skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had reports that https://github.com/bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed runs on mobile. Here are the confirmed combos:

- iPad 4 running iOS 6.0 (10A403) with dontCheckForPositionFixedSupport: true

- iPad 4 running iOS 6.0.1 (10A523)

- iPad 1 running iOS 5.1.1 (9B206) with dontCheckForPositionFixedSupport: true

- Nexus 7 running Android 4.2.1 with dontCheckForPositionFixedSupport: true

Unfortunately, I am mobile challenged so I cannot test these out for myself.
How can I specify custom ccTLDs to check?
Exactly. Yahoo tried the "buy our way into being innovative" when they went on their Web 2.0 spending spree, picking up Delicious, Flickr and Upcoming. They systematically choked each one to death because the corporate structure/culture didn't support buying in companies that way (see EA for the same thing in games).

Marissa Mayer may be able to stave that off this time around and Yahoo may be able to buy their way into mobile, but when mobile is so hit-driven and short-term, it seems unwise to start spending money on little things like silly TL;DR apps (that you're going to shut down, anyway).

If the deal is about pushing into mobile, Yahoo needs to secure culture changers, not apps. They need to buy the Duartes and Rubensteins and Brichters, and give them full autonomy to run the mobile ship however they please. That's a longer term plan, but it pays off in actual tangible results. $100 says we never hear anything about Summly's technology again, and the kid leaves as soon as his stock vests.
BTW, Duo's android app now supports adding TOTP accounts, same as Google Authenticator does (though I'm not sure about QR code support).

Duo's app is actually better than GA by allowing rearrangement of accounts, which is a long-standing open bug in GA.
What this really underscores is that conventional capitalism provides little incentive for fundamental innovation.

I'm not as convinced as you may be, but there certainly seems to have been a decline in past decades, in terms of private funding for basic research. At one time, Bell Labs, Xerox, IBM, HP and others did quite a bit of basic, fundamental research. IBM still do, last I saw, but here's the question... if it made economic sense to fund private, basic research in the past, what has changed? WHY don't the HP's and Bell Labs, and Xerox's of the world still spend as much on research.

Note: I am, of course, talking out of my ass here, as I have no actual objective numbers to support the idea that private funding for basic research is diminishing. But, subjectively, from what I read, see reported, hear, etc., it sure seems to be the case.

All this stuff we're gluing together is the product of state-funded research, mostly from the cold war era. DARPANet, the web (CERN), DARPA research on "augmented human intelligence," etc.

That's probably true, but there is a danger in looking at the past on a macro level and saying "this means the future must be $THISWAY". The problem is, we don't know what the other outcomes could or would have been. If DARPA had not funded all of that research, we cannot say that the same innovations would not still have been developed via other sources. History, IMO, hints at conclusions, but it's hardly a definitive guide to the future.
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I've never used Summly but perhaps it would have come in handy when reading this article.
Many businesses have been built by riding on the backs of others. A good number of them have already been mentioned in the discussion here.
Many others have also tried, and failed. And have lost both time and capital in the process.

Lets not forget something here - a 17 year old kid licensed technology from SRI and then developed this app. How many 17 year old kids do you know who would even think to do something like that? It's certainly not something that ever crossed my mind as a teenager.
Obviously Yahoo sees something in him (them) that many others don't. Can't comment on whether its the right move or not, but just look at their stock price since Mayer took over.
> For 95% of the news I read, that can be done with a regexp that slices out the first sentence.

Interestingly, that seems to be what Google News does for its summaries. It works well most of the time but I've seen some screw ups. Also interesting, Mayer worked on Google News so she probably knows this topic well.
Very easy, fast and useful. Thanks. Bookmarked.

Minor misspelling on the contact link.
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> That's an incredibly outdated policy.

Indeed. Hence the question is a useful filter, to identify and avoid companies who have incredibly outdated email systems and technology policies. They won't be leading-edge in anything else either.

