skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure who down voted you, you have a good point. I'm not a big StackOverflow follower, but if I had a generic kernel question I wouldn't ask it on a Ubuntu Q&A forum.
Devils advocate: there are obviously a lot of people that write programming code here. That is something created within each person's mind, and brought into existence -- just like a song. How would any of us view having our computers hacked into at the leisure of would-be users of our programs who sought to copy our code and then use it? Would we view this as theft?
Don't Be Evil?
> "That means 51.1% of homeschooling parents in the US think their kids would get a better education at school"

No, that's not what it means.

It means 48.9% thinks "better education" is their main reason for homeschooling. For the other 51.1%, "better education" is not the main reason, but may still be on the list.

It's true that a non-trivial percentage want to isolate their children from the mainstream, but please do not misrepresent the statistics to make your point.
You may not always have your optimal tool set, such as when you're remoting into someone else's environment (common for sysadmins or contractors), or when you're stuck using someone else's computer rather than your own.
switch to apache behind nginx!
Assuming Apple can eventually get more of the networks and cable channels to share their content with the AppleTV the remaining big impediment for a consumer like me is live sports.

I'd gladly pay for a live and on-demand archive for my favorite sports teams (and/or leagues) streamed in HD to my television. I know there are cable/satellite options for this as well as some internet/broswer-based ones but is there any solution currently bundled into any of the Roku/Boxee/AppleTV devices?
Good article. One bone to pick though - Orwell's criticism was in the context of writing, whereas the article quotes Churchill's speeches. Good oratory has a great component of theater and drama.
Companies and individuals have certainly funded activities with decades-later payoffs before. If it's not currently done as much, it may be partly because the decades-hence future is more uncertain than it used to be, for both technological and legislative reasons. Again, I don't see an empirically obvious answer.

However, I think there might be a naming problem, here. If it seems likely to have practical applications at some point, it's not "fundamental" or "pure" research anymore. Companies doing research into quantum computers or molecular assembly are certainly doing so because they expect to make a profit on it eventually, but the very fact that they have this expectation means that it's disqualified from fundamental research. I still think that there are examples of companies funding general research on the assumption that something will come of it, but it's hard to disentangle the effects of government. The most prominent example, Bell Labs, was run by a government-supported monopoly, for example.
How could he be guilty of copyright infringement when courts have ruled it is legal to have a digital backup of your media? If he copied the mp3s from a friend who ripped the CD as a short-cut, would you still see him as guilty of piracy?

I'm sorry, but that viewpoint is ludicrous, but I'm sure the RIAA loves that they've wired people to feel that way. Makes their extortion much easier.

(And, yes, I do believe in paying for the music I listen to.)
Apple/Streaming/Subscription
A Heat-Seeking, Automated Nerf Sentry Gun
I agree with your argument on a logical, rational level. I can concede, however, that "branding" is important to people in ways they rarely care to admit. Having "a site" can feel different to people than carving out an area of interest with a search query, especially on a site with a "community." Communities form around sites and brands, not search queries.

That said, I still agree with you despite appreciating the nuances of bizarre human behavior ;-) Sites like MetaFilter, Reddit, and Hacker News (to a lesser extent) have managed to spread their brands into multiple topic areas (and multiple "sites" in Reddit's case) without diluting people's sense of being a Mefite or Redditor.
This appears to be made up. Is it meant to be fiction?
Although webserver choices are a matter of much contention, many people have found success in switching to a non-Apache setup on low-resource servers, like your slice. It's my belief that you can get Apache to perform just as well as those, but it takes a lot more tweaking, and most people really aren't that familiar with Apache config options.

I personally have been quite happy with Cherokee.
Laptops Look Like Racecars
Given everything else they're doing with Apple TV, the least surprising explanation for the iOS/A4 thing is that it's just easier for Apple to build new products on that platform. It's probably not a major strategy "tell".
It leaves us with a fairly simple choice... will we put up with a more complicated yet infinitely more extensible UI with a price premium of around $100[1] to fill in this gap, or are we willing to settle, get a nice UI, and pay $100 less?

[1] http://boxee.tv
Was downloading music you already owned really illegal in the USA pre-DMCA? After all, the music company did sell you the right to listen to that music. I know it's legal in most of Europe.
Introducing tcprstat, a TCP response time tool
Added to my "Great Articles" repository. I'm looking to create version 0.2 soon, incorporating the lessons I'm learning from using the current, butt-ugly pre-alpha version.
I usually try not to post things like this but, this is something I would have actually loved as a kid and a tinkerer.
Believe it or not, people don't like being called thieves, especially when they're not stealing anything.

