skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between preparing for and scripting a video. My cofounder and I prepared for our video in that we talked about what we wanted to convey and (roughly) who'd say what parts, but we didn't have any sort of a script.

Our video was about 90 seconds, and we did it in four or five takes, which means we spent way more time agonizing over how to cut down any one of our written answers than we did recording our video. Think of it as talking to a friend rather than "making a movie."
Yes that's accurate- It's all done and printing as we speak.
Ask HN: Rate my idea - The Venture Matrix
Hi all.

I would be really keen to get as many people's input as possible on my idea described here:

http://justinvincent.com/page/100/how-to-trump-microsoft-google-twitter-facebook

To sum up... the post describes the Venture Matrix (working title). A new type of company incubator that itself is a new type of company that anyone can join... company 2.0 if you will. It’s a cross between the Borg, peer-to-peer networking, MMORPG, socialism and capitalism in their purest forms. The main principle behind the idea is to use proven software patterns to manage and delegate work required to create a new efficiency in the market of starting companies. An efficiency that has hither too been impossible.

The more people's feedback the better!
Maybe they're trying to reinvigorate their young & happening image in the Valley with an extended outage?
TED talk (video) - Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome
From what I've experienced hackers seem more adverse to organizing in a trade association than many other professions. Does this line up with others' experiences?

For those who think its correct: any idea on why? Is it due to the relatively new nature of the profession? Or maybe we're all more cocky than we should be. Maybe it just comes with the culture. I don't really know.
> It was a lot better than expectations. The stock looks like it will jump about 30% or so on this n

What makes you think the stock will jump 30%? Why not 20% or 40%?

Is there some sort of technical analysis behind this, or is this a hunch?
Interesting stuff in there via http://www.businessinsider.com/display-advertising-is-a-25-b...

"Mobile is on a run rate of more than $1 billion. That is, people accessing Google services through mobile devices--not just Android--are adding $1 billion per year to Google's revenue."

"YouTube is monetizing over 2 billion views per week. That's an increase of 50% year over year."
I'm not sure why we require 1,500 words to convey the very basic idea that you shouldn't build a product in a vacuum. This entire article could fit in a tweet:

Show it to the people you want to sell it to as you build it, and start building a mailing list before launch.
Why don't you come talk about it at the D.C. HN Meetup this Monday?

It would be a pleasure to have you over, Dr. Barski.

http://www.meetup.com/JoinHNDC/
What we know about Spreadsheet Errors
It's worth noting that these couples were all recruited from Berlin, so there may be an element of cultural bias being exhibited. I'm not saying I necessarily doubt the conclusions, but I have to imagine that if you studied married couples from rural Japan, the slums of Rio, Manhattan, and nomadic tribes in central Asia, you'd find very different things.
You also get a little extra if you want: like the list of the user's friends, which is evil, but very attractive for me

So you're saying you're hoping just a little bit of Facebook's evil will come your way? Well, this indeed illustrates another reason to build a Facebook alternative... IE, No, I don't want a programming-answer site to tell my friends how much I like it, etc.
I'm amused that you think it is possible to rewrite the whole thing without entering super brain mode. In my experience, generally the only way to reproduce such legacy reports is by reverse engineering how they currently work. (which will require super brain mode based on the above described current complexity) One would think someone in the business would know what the report is supposed to do, but I frequently encounter cases where no one does, they just want the report to work the way the old one did, whatever the heck that was.

I know of no solution not involving time travel to solve that for legacy reports and systems. Obviously going forward one can worry about documentation, etc. but with legacy stuff it is already too late to implement those rules.
It sounds like you are developing, the founder is managing, and the founder made a judgment call based on his knowledge of the market versus technical debt. He is choosing to make the trade-off.

As developers, our responsibility is to ensure our leads are aware enough of the cost to make good calls, and their responsibility is to make those good calls based on their perspectives, perspectives that include more factors than just our future development time.

Maybe the judgment call is to reduce features and focus on quality of features that were implemented on this iteration. Maybe the judgment call is to release a feature because the market demand is just right and the feature is "good enough".

This is a typical balance in our industry.
bit.ly have been running j.mp for quite a while - I've used that instead of bit.ly whenever I needed a short URL with statistics tracking.
Could someone please explain what messageparty exactly does and how it works? (I don't have an iPhone.)
Is there a Carbon/Cocoa based version available for OSX?
Skype 5 launches; includes group video chat
I think a common misconception is thinking that bit.ly is in the business of shortening URLs when in reality they're in the analytics business of tracking when, where and how often people use and share links.

As to monetization, they already have a $1000/month enterprise level plan that gives you tons of analytics and that runs lots of the custom branded URL shorteners (4sq.com, yhoo.it, pep.si, cs.pn).

