skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I find regulations to be possible vectors for regulatory capture. People act as if regulations is the only solution, rather than asking if previous regulations cause the problem in the first place.
I'm not sure it's quite this simple. Yes, my ISP streams cable TV to my house via multicast, but it's a multicast not just of the 1 or 2 channels I am using at any given moment (2 if I'm recording DVR on one and watching another), but of all 150 or so channels on the menu. If each household were only getting the actual TV channels they were watching, unicast might be feasible. (It would, of course, require more upstream bandwidth, so each household could tell its TV provider what it was watching.)
I'm not sure about Florida, but some points about California:

1) Extremely generous social services

2) A bizarre (and arguably unfair) property tax regime. Property taxes on owned property only rise 2% a year. (very low, consider that my parent's Bay Area home has risen by about 5.7% yearly since the 1980s) What that leaves you with is entrenched residential and commercial property owners paying relatively very little in taxes. If you are a new resident though, you get no immediate benefit - your taxes are assessed at the purchased value.

According to supporters, the law that set this up (Proposition 13) has saved taxpayers $528 billion (http://www.hjta.org/about-hjta/history-hjta); that's $17.6 billion a year - pretty much the budget deficit of the state.
This was submitted earlier today already wasn't it?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1588934
So did Google essentially lie to the public about this last week or have I misunderstood?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/05/google-verizon-net-neutrali...
Nice. :)

Incidentally, I agree with all of the above commentary. Unfortunately, it's the sad reality of trying to start up an online service/product/whatnot today.

For the canonical, I like letsjump.in or gojump.in - and it's never too early to try and snag jump.in (the owner might be willing to part with it for less than you think). Good luck!
Strange - I see some over there but they do not show up in this URL. It looks like languages with two words are not being found.

http://github.com/search?type=Everything&language=&q...
Sigh, in hindsight I should have written something like "Krugman calls bullshit"... :-)

It would have been interesting to see if that article could have been answered seriously.

(On the other hand, I have used that as a reference for a decade without seeing a good counter argument. It changed my world view, so I'm interested in seeing it discussed.)
When are people going to give up this notion that companies are evil or good? Companies try to make money and crush those that try to stop them. it's just when you're big, you get to do the crushing. When you're little, you're dodging giant feet trying to step on you.

Google and Apple are now unquestionably large. And they are crushing things that stand in their way.

Just remember, "Don't be evil" as a motto to make money. Until you can no longer make sufficient money with the motto. Then being evil is almost certainly the only way.
The business plan is more along the lines of:

1. Recognize an under-served market segment with huge potential.

2. Build a product which fills that segment's need

3. Profit.

Our views on the East Coast tech scene are completely orthogonal to those goals.
I don't see how crashing a Windows box is any worse than robbing Goldman Sachs. (In both cases innocent people suffer, but the target is pretty reviled.)

I say this as someone who likes to claim he's chaotic good, but really is pretty much lawful good.
4 litres of whole milk a day (plus some normal meals) will make you put on muscles if you follow a program like the one advocated in the book "Starting Strength" (http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/The_Starting_Strength...).

You will also put on some fat, so you may want to cut back later.

Of course other sources of protein (and fat, carbohydrates etc) besides milk are also possible. Milk is just easily available.
I'm pretty sure that my wariness of losing data would mean that I'm... uh... less likely to lose data? Besides, SQLite is amazing.
"Recently, though, the dream has been evaporating. Between 2003 and 2007, California state and local government spending grew 31 percent, even as the state’s population grew just 5 percent."

