skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I don't know that growth is a fair metric. Once you hit saturation point you can't grow much anymore. I was actually thinking desktops (windows, OSX, Linux. In that order).

OSX may have some BSD code but they have heavily modified it.

I agree that in servers open source might be ahead (but then, a lot of places are using Sun, Oracle and the like).
My mission statement:

"Iterate killer applications to expedite granular synergies and reintermediate compelling action-items."
Interestingly relevant in light of recent discussions as to whether or not the "no third-party background apps on the iPhone OS for sake of power conservation" policy is valid for the iPad.
Yes but at 12 you may not be able to reason with your head, and if you do something you are not supposed to do, your parents will pay for it, so they're still responsible for you. It's the law (at least where I live).
This is good news, but somehow EU governments think it's ok to use stolen bank data:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/informant-off...
i understand you don't want feedback on the design, and i like the relaxed approach, but the inconsistent indentation on the third title (Finally...) really bugs me. i'd suggest moving it to the right to match the other two (and "What..." could go left a few pixels too).

also, it's "you can be A student, ..." and "we reply TO all our...". and it's easier to read if you have "corporate-like, so" (with hyphen and comma).
Well, first of all don't go to people thinking why they might turn you down.

People don't care about money, as long as you can pay them enough to pay the rent / mortgage and the little extras in life. If you don't have that kind of money, you're doomed anyway.

Offer them a dream job. If they believe in the project, they know money will come later.

On a really tight budget? Recruit less. 2 seniors instead of 5 juniors.
Alright no more criticism about designing although I am a web designer.

Now over to serious stuff. The background of the people behind this endeavor should be the main selling point. I am more likely to share my idea with someone who has had similar experience, that is of starting and managing a startup.
Money is important and I do find your investment range will go an extra mile in India but give some reasons to the entrepreneur to believe in you guys.

Just one advice: Put some more info about this venture and the people behind this.
The United States constitution forbids anything like the war crimes court. Also, the ICC and all war crimes courts are a farce -- they are show trials for all practical purposes, and I think extremely dangerous.

1. If a person commits heinous crimes in their country then it is up to their country to handle it.

2. If the crimes are committed in another country it up to that country to handle it.

There is no need for the ICC except to lend legitimacy to illegitimate claims.

I agree though, I can't believe that other countries are willing to hand over data of their citizens that should be protected by them.
"Why does Buzz even exist? Is it because Google wants to make my life better in some way? No. Buzz exists because Google feels threatened by Twitter and Facebook and wants to kill them. Google has become what Microsoft used to be—the Borg, the company that gobbles up ideas from smaller rivals and cranks out lame imitations in an attempt to put the little guys out of business." - he nailed it
The problem with many Indian villages is that they get intermittent power and even when they get it, it might be a single phase current. While this is sufficient to keep the lights burning etc., (speaking from first hand experience..)
you can hardly depend on this to keep a cell tower running 24/7. Hence, alternator backed photovoltaic panels might make sense.

Also, solar technology is not a pie-in-the-sky in India. Solar power is used for cooking, even large scale (like mid day meals for school children). The photovoltaic applications are less in number compared to the above.
Is there a way to release open source software anonymously? This might be a good case for that.
Ah, great -- thanks. I found the fuller email whence that came at http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg35235... , in case anyone else is interested.
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No, Gladwell is a demonstrably successful public speaker.

Gladwell's point -- and the OP author's -- is that you should taboo the word "talent." Talent is the idea you wind up with when you commit the Fundamental Attribution Error while observing success or skill:

In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error ... describes the tendency to over-value dispositional or personality-based explanations ["he is very talented at X"] for the observed behaviors [extreme skill at X] of others while under-valuing situational explanations for those behaviors. ["he spent his entire childhood practicing X"]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Given that you are already in News.YC, I take that you know about YCombinator and why it is different from other similar firms. (Hint: PG & team) As others have suggested, having a brief profile of people behind this venture would greatly help.
Water dissolves salt, and some of it gets sucked back into meat via osmosis

WTF is wrong with people and osmosis? This is diffusion. Osmosis is diffusion of water and nothing else.

Also, "table salt tastes like shit" is quite true. I've been buying an unrefined sea salt for a while now, the difference is incredible. Flavor in foods, where before was mere saltiness.
Is this type of monitoring legal in the US when monitoring bank transactions in the US? Does it already happen in the US? Imagine the reaction if this had been the other way around, the damn Europeans spying on US bank transaction in the US.
Turn it on, click the 'Buzz' label, scroll down to the bottom, and click "Turn Buzz off".
Do you have a better suggestion?
From the article:

The Wikipedia entry on depth perception (an excellent read) lists ten different cues that your brain uses to figure out exactly how far away something is. Parallax is just one of them. Since the various movie and television display technologies only offer parallax-based depth cues, your brain basically has to ignore several other cues while you're immersed in the world of Avatar. This is why the 3D of films doesn't feel quite right.

