skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few interesting points about this:

First, my server is located in The Netherlands, as far as I know only the law applies of the country where the site is being hosted.

Second, our RIAA (Buma/Stemra) made a deal with Youtube that ensures every Dutch citizen can embed YT videos without any problems (see: http://www.bumastemra.nl/en-US/OverBumaStemra/Actueel/Buma_a... and this from their FAQ http://i55.tinypic.com/svi1jt.jpg). It says that I don't have any problems as long as I don't monetize it. Since I hate banners and my costs are really low this ain't a problem.

Third, I actually don't store _any_ data or playlists. What I've done is coding a few scripts that let you crawl Youtube and Last.fm in a smart way. In that POV i'm not different to a regular search engine with a 'share your results' button, futhermore my server does totally nothing after you received the javascripts, it's just your browser and the other sites.

Last but not least, it's impossible for me to measure how many and what kind of videos are being played. All this stuff works with # anchor urls, my server simply can't register that.

I'm very curious in what other people think about this, can you ask your profs?
Digg This - A cautionary tale for Web 2.0 Companies
I play on FICS via the iChessHD app on the iPad , which has a number of annoying bugs but suffices for my needs (ie. Get a ranked online chess game for free, any time of day, with control over the time parameters). When I first got the iPad I wasted loads of time playing 15 30 games which took the best part of an hour, then I switched to 2 7 'speed' game which don't feel very rushed anymore, and only take 5 mins or so.

I'm an average player among people who play regularly, although when i was a kid I always beat my friends. I don't have the patience to learn extensive opening theory, but sometimes I like to tell myself I surprise more experienced players with my unorthodox tactics and inventive responses...

I'm interested in chess as 1. A sort of daily 'brain-training' task to sharpen up 2. Finding ways and strategies for beating people who are much more skilled 3. Highlighting blind spots and flaws in my thinking (and others') 4. Improving visualisation/memory (for instance nowadays I find it easier and easier to remember entire boards/positions and analyse them in my head.

As you might have guessed, I condsider these skills to be transferrable to programming.
With the MacBook Air refresh, Apple made "No optical drive" a feature. The OS X Install USB key is an omen of things to come, too. I think you're right, and it's really just a matter of time until they bring it across almost all of their laptop lines.
From a comment I made a few days ago on the "Is Apple buying Facebook" article:

"a buyout is probably unlikely (given how many offers/deals Zuck has either rejected or pulled out of in the last minute over the past 6 years). That said, he may be looking to Apple as a default liquidity provider which would save Facebook from needing to go public. If existing VC firms seeking liquidity and employees looking to cash out all sold to Apple that would probably decrease their outstanding # of shareholders and keep them clear of SEC regs for at least a little while longer. Also seems like a solid long term relationship given both companies' strong focus on design, usability, and the consumer."

The move obviously makes strategic sense but I don't see why Zuck wouldn't want to just use Apple as a pre-IPO (instead of issuing new shares) and let Fbook shareholders sell existing stock to Apple. Like I said earlier, this could help delay the need for an IPO for another few years (possibly longer).
I did read that.

My thought was that, if your lungs have bitterness receptors and you experience physiological change based on them, then inhaling certain kinds of air that lack the bitterness may flush out the bitter taste and produce physiological change that corresponds to a lack of bitterness.

It's hard to separate out the effects of oxygenation and heat and focusing on the specific point when the air enters your lungs though.

So yeah I'm being unscientific.
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You could run a McDonald's franchise. You would attend the classes where they teach you how. You would find it remarkably simple. They would give you a big handbook that explains how to do everything. You could not fail except through a lack of effort.

Now if someone had said to you in 2004: "Create a new fantastically popular way to consume news" you would likely not have an idea as good as Digg. Even if you did you would likely fail to market it effectively.
This code has no value
I always thought this would be a great game to teach to under privileged youth and the homeless.

Its also relatively easy to put together a makeshift go board. At most all one needs is white and black paint, brushes, rocks, a piece of plywood or plastic, and something straight to make the lines.

You could even teach them how to make their own board and pieces.
One of the reasons might be that there are a couple of publicly traded 'aquaculture' companies in China that are kind of desperate to show that they aren't frauds.

One is mentioned in the article, HQ Sustainable Marine.

