skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. I do think the timing suggests that if Putin had caved to the pressure Obama would have granted him an "Obama in Kremlin" photo op.
I still prefer http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/
Indian startup map
does it? But I thought coworking spaces where people gather to do work. Like they rent the place for a time for a project. But I might be wrong. Thanks for your comment.

edit:
yeah wikipedia entry says:
"Coworking is also the social gathering of a group of people who are still working independently, but who share values, and who are interested in the synergy that can happen from working with like-minded talented people in the same space."
So essentially I have rediscovered coworking. :(
I'm quite excited seeing the open source community putting so much work into Linux containers. For the most part they're a lot better than true virtualization. We've seen it in the past, what you guys can do with Puppet as a configuration system.

I just wish lxc was as secure as Solaris zones. Since containers are not secure at all, they definitely won't be used for shared hosting. The team seems to be working on it, but it will probably take a few years to get it secure enough:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LxcSecurity
They aren't going to make it. $24 million left with 2 weeks, no way will it reach $32 million.
Show HN: Open Source and paid from the get-go – meet "MetaFilter for Android"
Hey since you mentioned you ear sleep and breathe this stuff I thought I'd ask a question.

Do you know how easy/hard it is to start a "international calling card" service?

I see lots of random ones popping up every day and they mostly look unprofessional so they remind me of email/web-hosting resellers.

I was wondering if reselling "international calling card" is a thing? or do you actually need your own infrastructure?

I was hoping that I can resell these services and make some passive income that way (I can directly market to low-competition markets in my home country).
The workflow is:

1) Report Your dog by iPhone, android o Web app

2) Share the position of your lost/found dog with other users

3) Get the pdf of your report and print it

4) hang poster in strategic places
Competitor is copying your product - 3 reasons not to worry
Except that the implications of Snowden and PRISM and whatnot are fisrt and foremost technical when it comes to running an online business, something HN is very focused on.
Expressing frustration at a sudden bunch of downvotes on a post that shouldn't have been downvoted is understandable.

I'm in favour of down voting and I think people should be doing it a lot more on HN, but it is frustrating when reasonable posts are downvoted.
I think you are talking about the average Joe. The Parent Poster is talking about industry elites. Not everyone does awesome work that get word-of-mouth. This applies to any field (tech-centric, medical, accounting or what-ever).
I saw that as well, its not very realistic to expect them suddenly make up the difference. Perhaps having people dedicated to spamming popular tech and related sites might get them a bump.

Specs today promised for 2014 don't mean much to me, its a seven hundred dollar bet against what other smart phone makers are doing. Considering the speed at which that segment moves its not a bet I am willing to make.
No one has been able to bring down those (illegitimate) parts of the system yet, but some are trying. Although I have been defending the US in this thread but I know there are many, many things about it that need challenging. I am (for some reason) optimistic enough that its citizens will challenge it, and change it for the better.
Or you can program 1G and 10G ethernet cards from userspace if you want to learn how the driver layer works https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch
The myth of the "UX designer"
Heh... like qualifying a programmer by how fluent he is with Visual Studio.
Careful, if you do this too often you'll lose flag privileges.

Besides, since pg has commented on a few of these posts approvingly, and since stories that would be [dead] within minutes previously now regularly top the front page, we have to assume he is OK with "Snowden News" at least for now.
Dan,
I admired the fact you hanged on to your dream such long. It takes lot of courage and perseverance. I have been in your shoes and have felt the pain when its time to let go of the dream. But when you clear it off, it feels great. Once i met a founder of startup who gave advice 'You should be passionate about your idea but not disproportionately passionate'
All the best!
This submission has zero technical content. There is nothing in this discussion that is relevant to people running an online business in a world where PRISM exists.
very nice, do you think it is possible to make it available also for other cities?
Because the hardware and software was expensive and 3GPP ended up putting out a spec (LTE) that understood the way to move forward was to work with existing infrastructure and expand from there.
When will ARIN run out of IP Addresses?
The campaign started on Jul 22, we're on Aug 8 and they have until now 8.5 million raised funds.

That's pretty impressive in my opinion and meeting the deadline is hard, but it can still happen.
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Given that they used indiegogo, do they keep the funds in case the target is not hit?
> freeing Western Europe from Nazism

Here I was thinking it was "World War II" not "America saves the world II".

> freeing Asia from Imperial Japan

Yeah Russia had NOTHING to do with that one (except for pushing them out of china, and being as pivotal as the US bombing of Japan in it's ultimate surrender).

> freeing Eastern Europe from communism

Because communist are evil and all that other crap US propaganda teaches us.

