skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go and visit them. If you look at any of the bigger marketplaces or on demand apps in the market at the moment, most of them started by getting a few people signed up on the demand side. They did that by physically going out and talking to them, demoing the product, explaining why it works, what the benefits are and frequently physically taking them through the signup process. If you do a bit of relationship building with your supply side providers, you'll be amazed at the results. Assuming your idea is good, has demand and is easy to use, those service providers you talk to will be some of your biggest advocates. They'll talk to their colleagues and friends in the industry and hopefully tell your story on your behalf. You effectively want to create advocates on the supply side. Also, that personal relationship will allow you to get invaluable feedback that you frequently wouldn't have thought of.

I've just invested in a marketplace in the Middle East. Our product is almost ready for beta. We've been out talking to the people who will be our service providers for the last month (and we probably won't launch for another month), showing them screenshots, talking to them about what they need and what would help them and generally gauging interesting and getting numbers signed up. We've had some amazing feedback and have introduced a few small features into the apps on the basis of the most common pieces of feedback.

Go out and talk to people. Hit the bricks. I guarantee you the results will be immeasurably better than direct mail, adwords or anything else in the early stages.
For mobile devices: Just create a QR code, than you don't need to share your password with any one, except who is directly at your location.
I'd use it, do you know any? Are you creating one?
The article mentions using 3D Ripper DX [0].

What I would guess from the homepage is that it hooks itself somewhere in the DirectX stack, and is able to extract the model from there. It probably monitors DirectX calls and pulls the data about the geometry, textures, etc from there. If it does that, it avoids the data format issue since it only has to understand the native DirectX API calls and memory structures.

[0] http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/3DRipperDX.htm
We may not be able to decide the right tax rate scientifically. But what we can do is determine very accurately the consequences of the choice.
If we increase the tax rate x%, innovation will suffer y% but n less people will have to starve in the streets.
iOS is arguably one of the three top consumer software platforms (Web, Android, iOS) and a lot of people reading HN are developing for it. Personally, as a programmer, I would find Swift articles interesting and educating, even if I wasn't developing for iOS, as Swift has adopted a lot of concepts from modern statically typed languages.
Along the lines of why corporations don't innovate consider that
while traditional corporations also use money to fix legal situations or messes they have gotten themselves into, they generally wouldn't enter a market where upfront you know there will be legal problems down the road. It becomes more or less in many situations a non starter.
Now hold on. Their innovation was monetizing couch-surfing, the 'sharing economy' as applied to places to sleep. Perhaps you can point to someone earlier who broke the ground, but the perception of the world at large is that Airbnb did it.

There are plenty of people who wouldn't be violating any rules or laws by being Airbnb hosts. Clearly the service could exist without anyone bypassing laws. You might instead argue that the business model requires laws to be flouted in order to turn a profit, but I don't see how you'd prove it.
Amazon’s 3D smartphone is a gimmick–but it could be a huge retail opportunity
Nobody makes money selling smartphones except Apple and Samsung, so why would Amazon want to sell its own smartphone?
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> I'm sure the community would love to play with it! :)

I get the feeling that this is exactly the reason why the project is not open-sourced yet. It's an art project. Open-sourcing now has a risk that "the community" could take his work and develop it in a different direction than the author imagined or intended.
This seems like an "if it ain't broke don't fix it" situation.
> What I dislike the most about Airbnb's whole controversial business model, is how the true innovation they did was bypassing laws.

Why do you dislike that? Is it because you think any business which bypasses laws is inherently bad, or is it because you think these particular laws (zoning, hotel regulations, etc.) are themselves valid and should not be broken?
That doesn't actually work, because you're limiting the return type of the method in the implementation of the functor. So by implementing that protocol, you could have one mapping from Int to String (say), but not another from Int to Double.

Put another way, you need to specify FunctorResult at implementation time, and the whole point is to only have to specify it at call time.
I can recommend Instabridge, which seems to do the exact same thing. [1]

[1]: http://instabridge.com/en/
Given the constraints, it's certainly very innovative.
Thanks for providing that explanation. I know MIT and CMU, and surely other top schools, have worked hard to increase the number of women in computer science. That graph had me wondering what's up.
You guys may want to filter out a Wifi URL based on some page routes. I made getwifi.io/login, which, coincidentally, is the login page.

http://i.imgur.com/E8IdmjZ.png
How to save configurations using SNMP
I'm not entirely sure what this does. According to the site, it "shares WiFi". I don't know if that means it'll send the WiFi credentials to all of your devices over Bluetooth or an app or create an ad-hoc network. It would be helpful if the website had screenshots or drawings explaining exactly what GetWifi does.
GHash.IO hasn't 51% of total network power anymore

https://blockchain.info/pools?timespan=24hrs
Learning, Swift for sure.

