skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in a simplistic world if you think that's all those accountants did.

Who tests the software? You need accountants.
Verge Live Blog - Samsung Galaxy S4
Really cool! Did you consider using phantomjs thru capybara in order to use webkit to interact with javascript websites?
I guess it depends on what you mean as a "key differentiation".

The two are also very different in that Meteor is a framework and Firebase is a data service that can be run completely client-side.
Ask HN : YCombinator or Techstars Boulder for hackers?
Far from US for the moment, I don't understand differences between top US accelerators... I just wanted to know
- what are the main differences/vision between YC and Techstars Boulder
- which one it is the most adapted for a team of developers making a tool for developers.

(Be selected is not the subject here, I know it's very hard.)
I'll have to let Andrew, my co-author, speak on why he left the corporate world to start his ecommerce blog.

But I can share why I decided to write this. I noticed that most, if not all of the information on drop shipping is bullshit. The topic is riddled with scammers looking to rip you off.

A few months ago I published a guest post about drop shipping on my company blog. It was written by my co-author. It was very well received... seemed there were people out there starving for good information on getting a drop shipping business up and running.

I bought every print and ebook on the subject, read most articles I found online on the topic, and quickly realized that we could probably write something way better. So we did. I hope! :P Anwyays, that's it... just published it today and can't wait to get feedback on how to improve it. Once we polish it up a bit, I plan on releasing an eBook so people can read it on their Kindles and what not. If you read it Kitcar, I hope you enjoy!
Rovio Releases The Croods Game before the movie
A job that can be automatized _is_ /unimportant/. Your finance wizard can just be replaced by a few line of code _because_ his whole world is already part of this technology world. Now try to automatize the one doing to the coding.

People losing jobs are a consequence of an economic decision, not because of technological advancement. Knowledge is still power.
Face One Self?
This is great! Since it allows combining and parsing RSS and XML feeds - do you think it could be used to build a personalized RSS / Google Reader replacement? Just a thought.
> So you're saying that we should either be willing to pay $5/m for an RSS reader service, or $5/m to host the service ourselves?

Why is that so unreasonable? Though, I think it's likely that the hosted solution would be much cheaper than self-hosting, since you don't need to rent one server per user, a hosted solution could be much more efficient.
There are already quite a few products that do exactly that. I work for one of those companies - we specialise in nurse scheduling (though also cover doctors and other healthcare staff), and have systems that both manage the hospital's demand (and using their own permanent and temp nurses), and systems for agencies to manage their 'inventory' to fill the gaps. You're right that it's a massive problem and therefore there is a good market here. The full on marketplace idea is also starting to be a possibility but isn't really a big deal yet.

It's also (unsurprisingly) really complex and I'm sure very far from their wine marketplace technology!
Football's Steve Jobs: Zlatan Ibrahimović, Creative and Competitive
Why You Should Never Work for Free
As someone who's experienced both depression and obsessive navel-gazing at 35 I can attest to its counterproductive nature.
The Los Angeles Metro bus has QR codes on all the stops that integrates with nextrip to tell you when the next bus is coming at that stop. I've used it before but it's rarely more convenient than just using GPS and having it guess the stop you're standing at.
Well, that's very hot right now. :)

Yes, actually, I use it to scrape a couple of RSS feeds myself since I couldn't be bothered to use a reader when I had this.
I've heard that the Stalin compiler is very good, I don't know much about it though.
Secure Triggers Re: Ars Tech's GAUSS Malware
RE: a link in today's Ars Tech GAUSS Malware

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/the-worlds-most-myst...

Abstract

Imagine there is certain content we want to maintain private until

some particular event occurs, when we want to have it automatically disclosed. Suppose furthermore, that we want this done in a (possibly) malicious host. Say, the confidential content is a piece of code belong- ing to a computer program that should remain ciphered and then “be triggered” (i.e., deciphered and executed) when the underlying system satisfies a preselected condition which must remain secret after code inspection. In this work we present different solutions for problems of this sort, using different “declassification” criteria, based on a primitive we call secure triggers. We establish the notion of secure triggers in the universally-composable security framework of [Canetti 2001] and intro- duce several examples. Our examples demonstrate that a new sort of obfuscation is possible. Finally, we motivate its use with applications in realistic scenarios.

