skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be git-web. It's not built-in, but a set of Perl scripts that are invoked via CGI from Apache or similar. Setup is a snap as it can be installed with apt-get/yum/zypper.
"You are asking people to pause and think, good luck with that, even here on HN where the level is way above the rest of the net as soon as politics are mentioned the various polarizing arguments get polished up and recycled as though they were somehow new."

Not to mention what happens when someone says "Python is better than Ruby" or vice versa... :)
Most people - like 90% of people - don't know the difference.

But when someone tries to articulate it, you first (incorrectly) attribute the idea to Karl Marx, and then try to dissuade him from even using the word. 'Free action' is a useless term in this context, because it captures nothing of the cooperative or mutual elements that Raganwald is discussing.
It does seem obvious. Can anyone point to the first OS to do this, enumerate processes that won't shut down and give the user the ability to do so?

It would be somewhat remarkable if this never was done until 2005.
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They were in their right.
And I'm in the right of choosing a provider that won't disrupt my business.
I'm not talking about bulletproof hosting but 1 hour notice before takedown? Can't upvote this story enough.
"The Boomers are unbelievably good at running this kind of generational heist."

I agree. But, it caught up with them. Now they are embittered, their house "investments" are worth nearly nothing and, in the current market, almost unsellable; and they've leveraged every possession they "bought" on 15+% credit. On top of that, the sole means of most of their retirement (Social Security) is being debated by their "betters" as impractical, and thus the betters are finding ways to take that away from them and use media outlets to make them think that it's good for them that they'll not have that income.

"the kids of Gen X and the Millenials will still be working off the Boomer's debt"

Welcome to the New World Order. We love you, too.
2 things that I can think of immediately

1. Would increase adoption on Linux clients
2. Increased security (the whole security though obscurity doesn't work thing)
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Its going to be interesting to see what effect this has on last.fm ...It doesnt have appear to have my favorite last.fm feature, scrobbling, but I admit I use last.fm little besides that. Particular, the fact that it ties in to iTunes purchases could be very popular.
Yeah, nice how there's a double standard at work. The government wants to have free access to all of our phone calls, emails, stored digital files and heck, even houses, as well as store images, fingerprints and even DNA of each citizen, but on the other hand, they insist that their own privacy is paramount and even filming a police officer can be a crime.
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FTLA: "Those results are not definitive, and might be wrong, but so far they're better than anything Grove serves up."

If they are wrong, how are they better exactly?

Fact: the Global Market makes a ton of money for the ultra rich, and screws the poor. That this is happening is simply because they now have the anti-personel weapons to defeat a civilian population should it try to revolt.
LastFm allows me to listen to music I don't own.. legally.. Doesn't appear itunes does that.
I specifically stated my comment was about these LAWYERS, not the companies. This specific case is of lawyers who are friends or spouses of other patent LAWYERS, as is plainly stated in the article. These are people who are specifically perusing stores to find products, writing down the patent numbers, finding if they've expired, and then suing companies. This is not the action of people who are trying to benefit the American public. This is a clear situation of despicable people trying to use the legal system to make a fucking buck that they didn't do anything on their own to earn honestly.

And ad-hominem attacks are completely unnecessary.
Apple Ping: A Music Social Network, Like "Twitter And Facebook Meets iTunes"
Audacity? (I'm not a musician but know musicians who use Linux)
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This is the most highly monetized social network possible. Direct advertising to your friends, with a Buy button right there in your status.
Can I please have an application that just does the one simple thing it's supposed to? I feel like soon both iTunes and GMail are going to try to order my groceries for me.
Whoa, I remember you! I rarely get approached while wearing a reddit shirt; leave it to a random encounter in Thailand for me to finally meet a redditor excited about our site.

What you didn't see was that I was actually "backpacking" around the country in a gold-plated helicopter.
really? every cs graduate has a deep understanding of compiler internals? doubtful.
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google auctions coming in 3, 2, 1...
Sounds you like feel we've already covered this ground thanks to pg's essays and should take the conclusions reached therein as a foundation for discussions on HN: "I thought this was already settled."

I sense a strong belief in Progress and the power of logic to uncover immutable Truth.
This is a point I've often wondered about. For most of history, "the people" have had more power collectively than the rulers. And yet the rulers had all the wealth, and consequently lived much better. Why did "the people" put up with this?

This is just as true today, by the way. Collectively, the people in most Western countries could do amazing things to help world hunger, world peace, and so on. And yet for the most part, not much is done.

I think this is the same reason most people don't even think of starting their own company. It just never occurs to them that they can chose what to do with their life; most people just "go with the flow" in a manner of speaking, and let the world around them choose for them.
Is the first quote totally out of context, or does Eric Schmidt seem more stupid, creepy and horrible every day?

