skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We like Australians. They seem to make good founders. You may want to talk ask the founders of Omnisio, Adioso, and Whereoscope for advice.
The initial prices are misleading, since they are all 1 way prices. I like the interface, I just don't like that. Every other travel site shows the lowest possible combo price for round trip. Maybe as an option?

The rest of this is great though. I do like it.
I'm Canadian but I wouldn't want to associate myself with any such stereotypes.

We live in a world where a single individual can do more than ever before product-wise and location is not that important. Let's focus on that instead.
> Java not good enough for Android? Fine, let’s make a new language that finally innovates on the mobile device, unlocking us from the collective disasters of Objective C, mobile Windows, and bloated Java ME.

While I appreciate the sentiment of this post, it displays some ignorance of the actual legal issues at play. Oracle's patent attack has nothing to do with the Java language. They have to do with virtual machines, and any VM (even clean-room like Dalvik) running any language is going to run afoul of them since they're absurdly broad.
New Community Site for Rails Developers Launches
Another idea would be a combination of cliff date + continuous periodic vesting past the cliff date.

A different approach to co-founders vesting that I read about earlier -
Performance based equity vesting instead of the more common time based one. you can read more on this at the link given below :-

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/3056/is-performance-...
"The system" allows people to do many kind of unethical, greedy or just plain irritating things. It's still their choice to do so.
Traffic analysis would let you know what kind of data is being sent, even without being able to decrypt the actual data.
Apple generally has really good perspective about what people want, but it seems to me that they often really miss the mark with iTunes. For instance, it drives my partner up the wall that she can't search iBooks in iTunes.

Ping sounds like a miss to me, and there have been a lot of itunes features over the years that have fallen flat.
I'll take that bet. 160M accounts solves the "get traction" problem of most social networks. Once you get outside of the geek community, people love iTunes.
You’re missing the part of capitalism that deals with capital.

If your organization is, say, an automobile company, you can’t just get together with your friends and say “hey, let’s make cars and sell them”. You need a factory building, you need tools, etc., etc., long before you see any cars. The difference between capitalism and socialism, broadly speaking, is the difference between depending on private or public money to finance that initial investment.
> it will also be interesting if he mounts a 'this is a false allegation because of who I am' defense in court.

It will be very short in that case.

The thing that makes this look like a smear job is the fact that it's two women that know each other at a very convenient time combined with the fact that Assange had already gone public before the alleged rape had happened with the warning that 'dirty tricks' were in their future.

It all seems a bit too convenient. The way the Swedish authorities went about the case to date also doesn't smell like roses.

Time will tell. As for the Swedish legal system being pure, I recall that not that long ago there was a ruling in the Pirate Bay case that a judge that had substantial ties with the recording industry was deemed impartial enough to judge their case.
It is the same paradox that comes with the power of special interests. Special interests are small. They have shared objectives. They pool their resources. They are following Napoleon's dictum:

"In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked-for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day."

In contrast, the people, on average, want nothing. They believe that their efforts will be undone by those opposed, or not alter the ponderous inertia of the status quo, or that factions or (no surprise) special interests will be able to absorb the vast majority of legislative attention and resources. So the average is apathy.

It's not thought all the way through, though. If a special interest can do it... so can you.
This is primarily due to improvements in electronic components resulting in lower power requirements.

For example:
MOSFETS engineered to use a smaller footprint, giving less current loss.
Displays using different technology that uses less energy (AMOLED vs LED)
And also overall systems engineering resulting in lower current requirements (use one highly efficient integrated circuit instead of a combination of multiple less efficient integrated circuits)

I don't think most changes in battery life can be attributed to the technology of the actual battery.
How did the process work for you? I'm in exactly the same place. I'm struggling between applying for an academic job now or delaying to pursue a start-up idea for my last year and year after graduation. The academic path is safe and has appeal, but I've been thinking about a startup for the last year and feel somewhat lame giving up on it before I know whether it will work.
Will they really have to take on Spotify though? Mightn't the content providers look at Apple's more attractive market and just pull the plug on Spotify (which would be cannibalising their own ITunes/Ping sales)?
[citation needed]

Also, if I may, that sort of commentary is exactly what fuels the "HN is going the way of reddit" posts, and a good example of why it's best we simply avoid articles like these on economics/politics.
> and apologize for the accidental downmod

it's ok. Accidents happen. I've had my fair share of fat-fingers on my iPod.
And we wonder why Japan is experiencing a population decline crisis.
Ah ok... I can't stand those 'silent edits' that make you look like a fool.
I can't see any reason why they would do this now. Apple already have the infrastructure to distribute the content, the user accounts, relationships with studios etc.

