skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a very nice summary of the ideas, much clearer than the article itself.

I think that the problem with your claims about the defense/offense asymmetry is that it is based on abstractions that only exist because of the government. All of the reputation/private arbitration systems that exist online still exist in the context of nations with laws that prevent, for example, someone killing you because you posted a bad review of them. Or simply stealing your goods in person ("X robbed me in the street and stole my clothes. I would not do business with him again").

Once you have established an upper limit on the kind of offensive actions that can be taken, it is easy to bootstrap reputation systems. But I don't consider this as evidence that there is a high defense/offense asymmetry at a fundamental level.
India’s IT companies have become complacent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

If you don't include Samsung, then you are ignoring the Android market leader.
I had random ports breaking back in the dark ages.

Turned out to be a dodgy RAM stick in the end. ECC is a requirement for me now when the host machine supports it.
Ask HN: How to make a profitable business from a newsletter app?
Hi, My name is Bryan and Happy Holiday to all hacker news readers.

situation: I created a project that helps instagram users to rediscover their old photos buried down deep in their timeline. It’s a service that randomly draws a photo that the user taken 6 months on instagram and sends it to them via email on a weekly basis. (like the flashback feature, that everpix just to have)

questions: 1. what is a likely business model you would use in a pdt like this that only engage with the users once a week via email.

Initially, I was thinking of adding ads into the email that I sent. However, I later realised that it is not possible todo that. adsense programme does not permit adsense ad code to be placed in email messages

some plans in mind:
- Advertiser-Supported Email Newsletter - still go for ads, but I would go and find sponsors. Like the sponsored post on iosWeekly or JavaWeekly

- Or I try to add features to the emailer. For example. I will add flickr integration and this is a paid service. (but I also understand from many HN reading, that to be a paid service I must really be solving a pain point. (which I think I am, but I’m not sure thou)

- Or I would go for open source. Maybe be using gittip service. If there is donation, great. Otherwise I would just let it run, since I using the service myself.

What do you think? How would you create a business model around such a product. Love to hear your feedbacks.

p/s this is actually my first post on HN and to avoid fellow readers to think that I’m creating an Ask HN question to spam my project url. I did not put project link in the question itself. But if you any of you are interested to find out more so that you can help advise me. The service is here (http://bit.ly/marcusapp)
I've read this article yesterday.
It's so useful.
Thanks
Of course everything is _possible_. But with the added space of DIMM sockets, something has to give. Bulkier laptop, less battery space, or something else. That is why you don't see iPad or iPhone competitors with DIMM sockets either.

Of course Apple doesn't have a big incentive to add such ports, but the fact that they've left them on the desktop Macs and the non-retina (and bulkier) MacBooks are an indication that it's not primarily a business decision, but more likely a design decision.
Hackers get encrypted PINs in Target data breach
optimization of data base is very important, thank you.
That's cheap and hardly warrants a reply. "Mac Air" may not be the trade name of the computer, but it's not ambiguous and has no bearing on the substance of the article.
Transitional period may have some similarities to USSR fallout, but it's 1) transitional 2) has major difference: in USSR all production was centralized and run by the government officials. In modern Russia everything is very private and only very few services are run by state (and very far from satisfactory).

When teachers and cops run from government, they will find jobs and prosperity in the wealthy private market where people pay and save in bitcoins.
>apt-get to install practically any open source software in the world is one.
Partially as a consequence of that, but other stuff as well, the development experience for those using the console and not an IDE is far better on Linux than OS X or (by far) Windows.

I can do that on the Mac too, with MacPorts, Fink, and brew, which I personally use.

And for development or more harcore unixy stuff, I do it in a VM with Vagrant -- I don't want to pollute my machine with installations for the multiple projects I work on (for one, they can need clashing versions of stuff, plus it's not a best practice to have unrelated libs and servers installed for a project that doesn't need it).

>Finally, the "political" stuff you mention is not politics for sake of politics. It stems from very practical real-world things. For example, if I write an app and calling a system library does something unexpected, I can read the source code to see exactly what is going on.

I can do the same on my VM inside the Mac for unix software/OS that I deploy on. But I also found it that I never, ever, had to do something like this for my type of development in 15+ years with regards to a system library.

>OS X and Windows people 'blindly' rely on the OS for many things, while on Linux, people hack the OS routinely.

