skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I find it awkward and unnatural to search for a co-founder. It's comparable to searching for a wife. Well...you kind of need a girlfriend first. Put another way, hire a web developer, which honestly it doesn't even look like you need yet, grow a relationship with that person(s) and work them into a co-founding position if the opportunity presents itself. From reading the info you've posted I'm really confused as to why you need a co-founding web developer so bad that you've yet to put anything on the web. That may be deterring people away.
> the users are taste makers of the internet

Funniest thing I've read this week, thanks.

Redditors may be the tastemakers of a small incredibly self-referential corner of the Internet, but have approximately zero influence on the Internet that everyone else uses.

Of course, if you're considering advertising on reddit, then I assume your target market has significant overlap with the reddit userbase (in which case the risk isn't that redditors are tastemakers, it's that they are prone to incredibly catchy herd cynicism).
Totally depends on what you're marketing. For example, if you're marketing to a city. You don't need 50,000 subscribers.

For example, I get calls from all the social scene of Lyon (France) because I own a page with only 4k fans (+ a website). Only students. And that's enough already to advertise.
Why? I don't think it's encrypted in such a way that Google can't read it. References?

I don't think you can trust Google with your chat and docs as well.

From:http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/google-spy/

>Google acknowledged Wednesday that two employees have been terminated after being caught in separate incidents allegedly spying on user e-mails and chats.

>David Barksdale, 27, was fired in July after he reportedly accessed the communications of at least four minors with Google accounts, spying on Google Voice call logs, chat transcripts and contact lists, according to Gawker, which broke the story Wednesday.

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...
It does look unprofessional. I wonder if this is a tactic to show how easy they are to get in touch with? Like "easy advertising".
Australia is similar in the regard, except the Federal government covers part of the full course cost, the rest being covered by a CPI indexed loan (HECS) which needs to be paid back once employment income exceeds $38k per year (taken from tax refunds -- we have tax deducted every payday).

That said, a typical university student will accumulate $9000 a year of HECS debt.

And yet Universities continue to cry poor, cutting student services and teaching staff, despite increased revenues from full fee paying international students over the past decade.

I'm perplexed as to why this is.

Edit: Just found this: http://www.nteu.org.au/library/view/id/3828 --
RMIT University spent $8.2 million on 19 "senior executive and council members".
That's ~$431k a head, or according to the Union "125 HEW 6 academic staff."
Yes, I'll make sure to tell users to share the link over a secure channel, or to verify each other's IDs. So, even if a bot does join, it ostensibly won't MITM the intended recipient when they say "my ID is ZXCV-BNMA", so you can still tell if the recipient is in.

Obviously it's not going to be secure against coordinated attacks by governments (which I will also make clear), but my intention is to have it be secure enough for 99% of people while being easy to use. It'll at least be more secure than Dropbox/Box/Skype/whatever, which aren't secure in the slightest.

Mega, for example, might be secure, but I haven't personally seen their implementation, don't trust them not to implement any backdoors, and don't trust them not to change it. I'm aiming to make mine as small as possible, so you can verify it at pretty much a glance.
>Their hybrid peer-to-peer/client–server implementation allows for eavesdropping. This is now confirmed to be in practice.

Is it possible that the communication itself is OTR, but the Skype client receiving the message sends only the URLs to the server?
Where did you get that? It says on the slide that the average time is 20 minutes.
An alternative perspective - for people that travel a lot, that 300 grams (.6 pounds) - is a deal breaker. Also, you really have to be a power user to need more than a MacBook Air can give you in terms of performance - my 2010 4GB 256 GB SSD MBair is plenty fast for me, and I'm probably pushing it harder than 95% of "road warriors" do.

It may be the case that people value the mobility so much that Apple isn't dropping the price on the MacBook Air. (Or, alternatively, people are no longer buying the heavier MacBook Pro, so they've dropped it's price.)
Good Products Are Viable On A Single Platform
In my experience, it's fairly trivial to create a library binding so you can use ObjC library in C#. They even released a tool that generates bindings by header files, called ObjectiveSharpie.
Then they fix the bug in the REST API and move on? A HEAD causing damage is a bug.
I don't see this getting that much traction. Most existing PHP code is heavily dedicated to the use of SQL, and if you don't use the key-value datastore you give up a lot of the scaling advantages of appengine.

Secondly, PHP devs and sites are used to very affordable hosting options, and GAE is horribly overpriced for the computing power you get.

