skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Btw, a lot of the big names in the Indian e-commerce space are also using the marketplace model instead of the inventory model. And they are doing this out of their own volition, as it reduces costs and increases diversity. Eg. Snapdeal, PepperFry, and Shopclues.
Even Flipkart recently opened a marketplace, which will complement its inventory model.

Here's an article quoting Snapdeal CEO as saying that inventory model is dead in India:
http://www.livemint.com/Industry/D2Xufph6zu7w9ZYg8Ze0dM/Snap...
this is great, thanks for sharing!
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Nice, did something similar for my area http://startuparabia.me/
You could probably, it wouldn't work very well. Either way, Nathan Myhrvold, evildoer and all-around asshole, would sue you for patent infringement. I recommend making a Myhrvold zapper laser first.
Not to mention that your most solid advisor could be one of your VC's too ;)
"The legal fees are paid after receiving the investment"

May be the case, but unless you can negotiate a deal with your law firm that the fees are contingent on closing, if the deal falls apart you've still got the legal fees to pay, and no investment cash to pay them with.
Start at minute 49 to see the full context - it's about fighting the automotive dealers association for the right to sell directly to consumers.
The passion fuelling that emotion is going to put people on Mars, crush GM and take you from SF to LA in 25 mins.
... and my grandmother wouldn't be able to tell these apart:

http://blueribbonappliances.com.au/photos/FridgesFreezers/tw...

(and unless my business was large appliances, neither would I)

... or these:

http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/3491844a021bbc...

okay, the point is, all these three types of devices look so similar because of all the traits they don't have. it's minimalism. not having superfluous design elements or adornments yet keeping efficient functionality, is usually going to end up with a very similar design.
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Ok but what I'm saying is that the UIs for the VPSs are really simple and some of them actually have a way to select a VM with Node already installed or automatically run a script that installs it. Its actually easier than Heroku.

Also if you just had a good bash script from somewhere, that would be easier than Heroku too.

Just basically saying that the right script or server image is all you need rather than paying twice or 10x as much money for something you can't control.
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Right, because anyone who agrees with anything in Objectivism must be a polemicist.

Your question is like reading an article by someone advocating the end of slavery, and you ask, "but who is going to do my work for me then?"

Perhaps you won't realize how apt my comparison is until you read at least this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_as_slavery

I hope you realize that as long as a government has a monopoly on money, they don't need to tax you at all.
Clojure works with it in either case, and it is not ambiguous due to the arity of defn.
>A standard Wi-Fi router could be adapted to function as a receiver.

The article and the embedded video do not make it entirely clear but if this technology could be deployed in existing Wi-Fi routers with relative ease [1] then it could have far-going implications for both privacy and the physical security of anywhere where there's Wi-Fi. Once it's easy enough to deploy on a hacked device that a hired script kiddie can do it even simple burglars could take an interest in residential routers to know when nobody's home.

I wonder if this will affect the market for embedded Linux security consulting in a major way.

[1] I.e., without modifying the hardware and with no need for manual calibration.
I read about people who like their tabs on the left, because they have so many. Opera allows this AFAIK.

But why do you think the Firefox tab placement is better?
very cool. progress bars next?
Deconstructing the Database - a data model based on atomic facts
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If the majority of voters do not want the government to build solidarity, or to build it against the status quo, then the only way the government can legitimately pursue such an agenda is to label it a constitutional or human right.

You seem to be writing from an exclusively US point of view. In much of the world governments don't act like that at all (think of France, with their agenda of protecting the French language).

Looking from outside at the US it seems to me that the overt patriotism that is almost uniquely widespread in the US is a shared value promoted by the government.
He gets like that sometimes, and you can see he really cares about the products he's making and the change he's trying to make in the world. So sometimes he seems deeply affected that others are so much against him, especially when they aren't playing fair.

He became a bit emotional in another interview where he said that Neil Armstrong was opposed to the idea of having SpaceX making commercial rockets (or any other private company), and that Neil Armstrong was a hero of his before, and he was very disappointed seeing Neil fight against SpaceX.

