skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out ipv4marketgroup.com. I've used them in the past. There is a market but you need to be the registered POC (all communications will go through the POC your RIR has on record) to get anything going.

Assuming you have rights to transfer the block, the current going rate for RIPE addresses is between 10 and 20 dollars per IP, depending on the size of the block and the buyer (e.g. APNIC buyers have a higher level of demand than ARIN, and an inter-RIR transfer to either is about the same amount of hassle).

Minus side is that a broker will take 25% of the cut at least. There's a smaller market for non-brokered transaction, but you'll need help navigating those waters.

Let me know if you have any more questions. Also, this is just a /24, yes? Just want to make sure I'm not misinterpreting 'class C', it's been a long time since I've heard that term and I'm way used to CIDR now. At the moment a /24 might not be worth the hassle of selling, leasing it out for temporary profit on a month by month basis and then selling when the market gets even tighter might be a better option.
The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer
Publishers are kickstarter for authors, raising the money from previous book sales by other authors... :-p
FUCKING annoying.

Apparently they check the referer header.

Mandatory link for lazy people:

https://www.google.com/?q=We%27re+Fighting+the+Feds+Over+You...

(forget about "i'm feeling lucky", that doesnt work, hit search.)
Amazon's Latest Volley
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horrowitz.

It's pretty good, though I personally find his view of business management to be dated and out of touch like his view of title inflation vs Facebook's title normalization. Still a good and insightful read.
I am not sure how the fact that Bintray is DDOSed from China (and still fully operational without any interruption) dismisses your trust in Bintray.

I am also not sure how you figured out those are fake downloads. For sure the script that DDOSes Bintray from China won't use Groovy, but it's a still a valid download. Not for showcasing how popular Groovy is (they factor out those things when talking about the numbers), but for the raw statistics - for sure. The file was downloaded, wasn't it?

Please elaborate?
Reading two books, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and The Devil's Cup by Stewart Lee Allen.
Recently finished Robert Cialdini's Influence: Science and Practice, a great horrifying psychology book. Now I've started Iain Banks' Excession, giving his Culture universe another go. (Player of Games was good, but not great.)
In order to get a return, someone with lots of money (or many people with some money) must believe that there is a future in the company. Yes, technically a VC cares most about the point between initial investment and liquidity event, but in a rational market (HA!) the liquidity event is most valuable when the company has a solid foundation and growth path.
Thanks for your honest advice. I will work on those aspects and update the results.
I highly recommend a LaTeX typesetting pipeline for producing the print version your book.

The fonts and page layout make for high quality books.

Using pandoc you can convert pretty much any modern markup language to .tex (I don't recommend .tex as the source format, as it might be difficult to get used to if you don't have experience with it + it is not trivial to produce .html/.epub from .tex sources.
From the perspective of the publisher and author, this analysis is somewhat meaningless because it doesn't factor in any impact on sales of the book in other formats.
So were ICQ, AIM, MSN, Google Chat, texting, maybe FB messenger, WhatsApp.

I myself have migrated my primary messaging platform through half that list. Isn't there a tremendous risk snapchat users leave that platform the way users have moved from one messaging platform to another for years?
I just finished reading 1984. You should read it as a warning, not a manual.
I'm halfway through the last volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and I admit I'm proud of it. I don't know what can be said in a small space about a novel so large and canonical, but I've deeply enjoyed it. An unexpected quirk of the novel is that though I've been heavily absorbed in it the whole way, and found it moving, funny, and in general a complete literary experience, I can't really recommend it to others without absurd sounding qualifiers, e.g., "As long as you can put up with hundreds of pages on end of detailed descriptions of things like churches, landscapes, flowers, parties, dinners, families, manners, morals, and the like, you'll find it immeasurably beautiful and immediately personally meaningful!" --where I'd of course have never previously taken that bait.
Morning train ride: The Personal MBA.

Evening train ride: Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python.