Thirdly, Google doesn't really seem to care about customers of their AppEngine platform. App Engine Java routinely routes clients to new VMs that are not finished starting up, giving clients 5-15 sec delays on page loads. Google's response to this was to give a lecture at I/O 2013 on how to hard code configurations into your java code [1]. Basically, if you thought Heroku did a poor job of load balancing, Google App Engine takes the cake for terrible load balancing.

I really don't know who Google is trying to target with GAE - they seem to be trying to cater to bloggers, small startups, and enterprise all at once. This pretty much just gives everyone the worst of all worlds with bloggers getting a system that is very complex, small startups getting excessive costs as soon as any processing is involved, and enterprise getting a system that will likely fall out from under them in 5-10 years time.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic...
23andMe's genotyping patent
Yes that's a great suggestion, I will make the changes asap.

Which one or two features do you think i should make totally compelling?
As the parent of a college freshman, let me say that this is one significant reason we've relocated to Budapest. (Not that this would be a help to most, as our daughter is bilingual in Hungarian.)
I was in MOMA in Glasgow a few years ago - back when it used to have cool stuff - and there was an installation in the basement, part of which was a running turntable with the needle stuck in the locked groove at the end. The record was - of course - Unknown Pleasures, and in a pleasing symmetry I was wearing my T-Shirt with the pulsar image on it.
This is almost entirely FUD, and 'the card readers rarely function adequately if at all' is just plain untrue. What makes you say the readers don't work? Personal experience?

I've seen a broken screen on a contactless reader once, however I've also seen lots of broken Chip and Pin readers -- doesn't make the system faulty.

All contactless systems I've seen are either built-in to the same unit as the Chip and Pin device (which has a display) -- or a separate reader, which also has a display. Both clearly state when payment has been requested, and how much you are being charged. The problem of '[..] or even whether you are paying the bill of the correct till.' is rarely ever a problem at all. With the vast, vast, vast majority of readers, it's instantly obvious which reader you should use (because it's right in front of you!).
Besides, if it's not immediately 100% obvious which reader you should use, the cashier will point it out to you, but again, this 'problem' is not a regression on chip and pin, which suffers from this.

Contactless payment is a hugely popular choice of payment in central London. Take a look at a Pret or Eat (or indeed, M&S) at lunchtime. Consumers aren't in the least bit scared about contactless, nor do they 'express fear'. Everyone I've spoken to about contactless has absolutely loved it. It's unbelievably convenient for consumers and a huge win for businesses too.

Agree with the interference though, that is annoying. That said, anyone with any sense doesn't keep their Oyster in their wallet :). Having to hold your wallet out in your hand and place it on the sensor is just asking for someone to grab your wallet (keep oyster in separate pocket during journey, replace during wallet upon arrival at destination).
Who is Steve Holden, and what did he do?

Also, what is BubbleConf, and why haven't the disinvited Zed Shaw? Curious.
Try to thinks about the whole class of editors defined by Textmate, Sublime Text and E-TextEditor. It's mainly about offering all the features of something like Notepad++ (easy to use menus and settings, arbitrary multiple cursors, support for easy to use plugins without touching config files), plus:

- offering that unnamed aesthetic quality of "UX flow" (ie. try looking form something in Notepad++'s settings panes - Eclipse will seem nice and clean in comparison!)

- being cross platform and easily runnable from a memory stick

- having what feels like "no learning curve" - you can basically move from Eclipse or VS and be productive in Sublime Text from second 0, and achieve enough productivity to actually be in "coding flow" after just 1hr spent learning the shortcuts and hunting for needed plugins

- following the "don't make me think!" philosophy: this basically restates the first and the previous points and captures in one sense the "unnamed quality" that this class of editors aspires to. I you want to understand "the zen" of this, think of the multiple cursors workflow where you'd catr+click 3 different places and start typing and the alternative would be doing a regex-based search and replace on a selection (or a bloody copy paste to the 2nd and 3rd location, I know... but pretend you didn't think of this :) ), but his would actually require you to "think" about what you are doing, therefore breaking the "don't make me think" philosophy.

...all I've said above has many holes, but I understand the appeal of Sublime Text (and I actually use it - it's my favorite tool for editing plain text files, yaml files or html/js/php soup). Though, for real work, nothing beats a decent IDE with a good Vim emulation plugin :)
No apology necessary - I find it feels weird to name people unless they're already part of the conversation.
I got an RF-blocking card that you can put in your current wallet.
Because the power you get by having a Lisp program as your config file is what makes Emacs what it is.

