skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tablet (assuming it exists) presumably would run the iPhone OS or similar, which gives them a much greater degree of product differentiation than just another laptop, even one running Mac OS X at a lower-than-current price point.

This is important because the set of people Apple has been making stupid amounts of money off over the past 8 years is Windows users with no particular inclination to switch to Mac OS X. This is not obvious because we still think of Apple as primarily a computer company, but clearly they don't.
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RAD and racksh are totally new to me and I'm going to spend sometime looking into them now. Thanks.
Sounds like the classic case of developing a thing because you think it's cool, not because you've seen any demonstrated need for it. Even if there is some demand you probably have little chance at getting in front of the decision makers, if you don't even know who they are already. I'd say 99/100 times this enough to know you should immediately abort any plans of turning it into a business. Maybe put it up somewhere, promote it a bit, and let people enjoy it, but don't try to make it into something it isn't.

On the other hand maybe this could eventually lead you to something that could be very successful. While trying to sell this you may find that there are many other unmet needs in the market. Maybe you can develop a whole suite of similar tools. This might be as good a place to start as anything else.
Please call the main line. They should be able to help !!
Nice, I can't wait for rappers to start donning and rapping about their new multicolored gold chains.
It seems like this is 1 feature which might be interesting to bloggers/podcasters. Is there a more generalized "podcaster sweepstakes platform" you could build? Help bloggers/podcasters engage their audiences more around giveaways/sweepstakes to generate buzz and attention, track brand impressions/dollars, present network of advertisers, etc... I'm not a big blogger or podcaster so I wouldn't likely be the best person to design this product to solve my problems. But reach out to real users/partners/potential customers. They'll likely tell you what to build.
There's absolutely no difference; those are both completely informal terms. A "varnish" (or whatever, there are thousands of names for these thing) is nothing more than a transparent paint base without pigment added. The point was that the claim was made in the article that this is more durable than paint, when AFAICT the only way to make it so it to put a paint(-like coating) on top of the surface anyway. So how is it more durable? Scratch the coating and you scratch off the fancy micro-texture.
Tell that to Google.
This seems overly complicated.

I just set live click and change listeners on the elements I was looking to save and incremented a change_counter each time these were triggered.
if (change_counter % 5 == 0) Data.sendData();
If you're a compiler type person, Treetop ( http://treetop.rubyforge.org/ ) and Polyglot ( http://polyglot.rubyforge.org/ ) are amazingly cool libraries.

The Case gem (some information here: http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/03/16/tighter-rub... ) for pattern matching is also great, especially if you're dealing with large S-exp structures for compilation. After discovering a few of these libraries, Ruby has become my de facto compiler language.
It sounds as though the issue is whether or not the site responds promptly to takedown requests. Any torrent site that did would not be popular for long. They probably don't bother sending those requests to Google because Google doesn't host the torrent files, but if someone did manage to find a way to disseminate torrents using _only_ Google then you can bet Google would get on that. They do it with YouTube, and fast too.
seems to be a trend, thanks for the link
Library for constructing complex Regular Expressions from simpler expressions
Exactly. The point was, the deadline was coming up in a few weeks. We had work up to our eyeballs with everything else, if we could punt this issue till it really REALLY becomes a problem, we should. And we did. And it hasn't been a problem.

It was a commercial product, but honestly the people who ran this would have no problem paying an extra 2 grand or so for ram for major performance gains (remember this aint your standard sdram).
Ask HN: Tricks for choosing which features to charge for?
In a freemium app, do you have any tricks to help you decide which features to include in the paid tier vs. the free tier?

Sometimes there aren't easy distinctions like storage limits, number of "projects" allowed, etc. Given a bucket of arbitrary features, how would you choose which to include in the premium tier?

Obviously, it's easier to "free" a feature than to start charging once it has already been free.
Of course it was. Because that was better than what we wanted to do, simpler, no development time (cheap , met our deadline), worked well enough. Sure you can get a bit more bang for your buck making a catered-for swapping algorithm, but in the end it does not matter.
I had a demo built which I then presented to a small group of potential clients (which included my partners contacts in Commercial Real Estate and Oil field services - there were probably 15 people at the demo). After the demo I had two clients and things got going from there.

From idea to demo: ~4 months

We build custom geospatial apps. for our clients.
Well, it may not be mostly for radio stations... I was thinking more of taking this "radio contest" construct/analogy and letting other people/groups recreate it w/o needing that sort of infrastructure. The contestants would immediately relate to what's happening, but instead of calling a radio station, they are calling another entity (podcaster, event, group).
I do not think this is the way it should be. Thus I am glad he got modded back to neutral (which incidentally means 1 and not 0 in HN).
YouTube isn't a cloud service, its a video hosting service.