I may be a pirate, but if US TV companies actually gave me a choice to buy their programmes with some degree of timeliness, perhaps I wouldn't need to be.
While I'm no fan of George W. Bush, it's hard to hypothesize about a past that never happened. So while not many people have that sentiment today, that's only because we picked one and didn't get to see what the other would've done.
ZSHARE video - Malegaon Ka Chintu - 6th August 2010 - pt1.wmv.flv
FYI we used Socket.IO-Node for our NodeKO app. It didn't require any time or configuration at all - and I had zero experience with node.js prior to the first day of the competition.

Most of all, it comes with a client library socket.io.js which has nice fallbacks for browsers that don't support websockets yet. I highly recommend it!
I'm really surprised that you would be able to ask for customer support transcript logs and they'll just send them to you!

I've had the same experience with NewEgg. If you fill out everything perfectly, then your order will arrive perfectly and on-time. If there is any non-standard problem, it will be impossible to resolve quickly.
Where were you living before you were 30?
Yeah, that looks like it degrades rather gracefully. As long as (1) the text is still readable, and (2) the buttons are clickable, I say people should just go for it.
this is the exact question all should be asking.. how do we know that apple was looking for terms that facebook wouldn't agree to. To me.. Apple already knows the terms prior to implementing FB connect. I find it unlikely that Facbook is changing their terms from company to company.
$6.31 is Paris at the cheapest ever station that I never heard of because it must be so out of the way. $6.90 seems to be average.

Sure would love me some $3 gas.
<spoiler>

The Bush Administration, before Obama was elected.

</spoiler>
Piracy is not stealing, not a serious crime, it is a different thing, and with untruth statements like this you are doing a bad favor to the industry.

I'm an author myself,and I see that as "the Prohibition in the United States". Exaggeration to this problem could backfire.

Copyright has been extended so much that is a flagrant abuse +70years from authors dead when it was 25 years from creation like a invention patent means a lot of people could seriously object to it, and win.

Is drawing Mickie Mouse a crime just because the corporations lobbied for it?

95% of the US population do and will pirate in their lives. Criminalization of piracy and sex means anybody could go to jail(it is so easy to put pirate cds in your enemy home and call police).

This population vote Obama and they could make him jobless on the blink of an eye. No matter what Obama says, if 90% of the people think something should be permitted(like drawing Mickie or copying a Beatles song they have payed four times) in a democracy, that is Law. If the president oppose, he can go home.
The only problem with this argument is that it's made only with regard to you, the consumer, vs. the content creator/distributor. If theft is defined only as the removal of a physical good from one individual to another without consent, then indeed, it's not theft in that sense. However, if theft is defined as depriving an individual of what they are due for providing some product/service, then this is theft.

One way or another, somebody took the time to learn to play some instrument, write a song, record that song, then get it distributed in some manner. All of that costs both time and money, just like designing and building a car or a laptop or any other physical good. If depriving someone of compensation for something they worked to create and distribute isn't theft, I don't know what is.
They feel laggy. It's like there is a delay added to their animations on mouse hovering... or is it just ineffective? Can't say I like it.
I agree with you, that was just the expand on the ‘competitively priced’ point. The use of iPhone components (both software and hardware) doesn’t seem very indicative of any big strategy change to me, either.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend selling?
Hi HN'ers,

I was curious to know how much time your startups or businesses put into sales. This is mostly all you SaaS businesses or products that require active engagement with prospective customers (cold calls, emails, pitching).

How many hours a day do you put into this? What are your results like in terms of a days work: how many sales, how much $ revenue?

Thanks
I can't speak for username3, but the way I read his/her comment suggested the opposite. If a crime is very easy to get away with (like piracy), the penalties have to be higher to discourage people from doing it.
Before 2005 most Wikis used to be easy to use, considering the target audience at the time (computer literate people).

Nowadays, with 500 millions on FB, the audience has become "the rest of us".

Unless I missed something, I think that there is currently no easy wiki for this audience. Neither the older wikis, c2 style, nor modern ones, wikia or wetpaint style, for example, are simple enough.

I mean, what wiki service would you direct your kids or your parents to?

That's a sad situation. But it is also an opportunity.

I am working on a dead simple wiki, c2 spirited, but 2010 style. This is alpha software at this point. You may want to pay a visit (and, yes, WikiWords work). Sometimes it run at http://simpliwiki.com. Feedbacks welcome :)
| Since all of these songs are always instantly available
| to me, these artists are still within reach, even the
| one-hit-wonders from yesteryear. If I hadn't downloaded
| Fastball's "Outta My Head" back in 1998, I would never
| have gone to see them perform at the Viper Room in 2008
| (it was the illegal download of a B-side that made me
| appreciate them more than hearing "The Way" on the
| radio).

