skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you heard about HTC Evo

I finally decided to buy a smart phone and made the mistake of asking a stranger what kind of phone he had and how he liked it. It was an Evo and I literally had to cut him off after 5 minutes of complaining because I had to go. Anecdotal, I know, but I wouldn't go anywhere near an Evo after that.
Can you cite Sun products that were made OSS that users weren't already replacing with OSS solutions from other sources? I think Sun's problem was that it was in the business of selling proprietary Unix workstations and servers, and most of their potential customers these days are content to use PCs running Linux, Windows or OS X[0] in those roles.

[0] Apple is a lot like a proprietary Unix vendor in a lot of ways, but Apple hardware is not more than 50% more expensive than PCs with similar capabilities.
how do they make money out of calls?
I'd probably bet that they are. I use the iPad exclusively for my eBooks and 80-90% of my non-free books are on through the Kindle app.

Exact same situation with my wife as well as a few others we know.
Platforms like posterous and tumblr rely heavily on scale - ie, a large number of users. So, their first priority is to get as much users on board as possible from other publishing platforms. Once they reach a certain threshold, they can start experimenting with revenue generation - be it in form of advertising or premium hosting etc.

Thats similar to the way Wordpress played out.
Only if you're buying them from Amazon. There are plenty of wonderful texts available in the public domain, and already formatted for the Kindle: http://manybooks.net/

That's actually why I placed my order: I won't abide by the DRM, which will force me to read older works to get value out of the device. A goal I've had since reading a quote dubiously attributed to Einstein: "Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."
Google's Game Developer Advocate Leaves After Less Than 6 Months
ThreadThat.com - A New Way to Communicate
I just figured the "ultimate" guide is to unplug from the internet.
From my understanding, you can file a patent and it will be in application for 1-2 years (at least that is the period here in EU). During that time, it doesn't have be publicised (one possible reason why you couldn't find it), but if someone else were to do the same thing, it can serve as a tool to claim prior art.

However… going to an actual patent raises the costs substantially, more so if you want to be protected in multiple countries—translation-costs, etc. and the total cost can easily exceed 50,000 dollars. Also, as someone pointed out, having a patent doesn't cover the cost of suing someone infringing on it.

All this taken into account, I doubt that very much can happen to you if you infringe on it, unless this is truly a million-dollar product, in which case protecting a patent pays of.

Worth talking to a patent-lawyer in any case though, for reasons on how to circumvent a future patent.
Agreed. A belief in the usefulness and future success of the idea should be at the top of both lists. Without it domain and language expertise is a mute point because they will never be performing at their full potential. I would also add having faith in the other co-founder(s).
Now if only they could get us google voice in Canada...
Yes, this is a critical part.

PS: I run a site dedicated to finding co-founders: http://fairsoftware.net. So I have some experience in the topic. Share your idea: don't be scared that someone will steal it from you. Most people will think your idea is bad anyway. Your job, as the business founder, is to convince me, the technical guy, that you can make it happen. Do you have customers lined-up? Can you raise funding?

If all of these align, then get to know each other, work for a month on the idea and see how you feel then. Then formally commit.
More useful? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alfredth/archive/2010/08/13/non-myth...

Not behind a paywall.
Ah, that makes more sense. Like Google Voice, this will probably not even be available for the rest of the world for a long, long time. Still sucks, but less :)
For a 401k a little over 1/2 a % per year or around (1.065 ^40/ 1.07 ^40) 17% of their final return over 40 years.

For 10 million investment ~1% per year is not uncommon so something like (1.06^40 / 1.07^40) = 32% of their return over 40 years.

Now plenty of people pay far more or less than these numbers, but that's a reasonable ballpark.

For more details from someone with a little money: http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/money

"Jeffrey Greene owned $500 million in Southern California real estate and was getting nervous about its value. He was an old friend of Paulson's and, in 2006, let Paulson pitch him on the virtues of investing in his new fund to bet against mortgages. Instead of agreeing to pay the 2-and-20 fee (2 percent annually raked off the top regardless of performance, plus 20 percent of any profits), Greene decided that he could run the trade himself. He pestered his Merrill Lynch broker until the guy got approval from top executives to allow a rich individual to participate in the illiquid and confusing credit default swap market. " http://philip.greenspun.com/book-reviews/the-greatest-trade-...
Could someone remind me of what the theory is behind protecting directors from shareholders. In other words, why does the Republican Party always favor entrenched management and directors over the actual, legal owners of the company?
I would guess someone like this: http://www.sek.se/
Apple Special Event Taking Place September 1
These must be low income families above the poverty line. Below the poverty line, the typical household is supported by 800 hours of work/year (the 8 hour work week).
Why is this a plugin?
Barnes & Noble Nook keeping better pace with Kindle eBook sales than iPad
They listen for good stock tips and act on them.
Once upon a time, Spam was a salty lunch meat. Then it became unwanted email. Then spam became anything on a webpage that was self-serving, repetitive or annoying.

