skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or just hash it and keep a whitelist if you don't need to get too heavy-duty. Though I would personally just go for signing the file -- don't necessarily need to encrypt it unless you have sensitive data in there -- then you just have to keep track of the key instead of maintain a whiltelist of good hash values.
Opentick used to provide this information for an EXTREMELY competitive price point (something like $5/month/exchange), but they are refactoring their business and are out of commission for the moment.

http://www.opentick.com
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> I'd assume that most of the professors aren't even there primarily for the teaching.

Professors are at universities to do research. Teaching is a necessary evil.
This makes me happy to have just moved here. There seem to be a lot of civic-minded people taking initiative with technology.

I spent some time in Portland, which is supposed to be uber-progressive, but we didn't have as much of this sort of thing even there.
It even includes anonymous troll developers (look at the video).
Right. But I took your comment about the standardized test as a possible alternative certification idea. Certification could be finer-grained than a college diploma. Maybe that sort of testing is a good idea for a business for someone who thinks that this is the way education is headed.

As it is people try to apply other criteria to their choices of professionals besides relying solely on a diploma.
Yes, I know. But it's a lot harder to find the rest of the text and I didn't want to link to some sleazy lyrics site here.

Quite an amazing text. For a long time it was attributed to Kurt Vonnegut as well I believe.
Where's purple? Or, how to plot colours properly on a computer screen
Would this work for cars? I had a car with IR to open doors once.
It doesn't do a whole lot for that, but C can be quite verbose and the standard Xlib bindings don't help at all.
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I come from family of software developers: my mom's job -> they outsourced some of the development. It was the biggest mistake they've ever made. They paid hundreds of thousands of dollars and they got something that did not work.

Outsourcing is tricky.
You are not dealing with developers eye to eye.
Plus the time difference will slow down the whole development. You write them e-mail during your day time, they respond during theirs.

Why don't you hire a developer from your town ? Or you even might get a recent graduate who will be willing to work for some stock options and pocket money. Since they live in their parents basement, and due to recession they have trouble finding a job.
i actually like psychology articles, and i have seen quite a few pop up in the front page. so thought this would be relevant.
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Also, a tautology is a statement that is necessarily true. However, 3% doesn't necessarily mean a diminished value. For example, if your local bank had a promotion which guaranteed a 3% daily interest savings return that would be considered quite a lot.
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"covers items sold where they are clearly intended for a particular purpose, but then try to claim no guarantee that they are, in fact, fit for that purpose."

You mean like just about every software license agreement in the world? ;)
Curious that the nano gets a camera, and a video camera at that, but the touch doesn't.
del Toro has a very unique aesthetic. I would imagine that the creature designs may depart a bit from the world created in the first three films. It will be interesting to see if del Toro will choose to follow the realism approach to the art direction in the first three movies or if he will choose to pursue his more fantastical visions in the art direction.
if domain name includes _ shoemoney then the business is probably a scam/parasite. Yes I put those in the same category
I think we are at the edge of my language skills here.

To me it sounds like someone that has just had some kind of epiphany.

If a dutch person would say:

"Y combinator verandert deze kracht van een gewicht op je schouders dat je naar beneden haalt tot een krachtige raket die je de lucht in schiet"

We'd think they might need help. Or at a minimum that they should stop smoking that stuff ;)
I figured they didn't have a lot of extra room in the case. Not that the Nano seems to, either.

Edit: or the rumored manufacturing delays made them delay the announcement.
FTA:

Ten private companies, a number of US Government Federal Agencies primarily in the Health sector and the OpenID and Information Card Foundations will announce this morning in Washington DC the launch of a pilot program to allow members of the public to log in to participating government websites with their credentials from approved independent websites.

They're not allowing any OpenID cert, they're just blessing the big providers (presumably Google, Yahoo, etc...).
To all of those who said, "I like the model...", did you signup?

I ask because I have a strong feeling that there are a lot of people who think that yet won't actually pull the trigger and buy it. I understand the model and I think it's very forward-thinking yet I'm not paying.
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There's autocompletion for Berkshire Hathaway; but when I select (say, the A-class shares), the results text yields and error when I select Go!
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I guess. I'm just used to Apple magically being able to stick anything they want to inside a nearly nonexistent depth.
My wild guess is that they feel it would cannibalize sales from the phone?

Cramming all the other features (FM, pedometer, camera/video) into the nano will make menu navigation pretty complicated though.
This is ok, but it's really not much of an improvement on Linux's layer7 modules for netfilter. It is still not very useful for identifying encrypted traffic. Much cooler are statistical approaches, because they can frequently get around encryption for protocol identification purposes. E.G. spid (don't know if it gets around the encryption thing...) http://sourceforge.net/projects/spid/
Disclaimer: I don't work for these guys.