You can see at 0:40, but I'm not sure it was all of it (from that part). It was on the 60 Minutes interview.

http://www.space.com/14936-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-60-minutes-i...
Check out another video from the article

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK_u8-UQmOs

Send ultra sound from the laptop speaker, pickup with mic, detects hand guestures.
For #1: investing in the company I founded is definitely a privilege. The investor obviously thinks that my company would provide a better return than investing elsewhere. High rates of return are not easy to find, hence it's a privilege to invest in the company I founded, in the vision I am creating.

Disclaimer: I am not actually founding a company, nor have I in the past, nor am I likely to build a company that requires VC investment, but this is what my attitude would be if I were.
Oh the possibilities of this - may be with enough data
- you can just wander around a suburb and figure out which houses are currently occupied and which ones are not.
- improve aged care by monitoring walking patterns
- combine it with some more ingenious technology for localised sound -- you can beam music as I walk around the house (or block out sounds)?
- a bit more sensitivity and we can even probably pick up a person while they are having or just about to have a heart attack?

I am sure the privacy folk out there are having multiple heart palpitations.

All I want to say is "bring it on"
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Improving testing by using real traffic from production
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If used right, this would disrupt home security industry so hard. It would be possible to get rid of any motion detectors, if I am not mistaken.
Added an issue about that https://github.com/Peer5/ShareFest/issues/28
He's a great salesman. You don't even realize you're being sold.
Their office suites for Windows and Android rock!
Somehow this seems a bit wrong though - to open this link, skip to minute 53, simply to "see an emotional moment", then close the browser.
"Social games didn’t cost much to build. In fact, once you had the underlying code and frameworks — provided the game’s play and goals were roughly the same; earn points/money/whatever — you could turn “Sorority Life” into “Mafia Battles” by just switching the graphics and text, a staggeringly cheap process called “reskinning.” (Doable in a weekend) Bam, another product to push. "

I love it when non-technical people underestimates the task of pushing / building a new product. (or technical people who consistently super underestimate the tasks in hand).

Good luck with "reskinning" a game in a weekend.
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You can watch other parts of the video if you like!
It's a commitment I made happily. I've bought a house I love, near to both my family and my wife's family, in a nice neighbourhood, near a train station that gets me into London (for huge career flexibility and opportunity) in 35 minutes. I probably will move again one day, when the kids are out and we want to downsize, but if I was told I would never move again in my life I'd be entirely content.
From 2002
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For land installation right? Not cars?

That's still cool though - are they still in use? Why don't they sell them now?
Orthodoxy vs. Pragmatism, or How I Became a Better Developer
To be clear for those who aren't following the salient detail here - the preferred stock does not convert to common if the liquidation preference is exercised. The investor gets up to their money back (1x preference), and no more.

If they choose to participate pro-rated they convert to common first, and participate equally with everyone, without the preference.

The investor would chose to convert to common when the sale price is greater than the post-money valuation of the deal. On this basis their pro-rated participation will be greater than the amount invested.

If the sale price is less than the post-money valuation of the deal, they would be sensible to keep their preferred stock, and exercise their 1x preference, meaning they get their original amount back 100 cents on the dollar. The remaining is then split between the common shareholders proportionally (in effect without the dilution from the investor that exercised their preference).

Mark Suster (@msuster) from GRP put together a good spreadsheet [1] that shows the preference effect on sale, including preferred non-participating stock and preferred-participating (PP) stock (essentially double dipping into sale proceeds).

Brad Feld (@bfeld) from Foundry Group has a good write up of the different types of participation on his blog [2].

[1]: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/47831420/Venture-Capital-Valuati...
[2]: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/01/term-sheet-liquidati...
Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick
As far as I know, this was a project that wasn't expected to get this big — more about learning Derby for the developer. And then it got big :)

tl;dr: No big reason. He likely agrees with you.
One can also signal via distributed anonymous xmpp servers
How is it fraud if it's a negotiated and agreed-upon term? IMHO, it's really just called 'being a dick'.
And which book is that?

edit: I'm guessing "The Garbage Collection handbook", by Richard Jones et al. Looks like an interesting read.
All solid advice.

I'd like to add to it with some absolute basics:

1. Avoid sounding scripted at all costs. I'm sure you'd be more comfortable practicing a certain pitch but a rehearsed script is obvious to everyone in the room. Sounding natural, confident and passionate is absolutely critical.

