skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think "that's the simplest way to get it" is a valid argument. The simplest way to get flowers is to pick them out of someone's flower bed, but we don't advocate that.

For me, it's more philosophical. Consumers need to some self control. We are consuming everything without conscience -- because that's the easiest way. It's easy to eat fish, so the oceans are going to run out. It's easy to consume oil, so the gulf is polluted. It's easy to bit torrent content so people do. But it does cause problems. Some people don't want their content consumed in that way.

To respond to some other commenters below, it doesn't matter if studies show only the middle men are hurt, middlemen are important for the distribution of content and much content wouldn't be known if it wasn't for the middlemen -- they need jobs too.

As for the argument that "people pay after they download it" -- that's simply not true. I know tons of people who download thousands of movies and redistribute them on limewire and never pay for a single one.

If you want to watch a movie and the only way to get it is to use netflix or blockbuster (both middle men) then go there and get it. If you can't get it there or you're too lazy to drive there or you don't subscribe to netflix, then don't watch the movie! Do something productive with your time. Control your desires to consume stuff you haven't supported.
how do you asses the potential size of a market when it comes to early startups? instinct?
Yeah, ClickTale did that http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/how-pri...

Although I have no clue how they managed to do so :)
Near misses fuel gambling addiction
I don't understand why they're charging more per user as you scale.

Price discrimination between business types. An enterprise is not a collection of 1,200 one-man companies.
I wonder why there arent a lot more comments on this thread. I would have thought that a lot of startups would be looking for more affordable designer and coders who work remotely on a per project basis.

I am a freelance designer and developer. Anyone needing web design or interface design, or front-end coding can email me at mediarosh@gmail.com

I am particularly interested in working with web design and development firms looking to expand their team by adding freelancers.
Your tone feels a bit hostile. Between your comments here and in the other thread, I get the sense you want to look down on me. That's ok, but I'm calling out how your interactions feel qualitatively to me. The fact that you get more upset when I pointed it out makes me suspect that my guess is correct.

Anyway: You took a bunch of details about the output of a process you don't understand intimately (have you ever done an angel investment?) and guessed at what that process and mindset looks like internally.

How is this not the very definition of clueless?
Actually, The Economist is particularly bad for foreign reporting, because it is here that their fairly intelligent readers are most willing to trust them. Almost all other Anglophone news outlets don't even make a pretense of providing serious foreign reporting, which gives The Economist a sort of monopoly. Also, BS is harder to recognize when it has no implications for you or anyone you know.

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story...
At least with a dominant WebKit, everyone has access to the source code, and can either submit their improvements back to the core maintainers, or they can fork WebKit if the maintainers refuse to allow their improvements. With a dominant IE, you're at the mercy of some "unknown" Microsoft engineers/managers finding enough time in their schedule to implement those improvements.
"In a nutshell: Global warming either (1) isn't real (2) isn't caused by humans or (3) doesn't matter"

I know people who might serve you either #1 or #2 or #3 depending on the situation, their momentary mood or the course of discussion. Sometimes they even provide you a potpourri of all of the above at the same time.

It's like arguing with flat earthers.
wow. i've been building something similar for myself for about a week now. the x10 integration is a nice touch-i'll have to incorporate that into mine as well.
they should enable bump payments :)

Funny thing is that it would bring us back to the original Paypal idea of beaming money
What does it do? The blog posting doesn't mention anything except recent changes to a product with no description.
I'm conflicted -- I enjoy eating fish because of its health benefits but I don't want to contribute to over-fishing. What's the ethical and healthy thing to do? Tofu all day every day?
The court found that ownership of file extension designations cannot be appropriated under the Lanham Act -- file extensions are inherently functional, and functional uses cannot be trade-marked. It stated that computer programmers and computer users should be free to designate file extensions as they see fit, without the fear of infringing trade-marks.

It's nice to occasionally see an example of technological sophistication in the courts. I particularly like that the judge recognized the disproportionate burden that trademarked file extensions would impose on development. (Now, as for patents...)
I do think that Twitter is useful for self branding. Especially if you are famous. For me though, friends are old friends for a reason. If I still want to talk to someone I have their contact information.
Uh, if you have a card that is no swipe, just stick it inside the case and no swipe away. No need to clog up your microsd slot and have a stupid app on top of that to use it.
Catch Me If You Can.
I'm thinking the marginal costs to providing this service, as well as the marginal costs for providing FogBugz (and many, many other SAAS apps asides), are so low as to be almost incalculable. Every customer is profitable almost by virtue of being there.