If I were a bit.ly investor my number one concern would be Google linking up their goog.gl shortener with Google Analytics. Doing so would punch a huge hole in Bitly's value proposition.
In conversation the CEO of a (very) large company in the US refered to it as 'a cost of business'.

It's worked in to the cost of each and every product we buy.

Sad, really.
I like your main point, that if the US has used litigation to in place of government protection, then we can't replicate the benefits of loser-pays without increasing government intervention. But I have to quibble with your specifics.

>Most of the rest of the world tends toward having the government deal with civil rights enforcement. Your employer denies you a promotion because of your race, sex, or religion? Complain to the appropriate government agency and they deal with the problem

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I think this exactly what you do in the US. See http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html . From that link:

> V. Who Can File a Charge of Discrimination?

> * Any individual who believes that his or her employment rights have been violated may file a charge of discrimination with EEOC.

> * In addition, an individual, organization, or agency may file a charge on behalf of another person in order to protect the aggrieved person's identity.

> VI. How Is a Charge of Discrimination Filed?

> * A charge may be filed by mail or in person at the nearest EEOC office

This is in addition to the ability to sue the employer without penalty (unless your litigation is "abusive", which is very rare).
Sure, you go back and file a bunch of patents
The saddest part of Yahoo being down, is that it's hardly even news (at least for technical people).
Yeah, the difficult part is changing all those links all over the web; after all, bit.ly still has the metadata and could setup a new domain for it in a few hours. The problem is getting hundreds of thousands (or millions) of sites to change all those links. And what's worse is that Libya wouldn't even have to break the functionality; they could just introduce spam, ads, phishing, malware, etc. along the way. Bit.ly has effectively put billions of intentional clicks in the hands of the exact wrong person.

The right way to fix this if it all goes to shit would probably be at the DNS or browser level. At least then you have fewer people that you have to convince to change.
I really like the idea of showing the impacts of boycotts and protests and helping the organization of these actions (GrassrootsBoycott) -- have you put in any additional work/thought into this idea?
MessageParty is location-based chat. You open the app and it gives you a list of nearby parties that have been created by others. It's useful for concerts, events, conferences, etc.
There is some code for it but I'm not sure how far along it is. I don't think the Cocoa UI is very useable yet though.
I don't believe the distinction is necessarily along the lines of software / hardware. It's more likely along the lines of "founding and running a new, small company" vs. "operating and growing a large, profitable company."
Though I do that kind of cliffhanger stuff on occasion, that isn't the reason here. My "theory of Toby" merely requires a good deal of groundwork to be laid. And you're right on both counts... he's not in the hierarchy, and Zen/transcending have a role in the explanation.

It just won't be the kind of feel-good Zen/transcending you are probably thinking of (which you should expect, since Toby displays too much misery to be a traditional Enlightened One).

If you are really curious about how I am developing this thread, read Nietzsche's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'

Venkat
I think 3.0.2 is a typo, as 3.0.1 is referenced later in the article, and was just tagged here:

http://github.com/rails/rails/tree/v3.0.1

(And released! It's available via `gem update'.)
I love the rss feed: no signing in, no opening tab upon tab upon tab, no silly magazine layout. Just the feed menu on the top of the page, the individual feeds displayed on the bottom- it's perfect.
The ISO country code domains aren't a public good; they're allocated to their respective countries, to use as they wish. Libya is within its rights not to allocate any domain names at all.

Conceptually within the DNS, there is no difference between APPLE.COM. and LY. You wouldn't expect Apple to allow random people to set up names under APPLE.COM. John Postel oversaw a decision, multiple decades ago, to allocate countries their two-letter ISO code; if you want to blame someone, blame Postel.

I personally think it's a reasonable policy, and that the fault lies in people willing to do business with a manifestly evil country for the sake of a vanity domain.
Doesn't matter if most of the links being generated are still at bit.ly. The issue isn't switching to a new domain after the fact; bit.ly has all the data for all those links and could setup a new domain right away, but all the old bit.ly links are still embedded all across the web. Getting those changed is the hard part.
It's an iPhone app for location-based chat. You open up MessageParty and it shows you a list of geographically defined "rooms" (e.g., "Mountain View, CA" or "Startup School"). This means you can chat with other people in the same town or at the same concert or conference, for example.
Every project has overheads, and when you squeeze the budget very low, the overheads can outweigh the budget itself.

Websites require a lot of communication as overhead - and cheap labor will only get you so far.

Considering the ONLY value proposition you will be providing is 'price', its a difficult business model. Any business with extremely tight margins and price as their only competitive point is an uphill battle.

Keep in mind the service you will be providing will generally be poor - because your price is low, you need to keep customer service time to a minimum - leading to a poor service.

Its better to reject these clients, rather than try to adopt them.
Ah, actually you might be right. Well fwiw it exists, we just don't sell it.
It's up 6% in after hours trading:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-beats-Wall-Street-rb-11...
3.0.1 is a security vuln fix. I don't think it contains this ARel stuff.
Well, it's useful if people use it. You have the dating site problem. You want tons of people not connected to each other using a single service.

