skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to imagine why Apple would give a shit about tethering. It's allowed in many (most?) of the venues the iPhone is sold in. If Android had the kind of market penetration the iPhone did, AT&T would be pissing off Google instead of Apple. This isn't a good example of Apple's "sharp toothed lawyers".
I feel like Wave is not really something for the masses, at least not right now - I never feel the compulsion to use Wave at home, but I definitely feel it at work, where there are gigantic, meandering email threads that defy my ability to track the different tangents that sprout.

My hunch is that Wave was born internally to address that specific problem - corporate email and its requisite long discussions with way too many people. Part of its struggle is to prove its usefulness and relevance to people who don't deal with this type of communication.
Isn't the release of methane from tundra hydrates one of the "tipping point" disaster scenarios?
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I wish Google had used the time and effort they put into Wave instead to beef up Google Docs. To me Google Docs itself could be a great collaborative tool if the applications weren't so crippled and basic. Integrate it with G-Chat, add a OneNote style information management tool and make Docs/Spreadsheets at least as functional as an early 90's Windows 3.x Office suite. I'm really baffled at the lack of attention Google Docs is getting while all these new Google services spring up. Someone (probably Microsoft) is going to eat their lunch. I admire that Google is trying to push forward with a new way of doing things via Wave but ignoring what users actually want today, a good collaborative office package, and conceding the market to someone else is just a dumb move for an advertising company to make. You gotta give the people what they want.
Thanks, I never really looked into it, if it's really that easy it's worth the time to stop the colossal growth I get there with iTunes and crap. I already have 5 gig in My Documents inside a few months of a fresh install.
The End of the World Email -- URGENT!!! System is down! NONE of our users can do XYZ! Please advise!!!11!

I'd love to get one that actually said "advise". I usually get "please advice".
While your example is pretty extreme I definitely agree with you. At least in the US, posting pictures and ranting online isn't a protected class when hiring/firing for a job. If I were an candidate/employee in one of these cases I would want to know if something I posted, or was posted about me, was influential in a decision but probably shouldn't be required disclosure. One would hope that the decision maker would be forthcoming enough to admit it in such cases.
sounds interesting, when are you launching?
To be honest, that summary was about as long as the article needed to be. There really wasn't anything else in it which hadn't been covered either in previous posts on Tim's blog or in the general atmosphere here (do we really need yet another "Walled gardens are evil!!!!!!1", when that's been rehashed so many times already?).
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Be careful: If you're in the US, to do most angel investing, you must be an accredited investor, per SEC regulations. To qualify, you must have a net worth of at least $1M or have made >$200K in each of the last two years (>$300k if married). Almost any company with a good lawyer will require that you sign something certifying that you are accredited.
Belief in the Brain: Sacred and secular ideas engage identical areas
When the page loads, I see an event under today's date that says "click here to read me". I then click on the calendar entry and... nothing happens. It took me a few seconds to figure out that I'm supposed to click on the description that appears in the left sidebar.

On a related note, the description in the left sidebar is the same as in the calendar view, except it also has a start time. You could just put the start time into the calendar view and get rid of the sidebar description altogether, saving users from a little extra navigation.
That's not true; Kiva often charges extraordinarily high interest rates. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_(organization)#Interest_ra...
How do you get that from my statement? I never claimed capitalism is just military spending. Nor did I claim that communism did not fail. I was however reacting to your implication that some social programs are full on communism.

It is pretty accepted that one of the major reasons for Soviet collapse was massive military spending (unsustainable...). You are suggesting that the way the US is moving recently will make us collapse just like the Soviets. You fail to mention the periodic and massive increase in military spending, which is not recent. This spending now constitutes a very very large portion of the US budget. I worry far more about the constant growth of that spending than about some new programs that cost and order of magnitude less.
> It's hard for me to imagine the "killer app" that can't be done on a platform that has a completely open web browser and a locked-down app store.

If not, you'd be building it.

> I guess what I'm saying is just this: all the cries of "software freedom!!" as though it were a revolutionary political struggle ring hollow to me.

You're not hearing those cries from me. I mean, I do appreciate software freedom, and that why I chose the Android device, but I'm not crying it. I'm merely arguing that in the long run, the free device will win. Not free in the way that Linux is and Windows isn't, but "I can run what I want"-free. And I think that's the essence of Brays argument, too.

I don't think Apple is particularly evil (except for the patent-trolling), I just don't think their walled garden strategy is going to win in the long run, and definitely not in the end-all be-all manner that we see from the most hardcore fans.

So Google Voice isn't the killer app. ScummVM isn't. But by the time you're going to replace your iPhone, and the list is up to 15 such apps, and if there's a high quality Android handset that's even $100 cheaper, you might pick that.