This is the most shocking line from the article. How did they let costs balloon so badly?
Oh, that makes sense then, thanks for clarifying...
Did they?
The agreement have some good point as well as compromises, nothing particularly earth shattering, if you want something different call your senator, not Google.
i.e., play by the letter of the rule, instead of the intent. And risk being shot down in the future, because it's a rather asinine thing to do, and any attentive reviewer would think so as well. HIG is important to Apple. (note that I don't think Pastebot will be a victim of this, just Camera+ if they do it)

The situations are also pretty drastically different: Pastebot is using music-playing to get background operations to work, which will capture clipboard content passively, not via the volume buttons. Meanwhile, Camera+ is trying to use the volume buttons actively to perform a function which is not volume related. Prediction time: if they attempt this, it won't get past the review stage, or will be shot down shortly after.
Has Technology Killed Privacy?
Google TV adds another layer to whatever video you happen to have, even non-internet television subscriptions.
That wouldn't have been possible if the App Store was not managed correctly.

That's a silly thing to say: obviously some people might profit with an incorrectly managed App Store. For example, many people profit handsomely in very badly managed countries.
And then there are the fishitarians. Because fish have no soul.
I've been using pen-tech liquiphite pencils for nearly a year now. How are these different?
>Google's decision to cut a deal with Verizon wreaks of either impatience or fear. Either Google wasn't willing to wait for the Verizons of the world to crumble and die -- and therefore moved it's own business development timeline up 5 or 10 years at the expense of the entire American public. Or, Google feared doing the dirty work that comes with being a leader -- despite launching a "Google Fiber for Communities" program that competes head-to-head with the decrepit incumbents, Google feared actually having to fulfil their potential to defeat the bad guys.

Maybe someone can correct me on this, but as far as I've been able to determine, Verizon's been the one pushing FTTH more than any other company with FiOS. Google might have this pet project, but Verizon has put quite a lot of money into laying new fiber.
They're not free, a random click on your link - http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/?qh=&sec... shows that the copyright owner allows non-commercial use only and then with attribution and informing him of the use. Onerous.

"If you want to use it for Profitable goals contact me."

I've tried contacting people on DA before about using imagery in semi-commerical settings. It's cheaper to buy stock art than waste time chasing them unless it's a one-off image.

This exchange highlights the problem - http://comments.deviantart.com/1/76929399/904383280 - someone requests permission from the "artist" who assumes that as it's a texture that people are allowed to copy it:

"It was put up as a texture hopefully you know what a texture is and what it means. LOL!"

But just because it is a texture doesn't mean rights are automatically granted (though it is unlikely to be distinctive enough to warrant copyright protection only a court can really decide that).

If people used PD or CC-BY or other free to use licenses clearly then such problems wouldn't arise.
The danger of facts
Dude I totally would, and good luck with it, but I have no idea what you're talking about :( The basic idea is on the comment above, I'd be glad to answer any questions you may have, though...
What exactly is patented here? My guess would be that you cannot actually patent a material, but that you can patent a process for manufacturing a material. That's the way it seems to me things should work. Does anyone know if that's the case?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_verizon_propose_...
You sound like you might have done all these things, half of these wouldn't even occur to me?
Then you should be looking at a 15-30% reduction in the median salary for your job. So if it is 100k you should be looking at 70K with 30%. It differs from company to company, but that is my golden rule that I go by.

As the company becomes more and more profitable after X rounds naturally the equity reduces for new hires and the rate increases. So with the above example, if you gave your second level hires 10% it should be in the range of a 20% reduction from the median wage. By the time you are at 1-2% equity rounds of hiring. You should be close to or above market and the equity is more of a leverage tool to get and retain top talent.
I rather called 'unethical' in loosely startup term as 'creative exploratory of abundance wealth of opportunity'
+1 to that. Is there any point to Scribd other than putting ads on PDFs?
>Google is officially evil.

How would I differentiate evil from a good faith attempt. (According to your definition.)
I think we have a lot of Chicken Littles reacting to this news.

All the articles that speak out against this agreement are mostly just laundry lists of no-network-neutrality doomsday scenarios, and are not even attempting an unbiased discussion of what this proposal is actually saying.