Also, in a company which is growing rapidly, the average price per month paid at any plan level is going to quickly converge on your currently published price per month. That is another factor which suggests using Joel's solution, if you're growing.
"IE9 Trident is going to be better than WebKit (e.g. hardware acceleration)"

You must be joking. It's great that they have finally decided to add SVG support, but bragging about SVG "hardware acceleration" when they won't even commit to supporting the canvas tag is unconscionable.

It's also this kind of thing that makes it clear that either the IE team has its priorities completely out of whack or that Microsoft is trying to throw a spoke in the wheel of progress on the web.

Edit: I don't know what you hope to gain by downvoting. It doesn't change the fact that IE is and, from all indications will continue to be, the odd browser out.
I'm surprised that it hasn't gotten more attention, but the thought of a 120 MPH wind whipping all of those miles-long plumes of toxic glop into a froth and splattering all over the Gulf coast definitely concerns me -- especially with the beginning of hurricane season so close, couple with the National Weather Service forecast...

http://www.mahalo.com/2010-hurricane-season-forecast
"When you don’t have to worry about the development of a rendering engine then you can focus on the actual browser. Google understood this with Chrome and it is fast climbing up the charts. I know that WebKit development is essentially controlled by Apple, but since it is open source who really cares?"

Actually, Google surpassed Apple in commits to the WebKit repository a few months ago. Google adopted WebKit with Chrome but by no means are they not worried about the rendering engine's development.
Microsoft should release a version of IE6 that can coexist with current browsers and break the compatibility chain. It would cut down on their testing and allow them to move forward.
I don't think it's a recommendation problem. He doesn't want to find products that he naturally likes. He wants someone to take a product that isn't exciting in itself and weave a compelling story around it: what the product means and what the product says about a person who appreciates it. He wants to feel like a connoisseur without being able to recognize quality himself. He wants a salesman to teach him how to appreciate the product and, at the same time, convince him that his appreciation makes him a more sophisticated person.
Riak and Cassandra and HBase, oh my
And flash cookies from all google's domains. Youtube for example.
This will not get widely adopted until Visa gets their H out of their A and makes the case look decent and not be bulky. They can fit this stuff into a tiny keyring, why does this case add an extra 4 inches to the bottom of the phone?

Attention everybody: STOP MAKING UGLY PHONE CASES
Re your comment: "the rest of the class comes close to winning (this is the diabolically brilliant thing about bingo)"

Study this month confirms this and goes further:
"near misses were most rewarding for the pathological gamblers, who experienced them as being almost as rewarding as a win."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357991
There are sustainable fisheries. For example:

http://www.theecologist.org/how_to_make_a_difference/food_an...

And interestingly enough - the fish in Macdonalds fillet of fish is sustainably produced as well.

Again I can't recommend the book "end of the line" enough (as I notice others have on this page. Including me ;-) )
That is done in Buffer.toString(), this stream filter just makes sure that no string conversion is attempted on a multibyte character that is still incomplete (valid or not).
No, I'm not talking about an analysis phase in a waterfall development. I'm talking about the blindness you can get when you're incrementally developing at the level of features, when you can no longer see the bigger goals.
Facebook and Zynga Enter Into Long-Term Relationship
You should download the demo version, go to the library, turn on the radio, etc.
I need to setup a helpdesk system next week. Any recommendations?

Our key requirement is to be able to reassign incoming tickets and have simple notification to the person it was reassigned.
Why don't you lead? I found when raising money that a lot of angels are like that. Is it just a time thing? If you found a startup you really loved, would you lead then, or just try to get someone else to?
We've been working together for 11 years - we know what we need out of a space. We're not starting fresh never having worked together. A lot of these decisions have come from current and long-standing pain points.

That said, we agree - there will definitely be things we didn't think of and other things we over-thought. We'll report back if anything worthwhile comes out of it.
Is it just me, or do they have a terrible home page (as far as telling you what their products do)? I had never heard of them before this post, and from the name my first thought was that it was some kind of computer desktop sharing service. I think I figured out from the HN posts that it is helpdesk software. I think that's a pretty major failure on their part.
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with Gecko and I don't think Mozilla should drop it. It is still a quite advanced and fast rendering engine. I think the problems of Firefox are mostly management issues (being completely out of touch with the real needs of their users) which in turn effect which features get developed or which bugs get fixed.

About the rendering differences between Gecko and WebKit: a very tiny fraction of my time is spent on fixing things that look differently in Firefox and Gecko. Getting things working (and displaying properly) in IE is a lot bigger issue. I have yet to meet a rendering/JavaScript Gecko/WebKit difference issue that cannot be fixed trivially in a couple of seconds.
Why couldn't this be implemented as an app over Bonjour and WiFi? Use NFC if it's there, but requiring the case is just a little too much to expect.
Are those desks at the bottom in private offices or open plan?
"hugely expensive government programs"

That phrase is redundant.