Hint: Try and backup your "cloud" content - If possible.
I believe Act Five "Not to Die" explains this:

For the first time in my life I built something according to lawyers' guidelines not users' wishes. This is how the current set-up of Totlol came to be. This is why users are nagged.
I'm working on creating a Netflix importer option that could bring in all of your ratings. That might help a little in that. Bulk ticket discounts at this point.
Missed me (@amitwadhwa83), probably due to my blog and twitter link being on the same line earlier.
Apache's mod_security can also protect against this with the SecFilterForceByteRange directive.
As a consumer, I like being able to at least try any feature, no matter what tier it's on. Just make it clear when something is a trial, as opposed to permanently free.

There's nothing worse than having to pay $10 more per month, or whatever, only to find out that something isn't worth it.
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Can you explain a bit more about Treetop to me? I'm not understanding the use cases. (Plain english would be nice...).
Not only that, but it requires two other .js files as well:

http://ukijs.org/app/functional/wave.js
http://ukijs.org/app/functional/wave-theme.js

And on top of that, A lot of what you see there doesn't work, buttons don't do anything, so to make the UI functional will require a lot more code.

Still, it's a nice looking interface and if you want exactly that look, the .js files can be copy/pasted. It is a lot of work to do a draggable interface like that.
It's mainly illegal because, as part of the swarm, your computer is uploading as well as downloading. This makes you an unlicensed distributor.
It's not uncommon to stop publication of research by claiming copyright, patent, etc.
That's because it's illegal. You haven't actually paid for the shows.You've paid for access to the stream of content, but that doesn't automatically grant you access to acquire that same content from a third party.

I actually don't think that's settled law. IsoHunt's "business model" or lack thereof isn't my problem.

In the case of LOST in particular, I torrent each show as it comes out, then buy the DVDs at the end of the season, which stay shrink-wrapped and unwatched in the closet. To be (more) ethical, I suppose I should probably bury the box sets in the back yard to make sure nobody else can derive entertainment value from watching them.

The reality, of course, is that copyright as an enforceable legal concept is over, for better or worse.
If I were you I would dive into multiple open-source projects. That's a way to gain in both expertise and credibility, and it positions you to make money doing interesting work over time.
Do you have any legal basis for that? Sony vs. Universal Studios (1983) hinged on timeshifting being legitimate fair use: "because the District Court's factual findings reveal that even the unauthorized home time-shifting of respondents' programs is legitimate fair use". If it's legal to timeshift broadcast TV, why would it be illegal for subscription TV?

Similarly, if timeshifting subscription TV is not fair use, then Tivo and all the other DVR makers would exist solely for infringing purposes, and I doubt we'd see them on the market.

IANAL, but I'm guessing that UANAL either, so I'd like to see some evidence that it actually is illegal before being stated as such...
Couldn't you just put a polarized lens over the camcorder and get a normal 2D view?
No, but in light of that knowledge you'd be a fool not to look more skeptically upon his claims.
There's a level of naivete to this line of reasoning that makes this amusing. Both Google and The Pirate Bay allow you to search for torrents. The critical element that's missing making what Google does criminal is Mens Rea. The Pirate Bay's got it, and Google doesn't.
Heh.

The human body is a 'flow system far from equilibrium.' So while it's true that if you dunk the feet of a healthy person in hot water and wait, the temperature of their forehead may not increase by that much, it does not imply that the temperature of their feet won't increase, it does not imply that the forehead temperature of a hypothermic person won't increase, and it does not imply that the forehead temperature of a healthy person exposed to a flamethrower will not increase...

Does the Constructal law say anything about the environment were the Sun to suddenly disappear?
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Why I Have Trouble Caring about iPhone Availability in NYC
i think you are going about this all wrong.

You should just ignore Google's TOS...hell everyone else does, it's much easier to beg forgiveness than it is to follow the rules. + do you really think they'd ever cut your access?

Think about the shitstorm that'll happen..."GOOGLE is raping our children by shutting down their favorite site!"

The chance of them pulling the plug is insignificant, and you destroying your site over some fine print is crazy. Read the fine print of any website, any service, all of them have the "by using this site you grant us the rights to your children"

I'm not saying you should be complacent, you should still create a backup version of the site, so that if google ever shuts you down, you can instantly switch to a ~1000 video backup from places like vimeo. Why? So that you have something to offer to your users, while they rebuild your database with vimeo links.

Throwing in the towel over something that might happen in the future(contrary to common sense) is simply irresponsible.
The part that bothers me is where he says they asked him a lot of detailed questions about his model in such a way that they planned on using the details for their own service. I don't see that as being a good thing in the least.
If it wasn't for Apple's giant check-writing machine, their manufacturing partners wouldn't be coming up with those solutions.
>Would knowing that Stephen Fry suffers from bipolar disorder, and has threatened to quit Twitter not long ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/31/stephen-fry.... ) change your view?

