skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
plinkplonk 2--> Well you gave a pathetic example. I really feel sorry saying this but in response to your example, here is mine.
You do not want your mom to get raped but why would stop other people to rape her? means you respect her right and she is the most important person in your life. I am a christian but I really feel sorry when I see comments like you have written. Why do we need to draw cartoon I mean cant we just think about other issues? why are you bothered about other religions?
Are gay pride marches an expression of fear?

Sure, they might be caused by gays initially feeling scared when they're alone and isolated. But joining together to march for something you believe in is an attempt to overcome this fear by uniting.

That's the way I see Draw Mohammed Day. Safety in numbers. It's a response to fear, not an expression of fear. South Park was censored because the TV executives were scared. We want to show we don't have to be scared.
My ideal morning routine: get up, throw on yesterday's clothes, go outside, get on bike, have morning ride, come home, wake girlfriend, fix and eat breakfast, shower, dress, check email, start on work for day.

My actual morning routine: spoon with girlfriend until she gets up, fall asleep on girlfriend's side of bed, get up, stumble to desk, waste hours on internet...then I get around to the bike ride and shower in the afternoon.
ahhahahaha nice ref ;)
indeed, this question make me think of that film too :)
No of course not; because they unite behind posiive symbols. Symbols that a straight guy like myslefwould even stand behind - as you say, to show unity.

This isn't really showing unity thought. The threats are non-credible but you are giving them credence. It does feel a lot like a fearful reaction. And very little to do with unity - because the chosen symbol alienates Muslims from the protest.

Think of it this way; if someon blogged random death threats because of a cartoon of George w bush would weaigh and ignore it? Why the double standard here then?

There is no credible threat, but some appear afraid enough to see it as one.
Better yet, what can you sell for $5 to 200k people? Aim low, aim wide, and hunt with a gatling.
I had not heard of LISP at 15, either. I already knew I loved programming, but what I was doing was rudimentary. I can't imagine how a teenager finds his or her way into such advanced programming. I personally need a formal computer science education for that.

Patrick Collison is really impressive, and I had the fortunate chance to randomly meet him at a coffee shop (he probably doesn't remember me). He is a YC alum, having founded and sold Auctomatic. He later created and sold an iPhone app that was a locally compressed copy of Wikipedia. Very cool. http://collison.ie/
I'd pick #2 in a heartbeat! Customers! Products!
I would put Popper under philosophy, and Kuhn and Feyerabend under sociology.

Of course, Feynman would put them all in the trash bin. ;)
The VC part of the equation is one of the most concerning parts. I fully trust that he can "run" the company, he has a successful track record of building successful startups. My concern is that the focus and drive to build a successful startup won't be there.

In general, productizing a technology scares me to death, too. It really feels like that is doing it completely backwards. However, in this (very) particular case, it is actually less concerning to me, given what the technology is and what the current product plans are (subject to change by me once I am involved full time).
Ask HN: What do you think of co-working spaces? 
A friend of mine is looking to rent out a co-working space in the area. He believes it'll be conducive to greater productivity and some networking. Is it worth the money? How's the rep. of the co-working spaces in your area?

I envision this topic as something that can potentially help out a lot of HNers as well.
omg i now realize where this comes from.. LOL i was like hmm this sounds eerily weird as in i've heard it before. stupid me
Ten Classic Electronic Toys And Their Modern Equivalents
Google trends issues hot media: US schoolgirl challenges Michelle Obama
Theo van Gogh was murdered! A Danish cartoonist saved himself and his granddaughter from murder by hiding in a saferoom. IIRC a man was arrested this week for attempting to murder a Swedish cartoonist.

These threats are highly credible.

I'm sorry if many muslims are offended by this, but that's really to do with their own lack of self confidence. Nobody's lost an eye, limb or a life by the actions of Mohammed drawers. It's a picture, for goodness sake!

Perhaps we disagree about what a positive symbol is. I happen to believe the artistic result of freedom of expression is a positive symbol.
Buddhists don't abhor meet eating. Draw all the Mohammeds you want. I think its a stupid/trivial issue to waste any time on.
Well I think Patrick Bateman wanted to be in good physical condition because of his hobbies..
They might see a resurgence after today's xkcd.
Got screwed for about 10x that in high school for one of my first programming gigs and about 100x that during university.

The worst part was in the latter situation I was really expecting to be screwed over but the expected value of the situation still made it worthwhile.

Getting paid on time is surprisingly difficult.
Sorry, ON2 is a codec company that prior to being bought by google was in the business of selling their codecs, VP8 included. Now, either they were good at it, then it was OK to pay that price and we would have a good codec. Or they were not and it needs google's resourses and "the entire internet" to fix that, but then google overpaid. Which one is it?
Wake up.
Snooze.
Snooze.
Snuggle w/ wife.
Snooze.
Snooze.
...
Realize what time it is.
Snooze.
Wake up again, realizing what time it is.
Race to class / internets / bathroom.