Similar: "What does your company use for email? Lotus Notes?" (Unless you're applying to IBM itself.)
So what he means is that the iPhone, which is essentially 'glued on' technological device, is unmarketable?
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And if there is a bad startup -- like one that looks like it's going to run away with customers' money (or at least make them panic about it) -- don't worry, they just clip out any mentions of the YC association.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428449
There is a patrol boat, but it can only cover so much ground at once.
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That's not exactly an easy or consequence-free thing to do.
What makes you think we'd a bubble in place? And if we had then what makes you think it is going to pop?
neat, announce that tomorrow again and i'll set it up :)
DashBurst Announces New Social Network and Content Marketing Platform
SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Safely Returns
What about other people's spam filters? That's the biggest problem I've heard about is being blacklisted because of being an unknown sender or on some VPS service or something like that.
I was using troff yesterday. The technology dates back to '60s and is still widely used.
My company uses lastpass to share passwords. Any passwords that is saved to the 'shared accounts' folder is automatically shared to everyone on the team.
Very neat idea. I was thinking of something like this to help me offload some of my content from MongoDB to S3 but was stuck on how to make an efficient search.
> Live Video streaming is more or less an undeveloped field there is actually already a super successful P2P live video streaming implementation called PPLive that is BIG in China

Indeed, so the situation is now for 'future of TV':

- 1+ million of users of proven technology (PPLive)

- patented technology after 5 years of dev work released (Bittorrent)

- Open Source reference implementation of open upcoming IETF Internet standard (PPSP)

> One interesting thing that Brams implementation does is actually speed up and slow down the playback of traffic depending on the latency

> This is detailed in the patent but I did not see anything similar in the ppsp protocol..

Why link the network with the codec? From an architecture viewpoint I would consider this a 'layering violation'.
For many years VLC has support for dynamic playback speed:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=50581

Why is live streaming not more popular? In my opinion due to lack of quality. If we put the average upload capacity of Internet users at 800 kbps, that is the maximum donation you get. User donations limit the bitrate and quality of the live stream. Video quality at 800 kbps is unacceptable on HD laptop displays and 1080p televisions. As Prof. Keith Ross wrote many years ago: we need upload-view decoupling (http://cis.poly.edu/~ross/papers/VUDSystemMini.pdf). For HD quality live streaming with P2P, users need to donate also bandwidth when not watching. Unfortunately, going beyond T4T is an open scientific problem.

Discaimer: I'm part of the PPSP streaming team.
Note that -02 is outdated, latest: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protocol-06

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Exactly. By this same logic, anyone who bought a Babe Ruth baseball card in 1933 for pennies is the winner in terms of percentage of delayed value increase:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1933-Goudey-149-Babe-Ruth-PSA-8-NM-M...
> Writing things down on paper is also painful

Training helps here definitely.

> You can also see more of it at one time.

And this is probably the most important property of paper to me. You can have five to six full A4 pages easily visible, which, with appropriate handwriting, cover the content of ten to twelve 1.5 x 3 m² blackboard or God-knows-how-many notebook displays.
Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft
"Try dragging the pin around to explore different locations on the map"

I'm not sure whether this is misleading or broken, but on Chrome 25, attempting to drag the pin on the image below this just pulls the whole image.

Also, on the real thing, I can't seem to drag the globe around, and moving the pin doesn't recentre the globe.
There is a lot of reading between the lines that needs to be done with this article:

> It's already a reality in Denmark, Sweden and Spain.

This is roughly equivalent to saying: "New York, New Jersey, and Louisiana already do it, why not the whole country? Lobbying must be to blame!"

> William Gale, co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

So the left agrees with it, I wonder what the right thinks?

> Conservative tax activist Grover Norquist

Now things are getting interesting.

> opposes IRS government tax preparation.
> allowing the IRS to act as a tax preparer could result in taxpayers paying more money
> calling return-free filing a "massive expansion of the U.S. government through a big government program."