Foundations and applications for secure triggers (2006)

by Ariel Futoransky , Emiliano Kargieman , Carlos Sarraute , Ariel Waissbein Venue:

In ACM Transactions of Information Systems Security

http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/284.pdf
Florida legislature moves to ban Internet cafes following arrests
Here a link to Mr Avocado? He the former engineer who created Google reader project in the first place.This is Just a suggestion from a user. Maybe getting him on board would help a lot in your project?

http://www.massless.org/?area=Projects
I'm excited to try this out next time I start a new project. the allure to only having to write a backbone app and no server is pretty interesting to me.
Most probably DCMA even prohibits from looking inside the stream of that data. But should people care to heed it? DMCA itself is a draconian idiocy.
Seeing a Haskell project on github (https://github.com/frio/ifrit) that sounds similar under your handle- post the Elixir one! Would love to see some Elixir code in such great project area, whatever the state!!
You might be interested in FreedomBox

http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud
Though, we might also wind up in the scenario depicted in the satirical three minute short, "Welcome to Life"..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E
If your friend uses strong DRM and/or uses cloud based "purchasing" to keep users from possessing the bought files, I hope he fails.

The last thing I want is more DRM peddlers catering to people who aren't in the know about every tech nuance out there. So yes, it can he unduly harsh. But in our legal environment (with little recourse), drm providers almost always deserve it.

An exception to that is companies that sell "drm" servers to authenticate that only X licenses of software are used at one time. License compliance is another drain on innovation, but can be effective in keeping legit in compliance.
That's less because all cracks run in some similar fashion, and more because a lot of antivirus programs flag all cracks / key generators / etc as a matter of policy as "potentially undesirable software".
Quoc V. Le (http://ai.stanford.edu/~quocle/) of Stanford and Google did a talk today at Univ. of Washington:

"Scaling deep learning to 10,000 cores and beyond":
Presentation Univ. of Washington (March 14, 2013)
https://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=1338

You can see one of Quoc's previous talks online:

"Tera-scale deep learning: - Quoc V. Le from ML Lunch @ CMU
http://vimeo.com/52332329

You may remember Jeff Dean's (http://research.google.com/pubs/jeff.html) post on this:
https://plus.google.com/118227548810368513262/posts/PozFb134...

The corresponding research at Google...

"Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning"

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38115.html

http://research.google.com/archive/unsupervised_icml2012.htm...

Previous HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4145558

--

How Many Computers to Identify a Cat? 16,000
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-networ...;
Archive.org is great but it's at best a very, very incomplete solution to a huge problem.
Anecdotal:

Programmer P1 got a BA in English, worked a few years in sales, doing programming as a hobby. P1 then got a tech support job, and got serious about learning programming on the side. P1 landed an entry level web developer job, and gradually worked from that to more and more serious programming, changing companies a few times. At the current time P1 is a senior level programmer/architect after about 15 years in the business.

Programmer P2 got a BSCS, and a job as a programmer for a few years. P2 then went to back to school for that MS in CS, and then got a new job, and then another, and so on. Eventually, P2 is working at the same company as P1, same job title and responsibilities, also after about 15 years in the business.

P1 and P2 are doing the same job at approximately the same level of proficiency, with about the same amount of experience, and similar knowledge and ability. What's the difference?

P2 is 6 years younger and makes $15K more per year.

In my experience, knowledge gives you ability, but diplomas give you marketability. If you know now that programming is what you want to do, having both is better than just one.