Best read in a while: The Obstacle is the Way. Great intro to Stoicism, and only $4.00 on the kindle.
Telling a story before getting into theory is often better than explaining the theory and following up with a story. This is a great example of that.
Thanks!

But even if it is not being used yet - do we know if Facebook uses Typescript (or some extension of it)?
The Modern Venture Capitalist's Toolbox
Bwood - you just described it more clearly than I ever have. Thank you.
Editing takes a lot of time. They also assume some risk by paying advances.

Are venture capital firms going to go the way of the record label company?
Mastering Web Application Development in AngularJs
Little Book on CoffeeScript
Most webcomic websites do not allow redistribution of their comics, as it deprives them of ad revenue. (I believe XKCD is the only exception.)
Alibaba...
You mean, "Wikimedia now uses Coinbase as another payment provider to collect US currency for donations"?
Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett. It's great, now I'm equipped to annoy my friends with arguments like 'dogs are not sentient but computers could be.'
That's the point I was making. As it is now, it's hard to see where they would fit in advertising or whatever. It's better to look at the product as a foundation. Having tens of millions of users using your product multiple times a day is a good starting place to build on.
"Big Pharma", Ben Goldacre and a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories including the eponymous "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz".
5 Product Lessons from Building a Startup Factory
Looking for a mix of both - most of leisurely reading lately has been tech related but hoping to start reading some more fiction again
Show HN: ResMaps – See who is viewing your resume and what they are looking at
I don't like the idea of 'relative' safety. I trust tor about as much as the extradition treaty of the country i'm using it from. And no, there's been many attacks on the tor network that have been successful without controlling the ingress & egress nodes.

Webcrawlers have a pattern too. The point is to generate garbage in such a way as to make the traffic indistinguishable and as random as possible, while still embedding a real payload. It would not be easy. The timing is often more telling than the data, though.
Hey guys I'm also building a similar service to this site, but more focused on the qualitative than the quantitative:

http://www.istorical.com
Pleased to find my city - Bucharest - at the top of bandwidth and pretty decent with regard to living cost, but 1312 EUR/month is absurd. I'd estimate the living cost to $250 rent, $200 food, $20 internet and $20 mobile voice+data = about $500/month. That is, if you rent a flat, buy food at supermarkets, not if you spend all day in coffee shops and eat only at restaurants.
William Vollmann's Rising Up & Rising Down is worth your time. If you're inclined towards philosophy of science or epistemology, I'd also recommend R Nozick's Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World.
This time last year my project VimSnake.com was in the top 3 for most of the day. I made the stats public:

http://statcounter.com/p9177631/summary/daily-rpu-labels-bar...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6223946
One of my previous dentists, who is also a computer enthusiast, told me he switched his office from some proprietary software to http://www.opendental.com and he is completely ecstatic about it. He specifically said he likes the fact that Open Dental is open source, so it gets a lot of the little details done right as it receives contributions from the dentist community. He even demo'd some of the features on his computer for me :)

So I do think that Fred's story is anchored in reality. This open source disruption seems to be taking place.
Pretty much came here to say the same. I have tons of friends who have moved from London to Berlin as London is slowly turning into an oligarchy.
Always wanted to take the time to complete this book. Looking forward to diving into the 2nd edition.
Relevant excerpts:

Microsoft believes you own emails stored in the cloud, and that they have the same privacy protection as paper letters sent by mail...

The U.S. government can obtain emails only subject to the full legal protections of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment...

A search warrant cannot reach beyond U.S. shores...

[The US government] argues that your emails become the business records of a cloud provider. Because business records have a lower level of legal protection, the government claims that it can use its broader authority to reach emails stored anywhere in the world.
The flaw there wasn't the number of significant digits, it was not taking into account the probability of false positives and bugs.
Two New Treatments for Severe Food Allergies MAY SAVE many KIDS LiveS
Just finished Patrick Leigh Fermor's "A time of gifts" and I can't recommend it enough! One of the best English books that I have read. You will particularly like it if you're interested in European history (political, as well as art history), if you like traveling, if you're into foreign languages and if you don't mind using a dictionary once in a while. I'm really excited to start its sequel "Between the woods and the water".
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Barriers to entry are what capitalism is all about. (Real world capitalism, not the utopian capitalism from Econ 101.)

