skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really in a position to tout startups, but for me it's more about building and creating things that people use, find useful, and enjoy. It's about being artists and creatives at heart - and engineers and programmers by trade. Software is just one way of expressing creativity. I believe that for many people, the allure of money comes secondary. It's a motivating factor, but certainly not in and of itself.
The risk of government intervention seems the most likely reason to me. Better to maintain control and relax restrictions on your own terms than risk having the terms dictated to you by a judge.
I would flip that around on you: I think it is time that companies reach a point in their understanding of users' reaction to the bait & switch.

i agree.

The value of your service to a user isn't going to increase simply due to the passage of time or growth of your site.

i disagree. many users may not pay on the first day because they don't see the value in it, or don't understand how the site works. but being able to use it for free and coming to depend on it may put a higher value on it over time.

how many users would pay $1 per month to access facebook now that all of their friends are on it and they use it every day? probably a lot. those users probably wouldn't have signed up for an account in the first place if they had to enter a credit card number.
Not every application needs a back button. Virtual interfaces allow the interface to tailor to the need of the application, instead of the other way around.

I agree sometimes a back button seems like it would help, but after using iOS products for a long time (this is on an iPad, I don't miss hardware buttons much.
You're reading it backwards. This blog post reads like an email reply to an email blast from the new dean to all alumni. The >'s are the quoted message.
I've verified with some people I know who work on Windows. _Every_ checkin requires code review, except those in the individual dev branch (if the dev opts to create one). Merging also requires code review and additional suites of testing each level up the tree one merges.

"Why would you think that you are blocked for a day? Implicit in there is an assumption that there is a nightly build process, giving you a one day feedback loop"

Actually, I wasn't assuming a nightly build process. I was thinking the time it would take for me to realize that the bug was actually in the new code, then for the dev to get a fix, have it code reviewed, have tests written, and then check it in. And given that maybe 1% of the users broke due to it, they want to be careful with a fix that they don't fix me, but break a different 5% of users who are using the NVidia GeForce 9831. If you're working in one branch, my expectation is that you can pick up the fix as soon as it is checked in, but the fix to that is minbar one day in most cases.

My point is that when you have a thousand people doing checkins per day. The odds that some one breaks goes up a fair bit. Let me put it another way. The single branch is the simplest way to write code. The reason that so many places don't do it isn't because they like to just make things complicated, its because they've all had things go bad with the other system.

With Google, my prediction is that Android/Chrome will eventually move to a system where there are branches for certain parts of the product. I think the rest of Google can probably work out of a single branch.
Ahh, true. I read it as a reply to the entire comment, not a specific part (mostly because that's the way it was formatted), but you are correct. I'll edit my original comment. Thanks. =)
The best reason is really so that people who are not that computer literate, that is most people, like a student who does not know much about computers, but has a file that he owns to share, he can put it on there.

If someone is literate sufficiently with the internet to know how easy is to get hosting, and how cheap, then really there is no reason.
did anyone else have to take a second look at that domain name?
how about examples of failed companies where the founders did not do anything unethical at some point to get ahead? Or hell, examples of individuals who did not do something unethical at some point to get ahead?

I'm not saying this makes it okay or anything... but all of us are guilty, at one point or another, of doing something unethical. we are all human. Really, I think this is one of those things the Christians got right. we will all screw it up. (I'm not sure I agree with the way the Christians go about seeking atonement, but I agree that atonement is a very human need, and that this idea that we should be able to forgive ourselves for past misdeeds while still working hard to do the right thing next time is a good one.)

So, really, I don't think your question is particularly fair... yeah, we've all done things that we shouldn't have... but I think it's a mistake to always credit our successes to our misdeeds; in fact, I've found the opposite to usually be the case. Maybe it's just my skillset, but nearly every time I've attempted to act in a deceitful or unethical way, it came back to bite me but good. - really, this is the origin of my own "keep as few secrets as possible" policy. Openness just seems to work better, at least when you have my skillset.
This seems to be exactly what the author is talking about. Lisp gets lexical scope right exactly because it did it wrong for about 20 years.
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So, if you really need to run your node app right now why not just grab a prgmr or Linode instance...?
My dad learned programming as a federal employee in the 60's. He didn't discuss programming with us, but some manuals and punch cards and program listings were always around the house. We also got to visit him at work a few times--think big bright cold mainframe computer rooms with tape drives spinning, printers chunking away, and lights flashing. I also remember him getting an award for making a program more efficient when working for a branch of the Defense Department. We still have the picture of my nerdly dad in his nerd garb receiving a plaque and a handshake from a brush-cut officer in full military uniform. Dad fought his part of the cold war by cataloging military surplus better, stronger, faster than it had been catalogued before.
I grew up wanting to be an artist but leapt into marriage and starting a family right out of high school, and didn't take the risk of pursuing art. After starting junior college, I looked at the course catalog and felt deathly boredom emanating from every career choice except computer science. Not sure why, since I had no real exposure to computers per se. I had to buy a book just to tell me what computing and programming were. I enrolled in the business IT course, liked it, and thereafter never considered any other field. Funny, even though I started my computer education in 1982, at my school they still used punch cards, ratchety old mainframes, and loud printers--just like dear old Dad had used circa 1968. It felt right.
That first year I learned Basic on a TRS-80, assembler on a System/360, and COBOL on a Burroughs mainframe. I still make my living on IBM assembler and COBOL, with no end to those technologies in sight (from my middle age standpoint, anyway). I play with Linux, bash, Scheme Java and MySQL on my own time.
Cool app, this will be one of my new vices! I tried looking through the sourcecode to do it myself, but I'm not incredibly familiar with Android app structure or if maybe there's some convenient helper methods to do this in Android apps.