> It played a huge role in reconstructing Europe after WWII and I guess the same is true of Japan.

Well yeah, it played a huge role in destroying them as well...

Any more cherry picking you'd like to ad to that list? Invented freedom perhaps?
Tesla has delivered the first Model S cars to the first few customers
It's pretty easy to pick up a 2.4GHz jammer on ebay or various other sites.
The eight Characteristics for Successfully Recruiting on Campuses
Don't use Amazon, don't read the Washington Post.

This doesn't seem that complex to me.
All I can say is, I hope a quarter million for an undergrad is worth it to you and that it helps you land a high paying job out of the gate so you can start paying off any loans. Statistically, at around 5 to 7 years post-graduation, your much lower tuition paying state school peers will end up at job parity with you. Unless your school offers some highly specific specialty program that you can't get anywhere else.

I've written here quite a bit about my school experience and why it doesn't have to put new grads into unbelievable debt. I did freshmen through MS for under $30k out of pocket -- in the U.S and not all that long ago. Looking at the subject the last few years I've no reason to think it can't still be done for maybe no more than $45-50k. Paying off all of my student debt 3 years out of undergrad, then earning enough to cover my M.S. out of pocket is a pretty awesome feeling. (BTW My school's entire endowment wouldn't even add up to MIT's yearly earned interest on their's)

If you really think that your school is where you have to go, most outrageously expensive private schools have a handsome tuition assistance program if you can figure out how to work the system -- these days you can probably get an undergrad from one of those schools for less than I paid for my education. They probably do everything they can not to advertise is. But you have to have lots of chutzpah and don't take no for an answer. Hit the tuition assistance office daily, be a squeaky wheel, adjust your living conditions to suite the requirements for maximum assistance. Need to make less than $x per year? Do that. Need to not be a dependent of your parents? Do that (make sure they take you off of their taxes, you might need a copy). Get extra assistance as a school employee? Get a crap job cleaning floors.

Do not pay the inflated sticker price just to have fashionable brand recognition for a brand that won't matter in the job market in 7 years.

Do the math and optimize. If you aren't willing to do that, it might be worth reevaluating why you went to an "exceptionally expensive" school in the first place.
YouTube’s Founders Challenge Vine and Instagram with New Video App
I mean if you're a pre-paying buyer for this thing at $695, you'd probably be just as easily in at $795.
Pupils Used to Communicate with People with Locked-In Syndrome
So who fancies giving me a pain point which I can get on with?

That's my pain point.. trying to find a pain point to start developing!
I'm talking about to field also.
"Secret courts" - no, there aren't. The FISA system is about surveillance warrants not trials. It's nothing like the "secret courts" in countries that have given term its meaning.

Again men established those laws and run the "global spying" system. The USA isn't like Russia in terms of the state security apparatus controlling elections. Indeed Hoover's FBI days even managed to pale into comparison with what the Russians are up to today.

FISA and surveillance could be voted out by the elected representatives at any point, indeed it almost happened.
I disagree entirely, tbh, the only advantage of layering I see is precisely in the runtime: it makes the layers that change most very slim and easily deployable.

Repeatability is great, but who doesn't have that already? Are people really building new OS images for every deploy? I don't believe that for a second, and I can't think of many tools off the top of my head that don't have that baked in right from the start. That's the whole point of package management.
Full paper:

http://download.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/PIIS09609822130...
Thank you for that. It is an excellent read.
It seems like a lot of people in the tech industry are smitten with the the corporate leadership of popular companies like Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. These people may have created great products and companies but people need to realize that you're not their friends. They have mostly have different interests than you. I noticed this a lot when the PRISM scandal happened. I saw people actively defending these companies saying that their leaders would never allow such a thing to occur. I think a lot of this has happened because of clever marketing. Advertisements like "Dear Sophie" by Google [1] or "Music Every Day" by Apple are designed to be touching and pull on your heartstrings. You owe these companies nothing. They don't need you to defend their actions. Your interests aren't always aligned. I will be very surprised if writers at the Washington Post are now allowed to write about the hardships of being an employee at an Amazon Fulfillment center. That type of story just doesn't align with Bezos' interests.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vkVHijdQk

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDUKt_XgfJ4
Yeah, some naive space-optimization would make this so much better.
They chose a fixed campaign so they don't get to keep the funds. All or nothing.
From the webpage: This campaign will only receive funds if at least $32,000,000 is raised by its deadline. Funding duration: July 22, 2013 - August 21, 2013 (11:59pm PT)
So, USB is kind-of out of the question. PS/2 legacy mode is what I use. It turns-out the BIOS has to set-that-up. On one machine, the BIOS needed an EBDA bit set to enable PS/2 legacy mouse. Just some crazy bit I stumbled upon because my boot-loader wrote to the EBDA, accidentally.