For a corporate programmer, whether you go straight to the MS or get some work experience first, doesn't much matter in the long run. If a PhD and research and teaching are your future, don't wait, get degrees ASAP.
Not just free ones - 37signals has closed down a few things they could have sold. Sure, they'll let you continue to pay them to use their now-unsupported waste in some cases (BackPackIt), but I presume that will end too.
What about it simply being fair use? Scraping DRM for personal backup is well within it.
If this is a handshake deal - then doesn't the investor reply yes immediately? It would be nice if those who are more knowledgeable than I would weigh in and indicate whether these things happen in real-time. I.E. The "Handshake" deal takes place within the space of a few minutes.

g.
Zsh almost does this when using rm * :

rm /tmp/*
zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /tmp [yn]?
Exchange ActiveSync

Edit: I forgot they're turning off ActiveSync for free users later this year
You can generate and discard bytes after initialization to avoid the weak key issue as well.
Multi-hattery: startup life distilled
I looked into letting you write your Agents in sandboxed JS, but didn't end up going very far down that path. If you'd like to add a PhantomJS Agent, that'd be slick.
Hah. If you look for the animated Pixar movie "Brave" and look at the "More like Brave" section it suggests "Magic Mike" (Yeah the stripper dude movie). That algorithm needs work.
Yes, I remember that intent to contract was one of the requirements of an offer, and I remember that intent to contract is indicated by language. To quote my notes:

The second element of a valid offer requires the party who offers the proposal to intend to contract. Phrases such as “Are you interested” or “Would you give me” are words of preliminary negotiations.

Terms such as “I bid,” “I will give you,” or “My lowest price is,” show a present intention to contract and constitute valid offers.

That said, I'll take this opportunity to reiterate that I'm not a lawyer, I'm not accepted by the bar in any state, and for all I know the standards on this matter may vary by jurisdiction.

I'd simply err on the side of asking my lawyer before I started using this protocol with entrepreneurs or investors that I didn't know very well.
I don't think drop shipping is really something where there are a small set of secrets an in crowd are operating on that anyone can come along and easily replicate. So I don't think more information is really going to effect current players that much.

Without reading the guide I would assume it doesn't tell you exactly which product you should sell and guarantees that you will be able to do a deal for someone to supply you that product. That is a large part of it, not really bigger though than any startup doing a key deal with another company.

From there you face many of the same challenges as any tech startup. Functioning and easy to use technology, effective and positive ROI marketing and great customer support.
Lisp has a lot of syntax. Check out the Common Lisp Hyperspec and the syntax for DEFMACRO, DEFCLASS, LET, LABELS, LOOP, ... and others.
Why RSS still matters
If Facebook is going to integrate hashtags into its working, I also hope they'll make it easy to collect information about them through APIs. I'd like to get data from Facebook for hashtagify.me
I'll have a look ;-)
Most clientside newsreaders simply do not scale, several thousand feeds make them die. Also you want to have your rss catcher always online, so a server is a better choice - but many FOSS serverside readers are also poorly implemented, slow, missing features, bad design.

Also the extremely annoying variability of rss feeds is still not handled by many rss parsers, especially the php world misses on this. python ok with feed parser.

One more thing: waste of energy duplicating rss feeds a zillion times - just to be deleted in most cases.

Seems to be a good usecase for a cool pyramid app on a deduplicating filesystem - what are your plans for the weekend?
The cost of starting a high quality food truck ranges from
approximately $50,000 to $150,000 or more, and the process
takes several months.

The biggest cost is the truck itself. Bobby’s family bought
their truck used for $37,000.

As the first wave is joined by a second, and now third wave of food trucks in my area- a fast two year growth- I am now super excited to see many of these businesses go under- with hopes that those trucks can then be picked up by the next crew who think they have a good idea. There's a lot of +100k$ trucks around, I'm looking to see a lot of them again- just, reincarnated as new businesses.
That's admirable, but what about the answer to his question? You're giving away your secret sauce and introducing more competition into the market and lowering the barrier to entry.
CLOS is more:

(do-this-process object1 object2 .. object-n)

Like:

(collide ship1 ship2)

or

(render document1 printer1)
>DMCA circumvention clause makes many types of fair use illegal.