Edit: grammar
hi boredguy8, I am really interested in the type of speed reading that you are describing and have started trying to learn to do it myself. I say "your type" since people seem to mean a lot of different things when they say "speed reading". What I specifically want to learn is the ability to rapidly read while maintaining comprehension by making the process less of a conscious activity.

How did you learn this skill? Did you automatically start doing this or was it something you intentionally learned? If you intentionally learned it was there any particular method or book you used? I know there are a lot of books/products about the topic but I don't know which ones actually have value and which don't so I have just been trying them one at a time. I have only met a few people in real life who seem to have this skill and they typically are not able to describe how they are doing it. Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated, even if it is just a description of the process you went through.

Thanks!
Does anybody have any idea which software was used to create the RSA animated series?
David Weekly from PBworks relates his pricing pivot experience: at 10:10 in the vid.

http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262673321
Amazing - even just joking about green scaremongering gets you downvoted.
Most customers won't leave - despite their whining. Customers stay based on value for them, the do not go based on the percentage of the increase.
It enables users to develop web applications is JavaScript and host them in the cloud. The only tool required for development is a web browser. And the deployment is instant.

It also features an environment where applications can interact with each other; so they could be really modular and social.
What's with the photo and caption beside this article? [Photo of refinery/ childhood cloud machine :) Caption:"Would you object to this sight even if there was no evidence it was causing harm?"]

The newscientist.com editors injecting some of their own belief into an otherwise reasonable article?
Awesome, glad to see CommonJS modules and JSGI in there!

Have you looked at the ECMAScript Proxy proposal? You might want to consider using the API.
when there's every incentive to take all you can before everyone else does, this is bound to happen. as someone has already said, this is a repeat of the tragedy of the commons

we need a system of property rights for the seas, rights to fish at certain places and times, that create incentives to not overfish and to protect this valuable resource.

If you own the rights to a stream of income, you don't have the incentive to gut it and sell whatever you can sell now before everyone else.

Agriculture is impossible without property rights also. Why would you plant and take care of plants if anyone can just take what they want?
At least most of the debaters in those tech arguments have written a line of SQL or a HTML page. The climate debate is filled with people who don't know the difference between weather and climate and have never even heard of terms like radiative forcing.
Not if you want it to be compatible with the many thousands of existing contactless payment terminals
I don't see why not. It seems from the outside you could.
Ideas often spark at a situation where you have little time to take care of it.
I use Evernote on my iPhone and PC.
After making a short not I usually later on go back and evaluate it.  Over the years I found this to be the best sorting and capturing mechanism.
Zynga Saved. Five Year Deal Keeps Farmville Maker On Facebook
Evite experiencing internal server error. Bad server config?
Mozilla Audio Data API, Javascript + HTML5 audio + WebGL
One nit to pick: some Android phones do have the pinch-to-zoom enabled in the default browser. I know for a fact that my Droid does, and I believe the Nexus One has it as well.
That's a very strange allegation. I've been accused of many things, but "looking down on people" is not one of them. I don't look down on anyone or want to, as this goes against everything I have ever stood for.

Yes, I've not done an angel investment before, but I'm not clueless. If we had a discussion about gravity, you probably don't know as much as a person who has written a few papers about gravity, but there is nothing wrong with having an opinion. I'm aware of enough material around it to have a semi-educated opinion.

In any case, I rather dislike your tone. You are dismissing my opinions, because I am 'clueless' according to your definition. That's rude.

I feel that you have something against me for whatever reason. Whoever or whatever influenced that, you can clear such things by email and you don't need to be so superior towards me here.
Desks are open plan. They have dividers for privacy and lots of space behind each desk.
I am not convinced that most MacBook users are CPU constrained.

Any Core Duo above 2 Ghz is just an embarrassment of riches, CPU wise. You're walking around with the equivalent of a super-computer under your arm, and you're complaining?

http://www.tikaro.com/2009/03/youre-sitting-in-a-chair-in-th...

Only game I know of where you're CPU-constrained is Dwarf Fortress.
It helps test the market for integrating payments into phones, telling Visa whether it's worth the cost of building the technology and the organizational headaches required to make that happen.
On the second point, how about:

"log in to save your preferences!"

As for "blow away the scrolling", I guess I'm channeling steve jobs: "This is the right way to do it."

People could prefer scrolling text, but from everything I know about reading, they ultimately will read faster if they use chunks.
It worked pretty damn well for Playdom. They did X for Myspace because there was an X for Facebook and it took them to a huge amount of revenue.