Perfect ground for a Web 1.0 multi-million dollar marketing barrage, but kinda difficult otherwise.
Wow you hit it spot on. I do hack in my weekends/nights but the time just goes by so fast, and it is so draining staying a computer so much of my waking time.

Yeah. I am also saving now so I at least have a small nest egg once I get the guts to take the dive.

I'll let you know what I do for sure.
No, it's really 3.0.2. 3.0.1 is a security release only. I've updated the article to remove mentions of 3.0.1. Thanks for catching that!
anyone from richmond, va heading up?
Several critical zero-day vulns over the past 4 months
http://yaptime.com is a competitor. They have the exact same idea.
The systems they manipulated were systems that were likewise designed to outwit dumb human and computer traders.

I can see there is some distinction if you make trades purely for the purpose of invoking a reaction from other traders, but an intelligent AI system will discover this effect and do the same thing, albeit without any explicit human intention behind.
The problem with export is that you're deploying every single file. With svn update, you're only deploying the changed files.
Monitoring just under 50 servers with them on GoGrid. Just started actually and setup has been a breeze. We ran a nagios installation for a long time but the time and effort spent on running, updating and installing it just made it not worth the effort for us.

We have it linked in with PagerDuty now as well.
I haven't coded in C# in over 4 years now, but interestingly, I found Objective-C to be way more pythonic than C#. It feels pretty much like python with static typing bolted on.
Ah, never mind. The mention of 3.0.1 later down in the article was corrected, or I misread.
Your idea would be far more valuable then the one presented here. This script only adds support for WebP images within browsers that already support WebM, which seems like a trivial task for those specific browser vendors to support anyway.
So who can create a party?

Presumably, you restrict people from joining a party based on their location. But I imagine there are a few edge cases. For example, if I'm on my way to a concert but want to know something about a tent beforehand, can I do it?
Agreed -- I should have clarified that I haven't been to a NYTM since moving back to the West Coast over a year ago -- so it may have evolved since then.
Or, Libya could go crazy, decide to fuck with the rest of the world, and have every bit.ly link redirect somewhere that will blow up IE, Firefox, Flash, Quicktime, and Reader.

Crazy-er, I mean.
well, the next question question is will you regret not doing this in 10 year's time? I know it's a cliche to say you only live once, but you really need to think about it in those terms. I didn't want to look back and regret not taking the opportunity. Is this is just-now opportunity? Will this opportunity be there down the line?

I had similar concerns about family and co-workers. In the end, everyone at work was very nice about it and my family was surprisingly supportive.
With Facebook, users expect to be able to remove content at any time and it's inaccessible to other users (unless they decided to copy/paste or save it in another way).

Ah, but this is pretty much an illusion on Facebook too, even if it is an expectation (remember the FB employee interview a bit ago where they mentioned saving EVERYTHING - which is plausibly more than what webmail does). You could have an interface that seemed to take back content if it made people feel better but it's ultimately bullshit.

My theory is that as people use the web, they'll begin to understand that sharing has it's inherent costs and no one is going to be able to protect you from them. In that way then, a more email-like service will make more sense to people.
I'm not sure I've ever been to a music festival where I got signal. Might make it hard to use.
Whether or not a startup will sponsor depends on a case by case basis. In some cases, even if the company wants to, they might not have the resources to sponsor a visa. On the other hand, if they have the right amount of money in the bank (to pay the visa fees and show that they can afford your salary) and can get a hold of a good lawyer, it's not an impossible process.
Starting Membase with NodeJS
That was a serious miscalculation on my part off of a couple of numbers I saw in a news article. :-(
I think the analysis in this article stands even if you don't buy VB.LY's story about NIC.LY.
> I'm annoyed.

Rightfully so.

Downvotes aside, it seems the segway has it's dedicated fans.

I think the biggest thing that's wrong with it was the way it was launched, not the article per se.
Great work. This is why the Rails community is so damn solid.
> Patents remain relevant and valuable in fields beyond software, where product development and basic R&D costs a hell of a lot more than it does in our little field.

There's evidence that innovation increases without patents.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100421/1451179133.shtml
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study_says_patents_hind...
http://blog.mises.org/10217/yet-another-study-finds-patents-...

Patents are rent seeking agreements and have long since been outdated, if they ever made sense.

Basically, I think of patents in the same light as special interest groups. They promote the welfare of the few at the expense of the rest.
In addition to worrying about software, Apple had to worry about supply chain, inventory, logistics, etc. And, unlike the Compaqs and Dells of the world, Apple was not in the business of making commodity hardware.

