skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How does a non-hacker get into a start-up?
I'm not a hacker, I'm just someone who is really enthusiastic about technology! I used to be a program director in a nonprofit doing things like marketing, training, recruitment/selection, grantwriting, strategy. Where can I fit in a start-up environment, B2C or content - and how do I get gain some more "street cred" to prove my mettle? Thanks!
I'd suggest banning the account:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sinu9i
I doubt if this makes the blog popular. It would just give the blog a bit of linkjuice, other than that I dont think anything gets achieved by posting such tutorials here.
I tried Linux but I had to type commands! […] typing a few strange words won't kill you.

The author’s got this wrong. I’d have quite a lot of pennies if I got a penny for every time I saw someone on a message board suggest “Type 'sudo...'”. The command line and sudo are dangerous, and we shouldn’t be suggesting that people have to use it as part of their day to day process.
Apple has a top-N list for songs, albums, audiobooks, movies, tv shows, etc. on the front page of the itunes store. How is advertising questionable material in those lists any different than advertising apps with questionable content?
The iPhone has a web browser! Welcome to the world of webapps. Where you can run anything you like. Much of it is even free!
Toyota Kirloskar to slash investment on small car
I still think this lacks any degree of real clarity, although I admit that it looks like it does. At best I might use the trend graphs as an starting point from which to interrogate the qualitative data (comments).

One major problem is the need to click through to the detail page to see these charts, this doesn't lend itself to easy decision making on the fly. However, the real issue is that even when you do click through, it doesn't show probably another important metric by which to judge: volume of votes over time. If you were to add that into the equation and suddenly the user has 3 charts per venue to interrogate to establish the reliability of the initial score out of 5.

I think that's a reasonably big ask for someone who just wants to know where's to get a decent Kung Pao chicken around here.
How to earn money with Facebook applications?
Facebook offers a tremendous opportunity for those who are looking forward to earn money online. A lot of people in the past few years have earned a lot through Facebook applications by just using some simple strategies; the most important and vital one being making their Facebook applications viral and focused. The term viral application is a strategically term referring to applications that are very catchy and easy to use making the user addicted to it. This is the reason why the most successful and widely used applications on Facebook today usually are games, quizzes and planners.

‘Scrabulous’ is could be named as one good example of a viral application. It is a version of the traditional board game scrabble having more than a million users monthly.

The question which yet needs to be answered is how do you actually earn money through a Facebook application? Well, it’s quite simple! All you need to do is to get a viral application developed by us and make it popular amongst Facebook users. Once your application is popular and is getting quite a lot of users everyday then you can either display ads on it or simply sell it to the big guns who are looking for buying applications that are popular.

Making your Facebook application climb all the way to the acme of success and popularity, it is very important that your Facebook application should bear the following attributes:

* Easy to use

* Easy to Understand

* VIRAL

* Non Technical and light enough to load easily.
Dear Mozilla community: I screwed up. Big time.
This reminds me of a story I recently heard from my friend, a fitness nut. He recently coached a middle school girls soccer team for some odd reason. They weren't the best players in the world to say the least. He said that they tried all sorts of excuses to get out of playing, but he was too quick witted and the girls came to enjoy his sense of humor while simultaneously fearing mild humiliation.

He was upfront with these girls, telling them that they didn't stand a chance against the more experienced teams unless they were better conditioned. Every time any one of them failed, they all ran a punishment lap together. Every time they succeeded, they ran a victory lap together. Every time one of them couldn't keep up, they did another lap to have an opportunity to succeed together. He ran every lap with them. They spent far more time running than playing soccer; they came to enjoy it.

The team won second place in the division. A significant portion of their victories were record comebacks because the opposing teams simply couldn't keep up the momentum. They were beaten only by a team who was both well conditioned and technically strong, but it was a close match.
Jaiku or Laconi.ca?
Looking to use microblogging tool for a large scale instance. After spending a couple of days evaluating them I havent been able to figure out which one to use..

