skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have great parents. Not all parents are so supportive, but many are.

The difference is that Unschooling parents do that without sending their kids off to school. I'm glad you had a good school experience, though mine was pretty poor, so for me Unschooling is tempting, at least in theory.

A metaphor I've read is that schools force-feed information into kids that they're not interested in, so they frequently come home feeling "stuffed." Not a lot of room is left over for natural, self-directed learning and creative exploration. It doesn't matter if it's the most interesting thing in the world--if school has been torturing you with trivia you don't care about, you aren't as likely to pursue it on your own.
Most of them are pseudo-private. I.e. they'll open up signups from time to time. It's often only an issue of doing some basic research about what sort of tracker you'd like access to, then subscribing to their news feed.
To be honest, I have a hard time feeling bad for Internet Service Providers.

ISPs have made millions. Part of their money-making strategy is charging child pornographers to upload child pornography.

So they can use the "I'm a common carrier" excuse as long as they want, but I think it's only fair that they are asked some tough questions about it. Why can't a team of lawyers review every packet flowing over the public Internet to make sure that nothing "bad" is going on? It sounds simple to me, someone who loves children but has no idea how the Internet or computers work.

Sounds pretty dumb, doesn't it? Why is Craigslist not held to the same (non-) standard as the ISPs? Why don't we just censor the entire Internet For The Children!?
Done Deal: HP Gets 3PAR For $2.35 Billion In Cash
Conceptual vs Contextual Work
(pedantic)
For a physical object, scarcity isn't inherently an artificially inflating factor. Enforced scarcity is a different matter.
(/pedantic)
LQ, a handy new location based mobile app has been released.
CNN and WWF share the same building. They deliver about the same amount of truth.
I'm not arguing that copyright infringement is right any more than I'm arguing trespassing or operating a sewage treatment plant in a residential neighborhood are right, only that they're not automatically "theft" just because they're bad.

We have distinctions between different crimes for good reason. Death penalty for speeding? I'm sure some who have lost their loved ones to reckless drivers might agree. But we as a society have pretty much decided that while there should be a punishment, it should not be that harsh.
The accessibility and drop in price will also surge demand forward. If you can pick it up like a 6 pack or pack of cigs at any convenience store, then sales and consumption should dramatically increase.
In addition to risk-mitigation, VCs are also in the "find things that are much less risky than they appear" game.
If Amber had done her homework, she would have known
ambushing me with questions I am not qualified to answer,
or even the right person to ask, would not get CNN’s
viewers the accurate information they deserve.

This proves his naivety more than whatever happened in the interview could have. Believing CNN gives a damn about conveying accurate information to its viewers is like believing in Santa Claus.
I'd pay the premium to know that I'm not getting something laced with rat poison or PCP.
Well thanks :)
Infochimp’s Philip Kromer Interviewed Regarding Hadoop World
> They edited out how she introduced herself to him, and edited in him standing there paused thinking about the difficult question that was just sprung on him without warning. She was almost certainly very friendly and casual in the beginning, and then she waylays him when he's not ready.

That's why Newmark should have recorded the interview and published it himself.

He has just as much right to report on their conversation as she does.
Even if growing and selling were legalized, the cartels are essentially private in-house, in-industry armies. I expect there'd be a flare-up of violence as they attempt to intimidate legal growers into backing off.

Within a few years, though, they'd probably catch on that they can accomplish the same means via more traditional trusts and regulatory capture. They'll have to, before the market price drops through the floor, killing off their revenues.

Not throwing advocacy one way or another, just an observation on the cartels' likely follow-up response.
I've read that a critical difference between the US and Canadian budgets is that Canada consistently balances its budget while the US does not. In the short term this means that the US can avoid collecting taxes on its full expenses, while Canada has to collect expenses in full. In the long run the tax implication should reverse.
Does your Startup have a Competitive Advantage?
With a little more effort you should even be able to make them look a bit more like buttons in older browsers or Internet Explorer.
I don't see any reason why you would wait at all for a page level tweak which you believed was likely to be beneficial. (Well, I do, but it isn't relevant to your situation.)

You're not obsessively tweaking the same elements over and over again, right? That would not be strategically wise. Instead, make a best guess now, then move onto strategic issues like "How do I get links to my website? How do I get links to my website at scale?"