I've always liked Google a good bit, but I'd be prepared to put them in the 'as bad as microsoft or worse' category, based on their CEO, if he doesn't go away or stop talking soon.
> only bad advisors will require you to do nothing
> but work directly toward immediate publications

I disagree with this point. If you have an advisor encouraging you to keep your eye on the ball getting out frequent publications, you should be grateful. You certainly will be when you get your Ph.D. and have > 3 publications under your belt for your job search instead of 1 and "several in submission."
I'll have you know that is the only time Steve & I have ever been 'spotted' in the wild. We still joke about it because we can't believe it actually happened -- thanks for making our day.

And yes, I'm a big fan of moms. They carry our lazy, parasitic asses around for 9 months, after all ;)
I don't know if it's just my browser but gdgt's is better - engadget the ad whores refresh the entire page.
Not an Emacs user, I take it?
Linode isn't really any better.
I sent an email campaign to an optin list from campaignmonitor - someone (1 person out of 1000) reported spam.

Campaignmonitor asked us what was going on - while this is debatable they may have been damaged from the complaing

But even linode asked us about it, just because the website where people signed up was on a linode hosting.

1 complain, nothing to do with hosting a part that the link is the here, and they asked us if there was something wrong.

I wonder if you can just blast a spam email with a competitor website (hosted on linode) inside and get him offline...
"will give lead to eventual loss of technology leadership itself"

I'm not convinced that you're using the correct tense here.

Consider -- what technology do we develop here in the US now?

Most of the world's major high-tech fabrication is now in Taiwan and Korea -- including AMD's. Most of our manufactured products, from tents to designer clothing, are made overseas. It's gotten to the point where "made in America" is unique enough to be a selling point!

"I think what the Gates foundation is doing, spending on education to increase the supply of more highly qualified people within the US, in the future, is definitely a move in the right direction."

I agree. We've been dumbing down our education system, and ever since the tech bubble burst, there's been less interest in technology related education. Andy Grove among others started the H1b thing, and it backfired badly -- the PR that it generated when combined with the bubble bursting discouraged a lot of people from pursuing the tech industry in general, which reinforced the talent deficit problem. Some might argue that it CREATED the talent deficit.
Thanks, Jkan. I've always felt your open-source reddit announcement is one day going to launch that voiceacting career.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo4O4T-7BiE
Man, this makes an Australian PhD seem like a piece of cake comparatively.

1. No need to worry about funding: if you get an APA or an APA/I. If you don't get one of those, you'll be screwed. But they're not impossible to get either, if you're an Australian citizen. It's not $$$ but it's just enough to live on, if you are good at budgeting. If nothing else, at least you won't starve to death.

2. No courses. Just research your thesis topic for 3 years.

3. No teaching necessary. You can do it a bit on the side if you don't have an APA or the APA isn't enough. But you're limited to 8hrs/week of paid outside work if you're getting an APA anyway.

4. No defence. I guess it's too expensive to fly specialists to Australia, and those who set up the system did it in a time when video conferences didn't exist.

5. If you don't pass the first time you submit, you can just keep resubmitting until you pass. Of course, if you submit when your supervisor says it's not a good idea, that's probably going to be an unconditional fail. But you'd not do something silly like that, well, we'd hope not. The only other way to fail is to drop out. And there's a bunch of reasons to do that! The biggest ones are not being able to get a good research topic, or to not get a good supervisor.
Well, I don't think the Linux market is big enough to make it a compelling argument (but I really don't know; I could be dead wrong).

As for security, I'm not sure how big a problem Dropbox has with security. And I would't open-source a client just to get better security for it, but maybe that's just me.

Open sourcing the client is betting on the fact that the client doesn't matter. Maybe it doesn't matter, but maybe it does. More importantly, maybe we think it doesn't matter right now, but we'll find out that we were wrong in 2 years, after it's too late.
Thanks! I'm aiming to just make it suck a little less ;)
Adioso (YC W09) opens travel search for the adventurous
One of these days I hope they'll add the ability for me to sync my iPhone to iTunes at home and listen to it on another PC (most specifically the office) from my iPhone via iTunes without some horrible hack and manually managing my music collection.
Single-file database open source addressbook/table manager?
I am starting an english school in asia and am looking for a self-contained addressbook/invoice system. I want to be able to add fields to my address book (such as parent phone numbers), but I also want to keep track of my students' tuition payments so I know how much credit they have towards classes. Think of it as something like a cross between a tiddlywiki and a dumb excel.

Finally, this works through a webbrowser and keeps a single file database (like tiddlywiki) - I don't expect to have more than a couple hundred students in a few years' time.

Can I find this magical tool?
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Some of our collaborators are in the UK, so we discuss some of this stuff sometimes.