No, actually, it didn't. What they're calling "spam", the rest of us call "advertising." And I think most Facebook users are content with the current FB business model (i.e., a free, ad-supported service.)
I try and stay under 0.2% but a lot of this is hidden and many people pay a lot more than that.
Shocking. Some people who participate in organizations that the United States recognizes as terrorists are United States Citizens. Citizens have helped the Taliban, have helped Islamist attacks in India, and have helped the IRA. So: what if India or the UK decide that we don't care about those people, but instead only the al Qaeda or IRA activities that target US assets?

There, I've summed up the new leak.

Naturally, that's not how WikiLeaks sums it up. They're not bound to the actual text, but rather to the contours of the narrative they're trafficking in; in that narrative, it's not random crazy Islamists or Irish Nationalists joining terrorist causes, but rather the US "exporting" it. In the document, the word "export" occurs only in a quoted label, and is predicated --- 'if the US was perceived as an "exporter of terrorism"' --- because of people's perceptions of random crazy people in a country of 300 million people.

According to the WaPo's last investigation, 850,000 people have some form of "Top Secret" clearance. It's a wonder everything labeled "Top Secret" isn't leaked. This isn't even that; it's "Secret: Don't Circulate To Foreigners" (as it concerns foreign policy and perceptions).

I think the unnamed official speaking to NBC summed this up nicely: 'This is not exactly a blockbuster paper'.
I posted a critical view of sentiments expressed in this article a while back:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1573319
there are are startups (like 3Play Media) that are working on automated video transcription.
Of course.

The situationists have long asked the question of "Why don't people listen to revolutionary movements?"

The answer is that people have a protective mechanism against BS in the media -- a kind of radical disengagement that keeps TV preachers and other demagogues from being much more dangerous than they are.

People aren't offered a story that makes sense; the average person certainly doesn't have a coherent criticism of Wall Street, but, given no framework that works, they just live for the day.
Mandelbrot Set Example (Cython vs PyPy vs Jython, etc.)
Either you can't read and understand an argument, or you haven't paid attention to the context and the point I was making. I never claimed you're going to live a happy and fulfilling life on minimum wage, that's just a straw man that you chose to put up. Engaging in such "tactics" for a couple of karma points is BS at best and dishonest at worst.

The grand-parent claim for my post is "a single person income is not enough to feed a family of four in plenty of places". (By "feed" most people understand food and housing, not insurance, savings and unforeseen expenses.) My point, which you didn't bother to even read completely before coming here and yelling slogans, was that _even on minimum wage_ one person can pay for housing and food for a family of four (and you have yourself proven this point even for a relatively expensive location such as DC); therefore, _on average wage_, it's possible to do OK with such an arrangement (assuming one person to stay at home and cook). Since financially it works out for the _average_ family, it's social norms that cause the typical situation to be different.

You should really work on your reading comprehension.
VC-backed Playlist.com sued into oblivion - owes $16.6MM to Universal alone
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is attempting to hack the posters. That makes it eminently HN-worthy.
" I was just debunking the idea that a family of four can live "easily" on a single minimum wage income, which is preposterous."

An idea that you made up yourself to fight with, and was never supported by anyone else. If karma points were made of straw, you'd be the undisputed champion.
The New TRIM feature makes data recovery impossible from SSDs
Property taxes. Income tax and sales tax has had to rise in response. Unless the income tax rate is highly progressive, the net effect is a more regressive tax system.
That scientific american article always pissed me off. Just because my brain may know what decision I'm going to make before I'm conscious of it, doesn't mean that I didn't make the decision. It is still my brain.

The whole thing reeks of nihilism.

In the words of the great Walter Sobchak: "Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."
Those sectors are also much harder to automate, relative to the rest of the economy, since people want individual attention from doctors and teachers. So as the cost of everything else drops thanks to improved automation and technology, the proportion of our wealth that we spend on necessary but less-automated services increases.