Patents, R&D, trade secrets, network effects, natural monopolies... all of these are competitive advantages that capitalistic companies want to have. It's the reason that "nobody else can provide what we do". Otherwise you're just trading commodities and you won't realize economic profits.

Now I'm not ascribing any morality to this. You can call it evil if you like. Just know that this definition makes 90% of businesses "evil".
yeah it'll definitely be on my list when it comes out - it would be awesome if you know where to get a copy now
This is why I'm not an entrepreneur. I could have never, even in my wildest dreams, imagined there would be a market for cupcake wrappers or wedding handkerchiefs (whatever they are).
Hi HN! We use mouse movements as a proxy for eye gaze to show you what visitors have been looking at on your resume. Give it a spin and let us know what you think.
Looking forward to reading it. Is there a place to report bugs I noticed a type in the first chapter

"Casual computing has become become much "
That's about the general feeling Italians have about Milan (I'm Italian, I've been living there all my life), nevertheless they keep coming here :-)

If you can work and get your customers remotely you don't want to be in Milan, but be careful about bad ADSLs in rural areas, which unfortunately are the ones where you want to be. You might aim to one of the many medium sized cities that are pretty everywhere. Look for one close to an airport, an high speed train station, sea or mountains depending on your tastes.

By the way, Internet speed in Milan is 100 Mb/s download / 10 Mb/s upload if you have fiber, or something up to 20 Mb/s with ADSL. Fiber really give you those speeds, with ADSL it's up to your luck.
isn't there a fair use policy?
There is no book I can think of at the moment that I'd buy for $1000. There are plenty I'd buy at $20 to $50 in preference to a comparable dollar value in $5 ebooks (or other inexpensive editions).

Some books have only so much market. Amazon could declare an August special, The Critique of Pure Reason, leather cover, sewn binding, acid-free paper, yours for $5 and free shipping. Do you think that this would rocket it up on the charts?
Great to see via Google Analytics there there are 6 active users from Hacker News viewing the site right!! Hopefully the Google Analytics E-Commerce Sales Report will show several sales attributed to users coming from Hacker News ;-)
Doesn't sound like ECMAScript 6 is coming out until mid-2015

https://twitter.com/awbjs/status/474662357516689410

http://blog.oio.de/2014/06/13/ecmascript-6-delayed-mid-2015/
PayPal’s “Bill Me Later” Service Becomes “PayPal Credit,”
> Influence: Science and Practice, a great horrifying psychology book.

What do you mean by horrifying?
Imagine they accepted Japanese Yen instead of Bitcoin.

They would still convert it to USD, but would your opinion still make sense?
Show HN: Griddle, a simple grid component for use with React
Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold.

A great book that explains how computers actually work through number systems and the logic that acts on those systems. You start with the theory behind binary numbers and work your way through electrical circuits, logic gates, RAM, transistors, and the operating system as you build your fundamental knowledge of the inner workings of computers. It's pretty cool.
Thanks for the tips! There are actually 41 canned designs http://www.makecupcakewrappers.com/Wrapper and users do share some of their custom designs which can then be edited by other users.

