skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not something new. There is a company in China www.99bill.com started email payment system
7+ years ago.

However, they failed to compete with www.alipay.com
which provides free escrow service and seamless ecommerce integration.

99bill had to abandon b2c market and pick up b2b &
offline market.

Email as a ATM is not 'amazingly clever' if the transactions are not protected by escrow service.
Lifestyle businesses are usually about a modest initial investment by the founder and then reinvesting modest profits into raising the hot air balloon a bit. VC backed companies usually start out losing tons of money and hope they achieve flight by the time they reach the end of the runway.
I think the reason is the same as in Finland. Both Sweden (Ericsson) and Finland (Nokia) have had big technology companies that today isn't doing that well and with many talented people therefore searching for new jobs and setting up startups.
Dwolla is straight bank accounts. People are more inclined to give out CC/DC info vs. bank account.
I really hate searching a job board for a specific area only to see postings like XXXX in San Francisco.
The only Fortune 500 company that's grown faster than Apple
Isn't there some troll list you could subscribe to?
Yeah, like learn how to write, calculus, some history and a smattering of the sciences.
Although I agree with you 100% on "hey, I have enough junk!"....

I think there's a great (ok, obvious) reason to ship t-shirts to early backers. It's essentially marketing, as you figure a good portion of those early backers are proud, & will wear it around publicly, & then your company gets talked about in new places.
This is the best comment I've read in this thread.
As a current Pro user, $25 per year to continue unlimited storage, no ads (for me and for all viewing my photos) and photo statistics is still an easy sell.

However, if I were signing up for an account today, I would most likely not purchase a paid account - my main reason for paying for an account was to get past the "only your last 200 photos are visible" limitation. That said, if I actually used my flickr account for business purposes, I would not hesitate to pay $50 per year to remove ads from my photos. I suspect many professionals would agree.
Hook, line and ? Fu k these guys. Seriously would have been interested to read about "look what we built in node" but this link bait crap just annoys me. Douchebags and karma be damned.
Wearing a kickstarter shirt: I'm a cool edgy visionary-investor.
Wearing a local bank/pizzeria t-shirt: I'm out of laundry.
Cartas Bonitas Para Mi Novio – Lo Que Debes Saber
It may be a transition for Checkout users, but it's a shutdown for merchants.

* Shutting down payment processing which was a pretty fundamental part of the offering

* they're requiring you to reapply to get an instant buy account

* They're killing off the APIs

It's not a transition if you lose a core feature, don't transition the accounts in any meaningful way, and have to implement a new system - at that point it's about like switching to PayPal (except you get to keep payment processing if you switch).
If you are interested, I have been keeping score: http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/
"This item can not be installed you your country" wtf
I think the video needs to be clear what the difference in the service is. It's not that you can't send a dropbox link till it's ready (you can, the recipient just can't see it yet). The feature here is that Minbox sends the email when the file is ready, on its own. Which is awesome, but not what the video is showing. That bit is the last feature listed on the page.
If and when they have plans to do so, I hope to have it posted here: http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/
I find it quite unbelievable that this is an actual quote from buffet... With any basic knowledge of statistics you know that 125 isn't ordinary intelligence ...
Remote Pairing Like a Boss on OSX
Have you had any more luck with 500px?
OT: If two people have to send a signal to each other, they should be named Alice and Bob, this goes back to Einstein's paper on the EPR paradox[1], and is based presumably on the fact that Alice starts with A and Bob starts with B.

Sometimes I read articles where Alice sends a signal to Charlie or something like that, and for me that is a huge red flag that indicates the author may not have payed much attention in school and/or may not have a great grasp on what they are talking about.

Fortunately this article is about Alice and Bob, so I am inclined to take it seriously.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
I think the word "bias" is wrong here.

Generalisations are dangerous, but I think the people on HN generally aren't Yahoo fans because traditionally they don't appear to value good engineering.

PG summarised it quite well:

But Yahoo also had another problem that made it hard to change directions. They'd been thrown off balance from the start by their ambivalence about being a technology company....The worst consequence of trying to be a media company was that they didn't take programming seriously enough....Yahoo treated programming as a commodity....One obvious result of this practice was that when Yahoo built things, they often weren't very good. But that wasn't the worst problem. The worst problem was that they hired bad programmers.

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
Front page looks too busy at 1280 px wide. I can't quantify why - maybe it looks too appy rather than like a page. I used to rant a lot about Flickr showing me 500 px wide photos with oceans of whitespace on my large screens - now it looks like they've gone overboard in the other direction...

Photos in different styles don't look great mashed up right next to each other on my photostream. Old design had an option to show them big as one column, or smaller with more whitespace around them.

The default photo height on my photostream is also lower than on the old big one column setting, which makes particularly my vertical photos look worse when you're scrolling by.
Of course your are now going to read(at least for the next couple of weeks) how some one did a lot of things against common wisdom and yet made a lot of money.