So typically if investors show up to these small companies, they will try to do whatever they can to take them around their factories and show that the business is real.
Zuck does seems very determined to avoid having an IPO anytime soon.
Apart from stability (which could also be considered a feature)

At what point does anything that makes an application more useful a feature? If this is the definition of a feature, then your second point seems a bit obvious.
I think you should post the C&D order, actually, so as to put the focus on the MTA rather than wasting your time fending off uninformed speculation.

It looks to me as if the $5,000/day fine they're speaking of refers to a modification of the Transportation code creating (among other things) a new offense of 'running a dispatch service without a permit,' which was passed by the SFMTA baord just last Tuesday - although it's still questionable whether or not it would apply to your firm.

Regardless, it has not yet been made law by the Board of Supervisors, nor is it on their legislative agenda for next week's meeting. From what I can see, it can takes months for something to work its way up the Supervisors' calendar. Of course, a lot depends on what sort of lobbying power the Taxi establishment has at City Hall, but it's fair to assume they have years of experience in working the system.

http://www.sfmta.com/cms/cmta/documents/10-19-10calendaritem...

IANAL, mind; just my personal views. I've developed an unhealthy interest in the (dys)function of my local government.
Well, in SF, you can call a cab and wait for hours with it never arriving.

It seems the key cab/limo distinction is usually reserved/roaming. While both can be dispatched/reserved, only cabs can roam and be hailed streetside.

UberCab is in compliance with that distinction -- they are reserved, just more instantly than ever before, because of the march of technology.
The page claims that the sedan services are cheaper... let's verify that claim on a few rides:

2 mile luxor cab: $7.15
5 mile luxor cab: $13.90
10 mile luxor cab: $25.15
1 minute idling luxor cab: $0.45

2 mile yellow cab: $7.15
5 mile yellow cab: $13.90
10 mile yellow cab: $25.15
1 minute idling yellow cab: $0.45

2 mile ubercab: $17.80
5 mile ubercab: $32.50
10 mile ubercab: $57.00
1 minute idling ubercab: $1.25

I fail to see the expense the article implies.
Careful, you just described me, and my bosses characterized me as 'abrupt' for years, and they valued 'people skills' more than my ability to keep their software and servers running. (Yes, both.) We survived it, but I'm not sure they would have if they'd gotten their 'people skills' person instead of me.

That's not to say I haven't improved in that department over the years, but I still start conversations with the meat instead of 'How was your vacation?' (Yeah, I got scolded for that once.) It's not even that I didn't care about their vacation, it's that I had very important work matters to deal with (I was at work!) and they come first.
I don't understand the laws; my link was to show that S.F. taxis operate as a cartel, and use city laws to enforce their cartel (through medallions and their quota). I don't know if this is precisely what the UberCab C&D is about (it's not been published), but it does show that the S.F. transport market is explicitly and intentionally anti-competitive.

That said, the other TechCrunch post seems to say the taxi licensing may be relevant -- the functions UberCab is doing can only be legally done by licensed taxis:

>* Ubercab operates much like a cab company but does not have a taxi license.

>...

>* Limos in U.S. cities usually have to prebook an hour in advance, by law, while only licensed taxis can pick someone up right away but Ubercab picks people up right away (again without a taxi license).

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/24/ubercab/

If limos need to wait an hour to make a pickup, and taxis do not, then UberCab (I think) is doing what only taxis can do and thus needs that license, not the limo one. The fundamental problem is not that UberCab is licensed as a limo rather than a taxi, but rather that it is impossible for it to be licensed as a taxi -- that (as I understand) there is no reasonable way for them to legally do what they are doing.

I am not a lawyer.
Well, for $99,999, you can get 5447 Medium Fries, 5422 Big Macs, 5367 Sundaes, 5320 Chicken Selects (3 Pc.), 5275 Filet-O-Fishes, 5272 Quarter Pounders with cheese, 5254 Medium beverages and 5234 McNuggets (10 Pc.). And you'll even have 54¢ left!
I'm in Canada so not sure if I can do the same, my service would require you to at least create a playlist like thing, so in essence you can find our how many plays have been made from youtube. Youtube really needs to write better guidelines for their youtube api for music. I'm still contemplating whether I should do it or not, my site would also be free to use...but have a lawsuit during my school semester would really get in the way.