I've found thesixtyone.com to be AWESOME for discovering good, indie music. It's got a very social-networky-MMO sort of feel to it and is really well structured to trying new music.
i.e. that the wealthy are only relatively so, and as such are defined as the rightward long tail of the income distribution, and thus are few (by definition).
Hmmm - I've tried offshore development deals and, after my 3rd or 4th one, I finally got a decent one. The problem is that I blew through about $1500 first (which was a significant amount of budget at the time). I'd say that there are cheaper labor costs offshore but not "cheap labor costs offshore". However, you must be savvy enough to ensure they are not designing a system that only they can modify/understand. You'd have to spend $5k to get it built and then to find out that they want a $15k/yr maintenance contract.

There's always Moveable Type or Wordpress for simple sites.
That's a good tip. Also, if you down-rate or snooze a lot of tracks, a station starts to wander more from its core tracks.

But it's still disappointing that a station seeded from a a single artist won't at least put all of their tracks in rotation, instead staying tightly around their best-known/best-liked sound. (I think Pandora is a little too proud of their 'music genome' typing project.)
<i>Any A/B testing article will generally explain that you can split users using the modulo operator on some user id</i>

The good ones will tell you that you can do that, but then explain that doing so gives you problems if you want to run more than one A/B test at the same time. They also should explain that there can be large chance fluctuations, so you need to be able to tell the difference between significant results and chance ones. Else people will draw lots of wrong premature conclusions.

For a better (albeit much longer and more detailed) explanation of how to A/B test read the one I did last year at http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/.
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A surprising miscue from Ars Technica; this "technology" has been available in GPL open source from Snort since forever.
He did Hellboy I/II which had fairly exotic creatures but nothing too far (visually) from the LOtR trilogy. I generally love his work and am looking forward to seeing what he does with The Hobbit.
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Where to begin?

Why so insecure ?

Surely you know the level of your skills ?

It's like the prettiest woman walking up to you and admitting her insecurities about her looks.

Trust me, every entrepreneur has these fears. And the ones that tell you they don't are lying through their teeth.

We're all up here working our asses off to prove that we can do better. We're all cowards in one form or another. Afraid that our next venture will be a failure. Afraid that we're past our prime. Afraid that someone will outdo us. And so on.

But we've overlaid that fear with concrete and self-discipline (except of course, for procrastinating).

It's fine if YC gives you the power to overcome your fears, but make no mistake, you had that power all along, you are the one doing the work.

The fact that someone watches you seems to make a huge difference to you, and it is great that they can provide you with that assistance but on the whole I figure that is but a small part of your accomplishment. And I doubt anybody at YC would disagree with that.

The real fight is with yourself. To judge your competence accurately and your failings ditto. No need to go overboard and to think that you could not have made it any other way.

I'm 100% convinced that you would have. It might have taken longer, you might have followed a different path.
Bingo. Nano competes with standard devices but isn't expandable through the AppStore. Touch gives you internet, AppStore but is hardware limited (no radio, camera, mic). Have to buy the iPhone + contract to get both.

I was dreaming of a touch with a speaker + mic so I could use Skype + MiFi.
I own an outsourcing company with a staff of 20 in Cebu, Philippines. They handle web design, programming, data entry, etc., for small businesses, including my own projects.

I would say that depending on what your project is, you'll find that there are some things that work well with outsourcing/offshoring, and others that don't. I doubt you could suddenly learn how to program well in a short time, but you would probably have as difficult a time instructing a team of programmers if you don't know it yourself.

You can learn enough to build a rough prototype, and hire programmers to fill in the gaps, because you'll have the most success the simpler the outsourced tasks are. Here is how completely outsourcing a simple project might work (to keep costs low when hiring programmers, stick with LAMP):

Let's say you have an idea for a cool web app that lets people looking to lose weight input foods that they usually eat, and the system will suggest lower-calorie alternatives.