I was just wondering if you could maybe add the following to the comment text in the Comments view to render HTML elements like &#62; (which should be >) and &#38; (which should be &). Also, maybe do this:

comment = comment.replace(/\*(.+)\*/,"<i>$1</i>")

Also, I noticed the comments view doesn't space out paragraphs or render preformatted text (inside the <pre> tags, which HN applies to lines that start with two spaces).
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Oh, people suggest it often enough, but they're successfully shouted down afterward (which is probably why you haven't really heard of them).
My vanity Google OpenID never works anywhere but my domain and MyOpenID works with HN fine.
The problem is that the distinction between "earned" money and "handout" money is not so clear. If you "earn" your money by servicing porky government contracts, is this something that you have done entirely on your own? Are you entitled to keep your profits if you pull them out of the ponzi scheme before it collapses?

Alot of the wealth in the top 1% of Americans these days was earned by people who in one way or another got rich by timing their entry and exit from the scam properly. An honest assessment of wealth creation since 1980 could come to no other conclusion. The scam was so big that they might not be morally accountable in a personal sense for doing wrong. But do these people deserve to keep their earnings, even as the extent of the scam becomes clear to the rest of us?

The reality is that money is not earned in a vacuum. We all depend on others to make our living somehow, even self-employed solo founders. If society cannot bear to give so much to the wealthiest 1 in 1000 any longer, do they have a right to collapse the whole economy in defense of their profits?
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"If you're a pro-tax liberal"

Have you ever, once in your life, met someone who identified as a "pro-tax liberal"?

Didn't think so.
That's terrible. Children weren't hardly worth anything at auction!
I think Fan might be the simpler better Java - but like you say I dont think it taken off. http://fantom.org/
The lack of a blank line (or any vertical space) between paragraphs is what makes it particularly unreadable for me. It looks like the source does separate the paragraphs, so seems like a bad choice of CSS.
My mum taught me BASIC. Ironically, I don't actively program any more...
I've encountered a few documents that were 1 page application forms for community resources, and all were shocked when those were suddenly behind a rather expensive paywall. I also was really annoyed the first time I noticed some obscure document I read was broadcast to all my "followers." That means I've encountered both of these major beefs myself. I was never a scribd user, but I sure as hell would never use them now. This is not an issue of not charging early - it's expertsexchange all over again.
Clickpass is a YC startup. If you don't want to use it click on the down arrow to the right of the button and enter http://www.google.com/profile/{your username}
Sorry, my argument about the extraordinary claim was against the poster who was downvoted, not you.

I'm not sure what a "valid" moral theory is. What I do know is that he made a claim that no reasonable person that I know would agree with. And provided no evidence to back it up. This is trolling. When you say that Wiles proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is wrong, with no evidence, that is trolling. When you say Ruby is strictly superior to any other programming language, with no evidence, that is trolling. When you say that taxes are morally wrong, with no argument for it, that is trolling.

And trolling gets people downvoted. That's my argument against you. :-)
Prefer that on my own domain, like this http://petervandijck.com/
Have there been any recent developments in that respect, though? That also doesn’t do a very good job of explaining the ostensible sudden change. There would have been smoother and more effective ways of communicating that change. Any time Steve Jobs was on a stage in the last few month he could have announced that change and waxed poetically about the importance of developers for Apple.
I don't see many people claiming that keeping taxes low on the rich benefits society. That fig leaf wore thin a long time ago. This is heartless greed. It's especially immoral given how the rich have benefited from the state.
I thought I did, indirectly. My answer is that there is no prevailing "hype". This is a community of startup enthusiasts, so it should be fairly obvious that everything discussed here, and on the articles and blogs linked from here, will revolve around startups. If you want to learn about the values of working a jobby job, this is not a place where you're going to find a great conversation.
But it doesn't specifically have to be a cluster. The point is to make libraries more than just a warehouse for print, but a place for continued learning.
except that it doesn't. Flash works wonderfully well on my Android.
I don't believe there is hardware acceleration for the iPad.
What's wrong with recaptcha anyways? I actually like helping with translations of book scans.
Les Halles is a mid-tier business lunch place as far as NYC restaurants go (BTW, they have great frites moules). I wouldn't say working that kitchen indicates far advancement.