That's how I think Android will win. The boobs-argument is good, too, though :)
This should be completely automated so advertizing should work. IMO, the best way to monetize should it take of is selling your own advertisements for stuff people want when going to or hosting a party. AKA, Sara's 7th birthday bash invite linking to popular toys for that age range. Inviting 50 people how about local catering companies, or perhaps a local cleaning service.

Edit: Also, there are plenty of sites that do this, I would suggest starting with a facebook app and keeping some sort of score, aka number of events hosted, average gathering size etc. You could even add some sort of avatar based on unlocked achievements.
This is oh so very true. I had a friend that wanted to get some music off her iPhone.

So, I start to ask some questions - does she still want to sync the iPhone to the old computer which had the original copies of the music on it. Did she need to be able to sync to a second computer. Was it just the music that she needed, or was it all of her data (emails, contacts, calendar etc). Her response? "You know what I mean, just tell me how to do it!"

Errrr. No, I don't know what you mean, but apparently you don't have the skillset to think through ideas in such detail, so I'll take a best guess at what you want.

As an interesting point to note, in the end maybe she was right, because I was able to guess what she wanted without getting answers to all of my questions. The translation of nebulous user needs into something that a computer can understand is the quintessential act of a computer programmer, and I don't think that this capability is natural/easy/possible for everyone. It takes a certain type of mind to be able to do this.
It seems sort of like you're destroying the possibility for growth with this, though. From what I understand of Google's work, they really have improved tremendously from analyzing data (to find how searches go wrong), and from using the data in new features (such as with spell checking, adding new terms into the query, personalizing searches, etc.).

And I mean, I value privacy. I do. But, I value the quality of the search results even more than whatever privacy is lost from search engines logging, I guess. Unless there is some path to improvement, all I can ever see myself using Duck Duck Go for is porn, tips on murdering my spouses, and information on illegal drugs. Of course, other people would use it for much more-- but for me, there something truly wonderful about being able to search for "nose" and have the first result be a unit test runner I want to use, not a piece of anatomy I already know everything I need to about. Sure, it's stupid-- I should search for "nose tests", but I sometimes make mistakes, and here Google doesn't even need to say so and make me try again. It finds the target anyway, without problems (and the less-likely Wikipedia article is right below, as result #2). Without Google logging what I searched for and building a profile, this wouldn't be possible.

I don't mean to be fanboyish and loving of Google (they do scare me sometimes). If they added some sort of feature that said, "don't record anything I do right now with these searches", I would be very happy. But, similarly, I would also be happy if Duck Duck Go at least had an option to opt-in to logging and monitoring and so on. On my end, I would consider my relatively minimal, and explicitly given, loss of privacy to be worth it to help make a search engine I am using better (assuming, of course, that I'm using it-- and I'm not opposed to trying something new to me).
I would post on HN and ask for people to share with you what they're working on but for the love provide some sort of template or format you want to be pitched with. Whether you want to see wireframes, a demo, or a slide deck with 5 slides etc.

Pick what you like best and dive in - in whatever capacity you choose.
There are enough channels for that already, I guess. It doesn't mean that WikiLeaks doesn't get disinformation though, in fact this whole topic might be a cover for exactly that.

Disinformation channels also need to be highly controlled and centralized (i.e. US media companies like News Corp, GE or Twitter :P), which WikiLeaks is not.
I don't use any of those and I deny google cookies.
What about your upstream provider? Do you know what level of data they retain about your traffic and visitors/sessions?
I do meet the SEC's accredited investor criteria
The implication being that a lot of company hire people as contractors when they are really employees and a database like this would instantly eliminate all the underhandedness.

It's a favorite pastime of labor lawyers to beat companies over the head with the Fair Labor Standards Act for classifying people as independent contractors when they are really acting like employees. I'm sure the IRS enjoys it too.
The actual content of the report does not support the conclusion in the headline and description. The entire extent of the supposed "plan" is the obvious suggestion, in passing, that finding people who leak sensitive information would deter others from leaking sensitive information.

So what's the story here? That U.S. military intelligence knew, in March 2008, that Wikileaks was posting classified information that presumably had inside sources, and that this might be threat to OPSEC/INFOSEC, and that shockingly someone who works in "cyber counterintelligence assessment", wrote a report about it. Utterly mundane.
For #1, are you looking for a 1 in 10 chance of a 5x return, or a 1 in 100 chance of a 50x return?