Since you know basic design you create a rough design and a list of specs for the different pages and post it on www.designbay.com to get a design. (~$200)

You find a design that you like and you send it to www.psd2html.com for coding into html/css. (~$300)

You know enough about PHP to start writing some code to make it interactive, so now people can fill in a form and submit it, but you need help with the back end. This task is much easier if you take the time to learn object-oriented PHP, so that changes just have to be made to the classes. (~$0)

Here's where you turn to www.elance.com to find a PHP/MySQL expert who can take the USDA calorie database (a list of every food and the nutritional content from the label) and put it in MySQL. He also writes some code that takes the user's food list and finds lower calorie foods to swap (very easy to do with a few SQL statements). (~$450)

Obviously this is a very simple example, and I left out much of the detail, but you get the point. Of course, depending on how hands on you want to be, you can get this done much cheaper. Just don't expect to be able to describe the project and have someone build it from scratch for anything less than a small fortune.
Yeah, the keynote just ended and no announcements even remotely like this. What a shock!
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Except in this case, he would have a 50% success rate. When you compare that to investment newsletters, fortune tellers, economists or anyone else who tries to predict the future, this guy would probably come out at the top of the list.
Last month we got 688,000 new blog posts via XML-RPC, so desktop clients are still meaningful. (XML-RPC API is also used by other folks like Flickr.) APP may be better, I don't have a strong opinion, but it's hardly used and in fact we had trouble finding clients to test with when writing support for it. Regardless, we try to have the best support for APP possible.

Same thing with feeds -- we offer every feed in a choice of 4 formats (two Atoms, two RSSes). It's the same content and there's no overhead to us (it's just a template file) so why not let people choose what they like best.
Poor Steve is so thin. Can't tell you how sad this makes me.
Some of them really do care about teaching. Hint for college students: find these professors.
I think from Apple's perspective having the Nano with a video camera could be a stand alone device. Meaning lots of people might buy it to use only as a video camera. In which case Apple is happy to sell you a Touch and a Nano. They control enough of the market to create these artificial segmentations. I'm sure they have market research on it.
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Thanks for the reply, that actually makes sense. Using a combination of the two to get something done more efficiently.

I guess it really does depend how hands on you want to be vs how much you know.
Outsource. But outsource smartly.

Hire 2 companies / freelancers. One to do the work. And one to audit the work.

Outsourcing will save time. And if you select the right people, money too. (I am based in India. Can help you find the right people over here if you so desire.)

Re: learning coding on your own

Do so only if you are good with it and like it. Don't do it because you have this website idea.

Case in point: if you own 2 restaurants. One does average business. One does dismal business. Should you try to improve the dismal restaurant or the average restaurant?

Almost always - you'll get better returns if you improve the average restaurant to become an excellent restaurant.

Replace restaurants with skill-sets above. It pays better to work on your stronger skills and outsource your weaknesses.
"Realize that in a confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins-- not through strength, but rather through perseverance."

Are you suggesting that the rock did not persevere?
No, definitely not far from the Tolkien lore at all, it's just that Jackson studiously avoided moving into a fantasy aesthetic in favor of (fairly) realistic designs that would at least work in the real world. With success of the previous films, del Toro may have more room to push the envelope without being as concerned about losing audience. Jackson was wary about pushing the high fantasy because of concerns about losing audience.
The problem with log files is that many people don't read them, particularly not proactively. Moreover, certain automated tools reading logs promote complacency--I;ve got tools checking for abnormalacy, I'm safe. Same thing happens with virus scanners that aren't kept up-to-date. However, if your business is running a hospital, how intrinsicly motivated are you to be secure? That isn't a core competency. It isn't even a profit center, at best it's meeting a mandate. Thus, most will do the least allowed to save cost. Mandating log files isn't mandating security.
Agreed, Pandora can get a bit one dimensional if you're not diligent. I've heard it's best to upvote sparingly and downvote heavily if you want a good mix. Also adding multiple bands and/or songs to a channel helps.
"It's fine if YC gives you the power to overcome your fears, but make no mistake, you had that power all along, you are the one doing the work."

That was exactly my point. YC is a shortcut, but ultimately it's all you. If you're determined enough, you don't need YC to succeed. But it sure helps.
Zii Egg has that, also video & still cameras. But no radio. :-(
Ah yes, but can you share the information from that special event with us? Oh, we have to click a link to view it? Well what good is that. And we can't properly annotate it. Well shit, might as well go back to pen & paper.
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Perhaps you know this but you can use the mic on the iphone headphones with the touch. e.g. http://store.apple.com/ca/product/MB770G/A?fnode=MTY1NDA3NA&...

And it has a speaker.
Ah, I wasn't aware that Snort had that capability.

However, at the very least the open-sourcing of some subset of a commercial DPI product is interesting in that it provides more information than any other company (that I'm aware of, anyway) has revealed on the subject thus far.

edit:
Not to say that it alleviates many of the concerns about packet monitoring, but some information is better than no information.
Psychology is one thing. but psychologytoday.com is craptacular pop-psychology.
True. Obviously the definition isn't complete :)
In fairness I was overgeneralizing; but the main point of being a professor is to do research, and plenty of professors have no problem reminding their undergraduate students of this fact.
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Possible; My take is that this is what happens when products are developed without strong leadership.