The proposal explicitly solidifies network neutrality for wired services, which is good. But it's true, this proposal does not cover wireless service: "Because of the unique technical and operational characteristics of wireless networks, and the competitive and still-developing nature of wireless broadband services, only the transparency principle would apply to wireless broadband at this time." Those last three words are important. This proposal is not advocating for wireless service network neutrality, but it also is not advocating against it. And perhaps most importantly, this proposal explicitly leaves the door open for discussing wireless service network neutrality in the future. So I think we should be able to accept this as a first step, then afterwards continue to advocate for similar practices to be implemented for wireless service as well.

It also suggests that ISPs be able to have content and services specific to their subscribers, as long as it does not "threaten the meaningful availability of broadband Internet access services or have been devised
or promoted in a manner designed to evade these consumer protections." I suppose people can be up-in-arms about that, but I think that's a reasonable target: ISPs can do what they want as long general internet access is not compromised.
They got Verizon to agree to what exactly? Being able to provide enhanced TV and other services over IP that aren't constrained to any net neutrality guidelines? LOL
I always do my first draft of any nontrivial large system by writing the code out longhand, after having heard it recommended by multiple people I respect. My perception is that the resulting code is cleaner and better documented, and that my error rate has dropped to almost 0.

Writing your code this way encourages a "write as you would speak" tone in the resulting code, better decomposition, and better documentation. It also means that each line gets reviewed from a fresh start at least twice before making it to the computer.

The biggest problem comes when you're working with a large API you don't know well; you're frequently forced to experiment with it in a manner that this sort of batching doesn't really handle well.
1) The very nature of Google's algorithm encourages using techniques that will increase your rankings, or else you will drown in a mess of competitors in most niches. Also, just because it's frowned upon by Google doesn't necessarily make it bad. They're in the business to make money just as much as the rest of us are

2) Not spam, not a link exchange network. Contact me and we can discuss it if you'd like.
This feels like a joke. "Transcending Facebook", "World Web War III", crap about cosmos and buzzwords.

Actually, I'm quite sure it is a joke. And yet, I can't help but fear that it isn't.
HUGELY SEO-able (I search for stuff like this all the time). What are your plans here? How are you going to scale out content generation?

The first link I see on your page is:

http://photoshoplayerstyles.com/styles/wood/woodworks-volume...

wordworks-volume-2 doesn't mean anything.

On that very page are cedar and oak and maple and distressed pine? and 4 other styles of wood. And yet you have no link that says:

http://photoshoplayerstyles.com/maple-wood-texture-layer

that has a meta description of:

Royalty-free high-resolution maple wood textures for photoshop, easy to buy

even though I bet 10 people search every day for one of

[maple texture]
[distressed wood texture]
[photoshop pine texture]

etc.

I don't know much about selling things to graphic designers (maybe it sucks) but I'm almost jealous at how easily your content scales out to Google.
> most of the techniques for "attacking the organic search rankings" are frowned upon by Google

I'd be pretty sure he means whitehat SEO, on-page optimisations, link-building (eg linkbait, social networks) .. not frowned on by Google.

Edit: or maybe not!
So is she a force multiplier? Part of a tandem or group role? You can't just say that she brings indirect revenue as an excuse for not discussing what she adds.
What to do? Read paper or hit next months deadline...
You're right, I hadn't considered that, but I definitely see it now. I just removed the underline on the links.
As in, varied shades? Try a Bic, you can actually sketch pretty well with them. I don't know what they do differently, but they're the only pens I've found with this quality.

If you mean erasability (sp?), that's pretty un-pen-like in its very nature, though they exist.

If you mean something else, you've got me intrigued: can haz illumination, plz?
Organizations are not individuals. Organizations are composed of individuals. One individual in one part of the company can do good thing, while another individual can do something. It is still important to realize that the design and structure of organizations influence the behaviors of individuals.