I agree that 3D films often feel a bit weird, but I'm not 100% sold on his idea of why this should be. The Wikipedia article names many visual cues that are present in 3D movies as well (e.g. relative size, perspective, texture & lighting etc.). It seems conceivable that your brain is "tricked" and has to adapt to the new situation, I just don't know if his reasoning is valid.
I think he's complaining from the ordinary consumer (non-geek) point of view. And if such he is perfectly right.
Here is his TED talk from a few years ago: http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...
> I tend to believe that when you trust people, they try very hard to be trustworthy.

Maybe "people" (individuals) do. Yet this trust is exactly what black-hats tap when they social engineer an email recipient into visiting a malware site.
I was stuck by the line: "It occurred to me afterwards that Gladwell’s success as a speaker illustrates one of his homespun themes - hard work pays off."

Indeed, Gadwell has a talent for writing and speaking. While tastes for what he offers differ, he's taken that talent and worked hard to develop it.

We all might not have the brain of Bill Gates, but I've seen many go surprisingly far on hard work with moderate talent. I've also sadly seen some very bright people just drag along through life from lack of effort. It's really sad to witness.
One computer already isn't enough for me.
We are working on that.
names have been updated, i am working on a small bio.
My company's profitable and I'm American, not your audience.

You aren't a gift, you're a business- your business is making entrepreneurs think you can further their business. Your website is unprofessional and doesn't mention who you are, and who you are is the most important.

TechStars and YC aren't about the 15k- most of the companies who get accepted these days don't need it. TechStars and YC help people build successful products because the people behind both programs have a background of launching successful products, with rolodexes to match.

Right now you're some guy with a website. No one cares. To make them care, you have to show why you're someone they should care about. That's marketing, and right now you aren't marketing. That's why, in your current incarnation, you're fucked.

Rethink, redesign, relaunch, and then hopefully you can get this off the ground.
It should be noted that any relatively thin glove made of wool or synthetic fiber lets you still manipulate an iphone screen (at least when there is an anti scratch protective barrier). There is no need for conductive fiber or the like!
I'll build it myself, so I can put enough processors, RAM, hard drive space... who knows how technology evolves in futur?
The analogy to power generation might not hold up in the long term. Solar cells improvements follow Moore's law so maybe power generation will eventually come full circle and companies will start generating their own power again.
Have you ever watched him give a talk? Have you, yourself, ever given a talk to a large audience? I have, and it's a bitch. He's a demonstrably talented public speaker. It is extremely interesting to me, and, I assume, to most people who do public speaking, that Gladwell is actually writing out the entire content of his speeches.

The rest of your comment, whatever. I don't care about his books. Neither does the author of this article, if you care to read it.
I would say associating a "cost" has value vs. "guilt".

Most children can understand that choosing one activity may exclude another due to the limited resources available, however making them feel like a bad person because it turns out that they don't like something they thought they would like before they had tried it doesn't seem to have any effect other than to discourage one from trying new things.
So lately I've been thinking, there seems to be a large push globally towards greater censorship on the web. At the moment it would seem as if the US has been immune, but it makes me consider the possibility that in the future it could come to us too. I had this idea of building a backup system for easily and covertly passing information around on the web using the existing infrastructure in order to bypass existing filtration systems. It seems really important that we should be prepared, just in case.
can we please get a version of this that is: "UPDATED TO BE WEB 3.0 COMPLIANT"? There's just not enough usage of the word semantic.
Doesn't normal 2D TV also force you to ignore even more depth perception cues? We still have relative size, parralax, etc telling us that the things on the screen are at different depths.
I wish we could just move to holograms. What's holding us back exactly? I could never find a straight answer.
It's about time. India has everything going for it and I'm excited to see what this will produce.

Congratulations!
I doubt one is enough for anyone that reads HN, but that's not really an answer to this question.
Yeah it does. The margin that tends to zero is the profit margin, not the marginal cost of production. That's why the commodities business is so tough: If you make $10 profit pr. ton of CommodityFoo, someone's gonna come along and underbid you $5, unless you bring some value to the game that the new guy can't.

And that's exactly what's happened to the news business: The internet ate the newspapers USP, classifieds, and effectively turned them into commodities. Take away the classifieds and the agency-dispatches, and the rest barely fills an interesting blog.
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I really wish there was a way to do 3D that allowed your eyes and brain to naturally do what they do in the real world, though perhaps we're a long way from that? Anyone familiar with or doing any research on better mechanisms for 3D?