When my emacs starts, it checks things like the size of the screen and what windowing system is running and picks fonts and sizes accordingly.
You won't get that free education at Cambridge any more; it'll set you back £9000 in tuition fees every year, because successive British governments deliberately copied the US system.

It is to weep ...
Your comment can be reduced to just its final clause. Could you expand on it?
+1 Budapest. Beautiful, underrated city.

When I was there, I did some of the best creative work of my life.
Ask HN: How should I go about learning Emacs?
I've been a VIM user for a decent period of time. I'm not super advanced with motions, end up working in non-VIM environments most of the time, (with VIM bindings, such as with IntelliJ) and vimscript is almost completely unknown to me. And yes, I do know about EVIL mode.

But Emacs is something I've looked at over the years, something looks interesting but every time I try to use it I bounce off of it pretty hard. The best I've been able to do is a custom theme with EVIL mode on top of some configuration pack that someone has put together. It was usable, but every so often I would accidentally bump some arcane key combination and nothing would work anymore, or I'd have to put some limited knowledge of Emacs commands together with VIM commands to do something, etc. It just ended up being a pain that I didn't really know how to use, and I would go back to the comfort of VIM, or Sublime Text, IntelliJ, whatever.

So that's why I'm asking here: what's the best way for someone who's never really done anything with Emacs (and only limited things with LISPs) to get started, and hopefully not bounce off of it. (though I'll probably still install EVIL mode, because VIM text motions are a thing of beauty)
Wha?

This looks to an untrained eye as a description of a scientific process - like heat the mixture in a beaker till it turns red.

Where is the twitter defence only pledge?
Should it? Both compile to intermediate representations which are distributed, then compiled to machine code by the browser. I see no reason PNaCl should be any faster.
http://deltacostproject.org/resources/pdf/trends_in_spending...

Page 24:

> In all institutional groupings—public and private—tuition prices increased faster than education and general spending per student. This suggests that both public and private institutions are becoming more dependent on tuition as a source of general revenue—not just to pay for education and related expenses, but as a general subsidy for all functions, including research and service.

Page 33:

> The primary cause of tuition increases in public institutions is not increased spending, but rather cost shifting to replace losses in state appropriations and
other revenues.

What would you rather have?

1) Low tuition subsidized by higher taxes when you're working

2) higher tuition but lower taxes later on

The market seems to have chosen (2). Whether or not taxes are actually lower is another question.

Personally, I think it's horrible to graduate with 80K+ in debt. To put it into perspective, my parents graduated with minimal debt. Their first debt was the purchase of a house, for about the same amount as student loans are now.

What would you rather have on graduation? Student debt, or no student debt and a house?
I'd prefer to think that most efficient rather than most advanced tools win. look at hammer, axe, knife, nail. they are pure utility expressed as output divided by complexity of use
Ultimate Breakout
So... it's just like IRC, but with some XSS ?
What if you don't have the rights to install anything on the server and the sysadmin doesn't want to install Emacs there? (For good reasons.)

Vi(m) will be there.
It's not a keyfob, it's built into the card itself.

The security measures are pretty good actually:

- Can't pay for things costing more than £20 via contactless (have to use chip and pin, the 'normal'/old method)

- After a certain number of continuous contactless payments, it will ask you for your PIN to verify the cardholder is still in possession of the card. This 'counter' is reset to 0 every time you pay for using Chip and PIN. E.g. if you alternate between contactless and Chip and PIN, you'll never have to enter your PIN for the contactless payment.

- If your card does get skimmed, your bank will cover you for any losses.

Skimming is possible yes, but you really have to be pretty close (the article is the exception here, not the norm). Within a few cm of the card, which it's certainly possible to skim someone's card - the person would almost certainly notice.
Ever since I tried OpenBSD I have replaced vi with mg.
However, what if you SSH into someone's server and you have no Root access ? Sometimes you just need to know some Vi basics.
There is a link on the frontpage about learning emacs right now: http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/05/how-to-learn-emacs-a-hand-...
Gamification & Reversing Time Mechanic
Yup, I have this as well. 1 is black, 2 is yellow, 3 is green, 4 is orange, and so on. It has a side-effect: it's easier to remember phone numbers because I visualize sequences of colors (239 is yellow-green-brown, etc).
Luckily, we still have the best universities in the world and despite the headline figure, what you actually pay is dependent on your earnings, so it's still well worth going. However, choose your university carefully. I was lucky,I went to Warwick and did well. Don't be taken in by the all degrees are equivalent rubbish.
Just look at the bright side, we are using that money to pay $40k - $50k a year for prisoners.
I just tried that and I didn't receive old messages. My guess is people who noticed this used iCloud Backup, restored the new device and once they logged in to the iMessage account, the Messages App showed the existing messages restored from the backup.
I get that paying for your education is pretty bad, but as someone who is enjoying free bachelor level education in Finland I can tell that the amount of quality teachers is pretty low, our small campus has maybe 4 teachers I'd consider competent.