So... you're telling me, a BIOS can and does do whatever the fuck it wants, and I have little hope of one machine being much like another?

Evil shit. Not very enthused about this.

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God says...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty
thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had
forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's
son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next
to the king.

28:8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren
two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away
much spoil from them, and brough
In which Typemock discovers the inventor of the Y2K bug
yep, sure.
Here's a typical Kickstarter graph: http://thesocialmediamonthly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/...

No need to panic yet.
No -- it looks like they set it up as Fixed Funding (as opposed to Flexible Funding) and won't get the money unless they reach the goal.
I had a couple friends in tech group at Borders back in the late 90's. I paid a visit once, and had a guy show me a personalization/recommendation engine he'd built - in his spare time - which was pretty damn good. It was essentially a book 'locker' - input all your book info - even stuff you didn't buy at borders.com - and it would give you better recommendations, news, etc.

Obviously could have been better, but he couldn't convince anyone with any power at Borders that this was even remotely useful for the company. He'd seen this future and did a decent first pass of this in 1998/1999. I believe he left soon after that, and we see what happened to Borders.

This really touches on the 'lifestyle business' article currently on the front page here, which had something like "sales and marketing are the #1 skill". The older I get, the more this hits home. Your idea can be brilliant, but if you can't sell people on it, you're never getting any traction.
Children are also a hobby. You don't have to have them to survive, unlike Middle Ages. And it's not innovation as it has been done billions of time before. It's just a matter of picking the most favourite hobby: children, science, healthy you, social you etc.
> The USA isn't like Russia in terms of the state security apparatus controlling elections.

Yeah they are controlling other countries elections instead. Great high moral ground there ;)
I think the campaign is just fine. I don't think these updates are unscheduled, and I don't think they're panicking about not meeting the target.

Even if they come pitifully short of the target (they will), they'll have generated a lot of publicity and been one of the most successful crowdfunded projects ever in terms of pledges. I don't think Mark Shuttleworth will be heartbroken about that.
Aerospace industry has been using Laser Sintering for lots of their parts replacements in the last 3-5 years. I can totally see shops setup with the higher end machines ($1-2M each) that do multi-material laser sintering and complex models being setup near airports to build on demand replacement parts.
This does not bode well for the Security Enhanced Android project; it was already in poor shape and I fear this could be it's demise.
current technology is slow. but think about picking it up the next day? the machines could print out stuff over night. in a day you could print a handful of 7x7x7 sized objects for pickup the following day.
Apple Developing Audio Hyperlinks
This is why I religiously read and pay for the Guardian. They still run massive losses but I do what I can - they're the best news source I've found by far.
Have a look through (http://briem.net/) for some hints and tips.

A few practice lines of zigs and zags and vertical dashes and C shapes makes a big difference.
Sounds more like the M labelled cars, much like Benz's AMG range.

Is the non-M 3-series considered sports?
You may find that stuff is quite easy to learn when taught by a good teacher. Try giving chromatic's Modern Perl a read sometime.
Same here, on my third attempt to get Fin Aid, I tracked my time spent working on it. It was the first year that I received any money. It worked out to ~5 Dollars per hour.
Robot programmed to fall in love with a girl goes too far
Most funded project on Indiegogo seems to be Scanadu Scout with $1,664,176 while Kickstarter has some watch called the Pebble with $10,266,845 and OUYA got around the same amount of pledges which the Ubuntu Edge has so far.
I keep wondering whether they still have something up their sleeve, but judging by them dropping the price, its not the case. This is the pinnacle of Mark Shuttleworth's "convergence" dream, I wonder whether he will carry the rest of this campaign if it looks like it will not get funded in the end? Also if it does fail, it is going to look mighty bad for Canonical.
If they had the hardware available right now, for that price, in my country so I don't have to pay import taxes and 25% VAT on top of it, yeah I'd buy one.

What happened to good old pre-orders as crowdfunding?
Monitoring your backup jobs with a dead man's switch
Wow, particularly scummy practice when trying to close the tab on that page as well. Blocked me from closing it with a popup by saying data I had entered would be lost, while replacing the page in the background with the pricing box.

Thought we'd left those kind of practices behind a decade or more ago.
In 5 years time Snowden will get fed up of the constant games and finally gives himself up to the US government out of sheer boredom. Then he will get shoved into a small cell, Kevin Mitnick style for 15 years. After great expense will it have been worth it ? I mean for the American people ? All those tax dollars wasted.