I live an exciting life.
Choose your co-workers not the job.
Average day:-

- 6:30 am get up and go for 20 minute a run
- Make myself some breakfast
- Wake up my wife/3 daughters, and get them all breakfast
- Make school lunches x 3
- Ride to work
- Check HN / Email + Work ;)

I love weekends where I don't have to make school lunches.
What a pain in the ass this is. I mean, I don't blame MPEG LA for trying to protect their business, but it's really lame that someone can create their own piece of software or codec, put a lot of hard work into it for others to enjoy and then another company or individual can come along and claim the rights to it and be legally backed when they try to get royalties for something they never worked on.
The amusing thing is that it was actually a good review, as the author is too smart to actually lie about it (though he does make a few minor technical blunders). Just the surface layer of nerd rage over a core of deeply technical nit-picking leads everyone to believe otherwise and link to it as if it revealed anything we didn't already suspect, or indeed hope for.

I mean he says it's better than H.264 baseline. If you're watching it on an iPod or iPhone then that's the only profile they support. In other words Android phones will have better maximum quality video than Apple's. Is that part getting overlooked somehow?

To reiterate, if you only want to create one file for all your web viewers then H.264 baseline is your best option, and VP8 beats that.

Another general theme is that it's very similar to H.264. If you put your armchair patent lawyer hat to one side for a moment, isn't "similar to H.264" a really good thing to say about a codec? Personally I think it's good for H.264 to be knocked off its pedestal. Just because Steve Jobs mentioned it in a keynote it seems to have attained the same mystical halo that surrounded PPC, Altivec, AAC or Firewire, untouchable by mere mortals with their X86, MMX, MP3 and USB2 when really they're all just fairly standard technologies with pros and cons and susceptible to external market forces like any other tech.

All the flaws he finds are unquantified in their impact, much like the recent attack piece on Ogg by his colleague where fatal flaws were later revealed to save 7-bits per media file or be 0.1% less efficient than MP4. Maybe they are real problems that annoy software encoder purists, design flaws or actual bugs that can't even be fixed until a spec revision but do you actually care as a customer? (Again was H.264 handed down from God or is it just a committee written spec like most other technologies. Are we claiming it perfect or flawless just because it's the incumbent?)

About the only one that he quantifies is lack of B-frames. (Actually left out because of patents, yet this still gets criticized by someone who thinks they're also careless about patents) But B-frames have costs as well as benefits, something clearly shown by the fact that they were left out of H.264 baseline as well. If they're all sunshine and lollipops then why leave them out? Like many things in codecs and software generally, it's a tradeoff, more decode power for extra compression which may make sense on a destkop but not a laptop or mobile device.

Finally, note how often in this (and his preview article) he says VP8 will not be a serious challenger unless(!) they adopt psy optimizations that make x264 so much better than the other H.264 implementations. You'd think this was either impossible, or unthinkable, but it's not. It's only a matter of time and at least the Xiph guys have experience of doing exactly this on a similar codebase and they've been working on VP8 for weeks already.
Not necessarily better yet. In fact you've completely missed the point. Recall the post about the company making $1000 per day on their iPhone app. They sell it for $25 and have staked out a niche. Meanwhile hundreds of other apps try to aim low and wide and for the most part make nothing because they charge too little and can't make up for it in volume. The point of the post is it's easier to sell something to 1000 people than 200,000.
I note a 'whenever' in the hint.
Unless you hit a lottery, it is incredibly hard to reach 200k people.
Andy Grove: Only the Paranoid Survive
I pull everything from my blog I do not like - mostly hate speech in comments. Facebook should have the same right.

Funny note: Lots of people who accuse Facebook and others of cencsorships have no problem directorating their own blog.
A HN couple responds to What Makes You Happy? (Video)
It's hard for me to feel the same way about a Google-sponsored open source project as I do about Microsoft's commercial ventures.

Maybe it's just the masterful PR, but I really do believe Google is actually doing good here.
Do you happen to remember the name of this app? Thanks.
And if Safari wasn't built-in, Apple would surely rate it as "can contain mature content" on the App Store as well.
Fear Is A No No - Except at Night [John Battelle's Response to Fred Wilson]
Yeah, sucks to be them. They only raised 10x what they needed without giving up any control. Now all they can do is build the app they wanted to build and try to squeeze by as a well funded internet startup with great PR.
This event hasn't been removed (and I think it came first):

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113257775375783
Hacker Dojo!

Figure out the total dollar cost of coffee at a coffee shop, struggling to connect, traveling between the library and coffee shop or time lost distracted at home. Its most likely a good deal to get your own small space somewhere.