I think the draw of his book & tv show has more to do with his persona rather than his resume as a chef. This is consistent with what he is saying in this article. To survive as a chef, you have to be crazy. And to be mega-successful, you have to be lucky to boot.
I never understood the pursuit of ethics by all business schools. I mean business schools select and reward people with questionable ethical practices. They should at least stop putting up all this hypocrisy at least. I mean Harvard considered Jeff Skilling as the best student ever until he came out as a complete sham.

At least everyone in oil industry and academia has guts to speak out against climate change and to deny it. in similar fashion i expect HBS and others to show how unethical behavior is good for human kind. A la The Selfish Gene or something.
I feel that the main issue is the lack of open and direct communication with the users.

Sure, making the paywall opt-in by default increases conversions. But you still have to tell the user about it rather have them discover one day that a lot of their documents are no longer being read. That sucks.
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So just tried this with divx episodes of mad men, The software was great and syncing files from itunes was a breeze(Same interface as syncing files with pages and keynote). The video itself though was pretty choppy. Not sure how it will work for other filetypes but not super impressed, but I imagine it would be hard to do any better with similar hardware.

Kind of really lets you see the value of apples H.264 hardware decoding on the iPad.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter
I believe Bourdain had already become head chef at Les Halles in NYC before KC was published

That is correct.

EDIT: You also need to read the article, in which he says:

If I hadn’t enjoyed a freakish and unexpected success with Kitchen Confidential, I’d still be standing behind the stove of a good but never great restaurant at the age of fifty-three. I would be years behind in my taxes, still uninsured, with a mouthful of looming dental problems, a mountain of debt, and an ever more rapidly declining value as a cook.

Bourdain is under no illusions about his own value as a cook, as opposed to his value as a writer. And he'll be the first to tell you.
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Btw its old 2006, the Dean of HBS is now someone else.
This is actually quite interesting - I didn't know you could do that, and I will likely employ it in the future, especially with a remote web server or something you can't immediately get to. So as you roll in, you check your email on your phone, and know walking in what you're getting into and likely how to fix it. From a time-optimization viewpoint, this is nigh-invaluable.

Plus this guy has some other very nifty articles.

But I guess (glancing at first few comments) that "haterz gonna hate."
Not necessarily. You can trick someone who does have access to write /proc into writing something to /proc for you via symlink or another method.

Disclosure: I work on the unrEVOked rooting tool for android and we do stuff like this all the time.
Dude, my 3 year old Nokia N810 with 400mhz CPU plays all kinds of SD video with MPlayer just fine.
But not everyone needs 2G of ram? No reason why a $20 linode can't suffice if you don't need to spend $100/mo yet
If you can't spend $100/month on a server use App Engine, a free Heroku Dyno, an EC2 micro instance, or any number of other cheap virtualized hosting companies.
"2) It boosts office morale. When Ryan and I set up AwesomenessReminders, we had it rotate through our team – so everyone would get a turn at being awesome. [...] We all like to stop what we’re doing, put the call on speakerphone and cheer when they tell us we’re awesome."

Funny to see this on the same day that http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1707170 made the front page.
I think, too, that this is said about quite a few professions, by people working in those professions.
DOS made me a console lover.
Quake 3 arena made me a script programmer.
Geoshell (a windows explorer alternative) made me become obsessed with customization and keyboard shortcuts.
Debian made me fall in love with linux - it was easy to build my own router out of an old pentium box.
Kubuntu made me a KDE junkie; especially because of KDE's ability to set shortcuts for almost everything.
Python made me aware of new ways of thinking about programming (next up lisp/clojure and erlang).
The web (2.0) made me getting to HTTP, HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Hackernews made me forget Slashdot.

The end.
Ironically, I looked in my spam folder today just to see what percentage were the ".ru" type and...found a message from Twitter that got delivered yesterday saying how they are going to switch to OAuth on 8/31 (Really, twitter, a month late? [and it wasn't Google, since I got the message for two accounts for two email addresses yesterday]).
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>> An ethics lecture from a man whose company

This was written a year before Zynga was formed. I still think he's hypocritical, but let's be clear about the context.