For shipping, prototyping or production work, you cannot live without some of the stuff from the community. Cocoapods, testing frameworks, AFnetworking, Reveal there's a lot. All those are obj-c and it will take some time for Swift to catch up.
Don't mix up your polymorphism.

The fact that an instance of A is assignment compatible with a location of type B does not imply that a class of type A is assignment compatible with a location of type class of B.

This is not the case for languages like C#, Java, C++ etc. (despite those languages not having class types); if a subclass does not define all the constructors of its ancestor class, the subclass is not a "drop-in replacement".

Delphi does have class value polymorphism that mirrors instance polymorphism, and it can be a source of confusion, not to mention type holes. For A inheriting from B, you can construct a value of type A using a constructor of B if you assign A to a location of type class of B; A's constructor won't run, and its assumptions and invariants won't necessarily hold. It's one of several problems that makes designing robust classes in Delphi awkward.
See http://ipv6-test.com/stats/. You can filter the list by country to see results by ISP.

The data is collected from users that visit the site and take part in the test. Keep in mind that the data isn't conclusive as the end-users location, and his hardware, effects the providers offerings and the statistics.
Good points, thank you. You are right, it is good to go and visit our clients in order to better understand and fulfill their needs. Is it appropriate to call those companies to introduce ourself?
Yup. Click. Look around. Navigate away.
I don't think that it really matters that much, they are not THAT different. The harder part about learning Cocoa is learning the how to structure the application and the APIs. You might have an easier time starting with Obj-C since there will be more learning material and more sample code that you can learn from.
No idea what this is or what service they are providing. The website is terrible.
Anecdotal evidence in favor of Objective-C (Swift wasn't around back then): at an early WWDC, a dev. who was completely unfamiliar with Objective-C finished his first Cocoa application during the "Intro to Cocoa" session, and spoke about his amazement during the feedback.

Swift is way more complicated than Objective-C, even if the syntax may seem a lot more familiar if you're used to certain other languages.

The reasons for this complexity are manifold: static type-systems of the sophistication that Swift is attempting are complex. Even if Swift were stand-alone, had an all new class-library (or non-class library as it may be), there is quite a bit of complexity there.

However, Swift is not stand-alone. It has to interoperate with the existing Objective-C class libraries. That alone would also not be a problem, had Swift's designers not chosen to go in a completely different direction from Objective-C, both syntactically and semantically. So while they did an OK job in wrapping the libraries, there just is quite a bit of fundamental mismatch that's just waiting to bite you. A small example are force-unwrapped optionals that you get out of a lot of the library calls (because nil ptrs. are OK in ObjC and Cocoa), which will blow up when you use them, without the compiler warning you! (So much for safety).

As other posters have pointed out, you will need to learn Objective-C to make sense of things.

On the other hand, Apple will push on Swift hard, and with the faddishness of the industry being what it is, you might find Swift skills in much greater demand, even if it doesn't actually make sense from an objective standpoint.

Finally, while Swift currently is completely proprietary, Objective-C actually does have non-Apple implementations and users on Linux and Windows.
I can recommend bup. https://github.com/bup/bup
I learned Objective C in about a week (two days of reading, then three more days of trying stuff out).

I'm not an expert ObjC hacker, but if you already know C++ and have done a little UI work in something before then you shouldn't have much trouble.

Once I got over the hump (mostly weirdness with terminology and window manipulation), the XCode environment feels quite nice, comparable to Visual Studio with the Whole Tomato plugins.

Next up: Android. Hmmm.
Why people won't change the pool to some other pool that doesn't take fees?
As property listing sites go, Airbnb did not produce any true innovation.

It innovated so much that it enriched my own life quite substantially. I needed what I was only able to find via Airbnb. And those renting their own places needed the money.
You know we're in trouble when anyone is giving you stock tips. There is zero evidence that brokers and analysts (in general) can pick stocks better than UPS drivers. Except that they are in a position to profit from others' greed and fear.