True, but as a higher end (not drivers or embedded) developer (mostly web and some server stuff), I very much enjoy this culture of not mucking around with the OS.
Let's see who laughs in 5 years. Do you have an economical counter argument?
This Video Will Hurt
> Even if you do go peer-to-peer with WebRTC the quality would still be improved by going through a central server (less upstream bandwidth required)

Why is that?
In the 1980s (roughly the period covered by that documentary), you didn't necessarily need to build printed circuit boards and the like. Though a number of people interviewed in the film go back to the very earliest days of BBSs when there was more of that sort of thing.) But, you're basically right. Even if you didn't do a lot of soldering, you generally were building PCs, needed all sorts of cables and miscellaneous hardware, lots of books and other paper.
Star Citizen: The Ultimate Space Sim Introduction video
Social Discovery Startup Sonar Is Dead
Turning on "Quick Edit Mode" and "Insert Mode" help make cmd a little better:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/131977
Because government can cheaply seize their assets from their bank accounts without much hassle. When 90% of wealth is owned outside of the banks, you'd need to go door to door without clear idea how much you can possibly extract. After every successful seizure people only get smarter and protect their wealth even tougher.
And there is also Fakeblock:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-official-fakeblock-app/i...
I have never thought about schema designing this much deep!
If you liked this, you'd probably also like Get Lamp--also by Jason--which is about interactive text adventures in general and Infocom in particular. I'm probably biased because I know a lot of the people in the film but I thought it was great. (And more of a true film than BBS.)
I should have prefaced that with when there are more than 2 participants... as you would only need to upload your audio/video stream once.
That passage had never made sense to me due to Jonas' (previously apparent) bizarre behavior. Thanks!
Quite a bit. For excellent introduction to the topic, read this: http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html

For fast lossless compressors, see this article using an Apple II to compare the best of today's (LZ4) with what was available when the hardware was popular/new.
I am so looking forward to trimming my possessions down to a carryon suitcase and a backpack. Will replace my computer with macbook air, ipad with ipad mini and keep my kindle, get rid of my SLR with small sony pocket camera and be on my way.

I think house in the article is maybe 150sq feet too small, I like to have friends over from time to time. But for one person it is almost perfect.
Have an idea for an app or service? Let's build your MVP this weekend
>Lance Armstrong, well-known cyclist with lots of charity work fighting cancer, now known to be a drug cheat.

Are you really equating Lance Armstrong with a guy who likely sexually abused hundreds of children? That's idiotic.

You realize that what Armstrong did wasn't a crime, right? Just against some arbitrary rules of some form of sports entertainment (a bicycle race!)? And that the treatments he undertook are perfectly legal in the real world? And that they may have even helped his recovery from cancer, in one way or another?

You hate charity. We get it. But I'll take the work of Bill Gates and Lance Armstrong over whatever it is the armchair pundits around the internet are doing, all day.
It's an invitation to IA to dig themselves a deeper hole. :-)
I am quite disturbed by this claim:

> It’s commonly claimed that with type-safety comes an inherent loss of performance

If we've learned anything, it's that type safety buys you performance because it enables a lot of compiler optimizations that are not possible in dynamically typed languages.

Other than that, the language sounds very interesting but if it's going to be Windows only, it will suffer the same fate as C#: powerful but crippled by its platform boundaries in a way that will make it impossible to compete with Java.
I went to community college, got an associates, and went to complete a BS in CS. Like pretty much everything else in life, you will get out what you put in.

If you are an unmotivated person who didn't take the traditional path of going to a 4 year school right after HS, chances are you are probably going to still be unmotivated when you go CC and end up dropping out.

If you were unable to take the traditional 4 year approach because life got in the way (like a young pregnancy, coming from a poor, rural family), then CC is going to give you a chance that wouldn't have had otherwise.

When I was at CC, I never got the impression that goal of the system was to get everyone an associates degree and then into a 4 year to complete a bachelors, but rather to give the people in the second category a path to a bachelors.

I really hate using the term, but the writers of the this article must be extremely privileged and out of touch if they don't understand that not everyone get the chances to go from HS graduation to living in the dorms as freshman, and the CC system is a great tool for upward mobility.
To support cops and prisons, government will need to pay in money that they have to seize in the first place. Currently governments do not have any money at all, they have to print it every day to pay their bills. When economy switches to bitcoin, cops will switch occupation well before government finds efficient way to collect bitcoins to pay them. Simply because private sector will be much wealthier by that time.
yeah that makes no sense, unless there's is more then on participant, in that case a full peer to peer would have to upstream (n-1) streams
Don’t Use Try/Catch (2010)
Okay, then. Single letters in regular expression statements.
I miss the HN of old where there were hardcore technical discussions about the merits and demerits of the technical approaches in such posts. Here we have almost none of those and instead there is lot of horse beating about aspects that are not even announced yet, taking sides in big tech politics etc which dominated and then killed Slashdot. I guess I must be getting too old for HN and the marked shift in the audience.
I'm pretty sure you will reject "Bitcoin is just a fad" out of hand.

Before you throw too many numbers back at me, realize that billions of dollars were spent on Beanie Babies, even back before the last decade of US fiat erosion.
Compression algorithms are improving. There are compression programs out there that will beat pretty much anything famous like xz, but 99% of the time at the expense of either compression/decompression time or memory.