In any case, I think Steve was too busy in those days being a micromanager for the Macintosh team to even think about running the company. Don't forget he spent a lot of time alienating the Apple ][ team, who was responsible for most of the company's revenue at the time.

Getting fired, running a relatively unsuccessful company (NeXT) and nurturing a company into massive success (Pixar) probably gave him more valuable experience than if he had somehow managed to stay at Apple in the first place. And for all we know, the world would have never had the opportunity to see Toy Story or the Incredibles. Clearly, I see Job's firing from Apple as a win for the world. ;)

Also keep in mind that while at NeXT, they switched from a hardware and software company to a software company (and so did Be, which was the other company Apple considered buying).
That is the point, they just need the deposit for the LBO

I didn't link revenue to the money they need for an LBO
The study makes a very incorrect assumption, which is that a person's report of their own tastes and habits will be more reliable than their partner's. Living in stable circumstances, settling into a mindless routine, a person's self-image diverges from reality. The person lives in the fantasy; the partner sees the reality.

For instance, even in just a four-year relationship, I ended up getting in arguments with my girlfriend about whether she liked eating Chinese food, watching new movies, going kayaking, or seeing a certain kind of music. I'd say she didn't. She'd disagree, saying, "Of course I like that, I've always liked that," and I'd counter, "It's been two years since we last did it and a year since I gave up suggesting it."

I would say in that case that I knew my partner, and she was ignorant of herself.
Interesting. I remember reading somewhere that it was supposed to be due to the differences in air pressure and atmosphere on the plane, but I guess I was wrong.

I think the airline you go on has a lot to say about it. British Airways are terrible at making food seem remotely edible, whereas on Turkish Airlines the food is better than some restaurants I've been to.
Disinformation. No global warming does not exist. They'll say anything to put the public at ease... if the planet was coming to an end, do you think you'd hear about it? No.
In a world where a single server can support over 100K connections, I wonder if server-to-server support is needed. You could probably simplify an ircd significantly by making it centralized.
Robot Operating System: Policy Learning with Pool Shots and Chopsticks
Regarding scraping:

I have a hard time figuring out what the difference is between having a human read a web page with sports scores on it, and then entering those scores in to your application vs. having a scraper grab those scores automatically. In most cases, these source web pages will be publicly available without requiring any agreement to a terms of service contract.

Scraping a site and using the actual HTML in your application would be a copyright violation, definitely. Sometimes a particular format can even be patented. So I'd definitely stay away from actually scraping out an entire table and inserting that into your app.

But as far as the scores/facts - those are not subject to copyright. So what is the particular legal issue if you are scraping and only getting non-copyrightable facts from a publicly available web page? I'm genuinely curious to know.
Louis Vutton's name _is_ a government monopoly, and they've sued everyone from Britney Spears to Darfur charities to protect it; they even boast about how aggressively they protect their IP on their website.
http://www.louisvuitton.com/info/fake/index.html

Problem is that people buy Louis Vutton bags as a sign of conspicuous consumption whereas ACME's expensive and ingenious widget is a commodity, so government protection on the name alone would be insufficient.
I personally really love this, and have actually been thinking about a YC app idea that would complement it really nicely.

I will definitely try to spread the word in Boston. Good luck!
Innovators will innovate as much as artists will paint.

Innovation won't stop because of a lack of patents, you will just have to shift to increased secrecy during the development phase which will lead to the competition having to play catch-up.

I can see a world without patents move faster, not slower in terms of innovation.

edit: @binspace, that's pretty close :)
Is it really a story that an Islamic nation would shut down a pornographer?

That seems like that is a foregone conclusion, whereas bit.ly is an incredibly visible, legitimate service.

Libya has had a tumultuous few decades, but today they're in the United Nations Security Council, have paid reparations for terrorism, and their president is the Chairman of the African Union.

Why would they destroy a partnership with the most visible silicon valley company to have any association with their country?
This may be going out on a limb here, but investors invest assuming you aren't going to lose your domain name. Especially if its based upon traction.
I always had used alexitosrv for my whole online presence, and is really easy to associate it with my real identity. Normally, I have no problem with that.

Out of curiosity, today I was looking in the web for that name and the diversity of forums to which it belongs is fairly amusing. I like that, in some sense that is a lot more like my real life: jack of all trades, master of none.
Great to hear! I've been waiting for this book for a long time. I had it on pre-order at Amazon until they cancelled the order earlier this year, then pre-ordered it again in September this year.

It's great to see an author coming out with a new Lisp book, since it is my favorite language that I never get to use at my day job.

Congratulations!
Thanks for the link, but key here is to track threats rather than lawsuits. A lot of threats are just settled and no one hears of them.
Or how about a day-long hearing, early into the process, where a judge looks at the balance of evidence and decides who's going to be paying for the next phase of the trial?
Admit it: you just wanted to use an AST so that you could easily convert SQL to and from XML for an upcoming talk.