I have yet to experience any sort of 3D entertainment that isn't (at least initially) disorienting. The need to wear glasses constantly ruins the experience. But even beyond that, the unnatural way the camera "forces" you to focus on things in the foreground also feels wrong to me and breaks the illusion. If the main character is front and center, but I want to stare at the wall right behind him, it shouldn't be blurry. But it often is blurry because of the camera's depth of field. You sort of feel like an unseen hand is forcing you to look at certain things and not others.
Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
Yes, and yes. Good for you, and I agree.

The fact remains, Gladwell's most recent book, Outliers, argues that there is no such thing as talent.

If you call someone talented, you're implicitly conceding they were somehow predisposed to have the skill they've got. Gladwell says there are no such predispositions, only histories, habits, and hard work.

UPDATE: the definition of TALENT I'm using is here: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/talent

tal·ent (tlnt)
n.
1. A marked innate ability, as for artistic accomplishment. See Synonyms at ability.
Bull. You're trusting everyone on the internet to not abuse the information you gave out.

At best in this case, it's just everyone you know / email with. How many people you communicate with can be trusted online with all the information you give them? Most people use 2 or 3 passwords total! What if they lose control of their accounts? And when was the last time someone got in trouble for info they put on Facebook? Minutes ago? Seconds? The internet is arguably more dangerous than driving, though you're less likely to die, you instead just lose everything. I've had more viruses than car crashes (zero).
Technically he's not a talented public speaker as "talent" implies an innate capacity. He's a very skilled speaker, in that his ability is derived from relentless practice and preparation.
I meant that I was attempting to install and run the code from the article, which is written in JRuby+Java and depends on a couple of third-party Java libraries.
If the imitation is lame, then that's too bad. But if it becomes better over time and is more open, then that'll be a good thing.

It's always surprising how people can on one hand deplore how closed Facebook is, and how it doesn't have competition and is just becoming a big monopolistic walled-garden, and then when more open competition arrives, they whine that there are too many social networks and that someone else than Google should've done it (oh yeah, who else has the installed user base to compete with Facebook and Twitter?).
I think the idea is to integrate buzz, facebook, twitter all into one inbox in your gmail account so you can respond in the same format you got the message in. So it don't matter if your friend is on fb or twitter or whatever you just go to 1 inbox.
Wow. How I wish I earn that kind of money.

I'm an affiliate marketer also but I prefer to refer to myself as a product reviwer. My mission statement is "To help buyers understand exactly what they are buying". It brings job to me when my readers comment on how my reviews helped them save money -- they avoided a bad product after reading my review.

To me, affiliate marketing is just another revenue model, part of the business model but not the business itself.

Whether your business is shady depends on how you're abusing the model. That said, all other revenue models can be abused.

Currently, I'm earning US$1500 per month, after a years of work. I work 2 hours per day and have a full time job besides that. My web marketing sucks but hopefully next year I can quit my job and explore other ways of building businesses around affiliate marketing.
The internet is a great way to find small bits of information, but most of the time the information is really questionable. Search for a topic and wikipedia is usually among the first entry, which is great for a start but no way reliable enough to put in an academic paper. Of course there are information sources that are just as great on the internet, but getting there is a long process (there's just too much irrelevant information out there); it might be more efficient if you just go get the book instead.

Turning books to ebooks might make it much more convenient to be accessed, but wading through ebooks for information is horrible. I regularly have to print about 20 pages that was originally in pdf form because I cannot stand reading so much on the computer on a regular basis. Not when you already do a ton of referencing and programming using the computer. I'm sure there are many people who feel the same.
I have Amblyopia -- an eye condition where the image from one eye is partially suppressed by the brain. I'd been wondering what a 3D movie would do to me for a while since parallax doesn't work when you brain is processing the images from each eye as separate. It turns out that the answer is not much of anything, but I still have to wear the glasses to filter out the second image.

Although I'm sure it will be nice for some people, I'm personally hoping that this doesn't catch on. It's pretty annoying to pay extra and have to wear special glasses (on top of my real glasses) when I'm physically incapable of benefiting from them.
There is an absolute bound on how much energy you can get from a solar cell tho', as in, you can't make the sun shine any brighter. Even if you concentrate it with mirrors, it's still a function of actual square metres occupied.
If you guys don't already know, Firefox and other browsers also make major money through affiliate marketing.

Every sale that's make through that little search box nets the company a little commission. Imagine how many people are using web browsers, and which web browsers.
I agree that the Internet is great for starting research, but are you sure you didn't suffer for it?