> In 2005, Norquist testified before the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform arguing against return-free filing. The next year, Norquist and others wrote in a letter to President Bush that getting an official-looking "bill" from the IRS could be "extremely intimidating, particularly for seniors, low-income and non-English speaking citizens."

> The letter says the IRS wants to "socialize all tax preparation in America" to get higher tax revenues.

> A year after Norquist wrote Bush, a bill to limit return-free filing was introduced by a pair of unlikely allies: Reps. Eric Cantor, R-Va., the conservative House majority leader

The article says Intuit spent $11.5 million lobbying in the last five years (which in the U.S. is table scraps--see $30 million paid by Yahoo! for Summly).

What is really more likely here. That Intuit has managed to buy the government for $2 million a year, or instead that they've successfully hit on a message (free tax filing = government takeover of return preparation) that resonates with rightists and billionaires who have good reason to not want the IRS to have any part in tax return preparation, not to mention ideologues who see simpler tax filing as a slippery slope to making it easier for the government to raise taxes without push-back (on the theory that citizens are more likely to push back against taxes if they are forced to face the numbers every April).
The iPod Touch 4th gen with Retina is only $199
That article was way too long to read on my device. A summary, 1/8 of the length, would have given me all of the necessary information.
Fivetran looks very cool, although I'm only worried that it's web based tool.

Advanced Excel / SPPS/ Matlab is used by professionals, who want very fast and responsive, something that is hard to replicate in web based app.

I wish them good luck though!
It's 3 years generally, 6 years for fraud, and infinite if you don't file. (IANALTAX, of course)
Thanks for the great feature request! Will work on that.
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Group Texting Pro (https://itunes.apple.com/app/group-texting-pro/id377826384)

I released it in June 2010 and have made over $10k after Apple's cut. My best month was just about $1k (Oct 2011)

The download counts decreased significantly after the iOS6 / app discovery changes came out. The app is 6th when you search for 'Group Texting' -- I think not having the 'list view' search result really hurt the downloads.

Nonetheless, I'm happy with it's limited success - it didn't take long to build and it's fun / rewarding to have happy users. I wrote a post about it here: (http://mattstockton.com/2012/12/05/why-my-crappy-looking-iph...)

I have 5 other apps in the store. None of those make over $200 a year
yeah the algo looked like it was just highly leveraged version of the benchmark. The benchmark, which you can get a better look at if you remove the algos chart looks a lot like SPX or some other US index (at least when you eyeball it).
I would like to see this run against 2008s market and see what would happen.
I'll definitely give it a shot as I've become a fairly heavy Evernote user and the templates look great. The problem is most of what I post to Evernote is typically in the form of short notes, ideas, lists, bullet points or anything that I've typically "notepaded" in the past. In other words, nothing that would be considered "blog-worthy" out of the box. (edit: maybe Tweet-worthy?) So I would have to flesh out these thoughts into something worth reading on this platform the same way I do now with any notes I compile: in a word processor.

(Note that I have no idea whether my habits fit the typical Evernote use case but I figured I'd throw it out there even if I'm my own cohort.)
I didn't see any sarcasm about that; through the rest of the essay he seemed to continue to take at face value that Yahoo's management is doing what they think right for Yahoo. The summly acquisition being some sort of self-dealing fraud would contradict his entire point.
What we can learn from the Summly acquihire
Look at it this way: that first retina screen costs $100 million or so (I pull numbers out of thin air here, so please don't comment on such details) because you need to build the factory. After that, the first million or so cost $300 each because yield is low. In due time, the guys running the machinery get a feeling for how to run it most efficiently and technicians remove some observed problems. So, over time, production cost drops to $100 or so.

You can't price that first one at $100 million, so you have to spread that cost out.

You want to ask $300+ each from that first million, though, because a) if you were to lower price, demand would rise, and you do not want to invest too much in first-generation machinery that you expect to be imperfect, b) you want that $100 million back as fast as possible, and c) you do not know over how many devices you can spread your investment. Your competitor might come out with a 3D screen a year after your production started or two weeks after it.