These stories are like those drawing books given to kids, where an outline is already present and they just have fill up the blank with a pencil and then fill color using crayons.

Look at how these articles go. They take dropping out as pointA and then becoming a billionaire as pointB. Then they just draw a straight line connecting them both. And now the end inference which is tried to press upon is "Dropping out will make you a billionaire". Co relation of one in a million almost certainly doesn't imply causation.

And now, for the true facts. For every billion $ company founded by a dropout there are likely several hundreds of thousand of examples, where some one ended in McDonalds, or working repairing cars in some body's garage, or a cab driver somewhere. And if you drop out of school, you are likely(heck, almost certain) to meet this fate.

This reminds of a question I read in Times Of India(A leading news daily here in India). A guy once asked how to test if a stone is a diamond? Can one be sure by trying to smash with a hammer and then see if it doesn't break. The editor gave a pretty good reply which explains the situation. Yes you can be sure that the stone is a diamond if it doesn't get smashed on hitting with a hammer, But if it gets smashed it doesn't mean it wasn't a diamond.
Stuff is periodically reposted. I'm tempted to write a bot that reposts popular things on a stochastic exponential backoff schedule.
Currently sporting a reasonably full beard. I agree.
Antergos Linux 2013.05.12 review (Arch Linux based distro with razor-qt)
IMHO their UI further validates the Facebook commenting style unfortunately. I've always felt the tree based conversations design is a much easier way to follow various side conversations that spring up. But anyway, its blah, its bling, its boring. Can't help but to notice similarities to other sites in their design, but I guess thats the way the web works.
i use screen to have multiple tabs.. i used to use vim tabs, but found screen tabs better..

not really sure why.. (i have my screen tabbing with F11 and F12).
Yeah, looking over this again, it appears you're correct and the CISPAesqueness could be disputed. The very short time limits (some of these actually apply to the officers serving the warrant) and the contempt of court threat are worrisome, though. The Senate bill also isn't quite clear as to whether they'd ask for data outside of what's legally allowable via ECPA or other US Federal/International privacy laws.

Note that the House version of the bill (http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/html/HB0...) appears to be a net boon for user privacy - it requires a warrant for location tracking and requires agencies to compile a yearly report of warrants and orders.
Actually, if you've got your webserver configured correctly, it's not even "auto-zip" - your server sends gzip and the browser unpacks it transparently.
Indian-American teen invents device that will recharge mobiles in 20 secs
I haven't installed this on my debian box, because I know it will install a bunch of 32 bit packages that I don't need otherwise.
Err, that happened quite a while ago. I think people were rooting for Yahoo just before their (failed) Panama Adsense competitor was released. (I say "failed" in the sense that while it kind of worked, it didn't match AdSense's results)

Your comment doesn't make it clear if you realize just how much bigger Google is than Yahoo. Google is worth $300B, Yahoo around $30B.
Charge your phone in 20 seconds
Even after all that growth, World Fuel Services' market cap is only 3 billion dollars. Market cap is the collective judgment of investors and prospective investors on how much the company will earn in the future.
We did this at my previous workplace. We stripped emails, encrypted them, and sent an email with the link to the files. Only an approved app was then able to open such files.
Why does Marissa Mayor get all the credit? Was the redesign her idea? Was it headed by her? etc.

Of course she posted it, because she has a super-positive personal brand/image in popular media. Just curious how much of this is her.
The 747 has been flying since 1969. No one is 2050 is going to remember or care about any of these issues.
Unlike the mathematician, the light doesn't know where the other side of the glass is. There's no guarantee that it's 'taking the shorter path' - for example, light hitting the edge of a glass cube that refracts into the cube will be taking a longer path than not refracting in the first place.

Not that light could have a motive anyway, but this strikes me as more of a passing fancy than a rationale.
Dr. Alexander Shulgin managed to some pretty groundbreaking drug design in his small home laboratory.

Of course it was hardly rigorous, and his analysis of what he made was mostly subjective rather than scientific, but it seems kind of analogous to what a hacker does vs what an engineer does.
It's a Python script that takes in some options (which image, your github username, etc) and generates a bash script. Running the bash script actually makes the commits on the correct days to populate the pixels.
Actually, Berkshire Hathaway is known for being mostly hands-off. Primarily they just place important people in key positions when they need to. Their corporate HQ has a few dozen people.
I found this CNN post very shallow and naive. The main factor that impacts how widely an acquisition is reported is not what the company does, but rather, the household name recognition of the acquiree.