My understanding is that they are given 3 years for their PhD and do not necessarily take any courses. With a British BS being 3 years, their total time to PhD is 6 years, whereas (for physics) the average time in the US is 4+6=10 years. Not knowing anything else about two fresh PhD grads, I would take the one trained in the US over the one from UK.
I bow down before the creator of reddit and kiss your feet.
I'm not interested in being "broadly educated". In fact, if you knew me, you'd think that laughable. I am no polymath, nor do I aspire to be.

I'm talking about having a broad education within your field, i.e. taking course not directly related to your thesis that can give you insight on your thesis or on something you might research afterwards.

>>"First, ask any tenured professor and they'll tell you they have the much less time for free thinking then they had in grad schools. Grant writing, committee siting, etc., soaks up most of their time. Second, the average age to get tenure is 39"

>If you're unhappy about the life of a professor, then don't get a PhD.

I'm not complaining about the life of a professor, I'm challenging the idea that you should wait until you're tenured to think new ideas.
I was thrilled that made it into the TC piece ~ 2 years in and things are beyond my wildest expectations for breadpig.com (in fact, I'm announcing my first full-time hire shortly).

We're aiming to be a Newman's Own for Nerds: We sell geeky things (LOLmagnetz, xkcd book, shirts) and donate the profits.

I humbly suggest you sign up for our mailing list & drop our RSS feed into your reader :)
I'm getting some stuttering, which is pretty annoying.. When it doesn't stutter it looks great though!
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I'm skeptical about Apple doing a social media platform, yet iTunes is a perfect trojan horse. It might not even have to be good to succeed.
Relying on your ability to survive by staying one step up on the value chain is putting all your eggs in that basket. The risks:

1. High rate of technological development in Japan, Korea, and China right now. China particularly is hellbent on creating Chinese alternatives to everything, including x86 CPUs.

2. Some black-swan type discovery elsewhere that enables other nations - say Taiwan with its manufacturing expertise - to leapfrog you in value chain.

I'm sure there are others. It's just not wise strategy to complacently rely on single competitive advantage for leadership in such an important part of the economy.

It makes us economically fragile, when our objective should be to become economically robust and redundant. We lose one advantage, we have other strengths to fall back on.
I really enjoyed that "open standards" event, which was broadcast via HTML5 that only worked in Safari and on Mac.
Netflix - Good or bad news for them?

They're on the Apple TV, so that's a plus. But Apple are now direct competitors, and they control the platform.
Actually I didn't word what I wrote correctly, what I meant to say is that no matter what happens, some will see it as a smear campaign.

Sweden is country advanced enough that you would assume that they don't just charge people with rape without there being some evidence to support the charge. We can also assume that the legal system in that country is stable enough to grant Julian a fair trial and judge him based on the evidence.

To date his only defense has been that this is a deliberate attempt by unnamed powers-that-be to smear his name because of his role at wikileaks. I can't recall him directly addressing the allegations (a good lawyer would advise him to save it for the courtroom).

It is an interesting case because of who he is - it will also be interesting if he mounts a 'this is a false allegation because of who I am' defense in court.
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Is YC planning on hiring similar "evangelists" for other places in the world? I'm wondering about Israel, specifically.
except that it misses 90% of what dropbox does. like multi client sync, cross platform, shared folders, web interface and so on
Netflix + Apple TV seems to be a win! Damn, Apple tv is $99!
It's interesting that this is only for music. You can see this being just as applicable for movies and tv shows - and of course apps. Presumably this is a toe in the water and they'll extend it if it works. But this certainly has lots of potential for extension.
Linux as a desktop client is potentially too small a market to address, I'm not sure the same could be said about the Linux server market.
Well, Ubuntu One seems to rely on checking every so often alone ...
Steve, no one gives a fuck about photo slideshows.
no. Apple is a PPV vendor. If they offered a flat-rate subscription they'd be competing with Netflix; they're not.
Anyone care to take bets on this "Ping" feature? I just can't see it taking off, but it could just be that I hang out in the wrong crowds.
So I guess you woudldn't agree with any of these:

1) Increase in stock prices by getting good growth and profits (irrespective of where those come from) is generally a better wealth creator than distribution of those profits

2) companies desperately need to hold on to profits, as it is ammunition in a war of survival, whether its by parking in tax havens or some other way, so that they can deploy it when and where required to continue their survival

3) its more important for companies to have the ability to survive and provide employment to people in the long run than to distribute profits for making people happy in the short term
Too bad the study or article didn't report on the effects of stretching on speed or distance.

It may be a wash with respect to injury prevention, but what about muscle performance? Does a stretched muscle perform differently?
I'm really surprised with how well that worked.

I sat on my couch and watched it on my TV with a coffee. Great fun. Way better than having to endure that idiotic Engadget commentary.
Seems like they can give Last.fm a run for their money.
Misleading, borderline sensationalist headline. "[Ebay] won’t allow any checkout service except its own PayPal-featured service."