Laconi.ca
- Its PHP based.
- Partial XMPP support

Pros
- Supported by a good number of clients include mobile
- Supports OpenMicroBlogging (OMB)
- API is similar to twitter's
- federation support
Cons
- GNU Affero license ( would have release all UI changes as well)
- Creative Commons Attribution for all msgs. AGG
- UI sucks & looks amateurish

Jaiku
- Python based
- Not sure about the XMPP support
Pros
- Licensing is Apache based
- Pretty good UI
Cons
- Not a open standard
- wont work with all or most twitter clients
- No federation support

Anyone have thoughts about this? Any pointers to feature comparison.

Both seem to be in active development, but neither is perfect!

Thoughts or Pointers pls?
That's a stressful 4 minutes arguing with someone on the phone, while trying to avoid the annoyed glares of the line behind you, that I'd rather not spend.
Probably http://www.harris.com ; I think they're the Harris Semiconductor, makers of analog electronics, whom I asked for a couple of chip samples many moons ago. They were nice enough to send them (international mail), and I built and demoed my prototype.

Thank you, Harris.
A quick trawl through http://addons.mozilla.org/ threw up these:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9931
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11077
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9144

I’ve no idea about their respective quality as I don’t speak Chinese, sorry.
As to why I personally supplied such a detailed response; it's mostly an opportunity to procrastinate by trying to change some minds regarding an issue important to me instead of working on something I've been avoiding.

We're all more alike than we are different around here, aren't we? I've been working on, and not enjoying, some PHP code all weekend long. Procrastination is the mother of silly arguments on the Internets, it seems.
Neat. I'm addicted to vim partly because of its great and very flexible folds. For example, you can completely rewrite the way folds look. I like my folded code to look like its first line would normally look, without any dashes, preserving indentation. So I just rewrote the function (here's a blog post about it: http://a-dimit.blogspot.com/2008/07/folding-in-vim.html)

It really rocks :-)
I've got `zo` remapped to space. Or, more precisely:

nmap <space> za
vmap <space> zf
Facebook Accessibility Project
I agree advanced statistical analysis is not suited to these types of sites as the requirement on the user is such that the response rate would be virtually nil.

But the point is that while the 5-star system initially looks and feels like it's offering some real data with which to evaluate a bar/restaurant, the reality is that the data need advanced interpretation to come even close to being meaningful not to mind useful.

There's probably not a perfect system out there but I'm pretty sure that other models would be more "honest" at least.
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Ask HN: what do you think of my new blog
I'm starting a new blog (http://codeinput.com) I want your suggestions and you ideas about

* The blog template and header

* What the blog posts need to focus on (what is more interesting)

* Is the blog domain name good and memorable?

* Do you have any other suggestions or idea that can help

Thanks, I need your ideas to get me started
Why would Jaiku being Python-based be considered a con?

If I have a choice between working in PHP or Python, all other things being equal, I'm certain PHP would never be my choice.
Learn to hack? At least a bit. That'll give you a bit of street cred.

In the early stages you need to be able to quickly 'muck in'. Learn some linux sysadmin, apache setup, email setup, html/php/mysql etc It'll certainly come in useful.
Oops, didnt mean for it to be a con. The text box to type into was rather small and hence the typo.

I agree with you. We would pick python over php.
There is room for fund-raising and marketing at start-ups. If you think you can help start-ups with your skill set, apply for appropriate jobs, and try and network with the industry you want to work in.

Or you can start writing some code, and see what happens. Do you have a website?
Do really exists any Java App Engine -based web out there? I'd love to have a look.
While I don't think it's a major reason not buy an iPhone, it is actually a fairly big problem. I know of at least 3 high profile apps that have been rejected due to "objectionable content" which was nothing more than a few swear words on content loaded from the web.

My problem, aside from the censorship in the first place, is that they don't follow the same standards in their own apps. Search the YouTube app for any swear word and it will happily give you all the swearing you can handle.
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This has been done to death:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+b...

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+i...

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+n...

And a dozen variations on the theme.

Edit: The link filter is stripping the quotes off of those terms. They need quotes or they're a bit too off-target (SearchYC.com also seems to refuse to recognize quotes for phrases, which is why I never link to it. Weird and annoying.)
I have made the correction.
If you don't think hacking is appropriate, then learn the business side. If you can take a bunch of hackers with a good idea and figure out how to turn that into a business and money then you shouldn't have much of a problem. Any coding types worth working with will know that there are "business-y things" that they're better off not doing and will eventually wish they had someone to pick that stuff up.
The web browser is un-censored. That's pretty much all that matters in this day+age.
Good analysis, and it real get to the nub of the article: the difference between the perception of making a good decision based on the available data and how it's presented versus the reality of the decision making process.