(There's a term for this effect, but I'm having trouble finding it again.)
Doesn't seem fair that somebody can come along and offer a service for free/no ads in order to get people to switch over from a provider that charges/has ads, only to eventually switch over and do the same.
Training voice recognition, perhaps? Or monitoring all your calls and using them to target advertisements, as they do with email. It's all probably in the fine print. Note, however, that I don't have any proof of it; these are just my first thoughts of how to make money off of calls. Other people have suggested that they're going to hope that international calls cover the cost of domestic calls, and otherwise potentially start charging for local.
Such as the Skype IPO
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0300087012

I read this after listening to the following lecture: http://arc-tv.com/inspiring-heroes-great-leaders%E2%80%94fre.... His strength of character allowed him to escape slavery and abolish the practice in the United States.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0452011876/

Don't buy the mass-market paperback, the writing and margins are so small that it is a pain to read. Spend a little extra for the larger version I linked to.
Nice post Jason! Haven't seen you in a while, you used to frequent VLab planning meetings

You may want to add "Getting their point across" to the list too. Communication skill (and negotiation skill) is very important for tech co-founder role. Early on, the business co-founder may be the voice of all decisions made by the company. But, as the company grows, the tech co-founder will need to defend his decisions to board members and outsiders.
I never claimed you're going to live a happy and fulfilling life on minimum wage, that's just a straw man that you chose to put up.

Actually, I didn't claim you said that. I simply quoted you saying that "one can easily feed and house a family of four" on a minimum wage income. That's an actual statement you made and I rebutted ... I'm looking at those exact words from you on the screen right now. So where's the strawman? Or the lack of reading comprehension? Or are you actually claiming that you didn't say it?
Prior art has to pre-date the filing date[1]. And even if they did have prior art, proving so in court could be expensive if the patent holder decides to pursue it.

[1] http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/
> It's neither reliable nor safe, nor can you easily administrate it.

While you're at it, the word you wanted was 'administer'.
I would think that your normal diver has much, much more metadata to upload/download than a runner. A runner doesn't carry a cell phone camera, a small portable digital camera, a big digital camera w/ underwater housing, and a video camera when they run.

So yeah, I'd think that if you could offer a community where they could do lots of stuff (love the Google Maps idea) then you could have a chance.
Very Bad Situations
Moments that can be described in one phrase “Oh that can’t be good!”
I don't think they believe that assumption, I think they believe that proclaiming assumptions, rules and absolutes in a very loud voice gets people to read your blog(and guess what? It works!).
It occurs to me that you may not know what a strawman is. It's not attacking a strawman if I'm rebutting a direct quotation from you.
A while ago there was a post on here for a new Y Combinator company that was going to provide an alternative for online payments. When is their demo day? really looking forward to it :)

Edit: here it is, http://ycombinator.posterous.com/need-to-process-payments
Teachbook is a social ("networking") site for teachers. Their defense is not that there's no overlap, but that they're so small Facebook shouldn't care --- which is exactly not how trademark works.

This headline is sensationalistic. Facebook isn't claiming it owns "book". It's saying, don't make social networking sites named xxxBook. That may be overly aggressive, but it isn't crazy, and if you start DoctorBook (the social networking site for doctors), you can't tell me you're not doing it with eyes open to the chance Facebook will make you change the name.

What'd they expect Facebook to think about this? Is Facebook expected to be OK with Plumberbook and Contractorbook and Lawbook (the social networking site for lawyers) too?
From the guidelines: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
Says they raised $23 million in VC money.
That's a pretty good description of the mindset and the focus on the user's intentions also explains why adwords does so well. You intend to find something when you're searching and are receptive to ads that help you do that, whereas you intend to check up on friends and have fun when you're on a social network. It's why ads that tap into the same intentions do well, like games, shopping, conferences, etc.
Chat with No Interruptions (Dropping IE6 Support)
I am married to a stay at home wife. We have two boys, ages 4 and 5. It takes a lot of effort to keep the environment stable and happy at home. Living on one income, we can't afford to live in a good school district or pay private school tuition. So, we're looking at either having her go back to work, or homeschooling. We might get lucky, and I'll make enough money as a consultant to move to a nice neighborhood (or farm) AND homeschool the kids -- that would be ideal.

Homeschooling can be a really neat option, if you're willing to make it interesting for the kids, by taking time off to travel, hiring tutors, or involving them in a business like a niche farm.
I just logged into my Voice account. It shows I have a $1.00 calling credit, but when I click on the question mark next to that note, I get the following:

Calling Credit shows how much credit you have available to make international calls from Google Voice. Calls made within the U.S. and Canada are free and don't affect your balance.
Can't believe this hasn't been listed yet: Atlas Shrugged

http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452011876
I'm not surprised. Anecdotally, I know two people with iPads, and both subsequently purchased nooks as their dedicated e-reading device for the same reason: someone else in their household had a nook and they wanted the same experience.

