for the sake of good, intelligent conversation :)

And I really enjoyed it. : )

Greasemonkey Gerbil
Looking at the mouse trap.
Looking at the spring, thinking 'bout the bait.
Understands everything.
But not the link.
This is why I fundamentally don't like investments. This is why profitability is king. Not users, not revenues, nothing except profits! This is why self funding is so important.

In life there is a right way to do things and a wrong way. The 37 signals (bootstrap) model is the proper way to do web business. Taking other people's money is the wrong way.

To author: Dude, you probably care more than the investors. Make it into a good thing, raise awareness on why the investing model should be approached with trepidation and skepticism. Then move on.
Surely the Phone Losers of America should be mentioned. The guy behind that, RBCP, maintained a series of electronic 'zines in the '90s, that talked about red boxing, beige boxing, and all sorts of phone phreaking topics. The PLA is still around to some extent nowadays with an online radio station where episodes of their various shows are played (and they sometimes do live shows), although a lot of their material is them prank calling people and businesses.
> An old friend of mine got a visit by AT&T technicians when they detected funny activity on his dad's line and I think he had to pay a $100 fine or something.

Sounds familiar.

I got busted for phreaking in 1972. Pled no contest, paid a $450 lawyer's fee, $150 fine, and $25 restitution to AT&T.

Afterward, the AT&T investigators took me out to lunch at my favorite Chinese restaurant. No, they didn't try to get me to name other notorious phreaks so they could go after them. They seemed to have genuinely felt bad that the whole legal apparatus had to get involved.

Yes, perhaps a little different from today.
Flutter (YC W12) Updates App on Mac AppStore
"...the genius is not to write a 5 cent idea in a ten dollar sentence. It's to put a ten dollar idea in a 5 cent sentence."

That 200:1 value to cost ratio is good advice.

You're going to make a killing if the customer perceived value to price ratio is 200:1, and if the retail price to cost ratio is also 200:1.
really strong words. thanks for sharing this. keep your chin up, the investors knew the risks of angel investing / venture capital. be proud that your gave it your all.

if you didn't take this risk, you would always look back and wonder what if. Ik that's cliched to high hell but it's true
This isn't the right comparison. HTML5's competitor is native APIs, not native client code.

The question is really whether/when browser APIs, augmented by js libraries, will overtake native APIs.

My guess: 5 years, plus however long it takes for people to stop using whatever version IE is on by then.
Wait, seriously!?!! You're Minor Threat!!?? Holy crap, if you had any idea how many hours I spent war-dialing with ToneLoc back in the day... oh, wait, you probably do have a pretty good idea. LOL.

Me and a few buddies got pretty deep into this stuff for a while in the mid to late 90's. So much that we would load my old 486 laptop in the car, take a 50' long phone extension cable and drive out to a COCOT in a rural area in the wee hours of the morning, and "beige box" off of the COCOT, sitting in the car 50' or so away. Our thinking was that a passing (police) car wouldn't notice the wire laying on the ground and that we'd be just a random car parked in the parking lot... probably kids making out, or somebody reading a map or something. Anyway, we'd sit there half the night scanning for dialups, then drive to a nearby telco exchange with a dumpster conveniently located outside and trash for passwords / modem numbers, etc.

For a while we had full control of a DMS-100 switch owned by the local telco. Unfortunately we made the mistake of calling it from my home one day, and as soon as we hung up the phone rang, and it was somebody from the phone company! That was the beginning of the end of my phreaking "career".

However, if you were to go to my parent's place and root around enough in the old storage shed, I would not be surprised if you found a box or two of old telco printouts and manuals, and maybe an old grey plastic Craftsman toolbox full of phone handsets, stolen telco tools, a 7/16" nutdriver (it opened a lot of the equipment cans our local telco used, as well as the demarc boxes on the sides of buildings and houses), and a bunch of RJ11 and RJ14 extension cables, RJ11 splitters, wire cutters, alligator clips, etc. Come to think of it, I should probably get rid of that shit in case the statute of limitations hasn't expired. :-)
Ah! Thank you for the correction.
I'm not really sure that dropping dual-HDMI, tri-Ethernet and hexa-USB is such a big loss for a videogame console.
No but helping people exchange/pay money easily is a interesting problem to solve.
I find it interesting to see the differential in response to posts like this vs posts on the firefox phone OS threads.

Here they seem to be: "Why would I want a website as an app???"

In the firefox phone OS threads they seem to be: "This is how all apps should be build, pure web apps!!!"
I am very similar to you
The Coursera Movement
"More than a third of divorce filings last year contained the word 'Facebook'"[1]

I totally disagree with you, and not just because of the article I posted. I've said this in the past—online services/apps/games need you to spend more and more time looking at a screen (especially Facebook & Zynga types) and they'll likely employ every form of behavioral trick that's legal.

For goodness sake, one of the main mantras here on HN is "you need to A/B test everything", the goal of which is to get people to stay on your site longer.