What do you guys in HN think about the issue? Can we use youtube api to freely grab music videos? Can we store index to the url (for playlists?)
Expand to the other major chain restaurants and source your pricing from Mechanical Turk (except for the dollar menus of course). I'd take a few precautions to validate the data. For example, you could put up an HIT to get Burger King's entire menu and have 5 people complete it. Compare, lather, and repeat. But I see that as only the first step.

Add a dietary component. First, scrape all the various nutritional values (calories, grams of fat, etc.) from each major restaurants website. They all publish that stuff. Then tie into people's bank transactions through something like Yodlee or finkin(a "Show HN" project from a couple weeks ago[1]). You'll then be able to identify when a user buys food at a given restaurant for a given amount.

With a little tweaking, you could give people an automatic and fairly accurate assessment of their food intake. For example, your current site is telling me that 2 sundaes, a medium fry, and a filet-o-fish cost exactly $5.89. According to the McDonald's site, that meal is a whopping 1420 calories and 20g of fat. People would pay money this. Bonus points for sending customized tips on how to quit eating so horribly based on my data.

You'll have to factor in taxes, different promotions, identical price combos, and more to improve accuracy. I think it could have massive potential though. I've done a little research into a concept like this so feel free to drop me a line if it interests you.

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[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1783823

EDIT: for clarification
And by that same token, you lack the insight of what's really behind Digg. I doubt with the years of work they've put into it, tweaking algorithms, etc, that you'd be able to duplicate it in one weekend.
To be frank... argh that blows.
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Though pop culture caricatures are becoming increasingly popular amongst artists, Patrick Strogulski has taken it a step further my implementing extreme
Quick UI gripe - I'm not crazy about the "text inside the search box" UI thing. I used it myself in a few places, but found that lots of people automatically click on the search box, and their text disappears, meaning they have no idea what they're searching for. Much better to just add a label before the search box.

Another option is to keep the text until the users actually starts typing, but I haven't tested that option too much - I'm afraid it might be confusing for users, who don't realize they can start typing to clear the text.
eh, another thing to remember is that the books you read don't define you. I've got a little red book on my bookshelf "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" 1969 printing. and, uh, I'm not sure I'd call myself a Libertarian, but I'm probably closer to being a Libertarian than I am to being a democrat or a republican. I've also got some Skinner on my bookshelf. I'm an athiest, but I find Jack Chick to be fascinating. I mean, I think he's completely batshit insane, but he's definitely not a boring read.
I see. I guess your original post made it sound like it was purposeful. If you aren't doing it intentionally, then it could raise a question of an underlying medial disorder.

7L is a lot of fluid. Well above normal. If you aren't purposefully drinking that much fluid, you may be urinating in excess which results in your excess thirst. You could have a mild form of Diabetes Insipidus, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_insipidus

A relatively rare disorder. Uncontrolled regular diabetes can also cause excess urination/thirst. Anyhow, it may be something to bring up with your primary care physician. (I'm a former nephrologist)
I think the apparent contradiction or myth about the value of TC coverage comes from the following point. That TC coverage is probably good for having would-be investors find out about you. But TC coverage is probably nowhere near as good for having would-be customers find out about you. The average Joe does not follow TC. They watch CNN, Oprah, football games, etc. The tech hipnorati might follow -- even if a level or so indirectly removed from -- TC, but your neighbors, your mom, etc. do not.
There's more:

1,000,000,000: Errr, a few franchises?

1,000,000,000,000: You could probably buy all of McDonalds stock for that kind of money.

Oh and apparently you can buy a Sundae for as little as $.999999999999999949.
I think because that's where the bulk of the community is for "greybeard unix open source" technology.

The generalised answer, I would think, is "be visible or at least present in the online community that exists around your chosen technologies".

(I didn't post the parent reply, but I did upvote it!)
Hmm. What if Apple streamed music through Facebook (with integrated social features ie Ping) as a premium service and split the revenue with Facebook. Facebook's install base is so large, cost-leadership wouldn't be necessary to beat Spotify etc.

Also, I could see some teamwork between their respective game platforms/businesses. Buy an App Store game, you get to share it with two of your Facebook friends (send them a download token), which creates many more word of mouth sales, etc. Just seems Apple are the people poised to actually capitalize on a massive social network user base.
That wasn't their claim, read the post.
I don't think anyone is arguing that - the argument I see is whether or not it is justified to flout the law if the law is unjust, and the flouting thereof is to the benefit of the public.

Which is to say in this case, more convenient, cheaper, easier and more payment options, etc etc.