While that may be true that the piracy had an unintended benefit for the band. I think you're making an appeal to the fallacy "the ends justify the means".

In this case, the record label and by extension the employees of the record label lost out on their share of the $1 you should arguably have spent on the track. (assuming an itunes download at approximately market price).

So that works out to say $0.80 cents not paid to the workers at the store, the marketing department etc...

In the end, the band might have benefitted on balance, but in an alternative scenario, you PAID for that song, liked it and still went to see the band at the Viper room.

I'm fully aware that there are a number of people who violently disagree with me on this. In my own opinion, the question of whether it's "better for the music industry overall" or not is irrelevant. The people who own the rights to the music, own the right to decide whether it's OK to get the song for free or not. If that costs them a customer at the viper room in 2008, it's their choice.

"Theft plain and simple" is probably an overstatement - but (again, in my opinion) - there is definitely some moral ambiguity to this.

Let's imagine that for some reason at YC11 a band shows up. In their pitch meeting PG and team feel suitably Rocked and Rolled so he decides to throw in the seed money for their studio time.
The terms are that YC gets to keep 80% of the money from record sales (come to think of it, this happened on an episode of Dragon's Den UK).

You download the song. Go to the concert. What happens to the share owned by YC? Do they make money? Do they deserve money?

I do understand where you're coming from... but I also disagree.
Ok, but inferior to weather.com. I don't care what radar the information is coming from, and I don't want to see ground clutter. Weather.com merges all sites, removes ground clutter, and adds satellite overlays. Also, when I see a loop, I usually want to see a longer timescale, like the last few hours, instead of a few minutes. Most people are interested in seeing a few hours because you can tell whether cells are building, what direction the cells are going, and what direction the system is going. This is all very hard to tell with individual sites and short timescales.
It's neither fair nor unfair.

My point is simply that it's not a right, it's a possibility.
Craig should take some of that $100 million he's made and pay ten guys to follow this lady around doing the same thing.
I suspect McCain/Palin probably would have been better - they would have spent too much time fighting with congress to do any real damage. The more they fight with each other, the less time and effort they have to go after us.

Remember how awesome the Clinton years were? Clinton and Biden tried to push their own Patriot act [1], and Congress hated them so much that they shot it down.

[1] Biden has described the Patriot act as being basically a copy of his "Omnibus Counterterrorism Act" from 1995.
Sure, they screwed up a bit, but that's nothing compared to other things you read.

I have a long story about my housemate buying a printer from HP, but it's, well, long. In short, he went through 5 or 6 printers, and ended up with a lot of free ink cartridges.
What is ampq? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Message_Queuing_Protoc...
Yeah, totally agreed. Just a few changes here and there to make the colors less garish and tweaks in the padding would make the content stand out better. Other than that, it's very functional.

He launched with the right MVP.
EFF Asks Court to Protect Craigslist from Defamation Suit
The more draconian they try to get the more people of modest means will have little option but to adopt Creative Commons media and FOSS.

Home taping is killing music!
Sounds like an excellent thesis for an economics grad student.

I'd love to see this data in an easy to read format for a variety of goods and industries
I fully agree, and have yet to hear a solid argument in support of music piracy. Expanding your musical tastes and/or free marketing for the band are typically two very weak arguments, with the latter always unsubstantiated. If I copy your product and disseminate it to those clearly interested in it, I've definitely taken away some of your potential profits. You can argue that there are those whose interest didn't really compel them to purchase the product in the first place, so you're getting free marketing there in the hopes that they'll purchase future products, but let's be very realistic here, most pirates aren't spending more money on music because of their free access to music; they'll just occasionally donate to their favorite band. Of course, that's also a very unsubstantiated claim, but being human tells me that if I can get something for free with relative ease and little to no consequence, there's no reason to pay for it.
> If someone breaks into my car and steals my iPod, that's theft. I, the original owner, no longer possess the item.

Theft covers more than just the taking of physical property. You can steal an idea, for example.
It would be interesting if they mentioned the proportion/amount of money that goes to songwriters/artists per song.