[1] http://blogs.smartmoney.com/advice/2012/05/21/does-facebook-...
The farmers understand both how plants work and how markets work. They have optimized their plants to maximize production for the market forces they experience - they get paid by weight for nice-looking tomatoes that can be shipped long distances without degrading. Taste doesn't factor into it.
They can be useful experimental platforms... also, the fundamental rules of Bitcoin are fixed— changing how Bitcoin works could be rightfully argued as theft from all the people who hold Bitcoin at the current moment.

If you wanted something like Bitcoin but with different properties, different security, different inflation— an altcoin is the only way to get it.

Unfortunately, practically all altcoins have been almost identical to Bitcoin.
I was a PLA'er for a few years. Great community, abit more of a pranking community than a heavily technical one.
> Baseball prediction was waiting to be cracked wide open with modern statistical techniques.

Interesting point. How about Bitcoin? Am I too late to that game, or is it too hard to model?
* This Has To Be The Worst Written Article I've Seen In A While

* Who Designed This Piece Of Art?
The Washington Post & Reuters corroborate the statement that Living Social received $110 million in funding, though neither says anything about stock options.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/livingsocial-...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/20/us-livingsocial-id...
In addition : The end-date of a PhD is indeterminate (at least in the UK), since one doesn't know for sure whether the thesis defense will require any re-writing, etc. So it's difficult to have a job fixed up completely on the day the magic letter arrives.
Things may not be as bad as they seem.

Don't worry about the investor's money - it's called venture capital for a reason.

You've probably learned a tremendous amount from the experience.

Think about what the next step for you is after this company. Sounds like you're a developer and can easily get a well-paying job. Sounds like there is still some money left and you can take some time and decompress from the experience.

This isn't doom. It's the first step of what you're doing next.
Thanks - the rapidity with which they were answering questions and the username made me suspicious it was a PR campaign (professional)
This might make some sense if it wasn't for the comment at the end...

enum BankID {
ONE = 1,
TWO = 2,
THREE = 3,
FOUR = 4
// add more if needed
};
Developers, confess your sins.
> There are simple ways to gather lists of likely independent servers. For example, agencies you trust could publish such lists.

This isn't a procedure, it's a hand-wave. How do the agencies make their lists? And why should I trust them? If I can trust the agencies, why don't I just have them process all the transactions and then dispense with the inefficient global consensus stuff? What happens when courts order the agencies to direct people to processors who seize particular funds or block particular traffic? When the agency servers are hacked?
Whether or not they privately thought you were right, openly betting against one's own companies is rarely a prudent move for any investor.
Back in the seventies, the simplest phone hack was probably what we called the "click-it", but is more formally known as the Black Box.

Some curious person had connected a lineman's set to a ringing phone line and noticed that, between the extremely loud ring signals, he could hear the calling party talking to himself. Also, that if he briefly shorted the ringing line, the ringing would stop but the call would stay connected. And he could now clearly hear the distant party! Moreover, if the calling party was using a pay phone, he could hang up and get his dime back, even if he had read the Declaration of Independence into the phone in the meantime. IOW, there was a functioning talk path but no billing!

So, the only problem to be solved was to get audio into the formerly ringing line without drawing enough DC from the line to look like a real phone call was in progress (and thereby trigger billing). This was easily solved by placing a capacitor in the line to keep the phone from drawing DC and placing a six-volt battery across the line, in series with an audio frequency choke. The final piece was a momentary contact switch (the clicker) placed across the line ahead of the capacitor. If you got a long distance call, you clicked the switch to stop the ringing, then picked up the phone, and talked for hours. And the calling party never saw the call on their bill.

If you wanted to initiate a call, you could "code ring" the party, signaling them to call you by prearrangement.

If memory serves, the Black Box stopped working when they rolled out ESS in the late seventies.
While this is a fairly good explanation of some interesting things about Starcraft, I think something truly interesting about mutalisk stacking in particular is its actual discovery date. It wasn't, in fact, discovered in the 'early 2000s', but rather in mid 2006, a good 7 years after the game was released.

Prior to this trick's discovery, players stacked mutalisks by right clicking the group onto a mineral patch or gas geyser, which causes them to clump up more than right-clicking onto the ground (July, who you mention, actually won at least the first 2 OSLs without the benefit of this trick). I would imagine that air units in Starcraft have a similar hack applied to their moving collision detection as the workers do with mining, as the exhibit a lot of the same behaviors (okay with being on top of each other while moving, spread out as soon as they stop moving).
this is extremely sad to see. hopefully this report is exaggerated and not entirely true.

that said, the daily deal model is clearly broken.
Looks more like it was yesterday. A happy belated birthday. :)

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#29apr09
I'm a HS student and you basically have to know people/get personal referrals. Sent you a message
Do you think Daily Deals are a fundamentally flawed concept?

I tend to think there's nothing wrong with them other than an over-saturation of the market and a prevailing attitude that says all you need is a sufficiently large mailing list to win. But that's just my outsider's view.
If you've set up your company correctly, you should be personally protected from liability if the company fails, right?