So, if the market can bear it, you increase prices. Also, retina displays will likely get dirt-cheap over time. The only thing stopping that would be if we hit some technological limit, as sort-of happened with desktop CPU's for the past few years.
Wow! Great work. If I had a request, it would be to support more exotic TLDs and other registrars--but it's amazingly useful as-is. The price comparison is killer; I had no idea I could register a .TV domain for 10 bucks. I'll definitely be using this.

Is your VPS doing the DNS lookup, or is that client side? If it's done on your server, I would suggest that the site preview feature could be made click-activation rather than automatic. It's already pretty slow to load, and I would be just as happy with a link to open an unavailable domain in a new window. Basically, if the preview slows down the domain availability lookup, I think it should be pushed to a lower priority.

Overall, very slick! Congrats on a successful side-project.
The skills are common here, not in general, and $15MM (total, not per year) is a cost of purchasing the assembled infrastructure, not the idea and potential to build. I don't think this is a wise expenditure, but you're attacking it from a poor angle.
SV mentality.

Dwolla is too good for my 75k? Good for them. Companies like BofA, Walmart, GE, and literally thousands of other companies would love to take that money and put it to use. Only in the upside down world of SV would you have to be somebody to have your investment accepted.

As far as the prediction market, it would be useless with play money. Skin in the game is what drives efficiency.
Neat and I love the name! Who said elephants can't be agile & fast?
I wonder why one would want to retrieve Voyager.

1) I think Larry Niven (who, among other things, invented a race a spare-faring carnivores called the Kzinti) once described the Voyager plaque (the one with the naked man and woman) as a "galactic 'eat here' sign."

2) Prevent it from returning as V'ger.

3) Keep the Klingons from shooting it. Though it seems to me that in the 2200s it would still be deep in Federation space, where Klingon disruptor fire might be detectable and unwelcome. Of course, with FTL ships, it would have been trivial to recover once detected.
I intentionally avoided the striped raster look. I didn't want to replicate the vintage IBM look, but rather imagine what a 3278 terminal would look if built with today's technology and 60's design.
Libertarian paternalism is a thing, even if GP probably doesn't know what it is. It's actually interesting to learn a bit more about, since it's effective as a political-philosophical position, even if it's got holes as much as any other position.

If you get a libertarian paternalist who really doesn't know what he's talking about, you can easily watch him justify totalitarianism in the name of freedom. It's horrifying.
Or users will correct the behavior by avoiding obnoxious sites.
I personally don't mind unread counts. That aspect really depends on the way you use it.

I used to have a ton of unread items sitting in the feed reader; now everything is either immediately discarded or immediately shunted into Pocket. (A good phone interface for me might be: swipe left = discard, swipe right = send to view-later service of choice and discard. Fast!)

Of course, that means I now have a ton of unread stuff sitting in Pocket. So I think services in that category could benefit from this kind of scoring too. I can see my Pocket stuff in reverse chronological order. I'd love a really intelligent, adaptive “sort by magic” for that big bucket.

You suggested using HN as a source. That's absolutely along the lines I'm thinking. It's like this: every site can be a source of stories, but every site should also be a potential source of scoring signals for stories -- either its own or elsewhere.
the exchanges start to pay you rather than the other way around

Most US equities exchanges only pay if you post resting orders (adding liquidity / market making). You pay a fee for removing liquidity (market orders). I think you are actually talking about internal matching at the broker here?
The benchmark on Quantopian is indeed modeled after the S&P 500.

How would the algo do in 2008? It's trivial for you to check it yourself. Click the "clone algo" button, change the time range of the test, and click "Run Backtest." Question answered!
>But what about a scenario in which for 30-50 million Americans file for their taxes by sending a SMS (as it's apparently done in Scandinavian countries)? And all the other taxpayers, they're wondering: "Why the f-ck can't my taxes be that easy??"