Apple could set up Netflix in a couple of months - it's little more than a new pricing structure. Any acquisition would be for existing subscribers only, and would be way below today's NFLX valuation.
"Are you presenting this as an argument with my article? I am confused, as you seem to be arguing most of the time with other people's words and not my own."

You seem to like to add other people's words in your article as to convey a certain message. When I argue against that message, you tell me that you are confused.

If you don't want anything to do with the thoughts you quoted, why put them there at all? You should stand by your opinions.

"Is exploitation incompatible with freedom? You seem to be saying that exploitation does not exist since people appear to have choices."

No. Some people are truly exploited. You laid it out there as a blanked statement. As if everyone is exploited in the current system.
If you want to know how predisposition can affect the outcome, please read this article and you will understand what we are discussing here:

"Princeton Economist Finds that Auditioning Behind Screens Helps Women Win Orchestra Positions"

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/97/q2/0425orch.html

Quoted directly from the article:
"The switch to blind auditions can explain between 30 percent and 55 percent of the increase in the proportion female among new hires and between 25 percent and 46 percent of the increase in the percentage female in the orchestras from 1970 to 1996," the economists write. The study notes that the surge of women in symphony orchestras has occurred despite the fact that the number of positions is highly fixed and turnover is slow.
I'm in the tricky situation of not having enough users within BitBuffet.com to really gauge these numbers accurately. I'm currently paying about 8 months of customer revenue to pull in a new paying customer, but honestly, that number isn't reliable.
I think what I find annoying/confusing is that on HN articles that have to do with PhDs are voted up and people are generally pretty positive about PhDs, rather than emphasizing that they are a waste of time to people interested in start-ups.

HN doesn't seem like the appropriate place for PhD info.
First thought through my mind when Ping was announced was "MySpace is definitely doomed"
Love lost or found in data?
WTF is up with all the Flickr pics on the right column?

http://adioso.com/us/place/california/los-angeles/2442047?ph...
Almost every TV and DVD/BR player now comes with the slideshow ability. My Xbox, Blu-ray player, AND my TV can play Netflix content. The latter two can play YouTube.

It's getting a bit stupid, and there is zero novelty to adding any of those to new devices.

They can all play my own video and audio files too. The singular complaint about video is that not all mainstream formats are accepted (esp. higher end like the 22Mbps AVC from my camcorder), but Apple would be the last company I would expect to widen the range of format support.
A lot of people already have iTunes ... not to mention with 230,000 new iOS activations a day they're coming pre-armed with massive traction.

They could take it in a whole lot of different directions but nothing about iTunes is aimed at filling some tiny little niche. Why would they bother aiming so low now?
The Critical Interface Design Lesson I Learned From My Wife
This sounds a lot like optimistic vs. pessimistic concurrency control, but over the set of all transactions in flight. You proceed assuming none of them are going to fail, but if any of them do, you're really screwed--you have to abort all of them and roll back to the last valid state to accept any more. Still, if we can stop rolling our own half-assed transactions over a set of feature-poor data stores, we'll avoid a lot of ugly problems.
I do like iTunes. I even used it as my music player on Windows when I was still using that OS.
"Government grants and funds prop up a large percentage of Canadian startups for the 5 years or so that they manage to survive."

I used to work for one of these. Being greentech is a great way to have a the government be your VC. I remember one of the "signs to leave" was when the CEO popped a champagne cork when we got a couple million in funding from the feds.

The best part was that the CEO used to be senior aide to an environment minister. He popped a champagne cork because he best navigated the bureaucracy he helped setup.

Any company that can get those funds can usually also get some kind of private funding, but why bother when the feds won't ask for equity? It really distorts things though, as VCs care about your company making money, whereas the government cares about you hiring as many people as possible.
Load Balancers need static IPs
"Necessity, who is the mother of invention." -Plato

That said, I'm not sure awesomeness is a function of constraint. Most of the awesome people I know succeed in spite of rather than because of the constraints placed upon them. In this case, I wonder what would happen if they swapped PCs for a week?
It requires a pass phrase. On a related note, I remember reading an article that had some interesting things to say about password security. I tried to find it, but I ended up with this blog post that does not include the derived "millions of years" numbers: http://blogs.technet.com/b/robert_hensing/archive/2004/07/28...

The main point is to use a pass phrase. You can satisfy almost everyone if you make sure to include some caps and numbers in it where it makes sense. The original article I read determined that it was sufficient to have a phrase of at least three plain English words! The blog post goes over the WHYs.