The Nano team internalized, and asked themselves "What have customers been asking for", and added a radio and camera.
The Radio seems to have come out of nowhere- So far as I know, the iPhone/touch don't have them.

The iPhone/iPod touch team, on the other hand, continued to not add the Camera, since it's a differentiating feature, as you suggested.
Or it's incorrect. :-)
We're a long ways away from being able to make a space startup on the kind of money that YC offers. It may not be completely impossible, but we'd need a hell of a lot bigger space economy for it to work. Right now private enterprise still can't put a person into space, let alone build anything like a space economy.

In fact, I have a hard time convincing any VC of an elevator pitch of the form "We're going to take your money, do [space thing X], then sell it to NASA!" That last step is just not going to happen, in general, regardless of what [space thing X] is, at least not with any probability that will entice a VC.
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Of course I can share it. What's wrong with giving you a link? That's the base of the web. It's just text and graphics, you can annotate it however you want.
I agree with this... I just got back into it recently and MtG is pretty much growing and growing. It seems like the 360 Planeswalkers game also gave it a nice boost.

Actually, I'm planning to do some pretty involved development related to card games which is why I got back into it in the first place, but I don't have anything to share yet.
And I call that a hack, especially when I don't think it was done on purpose or with thought, but simply because "that's how it needs to work". The fact that it wasn't intended as a hack doesn't make it not a hack; I'm sure that by 2050 we'll be looking back on types that could be magically NULL in much the same way I currently curse at SQL every time something generates "SELECT * FROM blah WHERE value IN ()". ("Damn it, SQL, it's just an empty list and always false, what's the damn big deal?! So very 70s...") There's a whole slew of things like that from older technologies; someday I really ought to make a list.
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Yep, I do this.
Isn't a disclaimer for when you do 'work for these guys?'
pre-revenue stream

Here's a shiny black box that can potentially solve all the worlds problems......
Our growth is tremendous, so get in now while the escalator flies to the moon!

turn on revenue stream and the revenue plateaus at a negative cash-flow position

Here's a shiny black box that ain't makin' us money. Who wants to buy it?

It's not too difficult to understand why a company with tremendous (most of us here would say overhyped) growth is afraid of generating revenue that doesn't come close to matching the hype (I mean growth).
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Vivek Kundra, who was DC's CTO, and spearheaded these developments, is now the USA's CIO. With a little luck, he'll bring the same openness and user-orientation to the national government.
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Most investment newsletters I've come across showcases a significant better than 50% buy/sell recommendation success rate, that's how they get people to listen to them.

All those other guys predict non-binary scenarios. If I try to predict the result of a dice-throw by throwing a dice myself, I'll get a success-rate of exactly 1/6, but when factoring in the number of outcome scenarios, I'm doing exactly as well as the coin-tosser.
Thank you. This is the type of advice I needed.
The very omission of the camera from the Ipod touch makes me wonder what their design team was thinking. Sticking a camera on the ipod nano adds no value to it than the camera on my old samsung cell phone.

A camera on the touch would have probably destroyed the market for some devices and disrupted Apple's own iphone line.
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Yep. It's all in the branding. Newspapers are saying "This is our pay service, you can maybe get a little for free," while Ars says "This is our free service, you can pay to get a little bit more."

The difference is pretty big.
Indeed. I lived there for 20 years and I'm blown away. Walking into their DMV is like going to a 3rd world country. I figured it would be years before they caught up on the digital front.
Ok, let me make it explicit:

- Parties that had an operation going before this policy became public are not and will not be bound by it now or in the future.

(grandfather clause)

- registering domains that are critical of drupal is fine, in fact drupal should welcome criticism, even when drupal does not control the forum. The need for that is evidenced by the fact that criticism on the drupal.org site is not always taken in a way that invites further criticism.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and by trying to control the forum you are effectively saying that drupal is afraid of criticism in the same way that companies like Apple and Microsoft are afraid of criticism.

We're talking about an open source CMS here, no need to go overboard.

- remove the ridiculous claims that all proceeds from projects involving the drupal name should go towards 'fostering drupal software'. Live and let live. That's my reading of the wording right now, maybe your interpretation differs.

- reserve the right to enforce your trademark rights in sofar as the use of the name directly damages drupal with malicious intent.

(such as that guy that had registered drupal.se that I mentioned elsewhere).

And last but not least, simplify the thing, make it at least less than 1/3 the size it is right now. If you expect people to read it and post if front and center on drupal.org so that a person new to drupal has no way to get to the software without knowing what the rules of the game are.

Specific enough ?
Anybody downloaded iTunes 9 yet? It's grotesque. It feels much snappier, which I like, but the new non-Leopard theme feels like a satire on Apple product. Massive overgradients.