If they want that lead balloon to be a golden parachute, they can make it, just rising the percentage of the royalties they pay to the artist.
McDonald's Hamburgers Don't Age (137 days of photos)
I keep my phone permanently on vibrate (so I don't have to remember to silence it when in class, etc.), and besides, it'd take a hell of a lot more to wake me up than a ringing phone.
I'm a Ruby on Rails guy, and the community is really excellent, so that'd be one place to start. Ruby has a very friendly syntax, so I think it's easier for a beginner to get into. Find out if there's a local Ruby users group, or PHP or Python for that matter, and start going to the meetings. Also, buy a beginners book like Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails. That's the book I started with and if you go through the whole thing you'll have pretty much all the tools you need to build a good web app.
And any "technologist" who can't see the value of Microsoft tools is next to worthless in my book.
at worst Google would just reject the ad. It's worth trying.

another option is to use Google to get the people on the list...then upsell them through the emails.
Sure, it's easy to come up with a "proper response" after the fact, but how about when you've been blindsided by a reporter with a microphone and camera in your face?
Atheist-cum-Christian now head of National Institute of Health
That seems unlikely if the breakdown in negotiations was as last-minute as others have speculated. Asking someone to implement an open API the night the product ships would be a bit extreme. It's possible that Apple had implemented such an API, but cancelled it at the last minute, but I don't think so. If Jobs didn't want an open API, he wouldn't agree to it in the first place.

With these two companies, it's hard to say who was in the wrong until we have details on what the sticking point was. It could be privacy, it could be advertising, it could be revenue-sharing, etc.
An Archos is cool and all, but I think the "real" device we would like to see is some form of Dynabook: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook

IMHO non-tech people have a love/hate relationship with their computers. They love the versatility (the fact that you can do more than play media or read email - it's "future proof" in a sense) but they hate the usability/bugs/quirks. As I see it, these two things are in direct opposition, and Apples model is the most recent successful way (not the only way!) of reconciling the two.
Story behind this bullshit: http://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-anti-google-group-consu...
It's a very fine line for Apple. Supporting piracy-centric formats is a big stamp of approval which will hurt their ability to put together legitimate content deals. I'm puzzled why the piracy groups don't just adopt MP4/H264 as a standard distribution format. That would solve the problem and you get the added bonus of having metadata. One of the long standing problems of supporting the AVI container in a database driven UI is you don't have any metadata to work with.
You're probably not going to care about the (likely negligible) value of your "IP" and source code if you've failed after taking an A-round, since liquidation preferences will dwarf them.

If you reach a point where you can sell your IP at a number where you actually net some cash, I'd call that a "success".

In the one VC-funded failure I was closely associated with (as a true cofounder), nobody gave a shit about the physical assets.
All of it. Business is selling.
It's not "The ends justify the means." It's "This is not theft. It's something quite different that can actually be beneficial in ways that theft reasonably cannot."

To wit: What share does YC get if I never become a fan of the band at all?
That's a valid point. Unfortunately nobody likes to be called a hypocrite (even if they are), so you're getting undeserved down-votes. (edit: happily, by the time I finished my comment you'd been upvoted out of the gutter)

I'm not saying I've never pirated anything, but I find the sense of entitlement some people have about it makes honest discussion difficult.
That is an interesting perspective, and a good explanation of it. I even like that you admit that you don't know how the complexity of life was created. I am not against science and the study of how things came to be. However, science has gotten it wrong for a very long time. It was science that said the earth was flat until it was proven otherwise. Isaiah 40:21-22 refers to the circle of the earth. We both have made a choice. I have chosen to believe in a creator God, and you have chosen not to. I believe it is easier to believe in God than not to. You keep working on explaining there's no God, I will keep marvelling at God's creation.
The reverse also applies: a lot of parents won't consider homeschooling their kids because they're not remotely suited to educating their kids and unfortunately many parents that do homeschool their kids have some pretty funny ideas about education.

Being placed into a group of peers (some of whom you wouldn't voluntarily associate with) in a structured environment with people telling you what do do sounds like a pretty realistic preparation for adult life to me. Even learning to memorise and draw Annie Apple and Clever Cat some time after my parents had taught me to read illustrated a rather more important perspective; the real world doesn't always run at your own pace.
Their business model assumes most of their investment doesn't take off, with a few rock stars that make up for the losses.

Incidentally, which is one reason cash flow positive startups should really think before accepting VC money. VC's are happy with a 10% success rate. You on the other hand, need a 100% success rate. Interests are not wholly aligned.
Win+D is actually toggle desktop. See what happens if you press it twice in a row.

Win+M = minimize all
Win+U = utility manager
How Samsung's Galaxy Tab compares to Apple's iPad [video]
I really like the size after that screenshot. It looks more like a "page". However I really want to know what the actual, in-use battery life is like. That's really where the weight savings lie, and I think they are probably dreaming when it comes to their claimed 7 hour life.
I take it your a sales person and only focus on sales? How many sales do you close per day? Whats the gross revenue of your work approximately?
It'd be nice if someone wrote a fossil<->git bridge, since there are (multiple) foo<->git bridges for most other values of foo: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,...