It's scalable as long as you can keep finding new Xes indefinitely.
It may have been unwise of Obama to give a speech that would lend itself to misinterpretation. Many people mentally shut down the moment they hear something they might disagree with. So to be effective you have to wrap every statement in as much flowery language as you can or you won't get through to people. Even here on HN where most people are intellectually curious and highly educated you still have to pick your words very carefully or you'll get attacked from a dozen different angles about claims you never made and which are not even fundamental to the argument you're making. This mistake we all make time and time again before it truly sinks in that everything you say will be misinterpreted, ripped out of context and used against you.

Now... if only Obama had a blog then he would never have made that remark. The irony indeed.
The Knife is out for Ruby
Yes, I have looked. I implemented a simpler Proxy: http://www.akshell.com/docs/0.2/ref/core/misc/#Proxy

It's more restrictive, but much more easy to use.
That is actually the very conference Kay is talking about in the mailing list post, where he "took some pains … to remind everyone … it is not even about classes."
+1

Though I'm struggling to think of even just one example of a human-created ecosystem designed to substitute for a natural one that's been at least as sustainable as those existing in nature.
I work in the opposite direction: Is it too small?
Yes the intention was clear, and I agree.

I'm now wondering what the rigorous way to describe the phenomenon you describe is. Something like, as the number of realizations of a random variable increases, the probability of seeing a realization below a given threshold approaches one. This sounds a lot like some of the theory related to hypothesis testing but it's been too long.
Why, he seems to be a responsible downloader.
Anyone tried out http://www.assistly.com yet?
"I’m insane because it just makes too much sense to me and when something makes sense it usually means large corporations won’t do it"

Of course not. If a corporate IT department wanted everyone to use a WebKit browser, then they'd already have done it.
> Anything less would violate the golden rule.

But that doesn't address whether we would all benefit from changing the system.

Piracy is good because it prompts industries to develop non-copyright-dependent means of funding production. Non-copyright means are good because the mechanism of copyright is essentially opposed to the benefit the internet offers.

If we want an increased flow of information: wider distribution, lowering of cost -- what the internet brings -- we can't have copyright blocking each copy, restricting distribution, and raising costs -- treating information as if it is still tied to physical objects. If every digital copy is charged the same as the old physical ones, the economic benefit of the internet's innovation is effectively obliterated. No-one (sensible, in general) would want that, so it follows that no-one can want copyright to remain in anything like its current form.
I don't know that there's much of a difference between a company with 3 support guys and one with 4. But regardless, like I mentioned, hosted exchange will service a fortune 500 company at a lower price per inbox than they will service my little group of 11.
I think you're missing the fact that this is a new libertarian talking point.

Laissez-faire approaches tend to result in the tragedy of the commons, where the commons is some environmental factor -- fish stocks, etc. -- and science has been consistently pointing out the problems caused as a result. Therefore, to defend itself, libertarianism must discredit science.

The solution is to associate science with government; since, by libertarian definition, anything a government does is wrong, it follows that science is wrong and, by the fallacy of begging the question, libertarianism is right.
Our ancestrors did not eat meat or fish every day, today's vegetarians do not eat tofu everyday either. The goal is to be complete in nutrients: you won't be much wrong if you associate cereals, legumes, fresh vegetables, fruits/dried fruits (to get glucids, fibers, proteins, vitamins and minerals) and possibly some dairy products/eggs for lacking nutrients. Think of the traditionnal associations (rice and beans, couscous, houmous and bread, fallafels and pitta ...) and try to be diverse and curious. Cooking is a form of hacking !
Facebook and Zynga “Enter Into Long-Term Relationship”
The logic behind this is that the browser wars aren’t won by who can render HTML the best, browser wars are won by speed and features.

I don't think the author understands the nature of the "browser wars". He seems to think that none of the players have had the specific desire to have their browser dominate so that it could control, through the power of de facto standardization, exactly how HTML & kin will behave. There's one notable player, namely the one he's beseeching, who has historically been aiming at exactly that. I'll grant that it's possible that they're in the process of having a change of heart: maybe in the future their desire for market share will be a mere matter of pointing user's searches to bing instead of google. But we're still waiting on delivery of a version of IE that proves this.

For all we know, they could be stalling to switch strategies at the last moment possible. But I think it's more likely that they will strategically leave something like Canvas out and continue the same old strategy, but on a slightly different front.
I second what eru said (sibling post).
Your bottleneck is most likely not the CPU but the RAM.

Get some activity monitor (e.g. iStat menu) to see what's really going on, I bet you're running low on RAM and the OS is swapping - which is the surefire way to bring everything to a crawl.

If you have the spare change then upgrade to 8G Ram (only possible in latest macbook generation I think) and a fast SSD (intel).

I'm pretty sure you will have nothing to complain about with a 13" stuffed like that.
Autotask only worked in IE as of a couple years ago. Avoid it like the plague.