Ebay is shutting everyone off and forcing all to go through their PayPal system. Google is just one of many.
What is the vesting period for co-founders in a start up?
I know that the vesting period is the period of time before shares are owned unconditionally by an employee in an employee stock option plan. If his/her employment terminates before this period ends, the company can buy back the shares at their original price.

But if you award a co-founder x # of shares to be vested at x period of time during the critical phase of the start up life-cycle, how do you determine when to vest? 1, 2, 3 years... Assuming that the whole purpose of the process is to make sure that this person sticks around and earn their equity share. What if the person stop participating before the vesting period, do you have to buy back his/her shares or they just lost it?
except that it covers 99% of what I actually use dropbox for.
I apologize. I must be presenting my ideas wrong, because I really don't think we disagree.

It is definitely the responsibility of a good advisor to make sure that their student leaves grad school well-prepared and with a competitive CV. An advisor who doesn't push his student to work hard and focus is surely doing a disservice. I just don't think that means the student shouldn't have a certain degree of freedom (maybe...10% of his time?) to pursue less immediately publishable knowledge.
You can always use QuickTime Player (or an antique version of WinAmp) if that's all you want.
A potential big threat for Twitter as it's a much richer way of following musicians - and if video content on iTunes starts to take off then also actors etc.
Didn't they submit this format for standardization a year or so ago? If so, you can't blame Apple that others have not implemented it.
At one point I had it streaming on four different devices at once. It was awesome.
Actually we have 3 startups in the current YC batch who plan to move back to NYC now that the YC cycle is over.

I've always emphasized that seed funding isn't a local business in the way VC is. Startups come to YC from all over and can go anywhere they want afterward. I honestly believe the optimal route for founders who want to live in NYC would be to come to the Bay Area for YC, then move back to NYC afterward-- just as a lot of New Yorkers choose to go to Boston for college, then move back to NYC afterward.
It's pretty amazing the number of things that have been smuggled into the old SoundJam: Quicktime, Webkit (occasionally Safari), the music store (expanded to video and games and apps too), Genius recommendations, and now a social network.
It's called "embrace and extend". The phrase was coined by some other company than Apple, though -- I forget, but they were big in the '90s...
I was under the impression that this already worked.

You can't copy the files off (without some 3rd party software) but I thought you could browse and play via iTunes. I remember it being clunky enough that you might not want to do it regularly but I thought it worked for playing a couple of tunes.
No, but you can use past months aggregate total to estimate churn rate.
Apple really is amazing. We keep thinking they are going to go after the usual suspects like Google, Microsoft, and RIM. Now they are aiming their guns at Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg must not be happy.
My not particularly bold prediction: This is going to become more common everywhere going forwards.
How about you read that again, I think you misunderstood my point - or I was uncler, since english is not my native language. And i'm the OP in case you didn't notice that;-)

"I'm curious why you think Django lacks quality and maturity." - This is what he wrote, so i gave him main reason why django is not the tool for me.

Which are perfectly valid in my opinion. And no - with sqlalchemys design, it DOES NOT require you to change your code if you just need to use few models with other databases - the change was about 20 lines of code in my case. Which i take would be not possible at all with django 1.0.
You are right about "right tool for the job", for the kind of work I do, glue frameworks like pylons or bfg are a lot better choice - it's really way harder to corner me with some requirement that this stack can't handle.

And as for challenges, like I said - business conditions changed and I had to connect to 3 db's at once, no problems at all - if one chooses his tools very carefully in advance that can save a lot of headache later. Like I said, sorry for confusing you.

You can't predict everything that client could need/forgot to mention, so the more versatile your toolbox is the better.
Definitely interested! You might even be able to coordinate it with some local startup programs.

BoomStartup (http://www.BoomStartup.com) - I'm actually in this program right now.

The Foundry (http://www.business.utah.edu/node/1203) - I know some people in this if you're interested.

Launch Up (http://www.launchup.org) - They meet tomorrow in South Jordan

Web Startup Group (http://webstartupgroup.com/) - A BYU startup community
They're both selling content to watch on your TV. Albeit with different business models. They are both after $X a month, just in different ways.
Cool idea. I like "Columbus to France tomorrow." Now I just need the time and money to do it. =)
Absolutely. The choice of "Ping" for its name, rather than a more music-centric name might indicate they're keeping the door open to extend it to the whole store. (I'll add books to your list)

edit: one good reason I see to start off with music (besides the fact that it makes sense for iTunes) is that it's more common in the music industry to "follow" an artist, than it is for TV or movies. So, right from the start anybody will have people to follow while they're building their friends network.
I would say Last.fm is closer to the centre of Apple's crosshairs
Is that also your stance towards OfficeXML?