No. I would be more concerned about him quitting blogging than him quitting twitter. He is an amazing writer and speaker and using twitter is a disservice to his talent. IMO.
IF this person is pushing one side of an argument without revealing the large stake he has in that side winning, then he loses credibility. He wasn't honest about something one would expect him to be honest about and so one needs to look more closely at other things he says.

Journalist disclose their interests and their companies interests to avoid losing credibility this way.
For most of my products, I've had customers before launch. Then again, I guess that depends on what you mean by "launch". I've never been big on showy launches. I usually put something up right away, and then get to work refining and finding more customers. Based on my last couple endeavers, I no longer even begin work on any new products until I already have a customer for it. (and by "work" I mean actual coding/design/development, because of course the process of finding a customer for a new idea is still technically work of the non-technical variety)
Careful, sounds a lot like: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
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Good idea, I think there are many low-power radio stations with limited resources that could utilize something like this. Also, the concept could be extended for local businesses to run phone-in contests when running a TV or radio ad.
Most of the core infrastructure (DOM, layout, etc) is C++. The UI is XUL (XML layout language) with much of the supporting UI logic written in JS.
Apple doesn't make office suites. The Me service isn't as big as Live. Apple doesn't have a search engine. Apple isn't trying to build computing clusters large enough to break into the Top100. Apple doesn't have an equivalent to Microsoft Research. Apple doesn't have a gaming platform.

I know, I know, don't feed the trolls.
I think you got voted down because you don't name the physicists or the journal they published in.

Also, the phraseology of your points couldn't get into any scientific journal, so what are you quoting, your summary?
There's no reasonable comparison. Virtually every torrent index leads off with a link to Hollywood movie torrents.
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It's my understanding from the Netflix TOS for their API that ratings can't be stored by a third party, for privacy reasons. Perhaps that has changed, or perhaps I read it wrong. I was skimming out of curiosity.
Seems like this would be in demand, especially as more people start producing their own videocast and audiocasts.

If you target the blogger market, and many of them use Skype, then you can implement your idea as a skype/justin add-on. It'll be easier to market by piggybacking on a larger solution/platform.
The alternative would be to actually balance the federal budget before taking into account entitlement surpluses, something that not even Clinton ever accomplished.

It's a huge violation of the idea of a trust fund to invest that trust fund in loans to oneself.
While this is a clever hack, and I doubt the author had any malicious intent, this article really rubs me the wrong way. To the author of this post, this was most likely nothing more than an intellectual challenge, but from Stephen's perspective, I imagine it feels a whole lot like a mean-spirited breach of privacy. Furthermore, by publishing the details of the breach, he's pressured Stephen & his webmaster to immediately fix this hole or risk a much worse attack on his site. (I'm assuming he didn't notify Stephen before publishing this post. Such courtesy would have been greatly appreciated, I bet.)

There's a security hole in the postal service, too. You can read anyone's mail by stealing it from their mailbox. Doesn't mean it's a good thing to do.
a large look-up table1 of approximately 2 Terabytes - this is equivalent to the amount of data contained in a 20 kilometre high pile of books

I don't understand. Can someone please translate to libraries of congress?
It's a very simple parser generator. You can quickly create a grammar to parse whatever code you want to compile (or otherwise transform) and then manipulate it from Ruby. It simplifies compiler creation considerably.
This is why, I believe, that not much is being made out of the end of the decade. That, and perhaps so much emphasis was placed on the start of the century and/or millennium.

I'm not sure either what sort of name will be used for the next decade.
Thats somewhat like saying that because an apple has no seeds, it is no longer an apple (as it is missing the primary purpose of an apple). An ineffective martial art is still a martial art.
>Do you know Stephen Fry well? Is he 'nothing'? Can you predict how he will feel about this?

I think you are being a bit too emotional here. Its not like Fry got kidnapped from his house, hog tied and thrown out of london bridge. His twitter account got compromised by someone, who was well intentioned enough not to screw around with it. If the person didn't write about the hack, you wouldn't know about it, Fry wouldn't know about it and he would wake up the next morning and have his "eggie in the basket" and no one would care.

Saying Awwww but "Stephen Fry is a good person. :-(" adds nothing to a discussion about something that has to do with web security.
replace A5/1. - Show quoted text - The GSMA

Aah, is someone a gmail user?
As a local Austin resident I can say that here we feel that Whole Foods is a little expensive. It is kind of a ritzy store for higher income people. At the same time it is a trendy place to work, and applying for a job at Whole Foods means a six month to year wait. Also the other major Austin food store, HEB, is the exact opposite. Most of the HEB stores are aimed at the low income demographic and it is impossible to find anything but the most generic of brands in them. So Whole Foods provides the "luxury" foods as well as organic foods.