How does your independent consultancy cram all of its income and expenditure items into an SMS?

Less snark version: the main cause of complicated tax code is needing to have rules about how much you can deduct for an expense when determining net income (for entities taxed by net rather than gross income, like corporations and independent contractors), not from special credits or varying rate schedules.

That problem, in turn, is amplified by the size of the taxes, which gives people an incentive to abuse whatever leeway is given by the deduction rules, forcing them to be more precise, leading tax experts to abuse the new language, and so on.

Btw, just did my taxes. Did you know that the cost of classes to change your career or improve earnings isn't deductible unless it's from an institution on an approved list?
Unless I'm mistaken, it's using ElasticSearch, not S3. It's, effectively, a niche ElasticSearch API tailored to key/value storage.
Well - it probably has to do with the fact that the site was featured on awwwards.com and a few other CSS-gallery type sites. Not 100% sure, though; the attention comes from all over the place.
http://internetbs.net. Cheap, generally intuitive user interface, and no problems in the 3 odd years I've been using them.
If someone really came up with some fool proof method of beating the market, wouldn't they keep it secret?

Meanwhile, most folks should stick to asset class allocation and indexed funds and ETFs.
I am of course preparing for the downvotes but the first two
companies to me proffer the future of tech start ups.

Wevorce I really had to double check to be sure I was not reading an extended parody of the HN front page. Try saying "tech-powered standard for civilised divorce" without hearing Jon Stewart.

Then airware, already trying to turn UAVs into a app platform - UAVs are a big open frontier - but a hardware led one.

One company that is browser only - and is filling in the gaps left over from Web 1.0 and 2.0. And one that is driven by hardware. And while I cannot comment on the company- boy are they in a growth industry

I suppose I am saying that way back when, connecting the virtual to the physical was simple - music, text, video.
We have taken the already connected and transformed it

Now we need to provide the connection to the physical as well as the application to drive the next generation - which means the next big waves need to come with dongles. Pycon beware.
Well, after the two years, you're T-Mobile bill goes down by ~$20/line a month while your bill on the other carriers stay the same.

This assumes, of course, that you don't buy a new phone and start the process all over again.
Extremely clean api and C++ code. Code in C++ or Lua (http://polycode.org/features/). Editor base like Unity (albeit still just 2D support). Simplified interface and nice looking coding environment using powerful languages for gamedev. This is off to an excellent start.

Very Unity like look and feel but with the added open source and deeper C++ access that is still required in games. In Unity you can build plugins for each platform like I am sure you would need for extra libs here.
I challenged the adjustments to one of my returns and the most difficult part for me was finding a damn fax machine while I was on hold with a very helpful woman at the IRS. In the end they admitted they made a mistake (to their credit, an understandable one) in saying that I made a mistake and I lost a total of maybe an hour or two of my time.
The whole GOPATH thing, pretty much requiring that you maintain a local tree with symlinks.

I use make for this:

GOPATH := ${GOPATH}:${PWD}

all: always

always:
@go build -v myprogram

deps:
go get github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
go get code.google.com/p/gorilla/context
go get code.google.com/p/gorilla/mux

fmt:
go fmt package1 package2

docs:
godoc -http=:6060 &
Greenlight is still a vetting process, just with a different mechanism. Suggesting that anyone can just get their game on Steam is flat out wrong. Really well made and polished games (see: Midnight Mansion from ActionSoft) fail to get noticed through either process all the time.

I have nothing to do with this service but I find it definitely compelling. Indie Game Stand only features one new game every four days (so even if you're accepted you likely have to wait to launch.) As for Desura, that looks like another good option, but is still quite a bit more involved.

If I made a game (a 48 Lundum Dare game like in the example page, for instance) and just wanted a way to put it out there immediately with little effort and no need to join a community or anything, itchio provides that option. That's what is compelling.