So I am suggesting: if you are going to put a pass phrase into this software in the first place, just use the pass phrase.

The only trouble here is that you need a backup plan. Sysadmins like to make you change your password periodically, and this policy differs for every system you use, so you have to somehow remember your new passwords/pass phrases along with which sites have your old passes.

The sysadmins have good reason: what if someone DID figure out your password/pass phrase? and what if you did not know it? Changing it cuts off the enemy's access, yes, but if there is a pattern to your choice of phrase across sites, you are in trouble.

So how do we solve the problem of making passwords/phrases easy to remember, easy to change, and super hard to crack?
is it confirmed that the new ipod touch has a cellphone like microphone?
Standard is a 4 year vesting period. So, for example, if a cofounder had 100,000 shares, they would vest 25k shares each year--possibly with a one year cliff.

If you've already put considerable work into a company prior to any financing event, etc, it's common to keep 50% of your equity upfront and vest into the remaining 50% over a four year period.

Continuous periodic vesting is important. It's usually set at a quarterly or less time interval for the reasons mentioned by markstansbury.
It's a media thing

I beg to differ. I'm not going to make claims of a vast media conspiracy, but it is most certainly not the case that the media casts socialism as bad and capitalism as good.

For example, I submit that one of the most hackneyed themes of movies is the greedy capitalist exploiting others or preventing needed initiatives.

As far as I can see, the media consistently mis-frames the economic issues such that today's corporatism (corporate welfare, rent seeking, regulatory capture, etc.) are cast as problems of capitalism, when in fact they are antithetical to that system.

And on the other hand, major facets of our society (e.g., public education, labor unions) that clearly are socialist, are never referenced as such.

In short, I think that the media is just messed up, and anybody on either side of the philosophical divide that accepts media input unfiltered, is going to be horribly confused.

EDIT: I reversed the sense of good/bad in 1st paragraph. It doesn't really matter, since my thesis is that they're completely confused.
Supposedly batteries are improving at 8% per year according to Musk's Law. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple aggressively adopts the latest battery chemistries rather than just buying commodity cells.
Personally I love iTunes, but I have heard it's less impressive on Windows systems. The only other legitimate complaint I know is that it's become bloated with features that not every user needs (if you don't have an iSomething, for example).
No, they didn't, but lots of people got confused and thought they had. Here's Gruber making the same mistake and correcting himself:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/01/http-live-stream...
It really happened, legacy programmers tales
We’re So Dumb We Don't Realize That Social Media Is As Easy As Pissing On A Rock
If there is no private property, then you don't own your body, as to own your body would mean you owned some private property. If you don't own your body then you are a slave and there is no practical difference between that philosophy and any tyrannical system of government.
Confirmed Through Massive Response; Angry Birds for Android Coming Friday
Rocket Engine: Plugin-free game dev engine (JS/CSS)
And of course there's "glenn beck" socialism

Glenn Beck is an entertainer, and should not be confused in any way with someone with knowledge of social and economic systems. If you take his commentary seriously, you're almost certain to be barking up the wrong tree.
Ask HN:  Where to find Interaction Consultants in the Bay Area
My company is in need of some UX/UI design work, but aren't to the point of needing a full-time designer.

The job is involved enough that we'd like to have some face time with the designer, so we don't want to go through something like 99designs.

so . . . can anyone recommend a good place to find designers that will do contract work?
> It was also known that apple where buying into this space. Will see if I can find the reference.

You're thinking of the LaLa acquisition, maybe? http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/apple-kills-lala-musi...
Glad to have you on the east coast!
How not to build a postcode system
Do people associate using iTunes with social networking, however? Are you going to fire up iTunes to socialize with your friends on your Ping wall? Are you even going to invite your friends to your Ping contacts? Or are you simply going to keep using Facebook to post about that new album you just got that you really like?
I think this is one of the most important things, although as a student you may have less control over it than you'd like. The big problems in picking an advisor are lack of information and lack of opportunity. There may be the "perfect" advisor with the project you want and good funding, but no information available (e.g. new professor). On the other hand there may be the professor, who everyone says is great and is working on exactly what you want, but they don't have any money for a new student. You usually find yourself in these types of situations when choosing an advisor.

Bad advisors probably set me back at least a year and my former labmates as much as 3 years when they quit the lab shortly before our former advisor "resigned". I eventually took matters into my own hands and helped two professors I liked write an NSF grant on my topic and got funding for two students for 3 years, and they basically let me do whatever I want.
Not getting caught up in the stereotypes here, thats a great list of Canadian Startups, as a Canadian I hope they all do well.
Socialism means using violence in the form of the state to deny people the power over their own bodies, or the power to own private property.