In general, it is very, very, very difficult to map specific on-page micro-optimizations to business-level successes. (There are times when this is not the case, but a) you'll generally have had a older website b) you were doing something extremely wrong, like not having title tags for every item in a 200k page catalog and c) you will see almost immediate, dramatic results.)
10 Startups Launch in Chicago at Excelerate Labs
Exactly, or have robots, hydraulic presses, lathes, material, physics and chemical laboratories...

Books are ok, but you need practical experience too, and some things are too expensive to buy yourself, needs to be shared someway.
I've heard too many horror stories (and from people with supposedly good insurance) to consider moving from Canada to the States. Illness in the family is hard enough without a serious likelihood of bankruptcy. The Canadian system certainly has issues, but for the most part I think it works okay.

Can any other Canadians comment on their experiences? Are there any who would prefer American-style healthcare?
Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom) Teardown
Does Confidentiality Still Matter?
I was hoping for an App Store to be introduced. Imagine the type of functionality this would enable on our TVs. You could have TV-optimized apps to check the weather, traffic, sports scores, show times, or stream video from other sources like Vimeo or Hulu. To get around watching videos you've downloaded elsewhere, there might be an Air Video like app which transcodes videos on the fly for viewing non-supported files.

This could also be Apple's trojan horse into the console market. There are already thousands of games available on the iPhone and iPad. It wouldn't be too hard to port many of them over to this platform since they're all running iOS. Perhaps you can use your existing iPod touches/iPhones as input devices. There's so much potential without even looking at the TV-content side of the business.
IPhone vs. Retirement
From the article, regarding your first point:

But let’s assume that the Manhattan Transfer is trying to hide the use of Auto-Tune, in which case their recording engineer would presumably use a retune speed that approximates a “natural” value.
Open source or something else?
Well, but that's exactly what I'm talking about - P2P does provide a really useful service, and I use it, too, for the same reasons. It's just that all things considered, I'd rather pay somebody to do it for me, especially given that NetFlix is ridiculously cheap for the convenience it gives me.

P2P is free in terms of money, but it's not at all free in terms of the effort you have to put into it to get reasonable, useful results. I don't want to do that; I have other things to do with my time and the time in my life when I liked ferreting out the dark corners of the world passed long ago (in my case, it was discovering that our stereo's radio band selector could cause it to pick up shortwave when positioned correctly - that summer, I learned that the Soviet Union was a paradise for academics and artists).

I don't have the time to find the right trackers, and there's the ever-present danger of the RIAA sending me a nastygram - or, as happened before I turned on security on my WiFi, sending my ISP a nastygram about movies downloaded. That sucked. This neighborhood is dirt poor, and I didn't mind sparing some bandwidth, but if my ISP is forced to turn me off if I don't police it?

That's the hassle of P2P, unfortunately. My beef is that if the RIAA were roughly as intelligent and mature as my 11-year-old, I'd be able to keep my WiFi open and buy movies online for reasonable amounts of money.

So when an otherwise excellent article like this slips in an incorrect assertion about evil pirates without justifying it, that really burns me. There are perfectly good business opportunities that the "rightsholders" (god how I hate that word) are too fat and lazy to take advantage of - but plenty of lawyers.
Rad Omen the startup band - Using the product as marketing.
Considering that it only features songs bought on iTunes and has a strong bias towards artists right now (normal users can't do status updates as far as I can tell), it created it to increase sales under the consumer benefit of music discovery.
An additional subtlety not considered: a good sound engineer is also going to be paying very close attention to relative pitch when dealing with a professional ensemble, and less attention to absolute pitch.
There's a project working on this very issue. Developers, check out http://nextny.jobthread.com/job/lead-developer-new-york-ny-u...
>we know how to farm the land, build kitchens, houses. THese things demand skill, but of a very low level.

You're being unnecessarily skill-ist here. I don't expect a farmer to build a website, and I certainly wouldn't know the first thing about bringing a wheat crop to market. Similarly, I've tried to build a kitchen and find that trained, experienced professional is the best input for that job. To suggest that there are no more improvements to be found in construction, agriculture and other primary industries is to be very dismissive of the people working hard in those industries.

It's true that, say, programming requires a higher level of abstract thought and more mathematical-style skills. That's a different mix of skills than, say, a builder. But if you think you're better than that builder, you're just falling for cultural bias centered around universities that influence their undergraduates. Well, guess what, builders also talk around the site and consider themselves better than those who wasted their money at university. Neither is right.
Well, I'm primarily just talking about the hassle of finding what I want on BitTorrent. The legal aspect rankles but isn't really my main concern. With NetFlix, I just pick things out of a list, no popup porn ads, no searching for a tracker that actually has seeds, no bait-and-switch. Just movies, delivered about as fast as I can watch them anyway.
This doesn't make sense. Whether scarcity is enforced or natural, it's the demand & supply that drives the price inflation. The reason for scarcity (lack of supply) does not come into play during a static economic analysis.