> If you make a personal backup by circumventing digital access controls, you are not violating copyright but you are violating the DMCA; you are committing a crime.

It looks to me like self contradicting laws then. How are such cases legally resolved i.e. when law A directly contradicts law B? Fair use says it's legal. DMCA says it's illegal. What is correct then?

And fair use is not a "defense". It's a description of lawful legal actions which aren't affected by restrictions granted in limited monopoly of copyright to begin with.
Totally agree. I created Sails to provide us a clean way of solving the problem of building large projects for our clients.
Is this question what it seems? Can gardeners really get into patent trouble from planting a seed?
Abstaining is the correct choice though. Piracy only breeds stronger and more invasive DRM and I'm personally of the mindset that no one should work for free or produce goods without compensation unless they choose to.
Apple Pushes Massive Wave of Security Updates Alongside OS X 10.8.3
EA Partners founder investing $40m in mobile developers
Why does the US get to continue uranium enrichment/building of nuclear warheads, but places like Iran are not allowed to do so?

Why is the US considered a trustworthy enough country to have control over weapons that if used would change the world in mere seconds and kill millions?
Solstice - I speak Chinese and Japanese fluently (for 25 years, and read the newspaper in either language), and have live in both countries for a total of 7 years.

China has already been caught DDOS'ing Github, during the New Years travelling period - February this year. The ostensible reason was a flaw in some "train scheduling software", at the peak travel period. That software which had a bug resided at Github. This is well documented.

I have professionally followed the China hacking phenomenon for years, and am involved in software/security - so this is not conjecture/conspiracy.

China is the worst cyber aggressor on Earth, having stolen the entire Gaia password system from Google on Christmas Day 2010, amongst many events.

The deep level of corruption in China is amongst the worst on Earth, and is unmistakeably related to the blatant, corrupt cyber attacks 攻击 on a large percentage of businesses and infrastructure worldwide.

Additionally, you do not have a monopoly on loving and defending China. I love China very much (and fight for its reputation) - one does not research and live in China for a lifetime without growing to love it.
Reminds me of my side-project that I just decided to work full time on, Process Smith https://process-smith.com
Oh nice! Can I use it (create custom agents) if I dont know any ruby?

Also I will need to intall ruby on my debian personal server.. which I'd rather avoid (I already have there python, php, perl..), but having custom IFTTT+pipes is just too tempting :)
CalDAV was the approved method for syncing Google calendars on iOS since they ended activesync support on new devices a month ago.

I'm not sure what the plan is now. Hopefully Apple will be in the approved third party list for extended CalDAV support.
How OCaml's type checker works - or what polymorphism and GC have in common
The pricing is outrageous compared to Twilio. 8 cents per text message?
What are you studying?
Where xMOOCs and Adaptive Analytics Both Fail (For Now)
Introducing MessageMe
Try LOGO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
My iPhone syncs to Google Calendar through Exchange/ActiveSync, I imagine that will still be an option.

Edit: I forgot they're turning off ActiveSync for free users later this year
I know a few companies where having a master's degree would count against you over a graduate. It really depends on the job but I'd say it most situations 1/2 years experience is better than a masters degree.
I don't think there's been any lawsuits over small-scale non-commercial infringement, but there have definitely been lawsuits against farmers regarding the propagation of patented crops.
Ask HN: What do you think of my Routing App's landing page?
A Browser For All Your Digital Assets In The Cloud - BinaryLink
BinaryLink is to files what a web browser is to websites!
If you read the comment you replied to, you would see that at least on one occasion, RPS were supplied exactly the same information by developers that they are now complaining about in the final game, seemingly because there are angry mob page views to be had from reddit by feigning indignation.
A lot of B&M restaurants, even nice ones, don't make a lot of money on the actual food. It's the wine and beverage where all the profits happen.
Well, my arguments for Cash would be:

o Physical Tokens continue to have real value beyond the ephemerality of digital data.

o A scrawled signature is both somewhat of an validation of identification, plus, it's a somewhat more concrete step than just sending an email. There is ceremony around it.