Assuming that's true, then perhaps you'll end up with a tarnished reputation, but your life isn't crumbling apart. It shouldn't be too difficult to find a more conventional job with a decent salary, especially if you've managed to create a product that people wanted to invest in.
Agreed. Part of the job of being an investor is to balance your portfolio, and losses are to be expected. Such a world doesn't exist where investments are risk free.

There are many entrepreneurs who have raised again from VCs even after they didn't make it from their first raise. As long as you tried your hardest, there isn't much else more you can do. Keep at it.
There was a study that came out years ago that stated that the closer something comes to looking real without being real, the more it is mentally rejected.

I like the eye candy I've seen in beginning of the PS4 gameplay of Watch Dogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PODJJN3fTME

But I really notice the roughness, like when he slows down after running across the street, and the unrealistic smooth circular pans that don't accelerate and decelerate like a normal panning movie camera would.

And, of course I think the Atari 2600 was the best home gaming console ever invented.
It can be hard to keep your head up in this situation, but, you should try. Just because this startup fails, don't let it effect you forever. Sure you have a right to be upset for now, but know that you have to move on.

In the way that you sold your idea to the investor (whether it was by way of having a product to show, or just fancy talking, or a combination of both), you will have to rise from the ashes and prepare to do it again.

You can, and probably should eventually frame this as experience, because thats exactly what it is. A lot of investors will look at this as a learning experience for you, if your able to keep yourself from being rattled out of the game.

The next time around, you will be able to look back on your experience, and hopefully make different choices that will help you stay at the edge of your seat.

Lastly, sometimes ideas just don't work, despite all your best efforts. Sometimes there is little you can do to change the course of history. Often, its a combination of both bad decisions, and being in the right place at the wrong time, or the wrong place at the right time.
I jumped the ship and am now using Chrome OS for school work. I never realized how much of my life is browser centric. My personal experience is I prefer launcher over bookmark bar. For some reason bookmark bar looks cluttered to me. When I want to open websites like Gmail, I just search launcher and it's there. And I have a clean interface without bookmark.
I think you're thinking of the uncanny valley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Google reportedly in talks with Warby Parker to make Google Glass look cool
Didn't hang out on Reddit in those days so based on using this site http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html I didn't hear about HN and sign up until five days later.
Been there, done that. You know what? Failure is just an event. Its not you. You havent lost your "touch", because there wasnt one to lose from the start. You just got lucky. It didnt work out. Now, understand that being average is OK, and pretty awesome too. So you didnt hit it big, but you had an average run. You did not become Instagram, but you had average sales. You made average money and had average success. Again, average is awesome. You got further down the line than most other people have (me included).

So you failed. Dont obsess about it. Tell your family the company is not working. Dont try an be a hero. Be honest, they appreciate that more (fuck them if the dont). Entrepreneurs have to meet these weird social standards that are never within reach. You think Warren Buffett has ever getting a break? He gets shit every day from deals gone sour.

But keep your head up. Failure is not you. You are a person, and you did pretty good. Your investor lost the money the minute he decided to play investor. Doesnt have to do anything with you.

If you want to talk about it with someone who fails hard every month, just send me an email (on profile). I wont make this public.

Also, dont be ashamed. You got to the NBA, but you were not Michael Jordan. Who cares? I bet you played a good game, and got some good stories from it. Best wishes!
CAP is not applicable here from what I can tell. Glad to know Coda Hale understands it though. Sounds like a real nice guy.
This is pretty old news, but still neat. The post is new, but I read about it at least a year ago.
Yes, the "Gros Michel" banana was a tastier variety, but was destroyed by a fungus 1906-1960. The current variety, the "Cavendish" was resistant to the original fungal strain, but is now under threat from a new strain...

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/22/138610585/yes-we-do-have-banan...
You can’t get any better than that. This was an absolutely brilliant chain of events, which I believe was all planned. They were able to literally make a huge splash out of a non-event. Don’t be surprised if you see your next bottle of Maker’s Mark a couple bucks more than you’re used to.

Don't be surprised if a lot of us customers take our business elsewhere. We don't know what's in that bottle anymore, aren't sure about MM's stance on quality re: a luxury product, and see a lot of other bottles on those upper shelves.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -- Michael jordan
Indeed. If you're a restaurant/spa/bowling alley in need of drumming up some business, the daily deals channel, with all of its issues, will still generate the most qualified leads for the buck. Other channels are newspaper or Yellow Pages ads (probably dead) or a combo of Google/Facebook micro-targeted ads.
If you're talking about christian beliefs, circumcision doesn't even make the top 10 ten odd things.

Just like most things with christianity, having a definite 'yes' or 'no' is not really possible. Christianity has a very mixed history with circumcision.

Wikipedia has a surprisingly good overview, though it doesn't address at all an overview of modern christian beliefs in the US:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_male_circumcision#In_...

Of course, the fundamental premise of your statement is flawed. There isn't one single 'christian' thing. There are many christian things, and many of those contain mutually exclusive beliefs. Circumcision is one of them. There are many others.