Assuming that Ubercab's claims of requiring equivalent licensing and insurance from their drivers is true, it seems like the only complaint here is that they're taking business from traditional cab businesses; my only response to this would be "well, tough".
I don't think it's an enormous change, but it makes it easier for Apple to drop optical drives from all of their laptops. They could do it for the Air previously because it was marketed as a laptop with extra stuff removed - but they could not remove the optical drive in normal Macbooks partly because of this problem.

The other common use case for the optical drive are DVDs and music CDs. Streaming content is making those less necessary.
Simply speaking, make them lose focus, relax
Thanks for all your feedback.

One of the reasons that I don't do well with "giving advice" is because other people generally cannot do what I do and I get reactions like I am suggesting they should walk on clouds, "What? Like it's hard?" (channeling Elle Woods). Showing them the path I took and why I think it worked is more likely to be instructive and helpful and inspiring.

In the original discussion, someone indicated that most divorces are done without lawyers. To me, this is actually encouraging information. I know there are do-it-yourself divorce books that address the legal side of it. I really don't think the lack of a lawyer is what blows people's minds. I think the "genuinely amicable" part is what blows people's minds.

Most people I talk to who are divorced have ugly nicknames for the ex and are clearly still quite bitter and carrying substantial baggage. I have had a number of experiences where women have tried to dump on me on the assumption that I would agree with their deeply hostile view of men. It is an extremely inaccurate assumption. So I think if there is anything instructive about my experience, it is that putting down your baggage can be done and that life generally goes smoother if you do that. This is not the type of information that goes over well as "advice" because the people who most need it are in a mental and emotional space where suggesting they let it go is generally received as judgmental, unsupportive, not understanding and so on. But a good story they can identify with and a good cry might help whereas a lecture tends to just make their bitterness and baggage all the more intractable.
That's an amazing story. Makes me wonder...

As the narrator says, this is not an usual pattern for people to migrate from one thing to next. And if that's the case, then chances are there are many many more people which may end up never finding "that calling". In a way, the above story illustrates the anti "pure hill-climbing" approach: the initial assumption/premise is that you should find a hill and then go really, really far in hopes of making a big contribution. Whereas Ed Witten's story shows that picking one single hill is not necessarily a good idea (local minima!) ... In fact, every once in a while (or systematically), you could jump to a different hill and still come out as a winner. Now the real puzzle is:

a) You could make the argument that your chances of finding the optimal hill for you, on the first try, are very slim. Hence, you should jump at least a few hills.. i.e, your real aptitude lies somewhere else.

b) Jumping too much will/may cause not enough time with anyone subject to make significant contribution - hence it's an optimization problem.

c) The "cross-discipline" question: its often acknowledged that bridging different knowledge areas is very helpful in terms of making interesting discoveries. Does that, in turn, mean that you should jump at least a few hills? If so, how many, and how much time?

Fun questions to ponder... Clearly there is no black and white answer either! Depends on your field, context, etc.
Like most of the others have said, "get a lawyer" though I'd actually get two -- first, an employment lawyer to handle the termination as Director of Sales and -- second, an investment lawyer, to explain your options there. Don't assume one lawyer is going to be able to be great at both.
Yeah, right. I don't see it happening. The idea of getting rid of all cable is very popular with this kind of crowd, as well as the "Man cannot stop telling people he doesn't watch TV" crowd (of Onion fame) but in reality it's just not really there yet and I'm not sure about the idea of killing off cable is really coming any time soon.
In addition to the "I'm dissatisfied" button, you should consider leaving the price in the text box so that "go" has the same effect of repeating the search.
I don't think there's any dispute over why an investor invests. The point is that investing in people is a more effective means to that end than investing in ideas, that autobiographical questions are asked in the process, and that discussing the idea also functions as a way to evaluate a candidate as a person.
I only use 2-3 Spaces (to separate work from chats and distractions). I find it hard to split up "work" into multiple Spaces when I need to look at all of my work at once (ex. need reference docs + code up at the same time).
This seems to be high on everyone's list :)
I've made it 10/page. The page has become much longer now.

Is 10/page enough or do want it to show even more results?

Any suggestions on the job result format?
The New York Times wrote a great piece on spending on experiences and less on stuff more recently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/business/08consume.html
Almost 100% matching my drinking habits. Except the booze.
My favorite one is Martini Bianco with the same amount of pure lemon juice. Most people hate it.