Hacker Dojo is just $100/mo, which is less than spending $5 a day. If your time is worth $50 an hour, you only need to save 6 minutes a day to spend that $100 every month.

If you only make $25/hour and the rent is $200 per person, you just need to get 24 minutes of extra productivity per day. seems like a deal to me
http://iteleportmobile.com and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1365776
I certainly hope you're wrong. Writing software is one of the few things left that a normal working person can get into and become financially independant.

Personally I expect to just see the prices of software to come down on Mac and Windows but start charging on Linux if more people start using it. A couple of bucks is no big deal if the software is easy to buy.
You've got it the wrong way round. I think dcrawford's argument was that "Draw Mohammed day is non-violent thus it should be allowed to stay".
I like the comment aggregator idea. Thought of it some time ago as well; it'd be really neat.
Absurd. I honestly don't see the difference between Opera Mini and a browser on my laptop. My MacBook doesn't make sure I'm over 17 before I download Chrome; instead, it leaves the responsibility of displaying mature content up to individual websites (or parents, who can filter the content their kids see).
Acer outshines HP in Desktop Sales
Law & DisorderUS happy with 4Mbps baseline; Europe demands 30Mbps for all
No, but everyone is a social signaler.
Versiontracker.com and Macupdate.com are the two big ones for the Mac.
I don't think that's necessarily wrong, if some money is being made off a common resource. Every Alaskan citizen gets annual oil-fund checks, for example.
All apps that access user-generated content or include web browsing functionality come with that warning. Nothing to see here.
They're very happy:

I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR NEW WEBM OVERLORDS:

http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/50239.html

and more officially,

Xiph.Org announces support for the WebM open media project:

http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/2010/05/20/

It's worth bearing in mind that Monty created Vorbis, as used for audio for WebM, but Theora was donated from On2's VP3 so there may be less sense of ownership. Plus their basic mission is royalty-free, open-source friendly media so this is a big thing for them.

They seem to be hinting that they can let Google do the publicity and get back into their core competency of R&D for future formats that will be substantially better than encumbered alternatives.
No, those threats were credible - and clearly must be reacted to in the right manner.

But this protest is reacting to the wider majority of empty threats.

The rest of your post is just worrying. You may not understand why offense is taken at a picture, I agree and to me it seems silly.

But that doesn't give us the right to essentially say "shush, you're being silly. Let us get on with our protest please". It's a bit patronizing :-)

think of it this way: all Muslims are discluded from this protest. How is that unity?

(also, this ain't freedom of artistic expression. It's a deliberate attempt to get at the terrorists with imaea they don't like... That's a negative image in my mind :-))
Troll topic/headline. I don't see the point.
It's an interesting thought experiment. An interesting variant, though, might be to divide all his numbers by 10: what can you do to make $100k/year? Now that's not "rich" kind of money, but it is "making a good living independently" kind of money. And the numbers actually don't look daunting at all: bill at $52/hour, make 8 to 9 sales per month of something at $1000/pop, or make 111 sales per month of something at $75/pop.
Luckily you only need little less than 17,000 people at $5/mo. Not 200k.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
Google aren't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. Just like with WebM/VP8, there's huge commercial value in this for them. This doesn't make the project any less worthy, but their OSS approach shouldn't veil their corporate gain.
They've said the same thing about Vorbis and 10 years later there's still nothing. I'm with Google on that one. MPEGLA will just keep the FUD going for years like they did with Vorbis.

VP8 has already been in use for years by Skype and many others, there was already plenty of money to be done back then, so why didn't they sue back then?
Haha, I clicked expecting exactly the same thing. And I actually quite like the FSF; I see them as usually serving a role of idealistic critic, which is useful to have, especially in something like free software. But reality rarely satisfies the idealistic critic, so it's surprising when the critic actually loves something!
See also: http://www.appleoutsider.com/2010/05/20/google-rewrites-hist...

"Good old competitive potshots are fair game, but this one is particularly offensive when one recalls Google acquired Android in August of 2005. That’s nearly 18 months before the world even knew about iPhone, let alone its carrier model or prospects for success. And it’s nearly a full three years before the App Store went live on July 11, 2008.

"Google is a publicly traded corporation that controls the flow of more and more information every day. It’s very troubling to watch them rewrite history in such a self-serving manner."
What happens to an unprotected human body in space?
Haha, exactly my thought, mine would kill me by then.
And without the referrer a good chunk of the web will break. How many web frameworks and CMSes have a cheap redirect(HTTP_REFERRER) or similar in their code?

Also, forget analytics. Without referrer information you will know nothing about your traffic sources.
>Those simple bacteria evolve at staggering rates, and swap genes like DJ Danger Mouse mixing tracks.