What I'm proposing isn't new or revolutionary - it's simply that we need a more honest appraisal system - something that everyone can understand not just think they understand because it's presented in a familiar and reassuring format (5 stars).
Netbooks 2.0, with ARM processors
Although the software giant declined to comment when asked if it is planning an operating system for the new netbooks, analysts say it could easily enter the market if it chose.

Analysts are idiots. Microsoft could bring Windows Mobile (the mobile OS that pretty much everyone, including Windows fans, agrees sucks) to Atom "easily". But could it bring Vista or Windows 7 or even XP? Probably not easily, and probably not cheaply enough for Microsoft to consider it worth doing, since it would cannibalize their higher margin full laptop and desktop license sales. Linux, on the other hand, can be on these devices easily, in the form of Android, or one of the netbook targeted full-featured distros. The innovator's dilemma strikes again.
Would have been much simpler to just serve ads from your own domain, or through a proxy etc to thwart adblock, without the need for any client side shenanigans.
Hentai Flash Games
A few of my favorite games in this niche.
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Thanks! And thanks for the laugh!

I totally agree about NumPy and SciPy, but that doesn't mean the glue between these parts should not be optimized! Lots of uses of Python involve modules made of native code, and we do not have the pretension to eliminate them from one day to the next. Quite the opposite: we want to make sure both worlds work well together, and empower people to do more ambitious things on top of these concrete (in both senses of the word) foundations.

Another variation: let's say you have a large application written in C/C++ and want to provide a dynamic language for scripting/extensibility (think expert systems or CAD, where extensive customization is necessary). Not only can we provide recommendations and do the integration work for you (we're a services company), but we can sprinkle the whole thing with a bit of customized magic which will give the “interpreter” an intimate knowledge of your domain objects, removing the “speed hit” barrier and opening new possibilities.

Which brings me to your question: what CrossTwine Linker does is look at the objects, functions and modules involved in a scenario, and try to weave the fast paths together so that little dynamism is left; i.e., it ties “objects” together with a native code “thread.” That napkin drawing looked awfully like a ball of twine, we needed a name, and it seemed to be the only domain on the Internet which had not been judiciously “parked.”
Simplified Chinese characters are ugly and ridiculous, I am in China and I prefer to read and write in traditional Chinese.
Have cash or the ability to get it. That's what all those other activities you mentioned really mean.
What do you think of Interactive EBook?
Hi,

I have an idea of interactive ebook which allows you to interact with the book you are reading with following features -

1. Make notes on ebook page and see other user's notes.
2. Mark/highlight parts of ebook content.
3. Both highlighted content and notes are searchable.
4. Add dynamic behaviour to pages. For ex., if the book is about Java, allow snippets of code to be executed from the book itself. Also you can edit the code and execute the changed code and see the output.

Is anybody interested reading such an ebook?

Thanks
-- pkc
I'm a benelux user and I only log in in one country ;)
> I'd like a rack in the UK or eastern europe.

And they will be welcome!
Yes! We produce one with a dictionary of over 200,000 terms. This is the largest and highest quality dictionary available.

http://popupchinese.com/tools/plugin

Additional Controls:

1. Highlight new words to add them to your dictionary.

2. Hit "A" to add any word to your online vocabulary list.

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4. Highlight longer passages and hit "G" for the Google translation.
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Yes but that's NOT the issue were discussing here is it. You take steps to hide the algorithm from as many people as possible etc. It's not that hard to do.

Finally in a RL scenario I would use the password itself to generate the rotation schema. Provided you required at least 6 characters from your users and a least one number then you can quite fairly combat the brute force approach. The way to do this is to generate a completely random salt and then use the password to create a scheme to rotate the salt into the password. Then hash the result and use the known pattern & the password to generate another scheme to rotate the salt into the hash.