The reason Tumblr is reported widely in the media is because most people have heard of Tumblr. The reason Actavis/Warner Chilcott was not, is because no one has ever heard of either. If it had been the acquisition of Boeing, Pfizer, or any other company outside of tech that has household name recognition, you would see similar media attention.
What would I build with a human body data stream API? A real-time fertility / menstrual cycle monitor. Basal body temperature + hormone spikes monitored remotely, hooked up to some kind of a real-world notification system (push message to your phone? arduino-powered lights and klaxon? you choose!) that goes off when you're within 24 hours of ovulating. Depending on whether or not you're intending to get pregnant that month, this would either be your alert system to get busy or alternately your alert system not to get busy.

Add in a separate notification system 48 hours before the crimson tide is due to start, and maybe hook it up to another API that auto-purchases and delivers chocolate to your house -- or work a purchasing deal with one of the many "period box" delivery companies that have sprung up lately (see http://pregnancy.about.com/od/Menstrual-Cycle/tp/Box-Subscri...).

Of course, this API would only be usable for 50% of the population at best, and likely only for ages 12-45 within that 50%, but that's still a pretty big potential market. :-)
Duracell will sue the shit of her
12 Ways to Make Bad Decisions
Bitcoin, Reddit, and Censorship
Marco left Tumblr a while ago to work on Instapaper.
Just tried to use their uploader and hit the limit when I got to 300MB.
Seems like it's mostly just sticking to a template. Though I do think it's a bit off here. Apparently, I'm in the top 33% most vulgar and often use words like "fucking". To the best of my knowledge, that maybe happened once.

Nonetheless, this is pretty cool. I'm loving the graphs.
This title, "Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ " is horribly misconstruing Warren Buffett.

The title conveniently left out "once you're above the level of 125.", which yields a completely different statement from the title.

What Warren Buffett said actually allows room for IQ to correlate to success in investing. From the way he said it, it actually seems as though he believes that IQ might correlate with investing under 125.
Beware, it has a subtle catch:

(1 TB) / (300 (MB / month)) = 291.271111 years

But if you think you're dealing with decimal Bytes, you're wrong - e.g, putting it in GB and taking the units out:

1000 / (0.3 / month) = 277.777778 years

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte - Google is using TiB/GiB/MiB and writing up the wrong unit)
This makes sense for investing where you actually make decisions about what to invest in. I'm completely guessing, but it is probably different for quantitative finance where rather than investing yourself, you come up with a strategy and follow or even automate it.

Of course, that also requires more than just intelligence--you won't get far without the discipline to test everything thoroughly and to follow the strategy even if it loses money in the short term.

Also, I imagine the two styles of investing require vastly different sorts of intelligence and are best suited to people of different temperaments. Making decisions about investments is very different from making decisions about how to make decisions about investments :P.
The details=1 query string is added when you click "Edit" in your own photostream's header.

Funnily enough, at the moment the details=1 layout even preserves the old "Did you know you can change the layout of this page?" link at the bottom, linking to a 404.
I think the real problem is that they are never explained the EMH during their lunch hour. Instead they hear about other doctor's winning investments, and it creates a stupidity cycle. I am pretty sure if I asked about investing at any tech company during lunch, someone would explain EMH to me. I could be wrong.

I personally don't believe markets are always efficient, but I always think from the perspective of why I think the market is right or wrong.
You could say I'm the flip side of the "drop out of high school and make a million bucks" coin, although I'm not giving up yet. I dropped out of high school 2 years in due to a confluence of factors (primarily boredom and some family issues that resulted in me entering foster care.)

My perspective is that the academic aspect of high school is nearly worthless for the long tail of people who have above-average intelligence. What is valuable is the social interaction with peers and other extra-curricular activities. You can get most or all of those activities elsewhere, but it's harder. Additionally, if you have plans of attending a prestigious college you may have more trouble getting in with a GED - although a reasonably high score guarantees admission to a lot of state schools.

Unfortunately I wasted any potential gain by spending a few years not doing much of anything except playing video games - in hindsight, probably due to depression.

Currently I'm taking college classes and working independently on some projects; I'd be happy to answer most questions.
I gave it a try, but I found it too annoyingly restricting. I'd rather just roll my own linux servers since I grew up (I know I'm young) with Fedora Core 2.
Microsoft Azure in Sydney
Having been on the receiving end of this a few times, I do not find it to be an especially useful way to communicate.
>Look at how these articles go. They take dropping out as pointA and then becoming a billionaire as pointB. Then they just draw a straight line connecting them both. And now the end inference which is tried to press upon is "Dropping out will make you a billionaire". Co relation of one in a million almost certainly doesn't imply causation.