I'll agree that the "UPS guy" metric is useful, but only because it shows when a certain kind of madness has infected the rest of society. When even people who aren't paid to promulgate nonsense are blinded by their enthusiasm.
Very true, they are good for consumers who are able to pay more to get online. Back in the early days of android, you definitely wanted to pay more for iphones as the quality difference was so large. Now that quality is more or less equal I guess the selling point is "privacy"? I'm not so sure what the quantifiable price is for that. It depends on how much giving my information out harms me, and I'm not quite seeing the harm. If I do a search from my desktop for a location then the driving directions appear on my phone, then that "privacy violation", or sharing of information between machines, is actually helpful. In fact, both companies want to give consumers what they want, in one case so they buy their phones, in another case, so they click on relevant ads. So what I see is that Apple is simply behind the times on information sharing and is catching up (new mapping service which collects data for example). But once Apple starts sharing information well to provide a good experience like what google provides, then I'm not sure what the selling point will be for paying more.
Then why do I keep seeing Senate committee hearings where the Congress representatives are completely uninformed and challenge the people that come to speak to them? (about climate change, how the internet works, etc.)
I believe both modern China and fascist Italy did something like this, with a "stakeholder" model (corporatism, social and commercial groups of interest to government have a seat at the table) of governance. I'm not slyly trying to bash the idea through negative connotations, but if it's similar I wonder if we could learn from them. I can think of a few downsides, but there are upsides too.
This ship has kind of sailed; there are plenty of routers out there running Linux that aren't updated either. Not to mention the Internet of Exploitable Lightbulbs coming over the horizon.
/bug

Really interesting premise but stuck at 98%.
Mac and Chrome latest.
The MIN Challenge
Boys tend to figure out how home computers work, and once they start, this is an endless trip down the rabbit hole.

I don't usually observe the same in girls. They use computers for their worth but they don't seek more.

Female programmers I know are usually taught formally, not self-taught as opposed to male programmers.
I assume there is motivation for these large ISPs to provide internet access (and thus additional bandwidth) for free at all of their customer's locations. I assume there is some sort of profit being made from it, and I assume it has something to do with finding out what/who is near these access points and maybe seeing what they are doing and feeding them different sorts of data based on that information.

The property you own that they are utilizing is just that, your property, or your estate. They are using the land that you work your entire life to rent or own to scan mobile devices around it and gather information which they are profiting from.

I just think it is a stretch to go from a simple cable modem (which customers could easily own, but they'd rather give away their natural right to control their own property for ease of use/access) which should just simply be providing access to the bandwidth you are paying for (like cable boxes would just provide you a connection to your TV channels of choice), to operating an internet service to anybody in your area.
I've wanted to play around with this. Thanks for the great write up. Anyone know of a hosting provider/layer focusing on this workflow?
At a very high level, this idea seems interesting. But I've seen a few sites like this one recently and I'm not a fan. They generally have a cool-looking page but hardly any information saying what they ACTUALLY do. My guess is they want us to click around the page(s), admire the design and ideally, sign up to learn more.

Frankly, not many people seem to be a fan of it so future landing page designers, please take note of this and avoid it. Beautiful design is awesome but it is merely the cherry on top. If the stuff below it sucks, the cherry loses its significance.
jq is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies.

Thank you! When I clicked on the link I was fully expecting it to be written in Node and I was going to cry.
> It sold more than its predecessor in that tier (along with the 5s and 4s)

What do you mean "its predecessor in that tier"? The all-but-stated goal of the 5C was to break into a new market that they'd previously been priced out of.

For weeks (if not months) leading up to the release of the iPhone 5C there were news reports of Apple's attempt to break into China by releasing a cheaper iPhone. Sure, these were based on "rumors", but since Apple almost never announces their strategy directly, this is how most of our understanding of Apple's strategy has always worked.

Apple's been able to take some market share from ZTE, but not from any of the other main players (Samsung's market share has increased since the release of the 5C).

(Also, your quotation doesn't actually refute the statement I made earlier. I didn't say that the 5C didn't sell to new iPhone users - I meant that, for those new users, the 5C sold to people who otherwise would have bought a 5S (thus eating into their potential profits). That's neither here nor there, though, since the main issue is how the 5C sold in China, not the US.)
Some people believe, wrongly, that being with the bigger pool reduces their earnings variance and increases their earnings.

Someone on reddit went and did a Monte Carlo simulation to show them that that really wasn't true so long as the pool had at least a few percent of over all hashing power and that any risk to the BTC price from the negative perception of a 51% attack was far costlier than the couple tenths of a percent you might get by going with the largest pool.

http://bitcoinswitzerland.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/miners-lu...
I think you're largely right - but both Uber and Airbnb are therefore testaments to the fact that the laws suck. The arrangements for drivers/riders and renters/rentees seem to be working out well for both sides of the transactions in the vast majority of cases. We should ask ourselves if those regulations should exist in the first place.
Just to be clear: innovative for Apple development community or innovative generally? Please list some/all innovations, I would be happy to reconsider.
No. If the child class binds the type parameter of the base class (as in this example), then it's meaningless to think of that class as being generic. In this example, Bar is always Bar<String> - you can't have a Bar<Integer> or a Bar<anything else>. So why not just call it Bar? FWIW, this is how it works in Java, and it seems to work.