For #2, if you don't want to spend the serious time and money (because you will lose some money while learning) becoming a angel investor, consider investing in a fund that does angel size investing. David Cohen of TechStars runs a small fund that does seed stage investing, and I'm sure you can find others as that is a hot area.
It charges interest to borrowers, but it doesn't pay interest to donor-investors.
Select the Efficient Trainer For Fitness
Remember when AOL purposely released search data? They tried to think it through and took steps to anonymize the data before they let anyone look at it. A lot of interesting things fell out of it, a lot more then you'd expect.

http://consumerist.com/2006/08/aol-user-927-illuminated.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal

In the end you're either part of that set or your not. What's bothering people is not having a choice.
If tethering (aside from carrier restrictions) or not being able to override your home screen are dealbreakers for you, you should not buy an iPhone. These aren't dealbreakers for most people.

Instant messaging works fine via Push Notifications. Maybe not perfectly the way you want it to, but well enough that I don't have any problem with it and there's no concern of it eating my battery. Everything in life is about trade-offs. You can't have the good without the bad... or at least it takes a LOT of work to achieve that. Understanding that is key to good product design and sometimes it seems to me that Apple's the only one in this industry that does.

Pandora works fine in the car. It doesn't work fine to leave it running and do something else. But when one is driving, it's fine. Yeah, you can't use your map while your music keeps running. Again, not a dealbreaker. Would be nice, I hope they add a well-managed multitasking solution in the future, but it's ridiculously low on my and most actual users' priority list. You wouldn't know that from the reams that have been written about how we absolutely must have multitasking or the device is junk.

Anyway, all of the points you raised are ones on which people can have legitimate gripes with the device. They and other capabilities may be lacking that make the device not fit their needs. Apple ain't gonna add a bunch of stuff to the homescreen because that's not within their aesthetic. I'm fine with that -- prefer it even. There's a value in things being calm and serene. For me it outweighs the value of having the city I'm in written on my homescreen. Both choices are fine and that's my whole point: unless/until Apple becomes a monopoly (which is not even remotely in sight), there's no reason to call them evil over the App Store's restrictions -- just don't buy/develop for their phone if you don't like it. LOTS of people really, really do, so it's nonsensical to call the device junk, either. There are lots of choices for those who don't like it. And it's rare anymore for things to lock you in (like how it used to be in the bad old days) to proprietary formats that you can't possibly move aways from even if you desperately want to. I haven't heard a single person say that they hate their iPhone but just can't move away because of X. If X being missing is a big enough deal, people just switch. YAY! This seems like freedom to me.
The thing is, it works the same way email does, but it also has additional capabilities as well. The problem is, email is widely supported, wave isn't. Imagine every instance where email is used and you can replace it with Wave. The benefits to Wave might not be immediately and as widely as useful in every situation to everyone person, but that's more a matter of it not being used in a wide spread way.

Imagine Amazon using Wave instead of Email, along with it's customers using Wave instead of Email. Amazon could use Wave to automatically update the Wave of a person's order with the latest shipping information. This shipping information can be bulled in from Canada Post (or wherever) and automatically update. Rather then sending out a full email every time something changes, they could simply send along an update that updates the original Wave.

Nothing is lost, due to the nature of Wave, but it suddenly becomes much easier to find the information I want.
I meant to the last time I heard about the appeal but then promptly neglected to. Thanks for the reminder... done.
> I think the Slate author just says that she assumed his methods to have been different than they were, after reading Gladwell's story about them.

I did too, because I used to think Gladwell was a reliable source. Oops!
Right. Although it wasn't clear what exactly they meant by using a CNAME. They could have cleared it up greatly by saying using a CNAME to the official DNS name of the elastic IP, i.e. ec2-75-101-137-243.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
Whoever wants to put the US on that list

Who is that? The document makes no such suggestion.
That video is painful to watch.
So this would be the same organization that gave AAA ratings to all of those CDOs a few years back?
Does a contractor need to meed all or any one of those 20 points?

How does this relate to contractors hired trough oDesk or Elance?

I see number of points they would meet, for example Payment by Hour, Right to Discharge, Oral or Written Reports etc.
Not just with techies: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...
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I think though in this case, what people say they want isn't what they really need.
Yes, it's a very instructive essay.

However, notice that they only claim that Lilypond's default output tends to be better than other software's. It's not always as good as a good manual engraving. You have to tweak it to get it right.

Just today I printed this Tchaikovsky piece. Compare the manual engraving with a Lilypond output here (1st and 3rd links):

http://imslp.org/wiki/Dumka,_Op.59_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr_Ilyic...

In particular, look at the the Poco meno mosso section at pages 6 and 5, respectively. While the original has 2 bars in one line, the Lilypond version has 3. Not only the notes look too small, but the 8va in the second bar is almost unreadable.

But, alas, I cannot play it anyway.
Because once an AI surpasses human intellect, an increasing number of programming jobs will be more effectively performed by machine. At some point AI will do to the programming industry what automation did the manufacturing industry.
A struggle for what? To run exactly the code you want to run on Apple devices?