PAQ8PX is a classic example of this - amazing compression ratios, but ridiculously slow.

http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_mf.php

http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_mf3.php

There are programs that can shrink JPG losslessly by 24%:

http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/jpg.php

NanoZip keeps a very good balance of speed and compression ratio, but it's so unpopular, it's not very practical.
I agree, it shouldn't be limited to computers.
Feeder Tour cartoon
its great that such a resource exists. However when you want to learn a language that is still used and has similar grammar features you might want to opt for something like icelandic or polish.

Then also Turkish (although not indo-european) might be interesting since it has a really logical and regular grammar.
I'm not sure about 5MB per zipped rom being very generous. From what I remember about MAME there were a lot of ROMs in the range below 100kB.
How Blender started, twenty years ago
+1

I'm typing now on a u6430 running ubuntu 13.04, and it runs great.

Three challenges:

1) On a busy wifi, I have some challenges with connection drops, but I haven't determined if that's a driver issue, or a chip issue. The connection drops are mostly after several minutes of idle network connections. (Now that I think about it, its probably driver, since rmmod/modprobe the wireless modules fixes things)

2) The thumbprint reader doesn't work out of the box, but honestly, I'd rather type a password.

3) When I try to use a usb3 'docking station', it works. However I find that I need to rmmod the usb3 module, and then modprobe it again to get it back to life after ~10 undock/redock operations. After about ~20-30 undock/redocks I find I need to reboot.
Other than the thickness, what are some of the differences between the fries you like and the ones at McDonald's?
Introduction to AES Encryption
Great list. I would also add:

What is Mathematics? http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Ideas-...
C#, JavaScript.
Only things I care about:
SSD Drive (visual studio loves SSDs)
8GB RAM
Support for 3 widescreens (as long as I have decent video cards, performance isn't that important)
CPU doesn't matter much, anything within 3 years is fine.
Why give up Scala when you're writing code for the browser? https://github.com/scala-js/scala-js
I'm a lot more pragmatic. If Amazon told me they would give me an ebook version of each book I sent to them, I would immediately get rid of 90% of my books (everything except my coffee table books and a couple dozen books that hold sentimental value.)
Reddit reaches for profits through a geek-culture bazaar
It is a systems language. The competitors are c, c++, go, and D. Within Microsoft it's just c and c++. Competition with Java is irrelevant, c# already occupies that space. Microsoft has enough need and scale that a systems language that picks up internal use is justified. The use case is making platforms, not crossing them.
I keep hearing about these beanie babies as a comparison - is there a whitepaper describing how that revolutionary payment system worked?

Otherwise it would be really stupid to use it as comparison to Bitcoin.
I would like to see a hybrid drive system where writes are first made to a journal which exists on a spinning platter, maintained in such a way that seek times are absolutely minimized. Then, the data is transferred to the flash side of the house.

This would result in a drive with fantastic throughput, except when immediately reading what was written. So long as there was a delay between writes and reads of the same data, it would look like a perfectly performing SSD. This could have fantastic properties for web applications. Given network latencies, many web applications could have considerable delays between the time data is written to disk and subsequently read.
Looking into the JVM Crystal Ball
2014 Pro Bowl: Complete rosters
I miss the HN of old where there were hardcore technical discussions about the merits and demerits of the technical approaches in such posts. Here we have almost none of those and instead there is lot of horse beating about aspects that are not even announced yet, taking sides in big tech politics etc, especially in upvoted comments, a trend which I previously noticed slowly dominated and then killed Slashdot. I guess I must be getting too old for HN and the marked shift in the audience.
You forgot to mention , in detail, all sorts of attacks nation states could make on bitcoin itself and how would bitcoin respond, realistically.
Why does the fact that I'm criticizing Gruber's arguments mean I "obviously" don't think Apple currently makes the best phones? Bad arguments should be criticized. His arguments about Apple not having a "lost year" based on resale values from two years ago are, in my opinion, bogus.

> Why should someone else "admit" to feeling the same way as you when they obviously do not?

What? They shouldn't. They should admit it at the point where it is obviously true. I'm asking what it would take to get to that point. If the next HTC phone cures cancer and the next iPhone can't make phone calls, would we still articles like this from daringfireball? I think the answer is clearly yes. This site consistently reads like it is ghostwritten by Apple's marketing team. Whether my personal preferences align with this stopped clock at this particular moment is utterly irrelevant.
>> Let's see who laughs in 5 years

Hah :P

It's nice to see yet another sane person on HN, by the way.
no, that's Sanskrit
Skype but properly peer-to-peer was pretty much the theme of realtime conf this year take a look at this video: http://vimeo.com/77289728 They demo a federated video chat.
1)set up an affiliate deal with a service that turns the photos into real products and integrate with their API.