B&N need to establish a non-US presence for the nook, though, if they really want to compete with Amazon and Apple.
Slow refresh rate of e-ink (1.35 Hz), limited contrast and shade resolution, no touch screen yet and a book-centric context make the immediate scope of apps a lot less varied than say the iPad. Better colour gradience, resolution and refresh rate means a greater variety of books, games and media. We'll see what happens as app development actually starts and matures as future Kindle iterations come out. Kindle's future success is tied to E-ink's viability in cost versus quality and right now, one could only guess beyond reading and reference-type apps.

I think E-Ink is exciting in the sense of how little power it consumes in static display. The Kindle 3 supposedly lasts up to a month if the wireless radio is turned off. Lowering e-ink cost regardless of the quality combined with a few solar panels here+there, and the technology's use cases in advertising, retail, consumer, and corporate stuff etc go up drastically.
Their claim, from the article:

“If others could freely use ‘generic plus BOOK’ marks for online networking services targeted to that particular generic category of individuals, the suffix BOOK could become a generic term for ‘online community/networking services’ or ’social networking services,’” Facebook argued in the lawsuit. “That would dilute the distinctiveness of the Facebook Marks.”

Honestly, that sounds reasonable to me. They're not claiming they own trademarks to all uses of "book," but to uses in the context of online social networks.

They use the word because it was a play on the name and idea of a "yearbook." While TeachBook could claim the "book" part of their name has to do with learning from books, I wouldn't believe such a claim. It looks to me like they put "book" in their name to tell other people "we're similar to FaceBook." That's exactly the sort of thing trademarks protect against.
It freaked me out when I found out pg spoke with an American accent. I just assumed he had an English one from his place of birth. D'oh!
Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago
Lisp syntax is trivial for programs and if you use a proper and consistent indentation style ... I get the impression that it's somewhat akin to Python once "[y]ou don't really see the parens".

Which is indeed what happened with me, I saw indentation and would e.g. use that to get the right number of closing parens in a function and at the same time detect a certain class of mistakes.

Give a Lisp an honest try (Scheme is simpler than Clojure) and you might find it works for you.
Your post, which I quote below, shows that in DC, on minimum wage, you can cover rent, utilities and bus fare for a family of four, and still have about $200 a month left for food. It's exactly my claim, plus I claim that the said $200 are enough to buy ingredients if you cook at home. Is it a great life? No. But it would be OK if you had an _average_ salary for the working person instead. If the person staying at home cooked, did groceries and spent time with the kids, those kids would probably have an even better life than one based on the XBox and microwave dinners.

"As an example, the minimum wage in DC is $8.25, which yields $1320/month. The actual amount would be even lower after taxes, but let's even forget about that.

About the absolute rock bottom price you'll pay for a room in this city is $600/month and that's assuming you're in a group living situation or a pretty bad neighborhood. Since a family of four will need two rooms to be even reasonably comfortable, maybe you luck out and grab a similarly crappy two-bedroom for $900/month. So now, you pay your rent, somehow keep your utilities hovering around $120/month (good luck with that) and you've got $300/month left.

But wait, now you've got to get to work (and to the grocery store, etc.). Minimum bus fare in this city is $1.50. If you (and just you, not your kids or spouse) make a round trip every day plus, say, three extra trips a month, you will spend about $100.

So now you've got $200 per month left to feed and clothe four people. But what about insurance? Savings? Unforeseen expenses? Doing something nice with your kids every now and again?"
AMD Catalyst 10.8 drivers released
There's the Korean Naver http://www.naver.com. Korea's daum http://www.daum.net English search results is also being powered by Bing.
The problem is that the author does not cites the iPhone or Apple, and although he cites Android he hardly cites it in a positive way, he even provided two links that openly criticizes Android and it appears he is endorsing their positions.

Anyway, I agree with the big picture of your comment
The Flex Builder IDE (I used 3, but I think it's propagated on to 4 as well) does not have word-wrap when editing code. There's nothing you can do in any settings dialog or menu option to be able to comfortably edit long lines of code without scrolling.

You need to install a plugin to enable this. Granted, this is a limitation of the underlying Eclipse on which it is built, but I was using Flex Builder, not Eclipse, so my beef stands.

Citations: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/451245, http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=E0D9F
My quotation was "a single person on full-time minimum wage can easily feed and house a family of four". This you confirmed, and it says nothing about other desirable expenses, such as savings, nice clothing and health insurance. The straw man you made out of it is

"I was just debunking the idea that a family of four can live "easily" on a single minimum wage income".

That's BS, my friend.