I'm also the kind of guy who'd enjoy extracurricular clubs, but sadly out of the few hundred students at our campus total of 3 of us (me included) are interested in club activities and only student body event that gets more than 10 people attending is yearly "drinking cruise".

I can't say for sure that these two things are related, but I have a hunch that since people aren't actually paying for their education most don't take it as seriously and thus people just do the bare minimum they can get away with. Or maybe it's just the general level of education which is so much lower nothing feels "real" at least considering how much I read U.S. based engineering students whine about...
Your mitigation is wrong. You need a one way function around the cookie, otherwise that can be forged too.
Check out http://www.icenium.com/ by Telerik.

They just recently added support for Sitefinity CMS using Icenium as well.
http://www.quora.com/Sublime-Text/Why-is-Sublime-Text-2-so-p...
Although to be fair it's different depending on where you go in the UK. Scottish degrees are distinctly more subsidised, and the situation in Wales is unlike England and Northern Ireland.
I made this a while back with https://github.com/aempirei/Chat-Art .

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I don't have a credit card, but in the next 90 days, I expect to have access to enough funds to buy server #1. I'll get on a way to sell it in advance.

I had an idea to market a special where I would sell an annual deal on the server for 25-33% off which wouldn't make much money for that year, but would provide enough capital up front to buy another server & expand right off the bat, so I wanted the website to feature that special.

I also wanted the website to feature a permission marketing campaign & collect email addresses of interested parties to go onto a waiting list since our initial server capacity is limited, but I guess I can achieve the same thing with a facebook page with people 'Liking' us & adding our announcements to their news feeds. I saw an interesting social commerce app that allowed for one-click facebook purchasing, that would make the storefront part easy & free of up-front capital.

Thanks again for your reply.
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> the sysadmin doesn't want to install Emacs there? (For good reasons.)

As I said, even if he doesn't want to install emacs (not that there's any actual, let alone good, reason to do so save being an asswipe) there is no reason not to install mg[0].

[0] unless you refuse to install any other editor than `ed` and `sed` on servers because you believe no file should ever have to be edited there. That's perfectly reasonable. But then I won't find myself having to edit a file on a server in the first place.
Ask HN: Startups Failed due to Operational Challenges
Which are the startups that failed due to Operational Challenges(and not essentially due to Technology).

By 'Operational', i am referring to issues like Vendor management, wherein things are outside the control of a 'process'.

Also, i would like to know about cases from developing world, wherein subscription fees are collected manually and not online, and the users do not end up paying or delay the payment(this happens a lot in India).
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> Vi(m) will be there.

It’s not on my servers…ed, on the other hand, will be readily available for everyone :)
Not necessarily. If, by "Netflix model", you mean rental, then you're probably right. If instead you actually mean purchase, then you might be able to get away with presales and drop-shipping.
> What is pretty much guaranteed is that there's more people trying to hack Facebook/Twitter security than most smaller sites.

That, and the fact that they're still around means exactly that it is guaranteed they are more secure than most of the smaller sites. Being a big and valuable target to hit, they can only adapt or die.
I'm class of '13 for grade school, entering college this fall at a state university. I've been programming since I was 8, and from what I can tell, my self-teaching has put me at a level above people fresh out of school with a flashy degree that says "hire me." I'm not good with words, but my point is this. I find it terribly concerning that I'm paying $50k to go to a school to learn something I already know, and know well, to take classes on subjects somewhat connected to what I'll do in a future career, to get a job full of incompetent idiots who get the same paper as me.

I'd appreciate some critiques on my thinking process
30-40k of debt seems a lot less than many people I have known are in with degrees that will never be meaningful to employers. Parents need to adjust for the world as it is and teach their kids that degrees can be profitable to them in the right fields and without debt. I've known several people who had 100k+ worth of college debt and very little to actually show for it.

The debt is the real problem here. If you have a degree that isn't going to do anything for you then that's bad but with debt everything is so much worse. Debt makes any problem you have so much worse.