o With a bit of thought, you can create a Mini-Term sheet that can be signed/counter signed.

o Sharpie on Dollar bill is harder to modify / change - particularly if you have a number of signatures that have been built up on it.

o That multi-signed dollar bill would have a lot of potency, particularly if you are able to assemble a top-tier investment group. Suitable for framing.
Google Reader Still Drives Far More Traffic Than Google+
Not sure where you saw 8 cents. Its actually 0.8 cents and once you start scaling higher it gets cheaper.

http://plivo.com/pricing/
The Fertile Ashes of Google Reader
Not a great position to put yourself in as you are trying to launch a new startup.
This is especially ironic considering shopify does not offer dropshipping. I've had multiple people inquire about dropshipping our products but we've never been able to make it work.
> If you paid for it, you should own it

That's facially nonsense. I pay for my apartment--it doesn't mean I own it.

You pay for the specific rights you purchase. It's morally wrong to bargain for one set of rights and use a broader set.
I was a developer on the CMS in question when this happened. The possibility of this guy getting up to 10 years seems harsh.
Of course you can, but almost no one does. If people started to do it a lot, it would be just as interesting as it is with Clojure.
The difference, according to the lawyers who served as my professors, is that one is considered by the courts to show intent to contract, and that the other is considered by the courts to be negotiation.

That said, I'm just repeating what a lawyer taught me about how courts determine intent to contract. I'm not a judge or a lawyer. I'm an entrepreneur who took some business classes.

edit: I just sent an old professor an email with the question, and a prompt to try to help him remember who I am. If he responds, I'll share the response no matter what it says.
Google is extending EAS for another 6 months and msft announced they will support CalDAV and CardDAV, though this may now change:
http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archiv...
Why isn't then fair use applicable to DMCA? It's against the point of fair use - i.e. not to prevent sensible usage of the content like backups. If DMCA forbids it, fair use becomes totally useless idea. So I'd say from people's perspective - in cases of fair use DCMA should be ignored as an insane law.
Samsung UNPACKED 2013 Livestream
A link to "Plivo Blog" should probably go to blog.plivo.com. If it were a link to "Plivo" it would make sense, but how do I now browse your other blog posts?
Thanks. The mirrors were throw up quickly to handle the load and; that link that led you to the analysis area was overlooked.
Another blog, another false top-left-logo click that I thought would take me to the product.

If you can't pay attention to a detail like that, how can I expect the product itself to be any less frustrating?

Show us you're paying attention. I beg of you.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2572915

Or search for JSLinux.
Unfortunately my site works directly with embedded Hulu videos and it doesn't seem like this process can replay those videos from the cache.

I JUST dealt with bad data speeds at SXSW while demoing for @scobleizer so this would have been great for the future.
Note that plants aren't special in this regard. If you buy a computer or a car or a lamp or soda that contains unlicensed patented technology, then you're in violation of the patent and are theoretically liable for damages. (Note: not a lawyer, I could be wrong, etc.) This rarely comes up, because it's rarely worth going after individuals, but patent law is pretty broad. When you buy something that is legally licensed, you're covered because the manufacturer obtained a license that covered all users of the product, not just themselves.
If that's the case, then I'm leaving Google calendar. Apple doesn't get to pick which calendar app I use, let alone Google.
Valve is Taking Over The World
Reuters editor indicted for helping hack Tribune website
Or even Perl:

sub deriv { my $f = shift;
my $dx = 0.0001;
return sub { my $x = shift;
return ( &$f( $x + $dx ) - &$f( $x ) ) / $dx; }
}
sub cube { return $_[0] * $_[0] * $_[0]; }
print( deriv( \&cube )->( 2.0 ) );

12.0006000100226

--------

"Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in." -- Larry Wall (but see also http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/01/10PerlMyths.html#Perl_looks_...)
Congrats to the Firebase guys. They've done an amazing job making a difficult to manage technology seem magically easy to use.
Samsung Galaxy S4 has arrived