2. Stay honest. No product or service is perfect. Don't make excuses if someone attempts to pick holes in your product. Acknowledge it, thank them for the feedback and move on.

3. Be persistent. The hardest part of selling is picking yourself up and doing better the next time after being rejected over and over again.
Sunrise raises $2.2M to reinvent the calendar on mobile
Have an idea? Just do it.
This may not be something we want.
Been pretty happy with namecheap.
Oracle's contracts expressly forbid talking about it unless Oracle have signed off on it.

Which is a pity, because I look after a bunch of Oracle on zLinux and would like to share...
Original title: "Minute 53, very emotional moment by Elon Musk"

(In case a mod comes and renames this story)
very neat, and incidentally made me discover slid.es, what an extremely well made app that is.
"he seems deeply affected that others are so much against him, especially when they aren't playing fair"

How exactly is Tesla playing fair? Did all car manufacturers receive a $500 million loan to build electric cars or something?
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The widget is a great idea and looks really nice. Well done!
We already did that in 2007 :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk
> I want generics precisely because they can provide equal performance to the built-in collections

That is most definitely not the core use case for generics. They can be lifted into type-specialized collections, but the core point of generics is type safety.
Because every one in black turtleneck, blue jeans and grey sneakers is aping Steve Jobs.
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Any of them could have, if they'd got their act together
Playing by the rules against incumbent manufacturers. edit: didn't Tesla repay a big federal loan a few weeks ago, many years before they had to? Good citizenship is fair.
Btw, there's a great community of p2p hackers that promote the idea of web p2p: http://webp2p.org/
Can't find any at all on Amazon.co.uk. Pics or it didn't happen?
http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=NeTV_Main_Page

$120 at Adafruit. Would you give that?
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Brian McKenna is a legend. Bilby's operator overloading hack is crazy awesome.
It seems that the ITC are on a different planet from the Federal Courts, the FTC (antitrust enforcement), a cross party Congressional letter and other countries courts (with the possible exception of the German courts) when it comes to the idea of injuctive relief over standards essential patents and FRAND commitments.
Did all car manufacturers try to get a $500 million loan to build electric cars?
No, they couldn't. There are several small electric car startups that wouldn't have a chance in the world to get those types of loans.
Army’s Fingerprint and Iris Databases to be stored on the Cloud
LLC was fined, not the person. Company's income was $0, I guess.
The reason for iPhone 4 and earlier only isn't the slow speed of the process but the fact the newer models include a Qualcomm chip so the patent exhaustion principle comes into place as Qualcomm has a license from Samsung. I believe if this wasn't the case the import ban would also apply to the newer models.
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Good point. Some, like Nissan, got a lot more.
> What I get from your comment is that option types work well in Haskell and Scala. This doesn't surprise me, as both languages places a strong emphasis on the type system, and so they are easily supported.

Option types need no type system support beyond having option types at all. Think of an option type as a container. It's either empty, or it has a single element inside it.

You can manipulate your container by checking if it's empty, getting the value out, manipulating the value and putting the value in a new collection. That's the basic low-level primitives of interacting with an option type.

And you can also use higher-order operations, e.g. map over the collection which will only "do things" if there's a value and will just return an empty collection if there isn't. These are the higher-level combinators on option types. They require no type system complexity outside of having option types in the first place.
Ask HN: What do you use to host your blog?
Hey folks,

I am looking for a good place to start my blog. What do you guys recommend?

I googled around and there are just too many options, is it better to use something like Squarespace/Wordpress or create a custom blog using Jekyll and host it on Linode?

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks
The ITC can only issue import (and sales) bans. It has no power to compel licensing or damages. The Federal Courts handle those issues and have taken a very different view of FRAND commitments and Standards Essential Patent licensing.
Why are determinants defined the weird way they are?
I hope government IT departments take these threats seriously and start updgrading/isolating the still significant numbers of Windows XP systems that have access to critical databases.
Good idea to use tcpdump in order to record the requests as they happen (not as they're processed, i.e. from the logs as other replay tools), but perhaps using it in promiscuous mode is unnecessary if the listener runs on production servers. Oh, and bonus points for using Go.
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Thanks, agreed, crappy title. The insight he provides into the auto industry in those few minutes is awesome. It explains why I've consistently had a crap experience buying cars over the years (they don't make any money selling them) and why car service costs so much in the USA.
It's not known very well, but Bootstrap has similar functionality, albeit not as pretty:

http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/javascript.html#buttons
Utility functions for Backbone.js
Incumbent manufacturers have to go through dealers. Allowing Tesla to bypass dealers wouldn't be fair to other car manufacturers.