It's only in a dynamic analysis that the "enforced" part comes into play, usually because it is easier to get around artificial scarcity than discover new resources (natural scarcity).
> (7) list each and every expense you make, look at the list at the end of the week and be critical, could you have saved on any of them? If you could do not repeat that spending in the next week!

It turns out that (7) is more than sufficient for the vast majority of people. In fact, most don't even have to look at the list - they can throw it away, unread, each night.

There's something about writing down each transaction that gets people to spend far more wisely.

FWIW, the same applies to eating as well. Want to lose weight and/or eat better? Write down everything that gets to your stomach that isn't water. (Yes, even diet soda and unsweetened tea/coffee.)
You do pay for that labour, but a ready supply keeps the cost down. You've ignored the other benefits too.

You may be able to get children for less - but can you get the same quality of children? Would the children be as well-rounded, would society be as happy? I wouldn't think so. Ans why do you assume that the 18 months of paternity leave relates only to well-paid people? The majority of people who benefit from this scheme will certainly be the less well-off since it applies across the board and there are more poorly- and averagely-paid people than well-off people.

You haven't even tried to prove what seems to be your original thesis - that mandated generous child care allowances are a negative thing, or even a selfish thing.
The great thing about this piece is that it not only offers a very specific critique of AMQP but also a lot of useful general advice on building complex systems as layers of simpler systems.

In a sense it's Worse is Better all over again (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better), which is a lesson we seem to keep re-learning in the software industry.
Think you could open the results to the public? or am I missing a link?
I'm not sure that nicotine is a drug war success. There's a thriving and very serious black market in cigarettes, at least across the Canadian/American border. It supplies a lot of funding to groups like the Hell's Angels.

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/after_hours/opinions/article...
Retune speed is not a very relevant control when you aren't using auto-tune (proper name or generic) in fire-and-forget mode. If they're trying to cover up its use, they aren't using it in fire-and-forget mode. They're using it in graph mode, or they're using Melodyne, which has no retune speed adjustment.

Fire and forget mode: http://www.antarestech.com/images/ATEvo_Auto_mode.jpg

Notice the prominent 'retune speed' adjustment knob.

And here is the way everyone uses auto-tune these days, when you aren't going for the robot hiphop/Cher effect: http://www.antarestech.com/images/ATEvo_Graphic_full.jpg

Notice there is no retune speed knob in the main panel at all. You control the pitches by adjust them directly in the graph.

[I've edited my original post above to include some of this information.]
Pfff...are you kidding me? Let me give you an example I have mid to mid-premium insurance. I went to a new dentist a while back and he tells me he needs to take xrays which seems normal, only this time the xrays go on, and on, and on. He takes 32 x-rays of my teeth (while I am asking if this is absolutely necessary and he continues to say 'yes, yes it is'). My insurance company denies the bill, passes it on to me for $10 per xray (they covered 8).... Another time I went to the doctor for an ingrown hair, had them give me a cortizone shot and got a bill for "surgery" for $200. It's highway robbery and there's nothing you can do about it. Most Americans just put up with it because they don't know what else to do. You pay for insurance and then the insurance doesn't even cover basic stuff like it should, they try to get you to get so frustrated that you'll give up and just pay it. It's a broken, horrible, frustrating system.
The Paul McCartney live release last year Good Evening New York City was the first use of auto tune that really made feel like things were getting bad. I think it got a lot of press because it was Paul McCartney of course. I assume for live auto-tune to work like that, there must have been someone playing keyboards or something in unison with his vocal lines. I don't think auto-tune was post production (though that could have been the case).

It's probably most noticeable when you are so familiar with someone's voice.
Looking at the OED definition: http://is.gd/eSaRt

first example:

> dishonestly pass off (another person‘s ideas) as one’s own:
accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying
OK, I appreciate your argument now :) It is cool for you to frame things within your own value system and I can't argue against your opinion, but it's a shame that the executive branch is being lax with the definitions of words that have special definitions in their realm.
We're showing last 10 now, we'll make a page that shows all posts and maybe some googlemaps/visualizations.
This is the first band that I can remember using this model, and it hooked me. I think there might be some useful lessons here for startups, but I'm speaking here totally as a consumer.