Send them the photo, and then give them the option to buy a print / hat / sticker / skin / etc.

2) you can use display ads from other networks in your email news letter if you want to try that, but it's a pretty abstracted revenue stream

3) sponsorships are much better than ads on low traffic properties.. I have luck selling ads at close to $1k / cpm equivalent for a blog I ran.

4) joint ventures -- run the app for free and then once a week / month / whenever promote a specific offer to your list.

5) I'd be focused on getting users first and probably the only action I'd want them to take is to recommend the service to friends.. Otherwise, you are trying to reinvest ad revenue from users to recruit more users - it seems that focusing on getting your viral coefficient above 1.0 would be a better use of focusing the actions of your users since the users are the best evangelists... Maybe even just having a feature for them to share the photo on Facebook, etc and include a link back.. Better yet, have an automatic option to autopost the throw back photo to their time time.
kotlin looks cool. But it's missing some minor things that would make it much more friendly:

* no regex literals

* a little verbose(instead of [] for arrays, it's "Arrays")

* hashes IMO should be JSON

* why doesn't null evaluate to false? God I hate writing if (a != null). I'm much happier in javascript/ruby/groovy land where if can type "if (!a)" or "unless a" or even cooler "raise Exception("a should not be null") unless a"

* why did the world standardize on camelCase instead of snake_case ? the world was wrong about this!

basically a little more javascript and ruby influence would have been good. make the language more "fun" and expressive. There is no equiv of the ||= operator or | for joining arrays, etc

But the big things it's missing are more ecosystem features:
* REPL

* an alternative build system (please don't make anyone use maven!) should be an interpreted scripting language. I'd look at Rake or Gradle for inspiration

* rails like web framework
Most anarchists are fully aware that power structures are inevitable. Defining anarchy as their absence is a little silly.

I like thinking of the goal of anarchism as "smaller power structures that you can more easily swap out."
Sounds like a lot of effort to pay in exchange of an incremental improvement of C#.
I'm sure lots don't. I see the attraction of an urban lifestyle but I also like the space and quiet of where I live in the country--and the ability to hop in the car and go somewhere with canoe, skis, etc. (And I enjoy cooking. I travel a lot and find that having to eat out gets old after a while.)
In five years the world will be exactly the damn same as it was five years ago (2008). What is it about tech that makes people believe that sociological change happens at absurd time scales?
I know nothing about Sanskrit to verify or refute what you claim, but why the negative attitude? This resource seems good. Maybe people are interested in Sanskrit just for the sake of learning it? Maybe some people want to learn Sanskrit and not other languages of south India, or Estonian, or Modern Standard Chinese.

I'm not aware of what the "usual Hindutva nonsense" is. I'm going to guess there's a group of people in India who think Sanskrit and/or Hindu culture are the best thing since sliced bread. Who cares? When fans of a language, culture (or technology! :P ) are trying to convince you to learn it, they will sometimes make highly biased claims. This is to be expected.

The only thing that would matter to me is if someone claimed this particular resource for learning Sanskrit is not very good, is hard to follow, or has many mistakes.
Show HN: Newspager - iOS app for quick news
Hey I created an app a couple of weekends ago out of a personal need and would like to get some feedback from all of you.

I visit a set of web pages as a routine every morning to get my news/updates from around the world. Some of the web sites don’t support RSS feeds so I end up visiting the pages directly.

Going between tabs and bookmarks got to me and I thought what if I could scroll through headlines, articles etc just like the news feed in Facebook. So I created an app that does that.

You can visit the web site at:
www.newspagerapp.com
or download the app from iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/newspager/id768497996?ls=1&mt=8

The app is $.99 to download. If anyone wants a promo code please let me know and I will send one.

Although usable, the app needs some work. I am aware of it and would like to hear your suggestions.
64-bit PC OperatingSystem: Self-imposed limit of 100,000LOC. Also, kept perfect.
It seems he just wanted to draw a parallel between two "manias". I have no idea what will happen to Bitcoin, but it sure does look like a mania. I do see the benefits too, of course.

Most Bitcoins are purchased as a speculation, expecting their value to go way up. It's possible that the gold rush is already over, but it's also possible it's only beginning.
Yes I agree. A family member is in a wheelchair/power chair and where I live, it's nearly impossible to find single level homes unless you build new. There home was recently modified with a $16,000 elevator and honestly it's barely accessible. A power chair just makes it into the elevator and there's absolutely no room to turn inside the lift.

I wish there was more interest in accessible vehicles as well. Outside of the Kenguru which can't go up hills and is limited to 25MPH (since it's NEV) there aren't many other options which allows a power chair user to drive (without transferring).