"Tesla repay a big federal loan a few weeks ago, many years before they had to?"

Why does this matter? They were given a large loan. That large loan gave them a large runway to have one profitable quarter, which allowed them to pay back the loan by issuing shares and bonds. Another car manufacturer couldn't do the same if you gave them $500M loans? Why should Tesla get it and not others?
The Chinese seem to think that integrity and respect are mutually exclusive. When you are poor or middle class, starting a business that is inspired by other products on the market is pragmatic. When you are wealthy, blatantly cloning other businesses with no significant improvements makes you a thief and a profiteer. This guy sounds like a scumbag that gives business a bad name.
It depends how much work you want to do in installing and maintaining, and how fancy you want the formatting.

It depends on how much control you want over the appearance, and how much time you're willing to spend on that.

It depends on whether you will want "rich content", or just text with some font changes and formatting.

It depends.

This would be a great topic for your first blog post. Do some in-depth research, make a decision, then explain the options and your reasons for making the choice you did. Many people could benefit from that.
No. And why should it matter? Tesla got the loan. Others didn't. How is that fair?
I don't know from where you are buying 'foreign books for cheap' and I'm not sure if you are referring only to LPE text books.

But most of the novels, and other books that I know are definitely expensive.

Text books are not the only books. And of course it also depends on the definition of cheap.

But pirated books sold on by footpath hawkers sell like hot cakes only because many foreign best sellers are generally expensive.
I use jekyll for my personal blog (with minimal style), wordpress for an older blog (some fancy look/features). Both are hosted on VPS.
How to clone a DVD movie
As soon as making clones of a DVD movie is concerned, there must be something coming to mind, for example, DVD cloner software, blank DVD discs, and also DVD writer, which is usually a DVD drive in your computer and which is able to burn DVDs. In these things, the one we need pay special attention to is the software, because there are many of them on the internet, some are free, some are sharewares, some have very good qualities, some produce poor backup discs. DVDFab DVD Copy, a born professional in cloning DVD movies, is a prominent DVD cloner softwarewhich has very good reputation for more than ten years of history.
Never mind that coal mining kills almost 6000 people a year, or that populations of coal-mining areas have death rates about 10 per cent higher than non-mining areas, or that coal emissions drive global warming.

I'm fully in favour of nuclear power but using partial evidence and misleading comparisons to back up arguments does not help the cause.

You can't compare the death toll of mining coal to the death toll of a nuclear accident and prove one is more dangerous than the other. They are completely different things having no common factors.
How many people died mining Uranium? How many people die per MW produced for both fuels? How many people die in disasters at Coal Power plants?
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The possibilities for content marketing are...well quickly unavailing.
How many students per teacher (or possibly easier to calculate but less accurate, how many students per class)? That does seem... Lots.
Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes, or smaller ones like Think, BYD, Tango, or Venturi? I could name many more. Where are their $500M+ loans to build their electric cars?
Nifty. I don't know how we missed the possibility - this looks really nice.

Oh, and thank you for adding a license. So often I see neat hacks posted, without any license at all...
I think his point is that government shouldn't pick winners and losers with taxpayer money.
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Does anyone not agree that a bit of both is best? A bad connection kills you otherwise. There is a middle ground.
I would have thought that the evacuation response and the ability to restore water supply to the fuel rod cooling pools would have had a bit more to do with the lack of deaths than the safety of radiation disaster..

I support nuclear as An energy source but it really seems like we are doing it wrong at the moment - it costs too much, seems like we are, or have been using reactor designs that we probably shouldn't (ie they have meltdown risk in disasters vs other newer designs).

However it speaks volumes about the changed political environment, and our environmental sensitivity these days, that a response to Japan's tsunami and nuclear shutdown was also the shutdown of German reactors and fast-tracked plans to transition away from nuclear from them and other countries.