However, it is also important to realize that all organizations, not just corporations, wishes to grow to sustain its members. They will grow and change. They will continue to exists even long after their purpose is accomplished. Sometime, organizations get cancers that rotten them to the core, much like the RIAA, the MPAA, and California. Sometime that's due to the rules being modified or being poor in the first place.

Giants guy hate cannibalizing their business. They're so big that they move very slowly. They may get economy of scale, but they also got dis-economy of scale. New guys are not constrained by traditions or size inefficiency. So they will be able to seize opportunities left or cannot be reached by giant people. So giant guys don't always have the advantage. There is a place for the small mammals in the world of dinosaurs.
If developer profits are your main criteria for a viable app store, you might be doing it wrong. Linux repositories are, on the whole, far better managed than the iPhone app store, and are managed so much better in part by offering no mechanism whatsoever for developers to be directly compensated for their software's use.
I can recommend the book "Starting Strength" by Mark Rippetoe. (I learned about it after following some links in discussions here on HN.)

It has lots of information about the basic lifts: squat, deadlift, bench press, overhead press, and power cleans.

Your list seems pretty good already.

Without knowing anything, I bet 10 Pounds that your are probably doing the squat wrong. The first 60 pages in "Starting Strength" are about the squat, and they are necessary.

(There are also lots of videos at Youtube of Mark Rippetoe coaching. See e.g. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rippetoe+squat&#...)

Rippetoe suggest three sets of five repetitions at your working weight for most lifts. Of course you should do some warm up sets at lower weights for each lift to avoid injury and work on form.

The advise from the book has worked pretty well for me. I started as a complete novice in April, and I am now lifting around 1.5 times bodyweight on the squat and the deadlift. (The other lifts have also progress nicely.)

I should do more pullups. Try learning the power clean (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rippetoe+power+c...) It's fun, if exhausting.
Do they go permanent after X period of time (in this case, 3 days)? That seems a pretty important feature if it's trying to be a pen, methinks.

(haven't used those, don't know if they do or not)
Sorry, I misinterpreted. I do have one big question for you though. How do you think the Web will ultimately change humanity?
IMO this is probably the only way to win in this area. Get other people doing the marketing for you ("buy my layer styles at ...") and take a portion of revenue from a lot of other peoples transactions.
This is a good article. Google and Verizon basically said "we are supporting net neutrality, as long as it only applies to the parts of the internet that we have no interest in". Wireless and new services like TV are not included. This is not net neutrality. This is Google/verizon profit guaranteed utopia. New business models need not apply.
All true: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=701
Thanks, you make some good suggestions. SEO is very much a part of the game plan, and I've still got some work to do, but you've struck on the main idea :)
Ive long felt that there is an eerie parallel between Google and Standard Oil (the historic Oil company owned by John D Rockefeller). Heres a quote from the wikipedia page for Standard Oil - "The company grew by increasing sales and also through acquisitions. After purchasing competing firms, Rockefeller shut down those he believed to be inefficient and kept the others. In a seminal deal, in 1868, the Lake Shore Railroad, a part of the New York Central, gave Rockefeller's firm a going rate of one cent a gallon or forty-two cents a barrel, an effective 71% discount off of its listed rates in return for a promise to ship at least 60 carloads of oil daily and to handle the loading and unloading on its own.[citation needed] Smaller companies decried such deals as unfair because they were not producing enough oil to qualify for discounts."
Totally fair questions.

We're taking a somewhat Radiohead position on it.

What would you be wiling to pay for it?

I'll tell you our thoughts on it so far:

A tiered pricing structure, with a fixed monthly subscription fee. Probably starting somewhere around $20 for the smallest budgets, and going up from there. We'll set the tier price points wherever there seems to be obvious market segmentation.

Really big power users, or agencies who are white-labeling our product, might get a more industry-standard percent-of-spend deal.

Our view is that Mom-and-Pops might be wary of a percent-of-spend pricing model. That said, the small SEM shops of dubious quality, who are our real competition, commonly use a percent-of-spend pricing model. So we might have to go with that just to make it comparable. Even if that were true, we'd charge nowhere near the 15-20% of spend many SEM shops charge.