The stories also don't consider in depth what the person has done before they dropped out and how special they were already. Even the oft-told Bill Gates stories often gloss over his unique position of having ample computing time in his youth and how capable he was prior to dropping out.
This title is inaccurate. Google Checkout is being upgraded to Google Wallet, which provides the _exact_ same functionality with more features.
The comic is about a person who isn't intelligent, but combines big words and random trivia to sound intelligent, which satisfies his ego.
Swarm on Glass: The Attention Economy, Gamified.
My respect for Gabe Newell just went up:

Says Ellsworth: "Gabe was completely behind it... I talked to Gabe, and he talked to the lawyers, and he's like, 'It's theirs, make it happen,' because he could see we were passionate about it."
Seriously, they need to work on a decent elevator pitch. The video is annoying and too long, and their webpage goes on and on and on without clearly stating why they are better then all the rest. Should I try them - who knows? Will it make my work flow better/faster/easier - who knows? Ironically they dis dropbox, but everyone knows what dropbox is and does.
The loss of photo statistics seems a big one. As far as I can see unless you have an existing pro account and continue to renew, there is no way to get photo statistics. I really think Yahoo should offer a 'spyr' account or something which gives access to the stats.
Funny when I read this, I thought of Jobs.
Drivers, ISV certification and SDKs. Ask any user of AMD on Linux workstations what it's like. Then compare the experience of nVidia users.

AMD has the superior hardware in many ways, but their software just isn't quite there yet in my personal opinion.
According to page 8 of http://mathdl.maa.org/images/upload_library/22/Polya/0746834... the noted mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Robinson had a measured IQ of 98.

He was in a different field, but Richard Feynman's mathematical genius is in dispute by nobody. However his measured IQ is widely quoted at 125.

IQ is somewhat correlated with intelligence, which is somewhat correlated with mathematical ability. You cannot be a mathematician without the mathematical ability. But your ability may or may not get fully reflected on an IQ test.
Mental disorders affect 1 in 5 US children each year
Alternative text: "Don't drive buzzed. Call a cab."
The first GIFs? Prehistoric rock carvings become 'animated' under sunlight
Samsung launches Wallet app
Me too. The page describes me as a CoffeeScript expert. I haven't written a single line of CoffeeScript and don't intend to in the future.

Actually you would get a much better overview of what I do by just looking through my repository list.
Brain under DDoS
I think for the same reason we credited Steve Jobs when he came back to Apple to turn it over. New Flickr might be team work, but it's thanks to Mayer work to bring back Yahoo at the big players table.
What tier of postgres do you use? How's performance?
I see it as the the WordPress for crowdfunding: enable less technical people to do something technical.
Only essentially at levels that are extraordinarily achievable with participation. Really, only at the 500 level does it matter.
Safe Manual Memory Management
max from BackerKit here, thanks for the link. guilty as charged. messy but works!
Unless you're invited to sell stock through Getty, flickr isn't meant for business purposes. See http://www.flickr.com/help/website/?search=sell+photos#32257...
Have you ever thought that the primary use for a lot of people isn't to give you a resource, but is for sharing their family photos.

Pay for Getty if you don't like it.
Classic: "I won’t be switching to dedicated day and night iPhones." hahah!
I wonder how we would have reacted if rather than spacing all these out, they batched them up an did one big announcement with plans for all lines being discontinued. Quick and clean sort of deal.
Seems like they'll close all outstanding bugs by shutting that down, too.
I'd go further and say the ability to switch off the logical parts of your brain is essential when dealing with the financial markets. Trying to understand why the markets are doing what they are doing is not only a waste of time when trading, but can lead you badly astray. That's when you think you know what the market is going to do next, based on your research and rationality. In practice, it can and will ignore your rational conclusions and do whatever it likes.
Samsung is focusing on a much smaller number of devices than they used to. Yes, they have more than Apple, but they also spend way more on advertising to make up for it.

Instead of hundreds of phones, they have maybe a dozen now that they actively promote. Right now I can't leave the house without being bombarded by Samsung advertising, they're in some kind of feverish campaign over their new Note phone-tablet-thing.
I usually use pbzip2 which is multi-threaded bzip2. As for efficiency, gzip -9 uses a 32kb window while bzip2 -9 uses a 900kb window. This plus other improvements is why bzip2 beats gzip.

> I'd say the more time you spend on compression, the less overall time you're looking at.

That turns out not to be the case. For example xz (-9 uses a 65MB window) does indeed result in better compression. However it isn't multi-threaded and uses considerably more cpu time. The extra time taken is beaten by using pbzip2 which can start the upload sooner. 7z does allow multi-threading if you can navigate it's command line options.

BTW here is a quick test. I have a json file that is 8.1GB.

442MB 3m12s single threaded gzip -9
309MB 23m single threaded bzip2 -9
326MB 25m single threaded xz -9
Ask HN: Is there a comprehensive introductory book to the web stack?
Healthcare may be important (especially for our economy), but if you believe that the average 20-something needs to be popping pills as preventative medicine, then you have been completely brainwashed by big-pharma advertising.
At this point I'll point out my recreation of the GitHub t-shirt: https://github.com/contrigraph

And the write-up: http://kivikakk.ee/2013/05/07/contrigraph.html