Having a state, by definition is incompatible with anarchism.

The whole "libertarians were orginally socialist" idea is just the latest in the strign of socialists attempting to coopt every movement.

That someone thinks you can have anarchism and socialism at the same time boggles the mind. Anarchism means no government while socialism is a form of government incompatible with allowing free will.
In theory, nothing is unnecessary, because everything in theory is unnecessary.

(j/k, of course; I love theory.)

More seriously, folks like you are the reason I phrased it "almost always." If you take the right "unnecessary" courses, it can help a lot. (So, are they really unnecessary then?)

My quantum mechanics class got me to think about the PL problem I was working on in terms of group theory. That turned out the be the key serendipitous insight that solved the problem.

But, I'm watching two students at two universities go down in flames right now because they're too distracted by taking lots of "fun" classes. They're like kids that locked themselves inside the candy store.
You sound more like a traditional Anarchist. Industrial Worker of the World type than a Socialist.
The Reverse Twitter Effect - GitHub
This sums up why I think that all "Social Media Gurus" are a complete waste of time. They have no value add and there's no way to verifiably measure if they've had any impact on your business. That, and the fact they have no real skills and outsource anything that actually requires development knowledge and talent.
The value is not only in the post but in the subsequent discussion it generates.

In fact, I will often "cheat" and read the discussion first.
Sorry, I forgot to add the caveat: private property means something different in the anarchist context. They make a distinction between 'private property' and 'possession,' your body would be a possession.
A social network for music called Ping
good for you... my offer still stands if you need or know someone who needs to make extra money holding-up road-side signs for meshipu.com let me know. All the best.
How can you have a society without private property if you don't have a state to take the property away from people and to enslave them?

Your system would end the Knute two people decided to organize a venture for profit, or to keep a stick they found on the beach.

You need an all seeing state to take that stick from them and keep them destitute.
The thing is that they had a hard upper limit on how many clients connected and they wouldn't allow any more past that limit. That kinda makes it less impressive, IMO.
I use rsnapshot (also built on top of rsync/ssh) http://www.rsnapshot.org
Benford's law: statistical technique for sniffing out fraudulent data
> The whole "libertarians were orginally socialist" idea is just the latest

Unless you consider 1840 the 'latest,' you're wrong. (EDIT: Sorry, 1840 was 'anarchist,' 1890 was 'libertarian.' The American version of 'libertarian' didn't come into use until 1950: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology)

You're thinking only of state socialism, stateless socialism is totally different. And the basic definition of socialism says nothing about denying anyone anything:

> Socialism is an economic and political theory advocating public or common ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources.
...as a Canadian I hope they all do well.

Why?

Isn't that kind of like saying as a member of the same race/gender, I hope they do well?
I believe that the common definition in most folks' minds is that capitalism refers to the system we have today in the USA, where the government rewards business interests with handouts, protective regulations, and the like.

This is not capitalism, though. What people are experiencing and objecting to is corporatism [1].

I believe that if people would give real capitalism a chance, the result would be positive. But as it stands now, the economics are too intertwined with the politics. In order to successfully implement real capitalism, the power that the state wields to erect regulations that can be subverted would have to be stripped: we'd have to neuter the government. Clearly the government would never allow that to happen.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Corporatism
I know there's several of us here in Boston that are excited about this!
Welcome to New York City, Alexis (again). We're damn glad to have you back!
Thanks for the links! I will try to attend tomorrow. Semi-techy (non hacker) working on a few idea's :)
It is easy to assume that your opponents are ignorant, but i can speak pretty clearly to this point-- even the least aware and educated Americans recognize that european socialism, while it didn't become as tyrannical as communist states, still results in more government control, and lower economic growth, than the comparatively less socialist USA.
You Can't Build a Business on Google AdSense
Maybe not for this specific iteration of the product but definitely the next iteration.

This "first" offering by Apple certainly falls in line with their tradition product release of introducing a new product with less-than-stellar specifications (No HDMI?). Only to update it a year from now.

That means Boxee might be in the lead this December but will get leapfrogged a year from now, and to boot Apple gets 6 months to improve upon any shortcomings with Boxee's product.
That might happen of course, but the question is whether they will see that or whether they will think hey! two revenue streams.

None the less I believe music will go streaming, it has to which becomes really obvious once you try out spotify (well it did for me and most of my friends who use it)