I don't think anyone here in Austin feels that Whole Foods is "evil".
I've seen Treetop before but had completely forgotten about it, thanks! I might have to include that in the next edition ;-) Polygot and the Case gem are new to me.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but this is the secret to alchemy! A couple of laser bursts and you can turn lead to gold.

Just watch out for anyone named Saro...
From what I understand (and I may be wrong since I haven't actually used it), it would simplify the process of creating something like the ubiquitus search box Google uses in Google Maps. Where it sends the string you type through a tree-type process parsing it into structured meaningful data. Of course, that's just the first example of a use-case I thought of when I saw it. I'm sure it's a lot more powerful than that.
I'm @covercash

I should probably add that to my profile.
Playing devil's advocate, I would counter that many companies have successfully built themselves around 3rd party API's from Facebook, Twitter, Google etc...

One option would be to pay for better ToS (ex: an 'enterprise' version of the API - though Youtube does not seem to have such option).
I enjoyed the article very much and I have the same experience. The reason that my previous startup was successful was the fact that all of my co-Founders had been long-time veterans of their own industry (which they help built in the past 20+ years). No one couldn’t have gotten that important product insight by just talking to customers. Customers know what to object and what to improve when you present them with an imperfect product but not when you present them with a perfect PowerPoint. Henry Ford had said that if he had listened to his customers, he would have built a faster horse because that was what his customers wanted. Similarly, Steve Jobs could not have designed his iPod (and iPhone) had he not been a music fanatic. Entrepreneurs must learn to listen to our hearts if we believe that we are the perfect "surrogate" customer. Good luck, everyone.
"SEO firm Summit Media suggests..."

Prediction: the next batch of SEO snake oil/spam trap techniques will involve making pages look "fresher" than they are.
The Teens?
As far as I can tell the only advantage is the ability to write code such as this:

if condition
x = true
end
puts "hello" if x

without initializing x to false before the conditional.
Great. Now programmers are going to be labeled as terrorists.
Or if you're going to redirect to the mobile version on pages other than the home page, make sure you're redirecting to the same article, just formatted differently.
If only Google Wave used normal scrollbars like in this example. I enjoyed scrolling through everything more in this hack than the real Google Wave.
Not to mention what huge publicity will the shitstorm will be for your site. But still I think you should have a plan B..
It's the naughties, as far as I know.

Music from the eighties, nineties, naughties and today!
Is Paul Graham's site down for anyone else?
-2 months. (yes thats a negative)

I built a dummy signup site before I started developing the real app. Launched with a few hundred users.

That said, my app is consumer-facing, and I sign up customers with ads (it's a dating site).
So does Google: http://i.imgur.com/Wy8cQ.png

Note the "quick" links to Hindi movies, movies & tv, music. How many of those are legal torrents?
Hmm, I guess I was being overzealous with my validation. Thanks for the feedback. I'll fix it when I get home tonight.
exactly, just imagine a CNN story of a few kids talking through tears..."those <sniff> meanies <sniff> at gaggle <sniff> are big bad doo doo heads"
IANAL. It's important to note that not everything in a contract/TOS/EULA is binding. The terms of any contract can be subject to litigation. If I sign a contract agreeing to sell you my kidney for $10,000 that clause of the contact will likely be voided by the courts if either party decided to litigate. There is also the fact the the contract cannot be negotiated, I think lawyer call it the "war of paperwork" AFAIK a contract isn't valid unless the option to negotiate is available. There is more info here - http://www.ReasonableAgreement.org
The picture that says "that's actually ubuntu" doesn't look anything like the screenshots from the actual distro's website.
Cliffs notes: Eccentric Whole Foods CEO is a Ron Paul revolutionist while his shoppers are "yuppie gastronomes and fussy label-readers" and they're pissed he's pro-free market healthcare. Meanwhile, he defends "conscious capitalism" and looks to expand his 1% market share.
Mentions Bump for the iPhone (YC S09).
Definitely possible, and adding that right now.
None of those companies are mature, by definition (since none of those platforms have been around for long). Some of them have significant revenue, but would I buy stock in one (e.g., Zynga)? I don't think so. I consider the Facebook Platform a toy.
Really? It should support SRV records. Can you give me an example to help me track down the bug?
This article had some information on Whole Foods that I had never heard of (I don't shop there). I always thought they were evil because they are turning organic food into a luxury rather than making it the standard. Is this accurate?