Why isn't anyone holding the government to account for all the bad things that Snowden told the truth about ?
http://ezsend.it - the quickest, easiest way to print a stamp or shipping label. I'm using the easypost API and focusing on UX. highlights include reverse geocoding for less typing and showing the closest drop off location.
As a side note, I think the website "paulgraham.com" demonstrates an anti-pattern: It is available with and without "www." prefix, thus splitting the HN comments into two parts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6175417 (paulgraham.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6178042 (www.paulgraham.com, i.e. this one)

The solution is simple: Establish an HTTP redirect from "www.paulgraham.com" to "paulgraham.com" or vice versa.
And I thought IP protection couldn't get more ridiculous than the Lexmark toner case.
The Animals are Also Getting Fat
Why We're Eradicating Buzzwords at my New Startup
I backed this campaign, and I don't really care much about the specs. It will be good enough, and the promise of a more open mobile platform is enough to convince me of paying the premium and making the bet.

I also believe in their vision of converging different device classes in the software space, although I'm not sure they'll be the ones succeeding in it.
As a side note, I think the website "paulgraham.com" demonstrates an anti-pattern: It is available with and without "www." prefix, thus splitting the HN comments into two parts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6175417 (paulgraham.com, i.e. this one)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6178042 (www.paulgraham.com)

The solution is simple: Establish an HTTP redirect from "www.paulgraham.com" to "paulgraham.com" or vice versa.
Marionette.js and backbone, a perfect match?
From the website:

"What if you fail to reach the funding target?

We appreciate every bit of support we receive during the 30 days, and every backer will be welcomed into the Ubuntu community. If we don’t reach our target then we will focus only on commercially available handsets and there will not be an Ubuntu Edge. All contributions will be fully refunded."
I was recently diagnosed with ADHD. One of the symptoms is fine-motor dyspraxia -- which usually shows up as chronically bad handwriting (guilty!).
> Yeah, but there's nothing worse than boredom for a computer guy.

If he has no problems getting money, the boredom is easily alleviated by having access to a computer and internet. He could just work for himself.
"folklore with an iconic characters as Ostap Bender"

That's a last century's character - too modern to be folklore. Now let me get my 'balalaika' and go dance with some bears - this would fit very nicely in the image you are trying to enforce.
What a phenomenal bit of copy from a VC company as well. This paragraph in particular:

Our reasons for passing on these investments varied. In some cases, we were making a conscious act of generosity to another, younger venture firm, down on their luck, who we felt could really use a billion dollars in gains. In other cases, our partners had already run out of spaces on the year's Schedule D and feared that another entry would require them to attach a separate sheet.

had me laughing aloud as it completely took me by surprise. Thanks for the link!
If they manage (somehow) to hit their 30m goal it will have raised 9.4% of the entire 2012 total pledges on Kickstarter and the entire year pledged amount for Technology projects. So it may blow anything that Kickstarter has had out of the water. All these numbers are for Kickstarter because I couldn't find a convenient list of numbers for Indiegogo.

source: http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012#category

ps: There's a lack of a good verb tense for something that could happen but it is unlikely, there's no good pessimistic subjunctive future.
So true. Americans (from US) deserve a better and less provincial mainstream media. "Russia's Mark Zuckerberg" is a ridiculous title.
Cool, so UX is just good old fashioned design.
Can you clarify that statement? I am not sure if you are frightened that people are now by passing the US for network traffic which will make the NSA moderately less effective. Or rather are you frightened for the underlying reasons that are driving them to do so, which is quite reasonable?
> Also if it does fail, it is going to look mighty bad for Canonical.

I also thought about this, but I'm not sure that's the case. At the very least, they managed to collect close to $10 million in a a two week period, without much of an advertising budget and only some vague on-paper specs and a few renders.

I think that gives them some leverage when negotiating with manufacturers to show that there is at least some demand for high-priced smartphones running their software stack.
At least in EU, WiMax failed because the states decided to licence the spectrum to the usual telcos that had no interest in deploying the technology fearing a possible cannibalization of their own businesses.

However, WiMax is not a mesh network, although you can obviously use WiMax as a physical link on top of which a mesh protocol can work.
Why is it going to look mighty bad for Canonical if it fails? For one, this was a self-claimed experiment. And two, these phones are priced the same as a decent laptop. If anything it proves people aren't willing to shell out $800 for a phone 9 months from now. However, I think it also shows that people do in fact want an Ubuntu phone.
If I had the money, I'd be ordering one now. A high-spec android phone that can also dock into a full desktop ubuntu machine? I'd love to be able to have a development setup in my pocket whereever I go.