So, worry not. You're not going to get used to our product, and then get screwed by us on price. We'll leave the first-dose-is-free business model to the enterprising young gentlemen around the 16th Street BART station in the Mission.

Regards,
Antonio.

Btw, feel free to hit me directly with any customer/pricing ideas at antonio@adgrok.com.
Quark is a pretty decent source of protein (casein). I often put quark, milk and fruits (and oat meal) in a blender to make my own shakes. At least when I am too lazy to prepare a proper meal.
Most interesting. Though I tend to wonder about how compaction might work. Perhaps the root node links to the previous version and use a merkle tree to find nodes that can be deleted.

Also, I'd have to agree with [p]. We need to spend some quality time cleaning things up. Though I'm not sure about Rebar here. I quite like it, but one thing I've learned watching Noah do his thing is that downstream packagers expect lots of esoteric Autotools features.
Tell HN: MITCNC Startup Engine Series inspired by HN
After reading Hacker News for a year or so, I got sad that the MIT Club of Nor Cal didn't have a Series that dealt with hacker topics. Lots of materials science, solar cells, OLEDs, etc, but basically nothing about internet technology...

... so we started one. The club's new Startup Engine series is going to grab trending topics on Hacker News and pull together a panel on them. Get panelists to answer three questions about a particular topic: what's happened in the past 6 months?; what do we think will happen?; and how should you get involved? Get meaningful advice from practitioners.

First up is mobile applications:

* http://www.mitcnc.org/stateofmobile

* August 19, 6:30PM in SF (KickLabs, 4 blocks from CalTrain)

* On the panel: Google, Appcelerator, Bump Tech, Dropbox

Second up in October is probably: the State of Databases (e.g. NoSQL)? (Or whatever HN is talking about then...; suggestions?)

Anyway, exciting stuff and all, but I wanted to say thanks for inspiring us!

EDIT: mbot3000: Startup Engine events are open to everyone (not just MIT alums).

---

Note: The MITCNC is 501c3.
Is Your Startup A Cash or Equity Business?
I did a postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology-- part of the Department of Commerce. I really liked their attitude toward results and code generated there.

In a nutshell, their default position was-- The U.S. taxpayers already paid for this, so unless there's a compelling reason not to share it, we should. I remember somebody telling me that if you got a request for your code, you should ask, "Do you want that on a floppy or on a CD?" (yes, this was a while ago).

By that standard, in an ideal world it shouldn't seem so remarkable that the National Weather Service releases its data. We paid for the data collection and analysis, and the modeling, and the marginal cost of making those results public should be pretty small.

(By the way, the flip side of DoC's general position that their results belong to the public, is a level of scrutiny that you only work on things that the public sector can't or won't develop on its own.)
If you don't care to drink lots and lots of fluids, then you can just as well drink a few (say, 4) litres of milk a day. If you do the maths, you will find that there's a sizeable amount of proteins to be had this way.
What a funny comparison. Perhaps it's because in both cases you pay more for the name?
Libel suit in .. 3 .. 2 .. 1 ..
This is a pretty terrible article: the author basically mis-represents what actually happened, and then dismisses any possible legitimate motive for Google doing what it did with no argument, merely by asserting that such a motive can't possible exist.

Maybe, just maybe, Google thinks that massive government regulation of the still-nascent wireless internet market will do more harm than good at this point, and that we should consider the question later once we have actual empirical data about what works and what doesn't? Is that really such an illogical position to adopt?
Then what? Posted comments pointing to ThatHigh.com I'm guessing. Did you just put the link or did you say something like "Sounds like something from thathigh.com"? Did they eventually get removed as spam?
Consider adding a contact page. I was going to compliment you on the site but couldn't find a way to reach you. Your customers might want it to tell you about issues or give you suggestions.

Nice work.