The advantage of this is that even if you have a the hash you cant just pull the hash out of the string and append the salt onto every password in your list & then hash it. You have to reverse engineer the salted hash for EVERY password substantially adding to your decryption time. Because the salt is also pseudo-randomly generated it also means that you have to attack every password in this way - you cant pre-generate all the possible hashes and test them because I have basically ignored what the user has entered and increased the keyspace up to around 8e+24. Even the brute force mechanism has a hurdle to overcome because the keyspace assuming an 8 char password is 2821109907456. (there are yet other steps to take to overcome the dictionary style attack)

Add in the requirement for the user to enter at least 8 characters at least one of which is a number and your making it a VERY bad day for a would be cracker :)
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"now I realize that the general security of the Mozilla extensibility system is being questioned because of this incident. Believe me: I didn’t even considered such a fallout as a remote risk."

I would consider that a positive thing. His hack didn't make Mozilla any less secure, it just exposed an existing insecurity.
Wow. That's a display of humility and responsibility you just don't see very often. Though the original conflict was avoidable and unnecessary, an apology like this - for anything - shows real character. Kudos.
Yes, but there's the argument that the browser doesn't directly help you discover content, whereas YouTube app does.
It's sad that Apple can get away with this. Somehow competition is not working like it should in this market.
Yeah, I was thinking about doing this. Starting off with a community college class or two this summer.
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Well, a lot of the requested changes now require a re-write. And I don't have time for it, unless a project comes along and requires just that. I am not sure what to do about it other than hope someone would help.
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I don't have a website, just a Posterous blog that doesn't seem relevant to post here. I've created a couple WP blogs and helped out a lot with site design/content for past work roles. It's a great idea to try and do my own thing, if only to at least learn while doing. Thanks.
Fred Wilson: The End of the IPO Drought is Coming
The blocks, I believe, basically disabled most of his site period.

I know I visited it late in the afternoon when I heard there was a load of issues and had trobule navigating - and certainly could not install NoScript from the site (oh, obv this is with ABP and Easylist2 installed)
Good point, It is a parallel to the arms race between colas and EXTREME energy drinks. Every description needs to be turned to "11".
I wish all apologies were so engaging. Great post.
He removes ads from other sites (ads that are used to generate revenue) and yet he uses ads to generate his own revenue. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Can you change everything?
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wannabetechgeek, that's truly the best advice you can get. You may think that being a business guy you will easily find hackers to build your idea for equity, but that's just not the case unless you have a lot of hacker connections and an evidently good idea.

I'm a bachelor in economics, but I've learned to use PHP/MySQL/apache/nginx/etc because I need it to build my web analytics app, and because I could not persuade anyone that "competing with Google Analytics" can be a good idea.
Sorry. I didn't mean to seem harsh. Quick jumps can be very hard on some people. 340k to 150k is very big. But I do think these are more end cases then it seems. The point to note is this:

I" want to sell that house and move somewhere else."

In the majority of cases, people want to buy at a higher price. Even if they want to buy a cheaper house, you lose the difference between the house prices at the time you buy, the price at the time you sell (buy again), times the rate at which house prices fell. Say you go from a 300k house to a 200k house after a 25% fall (big numbers), you "lose" $25k. If you move to a more expensive house, you "win."

If your house is under water, you are in no worse a situation really then if prices hadn't crashed. You still have the same mortgage.

When you buy a house you lock in your housing costs.
NoScript's purpose is not to block ads. It blocks javascript, which happens to block some ads if they are not whitelisted (Google ads are whitelitsted by default).
That looks pretty cool, thanks for pointing it out.

It's certainly got a lot of what I had in mind although I think it would be more fun to make it a little more advanced. I can imagine it being aimed at more experienced programmers with the operunity to do all sorts of cool stuff like computer vision.
Is Minix actually used for embedded stuff like that? I thought it was mostly used for teaching OS stuff.

It does have very clear, easy to read code. I once needed a floppy driver for the eCos operating system, and Minix's was way easier to read than Linux & the BSDs', probably because it doesn't try and do everything for everyone.
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What programming languages will be popular 5 years from now?
See what other people had to say and share your opinion by commenting on the blog post!

Have a great Monday ^_^
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Don't be shy! Share your opinions :)

I posted my on the blog post.
Included to make it a link:
http://codeinput.com

Didn't you post pretty much exactly this a few days ago?

(quick search) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583009