But, it's been on my to-do list for over a year to build a wizard on top of the custom designer with a step 1) choose a design, step 2) upload photo, step 3) enter text, type of experience.
A local franchise called "Don Domat" is great.
I haven't run into the "signature preferred" problem yet with automated PoS terminals. Where did you run into this issue? I had no problem buying train tickets with my US-bank-issued EMV card at AMS airport using my PIN.
PhantomJS QT5 switch
Blindsight, by Peter Watts. One of the better sci-fi novels I've read in awhile. Reminds me a lot of Arthur C. Clark in that it successfully strikes a really hard balance between scientific accuracy/feasibility and imaginative storytelling.
Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies. History of Europe from the perspective of "countries" that don't exist anymore. Covers medieval kingdoms (Tolosa, Strathclyde, Aragon); more recent countries (Poland-Lithuania, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha); up to very recent times (USSR). Very interesting perspective on history.
Okay ethic is not the right word. I just think that these are just 3 more website in the p0rn/dating/drugs Internet landscape, and technically very easy to do. I don't regret it, it's free money and other friends have tried the dating/porn market. One of mine was making 30k/mo via porn ads, another never made any money. It's just that I would now prefer to come up with a project which I am proud of, which can be of any help to someone, that I could talk about without wondering if the person in front of me thinks it's creepy... Soon soon :)
A Guy Named Craig
Looks good but really needs Celsius. Most of us don't know Fahrenheit. Also, why is hot green? Shouldn't it be red? You don't want to be somewhere that's over 25C.
I am reading "An Introduction to Category Theory", "Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook", and I just finished the sci-fi book "Solaris."
"What they teach you at Harvard Business School"

A must if you are thinking of taking the plunge from development to doing an MBA
Thanks, more clear now. So where does your service perform a search (fetch data from)? Does it use Google itself? Is it just mediator between an end user and google maps which gives the end user more freedom than google maps does?
full text
http://pastebin.com/m3WYMZiZ
In the midst of reading this, too. Horrifying is an understatement. I've thought of specific individuals who have abused some of the techniques in that book to great success.
> your emails become the business records of a cloud provider

That is simply ridiculous. Email stored by a cloud provider isn't a business record of the provider any more than the contents of a physical letter stored in a rented mail box is a business record of the box provider.
Zombie Search Engine Rankings, Are Your Top Rankings Already Gone
It's more or less a guide book on how to get people to do things you want them to do, especially in respect to spending money.
> So we asked ourselves, “what will provide defensibility” and the answer we came to was networks of users, transactions, or data inside the software.

I've always found investment philosophies like this to be too overgeneralized. When I ask myself the question of what will provide defensibility, I can't think of a good answer other than "it depends".

The question really is "how much does it depend?". I think it depends enough such that it's best to just look at each company on a case-by-case basis.
What layer will leverage the networks to useful economic extent? I expect it will be a new network type that natively supports exchange of value... blockchains/bitcoin. I think we're about to find out just how many ways there are to monetize everyone's attention, and how much that's actually worth. Unfortunately there's no guarantee we'll like the answers.

http://avc.com/2014/01/bitcoin-getting-past-store-of-value-a...
+1 for a Nomad Package.

I'd love it if someone met me at the airport with a pre-paid SIM card and suggestions for accommodation and public workspaces.
Alternative link for lazy people, which gets you directly to the article's content:

https://archive.today/8NKco
The New Yahoo Finance App: Rebuilt for Android and Redesigned for Real-Time
I have some german nice sites like http://www.garten-fussballtor.de. My best website earns 100 € / month. If you have any question i will try to answer it.
Thanks for sharing the stats! Are you still operating PDFy on a 512MB RAM VPS? Did you have to do any optimizations to the web server config to handle the traffic?
We built this little app because we saw a lot of our Pivotal Tracker customers were doing a bad job of keeping their stories/ tasks up to date. To get any metrics or to know if you are on schedule to deliver, your PT projects need to be up to date. We looked at over 250 PT projects to come up with some algorithms to determine if your team is keeping Tracker up to date.
The Drunkards Walk by Leonard Mlodinow

For the uninitiated he is the coauthor of 2005 edition of A Briefer History of Time. As the title says this is about "how randomness rules our lives".
1984 by George Orwell, very relevant in current times.
Imagem do Dia: One Central Park em Sydney
Ask HN: Is Y Combinator's office empty?
I went there a few day ago, no one's there... When do people usually show up?
A lot of people seem to have a misunderstanding of why Snapchat is worth so much. At first, I didn't get it either, but I think there is one main reason for this high, and what I feel might be justified, valuation.