Indeed, calling it Bar<String> seems really weird to me. Usually, in a declaration, the thing inside the angle brackets is a the name of a parameter, which can assume various values at runtime:

class Foo<T>

But in the subclass, it's the name of a type:

class Bar<String>

Essentially, one is a declaration, and the other is an expression. Like and l-value and an r-value. I don't think i've ever seen a language which allows both of those in the same place.
Looks like they fixed that fast after your comment. [domain]/../../../../../../../../etc/passwd is still possible though, which then makes getwifi.io/etc/passwd.

Really, they should obfuscate the user-submitted URL entirely instead of blacklisting or whitelisting.
> the only innovative thing they did was finding a law loophole

Don't forget this:

http://www.quora.com/Airbnb-Craigslist-Spamming-Controversy
And when it does happen? (It's a when, not an if.)

I don't think people will like their financial system unfairly tampered with.

People say, "Why would Ghash do that? They profit from the system they'd be manipulating." Well, so did Mt. Gox, and it didn't stop them from manipulating it anyway.
I'm all for proper regulation.

But on the other hand, recent technological advancements hold potential for huge improvements in almost every important industry(for ex. healthcare), but in many cases, are blocked by regulation.

Looking at the amount of value such innovations will create , it sometimes seem greatly unethical not to use that loophole.
Ikea admorishs guy from ikeahackers.net... sad, sad, sad.
Small bug report: password validation message says it has to be at least 5 characters, when it actually has to be more than 5 characters.
So what's an individual miner's incentive here to continue mining with a pool that has 51%? If he wants more security in his own mined bitcoins, then surely he has an incentive to switch to another pool?

Why is GHash so popular to miners?
If it was even that; the game features many female characters dressed exactly the same as male characters, but the GP (who obviously had not played the game) had to pick on one exception - a screenshot that portrays two people in dress uniforms. Is United States Army sexist as well [0]? Or just maybe one can find gender issues everywhere if one tries hard enough.

[0] - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/US-NEW-CL...
Learning a language is more than learning the official syntax. It's solving real problems, finding a community, looking up answers on blogs and Stack Overflow. To that end, I think the answer is definitely Obj-C, but it's not mutually exclusive. I think Swift is where C# was circa 2002 - it might be the language of the future, but back then there was still plenty of VB being written, and ditto for Obj-C.

I personally think starting with one of the WebView wrappers is a better place to start, as it gets you used to the toolchain.
Thanks. We'd very much appreciate that!
Sounds similar to http://www.mandicmagic.com/
AirBNB did have provide a substantial increase in usability compared to their competitors. When I made my first stay in an AirBNB, I was comparing their offerings to those on VRBO.com, which has been listing rentals of this sort since 1995. AirBNB had a vastly better listing engine compared to the Web 1.0-link system VRBO had at the time. Since then, VRBO has gotten a lot better.
I hate websites where they tell you literally nothing about how they achieve what they do. Not signing up just to find out what you do...
Sony Full Frame Curved sensor
Satoshi wrote this in the original Bitcoin paper, which logic I think still holds today:

If a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU power than
all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it
to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using it to generate
new coins. He ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules, such
rules that favour him with more new coins than everyone else combined, than
to undermine the system and the validity of his own wealth.
Pragmatic : Objective C. Swift is too "young" and unproven - there's still lot of rough edge, it's a beta. But start learning Swift in the same time.
Future looking : Objective C, to be able to understand the interop still needed for Swift... but using Swift right now for most stuff.
So, nice design... What do you do?

Philippe, CTO “What shall we do tonight?”

I get it now, it's all a joke!
Came to post the same thing. ftfa: "Asking for help makes you vulnerable, but it does not mean you are weak."

I still need to learn this.
And look terrible on all platforms while at it. Yes, a much better solution indeed. This is not to say Apple UI is good or bad. This has nothing to do with it. Users expect native look and feel from apps. I assume you are a Linux user, where there is almost no consistency to software (outside of teams purposefully designing software to look consistent, such as Elementary OS), but this is not how it is on Windows and Apple operating systems, and for the most part on Android. If you don't like the ecosystem, that's fine - don't develop for it, but don't dismiss something that users expect from this ecosystem.