But they only evolve to the brink of failure

http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2009/05/natural-protein-vs...
Viral loops is a great book, I picked it up a few days ago. If only it had a kindle edition.
Err...the internet?
Right. Because all you need to take on the #2 company on the web with 400 million registered users is a few hundred grand and some newspaper articles.

Really, seriously. The Diaspora guys are probably great people but it takes a bit more than that and the above ingredients to make this happen. They'll have to keep drumming that PR motor without any news at all if anybody is to even remember them by launch day, and they have a very high bar to cross in terms of expectations.

At some point the amount of money you have doesn't matter.

Let me give you one small example: In the netherlands there was a small local site called 'marktplaats' that had nested itself in peoples' consciousness when it came to buying and selling second hand goods.

In the end, Ebay, with a marketing budget that would dwarf most other companies turnover just gave up and bought them, so strong was the power of being the entrenched party.

On that scale 200K bucks and a bit of press amount to nothing.

The party that determines the future in this respect is facebook, and if they don't mess up royally (and there's always a chance for that) the outcome of all this is fairly predictable.

Given everything I know about all this today, and the fact that fall is about 5 months way and that they'll be able to hire an additional 35 man-months of coding time (assuming they themselves will only use that 10K they originally budgeted), that translates in to a team of 11 people that still needs to be broken in and that needs to produce a relatively large amount of software in a very short time.

I put the odds at significantly less than 5% of this succeeding in a way that the first batch of users will be happy. If they find an investor that will give them several years of runway it's a totally different story, but then they still have to unseat facebook.

I hope they'll give it their best shot and that something good will come out of it, instead of just a signal to FB they have a public relations and a privacy issue.

Anything over that and I'll consider it a bonus.
This doesn't make the project any less worthy, but their OSS approach shouldn't veil their corporate gain.

On the contrary, that actually makes it more worthy, since they're providing a clear example of how a publicly-traded company can profit by being a good corporate citizen.
Oh no is it that late yet?
Then the stress begins
Jupiter cloud belt missing again
All About FIFA World Cup 2010
I know of one in my area (Los Angeles) and that's CoLoft in Santa Monica. I was there for a mixer last week and I must say I would really enjoy working there. It's a very open space with 2-3 meeting rooms, a kitchen, tons of desks, chalk boards, dry erase boards, etc. It's very "startup" friendly. Great place to collaborate with other like-minded people.

As for the price, it's probably going to cost you much less than getting your own office space -- at least here in LA. CoLoft costs $345/month fulltime and $495/month fulltime with 24/7 access.
Airbnb is better than the Olympics.
What used to be around that a normal working person could become financially independent from but can't anymore?
There is no difference; a browser on your laptop "can contain mature content" as well. It's only a warning, made modal to ensure recognizance under legal liability (i.e. parents suing Apple)—it only turns into something more if, as you said, parental controls are enabled on the phone. Also,

> My MacBook doesn't make sure I'm over 17 before I download Chrome

In OSX, accounts with parental controls enabled don't let you run applications downloaded from the internet until they've been "untainted" by an non-limited account. Pretty much the same.
Track record, track record, track record, track record. Look at the track record. Track records don't lie. Track record, track record, track record.

Someone fired from all their jobs is probably going to be a menace later in some form or fashion.

Someone who ended all their relationships on bad terms is going to end on bad terms with you.

Strong starters/non-finishers are going to start strong but likely won't be able to close it out without extra help later... which you might be oblivious to, because they'd started so strongly.

Track records don't lie. Unless you're really good at spotting diamonds in the rough, don't grab someone with a bad track record for an important role in your business and life. I've learned this one the hard way too many times. I still get tempted with, "Wow, this guy/girl is so amazing, the problem must've been the other people..."

I'm trying to not do that any more. Once? Quite possibly a fluke. Twice? Maybe... Three times? That's a track record. Also, people will always say they've changed. It's probably a bad idea to be the first person to test out whether it's real or not.
That is definitely FB caught red handed.

Amusingly, an alleged employee of Facebook here challenged me to find a single example of Facebook selling private information, and this seems to be the clearest example so far.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312016
As I said, when they file a suit then get back to me. This is more of what they’ve been doing for the past few years: vague threats of patent pools and litigation without anything to back it up.
"I'm not an expert on these privacy matters, so my approach is simple. I approach all companies that have my personal information with caution..."

I like Robert Scoble's take on this: assume from the start that anything you put on a computer (or write down in any form, for that matter), is public.

Obviously, this doesn't work all the time (there are, and should be, things like private emails). But it's a good assumption when dealing with most services out there.

As he puts it, most of the stuff you put on your Facebook page is just a copy-paste away from being spread by your friends, so how secure is it really?
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Pretty much any app that has a UIWebView will get this flag. So nothing to see here...
I wonder what makes Toyota feel that car manufacturing in the U.S. is now attractive again?

Even though the technology is new and different, you would still think that the economics of mass production remain the same.