Were all the Internet sources you used reliable and documented? And how could these sources possibly duplicate the knowledge found in printed books, considering most books still aren't digitized or freely available to browse online?
> The fact remains, Gladwell's most recent book, Outliers, argues that there is no such thing as talent.

That's not what I read in it. If you look up the passage about the conservatory students, you'll find that he says that you need a sufficient amount of talent to get into it, and beyond that level, effort expended is a more important factor.
Why? The extra 3 letters of "cat" are usually going to take less time to type the mental overhead of "where do I put the input file for this command" or the additional pipeline reasoning. I actually sometimes do it one way and sometimes the other, whatever comes to my fingers first (which is going to vary according to how I'm visualizing the pipeline of tasks in my head).

In general I far prefer the (it seems to me) more Unixy way of having lots of very simple commands and chaining them together over the use of extra options and arguments.
"Gladwell's most recent book, Outliers, argues that there is no such thing as talent."

Did you read Outliers? Because it doesn't actually say that. Let's see what it really says:

"Yes, the hockey players who make it to the professional level are more talented than you or me. But they also got a big head start..." (p 30)

"Joy and Gates and the Beatles are all undeniably talented. Lennon and McCartney had a musical gift of the sort that comes along once in a generation, and Bill Joy, let us not forget, had a mind so quick that he was able to make up a complicated algorithm on the fly that left his professors in awe. That much is obvious. But what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities..." (p 55)

Gladwell argues against what his book calls "the primacy of talent." He says talent is one ingredient in success - even a necessary one - but not the most distinguishing one. He describes all the successful people he profiles as very talented, but adds that many equally talented people are unsuccessful because of different historical, cultural, and personal backgrounds.
Just don't share it with your wife .. she may take offense.
I don't know. As sjs382 says above you, "normal" people are the reason that phishing works. Or spam still happens.

It's also about market, right? Even if 10% of non technologically inclined people buy something, it's probably more than if 50% of the techies did.

Also, these people are a great reminder of why the iPad is going to sell like hotcakes.
Regarding passion, I think you're forgetting this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc . As for acting like a sales guy, this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8IufkbuD0 speaks for itself.
Ethnology museum readies festivities
The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology will organise a series of interesting events to celebrate the Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays from February 19-21, promising an enjoyable experience combining traditional images, sounds and foods of Vietnam’s diverse people and regions.

The grand opening ceremony will be held on February 19 with a fireworks display and water puppet show.
By default, the people you follow are shown on your public profile. Couple that with the auto-follow bullshit, and suddenly you have a giant privacy flaw:

http://www.businessinsider.com/warning-google-buzz-has-a-hug...

And it's not as simple as saying "it takes 10 seconds to unfollow". The idea that Google would do something this stupid was so foreign to me that I didn't even realize it was happening until the second day I had Buzz enabled, when I happened to view my profile from another computer I wasn't logged in to. Once I realized there was a problem, yes, it only took 10 seconds for the actual act of unfollowing everyone and turning off Buzz. But it took me another hour to make sure I wasn't missing anything, that the off button actually turned it off, that the Reader integration didn't have it's own little privacy quirks, etc. This is a massive fail for Google.
I don't like links to Youtube videos here. At least not without a description of what awaits me. (I should probably have added irony-tags or something to my post above. I wanted to make fun of the videos, not encourage them.)
> This has wider implications on the ability to profit over the long run in a capitalist society. In open markets margins should tend to zero.

... unless you constantly innovate faster than the competition. Politico.com is profitable because the read the situation correctly and innovated in terms of hiring and retaining the best political reporters in DC, even though what they're doing is what "old media" tries to make us believe they're doing: reporting the news. Anyone can try to compete with politico.com, but building a comparable network of well-connected reporters is hard = a new barrier to entry.

> Therefore, this isn't just a problem of old media but of all markets.

First, it's not a problem, it's a good thing. Second, no, this is specifically a problem for old media (and postal services): The internet completely removed the single barrier to entry that protected that business - the local monopolies on dissemination of information.
German family granted political asylum in U.S. over home schooling
Should be titled: Malcom Gladwell's public speaking secret. And the answer is plain as day,and rather boring. Said Gladwell, "I know it may not look like this. But it’s all scripted. I write down every word and then I learn it off by heart. I do that with all my talks and I’ve got lots of them"

That's like asking someone who looks physically fit what their secret is, and they tell you, "Diet and exercise."

Everyone knows this, but no one wants to put in the work.
Curio and easter eggs from specific levels in the game, not advice about how to design good levels. Pity.
Yes, but not as eye catching a title. ;0)