I'm a typical music listener, I expect. I have the bands I got interested in when I was a kid, and slowly over time I've been exposed to new music happenstance.

That is to say, I am NOT hard core. I don't go seeking out music. Must customers probably aren't out looking for your product, either.

Awhile back, someone linked to this bands video for a single they released called "Rad Anthem".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfwEH8Ds4pg

The video was hilarious and really engaging, along with the song.

They let you download the single for the low, low price of your email address.

Months pass. And today I discover I got an email- they have released their new album. This interests me, and even more, I can get this album for the low low cost of giving up my email address.

This I then do.

Now I'm a fan. I'd never heard of them. I liked the one song, but wouldn't have bought this album, probably, because I've been burned by one-hit wonder type bands in the past.

But when their next album comes out-- I'll know it, because I know they'll email me. And I'm happy to have them do so, because in all these months, since Rad Anthem came out, I've not gotten a single email from them. no spam. Just the notice when the album came out.

And I can promise you I will buy. I'm not hardcore, but having listened to the album, I really like it, and I'll happily buy their next one.

----

I just thought it might be illustrative, entertaining or useful to hear my experience being marketed to and how it was successful. I spend so much of my time thinking about how to market to people, when I see it happening to me successfully, I want to take note.

Now, did Rad Omen give up their product? Yes and No, but they did not undermine their long term value.

The greatest risk facing startups is obscurity... they helped get over that by giving up their first album for free.... and I think they will do well with follow on releases as a result.

They also got ahead of the crowd here. Finding free singles is probably not that rare (though this is the first one I've seen) but free albums? That has special value.

And this from someone who knows jamendo (which has lots of free albums, but it is more needle drop quality, I think.)
Describing school as "sitting passively" is a huge generalization. If you have a half-decent school system (which you might not, I was lucky and had a great one) it should be very interactive.

School's benefit, I think, is that it exposes you to a ton of topics that aren't your primary interests (or your parents' primary interests). How many people have taken a class because it had a cool name or their friend was taking it or they needed the credit and it turned out they loved the subject?
Yes, yes, and the convenience store in the gas station two blocks down is also "competition" for the Meijer superstore with actual produce and food, that I have to drive to.

It's not really competition. I never go to that convenience store because they don't have what I want to eat. So in your sense, while they exist in the same market and are therefore "competitors", that viewpoint really distorts the reality of the situation.
There's no incentive to lace weed with poison. It's an old wives' tale.
All This Twitter OAuth Security Nonsense
the true tax rate = total government spending divided by GDP.

This is why Republicans, who've historically increased government spending, thus have increased real tax rate (while of course giving narrowly targeted breaks to themselves)
There are sometimes integration costs, though--- if the company runs almost everything on a Microsoft stack, and you deliver them something that runs on a typical Unix stack, or vice versa, it's not going to necessarily be very smooth for them, even if the actual functionality is great.
Read. Write.
No, you exchanged skills for capital. Otherwise known as a job.

The information on patching an open source webserver is freely available. The skill (and available time) is what people will pay for. It's not the same thing as paying for information. It's hard to get people to pay for information. Paywall sites generally struggle unless they can find some information that gives an advantage, but then, the presentation talks about the value of free and open information, which nobody will pay for.

No-one is doubting that much of the activity on this site isn't important, or exciting. Just that it's wise to take a dose of reality along with the hype, otherwise you'll end up with sock puppet marketing all over again. Maybe you weren't part of the industry when it all went down the first time, but I still cringe at the billions of dollars wasted on business plans and ideas with no basis on reality, some of which quite openly stated that the 'old' economy was no longer worth anything at all.
I could link to a picture of R2D2 from Star Wars- a "droid" - and make the same argument.

I think lately people are a bit more sensitive about "originality" and "ownership" than they should be.

For instance, I remember Wil Shipley complaining that apple "stole" the idea for the bookshelves in iBookstore from his Delicious Library.

Yet I used a wooden bookshelf UI about a decade before delicious library came out. Can I claim wil stole from me?
That's why Newmark should have recorded the interview and published it himself.

He'd have to record his every moment in public to be ready for a surprise Q&A session. Though perhaps that could become another stock delaying tactic: "Could you wait for a moment while I get my independent recording of this exchange started?"