>> sells spyware (Zwinky toolbar)

I have no idea where you got this idea from. Zynga does not make Zwinky, Mindspark Interactive Network does.

>> highly profitable add-ons to games under the pretext of charity (Farmville "donations" to Haiti)?

A 50% charity split isn't shabby. Sure, Zynga should have given 100%, but there are higher profile initiatives with MUCH lower splits. Product (red) is a great example where buying a $150 iPod nets a whopping $10 for The Global Fund.

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Disclosure: Current Zynga employee.
hah, this is pretty much the only thing I remember from C64. I did it in one line though: POKE 53280,0:POKE 53281,0

53280, was the inside text area, 53281 was the border area, and 0 was for the color black.
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Well then I can't account for why it was choppy. Have to try it with some other files and see how it works.
And isn't he the one who said, "I don't fucking want innovation. You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."

Not that innovative companies are inherently ethical, but I'd say using your market clout to squash competitors while blatantly stealing from them is at least ethically questionable.
This is a good little article. I liked this quote,"the first step to improving something is to measure it, and it’s corollary, be careful what you measure because that’s what you’ll end up optimizing for."

And it's interesting that Kahn uses data from his videos that show where people stopped watching in order to analyze and improve them.

Imagine if the data from Netflix on where people stopped watching was applied to movie production or writing. Since Netflix can remember where I was in a watch-instantly movie then that data is theoretically available.
When I was a kid in the 70s, I could distinguish a moon of Jupiter as a separate blip with my naked eye.
Apple doesn't own any rights to the VLC application being distributed. I thus see no legal basis for them to impose any restrictions, try as they might.

That clause in the GPL seems intended to cover distribution of a derived work, where the distributor owns the rights to additions they have made.

Edit: IANAL
Happy to hear it. Thanks for the response!
Ok...I will go first ;)

One of our clients is using a MQ to link a fleet of 550 electric vehicles to a head office app that checks for vehicle service issues.
"dilution of their wealth through inflation"? Many statistics recently shown the riches have apparently never been that rich before: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/25/rich-list-wea...
Another reason, which I find more likely is the market pressure Apple is starting to feel from Android and the slew of new iPad-esque Windows 7 tablet devices coming to market soon (even Windows Mobile 7 is a threat). They need to make sure they can compete on the apps-level with the alternatives.
For that, Air Video has worked great for me. (There's a free version that shows up to N files in a folder, if you want to try it out first.)
It's not just finding someone to build them, it's getting permission.

The first question the bulding department is going to ask, is, "what are you going to be burning that requires a chimney?"

And fire marshalls are generally not predisposed toward cumbustible storage in chimneys.

The example is based on a misunderstnding that when a term like "chimney" isn't explicitly defined in a code, it doesn't have a legal meaning.

However, most codes have a default reference for any undefined term (such as a specific dictionary), and ultimate interpretation lies with the code official not the applicant anyway.
For those who can't/won't view the video, this is a demo of a device that looks totally like a credit card that can reprogram its magnetic strip on the fly, both for security reasons and for storing multiple credit card accounts on a single piece of plastic.
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Hi,

Latitude (and other friend finders) are solving a different problem.

Our users (families, couples, etc.) tell us their main concerns are:

1) Privacy model: people don't want to broadcast location to everyone, or (particularly for women) have their use of such a service be known. Having adjustable privacy settings don't solve this problem.

2) Battery: As soon as you notice battery drain, users turn the service off.

We believe we've solved the first (with small, closed, private groups) and the second (with sampling only when necessary).

Our Android version is under development right now.
I hate wasting my time on videos even when they're about things I'm interested in; I'm not going to use a service that forces me to watch one I'm not interested in.
Sorry for my confusion, so is the problem you experienced one of having thousands of queues that a small number of clients pulled from, or thousands of workers that worked off of a small number of queues?

In our case, we want to be having a very small number of queues that have a high rate of i/o with dozens of reader clients and writer clients.
these aren't servers.

these are PaaS.

if you want a cheap server with no extra services or support, there are cheaper things, like EC2 Micro instances, Linode, Slicehost, Rackspace, and a million other VPS providers.

Apples to Oranges.
Check out 'Air Video', plays anything from your machine to your iPad over wifi without syncing. Works remarkably well.
I think you greatly overestimate the percentage of iOS users that even know what jailbreaking is.
The VLC application currently on the app store doesn't have ARM assembler optimisations enabled. Hopefully that will be fixed in an update.

MPlayer on the N810 will be using some assembler optimisations. I strongly doubt the "all kinds of SD" claim, however. There is simply no way that CPU will be capable of decoding a typical SD H.264 video. MPEG2 or MPEG4-ASP may work if you're lucky.
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