"Single mode visual media capture" [1]. You might be asking "WTF does that mean?"; Well that's the title of Snapchat's patent which was granted for haptic video recording. That means all of the apps where you press and hold to record a video could face legal action for copying Snapchats technology. So if you look at the list, you've got:

- Facebook's Slingshot, Instagram, Bolt
- Twitter's Vine
- Taptalk
- Many others

One of my friends works for the USPTO and he says that a patent portfolio is the difference between a multi-billion dollar valuation and a multi-million dollar valuation. With the backing of Alibaba, Snapchat could essentially shut down all haptic recording apps or force clone companies to pay a licensing free for the technology.

[1] - https://www.google.com/patents/US8428453?dq=snapchat&hl=en&s...
Fair use typically applies to a) journalistic review and b) parody. Taking content from a website and reposting it is neither, unless otherwise stated. (as with the case with XKCD, which licenses under Creative Commons.)
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I manage a simple jQuery plugins blog http://jquer.in/ in which I list one plugin a day.
Hosting costs are about 20$ a year.
Average monthly advertising revenue is about 100$ not bad considering I haven't started sponsored posts yet.
Moby Dick. It's great so far, with wonderfully diverse, dense writing. For some reason I have trouble reading anything but the so-called "literary classics". Perhaps it's the fact that there are so many I could quite literally never read them all in my lifetime, so why waste time with anything else? I understand that's a somewhat flawed argument ("classics" are somewhat subjective), but I cannot bring myself to read much else.
Thanks, in my experience that's basically true. I've never really wanted to go after funding or go for acquisition, but I can see how that path in some ways has a higher probability of success than hustling on side projects.
My math textbooks [1,2] generated over $20k since 2013. The sales are split between print and pdf sales. It's definitely motivation enough for me to continue as is, but I'm scaling the business further with better distribution.

Books are not dead. I believe there is a great opportunity for specialist to "distill information" in their field and offer it to others as books. People don't pay for the content (which can be found on the Internet) but for the analysis and the curation of this content.

It's not "easy money" because writing and editing a book takes years of sustained effort, but if you're an expert in X, you already spend your days explaining X so writing down your explanations won't be //that// tough.

[1] noBS guide to Math and Phys: http://minireference.com/
[2] https://gum.co/noBSLA

PS: Anyone interested in writing a book about Chemistry and/or Biology? Get in touch with me so we can combine forces and take over the UGRAD textbook market!
Mobile Suit Gundam the origin and the new Bryan lee o'malley novel Seconds.

I'm mainly just reading for pleasure right now. But reading these 2 volumes makes me want more hardback comic books.
lol @ the headline.

It is about tech, yo.
Why did you decide to use SpriteKit rather than a cross-platform framework which would've made it easier to target both iOS and Android?
Preferred stocks. Current dividend rates are between 6.5 and 7% typically. Especially high quality companies trading at or under $25. Senior to stocks, subordinate to bonds.
Mori's a bit impractical for use in the browser due to its size.
I'm curious to know how well your cheap bastard plan (https://www.s3stat.com/web-stats/cheap-bastard-plan) has been working out. Has it brought in some customers?
A bought a vacation rental in Hawaii this January. It has been very nice. Purchase price was 510k. It rents for $260-$400 a night and has 90% occupancy rate. I can share more details for those interested.
You might want to reconsider posting comments like that. You may think you're making a principled stand against the evils of paywalls (aside: how do you expect online publications to stay in business?) but in fact all you're doing is advertising the fact that you're either too lazy or too stupid to take the trivial steps required to get around one.
The Regulatory Genome: Gene Regulatory Networks In Development And Evolution, by Eric Davidson

awesome read.
It's that you can donate in BTC that matters, not that they're exchanging it for USD.
Translation or in French?
Two thoughts:

1) About time! You'd have thought a crowdsourced open source software community would have adopted Bitcoin sooner.

2) Why does the Coinbase donation form require my email and mailing address? Just give me a QR code.