Let's keep in mind that that's what's being talked about here. Apple devices. Apple isn't making any proposal anywhere that says that you shouldn't be able to run the code you want to run on whatever device you choose that's not made by them. There are hundreds of them. Go use them, it's fine. Nobody minds. But to look at this one minority marketshare device and say you're being repressed because you can't buy one and run the code you want to on it is bizarre. Just buy something else. To do otherwise is to join in an intensely stupid struggle.
your book is fucking awesome.
How to iterate your web app to product/market fit
1) A little over a year (Founded March 2009)

2) Didn't apply. Could use the advice, but not the money.

3) No, and not sure we want to. Got some solicitations last month from a few firms on the East Coast. This prompted me to contact Sequoia to gauge interest. Amazingly, got a sit down with Michael Moritz, and had a few more conversations and email sessions that convinced me (and them) that there wasn't a right fit there. I'm lazily listening to other VCs, but nothing has interested me yet.

4) http://www.pacsdrive.com
Their attempts to reconcile their love of the gold standard with their kvetching about price fixing are hilarious.
Why does the government want to discourage a free-flowing labor market? Some thoughts:

1. It's easier to force GE to pay the correct payroll taxes for 100K employees than it is to police thousands of single-employee "companies" that file Schedule C's.

2. The government has co-opted corporations into providing pieces of the social safety net such as unemployment benefits, health insurance, etc. If a minimum wage employee was offered $1/hour more to be a contractor, he might take it. Then, if laid off, he might go on welfare instead of unemployment insurance paid for by the employer's contributions. Employment law enforces a bunch of social safety net stuff which can be circumvented by contractors.

3. Net taxes paid would decrease if everyone was a contractor. I have the right to pay myself a percentage of my earnings and take the rest as dividends which are not subject to payroll tax, etc. Also, I can deduct mileage from my home office and other things that reduce taxable earnings.

Can anyone think of other reasons?
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Well they won't approve apps that provide tethering so they apparently do give a shit. The point with Android is you can install anything you want, not being in the marketplace is as bad as Google can hit you back and that just means users have to install it themselves.
So, why is this (C as OO lang) a better idea now, as opposed to when it vas tried in the 80s with X windows?
People use the word "please"?
However, if handled carefully, using methane hydrate as a fuel could be safer than simply letting it melt on its own.

Drive that methane powered Humvee two blocks for a slurpee. Its the environmentally responsible thing to do!
I think he meant that the US shouldn't strive to be a country opposing Wikileaks like those others. Not the best company to be in.
thats a great idea
"Steve Jobs is not a conformist."

That's true, but I think it's true because that's what his fanbase wants him to be.

I always got the impression that Steve was projecting his customers' projections of what they wanted to be themselves. He's cool, he's likeable, he's barefoot on stage. He makes flashy, shiny products and lives comfortably as a result.

I wonder how much of Apple's success is due to a younger crowd saying, "hell yeah! If Steve can do it, I can do it!" and then going out to buy Apple products in the subconscious hope that some of Steve's success will rub off on them.

Steve Jobs seems to me to be constantly saying, "hey, you hep cats! I'm livin' the dream, and you can, too! Buy an iPod to remind yourself of this fact!" It's an interesting combination of Cult of Personality and Sympathetic Magic.
Excellent idea, thanks!
Krugman: It's America That Has China Over A Barrel, Let's Take Advantage Of it
There was an idea floating around the blogosphere a few weeks ago about investing in individual rather than an specific company. Where you would pull in a percentage of that persons net income for the rest of your life...could be interesting.
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Am I the only techie who DOESN'T want another totally open device? I have a mac, a windows pc, another mac laptop, my girlfriend's computer, my girlfriend's mom's linux system, etc. I already provide tech support to some degree or another for all of them.

I don't want another device I have to understand to the core in order to avoid viruses, trojan apps, and other mundane problems.

I want a damn phone that runs a few apps. I like that I can outsource most of my worries to Apple, and let them worry about it, and the price is that I don't have root.

I wonder how we can make both sides happy: both my side of "I know what I'm doing, but I don't want to do it.", and "It's my toy, let me do what I want". I see the merits of both, but I worry even about putting a "unlock me please" button in the settings panes somewhere, since it will end up with phones trojaned, dialing 1-900 numbers so the owner could have a cute animated cat on their unlock screen.
Unfortunately his other website (norcalis.com) is now a porn site :(
You don't need need to be literate to work at a supermarket.
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I wouldn't worry too much about this of considering buying US or UK debt. If they default, those bonds will be the least of your economic problems.
Microsoft tells its Windows Phone 7 Series developer story
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I clicked to open the comments threads for both this and the "Please TechCrunch, stop using "dead simple" to describe every new app." article.

I honestly thought this was an ironic response to the second article!